You might try My Neighbor Totoro. I think my daughter was watching this at around age 2. She's almost 10 now and still loves Totoro (as do I, at 42:-)
Don't let yourself be put off by the fact that it's Japanese anime. It's an excellent movie for small kids.
One of the highlights of our family's vacation in Japan a few years ago was visiting the Studio Ghibli store in an otherwise awful Disneyland ripoff, where my daughter got a stuffed Totoro doll!
They should either offer: a free cd burn (either they provide the cd, or you send them one of yours), or put it in stores and have them give the email of people who want their software ( these people have pre-signed up on their site and they submit it to the store along with a shipment). I'd prefer the first one myself, of sending them a cd.
Hey, cool. A volunteer! You forgot to provide your address so we can start mailing our CDs to you. I'm sure your followup will remedy that!
Note for the clueless: Free software is about DIY (do it yourself) not about whining that something hasn't been hand-delivered and auto-installed on you machine.
...a project may release its source code licensed under an Open Source license but has a development process that is elitist and closed (one has to look no further than the *BSD camp)
OK, you've successfully trolled me.
How is the *BSD camp "closed"? Is it because there are a limited number of committers? How is
this more closed than Linux, which has only one committer for the kernel?
This isn't as bad as it might sound to Linux users.
FreeBSD has multiple branches:
* 5.0, aka -CURRENT, currently the target of
most new development.
* 4.4, the next release in the 4.x series,
due to be released today
* 4.3-RELEASE, which is updated with security
fixes as necessary
* 3.x, which is still being used, so it
occasionally gets a fix or two.
What this delay means is that the general public won't see most of the nifty 5.0 features until the end of next year.
That doesn't mean, however, that we won't get *any* new features; the list of 4.4 improvements will be evidence of that...
We've already sent the first message to an extraterrestrial civilization.
Of course, anyone who used Usenet 20 years ago has some rudimentary experience in this sort of conversation. Back then, it took between 3 and 10 days for replies to make it back to the original poster, because much of the traffic was sent via 2400 baud modems in the middle of the night. Conversations were... interesting.
It was clear that the group opposed to software patents (91%) numerically dominated the
response. A large proportion of this group was explicitly from the "Open Source" movement
including the Eurolinux "petition". 54% of responses that were sent directly to the
Commission and were not from explicit "Open Source" respondents, supported software
related patents.
100% of the responses that were not explicitly against software patents, supported software patents.
In consequence, all that this benchmark proves is that proprietary software is pathetic, that over-burdened designs are poor, and that small, specialised tools are by far the most powerful.
You misspelled "fastest". Apache is far more powerful than one of these tiny servers which are only aimed at benchmarks or toy web content collections.
What's needed is less arrogance, and more understanding that Small Is Beautiful (And Bloody Fast). A specialised server-side script server, that can do nothing else but handle server-side scripts, would be a good place to start. Essentially, it would be a "shell" for web clients, which could access a handler for PHP, a handler for Zope, another for CGI, etc.
Nothing would be "built-in", and nothing would be loaded unless it was being used. Small apps are fast apps. Less to load, less to page, less to copy in the event of a fork().
Umm, have you looked at Apache? That's basically the design of Apache... the modules are swapped in as needed.
I'll be interested in these fast webservers when they can serve some sort of dynamic content. Until then, they're merely benchmark toys.
iPaq, Palm, Yopy, whatever... In a year and a half, you will want something better, and will be able to buy something better with the change you find in your sofa.
Man, I've found maybe 60 cents when cleaning my sofa. Can I come over and look in your sofa for "change"?!?!?
I'd tell them they could keep the money and leave the fiber on my land as long as I could get a fiber drop to my house and free t-3 for life...
It seems like bandwidth has been following a Moore-like curve. 15 years ago I had a fleet of 2400 baud modems which were the envy of all the other tech geeks. 10 years ago I had a bunch of high-tech 9600 baud modems. These days, 56k is slow and broadband/DSL is barely acceptable.
Asking for T-3 now may be like wishing you had a 9600 baud modem 15 years ago.
However, I'm impressed that IBM's site defaults to the option of "don't use my information for marketing or give it to anyone" instead the standard of having the "send spam to me" checkbox checked by default.
I'm working on a website and after some discussion we decided that the right answer for this is to have no default for this question, and force the user to select one.
That way, you're guaranteed to get the user's true preference without having "tricked" anyone.
I think FreeBSD elitists just don't want to believe people use it for things other than mission critical enterprise champion edition servers. (A lot of my coworkers are FreeBSD elitists, I know this first hand.:)
"FreeBSD elitists" may not want to believe that, but the general FreeBSD community is more realistic. It realizes that, with it's smaller developer pool, it's resources are limited. Since Unix has a large share of the server OS market, that's what is being targetted.
I'd be willing to bet that most (if not all) of the FreeBSD developers run FreeBSD on their workstations, and are thus aware that it's
also an excellent desktop OS. As long as the ports community exists, most software which runs on Linux will also run on FreeBSD (and all the other BSD flavors) so BSD can ride on the coattails of Linux' efforts in that arena.
