Here's my review of the Sharp Zaurus. Maybe it sucks, and that's why it wasn't published as a Slashdot story? Anyway, you can read it for yourself.
-russ
This same thing happened when we were building railroads all over hell and gone. Many of the initial builders lost money on their debt service. Of course, some of the more intelligent ones, e.g. James Hill, didn't lose money. It's not a given that you have to lose money by creating a big network, but surely a better way to do so is to acquire smaller profitable networks, than by building one huge network without any evidence of profitability.
-russ
Anybody else notice the terms of the deal? Existing webrings won't be transferred! Sure looks to me like they decided that the whole thing wasn't worth one cent, and when the original author asked for the name webring.org back, they gave it to him for free.
-russ
I think you are fairly optimistic. It's not desirable nor sufficient to ban an IP address range. What about dialups? What about cable modem DHCP rearrangements? Besides which, CmdrTaco believe very strongly in freedom of speech. Since he also believes in the freedom to read only that which you want, he also has a rating system.
Slashdot has not been ruined. If you think it's been ruined, you must be reading with your score set to zero. Don't do that. Read with a minimum of one. A comment from an Anonymous Coward is almost *never* worth reading.
-russ
Precisely why we took the time and effort (this time around) to establish a defendable trademark for Open Source Software, "OSI Certified". Yes, open source might mean anything. So could free software. But "OSI Certified" means something.
-russ
I wonder... how you would feel if I said that the Open Source world needs less IRC clients, not more. Seems to me that the stength of open source is its diversity. Microsoft's strength is its fascistic control. One EULA to bind them all....
-russ
The Microsoft tax is less than it would cost Compaq to create a second, MS-less product. If you would like to eliminate the Microsoft tax, then buy an iPAQ, install Linux, and create a vertical market application. If Compaq can sell enough Linux iPAQs, then it will undoubtedly create a productized version of the Linux iPAQ.
-russ
It's flashable. Stick a 32M CF memory module with a new copy of the OS, and reboot with B and C keys pressed, and it copies the OS from the CF into the onboard flash. So OS updates of any kind are no problem.
-russ
BlowChunx, this is just an example of the dual meaning of "free": libre or gratis? Gratis software may not be libre, but libre software can always be gratis.
-russ
Should the GNOME board consist of community members or GNOME hackers? If the latter, it's going to be impossible not to have strong representation by Ximian and Red Hat. If the latter, merely difficult.
-russ
The FSF has given out gnu.org mailing addresses like pretty girls at parades give out candy. I've got one, if I chose to use it. nelson with the domain of gnu.org gets to me.
-russ
I'm not clear on the difference between open source and free software. Could you show me a piece of free software which is not open source, or a piece of open source software which is not free software?
-russ
There's even more to be said for running short test programs which discern the same things that configure does, and then writing the correct.h file to disk. That way, you can write a makefile which ALWAYS works. The trouble that I have with configure is that it creates a makefile which differs from machine to machine, so that debugging it is quite difficult. Plus, if configure gets something wrong, you can make and make and make all day long, and you'll never fix it. So even though configure, in theory, saves you from having to maintain a makefile, in reality it means that everyone who runs configure may have to debug the makefile.
In other words, it's better to have one makefile, and fix the problems in the makefile, than to have to fix problems in configure or your configure specification.
If you want an example of how this can work, look at Dan Bernstein's djbdns, or qmail. On both of these, "make" Just Works(tm).
-russ
You have lost to the terrorists. You see, their goal is not to kill as many of us as they can. Their goal is to cause is to hurt ourselves through our fear of them. And given that you think that "without quick thinking and quick action, we will all be dead", I'd say that you're pretty damned scared.
Buck up, man. Don't be such a frickin' pansy. Americans will kill ten times as many American citizens through car accidents alone, as any terrorist action has killed. If you're scared of terrorists, then you should be ten times as scared of getting in a car.
-russ
There is no "Somalian Government". There is a faction calling itself the Transitional National Government, however they only control several blocks and a hotel in Mog. Many people in Somalia are sure they don't want any kind of government, so it's not likely that the TNG will go beyond those few blocks.
-russ
If there's no government, there's nobody to buy off. The only route to a monopoly is the Alcoa method: reduce your prices and improve your product faster than anyone else can.
-russ
But linmodems.org runs Linux. Why would it go down??
-russ
No hardware fails if you can run Linux on it
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No hardware fails if you can run Linux on it. Does anybody besides me think it would be terribly humorous to buy an xbox, rip out Bill's software, and run Linux instead?
-russ
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Here's my review of the Sharp Zaurus. Maybe it sucks, and that's why it wasn't published as a Slashdot story? Anyway, you can read it for yourself.
