Is that really an episode? Or did you just make that up?
A little of both. I wrote it, and it was almost an episode, but it got rejected, probably because of all the "I'd like to get into your pants" jokes that I refused to remove.
the fact we know so much about Garek indicates he was a little more then just a tailor;) Otherwise he wouldnt be that interesting.
No way, that was the most interesting part about him!
Don't you remember that episode where Garek came up with a revolutionary way of sewing the seams on the pants of Cardassian uniforms? And then Kiera was all like "We can't have a new method of sewing Cardassian pants come from a Federation space station!" and Cisco was like "It will be good for diplomacy, so I'll let Garek market his new pants" and Odo was like "My people don't wear pants". Then it turned out that what Kiera was really worried about was that Garek's new seam technology would stop the Cardassians' pants from splitting in the midst of battle, which is how Kiera's people had won most of their battles. Then her shuttle gets hijacked by some rogue Cardassians, and they're wearing the new pants! But she faces her fears and defeats them, in the process learning that courage and faith are more important than the seam of your pants.
Best episode ever! I wish they had more tailoring episodes.
How can you be Posix compliant and NOT implement the same interfaces?
Exactly. Interfaces are considered non-copyrightable because they are required to be the same for compatability. I forget the precise legal wording, but interfaces are descriptive of what something is supposed to do, not expressive of how it works. Suffice to say this theory of SCO, despite playing this up in the press, only tried this once in court, and was smacked for it.
To some, the fact that SCO sees Linux as a Unix clone not only makes holding that view morally wrong but requires the immediate repudiation
Um, no, he's just wrong. Nobody cares if Linux is a "clone" of Unix. SCO sees Linux as a derivative work of Unix because it implements the same interfaces. This view has been repudiated not just by Linux advocates but also by the courts.
And no, so far to my knowledge SCO has presented nothing resembling real evidence. That's the reason they have to keep asking for more discovery and versions of AIX to prove a convoluted "the code is derived from ours but doesn't look anything like it anymore" hypothesis. IBM seems to be taking great glee in pointing out SCO's lack of evidence in their filings.
There was a time when it was reasonable to believe that SCO could have an actual case. That time is long past. Some people are just slow.
He wasn't supposed to fight with his partner for very long, because his partner wasn't nearly as good.
Yeah, the idea was that when they fought the first time, Bale wasn't on top of his game because of his emotions. At the end, he was in Perfect Killer mode and his partner didn't stand a chance.
He *was* supposed to have a massive fight with the chubby British guy
I thought that was the least convincing fight. Maybe it's just because he didn't look like a fighter, and no hint was given that he was one. If they'd showed him practicing gun kata once rather than just talking about it, I might have thought "this guy might be a badass" and already be prepared for the suspension of disbelief for the last fight.
So let people set up 911 as a speed dial to the local police emergency number.
But... But... That's so simple! How is the FCC going to get any new entrenched-telco-favoring regulations passed if you go around circumventing them with simple practical ideas?! Bah!
Yeah, or maybe they'll do what they did in the old days (which wasn't that long ago) -- you had to tell them where you were.
Granted, calling 911 and having your location show up on a map for the dispatcher is nice, but it isn't necessary.
We already have a great protocol for sending all kinds of information over VoIP lines, including the identity and location of the caller and what their problem is. It's called English.
Now I'll admit I'm not at all knowledgeable in this area, but I do have a hard time believing that a real-world object could have O(1) resistance. Any possibility for slowing down the electrons is going to scale with the length. Is this a theoretical property of carbon nanotubes, or does it apply to carbon nanotubes manufactured in the real world?
Linkage to documents obtained by FOIA (which is up there with civil rights acts in the Steps Towards Democracy department). The upshot: The Contras ran drugs into the U.S. to fund their war against the Sandanistas, and the CIA was cool with that.
Wow. Must be nice living in a country without the DMCA. Wait, that was us over here six years ago! Oh well. I guess the nice thing about regression is that it makes future progression simpler.:)
Quite enlightened rulings if you ask me, and I don't mind paying my blank DVDs or my HDs a bit more if i can be sure i won't get sued for using them.
