It is my understanding that Sun's license makes it hard to distribute code with SUN's libraries or JVM. You could code your own, but it would be hassle. All this makes writing code with Java for commercial reasons difficult. You have to pay a licensing fee to SUN to enable this.
Opening the code removes this hurdle and hopefully improves adoption. Java would have a jump on C# because of the number of coders that are ALREADY trained in using it (from school/work/whatever). Now they could write AND distribute full Java application implementations without paying the TAX.
I could be and probably am wrong, but I thought that was the main thing holding Java (as a commercial developement language) back.
My parents knew where I was all the time. I was required to call my parents (before cell phones) before I went anywhere other than where I said I'd be (this comes from growing up as an army brat while overseas with alerts that would require taking everyone home or to the base). My parents, especially my dad, were strict in some ways, but in others I had more freedoms (as long as I didn't do something stupid to lose them) than most of my friends. I had no curfew. My parents figured, as long as they knew where I was, I would wonder home when I got bored. However, if I screwed up, I would have thrown those freedoms away in a blink of an eye. I never screwed up. I liked those freedoms.
My grades were excellent (top 10% of my class), I didn't become a drunken idiot and I didn't experiment with drugs or anything else in high school (though some of my friends from less strict households did), and I was very responsible and very reliable. I also liked my parents very much and I didn't get hurt, arrested, or "lost" in any way (like many of my friends did).
I plan to be just as strict with my own children while showing them the benefits of being part of a family and not taking stupid risks with their lives through experimentation.
My kids will probably camp, hike, scooter, fish, fly stunt kites, read, bike, kayak, swim, snowshoe and ski with us (just like I did with my parents). When the weather is bad we'll play board and card-games with eachother just like my parents did (and still do) with my brother and I. We won't have TV at home (I grew up without TV for a good portion of my life) and the Internet will be restricted to public areas.
From my experience most of the kids that I knew that experimented with the things you were talking about were bored, felt alone, and had no direction (and parents who said they loved them, but only as long as they weren't a hassle). I felt almost no peer-pressure as a kid. Screw those kids if they didn't like me for who I was, my parents would always accept me if noone else would. I didn't need to smoke pot or drink to feel "accepted." Screw that. I would rather have had the friendship of my dad (this is a guy who took me out of school on personal days when I was a senior in high school so that we could relish hanging out together before I went away to college... he was cool... I was getting straight A's and a day here or there didn't affect that one bit).
A lot of these same kids (some of whom became my parent's foster children) flourished in a stricter household. Most of my friends always wanted to hang out at my house (even when I didn't sometimes) because it was obvious that my parents cared about them and us.
People don't say, "Only give your kids Internet access in public family areas" because it doesn't work as a monitoring tool. They give this advice because it is the best option.
Every person I know that has put Internet in their kids bedrooms has regretted it. Every person that only allows access in common family areas while the parents are home has been quite happy with the results. The kids don't seem to really mind either.
Pick up any book, talk to any psychologist or law enforcement officer, and they will tell you the same thing.
To ignore this advice is to ignore better, hard won, thinking on the matter.
"metaphor sheer" is a big problem in usability design. If you keep changing how things generally work, the user can't make generalized guesses and knowledge doesn't transfer easily.
If you make radical changes the sheer is much greater and far more frustrating for the average joe.
Did you notice how every time he mentioned some "random unknown hacker working on Open Source" they were in China?
What is that deal with that?
First, where would he get such an idea? How many Open Source hackers are in China that are working on the Kernel (for instance)? I am sure that there could be some.
More likely he is consciously or subconsciously choosing that location... in some ways trying to put across a subtextual message.
That seems like an awful thing to do to such useful reference books.
Why can't they make a power plant that is powered by the "Pick your new technology" Unleashed books. There are more pages in them... so at least they would last longer, though we all know that they don't burn any brighter.
Well 2000 does come with 4 games. They are Solitaire (which is pretty good compared to the Open Source versions), Minesweeper, Pinball, and Freecell.
Lets break it down:
1. There are not as many decks in the windows version of Solataire to choose from, so that would definitely speed things up. ADVANTAGE: Microsoft
2. Minsweeper is small. You can't even resize the window. That's got to cut down on the number of CPU cycles that it uses. Of course you know they only tested it on the easy levels. My suspicion is that it would have only performed better on 3 out of 5 if they cranked Minesweeper up to Expert. ADVANTAGE: Microsoft (despite possible performance rigging).
3. Pinball. That's just unfair. There isn't a version in linux that has the same kicking music. (easy) ADVANTAGE: Microsoft
4. Freecell. Need I say more. That game screams. After all, they've had 10 years to perfect it. (another easy) ADVANTAGE: Microsoft.
I don't know what you guys are whining about... the evidence is there.
