Since QCad is GPL'd wouldn't it be possible to add a Guile scripting facility to it?
And since Guile is a Scheme-based scripting language and Scheme is a Lisp dialect couldn't it be possible to write a Guile module to provide the AutoLISP compatibility.
Even if this is not a 100% compatibility this probably would help a lot to port scripts to QCad.
Is there some reason this can't be done? Is it being done at the time?
Given that the only way for customers to have an alternative to Windows was to create one themselves, this prove that they couldn't have one from another company than MS because of their monopoly power, so the very existence of Linux is a PROOF that MS is a monopoly.
Hemos' phone number and sexual preference? Or the password of a few Government mainframes? (I'm not saying they're of equal sensitivity, mind...:) )
Hemos Phone number: 156486135 (note, I don't know it and I don't even know the number of digits US phone numbers have, so if this is the good one, I am an awfully lucky bastard that will play Lotto tomorrow;))
Hemos sexual preference: it's well known that it is Hamster.
Password of few government maiframes:
www.slashdot.org (it is a well garded secret that/. is a DoD mainframe that is inquiring people's mind through their posts) Login: hemos Passwd: H4mst3r
www.transmeta.com (and you thought Transmeta really existed?) Login: torvalds Passwd: linux
dod.microsoft.com (the place where they are developping their next cyber weapon that will make no computer on the planet work correctly, codename: Windows 2000) Login: billg Passwd: monopoly
area51.dod.gov (where they keep all their archives on Alien contacts) Login: mulder (you thought he was the good guy, false, he is a double agent which aim is to confuse the public and make them believe their is no conspiracy) Passwd: iwanttobelieve
www.cultdeadcow.com (didn't you know that BOY2K was a troyan to detect script kiddies) Login: boy2k Passwd: W4r3Z
Any kind you want.;-) GRASS follows the unix paradigm of being modular and command line oriented, so you can use perl, or python, or tcl, or whatever you like.
and i thought it was a good idea done bad (but this was the first time i used any GIS software or even heard about such a beast).
Why i think this was done bad may be because of my lack of experience and my lack of training on it. basically, all I learned was via the web or books I searched at the library.
While it's a great way to learn computer science for me (because i already have enough knowledge to understand new things), this wasn't the most effective thing to learn ArcView or GIS philosophy in general.
The scripting language included inside ArcView looked great on paper, it was easy to use and it even was object oriented, but it seemed to be designed like a Mac: it is easy for users knowing nothing to computer but when you know about computers and want to do real programming you're stuck.
Of course this may come from lack of information, but the simple fact that I couldn't find this information was very frustrating.
I hope some/.er used it and can correct me and provide me some usefull links. Even if this was just for my work experience and I may never use it again it interested me and I would LOVE to change my POV.
I don't know what scripting facility GRASS has but one thing that would be cool would be to see someone add a Guile interface.
BTW, is there some not-outdated Guile informations? If there are I can't find them
I don't know when I will buy my next desktop computer, but what I know is that with the actual trend I will try to buy hardware whose company are supporting Linux with Free Software drivers.
Even though the Creative Live looked really great before (I had a friend with a Soudblaster Live Player and I was jaw dropping when he made a demo for me) the problem was the driver.
Like some people say, vote with your dollars (well with my Francs, my Pounds or my Euros since I'm a French doing is studies in the UK;)), so I want to thanks companies that give us Free Software drivers by buying their product (of course I check the quality but the competition arena is much smaller right now).
"Are you sure translating an official document from French to English isn't against the law? Expect French Foreign Legion troopers outside your door at any moment!
You would think they would prefer an operating system that was designed in France, by Frenchmen, and whose native language is French, and can't be localized to other languages."
Let's all go see "The Messenger" this weekend in support of our French brothers and sisters!
Eat French Bread with French Fries and French Toast covered with French's Mustard and French Dressing, and let's give the California Wine a break this time, okay?
Is there still the American quasi-embargo (double the taxes) on French products like Foix Gras and the like. if people follow your suggestion this would piss off those that decided it;)
"However what isn't clear in this last scenario is whether this would cause everyone in the world to be automatically licensed to use the software under section 2. Nonetheless, section 3 does not mandate distributing source code to any party whom you have not distributed binaries."
Yes, it is clear. Everyone wouldn't be licensed but only the country the US States give it to. But the aforementionned country can release it to anybody, even the US State cannot forbid them to do so (this would break the GPL).
"but the speaker is proposing that somebody else actually do the work! Well, I can tell you from my experience with the French that this is bloody unlikely!"
I'm happy to contradict you.
I'm French and have done what you described.
Guess what? I also translated it in English (see the update).