Sure, though it'd be nice if it were possible to get protection for your rights without having to pay protection money. Over here we call that a "racket". Then again, over here we don't have our rights protected and we pay the tax.
what's not illegal is breaking the encryption that they're stored in. once you get past that, you're golden, but before you're boned.
Meaning it is effectively illegal, because "breaking the encryption" is a necessary step of making a copy (to a different format, anyway). So that's basically a non-answer.
So the question is: is it like this is France? If they put sufficient notice on their products that they have DRM, is it illegal to break that DRM in the course of copying?
Basically, there is no problem with copy-protecting your medias, but the consumer must be clearly and explicitely warned that he/she won't be able to (easily) copy the data from the media.
Okay, but regardless of whether there is a notice of copy protection, and regardless of how easy it is to copy, is it legal to make a copy if they are able?
If something can be both obvious and wrong, then you're correct.
Notepad and Wordpad are text editors. Visual Studio is NOT just a text editor. To get the same features under linux you'd need about 9 different programs. It has a very powerful help system, a debugger, build tools, resource editors, intellisense code editors for many languages, many different GUIs for designing web and windows applications etc etc etc.
Understand that I'm using the word "text editor" in a way that allows Emacs to be called a "text editor". Notepad is a text editor, but a crap one. Visual Studio is a text editor, but with actual features. Emacs can do all that too, except the GUI design, I'll grant. But my text editor has a command shell and a psychoanalyst.;)
I have used VS. It's a fine IDE, but it isn't that special, and rattling off features as though it's a miracle each one doesn't use 100MB each doesn't impress me.
It even includes a web browser
Heh. What a useful feature! So, did they write a browser from scratch, or did they re-use the IE libraries that are loaded automatically on bootup and thus probably aren't being counted in the memory footprint?
Emacs has a web browser, too, for what that's worth.;)
That's perfect, in principle. The problem comes when the spinning wheels of that principle hit the hot asphalt of reality.
"Of course I hire programmers based on excellence. That's why I don't hire women, because they aren't as good at programming."
In reality, many people are racist, sexist, or otherwise likely to discriminate. Many of those poeple hold positions of authority. And very few of those will overtly state their biases so that they can be removed from the decision-making process in pursuit of your ideal.
We have made great strides in the past half century reducing racism. Unfortunately by vilifying it and making it unacceptable we have also made racism more subtle. Long gone are the days when you'd see a "Now Hiring" sign in a window with "No Coloreds" written below it, but the mentality behind that sign is harder to get rid of, and is going to take more time.
This is why "diversity" ends up being our poor metric of choice. Ideally, people hire the best people for the job. In reality, a sizeable organization that consistantly hires male WAPSs in spite of the pool of applicants, that might indicates something. They probably aren't going to tell you if it does, and the only other method we have developed is the lawsuit.
It isn't perfect. It isn't fair. If it seems a little bit like the National Guard forcing people to give up their seats for someone else, maybe it is. Racism is a tough problem like that.
No, but they could hold their sources back as trade secrets.
Yeah, true, though you would be free to disassemble/decompile and distribute the results. In other words you would have all the rights the GPL grants, but not the requirement for source on the part of the distributor. This is why I prefer copyright + GPL to no software copyrights.
They could also get you to sign no-distribute contracts up front before delivering binaries and make you responsible for leaked copies.
I suppose so. That just sounds like re-implementing copyright law with contract law. Of course after the first leak there would be nothing that could be done.
Otherwise the world would be run on the BSD license (sans credit)
If that what you really want.
Well, since the problem I have with the BSD license is someone taking the BSD code and releasing it under a restrictive proprietary license... and that wouldn't be possible without copyright... I have to say I wouldn't mind much.
Intel is offering lower-end dual-core chips with relatively low clock frequencies. AMDs dual-core desktop chips will be a couple speed grades behind the single core, but are otherwise top of the line. What I imagine is happening here is that AMD wishes for their parts to be "boutique" sort of like the FX line at first, and then as those parts move down the line to being lower end chips (as faster ones are released) the prices will drop.
