No, the alpha Wolf, Steven Wolfram, has not paid me anything. I've never even talked with him nor met him.
I'm simply a humble computer scientist who's created actual products (since 1984) with cellular automata in them that do extraordinary and magical things.
As such A New Kind of Science is a ground breaking tome that does establish Cellular Automata as a key area of research for science and philosophy as well. Much is proven in aNKS that supports Evolution and other hard sciences.
So you discount the man simply because you perceive that he's full of pride in his works? You do know that HALF of the 1500 pages are foot notes that has the work stand on the shoulders of the giants before him?
By discounting the man's work simply because of a "perception of him" would be a serious mistake on your part.
aNKS is fundamental to science from this point onward. Have you done anything similar? No? Well then give the man some credit for his work dude and don't ignore it simply because of your prejudices about how he "should be in the world". You think that others in science didn't have strong personalities? Well guess again. Do yourself a favor and read the work and judge it not the man. Or not and be ignorant of an important breakthrough in thinking and in computer science that really puts the science into computer science again.
"This idea, called self-assembly, isn't exactly new."
Yeah, my parents made us of it to make me and my seven other siblings. My parents parents (all four of them) did the same funny. And their parents and so on back though out the dark ages all the way back before the recorded dawn of reason over the delusions of faith (about 500 BC) and science (hard core about 300 years ago) and still back further till the dawn of life and still back further till the dawn of time itself.
The universe is a computational system as the Alpha Wolf himself proved in A New Kind of Science (http://pathstoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/a-new-kind-of-science-by-stephen-wolfram/) and as such this self assembly stuff isn't new.
It might be "new" to us using it consciously but give us a break and don't assume it's new. We are hear because of it! Without self assembly we'd not be here.
I use on the order of 100+ tabs daily in Firefox. If they remove the tabs from the user interface I'll switch to google chrome instantly forever.
What they need to do is give me the option to sort my tabs in different ways, and to provide better ways to organize the tabs. It'd be cool to have a "open in new tab" immediately to the right of the existing tab as well as at the end of the list of tabs. It would be good to have a list box of tabs open up in a window so that I can organize them and group them and close them by group or bookmark a sub set (group).
How about getting rid of that annoying "history bar" or whatever it's called that sits between the tabs and the book mark buttons in he tool bars above the tabs. That drop down list is extremely annoying to the max.
Oh, also when you have tons of tabs some of them take too much CPU power. How about an option to stop ALL scripts and processes on tabs that I choose to (again via groups of tabs or individually). At least I need to know which tabs are taking up the cpu power with there relentless javascript goo. It's MY browser so let me control what the tabs are doing. Give us more information about the tabs and the pages that they are viewing.
There is lots of innovation possible for the tabs if they'd only put their thinking caps on.
The bottom line is empower your users with better tab functionality and better management of huge numbers of tabs to make the user experience better.
Come on Wolfram, the computer in Space 1999 on Moon Base Alpha did way better. I just tried some computations and your wolfram alpha didn't even detect the space aliens flying through our star system this evening. Sheesh, missed first contact.
All hands to the engineering room for beer!
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"It all works. The Enterprise itself feels HUGE inside. Engineering isn't just a room with a console; it's massive. It has weight. I love it." - above posting.
"I actually like the look of the engine room. I just find it funny that it is the Budweiser refinery." - seen on the net.
Let's head on down for some beer!!! Red shirts taste test the latest home brew just in case it's toxic! Now we know why engineering wears red shirts.
What the heck was that uselessly funny scene with Scotty being beamed into one of the machines!!! Very funny yet a bit stupid how they played it out...
Love how Kirk hits his head on the shuttle craft bulkhead the moment he walks onto a federation ship for the first time as an adult!
Also loved an interview with Nimoy: "Nimoy, 78, chuckled when asked about possibly reuniting on-screen with William Shatner, the original James T. Kirk actor who doesn't appear in the new voyage. Nimoy said Shatner told him, "Now we're even" in regard to appearing in the Trek prequel after Shatner cameoed without Nimoy in 1994's Star Trek: Generations, which featured the death of Kirk." - Vancouver Sun
The book "A New Kind of Science" by Steven Wolfram is an essential book for anyone, scientist or not. It is revolutionary in it's scope and provides proable evidence that complex systems such as life derive from simple systems in Nature. This eliminates all the silly Intelligent Design nonsense with a little bit of cellular automata that you can work out with a pencil. Chapter 2 is essential.
