I would have to agree with most of Jon's thoughts on organized religion. I think I can probably sum my point pretty easily.
1. Any group which pressures you to think and act like the group, and is completely intolerant to criticism of their ideals, is BAD.
2. Any group which preaches intolerance of a persecuted minority because "they're evil in God's eyes" is BAD. To give a very specific example, I have a Christian friend who believes that being gay is akin to worshipping the devil, only because "Being gay goes against God's plan" or some other nonsense.
3. Give me a reason why organized religion is good. This is not a joke, I'm serious. Why set rules for yourself if you don't have to? I'm sure God is perfectly happy to have you pray to Him/Her in the privacy of your own home. Why make it a chore?
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Ahhh however you have to edit the command line to take into account for the file you are editing unless you know of a nifty trick to make the buffer you are editing append itself to compile's command.
I know exactly what you are referring to. I wondered about the same thing myself not long ago, however I eventually realized that I almost never compile only one source file. Thus I write a makefile, and as I said, to compile I type M-x compile [enter] [enter]. Now if this takes you longer than a couple of seconds, I see your problem. And then if you happen to be compiling only a single source file, then yes, you have to type in the command to compile (g++ -Wall -ohello hello.cc or something...) however you only have to do that once per session, unless you are compiling multiple sources, in which case you should be using make.
As far as debugging goes, I believe Emacs and XEmacs can easily integrate with gdb, and possibly others (correct me if I'm wrong).
Basically the issue is flexibility. In an IDE such as VC++ or CodeWarrior, you are locked in to using THEIR compiler and THEIR debugger. This is all fine and dandy if those work for you, but suppose I write a compiler for a new language called "Foo". With Emacs, I just set up syntax highlighting for all.foo files, and use make to call the command-line compiler. This is not possible in most IDEs, to my knowledge.
Does anyone know of a way to force^H^H^H^H^H persuade Xemacs/Emacs or something else to work well
Sure, it's called M-x compile. Or if that's too hard, you can always try the little 'compile' button up at the top of Xemacs.
I'm not sure I see your problem. I do Java and C++ development in Emacs, and I have 2 windows open: Emacs, and a terminal for testing the program. You're not going to get any fewer windows no matter what you're doing. Now I must admit, I'm rarely dealing with more than a handful of sources, so it's trivial to whip up a makefile and just M-x compile using the default command "make -k".
Or are you referring to something else?
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Hmmm, sounds like the title to a Jon Katz article, doesn't it?
While some of us may not appreciate ALL the articles posted on Slashdot, and may indeed feel that Slashdot has gone downhill in the past X months/years, please spare the rest of us the torture of reading the same comments everytime one of these articles is posted. We have been hearing the same things for a while now, like "This isn't news for nerds!" etc.
If you do not like Slashdot anymore, don't visit. If you think it's still worth saving, consider whether or not posting comments like these is the best way to do this. Maybe a polite email to CmdrTaco is the best way to do things, instead of a flaming comment. Or at least indicate your support of some solution, like topic moderation, etc.
And on the subject of the slashdot source, I realize that many people are getting quite upset, and with good reason. However it is their choice to release the source, and when they will do it. To CmdrTaco, Hemos, and all: please remember when posting stories criticizing the big companies, like Corel, for not sticking to Open Source ideals, that you are equally guilty.
There are several reasons why Transmeta doesn't want people coding for the native instruction sets. First of all, coding for a native instruction set will just give us the same problem as we have with x86 now -- too many applications to change the architecture, so crappy architecture ends up hanging around way longer than it should. Second, they stated that the instruction sets for the two chips are incompatible, so obviously there is no single "Transmeta Instruction Set". Third, they like the code morphing because it allows them to make fixes that can be downloaded. If people are coding apps to run natively, this can't be done.
But...... I have been thinking about this too and I'm wondering if it would be possible/logical to define some VLIW Instruction Set that could be used on all Transmeta chips, but would be faster and more efficient than translating x86. The CMS would still be translating from the "Transmeta Instruction Set" to the chip's native instruction set, so they could keep all the benefits as before.
About 5 years ago, I was working at a gas station in a small town. When we took credit cards, we swiped them through the POS machine (same as debit). However if, for some reason, the card didn't go through, we did the old manual imprint method, and put the retailer's copy in the top drawer behind the cash. When I worked there, there were literally hundreds or thousands of these numbers, sitting unprotected in a drawer. Most nights, I was the only one in the station, and would often be in the back sweeping. Anyone could have taken these numbers! And that is assuming I hadn't already auctioned them off to the highest bidder.
