I think I more or less agree with you, but money isn't the root of all evil. "For the love of money is the root of all evil..." (It's in I Timothy 6:10)
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wonk wonk wonk. go somewhere else then ( e.g., rpmfind) The linux community may revolve around a few sites, but that's because their good. When they're not that way anymore, we'll move on ( e.g., linux.org and all its controversy ). I like having the histories, reviews, comments, and the like.
I agree with the gist of your post. Both parties are full of evil...um... buttheads. ( I didn't vote for either ). But, technically speaking, I believe it was the Democrats who filed the first suit. I do find it interesting that the Republicans say what they do about the will of the people and still file suits. Part of it *is* "self-defense." But some of it also political bickering and a bit self-contradictory.
Protestant != Christian? Weird. I'm Protestant and Christian... Hmmm. And I'm against net filtering except by personal choice. Strange. Reading/. makes me appear to be thinking other than what I am. Perhaps what we have is a case of religious stereotyping. Kind of a faithism ( ala racism ). Saying all Christians are Bible-thumpers who want to rule the lives of others is like saying all blacks are drug-using wife beaters, all Jews are great businessman, or everyone from Arkansas are rednecks who married their brothers/sisters. It's also dreadfully uneducated.
I think I'm right on all three. The basis for the millenium and century ending this year is that there was no year 0 when the calendar was defined. Using the same logic, the first decade started in year 1 and ended in year 10. So by the same logic, the 90's start in 1991 and end this year. Strange, but I'm pretty sure that's right.
I know this is a subject of some debate ( and who doesn't like a spirited debate?), but the 20th century ( and subsequently, the 90s and the second millenium ) isn't over yet. What about anything cool that happens this year, eh? Some poor inventor's gonna feel cheated on this one.
The thread problems aren't a Java issue. Thread execution order is nondeterministic and often seemingly random. To blame this behavior on Java is to not understand multithreaded programming. Remove the threads and you won't have that problem.
I've been programming in Java ( using CORBA and RMI ) on Linux for ~2 years now and it's been great. It's had its problems to be sure but it's not as bad as some here are making it out to be. We've had significant loads and high numbers of objects going back and forth from our servers and Java has worked like a champ.
I'm just being anal, but as to Quayle's biggest gaff, the spelling of the plural form of potato, he was right. You can check it out at www.m-w.com. Type potato in the dictionary box and click search. It's right there straight from the folks who ought to know.
I think there should be a huge fine for dumb patents that have prior art regardless of whether the applicant knew about it. ( They never will have known. ) That would encourage some real research. Or at the very least have a protected pre-patent period so someone can show evidence of prior art. The protected period would have the same protections as a patent for a specified period ( say 3 months ). It ends either in the approval of the patent or the discrediting of the claim. The USPTO is full of . . . um . . . uninformed . . . uh . . . people. The whole system needs an overhaul.
I think the project your referring to is the Harmony project which is the GNU effort to make a source compatible lib. IIRC, that effort was reinstated some months ago. It sounds very exciting. It's the only UI lib I know of that doesn't have problems with UI updates outside of the event thread. A multithreaded UI could be very cool, indeed.
This is another example of how dumb the patent office is. This patent can't stand. This sort of thing has been used for years. My company has had a system since '91 doing this sort of thing. Web sites have stored user preferences for years. Before that there were BBSes. Before that...
Morals != religion. Many athiests are moral people. Causes quite the conundrum with your theory, eh? Governments are in the business of saying what's right and wrong. They don't call them morals; they call them laws. Law == morality. Doesn't matter if that morality has a religious basis or not. When you boil it down, laws define acceptable behavior - what's good and bad.
What makes a computer cracker a better target than say a code cracker, intelligence inpreter ( ala CIA ) or any other noncombat roles that aid in the effort to disrupt enemy operations. People are aware of the risks when they sign up for the military. If they don't like it, tough, they signed their names on the dotted lines. War sucks, eh?
That makes little sense. Those people are in about as much dnager as those who crack codes. Is there danger there? Sure, I guess. But reading that post, you'd expect Mel Gibson's next movie to be about a military cracker on the run from the evil enemies hit men. I just don't think there's that much cause for alarm. If they wanted to hit someone, don't you think they'd go for command?
Don't get me wrong, ESR. I think you've done a great deal for the community and taken more than I would put up with. But your response was somewhat less than I would expect from someone in leadership, whether elected or self-appointed. Any idiot can pull a trigger. Any boy can grow to be a man. Adults learn to forgive. Adults take the criticism, good and bad, and learn what they can from it. We've all been hurt by what's been done and said to us. My only thought is, 'grow up.' I've read what i can of the discussion. It's not that big a deal. The open source community is full of a bunch of passionate people who sometimes say ( and take ) things the wrong way. Forgiveness is a skill is highly undervalued in today's society.
The open source model is about discussing ideas openly. By your own words, peer review produces better results. Asking Bruce to come to you privately, is violating your own teachings. Bruce was within his rights to bring his objections up publicly. That's the way it's done. Was it over done? Perhaps. Give people the freedom to screw up.
I, for one, am tired of the bickering. It's the grade school playground all over again. Be willing to accept criticism and get on with life.
As I understand it, AbiWord has already been designated as the "official" gnome word processor. There is a link on gnome's site about the gnome workshop and it lists the components that make up the workshop.
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I think I more or less agree with you, but money isn't the root of all evil. "For the love of money is the root of all evil..." (It's in I Timothy 6:10)
Complaining about a free service. sheesh!
