Re:Using comics to scare people...
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So are you saying that this keyboard comic is a Chicklet tract?
Re:I refer you to a very old post I wrote
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Drafting GPL3
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Freedom requires life; software itself cannot suffer from a lack of freedom.
Re:the code of conduct for free software distribut
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Hm, explain the value to the user in ensuring that the GPL source is available to those users who have no understanding of what the source code is? All you have there is just a downward pricing pressure, not freedom.
You seem to be under the impression that there can be only one license. I'm a developer so I care about *my* rights. I'm a user, so I care about *my* rights. I don't expect all developers to agree with the GPL or even align with it. I don't expect all users to agree with the BSD or even know what it is. The only thing I think everyone should do is to *honor* the license under which a product is provided.
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Just because the GNU folks call it "free" doesn't mean it is free in all ways. A GNU license ensures the *user* has the most freedom, and a BSD license ensures the *developers* have the most freedom. In either case, the other group loses some freedom. A GNU license creates a situation where developers cannot merge published code with their proprietary code, while a BSD license creates a situation where some users might not have access to a particular modified variant of the published code.
Faster, measured against what frame of reference? A marker on the equator versus the center of mass? As seen from the moon? Sol? Alpha Proxima? Vega? The center of Andromeda's galactic core?
The problem with Unicode URL spoofing seems to be related to the fact that there are more than one glyph/codepoint which resembles common ASCII-range characters. Why not just detect those cases and throw a red flag?
The number of non-ASCII codepoints which often look like
[A-Za-z0-9.\-]
should be fairly limited and known, and there's no good reason to use the non-ASCII ones in a trustworthy domain name. Just notify the user if the Punicode (or other IDN encoding) would try to invoke those alternative glyphs.
It's a robot that can make a wide variety of 2D and 3D parts, including circuit boards. Previously, 3D printers have not had much success at circuit boards because of the obvious need for two different materials (insulating substrate and conductive paths). This one can make any of the parts necessary to make a second robot, which you then assemble and sell/give to someone else.
Personally, I prefer strcmp() match calls to be written as such:
if (0 == strcmp("this", "that))...
The use of the ! operator just makes it look like it's returning a boolean result, which it isn't. I know there's no difference to the machine: a boolean result is an integer result and the compiler doesn't care. But source code is at least as much for the humans as for the machine, and anything I can do to help the maintenance programmer read the code the right way the first time, I try to do for them.
And when you realize that you're an infinitesimal dot on an infinitesimal dot, you'll go completely stark raving mad.
Unless you're in a personal pocket universe, of course, in which case you're the most important thing in it.
I haven't yet tried it-- is the fix just a reload/re-layout after the page is done loading? Or is it more of an actual fix?
I noticed that phpBB forum sites often have the same issue for their right column. A real fix should notice the problem during layout and rework the layout assumptions that are proven false as it goes.
When will the execs stop wasting their money on all this ineffective DRM "technology"? If it can be seen, it can be copied. The profit comes from producing a complete package experience with liner notes and pride-of-bookshelf, not just the (approximate) digital waveform.
I'm dubious of any of these government-switches-to-Linux stories, until there are actual machines running actual applications for actual government employees. Before that time, it's just as much hot air as any government office, and the motives are just as likely political. They may just be trying to force Microsoft to a different price bracket, with no real intention of following through with the bluff.
I wrote a cool little tool to give 6-degrees input from a single webcam. It tracks the three points of a triangle, and calculates X-Y-Z-tilt-rotation-elevation based on that.
Well, the big VR guys tend to lay out multiple cameras and correlate the visible dots by similar methods, allowing you to track more dots, and also not require rigid known relationships between them. I saw a recent lab set up that uses up to 30 cameras to track the hands and heads of multiple collaborators. They're still refining the wireless video to each eye, though. Multiple umbilicals suck for usability.
Maybe if you knew what coal WAS, you might get some inkling of the "myth" behind coal and diamonds. Coal is naturally compressed carbon, usually from the decomposition of biomass. It can be up to 98% pure carbon and the impurities can be squeezed out or squeezed into the lattice as the molecules find tighter and tighter packing arrangements. Basically, carbon deposits could be coal or graphite, except for the fluke arrangement of higher environmental pressure and heat from volcanic activity.
http://www.showcaves.com/english/explain/Mines/Dia mond.htmlhttp://www.ket.org/Trips/Coal/Glossary.html
Try loading a breach loader. That's not point and click, either. But that's irrelevant. In many cases, a well-trained underling such as a squire could prepare cocked crossbows or an infantryman could prepare his own shot earlier in the day. It's the moment of battle where you need an easy interface, which both weapons provided.
Crossbows were made before firearms. Firearms may be merely an evolution of crossbows, where an explosion of powder was used instead of the release of a tense string. Crossbows themselves are merely bows which store your arm power until released, by, um, pointing and clicking.
a completely new version of Linux that will be released sometime in the near future... IE not at all
Was that the abbreviated Latin "i.e." [id est (it is), alternatively, in essence], or was that the abbreviated Microsoft "IE" [Internet Explorer (TM), alternatively, internet exploder]?
And by a strange coincidence, "not at all" is exactly how much suspicion that you should have that I come from a planet near Betelgeux.
Heh, we both had the same thought at the same time... I ended up spending 3 extra minutes on fancy formatting. Glad I wasn't the only one spotting the odd leadin style.
