If you'd take a moment to settle your knee down and read the very page you linked to, you'd see that PennyBlack shows HashCash as a prior work. Look. It's right there, at the bottom, reference B-02.
We may have to wait a little longer to get the official counts, but we at least are sure it counted, and I know my vote was counted.
How can you be sure? How do you know your vote counted? What is there in that system to assure that some incompetent (or worse, malfeasant) ballot-counter didn't skip over your ballot, or count it for a different candidate?
A group of 250 students from many European universities has collectively designed a satellite by using a dedicated news server and weekly chats on Internet. By using the Web, the virtual team was able to move from design to construction in less than a year.
Last I checked, "the web" didn't include NNTP. Surely Slashdot is above the uneducated synonymity between the internet and "the Web."
No, it said (and I quote from http://www.graphics.cornell.edu/~westin/res-chart. html):
The ISO standard for measuring resolution of "electronic still imaging"" cameras is 12233, available only from the International Standards Organization for only 116 Swiss Francs (about $US93 as of this writing)
Insert comment here about people of certain other nationalities applying rude, unfounded stereotypes to people of my nationality.
Some people deal by making jokes. That's quite normal.
And some people are just irreverent, insensitive dorks. That's quite normal as well, but its normalcy doesn't mean we should encourage or otherwise condone their social incompetency.
If you decide to get a dog, PLEASE rescue one and do not buy a puppy. Too many great dogs are euthanized every day because nobody wants them.
Then complain about the retards who get a dog and then send it to a shelter because they're not in the mood for a pet anymore. But don't act as if the rest of us have some responsibility to save the world of unwanted animals at our own expense because some other people are irresponsible.
There are significant advantages to owning a dog from puppy to the long walk, not the least of which is being free of the emotional baggage an "unwanted dog" brings into the relationship. Rescuing dogs may be some people's bag, but if you've got extra zealotry points to spend, spend it against those who frivolously give away their dogs, not those who want new ones.
(A) Nurses (and EMTs, for that matter) still practice on each other in school. It's just not comfortable, and not something anyone really enjoys, so anything that can be done to give them more training prior to the poking of holes in each others' arms is a Good Thing.
(B) Medical school is where people go to become Medical Doctors. Nursing school is where people go to become nurses.
It will never go out of date because it works. It may have stories about businessmen from the depression era, but it works.
You can't change your boss. You may only have marginally more of a chance changing your position. But you can change yourself, and How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the best first steps on that path.
If Trolltech has limited QT such that it cannot be used commercial, then QT is not licensed under the GPL. It may be a variant of the GPL, but it is not the GPL.
If the water is being cooled by (at best) room temperature air, isn't there some law of thermodynamics that says it can't get colder than room temperature?
In that case, your "RT-X" concept is entirely blown.
I don't have to tell you what that kind of thinking usually leads to, do I? (hints: crusades, 9/11, war, torture, genocide, holocaust, terrorism)
I'll give you some more hints: feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming strangers, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, helping orphans and widows in their distress, racial equality, philanthropy, love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, etc.
You're not a "long time Python developer." Far from it. You may qualify as a "python developer from a long time ago," though -- in fact, that seems likely, given that the page you linked was last modified in 1999.
It's Guido van Rossum, not Guido van Sustren. And Python's garbage collector works fine on cycles, as it has done since 2.0, iirc. The only way you'll get a memory leak with Python these days is by writing a C module that forgets some DECREFs or by writing cyclic objects with __del__ methods, and even in the latter case, you can easily take care of your leaks by breaking the cycle yourself.
You're uninformed and incorrect; take your troll to the next Perl story, please:)
He claims this was 'cheap' insurance. However, he refuse to tell us how much it actually was. If it was so cheap, why wouldn't he like to be able to tell his customers "Look, we only paid $X, it's cheap!". On the other hand, if it was cheap then SCOX wouldn't want the numbers to be out there ("We gave away 20K server license for PR-rights" wouldn't sound too great), which brings us to the fact that EV1 was in a position of power over SCOX, and chose to agree to not disclose the sum. In other words, they're helping SCOX out.
I would imagine that a condition of the "discount" EV1 received from SCO was non-disclosure of the actual price.
there should be no real difference between a Linux and a BSD server, since most of the stuff past the kernel level is exactly the same anyway.
