They should make sure the new Palm can play DTMF tones through its speaker; people have been crying for this since the first Palm. Look up a phone number, hold the Palm next to the phone, and click on "Dial" and the Palm makes DTMF tones and dials for you. I'd like that.
I made the Qt Palmtop Environment address book
do that. Its pretty cool;-)
I think the "arguably" is what set him off.
It made you sound like you thought you had a point, he missed that you then admitted that you didn't. Other trigger phrases to watch out for:
Frankly
Ladies and gentlemen
Come, on folks,
Honestly
**** is nice and all, but
these phrases are often used in the hope that whatever comes next sounds more authoratative. Don't fall for them.
X11 will be fine when PDAs come with built in microdrives. Until then, it is just too much flash to waste - even on a 32 Meg ipaq. I don't know why you would want multiple toolkits. Just leads to massive memory wastage.
Qt/E is useful for now while there is not enough storage. QPE could easily be transitioned to QT/x11 when there is.
What would be a more sensible question
to ask is why Dr. Dre is not averse to
promoting other criminality, eg
Gun violence,
whilst acting so righteous over other
people freely promoting his music.
Sampling is a different issue.
Ps I enjoy Dr.Dres music, but consider
Napster etc to be free advertising.
Not anything people should care
about. It just means the people who only
got tapes off their friends now get MP3s,
ie no change in market size.
Erm, the point is that only ONE person has to add a feature for it to be available to everyone who uses a free program.
So as long as a sufficient number of people who can add features do, the free program will match or better the commercial program.
To work out which will turn out better needs to take into account a lot of factors,
commercial:
investment into the project,
return on investment,
profit margin,
etc.
free:
community involvement,
time investment by community,
skill and experience of community
both:
code architecture,
usefulness of supporting libraries.
which means "let the seller beware".
Hm, in fact they would be better the other
way round. Caveat emptor implies all
liability on the buyer, caveat vendtor
implies liability on the seller.
Ha, teaching Latin in schools does have a point. Honest.
ACLs provide very little security in
a practical sense because they are
almost impossible to administer.
Capabilities, (not the dumbass privileges of
POSIX) are the only easily administered general
security model. They are a lot less work for the kernel too.
The only reason I can think 10 base pairs would be better is that each pair would encode more bits. If you stretch your disbelief slightly, you could say that a single base pair changing would be a greater change in terms of bits changed (ie greater Hamming distance)... but I doubt that could account for evolution quickening very much.
Re no of base pairs: it just has to be divisible by two. (If it follows the kind of pattern that life on earth provides.)
Well, *586* optimisations would be pretty stupid.
Pentium optimisations generally reduce
performance on P6 or later generation cores.
Dunno how much difference 686/ K7 optimisations
make.
The problem with this is one of trust... people would start naming other files that "predictable" name. The same kind of people who engage in meta tag abuse, and goat sex tactics.
So probably a digital signature scheme would be required in this case. That could all be built in to the client easily enough. ( As long as you trust the client...)
As this would confirm the source of the content, it would also allow people to sue for libel, slander etc. So it still might be worth posting some stuff completely anonymous.
I was referring to it as a marketing advantage.
It will get GameCubes out there, and mean developers won't see it as a dead end system in the way they saw the dreamcast. And at the very least it should keep Nintendo alive. Unlike sega.
PS2 has shite games,
Xbox will have pathetic buggy rubbish on it - it is MS, how can I trust them at all? (To MS apologists - it is reasonable to base future expectations on past experiences. None of my MS related experiences have been enjoyable.)
They both try to be DVD players too...sucky ones.
Game Cube looks like it will have a lot of good games out pretty quickly, and it does that Game boy advance link up thing.
Ah well. Dreamcast had an amazing catalogue of games but fell due to weak marketing. Hope Nintendo can do better.... they have got Pokemon!
... No, I think it's more likely that it's because there's the chance (especially with RMS's push to move away from the LGPL) that at some point in the future, you won't be able to develop for Linux without putting your software out under the GPL as well.
huh? This won't happen through any technical changes. That is pure FUD. The only way this is going to happen is if consumers decide they won't pay for software. Thats their decision. I hope proprietary software does become economically untenable.
No, it's not compatible with business
Erm.. you redefine business to mean "selling proprietary software". Then you "prove" that the GPL is incompatible.
Unfortunately, both steps are flawed.
