You seem to be saying that, because there are correlations between physical and emotional or psychological effects, the physical evidence is the only cause. However, people who are suicidal can also respond to psychotherapy. Antidepressants are not necessarily the only solution. There is without a doubt a strong mind/body connection, but I don't think science is sophisticated enough to explain it all. On the other hand, I don't believe in the supernatural, and I don't think that so-called near death experiences are necessarily a result of someone's "soul" leaving the body or something. I honestly have to say "I don't know" about such things, although I do wonder and entertain my own theories which change from time to time. I do believe that reality is much bigger than science will ever be able to pin down.
I didn't really understand your point about dogs. Were you saying that it is a given that animals' emotions are caused by chemicals while humans' apparently are not? We're all made out of the same stuff. I don't believe that animals are merely chemical reactions playing out on chance any more than humans are. See, there's one thing missing in your analysis, and that is consciousness. What is it, what's it made of? We all have it in varying degrees, including the animals. Beings who are more conscious behave differently than those who are less conscious. I don't think it's just chemicals at work. I could be wrong, but then, science hasn't provided us an answer, has it?
It's not an admission of failure, and it's not about relying on Adobe or someone else. The fact is, commercial apps tend to be higher quality than their open source counterparts. Photoshop vs. Gimp, Maya vs. half a dozen vapor modellers. Where's our open source CAD software? It doesn't exist.
Open source is great for building an infrastructure. Specialized apps need more organization and drive, I think. I'd love to be wrong, because obviously it would be awesome if all the great software out there was free. But it never will be. I have nothing against paying for well written software.
Of course, while it's clever, it's hardly original. Pretty reminiscent of the never-ending wars fought in 1984; Big Brother's rhetoric's not even far off from Bush's, and the declared purposes of the wars are likewise pretty similar.
That's absolutely true. We've had some kind of "war" going on for a long time. I first remember it with the bombing of Libya in the 80's, but I'm sure it goes back farther. It's typically not an officially declared war, but rather some kind of foreign conflict with a purpose that is unclear. The "War on Terror" appears to be designed to last for a good long while yet. That ought to keep the minds of the masses from being occupied with Real Issues for the next decade.
They have one of these at the children's hospital in Seattle. I learned this when my son tore his thumb wide open and had to get stitches. It's kind of a big, bulky robot that looks like 1970's technology, sort of like the robots in the movie Silent Running, only less advanced:).
Yeah, this totally reminds me of the guys who were trying to build their own floating country in the Caribbean. This is not as farfetched, but still probably vaporware.
I don't see how Berlin is really a replacement for X. It does not have any low level drivers, but instead relies on other consoles such as DirectFB, or even X to run. It would probably take at least five years at the pace development is going to even have something useful.
Both Darwin and Hurd run on top of the mach kernel. Mach is a microkernel that allows you to run user space servers on top of it that present different interfaces. On Darwin, you see a BSD Unix interface that is created through the use of a single server running on the Mach kernel. With Hurd, there is not a single server running on Mach. There are more like 10. You have a server for ext2 filesystems, you have a server for authentication, a server for the console, and so on. These servers communicate to eachother through the kernel and collectively create a Unix-y, Gnu-y interface.
As I understand, Mach is something of a hybrid microkernel, in that the device drivers still live in kernel space to gain speed. There is talk of porting Hurd to the L4 microkernel, which is supposedly much faster than Mach. I know that, at this point, the Hurd is quite slow because I've tried it within the last few months. But they've made a lot of progress. Hopefully they really will have a release of a useful system soon. I probably won't use it though. I don't really like that Gnu-y feel.
