Can I write a closed source program in KDE without having to pay QT 1500 USD? NOT LIKELY...
As a suggestion, you might want to consider Cocoa/GNUstep instead. It's LGPL'd, so you can certainly develop closed source with it, it's *far* superior to GNOME, KDE,.NOT, MFC, or anything else you will ever use, it's the most Rapid RAD system around, and your code is portable to various Unices including Mac OS X (with a Win32 backend in progress).
Disclaimer: Note that I'm a biased bigot; but many other people love these well-designed OO frameworks too; and I think more folks should check them out.
GNUstep has been making, and continues to make, a great deal of progress. There is a constant stream of serious development being done in CVS. We have Interface Builder and Project Builder clones, EOF and WebObjects work-alikes, a Java bridge, Ruby and Smalltalk environments, IRC client, Mail client, Console app, CD Burner, Media player, games, a Workspace clone, a lot of other apps.
AND you get a first-class OO development framework that blows away the crap spewed forth by GNOME and KDE.
You'd certainly be welcome as a member of the growing tight-knit community and/or as a developer. Try Aaron Hillegass' book for a good gentle introduction to the Cocoa/Objective-C idiom.
Now, in the case of the Alpha, it's sheer dated-ness that's holding it back. Even with the huge differential in clock speed, the Alpha puts up quite a fight.
That's what I suspected. I seem to recall it soundly beating earlier x86 chips by a comfortable margin.
I'd really like to see what it could do if as much effort was put into it as is being put into Itanium or Power4.
Definitely. But I guess it's gone the way of Betamax and NeXTSTEP (or BeOS <grin>). I always wanted an Alpha just to see how fast POV-Ray could do renders or how many voices of polyphony I could generate with CSound in realtime.
Dear God, no, I don't think I could handle finding out that Seinfeld and Friends have been voted the funniest shows in the galaxy. Or that the funniest joke in this quadrant is that stupid one about the two hunters from New Jersey.
Ah, but didn't the older DEC Alphas provide better floating point performance than high-end x86, even just a couple of years ago? If what you want is massive amounts of FP processing, wouldn't something like Alpha get you further? (Not spouting off, seriously interested in the answer.)
I hear the sound of someone who has never used FAST FTPSearch. FAST developed a *superb* FTP search engine that was simply amazing (their current incarnation of it seems to be greatly lacking in the advanced features that it used to have).
I do think you've got a point but what are you going to do with music that doesn't work well in a live environment? There are an awful lot of techniques that rely on recording technology to work.
But it *does* cost a lot to employ 160 musicians and the large studio with experienced recording engineers to record them. Sure, if you're talking about your average greasy teenagers in a garage making squealing sounds with amps, it's cheap as hell. Techno or Rap are cheap too. But when you start writing real music for large ensembles, it can get very expensive to record and produce.
It's just a page with a blue background and nothing else. I don't get it. You'd think it would be the "Netscape engineers are weenies" or something but it's nothing. Why did they bother?
if your ISP gives in to threats from a third party and cuts off your access witrhout discussion its the same damn thing...its the govenment shutting you down by proxy.
Only if the government is one of the third parties that complains. The government had zero, zilch, zip, nada, dum-diddly-squat to do with this. The third parties that complained are all private business ventures. Why is that so hard to understand?
Yeah, it kind of was painful, as was his attempt at "penninsula."
But I honestly think he's doing it on purpose now. Look at it this way: his speech-writers and oratory coaches absolutely *have* to be aware of this problem and I'm *certain* they wouldn't just "let it go by." They've probably told him a hundred times that he should alter his pronunciation.
Also, I've noticed several times that he attempts to conceal a smirk when he says it. I think he keeps doing it because it's become a little joke for him and because it helps to make his speech more memorable (if grating to many). Also, perhaps he does it to intentionally rattle those who are annoyed by it.:-)
Absolutely correct. I hope they fly their mission in March on schedule, and fly every scheduled mission after that. To do otherwise would be to admit defeat. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't like admitting defeat. We should press on, regardless of the dangers, as those before us have done in every other area of exploration and endeavor.
