I'm one of the people who fit the nerd/geek/wierdo category. This article is very thoughtful, and extremely well worded. I can say as a person who spent every year of school until my junior year of highschool being tormented, that it is worse than a lot of people can imagine. What saved me?
One day, I stopped myself from snapping back at somone, and thought about it for a second. What exactly did 'nerd' mean to me? It meant someone who did well in school, who liked learning, who loved science, computers, and being their own person. At that moment, it stopped bothering me, and within a month of that, they stopped bothering me. They started to respect me, because I respected myself, and realized that I could be proud of myself.
So, to all you nerds out there, I have a few words of encouragement. Stand up for yourselves. Stand tall, be proud. We are the people who really make society run. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
At last, my faith in Apple is beginning to be rewarded. This license looks like a HUGE step in the right direction. I think this is a very good sign that Apple is sincere in this movement. They are listening to the community, and taking our suggestions to heart.
Keep up the good work, Apple!
Also, I'd like to thank the community for the general tone of this discussion. It has been very positive, and I feel much better about the community as a whole. Thank you, everyone. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
I feel both ways on this. While the site is correct that they have the right to parody, I also feel that rude and obscene parodies are not good, and could hurt the real Dilbert.
I like the way the folks at the site seem to be taking this very well. Their attitude is wonderful, in my opinion. They think that they're in the right, but the also see that it's stupid to spend thousands fighting over a relatively little thing.
Before you jump on me and say I'm opposed to freedom, let me point out that there are bigger more important battles to fight! This is a tiny thing, and should not take precedence over more important issues. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
Oh my. I can't believe this... I hope they aren't closing the website down! I've used that website as a wonderful jumping point on the web for years. They are an awesome group of people, and probably some of the most dedicated folks I know. I was never a true member of that group, but I believed in the same things as them. I hope to see more of that caliber of people in the future. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
I say, it's about time we got something like this. And the government doesn't realize that lack of strong encryption encourages other kinds of terrorists. And it's not like they have to carry out their evil plots online. Good old snail mail is still reliable. (Sort of.) -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
Looks good. I like the limitations, and the methods. I don't know why anyone would complain about it. I think it's an awesome system.
I can hardly wait to do a little moderating. Maybe I'm just a power freak.:) But I think it's a wonderful opportunity to help out some of those late posters who have good comments, but don't get read because they're so far down the list, and not many people look down there. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
Lucas is in a very good position to make these sorts of demands. Star Wars Episode I is the most anticipated movie of all time, according to many sources, and theatres would be foolish to not show it if they can. If they don't show it, they'll loose money, and their competitors will be making millions. I especially like the note that if there is competition in the area, they have to show it on at least three screens. That should help alleviate the ticket crush in some areas.
Now, as for a 12:01 AM showing... I may just camp out to see it, if it looks possible. It depends on how the ticket situation is looking around here, and whether I can get a day off work.:) -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
I especially liked the section talking about how software updates have been speeding up. I know that I run software that is almost all at least a year old. I even run a few programs that are more like 4 or 5 years old, simply because I like where they were at that point, and felt that I didn't need anything else. They do everything I need, and I get lost in the new programs.
As for that joke about not knowing who Yoda was... Please tell me that was just a joke? If it wasn't, then I'm very worried about society. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
I've know about this stuff for a couple months now... This is the slowest I've seen/. move on a good story like this. And yes, the chips will have awesome SMP capability. The main point of interest is the 128 bit bus between processors. There will be no slowdown between processors. They will be able to talk at real time. This also applies to the cache. Say goodbye to bottle-necks. (Note that this 128 bit bus will also be supported for the main system bus in some systems.) -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
Maybe what us Hackers need to do, is write up a manifesto of some kind, so that people will know what/we/ think we are. I'm getting tired of reading articles where they equate hacker with those bozos who sit around and try and kill computer systems. Being a Hacker is a way of thinking about things, not a lifestyle that involves cracking systems.
To truly be a hacker, you need to be the type of person who learns for learning's sake, and enjoys it more than anything else. The kind of person who questions everything, who doesn't want to know that something works, they want to know/why/ it works.
As a side note, to demonstrate that, I was recently thinking about the fact that since Lightsabers have blades of pure energy, they should have no mass. And yet, they film the movies with the actors using metal rods, which means the lightsabers move as if they had mass. Odd, eh? -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
Apparently, CNN had an article up for a short time about Lucas reconsidering the no early sales policy. They pulled it, so maybe Lucas nixed it. Who knows? *laugh* I'm not suprised about the trailer threatening networks... But I don't see why people are emailing it.:) Why not just stick it on a globally accessible folder, and let people copy it? -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
This guy sounds like a doomsday sayer to me. He's ignoring three key facts.
