Apple tries to move developers to a proprietary windowing system, incompatible with open source applications. [...] More likely, however, they'll just be shooting themselves in the foot, until finally someone integrates X11 into OSX more smoothly than XDarwin.
This is uninformed and wrong. Apple tries to get as many developers for MacOS X as they possibly can because MacOS X is their platform.
X11 cannot be "integrated properly" into the OS X at all. In order to integrate, applications have to use the OS X GUI. Any application that uses a different GUI is not integrated. Maybe it runs, but it will look and feel different and awkward. Since X makes no constraints whatsoever on the look & feel of programes, except that it suggests they use windows, most X applications cannot be integrated with OS X at all, except programs such as LyX which have a GUI independence layer or Qt programs as soon as the proposed Qt for OS X arrives, and even these only to a limited extent.
My girlfriend understands my thoughts regarding diamonds, but deep down, I'm sure she would like a diamond. Even a small one.
Then BUY HER ONE!!!!!
Am I the only one who read this as BUY HER first? Because that's pretty much what you are talking about.
Gosh, if my girlfriend wanted a nigger slave for proposition, I'd not give her one out of principle. If she insists upon a diamond and it's against your principles, ask yourself what your principles mean to you.
"As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
They should make this the first line of The General Public License.
Is it just me, or does the quote sound more like a BSD license model? There is clearly no mention of requiring others to give derivative work away for free.
Of course, ethical considerations suggest that they do that, but these do not need to be codified in the license. In that way, Franklin's appears to be more in the BSD direction.
Steel ball bearings didn't work as well, but that's what the slingshot was for.:)
I had a similar suction cup crossbow when I was a kid, only mine was made of wood. I used it to fire small firecrackers (up to 3x3/8"). We lived next to a park, and after about a week of practice I could fire right into the park at good accuracy and make the crackers explode at about head level, scaring the hell out of anyone passing by because they didn't know where I was....
Calling her "Rheya" because of the Titan is even less in the spirit of the source. Harey/Rheya is supposed to appear vulnerable and fragile, sort of; after all, she's supposed to have committed suicide because Kelvin rejects her. (In the novel, she's not really fragile later on, but that's mainly because she is no human being, but a copy generated by the Solaris ocean).
The Prometheus reference is from the novel, too - a spaceship is named that way, so Soderberg is not even very creative about it. Rhea and Prometheus have absolutely nothing to do with each other in Greek mythology (he probably just considers himself educated and the names classic and Old World-ish). My hypothesis is that the only reason for "Rheya" is that it's an anagram of "Harey".
Please be so kind as to specify what "layers of meaning" you are talking about and how Soderberg is supposed to have been clever about it. At present, you've just given some explanations where some names might come from in Greek mythology, but you've been utterly silent as to what they mean.
"Rheya" is named "Harey" in the novel & in Tarkovskiy's Russian-language 1972 adaptation. It might seem a bad omen; if they alter characters' names to better suit the English audience, they probably alter plot & mood too, just to better suit the Hollywood audience.
If I can actually consider this one better than the original movie or at least an adequate rendering of the book, I'm giving out a free beer to anyone asking me for one on release day.
Read the article. The brightness requirement depends on the size of the projection display. If you want to project the whole thing on a skyscraper wall, well, you need a lot of light. If you want to project it on somebody's retina, you need a lot less light because the retina is so small. To be precise, you need precisely the amount of light that arrives on your retina from a normal monitor, and that's not very much (and not dangerous at all)
Basically, the consensus in the end was that it is impossible to avoid this sort of problem as long as you have a standard that encodes characters instead of glyphs (that means that Latin "o" and Cyrillic "o" are different characters, even though they look the same).
A character set that encoded glyphs instead of characters could avoid this. However, such charsets are extremely tedious to implement. It has been tried with the Adobe glyph registry and has been found insufficient.
