"If there is a full-on consumer boycott of a product, whether it's toothpaste or Suburbans or CDs, sooner or later the people whose livelihood depends -- not the artists, but the companies who are selling these toothpaste or CDs or whatever, will take note."
I am not going to buy another CD until they take note.
now, back to napster...
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
First off, there were a couple of grammatical errors in the article. Is anybody proofreading this stuff? "And they?re making it happen." - You can't start a sentence with and, isn't this a fragment? "Intel actually topped Ford's better idea by providing PC's plus Internet access for its employees." - topped ford's better idea? Was that a mistake?
Also, we need to look at the real reason these companies are doing this. Is it really some kind of moral, goof for your family, we love you kind of thing? I don't think so. How about these reasons:
-Every computer user could shop globally, every retailer sell all over the planet. - That sounds like a good one. Push consumerism even farther. Make people buy buy buy more and more. What corporation doesn't stand to benefit from that?
- Although only a handful of companies have yet offered their workers full Net access and computing equipment, it seems inevitable that others will follow - this seems true. I wonder if intel could benefit from corporations all over the world buying their employers computers? Hmmm...
-if for no other reason that to stay competitive in a tight labor market - From Z magazine - A front page article in the New York Times was entitled "Markets Surge As Labor Costs Stay in Check" (April 30, 1997), featuring the conflict between wage increases and "market" prosperity. The emphasis on labor as a cost of production and excessive wage increases as a threat is a throwback to mercantilism; workers are seen as a means, not an end. This point is reinforced by establishment attitudes toward the growth of worker insecurity. Alan Greenspan was quoted recently as saying, very matter-of-factly, that "job insecurity" was the most important factor explaining why wages were not rising. But insecurity is a serious negative factor in people's lives.
This is just anther way companies can keep wages down. "We're giving you a free computer! (and your starting salary will be $2000 less)" but let's not mention that the coomputer cost us $400...
I have to say, this article from Jon today sounds a lot like something we'd read in newsweek, or some other mainstream arm of the media, hwo specialize in newspeak and expressing the views of the oligarchy, not on slashdot. The only reason I can see that Jon wrote this article was that maybe he got paid by enramp to include that one link, heh...
Also, I don't this this is "an enormous political idea". An enormous idea will be when the hugely rich corporations of the US decide to create a tiny bit of economic equality by implementing broad profit sharing programs, not by giving people $400 PCs, or even $1000 PCs.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
The most troubling thing I see about these certifications, is that they feed young 3133t h4x0r's egos. It's bad enough that tons of people think you can be a good software developer without any education, but to add to that, I've met people who have an mcse, and are 19-21 and think they have an engineering degree.
I'm almost done with my computer science degree, and while it's true that I learned a huge amount working as a programmer, without the basis I got from my degree in math, problem solving, and a variety of programming languages and techniques, I would not be nearly as good a programmer. (or so I think) I mean, I'm sure working on open source projects at 13 helps you learn a lot, but there are design fundamentals and lots of underlying knowledge necessary about compilers, and assembly, and hardware, that you need to have to really understand what's going on. Hopefully, our economy will improve enough so that more people can get a quality education. Or, to be more acurate, hopefully our entire economic paradigm will shift enough to allow everyone to get a decent education.
I've never taken a certification class though, so maybe they're better than I imagine. The review of this RH class just confirms what I've thought all along, that you can't learn anything in 8 hours. Or in 24 hours in 3 days. He states that he didn't really learn much from the class, just a few tidbits. It was his previous knowledge that allowed him to pass the exam.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
No waaay.... Anyway, artifical life already does AI based web help desks. But it's not a discussion board. But wouldn't a trained expert system be better an a bunch of clueless AC first posters? heh... Maybe, but anyway, a-life has a lot of money. They do their own venture capital funding of other AI projects. I've used a-life's agents though and they're pretty lame, they periodically spit out ads for alife. You can be saying "you suck!" for 5 minutes and every 10th or so responce is "have you heard about alife's amazing agent technology, we've recieved so much funding blah blah..." It's actually pretty funny.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
I imagine they're pushing this duron out so quickly because it's a bug fix. Hopefully it's been tested more thoroughly than the athlon.
My girlfriend bought a gateway with an athlon and a geforce and it was a nightmare.
First of all, they install some freaky harddrive history software incase you have a problem, so that you can restore your harddrive to it's state from a previous date. That crap prevented partition magic from working right, so I couldn't install linux without reformatting.
