I'm thinking at least the factorial of the comments. Female: automatically raises interest She fences: Nothing sexier than a woman and steel She is persuasive on the lesbian part: while lesbianism is bad, most my friends would love to be with two girls -1: offtopic:)
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Does it matter? I mean.. c'mon -- a rose is a rose by any other name. We're the ones with the power, and that is what counts.
That'd be why the LGPL is in place I think. And yes, yes they can redistribute the source.. but I mean.. would you get source from Red Hat for $3.95 or joescheaperredhat.com for $2.95? Dishonest because the unclaimed insurance money would be going for other purposes.
Thought I should clarify that a bit more because I know someone is going to post this same comment. The GPL states that you can only make the money from the cost of shipment, it costs a lot more to replace damaged CD's, most other places automatically put an insurance clause in the price of shipment.. same thing but just don't insure through UPS or whatever, but replace all the ones that break.
You can actually make money off GPL. Here's how: Release binaries. Have source only available on CDROM's Have a mandatory 'insurance' package for shipment and only release the source CD's by mail order Still legal and GPL'd.. but dishonest:) This is explained in the GPL as well..
I don't understand why VA is limiting itself in this way. They tend to it a lot, with Intel and now it seems to be that way with SuSE. I don't really care what distribution is on there, as long as it's Linux (Or BSD). I hope that VA realizes that they could get just as much done without bundling with Intel or SuSE or any other specific vendor. *sigh*.. guess I'll continue building my own. At least that way I can get an Athlon.
Actually -- I do use schemes like this. I pick arbitrary friends that are have a memory associated to the computer, scramble their name using alphanumerics, than I have a good password of @u_1nm0x.$ And It just looks like their name to me.. -= Making the world a better place =-
I must say I would really love to find out *where* geek girls go. I work a lot, changing jobs to a start up company so I'll be working actually more. Seems to me that the only suitable 'relationship' would be with a female who understands start-up work habits, etc. Ie, geek. Someone who I can talk to about physics, code, linux, etc. I live in the Silicon Valley, where the aproximate ratio from males to females is 1e328:1 so it's challenging -- but I have yet to find a geek girl, or even one that I can share a very stimulating conversation about nerd-related items. Any advice to offer? -= Making the world a better place =-
Actually I meant to type ESR.. It doesn't make much sense to say RMS is a better speaker than RMS now does it.. you still understood what I was trying to say. And yes, I am completely aware of what each of them has written and said, as I've read most of their essay's, articles, and manifestos.
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Actually, it's Lego Bricks. Long day at work. sorry.:) -= Making the world a better place =-
Yucca Plant.. Poor poor.
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Anybody stop to think about the plants rights. I think the plant should get a equal size profit from the trade. It has rights! Also -- did you notice the big NO PICTURE sign in the picture. heh -= Making the world a better place =-
Those are good points -- I'm just a bit paranoid about the government being influenced by any group that's large enough to screw the internet over a bit more. Too bad we can't go back to the late 80's/early 90's when the internet was unrestricted. I'm up for the XML idea myself -- have a plain.xml page that just has all of the text w/o graphics or anything fancy. But the gov't often times do have inappropriate interfance of private businesses... I'm only worth $0.02..you out-bid me:) -= Making the world a better place =-
Stallman should have stopped at writing code and left the license alone. He has managed to segregate the open source community by GNU/Linux vs Linux GPL vs BSD, etc. He's a good programmer, has some good idea's -- but I mean.. c'mon -- As he put it in his article the freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose Same thing with giving me,the author, credit for an application I wrote. That's my right, my freedom -- I'm not imposing on anybody to do anything other than not violate my freedom And the GPL is not the minimum sets of restrictiosn to guarantee practical freedom. It's an oxymoron itself -- practical freedom? I'm waiting for the gov't to coin that term on it's next round of anti-crypto bill. Stallman is a programmer IMHO -- RMS (author of fetchmail.. yay 3k lines of perl code) is a much better speaker as well. All this license crap is too beaurocratic, Stallman is turning it into the evil he was trying to fight -= Making the world a better place =-
Licenses in their very existence are evil! As he says so many times it's about free software (free speech) so use the GPL/LGPL. WTF? Is it me, or does the very act of *using* a license prohibit freedom to a certain extent. Stall/m/in has good points -- but he is way to gestapo about how he wants things done. The whole tyrade about GPL is a contradictory in and of itself. Next code I release will have one statement. "This is mine, you can copy it, use it, molest it, as long as my name remains here " That's freedom damnit. -= Making the world a better place =-
