That sounds likely, but it's not the argument being used, according to TFA. Instead, Western industries claim that financial incentives by the Chinese government is the problem. I wonder why they wouldn't use the environment-argument if it's valid.
Torvalds was always more pragmatic than Stallman. And Stallman is getting more out of touch with reality, not having programmed the last 20 years.
If you're trying to say Stallman is a weirdo, I agree, but there's no need to insult the good man.
Besides that, you don't know what you're talking about. His last commit (at the time of writing) to the emacs source repository was less than a month ago:
So a female not wearing a Burka is offensive. And a female wearing a Burka is offensive to others.
So by logical inference, females are offensive, and thus, by the proposed law, it is not allowed to post images of females online... Tennessee is undermining the very concept of the internet!
Tracker ( http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html ) is relevant to your needs. It stores relational information about your data. So for example, if you have an id3 tagged mp3 album, it will store the artist as an entity x, and the album as an entity y, and it will store that each of the mp3 files are a part of y, by x. In the same way, it stores authors and publishers as entities for pdf's. You can address this data store in the ordinary `desktop search' way (there are some search GUI's available), but more interestingly, you can use sparql to query the data store (allowing you for example to ask for all documents dated before 2000, by an author whose full name contains "Knuth").
Tracker comes with some data miners that crawl your data (e.g. using full text-search, and meta-data extractors) to build up the data store, but in your case it might make sense to enter your organization of the data into the data store yourself (using RDF). This would allow you to use the Tracker infra structure to access your data afterwards.
After half an hour with the Gnome 3 Shell I *really* want my old desktop back
Personally, I have gmrun bound to a convenient key combination, and I firmly hope that will help me through the looming nuclear winter of redesigned desktops.
http://directory.fsf.org/project/gmrun/
The name is a problem only if you assume that the use of the program is to be promoted by marketing strategies. Like many free software initiatives, the GIMP was born as a project of people who decided to develop a program that suits their needs better than existing programs. I bet they couldn't care less whether the name of that program is catchy or not, and probably that holds for most people to whom the program is helpful.
If someone reacts to a new version of such a program by bashing its name, to me that is trolling. But I guess that by my own reasoning, I shouldn't care about it:-)
[...] I couldn't be sure that if I changed a template I would need to make it available, not to mention doing a small code change. It's not that I mind sharing, it's just that it's a hassle and it just worries me that if I use a GPL3 CMS I'm opening up a pandora's box.
You make it sound like by modifying GPL licensed software you are obliged to redistribute your modified version. As far as I know GPL only requires that IF you decide to redistribute modified GPL code, then it should be GPL licensed. That's not a hassle, you can just adopt the original GPL license of the software as is.
[...] I'd rather stay away and not be liable for anything.
Liable? The license that comes with GPL software typically states in capitals that the software comes without any type of warranty.
35% corresponds to P(A or B), not P(A), and you don't know if P(A)=P(B), neither whether P(A) and P(B) are independent.
P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B) .35 = P(A) + P(B) -.01
P(A) + P(B) =.35 +.01 =.36
If we assume that P(A) = P(B) =.36/2 =.18, then that implies that P(A) and P(B) are not independent, since.18*.18 !=.01. And if they are independent P(A and B) = P(A)P(B), they can not be equal.
It looks more likely that P(A) and P(B) are independent and unequal, than that P(A) and P(B) are equal and dependent. It could be that the first word is often shorter than the second (or v.v.).
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That sounds likely, but it's not the argument being used, according to TFA. Instead, Western industries claim that financial incentives by the Chinese government is the problem. I wonder why they wouldn't use the environment-argument if it's valid.
Please illuminate us and tell us why Stallman's statement was absurd.
Torvalds was always more pragmatic than Stallman. And Stallman is getting more out of touch with reality, not having programmed the last 20 years.
If you're trying to say Stallman is a weirdo, I agree, but there's no need to insult the good man.
Besides that, you don't know what you're talking about. His last commit (at the time of writing) to the emacs source repository was less than a month ago:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/log/?qt=committer&q=stallman
Marketing: The art of making something seem better than it really is.
Even if that may be a common practice, it's a very inadequate definition of marketing.
for both internet security and privacy: each of us can now store his own local copy of the internet and surf offline!
So what intellectual property is this about? I couldn't find it in TFA.