Number One: Insects can evolve too. He seems to think that plants changing will make it so that no insects can eat them, or polinate them, or anything. Um... Who says that the insects can't just evolve to this new scenario.
Number Two: These modified plants do not keep insects from polinating. Just from damaging. So, most likely, we'll have more insects running around.
Number Three: Genes are unlikely to be able to spread to anything but closely related plants. Plants are like animals, they have genomes, with varying numbers of chromosomes, and they'll have a hard time crossing that barrier.
So, I'm not very worried about his foretold doom. I think maybe/he/ should be worried about his future creditability in the science world. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
It depends on the individual person, I would say. I don't know much about how other people out there are on IQ tests, but I test out darn near the top of the chart. Example: When I was 12, I took one, and on one of the questions, I didn't have a clue what one of the key words in the sentence meant. This was a short answer test, and after thinking for a minute, I wrote down the correct answer. Then, when I was asked the same question recently, I/still/ had no clue. I'd forgotten the incident, until my mother reminded me.
Anyway, my point is, I learn and associate knowledge very quickly. I did well up till my Junior year of High School, when I started having real problems. The problem wasn't that I couldn't do the material. The problem was, it was all too easy for me. The teachers would all go on about how homework was 'just to help you learn'. So, being a person who believes in not doing unnecessary work, I didn't do much homework. This caused problems. Some of my teachers worked out a deal with me, where I could test out of homework. So, I graduated from High School.
When I got to college, things went downhill rapidly. In my science, math, and Computer Science classes, where I was being challenged, I did very well. However, I had to take several liberal arts classes, all of which were covering stuff I'd been doing for two years at highschool. I managed to find one teacher who would work with my problem, but all the others treated me like scum. So, I promptly flunked out of several classes, and lost my scholarship. I had no other way of going to school, so I dropped out, and started working a minimum wage job.
After a year of that, I pulled a job with a technical temp agency, and knew I'd hit it big. I now work at Novell, and I'm doing well. So, what's my point? That there are certain types of intelligence that learn much better in the real world than they ever will in a controlled learning environment. For those people, college is definately not the place to be.
For those of you who think I'm lazy, that may be. And if you think that's the point of my article, you need to read it again. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
Where'd you hear that? The fastest type would be whatever type matches the register size of your computer, which is usually int.
Boolean is good because its only 1 bit of information so with a 32 bit int you can store 32 bits of information, as far as speed, if you are polling this information at one point in a program it would certainly be faster than retrieving 32 seperate integers.
A couple problems with this comment. First, short int require virtually an identical amount of time as 'int'. Also, it will insure that it is using the smallest word size for the computer.
Now, about using boolean to save space... You OBVIOUSLY don't know what you're talking about. When the computer allocates a variable, it has to use at/least/ the smallest word size, which I believe is 1 byte. Which is what a short int is. So, when it allocates a boolean type variable, it allocates 8 bits, but only uses 1 bit for actually storing the information, so it saves/no/ space, and is less likely to be compatible in different compilers. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
That they don't have the old DoJ page, when it got hacked. I never got to see it, and I've heard that it was quite hilarious. Apparently, a group of Macintosh Hackers broke in, and rewrote the whole page. I heard rumors that it was renamed the 'Department of Injustice', and that a picture of Hitler was placed on the front page. Does anyone know if there's a copy of this floating around somewhere for those of us who missed it? It was only up for one day.
Another site that would be funny to see hacked would be the IRS homepage. Anyone got ideas for what could be done to it? -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
I haven't actually used this book, but it sounds like a good thing. I know that despite the fact that I am fairly set in my ways on a lot of things, I still like to see how other people do their programming, so that I can possibly improve my programming style. I'll definately look into getting a copy of this book, so that I can give it a good look.
As far as short identifiers go, I hate them as well. I like the name to give me a clear idea of what it was intended to do. And it should (preferably) be easy to remember. I can't tell you how many times I've had to go look up those 6 letter function names, so that I could remember which was which.
