One of the design goals of GNOME was to support as many programming languages as possible.
I'm not very familiar with KDE's language binding availability right now, but I know that being written in C++ would make it more difficult to provide alternate bindings. C, being the lowest portable denomiator of programming languages is simple to create alternate bindings for.
Richard received the MacArthur Genius grant in 1991 which was $250,000, and in 1998 he recieved $800,000 with the Taekedo award. I'm not aware of any other big money he's recieved.
So that's one million in the last 13 years - remember that he has never been paid by FSF, and he pays all of his own travelling expenses, accomadation, car rental, food ect.
Since he is constantly travelling to India, Europe, and South America, I suspect most of his savings are spent on his work.
Where? why not quote what you interpret as an admission of ignorance? Because it's not there.
After his "All agree I'm dead smrt" bit, and just before his "how do I learn more", the submitter said: "I always feel like I should know so much more"
If you think that's an impressive admission of ignorance, you suck.
He didn't say that he's ignorant, he said he's really really brainy, but can't seem to figure out how to learn "more".
My guess: he's a 17yr old nerd that thinks he's Stephen Hawking plus working legs, and he just wanted to say "Everyone tells me I'm soooo smart" in a public way.
If he really was smart, he'd post a question that actually has an answer.
How can one "learn much more"?
Oh, the answer is: you should study French, physics, programming, politics, nutrition, carpentry, math, poetry, history, law - and eat fish, it's a brain food. Yeh, glad that's settled.
drugs, drunken violence, wild orgies, mosh pits, and occult study are *all* superior
Score, score, score, score, brick.
Maybe "philosophy" would be a better fifth option. Occult study - unless you're studying "How Can Anyone Be Such A Moron As To Bother With This Crap" - is for losers.
Anyway, I suggest you try wresting, but that's just me.
Really, why does *every* nerd have to think he's exceptional, just like *every* jock that gets injured returns from their second hospital trip saying "the doctors were surprised at how fast my body is healing itself".
yap yap yap. DO SOMETHING with your big brain. If you can't think of anything useful, maybe you're not so exceptional - maybe you should find a worthy cause, and devote some time to it?
RMS has been kicking peoples asses for two decades now. He'll be remembered for starting the GNU project and the free software movement.
People that live off headlines think SCO vs. IBM is a big deal. It's not. Software patents are a big deal, as is the DMCA/EUCD, the CBDTPA, and Trusted Computing. (RMS is helping the fight against those four big deals - as well as the SCO case.)
Yeh, but if you read the security report, this problem exists in *all* 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 Linux's - so this local exploit has been sitting there for ~5 years before The Good Guys spotted it.
That's a long time. Maybe some crackers have been using this exploit during that time (or, of course, maybe they haven't).
The goal of the EULA is to give MS total control - so it's drafted to give the user as few rights as possible, making sure that grey areas will fall in MS's favour if a court case arises, and be completely unreadable to the layman. The EULA is so different to the GPL & BSD that they would share very little in terms of enforcement.
As for the lack of the GPL court case, read Eben Moglens (very good, short) essay Enforcing the GNU GPL.
Also remember that as of W32-XP, you're relationship with MS is not over once you leave the shop - you register either by phone or online when you install the system. The registration number you send to MS is a unique ID for your computer which is generated from a combination of various hardware serial numbers. Every time you use MS Windows Update, a list of all programs (by all vendors) that you have installed on your system is sent to MS. Two backdoor accounts have been found in MS IIS, both have "NSA" in the username. (and those are just the proven sneaky activities of MS software.) Your relationship with the shopkeeper is over - but your relationship with MS is just beginning;-)
Kellers findings are pretty well founded. The idea is that the Chicxulub impact occurred during this warming period with severe environmental effects but the extinction of the dinosaurs - When the second impact finally occurred, it hit an already stressed community which was the straw that broke the camel's back. Almost anything could have wiped them out at that point. Jan Smits doesn't refute this very clearly - but I would accept that the theory is less sensational that it appears from the headline.
I remember in the mid-nineties, Marilyn Manson was almost ready to release his album "Antichrist Superstar" but there was a problem: in the inlay he had a picture of himself naked at age four - just sitting on the couch, nothing weird or interesting. I'm not sure what the point of the picture was, maybe it was to show that he came from the same start-in-life as the rest of us.
Anyway, he was told he'd have to redo the inlay and get rid of that picture because anti-child-porn groups would string him up.
He wasn't happy about that. It was an innocent photo (a photo of innocence?), and it was of him, and he owned the photo, and he didn't mind it being released, and...
Well, the inlay got redone.
Of course, I can see a counter arguement - what if poor people out of desperation started selling their childhood nude photos - but it's worth keeping in mind that the "liberals" of this issue are mostly silent, and understandibly fearful.
Actually, zealotry had little or nothing to do with Hurds non-progression. Remember that Hurd was the first big GNU package that RMS did *not* work on. If zealotry was a problem, GCC, Emacs, GDB, and many of the GNU command line utils would have failed long ago. (GNU Libc was mostly Richard-less, but he did have a hand in it.)
The failure of the Hurd was a bad gamble. Possibly encouraged by the fact that they had written almost an entire operating system (using tried-and-true designs), the GNU projecteers decided to try a latest-and-greatest (fad) design for the GNU kernel - it didn't work out as it was meant to, but luckily Linus had worked on this same project from the conventional angle, so we still ended up with a completely free software OS.
Before I download the files (over a 56k dialup), does anyone know if the.mov files are actually playable with a Free Software player?
I'd expect Lessig to mandate that this commons content be in a non-proprietary format - or at the very least, a proprietary format that has been widely reverse engineered. Playing.mov files is hit and miss for me. sometimes no sound, or the picture appears in the top right corner of the viewer, or... Anyway: can someone confirm/deny that these are viewable? thanks.
It's a pity such annual reports aren't more common among free software projects.
One funny thing is that the pkgsrc section mentions a patch in the GNATS database to allow pkgsrc to run on GNU Hurd systems! (it already runs on GNU/Linux)
I doubt any established distros are going to ditch their existing package systems, but if a new distro was to begin (as a non-Debian testbed for GNU/Hurd) - it would be worthwhile evaluating the *BSD package systems.
C'mon, if any of the "free software" communist bloc are "Red agitators", it must be the Mozilla devs.
The start by adopting a red five-point star as their icon, and then they release a latest and greatest which is named after a Soviet fighter plane (firefox)?
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One of the design goals of GNOME was to support as many programming languages as possible.
I'm not very familiar with KDE's language binding availability right now, but I know that being written in C++ would make it more difficult to provide alternate bindings. C, being the lowest portable denomiator of programming languages is simple to create alternate bindings for.
Richard received the MacArthur Genius grant in 1991 which was $250,000, and in 1998 he recieved $800,000 with the Taekedo award. I'm not aware of any other big money he's recieved.
So that's one million in the last 13 years - remember that he has never been paid by FSF, and he pays all of his own travelling expenses, accomadation, car rental, food ect.
Since he is constantly travelling to India, Europe, and South America, I suspect most of his savings are spent on his work.
A biography of RMS "Free As In Freedom"
The man lives to give people freedom, he's dedicated his life to it.
Well, it impressed you enough for you to say that the comment was "That's smarter than you."
For something to be smarter than me - it must be quite impressive - y'see, I'm constantly told that I have an extremely high intelligence.
> he did say it
Where?
why not quote what you interpret as an admission of ignorance? Because it's not there.
After his "All agree I'm dead smrt" bit, and just before his "how do I learn more", the submitter said:
"I always feel like I should know so much more"
If you think that's an impressive admission of ignorance, you suck.
(just to clarify, is there anyone here who *hasn't* been told they're ever so clever umpteen times?)
> smart enough to know that he's ignorant
He didn't say that he's ignorant, he said he's really really brainy, but can't seem to figure out how to learn "more".
My guess: he's a 17yr old nerd that thinks he's Stephen Hawking plus working legs, and he just wanted to say "Everyone tells me I'm soooo smart" in a public way.
If he really was smart, he'd post a question that actually has an answer.
How can one "learn much more"?
Oh, the answer is: you should study French, physics, programming, politics, nutrition, carpentry, math, poetry, history, law - and eat fish, it's a brain food. Yeh, glad that's settled.
drugs, drunken violence, wild orgies, mosh pits, and occult study are *all* superior
Score, score, score, score, brick.
Maybe "philosophy" would be a better fifth option. Occult study - unless you're studying "How Can Anyone Be Such A Moron As To Bother With This Crap" - is for losers.
Anyway, I suggest you try wresting, but that's just me.
you're so smart - figure it out yourself!
Really, why does *every* nerd have to think he's exceptional, just like *every* jock that gets injured returns from their second hospital trip saying "the doctors were surprised at how fast my body is healing itself".
yap yap yap. DO SOMETHING with your big brain. If you can't think of anything useful, maybe you're not so exceptional - maybe you should find a worthy cause, and devote some time to it?
Ass whoopin's now be sellin' two for a dollar.
> food copier does exist. Want more apples?
That's not copying, that's manufacturing. The difference is the point.
RMS has been kicking peoples asses for two decades now. He'll be remembered for starting the GNU project and the free software movement.
People that live off headlines think SCO vs. IBM is a big deal. It's not. Software patents are a big deal, as is the DMCA/EUCD, the CBDTPA, and Trusted Computing. (RMS is helping the fight against those four big deals - as well as the SCO case.)
SCO vs. IBM probably will at best be a footnote in any software history book.
RMS will be a giant in the history books.
See: Copyleft: Pragmatic Idealism
Yeh, but if you read the security report, this problem exists in *all* 2.2, 2.4, and 2.6 Linux's - so this local exploit has been sitting there for ~5 years before The Good Guys spotted it.
That's a long time. Maybe some crackers have been using this exploit during that time (or, of course, maybe they haven't).
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/my_doom.html
The goal of the EULA is to give MS total control - so it's drafted to give the user as few rights as possible, making sure that grey areas will fall in MS's favour if a court case arises, and be completely unreadable to the layman. The EULA is so different to the GPL & BSD that they would share very little in terms of enforcement.
;-)
As for the lack of the GPL court case, read Eben Moglens (very good, short) essay Enforcing the GNU GPL.
Also remember that as of W32-XP, you're relationship with MS is not over once you leave the shop - you register either by phone or online when you install the system. The registration number you send to MS is a unique ID for your computer which is generated from a combination of various hardware serial numbers. Every time you use MS Windows Update, a list of all programs (by all vendors) that you have installed on your system is sent to MS. Two backdoor accounts have been found in MS IIS, both have "NSA" in the username. (and those are just the proven sneaky activities of MS software.) Your relationship with the shopkeeper is over - but your relationship with MS is just beginning
Kellers findings are pretty well founded. The idea is that the Chicxulub impact occurred during this warming period with severe environmental effects but the extinction of the dinosaurs - When the second impact finally occurred, it hit an already stressed community which was the straw that broke the camel's back. Almost anything could have wiped them out at that point. Jan Smits doesn't refute this very clearly - but I would accept that the theory is less sensational that it appears from the headline.
I remember in the mid-nineties, Marilyn Manson was almost ready to release his album "Antichrist Superstar" but there was a problem: in the inlay he had a picture of himself naked at age four - just sitting on the couch, nothing weird or interesting. I'm not sure what the point of the picture was, maybe it was to show that he came from the same start-in-life as the rest of us.
Anyway, he was told he'd have to redo the inlay and get rid of that picture because anti-child-porn groups would string him up.
He wasn't happy about that. It was an innocent photo (a photo of innocence?), and it was of him, and he owned the photo, and he didn't mind it being released, and...
Well, the inlay got redone.
Of course, I can see a counter arguement - what if poor people out of desperation started selling their childhood nude photos - but it's worth keeping in mind that the "liberals" of this issue are mostly silent, and understandibly fearful.
hey, I just put some eggs in the microwave and they exploded - damn chickens have started putting RFID tags in their eggs already!
YeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhHHHH!!!!!!!
I think a concerted push towards Ogg is what we need. Free Software, Free Society.
Actually, zealotry had little or nothing to do with Hurds non-progression. Remember that Hurd was the first big GNU package that RMS did *not* work on. If zealotry was a problem, GCC, Emacs, GDB, and many of the GNU command line utils would have failed long ago. (GNU Libc was mostly Richard-less, but he did have a hand in it.)
The failure of the Hurd was a bad gamble. Possibly encouraged by the fact that they had written almost an entire operating system (using tried-and-true designs), the GNU projecteers decided to try a latest-and-greatest (fad) design for the GNU kernel - it didn't work out as it was meant to, but luckily Linus had worked on this same project from the conventional angle, so we still ended up with a completely free software OS.
Lasers heat things up, not cool things down. Jeez, hasn't this guy ever seen a movie?
Before I download the files (over a 56k dialup), does anyone know if the .mov files are actually playable with a Free Software player?
.mov files is hit and miss for me. sometimes no sound, or the picture appears in the top right corner of the viewer, or... Anyway: can someone confirm/deny that these are viewable? thanks.
I'd expect Lessig to mandate that this commons content be in a non-proprietary format - or at the very least, a proprietary format that has been widely reverse engineered. Playing
It's a pity such annual reports aren't more common among free software projects.
One funny thing is that the pkgsrc section mentions a patch in the GNATS database to allow pkgsrc to run on GNU Hurd systems! (it already runs on GNU/Linux)
I doubt any established distros are going to ditch their existing package systems, but if a new distro was to begin (as a non-Debian testbed for GNU/Hurd) - it would be worthwhile evaluating the *BSD package systems.
C'mon, if any of the "free software" communist bloc are "Red agitators", it must be the Mozilla devs.
The start by adopting a red five-point star as their icon, and then they release a latest and greatest which is named after a Soviet fighter plane (firefox)?