You got that first part right. Boring, flat, and hot and nasty in the summer. I visited Dallas for a few months and came away thoroughly unimpressed. Good hockey team, though. Basically, what Stickerboy is saying is that Dallas is near the bottom of the list for livability but has good workability. On the other hand, I hear Austin is pretty nice.
Dude, SourceSafe's interface is slick. In Windows I settle for WinCVS when I'm working on my own projects. WinCVS is pretty creaky, but it's very satisfying to be able to instantly see which files I've changed (icons!), click on them and commit the changes. Maybe GUIs aren't your thing, but I appreciate never having to memorize or look up command-line arguments. BTW, the jCVS interface looks good and KDevelop has some kind of CVS support.
Some links (which are not normally supposed to be bookmarkable, I guess) may become broken. Pick your favorite, and try them out with books that you're looking for in the future. Now all we need is a meta-meta-book search and you'd be set for sure!
And, wouldn't you know, there is such a distribution: in One Disk Linux, it's just a symbolic link to more. Just one of those cases where less is more. Maybe there's a distro for routers or something similar that has neither... no more, no less. OK, OK, I'll stop now.
The GPL requires that in order to use the software, I agree to the term (the contract) that forces me to distribute it to anyone who asks.
This is a common misconception. The GNU GPL restricts modification and/or distribution, not use. This is not a minor distinction. For your edification, Term 5 of the GPL, italics mine:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
I love my Wacom tablet, though I won't be disconnecting my mouse anytime soon. Even though tablets are cool, it's hard to justify a full-blown tablet setup if you don't do much GIMP work. Now Wacom has introduced a nice USB combination tablet, Graphire, which has both pen and cordless mouse input for the PC and Mac.
It came out about a few months ago for $100 US ($75-$90 street price). It's a consumer-level product, not for hardcore GIMP, Photoshop or Painter users like the Intuos, which means it costs less and has less (a mere 1015 DPI) tablet resolution. The Wacom XInput page says it's supported, but I don't have one (yet) to test it. Check it out.
Incidentally, source code CD-ROMS for a nominal fee are probably the best approach in the scenario I've understood here.
Sure. This is how TiVo (the Linux-runnin' digital TV recorder) does it. When RMS asked about it on Usenet, the person at TiVo, Inc. who actually makes the source CDs replied with how they fulfill the requirements of the GNU GPL.
Good point! UPN would be a nice fit, and like you said, it's available. Hmm...
Then he'll own the network that shows ST:Voyager and Dilbert, for starters...
Assumably then he can improve on Dilbert's ratings, since they have nowhere to go but up. For last week (November 8-14) Dilbert was the least watched primetime network show. And it was a new episode! Doesn't look like scheduling Dilbert against Buffy the Vampire Slayer is such a good idea...
What'd world domination be without people who port Linux to anything that's Turing-complete? If you're frustrated that anyone would port to an iMac, perhaps it's better you not know that Debian's 68k distribution installs on the Mac, Amiga, and Atari platforms. And that's not even mentioning the ports that are primarily for hack value.
More seriously, porting Linux to non-PC platforms, and the iMac in particular, is great for two reasons. One, because they're out there -- people, companies, and schools out there already have the hardware. An Atari Falcon port is not useless if you have the hardware. Two, to get new adopters to try Linux, for which the iMac platform is a good place to look.
And let's not forget the fact that not everyone agrees with your assessment of the iMac. But what I'm trying to say is that it's useful to port Linux to platforms even if they actually are useless, deficient, poorly designed, etc. which the iMac is (in my opinion) not.
Questioning The Millenium
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For those interested in millenialism and the millenium controversy, PBS had an interesting NewsHour interview with Stephen Jay Gould about two years ago. The interview discusses topics from his then-recent book, Questioning the Millennium, which has just been reissued. Here are links to it at Amazon and f atbrain.
The Digital Future Coalition has a page of resources relating to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It was signed into law just over a year ago. Therefore the restrictions on circumventing copy protection seem to be scheduled to take effect about a year from now. By the way, you may remember this as the WIPO enactment bill before it got the goofy name.
1. Sure, distribution costs are reduced with digital distribution or a video-on-demand system. I think the film industry understands this. Of course, they also understand why they make so much money, and that's because they have a very tight grasp on their industry's distribution.
2. Yup, open-source encryption is the best encryption. The problem is the system that implements it. But Open Source and piracy prevention... somehow I don't think this is a love connection.
3. I don't understand how mugs and CREDITS files relate to movie advertising and promotion.
4. BMRT, though one of the most impressive individual software accomplishments of recent time, is no more Open Source than Pixar's own PhotoRealistic RenderMan, so I don't really get the point you're making. And the majority of the expense (to say nothing of coolness) of CGI does not spring from the processing power that's required.
More about the day-trading yucca...
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Halfway down on this page is the story behind Ola Pehrson's Yucca exhibit.
