These vertical hold-on-to column on these things should be got rid of. Then the rider can ride like a skateboard.
It reminds me of that scene in Back to the Future X where Michael J. Fox rips the handlebars off the 50's scooter turning it into a rad 80s skateboard. Same needs to be done here.
I've said it before on Slashdot. Wikipedia is a large strategic threat to Google.
With things like the Wikipedia search box in Firefox people can go directly to the Wikipedia page on a subject rather than type it in to Google. If they want to read further they will follow the external links at the bottom of the page. Every time they go to Wikipedia directly that is lost revenue for Google.
Search engines are good but they are good for active thinkers. Most people are passive readers and they just want to read a basic overview and have a few selected quality links to take them further if need be.
Hence Knol. Google's competitor to Wikipedia. But it's too late. Good.
You've used a tilde over the A. This only occurs in Romance languages in Portuguese. The proper diacritic to use in the French phrase is a grave accent.
You're using apropos as an adjective here. Apropos adj. means to the point, pertinent. Please don't try to be fancy with a word you don't have mastery of and just use the appropriate word instead.
Read the question again. The person is wanting to find some software to use for a particular application. He says nothing about using the code. The GPL puts no constraints on use of software. There are constraints on use of the code. You are being deliberately obtuse to make a point that is precious to you and has no relevance to the original question - i.e. you are trolling.
Later on, realizing that the despised "open source" was not going away, the free/libre partisans and their politically correct allies annexed the enemy term to their own and coined the lexicological monster "free/libre open source software" along with its ludicrous acronym FLOSS.
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What's corrupt about Stallman's moral sloganeering is that he condemns the pursuit of self-interest by others in order to promote his own equally self-interested goal of replacing the free market by some kind of high-minded collectivism.
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It is only a short step from "should not exist" to "must not be allowed to exist." Instead of dismissing Stallman as a crank, it's time for the open source community to take his totalitarian ideas more seriously and to reject them categorically.
By forcing Microsoft to offer an unbundled version of Windows in Europe, the EU believes that it has increased consumer choice. Personally, having already made the choice to purchase Windows, I would just as soon have my media viewing habits subsidized by the putative monopolists in Redmond than put up with Real's annoying pop-up ads.
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The EU looks at this normal market behavior and sees something pathological that needs reprimanding. The EU sees Microsoft doing everything it can to steer customers its way and decides that we consumers need protection lest we fall into the clutches of the evil monopolist, as if we were children.
In the dreary conventional view of economics shared by Richard Stallman's side of the open source world and some of his pundit fans, profits are akin to global warming: both are evil. By this logic, common corporate strategies for achieving profits - such as building a better mousetrap, making your brand a household name, or trying to keep the recipe to your secret sauce a secret - are inherently wrong. You see, it's just plain wicked for software developers to go out and create really useful solutions to a really hard problems, and then have the nerve to keep them secret so they can charge people money.
I used a single word to make my point, you used two paragraphs to make yrs and you describe *me* as being "roundabout"?:)
But yes, it's war. Ambiguous or fake communication can serve one parties interests very well.
"All is fair in love and war."
BTW, I don't feel it's a bleak picture. I don't think the species has evolved beyond sexual warfare (which is just fine), but I do feel it is possible to individually transcend it. That, of course, is a very subjective opinion.
In almost ANY communications scenario in which a message is being received but misinterpreted, it must be the job of the sender to clarify the message.
Personally, I'm mildly outraged that (some) women do this - my wife included. If women want men to read the signals properly, we need to know the rules and they need to be consistent. It's manipulative, sneaky, underhanded, and just plain unfair. I feel like I'm playing by a constantly-changing set of rules (Calvinball, anyone?). If that's going to be the case, I refuse the play the game. Because that's all it is - a game. I don't like playing games with people's emotions and I REALLY don't like people playing with mine.
It's not a game, it's war. War between the sexes which has been going on since sexual reproduction began. Neither side ever gets the upper hand. In regard to the human species I happen to think the battle has been pretty even for at least the last several millennia (contrary to what feminists will tell you).
Now human females are particularly good on picking up and putting out subtle communication clues. That's one of their superior weapons and they are unlikely to give it up.
Of course, you can choose to step outside the 'game', which can be a noble calling. But then of course, you're no longer a player. And as you mentioned a wife it doesn't sound like you've made this choice.
