The GNOME Foundation is governed by a community elected group, which makes decisions over GNOME's direction. The corporations form a separate advisory committee that has no power.
In the KDE League, the corps have equal power to the developers, but the League has no power over the development direction of KDE. It is more of a P.R. campaign, which is still a good idea considering all the questions that were raised by the appearance of all the corps lining up behind GNOME.
You are right, they are not alike at all, and neither are something to be concerned about. I think there is a lot of misunderstanding between the two camps. Some people in KDE circles spread a lot of FUD about the GNOME foundation, and I think it's going to come back to haunt them now.
The problem with.xxx and.kids, as I see it, is the problem you have with rating any content. Who is going to regulate and rate content that is appropriate for.kids on the one hand, and who is going to regulate and rate content that is outside the.xxx domain. There is first of all, the small problem of deciding that something should belong to the.xxx domain (or shouldn't belong in.kids). These are the same problems that made the CDA unconstitutional.
Then you have the problem, and I think it is a problem, that when you being pressuring websites to register as ".xxx" it facilitates censorship. As many theaters refuse to carry NC-17 rated movies, local laws prohibit kids under 17 from getting into R rated movies, and so on. Similar restrictions are being put onto video games. The fact that the movies and games are rated "voluntarily" just makes it easier for the government, businesses covering their ass, and concerned libraries and schools, to regulate it with blanket policies.
Remember that depending on how the net is implemented, it can be a place of freedom or a place of oppressive control.*
* Lessig, Lawrence. Code and other laws of cyberspace. 1999
Not only did I have to go to a church to vote (a technicality I was willing to ignore), they had the ten commandments hanging above the voting booths. (It was just a laminated bulletin-board type thing. The room might have been a church classroom.) But it really annoyed me. I'm thinking of writing a letter to the secretary of state expressing my concern, and maybe the church where the poll was. I don't plan on making a big case about it. I'm sure it was not intended to influence voters, but I did not think it was appropriate. I think it is more a matter of the state not paying attention to these things than it is the church's.
First things first, as is obvious, the letter is satire, though the link provided does not indicate it. Given that, some people are saying that it raises some good points. As a work of "ha ha, only serious" it is little more than flamebait. Think the GNOME developers are wasting their time instead of working on KDE? You might as well accuse BSD or Hurd programmers of wasting their time (hope you like getting flamed). If you think it's a joke, fine it's a joke. Ha Ha. If you think the points raised are rational arguments, it's not. The message sent is "look how silly you all look, why don't you consider how Bill Gates would take it."
(heard on a Nader TV talk-show appearance) :
"If you don't take an interest in politics, politics will take an interest in you."
This issue of a world controlled by a few megacorps that Katz talks about is the reason I'm voting for Nader, because as far as I can tell both Gore and Bush are running on the Corporatism party ticket (even though there are many differences between them, mostly who to tax and who to spend it on, but I digress...).
I do not believe voting for Nader is throwing away my vote. First of all, just because your candidate doesn't win, doesn't mean you throw away your vote. As I said before, elections are not horse races; you are not there to predict the winner, but to make an informed vote, and to vote your conscience. Also, voting for Nader is building up the Green party which addresses a number of important issues the top two parties are not talking about. A large showing for that party increases its visibility in future elections.
The same is true for other third parties for that matter (as I know a lot of libertarians read this site, and your issues will be different than mine. I see a lot of libertarians running on the local (WA) tickets; good work...)
I was thinking there would be some benefits of creating an open source interface engine (a program which translates and routes HL7 messages) The current ones are not the best technology, but most of all when you buy them you get stuck with a single vendor's support argeements (and excessive rates), you have to pay for any extra functionality, and all the usual disadvantages of closed source software (which need not be repeated here). This sounds like it might even be feasible considering if the software was good enough, a vendor (or vendors) could still sell support.
I have heard that Microsoft is beginning to show a lot more interest in this field lately. The next version of HL7 is going to be XML based, and what is BizTalk server but an XML translator/router.
I don't understand. The FSF specifically said that it was ok to link in an FSF copyrighted GPL code into Qt programs, regardless of the past. It is other GPL developers (in theory only) who may have an argument with their code going into Qt code before it was GPL. What is the use of intentionally avoiding FSF code?
This may be a dumb question, but if your state is concerned about federal control, why doesn't your state raise its taxes and pay for 100% of its own schools' budgets? I don't mean this sarcastically, it just makes me wonder how things got the way they are in the first place.
In looking at the Internet, one might also ask what has the administration done to support the open-source movement, either through procurement policies (very little), funding for open-source software (not something the administration talks about) or protecting free software developers from software patents and anticompetitive practices targeted at the free-software movement?
