This is an ugly market that I think will jade most of the linux and OSS community but this is great news. This is the million dollar app business, much worse than how we visualize MS... THis is the old school "IBM in the 60's" type business. SAP has the killer apps for enterprises right now, if you buy a 390, you generally put SAP on it. It runs on a ton of lower end equipment too and linux should be on that list. If world domination is the plan, then this is a key step in it.
FWIW, if you're running UNIX, linux is just a comfortable and pleasant unix to run. It's much more usable than AIX, HPUX, DecUNIX, Solaris, etc.. The GNU tools make a lot of difference. I can't think of too many reasons why you wouldn't want to run linux if you're a unix user. The only real gaps in linux coverage (aside from support for commercial unix apps, which is going away) is the highend but most people don't have highend stuff. Typically SAP runs on a mid range UNIX workstation (I'm pretty sure that's what most r3 installs are on) so if that is a $50,000 workstation, ~$5,000 of that is in the OS. Replace it with linux and you get a better environment and you knock a substantial amount off the price. SAP certainly knows this, their UNIX developers have experienced it first hand becuase if they are like any other shop, half of them have linux at home.
Like it or not, Linux is going to be the enterprise platform of the 2000's, it's too good, and too cheap. Whether or not any of us like enterprise computing is another matter..
DjVu looks like it is the lossy image compression format to beat until JPEG2000 rolls out. In my tests with it, it looked good and was fast. I'm glad AT&T is trying to be open with it.
I'm already convinced it is a terrible book but reviewing it without even reading it? That's terrible, the only way we will beat MS is if we are above them. At least the reviewer was honest about it.
As for the issue at hand, I think we are seeing Bill's egomania really shine through. Everyone in the media and out of the know always refers to him as some sort of genius. He is a billionaire and only geniuses are that rich... He can't resist the chance to write a book pretending he knows the future. Much more of this and he won't be the "genius" he's gonna be a Rockerfeller or a JP Morgan type in public perception.
Okay, so I've got a gerber on me and I tend to carry my Garmin GPS around a lot too...
I always know where I am at, the exact time, my elevation and I can tell you how far I've traveld today. That is important information and I sleep better knowing it all.
There are a number of things. Most significantly, if you change QT 2.0 you can't redistribute your changed code, you have to redistribute patches. If TT is a good owner and changes come in they will role them in to a release in a timely manner, if they aren't then you may need to accumulate bunches of fixes to get your QT up to speed. This won't matter in general but as functional changes are introduced, TT may not be willing to go with it.
Now if QT was GPLed and there was a rift like that, somebody else could just take the library, change the name a little and start a different project that rolled in the patches quicker or something. You can't do that with QT, if you don't like the direction TT is moving in then you are out of luck. I'm not entirely sure how liberal the QPL is on code borrowing either, if it was GPLed you could definitely take components from QT and put them in your own library or GTK+ or something else.
Most of these issues aren't that important to most people but they are still important. I think the complaints about "resource allocation" and what have you are mostly from non-developers. I can't see how this can be seen as anything other than good for the community as a whole. Not to instigate any type of flame fest but if TT decides to stop developing QT or to focus on other platforms or something like that QT could eventually become a poor tool for KDE, instead of letting the community dictate the course of QT, TT is controlling it. TT seems to be a good dictator but a lot of people aren't comfortable with any dictator or with any one company wielding that kind of control over linux.
There are no resources to be allocated, you either want to do something or you don't. If people want to work on it then great, if not then that is also great.
This is just a hot button issue and I'm inclined to start saying nasty, non-geek related things.
Any article where, RMS, Opensource, Linux, BSD, Linus or any of the other visionaries receive negative comments, any article where GNOME or KDE is reviewed (either favorably or unfavorably), any article about QT or GTK+ (especially if they mention looks or licenses) any articles about MS's practices, any article about religion, any article about politics or politicians and what they've invented, and any article about censorship (especially if a politician, political group, or religious group is implicated by the article or the commentors)
It's just tempting to be able to reply to articles like this and I know I've got nothing remotely productive to say.
And yet the kid's grades are addressed to the parents, the teachers have conferences with the parents, most mailers from the school go to the parents, and the parents have to notify the school if their kid isn't going to show up.
