a) Ogg Vorbis BSD licence endorsement: I thought all code wanted to be free? Propritary use of OGG code still results in propritary software, doesn't it?
b) X11 licence endorsement. I thought that code forking was implicitly endorsed? I thought that the whole point of the GNU philosophy was that I should be able to examine, change and fork someone elses mods to my code?
Does RMS/FSF speak with forked tongue here? I actually agree with point a - BSD software has benefitted the world enormously. Imagine if Microsoft couldn't pick up the BSD TCP/IP stack back when they were trying to take over the internet. With the kind of dominance Internet explorer has now, the consequences of a protocol propritary to microsoft don't bear thinking about.
As for the X11 licence - maybe a fork would benefit X. The linux kernel has been forked many times allowing linux to scale to a variety of devices.
I'm very wary of the FSF and the GPL. It seems to me that there is value in many different types of licence and for the FSF to send out different signals is at best confusing and at worse hypocritical.
Co-incidentally, just today I was commenting to my wife about games from the 80's - when I was a school boy - today.
I was just investigating some old computermagazines for the most popular gaming platforms back then.
These mags make good reading. The reviews praise games which took only a few weeks or months for a one/two person development team to write.
Games then had what I call "playability" - more substance than style. Graphics capabilities were not good, memory was very tight (32K on some machines) and typical processors were clocked at less than 1Mhz.
In these days of fast processors, graphics GPUs, realms of memory etc, it seems (IMHO) that all that games are all about style with little substance.
1) Why use apple hardware? I thought I've been hearing how intel platforms are cheaper and as godd as/better than apple/sun/hp/your-non-intel-hardware-vendor-here. If, say, Dell or HP can offer a rack with more bang for the buck than apple, why choose Apple?
2) Given that Apple has been chosen, what's wrong with OS X? Isn't OS X supposed to be optimised for graphics performance? My understanding is that even the desktop uses the 3D hardware to draw itself. Wouldn't the Navy benefit from the hardware/OS X integration?
The only reason I can think of why they may not want to use an Intel solution, is that there won't be space on the subs for the air-conditioning they'd need. Still, they could put the racks in a freezer...
The parent comment is actually on-topic. Anyone who knows anything about teletext will undoubted recognise that this is a BBC basic program, written for the BBC model B machine using features of its inbuilt MODE 7 - which was the teletext mode.
There was a joke somewhere in the notion of that program, but as usual, the/. crowd miss the point - just as they're all missing the point about the games review website look and feel.
If you're too stupid to follow the teletext link in the story, I can't help yah!
XD2? Nah! Its services they want
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Novell Buys Ximian
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· Score: 2, Interesting
I personally don't think that Novell have much interest in the Ximian Desktop. They may have some interest in Evolution - maybe there's a hairbrained scheme to mate it with Wordperect and Gnumeric to produce a bastardized "Office Suite".
No, I think Novell are interested in servers and services. Microsoft are making alot of noise about WebServices on the.NET platform. The way things are going, pretty much anyone who wants to do webservices the Microsoft way will have to purchase Win2003 or whatever it's called in the future - or download the.NET framework if you can't be bothered buying a new OS. However, Novell probably hope to offer a competing stack for webservices based on mono and Linux - much more compelling because they're cheap/free.
Novell are also trying to leverage NDS on Linux as an alternative to Mickeys active directory. Add RedCarpet into the mix for easy update/deployablility and of course the Ximian connector stuff as a bonus, and they've pretty much got a whole competing stack.
It remains to be seen if Novell now underplay their hand as they have done in the past...
I'd say you're buying the right to have your cd player decode and play (perform) the contents of the particular disc which you have purchased.
You're buying rights for your CD player!!
If the CD gets scratched - tough, buy another. If own the video(s) for a particular album on DVD, you still have to buy a CD if you just want the music.
You may not copy, rip or burn from your own CD. You may not lend your CD. You may not borrow anyone elses CD.
Unless nobody is looking of course...
I was at university from 1992 through 1995, (Computer Science and Information Systems Design).
I can remember hearing about one guy who had a laptop computer which he took to every lecture.
