you don't know what you are talking about.[...]This person appears to have defended is thesis based upon falsefied results.
RTFA. He has cheated while at Bell Labs, not at the university. Maybe you should check some facts yourself before accusing people of not knowing what they are talking about?
why would a c++ programmer with 10 years experience not have a low level fundamental understanding of the datatypes? because he learned how to program with c++
btw, I fired him immediately
Let me get this straight. You hired him for coding C++, and then fired him for not knowing anything but C++, and even for asking a question to which the solution 'isn't exactly intuitive'?
Windows was not originally designed with networking or security in mind, a lot of the code was written on the assumption it would never be connected to a network, and then hacked in to networked apps.
Yeah, Windows 3.0 and Windows 95 wasn't designed with networking and security in mind. But there are not many lines of kernel code left from those in the NT-based windows systems. Because NT was written from scratch (or at least from OS/2) with two main targets: Networking and security.
You could argue that they failed, but that is due to the implementation, not the idea.
I switched my production workstation + sql server to Gentoo the same day I got the e-mail from Red Hat stating they wouldn't support their child.
And that was a wise choice! My desktop is more stable, faster, more responsive and "cooler". And yes, that is because the switch threw me into kernel 2.6 and kde 3.2.
Now, I'm more impressed with how easy gentoo is to maintain.
Actually (as you pointed out,) one of the core concepts of the GPL is that you can't enforce such restrictions and have a GPL compatible license. By definition, how can you restrict something which is supposed to be free, as in freedom?
Obviously, you can, as the GPL itself defines the core concepts of the GPL.
Well, minus multiplied with minus becomes a positive. So I guess it would cancel out. On the other hand, Windows would probably BSOD when trying to multiply something. So, we get (--)-, which is -. A BSOD. Now, if the bluescreen subroutine (known internally in microsoft as "void releaseDateFixer(void)") also BSODs, you would be back in the graphical interface again. To crash the BSOD routine, you would probably need to do something as cruel as... plugging in a new printer or something.
Either he had the authority to act on behalf of Nullsoft or he did not.
Uh.. what? So it is not physically possible to make a contract where AOL says "you can release binaries of Winamp"(, or even "you can release binaries") "on behalf of Nullsoft, but you cannot release sourcecode/cannot release GPLd software/cannot do this without asking us first"?
Who knows. Maybe there exist no such guidelines. Maybe he didn't want to waste (pun intended) all his credibility within AOL on this single case?
What are you trying to say? That my thesis is "flawed" because it tries to even out economical differences between people?
No, dear sir, it isn't. It is certainly different from your suggestion, but my "thesis" is not flawed.
By the way, thank you for making me aware of the fact that the world is not fair, and will never be. I thought it was, and that's why i opted against your flat tax system.
Why not compare what is fair and equitable for YOU?
So, your system is fair, therefore my opinion is flawed because it has a different view on what's fair? Your argument is inherently flawed. How can anything be fair (even for me) in a world that will never be fair?
Your whole thesis is flawed because you are comparing yourself against others.
I am looking forward to a logically valid explanation of this thesis. First of all: How am I comparing myself to anyone in my thesis - without mentioning myself? And secondly: Are you suggesting that all statements that compare myself to others are flawed?
If I criticize a suggested system, does that mean I support the current system?
I guess not. So, pointing out that a system of flat taxes on income only serves the employers better than the employees is quite valid in this debate. And yes, I believe that the current system serves the employees better than the system this guy proposes. That does not mean (and i repeat: not mean) I fully support, endorse or worship the current system.
The problem with your system is that it benefits those who don't have to get a regular paycheck to survive. There are, in general, two ways to earn your living without getting a paycheck (that is, doing work for an employer).
You can either be an employer and money off someone else's work and your own money, or you can do your work in the black market.
So your system will benefit the rich and the crooks. Now, that's not what I want.
Here in Norway, the State Education Loan-Fund (which grants loans and scholarships to students and pupils) run their main system on COBOL systems from the seventies. There are only a few engineers who can reprogram the system nowadays.
The big problem is that the politicians tend to make new rules for education loans every second year or so. Then, the system needs to be reprogrammed. Then, you need that COBOL programmer again. And that costs money.
So now they are getting a new solution. It's going to cost a lot. I'm not sure, but I think it was about $80M. That's a lot in Norway. For instance, you could give all secondary-school students free books for that kind of money (they pay it themselves now).
Although my heart says "they are trying to trick us", my head tells me this is only rational behaviour from Microsoft.
Microsoft looks at FOSS as a bad corporate strategy that will never earn them any money, and that will never make the best software in the world. But they aren't stupid: They do observe that quite a lot of good software is being made under open licenses.
