"A receiver on Earth can then work out its position in three-dimensional space by comparing the arrival times of the signals from at least three satellites"
You commented "on earth".
Is it pedantic to point out that "in three-dimensional space" != "on earth" ?
But then again, this is/. Some slippage is expected.
"A receiver on Earth can then work out its position in three-dimensional space by comparing the arrival times of the signals from at least three satellites"
Or you could do something. I googled her name, found her web site, and left a message telling her about my opinion, and letting her know about my intentions not to vote for her, if she does not learn how to represent me.
If people would just do that, instead of venting here, our senator would do our bidding, instead of Hollywood's.
A few thousand angry comments would change her mind pretty quickly.
You are not working on any open source project. In fact, I believe you may not work as part of a team. Or is that the coding standard where you work? Then I think you would find it hard to hire top notch people.
Good point, but we are not talking about general text, like a book. I am a C guy. My.indent.pro is: -kr -cli4 -l96 -nut From the first non-white character to the last the length seldom even approaches 60, but thanks to indentation, the last character is often close to column 96.
When these rules were made up most professional ttys had 80 columns. And variable names had to be unique within the first six to seven chars.
Today most professionals have access to hardware that can easily accommodate longer lines. Just keep it reasonable. And if you don't have enough common sense to know what 'reasonable' is: use 96;-)
But it's stealing because of the "remove all hints that it is yours" part, not the "copy your software" part. I respectfully disagree. The sale of the copy is the crime. "remove all hints that it is yours" is just concealing the fact a crime is being committed.
If you sell pirated copies of Windows, you certainly do not remove every reference to Microsoft from the media. Last time I looked Microsoft still considered that a crime.
and I don't like it. In the first paragraph he explains how gbulmash misunderstands what copyright is. He tries to make his point by mis-explaining what was said. To me it is clear what the OP meant.
The OP did not 'conflate' copyright with 'creditright'. He just used a popular, well understood example.
If I take your red Ferrari, paint it green, and sell it as my own: that's stealing.
If I *copy* your software, remove all hints that it is yours, and sell it as my own: that's stealing.
Removing of credit is just a means of concealment of crime, and does not mean the OP 'conflates' copyright with 'creditright'.
The rest of the 'rebuttal' is of similar quality.
In my opinion kfogel is either unethical or stupid. I really don't care which.
This is just stupid! I can hardly see the point you want to make, but it is so far fetched that it hurts. I am sure, not even you could explain how the GPL could be violated in a scenario like this, so that it would matter for this case. For this dribble to be modded 'Insightful' is just pathetic.
Once you understand the difference between Copyright and "license", you may actually get an idea about what the controversy is.
I paid for those maps. I want them to be freely available, so more people use the service, so that my cost goes down. Here, the owner has spoken!
"UA Professor Emeritus Robert Strom believes that no more than 10 percent of the Earth's water comes from comets and any oceans then extant would have been 'vaporized by the asteroid impacts during the cataclysm."
Vaporized? And then gone where? Just vanished? The small percentage of ocean vaporized by the impact would just condense again. Very little would be lost to space.
McHenry presents his point of view, cites examples, and presents his conclusion. It's up to me to reflect about what he said, and draw my conclusion.
I contrast, Krowne lets me know that McHenry is full of it and a malicious propaganda twit. This method shows intimate familiarity with Hermann Görings methods, but somehow he manages to not know that the name is spelled with only one "r".
If you want to tell me, that one of the "intelligent point-by-point rejoinders" is his musing about what McHenry allegedly 'implied', then your expectation in regard to intelligence seem rather low. Why not just stick with what the man said?
Krowne takes the freedom to interpret McHenry for me. In fact he tells me how I have to interpret McHenry. I can do that myself, thank you.
The McHenry article gave me something to think. Krowne makes me feel manipulated. I don't like it.
Violating the GPL can cause 'real' monetary damages.
Please get the concept that 'free' software can cost money!