In practice, glyph-based character sets are unusable. The reason is that they cannot be made fully round-trip compatible with existing character sets, such as ISO 8859 or the Windows codepages, because these legacy character sets encode characters instead of glyphs. If URLs were encoded in such a glyph-based character set, it would be impossible to embed URLs in any document in a legacy character set. No URLs in e-mails.
As a result, the only solution is to have application and operating system vendors implement checks for such situations and to have URL registries reject such obvious spoofing attempts (e.g. no mixed-alphabet URLs). Since the problem is not fundamentally different from registering slashdot.org, it is not even a problem that we weren't already aware of.
If you're implying that the US and her allies intedded to kill civilians, than you're an idiot. There would be millions dead if that were the case.
That's completely irrelevant. They killed civilians. Civilians are dead. That's all that counts.
And don't tell me it couldn't have been avoided. Some of those cases were pretty absurd. Bombed a wedding party in north-eastern Afghanistan because they mistook them for terrorists. Hello? Is that how we defend the western values??
Lucent is claiming it's an "open source" license when it is not
What do you want? You get the operating system source. That's the basic definition of open source: the source is open. No one said it should be free as in speech.
They aren't offering it "for free", they are offering it "with strings attached".
Of course they're offering it for free. You don't have to pay anything fot it. I don't know what other requirements you have for "being for free". It's not free software, but it's definitely software for free, which is better than nothing, especially given that it's such a cool system. I can't wait to implement 9P at the kernel level for OpenBeOS.
Your reasoning about the digit order in Arabic is wrong because it is completely irrelevant for addition whether your MS digit is on the left or on the right.
Arabic numbers are written LS right, MS left because of the way numbers are read in classical Arabic. Classical Arabic (unlike modern standard arabic) reads numbers LS digit first. Since Arabic is written right-to-left, the LS digit comes first, i.e. right. That's why Arabic numbers in Arabic script are written the way they are.
Since numeral ordering is a relatively script-independent thing, the order of the numerals was retained when the Arabic digits were adopted into the latin script (probably in medieval Spain). This is convenient because most Indo-European languages pronounce their numbers MS digits first.
BTW The Arabic numbers weren't even invented by the Arabic. Arabic numbers were originally invented in India and written in the Sanskrit language and the Devanagari script which runs left-to-right. Sanskrit numerals are pronounced MS digit first, so it makes sense that way as well. In Arabic, the so-called "Arabic" digits are called Indian digits even today.
I have been running an ISDN gateway with FreeBSD 4.2 on an AMD 5x86-133 which is roughly comparable to your Pentium 90 for some time. It works perfectly well. Compiling the operating system takes a bit long, but that's not much of a surprise.
ISDN support under FreeBSD is very convenient. It uses the isdn4bsd system, which is integrated into recent versions of FreeBSD. In my opinion, it's superior to Linux, partly because configuration is easier and partly because ituses user-mode ppp by default instead of kernel-based systems which are usually more difficult to configure and maintain. You have to see if your ISDN card is supported. Most passive cards are. Check the ISDN section of the FreeBSD handbook.
P.S. Once again, it must be pointed out that virii is not a word (and actually makes no sense linguistically).
It does make sense. As the singular word virus stems from Latin, it's plural version actually is virii.
w00t! Wrong. (Sorry, could not resist:-))
virus is not a Latin word in itself, partly because the good old Latin speakers didn't have a notion of viruses, but even if it were, the second i would be redundant. Viri would be perfectly enough, except that this is the plural of vir "man".
The English plural of virus is viruses, perfectly regular. In my opinion *virii is a bit of a hypercorrect form which someone invented to distinguish himself by his education.
I see a lot of people here talking about remaking their OS from cron jobs. Unattended recompiling of the operating system is not a good thing by itself; it can lead to a lot of strange trouble if you don't do it very cautiously.
