The article was cute, but she left off the most important way to attract a geek. Just tell him, "Windows is now a 64 bit tweak of a 32 bit extension to a 16 bit user interface for an 8 bit operating system based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
I remember playing AD&D with my friends for days on end as a kid. Imagination was such a huge driving force that time had no meaning to anything but our starving stomachs. It seems that people nowadays would kill for the kind of technology that can transfer pictures from written words directly into their brains.
My first post-university job was a six-month temp-to-hire position at a utility company in Kansas. I gave three months notice that I wasn't going to stay when my contract expired. Unfortunately, they offered me an additional $20K/year to stay. I wish they had revoked my access and escorted me from the building. I declined the offer, and left two and a half months later. My six months were measured in hours worked, so I came in early every day, and stayed late every night. I shaved two weeks off my sentence (yes, it's a joke) that way. I wish I'd started doing that from day one. I could have shaved a lot more time.
To this day, I'm thankful I declined the offer. My boss was way cool, but the work and the company sucked.
It's actually kind of sad that most people identify Debian solely as being "that one that Ubuntu's based on".
Why? Debian is incapable of appealing to a mass audience. Ubuntu is a necessary extension that fills that need. Debian is exactly where its developers put it.
The question he is really asking is probably more like: 'Is there anything like Windows live photo gallery that will allow me to tag and sort all of my data in a variety of ways like wlpg lets me sort my pictures?'
That is what Nepomuk is supposed to do: allow you to build semantic meaning into your data. The problem I have with it as it current stands is that the Nepomuk processes suck the life out of my computers, so I disable Nepomuk entirely.
And, now this news that M$ might give up developing.NET any further adds to serve more confusion.
Shitty as.NET is, development on it isn't stopping (sadly). Microsoft is stopping its efforts to convert interpreted languages to the.NET runtime, but the disease known as.NET will continue to fester until Microsoft finds yet another popular technology to (badly) imitate.
They wouldn't have been at risk from the copyrights and trademarks, but just how would they have avoided the patents?
GPL v2 Section 7
If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
One argument I've heard against this is that the GPL covers only what other people can do, not what the original copyright holder can do. By this argument, Oracle could distribute patented code under the GPL, but nobody else could.
The obvious counter to that, though, is that the GPL is chosen in order to allow people to redistribute code it covers. If a patent owner distributes code under the GPL, and that code is covered by patents, then Section 7 can only be interpreted as meaning that the patent owner wanted code recipients to be able to copy, modify, use, and redistribute the covered code. The only way code recipients can do that legally is if they are also granted those rights by the patent holder. As such, SUN effectively surrendered patent enforcement rights of all the code it released under the GPL.
It's a difference between "Evil Litigious Bastards want to know if you're using their stuff" vs. "Benevolent Gift-givers want to know if you're using their stuff."
Since in the eyes of copyright trolls, each download is an infringement deserving the maximum penalty, and each page view is a separate download, the copyright trolls should be sued for $250,000 for each individually copyrighted component of each web page for each page view.
That should bring the penalties into the billions of dollars rather quickly. THAT would be sweet justice.
The defendant has everything coming to him regarding speeding and/or reckless driving citations, but that's not why the ACLU is representing him, nor why he's facing 16 years in jail. In that respect, IMHO he is an innocent victim.
If I understand the situation correctly, the man driving the motorcycle and the man videotaping the traffic stop are two different people. The man facing 16 years in prison is the bystander who videotaped the stop, so the motorcyclist is not a victim in any way, shape, or form.
The bystander, on the other hand, deserves to be compensated for the severe abuse of authority shown by the Maryland police. The officers involved in the raid, and the judge who signed the warrant need to be removed from their respective positions and prosecuted for the evilness of their actions.
It takes a market position that is at least dominant (IBM is even superdominant on mainframes) AND anticompetitive behavior.
While I don't care about mainframes, I hope IBM loses this case for the sole reason that it opens the doors for yet another antitrust action against Microsoft for paying retailers to exclude Linux, and against giant retailers who force Windows onto computer purchasers.
This is not for Americans, nor should it be expected that the hardware would be any comparable to what is considered minimal in America, but its a start; an attempt to introduce a bit of technology so people who would otherwise have no chance to even aim for a middle-class life are empowered.
It should be. I have customers running my software at their office for whom this would be an ideal system for their employees to use in the field. It doesn't have to be a high-powered computer. It just has to be powerful enough to run a field version of my software, and have functioning wireless or an Ethernet port (either will work).
If the unsubsidized price is low enough, this would have great small business marketability in the U.S.
The amount of testing and verification that goes into these software categories often exceed the development cost...
