It is not a simple quantity. Time is a perception of changes in relationships. Cycles of the universe based on what? The spin of an electron or the rate (based on what secondary time measurement?) of decay. The relationship of the experiment you perform to the rest of the universe makes it inconsistent with that of one near a singularity. Why wouldn't it also be different (by an infinitely small increment) on the opposite side of the universe?
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That's funny. I said the same thing last time a sci-fi book was reviewed and got -1 trolled. Figures.
The distinction between what constitutes 'similar' is arbitrary. Any judge could say Goodyear had to stop making tires because they are using Firestone IP, but the decision to not make tires as a design a copyrighted design, must have never been claimed or opened to the public domain or more likely no one can dig up the relevant discoveries. IP law allows for these types of situations, which is why most ppl think it is a broken system.
Let's just ignore the fact that it looks nearly identical from the command line or uses the same apps that were designed for unix or any of a number of small jumps that unix made and everyone else adopted relating to permissions and mail....a product that is similar is exactly why there is IP. The fact that I can make a linux box loose taste smell and feel like a Unix box should be demonstrative enough for most judges. (like Sonyy Walkmen, looks similar ENOUGH)
>They have not provided any proof that Linux contains SCO IP... even if it did that does NOT mean that Linux users are committing software piracy.
No proof? They don't need to submit proof. Linux is clearly a unix clone and has been considered so for a long time by the (programmer) masses. It's hard to backpedal on that now. The idea that Unix is too similar to other older operating systems is not where this case is going to go. As an OS watcher, I copy and paste lots and lots of code written by all manner of people just to get work done in little scripts I write. I serioiusly doubt I am unique in that regard. By the same note, I doubt that the early developers of low level OS apps were so different from me; after all, it's just our job.
I consider spaceflight and alien species within the realm of remote possibility. Any book that somehow "ignores" the primal fear of death (which is what any society involved with personality swapping would need to overcome) rediculous. This book is obviously a peice of trippy trash and I have a hard time understanding why anyone would WANT to read about such fantastical crap. I don't see people lining up to read a fictional tale "involving a future global decision to make chinese new year 'suicide with your pet day'" because it's equally ridiculous.
I love Apple for their innovation, even with their complete redesign (OSX) that is utterly delightful to use and is BSD compatible. However, I love POSIX more and believe the Unix standard is more important than my affection for OSX. Period. $110k should be paid if it were a one-time fee. If it were yearly, I would support Apple's decision because I simply abhor software extortion (MicroSoft). The parent's fears will be the direct result of Unix being relegated to a generic term and POSIX will become the new term-de-jour I guess.
I was gonna start with talking with prominent map-makers but, essentially that was the same answer I would give. This crap about Mount Fuji ==/mnt/fuji is funny, but wholly inappropriate when the problem was not addressed...it's Mount Fuji not mount fuji.
Damage to the open-source community would matter, because we are both today's principal source of innovation in software and the guardians and maintainers of the open Internet. Our autonomy is everyone's bulwark against government and corporate control of the digital media that are increasingly central in political, commercial, and personal communications. Our creative energy is what perpetually renews and finds ever more exciting uses for computers and networks. The vigor of our culture today will translate into more possibilities for everyone tomorrow.
What a bunch of ideological hogwash that not only lacks bearing on the subject, but is starkly out of context in such a brief. What the hell is ESR trying to say? is he trying to dictate his place in the marketplace? Is he trying to be convincing that the Open Source movement is akin to God? I don't know who ESR thinks he is, but he is not respresenting 'the guardians and maintainers of the open Internet' because he fails to describe (for the duration) who or WHAT he's specifically talking about. I was offended by reading it.
I think laurie made an amazingly succint point that I agree with. I dont participate in politics over the internet, I participate in my own personal economics. I participate in discussions relevant to my business interests and in discussions that entertain me. I don't believe for one second that I achieve anything by arguing over the internet and I'm surprised by people who do...but I do have copious amounts of time and lots of incentive to take frequent breaks from working...so it works out for me. I dont remember her comments having anything to do with anyone other than the idiots flaming HER. What does that kind of person expect? probably what they got...flamertainment.
Essentially the article is about, why KDE is sticking with pent-ultimate configurability as long as it's fun to continue designing that way. Specifically mentioning how Gnome does it a different way and implying it's going with a different train of thought...less is more. I didnt see any compromising in that article.
