There is an "open Source" problem, but I think you missed it. The GNOME (and KDE) camps have HCI people on board. It's that getting a whole mailing list to agree on something as subjective as an interface guideline is very very hard. I watched a 3 week flame fest in gnome-devel over window in window applications. They will work things out, but unfortunately, it may take some inner circle handing down rulings.
Hard to belive I know. I think he seriously belives that it is all so black and white. That everyone should play by the rules because they are made by the good guys. Y'know though, it just doesn't matter any more... the artists will have to transition to direct marketing, because they will have to depend on people actually liking the people whom collect all the money.
If they labeled thier equipment as such they would have to filter out those labels later when they automatically extracted them from images in page views. Thats the real reason...
It's easy. They don't have to worry about winning, they have the money to tie thier victum up in court, possibly disrupt service, and incur expensive legal fees. And if the courts are actually clueless enough to give them a few wins along the way, thats a little more power than they had before. They don't need the law on thier side, just an army of lawyers.
I'd reccomend designed API's over evolved ones... I hate to kick UNIX while it is down, but the new QNX/Neutrino system API's are very well designed. You don't know what you are missing until you see them. There are about 30 or so system calls total. For example all timer events are encapsulated in one system call. They have implemented thier POSIX, BSD etc. interfaces as a compatability layer on top of these calls. And I'm sure you are all sick of hearing about message passing microkernels, but doing IPC with one system call that reads like "get these buffers to that process and bring me it's response" is soooo nice.
What I'm wondering is when someone will write a module for Linux that has a really clean, well designed system API like this available. Just because Linux performs UNIX calles doesn't make it a legacy design under the hood. It just supports a legacy system.
One last point: UNIX support is very very good. The existing free software code base is invaluable, and it works just fine as it is. There is no point dumping support for it, considering the limited expense of providing a UNIX system call emulation vs. the thousands of "man" years of work that has gone into it.
Um, Pizza Hut didn't shell out for the whole thing. Probably not much at all. It's just that the Russians have been promising that launch for years, and there so strapped they would let some pizza company on board. I'd have held out for something with a little more class.
Not only was the rocket late, but those poor dudes up there don't actually get any pizza. Pizza Hut probably got a good deal on the cost of the paint (the added wind resistance was probably worth a few grand right there), but it doesn't seem they were even willing to fork out the 1/2 million more a pizza would have cost. How do I know this? Do you think pizza hut would have passed that hype opportunity up? All and all, this is the first ad on a rocket, and no big deal. Make a fresh pizza in space (a loaded pizza in 0-g... hahah) and I'll be impressed.
Amen. I still belive the prof who made us learn scheme was a sadist. To quote him "people can actually learn anything as thier first language, with about the same amount of dificulty. This stuf just seems hard because it's not the way you are used to thinking." Bah. The most important aspect of a lanugauge is it's readability. Scheme gives me "bent toothpick syndrome."
Hmmm, I think were on the same track here then. I'm on Debian unstable right now, and thats where my caution about excessive upgrades really comes from. After a while one is just making sure to get every bug going through...
Debain has all sorts of sexy tools for this kind of thing in thier distro. dpkg-repack can repack an installed system into a distribution cd that installs exactly that system. Debian can be a little more work for one system but you can automate your whole show with the tools provided... thats worth it.
Because the top few stores are much more active than the rest, and if they posted them all at once it would disperse the loci of conversation. That and they have certain/. addicts loading the main page every 15 min instead of whenever they post everything.
I suspect the FBI wants to place their machine right on the router as traffic comes in because they're too dumb to realize that they don't have to do this.
The whole point is that Joe Public understands a black box. Leaking the fact the the FBI has software running on the net wouldn't conjure up the same images. It's intimidation, nothing else. If they really wanted information, they would get it and we wouldn't know about it. This is a intellegent way to cut down on computer crime: make the crackers f**king paranoid. And make the wackos even more paranoid than they already are.
