There is no news on Radio 1 - it's all breathlessly delivered headlines. If they spend to long (more than half a minute) reading these headlines , a voice screams "the music mo-foo-koo put da music onnnnn!"
Could you elaborate please? Every Relational DB I've ever used has a SQL interface. Are you saying that a relational model should be interfaced using some other language ? This isn't a troll - I'm genuinely interested
(getting the fscking html tags correct this time)
Lest it seem like I'm picking on Microsoft, Windows is not the worst offender here. GNU/Linux applications are arguably worse, because they could be avoiding all these problems (by using inodes), but their programmers so far have been too lazy. At least Windows programmers have an excuse.
No, the hackers aren't lazy - they're just too busy trying to ape the MS windowes look and feel....
Lest it seem like I'm picking on Microsoft, Windows is not the worst offender here. GNU/Linux applications are arguably worse, because they could be avoiding all these problems (by using inodes), but their programmers so far have been too lazy. At least Windows programmers have an excuse./i>
No, the hackers aren't lazy - they're just too busy trying to ape the MS windowes look and feel....
How come Opera has enough celebrity power to make it to the top, but Thunderhawk and other similar products don't?
er...because Thunderhawk doesn't bring anything new to the table. From the screenshot on the page you linked, you still require scrollbars where the width of the page exceeds your screen size, you still get the banner ads etc.
This version of Opera reformats the page - specifically for small devices - that's what's new and different here.
Also, AFAIK, server based page compression has been available for years now - it's just that for some reason it's very rarely used.
If the coin was reversed, no doubt you'd be responding to similar bullshite about the Gnome developers. It's bull. The simple truth is that RedHat favour Gnome, they want to go with Gnome but they're afraid to ship without KDE (because KDE is the most widely used) so they're trying to neutralize KDE. It really is that simple.
AFAIK, Perens resigned, but HP are calling it a 'termination'. According to the article, it was 'amicable'.
I think this is a Good Thing. Perens and HP were going in completely opposite directions, and his brand of 'advocacy' was probably doing them more harm than good.
Also, I happen to be one of those people who believe in quiet advocacy - Linux is creeping onto the agendas of HP, IBM, DELL and others - all the important industry players and playmakers. There's bound to be a trickle down effect, all the way to the home user eventually - which is exactly what has happened with Microsoft products during the last 15 years.
When all the shouting has finished, and the people doing it go away, we'll see what we're really left with and I suspect it'll be just as much, going on for more, than when the shouting was in effect.
Finally, isn't Perens a "Free Software" advocate, as opposed to "OpenSource" as the article claims?
Hire a manager, however, and you suddenly introduce another variable
So, managers have a "personal" agenda, and people like Perens (who does nothing useful except getting a bad name for OpenSource by preserving it's reputation as being the home and life of sad Fanatics), have the good of the company at heart?
Please explain how Perens' goals are more sacred than those of these other unamed, faceless, "managers"?
If you can't, i'd suggest that you're biased. I'd like to point out that Perens has his own personal agenda - an agenda which was at odds with the corporate goals of the for-profit corporation which he chose as an employer.
So what suggestions do you have for young, aspiring bands who want to make their music, and not sell their soul in the process?
Paint yourself black. Tie a big afro wig on your head. Learn how to talk in Jive. Go visit any number of record execs and get thrown out of the front door.
Now change your image! Wash off the paint, burn the fro wig and start talking like a wall street banker.
Go back to the same record execs and hey presto you gotta deal.....
The computer i use at work is the property of my employer, provided for work-related purposes only... Then let's hope you're not at work and reading slashdot then....
It is a problem. If something is too cheap - it is under-valued.... if it is priced high then its perceived value is increased. There are implications for Open Source projects here. If the product is free, is its value nothing as well?
