Measuring the importance and 'size' of a project in 'lines of code' is so silly that I have a hard time reading past paragraph 1 and taking that call for help for granted. Do yourself a favour and cut the bullshit and go right to the facts. If you want help for your baby you should be a little more modest on that part. I'd say OSS developers know very well for themselves what projects are 'big' and 'important'. Just my 2 Eurocents. Good luck.
What's this? GnuCash is something like the Gimp of Accounting, no? Well, check this out: Gimp isn't that good either and I'd guess spare time OOS programmers are even less into Accounting than they have affinity with Pixelgrafix. On top of that, from what I've heard - this is only hear and say no real first hand data on my part so correct me if I'm wrong - the whole GnuCash thing has some downsides. User and developer wise. It's accient in terms of softwaretechnology, it's one weedy mess of homegrown APIs with a little helding of oldskool-supergeek Scheme on top. (smartass)Yeah, great.(/smartass). It has something like 60 dependencies - so I've heard - and thus I won't dare 'apt-get install gnucash' to test it lest my HDD be flooded with something of 50 MB of 'libgnucash-grmblfrk.1.43.32-34.43.so.3.4.2.1' and so forth. Especially (here it comes) not if it is *not* cream of the crops in accounting and doesn't do anything that I can't do better with scalc, a handfull of scripts and a my bank's webinterface. I'll probably even be faster into real timesaveing money/tax fuss automation. Or at least I'll gain skill in scalc and scripting that I'll be able to use somewhere else to.
On the other hand it's a project, damn it. Not more and not less. And if it's worth it's cake as an OSS project and still is manageble it will live. Not as fast and furious as supersexy KDE Karamba - hey, it's a goddamn accounting(!!) programm:-) - but it will remain to be known as the Gimp of accounting. Maybe a refactoring into C++/Qt/KDE is a feasable solution to developement problems just now? Dunno...
1. Fonts (rendering and management) Need I say more? Between Motix, QT, Mozilla, GTK and an extra Corel Draw and Wine and all that I'd say there's something between 4 and 7 subsystems responible for Fonts on my Desktop just now. If they where understandable and would follow the same or simular setup guidelines and maybe even have the same fontdirectories and naming conventions and thus be controlable I could live with it. But haven't met *anybody* who could atually grasp what's going on with all that font stuff on Linux. And after 1 and a half years I myself have given up.
2. Copy and Paste (not following the X architecture) The way Linux + Desktop applications handle copy and paste sux big time. And that's mostly due to everybody and everything having it's own approach. XFree's clipboard is very good but hardly used. KDE has it's own, which happens to mix the flaws of X with those of Windows, Gnome probably has it's own, then there's those Java Apps that need hand tweeking for a usable Clipboard integration...it's all just like that font stuff: It basically sux.
These are the two things that I'd like to see improved. I'd like to pitch in myself but I wouldn't know how and where to start.
The solution is simple: charge money. Lot's of people do this and make a very good living. They've even stopped mentioning Linux as a prime component of their software because people (here in germany) allready know that Linux is free. But if you look at products like icoya or powerslave, both wich are based almost entirely on free software then you'll see the following: Consitent redos of branding, a little company of people who support their stuff and prices up to 15000$. And a team of highly motivated marketing folks. All for a bundle of OSS with some gluecode and a function extra here and there. And the people are happy to pay and have a good feeling, 'cause sharepoint portal server comes at something like 10 times the amount of money. With less functionality.
Ok, I get that there are 'doze enviroments. Worked in them myself. And I also get that there are people who are starting to get anoyed about the suckage potential Windows comes up with on a regular basis. So was I. I also very much understand *nix n00bs being offended by the somewhat impolite behaviour of *nix-geeks, just like I have no tolerance what-so-ever against die-hard Outlook fullquote posters and the likes.
But *for once* lets please get this strait: Windows is NOT, I repeat: IS NOT the bar for desktop usability. It's, at best, the bar for good marketing.
