I always thought that the Wright brothers died in bitterness due to others running off with their 'innovations' while not being able to enforce their patents. I wasn't aware that they did that so aggresively as to stall the entire US airplane market, and actually were very successful with it.
Thanks for correcting me, next time I'll put the Wrights next to $BIGCORP instead.
Logical inconsistency? This article shows that patents don't work when it comes to protecting a 'real-world' invention. They sure as hell don't work when it comes to protecting virtual ones.
If this article underlines anything, it's that patents are flawed. Do you want to make money from an invention? Make sure you have the business know-how to make money by exploiting that invention.
Patents didn't work for this lad or the Wright brothers, patents work for IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Philips and the like.
Grabbed a copy of Essential XUL Programming a few years back, it was quite ahead of its time and a good way to start off imo. The Open XUL Alliance has some more recent additions, might be worth a look.
Nothing a quick google-search wouldn't pick up. But that hasn't stopped ask/. in the past, I guess.
Further -- the rank-and-file Turk doesn't want EU membership.
The rank-and-file EU'er doesn't want Turkey to join the EU either. No one is forcing you, except maybe an opressive government. No hard feelings, but our countries tend to adhere to human rights; referenda will be held on this topic in many EU countries, only then will our weak leaders have the spine to say NO to Turkey.
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Kudos to Kyle for all his hard work!
For anyone interested, I had licensed my contributions under the GNU FPL; check them out (unedited) here.
1. Write an article, noting that you don't have enough of 'em scruffy free software hippies, post article to/. 2. Get flooded with zillions of job application letters, choose cheapest turd, fire bunch of old Unix admins 3. Profit!
And I was wondering why my connection at the faculty was slow as hell. Yup, Andy is/.'ed again. So long the leaching @ 100Mbit/s. Come on Andy, give us kids a break!
The world might be a better place with more Andy's, but please, let them go to a different university! We need our bandwidth!
We found no difficulties in dealing with the Bush administration, because of the similarities of that administration and the regimes in our countries, half of which are run by the military and half of which are run by monarchs. And our experience is vast with them.
[..] And he moved the tyranny and suppression of freedom to his own country, and they called it the Patriot Act, under the disguise of fighting terrorism. And Bush, the father, found it good to install his children as governors and leaders.
As much as I despise his actions, he's got a point.
Those hundreds of users who don't know how to put their documents onto a floppy/usb stick. Users who don't know how to set up their email. Users who complain that their screen is half-grey after having enlarged their taskbar. Users who can't find the start button. Been there, done that, moved on but it was more fun than cleaning viri and other crap. Never underestimate the stupidity of a homo sapien.
this list contains both toolkits for OpenGL and others, but you're right: C OpenGL UI toolkits aren't very common. PUI, GLUI, GLOW, the more well-known OpenGL TKs are all C++.
I did find one written in C however: Agar. It's also being actively developed, so might be worth a shot.
They are also one of the major sponsors and backers of BOF, who conducted the test. I wonder what would have happened if they really did 'do evil' and took down the information... but that's just me and my tinfoil hat.
"The biggest time saver is the ability to assign global values to Web configuration files. If we have a couple of variables that need to change between Web sites, to create a Just For Men site for Spain, for example, it's very fast. This saves us a half-day per site."
But indeed, evo 1.5 is pretty good, save for the occasional segfault. Only problem I still have with it are the teletubby-tasklists, but besides that I like the direction Ximian/Novell is moving evo to.
I knew LUFS has been inactive for about a year now, never did look into FUSE, but there seems to be some discussion between the two.
I think the solution can only come from AVF at this point. All the
filesystems built around FUSE should be maintained directly in the FUSE
source tree to provide a *coherent* filesystem offer. Being an LUFS
developer, I"d offer my help on migrating / integrating the LUFS
filesystems.
In my opinion, FUSE will only really start to take off once it's included in Linus' tree. I too would love to kick out all the VFS abominations, but for now I'm not holding my breath.
Perhaps Kolivas could be motivated into including it...
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I always thought that the Wright brothers died in bitterness due to others running off with their 'innovations' while not being able to enforce their patents. I wasn't aware that they did that so aggresively as to stall the entire US airplane market, and actually were very successful with it.
Thanks for correcting me, next time I'll put the Wrights next to $BIGCORP instead.
If this article underlines anything, it's that patents are flawed. Do you want to make money from an invention? Make sure you have the business know-how to make money by exploiting that invention.
Patents didn't work for this lad or the Wright brothers, patents work for IBM, Microsoft, Sony, Philips and the like.
Nothing a quick google-search wouldn't pick up. But that hasn't stopped ask /. in the past, I guess.
In Korea only old people rant that jokes about old Korean people aren't funny anymore
I for one welcome our new free online dictionary overlords!
For anyone interested, I had licensed my contributions under the GNU FPL; check them out (unedited) here.
1. Write an article, noting that you don't have enough of 'em scruffy free software hippies, post article to /.
2. Get flooded with zillions of job application letters, choose cheapest turd, fire bunch of old Unix admins
3. Profit!
Wait a sec...
The world might be a better place with more Andy's, but please, let them go to a different university! We need our bandwidth!
See that other comment on the same post, putting it more clearly for the sarcasm-impaired. My question was rhetorical. Hello, anyone home?
*cough*sloppycode*cough*
You mean this wouldn't happen if you just opened multiple windows instead of multiple tabs?
cheers mate, you live in one of the more sane countries on this clump of rock. Cherish it.
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Those hundreds of users who don't know how to put their documents onto a floppy/usb stick. Users who don't know how to set up their email. Users who complain that their screen is half-grey after having enlarged their taskbar. Users who can't find the start button. Been there, done that, moved on but it was more fun than cleaning viri and other crap. Never underestimate the stupidity of a homo sapien.
Oh wait, that was a rhetorical Q, nevermind.
I did find one written in C however: Agar. It's also being actively developed, so might be worth a shot.
Software patents are bad, even when used for 'right' (ie. our) reasons. This is fighting fire with fire.
/me is off to find an alibi
Wake me up when the USPTO burns to the ground.
They are also one of the major sponsors and backers of BOF, who conducted the test. I wonder what would have happened if they really did 'do evil' and took down the information... but that's just me and my tinfoil hat.
proud (to be paranoid) XS4all customer since 1997
Ahh, another NWN addict. It's good to see I'm not the *twitch* *twitch* only one...
C, OCaml, x86 asm, should be able to hack a kernel module with one hand behind his/her back. The usual.
1. Write easy yet useful tool
2. Add commercial support for people too lazy to RTFM
3. Submit to slashdot
4. Profit!
wait a minute...
But indeed, evo 1.5 is pretty good, save for the occasional segfault. Only problem I still have with it are the teletubby-tasklists, but besides that I like the direction Ximian/Novell is moving evo to.
Perhaps Kolivas could be motivated into including it...
You'd think they would get some real sponsering to float the bill, but SANE has always had inSANE fees. Nice lineup though.