Your problem is in trying to define a "REAL" velocity. What frame of reference are you using to define your "REAL velocity"? To measure a velocity you need a reference point. You then measure the velocity of your subject *relative* to your frame of reference. Part of the point of relativity is that ALL frames of reference are equally valid. Basically observer-based velocity is the ONLY kind of velocity there is.
In point of fact, a user must already have write access to your.mailrc and.emacs files (implying that your account was already insecure) to instigate the sort of "virus" you've pointed out above. Also the code that enables this sort of behaviour is not found in the default versions of these files distributed by OS or application vendors. MS products are *BY DEFAULT* vulnerable, and the malicious user needs no special access to your machine or files to propagate his attack. This is not the case on most other properly administered and installed OS's.
I fully Agree that you own your IMPLEMENTATION of an idea, however the underlying idea should be free for others to use. Patent law (as applied in the US today) forbids this, even if someone else COMPLETELY INDEPENDENTLY discovers the same idea and produces thier own implementation. The fear is others might produce a better implementation, and actually COMPETE with you. One who truly believes in a free market, capitalist economic model (as you claim to) SHOULD (logically) approve of this competition, however that is not how our legal system (which is often absurdely illogical) treats the issue.
OK if we follow tchrists philosophy we shouldn't call our favorite OS Linux either, as the Linux kernel itself constitutes a far smaller percentage of the code on a "Linux" system than the that attributed to the FSF/Gnu people. If we're going to try and give credit to all the uncredited contributions then I personally vote to rename the system to JRH OS. for J. Random Hacker OS. - The Rokhed
you can also use the -l option to gnu make which limits the load average. I often use "make -j -l 2.5" which will only spawn new processes til the load average reaches 2.5
While these KB's are completely anti-ergo 8^) I have to agree with the above poster. I've been using one of these for 10 or 15 years now and it is definitely the best feeling KB I've ever used. Built like a tank, with a very "solid" feel. A KB built like one of these old IBM beasts, but with a modern ergo design would rule.
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Your problem is in trying to define a "REAL" velocity. What frame of reference are you using to define your "REAL velocity"? To measure a velocity you need a reference point. You then measure the velocity of your subject *relative* to your frame of reference. Part of the point of relativity is that ALL frames of reference are equally valid. Basically observer-based velocity is the ONLY kind of velocity there is.
In point of fact, a user must already have write access to your .mailrc and .emacs files (implying that your account was already insecure) to instigate the sort of "virus" you've pointed out above. Also the code that enables this sort of behaviour is not found in the default versions of these files distributed by OS or application vendors. MS products are *BY DEFAULT* vulnerable, and the malicious user needs no special access to your machine or files to propagate his attack. This is not the case on most other properly administered and installed OS's.
I fully Agree that you own your IMPLEMENTATION of an idea, however the underlying idea should be free for others to use. Patent law (as applied in the US today) forbids this, even if someone else COMPLETELY INDEPENDENTLY discovers the same idea and produces thier own implementation. The fear is others might produce a better implementation, and actually COMPETE with you. One who truly believes in a free market, capitalist economic model (as you claim to) SHOULD (logically) approve of this competition, however that is not how our legal system (which is often absurdely illogical) treats the issue.
OK if we follow tchrists philosophy we shouldn't call our favorite OS Linux either, as the Linux kernel itself constitutes a far smaller percentage of the code on a "Linux" system than the that attributed to the FSF/Gnu people.
If we're going to try and give credit to all the uncredited contributions then I personally vote to rename the system to JRH OS.
for J. Random Hacker OS.
- The Rokhed
you can also use the -l option to gnu make which limits the load average. I often use "make -j -l 2.5" which will only spawn new processes til the load average reaches 2.5
While these KB's are completely anti-ergo 8^) I have to agree with the above poster. I've been using one of these for 10 or 15 years now and it is definitely the best feeling KB I've ever used. Built like a tank, with a very "solid" feel. A KB built like one of these old IBM beasts, but with a modern ergo design would rule.