Yes, LinuxWorld is a big thing that he should be making but he doesn't work for Linux. Linux doesn't cut his paychecks, Microsoft does. And if he's got something to do internally, leave it at that.
That's an awefully convenient excuse, to have this internal meeting suddenly pop up. That's the same excuse I would use to stay home and get high. I bet all those Microsoft OSS advocates partake.
But Microsoft thinks they know Linux because they learned about OSS. They may know OSS, but they don't know Free Software or Linux. The driving force behind Linux, what makes Linux the unstoppable force it is, is something Microsoft can never embrace. Their whole purpose for existence is to take, not to give. It is to possess, to own, to turn into IP and products and things they can sell to you. Linux is the opposite of that existence, its whole purpose is to give, to share, to promote the free flow of information and blur the lines between property and ownership until no one has control.
BSD and Microsoft make good bed fellows. BSD's a slut. Free Software, however, is their one true competitor. Actually, Free Software really is only in competition with itself. Microsoft is only temporary. They'll leave the OS and Office markets when they're no longer profitable. Free Software will stay until the end of time, profitable or not.
OSS Zealot: No! That's not standards-based! That's not cross-platform!
It's not secure. It's not efficient. It's not stable.
But I know, no amount of cross-platform, standards compliant, secure, stable and efficient OSS software is going to stand in your way. And I love you for that. Keep spreadin the MS.
First, I don't have the time. Second, I use Linux...
#!/usr/bin/perl use web; my $self = new web; $self->body($self->textarea("Hello World:", 'id="textarea" onkeyup="ajaxfunc(['textarea'],['textarea'])"')); my $ajaxfunc = sub { my $text=shift; return localtime() . $text; }; $self->ajax('ajaxfunc', $ajaxfunc); $self->render or $self->nph;
...when GPL3 arrives, you can bet the farm that Hurd will adopt it. At that point, modules that are GPL2-only may have to be removed if my understanding of the issue is correct.
That's a lot of assuming you're doing there. This is far more detailed than you describe. Its best not to speculate at this point, unless you're looking for a thorough and valid rebuttal.
And please stop using the word "normal" to describe people who can see and hear--the proper terms are "hearing" and "sighted" (or "seeing").
I understand how it feels when people use the term normal to describe people who can see and hear, but emotions aside, the average person is able to see and hear. We all have to face the reality that we are dealing with groups of people struggling against eachother. Sometimes we help eachother, but only when we can and usually only when it is beneficial to us or our group. We're all people, yes, but we're also separated by ideology, class, blood, physical appearance, etc. Its not legal for businesses or governments, in some countries, to discriminate. But public opinion and thought can not be controlled, it must be manipulated.
The average OSS programmer needs to understand why and how to program properly. They have to be convinced its not a waste of their time. When the source code is freely available, everyone is limited by their programming abilities. Proper tools are absolutely necessary, I agree with that. But I'm a radical individual, not the typical God fearing Joe. I might be able to lend a few hours and a lot of forethought to improving the way I write my code, but its highly unlikely anything I write will be that popular.
You got to admit though, moving around physical forms of currency is somewhat inefficient.
From a processing standpoint it would be far more efficient if something like this were understood. But somehow that seems to be asking too much of the private wealthy citizens, my main issue with unregulated, or improperly regulated capitalism. We're far more valuable when we're educated and healthy, which unfortunately costs a lot upfront. But it feels like we're placing value on minds and bodies... is that right?
I think it might, it seems to allow other licenses to be included.. But the GPL v2 stuff might not be compatible because it doesn't allow any further restrictions? I don't know. But v3 isn't even out yet, so it doesn't matter.
Capitalism disobeys common sense. Currency is created and destroyed, in essense, the government is stealing from me by allowing there to be any form of inflation at all. They're doing this so they can give to the poor, those new people y'all keep popping out after fucking eachother like God's whoresome flock, all the while enforcing your ideology of tradition, authority, and bullshit that gets into messes like Iraq.
