by a few orders of magnitude. Color TV is 25,000 volts IIRC. B&W TV is about 17,000 or 18,000 volts. The X-Radiation is rather weak, almost negligible for B&W, but strong enough on color that you do not want to be right on top of it.
"The majority have no problem getting their views enforced. It is the minority that are screwed without protection." Actually it is the majority that are screwed by a small minority. Most effective examples I can think of are McCarthyism and Naziism(sp?). ("Effective" in this case is not a complement.) A few people convince a small core who convince a larger group who convince the majority to go along with it. The problem with censorship is that it an open invitation to thought control which _will_ be used by undesirable...
>>It is okay for community decisions to not be important to the rest of the world. It is okay for government institutions to say, "We're going to regulate how our systems are used, and it's going to be based on what the community wants."
Agreed, except: 1) One single Holland, MI is no one else's business. All of the Holland, MIs _are_ everyone else's business. One jew, one black, one communist, no big deal. All the jews, all the blacks, all the communists, etc. _is_ a big deal. 2) By posting on/., the debate _has_ reached the state, national and even the international level. The decision itself belongs to the denizens of Holland, MI, but the process of determination, in particular any outside influences and strategies, does belong to the world at large. 3) In dealing with things like privacy, free speech and liberty, if you wait until you need them, it is too late.
His points might be valid, but after seeing the results (nested, highest scores first, -1), I have come to the conclusion that making/. more like a newsreader or one-on-one discussion forum would be a WrongThing(TM). A better way of doing the WrongThing(TM) is NOT an improvement. Slashdot is doing very well, thank you.
Yes. Actually it is both or either. Generally you would want to use cmd.exe instead of command.com as cmd.exe at least starts out in NT command line mode (as opposed to DOS mode). Or something like that. I seem to recall that there are some subtle differences, but for most things, either one works.
Run command and: Microsoft(R) Windows NT DOS (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-1996 ver gives Windows NT Version 4.0
Run cmd and: Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM) (C)Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp. ver gives Windows NT Version 4.0
The (internal) DOS version is reported as MS-DOS 5.50a either way.
The DOS structures are MS-DOS 5 structures as opposed to MS-DOS 6 structures.
That is why I usually read the commentary and ignore the article. If there is any content, someone will gleefully comment on it. As for Flamebait, see the post following yours. If the whole thing is one giant Troll, it seems to have caught a few good one. As for style, IMHO it seems better to link to something that is not _too_ old than to just start it bare. Your post is a good example of why Anonymous Coward postings are a good idea.
You can define symbiosis as _mutual_ parasitism. Good post, BTW. I think that the commercial value of RedHat, as witnessed by its stock value, lies not in its Intellectual Property (which is GPL), but in its ability to bridge the gap between the suits and the (hrmmph,hrmmph)/. readers and such. If you think BSDL vs GPL is fun, imagine getting closed source and open source to play nice with each other. And the implications for anyone who manages to get it right. It is quite conceivable that RedHat is seriously _undervalued_.
And since it is under GPL, I can take JasonCC, make changes if desired (source must be supplied or available), slap my own copyright on top, and market it as FleeceCC. Or I, or anyone you or I sell to, can take and modify source, use it, and release nothing. With GPL'd code, anyone who has it has all the rights to the code as the original copyright holder, except the right to modify, sell, and exclude any of the rights they had originally.
There exists a definition of free such that BSDL is free. There exists a definition of free such that GPL is free. Therefore there exists a definition, ie meaningA OR meaningB, so that both are free. Therefore _both_ are free, for some definition of the word free. Both are free for different definitions of free. True, but irrelevant to the veracity of the original statement. The original statement does imply that the required definition might be a bit of a stretch.
Furthermore, WordPerfect 6 will by default read a WordPerfect 4.2 document, edit it, and save it back as a WordPerfect 4.2 document. Microsoft is in the business of selling software. It not as if they expect people to actually _use_ it.
Even First Posts can be redundant. Null content is redundant after nothing. Or something like that. Redundancy carries the sense of superfluous, too many words for too little content. It's like trying to hit the side of a barn wall at 20 paces with a shotgun. And missing. If I say something first, but badly, and someone else comes along and says it better, then it is fair to mark my first comment as redundant. Best I can tell, the moderation is working fine.
