Re:GPL is not quite free enough for me.
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Freedom or Power?
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I'll bite. Why can't you? If your neighbor never takes you up on the offer to make modified source available, nothing in the GPL prevents you from doing this. You probably ought to explain the situation to your neighbor and point at the upstream provider.
Let's make a more ridiculous analogy. Let's say you're a fruitfly and you're a graduate assistant at MIT, and you're trying to write a Scheme interpreter in genetically modified mosquito DNA. How would the GPL prevent you from buying groceries for the poor family down the street?
Our kids need to learn the tools of business, and I am sorry Redhat, but that means Windows, and Word.
Let's make this a little more ridiculous. "Our kids need to learn the language of business, and I am sorry francophones, but that means English and not French. That means no German, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin, Portugese, Arabic, Farsi, Latin, or Greek."
Perhaps those children who grow up to be scientists or researchers will start submitting journal papers in Word format instead of TeX? For what it's worth, I wrote a book, and didn't touch Word once. (Admittedly disingenuous on my part, as most of the publishing industry *does* expect authors to use Word. vim + DocBook worked for me, though.)
Maybe someone from the Slash development team could elaborate on this.
Someone already has. Look for the section in blue.
Given the lengths to which a very few people will go to ruin something for everyone else, I'm not surprised several free services aren't fighting to keep their non-paying customers.
It's much easier to complain about unoriginality than it is to create *anything*. Have you made anything we could summarily dismiss? Do you have the experience with IF to make judgments about the entire medium?
(Hackneyed themes are hardly unknown in "professionally" developed games. I'm sure many readers can come up with their own examples.)
It's not just programmers. When was the last time *anyone* thanked the people behind Slashdot or OSDN or VA (big target!) or Slashcode? (I did, today.:)
Really, if people were more inclined to spread praise where it's deserved, it would be easier to deal with legitimate gripes and to dismiss the random whining that's going around these days.
As the review said, a common theme is "Make sure the right people are making the right decisions". That means techies shouldn't be making marketing decisions.
The authors don't believe that technical superiority will attract the biggest audience, and they don't believe that most developers can do market analysis.
It seems to me that that's a message lots of Slashdot readers should take to heart. Knowing how to program doesn't mean I know how to sell my work.
I understand it isn't our right to play the cd anywhere.
Nuts to that. Apologies to Dr. Seuss.
RIAA guy
RIAA guy
Guy RIAA
That RIAA guy
That RIAA guy!
I do not like that RIAA guy.
Can you play CDs you buy?
I cannot play them,
RIAA guy.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
Can you play them
Here or there?
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
I cannot play them,
RIAA guy.
Can you play them in a house?
Can you play them with a mouse?
I cannot play them in a house.
I cannot play them with a mouse.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
Can you play them in a box?
Can you play them with a fox?
Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
Would you? Could you?
in a car?
Rent them! Lease them!
Here they are.
I would not, could not,
in a car.
You may rent them.
You will see.
You may lease them week by week.
I would not lease them week by week.
Nor year by year! Please let me be.
I cannot play them in a box.
I cannot play them with a fox.
I cannot play them in a house.
I cannot play them with a mouse.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
A train! A train!
A train! A train!
Could you, would you on a train?
Not on a train! Not week by week!
Not year by year! RIAA! Let me be!
I should not, could not, in a box.
I could not, should not, with a fox.
I cannot play them with a mouse.
I cannot play them in a house.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
Say!
In the dark?
Here in the dark!
Should I keep you in the dark?
You should not keep me in the dark.
Would you, could you, in the rain?
I would not, could not, in the rain.
Not in the dark. Not on a train,
Not in a car, Not in a tree.
I cannot play them, RIAA, you see.
Not in a house. Not in a box.
Not with a mouse. Not with a fox.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere!
You cannot play CDs you buy?
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
Could you, would you, with a goat?
I would not, could not with Hilary Rosen!
Would you, could you, on a boat?
I could not, would not, on a boat.
I will not, will not, with that goat.
I cannot play them in the rain.
I cannot play them on a train.
Not in the dark! Not week by week!
Not in a car! You let me be!
I cannot play them in a box.
I cannot play them with a fox.
I cannot play them in a house.
I cannot play them with a mouse.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them ANYWHERE!
I cannot play CDs I buy!
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
You cannot play them.
SO you say.
Rent them! Lease them!
And you may.
Pay up and you may I say.
RIAA!
If you will let me be,
I will rip them.
You will see.
Say!
I like CDs I buy!
I do!! I OWN them, RIAA guy!
And I would play them in a boat!
And I would play them despite your goat...
And I will play them in the rain.
And in the dark. And on a train.
And in a car. And in a tree.
Fair use is good so good you see!
So I will play them in a box.
And I will play them with a fox.
And I will play them in a house.
And I will play them with a mouse.
And I will play them here and there.
Say! I will play them ANYWHERE!
I do so like CDs I buy!
Screw you!
Screw you, RIAA guy!
(feel free to spread that around... just link back to my website, if you do)
See perlfaq8 on keeping your own module directory. Just install the different versions to different paths, and change @INC appropriately, maybe with a SetEnv directive in your httpd.conf. Easy.
Hemos told me that Jaime has written an ispell plugin for Slash. I don't know if it's used on Slashdot, but most of the problems I see are homonyms and poor grammar. That's hard to fix.
Carly Fiorina used to run Lucent, didn't she? Lew Platt was still chairman, CEO, and president of HP when they split off Agilent, though... I think. Don't ask me to remember things on Saturday afternoon.
Re:Seems like the article wasn't for you
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Perl6 for Mortals
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If I wrote a sestina in reply, would it convince you to give up English for Esperanto?
Re:Just what Perl needs - more syntax
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Perl6 for Mortals
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In Perl, that's called Regexp::English, and should be on the CPAN soon.
Re:Sorry, folks, but I must say it: BFD...
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Behind the Scenes
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It's called synecdoche, and it's a common journalist idiom.
That's fine, if you can port existing applications. If you don't have the source code, or you cannot find a suitable alternative, for whatever reason, you're stuck.
That's the point of API reimplementation (the best definition of what WINE actually does.)
It may have been difficult to change in early versions of Slash (sorry Rob, but I read 0.9 and it hurt my eyes), but modifying the templates is super easy in the current version.
One of the design goals was to have HTML that degraded gracefully back to the 3.2 specification. Not that it validates, but it works reasonably well on all sorts of browsers. It'd be nice to see CSS get rid of the nested tables... but Malda probably wouldn't go for it.
Yes and no... What's the percentage of their target market that upgrades regularly? What's the percentage of the market that would rather buy a new machine every four or five years?
I have no figures for this, but I suspect OEM bundling spreads new versions more than upgrades do. That may change with Windows XP.
There's also new hardware support to continue... is driver backporting common in the Windows world?
Because sometimes code that works is better than code that doesn't work, but is theoretically O(log n)? Because the n in the O(n^2) algorithm never exceeds a dozen? Because profiling hadn't revealed it to be a bottleneck yet?
It's good to use efficient algorithms, but big-O analysis is rarely the only concern with real-world code.
(I haven't read a whit of Nautilus code. I tried it on my parents' -- midrange -- machine several months ago and immediately moved them back to GMC.)
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Let's make a more ridiculous analogy. Let's say you're a fruitfly and you're a graduate assistant at MIT, and you're trying to write a Scheme interpreter in genetically modified mosquito DNA. How would the GPL prevent you from buying groceries for the poor family down the street?
Perhaps those children who grow up to be scientists or researchers will start submitting journal papers in Word format instead of TeX? For what it's worth, I wrote a book, and didn't touch Word once. (Admittedly disingenuous on my part, as most of the publishing industry *does* expect authors to use Word. vim + DocBook worked for me, though.)
Given the lengths to which a very few people will go to ruin something for everyone else, I'm not surprised several free services aren't fighting to keep their non-paying customers.
You haven't spent much time around children lately, have you? The word "wait" is not in their vocabularies.
Actually, "wizzards" have the battered and bruised hats with sequins. (Think Terry Pratchett.)
(Hackneyed themes are hardly unknown in "professionally" developed games. I'm sure many readers can come up with their own examples.)
Really, if people were more inclined to spread praise where it's deserved, it would be easier to deal with legitimate gripes and to dismiss the random whining that's going around these days.
The authors don't believe that technical superiority will attract the biggest audience, and they don't believe that most developers can do market analysis.
It seems to me that that's a message lots of Slashdot readers should take to heart. Knowing how to program doesn't mean I know how to sell my work.
Nuts to that. Apologies to Dr. Seuss.
RIAA guy
RIAA guy
Guy RIAA
That RIAA guy
That RIAA guy!
I do not like that RIAA guy.
Can you play CDs you buy?
I cannot play them,
RIAA guy.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
Can you play them
Here or there?
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
I cannot play them,
RIAA guy.
Can you play them in a house?
Can you play them with a mouse?
I cannot play them in a house.