Then the real problems started. (After removing that history crap) After working for about an hour, it started crashing randomly. Mind you, this is the night we recieved it. Then all of the sudden, at boot time, when the gefore displayed it's memory count from it's bios, there were little white artifacts all around the text. And now there were little dots all over the screen at boot time and in windows. Then it would crash any time you logged into windows. So it was totally unusable.
Then, since it crashed when you logged into windows, we left it at the windows login screen and went out to eat. When w came back, the screen was covered with moving vertical red and black lines. When you moved the mouse there was a big yellow block where the cursor should have been. That's when we sent it back. Mybe there was some kind of freaky driver problem, but it sounds there was some serious instability in either the geforce or the athlon. I had read that there were problems with that pair, but I figured that if gateway would sell it to us, it must have been sorted out. What a mistake that was. So, I hope the duron is tested better. It sure has a cool name.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
This is spectacluar. What's really important about what is happening here is that it's happening in plain view for all of us to see and discuss. The legal process that usually happens behind closed doors is being shown to us all so we can all contribute. Did you notice how all of those questions came out of our discussions? It's like a kind of communal power. It's spectacular.
This is one of the most exciting things in the world. Now what they really need to do is include us in the napster trials. Do we really need judges anymore when we can get a kind of mass communal decision making process? How about improving the law process by giving people a jury of 100,000 members.
I for one think that the new setup kicks ass. It's much much faster than the old setup. great job guys!
unfortunately the "highest score first" still doesn't work right, but I'd rather have faster loading pages than anything else. It's a pretty big feat when you think about how big the slashdot pages really are, with 300 comments in an html page generated on the fly. wowza.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
Anybody notice that "Highest Scores First" doesn't really work? I always have "Highest Scores First" selected but I still find 3s 4s and 5s below 1s and 2s. I wish it worked, it's a nice idea.
And about the story, don't they have backup servers so that when one fails, another one comes up? I guess the attack was big enough to take down all of their servers... How many hits could/. really get a second? Can't you put a transaction time limit on a web server? Or maximum number of requests answered/minute? And do it dynamically, so when you see the huge surge of traffic, you implement the time limit, and when it dies down again, restore normal operating conditions...
Well, I know what that's like, after we announced that Canvas was available, we were so/.'ed that we couldn't ftp our files out to a mirror...
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
Andy Hertzfeld's attitude is exactly what we need! It's so wonderful to hear someone who can see linux for the amazing revolution it is and who wants o push the boundaries instead of just make interfaces that are 'good enough'!
Go Andy!
Just reading about his experiences with the mac and his involvement with linux now is so inspiring. I started out on the mac and I used to really be inspred by the mac idealism and striving for excellence and just more more more! And I think a lot of people started using macs and gained a good understanding of computers from them and went on to real technical mastery. Not to say that I've achieved that, but I hope to.
It's just great to hear someone who can see the power of what we're doing and who's doing it instead of hearing people (like myself) whine about API's or standards or whatever.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
If you think that we're in any kind of potition to "permit" what ideas we think are valuable aand are not in the linux universe, then you're nuts! And on top of that, you're on the wrong platform. I think this comment is just flamebait.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
I don't think eazel should be doing anything obvious. The UI we are all using now is almost 20 years old and that sucks. What we need are new, innovative, mind blowing interfaces that are beyond what is obvious in the first 15 minutes of investigation. I know I'm asking alot, but hey, we're open source right? We have all the resources the world has to offer! No one else does. Let's finally get it right!
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
A first optical filter, worn over the left eye is provided having a spectral response containing three peaks; one for each of red, green, and blue, tuned to the maximum responsiveness of the human eye to red, green, and blue colors. A second optical filter, worn over the right eye, is similar to the left optical filter, but with the peaks tuned to complementary portions of the visual spectrum. In this manner, a dimension of color perception is added, because each eye sees different colors for the same object which when combined represent the actual color of the object. "
Now the GNU can distribute these at all of their concerts for the big finale! Yeeah!
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
I think there's too much concern on the web with form over content. Slashdot is a prime example, this is not the optimal form, but nevertheless they provide enough entertaining, timely, and relevant content that they have tons and tons of ridiculously loyal readers. This is because, of course, the best content is the sum of the users themselves, which/. achieves perfectly. And I think orange is ugly, so I don't dig zeldman's site. It's just too bright
Here's some content for ya, if you care about your feedom at all, vote for Ralph Nader! And is he really a great web designer? He has a broken link right on the front page... http://www.zeldman.com/orson.html is what the "if movies had been websites" points to. And the mozilla link is broken too.
