To the extent that the proposed paragraph is intended to constitute a contractual limitation on the use of the software (rather than a mere reminder of the UofD's academic dishonesty policy), I think it would probably be inconsistent with the GPL.
I was Rollerblading in Central Park (NYC) back in '95 or so and bought a Snapple from a push-cart vender, apparently from the former Soviet Union. As I left, I gave him a peppy circa-'95 yuppy scum "Have a good day!" to which he responded "I haff no good day." It bummed me out for a quarter lap.
Pioneer 10 is getting near the expected border of the "heliosphere" (sp?) which is often considered the border of our solar system and interstellar space. It is the "spot" where the radiation pressure from interstellar space becomes stronger than the Sun's (due to the distance from the Sun).
So now I _do_ know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins. (See "Fight Test", from The Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots", which, freakishly enough, I was listening to for the first time when I read the parent comment.)
Could this has been the inspiration for Yoyodyne in in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49? Yoyodyne was a toy-maker turned weapons company. Incidentally, Yoyodyne is the name of the alien-ontrolled company in Buckeroo Banzai (early 80s, as well as the name of an early dot-com (mid to late 90s).
Still off-topic: You may disagree with his politics, but I think ESR's writing on this site is pretty impressive -- if anything, it has increased my respect for him.
Peace gesture: I appreciate your nickname. When I recently travelled to Europe from America, I was amused that Mr. Clean (the bald-headed, ex-sailorish floor cleaner spokescartoon) was called Mr. Proper in Europe. One is tempted to draw cultural conclusions from this difference.
there was a definite "subculture" atmosphere that really didn't spend any time caring about a cure, some of them (not all) just wanted other people to do the work for them
Sounds kind of like/.'ers complaining about slipped deadlines or minor bugs in major open source projects.
I know it is a haul, but I think there is an English language movie theater in Frankfurt. Haven't been there and not sure if/when it is showing TTT. If you have read the book, I am not sure the language barrier would be that much of an obstacle to enjoying the film.
Does anyone know what Amex, Discover, Visa, MasterCard, etc. are doing currently with the data they accumulate? I am not suggesting anything nefarious, rather I think these institutions, by having much larger (and probably more representative) sample sizes, would be able to accomplish much more than this smaller company would.
I believe I read somewhere that Bata, the industrialist from what is now the Czech Republic (his companies made shoes, among other things), was the first to introduce.99 prices, some time in the early part of the 1900s.
I was walking in the center of town in Frankfurt, Germany today (geekily enough, going to a bookstore that carried English-language O'Reilly books, looking for the one on SVG), when I saw a guy that looked like WS -- the only thing I came up with saying to him (should he have proved to be WS) is "Hey man, you're William F***ing Shatner!"
A week or so ago, while flipping channels with my 5-yr old daughter, I came across an original Star Trek episode, in which Kirk and Spock were talking -- it was definitely the first time in her life she had ever seen them.
While a student I had a cruddy job and one day was watching the clock waiting to be able to leave, when the clock (which had a second hand) just stopped (mindblowing enough by itself). I picked up the clock to shake it and about 1000 cockroaches fell out -- I imagine one or more roaches or their excrement jammed the clock's gears.
That is the fascinating and frustrating thing about life sciences -- a system produced by evolution rather than central design need not rely so much on abstractions (or may rely on abstractions at one level (e.g., genes) that are completely obscured at other levels (phenotype)), and thus is harder to understand. Of course, abstraction may be an evolutionarily efficient design path -- on a gross structural level, think of evolution of diffentiated teeth or fingers from relatively homogeneous predecessors -- but evolution cares about results far more than design and thus is prone to break abstractions for quick wins in efficiency. I imagine at a certain point, however, biological spaghetti-code may affect the evolutionary potential and flexibility of a species.
PS: I'm not trying to start an evolution vs. creationism flame war.
One of the issues that neither Cringley nor most of the Slashdot commenters got into with respect to VCs is that (i) their willingness to invest in a company is predicated on the company shifting into a high-growth mode and (ii) in turn, a company's interest in accepting venture capital is often to finance a ramp-up of the scope of their business. This often results in a change in the nature of the business (think of a small web consulting business circa '98 that is planning on turning its internally developed tools into a shrink-wrapped product) that (i) may legitimately require different managerial skills than those of the pre-funding company and (ii) is inherently risky. Additionally, VCs are in the business of making numerous low-probability/high-return bets. If there is a 1 in 10 chance that an investment will return a 20-fold return, it is a good bet for a VC -- and since a VC is able to diversify its risks by investing in 10 such companies, it is not devastated if one of them fails. Employees, however, are unable to diversify their risks and so may not be able to afford to bet their entire livelihood on a long-shot bet even if it has a positive expected value, preferring instead to stay in a lower-risk lower-return mode. Of course, during the dot-com bubble, the assessment (by VCs, company founders (who chose to accept VC funding), employees, the public stock market) of the risks and returns of VC-funded companies was systematically skewed in a way that turned out to be wrong.
