Just imagine if someone like Adobe showed this much community support with open source.
Adobe helped to develop WINE to run their Photoshop. The graphic editor is still closed-source and commercial, WINE is still open-source. Seems to me like a reasonable win-win situation for all of us.
Well, I've just opened the form and clicked the listbox "Category", where I've chosen "Lost licenses". The javascript immidiately forwarded me to the page listing all SCO products, where I've, of course, chose Linux. Now I've got the page "Product Registration", where, feeling almost finally lost, I was glad to find the link "E-mail us any questions or comments regarding Product Registration". Exactly.
As a Linux user, I was demanded by SCO through mass media to pay for the Linux I use the license fee. Well, SCO claims that my Gentoo Linux I've build by myself from sources has a source code belonging to SCO. It seems to me that means that my Gentoo is not a SCO product, however the piece of SCO code in the kernel *IS* a SCO product. I want to see the code to decide - should I pay for it or should I remove it. That's why I went to product and license information pages at SCO site. And that's why I am so happy to see that email.
From now on I am going to send them email on a daily basis (is it too often)? and demand the information about the product they insist to sell to me. Every message will have a different text (but saying/asking actually the same) so their anti-spam filter won't work.
Now I am thinking about/. effect on poor web-sites. What if we,/.ers, will try our/. effect on their email servers? Can we force them to answer?
I would rather go with Erlang-enabled phones. Java is too primitive language to develop AI in a micro-scale. Erlang, as a functional logical programming language will let much more for much less space. And, by the way, you will need some of AI methods, if you want to write the agent interacting with humans using non-standard methods: your agent has to adapt to human personality and it has to recognize and auto-fix human errors. No need to mention that you'd rather use some sort of speech control rather than a fixed set of pre-recorded phrases.
Ask this question to all people who has their Macs running Linux/PPC (Gentoo, YDL, Debian, etc - there thousands and thousands of Linux/PPC users), Mac OS 9 (or even 8 - "classic" application still run better in the original OS *AND* there are still tons of such application not ported yet to OSX *AND* there are still millions of users of Mac OS 8/9 around the world who has own reasons of not migrating to OSX), and even BSD (not OSX - original *BSD, although, there are not many Mac/BSD users).
I think that overall there are millions of Mac users who are running something different than OSX. How do you think they have got their Macs? I understand that some of them have bought their old Macs before OSX was stable/available. But I am sure that there are many of them who bough Macs *AFTER* OSX was around. I personally know many such individuals and some companies. And that makes you quoted sentence WRONG. Think about it.
That is because the packages are build against the *stable* ppc tree instead of the unstable tree:-). Unstable has kde-3.1.3 et al, just set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS to ~ppc
Then the original poster's point can be re-expressed this way: the stable tree of PPC is far behind the stable tree of x86.
the unstable PPC tree is even more unstable than the unstable x86 one. I've played enough with all of them and I know what I am talking about.
The problem with PPC tree is a lack of developers having PPC in hands. You know, x86 is still dominating, even in Linux world.
The license insures that customers can continue their use of binary deployments of Linux without violating SCO's intellectual property rights
I guess the keyword here is binary - those who compiled Linux from scratch may relax and safe money. Perhaps that's b/c the "secret IP" code of SCO is only in binary format. I wonder, do they petent x86 instruction code set? If so, how about Linux users on PPCs and SPARCs? If not then what makes the binary deployment to be so special comparing to the source-code based ones?
Albert Einstein has addressed that as well, specifically:
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I think that the being real or not real is very relational to the personal point of view. You look at this world and think it's real. Then you waken and realize that it was a dream. So, how would you make sure than now it's real? Don't look for magic pills like in Matrix. The answer is inside you and you are the only one who can find it for you. Actually, as I understand buddhism, you already (and always) know the answer. You just forgot it.
Me? no. But my friends told me very possitive feednacks about OS/400 usability. They told it feels like you are in emacs working on a top of OODB.I work with Zope now and can imagine what they mean. Sounds like OS/400 has many good ideas to contribute to *n*x. Anyone from IBM reading that?
If you want to have your bash to be even more intelligent, then try the following two projects:
bash-completion: Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
AI Bash: AIBash is a project which aims to make Bash act more intelligently. It features typing error-correction and the ability to learn that certain file suffixes are associated with certain programs so that other programs are filtered out while pressing TAB. Other features are planned for the future.
By the way, speaking about man:
I usually use man from within emacs - it changes a lot from usability prospctive;
I use info when it's available or when man is not enough.
