Its funny you should mention geeks meeting up. Is that the best reason to actively recruit women? What I'm trying to say is if women don't want to enroll, so be it. Why force this 'positive discrimination'? Now if it was said that there was an overall drop in students enrolling then I would understand some concern but I just don't understand why we should force equality.
Personally I have no interest in signing up for a degree in Fashion Design. Some men may and more power to them but if there are more women signing up than men I don't think they should spend time or money trying to make fashion design more butch.
By curiosity what would be the equivalent on MacOS ? Has it been done ? The equivalent specs in OSX are open standards like NFS. In fact Apple are in the same position as Linux here because OSX uses Samba too. The problem here isn't that some secret sauce is being forced open to everyone, it's the likes of network protocols that are there to allow communication in the first place are being closed down. It's that Microsoft have made their closed standards the de facto standards.
So what happens when Microsoft don't like what's happening at any time? Do they take their ball and go home?
If I could pass back one comment on the article, there seems to be a few grammatical errors in there. The article itself is very interesting but poor grammar detracts from its impact.
By 2000, some computers were not shipping with hardly any legacy ports at all That's not just a double negative, I don't think that even makes sense.
I will tell you why Powered USB will never be widely excepted I'm sure you meant accepted there. I apologise if I come off sounding like a grammar nazi but I find it difficult to read an article and take it seriously when it is presented in this way. That aside I would completely agree with you on the point of powered USB. Splintered standards are no standards at all.
That's where I'd have to be a bit pedantic and disagree with your phrasing. The good guys generally refer to themselves as musicians, the pop commercial rubbish is where you will hear them refer to themselves as 'artists' or the even more pretentious 'artistes'. I have always assumed this is because they are in fact not musicians, and this is also sometimes evident with lead vocalists who either have no musical training or someone whom you would not fully class as a singer, be it through a lack of talent or lack of range.
As someone who has played in several bands gigging around and recording we only ever referred to ourselves as musicians.
I couldn't agree more and I think that is a very important point. I am a big Linux fan, but the best thing a consumer can do is be a good consumer and always use the best product.
If HURD tomorrow became the most featured kernel and best for the community, then that would be what I would throw my support behind.
I would argue it is Stallman and the GPL 3.0 do more to kill Linux than anthing Microsoft could conceive of This is a feeling I have had for quite a while now, though it's not usually a very popular view so I'm forced to keep it quiet.
In the 15 years of Linux, it has almost universally called Linux. Rebranding it to GNU/Linux has never taken off and is an exercise in stubborness at this stage.
It is when I see effort to rebrand or move to relicence Linux the I sometimes think the FSF forget that the code was GPL'd for all to use under those terms for better or for worse, even if that means it being used in a system that isn't prefixed with GNU.
(I know, I know. I'm expecting my karma to go through the floor...)
As a complete Unix fan boy I have to say this is one instance where we have to step down and put our hands up to say "Okay, we're sorry, we screwed up".
Even XP managed to turn off its telnet service in Service Pack 1!
The funny thing is that by your post I could have sworn you were from Ireland:D
The same happens here, and it is a recent thing that our government has implemented such forward thinking laws. I think this is mostly due in part to EU legislation. Believe me the toilet seat trick you mentioned happens all the time in Irish politics.
Actually we have already implemented that here in Ireland and I have to say as a consumer it's something I'm happy with. I pay an extra couple of cent or maybe a couple of euro on the big electric/electronic items and I get to have my old items disposed of correctly in a manner that is better for the environment.
It's pretty similar to the plastic bag tax. Many resisted it at first but it really did put it into perspective for shoppers. Everyone here reuses their bag-for-life, and when you really do have to buy a plastic bag you make sure it's used a few times. I don't usually welcome new taxes - and why would I - but it's nice to see something being done for the greater good.
This shows a lot of promise for Open Source Developers. When I first read this I feared the protocols might be made available at prohibitive costs to Open Source and hobbiest developers.-
Microsoft has already documented Vista and Longhorn server-related protocols and priced them. But again the European Commission has managed to surprise me with their forward thinking:-
What is the situation as regards open source?
The Commission has previously stated that it is committed to ensuring that the open source community has access to the non-innovative protocols if the Court of First Instance rules in its favour in case T-201/04 (the action brought by Microsoft against the 2004 Decision). Which we are told "lack significant innovation". I'm not sure whether I'm happy for the OSS developers or to laugh and rehash all of the jokes about Microsoft rehashing everyone else's ideas. Hopefully we do see some of those Patents overturned too.
