Companies are only able to enforce ergonomic rools at work by share brute force. I.e. They give you an ergonomic chair and you are fired if you trade it in for one you like. How dose this aply to a home environment ? At the very least they wold have to check your fixtures and fidle with stuff. It gets worse when you start dealing with People like Alan Cox who by definition canot work in a 'safe' environment. I.e. His home lab is a mess and must remain one for him to be eficent ( Eaven his 'old fasioned' wife puts up with it ). Never mind the fact that so many telecomuters are in diferent contries from the employers. Especialy in the Linux space ( Alan in britain and some samba person from Australia at RedHat and Linuxcare respectively ). Sory about the dislexia and the funny quotes. It's Forge on someone elses NT machine:(
Monitoring speed and faxing me a ticket may be OK. That already happens with those cameras on stop lights that photograph speeders and light breakers.
However I can think of a dozen reasons why a satellite slowing down my car against my will is insane. Just the other day I was in a car going 130 Mph at on a busy city street. Reckless driving perhaps but the lady in the back seat was in labor.
Here is the sequence of events. The guy started by shooting himself through the head with a fish gun The spear went in one ear and out the next ( literally ) and he was delivered to the hospital with this 4 foot steal rod about half way through his head.
While he was in hospital "recovering" he was discovered missing from his bed and the nurse just managed to catch him on his way out the window.
He was tied to the bed after that which wouldn't have been a problem if he didn't keep trying to lodge food in his throat. I.e. He would swallow a piece of dumpling until it blocked his windpipe and then sit there and tried to pretend everything was fine until he started to turn blue.
And yes this really happened. I got it from the officer who investigated the case and the one who was stationed at his bedside. Too bad I don't know what became of him afterwards. Although 4 butched suicides in one day speaks volumes:)
In more detail. DVDs have a "feature" that prevents a DVD from being played on a British DVD player before the movie is shown in london theaters ( or at least the date they expect it to be shown there ).
There are many ways around this foolishness. Including simply buying your DVD at an American retail outlet and returning to your home country with it. ( most of the DVD players I have sean in homes came here this way ). You could also put a little chip in that defeats the system.
Of course these chips and other methods are hard to find and inconvenient to install ( at the very least ). While shopping in the US is reasonable for Mexicans and people in the Caribbean ( like me ) that is just a tiny slice of the world.
This DVD player / driver however is under the GPL which makes it eligible for inclusion in every Linux distribution with desktop ambitions. What exactly are they going to tell people when the cheapest way to add DVD to your life also gets around regional encoding by default ?
BTW : SuSE ( One of those desktop Linuxes ) already ships on a DVD disk.
The other one is that this is the only "play your DVD before time" thing that will be widely distributed. Think about it for a while. It's GPLed and it will eventualy be smoth, fast and acurate.
When you move from CPU to CPU there is a lot more at stake than just that. Basically what you have suggested is a Video driver written in something equivalent to Java.
I.e. It can be done but it's probably be slow. Better to make X source compatible across CPUs so the PPC, x86, Alpha etc... bins are separated by simply a "make all"
A console / terminal text editor that works like the more popular GUI based editors. For an example of what that means look at edit.com.
Pico, Joe and Jed are all nice and simple. All us Unix admins already know VI and most handle Emacs just fine. However the people who will supply the large user base that causes Hardware manufacturers to see Linux support as a survival issue don't.
There you have it. Boring work. Unwanted work. Yet still stuff that people want to get done. I don't program, however I can take on some of the even more boring none code jobs.
There are large bodies of code that do most of this already. I.e. 'mcedit' is around 90% there but it's wrapped up in 'mc' and as such runs from a huge binary. ( It would be nice if this thing fit on a rescue diskette ).
5. People are complaining about this being a wa to "use the/. community" and other such things.
This last part sucks big time. Sure it's probably true but you need to be responsible. If you make a threat of force with accompanying demands then once those demands are met the argument has essentially ended.
Now if only Deb would take a page out of Linus' book and start having more frequent final releases. You see outside of the Hacker community ( I.e. Debian developers and the authors of the many packages included with debian ) You don't use something unless it's a final "stable" release or is included with a distribution that is "final and stable".
So yes, by all means hack the code until it shines. Make sure it works well but pleas do it quickly. As long as all that's out there is a stable release that's many months old and a self professed incomplete "developer release" you are essentially demanding that everyone interested in Linux try out something else.
