The thing is, the Flahs player is FREE. So the only reason to write this one is political, not technical
That's where you're wrong. If you have a 64-bit system, you can't use Flash. Well, maybe if you have 32-bit x86 binary compatibilit you can use it... if you have a 32-bit binary browser. You cannot use 32-bit libraries and plugins with a 64-bit application. So if your uname says AMD64, PPC, SPARC, Alpha, or MIPS, the smug reply from Macromedia is "sorry 'bout your bad luck! Use Windows, buy an x86 machine!"
There are a lot of people who find this unacceptable. Therefore we have GPLFlash.
Enderle does not make phone calls and get facts; he prints opinions. Opinions are not required to be logical or intelligent, and they can run rampant with untruths and stupidity. There's nothing inherently wrong with publishing opinions and commentary.
The reason why this is a commentary and not an article is because there are few or no facts to back up the majority of what Rob Enderle says. I personally consider that unprofessional, even if it doesn't technically break the rules.
-Jem
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It's not difficult. This is part of improvisational interactive theater training. Usually it involves two people talking to each other at the same time, all improvisational, and then after one minute you stop and sum up both stories. Then when you've mastered that, a third person is added, and other little tricks. It just takes practice to switch your focus quickly enough to be able to keep your own story going while catching the details of the other.
Anyway, as far as "multitasking" is concerned... I prefer to think of it as native command queuing.
How about "help make FreeBSD 6.0 useable" after the disaster that was 5.3-RELEASE. I donated, but I don't use FreeBSD anymore because through some hidden magic of development, FreeBSD's SK/Yukon LAN driver stopped working properly between 5.2.1 and 5.3, and I'm sick of having to patch the source tree to get Audigy support. Don't even get me started about all of the problems the AMD64 port has.
Okay, so with your link you have proven my point... look at how many projects Apple *takes from* and look at how many they *maintain or contribute to*. How useful are their OSS projects to non-OS X users?
Look, justify your love for Apple any way you want, but your rationalizations don't change the fact that Apple does not give back what they take from Free Software. And it won't change the probability that Apple will try to kill this iPodLinux project.
Until they do "version 2.0" of the iPod that has unhackable firmware or some other crap that prevents this project from working.
Microsoft did a similar tactic to prevent Linux from working on the Xbox. Although it's unintentional, wireless LAN cards suffer from similar "versioning" problems with Linux drivers (thank goodness for ndiswrapper!).
Just like they did with RealNetworks, Apple will probably put the kibosh on this project with a firmware upgrade or legal buffoonery. I don't know why so many Slashdotters like Apple; they do not support or sell Free Software and they do little to contribute to the FS/OSS community. For as much as they take from FreeBSD, they give nothing back. And if you start going on about Darwin being open-source, keep in mind that Darwin has no practical use beyond its basis for OS X.
Apple is not our friend. You might like their fancy computers and software, but never forget that they are a proprietary hardware and software company.
Now watch the Apple zealots mod this down for being anti-Apple.::audible sigh::
"I would infer from your comments that you are, broadly speaking, a supporter of the current US president, and you don't appear to be sympathetic to organised religion."
The two are mutually exclusive, I think. I neither support nor protest President Bush.
My opinions may change, but what I am allowed to do with them is what I am concerned with. China makes no bones about what it allows and disallows. The US pretends to be free, but is shackled by confusing and sometimes secret laws and loopholes, and a generally fascist attitude toward the non-rich. If this were what I signed up for, then that's one thing. It's frustrating, though, being led to believe that you are free when in actuality you're quite restricted.
In China, prison is where you go if you break the law. In the US, prison is where you go if you break the law and couldn't afford a top-tier lawyer to get you out of it (I am still wondering how Scott Peterson can be sentanced to death in the absence of hard evidence, yet OJ Simpson walks free). I'd rather know my limits than constantly be fooled by the superficial veneer of freedom.
Take a look at this. It's probably one of the most spectacular displays of art I have ever seen -- a whole snow/ice village filled with sculptures.
I thought it was the neatest thing I had ever seen, but what struck me later was the sad fact that this treasure could never happen in the United States because no insurance company would cover it. People would sue left and right, and whomever put on that show would go bankrupt. Take a look at the people climbing the wall of ice. I don't know about you, but that looks like a hell of a lot of fun. I'll never know because that kind of "ride" can't ever happen in America because of the litigious assholes that sue people for a living.
