...slow development time if we keep catering for _very_ old browsers.
Lynx 2.8.2 dates from June 1999 so it's def'ly newer than Netscape. All other arguments about "Best viewed with any browser" have been uttered before here.
We (the coders) need to start writing a little more, or at least finding a guy/gal who can write. Well I know what I am gonna have to do WRITE SOME DOCS lol.
I see a place for Literate Programming in Open Source, which is underused IMHO. If you the coders expressed what a program did in a sort of human readable language, we the lesser but sometimes more eloquent multiplicators might have a chance to see what the code does without having a deeply rooted idea of the programming language used, so we could write explanations how to get the code working for someone else (ie manuals).
Please do not let 1,124 people speak for the country. </i>
Please read a good book about survey sampling. In most cases you get a more biased view if you try and ask the whole population than asking a proper sample and do it right.
The order and tone of the questions was indeed put such as to get people to object to the break-up. Given that all questions on page 7 and bottom of page 6 are based on iffy assumptions the answer to those are less than meaningful.
Also, a cross-classification of "closely following" the trial with the "support/oppose breakup" questions would be rather interesting.
Today's radio news (in Germany) said that Betrelsmann is still competing with Time/Warner for the EMI gulp. This might just be nationally biased coverage. Anyone knows about this?
I know next to nothing about how this site works (this is my FIRST day).
I do not know if this applies to/., but the advice for Usenet runs along the lines of "if new in a forum, read first, then read more, and then consider posting yourself".
This is hackerzone, and if you put forward interesting thoughts while exposing lack of technical knowledge, you'll rather be moderated as "Offtopic" than "Interesting". There's a want for a "JonKatz" category here. Not that I am in the know technically, but then I do not post often either.
My suggestion would be to get over it, read the forum, see if you like it, then participate actively.
which does it not make easier for non-residents of English speaking countries.
Business English is even more rapidly changing, which I definitely view as a plot to close the standard for people that do not read coloured, buzzword-laden magazines.
Knuth doesn't need any awards. He deserves them in spades, but what good would it do? Everyone knows who he is! He's one of the most, if not the most respected programmer in existence!
I agree with you, but if this is true, it is wrong to nominate him in the first place! It has the same stale taste as considering the Kalashnikov and Perl as the greatest hacks of all time...along with the pyramids of Egypt!
Re:The downfall of MS and the rise of OS
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[OS as in "Open Source".:-)]
...I must admit I'm happy that the oppressive monopoly, the buggy OS's,...
A comment rarely found in/. or somebody failing to mind thir acronyms?
I would want a warning label on dangers that are dangerous beyond the obvious.
Someone else's computer can be used as a weapon (read: spam multiplier). Do you mind this? I do. Is this obvious to anyone connecting her machine to the 'net? I wouldn't think so.
How much do popular providers contribute to popular insight in this respect? Not too much in my opinion.
You are to be made responsible if you issue a tool that is potentially dangerous without indicating it. Companies like AOL make internet connection look like a breeze, and therefore are responsible for hapless users unknowingly offering their box as a spam hub.
At least this was the essence of our Lunux User Group's last night's discussion.
I immediately sent the link to my mother, who has for long times trapped slugs with glasses of beer embedded in the ground. Unfortunately these traps attracted loads of slugs from neighbours. Of course, for 1,5kQ you can buy quite a couple of crates of beer instead.
Imagine a tamagotchi like 'game' on the Palm, but it's end goal is to teach genetics. For example, every morning each Palm will get an allotment of resources for each digital petri dish, while the child also gets some 'moderation' points in order to enhance or modify their creatures. Periodically they will be given more points throughout the day.
Every 'gotchi by themselves? No, if you want to emulate real genetics make tham recombine by infrared!
There is one story in Hofstadter/Dennett's "The Mind's Eye", where somebody is ordered to destroy a machine that gives some deceiving simulation of pain, while still far from being intelligent. This guy is described as feeling *very* uneasy about it, although not being a techie.
This is one example of the matter being discussed.
The oil exists. The baking soda exists. The wonder lube is invented by combining the two. This is a new invention and so is patentable. By contrast: The DNA exists. The gene sequence is derived from the DNA by application of a known mechanical process. Nothing new is created or invented.
Ok. How about: The DNA exists. People are overweight. You find out that this particular string of base pairs is related to obesity. Should you be able to patent this to reserve the right to specifically treat obesity by gene therapy?
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...slow development time if we keep catering for _very_ old browsers.
Lynx 2.8.2 dates from June 1999 so it's def'ly newer than Netscape. All other arguments about
"Best viewed with any browser" have been uttered before here.
We (the coders) need to start writing a little more, or at least finding a guy/gal who can write. Well I know what I am gonna have to do WRITE SOME DOCS lol.
I see a place for Literate Programming in Open Source, which is underused IMHO. If you the coders expressed what a program did in a sort of human readable language, we the lesser but sometimes more eloquent multiplicators might have a chance to see what the code does without having a deeply rooted idea of the programming language used, so we could write explanations how to get the code working for someone else (ie manuals).
Please do
not let 1,124 people speak for the country.
</i>
Please read a good book about survey sampling. In most cases you get a more biased view if you try and ask the whole population than asking a proper sample and do it right.
The order and tone of the questions was indeed
put such as to get people to object to the break-up. Given that all questions on page 7
and bottom of page 6 are based on iffy assumptions the answer to those are less than meaningful.
