Heh. I'm sure I would. Seeing as Czech has extra characters I don't udnerstand, I'd be quite surprised indeed.
Of course, the New World Symphony wasn't written in the states, this guy writes in English, and the other Dvorak taught in Seattle, so....... Logical deduction w/ jumps wikipedia.
Actually, I am.
I'm rather... sheepish... about this now. In fact, I wish I could delete a few posts. Why on earth would anyone listen to this guy if he wasn't the Dvorak I was thinking about?
Now I can stop reading his columns with even the shred of respect I had. Are the two related? It seems that Dvorak might be a rather rare name in the computer industry.
A:
There's too much infighting in the Linux community for it to have a leader at all. Everyone I've ever met who was absolutely incredible with computers was also quite the control freak. The reason a leader has not emerged is because the Linux community is defined by its individuals' refusal to either follow or be given a direction.
B:
Dvorak is not really a crackpot leftover. He's apparently become an authoritarian, which is quite a bad thing. Originally he came up with an efficient solution to a problem created in an arbitrary manner, and he saw it fade into obscurity. The funny thing is that now you have to question whether or not he is disappointed he did not become the leader you say Linux so desperately needs. Amusingly enough, there are plenty of strong personalities in the Linux universe, it's just that there aren't any that are good at the kind of leadership required, because it's a very new kind of leadership.
C:
Blaming this on 'the media' is not exactly useful. The media is a nice thing to blame everything on, but really in this case it's more the Linux community's fault for their older public relations blunders. Laughing at the hordes of newbies, not building easy to use software at the beginning, etc. These shortcomings are all slowly being righted. The funny thing is, they're all being righted in a very communal manner, with leaders emerging, but most of these leaders falling back into the background and not trying to hog the spotlight.
You mention a 'good leader' and then move to requirements for a 'strong leader.' Linux's communities will reject a strong leader. Instinctively. But a good leader will not need to do the pushing that a strong one does.
Heh. Occasionally they buy this vendor instead. If it's back-office enough, and far enough ahead of them, they'll just buy a middle-of-breed and try and improve it for primetime.
But he's a pundit that reads Slashdot. And carefully. Late in the article he mentions an anonymous Apple employee posting here. While I disagree completely with some of his conclusions - mainly due to the fact that, well, Google keeps talking about their 'core business' being search and everything else revolving around it for the foreseeable future, and Apple going to a subscription model won't exactly be tough - I also think he's come up with a quite well-reasoned article.
He doesn't quite mention how scary it could be that GOOG is getting so big and is so effective at finding things. As government gets bigger and badder in the US, I am more scared by the week of the NSA just sort of walking into Google and taking over, or it having already happened... Call me paranoid, but they're probably able to find 4/5ths of everyone even mildly capable of organizing effectively.....
Anyways. An interesting analysis but not taken as far as I would. I'd say that there could be a server / client war again, only this time BOTH players are enormous vertical monopolies. Wunderbar.
Pundits are fun, in general, but I'd say Dvorak is more a cult icon expanded than an actual pundit...
If you sold Microsoft licenses in India for cheaper, you would see them on eBay for minimal prices as well. Microsoft's in a lose-lose here right up until they start suing the companies big enough to really regret not changing OS's and wealthy enough to afford it.... The question only exists as to whether they'll be able to manipulate the Indian legal system as effectively as they have the US legal system.
Interesting point. No, but when I'm thinking about it from a business angle, I actually use the stock monikers in my head... Weird phenomenon, but that's what abbreviations do for me sometimes. O/T, so I killed my karma bonus.
Err... Look at the fashion and / or furniture industry recently? As computers get cheaper and cheaper, and their insides / forms get easier and easier to design, there will be cooler looking / designed computers and accessories. The iPod is white because white's non-threatening and people are now generally scared of computers, but in the future there will be many, many other designs....
It's just the beginning of a move from Computers as Tools to Computers as Appliances... Consumer Electronics are going to get cooler and cooler just like they have been for the last twenty years, Apple just raised the bar a bit.
Amusingly enough, MSN could have been Microsoft's online future. Look at Google, think about Google, wonder whether Microsoft wouldn't like to have that growing chunk of the computer industry for themselves.
Were the GOOG guys to have put more of their stock on the market, or just look to get acquired, do you think they would have been able to find someone to buy them?
