I cited sources that stated how JRR Tolkien HATED allegory and reading deeper into works and therefore claimed I didn't need to provide any literary criticism of the Hobbit.
Just because Tolkien said his works were non-allegorical doesn't necessarily make it true. There is such a thing as cognitave dissonance.
As long as it works and there are no issues like Y2K why would you get rid of something that works? It's not like new machines wont run COBOL programs.
Many programs have to be extended now and again to perform new tasks because the as the world changes requirements do too. Also, coders don't want to write any new code in old fashioned languages (like COBOL). That being said, its easier to write extensions in the same language as the rest of the program, for many reasons. For instance: 1) with a single language, any interface can be used by all parts of the program. 2) The same debugger can be used to identify bugs throughout the entire program 3) coders don't have to think in multiple languages. Since modern-day coders don't want to write extentions in cobol and don't want the hang-ups of dealing with two languages at once, migrating old programs into a new languages is reasonable.
A lot of people are complaining about the end of the Red Hat Linux product line. I say give Fedora a chance. If it turns out to be a disaster, complain then. Until then, stop whining.
No. Something was stolen from you whether you purchased Hucklebery fin or not, namely, your *opportunity* to profit from Huckleberry Fin (buy purchasing it and then copying it or creating derivate works after the copyright expiry date). Loss of opportunity constitutes economic harm to you as an individual and is akin to theft.
The way I see it copy right term extension is transference of public property into private hands without payment being rendered in return. What has Disney --and all those companies that have successfully lobbied for longer copyright durations-- given back to the public in return? Nothing. That's right. They got what was to be public property for free and gave the public *nothing* in return. Its corporate welfare and its theft.
Charging by the hour is tough when working alone because of the record keeping and the feeling that one will be accused of laziness for spending a lot of time at a *seemingly* simple task.
I reccommend negotiating a contract based strictly on an agreed upon task list (with a dollar amount affixed to each task).
The hard freezes you are talking about are probably due to a hardware problem. I had freezes with my hardware. I figured out that the problem was due to my Nvidia card in conjunction with my other hardware. I had to "disable AGP".
One way that I was able to reliably get a hard freeze within minutes was by running the freeciv client with all players in AI mode. The problem is fixed now though. The bottom line is that hard freezes shouldn't be happening on a Linux box.
On oaccasion (as another poster wrote) you can have a buggy program that leaks memory exponentially and ties up the system. You sometimes have to wait fot the OS to kill the program or hit the reset switch in this case. This can happen with software that you are writing when you run tests.
I read about this in the newspaper and thought "wow this sounds exciting". Then I saw the actual paper. It turns out that his ideas are not fleshed out with any mathematics, so its just a philosphical position that he is taking.
I do think that time is a bit of a mystery, and its possible that that his ideas may be roughly right. It might imply that moments or "moment intervals" were some sort of fractal sets, such that a moment can never be finitely splittable (only infinitely splittable). A mathematical model that accomplished this (within the framework of currently accepted/known physics) would be remarkable.
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I cited sources that stated how JRR Tolkien HATED allegory and reading deeper into works and therefore claimed I didn't need to provide any literary criticism of the Hobbit.
Just because Tolkien said his works were non-allegorical doesn't necessarily make it true. There is such a thing as cognitave dissonance.
A lot of people are complaining about the end of the Red Hat Linux product line. I say give Fedora a chance. If it turns out to be a disaster, complain then. Until then, stop whining.
No. Something was stolen from you whether you purchased Hucklebery fin or not, namely, your *opportunity* to profit from Huckleberry Fin (buy purchasing it and then copying it or creating derivate works after the copyright expiry date). Loss of opportunity constitutes economic harm to you as an individual and is akin to theft.
The way I see it copy right term extension is transference of public property into private hands without payment being rendered in return. What has Disney --and all those companies that have successfully lobbied for longer copyright durations-- given back to the public in return? Nothing. That's right. They got what was to be public property for free and gave the public *nothing* in return. Its corporate welfare and its theft.
Charging by the hour is tough when working alone because of the record keeping and the feeling that one will be accused of laziness for spending a lot of time at a *seemingly* simple task.
I reccommend negotiating a contract based strictly on an agreed upon task list (with a dollar amount affixed to each task).
The hard freezes you are talking about are probably due to a hardware problem. I had freezes with my hardware. I figured out that the problem was due to my Nvidia card in conjunction with my other hardware. I had to "disable AGP". One way that I was able to reliably get a hard freeze within minutes was by running the freeciv client with all players in AI mode. The problem is fixed now though. The bottom line is that hard freezes shouldn't be happening on a Linux box. On oaccasion (as another poster wrote) you can have a buggy program that leaks memory exponentially and ties up the system. You sometimes have to wait fot the OS to kill the program or hit the reset switch in this case. This can happen with software that you are writing when you run tests.
I read about this in the newspaper and thought "wow this sounds exciting". Then I saw the actual paper. It turns out that his ideas are not fleshed out with any mathematics, so its just a philosphical position that he is taking.
I do think that time is a bit of a mystery, and its possible that that his ideas may be roughly right. It might imply that moments or "moment intervals" were some sort of fractal sets, such that a moment can never be finitely splittable (only infinitely splittable). A mathematical model that accomplished this (within the framework of currently accepted/known physics) would be remarkable.