Fuck Capitalism, its your fault it got this fucked up. If you can't fix it, its broken.
The government now has the right to invade your privacy at the ISP level to help them draft laws, conduct surveys, and probably any other sort of surveillance. Why not let Wal-Mart wiretap you around Christmas to find out what you're planning on buying your friends/family? That's where this is headed.
Today we're illegally asking businesses for information that is freely available. Want to know what queries come up in a google search? Google it! But that's not what they want. They want any and every bit of private info they can get to help them promote their biased law to "protect kids" and deny us normal citizens our freedom.
This is about control. Your government wants to control the way you think. They want you to think pornography is bad for kids. But I have seen no evidence to prove this. I have seen no evidence violent content is bad for kids. If this content is bad for kids, perhaps contact with adults is also bad for kids. Maybe kids should be taken off to a "camp" somewhere so they can get the proper safe environment our government thinks they must be raised in.
If it were all about the GPL, then why doesn't Hurd have even more developers working on it than Linux?
Competition. Hurd is making significant progress, considering it only has a few developers. And it is, in a way, competing with Linux for mindshare, if nothing else. But the Hurd will take off once they get it stable, because its licensed under the GPL, meaning all Linux drivers will be legal to port.
By those calculations your logic is flawed. The quote, "1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second", is talking about computational limits, not storage densities.
That's like assuming you're going to store the entire capacity of ZFS on a 136 billion kg stack of multi-core CPUs.
So what is the difference between EFI on IA64 and X86? Why doesn't Windows have support for Intel EFI? Its simple, right? Been there, done that, for years, even.
Seems like they could just release a patch or something..
I think its a bit more complex than that. Or else someone would have claimed their reward money for getting Windows XP to boot on a MacBook.
If its so easy you should do it and claim you cash..
Whatever, emulating real life in VR is so unimaginative. Any intelligent child would think you're stupid. Only the lame kids that listen to their parents would fall for your tired old racial-religious stereotypes. Who cares if Nazi's exist? Deal with it. You can't kill them for existing, and you can't shut them up, they are free to speak. In a virtual world even you can explore what it is like to be a Nazi, if you choose. This is not a recommendation, however, as Nazi's are general rather unpleasant people. Not entirely unlike fundamentalists of all walks of life. When we impose our POV on anyone else, no matter what it is, its annoying. Best advice is let people be people and learn to deal with them individually. Freaks.
My intelligence certainly stimulates my penis, but what I don't understand is why they can't get Windows to boot on a MacBook. If what you are saying is true it should be simple, right? Why hasn't anyone gotten Windows to boot on the MacBook Pro. Its got a standard EFI that doesn't even attempt to prevent Windows from running. Windows has supported EFI for years, and its simple, even has SCSI drivers and a full TCP/IP stack. But something's missing here. Is it your penis? Is it detachable? Did you lose it somewhere?
Actually, with a company like Intel pushing 4-cores they may be selling them for well under $1000 and get many other companies, including Microsoft, to further optimize their software for multiprocessing/threading. 4 cores are still 4 cores, even if you don't have a lot of CPU-RAM bandwidth. If you can fill them with enough data they will crunch 2 times faster than 2 cores. Plus any geek like me would love to have 4 physical CPUs in our desktop.
AMD will probably have theirs out before I'll be forced to buy Intel, and maybe it will be socket compatible with my 939, but probably not.
Even if Intel makes a 4-core Netburst/P4-based monstrocity that sits on top their 1066Mhz FSB it will sell to those who can't wait and don't want to pay the premium for Opteron/Dual Xeon or go non-x86. But if they make a 4-core Pentium-M with 2MB of cache per core, even w/o an onboard memory controller it would dominate. AMD would have to have a 4-core chip to compete. If Intel could get those running at 3.8+ Ghz, OMFG! That's what AMD really has to fear: Intel cranking up the clock speed on the Pentium-M or patching on a memory controller. I doubt it will easily scale up that high, but Intel might be able to squeeze something out of 65nm.
