Well, I agree with you licensing-wise. However, it's worth trying things out to see why people like them. I hope the Gnome people and the KDE people at the very least use the competition for some time on their own desktops: cross-fertilisation is good. I'm actually waiting for GnuStep 0.6.0 due out later this month. Hopefully it'll be usable.
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I did not see that one. The way it works is that each of us deletes stories we find inappropriate for/. I tend to like hardware more than the other/. authors so post more of it. That's all.
I would hope the researchers themselves are environmentally conscious. After all, it does not profit them to destroy their environment. Logically the only people that are benefitted by this action are top few percent in the company that can easily move away, and the foreign share-holders. Note that I do not know BASF's track record, I am just pointing out a flaw in your reasoning.
No they wouldn't. Subscription is better for companies than one buy. Hint: in the 1970s there were adverts for 20 Year garantees on a car... No longer.
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This was a thing to help Jon, but it screws up links. I've told Rob about it.
Anybody know which version of EGCS this refers to? I'm particularly impressed since graph-colouring for register allocation is patented by IBM and therefore cannot be used in EGCS, while Metroworks might have a license for it. It's important for register poor architectures such as the x86. How does EGCS get around this?
If you read Hellen Cutler's book on the insides of NT, you'll find out it was heavily influenced by VMS design. That's partially why Unix is such a bad word at Microsoft, and the coders are so rabiddly for NT: they want to beat Unix that beat their original VMS.
What is a corporation? It's a collection of people working together in pursuit of common goals. If the group comes up with the new idea, the group gets the patent. What's wrong with that?
Bull. It's a few people at the top making inane decisions, often completely misguided and the corporation only survives due to gov't handouts^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Pentagon grants, and people at the bottom who just are employed and want to get on with their lives. Come off it, the chances of firing Mr Normal when he makes a bad decision (or implements one from above) are way higher than the chances Mr High Executive gets fired: "Oh, X did badly... He obviously has incompetent people below him. Let's promote him so that he has a team that can perform his vision". Yah! We're all equal in happy corporations!
I'm afraid you're the one talking out of his whatever: Trickling down does not exist. Even CNN recognises that the wealth gap in the US is increasing, not decreasing. Patents sure as hell did not build our civilisation based on Greek, Roman, Phoenician, Chinese (paper money), arab (numerals), indian (number 0), etc civilisations. The most important discoveries of this century are not patented (Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, etc). US citizens may be wealthier on average, but not if you get rid of the top 5% of this nation (who own 95% of the stock market for instance). Patents are ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY. I've worked for large corporations, and I know damn well that the main reason for failure is inability to sell, internal inefficiencies (like 95% of the company waiting on group X to do something when they could jump in and help), slow time to market, crap implementation, etc. So don't give me your nonsense and read up some REAL FACTS, not just what your economics prof is brainwashing you with.
Usually I like Makido, but this time... I'm disappointed. Not having memory protection in 1999 is unexcusable. His "tools" won't change the fact that stray pointers in rarely executed code-paths can crash machines.
Secondly, if the MacOS was so fscking cool, why did the guy who made Alladin have such trouble getting it to run on Atari ST's due to NULL pointers being dereferenced all over the place?
I actually was really impressed with MacOS when the 256Kb Mac came out. I also liked NeXTStep, which relied heavily on FSF tools. But bashing like this does a disservice to the Mac and its community.
Finally, his Unix bashing was unnecessary, just adding spite to a pretty pathetic article, which relied on making John Carmack appear out of contact with the real world.
Firewire on PC's not too alive. Intel's not supporting it in their chipsets, so you need a peripheral which ain't too likely for most boxes (sub-1000$ is growing) Indeed, Adaptec jumped on the Firewire bandwagon, and is hurting because of it.
IDE's future is (unfortunately) rosy: PC 99 (I think, might be prior to that) requires an IDE interface on the computer EVEN IF it's got a SCSI one. This basically means most computers will just have IDE (sub-$1000 trend: minimize extras).
As true as this article is, Slashdot wrong forum
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Actually I think it's the right forum. The young'uns are the ones that still have th energy to shake the world. And given how tightly corporations hold on it's going to take quite some shaking.
It's really funny that everyone here thinks I'm a programmer for the money, since my parents put as much effort as they could to stop me playing "with my addiction" that "won't get me a job" and takes my time away from "more productive activities" like reading, cramming,etc.
Yes, I agree B5 series 5 was... disappointing except the last episode. But, what do you folks think of "a call to arms". Don't know if it'll not be lacking depth -- less continuity between episodes. Hope it does not degenerate into Star Trek Voyager.
I'd like to add my voice to those supporting Scoop.
I feel that flamers have become a REAL PROBLEM. Constructive criticism is fine, but reading emotional rant after rant after rant is enough to get anyone depressed.
The whole nature of the Free Software enterprise is collaborative, and volunteer based. Many participate because discussions with others broadens your horizons, teaches you something. Flaming is fundementally devisive and unconstructive.
Those who say Scoop is behaving like a child should try out what it feels like to have your creation that you put your free-time into lambasted. If your hobby is not fun anymore you'll go and do something else, which will be a loss for the community.
The new breed of "I deserve everything", "I don't want to understand how it works or learn anything -- you support me", "I don't agree with you moron" Free Software Users appears to me to be the biggest threat to the Free Software Movement. Statistically a country becomes xenophobic when 10% of newcommers do not integrate. What if your growth rate is exponential, your population is doubling each year, and the newcommers don't have the central credo (learn to fix it myself)?
