The problem is, it would quickly lose its meaning and become just another
holiday. 20 years from now, we'd see ads like "Come to Wal-Mart for our
Chernobyl-day BLOWOUT!! Save like there's no tomorrow! Our prices are
melting down!" etc. I'd rather avoid that, personally.
Nice. The guy asks for information about another culture, obviously wanting to learn about it. You then proceed to flame him for not knowing already. Way to foster international relations there, bud.
if we are considering someone leaked the memo must have been a
recipient.
Not necessarily. I'm not sure that this memo is legit either, but SMTP
isn't exactly known for being secure. There are any number of people who
could have been capturing packets in case anything interesting showed
up... not to mention any sysadmins with direct access to the queue on the
mailserver.
Nope -- under the terms of the license, redistribution is permitted
only if that phrase is included with the documentation or binary.
So if you get a copy without that phrase and then make a copy for your
friend, you just violated the license. By giving a copy away, you become
a redistributor, whether you did any work on it yourself or not.
Don't be obtuse. The GPL is concerned with making source available
to everyone. It doesn't care what you do with the source -- make it into
binaries, print it out and hang it on your wall, cat it to your soundcard,
whatever. Since the libjpeg license applies to binaries and not source,
it doesn't interact with the GPL in any way. (But I think IHBT.:/ )
I'm glad that the spammers are fighting back against the filters. Because then the filters will become better. And the spammers will become smarter, and the filters will become even more sophisticated. And so on and so on.
Eventually, we'll end up with filters so sophisticated that they'll become true AI! Finally, HAL will become possible, all thanks to your friendly neighborhood spammer! Thanks, spammer, you're a dear, dear friend.
As much as everyone seems to hate Red Hat for being big and pushing for
what they want, I have to say that I truly respect them. They've never
been anything but fair, honest, and helpful to the OSS community. Sure,
they sometimes make unpopular decisions, but they focus on their
business and don't try to meddle in anyone else's. And they've
certainly never pulled any stunt worthy of calling them the 'Microsoft of Linux' as gets thrown about
from time to time. The worst they've ever done is ask that people
redistributing their distro use a different name and artwork. I can't see
how anyone could have a problem with that.
And as this shows, they often go above and beyond the mere requirements of
the GPL. They've released a good amount of software under the GPL when
they really didn't have to. They pay a lot of developers' salaries, too.
So I'd like to say thanks, Red Hat. I have nothing but good feelings
toward you, and I hope you do better and better financially.
(Full disclosure: I don't work for Red Hat, don't own any of their stock,
etc. I knew one guy who worked for them, but he was a tech support grunt
there for a few months and I wasn't even in contact with him then. These
opinions are my own.)
there's no reason why they should have special rights because of this
choice (gay marriage, etc.)
Wow... did you even read what you just wrote? How is allowing one group
of people to do something that another group of people already do giving
them 'special rights'?
For those with too little time to read an admittedly informative and interesting comment, here's a quick summary:
Earth has a crunchy center surrounded by creamy nougat and a crisp shell. Heavy stuff sinks slowly, but it's probably not a good idea to go breaking the planet.
I know you were joking, but they did. About 9 months ago, I was stopped
by security when doing the pre-boarding check and given the third degree.
It turns out that I had a fork in my backpack that I kept just in case and
had forgotten about. They actually made me throw it away before I could
get on the plane, and double checked everything I had to make sure I
wasn't carrying anything else I could hijack the plane with. (Yeah,
because there's no way you could ever fight off a scrawny computer geek if
he were armed with tableware.)
on my monitor at 1600x1200, that design leads to 2/3 of the screen being wasted with blank gray space
Lucky. On my iBook (which only goes to 1024x768) I get horizontal scrollbars unless I browse in fullscreen mode. I saw them and left the site immediately:)
Please excuse my ignorance, but what the heck is a roundabout?
Imagine a 5- or 6-way intersection. Now, remove all the corners. Now remove the stop signs, yield signs, and traffic lights. Finally, remove all the lane markers from the road. (Oh, wait, sorry, the last one is just Massachusetts.) Now you have a roundabout.
Basically, they are the quickest way ever invented to fuck up an otherwise passable road.