You can even preview any part of the book online at Wolfram Science.
How on Earth could the above comment be a "troll" when the topic of the slashdot posting was the difference between GPL and BSD? You GPLers just have no sense of letting others have their point of view that you have to moderate any opposing point of view down? Is that it? If not then what? Don't like a dissenting point of view?
Well my comment has made it to other sites on the net were it's appreciated.
Have the guts to never moderate down or label anything a troll!! Be brave now.
I'm not asking you to hand over anything GPL dude. It's just that the terms of your agreement REQUIRE me to join your geekie hippie communistic CULT if I want to use the code.
As for capitalistic, nope. Sure anyone of any philosophy can "negotiate a trade". It happened all the time in communist societies, don't make it capitalistic just because you negotiated.
It's that you want me to give up my freedom to do what I want with the code that you are making open source. You must also consider the context too in that other projects don't require such onerous terms as the GPL since they use MIT, BSD, and other True Free Software.
The GPL is Faux Free SINCE it comes with pages and pages and pages of tricky rules and regulations that BOX YOU IN forcing one to always reveal ones improvements to what is supposed to be free and open software. It's not FREE if I MUST REVEAL my changes now is it!!! What if I don't want to reveal my changes! They are mine, not yours!!! Yet you want to make them yours even though you didn't think of them or create them!!! Very bizarre especially considering that other True Free Licenses exist that don't force such onerous requirements.
Yes, the GPL can be said to be a hippie type ideal "commune" or communistic SINCE it forms a community that REQUIRES that members FOLLOW RULES that they PROVIDE their WORK for FREE if they want to join.
Most users never care about code. They simply want their system to work. It's programmers who care about code.
If I want something you GPLers created I simply use it without paying you anything. There are ways around the GPL rules. Simply stick the darn program into it's own space and only make essential minimal if any changes to it. Keep it a separate program wrapped in a protective condom to keep the GPL virus from infecting my code with it's silly and stupid license terms that would convert my code into the GPL commune. No thanks, my code stays mine.
I have contributed some of my code to the GPL but always I have a dual license with the BSD license providing the true freedom for other coders (the only ones who matter are coders not end users) and even users.
Many projects are BSD-style licensed without the need to enforce sharing. That's what the GPL does, it enforces sharing but it creates a nasty pernicious situation where if it's included into your program ALL your code in that program becomes infected with the GPL virus license. Why? That's totally insane terms. Just because I compile a source file into my program space ALL my other code in that space MUST become GPLed. Insanity.
So as a result wrap GPL code in separate program spaces to keep it from infecting other code.
Now, let's compare that with BSD, Apache, MIT, the truly free license styles. They are truly free since I, a programmer, can include as much or as little of their source code in any program space I choose without their license infecting the rest of the code in that space. So they are non-infective and since they don't require me to contribute my changes back to their projects I am free do so as I please: share or not.
I as a programmer dedicated to excellence in software for my clients do care about my end users, they after all provide my income. Producing the best software for them is paramount. However, giving them the source code won't make the software any better for they are not programmers!!! So they really don't care about the code. You just have to get that. The vast majority of end users are not programmers and never will be and really don't care about the source code - it's just gobbly gook to them. It's geek without a translation matrix. What end users care about is great software.
Furthermore, more often than not the quality of open source software is, well, to be polite, a bit clunky and full of errors. That's fine, you get what you pay for and since it's free one must accept it as it is and if one chooses one can fix it as needed or even improve upon it as one is inspired.
The GPL is mainly aimed at people like Richard Stallman: PROGRAMMERS!!! Well, the vast majority of human beings will never program a computer. Certainly they'll never want to go through the horrors of getting make files to actually work. It's too geek for them. They are actually humans not geeks.
The GPL may actually make a lot of sense to people who are like Richard Stallman: programmers who want a cause. You do know of course that Stallman is a hippie. Have you ever met him? I've meet him a number of times and he's basically a geekie hippie with a cause. Great for him and his commune cult followers. Join his cult if you want, release your code as GPL if you want. Just don't expect me to do the same. Just don't expect me to be happy that you put so many restrictions on it that I have to alter my build process so as to not include your source in the same program as my code. Eesh. Annoying.
