If I had been one of the primary developers of gcc, gdb, emacs, and god knows how many other utilities that are bundled with most distributions, I would probably make use of every opportunity to evangelize the use of "GNU/Linux" too. Not that I think that RMS is solely motivated by such personal sentiments; he is simply asking that the contributions of the GNU project be acknowledged when people talk about Linux as an operating system (as opposed to a kernel). His point of view, while perhaps tiresome to those of us who already know of the issue, is valid. Who knows, maybe the columnist didn't know about it before RMS wrote him. Perhaps that's one fewer person that doesn't know how the histories of Linux and the GNU project are intertwined.
I showed up for my first day of work and had to go through the usual rigamarole of paperwork. I got to the IP agreement, and, much to the consternation of the human resources person, read it all the way through. The gist of it was that everything I produced during the time of my employment (even if on my own time and with my own resources) belonged to my employer.
I asked that the terms of the agreement be changed to accommodate work I do on my own. The HR rep said she would check with the legal dep't. and get back to me. I went to work without signing the agreement.
A week into my job, I got an angry call from the head of HR basically threatening to fire me-- the phrase "condition of employment" was used more than once. I caved and signed the agreement, rationalizing that it was something I would bring up at my first review.
I guess the moral is... if it's important to you, ask for a copy of a prospective employer's IP agreement when you interview. Treat the subject with the same weight as you would salary and benefits. Don't rely on "word of mouth" speculations as to the company's flexibility (as I did). Or you could wind up in a position where it's too late to change your mind.
I think you're a little off-base lumping PostScript in with Word. PostScript is hardly an "opaque format." It's a bona-fide programming language. Anyone is free to write a PostScript interpreter or a program that generates PostScript docs-- the specs for the language are available here.
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Have you noticed lately how, at the end of a show on one of the major networks, the credits are scrolled by on one half of the screen, while an ad (usually advertising the next show) plays on the other half? Or how the network's logo sits in the lower-right corner of the screen during a show? Or the HTML frames-like presentation of sporting events, with scores and stats and what not scrolling by?
Television is changing, slowly, but steadily, into a sort of WWW-Lite. Your favorite shows are going to start resembling your favorite web sites, banner ads and all. The next stage is when you are actually able to buy things through the glass teat. You like that basketball player's jersey? You push the appropriate button (probably labeled "buy") on the remote control that came with your set-top box, and a dialog comes up with the price, sizes available, and shipping options. You enter a PIN on your remote, the printer spits out your receipt (see, I'm on-topic:^), and you have the jersey in 6-10 business days.
This is in development. I have seen the prototypes at my job. And it's not targeted at the sophisticated technophile. It's for Joe Sixpack, who already watches 4 or 5 hours of television a night, more on weekends. He doesn't even need a computer-- there's an email app embedded in that set-top (which, by the way, is reporting his viewing patterns to the advertising module in the Time-Warner front end).
I don't know how the rest of you feel about this, but it is no coincidence that I got rid of my TV just over a month ago.
Has anyone had the courage to commit something to the diary? I opted out, seeing as how the page's source had it going to a real-enough-looking email address.
Actually, (C++)++ is syntactically senseless, because the '++' postfix operator returns an "anonymous" value, i.e. the value of the variable before incrementation. Appending yet another postfix '++' only increments said anonymous value, which essentially has no effect, since it vanishes into the ether with the enclosing statement's end.
I guess what I'm trying to say is don't be a smart-ass if you aren't actually going to say something smart.
They say they need to "add endian support for non-Intel platforms". I find this puzzling, since JFS runs on RS/6000s using 64-bit big-endian cpu's (Power3's, I believe). I presume they are referring to the Alpha and some varieties of Sparc, but aren't these also 64-bit big-endian processors?
Codewarrior 3 and 4 have been pretty good to me on win 95. Used it for c, c++, java, but not pascal. Granted, it was only for my undergrad CS projects, but compared to MS Visual Studio (which was what was available in the labs), it was very easy to use.
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Well, remember that the next time you recompile your kernel...
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...with gcc.
