I don't think [being chief software architect of Windows] is something to be particularly proud of, and I don't think it is necessarily true. But if [Gates] wants the job description, hell, I don't think anybody would try to wrangle it away from him. I don't think Gates can lay claim to [lead programmer].
This is almost as good as saying Darl is on crack. Linus, as the accomplished veteran of alt.fan.warlords, apparently still knows phony hubris when he sees it.
While fans of the dead Casey Donovan might be upset, this seems to be a legitimate thing bigpond to do.
I firmly agree. Not to be too rigid, but I've taken a long, hard look at this and come to the conclusion that the redirection really is ok.
Even though the newspaper blew it with the bad URL in their spread, I think it was fine for BigPond to ramrod this solution. I'm sure it makes all their partners upset, but they had to suck it up, go for the glory, hole up in their bunkers and make the change.
I just wish you wouldn't have put all those double entendres in your post. Really, that was almost offensive.
Quick somebody at Mozilla.org patent tabbed browsing! I know tabs were in Hypercard in 1940 or so, but they didn't use it for browsing the web and USPTO doesn't look at the real world, just what's been patented.
There is also a great deal of work to be done to allow the large number of stakeholders...
My point is merely that that doesn't necessarily imply the kind of open process we see with Linux, Mozilla, Groklaw, et al. I don't know what level of openness they'll allow, but my guess is they'll make a draft, ask for comments, make changes and repeat or release if no one complains.
That'll probably be ok, and I'd be hard pressed to prove it isn't optimal, having read their earlier work.
According to TFA, GPL 3 will be authored by Eben Moglen and RMS.
That's all fine and everything, since the current GPL got to us that way.
I will be shocked and dismayed if they don't open up the process, though. The GPL is more fundamental to FOSS than any other document, and I'd hate to see it developed in a cathedral.
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But how does this science help mankind? Does it improve agriculture? Does it help provide things people need? Does it help the environment? Does it help people get along better?
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Eventually, we'll need thread for nanosurgical sutures.
Farmers everywhere would appreciate weatherproof, pest-proof grain bins that breathe, but don't ever explode.
If you can't get along with someone when you're both in bullet-proof underwear, you each deserve what you get. (Not sure I believe that, but it's worth thinking about anyway)
Thin, strong twine could make for improved saws. A razor-thin ultrastrong wire with handles or a bow could slice through anything from a steel bar to a loaf of bread. The trick will be figuring out to make a band-saw shaped one.
Then again, consider how easy a thread of this stuff would be to smuggle into prison.
Sorry, this is a government project. Every attempt to decrease costs results in their doubling. You'll have to adjust your figures somewhat, but in the end it shouldn't be significant (as governments caluculate things).
Since it's a government project, only the highest quality will be acceptable. These jobs must be outsourced to the People's Rebublic of China, where quality is... more easily controlled.
In response, the Germany will attack Poland and the French will surrender to Belgium.
In a post with the subject "Arbitrary bullshit", you say you don't want BA's telling PhD's what to do, that "It's asinine in the extreme. They are unqualified to decide." And then the irony; you say:
Set the emotions aside.
Take your own advice.
Your post also reveals that you hold a common misconception of ethics. Ethics are what people turn to when the law and morality fail. They are rules for behavior that don't label things "right" and "wrong".
Medical doctors have to decide which patient to try to save. No law could be written to effectively handle all situations, and morality is of no help. Doctors have to work in prisons, on the battlefield, and with patients who tell them all kinds of things. Ethical practice helps answer the questions. First, do no harm. Help everybody you can. First come first serve (but Stop the Bleeding, Start the Breathing, Protect the Wound, Treat for Shock). And so on.
Lawyers have to operate outside of the law, also. As with MD's, no law could be crafted to handle every situation, and morality could keep someone from getting a fair trial. If a lawyer relied on morality, he'd set himself up as judge and jury. Ethics tell the lawywer how to behave, but not what's right and wrong. Ethics just aid the legal process, they don't form a basis for law the way morality does.
