Those weren't really big protests. For a revolution to succeed you need enough popular support to enact changes through direct action. The first proper current revolutionary movement that comes to mind is the Landless Worker's Movement in Brazil.
That would not be the effect of invalidating the GPL. The alternative to accepting the license is that you are not allowed to redistribute the product at all. Something you would know if you were familiar with this thing called "copyright".
I too personally hope some countries will abolish copyright, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
I, for one, would prefer professional text critical editions of Tolkiens full works over having everything filtered through his son. As it is, I'll have to live to be pretty old to be able to take advantage of those...
...would be that with a locally hosted web page which says which files you are tracking, it will suddenly be very easy for the people that want to prosecute file sharers to link individual sharers to a specific torrent.
Others have said this before (though maybe not in this particular thread). What the Star Trek franchise really needs to survive is a major overhaul, of the magnitude of for instance Battlestar Galactica. I'm thinking feature films with Angelina Jolie as captain Kirk or something.
I use BitlBee in rcirc. All the protocols you mention, plus IRC, ICQ, Jabber and Yahoo, all from a unified interface within the comfort of Emacs. BitlBee also works with your IRC client of choice, of course.
Oh yes, because I see so much open source software making money on sales. More likely it would be copied and passed around on the p2p networks with no worries.
How is that different from any other computer games, now?
If you just link the stuff statically, you shouldn't have much trouble.
I would probably set up an apt repository for Debian, where it's easy to make sure it works with the given dependencies. I would complement that with a statically linked rpm and plain old tarball.
Well, in actual fact I would also distribute it as FOSS, of course. I doubt that would impact your revenue negatively. Rather, the fact that people have the possibility to patch bugs and port it themselves would probably make them more willing to shell out for it in the first place. There's few things as frustrating as broken software that you know you could fix, but the creator won't let you.
Everyone else can hire a programmer to do it on a free market, as opposed to being at the mercy of a monopoly holder.
This is extra important for long-runnig projects. You wouldn't want to send up a satellite that's supposed to work for 30 years, only to find that 20 years later you can't get bugs fixed, because the software company has gone bankrupt.
First, as someone else pointed out, teach programming not a programming language.
However, I must say I've had very good experiences with Python as a teaching language. The code my fellow students churn out is invariably of much higher quality than what they've been able to do in for instance Java.
It seems that Python's design philosophy, which is meant to improve code readability &c., really works.
The Michalangelo programmer: Has a grand, sweeping view of what the system should do, but each piece is done in such meticulous detail that it takes years to finish anything.
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Seems like this art project has been successful already.
Those weren't really big protests. For a revolution to succeed you need enough popular support to enact changes through direct action. The first proper current revolutionary movement that comes to mind is the Landless Worker's Movement in Brazil.
Summary of why the reporting on this story is mostly bogus here:
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1869
That would not be the effect of invalidating the GPL. The alternative to accepting the license is that you are not allowed to redistribute the product at all. Something you would know if you were familiar with this thing called "copyright".
I too personally hope some countries will abolish copyright, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
I'm pretty sure Yoko Ono did this already, in "Bottoms".
It is possible to teach children to read as early as they can speak, though it takes a lot of effort, and things to read adapted to their eye sight.
Sounds like by "procedural" you mean "algorithmic". I guess the algorithm might be defined procedurally, but that's not really what is discussed here.
Of course it's illegal if they say it is. They make the laws up, after all.
...and I'm all for space exploration. I just think that manned space flight seems dangerous, expensive, and useless.
I guess it's the same, but in the interest of limiting the /. effect a little, here's a couple more:
http://mailinator.net/
http://trashmail.net/
That's the idea. However, it's not likely that Tolkien's full original production will be published before (and if...) the copyright expires.
I, for one, would prefer professional text critical editions of Tolkiens full works over having everything filtered through his son. As it is, I'll have to live to be pretty old to be able to take advantage of those...
What I want to see is some of those automatic sailing vessels from Blue Mars.
...would be that with a locally hosted web page which says which files you are tracking, it will suddenly be very easy for the people that want to prosecute file sharers to link individual sharers to a specific torrent.
Others have said this before (though maybe not in this particular thread). What the Star Trek franchise really needs to survive is a major overhaul, of the magnitude of for instance Battlestar Galactica. I'm thinking feature films with Angelina Jolie as captain Kirk or something.
I use BitlBee in rcirc. All the protocols you mention, plus IRC, ICQ, Jabber and Yahoo, all from a unified interface within the comfort of Emacs. BitlBee also works with your IRC client of choice, of course.
Oh yes, because I see so much open source software making money on sales. More likely it would be copied and passed around on the p2p networks with no worries.
How is that different from any other computer games, now?
If you just link the stuff statically, you shouldn't have much trouble.
I would probably set up an apt repository for Debian, where it's easy to make sure it works with the given dependencies. I would complement that with a statically linked rpm and plain old tarball.
Well, in actual fact I would also distribute it as FOSS, of course. I doubt that would impact your revenue negatively. Rather, the fact that people have the possibility to patch bugs and port it themselves would probably make them more willing to shell out for it in the first place. There's few things as frustrating as broken software that you know you could fix, but the creator won't let you.
Not really. Dropping the copula is pretty common, especially in these kinds of construction.
Everyone else can hire a programmer to do it on a free market, as opposed to being at the mercy of a monopoly holder.
This is extra important for long-runnig projects. You wouldn't want to send up a satellite that's supposed to work for 30 years, only to find that 20 years later you can't get bugs fixed, because the software company has gone bankrupt.
There is a course like this at the University of Gothenburg.
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http://www.informatik.gu.se/eng/education/opensou
First, as someone else pointed out, teach programming not a programming language.
However, I must say I've had very good experiences with Python as a teaching language. The code my fellow students churn out is invariably of much higher quality than what they've been able to do in for instance Java.
It seems that Python's design philosophy, which is meant to improve code readability &c., really works.
The Michalangelo programmer: Has a grand, sweeping view of what the system should do, but each piece is done in such meticulous detail that it takes years to finish anything.
I thought that sounded a lot like OO, too.
After 3 years we finally get to have a look at the new Debian
Yeah, 'cause the Debian development is generally so hidden from view. No way they'd let you try the new installer before the release.
That's not how it works, thank god. http://users.tkk.fi/~psillanp/hah_hp/ is an example of a better method in the form of a Firefox extension.