"Why do you hate MS? In the early 80s, when DOS 1.0 was a tour de force, a computer could only be purchased by a large corporation. The software was an even bigger purchase."
You must get your history lessons from Microsoft Encarta. The Apple II preceded the IBM PC by about four years, and wasn't the only competition for the PC in its early days. C and C++ were developed by AT&T, again without the aid of the PC. The rest of your article is equivalently nonsense.
Don't worry, RMS doesn't call it GNU/Linux anymore.
He just calls it GNU.
And yes, I can quote him on that, he said it during a radio interview (no longer on-line, unfortunately). He didn't mention the word Linux until the interviewer directly asked him "What about Linux?"
I don't know about you, but I don't really slowly and out loud, I read very quickly and essentially am digesting lines at a time. Since I don't expect spoilers -- has there ever been one on the Slashdot main page before? -- I'm not reading in a way where halting is gonna happen. I skim, seeing if this story seems interesting, and click-through if it does. So I'd request that spoilers not be on the main Slashdot page.
>many an EXPERIENCED root user has accidently slipped up and typed rm -rf/* instead of rm -rf./* or got clobbered by a history mistake.
It makes me wonder if there shouldn't be consideration given to having more than just a root/regular user distinction. The ultimate permission level would be the ability to delete or change OS files, while the most restrictive permission level would be only to change files in one's own directory, or maybe not even that directly. However, without thinking about it for a while, I'm not sure how easy it is to classify things like access to the serial ports, etc.
>Do you want to look at the fact that we have a high population of prison inmates, or the fact that we invented electricity or sent a man to the moon.
I want to look at both. The problem with patriotism is that too often, it colors one's views of right and wrong. I want honest questioning of what we do and who we support, and their effects on the world. Unfortunately, in the era of sound bites, this is difficult.
Really, it isn't a bug in Frontpage. I'm serious. Would this sort of bug ever appear in Linux? No, because it has a logical file system organization and a protected file system. You wouldn't give Frontpage root permissions, so even if it tried to delete everything, it couldn't. Fundamentally, it's a design flaw in Windows.
>yeah, okay, [RMS is] hard for these guys to push around and mold to their agenda. cry me a river.
Um, if you're complaining that O'Reilly isn't inviting RMS everywhere, aren't you the one crying the river?
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Some older men may not be working because they can't find a job. However, my parents retired at age 62 (my father is a professor emeritus, so in some sense he'll never truly retire) because they could, not because they were forced to. This statistic is meaningless without information about how many older workers were fired, how many are trying to find work but can't, etc.
Check out firingsquad.com's article about overclocking a Celeron 366 to 550 Mhz; it is faster than a PII overclocked to 500 Mhz. It only raised the chip's temperature ~4 degrees celsius. Zoom!
First off, I'm not a lawyer, so no suing me if this is wrong.
Anyway, the Tiger data set is public domain. If you have access to a copy of it, you can copy it freely, yadda yadda yadda. However, no one is required to make a copy available to you. As public domain, it can never be copyrighted in its current form, public domain is forever and the author has lost any and all ability to control his or her work. (This is identical to when a copyright expires.)
However, what you can do is make a trivial change to public domain data, and copyright that. That does not change the lack of copyright on the original data, but your version is under whatever copyright restrictions you wish to place on it. If a person doesn't have access to the original, but can get yours, he or she is bound to your restrictions.
I'm not sure if there is any sort of limit on how trivial the change must be. I think it just has to serve as an identifying marker, enough to identify the data as having been copied from your version as opposed to the original public domain data.
U.S. Government materials are generally public domain.
What Bruce has done is to pay the $1500 the government is charging for a copy of the data. He can now copy it and redistribute it as he likes, or modify it and add copyright restrictions.
"Jobs specifically showed that the PowerPC G3 400 was about twice as fast as a Pentium II 450 with everything else the same"
I work for a company that produced what used to be a Mac-only app, but in 1996 we released a Windows version as well. A Mac fan created a speed test with a script for our app. A Pentium II-300 scored a 14.0 on the test; a G3-300 scored 14.7. (Higher is better) Not exactly a factor of two, and we've been on the Mac much longer than we've been on the PC.
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"Why do you hate MS? In the early 80s, when DOS 1.0 was a tour de force, a computer could only be purchased by a large corporation. The software was an even bigger purchase."