I'm currently wrestling with the idea that China may actually be more free than the US. Not because of this single example, but for many reasons... no-knock warrants and other "anti-terrorism" measures that, to date, do not appear to have stopped any terrorists; RIAA/MPAA lawsuits against "john doe" defendants; software patent claims; anti-smoking laws; a whole bunch of shit. What can't you do in China? You can't speak out against the government (the more I hear angry, uninformed EU and US Bush protesters, the more I think I might actually enjoy that), you can't openly practice religion (what?? no Catholic priest child molesters, no Christian wackos and their 10 commandments plaques, no Muslim fundamentalists to kill me?), and you can't have websites that spread superstition. And this is bad... how?
The "opening" of Solaris holds no promise of wider hardware support. As it stands right now, Solaris Express (the 10 pre-release) works on such a small segment of the x86 and AMD64 PC market that it's hardly worth considering for a desktop OS. As a server? Well, if you're considering a server, you're considering Sun hardware, so you'll be okay. But outside of what Sun sells, you won't find much Solaris adoption, open source or not.
Linus' statement about hardware support hits harder than people are giving it credit for. What use is an OS if it doesn't run (or completely run) on your computer? Shortly you'll see Mandrake and Novell say the same thing RE: Solaris 10 (actually, they've already said it, but the article hasn't published yet).
Look, I'm not going to go for any bullshit DRM-restricted music. If I can't rip to WAV and then encode to OGG or MP3, forget it. If I can't make my own mix CDs and playlists in the format of my choosing, then I'm not going to buy it.
I'd like to think I'm not alone in this. I just want the freedom to listen to the music I buy in the way that I want. Anything less than that is not acceptable.
Hey, if Clint Eastwood in his 60s can walk into a bar in The Unforgiven and still say "Any man who doesn't wanna get killed, just clear on out the back," and mean it, then I'd wager Harrison Ford, at 62, can walk into a Nazi stronghold and say "Dunno -- I'll think of something," and mean it too.
Okay, so WW2 is over. That doesn't mean there aren't still Nazis. If I were writing Indiana Jones 4, it would be in South America where the Nazis have fled with the Spear of Destiny.
Interesting question, but it probably won't make the cut. Makes for interesting discussion though, so as someone who gets flamed hard about three times per week in multiple venues, I can offer these points:
1. The angry corrector. Sometimes the flamers tell you something you need to know, like when you say something that is wrong. For this reason, you should read as many comments as you can unless they're obvious trolls.
2. Special needs posters. The people who sling nasty personal attacks are mentally ill and in search of attention. Think "toddler tantrom," if you have any child experience. Best to give them a time out by ignoring them.
3. The perfessers. Some people just want others to think they are smart, so they find one little point somewhere in what you've written and they pontificate about how this tangential fact ruins the whole article, and much they know and you don't, etc. etc. -- basically this is article envy. They're pissed that you have the attention and they do not.
4. Ugly Americans. American culture encourages people to tear down those in the limelight, those who shine brighter, those with more money, etc., even if these properties are only perceptions. In other words, if you envy, attack. (Yes I am an American, no I do not hate America; this is merely an observation of one of the negative points of the society I live in).
After you start recognizing the archetypes of online trolls/flamers/lusers/etc, they seem much less intimidating. Write what you would want to read, post what you would want to comment on, and ignore the idiots of the world. Do more costumes and if you really enjoy it, the joy of creating a good costume, documenting it, winning awards, and getting positive comments far outweighs the mild frustration of reading the negative comments.
WordPerfect is superior to Word in the same ways that Mozilla is superior to Internet Explorer. More relevant and modern features, greater stability, tabbed document views, better writing tools and extensions, export to PDF functionality, legacy compatibility modes (WP12 can be made to look and feel exactly like WP51/DOS). WP also has legal-specific functions that make it the standard among judges and lawyers.
It's also cheaper individually, and bigger businesses can do volume licensing deals with Corel.
WP is hands down a better product than Word. This is coming from a professional writer who has used both programs since their first versions. I'd use WP all day if I could, but WP for Linux kind of sucks, and I have this thing about not using proprietary software if a free alternative is available.