First off - I suffer from a very strange eye condition that causes temporary blindness, also I have extremely poor vision so this strikes a bit close to home with me But.. c'mon.. this is unrealistic. A subscription based porn website is a commercial site -- how are they supposed to make their content available to the blind? Using ALT tags should be done regardless, and also a layout that allows easy access to people with disabilities -- but a lawsuit and a government regulation is just way to excessive. People should do it for the customer base, etc. If you want blind people to visit your site, than it will be available, otherwise it's not. I think it's up to the site whether they want to have it easily accessible by many groups, not the government. Just seems like YAGRI (Yet Another Government Regulation on the Internet) So much for freedom, I see it slipping.. -= Making the world a better place =-
Maybe I am mistaken, but I don't think that the production costs are more expensive. For the most part it's the same medium, just has a higher packed surface, which doesn't require too much more than a normal CD. I always thought the 'cool' part about DVD was the laser being so sensitive as to pick up the smaller points. The demand change for DVD from CDRom will probably be a lot faster than the change over from floppy. I mean.. when the changeover from floppies occured most people (average non-techs) didn't even have computers. Now I'm plagued with people asking me what type of computer they should buy for their grandkids, and if $5000 is enough.. Go eMachine's! Save the good stuff for me:) -= Making the world a better place =-
I have a DVD drive in my laptop, and it has no problems booting the red hat CD and installing I'm guessing it's the same all around, because it uses mostly the same data standards. Just more data -= Making the world a better place =-
I've been waiting to see this for quite a while -- but I'm curious as to what they are going to do with the people that are still using archaic CD's I realize they are going to be making the CD set -- but will their be a cost difference etc to compensate for the extra 5-6 0.2 cent disks? I'm pretty sure DVD's are the same cost to produce as CD, could be mistaken -- but I am having flashbacks of the transition from floppy to CD-Rom... if I have to mail off to get a set of CD-Rom's I'm going to be a bit irritated.. -= Making the world a better place =-
They both have their advantages, but when it really comes down to it, Perl is much more practical to use. I do quite a bit of web development, and have used both C and Perl to do so. The main advantage of Perl over C is the string parsing and manipulation. Regular expressions, and general string functions in Perl are much easier than in C, also they are more stable. With C it is quite easy to screw up a dynamic string and cause the program to crash, with Perl the memory is handled internally, so there are no problems associated with a crash. Perl is also an interpreted language, so it is completely cross platform, where C is also cross platform, but requires a compilation for each platform it is to be ran on. Even though Perl is interpreted, it is much quicker than other interpreted languages, such as VB, Java, etc.
I have to say that your initial comment about requiring a BS in CS to write code is completely fictional. I am --as referred to by a PhD collegue -- a grunge programmer. I am self-taught. I work long days writing code on my linux box that has to run on 3 different platforms. I hate school. Every CS teacher I have had with the exception of one does things because other people say it is right, and force that attitude on to their students. School is not necessary for those of above average intelligence who have the motivation and ambition to learn and code. I have been coding for 9 years, and I'm 19 years old now. I have been going to college part time since I was 14, to please my dear mother. I have yet to learn in school I haven't had a teacher show me anything I haven't learned on my own -- the only teacher (above reference) that allowed me to actually use my talents in the course was amazed that at 15 I scored higher in the Advanced C course than anyone in the history of the college. School is bullshit with the intent to teach people to code for 'the man'. It prohibits innovation, creativity, and ambition. It teaches that you should code for a job, work 8-5 and go home to your 2.3 kids, surrounded by a white picket fence. I have attended 3 colleges, each I have been disappointed with. I gave up, I will finish getting an AS because I'm 8 units away, but I consider the whole experience a huge waste of time. This is offtopic.. but I don't mind.. I enjoy ranting. -= Making the world a better place =-
I find this to be highly entertaining -- we've seen Intel basically dominate the market since it's creation. AMD the poor-geek's tool. I remember thinking back in the days of P6's (96 I think) that AMD's were simply a hack for people that couldn't afford the good stuff. I'm damn glad things have turned -- now we have AMD kicking Intel's ass in both price and power (For the most part -- I think that AMD is a better chip) and this really is shaking Intel up. I mean -- really, what type of respectable company would have the "Athalon Killer" anyway. $0.02 to AMD -= Making the world a better place =-
