Must be an American thing that so many people here seem to have heard of them - this side of the Atlantic TMBG are only vaguely remembered as being a novelty band from two decades ago.
I'm not denying that there may be some Hawkwind in our record collections... I may even be listening to "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" since I read your comment:-)
Glad you like it! Our influences are pretty broad - punk, new wave and goth mostly but there's also a lot of electronic stuff and even a smattering of ska in our shared tastes. We mostly play venues like The Underworld and Purple Turtle in Camden, and clubs like the Slimelight. We missed out on the European festivals this year, since we didn't have a promo ready in time, but should be playing some club gigs on the continent in the Autumn.
From TFA:
"One case where using a different license can be justified is when you make major changes to a work under a non-copyleft license. If the version you've created is considerably more useful than the original, then it's worth copylefting your work"
Trouble with this, is that there has been a number of cases where the GPL has been slapped onto a BSD licensed file without making clear that there is only a small portion of that code that requires adherence to Stallmans creed. Just to be clear, using BSD licensed code in a GPL'ed work is fine - re-licensing the whole file under a more restrictive license is not.
I found her to have a much more appealing figure before the boob job. And if you've ever had a girlfriend with breast implants, it's somewhat peculiar when her jubblies barely change position no matter whether she's upright or prone...
I remember this project from my school days too. The swotty kids were involved in submitting data for the project, and eventually a setup consisting of BBC computer and laser disc player appeared. Those of us who hadn't been involved eventually had a look at it, and the reaction was pretty much "so what". By that time, the technology had already been used for computer games, and the Domesday data set didn't really excite us. When the Archimedes computer arrived, that was a different matter though - mainly because of a couple of neat games it came with. In short, if the Domesday project was in part aimed at exciting an interest in computers amongst school kids, then we were well ahead of the teachers.
Oh dear God. My last boss wasted a day of our lives and a wodge of money paying some muppet to teach us that pseudo-psycho babble. Even worse than that bloody fish thing from a few years earlier (because after all, creating great software is just like trying to sell fish isn't it?).
I still use a HP16 (http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp16.htm), which was the model aimed at computer programmers. According to the HP Museum website, it was a poor seller and went out of production quite quickly, leading me to wonder if mine's worth much money... a quick eBay search suggests it's worth a couple of hundred quid (almost four hundred bucks if you're a Merkin).
OpenBSD tough? Perhaps, although unlikely to be any more secure than NetBSD or FreeBSD, given that much of the security work that goes into one of them ends up in all three. As for robust, well that's another matter. Because it's a low priority in the OpenBSD world, scalability and performance is poor, which means it's easier to DOS a machine running OpenBSD than an equivalent one running Net or Free.
I tried paying $1500 or an insulation upgrade, but it isn't legal tender in this part of the world. More seriously, British houses tend to be far solidly constructed than most US ones, and as a result modifications can be expensive if they need to get into the fabric of the building..
Agreed. If it performs as poorly as Hibernate, has as many bugs as many of the host drivers (thinks of the Postgres one in particular) and encourages you to do things in a really annoying way (like annotated beans that are the actual schema), then definitely "NO".
I love Tcl, but it's nothing like what Java is or should be. The Tcl syntax is vaguely reminiscent of SmallTalk (Java's true father), but it's actually simpler and far less powerful. Even with OO support from something like [incr Tcl] it's quite painful writing large applications in Tcl. Where it excels is as a glue language for code that relies on existing libraries written in C as the extension API is simple and elegant (something that can't be said of Perl's for example).
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The Wurzels surely?
Must be an American thing that so many people here seem to have heard of them - this side of the Atlantic TMBG are only vaguely remembered as being a novelty band from two decades ago.
This certainly does stink, especially when you consider that a large number of emails have been omitted.
Yup, Slimelight's still going - in the same venue it's had for the last twenty or so years. They've even started cleaning the toilets occasionally.
I'm not denying that there may be some Hawkwind in our record collections ... I may even be listening to "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" since I read your comment :-)
Glad you like it! Our influences are pretty broad - punk, new wave and goth mostly but there's also a lot of electronic stuff and even a smattering of ska in our shared tastes. We mostly play venues like The Underworld and Purple Turtle in Camden, and clubs like the Slimelight. We missed out on the European festivals this year, since we didn't have a promo ready in time, but should be playing some club gigs on the continent in the Autumn.
