In the past, the FCC has guarded the '1' since everyone knows that marks long-distance. It seems to me that having your local calls also require a '1' means that you can't tell when a number is long distance or local.
Given the amount of incorrect billing (in my mind I would call it fraud) that I have seen on my telephone bills in the last 5 years, the last thing I would want to see is a blurring of the local/long distance distinction.
It's bad enough that I can call a number in another state hundreds of miles away, and have it billed by my local Bell for 300% more than my state-to-state carrier. (And yes, I have changed my local carrier; but in-state, even between states, is still more expensive than state-to-state).
Now, it won't even be clear when a number is local.
That's because you're doing it wrong. You compare by cross multiplying. Instead of (featuresApache)/(priceApache) vs. (featuresOther)/(priceOther) you do (featuresApache)*(priceOther) vs (featuresOther)*(priceApache).
This is why I kept a CVS archive of my dissertation (done in TeX) with always at least two current checkouts going, one at school and one at home.
I got the advantage of data stored on more than one machine at all times, together with freedom from the fear that I might not be working on the right set of files since I had version control.
BTW I totally recommend checking your TeX files into CVS. When my thesis advisor would tell me to make a large edit (i.e. rearrange Chp 2 in a completely different order) I had the courage to "dive right in". Without the comfort of knowing I could unroll a goof, the trepidation of a large change would have slowed me down immensely.
At the very end, when I couldn't even stand to read my own writing any longer, I would just check the spelling of my "diffs" before checking in changes and make sure they made sense in context.
I went to the page, and I didn't find any source. Reading the license, it looks like "yet another open source license". I am inclined to mistrust, especially with only a binary-only package available for my Linux platform.
I teach mathematics at the college level. I'd love to see good free software tools (I use Octave for example). What is to make me want to contribute to this project?
For the moment, I am definitely not investing time into this. We'll see when there is actually source available.
Public domain status is compatible with the GNU GPL.
Yes, but it's only one-way compatibility. The GPL states that you must
release derivative works under the GPL as well, right? So, as soon as the
tiniest change is made, you can't re-release a GPLed work to the Public Domain,
unless you redo all the effort starting from the PD version.
I don't see why that is a bad issue. Commercializing a PD work is also a one-way
compatibility.
It would be like MS saying you can't use MS Word if your using it to write up a document critical of MS, or to write up source code for something competing with an MS product.
Is this a joke? That's apparently exactly the license on FrontPage 2002. You may not disparage Microsoft.
I did notice recently that one of the Microsoft licenses was automatically revoked if you chose to sue (anyone) over a patent that was related to the covered software.
So perhaps they are doing everyone a favor by dissuading litigation.
All most people need on one page.
on
Vi IMproved -- Vim
·
· Score: 3, Informative
I think most people will find all the VI they
need to know on the Vi reference card at
vh224401.truman.edu
At Truman State University there were fliers put up for a "town meeting" to discuss the then-new Patriat Act. I don't think I'll ever forget them. They said in large words:
This describes very well how I have found tournament play. I am not a good chess player (and have only played few tournaments). Like any player relatively new to tournament play, I lost all of my first games. The adrenalin was about enough to kill me.
I'm not actually that fond of tournament play, because of the excitement/stress/tension, whatever you like to call it. However, if you are interested in chess it is natural to attend tournaments, at least sometimes, to expose yourself to different ideas and players.
After a couple of rounds of losses, I managed to calm down enough and force myself to remain patient. My games improved. But the first time that I realized that I could make a draw, the adrenaline was back (not a win mind you--I just realized I wasn't going to lose). It was a total test of self-control not to blow the game on nerves.
The same was true the first time I won a game, so I am completely unsurprised that a scientist would observe an increase in testosterone after a win. I haven't gone to a tournament in about a year, but just thinking about being in a game and having the upper hand makes me feel aggressive, like I need to calm down.
For comparison, I enjoy other activities that might be considered "testosterone high" like Karate. By comparison to tournament chess, I would rate my typical experience in Karate as bland. Sure I want to improve my martial art, and I would like to perform well with/against my workout partners. By I tend to feel that I am learning WITH my martial arts partners. In chess, it is win or get beat--and it really taps into the survival instinct in a different way.
> Show me a University that doesn't have a "Property Of University Of (n)" sticker on its machines. Ours here at U of A are even metallic.
>Its their box, not yours.
>Next youll be telling me the Xerox machines at Kinkos are yours too, because you go there and use them, and pay money to do so.
No, but Xerox and Kinkos don't decide that they own the property you run through a copy machine just because they own the machine. If you pay (tuition) to use the machines at a University, there is no reason to think that the Univ suddenly owns the work you created with them either.
