No, the adult approach is to realize that in countries without a common-carrier law for ISPs, it's prohibitively expensive to start a new ISP, so effort is better spent getting better deals out of existing ISPs.
I was camping way out in the middle of nowhere with a big group, and one of the older guys warned me to watch out for left-handed smoke snatchers when I was using the latrine. I just looked him square in the eye and asked, "That's like a snipe hunt, isn't it?" He seemed genuinely surprised I hadn't fallen for it.
Fincancial news, weather forecasts available on a farmer's schedule instead of a commuter's, and local BBS-type fora for discussing local issues without driving into town or paying for conference calls. WebMD's veterinary equivalent for fixing cow problems. News about animal disease epidemics. Articles about best practices for pest control, antibiotics in feed, etc. Modern farming is pretty complex.
The problem is that not every application that needs extensibility can or should have all the memory burden of running a JVM alongside. Take ELinks, for example. I'm pretty sure that I can browse the web on a 386 with ELinks. Adding a JVM to that would be ludicrous, but Lua, Guile, and Tcl are all good choices there (note: elinks does not use Tcl).
I guess they're thinking that proprietary programs don't usually do dynamic linking to Free Software libraries. You still can't statically link LGPL code with proprietary code without releasing it under the (L)GPL. This is why all the video player apps on Android mention that they're dynamically linked with ffmpeg.
When it comes to understanding the nature of reality? I absolutely think that's a good idea. That's the entire point of education, you know - to pass on a worldview that will help the students succeed later in life. Trying to turn the clock back to the middle ages isn't a great way to do that.
Yes, and thanks to the magic of the (L)GPLv3, as long as the copyright holder on Mono has a copyright and patent license from Microsoft, so does every single Mono user. Besides, it's in Microsoft's best interest to let C#/.NET/CLR/Mono proliferate - they sell the dev tools, but the libraries are free as in beer. The more people who have it installed, the more popular C# applications will be, and the more copies of Visual Studio they'll sell. Seems like a win/win to me.
Seriously, at this point they'd probably be better off writing everything for Mono or another CLR clone - it's not like Microsoft isn't already asserting patent claims.
I can happily say that I'm one of the exceptions. My favorite radio station is the one broadcast by my university, run by my fellow students. The DJs are literally learning how to DJ while they're on the air, so they can be amusingly bad, but the music selection is sick. Also, it doesn't hurt that they have an old TV, an NES, and a comfortable beat-up couch in the studio.
You do understand the only thing keeping a lot of theaters going is the fact that if you want to see the movie this year you have to go to the theater?
That sounds like a dying business model. Why should we support it?
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No, the adult approach is to realize that in countries without a common-carrier law for ISPs, it's prohibitively expensive to start a new ISP, so effort is better spent getting better deals out of existing ISPs.
satellite craters
I thought they just had one of those last week in Canada.
I was camping way out in the middle of nowhere with a big group, and one of the older guys warned me to watch out for left-handed smoke snatchers when I was using the latrine. I just looked him square in the eye and asked, "That's like a snipe hunt, isn't it?" He seemed genuinely surprised I hadn't fallen for it.
If you want to talk about dead platforms, look no further than Perl.
I love the fact that you're posting this on Slashdot.
Fincancial news, weather forecasts available on a farmer's schedule instead of a commuter's, and local BBS-type fora for discussing local issues without driving into town or paying for conference calls. WebMD's veterinary equivalent for fixing cow problems. News about animal disease epidemics. Articles about best practices for pest control, antibiotics in feed, etc. Modern farming is pretty complex.
The problem is that not every application that needs extensibility can or should have all the memory burden of running a JVM alongside. Take ELinks, for example. I'm pretty sure that I can browse the web on a 386 with ELinks. Adding a JVM to that would be ludicrous, but Lua, Guile, and Tcl are all good choices there (note: elinks does not use Tcl).
ELinks uses it, but (at least in some builds) it also has Lua scripting support.
I guess they're thinking that proprietary programs don't usually do dynamic linking to Free Software libraries. You still can't statically link LGPL code with proprietary code without releasing it under the (L)GPL. This is why all the video player apps on Android mention that they're dynamically linked with ffmpeg.
Isn't that called "shell"?
Try e17, then. GNOME is weird and KDE is like Vista on X11.
When it comes to understanding the nature of reality? I absolutely think that's a good idea. That's the entire point of education, you know - to pass on a worldview that will help the students succeed later in life. Trying to turn the clock back to the middle ages isn't a great way to do that.
I wish I had mod points so I could mark this "-1 Batshit Insane".
The OP is, which is why I recommended it.
Yes, and thanks to the magic of the (L)GPLv3, as long as the copyright holder on Mono has a copyright and patent license from Microsoft, so does every single Mono user. Besides, it's in Microsoft's best interest to let C#/.NET/CLR/Mono proliferate - they sell the dev tools, but the libraries are free as in beer. The more people who have it installed, the more popular C# applications will be, and the more copies of Visual Studio they'll sell. Seems like a win/win to me.
Or you could just write it in PyQt and have it run on Windows, OS X, and Linux without a recompile.
I believe you meant killall -9 software patents.
Seriously, at this point they'd probably be better off writing everything for Mono or another CLR clone - it's not like Microsoft isn't already asserting patent claims.
I can happily say that I'm one of the exceptions. My favorite radio station is the one broadcast by my university, run by my fellow students. The DJs are literally learning how to DJ while they're on the air, so they can be amusingly bad, but the music selection is sick. Also, it doesn't hurt that they have an old TV, an NES, and a comfortable beat-up couch in the studio.
Movie studios pay royalties to use copyrighted songs in their movies.
You do understand the only thing keeping a lot of theaters going is the fact that if you want to see the movie this year you have to go to the theater?
That sounds like a dying business model. Why should we support it?
Claws Mail does all of those things. I use it myself, and it kicks butt.
Does Mutt + Shellinabox = webmail?
You're kidding, right? You do know the default, even from a netinstall, is a full GNOME 2.x desktop?
I use Google Calendar for scheduling and calendar services, but other than that I do all of those things.
I do my RAID in software under Linux and every GPU I own has the open-source drivers loaded.