That right, AI hasn't started as you might imagine it having a look at Sci-Fi movies.
Anyway, I think that it will be something like a boom when it will start. I mean, lots of research are still on the heap, but interresting results are coming up every day, showing that intelligence evolution looks more like a log(n) than anything else (just look at us - human being - 200 years ago). When it will start, we'll see, but it is certainly not too early to discuss it..
I don't see in what respect the Java language combined with UML is not used for consumer software.
Of course, if you enter into the J2EE world (EJB and stuffs), it's different, but I think this book could be really interesting at a consumer software development level.
All that is a matter of project scale, but its use is interresting in both cases.
There's a difference between to try to survive ( as far as i know, ximian is not that rich ), and to be a company trying to sell products which are still in beta-phase, that cost an incredible price, whenever the company is one of the biggest in the world, especially in terms of rentability.
Yes, and we can notice that IBM still support OS2, at least the Warp version.
Of course, that's more for an enterprise market, but I always though that the private customers had the right to have products which have the same quality than the one made for enterprises.
After all, it's not because you want to play sometimes, that your OS has to be a toy, that crashes 3 times a day.
Everybody is always focussing on the fight between Windows and Linux regarding the desktop environments.
I personnaly think that the strenght of Linux is especially when you put it in an embedded environment.
I still hope we'll have a good surprise with the PS2 port of Linux, which should be a good exemple.
Yes, but nobody can really identitify itself to a star.. or dream of be a star when he'll grow up.. Thus, I'm not sure we'll say goodbye to the star as we know them now so early .
You're "extremely" carefull.. good. Yep, sometimes one needs "extremists" to show a point.
Extremism is never good anyway, under all the forms it can use.
There's one thing I don't tolerate : the intolerance.
(I nevertheless don't hate myself so much:)).
That's pretty cool . There are lots of sort of soccer championships for robots, one of them with aibo, the famous robot dog. It's especialy interresting in the field of the computer vision interaction.
First, Red Hat is not selling a software, it is selling a service : the packaging of an OS (among others).
Let me translate you two qustions/answers of RMS from the link I just wrote before, just in case you don't speak french :
Q : Imagine I'm a developer. My freedom, it's also to decide if I want to sell source code under a proprietary licence, or under a free license like the GPL ?
A : No! the proprietary software is immoral and should not exist, if you give me a copy of a program, I have the right to use it freely.The users have the right to decide what to do with the software they use.
The choice is not given to the developers, we don't let enterprises, or a tyran decide. You don't have the right to impose you preferences. The mission of the FSF is to convince the users they should not tolerate anymore the proprietary softwares
Personal remark : sorry, but the users have the freedom to refuse if they want to buy a software. Of course, it is better if they have free alternatives, but to sell a software is not immoral, while there is an alternative. If there's a fight to give, it is not against the proprietary softwares because they exist, it is against the proprietary softwares, but trying to give better solutions ( good luck ). Anyway, it's a matter of choice, and of freedom of choice.
Q : The freedom of someone stops where the freedom of the others starts, as we use to say. The freedom that you intend to defend is the one of the users, not the one of the developers ?
A : [Speaking lauder, annoyed] I don't like your questions , on a "devil's advocate" style. It's surely not a good way to abord posivitively the problems, and I don't want to answer. All what I say is : you have the copy of y program, you do what you want yith it, and that's all.
Personal remark : No, that's typically post-hippie, not serious, and without future. Who's the tyran now ? If he wants to fight for the freedom, fine, but he should apply what he says to everybody and to all the kind of freedoms.
I think he shouldn't try to impose his point of view like that, and be more tolerant.
Sorry if there are any nistakes in the translation, I'm doing ny best.
And the freedom to sell a sofware, where has it gone ?
I'm not against the Free software at all, but the author as the right to sell it if he wants.
That's where I disagree with RMS.
See this ( for french speaking only, sorry )
I'm sure the main issue of this tool is only to have a cool desktop, "ala Linux".. (cfr wterm, Eterm ).
But it's sure that it's not usefull, as lots of/.ers are complaining.
It's just a matter of taste and choice.
There are lots of dedicated games PDA you know.. GameGear, GameBoy(Advanced),... amoung others..
CRaaaaaaAAAaAAzy !!:)
(They eben have better controls than a stylus.. waouw)
Something on what people are still working with lots of conviction in some universities is the replacament of the control devises ( mouse,...) like for the VisualGlove project. I worked on the basis of this project creating the so-called Mouse project. I really believe in that kind of human-compiter interractions, even if it's not for a classic computer use. Lots of work is still to be done in this area to help the Blind people, for instance in order to recognize the gesture language.
have you already tried XCuise for linux ? Quite cool as a 3D file navigator. You can only cruise.. but we could imagine a file Explorer with links to some programs using associations. That would be cool ( Even if bnot productive..)
