Huh? I use KDE on FreeBSD, and I can unmount a USB drive in about a tenth of a second with one mouse click. Under Windows (XP) it usually takes me ten or more seconds and four mouse clicks. Sometimes, maybe one in twenty, it takes up to a couple of minutes to unmount with the entire system frozen in the meantime. And this is the system everyone says Unix should emulate? No fscking way!
p.s. DBUS may or may not be a good idea, I haven't looked into it closely. But I'm not expecting any performance increases from it, because that's not what it is. If you have problem with DCOP, then blame your distro for shoddy integration.
It is called *multitasking*. You can do other things with the computer while it is compiling you know.
But these newbies from Windowsland don't know that. If their Windows is anything like the Windows I have to use at work then experience has told them that a background compile will render all other apps unusable. Even with XP+SP2 I'm aghast that Windows still can't do two things at the same time without throwing up.
The reason for this is simple. By forcing everyone to upgrade their hardware, there is less chance for people to put those "old" PC back into service with Linux, FreeBSD, etc. Of course, "old" means anything Bill Gates would be embarassed to have sitting on his desk.
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If this release is named "Krokodile", I think the default startup music should be "Schnappi!"
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Nice to know he can lie as well as the Democrats who claim he's destroyed federal wetlands by 3 million.
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It's basically an economic issue of how hard it is to raise a family for middle and lower income women.
Yet poor people have more children on average than rich people.
Pastic and gasoline aren't an either-or product of petroleum. In the process of distillation you end up with gunk suitable for making plastic *AND* gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and other stuff the chemical industry uses.
So we're STILL going to have all these volatile petroleum products. All we've done is change from plastics being a byproduct of gasoline, to gasoline being a byproduct of plastic. What do we do with all those nice volatiles? We can't pump it back into the ground. I say if we have them we might as well use them.
I thought that a warrant was needed before any sort of surveylance was done.
Not all all. Surveillance without a warrant is perfectly legal. What is prohibited is an entry or search of private property without a warrant. In this particular case a warrant should have been obtained, but only because the car was private, not because it was under surveillance.
How is the name of an image file not an attribute?
In the case of images, mostly likely it *would* be. I was just using it as an example. There are a myriad uses for XML. I most often use it for application data storage. In this case the the XML represents structured data, and not a structured document. Most structured document schemas (XHTML, DocBook) place the image file name as an attribute, but there is no reason this is mandatory.
XML is extremely flexible. There are no rules on how you must structure your data. Equating nodes to nouns and attributes to adjectives is only a suggestion. For some domains it will work, for others it will not.
The person doing the programming cares.
But other people are not going to care. That was my point. If you're the programmer, don't sweat this stuff, because other people who don't have to write it won't care. Not unless they're anally retentive.
XML is extremely flexible. That means you get to make up most of your own rules as you go along. I know one developer who won't use any attributes at all.
Tux and Puffy are *mascots* and not *logos*. The new logo is just that, a logo. Logos are not mascots and mascots are not logos. Just because Linux and OpenBSD do not have logos does not mean NetBSD should not have one either.
Any simple and standard text-based markup language for data encoding with several free parsers available would probably have been just as overhyped as XML.
Numerous other formats performing the same role as XML exist, but they never got the hype because they either weren't a standard, didn't have available parsers, weren't simple, etc., etc.
What nutjob actually thought XML is easy to read?
I think it's easy to read! It's a hell of a lot easier to read than RTF, Postscript. Or consider Sendmail configuration files. Ick! While not as readable as traditional dot.ini files, it's a heck of a lot more flexible.
If you can read HTML you can read XML.
And what is the difference between a node an an attribute?
What's the difference between a person and a trait? It's the same difference. Traits describe people, and attributes describe nodes. Think of nodes as nouns and attributes as adjectives. If a node is the name of an image file, then the attributes could be the image format, size, description, etc.
Of course, like natural language, distinctions can be difficult to make. Is an email address a node or an attribute? But don't sweat stuff like this, because no one cares.
Freshmeat dropped the ball on themes. For KDE themes go to kde-look.org, and for GNOME themes go to gnome-look.org. Finally, theme sites run by people who care...
Do booth babes sell product? I can recall only two sets of booth babes at a LWCE. The first was the BSD Daemon Babe, Cerwin Ercen. She remains popular to this day. But her popularity has more to do with her geekiness, ordinariness, and her obvious play on the booth babe stereotype. Cerwin as a booth babe is clever hack. It's screaming to an unlistening world that you don't have to be a lobotomized and plasticized supermodel from the pages of Playboy to look sexy.
But at that same expo there was another set of booth babes (and a couple of booth studs for "balance"). They were the epitome of the stereotype. What booth was this? Frankly, I can't remember. These people were so out of place at the convention that even the models looked embarassed.
