Damn Slashvertisements. I don't care if it is to block spam, it doesn't belong.
On the other hand, the banners are just fine and for those of you who have their banners turned off, Blizzard has an opening for a Unix Admin and a great ad. I'd link to it here but you should really turn banners on. I know they are annoying, but banners bring in money for slashdot. That $49.99 or $9.99 or whatever you pay for your ISP is NOT giving that money to slashdot, and for them to remain free, they need you to download those damn ads.
Now, turning off pop-ups, that's accetable. But think of all the porn you're missing!
The new solution is to have loads of cash($$$$$+) and hire a lawyer, and an experienced programmer, and ask a question, let them confer, and in 2-3 weeks you should receive a bill for work done so far, and in another 2-3 weeks a final bill and an answer.
"if the library was GPL'ed tomorrow, all of a sudden my work should be free?"
No, because the GPL is a license which you have to accept. Even if it is only accepting in your mind. You've paid(or they've paid) and accepted the license that you paid for, just because they GPL it doesn't change it with you. This is one thing people forget. If I program something, release it as GPL, I can take it down, and re-release it as LGPL. Those who have accepted it as GPL still get to keep it as GPL.
Of course, it does get a little tricky with all of the legal advice coming from everywhere also, and IANAL.
Example: If you give your customers a right to use your software, and they use the 3rd party libraries(assume that they are GPL), the libraries, by GPL definition, would demand that your program be GPL also. Except, you own the copyright on your program and they can not release it as GPL. This leads to a copyright battle in which they, not you, are at fault with the GPL and can only use it with regular copyright permissions. But it all depends on the GPL wording, and I'm probably wrong, but I believe it reverts back to regular copyright, and you can not use it without getting it under another license.
"But we should not listen to these temptations..."
Although you would think I cut and pasted this out of a transcript from a church, I did not. Find it here.
It's from this paragraph specifically:
"But we should not listen to these temptations, because we can achieve much more if we stand together. We free software developers should support one another. By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only, we can help each other's free software packages outdo the proprietary alternatives. The whole free software movement will have more popularity, because free software as a whole will stack up better against the competition."
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
--
On subject though, I am a diverse person and believe everything should be licensed in an appropriate manner, and that should be up to the author entirely(which, thankfully, it is). Yes, Proprietary Developers have money with which to develop, you know, big, faceless corporations do, smaller companies who can only eek out $1000 for a project do not have all of the money to re-implement these things. If there are FREE solutions that they can use, then there are. GPL is not FREE in the sense of FREE, but in the sense of FREE with Restrictions.
Mind you, I believe in GPL'ed software. I believe there is software that should be GPL'ed and should stay that way. But I don't call it free, it's Free With Restrictions.
I believe in Free Software, I believe in Commercial Software. I prefer free software, but sometimes when it's taken 100's of people 1000's of hours to create a large, complex program, that they should eat. If the use a Free library, then they should get paid a little less, but I still think they should eat.
They are supposedly able to sense changes in the slope of the earth around them (hills, etc.) and balance themselves out.
They also can sense the emotions and ambitions of the humans around them, slowly feeding off of their pain and misery, and always plotting against us.
Something different:
They can sense the coming of the Singularity by using their advanced meditation techniques. Slowly watching us they are, gathing information, to make the elimination of the humans that much more quick...NEXT!
Tai Chi Tamagochi Robots! If you feed them they'll grow into Tai Chi Masters, able to masterfully perform even the most difficult moves of Tai Chi.
COLLECT ALL 6 TODAY!!
(Only at Participating McHughs Restaraunts. While Supplies Last.).NEXT!
It'd be cooler if they were powered by Chi.
NEXT!
"Li added that this type of robot would be able to take over some dangerous jobs from humans."
--As soon as I get my gun, I guess they'll have robotic telemarketers*. Now I need an EMP.
END!
New Movies Titles: "Kung Fu Tai Chi Fighting Robots from Outer Space!"
"Tai Chi Robots from HELL!"
* I do not condone the shooting of telemarketers in this economy. But as soon as things improve and a better job opens up, say, anything, it'll be ok again.
"Scrap by scrap, we are reverse-engineering a grimy portrait of another human being, reconstituting an identity from his discards, probing into stuff that is absolutely, positively none of our damn business."
They better be careful! Reverse Engineering is a violation of the DMCA!!
