Even worse. I'm a Canadian, so I am not affected by this stuff....
NOT!
The crappy US legislation always seems to find it's way into Canada sooner or later. Worse I can't even vote the people out who are making this stuff up.
Sometimes it truly is like sleeping next to an Elephant. (with bad gas!)
The problem with this type of thing, is that they get several tries at it. The first one is almost always outragous. They use that as a measuring stick. Then they start adjusting down and eventually they get a bill that passes.
It doesn't matter if the idea is flawed or not. What matters is that the congressman get's his way or not. There are egos involved, and big money, and the responsibilites to the citizens. (Guess which of the three is most important to the congressman).
I think that having comon sources for graphics and icons is a great idea. This seems to be the thrust of what Red Hat is doing. I don't know how often I've tried to find an Icon that is hidden inside of.directories for either kde or gnome.
OK all time record since I've been alive. Hows that?
What really bothers me, is that I drive to work and even though the "drive clean" program has been in effect for years, I'm still seeing black exhaust comming out of trucks and cars. Or about Canadian companies like Eco Logic that have working systems to clean up hazardeous waste, yet receive no support from the government, that still incinerates garbage and pcbs. (kirkland lake area residents what out!).
Not to mention the pollutants from the coal burning electrical plants in Ontario. Let's invest a couple of million and put scrubbers on the stacks so that tons of carbon isn't spewed into the air. And oh, yes, Ohio thanks for your contributions to our haze. You're one of the dirtest states there is, but you don't notice because it blows over here.
I've considered moving just for my health's sake, at a great financial loss. Thanks to the government for giving me this option. (Die of lung cancer, or other respertory disease, or move).
I think you would find most Torontians and Ontarians, feel differently. As for the rest of Canada's opinion about Toronto, I wouldn't know, and wonder why you would presume to. Do you always put your foot into other peoples mouths?
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And yesterday Ontario just had our 25 smog alert day of the year. Beating our all time record.:(
Follow my reasoning here. I've heard from other articles at/. that Alan Cox (or one of the big name advocates) couldn't think of a reason to justify to NVidea to OpenSource their drivers. There would be no profit for them to do so.
But if they had, the drivers would have been updated to scratch whoever's itch needed to be scratched. In this case the bandwidth from card to Memory.
One of the benifits of Open source is that even seldom used features are enhanced, so that when suddenly there is a demand for this the features are in place.
I find this comment curious. (As Gelernter [technologyreview.com] says, it simply doesn't make sense to use a 1960's era data model (the hierarchical file system) on 2002 hardware. )
Why wouldn't it make sense? After all we are still using the same computer architecture, as the 60's. And The hierarchical file system can support other file systems, making it flexable enough to handle specialized data types.
Your Alice program does a nice job of superfical conversation. I'm wondering how you invision a deeper conversation. To give a specific example, do you think the Alice methodology is good enough to work as an expert system in different fields. (chemistry, physics, programming, etc).
[quote]Unfortunately, the Open Source community depends on a number of licenses that completely prevents this. If I actually buy a copy of Linux I can tear it apart and modify it, but I don't have the rights to simply resell my new creation. There are a number of requirements I have to meet before I can do that. I have to essentially provide a free copy of my changes in raw form to Big Brother and everyone else in order to do that. [/quote] If you buy a toaster and alarm clock and put them together in a new way, and sell it, you are selling not only the results of the toaster and alarm clock but also the physical presence of the toaster and alarm clock. The two are not separatable as software is. At least this is how I view it. GPL is simply a method of making software more like a phyiscal thing. If you buy a toaster, you can see the guts. If you buy software, you can only see the guts if you are given the source. Same concept.
Also, the GPL doesn't prevent you from selling your modified version, just from selling a binary only version.
heh, I had the same idea. Only modified to have fins and magnets. I think the low tech ideas are the best, esp for low tech problems. (things smashing into you).
A large net orbiting a spacecraft (that is in turn orbiting the earth) can catch debris that comes across the space craft. The idea is that the net would have several radial fins, with magnets every few meters. The whole mess would be held out by centrifugal force. Anything that comes in contact with it, will (if it's moving fast) cause the fin it contacts to colapse around it, and will impart it's energy to the links in the net. Once the object is slowed down enough, if it's metal it will just drift over to a magnet. Everyonce in a while the net is replaced, and the old one, can be sent down to the atmosphere to burn up.
1st are you really happy at the job you are at? Will the new job offer anything besides money? How about perks? Even little things like free coffee can make a difference.
2nd Did the first job just match the new job's money without anything else... That's not an incentive to stay, that's an incentive to not bother looking.
3rd What do you want to do with your life in the big picture? How do you want to be remembered? Which of these jobs best fit that?
4th Money. When are pay reviews scheduled for each job? What beneifits does each job have? (Health/dental etc).
5th Distance. This has become important to me. It takes me 3/4 hour to get to work, and that hour and a half a day I would much rather put to other use. Which job is closer to home?
All in all, make a list of your reasons, give each reason an importance value, and sum the totals. If you aren't happy with the answer then do it again. (after all there is no cheating here, it's your life).>
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Even worse. I'm a Canadian, so I am not affected by this stuff....
NOT!
The crappy US legislation always seems to find it's way into Canada sooner or later. Worse I can't even vote the people out who are making this stuff up.
Sometimes it truly is like sleeping next to an Elephant. (with bad gas!)
The problem with this type of thing, is that they get several tries at it. The first one is almost always outragous. They use that as a measuring stick. Then they start adjusting down and eventually they get a bill that passes.
It doesn't matter if the idea is flawed or not. What matters is that the congressman get's his way or not. There are egos involved, and big money, and the responsibilites to the citizens. (Guess which of the three is most important to the congressman).
