Traders make a profit on each trade. But the profit is always to the broker.
Ultra fast trading is an interesting idea and done right it can lead to successful short term returns, but if you take a Ferrari around a hairpin at 120mph, you're still going to hit the wall and die.
I'm sorry, despite your use of cars as a metaphor, your analogy makes no sense to me...
They own the scan. They made it. But, I disagree that the scan is copywritable.
Gonna take a moment to smack you up-side the head.
*smack*
To describe something as "copywritable" is somewhat meaningless, of course - but to the extent it has any meaning at all, it would have the opposite meaning of copyright... Something "copywritable" would, presumably, be something you can copy. "Copyright" means that someone controls the right to copy something...
I'm well aware of how postfix increment & decrement operators work, if that's what you're asking. But since I wasn't attempting to write syntactically correct & logically complete source code, I'm left wondering what your point is, other than to show off that you've taken a programming course somewhere along the way?
No need to be so serious. I'm just joking around.
It just seemed like what you were actually saying with that shorthand didn't fit your intent. But then again - maybe I'm the one who got it wrong - if one assumes that this year, not next year, is the one perpetually identified as "the year of..." I would have thought the claim would be "next year", though - "this year" is too tight of a deadline.:)
But of course, current_year++ always seems to be the year of the Linux Desktop... so perhaps counterproductive strategy is just the way open source rolls...
Are you aware that (current_year++) has the same value as (current_year)?
Though, on the other hand, (current_year == current_year++) is not necessarily true...
The "Accordion Hero" joke has been around for almost as long as Guitar Hero has. It predates Activision's acquisition of the franchise, and thus the Onion article as well. I'm not sure but I think Harmonix themselves actually originated the joke.
For the Java team, the summary only mentions Rod Johnson - it should be noted that Rod will be joined by other veteran developers advocating Java: Long Wang, Peter Cox (and his wife Anita), and, of course, notable Java developer Dick Manmeat.
The implications of this arrest on the numerical system as it applies to mathematics, physics, and other scientific and engineering disciplines cannot be overstated - especially in light of the recent arrest of seven, for the murder and subsequent cannibalization of nine...
For instance, even prior to this arrest, the speed of light (as measured in meters per second) couldn't be represented comfortably in decimal, but it could be rounded up with relatively little precision loss... That is now not possible... The gravitational constant was already problematic due to the arrest of seven - now with the arrest of three, the use of cubic meters is no longer viable, so the gravitational constant is at best represented as 6.66 (rounding down, here) * 10^-8 L / (kg * s^2).
Prior to the arrest of three, pi could still be represented to six digits (in decimal) - but now decimal representations of pi, pi/2, and pi/4 are all compromised... The natural exponent (e), of course, has suffered greatly from the loss of seven - and other numbers such as the Elementary Electric Charge (in Coulombs) and Avogadro's Constant have had to be changed to unconventional representations in scientific notation...
All of this has really made mathematics of any sort a real problem. The scientific community is trying to address this by advocating the use of different numerical bases and a new system of units: but adoption has been slow and difficult. So far, a clear solution has not yet emerged.
Technically, all that was proven was that this Kolodziej kid was able to traverse a distance in a given period of time, not that anyone else, least of all the defendant, was able to do the same. Plus, as far as we know, Kolodzeij did not need to take time out in order to kill anyone.
I may not be a fancy big New York Country Lawyer or anything,
...I am a simple cave-man... I was out hunting elk when I was caught up in an avalance of snow and ice that left me frozen for thousands of years... Since being unfrozen I have found your modern world bewildering and confounding. There is much I do not know. But one thing I do know is that my defendant could not have driven across two states and committed the murders in question within the time alleged by the prosecution...
Get the chemistry teacher to help you and make a trench(foxhole) radio.
Then build a crystal radio. Then an audio amplifier circuit.
Or build the crysal radio then the audio amplifier then the foxhole radio. But actually building a radio with parts they've made and not bought, making the diode, will teach them a lot.
Yeah, but they'll only be able to get talk radio and classics stations with it, so it'll really kill the enthusiasm for the project. XD
What about getting junked electronics (thinking Goodwill here, or possibly even donated) and desoldering components to build other projects with?
That would pretty much be a waste of time. Your time is more valuable to you than you would save by salvaging components.
Yeah... You could probably go work at McDonald's for a month and make enough money to buy more (and better!) components than you would get by salvaging...
The original poster said "If you use the open license, you can't contribute back". Not "it DISCOURAGES contributing back", which is what you are arguing. I was complaining that they seemed to have some reason it was IMPOSSIBLE, not less likely.
You seemed to have ignored the second half of that sentence...
"If you use the open license, you can't contribute back, because then the merged code base can no longer be dual-licensed, unless you do what the original author just rejected: Allow someone else to make money on your work while you get nothing."
