Ignore everyone who tells you kernel hacking is hard, special or different. It's a large program, and bug fixing or driver tweaking can be a best starting point. It is however not magic, nor written in a secret language that only deep initiates with beards can read.
That's great advice for everything in the world, actually. There's nothing so difficult that people can't figure it out, unless you listen to guys in Rome with pointy hats.
yes, that too. on the other hand, caveat emptor. If you haven't -bought- it, then how liable can the provider be?
The only similar thing is a charitable donation, and I don't know if a donater would be liable if a donated item (such as a car) causes injury. You've always got the option to refuse the gift.
It does not have to be that way. Why not put in exemption for software that comes with source code? The presumption could be that releasing source code allows the user to take responsibility for the correct operation of the software. Also consider that the OSS writer has little or no control over changes the user might make (and that's one of the main points, isn't it?)
What needs to be made illegal are EULAs that absolve the software creator of guilt for flaws. Ford is liable for putting the wrong tires on SUVs and causing people to die. Ask Explorer owners (if you can talk to people that would buy one nowadays) how they would have reacted to such a license, and imagine how the courts would have reacted.
You've also made an excellent point about the futility of the GPL, but I digress.
M$ and Big Software would love this law. It would effectively kill the free/open-source software movement. Who besides MS, Sun, Oracle, et al. can afford to take a chance on getting hit for $10k for each bug? I wouldn't be surprised if Larry, Bill, and Bill are behind this...
but people havent woken up to Sony yet , Sony are just about the only company that can complete the --snip--
Well, you can CHOOSE not to use Sony. I have for just this reason. I buy an occasional CD that comes from a Sony artist but anything else I own that's Sony-made has been bought secondhand. I don't like their corporate culture, their proprietary stance and I don't like their pervasiveness. Not buying new Sony-branded stuff hasn't made my life bad.
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Get a dictionary, dumbass. I said SECTS which means different teachings of a religion. I know and have known plenty of mainstream Muslims, from Pakistani immigrants to American converts, and none of them are bloodthirsty. However, they follow the main path, which I am willfully saying is the MAJORITY path.
The MINORITY follows a perverted form of the religion. Combine a perverted form of a religion (that's ANY religion, mind you, I'm not even a Christian) with these unevolved ethnic hatreds and you get a bloodthirsty culture, PERIOD.
If you believe any differently, you are clearly a product of the Political Correctness police. A spade is a spade.
that's right, credit where credit is due. XP rules for home use.
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Karma whoring aside, it's true. Some cultures are bloodthirsty. Some are not. Sometimes they're next to each other (i.e. Kurds vs. Iraqi Sunni). Sometimes they're 1000s of miles apart. It's ugly and it's not PC, but it's reality and if you value truth you'll accept it.
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That, and had the Palestinians taken a King/Ghandi approach to their current situation (apartheid), they would stand on much higher moral ground than the Israelis. But that's another story entirely. To devotees of certain sects of Islam, violence IS the moral high ground. You're not talking about Western culture where peace is preferable, you're talking about a culture where war is a holy thing. It's a sacrament, like the altar at your church. Instead of taking communion, you shoot someone to get closer to Allah. Keep that in mind when you start spouting "give peace a chance" - that's not an option for these people.
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the human brain is a massively parallel analog computer. it is infinitely more flexible than a digital single-processor unit.
Of course, it would be much more powerful if it didn't have to control a body, too..
all the colonies knew that they had to get together to fight the british, but I don't believe that they really wanted to become a unified government until they realized that it was probably a good idea.
Once people started saying "I'm American" instead of "I'm Virginian" or "I'm from New York" that's when the USA became a nation instead of a coalition.
All major incidents of dissent in US history (especially the civil war) have been based on states' rights. Even the civil right's movement had a strong states' rights background behind it, which the supreme court rightly struck down.
Unity is a good thing as long as it doesn't come with loss of identity, or conversion to an inferior identity.
you'd say the same thing about the USA if we called our geographic entities "nations" instead of "states". (In the dictionary, state and nation are synonyms.)
What Europe is doing is just what the First Continental Congress did before the Revolutionary War, unifying the governments for the benefit of all members. There aren't any nasty rogue states in Western and Central Europe anymore, so why not?
Typical liberal. The people are idiots...only we elite know what's best for them, and we'll make the government force-feed it to them whether they want it or not. And lets attack anybody who disagrees with us by calling them names and using foul language.
I apologize for hurting your soft ears. Your daddy Reagan was more elitist than a million liberals, though. Nothing's more elitist than handing the keys of civilization (i.e. money) to people who already own the bodies and minds of the masses (i.e. the super-rich).
