Maybe you should care. More than you care about sports anyway.:-) Would they be surprised if they knew over 200 Palestinians had been killed so far (this is old data; there's probably more now)?
Also there is no corner you have been backed into. What is done is done. Screaming for vengence is a mob mentality. I hope wiser voices prevail but I am not confident.
I figure I know why Bush went to the airforce base rather than Washington; he thought this was the precursor to something much worse. Think China. Fortunately that moment passed pretty quickly. Still gives me goose bumps to think of GW's finger on the nuclear button though.
I saw an interview with a man from Flights International on the BBC last night. Apparently security was reviewed under the Clinton administration by a committee chaired by Al Gore (probably post-Lockerbie). All the recommendations of the final report were implemented for international flights but the airlines balked at the internal flight recommendations saying they would slow them down too much.
Surely it's for the Judge to decide the best way to restore competition. The DOJ can suggest possible remedies but the Judge is the ultimate arbiter. Surely she must consider Judge Jackson's original verdict.
I get the feeling from reading the Register's coverage that at the end of things Judge Jackson was very frustrated with Microsoft's intransigence. He knew that Microsoft would appeal and that his remedies would be reviewed. But by choosing a breakup remedy, he has put it on the agenda for consideration. Rule 1 for defending a monopoly trial : try not to tick the judge off.
Having said that I favour the mandated openness remendy mentioned above. I would add that all documentation should be liberally licensed to allow it to be updated/distributed. Wouldn't want out of date/wrong/misleading documentation now would we.
While Alpha isn't much competition to anyone anymore, having Alpha *owned* by HP (rather than selling the IP and transfering engineers to Intel) has to be bad for competition. I'd love to see the regulators step in and force Compaq to sell its stake in Alpha as a pre-requisite to the sale. After all, HP are hardly interested in it (Intel holds all the IP anyway).
Mind you I can't see Intel being happy with Alpha being part-owned by AMD or VIA! So HP may be beholden to Intel to try to kill it anyway. Yes, definitely one for the regulators...
Better analogy: I live in the UK. I wrote to my MP about Dmitry and said that if his arrest is valid then we should be arresting all handgun owning Americans as they get off the plane.:-)
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Ask Robert Young
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There's money in selling support and other value added services. And the Redhat brand is strong.
But no free software outfit will ever make as much as an aggressive closed source monopoly. It's just a question of expectations really.
I can see how a parallel to the GPL might work for them. Since copying music is so easy, why not give it away? But still charge "resonable distribution costs" for CDs and premium value closer access to the artist via a website. I'd easily pay $$ a month to keep up with the latest King's X news.
The only drawback I can see is that most of my favourite artists are dead: Stevie Ray, Hendrix, Michael Hedges. I guess they could setup a fund for musician's dependants.
This is exactly why no-one will get rich just selling GPL software (cf. recent article about Redhat selling value added services). There's a bit in the GPL about reasonable distribution costs. With the Internet, distribution costs tend to zero and so GPL software will always be cheap (hurrah!).
As a struggling free software developer Van Gogh inspires me to continue. Here's a man who sold one picture in his lifetime and yet he never gave up his passion. I have a postcard with one of his self portraits on my desk at work.
"This is not just about food," Bove told the demonstrators. "It is about the struggle of small people, leading simple lives, to free themselves from the dictatorship of the multi-nationals."
Translation: This IS mostly about food (he is French after all). I'm just a simple peasant farmer and I think having a MacDonald's in our village really sux.
"Perhaps Bove will sail over here when AOL/Time-Warner opens its first franchise office in the United States and give us all an example to live by."
So you're advocating violence as an answer to corporatism. Personally I'd rather follow Gandi's lead. How about symbolically binning all those free AOL CD's outside the franchise? I think you could make quite a large pile.
(Yes, I do know its spelled differently for you spelling weenies out there).
Things are getting better...
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We now have Ada95 output from GLADE targeting the GtkAda binding.
I have both Ada and C experience. Ada thrashes C for non-trivial programs. Maybe the problem is that most open source software starts out as trivial programs that scratch a programmers itch.
C++ and Ada95 are roughly equivalent. To my mind C++ suffers from its class-centric view of everything. Look at the hassles C++ has with singletons while Ada neatly solves this with the package structure.
adapower is a good place to start for those interested.
The key word in your first sentence is 'significanty'. CORBA is a mature standard and so is unlikely to change significantly. As for being open, you can't get much more open than the OMG.