I believe in Dallas the new chief of police earned some respect from the citizens around here by arresting city employees, policemen, and firemen for unpaid tickets, etc. etc.
If there is a problem with Judge's taking two weeks to sign a search warrant, then there is a problem with the judge and the system, not a reason to create 'special rights' for people who should not be considered 'special people.'
There are other translations, you know, if you're one of those people who reads the book before seeing the movie, maybe read one translation before the other?
"One critic says 'No technology is foolproof--anyone who has a computer knows how many times it crashes.'"
Encryption is not fool proof. Username/Password concepts are not fool proof. We should just have no passwords and no security implemented at all, because any security expert here worth a grain of salt will tell you that if someone wants it bad enough, they're going to get it.
Security is only there to dissuade them from going after it.
Security through Obscurity is great, WHEN COMBINED WITH EVERY OTHER POSSIBLE SECURITY TECHNOLOGY ALSO.
Will it have all the important features that users demand? Is it 100% virus compatible? Microsoft works hard to expand Outlook's virus compatibility, going from JavaScript virii, EXE virii, VB virii, and soon VB.NET virii will be implemented. Who knows what lies next? Virii that you don't even have to open the e-mail to take affect?
I like my WindowMaker. It's not a Win95/XP clone like KDE and Gnome tried to be. But they aren't fully Win95/XP clone that they tried for either, they all moved on. Gnome has multiple panels, as does KDE(ok, they keep up with each other instead of diverting, to me that is kind of pointless), as does Windows. But with Gnome and KDE is makes more sense to use the multiple panels, with Windows there really isn't a reason except to make it look better.
I do agree with Dvorak that WIMPs is a bad idea, but I do think that it is one of the best concepts out there. Although I don't have icons except when I minimize a window. What I would like is a scrolling desktop(and a CPU that could even support it if I coded it). I want to watch my MPlayer Window _over_ the Mozilla Window, but if I move the mouse towards the scrollbar(where MPlayer is covering), the Moz window would move over or the Mplayer window would dynamically shrink, to transparency would occur allowing me to use the scrollbar without having to move the mplayer window.
Everyone thinks that 3-D Window Managers are next. I say 3-d accelerated Window Managers, but having a box with windows on each side _really_ doesn't cut it in my book. It's neat. It's neat to program. It's neat to play with. Gotta get back to work now, good-bye. Just because 3-d is a big gaming thing and not used for regular Windows does not make it "The Next Big Thing(tm)" in my book.
What I would like to see, and this is off-topic, is XML menu specification. So you can download, install a program, and then install a menu item for it with whatever Window Manager you are using. It just needs a few fields. If someone wants to go with this idea and wants me to help(put my money where my mouth is) just e-mail me and I've got no problem.
What I also want to see is the death of X-Windows. It's served it's term, but it isn't getting any better. I want to see DirectFB succeed, but it needs to be multi-platform. I'm on FreeBSD so I can only run it under SDL ontop of X-Windows. But FreeBSD has something similar in the works set for probably 6.0 or whenever the person finishes it.
Communication and features between other type of hardware, specialized, would be great. And the framework to support it. Example, FingerWorks has some great products and great concepts. Once I get the money I'm going for their keyboard. I'd like to see a framework to make it work with any GTK, Gnome, KDE, GNUStep, and a generic library to add support for it to any program. That way have a custom gesture(when it is created) that will allow you to launch a program. I want to be able to hit numlock twice(Example) and type in 0805040206 and launch a program of my choice. For me, memorize 5 numbers, adding a '0' before it, and typing that in is much faster than moving the mouse, opening the menu, finding it, and clicking it. The generic framework, standardized would be best, would add the ability for, say, Mozilla to receive the two numlocks, to realize that it is a registered event handler, and to pass it off to the framework and do what is asked. Say, even passing it off to the 'server' so to speak to figure out what to do, although I think if it was implemented on a window manager level it would be best. That way you have a generic framework to work with as far as developers go, possibly a generic XML exporter of all your functions that you've specific(scanning the bar code, with your CueCat, of your favorite foot powder say, brings up userfriendly), and a generic XML importer to bring into the Window Manager. But having it Window Manager based, so that it fits in with Accessibility theory(I believe?). It _is_ a part of KDE Control Panel, it _is_ a part of Gnome Control Panel, it _is_ a part of that little WindowMaker configuration program. Easy for developers, easy for users, easy to switch between.
