I mean, WTF? People really are confused about GNU/Linux aint they? When the FSF asks you to refer to the entire system as GNU/Linux they are not asking you to refer to the kernel as GNU/Linux. So if you're going to post a story on Slashdot it that is 100% entirely about the kernel then it makes absolutely no sense to put it in the GNU section.
Apple is under the same obligation as every corporation: to make money for their shareholders. Jobs should be outright fired for this action, and then be charged for failing to perform his duties as a head of a corporation.
the total lack of formal methods in the software we develop today means we have to use comments to document our intentions and design decisions. This is obvious to anyone who has some experience in the industry. If we had formal specifications a large number of comments would be pushed up from the code into the specification.. but seeing as we're currently incapable of working with more than 2 files at the same time (many people have trouble keeping their header files in sync with their source files unless the compiler complains about something) that's not going to happen any time soon.
here here. That's a very well written little rant there. Thanks for writing it.
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or as the hip kids say these days "climate change". Either that or we have to go find a relevant passage in the bible (preferably the book of revelations) or some random drawl that nostradamus pumped out.
Yeah there is, they can stop selling to the UK audience. If you lie on a web site and say you are from the US when it asks if you are from the UK you'll be prosecuted for fraud.
Putting people in space does not help people make a return on their investment. That said, I'll now contradict myself. Suppose you built a nice big space station on which 1 million people could live. Each of these 1 million people would have to pay a heck of a lot of money to keep themselves supplied with goods. Water will be the top priority. When people are living in orbit and paying $100/ltr for water they're gunna jump at the chance to pay $50/ltr for water mined from an asteroid. Of course, this is not a sustainable colony we're talking about, that's just a business model for really rich tourists to go to space.
As for the moon, there's no real need to "bring down" asteroids into a lunar crater.. craters were formed by asteroids in the first place. Every major crater probably has more asteroid material in it than any of the near earth asteroids we are tracking today. So mining the moon probably is more economical than mining near earth asteroids as moving to a new crater once you've mined out an existing crater is a very cheap operation.
avoiding your flamebait, what you've just said merely reiterates my confusion. The benefit of using FreeBSD is that these "same folks" do the development of the entire OS, not just the kernel, but if you are going to sit down and use KDE day in and day out, you're really not using anything but the kernel out of that collection of software which you call the "entire OS".
What's the point? To me and many others *BSD is about 1) a different license and 2) a different philosophy of development - that is, centralised development of an entire operating system, not just a kernel. Of course, this has never really been true as X11 has always been a seperate project to all *BSD machines, so the "whole OS" concept really doesn't fly - but at least the licenses were similar. Then you go plop KDE into the mix.
Asteroids.. I bought that line too, it was good and it made me feel warm inside. But getting those asteroids back to a market is expensive. It's not cheap launch capacity we need, it's cheap de-orbit capacity. Then we could send an automated probe to mine these asteroids, make rocket fuel from the resources on them, fire payloads back to earth, perform magical de-orbit technique, collect materials from where they land, perform any processing necessary, and sell em. All that would take so much logistics that a simple launch will look easy in comparison.
Space development is the same old problem. As soon as you know enough technical information to make informed decisions about space travel you have lost the ability to think like a business man. If you could get a 500% return on a 10 year investment with minimal risk I guarentee that you would see private efforts to acheive that. As we don't, it is clear that no-one has come up with a business plan that can deliver that kind of return as of yet. Even a similar return over a 25 year period would be acceptable to some investors.. 50 years is somewhat more pie-in-the-sky and looks even more risky.
Finally, we can make some real space vehicles. Fission is the most energy dense technology we have.. it's what we should be using in space. When fusion comes along we may well have something better, but until then we should use what we have.
All that "data" he got out was in a proprietary format which he then had to reverse engineer. That's what Larry was bitching about. Not that he had any right to.
Ya know, although I agree with you entirely, I think you're being dishonest by not mentioning that one of the things your users can do is sell the code for less than you are selling the code for (including putting it on their web site with absolutely no charge). When the vast majority of your users have access to the internet charging "as much as you can get away with" quickly becomes zero.
The way to actually charge money for the development of software is to charge your users for voting rights over what you develop next, and charge for access to "premium" download servers. In a few months you will see unofficial servers pop up where people who are not paying can get the software, but there's nothing you can do about that (and you shouldn't want to). So unless your servers are really good people will not pay to have access to them, but they will still pay to have voting rights, especially if you ignore all requests made by users who are not paying you.
Well the RFC for well known port numbers specifies that port 80 is for public access to a system using the HTTP protocol, but you're right, you don't have authorisation, and the first thing you should do is look for authorisation when you get to a web site. The fact that we don't just shows that us geek types havn't really thought through the legal implications of our systems.. how unusual! On the other hand, the exact same RFC states that port 5000, the port Larry put his BitKeeper repository on, is a "private" port.
