after more than 15 years of common usage, the vocabulary is certainly not going to change...
Just always assume that the capacity is expressed in billions of bytes when buying a hard drive. And don't worry that some company might be at a disadvantage compared to others because it uses the correct definition of 'Gb': none of them do.
This does not work at all when you want a function to return a partially applied function.
The problem with your "encoding" is that it is possible to create only a fixed (at compile time) number of partial applications. Whereas you may want to partially apply g to an unbound number of values.
But functionnal languages *can* be encoded in "non-functionnal" ones. You just have a hard time handling environments by yourself when you do so.
I doubt that the contract you have with your ISP guarantees that your site will be accessible from everywhere, so I don't think you have a case against your ISP.
> That also means you wouldn't be able to include > any utility written in Perl.
Sure. no makewhatis, and... no makewhatis. Now that's annoying. I prefer info anyway.
I was not speaking seriously, just trying to point out how stupid it was to claim you're going to make a X-free distribution because you don't like something loosely related to X.
rms sure spends a lot of time repeating the same old things, but he is too. Actually I'm going to create a Tom Christiansen-free distribution as a reaction. And that's much easier than a GNU-free distribution.
Reminds me a news post where said Tom Christiansen was proudly declaring "I didn't put the examples in my [Perl] documentation because the GPL is bad, the GPL is a virus, blah blah blah", except that he didn't put any other kind of authorisation, so his examples were protected by the copyright law, which is much more restrictive than the GPL.
Also, he was blaming rms because standard distributions did not include his documentation about Perl in the "core" (non-distrib). He thought, but without ever having stated it in writting, that even though he had put restrictions on the redistribution on his work, these did not apply when bundling his docs with Perl. So all the distributions of Perl were "crippled", because everybody should have been reading his thoughts and guessing that he meant that there were special conditions were distribution with a fee was allowed, and he blamed rms for it!
I don't think that RedHat takes much advice from rms, but I guess it's useful to have someone to blame everything wrong on.
Something I personnally get tired of is perpetually being reminded by well-thinking e-editors to "be polite, not to flame, it only hurts OpenSource, etc..."
You are not my mother, dammit!
I would not be so stupid as to do this kind of thing, but on the other hand I feel really insulted when reminded not to do it, especially that often.
I fail to see how a hardware decoder is an improvement over a binary-only decoder. It's even harder to fix (at least with a binary, you have the shadow of a chance), you can't tune it, you can't improve it...
having the rest of the driver under a free license is good, but they could do that and have a binary module for the dvd decoder.
Godel's incompleteness theorem is one of the most "philosophically abused" results, along with the second law of thermodynamics (the one that states that entropy can only go up in a closed system).
A theorem, or a physics law, is only valid within a precisely delimited domain.
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a lot of things can be considered "bugs"
even though they do not result in a segmentation
fault. I don't think it's obvious where to draw
the line.
The behavior of the X selection is buggy in
my opinion, but if you ask the guys who
implemented it they'll tell you it's a feature.
after more than 15 years of common usage,
the vocabulary is certainly not going to change...
Just always assume that the capacity is
expressed in billions of bytes when buying
a hard drive. And don't worry that some
company might be at a disadvantage compared
to others because it uses the correct definition
of 'Gb': none of them do.
(FOO = "bar"; g(x) { f(x, FOO) };
This does not work at all when you want
a function to return a partially applied
function.
The problem with your "encoding" is that it
is possible to create only a fixed (at compile
time) number of partial applications. Whereas
you may want to partially apply g to an unbound
number of values.
But functionnal languages *can* be encoded in
"non-functionnal" ones. You just have a
hard time handling environments by yourself
when you do so.
lineo is good. bugs can't hide in lineolum the
way they do in carpets.
I doubt that the contract you have with your ISP
guarantees that your site will be accessible
from everywhere, so I don't think you have a case
against your ISP.
I've seen internet pay-terminals using
standard phone cards in Paris about one year
ago.
I'm not going to use a keyboard that requires
me to apply more than 5 newtons to a key.
Let's say the key course length is about 2mm.
That's 10^-2 J per keypress, neglecting the losses
in transformation from mechanical to electric
energy.
You need 10 keypresses to get 0.1W of power for
1 second.
Forget about having your notebook run on that
alone. Keyboard power is somewhere between
"little influence" and "neglectable".
Could be more practical for a PDA without a
hard drive, but then the trend for these things
is not to have a keyboard at all.
> That also means you wouldn't be able to include > any utility written in Perl.
... no makewhatis.
Sure. no makewhatis, and
Now that's annoying. I prefer info anyway.
I was not speaking seriously, just trying to
point out how stupid it was to claim you're
going to make a X-free distribution because
you don't like something loosely related to X.
rms sure spends a lot of time repeating the
same old things, but he is too. Actually
I'm going to create a Tom Christiansen-free
distribution as a reaction. And that's much
easier than a GNU-free distribution.
Reminds me a news post where said Tom
Christiansen was proudly declaring
"I didn't put the examples in my [Perl]
documentation because the GPL is bad, the
GPL is a virus, blah blah blah", except
that he didn't put any other kind of
authorisation, so his examples were protected
by the copyright law, which is much more
restrictive than the GPL.
Also, he was blaming rms because standard
distributions did not include his documentation
about Perl in the "core" (non-distrib).
He thought, but without ever having
stated it in writting, that even
though he had put restrictions on the
redistribution on his work, these did not apply
when bundling his docs with Perl.
So all the distributions of Perl were
"crippled", because everybody should have been
reading his thoughts and guessing that he
meant that there were special conditions
were distribution with a fee was allowed,
and he blamed rms for it!
I don't think that RedHat takes much advice from
rms, but I guess it's useful to have someone
to blame everything wrong on.
Well, you guys in the US really need a good
filtering system to protect your kids from
all the christian zealots like the one above.
Something I personnally get tired of is
perpetually being reminded by well-thinking
e-editors to "be polite, not to flame, it only
hurts OpenSource, etc..."
You are not my mother, dammit!
I would not be so stupid as to do this kind of
thing, but on the other hand I feel really
insulted when reminded not to do it, especially
that often.
"News for nerds", or "Advice for cretins" ?
I fail to see how a hardware decoder is an
improvement over a binary-only decoder.
It's even harder to fix (at least with a
binary, you have the shadow of a chance),
you can't tune it, you can't improve it...
having the rest of the driver under a free
license is good, but they could do that
and have a binary module for the dvd decoder.
Godel's incompleteness theorem is one of the
most "philosophically abused" results, along with
the second law of thermodynamics (the one that
states that entropy can only go up in a closed
system).
A theorem, or a physics law, is only valid within
a precisely delimited domain.
Me, by far.
Access time in a man page is linear, and
in an info file (of course I don't use info,
I use emacs to read it) it's logarithmic.
Most man pages are short enough for not making
too much difference, but for instance the info
file for tar is much superior to its man page.