Neither. Usefull Interface. The tendency for existing input devices to induce RSS is enough justification for this to exist. I would much rather excercise something nature intends for me to overuse; my voice and communication skills than my wiggling fingers. No voice recognition will never be as fast as typing, but after hundreds of thousands of lines of code in the last 5 years, my hands and wrists ache for something else to interface with the computer.
Hey I wanna know why Slashdot has singled out the mobile device market for it's Slashvertisements. What If I want to read a thinly vailed "news" article about every single disk drive, USB device or iMac looking translucent thingy. Is anyone fooled into thinking this is actual news? The link does not even point to a review or a FAQ on how to get linux on it. W T F?
So you think p2p would be the answer? How about load balancing the servers for the admins there. Look I don't want to sound grinchy or anything but p2p is definitely not the answer to the problems you're mentioning.
How about leveraging existing resources avaiable on students 2.4 Ghz word processors instead of buying new hardware, load-balancing switches and expensive IT personel that don't know what they are talking about anyway?
That's a big if. Considering the pranksters running around such schools, think about someone getting into one of the machines and changing everything you read to something else. Wouldn't that be horrible. It's opening up another Pandora's box. As for spoofs, it could also lead to people cheating by sharing answers, etc, which one would have to normally research, which is one of the pros about getting an education. Wouldn't you want to learn it as opposed to being spoon fed it?
MD-5 hashes are surprisingly good at detecting which a single byte of a file has been modified. Existing P2P systems don't support this, but they are building thier own from scratch. All the rules can be thought and re-written.
tee. 2) Wouldn't you rather socialize with someone instead of being crammed up on a machine?
Why don't you mail this to him rather than posting it on a modern Forum that allows it to be insstantly delivered, archived, searched (and replied to).
Yes, but advertising adverse people hear the name AOL and instantly think: Ahhh.. not another CD in the mail. AOL knows they have recived a bad rap in the last number of years and are simply putting a new markeing spin on a dead horse.
Big, bloated, falls over all the time. Where do I sign up?
That's the way technology aware people think of it, but thier using Mozilla with Verizon DSL service anyway. People who don't know what code bloat is remember Netscape as the gateway to the Internet. Thier passport to the world-wide-web. It still has a cool factor with the mainstream public.
Scrape on. The more people that turn onto the Internet, the better. As public awareness raises, more Internet-centric technologies are going to be accepted by the public.
Who cares if Netscape Online users are a bunch of hicks from the swamplands of the deep south? Today: hicks of the US, tomorrow: villagers from every corner of the world! Ok that's streatching things a bit, but we will get there eventually.
I do, however agree that they are whoring out the Netscape name once associated with browser superiority. They should have just succumed to popular ignorance and called it InterWeb-Online.
Besides, even if the Internet gene pool has degraded severly in the last 10 years, at least there will be (relativly) little unkown places on the web like/.
It has been out on the Sony Metrion IMAX theatre in San Francisco for some time now. It is truley a different movie when seen on the big big screen. The action scenes are emersive and you really feel like part of the movie.
Probably does not translate as well to IMAX as some other films with more picturesque fly-by shots of detailed landscapes like say... LOTR, but still worth a second (or Nth) view
Obviously, the SCO FUD machine will not halt under it's own misguided intentions. So it only makes sense that members of the community fight SCO on thier own grounds and at thier own game. It looks like the Linux owners claim of protection under the GPL is far a far stronger argument for suit than any 10 lines of copied source embedded deep within the kernel. It fills me with pride to read the calm, well thought words of a community under fire. I will sleep a little better at night knowing that serious action is awaiting SCO at the end of thier grab for cash profit scheme.
Just downloaded the evaluation copy and can't seem to register it as a full version for Educational Use.
Also not impressed with the MS interoperability. It won't open the simpilest 7 page.doc file I have. Well, it opens it, but only the first page and ingores the other 6...
You'd think they would brush this up a little more before releasing it. Sheesh.
The Centrino may not benifit from a RISC instruction set, but it is very power conservative. It does have an ATI 9600, 16X9 aspect ratio and *is* aluminum. I am not saying the G4/5 are not great laptops, it's just that they are overkill and costs way too much. Oh, I paid 1500 for my X1000.
I like my Compaq X1000 just fine thank you. 6.5 Lbs. 15.4 screen. 1.5" thick. A G4 chaser for sure, but does anyone really need the power of a G5 in a notebook?
I read today that Oracle was continuing to speed ahead with it's internal Linux deployment and full commitment to Linux support in thier products. Nobody but those being sued seem phased by these feeble attempts of SCO to squash a very powerfull penguin.
How does honestpuck have teh time to review so many terse technical books? I wonder if these reviews are as well thought out as they could be if honestpuck was not trying to crank out 3 a week. I am going to propose the conspiracty theory that honestpuck is really an alias for a group of 10 Slash developers!
