Of course there can't be a bug in the 100 million lines of software we wrote, that's simply preposterous, it could never happen. There's nothing "spooky" or "mystical" about software, it's just boring old maths and numbers.
Thousands of people having the computers in a specific make and model of car all struck in an identical fasion by cosmic rays is far more likely than some so-called theorised "software bug". It's most likely thanks to the global warming monster overenergizing the cosmic rays and targeting them towards the green solutions for our planet.
Our solution involves a svelte and trendy tinfoil hat to be worn by all occupants of our green energy vehicles. This will stop the cosmic rays from being attracted to the groovy vibes of cosmic conciousness that emanate from all of you hippi-- err, Prius drivers.
Nice rant, but the quotes all came from well known believers in God.
Thomas Paine - Deist and authour of The Age of Reason in which he professes his faith for one God.
George Washington - Christian (Church of England) serving in the church council.
Thomas Jefferson - Deist and famously defended himself against claims he was atheist in the 1800 election.
James Madison - Unknown, but certainly not atheist. Educated by Presbyterian ministers he considered joining the clergy before moving on to study law. He attended church throughout his life and prayed with his family.
The thing is, they all believed in God, just not always in the standard orthodoxy or any paticular church. They were religious men who promoted tolerance of all faiths, and those of no faith.
By spotting that they've linked against or included GPL-licensed code, forcing them to stop distributing their binaries, re-write using GPL-free code, or release their own source code. Or, simply by setting an example and creating a community that they feel like contributing to and working with.
Nowhere in your reply does it address the fact that I was talking about NON-GPL'd proprietary code. If they havent used any GPL code there's not a thing you can do to get your source level access yet if copyright wasn't so strict you could. The BSD style licenses allow people to include code with imnpunity, yet the model works just as intended for open source. The point of the GPL evaporates the weaker copyright gets.
Advocating strong copyright because it helps the GPL is contrary to the entire spirit of open source.
Legal reverse engineering as fair use, that's how.
How does the GPL help you gain access to the (trade secret, unpublished) source code for a proprietary application so you can fix a bug or enhance it?
I don't propose to solve the issue of proprietary source, just that the Open Source/Free Software movement would still be known as the Public Domain movement if our laws weren't so screwed.
The GPL is an anomaly caused by strong copyright. If it was easier to merely contribute to the public domain and copyright had realistic fair use then the GPL would be unnecessary.
Sleeping drugs won't fix it, they will help short term but you will build up resistance to the point your natural cycle again takes precedence.
I've had this all my life (a 3am-11am sleep window) and it can be altered by staying up an hour or two later a day until you hit where you want to be and then sticking to it, but those weeks of work are undone if you stay up late just once, and your body reverts to its natural cycle of 3am sleep (or whatever yours is).
It's really just better to work your life around it than force yourself into unnatural (for you) sleep patterns.
I find smoking weed helps if I need to get to sleep & wake early, otherwise staying awake all night is better than trying to sleep early if I absolutely must be alert and active before noon.
Not just all that but as crazy as it sounds I have gamer friends with no internet, but with all the latest consoles, games and ridiculously overpowered PCs. They own and enjoyed the previous Assasins Creed games but will never purchase this latest one. Congrats, Ubisoft, you just fucked over the only guy I know that buys around half dozen games monthly.
Yeah, that paper where he argues for a well-balanced viewpoint that gotos should be eliminated in some cases but not others couldn't have passed computer science 101 with your instructors because he wrote that in 1974, most likely before your CS department existed and your instructors were still learning their times tables.
Fair enough that they can refuse the business of whoever they like but they are not justified in keeping the account open to recieve money but not allowing that money to be withdrawn.
A coworker who is your bosses son is messing with you at work. You have tried reasoning with him, but thanks to his priviledged position in the company he disregards anything you have to say.
My theory is that the matter:antimatter ratio in the universe is only violated on small solar-system sized scales and the interstellar medium is in a 1:1 ratio. The CMB and excess gamma rays are just remenants of matter:antimatter collisions at the bow shock of our solar system. We gain matter as fast as antimatter so there is no net loss, and we continue in our bubble of matter unmolested save for cosmic rays.
What kicked this off for me is a few things. Seeing that photons are their own antiparticle and all of our observations about the universe outside our system are photon based, how could we know if we are looking at matter or antimatter? Wouldn't an antimatter system isolated by the interstellar medium behave identically to a matter one? Why is the CMB so uneven? Do we really need symmetry violation at the big bang to explain the universe?
So guys, seeing as I came up with all this last night when I was rather drunk and am too hungover to work through it, how can I falsify this and sleep well again at night?
2 years waiting for trial isn't so bad if you aren't locked up. He was kept behind bars thanks to the ludicrous bail set at 5 million dollars. That is what needs fixing.
Actually, it depends where in the world you live as to whether Dell has any products avaliable with Ubuntu. So there is a good chance the GP cannot get Ubuntu at all from Dell.
Bad analogy time - yeah, maybe the patent office shouldn't have sold them a gun but it's Apple who are loading it up and getting ready to shoot themselves in the foot.
Just tell him you have a secret awesome technology that's even better than his work computer that only IT people know about but you know how to get him one for the 'right price'. Put a 007 sticker over the 'eee', a quick netBSD install + matrix desktop theme later and presto! You're 2 grand richer and the boss won't fuck up your toys.
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Of course there can't be a bug in the 100 million lines of software we wrote, that's simply preposterous, it could never happen. There's nothing "spooky" or "mystical" about software, it's just boring old maths and numbers.
Thousands of people having the computers in a specific make and model of car all struck in an identical fasion by cosmic rays is far more likely than some so-called theorised "software bug". It's most likely thanks to the global warming monster overenergizing the cosmic rays and targeting them towards the green solutions for our planet.