They didn't show up at the next show.
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No, it's all he-man looking dudes busting at the seams with muscles
So you're saying it's okay to objectify women if we also objectify men?
Sorry, need to clarify. Despite FBI warnings to the contrary on your DVDs, you don't go to jail for merely copying a DVD. On the other hand, the DMCA applies to cracking the DVD's encryption. Violating the DMCA can get you put into jail.
I'm an old fart, and don't normally consider the DMCA to be copyright. To me copyright is about copying, deriving, and performing. But many of you consider the DMCA to be copyright (because it has "copyright" in its name). So I apologize if my post sounded bassackwards.
Actually, no one would. Because in the US violating copyright is a civil offense (at least for now), not a criminal offense. No one gets sued into jail. The poorhouse maybe, but not the jail.
No, we're not facing this down south. It turns out that 48% of the populace are so pissed at who the toerh 52% voted for, that they're taking every trivial problem and blowing it up into legal catastrophes of the worst magnitude.
Just because people are shouting that the sky is falling does not mean that the sky is falling. Nobody is going to be throwing eighty year old grandmothers in jail for downloading Lawrence Welk. Yes, there's some complete nitwits in congress, but there are enough semi-nitwits interested in getting reelected that they will refuse to go along with any scheme to incarcerate their constituency. It's a matter of numbers. There's simply too many people quietly sharing a track or two for this legislation to ever make it out to the finish line.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about this, it just means we shouldn't be irrationally panicked.
Why go to larger format media when your average porn movie won't fill up today's DVD. If you're lucky the movie will be slightly longer than 60 minutes. Without additional content, there's no need for larger formats. Porn is so formulaic that the length of the movies will never change. Who the hell is going to sit passively through a four hour porn movie? Thus, except for sets of old material, there's not much need for larger formats.
Of course he doesn't. It was an example. RMS doesn't give away apples. Sheesh...
Bringing it back to the US Constitution
Why? Software licenses have nothing to do with the Constitution. They're in completely different realms. One is a private relationship between two individuals (author and user) and the other is a self-restriction of a government. The "freedoms" of the Free Software are not equivalent to the freedoms in the Bill of Rights.
To play Devil's Advocate, there's a good reason for this. The vast majority of car buyers cannot buy a car with cash. They don't have $20,000 in their pocket. But they can afford a $250 payment a month. Subsequently they shop around for a $250 payment instead of a $20,000 price.
Of course, many people *DO* realize this, which is why they lease instead of buy or get a much cheaper loan from their bank or credit union.
p.s. I used to sell cars. From experience I can tell you the reason most car salesmen treat their customers like idiots is because idiocy is all they can relate to...
I had to "work-off" my long distance phone bills in the BBS days...
I remember that. It taught you very very quickly to make sure your modem hung up after the download was finished. You learned never to browse directories online. You learned to write usenet posts offline. Yada, yada, yada.
It's called growing up.
Back when I was a kid, growing up was a normal thing to do. But for some crazy ass reason or another it's now considered normal to blame everyone else except the child for childish actions. Too high of a phone bill? Blame text messaging! Too high of a credit card bill? Blame Visa and Mastercard! Kid came down with three different varieties of the clap over spring break? Blame Fort Lauderdale! Kid flunked out of college? Blame the Bush administration!
The problem with the BSD/MIT licenses is that they allow freedom (of the user) to be limited (allows restrictive privileges to be taken).
When I release software under the BSD license, I restrict no one. No one. Not one person who gets the software from me is restricted by the license. In fact, there is NO BSD licensed software anywhere in the world that is restricted. If you find software that is restricted, then it is not under the BSD license. Period.
Perhaps you're mistaking the restrictive actions of one of my users, or my users' users, for that of my own. They might possibly be restricting you, but I most certainly am not. The fact that I am not acting as a policeman over the actions of my users is a Good Thing(tm). I refuse to set myself up as a petty tyrant.
Imagine I had an apple tree and I gave away the apples from it. Imagine RMS has one as well. Imagine RMS requiring everyone who gets an apple to promise not to sell it. Furthermore, imagine RMS requiring everyone to obtain similar promises from their recipients should they ever plant the seeds to grow new apples. For ever and ever until the end of time or apple trees, whichever came first. Imagine him accusing me of subjugating and dominating apple eaters because I don't similar obtain perpetually restrictive contracts.
A $25/hour employee is shopping for harddrives. He needs twenty harddrives. He spends ten hours comparing prices from various vendors. How cheap do the drives need to be to make his time worthwile?
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But the point is I'm comparing WinXP to KDE/FreeBSD on the same machine.