Anyway the work around the GPL is to simply keep GPLed programs within the condom protection of their own program space and to enhance them as needed to provide access to the real programs that are doing the primary work load: my code. That interface might be CLI in which case missing CLI options are added.
BSD wins for open source business hands down since it lets the developers (the only ones who actually matter from our point of view) do what ever the heck they want without being forced by communistic licensing terms of the GPL to give away our competitive advantage!!! If you don't like that too bad for you. This is our point of view. You don't have to like it or accept it for yourself but just don't force your commune upon our income earning potential. Thanks.
"I once had to write code on a palm pilot while I walked 15 miles uphill in the snow while naked with a pack of wolves and two grizzly bears stalking me" - AND I had to walk back "uphill in the snow while naked with a pack of wolves and two grizzly bears stalking me" WHILE shooting them with the cyborg control system connected to the robotic killbot that I was programming while "I walked 15 miles uphill", in each direction there and back again, "in the snow while naked with a pack of wolves and two grizzly bears stalking me"... so there... plus I was in Canada... to top it off...
Isn't it the USA that has lots of Mexilegs? Most Mexicans find it kinda cold up here, after all the hot to cold principle applies: It's the cold that gets you.
We'd also need torsos, where would we obtain those from? Nice ones please.
Take off without a Canadarm, eh? Not going to happen! You try to get out and they keep pulling you back in with their stinking robotic canada arm! They've got leverage! They've got rotating joints, and as we all know Canadian joints are the best in the world! They've got Jack Baur and Captain Kirk and some awesome singers too! You try to get out and they keep pulling you back in with the long flexible reach of the canadarm...
Gotta hand it to Canada, it's an awesome technology! No wonder as up in the Great White North (it's melting, it's melting, no, it's freezing, it's freezing, no it's melting, no it's irregular climate,...) there is nothing to do but play with robotic and non-robotic arms and hands! You see we Canadians got tired of our own hands we decided to invent a flexible third hand for those extra special moments when a helping hand is needed to reach those spots that you just can't get to.
Canadians keep grasping at the future getting a tight grip upon it! You keep trying to get out but they keep pulling you back in!;-)
C02 as THE cause of Global Warming is nothing more than a lame correlation, there are a number of other correlations that are much better. Also C02 levels can be much higher without harm as it was in the many millions of years of Earth's history when the levels where 10 times higher than now!!! Life lived and evolved just fine under ~4,000 ppm of C02 in the atmosphere.
And if you think that the science is settled then you are NOT a scientist and you DO NOT support the scientific method or the process of science education where people who are ignorant of the science ask questions to learn: see Richard Feynman on Scientific Investigation here.
Besides almost all Canadians that I ask want it to be 5c to 10c warmer up here as that will open up the Northern areas, which are a plenty, for development and farming opportunities! We're tired of 90% of us living within 200 miles of the USA border! We're tired of our igloos, we want actual homes!
Size does matter and in the realm of laptops/netbooks 10 inches is like 5 inches there buddy! Do yourself a favor and expand up to a 17 inch macbook pro! That's more like a real manly 8 or 9 or even 10 incher buddy!
Great, let's test your non-belief in gravity. Go to the nearest tall building or cliff to a height of at least 200 feet, preferably taller... then simply jump off without any parachutes or bungie cords or ropes or --- basically no cheating --- and let yourself fall. Gravity wins over your belief every time.
This works in Texas or in Moscow or anyplace on the Earth for that matter.
Good luck with your non-belief in gravity.
Oh, ever fallen down? Well that's gravity too.
Newton, Einstein, they had theories of Gravity that seem to be quite accurate with Einstein being a wee bit more accurate than Newton. However, Gravity Sucks seems to just about cover the proof for the theory of gravity that most people need.
"The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact." - KURT GÖDEL
The not-so-good news is that in a "compromise," the board also voted to require that students "in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations... including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations, so as to encourage critical thinking by the student."