Through making their installer a part of that, they make it easier to deploy good, free software on Windows. This is, in other words, a win-win-situation for Microsoft AND its customers. And even FOSS developers. And other developers (except those making propietary installers, of course).
I'm completely astonished by the moderation of parent and the replies.
First of all, the parent is modden +5, insightful. OK, fair enough, even though interesting would have been better.
The replies get a 0; troll and just plain 0. So, what are they saying? The first one (from me) is trying to be humorous about the fact that "purchasing power" with politicians is slightly ironic, and that it looks like fascism.
The other is a more sober response, with valid arguments.
But it looks like Slashdot also has become a place where criticism of the United States is unpatriotic. I would like to remind all moderators that you aren't moderating to strengthen your own viewpoint, but to make it easier to distinguish which comments are relevant, and which are not.
It's OK that my comment was modded down, but the other one? Get serious. Spend your moderator points on making slashdot serious, not on bashing governments.
Jesus Christ, do you Americans even elect your politicians? Here, in Norway, our politicians are elected and claim to serve the people. Why don't you start a revolution, and ditch your fascist and corrupt two-party system?
Yeah. And the UK is a much worse country to live in than America(TM). Because a lot less people are poor, they are more educated and they do not have a huge federal deficit?
Come on, the British viewpoint may not be that wrong. American liberalism has proven a bad strategy for fighting poverty.
While government and legislation power can be wielded in a bad way, most modern democratic states would be able to wield it in the favour of the people - at least a lot more in favour of the people than the board of Microsoft would!
I think the slashdot crowd is extremely black or white on this one: Either you have extreme liberalism (as of today), or you have complete stalinist regulation (as of.. soviet russia).
What about regulations like "every government system has to be open source" or "government funded schools have to use open source" or "every government-funded computer program has to be released under the GPL" or even "the government does not trust any closed source app"?
That's also regulation. And it is good (tm).
on the other hand, a few funny files: win2k/private/inet/xml/xml/tokenizer/dll/w ords of wisdom from dennis.eml win2k/private/inet/xml/xml/dso/letter to children - 2.eml
and VERY interesting: win2k/private/ntos/w32/ntuser/kernel /
"In addition, most GED fast-food burger flippers in the US earn more in a month than a college-educated Iraqi earns in a year. Linux doesn't do you much good if you can't afford a computer to run it on."
Not if you adjust those numbers for the price level, which (in my humble opinion) is logical.
That is also why you can't use "dollar-a-day" measures for poverty. In many countries, you would get enough food for one day for one dollar. In Norway, you wouldn't get a bread.
Iraqi intellectuals weren't that poor under the Saddam regime, at least not in terms of money. All Iraqis weren't poor, but social differences were huge.
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>Fabricated data is very likely to mean data he made up = errors
RTFA. The university is not suspecting that he cheated in his thesis. He has only been cheating at Bell Labs.
Let me get this straight. You hired him for coding C++, and then fired him for not knowing anything but C++, and even for asking a question to which the solution 'isn't exactly intuitive'?
Gee. I'm happy I do not work for you.
What's your favorite TV channels? Fox News and Al-Jaseera?
Yeah, Windows 3.0 and Windows 95 wasn't designed with networking and security in mind. But there are not many lines of kernel code left from those in the NT-based windows systems. Because NT was written from scratch (or at least from OS/2) with two main targets: Networking and security.
You could argue that they failed, but that is due to the implementation, not the idea.
I switched my production workstation + sql server to Gentoo the same day I got the e-mail from Red Hat stating they wouldn't support their child.
And that was a wise choice! My desktop is more stable, faster, more responsive and "cooler". And yes, that is because the switch threw me into kernel 2.6 and kde 3.2.
Now, I'm more impressed with how easy gentoo is to maintain.
Obviously, you can, as the GPL itself defines the core concepts of the GPL.
Well, minus multiplied with minus becomes a positive. So I guess it would cancel out. On the other hand, Windows would probably BSOD when trying to multiply something. So, we get (--)-, which is -. A BSOD. Now, if the bluescreen subroutine (known internally in microsoft as "void releaseDateFixer(void)") also BSODs, you would be back in the graphical interface again. To crash the BSOD routine, you would probably need to do something as cruel as... plugging in a new printer or something.
Uh.. what? So it is not physically possible to make a contract where AOL says "you can release binaries of Winamp"(, or even "you can release binaries") "on behalf of Nullsoft, but you cannot release sourcecode/cannot release GPLd software/cannot do this without asking us first"?
Who knows. Maybe there exist no such guidelines. Maybe he didn't want to waste (pun intended) all his credibility within AOL on this single case?
No, dear sir, it isn't. It is certainly different from your suggestion, but my "thesis" is not flawed.
By the way, thank you for making me aware of the fact that the world is not fair, and will never be. I thought it was, and that's why i opted against your flat tax system.