No, if you followed his links and poked around a bit, the "credentialism" he spoke of was that other people believed the professors because they are university professors, although in a different field, they must know all the FCC regulations and be correct and that this person was not when he said "this probably violates some FCC regulations"(not an exact quote. Someone responded to him by saying "They are university professors so they know what they are doing and you don't know anything" (Not an exact quote, but quite close to what was actually said). That kind of credentialism.
To go with your example, taking the UL tag, seeing it on your Microwave, and then seeing the same company has made (as an example) and has made a new web server, and saying "If the UL says their microwave is safe, then their web server must also be safe." even though it is in a different field, different product type, etc..
Whenever I can I try to bring in a Shadowrun Reference. Hopefully without glasses, and hopefully soon they'll eliminate the box, and then eliminate the viewing angle and we'll have the wonderful world of trideo that will revolutionize TV viewing!
Oh wait, same crap, new dimension.
"3 Dimensions and not a damn thing to watch." *rimshot* *tomato splat*
No. You can't copy your own DVDs. Your name has to have four letter in it! No more, no less! And it must end with "AA". Now go back to your room and try it again!
I saw one of these at Microcenter last week. But nah, I've got my old scsi card from years back that works just great, with my $500 9gig scsi drive. =) haha. Memories.
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Damn Slashvertisements. I don't care if it is to block spam, it doesn't belong.
On the other hand, the banners are just fine and for those of you who have their banners turned off, Blizzard has an opening for a Unix Admin and a great ad. I'd link to it here but you should really turn banners on. I know they are annoying, but banners bring in money for slashdot. That $49.99 or $9.99 or whatever you pay for your ISP is NOT giving that money to slashdot, and for them to remain free, they need you to download those damn ads.
Now, turning off pop-ups, that's accetable. But think of all the porn you're missing!
The new solution is to have loads of cash($$$$$+) and hire a lawyer, and an experienced programmer, and ask a question, let them confer, and in 2-3 weeks you should receive a bill for work done so far, and in another 2-3 weeks a final bill and an answer.
"if the library was GPL'ed tomorrow, all of a sudden my work should be free?"
No, because the GPL is a license which you have to accept. Even if it is only accepting in your mind. You've paid(or they've paid) and accepted the license that you paid for, just because they GPL it doesn't change it with you. This is one thing people forget. If I program something, release it as GPL, I can take it down, and re-release it as LGPL. Those who have accepted it as GPL still get to keep it as GPL.
Of course, it does get a little tricky with all of the legal advice coming from everywhere also, and IANAL.
Example: If you give your customers a right to use your software, and they use the 3rd party libraries(assume that they are GPL), the libraries, by GPL definition, would demand that your program be GPL also. Except, you own the copyright on your program and they can not release it as GPL. This leads to a copyright battle in which they, not you, are at fault with the GPL and can only use it with regular copyright permissions. But it all depends on the GPL wording, and I'm probably wrong, but I believe it reverts back to regular copyright, and you can not use it without getting it under another license.
"But we should not listen to these temptations..."
Although you would think I cut and pasted this out of a transcript from a church, I did not. Find it
here.
It's from this paragraph specifically:
"But we should not listen to these temptations, because we can achieve much more if we stand together. We free software developers should support one another. By releasing libraries that are limited to free software only, we can help each other's free software packages outdo the proprietary alternatives. The whole free software movement will have more popularity, because free software as a whole will stack up better against the competition."
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
--
On subject though, I am a diverse person and believe everything should be licensed in an appropriate manner, and that should be up to the author entirely(which, thankfully, it is). Yes, Proprietary Developers have money with which to develop, you know, big, faceless corporations do, smaller companies who can only eek out $1000 for a project do not have all of the money to re-implement these things. If there are FREE solutions that they can use, then there are. GPL is not FREE in the sense of FREE, but in the sense of FREE with Restrictions.
Mind you, I believe in GPL'ed software. I believe there is software that should be GPL'ed and should stay that way. But I don't call it free, it's Free With Restrictions.
I believe in Free Software, I believe in Commercial Software. I prefer free software, but sometimes when it's taken 100's of people 1000's of hours to create a large, complex program, that they should eat. If the use a Free library, then they should get paid a little less, but I still think they should eat.
