Yeah, sucky article. I used krugle to search for Britney Spears myself and was actually quite disappointed. I was hoping to her name to appear in comments like:
// This code is more fscked up than Britney Spears
Instead, she just appears as a canonical example in database entries and spelling lookup examples.
> Open source means different things to different people.
Some people think the moon landing was faked. However, technically minded people don't debate either of these issues much. Open Source, despite its misinterpretation by those who don't know better or those who seek to spread FUD, has a very precise definition. "Open Source" means that the source code is available and can be freely modified and redistributed. Both BSD and GPL (and many others) meet these definitions and there is no controversy or misunderstanding among those who understand what Open Source means. No one who understands these things would assert that the GPL or BSD is Open Source but that the other is not. They might *prefer* one over the other, but they wouldn't say that the other is not Open Source.
Similarly, any moderately informed person should never assume that the fact that they saw the source code implies that they are free to copy, modify and redistribute it. Just because I can read the words printed in a book doesn't mean that I can violate the author of the book's copyright.
"Open source" doesn't mean you can see the source code, it means you are also free to copy, modify and redistribute. And just because you can see it doesn't mean you have the right to take it.
The court ruled that, as to the commercial use of the private road, all of the previous owners had negotiated agreements with the realty company. Because the commercial use was much more burdensome on the realty company and created many more issues of road maintenance, the court found that the couple could use the road only for car and pickup truck traffic unless they had an agreement otherwise with the realty company.
It wasn't so much an issue of private versus public use but rather the burden of maintenance on the owner of the private road. Even in this case, a "prescriptive" easement was granted, but for cars and pickups only. It would be hard to argue that the google van's one time use of the driveway is any burden to the property owner.
I know we are all against software patents... but these guys have been waiting for 9 years to be able to use this patent by the rules that everyone is supposed to play by. calling them Patent Trolls for standing by and watching while Apple used thier technology to make billions, is not quite accurate.
The thing is, in most cases like these, the patent owner was primarily responsible for the delay as it is generally part of their strategy. They do this by continually amending the patent application, effectively delaying the date the patent is issued (and consequentially expires). This is such a common strategy that it even has a name: submarine patent.
Oregon and New Jersey don't allow you pump your own. The supposed rationale is that, as you speculated, only qualified people are allowed to pump gas. The true reason, however, is featherbedding (i.e. creating jobs). Replacing those guys with a robot won't really solve that problem...
True, you would not expect programmers to kill customers. On the other hand, I doubt you'd be shocked if you found GPLed code in the product (especially if, in your instructions, you pointed out examples of similar GPLed projects).
What's so hard to understand? Yes, you're web server faces the public. I, however, have several web servers at my organization that are NOT accessible to the public. If I want to keep them that way behind my firewall, I'd be free to do so under this plan.
The bullet (and a bit of brains and other material) left the front right side of his head. That would act as a propellent and have a greater mass than that of the bullet alone. Penn & Teller debunked this one:
Binding a honeydew mellon with an inch of fiberglass tape to represent Kennedy's skull (on the model proposed by Nobel-laureate physicist Luis Walter Alvarez), Teller puts a shot through it. Slow motion photography shows how the spray of goo exiting the mellon propels it back towards the shooter. Put another way, "back and to the left" is another way to say "shot from the Texas School Book Depository Building."
Not only that, but it was just over two weeks ago that we got this gem from Ballmer slamming the iPhone (discussed on/.):
A phone is really a general purpose device. You want to make telephone calls, you want to get and receive messages, text, e-mail, whatever your preference is. The phone really is kind of a general purpose device that we need to have clean and easy to use.
I thought Apple only expected about 1%. They don't feel this grade-schoolish desire to completely dominate everything, they just want to make a profit and they will do so with only 1% of the market. Apple will only "fail" if they use Microsoft's definition of success (complete monopoly). Apple's definition of success is to walk into a market and immediately make a profit, and they will do that.
What Apple won't get is the mass market of crappy phones that carriers give away for free. I wish I only had rich customers with money to burn!
Meanwhile, Balmer would *like* to have Windows on "60% or 70% or 80%" of the market, but he doesn't even have that (or a strategy to get there). Plus, whatever Apple does get will come DIRECTLY from people who would otherwise have bought a phone with Palm or Windows.
As for the "end of the line of innovation," does Balmer really think Apple is going to plop out the iPhone and be done with it? And if he's so down on subsidies, I'd like to hear his opinion on Xbox subsidies.
The bottom line is that if Ballmer really thought Apple was making a mistake, he would shut up and let them make it. The reality is that he just looks scared.
My college dorm elevator had bug/feature. If you briefly pulled and then reset the "emergency stop" button as the elevator was stopping at a floor it would skip that floor. I lived on the third floor and we routinely skipped folks on the second floor waiting for the elevator. This was a great time saving feature (except, of course, when the fourth floor residents would skip the third floor).
