It's like I say about GUIs - rather than trying to force everyone into a menu model or a ribbon model, include both. The people who like menus can use the menus, the people who like the ribbon can use the ribbon, and if a menu-user sits at a ribbon-user's computer (or vice versa), a single configuration option should let you switch between the two. We should be adapting computers to match the way we (as individuals) like to work, not expecting individuals to adapt how they work to match one monolithic way all computers work.
Interesting, but wrong. One way is better than the other. Choose the better way and stick with it. If the transition from the worse election to the better one is too hard, stick with the old. If there is a new, better way to do things, it needs to come in a new package, a new product. that's not a problem, we change devices very often. Configurability works for less than 5% of people. Regular people like to use whatever is the default, all efforts should be focused on good defaults.
Good post. But just to clarify: you can't "steal IP". First, there is no IP, there are copyrights, patents, trademarks and secret stuff. You might screw people with those things, but none of them is similar to "stealing", with involves taking something from someone, with the result of them not having it in the end.
Damn! They copied a European village! Shame on them!
This is a good example why "Intellectual Property" has nothing to do with actual property.
Europeans stole tombs, temples, villages, cities, and even a couple hundred meters of a mountains height (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potosí ) from Africa, América, Asia. That _is_ theft, but it's called "civilization".
Then, the Chinese copy the looks of a city, steal nothing tangible, and they are "pirates".
That's the difference between "Intellectual property" and real property. Depending on whether you detent the dominant culture, one can be a great thing, and the other shameful.
And outsourcing to India means that things that's taken for granted aren't known except as rumors there. Like the fact that roads can be icy in the winter.
You are making the case against overseas trade. Of course there are cultural barriers, but they can be overcome.
It's a bad analogy. In your example, the GPL says nothing about your "garden". The users are not limited in _any_ way. Distributors are limited, in that they need to provide source for the original code, and the improvements, _if_ they distribute the original code.
You can use GPLd software, improve it, and never share anything. The only thing you can't do is distribute GPLd software and keep the source to yourself.
No way. RMS already warned of the Java trap, and anyone could see that is had issues, ten years ago. Also, there is not a lot of GNU Java stuff around, so it's not a big issue. Might be for Apache, though. After all, this is getting irrelevant as we speak. Next generation software is not going to be written in Java, or C#. I don't see trends going that way, but a lot more towards dynamic typed languages, and just plain Javascript.
You sound like a troll, but I will respond anyhow, because there are people who actually think what you say. I DO IT WITH MY MONEY. I don't live in the US. You can read that in the GP. I don't care that the US falls behind. Living under the US rule, or under the Chinese rule, or the Russian rule makes little difference to Latin America. About academics, if the US doesn't fund them, someone else will. I was just pointing out the consequences. Where I live, there is little investment in R&D, it's slowly increasing due to our economy growing steadily for the past 10 years. The global crisis is good for us in that our exports are more expensive, and we can start industrializing our country. I hope we start investing more in R&D, and I would happily pay a lot more taxes for that. This is already a great country to live in, I would love for it to become more industrialized so it's a great place to work also.
The country that builds the large labs is the country that willl get the super smart scientists to tinker with it. The world doesn't need the US to fund big science. China will do it, eventually. The thing is that it would give them a competitive advantadge over you, meaning better scientists, better universities and stuff. I wouldn't want to lose my edge if I was the US.
First, I don't think this particular initiative will be any good. Second, OLPC was not a failure. In Uruguay, my country, it was a great way to push forward the universality of internet access. I understand that Mexico has it a lot tougher, but even in the extreme case that you are a kid who works on the streets, internet access can help you a lot. For instance, you can improve your reading, learn a few extra English words to get more money from gringos, or know whether a local shelter is open tonight.
Yes, that's why oil companies keep looking for oil deeper in the sea. After they deplete those reserves, there should be something we can use. Fusion would be OK.
You are right about stoning. Capital punishment is unethical, and should not be tolerated anywhere. The same about torture, governments should not torture their prisoners. Censorship is always a bad thing.
But the problem here is that the ones who want to overthrow Irans government suffer from the same issues. How are they going to be able to help? By example?
There are two strategies for that. One of them is yours, fix what is wrong. Mine is to just avoid sites that are impolite to me. Now I will just avoid all/. articles with videos in them.
You don't seem to understand the concept of motivation. Anyhow, you make a somewhat interesting point. But keep in mind that pilots can also be hacked. After all, an automatic drone does not have a grandma the "bad guys" can kidnap.
Such fine trolling does deserve an answer. 1 - Slashdot on copyright infringement: Copying isn't theft. People should be free to share stuff. 2 - Slashdot on GPL infringement: GPL infringement is a bad thing, it deprives people of the right to share stuff.
There is, here in/., a popular sentiment against the current state of copyright law in the US. Copyleft licenses are built on the same idea, to fix the problems [that their authors believe] copyright causes on the spread of knowledge.
