... where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars... I've wanted to look this up before, but finally have internet access: What cost $20 in 1800 would cost $216.86 in 2005.
Actually, not as bad as I thought it would be...
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must... resist.. urge... to make snide generalization about open source projects. must... resist.. urge... to make snide generalization about proprietary file formats.
Sounds/textures/maps/models are not covered by the GPL, it's not code.
IANAL:
The GPL is a copyright license. Anything covered by copyright law can by licensed with the GPL.
Sounds, maps, models, etc are covered by copyright law.
GPLv3 says:
* don't do this
* don't do that
* mustn't do foo
Sure sounds like freedom. (sarcasm)
I hate beating a dead horse, but I thought this argument was way past deceased.
eg. "You must not own slaves".
This is a restriction, yes? Does it increase or decrease freedom?
Now you get it! Who's freedom??
But then, if they had nothing to hide, why would they avoid discovery?
Maybe they don't wear pants or something..
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Actually, yes. I would make the same argument. Now, requiring government/public institutions... I wouldn't have issue with. The disabled are perfectly capable, as are non-smokers, to patronize establishments that cater to them.
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Throughout human history, the greatest threat to life and liberty has been not terrorism, but the power of the state.
I like your sig, btw. Perhaps a more fitting one for your stance on this issue would be "Throughout human history, the greatest threat to life and liberty has been not terrorism, but the power of the state in assuming its citizens are irresponsible."
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As for places that ban smoking, there are a couple in my city, and they are generally very popular. The problem is that there is a vicious circle where any of the big businesses who moves first would lose a lot of money temporarily, and none of them is willing to bite the bullet and do it.
Exactly. Say hello to the free market. Notice the word "free" in it.. just like the word "freedom".
This way they are forced to do what the majority of the public wants them to do anyway, something which is probably in their long-term financial interests anyway...
Nice speculation. So.. people are stupid and don't take advantage of good long term investments? I doubt it.
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.. , except the selfish people who think their smoking is more important than everyone else's health.
It's more like the people that force their preferential lifestyles on others that are selfish. Do you see smokers _forcing_ non-smokers to do anything? Why do you somehow think that non-smokers have some right to go into anyone's business establishment? They can let whomever they want in or not. If they want to allow smoking, then it's the non-smoking activists that need to be using something called "responsibility".
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The right to life is commonly considered worthy of such status, and in many places, things like freedom of expression, freedom of association, and the right to a private life also qualify.
I believe you are confusing the "right to life" with an individual's self-responsibility to take advantage of that right.
Where everything gets screwed up is when the state forces a mandatory health insurance policy on its citizens. All of a sudden the state now has a vested interest in baby sitting its "customers".
Don't think for a second that your freedom of choice will protect you, because your freedom of choice doesn't mean anything if there is no agency enforcing the availability of accurate and detailed information so you can make an informed choice.
Right.. and you've never heard of the Better Business Bureau, or Car & Driver Magazine? You don't need a government agency to acquire accurate and detailed information. Especially in this day and age of the Internet.
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(b) there are a hell of a lot more people who don't want smoking venues than do.
If this is true, then where are all the non-smoking bars? Wouldn't it make sense for the bar owners to voluntarily prohibit smoking from their establishment if it were true?
I'm pretty sure I could saturate the CPU and all 6 available SPE's with seismic data. Though it probably depends on the FSB and cache.. considering all the SPE's share the same 512k cache.
Even then, I still wouldn't be touching the GPU since it seems to be off limits from linux for a while
Finally, what's to keep someone from simply replacing your entire hand-complied, monolithic kernel?
This reminds me of a certain rootkit that would copy its own kernel into your swap partition. On reboot the new kernel knows not to use that portion of the swap partition that is now currently occupied by the kernel.
How the hell are you supposed to detect this afterwords?! Oh yea, it would have to modify your boot configuration.. which is detectable. Still neat though.
I always liked the idea that people are allowed to own any weapon that their government is allowed to own.
Responsibility is still there, of course.
1 girl with a suitcase nuke in the middle of NYC bypasses all notion of responsibility.
So... what do we do? Seems a bit obvious to me. At the state and local level, prohibit such arms from being allowed in dense populations. Notice this doesn't apply to arms that can't resonably bypass responsibility. The damage caused by simpler weapons such as handguns can be alleviated (most of the time) via state/local laws for violating others rights.
And yes.. this would violate the second ammendment, IMO, but it's the best compromise I can think of. I'm a libertarian to the core, but the situation above just cannot be allowed for one reason: lack of extreme responsibility.
Tell that to all the people that have DIED because of being tased along with other illnesses unknown to a taser-happy cop. A cop who thinks there is no lasting motor disruption.
First off, he wasn't asked to leave by the cops, he was asked to leave by a librarian.
Second. He was on his way out when the cops (LAPD) did show up and they grabbed him.
Third. Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to stand up after repeatedly being tasered? Not 10 minutes later, not 1 minute later, not even 30 seconds later.
Go ahead... be happy with your authoritarian friends. Maybe I'll just look the other way when you're being tortured.
I'm about to finish Venkat's semester long class on software engineering at the University of Houston. Actually I have a team demo in a few hours! (what am I doing on Slashdot.. hehe)
I've been very impressed with Venkat's teaching and am convinced that Agile development models are beneficial for commercial application development. The main advantages are its adaptive planning and methods for predicting how long development is going to take mixed with customer communication.
That said, I'm not yet convinced that it is appropriate for OSS development. He's giving a talk next week about just that, so maybe my opinion might change.
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... where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars... I've wanted to look this up before, but finally have internet access:What cost $20 in 1800 would cost $216.86 in 2005.
Actually, not as bad as I thought it would be...
conversion done here
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15mB down 2mB up
I wouldn't be bragging about 15 milliBytes a second...
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Sounds/textures/maps/models are not covered by the GPL, it's not code.
IANAL:
The GPL is a copyright license. Anything covered by copyright law can by licensed with the GPL.
Sounds, maps, models, etc are covered by copyright law.
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GPLv3 says:
* don't do this
* don't do that
* mustn't do foo
Sure sounds like freedom. (sarcasm)
I hate beating a dead horse, but I thought this argument was way past deceased.
eg. "You must not own slaves".
This is a restriction, yes?
Does it increase or decrease freedom?
Now you get it! Who's freedom??
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But I might wonder if they'll be able to make a living from their art.
It's actually really simple: People will pay artists to create.
Just like people pay me to program.
Information that hasn't been created yet still has instrinsic value.
That value is something the artists can charge money for.
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true.. but how slow are they compared to MySQL?
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But then, if they had nothing to hide, why would they avoid discovery?
Maybe they don't wear pants or something..
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Actually, yes. I would make the same argument. Now, requiring government/public institutions... I wouldn't have issue with. The disabled are perfectly capable, as are non-smokers, to patronize establishments that cater to them.
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Throughout human history, the greatest threat to life and liberty has been not terrorism, but the power of the state.
I like your sig, btw. Perhaps a more fitting one for your stance on this issue would be "Throughout human history, the greatest threat to life and liberty has been not terrorism, but the power of the state in assuming its citizens are irresponsible."
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As for places that ban smoking, there are a couple in my city, and they are generally very popular. The problem is that there is a vicious circle where any of the big businesses who moves first would lose a lot of money temporarily, and none of them is willing to bite the bullet and do it.
Exactly. Say hello to the free market. Notice the word "free" in it.. just like the word "freedom".
This way they are forced to do what the majority of the public wants them to do anyway, something which is probably in their long-term financial interests anyway...
Nice speculation. So.. people are stupid and don't take advantage of good long term investments? I doubt it.
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.. , except the selfish people who think their smoking is more important than everyone else's health.
