Yeah, it's a bad example. But the point is still there. The point is that there are some times when you make an in-house addition and for whatever reason you don't want the rest of the world to know it.
I'm not 100% sure I see his point. If you make use of the code for any purpose, and Lucent asks you for the changes you made, you have to give it to them. IANAL, but it seems that they just want to be able to see all changes that get made.
Which is a bad thing. Suppose you have created an encrypted FS for yourself, and it could be broken into if Lucent knew exactly how it worked. You would not want to have to give them your changes.
As opposed to alcohol where consumption of alcohol by those under 21 is illegal.
Only in some backward countries. Drinking before you're 21 is perfectly acceptable with parents' supervision in Britain, and the legal age is 18 in most parts of Canada.
If you think about the obvious physics analogy, you'll see that you're both right. Remember v = d / t? If you go the same distance in less time, then you are going faster. Extrapolate this to the web.
If you look at speed as kb/s, then you're right -- they do go at the same speed. However, if you think of it as information/s, it is faster.
And stop using so many exclamtion points! It's really not that exciting!
It's a stupid argument because it assumes that you can divide by 0. Changing a + b into 2b is not a mistake since a = b. Dividing by b isn't a mistake because it's not necessarily 0.
a = b a^2 = ab a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2 (a - b)(a + b) = b(a - b) a + b = b 2b = b 2 = 1
There's a flawed assumption in the above argument, just as there is in yours. With a flawed assumption, nearly any conclusion can be reached. In your argument, it is that "rights can't be signed away." This hasn't been true since contracts came into the picture. What would have happened if some early contractor had said "hmm... I've got a right to not work on the colliseum and it can't be signed away." Hopefully he would have gone to the lions.
Basically, a contract is the signing away of some rights by both parties. The right not to work on the colliseum is nearly as important as the right to freedom of speech.
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Maybe you haven't noticed, but the animation only illustrates what the actors are thinking happened -- not necessarily what actually happened. Maybe it's a subtle way of telling people not to believe everything they see on TV. But it certainly leaves the possibility of people imagining alternate scenarios.
Also, the cuts between the animation and the story are always extremely fast. You don't have to have much of a memory to remember what was going on just before them. If you don't like them, you must have hated Requiem for a Dream.
As for hand-holding, CSI seems to leave nearly as much to the viewers interpretation as the X-files. Even when the X-files were good, they still showed plenty of gore and other nasty things. Also, most of the cases were resolved -- or at least resolved in the viewer's mind. Besides, if a show like CSI left cases unresolved, people would get angry. CSI is a straightforward cop drama where X-files was a sci-fi / character based show.
If you really feel the need to criticize CSI, criticize the acting. Those people should be told that their show is in prime time and not during the day.
First of all, your statement is not true. A compiler is just an application. It might be a larger application than you are used to programming, but that does not change the fact.
Secondly, your response makes no sense. The suggestion was to email the generated asm to the compiler writer and possibly your suggestion of what the asm should look like. It was not to program a compiler. If you can see that the compiler did something stupid, then you can at least point that out to the developers. That would be helpful.
I think you're just implying that Linux users aren't "Real People" or don't live in the "Real World". That is the kind of stereotyping of Linux users that a lot of people are trying to fix.
As long as you can get it onto the LAN, it isn't really too hard to copy files back and forth between Windows and Linux. So bring in your own Linux machine (laptop would be even nicer) and develop using that. This will only work if you're not doing things where you really need the Windows developer tools.
There's also vnc which allows you to not bring in an extra monitor, keyboard, or mouse.
I'm guessing that this is a rhetorical question, but I just checked and 2^30 / 10^9 \approx 1.07, so you are losing about 35 Mb per iPod due to this conversion. Assuming that the formatting and file system overhead isn't more than a meg, you're really getting pretty close to what you're paying for.
Just think of it as sales tax. We Canadians already pay 7% extra for just about everything.
Because newgrp is a command that users would want to use. It's a lot like su. I guess it's not essential though, since my OpenBSD box doesn't even have the command.
From the article it doesn't look like newgrp is the only command that could be used. su $USER would have the same effect if it didn't ask for a password.
That is not real transparency of course. Real transparency isn't that hard to do, it just has to be implimented from the start. It looks like Berlin is doing this, though I don't think that it's going to be a replacement for X all that soon.
