The extreme rarity of tellurium in the Earth's crust is not a reflection of its cosmic abundance, which is in fact greater than that of rubidium, even though rubidium is ten thousand times more abundant in the Earth's crust. The extraordinarily low abundance of tellurium on Earth is because during the Earth's formation, the stable form of elements in the absence of oxygen and water was controlled by the oxidation and reduction of hydrogen. Under this scenario elements such as tellurium which form volatile hydrides were severely depleted during the formation of the Earth's crust through evaporation. Tellurium and selenium are the heavy elements mostly depleted in the Earth's crust by this process.
And trust me, I don't care how good a dev team you've put together, if they simply dumped the driver code out on the net I guarantee no one would be able to reverse engineer the damn thing.
You are very wrong. If this statement was even close to true, there would be no open source drivers for nvidia at all. As for a case for open source, here's a good reason - they can let the community integrate the driver with X and the multitude of systems while focusing on their primary goal. Why have your paid engineers waste their time doing work that others are begging to do for free?
Yep, the poor sucker is going to explore all sorts of fun options like barely functional UIs, complex VM and repository setups before going back to the simple yet elegant command line he's so keen to get away from.
Trade secrets are perfectly fine. If you want broad adoption of your widget, you can decide to drop secrecy. If keep secrecy and someone else copies your secret, tough titties, you'll just have to *gasp* compete on a level playing field. Except you still at least have a head start.
The current situation leads to little or no investment in R&D once a patent is granted, to companies that own patents not to develop anything but to shelve potential competition, companies that think they can own maths and nature, patents that don't divulge enough and still contain trade secrets anyway yet any independent R&D efforts are useless once a competitor has been granted one.
Trade secrets are far more preferable to the current situation.
So you covered the bailout with wild speculation on what might have happened, how about the GPs other points about military waste (are all those bases in over half the countries on the planet really neccessary?), the ludicrous primary industry manipulation that ends up with farmers paid to not grow crops, the auto industry that can't compete still not competitive thanks to handouts? Massively corrupt bureaucrats selling our childrens future to their cronies in every industry is what puts us in the red, not roads and NASA.
People don't litter out of respect to society, not out of a fear of legal consequence. Littering would carry the same social stigma regardless. The only use of littering laws is the continued criminilization of everyday behaviour.
The environment is the subject. Saying it is diverse is a tautology. It still needs a damn good why to explain symbiotic and parasitic behaviour coexisting for instance, among the multitude of logical paradoxes in the natural realm.
To which premise do you refer? That it is carried out by the passing of genetic information to offspring, or that it is driven by competitively succesful adaption? I'm not sure of any other premises, and while the first seems undeniable (the 'how') the second is more questionable (the 'why'). I'm a bit hesitant that we even have the first clue why, and are barking up the wrong tree entirely. The sheer marvel and scale of the extrodinarily diverse forms that life takes needs a damn good 'why', 'natural selection' just passes the buck to the invisible hand of mother nature. It's not a petty question as to why evolution happens, indeed most of the answers explored so far have given us great insight into all life on Earth. So without invoking omnipotent beings (which evolution doesn't even speak of anyway) or pointlessly bickering could I politely enquire what premise troubles you?
If you have true faith in the superiority of the open development model you'll have little trouble with propietary competition. In all cases I've seen the open model wins regardless of license trivialities.
If you're going to get angry every time someone forks your project into a successful product perhaps open source isn't your thing. Obviously the BSD license wasn't for you, but I don't think the license was the problem. If I use a customised MySQL inhouse to produce a website there's no need to release source, why should there be? I am the sole user running my instance on my server. Where's the problem with that? Same applies to your code. Why do you get upset with the BSD style when someone makes a successful fork which they don't distribute but run a sole instance of on their hardware? You deserve credit (as about the only hard term in the license states) but being bitter at others successes is self-defeating.
You weren't stupid at all though in criticising somebody for appealing an unfair conviction. Of course it's his fault that the system responded in a typical overbearing manner. For fucks sake, just count yourself lucky that the higher courts found in his favour, and next time you're fined unfairly actually do something about it instead of belittling those who do.
So WB claims to own the song, and is very apologetic when asked why, yet still holds the claim. The GP is right, the artist doesn't own any rights when only the major record labels are listened to, and when they are wrong you either get a 'sorry' and fuck all else or several thousands in lawsuits. Good luck with that.
Half seems stupid. Yet at around 100km/h (a bit over 60 mph) the stopping distance of a typically loaded semi-trailer starts increasing exponentially. I'm happy that the limit is set at the limit of the largest vehicle generally seen, though it is stupid to put 4 tonne+ trucks and passenger cars on the same limit. No limit should be set outside of cities and towns where only vehicles are allowed except for trucks, buses and cars with caravans or trailers, who should stay below 100km/h (60mph). Funnily enough this is already done on the German and Swiss autobahns, but the license cost is in the thousands and the tests required are formidable, far harder than pretty much anywhere.
