I think that all good and idealistic ideas must be viewed from the same point as the idealistic and perfectionalistic martial arts of the East. The best example coming to my mind is Aikido. While an experienced teacher can explain the movement of your fists like "the fall of a dry leaf stopped by a mountain spring" and you must understand it before you can do the move correctly, an inexperinced teacher will try to explain the principles in phisical, concrete examples, direct words - and these words will not be a precise description of the move making you fail to accomplish it without you acctually understanding why. I think that XP is an art of programming, that just had no good teacher to explain the fundamentals of the process precisely enough. When you learn Aikido, you go trough three phases: 1. You learn what Aikido is and try to repeat it 2. You find new moves that organically follow from the ones in Aikido 3. Every move you do is Aikido whenever you want it or not. Only masters that have reached the third level can understand the principles of the art, but only those in the second level can teach it. What I see in XP is the lack of a house of 3rd level masters surrounded by 2nd level masters that could pick up and distribute their knowledge in a form pure enough for people to see the art behind XP and simple nough for them to understand.
I must admit that I also was the one to suffer from that. After a great deal on an expensive digital camera (Sony F717:)) that went flawlessly I got too relaxed. They got me with a road bike for 100 EUR + 50 for shipping and I bought it. It's been a month without the bike and any reply to the emails. This article motivated me to go to the authorities to try to get the money back. This fraud was stupid enough to give me his bank acount and a postal address. Let's see what the police san do about it!
This time Debian developers do indeed follow the upstream and the release of KDE 3.2.1 went to Debian unstable almost faster then it was released upstream.
Karate is too agressive in it's nature to be a good social skill. One very good thing to master for a genius of mind is Aikido. I've been there, done that. In this situation Karate sucks, Aikido rulez. Aikido focuses on flexibility and dynamics, precision and avoidance of conflict. It will be very interesting for the kid to see, how, mere use of basic principles of phisics combined with good knowledge of a human body and reflexes, can be used to bring fenomenal results. Also if he is genius enough, he will have a great chalenge in mastering and understanding the most mystical moves of Aikido, like the 'unbendable arm'. Some of the moves of Aikido have not been scientifically explained as of now. He will build a good body, develop a straight pose, get some friends (or at least fighting partners) and give him the most needed 'context switch' that, as I have noticed from my own experience, greatly boosts ones field of view.
Also you could give him an interest in fields of science and general knowledge that are completely unrelated to his main interests. You could point out that the most successfull discoveries come from combining two unrelated sciences, or by using the discoveries of one science in another area in an 'unsupported' way. That is also known as 'crosshacking':).
As I already said, I've been that kid in highschool, luckily my elder brother explained me that only one that has a very wide field of view with deep insight in at least a few areas, can call himself a true genius. The widening of my field of view extended my knowledge of the social structure of human kind and made me understand the meaning behind the most obscure social laws, that I couldn't understand before (and of course didn't obey because of that).
Now I have a stable girlfriend that I live together with, lots of friends in different areas, inroads into business and government structures. That is not the meaning of my life, but these are some good means to acquire my goals.
I am 20, I earn a heavy (over the average) paycheck at a small Linux support company from my knowledge. I study at a University for my bachelors degree. I am starting a Jonas adaptation project that will bring me the double of my current paycheck within 6 month and a % from the profit of the ready system when it's running. And I also have a plan for my own company that could bring big buck in. (And I also have a great girlfriend living next door, but that is a different matter)
There is a lot of money to be made with the in-depth knowledge of free software. The know-how is the most valued thing in the industry now. Just pick a project, take a free software project that is close enough to your needs and adapt it. You'll easily get the contract if you show the client the allmost ready prototype at the very beginning.
Instead of modding you, one should talk and explain and that is what I'll try to do here.
First, there are open source versions of Java. The problem is, as they are now, they are no where near as good as the "commercial" implementations. ESR begging Sun to open source Java is pretty much an admittion that the open source community cannot develop on it's own something as good as what Sun has developed.