Someone mentioned something about Boolean in one of their comments. I find that I rarely use a type boolean... If I need one, I usually just declare a short int instead, and use it. It's just as fast, uses the same amount of memory, unless I'm confused about the way allocation works, and doesn't require that your compiler know type 'bool'. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
I've read previous versions of this, and loved it. Wonderful for finding fun obscure terms to puzzle people with. *grin* I haven't looked in this one yet, but as I recall, they define 'hacker' correctly. As in, a person who enjoys computer challenges.
I'll probably spend the rest of today poking around in the Jargon File.:) Should be fun. I can't wait to see how they define the/. effect. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
"There are all different types of ways you can do open source," Valentine said. "We are looking into whether we should get into open source initiatives."
All different types of ways, eh? Yep, this sounds like YAOSL. And I agree with you Millenium. As much as I like the APSL, I see that it isn't GPL. And MS's license would most likely make all of the people who were critisizing the Apple license wish that Microsoft would take lessons from Apple in openness.
The day that MS goes with a license that the community likes, I will publicly state that I was wrong that MS was evil, and I will start promoting their software. (Please god? Don't let this happen? *wink*)
I particularly found the comments about the 'comfort zone' to be amusing. They make it blindingly obvious that they're only doing this to try and fight Linux. At least Apple wasn't trying to kill Linux. They were just trying to keep themselves alive. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
Why am I so not suprised about this? And while I agree that this isn't good, there is another side to this issue that shouldn't be ignored.
First, Intel is a corporation, and they're starting to loose market share, so they want to make as much money as possible. This scheme is just a way to try and get lots of exposure, and to try and keep products marked as being theirs, theirs.
So, before you start acting too suprised by this, keep in mind, they're only doing what pretty much any company would do in this case. They're trying to keep their profits up as much as possible. So they're slightly more anal than a lot of people are about this sort of thing. Is that suprising, given their falling market share? No.
This comment is solely the opinion of me, myself, and I. It does not reflect on/. in any way. *wink* -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
I hadn't noticed this section before... For once, I think I'll most likely agree with all of you. This is not good news at all. If Apple wants to get the full support of their community, a large part of which is international, they/need/ to get rid of that paragraph.
I hope Apple sees that this is bad news, and does something about it. If they don't, they're going to kill over 50% of the market of people who/like/ Apple, let alone the rest of the world who doesn't like them to begin with.
Maybe we should get some kind of a petition together here, folks. What do the rest of you think? Start mailing Apple about this? -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
I thought he wanted to make lots of money on this!!! He'd make more if he opening up ticket sales early. There's no way he'll sell as many if everyone has to stand in line the day of the show! So much for getting in early! Looks like I'll be waiting till friday to see it. I can't get out of work all day wednesday to camp out in line. So much for getting me early, Lucas. This wasn't the way to do it. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
He truly is insane, isn't he? I've never seen anyone else who could lie so easily and so often. Witness the Halloween Document, which he admitted was genuine. How can he then turn around and claim he doesn't consider Linux a threat?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I never trust anything Bill Gates says unless I've heard it confirmed by people who I know don't like Windows. His word is definately suspect, and should be taken with about a gallon of salt.
As for Windows being more fully featured, can someone please pick me up off the floor? I'm laughing too hard to get up myself. The only reason I like Windows NT is that it's better than 95/98. Here's a list of my OS preference from least favorite to favorite: Windows 95/98, Windows NT, then Mac/Linux equally.
Maybe if we all just ignore him, Bill Gates will go away? Then again, probably not. He's like that nasty flu virus that hangs around for months, despite your best attempts to get rid of it.
Anyway, I think that's all for today. Thanks for taking the time to read another of my near rants. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
Bruce, I've disagreed with many of your comments, but here I have to agree with everything you've said. In my comments, I have emphasized again and again that this/is/ a first version of the license. If people will give Apple a chance to update it, they may (Notice I say/May/) be pleasantly surprised.
I have been accused by many people of 'owning stock in Apple' or 'thinking they can do no wrong'. This is not true. I am simply an optimist who happens to prefer this OS and this company. Despite what many people say, this company cares about their users. They design an OS that works as smoothly as possible, and require the least hassle to learn. Is this a bad thing? No. I choose to feel that they will do the same thing with this license. If the community will present well reasoned, politely phrased objections, Apple will give it a good/hard/ look, and almost certainly change some of the problems. -- Matthew Walker My DNA is Y2K compliant
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I'm one of the people who fit the nerd/geek/wierdo category. This article is very thoughtful, and extremely well worded. I can say as a person who spent every year of school until my junior year of highschool being tormented, that it is worse than a lot of people can imagine. What saved me?
