> i don't see php as a perl replacement, but rather two complementary technologies.
Bravo! Very well said.
I have never understood the need for some to view programming languages (or, indeed, any computer technology) from a zero-sum perspective. Programming languages are tools, each has it's strengths and weaknesses. Use the right one for the right job. Very often the best solution to a problem is to use more than one tool together. After all, you do not see carpenters having flame wars over whether a hammer or a screwdriver is better for building a house.
I have SMS on my phone but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to use it. It seems that using SMS is not as easy as it seems 'cause most of the people I know who have it don't use it either. And these are mostly high-end techies.
Ever since the original call-to-arms there's been a number of different organizations listed as worthy of donations. There is an organization that has done more than the FSF, EFF, [your acronym here] combined. That is the US Internet Association of America. They have far more pull and a much better voice in the US government. If you honestly want to see a change in the US laws, this is one organization you need to support.
Seriouslly, I have memories that go back to when my youngest brother was born. I was 5 then, I'm 40 now. What's hard is that most of these "memories" are more like feelings and impressions rather than solid memories. I have a number of memories of when we lived in Italy back in the late 60's. But again these are more like impressions than memories. It's hard to seperate the feelings from the thoughts.
Rather than wait for work that may never come, Perry is part of a small and apparently growing number of highly skilled workers who are accepting so- called equity-only jobs.
A small number of independently wealthy people. Man, doesn't anyone else have a family to feed and people to take care of? Go flip burgers or drive a garbage truck. Anything you have to do survive.
I don't get a vacation but I'm taking a few days off this week. What am I doing?
Beyblades, with my 6 year old son. I got a few comments from other parents asking why a 40 year old would be playing with them but, well, why not? They are great toys and I get to play with my son. What could be better?
I've seen and heard a number of varied reviews of this movie. It seems that there are many people who didn't like it for a lot of reasons. I went to the noon showing here in the DC area and this is simply my opinion of the movie I saw.
It was better than I could have hoped for. At the end of the movie I was completely drained. It was as if I had been at Helms Deep. I heard some movie critic on the radio bemoaning the fact that this was only an action flick and not like the first movie. My response? No shit. This movie was the middle chapters of a grand story. It was the weaving of a tail brought to life from the heart & soul of a once-in-a-eon book(s). These movies are not "movie adaptations of the books" nor are they "based on a story by". They are the telling of a tail; a story both grand and large yet small and balanced on the head of a pin. Don't look at these movies from the perspective of the books nor of the myth. They are what they are. And in that, they are greater than I have known in many years.
I just got some Beyblades for my son who's birthday was Monday (he just turned 6). I don't know where they would stand on the Geek-Coolness-Meter but they are absolutely a blast. I got Dracile and he's got Dragoon. I haven't had so much fun in years.
Then it is sure to be a good movie
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I have found that, particularly with F&SF, if the critics hate it then I know it will be a good movie. One of the most acruate collection of critics I know is the Washington Post Entertainment section. When they hate a movie I know it will be good. If they like a movie, it's a good bet that it will suck. So far they've been about 95% correct with this.
I would not get the DVD even if someone gave me money with it (well, ok, if it were a LOT of money...). Even now I mute the TV when a TTT commercial comes on. Someone asked me why I do this since it's not like there's any spoiler info in them. And even if there were I already know what's going to happen anyway. I tried to explain that it's not about the plot or story but the actual telling of it.
I bought and used gobeProductive on BeOS and also got the WinXX version. I was egerly waiting for the Linux port. Many have already asked the question "Why another Office Suite?". Well, as good as the existing open and commercial office products are they still aren't as smooth and easy as gobeProductive. It doesn't do everything MS Office does but (and follow me on this) it does 100% of the 80% od Office that 95% of the people actually use. And it does that piece better than MS Office and even OpenOffice.
Right now I have on my Linux laptop; Applix Anywhere 2.2, HancomOffice 2, SOT Office (OpenOffice repackeged by SOT), Koffice, and what I call a "best of breed" combination suite of Gnumeric/Scribus DTB/AbiWord/HTMLDOC/Ted. Of these, Applix was the best. Unfortunatly the company has killed it. HancomOffice looks like it might have potential but it's not yet there. OO, and it's like, is very good and makes a great MS Office clone. Unfortunatly it brings with it all the baggage that that intails. gobeProductive was a hope of mine. Sadly, it seems that once again, superior technology loses out.