Remember that AMD, unlike Intel, probably can't afford to sell gobs of the higher-cost lower-yield dual-core chips, so selling fewer of them at a premium makes sense.
Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, IIS, Windows Messenger, Windows Netmeeting.
Even IIS? Well, that's more than I expected. Then again, the last time I installed an MS operating system it was '95 and it came with Wordpad and a calculator.:)
I don't know what distro you're using, but the default installs of Fedora and Ubuntu don't include Apache or GCC.
I just installed Hoary, and now that you mention it I don't think it installed gcc. I'm used to plain Debian, which does (though the old Debian installer, there really wasn't a 'default', just usage models and i always checked 'developer' or whatever it was called). Frankly, I think not getting gcc is crap.:)
One more reason I like Ubuntu - the basics come on the CD, but you can add more with apt-get. Unlike Fedora, where invariably you will end up needing a few packages on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th CDs.
I guess... apt-get is great, at least if you have broadband, but I liked having Debian come on 3-6 CDs and installing every god damned thing under the sun straight out of the box. I wouldn't mind if Ubuntu did the same, giving additional CDs with extra packages if you wanted.
Dude, I'm not just talking out my ass. I checked what emacs was using right now that I've been using to develop code for several weeks. Okay, I did kill the buffer containing the 75MB of debug output, but other than that 6MB was a legitimate snapshot of memory usage.
When editing, auto-complete will require a version of the compiler's language parser and a some processed version of the project code. This will usually include a lot of system headers, so it's large. For many languages, the parser in the language UI plugin is also used for on-the-fly syntax checking and syntax highlighting. There's also the source browser (navigate to definitions, declarations and uses) which I think has a separate dataset from the auto-complete.
Emacs does all that, so the comparison is still apt. Of course I didn't have to read the paragraph to say that; emacs does everything.;)
When debugging, you have all of the above plus the program symbols in memory. This includes symbols for all referenced system DLLs, so that's large too.
Right... so Emacs + gdb session, which chews up a variable amount of memory.
And there's probably plenty I've forgotten. So I've no problem with VS using lots of RAM.
I have a problem with it using lots of RAM for basic editing (including syntax highlighting and source browsing functions). When it's doing actual data-intensive work such as debugging, sure, it will use more. I'm more concerned with the base footprint, because you don't want your debugging session to be cut short because base mem + debug was too much for your system.:)
Currently, 50 processes. The two highest (memory and VM wise) are Thunderbird which is using (60mb of main memory) and Firefox which is using 55mb of main memory.
Point conceeded. Some OSS software chews up the memory, and FireFoo are major culprits.
Though I'd hope to hell Visual Studio is way down the list. It's just an IDE! It has a GUI and a text editor. All the memory-chewing hard work is done in the compiler back end. With that comparison, my Emacs session is 6MB.
Nearly all popular linux distributions now come on more than one CD (even if you ignore the source code) and the default installations are WAY bigger than that of Windows XP.
Of course they are -- they include reams of free software! Nobody would complain about the large size of Windows installations if that installation came with practically every piece of software you would ever need! Even a 'default' install that doesn't install everything still has vast swaths of software from compilers to office suites to web browsers to web servers to image manipulation to whatever.
Who could possibly complain about getting more free stuff, even if it takes another CD or two or three to fit it? Consuming disk space for useful things is fine. Windows installs are considered bloated because the size increases but the perception is that you're not actually getting more stuff. Honestly -- what comes with the XP install these days?
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Sisko, not Cisco
So, are some of the nerd points I lose by mispelling a Star Trek character's name regained by using the name of a networking hardware company, I hope?
Is that really an episode? Or did you just make that up?
A little of both. I wrote it, and it was almost an episode, but it got rejected, probably because of all the "I'd like to get into your pants" jokes that I refused to remove.
the fact we know so much about Garek indicates he was a little more then just a tailor ;)
Otherwise he wouldnt be that interesting.