Then what's the harm in releasing the source code so those who are qualified to review it can do so?
The most likely answer is: "to protect our proprietary secrets from competitors!"
My response to that is, "what proprietary secrets?" If every company does the type of due-diligence you claim, then everyone in the field is already at the same level of competence and will not benefit from someone else's code. If not every company performs the same level of diligence, then that's all the more reason to have their code reviewed.
The most likely reasons to fight having their code reviewed are arrogance and fear.
Its been a long time since I saw such a dickwad move by an MMO company.
Blizzard became a dickwad company the moment they filed suit against the bnetd developers. That was the point that Blizzard's true colors should have been blindingly obvious to everyone.
With SSDs you just have to worry about the lack of oxygen damaging your brain and your internal organs, but not about endangering your data or the performance of your laptop.
I guess this won't be an issue until brains and organs are harder to replace than computer hardware.
In recent studies researchers have found that BT maize (corn) can cause serious health problems in mammals. A diet heavy in GMO corn caused rats to develop liver and kidney problems.
I'm really glad to hear this (I'm not kidding). About five or six years ago, I developed an extremely painful hemorrhoid. It would go through daily cycles of inflation and deflation, with an occasional excruciating flareup (about twice a year). Preparation H helped for about two months before its effectiveness completely ceased.
After living with this for a few years, I broke down and went to the doctor. His advice was to not sit so much (I'm a software developer, so that did not go over well), and eat more fiber. I did both of those things for about a year before concluding they had zero positive benefit in my case. I had been building towards a decision to have it surgically removed, but wanted to avoid surgery unless I had absolutely no choice.
Last year, I met a woman to whom I later became engaged. One of her many endearing attributes is that she is a die-hard believer in Organic eating (and I was not). As time went on, she convinced me to try eating more Organically and to buy as much as possible from our local Farmer's Market. About two months ago, she convinced me to stop eating store-bought corn since it was so heavily polluted by Monsanto GMO "crap". I resisted at first, but eventually agreed to do so.
Shortly after (a couple days, but I'm not exactly sure of the timeframe), the hemorrhoid stopped its daily inflation/deflation cycle. Two months later, and I still haven't had any hemorrhoid activity at all. More research into the cause of hemorrhoids revealed that liver and kidney issues are directly linked as causes. To my mind, that is plenty of evidence linking Monsanto to health problems.
I used to think that Monsanto was just a figurative pain in the ass. Now I believe that to be literally true as well.
Currently, the only remotely realistic method for radical improvements in stored energy per weight are metastable isotopes, but even that is a far shot.
The only reason you're saying that is because we aren't currently facing an imminent extinction event that can be cured with a bit of metastable isotopic unobtainium. If Hollywierd has taught us anything, it's that nothing is impossible in the face of an imminent extinction event. It seems to be the only way to get those evil scientists to share their horded knowledge.
Certainly the open source Java compilers would gain a significant foothold, but with Oracle steering the JCP it seems likely they would eventually corner the market...
Don't lose any sleep worrying about that, as it has a near-zero chance of being reality. Oracle certainly could try such a move (it's in the corporate culture), but it would have no teeth. When SUN open-sourced Java, the former assumed the role of steward, and surrendered the role of dictator. There is no way that Oracle can now force people to bow down to its will with Java.
There would be short-term angst for developers, and short term profits for Oracle, but there would be an inevitable fork of not only the code, but of the name. Java (or whatever new name was given to the forked language) would continue under new management, and life would go on. The whole issue would fade away in a reasonably short period of time, and would become just minor background noise in the long run.
Given that, Oracle is not run by complete idiots (much as it may seem from time to time). Doing what you propose would be product suicide.
Were does one draw the line between OS and application (and let's not draw libraries into this).
The operating system manages the hardware, and provides an interface between the hardware and applications. Everything else is an application (including most libraries, since they're just reusable parts of applications).
It doesn't matter anymore. The argument was only important long enough to bamboozle the court system. After that, Microsoft could scream the truth from the highest mountain top with impunity. It's not like the court system is going to admit to its own incompetence, and punish Microsoft for lying.
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The article was cute, but she left off the most important way to attract a geek. Just tell him, "Windows is now a 64 bit tweak of a 32 bit extension to a 16 bit user interface for an 8 bit operating system based on a 4 bit architecture from a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."
He'll be yours forever.
The submitter linked to an site that links to the actual posting. The real posting it at: http://blogs.amd.com/home/2010/09/22/getageek/
I remember playing AD&D with my friends for days on end as a kid. Imagination was such a huge driving force that time had no meaning to anything but our starving stomachs. It seems that people nowadays would kill for the kind of technology that can transfer pictures from written words directly into their brains.
