Hay, I've been on this site since early '99. It's just that handles need to be replaced from time to time. Every account that I've ditched has had the +1 bonus before I ditched it, btw. You get to feeling after awhile like a 'personality' or whatever, so you ditch and replace.
This particular account is less than three days old, I'll grant you. It'll have +1 privledges within a month.
x86 Intel designs are available from hundreds, even thousands of sources. No single company going out of business would mean an end to x86 Intel computers. Completely unlike the single-source trap you find yourself in with Apple hardware.
What the heck were you thinking when you claimed otherwise?
My wife bought at cheap portable CD player at her work this week for $15. It even has a 15 second buffer for that price. If it gets stolen, it's more time to worry about the value of the CD in it than the player.
The days when a portable music player should cost more than $30 are over.
the Harry Potter books, probably the most read book amongst young kids in a long long time,
So many people praise the Harry Potter books as if they're a panacea and have saved another generation from illiteracy.
I feel that book series represents a dangerous 'monoculture' and I don't even think they're that good a series of books. They're far outclassed by Tolkein's books and even CS Lewis' 'Narnia' series.
I find myself around people who said 'kids need to read books, any books are better than none.' I tend to disagree, feeling that children should be exposed to quality books, of wide variety of types. I think the 'children's book' industry, and Scholastica in particular, are obsessed with 'block buster' high volume series. Which are by no means the best books being published, just the most hyped.
I have a niece who is 10 years old and loves the Harry Potter movies. She's functionally illiterate, though, so hasn't read the books. I am certain she's not that unusual a case.
You know, that's a pretty complicated question to answer. However, people lived without 'health care' for centuries and got by pretty well. It's a misnomer to claim that people today won't have health care, of course, they just have to pay for it themselves, instead of having money taxed out of their paycheck that collectively pays for everyone at the company's health care. I've worked at places where I used almost none of the health benefits, but watched as fellow employees squirted out baby after baby. Which I helped pay for, of course.
It's really a shame that these days a medical clinic freaks out when you want to pay cash for your health care. They're totally unprepared for it, and their costs are all finely tuned to get whatever they can out of Insurance Companies.
I go to an auction every Wednesday here where one of the things they sell is pallets of used PCs from educational institutions. Lately they've mostly been HP Pentium II machines, and have been going for about $100-200 a skid, with a dozen or so machines per skid. I've been there and bought pallets of Power Macs (mostly 7200/7500 stuff, some all-in-one systems) for a dollar apiece (nobody buys the Mac stuff).
I benefit from them blowing out that hardware at such low prices, but I also wonder what the hell they are pitching out that hardware for.
You weren't supposed to remember sitting-at-your-desk lectures. You were supposed to be focused on the material and learning it. Which presumably you were, as you don't remember the sitting-at-desk part of those times.
However, you remember 'dropping balls from buildings,' which is peripheral to the 'lesson' presumably being learned at that time, material which could have been presented in a few minutes of a lecture.
The people who put out things like this need to think further about their target audience. People like me have PalmOS 3.0 devices running on 68K processors. The 'suits' who buy a new PalmOS device every year have the new thingies. But they're not the folks who will be interested in something like this.
Well, there's a perception, and some say it's based in scientific fact, that there is no such thing as 'reform' of child abuse sexual offenders. I.e. you know that feeling you get when you look at a nice looking woman? Child sex offenders get that same feeling when they look at a little kid. Are you capable of overcoming that feeling? How do you act on that feeling?
Obviously some people have better impulse control than others. Perhaps what is needed is more like the tattooing in 'Snow Crash' where the dude had 'Poor Impulse Control' tattooed on his forehead. What's certainly NOT needed is an attitude of 'well, we punished him for 5 years, fair enough, let's just set him loose and hope maybe he won't do it again.'
People who bring 'race' into an arguement the way he did are some of the primary racists in our culture.
Besides which, WTF is it with skin color representing 'race.' Brown/black skin, for example is a 'racial characteristic' that can signify a person of many different races.
Your linked story sort of knocks down some of your apparent message. You linked, (in case you hadn't noticed) to a story about somebody murdered by vigilantes. He was the one made into a victim in the story.
The 'pedophile scare' in the U.K. has turned into a vigilante bloodbath. It's effectively a 'but what about the children' rant taken several magnitudes higher.
There is doubtless a lot more genuine abuse happening than most people and communities openly acknowlege. But let's be careful, because there are always demagogues with an agenda behind the hysteria, and it's easy for us all to be taken advantage of by them.
So the choice is, make a settlement for damages, or surrender the entire IP portfolio of the company.
Talk about a rock and a hard place.....
No number of free t-shirts and backslaps from geeks in your trade show booth makes up for the fact that your company is now defunct because your product is on 750 FTP sites worldwide. You can't even afford the rent on the trade show booth any longer.
BSD use has picked up in the embedded market. Embedded BSD gets used all over the place. Hardware vendors selling embedded systems, i.e. single board computers, use a NetBSD port as their reference OS.
