Macromedia (authoring tools) and Microsoft (browsers) are responsible for the propagation of non compliant html code. So as for quality tool's we may want to re-evauluate the meaning of quality. IE 6 has come quite a ways though at least enforcing more standards than it previously had. I have no problem with javascript it can be a useful tool in the right hands.
I see this as man helping man, some see it as an way to make money and assert control in third world markets. What are patent's about? Control and ownership. Yes the patent was "blown". I have no logical answer, I'm not calling the people who are "blowing" it saints, people are dieing we have something that can help them, we should use it. End of story. Dead people don't make house payment's, they don't mow their lawns and they don't buy foreign goods. They do however get burried in patent's and politics apparently.
Ah but I said nothing about the nature of freedom I did however say "People make mistakes it's the nature of being human." The nature of freedom is being allowed to make mistakes, it is not being punished un-necessarily for them. Letting either you A.let infected people die or B. Give them medication and let them live. It's a no brainer. It's very rare that a punishment should be death for a mistake. Not to mention children born into it as I did earlier. I whole heartedly agree with you about the nature of freedom, however often times when it's a life and death decision caution is thrown to the wind and rules go out the window as in this case.
I hope you're reminded of this when someone dosen't help you when it isn't in their best interest. Life is not about constantly having leverage over someone else, freedom isn't about letting people die for their mistakes. People make mistakes it's the nature of being human. What do lifestyle habits matter to people of Africa who are suffering greatly, children who haven't made any "lifestyle habits" born into AIDS and pain and death. Your humble opinion isn't so humble because you obviously know what's best for everyone, if you're making the decisions I'm leaving town.
I really like the developers section colors, light grey and blue. I agree that slashdot is in need of a new look perhaps user selectable themes so that each user can pick from a number of slashdot layouts to looks at.
I'd just like to point out that GNOME and Mono are not linked (insomuch as Mono is not part of GNOME[*]), so your assertion that GNOME is being sidetracked by Mono is false.
[*] GNOME is planned to be used in Mono, but that does not make Mono part of the GNOME project.
Oh it isn't consuming resources over there at Ximian, keepers of the flame for Gnome...
From the mono contact page: You can contact the Mono Team by sending e-mail to `mailto:mono-hackers@ximian.com'.
You can contact the general forum of discussion by sending e-mail to mono-list@ximian.com
You can contact me (Miguel de Icaza) by sending e-mail to miguel@ximian.com. My web page is http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel"
I truely believe that KDE will slowly take over as the defacto desktop environment, interviews like these reaffirm my thoughts on the issue. We know where we stand with KDE what their goals are and how they plan on getting from A to B without getting sidetracked by C. They're proving themselves to have excellent vision and product execution. Congrats to The Kompany, I'm sure I'll be buying some of your products in the future.
A: Oh no, sir! We sell shampoo, and dish washing liquids, and body gels, and bubble solutions (you know, for kids!), and industrial grime removing agents, and inedable emlusifiers, and...
See the irony is, one of the top ingreidents in liquid soaps is water.
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You can happily roll your own, or let them roll it for you. The applications are probably mostly in unstable already, the main thing is the low latency patches and possible driver additions to their kernel.
This is due to Microsoft saturating the market, they cant make any more money off windows once they've put it on every machine on earth, so what now (besides the 2 year product upgrade treadmill)? Figure out how to control and tie customer data and applications directly to the operating system. Tie those applications and methods directly to partner company websites (MSN, Expedia, etc) to create a services which are essentially tied to operating system. It makes integrated explorer seem like no big deal when you see how deep this rabbit hole goes.
You know, the ironic thing is that most of the artists who created that blues, jazz, ethnic music were ripped off by the music industry ie not being payed royalties etc. Yet another ocaission of a two faced industry laughing at consumers; when it's not worth paying for (read popular) then we can get it for free. That dosen't mean it's not good music only that nobody is walking to a register with it anymore.
Sadly you're right, music has slowly become more image than it is music with a few exceptions. The audience gets fed what the music industry wants to feed them, tightly packaged, highly marketed disposable artists. Many of them don't write their own lyrics or music they just show up and "the machine" makes it for them. I can't immagine britney spears ever talking without being flanged or having some combination of filters muting the less than perfect voice she has.
I have some bootlegs of stevie ray vaughan on tape (live@bluebird in Ft Worth TX), these will never see a store shelf and they are better than anything I've ever heard recorded of his. I'm sure not many people have actual tapes of this it would be a shame if I didn't preserve them. I would hope fans of his music would agree. In any case the demise of free music have been greatly exaggerated.
Thats right we shouldn't be bothered to shake things up a bit, we should all just go along with whatever business model suits corporate america best because that's the way it's always been done and if you don't agree with it we'll crush you too...
