atheists (the religious belief in the lack of a deity)
Atheism is not a "religion." The concept of an agency outside of nature with the ability to reach into natural law and to control events is supernaturalism, the foundation of any religion. The existence of that agency is based on subjective faith and belief systems. An Atheist has no belief system.
(paraphrased from American Atheists: www.atheists.org )
Question. Why do they call it the One Source Alliance? Some pun off of "source code", or the fact that Dell will have one source of Linux distributions?
I don't have any details but I remember way back when... some group sued [a] computer software manufacturer[s] due to a law which says that you can't make your package larger than the contents just to make it look like you are getting more than you are really getting. The case didn't have any effect though because it was argued that the size of the box was necessary due to the amount of space needed to describe / advertise the product. I wish I could find a URL about it...
(I think that would work pretty well for a container of food or something. Every notice the indentations they put in the bottoms of shampoo / etc bottles, and around the middle sometimes, and then a nice tall plastic end-cap, probably to make it looke like you are getting more than you are?)
Here's a clue (free advice): Post something directly relevant to the article at hand. "Because it is about Programming" is not good enough. Then when you have said something informative, funny, insightful, or interesting, plug your site in your signature.
The poster you replied to is a pretty lame attempt at putting down Perl if favor of C++. He does a disservice to C++ by putting forth lame arguments. I know C++ and Perl, and you are wrong about C++. When I first learned associative arrays, it was in Perl (actually it was in awk, which does it almost the same way as Perl, and from which Perl derived those features). When I first learned C++ (in 1991), C++ was a very different language than it is now. However, as I have learned by reading Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition", which is brand new, with the features that have been added to the language since then, and especially the Standard Template Libraries, you can create associative arrays in C++ quite easily. And you can create associative arrays of any kind of C++ object using STL. I still think Perl would be my first bet for writing a CGI script (the guy you replied to is flamebait to say that Perl isn't good for anything), but judging from the comments in this forum, most of the detractors of C++ don't really know what the language is capable of.
You say queue, I'll say line. Check out this handy American-British glossary: http://pages.prodigy.com/NY/NYC/britspk/ukus4.html (Queue is the first entry on the URL I have provided. I wouldn't have known what many of the British terms listed were.)
I picked up a 10/100 card from SMC for about $15.00 (and it came with a cable and a bundled copy of turbolinux, heh) (man that card is sweet, it's about the size of a DIMM) but I couldn't get it working with my copy of Mandrake, mostly because I didn't know what module/irq/address to select in linuxconf. But then I ran Lothar and it set everything up for me automatically. Lothar is very cool.
This is an interesting side of Microsoft I hadn't realized existed: Microsoft Research. It looks like they are working on a lot of very interesting stuff. I was searching through their stuff I found that one of the things they were working with was IPv6 related networking, and you can download a web server called "Fnord!". I downloaded it, and checked out license.txt and it is the GPL! Apparently they used Fnord! written by someone else and used it as a basis for some research software, and you can download it, source and everything. Cool.
There are also 64-bit versions for Alpha (the first 64-bit version of Linux, I believe). And I'm sure there are several other 64-bit CPU's supported (Sparc?).
elected in a year that ended in 0 (Regan, Kennedy, Lincoln)
I just did a little research on presidents elected on 0 (mod 10) years, on whitehouse.gov. Isn't the internet wonderful?
Elected in 1840, William Harry Harrison was the first president to die in office, of pneumonia, just months after taking office.
Lincoln was shot and killed in his second term, although his first election was 1860.
James Garfield, elected in 1880: "James Garfield was the second president shot in office. Doctors tried to find the bullet with a metal detector invented by Alexander Graham Bell. But the device failed because Garfield was placed on a bed with metal springs, and no one thought to move him. He died on September 19, 1881." (whitehouse.gov)
McKinley was shot and killed in his second term... the second election was in 1900.
Warren Harding, elected in 1920, died of a heart attack while in office.
FDR's third(!) election was 1940, he died in his fourth term of a cerebral hemorrage.
JFK elected in 1960. Shot and killed in 1963.
Reagan was shot but not killed in 1981, elected in 1980.
What you say is already true and you don't even know it.
When authors release software under the GPL, unless they put in a specific allowance for linking to Qt, it is arguable illegal for a distribution company to link that GPL code to Qt and distribute the result.