More censorship and surveillance in the US might force the "free" internet out of US control. That is not necessarily a bad thing for people outside the US. Yesterday I was explaining to a coworker how DNS censorship in the US was not such a bad thing, but it might result in better DNS for everybody, by bringing attention to the risks of US centric infrastructure.
That's a dumb comparison. Dreamweaver is a lot of tools into one. Most HTML people I know use it as a nice text editor. I have also seen fresh from school designers use it as a WYSIWYG editor, with awful results.
I don't mean that it's impossible to use Dreamweaver effectively as a WYSIWYG editor, only that it's not its main strenght in practice.
That 's why so many people say that you can replace it by a text editor, because so many pros use it as a text editor.
What baffles me the most is that "the music industry" is a supranational entity. It's not "the US music industry association", or "the Irish music industry cartel", or something like that. There is a supranational entity, named "the music industry", and it is both big and concrete enough to sue a country that doesn't play for 'its' interests. That is a lost battle, that there is a cartel that, in our heads, represents the whole "music industry" of the world, and speaks for all the people related to music. What they do with that power is also important, of course, but the fact that they detent it is an issue itself.
Most hate towards PHP comes from elitist snobs who don't know how to use the language. PHP is perfectly fine language to use, and it is extremely powerful and flexible. If you are going to develop for web, I suggest using some framework, as it makes the process much more straightforward, faster and better. I personally use CodeIgniter, which is fast and has a good library of helpers and other essential framework stuff. CakePHP is often suggested for persons new to frameworks, but I would stay away from it. It's slower and it's more pain in the ass to learn.
That's right. Most people who hate PHP don't know enough of it. That's why I hate it. I could never learn how a well built application should look like in PHP. That's why _I_ wouldn't buy anything made in PHP, it's too hard to tell good from bad, for non experts. If you are an expert in PHP , it's OK to use it, I wouldn't pay you to do it, because it's too hard to tell if you are really an expert, and it's too hard to get another expert if you change projects.
I don't follow your reasoning. You seem to not trust you elected representatives. Then, you want a set of companies to play a discrediting campaign against them, and that is supposed to bring some kind of justice?
Remember that they are people you voted for, they are supposed to represent your needs better than a random company, you should even defend them, not want them to be the target of abuse.
If they are not the people that should be elected, just vote others, it's not that hard.
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It's like I say about GUIs - rather than trying to force everyone into a menu model or a ribbon model, include both. The people who like menus can use the menus, the people who like the ribbon can use the ribbon, and if a menu-user sits at a ribbon-user's computer (or vice versa), a single configuration option should let you switch between the two. We should be adapting computers to match the way we (as individuals) like to work, not expecting individuals to adapt how they work to match one monolithic way all computers work.
Interesting, but wrong. One way is better than the other. Choose the better way and stick with it.
If the transition from the worse election to the better one is too hard, stick with the old. If there is a new, better way to do things, it needs to come in a new package, a new product. that's not a problem, we change devices very often.
Configurability works for less than 5% of people. Regular people like to use whatever is the default, all efforts should be focused on good defaults.
Good post. But just to clarify: you can't "steal IP".
First, there is no IP, there are copyrights, patents, trademarks and secret stuff.
You might screw people with those things, but none of them is similar to "stealing", with involves taking something from someone, with the result of them not having it in the end.
Damn!
They copied a European village! Shame on them!
This is a good example why "Intellectual Property" has nothing to do with actual property.
Europeans stole tombs, temples, villages, cities, and even a couple hundred meters of a mountains height (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potosí ) from Africa, América, Asia. That _is_ theft, but it's called "civilization".
Then, the Chinese copy the looks of a city, steal nothing tangible, and they are "pirates".
That's the difference between "Intellectual property" and real property. Depending on whether you detent the dominant culture, one can be a great thing, and the other shameful.
And outsourcing to India means that things that's taken for granted aren't known except as rumors there. Like the fact that roads can be icy in the winter.
You are making the case against overseas trade. Of course there are cultural barriers, but they can be overcome.
It's a bad analogy.
In your example, the GPL says nothing about your "garden".
The users are not limited in _any_ way. Distributors are limited, in that they need to provide source for the original code, and the improvements, _if_ they distribute the original code.
You can use GPLd software, improve it, and never share anything. The only thing you can't do is distribute GPLd software and keep the source to yourself.
No way.
RMS already warned of the Java trap, and anyone could see that is had issues, ten years ago.
Also, there is not a lot of GNU Java stuff around, so it's not a big issue. Might be for Apache, though.
After all, this is getting irrelevant as we speak. Next generation software is not going to be written in Java, or C#. I don't see trends going that way, but a lot more towards dynamic typed languages, and just plain Javascript.
You sound like a troll, but I will respond anyhow, because there are people who actually think what you say.
I DO IT WITH MY MONEY. I don't live in the US. You can read that in the GP. I don't care that the US falls behind. Living under the US rule, or under the Chinese rule, or the Russian rule makes little difference to Latin America.
About academics, if the US doesn't fund them, someone else will. I was just pointing out the consequences.