What we need is a daily page done by an AI personality, now that'll be cool
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
I think there's too much concern on the web with form over content. Slashdot is a prime example, this is not the optimal form, but nevertheless they provide enough entertaining, timely, and relevant content that they have tons and tons of ridiculously loyal readers. This is because, of course, the best content is the sum of the users themselves, which/. achieves perfectly. <br> And I think orange is ugly, so I don't dig zeldman's site. It's just too bright<br> Here's some content for ya, if you care about your feedom at all, <a href="http://www.votenader.com/">vote for Ralph Nader!</a> <br> And is he really a great web designer? He has a broken link right on the front page... http://www.zeldman.com/orson.html is what the "if movies had been websites" points to. And <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/mozillatest.html" the mozilla link is broken too. </a><br> What we need is a daily page done by an AI personality, now that'll be cool<br><br>
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
Definitely, I say they start slashdot island. Then they can sell vacations there! Just make sure you're out of us waters...
WooHoo!
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>I guess I just don't understand most of your post or your positions. You say
>you're all about freedom, the GPL, and open source software while being the<br> >lead linux developer for a closed-source product. Which is it? Freedom with <br> >the capitol F, or loss-leader-please-download-our-product freedom?<br> <br> Look, I'm doing what I can at a proprietary software company to give something to linux and to the open source community. I'm doing this while I finish my degree, so I can't really leave Miami, and there aren't any really cool open source software houses in Miami. What are you doing to improve the amount of freedom we have?<br> I started this project. I suggested this project. I researchecd this project and pushed and pushed the management until they finally agreed. And if you would try it out, you would see that it's very good product that lots of people can gret lots of use out of, in linux, for free. <br> And I'm not complaining about our code. Our code kicks ass. I'm saying that we need to focus on one standard API if we want companies to port their to software to linux and release it under the GPL. If you don't agree, and you don't like softwae written by large companies, than don't worry about it.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
- For Metallica: You're old and lame and haven't had a good album in a long time. Who really cares about metallica's new stuff? I know I don't. Those people probably just downloaded those files in queue with toni braxton mp3's just to have them sitting around on a cd somewhere and say to their friend, "hey, I got the new metallica cd on mp3". Who will then say, "oh, ahh, cool, let's go play quake" <br> - For napster users: Don't get me wrong, I love napster, I use it every day and if napster goes down in flames I'm ready to help anybody make an alternative. Which _will_ happen if something happens to napster, since the server is open source already. We can just change the port and all of you sysadmins at colleges will be screwed. Or maybe we should have it select a random unused port every time. Then how will napster be blocked? We need to make the client act as a server, so we have an akamai effect and they can't be blocked. But back to my point... <br> - For napster users: You knew the first time you installed napster and made all your mp3's publicly available for all to see and downlad that something was a little fishy. But you did it anyway because napster works so great! <br> - For legislators, lawmakers, and other guys with guns and billy clubs: It's too late. The cat is out of the bag. Sure you own the phone lines, but who knows how to keep them running? We do. The ball is rolling and we are never going to give up our new freedoms. Just like Tyler durden said, we make your food, we fix your brakes, we write your lame word processors, <b>Don't fuck with us.</b> <br> ...these opinions are not those of my employer....:) <br>
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Whoa there cowboy! Are you bitter or what! Lets cover a few things here...
2. why do you ask if I'm trolling about our freedoms? Are you one of those open source people who think freedom is secondary to functionality? Sorry bud, not me.
3. Yes, my managers ask about API's. All of our owners are programmers that work on our projects and the director of R&D worked as one of the main developers of our linux version. Sorry your company is lame, mine isn't.
4. As for an emulation layer. Do you know what winelib is? It wasn't as easy as a recompile, but we had to modify about 1% of our code to get it to run.
5. As far as the GPL comment, I was talking about the standard API we, the linux community, decide on.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
I would like to believe that a company with as much $ as M$ would hire relatively intelligent people. I would also like to believe that relatively intelligent people have a certain awareness of the implications of their actions, especially from a professional point of view, especially in computer science, where the code you write today may be executed millions of times in the future on different systems, etc...
So my question is this: Who are these people at microsoft that do these things? Do they put adds that read like this:
"Looking for qualified c++ programmer. Must enjoy hurting animals, pulling the wings off of flies, and implementing systems to damage the security of files containing secrets of people all over the world."
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Doesn't it seem like they have no problem finding tons of smart coders to implement things that hurt people and threaten their freedom and security? Things don't look good for those of us who value of freedom in a world populated by people dying to work for microsoft...
