A word of advice to you would be arm chair astronomers. You will get much more pleasure and gratification stargazing through your own telescope and taking your own astrophotos than you will sitting on your ass and passively crusing though a M$ website, where for every pitcure you see you will also see a banner ad. I do not call this democratizing space, I call it dumbing it down.
You set out to develop a sufficient body of free software so that you would not have to rely on proprietary software at all. In GNU/Linux systems you have succeeded. What new mountains will the FSF climb?
<p>Do you see the FSF as a software development entity or more concerned with philosophical and legal issues in the future?</p>
I'd say ESR's argument is very strong and not at all refuted by the opposing piece. I find it personally satisfying the ESR is able to get so much mileage out of a FUD tactic invented by Microsoft.
Actually, these lawsuits are irrelevent to me. The net as I knew it ended in 1993 when I first used NCSA Mosaic. Before that I happy used, telnet, ftp, email, uucp,and usenet for my unfettered internet experience. The web has only brought miserable hoards of newbies, merchants, and Hitler wannbees to my daily attention. Devil take you all!
What about the ridiculous patents like Amazon's that have already been patented? Will they be revoked, as they should? Now if we can only do something about those perpetual motion and anti-gravity machines! Also, I don't see how the US Patent Office which has shown such profound incompetance can be trusted to clean up its own house. I mean what are they going to do? It is like granting a schizophrenic psychiatrist permission to keep practicing.
The idea that some nieve geek consortium can somehow "save" the Iridium network is ridiculous in the extreme. If Craig McCaw passed on it you know it isn't worth much. Besides this will be a benefit to radio astronomers who lost an OH absorption band to Iridium. Now they will get it back!
The next constellation to rain down on us will be Glabalstar, followed closely by ICO. LEO mobile satellite systems will go down as one of the great failures of the decade!
Defense of this ridiculous aligation should hardly be necessary. There are 100's of people just like "stab" who put their all into these very risky projects. When they are successful, like Mars Pathfinder, we all get the impression that the missions are easy. Being formerly involved with the Voyager and Galileo projects myself I can say the the people who do spacecraft engineering are extraordinarily skilled and cunning.
Computers and the web in general have have had surprisingly little impact on access to higher education. The idea of publishing free high quality curricula on the web is a step in the right direction, and is very much in the spirit of the free software movement. At my alma mater, Cornell Univerity, the university seal reads, "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." I guess the can now be modified to read, "I would start a web site were any person can download curricula for any study."
As a free software proponent it is hard for me to get excited about which codec RealPlayer supports on Linux. We need a totally free streaming solution as well as an improved file based MPEG encode/decode capability. It is only a matter of time.
The TV networks irradiate us all with their TV signals then get their panties in a bunch when someone merely redirects and repurposes the signal. If they are going to sue people for using their content we (US citizens) sould extract a far greater price for their private use of the airwaves.
I don't know what the value of WYSIWYG QT is. You shouldn't be using QT at all because of its non GPL license. Emacs certainly has dialogs and widgets if you really need to interact with the mouse. Most clueless droolers like yourself like this kind of interface even when faster keyboard accelerators are available.
Newspapers are still the single fastest way for me to get lots of information fast. For this I sacrifice some of the detailed and topical stuff that is available on the web. Annlike the web I <ul> <li>Don't have to wait for the pages and advertising to download <li>Don't have to visit multiple sites to get the info I am looking for <li>Don't have to be tied to a networked computer. </ul> Newspapers don't appeal to Jon Katz of the slashdot crowd brcause they are not focused on the GNU system. Another inane article by Jon Katz
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You should ask yourself why X has been around so long, and when so much activity focuses on interfaces and so little on fundemental windowing software. Because X is the right thing. There little left to add. It is not bloated. My Xlib has 391 calls, and half of those are rarely used.
Writing a tool to create one of many binary distribution formats is a waste of time. It makes far more sense for the free software community to use a single binary package utility. The analogy with autoconf doesn't hold up. Autoconf simply edits makefiles. There is no common init file for package systems that could be used in the same way.
Classification is not equivalent to understanding. It is a useful analytical tool, but a lot of pundits, like our friend Mr. Katz, use it as an end to itself. When did this guy start squating on slashdot anyway?
How can you possibly take a month to drive from Chicago to LA? Even along a secondary road like route 66 it shouldn't take more than 3 days. Can you hold off using email for that long?
I always thought JZW could make it as a Yanni impersonator. It seems that he is not involved with any big hacking project these days. Too bad, the free software community needs him.
Russia's poor performance on the ISS project should preclude it from any participation in a manned Mars mission. Manned space flight should not be funded as if it were a welfare project.
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No, patents do not work.
A word of advice to you would be arm chair astronomers. You will get much more pleasure and gratification stargazing through your own telescope and taking your own astrophotos than you will sitting on your ass and passively crusing though a M$ website, where for every pitcure you see you will also see a banner ad. I do not call this democratizing space, I call it dumbing it down.
