I've considered the DVD option, but you can't get The Daily Show on DVD, and there's a lot of good stuff on Cartoon Network that hasn't made it to DVD yet.
Right. Japanese popular culture is successfully exported to America in spite of the incredible linguistic and cultural barriers. Lots of German bands dominate the techno, experimental and industrial music landscape. Belgians are highly influential in graphic novels and comics, and also in techno, as well as 20th Century painting. Yet France seems to be becoming increasingly irrelevant to modern popular culture. Why is that? It wasn't always that way, France used to be the center of culture, the home of the avant-garde, and highly influential in film too.
I can't help noticing that the cultures that die out seem to be the ones that have official government policies to protect them. Looking at the UK, there was massive political effort to protect Welsh culture, but little attention paid to Scotland. Result: Scots culture celebrated in big Hollywood movies, Welsh culture unknown outside the British isles.
I've been to Quebec, and I visited a gallery full of state-supported French Canadian art. I have to tell you, it was a really sorry excuse for a collection, full of stuff that I doubt would get space in a gallery if the venue wasn't legally required to display a certain percentage of French Canadian artists. In contrast, Germany and Belgium have some of the best modern art galleries I've ever been to, with modern art by German and Belgian artists.
I'm not mentioning England, because it could be argued that the relative lack of linguistic boundaries makes it a special case. Note also that I'm not saying that French culture dying out is a good thing; just that I think protectionism is part of what's killing it...
So long as the broadcast flag only applies to HDTV, I don't give a crap, because I've already decided I have zero interest in HDTV. And yes, I've seen it.
There's no point having the shows in high resolution if they're still packed full of ads, have ugly station logos in the corner, and are mostly crap. There are maybe three stations I'd care to watch in HD, and it would pump the cost of cable or satellite to over $50 a month to get those stations in HD plus the handful of other channels I watch, so I'm not interested.
1. The Honda Accord
2. The Isuzu Axiom
3. The Buick Rendezvous
4. The Mazda Protegé
5. The Alfa Quadrifoglio
6. The Diahatsu Charade
7. The Lambourghini Murcielago
8. The Mitsubishi Endeavor
9. The Oldsmobile Intrigue
10. The Subaru Legacy
So what we need is a way to transform XForms into crap that IE can use, so that those of us who build web sites for a living can use XForms and have a link saying "Hey, IE users, the site will still work but you'll miss some cool features, upgrade to Mozilla".
I ran Fedora for a while. It was OK. But then another Fedora release came out, and there was no supported upgrade path--you had to reinstall again from scratch from a CD.
Well, I used to have to reinstall from scratch every six months when I ran Windows. That's why I switched to Linux. I want to install from scratch from CD exactly once, barring disk failure, and then have updates flow down automatically.
So now I run Debian and Gentoo. If RedHat want to get me running Fedora, they'll have to fix the upgrade problem. Getting rid of RPM would be a good start.
There's already Lotus Notes client for OS X, and a cursory look at it would indicate that it's a port. I would have thought that would have gone a long way toward porting Lotus Notes to Linux, if they were careful.
Notes for the Mac is a Carbon application. It doesn't use any of the UNIX APIs, it's all written to the old Macintosh APIs. Hence the existence of a Notes for Mac codebase provides zero help porting to Linux. In fact, it's probably easier to port Windows code to Linux than classic Mac code...
The UNIX version of Notes 4 wasn't developed by Lotus; it was farmed out to an independent company. They apparently did a wretched job, and it wasn't possible to integrate the hacked-upon code into the main codestream, particularly not with all of the changes that had been worked on for R5 in the main codebase. (Remember that R5 was a major release with massive internal changes, such as a completely new database engine and full text search engine.)
Most databases don't immediately repack the data store to consolidate free space or rebalance trees with every transaction; there's nothing 80s about that. It's a standard technique for increasing performance.
Workplace is all built on open standards. J2EE, LDAP authentication, SQL.
Look at Domino. It may be a proprietary software suite, but it supports every open standard out there--Java, HTML, LDAP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, CORBA, XML, SQL, ODBC,...
IBM already does have "Linux and Domino on a CD"--for IBM sales people.
