I mean, come on! A cassette adapter? That's one step above a tin can and string.
All bets are off when you're listening to music in a car. Really, a car is not an audiophile environment. It can't be, and still be safe and legal. There are sounds out there that are meant to be heard, i.e. sirens, honking horns.
How does 'monopoly' have to do with it? If I can't uninstall their 'official' JVM and install the one I prefer instead, they are doing the same thing as Microsoft with IE.
Heck, it could be totally nerdy by only being available on 1/4" reel-to-reel tape, and that's two-track so you have to use a 1950's era deck to play it.
'Nerdy' does not mean 'ooooh! shiny!' in case you wondered.
How can they make 'java' part of the OS? Shouldn't we convene a panel from the Department of Justice to demand that Apple make it trivial to completely uninstall the Java components, in case I want to install a non-Apple Java engine??
3M was called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing for years and years before it was referred to as 3M. Old timers refer to the company as 'Minnesota Mining.'
That's a pretty weird response. Albeit it's pretty difficult to defend the 'locals' who didn't even TRY to evacuate anybody with all those school busses.
If those were busses under Federal control, that photo would have been on the front page of every paper in America by now.
GCC is well known to be an 'embrace and extend' standard. GCC incorporates non-standard features. When you write code using them, your code won't build on other compilers. The GCC -pedantic compiler switch doesn't flag all these non-standard features in your code.
Awhile back there was controversey because nobody deeply involved in the GCC project had involvement with the standards committee. Or was it 'non-controversey' because few GCC users cared?
There are other compilers and tools, from other organizations, that also incorporate 'embrace and extend' features.
True, but if, for instance Borland C++ was required to compile Linux, an added cost for any and all development of the Linux kernel would be a licensed copy of Borland C++ on each developer's machine.
No, there are NOT other C compilers that are adequate to compile Linux that are freely available, especially there were not when Linux was first written. The minix compiler is more free now than it was when Linus started coding Linux, but back then you had to buy a copy of Tannenburg to have a license to use it.
Actually, my point, probably not well expressed, is that you would be anti-Bush no matter what the Bush administration does. It doesn't matter what evidence is presented, you know your position beforehand.
Your ideology shades your view of the world. There is 'evidence' of all sorts of things. If you want to look at the opposite side, there is 'evidence' that Vince Foster was murdered by the Clintons. There is 'evidence' that Ted Kennedy is a malevolent womanizing hypocrite.
Stongly slanted, ideologically motivated 'evidence.' The same kind you rely on to reinforce your preconcieved caricatures of the 'Right.' Just the opposite polarity.
Advanced degrees are a sign of a dangerous tendency to dabble in the theoretical. Some times there are marketable skills only attainable through advanced study, but in a lot of instances, it's a case of someone who can't cope with the non-academic world taking an 'extended leave' from the reality of the commercial world we live in.
Your advice for students to 'take it easy' and soak up all the government funding they can get is possibly branding those you advice as loafers to future employers.
Based on my direct experience working with products and components whose fabrication has recently been moved to China, the Chinese (who seem to have zero, zippo, no concept of systematic quality systems) aren't bright enough to be fooled.
This may be a result of the lower-tier nature of the people my company chooses to deal with in China, however. Cheap is cheap no matter where in the world you go.
I think what you mean to say is 'the industry is maturing, and product categories are commodifying.'
And the last part of what you say rephrased: 'the commodification is near complete enough now that the OSS cloners (who never produce product specs for anything, preferring just to clone previously successful products) are moving in.'
Actually, 'slashdot's active posting population' is people who sit around at work reading slashdot. IOW: people who SHOULD be the most worried. Hence there tends to be a lot of frantic screaming in these parts.
Also, a lot of OSS is produced from 'surplus labor.' Your boss hired you to get specific tasks that he has on a GANTT chart completed. If you spend 15% of the time reading mailing lists and diddling around with code for an OSS project unrelated to your work, you're deadweight to your employer.
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I remember J.S. Bach's 'A Musical Game' and all the people who have subsequently imitated it.
It scares me, too, but the truth is, some people can't function without some form of 'music' droning in the background all the time.
The people at work in the lab listen to awful 'classic rawk' radio. I just want to cut the paper cone out of their radio, to be honest.
I mean, come on! A cassette adapter? That's one step above a tin can and string.
All bets are off when you're listening to music in a car. Really, a car is not an audiophile environment. It can't be, and still be safe and legal. There are sounds out there that are meant to be heard, i.e. sirens, honking horns.
Or maybe you aren't as good a listener as some people. Listening is an active pursuit, and it takes a long time to learn how to listen to music well.
Many people never even progress beyond rawk muzik.
How does 'monopoly' have to do with it? If I can't uninstall their 'official' JVM and install the one I prefer instead, they are doing the same thing as Microsoft with IE.
