What a good idea. Lets go back to the kernel based graphics systems that X replaced 15 years ago. Anybody remember Sunview? Dispensing with network enabled graphics would be a giant step backwards. Just what most of you Windoze loving idiots would like!
The Qt OSX version will not be free software? How can this be when other ports are GPL'ed? It is this kind of behavior which makes TrollTech an safe guardian for a crucial foundational library. This is why I refuse to use KDE.
You sound like an inexperienced, conceited little jerk. I find it hard to believe you are dispensing good advice at the age of 28. Your last name isn't Torvalds is it? I would rather use the term senior developer or principle developer rather than architect. Architect is such an effete and abstract term.
To be effective you need to keep a high degree of hacking proficiency, but you also must take responsibility of the quality of your teammates work with causing resentment. It isn't easy.
If I were you I'd try to get into management. Architect is a position that the suits invented to placate their smartest people. As a manager you would be better prepared to make technical judgements than your counterparts. Sure you would have to deal with people and politics, but at that level you would have the power to run projects as you see fit.
I run YD2.0 on my iMac and I was very impressed at the refinement of the installation procedure. Disk partitioning could be improved, but in general, YD2.0 installs great. I have two problems with the 2.0 distro that I hope will be cleared up.First, emacs-nox (as opposed to emacs-x11) is installed by default. This is incredibly annoying as the user is encouraged to use the inferior KDE editors, or worse VI. This brings me to my second point...
As a long time Gnome and XFCE user let me say that KDE sucks. The KDE folks have made a valiant attempt to create an integrated desktop. But only a clueless drooler who hangs out on AOL would like it, no knowing any better. I find KDE to be childish. What's worse is that it is extremely difficult to get YellowDog's display manager to work with anything else!
Your capitulation doesn't help the cause of free software or customer choice. If you find that a web site does not properly handle your browser, send them a *polite* letter telling them why you will not buy from their web site and what browser you use. Enlighten them about the use of open web standards. Then phone ordering instead.
Daniel Goldin's tenure was a mixed bag of solid successes and spectacular failures. He injected new life into the agency early in his tenure. His better, faster, cheaper mantra paid off remarkably well with the Mars Pathfinder, Deep Space 1, NEAR, and Hubble repair missions.
However, Mars Surveyor was an embarrassing fiasco. The IIS has to be the biggest waste of money in this nation's history. NASA choose the risky Lockheed Martin proposal for the X33, passing over Boeing's simpler design. There is still not shuttle replacement on the horizon.
There was not need to do any window manager development beyond twm IMHO. It is fast and works great. How complicated do things need to get if I just need my Emacs editor managed?
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I have been waiting to buy a PDA until someone ports Emacs to it. There is nothing more functional than the friendly Emacs interface.
Which fire would you rather be caught in? One would think that being caught in a hydrogen fire would be more fearsome because of that fuel's much higher energy density. Hydrocarbon combustion only generates about 70% of hydrogen combustion (the figure varies with cumbusion pressure). But hydrocarbon combusion produces nasty, sooty, oily byproducts which enhance its negative effects on humans. Hydrogen flames, while very hot, burn briefly with no smoke or soot.
Two things work against using liquid hydrogen in airplanes: 1) Low density of LH2 requires large tanks; 2) Chryogenic fuels are much more difficult and dangerous to handle than those stable at normal temperatures and pressures. Neither of these problems is insurmountable.
Controlled nuclear fusion is like mideast peace. There is always progress being made but the goal is never acheived. I am resigned to burning coal and oil and releasing greenhouse gases.
Playing fast and loose with contributions (or in this case plagarized code) is something that Open Source adherents do in the name of speed and "getting something done". The FSF is far more diligent in documenting contributions and making sure that copyright is signed over to prevent things like this from happening.
Actually, it was the leader of Spassky's team Kotov who made these alligations in, undoubtedly at the promtings of his Politburo masters who wanted to taint Fischer's success.