You set out to develop a sufficient body of free software so that you would not have to rely on proprietary software at all. In GNU/Linux systems you have succeeded. What new mountains will the FSF climb?
<p>Do you see the FSF as a software development entity or more concerned with philosophical and legal issues in the future?</p>
I'd say ESR's argument is very strong and not at all refuted by the opposing piece. I find it personally satisfying the ESR is able to get so much mileage out of a FUD tactic invented by Microsoft.
Actually, these lawsuits are irrelevent to me. The net as I knew it ended in 1993 when I first used NCSA Mosaic. Before that I happy used, telnet, ftp, email, uucp,and usenet for my unfettered internet experience. The web has only brought miserable hoards of newbies, merchants, and Hitler wannbees to my daily attention. Devil take you all!
What about the ridiculous patents like Amazon's that have already been patented? Will they be revoked, as they should? Now if we can only do something about those perpetual motion and anti-gravity machines! Also, I don't see how the US Patent Office which has shown such profound incompetance can be trusted to clean up its own house. I mean what are they going to do? It is like granting a schizophrenic psychiatrist permission to keep practicing.
Exoskeletons will prove useful when the US attacks the Archnid army on Klendathu.
The idea that some nieve geek consortium can somehow "save" the Iridium network is ridiculous in the extreme. If Craig McCaw passed on it you know it isn't worth much. Besides this will be a benefit to radio astronomers who lost an OH absorption band to Iridium. Now they will get it back!
The next constellation to rain down on us will be Glabalstar, followed closely by ICO. LEO mobile satellite systems will go down as one of the great failures of the decade!
Defense of this ridiculous aligation should hardly be necessary. There are 100's of people just like "stab" who put their all into these very risky projects. When they are successful, like Mars Pathfinder, we all get the impression that the missions are easy. Being formerly involved with the Voyager and Galileo projects myself I can say the the people who do spacecraft engineering are extraordinarily skilled and cunning.
Computers and the web in general have have had surprisingly little impact on access to higher education. The idea of publishing free high quality curricula on the web is a step in the right direction, and is very much in the spirit of the free software movement. At my alma mater, Cornell Univerity, the university seal reads, "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." I guess the can now be modified to read, "I would start a web site were any person can download curricula for any study."
As a free software proponent it is hard for me to get excited about which codec RealPlayer supports on Linux. We need a totally free streaming solution as well as an improved file based MPEG encode/decode capability. It is only a matter of time.
Try Octave or Jacal. The syntax is plent hairy though. No escaping that, because mathematics is hairy by its very nature.
The TV networks irradiate us all with their TV signals then get their panties in a bunch when someone merely redirects and repurposes the signal. If they are going to sue people for using their content we (US citizens) sould extract a far greater price for their private use of the airwaves.
I don't know what the value of WYSIWYG QT is. You shouldn't be using QT at all because of its non GPL license. Emacs certainly has dialogs and widgets if you really need to interact with the mouse. Most clueless droolers like yourself like this kind of interface even when faster keyboard accelerators are available.
There is no need to develop another IDE. You already have the greatest one ever developed. It is called GNU Emacs.
I'd say slashdot is poised to become the zdnet anchordesk of the GNU/Linux world! Congrats to CmdrTaco for becoming the new Jesse Berst.
Newspapers are still the single fastest way for me to get lots of information fast. For this I sacrifice some of the detailed and topical stuff that is available on the web. Annlike the web I
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<li>Don't have to wait for the pages and advertising to download
<li>Don't have to visit multiple sites to get the info I am looking for
<li>Don't have to be tied to a networked computer.
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Newspapers don't appeal to Jon Katz of the slashdot crowd brcause they are not focused on the GNU system. Another inane article by Jon Katz
You should ask yourself why X has been around so long, and when so much activity focuses on interfaces and so little on fundemental windowing software. Because X is the right thing. There little left to add. It is not bloated. My Xlib has 391 calls, and half of those are rarely used.
Writing a tool to create one of many binary distribution formats is a waste of time. It makes far more sense for the free software community to use a single binary package utility. The analogy with autoconf doesn't hold up. Autoconf simply edits makefiles. There is no common init file for package systems that could be used in the same way.
Classification is not equivalent to understanding. It is a useful analytical tool, but a lot of pundits, like our friend Mr. Katz, use it as an end to itself. When did this guy start squating on slashdot anyway?
How can you possibly take a month to drive from Chicago to LA? Even along a secondary road like route 66 it shouldn't take more than 3 days. Can you hold off using email for that long?
It is an interesting move by Ford. Will these computers run the GNU system?
I always thought JZW could make it as a Yanni impersonator. It seems that he is not involved with any big hacking project these days. Too bad, the free software community needs him.
Your science reporting stinks guys. You definely have an affinity for crank science. Events like the NEAR encounter with Eros don't merit a comment.
Russia's poor performance on the ISS project should preclude it from any participation in a manned Mars mission. Manned space flight should not be funded as if it were a welfare project.