IMHO, tags are good for finding relevant posts. If you read a post that mentions foo and find it interesting, you are likely to follow `foo' tag.
Yet, if I am interested in particular subject it might not be that easy to find it based on tags only. One would label the thing with `foo', another person would use `bar', or `ham', or even 'bacon'.
Tags are subjective and associative. This is their power and thier flaw.
Answering myself. Antimilitary OSI-compliant license is impossible. From the Open Source Definition:
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Rationale: The major intention of this clause is to prohibit license traps that prevent open source from being used commercially. We want commercial users to join our community, not feel excluded from it.
It seems that their license is not compatible with GPL, but I like the idea.
It would be interesting to see an OSI-compliant license, that forbids certain uses. Like use by military organizations, for example. This is not about pacifism. This is just not participating in military actions. Why would I want to make development of american/isreali/russian/chinese weapons cheaper? I do not want to participate in this. I do not want my code to be used by some of these people.
Could anyone suggest an open source [non-free] license that would allow asserting restrictions of this kind?
Bison fiasco? Numerous GPLv2 forks are unlikely.
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Most of GPL software will easily become GPLv3, thanks to this clause:
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
So if developers support it (I expect they will do), a lot of software will turn to explicit GPLv3.
Of course, one could always make a fork of some particular project and allow GPLv2 only. Yet starting from this point it is impossible to reuse any GPLv3 code in it. Whole libraries might become not suitable for this GPLv2 fork, at least the new versions of these libraries. Maintaining such GPLv2 forks may become really difficult. Linux kernel is probably one of few projects which may stay with GPLv2 for a long time. Most small projects are likely to make a transition to GPLv3, either willingly or by using some GPLv3 code.
If Parallels were to go head to head with Cedega, on the other hand, they might be able to win over a lot of the Windows games on OS X market as it is just being born. From their Website, it seems like they are aiming at that market.
This sounds really interesting. Anyway, I expect that this competition will finally give the users some new or better technology.
I think, that as soon as both products will get both reliable (Parallels?) and fast (VMware?) enough, then it will be just a question of price what to chose. Competition is good for our wallets:)
Also all these make Mac more and more viable platform. Nice.
With help from Robert Cailliau, he [Tim Berners-Lee] published a more formal proposal for the World Wide Web on November 12, 1990.
On August 6, 1991, he posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet.
So, the first time the words `World Wide Web' were used was November 12, 1990. Then it took a year for implementation of the idea, to present it to a broader public.
Don't tell me about pregnancy period. The name was already given.
It is not stupid not cooperating with fascists
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It is not stupid. I am neither lebanese nor muslim, nor visited Lebanon ever, but I see that Israel is a fascist state now. And Israeli people seem to support these war crimes. From now on I would avoid cooperating/dealing with any israeli company/business. This is what I call a civil resistance. I would like to avoid supporting Israel directly or indirectly. They are fascists.
At least 10 phone calls were made to Israeli commanders over a period of six hours warning that artillery and aerial bombardments were either dangerously close to or hitting the monitors' building.
The UN post, in Khaim just inside south Lebanon, was clearly marked and well-known to the army, but nonetheless it was hit directly four times in the last hour before an Israeli helicopter fired a precision-guided missile that tore through the roof of an underground shelter, killing the monitors inside. A UN convoy that arrived too late to rescue the peacekeepers was also fired on.
If I were working in Israel now I would have terminate any contract/project and leave that fascist country. No wonder if Jini is angry and shocked with it.
Piracy is an anauthorized act of robbery on high seas. I assume, it is closely related to extreme violance, mass assasinations, slavery and sunken ships.
Peacfully watching anything, even without a given permision, is just peeping. Not piracy! It does not stand even close to violance, robbery and assasination.
Authorized (by a government) sea robbers were called privateers. Not much different from pirates, really. Those MPAA and RIAA (and the similar institutions) were authorized to enforse those, who are weaker, with severe punishment, for the private benefit of these agencies and, probably, minor benefit of a government. They are real pirates.
It may influence the chance of particular model to be sold. Slightly. If it lacks such a cheap feature.
Customer: I want to buy a portable player.
