Water that taste like Cola, but is still free Liquour that makes you drunk, but doesn't kill brain cells and doesn't give hangovers Pepperoni pizza with ananas and extra cheese that just gives you the nutrients of cooked cod with potatoes and broccoli ZIP/gzip for real life objects
Devices that makes it hard or slow to switch context between computing and other doings are rarely successfull. I wanna go to my computer, press update on slashdot, go to my stereo and turn it off, then go to the owen and put in a frozen pizza, then read slashdot, then go put on the TV, take out the pizza, eat the pizza, watch TV, decide it sucks, read slashdot, eat pizza, read slashdot, eat pizza...
If I had to put on and off gloves and glasses 8 times just in the above sequence, they would soon evolve into dust magnets...
In terrorist friendly countries, that is countries which fails to recognize the above statements, US has the right to procecute people without the need for any law
First a few corrections: "Beborn Beton" "Evils Toy" "S.P.O.C.K" "Project Pitchfork" "Cobalt 60"
Also good bands to check out:
Absurd Minds, Assemblage 23, Birmingham 6, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Hocico, In Strict Confidence, Laibach, Neuroactive
Here's a very subjective list of albums worth looking at/starting with, on a group;album,album;song,song format:
Absurd Minds ; Damn the Lie ; Septic Apoptygma Berzerk ; Soli Deo Gloria ; Non-Stop Violence, Spiritual Realitiy Assemblage 23 ; Failure ; Disappoint Beborn Beton ; Nightfall ; Ambush, Mantrap - The Seduction Birmingham 6 ; Policestate, You Cannot Walk Here ; Policestate, You Cannot Walk Here C-Tec ; Darker ; Flowing Covenant ; Sequencer, Dreams of a Cryotank ; Slow Motion, Babel, Replicant Delerium ; Semantic Spaces ; Flowers Become Screens Elegant Machinery ; Degraded Faces ; Save Me Evils Toy ; XTC Implant ; Vanished Soul Front 242 ;.... Off, Front by Front ; Moldavia, Masterhit pt1&2 Front Line Assembly ; Caustic Grip, FLAvour of the Weak ; Provision Funker Vogt ; Killing Time Again ; Vision Hocico ; Sangre Hirviente ; Poltergeist In Strict Confidence ; Mistrust the Angels, Angels Anger Overkill ; Hero, Industrial Love, Stern, Hertzattacke Laibach ; Opus Dei ; Life is Live, In the Year 2525 Neuroactive ; Transients ;... Project Pitchfork ; Daimonion, Souls/Island ; Timekiller, Dependence, Souls, Renascence S.P.O.C.K ; Five Year Mission ; Never Trust a Klingon Velvet Acid Christ ; Fun With Knives ; Malfunction, Futile, Icon VNV Nation ; Burning Empires, Praise the Fallen ; Solitary, Standing, Savior(Vox) Wumpscut ; Bunkertor 7, Embryodead ; Capital Punishment, Embryodead
Sorry about the crappy format... it's the posting filter's fault
I know "me too"s are mostly noise, but I think it's ok to show people that there are more of us.
I too encode all my new CD's in Ogg. I know that mp3 is THE format, but that certainly won't change unless someone ignore that.
If Ogg doesn't win, so what. It works anyway. It's not like the files are lost in the big black "dead format" hole.
Not neccessarily open source.
I would be surprised if they based it on MySQL, as there's already at least one commercial MySQL mutation out there.
In addition, MySQL is not part of the database battle on Linux. MySQL is working perfectly, but is very feature limited. The database war is between high speed feature rich databases, like Sybase, DB2, Oracle.
My guess would be that they're licensing Sybase, and will linuxify/redhatify it a little, like Microsoft did on Wintendo (MS-SQL).
Two things that alone is enough to use zsh
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~myhome% hash -d lbin=/usr/local/bin
~myhome% cd ~lbin
~lbin% pwd
/usr/local/bin
AFAIR, George Bush (the ex-president that is) was some years ago asked if he would ensure the citizen rights of atheists, and replied something like "I don't consider atheists citizens, and therefore they have no rights. This is one nation under God".
