I'm not familiar with the US justice system. Are we discussing what evidence is admissible in court (I'm guessing that evidence gathered from an illegal search is inadmissible), or discussing on what grounds police might arrest a member of the public?
The Thomas Crapper story is an interesting coincidence. In fact the origin of the word is Latin crappa, chaff. So 'lots of crap', 'crappy' and so on should not really be considered rude. Do not say crap when you mean crud or shit.
IDEs like Eclipse have become universals hammers, and to some of their users, any file containing text looks like a nail.
And this differs from Emacs how?
Specific tasks are rarely handled well by universal tools, and text editing is no exception.
Are they saying that GNU emacs (which has at least two mail clients, a news reader, an IRC client, debugger, shell-buffer and terminal emulator, Towers of Hanoi and goodness knows what else) is too universal to do one thing and do it well?
I think the intention was that vendors could ship a binary-only package and have it work on any LSB-compliant distribution. Hence the need to specify a package format that should work everywhere, and hence RPM. It's a nice thought, but it might have been easier to ignore packaging and just specify that tar and gzip commands shall be available.
Even on the Lisp Machine? Or JavaStation? To have exploitable buffer overruns, you need to write code in a language that provides (and to some extent encourages) direct, unchecked memory access.
Now, if you said all commercially successful platforms, or all platforms anyone might like to use, I'd have to agree.
The article says that he used 'run-over cats' among other ingredients. So where does he get these cats from? Seeing one scurrying across the road, and noticing the fuel needle hovering near the empty mark, wouldn't you be tempted to swerve and make yourself some free fuel?
Perhaps the mark II will have 'fuel scoops' fitted on the front. And if this invention is adapted for larger diesel engines as used in railway locomotives, the cow-catcher could take on a slightly different purpose.
A trademark is just as much IP as a copyright, patent, or trade secret.
Agreed. But if you are talking about trademarks, say trademarks. If you are talking about copyright, say copyright.
Fair point, it's not the submitter's fault but lazy journalism - uncritically reprinting a press release. The press release tries to add a bit of vagueness, as you'd expect, to make the claims seem bigger than they are.
They make vague statements about 'intellectual property' in press releases because it sounds more impressive to the layman than if they simply said, 'we have a trademark claim'.
However you can bet that if they go to court, their filing will not contain anything about 'intellectual property'. They will make a case of trademark infringement.
I'm not saying that intellectual property doesn't exist, or that trademarks are not a form of intellectual property. Just that it's a really vague way of phrasing things that encourages people to lump together unrelated bits of law - copyright, patents, trademarks and other things - as if they could be treated the same.
A press release trying to puff up a pretty minor claim will say 'our intellectual property' so that the reader thinks hmm, perhaps they have a substantial claim, such as copyright infringement. It's disappointing that journalists parrot this rather than just telling us what exactly is being infringed.
The company does not 'claim to own the intellectual property to GMail'. It has a trademark claim. This is completely different and unrelated to any copyright interest, patent held, or trade secret. Lumping them all together as 'intellectual property' which can then be 'infringed' in some vague way just muddies the issue.
If I interview people, I always ask them about computability or complexity classes or type theory. Knowing the theoretical stuff is a better predictor of practical ability than anything else I could test in a phone interview. If you want a Java programmer, someone who has studied modal logic or compiler design (and understands it) is likely to be a better hire than someone who took the course in Java programming.
Yes - and while you're at it why not do this for all applications not just Firefox?
It's another reason why the file picker should be part of the desktop environment (like the window manager or panel) and not implemented separately by every application.
If your apps are GNOME apps or KDE apps then of course they use a library to display the file picker dialogue, but it's still running as part of the application. This means that the app needs to run with permission to view the whole directory tree and open any file the user can open. Whereas if the file picker were a separate process and passed an open filehandle to the app once a file was selected, the application could run with very minimal permissions.
Personally, I like the idea of dragging a file from the file browser onto the application icon to load it, and dragging from the application into a directory window to save. See ROX. (The same principle could be applied to other actions - eg no need for every application to run with permission to make connections to lpd to print, instead drag an icon from the app to a printer icon to print the document. This probably sounds like overkill though.)
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For end users, perhaps the best feature in this release is
- Added ControlMaster=auto/autoask options to support opportunistic
multiplexing (see the ssh_config(5) manpage for details).
'Multiplexing' means running more than one session across the same ssh connection. So if you use CVS over ssh, or rsync over ssh or even just lots of remote commands, you don't have to start up a new connection for each one. The first ssh connection stays running and new sessions are opened over it. This cuts down the initial network traffic a lot. Great news for modem users and a worthwhile improvement in responsiveness for everyone else.
You need to set up ControlMaster=auto in your ssh_config, which can be in your ~/.ssh/ directory.
Plenty of high level languages (real high level ones, not fairly clunky OO/procedural things like Java) compile to native code. Scheme or Standard ML to name but two. You can often expect performance about half of what you get from C.
(This doesn't mean they are suitable for system programming in the sense of device drivers; you need better control over memory allocation.)
About your sig: the precursor to Slashdot was called 'Chips and Dips'. Even after Slashdot was created in autumn 1997 (I think) there was still a link from Rob Malda's home page saying 'chips and dips' and pointing to slashdot.org.
Milk isn't sterilized, just pasteurized. (Well it depends on where you live, but I think in anglophone countries pasteurization is normal.) That's not enough to even kill all the microorganisms in the milk. At some stage, there was talk of throwing away all surgical instruments rather than sterilizing them since the temperatures used weren't high enough to destroy the bad prion. Milk is pasteurized at a much lower temperature than that.
But breaking a licence agreement is a civil matter... surely not something that would lead to arrest. Then again, the Japanese legal system may be a bit different.
