Did you actually follow the link and read the policy descriptions? That list is not policy descriptions, it's sound bites. There's significantly more detail on the site. Cynicism is an appropriate attitude to our political process and it's participants but if you don't take the opportunity to back it up with evidence it's just ignorance. So... I'm not impressed by your lack of effort.
* Ensure an open Internet.
* Create a transparent and connected democracy.
* Encourage a modern communications infrastructure.
* Employ technology to solve our nation's most pressing problems.
* Improve America's competitiveness.
The list is pretty much "policy speak" but the detailed initiatives indicate a good grasp of the issues and a reasonable stance on the direction we need to move.
I'm all for limiting how much money is passed on directly from one generation to the next to avoid the Paris Hiltons of the world, but for the Joes and Bobs, there should be a floor $ amount below which the government (oops, I mean "society") doesn't see a dime.
There is:
Reminder: Most relatively simple estates (cash, publicly-traded securities, small amounts of other easily-valued assets, and no special deductions or elections, or jointly-held property) with a total value under $1,000,000 do not require the filing of an estate tax return. The amount was $1,500,000 in 2004 and 2005. For 2006 through 2008, the amount is raised to $2,000,000.
"Does this then lead to the conclusion that robbing convenience stores is good for Coca-Cola? It certainly does not."
Yes, Coca-Cola was not harmed in the making of this hypothetical situation. The store you robbed, the clerk you shot, and the grandmother you ran over getting away were harmed.
Your comparing apples to overly sweet carbonated beverages anyway.
The store can't sell that can of coke you stole that they allready paid for at wholesale, so they are taking a loss. When you download a TV show and that download results in increased viewership for the actual commercial ridden episode later in the week (you watched it again - Galactica really was that good - and your three friends watched it too on your recomendation) then there is no monetary loss to anyone involved.
Developing with CMF was pretty crappy, developing for Plone with Archetypes is a huge improvement. Python and TAL, may not be perfect, but they provide a very simple platform for rapid web based application development.
Your right about docs, they've been questionable in the past. The new plone.org docs section is a big step in the right direction.
Essentially, yes. However, I reserve judgment until I see a useful application developed with it. Last time I looked at that project it hadn't released in a year or so.
XUL is a great idea, but it will never catch on unless a GUI designer is created. Hand coding UI xml sucks, hand coding UI rdf+xml is approximately as anal retentive as pointalism. XAML is noticably less verbose than XUL and I can almost guarantee that there will be a nice GUI designer for it.
No, XAML is not better than XUL, XUL is badass tech, but the outlook for its adoption is bleak at the moment. A nice GUI designer and pyXPCOM could fix that though.
I don't think the parent intended to get into a legal argument. I think the idea was that if you use existing open source libraries, you can build XMPP chat into an application with know the ins and outs of the XMPP-IM standard.
Actually, its released under the IBM public lisence, an OSI approved liscence. It is not GPL compatible (which would be better), but its still a good open source lisence.
The copyright is held by the author unless the author gives away those rights. When you hire a contract programmer you generally include the assignment of rights in the contract. If the contract does explicitly give the rights to the person paying, the rights remain with the programmer.
Its easy to be anti-Big.biz in the US, unless you are Big.biz
I may even be on the ani-B.b side myself, but I think its a mistake to mix the FOSS (anti-proprietary software) movements too closely with an anti-corporate mentality. Not as a question of right/wrong but as a question of tactics and achievable goals.
Open Source will win, the paradigm shift is happening, but open source will not change those nature of the Big.biz economy.
Free Software requires going further than open source, and I think its way too early to call whether free software will win. Free Software is a low hanging fruit after open source is mainstream, tying it to a general anti-corporate movement will make it more difficult.
"Pulling an SCO" is a flawed variation of the "submarine patent strategy". Your supposed to wait till every company large and small depends on the technology, then start suing the small companies, not the big (IBM sized) ones.
Then, once I have a GTK# GUI codebase complete, do I continue to support two GUI codebases? Or do I install Cygwin / GTK# on all of my current Windows boxes to make them compatible with my GTK# GUI codebase? Something tells me my sys admin wouldn't be too happy about that particular install across our organization.
