Yes, Dijkstra is still relevant. That you should think he has anything to do with C++ is strange, and makes me wonder whether you're familiar with Dijkstra's work at all. Take a look at EWD 1243, and you'll see that he thought it was just another one of the messes pushed as the savior of us all. I dare say he'd say the same for Java and C#, which will be the legacy technology of tomorrow.
Dijkstra's work on writing programs so as to be confident in their correctness from the start is very relevant--how much do you think people would be willing to pay for an OS written that way?
...what I want to know is, when will the GATOS project code be merged into XFree86, so that those of us with ATI All-in-Wonder cards don't have to muck about to get support?
I'm an atheist, but I have to defend Christian rock and rap groups, at least in principle. People have used whatever the current musical forms are for religious purposes throughout history, so why not rock, jazz, rap, tone rows, whatever? (Ever hear a polka mass? Yes, they do exist...) Religious rock is just close enough to us in time that we get to see Sturgeon's Law in effect, whereas the centuries have filtered out J. Dufus Grobnik's Schlock Oratorio in F Minor, leaving Bach, Mozart, Palestrina, et al. and giving the impression of a past golden age of religious music.
It's pretty much your own fault if you carry a drawn knife around with you, and then stab someone in a fit of anger.
How about if you give a knife to someone who you know with utter certainty will use it? Surely an omnipotent and omniscient deity could come up with a way to teach Elisha a lesson without subjecting lots of children to a horrible, painful death.
Ah...sort of the position taken by the dance teacher on an episode of Recess, who missed the Old Country where talented youth could be ordered to take up a particular field.:)
Seriously, command economies haven't worked out too well. For that matter, what whip would a Open Source Central Committee hold over all those hobbyists, students, and individuals to make them follow the Five Year Plan, when they can just pick up their marbles and go elsewhere?
What kind of music will you be listening to when Radiohead has to work the day shift at the 7-11 just to make ends meat[sic]? Perhaps J.D. Salinger's work would have been better if he had worked full time as an accountant and only wrote on the weekends?
If you could ask Charles Ives, who sold insurance for a living, that question, he'd probably claim just that. To answer your question seriously, I'd probably do what I do now in large part--listen to and buy music by people who do in fact have day jobs (OK, a couple of them are retired, but they did have day jobs when I first listened to them...) and put out fine music without the aid of a record company.
By denying copyright protection, that is what you create, a rotting cesspool of a nation with diminished culture (art/music/literature/etc).
A few miles down the road from me are three wet-dry vacuum cleaners stacked in clear plastic boxes with fluorescent lights, for which the local museum paid a bit under $200,000. Our culture is already diminished, and if I could glibly emit "This symbolizes the emptiness of American consumer culture" and similar verbal flatus, I could probably sell similar stuff for a similar price, which to this laid-off programmer sounds pretty attractive save for the prerequisite conscience-ectomy.
To ask the converse question...if copyright is extended to forever minus one day, so that Disney can perpetually make money from Mickey Mouse, whence will come works like Peter Warlock's "Capriol Suite", Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Fantasia on Greensleeves" and "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis," or Benjamin Britten's "Nocturnal After John Dowland"?
mozilla.org doesn't have RPMs for this version (or a few versions back, for that matter)... Should I as an RH 9 user just wait for the official release? Obviously there's some way to generate an RPM, but looking around the mozilla.org Unix build instructions web pages doesn't point to instructions. (Searching freshrpms turns up nothing.)
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Where've you been? Senator Hollings has been trying to mandate DRM software in everything that can copy bits for some time now...
People have already mentioned Dippin' Dots, but a couple of ISU students (now alumni) figured out how to do it in bulk. (Dippin' Dots aren't bad, but they start out crunchy and end up liquid in very short order--after all, a bunch of little dots maximizes surface area/volume ratio...) They call their product Nitro Ice Cream.
Well, let's see. XM provides 101 channels of programming, and you have to pay for it regularly, as you do, say, cable TV. DRM is a mode of encoding radio that will allow current HF broadcasters to transmit a higher quality signal (among other things). The folks in the DRM consortium include a fair number of major SW broadcasters. SW broadcasts, unlike XM, are free to the listener, and cover a vastly wider range of political opinion and music than XM does, and I've never had to pay a subscription fee to listen to SW. A number of SW broadcasters transmit language lessons for the language of their country of origin--can I learn Japanese, Chinese, or Spanish on XM? (I'd really like to have the additional audio quality of DRM when listening to language lessons...) Can I hear the news in Latin on XM, as I can on Finnish SW broadcasts? Can I hear Esperanto broadcasts on XM?
