Use some variant of the GPL, or at least something that's copyleft. Use the Apache license if you just can't use GPL for some insurmountable reason. There are no other licenses.
What's wrong with Rob Pike? No snark, just curious.
Well, there's no way to sugar-coat it. For a long time, Rob Pike didn't understand that someday non-geeky people outside of Bell Labs might be interested in using UNIX and things like the BLIT, and the result has been that he designed systems that are, for lack of better words, idiosyncratic and quirky. He takes interesting ideas and inadvertently wraps them in unmarketable UIs. He is intolerant of imperfection, including imperfect users, which includes anyone who uses Windows, X11, the mac, or still uses UNIX.
Fortunately, when paired with Kernighan or a similar pragmatist, things balance out nicely.
A blit sounds nearly as capable as a BBN Bitgraph, which in 1982 had a 68000, a bunch of RAM, a mouse, a portrait display (I don't remember the resolution), bitmapped graphics and a windowing system. Nostalgia runs so deep for the BitGraph that it's still supported by gnuplot, dvi drivers, ghostview...
Not that many people ever got a chance to use a blit, but bitgraphs were workhorses of their day. It was hard to get some people to trade them in for Sun 3's.
Plus, Rob Pike didn't have anything to do with it.
I can imagine how this is going to play out when the IT folks at my company find out about this. They'll panic, revoke all the SecureID cards, and then no more working from home until something much more complicated, unreliable, and probably requiring Windows7 is found to replace it.
People with common sense don't get so far into such a scam without smelling a rat... But people who don't have at least some common sense don't have $200K just sitting around.
This poor guy must have been terribly lonely, and the perps played him like a harp. Very sad.
They're accused of screen scraping, but the evidence is coincidental at best.
They do a search on a misspelled search term, and note that Bing corrects the search term in the same way as Google.
It's also the same correction done by Wikipedia, and Teoma, and Ask.com.
So, why doesn't Google mention all of these other sites? Maybe because Bing is actually nibbling at their heels, and the other sites are not?
... then I don't know what is. This is as close to election rigging as you can get without actually stuffing the ballot box.
Fortunately, the delegates to the convention are not (always) required to vote for the candidate who garners the most votes in their primaries. They don't have to take the candidates that the other party foists upon them. They can use their own judgment, and hopefully they will.
The answer to "Why teach programming with BASIC?" depends on which language called BASIC you mean, and the answers vary from "You don't know better" to "You want to teach them how to write quick one-off VBA macros, not to program" to "You passionately hate your students."
Assuming that you want to teach them to program, use a language that incorporates some modern language features and gives them room to grow, but has enough in terms of training wheels that they aren't distracted or frustrated by unnecessary trivia. Python, Ruby, maybe C#.
I can hardly read the icon text on my full-sized notebook at full resolution; the default font is unusable, and the white-on-beige color scheme just makes it worse. The toolbar icons are too small for me to reliably press just one, and my fingers, although pudgy, are not unusually so.
The Ubuntu UI is very nice, but it's designed around the assumption of a big screen and a precise pointing device. The icons are too small, and the menus too long and deep to be navigated in a small screen with a touchscreen, from what I can guess.
It's not like Congress hasn't been busy recently, and presumably NASA and its subcontractors aren't just taking the money and throwing it in a shredder. It takes time and money to properly mothball a project of that size, and in the meanwhile maybe they can make a little progress toward their goals.
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Use some variant of the GPL, or at least something that's copyleft. Use the Apache license if you just can't use GPL for some insurmountable reason. There are no other licenses.
Pretty much what one would expect from FSF.
... your health insurance company might be interested in your sodium intake.
s/be interested in/change your premium based on/
FTFY.
Please accept this comment in lieu of mod points, which I do not have at the moment.
fprintf("Regret: %f\n",test_error);
fprintf(stdout, "Regret: %d\n", test_error);
FTFY
Ironic, given the crap he has produced.
Everybody poops, you know.
What's wrong with Rob Pike? No snark, just curious.
Well, there's no way to sugar-coat it. For a long time, Rob Pike didn't understand that someday non-geeky people outside of Bell Labs might be interested in using UNIX and things like the BLIT, and the result has been that he designed systems that are, for lack of better words, idiosyncratic and quirky. He takes interesting ideas and inadvertently wraps them in unmarketable UIs. He is intolerant of imperfection, including imperfect users, which includes anyone who uses Windows, X11, the mac, or still uses UNIX.
