Exactly. I wonder how many people claiming they can see a difference between 1080i and 1080p happily listen to compressed audio with earbud headphones.
Using a word processor to write a book is like using stone tablets and and abacus for spreadsheets. You really ought to look at markup-based typesetters like LaTeX or DocBook or software specifically designed for book production.
If schools want to teach theology with time given to several different religions and their associated creation myths, then hey, do it. But keep the religious mythology out of science classrooms.
Dvorak, Qwerty and Arensito comparison.
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This comparison is as close as you're going to get. It shows the various distances travelled by your fingers when typing on the Dvorak, Qwerty and Arensito layouts.
Dvorak (and Arensito) are layouts designed to minimize finger movement. At the end of the day, my hands and wrists are not tired since I use a modifed Dvorak layout. The layouts here are more convienient for programmers and are the ones I use.
When you move to unionized protection for the workforce, you are essentially mandating compensation for producers to be normalized.
There's no rule or law that says a collective barganing agreement has to establish wages like this. Programmers could have a CBA that only specifies working conditions and overtime pay, and leave salary at the discretion of management.
You gave it away for free. You're not entitled to money or acknowledgement of any kind.
Excellent point. I would also add that so much high-quality software is available for free it has the effect of devaluing the worth of what programmers do. It's something that a brilliant coder should consider first before giving away their hard work - you have to weigh the advantages with the disadvantages.
she argues is grossly cavalier with the GPL and doesn't properly acknowledge its roots.
The GPL doesn't say "Thou shalt display in bright big banners the license of this software". Yeesh. Why not look for real license violations instead of bitching about this?
Dear god, I hate posting to slashdot, but.....
I play second bassoon professionally for this orchestra, and have played in many ensembles from my college days here including the Aspen Festival and Concert orchestras and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra.
There is not a single professional musician I have met in my 15 years of playing that shares your opinion. Conductors are about rehearsals, not performances.
A program to display a form with two text boxes, and display the sum of the numbers in those two boxes, would take seconds to write in VB, but hours in Perl or C.
Everyone who wants to see Linux on the desktop should be pestering the companies of the software they use to release a Linux version.
Uh-huh, how many people here would actually pay for a well-written, useful application, and how many would pirate it? That's why Adobe (and other companies) won't bother porting to Linux - the "free beer" mentality.
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:38:11 -0600 From: Theo de Raadt To: misc@cvs.openbsd.org Subject: openssl
some of you asked us what that ECC donation from Sun to OpenSSL means.
so what does it mean?
it means that OpenSSL is becoming a non-free software project, because the code from Sun contains licenses which invoke patent litigation; the licence on the new code basically builds a contract that says "if you use this code, you cannot sue Sun".
In such a way, by means of the slippery slope, a free software project becomes not as free, and eventually, less and less free.
Before anyone speaks up about and says "that restriction does not affect me". It does indirectly affect you. It means that some other vendor that uses this code, and subsequently ends up having a spat with Sun, ends up wasting money on legal efforts, and our entire society pays for that. My take on it, is that this is the way the legal industry ensures itself future work.
On the other hand, here in OpenBSD land we will continue to strive to make our software more and more free. We've been squishing odd license terms which contain non-free restrictions throughout the source tree for about 2 years now.
once again, i think it is time to fork OpenSSL. It's obviously run by a bunch of people who don't think through the legal implications of their actions. they should NOT have accepted that code without it being 100% free.
This donation is not free code. Shame on you Sun, and double shame on you OpenSSL.
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Now the rest of the world needs to follow suit.
Exactly. I wonder how many people claiming they can see a difference between 1080i and 1080p happily listen to compressed audio with earbud headphones.
Using a word processor to write a book is like using stone tablets and and abacus for spreadsheets. You really ought to look at markup-based typesetters like LaTeX or DocBook or software specifically designed for book production.
When you can use an OS that starts out secure?
If schools want to teach theology with time given to several different religions and their associated creation myths, then hey, do it. But keep the religious mythology out of science classrooms.
This comparison is as close as you're going to get. It shows the various distances travelled by your fingers when typing on the Dvorak, Qwerty and Arensito layouts.