I'm really curious as to how this affects the Linux port to Itanium. Anybody working with the port care to comment? It seems that this is giving Sun quite a jump and headstart in the 64bit realm. I don't think that Linux's goal is to complete with other commercial vendors -- but it is inevitable. Course I think that Solaris should just replace it's kernel with Linux or (open|free)BSD. Just my humble opinion. -= Making the world a better place =-
Is it just me, or did they just define what an open source evangelist is for. That's why we have Eric S. Raymond, Chris DiBona, etc. They are the media hypers -- they are the ones that are cool. I do OSS development a bit, and I know people that do it pretty hardcore -- I don't think any of them getting irritated when someone says, "Hey man! Great job, I have this problem though..." I actually enjoy it a bit when I get feedback, even if they are reporting bugs/help, etc. Linux will get media hype, that's a definite -- it just means that we'll have more evangelists, that enjoy speaking about Linux than writing code, which those people are just as important as the programmers. I personally love it when people come up to me and say, "Hey -- I heard about that linux thing in and it looks pretty cool, but does it run on windows?" -- I often times wear nerd shirts (Including free shirts from VA,etc) -- then they get enlightened when I say that it is a replacement for windows, they ask where to get more info, and I give them a list of about 5-10 URL's to check out. Silly me.. aside from me I can't think of any developers that get their valuable time taken away. Thank you, drive through. -= Making the world a better place =-
The best way to approach a VC is having a very cool looking demonstration of what you can do Keep in mind they aren't technical usually -- they just have lots of money Keep your example looking as best as possible and make it seem like it can save the world and the world can't exist without it Make sure that before anybody see's it that you have a standard NDA -- also a good suggestion is to duplicate all documentation, along with a statement that is signed by a disinterested witness that states that it was mailed on date so-and-so to protect intellectual property rights, and mail using standard US Postal service to yourself -- as long as it's not opened, it can hold up in court. This covers your bases while you are going around and talking to VC's -- I've never done it myself but I know a few VC's and know a few people that have gone through the process Good luck! -= Making the world a better place =-
I can't say how please I am that there is finally someone in the judiciary system that still knows what the first amendment is. Freedom of speech, unmoderated, unregulated, and uncensored is our right -- and now we are getting it back! If this actually goes through I hope everybody uses it to the fullest potential. Don't let it go to waste -- it may get revoked and we may have to submit to a big brother system, be vocal about it. It's a good thing, and let them [government entities] know that. -= Making the world a better place =-
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I'm thinking at least the factorial of the comments. :)
Female: automatically raises interest
She fences: Nothing sexier than a woman and steel
She is persuasive on the lesbian part: while lesbianism is bad, most my friends would love to be with two girls
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Does it matter? I mean.. c'mon -- a rose is a rose by any other name.
We're the ones with the power, and that is what counts.
That'd be why the LGPL is in place I think. And yes, yes they can redistribute the source.. but I mean.. would you get source from Red Hat for $3.95 or joescheaperredhat.com for $2.95? Dishonest because the unclaimed insurance money would be going for other purposes.
Thought I should clarify that a bit more because I know someone is going to post this same comment.
The GPL states that you can only make the money from the cost of shipment, it costs a lot more to replace damaged CD's, most other places automatically put an insurance clause in the price of shipment.. same thing but just don't insure through UPS or whatever, but replace all the ones that break.
You can actually make money off GPL. :)
Here's how:
Release binaries.
Have source only available on CDROM's
Have a mandatory 'insurance' package for shipment and only release the source CD's by mail order
Still legal and GPL'd.. but dishonest
This is explained in the GPL as well..
I don't understand why VA is limiting itself in this way. They tend to it a lot, with Intel and now it seems to be that way with SuSE. I don't really care what distribution is on there, as long as it's Linux (Or BSD). .. guess I'll continue building my own.
I hope that VA realizes that they could get just as much done without bundling with Intel or SuSE or any other specific vendor.
*sigh*
At least that way I can get an Athlon.
Actually -- I do use schemes like this. I pick arbitrary friends that are have a memory associated to the computer, scramble their name using alphanumerics, than I have a good password of @u_1nm0x.$ And It just looks like their name to me..
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I must say I would really love to find out *where* geek girls go. I work a lot, changing jobs to a start up company so I'll be working actually more.
Seems to me that the only suitable 'relationship' would be with a female who understands start-up work habits, etc. Ie, geek. Someone who I can talk to about physics, code, linux, etc.
