No, we can't expect Ford to start including Chevy axles, etc. because to al lintents and purposes Ford is a law-abiding business. But let's say the feds (NHTSA, say) directed Ford to make certain modifications to oh, say, Explorers, to stop them from tipping over at the slightest provocation. Then suppose Ford told the federal agency to go stuff it 'cause they know better. At this point, the feds can ask Ford to bundle Porsche engines, or Mabellyine lipstick or whatever they choose, otherwise they could put Ford out of business. Granted, we get all kinds of payoffs and settlements before this could happen, but they can actually do that. Now try this with Microsoft....
It's too bad the feds didn't get a better settlement out of Microsoft in time before the powers-to-be changed in Washington once they showed them to be criminals.
When a man's looked the NVA in the eye, I think he's earned the right to take a machine gun to his interviewers, let alone boring them to death. Besides you're just being a tool in propagating this "boring" meme, why don't you find an appropriate forum instead of Slashdot, News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, not your half-ass Dennis Miller impersonation?
Well, that's where I got stuck for a bit, but there might be other things. I run unstable already, so I have newer versions of many packages compared to stable to begin with.
In early testing versions, you had to set console options correctly to even get a usable console, but this seems to have gone away by test9. Something to keep in mind if you do have the problem (it'll say "no tty"). So far I've done 2 machines and a 3rd one won't go cleanly to 2.6.0-test11. Until I can do that, I'm not putting it into production.
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It isn't going to work with stable. It needs a new modutils.
The software is indeed free, as much as you are free by virtue of living in a democratic country. The restrictions on its redistribution are deisgned only to prevent you from restricting others' freedoms to use, modify and redistribute it. The GPL states as much. You don't for exmaple, call the US a non-free country because you can't (without penalty) yell "Fire!" in a movie hall.
It's misleading to quote this $10 number for Starbucks. Monthly all-you-can-eat is $30 ($20 for T-mobile cell phone subscribers). For this price, you're getting the use of every Starbucks and Borders hot-spot out there and you know there are a few around. If you're in any place of a reasonable size, you know you can find one pretty easily, and you know you can hop on with no hassles. If you go by the hour, then sure you're going to pay more, but unless you surf like once a month, you're not going to go that route. That'd be for people on travel and it's worth more that $10 to the business for the connectivity.
There are many things family-owned coffee-shops are good or better for, but let's not knock *$ gratuitously. And there are things definitely lacking in *$ HotSpot service, but clearly you're not interested in addressing connectivity issues, you're interested in a business model for hot-spot service. And to qualify that, the issues with HotSpot service are mainly due to it being platform-independent (read "works with Linux").
I think you're being particularly nice about it. I mean, there are people out there taking legal action (based on fictional claims even), such a SCO. Speaking of which, if any of the companies on your list is in a space that IBM is in too, you could try taking to them. Maybe something mutually beneficial could be worked out.
And I'm sure this has been talked to death in some mailing list, but it could be Sigma Designs themselves who are to blame by releasing a reference implementation, and not the manufacturers of the DVD players and other goods on your list. In that case, Sigma is obligated to inform that manufacturer of their rights and obligations under the GPL.
The big unsprung weight might be why the rear wheels have such huge tires compared to the fronts. Was it just me or did the rears look almost 50% bigger diametrically than the fronts? The larger tire volume combined with the lower speeds of city traffic might make the ride acceptable.
It may have been for you, but it doesn't sound as if Heller has any clue yet. He seems to be essentially passing the buck to the gaming board. Notice he doesn't say that it bothers him that a scientist has valid concerns about a deterministic system. In fact he's dismissive about those concerns, reasoning that they've "worked" before. That is, other people, or people in his state at other times have accepted the results of the system, and that addresses scientific concerns adequately. He wants the board to rubberstamp his choice, and eh doesn't care what kind of methods they use. For example, the gaming board isn't going to be looking for a paper trail.
It's frustrating to read this article, for one, there is just one measure of performance - 'k'. This 'k' is what, kB, kb? OK, let's assume it's the same 'k' as in a 56k modem, what's the latency then? Can I expect to work as if I was on a slow landline modem, or is it going to remind me of the 'world wide wait' days? I expect the latency to be pretty high, the link latency plus that of the internet. The most efficient strategy is still probably to search for a Starbucks.
>> Suffice it to say if there were conditions in the United States which called for revolution, there would be a literal army of already trained potential guerrillas and terrorists ready for action.
In the event of conditions calling for revolution gun owners will shack themselves up in an orgy of panic and self-congratulation that will do the country no good. With the EFF filing suit against Diebold which controls the election process, I could argue conditions already are. Gun owners are such because they think guns will enhance their personal safety or they just like guns. Only kooks have delusions about winning revolutions with (private) guns in these times. In this country, that is. Afghanistan is another matter.