Huh? I use KDE on FreeBSD, and I can unmount a USB drive in about a tenth of a second with one mouse click. Under Windows (XP) it usually takes me ten or more seconds and four mouse clicks. Sometimes, maybe one in twenty, it takes up to a couple of minutes to unmount with the entire system frozen in the meantime. And this is the system everyone says Unix should emulate? No fscking way!
p.s. DBUS may or may not be a good idea, I haven't looked into it closely. But I'm not expecting any performance increases from it, because that's not what it is. If you have problem with DCOP, then blame your distro for shoddy integration.
It is called *multitasking*. You can do other things with the computer while it is compiling you know.
But these newbies from Windowsland don't know that. If their Windows is anything like the Windows I have to use at work then experience has told them that a background compile will render all other apps unusable. Even with XP+SP2 I'm aghast that Windows still can't do two things at the same time without throwing up.
But they still won't have any open source drivers available for Linux or BSD...
The reason for this is simple. By forcing everyone to upgrade their hardware, there is less chance for people to put those "old" PC back into service with Linux, FreeBSD, etc. Of course, "old" means anything Bill Gates would be embarassed to have sitting on his desk.
If this release is named "Krokodile", I think the default startup music should be "Schnappi!"
Nice to know he can lie as well as the Democrats who claim he's destroyed federal wetlands by 3 million.
It's basically an economic issue of how hard it is to raise a family for middle and lower income women.
Yet poor people have more children on average than rich people.
Pastic and gasoline aren't an either-or product of petroleum. In the process of distillation you end up with gunk suitable for making plastic *AND* gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and other stuff the chemical industry uses.
So we're STILL going to have all these volatile petroleum products. All we've done is change from plastics being a byproduct of gasoline, to gasoline being a byproduct of plastic. What do we do with all those nice volatiles? We can't pump it back into the ground. I say if we have them we might as well use them.
I thought that a warrant was needed before any sort of surveylance was done.
Not all all. Surveillance without a warrant is perfectly legal. What is prohibited is an entry or search of private property without a warrant. In this particular case a warrant should have been obtained, but only because the car was private, not because it was under surveillance.
How is the name of an image file not an attribute?
In the case of images, mostly likely it *would* be. I was just using it as an example. There are a myriad uses for XML. I most often use it for application data storage. In this case the the XML represents structured data, and not a structured document. Most structured document schemas (XHTML, DocBook) place the image file name as an attribute, but there is no reason this is mandatory.
XML is extremely flexible. There are no rules on how you must structure your data. Equating nodes to nouns and attributes to adjectives is only a suggestion. For some domains it will work, for others it will not.
The person doing the programming cares.
But other people are not going to care. That was my point. If you're the programmer, don't sweat this stuff, because other people who don't have to write it won't care. Not unless they're anally retentive.
XML is extremely flexible. That means you get to make up most of your own rules as you go along. I know one developer who won't use any attributes at all.
Tux and Puffy are *mascots* and not *logos*. The new logo is just that, a logo. Logos are not mascots and mascots are not logos. Just because Linux and OpenBSD do not have logos does not mean NetBSD should not have one either.
Any simple and standard text-based markup language for data encoding with several free parsers available would probably have been just as overhyped as XML.
Numerous other formats performing the same role as XML exist, but they never got the hype because they either weren't a standard, didn't have available parsers, weren't simple, etc., etc.
What nutjob actually thought XML is easy to read?
I think it's easy to read! It's a hell of a lot easier to read than RTF, Postscript. Or consider Sendmail configuration files. Ick! While not as readable as traditional dot.ini files, it's a heck of a lot more flexible.
If you can read HTML you can read XML.
And what is the difference between a node an an attribute?
What's the difference between a person and a trait? It's the same difference. Traits describe people, and attributes describe nodes. Think of nodes as nouns and attributes as adjectives. If a node is the name of an image file, then the attributes could be the image format, size, description, etc.
Of course, like natural language, distinctions can be difficult to make. Is an email address a node or an attribute? But don't sweat stuff like this, because no one cares.
Freshmeat dropped the ball on themes. For KDE themes go to kde-look.org, and for GNOME themes go to gnome-look.org. Finally, theme sites run by people who care...
Do booth babes sell product? I can recall only two sets of booth babes at a LWCE. The first was the BSD Daemon Babe, Cerwin Ercen. She remains popular to this day. But her popularity has more to do with her geekiness, ordinariness, and her obvious play on the booth babe stereotype. Cerwin as a booth babe is clever hack. It's screaming to an unlistening world that you don't have to be a lobotomized and plasticized supermodel from the pages of Playboy to look sexy.
