Um, forget DB2, IBM now owns Informix/Red Brick. Red Brick is a lot closer to MySQL than DB2-- but even so, it's no competition. Red Brick simply clobbers MySQL by being able to do subselects, if nothing else (heck, MS Access can do subselects). Now PostgreSQL, OTOH...
Prove it with a link to anything RMS or the FSF have written that indicates they honestly believe the only projects which get patches headed back upstream are GPL... Then I'll believe you. Until then I am writing this off as a lot of anti-GNU FUD. Or a troll. Or both.
What FUD from GNU advocates? The GPL isn't there to promote upstream patch submission. It's there to ensure that users get the source code to the software they're using.
You mean the phonetic alphabet? Yes. You still end up having an imperfect system unless you standardize on an idealized pronunciation-- regional variation may ensue, just as we have acceptable differences in the English spoken and written in various parts of the US, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. There is no simple answer, but personally I'd prefer a character-efficient system that does not spell words that sound the same differently. Primarily we need more vowel representations.
You're right. I missed the word "mandatory". I still think you're being generous. The way MS and Intel say this stuff makes me very nervous that they mostly don't want to wait for government and that they'd love to use their respective positions in the tech industry to push through a mechanism which they control, rather than some pseudo-standard passed by some quasi-governmental commission.
Please provide a link. The testimony I read was more concerned with how a law would actually hamper adoption of DRM (and probably a monopoly on it or two)... I don't recall seeing any actual opposition to DRM itself. MS certainly approves of DRM-- what do you call Activation? Doesn't MediaPlayer have DRM capability? Neither sounds very opposed to DRM if you ask me. In fact, Bill Gates himself, starting with his open letter to hobbyists has been interested in closed source computing and DRM forever now (the letter was back in 1976). That classic screed is a seminal piece in the argument for DRM-- DRM would prevent people from "stealing" his software.
I don't think Intel's official position is any better, just that they don't actually manufacture any software or "content" so they probably don't worry about losing any of their "intellectual property"... but you can bet your last dollar they'd love to be first to market with a chip that required special loving from software before it would play your CDs, DVDs, mp3s, etc. One simple patent is all it would take and all your favorite media players might not even work on any other manufacturer's chips. Guess where that would put Intel in terms of market share.
r u kidn me? y shud i waste gud charactrz when xtra charactrz don't xpand th meaning? inglsh spllng iz @roshus 2 begin with-- it's a long-running joke, in fact. maybe f th rtn wrdz evn remotely rezmbld th speech itself this rgumnt wud b wrth havng. a phonetic alfabet wth >26 glyphs & no uselss distinctions between upr/lowr case wud b a gud start.
Infringing copyright by reposting entire articles was illegal before the DMCA was passed and will still be illegal after it is ruled unconstitutional (I like to dream). But probably the NYT isn't going to worry too much about this. Almost every online paper has a link to "send this article to a friend" or something, unlike the (RI|MP)AA, the press seems to understand that this sort of slushy re-use of their material is just part of the business.
This is why programs should not be allowed to tell the operating system which files extensions they own. The first time you open an unknown type, the OS should ask what to use to open it and whether that should be the default. Then it can remember extension-application associations on its own... The OS also ought to also provide an easy way to reassociate/deassociate any extension and the default application.
Nonononono. Not stolen... rather derived. Whether it constitutes Fair Use is a question for judge and jury, but my hunch is yes. So that's not "stolen" in any sense of the word... in fact it's just added to the amount of good comedy in the world. And that's part of the argument this case is making, that extending the copyright term indiscriminately and retroactively is robbing the public domain.
If you have these facts, please point out where I might find just one of them. Otherwise I'm going to continue to assert that your analysis is incredibly simplistic and naive. It is definitely not the case that one day Bill woke up and cut a check for $23 billion dollars to the Foundation.
GUI-based Debian? Do you mean you are so concerned with the install that it matters whether it is GUI-driven or not? And really, Debian seems pretty GUI-like to me... especially compared to Gentoo's "installer". Or do you mean that once you get the system installed that there still isn't a lot of GUI support for system and package administration? My biggest problem with Debian is that it will probably be two years before they have a stable release using Gnome2 and KDE3.. which means that everyone else will be using Gnome.MONO and KDE4 by then.;)
No flame intended. If I had a mission critical situation where "mature" software was needed moreso than bleeding edge, I would use Debian 3 without hesitation.
Why should I wait for Sun when I can buy from Pogo Linux today? Seriously. I will be buying new system in the next few weeks, so I've been looking around. Any reason why I might wait for Sun's offering?
That's a pretty naive assumption to make: that Bill Gates himself gave the foundation that $23 billion-- and it's not a particularly useful number anyway. It's not like one day he gave 33% of his net worth to a charity. What we really need to know is: how much does he give away each year and how much does he make each year. Then we can draw useful comparisons to our situations.
It would be better to be able to write: with x in (1,2,8,13,19) do foo.bar.yukims.glock(a,x)
Or wrap your function/method so that it can accept a list or array as an argument.
Have you looked at Scribus? I've never used it myself (having only recently decided to look at TeX/LaTeX for my own publishing needs), but it sure looks like it's aiming at the same target you want to hit.
I'm thinking about it... and I'm thinking that maybe my slight hearing impairment is playing a role here-- I don't think I can tell the difference between CDs and mp3s on my combo device (or at home on my stereo)... but what audiofile is going to give a rave review to something he/she could only listen to on some cheap device, when they are accustomed to a serious system tuned to their preferences and so forth? Hearing impairment or no, I *can* hear the difference between a walkman and a stereo.
Good luck factoring any primes. Except for the obvious case of the number itself times 1, if you can factor the number it is not prime.
What you are probably thinking of is the case where you take two prime numbers and multiply them together to form a product which has as its only factors the two prime number. Given just that large number, finding its two prime factors is very difficult.
So the problem really is that Mozilla/NS/Galeon does not provide per site settings for JavaScript. Both IE and Konqueror have the ability to limit scripting based on URL or domain. And until Mozilla has the same feature built in there is no way to turn this on for a legitimate use such as the one you mention and turn it off elsewhere by default... which goes against the old security maxim of default deny for everything that is not explicitly allowed.
At least Galeon, unlike Mozilla (at least the version of Mozilla I'm running) has a menu command to easily turn JS on and off, which is better than nothing.
It's fairly obvious that this guy wants to send mail to people. He said so. "Create mailings" is pretty clear. He apparently would like to be able to tailor the message according to which congressional district the recipient is in. So a likely case would be a PAC or political party that would like to send out a "sample ballot" or some other similar mailing. Which personally I'd roundfile in under five seconds... but yeah, what's the BFD?
Didn't someone say that politics is the art of the possible...
It's possible that if you compromise too early in the game that you will find the other side continually has a winning edge. Considering that the Democrats were/are a driving force behind laws like the DMCA (and how about Hollings (D-Disney)?), that they totally flubbed health care reform, that they signed onto DOMA, then later laid down while GWB was appointed President, then happily rolled back civil liberties with USA-PATRIOT... what's that other old saying? Ah yes, "with friends like these, who needs enemies?"
Easy to learn or easy to use? Seems to me that emacs is hard to learn, but easy to use. Hard to learn to do easy things. Hard to learn to do hard things. Easy to do easy things once you've learned to do them. Easy to do hard things once you've learned to do them. Much better (imho) than a lowest-common-denominator editor where easy things are easy to learn and hard things are both hard to learn and hard to do. But emacs isn't just a text editor. It is also a therapist, a video game, a debugging tool, a shell process, an email client, a web client, an NNTP client, a file manager, and a programming language. Besides, as of version 21 the GUI menu system is very sensible-- it even has a "toolbar".
As far as I'm concerned, nothing on a computer is intuitive. In fact, almost nothing in life is intuitive-- it takes us each several months to learn to use our eyes, and a few years to use our limbs and digits correctly. Not an excuse for a difficult interface, just an observation... even the nomenclature of "file", "document", "folder", "open", "save", "desktop"... these are all based on (perhaps flawed) analogy to bureaucratic office artifacts.
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Um, forget DB2, IBM now owns Informix/Red Brick. Red Brick is a lot closer to MySQL than DB2-- but even so, it's no competition. Red Brick simply clobbers MySQL by being able to do subselects, if nothing else (heck, MS Access can do subselects). Now PostgreSQL, OTOH...
Prove it with a link to anything RMS or the FSF have written that indicates they honestly believe the only projects which get patches headed back upstream are GPL... Then I'll believe you. Until then I am writing this off as a lot of anti-GNU FUD. Or a troll. Or both.
What FUD from GNU advocates? The GPL isn't there to promote upstream patch submission. It's there to ensure that users get the source code to the software they're using.
You mean the phonetic alphabet? Yes. You still end up having an imperfect system unless you standardize on an idealized pronunciation-- regional variation may ensue, just as we have acceptable differences in the English spoken and written in various parts of the US, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. There is no simple answer, but personally I'd prefer a character-efficient system that does not spell words that sound the same differently. Primarily we need more vowel representations.
You're right. I missed the word "mandatory". I still think you're being generous. The way MS and Intel say this stuff makes me very nervous that they mostly don't want to wait for government and that they'd love to use their respective positions in the tech industry to push through a mechanism which they control, rather than some pseudo-standard passed by some quasi-governmental commission.
