Yeah, but you count a $20 million dollar plane that goes 100km up, a feat that has almost nothing to do with building orbital vehicles let alone things that can go further, as a serious comparison to the Shuttle.
If any AI can independently come up with such solution strategies (rather than just "applying" a strategy devised by humans), only then it would be able to quench all criticisms.
This is exactly what the parent to your post meant - the bar is always raised further. I don't think most humans could independently come up with those solution strategies either.
On a similar note, a friend of mine worked at a large telco, where they were told that they had to #define all their constants (in C)... so they (others, not my friend) had code that said #define THIRTEEN 13. The number had to change later, of course...
The more things change, the more things stay the same:-)
When I did some lab as part of my CS study, one unfortunate group of four students got the assignment to write documentation for part of some FORTRAN behemoth written over 15 years by successive grad students in the math department. It was horrible.
It was worth four credits (= 4 weeks), so documenting part of that small program was supposed to take four man months.
Our group wrote a GUI in Tcl/Tk interfacing VTK to show nice 3D graphs of the output of that program. We were lucky we could look at some smaller FORTRAN programs that were used to parse the stuff before then, only a few thousand lines, but it was still hardly possible to figure out what was what.
You seem to be confusing two orthogonal issues. Movement of power from the Council to the Parliament is much-needed reform: the federal issue is about movement of power from the constituent states to the EU and, IMO, highly objectionable.
The Council consists of the governments of the constituent states.
Which is why you can't move power away from the council while not moving it away from the constituent states. Exactly what the parent to your post was talking about.
Don't ever believe your government when it says it was forced by the EU to do something - they had a veto on that in the Council, but chose to accept the thing (probably in return for some favour by some other government).
A really interesting philosophical question is why not seed Venus with bacteria and orgnaisms able to tolerate the heat and pressure and try to terraform it? Why not? It's not like we'd be crowding out the Venusians.
I suggest we don't do that before we're absolutely 100% sure that there isn't any life already there. E.g., this suggestion from 2002 is interesting (if not very probable, I suppose).
No. It says: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I think the biggest problem is that that sentence isn't even grammatical. The subject of the sentence is "A well regulated militia", oh no wait it's "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." Far too many comma's, it's just nonsensical. Surely whatever committee finally decided on that spelling knew that?
If the US was at war with someone, and they actually used WMDs of any kind to defend themselves, the response would be devastating.
Obviously. However, the point is that the US does not attack countries with nuclear weapons. Getting nuclear weapons is the number one priority for any nation that is conceivably a target of the US (approximately anywhere but North America, Australia and Western Europe).
Do you ever get mail on these projects? I would expect that before anyone would contribute anything, they would first be using it, asking you questions about it, etc.
- Traditionally, if people wanted support for platform X, they could test it on that platform and tell you the results. If there isn't anyone willing to do that, apparently there is no demand for a platform X version and it's not your problem. Although if you feel that supporting Linux is important for getting developers to help you on your project, I really think you should just install it on another box or dual boot. Or find a volunteer, as above.
- I would think that Sourceforge should be easily sufficient for your needs. If you have specific problems with Sourceforge later on, you can always move.
- Mention them in your README.txt and/or Changelog?
- Version numbers and names are rather arbitrary; it's totally your call. Every scheme you can think of (including version numbers that converge to pi) is probably already used by some serious project. But generally, 'alpha' and 'beta' etc mean 'please test this for bugs', and other versions are for use by people who don't want to see a lot of those.
- Wikis are highly useful for lots of things. I have no experience with using them for OSS, but I could see them as a nice way to start making documentation.
- Duh, a lawyer. Or the FSF if you release your code under the GPL, they are experts and are probably willing to give advice.
If your case is typical, you will be programming on your own time for a long time to come. Just that it's on Sourceforge doesn't mean people are playing your game, let alone supplying patches - you should be very happy to receive one or two patches in the first year.
The important thing is to stay active, code a lot, and not let your project turn into yet another dead Sourceforge project. And then just handle things as they come up.
For 95% of the projects out there, there really isn't any difference between an open source project and something you just do on your own.
Did you pay for it? No.
Do you now have it? Yes.
Did you take it without permission? Yes.
Does everyone who previously had it still have it? Yes.
Has anyone lost anything you have now? No.
