A friend of mine, actually has one of the coveted red staplers -- complete with lock and chain. You can waste time at work (and get back some of your sanity) by looking at it here.
I haven't seen much posted regarding homes already built. Any tips you could pass along? I want data feeds (Cat5) mostly, with a few audio streams, too. How difficult is it to run conduit on a two story home? I suspect I can drop down good feeds from the attic, but when were trying to run to the main floor things might get ugly. Any sites that cover such issues? TIA
The fact that all this effort is not rewarded with money is the major shortcoming of the free software process.
While I no doubt share in their point regarding credibility, they must also understand the nature of free software. Simply releasing code alone is not sufficient enough an effort to reap monetary rewards. Free software has no such major shortcoming, you are confusing two completely different software-business models. Besides, if money from software is your end goal, why in the hell are you developing free software expecting that to be your motivational drive??
Having an experienced advocate of free/open source as a member of the GNOME Foundation will be a much needed shot in the arm towards GPL, (et. al.) acceptance across the business community. His philosophies aside, he could leverage this position and the visibility to showcase the benefits of free/open source.
GNOME, and to a lesser degree - the GNOME Foundation - is certainly being discussed more and more across the industry. Especially in light of Sun's choice to adopt GNOME for future Solaris versions.
His membership would be a welcomed aid to combat the negative rhetoric we are seeing ala Bill Gate's grossly negligent comments at the recent stock holder's meeting.
DTDs are rules on how the document is to be "formatted". In other words, where certain elements and tags are to be placed within a document. This refers to the document's structure. Liken it to HTML.. most HTML files have <html><body> then </body></html> tags (in that order). So long as those are in the correct order (as specified by the DTD), the document is "verified" correct by a validating parser. Yet, this has nothing to do with the data between those tags.
This is where schemas come in. They represent a validation against not only the document's structure, but also the data it contains (i.e., the data between the tags). You could liken it to the constraint on a database table's field. I.e., CustomerType = V or I (Valid, or Invalid). To continue the example from above, you could specify a schema the restricts the content of the data between the html and body tags.
I'm not so sure that fighting fire (the perils of IP) with fire is in our best interests. In direct contradiction with free software, patents serve to protect and exclude knowledge from others in the pursuit of profits.
We should be careful not to blend the two worlds -- profit vs. passion.
Let's stick to our principles and keep beating' Tha Man(TM) where it hurts -- in his wallet and on the techie playground.
Slashdot Mirror
He did use his thumb print to acknowledge that he won the bet, some time ago.
Are they crazy?! Who can forget,
Mr. Sparkle - "I am disrespectful to dirt!" ?!
or Homer getting hair ?!
A friend of mine, actually has one of the coveted red staplers -- complete with lock and chain. You can waste time at work (and get back some of your sanity) by looking at it here.
I haven't seen much posted regarding homes already built. Any tips you could pass along? I want data feeds (Cat5) mostly, with a few audio streams, too. How difficult is it to run conduit on a two story home? I suspect I can drop down good feeds from the attic, but when were trying to run to the main floor things might get ugly. Any sites that cover such issues? TIA
Sheesh, are the authors missing the point ...
The fact that all this effort is not rewarded with money is the major shortcoming of the free software process.
While I no doubt share in their point regarding credibility, they must also understand the nature of free software. Simply releasing code alone is not sufficient enough an effort to reap monetary rewards. Free software has no such major shortcoming, you are confusing two completely different software-business models. Besides, if money from software is your end goal, why in the hell are you developing free software expecting that to be your motivational drive??
Whether or not you like RMS' political views ...
Having an experienced advocate of free/open source as a member of the GNOME Foundation will be a much needed shot in the arm towards GPL, (et. al.) acceptance across the business community. His philosophies aside, he could leverage this position and the visibility to showcase the benefits of free/open source.
GNOME, and to a lesser degree - the GNOME Foundation - is certainly being discussed more and more across the industry. Especially in light of Sun's choice to adopt GNOME for future Solaris versions.
His membership would be a welcomed aid to combat the negative rhetoric we are seeing ala Bill Gate's grossly negligent comments at the recent stock holder's meeting.
"Card carrying Asshole"
DTDs are rules on how the document is to be "formatted". In other words, where certain elements and tags are to be placed within a document. This refers to the document's structure. Liken it to HTML .. most HTML files have <html><body> then </body></html> tags (in that order). So long as those are in the correct order (as specified by the DTD), the document is "verified" correct by a validating parser. Yet, this has nothing to do with the data between those tags.
This is where schemas come in. They represent a validation against not only the document's structure, but also the data it contains (i.e., the data between the tags). You could liken it to the constraint on a database table's field. I.e., CustomerType = V or I (Valid, or Invalid). To continue the example from above, you could specify a schema the restricts the content of the data between the html and body tags.
Hope this helps.
I'm not so sure that fighting fire (the perils of IP) with fire is in our best interests. In direct contradiction with free software, patents serve to protect and exclude knowledge from others in the pursuit of profits.
We should be careful not to blend the two worlds -- profit vs. passion.
Let's stick to our principles and keep beating' Tha Man(TM) where it hurts -- in his wallet and on the techie playground.