Wake me up when you're able to use PCC instead of GCC to do a 'make world'
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned tcc on this thread - it's lighter, faster, and close to a drop-in replacement for x86. The original poster doesn't seem aware of the wider context or they might have mentioned icc too. Even lcc is almost a drop-in, if far less optimising than gcc, and it supports more than just x86 targets.
Open letter to Adobe - release Flash under the GNU GPL today
Dear Adobe,
No doubt you've seen the news that Microsoft and Novell are to work on a version of Silverlight for GNU/Linux. This puts Silverlight onto all three major platforms now, and puts yourselves and us into a difficult position. As the free software community, we want users of computers to have freedom to do all the jobs they can, including all those nice interactive websites out there that use Flash. We have Gnash now, but it's not finished yet, but it at least lets us look at YouTube movies in the browser with little or no problem, and Homestar Runner works very well as well. We're not there yet, but we're getting somewhere. Now, from your point of view, you give away the Flash player, but only in binary form, which means that while I'm sure it's better than Gnash, your license prevents us from using it with freedom. So, here's the rub... if you'll do a little thing for us, we can do some great things for you. We can help you beat Microsoft and crush Silverlight, but you're going to have to do something a little unusual, and a lot of people at Adobe aren't going to like it, but you have to do this and do it quickly.
Here goes... Make Flash free software, specifically, release Flash - the player, the editor, the server, for all platforms, including embedded stuff, under the GNU GPL v3 and do it quickly. As soon as you do this, we can start to win. We can get Flash Player onto the One Laptop Per Child machines, which gets a ton more eyeballs looking at Flash. We can get gNewSense, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, Mandriva and all the others to distribute Flash Player with their distributions. OpenSolaris can have Flash Player, too. You can still sell copies of the Flash editor, in lovely cardboard boxes on the shelves of computer stores, even as Free Software - you just need to add value. Bundle DVDs of freely licensed shapes, characters, sounds, loops and effects and dead-tree editions of your now freely licensed manuals, and people will still buy it, and of course, you bundle it in with things like Creative Suite, so it gets onto more machines, and you make it a free of charge download, too. You encourage people to torrent it, and the source, and you'll see more features being added, you'll see more video formats being supported and you'll see people doing amazing things with software you created, but only if you act quickly and get this right.
Don't lose this to Microsoft, for the sake of freedom of computer users everywhere, for the sake of a free web and for the sake of generations of people to come, don't let Microsoft get away with this.
Sun are doing this with Java, they did it with OpenOffice.org. You can do this as well.
It's entirely down to you now. If you need help, ask. If you have questions, shout.
Call the Free Software Foundation today, and make this happen.
It's designed to maximise and perpetuate choice and freedom for end users, which BSD doesn't particularly consider (it's arguably more convenient for a developer though).
But anyone who's read the GPL knows this. RMS had it right: End users are the ones screwed most mercilessly under the proprietary/crapware/monopolyware model - and not just financially. Let me count the ways...
I can't be bothered RTFA, but has anyone linked this to prices for metals? Of course it's probably only worth a few roubles, refined...
The closest correlate in recent news was the theft of a bronze sculpture from Henry Moore's estate in London (in reality, priceless; but worth about five million pounds on the art market, worth a few thousand on the metals market. It's been melted down by now, for a certainty).
Metal road signs, street fittings, even fire engine nozzles are being stolen in the UK and US for the same market. Unless something cools China's demand for raw material to build crap for Western markets, it can be guaranteed that manhole covers, electric wires, train rails, and all other metal objects will not remain unsecured in public places.
Another nail in the coffin of a civilised way of life. Thanks, free market capitalism!
Not extinct yet? Check back in a few months, they'll be sure to be.
But hundreds of species are on death row thanks to human greed and thoughtlessness, including the pangolin (UK Guardian):
5,000 of the world's rarest animals have been found drifting in a deserted boat near the coast of China.
The pangolins, Asian giant turtles and lizards were crushed inside crates on a rickety wooden vessel that had lost engine power off Qingzhou island in the southern province of Guangdong. Most were alive, though the cargo also contained 21 bear paws wrapped in newspaper.
According to conservation groups, the haul was discovered on one of the world's most lucrative and destructive smuggling routes: from the threatened jungles of south-east Asia to the restaurant tables of southern China....