Novell has exactly ZERO experience with making desktop operating systems.
they have VIRTUALLY ZERO experience with development windowing systems and GUI interfaces.
Quite disagree. Novell has a VERY NEGATIVE experience with developing UI:
the UI for NetWare was the worst case in the whole industry. Desktop or no desktop, but the OS must have UI. Cisco router has a better UI! It's also not a GUI, but at least it's something understandable.
Novell has bought WordPerfect at the moment it was really perfect (even and especially comparing to MS Word) and killed it.
One of hidden features of such device that it *is* a mouse. Even wireless. You can move it across your desk (as a table) and eventually click to other stuff on your desktop (as a top of your table).
They did not listen ALL MILLIONS. Instead, they did for few (hundreds? thousands?) who were noticed to speak something bad already. Although I agree about the mic quality - KGB usually used something better, just like in spy movies, nothing sensational that you don't know already (from spy movies?)
"If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."
The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvellous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole, the beginnings of cosmic religious feeling already appear in early stages of development - e.g. in many of the Psalms of David and in some of the Prophets.
Buddhism, as we have learnt from the wonderful writings of Schopenhauer especially, contains much stronger elements of it. The religion of the future will he a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should he based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
Buddhism on time
... Buddhist practice and teaching which emphasizes the importance of the present, the current moment. This is sometimes referred to as the timeless eternal. According to the Buddhist viewpoint time does not exist as some external container, but is the vital expression and enactment of our own being right now. Time does not exist separate from our own presence.
Let's concentrate more on the word "compounded"... It's the Buddhist view that all compounded things are impermanent. Now that includes a lot. Every compounded thing!... When you are talking about compounded things, you are talking about more than one. You are assembling or gathering. Anything that is assembled, anything that is gathered, anything that is joined or put together, sooner or later, it's going to fall apart! That's the common language. And when we say, "Anything that is joined", this is where Buddhists include things such as time, space, dimensions. Even time! When we talk about time, we are talking about past, present and future. So we are talking about impermanence. That's the Buddhist logic, the Buddhist way of thinking. Time is a compounded thing. That's why it's impermanent. This is also where the Buddhist logic of karma comes in here. For instance, today, this moment is impermanent. Why? Because this moment is made out of many things, especially it's made out of the past and the future. If the past does not exist, this present does not exist. If the future does not exist, this present does not exist. This is the Buddhist logic. Therefore, this present moment is impermanent. That's how the Buddhists would put it. There's quite an important logic to it, because if this present becomes permanent, there will be no future because present is always there. So we will never know how to plan. There is no system of programming, making appointments. Even having a date is not possible if time does not exist. But time does exist. But when time exists, it exists only as a compounded thing...
It is enough to ask sincerely this question to realize that time is a concept which lives with us. Time has no being and is then not measurable by itself. It is perceived in function of things, in function of the human beings for example. In physics, time has been cleared of everything which makes its importance for us, its concept has been completely simplified, formalized, "mathematized". For example, in physics, time is without direction, past and future do not exist. The equations of general relativity are by the way symmetrical with respect to the time variable. This time is a time extremely simplified compared with the one we are living in and science had to develop huge effo
Most of today Americans know about electronics from button labels on their Japanese home theatres. But that would not bad if they would not reject a new knowledge. What's really sad is that they think you are joking on them when you are telling them some facts from electronics.
I don't understand, why only PVR? I have my TVtuner card and I program myself all schedule-based functions. Using it I can skip commercials and digitize the show. I guess manufacturers of both TVtuner card and my computer (as well as all developers of all programming languages I use, including gcc, python, java, tcl and bash, as well as Linux for his kernel compatible V4L drivers), must be sued for giving/selling me tools I use to create a copy of that show.
I think **AAs are not ready for doing a fair business in 21st centure. Somebody please switch them off.
The trueth is that there is no such science as a philosophy. Instead it's a way of using other sciences to explain the way we think about the world (not the world itself - that is the subject of science, not of philosophy).
Many people, especially those who are poisoned by practical goals and cannot think about the way they think, call such meta-thinking (philosophy) as a science and thus tell: "I am not a philosopher and I don't want to study it. Moreover, everyone, who is doing the job that is not directly a philosophy, should not waste any time on philosophy."
I would give you just one argument to prove that you are wrong: Albert Einstein was a philosopher. And I doubt he would create all his contributions without being a philosopher.