Seriously now, there have been media changes in the past and there will be media changes in the future driven by technology. While I agree to an extent that it shouldn't all be 100% free, there must be an amicable solution to these problems or big business will yet again stifle technology and maintain control over what you listen to and how you listen to it. I do believe I should be allowed to rip every damn cd I own for my own personal use at least. So in the next trial we'll let you cast the first stone. Calling people "idiotic theiving scum who have the morals and self-worth of a sewer rat" dosent exactly solve any problems or even acomplish anything now does it?
Exactly, and where might innovation start? With a little experimentation and forward thinking. This project is more useful than people are summing it up as. Pushing the limits of the kernel is a good thing, it may help us see the road ahead and what a particular path may yeild.
I dont remember a prerequisite of slashdot readers to answer anyone's questions especially in when all you're doing is complaining. The author didnt ask a question he made a retorical statement in the form of a troll, statements like For all they talk about it, you'd think it has features like buttons for "Give head" and "Win Lottery." (Maybe those are in CVS?) basically negate any point the author was attempting to make by throwing in the oh-so-intelligent-sounding bathroom humor. Others have already commented on slashdot's often biased writings, I don't blame slash editors a bit for writing that why should anyone else get to? Even worse assuming that maybe his comment might sway or change the editorial style of slash editors in the future, hah! Making a huge deal about it is silly, all I'm doing is making a huge deal about someone else making a huge deal out of something which is certainly not huge deal material in my opinion.
When you get a website you can write whatever opinion you want. If you're not happy with what slashdot's content is like simply stop visiting. It's not like you're forced to come here and read it. I don't remember ever seeing slashdot boast about their journalistic or unbiased standards. Excuse me while I shed a tear for you because you saw something you didnt like on slashdot.
Sure, at first getting it up is easy, but maintaing it from the home users point of view- i dont think so.
apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade -y is too hard, how about we make it an icon? Seriously things are getting better just take a look at KDE 2.2beta1 it almost makes gnome look comical, as far as I'm concerned kde is the standard interface, they're not about putting airs they release early and often and are cranking out great stuff. Take a look at apps.kde.com and the thekompany.com. I'm all for a standard interface, I just think we can choose one that comes out of healthy competition because we all have our prefrences and no one can agree about all of them. Now... On to preemptiveness and low latentcy!
If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be that all the children to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.
If I had two wishes I could make this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace. And the second would be for 30 million dollars a month to be given to me, tax-free in a Swiss bank account.
You know, if I had three wishes I could make this holiday season, the first, of course, would be for all the children of the world to get together and sing, the second would be for the 30 million dollars every month to me, and the third would be for encompassing power over every living being in the entire universe.
And if I had four wishes that I could make this holiday season, the first would be the crap about the kids definitely, the second would be for the 30 million, the third would be for all the power, and the fourth would be to set aside one month each year to have an extended 31-day orgasm, to be brought out slowly by Rosanna Arquette and that model Paulina-somebody, I can't think of her name. Of course my lovely wife can come too and she's behind me one hundred percent here, I guarantee it.
Wait a minute, maybe the sex thing should be the first wish, so if I made that the first wish, because it could all go boom tomorrow, then what do you got, y'know? No, no, the kids, the kids singing would be great, that would be nice. But wait a minute, who am I kidding? They're not going to be able to get all those kids together. I mean, the logistics of the thing is impossible, more trouble than it's worth!
So -- we reorganize! Here we go. First, the sex thing. We go with that. Second, the money. No, we got with the power second, then the money. And then the kids. Oh wait, oh jeez, I forgot about revenge against my enemies! Okay, I need revenge against all my enemies, they should die like pigs in hell! That would be my fourth wish. And, of course, my fifth wish would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.
Thank you everybody and Merry Christmas. --Steve Martin
Where the BSD license is the cookie jar that constantly refils itself but is mostly empty and on the low shelf, GPL is the cookie jar overflowing with cookies that's just too high for Microsoft to reach. Microsoft hopes to be able take cookies when it needs or wants them but being the greedy child it won't share what it has taken. The GPL community each bring different cookies and pile them together for eachother to try and as such if you take someone elses cookie you should leave one of your own in good faith. Microsoft is the cookie monster. Release under what ever license you wish, but don't be upset when it's gobbled up and sold back to you under a different more restrictive one if your license of choice allows for such a thing to happen. Lets all just co exist and code.
It seem's pretty RPM centric to me. A standard shouldn't become a standard because a lot of people use it. It should become a standard based on it's technical merit and objectively evaluated.
I don't know how you can look at dpkg and apt and not be impressed. Maybe people are afraid it will effect their business model's because debian is doing for free what other folks are charging for. Is either perfect? No. But that should only serve to raise the bar for each package management system. Then again splitting hairs dosen't do anyone any good, I just hope we can pick the best choice becase it _is_ the best choice.
