Are you sure you want to put that on the "record"? It's wrong. There are numerous GUI libraries for Perl and Python. Tk was first, but is now just one among many. GTk.pm for example.
Handykey has been selling a one-handed chording keyboard with gyroscopic mouse called the Twiddler for years. It does everything this joker's "invention" does. And it comes with Linux drivers.
Handykey has been producing a one-hand keyboard with gyroscopic mouse for several years now called the Twiddler. There's nothing in this "new" "invention" that isn't in the Twiddler.
So you're saying your problem is too hard to be solved with a clean design? Good software design is all about preparing for the unexpected! In fact, if you ever had a perfect understanding of the problem then it wouldn't be worth designing a solution carefully - you wouldn't need the flexibility!
Thinking that writing one-off code is giving you flexibility is grave mistake.
GNOME is not an OSS project - it's a Free Software project. If you understand the distinction then you'll understand why it's pretty reasonable to have RMS on the board.
I was recently asked about the possibility of trademarking the name of a free software project. I searched the web in vain for any discussion of the implications without success. What is your opinion? Can a free software project have a trademarked name and still be Free in the GNU sense of the word?
His job was to find them and get the real story. He failed. That failure may have been justified but it does mean that this was not excelent investigative journalism.
He made a good effort. Great. Next time he should keep trying until he actually gets the story.
I've wondered if a neural network could be developed to do more efficient routing of IP packets. I hypothesize that such a network could approach the performance of human-tuned QOS systems withut requiring the explicite tuning.
Feel free to steal this idea - I don't ever intend to develop it!
Russia currently has a virgin economy, and if it wants it to ever grow so that Russia can be a serious world power, again, instead of the joke that it is, they'll oblige large corporate pressures. It's simply a matter of how hard American corporations wish to press situations where a country refuses to enforce agreements. If anything, publicizing this site will lead to its downfall.
Wrong. The issue here is not Russia's "virgin" economy (which, BTW, certainly has been fucked). The issue is the total lack of the "rule of law" in Russia today. If the proprieters of this site have greased the appropriate palms, they have nothing to fear.
[c2] Client B has a slave legitimate Client (B2) for which it is the "server". It passes the random string to Client B2 and obtains a good RIPEMD-160.
Don't take my reply as meaning that I think your scheme was even reasonable in the first place - how could the server possible know what the ENTIRE memory space of the client should look like? That would include configuration options, models, player name, etc.
I can freely uninstall the software any time their blathering becomes and annoyance.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Example: I'd like to uninstall DirectX 7 and go back to using DirectX 6. No can do. I would be forced to reinstall my entire OS just to make this small change
I consider this a major bug, since my gamepad is not DirectX 7 compatible! Can I fix this bug? Of course not, DirectX is proprietary software. My only choice is to wait for MS to fix it since I don't have the time to do a full reinstall.
Does it make me LITERALY a slave? No, but not everything is meant to be taken LITERALY! Since you're so quick to advocate using a dictionary I suggest you do so yourself - take a breeze by the definition for "rhetorical".
Your second point about the GPL using copywrite law against mainstream IP practice is just plain ridiculous. I imagine you think the FSF should be leading an armed revolt instead, right?
Nothing put under a GPL is a "free gift" if being a "free gift" means you get to do whatever you want with it. Perhaps this is your core misunderstanding? What made you think GPL'd code qualified as a "free gift"?
Or, of course, you can use the freedline mechanism, but the FSF will just complain bitterly that this mechanism violates the spirit of what they're trying to do.
Ahem. Doesn't it violate the spirit of what the FSF is trying to do? You don't address that question in the ANNOUNCE for freedline, but I assume from the above that you think it doesn't! Zuh?
What kind of a holy war are you fighting? You're going to help programmers by twisting code out of the GPL that programmers put it under? Watch out you don't light your own ass on fire next.
What I meant is that GPL'd code cannot be effectively sold under the normal licensing scheme used in matters of intellectual property.
Very true. That is one of the GPL's express purposes: to dismantle the current slave-state of modern licenseing.
How exactly you wish to make your money is your own deal, of course, but I have every right to say that you can't use my code to do it! Personally, I make my money writing GPL'd code among other things. I definitely prefer that to being involved in what you call "traditional" licensing schemes! If you still want to play the IP game, that's fine, but the GPL is not going to be there to help you! Do you think that it should?
Exactly what about all this is so irksome to you?
