What is Linus' beef with GPLv3? Does it matter if there are some anti-drm provisions in the Linux kernel license?
This is shaping up to be like the Bitkeeper issue. Torvalds will push issues important to (a) commercial developer(s). I don't think he wants anything anti-drm in the kernel license.
Ah those were the days. 15 years old and I've got a CP/M system. It was a great IDE but I didn't pay for it of course.
In about 1997 when I left my last job the developers around me working on windows (I was an OpenVMS guy by then) wouldn't touch anything without a Microsoft brand on it. For them Microsoft was kind of a god, pretty much the same relationship which exists between the department secretary and Word.
Windows development had become in some way non-technical. Borland catered to technical people so they were gone.
However the Indonesian part (I also lived there for a few years) is relatively safe
The media here in Melbourne is full of articles about atrocities comitted against the local people by the Indonesian military. These are stories about large groups of people being starved to death and others being more directly murdered.
With all this stuff coming out I wouldn't be surprised if they go the way of East Timor (ie, having Australia take 80% of their mineral wealth in return for some military help) in the next 20 years or so.
With cannibalism (in some parts), administration problems (to put it mildly) and rampant missionaries trying to save souls, I'm pretty sure tourism is PRETTY low on their list right now.
Maybe I'm living in a vacuum, but I don't get your sig.:)
The Apollo lunar surface journal is the official record of everything which happened on the moon during the apollo program. It is very detailed. I have plucked it on to my palm pilot and I read it when I have free time.
Pete Conrad was the commander of the Apollo 12 mission and he is (alas was) a real character. Mike Collins (CM pilot on Apollo 11) said in his book that Conrad was the only astronaut who exactly fitted the public perception of "Buck Rogers" astronauts.
Neil Armstrong almost ran out of fuel for his landing. He got distracted by the engineering (not his job) and then lost right of the ground during final approach. He was the first, but some would say not the best.
Conrad got to the landing site early with loads of fuel. He flew a circuit over the landing area, checking out several possible places to set the LM down. This being his only opportunity to fly an LM he found time for a couple of very radical turns at low altitude, nearly turning the LM on its side, throwing it around like he was in an airshow. Then he picked his spot. Hovered for a nice dramatic pause, and plonked the spacecraft right down on the exact edge of surveyor crater.
The quote is from a point in one of the two EVA's on that flight where Conrad was in a lot of pain from a badly fitting pressure suit, but still kept his focus and managed the occasional joke.
Al Bean pauses and checks his suit pressure. He says he felt a change in suit pressure
Conrad: I thought you were going to go off like a ballon there Al!
This whole island: Papua and W New Guinea is too dangerous for normal people to consider going there. But is has forests and wildlife which have been wiped out in most other parts of Asia.
If the politics can be sorted out the people living there will be sitting on an economic goldmine from tourism alone.
Keep in mind that in many areas, there are lots of ISPs that can provide you with DSL service.
Here in Australia the only DSL service comes from Telstra because they own the copper wires into homes. Many ISP's will sell you DSL services but the basic connectivity is a resale of a telstra service.
This only happens because the Federal Government (and the courts) force Telstra to resell their services at reasonable rates.
If microwaves from a mobile phone can cause cancer, how is it that we can immerse ourselves in kilowatts of infrared radiation (at a much higher energy) and at the worst get simple burning (oxidation) of our skin?
Open fires should be much more dangerous than practically any source of microwaves.
hypothetical case where Roger Ebert stops reviewing movies from, say, MGM, because they start providing him with different versions of the movies than they actually release.
this is about folks who need certain tools to get things done.
If they go to 100 workplaces and ask them what applications are stopping them from going to Linux the most common reply may well be Photoshop. But its not that simple.
Each site will have a couple of windows only applications which they rely on. Each of these applications will be used nowhere else. These are the applications which need to be made available.
His universe had 6 totally straight dimensions with no curvature (at least to the extent it was important to the story. This article talks about curvature in the time dimension, which was pretty fundamental to relativity 100 years ago, so this is not a new idea.
I don't think RAH's idea of rotating to make use of unused dimensions would work because most of the theories currently around which use extra dimensions assume that we can see the extra dimensions, but don't use them because the universe is closed and very short in that direction.
