I have never understood what is so important about ESR. I have read some of his papers, articles, and I don't get it - I even picked up his book (for a buck on sale).
Out of all of the crap that people could be focusing on, and there are groups set up just to stop internet spam. Yea, this guy is sleazy - about as sleazy as the phone company that calls your house in the middle of the day trying to sell long distance service.
If people really wanted to stop getting spam, this guy wouldn't be making so much money. People like spam in their inboxes - or at least enough people do to keep this guy with enough money to put servers all over the world.
Yet another article about how all software is crap and how most developers suck, written by kid in his early twenties who probably hasn't worked on a large project in his life. Woohoo.
I have a feeling that there are a whole lot more articles on the internet written by more experienced developers who might offer more insight than this kid.
No, Microsoft can push the R&D costs of the XBox towards the more profitable parts of Microsoft. After all, the XBox does run a variant of Windows that powers their operating system.
I doubt, at the end of the day, the XBox really (on the books at least) costs more to make than to sell.
The reason why non American companies are the only ones ever caught for dumping is because countries like Russia and Japan have a tendency to go way overboard when it comes to dumping goods.
Look at what these countries were doing about 5 years ago with the steel trade. They were dumping steel at such a low cost that US companies like Huntco were getting creamed and having to shut down facilities. The cost of imported steel was so low that after paying to ship it over, process it, and then ship it to the location the imported steel was still way under US rates. The steel was at such a low price that it was almost like the foreign companies were giving it away.
It takes a while, and blatant dumping, for a company or country to get called for it. The steel dumping suits almost did not go through. Microsoft might be dumping their product, but dumping goes on so much that it wouldn't see the light of day. If MS was to be accused of dumping, they would have to lower the price to an insanely low cost.
Yea, I know that everyone here has said it, but use gcc. We do here and the ease of just having everything work more than makes up for any speed loss. We use Windows/Linux/HPUX.
Libraries are written in C so that, if we have to, we can easily compile them with native compilers for special cases and not have to worry about a specific platform's C++ quirks.
And theaters couldn't make enough money to support the cost of movies, all movies moved to dvd, and all of the theaters shut down - who cares? New business models start all of the time out of economy changes. You just start marketing your dvds in place of the regular big-screen advertisements.
I don't have OGL ttf library so I couldn't compile it, so I browsed the sourcecode. It is clean and modular and, unlike most OSS projects out there, written in C++ rather than C. Anyone who has an intrest in OGL coding should definitly check it out.
So that no one could use it? Or so that no one can use it? why in the hell would I use your patented, untested algorithm with all of the unpatented, tested algorithms that I have to choose from?
Plus, what you are suggesting is impossable and sounds more like a press release than a working algorithm. How do you know it is actually what you think it is until people get a crack at it? Sounds like BS to me.
Trent Reznor, member of Nine Inch Nails: "Just because technology exists where you can duplicate something, that doesn't give you the right to do it. There's nothing wrong with giving some tracks away or bits of stuff that's fine. But it's not everybody's right. Once I record something, it's not public domain to give it away freely. And that's not trying to be the outdated musician who is trying to 'stop technology. I love technology."
Scott Weiland, Lead Singer of Stone Temple Pilots: "There should be some way to compensate the artists. Because obviously they wouldn't be providing a service if they weren't getting compensated, it's not a free service, it's not like it's done just to please fans. Everything that's done is done for a profit."
Looks like, at least to me, that many of these quotes were part of much larger discussions. The Trent Reznor quote is more along the lines of the rest of the page, but the Scott Weiland quote doesn't really fit very well. Do these people know that they are being quoted on this website?
Since when is giving out information unethical? I find a flaw in something - anything - and somebody asks me about it, I am going to tell that person what the flaw is. If my wife buys a car that she will be travelling around with my little girl in and my wife asks if there are any problems with the car the salesman has to tell my wife about any flaws. If I find a problem with the tires that causes the car to flip I anm going to tell people about it. This is the nature of information.
Yea, this could be developed in comptetition with the KDE suite. I could see it now, yet another duplication of free software projects that use different file formats and have no interopability.
Seriously, it would be nice if everyone could work together.
You need to fire this guy. A real CS guy would pull the most efficient design he could from a spec - hell, half of the assignments in school involved just following the directions that the professor would give you, no matter how silly the project might have been. To change a spec, and interfere with the work of people outside your group is completely undiciplined.