Excellent! Science is all about the pursuit of the truth of objective reality. Every assumption needs to be questioned otherwise it's not science but rather it's dogma if you're not allowed to question the science.
Score one for the Discovery Institute.
Utter NONSENSE. These and other anti-science and anti-science-education crowds LOST in Texas: Discovery Institute, Intelligent Designer proponents, Creationists, Religionists, Our-Science-is-Correct-and-we-Don't-Have-to-Prove-It-And-If-You-Ask-Questions-Crowd-You're-Automatically-A-Denier-(anti-science)-Crowd and Delusional of all sorts had a huge loss.
Asking questions leads people to give up their delusions if they get the power of asking questions. Sure some imaginary friend delusionals will use that to attempt to push their religious agenda but in the end what will happen is that the battle ground shifts to critical thinking skills where it belongs!
Sharpen your pencils girls and boys and get ready to educate people who don't know about science, about your field of science, in the ways and means of science, the scientific method and critical thinking skills.
The fostering of asking questions and learning to think that my Roman Catholic parents encouraged in me helped me deprogram their attempts to bring me into their faith. Thank ERG (pardon the expression) for all those science books at home and at school.
Without getting the power of critical thinking anyone is lost in today's world of magical claims, weird fake science, television, government, bogus medical claims, con men of all kinds, parents, friends and family who are constantly attempting to pull you into their delusions.
Every CULTure you interact with has it's own delusions and often those are the very ones that people use to justify their killing of others one way or the other. Do you even know how many different CULTureS you're embedded within? How many? How can you tell? What are the beliefs of your CULTure? How do they blind you?
The Human Belief Engine we call the brain-mind is the culprit not what is in a book and the sooner that people realize that the better. Critical thinking skills are the only path to knowledge devoid of delusions, or at least with minimized delusions, about objective reality.
"According to Peirce's doctrine of fallibilism, the conclusions of science are always tentative. The rationality of the scientific method does not depend on the certainty of its conclusions, but on its self-corrective character: by continued application of the method science can detect and correct its own mistakes, and thus eventually lead to the discovery of truth".
A guiding principle for accepting claims of catastrophic global events, miracles, incredible healing, invisible friends, or _fill_in_the_blank_ is:
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
Sagan's Principle applies to ALL FIELDS OF SCIENCE as well as ALL wacko claims by non-scientists. To say differently is to assert that any part of science should not be questioned! Asking questions is the fundamental core of science.
"Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." - Alfred Korzybski
"In an effort to transition to a sustainable economy the planetary skin concept proposes a unifying approach to monitoring, measuring, and managing rural environments, rural to urban interconnects, and urban environments. Planetary Skin unifies a distributed nervous system of networked ground, sea, air and space based sensors, machines, and humans all into a cognitive decision space for trusted communities." - Planetary Skin Promo Video on Taking Over the World.
Yeah, and just who is in that "trusted community" making the decisions? Not you or I that is for sure.
What exactly are those machines? The USA Air Force Predators?
Yikes! Their video is corporate government enviro-mental double speak gone wild and crazy! Big Brother will be implemented to enforce the bogus climate change politics of the likes of Al Gore! Yikes!!! Run for the hills, oh wait, Cisco is there with their planetary skin sensors monitoring you! The holier than thou crowd can control swarm after you to correct your 4% exhale of Carbon Dioxide in your breath foot print! They are after you since you didn't get your lungs downgraded to 1% carbon exhales!
Planetary Skin is no less that the Total Information Awareness Grid/Matrix needed for the USA to combine with their Flying Death Machines to Control the World with the Threat of Death at Any Moment From the SkyNet.
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No, the alpha Wolf, Steven Wolfram, has not paid me anything. I've never even talked with him nor met him.
I'm simply a humble computer scientist who's created actual products (since 1984) with cellular automata in them that do extraordinary and magical things.
As such A New Kind of Science is a ground breaking tome that does establish Cellular Automata as a key area of research for science and philosophy as well. Much is proven in aNKS that supports Evolution and other hard sciences.
So you discount the man simply because you perceive that he's full of pride in his works? You do know that HALF of the 1500 pages are foot notes that has the work stand on the shoulders of the giants before him?