"The Chi is strong in this one..." ...NEXT!
..NEXT!
.NEXT!
They are supposedly able to sense changes in the slope of the earth around them (hills, etc.) and balance themselves out.
They also can sense the emotions and ambitions of the humans around them, slowly feeding off of their pain and misery, and always plotting against us.
Something different:
They can sense the coming of the Singularity by using their advanced meditation techniques. Slowly watching us they are, gathing information, to make the elimination of the humans that much more quick.
Tai Chi Tamagochi Robots! If you feed them they'll grow into Tai Chi Masters, able to masterfully perform even the most difficult moves of Tai Chi.
COLLECT ALL 6 TODAY!!
(Only at Participating McHughs Restaraunts. While Supplies Last.)
It'd be cooler if they were powered by Chi.
NEXT!
"Li added that this type of robot would be able to take over some dangerous jobs from humans."
--As soon as I get my gun, I guess they'll have robotic telemarketers*. Now I need an EMP.
END!
New Movies Titles:
"Kung Fu Tai Chi Fighting Robots from Outer Space!"
"Tai Chi Robots from HELL!"
* I do not condone the shooting of telemarketers in this economy. But as soon as things improve and a better job opens up, say, anything, it'll be ok again.
"Scrap by scrap, we are reverse-engineering a grimy portrait of another human being, reconstituting an identity from his discards, probing into stuff that is absolutely, positively none of our damn business."
They better be careful! Reverse Engineering is a violation of the DMCA!!
I believe in Dallas the new chief of police earned some respect from the citizens around here by arresting city employees, policemen, and firemen for unpaid tickets, etc. etc.
If there is a problem with Judge's taking two weeks to sign a search warrant, then there is a problem with the judge and the system, not a reason to create 'special rights' for people who should not be considered 'special people.'
Just my 2c.
There are other translations, you know, if you're one of those people who reads the book before seeing the movie, maybe read one translation before the other?
http://www.lone-star.net/literature/beowulf/
"One critic says 'No technology is foolproof--anyone who has a computer knows how many times it crashes.'"
Encryption is not fool proof. Username/Password concepts are not fool proof. We should just have no passwords and no security implemented at all, because any security expert here worth a grain of salt will tell you that if someone wants it bad enough, they're going to get it.
Security is only there to dissuade them from going after it.
Security through Obscurity is great, WHEN COMBINED WITH EVERY OTHER POSSIBLE SECURITY TECHNOLOGY ALSO.
Sorry, rant mode on, damn holidays. =)
Will it have all the important features that users demand? Is it 100% virus compatible? Microsoft works hard to expand Outlook's virus compatibility, going from JavaScript virii, EXE virii, VB virii, and soon VB.NET virii will be implemented. Who knows what lies next? Virii that you don't even have to open the e-mail to take affect?
How does this guy think he can possibly compete?
I like my WindowMaker. It's not a Win95/XP clone like KDE and Gnome tried to be. But they aren't fully Win95/XP clone that they tried for either, they all moved on. Gnome has multiple panels, as does KDE(ok, they keep up with each other instead of diverting, to me that is kind of pointless), as does Windows. But with Gnome and KDE is makes more sense to use the multiple panels, with Windows there really isn't a reason except to make it look better.
I do agree with Dvorak that WIMPs is a bad idea, but I do think that it is one of the best concepts out there. Although I don't have icons except when I minimize a window. What I would like is a scrolling desktop(and a CPU that could even support it if I coded it). I want to watch my MPlayer Window _over_ the Mozilla Window, but if I move the mouse towards the scrollbar(where MPlayer is covering), the Moz window would move over or the Mplayer window would dynamically shrink, to transparency would occur allowing me to use the scrollbar without having to move the mplayer window.
Everyone thinks that 3-D Window Managers are next. I say 3-d accelerated Window Managers, but having a box with windows on each side _really_ doesn't cut it in my book. It's neat. It's neat to program. It's neat to play with. Gotta get back to work now, good-bye. Just because 3-d is a big gaming thing and not used for regular Windows does not make it "The Next Big Thing(tm)" in my book.
What I would like to see, and this is off-topic, is XML menu specification. So you can download, install a program, and then install a menu item for it with whatever Window Manager you are using. It just needs a few fields. If someone wants to go with this idea and wants me to help(put my money where my mouth is) just e-mail me and I've got no problem.
