I have heard this a hundred times.. Does it matter how one pronounces Linux ?? My answer would be a YES. Now.. before you jump on me let me explain.
Linux is growing. Its "followers" have constat wars is news grps etc about the best text editor, the best windows manager, the best distribution and so on. All healthy. But please, if you are using a software that runs the whole damn computer, you better pronounce it correctly. Let there be atleast two things that we agree upon, the first being that LInux is the best:0
BTW how exactly do we pronounce Linux ?? Linux or 'Lenux' ??
A rose is a rose but looses it charm when you call it 'shit' !
I know that we cannot isolate ourself from the cosmos. To be frank Ill rather spend my time reading Stephen Hawkins rather than Gold, but what I mean is the diparity in resources used.
Amozon carries some reviews on The Deep Hot Biosphere, the book that dwells on the theory mentioned in this article.
I some times do wonder, why is it that we spend so much time, cash and equipments on search for ET when our own good old earth is still a vast mystery to us !
The theory does have some loop holes but on the whole it does sound very impressive. One question that really haunts me is that if this theory is right, why is it that we don't see so much barrels of oil and petroleum being pupmped out during an volcano eruption. A volcano is the closest natural link with the simmering inside of earth.
I really wonder what the poor OPEC guys will think about this theory. How they must be praying that it truns out to be case of the "infinte monkey on infinite typewriter.. " as some one earlier pointed out. !
Real seems to have landed itself into a big mess this time around. It is not the fact that they are monitoring people's trends/preferences, but it is the fact that they are doing so without the knowledge of the user. A lot of softwares that connect to internet have some form of ID that can be used to track user traffic etc. But they are publicised. Here evrything is done in secrecy. This brings to mind the case of ICQ rumour (confrmed?) that it gives back to the server a list of all sofwtares that are on the host computer !
Things have to be looked at in bigger picture. Every network based software has the inheretant capability to send info back to the server and every software has the inheretant capability to do alomost anything on your computer. These two conditions when brought together is an explosive mixture ! Where do we draw the line ? I am sure that with more internet based applications coming up, cases like this may become more common. Things have to be nipped in the bud.
And oh yaah.. ZDNET also carries a article on the Real issu e
"The GIF patent thing has been a big deal for a while. I know that I've not used a GIF that I created myself for a while, and that I've even gone to the trouble of converting all the non-animated GIFs on sites I've built to PNGs... so at least there's some support for this."
OK I can see one supporter here...:) But pardom me if I sound rude, even though individual efforts do add and counts like drops in oceans, oceans are made of too much of drops.
Only when BIG sites like/. or some banner company burns GIF, will awarness spread to the general public. But I agree that every step taken is a step in the positive direction.
The following RFC on Portable Network Graphics is from RFC2083.txt.
Features: --------- * PNG supports truecolor images. * "In particular, GIF is well adapted for online communications because of its streamability and progressive display capability. PNG shares those attributes. (Stress added). ====Can some one tell me.. does this mean that PNG can support animation?? what does "progressive display capability" mean ??==== * PNG has been expressly designed not to be completely dependent on a single compression technique. *"Indexed-color,grayscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits."
Limitations: ------------ * There is no uncompressed variant of PNG. * There is no standard chunk for thumbnail views of images. * There is no lossy compression in PNG.
The basic fact is that the patent has not be enforced. Can it be ? I am not sure of this.
When one calls for such BIG changes many things have to be considered.
(*) How much infomartion on PNG has seeped onto the general public. Many know that GIF is patented, but about PNG ??
(*) Are you sure of atleast a moderate following ?? It is better not to remain silent and work underground, moving people than call for a BIG Burining session like this and see a flop happening.
(*) Does any one care ?? True GIF is patented.. but majority of people will just stick to it until a situation comes where pple start getting jailed.
(*) Well if GIF is patented, y cant we try to talk to pple concerned and get things sorted out. If SUN can go "Open Source" and MS can even think about being "Open Source", I dont think this issue is any tougher.
Yup.. it is strange that this debate happened now.. with me just about to graduate and going into the industry.
Makes me think twice.. Having chosen an IT field of job am I doing it just becos it is cool or as Rob put it, I feel that many/most brilliant ( Note I didn't say all.. will come to that later) pple are in that filed.
Now to come to the topic in had..
* Well pple are guided by their interest. U end up where u mind wnats to be working (atleast if u listen to it) It is true that any moderately clever guy will succeed in any job he takes. It is not just the case of IT guys. Maybe Rob had this impression becos, as he said most of his friends are IT guys !
* I have to really disagree when Rob says that all clever guys are in IT/computer fields. Ifd that was so I am sorry we would be dead by now. To name just a few concrete examples Stephen Hawkins, late Richard Feynman, Salman Rushdie and the list goes on..