No way, that was the most interesting part about him!
Don't you remember that episode where Garek came up with a revolutionary way of sewing the seams on the pants of Cardassian uniforms? And then Kiera was all like "We can't have a new method of sewing Cardassian pants come from a Federation space station!" and Cisco was like "It will be good for diplomacy, so I'll let Garek market his new pants" and Odo was like "My people don't wear pants". Then it turned out that what Kiera was really worried about was that Garek's new seam technology would stop the Cardassians' pants from splitting in the midst of battle, which is how Kiera's people had won most of their battles. Then her shuttle gets hijacked by some rogue Cardassians, and they're wearing the new pants! But she faces her fears and defeats them, in the process learning that courage and faith are more important than the seam of your pants.
Best episode ever! I wish they had more tailoring episodes.
Freedom pie?
How can you be Posix compliant and NOT implement the same interfaces?
Exactly. Interfaces are considered non-copyrightable because they are required to be the same for compatability. I forget the precise legal wording, but interfaces are descriptive of what something is supposed to do, not expressive of how it works. Suffice to say this theory of SCO, despite playing this up in the press, only tried this once in court, and was smacked for it.
To some, the fact that SCO sees Linux as a Unix clone not only makes holding that view morally wrong but requires the immediate repudiation
Um, no, he's just wrong. Nobody cares if Linux is a "clone" of Unix. SCO sees Linux as a derivative work of Unix because it implements the same interfaces. This view has been repudiated not just by Linux advocates but also by the courts.
And no, so far to my knowledge SCO has presented nothing resembling real evidence. That's the reason they have to keep asking for more discovery and versions of AIX to prove a convoluted "the code is derived from ours but doesn't look anything like it anymore" hypothesis. IBM seems to be taking great glee in pointing out SCO's lack of evidence in their filings.
There was a time when it was reasonable to believe that SCO could have an actual case. That time is long past. Some people are just slow.
He wasn't supposed to fight with his partner for very long, because his partner wasn't nearly as good.
Yeah, the idea was that when they fought the first time, Bale wasn't on top of his game because of his emotions. At the end, he was in Perfect Killer mode and his partner didn't stand a chance.
He *was* supposed to have a massive fight with the chubby British guy
I thought that was the least convincing fight. Maybe it's just because he didn't look like a fighter, and no hint was given that he was one. If they'd showed him practicing gun kata once rather than just talking about it, I might have thought "this guy might be a badass" and already be prepared for the suspension of disbelief for the last fight.
Still, damn good (B) movie.
It's like someone travelled back in time and corrected something terribly wrong from before.
Well, Scott Bakula had to do something since he wasn't working on Enterprise anymore...
So let people set up 911 as a speed dial to the local police emergency number.
But... But... That's so simple! How is the FCC going to get any new entrenched-telco-favoring regulations passed if you go around circumventing them with simple practical ideas?! Bah!
Yeah, or maybe they'll do what they did in the old days (which wasn't that long ago) -- you had to tell them where you were.
Granted, calling 911 and having your location show up on a map for the dispatcher is nice, but it isn't necessary.
We already have a great protocol for sending all kinds of information over VoIP lines, including the identity and location of the caller and what their problem is. It's called English.
Now I'll admit I'm not at all knowledgeable in this area, but I do have a hard time believing that a real-world object could have O(1) resistance. Any possibility for slowing down the electrons is going to scale with the length. Is this a theoretical property of carbon nanotubes, or does it apply to carbon nanotubes manufactured in the real world?
Linkage to documents obtained by FOIA (which is up there with civil rights acts in the Steps Towards Democracy department). The upshot: The Contras ran drugs into the U.S. to fund their war against the Sandanistas, and the CIA was cool with that.
As long as you're not distributing/reselling the copy (aka as long as you've copied it for personal use only) jurisprudence currently states that you're golden (if you're found reselling/distributing copy, welcome to Asspounding Prison © though).
:)
Wow. Must be nice living in a country without the DMCA. Wait, that was us over here six years ago! Oh well. I guess the nice thing about regression is that it makes future progression simpler.