And the worst thing OSS can do is do nothing but ape the crappyness of Windows usability and workflow the way, for instance, KDE did and, to an extent, still does. If there is any OS out their who's users would have a point in saying: I trade workflow flexability over true easyness of the GUI concept, then it's the Mac users. Now for the integration into Networks: The one OS that was just plain evil for the longest time when it comes to networking was, right, Windows. Windows ignored and still ignores standards a dime a dozen and simply won't play ball when it comes to serious network integration. Where's the built in NFS for instance? Anyway, what I'm going for is this: If there is anyone in the corporate world wanting to take advantages of *nix in a doze enviroment the last thing they should pick at is the fact that it doesn't go so well with 'doze You may get picky with me when a complete *nix network doensn't play as well as a complete 'doze network. Or if a 'nix Network doesn't have the enduser usability that a 'dove enviroment has. But frankly: That will never happen. Because by now, having reached desktop parity in the standard apps dept.(OOffice, Mozilla and all that), *nix kicks M$ up and down the street usabiltiy wise. Like I've pointed out earlyer. If someone what's compatabilty with M$ they should ask them. After all, it's them not following common opend standards.
Bottom line: If you like it or not, get used to the fact that M$ isn't going to be a monpoly anymore. Never again. No matter how hard they try. Welcome to real competition, pal.
Mr. Gates said the company was considering the possibility of charging for some of its software updates that are now made available free over the Internet.
This hits the spot right on. Pure and simple. You know, I really have been expecting *nix/OSS to grab Mickeysoft by the balls when time arives, and just about everything I've predicted in the last 5 years has happend. I actually allways was convinced that eventually M$ would have to drop it's strong focus on Inhouse-Software only (thus XBox). And I still am. By time M$ will have to change it's strategies as a whole and will have to accept leveraged competition. But with DRM, TCPA and all the rest falling into place and M$ charging for updates that until now where always taken for granted M$ could actually manage to switch their entire revenue generating line to a subscribtion based service in the end. Something I though Red Hat and SuSE where allready way ahead in. If this Nerd with the screechy voice actually manages to pull that stunt and keep subtantial ground against OSS in the longer future he's gonna earn himself my respect. He may be the Boogeyman of every Softwarehouse in the world but if he can stand his ground with this one he'll be Über-Gates.
But then again, I don't think that will happen. Not if I can prevent it, anyway. No f*ckin' way, man. You may be tough but we're a million and more and we can't go broke. Never. DO YOU HEAR ME, MICKEY$OFT?
Timothy, the book may be good...
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...but your review doesn't deserve to be called one and, I'm really sorry about that, is *so* crappy it sounds like this book is something like a Clive Cussler rippoff for morons. This is your first review, ok, but check and see... 1.)...if reviews actually are your trade 2.)...that if they are, you substancially improve your skills on them before attempting your second one. Your stuff usually is good, timothy, but this review is extraordinaryly shoddy. Sorry to have to say that.
I'm actually starting to consider this whole thing cheap publicity for Linux. After all, here in germany SCO has been court-ordered to either put up or shut up (or pay 500000$ in bullshitting-fees). Since I'm trying to earn a living with Linux I've layed out some gritty remarks on the case that I can deal out whenever somebody comes up with the issue. Since I even had all the SCO Linux marketing stuff coming at me (yes, I *do* feel a little silly) I can even show of SCO United Linux disks and tell the people that SCO was crazy enough to ask 700$ for them after a 30 days 'testing' period. Anybody with more than 2 braincells knows whats cooking when they find out that SCO couldn't gain ground with overpriced United Linux packages and has messurable stock value gain since they started this campaign.
Yosemite National Park - you will NEVER forget it. It's so overwelming I get goosepimples even now allthough its something like 20 years ago I was there. El Capitan at sunset is a sight that's near to breathtakingly beautyfull.
The greater San Diego area
Joshua Tree (it rocks! (pun intended))
fill in a Silicon Valley there if you must, but it's basically just a large sprawl by now
A hike through the Rockies
I like Seatle as a northern town of the US
Boulder
New Mexiko
Route 66 (don't forget the pig side sandwich (it's actually patented!:-) ))
I have a whole bunch of friends in the IT industry all going fat. I'm a little better off because im only in the IT mill for a few years having studied stage dance before:-). Stage dancers, especially ballet dancers are the people with the least body fat ratio. Now, especially with my wife into really good cooking, I often notice that I eat beyond my appetite. I'm absolutely shure that people who become fat in 'sitting jobs' have the same problem. Far to often do they eat beyond their appetite, be it due to frustration or just bad habit. Whenever I notice that I have to widen my belt by a hole I simply eat less. Period. I switch from a 3 course meal to Ramen and Broth. I don't eat 2 buns with peanutbutter and chocolate in the morining, I eat one. I don't take 3 balls of Icecream I take 1 and so forth. I do this for 3 weeks and then I'm down to ideal weight again. The problem overweight people often have is that they then tend to be disturbed by the slightest notion of not feeling absolutely fed up and allways have to think about eating. They often also eat because it's dinner time and not because their really hungry. The best way to handle this is to learn not to center your life around eating. I actually had times when I wouldn't eat for a day or two simply because I was so occupied with other things that are far more interresting. It's really strange when you get really *hungry* (when the last time you're been really *HUNGRY*?) at 11o'clock at night and then come to notice that your last food is 36 hrs away:-). I also can get very anoyed at my wife when she thinks I *must* eat because it's dinnertime. Bottom Line: Apart from other things I'd suggest that have been mentioned allready (check out the Aikido posting further down, it's right on!) the solution for tendency to overweight is so simple it hurts: If you're gaining weight simply switch your diet and/or eat less.