Why not compare what is fair and equitable for YOU?
So, your system is fair, therefore my opinion is flawed because it has a different view on what's fair? Your argument is inherently flawed. How can anything be fair (even for me) in a world that will never be fair?
Your whole thesis is flawed because you are comparing yourself against others.
I am looking forward to a logically valid explanation of this thesis. First of all: How am I comparing myself to anyone in my thesis - without mentioning myself? And secondly: Are you suggesting that all statements that compare myself to others are flawed?
If I criticize a suggested system, does that mean I support the current system?
I guess not. So, pointing out that a system of flat taxes on income only serves the employers better than the employees is quite valid in this debate. And yes, I believe that the current system serves the employees better than the system this guy proposes. That does not mean (and i repeat: not mean) I fully support, endorse or worship the current system.
You can either be an employer and money off someone else's work and your own money, or you can do your work in the black market.
So your system will benefit the rich and the crooks. Now, that's not what I want.
The big problem is that the politicians tend to make new rules for education loans every second year or so. Then, the system needs to be reprogrammed. Then, you need that COBOL programmer again. And that costs money.
So now they are getting a new solution. It's going to cost a lot. I'm not sure, but I think it was about $80M. That's a lot in Norway. For instance, you could give all secondary-school students free books for that kind of money (they pay it themselves now).
Microsoft looks at FOSS as a bad corporate strategy that will never earn them any money, and that will never make the best software in the world. But they aren't stupid: They do observe that quite a lot of good software is being made under open licenses.
Through making their installer a part of that, they make it easier to deploy good, free software on Windows. This is, in other words, a win-win-situation for Microsoft AND its customers. And even FOSS developers. And other developers (except those making propietary installers, of course).
First of all, the parent is modden +5, insightful. OK, fair enough, even though interesting would have been better.
The replies get a 0; troll and just plain 0. So, what are they saying? The first one (from me) is trying to be humorous about the fact that "purchasing power" with politicians is slightly ironic, and that it looks like fascism.
The other is a more sober response, with valid arguments.
But it looks like Slashdot also has become a place where criticism of the United States is unpatriotic. I would like to remind all moderators that you aren't moderating to strengthen your own viewpoint, but to make it easier to distinguish which comments are relevant, and which are not.
It's OK that my comment was modded down, but the other one? Get serious. Spend your moderator points on making slashdot serious, not on bashing governments.
Oops. That HTML posting problem. This was what I was trying to say:
Apparently, only <= 2.6.2 is affected. How could this be fixed in 2.6.3 without anyone noticing that it might be a problem in earlier kernels?
Apparently, only .sigh.
Jesus Christ, do you Americans even elect your politicians? Here, in Norway, our politicians are elected and claim to serve the people. Why don't you start a revolution, and ditch your fascist and corrupt two-party system?
Come on, the British viewpoint may not be that wrong. American liberalism has proven a bad strategy for fighting poverty.
While government and legislation power can be wielded in a bad way, most modern democratic states would be able to wield it in the favour of the people - at least a lot more in favour of the people than the board of Microsoft would! I think the slashdot crowd is extremely black or white on this one: Either you have extreme liberalism (as of today), or you have complete stalinist regulation (as of.. soviet russia). What about regulations like "every government system has to be open source" or "government funded schools have to use open source" or "every government-funded computer program has to be released under the GPL" or even "the government does not trust any closed source app"? That's also regulation. And it is good (tm).
It is some asm, in the kernel code.
.prf and .mib and friends.
Then there is a lot of c++.
Most of it is c.
Some other files exists, i dunno what they are..
The front page there reads: "SLASHDOTTED TO HELL" in a nice, bold font.
It's not like it is the entire sourcecode for everything in win2k. it's some of it. judging by the filelist, i would guess.. 30MB or so.
What is this:
2 k/private/inet/urlmon/mon/gnumakefilea te/inet/xml/xml/tokenizer/parser/gnumak efile
w ords of wisdom from dennis.eml
l /
win2k/private/inet/urlmon/iapp/gnumakefile
win
win2k/priv
(and so on - many, many instances)
on the other hand, a few funny files:
win2k/private/inet/xml/xml/tokenizer/dll/
win2k/private/inet/xml/xml/dso/letter to children - 2.eml
and VERY interesting:
win2k/private/ntos/w32/ntuser/kerne
Not if you adjust those numbers for the price level, which (in my humble opinion) is logical.
That is also why you can't use "dollar-a-day" measures for poverty. In many countries, you would get enough food for one day for one dollar. In Norway, you wouldn't get a bread.
Iraqi intellectuals weren't that poor under the Saddam regime, at least not in terms of money. All Iraqis weren't poor, but social differences were huge.