While the man may bew a nice and educated guy and a readable Blogger, he's gotten way into serious bullshitting territory here. Shure the Java Overhead has lot's of SUV characteristics and is nearly pointless when you're doing projects on the scale of those he mentions for example, everybody knows that. But he obviously hasn't gone beyond anything more that larger content management with his thoughts. In big business, with 20+ *real* developers and serious OOP on a single project you'd get laughed at if you bring up this article.
When will the vendors finally learn it? CDs would still be a stable market if it weren't for CDRWs costing less than a set of coasters nowadays. You won't turn the weel back with copmetition just around the corner. If Intel should start getting truly pesky to customers with TCPA, this new gadget and anything else, AMD, VIA, Motorola and any other Vendor will rejoyce and push out CPUs and Architecture variants that don't have this crap.
Why don't Corporations just go back to good ol' quality products for a fair price to make money? That used to be a reliable way to do it after all. Sanely priced CDs with mp3s and oggs and mpeg videos included, along with interessting booklets should do magic to a declining market. But I guess they just want to sell crap for to much money and will use law enforcement to emphasis that and in the end really piss their customers of.
Klick on the 'don't send me information again' link at the bottom or respond to those viruswarnings.
BTW: Your just asking about getting spam to an Email address with actually doing the obvious and using the mails that that address recieves. Could it be that your bullshitting us?
Timothy, what ever you where smoking when you passed this 'Ask Slashdot' post, please don't ever offer me any of it.
They should emphasis with the Hardware. Sun is all about hardware actually. Ranting about Linux this way is silly and unprofessional. Solaris may rock on Sun hardware and may be more consitent than Linux. But the case is that in a market that is - believe it or not - dominated by an OS called Windows it's pointless to haggle over details. It's x86 that sucks and if Sun would manage to get Sparc architecture more widely used, accepeted and payable they'd actually stand a chance. Sparc is to x86 what Linux is to Dos5/Win3.1. Honestly, think about *anything* that *really* is a pain on PC Linux and you'll find it to be an x86 problem. The way Sun plays now, it's going more and more comoditiy hardware as usuall. We'll 'compensate' for Linux' 'unreliability' by clustering with boxen off the shelf of Wallmart and loadbalancing with software that you can get for free of the 'net in 5 minutes flat. And AMD and Intel will just keep churning the Ghz crank - and even make good money while doing so too. And in the end we're gonna all rember those times when there once was an architecture that you could hotswap CPUs with but had a management so full of it they died even before all the rest. It's a shame, 'cause I really would like to give Sparc a try one time. And believe me, if it's mainly Gnome/Solaris/JBoss or KDE/Linux/Zope or any other way - I really don't give a damn, as long as it is 'nix and I can get the stuff I use compiled. Coming to think of it, Sun actually could open source Solaris... But I guess the moon will crash into the pacific before that happens.
The Market is taking off anytime soon over here. I just had a 2 hour talk on the phone with one of the large players on the german internet bookmarket. One thing that everyone with knowlege of the material predicted shows clearly: The people are fed up with proprietary software inable to takle proprietary problems and won't take MS & co. any much longer. The market is clearly shifting to a much more service oriented one with OSS taking a lead in that area and Germany, as many thought would happend, is one of the first to adapt to that. I'm kinda glad I saw that coming 2 years ago. It's just like John 'Maddog' Hall said at the Keynote at Linuxtag this year: Software needs to be free, the solutions built with it need be proprietary.
I've done quite some web developement with lot's of stuff, including JSP, Zope/Python and PHP. I'Ve looked into CF and ASP.Crap and have heard all the MS Junkies doing verbal wee-wee in their pants over how so very sweet their new stuff is. After all these years I've had my perception of things confirmed day in and day out: The best existing webapp technology ever concieved to this very day is the Zope Application Server together with it's intergrated Object-Relational Database, it's PL Python and the SSI solution TAL (Template Attribute Language). It will take _everything__else_ in the industry something like 5 years at least to catch up. Apart from that, anything that strives to go the pure SSI approach with a separated DB eiher uses PHP or most certainly is crap. It's really that simple. I've evaluated CF (Nice dynamic flash with a poor mans PHP for 10000$. No thanks.) and ASP, finally moving into usable regions with.Net but still stomped to chunky kibbles by PHP and it's community. Both won't even come close. JSP is a nice substitute if you've got a Java Enviroment there allready. But then again, who would want one if you get allmost everthing (apart from maybe banking applications) ready or done faster in PHP. Bottom Line: If you've got a standalone Server for your project, use Zope and all the goodies that come with it. On the other hand, if Apache is a must, mod_php is present and/or you need a finished OSS solution *now* you use PHP. PHP has the largest dev-community, and for good reasons too. I really can't take CF or.Net zealots serious anymore.
