I'd say hardly so. Big brother would have given him a life sentence, as the guy's dangerous to society. (At least this would be on a par with a year in jail for recording a movie in the cinema.)
Most of my development these days is in PHP - the language seems elegant
Well, I too had thought that PHP is elegant before I learnt Python. The truth is, PHP is an *ugly* language. It works, it is very well prepared for working in a web enviroment, but it is just yucky.
Why so many people think that GPL incompatible == not free? How is current XFree86 license non-free? Yeah, I know it's not about free-as-in-beer, but how isn't XFree free-as-in-speech?
Whenever a binary package for Debian is availible, I prefer it to hand-compiled source. First, it has all the Debian patches it needs. Second, it propably installs without a hassle. Third, it's easy to get rid of it, and last but not the least, apt resolves dependency problems without human intervention in 99.9% of cases.
The whole thing about "free software" is a lie. It's a dream created and made popular by people who have a keen interest in having cheap software so that they can drive down their own cost and profit more or by people who can easily demand it, because they make their money out of speaking at conferences or write books about how nice it is to have free software. At the bottom of the food chain are people like you, who are easily fooled by the "let's make the world a better place" rhetoric and who are so enthusiastic about technology that writing open-source - or any source for that matter - is the absolutely best imaginable way to spend their time. It doesn't matter whether you love what you are doing and consider this the hobby you want to spend 110% of your time on: It's exploitation by companies who are not at all interested in creating stuff. They want to use your stuff for free. That's why they trick you into doing it.
But what if I don't give a damn who uses my stuff which I willingly given away for free? What if I give my software away and license it under GPL, will it still be stolen by suits which are waiting to suck me dry?
What if solving programming problems is just fun for me? I can have a paid job and still do some hacking on free/open source software just because that's what I want to do and this above flamebait fails to see, but categorizes me as a being living "on the bottom of the foodchain." The point is I'm not being tricked into doing this stuff, I'm doing it because it's fun, dammit!
TFA was written by a person who can't see a computer without a dollar (or rather a DM) sign on it. Poor fellow.
No sane programmer will do text processing in C/C++ unless forced to! (I know I wouldn't.) Besides there's sed for simple stuff and Python for whatever's left. No need to warp my mind around all this $%@!&{} line noise (regexps don't count.)
Viruses are a different kind of spam. They actually come from someone you know (or might know.) Regular spam has those headers forged (and getting those right would rise costs of a single message, which is good.)
Definitely a step in the right direction.
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Doom I??? Doom II??? I haven't heard of anyone playing either of those games in at least 5 years. My god, they had a Doom release on the Atari Jaguar!!! Think about that!
I've completed Doom2 on ultraviolence just 2 years ago, you insensitive clod!
Anyone can write code, but not everyone can program.
This is very important. I suggest buying another book after that, but this time about algorithms. My favourites are CLRS (HUGE, I know, but arguably the best availible) and the one by Wirth. (unfortunately it seems it isn't in print anymore.) (Yes, I know we don't like Pascal, but it's still much better than C for learners IMHO.)
Neither exists, nor is needed on 2.4.24. On 2.6.0 it's supposed to do what has been done automagically up until now (well, until 2.5.30.) Not to mention, it fails at it.
Don't these guys know the 'Ain't broke? Don't fix' maxim? Props to Alan for his opposition to changes that made 2.6 impossible to use (boot!) for me (yes, I have to use OnTrack DM so I can get 100% out of my 40GB Seagate.)
Yeah. Mod me down as troll, redundant and flamebait at the same time. Go on. But please answer this question first: how to make it work?
Now, "Logic isn't universal" is a damn meaningless statement. It'd translate into "Logic cannot describe [timespace-area/context] X." Which is, of course, a logical assertion about X.
A whole branch of mathematics/logic evolved from a similar sentence: "This sentence is false."
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I'd say hardly so. Big brother would have given him a life sentence, as the guy's dangerous to society. (At least this would be on a par with a year in jail for recording a movie in the cinema.)
Drat. I was just going to say that. (Well, almost. s/Haskell/OCaml/.)
Well, I too had thought that PHP is elegant before I learnt Python. The truth is, PHP is an *ugly* language. It works, it is very well prepared for working in a web enviroment, but it is just yucky.
One good reason for lawyers to be illegal, too.
