The world we live in is vastly better than the one of 10, 50, 200 years ago - but positive news is like 10% of the stuff they show us. People live in fear while they never had it better if you look at the facts.
Apparently it's easy to use them to connect to WiFi networks, his dad already ran one, and then you can apparently join OLPC chat rooms over the normal Internet. Not really the same as directly connecting to other OLPCs.
Perhaps it's also more to do with the things our days are filled with at this age. Commute, being tired, stressed, much of work is routine, rest is hard and vague, uncertainty, responsibility...
It would be different if I could enjoy each moments the way kids seem to do. Well, at least they seem to be better at it.
Probably the stress and fatigue means you notice and remember less, making the time seem to have gone faster.
At 70 you hope you're active and healthy and able to do whatever you always wanted to do and it's probably the best time ever - but equal chances your health is down, friends are gone and life is just lonely.
Also just an idea...
Rereading the above, note to self: must get fun evening today, didn't know winter was affecting me this much...
I'd say that right now, society is plenty safe enough, but our privacy isn't strict enough. Time to make errors in the direction of privacy for a while.
It's about numbers. As long as it's copyrighted and owned by some entity, then it can be represented as a number on some balance sheet. If you then release it to the public, the world as a whole becomes richer, but in terms of numbers, it's only a loss.
Since politicians think in terms of money and the economy, protecting "intellectual property" is a no-brainer.
There's a difference between "save the game and quit it so I can continue later", and "save the game and let me continue playing it, to use as a backup".
The first type should be unlimited, just make sure that the save game is erased when you continue.
Novell is arguing that the money SCO collected for them isn't a debt from SCO to Novell, it's Novell's money!
And in the SCO-Novell case it has already been decided by the judge that SCO is in breach of fiduciary duty for not handing it over; they were just about to decide how much it actually is when this Chapter 11 happened.
That's not debt, that's stolen money. Surely that comes before anything else.
As far as I can see, the BSD license doesn't have a clause that says "you may also exchange this license by any other license you wish."
It allows a lot, like including it in a larger package that has its own completely different license; even in packages where the source is never released, so that recepients of the package can't do the same thing you did.
But as far as I can see, if you do give some user the source to your entire program, including the bits that were originally released by others under the BSD, then those bits are still under the BSD to that user. Why wouldn't they? You're not the author, you can't relicense the code. Just that you're allowed to do a lot with it doesn't change the license.
I may well be wrong here, but I don't see why that wouldn't be the case. I'd love it if someone who knows could explain:-)
How would a fuel producing organism ever be carbon positive? Unless it does actual nuclear reactions (I think not), every C atom it excretes needs to come from its fuel.
Right. He disallows the GPL, but allows many far more restrictive licenses.
Perhaps what he's looking for is a license that says something like "do whatever you want with this code, but you can't redistribute under any license other than this one"...
Why should the Ubuntu organization put any effort whatsoever into convincing irrational people to use their operating system? They're not selling anything. Advertising is for a company that wants to convince irrational people to buy their product so that they can make lots of money. Ubuntu doesn't want to make lots of money. Based on Ubuntu's actions, I'm guessing it's enough for them to make a great system and then let the people who are smart enough to appreciate it enjoy it.
From their About us: Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system.
If that's their aim, then convincing irrational people to use it seems a pretty important activity.
That's exactly what he means. By making vague threats about "intellectual property" (which could be any of those things you name) without specifying what exactly their problem is (is it copyright infringement? patent infringement? they would be completely different problems with different ramifications) all they're doing is spreading FUD. They have no interest in being specific because then the problems could be fixed; in fact, they can hide the complete absence of any specific problem by being vague.
So in short, it's a propaganda term to confuse patent law with copyright and other unrelated laws.
Please don't blame me for the Insightful mod, I just had a sudden urge and wrote a one line comment, can't help the mods:-)
Further, my reaction was biased because I'm in Europe (specifically, the Netherlands). For me, Internet access == broadband access, because we have to pay by the minute for modem calls so nobody wants to use them anymore; modem is both slower and more expensive. So in my mind I was reacting to a statement that the Internet isn't a necessary utility, rather than broadband.
Anyway. Applying for a job is done by email nowadays, as is searching for job openings. Can't find a good job without the Internet.
If I want to apply for cheap social rental housing, I must do so online; since a few years, it's the only way. For buying an existing house, the Internet has also completely taken over. Probably applying for a plot for new housing doesn't yet require the Internet, nor does private rental.
Many monthly bills (telephone, water, electricity, the Internet itself) as well as bank statements themselves have gone online-only in the last few years or are in the process of going online-only.
The Internet has become the primary means of staying in contact with friends for many people. It's just more convenient. People keep contact with more people since things like instant messaging.
Since the Internet is now the primary way to do all those very basic things, I believe it is now just as basic itself.
Perhaps you don't agree yet; it is a matter of degree, of course. But then you will before 2017, I'm sure.
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They paid about 500 million euro in 2004, while they were still appealing the decision. Their last appeal was turned down last year.
Also, they made available the specs for the SMB protocol, which the Samba team bought (for about $14k).
Currently Django, Turbogears and Pylons are all hot. Great web frameworks are there, start using them :-)
There are people dying in flying cars all the time!
That's FUD from the anti-flying-car industry. All those deaths turned out to be from landing cars, not flying cars.
Linux share is going up. Therefore, nothing is killing it.
Since OS X's is also going up, it would seem they're both taking market share from Windows - which probably still has > 90%.
OS X sales can be counted, Linux downloads more or less can't.
Also, those must be US-only figures, surely? OSX 7%!?
