I think you misinterpreted the original statement (which was ambiguous, to be fair) - "Only use your credit card for paying bills" meant "don't use anything other than a credit card", not "don't use a credit card for anything else".
It's good advice, though - credit cards provide much more protection than debit cards.
That matches my experience. I get a Windows 2000 login dialog much faster than I get a Red Hat 9 login dialog on my laptop, but the first 2 or 3 minutes of using Windows involves blinking hourglasses and a constantly churning hard drive. I'd say the total time from power-on to usability is roughly the same between Windows and Linux.
I think its people like you that dont understand that license violation is real
Of course I understand that license violation is real.
Here's a clue for you: people make mistakes. Yes, they really do. This guy made a mistake, and he paid the penalty for his carelessness. That's all well and good. What is not well and good (and what you're conveniently ignoring) is the way he was subsequently treated by Microsoft and the BSA. You simply don't treat customers like that and expect them to remain customers.
Accounting and stock control are parts of running a business, but so is software license control unless you specifically take action to the contrary. This guy didnt..
I'm not disputing that he didn't. But he has done so now, which is sort of the point of the whole article, and his business is doing better for it. Fair play to him. He didn't have to follow your slightly bizarre suggestion of licensing yet more software just to keep track of what software he had licensed, because he no longer needs to waste time and money on tracking what he's supposed to use and what he isn't.
Look, the guy screwed up, and he admitted it. He paid the $100,000 fine for his carelessness (for six unlicensed machines... talk about punitive), but was then publically humiliated by Microsoft and the BSA. That's just plain wrong.
But now he no longer needs to jump through hoops to keep his systems free of unlicensed software. Why the hell should you need to implement "a system which installs and uninstalls applications as needed depending on the person logged into the pc"? The answer: you don't. It's just that most people (including you, apparently) don't understand that.
Accounting and stock control are necessary parts of running a business. Paying money to a company whose software you don't actually need (and spending resources making sure said software is always in the right place at the right time) is not necessary.
Yep, the author obviously has some kind of beef with Qt.
"Commercial" and "proprietary" are not at all the same thing, but the author believes you need to pay to sell Qt applications. Wrong - you are permitted to sell GPL-licenced software.
The fact that the toolkit is large and takes a long time to compile (a few hours on a moderate-spec PC) is irrelevant. You don't need to recompile your toolkit every day, and you get binary Qt packages with most Linux distributions anyway.
"Business-oriented main website" is a non-argument, as you say.
"Main branch depending on one company" is a non-argument, since even if Trolltech folded tomorrow, a GPL-licenced Qt can be picked up by volunteers, just like any other free toolkit.
The namespace concern is the only minus point with any merit - on the other hand, I don't see Gtk+ using namespaces either, and that wasn't mentioned as a minus point, was it? (Yes, I know Gtk+ is written in C - but that doesn't alter the fact that it too does not use namespaces)
This article wasn't a summary, it was a soapbox rant.
You can look in the code, but no one's pointing a gun at your head and making you do so.
Even knowing how NetHack works inside out doesn't make it easy to finish.
As for that little Open Source troll - EverQuest, that ultra-proprietary MMORPG, has been ripped to pieces by people trying to figure out how the numbers work. It's no more of a mystery these days than NetHack is. Everyone who wants to can find out just how many HP a fire giant has, or where the Amazing Sword of Slaying (tm) drops.
You missed the point. GTK has full support for vertical scrolling with the mouse wheel, without needing to place the pointer over the scrollbar. What it also allows is placing the pointer over the horizontal scrollbar, and scrolling that left to right with the standard (normally vertical) mouse wheel.
It's not a huge deal, but an improvement over the need to click-hold-drag the scrollbar nonetheless.
Actually, the "./" entry isn't entirely useless (though it is very poor UI design... Motif has a lot to answer for!). Double-clicking on it rescans the current directory, which is useful on occasion - if you've dropped some new files in and want to open those with your app.
Removing it, and replacing it with a "Refresh" button is what's needed.
