Yeah Denmark is certainly a pretty liberal country, alas I have learned recently that they are poised to recognize Cientology as a religion, this will be a major blow to other European countries like Germany and France who are trying their possible to stop this evil cult !
I don't understand why this has be moderated up to 4. Why I admit it might be an aceptable philosophical opinion for some people, it's completly off topic. I have noticed there is a serious flaw in the way people moderate and post (as some off topic subjects are brought to people attention by higher moderation) this makes the discussion to in directions which don't have nothing with the initial subject and this really annoying.
Please don't consider this as troll, I just consider the question asked to slashdot very interesting,can we please stick to just "Open Source GIS" ? please don't bring vaporous philosophical noise.
>Honesty and being nice are the best two things a
>geek can do to attract females.
Alas this a widely spread misconception. To pick up girls being too honest is often a bad strategy! Being as you really are might make girls run away. Don't forget that girls LOVE to dream, and have often an idealistic view of the man of her dreams (prince charmant syndrom) you must understand what she is looking for and make her feel that you are absolutely the man of her dreams. Sorry guys this absolutely cynical! But this is really the way it works, use you fabulous geek brain for this absolutely strategic social skill:) . I have observed a lot of people with a lot of success with girls and this absolutely the way they act.
Second, Honesty and being too nice may end being absolutely dangerous, as many women will consider you as a "good friend" but not one they consider sexually attractive.
Alas, Women thinking has often nothing to do with Honesty and kindness at least during the dating process, while they may consider this as good family values they are looking in a good husband, but to simply bring them to your bed, it's often useless, or nearly useless. Yes with women YOU NEED to be somehow cynical, and this is something very difficult for many geeks.
Did you read the entire article ? this is basicaly what BearShare is trying to do in it's last incarnation, now in Alpha. BearShare 3.0 can be set as Peer (Gnutella Classic) Client (à la Napster client) no incoming requests are accepted, (Server) where it can be used as a hub for clients files contents (à la Napster Server). Servers don't have central repositories (à la Napigator) but discover themeselves using a specific BearShare protocol based itslef on te Gnutella protocol. To encourage servers prolification, users with high bandwidth are defaulted to Server.
I see this clearly as a very intersting development, which will lead to greater scalability, it's a kind of combination of a Napster and Gnutella network, I think this is the way to go.
I love to read and search "Ask Slashdot" as it contains invaluable information and different view points of the same subject. But 12 months ago (I guess), I noticed to my great dispointement that a great part of it has been taken offline. Plus a great deal of what is left, is barely readable, as it's not threaded or sortded by "karma" points.
I support this ! Usenet archives and Google is maybe the ONLY Web service I'll gladly pay to access. I just can't afford or imagine to lose them, they are absolutly indispensable to get my work done.
While Aduva is far from perfect, my experience with it was not that bad, I was able to successfully update many packages without any major problem . I just hope it will improve in the future. I haven't tested the Ximian Updater yet, but I guess that it will bring more competition, and this good for Linux.
I have tried graffiti for some time, but I finally gave up, not worth the hassel. I came to the conclusion that with some exercice I can type much quickly with the integrated keyboard.
This might be very interesting to run individual Gnome application integrated in the Windoz Desktop. I would love for instance acces gnome-terminal from my Windoz box connected to a linux machine in a network.
Alas even in Europe there is no public debats about a such important issue. The general European public is bored about technical problems. There have two or three articles though in a French journal (libération.
This seems fair to me. In fact their intention is to do exactly thing as troll tech with QT. I would have prefered if they had open sourced the IDE and the compiler too, but this is better than nothing and would probably contribute to bring VCL in the center of free software development.
They could go the troll tech way and release under GPL AND a commercial licence, as run times need to embed VCL objects if you are developping a GPL program then you can go for the GPL version if you want to develop a closed source program, fine ! then you need the Commercial version I fnd this very fair, and wouldn't hesitate a second to buy a commercial version if I was in the later case. Borland IDE are EXCELLENT ! and worth the money you put in them.
Linux has still a long long way before it can compete with Windows on the Destkop. X is slow and bloated, as are KDE and GNOME wich are build above it. It will be a long time before it's performances can decently compete with Windows
IBM is not a philantropic organisation but a commercial one, they simply need to sell to stay alive and please their shareholders. If this doesn't conflict or even better is harmonious with open source/free software ideals, then we have the best of both worlds. Open source definitly need a solid business model to prosper. Not everybody can as RMS sleep and leave in his office for years, and nobody is a student too leaving on a grant. Comes a time when you need to earn some bucks, to simply support yourself and your family.
Something I really don't get in the actual logic of software patents.
I though ideas where non patentable !
