Yeah, if by "Plato" you mean "Juvenal," by "custodiat" you mean "custodiet" and by "phpconsulting.com" you mean, "acting like you went to school for more than a week when in fact you're dumb as a post"... ah, who the hell am I kidding, this is slashdot.
Actually, if this was news for nerds, it would have been "Qui custodiet ipsos custodes?" People are nerdy about more things than computers, you know. Mentula!
They did this with gcc 3.? a while back, too. Everyone said, "Oh, no, stick with 2.95.2, 3.x isn't ready for primetime" but Apple switched, had no major problems, and the rest of the Unix world followed suit no long after. They are, as always, ahead of the game.
No, that's the beauty of it. Tiger's built-in AI reads the document, figures out what it says, and then writes something subtly different over it. That way, when the NSA gets your Hard-drive and they try to recover data from it, they'll stop when they find the note to Suzy telling her to buy milk, and won't keep looking for the plans to bomb to the San Diego zoo in that same file.
When has that ever stopped GPL opponents from raising hell about it? Not only does it not count as distribution, even if it did, the corporation already has the source somewhere so it doesn't matter anyway. BUT, some people will say anything, even lie through their teeth, to make the GPL look bad and protect their business model.
It makes them sound like sensationaist yellow journalists. Suppose I wrote an article that began as follows: "President Bush said yesterday that 'anyone who doesn't agree with me has no political rights in my country.' Well, okay, he didn't actually say that, but what he did say is 'Terrorists seeking to destory our nation [that is, people who don't agree with Bush that America is great] should not be granted the same rights, rights they seek to destroy, on American soil [Bush's home country].'" The analogy is slighlty off, but you see my point.
The advantage of using gloves is not to get a more intuitive, 3-D version of the mouse. The advantage to gloves is that you can have more than one (or two) pointers on a screen. Imagine using photoshop or some other editing software, and, instead of having to mouse around or hit keys to change tools, you just contracted a different finger. Touch typing is much faster than hunt-and-peck; why shouldn't the same be the case for graphical interfaces?
Eh, it happens. Somedays you win 'em, other days you lose 'em. Anyhow, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out against Apple, whom people are more likely to have faith in as far putting out a competitive product.
Sure people "ask" for spam: they read Usenet, have an email account, browse the web, and so forth. Having some of that content be something you find distasteful is no different from downloading a file that you think is a game and having it be pr0n or a virus. Of course, trying to force people to name things accurately and not share viruses on Freenet kind of takes the "Free" away.
If the only way that you can exclude spam from "freedom of information" is to say that it's unwanted, your model has serious flaws.
This has been MS SOP for decades. Say, "Oh, don't buy x. We're working on (x+5) product, in a few months it will be out and beat the pants off of x. It will be so smart and so fast it will do all your work before you even start the app!" Then as time goes by, they promise fewer features and say it will release later, on an on, until something half-assed shows up, or not at all.
That's basically the textbook account of what they did to Lotus 1-2-3, isn't it? And people call MS developer-friendly.
The stock market is one of the stupidest institutions on the planet. It's gotten so far into mind games and distant possibilities that the price of a stock has no bearing what so ever on its value as a part of a company. If Wall Street were a TV sitcom, it would have descended into mind-numbing self-parody long ago.
HFS+ is designed for use on a single partition. Reliability is a minor issue compared to some of the more interesting things that can be done as long as you don't change disk volumes, including moving a file while it's being written to. If you want, you can get it with a smaller disk and buy another--frankly I'd suggest getting the small disk and buying a larger one third-party for less anyway, but that's just me.
In all seriousness, I prefer ed to either of those when I've working on the command line. In addition to being smaller and faster than either (especially over a slow SSH connection), it can be easily scripted if you want to edit files in place. Plus, you get a mad bonus to hardcoreness just for using it.
Ah yes, because the pinnacle of mp3 player usability is a black bar with a long list of filenames in tiny green letters. Please. No one's stopping you from copying all your music files to the Recordings directory and listening to them that way. But wait! Then you can't group them into playlists! Which is exactly what iTunes is for!
Yeah, except that it might not actually be *sh*. Bash, ksh, and zsh all do compatibility modes, and all are (at least to some extent) mutually incompatible. So you're fucked, basically.
You're towing a dangerous line, there. It is, for example, also technically "optional" to file income tax returns. However, since it is not optional to pay taxes, if you don't, you might yourself into big trouble.
I recognize that what the legislature did lacked the force of law, but it's still the voice of government telling someone what to do, which brings up a whole host of issues (e.g., they could easily create the impression that the resolution was a law).
That's true anyway, though. Even if you've filed a patent, the USPTO will most likely grant the exact same thing to someone else anyway, and they'll probably still have the money to hire lawyers to sue your ass. Besides, if I'm not mistaken, filing a patent can easily run up to $1000 or more, and there's alway a chance that this could get written off as obvious or non-original (though given the state of the USPTO, that's highly unlikely).
I'd also like to make the project open-source (or whatever applies to hardware) but know nothing about licenses for this.
News flash: not every piece of freely available information has to be open-source! If you want others to be be able to use/improve your idea, publish the technical specifications and tell (clearly) how you did it. If you don't, don't tell anyone about it and maybe file a patent. It's that simple.
