If Mitterrand seriously thought Margaret Thatcher would use nuclear weapons against Argentina he was off his head. If she made that threat, it was empty and he should have called her bluff.
Lomborg does not claim that anthropogenic global warming does not exist. He claims that we should be using a different strategy to overcome it, or rather not overcome but live with it.
At least, that's what he said in the Skeptical Environmentalist. He may have changed his mind since then.
Everybody has things they want to hide from at least some people.
For instance, I want to hide my online banking password from anybody who wants to steal my money. Let's say that the government passes a law that says it must have the decryption keys for all secure connections in case it needs to snoop on terrorists then my online banking password is no longer secret from the government. The government may not be interested in my online banking password, but the corrupt underpaid civil servant who does the actual snooping for them might be.
If Linus is appalled by this concept, as apparently he is, he should have used the BSD license. And then not complain when corporations imbed his code in their products with proprietary modifications and give nothing back.
Or he could continue with GPL v2, or he could write a new licence based on v3 without the DRM clause.
What were they expecting? You put something up on a public server and the public *will* download it. They really should have figured a way of protecting the files until they were ready. Maybe some sort of permission system to deny public access.
Don't you think it would be nicer if you didn't have to engage in an arms race with your own government that you (i.e. the electorate of the USA) appointed?
If you have some design for a solar power generator that can even come close to the output of a fusion reactor, then please, by all means, post it. Or patent it - I'm sure you'd make a fortune.
Yes, put an array of solar cells in a field. You will generate some electricity. This compares quite favourably with any fusion reactor in existence which uses more energy to create and contain the plasma than is generated.
Solar cells are viable now. Fusion reactors may never work.
I'm willing to bet that if the guy had known that he was going to be held up for 25 minutes because of the message on his bag he wouldn't have done it.
As for DRM protected content for $1 a song, the protection limits my ability to move to a new ipod every year without loosing music.
you are misinformed. When I replaced my iPod, I just plugged my new one in to my laptop and iTunes downloaded the music without complaint. Furthermore, I have my entire iTunes library on my laptop and my desktop (just file system copy the entire folder structure). As long as both PCs are authorised to the music store, you can play DRM music on either.
The price point is too high, who has $10,000 to shell out on music to fill their iPod nano?
I couldn't possibly afford to fill my entire iPod with music, but it seems to work quite well with only 10% of the space used up and it makes a handy Firewire disk too.
No, you have missed the point. If I bought one of these D-Link widgets with GPL code in it, the licence terms clearly state that I have a right to a copy of the source code since D-Link distributed the binary to me. D-Link have distributed GPL code so they have an obligation to supply the source code to the people they distributed it to regardless of whether they stop distributing it or not.
Of course, anyone interested in this sort of thing will be suspicious of any such untranslated term. It's almost always a tipoff that some propaganda trick is being used.
That's pretty insightful. Thinking about it, I've just realised that another example is the word "Allah" which as every God fearing fundamentalist Christian knows is the name of the strange and evil God of Islam, except of course, it's not: it's simply the Arabic for "God" or more specifically, "the God".
Fusion plants scale up better than they scale down
Actually, they don't scale at all at the moment because they don't work, and I don't see much prospect that they will in the near future, unless you count the one big fusion reactor in the sky.
Leela: "The pressure down here is over 500 atmospheres" Fry: "What pressure can the ship stand, professor?" Proferssor: "Well, given that it is designed for space flight, anywhere between 0 and 1 atmosphere."
The excess pressure in an aeroplane is on the inside, with a submarine, it is on the outside. The reason the doors can't be opened when at altitude is that they are designed like plugs. To open them you first have to pull them into the cabin and twist them sideways so they'll fit through the hole.
If you remove the device (physically) without "eject"ing it (how logical is that?) You'll lose your itunesdb and have to recreate that, which I'm sure would really throw off a newbie...
I dunno, exactly the same thing could potentially happen if you remove an iPod from a Macintosh without ejecting it.
It's rated as +5 informative. The "-1 flamebait" is the subject line and refers to the headline, which is a lie: Microsoft does not insist IE7 is standards compliant.
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If Mitterrand seriously thought Margaret Thatcher would use nuclear weapons against Argentina he was off his head. If she made that threat, it was empty and he should have called her bluff.
I'm fairly sure that Apple's OS X JVM has always been a recompile of Sun's Java.
Lomborg does not claim that anthropogenic global warming does not exist. He claims that we should be using a different strategy to overcome it, or rather not overcome but live with it.
At least, that's what he said in the Skeptical Environmentalist. He may have changed his mind since then.
Everybody has things they want to hide from at least some people.
For instance, I want to hide my online banking password from anybody who wants to steal my money. Let's say that the government passes a law that says it must have the decryption keys for all secure connections in case it needs to snoop on terrorists then my online banking password is no longer secret from the government. The government may not be interested in my online banking password, but the corrupt underpaid civil servant who does the actual snooping for them might be.
Yes they do, but that's because the iTunes music store is a non profit (for Apple) way to get people to buy iPods.
Thats wrong as far as the PoW camps are concerned. Several Allied PoWs escaped more than once (and were recaptured).
Yes.
I don't work for Microsoft and yet I would have given pretty much the same answers to questions 1, 2 and 3 just by guessing.
What were they expecting? You put something up on a public server and the public *will* download it. They really should have figured a way of protecting the files until they were ready. Maybe some sort of permission system to deny public access.
Really? Ever heard of ring species.
Don't you think it would be nicer if you didn't have to engage in an arms race with your own government that you (i.e. the electorate of the USA) appointed?
I'm willing to bet that if the guy had known that he was going to be held up for 25 minutes because of the message on his bag he wouldn't have done it.
"I'm sorry, my arms are not detachable"
"Allow me." (Starts chainsaw).
I couldn't possibly afford to fill my entire iPod with music, but it seems to work quite well with only 10% of the space used up and it makes a handy Firewire disk too.
"The velociraptors are at the door!"
"There's no way I'm using this brain dead file manager, let me get KDE installed."
"We don't have enough ti-"
"crunch crunch, burp"
TCP/IP, wireless LAN, both invented after the alien spaceship crashed at Roswell. Where do you think we got the ideas from....?
No, you have missed the point. If I bought one of these D-Link widgets with GPL code in it, the licence terms clearly state that I have a right to a copy of the source code since D-Link distributed the binary to me. D-Link have distributed GPL code so they have an obligation to supply the source code to the people they distributed it to regardless of whether they stop distributing it or not.
You don't need to. Mac OS X already contains a Cygwin emulation. Just look for "Terminal.app" in /Applications/Utilities
No it isn't. It's a jet powered aeroplane.
Leela: "The pressure down here is over 500 atmospheres"
Fry: "What pressure can the ship stand, professor?"
Proferssor: "Well, given that it is designed for space flight, anywhere between 0 and 1 atmosphere."
The excess pressure in an aeroplane is on the inside, with a submarine, it is on the outside. The reason the doors can't be opened when at altitude is that they are designed like plugs. To open them you first have to pull them into the cabin and twist them sideways so they'll fit through the hole.
I dunno, exactly the same thing could potentially happen if you remove an iPod from a Macintosh without ejecting it.
It's rated as +5 informative. The "-1 flamebait" is the subject line and refers to the headline, which is a lie: Microsoft does not insist IE7 is standards compliant.