Larry specifically said that thunk.org was for people using the BitKeeper client to connect to. That is, he provided a license for you to connect to his port and the requirement was that you were a user of one of his clients (and had therefore agreed to the license). The reason Larry hasn't gone after Tridge directly is simply that it would cause more trouble than it was worth. In fact, the TCP protocol actually supports him. He didn't put his service on a well known port, he put it on port 5000, a port that is defined by internet standards to be "private".
I figured it was some sort of artificial creation of brains to be kept in jars. Theoretically you could program a computer to study everything a famous person ever was recorded as saying, combine that with known world events of the time and come up with a pretty good computer model of that person. Then you just need to print out a brain with a standard neural imprinter and you're done.
Well, the key point of demolition man was not that they freeze criminals, it's that they subject the prisoners to personality altering technology which takes a very long time to be effective, therefore they have to be frozen. When they get thawed out they're happy functional members of society.
It's funny that Futurama has the technological development of two distinct and competing technologies for longevity. Fry gets frozen in the chrogenics centre, wakes up in the future and, a few episodes later, discovers that celebrities live on as brains in jars. If we had the technology to keep a human brain alive and kicking I'd much prefer that to getting my head lopped off and frozen in the hope that a sufficiently advanced technology will one day be able to revive me. Even if it ment I had to spend the rest of my days as a body-less paraplegic in a wheelchair I think I'd rather that than to die from cancer.
Hybernation offers a third technology. Instead of lopping off my head at the first sign of cancer, you could put my body into hybernation and keep my brain active with regular stimulation. Hopefully you could do it by jacking me into a video game. I could handle living in MxO, as long as it was on a non-hostile server. Maybe I could even earn a living as a member of the Live Events team.
What I was claiming is that it is illegal for him to access Larry's computer without authorisation, just like it is illegal for him to drive my car without authorisation. That was the analogy. If you don't think it is illegal to access Larry's computer without authorisation then please, just say so. I happen to think it is, and the fact that there are laws for which people have been charged which are entitled "unauthorised access to computer resources" makes my case pretty strong.
On the other hand, a license plate number is public property. Everyone has the right to copy that down. The kernel is, in a way, public property, everyone has the right to copy that down too. The question is not whether Tridge was breaking the law by copying that down, the question is whether or not Tridge was breaking the law by going into Larry's computer to copy that down. I believe the law states that Larry has to give Tridge permission to do that.
You're like the 4th person to say that. The point of autovectorization is that all programs can benefit from SIMD instructions, not just the ones where programmers thought it might be a good idea.
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I mean, WTF? People really are confused about GNU/Linux aint they? When the FSF asks you to refer to the entire system as GNU/Linux they are not asking you to refer to the kernel as GNU/Linux. So if you're going to post a story on Slashdot it that is 100% entirely about the kernel then it makes absolutely no sense to put it in the GNU section.
Apple is under the same obligation as every corporation: to make money for their shareholders. Jobs should be outright fired for this action, and then be charged for failing to perform his duties as a head of a corporation.
the total lack of formal methods in the software we develop today means we have to use comments to document our intentions and design decisions. This is obvious to anyone who has some experience in the industry. If we had formal specifications a large number of comments would be pushed up from the code into the specification.. but seeing as we're currently incapable of working with more than 2 files at the same time (many people have trouble keeping their header files in sync with their source files unless the compiler complains about something) that's not going to happen any time soon.
here here. That's a very well written little rant there. Thanks for writing it.
or as the hip kids say these days "climate change". Either that or we have to go find a relevant passage in the bible (preferably the book of revelations) or some random drawl that nostradamus pumped out.
Well duh! The RIAA hasn't had a good business model since the invention of the tape recorder.
Yeah there is, they can stop selling to the UK audience. If you lie on a web site and say you are from the US when it asks if you are from the UK you'll be prosecuted for fraud.
Putting people in space does not help people make a return on their investment. That said, I'll now contradict myself. Suppose you built a nice big space station on which 1 million people could live. Each of these 1 million people would have to pay a heck of a lot of money to keep themselves supplied with goods. Water will be the top priority. When people are living in orbit and paying $100/ltr for water they're gunna jump at the chance to pay $50/ltr for water mined from an asteroid. Of course, this is not a sustainable colony we're talking about, that's just a business model for really rich tourists to go to space.
As for the moon, there's no real need to "bring down" asteroids into a lunar crater.. craters were formed by asteroids in the first place. Every major crater probably has more asteroid material in it than any of the near earth asteroids we are tracking today. So mining the moon probably is more economical than mining near earth asteroids as moving to a new crater once you've mined out an existing crater is a very cheap operation.
avoiding your flamebait, what you've just said merely reiterates my confusion. The benefit of using FreeBSD is that these "same folks" do the development of the entire OS, not just the kernel, but if you are going to sit down and use KDE day in and day out, you're really not using anything but the kernel out of that collection of software which you call the "entire OS".
What's the point? To me and many others *BSD is about 1) a different license and 2) a different philosophy of development - that is, centralised development of an entire operating system, not just a kernel. Of course, this has never really been true as X11 has always been a seperate project to all *BSD machines, so the "whole OS" concept really doesn't fly - but at least the licenses were similar. Then you go plop KDE into the mix.
