Does the development of a Win2K clone called ReactOS have any bearing on this discussion? (And is ReactOS genuinely a Win2K clone? I can't find links on their website to pin this part down.)
A GPL clone of the software that Microsoft no longer supports would allow internal fixing of broken things -- as long as the clone correctly runs the software in use.
non-sequiturs and confusion [such as]... constant mixing up of two definitions of free in the same context
I doubt Mr Lessig is so silly. In his own words: "Software that offers anyone these [four key GPL component] freedoms is free; software that compromises any of them is not."
Therefore the fine article does not make a distinction between free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-speech because something which isn't both doesn't meet its description of free.
root@localhost? Hey! You must have got some kinda spyware into my systems because a dumb moron's crapflooding me with messages about a Brazilian guy's bad English on Slashdot.
I think Jobs is betting that the iPod money will tide them over.
I think I will look into buying a G5 machine to run Linux/PPC on -- if they're such good hardware -- when they start going cheap.
I'm with the rest of the guys here:
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The Death of Folders?
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Folders won't die, they're one meaningful way to deal with stored information.
Like the CLI and GUI are two interface paradigms, the Nautilus Spatial and Filesystem Browsers are two ways to navigate through folders of data, having a user decide where information is stored won't change.
The whole UI paradigm has picked up a lot from everyday office concepts: documents filed in folders in filing cabinets. That's not going to change any time soon, even with search software making it convenient to find things, because we will still need to put things in storage. Storage folders may become shortcuts-to-frequent-searches but this won't remove their existence from the interfaces we use, and will still feature hierarchical search capabilities so we can refine the bounds of what we're looking for.
YellowDog sell PPC machines of their own, on which you cannot run Apple's OS. The availability of the chip will diminish, but I don't think that GNU/Linux/PPC will disappear, possibly lending a lot to the Linux-on-PS3 effort.
In the wake of the announcement, I got sidetracked into arguing why I pick AMD over Intel chips in the computers I build. The key answer is price, and the value of a Linux distribution make me say that OSX on Intel is not a threat to GNU/Linux on my hardware (and I may pick up dead-end G5 cheap to run Linux/PPC).
But the stories are nothing like say christianity I don't get what you mean.
(A note to those following this: I'm not trying to present a view of Christian faith in order to proselytise or to disturb any faith you hold. I just want to get what Kjella's on about.)
Are you saying that these stories don't have comparable super-characters in the Christian writings? If we consider the cultural background of Christianity, we find its myth is the cultural history of another people-group (this is only one of many ways to characterise the Bible). There is mention of super-men before the Flood story of Genesis and before the wandering people of Isreal took Palestine; Samson is another "impossible super-hero" and King David's battles also pick up -- within the text itself -- a sense of oversized worship for the hero himself.
(We could argue that this is because of the people who wrote the stories; that's another discussion at a different place. I want to talk about the anti-heroic Jesus Christ.)
Kjella, do you mean that the Jesus who, in Albert Schweitzer's words, "dreamed the impossible dream of the kingdom, bringing about the end of world history. When this did not happen, and the great wheel of history refused to turn, he threw himself upon it, was crushed in the process, but succeeded in turning it none the less."
That statement kind of makes Jesus look like quite an impressive villain from a graphic novel...
(and I'd like to disturb the silence by saying that the lameness filter/posting timer is on the blink, telling me that I could not post this comment because it was 4, 11 and 13 minutes since I had succesfully posted a comment and Slashdot enforces a minimum 2-minute wait between posting comments... wtf?)
None of (1), (2) or (3) are true: There's this on Debian's Wiki, Installing Optimized Kernel Package, which points to the package list. The package list for testing/sarge contains 386-, 586-, 686-, K6-, & K7-optimised 2.4 kernels, 32-bit generic, 386-, 586-, 686-, K6-, K7-, 64-bit generic, EM64T- and AMD64-optimised 2.6 kernels.
