Hey, we can prove that nobody is using the GPL at all if we limit our survey to the Windows install DVD.
"Use of GPL hasn't changed in decades."
Bias isn't a problem here, the original survey might have touched on something interesting or the rebuke presented here might have, nobody's hiding the fact that John Sullivan is from the FSF. Your comment however fails to bring anything new to the table.
Debian packages are not really projects. There are projects which are divided into many smaller packages, like Xorg or Libreoffice, and there are packages which contain many small projects in aggregate, e.g. kdeapps.
That really depends on how you define "projects."
That's the problem here. Sullivan initially mentions 'projects' but then counts 'packages'. Does 'number of packages in Debian' say something about 'number of software projects in Debian'? Imho not, for the same reasons as GP mentions. Of course it's a matter of definition how many 'projects' there are in KDE but the amount of packages that make up KDE in Debian is an entirely different and unrelated, probably different again in another distro, if packaging is done uniformly in Debian to start with.
Given the conditions on Venus, we probably have a hard time recognizing it. I won't say it's impossible either based on what we find on our own planet but I doubt if an extreme environment on Earth is as extreme as Venus.
[ianal]A breach of copyright may have any penalty which may or may not be related to the actual value of the underlying work, depending on which law is applied (in which country). It might be the full commercial value or the price of a license and/or a fine, depending on the views of a judge or the type of law used (i.e. criminal or civil).
Strange or not, you decide: basically an MP3 rip of an album is technically not the same anymore as the original but still constitutes an infringement of copyright, even when it's a 64 kbps MP3 without commercial value.[/ianal]
Dare I ask what type of dead code exists in something extra huge, but closed source, like the Windows code base or for MS Office?
I've no idea what the code is they found in LO but I wouldn't be surprised there was a lot of stuff that looked like a good initiative once but the original coder left and nobody had an itch itching hard enough to continue to scratch. Think Google's Summer of Code code which nobody bothered to hook up to the next iteration of the API or so.
Indeed, we don't know what dragons are lurking in closed sources but I think that there's lots of cruft in an open source project which you won't find in proprietary code.
Has it not occurred to ANYBODY here that if Google were allowed to know a few things about you (via your G+ profile), that it could provide a much better search experience?
I've thought about that but I can't imagine how their input is going to help my searches. In fact, when it attempted to localize stuff based on my IP address it deteriorated the "search experience".
Everybody's so determined to stick to their old ways, when this just the natural evolution in making search easier.
On top of all that, Google provides a button right there to remove any "personalized" results...
Why the anger?!?
I recall a nearly white screen with a textbox to enter search parameters. One-click access to advanced search and fairly easy to memorize tricks for use in the search bar. Perhaps it makes some people angry but current google search just makes me sad.
1) Yes.
2) That's not the point. Marking a block of code is an abstraction, whether you use indention or curly braces doesn't really matter as long as the compiler/interpreter gets it. Don't use Python if it offends your fine taste, that's alright.
N00bs who've learned to code in Microsoftland. They whip up an application in no time with hardcoded SQL in the click events with minimal input validation. Asked me what I thought of their handywork and I said I'd prefer objects over datatables. After a brief silence came "but datatables are objects" to which I didn't bother to reply. It's true though,.Net encourages you to take the shortcuts with data binding regardless of how clueless you are as a coder.
Confused the hell out of them when I separated my database stuff from my objects from my business logic from my screen handling. WTF, all that code all over the place and in different files. I fear they still haven't figured out how a 'person' object automatically has person.Age when only the person.DateOfBirth was set.
Python works. I wouldn't recommend a line editor however nor text based games. PyGame (SDL for Python) let's you make 2D games fast and learn programming.
I live in The Netherlands where politicians too try to bend our on-line behavior in compliance with the copyright law. Parliament hasn't discussed 3D printing in relation to patent infringement yet afaik so we have some (not so) interesting times ahead. Somehow the notion of how fundamentally the world has changed with digital tools and the internet hasn't gotten in the minds of many people yet.
