Ok, there seems to be a general misunderstanding here.
BitKeeper was _not_ used to develop svn. It was used by one developer to develop bk2svn and it was only used for pulling data (or maybe just for testing purposes, I don't know) from a bk repo and building a svn repo.
Now the same developer is working on using GNU CSSC instead of the bk software.
I am sure the money (couple thousands) spent on a bk license would be far better spent on said developer so he can complete the migration tools using Free software./mill
Yes. We can have booths outside where they can stuff their faces with some sugar-salt-fat combination and _then_ they can watch the movie with the rest of us.
When I go to a movie I am there to experience the movie not the people around me./mill
This Tolkien guy is a fraud. He leaked the script for "The Fellowship of the Ring" too and his character development and wonderfully thoughtful plot was nowhere to be found in the movie.
No doubt has he made this and the next one up all by himself as well.
/mill
Re:does that work both ways?
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Not entirely true. Only a chosen few are blessed with "the hand of god"...
Eminem is an entertainer and frankly I don't care if what he says stems from the truth or not. He tells a story and he does it in an entertaining and sometimes thought provoking way.
Besides his videos are hilarious and he sure is a step up from that other motor city madman - Ted Nugent.
Shemekia Copeland beats all of them in the vocal department - ooh baby.
Just guessing - Kamera uses gphoto and not gstreamer. I would surprised if any KDE people worked on gstreamer since one of the KDE multimedia developers called GNOME people "truly evil" when gstreamer was announced.
I think you fail to realize that those who have read the book are probably the hardest critics. We know what the story should be and what Peter Jackson have completed failed to do.
He had time to spend on 'Lurtz' and his birth, but not any time to define Galadriel as more than a valium induced elf queen with a tendence to getting a hoarse voice and unnatural green face color when tempted by the ring.
It is sadly just a _bad_ movie even if you disregard the plot (Aragorn didn't let Frodo go knowingly) and character changes he made (Gandalf was the one who _wanted_ to go through Moria).
/mill
Re:Why not new Nobel Prizes? Math Prize and more..
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They changed the "rules" after the economy prize brouhaha (having all those neoliberals from Chicago subscribe to it didn't go over well here in Sweden), so that no new categories will or can be added.
Searching the 1997-01 archive I found that you jumped into a thread whining about the packages not being up to date enough and making stupid a comparison between ftp sites and distributions.
Then you spout I just don't see why anyone would run Linux and not want to compile software, be on bleeding edge, and actually administer a UNIX system... I feel like I'm running Windows 95.
To which a "mean" guy answers Obviously, you never administered a high-availablilty multiuser machine... just your little hacker playtoy machine. Try explaining to 200-300 users that you'll be down for a few hours because you installed some new software, and broke the system.
If you expect anyone to be nice to you after saying: Unconfigurable software with horrid defaults, plain bad planning, changing industry standards without notice, etc. you need a reality check.
Then in 1997-06 someone has cc:ed the list a mail to you about a webpage where you give your "opinion" on Debian. Apparently it contained the same FUD you produced in January.
I didn't find any posts to you from Bruce Perens, but I hope he tore into you for being so rude and arrogant in your ignorance.
I see no reason for you to complain about any rudeness or flaming from Debian developers/users since you brought it to that level all by yourself.
Personally I moved (in 1996) from Slackware to Debian because Debian was more up to date. I was never inclined to whine to the Slackware developers about them not working harder to satisfy my "bleeding edge" needs though.
You aren't supposed to fine tune your layout at all in HTML. If you have been using markup languages since elementary school it is sad that you haven't even understood the basics of HTML.
/mill
Re:Gecko's home page doesn't render on NS4!
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Why can't you generate a table of contents from an HTML document? If you use HTML correctly it is trivial.
HTML was never intended to build "every type of UI". For structured information on the other hand it is quite useful.
So in what way is the "HTML concept" a failure?
Too many of you webdesigners out there don't understand these things though. That is the problem.
/mill
Re:wxWindows (slightly OT)
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If it hasn't been mentioned yet
Al Stevens took a look at both Qt and Gtk-- in the September and October issues of Dr Dobbs Journal.
What he didn't like with Qt:
No namespaces
Language extensions to implement slots
An ill-organized and unnecessary RTTI mechanism
Custom rather than standard containers
Questionable C++ coding conventions
The last (I think. I only have October) refers to that Qt takes ownership of objects instantiated on the heap i.e. new without a corresponding delete. Which means you have to do all instantiating on the heap because there is no portable way for Qt to know if it is on the stack, external, or static memory.
He thinks Gtk-- remedy all these problems and he actually found the tutorial funny albeit a work in progress.
/mill
Re:Interesting read, but you're forgetting one thi
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No, software is a realization of an idea. Copyright protects that realization. Patents protects the idea.
I think it is only intellectual property (copyrighted not patented) that makes sense. Physical property is scarce so any time someone claims ownership someone else lose the same. Nonphysical property one reproduce by putting in the same amount of work.