The point is, whenever you use your credit card, there is a risk involved. That does not mean, however, that we should not address this particular problem.
I have been hearing about this upcoming Spiderman movie for years now, and I have had numerous debates with my friends about who would play what characters. We generally agreed that Peter must be played by someone who is somewhat small, yet very muscular. And someone who could conceivably been a geek in high school, although this is pretty easy since I think every movie star was a geek in high school. Anyways we thought long and hard about it and decided that Brandon Lee would have been perfect, if he were still alive today (so what if he's not white!).
I would like to put the question to/.ers: who would play the classic Spiderman characters, such as Peter, Mary Jane (Julia Roberts?), Flash, Gwen Stacy, Aunt May, etc., or the villians, such as Doc Oc, Vulture, Rhino, Electro, Mysterio?
Personally I wouldn't mind Matt Damon as Peter Parker. He pulled off the geek in Good Will Hunting, and we all know he is TOUGH! Any other suggestions?
It seems many people think this is a bad thing, that somehow we shouldn't be making money off free software. I see this as very similar to the independent music scene, where some people dislike a band simply because they "sold out". But if a band has greater freedom to produce the music they want to, then in the end everyone benefits. The situation is the same with free software.
Think about it. Why should we care if companies are making money off free software? If the codebase is still open then it should make no difference to us. In fact, I would argue that this is not only not a negative move, but a positive move that will benefit the free software community. Three reasons: first, when money is on the line, companies are _forced_ to make a good product, or it won't sell (No M$ bashing, you must admit that their products are all good in one way or another). If the product doesn't sell, they will fix it. Second, when you are writing software for profit it gets done (usually). This means that instead of release dates like "version 0.2 will be out as soon as I get some time off from my hectic schedule" will become "version 2.0 -- out February 2000" Third, with more and more profit based companies contributing open source code (or vice versa, open sourcers making a profit), the big companies are becoming convinced that open source is a viable option. As this increases, we will see more and more proprietary code opened, which, no matter how you look at it, is a good thing.
Feel free to suggest other reasons why this is a good thing. To Bruce, congratulations, and best of luck.
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No, I don't read the globe, and I _am_ being overly critical of the paper. Heck, I used to deliver it! But I suppose it's what I read most of the time IF I read the paper.
I don't know how many/.ers are from the GTO (Greater Ottawa Area!) but nobody I know holds the Citizen in very high regard. It's an OK paper but it's run by a fascist. And indeed there is a nickname for it. hint: what rhymes with the first syllable of citizen??
anyhow, has anyone else noticed how many slashdot stories actually come from the citizen? it's pretty suprising. perhaps it's because more people from ottawa read slashdot than one would think...
Harkening back to the halcyon days of dial-up Bulletin Boards, the UFie BBS can be reached at http://bbs.ufies.org and telnet://bbs.ufies.org. Tradewars and Lord and other famous BBS door games are available, as are message boards, Fidonet feeds, and more! Thanks go to Moe, the generous chap who set the whole thing up and paid for the license!
That's also not how the Internet was meant to be. You might as well ask someone to live only off of the telephone or the radio or the newspaper. Perhaps next month, the author will lock himself in a library and write about how it is hard to live there for a week.
"Newspaper" or "Library" are hardly synonymous with "Internet". Maybe 8 or 10 years ago. Can you pay your bills at the library? Can you listen participate in a meeting across the world from the library? You can use all those analogies, however you are forgetting one thing -- the future (and in some cases the present) of the internet means the convergence of hundreds of other technologies down one pipe. This means trying to work only on the internet is like trying to work only with a telephone, AND the radio, AND the newspaper, AND the library...
It appears to me that Corel File Manager will be released under the "Corel Public License" (basically the MPL) so I say that someone make a tarball,.deb, or rpm ASAP. 'course we can just use the.deb off of the ISO! that would be good.
I've done that before, but it's pretty easy to crack, isn't it? especially if you make your slashdot passwork "sl4shd0t". and even if i didn't know that i could just go through a dictionary, adding 4's for all the a's, etc. it would just be like increasing multiplying the dictionary by however many letters can be morphed into numbers...