I ran a FreeBSD 4-STABLE server for a while which I had configured for recompiling itself once per month from a cron job, which I considered a safe interval. A central problem that I ran into was changes in the operating system with respect to the configuration interface because the average automated recompile is incapable of updating configuration files - that's just too touch a job to do it with a few automated runs of diff and patch.
That's why in FreeBSD, they give you lots and lots of warnings about having to take backups before remaking the world, about updating config files (mergemaster (8) comes to mind) and so on. Heeding that advice is a very good idea. Trust me. Don't recompile from cron.
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This is uninformed and wrong. Apple tries to get as many developers for MacOS X as they possibly can because MacOS X is their platform.
X11 cannot be "integrated properly" into the OS X at all. In order to integrate, applications have to use the OS X GUI. Any application that uses a different GUI is not integrated. Maybe it runs, but it will look and feel different and awkward. Since X makes no constraints whatsoever on the look & feel of programes, except that it suggests they use windows, most X applications cannot be integrated with OS X at all, except programs such as LyX which have a GUI independence layer or Qt programs as soon as the proposed Qt for OS X arrives, and even these only to a limited extent.
Are you sure you're good at advertising for yourself?
2: Get out of the software business and start selling used cars instead?
That's Lhasa (= lasa) in Tibet (= xizang)!
Really interesting to see where this is run.
And a very interesting side note on the whole "US censors Chinese sites" issue.
Am I the only one who read this as BUY HER first? Because that's pretty much what you are talking about.
Gosh, if my girlfriend wanted a nigger slave for proposition, I'd not give her one out of principle. If she insists upon a diamond and it's against your principles, ask yourself what your principles mean to you.
Is it just me, or does the quote sound more like a BSD license model? There is clearly no mention of requiring others to give derivative work away for free.
Of course, ethical considerations suggest that they do that, but these do not need to be codified in the license. In that way, Franklin's appears to be more in the BSD direction.
Funny thing is: it did turn into the WWW in Europe. The WWW was developed at CERN, which is in Switzerland.
I had a similar suction cup crossbow when I was a kid, only mine was made of wood. I used it to fire small firecrackers (up to 3x3/8"). We lived next to a park, and after about a week of practice I could fire right into the park at good accuracy and make the crackers explode at about head level, scaring the hell out of anyone passing by because they didn't know where I was....
God, that was fun. And evil, too.
2.) Get out of the software business and start selling used cars instead.
The original novel is Polish. Polish has an "h" just like English.
The Prometheus reference is from the novel, too - a spaceship is named that way, so Soderberg is not even very creative about it. Rhea and Prometheus have absolutely nothing to do with each other in Greek mythology (he probably just considers himself educated and the names classic and Old World-ish). My hypothesis is that the only reason for "Rheya" is that it's an anagram of "Harey".
Please be so kind as to specify what "layers of meaning" you are talking about and how Soderberg is supposed to have been clever about it. At present, you've just given some explanations where some names might come from in Greek mythology, but you've been utterly silent as to what they mean.
How do you pronounce [rh] in English, anyway? Is it any different from [r] or is the extra "h" just there to look exotic?
If I can actually consider this one better than the original movie or at least an adequate rendering of the book, I'm giving out a free beer to anyone asking me for one on release day.
Actually, in this case it is MySQL not grokking Unicode correctly.
Read the article. The brightness requirement depends on the size of the projection display. If you want to project the whole thing on a skyscraper wall, well, you need a lot of light. If you want to project it on somebody's retina, you need a lot less light because the retina is so small. To be precise, you need precisely the amount of light that arrives on your retina from a normal monitor, and that's not very much (and not dangerous at all)
Basically, the consensus in the end was that it is impossible to avoid this sort of problem as long as you have a standard that encodes characters instead of glyphs (that means that Latin "o" and Cyrillic "o" are different characters, even though they look the same).
A character set that encoded glyphs instead of characters could avoid this. However, such charsets are extremely tedious to implement. It has been tried with the Adobe glyph registry and has been found insufficient.
