I think he said as much in a slashdot interview last year
He said that its a dvantage being able to dictate what hardware is used as it enable beter compatability or soem crap.
There is no way apple would want their software running on regular PC's as it would be tooo confusing for the puny minds of apple users, who pay lots of money to have a computer that they dont have to think about.
Yes, i dislike apple very much, they are more of a marketing company than a tech company.
I use nail clippers to undo the hex-screws on the serial ports/ video card etc. Its not the right tool for the job, but its a pain in the arse and downright inconvenient to use the correct tool all the time, any blunt instrumment works as a hammer.
Java is elegent to program in, but its not easy for the end user, programmers are expected to understand what goes on under the hood of a computer, end users arent. Java and all these other languages that supposedly save programming time and just a cop out, programmers waste time learning multiple redundent languages.
Java is and always will be a cripled language that places limitations on what applications it is suited too. Java will never be a general purpose languange without proper hardware access.
Java will never be free, sun is just a microsoft wannabe, they are just dangling the carrot infront of our faces and watching us stretch. Does anyone really think sun is commited to open source ?
As an alternative to learning a new language for every programming task you undertake it would be much more efficient to learn one language and master it, if you know c well you can do anything with it, c places no limitations on what you can do.
Yea, i wish c really understood what a string is, but its easier to adapt and overcome c's inconveniences than it is to try and avoid them.
I used to be a java fan, but have turned my back on it for the above reasons.
Untill i read the bit about the skeleton i thought the story might be about constructing a giant software corporation that creates an unnatural dependence on its products through unfair practices, only to later realise the truth that they are operating in a services based industry and they are obsolete.. dinosours.
If i spray painted the contents of the post onto a rock and placed the rock in the wilderness, should microsoft be able to force the government to search for and remove the graffiti in a timely manner? Does the government own the wilderness?
Of course the feds wouldnt go searching for the rock, its hiden away somewhere now, its not in the public eye, people may run across it every now and again, but its not going to do any real damage.
Apart from that the feds could not be expected to find a specific rock in the wilderness, they could put all there agents on the job, after xx years they may find it. But it is an unrealistic to expect it of them.
Slashdot has never censored posts, it cannot censor posts and uphold the values that it does (free speech). The post in question is archived, its burried in thousands of other groovy stories, the majority of people would have forgoten about it if microsoft had not reminded us of it in such an ugly way.
It is unrealistic of microsoft to ask slashdot to censor all their posts, which is what it would take to ensure no copyrighted posts were viewable. Just as it is unrealistic to expect the g-man to find a rock in the wilderness that violates the same copyright law.
Just because someone has legal ownership of an idea doesnt mean they have a hope in hell of preventing everyone from thinking about the concept, or talking to the friends, or mentioning it in writings.
Law is an ideal, I think Plato said in his book republic, "to follow the law to the letter would be most unjust" (i hope ive got this right)
Copyright is granted for the public good. What good does it do the public that microsoft copyright is protected at the expense of the publics ability to speek freely at slashdot.
The only people who think the post should be removed are those who believe in blindly following the laws, something that plato, the founder of the concept of the republic did not himself believe.
Why not host your web site in another country that has more respect for free speech.
I bet you could find a country that would allow the comments to remain there. Ironicly that country probably doesnt have such a culture enshrining the peoples right free speech.
I cannot understand why so many people whine about the content reported on slashdot.
I dont see any bios... er bias.
I think slashdot does a great job in enabling users to customise what stories they see.
People should also expect that some relevent stories will be missed, and some not so relevent stories will be included. Its not as if there is some exact formula to guage the worthiness of a story.
Maybe some users expect perfection from slashdot, i guess critics wouldnt hang around to whine and whine and whine and whine and whine and whine and whine and whine if they really didnt like slashdot.
My advice to them is to try and be more productive in there criticism.
Why dont they try and direct there frustration into productive feedback, for example. maybe stories related to a companies financial position could be filtered out in your user preferences if a user wishes.
In the 2 days before the DOJ anouncement he gave notice that he was selling 4 lots of shares which totalled $1 billion dollors... that was before MS stock slumped over 15%
Looks like hes definitely cashing some of his chips.
