He's one of the guys that ignorant authors, mostly of gloss pieces about Cyberspace and the Information Super Highway, penned as some sort of prophet or pioneer back when VR was the tech du jour, and the Internet was a gigantic probability.
People are watching Steve Jobs from seats they took a long time ago - maybe when he got booted from Apple, or maybe when Ross Perot invested millions in his new company, or maybe when the new company introduced the NeXT Computer, or when they stopped selling hardware to focus on software, or maybe when that software company was purchased for an insane amount of cash, or maybe when they decided that this was the first inverted-buyout/takeover in recent history, or when they saw an iMac for the first time, or...
Get some binoculars or read a little if you can't figure out where the interest comes from.
The only comparison I can draw is that Paris thinks she's the shit, and so does S.P.J. - does that *make* them the shit? According to Steve, it does.
"How about government corruption, crime, poverty or pollution?"
"worked up over GNU crap"
Read some more Aristotle, dude..
"3) The principle of community Aristotle maintains that the city-state is the most complete community, because it attains the limit of self-sufficiency, so that it can exist for the sake of the good life (Pol. I.2.1252b27-30). Individuals outside of the city-state are not self-sufficient, because they depend on the community not only for material necessities but also for education and moral habituation. "Just as, when perfected, a human is the best of animals, so also when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all" (1253a31-3). On Aristotle's view, then, human beings must be subject to the authority of the city-state in order to attain the good life. The following principle concerns how authority should be exercised within a community."
He seems to be long on ideas, but short on understanding feasibility, judging by Linspire, Sadie's - "The World's Most Creative Children's Portraits", MP3tunes, SIPphone..
MP3.com sold to Vivendi/Universal for big duckets, now he's got DVD Jon working on this piece of glob-ware.
That situation is what led to this: http://www.google.com/linux
The whole she-bang is in a state of growth. A slow one, for sure, but given time, that confusion will be irrelevant.
A push-button telephone!? Lands! The ear/and/ mouth pieces on one holdable thing?! Mercy!
If the applications in question were marketed and released like their commercial counterparts, the names as we know them would become "internal code names" and they would receive a proper commercial title.
"GNU Image Manipulation Program" might actually sell a few copies if the box made the title look respectable.
As it is, there's competition for logical, bland-sounding names. Developers have free reign to name their projects whatever they want. As it turns out, they get names similar to what 4-year olds pick for themselves and pets.
Peekaboo Street, anybody? (change the spelling, of course..)
Usually it seems that Microsoft buys out a company that is most enticing to it's competitors, then turning that heralded technology into a White Elephant on their own.
If they can't buy it, they re-implement it - badly.
IE, Xbox, J++,.Net, WebTV, C#, Citrix, SoftPC, Hotmail, the list goes on.. It's the Story of Microsoft - all the way back to DOS.
What they can't come up with on their own, they imitate or buy. more.
Google could do good with Opera. The only reason Microsoft would buy it is to suffocate it in a dark closet.
"Can anyone imagine who would lead the kernel effort if Linus was shoved aside?"
Linus is nearly irrelevant. A from-scratch kernel could be implemented in two years or less. It would leave out cruft, incorporate higher-level technologies (filesystems, process scheduling, memory access), and move forward with respect to massive scalability and parallel processing.
It could be pulled off by any number of companies or by a group. "Open Source" as a movement would suffer, because there would be fewer left to wave the flag, but then there would be more tiny flags. I kind of like that idea, actually.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm looking at the QTVR, and I see a Powerbook with one button.
Just griping.
Happy to see you, MacBook, don't get me wrong, but you forgot a button!!
(I expect this to be answered later by a post describing the new pref for button assignment)
Brake fluid (Dot5, silicone based) seems like it would be a good candidate.
Dot3 has awesome heat transfer ability, but collects water, and plays hell with paint (I imagine sensitive electronics to feel similar pain).
Silicone is a dielectric, right? How about PEG? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene_glycol
He's one of the guys that ignorant authors, mostly of gloss pieces about Cyberspace and the Information Super Highway, penned as some sort of prophet or pioneer back when VR was the tech du jour, and the Internet was a gigantic probability.
Maybe that went to his head?
Right on.
We of like mind should form a Coalition. Make more noise!
The point is, I'm the general public. As much as I'd like to consider myself an insider, I'm just a gawker.
Like I said, get some binoculars.
There's buzz, and there's needless buzz. The latter being the case with Paris Hilton, to your point..
People are watching Steve Jobs from seats they took a long time ago - maybe when he got booted from Apple, or maybe when Ross Perot invested millions in his new company, or maybe when the new company introduced the NeXT Computer, or when they stopped selling hardware to focus on software, or maybe when that software company was purchased for an insane amount of cash, or maybe when they decided that this was the first inverted-buyout/takeover in recent history, or when they saw an iMac for the first time, or...
Get some binoculars or read a little if you can't figure out where the interest comes from.
