WWW may reach the same level Gopher is today, it is not so popular (mainstream) but it's contents can be very interesting if you perform some data mining (geekly speaking of course).
Brazil has been using eletronic voting devices for about 6 years. Next month we will have elections sessions for municipal mayors, and we are going to use the eletronic voting system. This system is very reliable.
What do you mean by free? "free as in beer" or "free speach"? If you mean the former, than we have already seen this. It was propoused by a guy called Engels.
I belive any respectable director want their movie to be watched many people as possible. In the Farenheit case this goes even further, due the political idea behind the movie.
The problem lies in the millionaries companies that produce the movies. Distributing it for free through the network isn't really interesting (profitable) for them. How long it will take to Warner to distribute a expensive movie in this way ? A long time IMHO.
Great minds have already tried and failled on proving Riemann Hypothesis, including John Nash and John Von Neumann, both from Princeton Advanced Studies Center.
If this proof were accepted by the mathematician community I belive Louis the Branges will be considered one of the greatest mathematicians of this new millenium.
Last chapter of the GNU Emacs manual it is called the "GNU Manifesto" and it points several ways on making money with free software development/support/selling etc.
"Book" in portuguese is almost equal the word Livre, it is Livro.
Furthermore, Livre in portuguese means exactlly "free as in freedom" and cannot be misunderstood. For "free beer" we [portuguese speakers] use the word Gratis, that means "no fee, no charge". That's quite different from english, where "free" may assume both "free as in freedom" and "free beer".
Have Brown ever been at a comp. sci. class ? Specifically at an operating systems class ?
I am getting the 5th semester of computer science. Next semester we will going to have the class "Operating Sytems II". In this [5th] semester we are studying the theorical concepts of operating system (based upon Tanenbaum's books). Until the end of the next semester we will have to build a simple but working monolithic unix based kernel.
I know it is pretty diff from the time Linux was written (now we have dozens of unix based systems and a lot of free software around), but if a regular 19 year old student can write a working but simple kernel in 6-8 months, why the heck couldn't Linus write a unix monolithic kernel in 6 months ? He is a brilliant programmer, he had time avaliable, he was focused, he didn't have a girlfriend (just kiddin)...
Ken Brown doesn't have any idea of what he is talking about. We should just ignore him.
I am a computer science student and I'm very envolved with the academic activities on my university. I have a scientific initiation* project based on testing mobile agents build in Java. The project is even afforded by a gov. agency.
We are using Sun's JVM and compilers to build the agents and the testers. I was think about using gcj/classpath to build that programs, but that would be really 'reliable' ?
How my project would be intepreted in scientific congress when people see it is not developed under Sun's JVM but on GNU's one ?
I have always fought for freedom and I totally agree with almost all Stalman's words but to say us to use a free replacement for Sun's JVM that isn't even completely done doesn't sound very pleasant for the programmers. In my case, I don't know what would be the academic's or even my advisor's reaction to a sentence like: "This Java program, compiled under GNU's JVM, solves that and that problem this way..."
Before trying to "push" (don't take me as non-free person) a environment it is better to finish it don't you think ?
* that's how it is called the first project the student have in the academic environment in Brazil
The following programs make the console accessible for blind people worth downloading. One of the administradors of the FreeNode is legally blind and use the first one:
this is really nostalgic, but how about the old punched card or punched paper tape system ? That time you didn't get a display just a little printer and some paper to deal with, having a good vision wasn't really necessary to analyze that tiny holes.
Slashdot Mirror
Imagine playing Zero Wing with plant speakers. To hear a flower saying to you:
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US.
That would be bizarre.
BLOGS.sun.com
enough said.
WWW may reach the same level Gopher is today, it is not so popular (mainstream) but it's contents can be very interesting if you perform some data mining (geekly speaking of course).
Actually we have already used this system in two Presidential elections, in two Governor elections and in one Municipal Mayor election.
Brazilian government has applyied successfully a campaign to teach the people (a lot of poors and uneducated) how to use this system.
Brazil has been using eletronic voting devices for about 6 years. Next month we will have elections sessions for municipal mayors, and we are going to use the eletronic voting system. This system is very reliable.
This Java applet simulates the Brazilian eletronic voting system we use (it is in portuguese).
because everybody loves the Ewoks
What do you mean by free? "free as in beer" or "free speach"? If you mean the former, than we have already seen this. It was propoused by a guy called Engels.
as this is being posted in /. I belive mike will beat 100,000 messages really soon...
Here in Brazil there are companies providing 128/64 DSL services and calling it "broadband".
SCO x DELL
I belive any respectable director want their movie to be watched many people as possible. In the Farenheit case this goes even further, due the political idea behind the movie.
The problem lies in the millionaries companies that produce the movies. Distributing it for free through the network isn't really interesting (profitable) for them. How long it will take to Warner to distribute a expensive movie in this way ? A long time IMHO.
Great minds have already tried and failled on proving Riemann Hypothesis, including John Nash and John Von Neumann, both from Princeton Advanced Studies Center.
If this proof were accepted by the mathematician community I belive Louis the Branges will be considered one of the greatest mathematicians of this new millenium.
This can help the GCJ project to build their free CLASSPATH faster.
Soon [I hope] this free Java compiler/interpreter will be ready to replace the "closed" Sun's Java.
Babbage's Analytical Engine (which first computer programmer was Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron).
Last chapter of the GNU Emacs manual it is called the "GNU Manifesto" and it points several ways on making money with free software development/support/selling etc.
"Book" in portuguese is almost equal the word Livre, it is Livro.
Furthermore, Livre in portuguese means exactlly "free as in freedom" and cannot be misunderstood. For "free beer" we [portuguese speakers] use the word Gratis, that means "no fee, no charge". That's quite different from english, where "free" may assume both "free as in freedom" and "free beer".
Have Brown ever been at a comp. sci. class ? Specifically at an operating systems class ?
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I am getting the 5th semester of computer science. Next semester we will going to have the class "Operating Sytems II". In this [5th] semester we are studying the theorical concepts of operating system (based upon Tanenbaum's books). Until the end of the next semester we will have to build a simple but working monolithic unix based kernel.
I know it is pretty diff from the time Linux was written (now we have dozens of unix based systems and a lot of free software around), but if a regular 19 year old student can write a working but simple kernel in 6-8 months, why the heck couldn't Linus write a unix monolithic kernel in 6 months ? He is a brilliant programmer, he had time avaliable, he was focused, he didn't have a girlfriend (just kiddin)
Ken Brown doesn't have any idea of what he is talking about. We should just ignore him.
This man [Brown] doesn't deserve a single comment.
s/research/researcher/
Professor Tanenbaum is the "Operating Systems Pope", one of the most respected research in action nowdays.
I am a computer science student and I'm very envolved with the academic activities on my university. I have a scientific initiation* project based on testing mobile agents build in Java. The project is even afforded by a gov. agency.
..."
We are using Sun's JVM and compilers to build the agents and the testers. I was think about using gcj/classpath to build that programs, but that would be really 'reliable' ?
How my project would be intepreted in scientific congress when people see it is not developed under Sun's JVM but on GNU's one ?
I have always fought for freedom and I totally agree with almost all Stalman's words but to say us to use a free replacement for Sun's JVM that isn't even completely done doesn't sound very pleasant for the programmers. In my case, I don't know what would be the academic's or even my advisor's reaction to a sentence like: "This Java program, compiled under GNU's JVM, solves that and that problem this way
Before trying to "push" (don't take me as non-free person) a environment it is better to finish it don't you think ?
* that's how it is called the first project the student have in the academic environment in Brazil
Patient: "Hi doctor, how are you doing? Are you ready to start ?"
.. I was playing some Quake I .. That Axe really rocks!"
Doctor: "Ohhh yeah
Patient: "Oh god..."
Not only at the laptop but that would be really usefull at cellphones and nobreaks (!?).
The following programs make the console accessible for blind people worth downloading. One of the administradors of the FreeNode is legally blind and use the first one:
SpeakUp
EmacSpeak
this is really nostalgic, but how about the old punched card or punched paper tape system ? That time you didn't get a display just a little printer and some paper to deal with, having a good vision wasn't really necessary to analyze that tiny holes.