I have compiled vim on a variety of systems (various Linux distros and Solaris, to be specific), and can't see how it would fail. It doesn't have a single external library dependency that I know of unless you want all that newfangled X11 stuff.
DX will win because in the end, programmers (in the general sense) are like everyone else, they are lazy. The API that provides the most bang for the buck will win
Programmers are lazy, so they will use the API that is either chained to their neck (Windows' basic interface API) or the 'best bang for the buck.' Since most everyone in the commercial software world has at least a few major APIs hanging from that iron chain (Windows), 'best' is not the winner.
And NO Linux is not the end-all-be-all home to the "best" APIs. The history of computing is littered with the smoking wreckage of companies that produced "the best" and found that all their customers already had "crappy enough" chained to their necks. And if you think companies are evil then I hope you enjoy your free Quake clone.
The only worthwhile freedom of religion is a freedom FROM religion!
And sadly, the Taliban have made it a crime to try to preach to people a religion different from their own.
It seems as though the Islamic world is today hitting the troublesome stage that the "Holy" "Roman" "Empire" (which was, to quote someone else, "neither holy, roman, or an empire") did in the middle ages. The Catholic Church even massacred "heretic" branches that didn't even reinterpret the book -- they just refused to acknowledge the church's power!
Perhaps individuals should be required by law to watch each and every commercial aired during a show that they watch, whether live or recorded
I am truly amazed how often I hear this kind of argument. The airwaves are public property leased to the broadcasters. They have absolutely no right to make you do anything at all with the signal they send into your home. If you want to watch only the non-advertisement part, that's your choice.
If they want to guarantee their revenue, then they can make their programs available only to people who sign a contract to pay for it (ala HBO on cable). Buying a TV does not involve some shrink-wrap agreement to waste your life watching soft drink and car commercials.
Right, because the fact that laserdiscs were these ungainly huge discs that were more expensive to manufacture and more annoying to use had nothing to do with their rapid death when dvd came along.
Not that I want to continue all this silly talk about Saddam, but on the BBC News (via PBS) recently I heard an interview with a salesman at a computer store...
In Iraq, where they had the same PIII's that are available here. They just have to 'smuggle' them by buying them from countries that think more of dog doo than our embargo.
As others have said, its still a GPL product, so why is no one (even the sites that specialize in selling (cheapbytes for example)) offering the current libranet iso for download?
Not that I'm certain here, but "Guhnoo" is not a word, whereas "Gnu" IS a word and is, if logic was used in the generation of the GNU acronym, the way that GNU should expand: Gnu's not Unix, which both is and is NOT an acronym.
Could someone with some actual lawyerly knowledge explain how this person's web site describing their dispute could possibly be used by the judge to decide to not award damages? This is, as the previous poster says on his site, ridiculous.
I'll assume that's a troll and start by noting that you should have made it less obviously silly.
But of course, you could be serious. In which case I have this to say to you. The jury system is a beautiful concept and one to defend. The jury selection system as it stands in the United States is guaranteed to select those people with huge amounts of free time and not enough wits to get out of it. Some of us have to actually make a living, something the law does not help because it does not require that jurors be paid a salary equivalent to their normal work pay.
A DPD is an "individual delivery of a phonorecord by digital transmission of a sound recording, which results in a specifically identifiable reproduction by or for any transmission recipient of a phonorecord of that sound recording . . .." 17 U.S.C. 115(d) (emphasis added). When an On-Demand Stream is received, small portions of the On-Demand Stream are buffered for a short time on a revolving basis, but it is not clear that any "specifically identifiable" "phonorecord" ever is reproduced or delivered (emphasis is mine).
I barely understand legalese, but it sounds to me as though they are saying "well, that clip sure could go in that gun and the bullets could go in the clip, but kids should be able to buy it all because hey, you don't really know for certain that they might make a gun out of it."
