if it is patented, it is not some details that will be published, it is enough information for any man of the trade to duplicate their results. And of course, enough information to industrialize googlebombing. They stay coherent with their patent => anybody can play at googlebombing, and pagerank distortion. They diverge from their patent and revert to trade secret => anybody can rediscover their actual method, without being infriging. Except if the patents are too broad.
Don't buy into the myth that Saddam has popular support.
I dont buy into it. What I'm sure is that, for some poulations, and generaly the poorer, pride and honour are very important. A solution, even good for the people, imposed from the outside, will be badly accepted. And if this solution don't permit the leader to have an honourable way out, he will oppose it, as he is, at least culturaly, obliged to pretend.
In fact, more than instability, I think the main problem is the impossibility, mainly due to GC, to know the certain maximum execution time of any java code. (certain is important in the previuous sentence. It means 100%, not 99.999). Another point is that java is not an OS. It must compose with the platform. And run the best it can. In case of big trouble, (reactor meltdown or other), with big layers, even if java run flawlessly according to the specs, I'm quite sure Sun could not prove they are not, at least partially, responsible, without this type of disclaimer.
Should Open Source developers help the U.S. prepare for war with Iraq? Open source developper develop according to a licence. If certain uses are not ok with them, they can a licence like java, preventing usage where human life could be endangered (nuclear facilities, medical...). If they release free software, anybody is free to use and modify it. Now, placing restriction again use of software by some 'evil' organization, those organisations being, depending of the point of view, Osama bin Laden's crew, or Irak, or the US Army, is no longuer doing free software.
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Apart from the obvious potential improvements in salad dressings, Only industrials put water in dressing, in order to have consumer pay full price for half fat. Good dressing is oil (sunflower or olive), acid (vinegar or lemon juice), perhaps mustard, perhaps onion, salt, pepper, herbs I don't know the name in english, but certainly not water. And when you thinkabout the physic of the dressing, the oil is here to recover the salad with the acid and herbs. In fact, my best dressing is an emultion of vinegar and mustard in oil, and it's quite unstable. I'm certainly not going to put water, at least without electric mixer. But if I use and electric mixer, I will destroy the herbs I can incorporate asily with a fork and a little work. So, no, thanks. No water in my salad dressing.
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If one agree to the principle of taxes on sales, there is no reason for the internet to be exempted. If all sales are treated the same, the best system prevail by its merit. If there are tax incentives, government distord the market, favoring some solutions over others. As an european, tax free internet doesn't exist for me, as long as I buy from european union. If buy on the net, it is for the quality of the medium. But I'm surprised americans don't see tax incentives as a disguised government interventionism. Or perhaps they are too greedy to pay 7% on goods if they can (here, the norm is 19.6%), distording free markets and concurence in the process. I see no reason why government should protect business models based only on the non-contribution to society.
Ok, but what prevent the space anchor to be pushed toward the plane of the equator? If the cable is not rigid (and I'm quite sure you cannot make something this long rigid), space anchor will be pushed to the south (ok, it's inntuition, and I know intuition is often wrong with rotating things), and so will be the center of mass
do now, think later perhaps, but most projects cannot (because of complexity, time to market, whatever (and often incompetence or political agenda from some skateholders)) be totally conceived before the act. And RAD, despite its shortcomming, has proved that interactive versions permits users lo evolve a system for their needs, because they see it concretly.
A system that doesn't allow anonymous (unsigned) files to be shared.
And why should you be obliged to sign your own creation, or public domain one ? How do you sign ? Is it free ? When you can sign pubdom, what prevent you to sign unfree ?
I'm quite sure you can get a good randomness by recording noise from your (cheap) sound card. Pump up the volume, read/dev/dsp, take one bit in each sample, and with a stock PC, you should have a good random number generator (except if your sound card is good quality, and you have no noise).
You should get the updates on the Web. I do, it's so nostalgic. I upgrade as often as when I was following the 2.0 kernel branch... With shared source and incessant updates, Microsoft is on the way to become a concurent to Linux.
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first be sure you really get the same effect (universal, anonymous, free for you to use, and so on...)
They were released, but are they used?