I cannot play them with a mouse.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
Can you play them in a box?
Can you play them with a fox?
Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
Would you? Could you?
in a car?
Rent them! Lease them!
Here they are.
I would not, could not,
in a car.
You may rent them.
You will see.
You may lease them week by week.
I would not lease them week by week.
Nor year by year! Please let me be.
I cannot play them in a box.
I cannot play them with a fox.
I cannot play them in a house.
I cannot play them with a mouse.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play CDs I buy.
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
A train! A train!
A train! A train!
Could you, would you on a train?
Not on a train! Not week by week!
Not year by year! RIAA! Let me be!
I should not, could not, in a box.
I could not, should not, with a fox.
I cannot play them with a mouse.
I cannot play them in a house.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere.
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
Say!
In the dark?
Here in the dark!
Should I keep you in the dark?
You should not keep me in the dark.
Would you, could you, in the rain?
I would not, could not, in the rain.
Not in the dark. Not on a train,
Not in a car, Not in a tree.
I cannot play them, RIAA, you see.
Not in a house. Not in a box.
Not with a mouse. Not with a fox.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them anywhere!
You cannot play CDs you buy?
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
Could you, would you, with a goat?
I would not, could not with Hilary Rosen!
Would you, could you, on a boat?
I could not, would not, on a boat.
I will not, will not, with that goat.
I cannot play them in the rain.
I cannot play them on a train.
Not in the dark! Not week by week!
Not in a car! You let me be!
I cannot play them in a box.
I cannot play them with a fox. I cannot play them in a house.
I cannot play them with a mouse.
I cannot play them here or there.
I cannot play them ANYWHERE!
I cannot play CDs I buy!
I cannot play them, RIAA guy.
You cannot play them.
SO you say.
Rent them! Lease them!
And you may.
Pay up and you may I say.
RIAA!
If you will let me be,
I will rip them.
You will see.
Say!
I like CDs I buy!
I do!! I OWN them, RIAA guy!
And I would play them in a boat!
And I would play them despite your goat...
And I will play them in the rain.
And in the dark. And on a train.
And in a car. And in a tree.
Fair use is good so good you see!
So I will play them in a box.
And I will play them with a fox.
And I will play them in a house.
And I will play them with a mouse.
And I will play them here and there.
Say! I will play them ANYWHERE!
I do so like CDs I buy!
Screw you!
Screw you, RIAA guy!
(feel free to spread that around... just link back to my website, if you do)
Close... it's a database field size limit. (Perl has dynamic memory allocation, but you knew that. :)
See perlfaq8 on keeping your own module directory. Just install the different versions to different paths, and change @INC appropriately, maybe with a SetEnv directive in your httpd.conf. Easy.
$input =~ s/\b(th([ae])n)\b/$2 eq 'a' ? 'then' : 'than'/ge;
$input =~ s/\bth([ae])n\b/$swap{$1}/;
Hemos told me that Jaime has written an ispell plugin for Slash. I don't know if it's used on Slashdot, but most of the problems I see are homonyms and poor grammar. That's hard to fix.
Carly Fiorina used to run Lucent, didn't she? Lew Platt was still chairman, CEO, and president of HP when they split off Agilent, though... I think. Don't ask me to remember things on Saturday afternoon.
If I wrote a sestina in reply, would it convince you to give up English for Esperanto?
In Perl, that's called Regexp::English, and should be on the CPAN soon.
It's called synecdoche , and it's a common journalist idiom.
You're welcome. Gerv suggested it and Pudge checked it in
(Consider it my little contribution to Mozilla and to the Semantic Web.)
Come on... that would be a terrible strain on the animators' wrists!
The odd part is why Hemos passed this one along to me, instead of keeping it for himself and his little ones. (I don't have children.)
Maybe he got an autographed copy?
That's the point of API reimplementation (the best definition of what WINE actually does.)
One of the design goals was to have HTML that degraded gracefully back to the 3.2 specification. Not that it validates, but it works reasonably well on all sorts of browsers. It'd be nice to see CSS get rid of the nested tables... but Malda probably wouldn't go for it.
I have no figures for this, but I suspect OEM bundling spreads new versions more than upgrades do. That may change with Windows XP. There's also new hardware support to continue... is driver backporting common in the Windows world?
It's good to use efficient algorithms, but big-O analysis is rarely the only concern with real-world code.
(I haven't read a whit of Nautilus code. I tried it on my parents' -- midrange -- machine several months ago and immediately moved them back to GMC.)
It's fixed in Apache 1.3.22. You could also disable the EXPAT rule when compiling Apache.