No, its Open, just proprietary and certainly not Free as in the Freedom to copy, redistribute, modify, and sell.
There's a reason so many people feel so passionate about Free Software. We're not just a bunch of raving lunatics foaming at the mouth. If we are, corporations like AOL made us this way. I mean just try to deal with them, or Microsoft or Adobe or Apple or...
They're "Open", even compliant with the OSI on some levels, and they give you stuff for free, but there's always those hidden costs.
But if somehow all the BSD source code, devs and servers were bought there would be no way to force them to give you access to the code again. Its nice to have that extra legal right to the source in writing, just in case.
I know this is highly unlikely, but I fear it may be possible on some small projects if they don't take steps to protect their code. Probably irrelevant to the industry as a whole either way. There's enough forked and protected code and supporters of F/OSS to keep things moving. Any small pieces that don't survive will easily be replaced.
- They put the "Report Spam" button right next to the delete button, and from the user's perspective it does the same thing: email disappears when you click it, with no warning. But on the back-end, AOL counts these against the sender, even if the person did it by mistake (since it is right next to the Delete button, this is very common).
This might be my bad. When I was working there I used the report spam button for every unsolicited piece of email I got, including AOL internal announcements, which I considerred spam. They refused to take me off the mailing lists, so I just did my job (we were forced to move from Netscape's sendmail system over to AOL web-based email) and reported all spam. Each message included a nice description of why it was spam.
They laid off almost all my coworkers and fired me, but I think they got the point. Anything they say should be redirrect to/dev/null, and shortly after that cancel the account without warning, that's how they treat customer/employee feedback. It only seems fair, IMO.
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Yes, LinuxWorld is a big thing that he should be making but he doesn't work for Linux. Linux doesn't cut his paychecks, Microsoft does. And if he's got something to do internally, leave it at that.
That's an awefully convenient excuse, to have this internal meeting suddenly pop up. That's the same excuse I would use to stay home and get high. I bet all those Microsoft OSS advocates partake.
But Microsoft thinks they know Linux because they learned about OSS. They may know OSS, but they don't know Free Software or Linux. The driving force behind Linux, what makes Linux the unstoppable force it is, is something Microsoft can never embrace. Their whole purpose for existence is to take, not to give. It is to possess, to own, to turn into IP and products and things they can sell to you. Linux is the opposite of that existence, its whole purpose is to give, to share, to promote the free flow of information and blur the lines between property and ownership until no one has control.
BSD and Microsoft make good bed fellows. BSD's a slut. Free Software, however, is their one true competitor. Actually, Free Software really is only in competition with itself. Microsoft is only temporary. They'll leave the OS and Office markets when they're no longer profitable. Free Software will stay until the end of time, profitable or not.
OSS Zealot: No! That's not standards-based! That's not cross-platform!
It's not secure.
It's not efficient.
It's not stable.
But I know, no amount of cross-platform, standards compliant, secure, stable and efficient OSS software is going to stand in your way. And I love you for that. Keep spreadin the MS.
...go learn about this before you bash it.
First, I don't have the time.
Second, I use Linux...
#!/usr/bin/perl
use web;
my $self = new web;
$self->body($self->textarea("Hello World:", 'id="textarea" onkeyup="ajaxfunc(['textarea'],['textarea'])"'));
my $ajaxfunc = sub { my $text=shift; return localtime() . $text; };
$self->ajax('ajaxfunc', $ajaxfunc);
$self->render or $self->nph;
...when GPL3 arrives, you can bet the farm that Hurd will adopt it. At that point, modules that are GPL2-only may have to be removed if my understanding of the issue is correct.
That's a lot of assuming you're doing there. This is far more detailed than you describe. Its best not to speculate at this point, unless you're looking for a thorough and valid rebuttal.
And please stop using the word "normal" to describe people who can see and hear--the proper terms are "hearing" and "sighted" (or "seeing").
