BSD existed long before GNU. In fact, all GNU did for the most part was hack on BSD tools and release them under a license that effectively forbade the new code from being rolled back in.
glibc didn't even work on Linux until the Linux hackers made it work. RMS still doesn't give any credit for this, or any of the work that the Linux people put into GNU, which I dare say is greater than all of RMS's total output.
Writing a compiler is an undergraduate project. Countless people who were not RMS improved gcc. For some years, in fact, they did so in spite of RMS.
> If you're living in an area with only one or two ISP choices, it's very likely to be the fault of you and your peers in ranking low price above every other possible consideration.
Look, I'm as much a supporter of the little guy above the big impersonal corporation as the next, and I'm willing to shove some sheckels in the direction of that philosophy, but when the only differentiating factor you can determine is price, then price is going to be the decider. Water seeks low ground, markets seek low cost. Most people just want the internet as a utility, and simply either don't understand or don't care what the difference is.
If you don't differentiate your more expensive product, you die. If you can't differentiate it, you're selling a commodity, and you have to price accordingly.
Oil is already not all that convenient an energy source. It's a scarce commodity subject to fluctuations, that has to be brought in from far afield and refined. Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, don't have quite the yield, but when you're sitting on top of those resources like, say, Iceland is, you're doing great, and if you're a big country that has all those resources, it suffices to say the lights aren't going out due to supply problems. And there's nuclear of course, though that does have a few problems besides the waste. Oil is however a wonderful raw material. Just about every damn thing you touch in a given day is made in part or improved on with oil. It's a damn shame we waste so much of it by burning it.
And yeah, the chorus of people screaming about how IPv4 isn't going to run out sound a whole lot like the people who think we have limitless oil -- and perhaps we do, but in both cases, it's going to be damned expensive to retrieve and distribute.
You couldn't even get away with this idiocy in the echo chamber that is Groklaw, let alone here.
If I was an employer, I'd see a former SCO employee (not executive mind you) as someone who was determined to stick it out when things got bad. Not something to entirely base a decision on, but not an unadmirable quality.
> I assume he also has a plan to stop selling our debt to the Chinese, but I have not looked it up
He wants to go back on the gold standard. Because, yunno, we never had any economic problems in the 19th century. Anyway, this doesn't eliminate national debt, but it certainly does make its effects more immediately felt, creating a more natural ceiling.
That controller was tougher than the humans. "Atari Thumb" was the RSI of the early 80's. Anyone but me do the trick of taping a dime to the top of the button contact to reduce the travel time? I had a couple controllers that actually required the dime trick because the button wore a hole through the contact. Worked all right for the stick contacts too, though it made it a bit fiddly.
(yeah, posted just after me carping about slow news days. it's just the "ask slashdot" part of it that bugged me)
Posting idle brainfarts is just a product of boredom, but this making it onto the front page? I mean come on, seriously. I have to go invent a Remote Dumbass-Thwack Protocol for the originators of this one.
I'm smoking the discount crack today, what with the underscore in READ UNCOMMITTED and saying it removes Atomicity. Atomicity isn't lost, though running with autocommit on pretty much does the same thing (okay, not technically, but effectively). Seriously, a DB has to make ACID available, and sensibly speaking, the default. It doesn't mean that the user can't override it if they explicitly say that they don't care.
> Why would you want to drop the durability part of ACID?
SQL already allows you to drop to READ_UNCOMMITTED if you really really want to -- though the DB actually under no obligation to drop to that level, you're just specifying that you don't care. That removes A, C, and I all at once. Why not make the D part optional too?
Not all databases are commerce. My company processes several billions of rows a day of data, and if we accidentally lose some data, it just degrades effectiveness a little bit and means our statistics just have to interpolate a smidge. In fact, we deliberately drop a lot of it anyway.
> I wish these scripting languages were really just APIs, and could all be compiled to binary code instead of depending on different versions of different interpreters.
So basically, you're looking for.NET or Java or Parrot then. All three of 'em do run Python. Of course each of those is itself an interpreter...
Python3000 had some pretty grand visions. Optional static typing. Generic functions. Look what we got: meaningless type annotations on functions, not even on locals. "Abstract Base Classes" which are similarly meaningless mixins and barely qualify as roles/traits. Oh yeah, print is a function now, and unicode is the default string type. Whoop de freakin do. I guess the incompatibilities warrant a major version bump, but it's a singularly unimpressive feature set for a modern language.
