Suppose you have written a good old FORTRAN program. You ask a Java programmer if you can link it with a LISP program.
Eh? What kind of sense is that! Well, none. And that's what RMS is pointing out here. This guy is writing a program using the LGPL, a deprecated part of Free Software, and asks RMS if he can use it in an Open Source manner with closed source code. RMS very politely says that he is a Free Software expert and cannot speak for Open Software. Yet this guy persists in playing as dumb as dirt.
This entire article could have been completely avoided if Jorrit had paid attention to the very first response.
Security First Network Bank works fine for me and I disable Java and Javascript. Images are only partially necessary; they have an image map toolbar once you log in. My two gripes have to do with their unnecessary 6 month password aging scheme and lack of progress feedback on snail mail deposits. But they are good otherwise. Get cash from gracery stores, because ATMs cost money after the first 5 (?) per month. Deposits have to be automatic deoposit or snail mail.
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But then D:C would sue for using their patent!
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What jobs these geniuses have! Imagine having a well paying job pretending to do an impossible job and knowing all the time that your paymasters are stupid enough to believe not only in the job itself but in what you claim to be doing.
The Swedish site skips stage 5, only mentioning in passing how tricky it was, and Singh calls it the infamous stage 5. What's going on here? Have I missed something obvious?
In theory I believe NT separates the architecture specific stuff into HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer?) and should be easier to port. (I don't use NT, I never have, this is just from what I have read).
But the real trick is stuff that creeps in, especially sign extending and byte ordering. It's real easy to assume chars are always signed or unsigned, what MAXINT is, and byte order. No matter how hard you try, these assumptions creep into the code. With a monster like NT 2000, any port is going to be a real nightmare. Either you review every line of code with regards to sign extending and byte ordering, or you swat bugs as they show up. Neither is foolproof. Both are a real pain in the posterior.
Linux has been thru this phase, so it gets easier with additional platforms.
He says the editor may have just emptied the disk file prior to writing the new data. If it crashed in between, the journalled data would have been correctly empty. Nothing any journal file system can do about that, unless it also includes version control in some form.
Patents are supposed to be novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art.
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How does this affect the Hubble Constant?
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I follow astronomy just enough to know that the accepted Hubble constant range has been narrowing from 50-100 down to, say, 70-80. I had assumed that parallax measurements were similarly close, so this surprises me. How can measurements off by 39% yield Hubble constants closer than that? Or have I been misunderstanding all this time:-)
Or in other words, what is wrong with more choices? Someone forcing you to use them? Someone confiscating the tools you already have?
You sound like yet another "I am the expert, do it my way, and no other."
Especially considering the loudest yell against M$ is that they take away choices, and Linux restores them, this is really hypocritical. And add another shot of hyprocisy for this choice from Borland being a burr under M$'s saddle, which would seem to make them natural partners in crime with the Linux zealots who scream against M$ being the anti-choice devil.
Rushing into a Manhattan-style project, funded at the DoD level, is a waste. Technology now is not good enough to get real self-sustaining colonies going, nor is it even good enough for practical exploration. What's worse, any planning now will be irrelevant and obsolete when needed.
It's like planning shopping malls and drive-in movies when all you have is steam engines and the immediate goal is getting a transcontinental railroad line. Not only are the malls and movies too far down the line, steam trains can't use them. It's the wrong technology, and no one could imagine the right technology.
On the scale of asteriods striking the earth, fifty or a hundred years is insignificant. Much better to get the launch cost low and the self sustaining technologies going in an intelligent manner rather than rushing forward. Anything rushed now will be obsolete when everything comes together, and it will have been bought at enormous cost better spent elsewhere.
Artemis dreams of going back to the moon permanently, there are manned Mars mission everywhere, and none of them will result in a sustainable self-sufficient colony, and are so primitive that any R&D coming out of them will be obsolete in a few years. It is simply not possible to imagine what tech will be available in fifty or a hundred years. Any planning now will be irrelevant when needed.
If the GPL is so bad, and the BSD license is the best, then why had BSD forked so often while Linux hasn't? Do you think this might possibly be why Linux has gotten so much press coverage compared to BSD? And do you think this might be why BSD fanatics are so snobbish?
