If you do something worth noticing, you *will* get noticed.
The ridiculous thing is that slashdotters seem to think that their grocery purchases are worth noticing. Massive government databases on what beer you drink? Give me a break.
Well, he may have just been saying that in general, he recommends just using svnserve -- not specifically because of multiple repositories. For the record, I agree. If you already have apache set up, then you might want to go that route, but if not, getting everything set up is an installation nightmare. Setting up svnserve+ssh is nice and easy.
Although I can't speak for the current version, I can say that it was either impossible or very difficult to compile using mingw32/msys several months back. Unless you're up for some pain, you probably ought to just wait for the binaries.
Well, he could probably still find a fansub distributor who would get him a copy, if he was really determined. However, waiting for the DVD is probably the best bet for someone who wants to see it at its best. (My copy is a third-generation videotape -- watchable, but less than fantastic. I'm getting very impatient for the US release.)
To the original poster: I also highly recommend Nausicaa. I'm not much of an anime fan -- like all things, 90% of it is crap -- but Nausicaa is my favorite. Although the story is different than the manga, the depth of the world created for it shines through in the movie.
Well, according to this, Japan (as a unified country) is about 1600 years old. Slashdot.org is roughly six years old. A weighted average of slashdot.jp -- 8 characters slashdot, 2 characters jp -- reveals that slashdot.jp is 325 years old. Aren't statistics grand?
Re:We seem a little tender today, don't we?
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Singularity Sky
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· Score: 1
This wasn't much of a review. It seemed like it was just an excuse to rant about how much science fiction sucks these days, with some shallow references to a book so that it would be posted on slashdot. A good review should get you to either want to read the book, or give you some reasons why you wouldn't want to read it. After reading this review... I still don't particularly care about Singularity Sky.
It's interesting that you choose X extensions as the primary thing to bang on.
It's also interesting given that one of Y's features mentioned on the "About" page is its modularity. Presumably we would see modules that perform similar functions in Y.
In any case, it seems to me that the ability to handle new things, which were often not even imagined when X was originally designed, through extensions is a mark of good design. Get the basics right, and then provide the ability to do more advanced things when it becomes necessary.
Oh, and although the OP seems to have bought into the whole "get rid of the network" thing, the Y developers actually seem to understand the topic: it's specifically designed for network usage, and even to address some places where X tends to have trouble.
I don't really think that this holds a lot of promise -- how many "X replacement" projects have we seen that don't go beyond design documents or proof-of-concept? -- but at least the developers seem to have some idea of what they're doing.
Unless there's some history that I'm unaware of, motif is a widget set that ran on top of X -- analogous to GTK+ or QT. Motif was not under a free license. There is another project, Lesstif, which was supposed to be compatible with motif, while being free -- that may be what you're thinking of.
Of course, at this point, Motif is pretty much dead, at least on the free Unix desktop, because it was succeeded by more technologically advanced widget sets. I don't think that we will see any migration away from X until the alternatives provide a similar jump in technology.
The new X license has a clause that says that you must attribute the XFree86 team (with some specific language). Essentially, the incompatibility is that the GPL doesn't require that, so you can't take code from XFree and throw it into your GPL'd program. (Similarly, they've never been able to take GPL'd code and put it into XFree86.)
I don't see the big deal, myself -- if you want to use their code, you use their license -- but if people want to get apopletic about it, they're welcome to do so.
Why should these scientists be any less prone to political bias than anyone else?
I'm not saying that the Bush administration is smelling like a rose, here, but you often find that people with more education or experience have more of an axe to grind. I wouldn't doubt that another panel of equally qualified people would come to somewhat different conclusions.
In short, you shouldn't trust anyone. The shallow-minded slashdrones will say "Bush is evil, these scientists are 100% correct!" Instead, how about doing some research of your own in order to come to a conclusion? You'll probably find that the truth, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle.
For example, if a distribution doesn't include the, correctly worded (wow, we're specific here!) copyright messages on the CD itself, and you were to burn a copy for a friend and forget to include the copyright message on the note saying "Just boot from the CD and follow the prompts", then you'd be in breach of the license.
