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  1. Re:That would be a timely decision on HP Stops Selling Printers, Starts Selling Prints · · Score: 1

    i came into this thread hoping to find a usable networked duplex printer
    since it looks like i may have to make yet a third frankenstein
    LJ4+ soon...for someone to say 'ah, you're forgetting about the ...'

    damn.

  2. Re:No surprise, really... on Apple Delays Leopard to October · · Score: 1

    an aside. can someone tell me this 'finder' actually is. i'm
    a unix person who has been using mac osx for..say three years
    now. its great. but people keep talking about this 'finder' thing
    as if its an essential part of the os. is it just the dumb thing
    than manages the dock. the thing that manages the stupid modal
    'active application state'? the silly little file browser?

  3. Re:excellent! on Internet2 and National LambdaRail To Merge · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    damn. and i thought it was a coalition of gay, scheme programming,
    train buffs.

  4. Re:SmartVariables is a good alternative to MPI / P on Auto-Parallelizing Compiler From Codeplay · · Score: 1

    new? 10 inches from my head i have a 2 volume collection edited by
    shapiro called 'concurrent prolog' published in 1986 which uses the concept of named
    streams to communicate between concurrent processes, which to a
    large extent are treated as variables in the language. i could
    find an earlier reference, but it would be more work than turning 60 degrees.

    try harder

  5. years of computation? on Grid Computes 420 Years Worth of Data in 4 Months · · Score: 4, Funny

    sorry, i missed that definition. what is that in library of congresses per human hair?

  6. Re:not first; Connection Machine, Masspar on Intel Squeezes 1.8 TFlops Out of One Processor · · Score: 1

    or maybe its actually really hard, or arguably impossible, to use data-parallel machines for general purpose computing?

  7. Re:FUD? on Graph of Linux Vs. Windows System Calls · · Score: 1

    no, they dont really. as much as i love the dot project, its really not the
    worlds best general purpose graph drawer. it also turns out to be very subjective
    depending on the planarization approximation to generate something that looks
    clean or messy.

    so if you just build a dynamic call graph and run it through dot (having done this
    before many times myself), you cant really say that the overall visual impression
    leaves you any more informed than you were before.

    put it this way, do you really know anything more about the respective implementations
    from looking at these pictures aside from the false generalization that windows
    is 'messier' than linux? no, you dont.

  8. Re:interface interface interface on How Do You Advocate Linux in 5 Minutes? · · Score: 1

    here is maybe a good answer.

      while reading your post i thought you were talking about the design an integrity of the various software APIs that mark of the structural boundaries inside of any large system. and i thought 'not enough'.

    then i realized you were talking about lickable buttony slidy things that make noises.

  9. Re:I want to see some patent protection on Freeing the Good Stuff From University Labs · · Score: 2, Informative

    so you think the situation under bayh-dole where the university is supposed to be
    legally obliged to patent it and license it is really much better? do you know what
    its like to have your phd work sold off to the higest bidder before you can even
    finish it and get your doctorate? to have university lawyer sniffing around your
    work area looking for things that might be patentable. to not be able to open
    source simple tools because something thinks they are required to try and sell them
    off? to have to have your academic papers reviewed by techical lawyers as if you
    were in a company?

    commericalization does get some fruits of research in front on the public that may
    not have bene otherwise, but its also in almost direct opposition to the normal
    academic model of frank and open discussion.

  10. Re:Secret Laws are Police-state tools on Gilmore Loses Airport ID Case · · Score: 1

    you contradict yourself somewhat. corruption is the behaviour that arises naturally from the system. it isn't really an intent in and of itself.

  11. Re:Why??? on Ideal Linux System for Newbies? · · Score: 1

    get the 2gb, parallels just flails painfully with only 1, although i haven't tried turning down the guest size very low. just upgraded to 2 and both oses are very usable..except for an occasional usage spike that i can't really explain.

