You say:wq, I say ZZ. Why can't we all just get along?
Can't help it picking a nit with your sig, but most vi users know say:x instead of:wq since they both do the same thing except that:x only saves if changes have been made.
Depending on the authority you go by, the "standard" for writing plurals of acronyms varies.
The (US) Government Printing Office Style Manual states: "an apostrophe is used to indicate...the coined plurals of letters, figures, and symbols." GPO provides examples such as YMCA's and ABC's.
On the other hand, the 14th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style states: "So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numberals) form the plural by adding s alone." Provided examples include CODs and IOUs. Also according to this source, "Abbreviations having more than one period, such as M.D. and Ph.D., often form their plurals of an apostrophe and an s." Examples given include M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s. I particularly enjoy this excerpt for its anthropomorphism of words, ascribing the action of forming the plural to the words themselves rather than the writer.
Then, of course, there is the real definition of apostrophe, the first listed in Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
A figure of speech by which the orator or writer
suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his
discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some
person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's
apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of
``Paradise Lost.'' Thus, for one who considers processors as narrative, it is indeed likely that there might be an apostrophe in a CPU, for example, in the case of a cache miss....
Psyco, not Pysco, and no psyco package in debian
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The typo in the parent post confused me at first (spelled correctly the first time, wrong the second). Furthermore, there does not appear to be a psyco package in Debian.
pysco, on the other hand, is a group of python modules for composing music. More information about pysco is available here: http://www.slinkp.com/code/#pysco
I could not find a package for either of these in Debian.
One of the virtues of free software is its rapid development/update cycle. Why would should a company based on this development model sell software as if it were never updated?
Au contraire, we have every right to critique their law. However, we do have the responsibility, in France, to respect that law. When in Rome do as the Romans do and all that.
My point was, primarily, that many very vocal people in the US are quick to complain that their neighbor's back yard is unmowed and full of weeds while overlooking the rusted out Chevy sitting on blocks in their own front yard.
True enough, it may be absurd to believe it is possible to censor Internet auctions. The technical difficulties could quite possibly render this judgement ineffective. This may ultimately force a re-evaluation of the law in question.
However, the zeal and carelessness with which US citizens would impose their "cultural standards" on another culture never fails to amaze me. People should not demand that other countries have more drive-by shootings and school massacres just because they occur in the US. People should not demand that other countries respect patents on ideas like saving electronic documents in electronic files just because it such a patent might be legal in the US.
Briefly, I don't find US criticisms of foreign law particularly credible, particularly without so much as a review of the foreign law in question.
Personally I this analogy you are making to daytime talk-show hosts is a bit of a stretch, but since you've done it: Sure, Oprah is great, but give Rosie her due; she's a fine host and quite charming, too.
I guess what you're getting at here is that Mozilla is like Oprah; mostly substance, very little fluff. NS 6, on the other hand, more like Rosie; a core of some substance, but often overshadowed by the frills which seem trivial to the hardcore Slashdot whiner.
Grow up. Slavery was a horrific institution which caused multitudes of people serious physical, emotional and moral damage. To equate "hero worship" with slavery is not only juvenile, but dangerously ignorant.
This is why Stallman's Free Software vs. Open Source Software argument is so important. Free software can go to hell, as far as this study is concerned.
The Supreme Court has historically been very conservative in interpreting the First Ammendment. The odds are, this would be considered a clear violation (akin to censoring government whistle-blowers). Therefore, it is likely that they would not allow such a restriction of the First Ammendment.
However, it is certainly the Right Thing to do to let your President and Congressional representatives in the Senate know how you feel about this. Go for it! Better yet, write letters to real news publications (e.g. the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc.) letting them know. Heck, write to the NRA! If the First Ammendment can be eliminated, the Second can't be far behind....
Make that VIM + LaTeX, gnumeric, gnuplot and gnucash and you've got yerself a deal!
Okay, I admit I'm still using CBB instead of gnucash since it's unclear whether one is morally superiour to the other....;-)
I suppose I should just bite the bullet and write a cbb to gnucash account converter... would anyone else find this useful? (The reason qif export/import isn't useful for this is that the two programs have completely different ideas of what a "category" is. Ah, semantics.)
Gentlemen, Ladies, it's quite simple. Consider the leading third-party candidate, Ralph Nader.
Ralph Nader is the right guy to protect us from the bottom-line seeking soulless corporations which, out of nothing more than greed, victimize the people of the United States. He is an expert in this, a leader in the field. A great man, to be sure. I know nobody who disputes this.
