> so Jorg says you cannot distribute the software unless you both do, and do not, at the same time, wear a chicken suit. Fairly obviously, in this universe, distributing software under those conditions would be somewhat impossible.
I happen to have an original schroedingers chicken suit. Do I get to play? I've brought my own box.
> IANAL, but you can take GPLv2 stuff into any GPLv3 project
Only if you have the permission of the owner of the copyright of the GPLv2 stuff. Many owners explicitly say that you can relicense it under a later version, but many also do not. That second demographic has reserved the right to prevent you from relicensing that software under GPLv3 and so you may not do it.
> Moving around in circles to gather energy, what a neat idea! Um, where do we get the energy to run around in circles?
My money's on this being the coriolis effect. I had a maths teacher that brought in a plastic toy to school (imagine a sphere stretched greatly along one axis and then cut in half lengthways). This toy, when placed on a smooth, hard, flat surface would spontaneously spin. If you span it the other way, it would slow down and spin in its original direction again.
Not bad. But it's nothing compared to what you get if you start by feeding a bunch of thumbdrives to a bunch of in order to get 'em past the security checkpoint, and fill a 777 with 'em. Never underestimate the bandwidth of a muthafuckin' 777 full of muchta*BLAM BLAM BLAM*
(That's IT! I have HAD IT with these MUTHAFUCKIN' memes on this MUTHAFUCKIN' website!
The smallest keyboard that's better to use than a stylus on a nokia size screen is 8" across. That would make your tablet far too big, a small device with a keyboard is overpriced and has corners cut.
If a company has examined the licenses used in a Linux distro and have decided to go with that, then they won't like finding that their terms change if they want to fix the broken software. So, just like with Windows, Linux will make them puke.
if you haven't been patching your system, and you're a System Administrator, you're an idiot and should be fired as soon as possible.
Only after running the EULA past your company's lawyers. Entering into a contract on behalf of your company without doing so is also likely to get you sacked. Note that lawyers are likely to say no to any contract which allows the computer to be examined or to be modified automatically by another organisation.
However, similar things will happen with Linux soon. If security patches are released under GPLv3 Linux will find itself as unsuitable for the enterprise as Windows is.
Hopefully I'll still be alive when we get to 8/02/86, 8/03/86, and 8/04/86 (though I seriously doubt it) - I was alive last time they came around, but they didn't hold the same significance for me then (and the 80486 hadn't even been released).
To the end consumer PCs are computers, Macs are computers. They go to a shop and see some computers. They buy one that is cheap and which does everything they think they need. The Mac is expensive, they can't see that it does anything that the PC with Windows doesn't, at least not that they think they need.
So they buy the PC with Windows.
Get PCs with Ubuntu in the shop, and make it clear what an array of stuff it has thrown in and they'll buy it.
> Maybe if I sell you a copy of RHEL 4 for $200,000 and throw in a free Porche, would that make it better?
You missed the point... You sell a copy of RHEL 4 for $200,000 to the *government*, and give the free porsche to the purchasing manager that signed the purchase order.
Speaking of cooperative play. There was a game for the spectrum with an occult theme where you went around a set of rooms and a second player could target the baddies with a sight that they moved around. Anybody know the game?
It appears that CSS 3 *does* support column splitting, so maybe after a couple more years that will be available for use in 15% of the users' browsers.
whitespace: pre-wrap does not solve the shell script problem. It stops wrapping so the user gets a scroll bar and half the script is invisible.
I don't know the geometry of my user's screen so I want to give the browser a specification for how to wrap that language. I should, essentially, be able to define new langs for the lang attribute so this is handled properly.
So far, my other problems are *not* solved by either CSS 2.1 or 3. They require tallying up all the sizes and entering them explicitly and prohibiting wrapping, and doing the tallying for every output device the user might want to render to. It also, mostly, requires adding presentation markup (ie, position: relative container elements). And the auto-columnifying is *not* solved, in any way, shape, or form. It still cannot be done, AFAICS.