Re:anti-bsd posts up 75% on slashdot!!!!!
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Especially those high volume single processor servers eh?
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We used to build vehicles and smash them into eachother. The goal was to build a vehicle that would outlast everyone elses vehicles structuraly.
Macromedia (authoring tools) and Microsoft (browsers) are responsible for the propagation of non compliant html code. So as for quality tool's we may want to re-evauluate the meaning of quality. IE 6 has come quite a ways though at least enforcing more standards than it previously had. I have no problem with javascript it can be a useful tool in the right hands.
Unfortunately lilo is set to prompt with no timeout, it sure gets there fast though.
I see this as man helping man, some see it as an way to make money and assert control in third world markets. What are patent's about? Control and ownership. Yes the patent was "blown". I have no logical answer, I'm not calling the people who are "blowing" it saints, people are dieing we have something that can help them, we should use it. End of story. Dead people don't make house payment's, they don't mow their lawns and they don't buy foreign goods. They do however get burried in patent's and politics apparently.
Ah but I said nothing about the nature of freedom I did however say "People make mistakes it's the nature of being human." The nature of freedom is being allowed to make mistakes, it is not being punished un-necessarily for them. Letting either you A.let infected people die or B. Give them medication and let them live. It's a no brainer. It's very rare that a punishment should be death for a mistake. Not to mention children born into it as I did earlier. I whole heartedly agree with you about the nature of freedom, however often times when it's a life and death decision caution is thrown to the wind and rules go out the window as in this case.
I hope you're reminded of this when someone dosen't help you when it isn't in their best interest. Life is not about constantly having leverage over someone else, freedom isn't about letting people die for their mistakes. People make mistakes it's the nature of being human. What do lifestyle habits matter to people of Africa who are suffering greatly, children who haven't made any "lifestyle habits" born into AIDS and pain and death. Your humble opinion isn't so humble because you obviously know what's best for everyone, if you're making the decisions I'm leaving town.
I really like the developers section colors, light grey and blue. I agree that slashdot is in need of a new look perhaps user selectable themes so that each user can pick from a number of slashdot layouts to looks at.
Is that why the reactors are all CE-ME-NT? Har har.
Improper abbreviations: 2 points
wht's wrng w/ imprpr abbr's?
How about an obfuscated english contest?
[*] GNOME is planned to be used in Mono, but that does not make Mono part of the GNOME project.
Oh it isn't consuming resources over there at Ximian, keepers of the flame for Gnome...
From the mono contact page:
You can contact the Mono Team by sending e-mail to `mailto:mono-hackers@ximian.com'.
You can contact the general forum of discussion by sending e-mail to mono-list@ximian.com
You can contact me (Miguel de Icaza) by sending e-mail to miguel@ximian.com. My web page is http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel"
You can also reach Ximian.
Looks like it's going to consume some would-otherwise-be-working-on-Gnome resources to me.
I truely believe that KDE will slowly take over as the defacto desktop environment, interviews like these reaffirm my thoughts on the issue. We know where we stand with KDE what their goals are and how they plan on getting from A to B without getting sidetracked by C. They're proving themselves to have excellent vision and product execution. Congrats to The Kompany, I'm sure I'll be buying some of your products in the future.
A: Oh no, sir! We sell shampoo, and dish washing liquids, and body gels, and bubble solutions (you know, for kids!), and industrial grime removing agents, and inedable emlusifiers, and...
See the irony is, one of the top ingreidents in liquid soaps is water.
You can happily roll your own, or let them roll it for you. The applications are probably mostly in unstable already, the main thing is the low latency patches and possible driver additions to their kernel.
This is due to Microsoft saturating the market, they cant make any more money off windows once they've put it on every machine on earth, so what now (besides the 2 year product upgrade treadmill)? Figure out how to control and tie customer data and applications directly to the operating system. Tie those applications and methods directly to partner company websites (MSN, Expedia, etc) to create a services which are essentially tied to operating system. It makes integrated explorer seem like no big deal when you see how deep this rabbit hole goes.
You know, the ironic thing is that most of the artists who created that blues, jazz, ethnic music were ripped off by the music industry ie not being payed royalties etc. Yet another ocaission of a two faced industry laughing at consumers; when it's not worth paying for (read popular) then we can get it for free. That dosen't mean it's not good music only that nobody is walking to a register with it anymore.
I have some bootlegs of stevie ray vaughan on tape (live@bluebird in Ft Worth TX), these will never see a store shelf and they are better than anything I've ever heard recorded of his. I'm sure not many people have actual tapes of this it would be a shame if I didn't preserve them. I would hope fans of his music would agree. In any case the demise of free music have been greatly exaggerated.
