I believe it was the other way around - without being hired, you can't get a visa.
That's right (you can get a tourist visa but can't work on it), and it's the same in every other country I know of including the US. Just recently I heard of a German (a senior 70-year-old professor from a well-known university) who did not realise he needed a work visa for a short (that's barbaric. Ironically if he hadn't shown the papers they'd probably have let him in, it's just that his hosts couldn't have paid him then.
Then explain to me this whole H1B visa mess. Its DAMN easy to get a visa here to work in the computer field.
You need a job first. The only visa you can get for the US (same as other countries) without a job is a tourist visa, and it's illegal to work with that.
Apache fork? Why? The old Apache licences weren't GPL-compatible either. If that bothers you, you need to write a new webserver from scratch, not fork.
I find it ironic that the page does not work with Safari.
That's weird, since it works fine with konqueror (KDE 3.2), and most of the recent javascript bugfixes in konqueror came from safari (I assume there's also some continuing traffic in the reverse direction).
While the beginnings of the GNU project were altruistic (and BSD was government/university-funded), increasingly people find it useful to build on existing work in free software rather than re-implement everything from scratch. The GNU philosophy is that the more you can armtwist them into doing this with arcane licensing, the better. The BSD philosophy is that they'll return important changes to you anyway because it's easier to let you maintain it, while if they have valid reasons to keep it closed and commercial, why not? Both viewpoints seem to have worked fine so far and I don't see that changing.
Even if they don't switch chips, what does it mean to fuse assembly code with custom processors? Assembly code has to be converted into machine code before it can be used
Assembly to machine code is a direct translation, i.e. assembly code is every bit as efficient as machine code, not like compiling. Nobody writes in ones and zeros.
Then, you have the problem that if the code is written in assembly language, it is going to be very, very hard for any auditors to check that there is no election rigging going on
These machines have been used since the 1980s. Rather hard to customise them to rig an election that won't take place for a decade.
Two more articles on their specs and why they're tamper proof.
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Face it, if the illerterate masses are not read up on the issues they are voting on. How can they even know what they are voting on?
It's a parliamentary system. Voters don't vote for the George W. Bush equivalent. They vote for their local Member of Parliament, who could be a member of a political party (usually is), or an independent. They usually do that vote based on how that MP's been performing (he/she's supposed to take care of that constituency) and they know that very well. And at the end of the day, the party with a majority support in the lower house of parliament gets to govern. It works.
Thats funny, because AMD64 is marketed towards a completley different segment and price point
Price point: yes indeed (and that's the point). Segment: so what can Itanic do that AMD64 can't? Is its performance better? Is it easier to cluster? Itanic is "marketed" as a server chip but that doesn't mean AMD64 isn't equally good.
The link you provide gives the answer: it's patched by Matt Simerson. DJB doesn't allow distribution of modified versions of qmail without his approval, but he does allow distribution of patches (not explicitly, but he claims that under copyright law you can't forbid distribution of patches, though others disagree). His strange licensing is the main reason qmail never became more popular and has gradually been losing mindshare to postfix, though qmail was there first and was clearly the best at the time. You can download a thing called netqmail from www.qmail.org, which is DJB's 1997 qmail-1.0.3 tarball plus patches that will automatically be applied; if he can allow that (or claim that he can't forbid that), I don't see why he can't allow distribution of modified binaries.
Are you really using the Kcalc from the KDE project?
Actually, I'm not sure now. I was using a thing from an unofficial Debian KDE 3.2 package (I think), which was in the KDE utilities menu. I just checked on another machine with konstruct-compiled kde 3.2; you're right, it only has a "scientific calculator" and the sqrt button is indeed missing.
Well, I don't use these things anyway -- typing is so much faster than pushing buttons, I just use either "bc -l" or octave and have instant access to much more sophisticated math.
DJB hasn't updated qmail since 1997 and it looks doubtful he ever will. However, I'm sure third-party patches will be available if the idea catches on in any significant way.
I find a usability problem in kcalc (the calculator program). That is, I don't see an obvious way to compute the square root of a number.
I see a Sqrt button rather prominently in mine, in all modes (basic, financial, scientific)... The "power" (x^y) is only available in scientifc though.
I've always used KDE on my laptop, but at work it was GNOME (sys ad's choice, and I didn't really care). But with KDE 3.2, I decided to install it in my home directory at work too, via konstruct. I hardly need any gnome/GTK applications any more, except the Gimp now and then. For web browsing konqueror is finally able to handle nearly everything I throw at it (thanks partly to Apple's help); for instant messaging I'm now using kopete rather than gaim---I find the interface nicer and the gaim people still haven't made a bugfix release after all those security holes were pointed out in January; and for most other stuff I'm still the text-terminal type anyway...
