Not necessarily. I can see someone look at this thing and go "You mean all this Leenucks thing can do is play MP3's? They needed a whole operating system just for that? Man, it must really suck."
Not that I see any mention of Linux on the website. Its probably going to be in the manual on the last page under title "Obscure Features".
Would be nice, though.
the only way intelligent regulations are going to be put in place is when they come from the internet community
Didn't we try that with businesses, leading to growth of monopolies (real monopolies, not like Microsoft which comes close, but not quite), and eventually a really bad hangover around 1929 or so? We need some international treaties...
legislators don't understand the internet
Well, since the international treaties will be
drafted by lagislators, that doesn't quite work.
Let the IESG take care of the technical details, yes, but local policies have been working ok so far (yes, there are always exceptions), so I say until there is overwhelming evidence that local policies failed miserably, might as well keep them in place for now
As a method of sending a missile to the higher, and even to the
highest parts of the earth's atmospheric envelope, Professor Goddard's rocket
is a practicable and therefore promising device. It is when one considers the
multiple-charge rocket as a traveler to the moon that one begins to doubt...
for after the rocket quits our air and really starts on its journey, its
flight would be neither accelerated nor maintained by the explosion of the
charges it then might have left. Professor Goddard, with his "chair" in
Clark College and countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution, does not
know the relation of action to re-action, and of the need to have something
better than a vacuum against which to react... Of course he only seems to
lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.
-- New York Times Editorial, 1920
In short, doubt not without a reason.
If he splats, at least he tried. Me, I am developing callouses in rather uncomfortable places from sitting in front of a screen all day. Which is a better way to go is open for discussion.
Scheme is more orthogonal
as a language . It is a
VERY small language, with only a few special forms, and a (relatively) small function library.
The Scheme standard is about 50 pages together
with implementation suggestions and examples.
Common Lisp standard is ~1000 pages last time
I looked. Scheme has no syntactic sugar, and only
4 special forms (set!, quote, lambda, and if) with
others that are representable in terms of these 4.
Whew. What a pantload. I guess the point is if
you want to learn some LISP to understand the power of the language (and powerful it is), learn Scheme. If you want a language with the kitchen sink, learn Common Lisp.
I just got the Logitech TrackMan (wireless)
and it is VERY comfortable. BTW, anyone else
have a problem with their (split) keyboards (the natural keyboards which come with Dell systems)
where they keep generating backtick characters once in a while in Linux. I am afraid that one
day I'll inadvertantly execute something I didn't
mean to by having backquotes where they weren't intended. This quote thing happens every minute
or so.
As I understand, this isn't as much a security update, as a convenience update. The whole point of systems like SELinux is that they adds mandatory access control. The OS is secure enough without it, but this makes it more secure by allowing priviliges to be divided and checked so that compromising root would not compromise the system entirely. It also allows some distribution of system administration. More convenience, not really much more security.
That being said, I don't know why this is going to be a module as opposed to say, a compile-time option for the kernel.
(Funny)
Yes, I sure hope that was intended as a joke, and was beautifully done. qpt's comment sounds like a great impression of the standard media response to a security report (waive constitution, howl, and fling excrement).
Hmm. They are going to have a show about a game that immitates life. I hope the show is unlike the game in that most of the characters' time wont be spent trying to make it to the bathroom. Then again . . .
Wow, its like you read my mind. I bought the Clie a while back. The memory stick is useful for backups, but I might as well just use hotsync for that. It does though have a nicer screen than the Palms and Handspring (smaller, thus sharper image).
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VIPER. There's your vi/emacs issues. We are a third of the way there :)
Not necessarily. I can see someone look at this thing and go "You mean all this Leenucks thing can do is play MP3's? They needed a whole operating system just for that? Man, it must really suck." Not that I see any mention of Linux on the website. Its probably going to be in the manual on the last page under title "Obscure Features".
Would be nice, though.
the only way intelligent regulations are going to be put in place is when they come from the internet community ...
legislators don't understand the internet
Didn't we try that with businesses, leading to growth of monopolies (real monopolies, not like Microsoft which comes close, but not quite), and eventually a really bad hangover around 1929 or so?
We need some international treaties
Well, since the international treaties will be drafted by lagislators, that doesn't quite work. Let the IESG take care of the technical details, yes, but local policies have been working ok so far (yes, there are always exceptions), so I say until there is overwhelming evidence that local policies failed miserably, might as well keep them in place for now
Can enhance security by writing message in pig latin.
-- New York Times Editorial, 1920
In short, doubt not without a reason. If he splats, at least he tried. Me, I am developing callouses in rather uncomfortable places from sitting in front of a screen all day. Which is a better way to go is open for discussion.
Scheme is more orthogonal as a language . It is a VERY small language, with only a few special forms, and a (relatively) small function library. The Scheme standard is about 50 pages together with implementation suggestions and examples. Common Lisp standard is ~1000 pages last time I looked. Scheme has no syntactic sugar, and only 4 special forms (set!, quote, lambda, and if) with others that are representable in terms of these 4. Whew. What a pantload. I guess the point is if you want to learn some LISP to understand the power of the language (and powerful it is), learn Scheme. If you want a language with the kitchen sink, learn Common Lisp.
I just got the Logitech TrackMan (wireless) and it is VERY comfortable. BTW, anyone else have a problem with their (split) keyboards (the natural keyboards which come with Dell systems) where they keep generating backtick characters once in a while in Linux. I am afraid that one day I'll inadvertantly execute something I didn't mean to by having backquotes where they weren't intended. This quote thing happens every minute or so.
As I understand, this isn't as much a security update, as a convenience update. The whole point of systems like SELinux is that they adds mandatory access control. The OS is secure enough without it, but this makes it more secure by allowing priviliges to be divided and checked so that compromising root would not compromise the system entirely. It also allows some distribution of system administration. More convenience, not really much more security. That being said, I don't know why this is going to be a module as opposed to say, a compile-time option for the kernel.
Hmm. I think SIM is trademarked by Maxis, or whoever releases SimCity now :)
(Funny) Yes, I sure hope that was intended as a joke, and was beautifully done. qpt's comment sounds like a great impression of the standard media response to a security report (waive constitution, howl, and fling excrement).
Hmm. They are going to have a show about a game that immitates life. I hope the show is unlike the game in that most of the characters' time wont be spent trying to make it to the bathroom. Then again . . .
Wow, its like you read my mind. I bought the Clie a while back. The memory stick is useful for backups, but I might as well just use hotsync for that. It does though have a nicer screen than the Palms and Handspring (smaller, thus sharper image).