It's probably some sorta loopy reference that needs to be menu'd in.
Loathsome system. If It aint in ASCII , I don't trust it. Took me hours to work that out... Of course you could always use python:)
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist..."he that is not with me is against me."
- George Orwell
"
was essentially Orwell paraphrasing Leon Trotsky (who wrote the rant "Passivism is the tool of imperialism)(Either in context of passivism to the capitalist west or in context to Hitler.. can't remember)
Indeed, and ActiveStates python for IIS is simply flawless.
Best thing about Python , is it's got that easy readability thing that made all the suits switch from specifying COBOL to specifying VB (Which I believe has taken the role of the "New cobol" , but for windoze only {ie business logic lang}
Plus a good reason to encourage the suits to let you do the code in python is that its so damn easy-yet-powerfull that they don't have to lock down on a particular coder. Any new coder who can't ultra quickly learn python WILL NEVER learn to be a usefull programmer, due to mental deficiency.
Why must every time someone says anything pro-Christian or pro-religion they get modded down?
Amen brother!... As a rampant Darwin lovin' athiest I myself am prone to finding religion a little bit on the nose, *BUT* I defend to the hilt peoples right to have it.
It's all too easy to bait or bash ppl over having a particular religious or cultural bent, but at the end of the day , the discerning athiest really has to apply the the scientific method and say "Well, on the balance of odds and evidence, I'm pretty sure theres no God; But I could be wrong"
And presumably , as long as the religious guy ain't forcing religion down your neck, that means one has no right to reach down and yank it out of his.
Actually I suspect the decision to title it "Bin Laden Captured" worked quite well. You opened it didn't you?
Not that makes it ethical. (Now that said, wouldn't it be great to be able to tell Mr Bin that there is *PORN* with , like , chicks with no veils on *AND MORE!* being marketed under his name. *And yet the west STILL doesn't apreciate him!* The look on the guys face would be priceless. (grr infidels! etc)
In the meantime Bleems aust site is still up, here Download the demo and squirrel it away.. Perhaps find a crack for it. (Would never advocate that normally, but hey! there dead, so who gives a f)
It may be the last chance!
Noe *that* raises an interesting point. Since you are working at Concectiva (perhaps with Rik?) , what is your take on the Rik VM vs Andrea VM debate (largely resolved presumably) and is it even relevant anymore
They are using one of those majikal dot comulator to induce buzzword fields that attract suits thus pumping up 'market penetration' and stock prices. When the price is high enough , they will pull stocks, and anounce that the market is 'adjusting' , thus bringing down civilisation as we know it.
Either that, or they have some clever people doing something or another.
Not good yet. I seriously considered implementing Evolution as a Outlook replacement (thus removing the final barrier to bouncing windows outa the offices, but alas, it can't do exchange calendaring. Fix that windoze goes. Until then, it can't play proplerly with exchange therefore not so good in many windows shops.
There is indeed that. I also suspect there is some other voodoo in there. At the office I have a chumpy old p166 hanging around truly being strangled by mandrake 8.1 (must look into reverting to RH. Mandrake is awesome for modern machines, perhaps the best, but it absolutely masacres old machines.)
Anyway to cut a long story short, kylix really does compile quick, like Delphi on the Pc. the "units" are pre-compiled, and it seems to have some sort of karma where it can grab a previous compile attempt and fix it rather than starting again. Well, that's my suspicion.
The "MADE WITH KYLIX UNDER THE GPL" banner is a little painfull, as it tennds to imply that the GPL is some sort of 'shareware' licence, which it isn't, and I do hope they sorted out the ugly dependency wierdness in V1. It's likely to get a download for me, because other than that, it's a winner for quick and dirty corporate GUI apps.
I've thought that, and imho the best way would be for a GNU XML config module that can be plugged into any given app and with a little massaging let them do there configs in a standard XML format.
The format would then perhaps allow for "presentation" data to be inserted such that an app could 'index' them, and put up standardised wizards and config screens, as well as letting someone search for a 'config topic' and go straight to the crunch.