This would be like accusing someone who breaks into a car, but doesn't take anything, of grand theft auto
Even that's a poor analogy. It's more like selling your own fuel for a given make of car, and getting accused of grand theft auto by [insert fuel company here].
What DeCSS allows you to do is watch a DVD on hardware which hasn't been blessed by the DVD-CCA.
But the point is that we don't have nothing. We have a choice between running TCP-on-TCP or a real VPN solution like CIPE or Free/SWAN. A PPP over SSH tunnel is quite easy to set up, but as people have already said, even the slightest amount of packet loss in the physical layer will cripple the upper TCP layer - and if you're connecting from home to work across the Internet, you can expect packet loss.
My point is that Al has got nothing to do with the mechanics of robots or the science fiction they're trying to mimic with them.
On that at least we're agreed. My point was that AI goes beyond pure maths, and (IMHO) requires interaction with the environment to develop. Interfacing sight, sound, smell, motor functions and so on with a reasoning core is no trivial matter, and I think it's as relevant to AI as anything else is.
No I haven't, and no it isn't (or at least, you have about as much chance of proving that it is as I do, which is none at all).
The fact is that no-one understand how intelligence, artificial or otherwise, works, which is why I used the terms "might" and "could" in my last post. You, on the other hand, appear to believe that you do have all the answers.
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"True AI" might require the sort of interaction with the environment that we're used to through our own senses, in which case building a robotic shell for an artificially intelligent entity could be a necessity.
If a human (or any animal) were left to grow with no senses and no method of communication (or the most very basic input/output, analogous to your line terminal), what sort of intelligence would develop? Probably nothing very coherent.
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Er, France has a Moslem population of somewhere between 5% and 10%. That's hardly "vast", when its Catholic population is over 80%.
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Eh? Your credit card is the best thing to use.
I think you misinterpreted the original statement (which was ambiguous, to be fair) - "Only use your credit card for paying bills" meant "don't use anything other than a credit card", not "don't use a credit card for anything else".
It's good advice, though - credit cards provide much more protection than debit cards.
Your head will explode. And I mean literally, not figuratively. :P
US tax forms come coated with nitroglycerine and you're meant to chew on them?
Sorry, just trying to understand they make your head literally explode...
That matches my experience. I get a Windows 2000 login dialog much faster than I get a Red Hat 9 login dialog on my laptop, but the first 2 or 3 minutes of using Windows involves blinking hourglasses and a constantly churning hard drive. I'd say the total time from power-on to usability is roughly the same between Windows and Linux.
Yes, you can, so quit whining like a little sissy, coward.
(Yeah, yeah, I know. I Have Been Trolled. But I intend to Have A Nice Day.)
What about traffic that has nothing to do with HTTP?
Here's a clue for you: Web != Internet.
Of course I understand that license violation is real.
Here's a clue for you: people make mistakes. Yes, they really do. This guy made a mistake, and he paid the penalty for his carelessness. That's all well and good. What is not well and good (and what you're conveniently ignoring) is the way he was subsequently treated by Microsoft and the BSA. You simply don't treat customers like that and expect them to remain customers.
Accounting and stock control are parts of running a business, but so is software license control unless you specifically take action to the contrary. This guy didnt..
I'm not disputing that he didn't. But he has done so now, which is sort of the point of the whole article, and his business is doing better for it. Fair play to him. He didn't have to follow your slightly bizarre suggestion of licensing yet more software just to keep track of what software he had licensed, because he no longer needs to waste time and money on tracking what he's supposed to use and what he isn't.
Look, the guy screwed up, and he admitted it. He paid the $100,000 fine for his carelessness (for six unlicensed machines... talk about punitive), but was then publically humiliated by Microsoft and the BSA. That's just plain wrong.
But now he no longer needs to jump through hoops to keep his systems free of unlicensed software. Why the hell should you need to implement "a system which installs and uninstalls applications as needed depending on the person logged into the pc"? The answer: you don't. It's just that most people (including you, apparently) don't understand that.
Accounting and stock control are necessary parts of running a business. Paying money to a company whose software you don't actually need (and spending resources making sure said software is always in the right place at the right time) is not necessary.
