Of course, one *could* ask the question of how much money Red Hat gives to the FSF *outside* of this product? Does anyone have those figures, or are we to just assume that Red Hat is the Evil Empire Redux?
Hrm. This actually isn't entirely true. Keep in mind that in Linux its heavily recommended that you make a swap partition. You can make a swap *file*, but the references I have do not recommend this. So you do have to make a partition. Personally, I think that installers could be a little simple around this issue. Perhaps if they simply asked: 'How much swap space do you want? I suggest x amount' and then proceeded to make the partition for you?
Hrm. Except that, unfortunately, Slashdot makes absolutely no claims about being an unbiased news site. They are biased. If you want something of a different flavor, the only thing I can truly suggest is to get a copy of the source code and start your own news site.
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Uhm. Wow. This is only the bazillionth recital of the 'Apple is going to die, man!'. And guess what: they haven't. In fact, they went from loosing money to making money. Something tells me that last nail isn't quite all the way in that coffin yet.
Wait. Allow me to get this straight. Sun is going to allow people to develop their code for them and submit the changes. To do this, they are going to have to release the source for their x86 Solaris. Are they releasing the source for their SPARC Solaris? Because I honestly don't see a wh0ole lot of people abandoning a more mature OS for the x86(Linux) to go develop an OS that is sorely lacking in hardware support(x86 Solaris). And as for SPARC Solaris, how many of the people who are going to download it for free have the money to pick up an Ultra.
Sun could have done this three years ago and would likely have done very well. To do it now is as pointless as it is rediculous. My only concern is that, six months down the road, this will fail and it will cast a very negative light on the open-source movement.
Eh. The problem is, once you get into operator overloading you do get into some issues with readability of your code. Sun made a design decision when they excluded that from the specification, and I'm not yet sure whether or not it was the right decision.
*ahhh* A non-condescending post, and thus one that's good to reply to. Life is good.
Anyways, you're actually right. I should have attempted to equate conjectures to hypothesis and not theorems:>
The reason I think this works is because a conjecture is *not* proven. (see the Four Color Theorem for example of this).
With a conjecture the mathematician then needs to prove it. Which is generally done by using several proven steps of proving stuff. This does, indeed, draw off of past theorems and axioms, but I contend that all scientific experiments do similiar things by drawing off of the results of past experiments.
This, of course, also further requires that the manipulation of mathematics is a natural process. I contend that that the theorems that have been proven are a natural result of things. ITs just the representation of those theorems that changes(read: various different ways to represent numbers).
You're right! The declaration that something is wrong and therefore he would never do it should *never* be enough! I demand Hemos be executed *immediately* for crimes he never committed!
Uhm. How precisely can any banner URL do that? Do banners require the originating site to set cookies? Assuming that banner tags take place through some sort of !--exec tag, they don't get to play with the headers. And even if they *did* get to play with the headers(maybe the script gets passed the environment variable,s you never know) they certainly can't *set* headers.
And its *certainly* not true that they can just get a copy of all of your cookies. Cookies are returned by *path*.
Okay. This comment definitely amuses me, considering that every time an anti-linux comment is moderated down everyone screams and bellows about/. being hopelessly pro-linux.
PBS: Partly government funded. Yep, you pay for *some* of it. C-Span, TDS, TLC: Unless you're extroadinarily fortunate, you can't get these broadcast. You have to buy cable/satellite service/etc. So you're paying for t.
That's *annoying*, IMHO. And that right there is the real attraction to USB. Instead of having four different connections, instead of having to keep all that straight, you get *one*. That's something both the common consumer, the high-end computer user, and the hardware manufacturers can appreciate.
No...actually they're more a technical means which makes things *much* easier for the developers of that code.
People. Cookies Are A Good Thing. They give persistance to an environment that isn't persistant. They allow developers to code web applications that can follow you through the use of that application. I daresay that if it weren't for cookies hotmail simply wouldn't exist. How do you *think* they figure out how, at any given page, what user your are?!
