Now witness the genius of the GPL. If you distribute software you have derived from GPL'ed code, you must provide that source code to the public under the terms of the GPL.
If MS/Novell create a better samba derived from the samba team's GPL code, they *must* provide access to the source code. Any improvements MS/Novell make to samba are guaranteed to become available to us, and they can never take it away.
What you said is true... except that the GPL v 2 (which the hypothetical MicroSuse SAMBA fork would be licensed under) is incompatable with GPL 3 (which SAMBA will be licensed under). MicroSamba's improvements can't be merged back into SAMBA.
I'm a kind of baffled why people are talking about starting up new projects or Open Sourcing (tm) google's prject (whatever that means...).
Project Gutenburg is open and non proprietary (ASCII text) and has been for quite a while.
After scanning, they use a distributed proofreading system where volunteers compare a scanned page image to the OCR text for errors. If you've got some free time, consider helping out.
Otherwise, we'd have to do it all by hand. *shudders*
And even this is not so difficult, given that each of the mnemonics correspond exactly to a hexadecimal code. All you need to hand-assemble is a table mapping the mnemonics to their hex equivalents.
That doesn't work so well with x86, where you have variable length instructions (some 10+ bytes long) and prefix bytes to specify if the operand is 8 bit, 16 bit, or 32 bit, or lock the bus, etc.
Or even ARM, where instructions are all 32 bits, but you may need to encode 3 registers, immediate values, condition codes, and bit shifting.
hiring some full-time workers seems to have had precisely the opposite effective of the intended.
not workers... managers. I think most technical/coder/slashdot types have the same general opinion of managers and management (*cough* parasites *cough*). Many open source projects have paid individual programmers with no backlash. And many companies pay for programmers to write open source code. Sometimes it doesn't work out (ie, the XEmacs/Emacs split), but it doesn't usually outrage other developers.
Sun and Apple have an interesting history. Consider:
Back when Apple was a potential takeover target, Sun was usually mentioned. (these days, Sun is sometimes mentioned as a potential Apple buy).
OpenStep was a collaboration between Sun and Next. Sun eventually abandoned it in favor of Java; Next was purchased by Apple and OpenStep became Cocoa.
In early/mid 90s, MAE -- Macintosh Application Environment -- allowed Macintosh software to run on Solaris.
My Prediction: Apple and Sun will come to an agreement whereby Solaris improves it's OSX support to help OS X on the corporate desktop.
Does svn support binary files? When I use Flash, I keep the actionscript in external text files (which are easiliy managed by svn et alia) and just #include them.
having debugged both "raw assembler/byte code" and obfuscicated javascript/generated perl/etc, I find it easier to debug binary code. With assembled code, you can specifically pinpoint an error. With intepreted half languages, the error may be in the compiler, the javascript interpreter, the javascript libraries/dom support, JIT compiler, etc, etc.
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Slashdot has a linking agreement with barnes & noble (check the faq, under book review guidelines). BN.com might be 5-15% more expensive than amazon or bookpool, or almost anywhere else (except a physical barnes & noble), but according to VA Software's SEC 10Q reports, they get $20k/year kickback from it.
Have you seen PGAdmin III? It's wxwidgets based, but if your database is firewalled, you can use ssh tunnelling to access it. Personally, I find it easier to use than phpMyAdmin (I'm not a big fan of web-based apps).
MySQL has made those claims:
Earlier versions of the MySQL manual included claims that certain missing features (considered essential for SQL-compliant RDBMSs) were useless or even harmful, and that users were better off without them. One section, entitled "Reasons NOT to use Foreign Keys constraints" [sic], advised users that relational-integrity checking was difficult to use and complicated a database application, and that its only useful purpose was to allow client software to diagram the relationships between database tables. [13] Another section claimed that a DBMS lacking transactions can provide data-integrity assurances as reliably as one supporting transactions--conflating the issue of transactional integrity with that of saving data when the database server loses power. [14] Since these claims contradicted basic principles of relational database design, they caused MySQL to be ridiculed by some database experts. Regardless of whether they were right or not, these claims are omitted in more recent versions of the manual. MySQL today allows some support for previously-dismissed features of relational integrity checking and transactions.
According to the MySQL fanbois, Window Functions are bad for performance and not even useful. Just like subselects, data integrity, triggers, and transactions. Oh wait, MySQL 5 supports subselects. Subselects are no longer bad for performance.
Of course Microsoft has gay employees (Joel Spolsky used to work for them!). But MS is personified by Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, not "Lou in accounting". Joel Sposlky, meanwhile, is openly homosexual.
Joel Spolsky is homosexual. CmdrTaco is married (to a woman). Microsoft is a company, but Bill Gates, Steve Allen, Steve Ballmer, etc, are married heterosexuals with children. Therefore, Joel Spolsky has probably sucked the most cock.