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This is a huge problem for linux. We need a standard API for companies to seriously be able to develop software in linux. To preserve our freedoms by convincing corporations to free their software, we need to have a unified, standard, rock solid API for developing large scale applications. I do value the programmer's freedom in choosing from a selection of APIs but there is no reason we can't have a standard API and still have other choices.
When I was finally able to convince my management to port to linux, the first thing we had to do was select a way to implement Canvas, so of course they asked me about the API. The response - that there is no really standard XFree86 api that is supported by the linx community - was just one more obstacle standing in the way of their acceptance. While we were still in this phase of planning, one of the managers suggested porting with WINE. WINE has been extremely helpful to us and has allowed us to port a major graphics application to linux from windows/mac in just 6 months. But, if we could've gone straight into the API and began hacking away, I'm sure those months could've been spent porting to a native app.
And of course whatever we decide on as a standard will have to be GPL'd...
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
It is all economics. Intel is getting their buts kicked by AMD. They're desperate to reclaim sales, and this is one thing stopping sales. I know I wouldn't buy a p///. The linux community needs to face the fact that corporations decisions about what to support and what not to support are all based on economics. If we want to create our own software and our own world, that's fine, and we can do it without any help from wall street. But if we want commercial products, we are going to have to show companies that they can gain financially from investing time in linux. But then again, who wants crappy closed source bug ridden commercial software anyway!? I'm happy sticking to gnu software...
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
- One of the most interesting UI ideas I've heard of comes from the Oxygen project at MIT. Apparently, they have realized that the computer we know today is a terrible interface for most of what we do. Their idea is to have smart dust that is constantly around you and takes shape according to your needs. There is a lot of organization required to manage today's GUI's. Our handy icons, folders, etc require lots of time to manage. This should all be hidden from us. Computers are smart enough to find the data we need, it's just a question of a good indexing method. For most communication purposes, we wouldn't need a monitor and keyboard of we had good enough speech technology.
- As far as speech recognition goes, it'll be useless until we have seamless natural language processing. Then we'll only need monitors for reading. And then your grandmother will be able to use your computer without any difficulty.
- Computers need to be able to learn about their users. What OS have you ever seen offer to place an icon on your desktop for mozilla after it noticed that you used it everyday? (and speaking of ui's, I wish copy/paste even worked in mozilla)
- And gui, oxygen, or speech based, whatever the OS, the _BEST_ feature any UI can have is to be organic. The best thing about the macOS is that it's organic. It lets you know when the network is down with a dialog, and when it is returned. It refreshes the contents of network volumes for you, without your having to hit F5, F5, F5. It responds (like gnome does sometimes) when a disk is inserted. Machines that are more self propelled will be the answer to truly augmenting human ability, as opposed to hindering it with slow launching, whiz-bang email suites (can you say, Outlook!) that are more of a problem then they're worth. The most pleasing thing about slackware is so tiny, but it's amazing. Just the simple touch of adding fortune to the.bashrc makes the user experience radically happier. Just a touch of organic, proactive, non-order lifts things up so far.
___________________________ Michael Cardenas http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02 http://www.deneba.com/linux
Depending on the response to this release (and the response has obviously been great, we're totally/.'ed ) the higher ups are going to decide what to do. And one possibility that has been discussed is a full native port. It all depends on the interest of the community, and the _company's_ ability to regain it's investment. Developers, boxes, cd's, artists, time, and bandwidth all cost money.
_So_ winelib has given us an entry door, to allow us to get into the market and feel it out. Anything that gets more software companies into the linux market has to be a good thing for linux right? Software companies have people who have 8 hours+ a day to spend making kick ass products. Be it on linux, or on any other platform that has the potential to give a good return on investment.
________________________________________________ ____ Michael Cardenas Lead Linux Programmer Deneba Software http://www.deneba.com
XCreateWindow takes as a parameter a flag for wether the window should be managed by your window manager or not (raise, lower, hide). The settings you choose affect wether the window manager can touch the window or not. By default, it can't. This is because we found different bugs in each window manager, and trying to find all the bugs in all the 20+ window managers is just unreasonable. The settings are to allow -non managed windows -managed application window -managed floating windows -managed everything
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He's right! We should boycott!!!
"If there is a full-on consumer boycott of a product, whether it's toothpaste or Suburbans or CDs, sooner or later the people whose livelihood depends -- not the artists, but the companies who are selling these toothpaste or CDs or whatever, will take note."
I am not going to buy another CD until they take note.
now, back to napster...
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Here's an accurate translation of this article:
t ml
Money Good!
