something you *haven't* signed can't restrict your rights in any way
Why don't you *read* the article. It demonstrates in plain simple language that your statement is absolutely wrong. You didn't sign any copyright law but it restricts your right to copy anything protected by it. The GPL just says that the copyright holder will not sue your ass if you copy their software as long as you abide by some simple conditions.
I have a 500MHz Ti Powerbook. I have no problems whatsoever with the speed of the Aqua interface. Admittedly this was not exactly true before I upgraded from 256Mb to 512Mb, but memory (even for a laptop) is pretty cheap.
Seize child's wrist, squirt Krazy Glue into controls; 911 call now inoperable
Do you honestly think that with a small child you could leave the 911 part enabled? How many times will he/she press the buttons to see "the pretty blue lights" before you get slammed into jail.
I have a Garmin eTrex Vista which is a 12 channel device. It probably costs about $300 in the US. It works in a car just about, but not indoors. The basic Garmin eTrex only costs about $100 and the GPS part of it is essentially the same (you pay the extra for the mapping software and electronic compass).
No, I have a Garmin eTrex. It and most recreational GPSrs are not accurate to 3 metres most of the time. The receiver itself gives an estimate of its accuracy. The best I've seen it *claim* is 19 feet (5 and a bit metres) which I have to say I am suspicious of. Most of the time it claims an accuracy anywhere between 20 and 100 feet. I think 30 metres is a fair if slightly conservative resolution to claim.
With WAAS you can get better accuracy but that's not available on the cheapest receivers or in Europe where I live.
I *did* read the book a long time ago. I remember it as being unbelievably tedious in parts. The action was unremitting which is to say the main characters were hurled from one impossibly dangerousd situation to the next with no variation of the pace such that it became monotonous. There was also little or no character development. The reputation of the book - as far as I can see - is built entirely on the fact that Tolkien built a convincing universe for his characters to inhabit.
My impression of the film is that it was a faithful adaptation of the book:-) The three people I saw it with all agreed that it was quite poor apart from the special effects and one of them is extremely resentful of the fact that she took three hours out of her life to see it. I have to admit I did quite enjoy it, but I would not class it as a great or even a good film.
My point was that the purpose of any variable should either be obvious from the context or documented (heard of comments anyone?). e.g. if somewhere in this piece of code there was a line that said:
eidx = NumPages - 1;
or
/* eidx points to the last page */ eidx = obscure_variable_name;
you'd know whether the patch was correct or not.
Alan Cox was effectively admitting that parts of the 2.4 kernel are very poorly written and OK this part might not be that critical, but I worry because it might be a reflection of the quality of the whole kernel.
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consensus was thats its tricky to prove correct, its 1 page of memory
So nobody can actually figure out whether this eidx thing points to the last page or just beyond the last page. I find that quite worrying...
You need more RAM. I have a Titanium Powerbook which came with 256Mb RAM, but after running it with OS X.1 for some time I decided to upgrade the memory to 512Mb and it made a massive difference. OS X and Aqua is a good environment but it is very memory hungry. I suspect with 192Mb, the OS and Aqua has already eaten a huge chunk of that before you even think about running applications.
I've written code in many computer languages including C, assembler, Cobol, Fortran, C++, Pascal, Basic (Visual and otherwise), Lisp, Java, Smalltalk etc etc etc. It's possible to write good code - or bad code - in any of them. It's also possible to use object oriented concepts in any language. In my experience, the best code always has some level of object orientedness about it - even if it's just encapsulation.
I will admit, that even though C++ is my favourite language, the worst code I have ever seen was in C++.
In technology terms, Linux is about as far from revolutionary as it's possible to be at this time. What is revolutionary (or was revolutionary five years ago) is the organisation of the development effort (i.e. in Raymond terms, the Bazaar development model) and it's too early to tell if it's going to catch on.
I notice the banner of this site says "News for Nerds". The Eden project has been around for a couple of years and is actually a very successful tourist attraction in the UK.
Just because it's the first time *you* heard about it doesn't make it news.
It is correct to use an apostrophe to pluralize a symbol or acronym
No it isn't. In fact the correct punctuation should be "V.C.R.s".
For the record apostrophes are used to denote possesives as in "the cat's feet" or "the cats' feet" if there is more than one cat except for the pronoun "it" so you would have "its feet". This is because the other place to use an apostrophe is to denote letters you can't be bothered to type such as the "no" in the preceding "cannot" and "it's" really means "it is". Now you could say that the apostrophe in "VCR's" stands for "ecorder", but to be consistent you'd have to have "V'C'R's".
Isn't that how Open Source software is QA'd? It's released into the wild with a big disclaimer on it saying"BETA" or "not fit for human consumption" or "release number x.0" (if you're Red Hat) and lots of open source geeks send in bug reports and sometimes even fixes.