The horizontal frame bars are usually unharmed, so fortunately, the bike can still reproduce.
My first post-university job was a six-month temp-to-hire position at a utility company in Kansas. I gave three months notice that I wasn't going to stay when my contract expired. Unfortunately, they offered me an additional $20K/year to stay. I wish they had revoked my access and escorted me from the building. I declined the offer, and left two and a half months later. My six months were measured in hours worked, so I came in early every day, and stayed late every night. I shaved two weeks off my sentence (yes, it's a joke) that way. I wish I'd started doing that from day one. I could have shaved a lot more time.
To this day, I'm thankful I declined the offer. My boss was way cool, but the work and the company sucked.
It's actually kind of sad that most people identify Debian solely as being "that one that Ubuntu's based on".
Why? Debian is incapable of appealing to a mass audience. Ubuntu is a necessary extension that fills that need. Debian is exactly where its developers put it.
The question he is really asking is probably more like: 'Is there anything like Windows live photo gallery that will allow me to tag and sort all of my data in a variety of ways like wlpg lets me sort my pictures?'
That is what Nepomuk is supposed to do: allow you to build semantic meaning into your data. The problem I have with it as it current stands is that the Nepomuk processes suck the life out of my computers, so I disable Nepomuk entirely.
And, now this news that M$ might give up developing .NET any further adds to serve more confusion.
Shitty as .NET is, development on it isn't stopping (sadly). Microsoft is stopping its efforts to convert interpreted languages to the .NET runtime, but the disease known as .NET will continue to fester until Microsoft finds yet another popular technology to (badly) imitate.
They wouldn't have been at risk from the copyrights and trademarks, but just how would they have avoided the patents?
GPL v2 Section 7
If you cannot distribute so as to satisfy simultaneously your obligations under this
License and any other pertinent obligations, then as a consequence you
may not distribute the Program at all. For example, if a patent
license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by
all those who receive copies directly or indirectly through you, then
the only way you could satisfy both it and this License would be to
refrain entirely from distribution of the Program.
One argument I've heard against this is that the GPL covers only what other people can do, not what the original copyright holder can do. By this argument, Oracle could distribute patented code under the GPL, but nobody else could.
The obvious counter to that, though, is that the GPL is chosen in order to allow people to redistribute code it covers. If a patent owner distributes code under the GPL, and that code is covered by patents, then Section 7 can only be interpreted as meaning that the patent owner wanted code recipients to be able to copy, modify, use, and redistribute the covered code. The only way code recipients can do that legally is if they are also granted those rights by the patent holder. As such, SUN effectively surrendered patent enforcement rights of all the code it released under the GPL.
It's a difference between "Evil Litigious Bastards want to know if you're using their stuff" vs. "Benevolent Gift-givers want to know if you're using their stuff."
HUGE difference.
Since in the eyes of copyright trolls, each download is an infringement deserving the maximum penalty, and each page view is a separate download, the copyright trolls should be sued for $250,000 for each individually copyrighted component of each web page for each page view.
That should bring the penalties into the billions of dollars rather quickly. THAT would be sweet justice.
The defendant has everything coming to him regarding speeding and/or reckless driving citations, but that's not why the ACLU is representing him, nor why he's facing 16 years in jail. In that respect, IMHO he is an innocent victim.
If I understand the situation correctly, the man driving the motorcycle and the man videotaping the traffic stop are two different people. The man facing 16 years in prison is the bystander who videotaped the stop, so the motorcyclist is not a victim in any way, shape, or form.
The bystander, on the other hand, deserves to be compensated for the severe abuse of authority shown by the Maryland police. The officers involved in the raid, and the judge who signed the warrant need to be removed from their respective positions and prosecuted for the evilness of their actions.
This is easy to integrate into the science curriculum. The Creationism section would start like this:
Section 5: Creationism
Page 1: This section deals with everything we know to be true from a creationist perspective.
Page 2: This page intentionally left blank.
Section 6: Meanwhile, Back To The Real World
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.
.
It takes a market position that is at least dominant (IBM is even superdominant on mainframes) AND anticompetitive behavior.
While I don't care about mainframes, I hope IBM loses this case for the sole reason that it opens the doors for yet another antitrust action against Microsoft for paying retailers to exclude Linux, and against giant retailers who force Windows onto computer purchasers.
This is not for Americans, nor should it be expected that the hardware would be any comparable to what is considered minimal in America, but its a start; an attempt to introduce a bit of technology so people who would otherwise have no chance to even aim for a middle-class life are empowered.
