I like the idea of regular releases containing incremental upgrades and all the latest programs, but I think that falls a bit flat where they want to do large changes. I suggest a system where they have subscriptions, release often, but have intermittently a "keyframe" release that contains any large changes (eg: moving the desktop default to Gnome from fvwm95)
Problem: if you accelerate fast enough to actually get anywhere in space in a realistic timescale, the resulting gees have converted your space travlellers into chunky salsa on the rear wall. How does this new design propose to solve this?
"It is bad to shag everything that moves because eventually, you will probably catch something (maybe)."
Not in my morality, I personally think promiscuity is admirable and enjoyable, and view STDs as a unforunate nuisance awaiting solving, not some sort of moral guide:-)
Try the "culture" universe from Iain Banks. Gotta love the power of those spaceships:-) they'd eat anything (in fact, everything all at once) in the trek or starwars universes for lunch - but they are too nice to want to:-/
Berlin will be a window system, somewhat similar to X but drawing with OpenGL, and with a single built in abstract widget set with swappable implementations. (hence getting both consistency and user-configurability)
Initially as I read the site it will be optimized for drawing 2d wigets onto a 2d plane, but I see no architectural feature that would prevent the widgets being swapped for a "theme" that draws them in true 3d.
I am not a physicist. Nevertheless, I've had an idea, although it may be wrong-headed.
The problem here is distorting spacetime, as I understand it. Negative energy is just the means to that end.
It's my understanding that gravity waves are produced by moving objects, and that these have both a "pull" and a "push" component - and that the trouble here is to get the "push" component of the warp geometry.
My idea is: perhaps, if objects could be moved in a very synchronized way, the gravity waves could be made to interfere additively such that there are "push" and "pull" distortions of the right shape in the right place.
This is based on the programmer-as-engineer idea which is known to be badly broken. Change the metaphor to programmer-as-artisan, and ask yourself how sane an idea it would be to prevent woodcarvers or potters from working unless they are licensed, stamped, certified and barcoded.
To change society, change yourselves, change they way you act and they way you teach your kids to act. Meet up with like minded people, form local home school clubs. Whatever. Just don't sit on your hands and whinge.
I've had an idea for some time, of a possible way to gain the advantages of both home-schooling and normal schools.
This would be in two parts. First, a shared-facilities club, where everyone shares the burden of paying for eg: a school library, a computer center, a science lab, and rooms that are usable for teaching or special-interest clubs and so on.
Second, a clearing center for tutors seeking classes and pupils seeking tutoring. I'm thinking here of a sort of collaborative filtering system, which performs background checks and collates feedback. You could look up who was available in the subject you wanted, and see feeback from parents and pupils on the quality of teaching offered. By spreading the burden of paying tutor fees over multiple pupils, the individual cost can be kept low. Plus of course people could volunteer as tutors.
This would all be a non-profit organisation run by local people, and if it gained enough popularity it could probably be kept very cheap, so not excluding anyone.
One important fact about open source projects: the ones people use most get the most code attention.
Once Mozilla gets a product out the door that works well enough to replace the old Netscape 4.x browsers, then I expect the developer group to grow explosively. This is when we will see for real if it is going to sink or swim.
OsX like it's predecessor NeXTstep covers over and controls it's underlying unix, but it's still unix and it still needs a root user and sysadminning to keep it in good working order. OsX will have loads of cute user tools to do this, but even GUI configurators require a minimum of cluefulness.
Since BeOS is very much designed as a desktop system, it has much less of this complication.
Fool, code sharing is the primary point of free software. It was why GNU was started. Code sharing takes wheel-reinvention of the programmer's agenda and lets them focus on the task at hand.
If a competitor selling their own tweaked build of your source is a threat to your company, you are doing the wrong thing. Free software and keeping your code out of your competitor's hands just don't mix. Halfway houses like the APSL are just a lazy way get your bugs fixed - the companies that use these are the true freeloaders.
.. has more bloat and less elegant design than MS Office, runs with the speed of Java, eats memory like a runaway Netscape, and has more features and baroque twiddly bits than a Vegas one-armed-bandit. Rudimentary, however, it ain't.
If I remember right, their "pervasive multithreading" means, first, any system objects will have their own thread (eg all the GUI widgets), second any system call will run threadedly if it can, third it is easy for you to create and use your own threads.
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What if anything now prevents *BSD code being slurped up into GPL?
They remind me of fringe libertarians who claim you aren't really free unless you have the freedom to sell yourself into slavery.
:-)
Heh, I must be one of those, because I believe exactly that. But oddly I much prefer the GPL
I like the idea of regular releases containing incremental upgrades and all the latest programs, but I think that falls a bit flat where they want to do large changes. I suggest a system where they have subscriptions, release often, but have intermittently a "keyframe" release that contains any large changes (eg: moving the desktop default to Gnome from fvwm95)
I also definately agree: the contribs are a mess.
