sounds like these mad wizards from Pratchetts Disk-World series who are running a computer utilizing ants for bits (make that "electric signals") and punchcards for flow-control.
Does this count as bioinformatics? Is this already nonlinear computing?
As far as I see it, being really powerful is no good unless you know when to excercise your powers, and when not to.
Everybody should be free to make this choice on his own. If he chooses unwise, well, that's his problem, at least in the long run.
I don't want RMS to decide what to do with _my_ work - but on the other hand, I certainly want to decide what he does with his.
I want to have the power to freely decide when to put my code under copyrights (to be able to sell it) - even though it might be foolish in the long run.
And I *really* can't stand intolerance! When can't people just leave other people alone with their beliefs? (Yeah, I know - I leave RMS alone for now, too...:o)
javajerk writes: This is as old as the halloween documents and as boring as well. Why should we care if Microsoft likes us? We don't care for Microsoft either, do we?
Somehow I seem to have lost my edge... Perhaps it has to do with the fact that we can do without M$ now, so we can just peacefully overlook the fact that they exist.
Confuzius says: The mighty elephant flattens the ant without noticing its protest:o)
... how long it will take until they ban first-person-shooters and flight-simulators alltogether when they finally find out that Bin Laden's lackeys train using MS FlightSimulator 2000 and CounterStrike (naturally, always playing T:o).
Anyone risking a bet if we are allowed to use PC's in ten years time? Telephone? Breathe?
lcs writes: "US Government passed a law today that forbids unsupervised breathing activities, trying to distinguish between real terrorists and normal suspects (formerly called citizens). Persons breathing unaccounted for will be prosecuted by the newly introduced Blitzgericht for terrorism automatically, indepent of the fact if they are present or not. If found guilty by those powers that be - who do not have to disclose the information leading to that decision - the terrorists house will be bombed by USAF within one week."
Yeah, right. Maybe I see to dark these days... It's just games after all... Somehow, I seem to Trust No One since 2001-09-11. Why?
Lars
> Interesting. What they are doing then is
> creating a bar to smaller (perhaps hobbyist)
> developers.
Gee... Like those 1337 script-kiddies, for instance? Damn, I always liked their cool tools...
Maybe now they'll have to charge for their distribution of Nimda v2.0. Would be a shame, because then they would get my credit card number as well...
> That just means that less cool stuff will be
> produced then I suppose.
Seriously: It *can* improve the quality of software delivered on windoze, because not every redneck cracker will be able to spread his buggy code. So it might be a good idea for commercial solutions, where businesses actually can afford and want to pay for the software they use.
For all others, they should have switched to a free OS of their choice long ago... Hope there's not software piracy going on out there, is there?;o)
Anyway: it was long way back that I saw cool stuff running only on windoze...
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Hi,
sounds like these mad wizards from Pratchetts Disk-World series who are running a computer utilizing ants for bits (make that "electric signals") and punchcards for flow-control.
Does this count as bioinformatics? Is this already nonlinear computing?
Cheers, Lars
Oh - now that's what I'd call subliminal advertising :o)
Come on, guys, how much did they pay you for that one? And nice job not linking them, as well - no use letting your customer get slashdotted, hmm?
You might just have discovered a valid business model for open source companies! Perhaps we'll have the ExciteMACS and AOLinux in just a years time...
Cheers,Lars
Must have been a week since I installed 2.4.14 - to long a time :) This will be a nice weekend, I guess.
.13?
What I really want to know: how is ext3 doing? And why is Alan still patching
Hmm, hopefully will be able to leave work early this evening...
Cheers, Lars
As far as I see it, being really powerful is no good unless you know when to excercise your powers, and when not to.
:o)
Everybody should be free to make this choice on his own. If he chooses unwise, well, that's his problem, at least in the long run.
I don't want RMS to decide what to do with _my_ work - but on the other hand, I certainly want to decide what he does with his.
I want to have the power to freely decide when to put my code under copyrights (to be able to sell it) - even though it might be foolish in the long run.
And I *really* can't stand intolerance! When can't people just leave other people alone with their beliefs? (Yeah, I know - I leave RMS alone for now, too...
Cheers, Lars
Free to be empowered to be free.
I guess they just skipped loading the transparent pixels...
javajerk writes: This is as old as the halloween documents and as boring as well. Why should we care if Microsoft likes us? We don't care for Microsoft either, do we?
:o)
Somehow I seem to have lost my edge... Perhaps it has to do with the fact that we can do without M$ now, so we can just peacefully overlook the fact that they exist.
Confuzius says: The mighty elephant flattens the ant without noticing its protest
Cheers,
Lars
> Interesting. What they are doing then is
;o)
> creating a bar to smaller (perhaps hobbyist)
> developers.
Gee... Like those 1337 script-kiddies, for instance? Damn, I always liked their cool tools...
Maybe now they'll have to charge for their distribution of Nimda v2.0. Would be a shame, because then they would get my credit card number as well...
> That just means that less cool stuff will be
> produced then I suppose.
Seriously: It *can* improve the quality of software delivered on windoze, because not every redneck cracker will be able to spread his buggy code. So it might be a good idea for commercial solutions, where businesses actually can afford and want to pay for the software they use.
For all others, they should have switched to a free OS of their choice long ago... Hope there's not software piracy going on out there, is there?
Anyway: it was long way back that I saw cool stuff running only on windoze...
Lars
> .NET "Entry-Level" subscription
.NET "Standard" subscription
> Subscription: $1000 per year.
> Cost per application: $250
>
> Subscription: $10,000 per year.
> Cost per application: $1500
> Linux
> Subscription: $0 per life
> Cost per application: $0
Ahh, this only figures out as an advantage for the L-Thing (won't use the forbidden word) because you forgot the TOTAL COST of OWNERSHIP.
Really, you can't go and compare apples to pears, can you?
;-> Lars
(yeah, sure this was a joke. Never trolling, never.)
And if you are particularly unlucky, it might take away your social life as well...
(I already lost count of the number of kernels I had to install in the past month...)
Lars