This feels like pure Anti-American posturing. Look at New York, LA, Boston. All very smart cities, generally due to the presence of universities. I'd like to see their exact judging rubric - is it percentage based? That would explain why all of the cities are so small.
I believe it. In Manhattan it's possible to walk pretty much everywhere and we have some of the most beautiful people in the world. Less than an hour away in our suburbs, it looks like... well, America. Huh...
It's actually kinda funny to watch the hecklers at work. The guys in the front of the line won't give up their spot for Armageddon, so people can, and are, doing damn near anything.
Why don't they worry about making Bangkok NOT synonymous with sin and vice before they worry about "bug-filled software" they clearly don't understand?
"...new analysis of iPods and other portable, digital music players by researchers..."
It's not just about the iPod, it's digital music devices in general. The iPod is just the name they use cause it's what people recognize. Good job with them accurate headlines, Slashdot.
Capitalistic society as a whole. Look at the driving forces behind proprietary software and tell me that it's community-minded. My comment on the Beowulf clusters was meant to say that, as much as it is an in-joke, we're almost subconsciously attracted to the idea of the Beowulf cluster-it's a raw, literal example of community providing far more power then the individual.
Why is it that every time it comes out that anything can be compatible with Linux, one of the first things we nerds yell is Beowulf cluster? It happened for iPods, now it's happening for the Wii. I personally think it provides a major peek in to nerd psychology, the kind of psychology that gives rise to the open-source movement and freedom-of-information movements we so love. I think that nerds are, at heart, community driven. Whether so much of the internet exists as communities, from message boards to blogs, because the hackers who built it are so community minded, or if we, the Technocrati, are community-minded because of how the Internet is structured, I don't know. I do think, however, that this focus on community leads to much of our computer-related thought being focused on the idea of community, from how we make our programs (the idea of open-source) to how we do our computing (Beowulf clusters).
If you guys would actually READ the arcticle, it's a new game pumped out in three months by an Iranian group. The only thing it shares with our Counter-Stike is a name. And theirs doesn't even have the -. Different game. No need to worry about bunny-hopping BOOM HEADSHOT! ing terrorists, as funny as that would be.
Now what we REALLY need to be afraid of is all those PS2s Saddam linked up to launch missles .
I have a question of this community. I remember back in the days when conversations would be carried out over BBS forums/newsgroups. What I remembered of those "old-school" programming/networking communities was a group of people who were always ready to help, and who were always ready to encourage someone in whatever they set out to do. I have a hard time understanding how this community turned into something as bitter and close-minded as what it is now. It seems that there are only a handful of people left out there that still have the original focus of what created this community.
I do not understand how this bitter *BSD vs. *Linux war started. One side blames the other, and vice-versa. The result is a spiral toward a completely destroyed community. You may ask yourself "Well what is in being nice and helpful for me" the answer is, if this trend continues and expands itself onto others like it has as of recent, there will be no more community. That means that once again the computer world will be dominated by companies who are out for nothing but money, and as a direct result, you will suffer from it. Even with corporations like Sun Microsystems, who are big supporters of this community, if the community turns south, it will start to hurt them as well, resulting in them ceasing involvement with it.
As much as you all say *BSD is dead, you do nothing but complain about how it is dead, and why nobody should focus on it any more. Wouldn't someone truly in the spirit of open-source do what they could, or contribute to *BSD in some way to help it? You must all see that the reason any OS will fail is because of a lack of support from a community. Even Windows would disappear off the face of the earth should no person want to use it or support it. I do not believe that *BSD is dead, but with respect to those who do, please answer my question. Why do you continue to say this without making a effot to help? The only reasons I can find is that it is either easier for you to just complain and do nothing, or you vent personal frustration on it thus making yourself feel better at the expense of others. Both are acceptable, but there are other answers that would benefit the community as a whole as well.
This community greatly reminds me of a failed Communist government. It started with intentions to make everyone equal, and make everything available to everyone on the terms that some people would give to the community as well as take. But this proves that history repeats itself, even on a medium such as the Internet. It would seem to me that once again a Communist government has failed because of one thing. Money. Greed from corporation's, people's frustration from it, and a mixed, and cut-throat atmosphere have destroyed it. The people are becoming bitter, and taking harsh sides, (Note the way people acted during the Russian/Soviet revolutions, because the community activity matches up quite well with what we see here) and making bitter enemies.
As much as it would seem, that all hope is lost, it is not. With cooperation of this community, and a re-focus of what we all try to stand for, we can rebuild it into something far greater, and something remarkable that can leave it's positive mark on the world for future generations to behold.
Please, join me and join all of us who want to make this community great, and voice your thoughts on what this should become. Lets build toward a future, not destroy it. I am going to call this emotion of mine the "Open-source Manifesto" and hope that one day the world will share it for the good of not only the Internet, but the people that love it so.
Well you are totally right if you consider the Sun Java JDK2 non-commercial quality. The Sun Java JDK1.3 has a native FreeBSD version, and you can run the Linux version on FreeBSD.