And as counterpoint, if Microsoft didn't have such a tough and well-rooted competitor in Linux which gave so much reliable functionality, do you think they would have been able to keep their community happy enough to make MSN effective at choking out their competition before it got as big as GOOG?
Gates' prediction that the Internet would be huge business was not wrong at all. What he was wrong about was Microsoft being able to dominate it as easily as they did the OS market earlier in his career.
Somehow, despite years of training, I am drawn to this link. It sounds so....... Not attractive in a sexual way, but... Yeah. Like I would get a pile of fifty popups that all had Duplo-style bots bouncing upon each other with gusto... Like marionette sex, only with electricity and gears and lube oil. Maybe it's just a sign that I need to lower my standards a bit on the women I'm willing to sleep with.
Heh. The first adult Pixar movie ever.... I think Pixar's too mass-market for Gilliam, but I also think that the level of computing / graphics power they used for even Toy Story 2 will be available to him within the next five or ten years.
Then why haven't the additions mentioned in the article to Sun's base API's and the tweaks / enhancements also mentioned been inherited by the other OS compilers? It doesn't make sense...
The Stallman viewpoint is here under The Java Trap.
Interesting.
While I agree with him on his, "Everyone needs to be slowly dragged out of the not-free-as-in-beer arena, one finds it tough to
imagine that rewriting these basic data-interaction Java classes is going to be easy to get done. The Access mirroring probably
requires extensive use of this kind of API, and err.... Not the most glamorous of tasks... Since SUN's stuff is currently Free-
As-In-Parking, one might think that getting people to do the redevelopment might be tough to motivate until really necessary.
A lot of parallels between this situation and the BitKeeper one, but rather than it being a third party tool it's a completely integrated
API. One might think that this could be a problem in the future larger than the BitKeeper problem, were Sun to take a completely
weird turn on things.... Suddenly needing to mirror an API's functionality - especially one as big as the entirety of the JVM's data-processing
infrastructure.
So it seems Stallman has a very good point here. Can you imagine trying to, say, re-implement DirectX if Microsoft suddenly wasn't going to let
you code using it? I don't know if this is a comparable task, but it's the only thing I can think of in my terms....
I just meta-moderated your post - it's quite insightful, but unfortunately I have to say that while Gilliam made an amazing movie in Brazil, I don't know whether he would be the right one to do a good movie out of Galaxy. Mainly because I can't see him being anywhere NEAR true to the book. Not exactly a perfect follower for such a rabid following. My guess is hardcore fans would be as disappointed with a GOOD Hitchhiker's movie done by Gilliam as a BAD one, and the only question would be whether the movie was successful as a whole. The books were incredible, but at this point they're going to be farmed by Hollywood as much as possible regardless of situation.
Anyways. Err... Went on a rant. Loved Brazil, great movie, but it required a freedom that Gilliam won't have again for a while. Watch the extras about what he went through after he made it on the special release DVD... He took so much crap from his studio that they almost didn't release the thing, as I remember.
I only went to see Clones once, and during the second or third week at that. I went to see Menace three times. The first 'cause I was excited, the second 'cause I was wondering if I was right, and the third to confirm that yes, this movie sucked donkey balls.
I've heard of problems with macros, and some of the other more advanced features of Office. As much as I want to see it go, I don't think this guy's looking as hard as he needs to to really make such broad statements.... 'There are some bugs' in a single-page review is kinda... lacking.
Geez, you'd need to have spent half your life on drugs and alcohol to think this is a good idea and sign it into law
Or possibly an entire life avoiding their 'evils' along with all the other non-conformist things you'd heard were 'wrong' to associate yourself with. Stupidity comes in all forms, and from many sources, but none is as scary as that which comes from following the rules and learning to trust them so much you can't understand people why you wouldn't...
Ah, but defining success is the problem here. People in the entertainment industry can sometimes.... welll..... Yeah. Remember, this is the kind of people who, in the music industry, were screaming, "We've only had 50% revenue growth in the last three years," when Mp3 sharing was at its height. An industry which, while not hurting at all, continually pushes rapaciously towards more... Not exactly the kind of people to leave a rock unturned in any case they think they can make a little money under it. Especially if they think it's THEIR money.
Slashdot Mirror
*karma to burrrrn.*
ack. Make that:
logical connection w/ jumps < Wikipedia.
Me and my non-previewing ass are goobers together.
Heh. I'm sure I would. Seeing as Czech has extra characters I don't udnerstand, I'd be quite surprised indeed.
Of course, the New World Symphony wasn't written in the states, this guy writes in English, and the other Dvorak taught in Seattle, so....... Logical deduction w/ jumps wikipedia.
I've heard of Dvorak the composer.... Didn't know it was that common, shows me up again for being a provincialized American.....
Actually, I am.
I'm rather... sheepish... about this now. In fact, I wish I could delete a few posts. Why on earth would anyone listen to this guy if he wasn't the Dvorak I was thinking about?
Now I can stop reading his columns with even the shred of respect I had. Are the two related? It seems that Dvorak might be a rather rare name in the computer industry.
Hrm. A few things I'd like to comment upon here:
A:
There's too much infighting in the Linux community for it to have a leader at all. Everyone I've ever met who was absolutely incredible with computers was also quite the control freak. The reason a leader has not emerged is because the Linux community is defined by its individuals' refusal to either follow or be given a direction.
B:
Dvorak is not really a crackpot leftover. He's apparently become an authoritarian, which is quite a bad thing. Originally he came up with an efficient solution to a problem created in an arbitrary manner, and he saw it fade into obscurity. The funny thing is that now you have to question whether or not he is disappointed he did not become the leader you say Linux so desperately needs. Amusingly enough, there are plenty of strong personalities in the Linux universe, it's just that there aren't any that are good at the kind of leadership required, because it's a very new kind of leadership.
C:
Blaming this on 'the media' is not exactly useful. The media is a nice thing to blame everything on, but really in this case it's more the Linux community's fault for their older public relations blunders. Laughing at the hordes of newbies, not building easy to use software at the beginning, etc. These shortcomings are all slowly being righted. The funny thing is, they're all being righted in a very communal manner, with leaders emerging, but most of these leaders falling back into the background and not trying to hog the spotlight.
You mention a 'good leader' and then move to requirements for a 'strong leader.' Linux's communities will reject a strong leader. Instinctively. But a good leader will not need to do the pushing that a strong one does.
Heh. Occasionally they buy this vendor instead. If it's back-office enough, and far enough ahead of them, they'll just buy a middle-of-breed and try and improve it for primetime.
But he's a pundit that reads Slashdot. And carefully. Late in the article he mentions an anonymous Apple employee posting here. While I disagree completely with some of his conclusions - mainly due to the fact that, well, Google keeps talking about their 'core business' being search and everything else revolving around it for the foreseeable future, and Apple going to a subscription model won't exactly be tough - I also think he's come up with a quite well-reasoned article.
He doesn't quite mention how scary it could be that GOOG is getting so big and is so effective at finding things. As government gets bigger and badder in the US, I am more scared by the week of the NSA just sort of walking into Google and taking over, or it having already happened... Call me paranoid, but they're probably able to find 4/5ths of everyone even mildly capable of organizing effectively.....
Anyways. An interesting analysis but not taken as far as I would. I'd say that there could be a server / client war again, only this time BOTH players are enormous vertical monopolies. Wunderbar.
Pundits are fun, in general, but I'd say Dvorak is more a cult icon expanded than an actual pundit...
Welcome to Corporatized America. If you can afford it, you're a legislative body.
If you sold Microsoft licenses in India for cheaper, you would see them on eBay for minimal prices as well. Microsoft's in a lose-lose here right up until they start suing the companies big enough to really regret not changing OS's and wealthy enough to afford it.... The question only exists as to whether they'll be able to manipulate the Indian legal system as effectively as they have the US legal system.
Interesting point. No, but when I'm thinking about it from a business angle, I actually use the stock monikers in my head... Weird phenomenon, but that's what abbreviations do for me sometimes. O/T, so I killed my karma bonus.
Err... Look at the fashion and / or furniture industry recently? As computers get cheaper and cheaper, and their insides / forms get easier and easier to design, there will be cooler looking / designed computers and accessories. The iPod is white because white's non-threatening and people are now generally scared of computers, but in the future there will be many, many other designs....
It's just the beginning of a move from Computers as Tools to Computers as Appliances... Consumer Electronics are going to get cooler and cooler just like they have been for the last twenty years, Apple just raised the bar a bit.
Amusingly enough, MSN could have been Microsoft's online future. Look at Google, think about Google, wonder whether Microsoft wouldn't like to have that growing chunk of the computer industry for themselves.
Were the GOOG guys to have put more of their stock on the market, or just look to get acquired, do you think they would have been able to find someone to buy them?
And as counterpoint, if Microsoft didn't have such a tough and well-rooted competitor in Linux which gave so much reliable functionality, do you think they would have been able to keep their community happy enough to make MSN effective at choking out their competition before it got as big as GOOG?
Gates' prediction that the Internet would be huge business was not wrong at all. What he was wrong about was Microsoft being able to dominate it as easily as they did the OS market earlier in his career.
Somehow, despite years of training, I am drawn to this link. It sounds so....... Not attractive in a sexual way, but... Yeah. Like I would get a pile of fifty popups that all had Duplo-style bots bouncing upon each other with gusto... Like marionette sex, only with electricity and gears and lube oil. Maybe it's just a sign that I need to lower my standards a bit on the women I'm willing to sleep with.
Heh. The first adult Pixar movie ever.... I think Pixar's too mass-market for Gilliam, but I also think that the level of computing / graphics power they used for even Toy Story 2 will be available to him within the next five or ten years.
Totally. Kick. Ass.
Then why haven't the additions mentioned in the article to Sun's base API's and the tweaks / enhancements also mentioned been inherited by the other OS compilers? It doesn't make sense...
The Stallman viewpoint is here under The Java Trap. Interesting.
While I agree with him on his, "Everyone needs to be slowly dragged out of the not-free-as-in-beer arena, one finds it tough to imagine that rewriting these basic data-interaction Java classes is going to be easy to get done. The Access mirroring probably requires extensive use of this kind of API, and err.... Not the most glamorous of tasks... Since SUN's stuff is currently Free- As-In-Parking, one might think that getting people to do the redevelopment might be tough to motivate until really necessary.
A lot of parallels between this situation and the BitKeeper one, but rather than it being a third party tool it's a completely integrated API. One might think that this could be a problem in the future larger than the BitKeeper problem, were Sun to take a completely weird turn on things.... Suddenly needing to mirror an API's functionality - especially one as big as the entirety of the JVM's data-processing infrastructure.
So it seems Stallman has a very good point here. Can you imagine trying to, say, re-implement DirectX if Microsoft suddenly wasn't going to let you code using it? I don't know if this is a comparable task, but it's the only thing I can think of in my terms....
I just meta-moderated your post - it's quite insightful, but unfortunately I have to say that while Gilliam made an amazing movie in Brazil, I don't know whether he would be the right one to do a good movie out of Galaxy. Mainly because I can't see him being anywhere NEAR true to the book. Not exactly a perfect follower for such a rabid following. My guess is hardcore fans would be as disappointed with a GOOD Hitchhiker's movie done by Gilliam as a BAD one, and the only question would be whether the movie was successful as a whole. The books were incredible, but at this point they're going to be farmed by Hollywood as much as possible regardless of situation.
Anyways. Err... Went on a rant. Loved Brazil, great movie, but it required a freedom that Gilliam won't have again for a while. Watch the extras about what he went through after he made it on the special release DVD... He took so much crap from his studio that they almost didn't release the thing, as I remember.
Shall Hereby Be Decreed as 'Gnus for Knurds'
Yes, you're now being oppressed. Quit complaining about it.
I only went to see Clones once, and during the second or third week at that. I went to see Menace three times. The first 'cause I was excited, the second 'cause I was wondering if I was right, and the third to confirm that yes, this movie sucked donkey balls.
This time I may even wait until video.
I've heard of problems with macros, and some of the other more advanced features of Office. As much as I want to see it go, I don't think this guy's looking as hard as he needs to to really make such broad statements.... 'There are some bugs' in a single-page review is kinda... lacking.
Geez, you'd need to have spent half your life on drugs and alcohol to think this is a good idea and sign it into law
Or possibly an entire life avoiding their 'evils' along with all the other non-conformist things you'd heard were 'wrong' to associate yourself with. Stupidity comes in all forms, and from many sources, but none is as scary as that which comes from following the rules and learning to trust them so much you can't understand people why you wouldn't...
You're right. I keep forgetting that This Is America and We're Complete Idiots....
Ah, but defining success is the problem here. People in the entertainment industry can sometimes.... welll..... Yeah. Remember, this is the kind of people who, in the music industry, were screaming, "We've only had 50% revenue growth in the last three years," when Mp3 sharing was at its height. An industry which, while not hurting at all, continually pushes rapaciously towards more... Not exactly the kind of people to leave a rock unturned in any case they think they can make a little money under it. Especially if they think it's THEIR money.