Just by looking at those pointless desktop Icons and the crappy windowframes I get physically sick. Oh, yes, I'm just sooo sick of it all! When in Gods name will people learn that if you want to be usable thou shalt NOT ape windows. For heavens sake! And the guy who wrote the review doesn't seem to know squat about usability if he goes about mentioning XP and OS X in the same sentence.
The Java Desktop might be the most consitent one on Linux (I seriously doubt it thoug) but it shure as hell is NOT usable by modern standards those of which are NOT defined by MS but by people like the Enlightenment, Fluxbox or - when not aping crappy windows themselves - the KDE Application team. Don't get me wrong - Java is cool and a speedy Java GUI enviroment that blends into your Destop is even cooler - see OS X for what I mean. But this thing is a lame 'me too' excuse of a *nix Desktop. And this raving article about it all has so much bias it literally stinks.
...in the new economy that we strive to be the world's leading nation in IT and attempt doing so by using the most crappy american operating system we can lay hands on."--[can't remeber the german official who said that]
What d'ya expect? You've all watched Bowling for Columbine, haven't you? The USA has something like over 700 deaths due to guns a year! Fathom that for a second. And check out this game. It's so pointless, I can't take anyone for granted even looking at a sequel of GTA, and certainly not the 4th. No wonder a hormone polluted 16-year-old american goes nuts over playing it. And then this lawsuit. That's the real topping of it. It's got 'Bizzare US of A lawsystem (TM)' written all over it. Absolutely classic. LOL!
First of all, you forgot SAVAGE. A reference grade quality, high end Action FPS / Large Multiplayer RTS with state-of-the-art grafics, dripping with eye-candy. And they are the _very__first_ to come out with a client for Linux from the get go whilst officially making that their policy. So right away, go and buy that game and mail them how much you appriechiate them making a Linux game and how much you love to give them your money for it! They've even got a download purchase, so you can be playing in something like 20 minutes. Second of all: The transgaming people are heroes, no doubt, but something like 1 out of 30 mentionable games actually run. I won't buy any windowsgames any more, even *if* they are supported by tg and those where the first and last 30 bucks tg got from me. Sorry guys, Master of Orion 2 runs quite ok (the first 15 min.) but that's about it. No, really, it's better we rid this shoddy emulation stuff sooner than later and pay developers for making cool native Linuxgames. Whe can use them to await the time when Linux has conquered the desktop and gaming developement kicks in. Remember the Amiga days? Would've you thought that PCs would once be a gaming plattform? Me neither.
Bottom line: Quit whining. And if you're bored help the Boson team finish their promising project.
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"Can you raed tihs?" - Wnrog qteoisun, pal. Dsn'oet tihs look jsut lkie a sartandd Shdlasot aiclrte, olny wtih a llitte mroe tpoys tahn uausl? Aalctuly no. It jsut miniaants the uausl lveel, I'd lkie to say.
So, as to awensr yuor sluopeurfs qteoisun, aalctuly, yes, I can raed it. No plerobm.
Only works so in english and in full sentences.
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Speaking and reading english means pronouncing and reading entire words. In german or danish or such this wouldn't work half as good. For one, the words are longe and have more sylables. THe advantage though is that in german you know how to pronounce a written word even if you haven't heard it yet.
Allthough I do think context of sentence should make this trick somewhat possible in german too.
This is a thing for corporations. Private email-crypting will continue to suck big time until PGP/Mime and all that stuff become standard functions in KMail and Thunderbird and don't require some ominous compiling/installing of shoddy beta plugins or a five week full-time training in exim and mutt configuration.
