I percieve a difference in laws promoting Freedom, and laws promoting a single given economic interprise. Drawing an analogy between the two is invalid. Moderating you up to 4 was wrong.
The primary purpose of government is defense. Maintaining order within through the rule of law would be second. To define "the ultimate function" of government as keepers of the public database is silly.
Maybe just maybe there *is* a difference between Peace, Love and Linux, and the evil empire? Maybe just maybe it really is the difference in messages and not the medium that is the issue?
I respectfully disagree. If MS would spend the money to promote "Peace, Love, and Linux", then I would applaud their effort. If MS would actually really and truely support Peace, Love, and Free and Open software, then (once it was believed) everyone would applaud. Its not because they *are* microsoft, its because of what they *do*.
Something real close is VIDE. It is a dual panel file manager that uses the vi keybindings. Simple, fast, and can be totally mouse free, while supporting regex like you'd expect it to work. It is an X package, and ":" buts you at a commandline. A (to me, no flames, ok?) better designed vi-keybinded improvement on Midnight Commander. I am certainly not against the visual display of information as long as its implementation doesn't interfere with my input of command/control. Visual display, intelligent keyboard input.:-)
Its just so hard to do the most simple things in windows after spending time in Linux. Its more work to move files, its more work to create simple text files, its more work to run the java compiler...windows just doesn't work well. The file manager is inferior, the desktop is inferior, we won't even discuss the hell that is MFC. My "average_user" as you describe them is a nurse who never owned a computer until last christmas. She is still trying to understand what "user resources" are and why she keeps runing out of them when nothing is running. Yeah..."working generally" until it breaks again.
Consider the message, my friend. This is *not* lame, but rather is the coolest thing I've heard today that wasn't spoken by a young coed. How can you not be for "Peace, Love, and Linux?"
It is either a "crutch" or a method of enhancement. Depending on the level of material one is studying, I'd ask, "whats wrong with using a crutch"? Two girls dropped out of Solid State Physics last semester because (primarily) they were having trouble visualizing the crystal arrays well enough to express analytically therelationships necessary for solving homework problems. 3D arrays are not easy to put on a chalkboard. Fourier Transforms, while simple enough (or at least familar enough) in 1D, were new to them in 2D, and 3D blew them away. Inverse transforms on optimized K-space surfaces? Huh? It would help to be able to see LOTS of examples in an interactive enviornment.
Also consider that for every analytic definitin or theorm there exists a geometrical interpretation. These geometric interpretations aren't proof-elements, but they *are* comphrehension elements. I would suggest that historical the geometric interpretations have lead to the abstractions. To suggest that abstraction transcends geometry is true. It also trancends understanding.
"The proof works".
"What does it prove?"
"I don't know, but every statement is a true statement and it procedes from our axioms to the collection of symbols we were shooting for!"
An article on www.bbc.com recently suggested that the military can not accept losing face for their pilot's actions. Hence the demand that we apologize. Furthermore, the bbc suggests that it is the military holding the hostages, and that chinese politicians have lost control of their military.
$20 is still more than $0. Anyone capable of warez will just use the warez. Its not like there are value-added features. What we'll see is traffic in patches for file format upgrades for the old warez.
Why do you have to wait for.Net to use XML? Consider the Apache Group's Coocon, for instance. MS didn't invent XML. They weren't the first to use it. But when they come out with.Net then it will save you time?
I've always prefered Deringer's.41 caliber with the.410 shotgun shells and 3x.357 balls per shell. With a double barrel model you can squeeze off 6.357 balls at once:-)
Admittedly lacks range, but up close its alota fun!
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I percieve a difference in laws promoting Freedom, and laws promoting a single given economic interprise. Drawing an analogy between the two is invalid. Moderating you up to 4 was wrong.
The primary purpose of government is defense. Maintaining order within through the rule of law would be second. To define "the ultimate function" of government as keepers of the public database is silly.
How is Peace, and Love, (yes, and Linux) different than self-promotion? Are you for real?
I was born in 1961. I remember when IBM wasn't worth liking.
"They contribute a little bit of code, mention Linux on their website, and all of a sudden they're the good guys?"
I also remember when a billion dollars was real money, worth mentioning.
Maybe just maybe there *is* a difference between Peace, Love and Linux, and the evil empire? Maybe just maybe it really is the difference in messages and not the medium that is the issue?
