It will be interesting to see how this plays out. When I saw the shots of the college campus my mind went wild. I'd love to have my computer set up with "spaces" for different sorts of activities. Maybe a "lab" for a programming project, an "office" with "papers" spread out all over the place for a writing project, etc.
Then I remembered that users have already rejected this. MS Bob. If the history of computer interfaces has taught us one thing it is that a shinier veneer on a paradigm that has already proven unacceptable is never suddenly makes it acceptable.
Outsource Man. Outsource Man. Does whatever an Ameri-can. Cuts some code, any size. Just does it at, half the price. Look out! Here comes the Outsource Man!
Is he smart? Listen, pal. He graduated from Isical. He can write, multi-thread, And reduces your overhead. Hey, there! There goes the Outsource Man!
It's not pay-per-message. You might read their docs before crying.
If I understand their system correctly your user will "pay" the ~15 seconds of compute time on his machine any time he sends a message to someone using this system, but only if he isn't already whitelisted. The system automatically whitelists anyone that it sends mail to, or anyone who has already paid "postage."
Now, for your updates (you send tens of thousands of users updates every few minutes!?) you can choose to "pay" postage to anyone who hasn't already whitelisted you, once, or you can shitcan the postage due notice and move on with your life. If you "payed" postage to every one of 50,000 users it would take less than 9 days of compute time. Then you would only have to do it for new members. And this assumes everyone of your members starts using this system in the same month, and none of them whitelist you.
Some might argue that this property is reflexive. Therefore portability can be a tool for improving quality, assuming that quality is a design requirement.
Invest in a thesaurus. Or you can use this one. You might have used any of the following perfectly serviceable verbs: scratch, scrawl, scribble; draft, draw, make out, write down, write up, hatch, make, generate, or construct.
Or it could be that he missed it, as stated in the sibling to your post:-P
I think that it means, in context, exactly what I have taken it to mean out of context: that ESR's "Open Source" is superior in philosophy and practice to RMS's "Free Software." He is using Microsoft's "Linux is not free" attack to support this position, though he does not seem to accept the blame for muddying the waters providing the opening for MS's "shared source."
Be that as it may, I am a fan of both men. I happen to side with RMS on this particular point.
Note that neither of them support the term "FOSS." I agree with them on this point. Why not say Free Software when you mean Free Software and Open Source when you mean Open Source?
I guess it is mainly the half-pint that chaps my ass.
That and the fact that I never skip a beat in figuring how many 0.5l there are to a liter. But I do have to, as I said, stand around and noodle through how many quarts are to a half-gallon and such.
Your beliefs aside, what ESR said was "If there is actually anyone still left on the planet who thinks the term free software was a good idea, I hope they're paying attention."
So I belive that ESR is arguing that the term Free Software is a bad idea. And I have a direct quote in support.
Did you notice that the grandparent gave this same quote?
Get off it. People who know better know that fractions are for Math and decimal approximations are for Engineering. For Science it depends on the context.
So, mathematically speaking one third of a meter is 33 1/3cm. If you are laying sod it is 33cm. If you are building a bridge it is (something like) 33.3cm. If you are shooting for Mars it is (something like) 33.3333333cm.
But to bring it back to every day life, I'd greatly prefer to work in tenths all the time. Twelfths and sixteenths (and eighths) starts to get me down.
My dad always gripes about gallons of milk. "The gallon is perfect! There's no metric gallon." If it truly is an ideal measurement then diaries would produce a 3.75 or 3.8 liter jug. Problem solved. I for one, would prefer 2 liters of milk at a time. I'd like a bit more than a half-gallon without the spoilage of a gallon. And I hate trying to noodle through how a cup relates to a half pint relates to a quart. But I know my SI prefixes cold.
-Peter
PS: I can hardly believe that I am coming out on the side of the French;-) I assure you, however, that I won't be lobbying to move the prime meridian to Paris!
Welcome to American politics. The Right wants to make it ever more illegaler to copy music and movies, and the Left wants to make it ever more illeagaler for teenagers to buy guns and ammo and shoot up their schools.