Uh, yes, but _who_ is he? Is he a Valar (say Orome)? Or one of the Maia? What is his place in the history of Middle-Earth and more specifically what is his significance in the story to be told in the movies?
I haven't read any of the stories about Bombadil (outside of LotR and Silmarillion, if he was mentioned there), so maybe I have missed something that explains Bombadil's place better.
The alt.fan.tolkien FAQ maintainer (Steuard Jensen) has written an essay on Bombadil and maybe I will read it one of these days: http://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/Bombadil.html
AFAIK Sun's core GNOME developer is located in Ireland so using that logic KDE would be the preferred choice.
Of course that is not the reason they chose GNOME. The license of gtk+, use of CORBA, influence over the implementation of gtk+, and C instead of C++ are probable reason.
/mill
Re:A plea to the hard core LOTR fans
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Who is Bombadil? If it isn't even obvious who he is for those who have read the books putting him in the movie is just ridiculous. Of course if he would release Silmarillion, the movie, the day before the Fellowship of the Ring, I would be all for putting Bombadil in it.
If Aragorn isn't the tallest or some other technicality isn't exactly correct - who cares. As long as the important things are correct. Heck I can even accept that Arwen has been given a larger role in the movie. If the books were followed exactly the viewers wouldn't understand who Arwen is and why she is significant.
I think Peter Jackson will avoid the issue of winged Balrogs by being as ambiguous as Tolkien was. The trailer seems to take that stance anyway.
I really hope the Scoring of the Shire will be in the last movie though.
What gives you the right to own a piece of land instead of me or someone else? The land wasn't a product of your labor, so why can't govt tax you for using it?
I have no problem with extending copyright to infinity since I can reproduce the work using my own mind. What I do have a problem with is patents that deprive me that right.
Somewhere in between these two there is non-intellectual property which is limited and therefore gives someone a right and deprives others the same right at the same time.
I don't see any better way to arrange things though. Maybe land should be seen as leased instead of owned. Where society can regulate how you can use the land and tax you for the same. Within limits of course (hah! like govt has limits..).
Just ignore Bowie's whining. Look at what happened when he was heading the UI guidelines effort of GNOME in 1998. Produced nothing but flamewars because of his lack of social skills (read the August archives of gnome-gui-list for examples).
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Ok, there seems to be a general misunderstanding here.
/mill
BitKeeper was _not_ used to develop svn. It was used by one developer to develop bk2svn and it was only used for pulling data (or maybe just for testing purposes, I don't know) from a bk repo and building a svn repo.
Now the same developer is working on using GNU CSSC instead of the bk software.
I am sure the money (couple thousands) spent on a bk license would be far better spent on said developer so he can complete the migration tools using Free software.
Turning a doughnut into a coffee cup and vice versa would have serious practical applications for our people in law enforcement though. /mill
Yes. We can have booths outside where they can stuff their faces with some sugar-salt-fat combination and _then_ they can watch the movie with the rest of us.
/mill
When I go to a movie I am there to experience the movie not the people around me.
Now that is a goddamn lie. We all know that server will be running Subversion. /mill
This Tolkien guy is a fraud. He leaked the script for "The Fellowship of the Ring" too and his character development and wonderfully thoughtful plot was nowhere to be found in the movie.
/mill
No doubt has he made this and the next one up all by himself as well.
Not entirely true. Only a chosen few are blessed with "the hand of god"...
/mill
Lennon? No. Elvis? Yes.
/mill
Eminem is an entertainer and frankly I don't care if what he says stems from the truth or not. He tells a story and he does it in an entertaining and sometimes thought provoking way.
Besides his videos are hilarious and he sure is a step up from that other motor city madman - Ted Nugent.
Shemekia Copeland beats all of them in the vocal department - ooh baby.
Just guessing - Kamera uses gphoto and not gstreamer. I would surprised if any KDE people worked on gstreamer since one of the KDE multimedia developers called GNOME people "truly evil" when gstreamer was announced.
/mill
Well this is telecom and _that_ part of the private sector is every bit as good as the govt to screw things up. Just look at WAP.
/mill
I think you fail to realize that those who have read the book are probably the hardest critics. We know what the story should be and what Peter Jackson have completed failed to do.
/mill
He had time to spend on 'Lurtz' and his birth, but not any time to define Galadriel as more than a valium induced elf queen with a tendence to getting a hoarse voice and unnatural green face color when tempted by the ring.
It is sadly just a _bad_ movie even if you disregard the plot (Aragorn didn't let Frodo go knowingly) and character changes he made (Gandalf was the one who _wanted_ to go through Moria).
They changed the "rules" after the economy prize brouhaha (having all those neoliberals from Chicago subscribe to it didn't go over well here in Sweden), so that no new categories will or can be added.
/mill
Then you spout I just don't see why anyone would run Linux and not want to compile software, be on bleeding edge, and actually administer a UNIX system... I feel like I'm running Windows 95.
