I predict that in the future any successful FOSS project will need a CoC that states "There never will be a CoC." right from the start.
They won't know they will be successful right at the start. TBH, I don't really see a problem - if enough of the kernel contributors cared about the CoC they'd simply fork. Unfortunately the majority of the contributors are employed by corporates and hence have to accept the CoC or lose their job (yeah, it looks like Linux was undermined by the corporates in a slow-but-steady-wins-the-race move).
I also find it surprising that someone doesn't simply start a parallel branch that simply pulls all of the kernel in, removes the CoC, and makes it available for download. GPL2 doesn't force the redistribution to be a mirror image of the original.
You can change the license, but that only applies to versions going forward.
I'm pretty certain that IP licences are not irrevocable and perpetual by default. Saying that "you can never rescind your license" is saying that every licence is irrevocable by default, and I'm pretty certain that that is not the case.
After all, I've seen plenty of licenses state "irrevocable". What's the point of a licence granting irrevocable usage rights if you already have them?
They still incorrectly state "charges". They've sued Musk in a civil case.
So? You can sue criminals for crimes in a civil case if the prosecution declines to engage in a criminal case.
I've done this in the past with an ex-wife who kept obstructing my son's access to me: the prosecutor basically blew me off and said deal with it, so I filed a civil suit seeking a finding of guilt of a crime.
She got a 3 month sentence (contempt of the visitation order), plus the opportunity to pay me back my legal fees.
You aren't as clued up as you think you are. You're very passionate about Tesla, but passion doesn't mean you know what you are talking about.
For little itty-bitty microprocessors, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For appliance type devices (Home automation, etc), Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For embedded uses (cars, machinery, etc), Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For powerful hand-held computing devices, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For services, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For large horizontally-scaled services, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For scientific computing, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For supercomputing, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
The only holdout of Windows is the desktop and gaming market, and god help them if they ever manage to kill off Windows as a viable gaming choice in the hope that it would boost their XBox division: consoles spend much less time dominating in each generation.
Even if they manage to make XBox the number one console in a single generation they are never going to hold on to that crown in succeeding generations.
sport
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noun
1.
an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
Stupid question here, but if big businesses are having all of their older, experienced programmers retiring and none of their younger programmers have the skills, why aren't they paying to train people that already work for them? Seems like that would be a lot easier and cheaper, plus they have the added bonus of already knowing what your business does/needs and how it works.
Why [ay to train when you can make vague promises to the under-employed programmers who then train themselves on their own dime. Hell, you won't even need to hire all of them, just the best 10%.
No, the funniest thing is that anyone ever managed to turn playing silly games of any kind into a profession.
Like football. Or golf. Or tennis. Or baseball. Or basketball. Or simply running around in circles on a field....
Whether you like it or not, a sport is any trivial and/or pointless pastime that is played seriously... Like football. Or golf. Or tennis. Or baseball. Or basketball. Or simply running around in circles on a field....
Never mind the fact that most people in the country are demonstrably not conservatives
They're demonstrably not liberal either - remember that the difference in the number of voters between Trump and HRC is such a small percentage it's almost a rounding error (roughly 1/4 of the country voted for HRC, and roughly 1/4 of the country voted for Trump).
It was once revealed to me that for about 15 cents more per tire manufacturers could make tires that could last the entire life of a car. They choose not to for just this reason.
A tire that never wore out wouldn't have any grip anyway. You'll crash the car at the first stop you come to, perversely making the statement "These tyres lasted the entire life of the car" a true one.
You can please some of the people, all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you simply cannot please all the people all the time. Wise people don't waste effort trying.
That was before the age of Codes of Conduct. Now the squeaky wheel not only gets the grease, but gets the presumption of wrongdoing on your part because they were ever squeaking in the first place.
It's a lesson to everyone: bullying works.
Expect the bullying to ramp up in the coming months.
The words "thorough" and "brief" are subjective: 2000 words might be "brief" to you but "excessive" to someone else.
Your students were trying to get you to agree to an objective measurement. That you could not see that, nor see the value in being objective rather than subjective, means that you were a poor educator.
As a lecturer you have to ensure that the students have measurable goals. You cannot do that if you give them subjective constraints - they can't read your mind to know what "brief" and "thorough" is supposed to mean in the context of that assignment.
When will our "educators" finally grade papers based on content covered rather than some arbitrary word/paragraph/page length. Are they not able to judge whether a topic has been sufficiently covered by reading comprehension?
The length given is a maximum, and if you want to exceed it go ahead but you better be really sure that the content you're adding is both relevant and necessary.
My theses lengths were specified in word-counts, but I seriously doubt that the prof actually ran a wordcount on it. The word-count served as a guide as to how much detail and content they expected. Should I have made a much more significant contribution than expected, then the word-count matters not at all.
If, OTOH, your thesis is not remarkably new and/or thorough, then the wordcount should serve as a warning to the you that you may have misjudged what was expected of you. This is not necessarily a bad thing if you made a groundbreaking discovery; after all, Einstein's Phd was only 22 pages long.
Funny how, if data apparently supports that women do not suit tech roles, it's just the facts. But if data apparently supports that boys are self-centered, it's misandry.
It's always been okay for society to go soft on women and hard on men. Modern society is nothing new.
I'm not one to say I told you so, but everybody made fun of me a few weeks ago when I said that Elon was going to face some serious consequences for his phony tweet about taking Tesla public.
My Gmail address is in the format of firstname.lastname, and unfortunately not everyone who shares my first and last names or knows someone who does realizes that it doesn't belong to them. Sometimes it's a missed middle initial, sometimes it's pure ignorance on the part of the person providing the address. I think sometimes people give it as a fake address, and I have contempt for these people.
I have received all kinds of emails for wedding invitations, human resource confidential data, billing, mortgages, and more.
If the sender is a personal address, I respond with a polite correction. If it's important billing information (ie, "service about to expire for non-payment"), I do what I can to make contact to the correct person so they can be aware. I'm amazed at how few responses I get, and out of the few responses I get I'm amazed at how many people seem to resent me trying to be helpful.
You're the third person in this thread with that problem of firstname.lastname@.... I have simply firstname@gmail.com and I have yet to receive someone else's emails.
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I predict that in the future any successful FOSS project will need a CoC that states "There never will be a CoC." right from the start.
They won't know they will be successful right at the start. TBH, I don't really see a problem - if enough of the kernel contributors cared about the CoC they'd simply fork. Unfortunately the majority of the contributors are employed by corporates and hence have to accept the CoC or lose their job (yeah, it looks like Linux was undermined by the corporates in a slow-but-steady-wins-the-race move).
I also find it surprising that someone doesn't simply start a parallel branch that simply pulls all of the kernel in, removes the CoC, and makes it available for download. GPL2 doesn't force the redistribution to be a mirror image of the original.
You can change the license, but that only applies to versions going forward.
I'm pretty certain that IP licences are not irrevocable and perpetual by default. Saying that "you can never rescind your license" is saying that every licence is irrevocable by default, and I'm pretty certain that that is not the case.
After all, I've seen plenty of licenses state "irrevocable". What's the point of a licence granting irrevocable usage rights if you already have them?
I'm sure all your exes appreciate the chunks of your pension you so graciously provided them
They all got nothing, except ... The first one got a car 'cos I felt sorry for her. Getting married with an ironclad pre-nup is possible.
Well, at least he isn't dumb enough to think that somebody being sued is being charged with something. Durrrr!
It's ironic that you say that while calling someone else dumb. Musk is being charged and being sued.
How dumb do you have to be to have multiple?
Meh. Who really cares what you think of multiply-divorced men? When a woman threatens to leave me, I help her.
Admit it, you just wanted to tell us how you got back at your ex-wife.
One of my ex-wives ;-)
They still incorrectly state "charges". They've sued Musk in a civil case.
So? You can sue criminals for crimes in a civil case if the prosecution declines to engage in a criminal case.
I've done this in the past with an ex-wife who kept obstructing my son's access to me: the prosecutor basically blew me off and said deal with it, so I filed a civil suit seeking a finding of guilt of a crime.
She got a 3 month sentence (contempt of the visitation order), plus the opportunity to pay me back my legal fees.
You aren't as clued up as you think you are. You're very passionate about Tesla, but passion doesn't mean you know what you are talking about.
For little itty-bitty microprocessors, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For appliance type devices (Home automation, etc), Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For embedded uses (cars, machinery, etc), Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For powerful hand-held computing devices, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For services, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For large horizontally-scaled services, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For scientific computing, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
For supercomputing, Linux is better than anything Microsoft has.
The only holdout of Windows is the desktop and gaming market, and god help them if they ever manage to kill off Windows as a viable gaming choice in the hope that it would boost their XBox division: consoles spend much less time dominating in each generation.
Even if they manage to make XBox the number one console in a single generation they are never going to hold on to that crown in succeeding generations.
when we are talking about differences between sexes biology is a default explanation
That isn't justified when science is telling us that it's mostly social,
Science never said that. Social "science" says that, and they often say it with next to no evidence.
sport spôrt/Submit noun 1. an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
You made that up yourself? From Merriam-Webster:
sport noun
Definition of sport (Entry 2 of 3)
1a : a source of diversion : recreation
Stupid question here, but if big businesses are having all of their older, experienced programmers retiring and none of their younger programmers have the skills, why aren't they paying to train people that already work for them? Seems like that would be a lot easier and cheaper, plus they have the added bonus of already knowing what your business does/needs and how it works.
