Anything produced by the United States Federal Government (which the National Institute of Standards and Technology certainly qualifies as), is in the public domain.
If you simply dislike spinach, you don't have a disease. If your dislike of spinach, however, makes you start a massive campaign calling spinach evil and saying nobody should eat it, then yes, you have a disease.
I personally started out with Pascal in the mid nineties, and it was nice back then (before Delphi came around)
That's not true. I was doing Delphi in the mid 90s. I started out on Turbo Pascal in the mid 1980s.
Nowadays I would suggest Python as firs language as it is fairly easy, clean and powerful general purpose scripting language. Then extend it with C/C++.
Agreed. Greywolf's Corollary to the Streisand Effect: As long as someone else has the same content available for free, users will go there instead of to your site, given the choice.
It's a list of permissions, that, by default, are not permissable under ordinary copyright law. For any given copyrighted work, you have no right to copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, any of it.The GPL only grants permissions that would otherwise be denied.
The GPL is saying you can distribute, you can copy, you can modify, but, in order to be granted these rights, you must also confer them on everyone else, including any derivative works you make.
IOW, GPL is more restrictive than BSD/X11/MIT/PSF (but only in that these licenses more or less waive all the rights while requiring only attribution usually), but less restrictive than copyright by itself..
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I'm actually surprised at how quickly some of these platforms like the iPhone have developed completely closed programming environments with barely a peep of protest from the normally pretty libertarian tech crowd.
You must be...actually, some of us have been protesting, but our voices keep getting drowned out by some people black turtlenecks and artsy looking glasses. I think they may be a cult.
the cloud is not taking over everything, not everyone is going to give up their computers for a network appliance that depends on the cloud to do anything and everything, the cloud will at best become useful for a few people but not everyone
the cloud is not taking over everything, not everyone is going to give up their computers for a network appliance that depends on the cloud to do anything and everything, the cloud will at best become useful for a few people but not everyone
As some one old enough to enter raw hex in to a hex keypad on a machine with an LED display having hand assembled the code in the back of her math exercise book during a math lesson (when I should have been learning stats) this doesn't sound too different.
You kids and yer "raw hex keypads" and "LED readouts." Why, back in my day, we had toggle switches and light bulbs! And we liked it that way! Now you kids get off my law.....hey, wait...you're a girl? You can stay.:)
Well, a fiddle is a crude folk instrument or a medieval precursor to the voilin, and a violin is a sophisticated, nuanced instrument that the fiddle is a crude imitation of. So your version was a bit of a fiddle?
Um, no. In the U.S. a fiddle typically is a violin, especially when referring to American Folk, Bluegrass or Country music, so literally, from mcgrew's American point-of-view, the only real difference is the style of music being played (although "fiddle" players may prefer one variety of string or bow over another, the instrument that is called a "fiddle" and the instrument that is called a "violin" are typically the same thing.)
In the States, Classical music is not nearly as popular as Folk, Bluegrass or Country. Hence "fiddle" music is more popular than "violin" music, although technically these are typically the same instrument.
So what mcgrew is saying is that RadioShack's "Lunar Lander" game and his "Lunar Lander" game were very, very similar, but people liked his better for various reasons that he didn't clarify in his original post, but I'm guessing by the fiddle analogy, he means that his had better graphics/visuals and probably better controls.
Just thought I'd clear that up for you non-Americans out there who are all probably not going to get what mcgrew means.
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You must be .... This is slashdot, right? Oh, I get it.
Let me tell you something: God speaks ForTran, and the guys who translated the bible from ForTran to Hebrew did a really really bad job.
Indeed. For example, here's the FORTRAN source code to Genesis.
P=Physicist. I am a Programmer. (Duh)
OTOH, Maybe they just ripped off the Koreans.
Looks like the same info to me.
(But IANAP)
Anything produced by the United States Federal Government (which the National Institute of Standards and Technology certainly qualifies as), is in the public domain.
That's what he meant.
*hollow laugh* goodluckwithtthat
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies? And ... Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds!
Kirk: They're animals!
Linus: Jim, they're an historic opportunity here.