>It's like saying, "I'm not a Cubs fan, so why did the LA Times have their game 7 loss as a front page article?"
Because the LA Times is owned by the Tribune Company, which owns the Chicago Tribune. That's why you get the same signon page (except for the logo) when you try to read an article.
In the current Linux Format magazine (an UK mag), there's about a half page about IBM prepping a blade version and a rack-mount version of PowerPC 970 (or whatever they're called exactly)-based machines. They run Linux or AIX. I know IBM has always had POWER-based workstations, but these are supposed to start at $4k for 4-way systems. The idea to to bury HP and Sun, but this would be the first (practical) alternative (to Apple) PowerPC you can buy. And with all the good karma IBM's been accumulating with its defense of the GPL...
More than the MiG-29, it was the Su-27 that was the most capable air superiority fighter around, till the F22 (which is years away from deployment). The MiG-21 is still being upgraded and used by air forces, 30 years after it first came out. The B-52 is probably the only American plane with that kind of longevity. Speaking of which, ever heard of the Tu-160? The doomsday bomber? 4x as powerful as a B-1B, carries only ballastic missiles. How about the Mi-26? The largest and most powerful military/civilian helicopter?
Yeah, the Russians sure were backwards in military planes.
Wel, They can get your ISP to block stuff if They can work that into a Patriot Act. Hell, your ISP can block stuff if enough customers/parents/legislators raise a ruckus about it. Or your ISP can drop your service.
But they can't block shortwave. Even if it's from another country.
- There lived a man once who was called Gandhi. If you see the Jargon file, he uses Gandhi and Ghandi as if they were interchangeable. Then again, as long as you inventing you own Jargon, what's a spelling here and there?
Hmmm.. looks like less-than signs got deleted... Read ending of 1st para as
"For example, they'd say (insert some race here) was less advanced than (insert some other race here) because they behave like say chimps, so they're still as a race stuck in that stage. Hitler used this argument, for example.
Used to be a pretty popular theory that the develpomental stages of an individual of some species (ontogeny) mimic its anchestral path (phylogeny). I'm going from vague memory here, biology people will no doubt correct me. But it is a wierd kind of time-shifting. For example, they'd say that babies look like and behave like some species that we evolved from, say, tadpoles. Everybody would use this to prove their pet misanthropic theory. For example, they'd say was less advanced here than because they behave like say chimps, so they're still as a race stuck in that stage. Hitler used this argument, for example.
Stephen J. Gould wrote a very nice book about it "Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny." For a minute there, it seemed that the researcher was saying that human babies behave like tadpoles, but perhaps it's more like we just kept the same mechanism around as a building block.
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Well, perhaps not your soul, but your Perll code just reflects the way you think to a greater extent than other languages. This isn't something that's done underhandedly, it is well advertised in every posting in c.l.perl and the Camel book, and every other book about Perl. Which is that Perl is not at all orthogonal, TMTOWDI (there's more than one way to do it). If you want to be rigorous and declare everything and not have your typos become references automatically, you "use strict" and your magic line is "#!/usr/bin/perl -w". If not, well Perl allows you to do that too. If you want objects, you can do that, if not, not.
If is possible to write quality code in Perl Just because the language allows you to not do so isn't its fault. It doesn't stop you from doing it, because that'd stop you from doing brilliant things.
To address some specific things you mentioned, you can do full-fledged exception handling in Perl if you want to (with eval and specific modules), or, you know, not. And I'm not familiar with the false positive matches in regexps (perhaps you're referring to some famous problem). But if a regexp doesn't do what you want it to, isn't is wrong? Between// and tr and split I get along just fine.
It says a lot of the market here (or what Ford & GM think of the market) that Ford is greener in the EU than in the US. There's a 50+ mpg Ford Focus selling in the UK, there's a Volvo (owned by Ford) diesel sedam/stn wagon that has more oomph than the most poerful gas version with 40+ mpg, and Merc and BMW have hotrod diesel sedans in regular production over there. Think about it, a doubling of fuel efficiency of they'd sell the same thing here, with no war, no pain, no massive infrastructure changes, almost nothing. OK, maybe $1k more for the more expensive engine, but consider how we'd all pay more for a V6 vs an inline 4 cylinder.
DIsposable cars, I mean isn't this a prblem waiting for a solution? Cars recycle better than most things right now, the major component steel, becomes structural steel for buildings.
In this respect I have to say Toyota and Honda are the most serious about improving our environmental impact. While they pay all due homage to hydogen fuel cell and interchangeable bodies and other "cool" concepts, they're selling practical highly efficient vehicles like the Prius and the Impact (there's a 5 door version out now, don't know what they call it). Of course, there's always been the 50 mpg Jetta if you really look. And all 3 companies have not a trace of US ownership.