Where I live, there is little investment in R&D, it's slowly increasing due to our economy growing steadily for the past 10 years.
The global crisis is good for us in that our exports are more expensive, and we can start industrializing our country. I hope we start investing more in R&D, and I would happily pay a lot more taxes for that. This is already a great country to live in, I would love for it to become more industrialized so it's a great place to work also.
The country that builds the large labs is the country that willl get the super smart scientists to tinker with it.
The world doesn't need the US to fund big science. China will do it, eventually. The thing is that it would give them a competitive advantadge over you, meaning better scientists, better universities and stuff. I wouldn't want to lose my edge if I was the US.
First, I don't think this particular initiative will be any good.
Second, OLPC was not a failure. In Uruguay, my country, it was a great way to push forward the universality of internet access.
I understand that Mexico has it a lot tougher, but even in the extreme case that you are a kid who works on the streets, internet access can help you a lot. For instance, you can improve your reading, learn a few extra English words to get more money from gringos, or know whether a local shelter is open tonight.
Sorry, I missed your title. Without it, your comment didn't make any sense.
Yes, that's why oil companies keep looking for oil deeper in the sea. After they deplete those reserves, there should be something we can use. Fusion would be OK.
You are right about stoning. Capital punishment is unethical, and should not be tolerated anywhere.
The same about torture, governments should not torture their prisoners.
Censorship is always a bad thing.
But the problem here is that the ones who want to overthrow Irans government suffer from the same issues. How are they going to be able to help? By example?
great! thanks!
Where did you get that? link please?
Back in the day, you would not believe a slashdotter could shower weekly.
There are two strategies for that. /. articles with videos in them.
One of them is yours, fix what is wrong.
Mine is to just avoid sites that are impolite to me.
Now I will just avoid all
You don't seem to understand the concept of motivation.
Anyhow, you make a somewhat interesting point. But keep in mind that pilots can also be hacked. After all, an automatic drone does not have a grandma the "bad guys" can kidnap.
Such fine trolling does deserve an answer.
1 - Slashdot on copyright infringement: Copying isn't theft. People should be free to share stuff.
2 - Slashdot on GPL infringement: GPL infringement is a bad thing, it deprives people of the right to share stuff.
There is, here in /., a popular sentiment against the current state of copyright law in the US.
Copyleft licenses are built on the same idea, to fix the problems [that their authors believe] copyright causes on the spread of knowledge.
More censorship and surveillance in the US might force the "free" internet out of US control.
That is not necessarily a bad thing for people outside the US.
Yesterday I was explaining to a coworker how DNS censorship in the US was not such a bad thing, but it might result in better DNS for everybody, by bringing attention to the risks of US centric infrastructure.
That's a dumb comparison.
Dreamweaver is a lot of tools into one.
Most HTML people I know use it as a nice text editor.
I have also seen fresh from school designers use it as a WYSIWYG editor, with awful results.
I don't mean that it's impossible to use Dreamweaver effectively as a WYSIWYG editor, only that it's not its main strenght in practice.
That 's why so many people say that you can replace it by a text editor, because so many pros use it as a text editor.
In other news, UTF-8 has not gained acceptance in US-centric websites.
It's not that hard: "La niña", "El niño"
What baffles me the most is that "the music industry" is a supranational entity.
It's not "the US music industry association", or "the Irish music industry cartel", or something like that.
There is a supranational entity, named "the music industry", and it is both big and concrete enough to sue a country that doesn't play for 'its' interests.
That is a lost battle, that there is a cartel that, in our heads, represents the whole "music industry" of the world, and speaks for all the people related to music.
What they do with that power is also important, of course, but the fact that they detent it is an issue itself.
Most hate towards PHP comes from elitist snobs who don't know how to use the language. PHP is perfectly fine language to use, and it is extremely powerful and flexible. If you are going to develop for web, I suggest using some framework, as it makes the process much more straightforward, faster and better. I personally use CodeIgniter, which is fast and has a good library of helpers and other essential framework stuff. CakePHP is often suggested for persons new to frameworks, but I would stay away from it. It's slower and it's more pain in the ass to learn.
That's right. Most people who hate PHP don't know enough of it. That's why I hate it. I could never learn how a well built application should look like in PHP.
That's why _I_ wouldn't buy anything made in PHP, it's too hard to tell good from bad, for non experts.
If you are an expert in PHP , it's OK to use it, I wouldn't pay you to do it, because it's too hard to tell if you are really an expert, and it's too hard to get another expert if you change projects.
Without the cow, there would be no beef to sell, thus the cattle is just as important as the consumers. Thus they are BOTH customers.
I don't follow your reasoning.
You seem to not trust you elected representatives. Then, you want a set of companies to play a discrediting campaign against them, and that is supposed to bring some kind of justice?
Remember that they are people you voted for, they are supposed to represent your needs better than a random company, you should even defend them, not want them to be the target of abuse.
If they are not the people that should be elected, just vote others, it's not that hard.