nor always a good thing. On the whole, I think the world is made a better place by Dan Bernstein's existance. Yes, the man has his warts, but he also has his gems too. -russ
http://www.etrade.com/redhatipo. Supply the username and password from the email you received. Click on the "indicate interest" link. Log in using your etrade account. Click on the "go on" link. Click on the new username they give you. Type it into the form along with your etrade password. That gets you to a page with a link to the qualification form. Click on it, tell 'em about your vast investment experience and net worth, get approved, and sign up to buy lots of stock. -russ
This is a matter of technology vs politics. This suit is attempting to use politics to control technology. It's stupid. You can use technology to control technology. Make an apache module which refuses to serve up the linked pages unless the linking site has recently accessed the page in which the linked page is linked. Stop paying lawyers and start paying programmers. -russ
qmail is an exception to the Open Source Definition. Purportedly, a project has to allow redistribution of modified binaries in order to get all the benefits of Open Source. Yet, Dan Bernstein has been able to do this without it. The answer is, of course, that very few of us can even approach being a Dan Bernstein.
I'm on the board of the Open Source Initiative, and I use qmail because it's reliable and secure. -russ p.s. I also sell support for it.
Please don't give out that address!!!!!!!! If you do, spammer's robots will find it and start spamming it. Instead, give out the subscribe robot's address. It will tell the users the submission address after they subscribe, plus it doesn't care if it gets spammed. Here's the right address to tell people:
It is written in the holy books that Linus himself (all praise Linus) said that the memory management system was written around LDT/GDT and was not particularly portable.
If the author meant that emacs has an elisp "compiler", then I can claim that Freemacs has a MINT "compiler". -russ p.s. it doesn't, and it doesn't (you get to figure out which it means what).
The author got a few details wrong (e.g. Linux wasn't initially portable, GNU Emacs doesn't have a compiler), but the general thrust of the article was spot-on. -russ
I don't watch television, so I was spared the carnage. I highly encourage other people to follow Don Lancaster's television repair instructions. I don't know if he has them on his web site, but they go roughly like this:
Unplug television from wall outlet.
Place wire clippers in preferred hand.
Firmly grasp power cord in other hand.
Clip the plug from the cord.
Your television has now been restored to its best possible operating condition. -russ
Microsoft treats its developers like dirt. Why do I say that, in view of the Microsoft Developers Network? Because, in spite of the MSDN, Microsoft has to constantly change its APIs. If it didn't keep adding required services, someone could clone Windows. But because every new release has new APIs, or the existing APIs change, cloning can't happen. That's good for Microsoft, but bad for developers. They bear all the cost of protecting Microsoft's intellectual property.
That is why I won't program for Windows, not because I can't, not because I don't like Windows (actually it's very pretty), not because I don't like Microsoft (except for the way they treat me), not because I hate/fear/envy Bill Gates, but because it's bad for me in the long term. -russ
This is absolutely amazing. I've been watching this technology for years, and the price has *finally* come down to ground level. Heck, buy the *hubs* and use them to connect your machines together.
That is, assuming that they bridge IP, and not just AppleProprietaryProtocol. -russ
The *real* question is how much the wireless hub is going to cost. If it's an 11Mbps system, the card is going to cost $600 and the hub $1200. If it's 2Mbps, the card will cost $300 and the hub $800. That's still too damn expensive. -russ
Apple puts letters on their keys? What a waste of time and money. Hackers have no need for legends on keys -- they know where every key is by heart. -russ
99% of all species are already extinct. By all means, we should take steps to preserve those species we deem important. But opposing all extinctions is [ note the clever and accurate use of the singular here ] ahistorical. -russ
The *press* has been covering this in poor taste. C&H were just mocking the press coverage, not JFKJr's death. C'mon, grant them *some* humanity. -russ
Do governments respond to long-term effects? What legislator thinks beyond his next election?
I agree with your need for competition. It's not competition to give the cableco a monopoly. You get competition when everyone's private property rights are respected. And yes, this includes cable tv companies. -russ
You're answering your own question: Why should new companies do without subsidies (and I count a de jure monopoly as a subsidy)? Because in the end, he who pays the piper calls the tune. A government always turns on the capitalist eventually. Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas. -russ
it's simply a happy side effect when that private interest and the public interest coincide. You're quite right that it's a happy side effect. The greedy capitalist doesn't *mean* to help anybody. He just wants to get rich. It's an essential side effect of a free market that he cannot do so without serving the public interest. Conversely, when greedy capitalists fail to serve the public interest, look for government collusion. The robber barons were all subsidized. But don't believe me -- it's in all the books. -russ
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Perhaps you've simply noticed that Eric doesn't brag about what he's done? Don't you respect his humility?