Yeah, but don't forget a large part of that money is borrowed.
http://webian.org/ at least, they're moving towards it.
Same here. I switched to GNU/Linux for private use only after I'd learned to use UNIX (by necessity) for my studies.
So a female not wearing a Burka is offensive. And a female wearing a Burka is offensive to others.
So by logical inference, females are offensive, and thus, by the proposed law, it is not allowed to post images of females online... Tennessee is undermining the very concept of the internet!
Tracker ( http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/index.html ) is relevant to your needs. It stores relational information about your data. So for example, if you have an id3 tagged mp3 album, it will store the artist as an entity x, and the album as an entity y, and it will store that each of the mp3 files are a part of y, by x. In the same way, it stores authors and publishers as entities for pdf's. You can address this data store in the ordinary `desktop search' way (there are some search GUI's available), but more interestingly, you can use sparql to query the data store (allowing you for example to ask for all documents dated before 2000, by an author whose full name contains "Knuth").
Tracker comes with some data miners that crawl your data (e.g. using full text-search, and meta-data extractors) to build up the data store, but in your case it might make sense to enter your organization of the data into the data store yourself (using RDF). This would allow you to use the Tracker infra structure to access your data afterwards.
After half an hour with the Gnome 3 Shell I *really* want my old desktop back
Personally, I have gmrun bound to a convenient key combination, and I firmly hope that will help me through the looming nuclear winter of redesigned desktops. http://directory.fsf.org/project/gmrun/
The name is a problem only if you assume that the use of the program is to be promoted by marketing strategies. Like many free software initiatives, the GIMP was born as a project of people who decided to develop a program that suits their needs better than existing programs. I bet they couldn't care less whether the name of that program is catchy or not, and probably that holds for most people to whom the program is helpful.
If someone reacts to a new version of such a program by bashing its name, to me that is trolling. But I guess that by my own reasoning, I shouldn't care about it :-)
parent would be more appropriately tagged Troll
[...] I couldn't be sure that if I changed a template I would need to make it available, not to mention doing a small code change. It's not that I mind sharing, it's just that it's a hassle and it just worries me that if I use a GPL3 CMS I'm opening up a pandora's box.
You make it sound like by modifying GPL licensed software you are obliged to redistribute your modified version. As far as I know GPL only requires that IF you decide to redistribute modified GPL code, then it should be GPL licensed. That's not a hassle, you can just adopt the original GPL license of the software as is.
[...] I'd rather stay away and not be liable for anything.
Liable? The license that comes with GPL software typically states in capitals that the software comes without any type of warranty.
and kicking! I just wrote some code to do tracker desktop search from within emacs (using dbus and dired).
Note the context-aware advertisement on page 1 of TFA...
Just now we can finally watch 3D movies without glasses.
Is it really news that a 3d printer prints a flute? They've been printing all sorts of objects for a long time.
For that matter, coat hangers will do just fine. http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/03/audiophiles-cant-tell-the-difference-between-monster-cable-and/
How serious do they take their business if they don't backup >20 years of gathered data?
No kidding - place I work has to block Chrome, Safari, and Firefox at the firewall since all three have actively exploited zero-day exploits.
But not IE8. It's secure.
and just in case it's not, there's always lynx for windows ;-)
Yet, all you science fanatics claim that God isn't a valid explanation.
As a science fanatic, i would like to correct your statement: God is not a scientifically valid explanation [of empirical facts].
And as science fanatics, we prefer scientifically valid explanations over scientifically invalid explanations.
Also got a warning that "A script on this page is causing your web browser to run slowly."...
That's not a bad thing. As the greeks used to say: Gnothi Seauton (know thyself).
35% * 35% ~ 12%.
35% corresponds to P(A or B), not P(A), and you don't know if P(A)=P(B), neither whether P(A) and P(B) are independent.
P(A or B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A and B)
.35 = P(A) + P(B) - .01 .35 + .01 = .36
P(A) + P(B) =
If we assume that P(A) = P(B) = .36/2 = .18, then that implies that P(A) and P(B) are not independent, since .18*.18 != .01. And if they are independent P(A and B) = P(A)P(B), they can not be equal.
It looks more likely that P(A) and P(B) are independent and unequal, than that P(A) and P(B) are equal and dependent. It could be that the first word is often shorter than the second (or v.v.).