-russ
This same thing happened when we were building railroads all over hell and gone. Many of the initial builders lost money on their debt service. Of course, some of the more intelligent ones, e.g. James Hill, didn't lose money. It's not a given that you have to lose money by creating a big network, but surely a better way to do so is to acquire smaller profitable networks, than by building one huge network without any evidence of profitability.
-russ
Anybody else notice the terms of the deal? Existing webrings won't be transferred! Sure looks to me like they decided that the whole thing wasn't worth one cent, and when the original author asked for the name webring.org back, they gave it to him for free.
-russ
I think you are fairly optimistic. It's not desirable nor sufficient to ban an IP address range. What about dialups? What about cable modem DHCP rearrangements? Besides which, CmdrTaco believe very strongly in freedom of speech. Since he also believes in the freedom to read only that which you want, he also has a rating system.
Slashdot has not been ruined. If you think it's been ruined, you must be reading with your score set to zero. Don't do that. Read with a minimum of one. A comment from an Anonymous Coward is almost *never* worth reading.
-russ
"latter" binds tightly.
-russ
Precisely why we took the time and effort (this time around) to establish a defendable trademark for Open Source Software, "OSI Certified". Yes, open source might mean anything. So could free software. But "OSI Certified" means something.
-russ
I wonder ... how you would feel if I said that the Open Source world needs less IRC clients, not more. Seems to me that the stength of open source is its diversity. Microsoft's strength is its fascistic control. One EULA to bind them all....
-russ
The Microsoft tax is less than it would cost Compaq to create a second, MS-less product. If you would like to eliminate the Microsoft tax, then buy an iPAQ, install Linux, and create a vertical market application. If Compaq can sell enough Linux iPAQs, then it will undoubtedly create a productized version of the Linux iPAQ.
-russ
It's flashable. Stick a 32M CF memory module with a new copy of the OS, and reboot with B and C keys pressed, and it copies the OS from the CF into the onboard flash. So OS updates of any kind are no problem.
-russ
Do any of your examples use an Open Source license?
-russ
BlowChunx, this is just an example of the dual meaning of "free": libre or gratis? Gratis software may not be libre, but libre software can always be gratis.
-russ
One can only hope that Telsa feels an affinity towards Hungarian electrical engineers!
-russ
Should the GNOME board consist of community members or GNOME hackers? If the latter, it's going to be impossible not to have strong representation by Ximian and Red Hat. If the latter, merely difficult.
-russ
The FSF has given out gnu.org mailing addresses like pretty girls at parades give out candy. I've got one, if I chose to use it. nelson with the domain of gnu.org gets to me.
-russ
RMS was an orphan. No surprise that he failed to learn lessons from his mother.
-russ
I'm not clear on the difference between open source and free software. Could you show me a piece of free software which is not open source, or a piece of open source software which is not free software?
-russ
There's even more to be said for running short test programs which discern the same things that configure does, and then writing the correct .h file to disk. That way, you can write a makefile which ALWAYS works. The trouble that I have with configure is that it creates a makefile which differs from machine to machine, so that debugging it is quite difficult. Plus, if configure gets something wrong, you can make and make and make all day long, and you'll never fix it. So even though configure, in theory, saves you from having to maintain a makefile, in reality it means that everyone who runs configure may have to debug the makefile.
In other words, it's better to have one makefile, and fix the problems in the makefile, than to have to fix problems in configure or your configure specification.
If you want an example of how this can work, look at Dan Bernstein's djbdns, or qmail. On both of these, "make" Just Works(tm).
-russ
It goes like this:
If ignorance is bliss,
'tis folly to be wise.
-russ
You have lost to the terrorists. You see, their goal is not to kill as many of us as they can. Their goal is to cause is to hurt ourselves through our fear of them. And given that you think that "without quick thinking and quick action, we will all be dead", I'd say that you're pretty damned scared.
Buck up, man. Don't be such a frickin' pansy. Americans will kill ten times as many American citizens through car accidents alone, as any terrorist action has killed. If you're scared of terrorists, then you should be ten times as scared of getting in a car.
-russ
Last time they tried this, the Somalis threw the corpses over the border.
-russ
There is no "Somalian Government". There is a faction calling itself the Transitional National Government, however they only control several blocks and a hotel in Mog. Many people in Somalia are sure they don't want any kind of government, so it's not likely that the TNG will go beyond those few blocks.
-russ
If there's no government, there's nobody to buy off. The only route to a monopoly is the Alcoa method: reduce your prices and improve your product faster than anyone else can.
-russ
No, you haven't been unsubscribed from the list, but there are a few messages from the list that you haven't received yet.
-russ
But linmodems.org runs Linux. Why would it go down??
-russ
No hardware fails if you can run Linux on it. Does anybody besides me think it would be terribly humorous to buy an xbox, rip out Bill's software, and run Linux instead?
-russ