However, I'm told that IBM absolutely will not be distributing Linux to customers, for legal reasons. (And no, I don't know what those reasons are.)
SuSE have a Domino pack that configures the system for optimum Domino performance. Once you do that, setting up Domino is as easy as on any other platform.
Actually porting Notes to Linux ain't gonna happen. The legacy codebase is such that it would be prohibitively expensive, or so I was told (as a member of the public) by a product manager a few years back.
What's happening instead is that IBM Lotus Workplace products, the next-generation collaboration products, are getting Domino compatibility and the functionality of the Notes client. The Workplace "rich client" products are built on Eclipse and work natively on Linux (and presumably OS X too).
Infocom's approach to the save-game feature was simple and effective: dump
the entire game -- variables, code, objects, constant data, everything -- from
memory to a big fat binary file.
And have 4GB game saves for your multimedia DVD-ROM game? That'll get you some interesting reviews.
Plus, that's not actually what Infocom did, for the similar reason that 128K game saves wouldn't have been acceptable back then.
This is the GNOME team we're talking about here. If they didn't want to unnecessarily split everyone, they would have given up on their abortion of a desktop environment as soon as the Qt licensing issues were resolved.
Trolling can be a problem, but aggressive moderation is an even worse one. The once free forum necessarily becomes an expression of the moderators' personal visions. Since there are no objective criteria for trolling, it all comes down to the whim and ego of the moderator. And this is usually a recipe for disaster. I've seen - many times - moderators cracking down in the wake of a troll attack, only to drive more people away from the forums than the trolls themselves ever could have accomplished.
The parent post has it exactly right, Anonymous Coward or not. See.signature for a concrete example.
The trouble with having a team of censors, is you have to be very careful or else the censors become a bigger menace than the trolls. (See.signature link.)
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I've considered the DVD option, but you can't get The Daily Show on DVD, and there's a lot of good stuff on Cartoon Network that hasn't made it to DVD yet.
Well, I don't really care about DTV in general. So long as plain ol' low-res cable and satellite keep working, that's good enough.
Right. Japanese popular culture is successfully exported to America in spite of the incredible linguistic and cultural barriers. Lots of German bands dominate the techno, experimental and industrial music landscape. Belgians are highly influential in graphic novels and comics, and also in techno, as well as 20th Century painting. Yet France seems to be becoming increasingly irrelevant to modern popular culture. Why is that? It wasn't always that way, France used to be the center of culture, the home of the avant-garde, and highly influential in film too.
I can't help noticing that the cultures that die out seem to be the ones that have official government policies to protect them. Looking at the UK, there was massive political effort to protect Welsh culture, but little attention paid to Scotland. Result: Scots culture celebrated in big Hollywood movies, Welsh culture unknown outside the British isles.
I've been to Quebec, and I visited a gallery full of state-supported French Canadian art. I have to tell you, it was a really sorry excuse for a collection, full of stuff that I doubt would get space in a gallery if the venue wasn't legally required to display a certain percentage of French Canadian artists. In contrast, Germany and Belgium have some of the best modern art galleries I've ever been to, with modern art by German and Belgian artists.
I'm not mentioning England, because it could be argued that the relative lack of linguistic boundaries makes it a special case. Note also that I'm not saying that French culture dying out is a good thing; just that I think protectionism is part of what's killing it...
So long as the broadcast flag only applies to HDTV, I don't give a crap, because I've already decided I have zero interest in HDTV. And yes, I've seen it.
There's no point having the shows in high resolution if they're still packed full of ads, have ugly station logos in the corner, and are mostly crap. There are maybe three stations I'd care to watch in HD, and it would pump the cost of cable or satellite to over $50 a month to get those stations in HD plus the handful of other channels I watch, so I'm not interested.
Movies I watch on DVD.
Ten cars which sound like Robert Ludlum novels:
1. The Honda Accord
2. The Isuzu Axiom
3. The Buick Rendezvous
4. The Mazda Protegé
5. The Alfa Quadrifoglio
6. The Diahatsu Charade
7. The Lambourghini Murcielago
8. The Mitsubishi Endeavor
9. The Oldsmobile Intrigue
10. The Subaru Legacy
Right, and Mozilla already has XForms support in testing.