If CSS let the user break the page into actual elements that humans deal with, like columns, headers and footers
The blind don't deal with "headers" and "footers". Tools for processing semantic markup don't either.
Neither the blind nor tools for processing semantic markup deal with CSS (not @screen anyway) - they deal with the markup.
CSS should have had operators to group marked up data and style things relative to their place in the group. And it should have had the ability to set constraints on sizes (eg "with (foo) {width + padding-left + padding-right + border-left + border-right} = with (bar) {width + padding-left + padding-right + border-left + border-right}"). So any auto styles in that constraint could be set by the agent to make the constraint true.
I also want to be able to CSS the body to put in a header who's content and style is selected according to the element that I put into the metadata of an article. That can't be done.
I also want to be able to just have 20 paragraphs in a sequence inside an element and give some CSS that splits it into columns at page height with my chosen width - as it is, I have to either add presentation markup, or I have to use pseudo selectors... lots of them... and not be able to split a paragraph automatically like a line gets split - I have to separate the columns at paragraph granularity.
I also want to be able to set rules to be applied to decorate ends of lines automatically when they are added by automatic wrapping, and decorate the start of the next line, etc, so I can give some shell code and have the browser put in the line continuations where appropriate for *their* chosen display width and not mine. And stuff like that.
Instead we have to group marked up data by adding extra presentation markup throughout the semantic markup. That's wrong - and its been years with no hint of improvement.
So they gave us XSLT instead... gee, thanks, that makes it all better...
How do you even know whether it is an illegal download? The BBC has mp3's for download, so I assume they have the necessary distribution rights, so too on p2p networks - I assume the original uploader had the appropriate rights to distribute the material on the p2p network and also the necessary sublicensing rights to make the p2p distribution effective (the peers need distribution licenses too).
Copyright proprietors should go after the original uploader for losses and inform the subsequent peers that their distribution sublicense is not valid due to the originator's deception (and get losses from them if they don't stop distributing after that). As a leech, I assume that the music and movies I download are special offers and that the uploader has the appropriate distribution rights, just as I do at the BBC website.
If you have any interrupts coming in, or your loop has a termination condition. I think you have to have your hardware set to send an interrupt many hours in the future then start an otherwise nonterminating loop.
So under normal conditions on normal PC hardware, this simply won't happen.
400 MHz is plenty for all but the most demanding computation jobs and games. And 256MB RAM is more than enough for a web browser, spreadsheet, word processor, GUI database designer, compiler, development suite, presentation designer, DTP suite, and image editor to be in core for each of three simultaneously logged in users.
The only problem is the current breed of desktop environments and the software that runs on them. They perform poorly, consume far too much memory, and don't work reliably.
2GB flash is *very* expensive if you want reasonable performance, you're best off with the cheapest hard drive available if cost is your primary concern.
If they don't say how to do it in the patent it makes no technical contribution to the body of knowledge and thus it is not patentable.
After all, why would you give somebody a monopoly on something when they haven't even helped to advanced the scientific and technological capabilities of our society. That is the *only* reason patents are granted - not to help some rich guy that can afford to sit around all day thinking up trivial "wouldn't it be nice if"'s, while the poor are too busy slaving away. Patents are a communist institution and, as such, only work to the betterment of society when they are granted with communist ideals in mind. If you grant them on a capitalist basis they will destroy a capitalist society like the granting of physical property rights has destroyed so many communist societies.
How could an implementation of that be patentable. I could draw up a design based on an existing toaster design in a day or two, and I'm not even an expert in the toaster field.
Besides, he hasn't blown his chance unless he described how the device works. The patent office is up to their usual PR tricks of pretending that unpatentable things (the very concept of a toaster with a second slice delay) *are* patentable until everybody believes they are.
What an ugly monitor, inch thick bevel, eighties shiny brushed base. It has a semi-retro "lampstand" feel that could have really worked (especially if it had a wall attachment or desk clamp) but is poorly executed looking a cheap childs toy.