  12. Re:Ehm... Does this mean there won't be any update on Hans Reiser to Sell Company · · Score: 1

    you mean 'installed' or 'created'?

  13. where? on Microsoft Hands Over Docs To EU · · Score: 4, Interesting

    does anyone know where to actually get the specs?

  14. Re:Thought Crime on Florida Judge Upholds Conviction By Defining "Email" To Include IMs · · Score: 1

    s/belief/intent

    there. now its all legal.

  15. Re:Avoid overly bitter OcamL/Lisp/Eifel freaks on on Taking Your Programming Skills to the Next Level? · · Score: 1

    grandparent is correct.

    learn how to do metaprogramming. learn how to write operating systems, compilers,
    and design languages. then when you have to do some random server-side crap, you
    can do it less time, with greater extensibility and stability, and have more
    fun doing it.

    or you can spend the rest of your life spitting out the same little balls of
    php.

  16. silly on Is the Botnet Battle Already Lost? · · Score: 1

    this whole thing is just ridiculous. yes, sure if you treat existing poorly engineered systems as inviolate and try to work around them its a never ending battle. but the basic tools to provide systemic distributed security have been published for quite some time. fix the problem at its source and stop screwing around.

    yes, pkis are not flawless, but it would be a huge step above this kind of flailing

  17. Re:open source? on Ask MySQL's CEO About Running a Free Software Business · · Score: 1

    most other open source organizations are perfectly happy to accept gpl'd
    contributions, which include the right to redistribute. its normally not
    necessary to assign the ownership to the parent organization. this is a
    direct result of the company asserting its ownership rights over the source
    and all derivitives, in direct contradition to the spirit of the gpl. again,
    to assert that this is a legal neccessity is duplicitous. you are trying
    to keep and eat your cake. great if you can get away with it, but its not
    free as in libre...until a community arises around a fork.

  18. BCD? on Boot Linux, BSD, and OS X from Vista · · Score: 3, Funny

    i've always found bcd quite easy. just throw away a large fraction of the legitimate encodings...wait, what?

  19. Re:open source? on Ask MySQL's CEO About Running a Free Software Business · · Score: 1

    yes, i fully understand that you are a company. but you didn't answer the question as to what degree that company nature, and the contributors licence dilutes the gpl.
    its a bit disingenous to assert that its just about liability, as you demand that
    contributors assign all rights, so that you can distribute an alternative license,
    including this code, for a fee.

  20. Re:Defects per KLOC on Ask MySQL's CEO About Running a Free Software Business · · Score: 1

    no really. read the code. its all one large defect.

  21. open source? on Ask MySQL's CEO About Running a Free Software Business · · Score: 1

    are you really open source? its lovely that one can look at the source,
    and that its gpld, but in order to get to the mainline, one must agree
    to a 'contributors license' which assign all rights to mysql ad.
    a bit of a dodge?

  22. Re:Headline Changed on Intel Previews Potential Replacement for Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    i saw the headline and was wondering why a pulse code modulation interface would have anything to do with the underlying storage technology, and why it would be a good idea in the first place.

  23. dod on DoD Wary of That "Open" Word · · Score: 1

    of course we all know that the us dod is a monolithic
    entity that only holds one opinion about anything.

  24. Re:142 page PDF... on Draft Scheme Standard R6RS Released · · Score: 1

    i think there is some danger of that. section 7 in particular i found
    very disturbing, writing unix-style script execution syntax into
    the language. its clear that they are going for pragmatism and adoption
    rather than the clarity that was present in the earlier definition.

    frankly really i wish they had just stuck to core+sfri (and left
    hygenic macros as an sfri)

  25. Re:an anecdote caused by this good book on Mastering Regular Expressions · · Score: -1, Troll

    5 years from now when you've moved on, frankly i'd much
    rather have a first-year-college-grad state machine
    in front of me than some line noise that happened to
    be supported in perl 6.0.23.7 alpha 4