I'd have your granddad use emacs and twm for a window manager. I find I can do the vast majority of computeing tasks using emacs, and twm provides a simple, attractive, standard environment. It is never too late to show good taste in your choice of hacking tools.
You said it. Andreesen is nothing more than a solid programmer who was lucky enough to know his way around the Mosaic code. That is the sum of this guy's credentials.
The article suggests that there is some raging debate on the origin of the Earth's water (oceans). There is not. It is long been suspected that an infall of cometary material during the formation of the earth is responsible. The Giotto spacecraft confirmed this by showing that the D/H ratios of ocean water and cometary material are the same. That unbound water was found in a meteorite is very interesting, but is not the leap in understanding that the article suggests.
Hi brother! I lived in the SAE house above Rockledge, across the gorge from Carl Sagan's house, from 1982 to 1986. I had the pleasure and honor to sit in an "Ices of the Outer Solar System" seminar taught by doctor Sagan in 1985. Pot smoking and left wing politics aside, the man was brilliant, tough, and an intellectual inspiration. It will be a happy memory for me for the rest of my days.
One thing you didn't mention about his house was that it was also a converted mausoleum! It stood above the best darn swimming hole in Ithaca.
This is my first exposure to this site. The format is very annoying. I've never read a piece more dripping with sarcasm or more inaccurate. Is this journalism for the skateboard crowd?
For all of you out there that rode this IPO to its ridiculous current level, I have one piece of advice. Sell! Redhat cannot make much money giving away software. They can only make money consulting. There is limited upside here. Certainly not enough to justify 5.5 G$ in market cap.
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X is efficient, flexible, and runs completely separately from the kernal. Its networked display capabilities have still not been matched by Windoze or the Mac. Xlib has served as the basis for Athena, Motif, Openlook, GTK, and QT interfaces. What more could you want it to do?
Young people have lots of energy but the majority lack breadth, education, and are rather stupid. Many are highschool drop outs with programming monomania and highly inflated egos. Older programmers tend to be better educated, have a deeper skill set, write technically better code. They make a lot less noise too. I see no problem in our market with experienced people in their 40's and 50's landing senior level programming jobs.
What a silly idea. Why would Stallman or anyone else associated with the FSF want to share anything but equal time with Linux? I think Stallman's first idea, calling GNU/Linux LIGNUX has the greatest appeal. I'm sure that Lignus would agree.
What a stupid comment. One of the benefits of free software is that someone can always come along and create a superior derived work. GPL guarantees that it remains free software. All of the ideas about the benefits of the free flow of information that Stallman espouses are proven true. Stallman is not deminished in the slightest if someone amends and improves his work.
I agree Bruce. If ESR had written such a note in a corporate environment he would be fired. End of story. He made ugly threats. You did rightly by publicizing the letter.
Bruce Perens is unstable. He should be on Prozac. ESR is a gun-toting looney who is dilusional and secretly fantasizes that he is Richard Stallman. Neither makes a good spokesman for free software. If both of these clowns disappeared from the scene tomorrow the free software movement would be better for it.
This is a meaning less side show, but it is fun (like Jerry Springer!).
What they found was no accident... Richard Stallman I think it is wonderful that Lignus wrote a kernel. But the guts of all GNU/Linux distributions out there today is GNU software. We would be nowhere without it.
What a weak article. Hardly worth the 2 minutes it took to download over our busy network. Lignus is a cuddly spokesman, Stallman is a fanatic. Boy, there's a load of news. Slashdot's already shoddy standards have reached a new low. Was this piece written by some punk university student? Why don't you write about what some of the lesser gods in the hacking pantheon think? How about Alan Cox, Larry Wall, Rasterman, Roland McGrath and others. What does Donald Knuth think about software freedom issues...
First off let me say that I admire Mike Loukides for his coauthorship of "Design Patterns" published by Addison Wesley. It is an invaluable source of subtile OO design ideas applicable to what ever language you program in. Having said that...