The idea of an abstraction layer is that it's rewritten (as much as required) for each platform it provides an abstract interface to. Of course GDK would be rewritten, thats what it's for. It's primary purpose is to provide an API wherever it is ported to/written for, not to be even more legacy code that needs to be ported.
I was doing some research on natural language recognition for a course and I turned up a few hits from M$'s personna project. The funny part is that going to microsofts reseach department homepage crashed netscape every time. I know they did it on purpose... I finally had to use lynx to get the document I wanted.
Right, but if you read it really really carefully you will notice that the origional author can impose restrictions and add clauses that the GPL would otherwise forbid. The liscence only talks about how people who recive the already liscenced code cannot add restricitons on it's freedom. Eg. Reiser's FS.
The GPL is a wonderful thing. So is Open Source... but is this really a good idea? The liscencing issues around clearly defined things like executables can be a pain to open source developers as it is. I am having problems with mixing a version of BSD and GPL'd code right now. And I know the authors had the best intentions, and that life in the open, BUT this just sounds like it's going to cause more headaches than good. Is anyone going to benifit from protecting the scripts like this? Enough to justify those of use who really care about liscences not using it because it's too tangled? I can easily imagine conflicting liscences for content in the same page. I also know that source code is different than a "document." In that you can't have bizzare liscences around a document the same way you can with software. Software is a device, and a webpage is a document. So you are also treading on thin ice. I doubt we will ever see a clean liscence that has been reviewed by a lawyer, we will just have ambigous situations that serve to bar use for those who really care.
I skimmed the article just so I wouldn't have some nagging guilt about flaming someone who wrote something worthwile. Amazingly I managed to validate my preconceptions quite quickly... oh well.
They even got my page view so that I could complain about it too. Timoty, I have nothing but respect for you as a rare "real nerd" with good writing skills. But that title isn't going to rub off on Jon Katz even if you post for him. My apologies to the two of you.
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There is an "open Source" problem, but I think you missed it. The GNOME (and KDE) camps have HCI people on board. It's that getting a whole mailing list to agree on something as subjective as an interface guideline is very very hard. I watched a 3 week flame fest in gnome-devel over window in window applications. They will work things out, but unfortunately, it may take some inner circle handing down rulings.
Oh, you laugh... But little do you know... here is proof OF THE FIRST APPLE CUBE!!!
Well before these qube posers! This is some spooky voodo.
If they labeled thier equipment as such they would have to filter out those labels later when they automatically extracted them from images in page views. Thats the real reason...
They have been "slashdotting" themselves for years. Why not pass on the heritage and tradition.
I'm not the only one who played it? Is it just me or does it scream a little too loud whan passed .gz's?
I'd reccomend designed API's over evolved ones... I hate to kick UNIX while it is down, but the new QNX/Neutrino system API's are very well designed. You don't know what you are missing until you see them. There are about 30 or so system calls total. For example all timer events are encapsulated in one system call. They have implemented thier POSIX, BSD etc. interfaces as a compatability layer on top of these calls. And I'm sure you are all sick of hearing about message passing microkernels, but doing IPC with one system call that reads like "get these buffers to that process and bring me it's response" is soooo nice.
What I'm wondering is when someone will write a module for Linux that has a really clean, well designed system API like this available. Just because Linux performs UNIX calles doesn't make it a legacy design under the hood. It just supports a legacy system.
One last point: UNIX support is very very good. The existing free software code base is invaluable, and it works just fine as it is. There is no point dumping support for it, considering the limited expense of providing a UNIX system call emulation vs. the thousands of "man" years of work that has gone into it.
Um, Pizza Hut didn't shell out for the whole thing. Probably not much at all. It's just that the Russians have been promising that launch for years, and there so strapped they would let some pizza company on board. I'd have held out for something with a little more class.