Our solution involves a svelte and trendy tinfoil hat to be worn by all occupants of our green energy vehicles. This will stop the cosmic rays from being attracted to the groovy vibes of cosmic conciousness that emanate from all of you hippi-- err, Prius drivers.
Nice rant, but the quotes all came from well known believers in God.
Thomas Paine - Deist and authour of The Age of Reason in which he professes his faith for one God.
George Washington - Christian (Church of England) serving in the church council.
Thomas Jefferson - Deist and famously defended himself against claims he was atheist in the 1800 election.
James Madison - Unknown, but certainly not atheist. Educated by Presbyterian ministers he considered joining the clergy before moving on to study law. He attended church throughout his life and prayed with his family.
The thing is, they all believed in God, just not always in the standard orthodoxy or any paticular church. They were religious men who promoted tolerance of all faiths, and those of no faith.
Well, to be fair he did state up front he was a moron, and as far as incoherent ramblings of a moron go that wasn't too bad.
By spotting that they've linked against or included GPL-licensed code, forcing them to stop distributing their binaries, re-write using GPL-free code, or release their own source code. Or, simply by setting an example and creating a community that they feel like contributing to and working with.
Nowhere in your reply does it address the fact that I was talking about NON-GPL'd proprietary code. If they havent used any GPL code there's not a thing you can do to get your source level access yet if copyright wasn't so strict you could. The BSD style licenses allow people to include code with imnpunity, yet the model works just as intended for open source. The point of the GPL evaporates the weaker copyright gets.
Advocating strong copyright because it helps the GPL is contrary to the entire spirit of open source.
Legal reverse engineering as fair use, that's how.
How does the GPL help you gain access to the (trade secret, unpublished) source code for a proprietary application so you can fix a bug or enhance it?
I don't propose to solve the issue of proprietary source, just that the Open Source/Free Software movement would still be known as the Public Domain movement if our laws weren't so screwed.
The GPL is an anomaly caused by strong copyright. If it was easier to merely contribute to the public domain and copyright had realistic fair use then the GPL would be unnecessary.
Sleeping drugs won't fix it, they will help short term but you will build up resistance to the point your natural cycle again takes precedence.
I've had this all my life (a 3am-11am sleep window) and it can be altered by staying up an hour or two later a day until you hit where you want to be and then sticking to it, but those weeks of work are undone if you stay up late just once, and your body reverts to its natural cycle of 3am sleep (or whatever yours is).
It's really just better to work your life around it than force yourself into unnatural (for you) sleep patterns.
I find smoking weed helps if I need to get to sleep & wake early, otherwise staying awake all night is better than trying to sleep early if I absolutely must be alert and active before noon.
Not just all that but as crazy as it sounds I have gamer friends with no internet, but with all the latest consoles, games and ridiculously overpowered PCs. They own and enjoyed the previous Assasins Creed games but will never purchase this latest one. Congrats, Ubisoft, you just fucked over the only guy I know that buys around half dozen games monthly.
Yeah, that paper where he argues for a well-balanced viewpoint that gotos should be eliminated in some cases but not others couldn't have passed computer science 101 with your instructors because he wrote that in 1974, most likely before your CS department existed and your instructors were still learning their times tables.
Fair enough that they can refuse the business of whoever they like but they are not justified in keeping the account open to recieve money but not allowing that money to be withdrawn.
Yeah, it's not like the idea of public libraries is thousands of years old or anything.
Screw that, we should never have ditched wax cylinders. What other recording medium can you make yourself cheaply at home?
People who jump to conclusions based on heresay often go on to harm humans.
Dude, you're talking to timeOday there, only a purpouse built dedicated chronometer is good enough.
A coworker who is your bosses son is messing with you at work. You have tried reasoning with him, but thanks to his priviledged position in the company he disregards anything you have to say.
You have: a hammer.
Does it come with a sticky backing so I can put it next to all the passwords I wrote down?
My theory is that the matter:antimatter ratio in the universe is only violated on small solar-system sized scales and the interstellar medium is in a 1:1 ratio. The CMB and excess gamma rays are just remenants of matter:antimatter collisions at the bow shock of our solar system. We gain matter as fast as antimatter so there is no net loss, and we continue in our bubble of matter unmolested save for cosmic rays.
What kicked this off for me is a few things. Seeing that photons are their own antiparticle and all of our observations about the universe outside our system are photon based, how could we know if we are looking at matter or antimatter? Wouldn't an antimatter system isolated by the interstellar medium behave identically to a matter one? Why is the CMB so uneven? Do we really need symmetry violation at the big bang to explain the universe?
So guys, seeing as I came up with all this last night when I was rather drunk and am too hungover to work through it, how can I falsify this and sleep well again at night?
2 years waiting for trial isn't so bad if you aren't locked up. He was kept behind bars thanks to the ludicrous bail set at 5 million dollars. That is what needs fixing.
I think many people would want an admin who follows the policy to the letter for critical systems even when threatened with police.
You can make a safe bet that it will contain software patents and as we all know patenting software is highly questionable.
Actually, it depends where in the world you live as to whether Dell has any products avaliable with Ubuntu. So there is a good chance the GP cannot get Ubuntu at all from Dell.
Bad analogy time - yeah, maybe the patent office shouldn't have sold them a gun but it's Apple who are loading it up and getting ready to shoot themselves in the foot.
MacGuyver was doing it before anyone.
Just tell him you have a secret awesome technology that's even better than his work computer that only IT people know about but you know how to get him one for the 'right price'. Put a 007 sticker over the 'eee', a quick netBSD install + matrix desktop theme later and presto! You're 2 grand richer and the boss won't fuck up your toys.
I'm still not quite getting this government sponsored industrial enspionage. Can someone provide a CIA refrence?