By discounting the man's work simply because of a "perception of him" would be a serious mistake on your part.
aNKS is fundamental to science from this point onward. Have you done anything similar? No? Well then give the man some credit for his work dude and don't ignore it simply because of your prejudices about how he "should be in the world". You think that others in science didn't have strong personalities? Well guess again. Do yourself a favor and read the work and judge it not the man. Or not and be ignorant of an important breakthrough in thinking and in computer science that really puts the science into computer science again.
"This idea, called self-assembly, isn't exactly new."
Yeah, my parents made us of it to make me and my seven other siblings. My parents parents (all four of them) did the same funny. And their parents and so on back though out the dark ages all the way back before the recorded dawn of reason over the delusions of faith (about 500 BC) and science (hard core about 300 years ago) and still back further till the dawn of life and still back further till the dawn of time itself.
The universe is a computational system as the Alpha Wolf himself proved in A New Kind of Science (http://pathstoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/a-new-kind-of-science-by-stephen-wolfram/) and as such this self assembly stuff isn't new.
It might be "new" to us using it consciously but give us a break and don't assume it's new. We are hear because of it! Without self assembly we'd not be here.
Say it isn't so! No Dan, NOOOOOOOH!
I'm melting, I'm melting.
Ah, the torture.
Think of the children Dan, think of the children! Save them from yourself!
No wonder my parents didn't want me seeing movies!
I use on the order of 100+ tabs daily in Firefox. If they remove the tabs from the user interface I'll switch to google chrome instantly forever.
What they need to do is give me the option to sort my tabs in different ways, and to provide better ways to organize the tabs. It'd be cool to have a "open in new tab" immediately to the right of the existing tab as well as at the end of the list of tabs. It would be good to have a list box of tabs open up in a window so that I can organize them and group them and close them by group or bookmark a sub set (group).
How about getting rid of that annoying "history bar" or whatever it's called that sits between the tabs and the book mark buttons in he tool bars above the tabs. That drop down list is extremely annoying to the max.
Oh, also when you have tons of tabs some of them take too much CPU power. How about an option to stop ALL scripts and processes on tabs that I choose to (again via groups of tabs or individually). At least I need to know which tabs are taking up the cpu power with there relentless javascript goo. It's MY browser so let me control what the tabs are doing. Give us more information about the tabs and the pages that they are viewing.
There is lots of innovation possible for the tabs if they'd only put their thinking caps on.
The bottom line is empower your users with better tab functionality and better management of huge numbers of tabs to make the user experience better.
Save the Tabs!
See on Wolfram Alpha when it went kafluie due to too much traffic:
http://pathstoknowledge.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/im-sorry-dave-im-afraid-i-cant-do-that/
Come on Wolfram, the computer in Space 1999 on Moon Base Alpha did way better. I just tried some computations and your wolfram alpha didn't even detect the space aliens flying through our star system this evening. Sheesh, missed first contact.
"It all works. The Enterprise itself feels HUGE inside. Engineering isn't just a room with a console; it's massive. It has weight. I love it." - above posting.
"I actually like the look of the engine room. I just find it funny that it is the Budweiser refinery." - seen on the net.
Let's head on down for some beer!!! Red shirts taste test the latest home brew just in case it's toxic! Now we know why engineering wears red shirts.
What the heck was that uselessly funny scene with Scotty being beamed into one of the machines!!! Very funny yet a bit stupid how they played it out...
Love how Kirk hits his head on the shuttle craft bulkhead the moment he walks onto a federation ship for the first time as an adult!
Also loved an interview with Nimoy: "Nimoy, 78, chuckled when asked about possibly reuniting on-screen with William Shatner, the original James T. Kirk actor who doesn't appear in the new voyage. Nimoy said Shatner told him, "Now we're even" in regard to appearing in the Trek prequel after Shatner cameoed without Nimoy in 1994's Star Trek: Generations, which featured the death of Kirk." - Vancouver Sun
Time for that beer now! Beer Alert!!!
Some funny and strange videos with Shatner and Star Trek.
The book "A New Kind of Science" by Steven Wolfram is an essential book for anyone, scientist or not. It is revolutionary in it's scope and provides proable evidence that complex systems such as life derive from simple systems in Nature. This eliminates all the silly Intelligent Design nonsense with a little bit of cellular automata that you can work out with a pencil. Chapter 2 is essential.