My boss was recently reminiscing about something that sounded exactly the same. The computer took an entire three story building however and was freon cooled, so such a thing was a necessity. It was also hooked up to 500 horsepower generator, so it wasn't really environmentally friendly either.
The same problem hits linux GUIs. In windows most applications have an exit option. In linux it may be quit or exit depending on who wrote the software. It may or may not have a shortcut key and the shortcut if it's there it will be different on each package. It's not good to force everyone to use the same level of software but the common interface would do a world of good.
The nice thing about the open source model is that you can change (quite easily if you've taken a couple of CS courses) whatever you want.
For example, I was playing around with gqmpeg last night, seeing if I wanted to switch from xmms. I found that it didn't have xmms-like keybindings, though. If it was a closed source app, I'd be up shit creek without a paddle (or I'd be *forced* to learn the new keybindings). However, I just downloaded the source, found where the keybindings lived with grep and changed them.
So if it bothers you that the way of leaving programs is called quit instead of exit, you can change it. You can even submit your work to the author as a patch if you feel like it.
Anyway, at least with gnome, there is some standardization. I don't know who decided it, but most gnome apps exit if you hit C-q. Also, you can set this standardization up with your windowmanager if it's any good.
There is a tutorial on how to use LaTeX over at linuxjournal today.
Let's see: it's complete, if you find a bug Knuth will pay you, it does the world's most beautiful equations (I'm a math student), does indexing, has device independent output, and is free as in thought. The only "problem" is that importing Word documents is sketchy. Plus you get the awesome "look and feel" of your favorite text editor.
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Yeah, it's a bad example. But the point is still there. The point is that there are some times when you make an in-house addition and for whatever reason you don't want the rest of the world to know it.
I'm not 100% sure I see his point. If you make use of the code for any purpose, and Lucent asks you for the changes you made, you have to give it to them. IANAL, but it seems that they just want to be able to see all changes that get made.
Which is a bad thing. Suppose you have created an encrypted FS for yourself, and it could be broken into if Lucent knew exactly how it worked. You would not want to have to give them your changes.
As opposed to alcohol where consumption of alcohol by those under 21 is illegal.
Only in some backward countries. Drinking before you're 21 is perfectly acceptable with parents' supervision in Britain, and the legal age is 18 in most parts of Canada.
If you think about the obvious physics analogy, you'll see that you're both right. Remember v = d / t? If you go the same distance in less time, then you are going faster. Extrapolate this to the web.
If you look at speed as kb/s, then you're right -- they do go at the same speed. However, if you think of it as information/s, it is faster.
And stop using so many exclamtion points! It's really not that exciting!
That's funny, because Fermat's last theorem was proved by Andrew Wiles a few years ago. What are the counterexamples?
Or maybe you're making a Simpsons reference that I just don't get.
Heh, look, it's an engineer lecturing about math. Next he'll tell us the exact value of pi.
Also, isn't current denoted by "I"? It is in physics. Maybe engineers just mess with everyone's notation.
It's a stupid argument because it assumes that you can divide by 0. Changing a + b into 2b is not a mistake since a = b. Dividing by b isn't a mistake because it's not necessarily 0.
a = b
a^2 = ab
a^2 - b^2 = ab - b^2
(a - b)(a + b) = b(a - b)
a + b = b
2b = b
2 = 1
There's a flawed assumption in the above argument, just as there is in yours. With a flawed assumption, nearly any conclusion can be reached. In your argument, it is that "rights can't be signed away." This hasn't been true since contracts came into the picture. What would have happened if some early contractor had said "hmm... I've got a right to not work on the colliseum and it can't be signed away." Hopefully he would have gone to the lions.
Basically, a contract is the signing away of some rights by both parties. The right not to work on the colliseum is nearly as important as the right to freedom of speech.
Maybe you haven't noticed, but the animation only illustrates what the actors are thinking happened -- not necessarily what actually happened. Maybe it's a subtle way of telling people not to believe everything they see on TV. But it certainly leaves the possibility of people imagining alternate scenarios.
Also, the cuts between the animation and the story are always extremely fast. You don't have to have much of a memory to remember what was going on just before them. If you don't like them, you must have hated Requiem for a Dream.
