BSD-like licenses do not prevent your competitors from taking your contributions, improving upon them and keeping the improvements for themselves, turning what you did as open-source into closed-source/proprietary stuff, even using it to compete against you. If you are bigger than other fish, investing in BSD makes more sense.
GPL-like licenses, on the other hand, would require your competitor to release its improvements keeping the field level. If you find the ideals behind GPL attractive, you will also feel more comfortable that improvements on your work will not become proprietary software. If you are smaller than most of the other fish, GPL makes more sense.
If we (as a company) were to invest a given amount of resources in an improvement we did wish to keep to ourselves and eventually sell, we could choose a project that had a BSD-like license. If, however, we wanted to use that improvements to foster an ecosystem where no one should gain much advantage over us, we would choose a GPL-licensed project.
They are tools. You pick the one that makes sense.
About a year ago I was handed a Solaris 10 DVD, a Solaris 11 beta and a CD for Nexenta (Ubuntu on top of a Solaris kernel)
I like Solaris, but I would like a very cheap Niagara ATX motherboard much more than a pressed DVD. And it doesn't even need to be for free. I think that would drum up the interest on Niagara, Solaris and Sun in general.
They also need to re-hire Frog Design. We need something as cool as a Sparcstation 1 and a Sun monitor to match.
- 802.11g or n networking (AFAIK, the XO has 802.11s only) - a touchscreen (multi-touch would be sweet) - a LiIon battery - a larger keyboard (the current one is either very small or my hands are too big) - a co-processor for video compression/decompression for easy video conference
and maybe
- a hard-disk so I can store my library within the device
Items 2 and 5 could be part of a second-gen laptop. Item 3 is too dangerous for now to leave with a kid.
Even if the weather is abnormally stable for the past centuries, it's not very clever to play with the curve before understanding the system more thoroughly.
We can always look at Venus to get reminded how a runaway greenhouse effect ends.
I agree. A little tweaking with the story and a better choice for the adult Anakin (someone with a deeper voice) would have done a lot for the movies.
I would add that the fear of losing beloved ones is a bad driving force for Anakin. Just plain greed and resentment the abuses he should have suffered as a slave child should have been enough. Anakin should have known no love until his adulthood. I would also avoid the "we could rule the Galaxy as something or other" as it became Darth Vader's trademark line and has been parodied just about everywhere (I even play with it with my own son ).
Of course, no "Noooooooo". The equipment being crushed around him should be enough.
And what the hell are C3P0 and R2D2 doing there?
If George wanted to win a Hugo or Nebula, Anakin and the prophecy should have been results of some freakish time-travel accident. It always works.
A very obvious solution would be to have an added tab in the date/time (or whatever it's called in Windows) control panel that would allow the user to change the begin-end dates for such modifiers.
This would fix it once and for all.
BTW, I live in a country (Brazil) where daylight saving time starts and ends on different days every year.
Linux doesn't make anyone immune to crapware, but it is still easier for us to just boot from the live CD and run setup, do the next-next-finish dance and be done with it than it is to restore a Windows machine from the installation CD.
It's not only easier for the geek. It is easier for anyone. Installing Windows XP from a pre-SP CD is a nightmare no non-geek should ever be exposed to (even if it could help my personal favorite in this one). That alone would make me either move to Linux or go out and buy a Mac.
Of course, installing your own OS is kinda declaring independence from phone support, but people need not to be afraid - it's not hard at all. And, besides that, I never, ever heard of a problem solved by phone support.
Even without a buyout, those involved in this nonsense have actually made a good deal of money - the lawyers, Darl and the other execs (who are on hefty salaries) who have done rather well from all this, thank you very much.
That's why there _must_ be a way to put those people behind bars. Their sole intent in all this has been to benefit themselves and the interests behind the Canopy Group at the expense of the company itself, its shareholders and the Linux ecosystem. Since day #1 there was no hope of winning.
You know, of course, that installing a Linux is way easier than installing Windows, right?
My girlfriend had a problem of a rotten Windows install and I remade her machine in front of her. It took far too many hours to even arrive at a clean install of Windows plus Office from the original (non-restore) disks. More if I count the time to slipstream SP2 into the original disk and running Windows Update for all the stuff.
I then installed Ubuntu on a secondary partition I kept. It took far less than one hour to have Linux and OpenOffice running. A little bit more counting the upgrades that came down the wire.
It is so much easier to set up a modern Linux box I don't know why many users who have no real reason to use Windows (are neither corporate slaves nor heavy gamers) endure it.