I agree. Mozilla is an incredibly complex undertaking. The team is doing a great job. The browser releases very usable already. I just hope they keep going. The effort is worth it. Or would you all rather use Konqueror?
These screenshots are abolutely underwhelming! Almost any of the major GNU/Linux window managers already look as good. Have we really come to a dead end in user interfaces? I guess Apple is really the only one left who can really innovate in this area.
Three years ago the IA-64 was supposed to put Sun out of business. Since we are now unlikely to even see a broken IA-64 in the next year Intel has dusted off the losing Xeon and will continue to wage a war of words with it. Meanwhile Sun marches from strength to strength with its multiprocessor system and the solid SPARC chips. Intel, you could learn something about engineering from Sun.
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The ecommerce bubble has already burst on Wall Street. The capital which supports new ecommerce companies is drying up. The reason is that the technical barrier to entry into the web retail market is very low. Ecommerce sites cannot maintain any advantage over established retailers. Sears, Walmart, Kmart, etc have all established web retail sites that are competative with the pure ecommerce plays like amazon.com or etoys.com.
This was a smart move by the US military. With the increased GPS accuracy there is nothing to drive the development and deployment of an alternative by some other hostile country. The Russian Glonass effort will wither. In the event of war the US airforce still preserves the exclusive capability of steering a 500 lb bomb to some poor chump's bedroom window!
The only projects he worked on that I know of was the Emacs mode VC (one of the worse modes for that editor IMHO) and fetchmail, an email transfer client. This does represent some activity in free software circles but should hardly merit the public recognition he has received or the place on VA Linux's board. Because of this I don't like him either.
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I have found that many financial sites such as fidelity.com discriminate against on M$ browsers as well. This is truly inexcusable.
What a good idea. Lets go back to the kernel based graphics systems that X replaced 15 years ago. Anybody remember Sunview? Dispensing with network enabled graphics would be a giant step backwards. Just what most of you Windoze loving idiots would like!
If you go to http://www.fsf.org you will find that Stallman opposes open source because the movement fails to talk about freedom.
The Qt OSX version will not be free software? How can this be when other ports are GPL'ed? It is this kind of behavior which makes TrollTech an safe guardian for a crucial foundational library. This is why I refuse to use KDE.
You sound like an inexperienced, conceited little jerk. I find it hard to believe you are dispensing good advice at the age of 28. Your last name isn't Torvalds is it? I would rather use the term senior developer or principle developer rather than architect. Architect is such an effete and abstract term.
To be effective you need to keep a high degree of hacking proficiency, but you also must take responsibility of the quality of your teammates work with causing resentment. It isn't easy.
If I were you I'd try to get into management. Architect is a position that the suits invented to placate their smartest people. As a manager you would be better prepared to make technical judgements than your counterparts. Sure you would have to deal with people and politics, but at that level you would have the power to run projects as you see fit.
I run YD2.0 on my iMac and I was very impressed at the refinement of the installation procedure. Disk partitioning could be improved, but in general, YD2.0 installs great. I have two problems with the 2.0 distro that I hope will be cleared up.First, emacs-nox (as opposed to emacs-x11) is installed by default. This is incredibly annoying as the user is encouraged to use the inferior KDE editors, or worse VI. This brings me to my second point...
As a long time Gnome and XFCE user let me say that KDE sucks. The KDE folks have made a valiant attempt to create an integrated desktop. But only a clueless drooler who hangs out on AOL would like it, no knowing any better. I find KDE to be childish. What's worse is that it is extremely difficult to get YellowDog's display manager to work with anything else!
Your capitulation doesn't help the cause of free software or customer choice. If you find that a web site does not properly handle your browser, send them a *polite* letter telling them why you will not buy from their web site and what browser you use. Enlighten them about the use of open web standards. Then phone ordering instead.
