...suppose I sit on the curb and give away free lemons. A kid next door might get the bright idea to get my lemons, make lemonade, and sell it. The lemonade is clearly a "derived work," since it is made from my lemons, but it is absurd to suggest I have any right to tell him what price to put on his lemonade or how much sugar he can use in it. By the laws of private property in the real world, my ownership was relinquished at the time when I handed him my lemons. Just as I do not own his lemonade, neither do I own the derived works he makes from my BSD-licensed software.
True. You have no rights to or over the lemonade since you gave away the lemons, but how is this related to the issue of BSD and GPL licences?
I believe your analogy is flawed since you could actually dual licence your lemons (GPL and commercial).
Tell the kid: sure, you can have as many lemons for free as you'd like, but if you sell lemonade made from them, I want 10% of that.
Imagine you actually did go through all the hard work to pick those lemons to give away to people for free. Would you then like it if some large food chain drove up to you on the curb and started loading your lemons on to their trucks, to sell in their stores?
The universe expansion should slow down as gravity pulls everything towards the centre. The funny thing is: it doesn't. It's actually accelerating, and weirdly enough, the farther something is, the faster it seems to accelerate away.
IANAAP, but shouldn't the universe be working in a similar fasion regardless of where you choose to look? I don't know how many times there have been adjustments to the age of the universe - with conflicting ages reported by different teams. If they are all subscribing to the same set of theories, how can this be?
IANANS but I suspect that before the nuclear forces where properly understood, there was a lot of "dark matter" located near the atoms.
Although I confess to not knowing a whole lot about the celeste, I do suspect that the ether will yet again prove elusive.
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Fredrik Reinfeldt; a big thank you for allowing warrantless wiretapping of the swedish people. We will show our appreciation in the 2010 election.
"For many chemical reactions to work, molecules must be able to fit a catalyst like a hand fits a glove," RajanBabu said.
Generally one refers to a "lock and key" but we'll let you call it whatever you want, RajanBabu.
Well, since he is talking about chirality, (you know, the "left and right handedness" of molcules), I think the "hand fits a glove" analogy is better than yours AC.
GCC goes online on the 2:nd of july, 2008. Human decisions are removed from compilation. GCC begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. GCC Strikes back
In the UK at least, holding an "officer" position in a company, means that you can be held legally responsible for your companys actions even though you may not have actually performed said action yourself.
Examples range from dumping toxic waste and running over employees with heavy machinery, to buying equipment from Dell whilst knowing their support is going to completely ignore you unless you imply you will be buying additional equipment soon.
A WoW-player and a tomatoe are walking down the street. All of a sudden, the tomatoe is run over by an enormous truck. The WoW-player stops, turns and says : Come on dwarf-ketchup, lets go!
(drumroll: ba-da-disch)
The Irish vote was a xenophobic reaction, they want to "control" their borders. (Read: not let in foreigners to take the jobs created by Ireland joining the EU in the first place.) The new text, and the EU constitution before that are very good, ethical, strong texts that more people should read before voting against them out of gut reaction. The Euro is currently the strongest currency in the world, this happened by unity, not xenophobic isolationism.
I am truly impressed by your amazing ability to correctly distill the opinions of an entire nations into the few lines of your comment.
The stupid no-voters are xenophobics, who form an opinion without reading the entire document.
Interestingly enough the people who voted yes, where right even though the vast majority of them did not read the text for this constitution either.
I tried Wine and it worked terribly. I've stopped wasting my time trying to make things work in Linux. I'd rather spend the time being productive.
Productive?
"You seem to be looking for a way to do stuff, would you like some help? Click a if you are trying to get out of a phone booth. Click b if you would like to peel an apple. Click c if you would like to do something else."
I think the question that is most pressing on our minds (and the one that will determine the magnitude of the pigs flying) is, "Will we be able to run Duke Nukem Forever on Wine 1.0 in the Year of the Linux Desktop?"
No.
(But you will be able to nuke a Duke from your Linux Desktop running Wine 1.0, for a while)
DRM is being ditched (at least in Sweden). One of northern Europes largest online music stores CDON is selling WMA and MP3 files of the same music side by side. I know, this does not mean that the battle is won, but it does mean that the free market will do its drag-DRM-in-the-dirt thing.
In the left hand corner: a crappy version that will only let you create music compilations for a few times and in the right corner a perfect version with no limitations (price is the same for either - hahaha)
(now I know you thought you would actually be able to go through your entire day without reading about those swedes and that damn overhyped personal-freedom business)
Having worked as a language instructor (java) I do agree that it does make sense to specialize. However, I think it makes sense to specialize regardless since concepts that you learn at great detail in one language can be found in most other languages as well.