Businesses USE free software, MAKE MONEY, and then MODIFY IT and MAKE MORE MONEY. They can even keep their changes inhouse if they feel it gives them a competitive edge. Generally, to reduce maintenance pain, it is worthwhile to give back to the community. This is the type of business that open source is far better for than closed source.
On the second point, it is perfectly possible to sell proprietary software and also give away GPL'ed software. Or even sell GPLed software, by getting the work funded before it is released.
You don't seem to understand that something can be bad for one business, and good for another.
You don't seem to understand basic economics. Not everyone can win. In the case of open source, the consumer gets all the surplus. So? How is that bad? Maybe some businesses which fail to respond to changes in the market go under. So? Thats bad management, not some inherent evil in the GPL.
You want to use a closed licence or the BSD license. That is fine. Why do you feel the need to attack other peoples choice of license?
I think the real problem for you is this:
You make money out of proprietary software. You don't want to change. You can see that the market for proprietary software will shrink as the coverage and quality of open source increases.
The world, and the market is constantly changing. Deal with it.
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Actually, NT is pretty much a unix clone.
It has almost all the same warts.
Ie it is another expression of the same core design. Bunches of system calls, joke user based security, global filesystem for extra security holes.
They are very similar compared to what can be done.
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CMIIW, but your suggesetion would require one of the following:
a)Central server holdign everones contact list
b)A whole bunch of servers carrying everyones contact list ( contact lists freely distributed)
c)Client stores contact list
a & b are clearly the work of the devil, and c is what jabber was designed to avoid. The upshot of this:
You are an idiot, and I claim my 5 pounds.
They should make sure the new Palm can play DTMF tones through its speaker; people have been crying for this since the first Palm. Look up a phone number, hold the Palm next to the phone, and click on "Dial" and the Palm makes DTMF tones and dials for you. I'd like that.
I made the Qt Palmtop Environment address book
do that. Its pretty cool
Rob
Just while people are talking about palms
& ipaqs....
anyone know what protocol is used to transfer contacts etc between palms on the IR Port? Is it a standard?
Well I'm using the more powerful iPaq.
I don't run X on it, because X is a waste
of resources. Sorry, but X just is too big
currently.
You just need a more powerful machine to run X.
PS. The agenda is not a good machine - I can't believe how many people bought it just because it runs linux by default...
I think the "arguably" is what set him off.
It made you sound like you thought you had a point, he missed that you then admitted that you didn't. Other trigger phrases to watch out for:
Frankly
Ladies and gentlemen
Come, on folks,
Honestly
**** is nice and all, but
these phrases are often used in the hope that whatever comes next sounds more authoratative. Don't fall for them.
X11 will be fine when PDAs come with built in microdrives. Until then, it is just too much flash to waste - even on a 32 Meg ipaq. I don't know why you would want multiple toolkits. Just leads to massive memory wastage.
Qt/E is useful for now while there is not enough storage. QPE could easily be transitioned to QT/x11 when there is.
Rob
What would be a more sensible question
to ask is why Dr. Dre is not averse to
promoting other criminality, eg
Gun violence,
whilst acting so righteous over other
people freely promoting his music.
Sampling is a different issue.
Ps I enjoy Dr.Dres music, but consider
Napster etc to be free advertising.
Not anything people should care
about. It just means the people who only
got tapes off their friends now get MP3s,
ie no change in market size.
Erm, no one who actually does like rap
would consider those to be good.
So shut up.
Erm, the point is that only ONE person has to add a feature for it to be available to everyone who uses a free program.
So as long as a sufficient number of people who can add features do, the free program will match or better the commercial program.
To work out which will turn out better needs to take into account a lot of factors,
commercial:
investment into the project,
return on investment,
profit margin,
etc.
free:
community involvement,
time investment by community,
skill and experience of community
both:
code architecture,
usefulness of supporting libraries.
your formula is way too simple.
Maybe if he realised that rpm and apt are completely different things he would have a better time?
.debs rarely go wrong, as some care is usually taken in creating them. The same cannot
apt uses rpm or preferably dpkg as a package management system. You use dpkg if something goes wrong on a debian system with packages.
Happily,
be said of any rpm based system I have ever used.
Ok, have to put shitty
text in here to stop
slashdots lame lame filter
s/vendtor/venditor/
Shouldn't that be
caveat vendtor
which means "let the seller beware".
Hm, in fact they would be better the other
way round. Caveat emptor implies all
liability on the buyer, caveat vendtor
implies liability on the seller.
