But that would mean not going to a great little Thai place in Springfield, MO called "Thai House" (I think). Talk about a meal. Damn, Jimmy, them's good eatin'.
Ayn Rand would have no problems with Open Source software. It's an "ego-boo" or whatever, and that makes it worthwhile to the author of the software. Rand's theory is that people are rightfully selfish. If you see value in inflating your ego by releasing the fruits of your labor into the public eye, then that value is what you will obtain by doing so. Your selfishness caused you to do these things, not some social-minded good-will-toward-men crap.
To paraphrase Rush Limbaugh, "I'm pro-choice. I just hope that the choice that's made is for [freedom]."
The real challenge here is to make a logical, rational argument for opening source code. If that can be done, then advocates for open source win. If not, then advocates for open source lose.
Screaming, foaming, zealotry will _not_ persuade anyone to open their sources, but will _dissuade_ those who would otherwise consider it.
Hallelujah. If any of these folks spent as much time coding and organizing as they do bitching and whining, flaming and inflaming, the "movement" would be all that much stronger. We might have open-sourced office suites on our desktops _today_!
--C
Things like this make OpenSource look bad.
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Darwin is no annoyance to RedHat, because only Apple can redistribute stuff contributed to Darwin. RedHat is likely more bothered by the likes of SuSE and Caldera, where the same stuff in binary form can run on any of these platforms, thus keeping them from owning the market completely. Everyone in the community benefits from fixes to RedHat's distro, as these fixes may be propagated to other Linux variants.
The only people, AFAICS, who benefit from fixes to Darwin are Apple (and their users). It's my take on things that Darwin doesn't compete with RedHat, but I might be wrong eventually.;)
Okay, after having read most of this rant (that which I could reasonably follow), I have a suggestion to make about KDE and GNOME. If everyone's so up in arms about the QPL, and the licensing restrictions of Qt, why not revive the Harmony project? Or, God-forbid, write a Qt wrapper for GTK+/GNOME that would seamlessly integrate all KDE apps into a GNOME desktop without any hassle? I'd not mind working on a project like this, assuming I could get both up and running on my system with no hassle.
All this in-fighting is pointless and stupid. There are two DEs on Linsux (and the rest of Unix, as this code can reasonably be compiled anywhere... well... sorta...). Deal with it, or don't. If you don't like it, change it. But, most importantly, shut the hell up.
ESR is a corporate lapdog. RMS is a socialist nut. BP is RMS with a bigger ego and fewer letters in his handle. To a hacker who has a lot of disk space, an eye to see 'proper' implementations of hardware-level programming, and the capacity to take what he's learned and use that knowledge, in a general sense, to his favorite OS, any source code he gets his hands on is Open Source. I can get the source code for Solaris and, while Sun won't let me redistribute my own version of SunOS/Solaris, that doesn't stop me from using examples from their code to further my knowledge of the inner workings of their hardware, and from learning new tricks from their programmers on such things as memory management, device control, etc.
Open Source is a Red Herring, and a bunch of Bull Shit. Soon, if all this rubbish persists, it will be more of an encumbrance to open your source than to just keep it proprietary.
I agree. RedHat's distro has problems, but their hearts are in the right place, and their name brings money to them (which brings more free goodies to us), and press to Linux (which brings more money to them and more free goodies to us). I think RedHat's the mack of the free software world right now, though I generally tend to run other free OSes.
Much like those who would add an 'o' to the word genius?
--C
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Mmm... GNUCERT - Certification of Programming Competence by Peer Review.
Heheheh... hmm... not half-jokingly, I wonder if a professional certification could be set up along these lines? It'd be a few more letters to add behind your name, and would be a clue, if professionally handled, as to the competence of a hacker.
--C
Who knew it was so easy to post to Slashdot?
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I've been thinking of doing this, too. Imagine using the external peripheral cases (the ones that looked like another PC, but with no floppy drive bays) to hold a bunch of SCSI disks, or maybe a couple of extra PC cases for stuff like CDROMs... maybe a bus-extension kit that could make use of extra slots in outboard cases... hmm... fun.
Okay, assuming that I make these calculations, that suffices for a planet with a totally static surface (i.e. no tectonic activity). I don't know enough about Martian geology to ascertain the correctness of that.
Certainly our moon aids in the tectonic renewal cycle of our planet and, while none of Mars' moons are as large as ours, certainly they exert some strain on the planet.
I have a couple of issues with the "nuclear reactions" line of thought, though. I find it hard to believe that there are nuclear reactions (which to me leads to "explosive nuclear force") going on at the core of the planet, which is a solid iron-nickel mass, from all that I have read.
I can fathom the idea that the gravitational forces from the sun and the moon which drives the tectonic activity on Earth also causes enough internal stress on the planet to keep the mantle liquified, and that the core is solid because of the pressure exerted on it, but it's hard for me to conceptualize nuclear reactions at the core.
Anyway, do you have any links to post where I could find out more?
I say let Hoagland create havoc. He hit the nail on the head in the '70s, though popular scientific opinion damned him to obscurity. Now his theories about Europa are being touted as new and wonderful.
Hoagland might be a latter-day Galileo. Let him stir up trouble where he may. I'll get a kick out of it.
Just out of curiosity, from whence comes your assertion that the core of Mars has solidified? Isn't Olympus Mons like the biggest volcano in the solar system? Whether it's extinct or not is something I've yet to find from a concrete source.
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But that would mean not going to a great little Thai place in Springfield, MO called "Thai House" (I think). Talk about a meal. Damn, Jimmy, them's good eatin'.
--C
Woohoo!!! FREE BEER!!!
I'm game.
--C
I'd like, wrap you up in genuine Saskatchewan seal-skin bindings if some hoser hadn't horked 'em, eh?
