Debain wanted to distribute their own patched version of Firefox, the Mozilla people didn't want to get blamed for all the bugs introduced by Debian, the name change was the way to resolve that conflict.
My own sympathy goes unreservedly to Mozilla, as a software developer I know what a total pain Debian is to deal with.
Everybody has a price. You may not know yours yet.
How much money are you willing and able to pay for one hour more life? That's your price.
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Is this really, from a national point of view, a worthwhile use of the education system?
I'd think that it would be good if the students knew their subject matter, which, as a side effect, might also increase the test scores. But if you pay the teachers after the test scores of their students, they will teach how to score high in tests, not how to understand the subject matter.
For the individual student it may be a competitive advantage to optimize solely after high test scores. But only if the other students don't do the same. It is one of the annoying cases where individual optimization does not lead to improved system performance.
Get it? Microsoft has nothing like a monopoly on the server side, and never had it. They do have a de-facto monopoly on the client side.
The only thing that prevents them from extending their client-side monopoly to the server is the threat of government regulation. Otherwise, it is simple a question of letting the clients refuse to talk to "unauthorized" servers.
Estonia is probably the Internet capitol of Europe. It is a very small country (1 million citizens) that used to be part of the USSR. They speak almost the same language as in Finland where Nokia is located (and Linux originated), and after Estonia gained independence it was more or less taken over by Nokia, and rebuild as a model country for communication technology.
It is no shame being listed after Estonia in Internet related statistics.
The way to survive as a free software developer on a vertical market is to only write the code people pay you to write. Don't write the code, publish it as free software, and expect to be paid for it later.
It is a mindset question, you aren't getting paid for your code anymore, you are getting paid for your work. So don't work unless you get paid.
Open Source does not mean Free or free. You can release the source to your customers without giving your customers the right to redistribute it or their changes.
But then it would not be open source.
Sigh. The term "free software" was a bit problematic, because people confused it with "gratis" software. So a bunch of well-intending players who *sold* free software, centered around Cygnus, sat together and invented a new term, with a precise definition: "open source".
It worked well the first couple of years, and the new term became very popular. So popular that people started hearing the term in the popular media, and started inventing their own definition. Such as "source is available". So now it is as imprecise as "free software".
Open Source was defined to mean that you have the right to inspect, modify and redistribute the source code. Basically the same as the FSF definition of free software, the difference was mostly philosophical.
PS: Some people even claim that "open source" has been been used to describe software before the Cygnus meeting. However, no record of such a prior use can be found on the Usenet archives, and nobody have been able to point to other earlier evidence of such a use.
If you are not against democracy as such, but don't feel you can vote for any of the presented candidates (whether it is because you know to little or too much about them), vote blank.
Personally, I'd vote for a third-party candidate (any third party candidate) just to protest the two-party system, if it had been my country.
No, particle pollution counters the greenhouse effect. Removing all the particle filters from our power plants and cars, and staring burning the fossil fuel at a lower (and less efficient/clean) temperature, could probably more than offset the greenhouse effect of the CO2.
Of course, most people (dying of lung diseases) would probably consider the cure worse than the disease.
The relationship between the client and the client's customers is most likely not what he is being paid to consult about. He is better off pretending that he never thought of the issue at all.
Put on your nerd hat, and treat any non-technical issue as unimportant and uninteresting.
> Global warming is very real. Without natural global warming, this planet would be about > 33 C colder than it currently is, so it's an extremely important effect that keeps this > planet liveable.
You are describing the greenhouse effect, not global warming. "Global warming" in this context describes the belief that manmade changes in the composition of the athmosphere will lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect, and thus a noticeable global warming.
There is a rough concensus in the scientific community that "global warming" is happening, but it has nowhere near the status of the greenhouse effect. Anyone denying the existence of the greenhouse effect is simply a moron.
Because it is not really a technology news site, it started as a blog (before the word was coined), and developed into a community site. There are plenty of technology news sites that pretend to be objective. They are boring. Why should/. immitate them, when it has been pretty successful doing what it does?
Yes, Acrobat (PDF) is page description what WordPerfect is to word processing, Lotus 1-2-3 is to spreadsheets, dBase is to databases, Borland is to compilers, Novell is to local networks, and Netscape is to web-browsers. Nothing Microsoft can do will ever threaten the dominating position of these products and companies.
The good thing with such edits is that they encourage pople to add references for any controversial claim. Sometimes a comment too.
It is of course annoying not to be believed just based on your personal autority (like you would in a paper-Encyclopedia), but any true academic will understand and appreciate the need for references.
Apropos racist prejudices, Pakistan is not "an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship". It is a good old-fascioned military dictatorship, whose main internal opposition is from Islamic fundamentalist groups (more or less are in control of Pakistans western province).
If you are writing free software, I strongly advice you to use whatever free license is the dominating one in the community where your application belong. There are good reasons to prefer some licenses over others, depending on the circumstances and goals, but in the vast majority of cases, these good reasons are dwarfed by the confusion created by going for an unusual (in the community) license.
And whatever you do, don't create your own license.
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And has been here for the last 20 years.
A modern coal based power plant doesn't polute, unless you count CO2 as a polutant. Older coal based power plants were quite messy though.
If you combine power generation with a community heating system, the energy use efficiency is also very high.
> The fourth dimension has nothing to do with time. It's another plane that intersects X, Y, and Z.
:-)
Usually denoted "t"...
Debain wanted to distribute their own patched version of Firefox, the Mozilla people didn't want to get blamed for all the bugs introduced by Debian, the name change was the way to resolve that conflict.