Capitalism is not about whether we decide to empower people or we empower legal entities to behave as people. Capitalism is about pursuing wealth for yourself, be you a company or a person. Do you really love that companies have more rights than you do? Don't believe they do?
A company can, through willful planning precipitate the deaths of human beings (Union Carbide anyone?) but is not eligible for the death penalty (aka liquidation). Couple hundred years ago a company could receive the death penalty, known as a revocation of its charter.
He's right you know. How many times have you looked at a pile of old computer parts and thought it would just take a couple hours of effort and maybe a $20 whatzit to make it all hum as your new file server?
Last time I tried that it took me 20 hours of bad part diagnostics and piecemeal parts replacements. 20 hours worth of effort that I could have just spent working and then bought a brand new (cheap) machine.
It gets even better. I received my CueCat reader in the mail without even asking for it because I am a Forbes subscriber. So exactly what grounds do they have to demand ANYTHING? When someone sends you a pack of address labels and demands a donation the same rule applies: you owe them NOTHING and have agreed to nothing.
I don't understand this. My original post got a 5 and 'funny' yet the much more important response is sitting there at a 3.
Thank you Mitch for discussing with the rest of us the issues surrounding these decisions. Forgive me if I wait until that SDK and the digital crack come out though.
Copyright law may have forced the copy restriction, but that doesn't mean copyright law is in the right here. When I buy a license to song x, I expect to have the right to any and all private use (that means copy, mix, disassemble, reverse-engineer, but not distribute in any way).
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I have compiled vim on a variety of systems (various Linux distros and Solaris, to be specific), and can't see how it would fail. It doesn't have a single external library dependency that I know of unless you want all that newfangled X11 stuff.
And UNLIMITED UNDO.
DX will win because in the end, programmers (in the general sense) are like everyone else, they are lazy. The API that provides the most bang for the buck will win
Programmers are lazy, so they will use the API that is either chained to their neck (Windows' basic interface API) or the 'best bang for the buck.' Since most everyone in the commercial software world has at least a few major APIs hanging from that iron chain (Windows), 'best' is not the winner.
And NO Linux is not the end-all-be-all home to the "best" APIs. The history of computing is littered with the smoking wreckage of companies that produced "the best" and found that all their customers already had "crappy enough" chained to their necks. And if you think companies are evil then I hope you enjoy your free Quake clone.
The only worthwhile freedom of religion is a freedom FROM religion!
And sadly, the Taliban have made it a crime to try to preach to people a religion different from their own.
It seems as though the Islamic world is today hitting the troublesome stage that the "Holy" "Roman" "Empire" (which was, to quote someone else, "neither holy, roman, or an empire") did in the middle ages. The Catholic Church even massacred "heretic" branches that didn't even reinterpret the book -- they just refused to acknowledge the church's power!
So, um, without either graphics or gameplay,
what's left? A cardboard box?
Hell, my compilers class had us implement an Oberon compiler in 20 weeks (most of it spent learning how to write a compiler in general).
;)
If D is that easy to implement, then why not add templates
I can't believe you bit.
Perhaps individuals should be required by law to watch each and every commercial aired during a show that they watch, whether live or recorded
I am truly amazed how often I hear this kind of argument. The airwaves are public property leased to the broadcasters. They have absolutely no right to make you do anything at all with the signal they send into your home. If you want to watch only the non-advertisement part, that's your choice.
If they want to guarantee their revenue, then they can make their programs available only to people who sign a contract to pay for it (ala HBO on cable). Buying a TV does not involve some shrink-wrap agreement to waste your life watching soft drink and car commercials.
Right, because the fact that laserdiscs were these ungainly huge discs that were more expensive to manufacture and more annoying to use had nothing to do with their rapid death when dvd came along.
Not!
Yes, take a look at the manga and there's lots of beautiful scenes where those huge laser guns are put to delightful use.
Not that I want to continue all this silly talk about Saddam, but on the BBC News (via PBS) recently I heard an interview with a salesman at a computer store...
