I always thought of Leo Fender as the true innovator of the electric guitar. AFAIR, Les Paul was even opposed to the idea of solid body guitars, and only did the classic Les Paul after seeing Leo Fender's huge success with Telecaster et. al.
Speaking as one of the GNU Classpath developers, I agree with that idea. However, there are some issues to be worked out, like the ownership of the code. GNU Classpath's code is copyrighted by the FSF and Sun's code is copyrighted by Sun. Both organizations require that contributors sign a copyright agreement before accepting code. I don't know about details, but I guess Sun and the FSF would have to arrange something before such a thing could happen. Luckily, Dalibor Topic, also a Classpath developer, is in the interim board, and I hope that this would help to arrange for the two projects to merge in some way. OTOH, I and my friends at Classpath will look into the encumbered areas and see how we can help out with the missing pieces.
So we get more ways to easier install proprietary stuff on that OS that was originally proposing to 'support free software'. Sigh. Can anybody enlighten me how Canonical is actively supporting and advertising free software? By pulling in more and more options for proprietary software?
I know they argue that the lack of certain applications and / or drivers is hindering adoption of free software and there is certainly some thruth to it. Well, I don't know. I think as long as I have the choice to exclude the proprietary repositories I'll be fine with it. But I probably wouldn't encourage people to install Ubuntu first, like I did in the past, but instead point them to Fedora.
I still find it hard to believe that the avian flu is a real problem. They make a mega big fuzz about it as it would be the worst epidemic ever. There are at least two issues that make me suspicious: When it was announced here in germany, there was only one (big) pharmaceutical corporation that was selling the 'magic cure', and the governments seem to have ordered shitloads of it. The other suspicous detail was that all the farmers were forbidden to let their chickens run in the outside. So far it very much looks like (at least to me):
Targetted manipulation to sell (lots of) dubious medicine.
A way to clean up the fowls (is that the right word?) market.
I'm not at all for quick conspiracy theories. But until now, nothing convinced me that avian flu is a real problem.
Hmm, trying to read the article, Firefox tells me it has blocked a popup window, but nevertheless opening one. This is not kind. In addition to that I cannot (easily) go back using the back button. Ugly site...
It's not that this affects only two obscure classes. Such oddities are sprankled all over the API docs. And you can't speak of really good designed API either. But I must admit that their API docs and overall design are not that bad. I have seen much worse.
Sun has done a wonderful job with java and documentation. The only thing that I would like to see added to it would be links to items that reference each function/object.
Uhh, this may be true for some parts, but lots of the documentation is crap. Look for example at javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit: "We didn't wrote this but hope to improve it later" or even better javax.swing.JViewport: "Hey we have a cool and fast implementation but won't tell you what a JViewport is". The API docs are full of this, and if you are trying to implement the API like the folks at GNU Classpath (including me) then you will see that Sun's JDK isn't really good. Besides this funny things in the documentation there are lots of redundant methods (some of them deprecated), stuff that behaves different than documented (again look closely at RTFEditorKit!) etc etc
Maybe you meant this as a joke, but the idea is not entirly new. In fact, the BSDs (and possibly other Unices?) are using that for some time now, and it greatly helps to get the system organized.
The idea is to put the system configuration stuff in/etc and the configuration of additional (non-system) software in/usr/local/etc (or/usr/pkg/etc in NetBSD). I think at least the stuff in/etc is mostly conforming to the usual rc.conf syntax, but I might be wrong here.
Probably a bit to late for all that, unfortunately. Sun had it's chance and now Linux has managed code in the form of Mono (open source.NET implimentation) and C#
I don't think Mono is better than Kaffe/GCJ/... The GNU/Classpath based Java VMs are already covering most of the Java API. The biggest/most visible obstacle is probably the Swing implementation, but OTOH Mono also doesn't have a complete Windows.Forms implementation. Don't say GTK#, this is also accesible in Java via java-gnome or SWT, which both work fine.
Gnome developers just have some unexplainable love for Windows.Forms as opposed to Swing.
Huh? I always though Gnome developers prefer GTK?? How much applications in Gnome are actually coded using Mono? None, AFAICS. This is all self-fulfilling PR crap.
.. they can claim to own the part of the code that you wrote (excluding the GPLed code). Even that is questionable because you have written it before you signed the said contract.