I'll grant you that for civil engineering. It's one of the oldest disciplines (back to the ancients) and there's so much knowledge that it would be criminal not to use it. Still, one can go buy the textbooks and learn it themselves if they're sufficiently motivated. Strictly speaking, a university is NOT needed to learn this, but it's so often arcane that it might as well be.
In contrast, Computer Science is one of the newest technology disciplines. There's not much from the short history of programming that applies to today's software engineering practices, other than basic notions of economy and flow control. Any bright person with the right kind of mind (process-oriented) can learn that in a few days of working on something. And they always have to, because, a lot of the things that are used in the real world that the old folks in universities don't even know it.
It doesn't take 4-5 years of university CS to be a programmer (or to be a software engineer if you're one of those that think they're something different). It just takes the drive and the right type of mind. Fortunately I have both of those, because I hate school with a passion. There are some things that make me regret not finishing my degree, but not many.
Trying to accomplish it by government dictate with taxpayer's dollars is doomed to failure and is just socialist social engineering.
You need to stop watching Bill O'Reilly. What's so bad about the government HELPING PEOPLE?? Would you prefer, say, Microsoft driving the free software development? Do you actually think that a soulless corporation is preferable to the government? At least the gov't has a reason to want the country to succeed - they want to exist! Corps don't care about nations and cultures, in fact they're mostly "obstacles to business".
Also, you've forgotten the one rule of American society: people are idiots. Therefore, you have to work with the lowest common denominator. Motivate through rhetoric and only let a few think, because they're the only ones who can.
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you need to get more PBR sometime. I've yet to find an online liquor store that delivers.
It may be less of a savings, but it's still less than $80k.
Savings is savings, especially to companies that have to report lower expenses on the income statement to keep their stock prices up.
Everyone has to work. Not everyone has to work for an asshole.
That's the best quote I've seen on Slashdot in a long time. Can I keep it?
Say the average salary for an experienced developer is $80k. (I'm in St. Louis, YMMV)
65% of that is $52,000.
Where do you see YOUR career headed?
I use xfce on my old P266 laptop. It works pretty well for something that's intended to be lightweight.
Yes, I know I can say "fucking" on slashdot, but I prefer not to.
Good, because we don't need that shit around here, goddamn it
Ignore everyone who tells you kernel hacking is hard, special or different. It's a large program, and bug fixing or driver tweaking can be a best starting point. It is however not magic, nor written in a secret language that only deep initiates with beards can read.
That's great advice for everything in the world, actually. There's nothing so difficult that people can't figure it out, unless you listen to guys in Rome with pointy hats.
Dudez, im righting this email on my iPaq and listening to a Rancid MP3! iPaqs rule! Palms are seriously gay!
Rancid? You just lost all credibility here
yes, that too. on the other hand, caveat emptor. If you haven't -bought- it, then how liable can the provider be?
The only similar thing is a charitable donation, and I don't know if a donater would be liable if a donated item (such as a car) causes injury. You've always got the option to refuse the gift.
actually, I hadn't, but it's a pretty obvious analogy, so it's my fault for lack of creativity :)
It does not have to be that way. Why not put in exemption for software that comes with source code? The presumption could be that releasing source code allows the user to take responsibility for the correct operation of the software. Also consider that the OSS writer has little or no control over changes the user might make (and that's one of the main points, isn't it?)
What needs to be made illegal are EULAs that absolve the software creator of guilt for flaws. Ford is liable for putting the wrong tires on SUVs and causing people to die. Ask Explorer owners (if you can talk to people that would buy one nowadays) how they would have reacted to such a license, and imagine how the courts would have reacted.
You've also made an excellent point about the futility of the GPL, but I digress.
M$ and Big Software would love this law. It would effectively kill the free/open-source software movement. Who besides MS, Sun, Oracle, et al. can afford to take a chance on getting hit for $10k for each bug? I wouldn't be surprised if Larry, Bill, and Bill are behind this...
but people havent woken up to Sony yet , Sony are just about the only company that can complete the --snip--
Well, you can CHOOSE not to use Sony. I have for just this reason. I buy an occasional CD that comes from a Sony artist but anything else I own that's Sony-made has been bought secondhand. I don't like their corporate culture, their proprietary stance and I don't like their pervasiveness. Not buying new Sony-branded stuff hasn't made my life bad.
Get a dictionary, dumbass. I said SECTS which means different teachings of a religion. I know and have known plenty of mainstream Muslims, from Pakistani immigrants to American converts, and none of them are bloodthirsty. However, they follow the main path, which I am willfully saying is the MAJORITY path.