I've thought about the filesystem, and it seems to me that it would be better to have a non-hierarchical filesystem. Applications would have their own files. For example, maybe you would click on a "files" button and see all files associated with that application, and they could be organized more than one way. If a file belonged to more than one app, it would be marked that way. You could have a tool that showed all shared files. It would still be a filesystem of sorts, but the computer would not be such a *slave* to it like our OSes are now. It would be more of a database. And your gui desktop would not live at a spot in the filesystem. Who can make sense of that? The desktop can be its own thing altogether, not a directory. Anyway, just some thoughts I've had. Feel free to poke holes in them, but don't be too harsh:).
I decided to download the IE Inferno plugin and run the demos. I was really impressed with the performance. It really seemed much faster than any java applets I've used. And the download times were very short. It looks like a really cool system. But I really doubt it will be used widely. It's been around for a long time and I would venture to guess that only a relative few have ever heard of it. Too bad.
Netscape doesn't charge for the Netscape browser. How is it a money making machine? All the same, I don't see a problem with what Sun is doing. Plus, there's still Open Office available for free.
What about the fact that Sun now uses CDE, the same environment used on other commercial Unices? If anything, this will make them stand apart. Plus, although Gnome development started out Linux-centric, it really isn't a desktop environment for Linux, it's a desktop environment for Unix, and Sun's effort strengthens that position.
And with the change in the license, I doubt it will get much usage at all when it is anyway. I personally would rather the effort put into Java or something more open.
Do you mean the change to using the MIT license for the runtime libraries? The same basic license that is used by XFree86, Apache, and FreeBSD? Java is more open than this, how?
God damn, that article was complete and total *FUD*. It's either a case of someone not understanding the MIT license or deliberately spreading misinformation. And look at you poor people eating it up...
You missed the end of the article where he says this whole thing was just an experiment, and he plans to go back to his old service until he can find a way to make it legit.
What does it matter if Linus is using a source control system if no one else has access to it? I think that's really the whole point of using such a system, isn't it? So that multiple developers can check their code in manageably? As it stands now, everything still goes through Linus' inbox. It doesn't appear that the situation has changed very much.
Will there be public read-only access to Linus' branch so people can keep up with the latest?
No, the problem isn't poor code getting in. With a CVS tree, you can back out changes that no one else agrees with. Also, not everyone would have write access to the CVS tree, only people who can discuss their changes and cooperate with the other developers and who have proven themselves. This is how BSD development is done, and their changes still tend to be more conservative than with Linux. It isn't because they're using CVS, and it isn't because they have more than a hundred people committing changes. It's because they are cooperating.
Actually, in the small town where I grew up in Washington state, US, the chess club was frequented by all manner of students, even popular football players.
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I didn't really understand your point about dogs. Were you saying that it is a given that animals' emotions are caused by chemicals while humans' apparently are not? We're all made out of the same stuff. I don't believe that animals are merely chemical reactions playing out on chance any more than humans are. See, there's one thing missing in your analysis, and that is consciousness. What is it, what's it made of? We all have it in varying degrees, including the animals. Beings who are more conscious behave differently than those who are less conscious. I don't think it's just chemicals at work. I could be wrong, but then, science hasn't provided us an answer, has it?
Open source is great for building an infrastructure. Specialized apps need more organization and drive, I think. I'd love to be wrong, because obviously it would be awesome if all the great software out there was free. But it never will be. I have nothing against paying for well written software.
Isn't your own statement a little "repetively redundant" as well, or are you just trying to be ironic?
Wait a minute...that was a while ago.
...that is, until you figure out that Ctrl-[ does the same thing as Escape :-).
That's absolutely true. We've had some kind of "war" going on for a long time. I first remember it with the bombing of Libya in the 80's, but I'm sure it goes back farther. It's typically not an officially declared war, but rather some kind of foreign conflict with a purpose that is unclear. The "War on Terror" appears to be designed to last for a good long while yet. That ought to keep the minds of the masses from being occupied with Real Issues for the next decade.
They have one of these at the children's hospital in Seattle. I learned this when my son tore his thumb wide open and had to get stitches. It's kind of a big, bulky robot that looks like 1970's technology, sort of like the robots in the movie Silent Running, only less advanced :).
