Bin done. 20 years ago I lived in Austin TX and a christian group there was photographing cars parked outside a porn store and posting them outside the church.
These days it would be a lot more effective. *shudder*
Ha ha, but actually, if you believe this site, they were. In fact everyone alive right now is using metric feet. The official definition of the foot is "exactly 0.3048 meter." So there!
I've heard the phrase, "he wore a suit to the interview," used in a negative way more than once.
And it was mean. If you're coming to a company for an interview, you won't know whom you'll be talking with. It could be some HR weenie whom you'll hardly ever see again -- but whose opinion matters. Why take a risk? "Dressing up" is a safe choice, just like checking that return value from a system call even though you're pretty sure it'll be OK.
Plus if the organization downticks you for your dress, well, perhaps it's not the kind of place you want to work anyway.
Sometimes I like it. I just run xterms or emacs all the time, with the windows stretched to take up the whole display. If I'm in the mood for eyecandy I add -F or even --color to my ls arguments....but generally I don't think it's worth the effort.
I hired some guys for a very small job. They wanted to spec some specific gear -- it didn't meet certain of my specific needs (e.g. multi-region dvd, PAL VCR etc). The guy very kindly pushed back with the comment, "We spec and supply the gear because we know it works, know its idiosyncrasies, and that's part of how we make our profit." Cool, I could deal with that. I explained my constraints, and they found something that worked for both of us -- and I reckon better than I could have spec'd myself.
I wish everybody I do business with could be the same way. Explain what both sides need and get the job done in a manner satisfactory to both.
That's cool. For some software I use a 3P license and pay a cash royalty; I generally use the compiler-included helper libraries (arithmetic conversions and startup code end the like) without worrying about it, and most of the time of use free code of various stripes. In all of those cases I check the license -- sometimes it's quite enlightening even in the case where you think you paid the developer $25K for a royalty-free buy-out! To me these are all just special cases of the same thing. The fact is that _regardless_ of where the code came from you have to do this checking. If you optimize by finding one or two that happen to work for you, great. The mere existence of someone who chose BSD as the one to standardize on doesn't especially distinguish it -- I can easily point to companies who only use code they pay for, for whatever reason.
By the way I wrote the original (?13 years ago?) draft that became the 1.0 LGPL you mention. John Gilmore suggested to me what turned out to be the most important clause: that you could dynamically link to such a library without having any licensing impact at all. Those terms are more liberal than any cash-royalty license I've ever seen (and don't even include the announcement clause of the BSD license), and made Linux's userland possible.
Every time I look into this I pass (but I look every time I have to revisit it; one day VOIP will be ready). I mean, you can make it work, and make it work well, but is it core to your company's mission? Phone service itself probably is core (it is to most, but not all companies), but is having people grok everything about the phone service a core part of your company's business?
What I've ended up doing every time so far is just buying a used PBX. They get cheaper all the time. They aren't always all-singing-all-dancing, but actually that's usually a good thing. Somebody still will need to learn a lot about the phone system, but less than they would have to learn were they building a VOIP infrastructure.
Generally I've been much happier with ones that don't need proprietary handsets.
Oh, and personally I've been screwed too many times by Altigen.
(I bought my copy of Dostoevsky's "The Idiot" second-hand; it seems to have stood unopened on someone's bookshelf for thirty years because some of the pages were uncut)
Marvelous updating of Fitzgerald for modern times! How many will see the joke?
I hate this other guy and want to take his money and screw him up. Gosh, there are so many ways but they all seem to need his SSN. Say,./ folks: how can I make his life miserable and clean out his account even though I don't have that crucial bit of info?
WRS was one of Cygnus's early customers (starting 1990 or 1991) and, although they depended on the GNU development tools, used to make fun of the free software model and us in particular. Then they moved in the BSD direction and still made fun of the GPL. What a turn-around.
Yeah, I would also like a single WiFi/GSM/WiMAX auto-handoff radio in my phone and in my laptop. Won't happen. The mobile carriers and incumbent fixed-line providers have too much at stake to permit it. Their numbers might even be better were they willing, but they can't see beyond their current business models.
And for that matter, VoIP hasn't yet found its own "killer app" beyond bypassing certain wedged regulatory regimes. The main providers (vonage and the like) really don't provide much more to the end user (speaker?) than the POTS guys do. "Shared collaboration"....err, how does that "build" on VoIP again?
Either this guy is seriously confused or he's in marketing. Oh wait, this article is a shill for Intel's upcoming marketing presentation!
Oh, I believe, that there are some people in dictatorships, or some whistleblowers and other people, that really need anonymity on the net. But the reality is that whenever you make such a service available to population at large, it's the scum of the earth that dominates it.
Good. It's called chaff. If only people sending messages out of repressive regimes used it their messages would be easier to trace. But when it's hidden in a haystack of spams and the like, well, it's just that much harder to find.