Also I think the waffle factor got to be a bit too much in that book. Friday was his last great book, IMHO.
Maybe Apple can claim they were there first with the Newton. It is more cost effective to wait and see if something catches on before applying for the patent.
Except those boats races where the boats skitter across the surface of the water and occasionally take flight and cartwheel across the water shedding bits of boat as they go. That always gets in the evening news. Just like speedway car crashes.
Rocket races need a deliberate flaw: something like having your engines started by sticks of TNT with a manually lit fuse sticking out the tailpipe. Explosions and popularity guaranteed.
There is no such thing as a spherically symetric omni antenna. I wonder if the suit has found a stable attitude which points a bad lobe straight down. Other lobes are attenuated by the atmosphere or don't point at the Earth.
Properly designed LEO satellites take into account plasma flow at orbital altitude.
I am willing to bet that most of the money for the people you listed came from their employers, with or without their knowledge.
Gates and Allen were self employed at the time, which explains their reaction. OTH its nice to be self employed. You get to keep the profits at the end of the day.
Around about that time my Dad bought a CP/M system from a backyard operator. We built our own case and ripped apart an old serial terminal as a user interface.
The guy who sold us the hardware gave us heaps of free software. I got C and pascal compilers for free, though I knew they were commercial.
The attitude seemed to be that if you could easily copy it then it was perfectly ok to do so. Nobody thought of all this microcomputer stuff as big business then anyway. Of course now it is.
People still copy stuff but they don't pretend that this is the way the world is. They do it more sneakily.
If somebody is selling software, taking a copy of it and using it without paying for it is not cool. Taking a copy and selling copies of the copies is even less cool.
Yes, but Microsoft has since learnt how to use casual piracy as a marketing tool. Letting people copy their software is an investment in the future for them.
I tell people not to copy windows because I want them to use free alternatives, not because I care about Bill's next billion.
The scientific tools of the day would have been fortran and C. If you wanted mass appeal then basic was certainly the way to go, but APL is a strange way to extend your market reach.
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This is shaping up to be like the Bitkeeper issue. Torvalds will push issues important to (a) commercial developer(s). I don't think he wants anything anti-drm in the kernel license.
Torvalds built DRM into the kernel so that it could be used in commercial applications requiring DRM. RMS doesn't want DRM to be there at all.
Ah those were the days. 15 years old and I've got a CP/M system. It was a great IDE but I didn't pay for it of course.
In about 1997 when I left my last job the developers around me working on windows (I was an OpenVMS guy by then) wouldn't touch anything without a Microsoft brand on it. For them Microsoft was kind of a god, pretty much the same relationship which exists between the department secretary and Word.
Windows development had become in some way non-technical. Borland catered to technical people so they were gone.
Changing to a left handed mouse configuration did wonders for me.
The media here in Melbourne is full of articles about atrocities comitted against the local people by the Indonesian military. These are stories about large groups of people being starved to death and others being more directly murdered.
With all this stuff coming out I wouldn't be surprised if they go the way of East Timor (ie, having Australia take 80% of their mineral wealth in return for some military help) in the next 20 years or so.
Yep
The Apollo lunar surface journal is the official record of everything which happened on the moon during the apollo program. It is very detailed. I have plucked it on to my palm pilot and I read it when I have free time.
Pete Conrad was the commander of the Apollo 12 mission and he is (alas was) a real character. Mike Collins (CM pilot on Apollo 11) said in his book that Conrad was the only astronaut who exactly fitted the public perception of "Buck Rogers" astronauts.
Neil Armstrong almost ran out of fuel for his landing. He got distracted by the engineering (not his job) and then lost right of the ground during final approach. He was the first, but some would say not the best.
Conrad got to the landing site early with loads of fuel. He flew a circuit over the landing area, checking out several possible places to set the LM down. This being his only opportunity to fly an LM he found time for a couple of very radical turns at low altitude, nearly turning the LM on its side, throwing it around like he was in an airshow. Then he picked his spot. Hovered for a nice dramatic pause, and plonked the spacecraft right down on the exact edge of surveyor crater.