Linux is fashionable, and Linux is political. Geeks shy away from that stuff. The vacuum gets filled with gadflies. Voila: zealots galore.
What is 'BSD/OS'? Is that one of those commercial variants of BSD that has now died out?
Most BSD enthusiasts use NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD these days, which are all viable and evolving systems. Not defunct commercial entities.
The 'feature' you speak of in the last pargraph sounds like 'forking' to me. How do these 'competing' projects merge it all together? Surely you're not going to cite the 'tower of babel' that is the big swamp of various Linux 'distributions' as a unified whole. Everything gets reinvented 650 times, and it becomes a nightmare to figure out which of the 650 different/etc configs you are presently mired in.
So that's 'freedom' as in 'the rock out there on the sidewalk is free.' Which is complete and utter nonsense as anybody can pick it up and crunch it into gravel.
Inanimate objects can't be 'free' in the sense of freedom. That's really weird to think in that way.
With the BSD license, a competitor or potential customer can run away with your product, with no obligation to fulfill any sort of quid-pro-quo.
Most assuredly NOPE, Bruce.
With the BSD license I can bundle an embedded OS that is licensed with the BSD license and integrate in anything with it that I want, without distributing one tiny bit of source code for any of it. Every piece of code that I add can be copyrighted by me with my terms for redistribtion, or kept as a trade secret if I like.
You see, by embedding BSD code, there isn't any form of viral 'lever' that digs in and forces obligations on me, as is the case with GPL'd code.
The offer can be presented as a piece of copyrighted text printed on paper. Perhaps with fancy typesetting and an amusing cartoon shaded in gray as a background behind the text. Protected under copyright with text that prohibits any copying or further dissemination of said printed offer.
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Hay, I've been on this site since early '99. It's just that handles need to be replaced from time to time. Every account that I've ditched has had the +1 bonus before I ditched it, btw. You get to feeling after awhile like a 'personality' or whatever, so you ditch and replace.
This particular account is less than three days old, I'll grant you. It'll have +1 privledges within a month.
Actually, I'd probably wheel along an ancient reel-to-reel tape recorder on a dolly if it helped me avoid that kind of woman consistently.
I mean, geez.
especially now that it's backed by someone who actually can produce: IBM.
The irony of this kind of statement and the 'Big Brother' ad campaign that launched the Macintosh isn't lost on some of us.
x86 Intel designs are available from hundreds, even thousands of sources. No single company going out of business would mean an end to x86 Intel computers. Completely unlike the single-source trap you find yourself in with Apple hardware.
What the heck were you thinking when you claimed otherwise?
My wife bought at cheap portable CD player at her work this week for $15. It even has a 15 second buffer for that price. If it gets stolen, it's more time to worry about the value of the CD in it than the player.
The days when a portable music player should cost more than $30 are over.
the Harry Potter books, probably the most read book amongst young kids in a long long time,
So many people praise the Harry Potter books as if they're a panacea and have saved another generation from illiteracy.
I feel that book series represents a dangerous 'monoculture' and I don't even think they're that good a series of books. They're far outclassed by Tolkein's books and even CS Lewis' 'Narnia' series.
I find myself around people who said 'kids need to read books, any books are better than none.' I tend to disagree, feeling that children should be exposed to quality books, of wide variety of types. I think the 'children's book' industry, and Scholastica in particular, are obsessed with 'block buster' high volume series. Which are by no means the best books being published, just the most hyped.
I have a niece who is 10 years old and loves the Harry Potter movies. She's functionally illiterate, though, so hasn't read the books. I am certain she's not that unusual a case.
You know, that's a pretty complicated question to answer. However, people lived without 'health care' for centuries and got by pretty well. It's a misnomer to claim that people today won't have health care, of course, they just have to pay for it themselves, instead of having money taxed out of their paycheck that collectively pays for everyone at the company's health care. I've worked at places where I used almost none of the health benefits, but watched as fellow employees squirted out baby after baby. Which I helped pay for, of course.
It's really a shame that these days a medical clinic freaks out when you want to pay cash for your health care. They're totally unprepared for it, and their costs are all finely tuned to get whatever they can out of Insurance Companies.
I go to an auction every Wednesday here where one of the things they sell is pallets of used PCs from educational institutions. Lately they've mostly been HP Pentium II machines, and have been going for about $100-200 a skid, with a dozen or so machines per skid. I've been there and bought pallets of Power Macs (mostly 7200/7500 stuff, some all-in-one systems) for a dollar apiece (nobody buys the Mac stuff).
I benefit from them blowing out that hardware at such low prices, but I also wonder what the hell they are pitching out that hardware for.
SLS was the first distro.
Yggdrasil was the first Linux vendor to have a commercial CD-ROM distribution. Fall of '93.
There's an InfoMagic 'UNIX' CD that had a kernal 0.99.10 on it from July of '93.
Some of us were there.
That means falling into the Windows CE trap, of big fast power-sucking hardware designs.
