IMO Government research, if it is to be done at all, must be placed in the public domain for all to use. Its undesireable and unneccesary to have the government advocating any particular license.
Using BSD or X11 license would make more sense for government software projects. Let everyone (even proprietaries) get some use out of it.
After all, all that money to pay for it was stolen from them too.
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Now if we can just get WINE running on the Xbox, we could have some real fun
Dextrose is the best place I've found for devtools
http://www.dextrose.com/dx_section_a4t.htm is where all the compilers are at. I use Groundzero myself, works ok.
Only thing is its all DOS stuff.
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Don't forget homebrew development.
I've been coding for fun on my N64 and my Dreamcast. Getting Linux up and running might mean I could actually code the console ON the console, no PC required once I've got the Linux cd.
The millenia old Chinese language was poorly designed to not consider information age concerns.
Its not THAT hard to learn, and the illiteracy rate is not that high. Note that China is not the only country to use Chinese... suppose the Americans decided to invent a new English alphabet that was easier to write.
I agree with you, buyout does seem like the best option.
OTOH, I think its still a little early to label the SF thing a failure, since its only been the main slant of their business for a few months. I think they'd be better off concentrating on making their money off the OSDN though.
that being said, we've strayed a bit OT here, probably best to just leave it at that or discuss it at the Yahoo LNUX board.
Well MS is there themselves, figure that one out.
Maybe MS wants them there because there's something in their contract with Dell about Dell having to help them unload the truck?
VA is doing nothing of the kind. If you read that profile page you linked to you'd notice the debt/equity of 0. Companies with no debt don't go out of business too often.
Gotta admit, as a LNUX shareholder we should have a presence there. Maybe an all-purpose OSDN booth or something?
Actually back in undergrad we used one to fling metal rings around in the stairwells.
BTW that is a LOT more interesting if the rings have been in liquid nitrogen for awhile.
If size is what we're going for here I don't see how IR radiation (or UV for that matter) is going to work.
If you propagate an IR photon at bit[x] its likely to hit bit[x+1] or some other nearby bit: its wavelength is too large.
Hard X-Rays or some kind of Gamma Radiation are going to be needed here it seems to me. But then this thing is going to be an energy hog, and you'll probably also need to wear a radiation ring if you sit too close.
Conversely just because a piece of legislation hurts a profit-minded company doesn't mean we should have it, either.
This is just an example of the regulatory cruft they pulled with the automobile industry. Create feel-good regulation whose real purpose is to raise the cost of entry into the industry and discourage new competition from springing up. Note that in the automobile industry it eventually has gotten to the point where following all the minutia in regulations requires a multi-billion dollar infrastructure and new domestic competition is pretty well impossible.
LOL, If we're Mac and you're Windows why is that an insult against us?
Seriously, BSD doesn't need to be jealous of Linux, we've got Linux binary compatibility mode.
I use both myself (and Cygwin on my one box), but I'd say FreeBSD is my fav. The big thing for me is the install program. I absolutely hate those Bloatware ridden install programs that are becoming de reguleur in the Linux world: I shouldn't need 64 MB of RAM to take an OS off a CD and put it on a hard drive.
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IMO Government research, if it is to be done at all, must be placed in the public domain for all to use. Its undesireable and unneccesary to have the government advocating any particular license. Using BSD or X11 license would make more sense for government software projects. Let everyone (even proprietaries) get some use out of it. After all, all that money to pay for it was stolen from them too.
Now if we can just get WINE running on the Xbox, we could have some real fun
http://www.dextrose.com/dx_section_a4t.htm is where all the compilers are at. I use Groundzero myself, works ok.
Only thing is its all DOS stuff.
I've been coding for fun on my N64 and my Dreamcast. Getting Linux up and running might mean I could actually code the console ON the console, no PC required once I've got the Linux cd.
and best of all I'm feel like not using spellchecker
The millenia old Chinese language was poorly designed to not consider information age concerns. Its not THAT hard to learn, and the illiteracy rate is not that high. Note that China is not the only country to use Chinese... suppose the Americans decided to invent a new English alphabet that was easier to write.
OTOH, I think its still a little early to label the SF thing a failure, since its only been the main slant of their business for a few months. I think they'd be better off concentrating on making their money off the OSDN though.
that being said, we've strayed a bit OT here, probably best to just leave it at that or discuss it at the Yahoo LNUX board.
Surely VA isn't going to lose all that money in the hardware business now that they aren't in the hardware business.
Delisting can be prevented either through a stock buyback or as a last resort a reverse split.
Well MS is there themselves, figure that one out. Maybe MS wants them there because there's something in their contract with Dell about Dell having to help them unload the truck?
Gotta admit, as a LNUX shareholder we should have a presence there. Maybe an all-purpose OSDN booth or something?
One of the other students made one back when we were undergrads and it didn't look anything like this. Of course his was much smaller
We used it to fling metal and blow up pickles...
Actually back in undergrad we used one to fling metal rings around in the stairwells. BTW that is a LOT more interesting if the rings have been in liquid nitrogen for awhile.
If you propagate an IR photon at bit[x] its likely to hit bit[x+1] or some other nearby bit: its wavelength is too large.
Hard X-Rays or some kind of Gamma Radiation are going to be needed here it seems to me. But then this thing is going to be an energy hog, and you'll probably also need to wear a radiation ring if you sit too close.
How about: "Oh great, another thing my BIOS won't let me boot off of."
What are we supposed to read this thing with anyhow, X-Rays?
Conversely just because a piece of legislation hurts a profit-minded company doesn't mean we should have it, either. This is just an example of the regulatory cruft they pulled with the automobile industry. Create feel-good regulation whose real purpose is to raise the cost of entry into the industry and discourage new competition from springing up. Note that in the automobile industry it eventually has gotten to the point where following all the minutia in regulations requires a multi-billion dollar infrastructure and new domestic competition is pretty well impossible.
Study compares apples and oranges. Discovers oranges make bad pies. Finding none to encouraging for apple enthusiasts.
They'll have had it for decades as soon as they have time to read through it and edit all the past documentation they have :)
The one where Eric Raymond whips out his lightsabre and starts killing Tusken Raiders in Mos Redmond?
Seriously, BSD doesn't need to be jealous of Linux, we've got Linux binary compatibility mode.
I use both myself (and Cygwin on my one box), but I'd say FreeBSD is my fav. The big thing for me is the install program. I absolutely hate those Bloatware ridden install programs that are becoming de reguleur in the Linux world: I shouldn't need 64 MB of RAM to take an OS off a CD and put it on a hard drive.