That statement is provably wrong... All I need do is prove there is something that I can prove can't be done.
Hypothesis: You can't find a real number "x" such that x^2 < 0.
Proof: Left as an excersise for the reader...
QED.
What you are thinking of is different -- for eg, if I were to say "Pigs can't fly", I couldn't prove this without finding _every_ instance of a pig, and making it try to fly. Even then, it would be a shaky proof, because how do I know how to make pigs fly? (I guess we'll have to wait for MS to release some good software)... and _even_ _then_, how do I know I have found all the pigs?
Interestingly, there is a whole set of problems in mathematics which are provably unsolvable. With many hypothesis, the first step is to prove that the problem is solvable, then work on the solution:)
Whatever these installers do, they really need to be compatible with APT and RPM... I generally dislike installing things that I can't install with `apt-get install`. It's not so much about being lazy, but about ensuring that my system is consistent. I like to be able to do `apt-get update; apt-get upgrade` and be confident that all my software is the most recent version available (except for the fact that debian is often a bit behind)...
Basically, any effort that goes into a GUI installer should be able to be utilised by apt (and rpm equivalents) without too much trouble -- they should not depend on having a GUI, and should not depend on any particular package format or file locations... it's all too complex:(
I have a tendency to make stuff up on survey forms -- I say what I want them to hear. eg: if I get a survey asking me where I heard from company X, I usually say "From a Friend", as it will influence them to care more about what people think of them based on experience rather than placing more ads in magazines.
It could be possible to do the same with Censuses (Censi? Censum?), if it's not illegal... Tell the government what you want them to hear... I don't know what this means legally in the USA or in my own Australia, but I think the idea could have merit...
you don't need it. You can do everything without bringing up X. The article says:
I wonder what we would have in the way of tools if people said "Okay, EVERYBODY has a GUI". That is, if there was no console mode per se. If the first thing that init did was throw you into X instead of the last thing.
This is all wrong -- The last thing I want is tools that don't work unless there is a GUI. Often you have headless servers, or your GUI just isn't working, or whatever, and you need the plain old console to get things done. Additionally, why pay for the Graphics hardware (and software) on a headless server? If we went this way, we would be one step closer to NT.
Of course, moving from 5 to 6 is almost impossible without some sort of "pull". Either you have a label behind you, you know someone at the station, or there are drugs involved (beleive me, more than one hit song has become a hit due to a cocaine shipment arriving on time).
It doesn't matter that home studios can produce high quality music, the thing that the big labels have over little guys is not quality but marketing (and, for that matter, market power over retailers). Think about it -- how many of us can make a better burger than McDonalds? I know I can. But I don't have the marketing clout that McD's have, so no matter how hard I try, until I get big-time marketing resources behind me, I won't sell as many burgers as McD's, and in fact, won't even present a threat to them. Likewise, Sony and friends are not going to be worried about small-time producers stealing their market, because they have the marketing dollars to ensure that it doesn't happen.
hermaphrodite or parthenogenetic (as someone else said)... yep, that's what I meant (sorry for the confusion -- don't want to diss any bisexuals out there...)
But I'm sure I know a few women who would have very well-developed pelvic bones due to vibration-induced growth... hmm... I wonder if we could survey the pelvic bone sizes of women who do vs women who don't... hmm...
Surely one day, we will end up genetically engineering an animal that does everything we need. We could make it have great tasting meat, produce and collect methane to fuel our cars, make different flavoured milk out of each teat, be bisexual and able to reproduce with itself, have a switchable glow-bum for lighting, grow steel wool, and so on. We will have no need at all for bio-diversity. It will be great!
Umm...Yahoo!'s message boards are public, and the guy no longer works for them (and had no contractual obligations to stay silent when he left), so what precedent gives his ex-company the right to audit his opinions?
Well, the message boards are public, and "the guy" posted to them openly, assumedly without trying to hide his identity... what precedent stops a company from checking to see what anyone is saying about them -- ex-employee or not? As long as it doesn't become intrusive into the life of a private individual, I see nothing wrong with this. If the comments are well-founded, then his new company will not have a problem with it. If they are unfounded, then it's fair enough that he gets in a bit of trouble for it...
so could this set of scripts be used on other C code? Perhaps XFree86, Mozilla, or even smaller things like grep and a2ps. To me, it seems like a great way to visualise what really is going on in a program...
Congrats to Rusty for this, it couldn't have been easy...
Seriously, they must have a better business reason to be thinking about porting it to SH-3/4 than old dreamcasts... surely? Who would want Inferno or Plan 9 on a Dreamcast anyway? Surely the esoteric-OS and Dreamcast markets are almost entirely separate? What are they really targetting here?
Surely they have a lot of cool stuff that would benefit from open source hacking? Why would they do it? A _lot_ of expertise in this kind of esoteric area is out there in the Open Source world, and a _lot_ of these people would be interested in contributing to such projects.
Wouldn't these agencies be giving vital information away if they were to do something like that? Not neccessarily -- I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be open sourced in some generic way, and then adapted within said departments to perform in the way they want them to -- for eg, an alglorithm for detecting man-made objects in satelite imagery would be handy at publicly available resolutions for identifying buildings and so on, but could be used unmodified at military resolution for identifying far more interesting things...
I'm sure the genii at said agencies could come up with multitudes of other ways to give to and receive from the Open Source community, without giving their advantages away, and without violating the GPL.
I think this battle has been run and lost. I haven't used removable media for literally years (apart from CDs, but they're different). I don't think much would convince me that this or Zip, or anything else like that is worthwhile -- I'd much rather spend the money on a faster Internet connection... so much more flexible and useful...
sure, this other company may have got in before MS, but check this quote:
"Microsoft is spending a lot of money promoting it and I think [the Xbox name] is as valuable to them as it is to us. If they want us to part with it, it's up to them to determine how much they think it's worth," Van Leeuwen said.
Seems to me as if what they are really wanting here is to profit by letting MS invest a lot in their trademark, and then hitting them with a conflict to get money out of them. Surely they would have heard of XBox long ago -- surely they would have been able to contact MS and say "er, no, we have that name" much earlier, so MS would be able to get a new name form the start... but no, it appears that they hvae let it go long enough for it to be worth MS's while to pay them out rather than find a new name...
They will just do what they did with Word, and call it "Box"... or perhaps, to build the upgrade culture, they will go for Box2001. (maybe XBox2001 is different enough for the USPTO). Hmm... I'm sure there's a joke to be made about POBox2001 In Your Capital City, but it may just be an Australian-centric joke, and will be lost on this audience...:)
no matter if everyone used pine for email, we would still be vulnerable to our friends' email stupidity -- for eg, I often get forwarded chain letters from friends who include my address along with the "CC this email to spammer@spamcity.com to win your prize" address... the biggest bugs in out email systems are people...
Seriously -- could you have a surgery where for a reduced fee (or perhaps for free), patients agree that their consultation will be broadcast, which could be used on a webpage to generate revenue through advertising or subscriptions... hmmm...
nothing more. I want my records to be visible to me and any health professional I authorise. I don't want my medical records to be "owned" by any particular doctor or practice -- they're _my_ records, for crying out loud!
than air-based devices... Surely if someone could build something with the same kind of speed and payload, that flew or hovered somehow, it would be more efficient -- air provides much lower drag than water...
Due to the fact that so many large corporations have so much invested in their IP, and make so much from it, and the fact that these corporations are so important to the US economy, and hence to the political future of those who matter, it is certain that reverse engineering will remain either illegal or inconveniently legally difficult.
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Hypothesis: You can't find a real number "x" such that x^2 < 0 .
Proof: Left as an excersise for the reader...
QED.
What you are thinking of is different -- for eg, if I were to say "Pigs can't fly", I couldn't prove this without finding _every_ instance of a pig, and making it try to fly. Even then, it would be a shaky proof, because how do I know how to make pigs fly? (I guess we'll have to wait for MS to release some good software)... and _even_ _then_, how do I know I have found all the pigs?
Interestingly, there is a whole set of problems in mathematics which are provably unsolvable. With many hypothesis, the first step is to prove that the problem is solvable, then work on the solution :)
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Basically, any effort that goes into a GUI installer should be able to be utilised by apt (and rpm equivalents) without too much trouble -- they should not depend on having a GUI, and should not depend on any particular package format or file locations... it's all too complex :(
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It could be possible to do the same with Censuses (Censi? Censum?), if it's not illegal... Tell the government what you want them to hear... I don't know what this means legally in the USA or in my own Australia, but I think the idea could have merit...
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This is all wrong -- The last thing I want is tools that don't work unless there is a GUI. Often you have headless servers, or your GUI just isn't working, or whatever, and you need the plain old console to get things done. Additionally, why pay for the Graphics hardware (and software) on a headless server? If we went this way, we would be one step closer to NT.
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Congrats to Rusty for this, it couldn't have been easy...
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Wouldn't these agencies be giving vital information away if they were to do something like that? Not neccessarily -- I'm sure there are a lot of things that could be open sourced in some generic way, and then adapted within said departments to perform in the way they want them to -- for eg, an alglorithm for detecting man-made objects in satelite imagery would be handy at publicly available resolutions for identifying buildings and so on, but could be used unmodified at military resolution for identifying far more interesting things...
I'm sure the genii at said agencies could come up with multitudes of other ways to give to and receive from the Open Source community, without giving their advantages away, and without violating the GPL.
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