"E#" is pronounced "eff" - there is a half step between E and F, and the "#" sign denotes "do this note, except take it up half a step."
Sorry to dissapoint you.
The chord C# major constists of the notes C#, E# and G#. This will sound identical on a piano to the notes C#, F and G#, but in music theory, there is a difference.
This is called enharmonicity.
But you know as well as I that gratis offerings try to put legal limits on what we can use the software for, no reverse engineering etc. Whereas software under a "FSF-libre" (in lack of a better word) license grants you the right to modify it for your own use, and redistribute it under certain conditions. You must agree that it's closer to "true libre" than proprietary offerings.
A lot of people on this site prefers "FSF-libre" to proprietary software because they are freer to use it for what they want/need.
There is no concensus in the loosly kniw OSS community on what is the best balance between making sure that the software stays as libre as possible, and granting as many rights to the users as possible. The GPL is one attempt to do that.The Zlib is another. And if you think that Zlib license software is not free enough...
I was of course thinking of this section in your constitution:
The Congress shall have Power [. ..] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
And I just assumed that you have a copyright system in the US because congress chose to use that power. As such, it looks to me like a congressional decision, not an administrative one.
And free software developers are not nessescarily doing something "in exchange for something" -- if I write a piece of software and release the code under the GPL, you can use it without asking me, telling me or giving me anything. That is, at the very least gratis. I would say it also qualifies as free, if you look only on the user side of the issue. Now, when we talk about distribution, the accuracy of "free" is more dubious.
when people discuss free software in the open source sense they mean free as in speech.
No they don't.
If they did, it would be released into the public domain.
IANAL, of course. But as I understand U.S. law, congress limited free speech with regards to copyright. So, GP is right. Most people do mean "free as in speech".
This is so much ado about nothing. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a problem with Firefox that would have been solved by it being in its own process.
I own a fairly old computer, and every time I open or close a javascript-heavy page, or open a PDF file, all the rest of my tabs become unusable for some seconds. It's not the end of the world, but I can't think of anything that I'd rather firefox devs spend their time on.
If, instead of a machete and some throwing knives, they police an automatic rifle and a NRA membership card, the protesters would be True American Patriots(tm), right?
And pretty please explain to me why it's illegal to have pvc pipes, chicken wire and duct tape.
Well, I don't have much experience with CPAN. But my experience with python is that I find out what library I need online, and then install it with easy_install.
Well, I love the fact that you have 3 instead of 2, since the third is the EU-standard. That means that I didn't have to buy any adaptors when I visited Italy this spring.
I find this kind of thing fairly prevalent in the OSS world. You'll need to do something and someone will say "It's easy!" and then give a couple commands to run. To them, it does seem easy, because they've trained themselves on it, however that isn't. To a new user that's very hard and uninviting.
Ignoring this issue doesn't help free software. Telling people "It is just as easy you just have to learn it," when it isn't doesn't help, they'll just ignore you.[snipppppppp]
While there are certainly some areas that could use a good GUI, I'm not sure that I agree completely. There are several reasons:
1) In the free software world, we have this thing known as choise -- so while the steps for using the gui might differ from setup to setup, the cli command will be the same.
2) For eldritch settings orerror-fixing, a gui is just not optimal. Discoverability will be close to 0, and therefore, instead of an archaic command, the poor volounteer "support staffer" will have to create a screenshot walkthrough. In many cases, superflous settings will decrease the discoverability of the whole application.
3) ok, those above were my main points:)
I think I understand Javascript reasonably well, but I still use prototype. Some of the DOM extensions are great (like adding/removing css classes), and the iterators are a treat.
Sure, I don't always use the whole library (for example, I rarely use the $$() function, which returns a set of DOM nodes that match a given CSS pattern). But a lot of the small, simple functions that the library offers, really simplify development. And by avoiding duplicate functionality, in large applications it reduces memory load etc.
If I were to try to filter outgoing email, this is how I would go about it:
I would apply the normal filters, but with a very low weight. Then I would calculate in the number of receivers for this email, and the number of receivers in emails sendt for the last 24 hours.
You -might- be sending legitimate email to 30000 people about V14Gr4, but I somehow doubt it.
-G
Naaah. Now the consumers have two choises: one that they deem too expensive, inconvenient or what have you, and the other at $0, with a slim possibility of getting sued.
If a media company created a third choise, easy, quick, drm-free downloads at a reasonable price, don't you think that would be a hit?
If, theoretically, I have a robots.txt saying "disallow:/", then I would contend that I have stated clearly on my site that only human visitors are wanted.
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Sorry to dissapoint you. The chord C# major constists of the notes C#, E# and G#. This will sound identical on a piano to the notes C#, F and G#, but in music theory, there is a difference.
This is called enharmonicity.