Not to go off on a tangent about seasons... but ok.
Seasons are regular changes in climate. If you have no regulation of your axis tilt, you cannot have regular chagnes, only irregular. Also, there are very very few species on earth who can tolerate irregular seasons and accompanying temperatures. Humans and plants. Even if you could make a liquid lake on mars, you couldnt get anything to live in it for the random days it boils and freezes solid. Regulation of temperature is of immense importance to terraforming.
it's important to understand that offense is in the eye of the offended, not the offender. - is exactly right. Words are nuetral and more often then not, we are informed as to what is offensive because there is no classical way to define what is offensive. Being offended as it is a combination of emotional elements not just a social construct...although to be fair, there are social offenses that are entirely that, confusing the issue further. I'm pretty much impossible to offend, but not invulnerable. Sometimes I am surprised that a video of a kitten getting it's head bashed in doesn't bother me, but I have to make a bit of time and stop a child from digging the eyes out of a live bird with a stick, because it makes me upset (although I'm over it now). That's not a choice I consciously make...hell it's not even a scenario I ever thought I'd encounter. I'd advise you not to make blanket statements about how people feel or do not feel, as it quickly becomes a dictation on how you think the world should be viewed. If someone took charge to rule the world, it would still be fucked up, just in different ways.
Since I have been taking Coumadin for 14 years and generic sodium warafin for another 3 years after that (still am), I would like to make a minor correction. It's Sodium Warafin, not warafin that is the primary ingredient in Coumadin and rat poison. I have been getting blood tests every month (minimum) for this entire time to measure Prothrombin Time, which is the 'PT' the parent post mentioned.
Tell me you're kidding. Email is not critical in the sense that if an email fails, nobody is liable or legally responsible. I use PHP for automating mail jobs too, BECAUSE email is not critical. The emails I am referring to are formatted and sent using PHP and are something that has to get done (part of the job I was hired to do)...but do you honestly think I'd use a PHP script to do complex financials or to transmit credit card numbers. PHP can't even send data to printers reliably. I dont think the lack of destructors alone makes PHP unfit for serious business, but I dont think it's trustworthy yet either.
While I use PHP for web development and oft abuse it when a small bash script would do as well, I specifically use PHP as a data presentation layer. There has yet to be a database PHP has had trouble with...as opposed to say Perl in 1999 when I had to RANDOMLY GUESS AT SYNTAX for 3 weeks to get a Perl DBI to work (Larry said to just guess at it till it worked, and I did).
I routinely get some application that exports to a specific format flat file and somebody wants it to be this or that. I either format the data to a different format or parse it into a DB. Outside of my normal job, this is a good 60% of all problems I'm contracted to solve. Yes Perl can do it. Yes Python could do it (most of the time). Yes lots of other languages can do it.
As an aside, I don't like support. I'm not a support guy and I loath customers after I completed a job to original specification. When I leave a job or finish a contract, I don't get called again because I train or provide someone who likes that stuff and is capable of maintaining it. PHP is very easy to teach and is honestly a very low-wage skill. PHP as a skill, is easy to find at universities in california which has contributed to my preference for it.
I looked at the error routines. Very nice. I actually bookmarked your LISSARD CVS page so that I can check for updates and am working on using the code for my personal web project because it serves as a syntax and partial logic trap that I think is very well designed. Essentially these are echos though and apparently only tailored for a web project. If it figured out the globals and locals of the offending code it would probably qualify as a rudimentary debugger, rather than the pretty custom toy that it currently is. Of course, when all you have is PHP, you can only make PHPade.
Please define Slashdot's "class" of web application. I would think it fits the standard high volume message board. Drlaura.com and a number of other high-volume message boards all use mysql+php. I suspect Slashdot's slowness is a combination of bandwidth and hardware bottlenecks rather than blatant performace issues. Nobody (much less Slashdot admins) would stand for that. To do what? Get more popularity from the 'in' crowd? To make friends with the Zend circuit? There would be no real point.
Hypertext Preprocessor - I dont think anyone is using PHP for pure scripting in critical applications yet. That would be silly. PHP is obviously not a finished language, so attacking the memory management of it's beta standalone scripting capability is rather innane and certainly not worth commenting any further about.
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Best-longest interview. I congratualate Charles and Slashdot.