The result of your misconception is that you think one guy with a BA in Ethics is designing the rules for everyone in the field. No way. Ethical rules develop over time, like a best practices list.
Suppose you have a set of say, 30 or so clocks, all in tight communication with one another. They all keep the time happily, checking every once in a while what the other clocks think about things.
If one of them gets out of range, it resets itself to match the others.
Do this with a computer that has barely 5,000 primitive integrated circuits, weighs 30 kg and costs over $150,000. In order to store your software, the computer doesn't have a disk drive, only 74 kilobytes of memory that has been literally hard-wired, and all of 4 Kb of something that is sort of like RAM.
NASA explains it a little better, noting that the 74KB is actually 37KW, using 16-bit words:
Hardware
The guidance computer is a general-purpose digital machine with a basic word length, in parallel operations, of 15 bits with an added bit for parity checks. The instruction code includes subroutines for double and triple operations. Memory cycle time is 11.7 microseconds with a single addition time of 23.4 microseconds. The 'core rope', used for the fixed memory, has a capacity of about 36,864 words with an erasable memory (of ferrite core planes) of 2,048 words. The processor is formed from integrated circuits (ICs). The total computer weight is 29.5 kg. The fixed memory contains programmes, routines, constants, star and landmark co-ordinates and other pertinent data. The erasable memory acts as an intermediate store for results of computations, auxiliary programme information, and variable data supplied by the G&N and other systems of the spacecraft.
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This is almost as good as saying Darl is on crack. Linus, as the accomplished veteran of alt.fan.warlords, apparently still knows phony hubris when he sees it.
[Linus toadie mode: off]I was just agreeing with the poster. What did you think I meant?
See the TV Tome writeup. I'd never heard of it before TFSS, so I can't say anything about TV Tome's accuracy.
Less filling!
But you'll still be stuck in engineering while a guy with a positronic brain gets all the action.
I firmly agree. Not to be too rigid, but I've taken a long, hard look at this and come to the conclusion that the redirection really is ok.
Even though the newspaper blew it with the bad URL in their spread, I think it was fine for BigPond to ramrod this solution. I'm sure it makes all their partners upset, but they had to suck it up, go for the glory, hole up in their bunkers and make the change.
I just wish you wouldn't have put all those double entendres in your post. Really, that was almost offensive.
IE users have no desire for tabs.
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There will be patent issues with Linux.
Microsoft is about innovation.
There will be patent issues with Mozilla.
Microsoft is about innovation.
There will be patent
That's it, you're getting sleepy, very sleepy...
Quick somebody at Mozilla.org patent tabbed browsing! I know tabs were in Hypercard in 1940 or so, but they didn't use it for browsing the web and USPTO doesn't look at the real world, just what's been patented.
My point is merely that that doesn't necessarily imply the kind of open process we see with Linux, Mozilla, Groklaw, et al. I don't know what level of openness they'll allow, but my guess is they'll make a draft, ask for comments, make changes and repeat or release if no one complains.
That'll probably be ok, and I'd be hard pressed to prove it isn't optimal, having read their earlier work.
According to TFA, GPL 3 will be authored by Eben Moglen and RMS.
That's all fine and everything, since the current GPL got to us that way.
I will be shocked and dismayed if they don't open up the process, though. The GPL is more fundamental to FOSS than any other document, and I'd hate to see it developed in a cathedral.
They'll surely do it as an open collaboration.
Eventually, we'll need thread for nanosurgical sutures.
Farmers everywhere would appreciate weatherproof, pest-proof grain bins that breathe, but don't ever explode.
If you can't get along with someone when you're both in bullet-proof underwear, you each deserve what you get. (Not sure I believe that, but it's worth thinking about anyway)
Thin, strong twine could make for improved saws. A razor-thin ultrastrong wire with handles or a bow could slice through anything from a steel bar to a loaf of bread. The trick will be figuring out to make a band-saw shaped one.