I mean after interviewing 100 designers *my* voice would go hoarse. I suppose professional interviewers are a bit better. But 970 designers? Gee, my, that must be a long month of chittychat if you do an average of 30-40 interviews a day.
"Microsoft will take some considerable encouragement at the number of sites that have switched from Linux," NetCraft said in the report.
But the server arena isn't really the one to watch how Microsoft reacts to Linux, said Cherry.
"People are underestimating Linux on the desktop," he said. "They think it's all about the servers, and how Microsoft responds there. They're going to be surprised at how quickly Linux's threat will be an issue on the desktop. Linux will get to be 'just good enough' for the desktop faster than people think."
Maybe that will make Microsoft bump Linux to the top of its risk list.
This is what I've been saying since I first saw screenshots of Enlightenment back in 1998. The moment I, sitting in Front of Windows95 and some ancient Explorer, saw this, I knew M$ would lose in the end. Software wins by widespread use. Widespread use is achieved by public awareness. And, believe me, public awareness is *not* achieved on servers, no matter how much the difference is. Public awareness is achieved on the Desktop. That's the bottom line. Having seen previews of KDE 3.2 at the LinuxTag I conclude: Not only has GNU + Linux gained momentum but it is close to reaching critical mass.
That wasn't 10% in english. That was much more. A lot put up with a serious effort to speak english despite 80% of the people being german. You may have noticed that the event is called "LinuxTag" (german for "Linux Day") and actually took place in germany. *nudge*nudge*
Did *you* go up to the ones that nearly broke their tongue speaking 90 min. in english and thank them for it?
BTW: I'm shure that allmost everybody was able and willing to answer your specific questions after a speach in english, even if the speech was given in german. And BTW again: That one Python speech was so difficult to understand, you wouldn't want to have heard it english, trust me.:-)
3Labs have been bragging about being top-notch amongst the cream of the crop of 3D hardware since the begining of time. And while their Wildcat series often shure kicked FireGL and others up and down the street performance wise, it was *allways* "Windows only". And nothing *but* Windows only. In fact 3DLabs and their Wildcats are among the very *last* to join the *nix crowd in terms of driver support for professional 3D. The FireGLs have had drivers form ages (in the 3D world that is) and just plain *everybody* and his freakin* brother has ported their 3D apps to *nix years ago.
Gees, 3DLabs, we might even get to actually be able to see your oh so superb performance. But believe me, Nvidia and their Quadro and other pro series have major credit with the *nix folk. They will have to prove their serious before people will actually take the time to check out their stuff.
Personally I think this is a very good sign for Linux. 3Labs are one of the most conservative 3D hardware vendors and even them adding Linux to their list means really good news.
I'd actually somewhat define 'fair use' by wether it hurts the market or not. No?
I actually consider this a somewhat wise decision. One of the prime examples that we luckyly have got judges to once in a while correct the crap from politicians and juristical bullies we have to put up with. I understand for instance that the DMCA contradicts with elemental parts of the american constitution and that not over long one judge or other will rule the DMCA not applicable in a case where some poor guy is about to be sued blind by some megacorporation.
Ok, ok, hear me out! PS kicks every other Pixelprogramm up and down the street. I get that. But what with the rest? We've got Cinelerra for free (beer, speech and all), we've got Pinnacle who recently bought Fast, a kick ass high end Video Tool company and are now shedding their technology in bundles in every Walmart alongside realtime NLE cards for a dime-a-dozen. And we got Apple who's new Final Cut Pro apears to be kicking the living crap out of Premiere. So I heard from my former Video NLE Teacher the other day who'd wee-wee in his pants whilst raving about the superdooper Premiere just 3 years ago when he tought us.
