Apple is also using a Cathedral approach, not just on an individual piece of software, but on the entire OS, GUI, applications, libraries, even language (they have their own fork of gcc and objective C). That seems to produce a more unified and consistent result
$700 billion was a number they pulled out of their ass. Like $60 billion for the war in Iraq. Once they approve it, they're not going to say "no" in 6 months or a year when more money is needed.
The current federal government debt is 10 trillion, give or take. 25% of that (treasury securities) is owned by foreign countries. China is basically tied with Japan as the number one owner at 1/2 trillion. That's total debt -- for new debt, they're probably a larger owner. The plan is to buy these garbage mortgage at an 80% discount. In a free market, speculators (China, Dubai, American, etc) might buy them at a 90% discount. Maybe China threatened, but I think you're overstating their control.
per the first paragraph, the AT&T/Apple restriction is ok, but they [might have] imposed other limitations after the 2 year contract (umm, which hasn't ended for anyone yet).
Carnegie Mellon donates moeny for Sophie development. Four years later, it's slow and buggy. Carnegie Mellon donates money to bulgarian group to rewrite Sophie in Java.
What's the problem, exactly?
Oh, and for an example of a similar situation (this time with software that's known), consider the Emacs/XEmacs split. Emacs development was slow, so Lucid paid their employees to work on it and contracted with one of the main Emacs developers (Joe?). RMS didn't like the direction it was taking, the copyright not being assigned to FSF, etc.
Don't you know, it's important for the economy to pass it as quickly as possible. Not because the economy would stop, but because a 2 day delay meant 400+ pages of unrelated pork and complications to the tax code.
The new Ubuntu/mono based distro? I think it could gain acceptance in the corporate world, with it's combination of rock solid stability and MS/.Net buzzwords. I'l bring it up when in my meeting with the CTO this afternoon.
Well, it turns out everyone who was predicting gloom and doom if the bailout wasn't passed was right. Not because the economy would die, but because an even worse bailout would pass instead.
It didn't come out of nowhere. If you believe in intelligent design, god created as punishment for being gay. If you believe in evolution, it mutated from something else (being an RNA/retrovirus, mutations are much more common).
Let's be honest here. I like GIMP, I generally prefer it over photoshop (for
what I do). But it's not photoshop and it gets shit on for that reason. The
solution: GIMP should ditch GTK/GDK and use GNUStep/Cocoa. This provides a
number of advantages - free CMYK and pantone support, better font rendering, an
improved UI, and direct access to artistic types. Photoshop on OS X is a dog --
the look and feel doesn't match and Adobe won't provide a 64-bit version until
CS 5 (if then). An OS X native GIMP would kick it's ass.
It's 10PM. Do you know where your cloud is? It's only a matter of time before it gets outsourced to another country (cheaper electricity, cheaper computer janitors).
Those terrible lending practices were encouraged by congress, the bush administration ("ownership society") and lawsuits/protests/complaints against banks for "racist" loaning practices (ie, loaning money to people who are likely to repay).
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HURD turned 18 this year (22 if you count the first failed attempt).
actually, that would probably increase the stock price.
once you release it under the BSD license, that snapshot is always available under the BSD license. You can't retroactively relicense it.
Apple is also using a Cathedral approach, not just on an individual piece of software, but on the entire OS, GUI, applications, libraries, even language (they have their own fork of gcc and objective C). That seems to produce a more unified and consistent result
how do you forbid someone from using BSD licensed code?
$700 billion was a number they pulled out of their ass. Like $60 billion for the war in Iraq. Once they approve it, they're not going to say "no" in 6 months or a year when more money is needed.
The current federal government debt is 10 trillion, give or take. 25% of that (treasury securities) is owned by foreign countries. China is basically tied with Japan as the number one owner at 1/2 trillion. That's total debt -- for new debt, they're probably a larger owner. The plan is to buy these garbage mortgage at an 80% discount. In a free market, speculators (China, Dubai, American, etc) might buy them at a 90% discount. Maybe China threatened, but I think you're overstating their control.
I'd empty my balls if ellen page would let me in through her back-end
and slashdot readers seem to state pretty strongly that the iPhone is lame and not nearly as good as open moku ^W ^W android
per the first paragraph, the AT&T/Apple restriction is ok, but they [might have] imposed other limitations after the 2 year contract (umm, which hasn't ended for anyone yet).
Carnegie Mellon donates moeny for Sophie development. Four years later, it's slow and buggy. Carnegie Mellon donates money to bulgarian group to rewrite Sophie in Java.
What's the problem, exactly?
Oh, and for an example of a similar situation (this time with software that's known), consider the Emacs/XEmacs split. Emacs development was slow, so Lucid paid their employees to work on it and contracted with one of the main Emacs developers (Joe?). RMS didn't like the direction it was taking, the copyright not being assigned to FSF, etc.
Don't you know, it's important for the economy to pass it as quickly as possible. Not because the economy would stop, but because a 2 day delay meant 400+ pages of unrelated pork and complications to the tax code.
People who are lucky should hold out a helping hand to people who are less lucky.
I think you mean: "The government should steal from people who are lucky and redistribute to people who are less lucky."
Porchmonkey
The new Ubuntu/mono based distro? I think it could gain acceptance in the corporate world, with it's combination of rock solid stability and MS/.Net buzzwords. I'l bring it up when in my meeting with the CTO this afternoon.
He may have been an indentured servant, sex slave, or something to that effect. More prisoner than apprentice.
You want to know how an odor can be toxic? Try taking a road trip with Cowboy "It wasn't me" Neal.
Jesus Fucking Christ.
Well, it turns out everyone who was predicting gloom and doom if the bailout wasn't passed was right. Not because the economy would die, but because an even worse bailout would pass instead.
It didn't come out of nowhere. If you believe in intelligent design, god created as punishment for being gay. If you believe in evolution, it mutated from something else (being an RNA/retrovirus, mutations are much more common).
Let's be honest here. I like GIMP, I generally prefer it over photoshop (for what I do). But it's not photoshop and it gets shit on for that reason. The solution: GIMP should ditch GTK/GDK and use GNUStep/Cocoa. This provides a number of advantages - free CMYK and pantone support, better font rendering, an improved UI, and direct access to artistic types. Photoshop on OS X is a dog -- the look and feel doesn't match and Adobe won't provide a 64-bit version until CS 5 (if then). An OS X native GIMP would kick it's ass.
A musical sharp is unicode code point $266F. That shift-3 (#) character has unicode (and ASCII) code point $23.
It's 10PM. Do you know where your cloud is? It's only a matter of time before it gets outsourced to another country (cheaper electricity, cheaper computer janitors).
erlang was doing stuff like that 10 years ago. And thin client/XWindows/Remote Desktop/etc have been around even longer. What's missing today?
They're charging $20 for the software. You've never heard of anyone paying for software?
Those terrible lending practices were encouraged by congress, the bush administration ("ownership society") and lawsuits/protests/complaints against banks for "racist" loaning practices (ie, loaning money to people who are likely to repay).
How did the mathematician solve for constipation?
He worked it out with his pencil!