The biggest thing for me is that KDE doesn't treat users like idiots. All the configuration options are out there if I want them, easily accessible via the menus. The GNOME people seem to have decided that ordinary users are too moronic to be allowed to configure the look and feel of their own desktops. That and all the gratuitous UI changes like exchanging the places of the OK and Cancel buttons.
Besides, with the theme set to plastik/plastig I get the same look and feel in gtk apps even when I do need to use them. At last, a consistent unix desktop.
"...but we doubled the NIH budget and increased NSF funding."
Which has nothing to do with the accusations the scientists are making. I wonder what sort of mindset the administration has when its science advisor can't even read the letter he's responding to.
I almost wondered: did I miss a day of NASA releases where they casually announced that 'Oh, by the way... there's stuff growing on Mars'.
I mean, I suppose it's possible that he was referring to debris that resembles decayed plant matter.
what part of "benefit of the doubt" are you incapable of grasping?
What part of that phrase did you use in your original post? You said maybe he "misspoke" or the reporter "screwed up the transcription", but whatever, it seemed to upset you. If you're so nitpicky, expect others to nitpick you too.
people like Alan Cox submitted patches. As this code is GPL, XFree must also be GPL in order to use it
Can you point to anything Alan Cox or others submitted under the GPL? He has submitted stuff, but under the old XFree86 licence. He opposes the new licensing scheme and wants his code placed under the old XFree86 licence. There is some GPL code in there like freetype, but the old XFree licence is compatible with that; Xfree86 need not be GPL. A combined work (eg, binaries distributed by a linux distro) should be GPL, but the non-GPL parts can be redistributed under the XFree86 licence -- just as you can link GPL code into the FreeBSD kernel, and the project distributes the source to let you do that, but the binary kernels distributed by the FreeBSD project don't have any GPL bits because they don't want to distribute the kernel under the GPL. Not an issue for Linux distributors.
Still trying to understand enough to have some sort of apples-to-apples comparison.
I don't think an apples-to-apples comparison is possible between the world's only superpower and a developing country.
Would this free care include something like the heart-valve replacement surgery originally mentioned?
Something like, yes, and sometimes, yes. Surgeons are often willing to waive their fees in special needy cases. Other costs -- that's a different matter, but in many cases something gets worked out.
In many cases, they use equivalent and cheaper (and sometimes, arguably better) technology. For example, the Jaipur foot, an artificial limb that was developed for amputees, vastly cheaper than its equivalents in the west and immensely successful.
Roughly 60% of the US population is covered by some form of health insurance, either private or provided by the government. What percentage of the Indian population is covered?
An increasing fraction of the middle class, very few if any of the poor. But many (most?) doctors and hospitals provide free treatment to the poor, and many doctors work part-time without charging at free hospitals (either government hospitals, or institutions like the Voluntary Health Services in Madras) in addition to their private practice.
June, 1999 and India won? I think you'd be thinking of the world cup, which was held in England in June (and indeed India beat Pakistan on June 8 there). Pakistan visited India in January-February, 1999, and the two-match series was drawn (one win each). And yup, this post is most definitely offtopic.
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That's right (you can get a tourist visa but can't work on it), and it's the same in every other country I know of including the US. Just recently I heard of a German (a senior 70-year-old professor from a well-known university) who did not realise he needed a work visa for a short (that's barbaric. Ironically if he hadn't shown the papers they'd probably have let him in, it's just that his hosts couldn't have paid him then.
You need a job first. The only visa you can get for the US (same as other countries) without a job is a tourist visa, and it's illegal to work with that.
Apache fork? Why? The old Apache licences weren't GPL-compatible either. If that bothers you, you need to write a new webserver from scratch, not fork.
Although this sentence is not a question, it ends in a question mark?
That's weird, since it works fine with konqueror (KDE 3.2), and most of the recent javascript bugfixes in konqueror came from safari (I assume there's also some continuing traffic in the reverse direction).
While the beginnings of the GNU project were altruistic (and BSD was government/university-funded), increasingly people find it useful to build on existing work in free software rather than re-implement everything from scratch. The GNU philosophy is that the more you can armtwist them into doing this with arcane licensing, the better. The BSD philosophy is that they'll return important changes to you anyway because it's easier to let you maintain it, while if they have valid reasons to keep it closed and commercial, why not? Both viewpoints seem to have worked fine so far and I don't see that changing.
Assembly to machine code is a direct translation, i.e. assembly code is every bit as efficient as machine code, not like compiling. Nobody writes in ones and zeros.
Then, you have the problem that if the code is written in assembly language, it is going to be very, very hard for any auditors to check that there is no election rigging going on
These machines have been used since the 1980s. Rather hard to customise them to rig an election that won't take place for a decade.
Two more articles on their specs and why they're tamper proof.
