Even if working on Linux and working on Subversion are separate jobs, the restrictions of the Bitkeeper license apply to the person and thus cross from one job to the other
From my reading, it applied to the person or organisation the developer is working for; Larry and IBM negotiated a special exemption, for example.
So, by being a Subversion developer, it's possible for you to stop hundreds (or even thousands) of your fellow employees from being able to use the free version of Bitkeeper to work with the Linux kernel, even in their own private time at home. (And of course one cannot be a developer of a competing system and use the free version of Bitkeeper as a trivial case of this restriction.)
1.
1. The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
2. Such activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena.
3. Such activities applied to an object of inquiry or study.
2. Methodological activity, discipline, or study: I've got packing a suitcase down to a science.
3. An activity that appears to require study and method: the science of purchasing.
4. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.
5. Science Christian Science.
I'd say it qualifies as 2, 3 & 4 but not as 1, and that any 'science' that doesn't fulfil all of 1 isn't one. You may disagree.:)
What I meant by that snide crack is that economics pretends to be a science in the same way that psychology has in the past, when it's pretty obvious that neither are. (I guess I was also implicitly comparing the American capacity for deification of practitioners in both fields during the last century... despite the fact that they only offer incomplete, generic and often wildly wrong models for dealing with their problem space.)
That's not to say that either discipline hasn't been useful, especially in the context of determining broad cultural and societal trends. There are economists and psychologists whose work I find quite interesting and relevant... but I still think economics should be considered as a branch of psychology or sociology.:)
Yeah, the Nobel Prize structure is pretty archaic, but it really only has the legitimacy that people give it -- I know that most of the people I talk to find it somewhat irrelevant to the real work being done.
People like Friedman and Hayek have proved that markets are the ultimate source of truth, at least in this world.
Economic 'proofs' aren't worth the paper they're written on, which is why the Nobel Prize for Economics is a joke. They may as well have one for psychology as well.:)
The Nobel Peace Prize is ludicrous as well, but that's because it's given as an encouragement prize... maybe Arafat could give his back now, for example. Oh, and because a Peace prize funded by the estate of an explosives developer seems... erm... inconsistent at best.
Well, someone offed him... if he were that close to death, he wouldn't have been chosen as the compromise candidate he so obviously was, and he seemed quite healthy before he took the job. And JP2 was a lot closer to the Vatican Bank/Propaganda Due mob...
Foster I'd return an open finding on. Easy to believe it was suicide, equally easy to believe it was murder. The problem with Hillary alleging a conspiracy was that there was nothing conspiratorial about the hostility against the Clintons... it was right out in the open, and they were just doing the same shonky things that every President has done (I haven't seen much dirt on Carter, but maybe that just indicates his naivety.)
Beethoven and Mozart will compose more symphonies if they can put bread on their table.
More to the point, it's an income stream for the people who play in the orchestras (or, at least, it would be if all the profits weren't going into record company executives' pockets). Make classical music less lucrative and less of it will be recorded and sold...
Re Mother Teresa: don't forget the forced deathbed conversions of Hindu patients in her hospitals.
But if the founder of Opus Dei can become a saint, Mother Teresa shouldn't have any troubles... especially given that Opus Dei were alleged to have been involved in the murder of John Paul I, the debacle that put the current Pope where he is.
When I finally got a 68030 and could run Enforcer, that meant I could (a) pick up bugs in my own software much more quickly, and (b) quickly delete anything retrieved from Aminet, and mail the author, if it was badly programmed and accessing memory it shouldn't. After that I had to try really hard to crash the machine when programming.:)
I still have my Amiga 4000 waiting for me to set it up again... the SCSI HDD in it is dying though, so I'll need to spend a while after I power it up on recovery efforts. Ah, I miss the old Amiga days...
It's like a moderation point from someone whose opinion is almost as valuable as a real moderator =)
I'd rather a positive reply than a mod point any day... Thanks!
someone more clever should think of a joke about the author scrapping [thereverend.com] his entire codebase a couple revisions later...
Carrying the analogy way too far, you could say that Evolution is open source but very difficult to understand, while Creation is extremely closed-source, and many reverse-engineering attempts have been tried throughout its history...
but if I keep on going, this will turn into the "Bad comparisons between software and religion" list, so that'll be the last of it, I promise.:)
BTW, I like the Brick Testament, but wasn't one of the Ten Commandments "No graven idols"? What would God's position be on molded plastic idols?:) (I'm agnostic and not overly knowledgable about these things...)
The same things that usually cause computers to crash -- bad programming and in this case no memory protection (i.e. all memory was shared). The OS itself wasn't overly stable in its 1.x versions, but really improved after that.
