The patent system is increasingly under abuse, and the US Patent office will allow anything through.
All US goverment system is under abuse. It violates human right of own people as well as whole countries around. It ignores all existing internation organizations and all existing internation laws. At the same time it barely can stabilize its own economy.
The patent system is just a small particular case. I think the human kind is under very real danger if it won't get rid from existing US political system, or, alternatively, if US won't be disarmed.
Seriously, the world must do the same to US as US is doing to other countries.
Perhaps, after that US patent system issue will be either solved or not important anymore.
I cannot believe. There are tons of PHP, MySQL, and PHP+MySQL book. There tons of online discussions about that PHP and MySQL are very primitive, limited restricted and sometimes even dangerous technologies. There are very few books about PostgreSQL, Python and Zope. There tons of online discussions about that PostgreSQL, Python and Zope are superior technologies. Meanwhile new books are still published on the market, sold on book stores and reviewed on Slasdot for PHP/MySQL. Why?
The only explanation I can come with is that either most of computer books readers are so stupid and ignorant or, if they are not, then publishers are so stupid to ignore what readers really need. Either way, the computer world is stupid and there is no place for smart technologies.
Switch Mozilla's default browser component from the XPFE-based Navigator to the standalone Phoenix browser.
Develop further the standalone mail companion application to Phoenix already begun as Minotaur, but based on the new toolkit used by Phoenix (this variant has been codenamed Thunderbird).
Deliver a Mozilla 1.4 milestone that can replace the 1.0 branch as the stable development path, then move on to make riskier changes during 1.5 and 1.6. The major changes after 1.4 involve switching to Phoenix and Thunderbird, and working aggressively on the next two items.
Fix crucial Gecko layout architecture bugs, paving the way for a more maintainable, performant, and extensible future.
Continue the move away from an ownership model involving a large cloud of hackers with unlimited CVS access, to a model, more common in the open source world, of vigorously defended modules with strong leadership and clear delegation, a la NSPR, JavaScript, Gecko in recent major milestones, and Phoenix
What's wrong with XPFE? Personally I like the idea of installing XUL applications through the chrome. And I hope that standalone Phoenix will be nice with standalone Minotaur.
How about old code of Mozilla Browser and Mozilla Mail? Garbage?
So, 1.4 is the last stable release we are going to have for awhile, perhaps for a couple of years, right?
Wasn't it better to fix crucial Gecko bugs before doing any crucial architecture changes?
I guess, no central leadership, strong sub-project leader, we should expect that after 1.7 Phoenix's Gecko will be diferent than Minotaur's one. And thus if you bookmark component in Gecko might work very-very different than same thing in Minotaur. No need to mention addressbooks in Mail and Calendar.
From one point, it's a good move. Components are always good. Independent components written on standartized framwork and standard protocols are even better. Small good things doing well small important tasks is a well known Unix way. However, from another point, I don't like the way how it is going to be done by their project managers. I think there are too risky changes at the same time. There is inproper sequence of changes. And the project managers underestimate many other factors.
Although, I hope they will succeed, despite such risk factors. I wish them to succeed.
Speak for yourself. Sun is no less bad as Microsoft. Otherwise, why Sun is so bad for JBoss? Why Sun is so bad for many other small (but very good!) open source projects who is trying to contribute the good code to Java? Remember what's happened between Sun and Apache's Log4j?
Now Sun almost officialy admits that Java is bad: it's too big, too slow and too inconvinient for OS system management. Now Sun reconsiders the use of Java on teir future server-side applications. Sun is even paying attention on Python for its future. So, why to bother with standartization of that *dead* Java?
I think that first thing Sun will do good with Java is to stop all histery of Java and to move to Python. All Sun was doing before was a business using very bad methods.
I don't see any massive court cases in Scotland initiated by McDonald. Besides, there are plenty of business names existed before Apple and having "i" in the front of some english word.
In pre-1.0 I've used to click on siteicon on the location bar to activate "File Bookmark" function. Then somewhere in first 1.0 releases it's disapperaed and still broken. I wonder why? I can drag-n-drop that icon to my personal baookmarks, but why they disactivated "File Bookmark" action on the simple click on that icon?
If already GPLed code stays GPL, then everyone can clone it (still under GPL). Therefore the problem is not in the code, but in existing Gnomemeeting developers who won't work on GPLed code anymore.
So, let's just find new developers for GNU/Gnomemeeting then:)
If Netscape software had remained closed source, it would have disappeared with AOL's absorption of Netscape.
