Often, the open source community has a very narrow and selfish view when it comes to certain things. Like, why make software easy to install, like OS X? No need- any Linux user (present or future) is smart enough to compile his own software, resolve dependencies, etc.
They're not being paid enough to do the grunt work. Most of them aren't being paid anything. They still manage to do an amazing amount of work.
If you define that as selfish, I expect you'll be out sinking the boot into your local charities next.
A person has to ask- could the OSS community ever have produced a gem like OS X? Could it have produced Java? OSS has the skillset, some of the sharpest folks on the planet. But who is keeping them coordinated? Who is the CEO with a single, cohesive vision?
Sounds like a great argument for fascism over democracy. "We need a leader who can make the trains run on time!"
+4, Insightful? Bah. Why don't you move to Singapore? You'd like it there.
Furthermore, for the switcher OSX is jam packed with different ways of doing things that are not neccessarily easy to figure out. Figuring out Linux was actually easy by comparison and Linux is customizable enough that you can often make it behave like you want it to if it doesn't behave that way by default.
I prefer Linux because I came from the Amiga -- I'm used to being able to tweak almost everything. That said, I prefer OS X's defaults to Windows XP's defaults* -- and I think usability (for the newcomer, especially) revolves around having a limited number of choices and making those choices explicit and easily understood to the user. This seems to be the path that GNOME is going down. Having the rest is just gravy for most people, but I really like systems (like the Amiga, and Linux) that make it easy, or at least possible, to change many things regarding how the operating system works, and that do it in a fashion that doesn't initimidate people who don't want to dig that deeply (an area where some Linux distros do fall down if you don't have previous Unix experience).
* I think that's all it is -- there are people who will prefer Windows, and people who will prefer Mac. Doesn't make either side right or wrong, just different.
OSX is kind of like your dad or your boss; it's their way or the highway.
If Microsoft had their way, the highway wouldn't even be an option. "1 Microsoft Way" *is* their corporate address, after all.:) Although I do have a Mac I'm not that au fait with the ins and outs of the GUI... I think the new Finder's a bit overdone, and not all that usable, although not as bad as Explorer in its WinXP plastic.
OSX is a very good OS, but there are all sorts of frustrations for the switcher that he conveniently left out. Did he really not notice that common tasks require a different workflow than in Windows?
The horror! The horror! Does that automatically make OS X worse?
They don't have to provide source to "just anyone", only to people who purchase the JDS from them. They can do this via secure download to these people, or by shipping source CDs with the distribution -- neither of these would enable you to download it. I don't know how they do do this, but I might be upset about it if I were an author of included software, or a customer without the GPL'd sources. I'm neither, so I don't really care.
Prolonging HIV patients' lives by years, even decades doesn't count because it's not a cure.
A cure wouldn't suit the income stream of Big Pharma, who would rather bleed national governments everywhere for years on end. Quality of life on the required cocktail of drugs has always been pretty dicey.
It's a Darwinian thing. Maybe a Zen thing, too. If you're talking on the phone, talk on the phone. If you're driving, drive. If you mix the two, expect to get sideswiped by an eighteen-wheeler.
Who knows, maybe it's a trojan. I'd probably better run Adaware or something just in case... I can't find the page now, but supposedly it was a case of corrupted file associations in the registry, which crashed the machine whenever you tried to open a text file.
1 week after installing XP & SP1a, double-clicking on a text file to open Notepad spontaneously crashes the machine. Googled for it; known bug, reinstall Windows. No thanks. I changed the association for.txt and that seems to have avoided the problem... but surely Notepad, of all programs, shouldn't be able to bring an XP box to its knees?
I have one BIG reservation about the title. I think they should have done a focus group against the NAACP to see what they thought. "Birth of a Nation" is cited as the most racist, provocative film in American history. The titles are eerily similiar.
Tasteless, I'll admit, but the Empire *are* supposed to be the bad guys.
I'm not sure that the NAACP and Lucas are on speaking terms after Jar-Jar "Uncle Tom" Binks, anyway...
Another title that has transitioned well from movie to game is the James Bond series. Back on the N64 Goldeneye rocked.
There were many crappy C64 and Amiga Bond licenses before Goldeneye, though. Apparently recent games haven't been too bad, but as a whole the name has a history of shame it hasn't wholly erased.
SCO have been behaving like they're on smack... so they'll probably appreciate the fact they'll get a big load of smack from IBM through the courts over the next 12 months.
In fact, that, and "larger" women pretending to be petite women, and other guys pretending to be petite women, is about all you can find in chat rooms.:)
I think you've left out FBI agents pretending to be underage girls.
