Is this another article that wants to speak to me like I'm a contestant on Jeopardy? Seriously, the "Is this..." question at the end of "news" "articles" on Slashdot is starting to get old real fast. I'm not on a gameshow blast it!
His native language is not English so it will be difficult for an English speaker to infer emotions or even specific things from his writings. However, having an idea of the amount of work he has put into things and his recent blog entries. I would say he is happy with recent developments.
One of the MS guys claims that this is a long term trap. In particular, both MS's and Sun's license allows the use of the patents in the files (not code) for the system use. If anybody "borrows" the code, then they are no longer protected. Both companies are supposedly hopeful that the Linux world will pick up from either (interestingly, MS no longer thinks that it will come from their stuff, so Shared source will probably die or be severely limited). I no longer code on Solaris just due to my not trusting Sun's motives. Sad, because like any Unix, I like it.
Also incorrect. If someone "borrows" the code, as long as they comply with the terms of the CDDDL, they have the right to any patents that were granted by that license. Which in this case are any patents that SUN owns.
I am not a lawyer, however, from what I understand this is basically what you need to know:
1) File-based meaning linking against code produced from CDDL files does not automatically place your code under the same license.
2) Any code you derive from CDDL licensed code becomes CDDL licensed. (This is the nature of any copyleft license that I know of). This means that whatever code file you integrate CDDL code into should also be licensed under the CDDL.
3) If you know what the MPL (Mozilla Public License) is, the CDDL basically works the same way.
As it is, McNeally's collaboration with MS makes me very edgy. Consider how much McNeally hates Gates and MS. It does not make sense for them to work together.
It makes perfect sense from a customer perspective. If you had watched the webcast video that was posted on SUN's website, you would have realised that one of the primary reasons for their cooperation is their customers. Their customers want a single-sign-on system that works regardless of platform. Microsoft and SUN are both committed to that. For a business it always comes down to customers, if they can't keep them happy enough to make money, then there is no point to their existence.
oprofile monitors the whole system at last check...
DTrace lets you go from the kernel down to the program, and it has a very functional scripting language 'D' that lets you do things that at last check where near impossible to do in oprofile.
Unlike Debian, Red Hat doesn't care if their distribution runs on anything other than x86 so they can target making an X11 install that looks pretty.
You know, your comment started out ok, then it went downhill pretty unquick. The above statement is easily disproved just by looking at RedHat's website:
One problem with that theory. You criticize Fedora for not being like Debian, even though Fedora's control structure is roughly the same as Ubuntu's. Yet, both Ubuntu and Fedora have none of the problems that Debian has. That isn't to say that Fedora and Ubuntu are equally successful, but they're both more successful than Debian. Tell me again why they should adopt Debian's approach, when it has failed and Fedora and Ubuntu are successful by comparison?
Most of your edvidence is subjective, for example:
a) Evolution is slow. There is a 3 second pause on my computer between clicking "New Mail" and the window appearing. This is not the case when the same machine is using KMail or Outlook.
It's nearly instantaneous for me, certainly not three seconds.
b) There is no *simple* way of changing the date format (mm/dd/yy -> dd/mm/yy which europeans prefer). I believe it can be done via shell variables, but come on, Evo is supposed to be a proper GUI application.
At last check it looks at your system's date format to determine what it should use. I'm fairly certain the last time I set GNOME to a different locale, Evolution switched accordingly.
e) Spell checking: almost all modern spell-checking applications offer suggestions in a context menu when opened over a misspelt word. In Evo you have to open an extra window.
That's funny, I've seen lots of "modern spell-checking applications" that offer it in a extra window. Again, subjective.
f) New Junk is not marked as unread. This would be nice so that you know what junk you've checked for false positives and which you haven't.
gmail does the same thing. However, unlike gmail, I was able to setup a rule to set mail in the Junk folder to be automatically "read".
I had always heard that it was such an excellent PIM suite and am dissapointed that it simply doesn't live up to the hype.
Though I honestly can't say what could viewed as hype, it sounds like you're just a troll really. I've been using Evolution almost every since Ximian first released it. I used to use Outlook exclusively.
Half the stuff you complained about is a matter of personal preference. Even as a previous long-time Outlook user I felt right at home in Evolution.