I don't know if Bush jr. inherited that attitute, but he is, well, not mentally stable, so I would expect absolutely anything when this election is over and he can speak his own opinion again.
I don't live in USA, but if I did, I'm quite sure I would prefer the notorious liar who thinks he invented the Internet.
So what if they can't get anyone convicted. The open source developer would have to pay a loyar to demand proof that the code was actually stolen, and I bet a lot of developer would think "Nah, it's just a minor side project anyhow. It's not worth that much effort".
I thought about the same thing. It's paranoia, but each time I've thought "Nah, I'm being too paranoid. Microsoft wouldn't do such an (evil|stupid|incompetent|bad) thing", I've been wrong.
What if the code wasn't stolen. They could claim it was stolen, then sue anyone working with their file formats or API's, and claim that they couldn't have accomplished what they did without seing the actual source.
Without any proof of the source actually floating around on the net they would probably loose, but just the threat and execution of law suits would scare a lot of people from working in that area.
BTW: If someone bought one of the collections of 68.000.000 mail addresses, and mailed pieces of the source personally to each with a misleading subject, would then everyone have to prove that they didn't read that mail to be able to continue working as developers at all? I mean, if open source developers could be sued if they had seen the source, so could all the other developers.
ESR may be a good politician, but after reading The New Hackers Dictionary, I'm convinced that the world would be a better place if he was court ordered to stay at least 50 feet away from any source code or technical issues. At least he should lose the right to pretend he is speaking for others than himself.
After a few years? Computer technology is just a basic building block like everything else. How long did it take to build 30 floor buildings after the first brick was invented? TTT (TTVLT)
I've been thinking about what I would do in such a situation. Currently I'm avoiding projects with any chance of being in conflict with my work. Anyway, your program belongs to you, and you are free to distribute it under any license you want. What they have is a GPLed version. If they don't want to distribute their additions to that, they have to buy a different license from you (it is your property, since you didn't write it while employed). I would give them the choice between respecting the GPL, buy a pretty cheap license from you requiring the changes being distributed after a certain amount of time, or an expensive license giving them the control of the project. The last license should cost about what you would get in hour payment if you should write it all again from scratch. Hopefully, they would go for one of the first two variants. Of course, if they don't understand your position at all, then you're in trouble:/
XHTML is NOT HTML 5. While HTML is a SGML application, XHTML is a XML application. XHTML is the XML equivialent of HTML 4, probably created so that one can transform all HTML documents into XML with minimal effort.
AFAIR, his wife was given the Nobel price when she divorced him. I don't know why, but I would guess it was because she was the one deserving it. Worth checking out.
There's a difference between writing a system designed to be small and writing a small system.
If you design a large system, and starts to implement it, you will discover that the way you designed it is not working, but unfortunately, everything is written to support that design, so you're pretty much screwed. By writing a system which can function when it's small, you will always have something that's working. With a general design, you can easily upgrade it to something large that's working.
When you start designing a programming language, you usually design the core language first, and then adds the standard library, making it a large language that way. Doing it that way, you get C, Ada or Common Lisp. By making it large in the first place, you get C++ and Visual Basic.
And need I remind you that UNIX is a small OS with a lot of additions, while Windows is a large unorganized chaos? No, Windows is not a DOS patch. Windows is a large GUI without any real OS inside, in which they threw DOS because they didn't have time or brains to anything else.
And Emacs started out as the "E MACroS for TECO", while Word started out as a large program.
There's nothing wrong with designing something to only be large, but normally you do that the second time, when you know what you want and the old design needs to be replaced.
They are going to start a large number of web sites, and an AI system which analyzes the user and determines which web sites (s)he might be interrested in? That's a strange decision order. Why don't they create the web sites first, and when the amount gets out of hand, then they could development systems to make the navigation easier.
It's my professional opinion that the only proper way of developing very large software systems is to build a small to medium system, and then patch it up to large. These guys are starting to build something large, and thus it will probably fail.