Despite the ban on pangolins, many restaurants offer their meat. The Chaoxing restaurant in Shenzhen said yesterday that pangolin was available but was only suitable for large dining parties.
"The animal is very big - about 10kg," said a waitress contacted by telephone. "We serve it in hotpot. That is the tastiest way."...
A Guangdong chef... described how to cook a pangolin.
"We keep them alive in cages until the customer makes an order. Then we hammer them unconscious, cut their throats and drain the blood. It is a slow death. We then boil them to remove the scales."
So while we thoughtlessly wipe out species after species, at least we treat every individual with unimaginable cruelty first. Yay humans.
Let's see them for what they are: Organised crime. One day justice will be done, Microsoft will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition
Dear Mr Zemlin,
You don't have to market a product that sits at 95%+ market share.
All you have to do is continue the dirty tricks (legal and otherwise) that got it there, and keep it there. I don't respect criminals, thugs and liars, and I think you should resign for suggesting that the open source community should do so.
Global warming sceptics are incredibly dangerous and destructive, but not because they don't believe the science.
They're dangerous because they encourage the people who are irreversibly damaging the planet (at least that much isn't disputed) to avoid changing anything about the way they live, and to persevere in their unsustainable, wasteful, selfish, amoral existences with the outrageous conviction that THEY are victims of an irrational cabal of liberal/environmental/terrorist operatives (insert label here).
So thanks for freaking nothing, Dyson, and for missing the point and helping make sure the First World morons who are suffocating everyone else need not examine their own lifestyles or consciences. How un-visionary.
PS. It's not really about global warming. It's about good and evil. It's about thoughtlessness and caring. It's about how you treat the only legacy humanity has (a disappearing one). It's about betraying your children, and their children, unto infinity.
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Agree with parent. Not funny. Technical people have a responsibility to help prevent this, in a number of ways.
Francis, this admirer sincerely hopes you get your data back.
n/t
...and they'll stay away in droves.
...that a device designed to incapacitate people might be dangerous?!?!
Up next! Bombs considered harmful to Iraqi and Afghan children!
Exactly which law would require this disclosure? Because obviously voluntary disclosure isn't going to happen.
Wake me up when you're able to use PCC instead of GCC to do a 'make world'
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned tcc on this thread - it's lighter, faster, and close to a drop-in replacement for x86. The original poster doesn't seem aware of the wider context or they might have mentioned icc too. Even lcc is almost a drop-in, if far less optimising than gcc, and it supports more than just x86 targets.
CPAN is better than Python's Cheese Shop.
And the Java API + 3rd party libs knock them all into a cocked hat.
And hop in the DeLorean... we're going back to 1975 to make sure Popular Electronics never prints that issue...
...all those who haven't grasped the revolution inherent in ZFS yet.
The most compelling feature of ZFS is something that no storage appliance, RAID, or other self-contained subsystem can offer - end-to-end integrity.
Let's hope this doesn't chill Solaris 10 and ZFS adoption, because there's nothing else quite like it out there.
Open letter to Adobe - release Flash under the GNU GPL today
Dear Adobe,
No doubt you've seen the news that Microsoft and Novell are to work on a version of Silverlight for GNU/Linux. This puts Silverlight onto all three major platforms now, and puts yourselves and us into a difficult position. As the free software community, we want users of computers to have freedom to do all the jobs they can, including all those nice interactive websites out there that use Flash. We have Gnash now, but it's not finished yet, but it at least lets us look at YouTube movies in the browser with little or no problem, and Homestar Runner works very well as well. We're not there yet, but we're getting somewhere. Now, from your point of view, you give away the Flash player, but only in binary form, which means that while I'm sure it's better than Gnash, your license prevents us from using it with freedom. So, here's the rub... if you'll do a little thing for us, we can do some great things for you. We can help you beat Microsoft and crush Silverlight, but you're going to have to do something a little unusual, and a lot of people at Adobe aren't going to like it, but you have to do this and do it quickly.
