My only request for new versions of office
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The ONLY thing that I want in new versions of office is kick ass protection. Make the user jump through hoops, and stop all but the most determined users from pirating their software.
Only then will people start to realize that there are GREAT free alternatives.
I am a parent of an 11 year old boy and a pair of young girls.
We have an XBOX, and have been playing PC games for years. Personally, I like violent games. My boy is not violent, nor have we had any problems with his Video game playing, so I don't mind if he plays games like halflife, Quake, Doom, etc.
I draw the line at games like Manhunt, GTA, Carmageddon, etc. I am simply exercising my right as a parent, similar to deciding what movies I want him watching.
The problem I have is that other parents don't do the same. These are decent parents of decent kids - but I think that they just don't realize what kind of games are out there (they are obviously not supervising their kids video game playing). My boy has played these games at friends houses.
Its very easy to blame the parents but the truth of the matter is that nowadays parents are very busy, both parents work in most families, and they don't realize that these types of games exist and that their kids are playing them.
Personally, I was quite surprised at manhunt. It is very violent, and doesn't seem to have much outside of that. Boring..
I don't believe that banning violent video games is the answer (censorship is rarely the answer), however parents must be re-educated that the video games of today are very different from the ones that they remember.
I like to keep business logic in one place as much as possible. You are almost assured to have some in your app, so I try to keep all logic there.
Stored Procs and triggers make can make the code simpler and more efficient, but spread out the workings of the application and unless properly documented, more difficult to understand.
Why would anyone want mpeg-2 encoding? The only reason I could see it is for simple straight-to-dvd recording.
I would prefer a nice high bitrate mjpeg or dv recording, (or huffyuv if I could afford it) then I can do my own mpeg-2 conversion AFTER the video has been processed and is exactly how I want..
mpeg-2 is a decent playback format, but sucks to edit (wasn't meant for that).
When I was a kid I was very interested in math and science from an early age. I wasn't doing very well in school and in grade 5 they decided that something had to be done with me, so they gave me an aptitude test because they wanted to see what level I was at (they seriously thought I had mental problems). They were shocked that I was reading at a university level, and quickly decided that I was "gifted"
I first started programming when I was about 12. I had written my first program and had never been at a computer. I had read a book on BASIC, and had written a program on paper. (it didn't quite work, but I had the jist)
Starting at about grade 8, I was really getting teased a lot at school. No one liked me, I was labeled a geek and was bullied and harrassed constantly. I hated myself. I hated being different. I started becoming one of those other kids. I started smoking. I started drinking. I started taking drugs. At 15 I ran away from home (small town) and moved to a big city. I lived on the street and started using hard drugs, like LSD, MDA, Cocaine, T's & R's, Marijuana, whatever I could get. On day I almost OD'd on IV morphine.
I almost threw my life away. At 25 I started coming around. Now 10 years later, I am married, have a happy life, 3 kids, and work as a TA at a large IT firm. Not a bad living
But it could have been much better
Please don't let this kid 'figure it out for himself'. Put him with him emotional equals and let him thrive. I would bet that in a group of emotional equals he would develop those social skills - he just doesn't care to have relationships with kids that don't have the same interests..
It wasn't until Intel came out with the newer Pentium 4's with the 512 KB L2 cache and software that fully took advantage of SSE2 extensions that the CPU finally took off in popularity.
Well, from where I sat, the P4 didn't take off in popularity until Intel discontinued the P3...
I used SFU 1 and IIRC it was really a rebranded version of Intergraph NFS server.
it *did* work and did work reliably, but the mapping of ACL's to UNIX perms and userid's and groups were enough to give me a major headache. I never did get it working right (from a security perspective).
"Core Team" Development models are out-dated and sound more M$'ish than Open Source'ish.
Huh? The problem is not the Development model, its the Core Team! If the Core Team is aligned with what the general user population (and developers) want it works very well.
While several projects continue to use the "Core Team" model, like FreeBSD, in my opinion, the politics involved ain't worth it.
Which is exactly what I LOVE about FreeBSD. I do find the bazaar method of OS development very interesting, I certainly do not believe it will obsolete the standard heirarchical method.
In fact, I'm surprised that anything truly useful (and complete - if you can call Linux complete) is ever done this way.
Just imagine where Linux (as a whole) would be if there wasn't all that redundant development going on all over the place.
Anything less will be err less.
The only thing consoles have going for them is that they are cheap. They are cheap because they are designed for one purpose - gaming. Whats the definition of a PC? A general purpose computer that you can:
Back in the Day, Novell decided to write its own OS, and rather than use developed standard protocols (TCP/IP) that was already starting to glue the world together, they went off and used a self-hacked version of little known research protocols (IPX/SPX) running a set of proprietary application layer protocols for fileshareing, all using a draconian licensing scheme.