Ok, this will likely get mod'ed down 'cause roblimo already bitched at me about it but this time I am really on topic for the thread.
I wish that there was some way to get Sun and all the other CDE using companies to look at XFce. It's capable of looking and feeling like CDE. However it's got more functionality and more cababilities than GNOME or KDE. It's also as fast (if not faster) than IceWM and other light WM's. The iceing on the cake is that, from within XFce, you can run all the GNOME and KDE apps with absolutely no compatability problems at all.
Now, I am not saying that GNOME (or even KDE) are not outstanding products. They are two great projects doing fantastic work. It's just that if you were going to move from CDE wouldn't it be better to go to something that would be easy for people to use as a steping stone to GNOME? It's only common sense.
I just use mine for the Address Book, the Datebook and the To-Do list (well, the last only for a shopping list for groceries). I lost it for a week once and was completely lost.
I grew up in Germany in the 70's and 80's and I remember "Reforger" and "Autumn Forge". One of the main reasons the Bradley failed was it was to fast. It would outrun the Armor and Infantry. Nothing like being in a box surrounded by enemy guns. The Sgt. York was supposed to be the replacement that actually worked but funding was killed on it before it could be produced.
I got the Fossil watch a few months ago and it was $149. To bad I didn't wait. Heh, doesn't matter really... I lost my Handspring Visor Delux on Saturday so I need a new PDA now.
I have recently been playing (only a little) with Xandros and it's looking like the best distro for desktop usage by people needing WinXX "look-n-feel". It's got both crossover office and crossover plugin and is the easiest distro to install and get running (for WinXX people). I would higly recomend trying it and seeing if it would fit your needs. I do know that, for the requirements you have, Mdk and RH are not the best options.
Even if Mouse is right and his "IP" was "pirated" it's not likely he'll actually get justice. I have been involved in this kind of thing (periferily) and the Big Company with the money will always win.
I have read a number of the Silent PC stories. I keep wondering why would anyone want one. Ok, I know it's just me but I like the drone of a bank of systems. My preference is to have them in my bedroom, when possible. The whitenoise helps me sleep. There's even a program I found (I think it's on freshmeat) called whitenoise which lets me add to and tweak the overall level and pitch of the background noise.
There's a number of posts in this thread that seem to be confusing licenses with access. I used to work coding for "the government" and everything I wrote was licensed as public domain. However, you needed a DoD Secret Clearance just to look at the computer it ran on, let alone the code itself. Have you ever worked in a computer room where people with M-16's were charged with, and authorized to, shoot anyone (including you) who went where they were not authorized?
And for those who implied that my intellegance was less than average... Ah, nevermind. It probably is anyway.
This is an example of when a true Public Domain licensing should be used. Anything developed using public funding should be public. This lets any private intrest (from big corporations to individuals) use it and do with it what they want.
This will satisfy everyone from RMS to Bill Gates.
I was coding in VS COBOL II under MVS on a 3090 in the early 90's. The database we were using was CA/DATACOM. I would run into errors that all seemed to run like this (all codes made up, just in case) --
error dump says you got an error 27 from DATACOM
look up error 27 in the manual
manual says check in the COBOL manual under error 205-E
look up error 205-E in the manual
manual says look up error S001A in the MVS manual
look up error S001A in the manual
it says that you need to look in the system manual under System Errors 000230-C3
look up error 000230-C3 in the manual
this says, and I quote, "JCL error; correct and resubmit"
In fact, 85% of the errors I ran into would follow this same path: check 3 or more manuals only to en up at the same answer... "JCL error; correct and resubmit"
Maybe this is why I have been a SysAdmin for the last decade.
I used to work as a federal government employee. I built and ran one of the more critical, non-combat related sites. It took little effort to make the site section 508 compliant. The key is to look upon a web site as an information medium and not an entertainment one. If you want to know the accessability of your site try using it with lynx. If, with the exception of https, it doesn't work then you do not have a well developed design.