You've had a long, tedious day at work. You have some money in the bank and decide that you need to spend some of it on yourself rather than hand it over to the Man. Therefore, being a nerd, you go straight to the bookstore after work. You don't see anything exciting in the new releases for science fiction; you look at the new pop-science books, but nothing jumps out at you from the shelf- but wait...
There is a massive new book entitled "The Road to Reality" here.
> look at book
The subtitle seems a bit presumptuous: 'A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe.'
> get book
You pick up the heavy volume.
How about just leading in with something a bit less prosaic and a bit more opinioned about the work itself?
You know, Microsoft hasn't been spelled with a capital S since early 1987. Maybe in 2007, the geeks who hold a grudge could let this one go, and spell the trademark correctly. Heck, hardly anybody says "Un*x" anymore...
Did you think you have the RIGHT to post something on their site and have it published continuously? It's their server, they can do what they want. Publish your own freaking blog. Your Rights Online, indeed.
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So are you saying that this keyboard comic is a Chicklet tract?
Freedom requires life; software itself cannot suffer from a lack of freedom.
You seem to be under the impression that there can be only one license. I'm a developer so I care about *my* rights. I'm a user, so I care about *my* rights. I don't expect all developers to agree with the GPL or even align with it. I don't expect all users to agree with the BSD or even know what it is. The only thing I think everyone should do is to *honor* the license under which a product is provided.
Just because the GNU folks call it "free" doesn't mean it is free in all ways. A GNU license ensures the *user* has the most freedom, and a BSD license ensures the *developers* have the most freedom. In either case, the other group loses some freedom. A GNU license creates a situation where developers cannot merge published code with their proprietary code, while a BSD license creates a situation where some users might not have access to a particular modified variant of the published code.
Faster, measured against what frame of reference? A marker on the equator versus the center of mass? As seen from the moon? Sol? Alpha Proxima? Vega? The center of Andromeda's galactic core?
The number of non-ASCII codepoints which often look like
should be fairly limited and known, and there's no good reason to use the non-ASCII ones in a trustworthy domain name. Just notify the user if the Punicode (or other IDN encoding) would try to invoke those alternative glyphs.It's a robot that can make a wide variety of 2D and 3D parts, including circuit boards. Previously, 3D printers have not had much success at circuit boards because of the obvious need for two different materials (insulating substrate and conductive paths). This one can make any of the parts necessary to make a second robot, which you then assemble and sell/give to someone else.
And when you realize that you're an infinitesimal dot on an infinitesimal dot, you'll go completely stark raving mad. Unless you're in a personal pocket universe, of course, in which case you're the most important thing in it.
I noticed that phpBB forum sites often have the same issue for their right column. A real fix should notice the problem during layout and rework the layout assumptions that are proven false as it goes.
When will the execs stop wasting their money on all this ineffective DRM "technology"? If it can be seen, it can be copied. The profit comes from producing a complete package experience with liner notes and pride-of-bookshelf, not just the (approximate) digital waveform.
I'm dubious of any of these government-switches-to-Linux stories, until there are actual machines running actual applications for actual government employees. Before that time, it's just as much hot air as any government office, and the motives are just as likely political. They may just be trying to force Microsoft to a different price bracket, with no real intention of following through with the bluff.
"It was a good paper, too." --Ellen Feiss
Well, the big VR guys tend to lay out multiple cameras and correlate the visible dots by similar methods, allowing you to track more dots, and also not require rigid known relationships between them. I saw a recent lab set up that uses up to 30 cameras to track the hands and heads of multiple collaborators. They're still refining the wireless video to each eye, though. Multiple umbilicals suck for usability.
Is Kibo's .sig file up to 10MB already? Seems like only yesterday that it was merely a few hundred kilobites.
But do you know the way to San Jose?
Maybe if you knew what coal WAS, you might get some inkling of the "myth" behind coal and diamonds. Coal is naturally compressed carbon, usually from the decomposition of biomass. It can be up to 98% pure carbon and the impurities can be squeezed out or squeezed into the lattice as the molecules find tighter and tighter packing arrangements. Basically, carbon deposits could be coal or graphite, except for the fluke arrangement of higher environmental pressure and heat from volcanic activity. http://www.showcaves.com/english/explain/Mines/Dia mond.html
http://www.ket.org/Trips/Coal/Glossary.html
Try loading a breach loader. That's not point and click, either. But that's irrelevant. In many cases, a well-trained underling such as a squire could prepare cocked crossbows or an infantryman could prepare his own shot earlier in the day. It's the moment of battle where you need an easy interface, which both weapons provided.
Crossbows were made before firearms. Firearms may be merely an evolution of crossbows, where an explosion of powder was used instead of the release of a tense string. Crossbows themselves are merely bows which store your arm power until released, by, um, pointing and clicking.
Was that the abbreviated Latin "i.e." [id est (it is), alternatively, in essence], or was that the abbreviated Microsoft "IE" [Internet Explorer (TM), alternatively, internet exploder]?
And by a strange coincidence, "not at all" is exactly how much suspicion that you should have that I come from a planet near Betelgeux.
Did the little PI symbol for the Praetorians show up on the NASDAQ ticker, too?
Heh, we both had the same thought at the same time... I ended up spending 3 extra minutes on fancy formatting. Glad I wasn't the only one spotting the odd leadin style.
You know, Microsoft hasn't been spelled with a capital S since early 1987. Maybe in 2007, the geeks who hold a grudge could let this one go, and spell the trademark correctly. Heck, hardly anybody says "Un*x" anymore...
Did you think you have the RIGHT to post something on their site and have it published continuously? It's their server, they can do what they want. Publish your own freaking blog. Your Rights Online, indeed.