I am not as popular as most but I do get 50 or so visitors a day for some of my tech support workarounds. Every little bit helps. I think it would be more of a statement if hundreds of thousands of pages had similar protest pages instead of just high-profile sites.
If you uncle goes by your site to look at pictures of your children, raising his awareness isn't a bad thing.
I don't have a project, but I post tech support articles and work-arounds online that are read by people all over the world.
With some simple cutting and pasting, and a cp command or two, I have replaced my front page... more people should do the same. I remember the Internet Blackout from years ago... it was quite stunning to go to all of these pages that were turned black in protest. I don't know if something like that would have an impact today or not, but it would be interesting to find out.
Not to Mac-bash, but "know how things work under the hood?" I only know three (out of over a couple of hundred) that know how Macs "work under the hood."
All the others like Macs because they percieve that you don't HAVE to know what goes on under the hood. That's the entire reason that they use Macs in the first place.
Now... if something goes wrong (as it does with ALL operating systems) what do they do. The resintall the OS (if they even know how to do that). That's like rebuilding a car every time you need to change a tire.
I have a friend who used to argue about the superiority of Macs with me all the time... we'd go around and around about it. Until she got a new iMac. It crashed after 6 months and no matter what she did, she couldn't revive it... and the additional expense (after no longer being a student with student deals) of all the hardware and applications was killing her take-home-pay. It got to the point that she was/is considering writing to Microsoft (there's no way that she would use Linux) to do a Switch campaign for them. Not that Windows is amazing, but she had to use it in her office work all the time and realized that Mac's weren't vastly superior to Wintel platforms... they were just different... and she preferred the cheaper route.
I have this exact setup on my box and double clicking works in every single view in Konqueror. You have have to restart KDE, but after switching the Icons attribute in the KDE Control Panel under the Mouse Peripheral to "Double-click to open files and folders (select icons on first click)", it worked fine in Konqueror.
Try it again, my friend... it honestly should work. I am running Version 3.1-13 on Red Hat.
I love mozilla, I use it every day, but I have to use IE (like right now) on the network in our campus and staff labs.
IE is awful, but never fear there won't be any more upgrades (see previous/. stories for the details), we just have to buy the new OS (oh joy!). Where the heck is tabbed browsing?!?!? After a typical IE session, it looks like I stumbled onto a ClickFarm even if I didn't (opening everything in another window).
I wish the Mozilla team and Foundation the best of luck, Pheonix et al look promising. Hopefully Konqueror will get the improvements from Safari and, combined with the other open source browsers, hopefully innovate.
Though I am guilty of it as well more often than I would like to admit, generally I arrange for file drops.
"Need my file?"
"I will put it in X location on Y server. Pick it up there."
Email (again... I have been guilty as well) is for communication, not file transport.
We have a 5 MB limit on the size of attachments at our organization. You would not believe the number of people that are upset about this. It is amazing.
If I have something that big to transfer, I put it in an envelope and send it by "real" mail or put it on my web site and let them download it if they don't have access to my servers.
The absolute worst is when people make announcements for things in Word (name your Productivity Suite format) and then mail it out as an attachment! Not a good idea. It trains people to open potentially harmful attachments...
The Kyl-Schumer measure would eliminate the need for federal agents seeking secret surveillance warrants to show that a suspect is affiliated with a foreign power or agent, such as a terrorist group. Advocates say the measure would make it easier for agents to go after "lone wolf" terrorists who are not connected to a foreign group.
What the hell is wrong with this country? I can't believe this stuff is even being considered anymore. It boggles the mind..
The funny (or not) thing is that Joe Average American has no idea about what this measures are set to do. It is too boring to read about so they skim, and kind of agree, and then move on.
I just don't see a stop to this avalanche without public opinion shifting which doesn't seem like it will be any time soon.
The 3rd book in the Windows category was Kaplan GRE 2003 with CD-ROM--Windows only. Being that "Windows" is more common than "Linux," my bet is that you will always see more Windows titles with a simple search like that.
Having a lot of books isn't a problem. Books are effiecient ways to compartmentalize and pass on knowledge. The more books on the subject, the more potential knowledge that exists out there. So if we readjusted your simple search figure and found that Linux had more books... that is a good thing (tm), not a bad.
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Use a Mac... fewer/no viruses, "free applications," and vulnerabilities.
Set up XP so that they only have USER rights which should stop most applications from being installed.
run Linux... probably not a viable option.
It is my understanding that Sun's license makes it hard to distribute code with SUN's libraries or JVM. You could code your own, but it would be hassle. All this makes writing code with Java for commercial reasons difficult. You have to pay a licensing fee to SUN to enable this.