I'm halfway through my 30's, and I don't think it's all shit. I'm not saying it's convenient to stop patronizing the major labels, and I have no illusions about the effectiveness of a boycott. Just remember, when you buy their music, you are directly funding these people.
I still go out to the occasional film, still get the occasional track. I don't claim to be without sin, but I'll cast as many damn stones at them as I choose -- the parable only works when you're judging your peers, not those who claim themselves your overlords.
The market may not solve the problem, but you sure as hell can't help by handing them money.
The real problem with the C64 was the damn disk drive, 1541, that broke every six months if copy protected games were played (grounded the hardware like a flour mill).
Don't tell me you didn't copy every single game you had with Fast Hack 'Em or otherwise head out to the warez BBS's to grab a crack? If not the whole game more often than not;) The improvement in load times alone made warezing your own game worth it. My drive went five years, never a problem. Just the occasional realign.
There was a utility in Fast Hack 'Em that would try to realign the drive heads by repeatedly knocking them against the opposite stop. Had to love those drives. braaaap-braaap... braaap-braaaap. tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-buddabuddabuddabuddabuddabudda.
Actually, they were required by law to tell the NSA to go fuck themselves and get a FISA warrant. I mean, FISA is a rubberstamp secret court, but at least it keeps a trail and is there to prevent exactly the same sort of dragnet that they installed in the first place.
Is it really a Democrat or Republican thing whether the word of the Executive is law? Last I looked, martial law was not in effect.
> There's a rumor/conspiracy/speculation that Fios is only being rolled out in affluent areas of California first.
You can't get it in San Francisco or Marin either.
I looked at the rates for FIOS anyway. It's clear that the telcos are quite happy with pathetic bandwidth, since they can gouge us that much more for bandwidth that's anywhere near on par with the rest of the developed world. I'm more than sure DOCSIS 3 will cost another $40/month or more too.
Today's Sluggy Freelance references the movie too. I'd never heard of it. The poster is cut off in the frame, and just reads "rfield", and I was wondering if there was a new Garfield movie. With a shaky-cam. And I figured that would make me pretty ill too, but I was still pretty puzzled at the whole idea. Now I know.
(whaddya know, sluggy's down, so this post won't have a proper permalink, but that was pretty much the whole joke in the post above)
KDE and TT each have two members on the FreeQt board. On the question of reverting the license to BSD, KDE will win a tie. The foundation itself isn't empowered to even take up the question unless the 12-month period has passed.
It's a nice gesture, but if Nokia wanted to be evil (though all recent signs show that they won't) they could lock it up in court for years and years. If Nokia lets Qt stagnate, the easier option for the KDE people would be to just fork the GPL codebase.
Personally I see the opposite happening, and Nokia pouring resources into Qt development. Clearly they want an alternative to Symbian where they own the whole enchilada, or at least don't have to play development politics with all the other Symbian partners.
IE is a program that relies upon a rendering engine Microsoft tightly integrated into the OS in order to make it difficult for competitors to offer a rival browser
I guess Microsoft should be raked over the coals for putting Trumpet Winsock out of business too? But it's not even a valid basis for comparison. I mean, you can't even name any specifics on how it actually made things difficult for competitors. At one time, Netscape had actually gone and implemented IWebBrowse and IWebBrowse2.
Some people still can't stop whining after 10 years.
Oh sorry, I glossed over "righteous little fuck", my mistake. I can see how some people incapable of recognizing argument from interjection might have read it that way. The ability to distinguish a bare insult from a logical fallacy does tend to require reading and reasoning skills not entirely prevalent in those who gleaned the term by osmosis through its typical "you're a meanie, ergo invalid" usage.
Nothing like a good flame, but what the hell, I hardly feel like it's worth it anymore.
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BSD existed long before GNU. In fact, all GNU did for the most part was hack on BSD tools and release them under a license that effectively forbade the new code from being rolled back in.
glibc didn't even work on Linux until the Linux hackers made it work. RMS still doesn't give any credit for this, or any of the work that the Linux people put into GNU, which I dare say is greater than all of RMS's total output.
