Kinokuniya in San Francisco may be part of the same company, or maybe it's just an obvious name for bookstores, but they have quite a few shrink-wrapped copies of many of the popular titles. They also keep a "dirty paws" copy for thumbing through, but they really do get pretty beat up.
I'd say half of the (quite large) store shelf space was dedicated to coffee table books of nudes, personality profiles with nudes, anime fandom magazines in English, thousands of titles of manga for all age ranges in English and Japanese, and tourism photo books, so the dirty paws is not an insignificant problem on their inventory.
Here's a suggestion: if Reload has been clicked in the last second, and is clicked again, then perform a full reload instead of the default partial.
This is similar to the graduated selection gestures on Macintoshes and some terminal applications (click more often to select character, word, line, or paragraph).
I'm surprised more interface elements don't support graduated power, where a single click gives a happy-and-useful partial solution, a double-click does the same but is more inclusive in an obvious way. In this case, it's even more natural than the aforementioned text-selection: "dammit, refresh more!"
You know, c|net did a pretty good job of covering the story without the scare-mongering, sensationalistic crap that this poster did. People could read the article and draw their own conclusions, rather than shepherding the flock to the appropriate anti-X rhetoric opinion.
Because SCO feels that IBM was the responsible party for leaking secrets (with access to SCO's IP and also Linux). I think SCO is full of shit, but that doesn't mean RMS or IBM or anyone else is rosy clean, either.
As for RMS explaining that Intellectual Property as being a worthless concept, then why does he protect the Copyright and other intellectual assets so fiercely? If IP was truly worthless, then set the code free into the Public Domain. That's not what he does, which indicates (to me at least) that he finds Copyright law to be intensely powerful in advancing his agenda: to control who can and cannot build atop GNU code. They say GNU empowers the users. I say, if IP is worthless, then what's the difference between "use" and "extend"?
I wish folks would just stop with the GNU/Linux junk.
In this specific dispute with SCO, we're not talking about the userland tools but about the kernel itself. I seem to remember someone named Linus calling the kernel just plain "Linux" and trademarking it to that effect.
As for distributions, they can call their product whatever they want. If they include self-licensed elements, I can see why they wouldn't want to name it "X/Perl/Apache/BSD/Mozilla/GNU/Linux". I'm personally glad that Red Hat hasn't succumbed to the annoying GNU/affectation. "Red Hat Linux" says what customers need to hear, and no more.
During the design and development phases of the Windows 95 project (which was codenamed "Windows 93", then "Chicago", but I digress), the mantra was to design for the VP Brad Silverberg's Mom. If she couldn't use it, it was not ready.
And now people are still saying Windows doesn't pass the Mom test. Things never change.
I completely concur with the poster's prejudices and pleasant surprise at the scope of the book. Having learned and used regex since 1986, and having worked on the internals of a couple lightweight C regex engines, I figured I knew all I needed to know. Having seen how many people just get hung up on the basic concept and syntax of regex, I assumed this was going to be a rehash.
This is no "Learn Regex in 21 Days" or "Regex for Dummies" book with lots of tips on page 400 about how the | is useful for finding Jones OR Smith. If you haven't gotten that down yet, this book's not for you.
As the reviewer says, this is a very worthwhile cover-to-cover read which will turn your empirical experiences with regex into a more structured understanding of the science and engineering of advanced regex. As a reference on my shelf, it sits comfortably next to Knuth's AoCP and Foley & van Damme.
Tell your Congressfolk that the bill should explain to their voters that everything ever created, from crayon scribblings to songs in the shower to Madonna's "What do you think you're doing" MP3 is automatically covered by Copyright as soon as it's created, and how you should benefit from Copyright laws too.
Tell your Congressfolk that the bill should also include programs which explain to constituents just what the social and cultural benefits of the Public Domain might be, which is what the "limited times" Copyright bargain was designed to enrich.
Tell your Congressfolk that the bill should tell taxpaying citizens that even though only a very few titles are commercially viable, virtually nothing since the days of their Great Grandmother's prom night has been released from Copyright in order to enrich the Public Domain.
Extra thought as I hit 'submit': the media companies would probably attack such companion data products with trademark issues. It's hard to sell a product which edits "Terminator 3" without somehow mentioning the owned trademark.