Tech stocks are way overpriced and markets are due for a major crash. If you dont think the market is overpriced then you should go find a stock market book and read up on the teltale signs of an overpriced market
Tech stock prices are NOT based on fundamentals, sooner or later they will be.
Python is *really* open. They both interprete a bytecode. Python can run from within java (JPython) Python is also multiplatform Python is more modular.
PYTHON CAN ACCESS THE UNDERLYING OPERATING SYSTEM AND HARDWARE !
Why do people have to define everything relative to themselves ?
By your definitions artificial intellegence can never exist, an artificial intellegent machine would have artifical thoughts, artificial feelings, artifial desires.
My hard drive wants to be full of usefull data stored in an unfragmented state !
My CPU doesnt want to be worked by runnaway processes.
Linuxdoc are aware of the situation, there prefered solution is for the two maintainers to merge the two versions into one.
Whilst this would be good, its not likely to happen.
The old maintainer is a bit of a ghost, whilst i apluad him for his original effort, his current document is a great source of confusion to new raid users.
Why doesnt linuxdoc carry the NEW linux raid howto that is distributed with the new raid patches.
After being on the raid mailing list for a year it is plainly obvious that this is one of the biggest sources of confusion new users have.
The raid HOWTO linuxdoc carry is obsolete (like the raid code in the kernel v0.36).
I feel RAID is one of the most powerful yet underutilised features of linux.
The biggest thin preventing it from getting wider use is the confusion amoungst new users.
Apart from this i think linux documentation people do a arvelous job, and i applaud them, but linuxdoc could do its job better if carried the documents users need rather than hanging onto the old obsolete unmaintained ones.
my 2c (sorry if this sounds harsh, im a bit passionate about raid)
Technically a trojan isnt a virus, so they could legaly just back orriface a computer.
Im australian, i certainly dont intend to vote for the current government in the foreseable future, they obviously have no clues on technology. (count the ways)
Are you trying to make out like the big guys have something to worry about ?
Im sorry but your comments just reek of arogance.
Technology is so powerfull, it can make a real difference to those that dont have it (e.g. communications), 2 and a half years ago i got told the total international network bandwidth for sri-lanka was 64Kb/s !
And your worried that you might have to pay more for your sneakers?
Yea, like all the little countries gang up and rip the international e-commerce market from the US.
Dont worry mate, im sure you wont be out of pocket.
Your worried that your TV will be obsolete in 6 years ? What about your PC, itll be obsolete in 2, but i bet you buy another one ! From what i understand, your saying your faced with two choices. 1. Have a new crappy (US) standard that doesnt work very well with new TV's, but is backwards compatable so your existing TV's work just as crappy as your new ones. OR 2. Have a new standard (closer to a international standard) that has been tested to work well with new TV's and will probably work with old TV's via an adaptor box for a few hundred dollars.
If youve got 6 years to plan ahead and even if it did cost "a couple of thousand" say $2000, then you could start saving now, if you put away $0.90 a day youll be right.
You can bet that with the number of old TV's out there someone will come up with a cheap solution to get your old TV working with the new system.
Youve had the standard broadcasting system for 40 years or so, thats a pretty good run, how long did you expect it last?
If you want to live in a world with technology you have to expect it to become obsolete one day.
Slashdot Mirror
Two of my favourite all time pinballs, they will never die in my mind.
I think he said as much in a slashdot interview last year
He said that its a dvantage being able to dictate what hardware is used as it enable beter compatability or soem crap.
There is no way apple would want their software running on regular PC's as it would be tooo confusing for the puny minds of apple users, who pay lots of money to have a computer that they dont have to think about.
Yes, i dislike apple very much, they are more of a marketing company than a tech company.
And i guess if you owned the IP for the first fax machine you wouldnt let anybody else have one.
The internet is only valuable because its widespread, who got there first isnt relevent, its vaulable becasue it got accepted everywhere.
Maybe one day you will understand how rewarding it can be to give and ask nothing in return.
Have you ever heard of leading by example ?
If you truely believe in something it is irelevent what others think.
Judge those other examples on their own merits it has nothing to do with the net.
I use nail clippers to undo the hex-screws on the serial ports/ video card etc. Its not the right tool for the job, but its a pain in the arse and downright inconvenient to use the correct tool all the time, any blunt instrumment works as a hammer.
