There was recently an article on slashdot about how awful this desktop was.
No surprise, SUN is not a front end company.
However, SUN's hook was a suite of remote admin software to make administering a network of linux boxes/desktops easy.
Be warned, MS made a place for itself despite technically inferior software by making things easier, especially for IT departments.
The OSS community could kill the SUN desktop before it gets to that point by making GPL remote network admin software.
Its all SUN has to show for its desktop at this point.
If the OSS community fails to do this, do it well, and do it in a timely way they may get their wish of linux desktops in the mainstream......but it will be the SUN desktop.
Web-cheat student to sue university By Lucy Sherriff Published Friday 28th May 2004 20:36 GMT
A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner.
Michael Gunn, a 21-year-old English student, freely admits using material downloaded from the Internet to complete his assignments. He told the Times: "I hold my hands up. I did plagiarise. I never dreamt it was a problem."
His problem, then, is not that he was caught, but that he was caught too late. He argues that the university should have warned him of the consequences earlier.
"I can see there is evidence I have gone against the rules," he concedes. "But they have taken all my money for three years and pulled me up the day before I finished. If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough."
University authorities wouldn't comment directly on the case stressed that the university is very clear on the subject. David Nightingale, the deputy vice-chancellor said: "All students are given clear guidelines as well as practical advice and support as to what constitutes plagiarism. These spell it out that it is not acceptable under any circumstances." ®
We all know the lesson Steve Job's learned the hard way by continuing to produce more expensive Macs while other people rolled out cheaper PCs.
PCs stole the market for desktop computers away from Apple, eventhough the Apple product was technically superior and more user friendly.
However, the price wasn't right.
This looks like another iteration of the same situation.
Will Apple lower its prices to compete with the iPod clones or will they foolishly lose command of a market again on the belief that superior quality will save them?
so we have to hate it regardless of its merits, especially if we like to use linux because SUN will not lead the linux distributions bastardize the java source code.
FTR, the book in question was about ancient culture...not philosophy( the root of science ) and was criticized for maybe not being the best venue for imparting a view of that culture.
It is not an exposition of ancient philsophy, how it provided roots for natural science to grow, and from there giving the reader a better understanding of their tech job.
Please.
You don't know what my ( or anyone else's on slashdot ) other interests are or what my educational background is.
Your already stretched argument doesn't have to be stretched further to include every topic under the sun.
Sooner or later it all relates to tech: economics, religion, politics...a lot of which gets bounced and is closer to being on topic then a piece of historical fiction
2. Linux has hooks OS/2 never had:
- years of hatred of microsoft among the public
- can be obtained cheaply, if not free
- can't be killed, once something is released
under the GPL it is always available for
someone to use. A company that fails
to compete against microsoft can't take
it away
1. Microsoft still weilds power through vendor lock based on windows in the government and enterprise level businesses.
2. If IBM reduces Microsoft's power by reducing
the use of Windows then Microsoft has less
power/resources to compete with them in
the server/networking/government/business
markets.
The beauty of it is that IBM doesn't have to build an entire operating system or even an entire desktop.
They can build a few miscellaneous apps and release them under the GPL.
Microsoft could try to punish them, but once the apps were out under the GPL MS would not be able to get rid of them.
A few weeks back on slashdot there was an article on how the RIAA was deliquent in paying royalities to many music artists.
It would be a boon to cutting the RIAA down to size if these artists sued the RIAA.
It would be hilarious to read about the RIAA suing people for stealing music while they would be under litigation for doing the same.
It might just embarrass them enough to stop, but even if they continued in their historical stupidity it would definately poison their public image enough to reduce their influence.
This reminds me of something I watched on an old WWII documentry.
One of the factors that slowed the Nazis down in trying to invaded the Soviet Union was that the Soviet Union used non-standard train tracks that Nazi troop and supply trains could not run on.
It is written in such a way that it reads like SCO does own what it claims to own and that IBM took an extra liberty under some sort of agreement.
Quite the opposite tone and bias from the tech journals ("what is SCO smoking??!!").
Given that most business people are more likely to read NYT then Slashdot or Groklaw I can now understand why SCO got as far as it did with its stock scam.