The point isn't that creativity or originality has become something of a lower value than before or deserves less encouragement/defense, the point is that the legal fantasy of "intellectual property" simply doesn't work like it used to do. But we've gotten phenomenal new things of great value too with digitalism and internet.
No really, my binary copy is identical to your digital original and I've gotten my copy from the other side of the world in less time than it took you to equip it with DRM and it's no fucking magic. Yes really.
Why do they think that the "random" process is not the face of God, or something?
Those are the same people who think their supposedly almighty god needs some help. Why wait for judgment day if you can blow yourself up or murder an abortion doctor? They have the clarity of vision to determine what's right or wrong, regardless of at the same time acknowledging a higher order who's supposed to be the sole source of that wisdom.
The basic thought is already mind-numbingly stupid: "O hai, we disagree with the course material but we'd like to get a diploma nevertheless. Kthxbai".
Try disagreeing with a philosophy or even a literature professor. They often mark you very highly.:-)
I'm sure the religious fanatics also allow you freedom to disagree with opinions. Disagreeing with their (interpretation of) $holy_book however is an entirely different matter.
And whatever you buy: RTFM and try to understand what it's about. Then practice with the camera so you know when to use exposure correction, spot metering and all those gimmicks. You might not need that stuff for 90% of your pics but when you do, you might make greater pics.
happen when tech English is hacked into another language, such as when words like "load" and "save" need to be raped to fit into a language where they don't belong natively. Often still preferable over translations though.
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Hey, we can prove that nobody is using the GPL at all if we limit our survey to the Windows install DVD.
"Use of GPL hasn't changed in decades."
Bias isn't a problem here, the original survey might have touched on something interesting or the rebuke presented here might have, nobody's hiding the fact that John Sullivan is from the FSF. Your comment however fails to bring anything new to the table.
Debian packages are not really projects. There are projects which are divided into many smaller packages, like Xorg or Libreoffice, and there are packages which contain many small projects in aggregate, e.g. kdeapps.
That really depends on how you define "projects."
That's the problem here. Sullivan initially mentions 'projects' but then counts 'packages'. Does 'number of packages in Debian' say something about 'number of software projects in Debian'? Imho not, for the same reasons as GP mentions. Of course it's a matter of definition how many 'projects' there are in KDE but the amount of packages that make up KDE in Debian is an entirely different and unrelated, probably different again in another distro, if packaging is done uniformly in Debian to start with.
It sucks being a man. Only a single short orgasm.
Given the conditions on Venus, we probably have a hard time recognizing it. I won't say it's impossible either based on what we find on our own planet but I doubt if an extreme environment on Earth is as extreme as Venus.
Are they?
[ianal]A breach of copyright may have any penalty which may or may not be related to the actual value of the underlying work, depending on which law is applied (in which country). It might be the full commercial value or the price of a license and/or a fine, depending on the views of a judge or the type of law used (i.e. criminal or civil).
Strange or not, you decide: basically an MP3 rip of an album is technically not the same anymore as the original but still constitutes an infringement of copyright, even when it's a 64 kbps MP3 without commercial value.[/ianal]
Dare I ask what type of dead code exists in something extra huge, but closed source, like the Windows code base or for MS Office?
I've no idea what the code is they found in LO but I wouldn't be surprised there was a lot of stuff that looked like a good initiative once but the original coder left and nobody had an itch itching hard enough to continue to scratch. Think Google's Summer of Code code which nobody bothered to hook up to the next iteration of the API or so.
Indeed, we don't know what dragons are lurking in closed sources but I think that there's lots of cruft in an open source project which you won't find in proprietary code.
Has it not occurred to ANYBODY here that if Google were allowed to know a few things about you (via your G+ profile), that it could provide a much better search experience?
I've thought about that but I can't imagine how their input is going to help my searches. In fact, when it attempted to localize stuff based on my IP address it deteriorated the "search experience".
Everybody's so determined to stick to their old ways, when this just the natural evolution in making search easier.
On top of all that, Google provides a button right there to remove any "personalized" results...