You must get your history lessons from Microsoft Encarta. The Apple II preceded the IBM PC by about four years, and wasn't the only competition for the PC in its early days. C and C++ were developed by AT&T, again without the aid of the PC. The rest of your article is equivalently nonsense.
Don't worry, RMS doesn't call it GNU/Linux anymore.
He just calls it GNU.
And yes, I can quote him on that, he said it during a radio interview (no longer on-line, unfortunately). He didn't mention the word Linux until the interviewer directly asked him "What about Linux?"
Sigh...
I don't know about you, but I don't really slowly and out loud, I read very quickly and essentially am digesting lines at a time. Since I don't expect spoilers -- has there ever been one on the Slashdot main page before? -- I'm not reading in a way where halting is gonna happen. I skim, seeing if this story seems interesting, and click-through if it does. So I'd request that spoilers not be on the main Slashdot page.
>many an EXPERIENCED root user has accidently slipped up and typed rm -rf /* instead of rm -rf ./* or got clobbered by a history mistake.
It makes me wonder if there shouldn't be consideration given to having more than just a root/regular user distinction. The ultimate permission level would be the ability to delete or change OS files, while the most restrictive permission level would be only to change files in one's own directory, or maybe not even that directly. However, without thinking about it for a while, I'm not sure how easy it is to classify things like access to the serial ports, etc.
>Do you want to look at the fact that we have a high population of prison inmates, or the fact that we invented electricity or sent a man to the moon.
I want to look at both. The problem with patriotism is that too often, it colors one's views of right and wrong. I want honest questioning of what we do and who we support, and their effects on the world. Unfortunately, in the era of sound bites, this is difficult.
Really, it isn't a bug in Frontpage. I'm serious. Would this sort of bug ever appear in Linux? No, because it has a logical file system organization and a protected file system. You wouldn't give Frontpage root permissions, so even if it tried to delete everything, it couldn't. Fundamentally, it's a design flaw in Windows.
>America was built on the concept of freedom, and I can't think of anywhere in the world were an individual has more freedom.
No country in the world has nearly as a high a percentage of its population in prison as the U.S.
We're number one!
>yeah, okay, [RMS is] hard for these guys to push around and mold to their agenda. cry me a river.
Um, if you're complaining that O'Reilly isn't inviting RMS everywhere, aren't you the one crying the river?
Some older men may not be working because they can't find a job. However, my parents retired at age 62 (my father is a professor emeritus, so in some sense he'll never truly retire) because they could, not because they were forced to. This statistic is meaningless without information about how many older workers were fired, how many are trying to find work but can't, etc.
Check out firingsquad.com's article about overclocking a Celeron 366 to 550 Mhz; it is faster than a PII overclocked to 500 Mhz. It only raised the chip's temperature ~4 degrees celsius. Zoom!
I assume you are annoyed with Alanis "Isn't It Ironic?" Morrisette, then...
First off, I'm not a lawyer, so no suing me if this is wrong.
Anyway, the Tiger data set is public domain. If you have access to a copy of it, you can copy it freely, yadda yadda yadda. However, no one is required to make a copy available to you. As public domain, it can never be copyrighted in its current form, public domain is forever and the author has lost any and all ability to control his or her work. (This is identical to when a copyright expires.)
However, what you can do is make a trivial change to public domain data, and copyright that. That does not change the lack of copyright on the original data, but your version is under whatever copyright restrictions you wish to place on it. If a person doesn't have access to the original, but can get yours, he or she is bound to your restrictions.
I'm not sure if there is any sort of limit on how trivial the change must be. I think it just has to serve as an identifying marker, enough to identify the data as having been copied from your version as opposed to the original public domain data.
U.S. Government materials are generally public domain.
What Bruce has done is to pay the $1500 the government is charging for a copy of the data. He can now copy it and redistribute it as he likes, or modify it and add copyright restrictions.
Remember, I'm not a lawyer.
"Jobs specifically showed that the PowerPC G3 400 was about twice as fast as a Pentium II 450 with everything else the same"
I work for a company that produced what used to be a Mac-only app, but in 1996 we released a Windows version as well. A Mac fan created a speed test with a script for our app. A Pentium II-300 scored a 14.0 on the test; a G3-300 scored 14.7. (Higher is better) Not exactly a factor of two, and we've been on the Mac much longer than we've been on the PC.
Check out http://www.darwinawards.com for info about some people who would be dumb enough to need these labels...
>Good *grammer* is very useful in debates.
Umm...