Thats because you're comparing training manuals to technical manuals. K&C is still useful to this day as a standard reference that still works all these years past. The only thing similar is Knuths works, one of the few compsci works created that serves as both a training and technical reference. (kids - read Shannon thouroughly as well, starting with "A Mathematical Theory of Communication")
From wikipedia: Woolworths Limited is the largest retail company in Australia and New Zealand. Although named after the (English)F.W. Woolworth brand, it has no relation.
Well, your post is little more than a thinly veiled ad hominem attack on Woolworths with zero analysis of the logos or situation at hand. Whatever unrelated Woolworths behaviour you care to mention doesn't make Apples actions any less idiotic, and Apple not only have a history of such idiocy but are quite the hypocrites from when they defended their logo from Apple Records.
Woolworths aside, are Foxtel and Poison Apple also fair game thanks to unrelated activities?
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We only need every man, woman and child in America to ride the train at least three times to cover the construction costs! We might need you to ride it again a couple of times to pay for the staff and maintenance and marketing and the overspending and the bribes and hookers and blow! Let's say ten times, or maybe even twelve! Why not! It's every American childs dream to travel at 200mph from some city somewhere to some other city nearby but not that close really, and to do it several times!
Nope, the lamest rebranding ever was Kraft Vegemite & Cheese as Vegemite iSnack 2.0. That's right, iSnack 2.0. No, really.
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It's so true. Homosexuality also affects:
- Drama students - Dancers - Rollerbladers - Razor scooter riders - People with lisps - Gymnasts - Wrestlers - Catholic priests - Apple fans
The list goes on. I theorise that in twenty years, thanks mostly to teenagers and the internet everybody and everything that isn't in the Westbro church will be gay. The Westbro bunch already is, just they'll still be going through the denial phase in twenty years.
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Not completley random, just completley arbitary and unrelated in any meaningful way.
Perhaps the same reason we don't see astronomically common stable elements like Tellerium.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellurium:
The extreme rarity of tellurium in the Earth's crust is not a reflection of its cosmic abundance, which is in fact greater than that of rubidium, even though rubidium is ten thousand times more abundant in the Earth's crust. The extraordinarily low abundance of tellurium on Earth is because during the Earth's formation, the stable form of elements in the absence of oxygen and water was controlled by the oxidation and reduction of hydrogen. Under this scenario elements such as tellurium which form volatile hydrides were severely depleted during the formation of the Earth's crust through evaporation. Tellurium and selenium are the heavy elements mostly depleted in the Earth's crust by this process.
And trust me, I don't care how good a dev team you've put together, if they simply dumped the driver code out on the net I guarantee no one would be able to reverse engineer the damn thing.
You are very wrong. If this statement was even close to true, there would be no open source drivers for nvidia at all. As for a case for open source, here's a good reason - they can let the community integrate the driver with X and the multitude of systems while focusing on their primary goal. Why have your paid engineers waste their time doing work that others are begging to do for free?
Yep, the poor sucker is going to explore all sorts of fun options like barely functional UIs, complex VM and repository setups before going back to the simple yet elegant command line he's so keen to get away from.
Trade secrets are perfectly fine. If you want broad adoption of your widget, you can decide to drop secrecy. If keep secrecy and someone else copies your secret, tough titties, you'll just have to *gasp* compete on a level playing field. Except you still at least have a head start.
The current situation leads to little or no investment in R&D once a patent is granted, to companies that own patents not to develop anything but to shelve potential competition, companies that think they can own maths and nature, patents that don't divulge enough and still contain trade secrets anyway yet any independent R&D efforts are useless once a competitor has been granted one.
Trade secrets are far more preferable to the current situation.
So you covered the bailout with wild speculation on what might have happened, how about the GPs other points about military waste (are all those bases in over half the countries on the planet really neccessary?), the ludicrous primary industry manipulation that ends up with farmers paid to not grow crops, the auto industry that can't compete still not competitive thanks to handouts? Massively corrupt bureaucrats selling our childrens future to their cronies in every industry is what puts us in the red, not roads and NASA.
People don't litter out of respect to society, not out of a fear of legal consequence. Littering would carry the same social stigma regardless. The only use of littering laws is the continued criminilization of everyday behaviour.
The environment is the subject. Saying it is diverse is a tautology. It still needs a damn good why to explain symbiotic and parasitic behaviour coexisting for instance, among the multitude of logical paradoxes in the natural realm.