Not at all. The biggest difference between Linux and BSD is the userland. BSD uses the tried-and-tested BSD userland (daemons, utilities, etc.) whereas Linux uses the newer and much more feature-full GNU userland, which has had significantly more vulnerabilities in the past several years.
That the parent got modded up only goes to show how common this misconception is. Linux and BSD use the same compiler, the same Perl, and some other similar GPLed utilities, but by and large, their userlands are completely different.
Except the new X licensed would seem to me to make linking X librarys into GPL'd code a violation of the GPL, as well as adding the onus of the advertising clause to EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM that uses the X libraries.
If you're fine with loosing all of the GPL'd apps that you run on your *BSD box, then enjoy your Xwindows with no modern window manager, no GNOME or KDE, no QT or GTK apps, etc,etc....
Except that that's not true. He can run all the GPLed software he wants, linked to all the various licensed software he wants. He just can't distribute the resulting binaries.
Repeat after me: The GPL restricts distribution, not use.
First, Ingo Molnar is the O(1) Scheduler guy, not Robert Love.
Second, any running linux system is likely to have at least 50 or so processes running at any given time (of varying priorities) and at that point the O(1) scheduler has already "started to show its power." For all practical uses (desktop or server) the O(1) scheduler is superior to the previous 2.4 scheduler.
No. Learn all the languages that will make you a better programmer. Learn languages that will expand your understanding of software engineering. Learn languages that will make you more productive. But for goodness' sake, don't waste your time learning every language you run across: the vast majority of languages are simply unproductive compared to a small handful of better, higher-quality languages.
Languages can be compared based on objective criteria. You can honestly say that Perl has more libraries than Python, or that programs written in Haskell will experience fewer runtime errors than programs written in Python. Granted, every application has a different utility function for each of these criteria, but some languages do, all other things being equal (things such as "existing investment in a language"), dominate other languages. Don't learn the languages that are dominated: learn the ones that dominate others.
Claiming that one language dominates another language isn't zealotry: it's objectivity.
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If you'd take a moment to settle your knee down and read the very page you linked to, you'd see that PennyBlack shows HashCash as a prior work. Look. It's right there, at the bottom, reference B-02.
So much for giving credit for prior work, indeed.
Jeremy
How can you be sure? How do you know your vote counted? What is there in that system to assure that some incompetent (or worse, malfeasant) ballot-counter didn't skip over your ballot, or count it for a different candidate?
Jeremy
Last I checked, "the web" didn't include NNTP. Surely Slashdot is above the uneducated synonymity between the internet and "the Web."
Jeremy
Insert comment here about people of certain other nationalities applying rude, unfounded stereotypes to people of my nationality.
Jeremy
Is this the new way to get free advertising -- to post a slashdot story about your hardware running Linux?
Bor-ing.
Jeremy
Some people deal by making jokes. That's quite normal.
And some people are just irreverent, insensitive dorks. That's quite normal as well, but its normalcy doesn't mean we should encourage or otherwise condone their social incompetency.
Jeremy
If you decide to get a dog, PLEASE rescue one and do not buy a puppy. Too many great dogs are euthanized every day because nobody wants them.
Then complain about the retards who get a dog and then send it to a shelter because they're not in the mood for a pet anymore. But don't act as if the rest of us have some responsibility to save the world of unwanted animals at our own expense because some other people are irresponsible.
There are significant advantages to owning a dog from puppy to the long walk, not the least of which is being free of the emotional baggage an "unwanted dog" brings into the relationship. Rescuing dogs may be some people's bag, but if you've got extra zealotry points to spend, spend it against those who frivolously give away their dogs, not those who want new ones.
Jeremy
(A) Nurses (and EMTs, for that matter) still practice on each other in school. It's just not comfortable, and not something anyone really enjoys, so anything that can be done to give them more training prior to the poking of holes in each others' arms is a Good Thing.
(B) Medical school is where people go to become Medical Doctors. Nursing school is where people go to become nurses.
Jeremy
It's simple, and it's worked for decades:
How to Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie.
It will never go out of date because it works. It may have stories about businessmen from the depression era, but it works.
You can't change your boss. You may only have marginally more of a chance changing your position. But you can change yourself, and How to Win Friends and Influence People is one of the best first steps on that path.
Jeremy
Secondly, under the GPL for non-commercial usage only
This is a contradiction of terms. If it's under the GPL, it is, by definition, usable commercially.