I second this: Microsoft's Windows and Office software products are accepted standards of home use software on the x86 platform. Try finding an independent body to ratify that.
That's exactly the point. Mankind used to barter all the time to get the best prices, and there remain shops that will do you a deal if you so ask. (The history I have heard is that morally-upright Quakers* insisted on people paying the price that they asked -- so there was no duplicity in their speech. This became the standard mode of practice for most shopping transactions.) Perhaps we will return to bargaining...
*: The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) sect within the Christian tradition who meet in silence, not the Shakers who didn't breed and so died out or the Amish who don't have anything technological.
Great points. Enderle says that the OSM needs leadership. It does have it: where it matters, at each project and most benevolently with Linus maintaining Linux.
However, the assumption that the people talking about F/OSS (not necessarily those creating it) can be led is not true; nor do those running individual projects necessarily want to lead them. I think that the claims of DoS are shocking -- if true and intentional then the slashbots et al. need to grow out of this kind of behaviour (but if it was an unintentional slashdotting, that's unfortunate). Calling an e-mail campaign (the e-mail version of letter-writing campaigns) an 'attack' shows that the guy got carried away with his own story and hyperbole.
I wonder why we get these trolls posted to the front page? Would troll.slashdot.org be a better section place for this that we can deselect in preferences?
It's worth noting that there is a registry key for enabling tab completion in Win2K (it's on automatically in WinXP).
If you change HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Command Processor \CompletionChar to 0x9 in your registry, you can use the Tab key to complete commands and file or directory names.
Standard warnings about registry editing apply: be careful, don't mess with what you don't understand and I'm not responsible for your decision to use this edit or not.
Slashdot Mirror
arf!
Does the development of a Win2K clone called ReactOS have any bearing on this discussion? (And is ReactOS genuinely a Win2K clone? I can't find links on their website to pin this part down.)
A GPL clone of the software that Microsoft no longer supports would allow internal fixing of broken things -- as long as the clone correctly runs the software in use.
And the bugfix of a bugfix, Windows '98 Second Edition, is most strongly recommended.
non-sequiturs and confusion [such as] ... constant mixing up of two definitions of free in the same context
I doubt Mr Lessig is so silly. In his own words: "Software that offers anyone these [four key GPL component] freedoms is free; software that compromises any of them is not."
Therefore the fine article does not make a distinction between free-as-in-beer or free-as-in-speech because something which isn't both doesn't meet its description of free.
root@localhost? Hey! You must have got some kinda spyware into my systems because a dumb moron's crapflooding me with messages about a Brazilian guy's bad English on Slashdot.
most likely from popbitch. but, given the story, IDNHSC and so don't know.
I think Jobs is betting that the iPod money will tide them over.
I think I will look into buying a G5 machine to run Linux/PPC on -- if they're such good hardware -- when they start going cheap.
Folders won't die, they're one meaningful way to deal with stored information.
Like the CLI and GUI are two interface paradigms, the Nautilus Spatial and Filesystem Browsers are two ways to navigate through folders of data, having a user decide where information is stored won't change.
The whole UI paradigm has picked up a lot from everyday office concepts: documents filed in folders in filing cabinets. That's not going to change any time soon, even with search software making it convenient to find things, because we will still need to put things in storage. Storage folders may become shortcuts-to-frequent-searches but this won't remove their existence from the interfaces we use, and will still feature hierarchical search capabilities so we can refine the bounds of what we're looking for.
I don't believe you. It's not been confirmed by Netcraft.
YellowDog sell PPC machines of their own, on which you cannot run Apple's OS. The availability of the chip will diminish, but I don't think that GNU/Linux/PPC will disappear, possibly lending a lot to the Linux-on-PS3 effort.
In the wake of the announcement, I got sidetracked into arguing why I pick AMD over Intel chips in the computers I build. The key answer is price, and the value of a Linux distribution make me say that OSX on Intel is not a threat to GNU/Linux on my hardware (and I may pick up dead-end G5 cheap to run Linux/PPC).
