So you've seen he call it "GNU OS" as opposed to GNU/Hurd or GNU/Linux? I don't spend my days reading what RMS has said lately, so I may have missed it, but this is the first time I have heard the term "GNU OS".
I bought a Daewoo DVD player at Sam's Club last weekend. It cost $39.95. It plays DVDs as wells as CD-R with MP3s and JPEGS, and VCDs. So a GCN + DVD player is about $139.94.
Having seen him speak, I would guess that his answers will focus on innocent details in the questions. He will get hung up on technicalities time after time. I can already hear the judge, "Mr. Stallman, just answer the question."
Imagine his response the first time someone says "Linux" when RMS thinks they should have said "GNU/Linux". What a treat!
The purpose of dumping is to drive competitors out of business and then raise prices. This will never be the case with Linux because the GPL ensures that the source code will always be redistributable. So prices won't change if/when SCO is gone. Oddly, since SCO was distributing Linux until recently, would they be one of the conspirators that they are accusing?
If this argument flies, it would make any GPL software that competes with proprietary software illegal. That seems like a real stretch. How could a volunteer effort be illegal?
Why the ENTIRE program? Why not just the terminal? Have they linked the ENITRE program to GPL'd code? It seems that there is a lot of insisting going on by people who are uninformed. In fact, most people here have ZERO information about this product or how it was compiled.
Um, in a roundabout way some of this is from IBM. The two CPUs in each box are from IBM.
When IBM comes out with the $3,500 4-way 970 (G5 in Apple-speak) workstation it will be interesting to see what people do with it. Imagine a cluster that is 17% more expensive but with twice as many processors...
The game isn't that great technically. The trackball is an interesting way of controlling the swing, I think it is superior to the click-click swing of other sims. Part of the appeal is that there are online tournaments. You play at the local bar and your score is sent in to the server.
Come up with some cash to throw the way of the appropriate Japanese movie studio and make sure that the big red lizard gives Godzilla a good beating in his next outing.
While he was getting his Phd he mentioned to me that he had seen evidence that claimed that whether power lines had an effect depended on whether they run north-south or east-west. Something about an interaction with the earth's magnetic field. I have no idea how this would work.
Of course I can't remember which one was bad and which was harmless. He even insinuated that the power companies knew this and that they would selectively choose areas for study where the lines ran in the harmless direction, thus "proving" that there were no ill effects.
Maybe you are missing the point as well. The original question was pretty vague. I would guess that it is the check printing software and the checks themselves that they are claiming are secure, not the process by which checks are ordered. So what does it mean to have "secure check printing software"? Will it only print checks if it can verify that the account is legitimate? Does it attempt to verify the address on the checks? Even so what is secure about checks? Just about nothing. So what does the fraud coverage actually cover? We need more details before anyone can provide a non-generic answer and I would guess that they won't be provided. What is obscure about printing checks anyhow?
I stand corrected. You are right, LineDrive is back. This is good to know. I searched desperately for it the first week after the takeover and was unable to find it. Truely a useful tool.
MapBlast had an interesting option for drawing maps, which was the result of a research project at Stanford. If desired, MapBlast would draw directions the same way a person would on the back of a napkin. It was purposely not to scale, but would emphasize the places you would need to turn. For the most part it only showed/labeled streets you would actually travel on. It was much easier to read this type of map than a traditional "line on a scale map" since driving someplace usually involves covering most of the distance on a freeway and then having to navigate turns on several smaller roads. A map of the entire trip drawn to scale wouldn't show you the detail that you need.
This method of map drawing was so impressive that I would tell people to use MapBlast as opposed to any other mapping sites. To bad it is gone now.
I was hopeful that MS would keep this innovation when they bought MapBlast, but it seems that they simply redirected the URL and didn't absorb any technology. "Microsoft, where innovation goes to die."
if have the choice between spending an extra $500 on a bike or training harder, take the latter.
When I was young (and poorer), I made the same choice.
Then I was able to do both!
Now I spend the $.
In fact, on a recent trip to Moab I didn't even bother to take my own bike. Note that I was living in Utah at the time. I simply rented an expensive full suspension bike that I would never buy. It was a lot of fun to try something new.
I did a lot of test riding prior to purchasing my last bicycle. I had ridden aluminum for years and steel in the past. I could tell a difference between aluminum, carbon fiber, steel, and titanium. I bought a titanium frame because I could feel both the smoothness and the efficiency. I can see how each material has its place though. Also, if you were to make a steel frame with big tubes (a la aluminum frames) it would have most of the charecteristics of an aluminum frame.
Now when my wife rides my bike, she can tell that it is a nice bike, but she couldn't tell you about the feel of it other than that it is light.
Now can I tell the difference between different titanium alloys? I doubt it. But there is a big difference between aluminum and titanium. It isn't Coke vs. Pepsi, it is more on the scale of Coke vs. Sprite.
There is another laser powered craft that is much simpler. In fact, it has no moving parts. It looks like a fancy chrome plated frisbee, and is about that size. They get it spinning fast on the ground and then start shooting a laser at it from below. The disk is shaped such that the laser is reflected and a small chamber is heated, causing the air inside to expand, pushing air through a nozzle. The spinning gives it stability and the laser provides propulsion.