Finally there is the question of KDE and Debian. Sure Corel Linux == Debian + KDE + Corel stuff; but dose the real Debian consider KDE 2.0 free enough for distribution ?
For the uninitiated KDE 1.x is not part of the official Debian because it relies on an unfree QT. QT 2.x ( on which KDE 2.0 depends ) is free so what's the word ? Are you just waiting for technical stability and completeness before this is included ?
PS : KRASH didn't crash on me so a stable KDE 2.0 isn't such a distant thing.
A lot of people are going to object to this but what's so Innovative about Gnome ? I have sean it read the docs, dissected the specifications used and customized the interface to death ( literally ) and it still isn't a radical concept.
The whole "OSS is way to make software concept is of corse old news. Yes Miguel is a nice guy and frankly I think he should get a medal but not for innovation. This isn't even M$Inovative since it wasn't intended to hurt customers or competitors.
So how goes it between you and Alan Cox? Do you get along, do you talk as often as with Linus? Most of all when you visit England do you 2 go out into the sun and dance around ?
For those who don't get it the saying goes "Mad Dogs and Englishmen dance in the midday sun". Apparently there isn't soposed to be much difference between them.
I actually consider Q a better job than 00? agent.
Less violence. More technology. More luxurious deadlines. shorter commute. More comfortable cloths.
The only downside is that you need to recreate female company while _foo_ duty ( as opposed to when Bond dose it ).
Did I mention that I want to be 'Q' ? I have a thing for the technical genius in the background. Scotty or Laforge on Star Track and Forge in the X Men. You didn't think my name was original now ?
Of course he matters to us. 'Q' is the geak of the Bond mythology. Monepeny is the "pretty but prudish" secretary ( a nice enough role model from a moral perspective, for young girls ) and Bond himself is a civilized "Conan". ( think about that last one. It'll come to you:).
Q will be surely missed. I will be wearing a black arm band to see "The world is not enough" in memory of him. If anyone else cares to pay his/her respects in this way go right ahead.
The whole Bond thing is woven into Jamaican culture since Ian Fleming lived here when he wrote the early stories. At least 2 of the movies were set here ( in part ). "James Bond" ( the name ) was the author of a book on Caribbean birds. Mr. Fleming stole his name because "It was the most boring name I could find". He was more than a little surprised when at the opening of one of the 1st 007 flicks Mr. Bond walked up to him and introduced himself just like the goy in the movie. Except with ID to prove it.
Q. Of course was a key character in all of this. Without him, there would be no way to know before hand what kind of arsenal 007 carried and that would just make his antics seam a little lame.
In Japan kids play the same violent games that American kids play. The cartoons they watch are significantly worse however. Much Aneme isn't considered fit for young audiences in the US.
Japan has 1/100th the number of murders by children that occur in the US. They also have slightly more suicides. There is something more going on here than what you watch or play.
disclaimer: I can't recall the reference for these stats but perhaps some Japanese Slashdoter will care to inform us.
The limit of accidental action from a corporation is shipping a PC with the wrong amount of RAM. Anything this major is deliberate and premeditated.
Sun Wrote the SCSL. The license specifically allows them to do this. Why? Because at the time they created it they had this sort of thing in mind.
Any apology will therefore be insincere. Any attempt to pacify the Blackdown crew is just that. I don't trust any publickly traded corporation. Simply because the only thing keeping them out of the slave trade are a few old laws.
Trust licenses that protect your interests. Nothing more or less matters. Verbal communication doesn't matter. Promises just stink.
If Sun was sorry it would release the software under a free license and allow developers to own the work they do on it. Since they are not even considering that, we can assume they simply want to save face.
(BS Mode) VA will close the 1st day trading at $80 minimum. It will close the year at well over $200. Get in now and take out only your initial investment plus 10% next week.
Let the rest sit for at least 6 months. Next summer you will be rolling in dough so just send some this way. (/BS Mode)
Of course I don't know any of this and have no knowledge or interest in the stock market. I'm a hardware hacker and I failed accounting at high school.
Actually the IOC is considering what to do about mechanical enhancements. One American runner appeared in the last Olympics with a partially artificial nea joint. It didn't seam to have any significant effect on performance except that the natural parts they replaced were so badly damaged that the Athlete couldn't walk.
The question they are afraid to ask now is what happens when you take a perfectly healthy sprinter and use surgery to shut off the pain center in his brain then turn him loose in a middle distance event? What happens when you add micro motors and other mechanical advancements to legs? How exactly do you deal with a boxer who has a metal skeleton from the elbow down, including 10 LB steal fists ?