At this point I cann't tell from my own experience, so I'll heve to reiterate what prockcore said before on Java API stability: "There's also nothing preventing Sun from deprecating half the API on a whim.. in fact, they do that all the damn time."
This isn't the first time that ESR made promises that OSS would help a company/technology. Look at netscape. ESR lobbied very hard in the OSS community to get people to join the mozilla project in the beginning. That never really happened. While people do help Mozilla now, it didn't benefit Netscape. Mozilla has also failed to even surpass Netscapes puny browser market share. The OSS model does not always work and ESR has helped prove this.
Mozilla and it's derrivatives have surpassed Netscape market share. Not the one, when Netscape was dominating the market, but the market share Netscape had when it was Open Sourced has been surpassed long ago. It is also worth mentioning that it was hard for Open Source developers to use the code produced by Netscape because it was clumsy and badly written. I belive that Mozilla has been rewritten from scratch since then, and the only goal that Netscape code served for this was the focus point for the Open Source developers and some good money to support some of them.
What about OpenOffice? Would it be where it is today if it wasn't developed as a commercial project, then bought and open sourced? Do ANY of the completely open source office suites come close to doing what OO.org does? No they don't. And you're kidding yourselves if you think they do.
KOffice and Gnome Office, to name two, have surpassed OpenOffice in usability and speed and have long surpassed the funcionality of StarOffice 5.x. Again, most of the OpenOffice has been remade, rewritten, refactored to work properly.
What Sun should do is get rid of some of the stupid things in their license.
Like making it DFSG compilant? Isn't this to contradiction to the rest of your comment?
What IBM might consider sponsoring Debian in some way so that a highly optimized java platform can be developed for Debian. Suse has licensed the source from Sun for this very purpose. With debian gaining ground in the server market this would be a great thing to have.
That could only work in one of these four ways:
Sun makes Java Open Source by releasing it under a common Open Source licence (DFSG compilant)
Sun makes Java Open Source by relaxing it's own licence (and making it DFSG compilant)
IBM funds GJC or Kaffe development
IBM funds separate Open Source Java project
The article is about IBM helping Sun to do 1. or 2. move. Moves 3 and 4 alienate IBM and Sun, and Open Source and Sun. This would be a very bad move for everyone.
(Ob. Debian - despite my nick and email, I only speak for myself and not the Debian project)
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Final results
But, with no forther adue, I present the final result! Enjoy! Pic7 Top side Borg Cube Pic8 Right sidepanel Pic9 Left Sidepanel Pic10 The full monty Credits: I'd especially like to thank Gerard for the many hours we spent in the workshop creating the Borg Cube.
From the ground up, the Cube is made from strong cardboard plates. The reason is that cardboard is really easy to work with and paint. To put the pieces of cardboard together, I used rubber cement. This is because rubber cement dries quickly and has a good strong compound. On the outside I used steel wires for the pipes, and glued them onto the cardboard with industrial superglue.
The hardware Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M 9000, 933Mhz Memory: 256 MB PC2700 CAS 2 Harddisks: 2x10GB 2,5" harddisk PSU: A-Open 180Watt Micro-ATX LAN: 3Com 3C905 Cooling: 3x Sunbeam 80mm fans. 2 of them are the green Led-fan with green circular CCFL version. Resistors: To be able to manage the speed of the fans I used 2 Sharkoon resistors. One is connected to the top and rear outtake fans, and the other to the intake fan. Pic1 Layers
After a few test runs, I decided to supply the case with two different layers. One inside layer for some extra strength, and a Borg-like outside layer. The inside layer is made out of 1mm cardboard, every side being 30x30cm. For a bit more toughness, the bottom is made out of 4 pieces that are glued on top of eachother.