See this FAQ for more information.
If Trolltech has limited QT such that it cannot be used commercial, then QT is not licensed under the GPL. It may be a variant of the GPL, but it is not the GPL.
Jeremy
THIS STORY IS USELESS WITHOUT PICS! :)
Jeremy (typing some non-caps here to pass the lame lameness filter)
If the water is being cooled by (at best) room temperature air, isn't there some law of thermodynamics that says it can't get colder than room temperature?
In that case, your "RT-X" concept is entirely blown.
Jeremy
I'll give you some more hints: feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, welcoming strangers, clothing the naked, visiting the sick and imprisoned, helping orphans and widows in their distress, racial equality, philanthropy, love, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, self-control, etc.
You're not a "long time Python developer." Far from it. You may qualify as a "python developer from a long time ago," though -- in fact, that seems likely, given that the page you linked was last modified in 1999.
:)
It's Guido van Rossum, not Guido van Sustren. And Python's garbage collector works fine on cycles, as it has done since 2.0, iirc. The only way you'll get a memory leak with Python these days is by writing a C module that forgets some DECREFs or by writing cyclic objects with __del__ methods, and even in the latter case, you can easily take care of your leaks by breaking the cycle yourself.
You're uninformed and incorrect; take your troll to the next Perl story, please
Jeremy
He claims this was 'cheap' insurance. However, he refuse to tell us how much it actually was. If it was so cheap, why wouldn't he like to be able to tell his customers "Look, we only paid $X, it's cheap!". On the other hand, if it was cheap then SCOX wouldn't want the numbers to be out there ("We gave away 20K server license for PR-rights" wouldn't sound too great), which brings us to the fact that EV1 was in a position of power over SCOX, and chose to agree to not disclose the sum. In other words, they're helping SCOX out.
I would imagine that a condition of the "discount" EV1 received from SCO was non-disclosure of the actual price.
Nothing else would make sense.
Jeremy
The Lightning Field is protected by copyright. Photography of the sculpture and the cabin is not permitted.
Since when could you copyright 400 metal poles in a 1 mile by 1 kilometer field?
Copyright law is out of control.
Jeremy
there should be no real difference between a Linux and a BSD server, since most of the stuff past the kernel level is exactly the same anyway.
Not at all. The biggest difference between Linux and BSD is the userland. BSD uses the tried-and-tested BSD userland (daemons, utilities, etc.) whereas Linux uses the newer and much more feature-full GNU userland, which has had significantly more vulnerabilities in the past several years.
That the parent got modded up only goes to show how common this misconception is. Linux and BSD use the same compiler, the same Perl, and some other similar GPLed utilities, but by and large, their userlands are completely different.
Jeremy
The guy wasn't in the car, he was standing near the car.
Jeremy
4.4.0rc2 is 4.3.99.902, dude. So it's 4.3.x.
Jeremy
I'll bet you consider going slow on the highway "theft" too...
Theft means that I take something of yours and do something with it. Cell phone jamming can never be considered theft.
Jeremy
Uh, Knuth's assembly language was named MIX, not ASM.
Jeremy
The ports are closed. The SYN is replied to with an RST, and that's the signal to go to the next port.
The daemon that opens the door is just reading the firewall logs, basically.
Jeremy
First, Ingo Molnar is the O(1) Scheduler guy, not Robert Love.
Second, any running linux system is likely to have at least 50 or so processes running at any given time (of varying priorities) and at that point the O(1) scheduler has already "started to show its power." For all practical uses (desktop or server) the O(1) scheduler is superior to the previous 2.4 scheduler.
Jeremy
Learn all the languages you can.
No. Learn all the languages that will make you a better programmer. Learn languages that will expand your understanding of software engineering. Learn languages that will make you more productive. But for goodness' sake, don't waste your time learning every language you run across: the vast majority of languages are simply unproductive compared to a small handful of better, higher-quality languages.
Languages can be compared based on objective criteria. You can honestly say that Perl has more libraries than Python, or that programs written in Haskell will experience fewer runtime errors than programs written in Python. Granted, every application has a different utility function for each of these criteria, but some languages do, all other things being equal (things such as "existing investment in a language"), dominate other languages. Don't learn the languages that are dominated: learn the ones that dominate others.
Claiming that one language dominates another language isn't zealotry: it's objectivity.
Jeremy