That's exactly what's happened to Netscape servers (former "Fast Track", Later "iPlanet"). Their code is closed and their usages is limited by AOL and Sun. If Netscape would open the source code of servers as well, today it would be much broader used web-server platform with lots of money due to potential demand for support.
Those days Netscape web application server has been beating IIS and other, while Netscape Mail, Calendar and Directory (LDAP) servers have been beating MS Exchange of those days. Besides, they have been multi-platfom originally (I used them on Solaris). Being opensourced they would beat today WebSphere and many other today's behemoths.
The problem is that there is no police officer, only neighbors in a global neighborhood. The UN isn't a police offer. It's more like a home owner's association. When it does take action, it requires other countries ("home owners") to act. It doesn't have it's own army to enforce rules.
That is exactly my point. But the conclusions are different. I share the point of many countries that such international law enforment must be developed, while you, as well as most of other Americans, think that America is that enforcement.
The United States is the biggest house in the neighborhood. Someone trampled all over our flowers, and we're just kicking someone who's threatened to mess up our yard out of the neighborhood. The house will still be there, but it'll be sold to a new owner. Some of the neighbors like it, some of them don't.
So, what US is doing now is splitting the world onto two campuses again. Welcome back to the Cold War. Exactly as they did in 1945.
Why ban? Just send few very strong impulseson a frequency of GPS and all GPS devices around are physically dead. Of course, don't forget to swith off your own GPS devices. But the trick is - you know the schedule of EMP, while journalists and other Iraqi don't.
Ban is political way. US today does not use political methods anymore. So, EMP will be much more consistent to other methods of US administration.
The only thing preserving democratic rule are borders that establish boundaries within which at least some of humanity to govern themselves.
Your place is in prison where your rules will be very "preserved". Perhaps you had never chance to live in Soviet Union, otherwise you won't be so blind. But I guess that deep inside you care more to preserve your fat ass from the poor people who can flood your country.
There is no trans-national organization that enforces any kind of democracy on the world as a whole.
There is no such organization yet and that's my point - it must be established as soon as possible until it's late.
The United Nations is a body with representatives appointed by the various democracies, dictatorships, fiefdoms, etc. of the world.
Alcohol trade rules are different from state to state. In Nevada even prostitution is legal. However you don't close borders between states, do ya? All facts of dictatorship must be solved by the same way as a war crime - using International Crime Court. The fact that such system still doesn't work is thank to US govt who ignores that Court and thus prevent further development of apropriate internatonal laws.
Your whole notion of a 'global world of freedom enabled by the Internet' is hype that's been sufficently disproven.
Don't quote what I haven't told. What I did tell is that the Internet is a part of international life. And thus it demands a support of international laws. Which doesn't work. Thanks to US President.
Internet is just a part of the global problem that the humankind meets today. Let's face it: the borders between countries are obsolete. The restriction to cross the border based on nationality is against democratic rules. Mega-corporations have already crossed all borders as much as they could at this level of the international laws, but that won't stop them from further international integration. Internet brings very important technological basis for such integration.
At the same time Internet existence is not protected by proper international laws. And now we begin digging much deeper problems. The modern international law system is obsolete.
Recent events in Iraq demonstrate it. One arrogant leader of the most power country ignores all international laws in order to get rid from the other arrogant leader. It's like I am telling to police officer: "don't interfer, I will be dealing with my theaft by myself".
Internet in the same danger. If US govt will begin disconnecting countries from US, while other countries will not support it - there will be lots of problem with traffic, Internet will be bad, but it will survive. But if Mr President will decide that embargo is not a proper mean any more will start a cyber-war or something like that - that will be a beginning of the end of the Internet.
What I am telling, that all attempts to rebuild ICANN will be useless wasting of time and efforts (if not dangerous) until it will be protected by proper system of internation laws, which is broken today with a great help from US President.
If you (or someone nearby) has ALREADY purchased an X-Box to play games on, it would be interesting to repurpose that existing hardware.
In other words, If you (or someone nearby) has ALREADY purchased an X-Box to play games on, it would be interesting to stop playing games, right? At this time it's hard to count good Linux games. As for *Wine*, it's not stable enough to be used in real life.
It has also been suggested that Microsoft loses money on every X-Box sale, and attempts to make it up in game sales, so by buying an X-Box and no games, you're costing them money, which is good because they're evil. Personally I wouldn't recommend buying one for this reason alone, but that's me.