Matt Dillon seems a decent fellow. It's the others that border on psychotic. I wrote this review of DragonFly a few months ago and at least two people associated with the project more or less stalked me because they didn't like the article. I don't care what people post in the comment section, but, um, sending me threats via email? Putting up anti-Jem websites that obviously took a significant amount of time to create? Posting garbage to the forums on my site (which did not even carry the review)? Isn't that taking it a bit too far?
OS X is not FreeBSD, it is not even close. Unfortunately, since Slashdot is pro-crApple, this will be modded as a troll. But know ye: OS X is not FreeBSD... it is a Mach/NeXT derivative with some userland tools from the FreeBSD project.
Yes, it's pretty silly, isn't it? But the suckers are not OSTG or Rob Malda. The suckers are Microsoft for paying OSTG all this money to put those ads there, especially for articles like this one.
Hey, if Microsoft wanted to pay you a bunch of money to buy up your predetermined ad space, would you sell it to them? Ad space is there to make money, not to preach to people about morals and good business practices. You use *content* for that, when applicable.
Anyone know if the original un-fucked trilogy will be available on DVD? I don't want George Lucas' afterthoughts and lifelong committment to neverending editing. I don't want to see Hayden whatshisname, I don't want to see Ewan MacGregor. I want the original movies the way they were without the post-release meddling.
Yes, and never mind the fact that I never said anything about the perceived competitior trying to reverse engineer anythingn TFA. Connolly made that up and then spun it in his direction, as he has done and continues to do.
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The thing is, the Flahs player is FREE. So the only reason to write this one is political, not technical
That's where you're wrong. If you have a 64-bit system, you can't use Flash. Well, maybe if you have 32-bit x86 binary compatibilit you can use it... if you have a 32-bit binary browser. You cannot use 32-bit libraries and plugins with a 64-bit application. So if your uname says AMD64, PPC, SPARC, Alpha, or MIPS, the smug reply from Macromedia is "sorry 'bout your bad luck! Use Windows, buy an x86 machine!"
There are a lot of people who find this unacceptable. Therefore we have GPLFlash.
-JemEnderle does not make phone calls and get facts; he prints opinions. Opinions are not required to be logical or intelligent, and they can run rampant with untruths and stupidity. There's nothing inherently wrong with publishing opinions and commentary.
The reason why this is a commentary and not an article is because there are few or no facts to back up the majority of what Rob Enderle says. I personally consider that unprofessional, even if it doesn't technically break the rules.
-Jem
It's not difficult. This is part of improvisational interactive theater training. Usually it involves two people talking to each other at the same time, all improvisational, and then after one minute you stop and sum up both stories. Then when you've mastered that, a third person is added, and other little tricks. It just takes practice to switch your focus quickly enough to be able to keep your own story going while catching the details of the other.
Anyway, as far as "multitasking" is concerned... I prefer to think of it as native command queuing.
-Jem
How about "help make FreeBSD 6.0 useable" after the disaster that was 5.3-RELEASE. I donated, but I don't use FreeBSD anymore because through some hidden magic of development, FreeBSD's SK/Yukon LAN driver stopped working properly between 5.2.1 and 5.3, and I'm sick of having to patch the source tree to get Audigy support. Don't even get me started about all of the problems the AMD64 port has.
-Jem
Okay, so with your link you have proven my point... look at how many projects Apple *takes from* and look at how many they *maintain or contribute to*. How useful are their OSS projects to non-OS X users?
The APSL is also not compatible with the GPL.
Look, justify your love for Apple any way you want, but your rationalizations don't change the fact that Apple does not give back what they take from Free Software. And it won't change the probability that Apple will try to kill this iPodLinux project.
-Jem
Until they do "version 2.0" of the iPod that has unhackable firmware or some other crap that prevents this project from working.
Microsoft did a similar tactic to prevent Linux from working on the Xbox. Although it's unintentional, wireless LAN cards suffer from similar "versioning" problems with Linux drivers (thank goodness for ndiswrapper!).
