GPL protects the freedom of the code, not the freedom of the developer. Big difference! If you want developer freedom, use the BSD license or some such. Different tools for different problems:)
Because abstract concepts deserve "freedom" but humans don't?
No, there's no such thing as "freedom" of an inanimate, incorporeal object. The only relevant factor is the freedom of the developer, which is indisputably reduced by the GPL.
My sister (at school then in the UK) had a bunch of kids create a Bebo account for her, post a bunch of comments about other people at her school and totally ruined her social life. Emails, phone calls and a vist to their office in Ca by a family member later Bebo had singularly REFUSED to do anything about the issue.
So a bunch of her so-called "friends" shunned her because of anonymous, unfounded, unverifiable comments on some web page somewhere? Sounds like she didn't lose much.
"Please oh please, Bebo, take these comments down and replace them with a retraction. I want all my old asshole friends back, you know, the ones who DITCHED me based on nothing more than some bits on the Intar-Web."
The way to deal with bulling in schools is in my view is very simple. The punishment should be swift, harsh and feared. They should be charged with assault or harassment in a full criminal court and ordered to do a suitable amount of community service. Failure to comply should immediately mean jail-time which should be served in school holidays.
So what you're saying, if he punches you, he should go to jail. But if you punch him, you should face no consequences? If it's a self-defense argument, what are you going to do when the guy claims you hit him first? Sorry, jail time is way too extreme for most of these situations.
I think things were just fine right where you left them. He pushed you too far, so you broke his nose. He won't do that again. End of story, really.
My theory is that we actually ARE experiencing parallel universes. But the pressures of biological evolution have driven us toward brain structures which hide this fact. Maybe we actually ARE spread out across many different possibilities, but our conscious view of reality is as a single whole. Why? Because it made survival easier, perhaps. Or maybe, individuals with parallel awareness inevitably go insane and die out. Who knows.
Sometimes this parallelism "leaks through," in the form of quantum strangeness. But it's not the universe which is strange, it's actually us. Our brains contradict reality by trying to condense everything and the result is "weird" physics. Is the electron here, or there? Maybe it's both, but our brains decide to interpret it as a concrete one-way-or-the-other, because doing otherwise would require us to be consciously aware of all of reality, something which is probably impossible.
With a Tazer, the trained operator will use it more casually than a gun because the price of being wrong is so much lower.
With the pain ray, it's even lower.
So say we up the ante by passing a law which says that unjustified tazings are no different than unjustified shootings, with the same penalties. Unfortunately, that's not going to work. If the cop knows that he'll be equally punished for tazing vs. shooting, he's probably going to select the more lethal alternative.
That's why these "less than lethal" weapons are a bad idea from the outset. They encourage a more liberal application of force with fewer consequences for it. If you attempt to make the consequences more serious, law enforcement will switch back to lethal weapons out of a sense of self-preservation. Nothing good comes from it.
Just let the cop have a gun and let him know that if he fucks up and kills somebody, he's going to prison for life.
so you can frankly take your precious PROJECT REQUIREMENTS and shove 'em. How's that sound, would I pass your interview process?
No, you wouldn't. With an attitude like "shove the PROJECT REQUIREMENTS" I've got to assume that you've spent your life working for morons who will take whatever crap you care to throw at them.
He's not that different from Linus. He does things in ways that some people seem to really dislike. When they complain, he doesn't mind. "Tough cookies." I guess when Linus does it, it's a noble independent spirit, when Guido does it he's being an asshole.
I use Python as a test, actually. Hating the language is okay by me, we've all got tastes. Lucky for you, we don't write our code in Python so you won't suffer. But saying you hate it because of enforced whitespace? That fails your interview, right there. Ohhhh boy. You've got a problem with having to make things line up the way their supposed to? Just wait until you hit some actual PROJECT REQUIREMENTS.
"No, no. God told me. Seriously. Take my word for it. Just don't believe that other book called "Koran" which also claims to be the word of God. Nope. Absolutely not."