If I had been one of the primary developers of gcc, gdb, emacs, and god knows how many other utilities that are bundled with most distributions, I would probably make use of every opportunity to evangelize the use of "GNU/Linux" too. Not that I think that RMS is solely motivated by such personal sentiments; he is simply asking that the contributions of the GNU project be acknowledged when people talk about Linux as an operating system (as opposed to a kernel). His point of view, while perhaps tiresome to those of us who already know of the issue, is valid. Who knows, maybe the columnist didn't know about it before RMS wrote him. Perhaps that's one fewer person that doesn't know how the histories of Linux and the GNU project are intertwined.
I showed up for my first day of work and had to go through the usual rigamarole of paperwork. I got to the IP agreement, and, much to the consternation of the human resources person, read it all the way through. The gist of it was that everything I produced during the time of my employment (even if on my own time and with my own resources) belonged to my employer.
I asked that the terms of the agreement be changed to accommodate work I do on my own. The HR rep said she would check with the legal dep't. and get back to me. I went to work without signing the agreement.
A week into my job, I got an angry call from the head of HR basically threatening to fire me-- the phrase "condition of employment" was used more than once. I caved and signed the agreement, rationalizing that it was something I would bring up at my first review.
I guess the moral is... if it's important to you, ask for a copy of a prospective employer's IP agreement when you interview. Treat the subject with the same weight as you would salary and benefits. Don't rely on "word of mouth" speculations as to the company's flexibility (as I did). Or you could wind up in a position where it's too late to change your mind.
I have tried Cocoon, but AxKit was much easier for me to set up. It requires mod_perl and Sablotron.
Hey, lots of Unix weenies like PostScript. :-)
I think you're a little off-base lumping PostScript in with Word. PostScript is hardly an "opaque format." It's a bona-fide programming language. Anyone is free to write a PostScript interpreter or a program that generates PostScript docs-- the specs for the language are available here.
whaddaya know, my boss reads /. ;-)
Have you noticed lately how, at the end of a show on one of the major networks, the credits are scrolled by on one half of the screen, while an ad (usually advertising the next show) plays on the other half? Or how the network's logo sits in the lower-right corner of the screen during a show? Or the HTML frames-like presentation of sporting events, with scores and stats and what not scrolling by?
:^), and you have the jersey in 6-10 business days.
Television is changing, slowly, but steadily, into a sort of WWW-Lite. Your favorite shows are going to start resembling your favorite web sites, banner ads and all. The next stage is when you are actually able to buy things through the glass teat. You like that basketball player's jersey? You push the appropriate button (probably labeled "buy") on the remote control that came with your set-top box, and a dialog comes up with the price, sizes available, and shipping options. You enter a PIN on your remote, the printer spits out your receipt (see, I'm on-topic
This is in development. I have seen the prototypes at my job. And it's not targeted at the sophisticated technophile. It's for Joe Sixpack, who already watches 4 or 5 hours of television a night, more on weekends. He doesn't even need a computer-- there's an email app embedded in that set-top (which, by the way, is reporting his viewing patterns to the advertising module in the Time-Warner front end).
I don't know how the rest of you feel about this, but it is no coincidence that I got rid of my TV just over a month ago.
Mozilla isn't GPL'd. Mozilla has its own license.
Has anyone had the courage to commit something to
the diary? I opted out, seeing as how the page's
source had it going to a real-enough-looking email
address.
Actually, (C++)++ is syntactically senseless, because the '++' postfix operator returns an "anonymous" value, i.e. the value of the variable before incrementation. Appending yet another postfix '++' only increments said anonymous value, which essentially has no effect, since it vanishes into the ether with the enclosing statement's end.
I guess what I'm trying to say is don't be a smart-ass if you aren't actually going to say something smart.
They say they need to "add endian support for non-Intel platforms". I find this puzzling, since JFS runs on RS/6000s using 64-bit big-endian cpu's (Power3's, I believe). I presume they are referring to the Alpha and some varieties of Sparc, but aren't these also 64-bit big-endian processors?
Codewarrior 3 and 4 have been pretty good to me on win 95. Used it for c, c++, java, but not pascal. Granted, it was only for my undergrad CS projects, but compared to MS Visual Studio (which was what was available in the labs), it was very easy to use.