Then Red hat, Mandrake , debian etc could config the app to reflect the look and feel of the particular distro to suit marketing droids, plus being XML and all, any old fool could still VI the config files for great justice.
We(Australia)certainly can not undercut the US market while those fking tarrifs are still there. I really would love to have a word in the ear of them US politicians about the monstorous double standard of bashing other economies for subsidising farmers and then screwing the Australian (and others) economy by doing the exact same thing. There is no two ways about it; it's really unfair.And don't get me started on Sugar.
I have heard the argument that "US farmers have it hard right now". Hello! So are Australian ones. If the US *ever* want's other countries to take it seriously in trade leadership, it's gotta start playing fair on that one. Or , better still *Chill out on bashing other countries over tarrifs*
The problem with that, of course, is how do you put a value on labor?
Ah that's easy. Old Marxo basically posited that value actually came from labor. The bit's of profit nuggeted on the end where 'surplus labor' and essentially amounted to doing stuff for your boss for free.
Granted that is a simplification of the labor value theory , and there is a lot more paramaters involved with the theory, there is also the factor it may be wrong (I have however had one knowledgable economist tell me that followed to it's full, the idea basically does work).
I do contend that socialism requires a regulated market. But hey, there isn't anything actually wrong with that if the free market continues to be a fcker.
problem with Oz in terms of exotic, and WestOz in particular, is that
Oh man. Don't do that. I swear within nanoseconds of seeing "WestOZ" I leaped to the link spinning with joy that a *I* can actually afford to go to a linux conf. It's In bloody Sydney. Eastern staters get everything:(
Oh well. I'm going to dig a hole now. What *else* is there to do here in Perth:)
No seriously man. I'm not guessing. There are hardware patents involved. I'm not disputing that. We can assume to be factual that if there is no software being sold, there hasn't been CSS licence fees being paid. Any company that paid for stuff they didn't have to would be to stupid to contemplate The DVD logo will almost certainly belong to the persons who own the patents for either the disks or the players. That is separate from the copy mogrification algorithm.
Not necessarily. Remember that the MPAA only gets licence fee on software, I am not aware of the drive itself being covered by anything more than the same sort of hardware patents that probably also cover floppy drives and cd-roms.
Get an OEM one (many shops will sell 'em) and you get to *not* pay MPAA..
I could of course sugest then using DECSS, but we wouldn't do that , wouldn't we:)
Actually you could probably put together a really fecking minature distroo if you wanted to. Having recently been working on some embeded linux (axis ucLinux on Etrax100lx. Good stuff!) apps, what linux actually *needs* is surprisingly small. A kernel (For fortitude, compile the modules into the kernel) a badly abused inittab (You can it as an RC) a smattering of libs (basic glib) a few prudent patches, a file system, busybox and ash. Then if clever you can wack on an Xwindows kit+twm, and all up stuff it in under five meg.
The hard bit would be "how to make usefull".
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Try looking up abandonware games. There are plenty of sites, although I suspect those groovy old games tend to have a simmilar sort of legality to Mame rom files... dubious, but noone really worries.
No, but look up Ximian . It's part of their gnome kit and it's a bugger to install (Linked fully against bleeding edge libs)
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Competition the sole purpose of open source software? No. I'm inclined to think world domination.:)
Seriously though, competition is just one of them. Freedom is another one. Bitchingly good code is yet another. Doing stuff just for the fuck of not getting bored yet another. Dodging the MS-tax yet another.
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It's probably some sorta loopy reference that needs to be menu'd in. :)
Loathsome system. If It aint in ASCII , I don't trust it. Took me hours to work that out... Of course you could always use python
Obviously you know something I don't know...
Mod me offtopic for the
Did you know that this...
"
Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist..."he that is not with me is against me."