The only comparison I can draw is that Paris thinks she's the shit, and so does S.P.J. - does that *make* them the shit? According to Steve, it does.
"How about government corruption, crime, poverty or pollution?"
"worked up over GNU crap"
Read some more Aristotle, dude..
"3) The principle of community Aristotle maintains that the city-state is the most complete community, because it attains the limit of self-sufficiency, so that it can exist for the sake of the good life (Pol. I.2.1252b27-30). Individuals outside of the city-state are not self-sufficient, because they depend on the community not only for material necessities but also for education and moral habituation. "Just as, when perfected, a human is the best of animals, so also when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all" (1253a31-3). On Aristotle's view, then, human beings must be subject to the authority of the city-state in order to attain the good life. The following principle concerns how authority should be exercised within a community."
Welcome to the Software City-state of GNU..
Code at the bar, get more chicks.
Don't blame the program, blame the "Artists", if you can call them that.. It's actually *not* par for the course..
1 _splash.1.17.pngp lash.1.11.pngp lashpng.1.16.pngp lash-1.4.png
There have actually been some decent examples of GIMP art as splash screens over time.
http://gimp.org/about/splash/splash-images/gimp1_
http://gimp.org/about/splash/splash-images/gimp_s
http://gimp.org/about/splash/splash-images/gimp_s
http://gimp.org/about/splash/splash-images/gimp-s
It's a GIF from the GIMP website from the days when GIFs were our friends..
http://web.archive.org/web/19980216075725/gimp.org /the_gimp.html
If you look at the current GIMP site, you'll see that Wilber's eyes are in the 'down' position..Announce those to be first-round winners, and open up the contest again. Jeez..
:P
What were the guidelines? Who were the judges?
A look back in time at splash screens of the past, and a held-up comparison of any potential winner should yield a firm "NAY" on all current entrants.
I'll submit one, and I won't cheat and use Photoshop for any of it..
MP3.com sold to Vivendi/Universal for big duckets, now he's got DVD Jon working on this piece of glob-ware.
MP3.com was a golden goose..That situation is what led to this: http://www.google.com/linux The whole she-bang is in a state of growth. A slow one, for sure, but given time, that confusion will be irrelevant. A push-button telephone!? Lands! The ear /and/ mouth pieces on one holdable thing?! Mercy!
You can't have the unixification without the strangeness.
It's like taking the grease out of Crisco.
If the applications in question were marketed and released like their commercial counterparts, the names as we know them would become "internal code names" and they would receive a proper commercial title.
"GNU Image Manipulation Program" might actually sell a few copies if the box made the title look respectable.
As it is, there's competition for logical, bland-sounding names. Developers have free reign to name their projects whatever they want. As it turns out, they get names similar to what 4-year olds pick for themselves and pets.
Peekaboo Street, anybody? (change the spelling, of course..)
Nerple Squegg - the choice of a GNU generation.
apropos $TASK
Who needs to know bc from mc?
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WOOOO!!!
NICE TAGS ACE!
Java is also a good choice if you want to buy http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/>some hardware that comes with a free* IDE.
First time I've heard of that..
.Net, WebTV, C#, Citrix, SoftPC, Hotmail, the list goes on.. It's the Story of Microsoft - all the way back to DOS.
Usually it seems that Microsoft buys out a company that is most enticing to it's competitors, then turning that heralded technology into a White Elephant on their own.
If they can't buy it, they re-implement it - badly.
IE, Xbox, J++,
What they can't come up with on their own, they imitate or buy.
more.
Google could do good with Opera. The only reason Microsoft would buy it is to suffocate it in a dark closet.
That's handy - doubly proves the point too..
If you ask me, the minute WikiPedia was mentioned in a national news setting, it was time to nuke Bomis, or at least sever the ties.
babes.bomis.com says "Hi, Mom". Spare me!
http://images.google.com/images?q=bomis
It was also very popular in the days of web-illiteracy and 33.6k modems!
If it's good enough for fostering democracy, it ought to be good enough to maintain it!
Linus is nearly irrelevant. A from-scratch kernel could be implemented in two years or less. It would leave out cruft, incorporate higher-level technologies (filesystems, process scheduling, memory access), and move forward with respect to massive scalability and parallel processing.
It could be pulled off by any number of companies or by a group. "Open Source" as a movement would suffer, because there would be fewer left to wave the flag, but then there would be more tiny flags. I kind of like that idea, actually.
Kidding - SCO would just take over.Now your "cleanroom" has 80% humidity?
I can see your point if you let the steam dissipate.
BTW, it works with *rank stank* as well, though not as good a match..
I'm a Network Admin - I've looked, logged, and prevented against.
You're not running a Windows server, IIS scans are moot. So are they for every user with XP Home (and at least 85% of Professional users)
Re-read my post. Being randomly scanned with an automated tool is not the same as being infected.
Your apache box is immune to how many of those probes? 80%? More?
It's not Windows, anyway.