I would have to agree. Just because I don't want to place things I write under the GPL (I want to use a different Open Source Certified License) I would have to pay outrageous amounts to use it. Not only that, if I want to use it for non-open-source-but-free-as-in-beer projects I also have to pay the ludicrous amounts. No small company in their right mind is going to pay the amounts they ask for unless they know well before hand that they're going to make a profit still. It's silly to me to have a toolkit that costs way more than the development compiler, IDE, etc.
And in some people's opinion and beliefs those things are just as valid as your "scientific criteria." Not that I am discounting scientific evidence. But, there's room in this world for more than one belief system, is there not?
Is it just me, or is anyone else freaked out by the SimCity 4 or SimCity 3000 (can't tell which, since I listen to both soundtracks all the time) music playing in the background at http://spore.ea.com/ ?
I know they're both EA companies (Maxis and these other people), but it's still disturbing:)
You know I'm really sick of the trolls on this. I live in Kansas myself. If a community wants to decide to teach their children a different thing, that's their bloody business. I may not agree with it, but it is the right of the board and those elected by the people of the school districts and other places in question to set educational standards. There's a reason that the Federal government allows local governments to control those standards to a certain extent...
If they want to believe Monkeys didn't turn into Humans, that's fine. I don't believe it either.
But, nor do I believe their fantastical mythic religious explanations.
I haven't really cared for CIV since the original.
The only game in recent history that I just loved to pieces in the same genre was Alpha Centauri, which I thought was the best turn-based game Sid was ever involved with.
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Uh, netbeans does lots of things Eclipse doesn't and there is a significant following for NetBeans. Me included. I don't like Eclipse.
Is this another article that wants to speak to me like I'm a contestant on Jeopardy? Seriously, the "Is this..." question at the end of "news" "articles" on Slashdot is starting to get old real fast. I'm not on a gameshow blast it!
His native language is not English so it will be difficult for an English speaker to infer emotions or even specific things from his writings. However, having an idea of the amount of work he has put into things and his recent blog entries. I would say he is happy with recent developments.
Yes, it does have CDrecord.
I just installed it last night (or was that this morning...hrm).
One of the MS guys claims that this is a long term trap. In particular, both MS's and Sun's license allows the use of the patents in the files (not code) for the system use. If anybody "borrows" the code, then they are no longer protected. Both companies are supposedly hopeful that the Linux world will pick up from either (interestingly, MS no longer thinks that it will come from their stuff, so Shared source will probably die or be severely limited). I no longer code on Solaris just due to my not trusting Sun's motives. Sad, because like any Unix, I like it.
Also incorrect. If someone "borrows" the code, as long as they comply with the terms of the CDDDL, they have the right to any patents that were granted by that license. Which in this case are any patents that SUN owns.
I am not a lawyer, however, from what I understand this is basically what you need to know:
1) File-based meaning linking against code produced from CDDL files does not automatically place your code under the same license.
2) Any code you derive from CDDL licensed code becomes CDDL licensed. (This is the nature of any copyleft license that I know of). This means that whatever code file you integrate CDDL code into should also be licensed under the CDDL.
3) If you know what the MPL (Mozilla Public License) is, the CDDL basically works the same way.
As it is, McNeally's collaboration with MS makes me very edgy. Consider how much McNeally hates Gates and MS. It does not make sense for them to work together.
It makes perfect sense from a customer perspective. If you had watched the webcast video that was posted on SUN's website, you would have realised that one of the primary reasons for their cooperation is their customers. Their customers want a single-sign-on system that works regardless of platform. Microsoft and SUN are both committed to that. For a business it always comes down to customers, if they can't keep them happy enough to make money, then there is no point to their existence.
oprofile monitors the whole system at last check...
DTrace lets you go from the kernel down to the program, and it has a very functional scripting language 'D' that lets you do things that at last check where near impossible to do in oprofile.
1) Cell Processors aren't good for "general computing"
2) They would have left them stuck with IBM, whom they were trying to get away from
3) Have you been reading anything lately? Cell processors are not some wonder cure...
Hey buddy, isn't Debian the one talking about de-supporting all but a core set of architectures? So, that excuse won't last much longer.
Unlike Debian, Red Hat doesn't care if their distribution runs on anything other than x86 so they can target making an X11 install that looks pretty.