One of the following must occur: a) Trolltech release Qt under the BSD or LGPL or similar license (not gonna happen) b) Every contributor of GPL code that requires Qt to relicense their code under the "GPL + Qt exception" license (or BSD or Artistic or similar license)
In other words, you are right, Qt license allows you to use GPL, but the GPL, _unmodified_, does not allow you to distribution it compiled with Qt. So the "GPL needs to change." But you can't just change it under decree. The authors who released GPL software for Qt made a mistake. That is what this $3000 is for... to get someone to try to get everyone who contributed to KDE to modify the terms of their licensing. Instead of GPL: GPL + Qt exception clause, or a different license.
I would much prefer if Trolltech would make Qt LGPL. The free software community is a community of people who share code with each other. They are not sharing as equal partners. However, there is no need for me to protest too much, because I just do what I do when I see any software I don't like, I use something else. Trolltech can do what they want, that's their right, but they aren't going to get me to go along with it.
In addition, he uses the GPL as leverage by refusing to allow the developers who wrote software and released it under the GPL (as the GPL is non-revokable) to compile their programs for use with Motif. That is precisely why I will use proprietary licenses and avoid the GPL; I simply cannot entrust my code to Stallman.
Actually no, if you wrote some software and released it under the GPL, there is no reason you can't link your own software against Motif and distribute it under some other license. What you can't do is link someone else's GPL'd code to Motif. As long as you do not add copyrighted and GPL'd code written by other people (such as the Linux kernel, which has contributions from thousands of individuals and/or companies) you can relicense your own code under non-GPL terms. The GPL is non-revocable to people you have already given copies of your software to. You could also give any other kind of license to them if you own the software.
Every damn post Making a new form of troll Ruining for others
All I'm saying is, I appreciate the thought. I've been known to post haiku, but you are doing it in every post, and they just don't have that certain something that makes it clever or funny.
Well those Quantum 3D things are meant only for commercial use anyway. You have to wonder though... a lot of people run their computers with the cover off their case (for different reasons)... so much for class B certification.
I forgot to mention that the v5-6000 (4 chips) is going to be $600 so it is questionable whether that could be considered for home use... no way in hell I am putting something putting off that much heat and noise (from the fans) in my computer. I can barely stand the noise coming from my computer from the one fan on my tnt2, celeron, two hard drives, and power supply (although the power supply I have is very quiet).
Their v5-6000 has four separate chips running in parallel... each with its own cooling fan. The board requires its own external power supply.
And if that isn't scary enough, Quantum 3D is building 8, 16, and 32 (THIRTY FRICKIN TWO) processor... well, "cards" isn't the right term: they are external rack mountable boxes. It uses 1600 WATTS.
Quake 3 Arena doesn't used DirectX for graphics, it uses OpenGL. The article is basically testing the speed of drivers available for the the different 3D cards. Also, I didn't notice in the article any mention that they were using DRI which is available in Xfree86 4.0. They were using a standard Red Hat 6.2 setup.
With the standard template library and mechanisms for generic programming, C++ is a high level language. Go read some Stroustrup (3rd edition, the language has changed a lot!) some time. Larry Wall once said that the usefulness of a programming language is inversely related to the number of axes the creators of the language have to grind.
No, what I'm saying is if you are going to attack the beliefs of your enemies* then attack what they actually believe, not a straw man which you construct, but hide the fact by changing the meaning of the term depending on what your current paragraph is trying to prove.
Sure, the FSF says they're not opposed to selling software, but their GPL makes it impossible to ensure the developer will be properly compensated.
And what, may I ask, is "proper." If I work for a commercial company writing a piece of software at $18/hour and they sell it to a customer for $10,000 a copy, how am I being properly compensated? Well, first I agreed to be paid $18/hour, and the company is providing some kind of service to that customer. Namely going through the trouble of hiring me and assigning me to work on a piece of software, etc.
Secondly, I know what the author is arguing, and there is more to free software than free of cost. That is why I TITLED it "Free Libre, not Free Gratis." Your "you'll only see money for the sale of one copy" shows that you are still talking about money. I am not talking about the money.
Micrsoft and its cronies love to use this 'innovate' word, but I don't think it means what they think it means. Maybe they're using MS Dictionary 1.0, I dunno.
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AFAIK gotten is not a word
gotten
past participle of GET
(source: www.m-w.com )
atheists (the religious belief in the lack of a deity)
Atheism is not a "religion." The concept of an agency outside of nature with the ability to reach into natural law and to control events is supernaturalism, the foundation of any religion. The existence of that agency is based on subjective faith and belief systems. An Atheist has no belief system.
(paraphrased from American Atheists: www.atheists.org )
Question. Why do they call it the One Source Alliance? Some pun off of "source code", or the fact that Dell will have one source of Linux distributions?
