Well, I tend towards the opinion that going somewhere with your car, and then drinking, is about all the intent that's needed.
In.nz, while killing someone while drunk won't get you a murder charge, it tends to rate manslaughter - you may not have tried to kill someone, but your nelgigent behaviour is the reason someone died.
Why yes, banning the AltaVista spider will make their database so much less accurate than it is already. After all, AltaVista is the premier search engine on the web! The content is always up to date, and the accuracy of results returned is superb, and never affected by anything so crass as bushells of money!
Seriously, I'll doubtless do this, although I doubt AV will notice unless big sites start doing it. More to the point, patents can do you good - AV could survive as a patent holding company, with no actual products but a swag of lawyers. Look at Rambus.
What concerns me most about this is the effect it could have on exellent free search engines programs like ht:://dig and swish.
Given that using one of the big search engines to index content or buying the egine for your own site has become a market niche, it isn't hard to imagine AVs next target being the elimination of free products using their <sarcasm>oh so unique and never before thought of search techniques</sarcasm>
I'm sure he had a rtroubled childhood and it's not really his fault or something.
The idea that someone could have the nerve to show up and plead anything other than guilty, or, at most guily with mitigating circumstances, leavesme breathless in these sorts of cases.
They'll laugh if the programming is good enough. There have been sitcoms without laughter tracks (The Simpsons, Fawlty Towers). If you've spent time watching older British comedy, watching US stuff with a laugh track is really jarring.
Oh, and I don't think/. readers who don't watch TV ought to be getting to smug about their superiority any time soon. Surfing the web is not much different to TV
So, let me get thi sstraight. These miserable shitbags use Project Gutenberg's hard work, do some trivial reformatting, and then threaten anyone who does a cut and fucking paste?!
I want to find these people, kick 'em in the head, and vomit on them. Since that's pretty much how I feel: angry and sick beyond words at their loathsomeness.
It's already unerway. Or haven't you noticed the stream of lusers running off to the FreeBSD world complaining that Linux isn't k3wl enough for them anymore.
Doubtless when FreeBSD gets popular (MacOS X), they'll mindlessly scurry off somewhere else, contributing a horde of loudmouthed, unwashed idiots to another operating system. Maybe OpenBSD, but Theo might scare them off.
You know, I've got to wonder whether a public admission of a nuisance suit is that good an idea. The courts often look unkindly upon people who file them.
Oh wait, I forgot. That only applies to little people 8-/
So did you bother learning anything about the by looking at the background before spouting off? The companies whining signed a contract with the power companies to get cheap power in return for being first against the wall when capacity runs low. They made their bed, now they get to lie in it.
And California has a deregulated power infrastructure. Why the fuck is it the role of the government to provide power? Should the magic of free market capitalism make all the problems go away?
It doesn't cover "personal pages", which makes it a pile of crap. A huge chunk of the genuinely interesting stuff on the net is off the beaten track - not to mention the fact that a large number of such unimportant unknowns as Kernighan have their main presence on their home page.
Well, at least some of/.'s readers are programmers, EEs, sysadmins and the like. And as someone in that group, I'm interested in the state of the software industry. Mostly how it needs to be cleansed by purifying fire. But I digress.
Harder? Depends what you're doing. Personally, I like being able to write the bulk of my text in LaTeX without tags, whereas in HTML I have to punctuate every paragraph with <p> tags.
This is where capitalism almost always seems to fail "new" technology.
Capitalism is inherintly opposed to free markets. The goal of entities (companies, individuals) in a capitalist system is to maximise return on investment (capital); allowing a market in which competitors can show up and eat one's lunch is detrimental to those who are making money off the existing system.
One point I'd make: I'd disagree with the notion that older gurus are unwilling to pass on information; in my experience, the wise old heads are usually happy to tell people what they know; all too often the problem is arrogant 18 year olds who that they know it all and aren't interested in listening to what a 40 or 50 year old might say.
This is the core of the problem for would-be Linux Java users. Sun has actively avoided supporting Java on non-Sun Unix platforms; Java has been and is being used by Sun as a tool to advance Solaris.
The legacy has been lousy performance for and support of Java on the Mac, Linux, *BSD, etc.
Sun advocates will doubtless leap up and proclaim there's nothing wrong with that. Well, no, there isn't. But if Sun want to treat Java like Visual Basic/C#, they can hardly act surprised when people don't adopt it.
Unfortunately, his quote, removed of context, implies that it doesn't. In the context of the original article he wrote, he was pointing out that he could get an IRIX system working quicker than he could get Linux working (aside: is his time really worth the cost of an SGI box? Did he really find Linux that hard?); that's a fair point.
However the quote, which is what I'm referring to, is typically used, out of context, to imply that other options are somehow bree of time costs.
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Well, I tend towards the opinion that going somewhere with your car, and then drinking, is about all the intent that's needed.
In .nz, while killing someone while drunk won't get you a murder charge, it tends to rate manslaughter - you may not have tried to kill someone, but your nelgigent behaviour is the reason someone died.
Ve vere just following orders!
Seriously, the moral vacuum into which people persuade themselves they step in corporate life is an absurdity.