One of the DRM organization's publications says they intend to provide "fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory worldwide access under one license to patents essential for implementing the international DRM standard," but what they consider fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory might not be what open source programmers think of as such. Does anyone know whether it will be possible to extend GNU Radio to handle this encoding?
Oh, come on. We pay property taxes, and that (more or less) pay for schooling. Every child gets access to the schooling, so every child gets access to the money. That sounds like a so-called "positive right" to me.
Conversely, if there weren't a government mandated and subsidized monopoly on delivery of mail, you can bet that most of the letters people send would cost less, since they wouldn't be subsidizing other mail. What's the real rural image these days--Appalachia, the Joad family, or yuppies and celebrities with high priced houses out in the woods and mountains?
Isn't this the fundamental foundation of a free market? That is everyone in every market should have the same options regardless of the cost of serving that market?
Eh? That has nothing to do with the notion of a free market. Check out this web page--even the government of Canada understands. Note how they contrast it with a controlled market, "where prices are determined by a regulatory or administrative authority." Taxation is, in part, just such a determination of prices.
OK, so you don't agree with these charities. In 15 years, are you gonna shut your mouth when a bunch of kids with poor educations raid your house to steal money for food?
So, you're admitting that fundamentally we're talking about an extortion racket here? ("Give us your money or we or our descendants will mug you.") That's fine; I appreciate your admitting that there's no moral claim involved, just the threat of force.
So, think of it as education, and education is a right.
Education is not a right--not in the sense that people have the right to steal from others to pay for it. There's no such thing as a so-called "positive right."
Alas, I've had Linux hang during installation; it's on my sister's computer (AMD K6-3 with an FIC PA-2013 mobo--yeah, I should upgrade it for her). Had to turn off DMA to get it to work.
Aside from that, though, I've never had Linux hang up on me.
A government's aim isn't to profit it's to provide public services to YOU.
Baloney. Governments exist solely to protect their citizens' rights. (And we're not talking about so-called "positive rights," either, the endless expansion of which has turned the US government into an entity that makes George III's England look like a piker.)
Because if they only check annually, the host realizes how much the parasite is taking from him, as it's done all at once. Far better for the parasite to do it gradually--hence the persistence of withholding of income tax, which was originally just going to be done until WWII ended.
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Yes, Dijkstra is still relevant. That you should think he has anything to do with C++ is strange, and makes me wonder whether you're familiar with Dijkstra's work at all. Take a look at EWD 1243, and you'll see that he thought it was just another one of the messes pushed as the savior of us all. I dare say he'd say the same for Java and C#, which will be the legacy technology of tomorrow.
Dijkstra's work on writing programs so as to be confident in their correctness from the start is very relevant--how much do you think people would be willing to pay for an OS written that way?
And if you use the magenta, you can fool people into thinking it's Perth Pink!
Oh, yeah...later on he did Twin Pentiums: FireWire with Me.
...what I want to know is, when will the GATOS project code be merged into XFree86, so that those of us with ATI All-in-Wonder cards don't have to muck about to get support?
I'm an atheist, but I have to defend Christian rock and rap groups, at least in principle. People have used whatever the current musical forms are for religious purposes throughout history, so why not rock, jazz, rap, tone rows, whatever? (Ever hear a polka mass? Yes, they do exist...) Religious rock is just close enough to us in time that we get to see Sturgeon's Law in effect, whereas the centuries have filtered out J. Dufus Grobnik's Schlock Oratorio in F Minor, leaving Bach, Mozart, Palestrina, et al. and giving the impression of a past golden age of religious music.
How about if you give a knife to someone who you know with utter certainty will use it? Surely an omnipotent and omniscient deity could come up with a way to teach Elisha a lesson without subjecting lots of children to a horrible, painful death.
Ah...sort of the position taken by the dance teacher on an episode of Recess, who missed the Old Country where talented youth could be ordered to take up a particular field. :)
Seriously, command economies haven't worked out too well. For that matter, what whip would a Open Source Central Committee hold over all those hobbyists, students, and individuals to make them follow the Five Year Plan, when they can just pick up their marbles and go elsewhere?
You'd think that the United Federation of Planets would pick one and stick with it...
If you could ask Charles Ives, who sold insurance for a living, that question, he'd probably claim just that. To answer your question seriously, I'd probably do what I do now in large part--listen to and buy music by people who do in fact have day jobs (OK, a couple of them are retired, but they did have day jobs when I first listened to them...) and put out fine music without the aid of a record company.
By denying copyright protection, that is what you create, a rotting cesspool of a nation with diminished culture (art/music/literature/etc).