I understand how it feels when people use the term normal to describe people who can see and hear, but emotions aside, the average person is able to see and hear. We all have to face the reality that we are dealing with groups of people struggling against eachother. Sometimes we help eachother, but only when we can and usually only when it is beneficial to us or our group. We're all people, yes, but we're also separated by ideology, class, blood, physical appearance, etc. Its not legal for businesses or governments, in some countries, to discriminate. But public opinion and thought can not be controlled, it must be manipulated.
The average OSS programmer needs to understand why and how to program properly. They have to be convinced its not a waste of their time. When the source code is freely available, everyone is limited by their programming abilities. Proper tools are absolutely necessary, I agree with that. But I'm a radical individual, not the typical God fearing Joe. I might be able to lend a few hours and a lot of forethought to improving the way I write my code, but its highly unlikely anything I write will be that popular.
You got to admit though, moving around physical forms of currency is somewhat inefficient.
From a processing standpoint it would be far more efficient if something like this were understood. But somehow that seems to be asking too much of the private wealthy citizens, my main issue with unregulated, or improperly regulated capitalism. We're far more valuable when we're educated and healthy, which unfortunately costs a lot upfront. But it feels like we're placing value on minds and bodies... is that right?
Okay, you're right, I surrender. :)
I think it might, it seems to allow other licenses to be included.. But the GPL v2 stuff might not be compatible because it doesn't allow any further restrictions? I don't know. But v3 isn't even out yet, so it doesn't matter.
Capitalism disobeys common sense. Currency is created and destroyed, in essense, the government is stealing from me by allowing there to be any form of inflation at all. They're doing this so they can give to the poor, those new people y'all keep popping out after fucking eachother like God's whoresome flock, all the while enforcing your ideology of tradition, authority, and bullshit that gets into messes like Iraq.
Fuck Capitalism, its your fault it got this fucked up. If you can't fix it, its broken.
The government now has the right to invade your privacy at the ISP level to help them draft laws, conduct surveys, and probably any other sort of surveillance. Why not let Wal-Mart wiretap you around Christmas to find out what you're planning on buying your friends/family? That's where this is headed.
Today we're illegally asking businesses for information that is freely available. Want to know what queries come up in a google search? Google it! But that's not what they want. They want any and every bit of private info they can get to help them promote their biased law to "protect kids" and deny us normal citizens our freedom.
This is about control. Your government wants to control the way you think. They want you to think pornography is bad for kids. But I have seen no evidence to prove this. I have seen no evidence violent content is bad for kids. If this content is bad for kids, perhaps contact with adults is also bad for kids. Maybe kids should be taken off to a "camp" somewhere so they can get the proper safe environment our government thinks they must be raised in.
If it were all about the GPL, then why doesn't Hurd have even more developers working on it than Linux?
Competition. Hurd is making significant progress, considering it only has a few developers. And it is, in a way, competing with Linux for mindshare, if nothing else. But the Hurd will take off once they get it stable, because its licensed under the GPL, meaning all Linux drivers will be legal to port.
When I promote software I promote what I like and use, Linux. Maybe BSD need more promoters.
Also, the BSD devil is not the most customer friendly mascott. That may have something to do with this..
Yeah, but its not cross platform.
I care about standards.
I have never heard of sexagesimal, or babylonian numerals, those links were fascinating..
but some corrections, qazend: 60^11 is 3e19, jezend: 60^26 is 1.7e46, lezend: 60^27 is 1e48
By those calculations your logic is flawed. The quote, "1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 1051 operations per second", is talking about computational limits, not storage densities.
That's like assuming you're going to store the entire capacity of ZFS on a 136 billion kg stack of multi-core CPUs.
Brilliant!
So what is the difference between EFI on IA64 and X86? Why doesn't Windows have support for Intel EFI? Its simple, right? Been there, done that, for years, even.
Seems like they could just release a patch or something..
I think its a bit more complex than that. Or else someone would have claimed their reward money for getting Windows XP to boot on a MacBook.
If its so easy you should do it and claim you cash..