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I'm french. for about 10 month, one of my cards is moneo enabled. But I don't use it. Why? They are many reason: - how does it work? There is no easy mean to find out. If you go to moneo.org and you search, you finish to discover that the card was validated again an undisclosed target security profile. It is security through obscurity. - Why must I pay beetween 8 and 15 euros to my bank each year(quite same in USD) in order to have the equivalent of cash (and not quite so) for which I already pay taxes. - It is not the equivalent of cash, cause I cannot give it to whoever I choose. How I am going to give 1,5 euro to the neighbour's daughter when she bring bck my girl from school? I cannot. So, I'm all for free enterprise, but when the government do well what it does (providing money), I don't see the need to help corporation to compete with less value for the citizens.
... but the three last time I used floppies in the 2 last years were after downloading drivers from dell, for my dell. I had the files on my hard disk, and those where executable asking me to: -insert a floppy -run the programm -open the floppy in the explorer.(no reboot).
If Dell was a little more organized, as far as I'm concerned, they could have dropped them 3 years ago.
They release an extensible file format, some libraries, and it is teh best thing in the world? Anybody having to manage picture in more than 16**3 color will think of something simlar. And the extensibility remind me of tiff (TAGGED image file format). In fact, I'm not sure they would not have be able to store all what they want in tiff. So what?
Who can guarantee that doesn't happen with regular voting? When it all comes down you are trusting the people who count the votes, and the people who collect the votes, that nothing shady is happening from when you vote to when it's counted. Don't know in US/UK, other, but the french system is very transparent and public, and any voter arriving sufficiently early in sunday morning of the vote can be inscribed to be one of those who count the ballot. They are many others check and controls in the current process, permitting to garantee, even for a not mathematically inclined voter, that his vote is correctly counted. Using a not transparent process is necessary to pass the message that the vote come from the voter, and not from a machine, or worst from a computer. Why not from God ?
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if it is patented, it is not some details that will be published, it is enough information for any man of the trade to duplicate their results. And of course, enough information to industrialize googlebombing.
They stay coherent with their patent => anybody can play at googlebombing, and pagerank distortion.
They diverge from their patent and revert to trade secret => anybody can rediscover their actual method, without being infriging. Except if the patents are too broad.
Don't buy into the myth that Saddam has popular support.
I dont buy into it. What I'm sure is that, for some poulations, and generaly the poorer, pride and honour are very important. A solution, even good for the people, imposed from the outside, will be badly accepted. And if this solution don't permit the leader to have an honourable way out, he will oppose it, as he is, at least culturaly, obliged to pretend.
In fact, more than instability, I think the main problem is the impossibility, mainly due to GC, to know the certain maximum execution time of any java code. (certain is important in the previuous sentence. It means 100%, not 99.999).
Another point is that java is not an OS. It must compose with the platform. And run the best it can. In case of big trouble, (reactor meltdown or other), with big layers, even if java run flawlessly according to the specs, I'm quite sure Sun could not prove they are not, at least partially, responsible, without this type of disclaimer.
The outcome of this war is certain.
More poor countries despising the USofA.
Should Open Source developers help the U.S. prepare for war with Iraq?
Open source developper develop according to a licence. If certain uses are not ok with them, they can a licence like java, preventing usage where human life could be endangered (nuclear facilities, medical...).
If they release free software, anybody is free to use and modify it.
Now, placing restriction again use of software by some 'evil' organization, those organisations being, depending of the point of view, Osama bin Laden's crew, or Irak, or the US Army, is no longuer doing free software.
see : http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:8xr9XLZcrvcC: www.wordspy.com/words/google.asp+site:www.wordspy. com+google&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
and also :
http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:QtkRCV4qj7YC: www.wordspy.com/words/Googlebombing.asp+site:www.w ordspy.com+google&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
python is interpretted, but can we still say it is just a script?
... the real bad attitude toward scripts is based on experience...
Script are good for quick and dirty work, but when one come two years after do to maintenance, good plain old langage are perhaps best.
I think that scripts should be limited to small and easy to understand tasks. They are often easily broken. They often make dangerous assumptions.
Another point: I know good classic programmers that are also good scripters. I know far less scripters able to become good classic programmers.
Apart from the obvious potential improvements in salad dressings,
Only industrials put water in dressing, in order to have consumer pay full price for half fat.
Good dressing is oil (sunflower or olive), acid (vinegar or lemon juice), perhaps mustard, perhaps onion, salt, pepper, herbs I don't know the name in english, but certainly not water. And when you thinkabout the physic of the dressing, the oil is here to recover the salad with the acid and herbs.