I live in the Silicon Valley, where the aproximate ratio from males to females is 1e328:1 so it's challenging -- but I have yet to find a geek girl, or even one that I can share a very stimulating conversation about nerd-related items. Any advice to offer?
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Actually I meant to type ESR.. It doesn't make much sense to say RMS is a better speaker than RMS now does it.. you still understood what I was trying to say.
And yes, I am completely aware of what each of them has written and said, as I've read most of their essay's, articles, and manifestos.
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Actually, it's Lego Bricks. :)
Long day at work. sorry.
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Anybody stop to think about the plants rights. I think the plant should get a equal size profit from the trade. It has rights!
Also -- did you notice the big NO PICTURE sign in the picture. heh
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Those are good points -- I'm just a bit paranoid about the government being influenced by any group that's large enough to screw the internet over a bit more. Too bad we can't go back to the late 80's/early 90's when the internet was unrestricted. I'm up for the XML idea myself -- have a plain.xml page that just has all of the text w/o graphics or anything fancy. :)
But the gov't often times do have inappropriate interfance of private businesses... I'm only worth $0.02..you out-bid me
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Stallman should have stopped at writing code and left the license alone. He has managed to segregate the open source community by GNU/Linux vs Linux GPL vs BSD, etc.
He's a good programmer, has some good idea's -- but I mean.. c'mon -- As he put it in his article the freedom to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose
Same thing with giving me,the author, credit for an application I wrote. That's my right, my freedom -- I'm not imposing on anybody to do anything other than not violate my freedom
And the GPL is not the minimum sets of restrictiosn to guarantee practical freedom. It's an oxymoron itself -- practical freedom? I'm waiting for the gov't to coin that term on it's next round of anti-crypto bill.
Stallman is a programmer IMHO -- RMS (author of fetchmail.. yay 3k lines of perl code) is a much better speaker as well. All this license crap is too beaurocratic, Stallman is turning it into the evil he was trying to fight
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Licenses in their very existence are evil!
As he says so many times it's about free software (free speech) so use the GPL/LGPL.
WTF? Is it me, or does the very act of *using* a license prohibit freedom to a certain extent. Stall/m/in has good points -- but he is way to gestapo about how he wants things done.
The whole tyrade about GPL is a contradictory in and of itself. Next code I release will have one statement. "This is mine, you can copy it, use it, molest it, as long as my name remains here "
That's freedom damnit.
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First off - I suffer from a very strange eye condition that causes temporary blindness, also I have extremely poor vision so this strikes a bit close to home with me
But.. c'mon.. this is unrealistic. A subscription based porn website is a commercial site -- how are they supposed to make their content available to the blind?
Using ALT tags should be done regardless, and also a layout that allows easy access to people with disabilities -- but a lawsuit and a government regulation is just way to excessive. People should do it for the customer base, etc. If you want blind people to visit your site, than it will be available, otherwise it's not.
I think it's up to the site whether they want to have it easily accessible by many groups, not the government. Just seems like YAGRI (Yet Another Government Regulation on the Internet)
So much for freedom, I see it slipping..
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Maybe I am mistaken, but I don't think that the production costs are more expensive. For the most part it's the same medium, just has a higher packed surface, which doesn't require too much more than a normal CD. I always thought the 'cool' part about DVD was the laser being so sensitive as to pick up the smaller points. :)
The demand change for DVD from CDRom will probably be a lot faster than the change over from floppy. I mean.. when the changeover from floppies occured most people (average non-techs) didn't even have computers.
Now I'm plagued with people asking me what type of computer they should buy for their grandkids, and if $5000 is enough.. Go eMachine's! Save the good stuff for me
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I have a DVD drive in my laptop, and it has no problems booting the red hat CD and installing
I'm guessing it's the same all around, because it uses mostly the same data standards. Just more data
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I've been waiting to see this for quite a while -- but I'm curious as to what they are going to do with the people that are still using archaic CD's
I realize they are going to be making the CD set -- but will their be a cost difference etc to compensate for the extra 5-6 0.2 cent disks?
I'm pretty sure DVD's are the same cost to produce as CD, could be mistaken -- but I am having flashbacks of the transition from floppy to CD-Rom... if I have to mail off to get a set of CD-Rom's I'm going to be a bit irritated..
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They both have their advantages, but when it really comes down to it, Perl is much more practical to use.
I do quite a bit of web development, and have used both C and Perl to do so.