Opening the code removes this hurdle and hopefully improves adoption. Java would have a jump on C# because of the number of coders that are ALREADY trained in using it (from school/work/whatever). Now they could write AND distribute full Java application implementations without paying the TAX.
I could be and probably am wrong, but I thought that was the main thing holding Java (as a commercial developement language) back.
Even funnier if code review of "leaked" code finds tons of bugs that are then fixed...
His Books start at number 7 in the search.
Same old stuff by someone scared that Open Source means their livelihood is at stake.
Who doesn't remember this from the early releases of Netscape's Communicator or the Agent news/mail reader?
What's old is new again, I guess.
I spent $20 and got 4000 ad-free page views in return. Currently I have only used something like 320... and it has been months!
Most of the time, I forget to login, that accounts for part of the problem. The features are nice, but I wanted to support Slashdot. Plain and simple.
I do love the ability to read the entire posting history of users. Probably the coolest feature in my book.
They don't even have Google... there goes their popularity accounting. Google is so popular that it is its own verb.
It just happens to run Linux... heavily.
This survey is crap!
I was an honors student and a "gifted" artist.
My parents knew where I was all the time. I was required to call my parents (before cell phones) before I went anywhere other than where I said I'd be (this comes from growing up as an army brat while overseas with alerts that would require taking everyone home or to the base). My parents, especially my dad, were strict in some ways, but in others I had more freedoms (as long as I didn't do something stupid to lose them) than most of my friends. I had no curfew. My parents figured, as long as they knew where I was, I would wonder home when I got bored. However, if I screwed up, I would have thrown those freedoms away in a blink of an eye. I never screwed up. I liked those freedoms.
My grades were excellent (top 10% of my class), I didn't become a drunken idiot and I didn't experiment with drugs or anything else in high school (though some of my friends from less strict households did), and I was very responsible and very reliable. I also liked my parents very much and I didn't get hurt, arrested, or "lost" in any way (like many of my friends did).
I plan to be just as strict with my own children while showing them the benefits of being part of a family and not taking stupid risks with their lives through experimentation.
My kids will probably camp, hike, scooter, fish, fly stunt kites, read, bike, kayak, swim, snowshoe and ski with us (just like I did with my parents). When the weather is bad we'll play board and card-games with eachother just like my parents did (and still do) with my brother and I. We won't have TV at home (I grew up without TV for a good portion of my life) and the Internet will be restricted to public areas.
From my experience most of the kids that I knew that experimented with the things you were talking about were bored, felt alone, and had no direction (and parents who said they loved them, but only as long as they weren't a hassle). I felt almost no peer-pressure as a kid. Screw those kids if they didn't like me for who I was, my parents would always accept me if noone else would. I didn't need to smoke pot or drink to feel "accepted." Screw that. I would rather have had the friendship of my dad (this is a guy who took me out of school on personal days when I was a senior in high school so that we could relish hanging out together before I went away to college... he was cool... I was getting straight A's and a day here or there didn't affect that one bit).
A lot of these same kids (some of whom became my parent's foster children) flourished in a stricter household. Most of my friends always wanted to hang out at my house (even when I didn't sometimes) because it was obvious that my parents cared about them and us.
People don't say, "Only give your kids Internet access in public family areas" because it doesn't work as a monitoring tool. They give this advice because it is the best option.
Every person I know that has put Internet in their kids bedrooms has regretted it. Every person that only allows access in common family areas while the parents are home has been quite happy with the results. The kids don't seem to really mind either.
Pick up any book, talk to any psychologist or law enforcement officer, and they will tell you the same thing.
To ignore this advice is to ignore better, hard won, thinking on the matter.
"metaphor sheer" is a big problem in usability design. If you keep changing how things generally work, the user can't make generalized guesses and knowledge doesn't transfer easily.
If you make radical changes the sheer is much greater and far more frustrating for the average joe.
Did you notice how every time he mentioned some "random unknown hacker working on Open Source" they were in China?
What is that deal with that?
First, where would he get such an idea? How many Open Source hackers are in China that are working on the Kernel (for instance)? I am sure that there could be some.
More likely he is consciously or subconsciously choosing that location... in some ways trying to put across a subtextual message.
What is it?
Why can't they make a power plant that is powered by the "Pick your new technology" Unleashed books. There are more pages in them... so at least they would last longer, though we all know that they don't burn any brighter.
Well 2000 does come with 4 games.
They are Solitaire (which is pretty good compared to the Open Source versions), Minesweeper, Pinball, and Freecell.
Lets break it down:
1. There are not as many decks in the windows version of Solataire to choose from, so that would definitely speed things up. ADVANTAGE: Microsoft
2. Minsweeper is small. You can't even resize the window. That's got to cut down on the number of CPU cycles that it uses. Of course you know they only tested it on the easy levels. My suspicion is that it would have only performed better on 3 out of 5 if they cranked Minesweeper up to Expert. ADVANTAGE: Microsoft (despite possible performance rigging).