I hope they read that right and go for Section 31 rather than Section 3, otherwise my bands website is going to suffer ...
From TFA: "One case where using a different license can be justified is when you make major changes to a work under a non-copyleft license. If the version you've created is considerably more useful than the original, then it's worth copylefting your work" Trouble with this, is that there has been a number of cases where the GPL has been slapped onto a BSD licensed file without making clear that there is only a small portion of that code that requires adherence to Stallmans creed. Just to be clear, using BSD licensed code in a GPL'ed work is fine - re-licensing the whole file under a more restrictive license is not.
Five FSF/GPL licenses, one that elsewhere they state categorically not to use, and the Apache license.
I found her to have a much more appealing figure before the boob job. And if you've ever had a girlfriend with breast implants, it's somewhat peculiar when her jubblies barely change position no matter whether she's upright or prone ...
I remember this project from my school days too. The swotty kids were involved in submitting data for the project, and eventually a setup consisting of BBC computer and laser disc player appeared. Those of us who hadn't been involved eventually had a look at it, and the reaction was pretty much "so what". By that time, the technology had already been used for computer games, and the Domesday data set didn't really excite us. When the Archimedes computer arrived, that was a different matter though - mainly because of a couple of neat games it came with. In short, if the Domesday project was in part aimed at exciting an interest in computers amongst school kids, then we were well ahead of the teachers.
Yup, he did. Made by Kenton Electronics in London - I remember reading about them when I was still at school in the 1980's.
Oh dear God. My last boss wasted a day of our lives and a wodge of money paying some muppet to teach us that pseudo-psycho babble. Even worse than that bloody fish thing from a few years earlier (because after all, creating great software is just like trying to sell fish isn't it?).
And I'm (by upbringing) a limey. So women can squeeze me until the juice runs down their legs. To paraphrase Led Zeppelin.
I still use a HP16 (http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp16.htm), which was the model aimed at computer programmers. According to the HP Museum website, it was a poor seller and went out of production quite quickly, leading me to wonder if mine's worth much money ... a quick eBay search suggests it's worth a couple of hundred quid (almost four hundred bucks if you're a Merkin).
OpenBSD tough? Perhaps, although unlikely to be any more secure than NetBSD or FreeBSD, given that much of the security work that goes into one of them ends up in all three. As for robust, well that's another matter. Because it's a low priority in the OpenBSD world, scalability and performance is poor, which means it's easier to DOS a machine running OpenBSD than an equivalent one running Net or Free.
Apache != Linux. As for the PSN servers, they appear to have been behind Citrix Netscalers that masked what OS the servers were running.
... then maybe it's time to switch to Fedora?
You do realize that on EE, you can scroll to the bottom of the page for the incorrect answer?
FTFY
I tried paying $1500 or an insulation upgrade, but it isn't legal tender in this part of the world. More seriously, British houses tend to be far solidly constructed than most US ones, and as a result modifications can be expensive if they need to get into the fabric of the building..
My heating bill, on a 1980s house is by far once of the most cash sucking and depressing aspects of my budget.
Same here, but with a 1920's house. I'll be breaking out the Bacofoil tonight, and covering the whole place with it.
It's the same reason why most enterprises run a commercial Application server like WebLogic or WebSphere over Tomcat and GlassFish.
Err, no. They use Spring.
Agreed. If it performs as poorly as Hibernate, has as many bugs as many of the host drivers (thinks of the Postgres one in particular) and encourages you to do things in a really annoying way (like annotated beans that are the actual schema), then definitely "NO".
I love Tcl, but it's nothing like what Java is or should be. The Tcl syntax is vaguely reminiscent of SmallTalk (Java's true father), but it's actually simpler and far less powerful. Even with OO support from something like [incr Tcl] it's quite painful writing large applications in Tcl. Where it excels is as a glue language for code that relies on existing libraries written in C as the extension API is simple and elegant (something that can't be said of Perl's for example).
And for those who thought this sounded familiar but couldn't place it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpiIWMWWVco