Note that at the end of the decision, it lists the links to commercial sites as the evidence of bad faith. The first is a link from an unrelated web page that the guy owns. They do note that there aren't any links from unix.org to that web page.
The other example of links to commercial sites is sendmail.org!
There is also "Rab", which means lord, and "Rabbi" which means "my lord" [this is not the samething as the Jewish rabbi, that one means "priest", roughly, I don't know much about jewish culture.]
As a Jew (who happens to know some Arabic), Arabic "Rabbi" is the same root as Hebrew "Rabbi", which literally means "my lord", just like the Arabic, but is almost exclusively used to refer to Jewish clerics. A priest is a "kohain" (other English forms include "cohen", "kohen", "kahn", etc).
It wouldn't help to have RMS on their board of directors - he would probably refuse to use any proprietary software, and therefore not find out when the meeting are scheduled!
For a few laughs, check out MozillaQuest. Mike Angelo has an article on the 1.0 release. Now he has to branch out into articles on other things (such as Linux distros).
In this article, he complains in this article that the mozilla roadmap doesn't call for a 1.0 release.
For real news about Mozilla, of course, try another site, such as MozillaZine/
Assuming that I read your faq correctly, you served in the Israeli army in the 80's. Military service can be daunting, and often changes one's perspective on life. From my observation, this is even more pronounced with regard to intellectual people, and to those who had actual combat experience.
Did you have combat experience while in the army? How has it changed your philosophy on life? Has it affected you professionally? Does army service, whether in active units or miluim (reserves) have an affect on the company you recently founded?
According to (the inside cover of) Vector Prime, Return fo the Jedi is four years after A New Hope. Hutts do tend to become more obese as they get older, but I don't know if it happens quite do much in four years.
There's actually a very appropriate scene in Episode 6 (ROTJ)- remember at the very end when the ghosts appear smiling at Luke near the campfire? It wouldn't be *too* bad to put Portman there. The only problem is that, as far as we know, she's not a Jedi.
According to the inside cover of Vector Prime, Episode 3 is only 20 years before Episode 4. The real problem with putting Jar-Jar, if he's supposed to have a maximum life-span of 25 years (assuming that that's not just an average for Gungans, and that spending time on Coruscant doesn't change things), is that he appears in Episode 1, which takes place 32 years before Episode 4
But look at the wine mailling lists (or even the weekly summaries). There are plenty of posts along the lines of "app X isn't working because abc.dll makes undocumented call def(ghi, jkl)". Why do you think that Wine still hasn't finished? They have to spend so much time reverse-engineering that actually getting to write the code is far from the hard part.
That is very bad. Believe what you will about MS and its case and its actions - believe whatever you want. I have my own beleifs. But it is very clear that both Novell and SBC are doing really extremely bad things here with their testimony.
SBC is basically trying to blackmail MS into delaying their own services and then parterning with SBC when SBC is ready to go to market.
True, Novell and SBC should not be using the case to blackmail parties in ongoing negotiations. But who said that MS has a right to blackmail them either? If MS doesn't like SBC's attitude, let them develop the service on their own. Let them negotiate with another telco if they need the phone lines.
Companies have always used their clout to push other companies around. It's not good for the little guy, and I don't like it, but that's how it's worked. The idea of capitalism is that if a company pushes around the people with whom it needs to do business too much, then another company will come along and be more successful. That is, the marketplace is supposed to be self-correcting. But when a company develops a monopoly, and uses that to push others around, in many cases the system cannot self-correct. This is bad, and illeagal for the same reason. Microsoft has been shown to use this tactic, and is therefore being punished (hopefully). If SBC or Novell is trying to use the same tactic to push MS around, then I hope that they are brought to similar trials.
"The Microsoft Corporation suggested in court today that SBC Communications was seeking tough antitrust restrictions against it to cripple its ability to compete in the telecommunications market."
Isn't the point of this whole trial that Microsoft used its monopoly power to act in illegal ways? Such as forcing itself into new markets by threatening/bullying competitors?
"Mr. Webb asserted that SBC did not portray Microsoft as a competitive threat until after it broke off talks with Microsoft in July for a partnership to develop seven products, including Internet voice mail."
And if your company had just broken of talks with a proven monopoly, convicted of using its position illegally, wouldn't you start calling it a "competitive threat"?
Don't the state AG's understand this? Microsoft was convicted of playing dirty. People are now testifying that they're scared of MS, given the federal settlement. And MS is responding, "that's only because you didn't partner with us"?
Once every open-sourcer has seen their marriage break up by installing Linux on their non-technical spouse's computer, they'll finally understand that, no, most people don't prefer command lines.
I've installed Linux on my wife's computer, and she's thanked me for it. Actually, once we can get our printer working better under linux, we'll get rid of her windows partition to save HD space.
Granted, she's a CS major...
But due to chicken-and-egg problems, running Windows apps is probably nonnegotiable for most people, so WINE is going to have to get a lot better before Linux is a threat to the desktop.
To all those who claim that Wine is horrible: try a recent version! Try codeweaver's excellent crossover plugin. The MS Office viewer programs work tremendously well. Of course, OpenOffice 641C ain't too bad either.
Microsoft integrates IE with Windows, and we say it's bad. KDE does essentially the same thing with Konqueror, and we like it.
What's the difference?
KDE isn't locking other browsers out - Don't like Konqueror? Install the kmozilla bindings and use Mozilla instead. What if KDE tries to make it hard to do something like this? Of course, KDE isn't likely to do it anyway, since they are reasonable people. And since KDE is open source, it can't get to the point where it harms other projects - if it does, they are free to fork/patch KDE and distribute a version that doesn't hurt them.
KDE isn't a monopoly - There is no US law against being a monopoly. But it does say that if you are a monopoly, you must act differently than other businesses. Since KDE is not a monopoly, the project is free (hypothetically speaking) to do things that harm AOL/Netscape/Mozilla. Imagine a situation where MS withdrew Windows from the market, and a distro based on KDE took over. Imagine further that KDE developers, in a fit of madness, started to push off Mozilla in an anti-competitive manner. Wouldn't that be problematic too? Now, this won't happen (see above), but the principle is the same: a monopoly must be prevented from using unfair means to squash competition. This applies to Microsoft, but not KDE.
Note to gnome users: substitute Gnome for KDE, and Mozilla/Galeon for Konqueror, and the point applies about the same. I used KDE for the example since the embedding of Konqueror in KDE is just more apparent, IMHO.
I believe that this is the first KDE "release" where KPilotDaemon supports USB-based palm devices (such as Visors). Anyone know if there are meaningful conduits using the archeitecture, though?
It's nice to have a small wearable tucked in some corner of a space suit to display stuff. But how do you get data into the thing? How do you use it? Imagine an astronaut attempting to use a mouse in zero-G! A keyboard is easier, but where would it go?
And if the thing just displays data sent to it over the LAN, why bother with the HD at all?
One of the interesting pieces of UI design is that given enough time to get used to it, people can become quite adept at using even the most unintuitive interface.
<Obligitory proof of CLI competence> I've been using and administering linux for 4 1/2 years. I spend almost all my time in it and love the CLI. I can't stand systems without it. I installed cygwin so I could have Bash when I have to use Windows. My wife runs linux 90% of the time. </Obligitory proof of CLI competence>
The point is, I have invested the time needed to "be one with the prompt." As such, I think that it's wonderfully expressive. But that doesn't make it intuitive. It's full of inconsistencies.
To paraphrase my professor from User Interface Design, who would have thought that the name of a feline would be the command used to display a file? It's called that because it can be used to concatenate multiple files, but cat is much more commonly used with only one file.
For those who haven't spent the time needed to achieve competence at the prompt, a logical, consistent GUI really is a much more useable method of using the computer.
Even for those who have mastered the GUI, if you forget the name of the command, you're pretty much sunk. When I had to burn a CD last night, and I couldn't remember the name of the command, how did I find it? Well, had it been listed in the KDE menu under "Utilities" or even "Multimedia", I would have found it easy. Had the desktop metaphor taken care of it (as Scot explains OS X does it), then I wouldn't have even had to remember. What options was I left with? Well, I could either grep the RPM database for words like "burn", or perhaps look at all the files in/usr/bin,/bin,/usr/X11/bin, etc, or I could surf the web for at least half an hour to come up with the answer (xcdroast).
For some people, a GUI is a more useable interface. Sure, some tasks take longer, but they don't have to invest all that time learning the command line in the first place.
For some tasks, a GUI is a better (e.g. finding and operating rarely used applications, data visualization).
For other tasks, a CLI is better. It's simply the most expressive interface option. If I wanted to modify the format of all my music files, I could do it with some shell looping and sox.
This is the main point of the essay: A powerful CLI is a very good thing, and a GUI that makes you like using the system is a good thing. Very few systems have successfully combined the two. Scot claims that BeOS did the best job so far, but OS X did a pretty good job. And Scot is right on the mark.
The idea that any kind of centralised service such as UDDI will ever manage to provide an easy, reliable and most importantly, a timely way of finding content online is pretty much preposterous to anyone who has ever used the net seriously.
