The only reason I could defend Linus Torvalds is because I worship him.
Only a hero worshipper would believe Linux Torvalds need defending.
More so, that he hasn't innovated is hard fact, just because you made a quip.
Not because I made a quip, but because what he has done has been done by others before him. He has done commendable hard work used by many people, but I don't see the Linux kernel or git as innovation.
The first to write a Unix like operating system? The first to write a free Unix like operating system? The first to use a penguin as a mascot for an operating system.
Physicists should use the D&D alignment and class system to assign particle names. Muon neutrino becomes neutral evil cleric, Up quark is lawful good fighter, etc.
That was PETA, but both organizations are full of fact averse nuts so I can see confusing them. Nothing undermines your cause like being associated with crazy behavior.
If the person offering the NDA really thought Larson was a thief, why would they want to talk to him in the first place?
They are asking him to legally encumber himself over an unspecified range of ideas that may not merit special protection or be unique in any way. I don't see it as unreasonable that Larson would decline such an open ended opportunity.
You saved me the time of writing a similar post. Writing that kind of documentation makes robust, maintainable, supportable, reusable and long lived software (or FPGA design, etc). It's not a chore, it's a pleasure because it results in a polished product that people want to use. Without it you just wrote a fart in the wind: it stinks now and is gone tomorrow.
I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing to tax assuming it legally gets copyright holders off the backs of users.
The amount of government favors given to large corporations should be tied to the amount of government regulation:
If you want total freedom to charge what you want, then no government granted monopolies (patents/copyright). If you want government granted monopolies, then the government gets to set reasonable price limits and monopoly terms. If you want government to collect your revenue through taxes, then you are barred from participating in private sales and government sets the price.
Take your pick, you are free to accept as little or as much government intervention as you choose.
The previous/. story covering the new US agreement to provide aid was filled with posts of optimism, and contempt for anyone expressing skepticism as old relics too hardened in their ways to accept the new dictator's good faith.
So the HP warning supposes:
1. Average Joe employee has physical access to the switches.
2. AJ will be motivated to make off with a component from the switches.
3. AJ will happily stick the purloined part into a Windows PC.
4. The Windows PC will auto play the contents.
Yeah, because American commercials beers are all just Coors light.
There's also Milwaukee's Best, which makes Coors Light look like Guinness.
There are good US beers, but you can't escape the fact that the majority of US beer drinkers prefer the wispy nothingness of Coors/Bud. I once stocked the fridge with a cornucopia of great choices from smaller brewers. Later, multiple guests poked around and asked if there was any Coors:-P
Behind every crass generalization is a kernel of truth.
This may be a reference to Texas legislators pushing for more Texas NASA dollars. They don't directly oppose privatization, but they do talk about it dismissively in their quest for pork.
Obama’s “reliance on a promising, yet still fledgling commercial space industry” combined with retiring the space shuttle and canceling the back-to-the-moon Constellation “will severely diminish the manned space flight program and provide the JSC with no true mission objective,” the lawmakers cautioned.
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I'm defending him because your comment pissed me off.
Yes, I understand. You clearly have more emotional investment in this story than I do, so worship away.
The only reason I could defend Linus Torvalds is because I worship him.
Only a hero worshipper would believe Linux Torvalds need defending.
More so, that he hasn't innovated is hard fact, just because you made a quip.
Not because I made a quip, but because what he has done has been done by others before him. He has done commendable hard work used by many people, but I don't see the Linux kernel or git as innovation.
Hero worshippers are not very accepting of inconvenient facts. That does not make the facts go away.
Don't forget, first to write a distributed version control system. That's at least as important as the Linux kernel.
No. Here is an obscure reference explaining otherwise.
git is a fine tool, but not first or even second.
The first to write a Unix like operating system?
The first to write a free Unix like operating system?
The first to use a penguin as a mascot for an operating system.
Innovation.
Hopefully most of their lawyers would be in that 78%.
IBM lawyers were /. heroes during the SCO legal shenanigans. What a fickle bunch we are.
Physicists should use the D&D alignment and class system to assign particle names. Muon neutrino becomes neutral evil cleric, Up quark is lawful good fighter, etc.
That was PETA, but both organizations are full of fact averse nuts so I can see confusing them. Nothing undermines your cause like being associated with crazy behavior.
If the person offering the NDA really thought Larson was a thief, why would they want to talk to him in the first place?
They are asking him to legally encumber himself over an unspecified range of ideas that may not merit special protection or be unique in any way. I don't see it as unreasonable that Larson would decline such an open ended opportunity.
John Larson: I rarely sign NDAs.
AlienIntel concludes : John Larson does not want to work.
That's the kind of logic I've come to expect on internet forums.
jsr setback ;draw on bg plane
Were there snakes on this plane?
Teach the controversy!
That's a nice drawing in the article, here is another take on a possible smart phone.
You saved me the time of writing a similar post. Writing that kind of documentation makes robust, maintainable, supportable, reusable and long lived software (or FPGA design, etc). It's not a chore, it's a pleasure because it results in a polished product that people want to use. Without it you just wrote a fart in the wind: it stinks now and is gone tomorrow.
It could be heaven. It could be hell.
The best way to tell is if your boss's tail is as pointy has his hair.
I want to abduct you and tie you to a chair and force you at gunpoint to eat bucketfuls of those "embryos" over-easy.
The right's approach to debating climate change always perplexes me.
It would be nice if politicians could also be taught to recognize words instead of randomly using them to attack the opposition.
I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing to tax assuming it legally gets copyright holders off the backs of users.
The amount of government favors given to large corporations should be tied to the amount of government regulation:
If you want total freedom to charge what you want, then no government granted monopolies (patents/copyright).
If you want government granted monopolies, then the government gets to set reasonable price limits and monopoly terms.
If you want government to collect your revenue through taxes, then you are barred from participating in private sales and government sets the price.
Take your pick, you are free to accept as little or as much government intervention as you choose.
The previous /. story covering the new US agreement to provide aid was filled with posts of optimism, and contempt for anyone expressing skepticism as old relics too hardened in their ways to accept the new dictator's good faith.
I'm still skeptical.
So the HP warning supposes:
1. Average Joe employee has physical access to the switches.
2. AJ will be motivated to make off with a component from the switches.
3. AJ will happily stick the purloined part into a Windows PC.
4. The Windows PC will auto play the contents.
That sounds about right.
Yeah, because American commercials beers are all just Coors light.
There's also Milwaukee's Best, which makes Coors Light look like Guinness.
There are good US beers, but you can't escape the fact that the majority of US beer drinkers prefer the wispy nothingness of Coors/Bud. I once stocked the fridge with a cornucopia of great choices from smaller brewers. Later, multiple guests poked around and asked if there was any Coors :-P
Behind every crass generalization is a kernel of truth.
She was ultimately fired as a result, effective yesterday.
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances
This may be a reference to Texas legislators pushing for more Texas NASA dollars. They don't directly oppose privatization, but they do talk about it dismissively in their quest for pork.
Obama’s “reliance on a promising, yet still fledgling commercial space industry” combined with retiring the space shuttle and canceling the back-to-the-moon Constellation “will severely diminish the manned space flight program and provide the JSC with no true mission objective,” the lawmakers cautioned.
Kerry and Romney do seem eerily similar: wealthy to the point of disconnection and unappealingly awkward.
Brownback Mountain?