That's even worse. The equivalent mistake would be to refer to that Taurus out in your driveway as a Ford 3450 pounds. Sure, it's a Ford, and it's 3450 pounds (or whatever a Taurus weighs) but to call it that is useless.
I agree completely, except VHS is even better. Just like all the best sound equipment uses the one best format (vinyl albums) the best video uses VHS tapes. Do an experiment: watch a movie side by side, on the left VHS and on the right a DVD. You'll see that the movie on VHS has many subtle nuances that make the movie seem more alive, not "flat" like the DVD. Experienced movie viewers will only insist on a VHS tape because it provides that three dimensional quality to the sound AND the video, and the digital copy just looks cold to human perception.
And the best thing is that the very best VHS players can be purchased from high end German audio/video companies for just over $10,000 (*). Nothing is too good for your hi-fi home theater!
(*) - The high end VHS players are sold without the special video pickup, which for a good helical scan pickup will be a relatively inexpensive $700 or so.
There is no such thing as an Airbus 312. The airplane that flew through the hailstorm was an Airbus 321, a rather common plane in service around the world.
The lesson is really a question: if a journalist, who is supposed to be an expert in reporting the facts, can't even get the type of aircraft right, then what else are they reporting incorrectly? Something to think about while watching CNN tonight.
SCO published a work, and perhaps they own the copyright to some parts of the code that others put there.
But publishing isn't piecemeal. They didn't provide patches with just the little pieces they wanted to contribute, and tell us to buy Red Hat and apply their patches. I bet that a lawyer could make an argument out of the ambiguity of the word "placed". Does SCO actually have to operate the editor themselves, or is it enough to just make a product out of it? I don't know, but it'll be interesting to find out.
But the license also explains that the way to notify people of the license is through a file called "COPYING" located with the code. The Linux Kernel has that. Do you suppose that when SCO distributed Linux code and that file was present in the source tree that would count as being placed there by the copyright holder?
Not to mention that a tremendously successful pickup line is "did you know that in the Middle Ages people use to have sex just like we shake hands today?"
Everything is implicitly copyrighted, and the presence or absence of a notice means nothing.So if SCO is claiming that they didn't copyright their code, they are full of shit.
SCO is the copyright holder for the pieces that they claim to own that are in Linux, and they distributed their code under the GPL. Everything that SCO distributed falls under the GPL now, and they cannot recall it for any reason.
Mod that up, it's insightful. All I'd add is that it takes equal effort to write a program that a) coredumps or b) gives a wrong answer. You might spend a lot of time making it difficult to produce a core dump, but that won't cut down much on how many wrong answers you have because the problem wasn't fully understood.
I disagree. There's the notion that when something fails, it should fail gracefully. To use your example, if I turn off images, then the web page should fail gracefully. I should still be able to navigate it, and I should get an alternate view of the image, probably a text description of the image.
But when I turn off a pop-up, the website fails completely. It becomes impossible to use it without changing my configuration. This is not good design, and any site that uses a pop-up cannot be said to have good design. What the website should do is give me an alternate path that does not require pop-ups.
We're talking about good design here, not what features of a browser are enabled. Good design provides for graceful failure. Bad design just breaks and leaves you stranded.
Moderators heads are up their ass again. This could not possibly be redundant, because it wasn't mentioned in the article, and it also was not mentioned in a comment anywhere before mine. To check this, change the view preferences to flat, oldest first. Then search for 'transmeta'. There I am, first one to mention it.
Thank god I have three separate accounts that I metamoderate from twice a day. Without me, the moderators would destroy this place.
FilePlanet is completely broken too. I refuse all popups, and I consider it rude if anyone decides to shit all over my desktop by popping up windows all over.
I'm using Mozilla 1.4a with Javascript turned on. When I drill down into a document and click on the link, nothing comes up. I think it's trying to pop the document up in a new window.
The website is entirely broken. I've got all pop-ups turned off, and a website that relies on them is horribly broken.
Thanks to being a vacuum, pollutants can be better contained or cleaned up after leakage.
And that's a good thing too. We wouldn't want to turn space into a lifeless place full of radiation and harsh substances that would require a person to wear a protective suit just to survive.
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Actually, it's Cow Town.
The BBC story has been changed so that it doesn't mention the type of aircraft. It's different than yesterday.
The fact that you disagree with me tells me that I am exactly right.
That's even worse. The equivalent mistake would be to refer to that Taurus out in your driveway as a Ford 3450 pounds. Sure, it's a Ford, and it's 3450 pounds (or whatever a Taurus weighs) but to call it that is useless.