Ha, teaching Latin in schools does have a point. Honest.
You are so clueless.
ACLs provide very little security in
a practical sense because they are
almost impossible to administer.
Capabilities, (not the dumbass privileges of
POSIX) are the only easily administered general
security model. They are a lot less work for the kernel too.
The only reason I can think 10 base pairs would be better is that each pair would encode more bits. If you stretch your disbelief slightly, you could say that a single base pair changing would be a greater change in terms of bits changed (ie greater Hamming distance)... but I doubt that could account for evolution quickening very much.
Re no of base pairs: it just has to be divisible by two. (If it follows the kind of pattern that life on earth provides.)
I don't know where you got the squares from...
Well, *586* optimisations would be pretty stupid.
Pentium optimisations generally reduce
performance on P6 or later generation cores.
Dunno how much difference 686/ K7 optimisations
make.
Rob
The problem with this is one of trust... people would start naming other files that "predictable" name. The same kind of people who engage in meta tag abuse, and goat sex tactics.
So probably a digital signature scheme would be required in this case. That could all be built in to the client easily enough. ( As long as you trust the client...)
As this would confirm the source of the content, it would also allow people to sue for libel, slander etc. So it still might be worth posting some stuff completely anonymous.
Hm.. never actually played pokemon myself.
I was referring to it as a marketing advantage.
It will get GameCubes out there, and mean developers won't see it as a dead end system in the way they saw the dreamcast. And at the very least it should keep Nintendo alive. Unlike sega.
I'm getting a Game Cube.
PS2 has shite games,
Xbox will have pathetic buggy rubbish on it - it is MS, how can I trust them at all? (To MS apologists - it is reasonable to base future expectations on past experiences. None of my MS related experiences have been enjoyable.)
They both try to be DVD players too...sucky ones.
Game Cube looks like it will have a lot of good games out pretty quickly, and it does that Game boy advance link up thing.
Ah well. Dreamcast had an amazing catalogue of games but fell due to weak marketing. Hope Nintendo can do better.... they have got Pokemon!
huh? This won't happen through any technical changes. That is pure FUD. The only way this is going to happen is if consumers decide they won't pay for software. Thats their decision. I hope proprietary software does become economically untenable.
No, it's not compatible with business
Erm.. you redefine business to mean "selling proprietary software". Then you "prove" that the GPL is incompatible.
Unfortunately, both steps are flawed.
Businesses USE free software, MAKE MONEY, and then MODIFY IT and MAKE MORE MONEY. They can even keep their changes inhouse if they feel it gives them a competitive edge. Generally, to reduce maintenance pain, it is worthwhile to give back to the community. This is the type of business that open source is far better for than closed source.
On the second point, it is perfectly possible to sell proprietary software and also give away GPL'ed software. Or even sell GPLed software, by getting the work funded before it is released.
You don't seem to understand that something can be bad for one business, and good for another.
You don't seem to understand basic economics. Not everyone can win. In the case of open source, the consumer gets all the surplus. So? How is that bad? Maybe some businesses which fail to respond to changes in the market go under. So? Thats bad management, not some inherent evil in the GPL.
You want to use a closed licence or the BSD license. That is fine. Why do you feel the need to attack other peoples choice of license?
I think the real problem for you is this:
You make money out of proprietary software. You don't want to change. You can see that the market for proprietary software will shrink as the coverage and quality of open source increases.
The world, and the market is constantly changing. Deal with it.
Actually, NT is pretty much a unix clone.
It has almost all the same warts.
Ie it is another expression of the same core design. Bunches of system calls, joke user based security, global filesystem for extra security holes.
They are very similar compared to what can be done.
The real reasons this is a clone of unix
(just like win32):
Every bit of new kernel functionality needs a new system call. (ioctls are skanky system calls)
The filesystem is hierarchical
Security is acl based, or non existant.
By acl I mean the kernel has a list of who can
access each object. Yes, this is how unix works.
My problem with this is that it is far too similar to unix, and makes no attempt to solve any of the real problems unix has:
Security model
Component model ( used from the ground up)
Global filesystem
Anyway.....
Actually, in seems pretty boring to me.
It is basically a single user unix-clone with
a non standard gui.
Something like Eros is far more innovative.
See www.eros-os.org
Unfortunately, its a lot harder to make something that might actually change the state of the art.
Try progeny.
Eros is now gpl.