colorForth has a limited set of punctuation characters in its character set. So this has led to use of real words rather than arbitrary symbols.
For example, 'push' and 'pop' are used instead of '>r' and 'r>', and 'less' is used instead of '<'.
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Ten years ago, I was "the guy who has a computer" (rare in those times). Having attractive women smile and ask whether they can print something was nice the first couple of times, but it quickly wears off. The flirting stops as soon as the last page finishes.
If you do buy something and/or send money, make sure you also send a message indicating that cygwin is the thing you like. Otherwise, they might think that you are rewarding them for developing RPM or their work with GNOME.
Yes, it is obvious that this is not just a case where someone independently came up with the same name for an entirely different product.
There is the possibility that these medical devices might be defective or used improperly, and Lucas wouldn't want "Child Killed by Light Saber" posted all over the news.
I think it is in Lucas's best interest to maintain control over the names of his stuff. I'm sure he's not happy about the term "Star Wars" being used to refer to ABM technologies. But he can't sue Reagan over it.
-- Kris
This is essentially what Ebert's review said. He gave it three stars, saying that it was a well-executed B-movie. Some of the action sequences are effective, and the plot (thin though it may be) moves along quickly. And at 90 minutes, it is one of the few movies of this summer that one wishes would be a little longer.
That's what I like about Ebert: he rates movies based upon reasonable expectations. He doesn't judge everything against Citizen Kane.
To be picky: having functions that call one another in the same file can provide some benefits:
Short branch instructions are possible
CPU prefetching and caching performance are improved
If some programmer changes one of the functions in a way that breaks things, it it a little more likely that it will be noticed before it gets shipped
I agree that MS was really reaching when they said this was done to benefit the users. However, if I was an MS programmer, it would seem pretty stupid to have to put related functions into separate files (maybe even separate source directories) just to abide by some legal requirement that they are not "too close".
What leads you to believe that the ESRI maps are free? The pages say "Copyright ESRI" on them, and there is nothing that indicates that you are free to copy them. And downloading data costs money.
Am I missing something? Just because something is on the Internet doesn't make it free.
My parents have an early 1970's edition of the World Book Encyclopedia. In the "Computer" entry, it states that computers will keep on getting larger and smarter. By the year 2000, we will have computers the size of skyscrapers, and they will be able to think and speak.
Maybe that's the problem: we've been making computers too small. Minsky should look into creating some skyscraper-sized machines.
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Yes, it's unfortunate that so many open-source programmers adopt the attitude of "This stuff is free. If you don't like it, F you."
Responding to bug reports and feature requests with "Why don't you fix it yourself?" really is a big turn off to users. The people who are capable of fixing themselves already know that they can do so. You're just reminding people of their own lack of technical skills when you respond like that.
If free software is intended to be used by anyone other than programmers, then the authors need to be more diplomatic when dealing with users.
Anyone notice that the standard version is $99, and the wearable version is $299?
The wearable version comes with wrist straps, a cable, and screen rotation software. Does that seem like its worth a $200 upgrade? Screen rotation software for the Palm is available for free. So those must be some awfully nice wrist straps.
FWIW, I contacted the company to ask why the price for the wearable version was so steep. Their response was that creating the wearables is "labor-intensive", and at $299, it's still the least expensive wearable computer available.
Before anyone jumps on Microsoft and Mr. Gates, remember that the real blame lies with the government officials that approved a Microsoft-only solution.
If someone offered me a monopoly on citizen-to-government interactions, I'd take it.
It's unclear what kind of "corporate documentation" you need, but you might take a look at a wiki. This is a set of web pages that can be easily created/modified by any user of the web. HTML is not required.
TWiki, available from http://twiki.org supports revision control of all pages, and is specifically designed for corporate intranets. It lets you use HTML if you want to, so you can just convert your existing Word docs as HTML and import them into the system. (But you'll want to not use HTML for new documents.)
Why not take a look at the 23 licenses at the OSI site and see which one best suits you? Or do what everyone else does and make up you own brand-new license that no one will understand.
I don't think any of those licenses have the combination of restrictions you have. GPL is close, except for the "cannot release code under the same name". But you could easily just say "This code is released under the terms of the GPL, with the additional restriction that any modified versions must be released under a different name.
Also, when you refer to "code", are you talking about executables, object code, or source code (or all of the above)? GPL says nothing about what people can charge for the binaries, but requires that source code be made available at no additional charge to anyone to whom you distribute binaries.
How could they possibly do that ("go after the owners of PC's sold without windows")?
There is no claim in this article that Microsoft is forcing new PC's to have Windows. Microsoft is trying to determine whether people are buying new OS-less machines and then installing Windows without a license, or whether people are buying Microsoft software from non-Microsoft sources.
This has nothing to do with Microsoft forcing coercing people into buy Windows, or discouraging use of other operating systems. In this case, Microsoft is trying to find people who are using Windows without paying for it.
If there's any "news" here, it is that there is no site license that covers new PCs. I'm sure that comes as a surprise to many large Microsoft customers.