I didn't read the actual review. I fear that I am already perminantly brain damaged from the summary.
I swear it said something like "This book is not about what the title says it is about, except that three chapters actually are about that, but the rest isn't. But that stuff is related. Fuck Mocrosoft."
Oh, and somehow it lead into all that with a reference to sock puppets.
I might be wrong, but I am mortally afraid of re-reading the summary given the results of the first read.
For those who don't get it, this is exactly why background checks are equivalent to registration. And registration is the first step toward confiscation.
Architect is a noun. There are thousands of perfectly serviceable verbs out there such as plan, design, devise, and construct. Why must you misappropriate nouns this way?
I ask the question genuinely. This behavior seems to be fashionable in business writing, and I don't understand it.
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It will be interesting to see how this plays out. When I saw the shots of the college campus my mind went wild. I'd love to have my computer set up with "spaces" for different sorts of activities. Maybe a "lab" for a programming project, an "office" with "papers" spread out all over the place for a writing project, etc.
Then I remembered that users have already rejected this. MS Bob. If the history of computer interfaces has taught us one thing it is that a shinier veneer on a paradigm that has already proven unacceptable is never suddenly makes it acceptable.
-Peter
Outsource Man. Outsource Man.
Does whatever an Ameri-can.
Cuts some code, any size.
Just does it at, half the price.
Look out! Here comes the Outsource Man!
Is he smart? Listen, pal.
He graduated from Isical.
He can write, multi-thread,
And reduces your overhead.
Hey, there! There goes the Outsource Man!
-Peter
They didn't develop the "payment" system, they use Hashcash.
-Peter
It's not pay-per-message. You might read their docs before crying.
If I understand their system correctly your user will "pay" the ~15 seconds of compute time on his machine any time he sends a message to someone using this system, but only if he isn't already whitelisted. The system automatically whitelists anyone that it sends mail to, or anyone who has already paid "postage."
Now, for your updates (you send tens of thousands of users updates every few minutes!?) you can choose to "pay" postage to anyone who hasn't already whitelisted you, once, or you can shitcan the postage due notice and move on with your life. If you "payed" postage to every one of 50,000 users it would take less than 9 days of compute time. Then you would only have to do it for new members. And this assumes everyone of your members starts using this system in the same month, and none of them whitelist you.
Bah.
-Peter
Some might argue that this property is reflexive. Therefore portability can be a tool for improving quality, assuming that quality is a design requirement.
-Peter
I'm stuck with windows at work. I can't get any extensions to install. :-(
I've clicked on the install links at texturizer, but when I restart I still just have the DOM thingie all by itself in my extensions manager.
I think that Firefox 0.9 wasn't quite ready with the new extensions model.
Oh well.
-Peter
But Khan wasn't a mutant. He was a product of eugenics.
Yes, I am bitter that your Star Trek joke appears above my X-Men joke.
-Peter
adb, you stole my post!
Jonathan,
Invest in a thesaurus. Or you can use this one. You might have used any of the following perfectly serviceable verbs: scratch, scrawl, scribble; draft, draw, make out, write down, write up, hatch, make, generate, or construct.
Please don't recast innocent nouns as verbs.
Thank You,
Peter
Or it could be that he missed it, as stated in the sibling to your post :-P
I think that it means, in context, exactly what I have taken it to mean out of context: that ESR's "Open Source" is superior in philosophy and practice to RMS's "Free Software." He is using Microsoft's "Linux is not free" attack to support this position, though he does not seem to accept the blame for muddying the waters providing the opening for MS's "shared source."
Be that as it may, I am a fan of both men. I happen to side with RMS on this particular point.
Note that neither of them support the term "FOSS." I agree with them on this point. Why not say Free Software when you mean Free Software and Open Source when you mean Open Source?
-Peter
Well, lets just hope Xavier gets to him first.
-Peter
Wow, that wasn't the direction I was going in at all.
I guess we are doing a little free association here. When I think of my genitals, I think pleasure.
Ah, well, to each his own!