Open source licenses for hardware.... now I've heard everything.
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They won't ever be "valid, road-going vehicles". They fly.
Wow, it's been a long time since a joke made me want to stab my eyes out. Thanks!
Yeah, if by "Plato" you mean "Juvenal," by "custodiat" you mean "custodiet" and by "phpconsulting.com" you mean, "acting like you went to school for more than a week when in fact you're dumb as a post"... ah, who the hell am I kidding, this is slashdot.
Actually, if this was news for nerds, it would have been "Qui custodiet ipsos custodes?" People are nerdy about more things than computers, you know. Mentula!
However, it is still improper and the guy is either really lonely or a total sicko (or both).
fuck_this_shit, meet metaphor. Metaphor, fuck_this_shit. Play nice.
Sprenger, Kramer, and the _Malleus Maleficarum_ have a bone to pick with you.
They did this with gcc 3.? a while back, too. Everyone said, "Oh, no, stick with 2.95.2, 3.x isn't ready for primetime" but Apple switched, had no major problems, and the rest of the Unix world followed suit no long after. They are, as always, ahead of the game.
No, that's the beauty of it. Tiger's built-in AI reads the document, figures out what it says, and then writes something subtly different over it. That way, when the NSA gets your Hard-drive and they try to recover data from it, they'll stop when they find the note to Suzy telling her to buy milk, and won't keep looking for the plans to bomb to the San Diego zoo in that same file.
When has that ever stopped GPL opponents from raising hell about it? Not only does it not count as distribution, even if it did, the corporation already has the source somewhere so it doesn't matter anyway. BUT, some people will say anything, even lie through their teeth, to make the GPL look bad and protect their business model.
Why not subtract them? They you could have cat(1). Or cat(-1) if you botched it....
It makes them sound like sensationaist yellow journalists. Suppose I wrote an article that began as follows: "President Bush said yesterday that 'anyone who doesn't agree with me has no political rights in my country.' Well, okay, he didn't actually say that, but what he did say is 'Terrorists seeking to destory our nation [that is, people who don't agree with Bush that America is great] should not be granted the same rights, rights they seek to destroy, on American soil [Bush's home country].'" The analogy is slighlty off, but you see my point.
The advantage of using gloves is not to get a more intuitive, 3-D version of the mouse. The advantage to gloves is that you can have more than one (or two) pointers on a screen. Imagine using photoshop or some other editing software, and, instead of having to mouse around or hit keys to change tools, you just contracted a different finger. Touch typing is much faster than hunt-and-peck; why shouldn't the same be the case for graphical interfaces?
Eh, it happens. Somedays you win 'em, other days you lose 'em. Anyhow, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out against Apple, whom people are more likely to have faith in as far putting out a competitive product.
If the only way that you can exclude spam from "freedom of information" is to say that it's unwanted, your model has serious flaws.
That's basically the textbook account of what they did to Lotus 1-2-3, isn't it? And people call MS developer-friendly.
The stock market is one of the stupidest institutions on the planet. It's gotten so far into mind games and distant possibilities that the price of a stock has no bearing what so ever on its value as a part of a company. If Wall Street were a TV sitcom, it would have descended into mind-numbing self-parody long ago.
HFS+ is designed for use on a single partition. Reliability is a minor issue compared to some of the more interesting things that can be done as long as you don't change disk volumes, including moving a file while it's being written to. If you want, you can get it with a smaller disk and buy another--frankly I'd suggest getting the small disk and buying a larger one third-party for less anyway, but that's just me.
It's a pity, too, since the most interesting thing about Darwin is the kernel.
In all seriousness, I prefer ed to either of those when I've working on the command line. In addition to being smaller and faster than either (especially over a slow SSH connection), it can be easily scripted if you want to edit files in place. Plus, you get a mad bonus to hardcoreness just for using it.
Ah yes, because the pinnacle of mp3 player usability is a black bar with a long list of filenames in tiny green letters. Please. No one's stopping you from copying all your music files to the Recordings directory and listening to them that way. But wait! Then you can't group them into playlists! Which is exactly what iTunes is for!
Yeah, except that it might not actually be *sh*. Bash, ksh, and zsh all do compatibility modes, and all are (at least to some extent) mutually incompatible. So you're fucked, basically.
I recognize that what the legislature did lacked the force of law, but it's still the voice of government telling someone what to do, which brings up a whole host of issues (e.g., they could easily create the impression that the resolution was a law).
That's true anyway, though. Even if you've filed a patent, the USPTO will most likely grant the exact same thing to someone else anyway, and they'll probably still have the money to hire lawyers to sue your ass. Besides, if I'm not mistaken, filing a patent can easily run up to $1000 or more, and there's alway a chance that this could get written off as obvious or non-original (though given the state of the USPTO, that's highly unlikely).
News flash: not every piece of freely available information has to be open-source! If you want others to be be able to use/improve your idea, publish the technical specifications and tell (clearly) how you did it. If you don't, don't tell anyone about it and maybe file a patent. It's that simple.
Open source licenses for hardware.... now I've heard everything.