I saw it on a PBS show about advanced propulsion devices a few years ago. Very much a research project, and not currently capable of carrying a payload, but interesting for its simplicity (in the craft at least).
Orrin would be even happier than you know. The explosive pellet used in many airbag systems was developed at Thiokol Corp, maker of the solid rocket boosters used on the space shuttle. The division was sold and I believe ended up with Auto-Liv, but the plant in still in Utah.
I knew a family in Brazil that was adding a room to their house. The had enough money for the bricks, but the were running out on the mortar mix. Adding extra sand to the mix seemed to make one bag of mix last longer, so they did that. The next big rainstorm (about a week later) caused the walls of the addition to collapse. That same night I helped pull a VW Beetle out of a 4 foot deep mud hole that opened up in the road.
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So Fox didn't threaten to sue itself, but is the new rule against fake news crawls real, or was it part of the joke as well?
So you've seen he call it "GNU OS" as opposed to GNU/Hurd or GNU/Linux? I don't spend my days reading what RMS has said lately, so I may have missed it, but this is the first time I have heard the term "GNU OS".
No he didn't. He went a step further and talked about the "GNU OS", which I had never heard of until now.
I bought a Daewoo DVD player at Sam's Club last weekend. It cost $39.95. It plays DVDs as wells as CD-R with MP3s and JPEGS, and VCDs. So a GCN + DVD player is about $139.94.
I agree, but they'll have to be specific, or he will become pedantic faster than you can say "GNU/Linux".
Imagine his response the first time someone says "Linux" when RMS thinks they should have said "GNU/Linux". What a treat!
If this argument flies, it would make any GPL software that competes with proprietary software illegal. That seems like a real stretch. How could a volunteer effort be illegal?
Why the ENTIRE program? Why not just the terminal? Have they linked the ENITRE program to GPL'd code? It seems that there is a lot of insisting going on by people who are uninformed. In fact, most people here have ZERO information about this product or how it was compiled.
It could run Linux or maybe AIX. I doubt that Apple would want it to be able to run OS X, which is too bad.
When IBM comes out with the $3,500 4-way 970 (G5 in Apple-speak) workstation it will be interesting to see what people do with it. Imagine a cluster that is 17% more expensive but with twice as many processors...
The game isn't that great technically. The trackball is an interesting way of controlling the swing, I think it is superior to the click-click swing of other sims. Part of the appeal is that there are online tournaments. You play at the local bar and your score is sent in to the server.
the above comment is mine. /. logged me out. What a shock, given the recent problems.
Come up with some cash to throw the way of the appropriate Japanese movie studio and make sure that the big red lizard gives Godzilla a good beating in his next outing.
Of course I can't remember which one was bad and which was harmless. He even insinuated that the power companies knew this and that they would selectively choose areas for study where the lines ran in the harmless direction, thus "proving" that there were no ill effects.
Maybe you are missing the point as well. The original question was pretty vague. I would guess that it is the check printing software and the checks themselves that they are claiming are secure, not the process by which checks are ordered. So what does it mean to have "secure check printing software"? Will it only print checks if it can verify that the account is legitimate? Does it attempt to verify the address on the checks? Even so what is secure about checks? Just about nothing. So what does the fraud coverage actually cover? We need more details before anyone can provide a non-generic answer and I would guess that they won't be provided. What is obscure about printing checks anyhow?
At http://rds.planetflibble.com/?news=all a /.er was making a new port of RDS. Seems he has stopped for now.
I stand corrected. You are right, LineDrive is back. This is good to know. I searched desperately for it the first week after the takeover and was unable to find it. Truely a useful tool.
This method of map drawing was so impressive that I would tell people to use MapBlast as opposed to any other mapping sites. To bad it is gone now.
I was hopeful that MS would keep this innovation when they bought MapBlast, but it seems that they simply redirected the URL and didn't absorb any technology. "Microsoft, where innovation goes to die."
When I was young (and poorer), I made the same choice.
Then I was able to do both!
Now I spend the $.
In fact, on a recent trip to Moab I didn't even bother to take my own bike. Note that I was living in Utah at the time. I simply rented an expensive full suspension bike that I would never buy. It was a lot of fun to try something new.
Now when my wife rides my bike, she can tell that it is a nice bike, but she couldn't tell you about the feel of it other than that it is light.
Now can I tell the difference between different titanium alloys? I doubt it. But there is a big difference between aluminum and titanium. It isn't Coke vs. Pepsi, it is more on the scale of Coke vs. Sprite.
yup, that's it. Thanks for the link. Doesn't look like the site has been updated for three years though. Maybe not much is happening with it.
I saw it on a PBS show about advanced propulsion devices a few years ago. Very much a research project, and not currently capable of carrying a payload, but interesting for its simplicity (in the craft at least).
Orrin would be even happier than you know. The explosive pellet used in many airbag systems was developed at Thiokol Corp, maker of the solid rocket boosters used on the space shuttle. The division was sold and I believe ended up with Auto-Liv, but the plant in still in Utah.
how about "luggable"?
I knew a family in Brazil that was adding a room to their house. The had enough money for the bricks, but the were running out on the mortar mix. Adding extra sand to the mix seemed to make one bag of mix last longer, so they did that. The next big rainstorm (about a week later) caused the walls of the addition to collapse. That same night I helped pull a VW Beetle out of a 4 foot deep mud hole that opened up in the road.