Why so many people think that GPL incompatible == not free? How is current XFree86 license non-free? Yeah, I know it's not about free-as-in-beer, but how isn't XFree free-as-in-speech?
Whenever a binary package for Debian is availible, I prefer it to hand-compiled source. First, it has all the Debian patches it needs. Second, it propably installs without a hassle. Third, it's easy to get rid of it, and last but not the least, apt resolves dependency problems without human intervention in 99.9% of cases.
In other words, binary packages work for me :)
they have a website that updates in real time
should read:
they had a website that updates in real time.
The KDE team is unavailable for comment.
NewsForge and others are beginning to follow the money right now. We'll let you know what we find as we connect the dots.
Isn't it a *little* bit too late?
(OTOH, better late than never...)
Fortunatly, it's just an update to a previous report, not a new bug.
It would be a groundbreaking one, I guess. Bacteria would be even better.
The whole thing about "free software" is a lie. It's a dream created and made popular by people who have a keen interest in having cheap software so that they can drive down their own cost and profit more or by people who can easily demand it, because they make their money out of speaking at conferences or write books about how nice it is to have free software. At the bottom of the food chain are people like you, who are easily fooled by the "let's make the world a better place" rhetoric and who are so enthusiastic about technology that writing open-source - or any source for that matter - is the absolutely best imaginable way to spend their time. It doesn't matter whether you love what you are doing and consider this the hobby you want to spend 110% of your time on: It's exploitation by companies who are not at all interested in creating stuff. They want to use your stuff for free. That's why they trick you into doing it.
But what if I don't give a damn who uses my stuff which I willingly given away for free? What if I give my software away and license it under GPL, will it still be stolen by suits which are waiting to suck me dry? What if solving programming problems is just fun for me? I can have a paid job and still do some hacking on free/open source software just because that's what I want to do and this above flamebait fails to see, but categorizes me as a being living "on the bottom of the foodchain." The point is I'm not being tricked into doing this stuff, I'm doing it because it's fun, dammit!
TFA was written by a person who can't see a computer without a dollar (or rather a DM) sign on it. Poor fellow.
definitely should DRINK LESS!
No sane programmer will do text processing in C/C++ unless forced to! (I know I wouldn't.) Besides there's sed for simple stuff and Python for whatever's left. No need to warp my mind around all this $%@!&{} line noise (regexps don't count.)
Viruses are a different kind of spam. They actually come from someone you know (or might know.) Regular spam has those headers forged (and getting those right would rise costs of a single message, which is good.)
Or just common sense for Euros :grin:
If you're into kernel architecture, it might be interesting, but otherwise, so what?
The bugs.
It is possible to copyright a number. It is impossible to enforce this copyright.
Doom I??? Doom II??? I haven't heard of anyone playing either of those games in at least 5 years. My god, they had a Doom release on the Atari Jaguar!!! Think about that!
I've completed Doom2 on ultraviolence just 2 years ago, you insensitive clod!
Anyone can write code, but not everyone can program.
This is very important. I suggest buying another book after that, but this time about algorithms. My favourites are CLRS (HUGE, I know, but arguably the best availible) and the one by Wirth. (unfortunately it seems it isn't in print anymore.) (Yes, I know we don't like Pascal, but it's still much better than C for learners IMHO.)
penis-enlargement products
Now imagine a beowulf cluster of...
Um. What was this Natalie Portman joke?
Linux hda=remap63.
Neither exists, nor is needed on 2.4.24. On 2.6.0 it's supposed to do what has been done automagically up until now (well, until 2.5.30.) Not to mention, it fails at it.
Don't these guys know the 'Ain't broke? Don't fix' maxim? Props to Alan for his opposition to changes that made 2.6 impossible to use (boot!) for me (yes, I have to use OnTrack DM so I can get 100% out of my 40GB Seagate.)
Yeah. Mod me down as troll, redundant and flamebait at the same time. Go on. But please answer this question first: how to make it work?
Scary. Slashdotted already.
Now, "Logic isn't universal" is a damn meaningless statement. It'd translate into "Logic cannot describe [timespace-area/context] X." Which is, of course, a logical assertion about X.
A whole branch of mathematics/logic evolved from a similar sentence: "This sentence is false."
I OTOH love the smell of fresh servers in the morning :>