From TFS
'all documents, including, but not limited to, text, spreadsheets, and presentations, produced by any state agency shall be created, exchanged, and preserved in an open extensible markup language-based, XML-based file format.' The one thing that stands out to me is specifying that it is XML-based. I have no problem with that, the two competing formats are indeed XML based but shouldn't the mandate of the state simply to specify the Open and Cross-Platform aspects?
What happens for instance if tomorrow all of us wonderful Slashdot readers co-developed a magical format that not only was open and cross platform but inexplicably worked with all currently available office suites without modification......but it wasn't XML. Does that disqualify it?
I would rather see the politics of this issue left with the politicians, the tech issues left with the techies. I've seen other combinations go horribly wrong DMCA
That is certainly true to a large degree, but let's not overshadow the need for tighter security. Ultimately users need to bear in mind that their PC is for working, and really should only provide for their working environment. It's best to put aside the 'it's my computer' attitude and push the 'it's a company tool' attitude.
Speaking as someone who has worked for years in IT, I would be more of the opinion that most staff in the IT department fear user knowledge because their own knowledge is lacking. From experience of a few different departments it's usually only one or two who have the knowledge to begin with and another five or six who are all talk. That's more what causes the friction between users and IT staff. No one minds a straight no if it is qualified, but I don't think anyone will tolerate a grunt of 'no' from someone who's not even sure why in the first place.
I get the impression this is to take over the licensing aspect of OSS projects, something that in the current GPLv2/GPLv3/Linux Kernel debate they would benefit greatly benefit from. As has been mentioned above this is in some kind of draft form and is three years old. One might think it was released simply for that GPLv2/GPLv3 debate. I mean if the FSF had been caretakers of all of the contributed code in the Linux Kernel then there would not have been any issue with the move to GPLv3.
Just because you don't get it... No I got it alright. Maybe it's because that joke has been around since before the Traction Avant.
Humour isn't just about understanding the joke. It may as well have been a chicken crossing the road joke for the timing and originality of it.
(Let's hope that, in Novell, Peugeot Citroen hasn't bought a lemon.) What a terrible pun. Not only terrible, but also a really old and quite irrelevant one.
Citroën of course does not mean lemon, and when pronounced correctly doesn't sound the same as 'citron'.
It's great to see the work done for the Cell processor and for the PS3, but unfortunately I get the feeling that there won't be a huge amount of interest until it is used to either run Pirated games or circumvent DRM. Still it's a credit to the developers to have this much work done, and before Europe has even seen the PS3 released.
They are copyright holders of the technology in question, and can simply refuse to let Novell distribute their stuff any more. But let's remember, just because something is licensed under the GPL does not mean it belongs to the FSF. It will be up to the individual authors what licence changes happen.
Yeah I got mine about 6 weeks back. The upsetting thing is that it doesn't correctly boot on either my Siemens P4 or my Xeon Poweredge 2600. Not a good start, they're both corporation targetted boxes. Pity, I was looking forward to it too. If Nexenta and Belenix can do it with the Source and no funding, it would make you wonder about Sun!
Not for enterprise or OEM Linux. It can now ship out of the box without any legal or community concerns, right on time for the "2007 will be Linux on the Desktop" comments.
Isn't this what was wanted all along? finally it happens and everyone criticises it. At least it wasn't CCDL.
How could it be 'properly' pronounced in the USA dialect of English rather than the British 'Zed'? I mean it is after all a derivative of British English. Actually 'Zed' is probably closer to the source from which it comes - the Greek letter 'zeta'.
Slashdot editors don't get the same benefit from firehosing all day eh?;)
This research has been around and mainstream a long time - check this out on BBC News. March 2000...
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Its funny you should mention geeks meeting up. Is that the best reason to actively recruit women?
What I'm trying to say is if women don't want to enroll, so be it. Why force this 'positive discrimination'? Now if it was said that there was an overall drop in students enrolling then I would understand some concern but I just don't understand why we should force equality.
Personally I have no interest in signing up for a degree in Fashion Design. Some men may and more power to them but if there are more women signing up than men I don't think they should spend time or money trying to make fashion design more butch.
So what happens when Microsoft don't like what's happening at any time? Do they take their ball and go home?
I apologise if I come off sounding like a grammar nazi but I find it difficult to read an article and take it seriously when it is presented in this way. That aside I would completely agree with you on the point of powered USB. Splintered standards are no standards at all.
That's where I'd have to be a bit pedantic and disagree with your phrasing.
The good guys generally refer to themselves as musicians, the pop commercial rubbish is where you will hear them refer to themselves as 'artists' or the even more pretentious 'artistes'.
I have always assumed this is because they are in fact not musicians, and this is also sometimes evident with lead vocalists who either have no musical training or someone whom you would not fully class as a singer, be it through a lack of talent or lack of range.
As someone who has played in several bands gigging around and recording we only ever referred to ourselves as musicians.
I couldn't agree more and I think that is a very important point. I am a big Linux fan, but the best thing a consumer can do is be a good consumer and always use the best product. If HURD tomorrow became the most featured kernel and best for the community, then that would be what I would throw my support behind.
As a complete Unix fan boy I have to say this is one instance where we have to step down and put our hands up to say "Okay, we're sorry, we screwed up". Even XP managed to turn off its telnet service in Service Pack 1!
The funny thing is that by your post I could have sworn you were from Ireland :D
The same happens here, and it is a recent thing that our government has implemented such forward thinking laws. I think this is mostly due in part to EU legislation. Believe me the toilet seat trick you mentioned happens all the time in Irish politics.
Actually we have already implemented that here in Ireland and I have to say as a consumer it's something I'm happy with. I pay an extra couple of cent or maybe a couple of euro on the big electric/electronic items and I get to have my old items disposed of correctly in a manner that is better for the environment.
It's pretty similar to the plastic bag tax. Many resisted it at first but it really did put it into perspective for shoppers. Everyone here reuses their bag-for-life, and when you really do have to buy a plastic bag you make sure it's used a few times. I don't usually welcome new taxes - and why would I - but it's nice to see something being done for the greater good.
What happens for instance if tomorrow all of us wonderful Slashdot readers co-developed a magical format that not only was open and cross platform but inexplicably worked with all currently available office suites without modification...
That is certainly true to a large degree, but let's not overshadow the need for tighter security. Ultimately users need to bear in mind that their PC is for working, and really should only provide for their working environment. It's best to put aside the 'it's my computer' attitude and push the 'it's a company tool' attitude. Speaking as someone who has worked for years in IT, I would be more of the opinion that most staff in the IT department fear user knowledge because their own knowledge is lacking. From experience of a few different departments it's usually only one or two who have the knowledge to begin with and another five or six who are all talk. That's more what causes the friction between users and IT staff. No one minds a straight no if it is qualified, but I don't think anyone will tolerate a grunt of 'no' from someone who's not even sure why in the first place.
I get the impression this is to take over the licensing aspect of OSS projects, something that in the current GPLv2/GPLv3/Linux Kernel debate they would benefit greatly benefit from. As has been mentioned above this is in some kind of draft form and is three years old. One might think it was released simply for that GPLv2/GPLv3 debate. I mean if the FSF had been caretakers of all of the contributed code in the Linux Kernel then there would not have been any issue with the move to GPLv3.
It's great to see the work done for the Cell processor and for the PS3, but unfortunately I get the feeling that there won't be a huge amount of interest until it is used to either run Pirated games or circumvent DRM. Still it's a credit to the developers to have this much work done, and before Europe has even seen the PS3 released.
The more we tighten our grip the more software will fall through our fingers. ....Oh wait, which ones are we Linux guys again, Rebels or Empire?
Yeah I got mine about 6 weeks back. The upsetting thing is that it doesn't correctly boot on either my Siemens P4 or my Xeon Poweredge 2600. Not a good start, they're both corporation targetted boxes. Pity, I was looking forward to it too. If Nexenta and Belenix can do it with the Source and no funding, it would make you wonder about Sun!
Not for enterprise or OEM Linux. It can now ship out of the box without any legal or community concerns, right on time for the "2007 will be Linux on the Desktop" comments. Isn't this what was wanted all along? finally it happens and everyone criticises it. At least it wasn't CCDL.
No both 'initialism' and 'acronym' are correct, but acronym is usually referring to initialisms that can be pronounced as if they were a word.
How could it be 'properly' pronounced in the USA dialect of English rather than the British 'Zed'? I mean it is after all a derivative of British English. Actually 'Zed' is probably closer to the source from which it comes - the Greek letter 'zeta'.
Isn't the term 'Zettabyte File System' actually inaccurate now? I thought they dropped that and ZFS now only remains as a pseudo initialism
Slashdot editors don't get the same benefit from firehosing all day eh? ;)
This research has been around and mainstream a long time - check this out on BBC News. March 2000...
Wouldn't it be more accurate to compare NT/Cairo with Vista/Singularity?