Take for instance the 1-Click patent, if someone comes with a different implementation of the 1-Clik scheme, he is still considered as violating the patent ? so in fact he is violating the idea of 1-Click for shopping not it's application!?
Where is the logic? And why this can't be brought to a court?
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They will just have to ask the copyright of the patchs to be assigned to them, as does the FSF, otherwise the patchs won't be incorporated. Most of the time (although not systematically) having its patch incorporated is a priviliege (witness Linux) so I am pretty sure developpers will accept. They have also the option to "buy" the most intersting patchs.
Technically speaking there is also a risk of forking, but "moraly" I don't see this happening, as most developers understand that Trolltech still need to make a leaving, to continue to improve QT. This will be like a stab in the back for someone who has given a lot to free software. Personally I won't hesitate to buy the commercial QT edition if I had to develop a closed product, I see this as a deserved reward for Troll Tech.
Well those are just suppositions ! only the future will tell what will really happen !
>English is very good at compounding words, which >makes it easy to express new concepts such
>as "astronaut" or "e-commerce" (blech)
>or "batmobile". Whether that has had an
> influence on technological development or not,
> I couldn't say.
I have to agree here ! I view this as the main strength of English and more generally all the anglo-saxon languages.
When French use a "periphrase" or a sentence to mean a new concept, Eenglish often invent a new "word" which is associated with the concept, this is much stronger. I admit this linguistic and sociologic. When you do that you extend the vocabulary ! The Word and the Concept interact in very powerful way stregthening each other. This what "buzz word" is all about. I believe that English is much more subject to "Buzz words" than other languages I practice, for this same reason.
Something else, when I am programming I find it easier to name my functions or procedures in English than in French, because of this same concept thing. The meaning is easier to understand and is more concise if it's writen in English (for someone who speak both languages of course).
Here an example : In French you will call a function which fetch a value chercher_la_valeur, notice the pronoun, this a sentence ! while in English you will naturally call it : get_value, this closer to a concept than the French form.
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Yeah Denmark is certainly a pretty liberal country, alas I have learned recently that they are poised to recognize Cientology as a religion, this will be a major blow to other European countries like Germany and France who are trying their possible to stop this evil cult !
I don't understand why this has be moderated up to 4. Why I admit it might be an aceptable philosophical opinion for some people, it's completly off topic. I have noticed there is a serious flaw in the way people moderate and post (as some off topic subjects are brought to people attention by higher moderation) this makes the discussion to in directions which don't have nothing with the initial subject and this really annoying.
Please don't consider this as troll, I just consider the question asked to slashdot very interesting,can we please stick to just "Open Source GIS" ? please don't bring vaporous philosophical noise.
Come on ! who moderated this to troll, this shows a lack of sens of humour ! I find it rather funny !
>Honesty and being nice are the best two things a
:) . I have observed a lot of people with a lot of success with girls and this absolutely the way they act.
>geek can do to attract females.
Alas this a widely spread misconception. To pick up girls being too honest is often a bad strategy! Being as you really are might make girls run away. Don't forget that girls LOVE to dream, and have often an idealistic view of the man of her dreams (prince charmant syndrom) you must understand what she is looking for and make her feel that you are absolutely the man of her dreams. Sorry guys this absolutely cynical! But this is really the way it works, use you fabulous geek brain for this absolutely strategic social skill
Second, Honesty and being too nice may end being absolutely dangerous, as many women will consider you as a "good friend" but not one they consider sexually attractive.
Alas, Women thinking has often nothing to do with Honesty and kindness at least during the dating process, while they may consider this as good family values they are looking in a good husband, but to simply bring them to your bed, it's often useless, or nearly useless. Yes with women YOU NEED to be somehow cynical, and this is something very difficult for many geeks.
Did you read the entire article ? this is basicaly what BearShare is trying to do in it's last incarnation, now in Alpha. BearShare 3.0 can be set as Peer (Gnutella Classic) Client (à la Napster client) no incoming requests are accepted, (Server) where it can be used as a hub for clients files contents (à la Napster Server). Servers don't have central repositories (à la Napigator) but discover themeselves using a specific BearShare protocol based itslef on te Gnutella protocol. To encourage servers prolification, users with high bandwidth are defaulted to Server.
I see this clearly as a very intersting development, which will lead to greater scalability, it's a kind of combination of a Napster and Gnutella network, I think this is the way to go.
>Who the hell moderated this?
>Note to moderators. Please try and read the post before moderating it up.
Who the hell moderated this?
Note to moderators. Please try and read the post before moderating it up.
You are absolutly riht !
I love to read and search "Ask Slashdot" as it contains invaluable information and different view points of the same subject. But 12 months ago (I guess), I noticed to my great dispointement that a great part of it has been taken offline. Plus a great deal of what is left, is barely readable, as it's not threaded or sortded by "karma" points.
