The Boomers started out with "Make Love, Not War" but once they were safely past military service age it became "Make War, Not Love". As a member of Generation X I can tell you that growing up in the wake of the Boomers was like inheriting the ballroom after the riot.
It was the GI and Silent generations that did those things. I remember the Boomers in the sixties and seventies and they were spoiled children then. They still are now.
Lately I have had to write code in Visual Studio and I find that I don't like it at all. It seems like for every little task I have to fight it every inch of the way. The IDE assumes that it knows more than I do and so tends to get in the way.
I would much rather deal with emacs or vi since I can get them to do what I want with little effort. These editors may not have the cute graphics but they do have the virtue of doing what I want.
Oregon has a much stricter version of the First Amendment in its Constitution. The "family values" types tried pass an amendment that would have created and exception that would shut down the strip clubs.
For once the electorate showed some sense and voted it down.
It is more like Microsoft must provide ODF compatibility or
the state government as well as local governments will not
be buying Office. Notice that this promise came after they
tried to bribe and threaten the state government to back down
on its ODF requirement.
Failure to reverse the ODF decision means that no matter what
decision Microsoft makes they will lose the Office monopoly.
Bill Gates can choose to keep a piece of the action or lose
everything.
Languages like LISP don't have memory fragmentation problems because they have support for updating references to heap objects. A copying garbage collector will defragment the heap as it reclaims memory.
The practical result is that C++ has no support for garbage collection so pointers can not be updated. This means that any form of copying garbage collector is not possible and so memory fragmentation is a real concern.
These days C++ is the last language I will choose. Only if I need to work directly with the hardware or if execution speed became a problem would I use C++. With a little care LISP can be quite fast if the implementation is good.
It is very clear that you have no idea where the Dalles actually is. The Umatilla arms depot is about 130 miles to the east. Given that the winds tend to come from the west and the distance this would be more of a problem for Hermiston or Pendleton. The region around Pendleton is far more economically depressed than the Dalles ever dreamed of being.
Normally I would assume that you have never set foot in the state of Oregon but it is just possible that you do live and work in the Portland area. For some reason most people in the Willamette valley have a huge blind spot where any thing east of the Cascades is concerned.
Perhaps the GPL isn't the only license in town. It is one of the most often used.
The GPL works because it is designed so that once a program is released under it it will always remain free. Since software freedom is the only goal of the FSF it stands to reason they make a big deal out of compatibility.
As the years go by I gain a greater respect for the basic design of the GPL. Always remember that RMS wanted to secure freedom for computer users and programmers. There were no other considerations.
I do not believe that we would have Linux if not for the GPL.
I always tell them that my name and number are
classified on a need to know basis and that they
do not need to know.
Most sales droids don't like this very much except
for the few with a sense of humor. Then again
those few probably realize they are working for
morons.
Mutt does not execute arbitrary code and thus is immune to such antics. While it is possible to download a trojan horse e-mail is not the only way to do this. It is worth noting that no unix e-mail program runs arbitary code for this reason.
A bit of computing history. Many years ago the e-mail program for EMACS was allowed to execute LISP code since the interpreter was part of the editor. Needless to say it was thrown out quickly after it was demonstrated how this could be abused.
If Microsoft had bothered to learn any of this history the stupidity that is Outlook would not be.
It seems to me that GNU/Linux is a success regardless of any company's profit margin. After all millions of people use it and the number grows year after year. Is the ability of the user to
explore and alter the software not of value?
The Halloween documents make it very clear what the.NET strategy truly is. The only way to kill
GNU/Linux is to lock us out of the internet and
MS hopes to do this by making the internet protocols proprietary.
Having an implementation around is a good fail-safe for GNU/Linux. It would be best to
not use.NET since Microsoft will deliberately
mutate the thing to try and lock everyone
else out.
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The fact of the matter is that Microsoft has
only one measure of success. How much money
will something make for Microsoft. This leads
to a rather self centered world view. The fact
of the matter is that freedom
is much more important.
It is ironic that he talks about how valuble
software is and then says that the GNU Public
License is a bad thing. The only difference
is that code is being exchanged without money
first changing hands. Items of equivalent value
are still being exchanged. Like any other
transaction I can choose not to participate by
making other arrangements.
This arrangement appeals to the libertarian in me
since my freedom to use my computer and code
as I see fit is preserved.
As far as RMS is concerned that is the only goal
for the GNU Public License. The GNU Public License is designed to serve its users
not any particular business.
There are people who complain about RMS not being
willing to compromise on this. I am grateful that
he won't. I get good software and freedom in
exchange for giving any modifications I may make
to a program back to the community.
Sounds like a good deal to me.
The excise tax on telephone service goes back to 1898 to pay for the Spanish American War. I think we have pay off the debts from that war and yet the tax remains.
You have just proven that you are smarter than the average American. As odd as it sounds most Americans don't realize that the Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same political party. The goal of this party is an ever larger and more intrusive government.
The average American is an example of what happens when you get your information from TV.
You just described the Win32s API, known also as API of the week. Microsoft kept that one a moving target to help rub out OS/2.
Keep in mind that the e-mail evidence in the Caldera suit shows that Microsoft kept Windows a moving target. This was to keep Windows from being cloned the as DOS was by DRI.