There is no secret conspiracy to use cookies to rule the world. Believe me.
Yeah, Microsoft is right. But not about the neitre thing. I mean, yes, they're asking for an open source messenging protocal. And yes, AOL probably should not have changed their server protocol to break Microsoft's code(though one could argue about the ethics of poaching on someone else's service like that. Did Microsoft contribute anything towards the maintanence of AOL's servers before they did this? I think not). But should we consider the ethics of including your messenging software bundled with your OS, your browser, and your email client? And yes, I know that AOL did the same thing, including their client with Netscape.
I suppose my point here isn't that AOL is right. It isn't that Microsoft is right. Its that *both* companies suck and that we *ought* to just develop our own solution and tell them to go away.
Mmm. This question reminds me of a story I heard. Apparantly the US Patent Office, back in the 1800s, wanted to close. Apparantly they felt every possible discovery had been made. Oops.
Mind you, lets not get into an argument about whether or not there should *be* a Patent Office. This would take a few hundred posts, and I somehow doubt it would *get* anywhere.
Mmm. I've programmed verilog before. While it puts a C-like interface over programming at the hardware level, that doesn't make the job of creating a TCP-IP driver for a NIC card *that* much simpler. You're still dealing with things at the level of 'if you get this bit, change this register' and that's a bit too low for most programmers to be happy.
Mmm. That's a *wonderful* sentiment. After all, its certain that once all the teachers, policemen, firemen, fast food people, clerks, and the myriad of people needed to make a city work leave due to the fact they just can't afford to life in SJ anymore all the tech workers will unite and do the work that's left!
Hey..How good do you think a tech worker *is* at patrollign streets?
This has got to be one of the larger problems with the industry today: the assumption that all of the good and interesting work is being done in a tiny number of huge cities. And its just *not* true. I live in Rochester, NY and work at a company named Aurgen Communications. An internet development company for whom I design web applications, in an environment that is just as free as any startup firm in 'the valley'. I'm willing to bet that Buffalo(and most cities of any reasonable size) has its share of computer startups as well.
Re:I've only seen two that were useful
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Speaking as professional web developer(must fix user info here) I've seen a couple of uses for Javascript. Mostly for when you want to change a form element and have other form elements change, without sending the whole damned thing back to the server again. Another use was for surfing through a file structure that the client wanted to set up, more gracefully than normal directory indexing(and more securly as well).
However, Javascript has one major bad thing against it: most of our clients demand that we support Internet Explorer 3.0 And, as any programmers out there know, IE3's DOM *sucked*. It sucked hard and it sucked a lot. So until IE3 goes away, we can't use a lot of Javascript. Which means we have to, at times, come up with work-arounds that feel like kludges.
Okay. Admittedly I don't have a copy of the constitution in front of me and since I am at work I don't have the time to look this up, but: couldn't a constitutional amendment nullify any one of the original 10?
Anyways, you're still ignoring that the Amendment provides for a *well-regulated* militia. Which seems to imply that the people who control the militia, presumably the government under the same laws that got tossed in my face the last time I made this post, can therefore pass any gun control rules that they want. They're just regulating a militia.
For the record, btw, I don't know how much gun control will help(if it will at all). I believe that we need to enforce the rules we have on the books already. I also *firmly* believe, however, that guns should be treated like automobiles. If you want to own one, you're going to have to take a *mandatory* gun safety class, or pull out the documentation that says you already have. Furthermore, I believe fully in mandatory trigger locks.
Mmm. Right. However, the constitution stil gives the right to regulate the arms use of the unorganized religions which, since they were allowed for in a US law, must likely still answer to the US congress.
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Of course, one *could* ask the question of how much money Red Hat gives to the FSF *outside* of this product? Does anyone have those figures, or are we to just assume that Red Hat is the Evil Empire Redux?
Uhm. Except for the fact that they refer to it as GNU+Linux at least once in the product listing.