While "o\/\/nZ0Rz" in this context has a little touch of humor to it I actually used it as an very short extremisation of "is better than" or a simular normal english term. The fact that you jumped to it actually proves that I was right in my choice of words for/.s audience, no?.:-)
I had a close look at post 3.0 KDE at the LinuxTag earlier this year. I'm still very much a windowmanager fan with E, Fluxbox and Windowmaker on my favorites list. But after I had a guy from the KDE booth show me all the stuff that I can change and activate to get KWin (KDEs WM) away from the default of emulating MS Windows crappines and closer to E/Windowmaker/Fluxbox usability features I thougt I'd give a pure KDE enviroment a chance on Debian Woody with KDE 3.1. It o\/\/nZ0Rz nearly every other desktop I've worked with. The conlusion is that with a proper setup there is no doubt what so ever that KDE kicks MS Windows up and down the street usability wise in every possible detail. It takes me about 30 seconds to get any Windows desktop user conviced that MS days as a monopoly are counted. Further on: Ralph Nolden showed previews of what brewing with the 3.2 version of KDevelop and some other goodies. Apart from built-in support of something like a dozen and more programming languages there is a lot of stuff that will cause me to migrate from 3.1 to 3.2 asap.
To me it's quite evident: If OSS is the hauting horde of MS executives sleepless nights, the current and future KDE is the chief Boogieman of them all.
The actuall real bug was taped into the book because it was an actual *real* bug. The Pun was intended back then aswell. The term debugging had been used earlier when debugging ENIAC (real bugs too) and finding unusual and nerving errors.
Now what exactly is going on over there? Ok, people, listen: This whole thing is starting to press a little to far. What exactly is going on in the U.S. that makes and let's SCO America raise all this stink? Free Speech? Free as in:"Say all the bullshit you like about anybody, even if it damages their reputation, and get away with it"? Your not serious, are you? Evident Lies that obstruct competing business _must_ be sanctioned somehow. No? If this were in Germany, they'd by sued blind by now and nickeld and dimed to death by temporal decrees and acompanied non-compliance-fees. Two of which are set allready (summing up to 500 000 Euro) and have shut SCO Germany up for good. Along with that would be something like a bazillion trials for 'commerce obstruction', 'copyright infringement' and whatnot cueing up on an hourly basis. As I gather there is something like the 'Boersenaufsicht' called 'SEC' in the US, no? Correct me if I'm wrong with that. Anyway, by now the Boersenaufsicht would be all over SCO like a polyester safary suit giving them a good 'up you'rs' from behind. Without Vaseline. Isn't there something 'The Land of the Free', 'God's own Country' or whatever you prefer to call it can do about this sorry excuse of a scandal? Momentarily you're giving of a sad impression, I'm sorry to say that.
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The Morse code is almost common knowledge, imho. It's a good basic skill and can be somewhat usefull if you can count on a substancial amount of people being able to morse. It's not to far fetched having people be able to morse at 5 wpm in order to get a HAM licence. And why would one want to lower the entry level for HAM? If someone really wants to do HAM, learning to morse won't be a barrier, but the requiements keeps the twits away from HAM and that probably maintains a good 'quality of service'. For the lack of a better word. It's just like Fido Net: People where required to give their real name and address and therefore noise and junk was/is *very* low on Fidonet.
Haven't tried Zope yet, eh?
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Mostly your right. Web apps suckage is huge due to incosequent MVC splitting, a bazillion architectures and just as much DBs that just cry for patchwork jobs and server overload, with an overhead that triples hardwarecost and all that. Yet there's one Appserver that outruns all them codebloat disadvantages: Zope. It's completely Python with 2 or 3 things in C (for speed). It's got an object-relational database built in and generally kicks VB.Net, ASP.Net C#.Net and the Java stuff up and down the street when it comes to speedy Inet developement. It's only since Zope that I consider Webapps a viable alternative to other solutions. Check it out, you'll see that they've addressed all the issues you rant about. (It's GPLd, of course. www.zope.org)
Relevant metadata and objectrelational datamodels are common by now, I think soon we'll have entire filesystems working that way. The Filetree is very insufficient for data, thats very true. Hans Reiser has some nice essays on this. Allthough I don't use his FS he's got some very valid points on the subject. I had the same problem for a website on all of what interests me and I tried to cope with it using a datamodel for the Zope Application Server (the current most sophisticated overall data tool imho). Yet some things I found very notable: The weight of metadata is mostly based on personal opinion, preferences and data amount. Take for instance 'Anime'. Im an artist but also a geek. Now is anime the art dept. or more the geek dept.? If I look into the news it would probably be 'modern/pop culture', if I look into a book about film history it would be in the 'asian' chapter. Or what about the windowmanager enlightenment? Is it 'computers / software / cool' or 'modern culture / avantgardistic / cyberpunk', after all I choose an own section for it based on that which makes E so distinct, its stylistic approach of the desktop. Or am I part of E devteam and therefore put it in 'computers / software / OS / Linux / programming'? If I have to differen't sections at the same level called 'OSes' and 'Programming' where does it go? A windowmanager is essential to an OS imho, and I only have one *nixbased OS that runs E. On the other hand it's one of my coding projects that work on E. So what now? You get the point.
