No single ideology can encompass all possible situations; open source can - and must, in many cases - co-exist peacefully next to closed source and commercial software.
Still, you can only go thus far in cooperation with proprietary vendors and remain open source. Once you bend down for NDA, fees (who's gonna pay them anyway?), or changing your license you pretty much compromised the practical value of your product to the users, limited your design choices and eroded the motivation to work for your fellow developers.
The PROBLEM is the retarded method required to get a video driver INTO linux - since when did installing the WinXP detonator drivers involve a recompiled windows kernel?!?
You're totally missing the point. There's no unavodable technical problems with installing pre-compiled kernel modules. The issue is with the absence of hardware specifications to build an open-source driver implementation upon.
Unfortunately for those who would use torture to get information, it's also a great way to get people who really don't know the answers to what you're asking to invent false information just to get you to stop.
Torture is perfectly usable if you have several suspects and can compare their revelations. And type (2) information usually involves networks of people. So sorry, people will be screaming in the basements around the world for a while.
If Wiki deleted the article, and we were left with Chris pointing only to Heron and the language pointing only to him, the garbage collector would discard them both!
Remember, in his world there's no garbage collection.
Hey, not only are Russians nice enough to ratify the Kyoto treaty, they're also nice enough to develop a nuclear weapon program that could avoid any possible defense
Sorry, but it was the USA who have pulled from the ABM treaty two years ago. The United States builds missile defense, so the other nuclear nation upgrades its missile arsenal to be able to penetrate the defense. Wouldn't the US do the same if Russia suddenly got concerned with invulnerability from ICBMs?
Also, with this technology you can wear this wonderful healing magnetic bracelet and everyone will just think that you're a normal gun nut rather than a TV-promo bying weirdo!
Unfortunately, this technology could allow for far higher explosion powers than the fission and fusion bombs; in fact, split-a-continent and evaporate-a-sea levels are conceivable.
So if you're looking for a safer nuke, you look in a wrong direction.
It should be noted that October 4th, 1957 the first artificial satellite Sputnik-1 was launched by the Soviet Union, marking the start of space era. Is it a coincedence that this SSO flight was made on the 47th anniversary of the event?
His point about the rising power of nerds highlights something of great importance: the "old class relations" that sparked Marxism are essentially dead.
Marxism classifies people not by their place on a 'social ladder', but by ownership of means of production: capitalists own them (factories, resources, distribution chains etc.), and workers don't. Hence, the concepts like "middle class" are out of Marxist classification: you have only the capitalists and the workers.
Now, in post-industrial society the superficial contrast between the owner and the employee may not look so dramatic, but the distinctions still exists. A burger flipper doesn't own the restaurant, an engineer has no control over his corporation's marketing, distribution and financial resources, a scientist in a corporate research lab does not control the fate of the project he runs or the results of his work.
Duh, you don't have to use managed code. Ever heard of Pascal or Ada? All that is necessary is runtime bounds-checking. Sometimes even that isn't necessary, when language's type system allows to infer at compile time if the array bounds can be violated (see e.g. OCaml).
And the fact that numerous OSes still have buffer overrun vulnerabilites is completely unrelated to the state of technlogy. The solutions were there decades ago, but still aren't being used every where necessary.
If you actually knew what you're talking about, you'd know that the JPEG format is definitely not the easiest file format to support
But it isn't too hard to implement either: a CS student can write you a codec in a couple of months.
Their problem here really is antiuqe development tools not suited for the modern times. Buffer overruns were a solved problem decades ago, and still having them now is inexcusable.
Maybe am mistaken, but isn't "African American" a common P.C. speak for dark-skinned people of African origin?
Anyway, my point was that Russia isn't too antisemitic since about mid-50s. There are people who hate jews, but then there are no less people who hate e.g. russians, or chechens, or whomever there as well. In other words, your typical multi-national society.
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No single ideology can encompass all possible situations; open source can - and must, in many cases - co-exist peacefully next to closed source and commercial software.
Still, you can only go thus far in cooperation with proprietary vendors and remain open source. Once you bend down for NDA, fees (who's gonna pay them anyway?), or changing your license you pretty much compromised the practical value of your product to the users, limited your design choices and eroded the motivation to work for your fellow developers.
The PROBLEM is the retarded method required to get a video driver INTO linux - since when did installing the WinXP detonator drivers involve a recompiled windows kernel?!?