Fortunately, when paired with Kernighan or a similar pragmatist, things balance out nicely.
A blit sounds nearly as capable as a BBN Bitgraph, which in 1982 had a 68000, a bunch of RAM, a mouse, a portrait display (I don't remember the resolution), bitmapped graphics and a windowing system. Nostalgia runs so deep for the BitGraph that it's still supported by gnuplot, dvi drivers, ghostview...
Not that many people ever got a chance to use a blit, but bitgraphs were workhorses of their day. It was hard to get some people to trade them in for Sun 3's.
Plus, Rob Pike didn't have anything to do with it.
Congratulations, pedantic bore, you were quoted in this article! :)
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/222559/after_rsa_breach_are_securid_tokens_in_jeopardy.html
Yow!
I better bookmark this. Annual performance reviews are coming up in a few months!
I can imagine how this is going to play out when the IT folks at my company find out about this. They'll panic, revoke all the SecureID cards, and then no more working from home until something much more complicated, unreliable, and probably requiring Windows7 is found to replace it.
Crap!
He probably borrowed the money against his house or something.
Good point.
To make matters even uglier, he's probably going to have some problems if he ever tries to borrow a significant amount of money again...
I really hope her name wasn't "Francesa A. Sample"...
People with common sense don't get so far into such a scam without smelling a rat... But people who don't have at least some common sense don't have $200K just sitting around. This poor guy must have been terribly lonely, and the perps played him like a harp. Very sad.
They're accused of screen scraping, but the evidence is coincidental at best. They do a search on a misspelled search term, and note that Bing corrects the search term in the same way as Google. It's also the same correction done by Wikipedia, and Teoma, and Ask.com. So, why doesn't Google mention all of these other sites? Maybe because Bing is actually nibbling at their heels, and the other sites are not?
... I can't remember a time when Slashdot didn't contain it's fair share of immature prattle, tremendously uncreative insults, or pedantry.
Ouch!
Come on people, it's straight, not strait.
I thought "don't ask, don't tell" was still in effect until all the implementation details get worked out.
Well, if it didn't, then would we still be talking about it, forty-five years later?
eop
Fortunately, the delegates to the convention are not (always) required to vote for the candidate who garners the most votes in their primaries. They don't have to take the candidates that the other party foists upon them. They can use their own judgment, and hopefully they will.
The answer to "Why teach programming with BASIC?" depends on which language called BASIC you mean, and the answers vary from "You don't know better" to "You want to teach them how to write quick one-off VBA macros, not to program" to "You passionately hate your students."
Assuming that you want to teach them to program, use a language that incorporates some modern language features and gives them room to grow, but has enough in terms of training wheels that they aren't distracted or frustrated by unnecessary trivia. Python, Ruby, maybe C#.
And here some up to date screenshots
This is a good example, I guess, of how two people can look at the same thing and see two different things.
Consider this screen from that page: http://s0n1c2122.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/ubuntu_netbook_10-10.png
I can hardly read the icon text on my full-sized notebook at full resolution; the default font is unusable, and the white-on-beige color scheme just makes it worse. The toolbar icons are too small for me to reliably press just one, and my fingers, although pudgy, are not unusually so.
""In the beginning, the language of the World Wide Web was English.
Times change though, and the United States' military's gift to civilization"
The WWW was not US's military gift to civilisation. The internet =/= WWW. The author appears to use them interchangeably..
Yes, that's true. The internet >> WWW.
And, on behalf of the US military, you're welcome.
but porn too. Seems like porn is now dominated by chinks and their hairy bushes.
Citation needed.
The Ubuntu UI is very nice, but it's designed around the assumption of a big screen and a precise pointing device. The icons are too small, and the menus too long and deep to be navigated in a small screen with a touchscreen, from what I can guess.
It's not like Congress hasn't been busy recently, and presumably NASA and its subcontractors aren't just taking the money and throwing it in a shredder. It takes time and money to properly mothball a project of that size, and in the meanwhile maybe they can make a little progress toward their goals.
I wish I could mod you up.