From what it looks like to me with every software company in the vector/pixel, video and 3D business struggling for life and the cheap ones getting cheaper or even being bought by hardware vendors and Gimp pushing the GPL-freeness envelope on the Pixelside and Sodipodi giving Freehand, Illustrator and CorelDraw the GPL creeps, it seems these companys like Macromedia *and* Adobe aswell would be better of finding new fields of business *fast*.
Software Agents / Content Syndication 'bots Web/Internet Application Server (Zope) 3D (me: Blender, ILM for Maya and others)
I've used Python on various things one of the more abitious being, well, actually Text Processing:-). In the wider term that is. A Software Agent for scanning and retrieving certain information from different Inet Sources - a very serial process that's hard to 'objectivise'. Python did/does a great job at keeping things overseeable.
Zope is the other area I use Python in. Zope I consider the most sophsticated Application Server avaiable. It's GPLd of course:-) (www.zope.org)
Just as with me Python is very popular within the 3D Field. ILM use it as their prime scripting language and I like Blenders built in Python controlled/based realtime engine.
What are its strengths and its weaknesses? Shurely it's tab-based delimiting of blocks ('whitespace syntax') is a big feature. I can be shure to be able to read *any* code from anybody who did it in Python instantly. Think of how teamwork improves (especially in extreme programming) when bad indentation means your code is broken! Python is completely GPLd, which means a lot to me and overall futuresafety of a PL. That's why I don't feel so good about Java (allthough I like it too in a way) Python is very easy to learn. "Perl is executable line noise, Python is executable pseudocode" actually sums that one up. The only *weakness* that comes to mind is that it's a younger language. But it's catching up rapidly in terms of breadth and width of the 'lib' availability - also due to Python being completely GPLd!
Why is it worth learning another programming language? It's actually one of the most modern and sophisticated. I realizes what developers theorized as ideal some 20 years ago. The obligatory famous quote: |||We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might become feasible for expressing local structure in the source language - Donald E. Knuth,1974||| Oh, and, yet again, it's GPLd all the way through. Want a better PL? Use Python.
I have a stack of Perlbooks since something like 3 years ago and haven't gotten around to studying them thouroughly. Now that I've done some stuff in Python I actually think I'll never will. Everything that Perl can do Python can do better by now. Unless you're used to Unix CLI and syntax quirks Python will get you farther in a shorter period of time - and you'll be able to read your code in a year from now. Allthough the anual Perl obfuscation contest actually can be somewhat funny.:-)
I worked with SMIL on some Multimedia and E-learning projects. And I must say: Allthough Realplayer looks like someone did doo-doo on your screen and their interpolation algorithms and scaling was really crappy back then (and Flash ruled everywhere) the actuall intention and scope of this language is somewhat sophisticated. It goes from simple Text and Hyperlinks all the way thourgh to serious layering and Video output. I'd actually trust SMIL to become the 'ogg' of multimedia data and Realplay with their opening Helix initiative seem determined to actually doing something usefull to the OSS community. Let's hope it turns out well.
Professional racing *PREVENTS* bike-innovation!
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It's the lobby of Framebuilders that prevented bikes built like this one or this one from being permitted to the Tour de France and other major events. Actually they lobbied to change the rules to prohibit these modern bicycles which literaly kick the living crap out of the old 'hunchback' designs.
Talking about innovation and using all kinds of supermodern material may sound oh so cool and hip. But after more than 10 years after the first professional Windcheetahs still...
1.) riding in a postion that's not only seriously unhealthy,...
2.) grossly inefective in bringing your legpower to the street and into your movement,...
3.) gives you the aerodynamics of a frigerator box,...
4.) is near to unbearably uncomfortable...
5.) and looks somewhat silly... ...causes me serious problems taking *any* hunchback riding those ancient-style, so-called 'racingbikes' serious and for granted. No matter how flashy they look in their silly candycolored trunks. On the contrary.
The promoters and sponsors of the Tour de France and other races ought to be boykotted completely for their outright childish kiddiecrap traditionalisim. Sports technology? My ass. If you want innovation, go check the newest sneakers, but don't ask bike-racers.
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Measuring the importance and 'size' of a project in 'lines of code' is so silly that I have a hard time reading past paragraph 1 and taking that call for help for granted.
Do yourself a favour and cut the bullshit and go right to the facts. If you want help for your baby you should be a little more modest on that part. I'd say OSS developers know very well for themselves what projects are 'big' and 'important'.
