It's consumers who BUY features that you personally don't find useful that fuel the entire market for these devices.
I'm at a party, someone asks me about my kids (hypothetical, I don't have any), and I whip out my color PDA and click through 'em. Gets to pictures of my pets, and a friend collects animal pictures for a montage or something and hey there's one that's really cute, no prob, beam it over to her.
Maybe I don't want to carry dozen extra electronic gadgets, one for my pictures, one for my MP3's, one for my appointments. Those not competing for alpha geek status usually don't like being encrusted with electronic barnacles everywhere they go.
Let's not forget the DATA used to populate these programs. There's documents, databases, and phone lists. Having 4 megs is great when keeping the entire company directory in your pilot.
Grafitti is okay as shorthand, for a few letters, a word or two. Writign entire sentences with it is doable. When it gets down to a paragraph or so, it gets to be torture, and in some users, grafitti ended up replacing their ordinary handwriting -- including the fact that they couldn't get used to writing left-to-right again, they'd just layer letters over another.
If you plan on doing anything more than a shopping list and appointments, I'd suggest getting the FITALY keyboard extension.
Why not now? Minus the greasy junk food, so you can live to keep doing these things. (Why anyone would want to kick off the end of their life with a bag of fritos is beyond me)
Why... yes. Sums up the definition of hypocrisy quite nicely, even if that word does get slung around far too often.
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> Not really a good idea. The whole point is that your IP addresses depend on where you're linked into the network.
Many companies already allocate a block of addresses for mobile clients, which could end up connecting to any modem pool. Basically that particular block is a VLAN, and often ends operating over a VPN, so your company is spared the routing headache.
Imagine that, YOU having an IP address that designates YOU. Scary thought, eh?
Most of the internet USERS run windows. They have IP addresses, their machines have to be addressable, ergo they are part of the internet. Leaf nodes, to be sure, but internet regardless.
Recompile? Why indeed should we have to recompile? Why can't it be a modular driver such as the way filesystems are? I could be wrong, but I do believe That Other Operating System does have modular network drivers.
Something like 10 for every square angstrom on the surface of the planet. There's a whole lot more than 10 protons per angstrom of matter on the planet.
Let's not forget Denver. Sun Microsystems opened up its central region headquarters in Broomfield. There's areas where open space stretches clear to the horizon. Let's see how long it takes to fill it all up. Strip malls all the way from Boulder to Colorado Springs most likely.
Note that personally, I'm not calling interaction with automatons anything - I am just apalled by your narrow-mindedness and the way you criticise people with other value systems while apparently trying to force the idea that science must be free from the burden of ethics down everyone's throat.
That's just rich. "Who are you to judge, perhaps my booted foot is comfortable on your neck. This iron fist gets awful cramped, it has to be flexed and pounded on people a few times. Shoving these ridiculous notions that I shouldn't control everything according to my principles of what I believe is best for you... silly children, I know what right and wrong is, and you're better off and you darn well better not be forcing these silly notions on others that there's other ways to think."
It's unfathomable how moralists can get away with claiming that their opposition forces their viewpoint of free inquiry onto others as some sort of oppressive yoke.
Best thing that happened to P, perhaps. To civility, no. What sort of rude things WERE in J's.sig, and what right did J have to resort to personal attacks?
I'm a MOOer, that means I'm an enthusiast of the variety of talk-style MUD (as opposed to combat-style) called LambdaMOO (both a program name and the name of its first installation). When the original maintainer of LambdaMOO (or just MOO, since it totally replaced the original MOO) passed the torch on to another, we saw a bugfix release, and nothing more. It has been years now, and the promised 1.9 version has not arrived, and 2.0 is just not forseeable. Some others have taken it upon themselves to write performance releases, but they let them be known by different lettering for the patch levels ("r" for "rogue" instead of "p" for "patch"). So moo-1.8.0r6 is the sixth "rogue" patchlevel to moo-1.8.0p6 (making a total of 12 patches to 1.8.0).
There's some hard feelings about being let down by not seeing a 1.9 MOO release with new features. Most have lost faith that one will ever be released. But none of the developers creating extra patchlevels have gone off and childishly denigrated the original author for this. It just hasn't gotten personal.
Even linux has quasi-official forks, they're called ac kernels.
Wasn't the major sticking point with Xemacs the fact that Lucid did not want to assign copyright over to the FSF? Personally, I think it's their prerogative, and it's commendable that Xemacs/GNU-Emacs are still highly interoperable. Just that XEmacs is much more highly developed, and it's even smaller now.
