The third belt -- whose builders claim it is the most advanced ever constructed -- has gone missing, leaving a trail of death and intrigue in its wake.
"He liked to polish it every day, caress it. He wanted to see it and feel like it was his baby. He would never let it go and be out of his sight"
Why does it matter whether or not I wear a seatbelt
If you're in an accident you can hurt other people in a number of ways: physically - other people in the car can be injured by you bouncing around
emotionally - your friends/family will (presumably) be upset
financially - the community bears the cost of police investigations, coroners courts etc. I seem to remember that each road fatality cost around $AU300,000.
I'd suggest that the Camram guys run a spelling checker over their website. If you go to the "introduction" page, it's spelt "Canram" in a lot of places. Their "About" and "Contact" links don't do anything either.
That's one thing that most Yanks that I've met just don't understand. Most people don't want the right to bear arms. It's not something that's inflicted on them - it's something that they deliberately elect.
We argued about this when then original Slashdot article came out. I let your reply go then but you keep saying it so I'm going to have another try.
I know that the letter says "free software" and I know that the letter corrects Microsoft when they say "open source". However, if you read the bill (and the rest of the letter for that matter), you'll see that it describes perfectly OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE.
e) Free program (software) is any which use gives the user, without an additional price, the following rights:
d.1) unrestricted execution of the program for any purpose.
d.2) unrestricted access to its source code
d.3) exhaustive inspection of all internal operating mechanisms of the program.
d.4) use of internal mechanisms and of any arbitrary part of the program, to adapt it to user needs.
d.5) production and public distribution of copies of the program
d.6) modification of the program and free redistribution of these modifications and of the resulting program under the same conditions of the original program.
See how there's no mention of any obligation to redistribute the modified source. They must have the right to do so but there is no requirement to do so.
On the contrary, despite the fact that the letter uses the term "Free software", it describes software that you would call "Open source software". He says "the State needs systems the development of which can be guaranteed due to the availability of the source code". I don't think that the congressman is the slightest bit interested in the philosophy of GPL versus BSD licensing. He just wants software, data formats etc. that his country can use to control its own destiny.
"the men dragged them back to their camp"... "the cylinders, which measure about 10cm by 15cm"
They must be very dense (the cylinders that is... but then again!).
The moral cowardice of the West to go after these people who flap their gums and then hide in other sympathetic countries is what's gotten us to this point in time
Wow! So much for the famous US right to free speech.
... The slant seems to be that there is something inherently wrong about writing application-specific optimizations into operating systems, if in fact this is what Microsoft has done. I think this is perfectly acceptable: Office is the biggest application out there on Windows, and if Microsoft has invested a little extra time into providing a few extra (meaningless) services for your word processing, is this really an act of treachery?
Slashdot Mirror
XP ( Extreme Programming) encourages "Refactor Mercilessly" which is what you suggest.
It's an extract from an ancient (but very relevant) poem:
One-one was a racehorse
Two-two was one too
One-one won one race
Two-Two won one too!
Wow - that was hard to type!
Graham
It's a grand old flag
It's a high flying flag...
But getting rid of Woey... now that's not cool!
Graham
The camera option offers a 1.3 pixel resolution and 2x zoom
That's a bit low res for my needs!
Graham
You beat me to it (by a few days!)...
The third belt -- whose builders claim it is the most advanced ever constructed -- has gone missing, leaving a trail of death and intrigue in its wake.
"He liked to polish it every day, caress it. He wanted to see it and feel like it was his baby. He would never let it go and be out of his sight"
It's just too good!
Graham
Americani ite domum
Now, write it out a hundred times.
It's lucky someone around here is paying attention!
Graham
Are you sure about Ruby? If so, can you tell me where to find out more?
Thanks,
Graham
I agree with your preceding bits, but...
Why does it matter whether or not I wear a seatbelt
If you're in an accident you can hurt other people in a number of ways:
physically - other people in the car can be injured by you bouncing around
emotionally - your friends/family will (presumably) be upset
financially - the community bears the cost of police investigations, coroners courts etc. I seem to remember that each road fatality cost around $AU300,000.
It's not necessarily all about you!
Graham
I'd suggest that the Camram guys run a spelling checker over their website. If you go to the "introduction" page, it's spelt "Canram" in a lot of places. Their "About" and "Contact" links don't do anything either.
Graham
That's one thing that most Yanks that I've met just don't understand. Most people don't want the right to bear arms. It's not something that's inflicted on them - it's something that they deliberately elect.
Graham
There was a package developed by Don Herbison-Evans at the Univesity of Sydney (Australia) some time ago called NUDES that did exactly this. Have a look at Dance and the Computer: A Potential for Graphic Synergy.
Try a Google search for "nudes" "dance" "software" "university".
Graham
I take it that Bill uses the front door and Con goes the Greek way! (oh sorry "coin slots")
(no offence to any Greeks intended)
Graham
We argued about this when then original Slashdot article came out. I let your reply go then but you keep saying it so I'm going to have another try.
I know that the letter says "free software" and I know that the letter corrects Microsoft when they say "open source". However, if you read the bill (and the rest of the letter for that matter), you'll see that it describes perfectly OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE.
e) Free program (software) is any which use gives the user, without an additional price, the following rights:
d.1) unrestricted execution of the program for any purpose.
d.2) unrestricted access to its source code
d.3) exhaustive inspection of all internal operating mechanisms of the program.
d.4) use of internal mechanisms and of any arbitrary part of the program, to adapt it to user needs.
d.5) production and public distribution of copies of the program
d.6) modification of the program and free redistribution of these modifications and of the resulting program under the same conditions of the original program.
See how there's no mention of any obligation to redistribute the modified source. They must have the right to do so but there is no requirement to do so.
Graham
Sorry to do it to you but "bear" not "bare" too. (I'm Australian if that helps)
Graham
IPv6, Meet FreeBSD
Connecting to IPv6 with FreeBSD
Graham
On the contrary, despite the fact that the letter uses the term "Free software", it describes software that you would call "Open source software". He says "the State needs systems the development of which can be guaranteed due to the availability of the source code". I don't think that the congressman is the slightest bit interested in the philosophy of GPL versus BSD licensing. He just wants software, data formats etc. that his country can use to control its own destiny.
Graham
off topic...
bet your sweet bippie
It's a long time since I heard that expression. Can somebody please tell me what the hell it means.
Graham
According to Borland, it's pronounced Delf-eye.
Moonraker
Why would the distributor rotor be magnetic? In fact, aren't rotors normally made of brass?
Graham
But the 'w' key is nowehere near the 'h' key!
"the men dragged them back to their camp" ... "the cylinders, which measure about 10cm by 15cm"
They must be very dense (the cylinders that is ... but then again!).
What kernel? Or is everything automatically related to Linux?
The moral cowardice of the West to go after these people who flap their gums and then hide in other sympathetic countries is what's gotten us to this point in time
Wow! So much for the famous US right to free speech.
Graham
... The slant seems to be that there is something inherently wrong about writing application-specific optimizations into operating systems, if in fact this is what Microsoft has done. I think this is perfectly acceptable: Office is the biggest application out there on Windows, and if Microsoft has invested a little extra time into providing a few extra (meaningless) services for your word processing, is this really an act of treachery?
Graham