Are M$ deliberately trying to equate open source with GPL software and ignoring the other licences? Does this mean that they see linux as a threat but not the various flavours of BSD? Could this be because they find the BSD licence useful - is it true that their tcp/ip stack is 'courtesy' of a bsd licence? Perhaps M$ is only against the GPL because their lawyers say it would hold up in court so they can't use any GPL code, but BSD is OK. ----
Hmmm. Is this GWB attempting to do part of "Son of Star Wars" on the cheap - some of the cubes will contain power supplies, lasers, guidance computers etc.. differenbt cube assemblies for different targets! Of course it could always be like dropping bricks of a bridge if you fly your spysat into a cloud of these
On a brighter note, anyone know of a linux machine which will fit in one of these? Fill a dozen with linux boxes and another with a 802.11 hub... we could call it project Grendel ----
However, if you've ever been accelerated from 0-to-60 in 5.0s in a 400hp car
You don't need 400 bhp, there are a few cars that can 0-60 in 4.5 secs with 240bhp or less. Most are quite light, of course. One of my favourites (here in the UK) was a special built by Westfield based on their copy of the Lotus/Caterham 7. This 'only' had a 1.7 litre ford diesel engine but was quite light - 50-60 mpg (UK) and it did 0-60 in under 6 secs, if I remember correctly. Economical and fun, with decent handling too.
Of course if you don't want the economy they do the Megabusa, which has a Suzuki Hayabusa 1300cc motorbike engine, they claim 0-60 in 3.1 secs......
No, I've never driven one, I don't fit. ----
I'd like to add a classic from an earlier time: Orson Welles 2nd film "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942), Welles wanted a dark ending but when he was abroad the studio chopped the film by 50 minutes and gave it a happy ending. The missing footage no longer exists. Welles career was fascinating , my favourite qute from him was "I started at the top and worked down". Indeed.
As an aside I don't agree with Scott about Deckard - I go with PKD on this, but we don't need a BladeRunner flamefest! I'll rent this version of ST:TMP and if it's good I may buy it, the original was quite pretty but I kept waiting for the plot to start. ----
As far as I understand it (IANAL) the way it works here in the UK is that in a civil suit you can apply for 'costs' if you win the case. It is then up to the Judge to decide how much of the winners costs will be paid by the loser, from 0 to 100%. The judges are normally pretty good on this - 100% is quite common if they decide the case was clear-cut but a pyrhhic victory of 0% isn't unknown either, if the judge has more of a clue than the jury... ----
When you're 40 you may be lucky to have a job. I'm not attacking you personally, just reminding people that age discrimination works both ways too. It's very hard staying on the technical side as you get older - if you don't end up as a mangler^Wmanager you often end up out of a job - who's the first to be 'downsized', the cheap 25 year old working 80 hpw or the 40 year old with a life and a mortgage?
There aren't any unemployed 40+ programmers, they're all driving busses or delivering pizza. ----
After P-K4 P-K4, for example both players, by your definition have not improved their position? I suggest that both players have improved their position, or are we know splitting down to half moves? ----
The other alternative is for everybody who isn't in the little clique to report the bugs to bugtraq and not to the ISC closed group, if most of the bugs go to bugtraq then what is the point if this forum? ----
Someone has to make the obligatory/. type response (tongue in cheek) about the danger of a heterogeneous community, I mean running Outlook on Windows, and waiting for ILuvU2 or Daughter of Melissa....
More seriously I agree that this increases the likelihood of a code fork unless it's abandoned. ----
Hmm, I thought it was mostly a bunch of Englishmen who didn't like their government and decided to change it, and ended up starting their own country...
The colonists were already there, so they didn't take it from the English. The people who had their land taken away from them were the Native American Peoples - first by the English, then the Colonials, and then the United States.
As for the two World Wars, well, you didn't save us militarily in either - we may not have won WWII without you, but we weren't losing by the time the US finally joined in (only 2 years late, 6 months faster than WWI)don't overlook the role played by the then USSR in the crippling of the Third Reich. The main thing was that the Reich was destroyed.
Ok, so we have the RIP bill (see the sig) - but you have the DMCA, we have a Data Protection Act and a right to privacy.... a bad idea is a bad idea, and most governments (whatever country) seem all too good at having them
I'm not anti-US,but there are some posts I feel I ought to respond to. Some people thought that 'The Patriot' and 'Braveheart' were historically accurste, other know some history....I'm fed up with English-bashing. ----
The food here is now pretty good, all those jokes about english food are pretty out of date - you can still get bad food, but that's even true in France/Italy. In England you can now get Good food - it's not a reason not to come here, honest.
I don't feel I can argue with the rest of your points though (see the sig). ----
When was the last time you played a normal game of chess and ended a game with 32 pieces on the board? There are some games where you re-use pieces captured from an opponent, but chess isn't one of them. If I take your rook, I don't get to use it as mine. ----
I've never had any points when I play chess, not even when I was learning did I come across the 1 point for a pawn, 2 for a knight or whatever.