Quite enlightened rulings if you ask me, and I don't mind paying my blank DVDs or my HDs a bit more if i can be sure i won't get sued for using them.
Sure, though it'd be nice if it were possible to get protection for your rights without having to pay protection money. Over here we call that a "racket". Then again, over here we don't have our rights protected and we pay the tax.
what's not illegal is breaking the encryption that they're stored in. once you get past that, you're golden, but before you're boned.
Meaning it is effectively illegal, because "breaking the encryption" is a necessary step of making a copy (to a different format, anyway). So that's basically a non-answer.
So the question is: is it like this is France? If they put sufficient notice on their products that they have DRM, is it illegal to break that DRM in the course of copying?
Basically, there is no problem with copy-protecting your medias, but the consumer must be clearly and explicitely warned that he/she won't be able to (easily) copy the data from the media.
Okay, but regardless of whether there is a notice of copy protection, and regardless of how easy it is to copy, is it legal to make a copy if they are able?
That's the key question to me.
You've obviously never used Visual Studio.
;)
;)
If something can be both obvious and wrong, then you're correct.
Notepad and Wordpad are text editors. Visual Studio is NOT just a text editor. To get the same features under linux you'd need about 9 different programs. It has a very powerful help system, a debugger, build tools, resource editors, intellisense code editors for many languages, many different GUIs for designing web and windows applications etc etc etc.
Understand that I'm using the word "text editor" in a way that allows Emacs to be called a "text editor". Notepad is a text editor, but a crap one. Visual Studio is a text editor, but with actual features. Emacs can do all that too, except the GUI design, I'll grant. But my text editor has a command shell and a psychoanalyst.
I have used VS. It's a fine IDE, but it isn't that special, and rattling off features as though it's a miracle each one doesn't use 100MB each doesn't impress me.
It even includes a web browser
Heh. What a useful feature! So, did they write a browser from scratch, or did they re-use the IE libraries that are loaded automatically on bootup and thus probably aren't being counted in the memory footprint?
Emacs has a web browser, too, for what that's worth.
Choose the best regardless of race.
That's perfect, in principle. The problem comes when the spinning wheels of that principle hit the hot asphalt of reality.
"Of course I hire programmers based on excellence. That's why I don't hire women, because they aren't as good at programming."
In reality, many people are racist, sexist, or otherwise likely to discriminate. Many of those poeple hold positions of authority. And very few of those will overtly state their biases so that they can be removed from the decision-making process in pursuit of your ideal.
We have made great strides in the past half century reducing racism. Unfortunately by vilifying it and making it unacceptable we have also made racism more subtle. Long gone are the days when you'd see a "Now Hiring" sign in a window with "No Coloreds" written below it, but the mentality behind that sign is harder to get rid of, and is going to take more time.
This is why "diversity" ends up being our poor metric of choice. Ideally, people hire the best people for the job. In reality, a sizeable organization that consistantly hires male WAPSs in spite of the pool of applicants, that might indicates something. They probably aren't going to tell you if it does, and the only other method we have developed is the lawsuit.
It isn't perfect. It isn't fair. If it seems a little bit like the National Guard forcing people to give up their seats for someone else, maybe it is. Racism is a tough problem like that.
Then theres COME FROM which is basically an event handler that says 'when you get to this line/label in your code, come over here and run me.
Wait... Are you saying that C-Intercal is an Aspect Oriented language?
No, but they could hold their sources back as trade secrets.
Yeah, true, though you would be free to disassemble/decompile and distribute the results. In other words you would have all the rights the GPL grants, but not the requirement for source on the part of the distributor. This is why I prefer copyright + GPL to no software copyrights.
They could also get you to sign no-distribute contracts up front before delivering binaries and make you responsible for leaked copies.
I suppose so. That just sounds like re-implementing copyright law with contract law. Of course after the first leak there would be nothing that could be done.
Otherwise the world would be run on the BSD license (sans credit)
If that what you really want.
