Sophie first designed the Acorn System 1, which was my first computer. And a damn fine thing it was too. I still have mine.
I exchanged emails with Sophie last year; she is very modest about the work, but I still have fond memories of programming the system 1 in assembler, and trying to get the 'correct' volume control on the cassette interface. Ah, those were the days!
Are these big companies ethical? Of course they're not. Business is business. I don't trust dell any more than I trust the squatters. At least the squatters don't claim to be ethical.
>People who want to get a useful name for use in their legitimate businesses cannot.
I certainly agree with that.
I once worked for an Irish company that changed its name to one purely so it could obtain all the domains it wanted.
Even my stupid slashdot user name is unavailable - www.mustafap.com. I was going to register it for incontinence products, and have now been thwarted. Damm those domain name squatters!
Because the big US companies don't like it, and the big US companies pay the US government. Therefore the US government makes it illegal, while the rest of the world goes "eh? who cares?".
I can just see my 10 year old now: "Oh, a torch! Now a can read under the bed covers." There's going to be a few Darwin Awards generated from this toy.
That's really true for the office environment, but I would love voice recognition at home - while in the kitchen cooking, in the bath ( no - don't comment on that one), crashed on the couch. Or even in the car.
>Except it isn't a good point at all because all the developers work together anyway
In some cases, yes. But is that true of the majority?
Yes, if we are talking about drivers.
Are KDE and Gnome working together?
My experience of managing an open source project which forked several ways was that the dilution of effort *did* affect other peoples work. 'Camps' appear, with work being duplicated simply because people would not take the effort to work together. You only have to look at how I was marked a 'troll' earlier on to see how difficult it is for some technical folk to consider a reasonably stated argument. Why debate something when you can fork, and ignore the people you disagree with.
Of course we need diversity. But do we need so much?
is the bit that I would be concerned with. While I can't draw on any formal evidence, it seems obvious that there comes a point where diluting the development effort across an ever increasing number of distributions becomes counter productive.
I'll shut up now because this is hardly a new idea, but thanks for the debate.
>Its not uncommon to be paid 20-30% more than the aveage business programmer with equa experience.
Not in the south of England.
I'm an embedded engineer, and love it. My wife would prefer me to not be though, for the money.
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I remember when we got WordPerfect 5.1 ( on the vax, I think ). Productivity took a tremendous dive for a few months. Every time we started a new document ( fax, memo, minutes ) we'd spend ages figuring out the best choice of font and type size to use. Man, that was a crazy few months.
I still mess around with fonts in eclipse, just to bring back the memory when I'm bored of coding.
>Lol, I'm such a lazy slashdot 'reader' - not only do I not RTFA, but now I do not even RTFCs! - I just post randomly with questions like this that exhibit the flaws of the moderation system.
No, I'd say you are a perfectly normal user. An uncanny description really.
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What an obnoxious little twerp you are.
"Those who know". It'd no big secret, unless you think that wikipedia is some kind of secret club.
Sophie can call herself what ever she wants. It doesn't change history.
You pathetic little twit.
Sophie first designed the Acorn System 1, which was my first computer. And a damn fine thing it was too. I still have mine.
I exchanged emails with Sophie last year; she is very modest about the work, but I still have fond memories of programming the system 1 in assembler, and trying to get the 'correct' volume control on the cassette interface. Ah, those were the days!
It has a disappointing ending
>1)The quality of my spelling and grammar, doesn't actually affect the quality of my argument.
True. But it will make communicating that message to others harder.
You've been watching the teletubbies, haven't you :o)
> Cotton says, "and that just hurts consumers over time."'"
Rubbish. What's hurting consumers over time is the absolute rubbish material that is being published.
>If you've never seen a MacBook Air before, it might indeed look like a bad mock-up of a portable computer.
I hope steve jobs doesn't know where you live...
How long before this so called church can log into Slashdot and delete stories about themselves?
>Wot's got that submission to the frontpage, over the pearls of insight and observation wot I submitted?
Grammar, probably.
Are these big companies ethical? Of course they're not. Business is business. I don't trust dell any more than I trust the squatters. At least the squatters don't claim to be ethical.
>People who want to get a useful name for use in their legitimate businesses cannot.
I certainly agree with that.
I once worked for an Irish company that changed its name to one purely so it could obtain all the domains it wanted.
Even my stupid slashdot user name is unavailable - www.mustafap.com. I was going to register it for incontinence products, and have now been thwarted. Damm those domain name squatters!
Because the big US companies don't like it, and the big US companies pay the US government. Therefore the US government makes it illegal, while the rest of the world goes "eh? who cares?".
You must be new here, Mr 1 Million+ user id.
>A bit expensive but since I've been saving lately thanks to RIAA
:o)
Ah shame. If you post your bank account details, address and social security number, I'd be happy to make a small donation.
Or maybe not
>"We've not argued about this for a while. Let's have a shouting match...
Would you like a 5 minute argument, or the full half hour?
I can just see my 10 year old now: "Oh, a torch! Now a can read under the bed covers."
There's going to be a few Darwin Awards generated from this toy.
I preferred the google translation.
>Land in the world where you do not know the fairy who could deliver" a dream said.
Milton couldn't have said it better.
That's really true for the office environment, but I would love voice recognition at home - while in the kitchen cooking, in the bath ( no - don't comment on that one), crashed on the couch. Or even in the car.
> Wow... some mod has your number...
:o)
That's slashdot for you.
It's interesting what you say about KDE & Gnome, thanks.
>Except it isn't a good point at all because all the developers work together anyway
In some cases, yes. But is that true of the majority?
Yes, if we are talking about drivers.
Are KDE and Gnome working together?
My experience of managing an open source project which forked several ways was that the dilution of effort *did* affect other peoples work. 'Camps' appear, with work being duplicated simply because people would not take the effort to work together. You only have to look at how I was marked a 'troll' earlier on to see how difficult it is for some technical folk to consider a reasonably stated argument. Why debate something when you can fork, and ignore the people you disagree with.
Of course we need diversity. But do we need so much?
I disagree. In fact your point:
> There are hundreds of distros out there
is the bit that I would be concerned with. While I can't draw on any formal evidence, it seems obvious that there comes a point where diluting the development effort across an ever increasing number of distributions becomes counter productive.
I'll shut up now because this is hardly a new idea, but thanks for the debate.
So a distribution might die. Good. There are too many of them anyway.
>Its not uncommon to be paid 20-30% more than the aveage business programmer with equa experience.
Not in the south of England.
I'm an embedded engineer, and love it. My wife would prefer me to not be though, for the money.
I remember when we got WordPerfect 5.1 ( on the vax, I think ). Productivity took a tremendous dive for a few months. Every time we started a new document ( fax, memo, minutes ) we'd spend ages figuring out the best choice of font and type size to use. Man, that was a crazy few months.
I still mess around with fonts in eclipse, just to bring back the memory when I'm bored of coding.
>Lol, I'm such a lazy slashdot 'reader' - not only do I not RTFA, but now I do not even RTFCs! - I just post randomly with questions like this that exhibit the flaws of the moderation system.
No, I'd say you are a perfectly normal user. An uncanny description really.
>Why do you go on vacation to foreign places..
I think you will find he is an american, and therefore that doesn't apply.