I was a member of the conservative party when the merger was proposed.
For some unknown reason I wasn't invited to vote on it, although people who had just joined were. Including people who had breached the party constitution by simultaneously being a member of the Reform party.
My book, "Using Samba" is available free on-line, and therefor attracts readers.
Because it's horribly bulky to print oneself, my readers happily buy professionally printed copies from my publisher. This caused the book to have been O'Reilly's best seller for the quarter in which the first edition came out.
I do not wish the Government of Canada to restrict in any way my freedom to distribute on-line copies, or to let others, well meaning but without understanding, interfere in my electronic distribution of the book. That blatantly interferes with my making money from it.
parrywp wrote: However, these people are motivated only by the money, which in the end is a very weak form of motivation.
I recently did as large project, with some boring bits
(proofreading, otherwise known as "gallery slavery") for
an honorarium. It
was worth far more, but a small amount of money made
it possible for me to do it, whereas no money would
have left it undone.
The RCMP may say they're not going to enforce it, but an arrest was made yesterday in Montreal.
Mind you, the details sound suspicious: there were police at every door of the theatre, and the person accused had supposedly set up a tripod in the aisle.
Rings and ring-crossings, which are supported in
intel hardware since the 286/386 era, and
Long words, longer than 32 bits.
Adresses and ints were 36 bits, longs were 72,
and people used the 8th and 9th bits in in
bytes for control and meta bits when manipulating
raw terminal input.
Expect most of your problems will be with porting things like
bit_offset_ entry (ptr) returns(fixed bin(24)) reducible
More generally, poor programmers try to make programs so simple
that only simple things are possible.
Good programmers, and I'll point at Apple IPhoto chaps just
because I saw one lately, make the things people actually
want to do easy. In tis case it was having three sliders,
labeled "lighten shadows", "darken highlights" and
"brightness". Doing those adjustments is downright hard,
but the good developers found that is what real live
humans wanted to do, and did the work to make it easy.
Kjella wrote:
the file was uploaded to an index specifically created for exchanging files. That may (ignorance defenses aside) be considered authorization.
I think some P2P programs do this for you, without the "need" for user
intervention.
Hey guys, I'm not recommending you**buy** an apple, I'm saying Linux can be more popular by being "geeky", where geeky means smarter about what users are trying to do, making it easier for them to do a good job (;-))
And whenever Appple fails to deliver on their promise, we can...
Micorsoft dumbs-down their products to make them appeal to the lowest common denominator. Apple, on the other hand, makes their poducts smarter, to make them easier to use.
Of course it's a word, it's a portmanteau word.
A colleague and
I made it up years ago, to see how many
folks would thnk it was the proper latin
tag for the little monsters.
The proper latin plural for virus is,
if memory serves, virus.
Well, actually he doesn't, but many companies expect folks to be at work for insane hours, and so they have to do all sorts of what one would normally consider recreation at work, rather than at home.
In the Soviet Union, internal passports were
a very useful thing, You could prevent
panhandlers from moving to New York, for
instance, because their passport said they
were from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Whoops, sorry, I meant to Moscow and Grozny, Chechnia.
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I was a member of the conservative
party when the merger was proposed.
For some unknown reason I wasn't
invited to vote on it, although
people who had just joined were.
Including people who had breached
the party constitution by simultaneously
being a member of the Reform party.
Draw you own conclusions, folks...
--dave
To: Prentice.J@parl.gc.ca
My book, "Using Samba" is available free on-line, and
therefor attracts readers.
Because it's horribly bulky to print oneself, my readers
happily buy professionally printed copies from my publisher.
This caused the book to have been O'Reilly's best seller
for the quarter in which the first edition came out.
I do not wish the Government of Canada to restrict in any
way my freedom to distribute on-line copies, or to let
others, well meaning but without understanding, interfere in
my electronic distribution of the book. That blatantly
interferes with my making money from it.