I have moderator points, but there is no "un-informed" or "grossly incorrect" comment label, so I am commenting instead.
And its a definate possibility, considering the linux community has no respect for IP laws in general, and IBM has no respect for fair business practices.
The Linux community does not believe in IP laws, but that does not make them code thiefs. They belive in a licience that does not allow any one person or organization to own any code they write.
So far all the linux community can defend itself with is name-calling.
When the names are applicable and correct, it is'nt name calling, it's FUD busting.
When SCO won't even disclose the nature or specifics of the accused infringments, the community has very little to defend itself from.
Or, how about this scenario? IBM settles out of court, admitting guilt. They license - and now own for all intents and purposes - linux.
You obviously have no idea how sofware liciencing works. If IBM settled, all that would happen is that SCO would get an ammount of cash for each copy that IBM sold. This would give them permission to use the code and Linux would remain unchanged. In the worst case, the code would be removed from all commercial distributions, but the GPL would still apply to the remainder of the code.
Eventually, one way or another, linux will be declared some corporations property. It's guaranteed. The more valuable it becomes, the harder people will fight and the more tricks they will use to make sure it does not remain free.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Linux is explicitly licienced to be Open, Free and without ownership. It will never become the property of any one organization.
This is a very good question. The trend that Open Source software seems to encorage is a gradual but irreversable shift away from propriatary and profiting methods. As stated in the strategy, this is good for the majority (users) and bad for the minority (vendors). The question is wether or not this method of software development is sustainable if it's popularity grew to a point where it was the majority method of development.
Some would say that it would be great. Everything would be free, innovation would happen at a rapid rate, but what about compensation for the developers. Software written under a GLP type licience, does not leave room for profits from the actual software. Ad-hoc services can only go so far to support an entire development effort. Who pays the developers for thier hard work?
The question I leave open for disucssion is this: How sustainable do you think Open Source in it's current form is and do you think that varients such as the Apache Licience are an innevatable change necessary for the properity of the community.
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Neither. Usefull Interface. The tendency for existing input devices to induce RSS is enough justification for this to exist. I would much rather excercise something nature intends for me to overuse; my voice and communication skills than my wiggling fingers. No voice recognition will never be as fast as typing, but after hundreds of thousands of lines of code in the last 5 years, my hands and wrists ache for something else to interface with the computer.
Hey I wanna know why Slashdot has singled out the mobile device market for it's Slashvertisements. What If I want to read a thinly vailed "news" article about every single disk drive, USB device or iMac looking translucent thingy. Is anyone fooled into thinking this is actual news? The link does not even point to a review or a FAQ on how to get linux on it. W T F?
... I am to post to a new Slashdot article
So you think p2p would be the answer? How about load balancing the servers for the admins there. Look I don't want to sound grinchy or anything but p2p is definitely not the answer to the problems you're mentioning.
How about leveraging existing resources avaiable on students 2.4 Ghz word processors instead of buying new hardware, load-balancing switches and expensive IT personel that don't know what they
are talking about anyway?
That's a big if. Considering the pranksters running around such schools, think about someone getting into one of the machines and changing everything you read to something else. Wouldn't that be horrible. It's opening up another Pandora's box. As for spoofs, it could also lead to people cheating by sharing answers, etc, which one would have to normally research, which is one of the pros about getting an education. Wouldn't you want to learn it as opposed to being spoon fed it?
MD-5 hashes are surprisingly good at detecting which a single byte of a file has been modified. Existing P2P systems don't support this, but they are building thier own from scratch. All the rules can be thought and re-written.
tee. 2) Wouldn't you rather socialize with someone instead of being crammed up on a machine?
Why don't you mail this to him rather than posting it on a modern Forum that allows it to be insstantly delivered, archived, searched (and replied to).
Yes, but advertising adverse people hear the name AOL and instantly think: Ahhh.. not another CD in the mail. AOL knows they have recived a bad rap in the last number of years and are simply putting a new markeing spin on a dead horse.
Big, bloated, falls over all the time. Where do I sign up?
That's the way technology aware people think of it, but thier using Mozilla with Verizon DSL service anyway. People who don't know what code bloat is remember Netscape as the gateway to the Internet. Thier passport to the world-wide-web. It still has a cool factor with the mainstream public.
Scrape on. The more people that turn onto the Internet, the better. As public awareness raises, more Internet-centric technologies are going to be accepted by the public.
/.
Who cares if Netscape Online users are a bunch of hicks from the swamplands of the deep south? Today: hicks of the US, tomorrow: villagers from every corner of the world! Ok that's streatching things a bit, but we will get there eventually.
I do, however agree that they are whoring out the Netscape name once associated with browser superiority. They should have just succumed to popular ignorance and called it InterWeb-Online.
Besides, even if the Internet gene pool has degraded severly in the last 10 years, at least there will be (relativly) little unkown places on the web like
Whoops. I guess I should have RTFA or at least RTFT (RTF Title).