This was so unprecedented back then that he was nicknamed "Laptop". We're talking the days before mobile/cell phone proliferation and the days before widespread use of the World Wide Web.
This machine used to "bleep" regularly, royally pissing off some of the lecturers.
One day, it bleeped in the middle of a lecture about Industrial Relations (don't ask) and the lecturer shouted, "If I hear that thing make one more noise I will break it over your head!".
Laptop retired from the course shortly after this incident.
Don't know what happened to the lecturer, but if he's still there, he can't be enjoying life too much in these days of mobile device proliferation. Either that or he's suffered a few apoplectic fits...
Having recently been made redundant, I'm not sure that programming is a viable career option. One of the reasons for the redundancy was that the company is outsourcing development to India. OK, so the major reason was that we were the subject of a "merger" (takeover) and they wanted our customerbase. BTW "we" were the result of another merger which had occurred 18 months earlier.
I see the combined company eventually employing only business analysts, project co-ordinators, salesmen and client liason people. There will probably be a few network and infrastructure guys but eventually, given that all PCs and laptops had a "standard" build, were updatable from a central network point etc, this could be outsourced too. That leaves support functions, like admin and purchasing. Be creative enough and that could be outsourced too!
Regarding software dev in the carribean - why not? In a country like Trinidad and Tobago, the dollar, Euro and Pound exchange rates are so favourable to "investors" that setting up a software shop really shouldn't be a problem. Trinis are generally well educated, they speak English as a first language (OK, so it may not be Queens English, but it's still English - mon!) they work hard. Matter of fact, I was thinking of doing the same thing, but in Barbados where most of the kids are highly educated and most of them are bored because there are no jobs. Those that don't drift into drugs are getting out to Canada, the States or the UK. I know this first hand, I have family all over...
Don't you mean the Black Ark...wait..no that was a recording studio in Jamaica built and owned by Lee "Scratch" Perry. Perry burnt it down and moved to Switzerland years ago.
T&T has 2 major exports, not one: Oil and drugs. Seriously. The US suppliers take their yhats down from Florida and sail into Tobago beaches. This is where they load up on that which was produced in South America, particularly Colombia. The other main industry is tourism which is obviously not a cash export.
Not sure that staging drugs from South America through Tobago rates as an 'export' strictly speaking. Drugs are staged through the Bahamas, St.Vincent and the Grenadines etc, so nothing unusual there.
But the author is right about oil being critical to the economy. The main reason my family is well off is that my father's father worked for the oil companies for 35 years earning far above average wages. Keep in mind that T&T is a 3rd world country and you see poverty over there like you never see in north america, not even in the First Nations' areas of Canada.
Is this true? True, the standard of living for many people is 'lower' than in North America or Europe, but the quality of life could be said to be higher in some cases. I remember the first time I went to Tobago, (to meet my future in-laws). We came from Barbados having stopped there for a week on the way out from England. Being in Tobago after being in Barbados was a shock, true enough. The way of life, the lack of creature comforts, no big department stores etc. However, after a few days, I found I wasn't missing them. Life was laid back, simple and cool.
Anyway, enough already. You forget to mention the racial differences and the break down of wealth between the different racial groups. You also forget to mention the TT Government monopoly on oil distribution and (AFAIK) production. The corruption etc. I personally think Tobago would be better off without Trinidad.
Mariah Carey was paid $21 million when she signed with EMI... and another $28 million to walk away. I think that qualifies as "rich." I don't think she has to worry too much about money.
Ah, but not as rich as she had been promised contractually. My point being that the record labels are the puppeteers and the artists are the puppets.
But I think you knew that, anyway.
yeah, and 10 months ago, I went out with my wife, ate some spicy food, drank some red wine, came home and feeling slighty spritzy, got creative with her. Nine months and 4 days later, a little person looking just like me entered the world and I haven't had a full nights sleep since.
Now that's what I call genius...:)
Well, labels, who claim to promote and thus 'make' and artist, are simply greedy for more action.
