If you cannot use the binary, it wasn't even 'distributed'.
Sure it was. I don't think owning a DVD player is a prerequisite for Wal-Mart selling (distributing) a DVD to you.
How would it be a gpl violation?
It's not. Where OP pulled that out from, I don't know. Nothing in the GPL says "Don't use APIs and programming languages that aren't implemented on more than one OS."
Without copyright, the GPL has no power, and people can do whatever they want with your open source code, including sell it as a closed source product.
And FOSS people can do whatever they want with a closed-source binary. Including copy, disassemble, and reverse engineer it.
$1.5 billion? Wikipedia says the Apollo Program cost $135 billion, adjusted for inflation. I doubt many parties participating in these competitions are in it for the prize money.
Well, I don't think Jaunty will ever have it except possibly through backports because Ubuntu freezes major version numbers for each release. Why the firefox package doesn't point to 3.5 in karmic, I don't know.
I'm not sure I'd call salt scarce, and I don't think coal orsalt is as water resistant as bronze or gold. And you yourself point out how scarce bronze is. It might make a good currency for that reason, but the "price" of fashioning it into something useful will be prohibitive.
Of course, you didn't mention "compact" in your list,
Compact is relative. Salt and coal are not called compact simply because they are not valuable enough that any easily portable amounts are worth much.
In any event, why should the money supply be tied to a rare, precious metal? Matching the growth (or shrinkage!) of the money supply based solely on the discovery, loss, or recovery of a particular natural resource hardly seems like a good plan for managing the economy.
I can't name a resource that is non-perishable, reasonably durable, slightly scarce (but not tooscarce), readily divisible, and useful to someone with Iron Age or lower technology. But gold fulfills all those qualities except usefulness.
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They are two pinpricks on a massive (nearly) 2D plane.
How does that help protect the even smaller pinprick that is Earth in 3D space?
Reminds me of a Despair, Inc. poster.
DNA from diseased tissue did not match the DNA from the blood
And which (if either) matched DNA from the rest of the body?
If you cannot use the binary, it wasn't even 'distributed'.
Sure it was. I don't think owning a DVD player is a prerequisite for Wal-Mart selling (distributing) a DVD to you.
How would it be a gpl violation?
It's not. Where OP pulled that out from, I don't know. Nothing in the GPL says "Don't use APIs and programming languages that aren't implemented on more than one OS."
Sounds more like a fork.
I don't get the impression that there are many other types of failures within the first minute of launch.
Well, there's a nail in Ares' coffin, so to speak.
Without copyright, the GPL has no power, and people can do whatever they want with your open source code, including sell it as a closed source product.
And FOSS people can do whatever they want with a closed-source binary. Including copy, disassemble, and reverse engineer it.
They pay a flat fee for internet every month, and breaks are mandatory. What resources am I wasting at that time?
How much money are they trying to get?
$23,148,855,308,184,500?
I get the impression that the right to bear arms is really useful only for bigger protests.
$1.5 billion? Wikipedia says the Apollo Program cost $135 billion, adjusted for inflation. I doubt many parties participating in these competitions are in it for the prize money.
The decline in physical sales correlates perfectly to the increase in digital sales?
That's exactly the problem. Digital sales should be exponentially higher!
Odd how the deficit is now a trillion, while the wars have cost (iinm) trillions.
http://www.drumwaster.com/bailout-pie.jpg
I agree with that one, but what if you want to play chess with your friend?
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Well, I don't think Jaunty will ever have it except possibly through backports because Ubuntu freezes major version numbers for each release. Why the firefox package doesn't point to 3.5 in karmic, I don't know.
Of course, you didn't mention "compact" in your list,
Compact is relative. Salt and coal are not called compact simply because they are not valuable enough that any easily portable amounts are worth much.
Ahem
they also had to fix a problem where Firefox on a Sparc platform would crash when visiting www.hp.com!"
Anyone that sees a downside to not accessing hp.com must not use NoScript.
Maybe she assumes we read the usernames of the people we respond to.
Which actually happens about as often as I read the articles.
In any event, why should the money supply be tied to a rare, precious metal? Matching the growth (or shrinkage!) of the money supply based solely on the discovery, loss, or recovery of a particular natural resource hardly seems like a good plan for managing the economy.
I can't name a resource that is non-perishable, reasonably durable, slightly scarce (but not tooscarce), readily divisible, and useful to someone with Iron Age or lower technology. But gold fulfills all those qualities except usefulness.
Can someone explain to me why AC is responding to Alien quotes with Terran Dropship sound bites?
Nah. I'm pretty sure blowing someone up counts as murder.
I know it seems kind of obvious, but could you clarify which one that is?