The only misfeature of this bug was that the bell would briefly ring alerting those waiting that they had been skipped. One time, some second floor residents heard us skip their floor and we heard them running down after us. We skipped the lobby and went back to the fourth floor. We could have kept it going all night if they tried chasing us, but they didn't. Anyone too lazy to walk to the lobby from the second floor sure isn't going to race up to the fourth floor.
Eventually, they upgraded the elevator and we had to stop for the second floor whenever they wanted.
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> Open source refers to being able to read source code and that's all.
Tell that to the Open Source Initiative: The Open Source Definition (Annotated).
> Open source means different things to different people.
Some people think the moon landing was faked. However, technically minded people don't debate either of these issues much. Open Source, despite its misinterpretation by those who don't know better or those who seek to spread FUD, has a very precise definition. "Open Source" means that the source code is available and can be freely modified and redistributed. Both BSD and GPL (and many others) meet these definitions and there is no controversy or misunderstanding among those who understand what Open Source means. No one who understands these things would assert that the GPL or BSD is Open Source but that the other is not. They might *prefer* one over the other, but they wouldn't say that the other is not Open Source.
Similarly, any moderately informed person should never assume that the fact that they saw the source code implies that they are free to copy, modify and redistribute it. Just because I can read the words printed in a book doesn't mean that I can violate the author of the book's copyright.
"Open source" doesn't mean you can see the source code, it means you are also free to copy, modify and redistribute. And just because you can see it doesn't mean you have the right to take it.
And just how much money have buggy whip manufacturers lost due to the automobile?
I think he had to introduce a new character so that he can later re-re-edit the original trilogy showing this character to be central to the story.
Oregon and New Jersey don't allow you pump your own. The supposed rationale is that, as you speculated, only qualified people are allowed to pump gas. The true reason, however, is featherbedding (i.e. creating jobs). Replacing those guys with a robot won't really solve that problem...
> Microkernels are the future and always will be.
Is that another way of saying they're vaporware? Just like Duke Nukem will always be released "in the future"...
He said that Kimball was overruled on appeal two thirds of the time. It is, of course, not exactly true.
True, you would not expect programmers to kill customers. On the other hand, I doubt you'd be shocked if you found GPLed code in the product (especially if, in your instructions, you pointed out examples of similar GPLed projects).
> Whatever, no one is going to get pissed.
The thing I like about Linux is the GPL, but I guess I can just add the GPL to MyBSD.
We invaded to get the WMDs. We *know* he had those and that's no myth. We still have the receipts from when we sold them to him...
What's so hard to understand? Yes, you're web server faces the public. I, however, have several web servers at my organization that are NOT accessible to the public. If I want to keep them that way behind my firewall, I'd be free to do so under this plan.
Not all machines with IP addresses are public facing (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network).
With the V-chip in every TV sold, I think it's time to end FCC restrictions on over-the-air television, not the other way around.
I thought Apple only expected about 1%. They don't feel this grade-schoolish desire to completely dominate everything, they just want to make a profit and they will do so with only 1% of the market. Apple will only "fail" if they use Microsoft's definition of success (complete monopoly). Apple's definition of success is to walk into a market and immediately make a profit, and they will do that.
What Apple won't get is the mass market of crappy phones that carriers give away for free. I wish I only had rich customers with money to burn!
Meanwhile, Balmer would *like* to have Windows on "60% or 70% or 80%" of the market, but he doesn't even have that (or a strategy to get there). Plus, whatever Apple does get will come DIRECTLY from people who would otherwise have bought a phone with Palm or Windows.
As for the "end of the line of innovation," does Balmer really think Apple is going to plop out the iPhone and be done with it? And if he's so down on subsidies, I'd like to hear his opinion on Xbox subsidies.
The bottom line is that if Ballmer really thought Apple was making a mistake, he would shut up and let them make it. The reality is that he just looks scared.
I'm on T-Mobile and it just came back up!
UOregon 1987.
My college dorm elevator had bug/feature. If you briefly pulled and then reset the "emergency stop" button as the elevator was stopping at a floor it would skip that floor. I lived on the third floor and we routinely skipped folks on the second floor waiting for the elevator. This was a great time saving feature (except, of course, when the fourth floor residents would skip the third floor).
The only misfeature of this bug was that the bell would briefly ring alerting those waiting that they had been skipped. One time, some second floor residents heard us skip their floor and we heard them running down after us. We skipped the lobby and went back to the fourth floor. We could have kept it going all night if they tried chasing us, but they didn't. Anyone too lazy to walk to the lobby from the second floor sure isn't going to race up to the fourth floor.
Eventually, they upgraded the elevator and we had to stop for the second floor whenever they wanted.