Kirk: Don't believe them. Don't trust them.
Linus: They're dying.
Kirk: Let them die!
If you simply dislike spinach, you don't have a disease. If your dislike of spinach, however, makes you start a massive campaign calling spinach evil and saying nobody should eat it, then yes, you have a disease.
But....spinach is evil!
That's not true. I was doing Delphi in the mid 90s. I started out on Turbo Pascal in the mid 1980s.
Agreed.
Something Bill Gates saw a very long time ago is that hardware is nothing without software.
Agreed. Greywolf's Corollary to the Streisand Effect: As long as someone else has the same content available for free, users will go there instead of to your site, given the choice.
It's a list of permissions, that, by default, are not permissable under ordinary copyright law. For any given copyrighted work, you have no right to copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, any of it.The GPL only grants permissions that would otherwise be denied.
The GPL is saying you can distribute, you can copy, you can modify, but, in order to be granted these rights, you must also confer them on everyone else, including any derivative works you make.
IOW, GPL is more restrictive than BSD/X11/MIT/PSF (but only in that these licenses more or less waive all the rights while requiring only attribution usually), but less restrictive than copyright by itself..
I'm actually surprised at how quickly some of these platforms like the iPhone have developed completely closed programming environments with barely a peep of protest from the normally pretty libertarian tech crowd.
You must be...actually, some of us have been protesting, but our voices keep getting drowned out by some people black turtlenecks and artsy looking glasses. I think they may be a cult.
the cloud is not taking over everything, not everyone is going to give up their computers for a network appliance that depends on the cloud to do anything and everything, the cloud will at best become useful for a few people but not everyone
the cloud is not taking over everything, not everyone is going to give up their computers for a network appliance that depends on the cloud to do anything and everything, the cloud will at best become useful for a few people but not everyone
About NOK 80, but it seems to be falling right now.
Wow. They sure went out of their way to fake the moon landing. I bet the source-code is fake too :-PY
No, they couldn't have written in Python as it wasn't even a gleam in Guido's eye yet.
Except if you screwed up you didn't cause several people to explode.
Well, ya never know with power supplies back then...
As some one old enough to enter raw hex in to a hex keypad on a machine with an LED display having hand assembled the code in the back of her math exercise book during a math lesson (when I should have been learning stats) this doesn't sound too different.
You kids and yer "raw hex keypads" and "LED readouts." Why, back in my day, we had toggle switches and light bulbs! And we liked it that way! Now you kids get off my law.....hey, wait...you're a girl? You can stay. :)
I run MCP and how do you run two operating systems on top of each other?
With Emacs, it ain't hard.
Women hardly want it as it is, and nerds are a total turn off.
Trust, me, son. You just don't know the right women.
What's DOS? I run ITS and I'm posting this from the original Emacs, you insensitive clod!
NASA faked it. It was built in a secret government facility in New Mexico by green aliens.
Okay, so these Mexicans ate some bad burritos or what?
Well, a fiddle is a crude folk instrument or a medieval precursor to the voilin, and a violin is a sophisticated, nuanced instrument that the fiddle is a crude imitation of. So your version was a bit of a fiddle?
Um, no. In the U.S. a fiddle typically is a violin, especially when referring to American Folk, Bluegrass or Country music, so literally, from mcgrew's American point-of-view, the only real difference is the style of music being played (although "fiddle" players may prefer one variety of string or bow over another, the instrument that is called a "fiddle" and the instrument that is called a "violin" are typically the same thing.)
In the States, Classical music is not nearly as popular as Folk, Bluegrass or Country. Hence "fiddle" music is more popular than "violin" music, although technically these are typically the same instrument.
So what mcgrew is saying is that RadioShack's "Lunar Lander" game and his "Lunar Lander" game were very, very similar, but people liked his better for various reasons that he didn't clarify in his original post, but I'm guessing by the fiddle analogy, he means that his had better graphics/visuals and probably better controls.
Just thought I'd clear that up for you non-Americans out there who are all probably not going to get what mcgrew means.
Krazy Glue. It can hold a man suspended in mid-air!