Yes, and it says nothing of the sort. It is simply unclear if he was truly the inspiration for the actual realization of comms satellites. It is indisputable that he published first.
Quantum tunneling. Or, unless the material is 100% physically inert and kept in a 100% vacuum chamber with no other possible reactants (it's not), mass will be lost or gained. Next?
Even if you did that, there are still reasons it could change mass. A cosmic ray could strike the mass and eject a certain number of atoms from it, for instance.
I don't think anyone EXPECTED that it would remain absolutely constant, but it's the best they could do at the time.
True, but due to exactly these sorts of variations in the IPK's mass, it has been proposed that the kilogram be redefined in terms of fundamental constants, in a way that can be replicated anywhere in the universe -- similar to how the meter has been redefined ("delineated," actually) to be equal to some exact number of wavelengths of a certain kind of coherent radiation.
See the Wikipedia entry for various proposals of how to do it.
I'm not a linguist, but I study it and write code which manipulates natural language. I have always been under the impression that punctuation has been considered a part of morphology, not grammar. I have a stack of linguistics books that would reach the ceiling, and I've never seen punctuation enumerated in any "sentence tree." As far as I can tell, from a grammatical standpoint it is treated as if it does not exist.
I have seen PLENTY of discussions on punctuation in discussions on morphology, however.
If a real linguist would care to contradict, I'd love to hear it. I don't claim to be an expert.
If a comma is a grammatical element, then what is the name of its grammatical category? For instance, "Dog" is a noun. "Under" is a preposition. A comma is what now?
What "profit" is Viacom being denied by his action? Even if they are legally in the right to demand it, it gains them nothing and makes them look like assholes. It was a dumb move.
How is the key generated? Even "random" is typically not truly random.
It's extremely easy, actually. In fact, I think some Intel chips include a RNG based on thermal noise (Johnson noise). In the absence of that, there's always the Lava Lamp.
Seriously though, there are plenty of physical processes which are completely random, and which are very easy to use to generate true randomness. The spin of incoherent photons is random, and measurable. The time between decays of radioactive nuclides is random and measurable. The instantaneous power spectrum of the white noise of waves breaking on the beach is random and measurable.
Silly offtopic question. Is a comma really a part of the grammar? Punctuation is not spoken. Writing is synthetic. When is the last time you pronounced a period, for instance?
The brief pause between the words "grammar" and "retard" helps convey the proper meaning, but it is really a part of the grammar?
He then used Viacom's derivative work, but, it seems, didn't provide any commentary on the clip you uploaded to YouTube. Instead, he just made a direct copy. That's copyright infringement.
Okay smart guy, explain why they dropped the suit if they were in the right?
Unless you are implying that the entire Bible was written by God himself, I fail to see how its contents are any more or less valid than the dogma of religious institutions. It's all the "word of man," anyway.
and condensation heats the air back up. You still have to get rid of the waste heat, somehow. Merely transfering it from the inner part of the suit to the outer is insufficient.
I think it could be possible. If you have a thin sheet of highly reflective material between the inner and outer layers, this will help to reflect the thermal radiation outward instead of inward.
Also, why were the suits black? Probably the same reason that Bedouins wear black or other dark colors instead of white. It helps to set up convection within the garment that actually cools the wearer down better than if you were wearing white. And the black also radiates better -- although it also absorbs sunlight better.
it's a bit like nuclear weapons, in that you can pretty much "know" how a bomb works, but even if you had detailed plans, it's pretty much only governments who can build them.
I'm actually somewhat surprised that governments haven't passed laws banning the construction of quantum computers except under very tightly controlled circumstances. Kind of like how the ciphers themselves used to be classified as "munitions" in the United States.
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GPL protects the freedom of the code, not the freedom of the developer. Big difference! If you want developer freedom, use the BSD license or some such. Different tools for different problems :)
Because abstract concepts deserve "freedom" but humans don't?