The possibilities are endless and the IOC needs to legislate this early. It is possible to make sensible laws before the technology is known too. I.e. You can't clone a racehorse. This was law before cloning of mammals was feasible. The regulation doesn't even use the word clone. Rather it says that "Natural mating between a male and female of the species is the only way to produce a hoarse". That's why retired Geldings are sold to the police or shot and fed to big cats at the zoo.
Perhaps, "You can't compete if you use any body parts that are not a natural human organ" ( It can be more restrictive if people do creative things with transplants. ). we could then have an event where the best compete regardless of surgery, steroids etc...
In the beginning was the Cinema and the Cinema owners fought TV tooth and nail. They lost and the little box INCREASE the earnings at the box office. Later someone came out with VCRs and they fought that for years. Most people don't know this but the movie people tried to push BETA not because of better video quality but because there was some copy protection in it at the time. They were beaten upside the head and forced to take our money.
The RIAA has the same problem. They absolutely hated cassette decks. They tried to have CDR drives banned. At each step up the technology ladder someone has to bruise them and force them to accept more money. One of these days we are just going to give up and let someone who is happy to have it get our money.
These goys love to sue and the hardly ever win. This is the reason there is such a glut of new lawyers and a drought of technicians and programers. Who wouldn't want a job where your boss just tosses money at you to go harass someone a little with no hope of doing any real damage, except to your deep pocketed boss ?
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Yells the computer store clerk when this things hit the street and regular SDRAM prices take another dive.
Ahh if only the new BMW would do _that_ to the Corolla I can *almost* afford.
I don't want one. This most defiantly doesn't Rock. In fact it sucks so hard I could use a Win modem and be less upset.
:)
Wait a minute, This is Slashdot ? You mean the place where people like me don't have to lie about our secret longings and perverted lusts ?
Gimy my MP3 watch NOW. GimyGimyGimy and I don't even care how many songs it holds
Companies are only able to enforce ergonomic rools at work by share brute force. I.e. They give you an ergonomic chair and you are fired if you trade it in for one you like. How dose this aply to a home environment ? At the very least they wold have to check your fixtures and fidle with stuff. It gets worse when you start dealing with People like Alan Cox who by definition canot work in a 'safe' environment. I.e. His home lab is a mess and must remain one for him to be eficent ( Eaven his 'old fasioned' wife puts up with it ). Never mind the fact that so many telecomuters are in diferent contries from the employers. Especialy in the Linux space ( Alan in britain and some samba person from Australia at RedHat and Linuxcare respectively ). Sory about the dislexia and the funny quotes. It's Forge on someone elses NT machine :(
Monitoring speed and faxing me a ticket may be OK. That already happens with those cameras on stop lights that photograph speeders and light breakers.
However I can think of a dozen reasons why a satellite slowing down my car against my will is insane. Just the other day I was in a car going 130 Mph at on a busy city street. Reckless driving perhaps but the lady in the back seat was in labor.
Is a satellite going to know or care about that ?
Here is the sequence of events. The guy started by shooting himself through the head with a fish gun The spear went in one ear and out the next ( literally ) and he was delivered to the hospital with this 4 foot steal rod about half way through his head.
:)
While he was in hospital "recovering" he was discovered missing from his bed and the nurse just managed to catch him on his way out the window.
He was tied to the bed after that which wouldn't have been a problem if he didn't keep trying to lodge food in his throat. I.e. He would swallow a piece of dumpling until it blocked his windpipe and then sit there and tried to pretend everything was fine until he started to turn blue.
And yes this really happened. I got it from the officer who investigated the case and the one who was stationed at his bedside. Too bad I don't know what became of him afterwards. Although 4 butched suicides in one day speaks volumes
Sorry for posting on my way out the door.
In more detail. DVDs have a "feature" that prevents a DVD from being played on a British DVD player before the movie is shown in london theaters ( or at least the date they expect it to be shown there ).
There are many ways around this foolishness. Including simply buying your DVD at an American retail outlet and returning to your home country with it. ( most of the DVD players I have sean in homes came here this way ). You could also put a little chip in that defeats the system.
Of course these chips and other methods are hard to find and inconvenient to install ( at the very least ). While shopping in the US is reasonable for Mexicans and people in the Caribbean ( like me ) that is just a tiny slice of the world.
This DVD player / driver however is under the GPL which makes it eligible for inclusion in every Linux distribution with desktop ambitions. What exactly are they going to tell people when the cheapest way to add DVD to your life also gets around regional encoding by default ?
