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Publicly available documentation amounts to 20 to 30 percent of the Java specification, not enough for ECMA to form an alternative standard, said Paolini.
The real question now is: why would anybody use such an underdocumented system?
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Umm, a Swiss bank account shouldn't be trackable back to you.
Driver's licences are different. Cars kill. (Ok, not by themselves.) Just like guns. This is the reason why driver's licences (and gun licences) are needed.
Stealing is/was a capital offence under many "communist" regimes. Back in USSR you could get death penalty for stealing as little as US$2000 of govt's money (but not somebody's private money).
I am far from thinking that O'Reilly will hurt Amazon, or increase its own sales, by not doing their business with Amazon. I just want to inform O'Reilly what I think about this business. It might be profitable, but it is not exactly purely one hundred percent moral. Maybe 99.99%, I don't know. Umm, well, to become 100% moral and honest myself I'd have to quit my job and become a buddhist monk, or something. So I won't send this letter to Tim after all.
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The thing is patented, which means it is fully disclosed to the general public. You can learn how it works; you're just not allowed to implement a similar system.
It is my impression that their system is insecure. If somebody steals your cookie file, nasty things can be done to you.
I have four of them in a Mitsubishi Lancer (that's Dodge Eagle (?) for some of you). Rear ones are crappy, they've died on me twice. Their, dare I say, architecture is just not up to the job. OTOH the UI is ok -- simple, minimalistic, and intuitive to boot.
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How about opensourcing some blueprints too? Modern CAD systems represent objects in a way that is very similar to a special-purpose programming language. So blueprints are software for all intents and purposes.
Now, I didn't mean specifically military applications -- merely dangerous ones. You know, if a nuclear powerplant goes Chernobyl mode because of faulty software, somebody ought to be held accountable. And if I was that person, I'd hesitate to accept submissions from general public, even if I decide to make my software free for all to view and copy. This is not quite OSS development model.
And on a completely unrelated note: I typed this, hit "preview", hit "back" -- and my typing was gone. Bad, bad Slashdot.
11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE PROGRAM IS WITH YOU. SHOULD THE PROGRAM PROVE DEFECTIVE, YOU ASSUME THE COST OF ALL NECESSARY SERVICING, REPAIR OR CORRECTION.
Those pundits are wrong: there is no genre of software that the open-source model will never absorb.
I have a few F16s in my backyard, and I want their control software to be OpenSource(tm)d, 'coz I won't trust Lockheed Martin. They probably use cookies to track my flight patterns! Let's start coding! NetBSD people will port it to every piece of hardware in exsistence, from F117s to RC helicopters.
Actually, the smaller the star, the longer it lives. Very large stars (like those which eventually explode into Supernovae) are very short-lived -- about 100mln to 1bln years. While our Sun is alive for 5bln years already, and expected to live another 5bln. The larger the star, the more intensive its nuclear reactions; hence the phenomenon.
Our Sun is believed to be a second- or third-generation star. That is, it emerged from Supernovae debris, and said Supernovae could in turn emerge from yet older Supernovae debris.
That is why we have such relatively high percentage of trans-Fe elements in our part of the Universe.
To the topic: I'm really disappointed. Omega=1 means heat death, while Omega>1 could mean there will be yet another BigBang after the BigCrunch.
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Let's say I work in BigCorp's office in UK (I don't really), where BigCorp is US based. My computer's hostname is whatever.BigCorp.com (as opposed to whatever.BigCorp.co.uk); it is connected to the BigCorp's headquarters in, say, San Jose, via private comm line; and firewall is in place (so all computers at BigCorp appear to have the same IP address to the outside world). I do Internet browsing (and shopping!) through my work computer (I have my boss's permit to dial up).
Pray tell me, how OnlineGoodies.com can tell myself from a San Jose resident? Is BigCorp supposed to tell them?
Don't say "it's insignificant and small percentage". If/when WTO tariffs are in place, expect larger ISPs to have offices/servers in most countries/toplevel domains, to help their customets avoiding said tariffs using the same scheme.
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ObRant: Why is it that at the hypothetical mixed-background middle class dinner party, the scientists are expected to be literate, but the literati still revel in their innumeracy ?
A great method of killing a dinner party dead: remark casually that "$\int_0^\infty\exp(-x^2)\,dx" = \sqrt{\pi}/2$". Somebody stated that this simple fact has more impact on our life than all works by Shakespeare, Mozart and Leonardo da Vinci combined.
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Latitude lines are not "lines" in spherical geometry. Great circles are. Equator and meridians are exapmples of those. Generally speaking, a great circle is where a plane that goes through the center of the sphere intersects the sphere.
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Nobody in the {free software, open source, *nix in general} world seem to recognize that there are languages that are written right-to-left or bidirectionally. And most software is so deeply based upon left-to-right-writing assumption, it's often very hard to add bidi support afterwards.
My question is: will we have to wait until KDE 3.0 to have true bidi support? KDE 4.0? KDE 2100?
OTOH if there's any remote possibility that bidi is possible to add to 2.x series, I'm more than willing to help.
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You liberate your software; you save yourself from dependency on one vendor. You defeat Microsoft; you have to worry about one less greedy monster that can eat you for breakfast. The "more value for less money" effect is a direct consequence of embracing Linux/Open Source/Free Software philosophy. While IT managers are right about talking money effects, it won't hurt to remind everyone about what causes said effects.
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A session can contain multiple start settings for a single app.
For example, it could contain: "start xemacs editing/etc/passwd on desktop 2, +200+120" and "start xemacs editing/etc/group minimized"
When you start Xemacs, which one should KDE chose?
One that exited most recently.
If you start Xemacs with a commandline argument specifying a file, should KDE ignore it and open the one specified in the session? Or both?
If the user starts Xemacs specifying geometry, should KDE override it? Is there a way to recognize if the geometry is specified or just a default?
This ought to be configurable per application. The most sensible choice for EMACS is probably "apply session settings iff started without any command line arguments".
Better yet, have a menu with a list of recently finished apps, and let the user restart any of them. Oh wait, I gonna patent it! Sheesh!
It's a lot trickier than it looks:-)
Indeed.
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EMACS doesn't know whether it is started by the session manager when next session starts, or by the user. So KFM should do us some favor and apply session settings every time app gets started (only if asked to do so, of course).
My bad about.xsession. Let the user mess with it if he so desires.
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Have theme-specific icons reside under ~/.kde/$THEME/icons. KDE should search ~/.kde/core-icons, then ~/.kde/$THEME/icons, then ~/.kde/icons, then/opt/kde/icons (or whatever).
Now, ~/.kde/core-icons is the place for your icons you don't want to be overriden (probably just symlinks to/opt/kde/icons) and ~/.kde/icons is the place for your icons that are different from the standard icons but you let the theme override them. Both would be empty by default.
Or I'm totally off the tracks here?
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OTOH, it is the documented part that matters, because undocumented features are not usable anyway. Hmmm... I'm lost. Moderate this down (-1, Unintelligible)
And by the way, moderate the parent post up. It is informative.
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The AC above just illustrated a point: Slashdot is a common carrier and not liable for content carried.
Now, moderate my post down.
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Driver's licences are different. Cars kill. (Ok, not by themselves.) Just like guns. This is the reason why driver's licences (and gun licences) are needed.
Moderate this down, for a change.
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Will trade karma points for stuff.
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- The thing is patented, which means it is fully disclosed to the general public. You can learn how it works; you're just not allowed to implement a similar system.
- It is my impression that their system is insecure. If somebody steals your cookie file, nasty things can be done to you.
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I cannot afford boycotting O'Reily (where else can I get books?), but at least I'd like to show my concern.
This is a Negative Karma Magnet® post.
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Now, I didn't mean specifically military applications -- merely dangerous ones. You know, if a nuclear powerplant goes Chernobyl mode because of faulty software, somebody ought to be held accountable. And if I was that person, I'd hesitate to accept submissions from general public, even if I decide to make my software free for all to view and copy. This is not quite OSS development model.
And on a completely unrelated note: I typed this, hit "preview", hit "back" -- and my typing was gone. Bad, bad Slashdot.
Moderate this down, citizen.
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Our Sun is believed to be a second- or third-generation star. That is, it emerged from Supernovae debris, and said Supernovae could in turn emerge from yet older Supernovae debris.
That is why we have such relatively high percentage of trans-Fe elements in our part of the Universe.
To the topic: I'm really disappointed. Omega=1 means heat death, while Omega>1 could mean there will be yet another BigBang after the BigCrunch.
Please moderate this post down for your protection.
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Let's say I work in BigCorp's office in UK (I don't really), where BigCorp is US based. My computer's hostname is whatever.BigCorp.com (as opposed to whatever.BigCorp.co.uk); it is connected to the BigCorp's headquarters in, say, San Jose, via private comm line; and firewall is in place (so all computers at BigCorp appear to have the same IP address to the outside world). I do Internet browsing (and shopping!) through my work computer (I have my boss's permit to dial up).
Pray tell me, how OnlineGoodies.com can tell myself from a San Jose resident? Is BigCorp supposed to tell them?
Don't say "it's insignificant and small percentage". If/when WTO tariffs are in place, expect larger ISPs to have offices/servers in most countries/toplevel domains, to help their customets avoiding said tariffs using the same scheme.
Please moderate this post down for your protection.
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My question is: will we have to wait until KDE 3.0 to have true bidi support? KDE 4.0? KDE 2100?
OTOH if there's any remote possibility that bidi is possible to add to 2.x series, I'm more than willing to help.
FYI: MS and Apple both support bidi. Be probably does too.
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You defeat Microsoft; you have to worry about one less greedy monster that can eat you for breakfast.
The "more value for less money" effect is a direct consequence of embracing Linux/Open Source/Free Software philosophy.
While IT managers are right about talking money effects, it won't hurt to remind everyone about what causes said effects.
Please moderate this post down for your protection.
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Better yet, have a menu with a list of recently finished apps, and let the user restart any of them. Oh wait, I gonna patent it! Sheesh!
Indeed.Please moderate this post down for your protection.
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My bad about .xsession. Let the user mess with it if he so desires.
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Now, ~/.kde/core-icons is the place for your icons you don't want to be overriden (probably just symlinks to /opt/kde/icons) and ~/.kde/icons is the place for your icons that are different from the standard icons but you let the theme override them. Both would be empty by default.
Or I'm totally off the tracks here?
Please moderate this post down for your protection.
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