Mike Loukides, you are the one that is retarded! GPL is the single greatest protection for software yet devised. It guarantees the free flow of code and ideas that made the whole free software movement possible. Weaken it and you weaken our movement. If you think that GPL is a virus, fine, don't use the software. Much of corporate America felt this way in the early nineties. But they are sculking back, and hatching plots to weaken GPL. Why? Because you can't ignore this fantastic enabling technology.
The folks at O'Reilly fill what I see as a temporary void. Documentation quality is not the same as code quality for free software. That will change with time. In the meantime O'Reilly will continue to prosper in an unstable niche.
Imagine a car dealer doing the same thing! This is a hilarious gaffe. I'm sure some suit for Toshiba will be coming forward soon denying the whole affair. I love the way the GNU/Linux shakes things up!
I am getting tired of seeing the editor refer to free software as Open Source/free or free-OSS or some similar permution. Decorating the term "free software" with other gratutous modifiers is tedious and concusing. Which is is slashdot? Free Software or Open Source?
Pixar and Disney are obviously a good fix. Apple and Disney are less so. Disney's business has always been to create and distribute creative content. The compiuter business is completely different from this. A partnership with Apple is more likely.
Steve Jobs is a great CEO for Apple. He is one of the great visionaries of the 20th century. But I think he is a poor fit for Disney.
The author states that code bloat and featurism will become a problem in the long term. Well, free softeare has been arounf for a long time and we've seen no real evidence of it yet. Most free software projects go through an early phase of rapid development and then settle down to a quiet middle age. Remember how often GCC and Emacs were released in the early 90's? Now minor releases are made at about 1 year intervals.
What really happens when a project matures is that the original programmers strike off into new areas (like GUI desktops) and leave their previous work to those interested in maintaining it.
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I'd have your granddad use emacs and twm for a window manager. I find I can do the vast majority of computeing tasks using emacs, and twm provides a simple, attractive, standard environment. It is never too late to show good taste in your choice of hacking tools.
You said it. Andreesen is nothing more than a solid programmer who was lucky enough to know his way around the Mosaic code. That is the sum of this guy's credentials.
The article suggests that there is some raging debate on the origin of the Earth's water (oceans). There is not. It is long been suspected that an infall of cometary material during the formation of the earth is responsible. The Giotto spacecraft confirmed this by showing that the D/H ratios of ocean water and cometary material are the same. That unbound water was found in a meteorite is very interesting, but is not the leap in understanding that the article suggests.
I don't think that the X/Xt/Xaw framework has been improved upton by any of the relative new comers. We should go back to our roots.
Is SGML Tools still supported? Wouldn't texinfo be a better choice? Any thoughts?
Hi brother! I lived in the SAE house above Rockledge, across the gorge from Carl Sagan's house, from 1982 to 1986. I had the pleasure and honor to sit in an "Ices of the Outer Solar System" seminar taught by doctor Sagan in 1985. Pot smoking and left wing politics aside, the man was brilliant, tough, and an intellectual inspiration. It will be a happy memory for me for the rest of my days.
One thing you didn't mention about his house was that it was also a converted mausoleum! It stood above the best darn swimming hole in Ithaca.
This is my first exposure to this site. The format is very annoying. I've never read a piece more dripping with sarcasm or more inaccurate. Is this journalism for the skateboard crowd?
For all of you out there that rode this IPO to its ridiculous current level, I have one piece of advice. Sell! Redhat cannot make much money giving away software. They can only make money consulting. There is limited upside here. Certainly not enough to justify 5.5 G$ in market cap.
Vote early, vote often, geeks.
X is efficient, flexible, and runs completely separately from the kernal. Its networked display capabilities have still not been matched by Windoze or the Mac. Xlib has served as the basis for Athena, Motif, Openlook, GTK, and QT interfaces. What more could you want it to do?
Young people have lots of energy but the majority lack breadth, education, and are rather stupid. Many are highschool drop outs with programming monomania and highly inflated egos. Older programmers tend to be better educated, have a deeper skill set, write technically better code. They make a lot less noise too. I see no problem in our market with experienced people in their 40's and 50's landing senior level programming jobs.