How about some good news?
The world we live in is vastly better than the one of 10, 50, 200 years ago - but positive news is like 10% of the stuff they show us. People live in fear while they never had it better if you look at the facts.
Therefore evolution has been irrelevant as a factor of survival since humans learned to use tools.
Evolution is a result of survival. The idea that it can stop in a population with enough diversity is ridiculous.
Apparently it's easy to use them to connect to WiFi networks, his dad already ran one, and then you can apparently join OLPC chat rooms over the normal Internet. Not really the same as directly connecting to other OLPCs.
Often you know exactly what the problem is, the solution is trivial, but you need to call the help desk because you don't have sufficient access.
Perhaps it's also more to do with the things our days are filled with at this age. Commute, being tired, stressed, much of work is routine, rest is hard and vague, uncertainty, responsibility...
It would be different if I could enjoy each moments the way kids seem to do. Well, at least they seem to be better at it.
Probably the stress and fatigue means you notice and remember less, making the time seem to have gone faster.
At 70 you hope you're active and healthy and able to do whatever you always wanted to do and it's probably the best time ever - but equal chances your health is down, friends are gone and life is just lonely.
Also just an idea...
Rereading the above, note to self: must get fun evening today, didn't know winter was affecting me this much...
As well as, "I have nothing to hide, therefore, you don't need to look."
Well, what if it DOES make society safer?
I'd say that right now, society is plenty safe enough, but our privacy isn't strict enough. Time to make errors in the direction of privacy for a while.
Similar to how we should stop outputting CO2 while we're figuring out what a safe output level is... good luck convincing the world of that.
It's about numbers. As long as it's copyrighted and owned by some entity, then it can be represented as a number on some balance sheet. If you then release it to the public, the world as a whole becomes richer, but in terms of numbers, it's only a loss.
Since politicians think in terms of money and the economy, protecting "intellectual property" is a no-brainer.
There's a difference between "save the game and quit it so I can continue later", and "save the game and let me continue playing it, to use as a backup".
The first type should be unlimited, just make sure that the save game is erased when you continue.
The Russian mafia take their "In Soviet Russia..." jokes seriously!
Watt is a per-time unit. 1 Watt = 1 Joule per second.
A watthour is a 1 watt, sustained for an hour; a kilowatthour 1000 Watt, sustained for one hour.
"Watt per minute" doesn't make sense, except when talking about things like a change in power.
Novell is arguing that the money SCO collected for them isn't a debt from SCO to Novell, it's Novell's money!
And in the SCO-Novell case it has already been decided by the judge that SCO is in breach of fiduciary duty for not handing it over; they were just about to decide how much it actually is when this Chapter 11 happened.
That's not debt, that's stolen money. Surely that comes before anything else.
As far as I can see, the BSD license doesn't have a clause that says "you may also exchange this license by any other license you wish."
It allows a lot, like including it in a larger package that has its own completely different license; even in packages where the source is never released, so that recepients of the package can't do the same thing you did.
But as far as I can see, if you do give some user the source to your entire program, including the bits that were originally released by others under the BSD, then those bits are still under the BSD to that user. Why wouldn't they? You're not the author, you can't relicense the code. Just that you're allowed to do a lot with it doesn't change the license.
I may well be wrong here, but I don't see why that wouldn't be the case. I'd love it if someone who knows could explain :-)
How would a fuel producing organism ever be carbon positive? Unless it does actual nuclear reactions (I think not), every C atom it excretes needs to come from its fuel.
It should have been called "On Nmap".
It's a scanning utility. Its command line options hardly change based on the intent of the user.
Right. He disallows the GPL, but allows many far more restrictive licenses.
Perhaps what he's looking for is a license that says something like "do whatever you want with this code, but you can't redistribute under any license other than this one"...
Why should the Ubuntu organization put any effort whatsoever into convincing irrational people to use their operating system? They're not selling anything. Advertising is for a company that wants to convince irrational people to buy their product so that they can make lots of money. Ubuntu doesn't want to make lots of money. Based on Ubuntu's actions, I'm guessing it's enough for them to make a great system and then let the people who are smart enough to appreciate it enjoy it.
From their About us: Ubuntu aims to be the most widely used Linux system.
If that's their aim, then convincing irrational people to use it seems a pretty important activity.
So in short, it's a propaganda term to confuse patent law with copyright and other unrelated laws.
Please don't blame me for the Insightful mod, I just had a sudden urge and wrote a one line comment, can't help the mods :-)
Further, my reaction was biased because I'm in Europe (specifically, the Netherlands). For me, Internet access == broadband access, because we have to pay by the minute for modem calls so nobody wants to use them anymore; modem is both slower and more expensive. So in my mind I was reacting to a statement that the Internet isn't a necessary utility, rather than broadband.
Anyway. Applying for a job is done by email nowadays, as is searching for job openings. Can't find a good job without the Internet.
If I want to apply for cheap social rental housing, I must do so online; since a few years, it's the only way. For buying an existing house, the Internet has also completely taken over. Probably applying for a plot for new housing doesn't yet require the Internet, nor does private rental.
Many monthly bills (telephone, water, electricity, the Internet itself) as well as bank statements themselves have gone online-only in the last few years or are in the process of going online-only.
The Internet has become the primary means of staying in contact with friends for many people. It's just more convenient. People keep contact with more people since things like instant messaging.
Since the Internet is now the primary way to do all those very basic things, I believe it is now just as basic itself.
Perhaps you don't agree yet; it is a matter of degree, of course. But then you will before 2017, I'm sure.