Regarding Williams (a "pop star" I have no time for) EMI are taking a cut of his tours, merchandising etc but they've paid him, or are contracted to pay him, several millions of pounds over the next few years. When the deal was announced, Williams said, "I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams!"
He'd better not speak so quickly. Mariah Carey was rich too, until Sony dropped her.
Interestingly, Williams takes the attitude that Filesharing is a Good Thing. He actively encourages his fans to download his music.
An attitude shared by Snoop Dogg, Chuck D and Courtney Love. Shame Britney Spears doesn't know what time it is yet...
i was in Tobago last december, and there are a number of internet cafes there, used by the locals and the tourists. However, broadband and wireless seem to be unheard of - everything runs on dialup, nominally 56k dialup, but in reality much worse than that.
So you can be sitting in an internet cafe sharing a single dialup connection with 15-20 other people.
It's a shame that tech like WiFi and broadband isn't more accessible, it ought to be well suited to sorting problems caused by the geographical topology of the country for a start.
However, this is a country where the petrol (gas) is all sold by the Government...
I want you to think about the $5million venture cap money burned through by Eazel. I want you to consider Nautilus. I want you to tell me why it's STILL slow as a three-legged dog and mostly unusable as a file manager. Why?
where they dont have to install any extra software to fully surf the web
Good point, where's the equivalent of kppp in Gnome? Having searched high and low i can't find it.
Slashdot Mirror
You mean, they're not the last bulwark against the brutal tyranny of OS imperialism? Then why were they throwing that hammer at that TV???!!
Because they threw the Sickle first and missed and it flew out of the window above the TV, of course...
a) Ogg Vorbis BSD licence endorsement: I thought all code wanted to be free? Propritary use of OGG code still results in propritary software, doesn't it?
b) X11 licence endorsement. I thought that code forking was implicitly endorsed? I thought that the whole point of the GNU philosophy was that I should be able to examine, change and fork someone elses mods to my code?
Does RMS/FSF speak with forked tongue here? I actually agree with point a - BSD software has benefitted the world enormously. Imagine if Microsoft couldn't pick up the BSD TCP/IP stack back when they were trying to take over the internet. With the kind of dominance Internet explorer has now, the consequences of a protocol propritary to microsoft don't bear thinking about.
As for the X11 licence - maybe a fork would benefit X. The linux kernel has been forked many times allowing linux to scale to a variety of devices.
I'm very wary of the FSF and the GPL. It seems to me that there is value in many different types of licence and for the FSF to send out different signals is at best confusing and at worse hypocritical.
Co-incidentally, just today I was commenting to my wife about games from the 80's - when I was a school boy - today.
I was just investigating some old computer magazines for the most popular gaming platforms back then.
These mags make good reading. The reviews praise games which took only a few weeks or months for a one/two person development team to write.
Games then had what I call "playability" - more substance than style. Graphics capabilities were not good, memory was very tight (32K on some machines) and typical processors were clocked at less than 1Mhz.
In these days of fast processors, graphics GPUs, realms of memory etc, it seems (IMHO) that all that games are all about style with little substance.
OK, two serious questions.
1) Why use apple hardware? I thought I've been hearing how intel platforms are cheaper and as godd as/better than apple/sun/hp/your-non-intel-hardware-vendor-here. If, say, Dell or HP can offer a rack with more bang for the buck than apple, why choose Apple?
2) Given that Apple has been chosen, what's wrong with OS X? Isn't OS X supposed to be optimised for graphics performance? My understanding is that even the desktop uses the 3D hardware to draw itself. Wouldn't the Navy benefit from the hardware/OS X integration?
The only reason I can think of why they may not want to use an Intel solution, is that there won't be space on the subs for the air-conditioning they'd need. Still, they could put the racks in a freezer...
1) Knock together LAMP project and host on Freshmeat.
2) Post story on Slashdot moaning about lack of traffic to project website
3) ???
4) PROFIT!!!
The parent comment is actually on-topic. Anyone who knows anything about teletext will undoubted recognise that this is a BBC basic program, written for the BBC model B machine using features of its inbuilt MODE 7 - which was the teletext mode.