Napster Bad!
http://www.joecartoon.com/buddies/chaos/index.h
:))))))))))))
yeah...
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First off, there were a couple of grammatical errors in the article. Is anybody proofreading this stuff?
"And they?re making it happen." - You can't start a sentence with and, isn't this a fragment?
"Intel actually topped Ford's better idea by providing PC's plus Internet access for its employees." - topped ford's better idea? Was that a mistake?
Also, we need to look at the real reason these companies are doing this. Is it really some kind of moral, goof for your family, we love you kind of thing? I don't think so. How about these reasons:
-Every computer user could shop globally, every retailer sell all over the planet. - That sounds like a good one. Push consumerism even farther. Make people buy buy buy more and more. What corporation doesn't stand to benefit from that?
- Although only a handful of companies have yet offered their workers full Net access and computing equipment, it seems inevitable that others will follow - this seems true. I wonder if intel could benefit from corporations all over the world buying their employers computers? Hmmm...
-if for no other reason that to stay competitive in a tight labor market - From Z magazine - A front page article in the New York Times was entitled "Markets Surge As Labor Costs Stay in Check" (April 30, 1997), featuring the conflict between wage increases and "market" prosperity. The emphasis on labor as a cost of production and excessive wage increases as a threat is a throwback to mercantilism; workers are seen as a means, not an end. This point is reinforced by establishment attitudes toward the growth of worker insecurity. Alan Greenspan was quoted recently as saying, very matter-of-factly, that "job insecurity" was the most important factor explaining why wages were not rising. But insecurity is a serious negative factor in people's lives.
This is just anther way companies can keep wages down. "We're giving you a free computer! (and your starting salary will be $2000 less)" but let's not mention that the coomputer cost us $400...
I have to say, this article from Jon today sounds a lot like something we'd read in newsweek, or some other mainstream arm of the media, hwo specialize in newspeak and expressing the views of the oligarchy, not on slashdot. The only reason I can see that Jon wrote this article was that maybe he got paid by enramp to include that one link, heh...
Also, I don't this this is "an enormous political idea". An enormous idea will be when the hugely rich corporations of the US decide to create a tiny bit of economic equality by implementing broad profit sharing programs, not by giving people $400 PCs, or even $1000 PCs.
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The most troubling thing I see about these certifications, is that they feed young 3133t h4x0r's egos. It's bad enough that tons of people think you can be a good software developer without any education, but to add to that, I've met people who have an mcse, and are 19-21 and think they have an engineering degree.
I'm almost done with my computer science degree, and while it's true that I learned a huge amount working as a programmer, without the basis I got from my degree in math, problem solving, and a variety of programming languages and techniques, I would not be nearly as good a programmer. (or so I think) I mean, I'm sure working on open source projects at 13 helps you learn a lot, but there are design fundamentals and lots of underlying knowledge necessary about compilers, and assembly, and hardware, that you need to have to really understand what's going on. Hopefully, our economy will improve enough so that more people can get a quality education. Or, to be more acurate, hopefully our entire economic paradigm will shift enough to allow everyone to get a decent education.
I've never taken a certification class though, so maybe they're better than I imagine.
The review of this RH class just confirms what I've thought all along, that you can't learn anything in 8 hours. Or in 24 hours in 3 days. He states that he didn't really learn much from the class, just a few tidbits. It was his previous knowledge that allowed him to pass the exam.
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No waaay.... Anyway, artifical life already does AI based web help desks. But it's not a discussion board. But wouldn't a trained expert system be better an a bunch of clueless AC first posters? heh... Maybe, but anyway, a-life has a lot of money. They do their own venture capital funding of other AI projects. I've used a-life's agents though and they're pretty lame, they periodically spit out ads for alife. You can be saying "you suck!" for 5 minutes and every 10th or so responce is "have you heard about alife's amazing agent technology, we've recieved so much funding blah blah..." It's actually pretty funny.
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I imagine they're pushing this duron out so quickly because it's a bug fix. Hopefully it's been tested more thoroughly than the athlon.
My girlfriend bought a gateway with an athlon and a geforce and it was a nightmare.
First of all, they install some freaky harddrive history software incase you have a problem, so that you can restore your harddrive to it's state from a previous date. That crap prevented partition magic from working right, so I couldn't install linux without reformatting.
Then the real problems started. (After removing that history crap) After working for about an hour, it started crashing randomly. Mind you, this is the night we recieved it. Then all of the sudden, at boot time, when the gefore displayed it's memory count from it's bios, there were little white artifacts all around the text. And now there were little dots all over the screen at boot time and in windows. Then it would crash any time you logged into windows. So it was totally unusable.
