Microsoft's Tony Goodhew, project manager for Share Source CLI, said Microsoft is moving in the same direction as open source code advocates, but wishes to continue to protect its intellectual property from commercial exploitation by others.
Funny, I thought the GPL was protecting my code from commercial exploitation.
Anyway, times have changed and I wouldn't use Slackware anymore because I like modern OSes, with modern graphical interfaces...
Uhh... Slackware has included KDE and GNOME (contributed) since version 4.0. Seems like those two graphical desktops are modern, but maybe I am just a plain-old UNIX nostalgic...
...used a complicated computer model to simulate...
Please. Given how easy it would be to bias a computer model, this 'research' is laughable.
...hunting but also of environmental chaos wrought by humans, such as burning the landscape to facilitate hunting or travel.
Okay, so these nomadic, hunter-gathers would set fires that they have no way of controlling to facilitate 'hunting or travel'. Come on! --
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According to this/. article, the AP CS exam will soon be in Java, so it figures to be a standard soon enough.
I am certain the same outcry was heard when folks switched from Pascal (what I learned in CS in early 1990's) to C++.
My advice to you: get over it. Even if Java is a fad (which is not), its operators and control statements are so much like C and C++ that once you have mastered one of them (like Java), switching will not be terrible. You should spend your time learning how to solve problems using software and not get hung up on the details of a particular language.
Or forget everything I just said and do everything in LISP. --
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This whole interview reminds me of the scene from The Princess Bride when the hero of the movie listens to the rambling, illogical Scilian and then says:
Clearly, you have a dizzying intellect.
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Because/. editors do not act in concert. I personally have submitted 3 stories that were rejected only to be submitted by another/.er and posted. IMHO - This is the most irrating aspect of/. --
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Reading about nuclear weapons in 1940 would have seemed outrageous too.
Apparently, Michael slept through his history classes because research on the Atom bomb (as it was called then) started before 1940.
On August 2nd 1939, just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote to then President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Einstein and several other scientists told Roosevelt of efforts in Nazi Germany to purify U-235 with which might in turn be used to build an atomic bomb. It was shortly thereafter that the United States Government began the serious undertaking
known only then as the Manhattan Project. Simply put, the Manhattan Project was committed to expedient research and production that would produce a viable atomic bomb.
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This article, stating the future in defined terms 'we will do this' reminds of when I found a Time-Life book series. I found it about 4 years ago, but the books were written in 1970. At that time (and now) the oceans were thought to be the Final Frontier. The book explained, in definitive terms like those in this article, about how we would harvest the ocean, live in the ocean, everything from the ocean.
Wonder what happened between the author's definitive speculation and the reality that did not occur? --
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For technical specifications of your PHP scripts, classes, etc., I recommend PHPDoc:
PHPDoc is an adoption of Javadoc to the PHP world. PHPDoc is written in PHP. It offers you a way to generate an API documentation of objectoriented and procedural code with certain markup in your source. PHPDoc is an Open Source Project and gets distributed under the PHP Licence. That means you can use it in commercials projects.
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If you need proof, you need to graduate college.
Why don't you fuck off. I was coding when you were still sucking on your mom's tit. --
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I have not heard of SAP DB. Thanks for the post, I will check it out! --
"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Maybe you should try using these databases before discounting them. Just because MySQL does not have transactions or row-level locking does not mean other 'free' RDBMS do not. As far as your claim that 'you tried'. What, exactly, did you try? Maybe the 'experts' you hired were stupid or incompetent. Maybe your architecture is inefficient. Maybe a hundred other things caused these problems and you incorrectly thought it was the fault of the database. --
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There is a significant performance increase on most user's machines when they compile their own programs. In particular, the kernel, X server, and GUI (like KDE) will increase your system performance significantly.
Most distributions compile for the lowest common denomenator PC architecture (386,486,Pentium - depends on distro). Most of us run P2, P3 - a big difference in processor architecture. The compiler 'knows' which type of processor you have, so when you recompile software, the compiler can take advantage of the new technology in the new processors. Hence, your program is compiled with the new technology and the net result (generally) is that you get faster programs. --
"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Have you tried removepkg on Slack? If you install a tar ball (.tgz), it will remove all of the files installed. Really only useful for binary installations, but I thought I would point out the existence of the Slackware package tools. The 'pkgtool' is a graphical interface to these command line tools:
installpkg
removepkg
updatepkg
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Has Debian even gotten to the 2.2 kernels? I am sure Debian is the new 'chic cool' distro for 'hardcore' Linux guys, but their update cycle is way too slow, IMHO. --
"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
How about <ctrl-R> or <F5> to reload the document. Holding the mouse button and moving the mouse around to reload sounds more complicated (never tried the b-n-w software, tho'). --
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but the last time I actually was able to use it in a job that I was paid for was 1993.