/. crowd miss the point - just as they're all missing the point about the games review website look and feel.
There was a joke somewhere in the notion of that program, but as usual, the
If you're too stupid to follow the teletext link in the story, I can't help yah!
10 MODE7 :
20 *VDU 128,2,21
30 *VDU 19,2,2
40:
50 PRINTTAB(5,5) CHR$(7)"THIS IS A QUIZ ON"
60 PRINTTAB(5,5) CHR$(7)"THIS IS A QUIZ ON"
70
80 PRINTTAB(5,5) CHR$(7)"HEAVY METAL"
90 PRINTTAB(5,5) CHR$(7)"HEAVY METAL"
er...
75 FOR A%=1 TO 10000
76 NEXT A%
Um...
ah...
5 REM - School computer studies project 6 REM - March 1986 7 REM - Mr Murdochs class
..has Duke Nukem 4Ever been released yet?
Then why are you bothering me with this news...?
I personally don't think that Novell have much interest in the Ximian Desktop. They may have some interest in Evolution - maybe there's a hairbrained scheme to mate it with Wordperect and Gnumeric to produce a bastardized "Office Suite". .NET platform. The way things are going, pretty much anyone who wants to do webservices the Microsoft way will have to purchase Win2003 or whatever it's called in the future - or download the .NET framework if you can't be bothered buying a new OS. However, Novell probably hope to offer a competing stack for webservices based on mono and Linux - much more compelling because they're cheap/free.
No, I think Novell are interested in servers and services. Microsoft are making alot of noise about WebServices on the
Novell are also trying to leverage NDS on Linux as an alternative to Mickeys active directory. Add RedCarpet into the mix for easy update/deployablility and of course the Ximian connector stuff as a bonus, and they've pretty much got a whole competing stack.
It remains to be seen if Novell now underplay their hand as they have done in the past...
I'd say you're buying the right to have your cd player decode and play (perform) the contents of the particular disc which you have purchased.
You're buying rights for your CD player!!
If the CD gets scratched - tough, buy another. If own the video(s) for a particular album on DVD, you still have to buy a CD if you just want the music.
You may not copy, rip or burn from your own CD. You may not lend your CD. You may not borrow anyone elses CD.
Unless nobody is looking of course...
Is Wizard code a derived work?
Is Harry Potter a Wizard?
There are several versions searchable here
I was at university from 1992 through 1995, (Computer Science and Information Systems Design).
I can remember hearing about one guy who had a laptop computer which he took to every lecture.
This was so unprecedented back then that he was nicknamed "Laptop". We're talking the days before mobile/cell phone proliferation and the days before widespread use of the World Wide Web.
This machine used to "bleep" regularly, royally pissing off some of the lecturers.
One day, it bleeped in the middle of a lecture about Industrial Relations (don't ask) and the lecturer shouted, "If I hear that thing make one more noise I will break it over your head!".
Laptop retired from the course shortly after this incident.
Don't know what happened to the lecturer, but if he's still there, he can't be enjoying life too much in these days of mobile device proliferation. Either that or he's suffered a few apoplectic fits...
Good luck!! It's well worth it. I'm typing this @ 2:23AM BST having been awakened in response to....well you've guessed it!!
Gee, thanks!
And I love y'all too..
Having recently been made redundant, I'm not sure that programming is a viable career option. One of the reasons for the redundancy was that the company is outsourcing development to India. OK, so the major reason was that we were the subject of a "merger" (takeover) and they wanted our customerbase.
BTW "we" were the result of another merger which had occurred 18 months earlier.
I see the combined company eventually employing only business analysts, project co-ordinators, salesmen and client liason people. There will probably be a few network and infrastructure guys but eventually, given that all PCs and laptops had a "standard" build, were updatable from a central network point etc, this could be outsourced too. That leaves support functions, like admin and purchasing. Be creative enough and that could be outsourced too!