One day, I stopped myself from snapping back at somone, and thought about it for a second. What exactly did 'nerd' mean to me? It meant someone who did well in school, who liked learning, who loved science, computers, and being their own person. At that moment, it stopped bothering me, and within a month of that, they stopped bothering me. They started to respect me, because I respected myself, and realized that I could be proud of myself.
So, to all you nerds out there, I have a few words of encouragement. Stand up for yourselves. Stand tall, be proud. We are the people who really make society run.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
At last, my faith in Apple is beginning to be rewarded. This license looks like a HUGE step in the right direction. I think this is a very good sign that Apple is sincere in this movement. They are listening to the community, and taking our suggestions to heart.
Keep up the good work, Apple!
Also, I'd like to thank the community for the general tone of this discussion. It has been very positive, and I feel much better about the community as a whole. Thank you, everyone.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
I feel both ways on this. While the site is correct that they have the right to parody, I also feel that rude and obscene parodies are not good, and could hurt the real Dilbert.
I like the way the folks at the site seem to be taking this very well. Their attitude is wonderful, in my opinion. They think that they're in the right, but the also see that it's stupid to spend thousands fighting over a relatively little thing.
Before you jump on me and say I'm opposed to freedom, let me point out that there are bigger more important battles to fight! This is a tiny thing, and should not take precedence over more important issues.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Oh my. I can't believe this... I hope they aren't closing the website down! I've used that website as a wonderful jumping point on the web for years. They are an awesome group of people, and probably some of the most dedicated folks I know. I was never a true member of that group, but I believed in the same things as them. I hope to see more of that caliber of people in the future.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
I say, it's about time we got something like this. And the government doesn't realize that lack of strong encryption encourages other kinds of terrorists. And it's not like they have to carry out their evil plots online. Good old snail mail is still reliable. (Sort of.)
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Looks good. I like the limitations, and the methods. I don't know why anyone would complain about it. I think it's an awesome system.
:) But I think it's a wonderful opportunity to help out some of those late posters who have good comments, but don't get read because they're so far down the list, and not many people look down there.
I can hardly wait to do a little moderating. Maybe I'm just a power freak.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Lucas is in a very good position to make these sorts of demands. Star Wars Episode I is the most anticipated movie of all time, according to many sources, and theatres would be foolish to not show it if they can. If they don't show it, they'll loose money, and their competitors will be making millions. I especially like the note that if there is competition in the area, they have to show it on at least three screens. That should help alleviate the ticket crush in some areas.
:)
Now, as for a 12:01 AM showing... I may just camp out to see it, if it looks possible. It depends on how the ticket situation is looking around here, and whether I can get a day off work.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
A fascinating article. Kudos!
I especially liked the section talking about how software updates have been speeding up. I know that I run software that is almost all at least a year old. I even run a few programs that are more like 4 or 5 years old, simply because I like where they were at that point, and felt that I didn't need anything else. They do everything I need, and I get lost in the new programs.
As for that joke about not knowing who Yoda was... Please tell me that was just a joke? If it wasn't, then I'm very worried about society.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
I've know about this stuff for a couple months now... This is the slowest I've seen /. move on a good story like this. And yes, the chips will have awesome SMP capability. The main point of interest is the 128 bit bus between processors. There will be no slowdown between processors. They will be able to talk at real time. This also applies to the cache. Say goodbye to bottle-necks. (Note that this 128 bit bus will also be supported for the main system bus in some systems.)
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Maybe what us Hackers need to do, is write up a manifesto of some kind, so that people will know what /we/ think we are. I'm getting tired of reading articles where they equate hacker with those bozos who sit around and try and kill computer systems. Being a Hacker is a way of thinking about things, not a lifestyle that involves cracking systems.
/why/ it works.
To truly be a hacker, you need to be the type of person who learns for learning's sake, and enjoys it more than anything else. The kind of person who questions everything, who doesn't want to know that something works, they want to know
As a side note, to demonstrate that, I was recently thinking about the fact that since Lightsabers have blades of pure energy, they should have no mass. And yet, they film the movies with the actors using metal rods, which means the lightsabers move as if they had mass. Odd, eh?
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Apparently, CNN had an article up for a short time about Lucas reconsidering the no early sales policy. They pulled it, so maybe Lucas nixed it. Who knows? *laugh* I'm not suprised about the trailer threatening networks... But I don't see why people are emailing it. :) Why not just stick it on a globally accessible folder, and let people copy it?