Yes, I do know what you really meant, but thats not chess - it's like confusing squash scoring with a squash ladder. Why not talk about Elo ratings as well - that's not a zero sum game, and it's related.... ----
Slashdot Mirror
Are M$ deliberately trying to equate open source with GPL software and ignoring the other licences?
Does this mean that they see linux as a threat but not the various flavours of BSD? Could this be because they find the BSD licence useful - is it true that their tcp/ip stack is 'courtesy' of a bsd licence?
Perhaps M$ is only against the GPL because their lawyers say it would hold up in court so they can't use any GPL code, but BSD is OK.
----
Cats Cradle
----
Is this why Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola both happily co-exist?
----
Of course it could always be like dropping bricks of a bridge if you fly your spysat into a cloud of these
On a brighter note, anyone know of a linux machine which will fit in one of these?
Fill a dozen with linux boxes and another with a 802.11 hub... we could call it project Grendel
----
Or is it possible to build a cube containing a DVD player/changer etc so I can use region 8 discs?
----
Which we are, of course.
I suspect these things wouldn't be legal on the roads but ok on private land.
----
Of course if you don't want the economy they do the Megabusa, which has a Suzuki Hayabusa 1300cc motorbike engine, they claim 0-60 in 3.1 secs......
No, I've never driven one, I don't fit.
----
He could be left-handed..... :-)
----
Thanks for the link, that may stop me reading /. for quite a while :-)
----
Orson Welles 2nd film "The Magnificent Ambersons" (1942), Welles wanted a dark ending but when he was abroad the studio chopped the film by 50 minutes and gave it a happy ending. The missing footage no longer exists. Welles career was fascinating , my favourite qute from him was "I started at the top and worked down". Indeed.
As an aside I don't agree with Scott about Deckard - I go with PKD on this, but we don't need a BladeRunner flamefest!
I'll rent this version of ST:TMP and if it's good I may buy it, the original was quite pretty but I kept waiting for the plot to start.
----
As far as I understand it (IANAL) the way it works here in the UK is that in a civil suit you can apply for 'costs' if you win the case. It is then up to the Judge to decide how much of the winners costs will be paid by the loser, from 0 to 100%.
The judges are normally pretty good on this - 100% is quite common if they decide the case was clear-cut but a pyrhhic victory of 0% isn't unknown either, if the judge has more of a clue than the jury...
----
Ok, thanks for the correction, my German is more than a little rusty.
----
Actually it's pronounced soo-za, more or less, being a German acronym.
----
I'm not attacking you personally, just reminding people that age discrimination works both ways too. It's very hard staying on the technical side as you get older - if you don't end up as a mangler^Wmanager you often end up out of a job - who's the first to be 'downsized', the cheap 25 year old working 80 hpw or the 40 year old with a life and a mortgage?
There aren't any unemployed 40+ programmers, they're all driving busses or delivering pizza.
----
----
Apparently even von Daeniken is back in fashion.....
----
After P-K4 P-K4, for example both players, by your definition have not improved their position? I suggest that both players have improved their position, or are we know splitting down to half moves?
----
I can't argue with you about the Corporates though... may be it should be CorpoRats.
----
The other alternative is for everybody who isn't in the little clique to report the bugs to bugtraq and not to the ISC closed group, if most of the bugs go to bugtraq then what is the point if this forum?
----
More seriously I agree that this increases the likelihood of a code fork unless it's abandoned.
----
Carnivore.
----
The colonists were already there, so they didn't take it from the English. The people who had their land taken away from them were the Native American Peoples - first by the English, then the Colonials, and then the United States.
As for the two World Wars, well, you didn't save us militarily in either - we may not have won WWII without you, but we weren't losing by the time the US finally joined in (only 2 years late, 6 months faster than WWI)don't overlook the role played by the then USSR in the crippling of the Third Reich. The main thing was that the Reich was destroyed.
Ok, so we have the RIP bill (see the sig) - but you have the DMCA, we have a Data Protection Act and a right to privacy....
a bad idea is a bad idea, and most governments (whatever country) seem all too good at having them
I'm not anti-US ,but there are some posts I feel I ought to respond to.
Some people thought that 'The Patriot' and 'Braveheart' were historically accurste, other know some history....I'm fed up with English-bashing.
----
The food here is now pretty good, all those jokes about english food are pretty out of date - you can still get bad food, but that's even true in France/Italy. In England you can now get Good food - it's not a reason not to come here, honest.
I don't feel I can argue with the rest of your points though (see the sig).
----
When was the last time you played a normal game of chess and ended a game with 32 pieces on the board? There are some games where you re-use pieces captured from an opponent, but chess isn't one of them. If I take your rook, I don't get to use it as mine.
----
Yes, I do know what you really meant, but thats not chess - it's like confusing squash scoring with a squash ladder. Why not talk about Elo ratings as well - that's not a zero sum game, and it's related....
----