Come on, that list is more than 6 months out of date. No objective stats of occurrences of incidents are provided (try the CERT site for that). Many of the references to advisories/bug reports etc are even older than 6 months (a quick scan shows two or three that appear to have been logged in the year 2000, the rest seem to be mainly 1999). The newest CERT advisory on sendmail for instance was raised in 1997 on version 8.8.4. In fact, basically the whole list comes under the categories a) running out-of-date software, b) running software on machines that don't need it. e.g. DNS on a machine that isn't a DNS server.
In fact there is a more up to date and better structured list here:
http://www.sans.org/top20.htm
Even on this page, taking the sendmail example (ref U2) again, the most recent bug report they quote is on 8.8.4 which is ancient (8.8 was release before any of sendmail's current Open Source competitors were even written). Which means that this vulnerability is really an instance of not keeping your software up to date (included in G1).
Use your common sense, the biggest computer security problem at the moment is viruses and worms which affect mainly Windows systems mainly because of the popularity of Windows, particularly amongst non technical users.
Why is it bad not to understand the internals of your computer? If the average PC understands the internals of his computer and the average Mac user doesn't then it probably says more about the user interface than the person. i.e. the Mac interface insulates you better from all those nasty things inside that a graphics designer really doesn't *want* to understand.
And another thing.... the average PC user is probably as un-technically oriented as the average Mac user. Think of all those secretaries, salesmen, marketing types and home users on AOL. Tell me they are computer aware.
Also, this mouse button thing, if Mac users don't understand why you need two buttons, is it because Apple have managed to design an interface you can navigate adequately with only one button. I don't think two buttons are necessarily that great. I often find myself clicking the wrong button in the Windows interface particularly with system tray items (again I think this says more about the interface than the concept of having two buttons). And the X system of having as many buttons as possible all doing slightly different things is a complete fricking nightmare.
It's too late now, but if they had licensed the original MacOS so that people could build cheap clones of MacIntoshes back in the 80's when the only competition on the desk top would have been MS-DOS 4.xx they would have shat on M$ in the OS market and probably have 100% domination right now. There would be no Apple hardware business, but the big money is in software whatever you say.
However, we would all be talking about the evil empire of Steve Jobs and how he was using anti-competitve practices to peddle his office software obtained when Apple bought Microsoft after it got into financial trouble.
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something you *haven't* signed can't restrict your rights in any way
Why don't you *read* the article. It demonstrates in plain simple language that your statement is absolutely wrong. You didn't sign any copyright law but it restricts your right to copy anything protected by it. The GPL just says that the copyright holder will not sue your ass if you copy their software as long as you abide by some simple conditions.
I have a 500MHz Ti Powerbook. I have no problems whatsoever with the speed of the Aqua interface. Admittedly this was not exactly true before I upgraded from 256Mb to 512Mb, but memory (even for a laptop) is pretty cheap.
Seize child's wrist, squirt Krazy Glue into controls; 911 call now inoperable
Do you honestly think that with a small child you could leave the 911 part enabled? How many times will he/she press the buttons to see "the pretty blue lights" before you get slammed into jail.
I have a Garmin eTrex Vista which is a 12 channel device. It probably costs about $300 in the US. It works in a car just about, but not indoors. The basic Garmin eTrex only costs about $100 and the GPS part of it is essentially the same (you pay the extra for the mapping software and electronic compass).
Time zones don't necessarily follow the logical lines of longitude. Of course the GPS could store a map of time zones.
No, I have a Garmin eTrex. It and most recreational GPSrs are not accurate to 3 metres most of the time. The receiver itself gives an estimate of its accuracy. The best I've seen it *claim* is 19 feet (5 and a bit metres) which I have to say I am suspicious of. Most of the time it claims an accuracy anywhere between 20 and 100 feet. I think 30 metres is a fair if slightly conservative resolution to claim.
With WAAS you can get better accuracy but that's not available on the cheapest receivers or in Europe where I live.
I *did* read the book a long time ago. I remember it as being unbelievably tedious in parts. The action was unremitting which is to say the main characters were hurled from one impossibly dangerousd situation to the next with no variation of the pace such that it became monotonous. There was also little or no character development. The reputation of the book - as far as I can see - is built entirely on the fact that Tolkien built a convincing universe for his characters to inhabit.
:-) The three people I saw it with all agreed that it was quite poor apart from the special effects and one of them is extremely resentful of the fact that she took three hours out of her life to see it. I have to admit I did quite enjoy it, but I would not class it as a great or even a good film.
My impression of the film is that it was a faithful adaptation of the book
And that was one of the reasons (or excuses) for witholding the prize money from him for so long.
And your point is?
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My point was that the purpose of any variable should either be obvious from the context or documented (heard of comments anyone?). e.g. if somewhere in this piece of code there was a line that said:
eidx = NumPages - 1
or
/* eidx points to the last page */
eidx = obscure_variable_name
you'd know whether the patch was correct or not.
Alan Cox was effectively admitting that parts of the 2.4 kernel are very poorly written and OK this part might not be that critical, but I worry because it might be a reflection of the quality of the whole kernel.
consensus was thats its tricky to prove correct, its 1 page of memory
So nobody can actually figure out whether this eidx thing points to the last page or just beyond the last page. I find that quite worrying...