Heck, it could be totally nerdy by only being available on 1/4" reel-to-reel tape, and that's two-track so you have to use a 1950's era deck to play it.
'Nerdy' does not mean 'ooooh! shiny!' in case you wondered.
Are you sure it wasn't because their preferred 'gadget' uses 6 'D' cells, not two 'AAA' penlite cells?
How can they make 'java' part of the OS? Shouldn't we convene a panel from the Department of Justice to demand that Apple make it trivial to completely uninstall the Java components, in case I want to install a non-Apple Java engine??
3M was called Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing for years and years before it was referred to as 3M. Old timers refer to the company as 'Minnesota Mining.'
That's a pretty weird response. Albeit it's pretty difficult to defend the 'locals' who didn't even TRY to evacuate anybody with all those school busses.
If those were busses under Federal control, that photo would have been on the front page of every paper in America by now.
Yes, and big chunks of Grand Forks were MOVED. The people were told not to rebuild there. Taken from the article you linked:
Are there any Google images of the Ray Nagin Memorial Motor Pool.
Or are the Google images 'sanitized' like most of the MSM coverage?
GCC is well known to be an 'embrace and extend' standard. GCC incorporates non-standard features. When you write code using them, your code won't build on other compilers. The GCC -pedantic compiler switch doesn't flag all these non-standard features in your code.
Awhile back there was controversey because nobody deeply involved in the GCC project had involvement with the standards committee. Or was it 'non-controversey' because few GCC users cared?
There are other compilers and tools, from other organizations, that also incorporate 'embrace and extend' features.
My cat is a 'hacker' in the old sense of the word.
My dog, on the other hand, just likes scarfing down the hairballs she hacks up.
I meant to type Tannenbaum, damnit.
(you can get Minix for free here by the way.)
True, but if, for instance Borland C++ was required to compile Linux, an added cost for any and all development of the Linux kernel would be a licensed copy of Borland C++ on each developer's machine.
No, there are NOT other C compilers that are adequate to compile Linux that are freely available, especially there were not when Linux was first written. The minix compiler is more free now than it was when Linus started coding Linux, but back then you had to buy a copy of Tannenburg to have a license to use it.
Linux doesn't really have this economic effect attached to it. Even if you buy a distro, you can buy the distro(s) made in your country.
I have no idea which country Cheapbytes.com has their CDs pressed in.
Actually, my point, probably not well expressed, is that you would be anti-Bush no matter what the Bush administration does. It doesn't matter what evidence is presented, you know your position beforehand.
Your ideology shades your view of the world. There is 'evidence' of all sorts of things. If you want to look at the opposite side, there is 'evidence' that Vince Foster was murdered by the Clintons. There is 'evidence' that Ted Kennedy is a malevolent womanizing hypocrite.
Stongly slanted, ideologically motivated 'evidence.' The same kind you rely on to reinforce your preconcieved caricatures of the 'Right.' Just the opposite polarity.
Advanced degrees are a sign of a dangerous tendency to dabble in the theoretical. Some times there are marketable skills only attainable through advanced study, but in a lot of instances, it's a case of someone who can't cope with the non-academic world taking an 'extended leave' from the reality of the commercial world we live in.
Your advice for students to 'take it easy' and soak up all the government funding they can get is possibly branding those you advice as loafers to future employers.
Based on my direct experience working with products and components whose fabrication has recently been moved to China, the Chinese (who seem to have zero, zippo, no concept of systematic quality systems) aren't bright enough to be fooled.
This may be a result of the lower-tier nature of the people my company chooses to deal with in China, however. Cheap is cheap no matter where in the world you go.
I think what you mean to say is 'the industry is maturing, and product categories are commodifying.'
And the last part of what you say rephrased: 'the commodification is near complete enough now that the OSS cloners (who never produce product specs for anything, preferring just to clone previously successful products) are moving in.'
Actually, 'slashdot's active posting population' is people who sit around at work reading slashdot. IOW: people who SHOULD be the most worried. Hence there tends to be a lot of frantic screaming in these parts.
Also, a lot of OSS is produced from 'surplus labor.' Your boss hired you to get specific tasks that he has on a GANTT chart completed. If you spend 15% of the time reading mailing lists and diddling around with code for an OSS project unrelated to your work, you're deadweight to your employer.
Why is that nonsense?
There are countries in Europe (Italy is one) where there are a significant number of people who consider themselves Communists.
Your use of the term 'commie' shows a parochial attitude. Some people don't feel bad about being called a 'Communist.'
(Note- I am not a Communist, nor do I agree with the Marxist ideology Communists espouse)
I will make it a special point of killing any potential job offer that may be made to anyone who was an SCO employee in this recient time frame.
Be careful who you accuse of being unethical.
Nevertheless, they did indeed deprive you of the changes they made to the BSD code.
You think Microsoft somehow improved the BSD code? You feel deprived that it wasn't rolled back into the BSD source?