I agree. The meme that these startups have no choice but to do what Microsoft says is stupid. If there's something in the MSM license that gives MS leverage over your company, don't use MSM! Duh!
People who chain themselves to a tree and then complain that they're chained to a tree need a swift hard kick in the nuts.
It is very much like Slackware or Arch. (Actually closer to Arch). You get a basic bare bones system, and Xorg is installed on top of that. I have never had any problems upgrading Xorg, even when it moved from/usr/X11R6 to/usr/local.
Once you have it setup it's extremely easy to maintain. You still need to edit some configuration files here and there. If you don't want to do some very lightweight sysadmin duties, then it probably isn't for you. You may want to try PC-BSD or DesktopBSD instead.
Jambi is the Java bindings, and is a Trolltech offering. It is very powerful, robust and fast. PyQt is for Python, and is a product of Riverbank Computing (with a licensing model similar to Qt's). It is also of very high quality, and kept closely in sync with Trolltech's offerings. There are also some Ruby bindings in the Open Source community, but I am not as familiar with them.
The problem I have is that they require that any software written for their commercial-license library be only written for their commercial-license library.
Nonsense! You can use the commercial version to write BOTH commercial and Free Software.
Write your editor with their free library, then never be able to distribute it in any way without GPL'ing it
Not entirely correct. Their GPL license includes disclaimers for several common Open Source licenses. You still need to open your source, but you are not limited to a single license.
As for the future of your app, decide before you start which license you will be using. It is not fair to the Qt developers (who get paid from license sales) to "cheat" by developing under the Free Software license and then switching to the commercial license when you release it.
You may use the GPL version for training and learning the library. And there is an Evaluation license if you wish to evaluate Qt for your own project. But when you start the actual coding of your software, purchase a commercial license if you intend for your software to commercial itself.
It's quid pro quo. Do unto Trolltech as you would have Trolltech do unto you.
Qt will be under GPL3 AND GPL2! (As well as QPL for Qt/X11). Nothing has changed for you except that you have one new option. In addition, the license from Trolltech includes disclaimers for most common Open Source licenses.
You can make some awesome beer with malt extract as a base. I seem to recall a survey of brewing contests that showed around half the winning beers were extract based.
Just stay away from the prehopped crap and don't try to make a lighter lagers. Use some crystal and darker malts, with real hops and good yeast cultures, and you can make some award winning beers.
The real loser is the idea that we should even be voting. While I have great sympathy for the idea that I should be able to cast a vote in the process to determine which tyant will rule over me, nevertheless it always ends up with tyrants ruling over me. The only solution I can see, short of the anarchy, is extreme decentralization of government. If your local city council turns out to be a bunch of petty dictators out to milk the taxes, you can always move a few miles away. But if it's your national government it's a hell of a lot harder to move away. The larger the government, the harder it is to escape.
The Gutsy version of Kubuntu broke a _lot_ of things on my powerbook.
Ditto for me on my Thinkpad. But NONE of those broken things came from KDE. All were (K)Ubuntu addons, enhancements, and the like.
My current assignment ends tomorrow, and then I will be wiping Kubuntu off the Thinkpad, and replacing it with a no-frills system (probably Arch). I prefer my KDE in the vanilla flavor, without any of the "improvements" Kubuntu/SuSE/Mandriva/etc. bolt onto the side.
This is bullshit! KDE 3.5 is perfectly acceptable. The fact that a new version is coming out sometime in the future is a idiot reason to drop support. "Old" versions of software don't just vanish on release dates. Who they hell died and made Ubuntu the god of release dates? Is this going to happen for any piece of software that happens to have a release date close to Ubuntu's? Or is this only the case for KDE because Ubuntu is GNOME centric?
Exit polls have self selected samples. They are decidedly unscientific, and should have much higher error ranges than the poll salesmen give them. People who want to be polled get polled, those who don't don't. Go watch some exit polls. In the last election I saw two or three people waiting to be polled. People who wanted to be polled had gravitated to people with clipboards.