Only a Mac fanatic would ignore the working guts in favor of the cosmetic appearance. I have no knowledge of the working guts of any MacOS. It could be a beautiful design for all I know. But his whole approach is based on the GUI. That's like saying a spartan sports car is crap because it hasn't got fine Corinthian leather like his bloat barge rolling down the freeway. I know which one I'd take.
The point of publicity is not to sway the courts, they are supposed to be above all that.
The point is to ensure the govt can't do things in secret, like this vary case. Look at the UK's new Regulation of Investigatory Powers (?) law -- if the govt demands your secret keys, you can be thrown in jail just for telling anyone about it.
The danger isn't a lynch mob. The lynchers can always be brought to justice. The danger is a govt so infatuated with itself that it throws people in jail and forbids the press from reporting it. How the hell is family or friends or anyone supposed to stand up to a repressive govt when you can't tell anyone?
Someone once said you don't need the first amendment to protect nice guys or nice speech. As despicable as these guys are, if we are to ban them because they "incite" murder, then banning DeCSS, reverse engineering, and everything else which "incites" law breaking is the next step.
These guys are disgusting. It is also disgusting the number of laws which ban thoughts and speech. Politically incorrect speech is grounds for expulsion from some colleges and most jobs. Freedom of speech is not adjustable. Either speech is free or it is not.
Anyone who had been to the eBay link would see that's how it's written there. Of course, anyone that smart prolly wouldn't post such silly questions here.
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The original link was to the general AP site, so as soon as I submit that rebuke, it gets fixed. Well me mudder and me fadder.....
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Something about ...double check those URLs and HTML tags I think...
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Suppose you have written a good old FORTRAN program. You ask a Java programmer if you can link it with a LISP program.
Eh? What kind of sense is that! Well, none. And that's what RMS is pointing out here. This guy is writing a program using the LGPL, a deprecated part of Free Software, and asks RMS if he can use it in an Open Source manner with closed source code. RMS very politely says that he is a Free Software expert and cannot speak for Open Software. Yet this guy persists in playing as dumb as dirt.
This entire article could have been completely avoided if Jorrit had paid attention to the very first response.
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Why is it childish to say he won't give advice on a belief system he doesn't follow?
Would anyone think it childish if a Democrat refused to give advice from a Republican point of view?
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Security First Network Bank works fine for me and I disable Java and Javascript. Images are only partially necessary; they have an image map toolbar once you log in. My two gripes have to do with their unnecessary 6 month password aging scheme and lack of progress feedback on snail mail deposits. But they are good otherwise. Get cash from gracery stores, because ATMs cost money after the first 5 (?) per month. Deposits have to be automatic deoposit or snail mail.
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Wouldn't that be a shame...
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What jobs these geniuses have! Imagine having a well paying job pretending to do an impossible job and knowing all the time that your paymasters are stupid enough to believe not only in the job itself but in what you claim to be doing.
Yeh, it sucks. All the way to the bank.
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How very odd. I'll have to send someone email...
Thanks for the PDF suggestion.
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The Swedish site skips stage 5, only mentioning in passing how tricky it was, and Singh calls it the infamous stage 5. What's going on here? Have I missed something obvious?
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You said
So distributing handwritten notes(not teacher's notes!) should be okay
but the clause you quoted covers that:
This prohibition applies to a recording made in any medium, including, but not necessarily limited to, handwritten or typewritten class notes.
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In theory I believe NT separates the architecture specific stuff into HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer?) and should be easier to port. (I don't use NT, I never have, this is just from what I have read).
But the real trick is stuff that creeps in, especially sign extending and byte ordering. It's real easy to assume chars are always signed or unsigned, what MAXINT is, and byte order. No matter how hard you try, these assumptions creep into the code. With a monster like NT 2000, any port is going to be a real nightmare. Either you review every line of code with regards to sign extending and byte ordering, or you swat bugs as they show up. Neither is foolproof. Both are a real pain in the posterior.
Linux has been thru this phase, so it gets easier with additional platforms.
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He says the editor may have just emptied the disk file prior to writing the new data. If it crashed in between, the journalled data would have been correctly empty. Nothing any journal file system can do about that, unless it also includes version control in some form.
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Like you said -- read the article on the fungus. It was mutating and is no longer just terrestrial.
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Patents are supposed to be novel and not obvious to those skilled in the art.
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I follow astronomy just enough to know that the accepted Hubble constant range has been narrowing from 50-100 down to, say, 70-80. I had assumed that parallax measurements were similarly close, so this surprises me. How can measurements off by 39% yield Hubble constants closer than that? Or have I been misunderstanding all this time :-)
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Or in other words, what is wrong with more choices? Someone forcing you to use them? Someone confiscating the tools you already have?
You sound like yet another "I am the expert, do it my way, and no other."
Especially considering the loudest yell against M$ is that they take away choices, and Linux restores them, this is really hypocritical. And add another shot of hyprocisy for this choice from Borland being a burr under M$'s saddle, which would seem to make them natural partners in crime with the Linux zealots who scream against M$ being the anti-choice devil.
Gaaakkk.
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Rushing into a Manhattan-style project, funded at the DoD level, is a waste. Technology now is not good enough to get real self-sustaining colonies going, nor is it even good enough for practical exploration. What's worse, any planning now will be irrelevant and obsolete when needed.
It's like planning shopping malls and drive-in movies when all you have is steam engines and the immediate goal is getting a transcontinental railroad line. Not only are the malls and movies too far down the line, steam trains can't use them. It's the wrong technology, and no one could imagine the right technology.
On the scale of asteriods striking the earth, fifty or a hundred years is insignificant. Much better to get the launch cost low and the self sustaining technologies going in an intelligent manner rather than rushing forward. Anything rushed now will be obsolete when everything comes together, and it will have been bought at enormous cost better spent elsewhere.
Artemis dreams of going back to the moon permanently, there are manned Mars mission everywhere, and none of them will result in a sustainable self-sufficient colony, and are so primitive that any R&D coming out of them will be obsolete in a few years. It is simply not possible to imagine what tech will be available in fifty or a hundred years. Any planning now will be irrelevant when needed.
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You mention cracked from water as an alternate source for H2.
So let's see.... you expend energy to crack the water, get H2 and O, run it thru this fuel cell, get H2O and energy.
Am I missing something subtle here?
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If the GPL is so bad, and the BSD license is the best, then why had BSD forked so often while Linux hasn't? Do you think this might possibly be why Linux has gotten so much press coverage compared to BSD? And do you think this might be why BSD fanatics are so snobbish?
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Only a Mac fanatic would ignore the working guts in favor of the cosmetic appearance. I have no knowledge of the working guts of any MacOS. It could be a beautiful design for all I know. But his whole approach is based on the GUI. That's like saying a spartan sports car is crap because it hasn't got fine Corinthian leather like his bloat barge rolling down the freeway. I know which one I'd take.
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The point of publicity is not to sway the courts, they are supposed to be above all that.
The point is to ensure the govt can't do things in secret, like this vary case. Look at the UK's new Regulation of Investigatory Powers (?) law -- if the govt demands your secret keys, you can be thrown in jail just for telling anyone about it.
The danger isn't a lynch mob. The lynchers can always be brought to justice. The danger is a govt so infatuated with itself that it throws people in jail and forbids the press from reporting it. How the hell is family or friends or anyone supposed to stand up to a repressive govt when you can't tell anyone?
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Someone once said you don't need the first amendment to protect nice guys or nice speech. As despicable as these guys are, if we are to ban them because they "incite" murder, then banning DeCSS, reverse engineering, and everything else which "incites" law breaking is the next step.
These guys are disgusting. It is also disgusting the number of laws which ban thoughts and speech. Politically incorrect speech is grounds for expulsion from some colleges and most jobs. Freedom of speech is not adjustable. Either speech is free or it is not.
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I would love to have somthing like this for my trusty old Mikon F2, but this sure isn't it.
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I am no graphics expert, but I have always been under the impression that a single pixel has 3 values, one each for r-g-b. Yet you say
each pixel is a discrete red,green or blue pixel
Are you talking bytes or pixels?
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Anyone who had been to the eBay link would see that's how it's written there. Of course, anyone that smart prolly wouldn't post such silly questions here.
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