Hrm. This actually isn't entirely true. Keep in mind that in Linux its heavily recommended that you make a swap partition. You can make a swap *file*, but the references I have do not recommend this. So you do have to make a partition. Personally, I think that installers could be a little simple around this issue. Perhaps if they simply asked: 'How much swap space do you want? I suggest x amount' and then proceeded to make the partition for you?
Hrm. Except that, unfortunately, Slashdot makes absolutely no claims about being an unbiased news site. They are biased. If you want something of a different flavor, the only thing I can truly suggest is to get a copy of the source code and start your own news site.
Uhm. Wow. This is only the bazillionth recital of the 'Apple is going to die, man!'. And guess what: they haven't. In fact, they went from loosing money to making money. Something tells me that last nail isn't quite all the way in that coffin yet.
Wait. Allow me to get this straight. Sun is going to allow people to develop their code for them and submit the changes. To do this, they are going to have to release the source for their x86 Solaris. Are they releasing the source for their SPARC Solaris? Because I honestly don't see a wh0ole lot of people abandoning a more mature OS for the x86(Linux) to go develop an OS that is sorely lacking in hardware support(x86 Solaris). And as for SPARC Solaris, how many of the people who are going to download it for free have the money to pick up an Ultra.
Sun could have done this three years ago and would likely have done very well. To do it now is as pointless as it is rediculous. My only concern is that, six months down the road, this will fail and it will cast a very negative light on the open-source movement.
--John Christensen
That was ZD-net playing an April Fool's Joke. And, not coincidently, loosing any respect I had for them.
Eh. The problem is, once you get into operator overloading you do get into some issues with readability of your code. Sun made a design decision when they excluded that from the specification, and I'm not yet sure whether or not it was the right decision.
*ahhh* A non-condescending post, and thus one that's good to reply to. Life is good.
Anyways, you're actually right. I should have attempted to equate conjectures to hypothesis and not theorems:>
The reason I think this works is because a conjecture is *not* proven. (see the Four Color Theorem for example of this).
With a conjecture the mathematician then needs to prove it. Which is generally done by using several proven steps of proving stuff. This does, indeed, draw off of past theorems and axioms, but I contend that all scientific experiments do similiar things by drawing off of the results of past experiments.
This, of course, also further requires that the manipulation of mathematics is a natural process. I contend that that the theorems that have been proven are a natural result of things. ITs just the representation of those theorems that changes(read: various different ways to represent numbers).
Uhm. You're flat out wrong here. What is a theorem but a hypothesis? What is a proof but an experiment to attempt to prove your theorem?
You're right! The declaration that something is wrong and therefore he would never do it should *never* be enough! I demand Hemos be executed *immediately* for crimes he never committed!
Uhm. How precisely can any banner URL do that? Do banners require the originating site to set cookies? Assuming that banner tags take place through some sort of !--exec tag, they don't get to play with the headers. And even if they *did* get to play with the headers(maybe the script gets passed the environment variable,s you never know) they certainly can't *set* headers.
And its *certainly* not true that they can just get a copy of all of your cookies. Cookies are returned by *path*.
Okay. This comment definitely amuses me, considering that every time an anti-linux comment is moderated down everyone screams and bellows about /. being hopelessly pro-linux.
Grow up.
Uhm. Lets look at this list:
PBS: Partly government funded. Yep, you pay for *some* of it.
C-Span, TDS, TLC: Unless you're extroadinarily fortunate, you can't get these broadcast. You have to buy cable/satellite service/etc. So you're paying for t.
I think the main attraction to USB is written right in your letter. You have the following buses/connectors listed:
DIN: Keyboard
PS/2: Mouse
SCSI: Scanner
Serial: Modem
That's *annoying*, IMHO. And that right there is the real attraction to USB. Instead of having four different connections, instead of having to keep all that straight, you get *one*. That's something both the common consumer, the high-end computer user, and the hardware manufacturers can appreciate.
No...actually they're more a technical means which makes things *much* easier for the developers of that code.