It is not a simple quantity. Time is a perception of changes in relationships. Cycles of the universe based on what? The spin of an electron or the rate (based on what secondary time measurement?) of decay. The relationship of the experiment you perform to the rest of the universe makes it inconsistent with that of one near a singularity. Why wouldn't it also be different (by an infinitely small increment) on the opposite side of the universe?
That's funny. I said the same thing last time a sci-fi book was reviewed and got -1 trolled. Figures.
The distinction between what constitutes 'similar' is arbitrary. Any judge could say Goodyear had to stop making tires because they are using Firestone IP, but the decision to not make tires as a design a copyrighted design, must have never been claimed or opened to the public domain or more likely no one can dig up the relevant discoveries. IP law allows for these types of situations, which is why most ppl think it is a broken system.
Let's just ignore the fact that it looks nearly identical from the command line or uses the same apps that were designed for unix or any of a number of small jumps that unix made and everyone else adopted relating to permissions and mail....a product that is similar is exactly why there is IP. The fact that I can make a linux box loose taste smell and feel like a Unix box should be demonstrative enough for most judges. (like Sonyy Walkmen, looks similar ENOUGH)
>They have not provided any proof that Linux contains SCO IP... even if it did that does NOT mean that Linux users are committing software piracy.
No proof? They don't need to submit proof. Linux is clearly a unix clone and has been considered so for a long time by the (programmer) masses. It's hard to backpedal on that now. The idea that Unix is too similar to other older operating systems is not where this case is going to go. As an OS watcher, I copy and paste lots and lots of code written by all manner of people just to get work done in little scripts I write. I serioiusly doubt I am unique in that regard. By the same note, I doubt that the early developers of low level OS apps were so different from me; after all, it's just our job.
I consider spaceflight and alien species within the realm of remote possibility. Any book that somehow "ignores" the primal fear of death (which is what any society involved with personality swapping would need to overcome) rediculous. This book is obviously a peice of trippy trash and I have a hard time understanding why anyone would WANT to read about such fantastical crap. I don't see people lining up to read a fictional tale "involving a future global decision to make chinese new year 'suicide with your pet day'" because it's equally ridiculous.
I love Apple for their innovation, even with their complete redesign (OSX) that is utterly delightful to use and is BSD compatible. However, I love POSIX more and believe the Unix standard is more important than my affection for OSX. Period. $110k should be paid if it were a one-time fee. If it were yearly, I would support Apple's decision because I simply abhor software extortion (MicroSoft). The parent's fears will be the direct result of Unix being relegated to a generic term and POSIX will become the new term-de-jour I guess.
Can someone transcribe it? I really don't have time to watch a documentary about a LANparty. C'mon.
I was gonna start with talking with prominent map-makers but, essentially that was the same answer I would give. This crap about Mount Fuji == /mnt/fuji is funny, but wholly inappropriate when the problem was not addressed...it's Mount Fuji not mount fuji.
Damage to the open-source community would matter, because we are both today's principal source of innovation in software and the guardians and maintainers of the open Internet. Our autonomy is everyone's bulwark against government and corporate control of the digital media that are increasingly central in political, commercial, and personal communications. Our creative energy is what perpetually renews and finds ever more exciting uses for computers and networks. The vigor of our culture today will translate into more possibilities for everyone tomorrow.
What a bunch of ideological hogwash that not only lacks bearing on the subject, but is starkly out of context in such a brief. What the hell is ESR trying to say? is he trying to dictate his place in the marketplace? Is he trying to be convincing that the Open Source movement is akin to God? I don't know who ESR thinks he is, but he is not respresenting 'the guardians and maintainers of the open Internet' because he fails to describe (for the duration) who or WHAT he's specifically talking about. I was offended by reading it.
I think laurie made an amazingly succint point that I agree with. I dont participate in politics over the internet, I participate in my own personal economics. I participate in discussions relevant to my business interests and in discussions that entertain me. I don't believe for one second that I achieve anything by arguing over the internet and I'm surprised by people who do...but I do have copious amounts of time and lots of incentive to take frequent breaks from working...so it works out for me. I dont remember her comments having anything to do with anyone other than the idiots flaming HER. What does that kind of person expect? probably what they got...flamertainment.
Essentially the article is about, why KDE is sticking with pent-ultimate configurability as long as it's fun to continue designing that way. Specifically mentioning how Gnome does it a different way and implying it's going with a different train of thought...less is more. I didnt see any compromising in that article.
