With that law passed zillions will go to live in Mississippi causing a house price boom there.
Once Gov. Haley Barbour has sold his house he will repeal the law.
Ballmer wants the world to focus on the idea that the desktop fight is only between M$ and Apple. If he can do that then, perhaps (please -- hopefully), that people will not start using a Linux desktop.
The Linux desktop is Ballmer's real nightmare... and it is getting closer.
All Red Hat really needs to do is publish the inventions instead of patenting them. That would create prior art.
You have the wrong end of the stick. Publishing inventions provides a way of proving prior art and thus escaping the effect of a patent. However: there will always be things that were not published before they were patented, patent holders can use these to come against you. I suspect that RH is particularly worried about the recent rise in M$ patent activity (think: Tom Tom).
If RH has some patents of its own, then when <evil company> comes demanding monies, RH can fire back by pointing out that <evil company> infringes some RH patents -- so piss off!
Normally: at this point RH & <evil company> would enter a cross licensing agreement, but I doubt that RH will do that, it will be interesting to see what they do do.
Of course: this does little against the real devils in this game -- the patent trolls, they don't produce anything at all and so do not infringe any patents.
Steve was at Cambridge University (the real one in the UK), he would have used the Phoenix System, this was an on line system with a command programming language. I cut my scripting teeth on this in the 1970s. It did variable substitution and had here documents.
IBM mainframe floating point format is not IEE is also likely to cause problems... all those binary files that are just dumps of structures will cause hours of enjoyment!
That explains a lot... presumably why the signs that you are following just run out at some critical junction, they just have not been replaced -- yet.
it will be a nice experiment, let the Canadians do away with net neutrality and the rest of us can sit and look at the results. I suspect that after 5 years the Canadians will demonstrate that the pain of it is not worth while.
The good thing about this is that it will spare the rest of us of this trauma.
There is a slight risk that our legislators will become persuaded that ''The Canadians are doing it so it must be OK'', but just slowing them down until the bad effects become obvious should protect us.
You could argue that it is like conducting noxious medical experiments on {{pick a disadvantaged section of society}}, but at least the Canadians brought this upon themselves and the effects will be completely reversible.
And the USA claims that it wants all of that information about who is on airplanes in its airspace so that it can combat terrorism. If they knew about him on a simple stop over then it seems that there is a lot of 'mission creep' on the use of passenger information.
I name all my Unix boxes after herbs and spices. A decade or so ago I did have one MS Windows box for a few months, so I named it after a vegetable -- that seemed appropriate.
Good to see that you have a president who seems to act on the basis of reality rather than listening to the mumbo jumbo of the religious fantasists. It would be nice if we had something like that in the UK.
Surely the sending of a small gift is a token of appreciation akin to a pat on the back. If we had paid for the s/ware, would someone not directly connected with the bug finder even do that ?
From your tone: I assume that you will be sending this guy something of great value ?
Why do you not have the courage to say your name when you post ?
Would 4 letter words like 'smeg' be covered ? It is not in the Oxford English Dictionary. What about words in other languages - like merde ('shit' in French), or ãç--ã'æä (google gives me that when I ask it to translate 'fuck' into Chinese) ?
Bad documentation and lack of use of existing documentation is a great source of errors in the use of code:
Function libraries where the arguments, return values and side effects are not fully listed
Programs where the command line arguments, files read/written, user interface,... are not properly described
End user programs where there is no help option, so the user guesses (wrongly) or doesn't know what they can do
Employers who get users to use software without training them in its use
I know that doing all the above takes time, often as much as writing the s/ware in the first place, but overall it saves time since the users of software make less mistakes and are more effective.
Poor documentation is, unfortunately, frequent in FLOSS s/ware.
A bit of radiation whizzing by would not just 'flip a bit' and make the computer/program crash (or even worse - produce an erronious result) but could dislodge a few atoms and physically damage the computer.
So are we going to have to shield tiny computers with an inch of lead ?
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With that law passed zillions will go to live in Mississippi causing a house price boom there. Once Gov. Haley Barbour has sold his house he will repeal the law.
The Linux desktop is Ballmer's real nightmare... and it is getting closer.
All Red Hat really needs to do is publish the inventions instead of patenting them. That would create prior art.
You have the wrong end of the stick. Publishing inventions provides a way of proving prior art and thus escaping the effect of a patent. However: there will always be things that were not published before they were patented, patent holders can use these to come against you. I suspect that RH is particularly worried about the recent rise in M$ patent activity (think: Tom Tom).
If RH has some patents of its own, then when <evil company> comes demanding monies, RH can fire back by pointing out that <evil company> infringes some RH patents -- so piss off!
Normally: at this point RH & <evil company> would enter a cross licensing agreement, but I doubt that RH will do that, it will be interesting to see what they do do.
Of course: this does little against the real devils in this game -- the patent trolls, they don't produce anything at all and so do not infringe any patents.
My last laptop battery was faster than this after a few years, it would completely discharge in 5 seconds, not a slow 10 seconds!
That ought to fix it.
Steve was at Cambridge University (the real one in the UK), he would have used the Phoenix System, this was an on line system with a command programming language. I cut my scripting teeth on this in the 1970s. It did variable substitution and had here documents.
IBM mainframe floating point format is not IEE is also likely to cause problems ... all those binary files that are just dumps of structures will cause hours of enjoyment!
That explains a lot ... presumably why the signs that you are following just run out at some critical junction, they just have not been replaced -- yet.
Can this be awarded posthumously ?
The good thing about this is that it will spare the rest of us of this trauma.
There is a slight risk that our legislators will become persuaded that ''The Canadians are doing it so it must be OK'', but just slowing them down until the bad effects become obvious should protect us.
You could argue that it is like conducting noxious medical experiments on {{pick a disadvantaged section of society}}, but at least the Canadians brought this upon themselves and the effects will be completely reversible.
Awww - I was expecting a picture of George Bush!
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The real world really isn't that frightening.
And the USA claims that it wants all of that information about who is on airplanes in its airspace so that it can combat terrorism. If they knew about him on a simple stop over then it seems that there is a lot of 'mission creep' on the use of passenger information.
I name all my Unix boxes after herbs and spices. A decade or so ago I did have one MS Windows box for a few months, so I named it after a vegetable -- that seemed appropriate.
You are on /. -- so I deduce that you don't have any servers to name :-)
There should be an additional tariff on visitors to wikipedia, encyclopedia publishers are seeing a drop in sales.
I could go on.
Good to see that you have a president who seems to act on the basis of reality rather than listening to the mumbo jumbo of the religious fantasists. It would be nice if we had something like that in the UK.
Spot the correlation.
From your tone: I assume that you will be sending this guy something of great value ?
Why do you not have the courage to say your name when you post ?
Would 4 letter words like 'smeg' be covered ? It is not in the Oxford English Dictionary. What about words in other languages - like merde ('shit' in French), or ãç--ã'æä (google gives me that when I ask it to translate 'fuck' into Chinese) ?
I know that doing all the above takes time, often as much as writing the s/ware in the first place, but overall it saves time since the users of software make less mistakes and are more effective.
Poor documentation is, unfortunately, frequent in FLOSS s/ware.
Given that the article below was Porn Industry Looks For a Bailout this title of ''Mexico Tells Citizens To Swallow Their Gum'' shocked me.
Well that depends, what breed of cat?
Civet of course - you then get to enjoy the coffee.
So are we going to have to shield tiny computers with an inch of lead ?