/. continues its fascination with junk science. The article was crap.
Larry Wall was a fool for not using GPL for Perl. One would expect to see M$ try to exploit a bad "Open Source Compatable" licence. Use the GPL!
What a silly idea. Why would Stallman or anyone else associated with the FSF want to share anything but equal time with Linux? I think Stallman's first idea, calling GNU/Linux LIGNUX has the greatest appeal. I'm sure that Lignus would agree.
What a stupid comment. One of the benefits of free software is that someone can always come along and create a superior derived work. GPL guarantees that it remains free software. All of the ideas about the benefits of the free flow of information that Stallman espouses are proven true. Stallman is not deminished in the slightest if someone amends and improves his work.
I agree Bruce. If ESR had written such a note in a corporate environment he would be fired. End of story. He made ugly threats. You did rightly by publicizing the letter.
Bruce Perens is unstable. He should be on Prozac. ESR is a gun-toting looney who is dilusional and secretly fantasizes that he is Richard Stallman. Neither makes a good spokesman for free software. If both of these clowns disappeared from the scene tomorrow the free software movement would be better for it.
This is a meaning less side show, but it is fun (like Jerry Springer!).
What they found was no accident... Richard Stallman I think it is wonderful that Lignus wrote a kernel. But the guts of all GNU/Linux distributions out there today is GNU software. We would be nowhere without it.
What a weak article. Hardly worth the 2 minutes it took to download over our busy network. Lignus is a cuddly spokesman, Stallman is a fanatic. Boy, there's a load of news. Slashdot's already shoddy standards have reached a new low. Was this piece written by some punk university student? Why don't you write about what some of the lesser gods in the hacking pantheon think? How about Alan Cox, Larry Wall, Rasterman, Roland McGrath and others. What does Donald Knuth think about software freedom issues...
First off let me say that I admire Mike Loukides for his coauthorship of "Design Patterns" published by Addison Wesley. It is an invaluable source of subtile OO design ideas applicable to what ever language you program in. Having said that...
Mike Loukides, you are the one that is retarded! GPL is the single greatest protection for software yet devised. It guarantees the free flow of code and ideas that made the whole free software movement possible. Weaken it and you weaken our movement. If you think that GPL is a virus, fine, don't use the software. Much of corporate America felt this way in the early nineties. But they are sculking back, and hatching plots to weaken GPL. Why? Because you can't ignore this fantastic enabling technology.
The folks at O'Reilly fill what I see as a temporary void. Documentation quality is not the same as code quality for free software. That will change with time. In the meantime O'Reilly will continue to prosper in an unstable niche.
What a conscending article. But hey, if you are one of the great hackers in the world I guess you are allowed to be. Viva la kernel!
Imagine a car dealer doing the same thing! This is a hilarious gaffe. I'm sure some suit for Toshiba will be coming forward soon denying the whole affair. I love the way the GNU/Linux shakes things up!
I am getting tired of seeing the editor refer to free software as Open Source/free or free-OSS or some similar permution. Decorating the term "free software" with other gratutous modifiers is tedious and concusing. Which is is slashdot? Free Software or Open Source?
Pixar and Disney are obviously a good fix. Apple and Disney are less so. Disney's business has always been to create and distribute creative content. The compiuter business is completely different from this. A partnership with Apple is more likely.
Steve Jobs is a great CEO for Apple. He is one of the great visionaries of the 20th century. But I think he is a poor fit for Disney.
The author states that code bloat and featurism will become a problem in the long term. Well, free softeare has been arounf for a long time and we've seen no real evidence of it yet. Most free software projects go through an early phase of rapid development and then settle down to a quiet middle age. Remember how often GCC and Emacs were released in the early 90's? Now minor releases are made at about 1 year intervals.
What really happens when a project matures is that the original programmers strike off into new areas (like GUI desktops) and leave their previous work to those interested in maintaining it.