People don't get rich by making dumb business decisions. What makes you think Getting Rich is the (ultimate) goal in life?
Most that I know who write their code under the GPL just want to have a good life and share with like minded.
Sharing != giving away.
Exactly!
That's why I don't like the potential outcome of such an idea.
If that 5 - 10% is indeed true the internet as we know it has a serious problem.
(possibly comparable to the problems caused by the insecurities of MS operating systems;) ).
The next step might be some dofus politician trying to restrict access to those licensed.
Rather, 5 percent to 10 percent of people will simply type in a name that sounds as if it might suit their needs.
What to do with such Lusers, they might become the reason for a call for an Internet Users Licence.
This could mean more than 5 - 10% of visitors to a(ny) site are lost souls as these idiots would need many attempts to get to their goal...
My other account, which I no longer use, is *5* digits, young-un. Correction -- low 5-digits. So old you can't remember the password...
No not the account, I mean you;)
Yep that was my first thought.
Symantec is showing it's gratitude to Microsoft for enabling their business model on Microsoft designed weaknesses.
One hell of a way to root out the pirated copies of Windows...
Which is to say, after having worked with and seen plenty more international teams, that other cultures find dedication to excellence a shocking American practice and expectation. I have no idea why this is so, when every example of its absence results in mediocrity. Other cultures understand and appreciate the meaning of a leader "dedicated to excellence" very well.
Other than American culture they generally find it, unless at war, hard to appreciate the Super Hero and Champion.
The American Way might often lead to great gains, but probably for a limited time only.
When you, as many Europeans or Oriental people, have grown up surrounded by many centuries old buildings and institutions you have a different appreciation of what *success* means.
It's different per country, with Germany probably at the forefront of garbage/trash separation at the source.
Here in The Netherlands all households have three containers, a green one for leftovers that can be composted, a small one for chemical and hazardous waste like the bulbs of the article but also (empty) paint cans etc. and a grey one for the rest.
It does not stop at these three, you are expected to keep paper for separate collection (often by the church or such) and there usually is a point in town to dispose of clothing (could be the Salvation Army), appliances, furniture etc. When you buy certain goods, radio, TV, washing machine or a car, you have to pay a small surcharge that's used to cover the eventual disposal at the end of it's life.
Communities can elect to do it differently like sorting the trash at a central facility but most leave it to their inhabitants, a mixture of those systems is quite common too.
In Germany it goes much further, you even have to separate different types of plastics and paper from cardboard.
As an often times admirer of things American I usually don't like comments that say "You must be American", but I'm afraid I can't avoid it here.
In Europe we've always had much more expensive energy than you guys in the USofA and by consequence we've for many years been keen adopters of money savers like these bulbs.
At the same time we've grown used to separating our waste and disposing of it in a safe way.
In (Continental!) Western Europe landfills are now the exception.
Fluorescent bulbs have since many years been labelled as hazardous waste and are collected as such, as a matter of fact a retailer selling them has to provide a return point for recycling.
Like other dubious explanations of your constitution you might feel you have the right to dump anything in a landfill but that does not make it wise.
He might not end up in jail that easily but chances are he'd end up in hospital or even dead.
It' just that aspect what has thought the Europeans a historic lesson, there are limits to what a democratic society can bear before it falls victim to it's own liberties.
Many of us Europeans prefer some legal tools to stop the idiots.
This is little more than a thinly veiled attempt by the EU to outlaw religion (both Muslim and Christian religions believe homosexuality to be immoral; the reasoning goes that even condeming immoral behavior (as opposed to people)is sufficient to trigger the statute.
What a rubbish! I can equally claim it's some overly religious tribes that are fuelling this type of "Moral" legislation.
Not that the Socialists would be above it, as a matter of fact any political or other group, left or right, has enemies it would sometimes like to silence.
IIRC, a similar law has been passed in the Netherlands, with pastors being warned that there are certain sins they are no longer allowed to mention in public.
Living in The Netherlands I can tell you your memory is failing in a catastrophic manner.
Even if you are an atheist, the premise is troubling. I would be likewise disturbed if questioning the existence of God was made illegal - certainly this development is not going to expand and enlighten public discourse on sensitive subjects.
Truly a troubling development.
I would sooner say you are troubled to voice such outrageous claims...
Europe is a continent with many very different cultures that have fought bitterly in a not so distant past, just take the troubles in the Balkan.
It does not take much imagination to see new flare ups of extremely damaging violence in parts of Europe when certain scrupulous groups and individuals would not be constrained.
It is regrettable this type of legislation is needed but in countries that have had this legislation for many years the advantages have generally outweighed the worries.
I don't guess but am pretty sure you missed the reason for concern in the original article.
Becoming dependent on a commercial entity for providing you with data important for the ability of your democraticaly chosen government to take decisions is extremely dangerous.