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The Boomers started out with "Make Love, Not War" but once they were safely past military service age it became "Make War, Not Love". As a member of Generation X I can tell you that growing up in the wake of the Boomers was like inheriting the ballroom after the riot.
It was the GI and Silent generations that did those things. I remember the Boomers in the sixties and seventies and they were spoiled children then. They still are now.
Lately I have had to write code in Visual Studio and I find that I don't like it at all.
It seems like for every little task I have to fight it every inch of the way.
The IDE assumes that it knows more than I do and so tends to get in the way.
I would much rather deal with emacs or vi since I can get them to do what I want
with little effort. These editors may not have the cute graphics but they do have
the virtue of doing what I want.
Oregon has a much stricter version of the First Amendment in its Constitution. The "family values" types tried pass an amendment that would have created and exception that would shut down the strip clubs.
For once the electorate showed some sense and voted it down.
It is more like Microsoft must provide ODF compatibility or the state government as well as local governments will not be buying Office. Notice that this promise came after they tried to bribe and threaten the state government to back down on its ODF requirement.
Failure to reverse the ODF decision means that no matter what decision Microsoft makes they will lose the Office monopoly. Bill Gates can choose to keep a piece of the action or lose everything.
Languages like LISP don't have memory fragmentation problems because they have support for updating references to heap objects. A copying garbage collector will defragment the heap as it reclaims memory.
The practical result is that C++ has no support for garbage collection so pointers can not be updated. This means that any form of copying garbage collector is not possible and so memory fragmentation is a real concern.
These days C++ is the last language I will choose. Only if I need to work directly with the hardware or if execution speed became a problem would I use C++. With a little care LISP can be quite fast if the implementation is good.
It is very clear that you have no idea where the Dalles actually is. The Umatilla arms depot is about 130 miles to the east. Given that the winds tend to come from the west and the distance this would be more of a problem for Hermiston or Pendleton. The region around Pendleton is far more economically depressed than the Dalles ever dreamed of being.
Normally I would assume that you have never set foot in the state of Oregon but it is just possible that you do live and work in the Portland area. For some reason most people in the Willamette valley have a huge blind spot where any thing east of the Cascades is concerned.
Perhaps the GPL isn't the only license in town. It is one of the most often used.
The GPL works because it is designed so that once a program is released under it it will always remain free. Since software freedom is the only goal of the FSF it stands to reason they make a big deal out of compatibility.
As the years go by I gain a greater respect for the basic design of the GPL. Always remember that RMS wanted to secure freedom for computer users and programmers. There were no other considerations.
I do not believe that we would have Linux if not for the GPL.
I always tell them that my name and number are classified on a need to know basis and that they do not need to know.
Most sales droids don't like this very much except for the few with a sense of humor. Then again those few probably realize they are working for morons.
I think the following works better:
Enemy of my enemy is still my enemy.
Mutt does not execute arbitrary code and thus is immune to such antics. While it is possible to download a trojan horse e-mail is not the only way to do this. It is worth noting that no unix e-mail program runs arbitary code for this reason.
A bit of computing history. Many years ago the e-mail program for EMACS was allowed to execute LISP code since the interpreter was part of the editor. Needless to say it was thrown out quickly after it was demonstrated how this could be abused.
If Microsoft had bothered to learn any of this history the stupidity that is Outlook would not be.
Is money the only measure of value or success?
It seems to me that GNU/Linux is a success regardless of any company's profit margin. After all millions of people use it and the number grows year after year. Is the ability of the user to explore and alter the software not of value?
What do you value?
The Halloween documents make it very clear what the .NET strategy truly is. The only way to kill
.NET since Microsoft will deliberately
GNU/Linux is to lock us out of the internet and
MS hopes to do this by making the internet protocols proprietary.
Having an implementation around is a good fail-safe for GNU/Linux. It would be best to
not use
mutate the thing to try and lock everyone
else out.
The fact of the matter is that Microsoft has only one measure of success. How much money will something make for Microsoft. This leads to a rather self centered world view. The fact of the matter is that freedom is much more important.
It is ironic that he talks about how valuble software is and then says that the GNU Public License is a bad thing. The only difference is that code is being exchanged without money first changing hands. Items of equivalent value are still being exchanged. Like any other transaction I can choose not to participate by making other arrangements.
This arrangement appeals to the libertarian in me since my freedom to use my computer and code as I see fit is preserved. As far as RMS is concerned that is the only goal for the GNU Public License. The GNU Public License is designed to serve its users not any particular business.
There are people who complain about RMS not being willing to compromise on this. I am grateful that he won't. I get good software and freedom in exchange for giving any modifications I may make to a program back to the community. Sounds like a good deal to me.
The excise tax on telephone service goes back to 1898 to pay for the Spanish American War. I think we have pay off the debts from that war and yet the tax remains.
There is nothing so permanent as a temporary tax.
You have just proven that you are smarter than the average American. As odd as it sounds most Americans don't realize that the Democrats and Republicans are two wings of the same political party. The goal of this party is an ever larger and more intrusive government.
The average American is an example of what happens when you get your information from TV.
You just described the Win32s API, known also as API of the week. Microsoft kept that one a moving target to help rub out OS/2.
Keep in mind that the e-mail evidence in the Caldera suit shows that Microsoft kept Windows a moving target. This was to keep Windows from being cloned the as DOS was by DRI.