What exactly is this article about? I mean, it reads like a random collection of thoughts about Google. IMO, not one iota of useful information. News for nerds? Very debatable. Stuff that matters? Certainly not.
Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord
Bulwer-Lytton. This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford,"
written in 1830. The full line reveals why it is so bad:
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except
at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of
wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene
lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty
flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
All predictions of the future have been wrong. Why will this one be any different?
So you're saying that your prediction for this prediction is that this prediction will be wrong? But you say that all predictions have been wrong. So your prediction that this prediction will be wrong is wrong.....
Brilliant article. I had this friend who was a major Windows fanatic, and use to say that while Windows was "Plug and Play", Linux was "Plug and Pray". I should send him this article.
Please dont! Please, please dont. Its all fine and dandy, when its software, but with robots, I cant take another person coming and telling me "free as in speech, not as in Beer"
Physics data. Every single data file is somewhere between 500 MB to 2 GB. All the data that gets generated by the LHC is split into files that are this big. The difference in file sizes is maintain some level of continuity in the data.
Of course not. It would simply be that Microsoft would have sued the company's pants off, and still wouldnt be satisfied with it.
You cant really expect to steal source code and then put it out as your own. This is why GPL v3 promises to be much better.Take GPL'ed source code, if you want, but pay for it with money or with more source code.
Besides, I still dont get how this would destroy a company. I mean, just because the company put their source code back into the community does not mean they have to stop selling it.
"If you're being sued for file-sharing, please press 1 If you were caught using Kazaa, press 2 If you were caught using Morpheus, press 3 If you would like to speak to a lawyer, press 4"
*beep*
"Please hold while I transfer your call to the next available legal representative."
*listen to 5 minutes of Ashlee Simpson*
"All our lawyers are currently suing other customers. Your money is very important to us. Please hold for the next available legal representative"
Hmm. I remember this incredibly intelligent discussion about how evolution is being outlawed in Kansas schools. Wow, Americans have it all figured out.
Slashdot Mirror
Nothing to see here. Please move along
Oh No!! The MPAA has taken over Slashdot.
In soviet China, website hacks you. /flinches for rotten fruit attack
What exactly is this article about?
I mean, it reads like a random collection of thoughts about Google.
IMO, not one iota of useful information.
News for nerds? Very debatable.
Stuff that matters? Certainly not.
--
hawkeye
Nothing to see here. Please Move along.
.....who gets the money if the climate stays the same?
Check here
Stupid Troll
....There's a variety of off-the-shelf remote control vehicles that can do the same thing... probably better.....
Sure. But where the heck is the geek cred in that?
Stolen directly from the fortune databases:
Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse, beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord Bulwer-Lytton. This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford," written in 1830. The full line reveals why it is so bad:
It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.
All predictions of the future have been wrong. Why will this one be any different?
So you're saying that your prediction for this prediction is that this prediction will be wrong? But you say that all predictions have been wrong.
So your prediction that this prediction will be wrong is wrong.....
*head explodes*
the future is the HURD. Even in the future, the future will still be the HURD.
Hah. I knew they used Linux on USS Enterprise. It was just too cool to be anything else.
Oh wait. You mean that enterprise....
I think its supposed to be
If you can name more than one type of verb, then you may well be better off sticking with your copy of The Elements of Style.
..... In a coordinated combination of attacks which included a broad DOS attack on Sys-Con......
It was not a DOS, you Insensitive Clod! It was a slashdotting.
Brilliant article.
I had this friend who was a major Windows fanatic, and use to say that while Windows was "Plug and Play", Linux was "Plug and Pray".
I should send him this article.
At the risk of making this a purely off-topic thread, check out the plural for virus here.
Please dont! Please, please dont.
Its all fine and dandy, when its software, but with robots, I cant take another person coming and telling me "free as in speech, not as in Beer"
one must wonder what that 500TB consisted of
Physics data. Every single data file is somewhere between 500 MB to 2 GB. All the data that gets generated by the LHC is split into files that are this big. The difference in file sizes is maintain some level of continuity in the data.
Shoulda called it BitFinger
Of course not. It would simply be that Microsoft would have sued the company's pants off, and still wouldnt be satisfied with it.
You cant really expect to steal source code and then put it out as your own. This is why GPL v3 promises to be much better.Take GPL'ed source code, if you want, but pay for it with money or with more source code.
Besides, I still dont get how this would destroy a company. I mean, just because the company put their source code back into the community does not mean they have to stop selling it.
All your Moon Base are belong to us.
..... would kick every other Unix's ass was from RMS at a party... in 1990
My God!!! RMS was at a party???
I claim first post. Yippie!
My heart weeps and my thighs burn
Hmm. I remember this incredibly intelligent discussion about how evolution is being outlawed in Kansas schools. Wow, Americans have it all figured out.