Okay, so you supply source and binaries for all the libraries that your app needs to run on Windows, to be politically correct.
Then your application is as big a hog as OpenOffice on Windows.
(oops, did I say that?)
I, for one, feel there is not a problem with the Windows version of an app using the Windows infrastructure.
Unless PC society wants all to agree on one set of libs so that every app doesn't have to bring along 10Meg of shared libraries and load them into memory next to all the others.
Excuse me while I buy stock in a memory manufacturer.
So, if Microsoft withdrew Windows from the Korean market, could Korean citizens in the future access their goverment documents saved already in Microsoft formats? Extrapolate, please, to Massachusetts. Now do you understand why the government there wants to rely only on open standards and open formats for digital documents?
I think it's natural for Wikipedia to have some churn on, for example, political topics.
But for topics like electronics, for example, it's great.
Yesterday I saw an article on Slashdot or Groklaw (can't remember which), it mentioned an amplifier design called "long tailed pair." I went to Wikipedia and it had a little circuit diagram and a very good explanation of how the design works and why it is used. One of the points in the explanation eluded me, but another Wikipedia search (from the same page) illuminated the point to my satisfaction.
Now, if you want to find an authoritative source for politics, knock yourself out: All such sources are biased in some way. Don't expect Wikipedia to do the impossible.
The main thing to remember about spook agencies like the NSA:
1) Assume they can read anything they want to (encrypted or not) 2) Assume they cannot read _everything_ (there are just too many petabytes per second to actually pay attention to them all).
If they focus on you, they'll find out what they want to. They'll just take your copier and all your papers and analyze from there.
While they may have a database of the printer signatures, they don't really need one to achieve their objectives.
How do you tell two Thevenin-equivalent sources apart: one with a voltage source in series with a resistance, the other with a current source in parallel with a resistance?
Slashdot Mirror
"Heat is the biggest enemy when building a quiet HTPC system."
With _noise_ a close second?
I've been waiting for a few things that would happen when pigs fly.
It should be a crime to prosecute someone unconstitutionally.
90% happy, 10% disgusted sounds like a drag queen to me.
On a 24x7x365 job, I learned the value of walking through the user's work area every weekday morning, first thing.
They started waiting for me to stroll in instead of paging me at night, just to be nice to me.
But the best part was, they thought of me as the guy who keeps the system running, because most of the time that I showed up, the system was running.
My colleagues who only showed up when their systems broke had the reputation "Here comes trouble!"
Taking credit for things going well is essential!
> I think we can be sure that if somebody had unlocked
> the secret of quantum computing there's a chance
> they'd say so at some point.
But we can't predict whether they would actually say so, we can only calculate the probability.
maybe they can work around this by changing from "free" to "very low cost."
Imagine initializing this thing with offensive language.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it starts adding up to real money.
Fix it until it breaks.
So I buy a book as a gift, and give it away, but I get to keep the online copy?
Cool for me, rats for the author.
Maybe they could do this with music?
Yeah, they'll hate it even worse when goatse is the carrier for the stego.
Okay, so you supply source and binaries for all the libraries that your app needs to run on Windows, to be politically correct.
Then your application is as big a hog as OpenOffice on Windows.
(oops, did I say that?)
I, for one, feel there is not a problem with the Windows version of an app using the Windows infrastructure.
Unless PC society wants all to agree on one set of libs so that every app doesn't have to bring along 10Meg of shared libraries and load them into memory next to all the others.
Excuse me while I buy stock in a memory manufacturer.
the light is better there.
Why are we limited to one set of root servers?
Would it not be possible to have ISP's provide DNS that queries multiple roots?
Sure, there would sometimes be some sites that could not see some domains.
But isn't that the same situation with IP routing? And still the Internet is fairly well connected (recent news items notwithstanding).
Does it take into account the whims of the U.S. Congress on Daylight time?
I think it's natural for Wikipedia to have some churn on, for example, political topics.
But for topics like electronics, for example, it's great.
Yesterday I saw an article on Slashdot or Groklaw (can't remember which), it mentioned an amplifier design called "long tailed pair." I went to Wikipedia and it had a little circuit diagram and a very good explanation of how the design works and why it is used. One of the points in the explanation eluded me, but another Wikipedia search (from the same page) illuminated the point to my satisfaction.
Now, if you want to find an authoritative source for politics, knock yourself out: All such sources are biased in some way. Don't expect Wikipedia to do the impossible.
Ms. Jones and Mr. Moglen refute the Forbes piece
Microsoft In The Middle
The main thing to remember about spook agencies like the NSA:
1) Assume they can read anything they want to (encrypted or not)
2) Assume they cannot read _everything_ (there are just too many petabytes per second to actually pay attention to them all).
If they focus on you, they'll find out what they want to. They'll just take your copier and all your papers and analyze from there.
While they may have a database of the printer signatures, they don't really need one to achieve their objectives.
three times five orbits around the star....
Wouldn't it be more geekly to note the number of seconds passing the next power of 2?
How do you tell two Thevenin-equivalent sources apart: one with a voltage source in series with a resistance, the other with a current source in parallel with a resistance?
IBM knows they have what it takes to crush SCO, so they don't have to use the nuclear option (i.e. their patent portfolio).
Plus they want to get their revenge before SCO starves to death. No use kicking a dead horse, eh?
I've been singing for 24 years.
It's at least as much fun to make music as to listen to it.
Plus I make more friends.
Plus I support my community and contribute to non-confrontational politics.
Exactly the opposite of what's going on with the RIAA.