Do you guys realize that this means there are at least *FOUR* different ways to install fonts on Linux
Did you realize that there are at least four ways to get Harry Potter? 1. Buy it from Amazon online. 2. Go to a bookstore and buy it. 3. Rent the movie from a video store. 4. Listen to the audiobook.
Geez, with all those choices, no wonder nobody's ever heard of it. I guess maybe once it's on TV the world will be safe.
Just FYI, GAIM has a plugin archetecture that lets it support just about anything. Out of the box it supports AIM (TOC and OSCAR), ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu. Not to mention that you can get plugins to do everything from spell checking to automagically forwarding messages (via a rule-based system) to a cellphone or email. Plus the newest version has a much nicer UI than any other Linux IM client I've ever used.
(Sorry to shill for GAIM, but the name causes most people to assume it's AIM only, but it's not, and it flat-out r0x0rz:)
So from reading the memo, I get the impression that this is the first step in phasing in IPv6 as the Real Deal... am I way off base here, or are we finally gonna be able to get rid of IPv4 once and for all?[1]
[1] Yeah, I know... backwards compatibility and everything, we'll never *totally* get rid of IPv4, but I'm just so damned tired of the hassles of NAT...
I don't see demand in the United States for highly-skilled and trained Software Engineers diminishing.
Whoa, please join the rest of us who have moved on since 1998. Try finding a job now -- With 2 years' experience and a degree, I've not gotten a single interview in almost a year. I'm good at what I do. But the jobs just aren't there.
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The problem is, it would quickly lose its meaning and become just another holiday. 20 years from now, we'd see ads like "Come to Wal-Mart for our Chernobyl-day BLOWOUT!! Save like there's no tomorrow! Our prices are melting down!" etc. I'd rather avoid that, personally.
Wow, that's amazing! You just described Boston, except we don't have the painted lines. Nor road signs, either, unfortunately. :(
Nice. The guy asks for information about another culture, obviously
wanting to learn about it. You then proceed to flame him for not knowing
already. Way to foster international relations there, bud.
Anybody want to form a company with this technology and start manufacturing Discordian computers? "Holy Chao Computers" has a nice ring to it.
Fortunately, if you're using Debian, you won't have to worry about
upgrading until 2012, shortly after the much anticipated kernel upgrade to
2.0.
(-1 flamebait)
if we are considering someone leaked the memo must have been a recipient.
Not necessarily. I'm not sure that this memo is legit either, but SMTP isn't exactly known for being secure. There are any number of people who could have been capturing packets in case anything interesting showed up... not to mention any sysadmins with direct access to the queue on the mailserver.
Nope -- under the terms of the license, redistribution is permitted only if that phrase is included with the documentation or binary. So if you get a copy without that phrase and then make a copy for your friend, you just violated the license. By giving a copy away, you become a redistributor, whether you did any work on it yourself or not.
Don't be obtuse. The GPL is concerned with making source available to everyone. It doesn't care what you do with the source -- make it into binaries, print it out and hang it on your wall, cat it to your soundcard, whatever. Since the libjpeg license applies to binaries and not source, it doesn't interact with the GPL in any way. (But I think IHBT. :/ )
Imagine someone crashing your optical input to get full access to your brain
Someone imagined that already.
I'm glad that the spammers are fighting back against the filters. Because then the filters will become better. And the spammers will become smarter, and the filters will become even more sophisticated. And so on and so on.
Eventually, we'll end up with filters so sophisticated that they'll become true AI! Finally, HAL will become possible, all thanks to your friendly neighborhood spammer! Thanks, spammer, you're a dear, dear friend.
As much as everyone seems to hate Red Hat for being big and pushing for what they want, I have to say that I truly respect them. They've never been anything but fair, honest, and helpful to the OSS community. Sure, they sometimes make unpopular decisions, but they focus on their business and don't try to meddle in anyone else's. And they've certainly never pulled any stunt worthy of calling them the 'Microsoft of Linux' as gets thrown about from time to time. The worst they've ever done is ask that people redistributing their distro use a different name and artwork. I can't see how anyone could have a problem with that.