Just because English is a piss poor language does not mean reality has to accommodate it.
How can an author lose mone by some company violating the GPL? Easy. If the company wanted to keep their modifications to my code proprietary, they would have to contact me for a licence other than the GPL, which I would have gladly given them; in return for some $$$.
Get it now?
This is why a lawsuit can show real damages. Based on the companies revenues and typical licence fees.
P.s.: Most other languages seem to have different words for free/freedom and free/beer. Only native English speakers seem to be hung up on this.
Just reading the first paragraphs of the Heise article tells the story. This was a privately comissioned study by a hand picked German law professor by a software trade association. Hardly independent. The second paragraph is really funny. It claims potentially huge liability for developers in case of bad software AND very limited ability to sue for users in the same case. The fact that the software is a 'gift' limits liability under German law. Am I the only one noticing a contradiction? Can you say FUD?
I have been taught that the OS is the kernel, not the collection of programs running under it. Now that the FSF claims the OS to be the kernel plus the GNU utils, do we have to change the definition? Is CS a democratic science ruled by majority? I know, I am picking nits. I have a whole basket full.
This is hilarious. Whether MSNBS says Linux can compete or not, it is bad for Microsoft. After MS paid $$$ to make Linux look like competition, MSNBC wants to do something nice for them and stabs them in the back instead. These are funny times.
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Please have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Pratchett:_Choosing_to_Die
It's not about what I want to have done to other people, it is about what I choose for myself.
Today, here in this country I have no choice.
Oh come on! The guy says he never understood the problem and then goes on to prove it to us.
For that he gets modded 'Insightful'?
That's low even for /.
Simple roadmap for you: If it is within Apple's Patents they are stingy. When it is outside of Apple's Patents they can be very generous.
Simple translation for you: If it's theirs they are stingy. If it's yours they share freely.
It is what it is, don't put makeup on it.
OTOH, interpreting "on Earth" as "on the surface of the Earth" would be more pedantic.
So, you win :-)
I wrote about:
"A receiver on Earth can then work out its position in three-dimensional space by comparing the arrival times of the signals from at least three satellites"
You commented "on earth".
Is it pedantic to point out that "in three-dimensional space" != "on earth" ?
But then again, this is /.
Some slippage is expected.
Well, pedantic would be to note:
"A receiver on Earth can then work out its position in three-dimensional space by comparing the arrival times of the signals from at least three satellites"
is a wrong statement. /. Who cares?
But this is
Or you could do something. I googled her name, found her web site, and left a message telling her about my opinion, and letting her know about my intentions not to vote for her, if she does not learn how to represent me.
If people would just do that, instead of venting here, our senator would do our bidding, instead of Hollywood's.
A few thousand angry comments would change her mind pretty quickly.
But, nae! That would be productive.
There are not to many micro kernel based os around for general use.
I am sure somebody will point out Windows NT...
Consider:
seldom != never
I like to have long lines once in a while.
I also, sometimes, have twenty spaces for indentation.
I agree with your view on deep nesting.
Thanks for the pointer on -kr and -i4.
You are not working on any open source project.
In fact, I believe you may not work as part of a team.
Or is that the coding standard where you work?
Then I think you would find it hard to hire top notch people.
Good point, but we are not talking about general text, like a book. .indent.pro is: -kr -cli4 -l96 -nut
;-)
I am a C guy. My
From the first non-white character to the last the length seldom even approaches 60, but thanks to indentation, the last character is often close to column 96.
When these rules were made up most professional ttys had 80 columns. And variable names had to be unique within the first six to seven chars.
Today most professionals have access to hardware that can easily accommodate longer lines. Just keep it reasonable. And if you don't have enough common sense to know what 'reasonable' is: use 96
If you sell pirated copies of Windows, you certainly do not remove every reference to Microsoft from the media. Last time I looked Microsoft still considered that a crime.
and I don't like it. In the first paragraph he explains how gbulmash misunderstands what copyright is. He tries to make his point by mis-explaining what was said. To me it is clear what the OP meant.