I support this ! Usenet archives and Google is maybe the ONLY Web service I'll gladly pay to access. I just can't afford or imagine to lose them, they are absolutly indispensable to get my work done.
While Aduva is far from perfect, my experience with it was not that bad, I was able to successfully update many packages without any major problem . I just hope it will improve in the future. I haven't tested the Ximian Updater yet, but I guess that it will bring more competition, and this good for Linux.
I have tried graffiti for some time, but I finally gave up, not worth the hassel. I came to the conclusion that with some exercice I can type much quickly with the integrated keyboard.
I believe you can install KDE with aduva (aduva.com) quite easily ! I even don't see the need of a KDE installer
This is what Sourceforge.net is for !!
> Don't click here if you use Win9x.
:((
I am too curious ! I did
Really strange thinking ! have thought about companies which are being sued ! it's the other face of the coin !
This might be very interesting to run individual Gnome application integrated in the Windoz Desktop. I would love for instance acces gnome-terminal from my Windoz box connected to a linux machine in a network.
Alas even in Europe there is no public debats about a such important issue. The general European public is bored about technical problems. There have two or three articles though in a French journal (libération.
This seems fair to me. In fact their intention is to do exactly thing as troll tech with QT. I would have prefered if they had open sourced the IDE and the compiler too, but this is better than nothing and would probably contribute to bring VCL in the center of free software development.
Why not ?
They could go the troll tech way and release under GPL AND a commercial licence, as run times need to embed VCL objects if you are developping a GPL program then you can go for the GPL version if you want to develop a closed source program, fine ! then you need the Commercial version I fnd this very fair, and wouldn't hesitate a second to buy a commercial version if I was in the later case. Borland IDE are EXCELLENT ! and worth the money you put in them.
Linux has still a long long way before it can compete with Windows on the Destkop. X is slow and bloated, as are KDE and GNOME wich are build above it. It will be a long time before it's performances can decently compete with Windows
This is exactly my opinion too ! the hole thing sounds rather phony !
IBM is not a philantropic organisation but a commercial one, they simply need to sell to stay alive and please their shareholders. If this doesn't conflict or even better is harmonious with open source/free software ideals, then we have the best of both worlds. Open source definitly need a solid business model to prosper. Not everybody can as RMS sleep and leave in his office for years, and nobody is a student too leaving on a grant. Comes a time when you need to earn some bucks, to simply support yourself and your family.
Regards
Something I really don't get in the actual logic of software patents.
I though ideas where non patentable !
Take for instance the 1-Click patent, if someone comes with a different implementation of the 1-Clik scheme, he is still considered as violating the patent ? so in fact he is violating the idea of 1-Click for shopping not it's application!?
Where is the logic? And why this can't be brought to a court?
They will just have to ask the copyright of the patchs to be assigned to them, as does the FSF, otherwise the patchs won't be incorporated. Most of the time (although not systematically) having its patch incorporated is a priviliege (witness Linux) so I am pretty sure developpers will accept. They have also the option to "buy" the most intersting patchs.
Technically speaking there is also a risk of forking, but "moraly" I don't see this happening, as most developers understand that Trolltech still need to make a leaving, to continue to improve QT. This will be like a stab in the back for someone who has given a lot to free software. Personally I won't hesitate to buy the commercial QT edition if I had to develop a closed product, I see this as a deserved reward for Troll Tech.
Well those are just suppositions ! only the future will tell what will really happen !
This might be a huge discovery for you ! but not every human kind is a native english speaker ;)
Come on ! it's considered "bad etiquete" to criticise people spelling and grammar !
what people say is much more important thant how they say it !
>English is very good at compounding words, which >makes it easy to express new concepts such
:)
>as "astronaut" or "e-commerce" (blech)
>or "batmobile". Whether that has had an
> influence on technological development or not,
> I couldn't say.
I have to agree here ! I view this as the main strength of English and more generally all the anglo-saxon languages.
When French use a "periphrase" or a sentence to mean a new concept, Eenglish often invent a new "word" which is associated with the concept, this is much stronger. I admit this linguistic and sociologic. When you do that you extend the vocabulary ! The Word and the Concept interact in very powerful way stregthening each other. This what "buzz word" is all about. I believe that English is much more subject to "Buzz words" than other languages I practice, for this same reason.
Something else, when I am programming I find it easier to name my functions or procedures in English than in French, because of this same concept thing. The meaning is easier to understand and is more concise if it's writen in English (for someone who speak both languages of course).
Here an example : In French you will call a function which fetch a value chercher_la_valeur, notice the pronoun, this a sentence ! while in English you will naturally call it : get_value, this closer to a concept than the French form.
Well maybe I am subjective too