As for hand-holding, CSI seems to leave nearly as much to the viewers interpretation as the X-files. Even when the X-files were good, they still showed plenty of gore and other nasty things. Also, most of the cases were resolved -- or at least resolved in the viewer's mind. Besides, if a show like CSI left cases unresolved, people would get angry. CSI is a straightforward cop drama where X-files was a sci-fi / character based show.
If you really feel the need to criticize CSI, criticize the acting. Those people should be told that their show is in prime time and not during the day.
if the word is posessive, there is no apostrophe!!
Actually, by "the word", I believe he meant "it". Making what he said completely correct.
First of all, your statement is not true. A compiler is just an application. It might be a larger application than you are used to programming, but that does not change the fact.
Secondly, your response makes no sense. The suggestion was to email the generated asm to the compiler writer and possibly your suggestion of what the asm should look like. It was not to program a compiler. If you can see that the compiler did something stupid, then you can at least point that out to the developers. That would be helpful.
Oops, forgot the link.
Ratpoison is another cool (kinda strange) window manager that has some of the same ideas.
I think you're just implying that Linux users aren't "Real People" or don't live in the "Real World". That is the kind of stereotyping of Linux users that a lot of people are trying to fix.
As long as you can get it onto the LAN, it isn't really too hard to copy files back and forth between Windows and Linux. So bring in your own Linux machine (laptop would be even nicer) and develop using that. This will only work if you're not doing things where you really need the Windows developer tools.
There's also vnc which allows you to not bring in an extra monitor, keyboard, or mouse.
I did this and saw my productivity go way up.
I'm guessing that this is a rhetorical question, but I just checked and 2^30 / 10^9 \approx 1.07, so you are losing about 35 Mb per iPod due to this conversion. Assuming that the formatting and file system overhead isn't more than a meg, you're really getting pretty close to what you're paying for.
Just think of it as sales tax. We Canadians already pay 7% extra for just about everything.
df does not need to be setuid. Nor does top. xterm can be setgid.
Your point is of course valid, but you should check your facts before you try to make it.
Because newgrp is a command that users would want to use. It's a lot like su. I guess it's not essential though, since my OpenBSD box doesn't even have the command.
From the article it doesn't look like newgrp is the only command that could be used. su $USER would have the same effect if it didn't ask for a password.
That is not real transparency of course. Real transparency isn't that hard to do, it just has to be implimented from the start. It looks like Berlin is doing this, though I don't think that it's going to be a replacement for X all that soon.
My boss was recently reminiscing about something that sounded exactly the same. The computer took an entire three story building however and was freon cooled, so such a thing was a necessity. It was also hooked up to 500 horsepower generator, so it wasn't really environmentally friendly either.
:)
But it did have a really fast punchcard reader.
The fact that the ext2 -> ext3 upgrade is so simple is what initially drew me to it. And now I can say "look ma, no fscks".
So it might be a kludge, but it's simple and it works.
How about
$ dpkg -i --force-downgrade package_low-version.deb
Of course, that would require the original poster to read the man pages. Horrors.
Hasn't Forbes dropped out of the race? I am living in Canada now, but I'm sure that I heard that.
And then there was (n - 1)...
The same problem hits linux GUIs. In windows most applications have an exit option. In linux it may be quit or exit depending on who wrote the software. It may or may not have a shortcut key and the shortcut if it's there it will be different on each package. It's not good to force everyone to use the same level of software but the common interface would do a world of good.
The nice thing about the open source model is that you can change (quite easily if you've taken a couple of CS courses) whatever you want.
For example, I was playing around with gqmpeg last night, seeing if I wanted to switch from xmms. I found that it didn't have xmms-like keybindings, though. If it was a closed source app, I'd be up shit creek without a paddle (or I'd be *forced* to learn the new keybindings). However, I just downloaded the source, found where the keybindings lived with grep and changed them.
So if it bothers you that the way of leaving programs is called quit instead of exit, you can change it. You can even submit your work to the author as a patch if you feel like it.
Anyway, at least with gnome, there is some standardization. I don't know who decided it, but most gnome apps exit if you hit C-q. Also, you can set this standardization up with your windowmanager if it's any good.
There is a tutorial on how to use LaTeX over at linuxjournal today.
Let's see: it's complete, if you find a bug Knuth will pay you, it does the world's most beautiful equations (I'm a math student), does indexing, has device independent output, and is free as in thought. The only "problem" is that importing Word documents is sketchy. Plus you get the awesome "look and feel" of your favorite text editor.