By the way, Albert Einstein wasn't just a philosopher. He shared many buddhism points. He knew for sure that there is no time - it's just a subjective way of measuring the motion.
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Yes, you are correct. I've never seen "imagine a beowulf cluster of it" comment applying to OSX.
Adobe helped to develop WINE to run their Photoshop. The graphic editor is still closed-source and commercial, WINE is still open-source. Seems to me like a reasonable win-win situation for all of us.
As a Linux user, I was demanded by SCO through mass media to pay for the Linux I use the license fee. Well, SCO claims that my Gentoo Linux I've build by myself from sources has a source code belonging to SCO. It seems to me that means that my Gentoo is not a SCO product, however the piece of SCO code in the kernel *IS* a SCO product. I want to see the code to decide - should I pay for it or should I remove it. That's why I went to product and license information pages at SCO site. And that's why I am so happy to see that email.
From now on I am going to send them email on a daily basis (is it too often)? and demand the information about the product they insist to sell to me. Every message will have a different text (but saying/asking actually the same) so their anti-spam filter won't work.
Now I am thinking about /. effect on poor web-sites. What if we, /.ers, will try our /. effect on their email servers? Can we force them to answer?
I would rather go with Erlang-enabled phones. Java is too primitive language to develop AI in a micro-scale. Erlang, as a functional logical programming language will let much more for much less space. And, by the way, you will need some of AI methods, if you want to write the agent interacting with humans using non-standard methods: your agent has to adapt to human personality and it has to recognize and auto-fix human errors. No need to mention that you'd rather use some sort of speech control rather than a fixed set of pre-recorded phrases.
And finally I wanna see those quarks - otherwise it's hard to believe they exist.
Ask this question to all people who has their Macs running Linux/PPC (Gentoo, YDL, Debian, etc - there thousands and thousands of Linux/PPC users), Mac OS 9 (or even 8 - "classic" application still run better in the original OS *AND* there are still tons of such application not ported yet to OSX *AND* there are still millions of users of Mac OS 8/9 around the world who has own reasons of not migrating to OSX), and even BSD (not OSX - original *BSD, although, there are not many Mac/BSD users).
I think that overall there are millions of Mac users who are running something different than OSX. How do you think they have got their Macs? I understand that some of them have bought their old Macs before OSX was stable/available. But I am sure that there are many of them who bough Macs *AFTER* OSX was around. I personally know many such individuals and some companies. And that makes you quoted sentence WRONG. Think about it.
USE "gentoo" emerge unmerge SCO
Then it's not safe.
Then the original poster's point can be re-expressed this way: the stable tree of PPC is far behind the stable tree of x86.
the unstable PPC tree is even more unstable than the unstable x86 one. I've played enough with all of them and I know what I am talking about.
The problem with PPC tree is a lack of developers having PPC in hands. You know, x86 is still dominating, even in Linux world.
First insighting comment in the whole thread. Mod it up please.
IMHO, the EU should give Microsoft another alternatives:
- either open source the Media Player for free with any non-viral license,
- or open the file format and the media API, also for free;
It will be good for everyone:- it won't hurt Microsoft as they do not charge for Media Player anyway;
- it will help Apple and Real as they would save on a development;
- it will help other smaller startups and OSS-projects;
- it will help end-users as the development on the market of media players willl run faster;
- finally, it will show US goverment a good example and teach them how to handle such monopoly cases;
The only problem I see is that the EU govt does not readI guess the keyword here is binary - those who compiled Linux from scratch may relax and safe money. Perhaps that's b/c the "secret IP" code of SCO is only in binary format. I wonder, do they petent x86 instruction code set? If so, how about Linux users on PPCs and SPARCs? If not then what makes the binary deployment to be so special comparing to the source-code based ones?
Albert Einstein has addressed that as well, specifically:
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I think that the being real or not real is very relational to the personal point of view. You look at this world and think it's real. Then you waken and realize that it was a dream. So, how would you make sure than now it's real? Don't look for magic pills like in Matrix. The answer is inside you and you are the only one who can find it for you. Actually, as I understand buddhism, you already (and always) know the answer. You just forgot it.
Me? no. But my friends told me very possitive feednacks about OS/400 usability. They told it feels like you are in emacs working on a top of OODB.I work with Zope now and can imagine what they mean. Sounds like OS/400 has many good ideas to contribute to *n*x. Anyone from IBM reading that?