Slashdot Mirror
What I really want is
Water that taste like Cola, but is still free
Liquour that makes you drunk, but doesn't kill brain cells and doesn't give hangovers
Pepperoni pizza with ananas and extra cheese that just gives you the nutrients of cooked cod with potatoes and broccoli
ZIP/gzip for real life objects
Devices that makes it hard or slow to switch context between computing and other doings are rarely successfull. I wanna go to my computer, press update on slashdot, go to my stereo and turn it off, then go to the owen and put in a frozen pizza, then read slashdot, then go put on the TV, take out the pizza, eat the pizza, watch TV, decide it sucks, read slashdot, eat pizza, read slashdot, eat pizza...
If I had to put on and off gloves and glasses 8 times just in the above sequence, they would soon evolve into dust magnets...
The new editions are called "The Little Schemer"
followed by "The Seasoned Schemer".
Also recommended from the same authors are
"A Little Java, A Few Patterns"
"The Little MLer"
First a few corrections: "Beborn Beton" "Evils Toy" "S.P.O.C.K" "Project Pitchfork" "Cobalt 60"
.... Off, Front by Front ; Moldavia, Masterhit pt1&2 ...
Also good bands to check out:
Absurd Minds, Assemblage 23, Birmingham 6, Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Hocico, In Strict Confidence, Laibach, Neuroactive
Here's a very subjective list of albums worth looking at/starting with, on a group;album,album;song,song format:
Absurd Minds ; Damn the Lie ; Septic
Apoptygma Berzerk ; Soli Deo Gloria ; Non-Stop Violence, Spiritual Realitiy
Assemblage 23 ; Failure ; Disappoint
Beborn Beton ; Nightfall ; Ambush, Mantrap - The Seduction
Birmingham 6 ; Policestate, You Cannot Walk Here ; Policestate, You Cannot Walk Here
C-Tec ; Darker ; Flowing
Covenant ; Sequencer, Dreams of a Cryotank ; Slow Motion, Babel, Replicant
Delerium ; Semantic Spaces ; Flowers Become Screens
Elegant Machinery ; Degraded Faces ; Save Me
Evils Toy ; XTC Implant ; Vanished Soul
Front 242 ;
Front Line Assembly ; Caustic Grip, FLAvour of the Weak ; Provision
Funker Vogt ; Killing Time Again ; Vision
Hocico ; Sangre Hirviente ; Poltergeist
In Strict Confidence ; Mistrust the Angels, Angels Anger Overkill ; Hero, Industrial Love, Stern, Hertzattacke
Laibach ; Opus Dei ; Life is Live, In the Year 2525
Neuroactive ; Transients ;
Project Pitchfork ; Daimonion, Souls/Island ; Timekiller, Dependence, Souls, Renascence
S.P.O.C.K ; Five Year Mission ; Never Trust a Klingon
Velvet Acid Christ ; Fun With Knives ; Malfunction, Futile, Icon
VNV Nation ; Burning Empires, Praise the Fallen ; Solitary, Standing, Savior(Vox)
Wumpscut ; Bunkertor 7, Embryodead ; Capital Punishment, Embryodead
Sorry about the crappy format... it's the posting filter's fault
It might be just me, but in my world 3500 bugs disquafilies software from using the 1.0 version number...
I know "me too"s are mostly noise, but I think it's ok to show people that there are more of us. I too encode all my new CD's in Ogg. I know that mp3 is THE format, but that certainly won't change unless someone ignore that. If Ogg doesn't win, so what. It works anyway. It's not like the files are lost in the big black "dead format" hole.
Not neccessarily open source. I would be surprised if they based it on MySQL, as there's already at least one commercial MySQL mutation out there. In addition, MySQL is not part of the database battle on Linux. MySQL is working perfectly, but is very feature limited. The database war is between high speed feature rich databases, like Sybase, DB2, Oracle. My guess would be that they're licensing Sybase, and will linuxify/redhatify it a little, like Microsoft did on Wintendo (MS-SQL).
1.
~myhome% hash -d lbin=/usr/local/bin
~myhome% cd ~lbin
~lbin% pwd
/usr/local/bin
2.
/% gzip **/*.dvi
gives the same result as
/% find -name "*.dvi" -exec gzip {} \;
Yeah, that's why. The new security model; Security through binarity.
Binary mail formats are pure evil, unless they are accessible through ODBC.
I think 6.1 will be the real release. AFAIR, M21 was meant to be the release, so the pre-M19 release is really strange.