When you on occasion not like the actions of your elected officials you would take corrective action at the next election, something you can't do with a Google.
This story does not belong on Slashdot. This is not "news for nerds", and never will be.
I feel a subject like the one at hand perfectly matches the other half of Slashdot's subtitle: Stuff that matters.
But probably flawed as the non-believers do not 'suffer' peer pressure to discard the theory of Evolution
At the same time the educated among them are exposed to peer pressure against Creationism...
I only post as AC on slashdot so that I cannot be gagged with the Karma system,
Yeah right!
Reading your other posts in this thread makes it painfully obvious what kind of Karma burden you might have to suffer...
I'm sure the lack of interest in Vista has something to do with this.
Sooner quite the opposite!
A (The) flood of support calls on Vista might have been the trigger.
If evolution does exisit, that means man had to have had relations with a monkey in order to get more of the same species and a purifying of this to the human species we have now.
Your questions are nicely summed up in your thought above.
No of course man did not have to have relations with monkeys, according to general evolution theory there is just a common ancestor, nor man nor monkey.
An other example is the relation between bear and dog, they probably share a common ancestor too.
And when you go sufficiently back in time you'd probably find some simple microbe as ancestor to all living beings.
I consider 10 seconds off to be "barely".
It's a death trap.
It seems you have never looked at the statistics of other wide body aircraft.
12 seconds off a 90 second limit is quite good!
This plane is certainly no worse than anything in use today.
Yeah and a single Air Controller has a dozen or more planes in his schedule, big deal.
Besides, most accidents happen on take off and landing, lowering the number of those (by more passengers on a single flight) must improve overall safety.
I agree with your parent's feeling not all TV is suited for children, as a matter of fact even the makers will admit this.
Yet when you think there is too much obscenity on (regular and regular time) American TV I think your upbringing failed...
American TV is ridiculously prude, even by, say, Vatican standards.
A prime example of my statement is JJ's 'Nipplegate'.
Lets be honest - what percentage of sex on TV is shown between to married, consenting adults? 5%?
Cut out the bull (two and married) and concentrate on the important; consenting adults.
That'll clear a lot of trouble and improve young minds.
The FS driver is a great tool, at least just as great is ntfs-3g, it allows write access to your ntfs partition and it's part of the Feisty repositories so it's a no-brainer to install.
It seems you forget that your tax money bought more than just the Hubble Telescope, the deal includes the scientific institutions that add value to the raw data.
Many of these institutions bring their own budget and they want Value for Money, they need, for a period of time, to have some exclusive access.
I'm sure that when you bring a juicy enough budget and the credentials for high-level research you can have a set of keys to decrypt the data first hand.
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Most that I know who write their code under the GPL just want to have a good life and share with like minded.
Sharing != giving away.
Exactly! ;) ).
That's why I don't like the potential outcome of such an idea.
If that 5 - 10% is indeed true the internet as we know it has a serious problem.
(possibly comparable to the problems caused by the insecurities of MS operating systems
The next step might be some dofus politician trying to restrict access to those licensed.
But I just can't believe these numbers.
What to do with such Lusers, they might become the reason for a call for an Internet Users Licence.
This could mean more than 5 - 10% of visitors to a(ny) site are lost souls as these idiots would need many attempts to get to their goal...
Luckily there is a magnitude of difference between a US Trillion (10e12) and a European one (10e18)...
:)
This being a mainly US site I assume the prediction is based on the easy one
Correction -- low 5-digits.
So old you can't remember the password...
No not the account, I mean you
Yep that was my first thought.
Symantec is showing it's gratitude to Microsoft for enabling their business model on Microsoft designed weaknesses.
One hell of a way to root out the pirated copies of Windows...
Other cultures understand and appreciate the meaning of a leader "dedicated to excellence" very well.
Other than American culture they generally find it, unless at war, hard to appreciate the Super Hero and Champion.
The American Way might often lead to great gains, but probably for a limited time only.
When you, as many Europeans or Oriental people, have grown up surrounded by many centuries old buildings and institutions you have a different appreciation of what *success* means.
It's different per country, with Germany probably at the forefront of garbage/trash separation at the source.
Here in The Netherlands all households have three containers, a green one for leftovers that can be composted, a small one for chemical and hazardous waste like the bulbs of the article but also (empty) paint cans etc. and a grey one for the rest.
It does not stop at these three, you are expected to keep paper for separate collection (often by the church or such) and there usually is a point in town to dispose of clothing (could be the Salvation Army), appliances, furniture etc.
When you buy certain goods, radio, TV, washing machine or a car, you have to pay a small surcharge that's used to cover the eventual disposal at the end of it's life.
Communities can elect to do it differently like sorting the trash at a central facility but most leave it to their inhabitants, a mixture of those systems is quite common too.
In Germany it goes much further, you even have to separate different types of plastics and paper from cardboard.