I don't see where you're coming from. The one at fault here is the person at the distribution who didn't include proper attribution.
Say I'm GNOME. My software is GPL'd. My software links against xlibs. Because my software links against xlibs, I have to obey the new restriction in the new XFree86 license.
Like most people in this thread, you haven't bothered to read (or understand) the "problem clause." Let's take a look:
3. The end-user documentation included with the redistribution, if any, must include the following acknowledgment: "This product includes software developed by The XFree86 Project, Inc (http://www.xfree86.org/) and its contributors", in the same place and form as other third-party acknowledgments. Alternately, this acknowledgment may appear in the software itself, in the same form and location as other such third-party acknowledgments.
Distributing a binary linked with xfree does not constitute redistribution of the XFree code. In other words, everyone who is complaining about the "linking problem" is wrong. The only people required to add the clause are people redistributing X itself.
And finally, you think that a comparison between drug laws and software licenses is apt, but can't see a connection between RMS's obnoxious advertising and XFree's obnoxious advertising? Even for slashdot, I'm astounded.
The supposed reason behind opposing the advertising clause was that advertising materials would grow to indefinite length, which means that print ads get bigger, etc.
The XFree clause, on the other hand, would be satisfied by adding that line to a text file included with the distribution. I fail to see why this is a problem -- it seems perfectly reasonable to me. Also, despite what many people in this discussion have claimed, I see no evidence that GPLed software can't link to XFree.
Finally, I see absolutely no difference between this and RMS's insistance on GNU/Linux -- except the fact that what the XFree project wants is far less obnoxious.
Believe it or not, that makes sense to anyone who isn't a disciple of RMS.
Re:Broadcasting dead...
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Space Burial
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Hmmm i think i smell a great plot for sci fi story.
Interestingly, I just read Second Genesis by Donald Moffitt, which is based on a not too dissimilar idea. (Pretty decent afternoon read, if you're into that kind of book.)
Which people would these be? That seems to be an issue in and of itself.
Anyone who feels like doing it, really. (And obviously some people do -- we see these "universal package" projects pop up every couple months.) It would certainly help if some of the people with vested interests in current package management schemes were involved, but it's the kind of project that could be handled by a group of any sufficiently motivated and moderately talented open source programmers.
The real problem isn't doing the work. (Well, as long as you have programmers who actually do something instead of producing an endless stream of grandiose mission statements, political posturing, overengineered specifications, and all the other things that a lot of open source "programmers" like to do.) It's getting people to agree to use it once it's done.
When we come up with an elegant solution that is cross-distro...
There are already lots of them..deb,.rpm, and others. The problem is that most geeks (at least the ones in charge) are stubborn idiots. If they said that debian packages are better than rpms five years ago because the only distro they ever used was debian, there's no way in hell that they will ever admit that another package management system could do the job, and agree to standardize.
There's no technical reason why we can't get some people together to iron out the last differences and either create a standard package manager, or create well-defined interfaces that allow any front end to access any kind of package. However, if you did that, nobody would use it anyway.
The space race is primarily a PR campaign. Secret military space missions wouldn't serve that purpose. If anything gets cut, it will probably be the pure scientific missions that aren't good press.
In English class, you are asked to interpret what others have written, not create your own stuff. I wanted so badly to create my own material in class, rather than reading other people's stuff and critiquing it.
Well, at least when I went to school, critiquing and interpreting someone else's writing involved quite a bit of writing of my own. Too many people treat assigned writing tasks as a dead end that takes no thought, but you can actually get a lot out of them if you apply your creativity. In fact, I've kept some of my best pieces of writing over the years, and my two favorite happen to be a pair of essays about rhetorical analysis of a couple books.
That said, I do think that some classes need to inject more assignments without as many constraints. (I've seen senior English classes where every assignment was "write an essay arguing these points by using this sentence-by-sentence format.") I was fortunate enough to have a teacher that gave us a variety of different and interesting assignments.
Of course, the correct thing to do if you are very short is to disable the air bag. Some cars have a switch to do this; or you can get a mechanic to disable them. But complaining about all air bags because a very small subset of the population may be at risk is rather moronic.