They are not erratic over those timescales. The Martian Axis can swing by as much as 30 degrees on one vector (near-randomly) within 2 solar days.
Not to go off on a tangent about seasons... but ok.
Seasons are regular changes in climate. If you have no regulation of your axis tilt, you cannot have regular chagnes, only irregular. Also, there are very very few species on earth who can tolerate irregular seasons and accompanying temperatures. Humans and plants. Even if you could make a liquid lake on mars, you couldnt get anything to live in it for the random days it boils and freezes solid. Regulation of temperature is of immense importance to terraforming.
it's important to understand that offense is in the eye of the offended, not the offender. - is exactly right. Words are nuetral and more often then not, we are informed as to what is offensive because there is no classical way to define what is offensive. Being offended as it is a combination of emotional elements not just a social construct...although to be fair, there are social offenses that are entirely that, confusing the issue further. I'm pretty much impossible to offend, but not invulnerable. Sometimes I am surprised that a video of a kitten getting it's head bashed in doesn't bother me, but I have to make a bit of time and stop a child from digging the eyes out of a live bird with a stick, because it makes me upset (although I'm over it now). That's not a choice I consciously make...hell it's not even a scenario I ever thought I'd encounter. I'd advise you not to make blanket statements about how people feel or do not feel, as it quickly becomes a dictation on how you think the world should be viewed. If someone took charge to rule the world, it would still be fucked up, just in different ways.
Since I have been taking Coumadin for 14 years and generic sodium warafin for another 3 years after that (still am), I would like to make a minor correction. It's Sodium Warafin, not warafin that is the primary ingredient in Coumadin and rat poison. I have been getting blood tests every month (minimum) for this entire time to measure Prothrombin Time, which is the 'PT' the parent post mentioned.
Tell me you're kidding. Email is not critical in the sense that if an email fails, nobody is liable or legally responsible. I use PHP for automating mail jobs too, BECAUSE email is not critical. The emails I am referring to are formatted and sent using PHP and are something that has to get done (part of the job I was hired to do)...but do you honestly think I'd use a PHP script to do complex financials or to transmit credit card numbers. PHP can't even send data to printers reliably. I dont think the lack of destructors alone makes PHP unfit for serious business, but I dont think it's trustworthy yet either.
While I use PHP for web development and oft abuse it when a small bash script would do as well, I specifically use PHP as a data presentation layer. There has yet to be a database PHP has had trouble with...as opposed to say Perl in 1999 when I had to RANDOMLY GUESS AT SYNTAX for 3 weeks to get a Perl DBI to work (Larry said to just guess at it till it worked, and I did).
I routinely get some application that exports to a specific format flat file and somebody wants it to be this or that. I either format the data to a different format or parse it into a DB. Outside of my normal job, this is a good 60% of all problems I'm contracted to solve. Yes Perl can do it. Yes Python could do it (most of the time). Yes lots of other languages can do it.
As an aside, I don't like support. I'm not a support guy and I loath customers after I completed a job to original specification. When I leave a job or finish a contract, I don't get called again because I train or provide someone who likes that stuff and is capable of maintaining it. PHP is very easy to teach and is honestly a very low-wage skill. PHP as a skill, is easy to find at universities in california which has contributed to my preference for it.
I stand corrected.
I looked at the error routines. Very nice. I actually bookmarked your LISSARD CVS page so that I can check for updates and am working on using the code for my personal web project because it serves as a syntax and partial logic trap that I think is very well designed. Essentially these are echos though and apparently only tailored for a web project. If it figured out the globals and locals of the offending code it would probably qualify as a rudimentary debugger, rather than the pretty custom toy that it currently is. Of course, when all you have is PHP, you can only make PHPade.
Please define Slashdot's "class" of web application. I would think it fits the standard high volume message board. Drlaura.com and a number of other high-volume message boards all use mysql+php. I suspect Slashdot's slowness is a combination of bandwidth and hardware bottlenecks rather than blatant performace issues. Nobody (much less Slashdot admins) would stand for that. To do what? Get more popularity from the 'in' crowd? To make friends with the Zend circuit? There would be no real point.
Hypertext Preprocessor - I dont think anyone is using PHP for pure scripting in critical applications yet. That would be silly. PHP is obviously not a finished language, so attacking the memory management of it's beta standalone scripting capability is rather innane and certainly not worth commenting any further about.
ImageMagick is a third-party addon. That's not a valid point either, to be fair.
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