Whatever, emulating real life in VR is so unimaginative. Any intelligent child would think you're stupid. Only the lame kids that listen to their parents would fall for your tired old racial-religious stereotypes. Who cares if Nazi's exist? Deal with it. You can't kill them for existing, and you can't shut them up, they are free to speak. In a virtual world even you can explore what it is like to be a Nazi, if you choose. This is not a recommendation, however, as Nazi's are general rather unpleasant people. Not entirely unlike fundamentalists of all walks of life. When we impose our POV on anyone else, no matter what it is, its annoying. Best advice is let people be people and learn to deal with them individually. Freaks.
My intelligence certainly stimulates my penis, but what I don't understand is why they can't get Windows to boot on a MacBook. If what you are saying is true it should be simple, right? Why hasn't anyone gotten Windows to boot on the MacBook Pro. Its got a standard EFI that doesn't even attempt to prevent Windows from running. Windows has supported EFI for years, and its simple, even has SCSI drivers and a full TCP/IP stack. But something's missing here. Is it your penis? Is it detachable? Did you lose it somewhere?
Enchiladas is my favorite moon of Saturn.
Actually, with a company like Intel pushing 4-cores they may be selling them for well under $1000 and get many other companies, including Microsoft, to further optimize their software for multiprocessing/threading. 4 cores are still 4 cores, even if you don't have a lot of CPU-RAM bandwidth. If you can fill them with enough data they will crunch 2 times faster than 2 cores. Plus any geek like me would love to have 4 physical CPUs in our desktop.
AMD will probably have theirs out before I'll be forced to buy Intel, and maybe it will be socket compatible with my 939, but probably not.
Even if Intel makes a 4-core Netburst/P4-based monstrocity that sits on top their 1066Mhz FSB it will sell to those who can't wait and don't want to pay the premium for Opteron/Dual Xeon or go non-x86. But if they make a 4-core Pentium-M with 2MB of cache per core, even w/o an onboard memory controller it would dominate. AMD would have to have a 4-core chip to compete. If Intel could get those running at 3.8+ Ghz, OMFG! That's what AMD really has to fear: Intel cranking up the clock speed on the Pentium-M or patching on a memory controller. I doubt it will easily scale up that high, but Intel might be able to squeeze something out of 65nm.
Yeah, msn has been borked by default on my browser.
No, its Open, just proprietary and certainly not Free as in the Freedom to copy, redistribute, modify, and sell.
...
There's a reason so many people feel so passionate about Free Software. We're not just a bunch of raving lunatics foaming at the mouth. If we are, corporations like AOL made us this way. I mean just try to deal with them, or Microsoft or Adobe or Apple or
They're "Open", even compliant with the OSI on some levels, and they give you stuff for free, but there's always those hidden costs.
As an adult and a Linux user the only sites I consider unsafe have excessive advertising or religious political agendas.
But if somehow all the BSD source code, devs and servers were bought there would be no way to force them to give you access to the code again. Its nice to have that extra legal right to the source in writing, just in case.
I know this is highly unlikely, but I fear it may be possible on some small projects if they don't take steps to protect their code. Probably irrelevant to the industry as a whole either way. There's enough forked and protected code and supporters of F/OSS to keep things moving. Any small pieces that don't survive will easily be replaced.
- They put the "Report Spam" button right next to the delete button, and from the user's perspective it does the same thing: email disappears when you click it, with no warning. But on the back-end, AOL counts these against the sender, even if the person did it by mistake (since it is right next to the Delete button, this is very common).
/dev/null, and shortly after that cancel the account without warning, that's how they treat customer/employee feedback. It only seems fair, IMO.
This might be my bad. When I was working there I used the report spam button for every unsolicited piece of email I got, including AOL internal announcements, which I considerred spam. They refused to take me off the mailing lists, so I just did my job (we were forced to move from Netscape's sendmail system over to AOL web-based email) and reported all spam. Each message included a nice description of why it was spam.
They laid off almost all my coworkers and fired me, but I think they got the point. Anything they say should be redirrect to