* Rob brought the point of CEO of Sun well, how is it that he forgets the other CEO of other companies other than in IT field.
To sum the above points, IT guys are very intellignet guys, but pardon me they ar enot the only intelligent ones. It is another matter that most politicians are stupid !
BTW is Rob facing a mid life crisis ??:) An oft asked questions in interviews is "What would you have done if u weren't in this xxx field u are in right now" ( substitute xxx with IT in this case). Looks like Rob wanted to inform the whole/.ers about his views..
Till now, when I posted any story to/. it showed in my submission list in descending order. i.e the latest submitted was always on top. But the story that I submitted on 31st showed at the bottom ! Has the order been reversed or is this a bugyyyy ??
I have been an addict (if that word can ever have a proper meaning it is here!) of/. for about an yr months now.. Yup..I can hear laughter from seasoned/.ers !
I have always wanted to suggest some things on/. system . Had I think mailed Rob but as busy as he is, no replies so far:)
So here it is again, what I would like in/. :
(*)This might be moderated as flamebait, but.. /. advocates open source movement. It is rather ironical for such a site to have an _ANCIENT_ version of its own source code published. I know that pple behind/. are ever busy pple, but look at it this way.. one less of those showcase/conferences and we could have easily have had a new version of the code.
(*)I have occassionally submitted some stories to/. and have been unlucky to have all of then rejected:) So from personal traumatic experience I suggest that when a story is rejected, it would be better to give a small reason for y it is done. Nothing big.. a small "repetetive"/"cheap"/"stupid" will do. It gives you an idea why the heck your stories were rejected. Saves you from hear aches u see.. !
(*)Donno if this has ever been done on/. but maybe we can have a thread whose sole aim is to get user inputs and suggestions. Sometimes when u get too involved with a system , people within tends to loose the "outsider" or "outer" view which is VERY important to have.
Now that was the first 2 cents of my 2000000 cents series. Rest if suggestion 3 is implemented.
That makes it more interesting.. That is taking things to the extreme.. Wow.. That means that SETI@Home if done then would have been illegal.
"The lame excuse offered by NASA as a sugar coating for this bitter pill is that extra-terrestrials might have a virus that could wipe out the human race" Dont tell me that EM waves can carry viruses.. man that is a cool idea that only the Govt would have tried out and maybe succedded.
That might be correct.. but the point is.. Why in the first place was this law made in the first place, when the officials were steadfastedly denying any alien encounter and were ridiculing pple reported that they did make contact with aliens.. ?? Hmm..
This makes me ponder.. why was that law made ?? That is as long back as 1969 isn't it ?? Doesn't this mean that even then they thought that Aliens can contact men.. so much so that a law was made ??
Hey on second thought.. that also opens up the chance that maybe, maybe even as way back as '69 Earthlings had made contact with Aliens.. oh maybe it is the other way around !
I have know about Progaganda for some time.. from the time the _HATE_WINDOWS_ bug bit me and I started looking for Anti Windows/MS site. Propaganda was one.. though as someone mentioned I find it really a not_funny no_material site...
If it is seamless tiles that pple are looking for for GOD sake look at better places..
Isnt this just another site that is trying to get famous with the MS bashing technique ??
"Sarah Robertson Commucations Manager of BPI told nme.com:"The majority of illegal music is still produced and sold on CDs, but the rate of growth of MP3s is of concern and we feel that we have to act now." Well they sure have acted.. by propagating such stupid allegations. I have been colleting a lot of MP3 and so have my friiends, but man this is news to us. How come we missed such good package deals:)
There are MP3 FTP site where u have to trade MP3s to get MP3s.. some with ridiculous download_to_upload ratio of 1:5, but NEVER has there been any case as mentioned in this article.
By any chance are they referring to the banners that are on some of these site ?? If that is the case then they donno how Internet works. No one is forcing u to click on that "Booby" chick hanging out there on that corner of the page that has a list of MP3 that can be downloaded.
My advice to Ms.Sarah Robertson.. " This is not the way to act".
If only the guys who had written such baseless allegations had asked their children how to donwload MP3 and enjoy them !!
I was actually wondering why no one submited that story a long time ago.. Thought of doing that myself, but having submitted about 5/6 so far and having all of them rejected by our friendly CmdrTaco, I decided against it:)
Slashdot Mirror
The wild wild west ! :)
In case you didnot notice, I said charm and not "quality'.
Manifest
I have heard this a hundred times.. Does it matter how one pronounces Linux ?? My answer would be a YES. Now.. before you jump on me let me explain.
:0
Linux is growing. Its "followers" have constat wars is news grps etc about the best text editor, the best windows manager, the best distribution and so on. All healthy. But please, if you are using a software that runs the whole damn computer, you better pronounce it correctly. Let there be atleast two things that we agree upon, the first being that LInux is the best
BTW how exactly do we pronounce Linux ?? Linux or 'Lenux' ??