I'm sure that the developers deflecting blame would be happy to create a hack around poor hardware, if you like, paid them =)
Well, it shouldn't be too hard to build something basic for a netbook -- since Trolltech(Nokia) have ported Webkit to Win CE.
But you know as well as I that gratis offerings try to put legal limits on what we can use the software for, no reverse engineering etc. Whereas software under a "FSF-libre" (in lack of a better word) license grants you the right to modify it for your own use, and redistribute it under certain conditions. You must agree that it's closer to "true libre" than proprietary offerings.
A lot of people on this site prefers "FSF-libre" to proprietary software because they are freer to use it for what they want/need.
There is no concensus in the loosly kniw OSS community on what is the best balance between making sure that the software stays as libre as possible, and granting as many rights to the users as possible. The GPL is one attempt to do that.The Zlib is another. And if you think that Zlib license software is not free enough...
And I just assumed that you have a copyright system in the US because congress chose to use that power. As such, it looks to me like a congressional decision, not an administrative one.
And free software developers are not nessescarily doing something "in exchange for something" -- if I write a piece of software and release the code under the GPL, you can use it without asking me, telling me or giving me anything. That is, at the very least gratis. I would say it also qualifies as free, if you look only on the user side of the issue. Now, when we talk about distribution, the accuracy of "free" is more dubious.
IANAL, of course. But as I understand U.S. law, congress limited free speech with regards to copyright. So, GP is right. Most people do mean "free as in speech".
I own a fairly old computer, and every time I open or close a javascript-heavy page, or open a PDF file, all the rest of my tabs become unusable for some seconds. It's not the end of the world, but I can't think of anything that I'd rather firefox devs spend their time on.
Could an exoskeleton support a proto-mosqito that big, with our gravity?
Whooopsie. Should be "the police found an automatic rifle.." etc
If, instead of a machete and some throwing knives, they police an automatic rifle and a NRA membership card, the protesters would be True American Patriots(tm), right?
And pretty please explain to me why it's illegal to have pvc pipes, chicken wire and duct tape.
The first time I read that through, I thought you lost track of your friend when he was in Alaska hunting bears. I thought it was kind of depressing.
You kinda forgot events. But a library will fix that, too.
Well, I don't have much experience with CPAN. But my experience with python is that I find out what library I need online, and then install it with easy_install.
OK. If you say so. I get 10Mbit/s up/down for about $100/month total, no cap.
Well, I love the fact that you have 3 instead of 2, since the third is the EU-standard. That means that I didn't have to buy any adaptors when I visited Italy this spring.
"les Profitable" sounds like a boring musical.
Whut, fire up w3m?
Well, I made this genious encryption scheme. It's so efficient, and totally hard to guess!
Think I'm gonna call it wheel-13 or 13rotate. Not sure which yet.
I find this kind of thing fairly prevalent in the OSS world. You'll need to do something and someone will say "It's easy!" and then give a couple commands to run. To them, it does seem easy, because they've trained themselves on it, however that isn't. To a new user that's very hard and uninviting.
:)
Ignoring this issue doesn't help free software. Telling people "It is just as easy you just have to learn it," when it isn't doesn't help, they'll just ignore you.[snipppppppp]
While there are certainly some areas that could use a good GUI, I'm not sure that I agree completely. There are several reasons:
1) In the free software world, we have this thing known as choise -- so while the steps for using the gui might differ from setup to setup, the cli command will be the same.
2) For eldritch settings orerror-fixing, a gui is just not optimal. Discoverability will be close to 0, and therefore, instead of an archaic command, the poor volounteer "support staffer" will have to create a screenshot walkthrough. In many cases, superflous settings will decrease the discoverability of the whole application.
3) ok, those above were my main points
I think I understand Javascript reasonably well, but I still use prototype. Some of the DOM extensions are great (like adding/removing css classes), and the iterators are a treat.
Sure, I don't always use the whole library (for example, I rarely use the $$() function, which returns a set of DOM nodes that match a given CSS pattern). But a lot of the small, simple functions that the library offers, really simplify development. And by avoiding duplicate functionality, in large applications it reduces memory load etc.
If I were to try to filter outgoing email, this is how I would go about it:
I would apply the normal filters, but with a very low weight. Then I would calculate in the number of receivers for this email, and the number of receivers in emails sendt for the last 24 hours.
You -might- be sending legitimate email to 30000 people about V14Gr4, but I somehow doubt it. -G
Naaah. Now the consumers have two choises: one that they deem too expensive, inconvenient or what have you, and the other at $0, with a slim possibility of getting sued.
If a media company created a third choise, easy, quick, drm-free downloads at a reasonable price, don't you think that would be a hit?
Sorry, no. Only if you can prove that the universe is sufficiently deterministic.
Be written by my boss =)
If, theoretically, I have a robots.txt saying "disallow: /", then I would contend that I have stated clearly on my site that only human visitors are wanted.