That makes sense, I hadn't considered that sales of the commercial license were used to advance development of the software in general. The arguments that RMS gives make sense.
MySQL is open source. Why is there a big argument about who controls it? If whoever is controlling it goes in a direction that people don't like, don't you just fork it? If people really are worried about the future of MySQL, shouldn't there already be a fork?
it's no one's business how I mark a ballot, nor is it anyone's business that I signed the petition.
I don't see it that way at all. If you're voting on something that affects other people's lives (and most things do), the public certainly has a right to know who voted which way. If you're ashamed to vote for something, then you shouldn't vote for it.
Either way, the point is that if you're supporting something you should stand behind it, it shouldn't matter that other people know you support it. If you're a homophobe living in Washington and want to make sure that same-sex civil unions don't pass, if you're going to put your name on that paper then you shouldn't try to hide from that. If you don't want to face that publicly, then you shouldn't have supported it in the first place. Likewise, if you supported it then you should have no problem standing up for your point of view publicly, unless you think you have a weak position and don't want to defend it.
An assault on civil rights, an assault on marriage, or an assault on sunshine laws and freedom of information?
This isn't an assault on anything, the public has every right to know which among them votes for whatever. Dave Chapelle had it right, this country seems to think that the way you vote is the most private information. That shouldn't be the case, if you're voting in a public election then your vote should also be public. In fact, you should be proud to stand up and say you voted for any one thing. If you're not proud to say that, then why did you vote?
FYI: fuel tanks do actually explode given a sufficiently violent crash. You want to be sitting on top of a supercapacitor when you get in an impact with a combined speed of 120mph+? Heck, assume you get in a head-on collision on a road with a 35mph speed limit. Launch a supercapacitor at 70mph at a wall and see how that works out. Just because we've been using gas tanks for the past 100 someodd years doesn't immediately make all supercapacitors safe. Of course, the corollary is that our years of automotive experience probably doesn't mean that supercapacitors would start out as unsafe as gas tanks did.
Every other network in the USA is so bad that a device has to be on the best one to succeed
Maybe every other network isn't completely terrible, but Verizon does appear to currently be the best network. Look through the cities listed on this page:
Even though that's not exactly scientific, there's a clear pattern from across the country of Verizon getting high user ratings. Verizon is nearly always higher than AT&T, for example. Sprint and T-Mobile occasionally fight for the top spot, and Nextel clearly has smaller targeted markets.
Apparently Sprint exclusively has the Pre "through 2009". Sprint shows up decently well on that reception site, but it's lacking in a lot of places.
I would also say that any single carrier is currently not capable of supporting everything that its users would really want to do on their phones.
Most people don't have one, that's not something to be ashamed about. Owning an iPhone doesn't make a person any better than anyone else. Nor does anonymously posting random bullshit.
Further to this, hopefully the arsehole marketer who came up with the idea loses a job
Saatchi & Saatchi told the marketing magazine OMMA last year that it had developed the campaign to target men under 35 who hate advertising.
Hey, thanks. So, Mr. Marketing Genius Man [not you, parent], why exactly is it that you think that there are people out there who hate advertising or marketers in general? Maybe because of stupid ideas like this?
I, too, often find myself looking at a screen for extended periods of time without touching the mouse or keyboard, while I, ah... read the articles. Nothing ruins a good article more than having the screen saver start up right as you are about to finish.
That's funny, the exact same thing happens to me when I'm watching porn.
That might be because the sole purpose of a microphone is to be accessed and used by applications... The OS doesn't need a microphone, any more than it needs a printer. It doesn't grant and revoke access to the printer either. There are currently zero problems that can be solved by having the OS restrict access to the microphone. You can always turn it off if you're not using it.
Or a double colon. Anything really, if people are going to describe possible different syntax for the scheme, might as well also redefine the port syntax.
The only thing the parent was implying is frustration over requiring the www, that there's no alias for the domain alone. To suggest otherwise shows a lack of reading comprehension.
I suggest that even those who identify as female don't know how many responses are based on their gender and how many are based on their comments. It's easy to claim "he said something I don't like because I'm a girl", but unless the response actually says why it is being said they don't know.
Maybe so, but comments like "show us your tits" aren't very ambiguous.
Ok, you've made the requisite assinine car analogy, you can stop now. Analyzing comments in the LKML for sexism is quite relevant when the issue is... sexism in FOSS.
Any other analogy would have fit. The point is that you can't assume that sexism is not present in the FOSS world simply by counting the number of sexist comments and comparing that with the percentage of female developers.
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That makes sense, I hadn't considered that sales of the commercial license were used to advance development of the software in general. The arguments that RMS gives make sense.
MySQL is open source. Why is there a big argument about who controls it? If whoever is controlling it goes in a direction that people don't like, don't you just fork it? If people really are worried about the future of MySQL, shouldn't there already be a fork?
it's no one's business how I mark a ballot, nor is it anyone's business that I signed the petition.
I don't see it that way at all. If you're voting on something that affects other people's lives (and most things do), the public certainly has a right to know who voted which way. If you're ashamed to vote for something, then you shouldn't vote for it.