I respectfully disagree. If MS would spend the money to promote "Peace, Love, and Linux", then I would applaud their effort. If MS would actually really and truely support Peace, Love, and Free and Open software, then (once it was believed) everyone would applaud. Its not because they *are* microsoft, its because of what they *do*.
"The penguin rules the streets." Now isn't that a *happy* sounding phrase! I want a t-shirt. :-)
Something real close is VIDE. It is a dual panel file manager that uses the vi keybindings. Simple, fast, and can be totally mouse free, while supporting regex like you'd expect it to work. It is an X package, and ":" buts you at a commandline. A (to me, no flames, ok?) better designed vi-keybinded improvement on Midnight Commander. I am certainly not against the visual display of information as long as its implementation doesn't interfere with my input of command/control. Visual display, intelligent keyboard input. :-)
But especially its just plain unattractive. Windows is not a *pretty* operating system. Windows is slumming.
Its just so hard to do the most simple things in windows after spending time in Linux. Its more work to move files, its more work to create simple text files, its more work to run the java compiler...windows just doesn't work well. The file manager is inferior, the desktop is inferior, we won't even discuss the hell that is MFC. My "average_user" as you describe them is a nurse who never owned a computer until last christmas. She is still trying to understand what "user resources" are and why she keeps runing out of them when nothing is running. Yeah..."working generally" until it breaks again.
I said it when they first started, and its on my dorm room door: "Peace, Love, and Linux" = "Sex, Linux, and MP3".
Consider the message, my friend. This is *not* lame, but rather is the coolest thing I've heard today that wasn't spoken by a young coed. How can you not be for "Peace, Love, and Linux?"
prime cost of putting things into space is not material, but the rockets you build to put them up there
And the cost of replacing them. Its not just the power/mass ratio of the operating unit, but the survivability.
It is either a "crutch" or a method of enhancement. Depending on the level of material one is studying, I'd ask, "whats wrong with using a crutch"? Two girls dropped out of Solid State Physics last semester because (primarily) they were having trouble visualizing the crystal arrays well enough to express analytically therelationships necessary for solving homework problems. 3D arrays are not easy to put on a chalkboard. Fourier Transforms, while simple enough (or at least familar enough) in 1D, were new to them in 2D, and 3D blew them away. Inverse transforms on optimized K-space surfaces? Huh? It would help to be able to see LOTS of examples in an interactive enviornment.
Also consider that for every analytic definitin or theorm there exists a geometrical interpretation. These geometric interpretations aren't proof-elements, but they *are* comphrehension elements. I would suggest that historical the geometric interpretations have lead to the abstractions. To suggest that abstraction transcends geometry is true. It also trancends understanding.
"The proof works".
"What does it prove?"
"I don't know, but every statement is a true statement and it procedes from our axioms to the collection of symbols we were shooting for!"
"So it doesn't really mean anything?"
"We trancended meaning last semester."
An article on www.bbc.com recently suggested that the military can not accept losing face for their pilot's actions. Hence the demand that we apologize. Furthermore, the bbc suggests that it is the military holding the hostages, and that chinese politicians have lost control of their military.
Which makes it an electronic surveillance aiplane, but not a spy plane.
This is more akin to a Highway Patrolman parked alongside a turnpike using his radargun.
Not spying.
Surveillance.
Netscape got to its position because it was better. It wasn't until Netscape was throttled into a comatose state that IE could claim victory.
$20 is still more than $0. Anyone capable of warez will just use the warez. Its not like there are value-added features. What we'll see is traffic in patches for file format upgrades for the old warez.
Why do you have to wait for .Net to use XML? Consider the Apache Group's Coocon, for instance. MS didn't invent XML. They weren't the first to use it. But when they come out with .Net then it will save you time?
But how does QT/Embedded compare to FLTK? I would think it would be worth having Xwindows compatibility for porting purposes...
Port octave and gnuplot and call it a "super calculator" for college engr/sci majors.
Is it legal to use encryption to bypass a content control mechanism? ;-)
So what about Open Source? Are we going to have to start calling it something else now?
OSNSGI=Open Source is Not SGI?
I've always prefered Deringer's .41 caliber with the .410 shotgun shells and 3x .357 balls per shell. With a double barrel model you can squeeze off 6 .357 balls at once :-)
Admittedly lacks range, but up close its alota fun!