Sorry, my mistake, I meant the St Petersburg Declaration.
"The Great Powers agreed to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the use of any explosive projectile of less weight than 400 grams (14 ounces avoirdupois) or one charged with fulminating or inflammable substances."
It's possible that these projectiles are over 400g in weight though.
Rich.
I wrote this script to relink a dynamically-linked program with as many equivalent static libraries as possible, with any unavailable static libraries left dynamic. I use it to ship a static version of libguestfs
Whether static binaries are a good idea, I'll leave that discussion up to others. I would say that dynamic linking should be preferred, but static linking and this script is quite useful in some circumstances.
Rich.
Not quite sure why you've chosen to troll about F# here, but OCaml simply does not have the serious technical issues you say, and does have hundreds of libraries. It's used a lot by some very large companies, and in important areas like financial trading, aircraft code verification and virtualization.
Rich.
OCaml is used for all sorts of things in many companies and is very much ready for primetime.
F# is fine if you're using
Rich.
If it's like Mac OS X then it's still a step backwards because the native OS X apps cannot be run remotely (only X11 ones). That's removing a useful feature for no benefit (despite what people who don't know what they are talking about say, there is no performance penalty to network transparency, because locally it's all using shared memory).
Rich.
I've been writing a lot of documentation for Linux virt-tools here.
Rich.
Maybe he should pay back all the US tax dollars it cost to get him there in the first place? Then we can talk about publicity rights
Rich.
It was kept a secret so it couldn't benefit humanity (and public key encryption has been an enormous benefit). I don't really care if it was their job, I have really very little time for the silly secrecy around the "security" services anyway. Most of what they do is policework, and the police aren't a state secret above the law.
Rich.
That would be quite a feat, as stealing ideas is just not possible.
It is if I use my patented brain eraser on you!
After Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect. - Freeman Dyson