It has been out on the Sony Metrion IMAX theatre in San Francisco for some time now. It is truley a different movie when seen on the big big screen. The action scenes are emersive and you really feel like part of the movie.
Probably does not translate as well to IMAX as some other films with more picturesque fly-by shots of detailed landscapes like say... LOTR, but still worth a second (or Nth) view
Obviously, the SCO FUD machine will not halt under it's own misguided intentions. So it only makes sense that members of the community fight SCO on thier own grounds and at thier own game. It looks like the Linux owners claim of protection under the GPL is far a far stronger argument for suit than any 10 lines of copied source embedded deep within the kernel. It fills me with pride to read the calm, well thought words of a community under fire. I will sleep a little better at night knowing that serious action is awaiting SCO at the end of thier grab for cash profit scheme.
Just downloaded the evaluation copy and can't seem to register it as a full version for Educational Use.
.doc file I have. Well, it opens it, but only the first page and ingores the other 6...
Also not impressed with the MS interoperability. It won't open the simpilest 7 page
You'd think they would brush this up a little more before releasing it. Sheesh.
The Centrino may not benifit from a RISC instruction set, but it is very power conservative. It does have an ATI 9600, 16X9 aspect ratio and *is* aluminum. I am not saying the G4/5 are not great laptops, it's just that they are overkill and costs way too much. Oh, I paid 1500 for my X1000.
I like my Compaq X1000 just fine thank you. 6.5 Lbs. 15.4 screen. 1.5" thick. A G4 chaser for sure, but does anyone really need the power of a G5 in a notebook?
Yeah, and the last I heard: this was the only search engine anyone used.
Heh, I guess the Oracle story is on /. too... I had'nt even noticed that when I hurried to reply to this story (with not much to say :))
I read today that Oracle was continuing to speed ahead with it's internal Linux deployment and full commitment to Linux support in thier products. Nobody but those being sued seem phased by these feeble attempts of SCO to squash a very powerfull penguin.
HA!
How does honestpuck have teh time to review so many terse technical books? I wonder if these reviews are as well thought out as they could be if honestpuck was not trying to crank out 3 a week. I am going to propose the conspiracty theory that honestpuck is really an alias for a group of 10 Slash developers!
Mod me flamebait all you want.
I have moderator points, but there is no "un-informed" or "grossly incorrect" comment label, so I am commenting instead.
And its a definate possibility, considering the linux community has no respect for IP laws in general, and IBM has no respect for fair business practices.
The Linux community does not believe in IP laws, but that does not make them code thiefs. They belive in a licience that does not allow any one person or organization to own any code they write.
So far all the linux community can defend itself with is name-calling.
When the names are applicable and correct, it is'nt name calling, it's FUD busting.
When SCO won't even disclose the nature or specifics of the accused infringments, the community has very little to defend itself from.
Or, how about this scenario? IBM settles out of court, admitting guilt. They license - and now own for all intents and purposes - linux.
You obviously have no idea how sofware liciencing works. If IBM settled, all that would happen is that SCO would get an ammount of cash for each copy that IBM sold. This would give them permission to use the code and Linux would remain unchanged. In the worst case, the code would be removed from all commercial distributions, but the GPL would still apply to the remainder of the code.
Eventually, one way or another, linux will be declared some corporations property. It's guaranteed. The more valuable it becomes, the harder people will fight and the more tricks they will use to make sure it does not remain free.
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Linux is explicitly licienced to be Open, Free and without ownership. It will never become the property of any one organization.
Suspend and Resume. Oh, that'll be usefull for last minute regret when making large online purchaces.
Click here to submit form to purchase $2000 computer... Wait! I changed my mind. Suspend. Suspend. Hmmm... I can always use another computer, Resume!
Next time you're sitting alone in the dark late at night wondering if you should kill yourself, do it.
Sorry, trolling for people to flame on, is way more pathetic. You first.
Maybe if I used very small words and stopped myself from thinking before I replied, my posts would be grammatically correct like yours.
C is my primary language, English is an afterthought.
This is a very good question. The trend that Open Source software seems to encorage is a gradual but irreversable shift away from propriatary and profiting methods. As stated in the strategy, this is good for the majority (users) and bad for the minority (vendors). The question is wether or not this method of software development is sustainable if it's popularity grew to a point where it was the majority method of development.
Some would say that it would be great. Everything would be free, innovation would happen at a rapid rate, but what about compensation for the developers. Software written under a GLP type licience, does not leave room for profits from the actual software. Ad-hoc services can only go so far to support an entire development effort. Who pays the developers for thier hard work?
The question I leave open for disucssion is this: How sustainable do you think Open Source in it's current form is and do you think that varients such as the Apache Licience are an innevatable change necessary for the properity of the community.
This guy is pretty well disguised as a troll. This comment gave him away though.
in POSIX, thats ..o[sz].iak