You might want to read this article . I don't say it is completely correct, but IMHO it describes the dynamics of a copyright free publishing industry quite well.
And how much has has to do with the inhuman treatment of the people in Gitmo, i.e. a place where the US is in complete control and no revolution is taking place?
Security systems are built on trusting the people doing the work. What he did broke that trust, and it broke a law he was reminded of every time he entered a secured area. He was trained in how to deal with improperly classified information, and instead of doing that he tossed it over the wall to someone he didn't even know, and along with it tossed a pile of properly classified information.
From the linked article:
But ultimately, what one thinks of Manning's alleged acts is irrelevant to the issue here. The U.S. ought at least to abide by minimal standards of humane treatment in how it detains him. That's true for every prisoner, at all times. But departures from such standards are particularly egregious where, as here, the detainee has merely been accused, but never convicted, of wrongdoing. These inhumane conditions make a mockery of Barack Obama's repeated pledge to end detainee abuse and torture, as prolonged isolation -- exacerbated by these other deprivations -- is at least as damaging, as violative of international legal standards, and almost as reviled around the world, as the waterboard, hypothermia and other Bush-era tactics that caused so much controversy.
If your point is that every country is necessarily better of if it was run completely democratically (i.e. by the vote of the majority) Chile is one of the best examples to the contrary. Instead of being the most prosperous and most free country in the Latin America for the last 30 years or so and approaching the living standard of the developed world (after the moderately nasty post coup period in the 70s),....
Thus, between 1970 and 1989, Chile's GDP "grew at a slow pace (relative to the 1960s and to other Latin American countries over the same period) with an average rate of 1.8-2.0 per cent. On a per capita basis . . . GDP [grew] at a rate (0.1-0.2 per cent) well below the Latin American average . . . [B]y 1989 the GDP was still 6.1 per cent below the 1981 level, not having recovered the level reached in 1970. For the entire period of military rule (1974-1989) only five Latin American countries had a worse record...." [Petras and Leiva, Op. Cit., p. 32]
As for the living standard:
Per capita consumption fell by 23% from 1972-87. The proportion of the population below the poverty line (the minimum income required for basic food and housing) increased from 20% to 44.4% between 1970 and 1987. Per capita health care spending was more than halved from 1973 to 1985, setting off explosive growth in poverty-related diseases such as typhoid, diabetes and viral hepatitis. On the other hand, while consumption for the poorest 20% of the population of Santiago dropped by 30%, it rose by 15% for the richest 20%. [Noam Chomsky, Year 501, pp. 190-191] The percentage of Chileans without adequate housing increased from 27 to 40 percent between 1972 and 1988, despite the claims of the government that it would solve homelessness via market friendly policies.
Which quote are you referring to? Could it be this one?
... latest polls show Arab opinion holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second threat is the United States, that’s 77 percent. Iran is listed as a threat by 10 percent,"
I would guess that Arab opinion refers to the opinion of the general public, whereas the wikileak documents talk about Arab leaders. Actually, it is not very surprising that the opinion of the general Arab public differs from the opinion then the Arab leaders and it speaks legend about the state of democracy in those countries. (Not that my home country is much better in that regard, although it counts as one of those "western democracies".)
One more thing I'd like to know is how wikileaks exactly shows that the US does a lot to support democracy?
I don't feel threatened, because I earned my geek card running Gentoo Linux. On top of that, I really like science fiction: for example the Strugatsky brothers and Lem are amongst my favourite readings.
The result: BSG was barely science fiction - at least to purists.
I risk to differ: Good science fiction can and should also refer to social sciences by putting people into extreme situations that are probably easier to conceive in a fictional setting then in a setting of the current world. When doing that kind of science fiction it will most likely tell you more about the time when it was created then about a possible future and IMO that is a good thing, because the future is not foreseeable anyway and the fiction should reflect and influence the now. I think BSG did an excellent job at that.
Seems like the last "first time" was just 2009 ($US75 billion btw). Well, I guess it sounds better to write for the first time in a decade a second time then for the second time a first time. ; )
No, we need IP laws and the lack of them will bring innovation to a standstill.
You have it all wrong: for example James Watt brought the development of the steam machine to a standstill using his patents, and only after these patents expired, innovation could continue:
Once Watt's patents were secured and production started, a substantial portion of his energy was devoted to fending off rival inventors. In 1782, Watt secured an additional patent, made "necessary in consequence of... having been so unfairly anticipated, by [Matthew] Wasborough in the crank motion"... . More dramatically, in the 1790s, when the superior Hornblower engine was put into production, Boulton and Watt went after him with the full force of the legal system.
...