The GPL does not apply to the output of a program unless the output "constitutes a work based on the program" [sec. 0], where this clause is clarified further up as being defined as the Program or any derivative work under copyright law. Although it's unlikely the author could get away with claiming copyright on your output because it contains a portion of his work, it's really up to the author how to interpret this. If you're really worried, ask the author to insert a clause like the exemption bison's license gives for the bison skeleton, and have him re-license it to you. If it's your own program, you can do whatever the hell you want:)
> Windows NT currently supports 4 GIGs of RAM. > Linux only supports 1 GIG... but I have heard some people say that it supports 2.
Erroneous. NT and Linux both have the same split memory model, 2 gigs for user, 2 gigs for kernel. A patched kernel on NT allowes a 3/1 split, as does a patch for Linux from SGI. It's quite disingenuous of Microsoft to push this line, and as it's more easily disproven than performance numbers, it's likely to bite them in the ass if they continue to.
Perhaps the thought may have occurred that this is an educational research project? I for one sure wouldn't go to a school that puported to teach computer arts in areas of high-tech multimedia for tomorrow's jobs blah blah etc etc unless they actually had something to teach with.
> A hundred grand could build a whole LAB of computers for students to use.
So if a competitor can trivially disassemble drivers to reverse-engineer them (which is not the case anyhow), what is the added value in doing their reverse-engineering work for them and releasingly nicely formatted source code with symbols and #defines and everything intact, with no optimizer obfuscation, and possibly even comments? Sounds like a gift to the competition if I ever heard one.
My argument has been that it's unlikely anyone will reverse engineer your hardware from your software, but perhaps this is not the case?
Run a greenhouse? The feds have broken in and searched people's homes, causing damage and distress, merely on the basis of them buying an inordinate number of grow lamps and fertilizer. Not that cash helps here, because they're known for using IR cameras to look for hotspots anyway.
Perhaps you're thinking of the F-117? The F-111 is a pretty standard fighter/bomber, carries a decent payload but isn't widely used because it doesn't have carrier deck landing capability. I remember Tom "Read a Jane's Guide and I'm an Expert" Clancy's _Red Storm Rising_ mentioning the bogus F-19, as well as the original F-19 stealth fighter game (which was actually kind of fun) before it was patched to be the F-117.
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The fact that no one is coming forward to defend this wild theory is instructive, wouldn't you say?
It's consumers who BUY features that you personally don't find useful that fuel the entire market for these devices.
I'm at a party, someone asks me about my kids (hypothetical, I don't have any), and I whip out my color PDA and click through 'em. Gets to pictures of my pets, and a friend collects animal pictures for a montage or something and hey there's one that's really cute, no prob, beam it over to her.
Maybe I don't want to carry dozen extra electronic gadgets, one for my pictures, one for my MP3's, one for my appointments. Those not competing for alpha geek status usually don't like being encrusted with electronic barnacles everywhere they go.
Let's not forget the DATA used to populate these programs. There's documents, databases, and phone lists. Having 4 megs is great when keeping the entire company directory in your pilot.
Grafitti is okay as shorthand, for a few letters, a word or two. Writign entire sentences with it is doable. When it gets down to a paragraph or so, it gets to be torture, and in some users, grafitti ended up replacing their ordinary handwriting -- including the fact that they couldn't get used to writing left-to-right again, they'd just layer letters over another.
If you plan on doing anything more than a shopping list and appointments, I'd suggest getting the FITALY keyboard extension.
It's my default post level. Get enough 2's and you stay there. Sometimes it dips back down. Presumably it works in the other direction too.
There is a nonzero chance this article doesn't actually exist, but was caused by random fluctuations on your connection.
There is a nonzero chance that YOU do not exist.
Why not now? Minus the greasy junk food, so you can live to keep doing these things. (Why anyone would want to kick off the end of their life with a bag of fritos is beyond me)
Why... yes. Sums up the definition of hypocrisy quite nicely, even if that word does get slung around far too often.
> Not really a good idea. The whole point is that your IP addresses depend on where you're linked into the network.
Many companies already allocate a block of addresses for mobile clients, which could end up connecting to any modem pool. Basically that particular block is a VLAN, and often ends operating over a VPN, so your company is spared the routing headache.
Imagine that, YOU having an IP address that designates YOU. Scary thought, eh?
Most of the internet USERS run windows. They have IP addresses, their machines have to be addressable, ergo they are part of the internet. Leaf nodes, to be sure, but internet regardless.
Recompile? Why indeed should we have to recompile? Why can't it be a modular driver such as the way filesystems are? I could be wrong, but I do believe That Other Operating System does have modular network drivers.
/dev/tcp me baby.
Something like 10 for every square angstrom on the surface of the planet. There's a whole lot more than 10 protons per angstrom of matter on the planet.