So, no, he's not saying it's impossible to contribute back. He's saying that the terms under which code contributions would have to be made are unacceptable... Which to some extent I agree with. If the software author is using his open source project as a profit-making venture, then I am less inclined to contribute code to it.
I personally have seen zero effect on this and certainly have seen much more work done on code that requires copyright assignments. Look at all the people here arguing that BSD code gets just as much or more feedback and contributions, that would require the contributor giving up just as many rights as to a dual-licensed project, and far more than to a GPL project.
I don't claim that it's true for everyone. But I can certainly appreciate the point of view of a person who wouldn't want to contribute their work to an open source project, and sign over ownership of the contributed code so the package maintainer can profit from it. So I don't think it's a point of view you can just callously dismiss as "stupid"...
Hi everybody. Just wanted to stop by and say you are welcome. My now obsolete Eee non-touchscreen netbook was delivered yesterday. My decision to finally purchase thus ushered in this new generation of netbook (2 days later) for you all to enjoy. I'm getting tired of waiting for Android phones too so I better go buy a G1 so that 3 new Android phones will be released the next day. Otherwise we'll just have to keep waiting indefinitely.
You could have paid attention to the future product announcements... I knew the T91 was on its way when I bought my 901 in March... The reason that didn't stop me from buying the 901 is 'cause I knew the T91 would be horribly overpriced for the first six to eight months of its sale... I wanted to buy a good netbook for cheap, so I chose one of the models near the end of its sales run.
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Traders make a profit on each trade. But the profit is always to the broker.
Ultra fast trading is an interesting idea and done right it can lead to successful short term returns, but if you take a Ferrari around a hairpin at 120mph, you're still going to hit the wall and die.
I'm sorry, despite your use of cars as a metaphor, your analogy makes no sense to me...
IANAL
So does your mom.
Oh, I disagree!
They own the scan. They made it. But, I disagree that the scan is copywritable.
Gonna take a moment to smack you up-side the head.
*smack*
To describe something as "copywritable" is somewhat meaningless, of course - but to the extent it has any meaning at all, it would have the opposite meaning of copyright... Something "copywritable" would, presumably, be something you can copy. "Copyright" means that someone controls the right to copy something...
Given that Chocolate is an Aphrodisiac, I hope that change would be for the better.
uhhh*WINK* ;)
Hey, if you play your cards right and get to know the women in this study, you could wind up simply rolling in post-menopausal tail...
I'm well aware of how postfix increment & decrement operators work, if that's what you're asking. But since I wasn't attempting to write syntactically correct & logically complete source code, I'm left wondering what your point is, other than to show off that you've taken a programming course somewhere along the way?
No need to be so serious. I'm just joking around.
It just seemed like what you were actually saying with that shorthand didn't fit your intent. But then again - maybe I'm the one who got it wrong - if one assumes that this year, not next year, is the one perpetually identified as "the year of..." I would have thought the claim would be "next year", though - "this year" is too tight of a deadline. :)
But of course, current_year++ always seems to be the year of the Linux Desktop... so perhaps counterproductive strategy is just the way open source rolls...
Are you aware that (current_year++) has the same value as (current_year)?
Though, on the other hand, (current_year == current_year++) is not necessarily true...
Would you drive your car across a Microsoft-built bridge?
The car part of the analogy makes sense to me, but I can't relate to bridges at all!
Way to rip off The Onion.
Blah, I say!
The "Accordion Hero" joke has been around for almost as long as Guitar Hero has. It predates Activision's acquisition of the franchise, and thus the Onion article as well. I'm not sure but I think Harmonix themselves actually originated the joke.
Ted Raimi will play the part of Leroy Jenkins
For the Java team, the summary only mentions Rod Johnson - it should be noted that Rod will be joined by other veteran developers advocating Java: Long Wang, Peter Cox (and his wife Anita), and, of course, notable Java developer Dick Manmeat.
It's Madoff, not Madhoff.
So it is.
Gone are business owners who gave a shit about anything but money. Gone are corporate ethics, replaced by Enron ethics and Bernard Madhoff ethics.
You know how they referred to Madhoff's scam as a Ponzi Scheme?
Yeah, "Madhoff ethics" are not a new thing.
I'd strip Starbuck in a sea of tranquili...
wait, what are we talking about?
You know, as much as I enjoyed Dirk Benedict's work I don't think I'd want to see that.
I would hate to think how much I'd be charged for Starbucks coffee on the moon...
Well, the problem is that, as coffehouses go, Starbucks is nice, but it has absolutely no atmosphere.
The implications of this arrest on the numerical system as it applies to mathematics, physics, and other scientific and engineering disciplines cannot be overstated - especially in light of the recent arrest of seven, for the murder and subsequent cannibalization of nine...