Gtk# does not require cygwin, why would you install cygwin?
I think the biggest problem was that the news came from CA, not from the Plone Foundation. CA jumped the gun.
The other concern is that according to the article CA plans to release a Plone based product on Monday, but they don't want to release the source. As of now, Plone is GPL only, iirc. It seems that CA may have trouble getting a license they like by this weeken. /me shrugs
Absolutely. Plone will be issued under an OSI-approved license. The Foundation is working to build a guarantee of this nature in to the Foundation bylaws and in the contributor agreement."
Will Plone will also be released under a non-GPL (or non-Open Source) license?
The current Plone approach states that companies can negotiate a non-GPL license. Thus, the Foundation might pursue a dual-licensing (GPL and non-GPL) scheme -- but, at this time, the Board has not yet created any policies on this. This is an important question for the community, of course, and the Foundation intends to have this conversation in a transparent way. For more information, see Contributor's Agreement for Plone Explained.
On the left is Alan Colmes, a rather less telegenic former stand-up comic and radio host whose views are slightly left-of-center but who, as a personality, is completely off the radar screen of liberal politics. "I'm quite moderate," he told a reporter when asked to describe his politics (USA Today, 2/1/95). Hannity, a self-described "arch-conservative" (Electronic Media, 8/26/96)
I suggest you try reading instead of skimming it this time. There is very little discussion of who watches fox news. Most of the article is about the staff of Fox News, or specific programming.
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Did you actually follow the link and read the policy descriptions? That list is not policy descriptions, it's sound bites. There's significantly more detail on the site. Cynicism is an appropriate attitude to our political process and it's participants but if you don't take the opportunity to back it up with evidence it's just ignorance. So ... I'm not impressed by your lack of effort.
I was impressed by Obama's technology issues page:
http://www.barackobama.com/issues/technology/
The summary points are:
* Ensure an open Internet.
* Create a transparent and connected democracy.
* Encourage a modern communications infrastructure.
* Employ technology to solve our nation's most pressing problems.
* Improve America's competitiveness.
The list is pretty much "policy speak" but the detailed initiatives indicate a good grasp of the issues and a reasonable stance on the direction we need to move.
There is:
Reminder: Most relatively simple estates (cash, publicly-traded securities, small amounts of other easily-valued assets, and no special deductions or elections, or jointly-held property) with a total value under $1,000,000 do not require the filing of an estate tax return. The amount was $1,500,000 in 2004 and 2005. For 2006 through 2008, the amount is raised to $2,000,000.
From the IRS site.
"Does this then lead to the conclusion that robbing convenience stores is good for Coca-Cola? It certainly does not."
Yes, Coca-Cola was not harmed in the making of this hypothetical situation. The store you robbed, the clerk you shot, and the grandmother you ran over getting away were harmed.
Your comparing apples to overly sweet carbonated beverages anyway.
The store can't sell that can of coke you stole that they allready paid for at wholesale, so they are taking a loss. When you download a TV show and that download results in increased viewership for the actual commercial ridden episode later in the week (you watched it again - Galactica really was that good - and your three friends watched it too on your recomendation) then there is no monetary loss to anyone involved.
Public Knowledge has coverage of the case here , as well.
Developing with CMF was pretty crappy, developing for Plone with Archetypes is a huge improvement. Python and TAL, may not be perfect, but they provide a very simple platform for rapid web based application development.
Your right about docs, they've been questionable in the past. The new plone.org docs section is a big step in the right direction.
> That actually sounds more fun than GWB Trainer Sim.
That's the one where you get drunk next to a fighter jet, then run out for another sixer just before roll call?
> What, you mean like this?
Essentially, yes. However, I reserve judgment until I see a useful application developed with it. Last time I looked at that project it hadn't released in a year or so.
XUL is a great idea, but it will never catch on unless a GUI designer is created. Hand coding UI xml sucks, hand coding UI rdf+xml is approximately as anal retentive as pointalism. XAML is noticably less verbose than XUL and I can almost guarantee that there will be a nice GUI designer for it.