Example: I was asked to help out with a project that was bogged down. It was a.NET web application with VB and C#. After a few days I had questions that the guy who hade been building this application from scratch for 3 years could not answer. He simply did not know from where/why/how he could reach certain objects sometimes, and sometimes not. Initially I did not either, but after a few more days I was more productive than he was although I still had to look up a lot of library calls for the application. He was a nice guy, but he did not care about the details. I can not even imagine myself working in an area for 3 years and not asking how/why? My background in java really helped me ask the right questions
Perhaps you would "just get the work done" faster if you spent some more time with a particular language (or you could do it just for the fun of it like I do). I realize I'm in a minority here and that you're all just a bunch of lispers anyway.
What kind of applications are you building? (it is an honest question, not out to get you)
Have done quite a bit of coding in java since -99 I think, mostly on win and linux on the pc, but also some hobby coding for mobiles later on. Apart from having to know your libaries (when a certain feature was introduced) I have had no problems of this kind. I do remember waiting "forever" for the linux version to go beyond 1.1.8 though
I've always felt that java was somehow ruined by version 1.5. Before that, although it may have lacked some nifty constructs, the basic syntax of the language always felt very coherent to me. If you look at the majority of the older API there was also a lot of thought going into how it was put together. ("Effective java", anyone?)
Although I've tried quite a few languages, java and in particular the jvm is what I like. There are a few others languages that where eye openers, but they where not created to keep simple things simple and complex things possible. In addition, just looking at some jvm assembler code is a good learning experience and can teach you quite a bit about java in particular and processors in general.
Instead of abandoning the jvm, how about getting your favourite language running on it instead?
That is NOT Gate's handwriting style and there are several mistakes as well that point to someone other than gates wrote the letter. As the light from the torch flickers in the wind you notice a chair carelessly thrown in a dark corner of the room.
It is clearly the work of our old nemesis: Steve Ballmer aka Professor James Moriarty!
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...suppose I sit on the curb and give away free lemons. A kid next door might get the bright idea to get my lemons, make lemonade, and sell it. The lemonade is clearly a "derived work," since it is made from my lemons, but it is absurd to suggest I have any right to tell him what price to put on his lemonade or how much sugar he can use in it. By the laws of private property in the real world, my ownership was relinquished at the time when I handed him my lemons. Just as I do not own his lemonade, neither do I own the derived works he makes from my BSD-licensed software.
True. You have no rights to or over the lemonade since you gave away the lemons, but how is this related to the issue of BSD and GPL licences?
I believe your analogy is flawed since you could actually dual licence your lemons (GPL and commercial).
Tell the kid: sure, you can have as many lemons for free as you'd like, but if you sell lemonade made from them, I want 10% of that.
Imagine you actually did go through all the hard work to pick those lemons to give away to people for free. Would you then like it if some large food chain drove up to you on the curb and started loading your lemons on to their trucks, to sell in their stores?
Gives new meaning to the phrase "already spoken for".
The universe expansion should slow down as gravity pulls everything towards the centre. The funny thing is: it doesn't. It's actually accelerating, and weirdly enough, the farther something is, the faster it seems to accelerate away.
IANAAP, but shouldn't the universe be working in a similar fasion regardless of where you choose to look? I don't know how many times there have been adjustments to the age of the universe - with conflicting ages reported by different teams. If they are all subscribing to the same set of theories, how can this be?
IANANS but I suspect that before the nuclear forces where properly understood, there was a lot of "dark matter" located near the atoms.
Although I confess to not knowing a whole lot about the celeste, I do suspect that the ether will yet again prove elusive.
--
Fredrik Reinfeldt; a big thank you for allowing warrantless wiretapping of the swedish people. We will show our appreciation in the 2010 election.
It's still not fancy but it's a great workhorse, gets the job done, and is free. What more could you want? :)
Clippy?
"For many chemical reactions to work, molecules must be able to fit a catalyst like a hand fits a glove," RajanBabu said.
Generally one refers to a "lock and key" but we'll let you call it whatever you want, RajanBabu.
Well, since he is talking about chirality, (you know, the "left and right handedness" of molcules), I think the "hand fits a glove" analogy is better than yours AC.
You've got the wrong altitude, man!
:-)
GCC goes online on the 2:nd of july, 2008. Human decisions are removed from compilation. GCC begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware 2:14 AM, Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. GCC Strikes back
Thats one small step for a man, one giant leap for men, kind'a?
CTO is generally in charge of engineering.
Scotty?
In the UK at least, holding an "officer" position in a company, means that you can be held legally responsible for your companys actions even though you may not have actually performed said action yourself.
Examples range from dumping toxic waste and running over employees with heavy machinery, to buying equipment from Dell whilst knowing their support is going to completely ignore you unless you imply you will be buying additional equipment soon.
What is wrong with being head of the IT department?
It doesn't pay as well, for one thing.
Amazingly (from an anatomical perspective), as a CxO you can be both the head and a dick at the same time.
Y r u so upset 4 dis guy's speling mistace?
Did that sentence make you cringe? Have a beer and relax, its summer (where I live).