He does not, on the other hand, know anything about how to protect the interests of the United States on the world stage. This is why people don't take Nader seriously as a candidate. The obvious interests of the consumer are not always synonymous with the long-term interests of the nation.
This all has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Nader is a third-party candidate. People who say he is marginalized because he does not represent one of the two major parties are willfully ignoring the fact that Nader, in the minds of much of the voting public, simply isn't the kind of guy one might want dealing with issues of international policy.
Remember Ross Perot? For all his flaws, he resonated with people as the kind of guy who could reasonably address the full spectrum of issues faced by the president of the United States. That is why he was such an effective candidate despite his lack of affiliation with the two major parties.
For example, I suspect people would view John McCain the same way, were he to run as a third-party candidate. Unlike Nader, who has effectively never dealt with issues of international relations, McCain has the experience and passion people look for in a presidential candidate.
It is not the system, but the candidates themselves who marginalize the minor parties.
The complaints against the current state of the Netscape 6 Preview Releases should be tempered by the understanding that it is primarily the Netscape 6 release schedule which is causing the mozilla improvements to occur so quickly.
Sure, there are problems in the NS6 preview releases which are fixed in the latest nightly build, but that's because the NS6 preview release is not based on the latest nightly build. You should expect that. Generally, you will find that the fixes from the Netscape NS6 team's most recent preview release appear in the latest Mozilla build. By contrast, it is literally impossible to have the latest Mozilla fixes in the most recent NS6 release.
As for Konqueror, I haven't used it, but my understanding is that Konqueror was intended to be a leaner, meaner browser based on Gecko. It darn well ought to be faster. But does it have the all-important AIM integration? I think not! Take that, Konqueror!;-)
While on the one hand it is true that Microsoft _did_ push the idea of a PC in everyone's home, (and I have no complaint about the effect that the success of that strategy has had on the price of the computer components to which I have become addicted), that idea was pioneered by another guy on the list, Steve Jobs.
As far as the x86 goes, I had hope the world might escape from Intel's dominance with PowerPC back before the IBM microkernel fiasco. Currently there is no clear choice for hardware platform of the future. However, the bulk of non-Win32 application development is going cross-platform (e.g. big-endian and little endian, 32-bit and 64-bit). In the long run, I expect (and hope) the issue of hardware will be driven more by a need to improve various aspects of performance than a need to support legacy CPU architectures.
Actually, I quite agree with Mr. Gates position, at least in regard to his contribution to the free software movement. Bill Gates (and his evil empire) is the single greatest motivator behind the free software/GNU/Linux community. If it weren't for the complete market dominance of Winders and the anti-competitive and illegal behaviour of Microsoft, Linux never would have progressed so far, so quickly.
In my humble opinion. Which is obviously the undeniable Truth and you're an idiot if you don't totally agree with me. Oh, yeah.
"Linus is a personable Scandinavian"? Perhaps you would find it educational to read through the kernel development mailing list archives.;-)
Personally, I suspect Stallman's facial hair is what kept him off the list. I would think Stallman looks a bit too much like Fidel Castro for the delicate sensibilities of mild-mannered media.
For the inevitable multitudes who haven't the foggiest who Kahn and Cerf are, here's a
bio of Kahn (and no, he isn't the guy played by Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II).
Hmmm.. 60's and 70's is good for starting support people. On the other hand, the real problem is that almost nobody who's really qualified to do support wants to do support. Not only is it generally less interesting than development jobs (of which there are plenty), they tend to lack the prestige of "real programming" jobs.
The problem of a lack of workers is (old theme here) partly due to the de-glorification of technical careers which has actually caused the interest of students in technical education to decrease over the past 20 years.
This raises an interesting point. At some point any large project becomes too complex for a single person to control changes competently based solely on his technical knowledge of the project.
Take the Linux kernel as an example:
The project manager (Linus) is no longer capable of effectively controlling the project based on the fact that he is a great programmer. The fact is that the kernel is now too large for any one person (including Linus) to understand all facets of the project well enough to prevent breaking new releases. Thus, the value of a version control system, such as CVS.
This leads to an interesting situation when the project manager (in the above example, Linus) refuses to use the tools (like CVS) which would allow the kind of quality control necessary to prevent new versions from being broken due to the complexity of the project. The effect, in this example, is that fairly often new releases are broken by the very person who provides the technical leadership for the project.