Java is elegent to program in, but its not easy for the end user, programmers are expected to understand what goes on under the hood of a computer, end users arent. Java and all these other languages that supposedly save programming time and just a cop out, programmers waste time learning multiple redundent languages.
Java is and always will be a cripled language that places limitations on what applications it is suited too. Java will never be a general purpose languange without proper hardware access.
Java will never be free, sun is just a microsoft wannabe, they are just dangling the carrot infront of our faces and watching us stretch. Does anyone really think sun is commited to open source ?
As an alternative to learning a new language for every programming task you undertake it would be much more efficient to learn one language and master it, if you know c well you can do anything with it, c places no limitations on what you can do.
Yea, i wish c really understood what a string is, but its easier to adapt and overcome c's inconveniences than it is to try and avoid them.
I used to be a java fan, but have turned my back on it for the above reasons.
Untill i read the bit about the skeleton i thought the story might be about constructing a giant software corporation that creates an unnatural dependence on its products through unfair practices, only to later realise the truth that they are operating in a services based industry and they are obsolete.. dinosours.
somebody has to be responsible to take it down
Why ?
If i spray painted the contents of the post onto a rock and placed the rock in the wilderness, should microsoft be able to force the government to search for and remove the graffiti in a timely manner? Does the government own the wilderness?
Of course the feds wouldnt go searching for the rock, its hiden away somewhere now, its not in the public eye, people may run across it every now and again, but its not going to do any real damage.
Apart from that the feds could not be expected to find a specific rock in the wilderness, they could put all there agents on the job, after xx years they may find it. But it is an unrealistic to expect it of them.
Slashdot has never censored posts, it cannot censor posts and uphold the values that it does (free speech). The post in question is archived, its burried in thousands of other groovy stories, the majority of people would have forgoten about it if microsoft had not reminded us of it in such an ugly way.
It is unrealistic of microsoft to ask slashdot to censor all their posts, which is what it would take to ensure no copyrighted posts were viewable. Just as it is unrealistic to expect the g-man to find a rock in the wilderness that violates the same copyright law.
Just because someone has legal ownership of an idea doesnt mean they have a hope in hell of preventing everyone from thinking about the concept, or talking to the friends, or mentioning it in writings.
Law is an ideal, I think Plato said in his book republic, "to follow the law to the letter would be most unjust" (i hope ive got this right)
Copyright is granted for the public good. What good does it do the public that microsoft copyright is protected at the expense of the publics ability to speek freely at slashdot.
The only people who think the post should be removed are those who believe in blindly following the laws, something that plato, the founder of the concept of the republic did not himself believe.
Glenn
Why not host your web site in another country that has more respect for free speech.
I bet you could find a country that would allow the comments to remain there. Ironicly that country probably doesnt have such a culture enshrining the peoples right free speech.
Last year australia passed laws making it legal to reverse engineer products.
Would nvidias licence void what australian law says im allowed to do (im australian) ?
Does anybody know more about this ?
I cannot understand why so many people whine about the content reported on slashdot.
I dont see any bios... er bias.
I think slashdot does a great job in enabling users to customise what stories they see.
People should also expect that some relevent stories will be missed, and some not so relevent stories will be included. Its not as if there is some exact formula to guage the worthiness of a story.
Maybe some users expect perfection from slashdot, i guess critics wouldnt hang around to whine and whine and whine and whine and whine and whine and whine and whine if they really didnt like slashdot.
My advice to them is to try and be more productive in there criticism.
Why dont they try and direct there frustration into productive feedback, for example.
maybe stories related to a companies financial position could be filtered out in your user preferences if a user wishes.
Be nice
Glenn
You can listen all you like, just dont trust anything you hear unless you feel comfortable with their source or reasoning for the information.
Get your information from as many sources as possible.
In the 2 days before the DOJ anouncement he gave notice that he was selling 4 lots of shares which totalled $1 billion dollors... that was before MS stock slumped over 15%
Looks like hes definitely cashing some of his chips.
Tech stocks are way overpriced and markets are due for a major crash. If you dont think the market is overpriced then you should go find a stock market book and read up on the teltale signs of an overpriced market
Tech stock prices are NOT based on fundamentals, sooner or later they will be.
Python is *really* open.
They both interprete a bytecode.
Python can run from within java (JPython)
Python is also multiplatform
Python is more modular.
