How does it not have a sonic boom?
AFAIK, the "sonic boom" is the shockwave passing across your ears of an object travelling at faster than signal speed in the atmosphere. How can that be eliminated except by traveling at subsonic speed?
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At the blog, we read:
"Vulnerabilities CVE-2012-4681, CVE-2012-1682, and CVE-2012-3136 have each received a CVSS Base Score of 10.0. This score assumes that the affected users have administrative privileges, as is typical in Windows XP. Vulnerability CVE-20120-0547 has received a CVSS Base Score of 0.0 because this vulnerability is not directly exploitable in typical user deployments---"
Doesn't this mean that the remote exploit would only sometimes effective?
Dunno but at the download page you can get JRE or JDK 7.7 or 6.35. The choice be yours!
Modula 2 is a very nice language.
If you want to not "get yourself started" maybe you should delete your compiler, then step away from your workstation.
Really, compare it to the stuff that was floating around when it was designed. There wasn't even a C++.
Why you would post "inflammatory messages" about Modula-2 is beyond me (except if you used the m2c translator, bletch!). We had a few self-styled "C hackers" patting themselves on the shoulder for having written incomprehensible garbage with all the stuff they mis-taught themselves during high school. Not one of them, perchance?
"I wrote a few crappy programs in Java that could do some basic things. After a year or so of this I then decided that I'd much rather do anything else other than be a developer for a living."
Yeah, so is Trevor even writing about this?
Next article: "I hate X not because there's anything inherently wrong with the X, but because of a decade's worth of people who still haven't figured out how to use it as designed."
> I hope science will bridge that gap
Isn't that "physics envy" talking? One may like to have simple explanations, possibly adduced with a few equations, that fit on a page. Unfortunately, complex system, unlike the physical foundations (which themselves are still in need of amendments) do not offer themselves to an approach like that. You are left with a large bag of tricks to somewhat "explain" your complex system which yields a moderately successful explanations, but you will be unlikely to do much better, really. You can bridge the gaps more solidly if your simulations take off in a big way of course, but there isn't enough CPU power or a spare planet in a timewarp for that yet.
“robs inventors of the incentive to innovate and create new material if others can simply free-ride on that investment”
I think some beloved Reg writers are consulting on the side.
Oh no wait. This is standard self-serving pablum. Won't somebody think of the innovators dying softwareless and hungry in the nation's gutters?
What does this even mean?
I am reminded of my old language high school teacher pleading with us cold mathematicians to appreciate some poor sod writing german sonnets back in the 17th century. Okay, one may appreciate it, but so what? That differential equation ain't gonna solve itself!
"Good day, gentlemen. This is a pre-recorded briefing made prior to your departure and which, for security reasons of the highest importance, has been known on board during the mission only by your H-A-L 9000 computer. Now that you are in Jupiter space and the entire crew is revived, it can be told to you. Eighteen months ago, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered. It was buried forty feet below the lunar surface, near the crater Tycho. Except for a single, very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four million-year-old black monolith has remained completely inert, its origin and purpose still a total mystery. However, we finally have managed to put it to good use as a prop and projection area in the upcoming "Moon Madonna" concert to be held at Crater Tycho today at 1245 your time. Gentlemen, with the permission of RIAA and MPAA, we are pleased to transmit you this important event in ... 2 minutes exactly. Enjoy!"
> No patents on ideas, mathematics and software in general.
Or you go whole hog and allow patents on argumentations in court.
Then get popcorn.
If the popcorn is not based on a patented corn germline that is the only one allowed By Law as it contains The Latest Nutritive Supplement Lobbies For Mandatory Addition.
We read at https://plus.google.com/108413286958999778262/posts/Mo7ZnHY3Xhi
If you fork Mayan EDMS into a closed or private respository, stop and think about what you are doing because you going about it the wrong way.
Maybe so, but the GPL does not particularly say anything about not being able to fork privately. It's probably against the spirit and a waste of resources though.
Likewise if you fork Mayan EDMS and the first patch you commit is to change the name, stop.
Okay, that sounds dishonorable but it's still not forbidden.
It has come to my attention that there are a number of unauthorized forks of Mayan EDMS being offered for download as if the original version was being abandoned
Who authorizes the forks and how? One might assume it's against the GPL. Does he want particular restrictions for GPL-ed software, for example for commerical users? The GPL says no, you can't do that. Kind of a pickle, then. Like that bizarre MySQL dual licensing scheme that self-contradicts.
and at least one fork is being sold with a comercial license to add insult to injury.
We still don't know whether this is against the GPL or not. If he wants to invoke copyright restrictions on GPL-ed code, again, problem, though the lawyers may be happy.
These violators have been listed in a new page called GPL violations.
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All you greenhorns at open source basics may want to visit
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Or else you shall hear RMS whisper "free as in freedom, not as in beer" into your ear during your sleep until the day you die!
There is no such thing as unauthorized fork under GPL.
Steve Knox: What law of physics prevents people from removing copyright notices?
The first statement clearly means that you are free to fork under the GPL at any time as long as you follow the requirements of the GPL, which is to keep the fork under the GPL etc. etc. etc.
I don't know what point you are trying to make here or why anyone would upvote you. Please reconsider.
> ChildLine was witnessing a rise in "sexting" among teenagers, with boys putting pressure on girls to send them sexually explicit images of themselves via text.
Kids these days. We didn't have half that kind of fun. In fact, the local church representative told us in no uncertain terms what's what.
More like the Bridge of Death.
"What ... is your Name?"
"Sir Google from Mountain View"
"What ... is your Quest?"
"To port something like Java to Android per fas et nefas"
"What .... is your Shill List???"
"What do you mean? The people who only write about us or who write about you too?"
"Err.... I dunno ... "
(PIOIIINNKKK!)
> "copying PARC's research" isn't one of them
But it is. That's what they did. They went in (paid Xerox for the privilege, and why not), went out and copied what they had seen.
Maybe they could have developed the basic ideas themselves, but why bother?
Was the Xerox stuff patented? No. Patents on software and mouse/screen interactions didn't exist.
Was the Xerox stuff copyrighted? No. Copyrights on UI design elements.
Was it stolen? Fanbois and assorted random faggots would says yes (if this weren't Apple). So no.
Was it used as inspiration? Of course!
"And I can think of several alternative ways of unlocking that don't involve swiping but Google didn't try to innovate, they just magically ended up with the exact same solution Apple invented"
And this is bad how?
It's how things work - good ideas are shared and become commonplace.