An entity can take a public domain work, make changes, and copyright the result preventing others from using the changes. This possibility doesn't exist when no copyright law is enforced. The GPL prevents this eventuality.
It's actually a rather brilliant hack for those who believe the copyright system is a detriment to society. The more things that are GPL, the closer you get to a non-copyright society.
Whether you think that's a good thing is up to you, but you can't help but respect the logic of it.
I don't know the original intention of the legislation, but I use the driver side mirror for its intended purpose -- to remove the blind spot when changing lanes or turning right. I position it so that if a car is passing me on the left, I can see it leave the view of the rear-view mirror and enter the driver side mirror, until I can see it with peripheral vision. I usually have the driver side mirror angled way out.
There isn't a reason (to me) to see more with that mirror; if I could see cars further to the left of me, it would only be confusing when trying to switch lanes quickly. (Is that car immediately left of me, or is it two lanes over?)
Wireless bandwidth is extremely limited compared to a wired infrastructure.
Not just a little bit, but many orders of magnitude more limited.
Companies know exactly how much bandwidth will serve all of their users. If you'd like to read about the math behind it, it's here. The problem is that at peak times, network usage nears 100%, by design. The companies would be losing money if this weren't true.
You can't control "all other variables." Otherwise you could prove a negative. It's impossible to prove that cell phones don't cause cancer, but you can say that a large number of people have been using them for the last thirty years with no apparent increase in cancer cases, so it's extremely unlikely that cell phones are responsible for cancer. Especially when their use has skyrocketed and cancer cases have not.
So what this is saying is essentially there is no evidence for cell phones causing cancer. If you want to argue that they do, you'd have to come up with a pretty strong argument.
But Linux distros could learn a lesson from FreeBSD in this regard. The FreeBSD docs are nothing short of excellent, and standard for the entire system.
I know nothing about this manuscript except what is written in this article, but if it's anagrams, a simple analysis of the letter frequency would have revealed that.
Eh, I've always wished someone would do the opposite of what Debian is doing and use the FreeBSD model for a Linux distribution. I think the ports system on FreeBSD is much better than any similar repository in the Linux world, and system configuration is simple and contained mostly in a single file.
Games are $20. You just have to wait a few years. I'm just now enjoying Final Fantasy X, but still. The only way I'd pay $60 for a game is if the title starts with Starcraft.
Some things just aren't important enough for the effort. If something goes wrong, it's much more likely that someone will be able to copy last week's version of the.mdb files to the right location, and the "backups" can be scripted.
It's not the right way, but it's the way least likely to fail given the constraints. Online backup would be much better, so an online access would be a huge win.
I know you can already do that, but having to support the database and server is more than I care to do for small projects.
I have projects where I know I'm not going to be able to support them full time, and the organization they're for knows that. MDB sucks for multi-users, but assume there's no time or budget for supporting SQL Server or any of the other options. Now an online Access with an MS-hosted backed starts looking VERY appealing.
If Microsoft can pull this off, it will be huge, but not for Word.
I'm saying this as a hater of Microsoft Word, reluctant user of Excel, and recent convert to being a MS Access fan. (Yeah, I know it's not a real database, but if you know what you're doing, you can do some amazing things very quickly in Access, that anyone can use with no server or database know-how.)
The Access frontend and VBA is one of the most powerful database tools I've ever used; if MS could link it to a backend that didn't suck (say...SQL Server) and host it for me, that would be better than having the local app.
Another benefit to having Excel or Access online is that they're not based on presentation, and the calculation-intensive stuff is easily spread across a cluster of machines. If they can also make it as easy as it is now to generate forms and reports based on the data, while hosting database apps, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
But consider this: you don't have to know everything that's going on in order for cooperative threads to work, as long as none of the threads block (non-blocking i/o) and the compiler enforces a yield() every so often. This can all be part of the libraries and compiler you use.
It wouldn't help spread the load across multiple CPU's, but I think cooperative threading is unfairly maligned:-)
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Or they'll switch to using opaque screens, which will be the new hotness.
I think you're right, but Bob-taro's Law just isn't catchy enough to make you famous.
Now I'm going to have to wait in the long line to buy Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.
An entity can take a public domain work, make changes, and copyright the result preventing others from using the changes. This possibility doesn't exist when no copyright law is enforced. The GPL prevents this eventuality.
It's actually a rather brilliant hack for those who believe the copyright system is a detriment to society. The more things that are GPL, the closer you get to a non-copyright society.
