We're looking at an approach where programs used in this way will have to include a command for the user to download the source for the version that is running.
So that becomes (in GPL3):
4. The freedom to publish some, but not all, modified versions.
Lieber's co-authors are Gengfeng Zheng, Fernando Patolsky, Yi Cui and Wayne U. Wang, all of Harvard's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Biophysics Program and Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Cancer Institute.
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NASA Cancels Rover on Joint Japan-US Asteroid Mission
November 3, 2000
NASA has canceled the development of a miniature rover, which would have been part of the U.S. contribution to a Japanese mission to an asteroid in September, 2005. The primary reasons for the cancellation were rising costs and weight.
Dell shot themselves in the foot with these kiosks, IMHO. Thats up to 11 more states where they have to charge sales tax on even their mail order sales.
Entry level DLP front projectors like the Benq PB6100 and InFocus X1 are now sub-$800, and will be less than that by XMAS.
These are now priced within range of the average consumer, and will kill sales of the overpriced flatscreen TV's.
There is a reason that Best Buy et al do not place these projectors anywhere near their TV department. They don't want the consumer to walk out of the store with an $800 (or less, by XMAS) purchase when they can suck them into to paying $2000 or more for plasma/LCD flatscreens or rear projectors.
Intel might have missed the boat on this one. It wouldn't be the first time.
I stopped watching the games when it became clear that USA and Aussie swimmers were being bred for long torsos, short legs, and flipper feet in order to get around the restrictions on drug doping. This is but one example of the rampant genetic manipulation and experimentation going on now in sports. The Olympics has become a real freak show.
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html Two venerable Unix tools for checking writing have recently been made available for Linux-based systems: style and diction.
Old-timers probably remember these names -- the originals came with AT&T UNIX as part of the much-loved "Writer's Workbench" (WWB) suite of tools back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.(20)
AT&T "unbundled" the Writer's Workbench from their UNIX version 7 product, and as the many flavors of Unix blossomed over the years, these tools were lost by the wayside -- eventually becoming the stuff of Unix lore.
In 1997, Michael Haardt wrote new Linux versions of these tools from scratch. They support both the English and German languages, and they're now part of the GNU Project.
Two additional commands that were part of the Writer's Workbench have long been standard on Linux: look and spell, described previously in this chapter.
* Diction: Checking for misused phrases.
* Doubled Words: Checking for doubled words.
* Writing Style: Checking writing style.
* Difficult Sentences: Checking for difficult sentences.
* Long Sentences: Checking for long sentences.
Re:shell scripts vs. programming languages...
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Wicked Cool Shell Scripts
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· Score: 4, Informative
Well, I think Silent Bob (garcia) is directly attacking me as the author of these fine tools:
Linux tools for geocaching
I do know Perl as well as all of the original Unix tools: awk, sed, and of course my favorite: shell.
The short and main explanation is that shell/awk/sed lend themselves very well to what is known as the "Unix tools" approach. Its a way of thinking using a small set of core tools that pays big rewards in productivity.
In the case of my geocaching tools, two things were plainly obvious to me at the start. 1) I would be scraping the pages with curl, because there is no better and easier tool for that job, and 2) gpsbabel would be a main part of almost every tool because it knows how to work with a bajillion waypoint formats. So the onl;y question after that is which language to use to glue those commands together. Shell, awk, and perl can all do that. I used shell to tie it all together because that is what shell is best at.
In a few of the tools, geo-map in particular, I did make a mistake in the glue choice. My excuse there is that it evolved far beyond its original design goals. So it ended up requiring a lot of floating point calculations and therefore I had to run several mini-awk scripts within it. If I were to rewrite it today, I would make it a pure AWK script. Why not perl? Because, IMHO, awk has the cleanest syntax of any of the scripting languages.
So, then, when *would* I use perl? In general, I select perl when 1) there is a pre-written module that does a job that would be hard to do with shell/awk/sed, and 2) the use of that module is truly necessary. That second point is very important to me. The mere existance of a Perl module does not necessarily mean its the best or fastest way to solve the problem.
Perl was the language of choice for "Belle", which is a 4000 line IRC robot I coauthored for use in my daytrading activities. The IRC module was what tipped the scale for Perl in that case.
Another problem with perl modules is that using them guarantees that you will lose some percentage of potential users of your program. Having to find and install additional packages puts many people off. I try to make my scripts completely self-contained (including usage doco) so that people don't have to go thru these hassles.
Anyway, you can argue with any of my points, but what you can't argue with is that I have the largest set of command line tools for geocaching that work, regardless what my language choice was.
The shell helper that I am totally lost without is one that adds directory history to bash and ksh. You can find it here:
_cd
# Now you have a cd with these extra features: # - List most recent dirs: cd -l cd -l # - Go to dir number N cd -N cd -3 # - Go to previous dir cd - cd - # - Go to dir with SUBSTR in it cd -SUBSTR cd -rick # - Go to/dir by first letter cd +usncu # a.k.a. cd/usr/spool/news/comp/unix # - Go to rel dir by letter cd/usr/spool/news; cd ++abpe # # And a few other things you can figure out by reading this function
I guess I never really got the idea of a stack of dirs being useful, since I seem to bounce around more at random than anything else. I prefer to have a cache of places I've recently been.
Bonus puzzle for slashdot readers: using the cd with history function, what directory is this command likely to take me to?
Slashdot Mirror
Both links do not stream for me. Just download, and then play. This on FC3.
Sheesh.
Yech!