Cocoa contains many, many proprietary extensions to OpenSTEP.No. There are some Mac OS X extensions (meaning, new classes and methods) but these are being *actively* tracked and implemented by the GNUstep project. With the addition of the Renaissance framework to GNUstep, porting graphical applications is going to be *far* easier.
If there anything that's wrong with that characterization, it's the fact that we still can't get past National Boundaties when describing the people involved. Seven people died today when this mission failed -- does it really matter where they come from?
Yes. Ramon was a national hero and this mission was extremely important to the Israeli people as a matter of national pride. They would be insulted, and rightly so, if no one even noticed that an Israeli was on board.
The commercial quality freeware thing was their old description for it and doesn't apply anymore since it will no longer be freeware. They just didn't remove the older description paragraph from the webpage.
The reason they didn't open it up before was they believed that they couldn't have a professional-quality artistic "vision" if they opened it up to the chaos of OSS (which is silly, but that's how they viewed it).
Finally, I think the reason they pursue the "no commercial exploitation" ideal was a misunderstanding about what Free Software is really about. Many people have the grandiose idea that it's Communism applied to software, when it's really just a blanket grant of copyright permission.
Heh, I had really hoped that with the flash and marketing power of Mac OS X, Objective-C (and OpenStep) would finally start to build the bigger and more powerful community that it deserves.
Still, GNUstep is starting to get to critical mass, and in the last few weeks, I've seen several new people show up on the mailing lists, saying they had just discovered it and were interested in helping. Hopefully we can still make a go of it.
Heh, not to mention complete lack of UI design skill. I can't believe some of the crap I've seen developers pump out. Why don't they learn anything about HCI?
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You would have to release all the source code. Are you willing to accept this portion of the license agreement?
As a suggestion, you might want to consider Cocoa/GNUstep instead. It's LGPL'd, so you can certainly develop closed source with it, it's *far* superior to GNOME, KDE, .NOT, MFC, or anything else you will ever use, it's the most Rapid RAD system around, and your code is portable to various Unices including Mac OS X (with a Win32 backend in progress).
Disclaimer: Note that I'm a biased bigot; but many other people love these well-designed OO frameworks too; and I think more folks should check them out.
AND you get a first-class OO development framework that blows away the crap spewed forth by GNOME and KDE.
You'd certainly be welcome as a member of the growing tight-knit community and/or as a developer. Try Aaron Hillegass' book for a good gentle introduction to the Cocoa/Objective-C idiom.
Why? What does Chewbacca have to do with this? NOTHING!! It doesn't make sense!
I'm holding out for the Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern -schplenden -schlitter -crasscrenbon -fried -digger -dangle -dungle -burstein -von -knacker -thrasher -apple -banger -horowitz -ticolensic -grander -knotty -spelltinkle -grandlich -grumblemeyer -spelterwasser -kürstlich -himbleeisen -bahnwagen -gutenabend -bitte -eine -nürnburger -bratwustle -gerspurten -mit -zweimache -luber -hundsfut -gumberaber -shönendanker -kalbsfleisch -mittler -raucher von Hautkopft of Ulm, due out in 2057.
I'm a rabid NeXTSTEP fanatic. I'll kill people who say anything bad about Objective-C. :-)
That's what I suspected. I seem to recall it soundly beating earlier x86 chips by a comfortable margin.
I'd really like to see what it could do if as much effort was put into it as is being put into Itanium or Power4.
Definitely. But I guess it's gone the way of Betamax and NeXTSTEP (or BeOS <grin>). I always wanted an Alpha just to see how fast POV-Ray could do renders or how many voices of polyphony I could generate with CSound in realtime.