Let's not forget Denver. Sun Microsystems opened up its central region headquarters in Broomfield. There's areas where open space stretches clear to the horizon. Let's see how long it takes to fill it all up. Strip malls all the way from Boulder to Colorado Springs most likely.
That's just rich. "Who are you to judge, perhaps my booted foot is comfortable on your neck. This iron fist gets awful cramped, it has to be flexed and pounded on people a few times. Shoving these ridiculous notions that I shouldn't control everything according to my principles of what I believe is best for you
It's unfathomable how moralists can get away with claiming that their opposition forces their viewpoint of free inquiry onto others as some sort of oppressive yoke.
Best thing that happened to P, perhaps. To civility, no. What sort of rude things WERE in J's .sig, and what right did J have to resort to personal attacks?
I'm a MOOer, that means I'm an enthusiast of the variety of talk-style MUD (as opposed to combat-style) called LambdaMOO (both a program name and the name of its first installation). When the original maintainer of LambdaMOO (or just MOO, since it totally replaced the original MOO) passed the torch on to another, we saw a bugfix release, and nothing more. It has been years now, and the promised 1.9 version has not arrived, and 2.0 is just not forseeable. Some others have taken it upon themselves to write performance releases, but they let them be known by different lettering for the patch levels ("r" for "rogue" instead of "p" for "patch"). So moo-1.8.0r6 is the sixth "rogue" patchlevel to moo-1.8.0p6 (making a total of 12 patches to 1.8.0).
There's some hard feelings about being let down by not seeing a 1.9 MOO release with new features. Most have lost faith that one will ever be released. But none of the developers creating extra patchlevels have gone off and childishly denigrated the original author for this. It just hasn't gotten personal.
Even linux has quasi-official forks, they're called ac kernels.
Wasn't the major sticking point with Xemacs the fact that Lucid did not want to assign copyright over to the FSF? Personally, I think it's their prerogative, and it's commendable that Xemacs/GNU-Emacs are still highly interoperable. Just that XEmacs is much more highly developed, and it's even smaller now.
Then I won't RUN it. I don't run shell scripts people mail me either.
Criminy... BO is a freakin free PCAnywhere, cDc has never even claimed otherwise...
The GPL does not apply to the output of a program unless the output "constitutes a work based on the program" [sec. 0], where this clause is clarified further up as being defined as the Program or any derivative work under copyright law. Although it's unlikely the author could get away with claiming copyright on your output because it contains a portion of his work, it's really up to the author how to interpret this. If you're really worried, ask the author to insert a clause like the exemption bison's license gives for the bison skeleton, and have him re-license it to you. If it's your own program, you can do whatever the hell you want :)
> Windows NT currently supports 4 GIGs of RAM.
> Linux only supports 1 GIG... but I have heard some people say that it supports 2.
Erroneous. NT and Linux both have the same split memory model, 2 gigs for user, 2 gigs for kernel. A patched kernel on NT allowes a 3/1 split, as does a patch for Linux from SGI. It's quite disingenuous of Microsoft to push this line, and as it's more easily disproven than performance numbers, it's likely to bite them in the ass if they continue to.
Perhaps the thought may have occurred that this is an educational research project? I for one sure wouldn't go to a school that puported to teach computer arts in areas of high-tech multimedia for tomorrow's jobs blah blah etc etc unless they actually had something to teach with.
> A hundred grand could build a whole LAB of computers for students to use.
This sounds like exactly that.
So if a competitor can trivially disassemble drivers to reverse-engineer them (which is not the case anyhow), what is the added value in doing their reverse-engineering work for them and releasingly nicely formatted source code with symbols and #defines and everything intact, with no optimizer obfuscation, and possibly even comments? Sounds like a gift to the competition if I ever heard one.
My argument has been that it's unlikely anyone will reverse engineer your hardware from your software, but perhaps this is not the case?
Run a greenhouse? The feds have broken in and searched people's homes, causing damage and distress, merely on the basis of them buying an inordinate number of grow lamps and fertilizer. Not that cash helps here, because they're known for using IR cameras to look for hotspots anyway.
> I guess stealing and counterfeiting are problems that could be eliminated,
Never heard of credit card or wire fraud then, have you?
Perhaps you're thinking of the F-117? The F-111 is a pretty standard fighter/bomber, carries a decent payload but isn't widely used because it doesn't have carrier deck landing capability. I remember Tom "Read a Jane's Guide and I'm an Expert" Clancy's _Red Storm Rising_ mentioning the bogus F-19, as well as the original F-19 stealth fighter game (which was actually kind of fun) before it was patched to be the F-117.
It's called Shareware. Anyone here like that model?