In practice, glyph-based character sets are unusable. The reason is that they cannot be made fully round-trip compatible with existing character sets, such as ISO 8859 or the Windows codepages, because these legacy character sets encode characters instead of glyphs. If URLs were encoded in such a glyph-based character set, it would be impossible to embed URLs in any document in a legacy character set. No URLs in e-mails.
As a result, the only solution is to have application and operating system vendors implement checks for such situations and to have URL registries reject such obvious spoofing attempts (e.g. no mixed-alphabet URLs). Since the problem is not fundamentally different from registering slashdot.org, it is not even a problem that we weren't already aware of.
What do you want? You get the operating system source. That's the basic definition of open source: the source is open. No one said it should be free as in speech.
Of course they're offering it for free. You don't have to pay anything fot it. I don't know what other requirements you have for "being for free". It's not free software, but it's definitely software for free, which is better than nothing, especially given that it's such a cool system. I can't wait to implement 9P at the kernel level for OpenBeOS.
Your reasoning about the digit order in Arabic is wrong because it is completely irrelevant for addition whether your MS digit is on the left or on the right.
Arabic numbers are written LS right, MS left because of the way numbers are read in classical Arabic. Classical Arabic (unlike modern standard arabic) reads numbers LS digit first. Since Arabic is written right-to-left, the LS digit comes first, i.e. right. That's why Arabic numbers in Arabic script are written the way they are.
Since numeral ordering is a relatively script-independent thing, the order of the numerals was retained when the Arabic digits were adopted into the latin script (probably in medieval Spain). This is convenient because most Indo-European languages pronounce their numbers MS digits first.
BTW The Arabic numbers weren't even invented by the Arabic. Arabic numbers were originally invented in India and written in the Sanskrit language and the Devanagari script which runs left-to-right. Sanskrit numerals are pronounced MS digit first, so it makes sense that way as well. In Arabic, the so-called "Arabic" digits are called Indian digits even today.
A friend of mine proposed & married in Ultima Online. Actually, they married in UO first, then in real life. (Assuming UO isn't real life.)
This is about the very last comment to make when commenting on someone else's intention to marry, I think.
Do carbon nanotubes burn? Carbon does.
I have been running an ISDN gateway with FreeBSD 4.2 on an AMD 5x86-133 which is roughly comparable to your Pentium 90 for some time. It works perfectly well. Compiling the operating system takes a bit long, but that's not much of a surprise.
ISDN support under FreeBSD is very convenient. It uses the isdn4bsd system, which is integrated into recent versions of FreeBSD. In my opinion, it's superior to Linux, partly because configuration is easier and partly because ituses user-mode ppp by default instead of kernel-based systems which are usually more difficult to configure and maintain. You have to see if your ISDN card is supported. Most passive cards are. Check the ISDN section of the FreeBSD handbook.
w00t! Wrong. (Sorry, could not resist :-))
virus is not a Latin word in itself, partly because the good old Latin speakers didn't have a notion of viruses, but even if it were, the second i would be redundant. Viri would be perfectly enough, except that this is the plural of vir "man".
The English plural of virus is viruses, perfectly regular. In my opinion *virii is a bit of a hypercorrect form which someone invented to distinguish himself by his education.
I see a lot of people here talking about remaking their OS from cron jobs. Unattended recompiling of the operating system is not a good thing by itself; it can lead to a lot of strange trouble if you don't do it very cautiously.
I ran a FreeBSD 4-STABLE server for a while which I had configured for recompiling itself once per month from a cron job, which I considered a safe interval. A central problem that I ran into was changes in the operating system with respect to the configuration interface because the average automated recompile is incapable of updating configuration files - that's just too touch a job to do it with a few automated runs of diff and patch.
That's why in FreeBSD, they give you lots and lots of warnings about having to take backups before remaking the world, about updating config files (mergemaster (8) comes to mind) and so on. Heeding that advice is a very good idea. Trust me. Don't recompile from cron.