There's selling pre-edited movies. I'd say that should be protected under Doctrine of First Sale, as long as it's clearly labeled, but that argument doesn't appear to hold much water in cases so far.
Then there's selling companion data which DVD players could use on-the-fly to edit out portions of movies. Since the companion data wouldn't even quote the original media, it's quite likely it would hold up to any sensible interpretation of the law.
A lot of people are yelling about governments not procuring or using GPL'd software, but it appears the complaint is about commissioning the creation of software under the GPL. And I'd agree with that proposition: if the taxpayers fund it, it should be in the Public Domain. Anyone and everyone can use it, abuse it, make money off it, extend it, wipe their butt with it, and write poems about it without any licensing issues whatsoever.
Perl is under the "Perl Artistic License" as well as the GPL. Most pages say "under the same terms as Perl itself," which is intended to catch all such license issues rather than constantly updating tens of thousands of instances with new license terms.
I would add the obvious (0) cache and display any PLAIN TEXT FILE I choose. I don't want to be bothered with marking up something that's already perfectly readable but not in some fancy 1990s layout crap. I have plenty of very large text sources thank you. The only additional feature for usability might be a word-wrap toggle due to the width constraints of the small display.
For some reason, when people hear the word Mormon, they think of some self-righteous religious group who means well, but they're beliefs have warped their views to the point where Mormons are out of touch with reality.
I could perform s/Mormon/pick(qw(Catholic Muslim Jew Baptist Buddhist Fundamentalist Republican Democrat Libertarian))/ge and still think it holds just as true, and just as poignant. The more you identify with a particular organization or culture, the less you're "just human." Organizations polarize people according to beliefs and goals, by definition. If Hilary Rosen thought outside the goals of the RIAA, she wouldn't be so reviled, and if Richard Stallman thought outside the goals of the FSF, he wouldn't be seen as such a wacko. Mormons can be just as warped, and when the only word you have to define a particular person is 'Mormon,' then it's pretty natural to assign all the connotations of Mormon extremism until shown otherwise.
There was a great wind through Nantucket...
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I absolutely can't believe there are no limericks on this topic, already.
There was a great wind through Nantucket,
With power to spare for Woonsocket.
Those with homes on the Bay
Blew even harder, they say,
So that's where the tree-huggers stuck it.
I did my first programming on a friend's Apple ][ years ago by trial and error, and editing the programs of my friend's more knowledgeable older brother.
After that, my dad got me a Tandy Color Computer and a VIC-20. I learned a lot more when I had some reading materials. I found that it didn't matter what the quality of the writing was, but that I could read the books while not at the computer. These were full of sappy, condescending lines like "Mr. Variable remembers a number for you."
Once you understand that (1) a variable can only hold one value at a time, (2) an instuction can read variables or change variables, and (3) an algorithm or program is just like a cooking recipe with a number of instructions to follow (and very literally at that), then you're well on your way.
The rest is just grammatical details of a given language (how to type an instruction), tactical details of a given language (what kinds of instructions there are to manipulate variables), and semantical details of the given language (what kinds of values the variables can hold).
It's valuable to hold a scheduled live event, but not everyone can attend. Could someone (official or not) please capture a log and post it for others to read (and flam... er, respond).
My own question would be why no technical aids have been implemented to avoid reposting articles ("has this URL been posted in the past X time?"), offer basic grammatical assistance (highlight the article via pipe through aspell or better), or assist Editors in other obvious ways. If I used slash for my own projects, I'd offer help, but I don't use slash. Someone ask.:)
And by "business questions," are you saying you won't talk about NYT &partner=SLASHDOT?
Another issue with "come in and audit" provisions is that it's completely out of the question for many businesses. Are you a military contractor using Linux in a backroom situation? Can't have folks visiting your secure facility. Are you a financial institution using Linux in just about any capacity at all? Can't have external audits of almost any kind.
Overbearing EULAs cost Linux companies dearly. Adoption of new technologies is often driven by "see what you can do" pilot programs in the military, and the credibility of "best money can buy" financial installations.
I actually ran a small homebrew site like this for a while. It was www.mindshareware.com. Not a firm requirement for GPL, but for any of the open licenses (as I published source code). Got three one-day projects finished.
If the port should take four man-weeks to do, that works out to about $23 dollars per hour. Somehow I think they're going to need to collect more bounty before developers would "fall all over themselves" for the task.
That said, if I had extra cash, I'd offer bounties for small programming tasks. My home life doesn't afford enough hacking time to do all of the ideas I write down, and I would love to parcel them out for a hobby-sized bounty to students or other junior coders who also want to use it as a learning opportunity.
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I'd say half of the (quite large) store shelf space was dedicated to coffee table books of nudes, personality profiles with nudes, anime fandom magazines in English, thousands of titles of manga for all age ranges in English and Japanese, and tourism photo books, so the dirty paws is not an insignificant problem on their inventory.
Don't saddle your wide-appeal product with a narrow-appeal name like "Peek-a-Booty."
Here's a suggestion: if Reload has been clicked in the last second, and is clicked again, then perform a full reload instead of the default partial.
This is similar to the graduated selection gestures on Macintoshes and some terminal applications (click more often to select character, word, line, or paragraph).
I'm surprised more interface elements don't support graduated power, where a single click gives a happy-and-useful partial solution, a double-click does the same but is more inclusive in an obvious way. In this case, it's even more natural than the aforementioned text-selection: "dammit, refresh more!"
You know, c|net did a pretty good job of covering the story without the scare-mongering, sensationalistic crap that this poster did. People could read the article and draw their own conclusions, rather than shepherding the flock to the appropriate anti-X rhetoric opinion.
Hm. Pipedot. Geek news without the slant. Has a certain ring to it.
I can assemble a force of 1,000 drunk North Dakotans with hunting rifles in about a week!
Is that delay waiting for the next Smirnoff truck to drive through the state, or is that for the federal firearm background checks?
Because SCO feels that IBM was the responsible party for leaking secrets (with access to SCO's IP and also Linux). I think SCO is full of shit, but that doesn't mean RMS or IBM or anyone else is rosy clean, either.
As for RMS explaining that Intellectual Property as being a worthless concept, then why does he protect the Copyright and other intellectual assets so fiercely? If IP was truly worthless, then set the code free into the Public Domain. That's not what he does, which indicates (to me at least) that he finds Copyright law to be intensely powerful in advancing his agenda: to control who can and cannot build atop GNU code. They say GNU empowers the users. I say, if IP is worthless, then what's the difference between "use" and "extend"?
I wish folks would just stop with the GNU/Linux junk.
In this specific dispute with SCO, we're not talking about the userland tools but about the kernel itself. I seem to remember someone named Linus calling the kernel just plain "Linux" and trademarking it to that effect.
As for distributions, they can call their product whatever they want. If they include self-licensed elements, I can see why they wouldn't want to name it "X/Perl/Apache/BSD/Mozilla/GNU/Linux". I'm personally glad that Red Hat hasn't succumbed to the annoying GNU/affectation. "Red Hat Linux" says what customers need to hear, and no more.
During the design and development phases of the Windows 95 project (which was codenamed "Windows 93", then "Chicago", but I digress), the mantra was to design for the VP Brad Silverberg's Mom. If she couldn't use it, it was not ready.
And now people are still saying Windows doesn't pass the Mom test. Things never change.
This is no "Learn Regex in 21 Days" or "Regex for Dummies" book with lots of tips on page 400 about how the | is useful for finding Jones OR Smith. If you haven't gotten that down yet, this book's not for you.
As the reviewer says, this is a very worthwhile cover-to-cover read which will turn your empirical experiences with regex into a more structured understanding of the science and engineering of advanced regex. As a reference on my shelf, it sits comfortably next to Knuth's AoCP and Foley & van Damme.
Are they bastards or not?
Tell your Congressfolk that the bill should explain to their voters that everything ever created, from crayon scribblings to songs in the shower to Madonna's "What do you think you're doing" MP3 is automatically covered by Copyright as soon as it's created, and how you should benefit from Copyright laws too.
Tell your Congressfolk that the bill should also include programs which explain to constituents just what the social and cultural benefits of the Public Domain might be, which is what the "limited times" Copyright bargain was designed to enrich.
Tell your Congressfolk that the bill should tell taxpaying citizens that even though only a very few titles are commercially viable, virtually nothing since the days of their Great Grandmother's prom night has been released from Copyright in order to enrich the Public Domain.
Make up your minds!
Wow, surprise of surprises, multiple minds may produce distinctly differing preferences!
Extra thought as I hit 'submit': the media companies would probably attack such companion data products with trademark issues. It's hard to sell a product which edits "Terminator 3" without somehow mentioning the owned trademark.