This guy sounds like he needs to go back to school and take a few more CS courses.
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From what I have read, Ximian gets a whole lot of their financing through contracts with Unix companies like Sun to port GNOME to their architecture.
You know, with the availability of movies in newsgroups, on gnutella, and about everywhere else, I still buy a whole lot of dvd's. Sure, I tried pulling movies from those locations, but it was more for the novelty and the movies themselves tend to look like shit when I pull them down half of the time.
I also rent movies all of the time - sometimes multiple times when my daughter really wants to see Quest for Camelot again or I don't have time to watch a movie.
I think that all of this piracy crap spewed by the media companies is crap. I have access to all of the locations that would enable me to pull films, and I probably purchase more than the average person. As long as they offer a good service worth my money, I will purchase it.
I have been at confences that Sun was at and I have always found that their people are always nice and ready to speak to anyone. It might have to do with the fact that quite a few Sun millionaires are hippies and that the company culture is still set a bit in the sixties.
Counting cards is not cheating. Casinos have the right (at least in Vegas) to bar who they want from their establishments, and card-counters are bad for business.
I went to the IBM website and was looking around for a Thinkpad I could buy that was preloaded w/Linux and could find no information. I also called the support and sales lines and they could tell me nothing, so I put in a request here at work to have a Thinkpad T23 preloaded with Redhat.
Well, I guess the preloaded option is not happening. My current T20 was Linux supported, and it runs really well. Hope I can get the wireless running on the new one.
Kind of like most of his articles this one points out the obvious - companies do what is in the best intrest of their profit margin.
That being said, I always like his articles, and I think that sometimes the obvious needs to be pointed out for people to see it clearly.
I agree with what he says about linux kernel changes. The kernel should be backwards compatable (and also easily pluggable) - writing new drivers for a new release should be unnecessary for a 1.x+ release.
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I have never understood what is so important about ESR. I have read some of his papers, articles, and I don't get it - I even picked up his book (for a buck on sale).
Out of all of the crap that people could be focusing on, and there are groups set up just to stop internet spam. Yea, this guy is sleazy - about as sleazy as the phone company that calls your house in the middle of the day trying to sell long distance service.
If people really wanted to stop getting spam, this guy wouldn't be making so much money. People like spam in their inboxes - or at least enough people do to keep this guy with enough money to put servers all over the world.
Hasn't this been beaten to death already? Really.
Yet another article about how all software is crap and how most developers suck, written by kid in his early twenties who probably hasn't worked on a large project in his life. Woohoo.
I have a feeling that there are a whole lot more articles on the internet written by more experienced developers who might offer more insight than this kid.
No, Microsoft can push the R&D costs of the XBox towards the more profitable parts of Microsoft. After all, the XBox does run a variant of Windows that powers their operating system.
I doubt, at the end of the day, the XBox really (on the books at least) costs more to make than to sell.
The reason why non American companies are the only ones ever caught for dumping is because countries like Russia and Japan have a tendency to go way overboard when it comes to dumping goods.
Look at what these countries were doing about 5 years ago with the steel trade. They were dumping steel at such a low cost that US companies like Huntco were getting creamed and having to shut down facilities. The cost of imported steel was so low that after paying to ship it over, process it, and then ship it to the location the imported steel was still way under US rates. The steel was at such a low price that it was almost like the foreign companies were giving it away.
It takes a while, and blatant dumping, for a company or country to get called for it. The steel dumping suits almost did not go through. Microsoft might be dumping their product, but dumping goes on so much that it wouldn't see the light of day. If MS was to be accused of dumping, they would have to lower the price to an insanely low cost.
Anyone who is going to wait hours to download a movie just to watch a crappy scaled-down version needs to get a life.
Even if you don't like going to the theater, DVDs are cheap enough to rent or buy.
Yea, I know that everyone here has said it, but use gcc. We do here and the ease of just having everything work more than makes up for any speed loss. We use Windows/Linux/HPUX.
Libraries are written in C so that, if we have to, we can easily compile them with native compilers for special cases and not have to worry about a specific platform's C++ quirks.
And theaters couldn't make enough money to support the cost of movies, all movies moved to dvd, and all of the theaters shut down - who cares? New business models start all of the time out of economy changes. You just start marketing your dvds in place of the regular big-screen advertisements.
Big deal.