You can even preview any part of the book online at Wolfram Science.
For a video of wolfram presenting an overview see: Wolfram presents A New Kind of Science.
How on Earth could the above comment be a "troll" when the topic of the slashdot posting was the difference between GPL and BSD? You GPLers just have no sense of letting others have their point of view that you have to moderate any opposing point of view down? Is that it? If not then what? Don't like a dissenting point of view?
Well my comment has made it to other sites on the net were it's appreciated.
Have the guts to never moderate down or label anything a troll!! Be brave now.
Cool Che-Stallman T-Shirt.
Cool Che-Stallman T-Shirt.
I'm not asking you to hand over anything GPL dude. It's just that the terms of your agreement REQUIRE me to join your geekie hippie communistic CULT if I want to use the code.
As for capitalistic, nope. Sure anyone of any philosophy can "negotiate a trade". It happened all the time in communist societies, don't make it capitalistic just because you negotiated.
It's that you want me to give up my freedom to do what I want with the code that you are making open source. You must also consider the context too in that other projects don't require such onerous terms as the GPL since they use MIT, BSD, and other True Free Software.
The GPL is Faux Free SINCE it comes with pages and pages and pages of tricky rules and regulations that BOX YOU IN forcing one to always reveal ones improvements to what is supposed to be free and open software. It's not FREE if I MUST REVEAL my changes now is it!!! What if I don't want to reveal my changes! They are mine, not yours!!! Yet you want to make them yours even though you didn't think of them or create them!!! Very bizarre especially considering that other True Free Licenses exist that don't force such onerous requirements.
Yes, the GPL can be said to be a hippie type ideal "commune" or communistic SINCE it forms a community that REQUIRES that members FOLLOW RULES that they PROVIDE their WORK for FREE if they want to join.
Most users never care about code. They simply want their system to work. It's programmers who care about code.
If I want something you GPLers created I simply use it without paying you anything. There are ways around the GPL rules. Simply stick the darn program into it's own space and only make essential minimal if any changes to it. Keep it a separate program wrapped in a protective condom to keep the GPL virus from infecting my code with it's silly and stupid license terms that would convert my code into the GPL commune. No thanks, my code stays mine.
I have contributed some of my code to the GPL but always I have a dual license with the BSD license providing the true freedom for other coders (the only ones who matter are coders not end users) and even users.
Many projects are BSD-style licensed without the need to enforce sharing. That's what the GPL does, it enforces sharing but it creates a nasty pernicious situation where if it's included into your program ALL your code in that program becomes infected with the GPL virus license. Why? That's totally insane terms. Just because I compile a source file into my program space ALL my other code in that space MUST become GPLed. Insanity.
So as a result wrap GPL code in separate program spaces to keep it from infecting other code.
Now, let's compare that with BSD, Apache, MIT, the truly free license styles. They are truly free since I, a programmer, can include as much or as little of their source code in any program space I choose without their license infecting the rest of the code in that space. So they are non-infective and since they don't require me to contribute my changes back to their projects I am free do so as I please: share or not.
I as a programmer dedicated to excellence in software for my clients do care about my end users, they after all provide my income. Producing the best software for them is paramount. However, giving them the source code won't make the software any better for they are not programmers!!! So they really don't care about the code. You just have to get that. The vast majority of end users are not programmers and never will be and really don't care about the source code - it's just gobbly gook to them. It's geek without a translation matrix. What end users care about is great software.
Furthermore, more often than not the quality of open source software is, well, to be polite, a bit clunky and full of errors. That's fine, you get what you pay for and since it's free one must accept it as it is and if one chooses one can fix it as needed or even improve upon it as one is inspired.
The GPL is mainly aimed at people like Richard Stallman: PROGRAMMERS!!! Well, the vast majority of human beings will never program a computer. Certainly they'll never want to go through the horrors of getting make files to actually work. It's too geek for them. They are actually humans not geeks.
The GPL may actually make a lot of sense to people who are like Richard Stallman: programmers who want a cause. You do know of course that Stallman is a hippie. Have you ever met him? I've meet him a number of times and he's basically a geekie hippie with a cause. Great for him and his commune cult followers. Join his cult if you want, release your code as GPL if you want. Just don't expect me to do the same. Just don't expect me to be happy that you put so many restrictions on it that I have to alter my build process so as to not include your source in the same program as my code. Eesh. Annoying.