Slashdot Mirror
If you do something worth noticing, you *will* get noticed.
The ridiculous thing is that slashdotters seem to think that their grocery purchases are worth noticing. Massive government databases on what beer you drink? Give me a break.
Well, he may have just been saying that in general, he recommends just using svnserve -- not specifically because of multiple repositories. For the record, I agree. If you already have apache set up, then you might want to go that route, but if not, getting everything set up is an installation nightmare. Setting up svnserve+ssh is nice and easy.
Although I can't speak for the current version, I can say that it was either impossible or very difficult to compile using mingw32/msys several months back. Unless you're up for some pain, you probably ought to just wait for the binaries.
What are they going to down it with, a shotgun?
Alien tractor beam, of course.
Well, he could probably still find a fansub distributor who would get him a copy, if he was really determined. However, waiting for the DVD is probably the best bet for someone who wants to see it at its best. (My copy is a third-generation videotape -- watchable, but less than fantastic. I'm getting very impatient for the US release.)
To the original poster: I also highly recommend Nausicaa. I'm not much of an anime fan -- like all things, 90% of it is crap -- but Nausicaa is my favorite. Although the story is different than the manga, the depth of the world created for it shines through in the movie.
Well, according to this, Japan (as a unified country) is about 1600 years old. Slashdot.org is roughly six years old. A weighted average of slashdot.jp -- 8 characters slashdot, 2 characters jp -- reveals that slashdot.jp is 325 years old. Aren't statistics grand?
This wasn't much of a review. It seemed like it was just an excuse to rant about how much science fiction sucks these days, with some shallow references to a book so that it would be posted on slashdot. A good review should get you to either want to read the book, or give you some reasons why you wouldn't want to read it. After reading this review ... I still don't particularly care about Singularity Sky.
It's interesting that you choose X extensions as the primary thing to bang on.
It's also interesting given that one of Y's features mentioned on the "About" page is its modularity. Presumably we would see modules that perform similar functions in Y.
In any case, it seems to me that the ability to handle new things, which were often not even imagined when X was originally designed, through extensions is a mark of good design. Get the basics right, and then provide the ability to do more advanced things when it becomes necessary.
Oh, and although the OP seems to have bought into the whole "get rid of the network" thing, the Y developers actually seem to understand the topic: it's specifically designed for network usage, and even to address some places where X tends to have trouble.
I don't really think that this holds a lot of promise -- how many "X replacement" projects have we seen that don't go beyond design documents or proof-of-concept? -- but at least the developers seem to have some idea of what they're doing.
Unless there's some history that I'm unaware of, motif is a widget set that ran on top of X -- analogous to GTK+ or QT. Motif was not under a free license. There is another project, Lesstif, which was supposed to be compatible with motif, while being free -- that may be what you're thinking of.
Of course, at this point, Motif is pretty much dead, at least on the free Unix desktop, because it was succeeded by more technologically advanced widget sets. I don't think that we will see any migration away from X until the alternatives provide a similar jump in technology.
The new X license has a clause that says that you must attribute the XFree86 team (with some specific language). Essentially, the incompatibility is that the GPL doesn't require that, so you can't take code from XFree and throw it into your GPL'd program. (Similarly, they've never been able to take GPL'd code and put it into XFree86.)
I don't see the big deal, myself -- if you want to use their code, you use their license -- but if people want to get apopletic about it, they're welcome to do so.
Why should these scientists be any less prone to political bias than anyone else?
I'm not saying that the Bush administration is smelling like a rose, here, but you often find that people with more education or experience have more of an axe to grind. I wouldn't doubt that another panel of equally qualified people would come to somewhat different conclusions.
In short, you shouldn't trust anyone. The shallow-minded slashdrones will say "Bush is evil, these scientists are 100% correct!" Instead, how about doing some research of your own in order to come to a conclusion? You'll probably find that the truth, as usual, lies somewhere in the middle.
For example, if a distribution doesn't include the, correctly worded (wow, we're specific here!) copyright messages on the CD itself, and you were to burn a copy for a friend and forget to include the copyright message on the note saying "Just boot from the CD and follow the prompts", then you'd be in breach of the license.