No, there's no such thing as "freedom" of an inanimate, incorporeal object. The only relevant factor is the freedom of the developer, which is indisputably reduced by the GPL.
My sister (at school then in the UK) had a bunch of kids create a Bebo account for her, post a bunch of comments about other people at her school and totally ruined her social life. Emails, phone calls and a vist to their office in Ca by a family member later Bebo had singularly REFUSED to do anything about the issue.
So a bunch of her so-called "friends" shunned her because of anonymous, unfounded, unverifiable comments on some web page somewhere? Sounds like she didn't lose much.
"Please oh please, Bebo, take these comments down and replace them with a retraction. I want all my old asshole friends back, you know, the ones who DITCHED me based on nothing more than some bits on the Intar-Web."
I think she's probably better off.
The way to deal with bulling in schools is in my view is very simple. The punishment should be swift, harsh and feared. They should be charged with assault or harassment in a full criminal court and ordered to do a suitable amount of community service. Failure to comply should immediately mean jail-time which should be served in school holidays.
So what you're saying, if he punches you, he should go to jail. But if you punch him, you should face no consequences? If it's a self-defense argument, what are you going to do when the guy claims you hit him first? Sorry, jail time is way too extreme for most of these situations.
I think things were just fine right where you left them. He pushed you too far, so you broke his nose. He won't do that again. End of story, really.
My theory is that we actually ARE experiencing parallel universes. But the pressures of biological evolution have driven us toward brain structures which hide this fact. Maybe we actually ARE spread out across many different possibilities, but our conscious view of reality is as a single whole. Why? Because it made survival easier, perhaps. Or maybe, individuals with parallel awareness inevitably go insane and die out. Who knows.
Sometimes this parallelism "leaks through," in the form of quantum strangeness. But it's not the universe which is strange, it's actually us. Our brains contradict reality by trying to condense everything and the result is "weird" physics. Is the electron here, or there? Maybe it's both, but our brains decide to interpret it as a concrete one-way-or-the-other, because doing otherwise would require us to be consciously aware of all of reality, something which is probably impossible.
It doesn't just tell you, it forces you to deal with it and reduce your stress in order to perform well at some task. Biofeedback, basically.
With a Tazer, the trained operator will use it more casually than a gun because the price of being wrong is so much lower. With the pain ray, it's even lower.
So say we up the ante by passing a law which says that unjustified tazings are no different than unjustified shootings, with the same penalties. Unfortunately, that's not going to work. If the cop knows that he'll be equally punished for tazing vs. shooting, he's probably going to select the more lethal alternative.
That's why these "less than lethal" weapons are a bad idea from the outset. They encourage a more liberal application of force with fewer consequences for it. If you attempt to make the consequences more serious, law enforcement will switch back to lethal weapons out of a sense of self-preservation. Nothing good comes from it.
Just let the cop have a gun and let him know that if he fucks up and kills somebody, he's going to prison for life.
so you can frankly take your precious PROJECT REQUIREMENTS and shove 'em. How's that sound, would I pass your interview process?
No, you wouldn't. With an attitude like "shove the PROJECT REQUIREMENTS" I've got to assume that you've spent your life working for morons who will take whatever crap you care to throw at them.RIGHT ON THE HEAD. Python is the perfect language for student homework. If they don't indent properly, their code doesn't even WORK.
He's not that different from Linus. He does things in ways that some people seem to really dislike. When they complain, he doesn't mind. "Tough cookies." I guess when Linus does it, it's a noble independent spirit, when Guido does it he's being an asshole.
I use Python as a test, actually. Hating the language is okay by me, we've all got tastes. Lucky for you, we don't write our code in Python so you won't suffer. But saying you hate it because of enforced whitespace? That fails your interview, right there. Ohhhh boy. You've got a problem with having to make things line up the way their supposed to? Just wait until you hit some actual PROJECT REQUIREMENTS.
Says who? God? What's his voice sound like?
"No, no. God told me. Seriously. Take my word for it. Just don't believe that other book called "Koran" which also claims to be the word of God. Nope. Absolutely not."