Writing a compiler is an undergraduate project. Countless people who were not RMS improved gcc. For some years, in fact, they did so in spite of RMS.
> If you're living in an area with only one or two ISP choices, it's very likely to be the fault of you and your peers in ranking low price above every other possible consideration.
Look, I'm as much a supporter of the little guy above the big impersonal corporation as the next, and I'm willing to shove some sheckels in the direction of that philosophy, but when the only differentiating factor you can determine is price, then price is going to be the decider. Water seeks low ground, markets seek low cost. Most people just want the internet as a utility, and simply either don't understand or don't care what the difference is.
If you don't differentiate your more expensive product, you die. If you can't differentiate it, you're selling a commodity, and you have to price accordingly.
Oil is already not all that convenient an energy source. It's a scarce commodity subject to fluctuations, that has to be brought in from far afield and refined. Wind, solar, hydro, geothermal, don't have quite the yield, but when you're sitting on top of those resources like, say, Iceland is, you're doing great, and if you're a big country that has all those resources, it suffices to say the lights aren't going out due to supply problems. And there's nuclear of course, though that does have a few problems besides the waste. Oil is however a wonderful raw material. Just about every damn thing you touch in a given day is made in part or improved on with oil. It's a damn shame we waste so much of it by burning it.
And yeah, the chorus of people screaming about how IPv4 isn't going to run out sound a whole lot like the people who think we have limitless oil -- and perhaps we do, but in both cases, it's going to be damned expensive to retrieve and distribute.
Mike Godwin, pick up line 1.
You couldn't even get away with this idiocy in the echo chamber that is Groklaw, let alone here.
If I was an employer, I'd see a former SCO employee (not executive mind you) as someone who was determined to stick it out when things got bad. Not something to entirely base a decision on, but not an unadmirable quality.
> I assume he also has a plan to stop selling our debt to the Chinese, but I have not looked it up
He wants to go back on the gold standard. Because, yunno, we never had any economic problems in the 19th century. Anyway, this doesn't eliminate national debt, but it certainly does make its effects more immediately felt, creating a more natural ceiling.
That controller was tougher than the humans. "Atari Thumb" was the RSI of the early 80's. Anyone but me do the trick of taping a dime to the top of the button contact to reduce the travel time? I had a couple controllers that actually required the dime trick because the button wore a hole through the contact. Worked all right for the stick contacts too, though it made it a bit fiddly.
(yeah, posted just after me carping about slow news days. it's just the "ask slashdot" part of it that bugged me)
Posting idle brainfarts is just a product of boredom, but this making it onto the front page? I mean come on, seriously. I have to go invent a Remote Dumbass-Thwack Protocol for the originators of this one.
I'm smoking the discount crack today, what with the underscore in READ UNCOMMITTED and saying it removes Atomicity. Atomicity isn't lost, though running with autocommit on pretty much does the same thing (okay, not technically, but effectively). Seriously, a DB has to make ACID available, and sensibly speaking, the default. It doesn't mean that the user can't override it if they explicitly say that they don't care.
> Why would you want to drop the durability part of ACID?
SQL already allows you to drop to READ_UNCOMMITTED if you really really want to -- though the DB actually under no obligation to drop to that level, you're just specifying that you don't care. That removes A, C, and I all at once. Why not make the D part optional too?
Not all databases are commerce. My company processes several billions of rows a day of data, and if we accidentally lose some data, it just degrades effectiveness a little bit and means our statistics just have to interpolate a smidge. In fact, we deliberately drop a lot of it anyway.
Allow me to introduce you to your new friend, Mister Simile.
> I wish these scripting languages were really just APIs, and could all be compiled to binary code instead of depending on different versions of different interpreters.
.NET or Java or Parrot then. All three of 'em do run Python. Of course each of those is itself an interpreter...
So basically, you're looking for
Python3000 had some pretty grand visions. Optional static typing. Generic functions. Look what we got: meaningless type annotations on functions, not even on locals. "Abstract Base Classes" which are similarly meaningless mixins and barely qualify as roles/traits. Oh yeah, print is a function now, and unicode is the default string type. Whoop de freakin do. I guess the incompatibilities warrant a major version bump, but it's a singularly unimpressive feature set for a modern language.
I'm halfway through my 30's, and I don't think it's all shit. I'm not saying it's convenient to stop patronizing the major labels, and I have no illusions about the effectiveness of a boycott. Just remember, when you buy their music, you are directly funding these people.