I spy a troll. And one who makes no sense. To summarise your post: CORBA has been crushed forever by HTTP but the Linux community still see it as viable and yet developers never really latched onto it. Hmm.
So why did Sun introduce an ORB into Java2? Why do KDE and GNOME both use CORBA?
As the CORBA component spec is a language-independant superset of EJBs expect CORBA to become even more popular than it is now.
As for XML/RPC, if you think CORBA is cumbersome then how will passing parameters as text improve performance?? And how will you be backwards compatible when Microsoft changes their DTDs?
zmower (posting from an IP-over-ATM network!)
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I agree with your choices and would like to add one more: Lovelock, co-written with Kathryn H Kidd. It's written from the viewpoint of an artificially enhanced monkey who holds his makers in contempt.
Last three fiction books I've read are all by Card; Lovelock, Children of the Mind and Christopher Columbus. Children sucked. Too many people crying every other page. Get a grip man! The other two I enjoyed a great deal.
No, but then the people above haven't been driven over the edge. If the Littleton madmen hadn't had guns, how many more people do you think would have survived?
Nice attidude, dude. Your paranoid gun culture is unhealthy. I'd rather feel free to walk the streets of my country thanx.
The same reason you didn't ban trucks after Oklahoma. You aren't immune from terrorism. No-one is nowadays.
As for our gun laws; we never expected to stop all deaths by guns, just reduce the number and scale of such incidents. Some statistics for you. There are 8000 children per year killed by handguns in the US compared to 100 in the UK. Even taking population sizes into account thats a big difference. And I suspect this statistic was gathered before we banned handguns outright.
You sound like you have a healthy attitude towards guns. Aren't you worried by the thought that guns are _so_ freely available in your country that any nutcase off the street case buy one?
The American Constitution was only supposed to last 50 years before it was revised. And when it was written the most powerful gun at the time was the musket. So maybe bad political systems kill people.
Give you a few decades and I'm sure you trigger happy yanks will do far worse to yourselves. You've aleady made a good start...
Swedish neutrality is a remarkable feat, not a flaw. If all countries where like Sweden there would be no wars.
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Maybe you should care. More than you care about sports anyway. :-) Would they be surprised if they knew over 200 Palestinians had been killed so far (this is old data; there's probably more now)?
Also there is no corner you have been backed into. What is done is done. Screaming for vengence is a mob mentality. I hope wiser voices prevail but I am not confident.
I figure I know why Bush went to the airforce base rather than Washington; he thought this was the precursor to something much worse. Think China. Fortunately that moment passed pretty quickly. Still gives me goose bumps to think of GW's finger on the nuclear button though.
I saw an interview with a man from Flights International on the BBC last night. Apparently security was reviewed under the Clinton administration by a committee chaired by Al Gore (probably post-Lockerbie). All the recommendations of the final report were implemented for international flights but the airlines balked at the internal flight recommendations saying they would slow them down too much.
Surely it's for the Judge to decide the best way to restore competition. The DOJ can suggest possible remedies but the Judge is the ultimate arbiter. Surely she must consider Judge Jackson's original verdict.
I get the feeling from reading the Register's coverage that at the end of things Judge Jackson was very frustrated with Microsoft's intransigence. He knew that Microsoft would appeal and that his remedies would be reviewed. But by choosing a breakup remedy, he has put it on the agenda for consideration. Rule 1 for defending a monopoly trial : try not to tick the judge off.
Having said that I favour the mandated openness remendy mentioned above. I would add that all documentation should be liberally licensed to allow it to be updated/distributed. Wouldn't want out of date/wrong/misleading documentation now would we.
While Alpha isn't much competition to anyone anymore, having Alpha *owned* by HP (rather than selling the IP and transfering engineers to Intel) has to be bad for competition. I'd love to see the regulators step in and force Compaq to sell its stake in Alpha as a pre-requisite to the sale. After all, HP are hardly interested in it (Intel holds all the IP anyway).
Mind you I can't see Intel being happy with Alpha being part-owned by AMD or VIA! So HP may be beholden to Intel to try to kill it anyway. Yes, definitely one for the regulators...
I still want my alpha linux box dammit!
Better analogy: I live in the UK. I wrote to my MP about Dmitry and said that if his arrest is valid then we should be arresting all handgun owning Americans as they get off the plane. :-)
There's money in selling support and other value added services. And the Redhat brand is strong.