Except for the bottom, every side has a couple of big holes carved out, so that the light from inside can find its way outside through the inner layer. Additional 80mm wide holes were made in the front, top, and back panels, for the three fans. On top of that, the inside layer has been spraypainted silver, to optimize the reflection of the light, for extra coolness. Pic2 Pic3 During the construction of the frontpanel, we had some doubts about the final result of the case. Without a proper paintjob it was hard to see if we were on the right track, so we finished the frontpanel first before we went on with the rest of the project. Fortunately, giving the panel a nice coat of paint made it look better than we expected, so we had nothing to be worried about. And so we went on creating the rest of the panels. We knew what to do, and how to create certain effects, so we could continue the construction as follows:
Pic4 We began with the cardboard plates... Pic5 Pic6...after which we added some dimension, and some steel wiring to top it off.
This project took us 9 months, in which I spent 250hours of my spare time. In total, we used about 60 meters of steel wire, and 1,5 m2 cardboard.
Has anyone run it already? If so, can you post any FPS rating along with your system specs. (CPU, RAM, HDD type, video card, distro, kernel, video driver details, X version,...)
Not really. Windows 98 booted in that way is just plain DOS, while if it is stripped down by 98lite, then it is a Windows 98 but without the GUI, you can still run all command line Win32 applications, like FAR for example, you can access all Win32 API.
And 98lite provides all steps in between pure Win98 and CLI.
Well, as *I* see the plan from the comments here, the plan is to take the carbon out of circulation by making plankton accomulate carbon by converting CO2 to C+O2 and then make the plankton sink to the bottom of the sea. What I don't understand is the second part of the plan, what is the sence in that?
At least for Windows, I can find drivers for _all_ my hardware.
I am still searching for drivers for my crapy old unknown manufactured sound card, TV tuner, external modem, HP scanner (dosn't work in XP:P) and some other random crap.
It all happily works in Linux.
You can find all Windows drivers only because you are supplied with the by the manufacturer. Windows needs a driver for anything and their mouse:P.
Linux on the other hand incorporates support of the new (and old) hardware into more generic drivers making all devices behave uniformly.
Acctually one of the reasons I use Linux all the time is bad driver support on the Windows side (and the only reason I keep Windows is games:) )
I just bought a 1996 19" Compaq with Sony Trinitron tube for 100$ and I have a great 1600x1200@85Hz that is enough for me and a lot better then my friend who spent 300$ for a new 17" monitor and only gets 1600x1200@60Hz:P
Old profesional monitors are much better then new consumer monitors AND they are cheaper too!
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I think that all good and idealistic ideas must be viewed from the same point as the idealistic and perfectionalistic martial arts of the East. The best example coming to my mind is Aikido.
While an experienced teacher can explain the movement of your fists like "the fall of a dry leaf stopped by a mountain spring" and you must understand it before you can do the move correctly, an inexperinced teacher will try to explain the principles in phisical, concrete examples, direct words - and these words will not be a precise description of the move making you fail to accomplish it without you acctually understanding why.
I think that XP is an art of programming, that just had no good teacher to explain the fundamentals of the process precisely enough.
When you learn Aikido, you go trough three phases:
1. You learn what Aikido is and try to repeat it
2. You find new moves that organically follow from the ones in Aikido
3. Every move you do is Aikido whenever you want it or not.
Only masters that have reached the third level can understand the principles of the art, but only those in the second level can teach it.
What I see in XP is the lack of a house of 3rd level masters surrounded by 2nd level masters that could pick up and distribute their knowledge in a form pure enough for people to see the art behind XP and simple nough for them to understand.
I must admit that I also was the one to suffer from that. After a great deal on an expensive digital camera (Sony F717 :)) that went flawlessly I got too relaxed.
They got me with a road bike for 100 EUR + 50 for shipping and I bought it. It's been a month without the bike and any reply to the emails.
This article motivated me to go to the authorities to try to get the money back. This fraud was stupid enough to give me his bank acount and a postal address. Let's see what the police san do about it!
To fly even lower, the last time the OpenSSL had bugs, Microsoft also had to release a security fix for their software IIRC.
The artists still get paid, and everyone wins.
And how much *exactly* will the artist get from the 20$ I paid for that album and how much will go to the resellers?
And how much will the artist get from the 14.85$ I paid for their album online (15 tracks for 0.99$ each)?
I think album buying online is far better for the artist!
