...because America isn't of the United States, but I'm one of those people who has to point out every little thing like that.
Sure, it's kind of crappy that
(North Americans) union (South Americans) != Americans
But that's just the way it is. If I really wanted to be pedantic, I could go to Europe and start introducing myself as an American, but then I would get a lot of crap and rude service for no particular reason.
I'm a North American, but not an American, and I can live with that.
Apparently it does have precedent, though largely in U.S. usage. (OED quote below).
I still don't like it, but I guess I have less of a case for not liking it. Oh well. People will say whatever the hell they want to.
author, v. [f. prec. sb.]
1 To be the author of an action; to originate, cause, occasion. Obs. exc. in U.S. use: to be the author or originator of (a book, play, remark, etc.).
1596 CHAPMAN Iliad I. 231 The last foul thing Thou ever author'dst. 1602 WARNER Alb. Eng. XIII. lxxviii. (1612) 322 A good God may not aucthor noysome things. 1632 SIR J. ELIOT in Four C. Eng. Lett. 65 The divine blessing..which authors all the happiness we receive.1940 Time 15 Apr. 55/2 Her father..authored several successful plays and movies. 1957 W. C. HANDY Father of Blues xxi. 288 He once authored the famous Ziegfeld Midnight Roof productions. 1959 M. CHAMBERLIN Dear Friends & Darling Romans (1960) viii. 182 The saying was authored by some husband. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. VI. 2/6 She has authored a reference book on the Genus Ilex in China.
2 To be the author of a statement; to state, declare, say. Obs.
1602 WARNER Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 352 Brute is authored to haue arriued in this Iland..in the year of the worlds age 2855. 1632 MASS. & FIELD Fatal Dowry IV. ii, More of him I dare not author.
Don't verb nouns, dammit! 'Author' should not need to be a verb. We already have a good old English word for this: 'write'.
In fact, I've rarely heard 'author' as a verb outside the tech industry. This is probably because technical people feel the need to make a distinction between computers which write to disks, memory, etc. and human authors who write documents.
These distinctions aren't as important for the demographic you're targeting, and 'write' is probably more familiar to them.
The GPL is a LICENSE and is not copyright, copyright != license
You're quite wrong on this. The GPL, and the whole notion or copyleft, are built on top of copyright, as is explained here.
The reason the author of a program has any ability to tell you how you can use and redistribute a program is because the author has retained copyright to this program.
If the author waived copyright, the code would be public domain. Anyone could take it and use it, however they wished, and would not be bound to release the source or even mention the original author.
Well, thats the general idea. Like i say in my sig, the way I feel is best to break Microsoft's monopoly is to render all of their copyrights, patents and all other intellectual property, unenforceable by law.
Even if you could do this, how could you restrict the consequences just to Microsoft?
Declaring software uncopyrightable would have big implications for the commerical software industry, as well as Linux, whose licensing scheme is dependent on copyright.
Time to throw out my copy of Babe: Pig in the City.
Actually, I think Judaism is generally okay with pigs, provided they aren't eaten or come anywhere near food.
So if Babe: Pig in the City happens to contain a scene where Babe is slaughtered and eaten, well, that's out. I guess the kids will have to be disappointed.
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Nice try, but the National Post is owned by Izzie Asper's Winnipeg based "CanWest" outfit.
What are you talking about? Sure, CanWest-Global is Winnipeg-based, but the mention of "Canada's national newspaper" in the the article was clearly referred to the Globe and Mail, since it linked to the Globe in multiple places.
Have you just started reading slashdot? In no way is the genocide in Rwanda remotely connected to any story ever published.
Well, there is the September 11th coverage, which is essentially about the slaughter and destruction of civilians for political ends. But that's just because of Slashdot's American-centrism, which is understandable.
I guess I was hoping for it to be somehow mentioned in passing in some way. There is a lot of current but non-technical stuff which is mentioned in passing simply because there is some remote connection with technology.
Feel free to read CNN.com for your story, however.
Thanks; yes, it's covered well there.
God, the first hit on a Google search for Rwanda on foxnews.com turns up this crud, which argues that genocide is a natural consquence of gun control. (Sigh.)