I agree that it's not perfect and it won't please everybody but it doesn't lock up information and it leaves the disciplinary aspect of it to the parents. If the parents don't care then the kid isn't prevented from accessing anything, if the parents do care then compliance is monitored. It's the smae thing that goes on with sex ed classes, kids take a note home and their parents sign it or not. (I think they have backwards notes now where the parents have to sign it to get the kid out of the class)
I'm just trying to come up with something better. It's terrible to censor and it's criminal to let kids go out and view pornography (for good reasons) there has to be some sort of middle ground and it all hinges upon the parents taking responsibility for their children.
The parent then has the choice. I know my parents would probably have never looked at such a list, some parents will go over it with a fine tooth comb.
The school would no longer be babysitting them and it gives the parents the information they need if they want to restrict their children. I've always felt that if your kids are viewing porn and you don't want them to for some ethical reason then you need to explain that to them and make them understand that, blocking it out just makes it more interesting makes them more curious.
I'm only suggesting this for use in schools. Kids can still go out and look at whatever they want, they just have to know that their parents might find out about it. I don't think it's using fear because most kids won't have anything to fear, it would just be those few who have the wacko parents but it's those parents who are trying to get the surfwatch censorware installed in the first place.
Also I don't think school is the place for children to circumvent their parents. Kids will naturally test limits and rebel, that is part of growing up, but the worst thing a school can do is to choose the child's side and help them rebel against their parents, especially in matters like this which often cause spiritual and ethical lines.
What if you had to log in at a school? Colleges require this. Then each month or something, the list of URLs visited by the student get's mailed to their parents, it could even be assembled into an easy access webpage type list on a disc. No censorship or anything of that sort, just tracking.
Naturally, when your 16 year old daughter is visiting lot's of sites about birth control you're going to want to have a sit-down with her. The thing is, you should have that talk with her anyways.
Maybe it has something to do with that "religious oppression" that caused the pilgrims to leave Europe in the first place...
It's silly to argue about this stuff, the Bible and religion in general are such important parts of America that they were given protection by the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights, not the second, not the 10th, but the first. Religion is more important than privacy in that respect.
Amen to that, my alhpa running linux is still pretty snappy but the dec compiler blows gcc out of the water. egcs with Haifa on is an improvment but I still don't think it is as good as the Dec compiler.
In grad school I did some analysis on this subject and there is probably a 30% difference on average between -O5 output from the dec compiler and the best egcs can make.
Without a compiler, the alpha is a fairly uninteresting system. Intel chips, PowerPC chips and Sparcs can out perform it but with a good compiler it can hang with anybody.
I'm not sure how much it is exactly, but about half of it is devoted to code examples that aren't very exciting or even that original. I love code samples, I mean I really love them, but pages and page and pages of code don't make for good books. That stuff belongs on a disc, it's not book, at the very least the whole code should be in the appendix and not in the main chapters. It's not much in the way of a reference either. I kind of feel that it was quickly put together in hope of making some bucks on the void in GTK+ documentation.
I like GTK+, it's not too bad. (Being a professional win32 guy by day I'm not sure what more I'd want to make it a "great" widget set, I'm happy with it) but it like most OSS projects suffers from a lack of good documentation, that's the only reason I bought the book. I was hoping that this guy was going to have dug around in the code and learned about GTK+ and have some real insight but that isn't the case. There are better examples online and the GTK+ reference online is better. If I could do it over, I wouldn't buy this book.
You seem to be confused when it comes to object orientation. You're complaints are complaints about C, not about a non-object oriented design. If you can list some design aspects of GTK+ which keep it from being object oriented, I'm all ears.
I live just up the road from Denver, in Boulder, and I think this is a fabulous idea. I'm convinced that they will sell every ticket at $500 and the money goes to charity. More movies should do this. 3 days isn't that big of a deal but it's just big enough that if you've got the money and you're a starwars super freak you'd probably spend it.
I can almost see spending the money on it. Of course I hate to go to movies alone so that's an expensive date.
This is true, use your finger or something as a guide.
Read sitting up at a desk or table. You'd be surprized how many people read text books in an inclined state, when you put lie down your body is trained through years of experience to turn the mind off and you fall asleep. 99% of the time when you lie down you're sleeping or watching TV.
Practice, reading is like everything else and the more you do it the better you get at it.
If you learn how to program in an imperative language, then just about all of them are the same after that. C, C++, Java, Ada, Modula-3, Perl, Python, Forth, Smalltalk, Eiffel, all of them are very similar in a lot of ways; the syntax is radically different but it's not too hard to pick that up. Learn to do functional programming, logic programming, literate programming, and maybe some dynamic programming. 5 skillsets and just about any programming language will be a piece of cake after that. There aren't that many programming concepts to learn, if you're having trouble learning a language it's either a terrible language (C++ is a fine example of this) or you're thinking about programming in the wrong concepts.