Why yes, banning the AltaVista spider will make their database so much less accurate than it is already. After all, AltaVista is the premier search engine on the web! The content is always up to date, and the accuracy of results returned is superb, and never affected by anything so crass as bushells of money!
Seriously, I'll doubtless do this, although I doubt AV will notice unless big sites start doing it. More to the point, patents can do you good - AV could survive as a patent holding company, with no actual products but a swag of lawyers. Look at Rambus.
What concerns me most about this is the effect it could have on exellent free search engines programs like ht:://dig and swish.
Given that using one of the big search engines to index content or buying the egine for your own site has become a market niche, it isn't hard to imagine AVs next target being the elimination of free products using their <sarcasm>oh so unique and never before thought of search techniques</sarcasm>
I'm sure he had a rtroubled childhood and it's not really his fault or something.
The idea that someone could have the nerve to show up and plead anything other than guilty, or, at most guily with mitigating circumstances, leavesme breathless in these sorts of cases.
They'll laugh if the programming is good enough. There have been sitcoms without laughter tracks (The Simpsons, Fawlty Towers). If you've spent time watching older British comedy, watching US stuff with a laugh track is really jarring.
Oh, and I don't think /. readers who don't watch TV ought to be getting to smug about their superiority any time soon. Surfing the web is not much different to TV
It's about as closely related to the classic Amiga OS (or hardware) as a PC with Linux and UAE.
No, because too many of us in the West would sit around and make smug noises every time something went wrong with Mir.
Oh, the originality. Ho, ho, ho.
So, let me get thi sstraight. These miserable shitbags use Project Gutenberg's hard work, do some trivial reformatting, and then threaten anyone who does a cut and fucking paste?!
I want to find these people, kick 'em in the head, and vomit on them. Since that's pretty much how I feel: angry and sick beyond words at their loathsomeness.
Apple did go after MicroSoft, and Hewlett Packard, too (for HP's rather cool Windows shell).
Aside: the FSF refused to port GNU components like EMACS to the Mac, there's still a vestige of this in the FAQ.
Well, that would be a lot better argument if the look and feel of MacOS X was up to the high standards of MacOS
George Soros would disagree with you.
It's already unerway. Or haven't you noticed the stream of lusers running off to the FreeBSD world complaining that Linux isn't k3wl enough for them anymore.
Doubtless when FreeBSD gets popular (MacOS X), they'll mindlessly scurry off somewhere else, contributing a horde of loudmouthed, unwashed idiots to another operating system. Maybe OpenBSD, but Theo might scare them off.
You know, I've got to wonder whether a public admission of a nuisance suit is that good an idea. The courts often look unkindly upon people who file them.
Oh wait, I forgot. That only applies to little people 8-/
So did you bother learning anything about the by looking at the background before spouting off? The companies whining signed a contract with the power companies to get cheap power in return for being first against the wall when capacity runs low. They made their bed, now they get to lie in it.
And California has a deregulated power infrastructure. Why the fuck is it the role of the government to provide power? Should the magic of free market capitalism make all the problems go away?
Is to follow the example of this UK ISP/DR company who are building their own 24MW generator for one of their facilities. Nifty.
It doesn't cover "personal pages", which makes it a pile of crap. A huge chunk of the genuinely interesting stuff on the net is off the beaten track - not to mention the fact that a large number of such unimportant unknowns as Kernighan have their main presence on their home page.
Well, at least some of /.'s readers are programmers, EEs, sysadmins and the like. And as someone in that group, I'm interested in the state of the software industry. Mostly how it needs to be cleansed by purifying fire. But I digress.
You've been able to get 100 Mbps in Wellington, New Zealand for years now. Costs around NZ$600/month, IIRC (about US$250).
Glad to see the US is catching up with New Zealand...
Harder? Depends what you're doing. Personally, I like being able to write the bulk of my text in LaTeX without tags, whereas in HTML I have to punctuate every paragraph with <p> tags.
Capitalism is inherintly opposed to free markets. The goal of entities (companies, individuals) in a capitalist system is to maximise return on investment (capital); allowing a market in which competitors can show up and eat one's lunch is detrimental to those who are making money off the existing system.
One point I'd make: I'd disagree with the notion that older gurus are unwilling to pass on information; in my experience, the wise old heads are usually happy to tell people what they know; all too often the problem is arrogant 18 year olds who that they know it all and aren't interested in listening to what a 40 or 50 year old might say.
The customary way of referring to the Times when clarifying for people is The Times (of London), rather than the London Times.
This is the core of the problem for would-be Linux Java users. Sun has actively avoided supporting Java on non-Sun Unix platforms; Java has been and is being used by Sun as a tool to advance Solaris.
The legacy has been lousy performance for and support of Java on the Mac, Linux, *BSD, etc.
Sun advocates will doubtless leap up and proclaim there's nothing wrong with that. Well, no, there isn't. But if Sun want to treat Java like Visual Basic/C#, they can hardly act surprised when people don't adopt it.
Unfortunately, his quote, removed of context, implies that it doesn't. In the context of the original article he wrote, he was pointing out that he could get an IRIX system working quicker than he could get Linux working (aside: is his time really worth the cost of an SGI box? Did he really find Linux that hard?); that's a fair point.
However the quote, which is what I'm referring to, is typically used, out of context, to imply that other options are somehow bree of time costs.