- George Orwell
"
was essentially Orwell paraphrasing Leon Trotsky (who wrote the rant "Passivism is the tool of imperialism)(Either in context of passivism to the capitalist west or in context to Hitler.. can't remember)
Bet you didn't know that.
Indeed, and ActiveStates python for IIS is simply flawless.
Best thing about Python , is it's got that easy readability thing that made all the suits switch from specifying COBOL to specifying VB (Which I believe has taken the role of the "New cobol" , but for windoze only {ie business logic lang}
Plus a good reason to encourage the suits to let you do the code in python is that its so damn easy-yet-powerfull that they don't have to lock down on a particular coder. Any new coder who can't ultra quickly learn python WILL NEVER learn to be a usefull programmer, due to mental deficiency.
Why must every time someone says anything pro-Christian or pro-religion they get modded down?
Amen brother!... As a rampant Darwin lovin' athiest I myself am prone to finding religion a little bit on the nose, *BUT* I defend to the hilt peoples right to have it.
It's all too easy to bait or bash ppl over having a particular religious or cultural bent, but at the end of the day , the discerning athiest really has to apply the the scientific method and say "Well, on the balance of odds and evidence, I'm pretty sure theres no God; But I could be wrong"
And presumably , as long as the religious guy ain't forcing religion down your neck, that means one has no right to reach down and yank it out of his.
Actually I suspect the decision to title it "Bin Laden Captured" worked quite well. You opened it didn't you?
Not that makes it ethical. (Now that said, wouldn't it be great to be able to tell Mr Bin that there is *PORN* with , like , chicks with no veils on *AND MORE!* being marketed under his name. *And yet the west STILL doesn't apreciate him!* The look on the guys face would be priceless. (grr infidels! etc)
Ahem.
Hmmm.. Always prefered the "Bogomip", that said Gigabogo is as silly sounding as Gigaflop
In the meantime Bleems aust site is still up, here Download the demo and squirrel it away.. Perhaps find a crack for it. (Would never advocate that normally, but hey! there dead, so who gives a f)
It may be the last chance!
Noe *that* raises an interesting point. Since you are working at Concectiva (perhaps with Rik?) , what is your take on the Rik VM vs Andrea VM debate (largely resolved presumably) and is it even relevant anymore
They are using one of those majikal dot comulator to induce buzzword fields that attract suits thus pumping up 'market penetration' and stock prices. When the price is high enough , they will pull stocks, and anounce that the market is 'adjusting' , thus bringing down civilisation as we know it.
Either that, or they have some clever people doing something or another.
Oh ok. I admit it. I have no idea.
Amen. Exchange support is really the only thing left, but unadressed, there will be a lot of places that could never go the penguin.
Not good yet. I seriously considered implementing Evolution as a Outlook replacement (thus removing the final barrier to bouncing windows outa the offices, but alas, it can't do exchange calendaring. Fix that windoze goes. Until then, it can't play proplerly with exchange therefore not so good in many windows shops.
Bummer really.
There is indeed that. I also suspect there is some other voodoo in there. At the office I have a chumpy old p166 hanging around truly being strangled by mandrake 8.1 (must look into reverting to RH. Mandrake is awesome for modern machines, perhaps the best, but it absolutely masacres old machines.)
Anyway to cut a long story short, kylix really does compile quick, like Delphi on the Pc. the "units" are pre-compiled, and it seems to have some sort of karma where it can grab a previous compile attempt and fix it rather than starting again. Well, that's my suspicion.
The "MADE WITH KYLIX UNDER THE GPL" banner is a little painfull, as it tennds to imply that the GPL is some sort of 'shareware' licence, which it isn't, and I do hope they sorted out the ugly dependency wierdness in V1. It's likely to get a download for me, because other than that, it's a winner for quick and dirty corporate GUI apps.
I've thought that, and imho the best way would be for a GNU XML config module that can be plugged into any given app and with a little massaging let them do there configs in a standard XML format.
The format would then perhaps allow for "presentation" data to be inserted such that an app could 'index' them, and put up standardised wizards and config screens, as well as letting someone search for a 'config topic' and go straight to the crunch.
Then Red hat, Mandrake , debian etc could config the app to reflect the look and feel of the particular distro to suit marketing droids, plus being XML and all, any old fool could still VI the config files for great justice.
Yeah. Right on brother. None of this focussing on programming junk, it distracts from being publically grumpy
;P
Of course , that he refrains from MS-Bashing *could* mean that he couldn't give a flying fuck. It could also mean that he doesn't believe it.
And anyway, *WHO CARES*! What should be important to you is *YOUR* opinion.
Of course even more important is my opinion!
I agree and disagree
We(Australia)certainly can not undercut the US market while those fking tarrifs are still there. I really would love to have a word in the ear of them US politicians about the monstorous double standard of bashing other economies for subsidising farmers and then screwing the Australian (and others) economy by doing the exact same thing. There is no two ways about it; it's really unfair.And don't get me started on Sugar.
I have heard the argument that "US farmers have it hard right now". Hello! So are Australian ones. If the US *ever* want's other countries to take it seriously in trade leadership, it's gotta start playing fair on that one. Or , better still *Chill out on bashing other countries over tarrifs*
The problem with that, of course, is how do you put a value on labor?
Ah that's easy. Old Marxo basically posited that value actually came from labor. The bit's of profit nuggeted on the end where 'surplus labor' and essentially amounted to doing stuff for your boss for free.
Granted that is a simplification of the labor value theory , and there is a lot more paramaters involved with the theory, there is also the factor it may be wrong (I have however had one knowledgable economist tell me that followed to it's full, the idea basically does work).
I do contend that socialism requires a regulated market. But hey, there isn't anything actually wrong with that if the free market continues to be a fcker.
problem with Oz in terms of exotic, and WestOz in particular, is that
:(
:)
Oh man. Don't do that. I swear within nanoseconds of seeing "WestOZ" I leaped to the link spinning with joy that a *I* can actually afford to go to a linux conf. It's In bloody Sydney. Eastern staters get everything
Oh well. I'm going to dig a hole now. What *else* is there to do here in Perth
No seriously man. I'm not guessing. There are hardware patents involved. I'm not disputing that. We can assume to be factual that if there is no software being sold, there hasn't been CSS licence fees being paid. Any company that paid for stuff they didn't have to would be to stupid to contemplate
The DVD logo will almost certainly belong to the persons who own the patents for either the disks or the players. That is separate from the copy mogrification algorithm.
Captain: Launch "Civil Libertarians"
Not necessarily. Remember that the MPAA only gets licence fee on software, I am not aware of the drive itself being covered by anything more than the same sort of hardware patents that probably also cover floppy drives and cd-roms.
:)
Get an OEM one (many shops will sell 'em) and you get to *not* pay MPAA..
I could of course sugest then using DECSS, but we wouldn't do that , wouldn't we
Actually you could probably put together a really fecking minature distroo if you wanted to. Having recently been working on some embeded linux (axis ucLinux on Etrax100lx. Good stuff!) apps, what linux actually *needs* is surprisingly small. A kernel (For fortitude, compile the modules into the kernel) a badly abused inittab (You can it as an RC) a smattering of libs (basic glib) a few prudent patches, a file system, busybox and ash. Then if clever you can wack on an Xwindows kit+twm, and all up stuff it in under five meg.
The hard bit would be "how to make usefull".
Try looking up abandonware games. There are plenty of sites, although I suspect those groovy old games tend to have a simmilar sort of legality to Mame rom files... dubious, but noone really worries.
No, but look up Ximian . It's part of their gnome kit and it's a bugger to install (Linked fully against bleeding edge libs)
Competition the sole purpose of open source software? No. I'm inclined to think world domination. :)
Seriously though, competition is just one of them. Freedom is another one. Bitchingly good code is yet another. Doing stuff just for the fuck of not getting bored yet another. Dodging the MS-tax yet another.
There are *lots* of reasons.