We all know that you are a staunch advocate of libertarianism. Do you see the open-source / free-software movement turning into a larger political push for libertarian, minimal government?
I had the same experience at IBM, where I was working on some Java software as an intern this past summer. It's quite surprising to me that Microsoft is so tolerant of, er, heterodoxy.;)
Don't count on Microsoft looking so good on your resume. I, for one, will never hire someone who worked for Microsoft when she could have been working on Linux. I might readily hire a Microsoftie from the old days, but what would be the point of hiring someone obviously not committed to open source, who wasted his time on poor technology just to make his resume look good? That's not the kind of person I want working for me.
It's pretty much already happened. Almost all "black" people living in America have substantial white ancestry (unfortunately mostly due to lecherous slave-owners of the last century). If you grew up in America, you don't fully realize this until you meet black people from Africa, who really are almost literally black. It just goes to show that race is a social concept, not a biological one, and that color has no causal relationship to personality or behavior.
I like the paper format better. It's cheap, it doesn't really matter if you spill stuff on it or lose it, it's not desirable enough to get you mugged, and, oh yeah, it works without batteries. Plus it makes a keen pillow if you forget yer towel.;)
As the title suggests, this idea has been bandied about by science-fiction writers and philosophers of mind for a long time, over 20 years of which they've done in the limelight. In other words, Katz is regurgitating age-old obvious stuff as usual.
Damn, they're on to me! Every day I come to this site to get my Slashdot fix . . . ooh yeah. Then I download a big tarball of KDE source . . . that shit is raw! I compile it, roll it into RPMs, and then get it into my system. I can't get started in the morning without my open-source software fix. I even carry a laptop with me so I'll never be without a compiler, no matter where I go.
Yes, it's true: I'm a junkie, and the Internet is my hook-up. Damn them all for finding out the truth!
I work for Indiana University's Unix Workstation Support Group. As you can imagine, we use a lot of open-source software. There's no official policy about it, but the unwritten practice is to use it whenever possible. We compile OSS packages for all the operating systems we support and distribute them on our FTP site. Also, we support Linux. (In fact, I'm the lucky Linux support specialist.;) ) Ah yes, and many of our campuswide production servers run Linux.;)
In October, I'm going to work for Vovida, which not only uses open-source software but makes it, exclusively. If you're interested in Linux telephony, you should check them out.
I grabbed it from CVS and compiled it. It works swell. (In fact, I'm running it right now.) KDE window hints seem to be implemented fully. Unfortunately, the kpanel still uses a different method of communicating with applications from the method used by E/GNOME, so the kpanel is basically useless under E. The KDE and GNOME projects have announced their intention to standardize on a CORBA method of communication between the window manager and the applications, so hopefully this incompatibility will be straightened out in the near future.
PCMCIA is a really nice technology for laptops, but it doesn't make much sense to put it in a desktop machine. PCMCIA peripherals are more expensive, and you get less selection. SCSI and USB can give you any peripherals that PCMCIA can, and then some.
Why did they do this? Is the PCMCIA socket stuff cheaper? It's hard to imagine that it would be, since there are all those commodity SCSI cards and intregrated-SCSI motherboards on the market. Does anyone have any ideas? Or is this just an unqualified mistake?
Yep. It's great to see the CEO of such a big and important company willing to take questions from the community, and to answer them in truly thoughtful and substantive ways--no "no comment" or marketroid doublespeak here. Kudos to O'Reilly!
And my most pressing question: Does it do emacs-style auto-indent? This is the killer feature without which I cannot live. I want to be able to hit tab once, anywhere in the line and have the editor deduce where to put the cursor from the syntax of the code.. No indentation, no dice.
PS: What about regexp searches in/across files? regexps are yummy too.
I've noticed a couple of independently written free software projects that are using the QPL, presumably for this reason. (The QPL requires that modifications to the original source code be distributed as patches, along with an intact version of the original.) This can obviously become cumbersome, but it does address the issue of credit.
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It's all coming along peachy, except for AI. If I ever see anything approaching credible AI, I will really be bowled over. (And don't come at me with examples; I'm quite familiar with the literature.)
