>Brown repeatedly refers to Linus' work with Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix operating system as an example of some kind of wrongdoing. I'm not sure if Ken Brown wants us to think that Linus stole some of Tanenbaum's Minix code or whether he wants us to think that it's wrong to create a workalike program. The latter is definitely a theme throughout the book; time and again Brown implies that workalikes are somehow morally and legally wrong.
It IS wrong; just look at the way Microsoft ripped off Apple.
Shut up, grandpa. Get back up on the porch and put your dentures back in.
Only kidding! Don't get angry.
The part I AM serious about is that it's easy to denigrate the new music and claim that there isn't any good music being made these days and I really DO agree with you. That is what frightens me.
How are we any different from our clueless parents?
I really do worry that I'M the grandpa now, and that I just don't "get it" anymore.
Musical preferences being so arbitrary, how can you really know it isn't you the problem.
For every argument you give me about how Britney's music is crap, I can find THOUSANDS of people with opposing viewpoints.
I propose that based on scientific reasons, music HASN'T gotten worse. It's probably at EXACTLY the same level of quality it was 500 years ago.
The ONLY way to tell, as far as I'm concerned is by the test of time; whatever stays will be proven good. Or something like that.
Excuse me why I climb back up on the porch to sit on my rocker; my dentures are getting cold.
Talk about MEGA-COOL projects! The way it's described in the article, soon, you'll have as high a probability of running Linux on ReactOS alongside your Windows apps as you will to running your windows apps alongside your Linux apps on Linux through Wine.
And all these projects share code and therefore testers.
Once more users and developers flock to these solutions, the level of quality will keep rising.
It really is going to be very interesting.
And probably nerve-wracking for Microsoft...
I really can't see where Microsoft's niche will be.
I blame it all on the legal precedent established in the 1800s that gave corporations the same rights as individuals.
Coprporations, having infinitely more resources than any normal person have been avidly pursuing their goal of "owning the best government money can buy" ever since.
It's incredibly sad that a nation founded on the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is now chasing all that for corporations to wield.
Maybe it prohibits the use of Windows in those situations, but it seems like some users aren't paying attention to the warning; When Sasser activated, I remember reading that the coast-guard had had part of its operations disabled because of the worm...
What I meant was that the army has a corps of engineers, and some of them are computer scientists, and they probably *could* fix a software bug if they found one.
And although Microsoft has shown its source-code to certain entities (after making them sign NDAs), they have never shown ALL of the Windows source code.
>Jar-Jar should be killed casually by a random laser blast in the background of the story. His death should be noted by one sentence of dialog and then forgotten forever.
I'm sensing a disturbance in The Force; It's telling me that you don't like Jar Jar...
Sorry, I took your lament as saying that you were already supporting quite a few relatives...
In my case, I have dumped Windows and switched to Linux, and I have explained to everyone that usually calls me for support on Windows that I'm no longer interested in the latest VersionOfOffice/Worm/Virus/WhateverIsGoingOnWithMi crosoftOrWindows...
A couple have felt abandoned, but they were just draining me anyway.
Did you ever have people who are barely acquaintances say to you "Oh, you know Windows well? Well, I've got a BUNCH of problems with my copy of Windows, I'll call you and you can help me."
It wasn't the only reason I switched, of course, but it has been a nice plus that I don't get those anymore.
And believe me, I've DONE my pro-bono time in the trenches, and then some.
Maybe Padmé IS really Annakin's best friend, but it makes sense to have him kill Jar-Jar; Jar-Jar represents innocent, child-like friendship.
Padmé doesn't.
If he kills Jar-Jar, it's somehow more tragic (to me anyway) because it's like if he was killing a child, or even his own inner-child.
OK, admittedly this discussion will probably serve as fodder for some Saturday Night Live writers in a sketch showing how pathetic geeks are, but I say, eh... WTF...
Bof... I'm going to try to approach it with an open mind, and as some previous poster alluded, someone will remake the whole series in 15-20 years, and hopefully they will not suck.