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You know, your comment started out ok, then it went downhill pretty unquick. The above statement is easily disproved just by looking at RedHat's website:
http://www.redhat.com/software/rhel/configuration
Let's see, support for the following architectures:
x86, Itanium 2, AMD64/EM64T, IBM POWER, zSeries, and S/390 Systems.
What was it you were saying about x86 again? Sorry, but you're just trolling...
The article sounds interesting, but where's the link?
1) Static linking is dead, long live static linking
2) On some platforms you can't do static linking at all, while on others it's the only thing you can do
3) Static linking is dead, don't use it on platforms that support Dynamic linking, it leads to badness, um k?
REWARD
Missing:
One slightly worn pair of pants, last seen near CorpNews crew at E3.
Return to the nearest half-naked person matching a CorpNews crew description...
One problem with that theory. You criticize Fedora for not being like Debian, even though Fedora's control structure is roughly the same as Ubuntu's. Yet, both Ubuntu and Fedora have none of the problems that Debian has. That isn't to say that Fedora and Ubuntu are equally successful, but they're both more successful than Debian. Tell me again why they should adopt Debian's approach, when it has failed and Fedora and Ubuntu are successful by comparison?
*throws the first stone*
This company does not have a team of 30, they keep their dev team small and tight. Think around 10 people.
Not true, I know people that work at a game company where the starting salary was $300k a year.
None of these graphical applications allow you to store the preferences on an imap server. Pine has this feature.
Because it isn't a reliable way to do things.
Most of your edvidence is subjective, for example:
a) Evolution is slow. There is a 3 second pause on my computer between clicking "New Mail" and the window appearing. This is not the case when the same machine is using KMail or Outlook.
It's nearly instantaneous for me, certainly not three seconds.
b) There is no *simple* way of changing the date format (mm/dd/yy -> dd/mm/yy which europeans prefer). I believe it can be done via shell variables, but come on, Evo is supposed to be a proper GUI application.
At last check it looks at your system's date format to determine what it should use. I'm fairly certain the last time I set GNOME to a different locale, Evolution switched accordingly.
e) Spell checking: almost all modern spell-checking applications offer suggestions in a context menu when opened over a misspelt word. In Evo you have to open an extra window.
That's funny, I've seen lots of "modern spell-checking applications" that offer it in a extra window. Again, subjective.
f) New Junk is not marked as unread. This would be nice so that you know what junk you've checked for false positives and which you haven't.
gmail does the same thing. However, unlike gmail, I was able to setup a rule to set mail in the Junk folder to be automatically "read".
I had always heard that it was such an excellent PIM suite and am dissapointed that it simply doesn't live up to the hype.
Though I honestly can't say what could viewed as hype, it sounds like you're just a troll really. I've been using Evolution almost every since Ximian first released it. I used to use Outlook exclusively.
Half the stuff you complained about is a matter of personal preference. Even as a previous long-time Outlook user I felt right at home in Evolution.
I would have to agree. Just because I don't want to place things I write under the GPL (I want to use a different Open Source Certified License) I would have to pay outrageous amounts to use it. Not only that, if I want to use it for non-open-source-but-free-as-in-beer projects I also have to pay the ludicrous amounts. No small company in their right mind is going to pay the amounts they ask for unless they know well before hand that they're going to make a profit still. It's silly to me to have a toolkit that costs way more than the development compiler, IDE, etc.
And in some people's opinion and beliefs those things are just as valid as your "scientific criteria." Not that I am discounting scientific evidence. But, there's room in this world for more than one belief system, is there not?
Is it just me, or is anyone else freaked out by the SimCity 4 or SimCity 3000 (can't tell which, since I listen to both soundtracks all the time) music playing in the background at http://spore.ea.com/ ?
:)
I know they're both EA companies (Maxis and these other people), but it's still disturbing
You know I'm really sick of the trolls on this. I live in Kansas myself. If a community wants to decide to teach their children a different thing, that's their bloody business. I may not agree with it, but it is the right of the board and those elected by the people of the school districts and other places in question to set educational standards. There's a reason that the Federal government allows local governments to control those standards to a certain extent...
If they want to believe Monkeys didn't turn into Humans, that's fine. I don't believe it either.
But, nor do I believe their fantastical mythic religious explanations.
I haven't really cared for CIV since the original.
The only game in recent history that I just loved to pieces in the same genre was Alpha Centauri, which I thought was the best turn-based game Sid was ever involved with.