What I do is outfit my data with as much metadata that is practical but organize the resulting data objects to my personal needs at the moment. RPGs may be in my folder 'work', for a ruleset or RPG site I'm working on, but it could be that it moves to 'Documents' (at the same level) once I'm finished or other stuff pushes RPGs of my 'work' scedule. If I can't weight data in a certain way it's either currently the center of my life, so I leave it in a very central place or it's so unimportant that it goes into the 'things, objects and stuff' folder.
Your talking about 'revolutionary' in the same post along with MSO and OOO? I don't get it. This Office package war I mean. The one between OOO and MS Office. I see no point in people getting all excited about OOO aping MS Office. Because for all I can tell MS Office sux as long as I can remember, and I don't mean crashes or crappy coding. For free word processing I'd say AbiWord is bareable. It's fast and has all the basics. MS Office and all the ones aping it on the other hand are bloated and have a usability that does nothing but suck naked snails through straws. They really do. The only package I'd actually dare give the attribute 'revolutionary' is Lotus Smart Suite. Let's face it friends: Compared to SmartSuite the other two Office packages are nothing but lame. Since AmiPro 3.1 Lotus has 0\/\/nZ0R3d the word processing game, and I can't see any other coming even near the current WordPro any time soon. SmartSuite is the only package I know that can actually cause standard office work to be fun. If Lotus SmartSuite would be available for Linux I wouldn't hesitate for a minute and buy it. It kinda hurts seeing Lotus Smart Suite getting shelled out for 30$ (CD only version) while MS can get away with charging 300$ and more for that crap that has - believe it or not - become a standard.
One Expert I heard of said that robots should actually pay taxes. Actually there should be a law that technology is due to the rise of cultural technique as a whole and the benefits of tech belong to all for large parts. And then figure this: Our Captialisim isn't real capitalisim. When I buy stuff I don't need myself and don't retail it right away it degrades in value. That goes for any goods in a capitalistic production market. Apples rot, Tech becomes obsolete, and information spreads and loses its value as it becomes common sense, a.s.f.. There is only one thing that doesn't follow the basic rules of capitalisim, thus causing all the trouble we're in that even Greenspan and Duisenberg can't fix alone. That product is money. Money is the only thing that gains value when I don't redistribute it. There is only 2 ways to deliberately stop this uncapitalistic money gain that's causing all the trouble: 1: Start a war and eventually degrade the old currency and make a new one (the usual, unvoluntarily way) or 2: Establish a law that applies negative interrests rates for resting money. Aka 'money-rot'. That would be true capitalisim and money would have a very stable value. And the allover amount of money wouldn't magically grow by leaps and bounds as it is doing now. It's basically what Keynes said and what the club of rome predicted 20 years ago. Where finished growing by now and need to adjust capitalisim back to a normal.
And it's only going to get uglier in the USA once the social security system goes bankrupt.
Errrr...you have a social security system? One that can go bankrupt?
Ok, let's not get into an arguement wether the U.S. social security system is really a social security system or just a sad and sorry excuse of one. But let me tell you one thing that's for shure: If *your* social security system goes broke, your definitley in deep shit.
If *our* social security system goes broke - and it currently *is* going broke - then it's just gonna make a big splash'n'wake-up call and make us all wet. But we will still have a chance to fix things. Hopefully.
Personal Note: I was stupid enough to renunciate my american citizenship to become a german citizen. In the end I'll probably think was lucky that I was that stupid.
If that is all it takes for you to call a site 'bad' or even 'worst site ever' you haven't seen websites man. I've seen websites so bad they violate the SALT 2 treaty against tactical nuclear weapons. This one is an original Micheangelo compared to those.
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While the man may bew a nice and educated guy and a readable Blogger, he's gotten way into serious bullshitting territory here. Shure the Java Overhead has lot's of SUV characteristics and is nearly pointless when you're doing projects on the scale of those he mentions for example, everybody knows that. But he obviously hasn't gone beyond anything more that larger content management with his thoughts. In big business, with 20+ *real* developers and serious OOP on a single project you'd get laughed at if you bring up this article.