The first micro was French. i don't remember his name and there also some rethoric about it because the man that did it in his garage didn't take a patent or something like that but nonetheless, the first known micro constructed was french, and a micro is quite an important thing.
Tomorrow I will try to translate the document explaining why they did the law, but this is if i have the time and nobody do it before me (I you are doing it let me know);)
hi everyone. I'm the one that made the translation (but I'm more known on/. as Le douanier) but I didn't knew that I changed my name from RousseAU to RousseA;) I'm translating the open letter in English so you can avoid the use of Babelfish. This will beavailable in the directory where I put the translation but wait 1/2 hour or 1 hour so I can translate it. Cheers
But as you add zeros, it gets more and more attractive. 30! 300! 300,000,000!
given that "!" is the symbol for the factorial function 30! = 30*29*28*27*...*3*2*1 = A VERY BIG NUMBER
so 300,000,000! users is awfully big. There won't be enough human on Earth or in the Universe to allow so much users so I guess that aliens are using Linux too. ;-)
if your life passes before your eyes when you die, does that include the part where your life passes before your eyes?
There is (at least) two way to look at it:
1. If the answer to your question is YES then we can't die because this include the part where your life passes before your eyes, which itself include the part where your life... infinite recursion.
2. Rincewind: "Does our life pass before our eyes before dying?"
DEATH:"YES, THAT IS CALLED LIVING" ;)
This is from Dicsworld: "The last continent" (this may be not the exact wording i don't have the book at hand, but this is the idea).
We shoudl patent the slashdot effect so that any website leading to a similar effect should pay Rob and Jeff megabucks...but wait, aren't they wealthy enough now?;)
Slashdot Mirror
Since QCad is GPL'd wouldn't it be possible to add a Guile scripting facility to it?
And since Guile is a Scheme-based scripting language and Scheme is a Lisp dialect couldn't it be possible to write a Guile module to provide the AutoLISP compatibility.
Even if this is not a 100% compatibility this probably would help a lot to port scripts to QCad.
Is there some reason this can't be done?
Is it being done at the time?
Because this is the SERVER side and Judge Jackson said that it was unlikely that users would switch to a server operating system.
If MS had a monopoly on the server side this would have been an ammunition, but here this would be appor try to do it.
MS: "See, this is a proof that we are not a monopoly"
DOJ: "We have to confess MS is right, this is a proof they are not a monopoly... on the server side, which we never claimed them to be"
3. Compaq knows something about win2K that we do not know for certain (a verdtiable bugfest, swiss-cheese security, etc.)
And maybe that is what they know about W2K that made them drop the team for Alpha port of NT.
Given that the only way for customers to have an alternative to Windows was to create one themselves, this prove that they couldn't have one from another company than MS because of their monopoly power, so the very existence of Linux is a PROOF that MS is a monopoly.
The Guile webpage is itself up to date but the documentnation isn't. The Guile reference manual particulary.
Hemos' phone number and sexual preference? Or the password of a few Government mainframes? (I'm not saying they're of equal sensitivity, mind...
Hemos Phone number: 156486135 (note, I don't know it and I don't even know the number of digits US phone numbers have, so if this is the good one, I am an awfully lucky bastard that will play Lotto tomorrow
Hemos sexual preference: it's well known that it is Hamster.
Password of few government maiframes:
www.slashdot.org (it is a well garded secret that
Login: hemos
Passwd: H4mst3r
www.transmeta.com (and you thought Transmeta really existed?)
Login: torvalds
Passwd: linux
dod.microsoft.com (the place where they are developping their next cyber weapon that will make no computer on the planet work correctly, codename: Windows 2000)
Login: billg
Passwd: monopoly
area51.dod.gov (where they keep all their archives on Alien contacts)
Login: mulder (you thought he was the good guy, false, he is a double agent which aim is to confuse the public and make them believe their is no conspiracy)
Passwd: iwanttobelieve
www.cultdeadcow.com (didn't you know that BOY2K was a troyan to detect script kiddies)
Login: boy2k
Passwd: W4r3Z
This should be enough, no?
Any kind you want.
Fsck, I love it.
and i thought it was a good idea done bad (but this was the first time i used any GIS software or even heard about such a beast).
Why i think this was done bad may be because of my lack of experience and my lack of training on it. basically, all I learned was via the web or books I searched at the library.
While it's a great way to learn computer science for me (because i already have enough knowledge to understand new things), this wasn't the most effective thing to learn ArcView or GIS philosophy in general.
The scripting language included inside ArcView looked great on paper, it was easy to use and it even was object oriented, but it seemed to be designed like a Mac: it is easy for users knowing nothing to computer but when you know about computers and want to do real programming you're stuck.
Of course this may come from lack of information, but the simple fact that I couldn't find this information was very frustrating.