>I say you should download every mail list, usenet archive, and online discussion group, then print it all out on 10,000 pages. Throw in RFCs and source code to bulk it up a bit.
DON'T.
First of all, we can win this without being as low as SCO, and Second, they'll use the volume of information returned as a reason to stall the proceedings so they can have their legal team "go over the evidence"
Well, the young queen HAS to live, because she must give birth to Luke and Leia, and Annakin can't be around when that happens; the fact he has children is news to him in episode 4...
So Annakin and Amidala will have a falling-out and she will run away to have the children, Kenobi survives to episode 4, so that leaves Jar-Jar...
Sorry to reply to myself, but I was reading the other posts in this discussion, and I noticed that an inordinate amount of them were about the existance of God/Atheism...
So... We're discussing the Father of Linux and it winds up that we are looking for God?
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YHBT, tommck.
From the Newsforge article:
>Brown repeatedly refers to Linus' work with Andrew Tanenbaum's Minix operating system as an example of some kind of wrongdoing. I'm not sure if Ken Brown wants us to think that Linus stole some of Tanenbaum's Minix code or whether he wants us to think that it's wrong to create a workalike program. The latter is definitely a theme throughout the book; time and again Brown implies that workalikes are somehow morally and legally wrong.
It IS wrong; just look at the way Microsoft ripped off Apple.
Insightful, I'd say.
Shut up, grandpa.
Get back up on the porch and put your dentures back in.
Only kidding! Don't get angry.
The part I AM serious about is that it's easy to denigrate the new music and claim that there isn't any good music being made these days and I really DO agree with you. That is what frightens me.
How are we any different from our clueless parents?
I really do worry that I'M the grandpa now, and that I just don't "get it" anymore.
Musical preferences being so arbitrary, how can you really know it isn't you the problem.
For every argument you give me about how Britney's music is crap, I can find THOUSANDS of people with opposing viewpoints.
I propose that based on scientific reasons, music HASN'T gotten worse. It's probably at EXACTLY the same level of quality it was 500 years ago.
The ONLY way to tell, as far as I'm concerned is by the test of time; whatever stays will be proven good. Or something like that.
Excuse me why I climb back up on the porch to sit on my rocker; my dentures are getting cold.
He wrote this particular column WAY too technically.
I mean I'm very computer-savvy, but he lost me.
I picked the wrong day to stop snorting glue.
Talk about MEGA-COOL projects!
The way it's described in the article, soon, you'll have as high a probability of running Linux on ReactOS alongside your Windows apps as you will to running your windows apps alongside your Linux apps on Linux through Wine.
And all these projects share code and therefore testers.
Once more users and developers flock to these solutions, the level of quality will keep rising.
It really is going to be very interesting.
And probably nerve-wracking for Microsoft...
I really can't see where Microsoft's niche will be.
Damm straight.
I blame it all on the legal precedent established in the 1800s that gave corporations the same rights as individuals.
Coprporations, having infinitely more resources than any normal person have been avidly pursuing their goal of "owning the best government money can buy" ever since.
It's incredibly sad that a nation founded on the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness is now chasing all that for corporations to wield.
Maybe it prohibits the use of Windows in those situations, but it seems like some users aren't paying attention to the warning;
When Sasser activated, I remember reading that the coast-guard had had part of its operations disabled because of the worm...
What I meant was that the army has a corps of engineers, and some of them are computer scientists, and they probably *could* fix a software bug if they found one.
And although Microsoft has shown its source-code to certain entities (after making them sign NDAs), they have never shown ALL of the Windows source code.
There are very good reasons for the military to avoid using Windows.
Being closed-source, Windows wouldn't be peer-reviewable by the army, nor could the army fix its own problems with the code if they encounter any.
No need for a cheap-shot.
Hopefully, we'll learn that companies started by pioneers and men of vision cannot ever be put under the responsibility of the dollar alone.
These places should be used to further science, and we can have a ring of commercialization projects in a tier under them.
The venture would be LED by Research and Development, and with the goal of advancing study.
I don't see why that isn't already a model? It appears obvious to me that the only real way towards growth is ALWAYS through innovation.