Anyway the work around the GPL is to simply keep GPLed programs within the condom protection of their own program space and to enhance them as needed to provide access to the real programs that are doing the primary work load: my code. That interface might be CLI in which case missing CLI options are added.
BSD wins for open source business hands down since it lets the developers (the only ones who actually matter from our point of view) do what ever the heck they want without being forced by communistic licensing terms of the GPL to give away our competitive advantage!!! If you don't like that too bad for you. This is our point of view. You don't have to like it or accept it for yourself but just don't force your commune upon our income earning potential. Thanks.
"I once had to write code on a palm pilot while I walked 15 miles uphill in the snow while naked with a pack of wolves and two grizzly bears stalking me" - AND I had to walk back "uphill in the snow while naked with a pack of wolves and two grizzly bears stalking me" WHILE shooting them with the cyborg control system connected to the robotic killbot that I was programming while "I walked 15 miles uphill", in each direction there and back again, "in the snow while naked with a pack of wolves and two grizzly bears stalking me"... so there... plus I was in Canada... to top it off...
Isn't it the USA that has lots of Mexilegs? Most Mexicans find it kinda cold up here, after all the hot to cold principle applies: It's the cold that gets you.
We'd also need torsos, where would we obtain those from? Nice ones please.
Take off without a Canadarm, eh? Not going to happen! You try to get out and they keep pulling you back in with their stinking robotic canada arm! They've got leverage! They've got rotating joints, and as we all know Canadian joints are the best in the world! They've got Jack Baur and Captain Kirk and some awesome singers too! You try to get out and they keep pulling you back in with the long flexible reach of the canadarm...
Gotta hand it to Canada, it's an awesome technology! No wonder as up in the Great White North (it's melting, it's melting, no, it's freezing, it's freezing, no it's melting, no it's irregular climate, ...) there is nothing to do but play with robotic and non-robotic arms and hands! You see we Canadians got tired of our own hands we decided to invent a flexible third hand for those extra special moments when a helping hand is needed to reach those spots that you just can't get to.
Canadians keep grasping at the future getting a tight grip upon it! You keep trying to get out but they keep pulling you back in! ;-)
Your kidding right?
The End is Nigh! The End is Nigh! NOT!!! NOT!!!.
You're being irresponsible shouting wolf or fire when there is nothing to see. Move along already.
Clearly the evidence for C02 as a poison and agent of global warming has been utterly debunked by now: here at Watts Up With That on a daily basis and the goring the science fiction spun by Gore and the ice age and making sense of data here and the spinning alarmists and generally Paths To Knowledge dot Net climate science category. Most importantly don't forget Unsetteling Foundations of Climate Science by Dr. Lindzen. Then there is Climate Audit dot org that regularly excoriates the so called climate science.
C02 as THE cause of Global Warming is nothing more than a lame correlation, there are a number of other correlations that are much better. Also C02 levels can be much higher without harm as it was in the many millions of years of Earth's history when the levels where 10 times higher than now!!! Life lived and evolved just fine under ~4,000 ppm of C02 in the atmosphere.
And if you think that the science is settled then you are NOT a scientist and you DO NOT support the scientific method or the process of science education where people who are ignorant of the science ask questions to learn: see Richard Feynman on Scientific Investigation here. Besides almost all Canadians that I ask want it to be 5c to 10c warmer up here as that will open up the Northern areas, which are a plenty, for development and farming opportunities! We're tired of 90% of us living within 200 miles of the USA border! We're tired of our igloos, we want actual homes!
Size does matter and in the realm of laptops/netbooks 10 inches is like 5 inches there buddy! Do yourself a favor and expand up to a 17 inch macbook pro! That's more like a real manly 8 or 9 or even 10 incher buddy!
Great, let's test your non-belief in gravity. Go to the nearest tall building or cliff to a height of at least 200 feet, preferably taller... then simply jump off without any parachutes or bungie cords or ropes or --- basically no cheating --- and let yourself fall. Gravity wins over your belief every time.
This works in Texas or in Moscow or anyplace on the Earth for that matter.