If there are, then what is it that repeatedly leads projects like xMach/HURD/OS X/mkLinux to embrace Mach as opposed to one of the competing microkernels? -- The same reason most of us are using Java and C++ instead of SmallTalk, Lisp or Objective-C. Developer inertia and people falling to the more hyped and/or better sold technology.
Also note that all the "better" microkernels (Neutrino, EROS, BeOS) are non-free. I think that's the basic reason that free software projects are not using them.
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If you had bothered to read the paragraphs above and below the one that bothered you, you would notice that he said
- He is amazed at the capabilities of blind programmers.
- He designed colorForth to augment his own capabilities, and not to conform to others' capabilities.
- He is interested in non-visual versions of "color" Forth, including speech.
I don't think he DISMISSED the needs of the blind in any way.
-- Kris
Quartus Forth for Palm OS:: http://www.quartus.net/products/forth/
Forth for Windows CE: http://www.delosoft.com/
colorForth has a limited set of punctuation characters in its character set. So this has led to use of real words rather than arbitrary symbols.
For example, 'push' and 'pop' are used instead of '>r' and 'r>', and 'less' is used instead of '<'.
Ten years ago, I was "the guy who has a computer" (rare in those times). Having attractive women smile and ask whether they can print something was nice the first couple of times, but it quickly wears off. The flirting stops as soon as the last page finishes.
If you do buy something and/or send money, make sure you also send a message indicating that cygwin is the thing you like. Otherwise, they might think that you are rewarding them for developing RPM or their work with GNOME.
Yes, it is obvious that this is not just a case where someone independently came up with the same name for an entirely different product. There is the possibility that these medical devices might be defective or used improperly, and Lucas wouldn't want "Child Killed by Light Saber" posted all over the news. I think it is in Lucas's best interest to maintain control over the names of his stuff. I'm sure he's not happy about the term "Star Wars" being used to refer to ABM technologies. But he can't sue Reagan over it. -- Kris
That's what I like about Ebert: he rates movies based upon reasonable expectations. He doesn't judge everything against Citizen Kane.
I agree that MS was really reaching when they said this was done to benefit the users. However, if I was an MS programmer, it would seem pretty stupid to have to put related functions into separate files (maybe even separate source directories) just to abide by some legal requirement that they are not "too close".
If they had said they were using 'trees', then the environmentalists would get all over them.
Am I missing something? Just because something is on the Internet doesn't make it free.
Maybe that's the problem: we've been making computers too small. Minsky should look into creating some skyscraper-sized machines.
Responding to bug reports and feature requests with "Why don't you fix it yourself?" really is a big turn off to users. The people who are capable of fixing themselves already know that they can do so. You're just reminding people of their own lack of technical skills when you respond like that.
If free software is intended to be used by anyone other than programmers, then the authors need to be more diplomatic when dealing with users.
-- Kris
The wearable version comes with wrist straps, a cable, and screen rotation software. Does that seem like its worth a $200 upgrade? Screen rotation software for the Palm is available for free. So those must be some awfully nice wrist straps.
FWIW, I contacted the company to ask why the price for the wearable version was so steep. Their response was that creating the wearables is "labor-intensive", and at $299, it's still the least expensive wearable computer available.
-- Kris
If someone offered me a monopoly on citizen-to-government interactions, I'd take it.
-- Kris
Does this mean that Apple invented quantum computing?
TWiki, available from http://twiki.org supports revision control of all pages, and is specifically designed for corporate intranets. It lets you use HTML if you want to, so you can just convert your existing Word docs as HTML and import them into the system. (But you'll want to not use HTML for new documents.)
I don't think any of those licenses have the combination of restrictions you have. GPL is close, except for the "cannot release code under the same name". But you could easily just say "This code is released under the terms of the GPL, with the additional restriction that any modified versions must be released under a different name.
Also, when you refer to "code", are you talking about executables, object code, or source code (or all of the above)? GPL says nothing about what people can charge for the binaries, but requires that source code be made available at no additional charge to anyone to whom you distribute binaries.
-- Kris
There is no claim in this article that Microsoft is forcing new PC's to have Windows. Microsoft is trying to determine whether people are buying new OS-less machines and then installing Windows without a license, or whether people are buying Microsoft software from non-Microsoft sources.
-- Kris
If there's any "news" here, it is that there is no site license that covers new PCs. I'm sure that comes as a surprise to many large Microsoft customers.
-- Kris
Or maybe have a friend listen to it, and then hum it to you so you can work out the tab. "It goes duh-DUH-duh-duh-DUH..." -- Kris
Also note that all the "better" microkernels (Neutrino, EROS, BeOS) are non-free. I think that's the basic reason that free software projects are not using them.
I honestly don't see XML as much of a step forward. I'm not saying it's bad; I just don't think it solves any important problems.
-- Kris
Too bad. Now I can't play the game of "How many pop-up porn windows can Mozilla handle before it crashes"?
Agreed. I can input 25 words a minute with Grafitti. I can't come close to that with any of the other HWR systems I've seen.