When will the vendors finally learn it? CDs would still be a stable market if it weren't for CDRWs costing less than a set of coasters nowadays. You won't turn the weel back with copmetition just around the corner.
If Intel should start getting truly pesky to customers with TCPA, this new gadget and anything else, AMD, VIA, Motorola and any other Vendor will rejoyce and push out CPUs and Architecture variants that don't have this crap.
Why don't Corporations just go back to good ol' quality products for a fair price to make money? That used to be a reliable way to do it after all.
Sanely priced CDs with mp3s and oggs and mpeg videos included, along with interessting booklets should do magic to a declining market. But I guess they just want to sell crap for to much money and will use law enforcement to emphasis that and in the end really piss their customers of.
Klick on the 'don't send me information again' link at the bottom or respond to those viruswarnings.
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Your just asking about getting spam to an Email address with actually doing the obvious and using the mails that that address recieves. Could it be that your bullshitting us?
Timothy, what ever you where smoking when you passed this 'Ask Slashdot' post, please don't ever offer me any of it.
They should emphasis with the Hardware.
Sun is all about hardware actually. Ranting about Linux this way is silly and unprofessional.
Solaris may rock on Sun hardware and may be more consitent than Linux. But the case is that in a market that is - believe it or not - dominated by an OS called Windows it's pointless to haggle over details.
It's x86 that sucks and if Sun would manage to get Sparc architecture more widely used, accepeted and payable they'd actually stand a chance. Sparc is to x86 what Linux is to Dos5/Win3.1. Honestly, think about *anything* that *really* is a pain on PC Linux and you'll find it to be an x86 problem.
The way Sun plays now, it's going more and more comoditiy hardware as usuall. We'll 'compensate' for Linux' 'unreliability' by clustering with boxen off the shelf of Wallmart and loadbalancing with software that you can get for free of the 'net in 5 minutes flat. And AMD and Intel will just keep churning the Ghz crank - and even make good money while doing so too.
And in the end we're gonna all rember those times when there once was an architecture that you could hotswap CPUs with but had a management so full of it they died even before all the rest.
It's a shame, 'cause I really would like to give Sparc a try one time. And believe me, if it's mainly Gnome/Solaris/JBoss or KDE/Linux/Zope or any other way - I really don't give a damn, as long as it is 'nix and I can get the stuff I use compiled. Coming to think of it, Sun actually could open source Solaris... But I guess the moon will crash into the pacific before that happens.
I regard it as very impolite to spell federal states like this. I also don't call New York, Neu York as they did in 189X.
Actually it's a compliment. The name is used so often that the language has got an own one for it.
'Kalifornien' anyone? That's a real compliment.
'South Carolina' ? We don't have a german versino for that one. Or did I miss 'Sued Karolinien' in geography back then? LOL.
The Market is taking off anytime soon over here. I just had a 2 hour talk on the phone with one of the large players on the german internet bookmarket. One thing that everyone with knowlege of the material predicted shows clearly:
The people are fed up with proprietary software inable to takle proprietary problems and won't take MS & co. any much longer. The market is clearly shifting to a much more service oriented one with OSS taking a lead in that area and Germany, as many thought would happend, is one of the first to adapt to that. I'm kinda glad I saw that coming 2 years ago.
It's just like John 'Maddog' Hall said at the Keynote at Linuxtag this year: Software needs to be free, the solutions built with it need be proprietary.
I've done quite some web developement with lot's of stuff, including JSP, Zope/Python and PHP. I'Ve looked into CF and ASP.Crap and have heard all the MS Junkies doing verbal wee-wee in their pants over how so very sweet their new stuff is. .Net but still stomped to chunky kibbles by PHP and it's community. Both won't even come close. .Net zealots serious anymore.
After all these years I've had my perception of things confirmed day in and day out:
The best existing webapp technology ever concieved to this very day is the Zope Application Server together with it's intergrated Object-Relational Database, it's PL Python and the SSI solution TAL (Template Attribute Language). It will take _everything__else_ in the industry something like 5 years at least to catch up.