It should be. I have customers running my software at their office for whom this would be an ideal system for their employees to use in the field. It doesn't have to be a high-powered computer. It just has to be powerful enough to run a field version of my software, and have functioning wireless or an Ethernet port (either will work).
If the unsubsidized price is low enough, this would have great small business marketability in the U.S.
The amount of testing and verification that goes into these software categories often exceed the development cost...
Then what's the harm in releasing the source code so those who are qualified to review it can do so?
The most likely answer is: "to protect our proprietary secrets from competitors!"
My response to that is, "what proprietary secrets?" If every company does the type of due-diligence you claim, then everyone in the field is already at the same level of competence and will not benefit from someone else's code. If not every company performs the same level of diligence, then that's all the more reason to have their code reviewed.
The most likely reasons to fight having their code reviewed are arrogance and fear.
Perhaps they're sentencing guidelines, and not sentencing requirements.
Its been a long time since I saw such a dickwad move by an MMO company.
Blizzard became a dickwad company the moment they filed suit against the bnetd developers. That was the point that Blizzard's true colors should have been blindingly obvious to everyone.
With SSDs you just have to worry about the lack of oxygen damaging your brain and your internal organs, but not about endangering your data or the performance of your laptop.
I guess this won't be an issue until brains and organs are harder to replace than computer hardware.
In recent studies researchers have found that BT maize (corn) can cause serious health problems in mammals. A diet heavy in GMO corn caused rats to develop liver and kidney problems.
I'm really glad to hear this (I'm not kidding). About five or six years ago, I developed an extremely painful hemorrhoid. It would go through daily cycles of inflation and deflation, with an occasional excruciating flareup (about twice a year). Preparation H helped for about two months before its effectiveness completely ceased.
After living with this for a few years, I broke down and went to the doctor. His advice was to not sit so much (I'm a software developer, so that did not go over well), and eat more fiber. I did both of those things for about a year before concluding they had zero positive benefit in my case. I had been building towards a decision to have it surgically removed, but wanted to avoid surgery unless I had absolutely no choice.
Last year, I met a woman to whom I later became engaged. One of her many endearing attributes is that she is a die-hard believer in Organic eating (and I was not). As time went on, she convinced me to try eating more Organically and to buy as much as possible from our local Farmer's Market. About two months ago, she convinced me to stop eating store-bought corn since it was so heavily polluted by Monsanto GMO "crap". I resisted at first, but eventually agreed to do so.
Shortly after (a couple days, but I'm not exactly sure of the timeframe), the hemorrhoid stopped its daily inflation/deflation cycle. Two months later, and I still haven't had any hemorrhoid activity at all. More research into the cause of hemorrhoids revealed that liver and kidney issues are directly linked as causes. To my mind, that is plenty of evidence linking Monsanto to health problems.
I used to think that Monsanto was just a figurative pain in the ass. Now I believe that to be literally true as well.
Currently, the only remotely realistic method for radical improvements in stored energy per weight are metastable isotopes, but even that is a far shot.
The only reason you're saying that is because we aren't currently facing an imminent extinction event that can be cured with a bit of metastable isotopic unobtainium. If Hollywierd has taught us anything, it's that nothing is impossible in the face of an imminent extinction event. It seems to be the only way to get those evil scientists to share their horded knowledge.
Certainly the open source Java compilers would gain a significant foothold, but with Oracle steering the JCP it seems likely they would eventually corner the market...
Don't lose any sleep worrying about that, as it has a near-zero chance of being reality. Oracle certainly could try such a move (it's in the corporate culture), but it would have no teeth. When SUN open-sourced Java, the former assumed the role of steward, and surrendered the role of dictator. There is no way that Oracle can now force people to bow down to its will with Java.
There would be short-term angst for developers, and short term profits for Oracle, but there would be an inevitable fork of not only the code, but of the name. Java (or whatever new name was given to the forked language) would continue under new management, and life would go on. The whole issue would fade away in a reasonably short period of time, and would become just minor background noise in the long run.
Given that, Oracle is not run by complete idiots (much as it may seem from time to time). Doing what you propose would be product suicide.
Were does one draw the line between OS and application (and let's not draw libraries into this).
The operating system manages the hardware, and provides an interface between the hardware and applications. Everything else is an application (including most libraries, since they're just reusable parts of applications).
IE is not inextricably bound to the OS because MS has intentionally been keeping it split.
Which is the very thing that Microsoft told the court was not possible. So...ummm....yes, Microsoft lied.
It doesn't matter anymore. The argument was only important long enough to bamboozle the court system. After that, Microsoft could scream the truth from the highest mountain top with impunity. It's not like the court system is going to admit to its own incompetence, and punish Microsoft for lying.