As an often times admirer of things American I usually don't like comments that say "You must be American", but I'm afraid I can't avoid it here.
In Europe we've always had much more expensive energy than you guys in the USofA and by consequence we've for many years been keen adopters of money savers like these bulbs.
At the same time we've grown used to separating our waste and disposing of it in a safe way.
In (Continental!) Western Europe landfills are now the exception. Fluorescent bulbs have since many years been labelled as hazardous waste and are collected as such, as a matter of fact a retailer selling them has to provide a return point for recycling.
Like other dubious explanations of your constitution you might feel you have the right to dump anything in a landfill but that does not make it wise.
Pretty good wrap-up!
He might not end up in jail that easily but chances are he'd end up in hospital or even dead.
It' just that aspect what has thought the Europeans a historic lesson, there are limits to what a democratic society can bear before it falls victim to it's own liberties.
Many of us Europeans prefer some legal tools to stop the idiots.
Or expressions of religious belief?
This is little more than a thinly veiled attempt by the EU to outlaw religion (both Muslim and Christian religions believe homosexuality to be immoral; the reasoning goes that even condeming immoral behavior (as opposed to people)is sufficient to trigger the statute.
What a rubbish! I can equally claim it's some overly religious tribes that are fuelling this type of "Moral" legislation.Not that the Socialists would be above it, as a matter of fact any political or other group, left or right, has enemies it would sometimes like to silence.
IIRC, a similar law has been passed in the Netherlands, with pastors being warned that there are certain sins they are no longer allowed to mention in public.
Living in The Netherlands I can tell you your memory is failing in a catastrophic manner.Even if you are an atheist, the premise is troubling. I would be likewise disturbed if questioning the existence of God was made illegal - certainly this development is not going to expand and enlighten public discourse on sensitive subjects.
Truly a troubling development.
I would sooner say you are troubled to voice such outrageous claims...Europe is a continent with many very different cultures that have fought bitterly in a not so distant past, just take the troubles in the Balkan.
It does not take much imagination to see new flare ups of extremely damaging violence in parts of Europe when certain scrupulous groups and individuals would not be constrained.
It is regrettable this type of legislation is needed but in countries that have had this legislation for many years the advantages have generally outweighed the worries.
I don't guess but am pretty sure you missed the reason for concern in the original article.
Becoming dependent on a commercial entity for providing you with data important for the ability of your democraticaly chosen government to take decisions is extremely dangerous.
When you on occasion not like the actions of your elected officials you would take corrective action at the next election, something you can't do with a Google.
I feel a subject like the one at hand perfectly matches the other half of Slashdot's subtitle:
Stuff that matters.
An interesting approach.
But probably flawed as the non-believers do not 'suffer' peer pressure to discard the theory of Evolution
At the same time the educated among them are exposed to peer pressure against Creationism...
Yeah right!
Reading your other posts in this thread makes it painfully obvious what kind of Karma burden you might have to suffer...
Sooner quite the opposite!
A (The) flood of support calls on Vista might have been the trigger.
Yep, and bending over backwards was invented by these same Brits.
Anything to please the nanny state, the Tories and Labour are outdoing each other on the subject!
Your questions are nicely summed up in your thought above.
No of course man did not have to have relations with monkeys, according to general evolution theory there is just a common ancestor, nor man nor monkey.
An other example is the relation between bear and dog, they probably share a common ancestor too.
And when you go sufficiently back in time you'd probably find some simple microbe as ancestor to all living beings.
That includes the bible belt/no sex/no evolution education communities that were a Slashdot subject a few days ago:
Organism Survives 100 Million Years Without Sex
It's a death trap.
It seems you have never looked at the statistics of other wide body aircraft.
12 seconds off a 90 second limit is quite good!
This plane is certainly no worse than anything in use today.
Yeah and a single Air Controller has a dozen or more planes in his schedule, big deal.
Besides, most accidents happen on take off and landing, lowering the number of those (by more passengers on a single flight) must improve overall safety.
I agree with your parent's feeling not all TV is suited for children, as a matter of fact even the makers will admit this.
Yet when you think there is too much obscenity on (regular and regular time) American TV I think your upbringing failed...
American TV is ridiculously prude, even by, say, Vatican standards.
A prime example of my statement is JJ's 'Nipplegate'.
Cut out the bull (two and married) and concentrate on the important; consenting adults.
That'll clear a lot of trouble and improve young minds.
The FS driver is a great tool, at least just as great is ntfs-3g, it allows write access to your ntfs partition and it's part of the Feisty repositories so it's a no-brainer to install.
It seems you forget that your tax money bought more than just the Hubble Telescope, the deal includes the scientific institutions that add value to the raw data.
Many of these institutions bring their own budget and they want Value for Money, they need, for a period of time, to have some exclusive access.
I'm sure that when you bring a juicy enough budget and the credentials for high-level research you can have a set of keys to decrypt the data first hand.