You call Novell open?
Now that they've lost the game, they decide they want to play ball.
Now, I admit, since they have fallen and 'seen the light' I hope they kick ass as well, but to call them OPEN, now thats just funny!
Yes, GPL software is freer than public domain, in the sense that the source code can never be taken proprietary (other than by the original author) and redistributed
Call me old fashioned, but this seems LESS FREE. More restrictions = Less Free
Very true - I probably shouldn't have called it nonsense.
The GPL has its place and strengths. Its just that issues like this linksys one serve to push business away from the GPL, and by proxy, Linux. This is not good for Linux.
Maybe saying something against the GPL on a vehemently pro-linux news site may be considered a troll, but Linux isn't the only game in town, and there are others that are much more business friendly.
Every network device that I have sold has been based on Free or OpenBSD. If I were Linksys, I'd certainly consider it. The quality of the BSD's particularily in the area of networking is quite good and I'm sure would make a decent product.
As someone who develops software either using or in conjunction with open source, I personally much prefer the BSD license. Their philosophy is not 'bend over', but more that software should be a commidity for any use, without restriction.
Even with this philosophy there is a significant amount of quality software that gets 'donated' back into the community. For example, the netgraph system in FreeBSD. That is a significant piece of work.
I just prefer the BSD style philosophy rather than the draconian enforcement of the GPL.
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Will it run windows? ;)
lol vb code on slashdot.
;)
You are new around here aren't you?
The ONLY thing that I want in new versions of office is kick ass protection. Make the user jump through hoops, and stop all but the most determined users from pirating their software.
Only then will people start to realize that there are GREAT free alternatives.
Fixes available via Windows Media Player ...
Well, on a linux fanboy news site, I suppose that could be considered a troll.
However, I strongly believe it, and think that if the software in question is GPL'd that it should not be called free software, but freeish software.
Hmm why would they have to license it if its free? Oh yeah, its not free - its GPL'd
I am a parent of an 11 year old boy and a pair of young girls.
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We have an XBOX, and have been playing PC games for years. Personally, I like violent games. My boy is not violent, nor have we had any problems with his Video game playing, so I don't mind if he plays games like halflife, Quake, Doom, etc.
I draw the line at games like Manhunt, GTA, Carmageddon, etc. I am simply exercising my right as a parent, similar to deciding what movies I want him watching.
The problem I have is that other parents don't do the same. These are decent parents of decent kids - but I think that they just don't realize what kind of games are out there (they are obviously not supervising their kids video game playing). My boy has played these games at friends houses.
Its very easy to blame the parents but the truth of the matter is that nowadays parents are very busy, both parents work in most families, and they don't realize that these types of games exist and that their kids are playing them.
Personally, I was quite surprised at manhunt. It is very violent, and doesn't seem to have much outside of that. Boring
I don't believe that banning violent video games is the answer (censorship is rarely the answer), however parents must be re-educated that the video games of today are very different from the ones that they remember.
I like to keep business logic in one place as much as possible. You are almost assured to have some in your app, so I try to keep all logic there.
Stored Procs and triggers make can make the code simpler and more efficient, but spread out the workings of the application and unless properly documented, more difficult to understand.
Just my $0.02 CDN
Why would anyone want mpeg-2 encoding? The only reason I could see it is for simple straight-to-dvd recording.
..
I would prefer a nice high bitrate mjpeg or dv recording, (or huffyuv if I could afford it) then I can do my own mpeg-2 conversion AFTER the video has been processed and is exactly how I want
mpeg-2 is a decent playback format, but sucks to edit (wasn't meant for that).
BSD or similar less freedom-guaranteeing licenses
LOL. I still can't get how people can't see that:
more restrictions = Less Free
GPL is less free than the BSD license..
Probably because OpenMosix is GPL.
I'm sure this scares them, it would scare me...
When I was a kid I was very interested in math and science from an early age. I wasn't doing very well in school and in grade 5 they decided that something had to be done with me, so they gave me an aptitude test because they wanted to see what level I was at (they seriously thought I had mental problems). They were shocked that I was reading at a university level, and quickly decided that I was "gifted"
I first started programming when I was about 12. I had written my first program and had never been at a computer. I had read a book on BASIC, and had written a program on paper. (it didn't quite work, but I had the jist)
Starting at about grade 8, I was really getting teased a lot at school. No one liked me, I was labeled a geek and was bullied and harrassed constantly. I hated myself. I hated being different. I started becoming one of those other kids. I started smoking. I started drinking. I started taking drugs. At 15 I ran away from home (small town) and moved to a big city. I lived on the street and started using hard drugs, like LSD, MDA, Cocaine, T's & R's, Marijuana, whatever I could get. On day I almost OD'd on IV morphine.