$3000.00
According to my son, who is addicted to PuzzlePirates. He uses his laptop only for playing Full Tilt Poker.
So that means not patented?????
You think Zonk could retract this?
"Here is your order summary, including shipping costs and any taxes.
Items in cart: 2 x GP2X Console Value Pack
Total Items cost: £ 249.98
Shipping cost: £ 17.5 (International)
Total cost with shipping: £ 267.48
To pay please click proceed.
Firefox users any problems please use Opera or Internet Explorer."
"Firefox users any problems please use Opera or Internet Explorer."
Jeez!
It won't be part of the Vista release, set for the second half of next year.
FC4 rpm, not FC3.
Subject says it all.
http://www.fsmlabs.com/rtlinux-is-unfair-by-design .html
The Planetary Society
NASA Cancels Rover on Joint Japan-US Asteroid Mission
November 3, 2000
NASA has canceled the development of a miniature rover, which would have been part of the U.S. contribution to a Japanese mission to an asteroid in September, 2005. The primary reasons for the cancellation were rising costs and weight.
A Previous President.
Dell shot themselves in the foot with these kiosks, IMHO. Thats up to 11 more states where they have to charge sales tax on even their mail order sales.
We had one in Minnetonka, MN, and it folded several years ago. Who wants to pay list price?
This setup will increase your productivity far more than dual monitors...
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http://www.veryfunnypics.com/work/images/nobreaks
Entry level DLP front projectors like the Benq PB6100 and InFocus X1 are now sub-$800, and will be less than that by XMAS.
These are now priced within range of the average consumer, and will kill sales of the overpriced flatscreen TV's.
There is a reason that Best Buy et al do not place these projectors anywhere near their TV department. They don't want the consumer to walk out of the store with an $800 (or less, by XMAS) purchase when they can suck them into to paying $2000 or more for plasma/LCD flatscreens or rear projectors.
Intel might have missed the boat on this one. It wouldn't be the first time.
-Rick
Prohibition never works.
Not if your goal is to keep your people employed AND make a tiny profit.
Checking Grammar
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/diction/diction.html
Two venerable Unix tools for checking writing have recently been made available for Linux-based systems: style and diction.
Old-timers probably remember these names -- the originals came with AT&T UNIX as part of the much-loved "Writer's Workbench" (WWB) suite of tools back in the late 1970s and early 1980s.(20)
AT&T "unbundled" the Writer's Workbench from their UNIX version 7 product, and as the many flavors of Unix blossomed over the years, these tools were lost by the wayside -- eventually becoming the stuff of Unix lore.
In 1997, Michael Haardt wrote new Linux versions of these tools from scratch. They support both the English and German languages, and they're now part of the GNU Project.
Two additional commands that were part of the Writer's Workbench have long been standard on Linux: look and spell, described previously in this chapter.
* Diction: Checking for misused phrases.
* Doubled Words: Checking for doubled words.
* Writing Style: Checking writing style.
* Difficult Sentences: Checking for difficult sentences.
* Long Sentences: Checking for long sentences.
Excerpted from: http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_15.html#SEC220
If I told you, I'd have to kill you. -Rick
SCO will wait until as close as possible to Google's IPO date to file the suit.
27 cups has been proven to be safe...
2001 Coffee-Thon
-Rick
Well, I think Silent Bob (garcia) is directly attacking me as the author of these fine tools: Linux tools for geocaching
I do know Perl as well as all of the original Unix tools: awk, sed, and of course my favorite: shell.
The short and main explanation is that shell/awk/sed lend themselves very well to what is known as the "Unix tools" approach. Its a way of thinking using a small set of core tools that pays big rewards in productivity.
In the case of my geocaching tools, two things were plainly obvious to me at the start. 1) I would be scraping the pages with curl, because there is no better and easier tool for that job, and 2) gpsbabel would be a main part of almost every tool because it knows how to work with a bajillion waypoint formats. So the onl;y question after that is which language to use to glue those commands together. Shell, awk, and perl can all do that. I used shell to tie it all together because that is what shell is best at.
In a few of the tools, geo-map in particular, I did make a mistake in the glue choice. My excuse there is that it evolved far beyond its original design goals. So it ended up requiring a lot of floating point calculations and therefore I had to run several mini-awk scripts within it. If I were to rewrite it today, I would make it a pure AWK script. Why not perl? Because, IMHO, awk has the cleanest syntax of any of the scripting languages.
So, then, when *would* I use perl? In general, I select perl when 1) there is a pre-written module that does a job that would be hard to do with shell/awk/sed, and 2) the use of that module is truly necessary. That second point is very important to me. The mere existance of a Perl module does not necessarily mean its the best or fastest way to solve the problem.
Perl was the language of choice for "Belle", which is a 4000 line IRC robot I coauthored for use in my daytrading activities. The IRC module was what tipped the scale for Perl in that case.
Another problem with perl modules is that using them guarantees that you will lose some percentage of potential users of your program. Having to find and install additional packages puts many people off. I try to make my scripts completely self-contained (including usage doco) so that people don't have to go thru these hassles.
Anyway, you can argue with any of my points, but what you can't argue with is that I have the largest set of command line tools for geocaching that work, regardless what my language choice was.
-Rick
The shell helper that I am totally lost without is one that adds directory history to bash and ksh. You can find it here: _cd
I guess I never really got the idea of a stack of dirs being useful, since I seem to bounce around more at random than anything else. I prefer to have a cache of places I've recently been.
Bonus puzzle for slashdot readers: using the cd with history function, what directory is this command likely to take me to?