In Iraq, where they had the same PIII's that are available here. They just have to 'smuggle' them by buying them from countries that think more of dog doo than our embargo.
As others have said, its still a GPL product, so why is no one (even the sites that specialize in selling (cheapbytes for example)) offering the current libranet iso for download?
Not that I'm certain here, but "Guhnoo" is not a word, whereas "Gnu" IS a word and is, if logic was used in the generation of the GNU acronym, the way that GNU should expand: Gnu's not Unix, which both is and is NOT an acronym.
FYI, a gnu is a large water-buffalo look-alike.
Could someone with some actual lawyerly knowledge explain how this person's web site describing their dispute could possibly be used by the judge to decide to not award damages? This is, as the previous poster says on his site, ridiculous.
I'll assume that's a troll and start by noting that you should have made it less obviously silly.
But of course, you could be serious. In which case I have this to say to you. The jury system is a beautiful concept and one to defend. The jury selection system as it stands in the United States is guaranteed to select those people with huge amounts of free time and not enough wits to get out of it. Some of us have to actually make a living, something the law does not help because it does not require that jurors be paid a salary equivalent to their normal work pay.
Now come on. You have to be more subtle if you want some flames.
Yes, read the petition:
." 17 U.S.C. 115(d) (emphasis added). When an On-Demand Stream is received, small portions of the On-Demand Stream are buffered for a short time on a revolving basis, but it is not clear that any "specifically identifiable" "phonorecord" ever is reproduced or delivered (emphasis is mine).
A DPD is an "individual delivery of a phonorecord by digital transmission of a sound recording, which results in a specifically identifiable reproduction by or for any transmission recipient of a phonorecord of that sound recording . . .
I barely understand legalese, but it sounds to me as though they are saying "well, that clip sure could go in that gun and the bullets could go in the clip, but kids should be able to buy it all because hey, you don't really know for certain that they might make a gun out of it."
First good post this whole thread. You could practically write a script to reverse-troll arbitrary sets of troll posts.
>But I can't figure out how to list the contents of an rpm unless it's already installed.
rpm -ql -p package.rpm
-p specifies that you want to query a package file rather than the db of installed packages.
Unless the documentation lies, Vim has right-to-left text entry and hebrew font display, no?
Capitalism is not about whether we decide to empower people or we empower legal entities to behave as people. Capitalism is about pursuing wealth for yourself, be you a company or a person. Do you really love that companies have more rights than you do?
Don't believe they do?
A company can, through willful planning precipitate the deaths of human beings (Union Carbide anyone?) but is not eligible for the death penalty (aka liquidation). Couple hundred years ago a company could receive the death penalty, known as a revocation of its charter.
I have to strongly agree with points a through c.
This is just about the most important space mission we have ever done because it directly provides us knowledge to help us avoid our own armageddon.
He's right you know. How many times have you looked at a pile of old computer parts and thought it would just take a couple hours of effort and maybe a $20 whatzit to make it all hum as your new file server?
Last time I tried that it took me 20 hours of bad part diagnostics and piecemeal parts replacements. 20 hours worth of effort that I could have just spent working and then bought a brand new (cheap) machine.
It gets even better. I received my CueCat reader in the mail without even asking for it because I am a Forbes subscriber. So exactly what grounds do they have to demand ANYTHING? When someone sends you a pack of address labels and demands a donation the same rule applies: you owe them NOTHING and have agreed to nothing.
I don't understand this. My original post got a 5 and 'funny' yet the much more important response is sitting there at a 3.
Thank you Mitch for discussing with the rest of us the issues surrounding these decisions. Forgive me if I wait until that SDK and the digital crack come out though.
Copyright law may have forced the copy restriction, but that doesn't mean copyright law is in the right here. When I buy a license to song x, I expect to have the right to any and all private use (that means copy, mix, disassemble, reverse-engineer, but not distribute in any way).