CSS validation would be cool (of course there's always w3.org)
I'd love to see something that helped me with CSS layout- a way to put big bright borders around divs and highlight their containing blocks, etc. I *don't* want that in composer, mind you, because I prefer to play with the raw source in an editor and reload the page to see how it looks.
I agree that HTML highlighting is great, but I've been meaning to post a feature request on bugzilla for some time: let me view-source in a tab, rather than open a new window. That should be really easy to do. I'd also love to have keyboard navigation between tabs (ok, it's probably there already, or at least in Phoenix, but I haven't found them yet..)
I can decide which comment to reply to so I'll just top-level post. Yes, polar coordinate equations are quite simple, and yes, there is prior art for a variety of shape generating equations (for example, superquadrics)... That being said, the fact that this research has been published in Nature is indicative that his work has generated at least *some* excitement among mathematicians. Sometimes the most compelling mathematical constructs are also the simplest. e=mc^2 anyone?
Chemical weapons research in the interests of 'self-defence'
GMO's, Genetic engineering, cloning, etc.
Strong Encryption (more of a rights issue)
There are many many technologies that can be used for good or evil purposes. It's nice to know that *one* school is examining some particulars of the issue.
That's all well and good, but what exactly constitutes the license? IMHO, the BSA would be satisfied with the fact that you have the original key that's pasted on the CD case-- that's effectively your license. iirc, all the usual licensing paperwork is generic with no particular identifying characteristics. Not to mention that when you install the software, the legalese is presented to you. I agree with the other posters who are saying '-1 Nitpick'.
It seems to me that the only reason why slashdot would post this story is the fact that he's an Intel employee. If he weren't an engineer and worked at Wal-Mart, the story would be ignored. Makes you wonder just how many 'detainees' there are in the states, not counting Guantanamo, of course.;-)
The email address is necessary so they can inform you of an exciting opportunity to aid the widow of the late president of Timbuktu. All you need to do is provide your bank information and the sum of ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! will be neatly deposited.
Why not run our vehicles on veggie oil, rather than animal oil? No PETA problems, and a much smaller environmental footprint, afaict. Given that the technology already exists for coverting diesel engines to run on veggie oil, and the slow adoption despite that, I don't see this animal option as some new panacea.
Where's the obligatory Windows and Linux to merge post? This just in: Linus Torvalds has agreed to be Bill Gates' lap dog for an undisclosed sum. It has been rumored that he'll get to share the family bed..
Do you think Free (as in speech) software wouldn't exist if people refused to pay? People commit code to the GPL because it's gratifying, not because they think it will make them rich. Now, if RedHat wants to package up that code and sell it, the GPL lets them do that, but I don't think that imposes an ethical obligation on anyone to buy their product. I think RedHat agrees with me, too, because they release the same product onto the net *for free*. RedHat's business model lies in value-added corporate service and support. That they provide the community with free ISO's is just them being nice.
And yes, for the record, I haven't paid for any version of RH or Debian since RH5.0. Let the flames begin.;-)
(as an aside, my personal opinion is that the real value-added features of redhat and debian are rpm and apt. Apart from those programs, which distro I use is really quite arbitrary).
I don't see it so much as an ethical issue (after all, the isos in question contain gpl'ed programs), but the hypocrisy of a company that is trying to make a subscription service work actively undermining a 'friendly' company's subscription model. Perhaps we can figure out a way to use bittorrent or some other proxy to get the 'early-bird' stories only available to slashdot subscribers..
However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments.
Umm, you mean "could destroy the one internet company whose business model wasn't dependent on overvaluation." Google is successful because they eschewed the cash-cow growth models that other internet firms depended on. Instead they focused on the quality of their product. My sense is that injecting a few hundred million dollars of strings-attached funding into the life-cycle of a software project is a sure sign that the creators have lost faith in its ability to sustain itself. I sure hope google sticks to focusing on providing superior search technologies and avoids the tyranny of the shareholder.