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If MS/Novell create a better samba derived from the samba team's GPL code, they *must* provide access to the source code. Any improvements MS/Novell make to samba are guaranteed to become available to us, and they can never take it away.
What you said is true... except that the GPL v 2 (which the hypothetical MicroSuse SAMBA fork would be licensed under) is incompatable with GPL 3 (which SAMBA will be licensed under). MicroSamba's improvements can't be merged back into SAMBA.
$query = count($argv) > 1 ? $argv[1] : 'google';
bad programmer! no cookie!
$query = count($argv) > 1 ? raw_urlencode($argv[1]) : 'google';
(That's a nifty trick though!)
I'm a kind of baffled why people are talking about starting up new projects or Open Sourcing (tm) google's prject (whatever that means...).
Project Gutenburg is open and non proprietary (ASCII text) and has been for quite a while.
After scanning, they use a distributed proofreading system where volunteers compare a scanned page image to the OCR text for errors. If you've got some free time, consider helping out.
Come on... Cleaner than SOAP? What could be cleaner than SOAP?
I hear that AJAX is stronger than dirt.
That doesn't work so well with x86, where you have variable length instructions (some 10+ bytes long) and prefix bytes to specify if the operand is 8 bit, 16 bit, or 32 bit, or lock the bus, etc.
Or even ARM, where instructions are all 32 bits, but you may need to encode 3 registers, immediate values, condition codes, and bit shifting.
hiring some full-time workers seems to have had precisely the opposite effective of the intended.
not workers... managers. I think most technical/coder/slashdot types have the same general opinion of managers and management (*cough* parasites *cough*). Many open source projects have paid individual programmers with no backlash. And many companies pay for programmers to write open source code. Sometimes it doesn't work out (ie, the XEmacs/Emacs split), but it doesn't usually outrage other developers.
My Prediction: Apple and Sun will come to an agreement whereby Solaris improves it's OSX support to help OS X on the corporate desktop.
....raid-{1,5,6,10}.... + reiserfs == survive crash at anytime including a drive physically dying.It won't survive a marriage to Hans Reiser!
Does svn support binary files? When I use Flash, I keep the actionscript in external text files (which are easiliy managed by svn et alia) and just #include them.
Yes, Firefox can be plugged up to do everything Opera does
Whenever the subject of Opera's functionality comes up:
"Install 20 extensions to make Firefox mimic the functionality."
Whenever the subject of Firefox instability comes up:
"Firefox doesn't crash for me. It's probably those 20 extensions you have installed."
you know who wears a brown hat? Dirty Old Ike. But I'm guessing you already knew that...
Sun used to have a web browser (Hot Java) written in java that allowed that sort of thing. It was like Mosaic/Netscape 1, but slower and uglier.
The Macintoth port allowth you to talk with a lithp.
having debugged both "raw assembler/byte code" and obfuscicated javascript/generated perl/etc, I find it easier to debug binary code. With assembled code, you can specifically pinpoint an error. With intepreted half languages, the error may be in the compiler, the javascript interpreter, the javascript libraries/dom support, JIT compiler, etc, etc.
Slashdot has a linking agreement with barnes & noble (check the faq, under book review guidelines). BN.com might be 5-15% more expensive than amazon or bookpool, or almost anywhere else (except a physical barnes & noble), but according to VA Software's SEC 10Q reports, they get $20k/year kickback from it.
Have you seen PGAdmin III? It's wxwidgets based, but if your database is firewalled, you can use ssh tunnelling to access it. Personally, I find it easier to use than phpMyAdmin (I'm not a big fan of web-based apps).
(From Wikipedia and archived MySQL manuals)
According to the MySQL fanbois, Window Functions are bad for performance and not even useful. Just like subselects, data integrity, triggers, and transactions. Oh wait, MySQL 5 supports subselects. Subselects are no longer bad for performance.
PostgreSQL it is still missing.
Except Islamic. Under the guise of "tolerance", they actively censor anything which might be percieved as anti-Islamic (ie, everything).
my hash brown recipe doesn't involve eggs.
especially when Zonk's question gets selected (imagine that!). Has any other editor ever abused a slashdot interview like this before?
That means you loose the time tested nature of sendmail
So what's the downside?
Of course Microsoft has gay employees (Joel Spolsky used to work for them!). But MS is personified by Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer, not "Lou in accounting". Joel Sposlky, meanwhile, is openly homosexual.
Joel Spolsky is homosexual. CmdrTaco is married (to a woman). Microsoft is a company, but Bill Gates, Steve Allen, Steve Ballmer, etc, are married heterosexuals with children. Therefore, Joel Spolsky has probably sucked the most cock.