I think this is the first time I've ever seen an original article, written by a Slashdot editor, on Slashdot. Why isn't this a link to somebody else's review?!
Once again the internet allows the process of peer review to work its magic, only instead of being applied to open source code, in this case it's being applied to legal analysis.
Isn't peer review illegal in the United States? Sounds like Pamela should get a lawyer!
No, I think that information would be more useful if you happened to be in a library that was being robbed. Just use duct-tape to create a makeshift vest out of thick books, and you'll be fine.
Obviously the biggies like carbon and oxygen aren't hard to get a hold of, but rare elements will be very valuable.
I dunno, I think if we had the power to replicate a Ferrari from the component molecules, we'd also be able to replicate atoms/molecules from the component nucleons. So, if you needed some gold, you could just take apart some carbon atoms and put the correct number of protons/neutrons/electrons together to get gold.
Well, I mostly agree with you, but I'm not as extreme in my beliefs.
I want my cell phone to make calls. Anything more is fluff...
On the other hand, having a unique ringtone makes it easier to tell who's phone is ringing (imagine being in a room full of people who own cellphones with the same ringtone, one person's phone rings, everybody has to check if it's their phone that's ringing).
I also like having games on my cell phone, because sometimes you're just stuck somewhere waiting for something (ie, waiting for the bus, waiting on the bus, waiting in line, whatever), and games make it less boring. But having a game boy isn't practical because they're too big to fit in a pocket, and it's hard to justify the price of a gameboy if it's useless when you're not playing games. Having a cell phone that also has games is just a convenience.
But, text messaging is a pain in the ass. cell phones are hard to write with, I hate that. Cameras are also excessive. I can see how cameras would be neat, instead of calling somebody to describe something interesting you saw, you could send a picture. I like the idea, but it's not a necessity.
Just give me a phone with ringtones and games, I'll be happy:)
Re:Was supporting open source Lou Gerstner's idea?
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I've been using yum on my Fedora system for a while now, and overall, I like it. The only real problem I have with it is that I have a long list of yum repositories in my yum.conf, and if any one of them happens to be down, yum itself becomes useless. It won't be able to perform any actions, because not being able to connect to a given repository will make the whole app die.
Also, it's quite slow with so many repositories, since it has to connect to all of them to see if there are any new headers, before it will let me do anything, even if I'm just trying to remove a package.
At best, it could only be part of the 'h' or part of the 'a'. As we all know, The Tick prevented Chairface from completing the writing, and later went to the moon to fill the "C" hole, leaving the word "HA" in clear view from Earth.
Although I see where you are coming from, Trillian has been very responsive to the community for a long time, has never had ad/spyware in any of their iterations (even the non-pro versions), and supports the Jabber protocol and IRC, as well as proprietary protocols. Plus they have an API so that you can write your own plugins.
Gaim is the most active project on Sourceforge, and you can write your own plugins in perl.
Dunno, I just don't see any reason to really ever not use gaim.
At first, I thought you were criticizing me for giving the definition of hegemony when "hegeonomy" is the word being discussed (I didn't even notice the difference when I originally posted)...
Then I looked up hegeonomy on dictionary.com and it told me that the word didn't exist, and that I was probably looking for Hegemony.
That's completely different. With DVD/VHS, you're talking about huge multi-national conglomerates producing those things for consumption by the common man. They didn't really have much of a choice in the switch; DVDs were just shoved down their throats.
If you want to talk about Sparkly killing Flash, you're talking about a huge group of people who *create* flash. To make people switch to DVDs, you simply stop producing VHS. But to make people switch to Sparkle, you can't stop making Flash animations, because it's the people you want to switch who are the ones making the Flash animations in the first place. Not only that, but Macromedia aren't going to just stop releasing new versions of Flash; it's a competing product, they're not just going to roll over and let some other technology take over.
My point is that there's a fundamental difference between the VHS->DVD switch and a potential Flash->Sparkle switch. It's apples and oranges:P
Re:which community are you talking about?