You need more RAM. I have a Titanium Powerbook which came with 256Mb RAM, but after running it with OS X.1 for some time I decided to upgrade the memory to 512Mb and it made a massive difference. OS X and Aqua is a good environment but it is very memory hungry. I suspect with 192Mb, the OS and Aqua has already eaten a huge chunk of that before you even think about running applications.
He who is sitting on the circle of the earth
Surely this means that the Hebrews thought that the Earth was a closed one dimensional curve i.e. not even a disc.
A bad programmer always blames his language.
I've written code in many computer languages including C, assembler, Cobol, Fortran, C++, Pascal, Basic (Visual and otherwise), Lisp, Java, Smalltalk etc etc etc. It's possible to write good code - or bad code - in any of them. It's also possible to use object oriented concepts in any language. In my experience, the best code always has some level of object orientedness about it - even if it's just encapsulation.
I will admit, that even though C++ is my favourite language, the worst code I have ever seen was in C++.
In technology terms, Linux is about as far from revolutionary as it's possible to be at this time. What is revolutionary (or was revolutionary five years ago) is the organisation of the development effort (i.e. in Raymond terms, the Bazaar development model) and it's too early to tell if it's going to catch on.
I have now read it, but he could sure use a proof reader :-)
"I wrote an interesting article" - very brave, just aching to be flamed :-)
I think I'll read it now.
Didn't you read the original story. Only one team *lives* to fight another day.
I'm entering with a small but dirty nuclear warhead.
Anybody got any plutonium for sale?
I notice the banner of this site says "News for Nerds". The Eden project has been around for a couple of years and is actually a very successful tourist attraction in the UK.
Just because it's the first time *you* heard about it doesn't make it news.
It is correct to use an apostrophe to pluralize a symbol or acronym
No it isn't. In fact the correct punctuation should be "V.C.R.s".
For the record apostrophes are used to denote possesives as in "the cat's feet" or "the cats' feet" if there is more than one cat except for the pronoun "it" so you would have "its feet". This is because the other place to use an apostrophe is to denote letters you can't be bothered to type such as the "no" in the preceding "cannot" and "it's" really means "it is". Now you could say that the apostrophe in "VCR's" stands for "ecorder", but to be consistent you'd have to have "V'C'R's".
I read the qmail guarantee page. There's no guarantee on it, only a prize for the first person to discover a hole which he said was unclaimed so far.
Well, from what I've seen of him on telly, he's pretty dumb too, but he sure plays a mean pinball.
Isn't that how Open Source software is QA'd? It's released into the wild with a big disclaimer on it saying"BETA" or "not fit for human consumption" or "release number x.0" (if you're Red Hat) and lots of open source geeks send in bug reports and sometimes even fixes.
Come on, that list is more than 6 months out of date. No objective stats of occurrences of incidents are provided (try the CERT site for that). Many of the references to advisories/bug reports etc are even older than 6 months (a quick scan shows two or three that appear to have been logged in the year 2000, the rest seem to be mainly 1999). The newest CERT advisory on sendmail for instance was raised in 1997 on version 8.8.4. In fact, basically the whole list comes under the categories a) running out-of-date software, b) running software on machines that don't need it. e.g. DNS on a machine that isn't a DNS server.
In fact there is a more up to date and better structured list here:
http://www.sans.org/top20.htm
Even on this page, taking the sendmail example (ref U2) again, the most recent bug report they quote is on 8.8.4 which is ancient (8.8 was release before any of sendmail's current Open Source competitors were even written). Which means that this vulnerability is really an instance of not keeping your software up to date (included in G1).
Use your common sense, the biggest computer security problem at the moment is viruses and worms which affect mainly Windows systems mainly because of the popularity of Windows, particularly amongst non technical users.
Why is it bad not to understand the internals of your computer? If the average PC understands the internals of his computer and the average Mac user doesn't then it probably says more about the user interface than the person. i.e. the Mac interface insulates you better from all those nasty things inside that a graphics designer really doesn't *want* to understand.
And another thing.... the average PC user is probably as un-technically oriented as the average Mac user. Think of all those secretaries, salesmen, marketing types and home users on AOL. Tell me they are computer aware.
Also, this mouse button thing, if Mac users don't understand why you need two buttons, is it because Apple have managed to design an interface you can navigate adequately with only one button. I don't think two buttons are necessarily that great. I often find myself clicking the wrong button in the Windows interface particularly with system tray items (again I think this says more about the interface than the concept of having two buttons). And the X system of having as many buttons as possible all doing slightly different things is a complete fricking nightmare.
It's too late now, but if they had licensed the original MacOS so that people could build cheap clones of MacIntoshes back in the 80's when the only competition on the desk top would have been MS-DOS 4.xx they would have shat on M$ in the OS market and probably have 100% domination right now. There would be no Apple hardware business, but the big money is in software whatever you say.
However, we would all be talking about the evil empire of Steve Jobs and how he was using anti-competitve practices to peddle his office software obtained when Apple bought Microsoft after it got into financial trouble.