Right now one of the items that would virtually hand Linux the "keys to the kingdom", so to speak, would be having a recognized and stable office suite. Would IBM be interested in a port of its Lotus Office suite to Linux, even if not Open Source? Would IBM consider opening some or all of it to the Open Source community?
On a side note, how 'bout a JFS install disk like the XFS one?
Hrmph? A long time ago, it stood for Berkley Software Distribution, and was distributed (suprise!) by UC Berkley. Their last release was in (IIRC) '92, and it was called 4.4BSD-Lite. NeXTStep (is that the kosher capatilization) was based on 4.2 originally, and has been upgraded to Darwin (now at 1.3, including a X86 ISO install image) using FreeBSD 3.2 as a reference platform.
Look to see if a package named kdebindings-kmozilla (IIRC, the name might be slightly different) is installed... if so, remove it. You might actually be using mozilla inside of Konqueror instead of Konqueror's KHTML engine. While it's a neat tech demo, it sucks for actual use.
I'm sorry, but a lot of very smart and well respected people disagree with you (including Turing). To paraphrase the Church-Turing thesis: the processes that we follow *at bottom* are isomorphic to those of a general recursive computing machine.
For further reading, I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's excellent Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
If you guys are really looking for the flamewar, not just the bits that leaked onto g-h, try gnome-2-0-list's June archive. The flamage begins with the post " About GNOME 2.0 - The end of a dream" by Martin Baulig, the (former) libgnomeui maintainer. It's anti-Miguel! It's anti-Havoc! It's anti-Dietmar!
I think the best part is when George (the Panel maintaner) jumps in and says:
Damn, I missed this whole beautiful flamewar... Someone flame me quickly or I'll feel left out.
So, you might ask, what mailbox format does it use? None of the above. Messages are stored in a database, like they should be.
Sound just like.... BeOS! Amazing what duplication exists in the technical world....
(Except BeOS has an advantage: the database is the filesystem, which brings unparalleled speed and stability, not to mention that you can edit the messages with a resource editor.)
How about "Pacific Hi-Tech"? I think that one would make sense...
(For those that don't get it - TurboLinux was originally Pacific HiTech, but they changed their name and kicked out the founders. Perhaps something similar will happen here.)
Just because of that "dirty, dangerous, and frustrating, esp. for people in cities" comment you shouldn't assume that it's a form of transportation. What if it's a space heater?
Occam's razor states that the simplest explanation is usually true. When I hear of 17x Jupiter size planets or other stories too amazing to be true, the simplest explanation is that they aren't.
Does anybody remember how the first neutron starts got named LGM-number? Astronomers heard the periodic radio source and thought that it was a transmission from an alien source - hence, Little Green Men. Only later did they discover that these weren't little green men, but an astronomical occurance.
I think that the same thing is going to be true with the planets that are "too good to be true" - e.g., they aren't planets, but something else entirely. It would make far more sense.
Hrmn. I've found a PC software program that does all of this. It's called... (drumroll please...) BeOS 5. It'll burn discs from MP3's, encode your MP3's, allow you to extend their attributes and sort them any way you please, etc., etc.
Except that it makes sense on the macintosh - remember the whole "verb" thing that went into the design... verbs with the left hand, manipulation with the right? Your "verb" is "context", your manipulation is "click". Easy. Just like hitting Apple-Q with the mouse in the right hand.
Better yet, why not target to SDL, which supports.... X, the framebuffer, ascii art, Windows GGI, DirectX, BeOS, (OS/2, IIRC), and GGI? Plus, SDL has built-in OpenGL support, which would make writing OpenGL GTK+ widgets/wrappers much, much, easier.
True, carbon threads actually live within one BSD process (AFAICT) and so it sticks to one processor... but running multiple carbon apps will be spread across both processors. Classic is likewise only one process, but running two classic's would use both processes.
Saftey - is the right not to be harmed for speaking your mind.
Freedom - is the ability to be heard by people if you speak.
Quality of life - is what you make of it, if the first two don't address your concerns.
However, it's the "freedom" issue that bothers me. In any sort of a media state (like the US, but not only the US) opposing viewpoints get no recognition. If you have something different to say, you're told to go elsewhere, to find the minority who agree with you. In ages past, philosophers, thinkers, novelists, and writers all had the ability to have their works disseminated over a wide base to people who didn't already agree with the ideas. That's no longer the case when the media controls the distribution.
