From one perspective we have a great movie translated and dubbed into English.
On the other hand, profits from this movie will go right to back the SSSCA.
The SSSCA will basically mean the destruction of the Open Source community. Microsoft has a patent on DRM based Operating Systems and even if Linux, at some point, does become compliant with the SSSCA, I am sure MS will not license the patent to the OSS community.
What am I going to do? I am not going to be watching or buying any more Disney movies.
I don't think I could look at myself in the mirror.
I don't know what you guys are going to do but I think you should think long and hard about the situation.
For example, slashdot would have a hard time going pay, but, say if all andover's websites went to a subscrption, costing $2/month for unlimited access for everhting
I think this is a good thing. It would require us to have a REAL revenue stream without having to rely on VC. People have to get used to the fact that someone needs to pay for the bills.
With Reptile we are going to integrate payment systems (paypal, merchant, etc) so that you can subscribe to content based on reputation..
This way you can subscibe to your favorite sites like slashdot or kuro5hin and and at the same time get access to a very high rated Salon article.
OK.. I am a Java fan... (recently this has been changing though.)
I have mixed feelings with JDK 1.4.
The JPDA (debugging) support in 1.4 is vastly improved. You can now redefine classes in a running virtual machine. This is really cool and I have written an Ant 'Redefine task to take advantage of this.
The assert facility is OK.... i don't like the fact that they added an Assert keyword but I don't get to make the decisions.
There is also some controversy.
The JSPA agreement that one has to sign to participate in the JCP is WAY too restrictive for Open Source developers. The Apache Software Foundation has a good document where they drawn the line in the sand on their participation.
The Log4J people are upset because there is now a 'stanard' Java package for logging. IMO the 'standard' package is inferior to Log4J in many situations.
The regexp package is not all it is cracked up to be either. I would recommend Jakarta ORO or Jakarta Regexp.
As far as that... it runs GREAT on Linux. Probably the most SOLID VM I have ever run.
They did break some stuff with legacy code. If you ever named a class 'URI' your code will now fail to compile because they put this class in the java.net package which everyone imports anyway.
As far as C# vs.Java. I am really impressed with the CLR/CLI stuff. Right now, as it stands, Java is a proprietary language. Unless we see SUN Open Source Java (or push it through a standards committee), we *may* see a JDK 1.5... but no one will use it.
Also.. check out my Reptile project. It is Java based, only requires JDK 1.2 and incorporates some really cool Java/XML stuff.:)
One of the underlying themes was that of a "young lady's illustrated primer".
Think of a PDA with a terabyte of data, voice recognition, and advanced AI. It pays attention to a childs growth and continually challenges them.
Any question that the child asks will be immediately answered.
The PDA also used "mediaglyphs" which are sort of a Esperanto based on symbols. Instead of building a device which says "eject" you just have a mediaglyph which animates when you put your finger near it of a VCR ejecting a tape.
The first child that grew up with the "primer" was significantly advanced from other children.
I am in the process of building a "primer" for my niece (she is one). It won't be as advanced as the one in the Diamond Age but it will have a dictionary, encyclopedia, art, pictures, etc.
... it might be a good idea to build an "Illustrated Primer" open source project that could build Open Source content for children with geeky relatives:)...
Imagine if this was a laptop. Would be REALLY slick and I would pay the extra $1000 for this.
They would need the ability to operate conventionally so that you could still use it with one LCD panel because you wouldn't be able to use it on an airplane.
I am sitting in a coffee shop in San Francisco right now on 802.11 and it would be nice to have dual LCD panels. One for Emacs and one for Mozilla:)
If this DOES start to happen with higher frequency the Star Wars will save us... right?
We don't have anything to worry about because George W. is going to protect us from this stuff.:)
It would be a REALLY great scandal.
Bush and his defense contractor friends are not counting on anything actually happening. If something comes down and causes any damage this would put a BIG red mark on his face.:)
... my "modern" first computer was a 386DX... basically because it was 32 bit and had a math coprocessor. Damn that thing was cool. I had computers before that but this was the first one I thought was da bomb.
After a while I would tweak DOS to get the MAXIMIM amount of conventional memory 640k out of it. Quarterdeck Memory Manager did an AMAZING job of moving things around and forcing them to load in the correct memory segment.
It was always amazing to see how well it would increase your memory.
I would run QMM, DesqView for multitasking and Norton Commander as my filemanager, and QModem to get into my neighborhood BBS.
QMM was needed with DesqView because it required a lot of resources.
I was S000 37337!
Man I wish I had Linux 2.4 and Debian back then !:) I wouldn't have all these wasted brain cells which know every single bug in DOS/QMM.:)
Kevin
hm. crossover and perhaps a Wine-bundle project?
on
Lindows Reviewed
·
· Score: 4, Interesting
After reading this article. It basically sounds like they are going to take debian, add some KDE skins, tweak the KDE menu and configure WINE so that they have a stable and reliable version that can run as many windows programs as possible.
This sounds basically like the crossover plugin done totally wrong!