As for the applications themselves, some programmers can do good work under those conditions and some can't -- you tended to find out who belonged to which group pretty easily.:)
Knowing my fellow countrypeople, that's probably it.:(
Should that really be a determining factor? If you don't want people immigrating illegally, deport them rather than locking them up, and if they are applying for asylum let them live in the community and report in every few weeks like, oh, most other democracies. It'd be cheaper and more humane.
(WTF kinda tag is "<ECODE>"? I don't see that anywhere in the HTML spec...)
You haven't read the SHTML 1.0 Draft? It's like the spelling mistakes; rather than validate the site, they're going to fork their own version of the (markup) language.:)
>That's how we as professionals beat the immigrants.
Or you could do as Canada does and simply integrate them into your society as citizens, rather than immigrants, teach them, and make sure they do as good a job as any other citizen, for the same level of pay.
Or you could do what we do here in Australia, and lock them up in concentration camps in the middle of the desert.
Yes, I spoiled my vote rather than vote for either party in our two-party system, both of which are in favour of this.
Whatever the strength of these arguments, Microsoft could keep Xbox Technologies tied up in legal tape so long, it would have little choice but to settle for a little Microsoft spare change. As one of the Great Satan's spokesimps put it: "We will prevail."
And from a followup when they bought the name in June 2001...
Xbox Technologies registered 'Xbox' as a trademark back in March 1999. Microsoft didn't try to do so until October 1999, but has still managed to add a little 'TM' sign to ever mention of the word it has ever made. Now it has the right to do so.
I somehow doubt that when they were doing so that they were acknowledging the other company's possession of said mark, as well.
Whatever the question is, Microsoft has the answer -- lawyers, guns and money.
Okay, so that second one isn't true, but they certainly have enough of the first and third to stomp on anyone if they see fit. Sure, it's fine that you're legally allowed to do something... now defend yourself in court for six years to prove it.
Not that I'm saying it will happen, but when a $40bn dollar gorilla asks for something, "yes" is usually an appropriate answer.
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I'm not trying to troll here, but I never did quite understand punk. What is the purpose?
:)
Three weeks where everyone thought they were the shit, and 25 years of a subculture following those patterns because people are sheep.
That's my guess, anyway.
So you want people to use more syntax with less functionality to do the exact same thing. Huh.
Whether or not it makes sense to you, it's the W3C standard, so I'd say you should hold your nose and follow it.
We have skilled english translator, yah?
:)
I'd imagine that their English is better than your German.
That's 'Evil Emperor Zurg' to you... and Woody's horse was named 'Bullseye'.
Even if working on Linux and working on Subversion are separate jobs, the restrictions of the Bitkeeper license apply to the person and thus cross from one job to the other
From my reading, it applied to the person or organisation the developer is working for; Larry and IBM negotiated a special exemption, for example.
So, by being a Subversion developer, it's possible for you to stop hundreds (or even thousands) of your fellow employees from being able to use the free version of Bitkeeper to work with the Linux kernel, even in their own private time at home. (And of course one cannot be a developer of a competing system and use the free version of Bitkeeper as a trivial case of this restriction.)
I'd say it qualifies as 2, 3 & 4 but not as 1, and that any 'science' that doesn't fulfil all of 1 isn't one. You may disagree.
"Here, have some blood money."
What I meant by that snide crack is that economics pretends to be a science in the same way that psychology has in the past, when it's pretty obvious that neither are. (I guess I was also implicitly comparing the American capacity for deification of practitioners in both fields during the last century... despite the fact that they only offer incomplete, generic and often wildly wrong models for dealing with their problem space.)
:)
That's not to say that either discipline hasn't been useful, especially in the context of determining broad cultural and societal trends. There are economists and psychologists whose work I find quite interesting and relevant... but I still think economics should be considered as a branch of psychology or sociology.
Yeah, the Nobel Prize structure is pretty archaic, but it really only has the legitimacy that people give it -- I know that most of the people I talk to find it somewhat irrelevant to the real work being done.
However, when I look in my encyclopaedia, they get listed there next to the others. Still, as economists they definitely deserve an ersatz version. :)
People like Friedman and Hayek have proved that markets are the ultimate source of truth, at least in this world.
:)
Economic 'proofs' aren't worth the paper they're written on, which is why the Nobel Prize for Economics is a joke. They may as well have one for psychology as well.
The Nobel Peace Prize is ludicrous as well, but that's because it's given as an encouragement prize... maybe Arafat could give his back now, for example. Oh, and because a Peace prize funded by the estate of an explosives developer seems... erm... inconsistent at best.
Have you seen my girlfriend's cellphone bill?
Well, someone offed him... if he were that close to death, he wouldn't have been chosen as the compromise candidate he so obviously was, and he seemed quite healthy before he took the job. And JP2 was a lot closer to the Vatican Bank/Propaganda Due mob...