I agree completely, except VHS is even better. Just like all the best sound equipment uses the one best format (vinyl albums) the best video uses VHS tapes. Do an experiment: watch a movie side by side, on the left VHS and on the right a DVD. You'll see that the movie on VHS has many subtle nuances that make the movie seem more alive, not "flat" like the DVD. Experienced movie viewers will only insist on a VHS tape because it provides that three dimensional quality to the sound AND the video, and the digital copy just looks cold to human perception.
And the best thing is that the very best VHS players can be purchased from high end German audio/video companies for just over $10,000 (*). Nothing is too good for your hi-fi home theater!
(*) - The high end VHS players are sold without the special video pickup, which for a good helical scan pickup will be a relatively inexpensive $700 or so.
There is no such thing as an Airbus 312. The airplane that flew through the hailstorm was an Airbus 321, a rather common plane in service around the world.
The lesson is really a question: if a journalist, who is supposed to be an expert in reporting the facts, can't even get the type of aircraft right, then what else are they reporting incorrectly? Something to think about while watching CNN tonight.
A university pot and bong shop to keep students from using the illegal suppliers? Same logic it seems to me. And I heartily approve!
Yes, that would be good. Just look how long it took to get the spooks to admit that MLK and Einstein were on lists of suspected communists.
Maybe like this:
SCO published a work, and perhaps they own the copyright to some parts of the code that others put there.
But publishing isn't piecemeal. They didn't provide patches with just the little pieces they wanted to contribute, and tell us to buy Red Hat and apply their patches. I bet that a lawyer could make an argument out of the ambiguity of the word "placed". Does SCO actually have to operate the editor themselves, or is it enough to just make a product out of it? I don't know, but it'll be interesting to find out.
But the license also explains that the way to notify people of the license is through a file called "COPYING" located with the code. The Linux Kernel has that. Do you suppose that when SCO distributed Linux code and that file was present in the source tree that would count as being placed there by the copyright holder?
Not to mention that a tremendously successful pickup line is "did you know that in the Middle Ages people use to have sex just like we shake hands today?"
Everything is implicitly copyrighted, and the presence or absence of a notice means nothing.So if SCO is claiming that they didn't copyright their code, they are full of shit.
SCO is the copyright holder for the pieces that they claim to own that are in Linux, and they distributed their code under the GPL. Everything that SCO distributed falls under the GPL now, and they cannot recall it for any reason.
Oh I am going to laugh when they go under.
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Mod that up, it's insightful. All I'd add is that it takes equal effort to write a program that a) coredumps or b) gives a wrong answer. You might spend a lot of time making it difficult to produce a core dump, but that won't cut down much on how many wrong answers you have because the problem wasn't fully understood.
I disagree. There's the notion that when something fails, it should fail gracefully. To use your example, if I turn off images, then the web page should fail gracefully. I should still be able to navigate it, and I should get an alternate view of the image, probably a text description of the image.
But when I turn off a pop-up, the website fails completely. It becomes impossible to use it without changing my configuration. This is not good design, and any site that uses a pop-up cannot be said to have good design. What the website should do is give me an alternate path that does not require pop-ups.
We're talking about good design here, not what features of a browser are enabled. Good design provides for graceful failure. Bad design just breaks and leaves you stranded.
They should find an Australian Space Museum that needs computers.
Moderators heads are up their ass again. This could not possibly be redundant, because it wasn't mentioned in the article, and it also was not mentioned in a comment anywhere before mine. To check this, change the view preferences to flat, oldest first. Then search for 'transmeta'. There I am, first one to mention it.
Thank god I have three separate accounts that I metamoderate from twice a day. Without me, the moderators would destroy this place.
Here's a mirror:
This web page is not here yet
FilePlanet is completely broken too. I refuse all popups, and I consider it rude if anyone decides to shit all over my desktop by popping up windows all over.
Actually, a better reference for handwriting analysis is right here
I'm using Mozilla 1.4a with Javascript turned on. When I drill down into a document and click on the link, nothing comes up. I think it's trying to pop the document up in a new window.
The website is entirely broken. I've got all pop-ups turned off, and a website that relies on them is horribly broken.
Thanks to being a vacuum, pollutants can be better contained or cleaned up after leakage.
And that's a good thing too. We wouldn't want to turn space into a lifeless place full of radiation and harsh substances that would require a person to wear a protective suit just to survive.
NPR had a show on Talk of the Nation Science Friday about this too. The link to the show is here. The segment is in the second hour, so scroll down.
Thanks for the link, this stuff is awesome!
Are these horrendously boring reports going to end soon? Jeez. Can I have a report from the bathroom please?