This is an instance of the 'problem' alongwith DMCA, RIAA etc.
Long time back there were computer enthusiasts. They got hold of a generation of digital ICs and created electronics that could be programmed to calculate. From the AT&T labs, where the space game led to development of unix to Apple, where Woz and gang designed computers for the masses. They toyed or 'hacked' around with things since no theory was available to cover what they were doing.
This also happened in USA, where more than often success is defined by the money something makes. It ain't revolutionary if it don't make money.
The FSF was started in revulsion to everything started by the events above stood for. Lot of good things came out of there that stood purely on their merit. Until now.
Andover.net alongwith Slashdot - IPOed. Around this time all of OSS was hailed 'successful'. There are fierce legions, factions, troops defending and satisfying their masochistic needs by configuring Linux, coming out with all bravado and claiming 'victory' for linux, holding 'geek pride' festivals. Many of them do not even understand what's going on. Why OSS and why FSF.
The people who are feeding money into these movements are themselves profit seekers, capitalists and in general people who have vested interests in other establishments. The 'other' establishments fight to keep their profits, cash inflow by making laws, passing myopic judgements. OSS played right into their hands didn't it?
If not, do you think you'd be hanging around Slashdot.org. How many of the commenters here actually not responsding to stimulus but proactively creating software that stands on it's merit, money be damned. Do you think there would be a GHz processor if MS wasn't around with their bloatware? You are in this delicate fabric, nothing comes for free, 'success' or free software. You shall pay for selling out for now your weapons and targets are not within your will.
Kind of reminds me of the presendential race - choose the lesser evil.
This is good news. I couldn't help notice that the astronauts are not doing the stiff upper lip business up there - "everything is A-OK", imagine the words that'll make into history - "woohoo".
I wonder what are the specs for computing on the ISS. What kind of OSes and h/w they are using.
These (or such like) cameras can be arranged to circumference the action scene and then the images from consecutive cameras can be put in a timeline to make a movie of a bullet slicing a playing card while the viewer goes "around" the scene. Also it may be possible to super slow the instance where the bullet starts piercing and as the viewer goes around at 30 fps, take the bullet out super fast! a la Trinity doing that kick.
You are absolutely right and a very wise person - there are more important things in life that this.
Let these corporations give themselves a constipation from "revolutionizing" and "making people's life better". While the innovative techies will always come out on top and give them a decade to catch up and start screwing up things. ENIAC->unix->GPL/Linux/Internet.
This is very intriguing, I will learn something today. Here's the definition of 'grace' from Webster's
Main Entry: 1grace
Pronunciation: 'grAs
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin gratia favor, charm,
thanks, from gratus pleasing, grateful; akin to Sanskrit grnAti he praises
Date: 12th century
1 a : unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or
sanctification b : a virtue coming from God c : a state of sanctification
enjoyed through divine grace
I think Slashdot system kinda mixes both. Your karma stay with you until you create a new login in which case you have a clean slate again!
The 'classical' karma theory is more aligned with Objectivism.
Neologism reminds of many instances within present day Indian culture. One funny one being the word 'Yankee'. Until I came to USA I didn't realise it actually meant to address a people. Back in India the punjabi town/village simpletons address this term to complement someone's dressing style as in "Today you are looking very Yankee". This term came into popular use after the ice cream chain - Yankee Doodle.
I fail to understand the whole concept of karma employed here. Increasingly it's being used like a void pointer, cast any damn thing to karma.
I am from India, with good knowledge of the three disciplines of salvation of soul and one of the paths is through karma i.e. do your job well, forget about the complicated and winding worship (bhakti) route. Across reincarnations your karma shall follow you and you will pay the consequences (like it or not). Good karma make you a good person and eventually you'd be done with it and land up in a nice place that probably is heaven. Heave, BTW, has alcohol (som), female dancers (apsaras) et al - not a bad place if you ask me.
Now what the hell has this kind of concept got to do with a computer company, an ad agency and a publication - it's a fuckin' business deal and it's details. Ugg. (did I forget to pick a copy of USA - terms and definitions at the immigration?)
Actually I think that Aqua is more like a fashion trend, you can get fascinated by it, but can you really keep using it after a while? Especially after novelty wears off.
For that matter I like the BeOS, uncluttered, simple, consistent, no extra stuff where doesn't belong, fast, responsive and intuitive. Isn't that how a GUI is supposed to be?
The only thing I resent in GNOME is it's resemblance to Win9[5|8]/NT. There's the 'start' button but customizations and themes win hands down - no questions about it. Besides that there's the whole configuration issue - no two Linux boxes are same (imagine that!). Tons of config files - which I like in a server, but a consumer OS should be up and go. Hence a consistent way of configuring a system. BTW, I think my wife will also be getting that cube (sigh).
Steve Jobs is kinda like Shakespeare. He doesn't have original ideas (Woz - 'nuff said) but he sure can present it in a way that people get excited and stay that way for a long, long time. I woke up, so should you;-)
I'm going home and painting those crash test dummies' stickers on my clothes and order the Mac OS X Beta that's going to change the world - again!!! You must be kidding me right?
Here are the some 'revelations' -
1. Get Steve Jobs over to Debian/SuSE/Mandrake/RedHat - the man can sell a beta, surely finished, robust and free OS+Apps has to be easier.
2. Umm how about post beta, finished, free - consumer 'just works' OS - BeOS 5 PE, they have perl, python, bash,/bin/*,/usr/bin/*, gcc - 'nuff said.
Actually that has everything to do with adoption of English language, absolutely no career options, H1 visa and availability of dead end IT jobs. Not to forget infinite patience (and centuries of training) for taking shit and absolute sincerity to employers.
Any Indian with a bit of English and expensive computer course can make it to a minimum of DBA. (as of today).
However if you think anybody has a clue about 'bug' or 'pipe' or 'bus' - think again, they are as relevant as 'int i'.
If Napolean had succeeded, I assure you there would be no less Indian programmers today.
Do not take extreme positions in this situation. Truly the academia exists in the framework like everybody else and is a seller as well as customer at different levels.
An agricultural area may require solution to poor irrigation resources. The university can help by researching a genetic seed or engineering a system. Corporates can be involved to provide a cost effective delivery of such a solution. Everybody takes care of what it does best. Research. Deployment. Support. What's wrong with that - using collective smarts to solve a problem.
Everybody makes money including the farmers (they have the crop to sell - right?)
On the other hand academia cannot control the motives of it's clients. It can sure decide with whose motives it wants to go with - the highest bidder or the closest alignment. Herein lies the grey areas whicj range from on campus sponsorships to a la MIT media lab. Which also triggers the thought if all corporates are alike - Xerox PARC, AT&T Bell Labs, HP.
Corporates are no fools either. They require the biggest bang for their buck. They cannot conjecture a technology out of air and get a univ. to endorse it. In fact the academia has produced many technologies which have become quite successful social and business ventures. Mosaic, HTTP, TCP/IP (DARPA - well you get the point). Corporates realise this and want to be in it from the very beginning rather than losing to likes of Marc Andreessen.
Finally what about pure research. Research that produces laws of gravity, relativity, warp drive - thinkers like Rutherford, Feynman, Hawking, Heisenberg. Ofcourse academia by it's industrial relations can produce funds/resources to conduct such inquiries. And it can behave as a profit making venture too. Where it draws the line os very difficult and again a grey area.
There comes a time in the lifetime of a paradigm that it reaches adolescence. It's 'energy' touches lives of people, the world is changes sometimes forever.
The computing paradigm is such.
From earlier concepts of Difference Engine to the ENIAC, the objective remains same - a machine that can takeover the iterative tasks and lets us do the thinking.
The PC revolution put that computing paradigm in a neatly package, on our desktops and laps. It changed the world, it excited many, captured imaginations and affected many. Changed the course of humanity, created heroes and fortunes, but it does do it's job - free us up to think more, achieve more and invent more.
Capitalism is fantastic. One is rewarded for that one unique thing he/she can do - fair and square. Freedom. Whatever one needs to create wealth is right there within oneself - the skill, the motivation, the idea - whatever and a capitalist system.
An awesome paradigm was created by the name of software. Like a work of prose or poetry, software could be sold even though it had the least association with any physical form, it gave a new avtar to the computer it was installed on. The computer could do things that were not thought of originally e.g. a Honda Goldwing gone off-roading.
The paradigm matures. People understand and expect certain things that were assumptions before and hopes before that. The paradigm becomes commodity and people behind it cannot expect same response when there were just hopes.
Software became that arrogant kid. Everybody knows it's a genius and put up with many nuances but it doesn't give up. Corporations continue to charge people to worship in the temple where even though people had a new way of thinking, the ceremonies were ages old, some bordering on superstition and other forced by tradition. Open source comes along, made by people with limited resources for people with limited resources. The resource crunch fuels innovations, smarts and better software for anybody who wanted it. No temples, no cathedrals, just a friendly globe wide bazaar. A method to share intellect and an opportunity to participate, synergize and apply the thoughts that were allowed by the time created by the old paradigm. A group of explorers sharing knowledge by the fire side under a starry sky, because everybody wants to make the journey and amaze oneself, bring stories back to kids and their people. We are in this thing together. Simple.
Intellect and synergy. These are the foundations of all paradigms. Apply that to music. Somewhere music stirs the spiritual intellect, which if put in a summary would be a disaster. If the music does become commodity then it's time has come. Music itself has travelled from palaces, noblemen to everybody - almost. It, like any other paradigm, is going to take the next step - like it or not.
Grab the package from here. It will be installed by Software Valet and it will change the.profile. From a new terminal fire the command "Xbeos -ac". It would start the xserver and take up the whole screen and the BeOS desktop is no longer viewable. Alt-F[1-12] for a different workspace. Start another terminal and do an "fvwm &" and an "xterm &". Now Alt-F[1-12] to the xserver workspace and voila! the xterm is there alright. Telnet into your linux machines and export any displays, including netscape, gnorpm etc. over - welcome to BeOS!
Slashdot Mirror
mod this guy up
You did leave that AC loophole for a purpose - didn't ya? Stick to perl - sellout.
Hear Hear!!!
;-)
Amiga also means lady friend
This is an instance of the 'problem' alongwith DMCA, RIAA etc.
Long time back there were computer enthusiasts. They got hold of a generation of digital ICs and created electronics that could be programmed to calculate. From the AT&T labs, where the space game led to development of unix to Apple, where Woz and gang designed computers for the masses. They toyed or 'hacked' around with things since no theory was available to cover what they were doing.
This also happened in USA, where more than often success is defined by the money something makes. It ain't revolutionary if it don't make money.
The FSF was started in revulsion to everything started by the events above stood for. Lot of good things came out of there that stood purely on their merit. Until now.
Andover.net alongwith Slashdot - IPOed. Around this time all of OSS was hailed 'successful'. There are fierce legions, factions, troops defending and satisfying their masochistic needs by configuring Linux, coming out with all bravado and claiming 'victory' for linux, holding 'geek pride' festivals. Many of them do not even understand what's going on. Why OSS and why FSF.
The people who are feeding money into these movements are themselves profit seekers, capitalists and in general people who have vested interests in other establishments. The 'other' establishments fight to keep their profits, cash inflow by making laws, passing myopic judgements. OSS played right into their hands didn't it?
If not, do you think you'd be hanging around Slashdot.org. How many of the commenters here actually not responsding to stimulus but proactively creating software that stands on it's merit, money be damned. Do you think there would be a GHz processor if MS wasn't around with their bloatware? You are in this delicate fabric, nothing comes for free, 'success' or free software. You shall pay for selling out for now your weapons and targets are not within your will.
Kind of reminds me of the presendential race - choose the lesser evil.
This is good news. I couldn't help notice that the astronauts are not doing the stiff upper lip business up there - "everything is A-OK", imagine the words that'll make into history - "woohoo".
I wonder what are the specs for computing on the ISS. What kind of OSes and h/w they are using.
I saw this on TV (or HBO?)
These (or such like) cameras can be arranged to circumference the action scene and then the images from consecutive cameras can be put in a timeline to make a movie of a bullet slicing a playing card while the viewer goes "around" the scene. Also it may be possible to super slow the instance where the bullet starts piercing and as the viewer goes around at 30 fps, take the bullet out super fast! a la Trinity doing that kick.
Or take a cheaper route - BeOS! Runs on x86, SMP, protected memory, multithreaded, scalable. For server side stuff I'd say stick to Linux/BSD.
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You are absolutely right and a very wise person - there are more important things in life that this.
Let these corporations give themselves a constipation from "revolutionizing" and "making people's life better". While the innovative techies will always come out on top and give them a decade to catch up and start screwing up things. ENIAC->unix->GPL/Linux/Internet.
This is very intriguing, I will learn something today. Here's the definition of 'grace' from Webster's
Main Entry: 1grace Pronunciation: 'grAs Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin gratia favor, charm, thanks, from gratus pleasing, grateful; akin to Sanskrit grnAti he praises Date: 12th century 1 a : unmerited divine assistance given humans for their regeneration or sanctification b : a virtue coming from God c : a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine grace
I think Slashdot system kinda mixes both. Your karma stay with you until you create a new login in which case you have a clean slate again!
The 'classical' karma theory is more aligned with Objectivism.
Neologism reminds of many instances within present day Indian culture. One funny one being the word 'Yankee'. Until I came to USA I didn't realise it actually meant to address a people. Back in India the punjabi town/village simpletons address this term to complement someone's dressing style as in "Today you are looking very Yankee". This term came into popular use after the ice cream chain - Yankee Doodle.
I fail to understand the whole concept of karma employed here. Increasingly it's being used like a void pointer, cast any damn thing to karma.
I am from India, with good knowledge of the three disciplines of salvation of soul and one of the paths is through karma i.e. do your job well, forget about the complicated and winding worship (bhakti) route. Across reincarnations your karma shall follow you and you will pay the consequences (like it or not). Good karma make you a good person and eventually you'd be done with it and land up in a nice place that probably is heaven. Heave, BTW, has alcohol (som), female dancers (apsaras) et al - not a bad place if you ask me.
Now what the hell has this kind of concept got to do with a computer company, an ad agency and a publication - it's a fuckin' business deal and it's details. Ugg. (did I forget to pick a copy of USA - terms and definitions at the immigration?)
Actually I think that Aqua is more like a fashion trend, you can get fascinated by it, but can you really keep using it after a while? Especially after novelty wears off.
;-)
For that matter I like the BeOS, uncluttered, simple, consistent, no extra stuff where doesn't belong, fast, responsive and intuitive. Isn't that how a GUI is supposed to be?
The only thing I resent in GNOME is it's resemblance to Win9[5|8]/NT. There's the 'start' button but customizations and themes win hands down - no questions about it. Besides that there's the whole configuration issue - no two Linux boxes are same (imagine that!). Tons of config files - which I like in a server, but a consumer OS should be up and go. Hence a consistent way of configuring a system. BTW, I think my wife will also be getting that cube (sigh).
Steve Jobs is kinda like Shakespeare. He doesn't have original ideas (Woz - 'nuff said) but he sure can present it in a way that people get excited and stay that way for a long, long time. I woke up, so should you
I'm going home and painting those crash test dummies' stickers on my clothes and order the Mac OS X Beta that's going to change the world - again!!!
/bin/*, /usr/bin/*, gcc - 'nuff said.
You must be kidding me right?
Here are the some 'revelations' -
1. Get Steve Jobs over to Debian/SuSE/Mandrake/RedHat - the man can sell a beta, surely finished, robust and free OS+Apps has to be easier.
2. Umm how about post beta, finished, free - consumer 'just works' OS - BeOS 5 PE, they have perl, python, bash,
Actually that has everything to do with adoption of English language, absolutely no career options, H1 visa and availability of dead end IT jobs. Not to forget infinite patience (and centuries of training) for taking shit and absolute sincerity to employers. Any Indian with a bit of English and expensive computer course can make it to a minimum of DBA. (as of today). However if you think anybody has a clue about 'bug' or 'pipe' or 'bus' - think again, they are as relevant as 'int i'. If Napolean had succeeded, I assure you there would be no less Indian programmers today.