I am also a web user who is disabled, though not blind. I can definitely understand what it's like to come to a web site that is nearly unusable due to very poor design decisions. I believe that any site that hopes to be accessable by anyone other than the author should at least have an idea of the ADA and Section 508.
Remember when Raster left RH over disagreements about Enlightenment? Now Bero is leaving over disagreements about KDE. Personally I am surprised that he stuck around there this long. I can understand where the KDE people are coming from but to be honest, this move by RH is one that has been long overdue by all the distro vendors. There should be a desktop option that is usable for non-techies. GNOME and KDE are still there for those who want to use them. This is Software Libre, after all.
There is an old saying... "Vote with your feet."
I don't run either GNOME nor KDE. I run XFce. That is the wonderful thing about Software Libre. Choices are a Good Thing<tm>.
> OEone is interesting, just like any random Linux distribution is interesting.
> That doesn't mean that they're easily understood by the masses of the computer
> users who get their boxes from Dell and/or Best Buy, etc...
(shakes head in disbelief)
This is completely wrong. OEone's HomeBase is emphatically NOT like any other Linux distro at all. Lindows is far more like any mainline distro than HomeBase. HomeBase is truely something new and different. It's not intended as a normal desktop computer but as a home system for non-techies. You will see more on this in the not to disant future.
Bleieve me, if you actually give HomeBase a try you will be amazed.
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Bravo! Very well said.
I have never understood the need for some to view programming languages (or, indeed, any computer technology) from a zero-sum perspective. Programming languages are tools, each has it's strengths and weaknesses. Use the right one for the right job. Very often the best solution to a problem is to use more than one tool together. After all, you do not see carpenters having flame wars over whether a hammer or a screwdriver is better for building a house.
I have SMS on my phone but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to use it. It seems that using SMS is not as easy as it seems 'cause most of the people I know who have it don't use it either. And these are mostly high-end techies.
Ever since the original call-to-arms there's been a number of different organizations listed as worthy of donations. There is an organization that has done more than the FSF, EFF, [your acronym here] combined. That is the US Internet Association of America. They have far more pull and a much better voice in the US government. If you honestly want to see a change in the US laws, this is one organization you need to support.
Seriouslly, I have memories that go back to when my youngest brother was born. I was 5 then, I'm 40 now. What's hard is that most of these "memories" are more like feelings and impressions rather than solid memories. I have a number of memories of when we lived in Italy back in the late 60's. But again these are more like impressions than memories. It's hard to seperate the feelings from the thoughts.
Beyblades, with my 6 year old son. I got a few comments from other parents asking why a 40 year old would be playing with them but, well, why not? They are great toys and I get to play with my son. What could be better?
It was better than I could have hoped for. At the end of the movie I was completely drained. It was as if I had been at Helms Deep. I heard some movie critic on the radio bemoaning the fact that this was only an action flick and not like the first movie. My response? No shit. This movie was the middle chapters of a grand story. It was the weaving of a tail brought to life from the heart & soul of a once-in-a-eon book(s). These movies are not "movie adaptations of the books" nor are they "based on a story by". They are the telling of a tail; a story both grand and large yet small and balanced on the head of a pin. Don't look at these movies from the perspective of the books nor of the myth. They are what they are. And in that, they are greater than I have known in many years.
I just got some Beyblades for my son who's birthday was Monday (he just turned 6). I don't know where they would stand on the Geek-Coolness-Meter but they are absolutely a blast. I got Dracile and he's got Dragoon. I haven't had so much fun in years.
Well, at least for me.
I would not get the DVD even if someone gave me money with it (well, ok, if it were a LOT of money...). Even now I mute the TV when a TTT commercial comes on. Someone asked me why I do this since it's not like there's any spoiler info in them. And even if there were I already know what's going to happen anyway. I tried to explain that it's not about the plot or story but the actual telling of it.