Only Libertarians understand where the line should be drawn. If speech causes real damage and the link is clear between the damage and the speech cause, then there is a legal recourse.
So Libertarians would only allow a doctor to sue after he'd been killed?
It's even easier to build a great OO design (using the Model-View-Controller pattern) if you dump JSP and use a template package like FreeMarker, Velocity or WebMacro.
JSP lets you embed Java code in your webpage, so business logic gradually creeps out of your servlets and into your HTML, making maintenance more difficult.
Template packages help you keep your business
logic and page design separate by keeping the
code in the Java servlets and the HTML in the webpage templates.
Huh? Most of the major open source programs
I can think of are imitative rather than
innovative. Linux is an OS implementation
of Unix, Gnome and KDE are attempts to clone
MS Windows on Linux, etc.
The innovative OS programs I can think of
t(httpd, Mosaic, BSD) tend to come out from
universities and are more properly the side
benefits of research rather than the direct
result of the open source movement.
Innovation is usually the result of the
work of a few people rather than the
output of the million monkeys of the
Internet.
I'd guess that the only reason Symantec bought Optasm was because it competed with one of their products. If true, the only reason they bought it was to eliminate competition.
Therefore, it wasn't abandoned, but "replaced" by Symantec's software. (Never mind that Symantec's software apparently isn't as good as Optasm.)
I never thought I'd think of Richard Nixon in a more positive light than anyone else... Nixon in 1960 could have done all this, and probably would have won.
JFK won the election by the thinnest of margins, largely from votes in Cook County, Il (Chicago). Mayor Dailey (ironically one of his sons is one of Gore's operatives). The fact that Mayor Dailey stacked the ballot boxes is not even argued anymore.
Nixon didn't do what Gore is doing now because he didn't want to damage the country.
Actually, the Republican Party chairman launched bids for recounts in 11 states. Recounts proceeded into December, but did not change the election.
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...when someone begins to develop a truly original interface, instead of immitating Windows
...which imitated MacOS, which imitated Xerox' interface...
New interfaces are unlikely to become as popular as the standard desktop-based interface.
Heck, even a window manager which worked the same as the market leader but had an innovative menu style couldn't catch on.
You might try My Neighbor Totoro. I think my daughter was watching this at around age 2. She's almost 10 now and still loves Totoro (as do I, at 42 :-)
Don't let yourself be put off by the fact that it's Japanese anime. It's an excellent movie for small kids.
One of the highlights of our family's vacation in Japan a few years ago was visiting the Studio Ghibli store in an otherwise awful Disneyland ripoff, where my daughter got a stuffed Totoro doll!
There's people out there who have to "fish" this site and...
Ummm, you mean "there are" rather than "there is"
You mean a Hrodulf cluster.
They should either offer: a free cd burn (either they provide the cd, or you send them one of yours), or put it in stores and have them give the email of people who want their software ( these people have pre-signed up on their site and they submit it to the store along with a shipment). I'd prefer the first one myself, of sending them a cd.
Hey, cool. A volunteer! You forgot to provide your address so we can start mailing our CDs to you. I'm sure your followup will remedy that!
Note for the clueless: Free software is about DIY (do it yourself) not about whining that something hasn't been hand-delivered and auto-installed on you machine.
...a project may release its source code licensed under an Open Source license but has a development process that is elitist and closed (one has to look no further than the *BSD camp)
OK, you've successfully trolled me.
How is the *BSD camp "closed"? Is it because there are a limited number of committers? How is this more closed than Linux, which has only one committer for the kernel?
This isn't as bad as it might sound to Linux users.
FreeBSD has multiple branches:
* 5.0, aka -CURRENT, currently the target of
most new development.
* 4.4, the next release in the 4.x series,
due to be released today
* 4.3-RELEASE, which is updated with security
fixes as necessary
* 3.x, which is still being used, so it
occasionally gets a fix or two.
What this delay means is that the general public won't see most of the nifty 5.0 features until the end of next year.
That doesn't mean, however, that we won't get *any* new features; the list of 4.4 improvements will be evidence of that...
We've already sent the first message to an extraterrestrial civilization.
... interesting.
Of course, anyone who used Usenet 20 years ago has some rudimentary experience in this sort of conversation. Back then, it took between 3 and 10 days for replies to make it back to the original poster, because much of the traffic was sent via 2400 baud modems in the middle of the night. Conversations were
Already done. cvsup and you'll have it.
Typical slashdot: patents are bad! Boo to property rights!
/. and get back to hacking on .NET!
Fine, if property rights are so bad, I'll just take your car and bank account, okay?
Bill, stop reading
It was clear that the group opposed to software patents (91%) numerically dominated the
response. A large proportion of this group was explicitly from the "Open Source" movement
including the Eurolinux "petition". 54% of responses that were sent directly to the
Commission and were not from explicit "Open Source" respondents, supported software
related patents.
100% of the responses that were not explicitly against software patents, supported software patents.
Damnit, all we're doing is trucking and construction. Do you see people lining up to watch truckers and construction workers on earth?
1977 - Smokey and the Bandit
1978 - Convoy, B.J. and the Bear
1983 - Truck Stop Women (financed by future Sen. Phil Gramm)
Ahhh, those were the days, good buddy!