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... will lie 6 feet lower than he ever lilo'd before.
> so Jorg says you cannot distribute the software unless you both do, and do not, at the same time, wear a chicken suit. Fairly obviously, in this universe, distributing software under those conditions would be somewhat impossible.
I happen to have an original schroedingers chicken suit. Do I get to play? I've brought my own box.
> IANAL, but you can take GPLv2 stuff into any GPLv3 project
Only if you have the permission of the owner of the copyright of the GPLv2 stuff. Many owners explicitly say that you can relicense it under a later version, but many also do not. That second demographic has reserved the right to prevent you from relicensing that software under GPLv3 and so you may not do it.
> Moving around in circles to gather energy, what a neat idea! Um, where do we get the energy to run around in circles?
My money's on this being the coriolis effect. I had a maths teacher that brought in a plastic toy to school (imagine a sphere stretched greatly along one axis and then cut in half lengthways). This toy, when placed on a smooth, hard, flat surface would spontaneously spin. If you span it the other way, it would slow down and spin in its original direction again.
This is just another childs curio.
"Storage On A Blog" - oh great... another one...
The smallest keyboard that's better to use than a stylus on a nokia size screen is 8" across. That would make your tablet far too big, a small device with a keyboard is overpriced and has corners cut.
If a company has examined the licenses used in a Linux distro and have decided to go with that, then they won't like finding that their terms change if they want to fix the broken software. So, just like with Windows, Linux will make them puke.
Only after running the EULA past your company's lawyers. Entering
into a contract on behalf of your company without doing so is also
likely to get you sacked. Note that lawyers are likely to say no to
any contract which allows the computer to be examined or to be
modified automatically by another organisation.
However, similar things will happen with Linux soon. If security patches are released under GPLv3 Linux will find itself as unsuitable for the enterprise as Windows is.
Hopefully I'll still be alive when we get to 8/02/86, 8/03/86, and 8/04/86 (though I seriously doubt it) - I was alive last time they came around, but they didn't hold the same significance for me then (and the 80486 hadn't even been released).
My comment was a joke, referring to the fact that for the last 40 years fusion power has always been 10 years away.
> From what I've seen we are as near to creating decent AI as we are to producing fusion power stations.
About 10 years away then...
To the end consumer PCs are computers, Macs are computers. They go to a shop and see some computers. They buy one that is cheap and which does everything they think they need. The Mac is expensive, they can't see that it does anything that the PC with Windows doesn't, at least not that they think they need.
So they buy the PC with Windows.
Get PCs with Ubuntu in the shop, and make it clear what an array of stuff it has thrown in and they'll buy it.
> Maybe if I sell you a copy of RHEL 4 for $200,000 and throw in a free Porche, would that make it better?
You missed the point... You sell a copy of RHEL 4 for $200,000 to the *government*, and give the free porsche to the purchasing manager that signed the purchase order.
Speaking of cooperative play. There was a game for the spectrum with an occult theme where you went around a set of rooms and a second player could target the baddies with a sight that they moved around. Anybody know the game?
They said the spreadshot premiered in 1988 in "Contra" but I remember it in Rex on the speccy - that must have been before 1988, surely?
Then they said the canine sidekick premiered in 1990, but what about nethack?
They said that cooperative play premiered in gauntlet in 1987, but gauntlet was release for speccy in 85 (two years earlier).
It appears that CSS 3 *does* support column splitting, so maybe after a couple more years that will be available for use in 15% of the users' browsers.
whitespace: pre-wrap does not solve the shell script problem. It stops wrapping so the user gets a scroll bar and half the script is invisible.
I don't know the geometry of my user's screen so I want to give the browser a specification for how to wrap that language. I should, essentially, be able to define new langs for the lang attribute so this is handled properly.
So far, my other problems are *not* solved by either CSS 2.1 or 3. They require tallying up all the sizes and entering them explicitly and prohibiting wrapping, and doing the tallying for every output device the user might want to render to. It also, mostly, requires adding presentation markup (ie, position: relative container elements). And the auto-columnifying is *not* solved, in any way, shape, or form. It still cannot be done, AFAICS.
