This IMO is the most intellectually honest position
Not necessarily : the position of an atheist is that gods were created :
1)To explain things that were not explainable because of the lack of scientific knowledge
2)To keep the lower classes under control of the priests, who have always been friends to the upper classes, in promise of a better life in the afterworld. Revolt leads to hell, submission to paradise
Knowing the gods were invented, an atheist deducts they are an invention, and not reality. Therefore they don't exist.
Public recognition of Wordpad abandonned.wri as a file format by the/. crowd! Millions of Microsoft programmers, no longer afraid to talk about work at cocktail parties!
No he did not ! He claimed they were parasites to the society ! He would would have been very stupid to point the germans out that JHC was a jew too, like he did so much to hide his father was in fact the bastard of a rich jewish family.
The following is an ACTUAL copy of the first two pages inside a manual
for a product called EASYFLOW.
This is where the bloodthirsty license agreement is supposed to go,
explaining that EasyFlow is a copyrighted package, sternly warning you
not to pirate copies of it and explaining, in detail, the gory
consequences if you do.
We know that you are an honest person, and are not going to go around
pirating copies of EasyFlow; this is just as well with us since we
worked hard to perfect it and selling copies of it is our only method
of making anything out of all the hard work. For your convenience
EasyFlow Is distributed on a non copy-protected diskette and you are
free to do what you want with it (make backups, move from machine to
machine, etc.) provided that it is never in use by more than one
person at a time.
If, on the other hand, you are one of those few people who do go
around pirating copies of software, you probably aren't going to pay
much attention to a license agreement, bloodthirsty or not. Just keep
your doors locked and look out for the HavenTree attack shark.
Honest Disclaimer
We don't claim EasyFlow is good for anything - if you think it is,
great, but it's up to you to decide. If EasyFlow doesn't work: tough.
if you lose a million because EasyFlow messes up, it's you that's out
the million, not us. If you don't like this disclaimer, tough. We
reserve the right to do the absolute minimum provided by law, up to
and including nothing.
This is basically the same disclaimer that comes with all software
package but ours is in plain English and theirs is in legalese.
We didn't really want to include any disclaimer at all, but our
lawyers insisted. We tried to ignore them but they threatened us with
the attack shark (see license agreement above) at which point we
relented.
DON'T LOSE THE MANUAL
That's right; don't lose this manual. Especially don't lose it before
you have read this page. Why are we telling you this? Isn't it obvious
that you shouldn't lose the manual?
That's what we thought. Then we started getting all these calls from
people saying "Hi! I'm Joe Blow and you've never heard of me, but I
bought a copy of EasyFlow from FlyByNite Software and now I can't find
the manual... will you send me a new one free?".
At first we were nice guys and went along with this. Then we started
getting a bit more hard nosed about it; after all it is trivial to
copy the disk but the manual involves somewhat more work. Now we had
to agonize over each request and try to distinguish between the
genuine unfortunate ("the dog chewed it up") and the merely
unscrupulous looking for free software.
So what does everybody else do? We phoned the local Chevy dealer and
told them we had misplaced the engine out of our new Camaro; that call
didn't get us much useful information. Well... cars aren't software.
We called Borland and gave them a song and dance about losing our
Turbo Pascal manual; they said to mail a letter to their "Lost Manual
Review Committee". Wow! What a good idea. So we immediately rushed
out and set up our Lost Manual Review Committee. The Committee meets
once a month. They don't send out many replacement manuals, but they
seem to do a lot of howling, rolling around on the floor and saying
things like, "Oh wow - listen to this one".
Don't lose the manual.
Replacement manuals are available without going through the Committee
for US$147.95 each.
If I can read the above, I must be a programmer, therefore you don't need to assign the expression "programmer" to me, as I already am. You should better assign "programmer" to someone who is not yet a programmer, like this
if( !read(this) ) { you = programmer; }
else you are only wasting CPU resource.
Now if you wanted to describe a computer's reasonning, you should consider not using an imperative, procedural language, like "c". You should opt for a non-imperative language like "prolog". This would give something like
read(this, you)
programmer(X):- read(this,X)
which can be read as follows :
1) it is stated that you can read this.
2) For any give X, one can prove that X is a programmer, by proving that X can read this.
Now an exercise:
Knowing that :
wrote("if( read(this) ) { you = programmer; }",NGeran),
and assuming following law:
isAWannabeProgrammer(X):- wrote("if( read(this) ) { you = programmer; }",X),
Which conclusion will any decent prolog inference engine draw about NGeran ?
Well, IP theft could be considered a kind of bug. This is kind of yet another proof open source software is great : like any other bug, it was eventually detected by someone competent about the subject (being ATA here), and is now being fixed.
It would never have been detected in the first place in closed source software. Not even by reverse engineering (illegal in the US thanks to DMCA) as copyright notices reside in uncompiled comments.
AFAIK, they are only obligated to provide machine-readable source code to the person to whom they gave the binary executables.Therefore, anyone purchasing the server can ask and receive the source
But as the software is free, the customers are entirely free to redistribute it
Yeah ! Those emails and virusses are major bandwidth killers ! Because of them, it takes ages to download mp3s and AVIs on my 56k modem. Must be. Down with email !
They are not binary strings, they are the states of an infinite length state machine (aka a Turing machine). The joke describes the Pope, Fidel Castro, and Bill Clinton in a life boat with only one life jacket... it is hilarious.
And how did Turing, who died in 1954, know the eight year old Bill Clinton, and Fidel Castro who only took power in 1959 ?
fake signatures
of citizens (some of whom are dead!).
Jean Tiberi, previous mayor of Paris, was elected partly by dead people (he later pleaded that he would have won anyway, which is numerically true and won the trial)
later he was defeated by the social-democratic Bertrand Delanoe. I guess the French zombies got bored of unemployment and moved to Utah
Who is going to produce music and movies and books if they aren't compensated in some way?
People who have something to say still will. No more Darkroom Boys, no more Titney Spears. If one of them really wants money, he can still organize concerts or sell the music videos to MTV and live a decent life.
Slashdot Mirror
Like Melinda Gates who was in the M$ BOB team ?
1)To explain things that were not explainable because of the lack of scientific knowledge
2)To keep the lower classes under control of the priests, who have always been friends to the upper classes, in promise of a better life in the afterworld. Revolt leads to hell, submission to paradise
Knowing the gods were invented, an atheist deducts they are an invention, and not reality. Therefore they don't exist.
Public recognition of Wordpad abandonned .wri as a file format by the /. crowd! Millions of Microsoft programmers, no longer afraid to talk about work at cocktail parties!
I guess you meant the Sledgehammer. The T-bird is the "Athlon 3" and was released about a year ago.
What about the ARM ?
No he did not ! He claimed they were parasites to the society ! He would would have been very stupid to point the germans out that JHC was a jew too, like he did so much to hide his father was in fact the bastard of a rich jewish family.
Did Hitler claim he was a christian ?
pardon my ignorance, but where do we have chistian scientists in western, continental europe ?
Did make a custom Konqueror version called Krusader ?
The following is an ACTUAL copy of the first two pages inside a manual
for a product called EASYFLOW.
This is where the bloodthirsty license agreement is supposed to go,
explaining that EasyFlow is a copyrighted package, sternly warning you
not to pirate copies of it and explaining, in detail, the gory
consequences if you do.
We know that you are an honest person, and are not going to go around
pirating copies of EasyFlow; this is just as well with us since we
worked hard to perfect it and selling copies of it is our only method
of making anything out of all the hard work. For your convenience
EasyFlow Is distributed on a non copy-protected diskette and you are
free to do what you want with it (make backups, move from machine to
machine, etc.) provided that it is never in use by more than one
person at a time.
If, on the other hand, you are one of those few people who do go
around pirating copies of software, you probably aren't going to pay
much attention to a license agreement, bloodthirsty or not. Just keep
your doors locked and look out for the HavenTree attack shark.