People were raving in 1987 (the year Ecstasy really hit the UK, the Manchester music scene got big, etc.). Don't know what they're doing now, but you'd you'd think they'd have the decency to call it something else...
Not to disagree with you, but aren't lions (male lions especially) pretty lazy most of the time? Take domestic house cat behaviour and just scale it upwards.
Ah well, thanks anyway (to you and the others who replied). I think my problem is that Asus Nforce2 motherboards are way too finicky about memory, and using the onboard video seems to cause the sorts of problems you'd expect when memory timings start going wrong. It memtests OK, but the NVidia driver really doesn't like it... and having APIC switched on makes it worse, so that's why I thought this might have been related. It hangs on some other people's machines, but not mine.
Fascism isn't always external, it can be internalised. Japanese culture has always skated close to that sort of internalised fascism (e.g. Mishima).
I wasn't being snide, merely pointing out a pretty big cultural difference -- the fact that this is accepted by the police and the accused alike as normal is a major point of differentiation.
I recall hearing a while back that Japanese courts had a 99.8% conviction rate. After all, if you weren't guilty you wouldn't have been arrested, right?
Anyway, Wikipedia has a small article, which backs that up somewhat (and no, I didn't write that part:).
Nothing is to stop them however they'd always start at zero. Once the networks of those having greater than zero valuations exist those who have zero valuations will simply be ignored as background noise unless someone take the time to evaluate them and increase their rating.
This is fine, as long as the feedback mechanism is compulsory and evenly applied -- this would have to be designed in from the start.
I'm sure many people who moderate use their points to push a +3 to a +4, and aren't browsing at -1 as recommended... I've seen may good 0-rated posts I haven't had the power to up-rate.
Otherwise you end up with hundreds or thousands of spam postings for every 'legitimate' one, and there's little incentive for people to go hunting among the non-verified files, and little incentive for people to join the network if they can't be 'heard' above the 'noise level' when they join.
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Often, the open source community has a very narrow and selfish view when it comes to certain things. Like, why make software easy to install, like OS X? No need- any Linux user (present or future) is smart enough to compile his own software, resolve dependencies, etc.
They're not being paid enough to do the grunt work. Most of them aren't being paid anything. They still manage to do an amazing amount of work.
If you define that as selfish, I expect you'll be out sinking the boot into your local charities next.
A person has to ask- could the OSS community ever have produced a gem like OS X? Could it have produced Java? OSS has the skillset, some of the sharpest folks on the planet. But who is keeping them coordinated? Who is the CEO with a single, cohesive vision?
Sounds like a great argument for fascism over democracy. "We need a leader who can make the trains run on time!"
+4, Insightful? Bah. Why don't you move to Singapore? You'd like it there.
Furthermore, for the switcher OSX is jam packed with different ways of doing things that are not neccessarily easy to figure out. Figuring out Linux was actually easy by comparison and Linux is customizable enough that you can often make it behave like you want it to if it doesn't behave that way by default.
:) Although I do have a Mac I'm not that au fait with the ins and outs of the GUI... I think the new Finder's a bit overdone, and not all that usable, although not as bad as Explorer in its WinXP plastic.
I prefer Linux because I came from the Amiga -- I'm used to being able to tweak almost everything. That said, I prefer OS X's defaults to Windows XP's defaults* -- and I think usability (for the newcomer, especially) revolves around having a limited number of choices and making those choices explicit and easily understood to the user. This seems to be the path that GNOME is going down. Having the rest is just gravy for most people, but I really like systems (like the Amiga, and Linux) that make it easy, or at least possible, to change many things regarding how the operating system works, and that do it in a fashion that doesn't initimidate people who don't want to dig that deeply (an area where some Linux distros do fall down if you don't have previous Unix experience).
* I think that's all it is -- there are people who will prefer Windows, and people who will prefer Mac. Doesn't make either side right or wrong, just different.
OSX is kind of like your dad or your boss; it's their way or the highway.
If Microsoft had their way, the highway wouldn't even be an option. "1 Microsoft Way" *is* their corporate address, after all.
OSX is a very good OS, but there are all sorts of frustrations for the switcher that he conveniently left out. Did he really not notice that common tasks require a different workflow than in Windows?
The horror! The horror! Does that automatically make OS X worse?
They don't have to provide source to "just anyone", only to people who purchase the JDS from them. They can do this via secure download to these people, or by shipping source CDs with the distribution -- neither of these would enable you to download it. I don't know how they do do this, but I might be upset about it if I were an author of included software, or a customer without the GPL'd sources. I'm neither, so I don't really care.
Prolonging HIV patients' lives by years, even decades doesn't count because it's not a cure.
A cure wouldn't suit the income stream of Big Pharma, who would rather bleed national governments everywhere for years on end. Quality of life on the required cocktail of drugs has always been pretty dicey.