Problem: if you accelerate fast enough to actually get anywhere in space in a realistic timescale, the resulting gees have converted your space travlellers into chunky salsa on the rear wall. How does this new design propose to solve this?
I'm keeping my old ZX Spectrum Plus and Commodore Plus4 on ice, maybe they'll be worth something as collectables soon :-)
For example:
:-)
"It is bad to shag everything that moves because eventually, you will probably catch something (maybe)."
Not in my morality, I personally think promiscuity is admirable and enjoyable, and view STDs as a unforunate nuisance awaiting solving, not some sort of moral guide
Try the "culture" universe from Iain Banks. Gotta love the power of those spaceships :-) they'd eat anything (in fact, everything all at once) in the trek or starwars universes for lunch - but they are too nice to want to :-/
Berlin will be a window system, somewhat similar to X but drawing with OpenGL, and with a single built in abstract widget set with swappable implementations. (hence getting both consistency and user-configurability)
Initially as I read the site it will be optimized for drawing 2d wigets onto a 2d plane, but I see no architectural feature that would prevent the widgets being swapped for a "theme" that draws them in true 3d.
I am not a physicist. Nevertheless, I've had an idea, although it may be wrong-headed.
The problem here is distorting spacetime, as I understand it. Negative energy is just the means to that end.
It's my understanding that gravity waves are produced by moving objects, and that these have both a "pull" and a "push" component - and that the trouble here is to get the "push" component of the warp geometry.
My idea is: perhaps, if objects could be moved in a very synchronized way, the gravity waves could be made to interfere additively such that there are "push" and "pull" distortions of the right shape in the right place.
Before I flame, do tell: why do you think crypto export is a bad thing?
This is based on the programmer-as-engineer idea which is known to be badly broken. Change the metaphor to programmer-as-artisan, and ask yourself how sane an idea it would be to prevent woodcarvers or potters from working unless they are licensed, stamped, certified and barcoded.
Society is us.
To change society, change yourselves, change they way you act and they way you teach your kids to act. Meet up with like minded people, form local home school clubs. Whatever. Just don't sit on your hands and whinge.
I've had an idea for some time, of a possible way to gain the advantages of both home-schooling and normal schools.
This would be in two parts. First, a shared-facilities club, where everyone shares the burden of paying for eg: a school library, a computer center, a science lab, and rooms that are usable for teaching or special-interest clubs and so on.
Second, a clearing center for tutors seeking classes and pupils seeking tutoring. I'm thinking here of a sort of collaborative filtering system, which performs background checks and collates feedback. You could look up who was available in the subject you wanted, and see feeback from parents and pupils on the quality of teaching offered. By spreading the burden of paying tutor fees over multiple pupils, the individual cost can be kept low. Plus of course people could volunteer as tutors.
This would all be a non-profit organisation run by local people, and if it gained enough popularity it could probably be kept very cheap, so not excluding anyone.
One important fact about open source projects: the ones people use most get the most code attention.
Once Mozilla gets a product out the door that works well enough to replace the old Netscape 4.x browsers, then I expect the developer group to grow explosively. This is when we will see for real if it is going to sink or swim.
OsX like it's predecessor NeXTstep covers over and controls it's underlying unix, but it's still unix and it still needs a root user and sysadminning to keep it in good working order. OsX will have loads of cute user tools to do this, but even GUI configurators require a minimum of cluefulness.
Since BeOS is very much designed as a desktop system, it has much less of this complication.
Fool, code sharing is the primary point of free software. It was why GNU was started. Code sharing takes wheel-reinvention of the programmer's agenda and lets them focus on the task at hand.
If a competitor selling their own tweaked build of your source is a threat to your company, you are doing the wrong thing. Free software and keeping your code out of your competitor's hands just don't mix. Halfway houses like the APSL are just a lazy way get your bugs fixed - the companies that use these are the true freeloaders.
Yes, I would prefer no source to that!
I think they are permuting the company to make it harder to do a "baby bells" split on them, or less harmful if it hapens along existing boundaries.
If people go back negative in comment scores do they get made no longer moderators?
And, is the converse true, people whose scores go positive get added to a list of moderators-to-be for vetting and them promotion?
.. has more bloat and less elegant design than MS Office, runs with the speed of Java, eats memory like a runaway Netscape, and has more features and baroque twiddly bits than a Vegas one-armed-bandit. Rudimentary, however, it ain't.
What happens with GPL-covered binaries in a black box like a playstation? Would they have to release source?
If I remember right, their "pervasive multithreading" means, first, any system objects will have their own thread (eg all the GUI widgets), second any system call will run threadedly if it can, third it is easy for you to create and use your own threads.
There is also a poll there - anyone feel like slashdotting the results? :-D
Beowulf supercomputer stuff is out there already. If any random bad guy wants to grab a copy, he just has to fire up FTP.
Smash walls with abandon.
Real walls won't break. Silly cultural taboos will be left in the dust.
Death to morality!
I know of at least one person who does "channelling" onto ICQ chats...