I don't have any details but I remember way back when... some group sued [a] computer software manufacturer[s] due to a law which says that you can't make your package larger than the contents just to make it look like you are getting more than you are really getting. The case didn't have any effect though because it was argued that the size of the box was necessary due to the amount of space needed to describe / advertise the product. I wish I could find a URL about it...
(I think that would work pretty well for a container of food or something. Every notice the indentations they put in the bottoms of shampoo / etc bottles, and around the middle sometimes, and then a nice tall plastic end-cap, probably to make it looke like you are getting more than you are?)
Here's a clue (free advice):
Post something directly relevant to the article at hand. "Because it is about Programming" is not good enough. Then when you have said something informative, funny, insightful, or interesting, plug your site in your signature.
The poster you replied to is a pretty lame attempt at putting down Perl if favor of C++. He does a disservice to C++ by putting forth lame arguments.
I know C++ and Perl, and you are wrong about C++. When I first learned associative arrays, it was in Perl (actually it was in awk, which does it almost the same way as Perl, and from which Perl derived those features).
When I first learned C++ (in 1991), C++ was a very different language than it is now. However, as I have learned by reading Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language, Special Edition", which is brand new, with the features that have been added to the language since then, and especially the Standard Template Libraries, you can create associative arrays in C++ quite easily. And you can create associative arrays of any kind of C++ object using STL.
I still think Perl would be my first bet for writing a CGI script (the guy you replied to is flamebait to say that Perl isn't good for anything), but judging from the comments in this forum, most of the detractors of C++ don't really know what the language is capable of.
You say queue, I'll say line.l (Queue is the first entry on the URL I have provided. I wouldn't have known what many of the British terms listed were.)
Check out this handy American-British glossary:
http://pages.prodigy.com/NY/NYC/britspk/ukus4.htm
I picked up a 10/100 card from SMC for about $15.00 (and it came with a cable and a bundled copy of turbolinux, heh) (man that card is sweet, it's about the size of a DIMM) but I couldn't get it working with my copy of Mandrake, mostly because I didn't know what module/irq/address to select in linuxconf. But then I ran Lothar and it set everything up for me automatically. Lothar is very cool.
If Corel reads ESR then at least they will understand where some of the hostility from the open source projects comes from.
This is an interesting side of Microsoft I hadn't realized existed: Microsoft Research. It looks like they are working on a lot of very interesting stuff. I was searching through their stuff I found that one of the things they were working with was IPv6 related networking, and you can download a web server called "Fnord!". I downloaded it, and checked out license.txt and it is the GPL! Apparently they used Fnord! written by someone else and used it as a basis for some research software, and you can download it, source and everything. Cool.
I assume you mean 64-bit CPU.
IA-64:
http://www.ia64linux.org/
There are also 64-bit versions for Alpha (the first 64-bit version of Linux, I believe). And I'm sure there are several other 64-bit CPU's supported (Sparc?).
elected in a year that ended in 0 (Regan, Kennedy, Lincoln)
I just did a little research on presidents elected on 0 (mod 10) years, on whitehouse.gov. Isn't the internet wonderful?
Elected in 1840, William Harry Harrison was the first president to die in office, of pneumonia, just months after taking office.
Lincoln was shot and killed in his second term, although his first election was 1860.
James Garfield, elected in 1880:
"James Garfield was the second president shot in office. Doctors tried to find the bullet with a metal detector invented by Alexander Graham Bell.
But the device failed because Garfield was placed on a bed with metal springs, and no one thought to move him. He died on September 19, 1881." (whitehouse.gov)
McKinley was shot and killed in his second term... the second election was in 1900.
Warren Harding, elected in 1920, died of a heart attack while in office.
FDR's third(!) election was 1940, he died in his fourth term of a cerebral hemorrage.
JFK elected in 1960. Shot and killed in 1963.
Reagan was shot but not killed in 1981, elected in 1980.
What you say is already true and you don't even know it.
When authors release software under the GPL, unless they put in a specific allowance for linking to Qt, it is arguable illegal for a distribution company to link that GPL code to Qt and distribute the result.
One of the following must occur:
a) Trolltech release Qt under the BSD or LGPL or similar license (not gonna happen)
b) Every contributor of GPL code that requires Qt to relicense their code under the "GPL + Qt exception" license (or BSD or Artistic or similar license)
In other words, you are right, Qt license allows you to use GPL, but the GPL, _unmodified_, does not allow you to distribution it compiled with Qt. So the "GPL needs to change." But you can't just change it under decree. The authors who released GPL software for Qt made a mistake. That is what this $3000 is for... to get someone to try to get everyone who contributed to KDE to modify the terms of their licensing. Instead of GPL: GPL + Qt exception clause, or a different license.