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
This guy sounds like a doomsday sayer to me. He's ignoring three key facts.
/he/ should be worried about his future creditability in the science world.
Number One: Insects can evolve too. He seems to think that plants changing will make it so that no insects can eat them, or polinate them, or anything. Um... Who says that the insects can't just evolve to this new scenario.
Number Two: These modified plants do not keep insects from polinating. Just from damaging. So, most likely, we'll have more insects running around.
Number Three: Genes are unlikely to be able to spread to anything but closely related plants. Plants are like animals, they have genomes, with varying numbers of chromosomes, and they'll have a hard time crossing that barrier.
So, I'm not very worried about his foretold doom. I think maybe
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
It depends on the individual person, I would say. I don't know much about how other people out there are on IQ tests, but I test out darn near the top of the chart. Example: When I was 12, I took one, and on one of the questions, I didn't have a clue what one of the key words in the sentence meant. This was a short answer test, and after thinking for a minute, I wrote down the correct answer. Then, when I was asked the same question recently, I /still/ had no clue. I'd forgotten the incident, until my mother reminded me.
Anyway, my point is, I learn and associate knowledge very quickly. I did well up till my Junior year of High School, when I started having real problems. The problem wasn't that I couldn't do the material. The problem was, it was all too easy for me. The teachers would all go on about how homework was 'just to help you learn'. So, being a person who believes in not doing unnecessary work, I didn't do much homework. This caused problems. Some of my teachers worked out a deal with me, where I could test out of homework. So, I graduated from High School.
When I got to college, things went downhill rapidly. In my science, math, and Computer Science classes, where I was being challenged, I did very well. However, I had to take several liberal arts classes, all of which were covering stuff I'd been doing for two years at highschool. I managed to find one teacher who would work with my problem, but all the others treated me like scum. So, I promptly flunked out of several classes, and lost my scholarship. I had no other way of going to school, so I dropped out, and started working a minimum wage job.
After a year of that, I pulled a job with a technical temp agency, and knew I'd hit it big. I now work at Novell, and I'm doing well. So, what's my point? That there are certain types of intelligence that learn much better in the real world than they ever will in a controlled learning environment. For those people, college is definately not the place to be.
For those of you who think I'm lazy, that may be. And if you think that's the point of my article, you need to read it again.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Where'd you hear that? The fastest type would be whatever type matches the register size of your computer, which is usually int.
/least/ the smallest word size, which I believe is 1 byte. Which is what a short int is. So, when it allocates a boolean type variable, it allocates 8 bits, but only uses 1 bit for actually storing the information, so it saves /no/ space, and is less likely to be compatible in different compilers.
Boolean is good because its only 1 bit of information so with a 32 bit int you can store 32 bits of information, as far as speed, if you are polling this information at one point in a program it would certainly be faster than retrieving 32 seperate integers.
A couple problems with this comment. First, short int require virtually an identical amount of time as 'int'. Also, it will insure that it is using the smallest word size for the computer.
Now, about using boolean to save space... You OBVIOUSLY don't know what you're talking about. When the computer allocates a variable, it has to use at
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
That they don't have the old DoJ page, when it got hacked. I never got to see it, and I've heard that it was quite hilarious. Apparently, a group of Macintosh Hackers broke in, and rewrote the whole page. I heard rumors that it was renamed the 'Department of Injustice', and that a picture of Hitler was placed on the front page. Does anyone know if there's a copy of this floating around somewhere for those of us who missed it? It was only up for one day.
Another site that would be funny to see hacked would be the IRS homepage. Anyone got ideas for what could be done to it?
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
I haven't actually used this book, but it sounds like a good thing. I know that despite the fact that I am fairly set in my ways on a lot of things, I still like to see how other people do their programming, so that I can possibly improve my programming style. I'll definately look into getting a copy of this book, so that I can give it a good look.
As far as short identifiers go, I hate them as well. I like the name to give me a clear idea of what it was intended to do. And it should (preferably) be easy to remember. I can't tell you how many times I've had to go look up those 6 letter function names, so that I could remember which was which.
Someone mentioned something about Boolean in one of their comments. I find that I rarely use a type boolean... If I need one, I usually just declare a short int instead, and use it. It's just as fast, uses the same amount of memory, unless I'm confused about the way allocation works, and doesn't require that your compiler know type 'bool'.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
I've read previous versions of this, and loved it. Wonderful for finding fun obscure terms to puzzle people with. *grin* I haven't looked in this one yet, but as I recall, they define 'hacker' correctly. As in, a person who enjoys computer challenges.