-Peter
I guess it is mainly the half-pint that chaps my ass.
That and the fact that I never skip a beat in figuring how many 0.5l there are to a liter. But I do have to, as I said, stand around and noodle through how many quarts are to a half-gallon and such.
This doesn't even enter into the fact that the US ounce is slightly more than a UK ounce, but there are four more UK ounces to a UK pint than there are to a US pint.
Your beliefs aside, what ESR said was "If there is actually anyone still left on the planet who thinks the term free software was a good idea, I hope they're paying attention."
So I belive that ESR is arguing that the term Free Software is a bad idea. And I have a direct quote in support.
Did you notice that the grandparent gave this same quote?
-Peter
Neither my PDA nor my belt makes routine contact with my skin. And I tuck my shirt in . .
So, I'd need some sort of, uh, dongle that goes down my pants.
Uh. Hu-huh.
-Peter
Get off it. People who know better know that fractions are for Math and decimal approximations are for Engineering. For Science it depends on the context.
;-) I assure you, however, that I won't be lobbying to move the prime meridian to Paris!
So, mathematically speaking one third of a meter is 33 1/3cm. If you are laying sod it is 33cm. If you are building a bridge it is (something like) 33.3cm. If you are shooting for Mars it is (something like) 33.3333333cm.
But to bring it back to every day life, I'd greatly prefer to work in tenths all the time. Twelfths and sixteenths (and eighths) starts to get me down.
My dad always gripes about gallons of milk. "The gallon is perfect! There's no metric gallon." If it truly is an ideal measurement then diaries would produce a 3.75 or 3.8 liter jug. Problem solved. I for one, would prefer 2 liters of milk at a time. I'd like a bit more than a half-gallon without the spoilage of a gallon. And I hate trying to noodle through how a cup relates to a half pint relates to a quart. But I know my SI prefixes cold.
-Peter
PS: I can hardly believe that I am coming out on the side of the French
-P
Please use beige or gray. I've worked in two places with "modern" decor and it makes me ill.
No one loves beige and gray, but anything you pick that someone does love will be hated by just as many.
-Peter
PS: Avocado, blue, and orange do not look nice together. Uncomfortable, bright red chairs are inferior to comfortable gray ones.
-P
If the article is about Open Source, why does it have a GNU on it? Why not use the OSI logo?
Or, if the article is about GNU, why not say Free Software?
Unless, of course, there is some advantage to creating confusion between the two that I am simply unaware of.
-Peter
I don't think writers or performers get royalties if the work is produced as work for hire.
-Peter
Welcome to American politics. The Right wants to make it ever more illegaler to copy music and movies, and the Left wants to make it ever more illeagaler for teenagers to buy guns and ammo and shoot up their schools.
Vote Libertarian.
-Peter
I didn't read the actual review. I fear that I am already perminantly brain damaged from the summary.
I swear it said something like "This book is not about what the title says it is about, except that three chapters actually are about that, but the rest isn't. But that stuff is related. Fuck Mocrosoft."
Oh, and somehow it lead into all that with a reference to sock puppets.
I might be wrong, but I am mortally afraid of re-reading the summary given the results of the first read.
Is the actual review any better?
-Peter
If you find this interesting, check out my Free Curriculum Project and the Free High School Science Texts project (to which I am a very minor contributor).
Both of these projects use the FDL.
-Peter
For those who don't get it, this is exactly why background checks are equivalent to registration. And registration is the first step toward confiscation.
See http://jpfo.org/GCA_68.htm for an example of how registration (by any name) leads to tyranny.
-Peter
I call bullshit.
A quantum warp shell has never been used as a shield. Its only known use is to contain temporal anomolies.
-Peter
Architect is a noun. There are thousands of perfectly serviceable verbs out there such as plan, design, devise, and construct. Why must you misappropriate nouns this way?
I ask the question genuinely. This behavior seems to be fashionable in business writing, and I don't understand it.
-Peter
A schooner is a sailboat stupid head.
-Peter
PS: You stole my post.
-P