Apart from that, anything that strives to go the pure SSI approach with a separated DB eiher uses PHP or most certainly is crap. It's really that simple. I've evaluated CF (Nice dynamic flash with a poor mans PHP for 10000$. No thanks.) and ASP, finally moving into usable regions with
JSP is a nice substitute if you've got a Java Enviroment there allready. But then again, who would want one if you get allmost everthing (apart from maybe banking applications) ready or done faster in PHP.
Bottom Line: If you've got a standalone Server for your project, use Zope and all the goodies that come with it. On the other hand, if Apache is a must, mod_php is present and/or you need a finished OSS solution *now* you use PHP. PHP has the largest dev-community, and for good reasons too.
I really can't take CF or
Just by looking at those pointless desktop Icons and the crappy windowframes I get physically sick. Oh, yes, I'm just sooo sick of it all!
When in Gods name will people learn that if you want to be usable thou shalt NOT ape windows. For heavens sake!
And the guy who wrote the review doesn't seem to know squat about usability if he goes about mentioning XP and OS X in the same sentence.
The Java Desktop might be the most consitent one on Linux (I seriously doubt it thoug) but it shure as hell is NOT usable by modern standards those of which are NOT defined by MS but by people like the Enlightenment, Fluxbox or - when not aping crappy windows themselves - the KDE Application team.
Don't get me wrong - Java is cool and a speedy Java GUI enviroment that blends into your Destop is even cooler - see OS X for what I mean. But this thing is a lame 'me too' excuse of a *nix Desktop.
And this raving article about it all has so much bias it literally stinks.
...in the new economy that we strive to be the world's leading nation in IT and attempt doing so by using the most crappy american operating system we can lay hands on."--[can't remeber the german official who said that]
What d'ya expect?
You've all watched Bowling for Columbine, haven't you? The USA has something like over 700 deaths due to guns a year! Fathom that for a second.
And check out this game. It's so pointless, I can't take anyone for granted even looking at a sequel of GTA, and certainly not the 4th. No wonder a hormone polluted 16-year-old american goes nuts over playing it.
And then this lawsuit. That's the real topping of it. It's got 'Bizzare US of A lawsystem (TM)' written all over it.
Absolutely classic. LOL!
First of all, you forgot SAVAGE . A reference grade quality, high end Action FPS / Large Multiplayer RTS with state-of-the-art grafics, dripping with eye-candy. And they are the _very__first_ to come out with a client for Linux from the get go whilst officially making that their policy.
So right away, go and buy that game and mail them how much you appriechiate them making a Linux game and how much you love to give them your money for it! They've even got a download purchase, so you can be playing in something like 20 minutes.
Second of all: The transgaming people are heroes, no doubt, but something like 1 out of 30 mentionable games actually run. I won't buy any windowsgames any more, even *if* they are supported by tg and those where the first and last 30 bucks tg got from me. Sorry guys, Master of Orion 2 runs quite ok (the first 15 min.) but that's about it. No, really, it's better we rid this shoddy emulation stuff sooner than later and pay developers for making cool native Linuxgames. Whe can use them to await the time when Linux has conquered the desktop and gaming developement kicks in.
Remember the Amiga days? Would've you thought that PCs would once be a gaming plattform? Me neither.
Bottom line:
Quit whining. And if you're bored help the Boson team finish their promising project.
"Can you raed tihs?" - Wnrog qteoisun, pal.
Dsn'oet tihs look jsut lkie a sartandd Shdlasot aiclrte, olny wtih a llitte mroe tpoys tahn uausl?
Aalctuly no. It jsut miniaants the uausl lveel, I'd lkie to say.
So, as to awensr yuor sluopeurfs qteoisun, aalctuly, yes, I can raed it. No plerobm.
Speaking and reading english means pronouncing and reading entire words. In german or danish or such this wouldn't work half as good. For one, the words are longe and have more sylables. THe advantage though is that in german you know how to pronounce a written word even if you haven't heard it yet.
Allthough I do think context of sentence should make this trick somewhat possible in german too.
This is a thing for corporations. Private email-crypting will continue to suck big time until PGP/Mime and all that stuff become standard functions in KMail and Thunderbird and don't require some ominous compiling/installing of shoddy beta plugins or a five week full-time training in exim and mutt configuration.
