So then it is only the opinion of the man (I use the term loosly to mean all people) with the most education in the english languange who has an important opinion. I think not. True the senators only have 24 hours in a day like the rest of us, but they have people hired to read these letters. I would think that presenting the relavent issuse raised by such letters would be part of the job description. They have people whose time is being paid to "be spent parsing badly-written letters and flame mail." regardless of the language used. I agree that most people are morons, anyone who has drivin in rush hour will agree. But it is the duty of the officials to serve our needs in government and of the proof readers to pass along important documentation.
As for the question "Would/. readers put up with dense code full of poorly chosen variable names and devoid of comments?" i would think so if it ran faster and was more stable then its competators. *emergent code* is a perfect example of this. It is impossible to read, not the tinyest bit documented, and fast as hell.
People are not computers. People are not the best at things. People make mistakes. And for all that you say people are irrelvant untill they do better? At this point i will shut up before I transform into some sort of uber troll
-spelling and grammer mistakes were left there to prove that the opinions of the common man who cant spell or type are just as vaild as the next man's
Many mac people claim that they have the best computers because of their size and portablity. Perhaps Windows (or hopefully linux) will be able to show people that we to can make really weird looking small computers too. And this one even has a serial port as apposed to the mac.
havent they had these for years out at area 51 and are just now deciding to 'unvail' them. next thing you know they will decide to call them the Aurora series aircraft.... but then again i could be just a wee bit paranoid
"...It is a very sad fact, but logically Microsoft's programmers are smarter than those in open source, simply because they're able to earn more money..." Did you know that a McDonalds manager makes $26 an hour and a starting computer tech makes about $8. Who is smarter? The guy wearing the paper hat or the geek..... I'll just let you think about that one.
perhaps i am just a bit dumb but wouldnt it make more sense to have them join up with CVS and bring their code together to form a better service. this would also have the added advantage of making life easyer for those of us who do weekly (daily?) builds of our alpha/beta software by placing all the code in the same 'place'. this service seems to be redundant and will probably not stay up to date with CVS or else CVS will not stay current with it either way it doesnt seem to make sense IMO
They dont need to open source to port it to *BSD. But it would make developing simpler. It seems you have fallen victim to the assumption that closed source is evil. It can be a good thing in a comptative system. Nvidia doesnt need to open their drivers just port them. Last time I checked Creative didnt have open drivers for the SoundBlaster cards but they run just fine on Linux (I have not checked for BSD support and dont really plan on doing it). That is an example of a company with a great product that is cross platform compatible. Open drivers are nice but ultimatly not that important. It's the existance of drivers that is the issue.
So that they can sell you the next version with improved security silly. Why do you think Linux started out so secure no money to be made in upgrades...
i have but one comment to make on an amazing post. if like many people you have recompiled your kernel Kudzu wont do all that great of a job finding new hardware if you dont have it in as a module, but this is at the fault of me (the user) not Kudzu. Windows doesn't even give me the option of geting rid of worthless drivers. i mean really i dont have any ISA slots on my machiene so why do i have to have ISA drivers on it?
mad props to Nailer on that post.
(i know my English is bad but its my 3rd language so I'm afraid you will have to live with it)
what did i kick your puppy or something. i dont care what you think. i at least put my name on my comment. which makes you some sort of creature that is scarde of the dark or something.
M$ is just 'helping' a 3rd world country compute. Is that so wrong? i mean really you are Peru and need computers, Linux makes computers cheeper because there is no OS license to pay for wouldnt you see if you could score some more standardized software off of microsoft. quality asside they need quantity and microsoft is making it happen so while they may be evil - BACK OFF they are trying to help in the only way they know how. i dont see you helping them out with money or computers. and here comes the negative karma well ill live i guess.
that may be true but are the people working there smart enough to see that the OSS has already solved some of their problems and is giving it out for free. people always comment about how linux is 'reinventing the wheel' perhaps M$ has got people smart enough to realize that the answer to their problems has already been found. when nobody is looking you know you have run the red light. M$ has, i lost the link but in 2001 or 2000 i forget exactly they were convicted of piracy in France. perhaps im too paranoid by the new explorer in XP looks a lot like Nautilus........ just a thought
sure M$ has lots of smart people working for them but those people are also smart enough to know when to pick up a $20 off the street.