Of course it's value is nothing if it's free! Look at where Linux is making inroads in industry;It's moving into places where it either adds value or it enhances value. IBM use Linux to enhance the value of their offerings, as do Sun, HP and all of the rest. Nowhere in these scencerios, AFAIK, is Linux being sold as an operating system. It's being bundled as part of a solution. People selling distributions (ie Mandrake) don't seem to realise that businesses want to buy a value add solution/service, not just a piece of software.
The more OSS project mailing lists and forums I read, the more I am glad that developers choose to ignore more and more user requests. ...and then you wonder why Microsoft continue to dominate the desktop market, maintaining a position of near unassailability and power through that dominance.
I know that people code for fun, or have a vision for the product they're working on, but at the end of the day, OSS/Free software is only important because people other than the developers of said software, want to use and in fact do use it. To ignore the reactions, request and usability experience of those users is fatal.
Here's the info on how to get AA working.
Lycoris and Mandrake work out of the box. RedHat 7.3 doesn't.
This was the line that sorted it all for me (added to Xftconfig) match edit antialias=true;
Hmmm...so a law forcing all software used by government to be opensource means that software companies who use a different commercial model (so called "closed source") have to exclude their software because it isn't opensource. So in fact, there's a choice of either releaseing all software as opensource or...er...releasing all software as opensource. This goes back to my original point. Precisely how is this lack of choice any better than a lack of choice enforced by Microsoft? In reality, they're two sides of the same coin. I'm pro-choice (in this context). I want government to be able and FREE to choose the best software to get the work done in the most productive manner. I don't want government to either be forced by law to use software based on ideology or forced by corporatism to use the software of one supplier. I think laws forcing Govmt to use opensource are as dangerous as a similiar law would be forcing govmt to use closed source software.
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That wouldn't be Serious Sam, would it? (Yeeee haaaa!)
..goes to war against Swaziland in 2084 in an attempt to prevent the proliferation of Weapons of nano sized destruction....
There is no news on Radio 1 - it's all breathlessly delivered headlines. If they spend to long (more than half a minute) reading these headlines , a voice screams "the music mo-foo-koo put da music onnnnn!"
Are monkeys (as natural babana consumers) being sequenced too?
If so, how does this affect Ximian?
Could you elaborate please? Every Relational DB I've ever used has a SQL interface. Are you saying that a relational model should be interfaced using some other language ? This isn't a troll - I'm genuinely interested
(getting the fscking html tags correct this time) Lest it seem like I'm picking on Microsoft, Windows is not the worst offender here. GNU/Linux applications are arguably worse, because they could be avoiding all these problems (by using inodes), but their programmers so far have been too lazy. At least Windows programmers have an excuse.
No, the hackers aren't lazy - they're just too busy trying to ape the MS windowes look and feel....
Lest it seem like I'm picking on Microsoft, Windows is not the worst offender here. GNU/Linux applications are arguably worse, because they could be avoiding all these problems (by using inodes), but their programmers so far have been too lazy. At least Windows programmers have an excuse./i> No, the hackers aren't lazy - they're just too busy trying to ape the MS windowes look and feel....
...but is this thing as accurate as Luke Skywalkers light-sabre?
If not, you'll have to use the (air)force, George...
the best browser error has to be 404 not found.
Think about it.
How come Opera has enough celebrity power to make it to the top, but Thunderhawk and other similar products don't?
er...because Thunderhawk doesn't bring anything new to the table. From the screenshot on the page you linked, you still require scrollbars where the width of the page exceeds your screen size, you still get the banner ads etc.
This version of Opera reformats the page - specifically for small devices - that's what's new and different here.
Also, AFAIK, server based page compression has been available for years now - it's just that for some reason it's very rarely used.
I don't.
...and I cannot lie..
If the coin was reversed, no doubt you'd be responding to similar bullshite about the Gnome developers. It's bull. The simple truth is that RedHat favour Gnome, they want to go with Gnome but they're afraid to ship without KDE (because KDE is the most widely used) so they're trying to neutralize KDE. It really is that simple.
Goodbye RedHat 7.3, hello life, love and linux!!