Also, a cross-classification of "closely following" the trial with the "support/oppose
breakup" questions would be rather interesting.
Today's radio news (in Germany) said that Betrelsmann is still competing with Time/Warner for the EMI gulp. This might just be nationally biased coverage. Anyone knows about this?
I know next to nothing about how this site works (this is my FIRST day).
/., but the advice for Usenet runs along the lines of "if new in a forum, read first, then read more, and then consider posting yourself".
I do not know if this applies to
This is hackerzone, and if you put forward interesting thoughts while exposing lack of technical knowledge, you'll rather be moderated as "Offtopic" than "Interesting". There's a want for a "JonKatz" category here. Not that I am in the know technically, but then I do not post often either.
My suggestion would be to get over it, read the forum, see if you like it, then participate actively.
Except that English is not a closed format.
Yes, but it is
b)constantly changing
which does it not make easier for non-residents of English speaking countries.
Business English is even more rapidly changing, which I definitely view as a plot to close the standard for people that do not read coloured, buzzword-laden magazines.
The character's name is Un Geller in Japanese. Are you sure 'Un' and 'Uri' can be mistaken for one another in Katakana?
Knuth doesn't need any awards. He deserves them in
spades, but what good would it do? Everyone knows who he is! He's one of the most,
if not the most respected programmer in existence!
I agree with you, but if this is true, it is wrong to nominate him in the first place! It has the same stale taste as considering the Kalashnikov and Perl as the greatest hacks of all time
[OS as in "Open Source". :-)]
...
/. or somebody failing to mind thir acronyms?
...I must admit I'm happy that the oppressive monopoly, the buggy OS's,
A comment rarely found in
IIRC chess games are not even copyrighted so you may publish the score like publishing the results of any other sports event.
However, there is something like a copyright on go (weiqi, baduk) games.
All that is based on very vague information, of course.
But then, computers are so crappy at go that patenting their moves would only mean barring beginners from bad ideas.
I don't see any health warning in the man page for GNU rm. Is that really their negligence?
Well, in my version it says in the first line:
Removes files or directories.
This is descriptive enogh for anyone to figure out if it is potentially dangerous or not.
The AOL version would read in the first line:
A fast and convenient way to enlarge your free disk space! The remove bit would be mentioned among the hairy specifications.
I would want a warning label on dangers that are dangerous beyond the obvious.
Someone else's computer can be used as a weapon (read: spam multiplier). Do you mind this? I do.
Is this obvious to anyone connecting her machine to the 'net? I wouldn't think so.
How much do popular providers contribute to popular insight in this respect? Not too much in my opinion.
You are to be made responsible if you issue a tool that is potentially dangerous without indicating it. Companies like AOL make internet connection look like a breeze, and therefore are responsible for hapless users unknowingly offering their box as a spam hub.
At least this was the essence of our Lunux User Group's last night's discussion.
This version of KDE will probably come without Katabase; when do you estimate will we see a user-ready version?
I immediately sent the link to my mother, who has
for long times trapped slugs with glasses of beer embedded in the ground. Unfortunately these traps attracted loads of slugs from neighbours. Of course, for 1,5kQ you can buy quite a couple of crates of beer instead.
I always wondered what they were singing there before the "do my eyes ..."
decieve me?
"I can't believe it"
Let's granulate the flame war: Reverse side of "A Quick One" sucks! Side A rules!
Run Run Run!
Boris The Spider!!!
I Need You!!!
Whiskey Man!!!
Heat Wave!!
Cobwebs and Strange!!!
Imagine a tamagotchi like 'game' on the Palm, but it's end goal is to teach genetics. For example,
every morning each Palm will get an allotment of resources for each digital petri dish, while the
child also gets some 'moderation' points in order to enhance or modify their creatures. Periodically
they will be given more points throughout the day.
Every 'gotchi by themselves? No, if you want to emulate
real genetics make tham recombine by infrared!
If they are eg in Pittsburgh, PA, call 'em Carnegie, Frick, and Heinz. You learn quick where they are.
Avoid antagonistic names...
appropriate names would be... names of killers
I love US culture.
There is one story in Hofstadter/Dennett's "The Mind's Eye", where somebody is ordered to destroy a machine that gives some deceiving simulation of pain, while still far from being intelligent. This guy is described as feeling *very* uneasy about it, although not being a techie.
This is one example of the matter being discussed.
The oil exists. The baking soda exists. The wonder lube is invented by combining the two. This is a new invention and so is patentable. By contrast: The DNA exists. The gene sequence is derived from the DNA by application of a known mechanical process. Nothing new is created or invented.
Ok. How about: The DNA exists. People are overweight. You find out that this particular string of base pairs is related to obesity. Should you be able to patent this to reserve the right to specifically treat obesity by gene therapy?
Solaris, SCO, AIX, Ultrix, A/UX (sorta. When did this die?), Xenix, Irix, AT&T Unix, yada, yada, yada.
Did any of these run on a 386 seven years ago?
That, besides being Open Source, might make some difference.
As Jon Katz demonstrated here, this process is a piece of art and thus does not fall under the patent legislation.
Someone tell me how to graw my tongue out of my cheek.
Read "Killing off Linux: It's all academical" by B. Pfaffenberger in the Linux Journal. Very enlightening in this respect.