I have always considered comments that are said on newsgroups and forums to be personal opinions of the sort one might overhear in a bar, so if you say "Apple nicked all thier ideas from PARC" you would not suddenly expect a summons from Apples legal department.
On the contary, if a site passes itself as an "eNewspaper" site, an eMag or whatever, and it publishes mistruths, then I would expect it to be sued as any pulp publication would be.
Are there any legal precedents or specific laws on this?
Should a script always use apps which have built in net problems detection (and return with error), or should we be able to use generic commands which ignore eventual problems and may be potentially hang indefinetly?
IMHO, wget is a good solution if appropriate. But suppose I wanted to e.g. check a file for content based on a remote dictionary, and failing that a local one. This shell could automatically revert to the local copy if the remote (updated) dictionary did not respond in time.
The idea of being to timeout and exception handle in scripts is a great idea......assuming you want to use scripts. I think most people end up resorting to Perl, Python or whatever for anything more complex.
But perhaps with this facility Scripts would be more useful?
But...now I come to a related topic. I build factory wide systems, systems which have eg. Automatic warehouses and whatever in the middle. I do a lot of stuff with VB6 not because it is fault tolerant but because it is 'fix tolerant'.
During the comminssioning phases I can leave a program running in the debugger and, if it freaks out, I can debug, fix, test by iterating forwards and **backwards** in the the function that caused the hitch, and then continue to run were I left off.
Many minor problems get fixed on the fly without users even realizing anything was amiss.
In every other respect (syntax, structure, error trapping etc) VB6 is a disaster and not really suited at all to these types of progects, so the fact that I use it is a measure of how important this feature is.
Like the fault tolerant shell, it is a 'non-pure' extension insofar as purists say it should not be neccessary, but in pratice it is a godsend.
Anybody know an alternative for VB6 in this respect?
Interesting to see in the specs the capacity in terms of media content, 40,000 books...10,000 mp3's etc.
That is a lot of space to fill when you get your new drive. How nice if they were supplied with a preloaded partition (100 gigs say) that contained a lot of goodies.
Better still, pre-load with several partions, for example:
a) Free windows software and documents
b) Free Linux software and documents
c) Platform independent documentation and referenc
d) Non computer related stuff (Guthenburg project,for example), free graphics and sound clip libraries.
When you partition the disk you decide which, if any you want to keep for later installation, and eventually, when you have copied what you need, you format to a native partition.
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If there is any Amiga source code in the Linux kernel;-)
On the contary, if a site passes itself as an "eNewspaper" site, an eMag or whatever, and it publishes mistruths, then I would expect it to be sued as any pulp publication would be.
Are there any legal precedents or specific laws on this?
I have been analyzing /.'s meta data and have discovered that it is all being done by a copy of Scrivener running on a CP/M enabled Apple II.
Should a script always use apps which have built in net problems detection (and return with error), or should we be able to use generic commands which ignore eventual problems and may be potentially hang indefinetly?
IMHO, wget is a good solution if appropriate. But suppose I wanted to e.g. check a file for content based on a remote dictionary, and failing that a local one. This shell could automatically revert to the local copy if the remote (updated) dictionary did not respond in time.
The idea of being to timeout and exception handle in scripts is a great idea......assuming you want to use scripts. I think most people end up resorting to Perl, Python or whatever for anything more complex. But perhaps with this facility Scripts would be more useful? But...now I come to a related topic. I build factory wide systems, systems which have eg. Automatic warehouses and whatever in the middle. I do a lot of stuff with VB6 not because it is fault tolerant but because it is 'fix tolerant'. During the comminssioning phases I can leave a program running in the debugger and, if it freaks out, I can debug, fix, test by iterating forwards and **backwards** in the the function that caused the hitch, and then continue to run were I left off. Many minor problems get fixed on the fly without users even realizing anything was amiss. In every other respect (syntax, structure, error trapping etc) VB6 is a disaster and not really suited at all to these types of progects, so the fact that I use it is a measure of how important this feature is. Like the fault tolerant shell, it is a 'non-pure' extension insofar as purists say it should not be neccessary, but in pratice it is a godsend. Anybody know an alternative for VB6 in this respect?
You may have legal rights on all that shit.....go see http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/30/36116.html
Interesting to see in the specs the capacity in terms of media content, 40,000 books...10,000 mp3's etc. That is a lot of space to fill when you get your new drive. How nice if they were supplied with a preloaded partition (100 gigs say) that contained a lot of goodies. Better still, pre-load with several partions, for example: a) Free windows software and documents b) Free Linux software and documents c) Platform independent documentation and referenc d) Non computer related stuff (Guthenburg project,for example), free graphics and sound clip libraries. When you partition the disk you decide which, if any you want to keep for later installation, and eventually, when you have copied what you need, you format to a native partition.
Give me all your money or I'll make a copy of the accounts and send it to the IRS....
Anybody in computing may have one....for stabbing users.
I have to use my pocket knife to operate the RO switch on my USB stick. Will this new knife have a detable device for setting it's own RO switch?