All Linux really needs is program that builds one-click (or drag and drop, if you want to be fancy) install packages from the make/install scripts on the app writer's machine. Keep a copy of each necessary library (or even better just the portion of the library that the program uses) inside the package so there will never be an install issue, and make it easy for the app writers and the users both to use.
If the author of the app cared enough, he could have done that with bash scripts. Something like this:
#!/bin/bash apt-get install libfoo libbar libbaz libetc || [install the included source files for the libraries]./configure
I think at one point there were a few Ubuntu-Dell laptops... I saw a classmate using Ubuntu on her laptop once but she didn't seem like the type to install Ubuntu all on her own.
I think a few years ago there was some lawsuit involving a web page, and the judge in question had never heard of a web page. Presumably, such people do exist and they've never even heard of the WWW. So of course such people have never heard of Google except maybe as a company.
IANAL, but in the U.S. patents are granted on a first to invent basis. Prior art establishes that someone else invented it first. This is why the U.S. system is completely fucked up.
I honestly think we need to add a new type of intellectual property to the mix. A 'Character'. This would specifically cover any portrayal of a fictional character created by someone. Make that one able to be owned by corporations and have a scaled extension system ($10/year for the first five years, then doubles every fifth year thereafter).
That would take care of Superman, Mickey Mouse, Harry Potter, and the other 'but we must extend copyright' issues.
Then take Patents and make them not applicable to Software, Algorithms or Business Practices.
Then take Copyright and put it back to the initial limits (up to 14 years) and put a reasonable price on that one.
Leave Trade Secrets and Industrial Designs alone.
Interesting, but suffers from the same flaw (or blessing) as 1984 -- No trivial way to transform current state of the world into proposed (or reviled) state of the world.
And here I thought that the whole idea of "no taxation without representation" would mean something. Corporations are being taxed, but do not get to vote.
If you think corporations aren't getting representation you must not be from this planet. Yay! First Contact!
ObTopic:The whole point of copyright (see the copyright clause) is that things end up in the public domain, so WTF congress? life_of_author+70 is not reasonable.
If some users have to "put up with" something, that means that other users may not put up with it since they don't value the new features of the application in question very highly, but do value consistency more highly.
It doesn't matter if it's slow enough -- the ID crowd will either cite it as "evidence" that "evolution !exists" or they will say something like "God^H^H^H The Designer is clearly controlling [bullshit][bullshit][bullshit]". Those people have no shame and no logic.
Forgive me if I'm wrong. I'm fairly sure I have at least a basic grasp of the idea of statistical sampling, as used to infer the traits of a large population using a smaller representative sample from that population. But don't you still need a sample size bigger than two to make inferences about all of humanity?
The statistics are in the number of base pairs and the amount of time since common ancestor, not the number of people. So we know that in that lineage, mutations occur at a given rate which I'm too lazy to calculate.
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Goddam previews don't work!:
#!/bin/bash
apt-get install libfoo libbar libbaz libetc || [install the included source files for the libraries]
make
gksu make install || kdesu make install
All Linux really needs is program that builds one-click (or drag and drop, if you want to be fancy) install packages from the make/install scripts on the app writer's machine. Keep a copy of each necessary library (or even better just the portion of the library that the program uses) inside the package so there will never be an install issue, and make it easy for the app writers and the users both to use.
If the author of the app cared enough, he could have done that with bash scripts. Something like this:
#!/bin/bash ./configure
apt-get install libfoo libbar libbaz libetc || [install the included source files for the libraries]
make
gksu make install || kdesu make install
I think at one point there were a few Ubuntu-Dell laptops... I saw a classmate using Ubuntu on her laptop once but she didn't seem like the type to install Ubuntu all on her own.
IIRC apturl depends on the item in question being in the repositories already.
I WISH Linux had something like MSI files.
How about .deb files for apt and whatever the equivalent is for rpm?
i don't think you know what unethical means.
It means the slides are misleading at best and outright lies at worst.
Is Google going to sue Wikipedia?
what if some malevolent entity decided to patent this before Google did?
Prior art.
East-Texas-Judge:What is "prior art"?
You know, the Nazi's made Jews wear pieces of flare.
Was that a deliberate Godwin post? And if so, what side is he on?
I think a few years ago there was some lawsuit involving a web page, and the judge in question had never heard of a web page. Presumably, such people do exist and they've never even heard of the WWW. So of course such people have never heard of Google except maybe as a company.
IANAL, but in the U.S. patents are granted on a first to invent basis. Prior art establishes that someone else invented it first. This is why the U.S. system is completely fucked up.
When we run out of room, everyone who wants to be on the internet will say "hmm, I guess we need IPv6 (and so do our clients).".
Exactly.
How the heck are those astro/cosmo/taikonauts going to find food and drinking water to subsist, let alone colonize?
Biodome. Grow stuff. Maybe animals.
I honestly think we need to add a new type of intellectual property to the mix. A 'Character'. This would specifically cover any portrayal of a fictional character created by someone. Make that one able to be owned by corporations and have a scaled extension system ($10/year for the first five years, then doubles every fifth year thereafter).
That would take care of Superman, Mickey Mouse, Harry Potter, and the other 'but we must extend copyright' issues.
Then take Patents and make them not applicable to Software, Algorithms or Business Practices.
Then take Copyright and put it back to the initial limits (up to 14 years) and put a reasonable price on that one.
Leave Trade Secrets and Industrial Designs alone.
Interesting, but suffers from the same flaw (or blessing) as 1984 -- No trivial way to transform current state of the world into proposed (or reviled) state of the world.
And here I thought that the whole idea of "no taxation without representation" would mean something. Corporations are being taxed, but do not get to vote.
If you think corporations aren't getting representation you must not be from this planet. Yay! First Contact!
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ObTopic:The whole point of copyright (see the copyright clause) is that things end up in the public domain, so WTF congress? life_of_author+70 is not reasonable.
There was no copyright in Shakespeare's time, as evidenced by him blatantly stealing everything he could lay his hands on.
Wikipedia survives without unique ownership of articles. There is copyright of the material, but noone "owns" article foo.
If some users have to "put up with" something, that means that other users may not put up with it since they don't value the new features of the application in question very highly, but do value consistency more highly.
It doesn't matter if it's slow enough -- the ID crowd will either cite it as "evidence" that "evolution !exists" or they will say something like "God^H^H^H The Designer is clearly controlling [bullshit][bullshit][bullshit]". Those people have no shame and no logic.
Forgive me if I'm wrong. I'm fairly sure I have at least a basic grasp of the idea of statistical sampling, as used to infer the traits of a large population using a smaller representative sample from that population. But don't you still need a sample size bigger than two to make inferences about all of humanity?
The statistics are in the number of base pairs and the amount of time since common ancestor, not the number of people. So we know that in that lineage, mutations occur at a given rate which I'm too lazy to calculate.
The Earth has gravity, but ambient space doesn't.
Do we know that Microsoft will still be solvent by then?
Fuck no. Occasionally an AC says something unintentionally hilarious... and for the rest of the time, we have modding.
WTF is "GAFIDA"?
IIRC Google is at least on the standards committee, which is more than I can say of Microsoft.