Can anybody tell me what ICQ will provide that a GSM hasn't already ? SMS should ne enough for the majority, and Nokia has already a chat system, as on the 3310 model.
I don't see the point of having ICQ on it. ( to draw nice lines and curves ??:))
I have to admit I haven't tried theit chat service ( which depends of the provider I suppose ), but I don't see why they need ICQ, if it's not for a marketing reason.
"Ok, here all states are under one federal law, but I thing you can change this"
It's not that easy. The Europe is currently in formation, some europeen laws are out, but every coutry has still its own laws ( the same as in the U.S. I think ).
Before having a unified continent, (which is to what the european community is trying to tend) we still have to wait some years, at least, and witout any guarantee of success.
Yes, indeed each Country in Europe could be more or less considered as a state of the U.S.
Thus, having this kind of system in the U.S. would mean having this System centralized for the whole europeen community.
That should not be considered as a whole centralized system for the U.S. too, but a local one for each state. (and maybe that could change in the future, with the laws and stuffs changing too).
"I think we shouldnt support WinModem type of hardware, cause i prefer hardware solutions over software/hardware tweak really bad cheapo things."
And what happen when you buy a "all-in-one" laptop, as most of them are pre-build harware packages ? There's already a Softmodem inside, will yo buy a new one ? Or will you just buy another laptop, without softmodem, and have a really reduces range of offers ?
I have a laptop with a Lucent softmodem inside, which works under linux, but has to be recompiled each time I change the kernel version ( it seems it's possible to make it works with all the 2.4.x anyway.. but I never manage, I still have to work on that).
I agree with the fact it's a shame they provide softmodems with most of the laptops on the market, but I'm not sure not to buy anything is a solution.. to complain massively would be better.
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I think that by definition : online measn available, and not linked. If it has to be sanctionned because it was online, then yes, they must be guilty.
That right, AI hasn't started as you might imagine it having a look at Sci-Fi movies. Anyway, I think that it will be something like a boom when it will start. I mean, lots of research are still on the heap, but interresting results are coming up every day, showing that intelligence evolution looks more like a log(n) than anything else (just look at us - human being - 200 years ago). When it will start, we'll see, but it is certainly not too early to discuss it ..
I don't see in what respect the Java language combined with UML is not used for consumer software.
Of course, if you enter into the J2EE world (EJB and stuffs), it's different, but I think this book could be really interesting at a consumer software development level.
All that is a matter of project scale, but its use is interresting in both cases.
UNIX/Linux users, rather than Windows users, would be the best target niche for Apple's "switch" campaign
Most linux users use it because it's free (in both meanings of the term). Therefore, I'm not sure they are a good target for Apple.
Don't worry, in case of any problem, Bruce Willis is still there .. :)
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There's a difference between to try to survive ( as far as i know, ximian is not that rich ), and to be a company trying to sell products which are still in beta-phase, that cost an incredible price, whenever the company is one of the biggest in the world, especially in terms of rentability.
Yes, and we can notice that IBM still support OS2, at least the Warp version.
Of course, that's more for an enterprise market, but I always though that the private customers had the right to have products which have the same quality than the one made for enterprises.
After all, it's not because you want to play sometimes, that your OS has to be a toy, that crashes 3 times a day.
Everybody is always focussing on the fight between Windows and Linux regarding the desktop environments.
I personnaly think that the strenght of Linux is especially when you put it in an embedded environment.
I still hope we'll have a good surprise with the PS2 port of Linux, which should be a good exemple.
Well, I mean to compare itself to a virtual star .. of course ..
Yes, but nobody can really identitify itself to a star .. or dream of be a star when he'll grow up ..
Thus, I'm not sure we'll say goodbye to the star as we know them now so early .
I still think that the Yopy will be better. .. before a good jump :)
So, it's probably a good time to wait and see
I though that Windows CE was an experience bad enough to avoid them to restart that kind of experience .. but you how they are , everywhere :)
You're "extremely" carefull .. good.
:)).
Yep, sometimes one needs "extremists" to show a point.
Extremism is never good anyway, under all the forms it can use.
There's one thing I don't tolerate : the intolerance.
(I nevertheless don't hate myself so much
That's pretty cool . There are lots of sort of soccer championships for robots, one of them with aibo, the famous robot dog. It's especialy interresting in the field of the computer vision interaction.
First, Red Hat is not selling a software, it is selling a service : the packaging of an OS (among others).
