One doesn't absolve the other. Your argument is invalid.
If you don't believe me, leave your car with the keys in the ignition on a zone with a high crime rate and then tell your insurance company it's not your fault because it's the thieves' "personal responsibility".
And I'd say SPARQL is a good as it gets in terms of a derivative of SQL that's adapted to query triples instead of simple records. If you know SQL and understand RDF, it's pretty easy to pick up.
SELECT ?x ?name WHERE { ?x foaf:name ?name }
The only difference there is that the condition is a triple, but that's inevitable.
Most MMORPGs - like Runescape, in TFA - aren't bought, people subscribe to them. If the company killed their servers and released the source, and "the community" started a donation based server, why wouldn't people just pay them instead?
As an example, my brother plays one of those oriental themed MMORPGs and there are numerous unofficial servers (effectively run by "the community") financially supported by the players.
If the license isn't valid, then you're truly fucked, because the default copyright terms are even more restricted. I don't know if you want to argue for that...
According to United Nations data, the U.S. is still the largest manufacturing country in the world. In 2009, American manufacturing output (in real terms) was nearly $2.2 trillion. That's about 45% larger than China's, at just under $1.5 trillion.
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No, they didn't! They knew full well the quagmire (cite) that Iraq would turn into.
Dick Cheney in '94: http://youtu.be/6BEsZMvrq-I
You're the same guy as above, right?
One doesn't absolve the other. Your argument is invalid.
If you don't believe me, leave your car with the keys in the ignition on a zone with a high crime rate and then tell your insurance company it's not your fault because it's the thieves' "personal responsibility".
Strawman. The responsibility of the looters doesn't absolve the people who enabled the looting.
The only thing the US can be blamed for is naÃveté.
Oh, please. Dick Cheney in '94: "It's a quagmire if you go that far and try to take over Iraq". http://youtu.be/YENbElb5-xY
The Bush administration knew full well what would happen.
It's not an excellent point: the pushes are server-to-server, not to client.
This system doesn't push directly to the client; your argument is irrelevant.
It's polling, which is extremely inefficient.
That's pull, no push. Pushing is much more efficient.
Using the GPL gives an extra incentive for people who want to use the code without distributing their changes to promote the elimination of copyright.
Using BSD means companies can use the code as they wish while still inflicting copyright on others.
The pragmatic choice for the goal of eliminating copyright is to use the GPL.
painting all of Slashdot with one brush only makes people dismiss your position.
You mean, exactly what you did in this post just earlier today?
Pot, kettle.
There's no inconsistency. Enforcing the GPL just gives an incentive to other companies to lobby for the abolishing of copyright.
painting all of Slashdot with one brush only makes people dismiss your position.
You mean, exactly what you did in this post just earlier today?
Pot, kettle.
That's why I used the quotation marks.
The relativity of morality doesn't mean we have to accept that "our" companies profit from what we consider immoral.
but apparently standards change when it's a Linux-based company
Or, and I know this is a crazy suggestion, maybe Slashdot actually has more than one user!
By contrast, Google, who wasn't selling below cost (because free + ads is profitable and therefore not below cost), wasn't doing anything wrong.
What ads? This is about the mapping enterprise API. Did you even read TFS?
Verisign alone might not, but Symantec (which now owns the "trust" business of Verisign), has 41.72% of the market, according to Netcraft: http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20110526_01
So much for Do No Evil.
Then it's good that "do no evil" was never their motto.
But do you believe in convicting people who run a website with links to such works to prision and fining them in millions of dollars?
Because that's what we're discussing here.
What's the alternative to RDF and OWL?
And I'd say SPARQL is a good as it gets in terms of a derivative of SQL that's adapted to query triples instead of simple records. If you know SQL and understand RDF, it's pretty easy to pick up.
The only difference there is that the condition is a triple, but that's inevitable.
They're only "easy" if you have your system configured for ISO-8859-1. Those of us who use UTF-8 get this result: à é.
Most MMORPGs - like Runescape, in TFA - aren't bought, people subscribe to them. If the company killed their servers and released the source, and "the community" started a donation based server, why wouldn't people just pay them instead?
As an example, my brother plays one of those oriental themed MMORPGs and there are numerous unofficial servers (effectively run by "the community") financially supported by the players.
Where exactly do you think the company gets the money to do that, if not from the community of players?
If the license isn't valid, then you're truly fucked, because the default copyright terms are even more restricted. I don't know if you want to argue for that...
now that manufacturing is all but dead
It is?
According to United Nations data, the U.S. is still the largest manufacturing country in the world. In 2009, American manufacturing output (in real terms) was nearly $2.2 trillion. That's about 45% larger than China's, at just under $1.5 trillion.
Can China compete with American manufacturing