You need to shave it every morning?
[quote]Yeah, guys, and this loop terminates:
:)
int limitedTime = 14;
for ( int i=0;i<limitedTime;i++) {
System.out.println("Copyright Protected");
limitedTime += 50;
}
[/quote]
Actually that loop does terminate. The limitedTime variable is an int, which will wrap to a negative number.
Good thing you aren't in congress or you'd be making bad code into laws!
You could vote them out, but would the ones replacing them be any better?
It was supposed to be funny...
Well I tried.
A cd that you can pop into your computer, which will boot Linux without actually installing it onto your hard disk.
(Some people were wondering)
I think that having comon sources for graphics and icons is a great idea. This seems to be the thrust of what Red Hat is doing. I don't know how often I've tried to find an Icon that is hidden inside of .directories for either kde or gnome.
;)
I'm even thinking of switching back to redhat
(currently a gentoo/mandrake dual boot user)
What really bothers me, is that I drive to work and even though the "drive clean" program has been in effect for years, I'm still seeing black exhaust comming out of trucks and cars. Or about Canadian companies like Eco Logic that have working systems to clean up hazardeous waste, yet receive no support from the government, that still incinerates garbage and pcbs. (kirkland lake area residents what out!).
Not to mention the pollutants from the coal burning electrical plants in Ontario. Let's invest a couple of million and put scrubbers on the stacks so that tons of carbon isn't spewed into the air. And oh, yes, Ohio thanks for your contributions to our haze. You're one of the dirtest states there is, but you don't notice because it blows over here.
I've considered moving just for my health's sake, at a great financial loss. Thanks to the government for giving me this option. (Die of lung cancer, or other respertory disease, or move).
I think you would find most Torontians and Ontarians, feel differently. As for the rest of Canada's opinion about Toronto, I wouldn't know, and wonder why you would presume to. Do you always put your foot into other peoples mouths?
And yesterday Ontario just had our 25 smog alert day of the year. Beating our all time record. :(
So much for our pristine nature.
I've looked in Canada, and all the stores listed on their site which sell in Canada, DO NOT sell the Zaurus. It seems to be not available here. :(
You can't be Canadian, your eh's are in the wrong places.
Canadian police agent: Sir, I found something very disturbing in this person's web history.Eh?
Canadian detective: Hokay eh? let me see it...
Canadian police agent: One second hoser, here it is.
Canadian detective: My god what is that eh?! is that man tearing open his own a.....
Canadian police agent: He followed this link from a site known as Slashdot.org eh?
The rest of the conversation would have to do with how much we are taxed, and how different we are then the Americans.
Follow my reasoning here. I've heard from other articles at /. that Alan Cox (or one of the big name advocates) couldn't think of a reason to justify to NVidea to OpenSource their drivers. There would be no profit for them to do so.
But if they had, the drivers would have been updated to scratch whoever's itch needed to be scratched. In this case the bandwidth from card to Memory.
One of the benifits of Open source is that even seldom used features are enhanced, so that when suddenly there is a demand for this the features are in place.
I find this comment curious. (As Gelernter [technologyreview.com] says, it simply doesn't make sense to use a 1960's era data model (the hierarchical file system) on 2002 hardware. )
Why wouldn't it make sense? After all we are still using the same computer architecture, as the 60's. And The hierarchical file system can support other file systems, making it flexable enough to handle specialized data types.
He's Canadian, he will have lost half of that in taxes.
[quote]Unfortunately, the Open Source community depends on a number of licenses that completely prevents this. If I actually buy a copy of Linux I can tear it apart and modify it, but I don't have the rights to simply resell my new creation. There are a number of requirements I have to meet before I can do that. I have to essentially provide a free copy of my changes in raw form to Big Brother and everyone else in order to do that. [/quote]
If you buy a toaster and alarm clock and put them together in a new way, and sell it, you are selling not only the results of the toaster and alarm clock but also the physical presence of the toaster and alarm clock. The two are not separatable as software is. At least this is how I view it. GPL is simply a method of making software more like a phyiscal thing. If you buy a toaster, you can see the guts. If you buy software, you can only see the guts if you are given the source. Same concept.
Also, the GPL doesn't prevent you from selling your modified version, just from selling a binary only version.
heh, I had the same idea. Only modified to have fins and magnets. I think the low tech ideas are the best, esp for low tech problems. (things smashing into you).
A large net orbiting a spacecraft (that is in turn orbiting the earth) can catch debris that comes across the space craft. The idea is that the net would have several radial fins, with magnets every few meters. The whole mess would be held out by centrifugal force. Anything that comes in contact with it, will (if it's moving fast) cause the fin it contacts to colapse around it, and will impart it's energy to the links in the net. Once the object is slowed down enough, if it's metal it will just drift over to a magnet. Everyonce in a while the net is replaced, and the old one, can be sent down to the atmosphere to burn up.
I think you mean
here
Interesting.
It works great. I didn't realize that it was bleeding edge, I thought everyone who wanted X on windows did this!
1st are you really happy at the job you are at? Will the new job offer anything besides money? How about perks? Even little things like free coffee can make a difference.
2nd Did the first job just match the new job's money without anything else... That's not an incentive to stay, that's an incentive to not bother looking.
3rd What do you want to do with your life in the big picture? How do you want to be remembered? Which of these jobs best fit that?
4th Money. When are pay reviews scheduled for each job? What beneifits does each job have? (Health/dental etc).
5th Distance. This has become important to me. It takes me 3/4 hour to get to work, and that hour and a half a day I would much rather put to other use. Which job is closer to home?
All in all, make a list of your reasons, give each reason an importance value, and sum the totals. If you aren't happy with the answer then do it again. (after all there is no cheating here, it's your life).>
Who says that many eyes doesn't work!