Yeaah. How old is Hypercard itself anyway? That's the birthday I'm getting a gift for. I remember my first Hypercard stack. Drawing of a naked woman; when you clicked her nipple it made noises and played screen effects. Immature and simple, yes, but it still beats the hell out of fvwm.
Why bother duplicating XP? Why would Linux need to become just like Windows? If that's what you want, why NOT use Windows? You're advocating this to make Linux competitive with Windows? WTF?
Compared to not spending at all, sure, but compared to direct investments in the economy, rebuilding cities, non-military technological incentives, etc., it is not growth; in fact, it's theft.
Outspending the competition by a ratio like that is not about successful defense. And it's absolutely criminal when you take into account that it represents money taken away from things we need desperately like education and economic development. And please don't whine about this being "socialist" when defending the most massive government spending project in human history.
SCO is now claiming their threat to sue Torvalds was overstated. Quote from CEO: "Virtually we see no reason why that would ever happen. We're not trying to go down that path."
This is absurd. The code is open source. They cannot claim that they were ignorant that their IP was in the code when they released it. At least not without getting laughed at. If they distributed code under GPL without looking at it, I doubt a court would protect their right to claim IP based on some other license.
Personally I think SCO knows it doesn't have a chance of winning this and that they are trying to create uncertainty about the GPL. Truth is, even if they lose, people's perception of the GPL will be affected negatively since it seems to confirm MS's philosophy that the GPL is "viral."
Part of the problem is that Apple isn't very specific about its different models. The question of which powerbooks are affected would be easier to answer if every different powerbook model had a unique model number that was easy to find. I know it's out of tune with Apple's marketing strategy to advertise different models of computer with obscure number/letter schemes, but having to identify your computer as something like "PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze Keyboard)" or "PowerMac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors)" is just confusing as hell for most users.
Tenure seems far more detrimental to the North American University than it is useful.
I realize there are good reasons for getting upset with the tenure system, but I think it's important we keep in mind the reason why tenure exists: academic freedom. Tenure is not supposed to protect an instructor who is incompetent, unethical, or burnt out. And there is nothing in a tenured professor's contract that would imply otherwise. Nonetheless, it does sometimes does wind up doing that, because professors who abuse the system will wave the tenure contract around and threaten lawsuits, and most departments would rather keep things quiet than actually fight these people. Frankly I think that's a failure of will on the part of such departments. But tenure contracts are essential in any occupation where academic freedom is an issue. Otherwise it is too easy to imagine instructors fired for dissenting views or research. This isn't always about politics either -- imagine for example an agriculture professor whose research is critical of factory farming. Imagine that professor teaches at a university in Iowa whose board of regents comprises factory farming interests. I think the academic freedom implications of the First Amendment demand something like tenure in the public university system (and I think all serious universities should have some legal assurance like that).
But I do not think tenure should be used as an excuse not to deal with professors who have stopped doing their jobs, who are simply incompetent, who constantly prey on sexy coeds, etc. Universities have a post-tenure review process to keep track of what professors do after tenure, but these reviews tend to cover up some of the worst problems rather than rooting them out. It's not a failure of tenure but of the people charged with implementing it; tenured and non-tenured faculty alike should demand better, IMHO.
is if this thing had voice. You'd be able to send an IM to anyone that would signal them by making noise or rattling a similar device in their pocket, and you could actually talk into the device and hear your friend talking back. Wouldn't that be great? Even better if it weren't tied to a base station so you could use it anywhere. I wonder what we could call it; how about "telly-fone"?
Well, that rules out antiwater. The answer, then, is clear. It is antigravity, not antiwater, that makes water go up.
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There are more pressing military waste issues than M$ licensing to worry about, like the one trillion missing USD that they simply can't explain. ("Sorry, Senator, I must have left it in my other pants.")
You're kidding, right? The DOD created the internet concept to make a more secure network. They have crap to keep things secret that we could only dream of.
Then they probably should be aware enough not to trust communication to an insecure protocol. In this case the network is only as secure as its weakest application.
That is not the same as the ASP loophole. The grandparent post describes the difference between using GPL code in-house and actually distributing the code; the ASP thing creates a grey area where use flows over into distribution. I don't think RMS is going to turn the GPL into a EULA.
Yeah, laws are great until you have to enforce them. The only thing that gives licensing any meaning is the idea that it is binding. Saying that you're in favor of the GPL but against lawsuits enforcing it is naive. It would be nice if everyone voluntarily obeyed the license, of course, but when people violate it litigation may become essential.
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Yeaah. How old is Hypercard itself anyway? That's the birthday I'm getting a gift for. I remember my first Hypercard stack. Drawing of a naked woman; when you clicked her nipple it made noises and played screen effects. Immature and simple, yes, but it still beats the hell out of fvwm.