I wouldn't want to go through the nightmare of approvals required to fly a fission-thermal rocket.
I hope someday we could build a fusion-thermal engine. That would make a very interesting SSTO vehicle. Imagine re-entry without need for atmospheric braking.
In the meantime, I still expect somehow Brukhard Heim's ideas to bring some interesting ideas for propulsion once we reach LEO.
I keep a second partition for those things. Now, after going dapper->edgy, mine is used to hold videos, but, before it, it held my Dapper root. In a couple months, it will hold a Feisty Fawn installation so I can get my feet wet.
I keep jumping partitions and trying not to dist-upgrade. As much as I love APT, I don't trust it blindly.
Remember that even if the electronic edition costs the same per child, the non-trivial costs of transportation will be removed from the equation.
If you take out some or part of the cost of printing, the deal becomes even sweeter.
This is a win-win situation - the price of the books go down because they don't need to be printed. This means more books are sold at a possibly higher profit margin. The books can get as large as needed because they are not on paper - encyclopedias can grow to unlimited size. The children have more books because the government can afford more and thus, I hope, the children get a better education and economy improves. And because they don't pollute when are made or transported, the environment wins.
Dunno where you live, but I have digital cable here with several dozen channels and more broadband than I can consume (almost never max out my link).
And, of course, as the number of cable subscribers increase in the A and B classes, one could expect that the programming of the free channels gets crappier and crappier (or, better, more suited for C and D classes).
The TV Globo soap operas are a good example. During the 80's they were well written (considering the low standards they always adhered to) because there was a good reason to address the richer, presumably smarter, people. Not anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes. But a matematician would never fall for that.
;-)
3.141592653589793115997963468544185162 is close, but it is not Pi.
Would something designed to replace APL actually replace something?
Will it make any sound?
The main different between a matematician and an engineer is that engineers understand the concept of "equal enough".
Noooo!
APL is my textbook example of a write-only language.
I couldn't figure out in the afternoon what the program I wrote in the morning did (actually, the problem was "how it did it").
There must be a better way.
Just imagine the kind of thing that could happen if you could hack your way into the control computer and rearrange the plans...
"What is THAT on the top of the building?!"
Licenses are just that: licenses.
BSD-like licenses do not prevent your competitors from taking your contributions, improving upon them and keeping the improvements for themselves, turning what you did as open-source into closed-source/proprietary stuff, even using it to compete against you. If you are bigger than other fish, investing in BSD makes more sense.
GPL-like licenses, on the other hand, would require your competitor to release its improvements keeping the field level. If you find the ideals behind GPL attractive, you will also feel more comfortable that improvements on your work will not become proprietary software. If you are smaller than most of the other fish, GPL makes more sense.
If we (as a company) were to invest a given amount of resources in an improvement we did wish to keep to ourselves and eventually sell, we could choose a project that had a BSD-like license. If, however, we wanted to use that improvements to foster an ecosystem where no one should gain much advantage over us, we would choose a GPL-licensed project.
They are tools. You pick the one that makes sense.
But Solaris 10 is not a new product...
About a year ago I was handed a Solaris 10 DVD, a Solaris 11 beta and a CD for Nexenta (Ubuntu on top of a Solaris kernel)
I like Solaris, but I would like a very cheap Niagara ATX motherboard much more than a pressed DVD. And it doesn't even need to be for free. I think that would drum up the interest on Niagara, Solaris and Sun in general.
They also need to re-hire Frog Design. We need something as cool as a Sparcstation 1 and a Sun monitor to match.
Or perhaps a terrible mishap involving a time-machine and a teletransporter...
For a commercial version, I would suggest:
- 802.11g or n networking (AFAIK, the XO has 802.11s only)
- a touchscreen (multi-touch would be sweet)
- a LiIon battery
- a larger keyboard (the current one is either very small or my hands are too big)
- a co-processor for video compression/decompression for easy video conference
and maybe
- a hard-disk so I can store my library within the device
Items 2 and 5 could be part of a second-gen laptop. Item 3 is too dangerous for now to leave with a kid.
When will this game of whack-a-mole end?
Will it end?
Even if the weather is abnormally stable for the past centuries, it's not very clever to play with the curve before understanding the system more thoroughly.
We can always look at Venus to get reminded how a runaway greenhouse effect ends.
I agree. A little tweaking with the story and a better choice for the adult Anakin (someone with a deeper voice) would have done a lot for the movies.