Just my 2 Eurocents. Good luck.
What's this?
:-) - but it will remain to be known as the Gimp of accounting. Maybe a refactoring into C++/Qt/KDE is a feasable solution to developement problems just now? Dunno...
GnuCash is something like the Gimp of Accounting, no? Well, check this out: Gimp isn't that good either and I'd guess spare time OOS programmers are even less into Accounting than they have affinity with Pixelgrafix. On top of that, from what I've heard - this is only hear and say no real first hand data on my part so correct me if I'm wrong - the whole GnuCash thing has some downsides. User and developer wise.
It's accient in terms of softwaretechnology, it's one weedy mess of homegrown APIs with a little helding of oldskool-supergeek Scheme on top. (smartass)Yeah, great.(/smartass). It has something like 60 dependencies - so I've heard - and thus I won't dare 'apt-get install gnucash' to test it lest my HDD be flooded with something of 50 MB of 'libgnucash-grmblfrk.1.43.32-34.43.so.3.4.2.1' and so forth. Especially (here it comes) not if it is *not* cream of the crops in accounting and doesn't do anything that I can't do better with scalc, a handfull of scripts and a my bank's webinterface. I'll probably even be faster into real timesaveing money/tax fuss automation. Or at least I'll gain skill in scalc and scripting that I'll be able to use somewhere else to.
On the other hand it's a project, damn it. Not more and not less. And if it's worth it's cake as an OSS project and still is manageble it will live. Not as fast and furious as supersexy KDE Karamba - hey, it's a goddamn accounting(!!) programm
1. Fonts (rendering and management)
Need I say more? Between Motix, QT, Mozilla, GTK and an extra Corel Draw and Wine and all that I'd say there's something between 4 and 7 subsystems responible for Fonts on my Desktop just now. If they where understandable and would follow the same or simular setup guidelines and maybe even have the same fontdirectories and naming conventions and thus be controlable I could live with it. But haven't met *anybody* who could atually grasp what's going on with all that font stuff on Linux. And after 1 and a half years I myself have given up.
2. Copy and Paste (not following the X architecture)
The way Linux + Desktop applications handle copy and paste sux big time. And that's mostly due to everybody and everything having it's own approach. XFree's clipboard is very good but hardly used. KDE has it's own, which happens to mix the flaws of X with those of Windows, Gnome probably has it's own, then there's those Java Apps that need hand tweeking for a usable Clipboard integration...it's all just like that font stuff: It basically sux.
These are the two things that I'd like to see improved. I'd like to pitch in myself but I wouldn't know how and where to start.
The solution is simple: charge money. Lot's of people do this and make a very good living. They've even stopped mentioning Linux as a prime component of their software because people (here in germany) allready know that Linux is free. But if you look at products like icoya or powerslave, both wich are based almost entirely on free software then you'll see the following: Consitent redos of branding, a little company of people who support their stuff and prices up to 15000$. And a team of highly motivated marketing folks. All for a bundle of OSS with some gluecode and a function extra here and there.
And the people are happy to pay and have a good feeling, 'cause sharepoint portal server comes at something like 10 times the amount of money. With less functionality.
Ok, I get that there are 'doze enviroments. Worked in them myself. And I also get that there are people who are starting to get anoyed about the suckage potential Windows comes up with on a regular basis. So was I.
I also very much understand *nix n00bs being offended by the somewhat impolite behaviour of *nix-geeks, just like I have no tolerance what-so-ever against die-hard Outlook fullquote posters and the likes.
But *for once* lets please get this strait:
Windows is NOT , I repeat: IS NOT the bar for desktop usability. It's, at best, the bar for good marketing.
And the worst thing OSS can do is do nothing but ape the crappyness of Windows usability and workflow the way, for instance, KDE did and, to an extent, still does. If there is any OS out their who's users would have a point in saying: I trade workflow flexability over true easyness of the GUI concept, then it's the Mac users.
Now for the integration into Networks: The one OS that was just plain evil for the longest time when it comes to networking was, right, Windows. Windows ignored and still ignores standards a dime a dozen and simply won't play ball when it comes to serious network integration. Where's the built in NFS for instance?
Anyway, what I'm going for is this: If there is anyone in the corporate world wanting to take advantages of *nix in a doze enviroment the last thing they should pick at is the fact that it doesn't go so well with 'doze
You may get picky with me when a complete *nix network doensn't play as well as a complete 'doze network. Or if a 'nix Network doesn't have the enduser usability that a 'dove enviroment has. But frankly: That will never happen. Because by now, having reached desktop parity in the standard apps dept.(OOffice, Mozilla and all that), *nix kicks M$ up and down the street usabiltiy wise. Like I've pointed out earlyer.