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You know, I'm really getting fucking sick of this place. I've heard countless others say it before.
But, Christ, after all this kvetching and moaning every time the fucking U.S. government introduces some stupid bill compromising your rights, you might hope someone here would start to care about politics in general.
I can live with being modded Offtopic, because Rwanda has little to do with an RFC. But 'Overrated'? 'Overrated', when no one had even modded me up yet?
To anyone who read my post and thought "that guy should take his political agenda somewhere else", fuck you.
In Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens writes that, each day, he opens the New York Times and sees the little slogan "all the news that's fit to print" and checks if the smug self-satisfaction of that line still pisses him off.
I think I will now have a similar reaction to "stuff that matters".
How would this happen? Why wouldn't the dissolved salt just stay trapped in the ice?
I would guess that the lower freezing point of salt water could somehow be responsible for this purification. Or, more likely, is it that the amount of salt that the water can keep in solution decreases to zero as the water cools?
My understanding from reading as a kid, which is quite possibly wrong, was that icebergs are fresh water because they come from pieces of glaciers that fell into water, and glaciers are fresh because they come ultimately from precipitation.
Thinking about it now, the idea that icebergs are mostly glacier runoff seems pretty implausible to me, because I know that significant stretches of Arctic seawater freeze over in the winter. Obviously any of these frozen chunks could break off and form an iceberg, so there must be icebergs that formed from frozen seawater.
The new crop are far more honest & trustworthy than Chretien ever was.
Whether they are honest or not, that wasn't my point. I wasn't objecting to the corruption of the Liberals, but the fact that they were bending over backwards to serve the music industry by amending copyright laws.
I would expect the pro-business Conservatives to be even more inclined in this direction.
This is just one minister. Whether or not she can pass any bills is up for debate.
But Martin can, and I suspect he's in favour of her position, particularly given his appearance to coincide with her statement.
I had to say I expected something like this, but the urgency the government feels towards it does not hake me happy. But the emphatic "we're on it" pronouncements seem to be standard operating procedure for the Martin Liberals.
Of course, it would be even worse under the Conservatives, so what can you do?
These are all by Daniel Lyons, Forbes' licensed troll who wrote an entire column insinuating that the FSF and Eben Moglen were some sort of software mafia shaking down innocent companies for cash left, right, and center, just because (gasp!) they wanted collaboratively-produced software to continue to be released under terms consistent with its original licence.
His wonderful purple prose reveals his opinion of Linux fans:
The dispute, which was leaked to an Internet message board, offers a rare peek into the dark side of the free software movement--a view that contrasts with the movement's usual public image of happy software proles linking arms and singing the "Internationale" while freely sharing the fruits of their code-writing labor.
My mail since 1997 only adds up to 66.4 MB or so: forrest.cx [/home/steve][10]% du mail/archives 104 mail/archives/mail-1997 27716 mail/archives/mail-2001 13224 mail/archives/mail-2002 5056 mail/archives/mail-1999 656 mail/archives/mail-1998 11584 mail/archives/mail-2003 1608 mail/archives/mail-2004 8076 mail/archives/mail-2000 68028 mail/archives
Mind you, though, this is after cutting out all the spam and all the huge binary attachments in those annoying forwarded jokes from friends (you know, kid getting hit by football, etc., etc.).
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...and it's called C#!
That's rather funny, considering that 'D' (i.e. 'D natural') and C# are the same key.
Stephen Hawking Builds Robotic Exoskeleton.
...because America isn't of the United States, but I'm one of those people who has to point out every little thing like that.
Sure, it's kind of crappy that
(North Americans) union (South Americans) != Americans
But that's just the way it is. If I really wanted to be pedantic, I could go to Europe and start introducing myself as an American, but then I would get a lot of crap and rude service for no particular reason.
I'm a North American, but not an American, and I can live with that.
Sorry, I'll get the link right this time.
Or, you can read the play The House With Too Many Perpendiculars.
Or, you can read the play The House With Too Many Perpendiculars.
Apparently it does have precedent, though largely in U.S. usage. (OED quote below).
I still don't like it, but I guess I have less of a case for not liking it. Oh well. People will say whatever the hell they want to.
author, v. [f. prec. sb.]
1 To be the author of an action; to originate, cause, occasion. Obs. exc. in
U.S. use: to be the author or originator of (a book, play, remark, etc.).
1596 CHAPMAN Iliad I. 231 The last foul thing Thou ever author'dst. 1602
WARNER Alb. Eng. XIII. lxxviii. (1612) 322 A good God may not aucthor noysome
things. 1632 SIR J. ELIOT in Four C. Eng. Lett. 65 The divine blessing..which
authors all the happiness we receive.1940 Time 15 Apr. 55/2 Her
father..authored several successful plays and movies. 1957 W. C. HANDY Father
of Blues xxi. 288 He once authored the famous Ziegfeld Midnight Roof
productions. 1959 M. CHAMBERLIN Dear Friends & Darling Romans (1960) viii. 182
The saying was authored by some husband. 1967 Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. VI.
2/6 She has authored a reference book on the Genus Ilex in China.
2 To be the author of a statement; to state, declare, say. Obs.
1602 WARNER Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 352 Brute is authored to haue arriued in
this Iland..in the year of the worlds age 2855. 1632 MASS. & FIELD Fatal Dowry
IV. ii, More of him I dare not author.
( ) Author Documents
Don't verb nouns, dammit! 'Author' should not need to be a verb. We already have a good old English word for this: 'write'.
In fact, I've rarely heard 'author' as a verb outside the tech industry. This is probably because technical people feel the need to make a distinction between computers which write to disks, memory, etc. and human authors who write documents.
These distinctions aren't as important for the demographic you're targeting, and 'write' is probably more familiar to them.
The GPL is a LICENSE and is not copyright, copyright != license
You're quite wrong on this. The GPL, and the whole notion or copyleft, are built on top of copyright, as is explained here.
The reason the author of a program has any ability to tell you how you can use and redistribute a program is because the author has retained copyright to this program.
If the author waived copyright, the code would be public domain. Anyone could take it and use it, however they wished, and would not be bound to release the source or even mention the original author.
Well, thats the general idea. Like i say in my sig, the way I feel is best to break Microsoft's monopoly is to render all of their copyrights, patents and all other intellectual property, unenforceable by law.
Even if you could do this, how could you restrict the consequences just to Microsoft?
Declaring software uncopyrightable would have big implications for the commerical software industry, as well as Linux, whose licensing scheme is dependent on copyright.
Time to throw out my copy of Babe: Pig in the City.
Actually, I think Judaism is generally okay with pigs, provided they aren't eaten or come anywhere near food.
So if Babe: Pig in the City happens to contain a scene where Babe is slaughtered and eaten, well, that's out. I guess the kids will have to be disappointed.
Hmm. What for a Canadian needs 'Ö'?
:) The English alphabet.
Touché.
Nice try, but the National Post is owned by Izzie Asper's Winnipeg based "CanWest" outfit.
What are you talking about? Sure, CanWest-Global is Winnipeg-based, but the mention of "Canada's national newspaper" in the the article was clearly referred to the Globe and Mail, since it linked to the Globe in multiple places.
Actually, Brian Kernighan, the K in 'AWK' and 'K&R', is Canadian. Or at least he was born here.
However, he's been in the States long enough to mispronounce the last letter of the alphabet.
We have more than one, you know.
I'm guessing the poster is from Toronto.
Have you just started reading slashdot? In no way is the genocide in Rwanda remotely connected to any story ever published.
Well, there is the September 11th coverage, which is essentially about the slaughter and destruction of civilians for political ends. But that's just because of Slashdot's American-centrism, which is understandable.
I guess I was hoping for it to be somehow mentioned in passing in some way. There is a lot of current but non-technical stuff which is mentioned in passing simply because there is some remote connection with technology.
Feel free to read CNN.com for your story, however.
Thanks; yes, it's covered well there.
God, the first hit on a Google search for Rwanda on foxnews.com turns up this crud, which argues that genocide is a natural consquence of gun control. (Sigh.)