Shop-keeper: Oh, there is plenty (all made on the same factory in China). Would you like this one?
Customer: Does it play OGG/VORBIS?
Shop-keeper: I don't know... well, let's see... no. But it plays MP3 and WMA (you know, Windows Media Player creates it easily)!
Customer: No, it does not suit my needs. I better get one from this list, http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers. I need a player, that supports Ogg/Vorbis. Bye.
Another shop-keeper receives profit.
As more people ask, more chinese factories will produce players that support Ogg/Vorbis. A cheap feature, that may affect sells.
A new survey reports that nearly 100% of Slashdot readers read it just for fun. From the article: "A survey of 1 Internet user conducted by [...] in late December 2005 found 100 percent of respondents said they went to Slashdot "for no particular reason" on the previous day. That was up from 0 percent in a November 2004 survey. The survey also showed that 100 percent of Slashdot men were commenting for fun on an average day in 2005."
Rather than taking an incremental approach and altering the core purpose of "web browsing", why don't we get all of the major technology companies that exist today to agree to support ONE standard for the remote binding of locally displayed user interface components
Isn't HTML that ONE standard for remote binding of locally displayed user interface components. There is plenty of [text] widgets: links, divs, tables, buttons, input areas...
And finally, if one needs more widgets and better interface declaration, isn't XForms that one standard to follow? (I am not proficient with XForms, that is how I understand them)
The Web is no longer a place for information exchange. It is a place to invest your money, to hire more and more coders/artists/testers/managers, to maintain all this eye-candy. There is a reason: It looks just like a real application inside your web browser!
We don't have anything special to say. But now instead of looking for a `Back' button, you may drag-n-drop our whole corporate site directly to your Recycled Bin!
While out-of-the-box KDE installs do not fit my 1024x768 laptop screen, I stay with GNOME (this is especially the case, if I use Russian language interface, where words are longer, but the same happens even with English).
While KDE's keyboard-layout switching applet just does not work for a number of releases (it does not recognize shortcuts for switching layouts), I stay with GNOME or modify my xorg.conf.
I try fresh KDE in average once a year. KDE remains unusable. This is what they should be working on.
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Hey, everybody knows what does it mean when a piece of software is almost done :)
IMHO, tags are good for finding relevant posts. If you read a post that mentions foo and find it interesting, you are likely to follow `foo' tag.
Yet, if I am interested in particular subject it might not be that easy to find it based on tags only. One would label the thing with `foo', another person would use `bar', or `ham', or even 'bacon'.
Tags are subjective and associative. This is their power and thier flaw.
Yes. This is the reason: Keep It Simple, Stupid.
It seems that their license is not compatible with GPL, but I like the idea. It would be interesting to see an OSI-compliant license, that forbids certain uses. Like use by military organizations, for example. This is not about pacifism. This is just not participating in military actions. Why would I want to make development of american/isreali/russian/chinese weapons cheaper? I do not want to participate in this. I do not want my code to be used by some of these people. Could anyone suggest an open source [non-free] license that would allow asserting restrictions of this kind?
Of course, one could always make a fork of some particular project and allow GPLv2 only. Yet starting from this point it is impossible to reuse any GPLv3 code in it. Whole libraries might become not suitable for this GPLv2 fork, at least the new versions of these libraries. Maintaining such GPLv2 forks may become really difficult. Linux kernel is probably one of few projects which may stay with GPLv2 for a long time. Most small projects are likely to make a transition to GPLv3, either willingly or by using some GPLv3 code.
If Parallels were to go head to head with Cedega, on the other hand, they might be able to win over a lot of the Windows games on OS X market as it is just being born. From their Website, it seems like they are aiming at that market.
This sounds really interesting. Anyway, I expect that this competition will finally give the users some new or better technology.
I think, that as soon as both products will get both reliable (Parallels?) and fast (VMware?) enough, then it will be just a question of price what to chose. Competition is good for our wallets :)
Also all these make Mac more and more viable platform. Nice.