If someone what's compatabilty with M$ they should ask them. After all, it's them not following common opend standards.
Bottom line:
If you like it or not, get used to the fact that M$ isn't going to be a monpoly anymore. Never again. No matter how hard they try. Welcome to real competition, pal.
Mr. Gates said the company was considering the possibility of charging for some of its software updates that are now made available free over the Internet.
This hits the spot right on. Pure and simple.
You know, I really have been expecting *nix/OSS to grab Mickeysoft by the balls when time arives, and just about everything I've predicted in the last 5 years has happend. I actually allways was convinced that eventually M$ would have to drop it's strong focus on Inhouse-Software only (thus XBox). And I still am. By time M$ will have to change it's strategies as a whole and will have to accept leveraged competition. But with DRM, TCPA and all the rest falling into place and M$ charging for updates that until now where always taken for granted M$ could actually manage to switch their entire revenue generating line to a subscribtion based service in the end. Something I though Red Hat and SuSE where allready way ahead in.
If this Nerd with the screechy voice actually manages to pull that stunt and keep subtantial ground against OSS in the longer future he's gonna earn himself my respect. He may be the Boogeyman of every Softwarehouse in the world but if he can stand his ground with this one he'll be Über-Gates.
But then again, I don't think that will happen. Not if I can prevent it, anyway. No f*ckin' way, man. You may be tough but we're a million and more and we can't go broke. Never. DO YOU HEAR ME, MICKEY$OFT?
...but your review doesn't deserve to be called one and, I'm really sorry about that, is * so * crappy it sounds like this book is something like a Clive Cussler rippoff for morons. ...if reviews actually are your trade ...that if they are, you substancially improve your skills on them before attempting your second one.
This is your first review, ok, but check and see...
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Your stuff usually is good, timothy, but this review is extraordinaryly shoddy.
Sorry to have to say that.
I'm actually starting to consider this whole thing cheap publicity for Linux. After all, here in germany SCO has been court-ordered to either put up or shut up (or pay 500000$ in bullshitting-fees).
Since I'm trying to earn a living with Linux I've layed out some gritty remarks on the case that I can deal out whenever somebody comes up with the issue.
Since I even had all the SCO Linux marketing stuff coming at me (yes, I *do* feel a little silly) I can even show of SCO United Linux disks and tell the people that SCO was crazy enough to ask 700$ for them after a 30 days 'testing' period. Anybody with more than 2 braincells knows whats cooking when they find out that SCO couldn't gain ground with overpriced United Linux packages and has messurable stock value gain since they started this campaign.
...what exactly is this Hurd thing you're talking about?
Yosemite National Park - you will NEVER forget it. It's so overwelming I get goosepimples even now allthough its something like 20 years ago I was there. El Capitan at sunset is a sight that's near to breathtakingly beautyfull.
:-) ))
The greater San Diego area
Joshua Tree (it rocks! (pun intended))
fill in a Silicon Valley there if you must, but it's basically just a large sprawl by now
A hike through the Rockies
I like Seatle as a northern town of the US
Boulder
New Mexiko
Route 66 (don't forget the pig side sandwich (it's actually patented!
I have a whole bunch of friends in the IT industry all going fat. I'm a little better off because im only in the IT mill for a few years having studied stage dance before :-). Stage dancers, especially ballet dancers are the people with the least body fat ratio. :-). I also can get very anoyed at my wife when she thinks I *must* eat because it's dinnertime.
Now, especially with my wife into really good cooking, I often notice that I eat beyond my appetite. I'm absolutely shure that people who become fat in 'sitting jobs' have the same problem. Far to often do they eat beyond their appetite, be it due to frustration or just bad habit.
Whenever I notice that I have to widen my belt by a hole I simply eat less. Period. I switch from a 3 course meal to Ramen and Broth. I don't eat 2 buns with peanutbutter and chocolate in the morining, I eat one. I don't take 3 balls of Icecream I take 1 and so forth. I do this for 3 weeks and then I'm down to ideal weight again.