Ever hear of DNS? I'd consider it a central, easy, reliable and timely. Granted, DNS isn't perfect. But the point is that it can be done.
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In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the first book in the trilogy), this concept is mentioned as well.
When Arthur is being brought up to date on the events surrounding Earth, Magrathea, and the mice by Slartibartfast, he mentions that Arthur should be careful not to bow his head at the end of the tape, or else he'll buy whatever it is that they were selling.
He did answer the question. Clearly, if he's working with Altavista to develop other tie-ins, he's given them permission to use the name babelfish. Of course, were he to simply answer, "I gave them permission," then that wouldn't be a very interesting answer.
Whether or not they asked him before using that name is another question, and one that he didn't answer.
bootlegging a couple of pop songs is now a God damned felony, that is, the same category as armed robbery, rape and murder
You're absolutely right, that's a shame. We should do something about that!
As far as all you jackasses I've read here with your "bootlegging songs means you are a criminal" crap, you're all a bunch of illiterate idiots...For you blockheads to make a moral equivalence between real crimes like those and these trivial nitpicky little misdemeanors that these disgusting money-bloated tonedeaf RIAA swine are making such a howling fuss over, that only demonstrates that you suffer from the same complete lack of moral sense and proportion that the RIAA lawyers do.
I agree completely: "bootlegging a couple of pop songs" should not be put in the same category as murder, rape, or other similarly nasty things. And I happen to share your viewpoint that those who believe that they shouble be in the same category show lack of moral judgement.
However, this is only a valid arguement from the moral standpoint. From the legal standpoint, they are in the same category. Don't like it? Neither do I, but that's the law. And if you don't like the law, then we should make efforts to change it. Lobby elected officials, make protests, write letters, etc. The system is in place to change those laws taht are bad. Granted, it can be difficult to fight against large corporations, but it can be done. Until is, though, the fact remains that the law defines certain people as criminals.
"Fine," you say. "So the government says that those people are criminals. But so what? That is obviously wrong. It's so obviously wrong that I can't possibly respect such a categorization."
The problem with such an argument is that it breaks down all government. When you don't agree with the government, simply ignore it and pretend that it doesn't matter. Now if everyone did that for their pet issue, then there would be no more rule of law. Society couldn't function in such a way. If you don't like the politics, then try to change them. It's your right in a democracy. But the only way to change the system (short of a complete revolution) is to work within the system to change it.
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Note that at the end of the decision, it lists the links to commercial sites as the evidence of bad faith. The first is a link from an unrelated web page that the guy owns. They do note that there aren't any links from unix.org to that web page.
The other example of links to commercial sites is sendmail.org!
There is also "Rab", which means lord, and "Rabbi" which means "my lord" [this is not the samething as the Jewish rabbi, that one means "priest", roughly, I don't know much about jewish culture.]
As a Jew (who happens to know some Arabic), Arabic "Rabbi" is the same root as Hebrew "Rabbi", which literally means "my lord", just like the Arabic, but is almost exclusively used to refer to Jewish clerics. A priest is a "kohain" (other English forms include "cohen", "kohen", "kahn", etc).
It wouldn't help to have RMS on their board of directors - he would probably refuse to use any proprietary software, and therefore not find out when the meeting are scheduled!
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It's funny. Laugh.
For a few laughs, check out MozillaQuest. Mike Angelo has an article on the 1.0 release. Now he has to branch out into articles on other things (such as Linux distros).
In this article, he complains in this article that the mozilla roadmap doesn't call for a 1.0 release.
For real news about Mozilla, of course, try another site, such as MozillaZine/
Assuming that I read your faq correctly, you served in the Israeli army in the 80's. Military service can be daunting, and often changes one's perspective on life. From my observation, this is even more pronounced with regard to intellectual people, and to those who had actual combat experience.
Did you have combat experience while in the army? How has it changed your philosophy on life? Has it affected you professionally? Does army service, whether in active units or miluim (reserves) have an affect on the company you recently founded?
According to (the inside cover of) Vector Prime, Return fo the Jedi is four years after A New Hope. Hutts do tend to become more obese as they get older, but I don't know if it happens quite do much in four years.
There's actually a very appropriate scene in Episode 6 (ROTJ)- remember at the very end when the ghosts appear smiling at Luke near the campfire? It wouldn't be *too* bad to put Portman there. The only problem is that, as far as we know, she's not a Jedi.
According to the inside cover of Vector Prime, Episode 3 is only 20 years before Episode 4. The real problem with putting Jar-Jar, if he's supposed to have a maximum life-span of 25 years (assuming that that's not just an average for Gungans, and that spending time on Coruscant doesn't change things), is that he appears in Episode 1, which takes place 32 years before Episode 4
Hear, hear! Great suggestions.
Motorola StarTacs (at least my 7868) has a "vibrate then ring" mode. I presume that most Motorolas have a similar option.
Fully conclusive? No.
But look at the wine mailling lists (or even the weekly summaries). There are plenty of posts along the lines of "app X isn't working because abc.dll makes undocumented call def(ghi, jkl)". Why do you think that Wine still hasn't finished? They have to spend so much time reverse-engineering that actually getting to write the code is far from the hard part.
That is very bad. Believe what you will about MS and its case and its actions - believe whatever you want. I have my own beleifs. But it is very clear that both Novell and SBC are doing really extremely bad things here with their testimony.
SBC is basically trying to blackmail MS into delaying their own services and then parterning with SBC when SBC is ready to go to market.
True, Novell and SBC should not be using the case to blackmail parties in ongoing negotiations. But who said that MS has a right to blackmail them either? If MS doesn't like SBC's attitude, let them develop the service on their own. Let them negotiate with another telco if they need the phone lines.
Companies have always used their clout to push other companies around. It's not good for the little guy, and I don't like it, but that's how it's worked. The idea of capitalism is that if a company pushes around the people with whom it needs to do business too much, then another company will come along and be more successful. That is, the marketplace is supposed to be self-correcting. But when a company develops a monopoly, and uses that to push others around, in many cases the system cannot self-correct. This is bad, and illeagal for the same reason. Microsoft has been shown to use this tactic, and is therefore being punished (hopefully). If SBC or Novell is trying to use the same tactic to push MS around, then I hope that they are brought to similar trials.
"The Microsoft Corporation suggested in court today that SBC Communications was seeking tough antitrust restrictions against it to cripple its ability to compete in the telecommunications market."
Isn't the point of this whole trial that Microsoft used its monopoly power to act in illegal ways? Such as forcing itself into new markets by threatening/bullying competitors?
"Mr. Webb asserted that SBC did not portray Microsoft as a competitive threat until after it broke off talks with Microsoft in July for a partnership to develop seven products, including Internet voice mail."
And if your company had just broken of talks with a proven monopoly, convicted of using its position illegally, wouldn't you start calling it a "competitive threat"?
Don't the state AG's understand this? Microsoft was convicted of playing dirty. People are now testifying that they're scared of MS, given the federal settlement. And MS is responding, "that's only because you didn't partner with us"?
Hello?!?
It depends on the xinerama support for the chipset. For my ATI Rage128 Mobility, there is no support, though I think that other chipsets fare better. Check www.xfree86.org and http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html.
Once every open-sourcer has seen their marriage break up by installing Linux on their non-technical spouse's computer, they'll finally understand that, no, most people don't prefer command lines.
I've installed Linux on my wife's computer, and she's thanked me for it. Actually, once we can get our printer working better under linux, we'll get rid of her windows partition to save HD space.
Granted, she's a CS major...
But due to chicken-and-egg problems, running Windows apps is probably nonnegotiable for most people, so WINE is going to have to get a lot better before Linux is a threat to the desktop.
To all those who claim that Wine is horrible: try a recent version! Try codeweaver's excellent crossover plugin. The MS Office viewer programs work tremendously well. Of course, OpenOffice 641C ain't too bad either.
KDE does essentially the same thing with Konqueror, and we like it.
What's the difference?
Note to gnome users: substitute Gnome for KDE, and Mozilla/Galeon for Konqueror, and the point applies about the same. I used KDE for the example since the embedding of Konqueror in KDE is just more apparent, IMHO.
To respond to a couple of the points:
Ximian's Red Carpet does a wonderful job of offering and installing software. Have you tried it?
Console messages do show up in KDE, even if you don't run xconsole, thanks to kwrited, which runs automatically.
One fairly noticable difference is that most Arabic letter connect to each other, while it seems that Tengwar character do the same.
I believe that this is the first KDE "release" where KPilotDaemon supports USB-based palm devices (such as Visors). Anyone know if there are meaningful conduits using the archeitecture, though?
1) I'm sure that in the vacuum of space, the signals can go farther
2) Just how far do you want a spacewalking astronaut to be from his/her base?
It's nice to have a small wearable tucked in some corner of a space suit to display stuff. But how do you get data into the thing? How do you use it? Imagine an astronaut attempting to use a mouse in zero-G! A keyboard is easier, but where would it go?
And if the thing just displays data sent to it over the LAN, why bother with the HD at all?
One of the interesting pieces of UI design is that given enough time to get used to it, people can become quite adept at using even the most unintuitive interface.