So, paying M$ for Xbox I will help to destroy the evil? Tell me you're kidding. Personally I would rather donate money to some Linux fund or FSF or even better - buy something from ThinkGeek:)
So, the conclusion is that Linux on Xbox at this stage is unreasonable, it's just a research project.
Can someone explain to me, why would I buy Xbox and install Linux on it?
Is it a cheaper way to have a better Linux-driven PC at home? How much cheaper? Or how exactly better?
Is there any functionality I need for my personal Linux box that I can find in Xbox hardware, but not in any commoditiy PC? If so, does that xbox-specific functionality has a driver? If so, are there any Linux applications supporting it?
I know why Linux came from the first place, why it came popular in the server room, and why it's getting more and more popular on home and corporate desktops. I even know why Linux on IBM mainframe, RISC-based server and workstations, as well as many embedded devices. It saves money, it brings features. But all that is supported by applications. Are there any xbox-specific Linux applications?
So, why? Why anyone (besides xbox hackers) need Linux on Xbox?
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All Linux users laugh reading these release notes. I feel like I am watching "Discovery History Channel" about Linux of late 90's.
Initial firewire support, rudimental hyperthreading and SMP, sendmail and ftp updates. Where have you been people all these years?
All US goverment system is under abuse. It violates human right of own people as well as whole countries around. It ignores all existing internation organizations and all existing internation laws. At the same time it barely can stabilize its own economy.
The patent system is just a small particular case. I think the human kind is under very real danger if it won't get rid from existing US political system, or, alternatively, if US won't be disarmed.
Seriously, the world must do the same to US as US is doing to other countries.
Perhaps, after that US patent system issue will be either solved or not important anymore.
The only explanation I can come with is that either most of computer books readers are so stupid and ignorant or, if they are not, then publishers are so stupid to ignore what readers really need. Either way, the computer world is stupid and there is no place for smart technologies.
- What's wrong with XPFE? Personally I like the idea of installing XUL applications through the chrome. And I hope that standalone Phoenix will be nice with standalone Minotaur.
- How about old code of Mozilla Browser and Mozilla Mail? Garbage?
- So, 1.4 is the last stable release we are going to have for awhile, perhaps for a couple of years, right?
- Wasn't it better to fix crucial Gecko bugs before doing any crucial architecture changes?
- I guess, no central leadership, strong sub-project leader, we should expect that after 1.7 Phoenix's Gecko will be diferent than Minotaur's one. And thus if you bookmark component in Gecko might work very-very different than same thing in Minotaur. No need to mention addressbooks in Mail and Calendar.
From one point, it's a good move. Components are always good. Independent components written on standartized framwork and standard protocols are even better. Small good things doing well small important tasks is a well known Unix way. However, from another point, I don't like the way how it is going to be done by their project managers. I think there are too risky changes at the same time. There is inproper sequence of changes. And the project managers underestimate many other factors.Although, I hope they will succeed, despite such risk factors. I wish them to succeed.
And what's so good of them?
Speak for yourself. Sun is no less bad as Microsoft. Otherwise, why Sun is so bad for JBoss? Why Sun is so bad for many other small (but very good!) open source projects who is trying to contribute the good code to Java? Remember what's happened between Sun and Apache's Log4j?
Now Sun almost officialy admits that Java is bad: it's too big, too slow and too inconvinient for OS system management. Now Sun reconsiders the use of Java on teir future server-side applications. Sun is even paying attention on Python for its future. So, why to bother with standartization of that *dead* Java?
I think that first thing Sun will do good with Java is to stop all histery of Java and to move to Python. All Sun was doing before was a business using very bad methods.
Their primary reason was to have some training excercises before going to Iraq.
I don't see any massive court cases in Scotland initiated by McDonald. Besides, there are plenty of business names existed before Apple and having "i" in the front of some english word.
I doubt that Apple is capable to drive Bush's forces to Europe to squish Fraser. Although, after Iraq, I am not so sure.
In pre-1.0 I've used to click on siteicon on the location bar to activate "File Bookmark" function. Then somewhere in first 1.0 releases it's disapperaed and still broken. I wonder why? I can drag-n-drop that icon to my personal baookmarks, but why they disactivated "File Bookmark" action on the simple click on that icon?
Add here:
4. Gentoo Linux rocks
And you've got a very natural conclusion:
5. Gentoo/PPC rocks and rules
So, what you are saying is that "i" in the begining of any word is a trademark of Apple, right? Since when?
So, let's just find new developers for GNU/Gnomemeeting then :)
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That's exactly what's happened to Netscape servers (former "Fast Track", Later "iPlanet"). Their code is closed and their usages is limited by AOL and Sun. If Netscape would open the source code of servers as well, today it would be much broader used web-server platform with lots of money due to potential demand for support.