I appreciate the tongue-in-cheek commentary on political hype, but correllating an increase in violent games and movies to a decrease in violent statistics is just as bad as what the politicians are claiming.
(Emphasis mine.)
If you realize it is tongue in cheek, then why do you say it is just as bad? It's not. It's tongue in cheek! Is he really saying that increasing the amount of violence on the internet and movies causes a decrease of violence amoung the young in real life? No.
I enjoyed your book "Virtual Reality" a lot, which I read at least seven years ago.
The way some of these scholars discuss computer topics reminds me of a scene in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, when Randy Waterhouse ends up in a debate/argument with his girlfriend's "intellectual" friends. (If you've read it.)
Yeah, you could vote for Nader. You could also throw your vote into a black hole. End result is the same.
You don't vote on who you think will win. This isn't a horse race. You vote for the person you would want elected. Anything ELSE is throwing away your vote.
He said you should be able to write a program over the weekend. That is assuming you have already written the software, and want to make it client-server. Otherwise, it's going to take you months of design and architecture just like any other program...
If you do convert existing programs to use this software, you better have written it, because it's not compatible with the GPL (yet? They mentioned a dual license in the future):
You may NOT make any change, removal or additions to the Software's underlying protocols or APIs without the prior written permission of Licensor.
You will use your best efforts to discontinue the use and distribution of earlier versions of the Software once a new version, update or upgrade is available. You will also use your best efforts to distribute such new version, update or upgrade to any third party to whom you may have distributed an earlier version.
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The GNOME Foundation is governed by a community elected group, which makes decisions over GNOME's direction. The corporations form a separate advisory committee that has no power.
In the KDE League, the corps have equal power to the developers, but the League has no power over the development direction of KDE. It is more of a P.R. campaign, which is still a good idea considering all the questions that were raised by the appearance of all the corps lining up behind GNOME.
You are right, they are not alike at all, and neither are something to be concerned about. I think there is a lot of misunderstanding between the two camps. Some people in KDE circles spread a lot of FUD about the GNOME foundation, and I think it's going to come back to haunt them now.
The problem with .xxx and .kids, as I see it, is the problem you have with rating any content. Who is going to regulate and rate content that is appropriate for .kids on the one hand, and who is going to regulate and rate content that is outside the .xxx domain. There is first of all, the small problem of deciding that something should belong to the .xxx domain (or shouldn't belong in .kids). These are the same problems that made the CDA unconstitutional.
Then you have the problem, and I think it is a problem, that when you being pressuring websites to register as ".xxx" it facilitates censorship. As many theaters refuse to carry NC-17 rated movies, local laws prohibit kids under 17 from getting into R rated movies, and so on. Similar restrictions are being put onto video games. The fact that the movies and games are rated "voluntarily" just makes it easier for the government, businesses covering their ass, and concerned libraries and schools, to regulate it with blanket policies.
Remember that depending on how the net is implemented, it can be a place of freedom or a place of oppressive control.*
* Lessig, Lawrence. Code and other laws of cyberspace. 1999
Is that why Florida is called the Key State?
Not only did I have to go to a church to vote (a technicality I was willing to ignore), they had the ten commandments hanging above the voting booths. (It was just a laminated bulletin-board type thing. The room might have been a church classroom.) But it really annoyed me. I'm thinking of writing a letter to the secretary of state expressing my concern, and maybe the church where the poll was. I don't plan on making a big case about it. I'm sure it was not intended to influence voters, but I did not think it was appropriate. I think it is more a matter of the state not paying attention to these things than it is the church's.
Hey motherfucker,
I know it's fake. That's what I SAID.
First things first, as is obvious, the letter is satire, though the link provided does not indicate it. Given that, some people are saying that it raises some good points. As a work of "ha ha, only serious" it is little more than flamebait. Think the GNOME developers are wasting their time instead of working on KDE? You might as well accuse BSD or Hurd programmers of wasting their time (hope you like getting flamed). If you think it's a joke, fine it's a joke. Ha Ha. If you think the points raised are rational arguments, it's not. The message sent is "look how silly you all look, why don't you consider how Bill Gates would take it."
Regarding atheism (part of the minority religions question), he has come forward against the concept of freedom FROM religion.
LIEBERMAN AGAIN CLAIMS "NO FREEDOM FROM RELIGION" IN NOTRE DAME ADDRESS: CITES JUDEO-CHRISTIAN ROOTS OF AMERICA
(heard on a Nader TV talk-show appearance) :
"If you don't take an interest in politics, politics will take an interest in you."