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Well, I agree with you licensing-wise. However, it's worth trying things out to see why people like them. I hope the Gnome people and the KDE people at the very least use the competition for some time on their own desktops: cross-fertilisation is good. I'm actually waiting for GnuStep 0.6.0 due out later this month. Hopefully it'll be usable.
I did not see that one. The way it works is that each of us deletes stories we find inappropriate for /. I tend to like hardware more than the other /. authors so post more of it. That's all.
Well... I don't read books I don't like to the end, so it's hard to do a review of it. I expect the same applies to the other authors.
I would hope the researchers themselves are environmentally conscious. After all, it does not profit them to destroy their environment. Logically the only people that are benefitted by this action are top few percent in the company that can easily move away, and the foreign share-holders. Note that I do not know BASF's track record, I am just pointing out a flaw in your reasoning.
Like to have Telepathically controlled Linux box?h tml
http://slashdot.org/articles/98/11/04/2341226.s
No they wouldn't. Subscription is better for companies than one buy. Hint: in the 1970s there were adverts for 20 Year garantees on a car... No longer.
This was a thing to help Jon, but it screws up links. I've told Rob about it.
Anybody know which version of EGCS this refers to? I'm particularly impressed since graph-colouring for register allocation is patented by IBM and therefore cannot be used in EGCS, while Metroworks might have a license for it. It's important for register poor architectures such as the x86. How does EGCS get around this?
It's sure to be government-breakable, ie insecure.
If you read Hellen Cutler's book on the insides of NT, you'll find out it was heavily influenced by VMS design. That's partially why Unix is such a bad word at Microsoft, and the coders are so rabiddly for NT: they want to beat Unix that beat their original VMS.
Where is it? Site's very slow from here. URL???
Bull. It's a few people at the top making inane decisions, often completely misguided and the corporation only survives due to gov't handouts^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Pentagon grants, and people at the bottom who just are employed and want to get on with their lives. Come off it, the chances of firing Mr Normal when he makes a bad decision (or implements one from above) are way higher than the chances Mr High Executive gets fired: "Oh, X did badly... He obviously has incompetent people below him. Let's promote him so that he has a team that can perform his vision". Yah! We're all equal in happy corporations!
I'm afraid you're the one talking out of his whatever: Trickling down does not exist. Even CNN recognises that the wealth gap in the US is increasing, not decreasing. Patents sure as hell did not build our civilisation based on Greek, Roman, Phoenician, Chinese (paper money), arab (numerals), indian (number 0), etc civilisations. The most important discoveries of this century are not patented (Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, etc). US citizens may be wealthier on average, but not if you get rid of the top 5% of this nation (who own 95% of the stock market for instance). Patents are ABSOLUTELY UNNECESSARY. I've worked for large corporations, and I know damn well that the main reason for failure is inability to sell, internal inefficiencies (like 95% of the company waiting on group X to do something when they could jump in and help), slow time to market, crap implementation, etc. So don't give me your nonsense and read up some REAL FACTS, not just what your economics prof is brainwashing you with.
Secondly, if the MacOS was so fscking cool, why did the guy who made Alladin have such trouble getting it to run on Atari ST's due to NULL pointers being dereferenced all over the place?
I actually was really impressed with MacOS when the 256Kb Mac came out. I also liked NeXTStep, which relied heavily on FSF tools. But bashing like this does a disservice to the Mac and its community.
Finally, his Unix bashing was unnecessary, just adding spite to a pretty pathetic article, which relied on making John Carmack appear out of contact with the real world.
Which company has a signed paper from MS saying it won't enter the Unix market?
Actually you can use PROM type technology: just burn the relevant values into the register.
IDE's future is (unfortunately) rosy: PC 99 (I think, might be prior to that) requires an IDE interface on the computer EVEN IF it's got a SCSI one. This basically means most computers will just have IDE (sub-$1000 trend: minimize extras).
Actually I think it's the right forum. The young'uns are the ones that still have th energy to shake the world. And given how tightly corporations hold on it's going to take quite some shaking.
I don't expect those soldiers are badly paid. I would expect the US would make sure of that.
It's really funny that everyone here thinks I'm a programmer for the money, since my parents put as much effort as they could to stop me playing "with my addiction" that "won't get me a job" and takes my time away from "more productive activities" like reading, cramming ,etc.
Also... do you understand the meaning of "so and so writes XYZ"?
Yes, I agree B5 series 5 was ... disappointing except the last episode. But, what do you folks think of "a call to arms". Don't know if it'll not be lacking depth -- less continuity between episodes. Hope it does not degenerate into Star Trek Voyager.
I feel that flamers have become a REAL PROBLEM. Constructive criticism is fine, but reading emotional rant after rant after rant is enough to get anyone depressed.
The whole nature of the Free Software enterprise is collaborative, and volunteer based. Many participate because discussions with others broadens your horizons, teaches you something. Flaming is fundementally devisive and unconstructive.
Those who say Scoop is behaving like a child should try out what it feels like to have your creation that you put your free-time into lambasted. If your hobby is not fun anymore you'll go and do something else, which will be a loss for the community.
The new breed of "I deserve everything", "I don't want to understand how it works or learn anything -- you support me", "I don't agree with you moron" Free Software Users appears to me to be the biggest threat to the Free Software Movement. Statistically a country becomes xenophobic when 10% of newcommers do not integrate. What if your growth rate is exponential, your population is doubling each year, and the newcommers don't have the central credo (learn to fix it myself)?