The quote is from a point in one of the two EVA's on that flight where Conrad was in a lot of pain from a badly fitting pressure suit, but still kept his focus and managed the occasional joke.
Al Bean pauses and checks his suit pressure. He says he felt a change in suit pressure
Conrad: I thought you were going to go off like a ballon there Al!
The thing is, the man had style.
This whole island: Papua and W New Guinea is too dangerous for normal people to consider going there. But is has forests and wildlife which have been wiped out in most other parts of Asia.
If the politics can be sorted out the people living there will be sitting on an economic goldmine from tourism alone.
I would be interested in finding out who they are.
Yes, but the energy used on the barges could be used to replace energy generation which currently produces CO2.
In high northern and southern lattitudes wind generation at sea is actually one of the better sources of non-polluting energy.
Here in Australia the only DSL service comes from Telstra because they own the copper wires into homes. Many ISP's will sell you DSL services but the basic connectivity is a resale of a telstra service.
This only happens because the Federal Government (and the courts) force Telstra to resell their services at reasonable rates.
If microwaves from a mobile phone can cause cancer, how is it that we can immerse ourselves in kilowatts of infrared radiation (at a much higher energy) and at the worst get simple burning (oxidation) of our skin?
Open fires should be much more dangerous than practically any source of microwaves.
A curious choice of words.
That is a very good analogy.
If they go to 100 workplaces and ask them what applications are stopping them from going to Linux the most common reply may well be Photoshop. But its not that simple.
Each site will have a couple of windows only applications which they rely on. Each of these applications will be used nowhere else. These are the applications which need to be made available.
Some will work on wine, many won't.
His universe had 6 totally straight dimensions with no curvature (at least to the extent it was important to the story. This article talks about curvature in the time dimension, which was pretty fundamental to relativity 100 years ago, so this is not a new idea.
I don't think RAH's idea of rotating to make use of unused dimensions would work because most of the theories currently around which use extra dimensions assume that we can see the extra dimensions, but don't use them because the universe is closed and very short in that direction.
Also I think the waffle factor got to be a bit too much in that book. Friday was his last great book, IMHO.
Maybe Apple can claim they were there first with the Newton. It is more cost effective to wait and see if something catches on before applying for the patent.
Except those boats races where the boats skitter across the surface of the water and occasionally take flight and cartwheel across the water shedding bits of boat as they go. That always gets in the evening news. Just like speedway car crashes.
Rocket races need a deliberate flaw: something like having your engines started by sticks of TNT with a manually lit fuse sticking out the tailpipe. Explosions and popularity guaranteed.
There is no such thing as a spherically symetric omni antenna. I wonder if the suit has found a stable attitude which points a bad lobe straight down. Other lobes are attenuated by the atmosphere or don't point at the Earth.
Properly designed LEO satellites take into account plasma flow at orbital altitude.
A place so boring that there is no choice but to get stuff done.
I am willing to bet that most of the money for the people you listed came from their employers, with or without their knowledge.
Gates and Allen were self employed at the time, which explains their reaction. OTH its nice to be self employed. You get to keep the profits at the end of the day.
I should have said People still copy stuff they are not allowed to
And you are right, this is around the time that RMS started thinking about GNU. Its a natural response to increasing commercialism in software.
Around about that time my Dad bought a CP/M system from a backyard operator. We built our own case and ripped apart an old serial terminal as a user interface.
The guy who sold us the hardware gave us heaps of free software. I got C and pascal compilers for free, though I knew they were commercial.
The attitude seemed to be that if you could easily copy it then it was perfectly ok to do so. Nobody thought of all this microcomputer stuff as big business then anyway. Of course now it is.
People still copy stuff but they don't pretend that this is the way the world is. They do it more sneakily.
Yes, but Microsoft has since learnt how to use casual piracy as a marketing tool. Letting people copy their software is an investment in the future for them.
I tell people not to copy windows because I want them to use free alternatives, not because I care about Bill's next billion.
The scientific tools of the day would have been fortran and C. If you wanted mass appeal then basic was certainly the way to go, but APL is a strange way to extend your market reach.