Good luck with your non-belief in gravity.
Oh, ever fallen down? Well that's gravity too.
Newton, Einstein, they had theories of Gravity that seem to be quite accurate with Einstein being a wee bit more accurate than Newton. However, Gravity Sucks seems to just about cover the proof for the theory of gravity that most people need.
Excellent! Science is all about the pursuit of the truth of objective reality. Every assumption needs to be questioned otherwise it's not science but rather it's dogma if you're not allowed to question the science.
Utter NONSENSE. These and other anti-science and anti-science-education crowds LOST in Texas: Discovery Institute, Intelligent Designer proponents, Creationists, Religionists, Our-Science-is-Correct-and-we-Don't-Have-to-Prove-It-And-If-You-Ask-Questions-Crowd-You're-Automatically-A-Denier-(anti-science)-Crowd and Delusional of all sorts had a huge loss.
Asking questions leads people to give up their delusions if they get the power of asking questions. Sure some imaginary friend delusionals will use that to attempt to push their religious agenda but in the end what will happen is that the battle ground shifts to critical thinking skills where it belongs!
Sharpen your pencils girls and boys and get ready to educate people who don't know about science, about your field of science, in the ways and means of science, the scientific method and critical thinking skills.
The fostering of asking questions and learning to think that my Roman Catholic parents encouraged in me helped me deprogram their attempts to bring me into their faith. Thank ERG (pardon the expression) for all those science books at home and at school.
Without getting the power of critical thinking anyone is lost in today's world of magical claims, weird fake science, television, government, bogus medical claims, con men of all kinds, parents, friends and family who are constantly attempting to pull you into their delusions.
Every CULTure you interact with has it's own delusions and often those are the very ones that people use to justify their killing of others one way or the other. Do you even know how many different CULTureS you're embedded within? How many? How can you tell? What are the beliefs of your CULTure? How do they blind you?
The Human Belief Engine we call the brain-mind is the culprit not what is in a book and the sooner that people realize that the better. Critical thinking skills are the only path to knowledge devoid of delusions, or at least with minimized delusions, about objective reality.
http://www.pathstoknowledge.net/
http://www.godlessaccident.com/
"According to Peirce's doctrine of fallibilism, the conclusions of science are always tentative. The rationality of the scientific method does not depend on the certainty of its conclusions, but on its self-corrective character: by continued application of the method science can detect and correct its own mistakes, and thus eventually lead to the discovery of truth".
A guiding principle for accepting claims of catastrophic global events, miracles, incredible healing, invisible friends, or _fill_in_the_blank_ is:
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." - Carl Sagan
Sagan's Principle applies to ALL FIELDS OF SCIENCE as well as ALL wacko claims by non-scientists. To say differently is to assert that any part of science should not be questioned! Asking questions is the fundamental core of science. "Two important characteristics of maps should be noticed. A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness." - Alfred Korzybski
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"In an effort to transition to a sustainable economy the planetary skin concept proposes a unifying approach to monitoring, measuring, and managing rural environments, rural to urban interconnects, and urban environments. Planetary Skin unifies a distributed nervous system of networked ground, sea, air and space based sensors, machines, and humans all into a cognitive decision space for trusted communities." - Planetary Skin Promo Video on Taking Over the World.
Yeah, and just who is in that "trusted community" making the decisions? Not you or I that is for sure.
What exactly are those machines? The USA Air Force Predators?
Scary SkyNet Battlefield Earth Video is here: http://www.planetaryskin.org//mov/Planetary_Skins.mov
Yikes! Their video is corporate government enviro-mental double speak gone wild and crazy! Big Brother will be implemented to enforce the bogus climate change politics of the likes of Al Gore! Yikes!!! Run for the hills, oh wait, Cisco is there with their planetary skin sensors monitoring you! The holier than thou crowd can control swarm after you to correct your 4% exhale of Carbon Dioxide in your breath foot print! They are after you since you didn't get your lungs downgraded to 1% carbon exhales!
Planetary Skin is no less that the Total Information Awareness Grid/Matrix needed for the USA to combine with their Flying Death Machines to Control the World with the Threat of Death at Any Moment From the SkyNet.
Let's hope the skin gets a rash.