Steve
Why new features if they have an extension model?
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Why is Mozilla adding new features like the FTP client if they plan to go to a firefox based browser that uses a system of extensions?
Why wasn't the FTP client written as an extension?
Interestingly enough someone moded my article down as "troll".
The person who posted the story for this thread presents all people who are against nuclear power as "the left"( with the implication that all of "the left" is against atomoic energy ).
Slashdot posts his/her story.
I point this out, and while some people moded it up as a good point someone else moded me as "troll".
The meta moderation is long overdue, IMHO.
Many moderators are moding posts down not because they are off topic, redundant, or otherwise lower quality posts.
They are moding down messages they personally do not like to hear.
Slashdot Mirror
Let me get this straight, you have a steady woman and you would rather spend your off time playing a computer game?
Assuming your SO is not a vengful Rosanne Barr - like cow your problem is NOT time management.
It is perspective and I don't mean the kind that can be improved from drawing classes.
Steve
I thought my writing and grammar were bad.
Wow.
Lisa Stapleton should consider a night course or two if she continues to write professionally.
Steve
From user land, are there any visible differences?
Steve
There was recently an article on slashdot about how awful this desktop was.
No surprise, SUN is not a front end company.
However, SUN's hook was a suite of remote admin software to make administering a network of linux boxes/desktops easy.
Be warned, MS made a place for itself despite technically inferior software by making things easier, especially for IT departments.
The OSS community could kill the SUN desktop before it gets to that point by making GPL remote network admin software.
Its all SUN has to show for its desktop at this point.
If the OSS community fails to do this, do it well, and do it in a timely way they may get their wish of linux desktops in the mainstream......but it will be the SUN desktop.
Steve
Web-cheat student to sue university
By Lucy Sherriff
Published Friday 28th May 2004 20:36 GMT
A student who was booted off his degree course for plagiarism is to sue the university. He says tutors at the University of Kent should have spotted what he was doing and stopped him sooner.
Michael Gunn, a 21-year-old English student, freely admits using material downloaded from the Internet to complete his assignments. He told the Times: "I hold my hands up. I did plagiarise. I never dreamt it was a problem."
His problem, then, is not that he was caught, but that he was caught too late. He argues that the university should have warned him of the consequences earlier.
"I can see there is evidence I have gone against the rules," he concedes. "But they have taken all my money for three years and pulled me up the day before I finished. If they had pulled me up with my first essay at the beginning and warned me of the problems and consequences, it would be fair enough."
University authorities wouldn't comment directly on the case stressed that the university is very clear on the subject. David Nightingale, the deputy vice-chancellor said: "All students are given clear guidelines as well as practical advice and support as to what constitutes plagiarism. These spell it out that it is not acceptable under any circumstances." ®
I bought a plastic measuring cup for about $1.5 and a food scale for about $5 that let me do the same thing.
Counting calories is a lot easier then people think.
Most people don't vary their diets beyond more then a few things.
After a week or two you know what the portions.
Steve
At work I see almost everyone eating something from a little black plastic tray that came out of the microwave.
I am considered to "cook" because I usually reheat something I boiled the night before.
Steve
We all know the lesson Steve Job's learned the hard way by continuing to produce more expensive Macs while other people rolled out cheaper PCs.
PCs stole the market for desktop computers away from Apple, eventhough the Apple product was technically superior and more user friendly.
However, the price wasn't right.
This looks like another iteration of the same situation.
Will Apple lower its prices to compete with the iPod clones or will they foolishly lose command of a market again on the belief that superior quality will save them?
Steve
so we have to hate it regardless of its merits, especially if we like to use linux because SUN will not lead the linux distributions bastardize the java source code.
( I use linux, I use Java )
Time was when a new release of Netscape was like Christmas Morning for me.
Now Netscape is just a rehash of Mozilla, often with less features and more "adware"/branding for lack of a better term.
I don't even look forward to Mozilla releases that much anymore since they have caught on the feature set I wanted.
Steve
Mozilla, particularly firefox has more end user friendly features then IE.
Isn't lisp an a self extensible language?
Considering it has been around the 50's this idea is not new if I remember correctly.