The MINORITY follows a perverted form of the religion. Combine a perverted form of a religion (that's ANY religion, mind you, I'm not even a Christian) with these unevolved ethnic hatreds and you get a bloodthirsty culture, PERIOD.
If you believe any differently, you are clearly a product of the Political Correctness police. A spade is a spade.
that's right, credit where credit is due. XP rules for home use.
Karma whoring aside, it's true. Some cultures are bloodthirsty. Some are not. Sometimes they're next to each other (i.e. Kurds vs. Iraqi Sunni). Sometimes they're 1000s of miles apart. It's ugly and it's not PC, but it's reality and if you value truth you'll accept it.
That, and had the Palestinians taken a King/Ghandi approach to their current situation (apartheid), they would stand on much higher moral ground than the Israelis. But that's another story entirely.
To devotees of certain sects of Islam, violence IS the moral high ground. You're not talking about Western culture where peace is preferable, you're talking about a culture where war is a holy thing. It's a sacrament, like the altar at your church. Instead of taking communion, you shoot someone to get closer to Allah. Keep that in mind when you start spouting "give peace a chance" - that's not an option for these people.
the human brain is a massively parallel analog computer. it is infinitely more flexible than a digital single-processor unit.
Of course, it would be much more powerful if it didn't have to control a body, too..
Just get the drones to play each other at tic-tac-toe and the futility of war will dawn on them after a few draws.
We've (humans) had thousands of years of evidence, but we still don't get it.
problem is, we keep dying and then the next generation has to learn the same thing. sometimes they do, but sometimes they don't.
all the colonies knew that they had to get together to fight the british, but I don't believe that they really wanted to become a unified government until they realized that it was probably a good idea.
Once people started saying "I'm American" instead of "I'm Virginian" or "I'm from New York" that's when the USA became a nation instead of a coalition.
All major incidents of dissent in US history (especially the civil war) have been based on states' rights. Even the civil right's movement had a strong states' rights background behind it, which the supreme court rightly struck down.
Unity is a good thing as long as it doesn't come with loss of identity, or conversion to an inferior identity.
it was to show them what we had, so they would think twice about continuing the war after Japan surrendered to us.
you'd say the same thing about the USA if we called our geographic entities "nations" instead of "states". (In the dictionary, state and nation are synonyms.)
What Europe is doing is just what the First Continental Congress did before the Revolutionary War, unifying the governments for the benefit of all members. There aren't any nasty rogue states in Western and Central Europe anymore, so why not?
society: people are idiots.
Typical liberal. The people are idiots...only we elite know what's best for them, and we'll make the government force-feed it to them whether they want it or not. And lets attack anybody who disagrees with us by calling them names and using foul language.
I apologize for hurting your soft ears. Your daddy Reagan was more elitist than a million liberals, though. Nothing's more elitist than handing the keys of civilization (i.e. money) to people who already own the bodies and minds of the masses (i.e. the super-rich).
I'll grant you that for civil engineering. It's one of the oldest disciplines (back to the ancients) and there's so much knowledge that it would be criminal not to use it. Still, one can go buy the textbooks and learn it themselves if they're sufficiently motivated. Strictly speaking, a university is NOT needed to learn this, but it's so often arcane that it might as well be.
In contrast, Computer Science is one of the newest technology disciplines. There's not much from the short history of programming that applies to today's software engineering practices, other than basic notions of economy and flow control. Any bright person with the right kind of mind (process-oriented) can learn that in a few days of working on something. And they always have to, because, a lot of the things that are used in the real world that the old folks in universities don't even know it.
It doesn't take 4-5 years of university CS to be a programmer (or to be a software engineer if you're one of those that think they're something different). It just takes the drive and the right type of mind. Fortunately I have both of those, because I hate school with a passion. There are some things that make me regret not finishing my degree, but not many.
Trying to accomplish it by government dictate with taxpayer's dollars is doomed to failure and is just socialist social engineering.
You need to stop watching Bill O'Reilly. What's so bad about the government HELPING PEOPLE?? Would you prefer, say, Microsoft driving the free software development? Do you actually think that a soulless corporation is preferable to the government? At least the gov't has a reason to want the country to succeed - they want to exist! Corps don't care about nations and cultures, in fact they're mostly "obstacles to business".
Also, you've forgotten the one rule of American society: people are idiots. Therefore, you have to work with the lowest common denominator. Motivate through rhetoric and only let a few think, because they're the only ones who can.
Libertarians are so fucking naive.