If you are going to be building a system why not just get an Alpha or Sparc box, its faster and they have PPC emulators for them so you can even play games if thats your thing
if i see another sex joke on here ill have to go out and strangle a baby seal....do you want that..... could you sleep at night with that on your mind.....
if we must get picky, News implies information bias or otherwise is unspecified and i know i cant spel so deal with it....... i would like to take this time to apologize to everyone else who has to read this
i like twm:'( its so ghetto and worthless you have to love it or else you are like a mother withholding love from your children.....
the true measure of software preformance is the SETI@Home project..... that gives a processor/OS independant method of benchmarking just how much of your computer is running around in a clown suit (aka wasting time) while you work
What is the point of downloading all the source for packages i have no plan on developing. i mean sure lets download the source for everthing.... why get any package in binary then all we need to do is figure out a way to compile it without an operating system or compiler. you to have gotten precompiled binaries so back off the people who use that as a way of life, unless you want be come up with a compiler that is not compiled and an OS that isnt compiled to run it.
oh yea then once you do that download the source for Gnome 2 and read it all and customize it cause that is the point of having the source. unless of course all you do with the source is download it and compile it and delete it in which case you are a moron who doesnt understand open source at all and just thinks its a cool way to get free software
im running ximmian (used to run gnome 1.4) and have never encountered that problem. sometimes the spacing is a little off but gedit and xterm talk back and forth just fine. its your machiene with the problem so be nice to the gnome project - they didnt break it
Apple just needs to realize that you cant own the way something looks.... My attempts to copyright the color green have been failing so why should they be able to succeed
the only thing that the OSX terminal has going for it is alpha blended transparencies...... i still have my fingers crossed for a Linux version of them......so pretty
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So then it is only the opinion of the man (I use the term loosly to mean all people) with the most education in the english languange who has an important opinion. I think not. True the senators only have 24 hours in a day like the rest of us, but they have people hired to read these letters. I would think that presenting the relavent issuse raised by such letters would be part of the job description. They have people whose time is being paid to "be spent parsing badly-written letters and flame mail." regardless of the language used. I agree that most people are morons, anyone who has drivin in rush hour will agree. But it is the duty of the officials to serve our needs in government and of the proof readers to pass along important documentation.
/. readers put up with dense code full of poorly chosen variable names and devoid of comments?" i would think so if it ran faster and was more stable then its competators. *emergent code* is a perfect example of this. It is impossible to read, not the tinyest bit documented, and fast as hell.
As for the question "Would
People are not computers. People are not the best at things. People make mistakes. And for all that you say people are irrelvant untill they do better? At this point i will shut up before I transform into some sort of uber troll
-spelling and grammer mistakes were left there to prove that the opinions of the common man who cant spell or type are just as vaild as the next man's
Many mac people claim that they have the best computers because of their size and portablity. Perhaps Windows (or hopefully linux) will be able to show people that we to can make really weird looking small computers too. And this one even has a serial port as apposed to the mac.
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havent they had these for years out at area 51 and are just now deciding to 'unvail' them. next thing you know they will decide to call them the Aurora series aircraft.... but then again i could be just a wee bit paranoid
"...It is a very sad fact, but logically Microsoft's programmers are smarter than those in open source, simply because they're able to earn more money..." Did you know that a McDonalds manager makes $26 an hour and a starting computer tech makes about $8. Who is smarter? The guy wearing the paper hat or the geek..... I'll just let you think about that one.
perhaps i am just a bit dumb but wouldnt it make more sense to have them join up with CVS and bring their code together to form a better service. this would also have the added advantage of making life easyer for those of us who do weekly (daily?) builds of our alpha/beta software by placing all the code in the same 'place'. this service seems to be redundant and will probably not stay up to date with CVS or else CVS will not stay current with it either way it doesnt seem to make sense IMO
They dont need to open source to port it to *BSD. But it would make developing simpler. It seems you have fallen victim to the assumption that closed source is evil. It can be a good thing in a comptative system. Nvidia doesnt need to open their drivers just port them. Last time I checked Creative didnt have open drivers for the SoundBlaster cards but they run just fine on Linux (I have not checked for BSD support and dont really plan on doing it). That is an example of a company with a great product that is cross platform compatible. Open drivers are nice but ultimatly not that important. It's the existance of drivers that is the issue.