This issue of a world controlled by a few megacorps that Katz talks about is the reason I'm voting for Nader, because as far as I can tell both Gore and Bush are running on the Corporatism party ticket (even though there are many differences between them, mostly who to tax and who to spend it on, but I digress...).
I do not believe voting for Nader is throwing away my vote. First of all, just because your candidate doesn't win, doesn't mean you throw away your vote. As I said before, elections are not horse races; you are not there to predict the winner, but to make an informed vote, and to vote your conscience. Also, voting for Nader is building up the Green party which addresses a number of important issues the top two parties are not talking about. A large showing for that party increases its visibility in future elections.
The same is true for other third parties for that matter (as I know a lot of libertarians read this site, and your issues will be different than mine. I see a lot of libertarians running on the local (WA) tickets; good work...)
As for the rest, the reason Unisys owns that patent is because they own Compuserve, or what is left of it.
AOL owns compuserve.
Remember kids, all this BS was made possible when a judge decided that loading a program from disk to memory was also considered "copying."
"This work does not inspire feeling"
Speak for yourself. I thought it was a cool hack. That in itself is inspiration to me.
damn, you use pico to edit config files? /etc/passwd file. :)
I hope you use pico -w
The last thing you want is for pico to word-wrap your
I was thinking there would be some benefits of creating an open source interface engine (a program which translates and routes HL7 messages) The current ones are not the best technology, but most of all when you buy them you get stuck with a single vendor's support argeements (and excessive rates), you have to pay for any extra functionality, and all the usual disadvantages of closed source software (which need not be repeated here). This sounds like it might even be feasible considering if the software was good enough, a vendor (or vendors) could still sell support.
I have heard that Microsoft is beginning to show a lot more interest in this field lately. The next version of HL7 is going to be XML based, and what is BizTalk server but an XML translator/router.
This comment is not the opinion of my employer.
I don't understand. The FSF specifically said that it was ok to link in an FSF copyrighted GPL code into Qt programs, regardless of the past. It is other GPL developers (in theory only) who may have an argument with their code going into Qt code before it was GPL. What is the use of intentionally avoiding FSF code?
This may be a dumb question, but if your state is concerned about federal control, why doesn't your state raise its taxes and pay for 100% of its own schools' budgets? I don't mean this sarcastically, it just makes me wonder how things got the way they are in the first place.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,39295-3
Of course Red Hat isn't like Microsoft.
:)
Microsoft is a publicly traded software company which sells operating systems and is currently trading at their 52-week low.
Oh, wait a minute...
(it's funny, laugh)
I appreciate the tongue-in-cheek commentary on political hype, but correllating an increase in violent games and movies to a decrease in violent statistics is just as bad as what the politicians are claiming.
(Emphasis mine.)
If you realize it is tongue in cheek, then why do you say it is just as bad? It's not. It's tongue in cheek! Is he really saying that increasing the amount of violence on the internet and movies causes a decrease of violence amoung the young in real life? No.
How do you use 10W per hour? Considering that is a rating of power (energy per unit time), not energy.
HGTG is cool, slashdot is not ... I'd like some insight or something, not a bunch of lame "42" jokes.
You are post #21, which is half of 42.
So you are half right.
Wow, Howard Rheingold, is that really you? Cool.
I enjoyed your book "Virtual Reality" a lot, which I read at least seven years ago.
The way some of these scholars discuss computer topics reminds me of a scene in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon, when Randy Waterhouse ends up in a debate/argument with his girlfriend's "intellectual" friends. (If you've read it.)
I can just see it now:
"Microsoft CorelDRAW" or "Microsoft Corel WordPerfect".
Better yet: "Microsoft WordPerfect for Linux."
and therefore: "Microsoft Linux OS"
We also built another telephone. It's the one that Harrison Ford uses on Air Force One. Not the little satellite phone, the big white desk phone.
STU III's. Cool. I used to work with those.
Yeah, you could vote for Nader. You could also throw your vote into a black hole. End result is the same.
You don't vote on who you think will win. This isn't a horse race. You vote for the person you would want elected. Anything ELSE is throwing away your vote.
GORE BUSH
CHOOSE ONE
OBEY
He said you should be able to write a program over the weekend. That is assuming you have already written the software, and want to make it client-server. Otherwise, it's going to take you months of design and architecture just like any other program...
If you do convert existing programs to use this software, you better have written it, because it's not compatible with the GPL (yet? They mentioned a dual license in the future):
You may NOT make any change, removal or additions to the Software's underlying protocols or APIs without the prior written permission of Licensor.
You will use your best efforts to discontinue the use and distribution of earlier versions of the Software once a new version, update or upgrade is available. You will also use your best efforts to distribute such new version, update or upgrade to any third party to whom you may have distributed an earlier version.