Ummm, where did it say in the article anything about connecting bikes to the net? It referred to connecting stereos and such...which makes perfect sense to me.
you pop a tape into your VCR, and instead of dealing with the awful on-screen programming, you go to the computer to program the thing. The way I see it, the potential for connecting many devices to the net is for local, not remote, administration purposes.
In this case we were having problems with the reliability of the OS. So having a stable OS is priority number 1, and then we figure what the best way to do what we want is. Sure, it's easy to say that software choice should drive the OS choice, but obviously the OS affects the software much more than the software affects the OS.
Upon re-reading this, I'm not sure if my question is exactly clear.
An example of what we'd like to do: - Browser-based and database driven apps like a phone list - Fully-administered discussion groups, message boards, job postings, etc. - Access to company documents (mostly Microsoft Word) through a browser, so that you can view them without having access to the entire network
Currently, we are using IIS & ASP for the apps and message boards, but we still haven't decided on a solution for document sharing. I'm afraid of the Office 2000 "Intranet Tools"...
We are looking for either a package or a combination of tools (an answer like "use apache, php, and MySQL..." is helpful).
Upon re-reading this, I'm not sure if my question is exactly clear. An example of what we'd like to do: - Browser-based and database driven apps like a phone list - Fully-administered discussion groups, message boards, job postings, etc. - Access to company documents (mostly Microsoft Word) through a browser, so that you can view them without having access to the entire network Currently, we are using IIS & ASP for the apps and message boards, but we still haven't decided on a solution for document sharing. I'm afraid of the Office 2000 "Intranet Tools"... We are looking for either a package or a combination of tools (an answer like "use apache, php, and MySQL..." is helpful). Thanks for your help!
Try reading the article. It's way down by the bottom...
The Palace couldn't say whether the Open Source Linux community would be entitled to use the By Royal Appointment tag - it would have to have its product used for a certain period of time first to the satisfaction of a member of the Royal Family, before an application for the tag could be made.
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I would have to agree with most of Jon's thoughts on organized religion. I think I can probably sum my point pretty easily.
1. Any group which pressures you to think and act like the group, and is completely intolerant to criticism of their ideals, is BAD.
2. Any group which preaches intolerance of a persecuted minority because "they're evil in God's eyes" is BAD. To give a very specific example, I have a Christian friend who believes that being gay is akin to worshipping the devil, only because "Being gay goes against God's plan" or some other nonsense.
3. Give me a reason why organized religion is good. This is not a joke, I'm serious. Why set rules for yourself if you don't have to? I'm sure God is perfectly happy to have you pray to Him/Her in the privacy of your own home. Why make it a chore?
If you feel like having a conversation about the topic, I can be reached by email.
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I know exactly what you are referring to. I wondered about the same thing myself not long ago, however I eventually realized that I almost never compile only one source file. Thus I write a makefile, and as I said, to compile I type M-x compile [enter] [enter]. Now if this takes you longer than a couple of seconds, I see your problem. And then if you happen to be compiling only a single source file, then yes, you have to type in the command to compile (g++ -Wall -ohello hello.cc or something...) however you only have to do that once per session, unless you are compiling multiple sources, in which case you should be using make.
As far as debugging goes, I believe Emacs and XEmacs can easily integrate with gdb, and possibly others (correct me if I'm wrong).
Basically the issue is flexibility. In an IDE such as VC++ or CodeWarrior, you are locked in to using THEIR compiler and THEIR debugger. This is all fine and dandy if those work for you, but suppose I write a compiler for a new language called "Foo". With Emacs, I just set up syntax highlighting for all .foo files, and use make to call the command-line compiler. This is not possible in most IDEs, to my knowledge.
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Sure, it's called M-x compile. Or if that's too hard, you can always try the little 'compile' button up at the top of Xemacs.
I'm not sure I see your problem. I do Java and C++ development in Emacs, and I have 2 windows open: Emacs, and a terminal for testing the program. You're not going to get any fewer windows no matter what you're doing. Now I must admit, I'm rarely dealing with more than a handful of sources, so it's trivial to whip up a makefile and just M-x compile using the default command "make -k".
Or are you referring to something else?
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Hmmm, sounds like the title to a Jon Katz article, doesn't it?
While some of us may not appreciate ALL the articles posted on Slashdot, and may indeed feel that Slashdot has gone downhill in the past X months/years, please spare the rest of us the torture of reading the same comments everytime one of these articles is posted. We have been hearing the same things for a while now, like "This isn't news for nerds!" etc.