There is no reason (technically) that this needs to be a dedicated Linux distribution. The only thing I can think of is that they are doing this for marketing and/or political reasons. I am sure Michael Robertson knows what he is going from a marketing perspective but he is trying to succeed in a technical market.
The one thing that we should learn from this is that it might be time to a dedicated wine-bundle project.
Specifically... Take wine snapshots and QA them and try to get them as stable as possible. This would of course have to be coordinated with the wine project.
This should also include bundling wrappers around Windows programs so that they can be installed easily.
IE you could have a debian package named wine-bundle-ie which would of course install Internet Explorer by downloading it on the client machine similar to the way crossover does it.
This would get you the best of both worlds... Windows apps on a Linux machine and would be an Open Source collaboration.
I try to run 100% Open Source/Free Software but it would be nice to complete invoices for my clients who use Excel.
There are a lot of people here that are criticizing UML.
It is important to remember that UML is not a panacea! It won't solve all of your problems. However, when combined with other proper design techniques it can be very valuable.
The site was generated with Apache Velocity/Anakia and the Jase diagrams are generated with Ant every time I want to rebuild the site.
This allows us to produce a site that has up-to-date UML Class diagrams, javadoc, code snippets, etc and these are always up-to-date with the code that is in CVS.
cool... huh?:)
This is a good example of how UML can bring a lot to the picture.
Slashdot Mirror
use 128 bit UUIDs... no collision!
AD87D0A9S8D90A9D80AD90ASD8A0D80F0A80D8F0AASD3
if that isn't easy to remember I don't know what is!
If China gets to far ahead they will swarm us with...
Just think... billions of Chinese!!! ah!
Man... if India can build a super computer that big the could run Nuclear simulations and someday build a Nuclear bomb!
Hm...
:)
:)
They don't care about the Music industries Intellectual Property... why should they care for the Open Source communities IP?
After all we have a lot less money to sue them.
I think we should create a paypal account where we can take donations to buy our own Senator so that we can get or OWN version of the SSSCA created!
Kevin
So... doesn't this put this in a bad position.
From one perspective we have a great movie translated and dubbed into English.
On the other hand, profits from this movie will go right to back the SSSCA.
The SSSCA will basically mean the destruction of the Open Source community. Microsoft has a patent on DRM based Operating Systems and even if Linux, at some point, does become compliant with the SSSCA, I am sure MS will not license the patent to the OSS community.
What am I going to do? I am not going to be watching or buying any more Disney movies.
I don't think I could look at myself in the mirror.
I don't know what you guys are going to do but I think you should think long and hard about the situation.
Cool... "porn filtering"...
This means that you will filter out all the boring news and weather reports and deliver me raw porn!... right?
:)
For example, slashdot would have a hard time going pay, but, say if all andover's websites went to a subscrption, costing $2/month for unlimited access for everhting
I think this is a good thing. It would require us to have a REAL revenue stream without having to rely on VC. People have to get used to the fact that someone needs to pay for the bills.
With Reptile we are going to integrate payment systems (paypal, merchant, etc) so that you can subscribe to content based on reputation..
This way you can subscibe to your favorite sites like slashdot or kuro5hin and and at the same time get access to a very high rated Salon article.
Of course a lot of this is still under development but we would love to get your help!
OK.
;)
:)
Most cell phones don't have that much data storage... right?
... but what about IE? IE can't be separated from windows so they will have an extra 20M there...
Right...
For those of you not there.
:)
This was announced at codecon. The author passed out about 50 floppies with the distribution on it.
Really good idea. I may have to run this on my laptop
OK.. I am a Java fan... (recently this has been changing though.)
.Java. I am really impressed with the CLR/CLI stuff. Right now, as it stands, Java is a proprietary language. Unless we see SUN Open Source Java (or push it through a standards committee), we *may* see a JDK 1.5... but no one will use it.
:)
I have mixed feelings with JDK 1.4.
The JPDA (debugging) support in 1.4 is vastly improved. You can now redefine classes in a running virtual machine. This is really cool and I have written an Ant 'Redefine task to take advantage of this.
The assert facility is OK.... i don't like the fact that they added an Assert keyword but I don't get to make the decisions.
There is also some controversy.
The JSPA agreement that one has to sign to participate in the JCP is WAY too restrictive for Open Source developers. The Apache Software Foundation has a good document where they drawn the line in the sand on their participation.
The Log4J people are upset because there is now a 'stanard' Java package for logging. IMO the 'standard' package is inferior to Log4J in many situations.
The regexp package is not all it is cracked up to be either. I would recommend Jakarta ORO or Jakarta Regexp.
As far as that... it runs GREAT on Linux. Probably the most SOLID VM I have ever run.
They did break some stuff with legacy code. If you ever named a class 'URI' your code will now fail to compile because they put this class in the java.net package which everyone imports anyway.
As far as C# vs
Also.. check out my Reptile project. It is Java based, only requires JDK 1.2 and incorporates some really cool Java/XML stuff.
They also axed the family guy.
The futurama and the cable guy were the best shows on TV!
I never missed an episode.
I went over ALL the pictures and by FAR this is the best one
:)
... I'm hungry
OK.
:) ...
:)
For those that haven't read diamond age.
One of the underlying themes was that of a "young lady's illustrated primer".
Think of a PDA with a terabyte of data, voice recognition, and advanced AI. It pays attention to a childs growth and continually challenges them.
Any question that the child asks will be immediately answered.
The PDA also used "mediaglyphs" which are sort of a Esperanto based on symbols. Instead of building a device which says "eject" you just have a mediaglyph which animates when you put your finger near it of a VCR ejecting a tape.
The first child that grew up with the "primer" was significantly advanced from other children.
I am in the process of building a "primer" for my niece (she is one). It won't be as advanced as the one in the Diamond Age but it will have a dictionary, encyclopedia, art, pictures, etc.
... it might be a good idea to build an "Illustrated Primer" open source project that could build Open Source content for children with geeky relatives
... buy the diamond age and read it now!
Kevin
It has stopped. just look at George W Bush..
:) booyeah!
One of the other posters commented that it was stupid to create a PC with dual LCD panels because the system will depreciate before the LCD panels.
:)
For laptops this is not the case. Some vendor should create a laptop with dual LCDs.
Specifically this image
Imagine if this was a laptop. Would be REALLY slick and I would pay the extra $1000 for this.
They would need the ability to operate conventionally so that you could still use it with one LCD panel because you wouldn't be able to use it on an airplane.
I am sitting in a coffee shop in San Francisco right now on 802.11 and it would be nice to have dual LCD panels. One for Emacs and one for Mozilla
Yet another reason to use GRUB.
OK.
:)
:)
If this DOES start to happen with higher frequency the Star Wars will save us... right?
We don't have anything to worry about because George W. is going to protect us from this stuff.
It would be a REALLY great scandal.
Bush and his defense contractor friends are not counting on anything actually happening. If something comes down and causes any damage this would put a BIG red mark on his face.
Kevin
Oh my god! NASA can't even get their polls right!
I voted backwards... looks like we will be doing stupid asteroid research.
Kevin
that I could defect from the US and become a citizen of Everquest?
This seems like a good way to get around the DMCA...
:)
Back in the day...
:) I wouldn't have all these wasted brain cells which know every single bug in DOS/QMM. :)
... my "modern" first computer was a 386DX... basically because it was 32 bit and had a math coprocessor. Damn that thing was cool. I had computers before that but this was the first one I thought was da bomb.
After a while I would tweak DOS to get the MAXIMIM amount of conventional memory 640k out of it. Quarterdeck Memory Manager did an AMAZING job of moving things around and forcing them to load in the correct memory segment.
It was always amazing to see how well it would increase your memory.
I would run QMM, DesqView for multitasking and Norton Commander as my filemanager, and QModem to get into my neighborhood BBS.
QMM was needed with DesqView because it required a lot of resources.
I was S000 37337!
Man I wish I had Linux 2.4 and Debian back then !
Kevin
After reading this article. It basically sounds like they are going to take debian, add some KDE skins, tweak the KDE menu and configure WINE so that they have a stable and reliable version that can run as many windows programs as possible.
This sounds basically like the crossover plugin done totally wrong!
There is no reason (technically) that this needs to be a dedicated Linux distribution. The only thing I can think of is that they are doing this for marketing and/or political reasons. I am sure Michael Robertson knows what he is going from a marketing perspective but he is trying to succeed in a technical market.
The one thing that we should learn from this is that it might be time to a dedicated wine-bundle project.
Specifically... Take wine snapshots and QA them and try to get them as stable as possible. This would of course have to be coordinated with the wine project.
This should also include bundling wrappers around Windows programs so that they can be installed easily.
IE you could have a debian package named wine-bundle-ie which would of course install Internet Explorer by downloading it on the client machine similar to the way crossover does it.
This would get you the best of both worlds... Windows apps on a Linux machine and would be an Open Source collaboration.
I try to run 100% Open Source/Free Software but it would be nice to complete invoices for my clients who use Excel.
Kevin
Just curious??? anyone know the answer?
:)
How explosive would a "bottle of pure hydrogen" be that could "provide 1.2kW for up to 10 hours"?
Could this be used as an explosive? We all all remember the Hindenburg right? (it was filled with Hydrogen).
I don't want this to happen to my computer
Also.. could this be knocked back by the govenment due to terrorist potential?
....
Kevin
There are a lot of people here that are criticizing UML.
:)
It is important to remember that UML is not a panacea! It won't solve all of your problems. However, when combined with other proper design techniques it can be very valuable.
For example:
Check out my Reptile docs.
When combined with regular documentation, and linked to the Javadoc, these UML class diagrams REALLY help to clarify the system to newbies.
These were generated from source with Jase
The site was generated with Apache Velocity/Anakia and the Jase diagrams are generated with Ant every time I want to rebuild the site.
This allows us to produce a site that has up-to-date UML Class diagrams, javadoc, code snippets, etc and these are always up-to-date with the code that is in CVS.
cool... huh?
This is a good example of how UML can bring a lot to the picture.
... and would they give every computer user a Belgium waffle?