Those days Netscape web application server has been beating IIS and other, while Netscape Mail, Calendar and Directory (LDAP) servers have been beating MS Exchange of those days. Besides, they have been multi-platfom originally (I used them on Solaris). Being opensourced they would beat today WebSphere and many other today's behemoths.
Perhaps they will solve the problem by reducing the touch-sensitive area and living the border (1 inch enough?) for speakers.
Do you know him?
American...
That is exactly my point. But the conclusions are different. I share the point of many countries that such international law enforment must be developed, while you, as well as most of other Americans, think that America is that enforcement.
The United States is the biggest house in the neighborhood. Someone trampled all over our flowers, and we're just kicking someone who's threatened to mess up our yard out of the neighborhood. The house will still be there, but it'll be sold to a new owner. Some of the neighbors like it, some of them don't.
So, what US is doing now is splitting the world onto two campuses again. Welcome back to the Cold War. Exactly as they did in 1945.
Sure Windows enabled electronics. Just with small correction: X Windows.
Opera is not GPL.
Ban is political way. US today does not use political methods anymore. So, EMP will be much more consistent to other methods of US administration.
Your place is in prison where your rules will be very "preserved". Perhaps you had never chance to live in Soviet Union, otherwise you won't be so blind. But I guess that deep inside you care more to preserve your fat ass from the poor people who can flood your country.
There is no trans-national organization that enforces any kind of democracy on the world as a whole.
There is no such organization yet and that's my point - it must be established as soon as possible until it's late. The United Nations is a body with representatives appointed by the various democracies, dictatorships, fiefdoms, etc. of the world.
Alcohol trade rules are different from state to state. In Nevada even prostitution is legal. However you don't close borders between states, do ya? All facts of dictatorship must be solved by the same way as a war crime - using International Crime Court. The fact that such system still doesn't work is thank to US govt who ignores that Court and thus prevent further development of apropriate internatonal laws.
Your whole notion of a 'global world of freedom enabled by the Internet' is hype that's been sufficently disproven.
Don't quote what I haven't told. What I did tell is that the Internet is a part of international life. And thus it demands a support of international laws. Which doesn't work. Thanks to US President.
At the same time Internet existence is not protected by proper international laws. And now we begin digging much deeper problems. The modern international law system is obsolete.
Recent events in Iraq demonstrate it. One arrogant leader of the most power country ignores all international laws in order to get rid from the other arrogant leader. It's like I am telling to police officer: "don't interfer, I will be dealing with my theaft by myself".
Internet in the same danger. If US govt will begin disconnecting countries from US, while other countries will not support it - there will be lots of problem with traffic, Internet will be bad, but it will survive. But if Mr President will decide that embargo is not a proper mean any more will start a cyber-war or something like that - that will be a beginning of the end of the Internet.
What I am telling, that all attempts to rebuild ICANN will be useless wasting of time and efforts (if not dangerous) until it will be protected by proper system of internation laws, which is broken today with a great help from US President.
In other words, If you (or someone nearby) has ALREADY purchased an X-Box to play games on, it would be interesting to stop playing games, right? At this time it's hard to count good Linux games. As for *Wine*, it's not stable enough to be used in real life.
It has also been suggested that Microsoft loses money on every X-Box sale, and attempts to make it up in game sales, so by buying an X-Box and no games, you're costing them money, which is good because they're evil. Personally I wouldn't recommend buying one for this reason alone, but that's me.
So, paying M$ for Xbox I will help to destroy the evil? Tell me you're kidding. Personally I would rather donate money to some Linux fund or FSF or even better - buy something from ThinkGeek :)
So, the conclusion is that Linux on Xbox at this stage is unreasonable, it's just a research project.
Is it a cheaper way to have a better Linux-driven PC at home? How much cheaper? Or how exactly better?
Is there any functionality I need for my personal Linux box that I can find in Xbox hardware, but not in any commoditiy PC? If so, does that xbox-specific functionality has a driver? If so, are there any Linux applications supporting it?
I know why Linux came from the first place, why it came popular in the server room, and why it's getting more and more popular on home and corporate desktops. I even know why Linux on IBM mainframe, RISC-based server and workstations, as well as many embedded devices. It saves money, it brings features. But all that is supported by applications. Are there any xbox-specific Linux applications?
So, why? Why anyone (besides xbox hackers) need Linux on Xbox?
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