-russ
nor always a good thing. On the whole, I think the world is made a better place by Dan Bernstein's existance. Yes, the man has his warts, but he also has his gems too.
-russ
http://www.etrade.com/redhatipo. Supply the username and password from the email you received. Click on the "indicate interest" link. Log in using your etrade account. Click on the "go on" link. Click on the new username they give you. Type it into the form along with your etrade password. That gets you to a page with a link to the qualification form. Click on it, tell 'em about your vast investment experience and net worth, get approved, and sign up to buy lots of stock.
-russ
They changed the pages in the last couple of days. Go look again. You can indicate interest now.
-russ
This is a matter of technology vs politics. This suit is attempting to use politics to control technology. It's stupid. You can use technology to control technology. Make an apache module which refuses to serve up the linked pages unless the linking site has recently accessed the page in which the linked page is linked. Stop paying lawyers and start paying programmers.
-russ
qmail is an exception to the Open Source Definition. Purportedly, a project has to allow redistribution of modified binaries in order to get all the benefits of Open Source. Yet, Dan Bernstein has been able to do this without it. The answer is, of course, that very few of us can even approach being a Dan Bernstein.
I'm on the board of the Open Source Initiative, and I use qmail because it's reliable and secure.
-russ
p.s. I also sell support for it.
Please don't give out that address!!!!!!!! If you do, spammer's robots will find it and start spamming it. Instead, give out the subscribe robot's address. It will tell the users the submission address after they subscribe, plus it doesn't care if it gets spammed. Here's the right address to tell people:
license-discuss-subscribe@opensource.org
Jethro Tull. No song can stop Aqualung.
-russ
ORA has a staff member who picks all the animals. Yes, it would be cool to see a Lego dragon drawn in woodblock style.
-russ
Lego Mindstorms Reverse-Engineering. Go. Download. Be happy.
-russ
There are fewer acres under cultivation in the US than 100 years ago. It's a fact. Eye-opener? I doubt it. Environmentalists don't need facts.
-russ
It is written in the holy books that Linus himself (all praise Linus) said that the memory management system was written around LDT/GDT and was not particularly portable.
If the author meant that emacs has an elisp "compiler", then I can claim that Freemacs has a MINT "compiler".
-russ
p.s. it doesn't, and it doesn't (you get to figure out which it means what).
The author got a few details wrong (e.g. Linux wasn't initially portable, GNU Emacs doesn't have a compiler), but the general thrust of the article was spot-on.
-russ
- Unplug television from wall outlet.
- Place wire clippers in preferred hand.
- Firmly grasp power cord in other hand.
- Clip the plug from the cord.
Your television has now been restored to its best possible operating condition.-russ
That is why I won't program for Windows, not because I can't, not because I don't like Windows (actually it's very pretty), not because I don't like Microsoft (except for the way they treat me), not because I hate/fear/envy Bill Gates, but because it's bad for me in the long term.
-russ
You're right -- at least about NetBSD/OpenBSD.
-russ
This is absolutely amazing. I've been watching this technology for years, and the price has *finally* come down to ground level. Heck, buy the *hubs* and use them to connect your machines together.
That is, assuming that they bridge IP, and not just AppleProprietaryProtocol.
-russ
The *real* question is how much the wireless hub is going to cost. If it's an 11Mbps system, the card is going to cost $600 and the hub $1200. If it's 2Mbps, the card will cost $300 and the hub $800. That's still too damn expensive.
-russ
Apple puts letters on their keys? What a waste of time and money. Hackers have no need for legends on keys -- they know where every key is by heart.
-russ
99% of all species are already extinct. By all means, we should take steps to preserve those species we deem important. But opposing all extinctions is [ note the clever and accurate use of the singular here ] ahistorical.
-russ
The *press* has been covering this in poor taste. C&H were just mocking the press coverage, not JFKJr's death. C'mon, grant them *some* humanity.
-russ
Do governments respond to long-term effects? What legislator thinks beyond his next election?
I agree with your need for competition. It's not competition to give the cableco a monopoly. You get competition when everyone's private property rights are respected. And yes, this includes cable tv companies.
-russ
I didn't bother to look for it because I didn't think you'd be convinced by facts contrary to your beliefs. I was right, as you acknowledge.
-russ
You're answering your own question: Why should new companies do without subsidies (and I count a de jure monopoly as a subsidy)? Because in the end, he who pays the piper calls the tune. A government always turns on the capitalist eventually. Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas.
-russ
it's simply a happy side effect when that private interest and the public interest coincide. You're quite right that it's a happy side effect. The greedy capitalist doesn't *mean* to help anybody. He just wants to get rich. It's an essential side effect of a free market that he cannot do so without serving the public interest. Conversely, when greedy capitalists fail to serve the public interest, look for government collusion. The robber barons were all subsidized. But don't believe me -- it's in all the books. -russ