Here goes... Make Flash free software, specifically, release Flash - the player, the editor, the server, for all platforms, including embedded stuff, under the GNU GPL v3 and do it quickly. As soon as you do this, we can start to win. We can get Flash Player onto the One Laptop Per Child machines, which gets a ton more eyeballs looking at Flash. We can get gNewSense, Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE, Slackware, Mandriva and all the others to distribute Flash Player with their distributions. OpenSolaris can have Flash Player, too. You can still sell copies of the Flash editor, in lovely cardboard boxes on the shelves of computer stores, even as Free Software - you just need to add value. Bundle DVDs of freely licensed shapes, characters, sounds, loops and effects and dead-tree editions of your now freely licensed manuals, and people will still buy it, and of course, you bundle it in with things like Creative Suite, so it gets onto more machines, and you make it a free of charge download, too. You encourage people to torrent it, and the source, and you'll see more features being added, you'll see more video formats being supported and you'll see people doing amazing things with software you created, but only if you act quickly and get this right.
Don't lose this to Microsoft, for the sake of freedom of computer users everywhere, for the sake of a free web and for the sake of generations of people to come, don't let Microsoft get away with this.
Sun are doing this with Java, they did it with OpenOffice.org. You can do this as well.
It's entirely down to you now. If you need help, ask. If you have questions, shout.
Call the Free Software Foundation today, and make this happen.
(+1-617-542-594)
Do the right thing.
Do it.
Best,
matt
Exploring Freedom blog.
If so, why the different name?
I smell a Big Market Differentiation Rat. But then, everything MS touches, stinks.
n/t
a deterrent only if all 50 states had sued and won
Or just maybe, if M$ lost a FEDERAL antitrust case? Nah, THAT could never happen...
It's designed to maximise and perpetuate choice and freedom for end users, which BSD doesn't particularly consider (it's arguably more convenient for a developer though).
But anyone who's read the GPL knows this. RMS had it right: End users are the ones screwed most mercilessly under the proprietary/crapware/monopolyware model - and not just financially. Let me count the ways...
There is no sovereignty in the "post-9/11 world"...
Google for NAFTA-Plus for an example.
Or research Australia's history. Australia lost its sovereignty to the US 32 years ago.
No, suckers, you GAVE your jobs away by misunderstanding your place in the world. Good luck with that...
I can't be bothered RTFA, but has anyone linked this to prices for metals? Of course it's probably only worth a few roubles, refined...
The closest correlate in recent news was the theft of a bronze sculpture from Henry Moore's estate in London (in reality, priceless; but worth about five million pounds on the art market, worth a few thousand on the metals market. It's been melted down by now, for a certainty).
Metal road signs, street fittings, even fire engine nozzles are being stolen in the UK and US for the same market. Unless something cools China's demand for raw material to build crap for Western markets, it can be guaranteed that manhole covers, electric wires, train rails, and all other metal objects will not remain unsecured in public places.
Another nail in the coffin of a civilised way of life. Thanks, free market capitalism!
...........NOT.
Apologies to Borat.
"If you're not outraged [about the harm MS is doing to society] then you're not paying attention."
Get the facts. Start here...
The word is "romanticisation" ("z" optional in some English speaking territories).
...which is just not helpful.
Let's see them for what they are: Organised crime. One day justice will be done, Microsoft will be obliterated and the world will be a better place for it.
Microsoft for instance has excelled in marketing the operating system, and has a good track record in fending off competition
Dear Mr Zemlin,
You don't have to market a product that sits at 95%+ market share.
All you have to do is continue the dirty tricks (legal and otherwise) that got it there, and keep it there. I don't respect criminals, thugs and liars, and I think you should resign for suggesting that the open source community should do so.
Yours sincerely
Global warming sceptics are incredibly dangerous and destructive, but not because they don't believe the science.
They're dangerous because they encourage the people who are irreversibly damaging the planet (at least that much isn't disputed) to avoid changing anything about the way they live, and to persevere in their unsustainable, wasteful, selfish, amoral existences with the outrageous conviction that THEY are victims of an irrational cabal of liberal/environmental/terrorist operatives (insert label here).
So thanks for freaking nothing, Dyson, and for missing the point and helping make sure the First World morons who are suffocating everyone else need not examine their own lifestyles or consciences. How un-visionary.
PS. It's not really about global warming. It's about good and evil. It's about thoughtlessness and caring. It's about how you treat the only legacy humanity has (a disappearing one). It's about betraying your children, and their children, unto infinity.
has the potential to be fantastic ...and that's right where I stopped reading. Pity I blew my mod points on this thread saying this.