Regarding software dev in the carribean - why not? In a country like Trinidad and Tobago, the dollar, Euro and Pound exchange rates are so favourable to "investors" that setting up a software shop really shouldn't be a problem. Trinis are generally well educated, they speak English as a first language (OK, so it may not be Queens English, but it's still English - mon!) they work hard. Matter of fact, I was thinking of doing the same thing, but in Barbados where most of the kids are highly educated and most of them are bored because there are no jobs. Those that don't drift into drugs are getting out to Canada, the States or the UK.
I know this first hand, I have family all over...
Don't you mean the Black Ark...wait..no that was a recording studio in Jamaica built and owned by Lee "Scratch" Perry. Perry burnt it down and moved to Switzerland years ago.
T&T has 2 major exports, not one: Oil and drugs. Seriously. The US suppliers take their yhats down from Florida and sail into Tobago beaches. This is where they load up on that which was produced in South America, particularly Colombia. The other main industry is tourism which is obviously not a cash export.
Not sure that staging drugs from South America through Tobago rates as an 'export' strictly speaking. Drugs are staged through the Bahamas, St.Vincent and the Grenadines etc, so nothing unusual there.
But the author is right about oil being critical to the economy. The main reason my family is well off is that my father's father worked for the oil companies for 35 years earning far above average wages. Keep in mind that T&T is a 3rd world country and you see poverty over there like you never see in north america, not even in the First Nations' areas of Canada.
Is this true? True, the standard of living for many people is 'lower' than in North America or Europe, but the quality of life could be said to be higher in some cases. I remember the first time I went to Tobago, (to meet my future in-laws). We came from Barbados having stopped there for a week on the way out from England. Being in Tobago after being in Barbados was a shock, true enough. The way of life, the lack of creature comforts, no big department stores etc. However, after a few days, I found I wasn't missing them. Life was laid back, simple and cool.
Anyway, enough already. You forget to mention the racial differences and the break down of wealth between the different racial groups. You also forget to mention the TT Government monopoly on oil distribution and (AFAIK) production. The corruption etc. I personally think Tobago would be better off without Trinidad.
Mariah Carey was paid $21 million when she signed with EMI... and another $28 million to walk away. I think that qualifies as "rich." I don't think she has to worry too much about money.
Ah, but not as rich as she had been promised contractually. My point being that the record labels are the puppeteers and the artists are the puppets.
But I think you knew that, anyway.
yeah, and 10 months ago, I went out with my wife, ate some spicy food, drank some red wine, came home and feeling slighty spritzy, got creative with her. Nine months and 4 days later, a little person looking just like me entered the world and I haven't had a full nights sleep since. :)
Now that's what I call genius...
Well, labels, who claim to promote and thus 'make' and artist, are simply greedy for more action.
Regarding Williams (a "pop star" I have no time for) EMI are taking a cut of his tours, merchandising etc but they've paid him, or are contracted to pay him, several millions of pounds over the next few years. When the deal was announced, Williams said, "I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams!"
He'd better not speak so quickly. Mariah Carey was rich too, until Sony dropped her.
Interestingly, Williams takes the attitude that Filesharing is a Good Thing. He actively encourages his fans to download his music.
An attitude shared by Snoop Dogg, Chuck D and Courtney Love. Shame Britney Spears doesn't know what time it is yet...
AFAIK, the Licence fee charged in the UK, funds the BBC output - digital channels, terrestrial channels and the (excellent) BBC websites.
i was in Tobago last december, and there are a number of internet cafes there, used by the locals and the tourists. However, broadband and wireless seem to be unheard of - everything runs on dialup, nominally 56k dialup, but in reality much worse than that.
So you can be sitting in an internet cafe sharing a single dialup connection with 15-20 other people.
It's a shame that tech like WiFi and broadband isn't more accessible, it ought to be well suited to sorting problems caused by the geographical topology of the country for a start.
However, this is a country where the petrol (gas) is all sold by the Government...
I want you to think about the $5million venture cap money burned through by Eazel. I want you to consider Nautilus. I want you to tell me why it's STILL slow as a three-legged dog and mostly unusable as a file manager. Why?
where they dont have to install any extra software to fully surf the web
Good point, where's the equivalent of kppp in Gnome? Having searched high and low i can't find it.