Well, we might finally have some decent skiing in Scotland, but otherwise - probably not.
Yep, the author obviously has some kind of beef with Qt.
"Commercial" and "proprietary" are not at all the same thing, but the author believes you need to pay to sell Qt applications. Wrong - you are permitted to sell GPL-licenced software.
The fact that the toolkit is large and takes a long time to compile (a few hours on a moderate-spec PC) is irrelevant. You don't need to recompile your toolkit every day, and you get binary Qt packages with most Linux distributions anyway.
"Business-oriented main website" is a non-argument, as you say.
"Main branch depending on one company" is a non-argument, since even if Trolltech folded tomorrow, a GPL-licenced Qt can be picked up by volunteers, just like any other free toolkit.
The namespace concern is the only minus point with any merit - on the other hand, I don't see Gtk+ using namespaces either, and that wasn't mentioned as a minus point, was it? (Yes, I know Gtk+ is written in C - but that doesn't alter the fact that it too does not use namespaces)
This article wasn't a summary, it was a soapbox rant.
It's not a huge deal, but an improvement over the need to click-hold-drag the scrollbar nonetheless.
A quick Google search brings up several links which disagree on the quantities which become dangerous to dogs:
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E.g. http://www.apogeecomgrp.com/drkevin/chocolate.htm
Granted, it would take a lot to kill a St. Bernard, but 3/4 lb. of milk chocolate was sufficient to kill a 20lb. daschund.
I'm a rabid Isreal-backer
the concept of a state founded on a religion is really bullshit
Do you see the contradiction here?
Then remove the "./" entry
Actually, the "./" entry isn't entirely useless (though it is very poor UI design... Motif has a lot to answer for!). Double-clicking on it rescans the current directory, which is useful on occasion - if you've dropped some new files in and want to open those with your app.
Removing it, and replacing it with a "Refresh" button is what's needed.
This would be like accusing someone who breaks into a car, but doesn't take anything, of grand theft auto
Even that's a poor analogy. It's more like selling your own fuel for a given make of car, and getting accused of grand theft auto by [insert fuel company here].
What DeCSS allows you to do is watch a DVD on hardware which hasn't been blessed by the DVD-CCA.
But the point is that we don't have nothing. We have a choice between running TCP-on-TCP or a real VPN solution like CIPE or Free/SWAN. A PPP over SSH tunnel is quite easy to set up, but as people have already said, even the slightest amount of packet loss in the physical layer will cripple the upper TCP layer - and if you're connecting from home to work across the Internet, you can expect packet loss.
Here's a good document about it.
What the hell is the DCMA? The Dyslexic Computerusers Misspelled Acronym?
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On that at least we're agreed. My point was that AI goes beyond pure maths, and (IMHO) requires interaction with the environment to develop. Interfacing sight, sound, smell, motor functions and so on with a reasoning core is no trivial matter, and I think it's as relevant to AI as anything else is.
No I haven't, and no it isn't (or at least, you have about as much chance of proving that it is as I do, which is none at all).
The fact is that no-one understand how intelligence, artificial or otherwise, works, which is why I used the terms "might" and "could" in my last post. You, on the other hand, appear to believe that you do have all the answers.
"True AI" might require the sort of interaction with the environment that we're used to through our own senses, in which case building a robotic shell for an artificially intelligent entity could be a necessity.
If a human (or any animal) were left to grow with no senses and no method of communication (or the most very basic input/output, analogous to your line terminal), what sort of intelligence would develop? Probably nothing very coherent.
BTW, AI is most certainly not pure math.
You probably could. The last four books, for example, could be condensed into about 10 minutes of film footage.
Have you A) actually tried it recently, or B) did you just make that figure up?
Answer: B) - Gameboy/NES emulation runs at full speed on the GP32.
Fixed the link, sorry.
Combined brake & gas pedals are not as crazy as you might think. A quick Google search turns up this:
. sh tml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/tw/2002/mar27pedal
Not too stupid to take seriously at all.