Are any potential earnings lost because you have it now? WTF are potential earnings? All of the national income that could be spent on CDs?
Taken literally, no they have not lost potential earnings - I can still buy the CD and still have the same amount of money.
Otherwise - it depends: they have not lost any if I wasn't going to buy the CD anyway, they have not lost any if I was but spend the money on another of their CDs now, they have not if I decide I like these songs and buy the CD, they actually have increased potential earnings if I wasn't going to buy it but like it so much that I buy a couple of CDs of this artist, they have lost potential earnings if I was going to buy it but don't, and therefore spend less money on CDs now.
And that last thing is, as much research shows, not exactly common. People who download lots of MP3 often still are among the biggest spenders on music. Actual (not potential) CD sales are up.
Furthermore, you obviously can't steal "potential income". Potential income doesn't exist yet and isn't guaranteed to exist in the future.
So what all of this has to do with theft is beyond me. It's copyright infringement, and although it's nominally "wrong" it's not very serious - on a par with driving through a red light because there's no traffic there, as far as I'm concerned.
No - but it leaves the questions of how He did it, what the evidence for this is, how exactly that explains the electron behaviour we see in the first place, etc. It creates more questions than it answers. That's not simple.
It's a place where you can stay a day and a night with a group of people, and eat and drink all you want for a fixed price. It's a place for drunk football teams and bachelor parties. I was there in May this year.
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Yeah, but you count a $20 million dollar plane that goes 100km up, a feat that has almost nothing to do with building orbital vehicles let alone things that can go further, as a serious comparison to the Shuttle.
If any AI can independently come up with such solution strategies (rather than just "applying" a strategy devised by humans), only then it would be able to quench all criticisms.
This is exactly what the parent to your post meant - the bar is always raised further. I don't think most humans could independently come up with those solution strategies either.
When I used to say that I was agnostic, they'd say something like "A-ha! You admit you're not sure!"
As if it was even an issue to me. Nowadays I simply say "I'm not religious."
On a similar note, a friend of mine worked at a large telco, where they were told that they had to #define all their constants (in C)... so they (others, not my friend) had code that said #define THIRTEEN 13. The number had to change later, of course...
The more things change, the more things stay the same :-)
SMALL?
When I did some lab as part of my CS study, one unfortunate group of four students got the assignment to write documentation for part of some FORTRAN behemoth written over 15 years by successive grad students in the math department. It was horrible.
It was worth four credits (= 4 weeks), so documenting part of that small program was supposed to take four man months.
Our group wrote a GUI in Tcl/Tk interfacing VTK to show nice 3D graphs of the output of that program. We were lucky we could look at some smaller FORTRAN programs that were used to parse the stuff before then, only a few thousand lines, but it was still hardly possible to figure out what was what.
No namespaces...
Salt Lake City average yearly temp: 52 F (11.1 C) (source).
Las Vegas average yearly temp: 67 F (19.4 C) (source).
So we are talking about an increase in average temperature of the entire globe of 130% of the difference between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas.
Okay, for a second, pretend you are a PHB (I know, it is hard).
No, I won't. I'm not one, you're not one, we're discussing this on Slashdot.
If you base your decisions on what a perfectly stupid "PHB" would think according to you, then you have turned into a PHB.
So, please explain in technical terms why you wouldn't use Gentoo.
You seem to be confusing two orthogonal issues. Movement of power from the Council to the Parliament is much-needed reform: the federal issue is about movement of power from the constituent states to the EU and, IMO, highly objectionable.
The Council consists of the governments of the constituent states.
Which is why you can't move power away from the council while not moving it away from the constituent states. Exactly what the parent to your post was talking about.
Don't ever believe your government when it says it was forced by the EU to do something - they had a veto on that in the Council, but chose to accept the thing (probably in return for some favour by some other government).
This is 2005, and Slashdot. My only association was with the continent on Titan of the same name.
From the amount of detail, I'm quite sure he's from Paris or at least from France himself. It's a bit cynical, but not necessarily xenophobic...
(for the record: I'm Dutch)
The bread says TOAAAAAST.
A really interesting philosophical question is why not seed Venus with bacteria and orgnaisms able to tolerate the heat and pressure and try to terraform it? Why not? It's not like we'd be crowding out the Venusians.