But no free software outfit will ever make as much as an aggressive closed source monopoly. It's just a question of expectations really.
The only drawback I can see is that most of my favourite artists are dead: Stevie Ray, Hendrix, Michael Hedges. I guess they could setup a fund for musician's dependants.
This is exactly why no-one will get rich just selling GPL software (cf. recent article about Redhat selling value added services). There's a bit in the GPL about reasonable distribution costs. With the Internet, distribution costs tend to zero and so GPL software will always be cheap (hurrah!).
This happened to the tights industry in the 50's. They invented ladder-less tights which caused the bottom to fall out of the market. :oO
Preferred The Ladykillers myself.
As a struggling free software developer Van Gogh inspires me to continue. Here's a man who sold one picture in his lifetime and yet he never gave up his passion. I have a postcard with one of his self portraits on my desk at work.
Gee if only I'd had a time machine.
"This is not just about food," Bove told the demonstrators. "It is about the struggle of small people, leading simple lives, to free themselves from the dictatorship of the multi-nationals."
Translation: This IS mostly about food (he is French after all). I'm just a simple peasant farmer and I think having a MacDonald's in our village really sux.
"Perhaps Bove will sail over here when AOL/Time-Warner opens its first franchise office in the United States and give us all an example to live by."
So you're advocating violence as an answer to corporatism. Personally I'd rather follow Gandi's lead. How about symbolically binning all those free AOL CD's outside the franchise? I think you could make quite a large pile.
This doesn't seemed to have harmed Perl.
(Yes, I do know its spelled differently for you spelling weenies out there).
I have both Ada and C experience. Ada thrashes C for non-trivial programs. Maybe the problem is that most open source software starts out as trivial programs that scratch a programmers itch.
C++ and Ada95 are roughly equivalent. To my mind C++ suffers from its class-centric view of everything. Look at the hassles C++ has with singletons while Ada neatly solves this with the package structure.
adapower is a good place to start for those interested.
The key word in your first sentence is 'significanty'. CORBA is a mature standard and so is unlikely to change significantly. As for being open, you can't get much more open than the OMG.
zmower
I spy a troll. And one who makes no sense. To summarise your post: CORBA has been crushed forever by HTTP but the Linux community still see it as viable and yet developers never really latched onto it. Hmm.
So why did Sun introduce an ORB into Java2? Why do KDE and GNOME both use CORBA?
As the CORBA component spec is a language-independant superset of EJBs expect CORBA to become even more popular than it is now.
As for XML/RPC, if you think CORBA is cumbersome then how will passing parameters as text improve performance?? And how will you be backwards compatible when Microsoft changes their DTDs?
zmower (posting from an IP-over-ATM network!)
I agree with your choices and would like to add one more: Lovelock, co-written with Kathryn H Kidd. It's written from the viewpoint of an artificially enhanced monkey who holds his makers in contempt.
Last three fiction books I've read are all by Card; Lovelock, Children of the Mind and Christopher Columbus. Children sucked. Too many people crying every other page. Get a grip man! The other two I enjoyed a great deal.
How do you measure if a citizen is responsible or not? And anyway, responsible today is no guarantee of responsible tomorrow.
Chris (gunless and unworried, UK)
No, but then the people above haven't been driven over the edge. If the Littleton madmen hadn't had guns, how many more people do you think would have survived?
Nice attidude, dude. Your paranoid gun culture is unhealthy. I'd rather feel free to walk the streets of my country thanx.
Chris (UK)
The same reason you didn't ban trucks after Oklahoma. You aren't immune from terrorism. No-one is nowadays.
As for our gun laws; we never expected to stop all deaths by guns, just reduce the number and scale of such incidents. Some statistics for you. There are 8000 children per year killed by handguns in the US compared to 100 in the UK. Even taking population sizes into account thats a big difference. And I suspect this statistic was gathered before we banned handguns outright.
You sound like you have a healthy attitude towards guns. Aren't you worried by the thought that guns are _so_ freely available in your country that any nutcase off the street case buy one?
Chris (UK)
The American Constitution was only supposed to last 50 years before it was revised. And when it was written the most powerful gun at the time was the musket. So maybe bad political systems kill people.
Give you a few decades and I'm sure you trigger happy yanks will do far worse to yourselves. You've aleady made a good start...
Swedish neutrality is a remarkable feat, not a flaw. If all countries where like Sweden there would be no wars.
Chris (UK)