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It's too bad the feds didn't get a better settlement out of Microsoft in time before the powers-to-be changed in Washington once they showed them to be criminals.
When a man's looked the NVA in the eye, I think he's earned the right to take a machine gun to his interviewers, let alone boring them to death. Besides you're just being a tool in propagating this "boring" meme, why don't you find an appropriate forum instead of Slashdot, News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters, not your half-ass Dennis Miller impersonation?
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Well, that's where I got stuck for a bit, but there might be other things. I run unstable already, so I have newer versions of many packages compared to stable to begin with.
In early testing versions, you had to set console options correctly to even get a usable console, but this seems to have gone away by test9. Something to keep in mind if you do have the problem (it'll say "no tty"). So far I've done 2 machines and a 3rd one won't go cleanly to 2.6.0-test11. Until I can do that, I'm not putting it into production.
It isn't going to work with stable. It needs a new modutils.
The software is indeed free, as much as you are free by virtue of living in a democratic country. The restrictions on its redistribution are deisgned only to prevent you from restricting others' freedoms to use, modify and redistribute it. The GPL states as much. You don't for exmaple, call the US a non-free country because you can't (without penalty) yell "Fire!" in a movie hall.
It's misleading to quote this $10 number for Starbucks. Monthly all-you-can-eat is $30 ($20 for T-mobile cell phone subscribers). For this price, you're getting the use of every Starbucks and Borders hot-spot out there and you know there are a few around. If you're in any place of a reasonable size, you know you can find one pretty easily, and you know you can hop on with no hassles. If you go by the hour, then sure you're going to pay more, but unless you surf like once a month, you're not going to go that route. That'd be for people on travel and it's worth more that $10 to the business for the connectivity.
There are many things family-owned coffee-shops are good or better for, but let's not knock *$ gratuitously. And there are things definitely lacking in *$ HotSpot service, but clearly you're not interested in addressing connectivity issues, you're interested in a business model for hot-spot service. And to qualify that, the issues with HotSpot service are mainly due to it being platform-independent (read "works with Linux").
I think you're being particularly nice about it. I mean, there are people out there taking legal action (based on fictional claims even), such a SCO. Speaking of which, if any of the companies on your list is in a space that IBM is in too, you could try taking to them. Maybe something mutually beneficial could be worked out.
And I'm sure this has been talked to death in some mailing list, but it could be Sigma Designs themselves who are to blame by releasing a reference implementation, and not the manufacturers of the DVD players and other goods on your list. In that case, Sigma is obligated to inform that manufacturer of their rights and obligations under the GPL.
The big unsprung weight might be why the rear wheels have such huge tires compared to the fronts. Was it just me or did the rears look almost 50% bigger diametrically than the fronts? The larger tire volume combined with the lower speeds of city traffic might make the ride acceptable.
It may have been for you, but it doesn't sound as if Heller has any clue yet. He seems to be essentially passing the buck to the gaming board. Notice he doesn't say that it bothers him that a scientist has valid concerns about a deterministic system. In fact he's dismissive about those concerns, reasoning that they've "worked" before. That is, other people, or people in his state at other times have accepted the results of the system, and that addresses scientific concerns adequately. He wants the board to rubberstamp his choice, and eh doesn't care what kind of methods they use. For example, the gaming board isn't going to be looking for a paper trail.
It's frustrating to read this article, for one, there is just one measure of performance - 'k'. This 'k' is what, kB, kb? OK, let's assume it's the same 'k' as in a 56k modem, what's the latency then? Can I expect to work as if I was on a slow landline modem, or is it going to remind me of the 'world wide wait' days? I expect the latency to be pretty high, the link latency plus that of the internet. The most efficient strategy is still probably to search for a Starbucks.
In other words, it misses the forest for the trees?
>> Suffice it to say if there were conditions in the United States which called for revolution, there would be a literal army of already trained potential guerrillas and terrorists ready for action.
In the event of conditions calling for revolution gun owners will shack themselves up in an orgy of panic and self-congratulation that will do the country no good. With the EFF filing suit against Diebold which controls the election process, I could argue conditions already are. Gun owners are such because they think guns will enhance their personal safety or they just like guns. Only kooks have delusions about winning revolutions with (private) guns in these times. In this country, that is. Afghanistan is another matter.
>It's like saying, "I'm not a Cubs fan, so why did the LA Times have their game 7 loss as a front page article?"
Because the LA Times is owned by the Tribune Company, which owns the Chicago Tribune. That's why you get the same signon page (except for the logo) when you try to read an article.
In the current Linux Format magazine (an UK mag), there's about a half page about IBM prepping a blade version and a rack-mount version of PowerPC 970 (or whatever they're called exactly)-based machines. They run Linux or AIX. I know IBM has always had POWER-based workstations, but these are supposed to start at $4k for 4-way systems. The idea to to bury HP and Sun, but this would be the first (practical) alternative (to Apple) PowerPC you can buy. And with all the good karma IBM's been accumulating with its defense of the GPL...
I can boot test2 and test3 just fine, but as soon as I log in, I get "stdin: not a tty" and I can't do anything else. Well, I can ftp in...
I've selected every console related thing I can seein menuconfig... still missing something I guess.
More than the MiG-29, it was the Su-27 that was the most capable air superiority fighter around, till the F22 (which is years away from deployment). The MiG-21 is still being upgraded and used by air forces, 30 years after it first came out. The B-52 is probably the only American plane with that kind of longevity. Speaking of which, ever heard of the Tu-160? The doomsday bomber? 4x as powerful as a B-1B, carries only ballastic missiles. How about the Mi-26? The largest and most powerful military/civilian helicopter?
Yeah, the Russians sure were backwards in military planes.
Wel, They can get your ISP to block stuff if They can work that into a Patriot Act. Hell, your ISP can block stuff if enough customers/parents/legislators raise a ruckus about it. Or your ISP can drop your service.
But they can't block shortwave. Even if it's from another country.
- There lived a man once who was called Gandhi. If you see the Jargon file, he uses Gandhi and Ghandi as if they were interchangeable. Then again, as long as you inventing you own Jargon, what's a spelling here and there?
- What, no gun advocacy yet?
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"God help OSS developers if Microsoft is responsible."
Well I've got someone better than God in my camp. They're called IBM. They're big Linux users. Actually, so are LANL, NASA,
Too bad for the users in this case that the company isn't going to be that intimidated by them.
Hmmm.. looks like less-than signs got deleted...
Read ending of 1st para as
"For example, they'd say (insert some race here) was less advanced than (insert some other race here) because they behave like say chimps, so they're still as a race stuck in that stage. Hitler used this argument, for example.
Used to be a pretty popular theory that the develpomental stages of an individual of some species (ontogeny) mimic its anchestral path (phylogeny). I'm going from vague memory here, biology people will no doubt correct me. But it is a wierd kind of time-shifting. For example, they'd say that babies look like and behave like some species that we evolved from, say, tadpoles. Everybody would use this to prove their pet misanthropic theory. For example, they'd say was less advanced here than because they behave like say chimps, so they're still as a race stuck in that stage. Hitler used this argument, for example.
Stephen J. Gould wrote a very nice book about it "Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny." For a minute there, it seemed that the researcher was saying that human babies behave like tadpoles, but perhaps it's more like we just kept the same mechanism around as a building block.
Well, perhaps not your soul, but your Perll code just reflects the way you think to a greater extent than other languages. This isn't something that's done underhandedly, it is well advertised in every posting in c.l.perl and the Camel book, and every other book about Perl. Which is that Perl is not at all orthogonal, TMTOWDI (there's more than one way to do it). If you want to be rigorous and declare everything and not have your typos become references automatically, you "use strict" and your magic line is "#!/usr/bin/perl -w". If not, well Perl allows you to do that too. If you want objects, you can do that, if not, not.
// and tr and split I get along just fine.
If is possible to write quality code in Perl Just because the language allows you to not do so isn't its fault. It doesn't stop you from doing it, because that'd stop you from doing brilliant things.
To address some specific things you mentioned, you can do full-fledged exception handling in Perl if you want to (with eval and specific modules), or, you know, not. And I'm not familiar with the false positive matches in regexps (perhaps you're referring to some famous problem). But if a regexp doesn't do what you want it to, isn't is wrong? Between
Ooops, I mean "isn't this a solution waiting for a problem?"!!!
It says a lot of the market here (or what Ford & GM think of the market) that Ford is greener in the EU than in the US. There's a 50+ mpg Ford Focus selling in the UK, there's a Volvo (owned by Ford) diesel sedam/stn wagon that has more oomph than the most poerful gas version with 40+ mpg, and Merc and BMW have hotrod diesel sedans in regular production over there. Think about it, a doubling of fuel efficiency of they'd sell the same thing here, with no war, no pain, no massive infrastructure changes, almost nothing. OK, maybe $1k more for the more expensive engine, but consider how we'd all pay more for a V6 vs an inline 4 cylinder.
DIsposable cars, I mean isn't this a prblem waiting for a solution? Cars recycle better than most things right now, the major component steel, becomes structural steel for buildings.
In this respect I have to say Toyota and Honda are the most serious about improving our environmental impact. While they pay all due homage to hydogen fuel cell and interchangeable bodies and other "cool" concepts, they're selling practical highly efficient vehicles like the Prius and the Impact (there's a 5 door version out now, don't know what they call it). Of course, there's always been the 50 mpg Jetta if you really look. And all 3 companies have not a trace of US ownership.