It's more like the people that force their preferential lifestyles on others that are selfish. Do you see smokers _forcing_ non-smokers to do anything? Why do you somehow think that non-smokers have some right to go into anyone's business establishment? They can let whomever they want in or not. If they want to allow smoking, then it's the non-smoking activists that need to be using something called "responsibility".
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The right to life is commonly considered worthy of such status, and in many places, things like freedom of expression, freedom of association, and the right to a private life also qualify.
I believe you are confusing the "right to life" with an individual's self-responsibility to take advantage of that right.
Where everything gets screwed up is when the state forces a mandatory health insurance policy on its citizens. All of a sudden the state now has a vested interest in baby sitting its "customers".
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Don't think for a second that your freedom of choice will protect you, because your freedom of choice doesn't mean anything if there is no agency enforcing the availability of accurate and detailed information so you can make an informed choice.
Right.. and you've never heard of the Better Business Bureau, or Car & Driver Magazine?
You don't need a government agency to acquire accurate and detailed information. Especially in this day and age of the Internet.
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(b) there are a hell of a lot more people who don't want smoking venues than do.
If this is true, then where are all the non-smoking bars? Wouldn't it make sense for the bar owners to voluntarily prohibit smoking from their establishment if it were true?
Have your choice: responsibility, or freedom.
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It's 256KiB per SPE, actually. Most of which will be taken up by the program that you "upload" to each of them.
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I'm pretty sure I could saturate the CPU and all 6 available SPE's with seismic data. Though it probably depends on the FSB and cache.. considering all the SPE's share the same 512k cache.
Even then, I still wouldn't be touching the GPU since it seems to be off limits from linux for a while
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Finally, what's to keep someone from simply replacing your entire hand-complied, monolithic kernel?
This reminds me of a certain rootkit that would copy its own kernel into your swap partition. On reboot the new kernel knows not to use that portion of the swap partition that is now currently occupied by the kernel.
How the hell are you supposed to detect this afterwords?! Oh yea, it would have to modify your boot configuration.. which is detectable.
Still neat though.
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I swear I thought you were going to say the question people are going to ask themselves is:
"You talkin' to me?"
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I always liked the idea that people are allowed to own any weapon that their government is allowed to own.
Responsibility is still there, of course.
1 girl with a suitcase nuke in the middle of NYC bypasses all notion of responsibility.
So... what do we do? Seems a bit obvious to me. At the state and local level, prohibit such arms from being allowed in dense populations. Notice this doesn't apply to arms that can't resonably bypass responsibility. The damage caused by simpler weapons such as handguns can be alleviated (most of the time) via state/local laws for violating others rights.
And yes.. this would violate the second ammendment, IMO, but it's the best compromise I can think of. I'm a libertarian to the core, but the situation above just cannot be allowed for one reason: lack of extreme responsibility.
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There is no lasting motor disruption.
Tell that to all the people that have DIED because of being tased along with other illnesses unknown to a taser-happy cop. A cop who thinks there is no lasting motor disruption.
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First off, he wasn't asked to leave by the cops, he was asked to leave by a librarian.
Second. He was on his way out when the cops (LAPD) did show up and they grabbed him.
Third. Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to stand up after repeatedly being tasered? Not 10 minutes later, not 1 minute later, not even 30 seconds later.
Go ahead... be happy with your authoritarian friends. Maybe I'll just look the other way when you're being tortured.
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neat.. good luck on your demo, btw.
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I'm about to finish Venkat's semester long class on software engineering at the University of Houston. Actually I have a team demo in a few hours! (what am I doing on Slashdot.. hehe)
I've been very impressed with Venkat's teaching and am convinced that Agile development models are beneficial for commercial application development. The main advantages are its adaptive planning and methods for predicting how long development is going to take mixed with customer communication.
That said, I'm not yet convinced that it is appropriate for OSS development. He's giving a talk next week about just that, so maybe my opinion might change.
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I didn't know I had my own guide to the galaxy!
Thanks slashdot.