I would add that the fear of losing beloved ones is a bad driving force for Anakin. Just plain greed and resentment the abuses he should have suffered as a slave child should have been enough. Anakin should have known no love until his adulthood. I would also avoid the "we could rule the Galaxy as something or other" as it became Darth Vader's trademark line and has been parodied just about everywhere (I even play with it with my own son ).
Of course, no "Noooooooo". The equipment being crushed around him should be enough.
And what the hell are C3P0 and R2D2 doing there?
If George wanted to win a Hugo or Nebula, Anakin and the prophecy should have been results of some freakish time-travel accident. It always works.
Reagan was not convincing.
They must be write-only disks
A very obvious solution would be to have an added tab in the date/time (or whatever it's called in Windows) control panel that would allow the user to change the begin-end dates for such modifiers.
This would fix it once and for all.
BTW, I live in a country (Brazil) where daylight saving time starts and ends on different days every year.
Linux doesn't make anyone immune to crapware, but it is still easier for us to just boot from the live CD and run setup, do the next-next-finish dance and be done with it than it is to restore a Windows machine from the installation CD.
It's not only easier for the geek. It is easier for anyone. Installing Windows XP from a pre-SP CD is a nightmare no non-geek should ever be exposed to (even if it could help my personal favorite in this one). That alone would make me either move to Linux or go out and buy a Mac.
Of course, installing your own OS is kinda declaring independence from phone support, but people need not to be afraid - it's not hard at all. And, besides that, I never, ever heard of a problem solved by phone support.
That's why there _must_ be a way to put those people behind bars. Their sole intent in all this has been to benefit themselves and the interests behind the Canopy Group at the expense of the company itself, its shareholders and the Linux ecosystem. Since day #1 there was no hope of winning.
You know, of course, that installing a Linux is way easier than installing Windows, right?
My girlfriend had a problem of a rotten Windows install and I remade her machine in front of her. It took far too many hours to even arrive at a clean install of Windows plus Office from the original (non-restore) disks. More if I count the time to slipstream SP2 into the original disk and running Windows Update for all the stuff.
I then installed Ubuntu on a secondary partition I kept. It took far less than one hour to have Linux and OpenOffice running. A little bit more counting the upgrades that came down the wire.
It is so much easier to set up a modern Linux box I don't know why many users who have no real reason to use Windows (are neither corporate slaves nor heavy gamers) endure it.
I wouldn't want to go through the nightmare of approvals required to fly a fission-thermal rocket.
I hope someday we could build a fusion-thermal engine. That would make a very interesting SSTO vehicle. Imagine re-entry without need for atmospheric braking.
In the meantime, I still expect somehow Brukhard Heim's ideas to bring some interesting ideas for propulsion once we reach LEO.
What could be sweeter than that?
He probably wants to run Linux for work and still be able to run GameOS in his/her spare time.
I keep a second partition for those things. Now, after going dapper->edgy, mine is used to hold videos, but, before it, it held my Dapper root. In a couple months, it will hold a Feisty Fawn installation so I can get my feet wet. I keep jumping partitions and trying not to dist-upgrade. As much as I love APT, I don't trust it blindly.
Remember that even if the electronic edition costs the same per child, the non-trivial costs of transportation will be removed from the equation.
If you take out some or part of the cost of printing, the deal becomes even sweeter.
This is a win-win situation - the price of the books go down because they don't need to be printed. This means more books are sold at a possibly higher profit margin. The books can get as large as needed because they are not on paper - encyclopedias can grow to unlimited size. The children have more books because the government can afford more and thus, I hope, the children get a better education and economy improves. And because they don't pollute when are made or transported, the environment wins.
Come on... It's an easy sell.
The camera-angle button is killer for tech-conference videos. To be able to switch between presenter, presentation and tutorial would be really cool.
While ethical questions should not be based or caused by religion, there is no reason why they must not concur every once and then.
I can be an atheist and still think abortion is fundamentally wrong (albeit very convenient for the greater good)
Dunno where you live, but I have digital cable here with several dozen channels and more broadband than I can consume (almost never max out my link).
And, of course, as the number of cable subscribers increase in the A and B classes, one could expect that the programming of the free channels gets crappier and crappier (or, better, more suited for C and D classes).
The TV Globo soap operas are a good example. During the 80's they were well written (considering the low standards they always adhered to) because there was a good reason to address the richer, presumably smarter, people. Not anymore.
Welcome to the future.