-sam PS: Is the CPAN project still on the horizon? I'm still interested!
The elegance of this is just great: "You can see why Microsoft is interested in robust languages because theirs is not," Adami said.
Yeah, the elegance of academics slagging their meal-ticket is always a sight to see. What amazing assholes. As though their research was about to produce a more "robust" language for big bad Microsoft... I doubt even MS believes that bull!
Not that I think the research is useless, far from it, but I don't think they're exactly right around the corner from being able to produce a new strain of Windows that never crashes. Sweet Jesus.
Slashdot Mirror
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And if you can tell the whole truth then you're God, so you can still support any claim just by altering reality.
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Thinking that writing one-off code is giving you flexibility is grave mistake.
-sam
GNOME is not an OSS project - it's a Free Software project. If you understand the distinction then you'll understand why it's pretty reasonable to have RMS on the board.
I was recently asked about the possibility of trademarking the name of a free software project. I searched the web in vain for any discussion of the implications without success. What is your opinion? Can a free software project have a trademarked name and still be Free in the GNU sense of the word?
-sam
Have you read their website? There's plenty there to read on this topic.
-sam
Simple solution - the virus should scan Wired for its name every hour. When it finds a match, the fun begins.
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Geek.
Yeah, right, the people "disappeared".
His job was to find them and get the real story. He failed. That failure may have been justified but it does mean that this was not excelent investigative journalism.
He made a good effort. Great. Next time he should keep trying until he actually gets the story.
-sam
That was "very fine"? He utterly failed to get any part of the truth!
That piece of run-on poorly-edited crap was most certainly not "very fine" investigative reporting.
-sam
I've wondered if a neural network could be developed to do more efficient routing of IP packets. I hypothesize that such a network could approach the performance of human-tuned QOS systems withut requiring the explicite tuning.
Feel free to steal this idea - I don't ever intend to develop it!
-sam
I'll bite. Show me a version of my IPC::SharedCache module in AWK. Perl got some good stuff from AWK, but there's a lot more to the story.
-sam
It's probably running out of memory and seg-faulting. With the proper Apache tweaks they could probably get it stable under any load.
-sam
Wrong. The issue here is not Russia's "virgin" economy (which, BTW, certainly has been fucked). The issue is the total lack of the "rule of law" in Russia today. If the proprieters of this site have greased the appropriate palms, they have nothing to fear.
-sam
Don't take my reply as meaning that I think your scheme was even reasonable in the first place - how could the server possible know what the ENTIRE memory space of the client should look like? That would include configuration options, models, player name, etc.
-sam
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Example: I'd like to uninstall DirectX 7 and go back to using DirectX 6. No can do. I would be forced to reinstall my entire OS just to make this small change
I consider this a major bug, since my gamepad is not DirectX 7 compatible! Can I fix this bug? Of course not, DirectX is proprietary software. My only choice is to wait for MS to fix it since I don't have the time to do a full reinstall.
Does it make me LITERALY a slave? No, but not everything is meant to be taken LITERALY! Since you're so quick to advocate using a dictionary I suggest you do so yourself - take a breeze by the definition for "rhetorical".
Your second point about the GPL using copywrite law against mainstream IP practice is just plain ridiculous. I imagine you think the FSF should be leading an armed revolt instead, right?
Ah, Slashdot...
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What kind of a holy war are you fighting? You're going to help programmers by twisting code out of the GPL that programmers put it under? Watch out you don't light your own ass on fire next.
-sam
Very true. That is one of the GPL's express purposes: to dismantle the current slave-state of modern licenseing.
How exactly you wish to make your money is your own deal, of course, but I have every right to say that you can't use my code to do it! Personally, I make my money writing GPL'd code among other things. I definitely prefer that to being involved in what you call "traditional" licensing schemes! If you still want to play the IP game, that's fine, but the GPL is not going to be there to help you! Do you think that it should?
Exactly what about all this is so irksome to you?
-sam
PS: Is the CPAN project still on the horizon? I'm still interested!
Yeah, the elegance of academics slagging their meal-ticket is always a sight to see. What amazing assholes. As though their research was about to produce a more "robust" language for big bad Microsoft... I doubt even MS believes that bull!
Not that I think the research is useless, far from it, but I don't think they're exactly right around the corner from being able to produce a new strain of Windows that never crashes. Sweet Jesus.
-sam
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Yes.
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