What this means is that every media state ends up a bit like Brave New World, i.e. banishing those who speak and think independently. Thus, there is no freedom. BNW was not the picture of a free society, despite the option of exile.
So, where's the freedom? There is none. Saftey? In the US, sure, you can get physical saftey. It's irrelevant without freedom.
And, like I said, if the first two aren't enough to you, then quality of life is what you make of it.
Yes, the article is no-good. Yes, this is a troll. But I have one question:
The freetype project isn't a corporation. How the hell can you enforce a patent against a group of individuals that isn't registered in any form with the government? They're not even a non-for-profit corporation! Who would you sue? All the developers?
And, IANAL, patents can't be enforced against individuals. We do have *that* little bit of civil liberty.
Many, many, people here seem to think that a book is simply the media upon which it was printed. Because the book is simply media, you would have the right to sell it to whomever you please, however you please. However, those who actually devote themselves to creating such content see it differently. To them, a book is its content, and even a book no longer in your physical posession is still in your brain.
When I read a copy of The Republic or Soon To Be Another Sean Connery Movie, it doesn't go away the second I put the book down. You remember things about it. You make jokes with your friends about it later, or you reference the material. That's why a book is content. Now, when I buy a book from you, do you cease to do those things? Do you forget the book? Of course not! It now seems that we have two people with knowledge of the content, but the author has only been paid once.
It's not easy to make a living off of writing, but if you do you view yourself not as a paper-manufacturer but as a story-writer or an idea-creator. The ideas and the stories are what you sell; the physical medium is immaterial to you. Why should an author only be paid once when two people gain the ideas or learn the stories?
This isn't about a simple link to a web site. When you put up a link, it's as if you are including part of their web site in yours. This must be done appropriately, and this is an attempt to ensure that.
Keep in mind that when a story online is linked, many people who do not subscribe to that journal or regularly read that content visit the page, and it is doubtful that these readers will click on advertisements. Compare when you last clicked on a Slashdot ad and on a site with a story that somebody linked to. I'm betting you click on ads on sites you reguarly visit far more often. You're basically a freeloader if you don't regularly visit the site, and this is some attempt to get compensation from people who draw freeloaders.
Do you plan to spend your life working with computer technology? Or do you plan to work with ideas greater than yourself, and help decide humanity's course for the very long-term future? Do you plan to spend your life on the only things that are real in that their existance is not linked to sensation, ideas, or do you plan to waste it on the temporal surroundings?
In other words, will you be content with the normal life? Or would you rather emulate the model of Thoreau, who when put in jail felt it no restriction on his freedom because he worked with ideas and not the physical world?
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On a side note, how 'bout a JFS install disk like the XFS one?
Hrmph? A long time ago, it stood for Berkley Software Distribution, and was distributed (suprise!) by UC Berkley. Their last release was in (IIRC) '92, and it was called 4.4BSD-Lite. NeXTStep (is that the kosher capatilization) was based on 4.2 originally, and has been upgraded to Darwin (now at 1.3, including a X86 ISO install image) using FreeBSD 3.2 as a reference platform.
Look to see if a package named kdebindings-kmozilla (IIRC, the name might be slightly different) is installed... if so, remove it. You might actually be using mozilla inside of Konqueror instead of Konqueror's KHTML engine. While it's a neat tech demo, it sucks for actual use.
Actually, LCTS is quite avialable and usually ships within 24 hours at Amazon
For further reading, I recommend Douglas Hofstadter's excellent Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
I'm serious.
Look it up yourself if you want a reference.
Don't forget InterBase, from Borland...
I think the best part is when George (the Panel maintaner) jumps in and says:
Does the new C++ ABI affect solaris? Will my KDE/etc. stop working if I update from 2.95.3 to 3.0?
Sound just like.... BeOS! Amazing what duplication exists in the technical world....
(Except BeOS has an advantage: the database is the filesystem, which brings unparalleled speed and stability, not to mention that you can edit the messages with a resource editor.)
(For those that don't get it - TurboLinux was originally Pacific HiTech, but they changed their name and kicked out the founders. Perhaps something similar will happen here.)
