Which would be very important if you were working with classified material. These people are not. Everything they do is in the public domain and presumably accessible to anyone under FOIA.
Not true. NASA is involved with the design and launch of CIA/NSA spy satellites as well as some Air Force stealth (Area 51/Groom Lake) stuff.
Because in the last year we've seen a homicidal astronaut drive across the country wearing a diaper, a sabotaging contractor, and allegations of alcoholic astronauts. All they need is an astronaut getting busted having gay bathroom sex.
And if you stick your finger in it, it comes out bloody!
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Spidermonkey's guts are a little heady but not really all that bad. Design-type comments would be nice, though.;)
I think the spidermonkey code is a mess... Try taking a look at kjs/WebKit JavaScriptCore. It's much cleaner and (imo) easier to add new native functions/classes.
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Most javascript complaints are along the lines of:
overlaoded + (addition, string concatenation) is confusing (aka you're an idiot and shouldn't be programming)
IE/DOM/Event handling quirks (not an issue of the language itself).
Numbers are always floating point (valid).
Personally, I consider javascript to be a better designed language than php.
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function.call and function.apply let you tweak this. Wrap it in an anonymous function and your problem is solved.
patents and copyrights are supposed to *encourage* the arts and useful sciences. If you think up an idea and then implement it, society benefits and advances. And if others are competing against you with your idea, you are disadvantaged. If you think up an idea and do nothing but sue other people over it, society does not benefit.
Particularly an idea like this one. If 6 companies (plus others that settled) independently came up with this idea, maybe it's obvious.
The patent isn't just email filtering, it also covers emailing the sender a canned response (from a repository) based on the content of the message. I'm sure procmail can do that, but unless they procmail included an example of doing just that, it's not prior art. I'm sure prior art does exist, though -- when usenet was king, moderated newsgroups did something similar.
My Linux computer has drivers for a network card, video display, the motherboard, IDE, etc. Is it a violation that I don't have the schematics for these cards? My video card has a powerful CPU and source code that I don't have access to. Is that a violation? And if the video card had a de-DRM chip (or software) to decode and display a raw DRM stream, is that a violation? Is it a violation if VMWare emulates a NIC and video card? Is it a violation if TiVo 3.0 has a video card that decodes and displays a DRM stream? Is it a violation if TiVo 3.0 uses a hypervisor and emulates a video card that decodes a DRM stream?
Wrong. Apple sells iPhones (through their website and retail locations). The phone isn't activated at the time of sale (it's done at home with iTunes). AT&T announced 146k activations when Apple announced 270k iphones sold. You do the math.
Like many other Macintosh users, I downloaded the iWorks '08 trial and promptly purchased it. I've used OpenOffice/NeoOffice (on Linux and Mac OS). iWork looks, feels, and behaves like a native program. *Office doesn't.
Did you never wonder why capitalism needs all this laws and regulation to protect the *free* market?
Have you ever played baseball? There is a set of rules which both teams know and abode by. There are also umpires who enforce those rules (as best they can) evenly. Would you play if an umpire could arbitrarily give the other team 6 outs per inning? Or if you were only allowed 8 players on the field?
That's why capitalism needs property rights and an equally enforced rule of law to work correctly.
It's (or would have been) a statue. Is the race relevant? Is Token Black going to hold a watermelon and a bucket of fried chicken? Will Token Hispanic wear sombrero? And they'll also need to add a 4th Asian firefighter -- slanty eyes and buck teeth. That's the only way to achieve harmony and not offend anyone.
There not Linux specific (they're not even "Linux"), but you're right. Microsoft or Apple has someone that can make sure the parts all work together to provide a consistent experience. "Linux" doesn't have that (remember a few months back when gnome developers rejected Linus' patches?) Distros package stuff together, but they're primarily cat herders.
In December 2001 The New York Fire Department unveiled plans for a statue based on the photograph to be placed at the Brooklyn headquarters. In an effort to be politically correct, the statue was to include black, white, and Hispanic firefighters. However, it was cancelled in an outcry about rewriting history -- the depicted firefighters are white.
Although they demonstrated on Windows, a friend of mine is one of their graduate students and was peripherally involved. He said it was originally developed as a GIMP plug in, but moved to a separate Windows app to show off the realtime resizing, etc. Hopefully they'll release the GIMP plugin? More likely Adobe will write them a check and license it to make sure that never happens.