/usr/bin, /bin, /usr/X11/bin, etc, or I could surf the web for at least half an hour to come up with the answer (xcdroast).
<Obligitory proof of CLI competence> I've been using and administering linux for 4 1/2 years. I spend almost all my time in it and love the CLI. I can't stand systems without it. I installed cygwin so I could have Bash when I have to use Windows. My wife runs linux 90% of the time. </Obligitory proof of CLI competence>
The point is, I have invested the time needed to "be one with the prompt." As such, I think that it's wonderfully expressive. But that doesn't make it intuitive. It's full of inconsistencies.
To paraphrase my professor from User Interface Design, who would have thought that the name of a feline would be the command used to display a file? It's called that because it can be used to concatenate multiple files, but cat is much more commonly used with only one file.
For those who haven't spent the time needed to achieve competence at the prompt, a logical, consistent GUI really is a much more useable method of using the computer.
Even for those who have mastered the GUI, if you forget the name of the command, you're pretty much sunk. When I had to burn a CD last night, and I couldn't remember the name of the command, how did I find it? Well, had it been listed in the KDE menu under "Utilities" or even "Multimedia", I would have found it easy. Had the desktop metaphor taken care of it (as Scot explains OS X does it), then I wouldn't have even had to remember. What options was I left with? Well, I could either grep the RPM database for words like "burn", or perhaps look at all the files in
For some people, a GUI is a more useable interface. Sure, some tasks take longer, but they don't have to invest all that time learning the command line in the first place.
For some tasks, a GUI is a better (e.g. finding and operating rarely used applications, data visualization).
For other tasks, a CLI is better. It's simply the most expressive interface option. If I wanted to modify the format of all my music files, I could do it with some shell looping and sox.
This is the main point of the essay: A powerful CLI is a very good thing, and a GUI that makes you like using the system is a good thing. Very few systems have successfully combined the two. Scot claims that BeOS did the best job so far, but OS X did a pretty good job. And Scot is right on the mark.
I'm actually involved in exactly that (pluggable, component-oriented techniques, based in Java) at work.
We're planning on releasing much of our work as open source. If you're interested in hearing more, you can contact me at blackturtle@saraandshmuel.com
Ever hear of DNS? I'd consider it a central, easy, reliable and timely. Granted, DNS isn't perfect. But the point is that it can be done.
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the first book in the trilogy), this concept is mentioned as well.
When Arthur is being brought up to date on the events surrounding Earth, Magrathea, and the mice by Slartibartfast, he mentions that Arthur should be careful not to bow his head at the end of the tape, or else he'll buy whatever it is that they were selling.
He did answer the question. Clearly, if he's working with Altavista to develop other tie-ins, he's given them permission to use the name babelfish. Of course, were he to simply answer, "I gave them permission," then that wouldn't be a very interesting answer.
Whether or not they asked him before using that name is another question, and one that he didn't answer.
bootlegging a couple of pop songs is now a God damned felony, that is, the same category as armed robbery, rape and murder
You're absolutely right, that's a shame. We should do something about that!
As far as all you jackasses I've read here with your "bootlegging songs means you are a criminal" crap, you're all a bunch of illiterate idiots...For you blockheads to make a moral equivalence between real crimes like those and these trivial nitpicky little misdemeanors that these disgusting money-bloated tonedeaf RIAA swine are making such a howling fuss over, that only demonstrates that you suffer from the same complete lack of moral sense and proportion that the RIAA lawyers do.
I agree completely: "bootlegging a couple of pop songs" should not be put in the same category as murder, rape, or other similarly nasty things. And I happen to share your viewpoint that those who believe that they shouble be in the same category show lack of moral judgement.
However, this is only a valid arguement from the moral standpoint. From the legal standpoint, they are in the same category. Don't like it? Neither do I, but that's the law. And if you don't like the law, then we should make efforts to change it. Lobby elected officials, make protests, write letters, etc. The system is in place to change those laws taht are bad. Granted, it can be difficult to fight against large corporations, but it can be done. Until is, though, the fact remains that the law defines certain people as criminals.
"Fine," you say. "So the government says that those people are criminals. But so what? That is obviously wrong. It's so obviously wrong that I can't possibly respect such a categorization."
The problem with such an argument is that it breaks down all government. When you don't agree with the government, simply ignore it and pretend that it doesn't matter. Now if everyone did that for their pet issue, then there would be no more rule of law. Society couldn't function in such a way. If you don't like the politics, then try to change them. It's your right in a democracy. But the only way to change the system (short of a complete revolution) is to work within the system to change it.