If you do not like Slashdot anymore, don't visit. If you think it's still worth saving, consider whether or not posting comments like these is the best way to do this. Maybe a polite email to CmdrTaco is the best way to do things, instead of a flaming comment. Or at least indicate your support of some solution, like topic moderation, etc.
And on the subject of the slashdot source, I realize that many people are getting quite upset, and with good reason. However it is their choice to release the source, and when they will do it. To CmdrTaco, Hemos, and all: please remember when posting stories criticizing the big companies, like Corel, for not sticking to Open Source ideals, that you are equally guilty.
Thank you and good night.
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There are several reasons why Transmeta doesn't want people coding for the native instruction sets. First of all, coding for a native instruction set will just give us the same problem as we have with x86 now -- too many applications to change the architecture, so crappy architecture ends up hanging around way longer than it should. Second, they stated that the instruction sets for the two chips are incompatible, so obviously there is no single "Transmeta Instruction Set". Third, they like the code morphing because it allows them to make fixes that can be downloaded. If people are coding apps to run natively, this can't be done.
But......
I have been thinking about this too and I'm wondering if it would be possible/logical to define some VLIW Instruction Set that could be used on all Transmeta chips, but would be faster and more efficient than translating x86. The CMS would still be translating from the "Transmeta Instruction Set" to the chip's native instruction set, so they could keep all the benefits as before.
Whadyall think?
About 5 years ago, I was working at a gas station in a small town. When we took credit cards, we swiped them through the POS machine (same as debit). However if, for some reason, the card didn't go through, we did the old manual imprint method, and put the retailer's copy in the top drawer behind the cash. When I worked there, there were literally hundreds or thousands of these numbers, sitting unprotected in a drawer. Most nights, I was the only one in the station, and would often be in the back sweeping. Anyone could have taken these numbers! And that is assuming I hadn't already auctioned them off to the highest bidder.
The point is, whenever you use your credit card, there is a risk involved. That does not mean, however, that we should not address this particular problem.
I'd say Cusack is definitely too old. Edward Norton, however, would rule as Peter Parker. I say we get a petition going to make it so...
I'd be happy, Edward Norton is my favourite actor these days.
I have been hearing about this upcoming Spiderman movie for years now, and I have had numerous debates with my friends about who would play what characters. We generally agreed that Peter must be played by someone who is somewhat small, yet very muscular. And someone who could conceivably been a geek in high school, although this is pretty easy since I think every movie star was a geek in high school. Anyways we thought long and hard about it and decided that Brandon Lee would have been perfect, if he were still alive today (so what if he's not white!).
/.ers: who would play the classic Spiderman characters, such as Peter, Mary Jane (Julia Roberts?), Flash, Gwen Stacy, Aunt May, etc., or the villians, such as Doc Oc, Vulture, Rhino, Electro, Mysterio?
I would like to put the question to
Personally I wouldn't mind Matt Damon as Peter Parker. He pulled off the geek in Good Will Hunting, and we all know he is TOUGH! Any other suggestions?
It seems many people think this is a bad thing, that somehow we shouldn't be making money off free software. I see this as very similar to the independent music scene, where some people dislike a band simply because they "sold out". But if a band has greater freedom to produce the music they want to, then in the end everyone benefits. The situation is the same with free software.
Think about it. Why should we care if companies are making money off free software? If the codebase is still open then it should make no difference to us. In fact, I would argue that this is not only not a negative move, but a positive move that will benefit the free software community.
Three reasons: first, when money is on the line, companies are _forced_ to make a good product, or it won't sell (No M$ bashing, you must admit that their products are all good in one way or another). If the product doesn't sell, they will fix it.
Second, when you are writing software for profit it gets done (usually). This means that instead of release dates like "version 0.2 will be out as soon as I get some time off from my hectic schedule" will become "version 2.0 -- out February 2000"
Third, with more and more profit based companies contributing open source code (or vice versa, open sourcers making a profit), the big companies are becoming convinced that open source is a viable option. As this increases, we will see more and more proprietary code opened, which, no matter how you look at it, is a good thing.
Feel free to suggest other reasons why this is a good thing. To Bruce, congratulations, and best of luck.
Moderate this up! It's a slice of the truth.
Yiiii! That last comment about the sun was supposed to have [/joke] around it!!!
