I don't know what you think it means when LAN consoles and remote terminal units start crashing but... WHEN THE SHIP HAS TO BE TOWED BACK TO HARBOR you know something is wrong. Combat systems are meant to be redundant and under no circumstances should human error or an application error be so catastrophic that the entire system is disabled.
Have you ever seen a program does REQUIRED MMX, SSE, 3DNow? The truth is aside from Photoshop and some other special applications, no one uses Altivec that much because they want to remain compatible with G3s. Having the G5 (which is used in IBM workstations and servers) gives Apple an edge in server applications where Altivec isn't really that useful.
Chinese is even more positionally determined. In fact, there is no inflection in the language and a word could be a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb depending on it's position in a sentence.
However, most computer languages (C for example) are based entirely on mathematical and set concepts. It really wouldn't matter if I used an arrow to indicate if or a circle to indicate return.
I personally don't think Kylix will get anywhere. Not to sound like a troll but I seriously think the majority of Linux users are cheapskates who see Open Source software as stuff they can take and use with a clear conscience. Thus, I don't see any chance of a Linux user paying >$50 for an IDE.
In fact, Cygnus has been selling a pretty good IDE (Cold Warrior I believe) for a good while and look at the success of that. StarOffice and Applixware haven't exactly been much of a success either despite the need for a Linux-based Office application.
Actually, SUSE is pretty big in the European market like Redhat is here.
I do believe though that SUSE should get more credit for helping out linux development. I believe they also made significant contributions to Xfree86 especially the drivers.
It is legal because you probably gave them the right to sell copies on some contract or other. And you do get royalties 10% I believe.
I'm going to Caltech next month and hell, I've already been forced to sign away rights on any computer programs/algorithms that I develop as part of a class project so this isn't much of a surprise to me.
It's legal because thesis papers and the like are usually published into the public domain without expectations of any royalties. This has been the tradition of the academic community for well over 300 years. What Contentville is doing is compiling an index of all the published papers and making it easy to search and get them. Think of it as a value-added service. I have no problem with this because there's nothing forcing you to download the paper (you could easily ask for a copy from the author).
Now if Contentville suddenly started suing people for distributing and copying papers (even ones downloaded from their site) then there would be a problem. However, as long as Contentville is charging for the priviledge of searching through their database, then it okay by me.
In a word, yes. In fact, running StarOffice is exactly like running Win 98 on top of X.
Try starting X with only StarOffice (no window manager) and you'll see what I mean. It's all there - start menu, programs folder, control panel, integrated browser, "Explorer", the taskbar.
This ultra-liberal viewpoint is totally impractical in reality. Don't you realize that he can be sued or even closed down for allowing access to illicit content. Filtering may not be a very effective strategy but it is sure as hell cheaper than either the liability of having no restrictions on net use or paying someone to constantly keep an eye on things
Since he owns/runs a private business, obviously he decides. Freedom of speech is not violated when you restrict how private property is used. AOL, for example, is perfectly legal in restricting racist comments on their discussion groups.
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I don't know what you think it means when LAN consoles and remote terminal units start crashing but ... WHEN THE SHIP HAS TO BE TOWED BACK TO HARBOR you know something is wrong. Combat systems are meant to be redundant and under no circumstances should human error or an application error be so catastrophic that the entire system is disabled.
Have you ever seen a program does REQUIRED MMX, SSE, 3DNow? The truth is aside from Photoshop and some other special applications, no one uses Altivec that much because they want to remain compatible with G3s. Having the G5 (which is used in IBM workstations and servers) gives Apple an edge in server applications where Altivec isn't really that useful.
Chinese is even more positionally determined. In fact, there is no inflection in the language and a word could be a verb, noun, adjective, or adverb depending on it's position in a sentence.
However, most computer languages (C for example) are based entirely on mathematical and set concepts. It really wouldn't matter if I used an arrow to indicate if or a circle to indicate return.
I personally don't think Kylix will get anywhere. Not to sound like a troll but I seriously think the majority of Linux users are cheapskates who see Open Source software as stuff they can take and use with a clear conscience. Thus, I don't see any chance of a Linux user paying >$50 for an IDE.
In fact, Cygnus has been selling a pretty good IDE (Cold Warrior I believe) for a good while and look at the success of that. StarOffice and Applixware haven't exactly been much of a success either despite the need for a Linux-based Office application.
Actually, SUSE is pretty big in the European market like Redhat is here.
I do believe though that SUSE should get more credit for helping out linux development. I believe they also made significant contributions to Xfree86 especially the drivers.
It is legal because you probably gave them the right to sell copies on some contract or other. And you do get royalties 10% I believe.
I'm going to Caltech next month and hell, I've already been forced to sign away rights on any computer programs/algorithms that I develop as part of a class project so this isn't much of a surprise to me.
It's legal because thesis papers and the like are usually published into the public domain without expectations of any royalties. This has been the tradition of the academic community for well over 300 years. What Contentville is doing is compiling an index of all the published papers and making it easy to search and get them. Think of it as a value-added service. I have no problem with this because there's nothing forcing you to download the paper (you could easily ask for a copy from the author).
Now if Contentville suddenly started suing people for distributing and copying papers (even ones downloaded from their site) then there would be a problem. However, as long as Contentville is charging for the priviledge of searching through their database, then it okay by me.
In a word, yes. In fact, running StarOffice is exactly like running Win 98 on top of X.
Try starting X with only StarOffice (no window manager) and you'll see what I mean. It's all there - start menu, programs folder, control panel, integrated browser, "Explorer", the taskbar.
This ultra-liberal viewpoint is totally impractical in reality. Don't you realize that he can be sued or even closed down for allowing access to illicit content. Filtering may not be a very effective strategy but it is sure as hell cheaper than either the liability of having no restrictions on net use or paying someone to constantly keep an eye on things
Since he owns/runs a private business, obviously he decides. Freedom of speech is not violated when you restrict how private property is used. AOL, for example, is perfectly legal in restricting racist comments on their discussion groups.