Then, since it crashed when you logged into windows, we left it at the windows login screen and went out to eat. When w came back, the screen was covered with moving vertical red and black lines. When you moved the mouse there was a big yellow block where the cursor should have been. That's when we sent it back. Mybe there was some kind of freaky driver problem, but it sounds there was some serious instability in either the geforce or the athlon. I had read that there were problems with that pair, but I figured that if gateway would sell it to us, it must have been sorted out. What a mistake that was. So, I hope the duron is tested better. It sure has a cool name.
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This is spectacluar. What's really important about what is happening here is that it's happening in plain view for all of us to see and discuss. The legal process that usually happens behind closed doors is being shown to us all so we can all contribute. Did you notice how all of those questions came out of our discussions? It's like a kind of communal power. It's spectacular.
This is one of the most exciting things in the world. Now what they really need to do is include us in the napster trials. Do we really need judges anymore when we can get a kind of mass communal decision making process? How about improving the law process by giving people a jury of 100,000 members.
Let's start the Free Law Foundation. Oh, somebody already did that. Oops.
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I for one think that the new setup kicks ass. It's much much faster than the old setup. great job guys!
unfortunately the "highest score first" still doesn't work right, but I'd rather have faster loading pages than anything else. It's a pretty big feat when you think about how big the slashdot pages really are, with 300 comments in an html page generated on the fly. wowza.
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
Anybody notice that "Highest Scores First" doesn't really work? I always have "Highest Scores First" selected but I still find 3s 4s and 5s below 1s and 2s. I wish it worked, it's a nice idea.
/. really get a second? Can't you put a transaction time limit on a web server? Or maximum number of requests answered/minute? And do it dynamically, so when you see the huge surge of traffic, you implement the time limit, and when it dies down again, restore normal operating conditions...
/.'ed that we couldn't ftp our files out to a mirror...
And about the story, don't they have backup servers so that when one fails, another one comes up? I guess the attack was big enough to take down all of their servers... How many hits could
Well, I know what that's like, after we announced that Canvas was available, we were so
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
Andy Hertzfeld's attitude is exactly what we need! It's so wonderful to hear someone who can see linux for the amazing revolution it is and who wants o push the boundaries instead of just make interfaces that are 'good enough'!
Go Andy!
Just reading about his experiences with the mac and his involvement with linux now is so inspiring. I started out on the mac and I used to really be inspred by the mac idealism and striving for excellence and just more more more! And I think a lot of people started using macs and gained a good understanding of computers from them and went on to real technical mastery. Not to say that I've achieved that, but I hope to.
It's just great to hear someone who can see the power of what we're doing and who's doing it instead of hearing people (like myself) whine about API's or standards or whatever.
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
If you think that we're in any kind of potition to "permit" what ideas we think are valuable aand are not in the linux universe, then you're nuts! And on top of that, you're on the wrong platform. I think this comment is just flamebait.
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
I don't think eazel should be doing anything obvious. The UI we are all using now is almost 20 years old and that sucks. What we need are new, innovative, mind blowing interfaces that are beyond what is obvious in the first 15 minutes of investigation. I know I'm asking alot, but hey, we're open source right? We have all the resources the world has to offer! No one else does. Let's finally get it right!
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
Reading through his patents, I found some trippy sunglasses!
A first optical filter, worn over the left eye is provided having a spectral response containing three peaks; one for each of red, green, and blue, tuned to the maximum responsiveness of the human eye to red, green, and blue colors. A second optical filter, worn over the right eye, is similar to the left optical filter, but with the peaks tuned to complementary portions of the visual spectrum. In this manner, a dimension of color perception is added, because each eye sees different colors for the same object which when combined represent the actual color of the object. "
Now the GNU can distribute these at all of their concerts for the big finale!
Yeeah!
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
I think there's too much concern on the web with form over content. Slashdot is a prime example, this is not the optimal form, but nevertheless they provide enough entertaining, timely, and relevant content that they have tons and tons of ridiculously loyal readers. This is because, of course, the best content is the sum of the users themselves, which /. achieves perfectly.
And I think orange is ugly, so I don't dig zeldman's site. It's just too bright
Here's some content for ya, if you care about your feedom at all, vote for Ralph Nader!
And is he really a great web designer? He has a broken link right on the front page... http://www.zeldman.com/orson.html is what the "if movies had been websites" points to. And the mozilla link is broken too.