So why did a few counties in 2000 have such skewed exit polls when other elections didn't? One possible reason is evenness of the split. The 2000 election was essentially 50/50, which magnified errors in the exit polls. Exit polls never match the actual voting exactly, but when the elections are not so close, you never get contrary results. So no one notices the difference between a 52/58 and 51/49, but will notice the difference between 50.1/49.9 and 49/9/50, because the latter shows a different winner.
Dear AOL, here's a clue for you: Stop trying to pick a freaking browser for your users! It's like a gas station choosing the model of car for its customers.
Consider the great depression and the 1930s. It took WW2 to pull us out of that one.
The great depression started due to monetary policies. Hoover made it worse with wage controls, and FDR prolonged it with inane programs. WWII didn't end the depression, it merely shipped the unemployed off to war. The depression didn't end until the post-war rebound.
"...medical devices running open-source software are extremely rare because of the perceived difficulty in obtaining FDA validation."
Horseapples! I've worked in this industry and that is most certainly not the answer. The reason you don't hear more about Linux devices in the medical field is one of two reasons: 1) The high demand for real time systems, which Linux hasn't been that great at historically; and 2) They're not telling you about it! I've worked in the field developing system software, and not once has FDA validation been the cause to choose another OS over Linux. I'm currently a software engineering consultant, and have worked for many medicial device companies. Most are using Linux, with many of the remainder using a BSD. Even in those companies demanding hard realtime, they're still using Linux in the front end.
(*) Why aren't companies advertising Linux use? Probably for the same reason they're not advertising that they're using vxWorks, LinxOS, QNX, etc.
Do you think that science can only occur through government?
But no matter, Ron Paul is NOT advocating the elimination of these programs. In fact, he suggests that would care more easily afford useful science programs if we got rid of the real waste in the Federal government. A president can only do so much in eight years, and there are far far bigger fish to fry than NASA.
And I oppose both of them because they can't seem to grasp the basic concept that choosing specific technological implementations is none of the government's business. Leaving stuff like this to politicians is astonishingly naive. These people are not gods with the superhuman wisdom to know what is best for you.
Be careful with your definitions. There is a world of difference between opposing stem cell research, and opposing federal funding for stem cell research. As such, your list doesn't really tell me anything, as it doesn't separate these two distinct issues.
I am against all government protected monopolies. I am also against any government privileges given to businesses. In such situation the economic transaction itself may not be coerced, but others in the economy definitely are. If a business can't compete without the heavy handed fist of government helping them, then they need to get out and make room for someone else who can.
If you're on the grid, people who you don't like are getting your money.
Why should I care? As long as I give my money to them voluntarily through uncoerced economic transactions, it's not longer my money, it's theirs. I gave it to them. On the other hand, if I dislike them so much that I have to rant on Slashdot about it, then I shouldn't be doing business with them to begin with. As the doctor says, if it hurts to do that then don't do that!
I'm not sure what you mean by "port development", but in terms of learning programming, Unix is the way to go.
All the tools you need are included in FreeBSD. Get some familiarity with the command line and shell, and learn a good non-GUI text editor like vi or emacs. GUI editors are great, but being able to edit a file over an ssh connection is an invaluable skill. The other tools you need, like make, gcc, etc., are included in the basic install.
FreeBSD has a programming book included. Really! It's called "FreeBSD Developers' Handbook", and it's online at . It's also installed along with FreeBSD. Some of the stuff is specific to FreeBSD, but there's a lot in it that's general to C programming on any Unix platform. Once you are comfortable with the command line and a good text editor, start going through this handbook.
No, I'm saying your "truth" is a meaningless factoid. I judge people on what they do, not who they are. If we're going to castigate the people who did this, for what what they actually did, then we need to castigate EVERYONE who does the same thing.
I was one of the original geeks and today could not stay up with what the average individual on slashdot needs to know... it is just too much information now
The trick is specialization. In the past it was possible to have in-depth knowledge in all areas of computing. Today that is impossible. You have to narrow down your expertise to fewer areas. A lot of geek younglings think they know everything, but it's just opinionated arrogance and not true knowledge.
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I agree. The meme that these startups have no choice but to do what Microsoft says is stupid. If there's something in the MSM license that gives MS leverage over your company, don't use MSM! Duh!