In fact, my best dressing is an emultion of vinegar and mustard in oil, and it's quite unstable. I'm certainly not going to put water, at least without electric mixer. But if I use and electric mixer, I will destroy the herbs I can incorporate asily with a fork and a little work. So, no, thanks. No water in my salad dressing.
The rate at which the Moore's law is quoted in lectures and articles doubles every 18 months /. every 18 days
and articles doubles in
... a potential victim, or a potential cleaner?
If one agree to the principle of taxes on sales, there is no reason for the internet to be exempted.
If all sales are treated the same, the best system prevail by its merit.
If there are tax incentives, government distord the market, favoring some solutions over others. As an european, tax free internet doesn't exist for me, as long as I buy from european union. If buy on the net, it is for the quality of the medium.
But I'm surprised americans don't see tax incentives as a disguised government interventionism. Or perhaps they are too greedy to pay 7% on goods if they can (here, the norm is 19.6%), distording free markets and concurence in the process.
I see no reason why government should protect business models based only on the non-contribution to society.
Ok, but what prevent the space anchor to be pushed toward the plane of the equator?
If the cable is not rigid (and I'm quite sure you cannot make something this long rigid), space anchor will be pushed to the south (ok, it's inntuition, and I know intuition is often wrong with rotating things), and so will be the center of mass
The rock is in orbit above the equator.
Why? why not the center of mass? why not nothing ?
do now, think later perhaps, but most projects cannot (because of complexity, time to market, whatever (and often incompetence or political agenda from some skateholders)) be totally conceived before the act. And RAD, despite its shortcomming, has proved that interactive versions permits users lo evolve a system for their needs, because they see it concretly.
A system that doesn't allow anonymous (unsigned) files to be shared.
And why should you be obliged to sign your own creation, or public domain one ?
How do you sign ? Is it free ?
When you can sign pubdom, what prevent you to sign unfree ?
I'm quite sure you can get a good randomness by recording noise from your (cheap) sound card. /dev/dsp, take one bit in each sample, and with a stock PC, you should have a good random number generator (except if your sound card is good quality, and you have no noise).
Pump up the volume, read
You should get the updates on the Web.
I do, it's so nostalgic. I upgrade as often as when I was following the 2.0 kernel branch...
With shared source and incessant updates, Microsoft is on the way to become a concurent to Linux.
first be sure you really get the same effect (universal, anonymous, free for you to use, and so on...)
how do you know? where are the specs?
I'm french. for about 10 month, one of my cards is moneo enabled.
But I don't use it.
Why? They are many reason:
- how does it work? There is no easy mean to find out. If you go to moneo.org and you search, you finish to discover that the card was validated again an undisclosed target security profile. It is security through obscurity.
- Why must I pay beetween 8 and 15 euros to my bank each year(quite same in USD) in order to have the equivalent of cash (and not quite so) for which I already pay taxes.
- It is not the equivalent of cash, cause I cannot give it to whoever I choose. How I am going to give 1,5 euro to the neighbour's daughter when she bring bck my girl from school? I cannot.
So, I'm all for free enterprise, but when the government do well what it does (providing money), I don't see the need to help corporation to compete with less value for the citizens.
... but the three last time I used floppies in the 2 last years were after downloading drivers from dell, for my dell. :
I had the files on my hard disk, and those where executable asking me to
-insert a floppy
-run the programm
-open the floppy in the explorer.(no reboot).
If Dell was a little more organized, as far as I'm concerned, they could have dropped them 3 years ago.
They release an extensible file format, some libraries, and it is teh best thing in the world?
Anybody having to manage picture in more than 16**3 color will think of something simlar. And the extensibility remind me of tiff (TAGGED image file format). In fact, I'm not sure they would not have be able to store all what they want in tiff. So what?
Who can guarantee that doesn't happen with regular voting? When it all comes down you are trusting the people who count the votes, and the people who collect the votes, that nothing shady is happening from when you vote to when it's counted.
Don't know in US/UK, other, but the french system is very transparent and public, and any voter arriving sufficiently early in sunday morning of the vote can be inscribed to be one of those who count the ballot. They are many others check and controls in the current process, permitting to garantee, even for a not mathematically inclined voter, that his vote is correctly counted.
Using a not transparent process is necessary to pass the message that the vote come from the voter, and not from a machine, or worst from a computer. Why not from God ?
it would still be a patent infringement if SCO was the first to come up with the patented technology.
Only as long as software patents are valids.
At the time unix was conceived, software patents were not legal in Europe. So the finnish guy didn't infrige.