I'd like to know what you dislike of Hibernate. I am in the process of learning the whole library and find it quite useful right now. I guess you might be an experienced developer and should be able to provide examples and details to back your opinion. Not that I am an hibernate zealot or anything, I am just curious about the alternative or better ways to develop project with something else then hibernate when that kind of tool is needed.
Why would innovation only come from commercial competition? I think innovation come from the need of better software, not from someone willing to "improve" a product only to make cash from it. Antivirus application are a good example of software that begun simple but always grows in size and features and bloat to gain market share. I don't call that innovation.
Right now the GPL seems like a great thing, but that's because a lot of the major projects are funded by companies with big wallets. That won't always be the case because GPL software will eventually be viewed as a money pit.
Why what is good now won't be in the future? This way of developing software produce a very great quality of code and I think those big wallets companies understand that. I also think this cost less for these companies to produce that quality that if they were trying to achieve it in a proprietary way.
As long as someone need a (free) software to be better and cannot code it himself, why not hire somebody to code it, and share the result afterward? Thats the only reason why the software was so useful and solid at the first place. Its common sense to encourage the spread of that quality. Of course, you might be sorry not doing any money directly with the code produced by selling it, but thats a ethical choice: more people happy, some rich guys a bit less rich.
I think the market of selling software just can't survive. Once you accept that, its natural to use the GPL license and let the free code profit to everyone on the long term. You want to sell software for a living? You can, but it get cracked in hours, distributed easily and efficiently with bittorrent, or much better: a free alternative exists. From all the listed things I don't think any will ever disapear, just the contrary in fact. By the time you lose energy fighting against software crackers, commercial or free alternatives, the free alternatives will get solid and featureful enough to be used instead of your commercial product.
A GPL advocate sees an entirely different situation. To him, it is the code that comes first, and the applications built from that code are a secondary consideration. Even a single line of code is precious, whether it contains a complex spline formula or i += 2;. As an aside, I would expect this mindset to be more prone to reusing other people's code instead of reimplementing it. Where I would scoff at a piece of code, call it utter garbage, and rewrite the damn thing from scratch, a GPL advocate would probably wrap the garbage in another API that he finds more palatable. In my opinion, this leads to bloat from wrappers, instability from the garbage that is still there, and loss of skills. What programmer from the current generation is up to the challenge of reimplementing libjpeg? But, I digress. I am here to explain, not bash, so please excuse this little rant.
What? So you are saying that GPL advocates are worst coders than their BSD counterpart? How can a license choice make a coder choose bad code and write a wrapper around it just for the sake of re-using that bad code? There might be bad coder doing that weird thing whatever the license used for the code.
Nice try, but your opinion about the whole subject has no value, to me.
Is it possible for an organization like IBM (who pay to keep the Linux kernel in development) to sue Microsoft because they spread misinformation on purpose about GNU/Linux which is bad for it's reputation?
I think it is possible to sue someone (at least in Canada) who act to make your reputation go dirty.
I think the same as you, but I stopped posting on slashdot about how a piece of software should be the default one. It would be ideal. When a software is developed since a long time, and the involved guys continue to make it evolve because its base design is not bad, they are not going to let the code down to go on something else. I would not say thats a holy war, just that if you get very involved in a project, it is tough to scrap it, and even more when you did it mostly in your spare time just because you loved to work on it.
At the moment I rather try to encourage people to use and promote free and open standards. Who care if you use one or another application, if you can very easily make them understand the same format? The standard is a big part of the software itself and efforts must be made to improve the free desktop one.
When I switched my desktop to linux, I dreamed that KDE and Gnome efforts would merge. For the very reason I wrote above, I see it will not happen. Now I think it is really important to make every software designed for these both desktop environment being fully compatible with a common platform of standards.
In a perfect free desktop world, one codebase would exists for all your needs. Everything the user could see and touch would be scripted/scriptable. Free softwares allows ideas to be shared and modified, I agree then that no one needs to develop more than a unique app for a precise goal. If the app UI is not what you needed, edit it. People say that choice is good? Don't waste your time coding a new app from scratch! All the possible choices should be built-in the app, letting the user modify the default script. Just make it as modular as possible, and GPL it.
What have the most successful and well known softwares that emerged from the F/OSS community in common? They are all deeply modularized. To give some examples: Linux(the kernel), GCC, apache, mozilla firefox. (Here is a informative paper I found when googling to verify I did not just wrote absurd things) http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/narduzzorossi.pdf
At the moment I see KDE being the nearest from those ideas. But I don't see much of inter-desktop compatibility efforts.