Yeah, think about that one for a minute... how you would go about getting cash from your bank if you were blind? Like others (and myself) have mentioned, having a taxi or a friend take you to a drive-up ATM is a very safe and efficient method.
The Lego system is defintely fun, and has unmatched versatility, but it's too low-level for rapid prototyping. On the other hand, my Capsela collection prepared me for object-oriented programming at an early age.
Think about it... Capsela embraces many of the concepts of OOP:
First of all, of course, encapsulation: Capsela's fundamental concept.
Abstraction: Capsules have a uniform shape.
Polymorphism: Many capsules function differently but have the same interface to other capsules.
Reuse: You can plug multi-capsule systems into existing structures.
And finally, the ultimate OOP feature: it readily lends itself to use of the car metaphor.
Hosted applications a challenge to GNU GPL terms
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The rise of hosted applications, which may be used without distribution, is problematic for licenses such as GPL which only restrict distribution. This has already been a concern for CGI scripts and other web server based programs. But if hosted applications take off, the GNU GPL is really going to lose relevancy.
An implicit assumption in the GPL seems to be that users of a program have access to the binary. That's not the case with CGI programs and similar hosted applications. I'm not sure how access to source can be preserved in these cases without resorting to terms like those in the APSL. Any ideas?
(This is a long-standing issue. It's not related to marca's new company but I brought it up in reference to the field of hosted applications in general.)
Really? I got 401(k) benefits when I was 20, I recall. Could be I wasn't supposed to. Maybe, by law, sometimes it is too early to start saving for retirement.
And you know what's really inconvenient? Around the same time, I was left out of a business trip to a conference, in part because the company I worked for couldn't find anyone who would rent me a car. It turns out to be practically impossible to drive a rental car if you're under 21.
Even now that I'm 24, when I was on a recent business trip, my company had to switch me away from their usual car rental (a National agency) because they absolutely will not rent cars for drivers under 25. Sucka please. I've never had an accident or even been ticketed for a moving violation in what is now eight years that I've been driving. Even when they found another agency that would let me drive, they charged an extra $15 a day... well, at least it's not my money.
I heard once that Christopher Columbus is famous not because he was the first European to discover America (we all know he wasn't), but because he was the last. Once Columbus did it, America would never be "discovered" again.
Garry will go down in history because he's the last human left to be beat by the champion of computers. Once Kasparov lost, the argument was over; the question was answered. The quote you mentioned very much fits the image he will be remembered for, as the Casey Jones of chess.
Of course, it would have completed that image if his head exploded when he resigned...
I blame Handspring for giving the media a few vague buzzwords and allowing them to run with them unchecked. Their "silence"...
Silence or "silence," which is it? Were they really allowing the media to run unchecked, as you say first, or were they not entirely silent, as you suggest immediately afterwards? I'm just wondering if I'm missing something here...
...only propagated the misinformation that was given out which was building expectations for a product that they knew they could not deliver.
So? This kind of gossip happens with just about every upcoming hardware platform. What's so wrong about letting people speculate?
This is in fact the reason I have never seriously considered Python -- I really don't need to worry about my program's whitespace causing syntax errors. I suppose you could say that I'm wary that Python brings new meaning to the phrase "tab damage." The more people say that it's more intuitive, The Right Way, and so on, the more nonplussed I am. I guess it's just a matter of taste. Sorry.
Obviously you've never really thought about how you'd use an ATM if you were blind. Hint: you'd probably have a taxi or friend take you to a drive-up teller with you sitting in the seat behind the driver. You don't have to be blind to figure that out, just think for a moment...
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You got that first part right. Boring, flat, and hot and nasty in the summer. I visited Dallas for a few months and came away thoroughly unimpressed. Good hockey team, though. Basically, what Stickerboy is saying is that Dallas is near the bottom of the list for livability but has good workability. On the other hand, I hear Austin is pretty nice.
Dude, SourceSafe's interface is slick. In Windows I settle for WinCVS when I'm working on my own projects. WinCVS is pretty creaky, but it's very satisfying to be able to instantly see which files I've changed (icons!), click on them and commit the changes. Maybe GUIs aren't your thing, but I appreciate never having to memorize or look up command-line arguments. BTW, the jCVS interface looks good and KDevelop has some kind of CVS support.
Try "the company with no class".
Steve Jobs was right, and Google agrees!
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Some links (which are not normally supposed to be bookmarkable, I guess) may become broken. Pick your favorite, and try them out with books that you're looking for in the future. Now all we need is a meta-meta-book search and you'd be set for sure!
And, wouldn't you know, there is such a distribution: in One Disk Linux, it's just a symbolic link to more. Just one of those cases where less is more. Maybe there's a distro for routers or something similar that has neither... no more, no less. OK, OK, I'll stop now.
This is a common misconception. The GNU GPL restricts modification and/or distribution, not use. This is not a minor distinction. For your edification, Term 5 of the GPL, italics mine:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
It came out about a few months ago for $100 US ($75-$90 street price). It's a consumer-level product, not for hardcore GIMP, Photoshop or Painter users like the Intuos, which means it costs less and has less (a mere 1015 DPI) tablet resolution. The Wacom XInput page says it's supported, but I don't have one (yet) to test it. Check it out.
