I know this would be a slippery slope and not in the true spirit of the GPL, but it really pisses me off to see SCO doing what they're doing to Linux and then tout there new OS which includes a whole bunch of Open Source software!!
Making decisions based solely on the fact that you're pissed off is a bad idea. This sort of restriction would only hurt open source; it wouldn't help anyone.
Your logic is correct (to a point), but like most things, "it's not that easy." The optimal speed depends on the engine, the aerodynamics of the car, the terrain you're driving over, the number of stops and starts, the tires you have, whether you're running the air conditioning, the air pressure, and all sorts of other factors which can combine in rather unexpected ways. The bottom line is: if you want to know, you'll have to experiment a bit. I did a little experimentation to find speeds and driving habits that boost my mileage by about four mpg over what I used to get. It's not spectacular, but it does help.
It doesn't work that way, unfortunately. You don't know the properties of the photon you send, until you measure the properties of the entangled photon. Your scheme involves measuring them twice: once to determine their state before sending them, and once on the recieving end.
There is no way that a car, travelling so fast that an obstruction in a part of the road that is not yet visible cannot be avoided, can be considered to be travelling at a safe speed. If an accident is caused in such a situation, the blame lies solely on the person who was unable to control his vehicle because of his excessive speed. Virtually everyone has an inflated opinion of their driving skill, and trusting them to pick a speed that really is safe is lunacy.
The whole "everyone should drive the same speed I do, even if it's far beyond the speed limit!" nonsense is nothing but laziness and irresponsibility, the attitude that it's always somebody else's fault when something goes wrong. If it is safe for traffic to travel 75mph rather than the posted 55mph on the road, the speed limit should be raised to 75mph. If it's unsafe, then the police ought to be out in force, ticketing everyone who is driving too fast. The system we have of assuming that everyone will ignore all traffic laws is one of the primary reasons why the roads are so dangerous.
I'm saying that having a general knowledge of computer security is not the same as being an expert in the field of e-voting security. An in-depth knowledge of the specifics of voting systems and voting fraud, both electronic and traditional, are required to offer an informed opinion as an expert on the relative security between the two. Many of these "experts" probably gained most of their knowledge of the subject from slashdot stories.
What makes it even less informative is that these "experts" are not experts in the field that's being discussed. The numbers would at least be interesting if they had actually used experts knowledgable about voting security.
You've just described an expanded karma scheme. Given all the stupidity that the love of karma causes already, I can't imagine that making it more important would solve anything at all.
Linux will never be ready for computer users like Windows is ready for them.
No, you mean Linux will never be ready for the subset of computer users that require that everything works just like Windows. "Linux is not ready for the desktop" is a demonstratably false statement.
I don't see that it matters. Honestly, this stuff is so subjective that any sort of final value of "how good the game is" is absolutely useless. What makes reviews useful is the description and analysis of the game.
But it only applies to "discoveries or inventions... concieved." The statement "your employer owns your thoughts" is completely different in meaning -- meaning that whetever you think belongs to your employer -- and was deliberately chosen in order to misrepresent what's happening.
"Upon his hire, he was required to sign an employment agreement, pledging to provide the company with all information concerning any discoveries or inventions he made or conceived while in its employ which related to the nature of the company's business."
Note, of course, that this isn't the same as "owning the employees thoughts," which is just the traditional Slashdot Headline Troll.
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As for what that means, I don't know that I want to know.
Why is it that everyone tosses around "not ready for the desktop" as if it's a meaningful phrase? Thousands of us have been using Linux as a desktop OS for years, with great results, so the claim that it's not "ready for the desktop" is kind of ridiculous. If you mean that it's not "usable by Grandma" or "intuitive for a sub-moron gorilla" or "doesn't include the features I like best," then say that instead.
"Average users don't want complexity, and without the average user -- your boss, your Aunt Nellie and people like them -- GNU/Linux will remain a niche desktop forever."
Well, if GNOME wants to target the "average user," then of course there will be a lot of non-average users who don't like it. If we've learned anything about the desktop, it should be that no one desktop will be ideal for everyone. I don't know why this comes as a surprise to anyone.
Maybe because there are so many good books out there that spending a couple hours reading this one to satisfy vague curiosity would be a waste of time?
Sure, Linux distros and similar large software downloads is something you can point out as a legitimate use of p2p to sell the idea... to geeks.
On several occasions, I've seen game demos being distributed by BitTorrent -- that's definitely within the crowd of regular people. Although I haven't seen much in the way of legitimate music and video distributed via P2P, I'd bet that it's being used in those cases as well.
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Hey, idiot moderators: parent is not a troll. Mod points are not supposed to be a way for you to push your own agenda.
Does this argument remind anyone else of the standard line of debate whenever copyright infringement comes up?
Hint: so does everybody else.
Your logic is correct (to a point), but like most things, "it's not that easy." The optimal speed depends on the engine, the aerodynamics of the car, the terrain you're driving over, the number of stops and starts, the tires you have, whether you're running the air conditioning, the air pressure, and all sorts of other factors which can combine in rather unexpected ways. The bottom line is: if you want to know, you'll have to experiment a bit. I did a little experimentation to find speeds and driving habits that boost my mileage by about four mpg over what I used to get. It's not spectacular, but it does help.
It doesn't work that way, unfortunately. You don't know the properties of the photon you send, until you measure the properties of the entangled photon. Your scheme involves measuring them twice: once to determine their state before sending them, and once on the recieving end.
The whole "everyone should drive the same speed I do, even if it's far beyond the speed limit!" nonsense is nothing but laziness and irresponsibility, the attitude that it's always somebody else's fault when something goes wrong. If it is safe for traffic to travel 75mph rather than the posted 55mph on the road, the speed limit should be raised to 75mph. If it's unsafe, then the police ought to be out in force, ticketing everyone who is driving too fast. The system we have of assuming that everyone will ignore all traffic laws is one of the primary reasons why the roads are so dangerous.
I'm saying that having a general knowledge of computer security is not the same as being an expert in the field of e-voting security. An in-depth knowledge of the specifics of voting systems and voting fraud, both electronic and traditional, are required to offer an informed opinion as an expert on the relative security between the two. Many of these "experts" probably gained most of their knowledge of the subject from slashdot stories.
What makes it even less informative is that these "experts" are not experts in the field that's being discussed. The numbers would at least be interesting if they had actually used experts knowledgable about voting security.
You've just described an expanded karma scheme. Given all the stupidity that the love of karma causes already, I can't imagine that making it more important would solve anything at all.
But it's OK, really, since it's open source. Everyone who installed Mozilla audited all the code before using it.
I don't see that it matters. Honestly, this stuff is so subjective that any sort of final value of "how good the game is" is absolutely useless. What makes reviews useful is the description and analysis of the game.
But it only applies to "discoveries or inventions ... concieved." The statement "your employer owns your thoughts" is completely different in meaning -- meaning that whetever you think belongs to your employer -- and was deliberately chosen in order to misrepresent what's happening.
As for what that means, I don't know that I want to know.
Maybe because there are so many good books out there that spending a couple hours reading this one to satisfy vague curiosity would be a waste of time?
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If I didn't know better, I'd say they were disliked.Insightful? Try offtopic. Idiot moderators.
Maybe you could explain how that's vengeful, when it seems like common sense to the rest of us. Or maybe you could just stop trolling.