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I'm not familiar with the US justice system. Are we discussing what evidence is admissible in court (I'm guessing that evidence gathered from an illegal search is inadmissible), or discussing on what grounds police might arrest a member of the public?
My vote goes to CowboyMail.
The Thomas Crapper story is an interesting coincidence. In fact the origin of the word is Latin crappa, chaff. So 'lots of crap', 'crappy' and so on should not really be considered rude. Do not say crap when you mean crud or shit.
Are they saying that GNU emacs (which has at least two mail clients, a news reader, an IRC client, debugger, shell-buffer and terminal emulator, Towers of Hanoi and goodness knows what else) is too universal to do one thing and do it well?
I said RPM the format, not rpm the application.
I think the intention was that vendors could ship a binary-only package and have it work on any LSB-compliant distribution. Hence the need to specify a package format that should work everywhere, and hence RPM. It's a nice thought, but it might have been easier to ignore packaging and just specify that tar and gzip commands shall be available.
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extend => extent
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meanwhile => recently
So... is most shrinkwrap proprietary software noted for its conceptual integrity or innovation?
'Professionalism' is rather a loaded word, see Phil G.'s notes on it.
Now, if you said all commercially successful platforms, or all platforms anyone might like to use, I'd have to agree.
The article says that he used 'run-over cats' among other ingredients. So where does he get these cats from? Seeing one scurrying across the road, and noticing the fuel needle hovering near the empty mark, wouldn't you be tempted to swerve and make yourself some free fuel?
Perhaps the mark II will have 'fuel scoops' fitted on the front. And if this invention is adapted for larger diesel engines as used in railway locomotives, the cow-catcher could take on a slightly different purpose.
Fair point, it's not the submitter's fault but lazy journalism - uncritically reprinting a press release. The press release tries to add a bit of vagueness, as you'd expect, to make the claims seem bigger than they are.
They make vague statements about 'intellectual property' in press releases because it sounds more impressive to the layman than if they simply said, 'we have a trademark claim'.
However you can bet that if they go to court, their filing will not contain anything about 'intellectual property'. They will make a case of trademark infringement.
I'm not saying that intellectual property doesn't exist, or that trademarks are not a form of intellectual property. Just that it's a really vague way of phrasing things that encourages people to lump together unrelated bits of law - copyright, patents, trademarks and other things - as if they could be treated the same.
A press release trying to puff up a pretty minor claim will say 'our intellectual property' so that the reader thinks hmm, perhaps they have a substantial claim, such as copyright infringement. It's disappointing that journalists parrot this rather than just telling us what exactly is being infringed.
The summary for this story is another good example of why the phrase 'intellectual property' should be avoided.
The company does not 'claim to own the intellectual property to GMail'. It has a trademark claim. This is completely different and unrelated to any copyright interest, patent held, or trade secret. Lumping them all together as 'intellectual property' which can then be 'infringed' in some vague way just muddies the issue.
If I interview people, I always ask them about computability or complexity classes or type theory. Knowing the theoretical stuff is a better predictor of practical ability than anything else I could test in a phone interview. If you want a Java programmer, someone who has studied modal logic or compiler design (and understands it) is likely to be a better hire than someone who took the course in Java programming.
Yes - and while you're at it why not do this for all applications not just Firefox?
It's another reason why the file picker should be part of the desktop environment (like the window manager or panel) and not implemented separately by every application.
If your apps are GNOME apps or KDE apps then of course they use a library to display the file picker dialogue, but it's still running as part of the application. This means that the app needs to run with permission to view the whole directory tree and open any file the user can open. Whereas if the file picker were a separate process and passed an open filehandle to the app once a file was selected, the application could run with very minimal permissions.
Personally, I like the idea of dragging a file from the file browser onto the application icon to load it, and dragging from the application into a directory window to save. See ROX. (The same principle could be applied to other actions - eg no need for every application to run with permission to make connections to lpd to print, instead drag an icon from the app to a printer icon to print the document. This probably sounds like overkill though.)
Or just blind yourself with a hot needle!
10 fucking dollars, give me a break.
For end users, perhaps the best feature in this release is
- Added ControlMaster=auto/autoask options to support opportunistic
multiplexing (see the ssh_config(5) manpage for details).
'Multiplexing' means running more than one session across the same ssh connection. So if you use CVS over ssh, or rsync over ssh or even just lots of remote commands, you don't have to start up a new connection for each one. The first ssh connection stays running and new sessions are opened over it. This cuts down the initial network traffic a lot. Great news for modem users and a worthwhile improvement in responsiveness for everyone else.
You need to set up ControlMaster=auto in your ssh_config, which can be in your ~/.ssh/ directory.
Plenty of high level languages (real high level ones, not fairly clunky OO/procedural things like Java) compile to native code. Scheme or Standard ML to name but two. You can often expect performance about half of what you get from C.
(This doesn't mean they are suitable for system programming in the sense of device drivers; you need better control over memory allocation.)
I for one welcome... oh never mind.
About your sig: the precursor to Slashdot was called 'Chips and Dips'. Even after Slashdot was created in autumn 1997 (I think) there was still a link from Rob Malda's home page saying 'chips and dips' and pointing to slashdot.org.
Milk isn't sterilized, just pasteurized. (Well it depends on where you live, but I think in anglophone countries pasteurization is normal.) That's not enough to even kill all the microorganisms in the milk. At some stage, there was talk of throwing away all surgical instruments rather than sterilizing them since the temperatures used weren't high enough to destroy the bad prion. Milk is pasteurized at a much lower temperature than that.
'Half calf'? Like this?
Conspicuously absent from the table: does it have free drivers?
Re your sig: I think you mean kuro5hin.
But breaking a licence agreement is a civil matter... surely not something that would lead to arrest. Then again, the Japanese legal system may be a bit different.