It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
I certainly haven't done any detailed digging on this, so to my uneducated eye, it just looked like another one of a large number of recent projects (private or public): safe, predictable, incremental. It seems as if, somehow (maybe around the third wave of the downsizing craze), this generation has lost the capability to dream big and do radical things. Can you imagine being around for JFK's moon speech:
We do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. We choose to go to the moon!
Perhaps NASA would do exactly the same CEV program if they had four times the budget, because it's the most logical Next Step. Right or wrong, however, it seemed to me like they're doing what they can because it's what they can afford in this post-downsizing era.
You, however, appear to have more research/expertise in this area.
It's probably because of the new CEV program (which is totally not just an Apollo redux... the CEV program will feature more seats). If terrorists know exactly where the join was between the first and second stages of the booster rocket, they could... uh...
How about this: we can't say exactly what they could do because it's classified! But trust me, they could totally do stuff.
Really.
Would the US government lie to you? Are you calling us liars? Why do you hate freedom?????
Well, actually, he's either innocent or guilty, but he should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
Now, if we were talking about a quantum trial, he'd be both innocent and guilty until the evidence was observed, at which point he'd be one or the other.
All jokes aside, you do make a good point: whether or not Hans Reiser ever killed anybody (and we shouldn't jump to conclusions), the folks at NameSys have built a sweet filesystem or two. My question is: if Hans Reiser does go to prison, is there anybody else who could step up to a "maintainer" role and see Reiser4 (which may be renamed) integrated into the kernel?
The compatibility fixes (also referred to as "shims" or "shim technology") contained in SysMain.sdb address common application compatibility problems when installing an application originally written for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, or Windows 2000. Fixes can provide simple solutions to the most common compatibility problems: For example, a fix might provide an older application with a previous operating system's credentials to enable the application to function properly. They can also be targeted at specific problems known to crop up with certain applicationssuch fixes might permit the operating system to ignore certain warnings or delay heap and memory release calls.
There will be roughly 200 compatibility fixes included in the SysMain database file at the time of the Windows XP release. These treat most of the compatibility problems that were encountered during the development of Windows XP....
the free market can not fix everything. That is because the free market has a weakness: monopolies
What we need is a market that will only let you be free if you accept limitations on your freedom that prevent you from limiting the freedom of other vendors... a "Guaranteed Peddler's Land", or GPL if you will...
To be fair, a medical hardware company can ship a certified product with a big "IF YOU $&$% WITH THE SOFTWARE THIS CERTIFICATION IS INVALID" sticker. All GPLv3 does is that, if you use "turn_premium_features_off = true", the end user can change it. The new code should checksum to a valid value (that of the premium software), so it should still pass inspection/recertification/whatever.
I want a news media that doesn't just pass along presidential press releases as God's own truth.
Gotta love the CBC (again, in Canada). I hear that Al Jazeera English is pretty impartial, too.
I want a President that has better than C- average and who cares about more than cutting taxes for the rich and not admitting he's wrong.
You have elections coming up, right?
I want a country that doesn't believe that half the population is the enemy.
Okay, that's a long-term goal.
But like your mom, tonight I'd settle for "just a phone". But the big phone companies aren't going to give it to us because the "free market" is fiction and we have become the consumables.
That's why, if I take a vacation in Europe next year, I'm probably going to buy a GSM phone, unencumbered with all of this North American market philosophy. My understanding is that, in Europe, the mobile market involves many parties competing to provide the best service at the lowest cost... I'm not sure that I really understand this "competition" thing (that's where all of the gas stations charge exactly the same thing because you have no choice but to suck it up, right?), but I hear it's good.
Um, nobody said that there are no parallel algorithms, but that "Algorithms are easiest when [they're serial and non-interactive]".
Since I'd have to learn this "process calculus" to really get into parallel algorithms, I would tend to agree (what could be easier than not having to learn anything new?).
How about we let the industry sort his out, like it's currently doing, and quite successfully to boot?
The point is, they're not. The OSI deals with companies that slap "Open Source" on products that really aren't. Such companies try to benefit from the "Open Source" buzz without actually being open source.
It's like a company using the terms "Fair Trade" or "ISO 9000". I'm sure that ISO 9000 opens doors in the B2B market, but if the term isn't policed (and people can call themselves ISO 9000 Certified without an actual certification), it loses all meaning and value.
I can write a program and publish it with the source with the license "Do whatever you want with it but don't call me "Shirley"". And this IS an Open Source program like it or not.
Really, the process doesn't look very hard or time-consuming, and at the end, if open-source is a selling point of your software, you can say "see, this standardizing body says that my software really is open source".
If you don't want to bother with the OSI process, well, think whatever you want about your license. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Just please don't confuse Pointy-Haired Bosses by mucking with semantics. Analogy: a modified Linux is still Linux (sort of), but if you care about the community, you'll help keep things clear by not selling Linux-with-intentional-bugs-thrown-in as "Linux".
I'm sure that, to somebody out there, "open source" means "drowning kittens in a bathtub". This is why society agrees on common definitions for words.
Very few people even heard of the term "open source" until Linux was in version 2.0. People like Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and the folks at Red Hat created the buzz around open source (though RMS really, really doesn't like the term), so let's use the definition that they were working with at the time.
Without the freedom to modify and re-use, there would be no open-source buzz, because there would be no GNU, no Linux, no BSD, no Red Hat, no Debian, no Ubuntu.
Oh, but people could drown kittens with wild abandon and call it whatever they want.
Yeah, seriously. The important thing isn't that the process is fair, it's that everyone knows the process is fair. I don't care how Free a voting machine is, if voters don't have confidence in it, democracy is damaged.
It's not enough for computer experts to say "the system is good"; everyone knows that experts can be biased or bought. Every voter has to be able to look at the process and say, "I trust this". That's why paper ballots rock.
Of course, you Americans would have to stop having dozens of elections and plebicites on the same day. One voter, one ballot, one X means the results can easily be counted by hand.
Offtopic, I know, but "sunbathing coeds"? As in "sunbathing students of both genders" or as in "sunbathing women"? Why do we refer to women like they're anomalies at academic institutions?
At my school, we have something like 60% women... should we call men "co-eds"?
Go ahead, mod me down as offtopic, but this kind of thing irks me.
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I guess your signature is very appropriate:
I certainly haven't done any detailed digging on this, so to my uneducated eye, it just looked like another one of a large number of recent projects (private or public): safe, predictable, incremental. It seems as if, somehow (maybe around the third wave of the downsizing craze), this generation has lost the capability to dream big and do radical things. Can you imagine being around for JFK's moon speech:
Perhaps NASA would do exactly the same CEV program if they had four times the budget, because it's the most logical Next Step. Right or wrong, however, it seemed to me like they're doing what they can because it's what they can afford in this post-downsizing era.
You, however, appear to have more research/expertise in this area.
In fact, the Mercury program ran on Atlas boosters, which were ICBMs. Censoring Atlas would be stupid enough, but Saturn V??
It's probably because of the new CEV program (which is totally not just an Apollo redux... the CEV program will feature more seats). If terrorists know exactly where the join was between the first and second stages of the booster rocket, they could... uh...
How about this: we can't say exactly what they could do because it's classified! But trust me, they could totally do stuff.
Really.
Would the US government lie to you? Are you calling us liars? Why do you hate freedom?????
Well, actually, he's either innocent or guilty, but he should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise.
Now, if we were talking about a quantum trial, he'd be both innocent and guilty until the evidence was observed, at which point he'd be one or the other.
All jokes aside, you do make a good point: whether or not Hans Reiser ever killed anybody (and we shouldn't jump to conclusions), the folks at NameSys have built a sweet filesystem or two. My question is: if Hans Reiser does go to prison, is there anybody else who could step up to a "maintainer" role and see Reiser4 (which may be renamed) integrated into the kernel?
Thank you! I may not know what "staircase deadline" means yet (though the name gives some idea), but it's a lot easier to Google than "SD".
I read TFA, but I was still puzzled.
Protesting in Australia is probably no less effective than protesting in a "free speech zone"...
Or on sharks' heads...
And here it is:
Optimum Copyright Period Decided By Math
Actually, they already do this:
What we need is a market that will only let you be free if you accept limitations on your freedom that prevent you from limiting the freedom of other vendors... a "Guaranteed Peddler's Land", or GPL if you will...
To be fair, a medical hardware company can ship a certified product with a big "IF YOU $&$% WITH THE SOFTWARE THIS CERTIFICATION IS INVALID" sticker. All GPLv3 does is that, if you use "turn_premium_features_off = true", the end user can change it. The new code should checksum to a valid value (that of the premium software), so it should still pass inspection/recertification/whatever.