You're totally missing the point. There's no unavodable technical problems with installing pre-compiled kernel modules. The issue is with the absence of hardware specifications to build an open-source driver implementation upon.
..and attach half a pound of TNT to it. A perfect robotic martyr.
Unfortunately for those who would use torture to get information, it's also a great way to get people who really don't know the answers to what you're asking to invent false information just to get you to stop.
Torture is perfectly usable if you have several suspects and can compare their revelations. And type (2) information usually involves networks of people. So sorry, people will be screaming in the basements around the world for a while.
Maybe you're just growing up?
If Wiki deleted the article, and we were left with Chris pointing only to Heron and the language pointing only to him, the garbage collector would discard them both!
Remember, in his world there's no garbage collection.
I agree to your point but should mention that you can't make any decent A4 print off a 2mp image.
With some care one can blow them up to 20x25cm, but above that interpolation gets too obvious.
Hey, not only are Russians nice enough to ratify the Kyoto treaty, they're also nice enough to develop a nuclear weapon program that could avoid any possible defense
Sorry, but it was the USA who have pulled from the ABM treaty two years ago. The United States builds missile defense, so the other nuclear nation upgrades its missile arsenal to be able to penetrate the defense. Wouldn't the US do the same if Russia suddenly got concerned with invulnerability from ICBMs?
Put the work of your life to an unrecognized pile of concrete in a middle of sea, which has already had a coup in its short history :)
Also, with this technology you can wear this wonderful healing magnetic bracelet and everyone will just think that you're a normal gun nut rather than a TV-promo bying weirdo!
Nerds, that's just an excuse not to please your girlfriend.
Please *whom*?
Ahh, good thing there is dict.org..
Unfortunately, this technology could allow for far higher explosion powers than the fission and fusion bombs; in fact, split-a-continent and evaporate-a-sea levels are conceivable.
So if you're looking for a safer nuke, you look in a wrong direction.
No, I mean topologically-equivalent circular.
It should be noted that October 4th, 1957 the first artificial satellite Sputnik-1 was launched by the Soviet Union, marking the start of space era. Is it a coincedence that this SSO flight was made on the 47th anniversary of the event?
The word 'orbit' assumes circular trajectory, hence any talk about about orbit of SS1 is meaningless.
His point about the rising power of nerds highlights something of great importance: the "old class relations" that sparked Marxism are essentially dead.
Marxism classifies people not by their place on a 'social ladder', but by ownership of means of production: capitalists own them (factories, resources, distribution chains etc.), and workers don't. Hence, the concepts like "middle class" are out of Marxist classification: you have only the capitalists and the workers.
Now, in post-industrial society the superficial contrast between the owner and the employee may not look so dramatic, but the distinctions still exists. A burger flipper doesn't own the restaurant, an engineer has no control over his corporation's marketing, distribution and financial resources, a scientist in a corporate research lab does not control the fate of the project he runs or the results of his work.
Duh, you don't have to use managed code. Ever heard of Pascal or Ada? All that is necessary is runtime bounds-checking. Sometimes even that isn't necessary, when language's type system allows to infer at compile time if the array bounds can be violated (see e.g. OCaml).
And the fact that numerous OSes still have buffer overrun vulnerabilites is completely unrelated to the state of technlogy. The solutions were there decades ago, but still aren't being used every where necessary.
If you actually knew what you're talking about, you'd know that the JPEG format is definitely not the easiest file format to support
But it isn't too hard to implement either: a CS student can write you a codec in a couple of months.
Their problem here really is antiuqe development tools not suited for the modern times. Buffer overruns were a solved problem decades ago, and still having them now is inexcusable.
I blame code reuse.
Maybe am mistaken, but isn't "African American" a common P.C. speak for dark-skinned people of African origin?
Anyway, my point was that Russia isn't too antisemitic since about mid-50s. There are people who hate jews, but then there are no less people who hate e.g. russians, or chechens, or whomever there as well. In other words, your typical multi-national society.
Russia is a heavily anti-semitic country.
Heavily? To the same extent that the USA is heavily anti-african-american, perhaps.
It actually sounds like a neat project, just a sketchy application. I wonder if its legal to attach one to, say, your child's car.
If you think that your child isn't mature enough to be alone you shouldn't let him drive a car.
There is a second person in the world who actually prefers 'Information Superhighway' to 'Internet'.
The scariest thing is that you got rated Insightful.
I'm outta here..
They're also of a similar color.