Well, since the problem I have with the BSD license is someone taking the BSD code and releasing it under a restrictive proprietary license... and that wouldn't be possible without copyright... I have to say I wouldn't mind much.
Intel is offering lower-end dual-core chips with relatively low clock frequencies. AMDs dual-core desktop chips will be a couple speed grades behind the single core, but are otherwise top of the line. What I imagine is happening here is that AMD wishes for their parts to be "boutique" sort of like the FX line at first, and then as those parts move down the line to being lower end chips (as faster ones are released) the prices will drop.
Remember that AMD, unlike Intel, probably can't afford to sell gobs of the higher-cost lower-yield dual-core chips, so selling fewer of them at a premium makes sense.
Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player, Windows Movie Maker, Outlook Express, MSN Explorer, IIS, Windows Messenger, Windows Netmeeting.
:)
:)
Even IIS? Well, that's more than I expected. Then again, the last time I installed an MS operating system it was '95 and it came with Wordpad and a calculator.
I don't know what distro you're using, but the default installs of Fedora and Ubuntu don't include Apache or GCC.
I just installed Hoary, and now that you mention it I don't think it installed gcc. I'm used to plain Debian, which does (though the old Debian installer, there really wasn't a 'default', just usage models and i always checked 'developer' or whatever it was called). Frankly, I think not getting gcc is crap.
One more reason I like Ubuntu - the basics come on the CD, but you can add more with apt-get. Unlike Fedora, where invariably you will end up needing a few packages on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th CDs.
I guess... apt-get is great, at least if you have broadband, but I liked having Debian come on 3-6 CDs and installing every god damned thing under the sun straight out of the box. I wouldn't mind if Ubuntu did the same, giving additional CDs with extra packages if you wanted.
Dude, I'm not just talking out my ass. I checked what emacs was using right now that I've been using to develop code for several weeks. Okay, I did kill the buffer containing the 75MB of debug output, but other than that 6MB was a legitimate snapshot of memory usage.
When editing, auto-complete will require a version of the compiler's language parser and a some processed version of the project code. This will usually include a lot of system headers, so it's large. For many languages, the parser in the language UI plugin is also used for on-the-fly syntax checking and syntax highlighting. There's also the source browser (navigate to definitions, declarations and uses) which I think has a separate dataset from the auto-complete.
;)
:)
Emacs does all that, so the comparison is still apt. Of course I didn't have to read the paragraph to say that; emacs does everything.
When debugging, you have all of the above plus the program symbols in memory. This includes symbols for all referenced system DLLs, so that's large too.
Right... so Emacs + gdb session, which chews up a variable amount of memory.
And there's probably plenty I've forgotten. So I've no problem with VS using lots of RAM.
I have a problem with it using lots of RAM for basic editing (including syntax highlighting and source browsing functions). When it's doing actual data-intensive work such as debugging, sure, it will use more. I'm more concerned with the base footprint, because you don't want your debugging session to be cut short because base mem + debug was too much for your system.
Currently, 50 processes. The two highest (memory and VM wise) are Thunderbird which is using (60mb of main memory) and Firefox which is using 55mb of main memory.
Point conceeded. Some OSS software chews up the memory, and FireFoo are major culprits.
Though I'd hope to hell Visual Studio is way down the list. It's just an IDE! It has a GUI and a text editor. All the memory-chewing hard work is done in the compiler back end. With that comparison, my Emacs session is 6MB.
Nearly all popular linux distributions now come on more than one CD (even if you ignore the source code) and the default installations are WAY bigger than that of Windows XP.
Of course they are -- they include reams of free software! Nobody would complain about the large size of Windows installations if that installation came with practically every piece of software you would ever need! Even a 'default' install that doesn't install everything still has vast swaths of software from compilers to office suites to web browsers to web servers to image manipulation to whatever.
Who could possibly complain about getting more free stuff, even if it takes another CD or two or three to fit it? Consuming disk space for useful things is fine. Windows installs are considered bloated because the size increases but the perception is that you're not actually getting more stuff. Honestly -- what comes with the XP install these days?