Audiophiles want the maximum quality they can get, and if they want it digital
Real audiophiles surely don't want it digital, at least not from CD. I still prefer a good analog LP over the CD crap sound, though I have heard audio-DVDs are quite ok.
no trolling, I mean it. Given that now there is a 16-Bit-20-MHz CPU and severalharddisks for it, it should at least be possible. Ok, they have their Unix based OS already but NetBSD would definitly be a different class.
Its interesting that you note that. Some days ago I had a talk to my neighbor who works at a car shop for BMW and he told me that now >55% of all 'repairs' are done with plugging the car on the internet, downloading the newest updates and there you go.
Actually I am always missing (and cannot find one) virtual desktops in Windows. I have gotten used to it from the Unix world (Gnome, Windowmaker, or any other WM) so much, it is a pain not having it in the rare cases that I use Windows. Anybody can make a recommendation (something not 3D-ish!)?
Isn't X:org also X11? You probably mean XFree86? X versions are really complicated to comprehend, I'm not sure what the 11 means. I think I remember something like X11R5 some years ago, but never R4, not to speak of X10.
As General Manager of Platform Strategy, I'm responsible for ensuring that our customers understand the benefits of the Microsoft platform. I also spend a fair amount of time doing a level of comparative analysis, making sure our customers understand the differences between Microsoft and some of the key alternatives in the marketplace, specifically Linux and open-source alternatives. Today, Bill Hilf and I will be spending time talking about that. Welcome, Bill.
IMO opinion the word 'free' in Free Software is badly chosen. I would like to use the term 'Free Software' more often, but I do not always want to explain 'Free as in freedom' vs. 'Free as in beer' or something. That's why I usually fall back to using 'Open Source'. I do not care _so_ much about the differences, that I lose myself in longish explanations.
OTOH I don't have an alternative for 'free' at hand.
Anyway, I cannot stand the argues about BSD vs. GNU or 'Free' vs. 'Open Source'. Both sides have their points, both licenses have their use. There is always the right tool/license/whatever for the right job!
Slashdot Mirror
I always thought of Leo Fender as the true innovator of the electric guitar. AFAIR, Les Paul was even opposed to the idea of solid body guitars, and only did the classic Les Paul after seeing Leo Fender's huge success with Telecaster et. al.
The funniest thing is that the duped article is also already a dupe. The original original article of the dupe dupe would be: http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/14/223241
Version 1.0? You are saying this isn't beta anymore?
Speaking as one of the GNU Classpath developers, I agree with that idea. However, there are some issues to be worked out, like the ownership of the code. GNU Classpath's code is copyrighted by the FSF and Sun's code is copyrighted by Sun. Both organizations require that contributors sign a copyright agreement before accepting code. I don't know about details, but I guess Sun and the FSF would have to arrange something before such a thing could happen. Luckily, Dalibor Topic, also a Classpath developer, is in the interim board, and I hope that this would help to arrange for the two projects to merge in some way. OTOH, I and my friends at Classpath will look into the encumbered areas and see how we can help out with the missing pieces.
YES. This shows a DOS inside JPC inside IKVM (Java) inside .NET. :-D
So we get more ways to easier install proprietary stuff on that OS that was originally proposing to 'support free software'. Sigh. Can anybody enlighten me how Canonical is actively supporting and advertising free software? By pulling in more and more options for proprietary software?
I know they argue that the lack of certain applications and / or drivers is hindering adoption of free software and there is certainly some thruth to it. Well, I don't know. I think as long as I have the choice to exclude the proprietary repositories I'll be fine with it. But I probably wouldn't encourage people to install Ubuntu first, like I did in the past, but instead point them to Fedora.
- Targetted manipulation to sell (lots of) dubious medicine.
- A way to clean up the fowls (is that the right word?) market.
I'm not at all for quick conspiracy theories. But until now, nothing convinced me that avian flu is a real problem.AFAIK, it will be GPL for Javac and Hotspot, and GPL+linking exception for the class libraries.
Exactly. When I worked at MS, I have seen files in the Windows source tree that had comments saying they were part of OS/2.
Didn't you know that Windows NT is (kind-of) the successor to OS/2?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT
Hmm, trying to read the article, Firefox tells me it has blocked a popup window, but nevertheless opening one. This is not kind. In addition to that I cannot (easily) go back using the back button. Ugly site...
It's not that this affects only two obscure classes. Such oddities are sprankled all over the API docs. And you can't speak of really good designed API either. But I must admit that their API docs and overall design are not that bad. I have seen much worse.
Sun has done a wonderful job with java and documentation. The only thing that I would like to see added to it would be links to items that reference each function/object.
