You can dead-reckon only if you're traveling from a known posistion in a known direction in a straight line at a constant velocity.
I really doubt that it would be very useful when traversing the winding streets of a large city.
Most non-geeks I know stare at cathode ray tubes for several hours a day, although they aren't hooked up to computers, have low refresh rates, low resolutions, and less-than-amazing content.
Well, it seems obvious, considering the motivation of the founders of the US.
They were all about personal freedoms, because they were trying to break away from a corrupt and tyrannical government.
What they WOULDN'T want was a select and eletist group of individuals with the most money controlling the economic system.
Oh, and to respond to you about 'killing the Linux movement'.
I AM the Linux movement.
As long as I continue to use and support Linux-supporting organizations (Debian, FSF), there will ALWAYS be Free (I include BSD licensing in my view of Free) operating systems.
I defeat Microsoft everytime I say "No." to one of their products or file formats, or show another person the value of freedom.
Capitalism isn't about money, it's about choice.
In capitalism, the consumers (I hate being called that) ARE the economic system. They ultimately decide the fate of a product or company.
Certain commercial OS's are all about taking away choice and taking away freedom from the consumer. This is actually more akin to a Communist system in which there is the 'One True Way' and consumers have no choice in the matter.
Which method "goes against [...] capitalism" in this light?
Why should you care what happens to your body?
It's just a group of protiens that control your higher functions. No more, no less.
Why should it matter if you get a little diseased?
Mozilla just pops up a "Download File" dialog.
If you attempt to download it it's just copying random bits, so no harm is done, you just never finish the download:)
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Yes, of course.
Communism is all about millitantly defending personal freedoms... or not.
It was developed using *public* funds at several universities. That alone should mean that it should have been in the public domain.
The theory behind the algorithm is complicated but the actual implementation is *extremely* simple. It's just basic modular algebra on large numbers.
If I developed a proof, using public funds, that a(b + c) = ab + ac, should I disallow others (who have indirectly paid for its development) from freely using it?
Well... RSA Data Security Inc. was able to patent the simple mathematical truth behind RSA encryption.
I guess you could apply for a patent that 1+1=2 and sue people for using that truth.
Capitalism is the be-all and end-all of economic systems and communism means that you're stupid.
Anything that is derived from capitalism is good, even if it's not.
Anything that is derived from communism is bad, even if it's not.
Working for freedom is zealotry.
Doing whatever it takes for money is not.
The main reason why content control can't work is that the industry is both allowing the person to view the work, AND keep the work a secret.
They can't have both!
It can eather be viewed or kept secret, and they don't seem to understand that.
The College Board is also switching it's AP CompSci language from C++ to Java in 2003.
That's millions of lost dollars from schools who would have otherwise bought microsoft Java IDEs, and an enormous loss of mindshare in future programmers.
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You can dead-reckon only if you're traveling from a known posistion in a known direction in a straight line at a constant velocity.
I really doubt that it would be very useful when traversing the winding streets of a large city.
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Most non-geeks I know stare at cathode ray tubes for several hours a day, although they aren't hooked up to computers, have low refresh rates, low resolutions, and less-than-amazing content.
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Pretending to play any instrument is much more difficult than actually having an instrument because you can't get the tactile and aural feedback.
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Well, it seems obvious, considering the motivation of the founders of the US.
They were all about personal freedoms, because they were trying to break away from a corrupt and tyrannical government.
What they WOULDN'T want was a select and eletist group of individuals with the most money controlling the economic system.
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Oh, and to respond to you about 'killing the Linux movement'.
I AM the Linux movement.
As long as I continue to use and support Linux-supporting organizations (Debian, FSF), there will ALWAYS be Free (I include BSD licensing in my view of Free) operating systems.
I defeat Microsoft everytime I say "No." to one of their products or file formats, or show another person the value of freedom.
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I know that it's Java-like, but he seemed to be implying that someone would actually want to (and enjoy) writing applications in something like Perl.
:)
Obviously a delusional individual
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Linux IS the essence of capitalism!
Capitalism isn't about money, it's about choice.
In capitalism, the consumers (I hate being called that) ARE the economic system. They ultimately decide the fate of a product or company.
Certain commercial OS's are all about taking away choice and taking away freedom from the consumer. This is actually more akin to a Communist system in which there is the 'One True Way' and consumers have no choice in the matter.
Which method "goes against [...] capitalism" in this light?
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Why should you care what happens to your body?
It's just a group of protiens that control your higher functions. No more, no less.
Why should it matter if you get a little diseased?
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What, exactly, is that link 'bug' supposed to do?
The worst that can happen is that your browser dumps some random ascii to the screen until you stop the 'page' load.
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I hope you're either joking or trolling, because MS C# (your ".NET language") is indeed a compiled language.
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Mozilla just pops up a "Download File" dialog. :)
If you attempt to download it it's just copying random bits, so no harm is done, you just never finish the download
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Yes, of course.
Communism is all about millitantly defending personal freedoms... or not.
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Anything that truely is 'mission critical' would be developed in house anyway.
Finger pointing isn't worth a damn to anyone.
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One reason to use 2.4 on older hardware...
iptables firewall.
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The SDI seems to take the stance that:
We need to do something about it.
This is something.
Therefore, We need to do this.
Which, of course, is absolutely useless.
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Maybe MS will include it in the next version of their browser. One could only hope?
Your wish might come true...
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It was developed using *public* funds at several universities. That alone should mean that it should have been in the public domain.
The theory behind the algorithm is complicated but the actual implementation is *extremely* simple. It's just basic modular algebra on large numbers.
If I developed a proof, using public funds, that a(b + c) = ab + ac, should I disallow others (who have indirectly paid for its development) from freely using it?
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Well... RSA Data Security Inc. was able to patent the simple mathematical truth behind RSA encryption.
I guess you could apply for a patent that 1+1=2 and sue people for using that truth.
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Capitalism is the be-all and end-all of economic systems and communism means that you're stupid.
Anything that is derived from capitalism is good, even if it's not.
Anything that is derived from communism is bad, even if it's not.
Working for freedom is zealotry.
Doing whatever it takes for money is not.
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The main reason why content control can't work is that the industry is both allowing the person to view the work, AND keep the work a secret.
They can't have both!
It can eather be viewed or kept secret, and they don't seem to understand that.
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He was released and given a medal by his country.
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They apparently think that C++ isn't OO enough, so they're switching to java.
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The College Board is also switching it's AP CompSci language from C++ to Java in 2003.
That's millions of lost dollars from schools who would have otherwise bought microsoft Java IDEs, and an enormous loss of mindshare in future programmers.
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