Asteroids.. I bought that line too, it was good and it made me feel warm inside. But getting those asteroids back to a market is expensive. It's not cheap launch capacity we need, it's cheap de-orbit capacity. Then we could send an automated probe to mine these asteroids, make rocket fuel from the resources on them, fire payloads back to earth, perform magical de-orbit technique, collect materials from where they land, perform any processing necessary, and sell em. All that would take so much logistics that a simple launch will look easy in comparison.
Space development is the same old problem. As soon as you know enough technical information to make informed decisions about space travel you have lost the ability to think like a business man. If you could get a 500% return on a 10 year investment with minimal risk I guarentee that you would see private efforts to acheive that. As we don't, it is clear that no-one has come up with a business plan that can deliver that kind of return as of yet. Even a similar return over a 25 year period would be acceptable to some investors.. 50 years is somewhat more pie-in-the-sky and looks even more risky.
Yeah, build it in space and launch the nuclear materials piece by piece.. a vehicle like this is never ment to enter the atmosphere.
Finally, we can make some real space vehicles. Fission is the most energy dense technology we have.. it's what we should be using in space. When fusion comes along we may well have something better, but until then we should use what we have.
All that "data" he got out was in a proprietary format which he then had to reverse engineer. That's what Larry was bitching about. Not that he had any right to.
Ya know, although I agree with you entirely, I think you're being dishonest by not mentioning that one of the things your users can do is sell the code for less than you are selling the code for (including putting it on their web site with absolutely no charge). When the vast majority of your users have access to the internet charging "as much as you can get away with" quickly becomes zero.
The way to actually charge money for the development of software is to charge your users for voting rights over what you develop next, and charge for access to "premium" download servers. In a few months you will see unofficial servers pop up where people who are not paying can get the software, but there's nothing you can do about that (and you shouldn't want to). So unless your servers are really good people will not pay to have access to them, but they will still pay to have voting rights, especially if you ignore all requests made by users who are not paying you.
MxO == The Matrix Online, hope my post makes more sense now.
Well the RFC for well known port numbers specifies that port 80 is for public access to a system using the HTTP protocol, but you're right, you don't have authorisation, and the first thing you should do is look for authorisation when you get to a web site. The fact that we don't just shows that us geek types havn't really thought through the legal implications of our systems.. how unusual! On the other hand, the exact same RFC states that port 5000, the port Larry put his BitKeeper repository on, is a "private" port.
Larry specifically said that thunk.org was for people using the BitKeeper client to connect to. That is, he provided a license for you to connect to his port and the requirement was that you were a user of one of his clients (and had therefore agreed to the license). The reason Larry hasn't gone after Tridge directly is simply that it would cause more trouble than it was worth. In fact, the TCP protocol actually supports him. He didn't put his service on a well known port, he put it on port 5000, a port that is defined by internet standards to be "private".
I figured it was some sort of artificial creation of brains to be kept in jars. Theoretically you could program a computer to study everything a famous person ever was recorded as saying, combine that with known world events of the time and come up with a pretty good computer model of that person. Then you just need to print out a brain with a standard neural imprinter and you're done.
Well, the key point of demolition man was not that they freeze criminals, it's that they subject the prisoners to personality altering technology which takes a very long time to be effective, therefore they have to be frozen. When they get thawed out they're happy functional members of society.
It's funny that Futurama has the technological development of two distinct and competing technologies for longevity. Fry gets frozen in the chrogenics centre, wakes up in the future and, a few episodes later, discovers that celebrities live on as brains in jars. If we had the technology to keep a human brain alive and kicking I'd much prefer that to getting my head lopped off and frozen in the hope that a sufficiently advanced technology will one day be able to revive me. Even if it ment I had to spend the rest of my days as a body-less paraplegic in a wheelchair I think I'd rather that than to die from cancer.
Hybernation offers a third technology. Instead of lopping off my head at the first sign of cancer, you could put my body into hybernation and keep my brain active with regular stimulation. Hopefully you could do it by jacking me into a video game. I could handle living in MxO, as long as it was on a non-hostile server. Maybe I could even earn a living as a member of the Live Events team.
What I was claiming is that it is illegal for him to access Larry's computer without authorisation, just like it is illegal for him to drive my car without authorisation. That was the analogy. If you don't think it is illegal to access Larry's computer without authorisation then please, just say so. I happen to think it is, and the fact that there are laws for which people have been charged which are entitled "unauthorised access to computer resources" makes my case pretty strong.
On the other hand, a license plate number is public property. Everyone has the right to copy that down. The kernel is, in a way, public property, everyone has the right to copy that down too. The question is not whether Tridge was breaking the law by copying that down, the question is whether or not Tridge was breaking the law by going into Larry's computer to copy that down. I believe the law states that Larry has to give Tridge permission to do that.
You're like the 4th person to say that. The point of autovectorization is that all programs can benefit from SIMD instructions, not just the ones where programmers thought it might be a good idea.
loops tend to be. Especially those nested ones.