How should the community deal with a crucial open-source project led an ego which is so great that it refuses to ensure quality at a fundamental level through simple, standard, and reliable mechanisms like CVS?
In light of the rather liberal US copyright and patent law, it might be more accurate to say, in the US (though not everywhere) that information wants to be "available", though probably not "free" of charge. (God Bless Disney for buying America those perpetual extensions to copyright, thus redefining the English term "limited time").
Regarding information and what it "wants":
Since information tends to enhance the quality of other information, people "want" it.
Since there is no "information" without an act of "informing" somebody, there is no information without people to be "informed".
Therefore, information cannot truly be said to exist without being exchanged. In light of this fact, information can be said to have a "desire". This desire is manifest both in the desire of the originator of the information to tell someone (e.g. ever try to keep a secret from everyone? You always have that urge to tell _someone_) and the desire of the recipient to be informed (e.g. everyone loves to _hear_ a secret).
Thus, it is impossible to separate what information "wants" and what informer or the informed want.
From another point of view, the author of the article really didn't give a great deal of thought to his topic. But hey, that's what journalism is all about, right?:-)
Providing the "killer app" to run on Mozilla is a great idea.
Something is needed to showcase the technologies in Mozilla, and assuming that this project did not divert energy from the Mozilla development (which I can't imagine it would) this would be a logical way to do that.
As for the naysayers who say "Mozilla sucks" or "They're not sticking to their release schedule; this would be a waste of time", those people are obviously not interested in adding value to the open source and free software platforms, so they can be ignored.
Mozilla is not being developed based on timeline commitments, as are commercial products. Rather, it is being developed based on quality commitments. So far, the milestones have given ample proof that these quality commitments are attainable and worthwhile. Keep your pants on, people. Meanwhile, do what you can to further the effort. If that means creating "Office" capabilities to run on Mozilla, then so be it. Excellent.
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You say :wq, I say ZZ. Why can't we all just get along?
:x instead of :wq since they both do the same thing except that :x only saves if changes have been made.
Can't help it picking a nit with your sig, but most vi users know say
Depending on the authority you go by, the "standard" for writing plurals of acronyms varies.
The (US) Government Printing Office Style Manual states: "an apostrophe is used to indicate...the coined plurals of letters, figures, and symbols." GPO provides examples such as YMCA's and ABC's.
On the other hand, the 14th Edition of the Chicago Manual of Style states: "So far as it can be done without confusion, single or multiple letters, hyphenated coinages, and numbers used as nouns (whether spelled out or in numberals) form the plural by adding s alone." Provided examples include CODs and IOUs. Also according to this source, "Abbreviations having more than one period, such as M.D. and Ph.D., often form their plurals of an apostrophe and an s." Examples given include M.A.'s and Ph.D.'s. I particularly enjoy this excerpt for its anthropomorphism of words, ascribing the action of forming the plural to the words themselves rather than the writer.
Then, of course, there is the real definition of apostrophe, the first listed in Websters Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913):
A figure of speech by which the orator or writer
suddenly breaks off from the previous method of his
discourse, and addresses, in the second person, some
person or thing, absent or present; as, Milton's
apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of
``Paradise Lost.''
Thus, for one who considers processors as narrative, it is indeed likely that there might be an apostrophe in a CPU, for example, in the case of a cache miss....
The typo in the parent post confused me at first (spelled correctly the first time, wrong the second). Furthermore, there does not appear to be a psyco package in Debian.
To clarify:
psyco is the name of the Python specializing compiler. The Psyco project homepage is:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/psyco/
pysco, on the other hand, is a group of python modules for composing music. More information about pysco is available here:
http://www.slinkp.com/code/#pysco
I could not find a package for either of these in Debian.
One of the virtues of free software is its rapid development/update cycle. Why would should a company based on this development model sell software as if it were never updated?
Au contraire, we have every right to critique their law. However, we do have the responsibility, in France, to respect that law. When in Rome do as the Romans do and all that.
My point was, primarily, that many very vocal people in the US are quick to complain that their neighbor's back yard is unmowed and full of weeds while overlooking the rusted out Chevy sitting on blocks in their own front yard.
True enough, it may be absurd to believe it is possible to censor Internet auctions. The technical difficulties could quite possibly render this judgement ineffective. This may ultimately force a re-evaluation of the law in question.
However, the zeal and carelessness with which US citizens would impose their "cultural standards" on another culture never fails to amaze me. People should not demand that other countries have more drive-by shootings and school massacres just because they occur in the US. People should not demand that other countries respect patents on ideas like saving electronic documents in electronic files just because it such a patent might be legal in the US.
Briefly, I don't find US criticisms of foreign law particularly credible, particularly without so much as a review of the foreign law in question.
Personally I this analogy you are making to daytime talk-show hosts is a bit of a stretch, but since you've done it: Sure, Oprah is great, but give Rosie her due; she's a fine host and quite charming, too.
I guess what you're getting at here is that Mozilla is like Oprah; mostly substance, very little fluff. NS 6, on the other hand, more like Rosie; a core of some substance, but often overshadowed by the frills which seem trivial to the hardcore Slashdot whiner.
Or were you refering to "Opera"?
Grow up. Slavery was a horrific institution which caused multitudes of people serious physical, emotional and moral damage. To equate "hero worship" with slavery is not only juvenile, but dangerously ignorant.
This is why Stallman's Free Software vs. Open Source Software argument is so important. Free software can go to hell, as far as this study is concerned.
Screw the poor! Line the pockets of the rich!
The Supreme Court has historically been very conservative in interpreting the First Ammendment. The odds are, this would be considered a clear violation (akin to censoring government whistle-blowers). Therefore, it is likely that they would not allow such a restriction of the First Ammendment.
However, it is certainly the Right Thing to do to let your President and Congressional representatives in the Senate know how you feel about this. Go for it! Better yet, write letters to real news publications (e.g. the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, etc.) letting them know. Heck, write to the NRA! If the First Ammendment can be eliminated, the Second can't be far behind....
Or for that matter, does WINE run any other number of sought- after Windows programs?
Many answers can be found through this search engine at winehq. I highly recommend taking a gander at these...
Okay, I admit I'm still using CBB instead of gnucash since it's unclear whether one is morally superiour to the other.... ;-)
I suppose I should just bite the bullet and write a cbb to gnucash account converter... would anyone else find this useful? (The reason qif export/import isn't useful for this is that the two programs have completely different ideas of what a "category" is. Ah, semantics.)
Gentlemen, Ladies, it's quite simple. Consider the leading third-party candidate, Ralph Nader.
Ralph Nader is the right guy to protect us from the bottom-line seeking soulless corporations which, out of nothing more than greed, victimize the people of the United States. He is an expert in this, a leader in the field. A great man, to be sure. I know nobody who disputes this.
He does not, on the other hand, know anything about how to protect the interests of the United States on the world stage. This is why people don't take Nader seriously as a candidate. The obvious interests of the consumer are not always synonymous with the long-term interests of the nation.
This all has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that Nader is a third-party candidate. People who say he is marginalized because he does not represent one of the two major parties are willfully ignoring the fact that Nader, in the minds of much of the voting public, simply isn't the kind of guy one might want dealing with issues of international policy.
Remember Ross Perot? For all his flaws, he resonated with people as the kind of guy who could reasonably address the full spectrum of issues faced by the president of the United States. That is why he was such an effective candidate despite his lack of affiliation with the two major parties.
For example, I suspect people would view John McCain the same way, were he to run as a third-party candidate. Unlike Nader, who has effectively never dealt with issues of international relations, McCain has the experience and passion people look for in a presidential candidate.
It is not the system, but the candidates themselves who marginalize the minor parties.
The complaints against the current state of the Netscape 6 Preview Releases should be tempered by the understanding that it is primarily the Netscape 6 release schedule which is causing the mozilla improvements to occur so quickly.
;-)
Sure, there are problems in the NS6 preview releases which are fixed in the latest nightly build, but that's because the NS6 preview release is not based on the latest nightly build. You should expect that. Generally, you will find that the fixes from the Netscape NS6 team's most recent preview release appear in the latest Mozilla build. By contrast, it is literally impossible to have the latest Mozilla fixes in the most recent NS6 release.
As for Konqueror, I haven't used it, but my understanding is that Konqueror was intended to be a leaner, meaner browser based on Gecko. It darn well ought to be faster. But does it have the all-important AIM integration? I think not! Take that, Konqueror!
Hey, is there an IP lawyer in the house? What's the actual answer to this?
"The ability to hyperlink to the text of a statute does not make one a legal scholar."- Anon.
While on the one hand it is true that Microsoft _did_ push the idea of a PC in everyone's home, (and I have no complaint about the effect that the success of that strategy has had on the price of the computer components to which I have become addicted), that idea was pioneered by another guy on the list, Steve Jobs.
As far as the x86 goes, I had hope the world might escape from Intel's dominance with PowerPC back before the IBM microkernel fiasco. Currently there is no clear choice for hardware platform of the future. However, the bulk of non-Win32 application development is going cross-platform (e.g. big-endian and little endian, 32-bit and 64-bit). In the long run, I expect (and hope) the issue of hardware will be driven more by a need to improve various aspects of performance than a need to support legacy CPU architectures.
Actually, I quite agree with Mr. Gates position, at least in regard to his contribution to the free software movement. Bill Gates (and his evil empire) is the single greatest motivator behind the free software/GNU/Linux community. If it weren't for the complete market dominance of Winders and the anti-competitive and illegal behaviour of Microsoft, Linux never would have progressed so far, so quickly.
In my humble opinion. Which is obviously the undeniable Truth and you're an idiot if you don't totally agree with me. Oh, yeah.
Move the two lab mice into number three to replace Ren and Stimpy and I think you've got yerself a winning list there, Bub.
"Linus is a personable Scandinavian"? Perhaps you would find it educational to read through the kernel development mailing list archives. ;-)
Personally, I suspect Stallman's facial hair is what kept him off the list. I would think Stallman looks a bit too much like Fidel Castro for the delicate sensibilities of mild-mannered media.
For the inevitable multitudes who haven't the foggiest who Kahn and Cerf are, here's a bio of Kahn (and no, he isn't the guy played by Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II).
And here's a nice little article about Cerf.
Now, please explain the comment about Al Gore for me.
Thanks.
The problem of a lack of workers is (old theme here) partly due to the de-glorification of technical careers which has actually caused the interest of students in technical education to decrease over the past 20 years.
It ain't right, I tell ya!
This raises an interesting point. At some point any large project becomes too complex for a single person to control changes competently based solely on his technical knowledge of the project.
Take the Linux kernel as an example:
The project manager (Linus) is no longer capable of effectively controlling the project based on the fact that he is a great programmer. The fact is that the kernel is now too large for any one person (including Linus) to understand all facets of the project well enough to prevent breaking new releases. Thus, the value of a version control system, such as CVS.
This leads to an interesting situation when the project manager (in the above example, Linus) refuses to use the tools (like CVS) which would allow the kind of quality control necessary to prevent new versions from being broken due to the complexity of the project. The effect, in this example, is that fairly often new releases are broken by the very person who provides the technical leadership for the project.
How should the community deal with a crucial open-source project led an ego which is so great that it refuses to ensure quality at a fundamental level through simple, standard, and reliable mechanisms like CVS?
In light of the rather liberal US copyright and patent law, it might be more accurate to say, in the US (though not everywhere) that information wants to be "available", though probably not "free" of charge. (God Bless Disney for buying America those perpetual extensions to copyright, thus redefining the English term "limited time").
:-)
Regarding information and what it "wants":
Since information tends to enhance the quality of other information, people "want" it.
Since there is no "information" without an act of "informing" somebody, there is no information without people to be "informed".
Therefore, information cannot truly be said to exist without being exchanged. In light of this fact, information can be said to have a "desire". This desire is manifest both in the desire of the originator of the information to tell someone (e.g. ever try to keep a secret from everyone? You always have that urge to tell _someone_) and the desire of the recipient to be informed (e.g. everyone loves to _hear_ a secret).
Thus, it is impossible to separate what information "wants" and what informer or the informed want.
From another point of view, the author of the article really didn't give a great deal of thought to his topic. But hey, that's what journalism is all about, right?
Once you have no bugs, voila, you have the best operating system ever.
Better yet, look at all the potential enhancements compared to other operating systems!
Providing the "killer app" to run on Mozilla is a great idea.
Something is needed to showcase the technologies in Mozilla, and assuming that this project did not divert energy from the Mozilla development (which I can't imagine it would) this would be a logical way to do that.
As for the naysayers who say "Mozilla sucks" or "They're not sticking to their release schedule; this would be a waste of time", those people are obviously not interested in adding value to the open source and free software platforms, so they can be ignored.
Mozilla is not being developed based on timeline commitments, as are commercial products. Rather, it is being developed based on quality commitments. So far, the milestones have given ample proof that these quality commitments are attainable and worthwhile. Keep your pants on, people. Meanwhile, do what you can to further the effort. If that means creating "Office" capabilities to run on Mozilla, then so be it. Excellent.