Yes, and it says nothing of the sort. It is simply unclear if he was truly the inspiration for the actual realization of comms satellites. It is indisputable that he published first.
As if those were the only way the thing could change mass?
Surely among all those platinum and iridium atoms, there are a few which are unstable isotopes. As those decay, that could change the mass.
Quantum tunneling. Or, unless the material is 100% physically inert and kept in a 100% vacuum chamber with no other possible reactants (it's not), mass will be lost or gained. Next?
Even if you did that, there are still reasons it could change mass. A cosmic ray could strike the mass and eject a certain number of atoms from it, for instance.
I don't think anyone EXPECTED that it would remain absolutely constant, but it's the best they could do at the time.
True, but due to exactly these sorts of variations in the IPK's mass, it has been proposed that the kilogram be redefined in terms of fundamental constants, in a way that can be replicated anywhere in the universe -- similar to how the meter has been redefined ("delineated," actually) to be equal to some exact number of wavelengths of a certain kind of coherent radiation.
See the Wikipedia entry for various proposals of how to do it.
I'm not a linguist, but I study it and write code which manipulates natural language. I have always been under the impression that punctuation has been considered a part of morphology, not grammar. I have a stack of linguistics books that would reach the ceiling, and I've never seen punctuation enumerated in any "sentence tree." As far as I can tell, from a grammatical standpoint it is treated as if it does not exist.
I have seen PLENTY of discussions on punctuation in discussions on morphology, however.
If a real linguist would care to contradict, I'd love to hear it. I don't claim to be an expert.
If a comma is a grammatical element, then what is the name of its grammatical category? For instance, "Dog" is a noun. "Under" is a preposition. A comma is what now?
What "profit" is Viacom being denied by his action? Even if they are legally in the right to demand it, it gains them nothing and makes them look like assholes. It was a dumb move.
He's not just a fiction writer. I guess it's easy to forget that the man invented the communications satellite.
How is the key generated? Even "random" is typically not truly random.
It's extremely easy, actually. In fact, I think some Intel chips include a RNG based on thermal noise (Johnson noise). In the absence of that, there's always the Lava Lamp.
Seriously though, there are plenty of physical processes which are completely random, and which are very easy to use to generate true randomness. The spin of incoherent photons is random, and measurable. The time between decays of radioactive nuclides is random and measurable. The instantaneous power spectrum of the white noise of waves breaking on the beach is random and measurable.
Silly offtopic question. Is a comma really a part of the grammar? Punctuation is not spoken. Writing is synthetic. When is the last time you pronounced a period, for instance?
The brief pause between the words "grammar" and "retard" helps convey the proper meaning, but it is really a part of the grammar?
He then used Viacom's derivative work, but, it seems, didn't provide any commentary on the clip you uploaded to YouTube. Instead, he just made a direct copy. That's copyright infringement.
Okay smart guy, explain why they dropped the suit if they were in the right?
Unless you are implying that the entire Bible was written by God himself, I fail to see how its contents are any more or less valid than the dogma of religious institutions. It's all the "word of man," anyway.
and condensation heats the air back up. You still have to get rid of the waste heat, somehow. Merely transfering it from the inner part of the suit to the outer is insufficient.
I think it could be possible. If you have a thin sheet of highly reflective material between the inner and outer layers, this will help to reflect the thermal radiation outward instead of inward.
Also, why were the suits black? Probably the same reason that Bedouins wear black or other dark colors instead of white. It helps to set up convection within the garment that actually cools the wearer down better than if you were wearing white. And the black also radiates better -- although it also absorbs sunlight better.
it's a bit like nuclear weapons, in that you can pretty much "know" how a bomb works, but even if you had detailed plans, it's pretty much only governments who can build them.
I'm actually somewhat surprised that governments haven't passed laws banning the construction of quantum computers except under very tightly controlled circumstances. Kind of like how the ciphers themselves used to be classified as "munitions" in the United States.