An OK read, but it was mostly obvious and did not get into the difficult issues of community building -- maintaining subject, tone, reputation and control without becoming unpleasantly authoritarian.
Slashdot does not present these issues in as acute a form as, for instance, a commercial product-users community site. One of the advantages Slashdot has as an online community is that it does not have much of an agenda -- sure, a large portion of the active participants are pro-Linux/anti-MS, vaguely libertarian, etc., but Slashdot itself is not trying to accomplish anything extrinsic to Slashdot and not trying to sell us anything (which is one of the things that makes it good).
Moreover, because of the overwhelmingly young-adult-male audience of Slashdot, there is little that can _really_ offend most people -- as much as we hate to accidently see or click through to the gentleman from the Christmas Islands, a stray repellent posting or link that gets past Slashcode is not going to cause large numbers of viewers to abandon Slashdot, write to Congress, think ill of Slashdot/OSDN/VA or boycott their products.
A commercial site (for instance, a company-sponsored owners group for a particular model auto), however, has more to lose from rude, disruptive or off-topic posts. Additionally, there are difficult issues that a commercial or agenda-oriented site must face -- how does one deal with dissent, with criticism of the product or agenda being promoted or with support of rival products or agenda?
Of course, one reaction (probably that of most Slashdotters) is to hell with those who are trying to exploit "community" to make sales, but I would guess that a good portion of the audience for chromatic's Slash book are interested in the commerce-oriented potential of communities.
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To the extent that the proposed paragraph is intended to constitute a contractual limitation on the use of the software (rather than a mere reminder of the UofD's academic dishonesty policy), I think it would probably be inconsistent with the GPL.
As the subject says, they were. Wish my wife could draw me cartoons.
Or, maybe he's actually an alien himself: Voron, Vogon, ...
A German alien -- Der Voron.
I was Rollerblading in Central Park (NYC) back in '95 or so and bought a Snapple from a push-cart vender, apparently from the former Soviet Union. As I left, I gave him a peppy circa-'95 yuppy scum "Have a good day!" to which he responded "I haff no good day." It bummed me out for a quarter lap.
Barring some freak gravitational occurrance, never.
DS1 is in a solar orbit and won't be leaving the solar system.
Haven't you ever seen Space 1999?
You talkin' 'bout Alienware?
So now I _do_ know where the sunbeams end and the starlight begins. (See "Fight Test", from The Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots", which, freakishly enough, I was listening to for the first time when I read the parent comment.)
Could this has been the inspiration for Yoyodyne in in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49? Yoyodyne was a toy-maker turned weapons company. Incidentally, Yoyodyne is the name of the alien-ontrolled company in Buckeroo Banzai (early 80s, as well as the name of an early dot-com (mid to late 90s).
Dan Ackroyd, about 1978 or so. I knew someone was going to mention the BOG.
For fun, they are a wonderful toy.
I used to carry around a hopelessly tangled Slinky in high school. Cool, wasn't I?
I believe the term is Super Elastic Bubble Plastic.
People like stealing if it is anonymous, easy, and leaves no possibility of getting caught
To quote Nelson from the Simpsons, "It's a victimless crime, like when you punch someone in the dark."
Still off-topic: You may disagree with his politics, but I think ESR's writing on this site is pretty impressive -- if anything, it has increased my respect for him.
Peace gesture: I appreciate your nickname. When I recently travelled to Europe from America, I was amused that Mr. Clean (the bald-headed, ex-sailorish floor cleaner spokescartoon) was called Mr. Proper in Europe. One is tempted to draw cultural conclusions from this difference.
Sounds kind of like
I know it is a haul, but I think there is an English language movie theater in Frankfurt. Haven't been there and not sure if/when it is showing TTT. If you have read the book, I am not sure the language barrier would be that much of an obstacle to enjoying the film.