Most of the debate surrounding proposed legislation on VPN's deals with the impact on the consumer's right to tinker at home. One issue that seems to be absent from the debate is the impact such legislation would have on the corporate world and the average worker's ability to telecommute using their ISP. Also, many corporations with geographically scattered offices use VPNs to put everyone on the 'same network'. Is a distinction being drawn between corporate and consumer's rights? Can these bills be effectively killed by drawing big corporations into the fray?
The poster seems to think this is a good idea but I'm not so sure about the privacy implications. It would make life a lot easier, though, for law enforcement to track down copyright violators and purveyors of other illicit (read illegal) material.
Some engineering certification bodies are willing to recognize individuals as engineers on the basis of experience alone. That doesn't mean, of course, that any old webslave can be certified, but if you have the right kind of experience (and a lot of it), you might be able to become a certified engineer.
The downside, of course, is that with professional certification you become liable for your work.;-)
Less than one tenth the amount of money devoted to fighting the war in the first place. If it takes $85 billion to reduce a county to shambles in 30 days, what do you think the real price tag for reconstruction will be?
most of the most serious vulnerabilities (in things like the kernel, tcp stacks, libc, high-traffic web servers, etc), *need* to be written in a low-level language for reasons of efficiency. While I agree that it probably makes sense to re-implement lpd in perl or python or whatever, we will always need core services to be written "close to the metal".
That being said, I think ANSI should revisit printf and find a way to fix it. Any compiler can do a good job at type checking, and it should be possible to print without all the % madness.
For some reason, Bambi never did it for me. As an adult, the only movie that ever made me cry was The Thin Red Line. Maybe I was in a vulnerable state of mind, but that flick did me in the first time I saw it. I'd rank it as a great underrated film, too. Saving Private Ryan stole most of its thunder, which is too bad, because the cast and script were stellar.
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CSS validation would be cool (of course there's always w3.org)
I'd love to see something that helped me with CSS layout- a way to put big bright borders around divs and highlight their containing blocks, etc. I *don't* want that in composer, mind you, because I prefer to play with the raw source in an editor and reload the page to see how it looks.
I agree that HTML highlighting is great, but I've been meaning to post a feature request on bugzilla for some time: let me view-source in a tab, rather than open a new window. That should be really easy to do. I'd also love to have keyboard navigation between tabs (ok, it's probably there already, or at least in Phoenix, but I haven't found them yet..)
I can decide which comment to reply to so I'll just top-level post. Yes, polar coordinate equations are quite simple, and yes, there is prior art for a variety of shape generating equations (for example, superquadrics)... That being said, the fact that this research has been published in Nature is indicative that his work has generated at least *some* excitement among mathematicians. Sometimes the most compelling mathematical constructs are also the simplest. e=mc^2 anyone?
C'mon Rob, get with the times... time to upgrade that old 14.4 to something with horsepower..
Off the top of my head:
Automated surveillance.
Teleoperated/Robotic soldiers.
Chemical weapons research in the interests of 'self-defence'
GMO's, Genetic engineering, cloning, etc.
Strong Encryption (more of a rights issue)
There are many many technologies that can be used for good or evil purposes. It's nice to know that *one* school is examining some particulars of the issue.
That's all well and good, but what exactly constitutes the license? IMHO, the BSA would be satisfied with the fact that you have the original key that's pasted on the CD case-- that's effectively your license. iirc, all the usual licensing paperwork is generic with no particular identifying characteristics. Not to mention that when you install the software, the legalese is presented to you. I agree with the other posters who are saying '-1 Nitpick'.
It seems to me that the only reason why slashdot would post this story is the fact that he's an Intel employee. If he weren't an engineer and worked at Wal-Mart, the story would be ignored. Makes you wonder just how many 'detainees' there are in the states, not counting Guantanamo, of course. ;-)
The email address is necessary so they can inform you of an exciting opportunity to aid the widow of the late president of Timbuktu. All you need to do is provide your bank information and the sum of ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!! will be neatly deposited.
You forgot the obligatory reference to the photographic evidence against JFK's alleged assassin.