3. Pinball. That's just unfair. There isn't a version in linux that has the same kicking music. (easy) ADVANTAGE: Microsoft
4. Freecell. Need I say more. That game screams. After all, they've had 10 years to perfect it. (another easy) ADVANTAGE: Microsoft.
I don't know what you guys are whining about... the evidence is there.
That's what I did: http://www.cs.bsu.edu/~gjjones/administrivia
I am not as popular as most but I do get 50 or so visitors a day for some of my tech support workarounds. Every little bit helps. I think it would be more of a statement if hundreds of thousands of pages had similar protest pages instead of just high-profile sites.
If you uncle goes by your site to look at pictures of your children, raising his awareness isn't a bad thing.
With some simple cutting and pasting, and a cp command or two, I have replaced my front page... more people should do the same. I remember the Internet Blackout from years ago... it was quite stunning to go to all of these pages that were turned black in protest. I don't know if something like that would have an impact today or not, but it would be interesting to find out.
http://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/gjjones/administri via/
Not to Mac-bash, but "know how things work under the hood?" I only know three (out of over a couple of hundred) that know how Macs "work under the hood."
All the others like Macs because they percieve that you don't HAVE to know what goes on under the hood. That's the entire reason that they use Macs in the first place.
Now... if something goes wrong (as it does with ALL operating systems) what do they do. The resintall the OS (if they even know how to do that). That's like rebuilding a car every time you need to change a tire.
I have a friend who used to argue about the superiority of Macs with me all the time... we'd go around and around about it. Until she got a new iMac. It crashed after 6 months and no matter what she did, she couldn't revive it... and the additional expense (after no longer being a student with student deals) of all the hardware and applications was killing her take-home-pay. It got to the point that she was/is considering writing to Microsoft (there's no way that she would use Linux) to do a Switch campaign for them. Not that Windows is amazing, but she had to use it in her office work all the time and realized that Mac's weren't vastly superior to Wintel platforms... they were just different... and she preferred the cheaper route.
I have this exact setup on my box and double clicking works in every single view in Konqueror. You have have to restart KDE, but after switching the Icons attribute in the KDE Control Panel under the Mouse Peripheral to "Double-click to open files and folders (select icons on first click)", it worked fine in Konqueror.
Try it again, my friend... it honestly should work. I am running Version 3.1-13 on Red Hat.
I don't know... I was thoroughly entertained by the printed slides.
Larry is a master or oratory and I always learn a thing or two from reading his speeches, though hearing them is nice as well.
Ouch! That one smarted a little.
/. stories for the details), we just have to buy the new OS (oh joy!). Where the heck is tabbed browsing?!?!? After a typical IE session, it looks like I stumbled onto a ClickFarm even if I didn't (opening everything in another window).
I love mozilla, I use it every day, but I have to use IE (like right now) on the network in our campus and staff labs.
IE is awful, but never fear there won't be any more upgrades (see previous
I wish the Mozilla team and Foundation the best of luck, Pheonix et al look promising. Hopefully Konqueror will get the improvements from Safari and, combined with the other open source browsers, hopefully innovate.
We'll see...
Jim
Yeah, but Dr. Kanazawa is married with 4 kids... so you have to cut him some extra slack and save him a seat on the short bus.
You just touched on a personal gripe.
Though I am guilty of it as well more often than I would like to admit, generally I arrange for file drops.
"Need my file?"
"I will put it in X location on Y server. Pick it up there."
Email (again... I have been guilty as well) is for communication, not file transport.
We have a 5 MB limit on the size of attachments at our organization. You would not believe the number of people that are upset about this. It is amazing.
If I have something that big to transfer, I put it in an envelope and send it by "real" mail or put it on my web site and let them download it if they don't have access to my servers.
The absolute worst is when people make announcements for things in Word (name your Productivity Suite format) and then mail it out as an attachment! Not a good idea. It trains people to open potentially harmful attachments...
Just some thoughts.
The funny (or not) thing is that Joe Average American has no idea about what this measures are set to do. It is too boring to read about so they skim, and kind of agree, and then move on.
I just don't see a stop to this avalanche without public opinion shifting which doesn't seem like it will be any time soon.
The 3rd book in the Windows category was Kaplan GRE 2003 with CD-ROM--Windows only. Being that "Windows" is more common than "Linux," my bet is that you will always see more Windows titles with a simple search like that.
Having a lot of books isn't a problem. Books are effiecient ways to compartmentalize and pass on knowledge. The more books on the subject, the more potential knowledge that exists out there. So if we readjusted your simple search figure and found that Linux had more books... that is a good thing (tm), not a bad.