No, XAML is not better than XUL, XUL is badass tech, but the outlook for its adoption is bleak at the moment. A nice GUI designer and pyXPCOM could fix that though.
I don't think the parent intended to get into a legal argument. I think the idea was that if you use existing open source libraries, you can build XMPP chat into an application with know the ins and outs of the XMPP-IM standard.
Actually, its released under the IBM public lisence, an OSI approved liscence. It is not GPL compatible (which would be better), but its still a good open source lisence.
The copyright is held by the author unless the author gives away those rights. When you hire a contract programmer you generally include the assignment of rights in the contract. If the contract does explicitly give the rights to the person paying, the rights remain with the programmer.
What IE development?
Drop shadows can improve usability by making it easier to determine which window has focus.
Translucency is beneficial for notification, non-critical alerts can be shown without completely hiding the workspace under them.
Its easy to be anti-Big.biz in the US, unless you are Big.biz
I may even be on the ani-B.b side myself, but I think its a mistake to mix the FOSS (anti-proprietary software) movements too closely with an anti-corporate mentality. Not as a question of right/wrong but as a question of tactics and achievable goals.
Open Source will win, the paradigm shift is happening, but open source will not change those nature of the Big.biz economy.
Free Software requires going further than open source, and I think its way too early to call whether free software will win. Free Software is a low hanging fruit after open source is mainstream, tying it to a general anti-corporate movement will make it more difficult.
The issue is that it appears MS is willing to undercut Linux, which they can only do because they have a monopoly pricing system.
Monopolists can lock competition out of a market because of their unaturally high marginal profits. This is why its illegal in the US (in theory).
"Without the extensions it's a below par browser to Internet Explorer"
How so?
Mozilla - out of the box, xhtml, css1, most css2, mail, composer, chatzilla, popup-blocking.
In what way is it "below par"?
"Pulling an SCO" is a flawed variation of the "submarine patent strategy". Your supposed to wait till every company large and small depends on the technology, then start suing the small companies, not the big (IBM sized) ones.
Then, once I have a GTK# GUI codebase complete, do I continue to support two GUI codebases? Or do I install Cygwin / GTK# on all of my current Windows boxes to make them compatible with my GTK# GUI codebase? Something tells me my sys admin wouldn't be too happy about that particular install across our organization.
Gtk# does not require cygwin, why would you install cygwin?
I think the biggest problem was that the news came from CA, not from the Plone Foundation. CA jumped the gun.
/me shrugs
The other concern is that according to the article CA plans to release a Plone based product on Monday, but they don't want to release the source. As of now, Plone is GPL only, iirc. It seems that CA may have trouble getting a license they like by this weeken.
no, never a GPL an OSI approved "safe" license.
Will Plone still be Open Source?
Absolutely. Plone will be issued under an OSI-approved license. The Foundation is working to build a guarantee of this nature in to the Foundation bylaws and in the contributor agreement."
Will Plone will also be released under a non-GPL (or non-Open Source) license?The current Plone approach states that companies can negotiate a non-GPL license. Thus, the Foundation might pursue a dual-licensing (GPL and non-GPL) scheme -- but, at this time, the Board has not yet created any policies on this. This is an important question for the community, of course, and the Foundation intends to have this conversation in a transparent way. For more information, see Contributor's Agreement for Plone Explained.
On the left is Alan Colmes, a rather less telegenic former stand-up comic and radio host whose views are slightly left-of-center but who, as a personality, is completely off the radar screen of liberal politics. "I'm quite moderate," he told a reporter when asked to describe his politics (USA Today, 2/1/95). Hannity, a self-described "arch-conservative" (Electronic Media, 8/26/96)
(full article in a previous post)
I suggest you try reading instead of skimming it this time. There is very little discussion of who watches fox news. Most of the article is about the staff of Fox News, or specific programming.
google: fox news bias
Turns up numerous pages with examples of Fox bias.
The classsic:
http://www.fair.org/extra/0108/fox-main.html
More current:
http://www.oreilly-sucks.com/foxbias.htm