What we need is a daily page done by an AI personality, now that'll be cool
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Michael Cardenas
http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02
http://www.deneba.com/linux
I think there's too much concern on the web with form over content. Slashdot is a prime example, this is not the optimal form, but nevertheless they provide enough entertaining, timely, and relevant content that they have tons and tons of ridiculously loyal readers. This is because, of course, the best content is the sum of the users themselves, which /. achieves perfectly. <br>
And I think orange is ugly, so I don't dig zeldman's site. It's just too bright<br>
Here's some content for ya, if you care about your feedom at all, <a href="http://www.votenader.com/">vote for Ralph Nader!</a> <br>
And is he really a great web designer? He has a broken link right on the front page... http://www.zeldman.com/orson.html is what the "if movies had been websites" points to. And <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/mozillatest.html" the mozilla link is broken too. </a><br>
What we need is a daily page done by an AI personality, now that'll be cool<br><br>
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Michael Cardenas
http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02
http://www.deneba.com/linux
Definitely, I say they start slashdot island. Then they can sell vacations there! Just make sure you're out of us waters...
WooHoo!
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Michael Cardenas
http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02
http://www.deneba.com/linux
>I guess I just don't understand most of your post or your positions. You say
>you're all about freedom, the GPL, and open source software while being the<br> >lead linux developer for a closed-source product. Which is it? Freedom with <br>
>the capitol F, or loss-leader-please-download-our-product freedom?<br>
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Look, I'm doing what I can at a proprietary software company to give something to linux and to the open source community. I'm doing this while I finish my degree, so I can't really leave Miami, and there aren't any really cool open source software houses in Miami. What are you doing to improve the amount of freedom we have?<br>
I started this project. I suggested this project. I researchecd this project and pushed and pushed the management until they finally agreed. And if you would try it out, you would see that it's very good product that lots of people can gret lots of use out of, in linux, for free.
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And I'm not complaining about our code. Our code kicks ass. I'm saying that we need to focus on one standard API if we want companies to port their to software to linux and release it under the GPL. If you don't agree, and you don't like softwae written by large companies, than don't worry about it.
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
Reality check...
:)
- For Metallica: You're old and lame and haven't had a good album in a long time. Who really cares about metallica's new stuff? I know I don't. Those people probably just downloaded those files in queue with toni braxton mp3's just to have them sitting around on a cd somewhere and say to their friend, "hey, I got the new metallica cd on mp3". Who will then say, "oh, ahh, cool, let's go play quake"
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- For napster users: Don't get me wrong, I love napster, I use it every day and if napster goes down in flames I'm ready to help anybody make an alternative. Which _will_ happen if something happens to napster, since the server is open source already. We can just change the port and all of you sysadmins at colleges will be screwed. Or maybe we should have it select a random unused port every time. Then how will napster be blocked? We need to make the client act as a server, so we have an akamai effect and they can't be blocked. But back to my point...
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- For napster users: You knew the first time you installed napster and made all your mp3's publicly available for all to see and downlad that something was a little fishy. But you did it anyway because napster works so great!
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- For legislators, lawmakers, and other guys with guns and billy clubs: It's too late. The cat is out of the bag. Sure you own the phone lines, but who knows how to keep them running? We do. The ball is rolling and we are never going to give up our new freedoms. Just like Tyler durden said, we make your food, we fix your brakes, we write your lame word processors, <b>Don't fuck with us.</b>
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...these opinions are not those of my employer....
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
Whoa there cowboy! Are you bitter or what! Lets cover a few things here...
1. Our linux version is _free_ you can download it now from our web page.
2. why do you ask if I'm trolling about our freedoms? Are you one of those open source people who think freedom is secondary to functionality? Sorry bud, not me.
3. Yes, my managers ask about API's. All of our owners are programmers that work on our projects and the director of R&D worked as one of the main developers of our linux version. Sorry your company is lame, mine isn't.
4. As for an emulation layer. Do you know what winelib is? It wasn't as easy as a recompile, but we had to modify about 1% of our code to get it to run.
5. As far as the GPL comment, I was talking about the standard API we, the linux community, decide on.
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
I would like to believe that a company with as much $ as M$ would hire relatively intelligent people. I would also like to believe that relatively intelligent people have a certain awareness of the implications of their actions, especially from a professional point of view, especially in computer science, where the code you write today may be executed millions of times in the future on different systems, etc...
So my question is this: Who are these people at microsoft that do these things? Do they put adds that read like this:
"Looking for qualified c++ programmer. Must enjoy hurting animals, pulling the wings off of flies, and implementing systems to damage the security of files containing secrets of people all over the world."