No, I don't read the globe, and I _am_ being overly critical of the paper. Heck, I used to deliver it! But I suppose it's what I read most of the time IF I read the paper.
Actually the Ottawa Sun is a much better paper.
I don't know how many /.ers are from the GTO (Greater Ottawa Area!) but nobody I know holds the Citizen in very high regard. It's an OK paper but it's run by a fascist. And indeed there is a nickname for it. hint: what rhymes with the first syllable of citizen??
anyhow, has anyone else noticed how many slashdot stories actually come from the citizen? it's pretty suprising. perhaps it's because more people from ottawa read slashdot than one would think...
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Harkening back to the halcyon days of dial-up Bulletin Boards, the UFie BBS can be reached at http://bbs.ufies.org and telnet://bbs.ufies.org. Tradewars and Lord and other famous BBS door games are available, as are message boards, Fidonet feeds, and more! Thanks go to Moe, the generous chap who set the whole thing up and paid for the license!
That's also not how the Internet was meant to be. You might as well ask someone to live only off of the telephone or the radio or the newspaper. Perhaps next month, the author will lock himself in a library and write about how it is hard to live there for a week.
"Newspaper" or "Library" are hardly synonymous with "Internet". Maybe 8 or 10 years ago. Can you pay your bills at the library? Can you listen participate in a meeting across the world from the library? You can use all those analogies, however you are forgetting one thing -- the future (and in some cases the present) of the internet means the convergence of hundreds of other technologies down one pipe. This means trying to work only on the internet is like trying to work only with a telephone, AND the radio, AND the newspaper, AND the library...
ETC.
hmmm?
It appears to me that Corel File Manager will be released under the "Corel Public License" (basically the MPL) so I say that someone make a tarball, .deb, or rpm ASAP. 'course we can just use the .deb off of the ISO! that would be good.
I've done that before, but it's pretty easy to crack, isn't it? especially if you make your slashdot passwork "sl4shd0t". and even if i didn't know that i could just go through a dictionary, adding 4's for all the a's, etc. it would just be like increasing multiplying the dictionary by however many letters can be morphed into numbers...
i don't know, that's the way I see it.
Ummm, where did it say in the article anything about connecting bikes to the net? It referred to connecting stereos and such...which makes perfect sense to me.
Imagine this:
you pop a tape into your VCR, and instead of dealing with the awful on-screen programming, you go to the computer to program the thing. The way I see it, the potential for connecting many devices to the net is for local, not remote, administration purposes.
yup, PCS stands for Personal Cellular Service. Can't get much more generic than that....
We were evaluating Net-IT, especially because it can apparently integrate with PCDOCS, where a lot of company documents are stored.
I'm not exactly sure why we gave up on it though. Thanks for the heads up.
In this case we were having problems with the reliability of the OS. So having a stable OS is priority number 1, and then we figure what the best way to do what we want is. Sure, it's easy to say that software choice should drive the OS choice, but obviously the OS affects the software much more than the software affects the OS.
Upon re-reading this, I'm not sure if my question is exactly clear.
An example of what we'd like to do:
- Browser-based and database driven apps like a phone list
- Fully-administered discussion groups, message boards, job postings, etc.
- Access to company documents (mostly Microsoft Word) through a browser, so that you can view them without having access to the entire network
Currently, we are using IIS & ASP for the apps and message boards, but we still haven't decided on a solution for document sharing. I'm afraid of the Office 2000 "Intranet Tools"...
We are looking for either a package or a combination of tools (an answer like "use apache, php, and MySQL..." is helpful).
Thanks for your help!
Upon re-reading this, I'm not sure if my question is exactly clear. An example of what we'd like to do: - Browser-based and database driven apps like a phone list - Fully-administered discussion groups, message boards, job postings, etc. - Access to company documents (mostly Microsoft Word) through a browser, so that you can view them without having access to the entire network Currently, we are using IIS & ASP for the apps and message boards, but we still haven't decided on a solution for document sharing. I'm afraid of the Office 2000 "Intranet Tools"... We are looking for either a package or a combination of tools (an answer like "use apache, php, and MySQL..." is helpful). Thanks for your help!
Try reading the article. It's way down by the bottom...
The Palace couldn't say whether the Open Source Linux community would be entitled to use the By Royal Appointment tag - it would have to have its product used for a certain period of time first to the satisfaction of a member of the Royal Family, before an application for the tag could be made.