CSS should have had operators to group marked up data and style things relative to their place in the group. And it should have had the ability to set constraints on sizes (eg "with (foo) {width + padding-left + padding-right + border-left + border-right} = with (bar) {width + padding-left + padding-right + border-left + border-right}"). So any auto styles in that constraint could be set by the agent to make the constraint true.
I also want to be able to CSS the body to put in a header who's content and style is selected according to the element that I put into the metadata of an article. That can't be done.
I also want to be able to just have 20 paragraphs in a sequence inside an element and give some CSS that splits it into columns at page height with my chosen width - as it is, I have to either add presentation markup, or I have to use pseudo selectors... lots of them... and not be able to split a paragraph automatically like a line gets split - I have to separate the columns at paragraph granularity.
I also want to be able to set rules to be applied to decorate ends of lines automatically when they are added by automatic wrapping, and decorate the start of the next line, etc, so I can give some shell code and have the browser put in the line continuations where appropriate for *their* chosen display width and not mine. And stuff like that.
Instead we have to group marked up data by adding extra presentation markup throughout the semantic markup. That's wrong - and its been years with no hint of improvement.
So they gave us XSLT instead... gee, thanks, that makes it all better...
How do you even know whether it is an illegal download? The BBC has mp3's for download, so I assume they have the necessary distribution rights, so too on p2p networks - I assume the original uploader had the appropriate rights to distribute the material on the p2p network and also the necessary sublicensing rights to make the p2p distribution effective (the peers need distribution licenses too).
Copyright proprietors should go after the original uploader for losses and inform the subsequent peers that their distribution sublicense is not valid due to the originator's deception (and get losses from them if they don't stop distributing after that). As a leech, I assume that the music and movies I download are special offers and that the uploader has the appropriate distribution rights, just as I do at the BBC website.
Two words: "Mad Max"
Also just about anything from Japan (eg, "The Green Legend")
If you have any interrupts coming in, or your loop has a termination condition. I think you have to have your hardware set to send an interrupt many hours in the future then start an otherwise nonterminating loop.
So under normal conditions on normal PC hardware, this simply won't happen.
400 MHz is plenty for all but the most demanding computation jobs and games. And 256MB RAM is more than enough for a web browser, spreadsheet, word processor, GUI database designer, compiler, development suite, presentation designer, DTP suite, and image editor to be in core for each of three simultaneously logged in users.
The only problem is the current breed of desktop environments and the software that runs on them. They perform poorly, consume far too much memory, and don't work reliably.
2GB flash is *very* expensive if you want reasonable performance, you're best off with the cheapest hard drive available if cost is your primary concern.
If they don't say how to do it in the patent it makes no technical contribution to the body of knowledge and thus it is not patentable.
After all, why would you give somebody a monopoly on something when they haven't even helped to advanced the scientific and technological capabilities of our society. That is the *only* reason patents are granted - not to help some rich guy that can afford to sit around all day thinking up trivial "wouldn't it be nice if"'s, while the poor are too busy slaving away. Patents are a communist institution and, as such, only work to the betterment of society when they are granted with communist ideals in mind. If you grant them on a capitalist basis they will destroy a capitalist society like the granting of physical property rights has destroyed so many communist societies.
How could an implementation of that be patentable. I could draw up a design based on an existing toaster design in a day or two, and I'm not even an expert in the toaster field.
Besides, he hasn't blown his chance unless he described how the device works. The patent office is up to their usual PR tricks of pretending that unpatentable things (the very concept of a toaster with a second slice delay) *are* patentable until everybody believes they are.
What an ugly monitor, inch thick bevel, eighties shiny brushed base. It has a semi-retro "lampstand" feel that could have really worked (especially if it had a wall attachment or desk clamp) but is poorly executed looking a cheap childs toy.