Not only was the rocket late, but those poor dudes up there don't actually get any pizza. Pizza Hut probably got a good deal on the cost of the paint (the added wind resistance was probably worth a few grand right there), but it doesn't seem they were even willing to fork out the 1/2 million more a pizza would have cost. How do I know this? Do you think pizza hut would have passed that hype opportunity up? All and all, this is the first ad on a rocket, and no big deal. Make a fresh pizza in space (a loaded pizza in 0-g... hahah) and I'll be impressed.
Amen. I still belive the prof who made us learn scheme was a sadist. To quote him "people can actually learn anything as thier first language, with about the same amount of dificulty. This stuf just seems hard because it's not the way you are used to thinking." Bah. The most important aspect of a lanugauge is it's readability. Scheme gives me "bent toothpick syndrome."
There is the doom/ps util. Allows graphical "admin" of a box. Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting your wogin shell...
Check it out.
Of course a BSD port of a more modern game would be needed, but I think a few Internet-Enabled-Rocket-Launcher applications could be very popular...
Hmmm, I think were on the same track here then. I'm on Debian unstable right now, and thats where my caution about excessive upgrades really comes from. After a while one is just making sure to get every bug going through...
EarthLink will do FBI's surveillances itself.
Is this a reason to write Moz off as bloated? How about a "browser only button?"
BTW NeoPlanet added Gecko a while back.
Um, thats silly... Imagine this scenerio: a package breaks networking. Oh sh*t! You have to fix 2500 machines manually and delete your inbox.
They would have to try any new packages on a trial configuration, and wouldn't want to risk upgrading more than once a month
I know Debian stable is really good, but any sysadmin with that much responsibility has to apply due diligence
Debain has all sorts of sexy tools for this kind of thing in thier distro. dpkg-repack can repack an installed system into a distribution cd that installs exactly that system. Debian can be a little more work for one system but you can automate your whole show with the tools provided... thats worth it.
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Because the top few stores are much more active than the rest, and if they posted them all at once it would disperse the loci of conversation. That and they have certain /. addicts loading the main page every 15 min instead of whenever they post everything.
The idea of an abstraction layer is that it's rewritten (as much as required) for each platform it provides an abstract interface to. Of course GDK would be rewritten, thats what it's for. It's primary purpose is to provide an API wherever it is ported to/written for, not to be even more legacy code that needs to be ported.
I was doing some research on natural language recognition for a course and I turned up a few hits from M$'s personna project. The funny part is that going to microsofts reseach department homepage crashed netscape every time. I know they did it on purpose... I finally had to use lynx to get the document I wanted.
Right, but if you read it really really carefully you will notice that the origional author can impose restrictions and add clauses that the GPL would otherwise forbid. The liscence only talks about how people who recive the already liscenced code cannot add restricitons on it's freedom. Eg. Reiser's FS.
The GPL is a wonderful thing. So is Open Source... but is this really a good idea? The liscencing issues around clearly defined things like executables can be a pain to open source developers as it is. I am having problems with mixing a version of BSD and GPL'd code right now. And I know the authors had the best intentions, and that life in the open, BUT this just sounds like it's going to cause more headaches than good. Is anyone going to benifit from protecting the scripts like this? Enough to justify those of use who really care about liscences not using it because it's too tangled? I can easily imagine conflicting liscences for content in the same page. I also know that source code is different than a "document." In that you can't have bizzare liscences around a document the same way you can with software. Software is a device, and a webpage is a document. So you are also treading on thin ice. I doubt we will ever see a clean liscence that has been reviewed by a lawyer, we will just have ambigous situations that serve to bar use for those who really care.
I skimmed the article just so I wouldn't have some nagging guilt about flaming someone who wrote something worthwile. Amazingly I managed to validate my preconceptions quite quickly... oh well.
They even got my page view so that I could complain about it too. Timoty, I have nothing but respect for you as a rare "real nerd" with good writing skills. But that title isn't going to rub off on Jon Katz even if you post for him. My apologies to the two of you.