To which a "mean" guy answers Obviously, you never administered a high-availablilty multiuser machine... just your little hacker playtoy machine. Try explaining to 200-300 users that you'll be down for a few hours because you installed some new software, and broke the system.
If you expect anyone to be nice to you after saying: Unconfigurable software with horrid defaults, plain bad planning, changing industry standards without notice, etc. you need a reality check.
Then in 1997-06 someone has cc:ed the list a mail to you about a webpage where you give your "opinion" on Debian. Apparently it contained the same FUD you produced in January.
I didn't find any posts to you from Bruce Perens, but I hope he tore into you for being so rude and arrogant in your ignorance.
I see no reason for you to complain about any rudeness or flaming from Debian developers/users since you brought it to that level all by yourself.
Personally I moved (in 1996) from Slackware to Debian because Debian was more up to date. I was never inclined to whine to the Slackware developers about them not working harder to satisfy my "bleeding edge" needs though.
You aren't supposed to fine tune your layout at all in HTML. If you have been using markup languages since elementary school it is sad that you haven't even understood the basics of HTML.
/mill
Why can't you generate a table of contents from an HTML document? If you use HTML correctly it is trivial.
/mill
HTML was never intended to build "every type of UI". For structured information on the other hand it is quite useful.
So in what way is the "HTML concept" a failure?
Too many of you webdesigners out there don't understand these things though. That is the problem.
Al Stevens took a look at both Qt and Gtk-- in the September and October issues of Dr Dobbs Journal.
What he didn't like with Qt:
The last (I think. I only have October) refers to that Qt takes ownership of objects instantiated on the heap i.e. new without a corresponding delete. Which means you have to do all instantiating on the heap because there is no portable way for Qt to know if it is on the stack, external, or static memory.
He thinks Gtk-- remedy all these problems and he actually found the tutorial funny albeit a work in progress.
No, software is a realization of an idea. Copyright protects that realization. Patents protects the idea.
/mill
I think it is only intellectual property (copyrighted not patented) that makes sense. Physical property is scarce so any time someone claims ownership someone else lose the same. Nonphysical property one reproduce by putting in the same amount of work.
Uh, yes, but _who_ is he? Is he a Valar (say Orome)? Or one of the Maia? What is his place in the history of Middle-Earth and more specifically what is his significance in the story to be told in the movies?
/mill
I haven't read any of the stories about Bombadil (outside of LotR and Silmarillion, if he was mentioned there), so maybe I have missed something that explains Bombadil's place better.
The alt.fan.tolkien FAQ maintainer (Steuard Jensen) has written an essay on Bombadil and maybe I will read it one of these days: http://tolkien.slimy.com/essays/Bombadil.html
AFAIK Sun's core GNOME developer is located in Ireland so using that logic KDE would be the preferred choice.
/mill
Of course that is not the reason they chose GNOME. The license of gtk+, use of CORBA, influence over the implementation of gtk+, and C instead of C++ are probable reason.
Who is Bombadil? If it isn't even obvious who he is for those who have read the books putting him in the movie is just ridiculous. Of course if he would release Silmarillion, the movie, the day before the Fellowship of the Ring, I would be all for putting Bombadil in it.
/mill
If Aragorn isn't the tallest or some other technicality isn't exactly correct - who cares. As long as the important things are correct. Heck I can even accept that Arwen has been given a larger role in the movie. If the books were followed exactly the viewers wouldn't understand who Arwen is and why she is significant.
I think Peter Jackson will avoid the issue of winged Balrogs by being as ambiguous as Tolkien was. The trailer seems to take that stance anyway.
I really hope the Scoring of the Shire will be in the last movie though.
The key here is "the scientists who agree". What about the scientists who don't agree? This is indeed hysteria.
/mill
We should pollute less though. At least I don't want to walk around with a mask because of the bad air.
You also have the problem of "property".
/mill
What gives you the right to own a piece of land instead of me or someone else? The land wasn't a product of your labor, so why can't govt tax you for using it?
I have no problem with extending copyright to infinity since I can reproduce the work using my own mind. What I do have a problem with is patents that deprive me that right.
Somewhere in between these two there is non-intellectual property which is limited and therefore gives someone a right and deprives others the same right at the same time.
I don't see any better way to arrange things though. Maybe land should be seen as leased instead of owned. Where society can regulate how you can use the land and tax you for the same. Within limits of course (hah! like govt has limits..).
Just ignore Bowie's whining. Look at what happened when he was heading the UI guidelines effort of GNOME in 1998. Produced nothing but flamewars because of his lack of social skills (read the August archives of gnome-gui-list for examples).
/mill
The "magical touch" is that they are selling proprieraty software...
/mill
Distribution? Bonobo is the name of the component model the project is using i.e. it will not change.
/mill
If you are so tired "recommending" then why don't you actually _implement_ it yourself?! If you don't have the knowledge then pay someone to do it.
/mill