So what we need is a way to transform XForms into crap that IE can use, so that those of us who build web sites for a living can use XForms and have a link saying "Hey, IE users, the site will still work but you'll miss some cool features, upgrade to Mozilla".
That's my problem with RedHat as a whole.
I ran Fedora for a while. It was OK. But then another Fedora release came out, and there was no supported upgrade path--you had to reinstall again from scratch from a CD.
Well, I used to have to reinstall from scratch every six months when I ran Windows. That's why I switched to Linux. I want to install from scratch from CD exactly once, barring disk failure, and then have updates flow down automatically.
So now I run Debian and Gentoo. If RedHat want to get me running Fedora, they'll have to fix the upgrade problem. Getting rid of RPM would be a good start.
The problem is, he's right.
If one person I know dies, it's a tragedy.
When 10,000 people I've never heard of die in a Tsunami, it's not 10,000x as heartbreaking. It's not even 1x as heartbreaking. Grief is not linear.
I said "humanity", not specific humans.
That was my thought too, why do people always talk about the mass extinction of humanity like it's some kind of cataclysmically bad thing?
Notes for the Mac is a Carbon application. It doesn't use any of the UNIX APIs, it's all written to the old Macintosh APIs. Hence the existence of a Notes for Mac codebase provides zero help porting to Linux. In fact, it's probably easier to port Windows code to Linux than classic Mac code...
The UNIX version of Notes 4 wasn't developed by Lotus; it was farmed out to an independent company. They apparently did a wretched job, and it wasn't possible to integrate the hacked-upon code into the main codestream, particularly not with all of the changes that had been worked on for R5 in the main codebase. (Remember that R5 was a major release with massive internal changes, such as a completely new database engine and full text search engine.)
Most databases don't immediately repack the data store to consolidate free space or rebalance trees with every transaction; there's nothing 80s about that. It's a standard technique for increasing performance.
Workplace is all built on open standards. J2EE, LDAP authentication, SQL.
...
Look at Domino. It may be a proprietary software suite, but it supports every open standard out there--Java, HTML, LDAP, SMTP, POP3, IMAP, CORBA, XML, SQL, ODBC,
IBM already does have "Linux and Domino on a CD"--for IBM sales people.
However, I'm told that IBM absolutely will not be distributing Linux to customers, for legal reasons. (And no, I don't know what those reasons are.)
SuSE have a Domino pack that configures the system for optimum Domino performance. Once you do that, setting up Domino is as easy as on any other platform.
Actually porting Notes to Linux ain't gonna happen. The legacy codebase is such that it would be prohibitively expensive, or so I was told (as a member of the public) by a product manager a few years back.
What's happening instead is that IBM Lotus Workplace products, the next-generation collaboration products, are getting Domino compatibility and the functionality of the Notes client. The Workplace "rich client" products are built on Eclipse and work natively on Linux (and presumably OS X too).
If I could pay the UK TV license fee and get BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4, I'd do it. Absolutely no question there.
I thought BBC America would save my sanity, but they only seem to show heavily censored, cropped versions of shows. Screw that.
Speaking as someone who's worked on business finance software, EU VAT is pretty damn complicated for any non-trivial sized company...
As opposed to RedHat, which shipped several major releases with broken package management?
Tell me, does RHEL3 let you run emacs-nox without X yet?
And have 4GB game saves for your multimedia DVD-ROM game? That'll get you some interesting reviews.
Plus, that's not actually what Infocom did, for the similar reason that 128K game saves wouldn't have been acceptable back then.
This is the GNOME team we're talking about here. If they didn't want to unnecessarily split everyone, they would have given up on their abortion of a desktop environment as soon as the Qt licensing issues were resolved.
Yup, most students have a PC, a game console, a TV, a cell phone, and broadband Internet... ...but they're all adamant that they can't afford to spend money on software.
The parent post has it exactly right, Anonymous Coward or not. See .signature for a concrete example.
The trouble with having a team of censors, is you have to be very careful or else the censors become a bigger menace than the trolls. (See .signature link.)
People who really can't afford $99 can't afford a computer capable of running Photoshop.
You can turn off the drool-proof interface in the preferences.