I still go out to the occasional film, still get the occasional track. I don't claim to be without sin, but I'll cast as many damn stones at them as I choose -- the parable only works when you're judging your peers, not those who claim themselves your overlords.
The market may not solve the problem, but you sure as hell can't help by handing them money.
Actually excessive fines, also in the 8th.
You're of course assuming the constitution means a fucking thing these days.
How about we stop buying their shit?
The real problem with the C64 was the damn disk drive, 1541, that broke every six months if copy protected games were played (grounded the hardware like a flour mill).
;) The improvement in load times alone made warezing your own game worth it. My drive went five years, never a problem. Just the occasional realign.
... braaap-braaaap. tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-buddabuddabuddabuddabuddabudda.
Don't tell me you didn't copy every single game you had with Fast Hack 'Em or otherwise head out to the warez BBS's to grab a crack? If not the whole game more often than not
There was a utility in Fast Hack 'Em that would try to realign the drive heads by repeatedly knocking them against the opposite stop. Had to love those drives. braaaap-braaap
> The only way it could be improved is a frame rate of at least 30Hz and maybe updated graphics.
Like this? Has bots and everything. Far better shooter than Halo in both single and multiplayer.
> as required by law
Actually, they were required by law to tell the NSA to go fuck themselves and get a FISA warrant. I mean, FISA is a rubberstamp secret court, but at least it keeps a trail and is there to prevent exactly the same sort of dragnet that they installed in the first place.
Is it really a Democrat or Republican thing whether the word of the Executive is law? Last I looked, martial law was not in effect.
> There's a rumor/conspiracy/speculation that Fios is only being rolled out in affluent areas of California first.
You can't get it in San Francisco or Marin either.
I looked at the rates for FIOS anyway. It's clear that the telcos are quite happy with pathetic bandwidth, since they can gouge us that much more for bandwidth that's anywhere near on par with the rest of the developed world. I'm more than sure DOCSIS 3 will cost another $40/month or more too.
The next one.
I thought it was one of Intel's chipsets.
Today's Sluggy Freelance references the movie too. I'd never heard of it. The poster is cut off in the frame, and just reads "rfield", and I was wondering if there was a new Garfield movie. With a shaky-cam. And I figured that would make me pretty ill too, but I was still pretty puzzled at the whole idea. Now I know.
(whaddya know, sluggy's down, so this post won't have a proper permalink, but that was pretty much the whole joke in the post above)
KDE and TT each have two members on the FreeQt board. On the question of reverting the license to BSD, KDE will win a tie. The foundation itself isn't empowered to even take up the question unless the 12-month period has passed.
It's a nice gesture, but if Nokia wanted to be evil (though all recent signs show that they won't) they could lock it up in court for years and years. If Nokia lets Qt stagnate, the easier option for the KDE people would be to just fork the GPL codebase.
Personally I see the opposite happening, and Nokia pouring resources into Qt development. Clearly they want an alternative to Symbian where they own the whole enchilada, or at least don't have to play development politics with all the other Symbian partners.
IE is a program that relies upon a rendering engine Microsoft tightly integrated into the OS in order to make it difficult for competitors to offer a rival browser
I guess Microsoft should be raked over the coals for putting Trumpet Winsock out of business too? But it's not even a valid basis for comparison. I mean, you can't even name any specifics on how it actually made things difficult for competitors. At one time, Netscape had actually gone and implemented IWebBrowse and IWebBrowse2.
Some people still can't stop whining after 10 years.
> nobody's even found a way to destroy virus cells in general?
If they had cells to begin with, that might be something we could try.
Technically they're not even alive.
Oh sorry, I glossed over "righteous little fuck", my mistake. I can see how some people incapable of recognizing argument from interjection might have read it that way. The ability to distinguish a bare insult from a logical fallacy does tend to require reading and reasoning skills not entirely prevalent in those who gleaned the term by osmosis through its typical "you're a meanie, ergo invalid" usage.
Nothing like a good flame, but what the hell, I hardly feel like it's worth it anymore.
BTW, you don't just use DDT indoors.
> regurgitating them in ad-hominem rants,
Point out one "ad hominem" in my reply. I suspect you don't even know what the term means.