Dear God, no, I don't think I could handle finding out that Seinfeld and Friends have been voted the funniest shows in the galaxy. Or that the funniest joke in this quadrant is that stupid one about the two hunters from New Jersey.
Ah, but didn't the older DEC Alphas provide better floating point performance than high-end x86, even just a couple of years ago? If what you want is massive amounts of FP processing, wouldn't something like Alpha get you further? (Not spouting off, seriously interested in the answer.)
I hear the sound of someone who has never used FAST FTPSearch. FAST developed a *superb* FTP search engine that was simply amazing (their current incarnation of it seems to be greatly lacking in the advanced features that it used to have).
I do think you've got a point but what are you going to do with music that doesn't work well in a live environment? There are an awful lot of techniques that rely on recording technology to work.
But it *does* cost a lot to employ 160 musicians and the large studio with experienced recording engineers to record them. Sure, if you're talking about your average greasy teenagers in a garage making squealing sounds with amps, it's cheap as hell. Techno or Rap are cheap too. But when you start writing real music for large ensembles, it can get very expensive to record and produce.
It's just a page with a blue background and nothing else. I don't get it. You'd think it would be the "Netscape engineers are weenies" or something but it's nothing. Why did they bother?
Remember: you have to get behind someone before you can stab them in the back.
Only if the government is one of the third parties that complains. The government had zero, zilch, zip, nada, dum-diddly-squat to do with this. The third parties that complained are all private business ventures. Why is that so hard to understand?
But I honestly think he's doing it on purpose now. Look at it this way: his speech-writers and oratory coaches absolutely *have* to be aware of this problem and I'm *certain* they wouldn't just "let it go by." They've probably told him a hundred times that he should alter his pronunciation.
Also, I've noticed several times that he attempts to conceal a smirk when he says it. I think he keeps doing it because it's become a little joke for him and because it helps to make his speech more memorable (if grating to many). Also, perhaps he does it to intentionally rattle those who are annoyed by it. :-)
Absolutely correct. I hope they fly their mission in March on schedule, and fly every scheduled mission after that. To do otherwise would be to admit defeat. I don't know about everyone else, but I don't like admitting defeat. We should press on, regardless of the dangers, as those before us have done in every other area of exploration and endeavor.
Cocoa contains many, many proprietary extensions to OpenSTEP.No. There are some Mac OS X extensions (meaning, new classes and methods) but these are being *actively* tracked and implemented by the GNUstep project. With the addition of the Renaissance framework to GNUstep, porting graphical applications is going to be *far* easier.
Yes. Ramon was a national hero and this mission was extremely important to the Israeli people as a matter of national pride. They would be insulted, and rightly so, if no one even noticed that an Israeli was on board.
The reason they didn't open it up before was they believed that they couldn't have a professional-quality artistic "vision" if they opened it up to the chaos of OSS (which is silly, but that's how they viewed it).
Finally, I think the reason they pursue the "no commercial exploitation" ideal was a misunderstanding about what Free Software is really about. Many people have the grandiose idea that it's Communism applied to software, when it's really just a blanket grant of copyright permission.
Heh, I had really hoped that with the flash and marketing power of Mac OS X, Objective-C (and OpenStep) would finally start to build the bigger and more powerful community that it deserves.
Still, GNUstep is starting to get to critical mass, and in the last few weeks, I've seen several new people show up on the mailing lists, saying they had just discovered it and were interested in helping. Hopefully we can still make a go of it.
Could be worse. There are only 2 jobs listed for Objective C on Dice. :-( That actually kind of surprised me, I thought there would at least be a few.
Heh, not to mention complete lack of UI design skill. I can't believe some of the crap I've seen developers pump out. Why don't they learn anything about HCI?
Tell that to several million musicologists. :-)
no suggestions on what should be done to ASCAP infiltrators if their cover is blown, although I'm sure you can imagine some
I suggest you leave them alone. Save it up for Hilary Rosen. Man, if there was ever a time for vigilante justice....