The OP did not 'conflate' copyright with 'creditright'. He just used a popular, well understood example.
If I take your red Ferrari, paint it green, and sell it as my own: that's stealing.
If I *copy* your software, remove all hints that it is yours, and sell it as my own: that's stealing.
Removing of credit is just a means of concealment of crime, and does not mean the OP 'conflates' copyright with 'creditright'.
The rest of the 'rebuttal' is of similar quality.
In my opinion kfogel is either unethical or stupid. I really don't care which.
So, this is important why exactly?
This is just stupid! I can hardly see the point you want to make, but it is so far fetched that it hurts. I am sure, not even you could explain how the GPL could be violated in a scenario like this, so that it would matter for this case. For this dribble to be modded 'Insightful' is just pathetic.
Once you understand the difference between Copyright and "license", you may actually get an idea about what the controversy is.
I paid for those maps. I want them to be freely available, so more people use the service, so that my cost goes down. Here, the owner has spoken!
Vaporized? And then gone where? Just vanished?
The small percentage of ocean vaporized by the impact would just condense again. Very little would be lost to space.
This quote allone makes me reach for the salt.
Why do you think it's called programming Language? Only rarely should it be necessary to 'footnote' your code. It should speak for itself.
Documentation is another thing. It provides context for whatever it is you are expressing. It is always good to have some of that with a function.
McHenry presents his point of view, cites examples, and presents his conclusion.
It's up to me to reflect about what he said, and draw my conclusion.
I contrast, Krowne lets me know that McHenry is full of it and a malicious propaganda twit. This method shows intimate familiarity with Hermann Görings methods, but somehow he manages to not know that the name is spelled with only one "r".
If you want to tell me, that one of the "intelligent point-by-point rejoinders" is his musing about what McHenry allegedly 'implied', then your expectation in regard to intelligence seem rather low. Why not just stick with what the man said?
Krowne takes the freedom to interpret McHenry for me. In fact he tells me how I have to interpret McHenry. I can do that myself, thank you.
The McHenry article gave me something to think.
Krowne makes me feel manipulated. I don't like it.
I fail to see why you block HTTP when you have a problem with SMTP.
Isn't refusing ANY traffic from a netblock a bit draconian?
Or are you trying to piss off their users to put some pressure on the ISP?
I think it was because of the poor spelling ;-)
Violating the GPL can cause 'real' monetary damages.
Please get the concept that 'free' software can cost money!
Just because English is a piss poor language does not mean reality has to accommodate it.
How can an author lose mone by some company violating the GPL? Easy. If the company wanted to keep their modifications to my code proprietary, they would have to contact me for a licence other than the GPL, which I would have gladly given them; in return for some $$$.
Get it now?
This is why a lawsuit can show real damages. Based on the companies revenues and typical licence fees.
P.s.: Most other languages seem to have different words for free/freedom and free/beer. Only native English speakers seem to be hung up on this.
Just reading the first paragraphs of the Heise article tells the story. This was a privately comissioned study by a hand picked German law professor by a software trade association.
Hardly independent.
The second paragraph is really funny. It claims potentially huge liability for developers in case of bad software AND very limited ability to sue for users in the same case. The fact that the software is a 'gift' limits liability under German law.
Am I the only one noticing a contradiction?
Can you say FUD?
I have been taught that the OS is the kernel, not the collection of programs running under it.
Now that the FSF claims the OS to be the kernel plus the GNU utils, do we have to change the definition? Is CS a democratic science ruled by majority? I know, I am picking nits. I have a whole basket full.
This is hilarious. Whether MSNBS says
Linux can compete or not, it is bad for
Microsoft. After MS paid $$$ to make Linux
look like competition, MSNBC wants to do
something nice for them and stabs them
in the back instead. These are funny times.