I would much prefer if Trolltech would make Qt LGPL. The free software community is a community of people who share code with each other. They are not sharing as equal partners. However, there is no need for me to protest too much, because I just do what I do when I see any software I don't like, I use something else. Trolltech can do what they want, that's their right, but they aren't going to get me to go along with it.
In addition, he uses the GPL as leverage by refusing to allow the developers who wrote software and released it under the GPL (as the GPL is non-revokable) to compile their programs for use with Motif. That is precisely why I will use proprietary licenses and avoid the GPL; I simply cannot entrust my code to Stallman.
Actually no, if you wrote some software and released it under the GPL, there is no reason you can't link your own software against Motif and distribute it under some other license. What you can't do is link someone else's GPL'd code to Motif. As long as you do not add copyrighted and GPL'd code written by other people (such as the Linux kernel, which has contributions from thousands of individuals and/or companies) you can relicense your own code under non-GPL terms. The GPL is non-revocable to people you have already given copies of your software to. You could also give any other kind of license to them if you own the software.
Out of curiosity, what code have you written?
Last line's 6 syllables.
[Files] [scream], [de][let][ed]
You must be thinking that files is two sylables, but it is only one sylable, whether or not you pronounce it fIl of fI&l.
(where: I = i in ice. & = a and u in abut)
see also: www.m-w.com (Merriam Webster)
Every damn post
Making a new form of troll
Ruining for others
All I'm saying is, I appreciate the thought. I've been known to post haiku, but you are doing it in every post, and they just don't have that certain something that makes it clever or funny.
But I could be wrong.
Well those Quantum 3D things are meant only for commercial use anyway. You have to wonder though... a lot of people run their computers with the cover off their case (for different reasons)... so much for class B certification.
I forgot to mention that the v5-6000 (4 chips) is going to be $600 so it is questionable whether that could be considered for home use... no way in hell I am putting something putting off that much heat and noise (from the fans) in my computer. I can barely stand the noise coming from my computer from the one fan on my tnt2, celeron, two hard drives, and power supply (although the power supply I have is very quiet).
Their v5-6000 has four separate chips running in parallel... each with its own cooling fan. The board requires its own external power supply.
3 .html
And if that isn't scary enough, Quantum 3D is building 8, 16, and 32 (THIRTY FRICKIN TWO) processor... well, "cards" isn't the right term: they are external rack mountable boxes. It uses 1600 WATTS.
URL: http://www.quantum3d.com/product%20pages/aalchemy
Thanks shugashack
Quake 3 Arena doesn't used DirectX for graphics, it uses OpenGL. The article is basically testing the speed of drivers available for the the different 3D cards. Also, I didn't notice in the article any mention that they were using DRI which is available in Xfree86 4.0. They were using a standard Red Hat 6.2 setup.
With the standard template library and mechanisms for generic programming, C++ is a high level language. Go read some Stroustrup (3rd edition, the language has changed a lot!) some time. Larry Wall once said that the usefulness of a programming language is inversely related to the number of axes the creators of the language have to grind.
Disregard my post. I guess we're all having a bad day.
IMO your time is worth something. 'properly' means you recover in money what you spend in time.
Only if there is an agreement between the employer and employee or similar arrangement.
You are aware that most people don't write free software for the money, are you not?
No, what I'm saying is if you are going to attack the beliefs of your enemies* then attack what they actually believe, not a straw man which you construct, but hide the fact by changing the meaning of the term depending on what your current paragraph is trying to prove.
* for lack of a better term
Sure, the FSF says they're not opposed to selling software, but their GPL makes it impossible to ensure the developer will be properly compensated.
And what, may I ask, is "proper." If I work for a commercial company writing a piece of software at $18/hour and they sell it to a customer for $10,000 a copy, how am I being properly compensated? Well, first I agreed to be paid $18/hour, and the company is providing some kind of service to that customer. Namely going through the trouble of hiring me and assigning me to work on a piece of software, etc.
Secondly, I know what the author is arguing, and there is more to free software than free of cost. That is why I TITLED it "Free Libre, not Free Gratis." Your "you'll only see money for the sale of one copy" shows that you are still talking about money. I am not talking about the money.
Micrsoft and its cronies love to use this 'innovate' word, but I don't think it means what they think it means. Maybe they're using MS Dictionary 1.0, I dunno.
:)
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You mean... THIS one?
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.as