Why [ay to train when you can make vague promises to the under-employed programmers who then train themselves on their own dime. Hell, you won't even need to hire all of them, just the best 10%.
If fortnight, DOTA, or LoL are sports, then so are chess and go.
Aren't games like chess already sports?
No, the funniest thing is that anyone ever managed to turn playing silly games of any kind into a profession.
Like football. Or golf. Or tennis. Or baseball. Or basketball. Or simply running around in circles on a field....
Whether you like it or not, a sport is any trivial and/or pointless pastime that is played seriously... Like football. Or golf. Or tennis. Or baseball. Or basketball. Or simply running around in circles on a field....
Never mind the fact that most people in the country are demonstrably not conservatives
They're demonstrably not liberal either - remember that the difference in the number of voters between Trump and HRC is such a small percentage it's almost a rounding error (roughly 1/4 of the country voted for HRC, and roughly 1/4 of the country voted for Trump).
All of our business software is Windows-only. We're in retail. There are no usable Linux alternatives.
And that's why you use Windows at home?
It was once revealed to me that for about 15 cents more per tire manufacturers could make tires that could last the entire life of a car. They choose not to for just this reason.
A tire that never wore out wouldn't have any grip anyway. You'll crash the car at the first stop you come to, perversely making the statement "These tyres lasted the entire life of the car" a true one.
That was before the age of Codes of Conduct. Now the squeaky wheel not only gets the grease, but gets the presumption of wrongdoing on your part because they were ever squeaking in the first place.
It's a lesson to everyone: bullying works.
Expect the bullying to ramp up in the coming months.
The words "thorough" and "brief" are subjective: 2000 words might be "brief" to you but "excessive" to someone else.
Your students were trying to get you to agree to an objective measurement. That you could not see that, nor see the value in being objective rather than subjective, means that you were a poor educator.
As a lecturer you have to ensure that the students have measurable goals. You cannot do that if you give them subjective constraints - they can't read your mind to know what "brief" and "thorough" is supposed to mean in the context of that assignment.
When will our "educators" finally grade papers based on content covered rather than some arbitrary word/paragraph/page length. Are they not able to judge whether a topic has been sufficiently covered by reading comprehension?
The length given is a maximum, and if you want to exceed it go ahead but you better be really sure that the content you're adding is both relevant and necessary.
My theses lengths were specified in word-counts, but I seriously doubt that the prof actually ran a wordcount on it. The word-count served as a guide as to how much detail and content they expected. Should I have made a much more significant contribution than expected, then the word-count matters not at all.
If, OTOH, your thesis is not remarkably new and/or thorough, then the wordcount should serve as a warning to the you that you may have misjudged what was expected of you. This is not necessarily a bad thing if you made a groundbreaking discovery; after all, Einstein's Phd was only 22 pages long.
Funny how, if data apparently supports that women do not suit tech roles, it's just the facts. But if data apparently supports that boys are self-centered, it's misandry.
It's always been okay for society to go soft on women and hard on men. Modern society is nothing new.
I'm not one to say I told you so, but everybody made fun of me a few weeks ago when I said that Elon was going to face some serious consequences for his phony tweet about taking Tesla public.
https://youtu.be/lTXoA-QTbJw
You also thought that Hillary would win, and that Trump was racist. Your "predictions" are no better than coin tossing.
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Also, I don't preview. I live on the edge, baby!
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My Gmail address is in the format of firstname.lastname, and unfortunately not everyone who shares my first and last names or knows someone who does realizes that it doesn't belong to them. Sometimes it's a missed middle initial, sometimes it's pure ignorance on the part of the person providing the address. I think sometimes people give it as a fake address, and I have contempt for these people.
I have received all kinds of emails for wedding invitations, human resource confidential data, billing, mortgages, and more.
If the sender is a personal address, I respond with a polite correction. If it's important billing information (ie, "service about to expire for non-payment"), I do what I can to make contact to the correct person so they can be aware. I'm amazed at how few responses I get, and out of the few responses I get I'm amazed at how many people seem to resent me trying to be helpful.
You're the third person in this thread with that problem of firstname.lastname@.... I have simply firstname@gmail.com and I have yet to receive someone else's emails.
Yes, my firstname really is that unique.
The study was looking at international poverty, not pimps.
Who cares - if you are going to attach your morality to your donation you don't get to complain when others do the same.