It is not stupid. I am neither lebanese nor muslim, nor visited Lebanon ever, but I see that Israel is a fascist state now. And Israeli people seem to support these war crimes. From now on I would avoid cooperating/dealing with any israeli company/business. This is what I call a civil resistance. I would like to avoid supporting Israel directly or indirectly. They are fascists.
At least 10 phone calls were made to Israeli commanders over a period of six hours warning that artillery and aerial bombardments were either dangerously close to or hitting the monitors' building.
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The UN post, in Khaim just inside south Lebanon, was clearly marked and well-known to the army, but nonetheless it was hit directly four times in the last hour before an Israeli helicopter fired a precision-guided missile that tore through the roof of an underground shelter, killing the monitors inside. A UN convoy that arrived too late to rescue the peacekeepers was also fired on.
Source: http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article5299.shtm
If I were working in Israel now I would have terminate any contract/project and leave that fascist country. No wonder if Jini is angry and shocked with it.
Piracy is an anauthorized act of robbery on high seas. I assume, it is closely related to extreme violance, mass assasinations, slavery and sunken ships.
Peacfully watching anything, even without a given permision, is just peeping. Not piracy! It does not stand even close to violance, robbery and assasination.
Authorized (by a government) sea robbers were called privateers. Not much different from pirates, really. Those MPAA and RIAA (and the similar institutions) were authorized to enforse those, who are weaker, with severe punishment, for the private benefit of these agencies and, probably, minor benefit of a government. They are real pirates.
Customer: I want to buy a portable player.
Shop-keeper: Oh, there is plenty (all made on the same factory in China). Would you like this one?
Customer: Does it play OGG/VORBIS?
Shop-keeper: I don't know... well, let's see... no. But it plays MP3 and WMA (you know, Windows Media Player creates it easily)!
Customer: No, it does not suit my needs. I better get one from this list, http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/PortablePlayers. I need a player, that supports Ogg/Vorbis. Bye.
Another shop-keeper receives profit.
As more people ask, more chinese factories will produce players that support Ogg/Vorbis. A cheap feature, that may affect sells.
There IS compatible hardware. It is up to you to choose.
I am sorry for the erratum.
Mental ability is always non-negative and decreses exponentially.
A new survey reports that nearly 100% of Slashdot readers read it just for fun. From the article: "A survey of 1 Internet user conducted by [...] in late December 2005 found 100 percent of respondents said they went to Slashdot "for no particular reason" on the previous day. That was up from 0 percent in a November 2004 survey. The survey also showed that 100 percent of Slashdot men were commenting for fun on an average day in 2005."
Isn't HTML that ONE standard for remote binding of locally displayed user interface components. There is plenty of [text] widgets: links, divs, tables, buttons, input areas...
And finally, if one needs more widgets and better interface declaration, isn't XForms that one standard to follow? (I am not proficient with XForms, that is how I understand them)
I agree with you. Content and usefulness matter. And Simple = BEAUTIFUL.
Yet, Simple != Easy to create. And Simple != Low Tech. Simple = Nothing excessive.
And as far as AJAX helps to save some mouse clicks and page reloads, it may be used to weave really simple web.
The Web is no longer a place for information exchange. It is a place to invest your money, to hire more and more coders/artists/testers/managers, to maintain all this eye-candy. There is a reason: It looks just like a real application inside your web browser!
We don't have anything special to say. But now instead of looking for a `Back' button, you may drag-n-drop our whole corporate site directly to your Recycled Bin!
If you want to write games just for fun, do it with SDL-anything-you-like :)
OK. I shall file bug reports next time.
It went perfectly well. Just the size of the ball was not right.
I use Debian.
I had the same experience before on Fedore Core 1 & 2, and on early versions of ASPLinux (RedHat's offshoot). The situation does not change for years.
I seriously suspect there is no one in the KDE team with low resolution screen.
While out-of-the-box KDE installs do not fit my 1024x768 laptop screen, I stay with GNOME (this is especially the case, if I use Russian language interface, where words are longer, but the same happens even with English).
While KDE's keyboard-layout switching applet just does not work for a number of releases (it does not recognize shortcuts for switching layouts), I stay with GNOME or modify my xorg.conf.
I try fresh KDE in average once a year. KDE remains unusable. This is what they should be working on.