But at that same expo there was another set of booth babes (and a couple of booth studs for "balance"). They were the epitome of the stereotype. What booth was this? Frankly, I can't remember. These people were so out of place at the convention that even the models looked embarassed.
They didn't show up at the next show.
No, it's all he-man looking dudes busting at the seams with muscles
So you're saying it's okay to objectify women if we also objectify men?
Sorry, need to clarify. Despite FBI warnings to the contrary on your DVDs, you don't go to jail for merely copying a DVD. On the other hand, the DMCA applies to cracking the DVD's encryption. Violating the DMCA can get you put into jail.
I'm an old fart, and don't normally consider the DMCA to be copyright. To me copyright is about copying, deriving, and performing. But many of you consider the DMCA to be copyright (because it has "copyright" in its name). So I apologize if my post sounded bassackwards.
Actually, no one would. Because in the US violating copyright is a civil offense (at least for now), not a criminal offense. No one gets sued into jail. The poorhouse maybe, but not the jail.
No, we're not facing this down south. It turns out that 48% of the populace are so pissed at who the toerh 52% voted for, that they're taking every trivial problem and blowing it up into legal catastrophes of the worst magnitude.
Just because people are shouting that the sky is falling does not mean that the sky is falling. Nobody is going to be throwing eighty year old grandmothers in jail for downloading Lawrence Welk. Yes, there's some complete nitwits in congress, but there are enough semi-nitwits interested in getting reelected that they will refuse to go along with any scheme to incarcerate their constituency. It's a matter of numbers. There's simply too many people quietly sharing a track or two for this legislation to ever make it out to the finish line.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't be concerned about this, it just means we shouldn't be irrationally panicked.
Why go to larger format media when your average porn movie won't fill up today's DVD. If you're lucky the movie will be slightly longer than 60 minutes. Without additional content, there's no need for larger formats. Porn is so formulaic that the length of the movies will never change. Who the hell is going to sit passively through a four hour porn movie? Thus, except for sets of old material, there's not much need for larger formats.
RMS does no such thing.
Of course he doesn't. It was an example. RMS doesn't give away apples. Sheesh...
Bringing it back to the US Constitution
Why? Software licenses have nothing to do with the Constitution. They're in completely different realms. One is a private relationship between two individuals (author and user) and the other is a self-restriction of a government. The "freedoms" of the Free Software are not equivalent to the freedoms in the Bill of Rights.
To play Devil's Advocate, there's a good reason for this. The vast majority of car buyers cannot buy a car with cash. They don't have $20,000 in their pocket. But they can afford a $250 payment a month. Subsequently they shop around for a $250 payment instead of a $20,000 price.
Of course, many people *DO* realize this, which is why they lease instead of buy or get a much cheaper loan from their bank or credit union.
p.s. I used to sell cars. From experience I can tell you the reason most car salesmen treat their customers like idiots is because idiocy is all they can relate to...
I had to "work-off" my long distance phone bills in the BBS days...
I remember that. It taught you very very quickly to make sure your modem hung up after the download was finished. You learned never to browse directories online. You learned to write usenet posts offline. Yada, yada, yada.
It's called growing up.
Back when I was a kid, growing up was a normal thing to do. But for some crazy ass reason or another it's now considered normal to blame everyone else except the child for childish actions. Too high of a phone bill? Blame text messaging! Too high of a credit card bill? Blame Visa and Mastercard! Kid came down with three different varieties of the clap over spring break? Blame Fort Lauderdale! Kid flunked out of college? Blame the Bush administration!
The problem with the BSD/MIT licenses is that they allow freedom (of the user) to be limited (allows restrictive privileges to be taken).
When I release software under the BSD license, I restrict no one. No one. Not one person who gets the software from me is restricted by the license. In fact, there is NO BSD licensed software anywhere in the world that is restricted. If you find software that is restricted, then it is not under the BSD license. Period.
Perhaps you're mistaking the restrictive actions of one of my users, or my users' users, for that of my own. They might possibly be restricting you, but I most certainly am not. The fact that I am not acting as a policeman over the actions of my users is a Good Thing(tm). I refuse to set myself up as a petty tyrant.
Imagine I had an apple tree and I gave away the apples from it. Imagine RMS has one as well. Imagine RMS requiring everyone who gets an apple to promise not to sell it. Furthermore, imagine RMS requiring everyone to obtain similar promises from their recipients should they ever plant the seeds to grow new apples. For ever and ever until the end of time or apple trees, whichever came first. Imagine him accusing me of subjugating and dominating apple eaters because I don't similar obtain perpetually restrictive contracts.
A $25/hour employee is shopping for harddrives. He needs twenty harddrives. He spends ten hours comparing prices from various vendors. How cheap do the drives need to be to make his time worthwile?