Let me translate you two qustions/answers of RMS from the link I just wrote before, just in case you don't speak french :
Q : Imagine I'm a developer. My freedom, it's also to decide if I want to sell source code under a proprietary licence, or under a free license like the GPL ?
A : No! the proprietary software is immoral and should not exist, if you give me a copy of a program, I have the right to use it freely.The users have the right to decide what to do with the software they use.
The choice is not given to the developers, we don't let enterprises, or a tyran decide. You don't have the right to impose you preferences. The mission of the FSF is to convince the users they should not tolerate anymore the proprietary softwares
Personal remark : sorry, but the users have the freedom to refuse if they want to buy a software.
Of course, it is better if they have free alternatives, but to sell a software is not immoral, while there is an alternative. If there's a fight to give, it is not against the proprietary softwares because they exist, it is against the proprietary softwares, but trying to give better solutions ( good luck ). Anyway, it's a matter of choice, and of freedom of choice.
Q : The freedom of someone stops where the freedom of the others starts, as we use to say. The freedom that you intend to defend is the one of the users, not the one of the developers ?
A : [Speaking lauder, annoyed] I don't like your questions , on a "devil's advocate" style. It's surely not a good way to abord posivitively the problems, and I don't want to answer. All what I say is : you have the copy of y program, you do what you want yith it, and that's all.
Personal remark : No, that's typically post-hippie, not serious, and without future. Who's the tyran now ? If he wants to fight for the freedom, fine, but he should apply what he says to everybody and to all the kind of freedoms.
I think he shouldn't try to impose his point of view like that, and be more tolerant.
Sorry if there are any nistakes in the translation, I'm doing ny best.
And the freedom to sell a sofware, where has it gone ?
I'm not against the Free software at all, but the author as the right to sell it if he wants.
That's where I disagree with RMS.
See this ( for french speaking only, sorry )
I'm sure the main issue of this tool is only to have a cool desktop, "ala Linux" .. (cfr wterm, Eterm ). /.ers are complaining.
But it's sure that it's not usefull, as lots of
It's just a matter of taste and choice.
There are lots of dedicated games PDA you know .. GameGear, GameBoy(Advanced), ... amoung others ..
CRaaaaaaAAAaAAzy !! :)
(They eben have better controls than a stylus .. waouw)
Something on what people are still working with lots of conviction in some universities is the replacament of the control devises ( mouse, ...) like for the VisualGlove project.
I worked on the basis of this project creating the so-called Mouse project.
I really believe in that kind of human-compiter interractions, even if it's not for a classic computer use.
Lots of work is still to be done in this area to help the Blind people, for instance in order to recognize the gesture language.
have you already tried XCuise for linux ? .. but we could imagine a file Explorer with links to some programs using associations . ..)
Quite cool as a 3D file navigator. You can only cruise
That would be cool ( Even if bnot productive
Can anybody tell me what ICQ will provide that a GSM hasn't already ? SMS should ne enough for the majority, and Nokia has already a chat system, as on the 3310 model. :))
I don't see the point of having ICQ on it. ( to draw nice lines and curves ??
I have to admit I haven't tried theit chat service ( which depends of the provider I suppose ), but I don't see why they need ICQ, if it's not for a marketing reason.
"Ok, here all states are under one federal law, but I thing you can change this"
It's not that easy. The Europe is currently in formation, some europeen laws are out, but every coutry has still its own laws ( the same as in the U.S. I think ).
Before having a unified continent, (which is to what the european community is trying to tend) we still have to wait some years, at least, and witout any guarantee of success.
Yes, indeed each Country in Europe could be more or less considered as a state of the U.S.
Thus, having this kind of system in the U.S. would mean having this System centralized for the whole europeen community.
That should not be considered as a whole centralized system for the U.S. too, but a local one for each state. (and maybe that could change in the future, with the laws and stuffs changing too).
"I think we shouldnt support WinModem type of hardware, cause i prefer hardware solutions over software/hardware tweak really bad cheapo things."
.. but I never manage, I still have to work on that).
.. to complain massively would be better.
And what happen when you buy a "all-in-one" laptop, as most of them are pre-build harware packages ?
There's already a Softmodem inside, will yo buy a new one ?
Or will you just buy another laptop, without softmodem, and have a really reduces range of offers ?
I have a laptop with a Lucent softmodem inside, which works under linux, but has to be recompiled each time I change the kernel version ( it seems it's possible to make it works with all the 2.4.x anyway
I agree with the fact it's a shame they provide softmodems with most of the laptops on the market, but I'm not sure not to buy anything is a solution