A few miles down the road from me are three wet-dry vacuum cleaners stacked in clear plastic boxes with fluorescent lights, for which the local museum paid a bit under $200,000. Our culture is already diminished, and if I could glibly emit "This symbolizes the emptiness of American consumer culture" and similar verbal flatus, I could probably sell similar stuff for a similar price, which to this laid-off programmer sounds pretty attractive save for the prerequisite conscience-ectomy.
To ask the converse question...if copyright is extended to forever minus one day, so that Disney can perpetually make money from Mickey Mouse, whence will come works like Peter Warlock's "Capriol Suite", Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Fantasia on Greensleeves" and "Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis," or Benjamin Britten's "Nocturnal After John Dowland"?
mozilla.org doesn't have RPMs for this version (or a few versions back, for that matter)... Should I as an RH 9 user just wait for the official release? Obviously there's some way to generate an RPM, but looking around the mozilla.org Unix build instructions web pages doesn't point to instructions. (Searching freshrpms turns up nothing.)
Where've you been? Senator Hollings has been trying to mandate DRM software in everything that can copy bits for some time now...
People have already mentioned Dippin' Dots, but a couple of ISU students (now alumni) figured out how to do it in bulk. (Dippin' Dots aren't bad, but they start out crunchy and end up liquid in very short order--after all, a bunch of little dots maximizes surface area/volume ratio...) They call their product Nitro Ice Cream.
Well, let's see. XM provides 101 channels of programming, and you have to pay for it regularly, as you do, say, cable TV. DRM is a mode of encoding radio that will allow current HF broadcasters to transmit a higher quality signal (among other things). The folks in the DRM consortium include a fair number of major SW broadcasters. SW broadcasts, unlike XM, are free to the listener, and cover a vastly wider range of political opinion and music than XM does, and I've never had to pay a subscription fee to listen to SW. A number of SW broadcasters transmit language lessons for the language of their country of origin--can I learn Japanese, Chinese, or Spanish on XM? (I'd really like to have the additional audio quality of DRM when listening to language lessons...) Can I hear the news in Latin on XM, as I can on Finnish SW broadcasts? Can I hear Esperanto broadcasts on XM?
One of the DRM organization's publications says they intend to provide "fair, reasonable, non-discriminatory worldwide access under one license to patents essential for implementing the international DRM standard," but what they consider fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory might not be what open source programmers think of as such. Does anyone know whether it will be possible to extend GNU Radio to handle this encoding?
Perhaps I misspoke. People do in fact steal from others to fund what are claimed to be "positive rights." However, so doing is an immoral act.
Ah. So, since murders occur, they are right, too?
Conversely, if there weren't a government mandated and subsidized monopoly on delivery of mail, you can bet that most of the letters people send would cost less, since they wouldn't be subsidizing other mail. What's the real rural image these days--Appalachia, the Joad family, or yuppies and celebrities with high priced houses out in the woods and mountains?
Isn't this the fundamental foundation of a free market? That is everyone in every market should have the same options regardless of the cost of serving that market?
Eh? That has nothing to do with the notion of a free market. Check out this web page--even the government of Canada understands. Note how they contrast it with a controlled market, "where prices are determined by a regulatory or administrative authority." Taxation is, in part, just such a determination of prices.
OK, so you don't agree with these charities. In 15 years, are you gonna shut your mouth when a bunch of kids with poor educations raid your house to steal money for food?
So, you're admitting that fundamentally we're talking about an extortion racket here? ("Give us your money or we or our descendants will mug you.") That's fine; I appreciate your admitting that there's no moral claim involved, just the threat of force.
How is this a bad thing?
If I have relaxing music to listen to, I'm more productive...so I'll take your money to expand my CD collection. How is that a bad thing?
So, think of it as education, and education is a right.
Education is not a right--not in the sense that people have the right to steal from others to pay for it. There's no such thing as a so-called "positive right."
Alas, I've had Linux hang during installation; it's on my sister's computer (AMD K6-3 with an FIC PA-2013 mobo--yeah, I should upgrade it for her). Had to turn off DMA to get it to work.
Aside from that, though, I've never had Linux hang up on me.
Baloney. Governments exist solely to protect their citizens' rights. (And we're not talking about so-called "positive rights," either, the endless expansion of which has turned the US government into an entity that makes George III's England look like a piker.)
Because if they only check annually, the host realizes how much the parasite is taking from him, as it's done all at once. Far better for the parasite to do it gradually--hence the persistence of withholding of income tax, which was originally just going to be done until WWII ended.
Hey, with CSI and CSI: Miami they're on a roll, right?
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