Foster I'd return an open finding on. Easy to believe it was suicide, equally easy to believe it was murder. The problem with Hillary alleging a conspiracy was that there was nothing conspiratorial about the hostility against the Clintons... it was right out in the open, and they were just doing the same shonky things that every President has done (I haven't seen much dirt on Carter, but maybe that just indicates his naivety.)
Beethoven and Mozart will compose more symphonies if they can put bread on their table.
More to the point, it's an income stream for the people who play in the orchestras (or, at least, it would be if all the profits weren't going into record company executives' pockets). Make classical music less lucrative and less of it will be recorded and sold...
Re Mother Teresa: don't forget the forced deathbed conversions of Hindu patients in her hospitals.
But if the founder of Opus Dei can become a saint, Mother Teresa shouldn't have any troubles... especially given that Opus Dei were alleged to have been involved in the murder of John Paul I, the debacle that put the current Pope where he is.
When I finally got a 68030 and could run Enforcer, that meant I could (a) pick up bugs in my own software much more quickly, and (b) quickly delete anything retrieved from Aminet, and mail the author, if it was badly programmed and accessing memory it shouldn't. After that I had to try really hard to crash the machine when programming. :)
I still have my Amiga 4000 waiting for me to set it up again... the SCSI HDD in it is dying though, so I'll need to spend a while after I power it up on recovery efforts. Ah, I miss the old Amiga days...
It's like a moderation point from someone whose opinion is almost as valuable as a real moderator =)
:)
:) (I'm agnostic and not overly knowledgable about these things...)
I'd rather a positive reply than a mod point any day... Thanks!
someone more clever should think of a joke about the author scrapping [thereverend.com] his entire codebase a couple revisions later...
Carrying the analogy way too far, you could say that Evolution is open source but very difficult to understand, while Creation is extremely closed-source, and many reverse-engineering attempts have been tried throughout its history...
but if I keep on going, this will turn into the "Bad comparisons between software and religion" list, so that'll be the last of it, I promise.
BTW, I like the Brick Testament, but wasn't one of the Ten Commandments "No graven idols"? What would God's position be on molded plastic idols?
Yes, but the great advantage of the 'Creation' program is that it will only take six days to write! On the seventh day the author will rest.
:).
Evolution, on the other hand, is taking aeons
I don't know what caused it
:)
The same things that usually cause computers to crash -- bad programming and in this case no memory protection (i.e. all memory was shared). The OS itself wasn't overly stable in its 1.x versions, but really improved after that.
As for the applications themselves, some programmers can do good work under those conditions and some can't -- you tended to find out who belonged to which group pretty easily.
OTOH, I'm white
:(
:)
Knowing my fellow countrypeople, that's probably it.
Should that really be a determining factor? If you don't want people immigrating illegally, deport them rather than locking them up, and if they are applying for asylum let them live in the community and report in every few weeks like, oh, most other democracies. It'd be cheaper and more humane.
(WTF kinda tag is "<ECODE>"? I don't see that anywhere in the HTML spec...)
You haven't read the SHTML 1.0 Draft? It's like the spelling mistakes; rather than validate the site, they're going to fork their own version of the (markup) language.
Hey, I'm from the colony that was formed by free settlers, not convicts... but that these days has a reputation for gruesome serial killers.
:/
This is a weird country.
>That's how we as professionals beat the immigrants.
Or you could do as Canada does and simply integrate them into your society as citizens, rather than immigrants, teach them, and make sure they do as good a job as any other citizen, for the same level of pay.
Or you could do what we do here in Australia, and lock them up in concentration camps in the middle of the desert.
Yes, I spoiled my vote rather than vote for either party in our two-party system, both of which are in favour of this.
Ever seen an 8" floppy drive for a modern PC?
:)
No, but I could give you a pretty large production run of them with a smallish chunk of that $6.9 billion.
Who cares if a football player's taking steroids...
:)
Not me. It is only a game, and there are much more important things in life, although many people have pretty fucked priorities.
To quote the Register's story on that issue:
Whatever the strength of these arguments, Microsoft could keep Xbox Technologies tied up in legal tape so long, it would have little choice but to settle for a little Microsoft spare change. As one of the Great Satan's spokesimps put it: "We will prevail."
And from a followup when they bought the name in June 2001...
Xbox Technologies registered 'Xbox' as a trademark back in March 1999. Microsoft didn't try to do so until October 1999, but has still managed to add a little 'TM' sign to ever mention of the word it has ever made. Now it has the right to do so.
I somehow doubt that when they were doing so that they were acknowledging the other company's possession of said mark, as well.
Whatever the question is, Microsoft has the answer -- lawyers, guns and money.
Okay, so that second one isn't true, but they certainly have enough of the first and third to stomp on anyone if they see fit. Sure, it's fine that you're legally allowed to do something... now defend yourself in court for six years to prove it.
Not that I'm saying it will happen, but when a $40bn dollar gorilla asks for something, "yes" is usually an appropriate answer.