People who get Windows don't even get QBASIC anymore. "Programming" is something other people do. It used to be when you bought a computer ALL you would get is ROM BASIC and everyone was a programmer... at least a BASIC programmer. Books about how to use your computer were about how to write BASIC programs. Visual C++ or Visual Basic are pretty expensive. I think you'd either have to be a programmer already, thinking of some way to make your money back, or trying to learn it as a marketable skill. Linux comes with tons of programming languages and development tools, it's hard NOT to learn how to program.
In my subjective opinion (how does one judge these things?) Mozilla is the most improved project. However I wonder, what is the use of giving $30K to AOL?
Apple's gumdrop button look like a bad case of "Mystery Meat Navigation". Check out this website... it's pretty funny (check out the mouseover-based streetsign), and interesting:
Watching movies under Linux is fair use. When you license CSS technology, you are not getting access to copyrighted or patented technology... Merely secret technology.
Abstraction in a language doesn't have to incur slowness. I think you are thinking of "layers of abstraction." Such as "xml running on a regular expression parser running on perl running on java running in an applet running in netscape running on an internal scripting language running on C running on motif running on xlib running on pipes running on linux running on C over tcp running on ip running on ethernet running on linux running on C running on machine language running on a transmeta code morpher running on VLIW on Crusoe."
After seeing Bill Joy speak at "Sun Market^H^H^H^H^H^H Technology Days" in Seattle, I don't think McNealy deserves to keep all of one's contempt. Bill Joy showed contempt for UNIX, Open Source, and anything that wasn't Java.
Paraphrasing: "Open Source? I don't want to see the source, I want it to work and be documented." To which the audience applauded. (This after he talked about how he worked on BSD UNIX's source in the early 1970's to make it more stable.) He said that it was impossible to build a reliable library of code when you couldn't guarantee that your code wouldn't overwrite other places in memory. (It makes me think of Larry Wall who says that a language tends to be inversely useful to the number of axes the author has to grind.)
In related news Senator McGrath has introduced a bill requiring that running hot and cold water must be used for specific educational purposes. Also, inviting a member of the opposite sex into the shower is right out.
You can't get everyone to use an operating system without applications. Even if people are paying for closed applications, we have already taken over the operating system with Free Software. It's impossible to come up with a complete replacement for all software with Free equivalents simultaneously.
The question is not whether we have the right to watch DVDs we bought under Linux, but whether the studios have the right to say we can't. Reverse engineering for interoperability, and fair use, that's all it's about.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl # Change the above line to point to your perl interpreter. # I hereby release this code into the public domain. while () { tr/[A-Z]/NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM/; tr/[a-z]/nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm/; print; }
Internally, Intel CPUs convert the CISC instructions to some kind of RISC instructions. Great for speed (pipelining, etc.), but in the words of Transmeta, they are doing it by throwing transistors and watts at the problem.
The guy who posted to that mailing list was obviously laying a trap; he knew what RMS would say and he had his response planned ahead of time. It is the original sense of "ad hominem" meaning you take the words of the person you are debating with in order that they will corner themselves into agreeing with your argument. When RMS didn't agree that there was a problem, even after going along with his group-licensing theory, he submitted a link to his own theory to Slashdot. Now Slashdot is a very effective BS detector. Take LinuxOne for example. The issues raised in the GPL hole story were pretty clearly resolved on Slashdot even better than they were on the mailing list by RMS. I don't think Roblimo should be held to a higher standard of checking the veracity of the contents of links than Hemos is. (Sorry Hemos.)
Free for non-commercial use; buy the full version for commercial use and extra features. I think there is already an accurate term for this: Shareware. Let's compare this to Windows. I can pay about $100-$200 (or become a criminal by copying it) but I can use it how I want. However I can't modify or redistribute it. I can't use it on more than one computer, etc. This would be the same as buying the full retail version of BeOS. However BeOS also has a Shareware version that I can use to try it out. I've always heard good things about it but didn't want to put down $80 (or whatever) to try it out. Now I can. Unfortunately I can't redistribute modifications (say, creating my own distribution with my choice of extra software packages) for legal reasons (I'm sure it's against the license), or modify the existing program for the practical reason that the source code is not available. No big surprise, this is the way shareware works. Then the shareware seller asks you to buy the full version if you want the company to keep making new versions. They may also say you are required to register/buy the full version after a certain amount of time, or to use it for commercial purposes. BeOS requires you to buy the full version to use it for commercial purposes. What I'm trying to say is, this Shareware is better than having only retail software but it is not completely giving it for free like some other programs with are freeware but don't include source, and is obviously not Free software in the GNU sense of the word.
The Microsoft Intellimouse with Intellieye see: http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subid =22&site=10077&pg=1 works great in Linux. It is must less expensive than the Intellimouse Explorer while letter you use your middle finger on the right mouse button (the way I prefer it). I have it plugged into the PS/2 port because I am also running Windows 95, not Windows 98. I haven't tried the USB under Linux. The computer doesn't care if it's optical or not. The mouse wheel works in most X programs also, such as mozilla and even in standard xterms, and it works as the middle button in all programs in X if you click it.
Please cite one significant instance of a program written for GNOME or KDE that would have the same functionality as a command line program, which does not already have an equivalent program written for the command line. I personally can't think of any. "Rant" is right.
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People who get Windows don't even get QBASIC anymore. "Programming" is something other people do. It used to be when you bought a computer ALL you would get is ROM BASIC and everyone was a programmer... at least a BASIC programmer. Books about how to use your computer were about how to write BASIC programs. Visual C++ or Visual Basic are pretty expensive. I think you'd either have to be a programmer already, thinking of some way to make your money back, or trying to learn it as a marketable skill. Linux comes with tons of programming languages and development tools, it's hard NOT to learn how to program.