PYTHON CAN ACCESS THE UNDERLYING OPERATING SYSTEM AND HARDWARE !
how do you like them apples
The statement "information wants to be free" means the information itself wants to be free (if it could think).
The statement "Information wants to be free" has nothing to do with what the PERSON who *controls* information wants.
think about it
If information were alive what would it want ?
Why do people have to define everything relative to themselves ?
By your definitions artificial intellegence can never exist, an artificial intellegent machine would have artifical thoughts, artificial feelings, artifial desires.
My hard drive wants to be full of usefull data stored in an unfragmented state !
My CPU doesnt want to be worked by runnaway processes.
All information wants to be free.
Framebuffers are developing fairly fast and work nearly anywhere now with vga16fb.
There currently arent any good widget sets (that i know of) to provide a nice GUI on a fbdev.
Is there any chance that in the near future GNOME might look to supporting GUI's on a framebuffer device ?
Use mozilla, it works.
What license fees was he refering to ?
Your comment doesnt deserve a reply, nevertheless
"You dumb shit"
Pretty descriptive, do you have any techical details to backup your opinion?
I personally cannot understand why anyone with multiple drives wouldnt use a sotware raid.
Give me details of how wrong i am!
Linuxdoc are aware of the situation, there prefered solution is for the two maintainers to merge the two versions into one.
Whilst this would be good, its not likely to happen.
The old maintainer is a bit of a ghost, whilst i apluad him for his original effort, his current document is a great source of confusion to new raid users.
Glenn McGrath
Why doesnt linuxdoc carry the NEW linux raid howto that is distributed with the new raid patches.
After being on the raid mailing list for a year it is plainly obvious that this is one of the biggest sources of confusion new users have.
The raid HOWTO linuxdoc carry is obsolete (like the raid code in the kernel v0.36).
I feel RAID is one of the most powerful yet underutilised features of linux.
The biggest thin preventing it from getting wider use is the confusion amoungst new users.
Apart from this i think linux documentation people do a arvelous job, and i applaud them, but linuxdoc could do its job better if carried the documents users need rather than hanging onto the old obsolete unmaintained ones.
my 2c (sorry if this sounds harsh, im a bit passionate about raid)
Glenn McGrath
Technically a trojan isnt a virus, so they could legaly just back orriface a computer.
Im australian, i certainly dont intend to vote for the current government in the foreseable future, they obviously have no clues on technology. (count the ways)
Ill be voting Democrats next time.
did you think about that beofre your wrote it ?
Are you trying to make out like the big guys have something to worry about ?
Im sorry but your comments just reek of arogance.
Technology is so powerfull, it can make a real difference to those that dont have it (e.g. communications), 2 and a half years ago i got told the total international network bandwidth for sri-lanka was 64Kb/s !
And your worried that you might have to pay more for your sneakers?
Yea, like all the little countries gang up and rip the international e-commerce market from the US.
Dont worry mate, im sure you wont be out of pocket.
Mechical reliability shouldnt be bay different between a scsi drive and an ide drive if they operate at the same speed (RPM's)
This question is pretty impractical.
Obviously if someone needed to communicate to get help the internet provides the means to doso, but
If the peasent has no food but has interent access, perhaps they should try renting there net access to there buddies, or SELLING THERE COMPUTER !
Or if they have access to the internet they have access to a phone, and probably other people as well, they could try VOICE communications.
Your worried that your TV will be obsolete in 6 years ?
What about your PC, itll be obsolete in 2, but i bet you buy another one !
From what i understand, your saying your faced with two choices.
1. Have a new crappy (US) standard that doesnt work very well with new TV's, but is backwards compatable so your existing TV's work just as crappy as your new ones.
OR
2. Have a new standard (closer to a international standard) that has been tested to work well with new TV's and will probably work with old TV's via an adaptor box for a few hundred dollars.
If youve got 6 years to plan ahead and even if it did cost "a couple of thousand" say $2000, then you could start saving now, if you put away $0.90 a day youll be right.
You can bet that with the number of old TV's out there someone will come up with a cheap solution to get your old TV working with the new system.
Youve had the standard broadcasting system for 40 years or so, thats a pretty good run, how long did you expect it last?
If you want to live in a world with technology you have to expect it to become obsolete one day.