Very good. One of the more effective explanations of the differences between *BSD and Linux. I get the impression that *BSD isn't really adverse to cutting-edge, but has no intention of its own blood being shed. Penguins go where daemons fear to tread.;)
My guess is that the 2.4 that will be released is a totally different beast from the 2.4 envisioned early in 1999. It's a difficult balancing act, and there are differences in philosophy. Which is better depends on circumstances. At least it is relatively easy to jump back and forth. Overall, there seems to be a migration from Windows to Linux to FreeBSD.
It's the First Post of First Article of Last Year of Second Millennium. Curious. Days, weeks, months start counting at 1. Hours, minutes, seconds start counting at 0.
Trying to remember the math. There are two kinds of basic numbers, ordinals and cardinals. Cardinals answer the question of how many. One, two, three, etc. Zero is an acceptible answer. Ordinals are used to count off. One, two, three (in the sense of first, second, third) etc. There is no "zeroeth" element. For Finite numbers, the ordinals and cardinals correspond nicely. For ordinals, define a new element omega which comes after all of the normal numbers. Then start counting omega+1, omega+2,..., 2omega,2omega+1,... I think it is called a long line or some such. For cardinals, adding more numbers does not increase the count. In fact, there are the _same_ number of integers as primes or fractions or different numbers in the long line. Zero-based arrays simplify index calculations, but lead to such silliness as array dimensioned as array[10] does not have array[10] as an element, and have no claim to any mathematical justification.
You start your first year when you are born. Your first birthday starts your second year. If your age is one year, you are in your second year. I'm not sure, but I think your first birthday is actually in your second year.
Slashdot Mirror
'nuff said.
by a few orders of magnitude.
Color TV is 25,000 volts IIRC.
B&W TV is about 17,000 or 18,000 volts.
The X-Radiation is rather weak, almost negligible for B&W, but strong enough on color that you do not want to be right on top of it.
Actually, a twelve year old is probably safer than the average 16 year old. A lot of farm boys know how to drive. Early.
"The majority have no problem getting their views enforced. It is the minority that are screwed without protection." ...
Actually it is the majority that are screwed by a small minority. Most effective examples I can think of are McCarthyism and Naziism(sp?). ("Effective" in this case is not a complement.) A few people convince a small core who convince a larger group who convince the majority to go along with it. The problem with censorship is that it an open invitation to thought control which _will_ be used by undesirable
>>It is okay for community decisions to not be important to the rest of the world. It is okay for government institutions to say, "We're going to regulate how our systems are used, and it's going to be based on what the community wants."
/., the debate _has_ reached the state, national and even the international level. The decision itself belongs to the denizens of Holland, MI, but the process of determination, in particular any outside influences and strategies, does belong to the world at large.
Agreed, except:
1) One single Holland, MI is no one else's business. All of the Holland, MIs _are_ everyone else's business. One jew, one black, one communist, no big deal. All the jews, all the blacks, all the communists, etc. _is_ a big deal.
2) By posting on
3) In dealing with things like privacy, free speech and liberty, if you wait until you need them, it is too late.
His points might be valid, but after seeing the results (nested, highest scores first, -1), I have come to the conclusion that making /. more like a newsreader or one-on-one discussion forum would be a WrongThing(TM). A better way of doing the WrongThing(TM) is NOT an improvement. Slashdot is doing very well, thank you.
Not nearly as clunky looking.
Yes. Actually it is both or either.
Generally you would want to use cmd.exe instead of command.com as cmd.exe at least starts out in NT command line mode (as opposed to DOS mode). Or something like that. I seem to recall that there are some subtle differences, but for most things, either one works.
Run command and:
Microsoft(R) Windows NT DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-1996
ver gives Windows NT Version 4.0
Run cmd and:
Microsoft(R) Windows NT(TM)
(C)Copyright 1985-1996 Microsoft Corp.
ver gives Windows NT Version 4.0
The (internal) DOS version is reported as MS-DOS 5.50a either way.
The DOS structures are MS-DOS 5 structures as opposed to MS-DOS 6 structures.
That is why I usually read the commentary and ignore the article. If there is any content, someone will gleefully comment on it.