The problem overweight people often have is that they then tend to be disturbed by the slightest notion of not feeling absolutely fed up and allways have to think about eating. They often also eat because it's dinner time and not because their really hungry. The best way to handle this is to learn not to center your life around eating. I actually had times when I wouldn't eat for a day or two simply because I was so occupied with other things that are far more interresting. It's really strange when you get really *hungry* (when the last time you're been really *HUNGRY*?) at 11o'clock at night and then come to notice that your last food is 36 hrs away
Bottom Line:
Apart from other things I'd suggest that have been mentioned allready (check out the Aikido posting further down, it's right on!) the solution for tendency to overweight is so simple it hurts: If you're gaining weight simply switch your diet and/or eat less.
I mean after interviewing 100 designers *my* voice would go hoarse. I suppose professional interviewers are a bit better. But 970 designers? Gee, my, that must be a long month of chittychat if you do an average of 30-40 interviews a day.
"Microsoft will take some considerable encouragement at the number of sites that have switched from Linux," NetCraft said in the report.
But the server arena isn't really the one to watch how Microsoft reacts to Linux, said Cherry.
"People are underestimating Linux on the desktop," he said. "They think it's all about the servers, and how Microsoft responds there. They're going to be surprised at how quickly Linux's threat will be an issue on the desktop. Linux will get to be 'just good enough' for the desktop faster than people think."
Maybe that will make Microsoft bump Linux to the top of its risk list.
This is what I've been saying since I first saw screenshots of Enlightenment back in 1998. The moment I, sitting in Front of Windows95 and some ancient Explorer, saw
this, I knew M$ would lose in the end. Software wins by widespread use. Widespread use is achieved by public awareness. And, believe me, public awareness is *not* achieved on servers, no matter how much the difference is. Public awareness is achieved on the Desktop. That's the bottom line.
Having seen previews of KDE 3.2 at the LinuxTag I conclude: Not only has GNU + Linux gained momentum but it is close to reaching critical mass.
... I don't quite understand you but that's ok. Just please don't ever offer me anything of the stuff you smoke. :-)
That wasn't 10% in english. That was much more. A lot put up with a serious effort to speak english despite 80% of the people being german. You may have noticed that the event is called "LinuxTag" (german for "Linux Day") and actually took place in germany. *nudge*nudge*
:-)
Did *you* go up to the ones that nearly broke their tongue speaking 90 min. in english and thank them for it?
BTW: I'm shure that allmost everybody was able and willing to answer your specific questions after a speach in english, even if the speech was given in german. And BTW again: That one Python speech was so difficult to understand, you wouldn't want to have heard it english, trust me.
3Labs have been bragging about being top-notch amongst the cream of the crop of 3D hardware since the begining of time. And while their Wildcat series often shure kicked FireGL and others up and down the street performance wise, it was *allways* "Windows only". And nothing *but* Windows only. In fact 3DLabs and their Wildcats are among the very *last* to join the *nix crowd in terms of driver support for professional 3D. The FireGLs have had drivers form ages (in the 3D world that is) and just plain *everybody* and his freakin* brother has ported their 3D apps to *nix years ago.
Gees, 3DLabs, we might even get to actually be able to see your oh so superb performance. But believe me, Nvidia and their Quadro and other pro series have major credit with the *nix folk. They will have to prove their serious before people will actually take the time to check out their stuff.
Personally I think this is a very good sign for Linux. 3Labs are one of the most conservative 3D hardware vendors and even them adding Linux to their list means really good news.
Gee, you're sooo cool and sweet and all
May I be your friend?
only fair use if doesnt hurt market
I'd actually somewhat define 'fair use' by wether it hurts the market or not. No?
I actually consider this a somewhat wise decision. One of the prime examples that we luckyly have got judges to once in a while correct the crap from politicians and juristical bullies we have to put up with.
I understand for instance that the DMCA contradicts with elemental parts of the american constitution and that not over long one judge or other will rule the DMCA not applicable in a case where some poor guy is about to be sued blind by some megacorporation.
No, also wrong. It goes this way:
Final Cut Pro: $999
Cinelerra: $0
Adobe Premiere: $546
Final Cut Express: $299
iMovie (PPC only): $0
Now guess who wins the cost/feature ratio race.
Ok, ok, hear me out!
PS kicks every other Pixelprogramm up and down the street. I get that.
But what with the rest? We've got Cinelerra for free (beer, speech and all), we've got Pinnacle who recently bought Fast, a kick ass high end Video Tool company and are now shedding their technology in bundles in every Walmart alongside realtime NLE cards for a dime-a-dozen.