So that they can sell you the next version with improved security silly. Why do you think Linux started out so secure no money to be made in upgrades...
i have but one comment to make on an amazing post. if like many people you have recompiled your kernel Kudzu wont do all that great of a job finding new hardware if you dont have it in as a module, but this is at the fault of me (the user) not Kudzu. Windows doesn't even give me the option of geting rid of worthless drivers. i mean really i dont have any ISA slots on my machiene so why do i have to have ISA drivers on it? mad props to Nailer on that post. (i know my English is bad but its my 3rd language so I'm afraid you will have to live with it)
what did i kick your puppy or something. i dont care what you think. i at least put my name on my comment. which makes you some sort of creature that is scarde of the dark or something.
M$ is just 'helping' a 3rd world country compute. Is that so wrong? i mean really you are Peru and need computers, Linux makes computers cheeper because there is no OS license to pay for wouldnt you see if you could score some more standardized software off of microsoft. quality asside they need quantity and microsoft is making it happen so while they may be evil - BACK OFF they are trying to help in the only way they know how. i dont see you helping them out with money or computers. and here comes the negative karma well ill live i guess.
that may be true but are the people working there smart enough to see that the OSS has already solved some of their problems and is giving it out for free. people always comment about how linux is 'reinventing the wheel' perhaps M$ has got people smart enough to realize that the answer to their problems has already been found. when nobody is looking you know you have run the red light. M$ has, i lost the link but in 2001 or 2000 i forget exactly they were convicted of piracy in France. perhaps im too paranoid by the new explorer in XP looks a lot like Nautilus........ just a thought sure M$ has lots of smart people working for them but those people are also smart enough to know when to pick up a $20 off the street.
yea real simple if you run Win XP. how about for those of us who just want to live in the past and refuse to *upgrade* (or was it down grade) to XP.
If you are going to be building a system why not just get an Alpha or Sparc box, its faster and they have PPC emulators for them so you can even play games if thats your thing
if i see another sex joke on here ill have to go out and strangle a baby seal....do you want that..... could you sleep at night with that on your mind.....
if we must get picky, News implies information bias or otherwise is unspecified and i know i cant spel so deal with it ....... i would like to take this time to apologize to everyone else who has to read this
i like twm :'( its so ghetto and worthless you have to love it or else you are like a mother withholding love from your children .....
the true measure of software preformance is the SETI@Home project..... that gives a processor/OS independant method of benchmarking just how much of your computer is running around in a clown suit (aka wasting time) while you work
What is the point of downloading all the source for packages i have no plan on developing. i mean sure lets download the source for everthing.... why get any package in binary then all we need to do is figure out a way to compile it without an operating system or compiler. you to have gotten precompiled binaries so back off the people who use that as a way of life, unless you want be come up with a compiler that is not compiled and an OS that isnt compiled to run it. oh yea then once you do that download the source for Gnome 2 and read it all and customize it cause that is the point of having the source. unless of course all you do with the source is download it and compile it and delete it in which case you are a moron who doesnt understand open source at all and just thinks its a cool way to get free software
im running ximmian (used to run gnome 1.4) and have never encountered that problem. sometimes the spacing is a little off but gedit and xterm talk back and forth just fine. its your machiene with the problem so be nice to the gnome project - they didnt break it
Apple just needs to realize that you cant own the way something looks.... My attempts to copyright the color green have been failing so why should they be able to succeed
the only thing that the OSX terminal has going for it is alpha blended transparencies...... i still have my fingers crossed for a Linux version of them......so pretty