What sort of enjoyment do you derive from driving your really fast cars? Why is that fun for you? Are there any custom cars you envy/still want to get?
I assume they mean, adding it in Windows in a way which is compatible with the way it's being added to the standard Perl base. Larry and co. have been working in Unicode for quite a while now, someone correct me if I'm wrong on an estimate of 2 years.
Perl wasn't designed with Unicode in mind, but as Mr. Wall is fond of saying, Perl is really great at text processing... Unicode is a natural addition.
I don't think this is a big deal. Is it possible for Microsoft to take the Perl idea and pervert it like the wondrous things they've done with Java? I highly doubt it. They are just adding Windows functionality and access points for those who need them.
That's some swift detective work. Seems almost inhuman. How'd you make the compare that quickly? In on this somehow?
Remember people, to keep your (real) email address safe NEVER give it out. Not even for five dollars. Even better, never use your primary email! Umm, yep. That's the ticket...
So, how do you propose to keep those kids away from the guns? Sure... legislation can make it harder to buy guns through legitimate channels, but all you're doing with a law is giving the black market for weapons a shot in the arm.
Nobody knows (yet) how the kids got access to those weapons, which I'm pretty sure the media seems to be saying were illegal in the first place. If they were warped enough to build propane-tank bombs (as far as I understand, quite advanced as far as home-made bombs go)... there is NO WAY you can prevent them from killing people, if they want to kill people.
It's the awful truth. They were not living in the same reality as the rest of us, for whatever reason. They planned murder.
Now, the frenzy over whether they had accomplices... I'd hate to be one of them with this burning media spotlight shoving their arms down everyone's throat.
Like everyone has been saying, the first point RMS makes has a lot of merit.
The thing he seems to be emphasizing is, the software Microsoft provides doesn't need to be free, or open source... it just needs specs so that anyone who wants to try to integrate with it or compete against it has a fair chance.
On to the second point. Patents. Patents, trademarks, copyright. It's all law, it's all foreign to me. I think that our society needs patents and the protection they provide, the pool of patents RMS suggests sounds more like a socialistic knowledge pool than anything resembling the patent system we have today. But then, this is the field of software and patents were originated in the times of mechanized inventions.
In the main, he is correct. It does no good to slap the company on the collective wrist and not do something about the patents, because that is a large reason they can maintain a monopoly. The question is, where do you draw the line? Isn't that always the question?
Last, point three. Really, this one follows from one, just going further by intruding into the realm of hardware. But, if the software interfaces are already going to be all documented, wouldn't that include drivers? I'm not sure why RMS thinks it's necessary to withhold certification. It'd be helpful if someone explained that last part.
Pokey was the one TRULY funny comic on the net. Forget Dilbert, drop the Doonesbury, and even let go of your Zippy folks. Pokey the Penguin taught us all a lesson. Or at least, those of us who connected with the happy fellow.
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What sort of enjoyment do you derive from driving your really fast cars? Why is that fun for you? Are there any custom cars you envy/still want to get?
It's a multi cpu thing.
They can make dual processor boards and call them biathlons.
Does that mean we're going to jump up to 10 for the decathlon? Or perhaps the ever tasty triathlon, for that special non-power-of-2 parallelism.
I assume they mean, adding it in Windows in a way which is compatible with the way it's being added to the standard Perl base. Larry and co. have been working in Unicode for quite a while now, someone correct me if I'm wrong on an estimate of 2 years.
Perl wasn't designed with Unicode in mind, but as Mr. Wall is fond of saying, Perl is really great at text processing... Unicode is a natural addition.
I don't think this is a big deal. Is it possible for Microsoft to take the Perl idea and pervert it like the wondrous things they've done with Java? I highly doubt it. They are just adding Windows functionality and access points for those who need them.
I won't.
That's some swift detective work. Seems almost inhuman. How'd you make the compare that quickly? In on this somehow?
Remember people, to keep your (real) email address safe NEVER give it out. Not even for five dollars. Even better, never use your primary email! Umm, yep. That's the ticket...
So, how do you propose to keep those kids away from the guns? Sure... legislation can make it harder to buy guns through legitimate channels, but all you're doing with a law is giving the black market for weapons a shot in the arm.
Nobody knows (yet) how the kids got access to those weapons, which I'm pretty sure the media seems to be saying were illegal in the first place. If they were warped enough to build propane-tank bombs (as far as I understand, quite advanced as far as home-made bombs go)... there is NO WAY you can prevent them from killing people, if they want to kill people.
It's the awful truth. They were not living in the same reality as the rest of us, for whatever reason. They planned murder.
Now, the frenzy over whether they had accomplices... I'd hate to be one of them with this burning media spotlight shoving their arms down everyone's throat.
Like everyone has been saying, the first point RMS makes has a lot of merit.
The thing he seems to be emphasizing is, the software Microsoft provides doesn't need to be free, or open source... it just needs specs so that anyone who wants to try to integrate with it or compete against it has a fair chance.
On to the second point. Patents. Patents, trademarks, copyright. It's all law, it's all foreign to me. I think that our society needs patents and the protection they provide, the pool of patents RMS suggests sounds more like a socialistic knowledge pool than anything resembling the patent system we have today. But then, this is the field of software and patents were originated in the times of mechanized inventions.
In the main, he is correct. It does no good to slap the company on the collective wrist and not do something about the patents, because that is a large reason they can maintain a monopoly. The question is, where do you draw the line? Isn't that always the question?
Last, point three. Really, this one follows from one, just going further by intruding into the realm of hardware. But, if the software interfaces are already going to be all documented, wouldn't that include drivers? I'm not sure why RMS thinks it's necessary to withhold certification. It'd be helpful if someone explained that last part.
Pokey was the one TRULY funny comic on the net. Forget Dilbert, drop the Doonesbury, and even let go of your Zippy folks. Pokey the Penguin taught us all a lesson. Or at least, those of us who connected with the happy fellow.
SOMETIMES IT IS BEST TO NEVER HAVE LOVED LITTLE GIRL