I almost threw my life away. At 25 I started coming around. Now 10 years later, I am married, have a happy life, 3 kids, and work as a TA at a large IT firm. Not a bad living
But it could have been much better
Please don't let this kid 'figure it out for himself'. Put him with him emotional equals and let him thrive. I would bet that in a group of emotional equals he would develop those social skills - he just doesn't care to have relationships with kids that don't have the same interests..
It wasn't until Intel came out with the newer Pentium 4's with the 512 KB L2 cache and software that fully took advantage of SSE2 extensions that the CPU finally took off in popularity.
...
Well, from where I sat, the P4 didn't take off in popularity until Intel discontinued the P3
Well, you would have to define simple.
I used SFU 1 and IIRC it was really a rebranded version of Intergraph NFS server.
it *did* work and did work reliably, but the mapping of ACL's to UNIX perms and userid's and groups were enough to give me a major headache. I never did get it working right (from a security perspective).
The POTS concept might seem old and passe but it's reliability can't be argued.
;-) Wonder if they saw that coming with the Internet ... LOL
Very true - however its not the technology that I am excited about - its getting less reliant on the telco* and the falling prices.
* Funny thing is we still need the telco for IP connectivity
"Core Team" Development models are out-dated and sound more M$'ish than Open Source'ish.
Huh? The problem is not the Development model, its the Core Team! If the Core Team is aligned with what the general user population (and developers) want it works very well.
While several projects continue to use the "Core Team" model, like FreeBSD, in my opinion, the politics involved ain't worth it.
Which is exactly what I LOVE about FreeBSD. I do find the bazaar method of OS development very interesting, I certainly do not believe it will obsolete the standard heirarchical method.
In fact, I'm surprised that anything truly useful (and complete - if you can call Linux complete) is ever done this way.
Just imagine where Linux (as a whole) would be if there wasn't all that redundant development going on all over the place.
This is the only real reason that I need more power than what I have (P4 2.4G, 1G ram).
PC Virtual machine technology has completely changed the way that I design systems.
More power? Bring it on!
DISCLAIMER: A client told me this, I know nothing about Excel!
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A customer of mine tested OO, and was surprised at its functionality, but said they can't use it as they use Excel's Pivot Tables extensively
Amost there
Anything less will be err less. The only thing consoles have going for them is that they are cheap. They are cheap because they are designed for one purpose - gaming. Whats the definition of a PC? A general purpose computer that you can:
Play Games
Do general computing stuff
Watch TV
Communicate on the Internet
Isn't that the 'uberdevice'?
Now *that* is funny.
Back in the Day, Novell decided to write its own OS, and rather than use developed standard protocols (TCP/IP) that was already starting to glue the world together, they went off and used a self-hacked version of little known research protocols (IPX/SPX) running a set of proprietary application layer protocols for fileshareing, all using a draconian licensing scheme.
You call Novell open?
Now that they've lost the game, they decide they want to play ball.
Now, I admit, since they have fallen and 'seen the light' I hope they kick ass as well, but to call them OPEN, now thats just funny!
Yes, GPL software is freer than public domain, in the sense that the source code can never be taken proprietary (other than by the original author) and redistributed
Call me old fashioned, but this seems LESS FREE. More restrictions = Less Free
Very true - I probably shouldn't have called it nonsense. The GPL has its place and strengths. Its just that issues like this linksys one serve to push business away from the GPL, and by proxy, Linux. This is not good for Linux.
(Score:2, Troll)
uhh I don't think so - I'm dead serious.
Maybe saying something against the GPL on a vehemently pro-linux news site may be considered a troll, but Linux isn't the only game in town, and there are others that are much more business friendly.
Every network device that I have sold has been based on Free or OpenBSD. If I were Linksys, I'd certainly consider it. The quality of the BSD's particularily in the area of networking is quite good and I'm sure would make a decent product.
Of course you have a point.. BUT
As someone who develops software either using or in conjunction with open source, I personally much prefer the BSD license. Their philosophy is not 'bend over', but more that software should be a commidity for any use, without restriction.
Even with this philosophy there is a significant amount of quality software that gets 'donated' back into the community. For example, the netgraph system in FreeBSD. That is a significant piece of work.
I just prefer the BSD style philosophy rather than the draconian enforcement of the GPL.
All this does is make companies shy away from Linux. Linksys should just move to BSD and forget about this GPL nonsense.