Right now I have on my Linux laptop; Applix Anywhere 2.2, HancomOffice 2, SOT Office (OpenOffice repackeged by SOT), Koffice, and what I call a "best of breed" combination suite of Gnumeric/Scribus DTB/AbiWord/HTMLDOC/Ted. Of these, Applix was the best. Unfortunatly the company has killed it. HancomOffice looks like it might have potential but it's not yet there. OO, and it's like, is very good and makes a great MS Office clone. Unfortunatly it brings with it all the baggage that that intails. gobeProductive was a hope of mine. Sadly, it seems that once again, superior technology loses out.
I wish that there was some way to get Sun and all the other CDE using companies to look at XFce. It's capable of looking and feeling like CDE. However it's got more functionality and more cababilities than GNOME or KDE. It's also as fast (if not faster) than IceWM and other light WM's. The iceing on the cake is that, from within XFce, you can run all the GNOME and KDE apps with absolutely no compatability problems at all.
Now, I am not saying that GNOME (or even KDE) are not outstanding products. They are two great projects doing fantastic work. It's just that if you were going to move from CDE wouldn't it be better to go to something that would be easy for people to use as a steping stone to GNOME? It's only common sense.
I just use mine for the Address Book, the Datebook and the To-Do list (well, the last only for a shopping list for groceries). I lost it for a week once and was completely lost.
I grew up in Germany in the 70's and 80's and I remember "Reforger" and "Autumn Forge". One of the main reasons the Bradley failed was it was to fast. It would outrun the Armor and Infantry. Nothing like being in a box surrounded by enemy guns. The Sgt. York was supposed to be the replacement that actually worked but funding was killed on it before it could be produced.
I got the Fossil watch a few months ago and it was $149. To bad I didn't wait. Heh, doesn't matter really... I lost my Handspring Visor Delux on Saturday so I need a new PDA now.
I have recently been playing (only a little) with Xandros and it's looking like the best distro for desktop usage by people needing WinXX "look-n-feel". It's got both crossover office and crossover plugin and is the easiest distro to install and get running (for WinXX people). I would higly recomend trying it and seeing if it would fit your needs. I do know that, for the requirements you have, Mdk and RH are not the best options.
Even if Mouse is right and his "IP" was "pirated" it's not likely he'll actually get justice. I have been involved in this kind of thing (periferily) and the Big Company with the money will always win.
I have read a number of the Silent PC stories. I keep wondering why would anyone want one. Ok, I know it's just me but I like the drone of a bank of systems. My preference is to have them in my bedroom, when possible. The whitenoise helps me sleep. There's even a program I found (I think it's on freshmeat) called whitenoise which lets me add to and tweak the overall level and pitch of the background noise.
And for those who implied that my intellegance was less than average... Ah, nevermind. It probably is anyway.
This will satisfy everyone from RMS to Bill Gates.
- error dump says you got an error 27 from DATACOM
- look up error 27 in the manual
- manual says check in the COBOL manual under error 205-E
- look up error 205-E in the manual
- manual says look up error S001A in the MVS manual
- look up error S001A in the manual
- it says that you need to look in the system manual under System Errors 000230-C3
- look up error 000230-C3 in the manual
- this says, and I quote, "JCL error; correct and resubmit"
In fact, 85% of the errors I ran into would follow this same path: check 3 or more manuals only to en up at the same answer... "JCL error; correct and resubmit"Maybe this is why I have been a SysAdmin for the last decade.
I saw this years ago. Sometime in the late 90's. It's very interesting and cool stuff, thouhg.
I am also a web user who is disabled, though not blind. I can definitely understand what it's like to come to a web site that is nearly unusable due to very poor design decisions. I believe that any site that hopes to be accessable by anyone other than the author should at least have an idea of the ADA and Section 508.
There is an old saying... "Vote with your feet."
I don't run either GNOME nor KDE. I run XFce. That is the wonderful thing about Software Libre. Choices are a Good Thing<tm>.
> That doesn't mean that they're easily understood by the masses of the computer
> users who get their boxes from Dell and/or Best Buy, etc...
(shakes head in disbelief)
This is completely wrong. OEone's HomeBase is emphatically NOT like any other Linux distro at all. Lindows is far more like any mainline distro than HomeBase. HomeBase is truely something new and different. It's not intended as a normal desktop computer but as a home system for non-techies. You will see more on this in the not to disant future.
Bleieve me, if you actually give HomeBase a try you will be amazed.