BTW : SuSE ( One of those desktop Linuxes ) already ships on a DVD disk.
reasons for this suite.
The other one is that this is the only "play your
DVD before time" thing that will be widely
distributed. Think about it for a while. It's
GPLed and it will eventualy be smoth, fast and acurate.
When you move from CPU to CPU there is a lot more at stake than just that. Basically what you have suggested is a Video driver written in something equivalent to Java.
I.e. It can be done but it's probably be slow. Better to make X source compatible across CPUs so the PPC, x86, Alpha etc... bins are separated by simply a "make all"
A console / terminal text editor that works like the more popular GUI based editors. For an example of what that means look at edit.com.
Pico, Joe and Jed are all nice and simple. All us Unix admins already know VI and most handle Emacs just fine. However the people who will supply the large user base that causes Hardware manufacturers to see Linux support as a survival issue don't.
There you have it. Boring work. Unwanted work. Yet still stuff that people want to get done. I don't program, however I can take on some of the even more boring none code jobs.
There are large bodies of code that do most of this already. I.e. 'mcedit' is around 90% there but it's wrapped up in 'mc' and as such runs from a huge binary. ( It would be nice if this thing fit on a rescue diskette ).
1. They didn't allow us into the site.
/. community" and other such things.
2. We complained.
3. They promised a fix.
4. A fix was mad.
5. People are complaining about this being a wa to "use the
This last part sucks big time. Sure it's probably true but you need to be responsible. If you make a threat of force with accompanying demands then once those demands are met the argument has essentially ended.
Now if only Deb would take a page out of Linus' book and start having more frequent final releases. You see outside of the Hacker community ( I.e. Debian developers and the authors of the many packages included with debian ) You don't use something unless it's a final "stable" release or is included with a distribution that is "final and stable".
So yes, by all means hack the code until it shines. Make sure it works well but pleas do it quickly. As long as all that's out there is a stable release that's many months old and a self professed incomplete "developer release" you are essentially demanding that everyone interested in Linux try out something else.
Finally there is the question of KDE and Debian. Sure Corel Linux == Debian + KDE + Corel stuff; but dose the real Debian consider KDE 2.0 free enough for distribution ?
For the uninitiated KDE 1.x is not part of the official Debian because it relies on an unfree QT. QT 2.x ( on which KDE 2.0 depends ) is free so what's the word ? Are you just waiting for technical stability and completeness before this is included ?
PS : KRASH didn't crash on me so a stable KDE 2.0 isn't such a distant thing.
A lot of people are going to object to this but what's so Innovative about Gnome ? I have sean it read the docs, dissected the specifications used and customized the interface to death ( literally ) and it still isn't a radical concept.
The whole "OSS is way to make software concept is of corse old news. Yes Miguel is a nice guy and frankly I think he should get a medal but not for innovation. This isn't even M$Inovative since it wasn't intended to hurt customers or competitors.
So how goes it between you and Alan Cox? Do you get along, do you talk as often as with Linus? Most of all when you visit England do you 2 go out into the sun and dance around ?
For those who don't get it the saying goes "Mad Dogs and Englishmen dance in the midday sun". Apparently there isn't soposed to be much difference between them.
I actually consider Q a better job than 00? agent.
Less violence. More technology. More luxurious deadlines. shorter commute. More comfortable cloths.
The only downside is that you need to recreate female company while _foo_ duty ( as opposed to when Bond dose it ).
Did I mention that I want to be 'Q' ? I have a thing for the technical genius in the background. Scotty or Laforge on Star Track and Forge in the X Men. You didn't think my name was original now ?
Of course he matters to us. 'Q' is the geak of the Bond mythology. Monepeny is the "pretty but prudish" secretary ( a nice enough role model from a moral perspective, for young girls ) and Bond himself is a civilized "Conan". ( think about that last one. It'll come to you :).
Q will be surely missed. I will be wearing a black arm band to see "The world is not enough" in memory of him. If anyone else cares to pay his/her respects in this way go right ahead.
The whole Bond thing is woven into Jamaican culture since Ian Fleming lived here when he wrote the early stories. At least 2 of the movies were set here ( in part ). "James Bond" ( the name ) was the author of a book on Caribbean birds. Mr. Fleming stole his name because "It was the most boring name I could find". He was more than a little surprised when at the opening of one of the 1st 007 flicks Mr. Bond walked up to him and introduced himself just like the goy in the movie. Except with ID to prove it.