-Jem
Just like they did with RealNetworks, Apple will probably put the kibosh on this project with a firmware upgrade or legal buffoonery. I don't know why so many Slashdotters like Apple; they do not support or sell Free Software and they do little to contribute to the FS/OSS community. For as much as they take from FreeBSD, they give nothing back. And if you start going on about Darwin being open-source, keep in mind that Darwin has no practical use beyond its basis for OS X.
::audible sigh::
Apple is not our friend. You might like their fancy computers and software, but never forget that they are a proprietary hardware and software company.
Now watch the Apple zealots mod this down for being anti-Apple.
-Jem
but still came up with nothing, except t-shirts with corporate logos
"I went with Microsoft(TM) and all I got was this stupid 'I've been owned by script kiddies' shirt"
"I would infer from your comments that you are, broadly speaking, a supporter of the current US president, and you don't appear to be sympathetic to organised religion."
The two are mutually exclusive, I think. I neither support nor protest President Bush.
My opinions may change, but what I am allowed to do with them is what I am concerned with. China makes no bones about what it allows and disallows. The US pretends to be free, but is shackled by confusing and sometimes secret laws and loopholes, and a generally fascist attitude toward the non-rich. If this were what I signed up for, then that's one thing. It's frustrating, though, being led to believe that you are free when in actuality you're quite restricted.
In China, prison is where you go if you break the law. In the US, prison is where you go if you break the law and couldn't afford a top-tier lawyer to get you out of it (I am still wondering how Scott Peterson can be sentanced to death in the absence of hard evidence, yet OJ Simpson walks free). I'd rather know my limits than constantly be fooled by the superficial veneer of freedom.
-Jem
Take a look at this. It's probably one of the most spectacular displays of art I have ever seen -- a whole snow/ice village filled with sculptures.
I thought it was the neatest thing I had ever seen, but what struck me later was the sad fact that this treasure could never happen in the United States because no insurance company would cover it. People would sue left and right, and whomever put on that show would go bankrupt. Take a look at the people climbing the wall of ice. I don't know about you, but that looks like a hell of a lot of fun. I'll never know because that kind of "ride" can't ever happen in America because of the litigious assholes that sue people for a living.
I'm currently wrestling with the idea that China may actually be more free than the US. Not because of this single example, but for many reasons... no-knock warrants and other "anti-terrorism" measures that, to date, do not appear to have stopped any terrorists; RIAA/MPAA lawsuits against "john doe" defendants; software patent claims; anti-smoking laws; a whole bunch of shit. What can't you do in China? You can't speak out against the government (the more I hear angry, uninformed EU and US Bush protesters, the more I think I might actually enjoy that), you can't openly practice religion (what?? no Catholic priest child molesters, no Christian wackos and their 10 commandments plaques, no Muslim fundamentalists to kill me?), and you can't have websites that spread superstition. And this is bad... how?
-Jem
The "opening" of Solaris holds no promise of wider hardware support. As it stands right now, Solaris Express (the 10 pre-release) works on such a small segment of the x86 and AMD64 PC market that it's hardly worth considering for a desktop OS. As a server? Well, if you're considering a server, you're considering Sun hardware, so you'll be okay. But outside of what Sun sells, you won't find much Solaris adoption, open source or not.
Linus' statement about hardware support hits harder than people are giving it credit for. What use is an OS if it doesn't run (or completely run) on your computer? Shortly you'll see Mandrake and Novell say the same thing RE: Solaris 10 (actually, they've already said it, but the article hasn't published yet).
-Jem
See for yourself.
-Jem
Look, I'm not going to go for any bullshit DRM-restricted music. If I can't rip to WAV and then encode to OGG or MP3, forget it. If I can't make my own mix CDs and playlists in the format of my choosing, then I'm not going to buy it.
I'd like to think I'm not alone in this. I just want the freedom to listen to the music I buy in the way that I want. Anything less than that is not acceptable.
-Jem
Hey, if Clint Eastwood in his 60s can walk into a bar in The Unforgiven and still say "Any man who doesn't wanna get killed, just clear on out the back," and mean it, then I'd wager Harrison Ford, at 62, can walk into a Nazi stronghold and say "Dunno -- I'll think of something," and mean it too.
Okay, so WW2 is over. That doesn't mean there aren't still Nazis. If I were writing Indiana Jones 4, it would be in South America where the Nazis have fled with the Spear of Destiny.
