Friday, November 16 2001

Duke Law School : Conference on the Public Domain

You can also slurp all of the papers delivered during the conference as a single PDF file.

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Tony Bowden : Yada::Yada::Yada.pm

"For Perl 6 we've been promised a "yada yada yada" operator, which makes '...' valid syntax for "I'll fill this bit in later.", allowing the code to compile, but issue a run-time warning. But, like many of the other things that may or may not happen in Perl 6, we can already make this happen in Perl 5."

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I received a nice note from Ronald Bourret in response to this post.

He pointed out that there is no evil plan afoot, that O'Reilly is not the shameless corporation may have painted them to be and that re-packaging articles is common practice. "Freelance writing pays so poorly that, if you researched every article from scratch, you'd literally make a dollar or two an hour." So, I stand corrected and offer my apologies.

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Most of what I've had to say, during the last couple days, is over here.

Apologies for not metioning it sooner.

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I'm hunting wabbits

via libjuice

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The dict-ified dictionary.com word of the day is impregnable

| source : web1913 | Impregnable \Im*preg"na*ble\, a. [F. imprenable; pref. im- not + prenable pregnable, fr. prendre to take, L. prehendere. See {Comprehend}, {Get} to obtain.] Not to be stormed, or taken by assault; incapable of being subdued; able to resist attack; unconquerable; as, an impregnable fortress; impregnable virtue. The man's affection remains wholly unconcerned and impregnable. --South. -- {Im*preg"na*ble*ness}, n. -- {Im*preg"na*bly}, adv. | source : web1913 | Impregnable \Im*preg"na*ble\, a. [See Impregnate.] (Biol.) Capable of being impregnated, as the egg of an animal, or the ovule of a plant. | source : wn | impregnable adj 1: able to withstand attack; "an impregnable fortress"; "fortifications that made the frontier inviolable" [syn: {inviolable}, {secure}, {strong}, {unassailable}, {unattackable}] 2: impossible to take by storm [syn: {inexpugnable}]

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