It's a Darwinian thing. Maybe a Zen thing, too. If you're talking on the phone, talk on the phone. If you're driving, drive. If you mix the two, expect to get sideswiped by an eighteen-wheeler.
Who knows, maybe it's a trojan. I'd probably better run Adaware or something just in case... I can't find the page now, but supposedly it was a case of corrupted file associations in the registry, which crashed the machine whenever you tried to open a text file.
1 week after installing XP & SP1a, double-clicking on a text file to open Notepad spontaneously crashes the machine. Googled for it; known bug, reinstall Windows. No thanks. I changed the association for .txt and that seems to have avoided the problem... but surely Notepad, of all programs, shouldn't be able to bring an XP box to its knees?
Hasn't caused me any problems -- I'm running Debian unstable, Linux kernel 2.6.6.
Which of the four "whitehouse" sites is the President's page... which one is the parody, and which one is the political site?
Like there's a difference.
I have one BIG reservation about the title. I think they should have done a focus group against the NAACP to see what they thought. "Birth of a Nation" is cited as the most racist, provocative film in American history. The titles are eerily similiar.
Tasteless, I'll admit, but the Empire *are* supposed to be the bad guys.
I'm not sure that the NAACP and Lucas are on speaking terms after Jar-Jar "Uncle Tom" Binks, anyway...
Another title that has transitioned well from movie to game is the James Bond series. Back on the N64 Goldeneye rocked.
:)
There were many crappy C64 and Amiga Bond licenses before Goldeneye, though. Apparently recent games haven't been too bad, but as a whole the name has a history of shame it hasn't wholly erased.
(James Pond, on the other hand, was great
Well, smurf that for a smurfing joke. I'm pretty smurfed about all this smurf, I can smurf you...
SCO have been behaving like they're on smack... so they'll probably appreciate the fact they'll get a big load of smack from IBM through the courts over the next 12 months.
In fact, that, and "larger" women pretending to be petite women, and other guys pretending to be petite women, is about all you can find in chat rooms. :)
I think you've left out FBI agents pretending to be underage girls.
Keanu Reeves? Winona Ryder? A Scanner Darkly shot in the style of Waking Life?
Jesus H. Freaking Christ. Wouldn't it just be cheaper for the Hollywood types to go and piss on Phil Dick's grave in shifts or something?
People were raving in 1987 (the year Ecstasy really hit the UK, the Manchester music scene got big, etc.). Don't know what they're doing now, but you'd you'd think they'd have the decency to call it something else...
Not to disagree with you, but aren't lions (male lions especially) pretty lazy most of the time? Take domestic house cat behaviour and just scale it upwards.
Ah well, thanks anyway (to you and the others who replied). I think my problem is that Asus Nforce2 motherboards are way too finicky about memory, and using the onboard video seems to cause the sorts of problems you'd expect when memory timings start going wrong. It memtests OK, but the NVidia driver really doesn't like it... and having APIC switched on makes it worse, so that's why I thought this might have been related. It hangs on some other people's machines, but not mine.
Any links on this? I'm very hopeful this will help me avoid syslog being spammed with 'badness in pci_find_subsys' error messages. :)
I'm pretty sure that forcedeth is in 2.6.5 and the most recently released 2.4.x kernel -- I've been using it in vanilla 2.6.5 for a bit.
Fascism isn't always external, it can be internalised. Japanese culture has always skated close to that sort of internalised fascism (e.g. Mishima).
I wasn't being snide, merely pointing out a pretty big cultural difference -- the fact that this is accepted by the police and the accused alike as normal is a major point of differentiation.
I recall hearing a while back that Japanese courts had a 99.8% conviction rate. After all, if you weren't guilty you wouldn't have been arrested, right?
:).
Anyway, Wikipedia has a small article, which backs that up somewhat (and no, I didn't write that part
Nothing is to stop them however they'd always start at zero. Once the networks of those having greater than zero valuations exist those who have zero valuations will simply be ignored as background noise unless someone take the time to evaluate them and increase their rating.
This is fine, as long as the feedback mechanism is compulsory and evenly applied -- this would have to be designed in from the start.
I'm sure many people who moderate use their points to push a +3 to a +4, and aren't browsing at -1 as recommended... I've seen may good 0-rated posts I haven't had the power to up-rate.
Otherwise you end up with hundreds or thousands of spam postings for every 'legitimate' one, and there's little incentive for people to go hunting among the non-verified files, and little incentive for people to join the network if they can't be 'heard' above the 'noise level' when they join.
What's to stop spammers continually generating new PGP keys, and thus always being zero on a +/- scale?