PalmOS 3 and earlier devices have a focused design and scope of performance. And the user can almost forget about the battery between changes.
Oh yeah.
Because having been on Slashdot since it was a chummy little group means something in the larger scope of things.
I'd love to have a kind of computer 450 of which cost just short of 1M$ -- that would be almost 2K$/computer.
They're probably Macintoshes. Apple probably lobbied the school district vigorously.
You weren't supposed to remember sitting-at-your-desk lectures. You were supposed to be focused on the material and learning it. Which presumably you were, as you don't remember the sitting-at-desk part of those times.
However, you remember 'dropping balls from buildings,' which is peripheral to the 'lesson' presumably being learned at that time, material which could have been presented in a few minutes of a lecture.
The people who put out things like this need to think further about their target audience. People like me have PalmOS 3.0 devices running on 68K processors. The 'suits' who buy a new PalmOS device every year have the new thingies. But they're not the folks who will be interested in something like this.
Oh well.
Well, there's a perception, and some say it's based in scientific fact, that there is no such thing as 'reform' of child abuse sexual offenders. I.e. you know that feeling you get when you look at a nice looking woman? Child sex offenders get that same feeling when they look at a little kid. Are you capable of overcoming that feeling? How do you act on that feeling?
Obviously some people have better impulse control than others. Perhaps what is needed is more like the tattooing in 'Snow Crash' where the dude had 'Poor Impulse Control' tattooed on his forehead. What's certainly NOT needed is an attitude of 'well, we punished him for 5 years, fair enough, let's just set him loose and hope maybe he won't do it again.'
He's just a common ordinary racist.
People who bring 'race' into an arguement the way he did are some of the primary racists in our culture.
Besides which, WTF is it with skin color representing 'race.' Brown/black skin, for example is a 'racial characteristic' that can signify a person of many different races.
Your linked story sort of knocks down some of your apparent message. You linked, (in case you hadn't noticed) to a story about somebody murdered by vigilantes. He was the one made into a victim in the story.
The 'pedophile scare' in the U.K. has turned into a vigilante bloodbath. It's effectively a 'but what about the children' rant taken several magnitudes higher.
There is doubtless a lot more genuine abuse happening than most people and communities openly acknowlege. But let's be careful, because there are always demagogues with an agenda behind the hysteria, and it's easy for us all to be taken advantage of by them.
Hence the complete failure of simple coaster-brake bicycle designs on the market.
But this is a discussion about Embedded Devices.
The starting point is usually not a bare body of code, but rather augmenting an existing OS for use in an embedded device.
And the BSD OS Code Base is better for embedded work than a GPL'd OS code base.
The work's all done, on the OS level. Write your application layer code, screw down the lid, and sell product.
So the choice is, make a settlement for damages, or surrender the entire IP portfolio of the company.
Talk about a rock and a hard place.....
No number of free t-shirts and backslaps from geeks in your trade show booth makes up for the fact that your company is now defunct because your product is on 750 FTP sites worldwide. You can't even afford the rent on the trade show booth any longer.
BSD use has picked up in the embedded market. Embedded BSD gets used all over the place. Hardware vendors selling embedded systems, i.e. single board computers, use a NetBSD port as their reference OS.
Linux is fashionable, and Linux is political. Geeks shy away from that stuff. The vacuum gets filled with gadflies. Voila: zealots galore.
What is 'BSD/OS'? Is that one of those commercial variants of BSD that has now died out?
/etc configs you are presently mired in.
Most BSD enthusiasts use NetBSD, FreeBSD, or OpenBSD these days, which are all viable and evolving systems. Not defunct commercial entities.
The 'feature' you speak of in the last pargraph sounds like 'forking' to me. How do these 'competing' projects merge it all together? Surely you're not going to cite the 'tower of babel' that is the big swamp of various Linux 'distributions' as a unified whole. Everything gets reinvented 650 times, and it becomes a nightmare to figure out which of the 650 different
So that's 'freedom' as in 'the rock out there on the sidewalk is free.' Which is complete and utter nonsense as anybody can pick it up and crunch it into gravel.
Inanimate objects can't be 'free' in the sense of freedom. That's really weird to think in that way.
With the BSD license, a competitor or potential customer can run away with your product, with no obligation to fulfill any sort of quid-pro-quo.
Most assuredly NOPE, Bruce.
With the BSD license I can bundle an embedded OS that is licensed with the BSD license and integrate in anything with it that I want, without distributing one tiny bit of source code for any of it. Every piece of code that I add can be copyrighted by me with my terms for redistribtion, or kept as a trade secret if I like.
You see, by embedding BSD code, there isn't any form of viral 'lever' that digs in and forces obligations on me, as is the case with GPL'd code.
The offer can be presented as a piece of copyrighted text printed on paper. Perhaps with fancy typesetting and an amusing cartoon shaded in gray as a background behind the text. Protected under copyright with text that prohibits any copying or further dissemination of said printed offer.