- Assuming that the existance of one type of radio source can imply the existance of a whole alien civilisation, about which we know nothing?
- Assuming that this is simply an astronomical object that does not imply the existance of an independent intelligent species from ours?
The first option raises too many issues and too many unknowns. The second is simpler.Just because of that "dirty, dangerous, and frustrating, esp. for people in cities" comment you shouldn't assume that it's a form of transportation. What if it's a space heater?
Does anybody remember how the first neutron starts got named LGM-number? Astronomers heard the periodic radio source and thought that it was a transmission from an alien source - hence, Little Green Men. Only later did they discover that these weren't little green men, but an astronomical occurance.
I think that the same thing is going to be true with the planets that are "too good to be true" - e.g., they aren't planets, but something else entirely. It would make far more sense.
And, the interface is nice too.
Except that it makes sense on the macintosh - remember the whole "verb" thing that went into the design... verbs with the left hand, manipulation with the right? Your "verb" is "context", your manipulation is "click". Easy. Just like hitting Apple-Q with the mouse in the right hand.
Umm... nVidia has no plans right now, but you can get an nVidia...err...3dfx Voodoo 5 for the Mac in PCI version. That should be sufficient.
Does anybody know why they removed the Schwe slot? Did they just figure that your memory is allocated better in OS X so you don't need the Schwe slot?
Better yet, why not target to SDL, which supports.... X, the framebuffer, ascii art, Windows GGI, DirectX, BeOS, (OS/2, IIRC), and GGI? Plus, SDL has built-in OpenGL support, which would make writing OpenGL GTK+ widgets/wrappers much, much, easier.
True, carbon threads actually live within one BSD process (AFAICT) and so it sticks to one processor... but running multiple carbon apps will be spread across both processors. Classic is likewise only one process, but running two classic's would use both processes.
Saftey - is the right not to be harmed for speaking your mind.
Freedom - is the ability to be heard by people if you speak.
Quality of life - is what you make of it, if the first two don't address your concerns.
However, it's the "freedom" issue that bothers me. In any sort of a media state (like the US, but not only the US) opposing viewpoints get no recognition. If you have something different to say, you're told to go elsewhere, to find the minority who agree with you. In ages past, philosophers, thinkers, novelists, and writers all had the ability to have their works disseminated over a wide base to people who didn't already agree with the ideas. That's no longer the case when the media controls the distribution.
What this means is that every media state ends up a bit like Brave New World, i.e. banishing those who speak and think independently. Thus, there is no freedom. BNW was not the picture of a free society, despite the option of exile.
So, where's the freedom? There is none. Saftey? In the US, sure, you can get physical saftey. It's irrelevant without freedom.
And, like I said, if the first two aren't enough to you, then quality of life is what you make of it.
The freetype project isn't a corporation. How the hell can you enforce a patent against a group of individuals that isn't registered in any form with the government? They're not even a non-for-profit corporation! Who would you sue? All the developers?
And, IANAL, patents can't be enforced against individuals. We do have *that* little bit of civil liberty.
So, could Apple even do such a thing?
When I read a copy of The Republic or Soon To Be Another Sean Connery Movie, it doesn't go away the second I put the book down. You remember things about it. You make jokes with your friends about it later, or you reference the material. That's why a book is content. Now, when I buy a book from you, do you cease to do those things? Do you forget the book? Of course not! It now seems that we have two people with knowledge of the content, but the author has only been paid once.
It's not easy to make a living off of writing, but if you do you view yourself not as a paper-manufacturer but as a story-writer or an idea-creator. The ideas and the stories are what you sell; the physical medium is immaterial to you. Why should an author only be paid once when two people gain the ideas or learn the stories?
Keep in mind that when a story online is linked, many people who do not subscribe to that journal or regularly read that content visit the page, and it is doubtful that these readers will click on advertisements. Compare when you last clicked on a Slashdot ad and on a site with a story that somebody linked to. I'm betting you click on ads on sites you reguarly visit far more often. You're basically a freeloader if you don't regularly visit the site, and this is some attempt to get compensation from people who draw freeloaders.
In other words, will you be content with the normal life? Or would you rather emulate the model of Thoreau, who when put in jail felt it no restriction on his freedom because he worked with ideas and not the physical world?