Uh... can I use your statement on my blog (credited of course)?
I've trying to say something like that for years. You just put it far better than I ever could:-)
About to give up my "Excellent" karma, here goes...
A fetus is human. You can even (still) find support for that in the law. Since when does its transfer from the womb to the outside air suddenly make it a human. There is something wrong with a society which screams at the thought of killing murderers but screams at the thought of being denied the privilege of killing an unborn human. Murder is illegal in every country I can think of. Why isn't abortion the same as murder. Please explain the difference. Without the "mother's right to her own body" BS. What about the baby's right to its body?
Ah.. very nice, you have discovered the essence of capitalism.
People are greedy, but strangely, also feel a need to help other people. As long as these natures are allowed to coexist and no external entity suppresses one or the other, society works rather well.
I just read through part of Red Hat's release, and they seem to claim that they did not admit to infringement. So, it is possible that Firestar and Datatern were afraid of a countersuit as it became clear that they had little standing, and Red Hat decided to settle to quickly get the terms they wanted.
So true. While the philosophy of Wikipedia and Wikia would perhaps hope that this would bring more "relevant" search results, it will be controlled by agendas. Wikipedia is, but so many people with different agendas edit it that everyone pulling in different directions "tends" to move it toward the middle. Since results can simply be deleted in Wikia Search, and one must go to some effort to find them again, the first person with an agenda who edits a search (the first person who edits the search), will most likely skew that search to their bias forever.
The issue here is suitability. I am personally of the opinion that patents and copyrights are both somewhat outdated. (see GP) However, copyright is a much more suitable method of protect the rights of software creators than patent is. Unfortunately, software patents are often used, not to protect a method, but simply to prevent or charge for any method of accomplishing a certain task. That should not be the case. Copyright just means that to accomplish a task in software, you have the option of either paying me for my code to accomplish it, or writing your own code.
How do you patent something that is written in the HTML spec, that is a logical combination of two tags?
This is why software patents need to be permanently banned. In our world today, it does not make the same economic sense to grant patents (or copyright).
No. the US Military tested AIDS on Windows. Windows was designed to be an easily infectable host for experimentation, and was released to the public when the military decided that that would be the best way to spy on us.
Then again, this is Slashdot so we're all running XP right ?!?
Umn, no. You will find a great deal more variety than that. So far, I've seen people say that they are reading/. using Solaris, BSD, Linux, Windows (98 onwards) and even an old HP-UX box with a graphical terminal. Browsers i've seen mentioned include Opera, Firefox, Netscape, and several others. (No one wants to admit to using IE).
You didn't read what I said. There is code that actually checks to see if an AMD processor is running, and uses inefficient instructions if it is. Not because of "optimization", BTW (see @Lord Apathy). I know for a fact that AMD processors have MMX, SSE, and several other optimized instruction sets.
That's fairly normal because Intel and AMD don't sit on tables to consolidate their chip architectures and optimization strategies!;)
Like I said, it's too bad they didn't post my submission;-). Not only is the compiler not producing non-optimal code (which, like you pointed out, is to be expected) but code is actually added to the software to detect the type of processor and use suboptimal instructions with AMD processors. So its not just an issue with non-standardization.
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Uh... can I use your statement on my blog (credited of course)? :-)
I've trying to say something like that for years. You just put it far better than I ever could
OK, so you'd be fine with me killing you? No harm done, right? Seriously, what argument is there against murder except a metaphysical one?
About to give up my "Excellent" karma, here goes...
A fetus is human. You can even (still) find support for that in the law. Since when does its transfer from the womb to the outside air suddenly make it a human. There is something wrong with a society which screams at the thought of killing murderers but screams at the thought of being denied the privilege of killing an unborn human. Murder is illegal in every country I can think of. Why isn't abortion the same as murder. Please explain the difference. Without the "mother's right to her own body" BS. What about the baby's right to its body?
Ah.. very nice, you have discovered the essence of capitalism.
People are greedy, but strangely, also feel a need to help other people. As long as these natures are allowed to coexist and no external entity suppresses one or the other, society works rather well.
I just read through part of Red Hat's release, and they seem to claim that they did not admit to infringement. So, it is possible that Firestar and Datatern were afraid of a countersuit as it became clear that they had little standing, and Red Hat decided to settle to quickly get the terms they wanted.
Well, we would have to see the patent, and be able to understand it, before we could make that judgement.
Red Hat is the best thing for the open source community in terms of patents.
I wonder how they came up with the name Firefox? To me it brings to mind the story of Samson in Judges
If they use it for cooling they might...
SCO didn't even go that far. They just bragged (or whined) about their code being in Linux. No contribution necessary.
So true. While the philosophy of Wikipedia and Wikia would perhaps hope that this would bring more "relevant" search results, it will be controlled by agendas. Wikipedia is, but so many people with different agendas edit it that everyone pulling in different directions "tends" to move it toward the middle. Since results can simply be deleted in Wikia Search, and one must go to some effort to find them again, the first person with an agenda who edits a search (the first person who edits the search), will most likely skew that search to their bias forever.
Wait, someone who reads articles? On slashdot?
You must be new here.
Why are there always these offtopic references to "ducks" at the end of otherwise humorous posts?
The issue here is suitability. I am personally of the opinion that patents and copyrights are both somewhat outdated. (see GP) However, copyright is a much more suitable method of protect the rights of software creators than patent is. Unfortunately, software patents are often used, not to protect a method, but simply to prevent or charge for any method of accomplishing a certain task. That should not be the case. Copyright just means that to accomplish a task in software, you have the option of either paying me for my code to accomplish it, or writing your own code.
How do you patent something that is written in the HTML spec, that is a logical combination of two tags? This is why software patents need to be permanently banned. In our world today, it does not make the same economic sense to grant patents (or copyright).
Minimalist, Emacs? ;-)
You've got nothing, I use ed
Me? I use Ubuntu/Firefox.
The "-1 Redundant" moderation is ironic :-)
You didn't read what I said. There is code that actually checks to see if an AMD processor is running, and uses inefficient instructions if it is. Not because of "optimization", BTW (see @Lord Apathy). I know for a fact that AMD processors have MMX, SSE, and several other optimized instruction sets.