Why is that? At my full-time job, we use CVS. For my side consulting gigs, I use CVS. For me 'free' development, I use CVS. IMHO, the best features of CVS is the client server stuff.
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These tasks take a deep understanding of how Unix works plus the willingness to dig through pages and pages of obscure documentation, and then you have to munge some text files to get things working properly.
Please. When's the last time you installed a Linux distribution? 1995?
Instead of requiring you to screw around with a bunch of text files and hope you got your settings right, Mac OS X simply works.
Munging text files is the only way to make sure they work. Microsoft used the same arguments for the Winblows 95 registry. No more config files to edit. The all-encompassing registry 'will do it' (tm). Windows 'simply works' (tm).
...amazing graphics layer, a solid user interface, outstanding Macintosh compatibility, and brain-dead-simple installation. These are things that are still just a glint in Linux's proverbial eye.
And just like all Macs before it, no one will write any software for OS X.
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Slashdot Mirror
Funny, I thought the GPL was protecting my code from commercial exploitation.
Uhh... Slackware has included KDE and GNOME (contributed) since version 4.0. Seems like those two graphical desktops are modern, but maybe I am just a plain-old UNIX nostalgic...
Please. Given how easy it would be to bias a computer model, this 'research' is laughable.
Okay, so these nomadic, hunter-gathers would set fires that they have no way of controlling to facilitate 'hunting or travel'. Come on!
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
I am certain the same outcry was heard when folks switched from Pascal (what I learned in CS in early 1990's) to C++.
My advice to you: get over it. Even if Java is a fad (which is not), its operators and control statements are so much like C and C++ that once you have mastered one of them (like Java), switching will not be terrible. You should spend your time learning how to solve problems using software and not get hung up on the details of a particular language.
Or forget everything I just said and do everything in LISP.
--
"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Clearly, you have a dizzying intellect.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
can be found here.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Because /. editors do not act in concert. I personally have submitted 3 stories that were rejected only to be submitted by another /.er and posted. IMHO - This is the most irrating aspect of /.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Apparently, Michael slept through his history classes because research on the Atom bomb (as it was called then) started before 1940.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Yes, the infamous statement: 'by the year 2000...'
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Wonder what happened between the author's definitive speculation and the reality that did not occur?
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
For technical specifications of your PHP scripts, classes, etc., I recommend PHPDoc:
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What was your point, anyway?
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If you need proof, you need to graduate college. Why don't you fuck off. I was coding when you were still sucking on your mom's tit.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
I have not heard of SAP DB. Thanks for the post, I will check it out!
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Pardon me for spoiling your FUD, but:
Maybe you should try using these databases before discounting them. Just because MySQL does not have transactions or row-level locking does not mean other 'free' RDBMS do not. As far as your claim that 'you tried'. What, exactly, did you try? Maybe the 'experts' you hired were stupid or incompetent. Maybe your architecture is inefficient. Maybe a hundred other things caused these problems and you incorrectly thought it was the fault of the database.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Excellent point. I had not considered it.
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Most distributions compile for the lowest common denomenator PC architecture (386,486,Pentium - depends on distro). Most of us run P2, P3 - a big difference in processor architecture. The compiler 'knows' which type of processor you have, so when you recompile software, the compiler can take advantage of the new technology in the new processors. Hence, your program is compiled with the new technology and the net result (generally) is that you get faster programs.
--
"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
--
"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Has Debian even gotten to the 2.2 kernels? I am sure Debian is the new 'chic cool' distro for 'hardcore' Linux guys, but their update cycle is way too slow, IMHO.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
su - root /etc/inetd.conf
:wq
vi
-- comment out undesired services --
$killall -hup inetd
Sheesh! It's not rocket science...
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How about <ctrl-R> or <F5> to reload the document. Holding the mouse button and moving the mouse around to reload sounds more complicated (never tried the b-n-w software, tho').
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Just curious, why do you have both?
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I like the psycho-girlfriend link on Jacks HTTP server.
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Why is that? At my full-time job, we use CVS. For my side consulting gigs, I use CVS. For me 'free' development, I use CVS. IMHO, the best features of CVS is the client server stuff.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."
Please. When's the last time you installed a Linux distribution? 1995?
Instead of requiring you to screw around with a bunch of text files and hope you got your settings right, Mac OS X simply works.
Munging text files is the only way to make sure they work. Microsoft used the same arguments for the Winblows 95 registry. No more config files to edit. The all-encompassing registry 'will do it' (tm). Windows 'simply works' (tm).
And just like all Macs before it, no one will write any software for OS X.
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"In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL."