If I have a GPL'd project, and I want to use GPL'd or BSD code in it, I'm fine.
If I want to combine Artistic License code with MPL code with CDDL code with GPL code, what license applies? Am I effectively relicensing code without the consent of the authors?
This is the main advantage of reducing the number of licenses.
My copy of UT2004 came with no more DRM than a CD key. It even runs on Linux, that DRM-hostile environment. How did they get that one past the publishers who would "NEVER allow them to release without DRM?"
Zinc isn't nearly as dangerous as the others, in fact it's an essential mineral for life. All the others in that list are quite poisonous but present in small, fairly inert quantities.
My favourite solution is to store these things temporarily in well-sealed landfill sites until, in 20 or 100 years, the technology and economics makes it viable to mine the landfills...
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Preferably killer apps?
If you write a whole new desktop system, you'll have to port a lot of apps to it. In fact, you'll probably want a compatibility layer with some other system; given that the only one of the Big Three desktop standards that isn't proprietary is X, you'll have an X compatibility layer (this is fairly easy to do, too).
But what does this really gain you? Where's the payoff for the user? How does using e.g. NVIDIA pixel shaders enhance usability in a way you can't do with X?
There are routinely groups of people who set out to do this. The Berlin project (which appears to have moved to http://www.fresco.org/) is the biggest example; the last news on that page is from 2003, so we can consider them dead.
Now that's the most stupid thing I've seen on slashdot for a long time. Have you tried writing to the Economist and asking? No, you haven't. They will tell you who their staff are, but they don't attach names to articles because the article is more important than the name. The intent of the system is to prevent there being celebrity Economist journalists.
C++ is horrendously hard to machine parse. GCC has just got a new parser to deal with the many problems the old one had. And C++ with errors in is even harder to parse.
A reasonable design goal for new languages should be to make it as easy as possible for the user to find errors and as hard as possible for those errors to appear in the first place.
What percentage of the US is using VOIP now? 0.5%? I can't see this as being a huge problem, at least not compared to the "competition" and "losing money on hardware" problems.
Surprisingly, US law does not apply everywhere in the world. There are plenty of countries where gambling is legal, and they can go to their local Cisco office (which may well be a different company from Cisco US) and get help from there.
Drugs are pretty much the exception in that the US will go a long way out of its way to disrupt the drugs trade in other countries. Oh, and intellectual property. Whereas selling arms to genocidal governments is regarded as pretty harmless and will get you at worst a slap on the wrist.
There's just no way that can possibly work. It's also a mistake to assume that mere disclosure of wrongdoing on the web will have an effect on a more popular blogger.
For example, if a popular liberal blogger were to claim that e.g. Instapundit was being funded by the republicans, they would simply not be believed by his readers. Things have got that partisan, and people believe what they want to believe.
Or, for example, malfeasance by a Slashdot editor: http://sethf.com/freespeech/censorware/project/jw- moral.php
There is no standard (as in, made by a standards group) way of installing software either on Linux or Windows. In the case of Windows, you have the de facto standard of InstallShield.
And on modern linux distros it can almost be as simple as on Windows, provided the software is shipped as an RPM. Open CD, doubleclick the package, enter root password, done.
... make lots of third-party devices that solve this problem. Heatpipes are particularly good. Many of the small Shuttle-style cases use them for moving heat silently onto a nice big heatsink and result in a system that's very nearly silent.
Finding holes in OSS is useful, because you can patch them. But finding holes in proprietary software just exposes you to this sort of risk, seldom results in change, and helps people who aren't paying you. Why bother?
Is it just for the self-righteous feeling of having found fault with someone else's work?
Use open-source software and abandon the rest of the world to the virus/anti-virus battle. Or write behaviour blocking anti-virus software and never have to worry about this sort of thing.
Charitable donations are handled by the charity: you sign a small form saying "I am a UK taxpayer" and hand it in with your donation, and the charity gets an extra 22% from the Inland Revenue. This appears to be economical even for small donations: I've seen it done for museum entry fees of L10 (~= $20).
Similarly, Working Families Tax Credit (a negative rate of income tax you get if you have children and a low family income) is paid by the employer who reclaims it from the Inland Revenue.
Bank interest is taxed at the basic rate unless you fill in a form declaring yourself to be a non-taxpayer (e.g. student).
It's all quite practical and means that non-specialists don't have to waste their time and money faffing around with income tax returns. It's more hassle for the self-employed, but so are most things, and self-employed people usually have accountants anyway.
You can move the deductions around as well. When the UK had morgage interest relief it was called MIRAS and handled through the bank. Student loans aren't tax-deductible but you only have to repay them if you earn over a certain amount.
And of course we don't have to pay any medical expenses unless we want to go private, in which case it's not tax-deductible.
The browser is really just a carrier for the MSHTML engine, which is used all over the place. A lot of people developing custom apps for Windows use IE in non-obvious ways to build bits of user interface cheaply.
(1) is unfeasibly expensive, you'd have to build a wall around the country and man it everywhere.
With (2), would you require proof that the employer knew their employee was illegal? If no, that's a massive violation of civil liberties; if yes, you have to build a national identity card system so that everyone can prove that they are not an illegal alien.
I don't understand what you have in mind as a solutiuon to (3).
(4) will almost certainly never work due to economies of scale, until we get nanoassemblers and home fusion power or something.
And who gets to decide whether something is or is not a porn site? If I want to publish a quote from Lady Chatterly's Lover on my blog, do I have to get an.xxx tld first?
The originator was Bruce Perens, at the time when he worked for Pixar. Pixar just use Disney as a distributor, and will only do so for one more film, at which point they will be free to do it themselves.
So, not only are they using one of the least efficient on-the-wire protocols known to man, they're using a ghettoised WAP-orientated XML binary format.
And they are going to handle vectors with SVG.
This is what you would get if you asked a marketer to write a press release for an X replacement. There's no technical merit shown here at all.
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Seriously, how many people have 'switched' to Mac OS X because it looks cool? Quite a lot. Linux can and should be able to out-cool windows.
Of course, because Linux is modular, you can ignore it and stick to twm if you like,
If I have a GPL'd project, and I want to use GPL'd or BSD code in it, I'm fine.
If I want to combine Artistic License code with MPL code with CDDL code with GPL code, what license applies? Am I effectively relicensing code without the consent of the authors?
This is the main advantage of reducing the number of licenses.
My copy of UT2004 came with no more DRM than a CD key. It even runs on Linux, that DRM-hostile environment. How did they get that one past the publishers who would "NEVER allow them to release without DRM?"
Zinc isn't nearly as dangerous as the others, in fact it's an essential mineral for life. All the others in that list are quite poisonous but present in small, fairly inert quantities.
My favourite solution is to store these things temporarily in well-sealed landfill sites until, in 20 or 100 years, the technology and economics makes it viable to mine the landfills...
Preferably killer apps?
If you write a whole new desktop system, you'll have to port a lot of apps to it. In fact, you'll probably want a compatibility layer with some other system; given that the only one of the Big Three desktop standards that isn't proprietary is X, you'll have an X compatibility layer (this is fairly easy to do, too).
But what does this really gain you? Where's the payoff for the user? How does using e.g. NVIDIA pixel shaders enhance usability in a way you can't do with X?
There are routinely groups of people who set out to do this. The Berlin project (which appears to have moved to http://www.fresco.org/) is the biggest example; the last news on that page is from 2003, so we can consider them dead.
Read this on X bloat...
Now that's the most stupid thing I've seen on slashdot for a long time. Have you tried writing to the Economist and asking? No, you haven't. They will tell you who their staff are, but they don't attach names to articles because the article is more important than the name. The intent of the system is to prevent there being celebrity Economist journalists.
C++ is horrendously hard to machine parse. GCC has just got a new parser to deal with the many problems the old one had. And C++ with errors in is even harder to parse.
A reasonable design goal for new languages should be to make it as easy as possible for the user to find errors and as hard as possible for those errors to appear in the first place.
What percentage of the US is using VOIP now? 0.5%? I can't see this as being a huge problem, at least not compared to the "competition" and "losing money on hardware" problems.
Surprisingly, US law does not apply everywhere in the world. There are plenty of countries where gambling is legal, and they can go to their local Cisco office (which may well be a different company from Cisco US) and get help from there.
Drugs are pretty much the exception in that the US will go a long way out of its way to disrupt the drugs trade in other countries. Oh, and intellectual property. Whereas selling arms to genocidal governments is regarded as pretty harmless and will get you at worst a slap on the wrist.
There's just no way that can possibly work. It's also a mistake to assume that mere disclosure of wrongdoing on the web will have an effect on a more popular blogger.
- moral.php
For example, if a popular liberal blogger were to claim that e.g. Instapundit was being funded by the republicans, they would simply not be believed by his readers. Things have got that partisan, and people believe what they want to believe.
Or, for example, malfeasance by a Slashdot editor: http://sethf.com/freespeech/censorware/project/jw
Why would that take more, and what's wrong with the design?
There is no standard (as in, made by a standards group) way of installing software either on Linux or Windows. In the case of Windows, you have the de facto standard of InstallShield.
And on modern linux distros it can almost be as simple as on Windows, provided the software is shipped as an RPM. Open CD, doubleclick the package, enter root password, done.
... make lots of third-party devices that solve this problem. Heatpipes are particularly good. Many of the small Shuttle-style cases use them for moving heat silently onto a nice big heatsink and result in a system that's very nearly silent.
Finding holes in OSS is useful, because you can patch them. But finding holes in proprietary software just exposes you to this sort of risk, seldom results in change, and helps people who aren't paying you. Why bother?
Is it just for the self-righteous feeling of having found fault with someone else's work?
Use open-source software and abandon the rest of the world to the virus/anti-virus battle. Or write behaviour blocking anti-virus software and never have to worry about this sort of thing.
Charitable donations are handled by the charity: you sign a small form saying "I am a UK taxpayer" and hand it in with your donation, and the charity gets an extra 22% from the Inland Revenue. This appears to be economical even for small donations: I've seen it done for museum entry fees of L10 (~= $20).
Similarly, Working Families Tax Credit (a negative rate of income tax you get if you have children and a low family income) is paid by the employer who reclaims it from the Inland Revenue.
Bank interest is taxed at the basic rate unless you fill in a form declaring yourself to be a non-taxpayer (e.g. student).
It's all quite practical and means that non-specialists don't have to waste their time and money faffing around with income tax returns. It's more hassle for the self-employed, but so are most things, and self-employed people usually have accountants anyway.
As of 1 Jan 2005 we should be able to get this out of the IR for free under the Freedom of Information Act.
See http://www.spy.org.uk/foia/ for more.
I've never seen anyone actually using the SD DRM for anything.
You can move the deductions around as well. When the UK had morgage interest relief it was called MIRAS and handled through the bank. Student loans aren't tax-deductible but you only have to repay them if you earn over a certain amount.
And of course we don't have to pay any medical expenses unless we want to go private, in which case it's not tax-deductible.
The browser is really just a carrier for the MSHTML engine, which is used all over the place. A lot of people developing custom apps for Windows use IE in non-obvious ways to build bits of user interface cheaply.
(1) is unfeasibly expensive, you'd have to build a wall around the country and man it everywhere.
With (2), would you require proof that the employer knew their employee was illegal? If no, that's a massive violation of civil liberties; if yes, you have to build a national identity card system so that everyone can prove that they are not an illegal alien.
I don't understand what you have in mind as a solutiuon to (3).
(4) will almost certainly never work due to economies of scale, until we get nanoassemblers and home fusion power or something.
(5) and (6) are very good ideas!
If you want to run a program bigger than your available RAM, then you need swap.
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The software I'm developing uses about 3Gb, most of our systems have 2
And who gets to decide whether something is or is not a porn site? If I want to publish a quote from Lady Chatterly's Lover on my blog, do I have to get an .xxx tld first?
The originator was Bruce Perens, at the time when he worked for Pixar. Pixar just use Disney as a distributor, and will only do so for one more film, at which point they will be free to do it themselves.
I think the majority of the people at this conference will be non-white, given that it's a "World Summit".
So, not only are they using one of the least efficient on-the-wire protocols known to man, they're using a ghettoised WAP-orientated XML binary format.
And they are going to handle vectors with SVG.
This is what you would get if you asked a marketer to write a press release for an X replacement. There's no technical merit shown here at all.