Steve
You can go to a big comptuer store and probally buy Mandrake in less time and support Mandrake in the process.
p hp
If you can wait about a week you can get Mandrake for about $4 from
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/index.
I have also seen some impressive prices on linux, even Suse on ebay.
Steve
FTR, the book in question was about ancient culture...not philosophy( the root of science ) and was criticized for maybe not being the best venue for imparting a view of that culture.
It is not an exposition of ancient philsophy, how it provided roots for natural science to grow, and from there giving the reader a better understanding of their tech job.
Please.
You don't know what my ( or anyone else's on slashdot ) other interests are or what my educational background is.
Your already stretched argument doesn't have to be stretched further to include every topic under the sun.
Sooner or later it all relates to tech: economics, religion, politics...a lot of which gets bounced and is closer to being on topic then a piece of historical fiction
BUT
1. People are already using linux
2. Linux has hooks OS/2 never had:
- years of hatred of microsoft among the public
- can be obtained cheaply, if not free
- can't be killed, once something is released
under the GPL it is always available for
someone to use. A company that fails
to compete against microsoft can't take
it away
I disagree.
1. Microsoft still weilds power through vendor lock based on windows in the government and enterprise level businesses.
2. If IBM reduces Microsoft's power by reducing
the use of Windows then Microsoft has less
power/resources to compete with them in
the server/networking/government/business
markets.
The beauty of it is that IBM doesn't have to build an entire operating system or even an entire desktop.
They can build a few miscellaneous apps and release them under the GPL.
Microsoft could try to punish them, but once the apps were out under the GPL MS would not be able to get rid of them.
Steve
A few weeks back on slashdot there was an article on how the RIAA was deliquent in paying royalities to many music artists.
It would be a boon to cutting the RIAA down to size if these artists sued the RIAA.
It would be hilarious to read about the RIAA suing people for stealing music while they would be under litigation for doing the same.
It might just embarrass them enough to stop, but even if they continued in their historical stupidity it would definately poison their public image enough to reduce their influence.
Steve
This reminds me of something I watched on an old WWII documentry.
One of the factors that slowed the Nazis down in trying to invaded the Soviet Union was that the Soviet Union used non-standard train tracks that Nazi troop and supply trains could not run on.
Steve
They could do it a lot faster by making the pieces that regular people ( ie not slashdot users ) still miss when they look at the linux desktop.
Microsoft still gets most of its strength from vendor lock based on windows.
Give people an alternative desktop that asks no sacarfice on their part and you kill the giant.
IBM has the resources to do this.
Steve
The New York Times article is interesting.
It is written in such a way that it reads like SCO does own what it claims to own and that IBM took an extra liberty under some sort of agreement.
Quite the opposite tone and bias from the tech journals ("what is SCO smoking??!!").
Given that most business people are more likely to read NYT then Slashdot or Groklaw I can now understand why SCO got as far as it did with its stock scam.
Steve
Why is Mozilla adding new features like the FTP client if they plan to go to a firefox based browser that uses a system of extensions?
Why wasn't the FTP client written as an extension?
Steve
Interestingly enough someone moded my article down as "troll".
The person who posted the story for this thread presents all people who are against nuclear power as "the left"( with the implication that all of "the left" is against atomoic energy ).
Slashdot posts his/her story.
I point this out, and while some people moded it up as a good point someone else moded me as "troll".
The meta moderation is long overdue, IMHO.
Many moderators are moding posts down not because they are off topic, redundant, or otherwise lower quality posts.
They are moding down messages they personally do not like to hear.
There are some knowledgable people on slashdot.
There are some thinkers on slashdot.
There are some people who know tech.
There are some people who know something about other things.
There are some who a some of one or more of these things.
There are also people on slashdot who lack one or more of these qualities and there are even people who lack them all.
Steve
My guess is that many of us need to update ( or get ) an education in energy issues.
:
I would like to call on people in this thread to recommend books
- that discuss the pros of nucelar energy
- the case against nucelar energy
- the pros and cons of various forms of energy
The books should be written by experts and when possible relatively recent.
Let use our geekness to learn.
Public opinion changes in part from the public......people talking to other people.
Steve