The fact of this matter is that MS is making a huge inroads into the database market. Their product blows compared to the big boys but they sell it for peanuts.
Oracle blows the doors off of SQL server, 100x is probably an understatment, but it's so damn expensive that people will go with the slower system (which they probably got for "free" in their MSDN subscription) Oracle and IBM are worried about MS in this market and there will be more outlandish marketing ploys like this.
Nobody complains when Caldera, Redhat, Slackware, Debian, Suse, or any of the other dists put their name or spin on linux. "Open linux", "Turbo linux", "Debian Linux"
Come on, this is just a stab at RMS. If people want to call it GNU/Linux then let them. Screw that, it's not a matter of letting them or not, it's the way it is and is going to continue to be. If you're really serious about replacing all the gnu code then I wish you luck, competition is good for everybody. I'd be particularly interested in seeing your emacs, gcc, and gdb replacments. To my knowledge their isn't a compiler of similar capability for linux that isn't based on gcc.
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FWIW, if you're running UNIX, linux is just a comfortable and pleasant unix to run. It's much more usable than AIX, HPUX, DecUNIX, Solaris, etc.. The GNU tools make a lot of difference. I can't think of too many reasons why you wouldn't want to run linux if you're a unix user. The only real gaps in linux coverage (aside from support for commercial unix apps, which is going away) is the highend but most people don't have highend stuff. Typically SAP runs on a mid range UNIX workstation (I'm pretty sure that's what most r3 installs are on) so if that is a $50,000 workstation, ~$5,000 of that is in the OS. Replace it with linux and you get a better environment and you knock a substantial amount off the price. SAP certainly knows this, their UNIX developers have experienced it first hand becuase if they are like any other shop, half of them have linux at home.
Like it or not, Linux is going to be the enterprise platform of the 2000's, it's too good, and too cheap. Whether or not any of us like enterprise computing is another matter..
DjVu looks like it is the lossy image compression format to beat until JPEG2000 rolls out. In my tests with it, it looked good and was fast. I'm glad AT&T is trying to be open with it.
Can the PC110 play MP3s? I've been kicking around the idea of putting one of them in the car.
As for the issue at hand, I think we are seeing Bill's egomania really shine through. Everyone in the media and out of the know always refers to him as some sort of genius. He is a billionaire and only geniuses are that rich... He can't resist the chance to write a book pretending he knows the future. Much more of this and he won't be the "genius" he's gonna be a Rockerfeller or a JP Morgan type in public perception.
I always know where I am at, the exact time, my elevation and I can tell you how far I've traveld today. That is important information and I sleep better knowing it all.
Now if QT was GPLed and there was a rift like that, somebody else could just take the library, change the name a little and start a different project that rolled in the patches quicker or something. You can't do that with QT, if you don't like the direction TT is moving in then you are out of luck. I'm not entirely sure how liberal the QPL is on code borrowing either, if it was GPLed you could definitely take components from QT and put them in your own library or GTK+ or something else.
Most of these issues aren't that important to most people but they are still important. I think the complaints about "resource allocation" and what have you are mostly from non-developers. I can't see how this can be seen as anything other than good for the community as a whole. Not to instigate any type of flame fest but if TT decides to stop developing QT or to focus on other platforms or something like that QT could eventually become a poor tool for KDE, instead of letting the community dictate the course of QT, TT is controlling it. TT seems to be a good dictator but a lot of people aren't comfortable with any dictator or with any one company wielding that kind of control over linux.
There are no resources to be allocated, you either want to do something or you don't. If people want to work on it then great, if not then that is also great.
The wave is cool but I really like my Gerber
Any article where, RMS, Opensource, Linux, BSD, Linus or any of the other visionaries receive negative comments, any article where GNOME or KDE is reviewed (either favorably or unfavorably), any article about QT or GTK+ (especially if they mention looks or licenses) any articles about MS's practices, any article about religion, any article about politics or politicians and what they've invented, and any article about censorship (especially if a politician, political group, or religious group is implicated by the article or the commentors)
It's just tempting to be able to reply to articles like this and I know I've got nothing remotely productive to say.