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation reveals that mayn of the supposed GIFs were actually PNGs.
A.D. 1769: James Watt patents the one-click steam engine.
A.D. 1776: Trolls, angered by CmdrTaco's passage of the Moderation Act, rebel. After a sever
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Not true. NASA is involved with the design and launch of CIA/NSA spy satellites as well as some Air Force stealth (Area 51/Groom Lake) stuff.
Because in the last year we've seen a homicidal astronaut drive across the country wearing a diaper, a sabotaging contractor, and allegations of alcoholic astronauts. All they need is an astronaut getting busted having gay bathroom sex.
it's basically no different than a class-action lawsuit. The class in this case is RIAA members.
And if you stick your finger in it, it comes out bloody!
I think the spidermonkey code is a mess... Try taking a look at kjs/WebKit JavaScriptCore. It's much cleaner and (imo) easier to add new native functions/classes.
- overlaoded + (addition, string concatenation) is confusing (aka you're an idiot and shouldn't be programming)
- IE/DOM/Event handling quirks (not an issue of the language itself).
- Numbers are always floating point (valid).
Personally, I consider javascript to be a better designed language than php.function.call and function.apply let you tweak this. Wrap it in an anonymous function and your problem is solved.
patents and copyrights are supposed to *encourage* the arts and useful sciences. If you think up an idea and then implement it, society benefits and advances. And if others are competing against you with your idea, you are disadvantaged. If you think up an idea and do nothing but sue other people over it, society does not benefit.
Particularly an idea like this one. If 6 companies (plus others that settled) independently came up with this idea, maybe it's obvious.
The patent isn't just email filtering, it also covers emailing the sender a canned response (from a repository) based on the content of the message. I'm sure procmail can do that, but unless they procmail included an example of doing just that, it's not prior art. I'm sure prior art does exist, though -- when usenet was king, moderated newsgroups did something similar.
My Linux computer has drivers for a network card, video display, the motherboard, IDE, etc. Is it a violation that I don't have the schematics for these cards? My video card has a powerful CPU and source code that I don't have access to. Is that a violation? And if the video card had a de-DRM chip (or software) to decode and display a raw DRM stream, is that a violation? Is it a violation if VMWare emulates a NIC and video card? Is it a violation if TiVo 3.0 has a video card that decodes and displays a DRM stream? Is it a violation if TiVo 3.0 uses a hypervisor and emulates a video card that decodes a DRM stream?
Wrong. Apple sells iPhones (through their website and retail locations). The phone isn't activated at the time of sale (it's done at home with iTunes). AT&T announced 146k activations when Apple announced 270k iphones sold. You do the math.
Municipality? This is a rural area, population 811. They've got roads, but they don't have municipal sewage or water.
And where do you keep your spell checker?
A couple years back, there was a speed racer GEICO commercial.
Like many other Macintosh users, I downloaded the iWorks '08 trial and promptly purchased it. I've used OpenOffice/NeoOffice (on Linux and Mac OS). iWork looks, feels, and behaves like a native program. *Office doesn't.
I just used it on my 400Mhz arm phone with opera. It works as well as my core 2 duo/firefox desktop machine.
Have you ever played baseball? There is a set of rules which both teams know and abode by. There are also umpires who enforce those rules (as best they can) evenly. Would you play if an umpire could arbitrarily give the other team 6 outs per inning? Or if you were only allowed 8 players on the field?
That's why capitalism needs property rights and an equally enforced rule of law to work correctly.
It's (or would have been) a statue. Is the race relevant? Is Token Black going to hold a watermelon and a bucket of fried chicken? Will Token Hispanic wear sombrero? And they'll also need to add a 4th Asian firefighter -- slanty eyes and buck teeth. That's the only way to achieve harmony and not offend anyone.
There not Linux specific (they're not even "Linux"), but you're right. Microsoft or Apple has someone that can make sure the parts all work together to provide a consistent experience. "Linux" doesn't have that (remember a few months back when gnome developers rejected Linus' patches?) Distros package stuff together, but they're primarily cat herders.
The GPL has never been tested in a US court.
It could be worse.