>Jar-Jar should be killed casually by a random laser blast in the background of the story. His death should be noted by one sentence of dialog and then forgotten forever.
I'm sensing a disturbance in The Force; It's telling me that you don't like Jar Jar...
Sorry, I took your lament as saying that you were already supporting quite a few relatives...
i crosoftOrWindows...
In my case, I have dumped Windows and switched to Linux, and I have explained to everyone that usually calls me for support on Windows that I'm no longer interested in the latest VersionOfOffice/Worm/Virus/WhateverIsGoingOnWithM
A couple have felt abandoned, but they were just draining me anyway.
Did you ever have people who are barely acquaintances say to you "Oh, you know Windows well? Well, I've got a BUNCH of problems with my copy of Windows, I'll call you and you can help me."
It wasn't the only reason I switched, of course, but it has been a nice plus that I don't get those anymore.
And believe me, I've DONE my pro-bono time in the trenches, and then some.
Maybe Padmé IS really Annakin's best friend, but it makes sense to have him kill Jar-Jar; Jar-Jar represents innocent, child-like friendship.
Padmé doesn't.
If he kills Jar-Jar, it's somehow more tragic (to me anyway) because it's like if he was killing a child, or even his own inner-child.
OK, admittedly this discussion will probably serve as fodder for some Saturday Night Live writers in a sketch showing how pathetic geeks are, but I say, eh... WTF...
>I [...] run my own mail server on my domain.
>Not everyone can run their own email servers. What about my mom or grandmother
Why don't you give them e-mail accounts on your domain and they'll get spam-free e-mail.
> [...] you would expect the Chinese to use their SPAM infrastructure to spread cummunist propaganda [...]
Proff positive there's more money in viagra than in communism, my friend.
YOU spam China!
That's really good.
It fits with everything.
I only hope all this theorizing won't get blown-away by some incredible writing oversight like we've seen in episodes 1 and 2.
You know, like C3PO working for uncle Owen, yet the two not recognizing each other when the Jawas sell C3PO to him in episode 4...
And if C3PO is a "protocol droid", does that mean that Annie built him for that purpose?
There are other holes which hint that all of our theories could wind up wrong, no matter how carefully we make them fit the facts...
I suppose the only proven theory I'll have left by the end of all of this is that Mr. Lucas is making it up as he goes along.
LOL
These things write themselves, don't they?
*sigh*
>Anyway. The movie is going to suck horribly.
Bof... I'm going to try to approach it with an open mind, and as some previous poster alluded, someone will remake the whole series in 15-20 years, and hopefully they will not suck.
>I say you should download every mail list, usenet archive, and online discussion group, then print it all out on 10,000 pages. Throw in RFCs and source code to bulk it up a bit.
DON'T.
First of all, we can win this without being as low as SCO, and
Second, they'll use the volume of information returned as a reason to stall the proceedings so they can have their legal team "go over the evidence"
Are you telling me I suffered through all this Jar-Jar for NOTHING?
*murderous rage and Darth Vader theme playing*
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
OW!
Sean, that's HORRIBLE! But good! Heh heh...
Well, the young queen HAS to live, because she must give birth to Luke and Leia, and Annakin can't be around when that happens; the fact he has children is news to him in episode 4...
So Annakin and Amidala will have a falling-out and she will run away to have the children, Kenobi survives to episode 4, so that leaves Jar-Jar...
> [...] 1 and 2 are actually good and some mystical process is making them look bad [...]
;-)
Midi-chlorians, maybe?
Jar-Jar is necessary, because he's Annakin's best-friend.
Annakin's journey to the dark side (and consequently his fate) will be complete/sealed only when he kills Jar-Jar, which is why Jar-Jar IS.
Just fighting with his mentor (Kenobi) is not enough.
He has to betray love, and what better way to do that than to kill your best friend?
Sorry to reply to myself, but I was reading the other posts in this discussion, and I noticed that an inordinate amount of them were about the existance of God/Atheism...
So... We're discussing the Father of Linux and it winds up that we are looking for God?
if
Linus == God
Then
Bill Gates == ???