Done and done.
I want a car that has better gas mileage than a 1975 Honda.Okay.
I want a health care system that won't send me into bankruptcy if I get sick.Welcome to Canada, it's the Maple Leaf state
I want a news media that doesn't just pass along presidential press releases as God's own truth.Gotta love the CBC (again, in Canada). I hear that Al Jazeera English is pretty impartial, too.
I want a President that has better than C- average and who cares about more than cutting taxes for the rich and not admitting he's wrong.You have elections coming up, right?
I want a country that doesn't believe that half the population is the enemy.Okay, that's a long-term goal.
But like your mom, tonight I'd settle for "just a phone". But the big phone companies aren't going to give it to us because the "free market" is fiction and we have become the consumables.That's why, if I take a vacation in Europe next year, I'm probably going to buy a GSM phone, unencumbered with all of this North American market philosophy. My understanding is that, in Europe, the mobile market involves many parties competing to provide the best service at the lowest cost... I'm not sure that I really understand this "competition" thing (that's where all of the gas stations charge exactly the same thing because you have no choice but to suck it up, right?), but I hear it's good.
Um, nobody said that there are no parallel algorithms, but that "Algorithms are easiest when [they're serial and non-interactive]".
Since I'd have to learn this "process calculus" to really get into parallel algorithms, I would tend to agree (what could be easier than not having to learn anything new?).
That's the smartest comment I've read today. If tidal power is a reality, why not ocean currents?
According to Wired (thought I'd never say that), it's even less information than that: they get the IP address, not the domain name.
So, all they may know is that subject X visited one of the 4,000 websites hosted by a particular hosting company.
Have you tried Qt? I started using it a few months ago, and I'm really, really impressed.
Yeah, we may as well face the facts: programmers like to drive stick, use command lines and indent code ourselves.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of "Year of the Desktop" announcements!
<ducks/>
I'll show you centrifugal force!
Actually, "open source" means something entirely different in government lingo.
I can, however, see your point.
The point is, they're not. The OSI deals with companies that slap "Open Source" on products that really aren't. Such companies try to benefit from the "Open Source" buzz without actually being open source.
It's like a company using the terms "Fair Trade" or "ISO 9000". I'm sure that ISO 9000 opens doors in the B2B market, but if the term isn't policed (and people can call themselves ISO 9000 Certified without an actual certification), it loses all meaning and value.
If you have such a license (though why you wouldn't pick one of the existing ones, I don't understand), you can get OSI's rubber stamp on your license.
Really, the process doesn't look very hard or time-consuming, and at the end, if open-source is a selling point of your software, you can say "see, this standardizing body says that my software really is open source".
If you don't want to bother with the OSI process, well, think whatever you want about your license. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Just please don't confuse Pointy-Haired Bosses by mucking with semantics. Analogy: a modified Linux is still Linux (sort of), but if you care about the community, you'll help keep things clear by not selling Linux-with-intentional-bugs-thrown-in as "Linux".
I'm sure that, to somebody out there, "open source" means "drowning kittens in a bathtub". This is why society agrees on common definitions for words.
Very few people even heard of the term "open source" until Linux was in version 2.0. People like Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds and the folks at Red Hat created the buzz around open source (though RMS really, really doesn't like the term), so let's use the definition that they were working with at the time.
Without the freedom to modify and re-use, there would be no open-source buzz, because there would be no GNU, no Linux, no BSD, no Red Hat, no Debian, no Ubuntu.
Oh, but people could drown kittens with wild abandon and call it whatever they want.
Yeah, seriously. The important thing isn't that the process is fair, it's that everyone knows the process is fair. I don't care how Free a voting machine is, if voters don't have confidence in it, democracy is damaged.
It's not enough for computer experts to say "the system is good"; everyone knows that experts can be biased or bought. Every voter has to be able to look at the process and say, "I trust this". That's why paper ballots rock.
Of course, you Americans would have to stop having dozens of elections and plebicites on the same day. One voter, one ballot, one X means the results can easily be counted by hand.
Offtopic, I know, but "sunbathing coeds"? As in "sunbathing students of both genders" or as in "sunbathing women"? Why do we refer to women like they're anomalies at academic institutions?
At my school, we have something like 60% women... should we call men "co-eds"?
Go ahead, mod me down as offtopic, but this kind of thing irks me.