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Come on down to Bloomington. It's not a hick town, but rather a college town. Living here is pretty cheap, especially if you share a house with some other geeks. (We've got plenty around.) You might be able to get a hacky job with the university (like mine), which will take up only 40 hours per week, leaving lots of time for other geeky activities.
The idea is that they would communicate, constantly reacting to each other's messages. Look for the analogy to a flock of birds detailed in the post entitled "Diamond Age, Van Eck, locus". That's an excellent real-world example of emergent behavior.
I can't think of anything cool that's come out of the military in the last 10 years, though perhaps someone can come along and prove me wrong. Then again, they're liable to keep anything cool they discover a secret so they can use it to ensure national security / spy on citizens / kill people in other countries. Does anyone get the feeling that the first useful quantum computer will live at the NSA and not be revealed till the late 2020s?
There are cells in blood. I'm sure they were talking about the miti-chlorite count in these corpuscles, not floating around in the blood itself.
For what it's worth, some people think the mitochondria might have started out as wholly autonomous organisms, little bacteria that were subsumed by early eukaryotic cells. This is the story they give in Star Wars: The miti-chlorites live in a "symbiot circle" with the cells. I'll bet this is supposed to have spiritual overtones: Cooperation is good, while gratuitous strife--like the strife that keeps the Sith at each other's throats and hence restricts their number to two--is bad. The good side of the Force is epitomized by caring for others.
Thanks for the information so far! It sounds like there are a lot of people interested in getting their hands on one of these things as soon as humanly possible, so how about setting up a mailing list to distribute news to the curious? I, myself, would be interested only if this thing could compile (at least) GTK applications and give me a command line for running emacs, so I could hack on the thing. I'm sure there are others out there with fewer demands. Anyway, I would be keenly interested in getting frequent updates on the product's status.
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It's pretty much already happened. Almost all "black" people living in America have substantial white ancestry (unfortunately mostly due to lecherous slave-owners of the last century). If you grew up in America, you don't fully realize this until you meet black people from Africa, who really are almost literally black. It just goes to show that race is a social concept, not a biological one, and that color has no causal relationship to personality or behavior.
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Yes, it's true: I'm a junkie, and the Internet is my hook-up. Damn them all for finding out the truth!
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In October, I'm going to work for Vovida, which not only uses open-source software but makes it, exclusively. If you're interested in Linux telephony, you should check them out.
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Why did they do this? Is the PCMCIA socket stuff cheaper? It's hard to imagine that it would be, since there are all those commodity SCSI cards and intregrated-SCSI motherboards on the market. Does anyone have any ideas? Or is this just an unqualified mistake?
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Does it do emacs-style auto-indent? This is the killer feature without which I cannot live. I want to be able to hit tab once, anywhere in the line and have the editor deduce where to put the cursor from the syntax of the code.. No indentation, no dice.
PS: What about regexp searches in/across files? regexps are yummy too.
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What will happen in the event that Red Hat does decide to file patents? Will they be donated to the FSF?
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- Xerox PARC
- Lucent Technologies
- occasionally Hewlett-Packard
- . . . and sometimes, but not often, IBM
I can't think of anything cool that's come out of the military in the last 10 years, though perhaps someone can come along and prove me wrong. Then again, they're liable to keep anything cool they discover a secret so they can use it to ensure national security / spy on citizens / kill people in other countries. Does anyone get the feeling that the first useful quantum computer will live at the NSA and not be revealed till the late 2020s?Beer recipe: free! #Source
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For what it's worth, some people think the mitochondria might have started out as wholly autonomous organisms, little bacteria that were subsumed by early eukaryotic cells. This is the story they give in Star Wars: The miti-chlorites live in a "symbiot circle" with the cells. I'll bet this is supposed to have spiritual overtones: Cooperation is good, while gratuitous strife--like the strife that keeps the Sith at each other's throats and hence restricts their number to two--is bad. The good side of the Force is epitomized by caring for others.
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Cold pints: $2 #Product
Thanks for the information so far! It sounds like there are a lot of people interested in getting their hands on one of these things as soon as humanly possible, so how about setting up a mailing list to distribute news to the curious? I, myself, would be interested only if this thing could compile (at least) GTK applications and give me a command line for running emacs, so I could hack on the thing. I'm sure there are others out there with fewer demands. Anyway, I would be keenly interested in getting frequent updates on the product's status.
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