After the expiration of Watt's patents, not only was there an explosion in the production and efficiency of engines, but steam power came into its own as the driving force of the Industrial Revolution. Over a thirty year period steam engines were modified and improved as crucial innovations such as the steam train, the steamboat and the steam jenny came into wide usage. The key innovation was the high-pressure steam engine — development of which had been blocked by Watt's strategic use of his patent. Many new improvements to the steam engine, such as those of William Bull, Richard Trevithick, and Arthur Woolf, became available by 1804: although developed earlier these innovations were kept idle until the Boulton and Watt patent expired. None of these innovators wished to incur the same fate as Jonathan Hornblower.
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You might want to read this article . I don't say it is completely correct, but IMHO it describes the dynamics of a copyright free publishing industry quite well.
I'm the only person I know whose favorite Alien is 3. Everybody else hates it for one reason or another. I think it's the best one.
No, you're not the only one :)
And how much has has to do with the inhuman treatment of the people in Gitmo, i.e. a place where the US is in complete control and no revolution is taking place?
... and that's really convenient, isn't it?
Fun fact: The US of A supposedly fights for human rights all over the world, but they don't even get it right where they are in control.
http://www.couragetoresist.org/
In g++ you get openmp , but you might want to have a look at cilk++. Unfortunately, it is based on g++-4.2.4, so no C++0x features.
That depends on how you define "debugging". Would you put "writing (more) tests" under this definition?
and this.
It's Assange, Wikileaks, and Manning who have broken the law,
I understand that Manning broke the law.
However, leaving the sex allegations aside, which law did Assange (and in extension Wikileaks) actually break?
Security systems are built on trusting the people doing the work. What he did broke that trust, and it broke a law he was reminded of every time he entered a secured area. He was trained in how to deal with improperly classified information, and instead of doing that he tossed it over the wall to someone he didn't even know, and along with it tossed a pile of properly classified information.
From the linked article:
... but it's our preciouss.
I use the conventional definition of socialism, which is where the means of production are in the hands of the government.
For this constellation, one should use the term state socialism and rightfully oppose it. But that doesn't mean a libertarian socialism isn't possible.
It's not enough to posit that there's something both less intrusive and more effective. You have to actually show such a thing.
How about this?
If your point is that every country is necessarily better of if it was run completely democratically (i.e. by the vote of the majority) Chile is one of the best examples to the contrary. Instead of being the most prosperous and most free country in the Latin America for the last 30 years or so and approaching the living standard of the developed world (after the moderately nasty post coup period in the 70s), ... .
Simply wrong
As for the living standard:
I would guess that Arab opinion refers to the opinion of the general public, whereas the wikileak documents talk about Arab leaders. Actually, it is not very surprising that the opinion of the general Arab public differs from the opinion then the Arab leaders and it speaks legend about the state of democracy in those countries. (Not that my home country is much better in that regard, although it counts as one of those "western democracies".)
One more thing I'd like to know is how wikileaks exactly shows that the US does a lot to support democracy?
I don't feel threatened, because I earned my geek card running Gentoo Linux. On top of that, I really like science fiction: for example the Strugatsky brothers and Lem are amongst my favourite readings.
The result: BSG was barely science fiction - at least to purists.
I risk to differ: Good science fiction can and should also refer to social sciences by putting people into extreme situations that are probably easier to conceive in a fictional setting then in a setting of the current world. When doing that kind of science fiction it will most likely tell you more about the time when it was created then about a possible future and IMO that is a good thing, because the future is not foreseeable anyway and the fiction should reflect and influence the now. I think BSG did an excellent job at that.
Seems like the last "first time" was just 2009 ($US75 billion btw). Well, I guess it sounds better to write for the first time in a decade a second time then for the second time a first time. ; )
I don't like "Works for Windows" labels myself, but they are 1) required to inform the customer that the hardware will work with Windows
Well, the statement of the FSF goes on:
However, we don't object to clear factual statements informing the user that the product also works with specific proprietary operating systems.
Or what about the patent office themselves?
http://www.uspto.gov/
..., but that would be really sweet.
For some reason I (really!) thought I read 'the now perverse replacement language for C'. I was probably thinking of his earlier interview:
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/98/May/stroustrup.html
Nice try, but did you also read it to the end?
In 2004 the 6600 was just making it onto reviewers desks. ...
And the GeForce 6 series supported Full MPEG-2 encoding and decoding at GPU level (PureVideo)
http://www.stellarium.org/
No, we need IP laws and the lack of them will bring innovation to a standstill.
You have it all wrong: for example James Watt brought the development of the steam machine to a standstill using his patents, and only after these patents expired, innovation could continue:
No, its related to that!!