Why the anger?!?
I recall a nearly white screen with a textbox to enter search parameters. One-click access to advanced search and fairly easy to memorize tricks for use in the search bar. Perhaps it makes some people angry but current google search just makes me sad.
Trust me, the basics are a lot easier than you think. The rest is experimentation, play and frankly, photography.
I think all there's to know fits on 1 or 2 A4's, with diagrams and tables.
1) Yes.
2) That's not the point. Marking a block of code is an abstraction, whether you use indention or curly braces doesn't really matter as long as the compiler/interpreter gets it. Don't use Python if it offends your fine taste, that's alright.
N00bs who've learned to code in Microsoftland. They whip up an application in no time with hardcoded SQL in the click events with minimal input validation. Asked me what I thought of their handywork and I said I'd prefer objects over datatables. After a brief silence came "but datatables are objects" to which I didn't bother to reply. It's true though, .Net encourages you to take the shortcuts with data binding regardless of how clueless you are as a coder.
Confused the hell out of them when I separated my database stuff from my objects from my business logic from my screen handling. WTF, all that code all over the place and in different files. I fear they still haven't figured out how a 'person' object automatically has person.Age when only the person.DateOfBirth was set.
That's what I think. Here's the real title: EA, Nintendo, Sony Publicly Withdraw SOPA Support. Negotiations ACTA-style will continue.
Python works. I wouldn't recommend a line editor however nor text based games. PyGame (SDL for Python) let's you make 2D games fast and learn programming.
I live in The Netherlands where politicians too try to bend our on-line behavior in compliance with the copyright law. Parliament hasn't discussed 3D printing in relation to patent infringement yet afaik so we have some (not so) interesting times ahead. Somehow the notion of how fundamentally the world has changed with digital tools and the internet hasn't gotten in the minds of many people yet.
The point isn't that creativity or originality has become something of a lower value than before or deserves less encouragement/defense, the point is that the legal fantasy of "intellectual property" simply doesn't work like it used to do. But we've gotten phenomenal new things of great value too with digitalism and internet.
No really, my binary copy is identical to your digital original and I've gotten my copy from the other side of the world in less time than it took you to equip it with DRM and it's no fucking magic. Yes really.
and its really time to teach Gnome folks the lesson.
Nope, Kubuntu deserves its own Unity.
(disclaimer: I haven't read TFA nor know anything about Razor-qt)
Really? A black hole at the center of our galaxy? Who'd have thunk it.
Yeah, we can put an end to this suicide thing.
I'm not suicidal and I'm not on Facebook. Coincidence?
What gave it away? The patients had mice attached to them?
Why do they think that the "random" process is not the face of God, or something?
Those are the same people who think their supposedly almighty god needs some help. Why wait for judgment day if you can blow yourself up or murder an abortion doctor? They have the clarity of vision to determine what's right or wrong, regardless of at the same time acknowledging a higher order who's supposed to be the sole source of that wisdom.
The basic thought is already mind-numbingly stupid: "O hai, we disagree with the course material but we'd like to get a diploma nevertheless. Kthxbai".
Try disagreeing with a philosophy or even a literature professor. They often mark you very highly. :-)
I'm sure the religious fanatics also allow you freedom to disagree with opinions. Disagreeing with their (interpretation of) $holy_book however is an entirely different matter.
And whatever you buy: RTFM and try to understand what it's about. Then practice with the camera so you know when to use exposure correction, spot metering and all those gimmicks. You might not need that stuff for 90% of your pics but when you do, you might make greater pics.
The book is, a bit sadly, not the definitive guide on building with Lego.
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happen when tech English is hacked into another language, such as when words like "load" and "save" need to be raped to fit into a language where they don't belong natively. Often still preferable over translations though.
And look what it brought them.
The politico-media complex at its finest. Sometimes also called the political-legal-media complex. I propose to call it: the Berlusconi complex.
Almost half the pictures were completely useless. In one picture, a bush was tagged...
Good chance it's called "George".