What I also want to see is the death of X-Windows. It's served it's term, but it isn't getting any better. I want to see DirectFB succeed, but it needs to be multi-platform. I'm on FreeBSD so I can only run it under SDL ontop of X-Windows. But FreeBSD has something similar in the works set for probably 6.0 or whenever the person finishes it.
Communication and features between other type of hardware, specialized, would be great. And the framework to support it. Example, FingerWorks has some great products and great concepts. Once I get the money I'm going for their keyboard. I'd like to see a framework to make it work with any GTK, Gnome, KDE, GNUStep, and a generic library to add support for it to any program. That way have a custom gesture(when it is created) that will allow you to launch a program. I want to be able to hit numlock twice(Example) and type in 0805040206 and launch a program of my choice. For me, memorize 5 numbers, adding a '0' before it, and typing that in is much faster than moving the mouse, opening the menu, finding it, and clicking it. The generic framework, standardized would be best, would add the ability for, say, Mozilla to receive the two numlocks, to realize that it is a registered event handler, and to pass it off to the framework and do what is asked. Say, even passing it off to the 'server' so to speak to figure out what to do, although I think if it was implemented on a window manager level it would be best. That way you have a generic framework to work with as far as developers go, possibly a generic XML exporter of all your functions that you've specific(scanning the bar code, with your CueCat, of your favorite foot powder say, brings up userfriendly), and a generic XML importer to bring into the Window Manager. But having it Window Manager based, so that it fits in with Accessibility theory(I believe?). It _is_ a part of KDE Control Panel, it _is_ a part of Gnome Control Panel, it _is_ a part of that little WindowMaker configuration program. Easy for developers, easy for users, easy to switch between.
Sorry for the long post.
"by becoming a card-carrying associate member. "
Great, and when people call us communists they can now just say "card carrying commie!"
No, if you followed his links and poked around a bit, the "credentialism" he spoke of was that other people believed the professors because they are university professors, although in a different field, they must know all the FCC regulations and be correct and that this person was not when he said "this probably violates some FCC regulations"(not an exact quote. Someone responded to him by saying "They are university professors so they know what they are doing and you don't know anything" (Not an exact quote, but quite close to what was actually said). That kind of credentialism.
To go with your example, taking the UL tag, seeing it on your Microwave, and then seeing the same company has made (as an example) and has made a new web server, and saying "If the UL says their microwave is safe, then their web server must also be safe." even though it is in a different field, different product type, etc..
That is what he meant. =)
Wow! This will revolutionize the desktop background industry! Talk about Innovative!
Credentialism is bad.
"Oh, it's ok. You don't have to wear a condom. I'm a professional. I do this all the time."
- Yeah, uh-huh.
Because it's not about someone's breast popping out your eye! That's why it's redundant! =) It has to be about pron! =)
Ow! My Eye!
Whenever I can I try to bring in a Shadowrun Reference. Hopefully without glasses, and hopefully soon they'll eliminate the box, and then eliminate the viewing angle and we'll have the wonderful world of trideo that will revolutionize TV viewing!
Oh wait, same crap, new dimension.
"3 Dimensions and not a damn thing to watch." *rimshot* *tomato splat*
I saw a picture of one of these things on the web, but it looked pretty 2-D to me.
Damn JPEG Compression! My eyes hurt!
I wouldn't have a problem with it here in the U.S. if it was, as someone said, 1/10th of a cent!
Of course, looking back to reality, it would go to causes
I differ on.
Sigh, when I was younger, you could do a search on "Bush" and come up with, um, things, other than politics.
Another Star Trek series nipped in the bud.
No. You can't copy your own DVDs. Your name has to have four letter in it! No more, no less! And it must end with "AA". Now go back to your room and try it again!
Frickin karma whore...
(it's a joke, get it?)
For those not familiar, or trying to respond to others in this forum and don't know what to say: =)
IDE vs. SCSI article at PcMech.
SCSI & IDE Overview Good, informative, classroom materials for a university.
IDE to SCSI Adaptor Review of the ACard ARS-2000FW
ACARD Tech. - Makes SCSI to IDE converters.
I saw one of these at Microcenter last week. But nah, I've got my old scsi card from years back that works just great, with my $500 9gig scsi drive. =) haha. Memories.