A rose is a rose but looses it charm when you call it 'shit' !
Manifest
I know that we cannot isolate ourself from the cosmos. To be frank Ill rather spend my time reading Stephen Hawkins rather than Gold, but what I mean is the diparity in resources used.
Manifest
Amozon carries some reviews on The Deep Hot Biosphere, the book that dwells on the theory mentioned in this article.
I some times do wonder, why is it that we spend so much time, cash and equipments on search for ET when our own good old earth is still a vast mystery to us !
The theory does have some loop holes but on the whole it does sound very impressive.
One question that really haunts me is that if this theory is right, why is it that we don't see so much barrels of oil and petroleum being pupmped out during an volcano eruption. A volcano is the closest natural link with the simmering inside of earth.
I really wonder what the poor OPEC guys will think about this theory. How they must be praying that it truns out to be case of the "infinte monkey on infinite typewriter.. " as some one earlier pointed out. !
Manifest
Real seems to have landed itself into a big mess this time around.
It is not the fact that they are monitoring people's trends/preferences, but it is the fact that they are doing so without the knowledge of the user. A lot of softwares that connect to internet have some form of ID that can be used to track user traffic etc. But they are publicised. Here evrything is done in secrecy.
This brings to mind the case of ICQ rumour (confrmed?) that it gives back to the server a list of all sofwtares that are on the host computer !
Things have to be looked at in bigger picture. Every network based software has the inheretant capability to send info back to the server and every software has the inheretant capability to do alomost anything on your computer. These two conditions when brought together is an explosive mixture ! Where do we draw the line ?
I am sure that with more internet based applications coming up, cases like this may become more common. Things have to be nipped in the bud.
And oh yaah.. ZDNET also carries a article on the Real issu e
"The GIF patent thing has been a big deal for a while. I know that I've not used a GIF that I created myself for a while, and that I've even gone to the trouble of converting all the non-animated GIFs on sites I've built to PNGs... so at least there's some support for this."
:) But pardom me if I sound rude, even though individual efforts do add and counts like drops in oceans, oceans are made of too much of drops.
/. or some banner company burns GIF, will awarness spread to the general public. But I agree that every step taken is a step in the positive direction.
OK I can see one supporter here...
Only when BIG sites like
Manifest
The following RFC on Portable Network Graphics is from RFC2083.txt.
.. does this mean that PNG can support animation?? what does "progressive display capability" mean ??====
Features:
---------
* PNG supports truecolor images.
* "In particular, GIF is well adapted for online communications because of its streamability and progressive display capability. PNG shares those attributes. (Stress added).
====Can some one tell me
* PNG has been expressly designed not to be completely dependent on a single compression technique.
*"Indexed-color,grayscale, and truecolor images are supported, plus an optional alpha channel. Sample depths range from 1 to 16 bits."
Limitations:
------------
* There is no uncompressed variant of PNG.
* There is no standard chunk for thumbnail views of images.
* There is no lossy compression in PNG.
Hope that clarifies where PNG stands
Manifest
The basic fact is that the patent has not be enforced. Can it be ? I am not sure of this.
When one calls for such BIG changes many things have to be considered.
(*) How much infomartion on PNG has seeped onto the general public. Many know that GIF is patented, but about PNG ??
(*) Are you sure of atleast a moderate following ?? It is better not to remain silent and work underground, moving people than call for a BIG Burining session like this and see a flop happening.
(*) Does any one care ?? True GIF is patented.. but majority of people will just stick to it until a situation comes where pple start getting jailed.
(*) Well if GIF is patented, y cant we try to talk to pple concerned and get things sorted out. If SUN can go "Open Source" and MS can even think about being "Open Source", I dont think this issue is any tougher.
So what say u all ??
Manifest
Yup.. it is strange that this debate happened now.. with me just about to graduate and going into the industry.
:) /.ers about his views..
Makes me think twice..
Having chosen an IT field of job am I doing it just becos it is cool or as Rob put it, I feel that many/most brilliant ( Note I didn't say all.. will come to that later) pple are in that filed.
Now to come to the topic in had..
* Well pple are guided by their interest. U end up where u mind wnats to be working (atleast if u listen to it) It is true that any moderately clever guy will succeed in any job he takes. It is not just the case of IT guys. Maybe Rob had this impression becos, as he said most of his friends are IT guys !
* I have to really disagree when Rob says that all clever guys are in IT/computer fields. Ifd that was so I am sorry we would be dead by now. To name just a few concrete examples Stephen Hawkins, late Richard Feynman, Salman Rushdie and the list goes on..
* Rob brought the point of CEO of Sun well, how is it that he forgets the other CEO of other companies other than in IT field.
To sum the above points, IT guys are very intellignet guys, but pardon me they ar enot the only intelligent ones. It is another matter that most politicians are stupid !
BTW is Rob facing a mid life crisis ??
An oft asked questions in interviews is "What would you have done if u weren't in this xxx field u are in right now" ( substitute xxx with IT in this case). Looks like Rob wanted to inform the whole
I am all ears Rob.. way to go
Manifest
Till now, when I posted any story to /. it showed in my submission list in descending order. i.e the latest submitted was always on top. But the story that I submitted on 31st showed at the bottom ! Has the order been reversed or is this a bugyyyy ??
Ok.. It is working now.. Thanx Rob !
I have been an addict (if that word can ever have a proper meaning it is here!) of /. for about an yr months now.. Yup..I can hear laughter from seasoned /.ers !
/. system . Had I think mailed Rob but as busy as he is, no replies so far :)
/. :
/. are ever busy pple, but look at it this way.. one less of those showcase/conferences and we could have easily have had a new version of the code.
/. and have been unlucky to have all of then rejected :) So from personal traumatic experience I suggest that when a story is rejected, it would be better to give a small reason for y it is done. Nothing big.. a small "repetetive"/"cheap"/"stupid" will do. It gives you an idea why the heck your stories were rejected. Saves you from hear aches u see .. !
/. but maybe we can have a thread whose sole aim is to get user inputs and suggestions. Sometimes when u get too involved with a system , people within tends to loose the "outsider" or "outer" view which is VERY important to have.
I have always wanted to suggest some things on
So here it is again, what I would like in
(*)This might be moderated as flamebait, but..
/. advocates open source movement. It is rather ironical for such a site to have an _ANCIENT_ version of its own source code published. I know that pple behind
(*)I have occassionally submitted some stories to
(*)Donno if this has ever been done on
Now that was the first 2 cents of my 2000000 cents series. Rest if suggestion 3 is implemented.
Mystic
Me too .. Just now also !Actuall the "by" "on" "#" are all missing !
That makes it more interesting.. That is taking things to the extreme.. Wow.. That means that SETI@Home if done then would have been illegal.
"The lame excuse offered by NASA as a sugar coating for this bitter pill is that extra-terrestrials might have a virus that could wipe out the human race"
Dont tell me that EM waves can carry viruses.. man that is a cool idea that only the Govt would have tried out and maybe succedded.
Am I being a bit too X-philish ??
Manifest
That might be correct .. but the point is .. Why in the first place was this law made in the first place, when the officials were steadfastedly denying any alien encounter and were ridiculing pple reported that they did make contact with aliens.. ??
Hmm..
This makes me ponder .. why was that law made ?? .. so much so that a law was made ??
That is as long back as 1969 isn't it ?? Doesn't this mean that even then they thought that Aliens can contact men
Hey on second thought.. that also opens up the chance that maybe, maybe even as way back as '69 Earthlings had made contact with Aliens.. oh maybe it is the other way around !
Manifest
I have know about Progaganda for some time.. from the time the _HATE_WINDOWS_ bug bit me and I started looking for Anti Windows/MS site. Propaganda was one.. though as someone mentioned I find it really a not_funny no_material site...
If it is seamless tiles that pple are looking for for GOD sake look at better places..
Isnt this just another site that is trying to get famous with the MS bashing technique ??
Manifest
"Sarah Robertson Commucations Manager of BPI told nme.com:"The majority of illegal music is still produced and sold on CDs, but the rate of growth of MP3s is of concern and we feel that we have to act now." :)
Well they sure have acted.. by propagating such stupid allegations. I have been colleting a lot of MP3 and so have my friiends, but man this is news to us. How come we missed such good package deals
There are MP3 FTP site where u have to trade MP3s to get MP3s.. some with ridiculous download_to_upload ratio of 1:5, but NEVER has there been any case as mentioned in this article.
By any chance are they referring to the banners that are on some of these site ?? If that is the case then they donno how Internet works. No one is forcing u to click on that "Booby" chick hanging out there on that corner of the page that has a list of MP3 that can be downloaded.
My advice to Ms.Sarah Robertson.. " This is not the way to act".
If only the guys who had written such baseless allegations had asked their children how to donwload MP3 and enjoy them !!
Manifest
The article was on Salon a day before..
:)
I was actually wondering why no one submited that story a long time ago.. Thought of doing that myself, but having submitted about 5/6 so far and having all of them rejected by our friendly CmdrTaco, I decided against it
Maybe next time !!
Manifest
At the age of 20, having never dated a girl, just two days before the stupid Data Communcation Exams, this article is a real life saver for me !
Thanx Roblimo for giving me hope.. even though it might be a false one !
Manifest