Why bother duplicating XP? Why would Linux need to become just like Windows? If that's what you want, why NOT use Windows? You're advocating this to make Linux competitive with Windows? WTF?
LOL!
Compared to not spending at all, sure, but compared to direct investments in the economy, rebuilding cities, non-military technological incentives, etc., it is not growth; in fact, it's theft.
Outspending the competition by a ratio like that is not about successful defense. And it's absolutely criminal when you take into account that it represents money taken away from things we need desperately like education and economic development. And please don't whine about this being "socialist" when defending the most massive government spending project in human history.
The US spends more than thirty three times as much on defense as its top seven potential enemies combined.
Then he gasps in horror as he realizes Mr. Burns stole the bill and gave it to Fidel Castro.
This is why you should NEVER let your cat drink coffee.
I'm not going to click the link to find out; how did you translate the tinyurl into readable format without clicking the link?
As someone else pointed out, they are even still distributing the offending code right now.
SCO is now claiming their threat to sue Torvalds was overstated. Quote from CEO: "Virtually we see no reason why that would ever happen. We're not trying to go down that path."
Personally I think SCO knows it doesn't have a chance of winning this and that they are trying to create uncertainty about the GPL. Truth is, even if they lose, people's perception of the GPL will be affected negatively since it seems to confirm MS's philosophy that the GPL is "viral."
You won't feel so comfortable when the Martians attack and enslave planet earth!!!
Part of the problem is that Apple isn't very specific about its different models. The question of which powerbooks are affected would be easier to answer if every different powerbook model had a unique model number that was easy to find. I know it's out of tune with Apple's marketing strategy to advertise different models of computer with obscure number/letter schemes, but having to identify your computer as something like "PowerBook G3 Series (Bronze Keyboard)" or "PowerMac G4 (Mirrored Drive Doors)" is just confusing as hell for most users.
I realize there are good reasons for getting upset with the tenure system, but I think it's important we keep in mind the reason why tenure exists: academic freedom. Tenure is not supposed to protect an instructor who is incompetent, unethical, or burnt out. And there is nothing in a tenured professor's contract that would imply otherwise. Nonetheless, it does sometimes does wind up doing that, because professors who abuse the system will wave the tenure contract around and threaten lawsuits, and most departments would rather keep things quiet than actually fight these people. Frankly I think that's a failure of will on the part of such departments. But tenure contracts are essential in any occupation where academic freedom is an issue. Otherwise it is too easy to imagine instructors fired for dissenting views or research. This isn't always about politics either -- imagine for example an agriculture professor whose research is critical of factory farming. Imagine that professor teaches at a university in Iowa whose board of regents comprises factory farming interests. I think the academic freedom implications of the First Amendment demand something like tenure in the public university system (and I think all serious universities should have some legal assurance like that).
But I do not think tenure should be used as an excuse not to deal with professors who have stopped doing their jobs, who are simply incompetent, who constantly prey on sexy coeds, etc. Universities have a post-tenure review process to keep track of what professors do after tenure, but these reviews tend to cover up some of the worst problems rather than rooting them out. It's not a failure of tenure but of the people charged with implementing it; tenured and non-tenured faculty alike should demand better, IMHO.
is if this thing had voice. You'd be able to send an IM to anyone that would signal them by making noise or rattling a similar device in their pocket, and you could actually talk into the device and hear your friend talking back. Wouldn't that be great? Even better if it weren't tied to a base station so you could use it anywhere. I wonder what we could call it; how about "telly-fone"?
Except the inspiration you feel from a zen waterfall comes from the water flowing down. Use this when you want to feel uninspired.
Well, that rules out antiwater. The answer, then, is clear. It is antigravity, not antiwater, that makes water go up.
There are more pressing military waste issues than M$ licensing to worry about, like the one trillion missing USD that they simply can't explain. ("Sorry, Senator, I must have left it in my other pants.")
He misspelled "nuggets."
Then they probably should be aware enough not to trust communication to an insecure protocol. In this case the network is only as secure as its weakest application.
It looks like you're communicating news of a WMD emergency. Would you like help?
__ Get help with emergency
__ Continue with emergency without help
__ Howl in agony and clutch at face as it melts grotesquely into the desert sand
Why? Do you really want that stuff up your ass? Don't MS products already cause enough pain in that region as it is?
That is not the same as the ASP loophole. The grandparent post describes the difference between using GPL code in-house and actually distributing the code; the ASP thing creates a grey area where use flows over into distribution. I don't think RMS is going to turn the GPL into a EULA.
Yeah, laws are great until you have to enforce them. The only thing that gives licensing any meaning is the idea that it is binding. Saying that you're in favor of the GPL but against lawsuits enforcing it is naive. It would be nice if everyone voluntarily obeyed the license, of course, but when people violate it litigation may become essential.