Do not take extreme positions in this situation. Truly the academia exists in the framework like everybody else and is a seller as well as customer at different levels. An agricultural area may require solution to poor irrigation resources. The university can help by researching a genetic seed or engineering a system. Corporates can be involved to provide a cost effective delivery of such a solution. Everybody takes care of what it does best. Research. Deployment. Support. What's wrong with that - using collective smarts to solve a problem. Everybody makes money including the farmers (they have the crop to sell - right?) On the other hand academia cannot control the motives of it's clients. It can sure decide with whose motives it wants to go with - the highest bidder or the closest alignment. Herein lies the grey areas whicj range from on campus sponsorships to a la MIT media lab. Which also triggers the thought if all corporates are alike - Xerox PARC, AT&T Bell Labs, HP. Corporates are no fools either. They require the biggest bang for their buck. They cannot conjecture a technology out of air and get a univ. to endorse it. In fact the academia has produced many technologies which have become quite successful social and business ventures. Mosaic, HTTP, TCP/IP (DARPA - well you get the point). Corporates realise this and want to be in it from the very beginning rather than losing to likes of Marc Andreessen. Finally what about pure research. Research that produces laws of gravity, relativity, warp drive - thinkers like Rutherford, Feynman, Hawking, Heisenberg. Ofcourse academia by it's industrial relations can produce funds/resources to conduct such inquiries. And it can behave as a profit making venture too. Where it draws the line os very difficult and again a grey area.
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There comes a time in the lifetime of a paradigm that it reaches adolescence. It's 'energy' touches lives of people, the world is changes sometimes forever.
The computing paradigm is such.
From earlier concepts of Difference Engine to the ENIAC, the objective remains same - a machine that can takeover the iterative tasks and lets us do the thinking.
The PC revolution put that computing paradigm in a neatly package, on our desktops and laps. It changed the world, it excited many, captured imaginations and affected many. Changed the course of humanity, created heroes and fortunes, but it does do it's job - free us up to think more, achieve more and invent more.
Capitalism is fantastic. One is rewarded for that one unique thing he/she can do - fair and square. Freedom. Whatever one needs to create wealth is right there within oneself - the skill, the motivation, the idea - whatever and a capitalist system.
An awesome paradigm was created by the name of software. Like a work of prose or poetry, software could be sold even though it had the least association with any physical form, it gave a new avtar to the computer it was installed on. The computer could do things that were not thought of originally e.g. a Honda Goldwing gone off-roading.
The paradigm matures. People understand and expect certain things that were assumptions before and hopes before that. The paradigm becomes commodity and people behind it cannot expect same response when there were just hopes.
Software became that arrogant kid. Everybody knows it's a genius and put up with many nuances but it doesn't give up. Corporations continue to charge people to worship in the temple where even though people had a new way of thinking, the ceremonies were ages old, some bordering on superstition and other forced by tradition. Open source comes along, made by people with limited resources for people with limited resources. The resource crunch fuels innovations, smarts and better software for anybody who wanted it. No temples, no cathedrals, just a friendly globe wide bazaar. A method to share intellect and an opportunity to participate, synergize and apply the thoughts that were allowed by the time created by the old paradigm. A group of explorers sharing knowledge by the fire side under a starry sky, because everybody wants to make the journey and amaze oneself, bring stories back to kids and their people. We are in this thing together. Simple.
Intellect and synergy. These are the foundations of all paradigms. Apply that to music. Somewhere music stirs the spiritual intellect, which if put in a summary would be a disaster. If the music does become commodity then it's time has come. Music itself has travelled from palaces, noblemen to everybody - almost. It, like any other paradigm, is going to take the next step - like it or not.
Grab the package from here. It will be installed by Software Valet and it will change the .profile. From a new terminal fire the command "Xbeos -ac". It would start the xserver and take up the whole screen and the BeOS desktop is no longer viewable. Alt-F[1-12] for a different workspace. Start another terminal and do an "fvwm &" and an "xterm &". Now Alt-F[1-12] to the xserver workspace and voila! the xterm is there alright. Telnet into your linux machines and export any displays, including netscape, gnorpm etc. over - welcome to BeOS!