AFAIR, George Bush (the ex-president that is) was some years ago asked if he would ensure the citizen rights of atheists, and replied something like "I don't consider atheists citizens, and therefore they have no rights. This is one nation under God". I don't know if Bush jr. inherited that attitute, but he is, well, not mentally stable, so I would expect absolutely anything when this election is over and he can speak his own opinion again. I don't live in USA, but if I did, I'm quite sure I would prefer the notorious liar who thinks he invented the Internet.
So what if they can't get anyone convicted. The open source developer would have to pay a loyar to demand proof that the code was actually stolen, and I bet a lot of developer would think "Nah, it's just a minor side project anyhow. It's not worth that much effort".
What if the code wasn't stolen. They could claim it was stolen, then sue anyone working with their file formats or API's, and claim that they couldn't have accomplished what they did without seing the actual source.
Without any proof of the source actually floating around on the net they would probably loose, but just the threat and execution of law suits would scare a lot of people from working in that area.
BTW: If someone bought one of the collections of 68.000.000 mail addresses, and mailed pieces of the source personally to each with a misleading subject, would then everyone have to prove that they didn't read that mail to be able to continue working as developers at all? I mean, if open source developers could be sued if they had seen the source, so could all the other developers.
ESR may be a good politician, but after reading The New Hackers Dictionary, I'm convinced that the world would be a better place if he was court ordered to stay at least 50 feet away from any source code or technical issues. At least he should lose the right to pretend he is speaking for others than himself.
After a few years? Computer technology is just a basic building block like everything else. How long did it take to build 30 floor buildings after the first brick was invented? TTT (TTVLT)
Hmmm, SSIA not allowed here? Crap! I guess I'll just fill the message body with crap so it will go through. Crap. There. Done.
If his forking it, then he actually gives his property to his employer for free. I would not do that.
I've been thinking about what I would do in such a situation. Currently I'm avoiding projects with any chance of being in conflict with my work. Anyway, your program belongs to you, and you are free to distribute it under any license you want. What they have is a GPLed version. If they don't want to distribute their additions to that, they have to buy a different license from you (it is your property, since you didn't write it while employed). I would give them the choice between respecting the GPL, buy a pretty cheap license from you requiring the changes being distributed after a certain amount of time, or an expensive license giving them the control of the project. The last license should cost about what you would get in hour payment if you should write it all again from scratch. Hopefully, they would go for one of the first two variants. Of course, if they don't understand your position at all, then you're in trouble :/
XHTML is NOT HTML 5. While HTML is a SGML application, XHTML is a XML application. XHTML is the XML equivialent of HTML 4, probably created so that one can transform all HTML documents into XML with minimal effort.
AFAIR, his wife was given the Nobel price when she divorced him. I don't know why, but I would guess it was because she was the one deserving it. Worth checking out.
There's a difference between writing a system designed to be small and writing a small system.
If you design a large system, and starts to implement it, you will discover that the way you designed it is not working, but unfortunately, everything is written to support that design, so you're pretty much screwed. By writing a system which can function when it's small, you will always have something that's working. With a general design, you can easily upgrade it to something large that's working.
When you start designing a programming language, you usually design the core language first, and then adds the standard library, making it a large language that way. Doing it that way, you get C, Ada or Common Lisp. By making it large in the first place, you get C++ and Visual Basic.
And need I remind you that UNIX is a small OS with a lot of additions, while Windows is a large unorganized chaos? No, Windows is not a DOS patch. Windows is a large GUI without any real OS inside, in which they threw DOS because they didn't have time or brains to anything else.
And Emacs started out as the "E MACroS for TECO", while Word started out as a large program.
There's nothing wrong with designing something to only be large, but normally you do that the second time, when you know what you want and the old design needs to be replaced.
They are going to start a large number of web sites, and an AI system which analyzes the user and determines which web sites (s)he might be interrested in? That's a strange decision order. Why don't they create the web sites first, and when the amount gets out of hand, then they could development systems to make the navigation easier.
It's my professional opinion that the only proper way of developing very large software systems is to build a small to medium system, and then patch it up to large. These guys are starting to build something large, and thus it will probably fail.