Slashdot Mirror

I couldn't help but think back to the problem with the Hubble Space Telescope, wherein after the launch they discovered that the mirror had not been properly ground to specification.

Fuck you commie. Teachers are fags.

Welcome to the spambot:
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu

Fuck you commie. Teachers are fags.

Welcome to the spambot:
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu

Fuck you commie. Teachers are fags.

Welcome to the spambot:
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu

Fuck you commie. Teachers are fags.

Welcome to the spambot:
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu

Fuck you commie. Teachers are fags.

Welcome to the spambot:
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu

Fuck you commie. Teachers are fags.

Welcome to the spambot:
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu
ahenders@unr.nevada.edu

To put a different spin:
What's the big deal here? We take an 750mz P3 with 512MB of ram and a graphics card that would have singlehandedly doubled NASA's computing capability back in the Apollo era, and we use that as a glorified gameboy! (I'm going to go play Half Life when I'm done writing this).

Face it -- The Game boy is a computer. Just because it's normally used to play cute games doesn't mean that it's not able to do anything else. Where's your hacker ethic? The 4Mz Z80-lookalike that runs it was one of the mainstays of hobby computing until the IBM PC overran the competition (remember CPM or the TRS-80? And with up to 2MB of ROM, it's got the program storage of a small hard disk of the era. (4K of RAM is a bit small, but quite livable -- equivalent to a VIC-20.).

With an external floppy (ooh! 1M of storage, I'd be in HEAVEN!) or some flash RAM, and a 1200 baud modem (no K there!), it'd make a quite respectable early-80s BBS. Your average home hobbyist would have been scandalized about using that MUCH processing power (mostly because of the hundreds of K of available storage) 'just' to run a sewing machine.
`ø,,ø`ø,,ø!

I've seen the OPL and it seemed incomplete or somehow too simplistic; so, I created my own rendition of the GPL that I call the Oasis Public License (because that's the name of the website for which I originally intended to use it). It can be shortened to OPL but I realize that that causes an acronym collision. :)

I wanted to be able to retain control of documents and yet allow people to copy and redistribute them similar in spirit to what the GPL accomplishes for software. The Oasis Public License is pretty much a wholesale conversion of the GPL to apply to documents with a few additions from other public licenses.

I've seen the OPL and it seemed incomplete or somehow too simplistic; so, I created my own rendition of the GPL that I call the Oasis Public License (because that's the name of the website for which I originally intended to use it). It can be shortened to OPL but I realize that that causes an acronym collision. :)

I wanted to be able to retain control of documents and yet allow people to copy and redistribute them similar in spirit to what the GPL accomplishes for software. The Oasis Public License is pretty much a wholesale conversion of the GPL to apply to documents with a few additions from other public licenses.