The portable, USB powered girlfriend? I had it somewhere, just around here ...
You know what *REALLY* surprises me about this?
This time Debian developers do indeed follow the upstream and the release of KDE 3.2.1 went to Debian unstable almost faster then it was released upstream.
All the best, folks!!! Thanks and congrats!
Karate is too agressive in it's nature to be a good social skill.
:).
One very good thing to master for a genius of mind is Aikido. I've been there, done that. In this situation Karate sucks, Aikido rulez.
Aikido focuses on flexibility and dynamics, precision and avoidance of conflict. It will be very interesting for the kid to see, how, mere use of basic principles of phisics combined with good knowledge of a human body and reflexes, can be used to bring fenomenal results. Also if he is genius enough, he will have a great chalenge in mastering and understanding the most mystical moves of Aikido, like the 'unbendable arm'. Some of the moves of Aikido have not been scientifically explained as of now.
He will build a good body, develop a straight pose, get some friends (or at least fighting partners) and give him the most needed 'context switch' that, as I have noticed from my own experience, greatly boosts ones field of view.
Also you could give him an interest in fields of science and general knowledge that are completely unrelated to his main interests. You could point out that the most successfull discoveries come from combining two unrelated sciences, or by using the discoveries of one science in another area in an 'unsupported' way. That is also known as 'crosshacking'
As I already said, I've been that kid in highschool, luckily my elder brother explained me that only one that has a very wide field of view with deep insight in at least a few areas, can call himself a true genius. The widening of my field of view extended my knowledge of the social structure of human kind and made me understand the meaning behind the most obscure social laws, that I couldn't understand before (and of course didn't obey because of that).
Now I have a stable girlfriend that I live together with, lots of friends in different areas, inroads into business and government structures.
That is not the meaning of my life, but these are some good means to acquire my goals.
That's kind of strange, I have been to ./ for less then 6 month and I get moderation points almost weekly for last 3 month.
I am 20, I earn a heavy (over the average) paycheck at a small Linux support company from my knowledge. I study at a University for my bachelors degree.
I am starting a Jonas adaptation project that will bring me the double of my current paycheck within 6 month and a % from the profit of the ready system when it's running. And I also have a plan for my own company that could bring big buck in.
(And I also have a great girlfriend living next door, but that is a different matter)
There is a lot of money to be made with the in-depth knowledge of free software. The know-how is the most valued thing in the industry now. Just pick a project, take a free software project that is close enough to your needs and adapt it. You'll easily get the contract if you show the client the allmost ready prototype at the very beginning.
Just go for it! Risk and work and you'll succeed.
Jep, the same now - "10 years of .Net experience" anyone?
At this point I cann't tell from my own experience, so I'll heve to reiterate what prockcore said before on Java API stability: "There's also nothing preventing Sun from deprecating half the API on a whim.. in fact, they do that all the damn time."
Mozilla and it's derrivatives have surpassed Netscape market share. Not the one, when Netscape was dominating the market, but the market share Netscape had when it was Open Sourced has been surpassed long ago. It is also worth mentioning that it was hard for Open Source developers to use the code produced by Netscape because it was clumsy and badly written. I belive that Mozilla has been rewritten from scratch since then, and the only goal that Netscape code served for this was the focus point for the Open Source developers and some good money to support some of them.
KOffice and Gnome Office, to name two, have surpassed OpenOffice in usability and speed and have long surpassed the funcionality of StarOffice 5.x. Again, most of the OpenOffice has been remade, rewritten, refactored to work properly.
Like making it DFSG compilant? Isn't this to contradiction to the rest of your comment?
That could only work in one of these four ways:
The article is about IBM helping Sun to do 1. or 2. move.
Moves 3 and 4 alienate IBM and Sun, and Open Source and Sun. This would be a very bad move for everyone.
(Ob. Debian - despite my nick and email, I only speak for myself and not the Debian project)
Final results
But, with no forther adue, I present the final result! Enjoy!