I suggest we don't do that before we're absolutely 100% sure that there isn't any life already there. E.g., this suggestion from 2002 is interesting (if not very probable, I suppose).
Besides, Huygens isn't a NASA probe, it just hitched a ride there.
Also, the "Mini" was added to its name just today, to look more trendy in the wake of Apple's Mac Mini, Google's jumping on the bandwagon, etc...
No. It says: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I think the biggest problem is that that sentence isn't even grammatical. The subject of the sentence is "A well regulated militia", oh no wait it's "the right of the people to keep and bear arms." Far too many comma's, it's just nonsensical. Surely whatever committee finally decided on that spelling knew that?
Thanks! I always believe the burning paint story, thanks for the information.
If the US was at war with someone, and they actually used WMDs of any kind to defend themselves, the response would be devastating.
Obviously. However, the point is that the US does not attack countries with nuclear weapons. Getting nuclear weapons is the number one priority for any nation that is conceivably a target of the US (approximately anywhere but North America, Australia and Western Europe).
Do you ever get mail on these projects? I would expect that before anyone would contribute anything, they would first be using it, asking you questions about it, etc.
First guesses at answers:
- Traditionally, if people wanted support for platform X, they could test it on that platform and tell you the results. If there isn't anyone willing to do that, apparently there is no demand for a platform X version and it's not your problem. Although if you feel that supporting Linux is important for getting developers to help you on your project, I really think you should just install it on another box or dual boot. Or find a volunteer, as above.
- I would think that Sourceforge should be easily sufficient for your needs. If you have specific problems with Sourceforge later on, you can always move.
- Mention them in your README.txt and/or Changelog?
- Version numbers and names are rather arbitrary; it's totally your call. Every scheme you can think of (including version numbers that converge to pi) is probably already used by some serious project. But generally, 'alpha' and 'beta' etc mean 'please test this for bugs', and other versions are for use by people who don't want to see a lot of those.
- Wikis are highly useful for lots of things. I have no experience with using them for OSS, but I could see them as a nice way to start making documentation.
- Duh, a lawyer. Or the FSF if you release your code under the GPL, they are experts and are probably willing to give advice.
If your case is typical, you will be programming on your own time for a long time to come. Just that it's on Sourceforge doesn't mean people are playing your game, let alone supplying patches - you should be very happy to receive one or two patches in the first year.
The important thing is to stay active, code a lot, and not let your project turn into yet another dead Sourceforge project. And then just handle things as they come up.
For 95% of the projects out there, there really isn't any difference between an open source project and something you just do on your own.
Exactly, another obvious one is Gollum.
Did you pay for it? No.
Do you now have it? Yes.
Did you take it without permission? Yes.
Does everyone who previously had it still have it? Yes.
Has anyone lost anything you have now? No.
Are any potential earnings lost because you have it now? WTF are potential earnings? All of the national income that could be spent on CDs?
Taken literally, no they have not lost potential earnings - I can still buy the CD and still have the same amount of money.
Otherwise - it depends: they have not lost any if I wasn't going to buy the CD anyway, they have not lost any if I was but spend the money on another of their CDs now, they have not if I decide I like these songs and buy the CD, they actually have increased potential earnings if I wasn't going to buy it but like it so much that I buy a couple of CDs of this artist, they have lost potential earnings if I was going to buy it but don't, and therefore spend less money on CDs now.
And that last thing is, as much research shows, not exactly common. People who download lots of MP3 often still are among the biggest spenders on music. Actual (not potential) CD sales are up.
Furthermore, you obviously can't steal "potential income". Potential income doesn't exist yet and isn't guaranteed to exist in the future.
So what all of this has to do with theft is beyond me. It's copyright infringement, and although it's nominally "wrong" it's not very serious - on a par with driving through a red light because there's no traffic there, as far as I'm concerned.
Looks like God is winning this one.
No - but it leaves the questions of how He did it, what the evidence for this is, how exactly that explains the electron behaviour we see in the first place, etc. It creates more questions than it answers. That's not simple.
They still have a tour of +- an hour where you can see some of the old things, but it's not much anymore.
Kalkar a *health spa*?
It's a place where you can stay a day and a night with a group of people, and eat and drink all you want for a fixed price. It's a place for drunk football teams and bachelor parties. I was there in May this year.