Q. Of course was a key character in all of this. Without him, there would be no way to know before hand what kind of arsenal 007 carried and that would just make his antics seam a little lame.
True, this insitance on honor also stops a lot
of the coruption and pety crime we see dayly.
I.e. In Japan if you rape a child the father
will kill you for doing this, then kill himself
for failing to prevent it.
The result ? Pedofiles are fearfull of angry
parents with nothing to luse.
In Japan kids play the same violent games that American kids play. The cartoons they watch are significantly worse however. Much Aneme isn't considered fit for young audiences in the US.
Japan has 1/100th the number of murders by children that occur in the US. They also have slightly more suicides. There is something more going on here than what you watch or play.
disclaimer: I can't recall the reference for these stats but perhaps some Japanese Slashdoter will care to inform us.
Imprise wold never have tuched Blackdown's code if they didn't nead it. Sending it to Sun for releas as some new JDK was an afterthoght.
:)
( after thinking about the money Sun offerd
note the word "part" ?
JBuilder works with, depends on and I think incorporates the JDK.
Roblimo, and the rest of the Slashdot crew, be careful to list them by name on any story that mentions Sun or Borland Java software on Linux.
The limit of accidental action from a corporation is shipping a PC with the wrong amount of RAM. Anything this major is deliberate and premeditated.
Sun Wrote the SCSL. The license specifically allows them to do this. Why? Because at the time they created it they had this sort of thing in mind.
Any apology will therefore be insincere. Any attempt to pacify the Blackdown crew is just that. I don't trust any publickly traded corporation. Simply because the only thing keeping them out of the slave trade are a few old laws.
Trust licenses that protect your interests. Nothing more or less matters. Verbal communication doesn't matter. Promises just stink.
If Sun was sorry it would release the software under a free license and allow developers to own the work they do on it. Since they are not even considering that, we can assume they simply want to save face.
Big deal.
I live around a mile from the national rehab center. I am on speaking terms with some of the members of Jamaica's Paralimic team.
:)
I wouldn't miss it for the world
Find the money and hand it over.
(--BS Mode == Bu**Sh*T mode --)
(BS Mode)
VA will close the 1st day trading at $80 minimum. It will close the year at well over $200. Get in now and take out only your initial investment plus 10% next week.
Let the rest sit for at least 6 months. Next summer you will be rolling in dough so just send some this way.
(/BS Mode)
Of course I don't know any of this and have no knowledge or interest in the stock market. I'm a hardware hacker and I failed accounting at high school.
Actually the IOC is considering what to do about mechanical enhancements. One American runner appeared in the last Olympics with a partially artificial nea joint. It didn't seam to have any significant effect on performance except that the natural parts they replaced were so badly damaged that the Athlete couldn't walk.
The question they are afraid to ask now is what happens when you take a perfectly healthy sprinter and use surgery to shut off the pain center in his brain then turn him loose in a middle distance event? What happens when you add micro motors and other mechanical advancements to legs? How exactly do you deal with a boxer who has a metal skeleton from the elbow down, including 10 LB steal fists ?
The possibilities are endless and the IOC needs to legislate this early. It is possible to make sensible laws before the technology is known too. I.e. You can't clone a racehorse. This was law before cloning of mammals was feasible. The regulation doesn't even use the word clone. Rather it says that "Natural mating between a male and female of the species is the only way to produce a hoarse". That's why retired Geldings are sold to the police or shot and fed to big cats at the zoo.
Perhaps, "You can't compete if you use any body parts that are not a natural human organ" ( It can be more restrictive if people do creative things with transplants. ). we could then have an event where the best compete regardless of surgery, steroids etc...
In the beginning was the Cinema and the Cinema owners fought TV tooth and nail. They lost and the little box INCREASE the earnings at the box office. Later someone came out with VCRs and they fought that for years. Most people don't know this but the movie people tried to push BETA not because of better video quality but because there was some copy protection in it at the time. They were beaten upside the head and forced to take our money.
The RIAA has the same problem. They absolutely hated cassette decks. They tried to have CDR drives banned. At each step up the technology ladder someone has to bruise them and force them to accept more money. One of these days we are just going to give up and let someone who is happy to have it get our money.
These goys love to sue and the hardly ever win. This is the reason there is such a glut of new lawyers and a drought of technicians and programers. Who wouldn't want a job where your boss just tosses money at you to go harass someone a little with no hope of doing any real damage, except to your deep pocketed boss ?
Never mind the high retainers.