Should *NOT* be left in front of the TV. I agree with this, though I don't agree with a mandate. TV at an early age is one of the major factors causing the explosion of ADHD in children today. Their brains are flooded with pictures that flash and change ever 5-10 seconds and people wonder why they can't focus or sit still?
... That *anyone* could think W2k could "crush" linux (or the *BSD's). If they do, they simply do not have even the most basic grasp of what's going on here. Of the philosophical choices that keep may people from using GUIs even under Linux.
Having tested W2k as a workstation for the last few months I admit it to be decent as a development platform, esp. with MSVC++, but as a Server? Forget it. It's horrid.
Immature? I suppose this depends on your perspective. Refusing to put up with something you don't like and/or believe in, is, IMO, a brave thing to do. In this case it is reasonable to suspect that the company has grown too big to change and "work it out." To think that companies change in this way is somewhat immature in itself.
What you've written could have been my life, save one addition: I was fat. Huge, actually. Anyone who claims being taunted in high school is healthy has never been chased down the hall, pursuer yelling deeply hurtful obscenities, while everyone including the teachers laugh.
Indeed, I will probably never get over the conflicting emotions of envy and hatred as the jock walked down the hall, the girl I had a crush on, there, on his arm.
4 years in a "collage" would make me very, very thin. Imagine! Sitting in a picture all day! What a waste of money. And even at a State University in New York it's more like 10k$ with room and board.
College is a personal decision. It allowed me to blossom socially in a way I doubt would have happened without. It gave me confidence that, in fact, most of the people in CS are idiots. Even the professors.
It also armed me with information about how CS and mathmatics are related and how to use Math to analyze CS problems. These things are attainable without college, but the direction helps tremendously. And learning to work under a deadline has helped me working at a startup more than I can possibly retell.
I also fail to see how a degree in CS is related to being a sysadmin. Programmers in the real world are NOT equal to sysadmins in the real world. Most sysadmins i've met don't know enough C to get beyond "Hello World!". The good ones who DO know more can't bear to stay with sysadmin'ing for too long... it bores them.
They did this because they believe in something. From a philosophical stand point, I agree with all of it. As free software grows as a movement, there are going to be redefinitiions and some of them are going to come as responses to newcomers introducing new ideas and licences. Why is it bad that the FSF is responding to Apple's terms? They'd be failing as an organization if they didn't.
If, indeed this is true, then the next few years are going to make the industrial revolution look like a flea on a lumbering elephant. We are living the revolution, folks. Love every minute of it.
I've got MediaOne here in Arlingon, MA (just outside Cambridge) and it's been pretty good. Even got cable modem service. 'Course, SciFi, CN, and CC are extra here =(
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You missed the most important letter in GUI, the *I*, as in INTERFACE. X doesn't have one without a window manager and/or shell. Joseph
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
I do.
Writing gui apps with VI is why so many X apps look like a 3yr old with a crayon layed them out.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Indeed... Ignore them, and then slam them with ritalin later.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Should *NOT* be left in front of the TV. I agree with this, though I don't agree with a mandate. TV at an early age is one of the major factors causing the explosion of ADHD in children today. Their brains are flooded with pictures that flash and change ever 5-10 seconds and people wonder why they can't focus or sit still?
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
This makes me *very* happy =) Mmmmmmm, open firmware.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Hell, I can't even get a real NY pizza here in Cambridge, MA!
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
... That *anyone* could think W2k could "crush" linux (or the *BSD's). If they do, they simply do not have even the most basic grasp of what's going on here. Of the philosophical choices that keep may people from using GUIs even under Linux.
Having tested W2k as a workstation for the last few months I admit it to be decent as a development platform, esp. with MSVC++, but as a Server? Forget it. It's horrid.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
So, we just browse for price on the web, then pick up the telephone and call. PITA, but hey...
Don't they realize one of the reasons people shop online and spend so much is because there is *no* tax?!?!
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Maybe i'm humor impared, but this is written just on the line to make me wonder whether it's a joke or not...
I *hope* it's a joke. $63m is *absolutely nothing* today.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
(a) their free compilers can be included in our distribution, and (b) if Borland will consider releasing the source as well along with the binaries.
Have they responeded (in particular about the source, but also about redistribution...)
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
... Is that there are now free useable *16bit* compilers out on the net. I hope the FreeDOS guys take notice...
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
... I would classify as being perfect for an "open source" web community to discuss, expand and develop in a public forum.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
Immature? I suppose this depends on your perspective. Refusing to put up with something you don't like and/or believe in, is, IMO, a brave thing to do. In this case it is reasonable to suspect that the company has grown too big to change and "work it out." To think that companies change in this way is somewhat immature in itself.
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Joseph Foley
InCert Software Corp.
What you've written could have been my life, save one addition: I was fat. Huge, actually. Anyone who claims being taunted in high school is healthy has never been chased down the hall, pursuer yelling deeply hurtful obscenities, while everyone including the teachers laugh.
Indeed, I will probably never get over the conflicting emotions of envy and hatred as the jock walked down the hall, the girl I had a crush on, there, on his arm.
Slow as molassas on my pII300(Win32). I really don't see it as "much faster"
Did I miss something?
4 years in a "collage" would make me very, very thin. Imagine! Sitting in a picture all day! What a waste of money. And even at a State University in New York it's more like 10k$ with room and board.
College is a personal decision. It allowed me to blossom socially in a way I doubt would have happened without. It gave me confidence that, in fact, most of the people in CS are idiots. Even the professors.
It also armed me with information about how CS and mathmatics are related and how to use Math to analyze CS problems. These things are attainable without college, but the direction helps tremendously. And learning to work under a deadline has helped me working at a startup more than I can possibly retell.
I also fail to see how a degree in CS is related to being a sysadmin. Programmers in the real world are NOT equal to sysadmins in the real world. Most sysadmins i've met don't know enough C to get beyond "Hello World!". The good ones who DO know more can't bear to stay with sysadmin'ing for too long... it bores them.
They did this because they believe in something.
From a philosophical stand point, I agree with all of it. As free software grows as a movement, there are going to be redefinitiions and some of them are going to come as responses to newcomers introducing new ideas and licences. Why is it bad that the FSF is responding to Apple's terms? They'd be failing as an organization if they didn't.
If, indeed this is true, then the next few years are going to make the industrial revolution look like a flea on a lumbering elephant. We are living the revolution, folks. Love every minute of it.
I've got MediaOne here in Arlingon, MA (just outside Cambridge) and it's been pretty good. Even got cable modem service. 'Course, SciFi, CN, and CC are extra here =(
I just got done mod'ing them, and it works like a charm! Very cool... BeOS 4.0 even knows they're Celerons ;)