Either way, the point is that if you're supporting something you should stand behind it, it shouldn't matter that other people know you support it. If you're a homophobe living in Washington and want to make sure that same-sex civil unions don't pass, if you're going to put your name on that paper then you shouldn't try to hide from that. If you don't want to face that publicly, then you shouldn't have supported it in the first place. Likewise, if you supported it then you should have no problem standing up for your point of view publicly, unless you think you have a weak position and don't want to defend it.
An assault on civil rights, an assault on marriage, or an assault on sunshine laws and freedom of information?
This isn't an assault on anything, the public has every right to know which among them votes for whatever. Dave Chapelle had it right, this country seems to think that the way you vote is the most private information. That shouldn't be the case, if you're voting in a public election then your vote should also be public. In fact, you should be proud to stand up and say you voted for any one thing. If you're not proud to say that, then why did you vote?
FYI: fuel tanks do actually explode given a sufficiently violent crash. You want to be sitting on top of a supercapacitor when you get in an impact with a combined speed of 120mph+? Heck, assume you get in a head-on collision on a road with a 35mph speed limit. Launch a supercapacitor at 70mph at a wall and see how that works out. Just because we've been using gas tanks for the past 100 someodd years doesn't immediately make all supercapacitors safe. Of course, the corollary is that our years of automotive experience probably doesn't mean that supercapacitors would start out as unsafe as gas tanks did.
If you had such a 360 degree 3d display, what would you use it for?
I don't know about anyone else, but I would use mine to project a 3d representation of a crudely drawn penis.
If you pull up the ratings on that site, Sprint and Nextel each get different scores in each city.
It's a basic biological defect, most men would rather stare at tits than computer screens.
But how is that a defect?
Also, what if the tits are on the screens?
However, this last summer I switched to AT&T because verizon's network was dropping my calls in my apartment
Let's face it, you switched to AT&T because you wanted an iPhone and didn't have a choice in the matter.
Every other network in the USA is so bad that a device has to be on the best one to succeed
Maybe every other network isn't completely terrible, but Verizon does appear to currently be the best network. Look through the cities listed on this page:
http://www.cellreception.com/coverage/
Even though that's not exactly scientific, there's a clear pattern from across the country of Verizon getting high user ratings. Verizon is nearly always higher than AT&T, for example. Sprint and T-Mobile occasionally fight for the top spot, and Nextel clearly has smaller targeted markets.
Apparently Sprint exclusively has the Pre "through 2009". Sprint shows up decently well on that reception site, but it's lacking in a lot of places.
I would also say that any single carrier is currently not capable of supporting everything that its users would really want to do on their phones.
I see no basis to make such a conclusion.
I disagree.
Most people don't have one, that's not something to be ashamed about. Owning an iPhone doesn't make a person any better than anyone else. Nor does anonymously posting random bullshit.
iPhone killer?
Where have we heard that before!?!?
Where have you heard that here? I don't see anyone calling the Hero an "iPhone killer". Looks more like an "iPhone competitor".
Even if it's not possible to turn off the mic, again, there are currently zero security problems involving the microphone. This is just paranoia.
Right, but Toyota is saying she gave them informed consent. Failing to uncheck a box does not qualify for that, so that's not what happened here.
Further to this, hopefully the arsehole marketer who came up with the idea loses a job
Saatchi & Saatchi told the marketing magazine OMMA last year that it had developed the campaign to target men under 35 who hate advertising.
Hey, thanks. So, Mr. Marketing Genius Man [not you, parent], why exactly is it that you think that there are people out there who hate advertising or marketers in general? Maybe because of stupid ideas like this?
Inaction (not unchecking a box) is not informed consent. Informed consent requires action, not inaction.
How exactly are the headphones going to use sonar? Where is the microphone to receive the sonar pings?
I, too, often find myself looking at a screen for extended periods of time without touching the mouse or keyboard, while I, ah... read the articles. Nothing ruins a good article more than having the screen saver start up right as you are about to finish.
That's funny, the exact same thing happens to me when I'm watching porn.
That might be because the sole purpose of a microphone is to be accessed and used by applications... The OS doesn't need a microphone, any more than it needs a printer. It doesn't grant and revoke access to the printer either. There are currently zero problems that can be solved by having the OS restrict access to the microphone. You can always turn it off if you're not using it.
Or a double colon. Anything really, if people are going to describe possible different syntax for the scheme, might as well also redefine the port syntax.
The only thing the parent was implying is frustration over requiring the www, that there's no alias for the domain alone. To suggest otherwise shows a lack of reading comprehension.
Did everyone become retarded all of a sudden?
I'm going to suggest something here, stick with me, it's pretty confusing:
How about a different scheme to specify the port?
I suggest that even those who identify as female don't know how many responses are based on their gender and how many are based on their comments. It's easy to claim "he said something I don't like because I'm a girl", but unless the response actually says why it is being said they don't know.
Maybe so, but comments like "show us your tits" aren't very ambiguous.
Ok, you've made the requisite assinine car analogy, you can stop now. Analyzing comments in the LKML for sexism is quite relevant when the issue is ... sexism in FOSS.
Any other analogy would have fit. The point is that you can't assume that sexism is not present in the FOSS world simply by counting the number of sexist comments and comparing that with the percentage of female developers.