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They just forgot a "!" in the checking code!
A 10MB mandatory patch should clear that one right up.
Bin done. 20 years ago I lived in Austin TX and a christian group there was photographing cars parked outside a porn store and posting them outside the church.
These days it would be a lot more effective. *shudder*
It's unpleasant to suddenly realize someone let out Microsoft in the room, but could you really consider it Silent but Deadly?
Plus if the organization downticks you for your dress, well, perhaps it's not the kind of place you want to work anyway.
Sometimes I like it. I just run xterms or emacs all the time, with the windows stretched to take up the whole display. If I'm in the mood for eyecandy I add -F or even --color to my ls arguments....but generally I don't think it's worth the effort.
YMMV.
I hired some guys for a very small job. They wanted to spec some specific gear -- it didn't meet certain of my specific needs (e.g. multi-region dvd, PAL VCR etc). The guy very kindly pushed back with the comment, "We spec and supply the gear because we know it works, know its idiosyncrasies, and that's part of how we make our profit." Cool, I could deal with that. I explained my constraints, and they found something that worked for both of us -- and I reckon better than I could have spec'd myself.
I wish everybody I do business with could be the same way. Explain what both sides need and get the job done in a manner satisfactory to both.
The thing that really distinguishes this melon from others is, of course, its Pitt.
1989 is calling. They want their 2001 back.
85-watt power adapter! I guess that rules out running it from airline power, then.
I just took a 24-hour plane flight (including stopover) and would have been quite pained if I had not been able to keep my powerbook powered!
This is an important topic, but the /. article doesn't include a link to any report. So it should not have been posted.
With a link it's news (and in this case news that would matter). Without it it's just hearsay.
Ehh, nom de pouce, bien-sûr...
That's cool. For some software I use a 3P license and pay a cash royalty; I generally use the compiler-included helper libraries (arithmetic conversions and startup code end the like) without worrying about it, and most of the time of use free code of various stripes. In all of those cases I check the license -- sometimes it's quite enlightening even in the case where you think you paid the developer $25K for a royalty-free buy-out! To me these are all just special cases of the same thing. The fact is that _regardless_ of where the code came from you have to do this checking. If you optimize by finding one or two that happen to work for you, great. The mere existence of someone who chose BSD as the one to standardize on doesn't especially distinguish it -- I can easily point to companies who only use code they pay for, for whatever reason.
By the way I wrote the original (?13 years ago?) draft that became the 1.0 LGPL you mention. John Gilmore suggested to me what turned out to be the most important clause: that you could dynamically link to such a library without having any licensing impact at all. Those terms are more liberal than any cash-royalty license I've ever seen (and don't even include the announcement clause of the BSD license), and made Linux's userland possible.
Every time I look into this I pass (but I look every time I have to revisit it; one day VOIP will be ready). I mean, you can make it work, and make it work well, but is it core to your company's mission? Phone service itself probably is core (it is to most, but not all companies), but is having people grok everything about the phone service a core part of your company's business?
What I've ended up doing every time so far is just buying a used PBX. They get cheaper all the time. They aren't always all-singing-all-dancing, but actually that's usually a good thing. Somebody still will need to learn a lot about the phone system, but less than they would have to learn were they building a VOIP infrastructure.
Generally I've been much happier with ones that don't need proprietary handsets.
Oh, and personally I've been screwed too many times by Altigen.
I hate this other guy and want to take his money and screw him up. Gosh, there are so many ways but they all seem to need his SSN. Say, ./ folks: how can I make his life miserable and clean out his account even though I don't have that crucial bit of info?
Thanks,
some-guy-with-a-gmail-account.
WRS was one of Cygnus's early customers (starting 1990 or 1991) and, although they depended on the GNU development tools, used to make fun of the free software model and us in particular. Then they moved in the BSD direction and still made fun of the GPL. What a turn-around.
I'm waiting for the Director's cut DVD...
Yeah, I would also like a single WiFi/GSM/WiMAX auto-handoff radio in my phone and in my laptop. Won't happen. The mobile carriers and incumbent fixed-line providers have too much at stake to permit it. Their numbers might even be better were they willing, but they can't see beyond their current business models.
And for that matter, VoIP hasn't yet found its own "killer app" beyond bypassing certain wedged regulatory regimes. The main providers (vonage and the like) really don't provide much more to the end user (speaker?) than the POTS guys do. "Shared collaboration"....err, how does that "build" on VoIP again?
Either this guy is seriously confused or he's in marketing. Oh wait, this article is a shill for Intel's upcoming marketing presentation!
When google maps start giving useful directions that send you where you asked, then there will be some map competition between the two.
Otherwise I prefer the GOOG offering.
by nicely asking the people in the cat detector van perhaps?...
But yep, Al Qaida gets to use it too.