Dvorak (and Arensito) are layouts designed to minimize finger movement. At the end of the day, my hands and wrists are not tired since I use a modifed Dvorak layout. The layouts here are more convienient for programmers and are the ones I use.
Good advice. For instance it's the only way for me to get our company's 15-year old software product to talk to a J2EE server.
Why are you making this assumption:
When you move to unionized protection for the workforce, you are essentially mandating compensation for producers to be normalized.
There's no rule or law that says a collective barganing agreement has to establish wages like this. Programmers could have a CBA that only specifies working conditions and overtime pay, and leave salary at the discretion of management.
You gave it away for free. You're not entitled to money or acknowledgement of any kind.
Excellent point. I would also add that so much high-quality software is available for free it has the effect of devaluing the worth of what programmers do. It's something that a brilliant coder should consider first before giving away their hard work - you have to weigh the advantages with the disadvantages.
she argues is grossly cavalier with the GPL and doesn't properly acknowledge its roots.
The GPL doesn't say "Thou shalt display in bright big banners the license of this software". Yeesh. Why not look for real license violations instead of bitching about this?
Unlike 99.9% of the posters on this forum, I actually try to only post comments for topics in which I have experience.
Your reply is a perfect example of why this site died a long time ago.
Your last suggestion is laughable, and sounds like something only a non-musician technophile would suggest.
Dear god, I hate posting to slashdot, but..... I play second bassoon professionally for this orchestra, and have played in many ensembles from my college days here including the Aspen Festival and Concert orchestras and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. There is not a single professional musician I have met in my 15 years of playing that shares your opinion. Conductors are about rehearsals, not performances.
If you're working with a document of any complexity and it's length is more than 50 or so pages, you really ought to be using LaTeX.
case statement in /etc/rc to support this behavior, but pdksh does not currently support a case statement.
You, sir, are an idiot. See here.
What in the world does SMP on OpenBSD have to do with the rest of your long-winded comment?
A program to display a form with two text boxes, and display the sum of the numbers in those two boxes, would take seconds to write in VB, but hours in Perl or C.
Uh, you've never heard of Perl/Tk then.
Everyone who wants to see Linux on the desktop should be pestering the companies of the software they use to release a Linux version.
Uh-huh, how many people here would actually pay for a well-written, useful application, and how many would pirate it? That's why Adobe (and other companies) won't bother porting to Linux - the "free beer" mentality.
Time for Fresco?
Yup I see it too. Looks like a defacement....
I thought this would be a "spaces" vs. "tabs" war or possibly the ever popular "4 columns" vs. "8 columns" battle.
I write software that handles a lot of Citifinancial's processes - 90% of it is in perl.
When I have to write something in C it's just never as easy or bug free.
Public school doesn't count for shit. Graduate early.
Yep this person is right on, since 12 is evenly divisible by many numbers.
For those on the site who are musically inclined, note how often 12 and its divisors are used in music.
"Prudence suggests that since it's our money funding the research, we ought to make sure the public gets some return from the endeavor."
That's why it should be BSD licensed.
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:38:11 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt
To: misc@cvs.openbsd.org
Subject: openssl
some of you asked us what that ECC donation from Sun to OpenSSL means.
so what does it mean?
it means that OpenSSL is becoming a non-free software project, because
the code from Sun contains licenses which invoke patent litigation;
the licence on the new code basically builds a contract that says "if
you use this code, you cannot sue Sun".
In such a way, by means of the slippery slope, a free software project
becomes not as free, and eventually, less and less free.
Before anyone speaks up about and says "that restriction does not
affect me". It does indirectly affect you. It means that some other
vendor that uses this code, and subsequently ends up having a spat
with Sun, ends up wasting money on legal efforts, and our entire
society pays for that. My take on it, is that this is the way the
legal industry ensures itself future work.
On the other hand, here in OpenBSD land we will continue to strive to
make our software more and more free. We've been squishing odd
license terms which contain non-free restrictions throughout the
source tree for about 2 years now.
once again, i think it is time to fork OpenSSL. It's obviously run by
a bunch of people who don't think through the legal implications of
their actions. they should NOT have accepted that code without it
being 100% free.
This donation is not free code. Shame on you Sun, and double shame on
you OpenSSL.