If your server was in china, *that* server would have to be operated in compliance with Chinese law. Operating a server in China shouldn't mean that China's contract laws effect a contract you draw up in Germany regarding a server you will operate in Germany. Could the French stop a physical auction on US soil because French citizens attended?
My take is that a crime which crosses an international boundary should result in two trials and two punishments. Similar to military personal and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, where its not double jepordy to be tried for an act in civilian courts, punished, and then when released to be court martialed (for a different crime, yet the same act). If it had to be one or the other, I'd say try them in the US. The discharge of a weapon occured in Canada, but the unlawful death occured in the US.
I have considered purchasing Mathematica for Linux. I wouldn't purchase anything else. Would you *really* buy MS Office if it was ported? I have Win2K with Office2K provided at my office at school. I run cygwin's bash shell, vim, gcc, python, java, and Mathematica. The only thing I really notice is that Vide is a better file manager than windows.
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By the way, Mathematica's MathLink has a JLink "wrapper" now. Allows for Java to be called directly from Mathematica. The JVM acts as a script engine, a line of Java at a time.
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I just finished a semester of Java, and all I can say is Thank God it was cleaner than MFC! I agree that the GUI is the weak point, but isn't there GTK bindings? One's code could thus use natively compiled graphical libraries...as long as those libraries exist on the relevant platforms.
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Kinda like science? Where the idea is to publish for peer review? Or has Computer *Science* become just Information Systems?
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As long as NASA and Los Alamos and Sandia and Lawrence Livermore keep developing, I don't really care what the beancounters use. If linux never enters the e-corp world, I'm still happy it runs on IBM 390s. That could be useful. World dominance? I'd just like to CS go back to meaning Computer *Science* instead of merely refering to "systems".
I triple boot Mandrake, W2K, and W98. W2K is not stable, or I wouldn't have W98 still on my machine. W2K doesn't interupt you with bluescreens as often, because it can do partial reboots fast, on its own. But it did take down its partition (twice). The second time it couldn't even reinstall (even after it alleged to have reformatted the partition.)
The "most stable browser you've ever seen" can choke part way through loading a page. In order to load fully, the cache has to be emptied else IE continues to reload the partial page. I've never seen this with any other browser.
Opera and Lynx are faster. Mozilla.9 feels faster than IE, even in windows. Its just not true that IE is the dominant browser. IE isn't even the dominant browser in Windows.
He said "selling fruit", not "picking fruit". You confuse commodities with the service industry. But then again, programming *is* a service industry...
Wouldn't it be more appropriate, in terms of discussing the number of programmers who would be employable under a paradigmn shift, to consider the number of programmers currently assigned to inhouse work vs those doing "for public, retail release"? Perhaps the number of programmer-hours billed? Rather than lines of code?
If they release under the GPL then any GPL based company can and should use their code. If they release under BSD then Apple and Microsoft also get free use of their code.
I went looking for the mathML and SVG enhanced betas on their project site. Found a x686 RPM that I installed. This mozilla is more responsive than IE or Netscape. Menus fly. Maybe I just got lucky? I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on an 800Mhz Athlon, just 128MB ram...
What about issues of national security? Do you really want NSA cryptographic published? What about military software for radar imaging? Isn't there some areas where you expect a government has the responsibility as well as a right to develop without publishing?
Actually its the otherway around. We have both VC++ and cygwin gcc available for our computational physics class. The students all start with VC++, then migrate to gcc because there is no way to finish their projects and stay with the course pace with VC++.
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If your server was in china, *that* server would have to be operated in compliance with Chinese law. Operating a server in China shouldn't mean that China's contract laws effect a contract you draw up in Germany regarding a server you will operate in Germany. Could the French stop a physical auction on US soil because French citizens attended?
My take is that a crime which crosses an international boundary should result in two trials and two punishments. Similar to military personal and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, where its not double jepordy to be tried for an act in civilian courts, punished, and then when released to be court martialed (for a different crime, yet the same act). If it had to be one or the other, I'd say try them in the US. The discharge of a weapon occured in Canada, but the unlawful death occured in the US.