:) Should be fun. I can't wait to see how they define the /. effect.
I'll probably spend the rest of today poking around in the Jargon File.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
"There are all different types of ways you can do open source," Valentine said. "We are looking into whether we should get into open source initiatives."
All different types of ways, eh? Yep, this sounds like YAOSL. And I agree with you Millenium. As much as I like the APSL, I see that it isn't GPL. And MS's license would most likely make all of the people who were critisizing the Apple license wish that Microsoft would take lessons from Apple in openness.
The day that MS goes with a license that the community likes, I will publicly state that I was wrong that MS was evil, and I will start promoting their software. (Please god? Don't let this happen? *wink*)
I particularly found the comments about the 'comfort zone' to be amusing. They make it blindingly obvious that they're only doing this to try and fight Linux. At least Apple wasn't trying to kill Linux. They were just trying to keep themselves alive.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Why am I so not suprised about this? And while I agree that this isn't good, there is another side to this issue that shouldn't be ignored.
/. in any way. *wink*
First, Intel is a corporation, and they're starting to loose market share, so they want to make as much money as possible. This scheme is just a way to try and get lots of exposure, and to try and keep products marked as being theirs, theirs.
So, before you start acting too suprised by this, keep in mind, they're only doing what pretty much any company would do in this case. They're trying to keep their profits up as much as possible. So they're slightly more anal than a lot of people are about this sort of thing. Is that suprising, given their falling market share? No.
This comment is solely the opinion of me, myself, and I. It does not reflect on
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
I should have read Millennium's comments first. Can anyone else confirm what he said, that they are required by law to put that paragraph in?
If someone could please confirm that...
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
I hadn't noticed this section before... For once, I think I'll most likely agree with all of you. This is not good news at all. If Apple wants to get the full support of their community, a large part of which is international, they /need/ to get rid of that paragraph.
/like/ Apple, let alone the rest of the world who doesn't like them to begin with.
I hope Apple sees that this is bad news, and does something about it. If they don't, they're going to kill over 50% of the market of people who
Maybe we should get some kind of a petition together here, folks. What do the rest of you think? Start mailing Apple about this?
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
I thought he wanted to make lots of money on this!!! He'd make more if he opening up ticket sales early. There's no way he'll sell as many if everyone has to stand in line the day of the show! So much for getting in early! Looks like I'll be waiting till friday to see it. I can't get out of work all day wednesday to camp out in line. So much for getting me early, Lucas. This wasn't the way to do it.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Oh, come on. What about the other Bill, in the other Washington (i.e. DC)?
*snicker* True enough. I try and not think about him though.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
He truly is insane, isn't he? I've never seen anyone else who could lie so easily and so often. Witness the Halloween Document, which he admitted was genuine. How can he then turn around and claim he doesn't consider Linux a threat?
I don't know about the rest of you, but I never trust anything Bill Gates says unless I've heard it confirmed by people who I know don't like Windows. His word is definately suspect, and should be taken with about a gallon of salt.
As for Windows being more fully featured, can someone please pick me up off the floor? I'm laughing too hard to get up myself. The only reason I like Windows NT is that it's better than 95/98. Here's a list of my OS preference from least favorite to favorite: Windows 95/98, Windows NT, then Mac/Linux equally.
Maybe if we all just ignore him, Bill Gates will go away? Then again, probably not. He's like that nasty flu virus that hangs around for months, despite your best attempts to get rid of it.
Anyway, I think that's all for today. Thanks for taking the time to read another of my near rants.
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant
Bruce, I've disagreed with many of your comments, but here I have to agree with everything you've said. In my comments, I have emphasized again and again that this /is/ a first version of the license. If people will give Apple a chance to update it, they may (Notice I say /May/) be pleasantly surprised.
/hard/ look, and almost certainly change some of the problems.
I have been accused by many people of 'owning stock in Apple' or 'thinking they can do no wrong'. This is not true. I am simply an optimist who happens to prefer this OS and this company. Despite what many people say, this company cares about their users. They design an OS that works as smoothly as possible, and require the least hassle to learn. Is this a bad thing? No. I choose to feel that they will do the same thing with this license. If the community will present well reasoned, politely phrased objections, Apple will give it a good
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Matthew Walker
My DNA is Y2K compliant