Then again, consider how easy a thread of this stuff would be to smuggle into prison.
I hope it comes with a grounding strap.
I wonder if this would be a good material for microsurgical sutures.
And now, we can construct the world's smallest violin for Ron Artest.
Sorry, this is a government project. Every attempt to decrease costs results in their doubling. You'll have to adjust your figures somewhat, but in the end it shouldn't be significant (as governments caluculate things).
... more easily controlled.
Since it's a government project, only the highest quality will be acceptable. These jobs must be outsourced to the People's Rebublic of China, where quality is
In response, the Germany will attack Poland and the French will surrender to Belgium.
The point was that I'd be happier with the transaction: should I buy a tangible asset or a consumable one? I'd rather have the tangible asset.
>swap good pack for POS
I think you'd see some kind of subscription or other plan develop, something like video rental places use.
Sorry it was so disturbing. I was only going for mildly amusing, not utterly revolting.
Some of those were hard just to list.
If my calling plan is reasonable, I don't care about VoIP.
In a post with the subject "Arbitrary bullshit", you say you don't want BA's telling PhD's what to do, that "It's asinine in the extreme. They are unqualified to decide." And then the irony; you say:
Take your own advice.
Your post also reveals that you hold a common misconception of ethics. Ethics are what people turn to when the law and morality fail. They are rules for behavior that don't label things "right" and "wrong".
Medical doctors have to decide which patient to try to save. No law could be written to effectively handle all situations, and morality is of no help. Doctors have to work in prisons, on the battlefield, and with patients who tell them all kinds of things. Ethical practice helps answer the questions. First, do no harm. Help everybody you can. First come first serve (but Stop the Bleeding, Start the Breathing, Protect the Wound, Treat for Shock). And so on.
Lawyers have to operate outside of the law, also. As with MD's, no law could be crafted to handle every situation, and morality could keep someone from getting a fair trial. If a lawyer relied on morality, he'd set himself up as judge and jury. Ethics tell the lawywer how to behave, but not what's right and wrong. Ethics just aid the legal process, they don't form a basis for law the way morality does.
The result of your misconception is that you think one guy with a BA in Ethics is designing the rules for everyone in the field. No way. Ethical rules develop over time, like a best practices list.
I'd write more, but I'm tired.
No, not the old joke.
Suppose you have a set of say, 30 or so clocks, all in tight communication with one another. They all keep the time happily, checking every once in a while what the other clocks think about things.
If one of them gets out of range, it resets itself to match the others.
How accurate would that be?
being a single guy and worrying about being led astray by beer goggles.
In the future they'll have to worry about getting drunk and waking up with a real dog. Well, half.
Ruff!
..you happen to sit next to one of these guys?
Does that mean they're going back to BSD? Oh, I see: Motorola hardware.
How about solving the chick problem! We really could use some help on that one.
Only if you have a small, envious mind. I'll be NASA tested for that, too. Some pluses come to mind:
From abc.net.au:
NASA explains it a little better, noting that the 74KB is actually 37KW, using 16-bit words:
Hardware
The guidance computer is a general-purpose digital machine with a basic word length, in parallel operations, of 15 bits with an added bit for parity checks. The instruction code includes subroutines for double and triple operations. Memory cycle time is 11.7 microseconds with a single addition time of 23.4 microseconds. The 'core rope', used for the fixed memory, has a capacity of about 36,864 words with an erasable memory (of ferrite core planes) of 2,048 words. The processor is formed from integrated circuits (ICs). The total computer weight is 29.5 kg. The fixed memory contains programmes, routines, constants, star and landmark co-ordinates and other pertinent data. The erasable memory acts as an intermediate store for results of computations, auxiliary programme information, and variable data supplied by the G&N and other systems of the spacecraft.
But you can't prove it!
I hate wasting K on redundant slashisms, but there it is.