People. Cookies Are A Good Thing. They give persistance to an environment that isn't persistant. They allow developers to code web applications that can follow you through the use of that application. I daresay that if it weren't for cookies hotmail simply wouldn't exist. How do you *think* they figure out how, at any given page, what user your are?!
There is no secret conspiracy to use cookies to rule the world. Believe me.
Yeah, Microsoft is right. But not about the neitre thing. I mean, yes, they're asking for an open source messenging protocal. And yes, AOL probably should not have changed their server protocol to break Microsoft's code(though one could argue about the ethics of poaching on someone else's service like that. Did Microsoft contribute anything towards the maintanence of AOL's servers before they did this? I think not). But should we consider the ethics of including your messenging software bundled with your OS, your browser, and your email client? And yes, I know that AOL did the same thing, including their client with Netscape.
I suppose my point here isn't that AOL is right. It isn't that Microsoft is right. Its that *both* companies suck and that we *ought* to just develop our own solution and tell them to go away.
Mmm. This question reminds me of a story I heard. Apparantly the US Patent Office, back in the 1800s, wanted to close. Apparantly they felt every possible discovery had been made. Oops.
Mind you, lets not get into an argument about whether or not there should *be* a Patent Office. This would take a few hundred posts, and I somehow doubt it would *get* anywhere.
Mmm. I've programmed verilog before. While it puts a C-like interface over programming at the hardware level, that doesn't make the job of creating a TCP-IP driver for a NIC card *that* much simpler. You're still dealing with things at the level of 'if you get this bit, change this register' and that's a bit too low for most programmers to be happy.
Mmm. That's a *wonderful* sentiment. After all, its certain that once all the teachers, policemen, firemen, fast food people, clerks, and the myriad of people needed to make a city work leave due to the fact they just can't afford to life in SJ anymore all the tech workers will unite and do the work that's left!
Hey..How good do you think a tech worker *is* at patrollign streets?
This has got to be one of the larger problems with the industry today: the assumption that all of the good and interesting work is being done in a tiny number of huge cities. And its just *not* true. I live in Rochester, NY and work at a company named Aurgen Communications. An internet development company for whom I design web applications, in an environment that is just as free as any startup firm in 'the valley'. I'm willing to bet that Buffalo(and most cities of any reasonable size) has its share of computer startups as well.
Speaking as professional web developer(must fix user info here) I've seen a couple of uses for Javascript. Mostly for when you want to change a form element and have other form elements change, without sending the whole damned thing back to the server again. Another use was for surfing through a file structure that the client wanted to set up, more gracefully than normal directory indexing(and more securly as well).
However, Javascript has one major bad thing against it: most of our clients demand that we support Internet Explorer 3.0 And, as any programmers out there know, IE3's DOM *sucked*. It sucked hard and it sucked a lot. So until IE3 goes away, we can't use a lot of Javascript. Which means we have to, at times, come up with work-arounds that feel like kludges.
--John Christensen
Applications Developer
Auragen Communications
You know. You're right? Tell me, where do you live? I want to spray paint your house. Just for 'fun'.
Okay. Admittedly I don't have a copy of the constitution in front of me and since I am at work I don't have the time to look this up, but: couldn't a constitutional amendment nullify any one of the original 10?
Anyways, you're still ignoring that the Amendment provides for a *well-regulated* militia. Which seems to imply that the people who control the militia, presumably the government under the same laws that got tossed in my face the last time I made this post, can therefore pass any gun control rules that they want. They're just regulating a militia.
For the record, btw, I don't know how much gun control will help(if it will at all). I believe that we need to enforce the rules we have on the books already. I also *firmly* believe, however, that guns should be treated like automobiles. If you want to own one, you're going to have to take a *mandatory* gun safety class, or pull out the documentation that says you already have. Furthermore, I believe fully in mandatory trigger locks.
Mmm. Right. However, the constitution stil gives the right to regulate the arms use of the unorganized religions which, since they were allowed for in a US law, must likely still answer to the US congress.