While "o\/\/nZ0Rz" in this context has a little touch of humor to it I actually used it as an very short extremisation of "is better than" or a simular normal english term. /.s audience, no?. :-)
The fact that you jumped to it actually proves that I was right in my choice of words for
I had a close look at post 3.0 KDE at the LinuxTag earlier this year. I'm still very much a windowmanager fan with E, Fluxbox and Windowmaker on my favorites list. But after I had a guy from the KDE booth show me all the stuff that I can change and activate to get KWin (KDEs WM) away from the default of emulating MS Windows crappines and closer to E/Windowmaker/Fluxbox usability features I thougt I'd give a pure KDE enviroment a chance on Debian Woody with KDE 3.1. It o\/\/nZ0Rz nearly every other desktop I've worked with.
The conlusion is that with a proper setup there is no doubt what so ever that KDE kicks MS Windows up and down the street usability wise in every possible detail. It takes me about 30 seconds to get any Windows desktop user conviced that MS days as a monopoly are counted.
Further on: Ralph Nolden showed previews of what brewing with the 3.2 version of KDevelop and some other goodies. Apart from built-in support of something like a dozen and more programming languages there is a lot of stuff that will cause me to migrate from 3.1 to 3.2 asap.
To me it's quite evident: If OSS is the hauting horde of MS executives sleepless nights, the current and future KDE is the chief Boogieman of them all.
The actuall real bug was taped into the book because it was an actual *real* bug. The Pun was intended back then aswell. The term debugging had been used earlier when debugging ENIAC (real bugs too) and finding unusual and nerving errors.
Now what exactly is going on over there?
Ok, people, listen: This whole thing is starting to press a little to far. What exactly is going on in the U.S. that makes and let's SCO America raise all this stink? Free Speech? Free as in:"Say all the bullshit you like about anybody, even if it damages their reputation, and get away with it"? Your not serious, are you? Evident Lies that obstruct competing business _must_ be sanctioned somehow. No?
If this were in Germany, they'd by sued blind by now and nickeld and dimed to death by temporal decrees and acompanied non-compliance-fees. Two of which are set allready (summing up to 500 000 Euro) and have shut SCO Germany up for good. Along with that would be something like a bazillion trials for 'commerce obstruction', 'copyright infringement' and whatnot cueing up on an hourly basis.
As I gather there is something like the 'Boersenaufsicht' called 'SEC' in the US, no? Correct me if I'm wrong with that. Anyway, by now the Boersenaufsicht would be all over SCO like a polyester safary suit giving them a good 'up you'rs' from behind. Without Vaseline.
Isn't there something 'The Land of the Free', 'God's own Country' or whatever you prefer to call it can do about this sorry excuse of a scandal? Momentarily you're giving of a sad impression, I'm sorry to say that.
(this is a modfied repost of a comment on an earlier meta-article)
The Morse code is almost common knowledge, imho. It's a good basic skill and can be somewhat usefull if you can count on a substancial amount of people being able to morse. It's not to far fetched having people be able to morse at 5 wpm in order to get a HAM licence.
And why would one want to lower the entry level for HAM? If someone really wants to do HAM, learning to morse won't be a barrier, but the requiements keeps the twits away from HAM and that probably maintains a good 'quality of service'. For the lack of a better word. It's just like Fido Net: People where required to give their real name and address and therefore noise and junk was/is *very* low on Fidonet.
Mostly your right.
Web apps suckage is huge due to incosequent MVC splitting, a bazillion architectures and just as much DBs that just cry for patchwork jobs and server overload, with an overhead that triples hardwarecost and all that.
Yet there's one Appserver that outruns all them codebloat disadvantages: Zope.
It's completely Python with 2 or 3 things in C (for speed). It's got an object-relational database built in and generally kicks VB.Net, ASP.Net C#.Net and the Java stuff up and down the street when it comes to speedy Inet developement. It's only since Zope that I consider Webapps a viable alternative to other solutions. Check it out, you'll see that they've addressed all the issues you rant about. (It's GPLd, of course. www.zope.org)
Relevant metadata and objectrelational datamodels are common by now, I think soon we'll have entire filesystems working that way. The Filetree is very insufficient for data, thats very true. Hans Reiser has some nice essays on this. Allthough I don't use his FS he's got some very valid points on the subject.
I had the same problem for a website on all of what interests me and I tried to cope with it using a datamodel for the Zope Application Server (the current most sophisticated overall data tool imho). Yet some things I found very notable:
The weight of metadata is mostly based on personal opinion, preferences and data amount.
Take for instance 'Anime'.