The main advantage of Perl over C is the string parsing and manipulation. Regular expressions, and general string functions in Perl are much easier than in C, also they are more stable. With C it is quite easy to screw up a dynamic string and cause the program to crash, with Perl the memory is handled internally, so there are no problems associated with a crash. Perl is also an interpreted language, so it is completely cross platform, where C is also cross platform, but requires a compilation for each platform it is to be ran on. Even though Perl is interpreted, it is much quicker than other interpreted languages, such as VB, Java, etc.
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I have to say that your initial comment about requiring a BS in CS to write code is completely fictional. I am --as referred to by a PhD collegue -- a grunge programmer.
I am self-taught. I work long days writing code on my linux box that has to run on 3 different platforms.
I hate school. Every CS teacher I have had with the exception of one does things because other people say it is right, and force that attitude on to their students. School is not necessary for those of above average intelligence who have the motivation and ambition to learn and code.
I have been coding for 9 years, and I'm 19 years old now. I have been going to college part time since I was 14, to please my dear mother.
I have yet to learn in school
I haven't had a teacher show me anything I haven't learned on my own -- the only teacher (above reference) that allowed me to actually use my talents in the course was amazed that at 15 I scored higher in the Advanced C course than anyone in the history of the college.
School is bullshit with the intent to teach people to code for 'the man'. It prohibits innovation, creativity, and ambition. It teaches that you should code for a job, work 8-5 and go home to your 2.3 kids, surrounded by a white picket fence.
I have attended 3 colleges, each I have been disappointed with. I gave up, I will finish getting an AS because I'm 8 units away, but I consider the whole experience a huge waste of time. This is offtopic.. but I don't mind.. I enjoy ranting.
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I find this to be highly entertaining -- we've seen Intel basically dominate the market since it's creation. AMD the poor-geek's tool. I remember thinking back in the days of P6's (96 I think) that AMD's were simply a hack for people that couldn't afford the good stuff.
I'm damn glad things have turned -- now we have AMD kicking Intel's ass in both price and power (For the most part -- I think that AMD is a better chip) and this really is shaking Intel up.
I mean -- really, what type of respectable company would have the "Athalon Killer" anyway.
$0.02 to AMD
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I'm really curious as to how this affects the Linux port to Itanium. Anybody working with the port care to comment?
It seems that this is giving Sun quite a jump and headstart in the 64bit realm. I don't think that Linux's goal is to complete with other commercial vendors -- but it is inevitable. Course I think that Solaris should just replace it's kernel with Linux or (open|free)BSD. Just my humble opinion.
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Is it just me, or did they just define what an open source evangelist is for. That's why we have Eric S. Raymond, Chris DiBona, etc. They are the media hypers -- they are the ones that are cool. I do OSS development a bit, and I know people that do it pretty hardcore -- I don't think any of them getting irritated when someone says, "Hey man! Great job, I have this problem though..."
I actually enjoy it a bit when I get feedback, even if they are reporting bugs/help, etc.
Linux will get media hype, that's a definite -- it just means that we'll have more evangelists, that enjoy speaking about Linux than writing code, which those people are just as important as the programmers.
I personally love it when people come up to me and say, "Hey -- I heard about that linux thing in and it looks pretty cool, but does it run on windows?" -- I often times wear nerd shirts (Including free shirts from VA,etc) -- then they get enlightened when I say that it is a replacement for windows, they ask where to get more info, and I give them a list of about 5-10 URL's to check out. Silly me.. aside from me I can't think of any developers that get their valuable time taken away. Thank you, drive through.
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The best way to approach a VC is having a very cool looking demonstration of what you can do
Keep in mind they aren't technical usually -- they just have lots of money
Keep your example looking as best as possible and make it seem like it can save the world and the world can't exist without it
Make sure that before anybody see's it that you have a standard NDA -- also a good suggestion is to duplicate all documentation, along with a statement that is signed by a disinterested witness that states that it was mailed on date so-and-so to protect intellectual property rights, and mail using standard US Postal service to yourself -- as long as it's not opened, it can hold up in court.
This covers your bases while you are going around and talking to VC's -- I've never done it myself but I know a few VC's and know a few people that have gone through the process
Good luck!
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I can't say how please I am that there is finally someone in the judiciary system that still knows what the first amendment is.
Freedom of speech, unmoderated, unregulated, and uncensored is our right -- and now we are getting it back!
If this actually goes through I hope everybody uses it to the fullest potential. Don't let it go to waste -- it may get revoked and we may have to submit to a big brother system, be vocal about it. It's a good thing, and let them [government entities] know that.
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