In consequence, all that this benchmark proves is that proprietary software is pathetic, that over-burdened designs are poor, and that small, specialised tools are by far the most powerful.
... the modules are swapped in as needed.
You misspelled "fastest". Apache is far more powerful than one of these tiny servers which are only aimed at benchmarks or toy web content collections.
What's needed is less arrogance, and more understanding that Small Is Beautiful (And Bloody Fast). A specialised server-side script server, that can do nothing else but handle server-side scripts, would be a good place to start. Essentially, it would be a "shell" for web clients, which could access a handler for PHP, a handler for Zope, another for CGI, etc.
Nothing would be "built-in", and nothing would be loaded unless it was being used. Small apps are fast apps. Less to load, less to page, less to copy in the event of a fork().
Umm, have you looked at Apache? That's basically the design of Apache
I'll be interested in these fast webservers when they can serve some sort of dynamic content. Until then, they're merely benchmark toys.
iPaq, Palm, Yopy, whatever... In a year and a half, you will want something better, and will be able to buy something better with the change you find in your sofa.
Man, I've found maybe 60 cents when cleaning my sofa. Can I come over and look in your sofa for "change"?!?!?
I'd tell them they could keep the money and leave the fiber on my land as long as I could get a fiber drop to my house and free t-3 for life...
It seems like bandwidth has been following a Moore-like curve. 15 years ago I had a fleet of 2400 baud modems which were the envy of all the other tech geeks. 10 years ago I had a bunch of high-tech 9600 baud modems. These days, 56k is slow and broadband/DSL is barely acceptable.
Asking for T-3 now may be like wishing you had a 9600 baud modem 15 years ago.
However, I'm impressed that IBM's site defaults to the option of "don't use my information for marketing or give it to anyone" instead the standard of having the "send spam to me" checkbox checked by default.
I'm working on a website and after some discussion we decided that the right answer for this is to have no default for this question, and force the user to select one.
That way, you're guaranteed to get the user's true preference without having "tricked" anyone.
I think FreeBSD elitists just don't want to believe people use it for things other than mission critical enterprise champion edition servers. (A lot of my coworkers are FreeBSD elitists, I know this first hand. :)
"FreeBSD elitists" may not want to believe that, but the general FreeBSD community is more realistic. It realizes that, with it's smaller developer pool, it's resources are limited. Since Unix has a large share of the server OS market, that's what is being targetted.
I'd be willing to bet that most (if not all) of the FreeBSD developers run FreeBSD on their workstations, and are thus aware that it's also an excellent desktop OS. As long as the ports community exists, most software which runs on Linux will also run on FreeBSD (and all the other BSD flavors) so BSD can ride on the coattails of Linux' efforts in that arena.
Only Libertarians understand where the line should be drawn. If speech causes real damage and the link is clear between the damage and the speech cause, then there is a legal recourse. So Libertarians would only allow a doctor to sue after he'd been killed?
It's even easier to build a great OO design (using the Model-View-Controller pattern) if you dump JSP and use a template package like FreeMarker, Velocity or WebMacro. JSP lets you embed Java code in your webpage, so business logic gradually creeps out of your servlets and into your HTML, making maintenance more difficult. Template packages help you keep your business logic and page design separate by keeping the code in the Java servlets and the HTML in the webpage templates.
Huh? Most of the major open source programs
I can think of are imitative rather than
innovative. Linux is an OS implementation
of Unix, Gnome and KDE are attempts to clone
MS Windows on Linux, etc.
The innovative OS programs I can think of
t(httpd, Mosaic, BSD) tend to come out from
universities and are more properly the side
benefits of research rather than the direct
result of the open source movement.
Innovation is usually the result of the
work of a few people rather than the
output of the million monkeys of the
Internet.
Hopefully they'll improve the msql mini-sql-monitor. It's by far the worst command line SQL monitor I've used!
Of course since it's not GPL'd, they can't link it to GNU readline for command-history recall. Big problem there..
Not really. There is a BSD-licensed library named libedit which works like readline.
<troll>
There's an open-source solution for just about every closed (GNU) solution.
</troll>
This is being worked on at www.openpackages.org
This is a bad example.
I'd guess that the only reason Symantec bought Optasm was because it competed with one of their products. If true, the only reason they bought it was to eliminate competition.
Therefore, it wasn't abandoned, but "replaced" by Symantec's software. (Never mind that Symantec's software apparently isn't as good as Optasm.)
int prezident = 0;
while (!prezident) {
whine();
sue();
}
I never thought I'd think of Richard Nixon in a more positive light than anyone else... Nixon in 1960 could have done all this, and probably would have won.
JFK won the election by the thinnest of margins, largely from votes in Cook County, Il (Chicago). Mayor Dailey (ironically one of his sons is one of Gore's operatives). The fact that Mayor Dailey stacked the ballot boxes is not even argued anymore.
Nixon didn't do what Gore is doing now because he didn't want to damage the country.
Actually, the Republican Party chairman launched bids for recounts in 11 states. Recounts proceeded into December, but did not change the election.
(This is from a column in the Nov. 11 L.A. Times)