Seriously now, there have been media changes in the past and there will be media changes in the future driven by technology. While I agree to an extent that it shouldn't all be 100% free, there must be an amicable solution to these problems or big business will yet again stifle technology and maintain control over what you listen to and how you listen to it. I do believe I should be allowed to rip every damn cd I own for my own personal use at least. So in the next trial we'll let you cast the first stone. Calling people "idiotic theiving scum who have the morals and self-worth of a sewer rat" dosent exactly solve any problems or even acomplish anything now does it?
Exactly, and where might innovation start? With a little experimentation and forward thinking. This project is more useful than people are summing it up as. Pushing the limits of the kernel is a good thing, it may help us see the road ahead and what a particular path may yeild.
I dont remember a prerequisite of slashdot readers to answer anyone's questions especially in when all you're doing is complaining. The author didnt ask a question he made a retorical statement in the form of a troll, statements like For all they talk about it, you'd think it has features like buttons for "Give head" and "Win Lottery." (Maybe those are in CVS?) basically negate any point the author was attempting to make by throwing in the oh-so-intelligent-sounding bathroom humor. Others have already commented on slashdot's often biased writings, I don't blame slash editors a bit for writing that why should anyone else get to? Even worse assuming that maybe his comment might sway or change the editorial style of slash editors in the future, hah! Making a huge deal about it is silly, all I'm doing is making a huge deal about someone else making a huge deal out of something which is certainly not huge deal material in my opinion.
When you get a website you can write whatever opinion you want. If you're not happy with what slashdot's content is like simply stop visiting. It's not like you're forced to come here and read it. I don't remember ever seeing slashdot boast about their journalistic or unbiased standards. Excuse me while I shed a tear for you because you saw something you didnt like on slashdot.
apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade -y is too hard, how about we make it an icon? Seriously things are getting better just take a look at KDE 2.2beta1 it almost makes gnome look comical, as far as I'm concerned kde is the standard interface, they're not about putting airs they release early and often and are cranking out great stuff. Take a look at apps.kde.com and the thekompany.com. I'm all for a standard interface, I just think we can choose one that comes out of healthy competition because we all have our prefrences and no one can agree about all of them. Now... On to preemptiveness and low latentcy!
If I had two wishes I could make this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace. And the second would be for 30 million dollars a month to be given to me, tax-free in a Swiss bank account.
You know, if I had three wishes I could make this holiday season, the first, of course, would be for all the children of the world to get together and sing, the second would be for the 30 million dollars every month to me, and the third would be for encompassing power over every living being in the entire universe.
And if I had four wishes that I could make this holiday season, the first would be the crap about the kids definitely, the second would be for the 30 million, the third would be for all the power, and the fourth would be to set aside one month each year to have an extended 31-day orgasm, to be brought out slowly by Rosanna Arquette and that model Paulina-somebody, I can't think of her name. Of course my lovely wife can come too and she's behind me one hundred percent here, I guarantee it.
Wait a minute, maybe the sex thing should be the first wish, so if I made that the first wish, because it could all go boom tomorrow, then what do you got, y'know? No, no, the kids, the kids singing would be great, that would be nice. But wait a minute, who am I kidding? They're not going to be able to get all those kids together. I mean, the logistics of the thing is impossible, more trouble than it's worth!
So -- we reorganize! Here we go. First, the sex thing. We go with that. Second, the money. No, we got with the power second, then the money. And then the kids. Oh wait, oh jeez, I forgot about revenge against my enemies! Okay, I need revenge against all my enemies, they should die like pigs in hell! That would be my fourth wish. And, of course, my fifth wish would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.
Thank you everybody and Merry Christmas. --Steve Martin
Where the BSD license is the cookie jar that constantly refils itself but is mostly empty and on the low shelf, GPL is the cookie jar overflowing with cookies that's just too high for Microsoft to reach. Microsoft hopes to be able take cookies when it needs or wants them but being the greedy child it won't share what it has taken. The GPL community each bring different cookies and pile them together for eachother to try and as such if you take someone elses cookie you should leave one of your own in good faith. Microsoft is the cookie monster. Release under what ever license you wish, but don't be upset when it's gobbled up and sold back to you under a different more restrictive one if your license of choice allows for such a thing to happen. Lets all just co exist and code.
I don't know how you can look at dpkg and apt and not be impressed. Maybe people are afraid it will effect their business model's because debian is doing for free what other folks are charging for. Is either perfect? No. But that should only serve to raise the bar for each package management system. Then again splitting hairs dosen't do anyone any good, I just hope we can pick the best choice becase it _is_ the best choice.
Especially those high volume single processor servers eh?