And we got Apple who's new Final Cut Pro apears to be kicking the living crap out of Premiere. So I heard from my former Video NLE Teacher the other day who'd wee-wee in his pants whilst raving about the superdooper Premiere just 3 years ago when he tought us.
From what it looks like to me with every software company in the vector/pixel, video and 3D business struggling for life and the cheap ones getting cheaper or even being bought by hardware vendors and Gimp pushing the GPL-freeness envelope on the Pixelside and Sodipodi giving Freehand, Illustrator and CorelDraw the GPL creeps, it seems these companys like Macromedia *and* Adobe aswell would be better of finding new fields of business *fast*.
Just my 2 Eurocents.
What do Slashdotters use python for?
:-). In the wider term that is. A Software Agent for scanning and retrieving certain information from different Inet Sources - a very serial process that's hard to 'objectivise'. Python did/does a great job at keeping things overseeable.
:-) (www.zope.org)
Software Agents / Content Syndication 'bots
Web/Internet Application Server (Zope)
3D (me: Blender, ILM for Maya and others)
I've used Python on various things one of the more abitious being, well, actually Text Processing
Zope is the other area I use Python in. Zope I consider the most sophsticated Application Server avaiable. It's GPLd of course
Just as with me Python is very popular within the 3D Field. ILM use it as their prime scripting language and I like Blenders built in Python controlled/based realtime engine.
What are its strengths and its weaknesses?
Shurely it's tab-based delimiting of blocks ('whitespace syntax') is a big feature. I can be shure to be able to read *any* code from anybody who did it in Python instantly. Think of how teamwork improves (especially in extreme programming) when bad indentation means your code is broken!
Python is completely GPLd, which means a lot to me and overall futuresafety of a PL. That's why I don't feel so good about Java (allthough I like it too in a way)
Python is very easy to learn. "Perl is executable line noise, Python is executable pseudocode" actually sums that one up.
The only *weakness* that comes to mind is that it's a younger language. But it's catching up rapidly in terms of breadth and width of the 'lib' availability - also due to Python being completely GPLd!
Why is it worth learning another programming language?
It's actually one of the most modern and sophisticated. I realizes what developers theorized as ideal some 20 years ago.
The obligatory famous quote:
|||We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might become feasible for expressing local structure in the source language
- Donald E. Knuth,1974|||
Oh, and, yet again, it's GPLd all the way through. Want a better PL? Use Python.
...Python is executable Pseudocode.
:-)
I have a stack of Perlbooks since something like 3 years ago and haven't gotten around to studying them thouroughly.
Now that I've done some stuff in Python I actually think I'll never will. Everything that Perl can do Python can do better by now. Unless you're used to Unix CLI and syntax quirks Python will get you farther in a shorter period of time - and you'll be able to read your code in a year from now.
Allthough the anual Perl obfuscation contest actually can be somewhat funny.
I worked with SMIL on some Multimedia and E-learning projects. And I must say: Allthough Realplayer looks like someone did doo-doo on your screen and their interpolation algorithms and scaling was really crappy back then (and Flash ruled everywhere) the actuall intention and scope of this language is somewhat sophisticated. It goes from simple Text and Hyperlinks all the way thourgh to serious layering and Video output.
I'd actually trust SMIL to become the 'ogg' of multimedia data and Realplay with their opening Helix initiative seem determined to actually doing something usefull to the OSS community.
Let's hope it turns out well.
It's the lobby of Framebuilders that prevented bikes built like this one or this one from being permitted to the Tour de France and other major events. Actually they lobbied to change the rules to prohibit these modern bicycles which literaly kick the living crap out of the old 'hunchback' designs.
...causes me serious problems taking *any* hunchback riding those ancient-style, so-called 'racingbikes' serious and for granted. No matter how flashy they look in their silly candycolored trunks. On the contrary.
Talking about innovation and using all kinds of supermodern material may sound oh so cool and hip. But after more than 10 years after the first professional Windcheetahs still...
1.) riding in a postion that's not only seriously unhealthy,...
2.) grossly inefective in bringing your legpower to the street and into your movement,...
3.) gives you the aerodynamics of a frigerator box,...
4.) is near to unbearably uncomfortable...
5.) and looks somewhat silly...
The promoters and sponsors of the Tour de France and other races ought to be boykotted completely for their outright childish kiddiecrap traditionalisim.
Sports technology? My ass. If you want innovation, go check the newest sneakers, but don't ask bike-racers.
All mailers suck. Mutt sucks less. Unfortunately it still sucks.