We've secretly replaced your favorite wakeup call to The New World Order with the best mis-information there is.
And how Rob ever figured out that my Mothers maiden name is the same as my social security number, I'll never know. [go try Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Warn me before accepting cookies to get really scared]
Okay everybody, sing along...
It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it It's the end of the world as we know it And I feel fine.
I remember the first time I read the The Cathedral and the Bazaar and how it made sense. It made me confront my own questions concerning development practice and cooperation and helped me to feel out my ideals while I struggled in a job in corporate america. For several days afterwards I found myself returning to pieces of the essay and considering the reasoning for open source, the reasoning for having an environment that you could open up and understand. For this I will always be thankful.
This equality of enterprise is bigger than any one individual. This movement is moving on, and like any tempest that ravages the land, it will eventually disipate into a thousand other things, but will have left its indellible mark. These marks will mostly be things that people did, like write an operating system, or herald a cause, or start a foundation, or bring a community together via a website.
We the supporters of the open source community need heroes, and we need these heroes to help carry the message to the masses. I feel like it is to our benefit to have as many heroes in the public eye as the public will have. For this I hope that as ESR redefines his role in this community we will be capable of supporting new people who can carry our message to the masses. Just like the kernel is now too big for Linus, ESR is telling us that the soapbox is too big for the current crew. From one perspective, this presents a unique and interesting problem that some of us will find inviting, and will want to attack. At risk of drawing too many parrallels with kernel development, we should be concerned that we don't present too many interfaces that won't stand the test of time. Having trusted focal points for the press and others will ensure credibility. So while ESR says that he would leave the stage I would hope that there would be a happy medium.
bnf
p.s. Anyone here realize that Microsoft's Stock has reached an inflection point, signalling that the rate of increase has stopped growing. This is generally caused by a stock reaching its market cap or by an encroaching competitor gaining market share. They know what's happening, and we've begun to see the FUD roll out with finer craftsmanship. This is the time when we should stand strong as a community and intelligently communicate our messages.
You would probably consider me a newbie to Linux at four months. The past three of them have been with KDE.
When I found an environment that let me Alt-Tab to other applications by default (not to mention using the keyboard to go to another virtual desktop) and make me feel like I could manipulate and configure my environment from the environment itself I finally felt like I could have faith in world domination. Besides, it's wonderful to be able to have themes and event driven sounds. These little things make going from A to B that much quicker.
I agree with you. They announced the intent to sell off a software division last week. That baffles me. I wish they could take a lead in this industry but they are too nervous and are moving too slow. They're current digital attempts seem like they're bound to go the way of the disk camera.
...where Kodak is already seeeing some very hard times, but still enjoys being Hollywood's favorite platform. It would be yet another blow to the local economy if this went away.
I was trying to figure out how objective Rob & Crew could be for the linux.com announcement on slashdot. Rob is listed as being on the advisory board for the site. A journalist might decide not to run the story, or would hand it off to another reporter who did not have such an investment in the organization.
Now most of the time, the um, Slashdot editorial staff isn't posting items, such as this one, which are potential news makers in and of themselves. There have been a few times, such as the recent LinuxWorld conference where we would get a few snipets here and there.
But even so, this is not/.'s strong point. Slashdot is really good at filtering out everything else that is going on Out There(tm) and publishing links to news and information, a good portion of which I feel comfortable considering as journalism. And then we get to post comments about what we think (some of them off-topic), which isn't too far off from what Rob & Crew do in the two or three lines that usually accompany each post to the homepage.
When I come here (which is usually a couple times a day) I always consider the source, I use my own critical nogin, and I don't feel like I have to be led around by every piece of information that appears on slashdot.
Perhaps Redhat (and Barnes and Noble) has an amazing distribution model, but this chart says they were running Linux 2.2.2. I don't think a 2.2.2 kernel could have been pulled off of the shelf so soon after becoming available.
If we have legal dilemmas for getting the CDDB data directly, then how about harvesting local, personal copies of CDDB. It wouldn't be hard to write a parser and upload helper. (hmm, I might even volunteer).
I *REALLY* like the XML idea.
bnf
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Ayn Rand's most popular works have been Atlas Shrugged and The Fountain Head. IMHO they're both very good reads and extremely thought provoking.
It's interesting to see this reference to Ayn Rand. Howard Roark, the main character of The Fountain Head, is an architect who is constantly turning his back on capitalist ventures which he feels compromise his artistic integrity. The real pay off for him isn't in the money, but in the art and beauty of his creations. That kind of sounds familiar.
More information about Ayn Rand and objectivism can be found at aynrand.org
It's pretty clear that they're looking to compete with Web TV and are probably supplementing expensive hardware with an incremental revenue stream via the dialup service but when I look at this product it makes me want something a little more.
So raise your hand now if you're comfortable admitting that you've spent many an hour in bed with a laptop (for the sake of an example we'll assume the activity was READING). I feel like it's always a pain in the ass to go boot up my laptop if I want to get away from the desk and lie around somewhere while I'm reading documentation, or just surfing/. or whatever. If I could have a portable RF hooked monitor with touch screen for my Linux box that would be a dream.
Hmm. I wonder what chip they're running on. If it really is doing Win32 I bet there's a good shot this thing could run Linux. Then with Multihoned XFree86 maybe my dreams could come true.
If this deal does work out as described in the header, watch for Disney stock to plummet.
There was a suggestion in the one of the January Forbes Op-Ed pieces which suggested that Steve Jobs should move into the big chair at Disney. This, coupled with other market rumors and a good fourth quarter and holiday season for Apple caused a rise in both Apple's and Disney's stocks during the first few weeks of last month.
This deal would make some of Disney's major investors very happy. Eisner and his press office have been saying that Disney and ABC are in a ten year cyclical slump and that this is something they expected but anyone who's had a pulse and a clue for the past four years has realized that Eisner hasn't figured out this new market or how Disney can leverage it's position and excellent brand recognition. We'll have to see howgo goes, but outside of some of the Disney online content focused on youth, such as Blast they have not gotten into this brave new world.
Hmm. Does Richard Stallman carry some resentment for Eric Allman pursuing commercial opportunities with Sendmail, Inc.? It doesn't look like they think the same way about the world or the future of free and/or open software.
Does anyone know of any other sites with these people (or others of their ilk) discussing the underlying framework of the free software/open source communities?
FYI - there are other comments on the feedmag site that/.ers might find interesting.
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There are no reports available for the .com .net or .org domains, though there appears to be thorough reports for all of the top level country codes.
bnf
We've secretly replaced your favorite wakeup call to The New World Order with the best mis-information there is.
And how Rob ever figured out that my Mothers maiden name is the same as my social security number, I'll never know. [go try Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Warn me before accepting cookies to get really scared]
Okay everybody, sing along...
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine.
bnf
This equality of enterprise is bigger than any one individual. This movement is moving on, and like any tempest that ravages the land, it will eventually disipate into a thousand other things, but will have left its indellible mark. These marks will mostly be things that people did, like write an operating system, or herald a cause, or start a foundation, or bring a community together via a website.
We the supporters of the open source community need heroes, and we need these heroes to help carry the message to the masses. I feel like it is to our benefit to have as many heroes in the public eye as the public will have. For this I hope that as ESR redefines his role in this community we will be capable of supporting new people who can carry our message to the masses. Just like the kernel is now too big for Linus, ESR is telling us that the soapbox is too big for the current crew. From one perspective, this presents a unique and interesting problem that some of us will find inviting, and will want to attack. At risk of drawing too many parrallels with kernel development, we should be concerned that we don't present too many interfaces that won't stand the test of time. Having trusted focal points for the press and others will ensure credibility. So while ESR says that he would leave the stage I would hope that there would be a happy medium.
bnf
p.s. Anyone here realize that Microsoft's Stock has reached an inflection point, signalling that the rate of increase has stopped growing. This is generally caused by a stock reaching its market cap or by an encroaching competitor gaining market share. They know what's happening, and we've begun to see the FUD roll out with finer craftsmanship. This is the time when we should stand strong as a community and intelligently communicate our messages.
When I found an environment that let me Alt-Tab to other applications by default (not to mention using the keyboard to go to another virtual desktop) and make me feel like I could manipulate and configure my environment from the environment itself I finally felt like I could have faith in world domination. Besides, it's wonderful to be able to have themes and event driven sounds. These little things make going from A to B that much quicker.
bnf
bnf
bnf
bnf
I was trying to figure out how objective Rob & Crew could be for the linux.com announcement on slashdot. Rob is listed as being on the advisory board for the site. A journalist might decide not to run the story, or would hand it off to another reporter who did not have such an investment in the organization.
Now most of the time, the um, Slashdot editorial staff isn't posting items, such as this one, which are potential news makers in and of themselves. There have been a few times, such as the recent LinuxWorld conference where we would get a few snipets here and there.
But even so, this is not /.'s strong point. Slashdot is really good at filtering out everything else that is going on Out There(tm) and publishing links to news and information, a good portion of which I feel comfortable considering as journalism. And then we get to post comments about what we think (some of them off-topic), which isn't too far off from what Rob & Crew do in the two or three lines that usually accompany each post to the homepage.
When I come here (which is usually a couple times a day) I always consider the source, I use my own critical nogin, and I don't feel like I have to be led around by every piece of information that appears on slashdot.
cheers,
bnf
bnf
I *REALLY* like the XML idea.
bnf
It's interesting to see this reference to Ayn Rand. Howard Roark, the main character of The Fountain Head, is an architect who is constantly turning his back on capitalist ventures which he feels compromise his artistic integrity. The real pay off for him isn't in the money, but in the art and beauty of his creations. That kind of sounds familiar.
More information about Ayn Rand and objectivism can be found at aynrand.org
bnf
bnf
It's pretty clear that they're looking to compete with Web TV and are probably supplementing expensive hardware with an incremental revenue stream via the dialup service but when I look at this product it makes me want something a little more.
So raise your hand now if you're comfortable admitting that you've spent many an hour in bed with a laptop (for the sake of an example we'll assume the activity was READING). I feel like it's always a pain in the ass to go boot up my laptop if I want to get away from the desk and lie around somewhere while I'm reading documentation, or just surfing /. or whatever. If I could have a portable RF hooked monitor with touch screen for my Linux box that would be a dream.
Hmm. I wonder what chip they're running on. If it really is doing Win32 I bet there's a good shot this thing could run Linux. Then with Multihoned XFree86 maybe my dreams could come true.
bnf
There was a suggestion in the one of the January Forbes Op-Ed pieces which suggested that Steve Jobs should move into the big chair at Disney. This, coupled with other market rumors and a good fourth quarter and holiday season for Apple caused a rise in both Apple's and Disney's stocks during the first few weeks of last month.
This deal would make some of Disney's major investors very happy. Eisner and his press office have been saying that Disney and ABC are in a ten year cyclical slump and that this is something they expected but anyone who's had a pulse and a clue for the past four years has realized that Eisner hasn't figured out this new market or how Disney can leverage it's position and excellent brand recognition. We'll have to see howgo goes, but outside of some of the Disney online content focused on youth, such as Blast they have not gotten into this brave new world.
bnf
Does anyone know of any other sites with these people (or others of their ilk) discussing the underlying framework of the free software/open source communities?
FYI - there are other comments on the feedmag site that /.ers might find interesting.
bnf