There is an option "metamoderation results" in your preferences messages panel. I turned it off long ago. It's just not interesting beyond a certain point, and the "unfair" metamods just piss you off because there is no way to say "wtf?" back to them.
Really? insert software company here is free to ask you for money in return for using their software (with no redistribution). Is that not legally enforceable? The GPL2 is not a usage license, but there is nothing much to prevent a new licence (GPL3) from being one. What right would you have to have and use even one copy of the software without either purchasing the software, or obtaining it under license? I wouldn't consider any license that had such a clause to be particularly free, but I don't see how it could fail to be enforceable.
NASA blazed a trail while holding a US monopoly on spaceflight and government funding into spaceflight research. Not to diminish what they have achieved, but there are reasons why they are the only ones who did it.
Also NASA's goal has never been to bring spaceflight to the common man (nor "common multimillionaire" for that matter). I'm sure they are quite content with their astronauts being considered heroes just for doing their job. The sooner astronaut is equivalent to bus or truck driver, the better.
True, however the (bad) guy was not playing within the constrints of the game. He was cheating, and cheating in a game where money is involved is fraud. The thing that might get him off is that the money was not "officially" involved, it being an out of game market where the items are redeemed.
Selling public property to private citizens at a huge discount is not a public service. (Not that it stops governments from doing it with bigger things than iPods).
We are talking about licencing, not SW engineering conventions. If you publish your source code, then your interfaces are by definition "public". I can go and read them, even the ones that you consider unstable and subject to change. I can code an implementation using one of those unstable interfaces, and have it interoperate with the particular release of the software. Since it's an interface and is "public" by virtue of the fact that I can see your code, there is nothing you can do about it. No court is going to stop anybody writing to an interface for interoperability purposes, so the fact that is GPL, expensive commercial license, public domain or whatever is irellevant.
You can get some sort of device that you write on regular paper, but also contains some kind of sensor (in the pen or underneath, I don't remember) that transmits the writing to a PC or handheld.
I think you misunderstand what CMM et al, are all about. Software "Quality" checklists have nothing to do with software testing (except perhaps to ensure that the header, footer and coverpage of the test document were conformant).
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There is an option "metamoderation results" in your preferences messages panel. I turned it off long ago. It's just not interesting beyond a certain point, and the "unfair" metamods just piss you off because there is no way to say "wtf?" back to them.
Really? insert software company here is free to ask you for money in return for using their software (with no redistribution). Is that not legally enforceable? The GPL2 is not a usage license, but there is nothing much to prevent a new licence (GPL3) from being one. What right would you have to have and use even one copy of the software without either purchasing the software, or obtaining it under license? I wouldn't consider any license that had such a clause to be particularly free, but I don't see how it could fail to be enforceable.
Doxygen is nice, but it doesn't scale. It doesn't keep good track of what it has already done (at all?) and OOMs on large projects.
If slicing the wire going to the speaker in a phone is common sense...
The people bitching and moaning are Open Source Advocates. Not necesarily the same set of people as Open Source Developers.
So maybe Borland should have paid them what they were worth?
200 Years ago the US literacy rate was significantly higher than it is today.
Quite a lot more due to proper hygene than medical advances however.
Well, confirmed except for the fact that life wasn't created by any so called god.
NASA blazed a trail while holding a US monopoly on spaceflight and government funding into spaceflight research. Not to diminish what they have achieved, but there are reasons why they are the only ones who did it.
Also NASA's goal has never been to bring spaceflight to the common man (nor "common multimillionaire" for that matter). I'm sure they are quite content with their astronauts being considered heroes just for doing their job. The sooner astronaut is equivalent to bus or truck driver, the better.
True, however the (bad) guy was not playing within the constrints of the game. He was cheating, and cheating in a game where money is involved is fraud. The thing that might get him off is that the money was not "officially" involved, it being an out of game market where the items are redeemed.
iBooks. Doh.
Selling public property to private citizens at a huge discount is not a public service. (Not that it stops governments from doing it with bigger things than iPods).
So nobody besides you ever travels in your car?
We are talking about licencing, not SW engineering conventions. If you publish your source code, then your interfaces are by definition "public". I can go and read them, even the ones that you consider unstable and subject to change. I can code an implementation using one of those unstable interfaces, and have it interoperate with the particular release of the software. Since it's an interface and is "public" by virtue of the fact that I can see your code, there is nothing you can do about it. No court is going to stop anybody writing to an interface for interoperability purposes, so the fact that is GPL, expensive commercial license, public domain or whatever is irellevant.
If you release the source code, then all your interfaces are public.
You can get some sort of device that you write on regular paper, but also contains some kind of sensor (in the pen or underneath, I don't remember) that transmits the writing to a PC or handheld.
Will you be happy when they make it a simple cross browser form where you can upload a MS Word doc? :)
Alternatively, use magic!
Microcosmos produced by him is also quite interesting. Worth watching for the snail love scene alone.
I think you misunderstand what CMM et al, are all about. Software "Quality" checklists have nothing to do with software testing (except perhaps to ensure that the header, footer and coverpage of the test document were conformant).
One way to eliminate risk would be to not build something that is the most complicated piece of machinery ever.