Sure. This is how TiVo (the Linux-runnin' digital TV recorder) does it. When RMS asked about it on Usenet, the person at TiVo, Inc. who actually makes the source CDs replied with how they fulfill the requirements of the GNU GPL.
FYI, here's a quick shot of FreeBSD's daemon hostess.
Then he'll own the network that shows ST:Voyager and Dilbert, for starters...
Assumably then he can improve on Dilbert's ratings, since they have nowhere to go but up. For last week (November 8-14) Dilbert was the least watched primetime network show. And it was a new episode! Doesn't look like scheduling Dilbert against Buffy the Vampire Slayer is such a good idea...
More seriously, porting Linux to non-PC platforms, and the iMac in particular, is great for two reasons. One, because they're out there -- people, companies, and schools out there already have the hardware. An Atari Falcon port is not useless if you have the hardware. Two, to get new adopters to try Linux, for which the iMac platform is a good place to look.
And let's not forget the fact that not everyone agrees with your assessment of the iMac. But what I'm trying to say is that it's useful to port Linux to platforms even if they actually are useless, deficient, poorly designed, etc. which the iMac is (in my opinion) not.
For those interested in millenialism and the millenium controversy, PBS had an interesting NewsHour interview with Stephen Jay Gould about two years ago. The interview discusses topics from his then-recent book, Questioning the Millennium, which has just been reissued. Here are links to it at Amazon and f atbrain.
The Digital Future Coalition has a page of resources relating to the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. It was signed into law just over a year ago. Therefore the restrictions on circumventing copy protection seem to be scheduled to take effect about a year from now. By the way, you may remember this as the WIPO enactment bill before it got the goofy name.
2. Yup, open-source encryption is the best encryption. The problem is the system that implements it. But Open Source and piracy prevention... somehow I don't think this is a love connection.
3. I don't understand how mugs and CREDITS files relate to movie advertising and promotion.
4. BMRT, though one of the most impressive individual software accomplishments of recent time, is no more Open Source than Pixar's own PhotoRealistic RenderMan, so I don't really get the point you're making. And the majority of the expense (to say nothing of coolness) of CGI does not spring from the processing power that's required.
Halfway down on this page is the story behind Ola Pehrson's Yucca exhibit.
Yeah, think about that one for a minute... how you would go about getting cash from your bank if you were blind? Like others (and myself) have mentioned, having a taxi or a friend take you to a drive-up ATM is a very safe and efficient method.
Think about it... Capsela embraces many of the concepts of OOP:
An implicit assumption in the GPL seems to be that users of a program have access to the binary. That's not the case with CGI programs and similar hosted applications. I'm not sure how access to source can be preserved in these cases without resorting to terms like those in the APSL. Any ideas?
(This is a long-standing issue. It's not related to marca's new company but I brought it up in reference to the field of hosted applications in general.)
Slimy, yet satisfying.
And you know what's really inconvenient? Around the same time, I was left out of a business trip to a conference, in part because the company I worked for couldn't find anyone who would rent me a car. It turns out to be practically impossible to drive a rental car if you're under 21.
Even now that I'm 24, when I was on a recent business trip, my company had to switch me away from their usual car rental (a National agency) because they absolutely will not rent cars for drivers under 25. Sucka please. I've never had an accident or even been ticketed for a moving violation in what is now eight years that I've been driving. Even when they found another agency that would let me drive, they charged an extra $15 a day... well, at least it's not my money.
I heard once that Christopher Columbus is famous not because he was the first European to discover America (we all know he wasn't), but because he was the last. Once Columbus did it, America would never be "discovered" again.
Garry will go down in history because he's the last human left to be beat by the champion of computers. Once Kasparov lost, the argument was over; the question was answered. The quote you mentioned very much fits the image he will be remembered for, as the Casey Jones of chess.
Of course, it would have completed that image if his head exploded when he resigned...
Silence or "silence," which is it? Were they really allowing the media to run unchecked, as you say first, or were they not entirely silent, as you suggest immediately afterwards? I'm just wondering if I'm missing something here...
So? This kind of gossip happens with just about every upcoming hardware platform. What's so wrong about letting people speculate?
This is in fact the reason I have never seriously considered Python -- I really don't need to worry about my program's whitespace causing syntax errors. I suppose you could say that I'm wary that Python brings new meaning to the phrase "tab damage." The more people say that it's more intuitive, The Right Way, and so on, the more nonplussed I am. I guess it's just a matter of taste. Sorry.
Obviously you've never really thought about how you'd use an ATM if you were blind. Hint: you'd probably have a taxi or friend take you to a drive-up teller with you sitting in the seat behind the driver. You don't have to be blind to figure that out, just think for a moment...
That would be "The Sound and the Furry," a classic Tale Spin episode (available on tape!).