I welcome your attempt. Here are my three points of criticism:
1. Advertising. This will kill you. Encyclopedias and advertising do not go together.
2. The name. A name including a reference to truth smacks of arrogance. There is no truth, just approximations of it.
3. There does not seem to be any link back to the same article on Wikipedia. People will still want to edit what they read. Fair enough they can't do it on your version but they should be directed back to where they can.
For a work of literature involving the game, I recommend The Master of Go by Kawabata Yasunari. The story of a match that lasted almost six months between the master and his challenger.
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We know of no such thing. Many scientists assume that life originated on Earth. There is no proof. Unless you know something I don't?
These vertical hold-on-to column on these things should be got rid of. Then the rider can ride like a skateboard.
It reminds me of that scene in Back to the Future X where Michael J. Fox rips the handlebars off the 50's scooter turning it into a rad 80s skateboard. Same needs to be done here.
I've said it before on Slashdot. Wikipedia is a large strategic threat to Google.
With things like the Wikipedia search box in Firefox people can go directly to the Wikipedia page on a subject rather than type it in to Google. If they want to read further they will follow the external links at the bottom of the page. Every time they go to Wikipedia directly that is lost revenue for Google.
Search engines are good but they are good for active thinkers. Most people are passive readers and they just want to read a basic overview and have a few selected quality links to take them further if need be.
Hence Knol. Google's competitor to Wikipedia. But it's too late. Good.
> Why is 10% "magic"? This number is significant because that's how many fingers we have?
>> Because it has reached double digit
You might like to look up the etymology of "digit". You basically just proved the OP's point.
What you were looking for was: À la carte.
You've used a tilde over the A. This only occurs in Romance languages in Portuguese. The proper diacritic to use in the French phrase is a grave accent.
Except that Gore demonstrably exists.
And the poster did begin with IMHO.
So, in summary, your rhetoric very overblown.
How about a nice poster of John McCarthy?
(With some gentle words of encouragement below...)
You're using apropos as an adjective here. Apropos adj. means to the point, pertinent. Please don't try to be fancy with a word you don't have mastery of and just use the appropriate word instead.
Read the question again. The person is wanting to find some software to use for a particular application. He says nothing about using the code. The GPL puts no constraints on use of software. There are constraints on use of the code. You are being deliberately obtuse to make a point that is precious to you and has no relevance to the original question - i.e. you are trolling.
You're clearly not familiar with the King's Leeth edition, published shortly after the first folio and unfortunately mostly overlooked by scholars.
A few examples from the text of the same play you quote from:
How now! a rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead! Brevity is the soul of witIf it is not already evident, I think the quotes below from previous columns by the writer clearly expose his bias.
From FLOSSing with jargon: ~ ~ From Do we want Europe regulating our software?: ~ From Has open source jumped the shark?:I used a single word to make my point, you used two paragraphs to make yrs and you describe *me* as being "roundabout"? :)
But yes, it's war. Ambiguous or fake communication can serve one parties interests very well.
"All is fair in love and war."
BTW, I don't feel it's a bleak picture. I don't think the species has evolved beyond sexual warfare (which is just fine), but I do feel it is possible to individually transcend it. That, of course, is a very subjective opinion.
Very easy to think of counter-example: Espionage.
It's not a game, it's war. War between the sexes which has been going on since sexual reproduction began. Neither side ever gets the upper hand. In regard to the human species I happen to think the battle has been pretty even for at least the last several millennia (contrary to what feminists will tell you).
Now human females are particularly good on picking up and putting out subtle communication clues. That's one of their superior weapons and they are unlikely to give it up.
Of course, you can choose to step outside the 'game', which can be a noble calling. But then of course, you're no longer a player. And as you mentioned a wife it doesn't sound like you've made this choice.
In Soviet Russia, Software frees you!
Wait...
Kakosarchy? Kak OS Archy?
Or kakos: bad, wicked. Rule by the wicked?
Capsaicin also works great for sore throats.
Cayenne pepper gargleI welcome your attempt. Here are my three points of criticism:
1. Advertising. This will kill you. Encyclopedias and advertising do not go together.
2. The name. A name including a reference to truth smacks of arrogance. There is no truth, just approximations of it.
3. There does not seem to be any link back to the same article on Wikipedia. People will still want to edit what they read. Fair enough they can't do it on your version but they should be directed back to where they can.
Why not just move the text to the article's talk page and leave a message on the user's page explaining what you have done?
For a work of literature involving the game, I recommend The Master of Go by Kawabata Yasunari. The story of a match that lasted almost six months between the master and his challenger.
Why not go all the way and just arrange for a lobotomy operation?
Interesting comment, thanks.
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