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Doesn't it seem like they have no problem finding tons of smart coders to implement things that hurt people and threaten their freedom and security? Things don't look good for those of us who value of freedom in a world populated by people dying to work for microsoft...
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
This is a huge problem for linux. We need a standard API for companies to seriously be able to develop software in linux. To preserve our freedoms by convincing corporations to free their software, we need to have a unified, standard, rock solid API for developing large scale applications. I do value the programmer's freedom in choosing from a selection of APIs but there is no reason we can't have a standard API and still have other choices.
When I was finally able to convince my management to port to linux, the first thing we had to do was select a way to implement Canvas, so of course they asked me about the API. The response - that there is no really standard XFree86 api that is supported by the linx community - was just one more obstacle standing in the way of their acceptance. While we were still in this phase of planning, one of the managers suggested porting with WINE. WINE has been extremely helpful to us and has allowed us to port a major graphics application to linux from windows/mac in just 6 months. But, if we could've gone straight into the API and began hacking away, I'm sure those months could've been spent porting to a native app.
And of course whatever we decide on as a standard will have to be GPL'd...
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
It is all economics. Intel is getting their buts kicked by AMD. They're desperate to reclaim sales, and this is one thing stopping sales. I know I wouldn't buy a p///.
The linux community needs to face the fact that corporations decisions about what to support and what not to support are all based on economics. If we want to create our own software and our own world, that's fine, and we can do it without any help from wall street. But if we want commercial products, we are going to have to show companies that they can gain financially from investing time in linux.
But then again, who wants crappy closed source bug ridden commercial software anyway!? I'm happy sticking to gnu software...
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Michael Cardenas
http://www.fiu.edu/~mcarde02
http://www.deneba.com/linux
We need to look at this on a number of levels:
.bashrc makes the user experience radically happier. Just a touch of organic, proactive, non-order lifts things up so far.
- One of the most interesting UI ideas I've heard of comes from the Oxygen project at MIT. Apparently, they have realized that the computer we know today is a terrible interface for most of what we do. Their idea is to have smart dust that is constantly around you and takes shape according to your needs. There is a lot of organization required to manage today's GUI's. Our handy icons, folders, etc require lots of time to manage. This should all be hidden from us. Computers are smart enough to find the data we need, it's just a question of a good indexing method. For most communication purposes, we wouldn't need a monitor and keyboard of we had good enough speech technology.
- As far as speech recognition goes, it'll be useless until we have seamless natural language processing. Then we'll only need monitors for reading. And then your grandmother will be able to use your computer without any difficulty.
- Computers need to be able to learn about their users. What OS have you ever seen offer to place an icon on your desktop for mozilla after it noticed that you used it everyday? (and speaking of ui's, I wish copy/paste even worked in mozilla)
- And gui, oxygen, or speech based, whatever the OS, the _BEST_ feature any UI can have is to be organic. The best thing about the macOS is that it's organic. It lets you know when the network is down with a dialog, and when it is returned. It refreshes the contents of network volumes for you, without your having to hit F5, F5, F5. It responds (like gnome does sometimes) when a disk is inserted. Machines that are more self propelled will be the answer to truly augmenting human ability, as opposed to hindering it with slow launching, whiz-bang email suites (can you say, Outlook!) that are more of a problem then they're worth. The most pleasing thing about slackware is so tiny, but it's amazing. Just the simple touch of adding fortune to the
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Michael Cardenas
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http://www.deneba.com/linux
Actually...
/.'ed ) the higher ups are going to decide what to do. And one possibility that has been discussed is a full native port. It all depends on the interest of the community, and the _company's_ ability to regain it's investment. Developers, boxes, cd's, artists, time, and bandwidth all cost money.
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Depending on the response to this release (and the response has obviously been great, we're totally
_So_ winelib has given us an entry door, to allow us to get into the market and feel it out. Anything that gets more software companies into the linux market has to be a good thing for linux right? Software companies have people who have 8 hours+ a day to spend making kick ass products. Be it on linux, or on any other platform that has the potential to give a good return on investment.
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Michael Cardenas
Lead Linux Programmer
Deneba Software http://www.deneba.com
XCreateWindow takes as a parameter a flag for wether the window should be managed by your window manager or not (raise, lower, hide). The settings you choose affect wether the window manager can touch the window or not. By default, it can't. This is because we found different bugs in each window manager, and trying to find all the bugs in all the 20+ window managers is just unreasonable. The settings are to allow
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-non managed windows
-managed application window
-managed floating windows
-managed everything
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Michael Cardenas
Lead Linux Programmer
Deneba Software http://www.deneba.com