People who chain themselves to a tree and then complain that they're chained to a tree need a swift hard kick in the nuts.
It is very much like Slackware or Arch. (Actually closer to Arch). You get a basic bare bones system, and Xorg is installed on top of that. I have never had any problems upgrading Xorg, even when it moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local.
Once you have it setup it's extremely easy to maintain. You still need to edit some configuration files here and there. If you don't want to do some very lightweight sysadmin duties, then it probably isn't for you. You may want to try PC-BSD or DesktopBSD instead.
Jambi is the Java bindings, and is a Trolltech offering. It is very powerful, robust and fast. PyQt is for Python, and is a product of Riverbank Computing (with a licensing model similar to Qt's). It is also of very high quality, and kept closely in sync with Trolltech's offerings. There are also some Ruby bindings in the Open Source community, but I am not as familiar with them.
The problem I have is that they require that any software written for their commercial-license library be only written for their commercial-license library.
Nonsense! You can use the commercial version to write BOTH commercial and Free Software.
Write your editor with their free library, then never be able to distribute it in any way without GPL'ing it
Not entirely correct. Their GPL license includes disclaimers for several common Open Source licenses. You still need to open your source, but you are not limited to a single license.
As for the future of your app, decide before you start which license you will be using. It is not fair to the Qt developers (who get paid from license sales) to "cheat" by developing under the Free Software license and then switching to the commercial license when you release it.
You may use the GPL version for training and learning the library. And there is an Evaluation license if you wish to evaluate Qt for your own project. But when you start the actual coding of your software, purchase a commercial license if you intend for your software to commercial itself.
It's quid pro quo. Do unto Trolltech as you would have Trolltech do unto you.
Qt will be under GPL3 AND GPL2! (As well as QPL for Qt/X11). Nothing has changed for you except that you have one new option. In addition, the license from Trolltech includes disclaimers for most common Open Source licenses.
Your worries are very mislaid.
Another tutorial comes with my brewing program, QBrew: http://www.usermode.org/code.html.
You can make some awesome beer with malt extract as a base. I seem to recall a survey of brewing contests that showed around half the winning beers were extract based.
Just stay away from the prehopped crap and don't try to make a lighter lagers. Use some crystal and darker malts, with real hops and good yeast cultures, and you can make some award winning beers.
The real loser is the idea that we should even be voting. While I have great sympathy for the idea that I should be able to cast a vote in the process to determine which tyant will rule over me, nevertheless it always ends up with tyrants ruling over me. The only solution I can see, short of the anarchy, is extreme decentralization of government. If your local city council turns out to be a bunch of petty dictators out to milk the taxes, you can always move a few miles away. But if it's your national government it's a hell of a lot harder to move away. The larger the government, the harder it is to escape.
The latest *stable* release is 3.5.8. Don't bother with 4.0, because it won't be stable for a long time. I'm guessing six to nine months. IMHO.
The Gutsy version of Kubuntu broke a _lot_ of things on my powerbook.
Ditto for me on my Thinkpad. But NONE of those broken things came from KDE. All were (K)Ubuntu addons, enhancements, and the like.
My current assignment ends tomorrow, and then I will be wiping Kubuntu off the Thinkpad, and replacing it with a no-frills system (probably Arch). I prefer my KDE in the vanilla flavor, without any of the "improvements" Kubuntu/SuSE/Mandriva/etc. bolt onto the side.
This is bullshit! KDE 3.5 is perfectly acceptable. The fact that a new version is coming out sometime in the future is a idiot reason to drop support. "Old" versions of software don't just vanish on release dates. Who they hell died and made Ubuntu the god of release dates? Is this going to happen for any piece of software that happens to have a release date close to Ubuntu's? Or is this only the case for KDE because Ubuntu is GNOME centric?
Whoops, those last numbers should have been 49.9/50.1.
If you want a quick answer, just use exit polls.
Exit polls have self selected samples. They are decidedly unscientific, and should have much higher error ranges than the poll salesmen give them. People who want to be polled get polled, those who don't don't. Go watch some exit polls. In the last election I saw two or three people waiting to be polled. People who wanted to be polled had gravitated to people with clipboards.