Sorry for the bad english and some half-explained ideas
I own that mouse too. Its a good mouse but you forgot to mention it is a bit heavy for gaming. And the logitech oval-shaped logo started to "unstick" and I had to remove it because it was not possible to use glue to make it stick again and it was making the handle unconfortable. Now the mouse is no more looking as nice as in its youth but I still love it. Battery is especially long lasting.
* Edit all kinds of text files even if they are BIG (i.e. open a 50MB file in a few seconds).
* Powerfull syntaxhighlighting engine, extensible via xml files.
* Code Folding capabilities for C++, C, PHP,...
* Dynamic Word Wrap - long lines are wrapped at the window border on the fly for better overview.
* Multiple views allows you to view more instances of the same document and/or more documents at one time.
* Can reopen files if you want it to.
* User can choose the encoding he wants for each file at save/open dialog.
* Built in dockable terminal emulation.
* Sidebars displays a list of open documents, a directory viewer with a directory chooser, a filter chooser and more.
* A plugin interface to allow third party plugins.
* Default project handling, possibly to be overridden by project handling plugins.
* A "Filter" command allows you to run selected text through a shell command.
* Global grep dialog
I'm not encouraging game piracy but, this is the internet and this is inevitable. As long humans will continue begging for cash when producing digital or digitalizable products, there will be people thinking they are losing money by other who steal their work. Look how many people are currently very poor on the planet, do you really think that one day, everyone will accept to pay prices for something so easily sharable?
Being realistic about those facts will save everyone valuable energy.
Get paid for producing it, or do it for fun. In both cases, share the result freely.
Wanting to get too rich is the dumbest thing an human can do.
How can my parent post be overrated when it havent been rated before this first moderation? I feel paranoid today and I accuse google of having robots to mod down the posts who talk against them.
Hey the parent post is not funny, what is said is the fscking truth. Not only adsense and search results is a way to do it, but now with this accelerator service, how many connection and transfer "errors" will be caused depending on what they want you to think? Google IS as evil as microsoft, the karma they had is getting low. Whatever you can think about google, they want to FUCK you and get MORE money, nothing else matter for them. Get a look on www.fravia.com and remember to not only use google as you internet search engine.
The new international governement is made of corporations, and THEY DON'T want you free.
Slashdot Mirror
Why is the very old KDE logo still used by slashdot?
http://www.kde.org/stuff/clipart.php
Or maybe, as a company who buy for million dollar of licence to an MCP, you are somewhat disposed staying with that MCP if they offer support too.
As an MCP, you are probably not allowed to sell your support service to a customer who did not bought you the microsoft software licences first.
+5 Funny
It didnt even knew who won the elections
I'd like to know what you dislike of Hibernate. I am in the process of learning the whole library and find it quite useful right now. I guess you might be an experienced developer and should be able to provide examples and details to back your opinion. Not that I am an hibernate zealot or anything, I am just curious about the alternative or better ways to develop project with something else then hibernate when that kind of tool is needed.
Pierre
so funny
the best one is the slackware fan one
--
anyways, ms sucks.
Aahhh, that's why all the experiments I made while standing in the center of the earth sometime failed!
You should deny the installation of rootkits, they cause maintenance and security problems
Why would innovation only come from commercial competition? I think innovation come from the need of better software, not from someone willing to "improve" a product only to make cash from it. Antivirus application are a good example of software that begun simple but always grows in size and features and bloat to gain market share. I don't call that innovation.
Why what is good now won't be in the future? This way of developing software produce a very great quality of code and I think those big wallets companies understand that. I also think this cost less for these companies to produce that quality that if they were trying to achieve it in a proprietary way.
As long as someone need a (free) software to be better and cannot code it himself, why not hire somebody to code it, and share the result afterward? Thats the only reason why the software was so useful and solid at the first place. Its common sense to encourage the spread of that quality. Of course, you might be sorry not doing any money directly with the code produced by selling it, but thats a ethical choice: more people happy, some rich guys a bit less rich.
I think the market of selling software just can't survive. Once you accept that, its natural to use the GPL license and let the free code profit to everyone on the long term.
You want to sell software for a living? You can, but it get cracked in hours, distributed easily and efficiently with bittorrent, or much better: a free alternative exists. From all the listed things I don't think any will ever disapear, just the contrary in fact.
By the time you lose energy fighting against software crackers, commercial or free alternatives, the free alternatives will get solid and featureful enough to be used instead of your commercial product.
What? So you are saying that GPL advocates are worst coders than their BSD counterpart? How can a license choice make a coder choose bad code and write a wrapper around it just for the sake of re-using that bad code? There might be bad coder doing that weird thing whatever the license used for the code.
Nice try, but your opinion about the whole subject has no value, to me.
A cat fell asleep on a keyboard
Is it possible for an organization like IBM (who pay to keep the Linux kernel in development) to sue Microsoft because they spread misinformation on purpose about GNU/Linux which is bad for it's reputation?
I think it is possible to sue someone (at least in Canada) who act to make your reputation go dirty.
Is there a law for that?
DCOP already does something like this, but it is not present in all kde apps and not all functions are supported.. html
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/dcop
It is all in the title
I think the same as you, but I stopped posting on slashdot about how a piece of software should be the default one. It would be ideal.
f
When a software is developed since a long time, and the involved guys continue to make it evolve because its base design is not bad, they are not going to let the code down to go on something else. I would not say thats a holy war, just that if you get very involved in a project, it is tough to scrap it, and even more when you did it mostly in your spare time just because you loved to work on it.
At the moment I rather try to encourage people to use and promote free and open standards. Who care if you use one or another application, if you can very easily make them understand the same format? The standard is a big part of the software itself and efforts must be made to improve the free desktop one.
When I switched my desktop to linux, I dreamed that KDE and Gnome efforts would merge. For the very reason I wrote above, I see it will not happen. Now I think it is really important to make every software designed for these both desktop environment being fully compatible with a common platform of standards.
In a perfect free desktop world, one codebase would exists for all your needs. Everything the user could see and touch would be scripted/scriptable. Free softwares allows ideas to be shared and modified, I agree then that no one needs to develop more than a unique app for a precise goal. If the app UI is not what you needed, edit it. People say that choice is good? Don't waste your time coding a new app from scratch! All the possible choices should be built-in the app, letting the user modify the default script. Just make it as modular as possible, and GPL it.
What have the most successful and well known softwares that emerged from the F/OSS community in common? They are all deeply modularized. To give some examples: Linux(the kernel), GCC, apache, mozilla firefox.
(Here is a informative paper I found when googling to verify I did not just wrote absurd things)
http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/narduzzorossi.pd
At the moment I see KDE being the nearest from those ideas. But I don't see much of inter-desktop compatibility efforts.
Sorry for the bad english and some half-explained ideas
Pierre
I own that mouse too. Its a good mouse but you forgot to mention it is a bit heavy for gaming. And the logitech oval-shaped logo started to "unstick" and I had to remove it because it was not possible to use glue to make it stick again and it was making the handle unconfortable. Now the mouse is no more looking as nice as in its youth but I still love it. Battery is especially long lasting.
I had to participate
yeah of course :)
...
from http://kate.kde.org/info.php
* Edit all kinds of text files even if they are BIG (i.e. open a 50MB file in a few seconds).
* Powerfull syntaxhighlighting engine, extensible via xml files.
* Code Folding capabilities for C++, C, PHP,
* Dynamic Word Wrap - long lines are wrapped at the window border on the fly for better overview.
* Multiple views allows you to view more instances of the same document and/or more documents at one time.
* Can reopen files if you want it to.
* User can choose the encoding he wants for each file at save/open dialog.
* Built in dockable terminal emulation.
* Sidebars displays a list of open documents, a directory viewer with a directory chooser, a filter chooser and more.
* A plugin interface to allow third party plugins.
* Default project handling, possibly to be overridden by project handling plugins.
* A "Filter" command allows you to run selected text through a shell command.
* Global grep dialog
is that true?
Kate 2.4 is 4K
I'm not encouraging game piracy but, this is the internet and this is inevitable.
As long humans will continue begging for cash when producing digital or digitalizable products, there will be people thinking they are losing money by other who steal their work.
Look how many people are currently very poor on the planet, do you really think that one day, everyone will accept to pay prices for something so easily sharable?
Being realistic about those facts will save everyone valuable energy.
Get paid for producing it, or do it for fun. In both cases, share the result freely.
Wanting to get too rich is the dumbest thing an human can do.
How can my parent post be overrated when it havent been rated before this first moderation?
I feel paranoid today and I accuse google of having robots to mod down the posts who talk against them.
Hey the parent post is not funny, what is said is the fscking truth.
Not only adsense and search results is a way to do it, but now with this accelerator service, how many connection and transfer "errors" will be caused depending on what they want you to think?
Google IS as evil as microsoft, the karma they had is getting low.
Whatever you can think about google, they want to FUCK you and get MORE money, nothing else matter for them.
Get a look on www.fravia.com and remember to not only use google as you internet search engine.
The new international governement is made of corporations, and THEY DON'T want you free.
suggestion for organising your work as a pimp: kde-pimp