My own sympathy goes unreservedly to Mozilla, as a software developer I know what a total pain Debian is to deal with.
So your Java programs should be as "safe" from the GPL as you GCC compiled C and C++ programs.
> My life is priceless.
Everybody has a price. You may not know yours yet.
How much money are you willing and able to pay for one hour more life? That's your price.
Is this really, from a national point of view, a worthwhile use of the education system?
I'd think that it would be good if the students knew their subject matter, which, as a side effect, might also increase the test scores. But if you pay the teachers after the test scores of their students, they will teach how to score high in tests, not how to understand the subject matter.
For the individual student it may be a competitive advantage to optimize solely after high test scores. But only if the other students don't do the same. It is one of the annoying cases where individual optimization does not lead to improved system performance.
Get it? Microsoft has nothing like a monopoly on the server side, and never had it. They do have a de-facto monopoly on the client side.
The only thing that prevents them from extending their client-side monopoly to the server is the threat of government regulation. Otherwise, it is simple a question of letting the clients refuse to talk to "unauthorized" servers.
You don't have to accept the GPL if you are an end-user.
The only people who have to worry about the GPL are those who are going to redistribute the code.
Sanford Wallace, the "spam king".
Daniel Wallace, who might have helped FSF by giving them a valuable prior case.
Estonia is probably the Internet capitol of Europe. It is a very small country (1 million citizens) that used to be part of the USSR. They speak almost the same language as in Finland where Nokia is located (and Linux originated), and after Estonia gained independence it was more or less taken over by Nokia, and rebuild as a model country for communication technology.
It is no shame being listed after Estonia in Internet related statistics.
The way to survive as a free software developer on a vertical market is to only write the code people pay you to write. Don't write the code, publish it as free software, and expect to be paid for it later.
It is a mindset question, you aren't getting paid for your code anymore, you are getting paid for your work. So don't work unless you get paid.
But then it would not be open source.
Sigh. The term "free software" was a bit problematic, because people confused it with "gratis" software. So a bunch of well-intending players who *sold* free software, centered around Cygnus, sat together and invented a new term, with a precise definition: "open source".
It worked well the first couple of years, and the new term became very popular. So popular that people started hearing the term in the popular media, and started inventing their own definition. Such as "source is available". So now it is as imprecise as "free software".
Open Source was defined to mean that you have the right to inspect, modify and redistribute the source code. Basically the same as the FSF definition of free software, the difference was mostly philosophical.
PS: Some people even claim that "open source" has been been used to describe software before the Cygnus meeting. However, no record of such a prior use can be found on the Usenet archives, and nobody have been able to point to other earlier evidence of such a use.
If you are not against democracy as such, but don't feel you can vote for any of the presented candidates (whether it is because you know to little or too much about them), vote blank.
Personally, I'd vote for a third-party candidate (any third party candidate) just to protest the two-party system, if it had been my country.
I don't see why downloading porn at work should be worse than reading /., or playing Minesweeper.
Then again, I'm not an American, so there is probably some cultural nuances I miss.
No, particle pollution counters the greenhouse effect. Removing all the particle filters from our power plants and cars, and staring burning the fossil fuel at a lower (and less efficient/clean) temperature, could probably more than offset the greenhouse effect of the CO2.
Of course, most people (dying of lung diseases) would probably consider the cure worse than the disease.
The relationship between the client and the client's customers is most likely not what he is being paid to consult about. He is better off pretending that he never thought of the issue at all.
Put on your nerd hat, and treat any non-technical issue as unimportant and uninteresting.
> Global warming is very real. Without natural global warming, this planet would be about
> 33 C colder than it currently is, so it's an extremely important effect that keeps this
> planet liveable.
You are describing the greenhouse effect, not global warming. "Global warming" in this context describes the belief that manmade changes in the composition of the athmosphere will lead to an increase in the greenhouse effect, and thus a noticeable global warming.
There is a rough concensus in the scientific community that "global warming" is happening, but it has nowhere near the status of the greenhouse effect. Anyone denying the existence of the greenhouse effect is simply a moron.
Because it is not really a technology news site, it started as a blog (before the word was coined), and developed into a community site. There are plenty of technology news sites that pretend to be objective. They are boring. Why should /. immitate them, when it has been pretty successful doing what it does?
Yes, Acrobat (PDF) is page description what WordPerfect is to word processing, Lotus 1-2-3 is to spreadsheets, dBase is to databases, Borland is to compilers, Novell is to local networks, and Netscape is to web-browsers. Nothing Microsoft can do will ever threaten the dominating position of these products and companies.
The right to move around on someone elses property, undetected?
This is just a boarding pass whose location can be tracked.
The good thing with such edits is that they encourage pople to add references for any controversial claim. Sometimes a comment too.
It is of course annoying not to be believed just based on your personal autority (like you would in a paper-Encyclopedia), but any true academic will understand and appreciate the need for references.
Apropos racist prejudices, Pakistan is not "an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship". It is a good old-fascioned military dictatorship, whose main internal opposition is from Islamic fundamentalist groups (more or less are in control of Pakistans western province).
> The US lost more soldiers than any European country (except for Yugoslavia) during the war
Germany lost 10 times as many soldiers as USA. And Russia twice of that.
If you are writing free software, I strongly advice you to use whatever free license is the dominating one in the community where your application belong. There are good reasons to prefer some licenses over others, depending on the circumstances and goals, but in the vast majority of cases, these good reasons are dwarfed by the confusion created by going for an unusual (in the community) license.
And whatever you do, don't create your own license.
Danish copyright law allows quoting "according to good practice". Very vague. Maybe US law has something similar.