And as this shows, they often go above and beyond the mere requirements of the GPL. They've released a good amount of software under the GPL when they really didn't have to. They pay a lot of developers' salaries, too.
So I'd like to say thanks, Red Hat. I have nothing but good feelings toward you, and I hope you do better and better financially.
(Full disclosure: I don't work for Red Hat, don't own any of their stock, etc. I knew one guy who worked for them, but he was a tech support grunt there for a few months and I wasn't even in contact with him then. These opinions are my own.)
But the company I worked for has serious managerial problems, and their products were crap.
So what was working for Microsoft like, exactly?
there's no reason why they should have special rights because of this choice (gay marriage, etc.)
Wow... did you even read what you just wrote? How is allowing one group of people to do something that another group of people already do giving them 'special rights'?
I think IHBT....
For those with too little time to read an admittedly informative and interesting comment, here's a quick summary: Earth has a crunchy center surrounded by creamy nougat and a crisp shell. Heavy stuff sinks slowly, but it's probably not a good idea to go breaking the planet.
Therefore, we should ban forks from planes.
I know you were joking, but they did. About 9 months ago, I was stopped by security when doing the pre-boarding check and given the third degree. It turns out that I had a fork in my backpack that I kept just in case and had forgotten about. They actually made me throw it away before I could get on the plane, and double checked everything I had to make sure I wasn't carrying anything else I could hijack the plane with. (Yeah, because there's no way you could ever fight off a scrawny computer geek if he were armed with tableware.)
Engineering is a perfectly noble profession, but it also seems to be one of the few where people get recognition for doing useless shit.
Right, because biologists never do anything stupid.
on my monitor at 1600x1200, that design leads to 2/3 of the screen being wasted with blank gray space
:)
Lucky. On my iBook (which only goes to 1024x768) I get horizontal scrollbars unless I browse in fullscreen mode. I saw them and left the site immediately
Whatever happened to the American dream that *anyone* who is willing to work hard can get a decent job?
It ended about the same time that people who were perfectly willing to work hard couldn't get a job at all, let alone a decent one.
Please excuse my ignorance, but what the heck is a roundabout?
Imagine a 5- or 6-way intersection. Now, remove all the corners. Now remove the stop signs, yield signs, and traffic lights. Finally, remove all the lane markers from the road. (Oh, wait, sorry, the last one is just Massachusetts.) Now you have a roundabout.
Basically, they are the quickest way ever invented to fuck up an otherwise passable road.
RTFA. Conducting armed raids with the assistance of federal mercenaries^Wmarshals is SOP for the BSA.
Do you guys realize that this means there are at least *FOUR* different ways to install fonts on Linux
Did you realize that there are at least four ways to get Harry Potter?
1. Buy it from Amazon online.
2. Go to a bookstore and buy it.
3. Rent the movie from a video store.
4. Listen to the audiobook.
Geez, with all those choices, no wonder nobody's ever heard of it. I guess maybe once it's on TV the world will be safe.
GAIM, which does AIM/Jabber
:)
Just FYI, GAIM has a plugin archetecture that lets it support just about anything. Out of the box it supports AIM (TOC and OSCAR), ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber, Napster, Zephyr, and Gadu-Gadu. Not to mention that you can get plugins to do everything from spell checking to automagically forwarding messages (via a rule-based system) to a cellphone or email. Plus the newest version has a much nicer UI than any other Linux IM client I've ever used.
(Sorry to shill for GAIM, but the name causes most people to assume it's AIM only, but it's not, and it flat-out r0x0rz
So from reading the memo, I get the impression that this is the first step in phasing in IPv6 as the Real Deal... am I way off base here, or are we finally gonna be able to get rid of IPv4 once and for all?[1]
[1] Yeah, I know... backwards compatibility and everything, we'll never *totally* get rid of IPv4, but I'm just so damned tired of the hassles of NAT...
They can use GNU/Hurd
:P
Think it'll be ready by then? Always the optimist, eh?
I don't see demand in the United States for highly-skilled and trained Software Engineers diminishing.
Whoa, please join the rest of us who have moved on since 1998. Try finding a job now -- With 2 years' experience and a degree, I've not gotten a single interview in almost a year. I'm good at what I do. But the jobs just aren't there.