- bash-completion: Since v2.04, bash has allowed you to intelligently program and extend its standard completion behavior to achieve complex command lines with just a few keystrokes. Imagine typing ssh [Tab] and being able to complete on hosts from your ~/.ssh/known_hosts files. Or typing man 3 str [Tab] and getting a list of all string handling functions in the UNIX manual. mount system: [Tab] would complete on all exported file-systems from the host called system, while make [Tab] would complete on all targets in Makefile. This project was conceived to produce programmable completion routines for the most common Linux/UNIX commands, reducing the amount of typing sysadmins and programmers need to do on a daily basis.
- AI Bash: AIBash is a project which aims to make Bash act more intelligently. It features typing error-correction and the ability to learn that certain file suffixes are associated with certain programs so that other programs are filtered out while pressing TAB. Other features are planned for the future.
By the way, speaking about man:they have VIRTUALLY ZERO experience with development windowing systems and GUI interfaces.
Quite disagree. Novell has a VERY NEGATIVE experience with developing UI:
One of hidden features of such device that it *is* a mouse. Even wireless. You can move it across your desk (as a table) and eventually click to other stuff on your desktop (as a top of your table).
You can even imagine a Beowulf cluster of them.
Can LispMe help you?
They did not listen ALL MILLIONS. Instead, they did for few (hundreds? thousands?) who were noticed to speak something bad already. Although I agree about the mic quality - KGB usually used something better, just like in spy movies, nothing sensational that you don't know already (from spy movies?)
"If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism."
The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvellous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole, the beginnings of cosmic religious feeling already appear in early stages of development - e.g. in many of the Psalms of David and in some of the Prophets.
Buddhism, as we have learnt from the wonderful writings of Schopenhauer especially, contains much stronger elements of it. The religion of the future will he a cosmic religion. It should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should he based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual and a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism.
Let's concentrate more on the word "compounded"... It's the Buddhist view that all compounded things are impermanent. Now that includes a lot. Every compounded thing! ... When you are talking about compounded things, you are talking about more than one. You are assembling or gathering. Anything that is assembled, anything that is gathered, anything that is joined or put together, sooner or later, it's going to fall apart! That's the common language. And when we say, "Anything that is joined", this is where Buddhists include things such as time, space, dimensions. Even time! When we talk about time, we are talking about past, present and future. So we are talking about impermanence. That's the Buddhist logic, the Buddhist way of thinking. Time is a compounded thing. That's why it's impermanent. This is also where the Buddhist logic of karma comes in here. For instance, today, this moment is impermanent. Why? Because this moment is made out of many things, especially it's made out of the past and the future. If the past does not exist, this present does not exist. If the future does not exist, this present does not exist. This is the Buddhist logic. Therefore, this present moment is impermanent. That's how the Buddhists would put it. There's quite an important logic to it, because if this present becomes permanent, there will be no future because present is always there. So we will never know how to plan. There is no system of programming, making appointments. Even having a date is not possible if time does not exist. But time does exist. But when time exists, it exists only as a compounded thing...
It is enough to ask sincerely this question to realize that time is a concept which lives with us. Time has no being and is then not measurable by itself. It is perceived in function of things, in function of the human beings for example. In physics, time has been cleared of everything which makes its importance for us, its concept has been completely simplified, formalized, "mathematized". For example, in physics, time is without direction, past and future do not exist. The equations of general relativity are by the way symmetrical with respect to the time variable. This time is a time extremely simplified compared with the one we are living in and science had to develop huge effo
Most of today Americans know about electronics from button labels on their Japanese home theatres. But that would not bad if they would not reject a new knowledge. What's really sad is that they think you are joking on them when you are telling them some facts from electronics.
I think **AAs are not ready for doing a fair business in 21st centure. Somebody please switch them off.
Many people, especially those who are poisoned by practical goals and cannot think about the way they think, call such meta-thinking (philosophy) as a science and thus tell: "I am not a philosopher and I don't want to study it. Moreover, everyone, who is doing the job that is not directly a philosophy, should not waste any time on philosophy."
I would give you just one argument to prove that you are wrong: Albert Einstein was a philosopher. And I doubt he would create all his contributions without being a philosopher.
By the way, Albert Einstein wasn't just a philosopher. He shared many buddhism points. He knew for sure that there is no time - it's just a subjective way of measuring the motion.
I usually say: Gentoo is for users who can read.
I guess you are unaware about Zope.
Do you know that there PHP projects, which authors are re-writing them to Zope? Check NeoPortal as an example.