Whether you think that's a good thing is up to you, but you can't help but respect the logic of it.
I don't know the original intention of the legislation, but I use the driver side mirror for its intended purpose -- to remove the blind spot when changing lanes or turning right. I position it so that if a car is passing me on the left, I can see it leave the view of the rear-view mirror and enter the driver side mirror, until I can see it with peripheral vision. I usually have the driver side mirror angled way out.
There isn't a reason (to me) to see more with that mirror; if I could see cars further to the left of me, it would only be confusing when trying to switch lanes quickly. (Is that car immediately left of me, or is it two lanes over?)
M-x viper-mode
That's the only emacs command string you ever need to know.
"Obama Presides Over Cancer Cure."
It's there, you just have to right-click to. . .oh shit.
I find your joke somewhat derivative.
Wireless bandwidth is extremely limited compared to a wired infrastructure.
Not just a little bit, but many orders of magnitude more limited.
Companies know exactly how much bandwidth will serve all of their users. If you'd like to read about the math behind it, it's here. The problem is that at peak times, network usage nears 100%, by design. The companies would be losing money if this weren't true.
You can't control "all other variables." Otherwise you could prove a negative. It's impossible to prove that cell phones don't cause cancer, but you can say that a large number of people have been using them for the last thirty years with no apparent increase in cancer cases, so it's extremely unlikely that cell phones are responsible for cancer. Especially when their use has skyrocketed and cancer cases have not.
So what this is saying is essentially there is no evidence for cell phones causing cancer. If you want to argue that they do, you'd have to come up with a pretty strong argument.
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But Linux distros could learn a lesson from FreeBSD in this regard. The FreeBSD docs are nothing short of excellent, and standard for the entire system.
I know nothing about this manuscript except what is written in this article, but if it's anagrams, a simple analysis of the letter frequency would have revealed that.
Hey, I'm an oversensitive pussy, and I find your post extremely offensive and wrong.
It doesn't affect premiums or anything
This continued blind faith in the existence of a free lunch is nothing short of astounding.
You're paying for it, somewhere.
Eh, I've always wished someone would do the opposite of what Debian is doing and use the FreeBSD model for a Linux distribution. I think the ports system on FreeBSD is much better than any similar repository in the Linux world, and system configuration is simple and contained mostly in a single file.
(And no, Gentoo is not what I had in mind.)
"Right" is having no weapons at all. After that, it's all about interests.
I concur...that's one of the funniest things I've ever seen here.
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Games are $20. You just have to wait a few years. I'm just now enjoying Final Fantasy X, but still. The only way I'd pay $60 for a game is if the title starts with Starcraft.
Some things just aren't important enough for the effort. If something goes wrong, it's much more likely that someone will be able to copy last week's version of the .mdb files to the right location, and the "backups" can be scripted.
It's not the right way, but it's the way least likely to fail given the constraints. Online backup would be much better, so an online access would be a huge win.
I know you can already do that, but having to support the database and server is more than I care to do for small projects.
I have projects where I know I'm not going to be able to support them full time, and the organization they're for knows that. MDB sucks for multi-users, but assume there's no time or budget for supporting SQL Server or any of the other options. Now an online Access with an MS-hosted backed starts looking VERY appealing.
If Microsoft can pull this off, it will be huge, but not for Word.
I'm saying this as a hater of Microsoft Word, reluctant user of Excel, and recent convert to being a MS Access fan. (Yeah, I know it's not a real database, but if you know what you're doing, you can do some amazing things very quickly in Access, that anyone can use with no server or database know-how.)
The Access frontend and VBA is one of the most powerful database tools I've ever used; if MS could link it to a backend that didn't suck (say...SQL Server) and host it for me, that would be better than having the local app.
Another benefit to having Excel or Access online is that they're not based on presentation, and the calculation-intensive stuff is easily spread across a cluster of machines. If they can also make it as easy as it is now to generate forms and reports based on the data, while hosting database apps, I'd sign up in a heartbeat.
Right, that's clearer now.
But consider this: you don't have to know everything that's going on in order for cooperative threads to work, as long as none of the threads block (non-blocking i/o) and the compiler enforces a yield() every so often. This can all be part of the libraries and compiler you use.
It wouldn't help spread the load across multiple CPU's, but I think cooperative threading is unfairly maligned :-)
Then they should pay them nothing, and reap the rewards!