`That's right,' said the Queen, patting her on the head, which Alice didn't like at all, `though, when you say "garden," -- I've seen
gardens, compare with which this would be a wilderness.'
Alice didn't dare to argue the point, but went on: `-- and I thought I'd
try and find my way to the top of that hill -- '
`When you say "hill,"' the Queen interrupted, `I could show you hills,
in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.'
`No, I shouldn't,' said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last:
`a hill can't be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense -- '
The Red Queen shook her head, `You may call it "nonsense" if you like,'
she said, ` but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be
as sensible as a dictionary!'
In actuality, 2 + 2 = 6 for extremely large values of 2.
Not if rounding, rather than floor, is in action. 2.5 + eps will be an `extremely small' value of 3!:-)
Alice said, as gravely as she could, `They might go different ways.' But she couldn't help thinking to herself `What dreadful nonsense we are talking!'
There is a script that comes with GPSDrive which allows downloading maps from some web sites, but those maps are copyrighted by the respective vendors (one of whose name starts with an M;-)), and the script clearly mentions that the legal liability is with the user who downloads the maps. For the same reason, they cannot be distributed.
How about introducing a new MS record (not Microsoft;-)) to point to Mail Senders? MX server(s) can continue to be the mail recepient(s). This gives the control to more distributed DNS system rather than a single company.
Mail servers need to accept mails from a domain only if they are coming from the MS servers for that domain.
This is not a novel idea. Most mail sersvers have a configurable feature to accept mails only from MX servers for that domain anyway.
i would like to know. when and where did you promote it? how come you guys didn't give it the kind of promotion it deserves (media and all that).
We tried to give publicity as much as possible. But don't forget that we are just a group of individuals and not even a registered organization, and we don't have any budgets for a huge marketing campaign. And we don't want to do it either. We have been helping people on our mailing lists and other events without making much of a noice like many others do. Please check our site for more details.
last time i tried to join the Computer Professional's Club or whatever you call your little exclusive coterie i was told that since i don't have a degree i can't join.
You have been mistaken. This is not that. Anyone can join LKLUG (just subscribing to the mailing list would do). We don't have those hard and fast `rules and regulations' etc. Specifically, I don't have a digree either.;-)
but as far as i know, the free software groups here are just like the rest of the organisations, full of internal politics and backstabbing
Please spend a bit of time on our mailing lists and the web site to see if there is any internal politics or beurocracies in our group. Hope you will find enough to change your mind.
We have created a nice Sinhala Linux interface. And we did it by our own interest. All of us are working for different organizations, and we found time in the night and weekends to do this.
Sorry that we missed you. If you had come, you will be happy to know that there are many goodies happenning in this little paradice. Anyway, please do communicate, and let's work together.
Coming from a developing country, I know that there are many `inexperienced' users around, but certainly most of them are not `idiots'.
We had a nice time promoting the localized GNU/Linux (site not upto date with the work) on the Free Software Day. The response was phenominal, and we can see more and more people and commercial organizations are coming forward to help us take the message across.
And we make it clear that FOSS is better not because of the cost, but because of the flexibility, freedom and control that comes with it, and the mindset change from dependence to independence.
.... and Linux joined the world of professional software development!! =)
Signing patches alone may not entitle kernel development to be called "professional". Don't forget that many patches are sent over SMTP, and it is possible for spoof a real kernel contributor. Of course, most of the spoof attempts will fail, but with the present and potential future scale of the kernel development, Father Brown's `unnoticed' theory might manifest.
Supervisor: Hey, take a look at this patent application.
Examiner: Let me see... [thinking] mmmm... `One Click Shopping'... what on earth is that!!!... Oops, shouldn't show that I didn't understand anything about it... passing things this way and that... there's something about saving... should be a cool way to save money... it's a tough one to figure out, and quite lenghy too... they won't write all this for a trivial one... better approve it and get rid of it... [after an hour of empty gazing] Yes, that is a very innovative one!
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`That's right,' said the Queen, patting her on the head, which Alice didn't like at all, `though, when you say "garden," -- I've seen gardens, compare with which this would be a wilderness.'
Alice didn't dare to argue the point, but went on: `-- and I thought I'd try and find my way to the top of that hill -- '
`When you say "hill,"' the Queen interrupted, `I could show you hills, in comparison with which you'd call that a valley.'
`No, I shouldn't,' said Alice, surprised into contradicting her at last: `a hill can't be a valley, you know. That would be nonsense -- '
The Red Queen shook her head, `You may call it "nonsense" if you like,' she said, ` but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!'
Not if rounding, rather than floor, is in action. 2.5 + eps will be an `extremely small' value of 3! :-)
How about Ramanujan's equation for PI? It's very simple, but has got some really interesting numbers. A graphical version is available here.
1/PI = sqrt(8) / 9801 * sum (n = 0 to infinity) (((4n)! [ 1103 + 26390 n ])/ ((n!)^4 * 396^(4n)))
Will they also be always depressed like Maven? ;-)
There is a script that comes with GPSDrive which allows downloading maps from some web sites, but those maps are copyrighted by the respective vendors (one of whose name starts with an M ;-)), and the script clearly mentions that the legal liability is with the user who downloads the maps. For the same reason, they cannot be distributed.
I use gpsdrive without any driver issues. The real problem is the availability of maps.
Wonder if he also talked about being on a chip. ;-)
Perhaps SCO may choose to oursource their Linux lisence campaign to MPAA. I am sure SCO can't send 100,000 letters an year!
A quick search on freshmeat shows that gmail notification is not totally new.
The UNIX trademark is all upper case, even if it is not an acronym.
Unlike Linux, Solaris is a derivative of UNIX. I am sure SCO will be keenly looking forward to the day when Solaris is open source. ;-)
What happenes when Sybase stops maintaining the `Free' version?
How about introducing a new MS record (not Microsoft ;-)) to point to Mail Senders? MX server(s) can continue to be the mail recepient(s). This gives the control to more distributed DNS system rather than a single company.
Mail servers need to accept mails from a domain only if they are coming from the MS servers for that domain.
This is not a novel idea. Most mail sersvers have a configurable feature to accept mails only from MX servers for that domain anyway.
We tried to give publicity as much as possible. But don't forget that we are just a group of individuals and not even a registered organization, and we don't have any budgets for a huge marketing campaign. And we don't want to do it either. We have been helping people on our mailing lists and other events without making much of a noice like many others do. Please check our site for more details.
You have been mistaken. This is not that. Anyone can join LKLUG (just subscribing to the mailing list would do). We don't have those hard and fast `rules and regulations' etc. Specifically, I don't have a digree either. ;-)
Please spend a bit of time on our mailing lists and the web site to see if there is any internal politics or beurocracies in our group. Hope you will find enough to change your mind.
We have created a nice Sinhala Linux interface. And we did it by our own interest. All of us are working for different organizations, and we found time in the night and weekends to do this.
Sorry that we missed you. If you had come, you will be happy to know that there are many goodies happenning in this little paradice. Anyway, please do communicate, and let's work together.
We had a nice time promoting the localized GNU/Linux (site not upto date with the work) on the Free Software Day. The response was phenominal, and we can see more and more people and commercial organizations are coming forward to help us take the message across.
And we make it clear that FOSS is better not because of the cost, but because of the flexibility, freedom and control that comes with it, and the mindset change from dependence to independence.
How about adding an option `Remove email disclaimers' to your favourite mailing list (or just mail) archiving program?
Signing patches alone may not entitle kernel development to be called "professional". Don't forget that many patches are sent over SMTP, and it is possible for spoof a real kernel contributor. Of course, most of the spoof attempts will fail, but with the present and potential future scale of the kernel development, Father Brown's `unnoticed' theory might manifest.
How about Ken Coar??
Never heard of the `GNU/Linux project'. Am I missing something?
Ooops... I think I got the two awards mixed up. Hope someone would waste a bit of Karma to moderate my earlier post ;-)
According to the ACM site, Alan Kay received the award in 1987! This year, well last year to be precise, it goes to Stuart Feldman.
Examiner: Let me see... [thinking] mmmm... `One Click Shopping'... what on earth is that!!!... Oops, shouldn't show that I didn't understand anything about it... passing things this way and that... there's something about saving... should be a cool way to save money... it's a tough one to figure out, and quite lenghy too... they won't write all this for a trivial one... better approve it and get rid of it... [after an hour of empty gazing] Yes, that is a very innovative one!