But the stories are nothing like say christianity
I don't get what you mean.
(A note to those following this: I'm not trying to present a view of Christian faith in order to proselytise or to disturb any faith you hold. I just want to get what Kjella's on about.)
Are you saying that these stories don't have comparable super-characters in the Christian writings? If we consider the cultural background of Christianity, we find its myth is the cultural history of another people-group (this is only one of many ways to characterise the Bible). There is mention of super-men before the Flood story of Genesis and before the wandering people of Isreal took Palestine; Samson is another "impossible super-hero" and King David's battles also pick up -- within the text itself -- a sense of oversized worship for the hero himself.
(We could argue that this is because of the people who wrote the stories; that's another discussion at a different place. I want to talk about the anti-heroic Jesus Christ.)
Kjella, do you mean that the Jesus who, in Albert Schweitzer's words, "dreamed the impossible dream of the kingdom, bringing about the end of world history. When this did not happen, and the great wheel of history refused to turn, he threw himself upon it, was crushed in the process, but succeeded in turning it none the less."
That statement kind of makes Jesus look like quite an impressive villain from a graphic novel...
And then the Four Horsemen ride out...
(and I'd like to disturb the silence by saying that the lameness filter/posting timer is on the blink, telling me that I could not post this comment because it was 4, 11 and 13 minutes since I had succesfully posted a comment and Slashdot enforces a minimum 2-minute wait between posting comments... wtf?)
Is the Real name of the Anonymous Coward 'Markov Chain'? It doesn't seem very likely to me.
None of (1), (2) or (3) are true: There's this on Debian's Wiki, Installing Optimized Kernel Package, which points to the package list. The package list for testing/sarge contains 386-, 586-, 686-, K6-, & K7-optimised 2.4 kernels, 32-bit generic, 386-, 586-, 686-, K6-, K7-, 64-bit generic, EM64T- and AMD64-optimised 2.6 kernels.
I second this: Microsoft's Windows and Office software products are accepted standards of home use software on the x86 platform. Try finding an independent body to ratify that.
The SVG implementation is there in Deer Park, the test version of Firefox 1.1. Examples here
Thanks for making me smile.
That's exactly the point. Mankind used to barter all the time to get the best prices, and there remain shops that will do you a deal if you so ask. (The history I have heard is that morally-upright Quakers* insisted on people paying the price that they asked -- so there was no duplicity in their speech. This became the standard mode of practice for most shopping transactions.) Perhaps we will return to bargaining...
*: The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) sect within the Christian tradition who meet in silence, not the Shakers who didn't breed and so died out or the Amish who don't have anything technological.
Great points. Enderle says that the OSM needs leadership. It does have it: where it matters, at each project and most benevolently with Linus maintaining Linux.
However, the assumption that the people talking about F/OSS (not necessarily those creating it) can be led is not true; nor do those running individual projects necessarily want to lead them. I think that the claims of DoS are shocking -- if true and intentional then the slashbots et al. need to grow out of this kind of behaviour (but if it was an unintentional slashdotting, that's unfortunate). Calling an e-mail campaign (the e-mail version of letter-writing campaigns) an 'attack' shows that the guy got carried away with his own story and hyperbole.
I wonder why we get these trolls posted to the front page? Would troll.slashdot.org be a better section place for this that we can deselect in preferences?
My bagpipes with go-faster Machlinory tartan pwnZZZZzzzz...
It's worth noting that there is a registry key for enabling tab completion in Win2K (it's on automatically in WinXP).
If you change HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Command Processor \CompletionChar to 0x9 in your registry, you can use the Tab key to complete commands and file or directory names.
Standard warnings about registry editing apply: be careful, don't mess with what you don't understand and I'm not responsible for your decision to use this edit or not.
Do you still want to press charges? :-P
Seek out appropriate legal advice: I'm not a lawyer, practitioner and do not pretend that I am a legal expert of any kind.