No, it shouldn't. However, the doctor or the
lawyer should be punished by their colleagues
for their immoral behavior. The judiciary system
has no business enforcing professional morale.
Why? Nobody would force you to sign your software
as long as you don't work on it for hire. If RedHat wants to
distribute my program, they, and not me, would have to
provide warranty and accept responsibility.
Time Magazine published an article "The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped" by Gregg Easterbrook.
Although some of his arguments are not convincing or even insulting ("Did Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon really have to be there to push a couple of buttons..."), the article makes several important points. Here's one of them:
The emphasis now must be on designing an all-new system that is lower priced and reliable. And if human space flight stops for a decade while that happens, so be it. Once there is a cheaper and safer way to get people and cargo into orbit, talk of grand goals might become reality.
Nope. You can take a picture of a whiteboard and then zoom on the interesting parts. You can take a picture of many people and then have reasonably good images of every face.
Can anybody explain me why all radio stations in New York and New Jersey begin with "W"? Are they all owned by Warner Brothers or what? Anybody knows why WQXR (96.3) is called WQXR? It isn't an abbreviation, is it?
Re:Linux kernel did not need GCC/GNU/RMS
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You are replying to things I didn't write. The license of Linux has nothing to do with the compiler that was used to develop it.
Couldn't you reply without telling me whether you are a fan of somebody or something and without putting words into my mouth?
Re:Linux kernel did not need GCC/GNU/RMS
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Writing good portable software is hard, whether it's
a kernel or a compiler. You cannot really compare what's harder, because the efforts depend on the goals, and the goals are defined in different terms for compilers and kernels.
You can compare the number of supported processors, but everything else - correctness, effectiveness, reliability, resource consumption - cannot be compared between different classes of sortware.
What I was trying to say is that the existence of gcc wasn't a precondition for Linux. Linus could have started his work on the kernel with some other compiler, even if it was slower, non-free, and non-portable.
Many projects changed the compiler between versions. BeOS switched from Metrowerks to gcc. It would not be impossible to switch Linux to gcc.
Re:Linux kernel did not need GCC/GNU/RMS
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Two other free compilers:
lcc TenDRA
If not gcc, there would be even more free compilers. Writing a compiler is not as simple as writing another ICQ client, but it's still not rocket science.
You cannot do it for the same reasons why you
cannot post those images inline in your
comment on Slashdot. The reasons are policy,
security and ownership of the domain.
kids.us is not your domain, and neither is
slashdot.org (unless you are hidden CmdrTaco).
However, the comment saying otherwise
is considered +5 Insightful. With mod points
being a deficit, only very few moderators use
Overrated, and usually on the comments that
don't deserve it nearly as much as the one
that upsets you and me so much.
Every user can moderate every comment on
kuro5hin -
bad comments get what they deserve by the end
of the day.
Please remove Massachusetts governor Jane Swift from Tinderbox!
It's just silly, especially the comment!
Who's next? GWB? Natali Portman? goatse.cx guy?
I suggest disabling those pictures at all - they are too easy to abuse
and nobody seems to clean them up.
Re:NASA is actually doing the right thing
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If you were working with the best coders
from NASA, I doubt that you would be concerned
with such mundane things as OS upgrages.
I also doubt that
GNU/FreeBSD
is stable enough to power a web server of a moderately
large company, let alone a space project.
Slashdot Mirror
Next time try to read the comment you are replying to.
Maybe it's not offtopic, but still wrong because this thread is about VMWare, not Wine.
That's quite different from Winelib, which is indeed a separate implementation of Win32 that may "lack" some Windows bugs.
In 37000 years. Please read the article.
If you are not providing service to anyone you should be fine already. The question is whether to regulate telecommunication services.
Men have X chromosomes, so it's not entirely impossible.
No, it shouldn't. However, the doctor or the lawyer should be punished by their colleagues for their immoral behavior. The judiciary system has no business enforcing professional morale.
Why? Nobody would force you to sign your software as long as you don't work on it for hire. If RedHat wants to distribute my program, they, and not me, would have to provide warranty and accept responsibility.
Although some of his arguments are not convincing or even insulting ("Did Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon really have to be there to push a couple of buttons..."), the article makes several important points. Here's one of them:
Intercourse, PA is real. There even have a newspaper Intercourse News.
Nope. You can take a picture of a whiteboard and then zoom on the interesting parts. You can take a picture of many people and then have reasonably good images of every face.
Subversion is written in C because it's an Apache module, and Apache is written in C. Check for yourself, version 0.17 has just been released.
Can anybody explain me why all radio stations in New York and New Jersey begin with "W"? Are they all owned by Warner Brothers or what? Anybody knows why WQXR (96.3) is called WQXR? It isn't an abbreviation, is it?
Couldn't you reply without telling me whether you are a fan of somebody or something and without putting words into my mouth?
You can compare the number of supported processors, but everything else - correctness, effectiveness, reliability, resource consumption - cannot be compared between different classes of sortware.
What I was trying to say is that the existence of gcc wasn't a precondition for Linux. Linus could have started his work on the kernel with some other compiler, even if it was slower, non-free, and non-portable.
Many projects changed the compiler between versions. BeOS switched from Metrowerks to gcc. It would not be impossible to switch Linux to gcc.
Two other free compilers:
lcc
TenDRA
If not gcc, there would be even more free compilers. Writing a compiler is not as simple as writing another ICQ client, but it's still not rocket science.
Frist gets the post
Space station considers "demanning" NASA
You cannot do it for the same reasons why you cannot post those images inline in your comment on Slashdot. The reasons are policy, security and ownership of the domain. kids.us is not your domain, and neither is slashdot.org (unless you are hidden CmdrTaco).
Choose one.
Every user can moderate every comment on kuro5hin - bad comments get what they deserve by the end of the day.
If you were working with the best coders from NASA, I doubt that you would be concerned with such mundane things as OS upgrages. I also doubt that GNU/FreeBSD is stable enough to power a web server of a moderately large company, let alone a space project.