I would guess that court imposed sanctions cannot be used as a write-off. I think that typically court-awarded winnings are not taxed (at least that was the case for a friend of mine who was once the recipient in such a judgement) and this would seem to be the flip side of that.
> A locked door does not prevent the police from
> entering a house with a search warrant.
I don't know. With a backdoor to encryption,
they can "break into your house" without your
knowledge any time you aren't home, much like
having a key to your dwelling. Without the
key, I think it would be a little more work
to be so furtive.
I have also found the mail forwarding from pobox.com to work very well. My wife used to get about 5-10 spam per day. She forwarded her old account through pobox.com and she only gets about 1 per week after the spam cleaning.
In fact I use this as well on my system. For example, I wanted all of my machines to be running a current version of apcupsd (not many dependencies, so this works pretty much without a hitch). I have a "deb-src" line pointed at woody as described. Then I type:
Now I have a "current" apcupsd in my otherwise "stable" distribution that is compiled against the stable libraries. Furthermore, when I move to woody (it will eventually become stable after all) and forget to keep upgrading apcupsd, the version number will eventually overtake me and I'll be "in sync" again. This is almost a perfect world.
I saw TR last night and I did like it. It makes me really sad to have you guys just trashing it up and down. I'm not sure what you want.
I look at TR as a fantasy. It was basically based on a fantasy type video game, yes? So the bad guys are bad, because they're bad; it's a tautology. Why are the bad guys in any fantasy novel bad. Usually, the same reason. They're just evil/non-human/whatever.
Frankly, I was totally vibed to see a movie where they the didn't try to sell me totally unbelievable action as if it were somehow real. Contrast with:
Mission Impossible--Jumped off exploding helicopter to moving train and didn't get killed by the explosion?
Matrix--That dead guy came back to life just in time to save their butts. Give a break. Not to mention the "I love you" resuscitation.
Armageddon--They jump a trench with that crawler AND survive a massive meteor shower. And those are just two of the stupid plot points I remember.
If you didn't like the love interest, contrast with any movie where the characters don't even like each other and get together in the end. Or where they spend two movie-hours in relationship angst (where we see no real love developing) and get together at the end anyway. Her father was the love interest, and that was developed throughout the movie.
And speaking of angst, frankly I was grateful to enjoy an action movie, where I didn't have to feel tense the whole time. This totally in contrast to movies like Armageddon. How liberating to have a movie be FUN!
TR fits in the same class as movie based on comic books. The Shadow, The Phantom, The X-men (which had too many characters so that no one was developed adequately; see, you never win).
AND SINCE I HAVE THE FLOOR, I think I'll end with an angry remark: I don't think I'll ever submit anything to SlashDot. It was totally out of line to stomp on his review by adding a second review on the tail just because you have the power.
How does that.sig go? Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
If there ever was a legally questionable but morally correct use of FreeNet, I would think that distribution of copyright-protected laws would be a candidate. It's unfortunate that it would be likely to fall from the database due to the basic nature of FreeNet (unaccessed stuff gets deleted eventually).
What could be a more fundamental protection of (American) freedom than to let people know what the law says?
In Kent Beck's book Extreme Programming Explained(ISBN 0-201-61641-6), page 44 there are several paragraphs that show source code as academic, expressive stuff:
What is it that we want to get out of code? The most important thing is learning. The way I learn is to have a thought, then test it out to see if it is a good thought. Code is the best way I know of to do this. Code isn't swayed by the power and logic of rhetoric. Code isn't impressed by college degrees or large salaries. Code just sits there, happily doing exactly what you told it to do. If that isn't what you thought you told it to do, that's your problem.
and down the page
Code also gives you a chance to communicate clearly and concisely. If you have an idea and explain it to me, I can easily misunderstand. If we code it together, though, I can see in the logic you write the precise shape of your ideas. Again, I see the shape of your ideas not as you see them in your head, but as they find expression to the outside world.
Ok, if it was OK because he did it off campus and it had nothing to do with school, answer me this? Why is it that sports members get suspended from playing if they are caught drinking (in situations wholy unconnected with school)?
Yet they do all of the time.
Personally, I have never understood the logic in that.
I don't know about anyone else, but I already liked and recommended HushMail. The worst thing against them seemed to be that they couldn't inter-operate with gpg or pgp.
Well, I have been incorrectly hit on my a gay man. It was as honest mistake. In context, my manner would easily have set off his gaydar. It wasn't until I started hanging out with some gay friends that my own gaydar developed better.