As for Flamebait, see the post following yours. If the whole thing is one giant Troll, it seems to have caught a few good one. As for style, IMHO it seems better to link to something that is not _too_ old than to just start it bare. Your post is a good example of why Anonymous Coward postings are a good idea.
Somehow you managed to capture the essence of the whole thing. I'm still laughing.
You can define symbiosis as _mutual_ parasitism. /. readers and such.
Good post, BTW. I think that the commercial value of RedHat, as witnessed by its stock value, lies not in its Intellectual Property (which is GPL), but in its ability to bridge the gap between the suits and the (hrmmph,hrmmph)
If you think BSDL vs GPL is fun, imagine getting closed source and open source to play nice with each other. And the implications for anyone who manages to get it right. It is quite conceivable that RedHat is seriously _undervalued_.
And since it is under GPL, I can take JasonCC, make changes if desired (source must be supplied or available), slap my own copyright on top, and market it as FleeceCC.
Or I, or anyone you or I sell to, can take and modify source, use it, and release nothing.
With GPL'd code, anyone who has it has all the rights to the code as the original copyright holder, except the right to modify, sell, and exclude any of the rights they had originally.
There exists a definition of free such that BSDL is free. There exists a definition of free such that GPL is free. Therefore there exists a definition, ie meaningA OR meaningB, so that both are free. Therefore _both_ are free, for some definition of the word free.
Both are free for different definitions of free. True, but irrelevant to the veracity of the original statement. The original statement does imply that the required definition might be a bit of a stretch.
Furthermore, WordPerfect 6 will by default read a WordPerfect 4.2 document, edit it, and save it back as a WordPerfect 4.2 document.
Microsoft is in the business of selling software. It not as if they expect people to actually _use_ it.
C:\WINNT\SYSTEM32\COMMAND.COM
MS DOS Version 5.00 (C)Copyright 1981-1991 Microsoft Corp Licensed Material - Property of Microsoft All rights reserved
Now it is rated at 2, Informative.
Several moderators, and it tends to settle down where it belongs.
Even First Posts can be redundant.
Null content is redundant after nothing. Or something like that. Redundancy carries the sense of superfluous, too many words for too little content. It's like trying to hit the side of a barn wall at 20 paces with a shotgun. And missing.
If I say something first, but badly, and someone else comes along and says it better, then it is fair to mark my first comment as redundant. Best I can tell, the moderation is working fine.
MM is Marylin Monroe.
Probably dumbkopf.
Mein Deusch ist nicht. (Or something like that.)
Basically, I have a five word German vocabulary. Ya, Neine, Bitte, Prost.
Paradiorthotician sounds too much like a Microsoftism.
If 2.4 gives an enterprise-class OS on IBM mainframes as well as other computers, it is well worth the wait.
Very good. One of the more effective explanations of the differences between *BSD and Linux. I get the impression that *BSD isn't really adverse to cutting-edge, but has no intention of its own blood being shed. Penguins go where daemons fear to tread. ;)
My guess is that the 2.4 that will be released is a totally different beast from the 2.4 envisioned early in 1999. It's a difficult balancing act, and there are differences in philosophy. Which is better depends on circumstances. At least it is relatively easy to jump back and forth. Overall, there seems to be a migration from Windows to Linux to FreeBSD.
It's the First Post of First Article of Last Year of Second Millennium.
Curious. Days, weeks, months start counting at 1. Hours, minutes, seconds start counting at 0.
Trying to remember the math. ..., 2omega,2omega+1, ... I think it is called a long line or some such. For cardinals, adding more numbers does not increase the count. In fact, there are the _same_ number of integers as primes or fractions or different numbers in the long line.
There are two kinds of basic numbers, ordinals and cardinals.
Cardinals answer the question of how many. One, two, three, etc. Zero is an acceptible answer.
Ordinals are used to count off. One, two, three (in the sense of first, second, third) etc. There is no "zeroeth" element.
For Finite numbers, the ordinals and cardinals correspond nicely. For ordinals, define a new element omega which comes after all of the normal numbers. Then start counting omega+1, omega+2,
Zero-based arrays simplify index calculations, but lead to such silliness as array dimensioned as array[10] does not have array[10] as an element, and have no claim to any mathematical justification.
You start your first year when you are born.
Your first birthday starts your second year.
If your age is one year, you are in your second year.
I'm not sure, but I think your first birthday is actually in your second year.