I agree that it's not perfect and it won't please everybody but it doesn't lock up information and it leaves the disciplinary aspect of it to the parents. If the parents don't care then the kid isn't prevented from accessing anything, if the parents do care then compliance is monitored. It's the smae thing that goes on with sex ed classes, kids take a note home and their parents sign it or not. (I think they have backwards notes now where the parents have to sign it to get the kid out of the class)
I'm just trying to come up with something better. It's terrible to censor and it's criminal to let kids go out and view pornography (for good reasons) there has to be some sort of middle ground and it all hinges upon the parents taking responsibility for their children.
We should still try to make it perfect but it never is.
The school would no longer be babysitting them and it gives the parents the information they need if they want to restrict their children. I've always felt that if your kids are viewing porn and you don't want them to for some ethical reason then you need to explain that to them and make them understand that, blocking it out just makes it more interesting makes them more curious.
I'm only suggesting this for use in schools. Kids can still go out and look at whatever they want, they just have to know that their parents might find out about it. I don't think it's using fear because most kids won't have anything to fear, it would just be those few who have the wacko parents but it's those parents who are trying to get the surfwatch censorware installed in the first place.
Also I don't think school is the place for children to circumvent their parents. Kids will naturally test limits and rebel, that is part of growing up, but the worst thing a school can do is to choose the child's side and help them rebel against their parents, especially in matters like this which often cause spiritual and ethical lines.
Naturally, when your 16 year old daughter is visiting lot's of sites about birth control you're going to want to have a sit-down with her. The thing is, you should have that talk with her anyways.
It's silly to argue about this stuff, the Bible and religion in general are such important parts of America that they were given protection by the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights, not the second, not the 10th, but the first. Religion is more important than privacy in that respect.
In grad school I did some analysis on this subject and there is probably a 30% difference on average between -O5 output from the dec compiler and the best egcs can make.
Without a compiler, the alpha is a fairly uninteresting system. Intel chips, PowerPC chips and Sparcs can out perform it but with a good compiler it can hang with anybody.
I like GTK+, it's not too bad. (Being a professional win32 guy by day I'm not sure what more I'd want to make it a "great" widget set, I'm happy with it) but it like most OSS projects suffers from a lack of good documentation, that's the only reason I bought the book. I was hoping that this guy was going to have dug around in the code and learned about GTK+ and have some real insight but that isn't the case. There are better examples online and the GTK+ reference online is better. If I could do it over, I wouldn't buy this book.
You seem to be confused when it comes to object orientation. You're complaints are complaints about C, not about a non-object oriented design. If you can list some design aspects of GTK+ which keep it from being object oriented, I'm all ears.
That's the way I do it. I have two logins, one for GNOME and one for KDE. I can use either one and I can use the other's apps from either one.
This is going to be the Citizen Cane of the next century.
I can almost see spending the money on it. Of course I hate to go to movies alone so that's an expensive date.
Read sitting up at a desk or table. You'd be surprized how many people read text books in an inclined state, when you put lie down your body is trained through years of experience to turn the mind off and you fall asleep. 99% of the time when you lie down you're sleeping or watching TV.
Practice, reading is like everything else and the more you do it the better you get at it.
If you learn how to program in an imperative language, then just about all of them are the same after that. C, C++, Java, Ada, Modula-3, Perl, Python, Forth, Smalltalk, Eiffel, all of them are very similar in a lot of ways; the syntax is radically different but it's not too hard to pick that up. Learn to do functional programming, logic programming, literate programming, and maybe some dynamic programming. 5 skillsets and just about any programming language will be a piece of cake after that. There aren't that many programming concepts to learn, if you're having trouble learning a language it's either a terrible language (C++ is a fine example of this) or you're thinking about programming in the wrong concepts.
Check out JNG. The MNG page mentioned up above points to the draft for it.
Oracle blows the doors off of SQL server, 100x is probably an understatment, but it's so damn expensive that people will go with the slower system (which they probably got for "free" in their MSDN subscription) Oracle and IBM are worried about MS in this market and there will be more outlandish marketing ploys like this.
Come on, this is just a stab at RMS. If people want to call it GNU/Linux then let them. Screw that, it's not a matter of letting them or not, it's the way it is and is going to continue to be. If you're really serious about replacing all the gnu code then I wish you luck, competition is good for everybody. I'd be particularly interested in seeing your emacs, gcc, and gdb replacments. To my knowledge their isn't a compiler of similar capability for linux that isn't based on gcc.