But straight I am, and not in denial. It was just an honest mistake and I laugh about it with my gay friends. Some of my straight friends get all defensive about the idea that a gay person might hit on them, but it's not like the guy was being threatening. He was just a little more friendly than he probably would have been if he knew I was straight.
Slashdot Mirror
In the past, the FCC has guarded the '1' since
everyone knows that marks long-distance. It seems
to me that having your local calls also require
a '1' means that you can't tell when a number
is long distance or local.
Given the amount of incorrect billing (in my mind
I would call it fraud) that I have seen on my
telephone bills in the last 5 years, the last
thing I would want to see is a blurring of the
local/long distance distinction.
It's bad enough that I can call a number in
another state hundreds of miles away,
and have it billed by my local
Bell for 300% more than my state-to-state
carrier. (And yes, I have changed my local
carrier; but in-state, even between states, is
still more expensive than state-to-state).
Now, it won't even be clear when a number is
local.
That's because you're doing it wrong. You compare by cross multiplying. Instead of (featuresApache)/(priceApache) vs. (featuresOther)/(priceOther) you do (featuresApache)*(priceOther) vs (featuresOther)*(priceApache).
And Apache wins.
This is why I kept a CVS archive of my dissertation
(done in TeX) with always at least two current
checkouts going, one at school and one at home.
I got the advantage of data stored on more than
one machine at all times, together with freedom
from the fear that I might not be working on
the right set of files since I had version control.
BTW I totally recommend checking your TeX files
into CVS. When my thesis advisor would tell
me to make a large edit (i.e. rearrange Chp 2 in
a completely different order) I had the courage
to "dive right in". Without the comfort of
knowing I could unroll a goof, the trepidation
of a large change would have slowed me down
immensely.
At the very end, when I couldn't even stand to
read my own writing any longer, I would just
check the spelling of my "diffs" before checking
in changes and make sure they made sense in
context.
I went to the page, and I didn't find any source.
Reading the license, it looks like "yet another
open source license". I am inclined to mistrust,
especially with only a binary-only package
available for my Linux platform.
I teach mathematics at the college level. I'd
love to see good free software tools (I use
Octave for example). What is to make me want
to contribute to this project?
For the moment, I am definitely not investing
time into this. We'll see when there is actually
source available.
I don't see why that is a bad issue. Commercializing a PD work is also a one-way compatibility.
Is this a joke? That's apparently exactly the license on FrontPage 2002. You may not disparage Microsoft.
I did notice recently that one of the Microsoft
licenses was automatically revoked if you chose
to sue (anyone) over a patent that was related
to the covered software.
So perhaps they are doing everyone a favor by
dissuading litigation.
I think most people will find all the VI they need to know on the Vi reference card at vh224401.truman.edu
How could it? With modern asymmetric encryption methods, the receiver is the only one who could decrypt a message. Even the sender is locked out.
At Truman State University there were fliers put up for a "town meeting" to discuss the then-new Patriat Act. I don't think I'll ever forget them. They said in large words:
CANADA
Looking better than ever...
This describes very well how I have found tournament play. I am not a good chess player (and have only played few tournaments). Like any player relatively new to tournament play, I lost all of my first games. The adrenalin was about enough to kill me.
I'm not actually that fond of tournament play, because of the excitement/stress/tension, whatever you like to call it. However, if you are interested in chess it is natural to attend tournaments, at least sometimes, to expose yourself to different ideas and players.
After a couple of rounds of losses, I managed to calm down enough and force myself to remain patient. My games improved. But the first time that I realized that I could make a draw, the adrenaline was back (not a win mind you--I just realized I wasn't going to lose). It was a total test of self-control not to blow the game on nerves.
The same was true the first time I won a game, so I am completely unsurprised that a scientist would observe an increase in testosterone after a win. I haven't gone to a tournament in about a year, but just thinking about being in a game and having the upper hand makes me feel aggressive, like I need to calm down.
For comparison, I enjoy other activities that might be considered "testosterone high" like Karate. By comparison to tournament chess, I would rate my typical experience in Karate as bland. Sure I want to improve my martial art, and I would like to perform well with/against my workout partners. By I tend to feel that I am learning WITH my martial arts partners. In chess, it is win or get beat--and it really taps into the survival instinct in a different way.
You spend a little of your resources (open
r ub e.en.html
connections) to throw big roadblocks to
spammers. If the majority does it, then
the spammers are penalized:
http://www.iks-jena.de/mitarb/lutz/usenet/teerg
> Show me a University that doesn't have a "Property Of University Of (n)" sticker on its machines. Ours here at U of A are even metallic.
>Its their box, not yours.
>Next youll be telling me the Xerox machines at Kinkos are yours too, because you go there and use them, and pay money to do so.