In my subjective opinion (how does one judge these things?) Mozilla is the most improved project. However I wonder, what is the use of giving $30K to AOL?
Apple's gumdrop button look like a bad case of "Mystery Meat Navigation". Check out this website... it's pretty funny (check out the mouseover-based streetsign), and interesting:
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http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/badnavigation.htm
IANAL.
Watching movies under Linux is fair use. When you license CSS technology, you are not getting access to copyrighted or patented technology... Merely secret technology.
Because most of us are boycotting Amazon.
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/13652.html
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2426 221,00.html
Abstraction in a language doesn't have to incur slowness. I think you are thinking of "layers of abstraction." Such as "xml running on a regular expression parser running on perl running on java running in an applet running in netscape running on an internal scripting language running on C running on motif running on xlib running on pipes running on linux running on C over tcp running on ip running on ethernet running on linux running on C running on machine language running on a transmeta code morpher running on VLIW on Crusoe."
After seeing Bill Joy speak at "Sun Market^H^H^H^H^H^H Technology Days" in Seattle, I don't think McNealy deserves to keep all of one's contempt. Bill Joy showed contempt for UNIX, Open Source, and anything that wasn't Java.
Paraphrasing: "Open Source? I don't want to see the source, I want it to work and be documented." To which the audience applauded. (This after he talked about how he worked on BSD UNIX's source in the early 1970's to make it more stable.)
He said that it was impossible to build a reliable library of code when you couldn't guarantee that your code wouldn't overwrite other places in memory. (It makes me think of Larry Wall who says that a language tends to be inversely useful to the number of axes the author has to grind.)
In related news Senator McGrath has introduced a bill requiring that running hot and cold water must be used for specific educational purposes. Also, inviting a member of the opposite sex into the shower is right out.
You can't get everyone to use an operating system without applications. Even if people are paying for closed applications, we have already taken over the operating system with Free Software. It's impossible to come up with a complete replacement for all software with Free equivalents simultaneously.
They should just proactively change the name from America On-line, to just America.
:)
The question is not whether we have the right to watch DVDs we bought under Linux, but whether the studios have the right to say we can't. Reverse engineering for interoperability, and fair use, that's all it's about.
that should have been while(<>)
Apparently if you use preview, it converts your codes, then if you hit submit, it munges it again so hit BACK then submit.
Double-Damn slashdot.
that should have been while()
Damn slashdot.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# Change the above line to point to your perl interpreter.
# I hereby release this code into the public domain.
while ()
{
tr/[A-Z]/NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM/;
tr/[a-z]/nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm/;
print;
}
Me too. $100. I was going to go with the $65 but I wanted to offset the fact that I decided to ask for their book. :)
Internally, Intel CPUs convert the CISC instructions to some kind of RISC instructions. Great for speed (pipelining, etc.), but in the words of Transmeta, they are doing it by throwing transistors and watts at the problem.
Crusoe is a processor that is fully x86 compatible that only takes 1 Watt. 1 WATT!!! They are introducing two versions 400 MHz and 700 MHz.
(I wonder if Roblimo will see my message)
The guy who posted to that mailing list was obviously laying a trap; he knew what RMS would say and he had his response planned ahead of time. It is the original sense of "ad hominem" meaning you take the words of the person you are debating with in order that they will corner themselves into agreeing with your argument. When RMS didn't agree that there was a problem, even after going along with his group-licensing theory, he submitted a link to his own theory to Slashdot. Now Slashdot is a very effective BS detector. Take LinuxOne for example. The issues raised in the GPL hole story were pretty clearly resolved on Slashdot even better than they were on the mailing list by RMS. I don't think Roblimo should be held to a higher standard of checking the veracity of the contents of links than Hemos is. (Sorry Hemos.)
Free for non-commercial use; buy the full version for commercial use and extra features. I think there is already an accurate term for this: Shareware. Let's compare this to Windows. I can pay about $100-$200 (or become a criminal by copying it) but I can use it how I want. However I can't modify or redistribute it. I can't use it on more than one computer, etc. This would be the same as buying the full retail version of BeOS. However BeOS also has a Shareware version that I can use to try it out. I've always heard good things about it but didn't want to put down $80 (or whatever) to try it out. Now I can. Unfortunately I can't redistribute modifications (say, creating my own distribution with my choice of extra software packages) for legal reasons (I'm sure it's against the license), or modify the existing program for the practical reason that the source code is not available. No big surprise, this is the way shareware works. Then the shareware seller asks you to buy the full version if you want the company to keep making new versions. They may also say you are required to register/buy the full version after a certain amount of time, or to use it for commercial purposes. BeOS requires you to buy the full version to use it for commercial purposes. What I'm trying to say is, this Shareware is better than having only retail software but it is not completely giving it for free like some other programs with are freeware but don't include source, and is obviously not Free software in the GNU sense of the word.
T-Rex for sale.
Naked and petrified.
That was the Beta (Oxygen). This is the official release (Air).
Hmm. It says that JX is only free for non-commercial use and therefore it is not Open Source as such.
The Microsoft Intellimouse with Intellieye see: http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/display.asp?subid =22&site=10077&pg=1
works great in Linux. It is must less expensive than the Intellimouse Explorer while letter you use your middle finger on the right mouse button (the way I prefer it). I have it plugged into the PS/2 port because I am also running Windows 95, not Windows 98. I haven't tried the USB under Linux. The computer doesn't care if it's optical or not. The mouse wheel works in most X programs also, such as mozilla and even in standard xterms, and it works as the middle button in all programs in X if you click it.
Please cite one significant instance of a program written for GNOME or KDE that would have the same functionality as a command line program, which does not already have an equivalent program written for the command line. I personally can't think of any. "Rant" is right.