the Internet is not going to bring about a global outpouring of creativity and information sharing
Free software projects consitute an outpouring on a global scale of altruism and technical prowess. The Internet did not bring about the genius and creativity of these programmers, but it has made possible their collaboration.
Clearly a move to put in place someone who can make our networks safe for all operating systems - W2K and XP, all over the world, from California to New York.
Guess that little thing with the DoJ about monopolistic business practices is all water under the bridge now.
I guess I'm spoiled, being able to look at Internet RFC's online anytime I want. Doesn't the IEEE charge serious $$ for access to the documents they put forward as standards? That is so, well, 20th century... No thanks. Some things just shouldn't be part of a business model.
It's not "da Vinci"; it's "Leonardo".
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Da Vinci Bridge Built
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Calling him "da Vinci" for short is like saying Smoky Bear's middle name is "the".
Right. Pausing a video stream is completely new, novel, and deserving of massive riches to the first person to dash to the USPTO with the idea. What ever will they think of next? Pausing video on two streams at once? Pausing motorized signs in the supermarket? It boggles the mind.
For sheer technical wizardry and scientific creativity this may even surpass one-click-shopping, right-click-save-as, multiple-overlapping-text-windows, and byte-ordering patents already on record.
Yup, our economy sure needs more of this kind of ingenuity. All you rabid anti-patent ranting radicals just back off! The business of this country is business...
B5 was great drama while it lasted, but ended for a reason. They ran out of ideas.
As for Galactica, a sorrier slurry of TV
pablum was never served up. Except maybe
for Buck Rogers or Lost in Space. Let's hope
no advanced civilization ever tunes in on that
garbage or they'll murder us in our sleep,
to paraphrase Zappa.
Thanks for the rant. It's lonely sometimes being the only one in the group who's never seen an episode of Survivor, or not even *wanting* to set foot inside the Home Depot that just opened up down at the mall.
Re:Open source drivers
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You think your problem with the NVidia driver would be fixed if it were open source?
No, I think a driver would exist for my OSes of
choice if NVidia opened the driver sources. It's
not all about Linux. On FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and
NetBSD, recent NVidia hardware is as useless as
an HP or Lexmark WinPrinter. Feh.
I wandered into the Sphinx site a few days ago. Then, and now, all their test numbers where you would try the speech rec. are down, i.e., they take the port off hook and give you a single short beep, then just leave you sitting there.
Pointed out above in this list - Erlang is an FP language used in serious production. The ERTS, running production telecom applications, does much of the work needed to support high availability clustering.
The language bears the hallmarks of ruthless pragmatism in its feature set. It was designed to serve a real, specific set of needs and appears to do so very well. But, it also makes you want to try it for just about any distributed app that comes along.
The FP nature of the language with very light weight processes and IPC suggests that this kind of FP may be even better suited to extreme programming and similar rapid development disciplines than OO.
I think we are about to see a resurgence of FP, with Erlang, Haskell, and Scheme at the forefront. Some better FP platform may appear on the scene in the next few years.
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Free software projects consitute an outpouring on a global scale of altruism and technical prowess. The Internet did not bring about the genius and creativity of these programmers, but it has made possible their collaboration.
Clearly a move to put in place someone who can make our networks safe for all operating systems - W2K and XP, all over the world, from California to New York.
Guess that little thing with the DoJ about monopolistic business practices is all water under the bridge now.
I guess I'm spoiled, being able to look at Internet RFC's online anytime I want. Doesn't the IEEE charge serious $$ for access to the documents they put forward as standards? That is so, well, 20th century... No thanks. Some things just shouldn't be part of a business model.
Calling him "da Vinci" for short is like saying Smoky Bear's middle name is "the".
You keep referring to "SQL Server". Which one? PostgreSQL? MySQL? Sybase? There were several last time I checked, even for MS.
Or Cisco. Thanks for sandbagging VRRP, RFC2338. Oh hell. Read the IETF Page of Intellectual Property Rights Notices and weep.
Right. Pausing a video stream is completely new, novel, and deserving of massive riches to the first person to dash to the USPTO with the idea. What ever will they think of next? Pausing video on two streams at once? Pausing motorized signs in the supermarket? It boggles the mind.
For sheer technical wizardry and scientific creativity this may even surpass one-click-shopping, right-click-save-as, multiple-overlapping-text-windows, and byte-ordering patents already on record.
Yup, our economy sure needs more of this kind of ingenuity. All you rabid anti-patent ranting radicals just back off! The business of this country is business...
Stolen from .sig of RSS:
Look, Ma, 4299 accidents waiting to happen:
find pine4.21 -type f | xargs egrep '(sprintf|strcpy|strcat)' | wc -l
4299
B5 was great drama while it lasted, but ended for a reason. They ran out of ideas.
As for Galactica, a sorrier slurry of TV pablum was never served up. Except maybe for Buck Rogers or Lost in Space. Let's hope no advanced civilization ever tunes in on that garbage or they'll murder us in our sleep, to paraphrase Zappa.
Back to coding...
Thanks for the rant. It's lonely sometimes being the only one in the group who's never seen an episode of Survivor, or not even *wanting* to set foot inside the Home Depot that just opened up down at the mall.
ISOs are for wimps. This ain't your grandma's OS.
You think your problem with the NVidia driver would be fixed if it were open source?
No, I think a driver would exist for my OSes of choice if NVidia opened the driver sources. It's not all about Linux. On FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD, recent NVidia hardware is as useless as an HP or Lexmark WinPrinter. Feh.
Right. That was no nematode, that was my ex-wife! It looked more like an arthropod than a nematode, or I'm an allotherian.
I wandered into the Sphinx site a few days ago. Then, and now, all their test numbers where you would try the speech rec. are down, i.e., they take the port off hook and give you a single short beep, then just leave you sitting there.
Pointed out above in this list - Erlang is an FP language used in serious production. The ERTS, running production telecom applications, does much of the work needed to support high availability clustering.
The language bears the hallmarks of ruthless pragmatism in its feature set. It was designed to serve a real, specific set of needs and appears to do so very well. But, it also makes you want to try it for just about any distributed app that comes along.
The FP nature of the language with very light weight processes and IPC suggests that this kind of FP may be even better suited to extreme programming and similar rapid development disciplines than OO.
I think we are about to see a resurgence of FP, with Erlang, Haskell, and Scheme at the forefront. Some better FP platform may appear on the scene in the next few years.There's no apostrophe in the possessive "its".