No, but Xerox and Kinkos don't decide that they own the property you run through a copy machine just because they own the machine. If you pay (tuition) to use the machines at a University, there is no reason to think that the Univ suddenly owns the work you created with them either.
I would guess that court imposed sanctions cannot be used as a write-off. I think that typically court-awarded winnings are not taxed (at least that was the case for a friend of mine who was once the recipient in such a judgement) and this would seem to be the flip side of that.
>That's a terrible analogy!
> A locked door does not prevent the police from
> entering a house with a search warrant.
I don't know. With a backdoor to encryption,
they can "break into your house" without your
knowledge any time you aren't home, much like
having a key to your dwelling. Without the
key, I think it would be a little more work
to be so furtive.
I have also found the mail forwarding from pobox.com to work very well. My wife used to get about 5-10 spam per day. She forwarded her old account through pobox.com and she only gets about 1 per week after the spam cleaning.
In fact I use this as well on my system. For example, I wanted all of my machines to be running a current version of apcupsd (not many dependencies, so this works pretty much without a hitch). I have a "deb-src" line pointed at woody as described. Then I type:
apt-get --compile source apcupsd
dpkg -i apcupsd*.deb
Now I have a "current" apcupsd in my otherwise "stable" distribution that is compiled against the stable libraries. Furthermore, when I move to woody (it will eventually become stable after all) and forget to keep upgrading apcupsd, the version number will eventually overtake me and I'll be "in sync" again. This is almost a perfect world.
I saw TR last night and I did like it. It makes me really sad to have you guys just trashing it up and down. I'm not sure what you want.
.sig go? Just because you can doesn't mean you should.
I look at TR as a fantasy. It was basically based on a fantasy type video game, yes? So the bad guys are bad, because they're bad; it's a tautology. Why are the bad guys in any fantasy novel bad. Usually, the same reason. They're just evil/non-human/whatever.
Frankly, I was totally vibed to see a movie where they the didn't try to sell me totally unbelievable action as if it were somehow real. Contrast with:
Mission Impossible--Jumped off exploding helicopter to moving train and didn't get killed by the explosion?
Matrix--That dead guy came back to life just in time to save their butts. Give a break. Not to mention the "I love you" resuscitation.
Armageddon--They jump a trench with that crawler AND survive a massive meteor shower. And those are just two of the stupid plot points I remember.
If you didn't like the love interest, contrast with any movie where the characters don't even like each other and get together in the end. Or where they spend two movie-hours in relationship angst (where we see no real love developing) and get together at the end anyway. Her father was the love interest, and that was developed throughout the movie.
And speaking of angst, frankly I was grateful to enjoy an action movie, where I didn't have to feel tense the whole time. This totally in contrast to movies like Armageddon. How liberating to have a movie be FUN!
TR fits in the same class as movie based on comic books. The Shadow, The Phantom, The X-men (which had too many characters so that no one was developed adequately; see, you never win).
AND SINCE I HAVE THE FLOOR, I think I'll end with an angry remark: I don't think I'll ever submit anything to SlashDot. It was totally out of line to stomp on his review by adding a second review on the tail just because you have the power.
How does that
If there ever was a legally questionable but morally correct use of FreeNet, I would think that distribution of copyright-protected laws would be a candidate. It's unfortunate that it would be likely to fall from the database due to the basic nature of FreeNet (unaccessed stuff gets deleted eventually).
What could be a more fundamental protection of (American) freedom than to let people know what the law says?
If you were thinking about piriting WinZip, I might suggest rather that you look into PowerArchiver. Very nice. Free (beer).
www.powerarchiver.com
Ok, if it was OK because he did it off campus and it had nothing to do with school, answer me this? Why is it that sports members get suspended from playing if they are caught drinking (in situations wholy unconnected with school)?
Yet they do all of the time.
Personally, I have never understood the logic in that.
I don't know about anyone else, but I already liked and recommended HushMail. The worst thing against them seemed to be that they couldn't inter-operate with gpg or pgp.
Now it looks like it will be better than ever.
Well, I have been incorrectly hit on my a gay man. It was as honest mistake. In context, my manner would easily have set off his gaydar. It wasn't until I started hanging out with some gay friends that my own gaydar developed better.
But straight I am, and not in denial. It was just an honest mistake and I laugh about it with my gay friends. Some of my straight friends get all defensive about the idea that a gay person might hit on them, but it's not like the guy was being threatening. He was just a little more friendly than he probably would have been if he knew I was straight.
Hello, you are confusing the 2.3.x series here.
Kernel 2.4.x are definitely not development
according to the usual model.