Sincerely,
David Collier-Brown
I recently did as large project, with some boring bits (proofreading, otherwise known as "gallery slavery") for an honorarium. It was worth far more, but a small amount of money made it possible for me to do it, whereas no money would have left it undone.
--dave
There are a lot of tasks that I'll do for a paying employer, that I dislike enough to avoid when I'm doing development Pro Bono.
An honorarium might make it palatable to do really really boring stuff (;-))
--dave
The RCMP may say they're not going to enforce it, but
an arrest was made yesterday in Montreal.
Mind you, the details sound suspicious: there were
police at every door of the theatre, and the person
accused had supposedly set up a tripod in the aisle.
It may have been a put-up job.
--dave
No, contact your MP now: there is no reason to believe the wording will be known until it's tabled in the house. --dave
A leading pathologist had his cases reviewed
and numerous convictions brought back to the
attention of the courts...
--dave
You're right, it's almost all in PL/1, with very approximatly the same amount of assembler as Unix. --dave
There are two hard parts
Adresses and ints were 36 bits, longs were 72, and people used the 8th and 9th bits in in bytes for control and meta bits when manipulating raw terminal input.
Expect most of your problems will be with porting things like bit_offset_ entry (ptr) returns(fixed bin(24)) reducible
--dave (DRBrown.TSDC@HI-Multics.ARPA) c-b
More generally, poor programmers try to make programs so simple that only simple things are possible.
Good programmers, and I'll point at Apple IPhoto chaps just because I saw one lately, make the things people actually want to do easy. In tis case it was having three sliders, labeled "lighten shadows", "darken highlights" and "brightness". Doing those adjustments is downright hard, but the good developers found that is what real live humans wanted to do, and did the work to make it easy.
Linux programmers, go thou and do likewise!
--dave
Kjella wrote: the file was uploaded to an index specifically created for exchanging files. That may (ignorance defenses aside) be considered authorization.
I think some P2P programs do this for you, without the "need" for user intervention.
--dave
They are implementing quite a different system, which will actually pass the BC privacy standards... which aren't as strong as they could be. See http://www.oipcbc.org/publications/speeches_presentations/speech_04.html for an idea of just how hard this is for personal medical records.
--dave (who has worked on personally identifying health information in the past) c-b
morgan_greywolf wrote:They also won't take code that deviates from the strategic direction Sun wants to follow.
Gee, I run both OO and Star Office 8, and OO is
--dave
I'm not sure if it was a scalability issue: I recollect
that the new threading model just plain performed better (;-))
--dave (who was a performance engineer at Sun at the time) c-b
Hey guys, I'm not recommending you**buy** an apple,
...
I'm saying Linux can be more popular by being "geeky",
where geeky means smarter about what users are trying
to do, making it easier for them to do a good job (;-))
And whenever Appple fails to deliver on their promise,
we can
--dave
Micorsoft dumbs-down their products to make
them appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Apple, on the other hand, makes their poducts
smarter, to make them easier to use.
You can guess what I recommend (;-))
--dave
Oh dear, it even looks like Cacaphony...
one of the worst products Lotus ever
wrote (;-))
--dave
Right!
The room was dominated by the 360 (/75,
I think) so I misassociated the little
168 with it (;-))
--dave
Good point...
What's a proper term for mock latinate, I wonder (;-))
--dave
Of virus and the latin plural of a different
declension (the plural of masculine and feminine
words ending in -ius)
--dave
Of course it's a word, it's a portmanteau word. A colleague and I made it up years ago, to see how many folks would thnk it was the proper latin tag for the little monsters.
The proper latin plural for virus is, if memory serves, virus.
--dave
It works on any multiprocessor, including an
IBM 360/168 mainframe, where I first encountered it.
--dave
Well, actually he doesn't, but many companies expect
folks to be at work for insane hours, and so they have
to do all sorts of what one would normally consider
recreation at work, rather than at home.
--dave
Grampa Sony died, and the whole place went downhill from there. --dave
Whoops, sorry, I meant to Moscow and Grozny, Chechnia.
--dave