There's selling pre-edited movies. I'd say that should be protected under Doctrine of First Sale, as long as it's clearly labeled, but that argument doesn't appear to hold much water in cases so far.
Then there's selling companion data which DVD players could use on-the-fly to edit out portions of movies. Since the companion data wouldn't even quote the original media, it's quite likely it would hold up to any sensible interpretation of the law.
A lot of people are yelling about governments not procuring or using GPL'd software, but it appears the complaint is about commissioning the creation of software under the GPL. And I'd agree with that proposition: if the taxpayers fund it, it should be in the Public Domain. Anyone and everyone can use it, abuse it, make money off it, extend it, wipe their butt with it, and write poems about it without any licensing issues whatsoever.
Many of your elements are dual-licensed.
Perl is under the "Perl Artistic License" as well as the GPL. Most pages say "under the same terms as Perl itself," which is intended to catch all such license issues rather than constantly updating tens of thousands of instances with new license terms.
I would add the obvious (0) cache and display any PLAIN TEXT FILE I choose. I don't want to be bothered with marking up something that's already perfectly readable but not in some fancy 1990s layout crap. I have plenty of very large text sources thank you. The only additional feature for usability might be a word-wrap toggle due to the width constraints of the small display.
I could perform s/Mormon/pick(qw(Catholic Muslim Jew Baptist Buddhist Fundamentalist Republican Democrat Libertarian))/ge and still think it holds just as true, and just as poignant. The more you identify with a particular organization or culture, the less you're "just human." Organizations polarize people according to beliefs and goals, by definition. If Hilary Rosen thought outside the goals of the RIAA, she wouldn't be so reviled, and if Richard Stallman thought outside the goals of the FSF, he wouldn't be seen as such a wacko. Mormons can be just as warped, and when the only word you have to define a particular person is 'Mormon,' then it's pretty natural to assign all the connotations of Mormon extremism until shown otherwise.
With power to spare for Woonsocket. Those with homes on the Bay Blew even harder, they say, So that's where the tree-huggers stuck it.
After that, my dad got me a Tandy Color Computer and a VIC-20. I learned a lot more when I had some reading materials. I found that it didn't matter what the quality of the writing was, but that I could read the books while not at the computer. These were full of sappy, condescending lines like "Mr. Variable remembers a number for you."
Once you understand that (1) a variable can only hold one value at a time, (2) an instuction can read variables or change variables, and (3) an algorithm or program is just like a cooking recipe with a number of instructions to follow (and very literally at that), then you're well on your way.
The rest is just grammatical details of a given language (how to type an instruction), tactical details of a given language (what kinds of instructions there are to manipulate variables), and semantical details of the given language (what kinds of values the variables can hold).
It's valuable to hold a scheduled live event, but not everyone can attend. Could someone (official or not) please capture a log and post it for others to read (and flam... er, respond).
My own question would be why no technical aids have been implemented to avoid reposting articles ("has this URL been posted in the past X time?"), offer basic grammatical assistance (highlight the article via pipe through aspell or better), or assist Editors in other obvious ways. If I used slash for my own projects, I'd offer help, but I don't use slash. Someone ask. :)
And by "business questions," are you saying you won't talk about NYT &partner=SLASHDOT?
Another issue with "come in and audit" provisions is that it's completely out of the question for many businesses. Are you a military contractor using Linux in a backroom situation? Can't have folks visiting your secure facility. Are you a financial institution using Linux in just about any capacity at all? Can't have external audits of almost any kind.
Overbearing EULAs cost Linux companies dearly. Adoption of new technologies is often driven by "see what you can do" pilot programs in the military, and the credibility of "best money can buy" financial installations.
I actually ran a small homebrew site like this for a while. It was www.mindshareware.com. Not a firm requirement for GPL, but for any of the open licenses (as I published source code). Got three one-day projects finished.
If the port should take four man-weeks to do, that works out to about $23 dollars per hour. Somehow I think they're going to need to collect more bounty before developers would "fall all over themselves" for the task.
That said, if I had extra cash, I'd offer bounties for small programming tasks. My home life doesn't afford enough hacking time to do all of the ideas I write down, and I would love to parcel them out for a hobby-sized bounty to students or other junior coders who also want to use it as a learning opportunity.