that's LAYFME, which just inspired LAME Ain't Your MP3 Encoder - LAY ME I'm not even going to try to come up with words for P.L.E.A.S.E. Congratulations so did I. Devil Ducky
How can these @$$holes tell me that Napster is illegal? I use Napster, I also own and use a VCR.
I could use my VCR to tape movies off of the idiot box or off of rental tapes. I could then sell my newly aquired copy of the movie. That would be illegal, and the VCR was the tool I used to commit the crime. VCR's are not illegal.
I could use my copy of Napster to distribute illegal copies of MP3's. That is illegal (don't flame me, it is), and Napster was the tool I used to commit the crime. Napster is illegal!?!? How?
> >For every Apache or Linux there's hundreds of lower quality, less-developed programs out there. >
It's not necessarily a lower quality, it may just be a lower following.
A programmer may find himself needing a program that does action A (pour breakfast foods down a certain actresses pants) to news story B (RedHat Buys Microsoft for $12) and posts a troll on dotslash.net He spends many months developing this software (open-sourcely) until it gets to the point where it does everything the programmer(s) needs.
Unfortunately for him during the months he spent on this software everyone quit reading dotslash.net, and now has news stories beamed directly into their fortune mod programs (long live fortune).
With the opprotunity to troll lost, the project fails (along with the developer's marriage). However it did not fail beause of poor quality programming or a lack of effort into the programming cycle. It simply failed because life sucks.
And that may be the hardest 2 pennies you ever earned. Devil Ducky
I know this is way off subject, but I just sprained my ankle and what is slashdot if not a place to vent.
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1. Why would anyone want the Microsoft OS buisness? The code is bloated, excessively buggy, copyrighted out the *$$, the product has bad press, and it's losing it's following (finally).
2. Nothing could hurt the crusade (Jihad?) of open source more than Windows being owned by one of our own.
3. $10M would be much better spent on getting GNOME 1.2 finished, or pushing for a stable release of the GIMP this century, or even to buy me a keyboard where the spacebar works on the first try.
I must have spent hours figuring out how to an autopsy,it was eithert that or work on some NT servers:-(
The up-side is: ever since then I have been using the threat of an autopsy to discourage those people around me from purchasing one of the annoying balls of fur. So far the threats still work.
P.S. Anyone else notice that an unwillingness to fix NT computers directly causes net surfing?
P.S.S. Most of the NT servers are gone now, thanks for caring.
I do see where you're coming from. The FSF's philosophy is kind of like the doctrine of Karl Marx (now that I think of it, they are very similar).
Both philosphies sponsor doing good for the communities sake and require that no one be selfish. If this were to actually be possible then a government (Marx) or software development (RMS) could exist within anarchy,and all would be good.
Unfortunately, ever since the forbidden fruit, people can not work solely for the community. Almost everyone's first question is "What is in it for me?" But what's wrong with that? It is the basis of capitalism,and we live in a (mostly) capitalist society.
If you need more proof that you can't live by the FSF's policy then remember that the USSR was originaly built around Marx's.
True the x86 architecture is not designed to go this fast and Ishouldn't have to live with half of my case devoted to heatsinks and fans.
But it is not because Intel is lazy that we are stuck with x86. Intel can't change it, what is the point of releasing a new architecture if no OS is going to run on it?
True Linux and other Unices would be ported quickly, but no matter what we think we are not the most important customers to Intel. How long do you think before M$ gets around to porting windows to the new architecture? 10, 20 years?
In fact Intel and AMD have both already tried to bring out new architectureswith their new cpu lines.
Most server programs make more sense to run under Linux than Windows. Most of the Linux development has been towards being a server OS and then a desktop OS. Windows started as a desktop OS and was then stretched into server applications.
It just seems obviuos to me.
Congratulations on quitting smoking, I quit too.:-)
I did read your whole rant, and I am sorry to think that whoever moderates it (as of yet no one) will probably kill it off.
You make many valid points. Though while I was using M14 on Win32 I didn't have nearly as many problems as you seemed to have (I only had one reproducable crash involving the bookmark editor), I do agree it is not as good as IE. At this point it is not even as good as Navigator 4.07 on Win32.
I also agree from what I have seen of it that it should not be beta'd yet. But, the people who are in charge of this project DO know what is possibly riding on it. They have been careful from the very beginning, and if they say this will work, what choice do I have but to say "oh?, ok."
Maybe I should have been clearer. When I spoke about the number of anti-viri programs, I was speaking precisely of the huge cycle sucking monsters.
The only time I need such programs is for the office. We need to choose one program that is designed for the people too foolish to not get a virus. We have a lot of people with computers on the company and this program has to protect them all.
What I was saying was there was no longer as many products like that out there. Norton's is notoriously inaccurate. McAfee has bad service, and Dr. Solomon has been bought ny McAfee...
If I understood the article corectly, and I rarely do. Then someone can use this $50 or so chip to build devices such as: motion detectors, better robot controls, new space craft for NASA to crash, and the one I really like a car that drives itself without getting blood on my bumper.
I have an site on psu.edu. I could, if I wanted to, put some offensive material (porn and such) on that site. It may or may not stay up very long, because it would be against "the rules." But for some amount of time it would be on the web and under.edu domain.
Most sites on psu.edu, in point of fact, are personal websites.
No, I personally dont have any offensive materials on my site.
You may just be a rabble-rouser (I love that word), but I agree. Symantic used to actually make good products, then they went on a buying spree.
Now, probably since there is no more competition, all they do is rip you off. Who does this remind you of?
I remember the day when buying something that said Norton on it meant that it would _reduce_ the chances of your system crashing horribly. I also remember when there was more than just two companies making anti-virus software (Let's not even get into McAfee).
I know I might sound really old and like I'm losing it but I feel like something should be done about this company. Before it's too late... what if Symantic discovers *nix?
there could be a difference between Slackware Inc. and RedHat, RedHat is actually out to make a profit, while Slack Inc. can just be out to cover their own expenses, and still provide a quality product. Not saying that RedHat doesn't make a good product, just they have a different set of goals.
If you need one overseeing brain to create a GUI, then you need a communistic state to build an OS which is more dificult on all standards...
I am typing this message right now in Linux (at work!), an OS that was built/created/born from the open source world, where there can be no one "overseeing brain". But in your world this can not exist.
To really understand this subject try reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar br Eric S. Raymond. He has explained how open source works better than any of us here can.
P.S. And the goal is not to build a GUI half as good as Windows, nor is it to have just one choice of GUIs. The goal is to build something better, in ordr to give you naysayers no reason to doubt your choice of Linux as an OS.
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that's LAYFME, which just inspired LAME Ain't Your MP3 Encoder - LAY ME I'm not even going to try to come up with words for P.L.E.A.S.E. Congratulations so did I. Devil Ducky
Devil Ducky
No it's just: LAME An MP3 Encoder
Devil Ducky
How can these @$$holes tell me that Napster is illegal? I use Napster, I also own and use a VCR.
I could use my VCR to tape movies off of the idiot box or off of rental tapes. I could then sell my newly aquired copy of the movie. That would be illegal, and the VCR was the tool I used to commit the crime. VCR's are not illegal.
I could use my copy of Napster to distribute illegal copies of MP3's. That is illegal (don't flame me, it is), and Napster was the tool I used to commit the crime. Napster is illegal!?!? How?
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>For every Apache or Linux there's hundreds of lower quality, less-developed programs out there.
>
It's not necessarily a lower quality, it may just be a lower following.
A programmer may find himself needing a program that does action A (pour breakfast foods down a certain actresses pants) to news story B (RedHat Buys Microsoft for $12) and posts a troll on dotslash.net He spends many months developing this software (open-sourcely) until it gets to the point where it does everything the programmer(s) needs.
Unfortunately for him during the months he spent on this software everyone quit reading dotslash.net, and now has news stories beamed directly into their fortune mod programs (long live fortune).
With the opprotunity to troll lost, the project fails (along with the developer's marriage). However it did not fail beause of poor quality programming or a lack of effort into the programming cycle. It simply failed because life sucks.
And that may be the hardest 2 pennies you ever earned.
Devil Ducky
Devil Ducky
I know this is way off subject, but I just sprained my ankle and what is slashdot if not a place to vent.
Begin Venting...
1. Why would anyone want the Microsoft OS buisness? The code is bloated, excessively buggy, copyrighted out the *$$, the product has bad press, and it's losing it's following (finally).
2. Nothing could hurt the crusade (Jihad?) of open source more than Windows being owned by one of our own.
3. $10M would be much better spent on getting GNOME 1.2 finished, or pushing for a stable release of the GIMP this century, or even to buy me a keyboard where the spacebar works on the first try.
4. Why am I numbering these?
Venting Complete... [OK]
Devil Ducky
I remember when I first saw this on /.
:-(
I must have spent hours figuring out how to an autopsy,it was eithert that or work on some NT servers
The up-side is: ever since then I have been using the threat of an autopsy to discourage those people around me from purchasing one of the annoying balls of fur. So far the threats still work.
P.S. Anyone else notice that an unwillingness to fix NT computers directly causes net surfing?
P.S.S. Most of the NT servers are gone now, thanks for caring.
Devil Ducky
It'll cost me $50 to nuke Redmond and I get to use Linux or *BSD? What do I get when I spend $100+ for Windows?
A Blue Screen? That's it?
Devil Ducky
I do see where you're coming from. The FSF's philosophy is kind of like the doctrine of Karl Marx (now that I think of it, they are very
similar).
Both philosphies sponsor doing good for the communities sake and require that no one be selfish. If this were to actually be possible then a government (Marx) or software development (RMS) could exist within anarchy,and all would be good.
Unfortunately, ever since the forbidden fruit, people can not work solely for the community. Almost everyone's first question is "What is in it for me?" But what's wrong with that? It is the basis of capitalism,and we live in a (mostly) capitalist society.
If you need more proof that you can't live by the FSF's policy then remember that the USSR was originaly built around Marx's.
True the x86 architecture is not designed to go this fast and Ishouldn't have to live with half of my case devoted to heatsinks and fans.
But it is not because Intel is lazy that we are stuck with x86. Intel can't change it, what is the point of releasing a new architecture if no OS is going to run on it?
True Linux and other Unices would be ported quickly, but no matter what we think we are not the most important customers to Intel. How long do you think before M$ gets around to porting windows to the new architecture? 10, 20 years?
In fact Intel and AMD have both already tried to bring out new architectureswith their new cpu lines.
does the military have some sort of anti-magnetic field protection? I know the technology exists, They use it for supercomputers.
I'm wondering if there is some sort of protection the military uses for their computers in the field? Do any coroporations use these technologies?
People have written viruses for those too. Some of the first word macro viri were just rewritten word perfect viruses.
It's the "standard" of wordand excel that have made it so much more popular to write viri for them.
Most server programs make more sense to run under Linux than Windows. Most of the Linux development has been towards being a server OS and then a desktop OS. Windows started as a desktop OS and was then stretched into server applications.
:-)
It just seems obviuos to me.
Congratulations on quitting smoking, I quit too.
I did read your whole rant, and I am sorry to think that whoever moderates it (as of yet no one) will probably kill it off.
You make many valid points. Though while I was using M14 on Win32 I didn't have nearly as many problems as you seemed to have (I only had one reproducable crash involving the bookmark editor), I do agree it is not as good as IE. At this point it is not even as good as Navigator 4.07 on Win32.
I also agree from what I have seen of it that it should not be beta'd yet. But, the people who are in charge of this project DO know what is possibly riding on it. They have been careful from the very beginning, and if they say this will work, what choice do I have but to say "oh?, ok."
Maybe I should have been clearer. When I spoke about the number of anti-viri programs, I was speaking precisely of the huge cycle sucking monsters.
The only time I need such programs is for the office. We need to choose one program that is designed for the people too foolish to not get a virus. We have a lot of people with computers on the company and this program has to protect them all.
What I was saying was there was no longer as many products like that out there. Norton's is notoriously inaccurate. McAfee has bad service, and Dr. Solomon has been bought ny McAfee...
throwing a whole lot of information on a public network doesn't necessarily make it easy to find
The same thing appies for the admin at PSU, it wouldn't be much easier for them to find than for the average user.
If I understood the article corectly, and I rarely do. Then someone can use this $50 or so chip to build devices such as: motion detectors, better robot controls, new space craft for NASA to crash, and the one I really like a car that drives itself without getting blood on my bumper.
I have an site on psu.edu. I could, if I wanted to, put some offensive material (porn and such) on that site. It may or may not stay up very long, because it would be against "the rules." But for some amount of time it would be on the web and under .edu domain.
Most sites on psu.edu, in point of fact, are personal websites.
No, I personally dont have any offensive materials on my site.
You may just be a rabble-rouser (I love that word), but I agree. Symantic used to actually make good products, then they went on a buying spree.
Now, probably since there is no more competition, all they do is rip you off. Who does this remind you of?
I remember the day when buying something that said Norton on it meant that it would _reduce_ the chances of your system crashing horribly. I also remember when there was more than just two companies making anti-virus software (Let's not even get into McAfee).
I know I might sound really old and like I'm losing it but I feel like something should be done about this company. Before it's too late... what if Symantic discovers *nix?
yes correct, i was typing fast and didn't have time to think properly. :-)
there could be a difference between Slackware Inc. and RedHat, RedHat is actually out to make a profit, while Slack Inc. can just be out to cover their own expenses, and still provide a quality product. Not saying that RedHat doesn't make a good product, just they have a different set of goals.
If you need one overseeing brain to create a GUI, then you need a communistic state to build an OS which is more dificult on all standards...
I am typing this message right now in Linux (at work!), an OS that was built/created/born from the open source world, where there can be no one "overseeing brain". But in your world this can not exist.
To really understand this subject try reading The Cathedral and the Bazaar br Eric S. Raymond. He has explained how open source works better than any of us here can.
P.S. And the goal is not to build a GUI half as good as Windows, nor is it to have just one choice of GUIs. The goal is to build something better, in ordr to give you naysayers no reason to doubt your choice of Linux as an OS.
How do you convince the original makers of the games that you are porting to let you do it?
I imagine that it is a slightly easier task now that you have proven that you won't take their code and run.
A spacecraft that is real old, the mission objectives have been changed numerous times, and the replacement rate is negligible...
*HINT* The official name of this type of craft is "Orbiter".
could it be the shuttle fleet?
They were originally designed to go up only a few times to build a space station and then they were to go into a permanent orbit...
Of course, what Space Station? And Mir (sp?) doesn't count.
will the win freeciv play with the linux freeciv?
if you had the same version numbers etc...