Yeah, this totally reminds me of the guys who were trying to build their own floating country in the Caribbean. This is not as farfetched, but still probably vaporware.
They're sailboats, so not very fast compared with a motorboat. Probably slower than this thing goes, or would go if it ever got built.
If hearts or livers were cloned without the whole human, where would they grow? On mechanical "trees"? That's what intrigues me.
I don't see how Berlin is really a replacement for X. It does not have any low level drivers, but instead relies on other consoles such as DirectFB, or even X to run. It would probably take at least five years at the pace development is going to even have something useful.
Xurdix? How abxurd.
Mach is a microkernel that allows you to run user space servers on top of it that present different interfaces. On Darwin, you see a BSD Unix interface that is created through the use of a single server running on the Mach kernel. With Hurd, there is not a single server running on Mach. There are more like 10. You have a server for ext2 filesystems, you have a server for authentication, a server for the console, and so on. These servers communicate to eachother through the kernel and collectively create a Unix-y, Gnu-y interface.
As I understand, Mach is something of a hybrid microkernel, in that the device drivers still live in kernel space to gain speed. There is talk of porting Hurd to the L4 microkernel, which is supposedly much faster than Mach. I know that, at this point, the Hurd is quite slow because I've tried it within the last few months. But they've made a lot of progress. Hopefully they really will have a release of a useful system soon. I probably won't use it though. I don't really like that Gnu-y feel.
I've thought about the filesystem, and it seems to me that it would be better to have a non-hierarchical filesystem. Applications would have their own files. For example, maybe you would click on a "files" button and see all files associated with that application, and they could be organized more than one way. If a file belonged to more than one app, it would be marked that way. You could have a tool that showed all shared files. It would still be a filesystem of sorts, but the computer would not be such a *slave* to it like our OSes are now. It would be more of a database. And your gui desktop would not live at a spot in the filesystem. Who can make sense of that? The desktop can be its own thing altogether, not a directory. Anyway, just some thoughts I've had. Feel free to poke holes in them, but don't be too harsh :).
I decided to download the IE Inferno plugin and run the demos. I was really impressed with the performance. It really seemed much faster than any java applets I've used. And the download times were very short. It looks like a really cool system. But I really doubt it will be used widely. It's been around for a long time and I would venture to guess that only a relative few have ever heard of it. Too bad.
Um, maybe that's because it really is called the General Public License.
Netscape doesn't charge for the Netscape browser. How is it a money making machine?
All the same, I don't see a problem with what Sun is doing. Plus, there's still Open Office available for free.
What about the fact that Sun now uses CDE, the same environment used on other commercial Unices? If anything, this will make them stand apart. Plus, although Gnome development started out Linux-centric, it really isn't a desktop environment for Linux, it's a desktop environment for Unix, and Sun's effort strengthens that position.
Do you mean the change to using the MIT license for the runtime libraries? The same basic license that is used by XFree86, Apache, and FreeBSD? Java is more open than this, how?
God damn, that article was complete and total *FUD*. It's either a case of someone not understanding the MIT license or deliberately spreading misinformation. And look at you poor people eating it up...
About your sig, did that come from the song "Totally Wired" by the Fall?
You missed the end of the article where he says this whole thing was just an experiment, and he plans to go back to his old service until he can find a way to make it legit.
Will there be public read-only access to Linus' branch so people can keep up with the latest?
No, the problem isn't poor code getting in. With a CVS tree, you can back out changes that no one else agrees with. Also, not everyone would have write access to the CVS tree, only people who can discuss their changes and cooperate with the other developers and who have proven themselves. This is how BSD development is done, and their changes still tend to be more conservative than with Linux. It isn't because they're using CVS, and it isn't because they have more than a hundred people committing changes. It's because they are cooperating.
Actually, in the small town where I grew up in Washington state, US, the chess club was frequented by all manner of students, even popular football players.