For instance, even prior to this arrest, the speed of light (as measured in meters per second) couldn't be represented comfortably in decimal, but it could be rounded up with relatively little precision loss... That is now not possible... The gravitational constant was already problematic due to the arrest of seven - now with the arrest of three, the use of cubic meters is no longer viable, so the gravitational constant is at best represented as 6.66 (rounding down, here) * 10^-8 L / (kg * s^2).
Prior to the arrest of three, pi could still be represented to six digits (in decimal) - but now decimal representations of pi, pi/2, and pi/4 are all compromised... The natural exponent (e), of course, has suffered greatly from the loss of seven - and other numbers such as the Elementary Electric Charge (in Coulombs) and Avogadro's Constant have had to be changed to unconventional representations in scientific notation...
All of this has really made mathematics of any sort a real problem. The scientific community is trying to address this by advocating the use of different numerical bases and a new system of units: but adoption has been slow and difficult. So far, a clear solution has not yet emerged.
Technically, all that was proven was that this Kolodziej kid was able to traverse a distance in a given period of time, not that anyone else, least of all the defendant, was able to do the same. Plus, as far as we know, Kolodzeij did not need to take time out in order to kill anyone.
I may not be a fancy big New York Country Lawyer or anything,
...I am a simple cave-man... I was out hunting elk when I was caught up in an avalance of snow and ice that left me frozen for thousands of years... Since being unfrozen I have found your modern world bewildering and confounding. There is much I do not know. But one thing I do know is that my defendant could not have driven across two states and committed the murders in question within the time alleged by the prosecution...
...but it's got no atmosphere...
Get the chemistry teacher to help you and make a trench(foxhole) radio.
Then build a crystal radio.
Then an audio amplifier circuit.
Or build the crysal radio then the audio amplifier then the foxhole radio. But actually building a radio with parts they've made and not bought, making the diode, will teach them a lot.
Yeah, but they'll only be able to get talk radio and classics stations with it, so it'll really kill the enthusiasm for the project. XD
Use an arduino clone.
http://www.arduino.cc/
Check out the Rock Bottom Freeduino Kit @ http://wulfden/ ( dot ) org/TheShoppe/freeduino/rbfk.shtml
Link has been edited to prevent the site from getting slashdotted.
Or how about "Link has been edited to prevent me from bothering to look at it"?
In the interest of returning sanity to the world, here is the demangled URL:
Some Arduino thing
What about getting junked electronics (thinking Goodwill here, or possibly even donated) and desoldering components to build other projects with?
That would pretty much be a waste of time. Your time is more valuable to you than you would save by salvaging components.
Yeah... You could probably go work at McDonald's for a month and make enough money to buy more (and better!) components than you would get by salvaging...
*runs up, panting*
Guys, check it out, I got a great topical Ron Paul joke!
What, we're done with the political jokes? Aw man, late to the party again...
Man, you think you're late to the party... What am I supposed to do with all these Tom Dewey jokes I had lined up?
Imagine if the Bard's estate could screw around with people like this.
Oh, man... the implications... I bet none of the Bard's Tale games would have ever been released!
You know, if I were a Hobbit, I wouldn't let any lawsuit threaten my Hobbit-producing activities...
The original poster said "If you use the open license, you can't contribute back". Not "it DISCOURAGES contributing back", which is what you are arguing. I was complaining that they seemed to have some reason it was IMPOSSIBLE, not less likely.
You seemed to have ignored the second half of that sentence...
"If you use the open license, you can't contribute back, because then the merged code base can no longer be dual-licensed, unless you do what the original author just rejected: Allow someone else to make money on your work while you get nothing."
So, no, he's not saying it's impossible to contribute back. He's saying that the terms under which code contributions would have to be made are unacceptable... Which to some extent I agree with. If the software author is using his open source project as a profit-making venture, then I am less inclined to contribute code to it.
I personally have seen zero effect on this and certainly have seen much more work done on code that requires copyright assignments. Look at all the people here arguing that BSD code gets just as much or more feedback and contributions, that would require the contributor giving up just as many rights as to a dual-licensed project, and far more than to a GPL project.
I don't claim that it's true for everyone. But I can certainly appreciate the point of view of a person who wouldn't want to contribute their work to an open source project, and sign over ownership of the contributed code so the package maintainer can profit from it. So I don't think it's a point of view you can just callously dismiss as "stupid"...
Hi everybody. Just wanted to stop by and say you are welcome. My now obsolete Eee non-touchscreen netbook was delivered yesterday. My decision to finally purchase thus ushered in this new generation of netbook (2 days later) for you all to enjoy. I'm getting tired of waiting for Android phones too so I better go buy a G1 so that 3 new Android phones will be released the next day. Otherwise we'll just have to keep waiting indefinitely.
You could have paid attention to the future product announcements... I knew the T91 was on its way when I bought my 901 in March... The reason that didn't stop me from buying the 901 is 'cause I knew the T91 would be horribly overpriced for the first six to eight months of its sale... I wanted to buy a good netbook for cheap, so I chose one of the models near the end of its sales run.