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there are two in question here, open source, and free software.
I consider them to be the same community. The Free Software people consider themselves separate from the Open Source people, but that only because the Open Source people aren't "pure" enough for them. Both develop the same software, and use the same licenses, the only practical difference is the rhetoric.
people in the free software community are not going away because of rms....
Yeah, exactly, because they're already IN the community. They already subscribe to RMS's beliefs. What I'm talking about are the outsiders, the Windows users, the lay people. They just want to use the computer as a tool and get their work done, they're put off by all the talk about idealogical purity that the RMS camp continually spews. On the other hand, they're attracted to ESR's pragmatism (Basicaally: "hey, it's just plain better, and it's cheaper, too. What more do you want?").
i haven't met rms live yet,
Me either, but I'd LOVE to meet the guy. It's probably better than I haven't; it allows me to respect his idealism without being turned off by those certain behavioral nuances that everybody seems to hate:)
Re:Not him again!
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Have you ever read the Cathedral and the Bazaar? ESR is brilliant, he perfectly describes how and why the Open Source development model WORKS!
It's RMS that's going to repell people from the community; his uncompromising principles really turn off people who don't understand why Freedom in software is important.
Hell, ESR is one of the people who coined the term "Open Source", and as a result he's been bringing more people INTO the community (ie, people who were previously repelled by RMS's obnoxious ethics are now drawn in by ESR's pragmatism).
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I think this is the first time I've ever seen an original article, written by a Slashdot editor, on Slashdot. Why isn't this a link to somebody else's review?!
Once again the internet allows the process of peer review to work its magic, only instead of being applied to open source code, in this case it's being applied to legal analysis.
:)
Isn't peer review illegal in the United States? Sounds like Pamela should get a lawyer!
(j/k
Sorry to burst your bubble, but funny mods don't increase Karma anymore, unfortunately.
:)
There should be a +1, Punny mod
Nice, insightful comment there.
Insightful? I was trying to be punny.
Nothing but more lunacy from the Bush administration.
Couldabeen, but it wouldn't have been as funny if it was "Oggenc, Oggenc, Oggenc".
No, I think that information would be more useful if you happened to be in a library that was being robbed. Just use duct-tape to create a makeshift vest out of thick books, and you'll be fine.
I want to see that trial on pay-per-view.
I'd just download it.
Obviously the biggies like carbon and oxygen aren't hard to get a hold of, but rare elements will be very valuable.
I dunno, I think if we had the power to replicate a Ferrari from the component molecules, we'd also be able to replicate atoms/molecules from the component nucleons. So, if you needed some gold, you could just take apart some carbon atoms and put the correct number of protons/neutrons/electrons together to get gold.
Open Source at the speed of light. Awesome :)
Hmmm, ok.
:)
Well, I mostly agree with you, but I'm not as extreme in my beliefs.
I want my cell phone to make calls. Anything more is fluff...
On the other hand, having a unique ringtone makes it easier to tell who's phone is ringing (imagine being in a room full of people who own cellphones with the same ringtone, one person's phone rings, everybody has to check if it's their phone that's ringing).
I also like having games on my cell phone, because sometimes you're just stuck somewhere waiting for something (ie, waiting for the bus, waiting on the bus, waiting in line, whatever), and games make it less boring. But having a game boy isn't practical because they're too big to fit in a pocket, and it's hard to justify the price of a gameboy if it's useless when you're not playing games. Having a cell phone that also has games is just a convenience.
But, text messaging is a pain in the ass. cell phones are hard to write with, I hate that. Cameras are also excessive. I can see how cameras would be neat, instead of calling somebody to describe something interesting you saw, you could send a picture. I like the idea, but it's not a necessity.
Just give me a phone with ringtones and games, I'll be happy
Read my Journal entry about it.
:)
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Try wiping logs printed out on a matrix printer...
:P
Any moron can buy white-out, I don't think a skilled intruder would have any difficulty hiding his tracks, given physical access.
Romans used a health model based upon the "four humours"
LOL, that's funny.
I've been using yum on my Fedora system for a while now, and overall, I like it. The only real problem I have with it is that I have a long list of yum repositories in my yum.conf, and if any one of them happens to be down, yum itself becomes useless. It won't be able to perform any actions, because not being able to connect to a given repository will make the whole app die.
Also, it's quite slow with so many repositories, since it has to connect to all of them to see if there are any new headers, before it will let me do anything, even if I'm just trying to remove a package.
At best, it could only be part of the 'h' or part of the 'a'. As we all know, The Tick prevented Chairface from completing the writing, and later went to the moon to fill the "C" hole, leaving the word "HA" in clear view from Earth.
Not really. "I'm feeling lucky" that I, unlike the gentleman in the picture, do not have a 6" diameter asshole.
It can't be all bad. I bet he never gets constipated.
Although I see where you are coming from, Trillian has been very responsive to the community for a long time, has never had ad/spyware in any of their iterations (even the non-pro versions), and supports the Jabber protocol and IRC, as well as proprietary protocols. Plus they have an API so that you can write your own plugins.
Gaim is the most active project on Sourceforge, and you can write your own plugins in perl.
Dunno, I just don't see any reason to really ever not use gaim.
Unless you happen to be a subsystem maintainer, a contributer, or Torvalds himself, then I'd guess you fall into the "Marketplace" category.
Perhaps hegemony is what you're looking for?
LOL.
At first, I thought you were criticizing me for giving the definition of hegemony when "hegeonomy" is the word being discussed (I didn't even notice the difference when I originally posted)...
Then I looked up hegeonomy on dictionary.com and it told me that the word didn't exist, and that I was probably looking for Hegemony.
Oh, I just can't wait to hear the pro-microsoft trolls screaming that Linux is crappy because it doesn't support jazzy speckles :)
Yes, and people switched to DVD from VHS.
:P
That's completely different. With DVD/VHS, you're talking about huge multi-national conglomerates producing those things for consumption by the common man. They didn't really have much of a choice in the switch; DVDs were just shoved down their throats.
If you want to talk about Sparkly killing Flash, you're talking about a huge group of people who *create* flash. To make people switch to DVDs, you simply stop producing VHS. But to make people switch to Sparkle, you can't stop making Flash animations, because it's the people you want to switch who are the ones making the Flash animations in the first place. Not only that, but Macromedia aren't going to just stop releasing new versions of Flash; it's a competing product, they're not just going to roll over and let some other technology take over.
My point is that there's a fundamental difference between the VHS->DVD switch and a potential Flash->Sparkle switch. It's apples and oranges
there are two in question here, open source, and free software.
....
:)
I consider them to be the same community. The Free Software people consider themselves separate from the Open Source people, but that only because the Open Source people aren't "pure" enough for them. Both develop the same software, and use the same licenses, the only practical difference is the rhetoric.
people in the free software community are not going away because of rms
Yeah, exactly, because they're already IN the community. They already subscribe to RMS's beliefs. What I'm talking about are the outsiders, the Windows users, the lay people. They just want to use the computer as a tool and get their work done, they're put off by all the talk about idealogical purity that the RMS camp continually spews. On the other hand, they're attracted to ESR's pragmatism (Basicaally: "hey, it's just plain better, and it's cheaper, too. What more do you want?").
i haven't met rms live yet,
Me either, but I'd LOVE to meet the guy. It's probably better than I haven't; it allows me to respect his idealism without being turned off by those certain behavioral nuances that everybody seems to hate
Have you ever read the Cathedral and the Bazaar? ESR is brilliant, he perfectly describes how and why the Open Source development model WORKS!
It's RMS that's going to repell people from the community; his uncompromising principles really turn off people who don't understand why Freedom in software is important.
Hell, ESR is one of the people who coined the term "Open Source", and as a result he's been bringing more people INTO the community (ie, people who were previously repelled by RMS's obnoxious ethics are now drawn in by ESR's pragmatism).