AFAIK, Perens resigned, but HP are calling it a 'termination'. According to the article, it was 'amicable'. I think this is a Good Thing. Perens and HP were going in completely opposite directions, and his brand of 'advocacy' was probably doing them more harm than good. Also, I happen to be one of those people who believe in quiet advocacy - Linux is creeping onto the agendas of HP, IBM, DELL and others - all the important industry players and playmakers. There's bound to be a trickle down effect, all the way to the home user eventually - which is exactly what has happened with Microsoft products during the last 15 years. When all the shouting has finished, and the people doing it go away, we'll see what we're really left with and I suspect it'll be just as much, going on for more, than when the shouting was in effect. Finally, isn't Perens a "Free Software" advocate, as opposed to "OpenSource" as the article claims?
Hire a manager, however, and you suddenly introduce another variable
So, managers have a "personal" agenda, and people like Perens (who does nothing useful except getting a bad name for OpenSource by preserving it's reputation as being the home and life of sad Fanatics), have the good of the company at heart? Please explain how Perens' goals are more sacred than those of these other unamed, faceless, "managers"?
If you can't, i'd suggest that you're biased. I'd like to point out that Perens has his own personal agenda - an agenda which was at odds with the corporate goals of the for-profit corporation which he chose as an employer.
So what suggestions do you have for young, aspiring bands who want to make their music, and not sell their soul in the process?
Paint yourself black. Tie a big afro wig on your head. Learn how to talk in Jive. Go visit any number of record execs and get thrown out of the front door.
Now change your image! Wash off the paint, burn the fro wig and start talking like a wall street banker.
Go back to the same record execs and hey presto you gotta deal.....
Yeah, and in the UK, we call "restrooms" "toilets", so this sounds like a fake.
The computer i use at work is the property of my employer, provided for work-related purposes only...
Then let's hope you're not at work and reading slashdot then....
It is a problem. If something is too cheap - it is under-valued.... if it is priced high then its perceived value is increased. There are implications for Open Source projects here. If the product is free, is its value nothing as well?
Of course it's value is nothing if it's free! Look at where Linux is making inroads in industry;It's moving into places where it either adds value or it enhances value. IBM use Linux to enhance the value of their offerings, as do Sun, HP and all of the rest. Nowhere in these scencerios, AFAIK, is Linux being sold as an operating system. It's being bundled as part of a solution. People selling distributions (ie Mandrake) don't seem to realise that businesses want to buy a value add solution/service, not just a piece of software.
.....who ate all the pies?
The more OSS project mailing lists and forums I read, the more I am glad that developers choose to ignore more and more user requests.
...and then you wonder why Microsoft continue to dominate the desktop market, maintaining a position of near unassailability and power through that dominance.
I know that people code for fun, or have a vision for the product they're working on, but at the end of the day, OSS/Free software is only important because people other than the developers of said software, want to use and in fact do use it. To ignore the reactions, request and usability experience of those users is fatal.
Here's the info on how to get AA working.
Lycoris and Mandrake work out of the box. RedHat 7.3 doesn't.
This was the line that sorted it all for me (added to Xftconfig)
match edit antialias=true;
Hmmm...so a law forcing all software used by government to be opensource means that software companies who use a different commercial model (so called "closed source") have to exclude their software because it isn't opensource. So in fact, there's a choice of either releaseing all software as opensource or...er...releasing all software as opensource. This goes back to my original point. Precisely how is this lack of choice any better than a lack of choice enforced by Microsoft? In reality, they're two sides of the same coin. I'm pro-choice (in this context). I want government to be able and FREE to choose the best software to get the work done in the most productive manner. I don't want government to either be forced by law to use software based on ideology or forced by corporatism to use the software of one supplier. I think laws forcing Govmt to use opensource are as dangerous as a similiar law would be forcing govmt to use closed source software.
yeah, that last post was a joke, a pretty poor joke, I'll allow, but a joke nontheless.