I don't see where you're coming from. The one at fault here is the person at the distribution who didn't include proper attribution.
Like most people in this thread, you haven't bothered to read (or understand) the "problem clause." Let's take a look:
Distributing a binary linked with xfree does not constitute redistribution of the XFree code. In other words, everyone who is complaining about the "linking problem" is wrong. The only people required to add the clause are people redistributing X itself.
And finally, you think that a comparison between drug laws and software licenses is apt, but can't see a connection between RMS's obnoxious advertising and XFree's obnoxious advertising? Even for slashdot, I'm astounded.
The supposed reason behind opposing the advertising clause was that advertising materials would grow to indefinite length, which means that print ads get bigger, etc.
The XFree clause, on the other hand, would be satisfied by adding that line to a text file included with the distribution. I fail to see why this is a problem -- it seems perfectly reasonable to me. Also, despite what many people in this discussion have claimed, I see no evidence that GPLed software can't link to XFree.
Finally, I see absolutely no difference between this and RMS's insistance on GNU/Linux -- except the fact that what the XFree project wants is far less obnoxious.
Believe it or not, that makes sense to anyone who isn't a disciple of RMS.
Hmmm i think i smell a great plot for sci fi story.
Interestingly, I just read Second Genesis by Donald Moffitt, which is based on a not too dissimilar idea. (Pretty decent afternoon read, if you're into that kind of book.)
What sort of 3D accelerator do you use to get nethack running right?
Here's the card you want: The Radeon 9500 ASC. 1000 fps -- I can't wait until I can save up enough for that bad boy.
Don't you just hate being impacted? I was impacted for a year once and I tell you it really sucked.
I know a good oral surgeon who could help you out.
Which people would these be? That seems to be an issue in and of itself.
Anyone who feels like doing it, really. (And obviously some people do -- we see these "universal package" projects pop up every couple months.) It would certainly help if some of the people with vested interests in current package management schemes were involved, but it's the kind of project that could be handled by a group of any sufficiently motivated and moderately talented open source programmers.
The real problem isn't doing the work. (Well, as long as you have programmers who actually do something instead of producing an endless stream of grandiose mission statements, political posturing, overengineered specifications, and all the other things that a lot of open source "programmers" like to do.) It's getting people to agree to use it once it's done.
When we come up with an elegant solution that is cross-distro...
.deb, .rpm, and others. The problem is that most geeks (at least the ones in charge) are stubborn idiots. If they said that debian packages are better than rpms five years ago because the only distro they ever used was debian, there's no way in hell that they will ever admit that another package management system could do the job, and agree to standardize.
There are already lots of them.
There's no technical reason why we can't get some people together to iron out the last differences and either create a standard package manager, or create well-defined interfaces that allow any front end to access any kind of package. However, if you did that, nobody would use it anyway.
Too bad Dean doesn't have a chance in hell of winning the Democratic nomenation.
Too bad for the republicans, at least.
The space race is primarily a PR campaign. Secret military space missions wouldn't serve that purpose. If anything gets cut, it will probably be the pure scientific missions that aren't good press.
In English class, you are asked to interpret what others have written, not create your own stuff. I wanted so badly to create my own material in class, rather than reading other people's stuff and critiquing it.
Well, at least when I went to school, critiquing and interpreting someone else's writing involved quite a bit of writing of my own. Too many people treat assigned writing tasks as a dead end that takes no thought, but you can actually get a lot out of them if you apply your creativity. In fact, I've kept some of my best pieces of writing over the years, and my two favorite happen to be a pair of essays about rhetorical analysis of a couple books.
That said, I do think that some classes need to inject more assignments without as many constraints. (I've seen senior English classes where every assignment was "write an essay arguing these points by using this sentence-by-sentence format.") I was fortunate enough to have a teacher that gave us a variety of different and interesting assignments.
i liked the beginning of your post, but it's way too long. u should b using more abbreviations, so i can read the hole thing.
Of course, the correct thing to do if you are very short is to disable the air bag. Some cars have a switch to do this; or you can get a mechanic to disable them. But complaining about all air bags because a very small subset of the population may be at risk is rather moronic.