I don't have OGL ttf library so I couldn't compile it, so I browsed the sourcecode. It is clean and modular and, unlike most OSS projects out there, written in C++ rather than C. Anyone who has an intrest in OGL coding should definitly check it out.
So that no one could use it? Or so that no one can use it? why in the hell would I use your patented, untested algorithm with all of the unpatented, tested algorithms that I have to choose from?
Plus, what you are suggesting is impossable and sounds more like a press release than a working algorithm. How do you know it is actually what you think it is until people get a crack at it? Sounds like BS to me.
I just looked at this site and, while having a laugh at some of the "artists" that quoted about the evils of sharing music I came accross a few comments that seemed pulled completely out of context for this site:
Trent Reznor, member of Nine Inch Nails: "Just because technology exists where you can duplicate something, that doesn't give you the right to do it. There's nothing wrong with giving some tracks away or bits of stuff that's fine. But it's not everybody's right. Once I record something, it's not public domain to give it away freely. And that's not trying to be the outdated musician who is trying to 'stop technology. I love technology."
Scott Weiland, Lead Singer of Stone Temple Pilots: "There should be some way to compensate the artists. Because obviously they wouldn't be providing a service if they weren't getting compensated, it's not a free service, it's not like it's done just to please fans. Everything that's done is done for a profit."
Looks like, at least to me, that many of these quotes were part of much larger discussions. The Trent Reznor quote is more along the lines of the rest of the page, but the Scott Weiland quote doesn't really fit very well. Do these people know that they are being quoted on this website?
Since when is giving out information unethical? I find a flaw in something - anything - and somebody asks me about it, I am going to tell that person what the flaw is. If my wife buys a car that she will be travelling around with my little girl in and my wife asks if there are any problems with the car the salesman has to tell my wife about any flaws. If I find a problem with the tires that causes the car to flip I anm going to tell people about it. This is the nature of information.
You lost me when you started using the $.
Yea, this could be developed in comptetition with the KDE suite. I could see it now, yet another duplication of free software projects that use different file formats and have no interopability.
Seriously, it would be nice if everyone could work together.
You need to fire this guy. A real CS guy would pull the most efficient design he could from a spec - hell, half of the assignments in school involved just following the directions that the professor would give you, no matter how silly the project might have been. To change a spec, and interfere with the work of people outside your group is completely undiciplined.
This guy sounds like he needs to go back to school and take a few more CS courses.
From what I have read, Ximian gets a whole lot of their financing through contracts with Unix companies like Sun to port GNOME to their architecture.
You know, with the availability of movies in newsgroups, on gnutella, and about everywhere else, I still buy a whole lot of dvd's. Sure, I tried pulling movies from those locations, but it was more for the novelty and the movies themselves tend to look like shit when I pull them down half of the time.
I also rent movies all of the time - sometimes multiple times when my daughter really wants to see Quest for Camelot again or I don't have time to watch a movie.
I think that all of this piracy crap spewed by the media companies is crap. I have access to all of the locations that would enable me to pull films, and I probably purchase more than the average person. As long as they offer a good service worth my money, I will purchase it.
18-25? 18-25 I wish. It is more like 12-18 now days.
I have been at confences that Sun was at and I have always found that their people are always nice and ready to speak to anyone. It might have to do with the fact that quite a few Sun millionaires are hippies and that the company culture is still set a bit in the sixties.
It would really be neat to see a project which takes the gimp code and wraps it in a photoshop-like ui.
At least C# has an ISO standard. Can't say that much about the current language of choice for most universities, Java.
Counting cards is not cheating. Casinos have the right (at least in Vegas) to bar who they want from their establishments, and card-counters are bad for business.
I went to the IBM website and was looking around for a Thinkpad I could buy that was preloaded w/Linux and could find no information. I also called the support and sales lines and they could tell me nothing, so I put in a request here at work to have a Thinkpad T23 preloaded with Redhat.
Well, I guess the preloaded option is not happening. My current T20 was Linux supported, and it runs really well. Hope I can get the wireless running on the new one.
Kind of like most of his articles this one points out the obvious - companies do what is in the best intrest of their profit margin.
That being said, I always like his articles, and I think that sometimes the obvious needs to be pointed out for people to see it clearly.
I agree with what he says about linux kernel changes. The kernel should be backwards compatable (and also easily pluggable) - writing new drivers for a new release should be unnecessary for a 1.x+ release.