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You know, I'm really getting fucking sick of this place. I've heard countless others say it before.
But, Christ, after all this kvetching and moaning every time the fucking U.S. government introduces some stupid bill compromising your rights, you might hope someone here would start to care about politics in general.
I can live with being modded Offtopic, because Rwanda has little to do with an RFC. But 'Overrated'? 'Overrated', when no one had even modded me up yet?
To anyone who read my post and thought "that guy should take his political agenda somewhere else", fuck you.
In Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens writes that, each day, he opens the New York Times and sees the little slogan "all the news that's fit to print" and checks if the smug self-satisfaction of that line still pisses him off.
I think I will now have a similar reaction to "stuff that matters".
It's rather depressing to see Slashdot care so much about the 35th anniversary of an obscure technical document, and apparently not at all about the 10-year anniversary of the beginning of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
/. too much, because I didn't submit an article. But I can feel depressed now by the utter lack of mention of it.
This may not be news for nerds, but it is stuff that matters.
I can't blame
But no matter. Let's forget those dark troubling thoughts, and celebrate the 40th birthday of the IBM/360!
Thanks very much for your very informative and interesting reply.
Salt water turns fresh when frozen.
How would this happen? Why wouldn't the dissolved salt just stay trapped in the ice?
I would guess that the lower freezing point of salt water could somehow be responsible for this purification. Or, more likely, is it that the amount of salt that the water can keep in solution decreases to zero as the water cools?
My understanding from reading as a kid, which is quite possibly wrong, was that icebergs are fresh water because they come from pieces of glaciers that fell into water, and glaciers are fresh because they come ultimately from precipitation.
Thinking about it now, the idea that icebergs are mostly glacier runoff seems pretty implausible to me, because I know that significant stretches of Arctic seawater freeze over in the winter. Obviously any of these frozen chunks could break off and form an iceberg, so there must be icebergs that formed from frozen seawater.
The new crop are far more honest & trustworthy than Chretien ever was.
Whether they are honest or not, that wasn't my point. I wasn't objecting to the corruption of the Liberals, but the fact that they were bending over backwards to serve the music industry by amending copyright laws.
I would expect the pro-business Conservatives to be even more inclined in this direction.
This is just one minister. Whether or not she can pass any bills is up for debate.
But Martin can, and I suspect he's in favour of her position, particularly given his appearance to coincide with her statement.
I had to say I expected something like this, but the urgency the government feels towards it does not hake me happy. But the emphatic "we're on it" pronouncements seem to be standard operating procedure for the Martin Liberals.
Of course, it would be even worse under the Conservatives, so what can you do?
These are all by Daniel Lyons, Forbes' licensed troll who wrote an entire column insinuating that the FSF and Eben Moglen were some sort of software mafia shaking down innocent companies for cash left, right, and center, just because (gasp!) they wanted collaboratively-produced software to continue to be released under terms consistent with its original licence.
His wonderful purple prose reveals his opinion of Linux fans:
The dispute, which was leaked to an Internet message board, offers a rare peek into the dark side of the free software movement--a view that contrasts with the movement's usual public image of happy software proles linking arms and singing the "Internationale" while freely sharing the fruits of their code-writing labor.
Pamela Anderson, William Shatner, Roch Voisine. I suppose you can throw in Mike Myers if you don't like his recent stuff, and Avril Lavigne too.
And goddamn Nickelback. God they suck.
My mail since 1997 only adds up to 66.4 MB or so:
forrest.cx [/home/steve][10]% du mail/archives
104 mail/archives/mail-1997
27716 mail/archives/mail-2001
13224 mail/archives/mail-2002
5056 mail/archives/mail-1999
656 mail/archives/mail-1998
11584 mail/archives/mail-2003
1608 mail/archives/mail-2004
8076 mail/archives/mail-2000
68028 mail/archives
Mind you, though, this is after cutting out all the spam and all the huge binary attachments in those annoying forwarded jokes from friends (you know, kid getting hit by football, etc., etc.).
You claim that after unleashing Celine Dion and Bryan Adams on the world.
Don't forget Alanis Morisette.