--C
Ayn Rand would have no problems with Open Source software. It's an "ego-boo" or whatever, and that makes it worthwhile to the author of the software. Rand's theory is that people are rightfully selfish. If you see value in inflating your ego by releasing the fruits of your labor into the public eye, then that value is what you will obtain by doing so. Your selfishness caused you to do these things, not some social-minded good-will-toward-men crap.
She's right.
--C
To paraphrase Rush Limbaugh, "I'm pro-choice. I just hope that the choice that's made is for [freedom]."
The real challenge here is to make a logical, rational argument for opening source code. If that can be done, then advocates for open source win. If not, then advocates for open source lose.
Screaming, foaming, zealotry will _not_ persuade anyone to open their sources, but will _dissuade_ those who would otherwise consider it.
--C
Hallelujah. If any of these folks spent as much time coding and organizing as they do bitching and whining, flaming and inflaming, the "movement" would be all that much stronger. We might have open-sourced office suites on our desktops _today_!
--C
Darwin is no annoyance to RedHat, because only Apple can redistribute stuff contributed to Darwin. RedHat is likely more bothered by the likes of SuSE and Caldera, where the same stuff in binary form can run on any of these platforms, thus keeping them from owning the market completely. Everyone in the community benefits from fixes to RedHat's distro, as these fixes may be propagated to other Linux variants.
;)
The only people, AFAICS, who benefit from fixes to Darwin are Apple (and their users). It's my take on things that Darwin doesn't compete with RedHat, but I might be wrong eventually.
--C
ROFL!
Don't bother. It's too slow to be worth running, anyway.
--C
Okay, after having read most of this rant (that which I could reasonably follow), I have a suggestion to make about KDE and GNOME. If everyone's so up in arms about the QPL, and the licensing restrictions of Qt, why not revive the Harmony project? Or, God-forbid, write a Qt wrapper for GTK+/GNOME that would seamlessly integrate all KDE apps into a GNOME desktop without any hassle? I'd not mind working on a project like this, assuming I could get both up and running on my system with no hassle.
All this in-fighting is pointless and stupid. There are two DEs on Linsux (and the rest of Unix, as this code can reasonably be compiled anywhere... well... sorta...). Deal with it, or don't. If you don't like it, change it. But, most importantly, shut the hell up.
--C
I will read it again and again...
--C
ESR is a corporate lapdog. RMS is a socialist nut. BP is RMS with a bigger ego and fewer letters in his handle. To a hacker who has a lot of disk space, an eye to see 'proper' implementations of hardware-level programming, and the capacity to take what he's learned and use that knowledge, in a general sense, to his favorite OS, any source code he gets his hands on is Open Source. I can get the source code for Solaris and, while Sun won't let me redistribute my own version of SunOS/Solaris, that doesn't stop me from using examples from their code to further my knowledge of the inner workings of their hardware, and from learning new tricks from their programmers on such things as memory management, device control, etc.
Open Source is a Red Herring, and a bunch of Bull Shit. Soon, if all this rubbish persists, it will be more of an encumbrance to open your source than to just keep it proprietary.
That's my two cents,
--CDB (three more meaningless letters)
What it proves is that all of you are full of BS.
--C
I agree. RedHat's distro has problems, but their hearts are in the right place, and their name brings money to them (which brings more free goodies to us), and press to Linux (which brings more money to them and more free goodies to us). I think RedHat's the mack of the free software world right now, though I generally tend to run other free OSes.
--C
SPLITTERS!
Much like those who would add an 'o' to the word genius?
--C
Mmm... GNUCERT - Certification of Programming Competence by Peer Review.
Heheheh... hmm... not half-jokingly, I wonder if a professional certification could be set up along these lines? It'd be a few more letters to add behind your name, and would be a clue, if professionally handled, as to the competence of a hacker.
--C
*BSD wants YOU!
Seriously, though, S:N is better in those camps.
--C
I've been thinking of doing this, too.
Imagine using the external peripheral cases (the ones that looked like another PC, but with no floppy drive bays) to hold a bunch of SCSI disks, or maybe a couple of extra PC cases for stuff like CDROMs... maybe a bus-extension kit that could make use of extra slots in outboard cases... hmm... fun.
--C
Bah. Apple's rotten to the core.
--C
How do I access this easter egg? :)
--Corey
And Obi-Wan Deraadt.
--C
Okay, assuming that I make these calculations, that suffices for a planet with a totally static surface (i.e. no tectonic activity). I don't know enough about Martian geology to ascertain the correctness of that.
Certainly our moon aids in the tectonic renewal cycle of our planet and, while none of Mars' moons are as large as ours, certainly they exert some strain on the planet.
I have a couple of issues with the "nuclear reactions" line of thought, though. I find it hard to believe that there are nuclear reactions (which to me leads to "explosive nuclear force") going on at the core of the planet, which is a solid iron-nickel mass, from all that I have read.
I can fathom the idea that the gravitational forces from the sun and the moon which drives the tectonic activity on Earth also causes enough internal stress on the planet to keep the mantle liquified, and that the core is solid because of the pressure exerted on it, but it's hard for me to conceptualize nuclear reactions at the core.
Anyway, do you have any links to post where I could find out more?
--Corey
I say let Hoagland create havoc. He hit the nail on the head in the '70s, though popular scientific opinion damned him to obscurity. Now his theories about Europa are being touted as new and wonderful.
Hoagland might be a latter-day Galileo. Let him stir up trouble where he may. I'll get a kick out of it.
--Corey
Just out of curiosity, from whence comes your assertion that the core of Mars has solidified? Isn't Olympus Mons like the biggest volcano in the solar system? Whether it's extinct or not is something I've yet to find from a concrete source.
Thanks,
--Corey