I was thinking more along the lines of a Doomsday Device, or perhaps a method for clearing planets to make way for an interstallar bypass. :-)
Why not run our vehicles on veggie oil, rather than animal oil? No PETA problems, and a much smaller environmental footprint, afaict. Given that the technology already exists for coverting diesel engines to run on veggie oil, and the slow adoption despite that, I don't see this animal option as some new panacea.
Where's the obligatory Windows and Linux to merge post? This just in: Linus Torvalds has agreed to be Bill Gates' lap dog for an undisclosed sum. It has been rumored that he'll get to share the family bed..
RMS has yet to comment on the Evil Bit. We may have to convene a conference to discuss its name change to GNU/Evil Bit.
Who says it's not. Maybe PJ is pulling everyone's chain.
Dude, you haven't lived until you've dropped Happy Mac. What a TRIP!!
Do you think Free (as in speech) software wouldn't exist if people refused to pay? People commit code to the GPL because it's gratifying, not because they think it will make them rich. Now, if RedHat wants to package up that code and sell it, the GPL lets them do that, but I don't think that imposes an ethical obligation on anyone to buy their product. I think RedHat agrees with me, too, because they release the same product onto the net *for free*. RedHat's business model lies in value-added corporate service and support. That they provide the community with free ISO's is just them being nice.
;-)
And yes, for the record, I haven't paid for any version of RH or Debian since RH5.0. Let the flames begin.
(as an aside, my personal opinion is that the real value-added features of redhat and debian are rpm and apt. Apart from those programs, which distro I use is really quite arbitrary).
I don't see it so much as an ethical issue (after all, the isos in question contain gpl'ed programs), but the hypocrisy of a company that is trying to make a subscription service work actively undermining a 'friendly' company's subscription model. Perhaps we can figure out a way to use bittorrent or some other proxy to get the 'early-bird' stories only available to slashdot subscribers..
However, many analysts believe a successfully Google IPO could rejuvenated Internet-company investments.
Umm, you mean "could destroy the one internet company whose business model wasn't dependent on overvaluation." Google is successful because they eschewed the cash-cow growth models that other internet firms depended on. Instead they focused on the quality of their product. My sense is that injecting a few hundred million dollars of strings-attached funding into the life-cycle of a software project is a sure sign that the creators have lost faith in its ability to sustain itself. I sure hope google sticks to focusing on providing superior search technologies and avoids the tyranny of the shareholder.
Most of the debate surrounding proposed legislation on VPN's deals with the impact on the consumer's right to tinker at home. One issue that seems to be absent from the debate is the impact such legislation would have on the corporate world and the average worker's ability to telecommute using their ISP. Also, many corporations with geographically scattered offices use VPNs to put everyone on the 'same network'. Is a distinction being drawn between corporate and consumer's rights? Can these bills be effectively killed by drawing big corporations into the fray?
The poster seems to think this is a good idea but I'm not so sure about the privacy implications. It would make life a lot easier, though, for law enforcement to track down copyright violators and purveyors of other illicit (read illegal) material.
The downside, of course, is that with professional certification you become liable for your work.
Reminds me of a cartoon that somebody pasted on the door to our lab several years ago:
Journalist: Dr, how do you respond to your critics that say you're playing god?
Dr: I strike them dead with a bolt of lightning.
Less than one tenth the amount of money devoted to fighting the war in the first place. If it takes $85 billion to reduce a county to shambles in 30 days, what do you think the real price tag for reconstruction will be?
most of the most serious vulnerabilities (in things like the kernel, tcp stacks, libc, high-traffic web servers, etc), *need* to be written in a low-level language for reasons of efficiency. While I agree that it probably makes sense to re-implement lpd in perl or python or whatever, we will always need core services to be written "close to the metal".
That being said, I think ANSI should revisit printf and find a way to fix it. Any compiler can do a good job at type checking, and it should be possible to print without all the % madness.
For some reason, Bambi never did it for me. As an adult, the only movie that ever made me cry was The Thin Red Line. Maybe I was in a vulnerable state of mind, but that flick did me in the first time I saw it. I'd rank it as a great underrated film, too. Saving Private Ryan stole most of its thunder, which is too bad, because the cast and script were stellar.