Uhh, this may be true for some parts, but lots of the documentation is crap. Look for example at javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit: "We didn't wrote this but hope to improve it later" or even better javax.swing.JViewport: "Hey we have a cool and fast implementation but won't tell you what a JViewport is". The API docs are full of this, and if you are trying to implement the API like the folks at GNU Classpath (including me) then you will see that Sun's JDK isn't really good. Besides this funny things in the documentation there are lots of redundant methods (some of them deprecated), stuff that behaves different than documented (again look closely at RTFEditorKit!) etc etc
Maybe you meant this as a joke, but the idea is not entirly new. In fact, the BSDs (and possibly other Unices?) are using that for some time now, and it greatly helps to get the system organized.
/etc and the configuration of additional (non-system) software in /usr/local/etc (or /usr/pkg/etc in NetBSD). I think at least the stuff in /etc is mostly conforming to the usual rc.conf syntax, but I might be wrong here.
The idea is to put the system configuration stuff in
Probably a bit to late for all that, unfortunately. Sun had it's chance and now Linux has managed code in the form of Mono (open source .NET implimentation) and C#
I don't think Mono is better than Kaffe/GCJ/... The GNU/Classpath based Java VMs are already covering most of the Java API. The biggest/most visible obstacle is probably the Swing implementation, but OTOH Mono also doesn't have a complete Windows.Forms implementation. Don't say GTK#, this is also accesible in Java via java-gnome or SWT, which both work fine.
Gnome developers just have some unexplainable love for Windows.Forms as opposed to Swing.
Huh? I always though Gnome developers prefer GTK?? How much applications in Gnome are actually coded using Mono? None, AFAICS. This is all self-fulfilling PR crap.
.. they can claim to own the part of the code that you wrote (excluding the GPLed code). Even that is questionable because you have written it before you signed the said contract.
Audiophiles want the maximum quality they can get, and if they want it digital
Real audiophiles surely don't want it digital, at least not from CD. I still prefer a good analog LP over the CD crap sound, though I have heard audio-DVDs are quite ok.
.. one of the best games ever. Digital Life in Creatures. This simulates biochemistry, neural activity, genetics among other this and is great fun.
d ex.php
p hp
http://www.gamewaredevelopment.co.uk/creatures_in
Go get yourself a free copy of Docking Station (the online version of this game) for Linux or Windows:
http://www.gamewaredevelopment.co.uk/ds/ds_index.
Hey that is boring. Everybody knows that MS is the incarnation of a security flaw. No need to repeat that again and again.
no trolling, I mean it. Given that now there is a 16-Bit-20-MHz CPU and several hard disks for it, it should at least be possible. Ok, they have their Unix based OS already but NetBSD would definitly be a different class.
Its interesting that you note that. Some days ago I had a talk to my neighbor who works at a car shop for BMW and he told me that now >55% of all 'repairs' are done with plugging the car on the internet, downloading the newest updates and there you go.
Hmm, nice. But this is only for Windows XP. I still prefer Win2K...
Actually I am always missing (and cannot find one) virtual desktops in Windows. I have gotten used to it from the Unix world (Gnome, Windowmaker, or any other WM) so much, it is a pain not having it in the rare cases that I use Windows. Anybody can make a recommendation (something not 3D-ish!)?
Isn't X:org also X11? You probably mean XFree86? X versions are really complicated to comprehend, I'm not sure what the 11 means. I think I remember something like X11R5 some years ago, but never R4, not to speak of X10.
As General Manager of Platform Strategy, I'm responsible for ensuring that our customers understand the benefits of the Microsoft platform. I also spend a fair amount of time doing a level of comparative analysis, making sure our customers understand the differences between Microsoft and some of the key alternatives in the marketplace, specifically Linux and open-source alternatives. Today, Bill Hilf and I will be spending time talking about that. Welcome, Bill.
IMO opinion the word 'free' in Free Software is badly chosen. I would like to use the term 'Free Software' more often, but I do not always want to explain 'Free as in freedom' vs. 'Free as in beer' or something. That's why I usually fall back to using 'Open Source'. I do not care _so_ much about the differences, that I lose myself in longish explanations.
OTOH I don't have an alternative for 'free' at hand.
Anyway, I cannot stand the argues about BSD vs. GNU or 'Free' vs. 'Open Source'. Both sides have their points, both licenses have their use. There is always the right tool/license/whatever for the right job!