To which premise do you refer? That it is carried out by the passing of genetic information to offspring, or that it is driven by competitively succesful adaption? I'm not sure of any other premises, and while the first seems undeniable (the 'how') the second is more questionable (the 'why'). I'm a bit hesitant that we even have the first clue why, and are barking up the wrong tree entirely. The sheer marvel and scale of the extrodinarily diverse forms that life takes needs a damn good 'why', 'natural selection' just passes the buck to the invisible hand of mother nature. It's not a petty question as to why evolution happens, indeed most of the answers explored so far have given us great insight into all life on Earth. So without invoking omnipotent beings (which evolution doesn't even speak of anyway) or pointlessly bickering could I politely enquire what premise troubles you?
If you have true faith in the superiority of the open development model you'll have little trouble with propietary competition. In all cases I've seen the open model wins regardless of license trivialities.
If you're going to get angry every time someone forks your project into a successful product perhaps open source isn't your thing. Obviously the BSD license wasn't for you, but I don't think the license was the problem. If I use a customised MySQL inhouse to produce a website there's no need to release source, why should there be? I am the sole user running my instance on my server. Where's the problem with that? Same applies to your code. Why do you get upset with the BSD style when someone makes a successful fork which they don't distribute but run a sole instance of on their hardware? You deserve credit (as about the only hard term in the license states) but being bitter at others successes is self-defeating.
All the info is on http://www.taubmansucks.com/ or google "Henry Mishkoff" or watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ITE7ITSR6M.
You weren't stupid at all though in criticising somebody for appealing an unfair conviction. Of course it's his fault that the system responded in a typical overbearing manner. For fucks sake, just count yourself lucky that the higher courts found in his favour, and next time you're fined unfairly actually do something about it instead of belittling those who do.
What does information theory have to do with information science you ask? More than a little is my answer.
So WB claims to own the song, and is very apologetic when asked why, yet still holds the claim. The GP is right, the artist doesn't own any rights when only the major record labels are listened to, and when they are wrong you either get a 'sorry' and fuck all else or several thousands in lawsuits. Good luck with that.
Half seems stupid. Yet at around 100km/h (a bit over 60 mph) the stopping distance of a typically loaded semi-trailer starts increasing exponentially. I'm happy that the limit is set at the limit of the largest vehicle generally seen, though it is stupid to put 4 tonne+ trucks and passenger cars on the same limit. No limit should be set outside of cities and towns where only vehicles are allowed except for trucks, buses and cars with caravans or trailers, who should stay below 100km/h (60mph). Funnily enough this is already done on the German and Swiss autobahns, but the license cost is in the thousands and the tests required are formidable, far harder than pretty much anywhere.
Thats because you're comparing training manuals to technical manuals. K&C is still useful to this day as a standard reference that still works all these years past. The only thing similar is Knuths works, one of the few compsci works created that serves as both a training and technical reference. (kids - read Shannon thouroughly as well, starting with "A Mathematical Theory of Communication")
From wikipedia: Woolworths Limited is the largest retail company in Australia and New Zealand. Although named after the (English)F.W. Woolworth brand, it has no relation.
Well, your post is little more than a thinly veiled ad hominem attack on Woolworths with zero analysis of the logos or situation at hand. Whatever unrelated Woolworths behaviour you care to mention doesn't make Apples actions any less idiotic, and Apple not only have a history of such idiocy but are quite the hypocrites from when they defended their logo from Apple Records.
Woolworths aside, are Foxtel and Poison Apple also fair game thanks to unrelated activities?
Your idea of risk is intriguing. I'd prefer a 100% chance of being out with the flu for a week over a 0.01% chance of paralysis or death.
Or it was entirely correct and this latest 'news' is just exaggeration and fabrication.
More like they're standing half a planet away holding a water pistol while we cower in our basements at imaginary fears.
We here at Project Bullinator are pleased to announce our projected low, low price of just $50 a ticket! Book now for your chance to become a part of history in the making at some point in the future!
We only need every man, woman and child in America to ride the train at least three times to cover the construction costs! We might need you to ride it again a couple of times to pay for the staff and maintenance and marketing and the overspending and the bribes and hookers and blow! Let's say ten times, or maybe even twelve! Why not! It's every American childs dream to travel at 200mph from some city somewhere to some other city nearby but not that close really, and to do it several times!
Nope, the lamest rebranding ever was Kraft Vegemite & Cheese as Vegemite iSnack 2.0. That's right, iSnack 2.0 . No, really.
It's so true. Homosexuality also affects:
- Drama students
- Dancers
- Rollerbladers
- Razor scooter riders
- People with lisps
- Gymnasts
- Wrestlers
- Catholic priests
- Apple fans
The list goes on. I theorise that in twenty years, thanks mostly to teenagers and the internet everybody and everything that isn't in the Westbro church will be gay. The Westbro bunch already is, just they'll still be going through the denial phase in twenty years.