Must be an adverse reaction to the "use 'em or loose 'em" policy.
First mod: OMG OMG OMG! I must mod! What should I mod? Oh here, "That's just what they want you to think." That oughta be +1 Insightful!
Second mod: OMG OMG OMG! I must mod! What should I mod? Oh here, "That's just what they want you to think" and it's already 3: Insightful. That oughta be +1 Informative!
Third mod: OMG OMG OMG! I must mod! What should I mod? Oh here, "That's just what they want you to think" and it's already 4: Informative. It certainly deserves another +1.
No need to look that closely. SparkFun products are only a few inches long and I seriously doubt that you'll be able to install an OS in it, even Linux : )
- The SSN is not itself important to the experiment. They could have asked for their driver's license and have the same correlation. - About 40% of the people would base their decisions on a previous decision that was not taken by themselves (starting price in this case), meaning that the coherence would apply to the situation rather than their own decisions.
So what we have here is a confirmation that a significant number of people can be pushed around if they didn't have a previous opinion on the matter. Not exactly novel and I fail to see the arbitrariness.
It seems legally unsound to me to take a product licensed under GPL2 and be able to mix it with any less permissive license without being the original copyright owner.
My understanding from the letter is that the GPL'd MySql is a great actor in the free software arena, but it gets so far thanks to its dual licensing.
From there, it says that forks would be much less successful because they would have dual licensing denied since GPL2 would not allow it and they wouldn't be the original copyright owners.
It's probably an exageration to get the attention of the EU Commission, but it seems rather obvious that Oracle acquiring MySql would not be good to users, less to free software, which justifies having Mr. Stallman's signature in that letter.
That's probably why the dual license itself is irrelevant to Mr. Stallman in this particular case -- while not irrelevant at all to the letter's argument -- and I find Mr. krow to be stretching the letter's purpose to a great extent to affirm that Mr. Stallman is defending dual licensing per se. It's a call to arms to save MySql, not dual licensing.
The problem here is not the power *you* give them, it's the power *others* give them. A good defamatory speech sticks like a thousand anecdotal evidences. That's why there are libel laws and, in my opinion, this one should be measured under the same rules.
Sorry guys, but "vegetarian" is not an anthropomorphic term. It was actually coined first to differentiate life forms that eat only vegetables from other life forms that eat only meat (carnivores) or both (omnivore) and then adopted by people who choose to do the same.
It's people who choose to eat only one or another that has less right to use the term. They're still made omnivores, but choose to eliminate this or that food source.
The ovo-lacto-*.* is not less appropriate. It identifies which group of food sources the person eats.
What is inappropriate is to call oneself just vegetarian when actually eating a variety of animal proteins.
It has already been stated everywhere in this discussion that the real way to program is by using cables and switches. Stop trying to push your silly punch card IDE as a necessity!
Sorry, I don't know any classic sci-fi show named "Starship Enterprise".
Do you mean: - Star Trek (The Original Series, no communication devices on the uniform) - Enterprise (The most recent one, hardly a classic, still no communication devices on the uniform) - Star Trek (The Movie, but was there any communication devices on the uniform? I don't remember) or maybe... - STARSHIP TROOPERS!?
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Linus, is that you?
Wasn't it Melotron, pw 12345? : )
Wow! Base 20! So they also counted their toes?
Must be an adverse reaction to the "use 'em or loose 'em" policy.
First mod: OMG OMG OMG! I must mod! What should I mod? Oh here, "That's just what they want you to think." That oughta be +1 Insightful!
Second mod: OMG OMG OMG! I must mod! What should I mod? Oh here, "That's just what they want you to think" and it's already 3: Insightful. That oughta be +1 Informative!
Third mod: OMG OMG OMG! I must mod! What should I mod? Oh here, "That's just what they want you to think" and it's already 4: Informative. It certainly deserves another +1.
No need to look that closely. SparkFun products are only a few inches long and I seriously doubt that you'll be able to install an OS in it, even Linux : )
Even after all of this was clearly explained to Sheriff Daft, he still insisted that his lawsuit made sense.
There, fixed it for you.
Some clarifications:
- The SSN is not itself important to the experiment. They could have asked for their driver's license and have the same correlation.
- About 40% of the people would base their decisions on a previous decision that was not taken by themselves (starting price in this case), meaning that the coherence would apply to the situation rather than their own decisions.
So what we have here is a confirmation that a significant number of people can be pushed around if they didn't have a previous opinion on the matter. Not exactly novel and I fail to see the arbitrariness.
Well, actually it applies to the number of transistors on a chip. And memory capacity is cited as an example.
It seems legally unsound to me to take a product licensed under GPL2 and be able to mix it with any less permissive license without being the original copyright owner.
My understanding from the letter is that the GPL'd MySql is a great actor in the free software arena, but it gets so far thanks to its dual licensing.
From there, it says that forks would be much less successful because they would have dual licensing denied since GPL2 would not allow it and they wouldn't be the original copyright owners.
It's probably an exageration to get the attention of the EU Commission, but it seems rather obvious that Oracle acquiring MySql would not be good to users, less to free software, which justifies having Mr. Stallman's signature in that letter.
That's probably why the dual license itself is irrelevant to Mr. Stallman in this particular case -- while not irrelevant at all to the letter's argument -- and I find Mr. krow to be stretching the letter's purpose to a great extent to affirm that Mr. Stallman is defending dual licensing per se. It's a call to arms to save MySql, not dual licensing.
Hey, if we multiply the capacity x size ratio by 50, does that mean that Moore's Law gets a vacation for the next, uhm... 5-6 years?
I'll take my time machine and go tell that at Jules Verne's face right now!
The problem here is not the power *you* give them, it's the power *others* give them. A good defamatory speech sticks like a thousand anecdotal evidences. That's why there are libel laws and, in my opinion, this one should be measured under the same rules.
I concur. And I don't see why it was tagged "flamebait". Maybe the trap fit the mod.
And it seems that I did confuse the term "vegetarian" with "herbivore", shame on me.
Sorry guys, but "vegetarian" is not an anthropomorphic term. It was actually coined first to differentiate life forms that eat only vegetables from other life forms that eat only meat (carnivores) or both (omnivore) and then adopted by people who choose to do the same.
It's people who choose to eat only one or another that has less right to use the term. They're still made omnivores, but choose to eliminate this or that food source.
The ovo-lacto-*.* is not less appropriate. It identifies which group of food sources the person eats.
What is inappropriate is to call oneself just vegetarian when actually eating a variety of animal proteins.
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Oh and Ralph, also meet Barbra... : )
And so the "who has the lowest ID" argument begins : )
It has already been stated everywhere in this discussion that the real way to program is by using cables and switches. Stop trying to push your silly punch card IDE as a necessity!
Bullshit, you only make this argument based on your comfort zones and your levels of trust.
Profanity, straw-man, pseudo-psychology.
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Cowardice : )
Slashdot. The plague of interesting websites.
Sorry, I don't know any classic sci-fi show named "Starship Enterprise".
Do you mean:
- Star Trek (The Original Series, no communication devices on the uniform)
- Enterprise (The most recent one, hardly a classic, still no communication devices on the uniform)
- Star Trek (The Movie, but was there any communication devices on the uniform? I don't remember)
or maybe...
- STARSHIP TROOPERS!?
Is this it?
That's where you got it wrong. When it's Apple Auto Update, do NOT install it : )