Does anyone know what Amex, Discover, Visa, MasterCard, etc. are doing currently with the data they accumulate? I am not suggesting anything nefarious, rather I think these institutions, by having much larger (and probably more representative) sample sizes, would be able to accomplish much more than this smaller company would.
It is because we are made of starfish.
I believe I read somewhere that Bata, the industrialist from what is now the Czech Republic (his companies made shoes, among other things), was the first to introduce .99 prices, some time in the early part of the 1900s.
William F***ing Shatner
I was walking in the center of town in Frankfurt, Germany today (geekily enough, going to a bookstore that carried English-language O'Reilly books, looking for the one on SVG), when I saw a guy that looked like WS -- the only thing I came up with saying to him (should he have proved to be WS) is "Hey man, you're William F***ing Shatner!"
A week or so ago, while flipping channels with my 5-yr old daughter, I came across an original Star Trek episode, in which Kirk and Spock were talking -- it was definitely the first time in her life she had ever seen them.
While a student I had a cruddy job and one day was watching the clock waiting to be able to leave, when the clock (which had a second hand) just stopped (mindblowing enough by itself). I picked up the clock to shake it and about 1000 cockroaches fell out -- I imagine one or more roaches or their excrement jammed the clock's gears.
That is the fascinating and frustrating thing about life sciences -- a system produced by evolution rather than central design need not rely so much on abstractions (or may rely on abstractions at one level (e.g., genes) that are completely obscured at other levels (phenotype)), and thus is harder to understand. Of course, abstraction may be an evolutionarily efficient design path -- on a gross structural level, think of evolution of diffentiated teeth or fingers from relatively homogeneous predecessors -- but evolution cares about results far more than design and thus is prone to break abstractions for quick wins in efficiency. I imagine at a certain point, however, biological spaghetti-code may affect the evolutionary potential and flexibility of a species.
PS: I'm not trying to start an evolution vs. creationism flame war.
Yes, you beat me to it. Or his moth friend (Arthur?)
One of the issues that neither Cringley nor most of the Slashdot commenters got into with respect to VCs is that (i) their willingness to invest in a company is predicated on the company shifting into a high-growth mode and (ii) in turn, a company's interest in accepting venture capital is often to finance a ramp-up of the scope of their business. This often results in a change in the nature of the business (think of a small web consulting business circa '98 that is planning on turning its internally developed tools into a shrink-wrapped product) that (i) may legitimately require different managerial skills than those of the pre-funding company and (ii) is inherently risky. Additionally, VCs are in the business of making numerous low-probability/high-return bets. If there is a 1 in 10 chance that an investment will return a 20-fold return, it is a good bet for a VC -- and since a VC is able to diversify its risks by investing in 10 such companies, it is not devastated if one of them fails. Employees, however, are unable to diversify their risks and so may not be able to afford to bet their entire livelihood on a long-shot bet even if it has a positive expected value, preferring instead to stay in a lower-risk lower-return mode. Of course, during the dot-com bubble, the assessment (by VCs, company founders (who chose to accept VC funding), employees, the public stock market) of the risks and returns of VC-funded companies was systematically skewed in a way that turned out to be wrong.
An OK read, but it was mostly obvious and did not get into the difficult issues of community building -- maintaining subject, tone, reputation and control without becoming unpleasantly authoritarian.
Slashdot does not present these issues in as acute a form as, for instance, a commercial product-users community site. One of the advantages Slashdot has as an online community is that it does not have much of an agenda -- sure, a large portion of the active participants are pro-Linux/anti-MS, vaguely libertarian, etc., but Slashdot itself is not trying to accomplish anything extrinsic to Slashdot and not trying to sell us anything (which is one of the things that makes it good).
Moreover, because of the overwhelmingly young-adult-male audience of Slashdot, there is little that can _really_ offend most people -- as much as we hate to accidently see or click through to the gentleman from the Christmas Islands, a stray repellent posting or link that gets past Slashcode is not going to cause large numbers of viewers to abandon Slashdot, write to Congress, think ill of Slashdot/OSDN/VA or boycott their products.
A commercial site (for instance, a company-sponsored owners group for a particular model auto), however, has more to lose from rude, disruptive or off-topic posts. Additionally, there are difficult issues that a commercial or agenda-oriented site must face -- how does one deal with dissent, with criticism of the product or agenda being promoted or with support of rival products or agenda?
Of course, one reaction (probably that of most Slashdotters) is to hell with those who are trying to exploit "community" to make sales, but I would guess that a good portion of the audience for chromatic's Slash book are interested in the commerce-oriented potential of communities.