Pic7
Top side Borg Cube
Pic8
Right sidepanel
Pic9
Left Sidepanel
Pic10
The full monty
Credits:
I'd especially like to thank Gerard for the many hours we spent in the workshop creating the Borg Cube.
Components and construction
The Case
From the ground up, the Cube is made from strong cardboard plates. The reason is that cardboard is really easy to work with and paint. To put the pieces of cardboard together, I used rubber cement. This is because rubber cement dries quickly and has a good strong compound. On the outside I used steel wires for the pipes, and glued them onto the cardboard with industrial superglue.
The hardware
Mainboard: VIA EPIA-M 9000, 933Mhz
Memory: 256 MB PC2700 CAS 2
Harddisks: 2x10GB 2,5" harddisk
PSU: A-Open 180Watt Micro-ATX
LAN: 3Com 3C905
Cooling: 3x Sunbeam 80mm fans. 2 of them are the green Led-fan with green circular CCFL version.
Resistors: To be able to manage the speed of the fans I used 2 Sharkoon resistors. One is connected to the top and rear outtake fans, and the other to the intake fan.
Pic1
Layers
After a few test runs, I decided to supply the case with two different layers. One inside layer for some extra strength, and a Borg-like outside layer. The inside layer is made out of 1mm cardboard, every side being 30x30cm. For a bit more toughness, the bottom is made out of 4 pieces that are glued on top of eachother.
Except for the bottom, every side has a couple of big holes carved out, so that the light from inside can find its way outside through the inner layer. Additional 80mm wide holes were made in the front, top, and back panels, for the three fans. On top of that, the inside layer has been spraypainted silver, to optimize the reflection of the light, for extra coolness.
Pic2
Pic3
During the construction of the frontpanel, we had some doubts about the final result of the case. Without a proper paintjob it was hard to see if we were on the right track, so we finished the frontpanel first before we went on with the rest of the project. Fortunately, giving the panel a nice coat of paint made it look better than we expected, so we had nothing to be worried about.
And so we went on creating the rest of the panels. We knew what to do, and how to create certain effects, so we could continue the construction as follows:
Pic4
We began with the cardboard plates...
Pic5
Pic6
This project took us 9 months, in which I spent 250hours of my spare time. In total, we used about 60 meters of steel wire, and 1,5 m2 cardboard.
Mod me insightfull, but it should read:
All your taxes are belong to us
make them land in USA then, dude.
Authorities have NOT ruled out terrorism in yesterday's solar eclipse.
Well, if you're a female AND you go there, then there will be chicks.
But then I somehow miss the point of your interest in the matter.
Downloading Linux version now.
...)
Has anyone run it already? If so, can you post any FPS rating along with your system specs. (CPU, RAM, HDD type, video card, distro, kernel, video driver details, X version,
Let the big Linux UT2k4 FPS shootout begin!
*If* the compile from the last month has already completed, that is.
OTOH we, Debian users like to put "apt-get update && apt-get -y upgrade" into our daily crontabs
Not really. Windows 98 booted in that way is just plain DOS, while if it is stripped down by 98lite, then it is a Windows 98 but without the GUI, you can still run all command line Win32 applications, like FAR for example, you can access all Win32 API.
And 98lite provides all steps in between pure Win98 and CLI.
Well, as *I* see the plan from the comments here, the plan is to take the carbon out of circulation by making plankton accomulate carbon by converting CO2 to C+O2 and then make the plankton sink to the bottom of the sea.
What I don't understand is the second part of the plan, what is the sence in that?
Why cann't those plants convert CO2 to O2 + C?
What is wrong with this plan? Just grow a lot of plants or the same plankton and we'll have no CO2 problem.
As a true geek, you, of course, mean its weight in P4's or CD's with Debian Linux, don't you?
I just bought a 1996 19" Compaq with Sony Trinitron tube for 100$ and I have a great 1600x1200@85Hz that is enough for me and a lot better then my friend who spent 300$ for a new 17" monitor and only gets 1600x1200@60Hz :P
Old profesional monitors are much better then new consumer monitors AND they are cheaper too!