In December 2001 The New York Fire Department unveiled plans for a statue based on the photograph to be placed at the Brooklyn headquarters. In an effort to be politically correct, the statue was to include black, white, and Hispanic firefighters. However, it was cancelled in an outcry about rewriting history -- the depicted firefighters are white.
Although they demonstrated on Windows, a friend of mine is one of their graduate students and was peripherally involved. He said it was originally developed as a GIMP plug in, but moved to a separate Windows app to show off the realtime resizing, etc. Hopefully they'll release the GIMP plugin? More likely Adobe will write them a check and license it to make sure that never happens.
2.5 million B.C.: OOG the Open Source Caveman develops the axe and releases it under the GPL. The axe quickly gains popularity as a means of crushing moderators' heads.
100,000 B.C.: Man domesticates the AIBO.
10,000 B.C.: Civilization begins when early farmers first learn to cultivate hot grits.
3000 B.C.: Sumerians develop a primitive cuneiform perl script.
2920 B.C.: A legendary flood sweeps Slashdot, filling up a Borland / Inprise story with hundreds of offtopic posts.
1750 B.C.: Hammurabi, a Mesopotamian king, codifies the first EULA.
490 B.C.: Greek city-states unite to defeat the Persians. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the Greeks "get it".
399 B.C.: Socrates is convicted of impiety. Despite the efforts of freesocrates.com, he is forced to kill himself by drinking hemlock.
336 B.C.: Fat-Time Charlie becomes King of Macedonia and conquers Persia.
4 B.C.: Following the Star (as in hot young actress) of Bethelem, wise men travel from far away to troll for baby Jesus.
A.D. 476: The Roman Empire BSODs.
A.D. 610: The Glorious MEEPT!! founds Islam after receiving a revelation from God. Following his disappearance from Slashdot in 632, a succession dispute results in the emergence of two troll factions: the Pythonni and the Perliites.
A.D. 800: Charlemagne conquers nearly all of Germany, only to be acquired by andover.net.
A.D. 874: Linus the Red discovers Iceland.
A.D. 1000: The epic of the Beowulf Cluster is written down. It is the first English epic poem.
A.D. 1095: Pope Bruce II calls for a crusade against the Turks when it is revealed they are violating the GPL. Later investigation reveals that Pope Bruce II had not yet contacted the Turks before calling for the crusade.
A.D. 1215: Bowing to pressure to open-source the British government, King John signs the Magna Carta, limiting the British monarchy's power. ESR triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1348: The ILOVEYOU virus kills over half the population of Europe. (The other half was not using Outlook.)
A.D. 1420: Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press. He is immediately sued by monks claiming that the technology will promote the copying of hand-transcribed books, thus violating the church's intellectual property.
A.D. 1429: Natalie Portman of Arc gathers an army of Slashdot trolls to do battle with the moderators. She is eventually tried as a heretic and stoned (as in petrified).
A.D. 1478: The Catholic Church partners with doubleclick.net to launch the Spanish Inquisition.
A.D. 1492: Christopher Columbus arrives in what he believes to be "India", but which RMS informs him is actually "GNU/India".
A.D. 1508-12: Michaelengelo attempts to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling with ASCII art, only to have his plan thwarted by the "Lameness Filter."
A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait).
A.D. 1553: "Bloody" Mary ascends the throne of England and begins an infamous crusade against Protestants. ESR eats his words.
A.D. 1588: The "IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS" guy meets the Spanish Armada.
A.D. 1603: Tokugawa Ieyasu unites the feuding pancake-eating ninjas of Japan.
A.D. 1611: Mattel adds Galileo Galilei to its CyberPatrol block list for proposing that the Earth revolves around the sun.
A.D. 1688: In the so-called "Glorious Revolution", King James II is bloodlessly forced out of power and flees to France. ESR again triumphantly proclaims that the British monarchy "gets it".
A.D. 1692: Anti-GIF hysteria in the New World comes to a head in the infamous "Salem GIF Trials", in which 20 alleged GIFs are burned at the stake. Later investigation reveals that mayn of the supposed GIFs were actually PNGs.
A.D. 1769: James Watt patents the one-click steam engine.
A.D. 1776: Trolls, angered by CmdrTaco's passage of the Moderation Act, rebel. After a sever
your approach sounds like censorship.