It can work.
-Jem
Interesting question, but it probably won't make the cut. Makes for interesting discussion though, so as someone who gets flamed hard about three times per week in multiple venues, I can offer these points:
1. The angry corrector. Sometimes the flamers tell you something you need to know, like when you say something that is wrong. For this reason, you should read as many comments as you can unless they're obvious trolls.
2. Special needs posters. The people who sling nasty personal attacks are mentally ill and in search of attention. Think "toddler tantrom," if you have any child experience. Best to give them a time out by ignoring them.
3. The perfessers. Some people just want others to think they are smart, so they find one little point somewhere in what you've written and they pontificate about how this tangential fact ruins the whole article, and much they know and you don't, etc. etc. -- basically this is article envy. They're pissed that you have the attention and they do not.
4. Ugly Americans. American culture encourages people to tear down those in the limelight, those who shine brighter, those with more money, etc., even if these properties are only perceptions. In other words, if you envy, attack. (Yes I am an American, no I do not hate America; this is merely an observation of one of the negative points of the society I live in).
After you start recognizing the archetypes of online trolls/flamers/lusers/etc, they seem much less intimidating. Write what you would want to read, post what you would want to comment on, and ignore the idiots of the world. Do more costumes and if you really enjoy it, the joy of creating a good costume, documenting it, winning awards, and getting positive comments far outweighs the mild frustration of reading the negative comments.
-Jem"What is the nature of your culinary emergency?"
WordPerfect is superior to Word in the same ways that Mozilla is superior to Internet Explorer. More relevant and modern features, greater stability, tabbed document views, better writing tools and extensions, export to PDF functionality, legacy compatibility modes (WP12 can be made to look and feel exactly like WP51/DOS). WP also has legal-specific functions that make it the standard among judges and lawyers.
It's also cheaper individually, and bigger businesses can do volume licensing deals with Corel.
WP is hands down a better product than Word. This is coming from a professional writer who has used both programs since their first versions. I'd use WP all day if I could, but WP for Linux kind of sucks, and I have this thing about not using proprietary software if a free alternative is available.
-Jem
Matt Dillon seems a decent fellow. It's the others that border on psychotic. I wrote this review of DragonFly a few months ago and at least two people associated with the project more or less stalked me because they didn't like the article. I don't care what people post in the comment section, but, um, sending me threats via email? Putting up anti-Jem websites that obviously took a significant amount of time to create? Posting garbage to the forums on my site (which did not even carry the review)? Isn't that taking it a bit too far?
DragonFlyBSD: the OS of lunatics.
-Jem
Yes, except the DragonFly community/developer base are comprised entirely of flaming assholes. I'd use Linux before I'd use DragonFly again.
-Jem
OS X is not FreeBSD, it is not even close. Unfortunately, since Slashdot is pro-crApple, this will be modded as a troll. But know ye: OS X is not FreeBSD... it is a Mach/NeXT derivative with some userland tools from the FreeBSD project.
-Jem
I for one welcome the day when this stupid "overlords" joke is not modded Funny.
-Jem
Yes, it's pretty silly, isn't it? But the suckers are not OSTG or Rob Malda. The suckers are Microsoft for paying OSTG all this money to put those ads there, especially for articles like this one.
Hey, if Microsoft wanted to pay you a bunch of money to buy up your predetermined ad space, would you sell it to them? Ad space is there to make money, not to preach to people about morals and good business practices. You use *content* for that, when applicable.
-Jem
Anyone know if the original un-fucked trilogy will be available on DVD? I don't want George Lucas' afterthoughts and lifelong committment to neverending editing. I don't want to see Hayden whatshisname, I don't want to see Ewan MacGregor. I want the original movies the way they were without the post-release meddling.
Or at least VHS?
-Jem
Yes, and never mind the fact that I never said anything about the perceived competitior trying to reverse engineer anythingn TFA. Connolly made that up and then spun it in his direction, as he has done and continues to do.
-Jem
RTFA. The code between the two derivative works that create lead story blocks is not the same code.
RTFA. Owning the copyright to GPL code means little other than the fact that you get credit for it.
RTFA. The code was not copied. The code in Mambo does not belong to Connolly in any way shape or form.
-Jem