Im an artist but also a geek. Now is anime the art dept. or more the geek dept.? If I look into the news it would probably be 'modern/pop culture', if I look into a book about film history it would be in the 'asian' chapter.
Or what about the windowmanager enlightenment? Is it 'computers / software / cool' or 'modern culture / avantgardistic / cyberpunk', after all I choose an own section for it based on that which makes E so distinct, its stylistic approach of the desktop. Or am I part of E devteam and therefore put it in 'computers / software / OS / Linux / programming'? If I have to differen't sections at the same level called 'OSes' and 'Programming' where does it go? A windowmanager is essential to an OS imho, and I only have one *nixbased OS that runs E. On the other hand it's one of my coding projects that work on E. So what now? You get the point.
What I do is outfit my data with as much metadata that is practical but organize the resulting data objects to my personal needs at the moment.
RPGs may be in my folder 'work', for a ruleset or RPG site I'm working on, but it could be that it moves to 'Documents' (at the same level) once I'm finished or other stuff pushes RPGs of my 'work' scedule. If I can't weight data in a certain way it's either currently the center of my life, so I leave it in a very central place or it's so unimportant that it goes into the 'things, objects and stuff' folder.
Your talking about 'revolutionary' in the same post along with MSO and OOO?
I don't get it. This Office package war I mean. The one between OOO and MS Office. I see no point in people getting all excited about OOO aping MS Office. Because for all I can tell MS Office sux as long as I can remember, and I don't mean crashes or crappy coding.
For free word processing I'd say AbiWord is bareable. It's fast and has all the basics. MS Office and all the ones aping it on the other hand are bloated and have a usability that does nothing but suck naked snails through straws. They really do.
The only package I'd actually dare give the attribute 'revolutionary' is Lotus Smart Suite.
Let's face it friends: Compared to SmartSuite the other two Office packages are nothing but lame. Since AmiPro 3.1 Lotus has 0\/\/nZ0R3d the word processing game, and I can't see any other coming even near the current WordPro any time soon. SmartSuite is the only package I know that can actually cause standard office work to be fun.
If Lotus SmartSuite would be available for Linux I wouldn't hesitate for a minute and buy it. It kinda hurts seeing Lotus Smart Suite getting shelled out for 30$ (CD only version) while MS can get away with charging 300$ and more for that crap that has - believe it or not - become a standard.
One Expert I heard of said that robots should actually pay taxes.
Actually there should be a law that technology is due to the rise of cultural technique as a whole and the benefits of tech belong to all for large parts.
And then figure this:
Our Captialisim isn't real capitalisim. When I buy stuff I don't need myself and don't retail it right away it degrades in value. That goes for any goods in a capitalistic production market. Apples rot, Tech becomes obsolete, and information spreads and loses its value as it becomes common sense, a.s.f..
There is only one thing that doesn't follow the basic rules of capitalisim, thus causing all the trouble we're in that even Greenspan and Duisenberg can't fix alone.
That product is money. Money is the only thing that gains value when I don't redistribute it. There is only 2 ways to deliberately stop this uncapitalistic money gain that's causing all the trouble:
1: Start a war and eventually degrade the old currency and make a new one (the usual, unvoluntarily way)
or
2: Establish a law that applies negative interrests rates for resting money. Aka 'money-rot'.
That would be true capitalisim and money would have a very stable value. And the allover amount of money wouldn't magically grow by leaps and bounds as it is doing now.
It's basically what Keynes said and what the club of rome predicted 20 years ago. Where finished growing by now and need to adjust capitalisim back to a normal.
And it's only going to get uglier in the USA once the social security system goes bankrupt.
Errrr...you have a social security system? One that can go bankrupt?
Ok, let's not get into an arguement wether the U.S. social security system is really a social security system or just a sad and sorry excuse of one. But let me tell you one thing that's for shure: If *your* social security system goes broke, your definitley in deep shit.
If *our* social security system goes broke - and it currently *is* going broke - then it's just gonna make a big splash'n'wake-up call and make us all wet. But we will still have a chance to fix things. Hopefully.
Personal Note: I was stupid enough to renunciate my american citizenship to become a german citizen. In the end I'll probably think was lucky that I was that stupid.
If that is all it takes for you to call a site 'bad' or even 'worst site ever' you haven't seen websites man.
I've seen websites so bad they violate the SALT 2 treaty against tactical nuclear weapons.
This one is an original Micheangelo compared to those.