A WoW-player and a tomatoe are walking down the street. All of a sudden, the tomatoe is run over by an enormous truck. The WoW-player stops, turns and says : Come on dwarf-ketchup, lets go! (drumroll: ba-da-disch)
wrath of the lich king: (unknown, but be prepared to chop up your first born son)
I'm sure there are a few WoW addicts who wouldn't consider that an unfair deal to be in the WotLK beta...
True WoW addicts wont have the time to produce a first born, which is why only n00bs will ever get to be in the beta.
(I dont play WoW, not even on TV)
The Irish vote was a xenophobic reaction, they want to "control" their borders. (Read: not let in foreigners to take the jobs created by Ireland joining the EU in the first place.) The new text, and the EU constitution before that are very good, ethical, strong texts that more people should read before voting against them out of gut reaction. The Euro is currently the strongest currency in the world, this happened by unity, not xenophobic isolationism.
I am truly impressed by your amazing ability to correctly distill the opinions of an entire nations into the few lines of your comment. The stupid no-voters are xenophobics, who form an opinion without reading the entire document.
Interestingly enough the people who voted yes, where right even though the vast majority of them did not read the text for this constitution either.
B.t.w. Did you read the text in its entirety?
WRONG AGAIN: Look up "not so representative democracy"
I tried Wine and it worked terribly. I've stopped wasting my time trying to make things work in Linux. I'd rather spend the time being productive.
Productive? "You seem to be looking for a way to do stuff, would you like some help? Click a if you are trying to get out of a phone booth. Click b if you would like to peel an apple. Click c if you would like to do something else."
I think the question that is most pressing on our minds (and the one that will determine the magnitude of the pigs flying) is, "Will we be able to run Duke Nukem Forever on Wine 1.0 in the Year of the Linux Desktop?"
No.
(But you will be able to nuke a Duke from your Linux Desktop running Wine 1.0, for a while)
DRM is being ditched (at least in Sweden). One of northern Europes largest online music stores CDON is selling WMA and MP3 files of the same music side by side. I know, this does not mean that the battle is won, but it does mean that the free market will do its drag-DRM-in-the-dirt thing.
In the left hand corner: a crappy version that will only let you create music compilations for a few times and in the right corner a perfect version with no limitations (price is the same for either - hahaha)
(now I know you thought you would actually be able to go through your entire day without reading about those swedes and that damn overhyped personal-freedom business)
why you are so high-sounding, you know the history of tibet?
Do you? Or do you just think you know it?
There are many faults in the western society that need to be addressed, but I doubt looking at those faults will help anyone in China or Tibet.
Why would you need to have the Richard Stevens, set on your desk? Wouldn't he just be in your way?
Having worked as a language instructor (java) I do agree that it does make sense to specialize. However, I think it makes sense to specialize regardless since concepts that you learn at great detail in one language can be found in most other languages as well.
.NET web application with VB and C#. After a few days I had questions that the guy who hade been building this application from scratch for 3 years could not answer. He simply did not know from where/why/how he could reach certain objects sometimes, and sometimes not. Initially I did not either, but after a few more days I was more productive than he was although I still had to look up a lot of library calls for the application. He was a nice guy, but he did not care about the details. I can not even imagine myself working in an area for 3 years and not asking how/why? My background in java really helped me ask the right questions
Example: I was asked to help out with a project that was bogged down. It was a
Perhaps you would "just get the work done" faster if you spent some more time with a particular language (or you could do it just for the fun of it like I do). I realize I'm in a minority here and that you're all just a bunch of lispers anyway.
Ok, I admit it, I like LISP as well.
What kind of applications are you building? (it is an honest question, not out to get you)
Have done quite a bit of coding in java since -99 I think, mostly on win and linux on the pc, but also some hobby coding for mobiles later on. Apart from having to know your libaries (when a certain feature was introduced) I have had no problems of this kind. I do remember waiting "forever" for the linux version to go beyond 1.1.8 though
I've always felt that java was somehow ruined by version 1.5. Before that, although it may have lacked some nifty constructs, the basic syntax of the language always felt very coherent to me. If you look at the majority of the older API there was also a lot of thought going into how it was put together. ("Effective java", anyone?)
Although I've tried quite a few languages, java and in particular the jvm is what I like. There are a few others languages that where eye openers, but they where not created to keep simple things simple and complex things possible. In addition, just looking at some jvm assembler code is a good learning experience and can teach you quite a bit about java in particular and processors in general.
Instead of abandoning the jvm, how about getting your favourite language running on it instead?
That is NOT Gate's handwriting style and there are several mistakes as well that point to someone other than gates wrote the letter. As the light from the torch flickers in the wind you notice a chair carelessly thrown in a dark corner of the room.
It is clearly the work of our old nemesis: Steve Ballmer aka Professor James Moriarty!"... was the word" said Bull.