It's a parliamentary system. Voters don't vote for the George W. Bush equivalent. They vote for their local Member of Parliament, who could be a member of a political party (usually is), or an independent. They usually do that vote based on how that MP's been performing (he/she's supposed to take care of that constituency) and they know that very well. And at the end of the day, the party with a majority support in the lower house of parliament gets to govern. It works.
The headline is just one word, Postfix, so how could you tell?
Can't have been the "only" other one, since it implies a 4.6.1-RELEASE before that :) And
there was a 3.5.1-RELEASE too.
Price point: yes indeed (and that's the point). Segment: so what can Itanic do that AMD64 can't? Is its performance better? Is it easier to cluster? Itanic is "marketed" as a server chip but that doesn't mean AMD64 isn't equally good.
They're not doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. They're doing it to stay alive.
To hyperbolize, you don't expect Microsoft to announce the next version of Office to be compatible with Joe's Software Shop's software.
You're right, that is a hyperbolic comparison. AMD64 is already outselling IA64 despite being much later on the market.
The link you provide gives the answer: it's patched by Matt Simerson. DJB doesn't allow distribution of modified versions of qmail without his approval, but he does allow distribution of patches (not explicitly, but he claims that under copyright law you can't forbid distribution of patches, though others disagree). His strange licensing is the main reason qmail never became more popular and has gradually been losing mindshare to postfix, though qmail was there first and was clearly the best at the time. You can download a thing called netqmail from www.qmail.org, which is DJB's 1997 qmail-1.0.3 tarball plus patches that will automatically be applied; if he can allow that (or claim that he can't forbid that), I don't see why he can't allow distribution of modified binaries.
Actually, I'm not sure now. I was using a thing from an unofficial Debian KDE 3.2 package (I think), which was in the KDE utilities menu. I just checked on another machine with konstruct-compiled kde 3.2; you're right, it only has a "scientific calculator" and the sqrt button is indeed missing.
Well, I don't use these things anyway -- typing is so much faster than pushing buttons, I just use either "bc -l" or octave and have instant access to much more sophisticated math.
DJB hasn't updated qmail since 1997 and it looks doubtful he ever will. However, I'm sure third-party patches will be available if the idea catches on in any significant way.
I see a Sqrt button rather prominently in mine, in all modes (basic, financial, scientific)... The "power" (x^y) is only available in scientifc though.
The biggest thing for me is that KDE doesn't treat users like idiots. All the configuration options are out there if I want them, easily accessible via the menus. The GNOME people seem to have decided that ordinary users are too moronic to be allowed to configure the look and feel of their own desktops. That and all the gratuitous UI changes like exchanging the places of the OK and Cancel buttons.
Besides, with the theme set to plastik/plastig I get the same look and feel in gtk apps even when I do need to use them. At last, a consistent unix desktop.
Which has nothing to do with the accusations the scientists are making. I wonder what sort of mindset the administration has when its science advisor can't even read the letter he's responding to.
I think he's talking about these images.
What part of that phrase did you use in your original post? You said maybe he "misspoke" or the reporter "screwed up the transcription", but whatever, it seemed to upset you. If you're so nitpicky, expect others to nitpick you too.
Replying to myself: in fact, freetype is dual-licensed, so that's not a good example. I'm not sure in fact there's any GPL code in there.
Can you point to anything Alan Cox or others submitted under the GPL? He has submitted stuff, but under the old XFree86 licence. He opposes the new licensing scheme and wants his code placed under the old XFree86 licence. There is some GPL code in there like freetype, but the old XFree licence is compatible with that; Xfree86 need not be GPL. A combined work (eg, binaries distributed by a linux distro) should be GPL, but the non-GPL parts can be redistributed under the XFree86 licence -- just as you can link GPL code into the FreeBSD kernel, and the project distributes the source to let you do that, but the binary kernels distributed by the FreeBSD project don't have any GPL bits because they don't want to distribute the kernel under the GPL. Not an issue for Linux distributors.
I don't think an apples-to-apples comparison is possible between the world's only superpower and a developing country.
Would this free care include something like the heart-valve replacement surgery originally mentioned?
Something like, yes, and sometimes, yes. Surgeons are often willing to waive their fees in special needy cases. Other costs -- that's a different matter, but in many cases something gets worked out.
In many cases, they use equivalent and cheaper (and sometimes, arguably better) technology. For example, the Jaipur foot, an artificial limb that was developed for amputees, vastly cheaper than its equivalents in the west and immensely successful.
An increasing fraction of the middle class, very few if any of the poor. But many (most?) doctors and hospitals provide free treatment to the poor, and many doctors work part-time without charging at free hospitals (either government hospitals, or institutions like the Voluntary Health Services in Madras) in addition to their private practice.
June, 1999 and India won? I think you'd be thinking of the world cup, which was held in England in June (and indeed India beat Pakistan on June 8 there). Pakistan visited India in January-February, 1999, and the two-match series was drawn (one win each). And yup, this post is most definitely offtopic.