Dear Troll: That's because EULAs reduce rights, the GPL offers more of them. Thanks for playing.
I don't think Intel's official position is any better, just that they don't actually manufacture any software or "content" so they probably don't worry about losing any of their "intellectual property"... but you can bet your last dollar they'd love to be first to market with a chip that required special loving from software before it would play your CDs, DVDs, mp3s, etc. One simple patent is all it would take and all your favorite media players might not even work on any other manufacturer's chips. Guess where that would put Intel in terms of market share.
Have fun on the island! :)
Infringing copyright by reposting entire articles was illegal before the DMCA was passed and will still be illegal after it is ruled unconstitutional (I like to dream). But probably the NYT isn't going to worry too much about this. Almost every online paper has a link to "send this article to a friend" or something, unlike the (RI|MP)AA, the press seems to understand that this sort of slushy re-use of their material is just part of the business.
This is why programs should not be allowed to tell the operating system which files extensions they own. The first time you open an unknown type, the OS should ask what to use to open it and whether that should be the default. Then it can remember extension-application associations on its own... The OS also ought to also provide an easy way to reassociate/deassociate any extension and the default application.
Nonononono. Not stolen... rather derived. Whether it constitutes Fair Use is a question for judge and jury, but my hunch is yes. So that's not "stolen" in any sense of the word... in fact it's just added to the amount of good comedy in the world. And that's part of the argument this case is making, that extending the copyright term indiscriminately and retroactively is robbing the public domain.
If you have these facts, please point out where I might find just one of them. Otherwise I'm going to continue to assert that your analysis is incredibly simplistic and naive. It is definitely not the case that one day Bill woke up and cut a check for $23 billion dollars to the Foundation.
No flame intended. If I had a mission critical situation where "mature" software was needed moreso than bleeding edge, I would use Debian 3 without hesitation.
Why should I wait for Sun when I can buy from Pogo Linux today? Seriously. I will be buying new system in the next few weeks, so I've been looking around. Any reason why I might wait for Sun's offering?
That's a pretty naive assumption to make: that Bill Gates himself gave the foundation that $23 billion-- and it's not a particularly useful number anyway. It's not like one day he gave 33% of his net worth to a charity. What we really need to know is: how much does he give away each year and how much does he make each year. Then we can draw useful comparisons to our situations.
Prove it.
It would be better to be able to write:
with x in (1,2,8,13,19) do foo.bar.yukims.glock(a,x)
Or wrap your function/method so that it can accept a list or array as an argument.
Have you looked at Scribus? I've never used it myself (having only recently decided to look at TeX/LaTeX for my own publishing needs), but it sure looks like it's aiming at the same target you want to hit.
I'm thinking about it... and I'm thinking that maybe my slight hearing impairment is playing a role here-- I don't think I can tell the difference between CDs and mp3s on my combo device (or at home on my stereo)... but what audiofile is going to give a rave review to something he/she could only listen to on some cheap device, when they are accustomed to a serious system tuned to their preferences and so forth? Hearing impairment or no, I *can* hear the difference between a walkman and a stereo.
So how is mp3 that much worse than the quality of some Sony Discman with cheap walkman headphones?
Good luck factoring any primes. Except for the obvious case of the number itself times 1, if you can factor the number it is not prime.
What you are probably thinking of is the case where you take two prime numbers and multiply them together to form a product which has as its only factors the two prime number. Given just that large number, finding its two prime factors is very difficult.
At least Galeon, unlike Mozilla (at least the version of Mozilla I'm running) has a menu command to easily turn JS on and off, which is better than nothing.
It's fairly obvious that this guy wants to send mail to people. He said so. "Create mailings" is pretty clear. He apparently would like to be able to tailor the message according to which congressional district the recipient is in. So a likely case would be a PAC or political party that would like to send out a "sample ballot" or some other similar mailing. Which personally I'd roundfile in under five seconds... but yeah, what's the BFD?
It's possible that if you compromise too early in the game that you will find the other side continually has a winning edge. Considering that the Democrats were/are a driving force behind laws like the DMCA (and how about Hollings (D-Disney)?), that they totally flubbed health care reform, that they signed onto DOMA, then later laid down while GWB was appointed President, then happily rolled back civil liberties with USA-PATRIOT... what's that other old saying? Ah yes, "with friends like these, who needs enemies?"
As far as I'm concerned, nothing on a computer is intuitive. In fact, almost nothing in life is intuitive-- it takes us each several months to learn to use our eyes, and a few years to use our limbs and digits correctly. Not an excuse for a difficult interface, just an observation... even the nomenclature of "file", "document", "folder", "open", "save", "desktop" ... these are all based on (perhaps flawed) analogy to bureaucratic office artifacts.