Thanks for pointing that out. I've yet to really use Mac OS X because I have a PC, but if I could get ahold of a version of Mac OS X, or program that allows it to run on my PC then I'll probably give it a shot.
Well, you do have a valid point, but secuirty, was the only thing on that list that was not yet a major focus, Yes, it is important, but I'm going to get the base done and then work on tightening security. (Keep in mind that doesn't mean I'm going to pull a Microsoft, and release a knowingly unsecure OS then fix it later)
As for compatibility, that is a major concern of LainOS, and much effort is being put into it.
Function is a huge point of LainOS. I've posted this on some other newsgroups, but LainOS is getting full voice control. In other words, out of the box you will be able to not only use a voice password, but control your computer the same way. (Obiviously you will still need to calibrate it the first time you want to use it.) The desktop/panel/menus are all transpearent with a water effect to them. Keep in mind that the screenshot for the Theme was not reflective of the UI for LainOS. That was the sawfish theme on a really really early build of LainOS before the UI enhancements intregration started.
Well, you are right about the vaporware part. It isn't there for you guys yet, so I can understand if you feel that way. But you can be reassured that the project will have distros out in the not so distant future.
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This feels like pure Anti-American posturing. Look at New York, LA, Boston. All very smart cities, generally due to the presence of universities. I'd like to see their exact judging rubric - is it percentage based? That would explain why all of the cities are so small.
I believe it. In Manhattan it's possible to walk pretty much everywhere and we have some of the most beautiful people in the world. Less than an hour away in our suburbs, it looks like... well, America. Huh...
He was prosecuted on RICO charges? As in, the same RICO that was designed to help fight mafia families? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_ and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act
It's like the RIAA isn't even sure what to charge people with anymore...
There WAS the now-defunct Planescape: Vengeance, a fine example of the modding community coming to the rescue (see http://addoncz.jinak.cz/web/?page=inthum_e and http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/07/ 1351216). I've been playing with IE modding myself, and an abundance of tools makes it not TOO difficult - perhaps if enough people got together a sequel wouldn't be so crazy?
It's actually kinda funny to watch the hecklers at work. The guys in the front of the line won't give up their spot for Armageddon, so people can, and are, doing damn near anything.
Why don't they worry about making Bangkok NOT synonymous with sin and vice before they worry about "bug-filled software" they clearly don't understand?
Ah, 1% is porn. But of the 99%, 29% are Wikipedia articles and 69% are Myspace pages. The extra 1% is /. and the like.
In the words of Scrubs, "If all the porn were taken off the internet there would only be one website left, and it would be www.bringbacktheporn.com"
It's about damn time. No more having to use crappy file formats to make sure that your websites have to work with IE anymore.
At least, to some extent.
From the article:
"...new analysis of iPods and other portable, digital music players by researchers..."
It's not just about the iPod, it's digital music devices in general. The iPod is just the name they use cause it's what people recognize. Good job with them accurate headlines, Slashdot.
That he was "going to fucking kill Google." Do strong words count as "fucking burying" them?
Capitalistic society as a whole. Look at the driving forces behind proprietary software and tell me that it's community-minded. My comment on the Beowulf clusters was meant to say that, as much as it is an in-joke, we're almost subconsciously attracted to the idea of the Beowulf cluster-it's a raw, literal example of community providing far more power then the individual.
Why is it that every time it comes out that anything can be compatible with Linux, one of the first things we nerds yell is Beowulf cluster? It happened for iPods, now it's happening for the Wii. I personally think it provides a major peek in to nerd psychology, the kind of psychology that gives rise to the open-source movement and freedom-of-information movements we so love. I think that nerds are, at heart, community driven. Whether so much of the internet exists as communities, from message boards to blogs, because the hackers who built it are so community minded, or if we, the Technocrati, are community-minded because of how the Internet is structured, I don't know. I do think, however, that this focus on community leads to much of our computer-related thought being focused on the idea of community, from how we make our programs (the idea of open-source) to how we do our computing (Beowulf clusters).
Just a thought.
This is the epitome of MySpace drama. Literally.
If you guys would actually READ the arcticle, it's a new game pumped out in three months by an Iranian group. The only thing it shares with our Counter-Stike is a name. And theirs doesn't even have the -. Different game. No need to worry about bunny-hopping BOOM HEADSHOT! ing terrorists, as funny as that would be. Now what we REALLY need to be afraid of is all those PS2s Saddam linked up to launch missles .
I have a question of this community. I remember back in the days when conversations would be carried out over BBS forums/newsgroups. What I remembered of those "old-school" programming/networking communities was a group of people who were always ready to help, and who were always ready to encourage someone in whatever they set out to do. I have a hard time understanding how this community turned into something as bitter and close-minded as what it is now. It seems that there are only a handful of people left out there that still have the original focus of what created this community.