So why did a few counties in 2000 have such skewed exit polls when other elections didn't? One possible reason is evenness of the split. The 2000 election was essentially 50/50, which magnified errors in the exit polls. Exit polls never match the actual voting exactly, but when the elections are not so close, you never get contrary results. So no one notices the difference between a 52/58 and 51/49, but will notice the difference between 50.1/49.9 and 49/9/50, because the latter shows a different winner.
Dear AOL, here's a clue for you: Stop trying to pick a freaking browser for your users! It's like a gas station choosing the model of car for its customers.
Consider the great depression and the 1930s. It took WW2 to pull us out of that one.
The great depression started due to monetary policies. Hoover made it worse with wage controls, and FDR prolonged it with inane programs. WWII didn't end the depression, it merely shipped the unemployed off to war. The depression didn't end until the post-war rebound.
"...medical devices running open-source software are extremely rare because of the perceived difficulty in obtaining FDA validation."
Horseapples! I've worked in this industry and that is most certainly not the answer. The reason you don't hear more about Linux devices in the medical field is one of two reasons: 1) The high demand for real time systems, which Linux hasn't been that great at historically; and 2) They're not telling you about it! I've worked in the field developing system software, and not once has FDA validation been the cause to choose another OS over Linux. I'm currently a software engineering consultant, and have worked for many medicial device companies. Most are using Linux, with many of the remainder using a BSD. Even in those companies demanding hard realtime, they're still using Linux in the front end.
(*) Why aren't companies advertising Linux use? Probably for the same reason they're not advertising that they're using vxWorks, LinxOS, QNX, etc.
Do you think that science can only occur through government?
But no matter, Ron Paul is NOT advocating the elimination of these programs. In fact, he suggests that would care more easily afford useful science programs if we got rid of the real waste in the Federal government. A president can only do so much in eight years, and there are far far bigger fish to fry than NASA.
And I oppose both of them because they can't seem to grasp the basic concept that choosing specific technological implementations is none of the government's business. Leaving stuff like this to politicians is astonishingly naive. These people are not gods with the superhuman wisdom to know what is best for you.
Huh? Ron Paul opposes the right of two people to copulate and produce offspring? Since when?
Be careful with your definitions. There is a world of difference between opposing stem cell research, and opposing federal funding for stem cell research. As such, your list doesn't really tell me anything, as it doesn't separate these two distinct issues.
I am against all government protected monopolies. I am also against any government privileges given to businesses. In such situation the economic transaction itself may not be coerced, but others in the economy definitely are. If a business can't compete without the heavy handed fist of government helping them, then they need to get out and make room for someone else who can.
If you're on the grid, people who you don't like are getting your money.
Why should I care? As long as I give my money to them voluntarily through uncoerced economic transactions, it's not longer my money, it's theirs. I gave it to them. On the other hand, if I dislike them so much that I have to rant on Slashdot about it, then I shouldn't be doing business with them to begin with. As the doctor says, if it hurts to do that then don't do that!
I'm not sure what you mean by "port development", but in terms of learning programming, Unix is the way to go.
All the tools you need are included in FreeBSD. Get some familiarity with the command line and shell, and learn a good non-GUI text editor like vi or emacs. GUI editors are great, but being able to edit a file over an ssh connection is an invaluable skill. The other tools you need, like make, gcc, etc., are included in the basic install.
FreeBSD has a programming book included. Really! It's called "FreeBSD Developers' Handbook", and it's online at . It's also installed along with FreeBSD. Some of the stuff is specific to FreeBSD, but there's a lot in it that's general to C programming on any Unix platform. Once you are comfortable with the command line and a good text editor, start going through this handbook.
No, I'm saying your "truth" is a meaningless factoid. I judge people on what they do, not who they are. If we're going to castigate the people who did this, for what what they actually did, then we need to castigate EVERYONE who does the same thing.
I was one of the original geeks and today could not stay up with what the average individual on slashdot needs to know... it is just too much information now
The trick is specialization. In the past it was possible to have in-depth knowledge in all areas of computing. Today that is impossible. You have to narrow down your expertise to fewer areas. A lot of geek younglings think they know everything, but it's just opinionated arrogance and not true knowledge.