Honest Disclaimer
We don't claim EasyFlow is good for anything - if you think it is,
great, but it's up to you to decide. If EasyFlow doesn't work: tough.
if you lose a million because EasyFlow messes up, it's you that's out
the million, not us. If you don't like this disclaimer, tough. We
reserve the right to do the absolute minimum provided by law, up to
and including nothing.
This is basically the same disclaimer that comes with all software
package but ours is in plain English and theirs is in legalese.
We didn't really want to include any disclaimer at all, but our
lawyers insisted. We tried to ignore them but they threatened us with
the attack shark (see license agreement above) at which point we
relented.
DON'T LOSE THE MANUAL
That's right; don't lose this manual. Especially don't lose it before
you have read this page. Why are we telling you this? Isn't it obvious
that you shouldn't lose the manual?
That's what we thought. Then we started getting all these calls from
people saying "Hi! I'm Joe Blow and you've never heard of me, but I
bought a copy of EasyFlow from FlyByNite Software and now I can't find
the manual... will you send me a new one free?".
At first we were nice guys and went along with this. Then we started
getting a bit more hard nosed about it; after all it is trivial to
copy the disk but the manual involves somewhat more work. Now we had
to agonize over each request and try to distinguish between the
genuine unfortunate ("the dog chewed it up") and the merely
unscrupulous looking for free software.
So what does everybody else do? We phoned the local Chevy dealer and
told them we had misplaced the engine out of our new Camaro; that call
didn't get us much useful information. Well
We called Borland and gave them a song and dance about losing our
Turbo Pascal manual; they said to mail a letter to their "Lost Manual
Review Committee". Wow! What a good idea. So we immediately rushed
out and set up our Lost Manual Review Committee. The Committee meets
once a month. They don't send out many replacement manuals, but they
seem to do a lot of howling, rolling around on the floor and saying
things like, "Oh wow - listen to this one".
Don't lose the manual.
Replacement manuals are available without going through the Committee
for US$147.95 each.
If I can read the above, I must be a programmer, therefore you don't need to assign the expression "programmer" to me, as I already am. You should better assign "programmer" to someone who is not yet a programmer, like this
if( !read(this) ) { you = programmer; }
else you are only wasting CPU resource.
Now if you wanted to describe a computer's reasonning, you should consider not using an imperative, procedural language, like "c". You should opt for a non-imperative language like "prolog". This would give something like
read(this, you)
programmer(X)
which can be read as follows :
1) it is stated that you can read this.
2) For any give X, one can prove that X is a programmer, by proving that X can read this.
Now an exercise
Knowing that :
wrote("if( read(this) ) { you = programmer; }",NGeran),
and assuming following law
isAWannabeProgrammer(X)
Which conclusion will any decent prolog inference engine draw about NGeran ?
This link works better
/ technology/01TELE.html
http://KARMAWHORE@archives.nytimes.com/2001/10/01
Well, IP theft could be considered a kind of bug. This is kind of yet another proof open source software is great : like any other bug, it was eventually detected by someone competent about the subject (being ATA here), and is now being fixed.
It would never have been detected in the first place in closed source software. Not even by reverse engineering (illegal in the US thanks to DMCA) as copyright notices reside in uncompiled comments.
You wouldn't have known in the first place as M$ products are closed source and "shared source" licensees are NDA'd.
But as the software is free, the customers are entirely free to redistribute it
Does that mean that CmdrTaco will have to either switch to unconditional Windows advocacy, either to stop using Frontpage for slashdot ?
Yeah ! Those emails and virusses are major bandwidth killers ! Because of them, it takes ages to download mp3s and AVIs on my 56k modem. Must be. Down with email !
Yes they do ! Look at the huge success of Microsoft Bob. It's the same idea !
I can do that with AvantGo on my Visor too
Oh yes, I forgot he was a visionary !
Today also, windows 95 is turning six.
later he was defeated by the social-democratic Bertrand Delanoe. I guess the French zombies got bored of unemployment and moved to Utah
Oops, the right URL is http://www.dynamix.net/home.html