I hope some
I don't know what scripting facility GRASS has but one thing that would be cool would be to see someone add a Guile interface.
BTW, is there some not-outdated Guile informations? If there are I can't find them
I don't know when I will buy my next desktop computer, but what I know is that with the actual trend I will try to buy hardware whose company are supporting Linux with Free Software drivers.
Even though the Creative Live looked really great before (I had a friend with a Soudblaster Live Player and I was jaw dropping when he made a demo for me) the problem was the driver.
Like some people say, vote with your dollars (well with my Francs, my Pounds or my Euros since I'm a French doing is studies in the UK
One more time: THANKS
Imagine someone crack this box and replace the webcam video by a fake video showing the ghost, wouldn't that be a cool crack?
I don't like strong-arm, quasi-legal, neo-soviet business tactics.
Neither do I, but I like the Strong ARM
I didn't look closely enough to realise you had made the orignal submission whan I made my posting. My mistake.
No problem and no need to apologies.
I hope I have correctly translated your sentiments.
Yep, you undertood well what I thought.
Cheers
"Are you sure translating an official document from French to English isn't against the law? Expect French Foreign Legion troopers outside your door at any moment!
You would think they would prefer an operating system that was designed in France, by Frenchmen, and whose native language is French, and can't be localized to other languages."
False, look at: http://www.senat.fr/english/somm.html
This is a part of the senat website translated in English (there also is German and Spanish).
"The number of suckers born each minute doubles every 18 months."
-jafac's law
Well, given your post you seem to be one of them
Nope, most of them were there far before the article was posted on
I was talking of the first microcomputer, but he wasn't producted "en masse", just done by a guy in his garage.
For the first microprocessor i always thought this was Intel who did it. Is that right?
Offtopic:
;)
Let's all go see "The Messenger" this weekend in support of our French brothers and sisters!
Eat French Bread with French Fries and French Toast covered with French's Mustard and French
Dressing, and let's give the California Wine a break this time, okay?
Is there still the American quasi-embargo (double the taxes) on French products like Foix Gras and the like. if people follow your suggestion this would piss off those that decided it
"However what isn't clear in this last scenario is whether this would cause everyone in the world to be automatically licensed to use the software under section 2. Nonetheless, section 3 does not mandate distributing source code to any party whom you have not distributed binaries."
Yes, it is clear. Everyone wouldn't be licensed but only the country the US States give it to. But the aforementionned country can release it to anybody, even the US State cannot forbid them to do so (this would break the GPL).
"but the speaker is proposing that somebody else actually do the work! Well, I can tell you from my
experience with the French that this is bloody unlikely!"
I'm happy to contradict you.
I'm French and have done what you described.
Guess what? I also translated it in English (see the update).
Time to rethink your stereotypes maybe??
The first micro was French. i don't remember his name and there also some rethoric about it because the man that did it in his garage didn't take a patent or something like that but nonetheless, the first known micro constructed was french, and a micro is quite an important thing.
It seems like i made an error with my html code. At least you will have no excuse to miss the link
Hi everone, i have finished to translate my open letter in English.
r enchLaws/Law1999.495/index.html.
;)
You can find it at the following address:
members.xoom.com/rousseauj/english/translations/F
Tomorrow I will try to translate the document explaining why they did the law, but this is if i have the time and nobody do it before me (I you are doing it let me know)
Cheers
Julien
hi everyone. I'm the one that made the translation (but I'm more known on /. as Le douanier) but I didn't knew that I changed my name from RousseAU to RousseA ;) I'm translating the open letter in English so you can avoid the use of Babelfish. This will beavailable in the directory where I put the translation but wait 1/2 hour or 1 hour so I can translate it. Cheers
But as you add zeros, it gets more and more attractive. 30! 300! 300,000,000!
given that "!" is the symbol for the factorial function 30! = 30*29*28*27*...*3*2*1 = A VERY BIG NUMBER
so 300,000,000! users is awfully big. There won't be enough human on Earth or in the Universe to allow so much users so I guess that aliens are using Linux too.
;-)
if your life passes before your eyes when you die, does that include the part where your life passes before your eyes?
There is (at least) two way to look at it:
1. If the answer to your question is YES then we can't die because this include the part where your life passes before your eyes, which itself include the part where your life... infinite recursion.
2. Rincewind: "Does our life pass before our eyes before dying?"
DEATH:"YES, THAT IS CALLED LIVING"
;)
This is from Dicsworld: "The last continent" (this may be not the exact wording i don't have the book at hand, but this is the idea).
We shoudl patent the slashdot effect so that any website leading to a similar effect should pay Rob and Jeff megabucks...but wait, aren't they wealthy enough now?