I agree with the gist of your post. Both parties are full of evil ...um... buttheads. ( I didn't vote for either ). But, technically speaking, I believe it was the Democrats who filed the first suit. I do find it interesting that the Republicans say what they do about the will of the people and still file suits. Part of it *is* "self-defense." But some of it also political bickering and a bit self-contradictory.
here is a Suck article about the head of the IOC. It's Suck so it's a bit pessimistic by nature, but it's still not a flattering assessment.
Protestant != Christian? Weird. I'm Protestant and Christian... Hmmm. And I'm against net filtering except by personal choice. Strange. Reading /. makes me appear to be thinking other than what I am. Perhaps what we have is a case of religious stereotyping. Kind of a faithism ( ala racism ). Saying all Christians are Bible-thumpers who want to rule the lives of others is like saying all blacks are drug-using wife beaters, all Jews are great businessman, or everyone from Arkansas are rednecks who married their brothers/sisters. It's also dreadfully uneducated.
I think I'm right on all three. The basis for the millenium and century ending this year is that there was no year 0 when the calendar was defined. Using the same logic, the first decade started in year 1 and ended in year 10. So by the same logic, the 90's start in 1991 and end this year. Strange, but I'm pretty sure that's right.
I know this is a subject of some debate ( and who doesn't like a spirited debate?), but the 20th century ( and subsequently, the 90s and the second millenium ) isn't over yet. What about anything cool that happens this year, eh? Some poor inventor's gonna feel cheated on this one.
Maybe they realized they were wrong.
'cept they broke no laws...
The thread problems aren't a Java issue. Thread execution order is nondeterministic and often seemingly random. To blame this behavior on Java is to not understand multithreaded programming. Remove the threads and you won't have that problem.
I've been programming in Java ( using CORBA and RMI ) on Linux for ~2 years now and it's been great. It's had its problems to be sure but it's not as bad as some here are making it out to be. We've had significant loads and high numbers of objects going back and forth from our servers and Java has worked like a champ.
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I'm just being anal, but as to Quayle's biggest gaff, the spelling of the plural form of potato, he was right. You can check it out at www.m-w.com. Type potato in the dictionary box and click search. It's right there straight from the folks who ought to know.
I think there should be a huge fine for dumb patents that have prior art regardless of whether the applicant knew about it. ( They never will have known. ) That would encourage some real research. Or at the very least have a protected pre-patent period so someone can show evidence of prior art. The protected period would have the same protections as a patent for a specified period ( say 3 months ). It ends either in the approval of the patent or the discrediting of the claim. The USPTO is full of . . . um . . . uninformed . . . uh . . . people. The whole system needs an overhaul.
I think the project your referring to is the Harmony project which is the GNU effort to make a source compatible lib. IIRC, that effort was reinstated some months ago. It sounds very exciting. It's the only UI lib I know of that doesn't have problems with UI updates outside of the event thread. A multithreaded UI could be very cool, indeed.
This is another example of how dumb the patent office is. This patent can't stand. This sort of thing has been used for years. My company has had a system since '91 doing this sort of thing. Web sites have stored user preferences for years. Before that there were BBSes. Before that...
Morals != religion. Many athiests are moral people. Causes quite the conundrum with your theory, eh? Governments are in the business of saying what's right and wrong. They don't call them morals; they call them laws. Law == morality. Doesn't matter if that morality has a religious basis or not. When you boil it down, laws define acceptable behavior - what's good and bad.
What makes a computer cracker a better target than say a code cracker, intelligence inpreter ( ala CIA ) or any other noncombat roles that aid in the effort to disrupt enemy operations. People are aware of the risks when they sign up for the military. If they don't like it, tough, they signed their names on the dotted lines. War sucks, eh?
That makes little sense. Those people are in about as much dnager as those who crack codes. Is there danger there? Sure, I guess. But reading that post, you'd expect Mel Gibson's next movie to be about a military cracker on the run from the evil enemies hit men. I just don't think there's that much cause for alarm. If they wanted to hit someone, don't you think they'd go for command?
Don't get me wrong, ESR. I think you've done a great deal for the community and taken more than I would put up with. But your response was somewhat less than I would expect from someone in leadership, whether elected or self-appointed. Any idiot can pull a trigger. Any boy can grow to be a man. Adults learn to forgive. Adults take the criticism, good and bad, and learn what they can from it. We've all been hurt by what's been done and said to us. My only thought is, 'grow up.' I've read what i can of the discussion. It's not that big a deal. The open source community is full of a bunch of passionate people who sometimes say ( and take ) things the wrong way. Forgiveness is a skill is highly undervalued in today's society.
The open source model is about discussing ideas openly. By your own words, peer review produces better results. Asking Bruce to come to you privately, is violating your own teachings. Bruce was within his rights to bring his objections up publicly. That's the way it's done. Was it over done? Perhaps. Give people the freedom to screw up.
I, for one, am tired of the bickering. It's the grade school playground all over again. Be willing to accept criticism and get on with life.
As I understand it, AbiWord has already been designated as the "official" gnome word processor. There is a link on gnome's site about the gnome workshop and it lists the components that make up the workshop.
Ever heard of uuencoding? there won't be any binaries to strip if you uuencode. Just a thought.
Richard Stallman has been a Linux fan since 1984! Those ZDNet reporters are really unearthing some long-buried secrets!
I think they were referring to when RMS first started touting the open source model.