I do not understand how this bitter *BSD vs. *Linux war started. One side blames the other, and vice-versa. The result is a spiral toward a completely destroyed community. You may ask yourself "Well what is in being nice and helpful for me" the answer is, if this trend continues and expands itself onto others like it has as of recent, there will be no more community. That means that once again the computer world will be dominated by companies who are out for nothing but money, and as a direct result, you will suffer from it. Even with corporations like Sun Microsystems, who are big supporters of this community, if the community turns south, it will start to hurt them as well, resulting in them ceasing involvement with it.
As much as you all say *BSD is dead, you do nothing but complain about how it is dead, and why nobody should focus on it any more. Wouldn't someone truly in the spirit of open-source do what they could, or contribute to *BSD in some way to help it? You must all see that the reason any OS will fail is because of a lack of support from a community. Even Windows would disappear off the face of the earth should no person want to use it or support it. I do not believe that *BSD is dead, but with respect to those who do, please answer my question. Why do you continue to say this without making a effot to help? The only reasons I can find is that it is either easier for you to just complain and do nothing, or you vent personal frustration on it thus making yourself feel better at the expense of others. Both are acceptable, but there are other answers that would benefit the community as a whole as well.
This community greatly reminds me of a failed Communist government. It started with intentions to make everyone equal, and make everything available to everyone on the terms that some people would give to the community as well as take. But this proves that history repeats itself, even on a medium such as the Internet. It would seem to me that once again a Communist government has failed because of one thing. Money. Greed from corporation's, people's frustration from it, and a mixed, and cut-throat atmosphere have destroyed it. The people are becoming bitter, and taking harsh sides, (Note the way people acted during the Russian/Soviet revolutions, because the community activity matches up quite well with what we see here) and making bitter enemies.
As much as it would seem, that all hope is lost, it is not. With cooperation of this community, and a re-focus of what we all try to stand for, we can rebuild it into something far greater, and something remarkable that can leave it's positive mark on the world for future generations to behold.
Please, join me and join all of us who want to make this community great, and voice your thoughts on what this should become. Lets build toward a future, not destroy it. I am going to call this emotion of mine the "Open-source Manifesto" and hope that one day the world will share it for the good of not only the Internet, but the people that love it so.
Regards,
Chris Gilbert
Thanks, it's refreshing to see some more open-minded people. Also, check your e-mail, as I have sent you a message.
Thanks agian,
Neovanglist
My mistake.. it's not the JDK2.. that was a typo.. it's JDK 1.3.
My Mistake,
Neovanglist
Well you are totally right if you consider the Sun Java JDK2 non-commercial quality. The Sun Java JDK1.3 has a native FreeBSD version, and you can run the Linux version on FreeBSD.
Regards,
Neovanglist
Thanks for pointing that out. I've yet to really use Mac OS X because I have a PC, but if I could get ahold of a version of Mac OS X, or program that allows it to run on my PC then I'll probably give it a shot.
Later,
Neovanglist
FreeBSD has run java via linux emulation for ages. FreeBSD 4.5 runs a native FreeBSD version that gets installed via the ports collection.
Regards,
Neovanglist
It's interesting to me how you can think FreeBSD is dying when several major things have happened on the FreeBSD front.
1)FreeBSD released FreeBSD-4.5 RELEASE just not to long ago, and it has full Java support.
2)FreeBSD is getting new applications ported to it every day. (Note: XFree86 4.2.0 now has FreeBSD binaries available, check XFree86.org)
3)FreeBSD was a good enough OS to have Apple base their new flagship OS (MacOSX) on it. (I don't see them planning to make a Linux based MacOS)
4)FreeBSD's TCP/IP stack was good enough for Microsoft to steal and put in Win2k/XP
With all this said, and the new release schedule, how in the world can you call it dead?
Regards,
Neovanglist
Thanks for the input. Well it is a *BSD distro. You can find a lot more info on it here
Thanks,
Neovanglist
(Chris Gilbert)
The page on my website with this content can be found here
My apologies for that. I thought I had, but it had obiviously slipped my mind. I'm going to get it posted on the site ASAP.
Thanks,
Neovanglist
Well, you do have a valid point, but secuirty, was the only thing on that list that was not yet a major focus, Yes, it is important, but I'm going to get the base done and then work on tightening security. (Keep in mind that doesn't mean I'm going to pull a Microsoft, and release a knowingly unsecure OS then fix it later)
As for compatibility, that is a major concern of LainOS, and much effort is being put into it.
Function is a huge point of LainOS. I've posted this on some other newsgroups, but LainOS is getting full voice control. In other words, out of the box you will be able to not only use a voice password, but control your computer the same way. (Obiviously you will still need to calibrate it the first time you want to use it.) The desktop/panel/menus are all transpearent with a water effect to them. Keep in mind that the screenshot for the Theme was not reflective of the UI for LainOS. That was the sawfish theme on a really really early build of LainOS before the UI enhancements intregration started.
Well, you are right about the vaporware part. It isn't there for you guys yet, so I can understand if you feel that way. But you can be reassured that the project will have distros out in the not so distant future.
Regards,
Neovanglist