Daniel Goldin's tenure was a mixed bag of solid successes and spectacular failures. He injected new life into the agency early in his tenure. His better, faster, cheaper mantra paid off remarkably well with the Mars Pathfinder, Deep Space 1, NEAR, and Hubble repair missions.
However, Mars Surveyor was an embarrassing fiasco. The IIS has to be the biggest waste of money in this nation's history. NASA choose the risky Lockheed Martin proposal for the X33, passing over Boeing's simpler design. There is still not shuttle replacement on the horizon.
It is good to know that Lignus is not deeply involved in holy wars like the rest of us.
There was not need to do any window manager development beyond twm IMHO. It is fast and works great. How complicated do things need to get if I just need my Emacs editor managed?
I have been waiting to buy a PDA until someone ports Emacs to it. There is nothing more functional than the friendly Emacs interface.
You should follow the Deep Space 1 mission if you want to learn more about autonomous spacecraft. These ideas are not new.
That's Mars Odyssey since we're being nitty.
Which fire would you rather be caught in? One would think that being caught in a hydrogen fire would be more fearsome because of that fuel's much higher energy density. Hydrocarbon combustion only generates about 70% of hydrogen combustion (the figure varies with cumbusion pressure). But hydrocarbon combusion produces nasty, sooty, oily byproducts which enhance its negative effects on humans. Hydrogen flames, while very hot, burn briefly with no smoke or soot.
Two things work against using liquid hydrogen in airplanes: 1) Low density of LH2 requires large tanks; 2) Chryogenic fuels are much more difficult and dangerous to handle than those stable at normal temperatures and pressures. Neither of these problems is insurmountable.
Controlled nuclear fusion is like mideast peace. There is always progress being made but the goal is never acheived. I am resigned to burning coal and oil and releasing greenhouse gases.
Playing fast and loose with contributions (or in this case plagarized code) is something that Open Source adherents do in the name of speed and "getting something done". The FSF is far more diligent in documenting contributions and making sure that copyright is signed over to prevent things like this from happening.
Actually, it was the leader of Spassky's team Kotov who made these alligations in, undoubtedly at the promtings of his Politburo masters who wanted to taint Fischer's success.
I agree. Mozilla is an incredibly complex undertaking. The team is doing a great job. The browser releases very usable already. I just hope they keep going. The effort is worth it. Or would you all rather use Konqueror?
It is obvious that this person is a BSD zealot and has an ax to grind with GPL.
These screenshots are abolutely underwhelming! Almost any of the major GNU/Linux window managers already look as good. Have we really come to a dead end in user interfaces? I guess Apple is really the only one left who can really innovate in this area.
Three years ago the IA-64 was supposed to put Sun out of business. Since we are now unlikely to even see a broken IA-64 in the next year Intel has dusted off the losing Xeon and will continue to wage a war of words with it. Meanwhile Sun marches from strength to strength with its multiprocessor system and the solid SPARC chips. Intel, you could learn something about engineering from Sun.
The ecommerce bubble has already burst on Wall Street. The capital which supports new ecommerce companies is drying up. The reason is that the technical barrier to entry into the web retail market is very low. Ecommerce sites cannot maintain any advantage over established retailers. Sears, Walmart, Kmart, etc have all established web retail sites that are competative with the pure ecommerce plays like amazon.com or etoys.com.
This was timely advice...a month and a half ago. 100's of billions of dollars worth of exhuberance has been wrung out of the market already.
This was a smart move by the US military. With the increased GPS accuracy there is nothing to drive the development and deployment of an alternative by some other hostile country. The Russian Glonass effort will wither. In the event of war the US airforce still preserves the exclusive capability of steering a 500 lb bomb to some poor chump's bedroom window!
The only projects he worked on that I know of was the Emacs mode VC (one of the worse modes for that editor IMHO) and fetchmail, an email transfer client. This does represent some activity in free software circles but should hardly merit the public recognition he has received or the place on VA Linux's board. Because of this I don't like him either.