I thought I'd do my part and actually buy 8.0 from Red Hat. I bought 6.0 a couple years back, it was decently priced.
So I'm at redhat.com reviewing my purchase for 8.0. First thing I notice: UPS Ground shipping isn't an option! The least expensive option is $11 second day air. I don't *need* this in two days, I'd rather save a couple bucks and have it shipped ground. Hell, I'd settle for carrier pigeon if it'd be cheaper. The second thing: I'm being charged tax on my order. I thought tax wasn't charged on cross-state commerce..?
Combined that up'd my order by $15 that I didn't want to spend. That's $15 which won't even make it to Red Hat's pocket.
Most of us home users don't run https servers so -- correct me if I'm wrong -- this doesn't really effect us. Putting my neck out further, would it be safe to say if you firewall port 443 (https) then you should be safe from this bug?
I noticed that too, S-Video should be sufficient. I didn't see a optical audio jack though. Digital audio would be a nice addition. The soundcard and A/D converters in the typical computer are pretty crappy.
I haven't used the software in question, but I'm glad Epson decided to act responsible with respect to the GPL. Thing is, don't you wonder how Epson got in trouble with the FSF to begin with? The GPL was violated. I'm wondering which scenario is more likely:
(A) Joe Developer knowingly doesn't tell his boss that his software is based on GPL software and passes it off as original.
(B) Joe Developer tries release software under the GPL but either his boss or marketing droids don't give a rats ass about it and release it as Epson proprietary.
Screw shell access, give me back the years I spent at failed dot coms and what I lost on internet stocks. That'd be golden days for me, thank you very much.
Isn't it in Mexico where beer is cheaper than water? We should be thankful that good water is as cheap as it is.
yeah, and so is Prague, Czech. But that doesn't excuse the fact that bottled water is more expensive than gasoline! It boggles the mind when you think about it.
I can accept those as valid reasons. The original poster said C's numerical libraries weren't as fast as Fortrains. To me this implies the C libraries themselves could be coded better. But as you explain, it's language design / compiler constraints that differentiate the two.
part of it is that there's 40 years of perfectly good legacy code to keep using. but mostly it's that C's numerical libraries still, after all this time, aren't as fast as a good Fortran's.
I used to accept this as a good argument but I'm starting to question it. C has been around long enough that it's math libraries shouldn't be lacking. What's wrong? Why haven't the C libraries caught up to speed? Are you talking about proprietary libraries or the basic libm.so?
oops, that's the CLI. I don't know about the GUI version.
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"never put your wireless net behind your main firewall"
Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of
the classic blunders, the most famous of which is
"Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less famous is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line!". Hahahahahah!
Is it not illegal to sell or own the chips, however it is illegal to sell the PS/2 with one pre-installed, as that comes under the heading of selling Sony's product with unauthorized modifications.
Just out of curiousity, what is the distinction between selling mod'd PS/2 systems and selling, say, mod'd Nestle Chocolate Chips? If I combine Nestle Chocolate Chips with flour, sugar, butter etc to make cookies is Nestle going to come after me? Or is it ok because I'm selling them as cookies and not Nestle Chocolate Chips(tm)?
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might as well get 'em started early. Make beer. If you need a demo, watching active fermentation is more exciting than a lava lamp!
well duh, it matters! Canada only has, like, three secrets. And two of them have to do with maple syrup. I wouldn't lose much sleep over it.
One of the biggest additions to Fortran that I haven't seen mentioned so far is support for Perl 6 style regular expressions.
[ducks for cover]
I thought I'd do my part and actually buy 8.0 from Red Hat. I bought 6.0 a couple years back, it was decently priced.
So I'm at redhat.com reviewing my purchase for 8.0. First thing I notice: UPS Ground shipping isn't an option! The least expensive option is $11 second day air. I don't *need* this in two days, I'd rather save a couple bucks and have it shipped ground. Hell, I'd settle for carrier pigeon if it'd be cheaper. The second thing: I'm being charged tax on my order. I thought tax wasn't charged on cross-state commerce..?
Combined that up'd my order by $15 that I didn't want to spend. That's $15 which won't even make it to Red Hat's pocket.
I'd tell them to take their desktop and shove it unless they called it GNU/KDE.
Most of us home users don't run https servers so -- correct me if I'm wrong -- this doesn't really effect us. Putting my neck out further, would it be safe to say if you firewall port 443 (https) then you should be safe from this bug?
that'd be cool...I can see it now, the jacket zipper doubles as a roach clip.
I noticed that too, S-Video should be sufficient. I didn't see a optical audio jack though. Digital audio would be a nice addition. The soundcard and A/D converters in the typical computer are pretty crappy.
I haven't used the software in question, but I'm glad Epson decided to act responsible with respect to the GPL. Thing is, don't you wonder how Epson got in trouble with the FSF to begin with? The GPL was violated. I'm wondering which scenario is more likely:
(A) Joe Developer knowingly doesn't tell his boss that his software is based on GPL software and passes it off as original.
(B) Joe Developer tries release software under the GPL but either his boss or marketing droids don't give a rats ass about it and release it as Epson proprietary.
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Screw shell access, give me back the years I spent at failed dot coms and what I lost on internet stocks. That'd be golden days for me, thank you very much.
Simple. Pull a out a nice gleaming rock and say, "I like her, don't you?"
Digital effects are like markup tags. When you first find out how to use them they're really neat but over use can detract from the real content.
When I die I'd like my ashes piped to /dev/null.
Maybe they're offering to supersmall it? Micky D's supersmall, that's something I'd like to see.
yeah, and so is Prague, Czech. But that doesn't excuse the fact that bottled water is more expensive than gasoline! It boggles the mind when you think about it.
I can accept those as valid reasons. The original poster said C's numerical libraries weren't as fast as Fortrains. To me this implies the C libraries themselves could be coded better. But as you explain, it's language design / compiler constraints that differentiate the two.
I used to accept this as a good argument but I'm starting to question it. C has been around long enough that it's math libraries shouldn't be lacking. What's wrong? Why haven't the C libraries caught up to speed? Are you talking about proprietary libraries or the basic libm.so?
IBM needs to be careful with their wording! Did IBM detect a power surge on the bridge? They're lucky Deep Blue didn't call the "arch".
oops, that's the CLI. I don't know about the GUI version.
Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less famous is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when *death* is on the line!". Hahahahahah!
google image search found this one:
http://www.jsc.mil/images/speccht.jpg
Too bad the Linux Beer Hike isn't coming to Seattle, or I could serve up some homebrew Doppelbock Beer. At least the label is appropriate.
http://www.nwlink.com/~kaf/doppelbock_small.jpg
Just out of curiousity, what is the distinction between selling mod'd PS/2 systems and selling, say, mod'd Nestle Chocolate Chips? If I combine Nestle Chocolate Chips with flour, sugar, butter etc to make cookies is Nestle going to come after me? Or is it ok because I'm selling them as cookies and not Nestle Chocolate Chips(tm)?
PS/2. Nestle. They're both just chips.
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