I have considered purchasing Mathematica for Linux. I wouldn't purchase anything else. Would you *really* buy MS Office if it was ported? I have Win2K with Office2K provided at my office at school. I run cygwin's bash shell, vim, gcc, python, java, and Mathematica. The only thing I really notice is that Vide is a better file manager than windows.
By the way, Mathematica's MathLink has a JLink "wrapper" now. Allows for Java to be called directly from Mathematica. The JVM acts as a script engine, a line of Java at a time.
I just finished a semester of Java, and all I can say is Thank God it was cleaner than MFC! I agree that the GUI is the weak point, but isn't there GTK bindings? One's code could thus use natively compiled graphical libraries...as long as those libraries exist on the relevant platforms.
"solutions" is a service
Kinda like science? Where the idea is to publish for peer review? Or has Computer *Science* become just Information Systems?
You confuse manufacturing and service industries.
The Modern skin is beautiful. Easily the prettiest browser I currently run. But skins make "look" arbitrary, so I'm not sure how much this matters.
As long as NASA and Los Alamos and Sandia and Lawrence Livermore keep developing, I don't really care what the beancounters use. If linux never enters the e-corp world, I'm still happy it runs on IBM 390s. That could be useful. World dominance? I'd just like to CS go back to meaning Computer *Science* instead of merely refering to "systems".
I triple boot Mandrake, W2K, and W98. W2K is not stable, or I wouldn't have W98 still on my machine. W2K doesn't interupt you with bluescreens as often, because it can do partial reboots fast, on its own. But it did take down its partition (twice). The second time it couldn't even reinstall (even after it alleged to have reformatted the partition.)
The "most stable browser you've ever seen" can choke part way through loading a page. In order to load fully, the cache has to be emptied else IE continues to reload the partial page. I've never seen this with any other browser.
Opera and Lynx are faster. Mozilla .9 feels faster than IE, even in windows. Its just not true that IE is the dominant browser. IE isn't even the dominant browser in Windows.
Does it matter that Larry Flynt was an *established* "foul mouthed, publisher"? It at least helped him pay attorney fees...
He said "selling fruit", not "picking fruit". You confuse commodities with the service industry. But then again, programming *is* a service industry...
Maybe Caldera's next move is to buy BeOS?
Wouldn't it be more appropriate, in terms of discussing the number of programmers who would be employable under a paradigmn shift, to consider the number of programmers currently assigned to inhouse work vs those doing "for public, retail release"? Perhaps the number of programmer-hours billed? Rather than lines of code?
If they release under the GPL then any GPL based company can and should use their code. If they release under BSD then Apple and Microsoft also get free use of their code.
Widgets, Buttons, and Pop-Up windows in pretty colors can all be text-based. The UI doesn't need to be G.
Wasn't the idea originally to write all the GNU tools in lisp? To port unix to lisp? Unix is C, and Linux is C, but emacs is elisp...
I went looking for the mathML and SVG enhanced betas on their project site. Found a x686 RPM that I installed. This mozilla is more responsive than IE or Netscape. Menus fly. Maybe I just got lucky? I'm running Mandrake 7.2 on an 800Mhz Athlon, just 128MB ram...
I got it. And i thought it was FUNNY, too. Somebody please up both of these.
No one is trying to force anyone to disclose their sourcecode. Just that if they don't, the code won't meet the requirements. Big difference.
What about issues of national security? Do you really want NSA cryptographic published? What about military software for radar imaging? Isn't there some areas where you expect a government has the responsibility as well as a right to develop without publishing?
Actually its the otherway around. We have both VC++ and cygwin gcc available for our computational physics class. The students all start with VC++, then migrate to gcc because there is no way to finish their projects and stay with the course pace with VC++.
So under the GPL I'd be able to hide my changes only if I never distributed the software. Doesn't sound very "free" to me.
Sounds like a working definition of freedom to me.