Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence.
The problems and claims that we've heard about in connection to this "research" are cannot be explained by malice.
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To say he must have copied the code is a bit unfair.
That's weak to the point of supporting the claim. To say "he must have copied the code" is not "a bit unfair", it's a baldfaced lie.
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Ken Brown is saying "Linux is stolen code because it's impossible for a single person to write an OS in 6 months". But Linus didn't write an OS, he wrote a kernel. Brown is using, and according to Stallman deliberating exacerbating, the confusion between Linux-the-OS and Linux-the-kernal to support his argument.
Now if they're so happy, why are they buying their shares back?
They're not happy, that's just ass-covering talk. This SCO investment is the sort of deal where heads should be rolling at Baystar and RBC. They took a huge risk that most people in the market considered as being ill-advised at best. Now the writing is really on the wall and they've bailed, taking a huge hit in the process. If I was a stockholder in either Baystar or RBC I'd be expecting explanations and resignations.
Not only that but evolutionary pressure is toward leaving a legacy to your children because it makes it more likely that they will have children and grandchildren.
However I believe biowaste-to-oil will be mostly used for high-margin luxury products like in the materials industry, aviation, etc. I do not think it will ever be cheap enough or in sufficient quantity.
As demand for oil continues to increase the supply will eventually not meet demand and the price of oil will rise. At some point biowaste-to-oil plants will become economically feasible as a widely used oil source. The only things which may prevent this from occuring are:
it is found that the process is terminally flawed (e.g. byproducts are too hazardous), or
there is widespread adoption of an alternative energy source before we reach the point where oil from biowaste is cheaper to produce than natural oil, or
it is cheaper to produce oil from algae than oil from biowaste (so algae sourced oil is used instead).
Neither of the first two look likely. Number three is possible, but makes no difference really.
Being able to use salt water is a huge plus though.
Ultimately I think biodiesel and the waste-to-oil process are the only solutions that look workable. Expecting the world to suddenly stop using oil is hopelessly naive IMHO.
I think he's failed to adapt to the changing way in which people expect to be able to contribute. XFree86 development used to work ok, but now people expect more responsiveness and a more open process. Dawes has been slow to react to this change, and when things have come to a head (e.g. with the Keith Packard incidents) he's been slow to implement changes that were inevitable due to the will of the community. That's caused a lot of bad feeling. The latest license change is really a bit of a storm in a teacup, but it's been the last straw for a lot of people.
I think the XFree86 inner circle should have seen the writing on the wall and got rid of Dawes a long time ago. Especially given Dawes' apparently grating personality (not a recommended trait for your project leader). I can only imagine that they largely felt/feel the same way he does. Now their project appears to be on the fast track to irrelevancy.
Those two motherboards are both picoBTX boards, designed for small form factor systems. Not all BTX stuff will be that size just as not all ATX boards are microATX or FlexATX sized.
The only reason to conflate nuclear power and nuclear weapons, as is done repeatedly here, is because you want to use the fallacy of equivocation to trick your audience into viewing even the safest reactor designs as weapons of mass destruction.
Any innocent product which becomes suddenly genocidal in
the hands of a tyrant has been designed by a dangerous
naif. Every design process is incomplete unless it takes
into careful consideration what could be done with the
product by a dictatorial megalomaniac in command of a
national economy, a secret police, and a large army.
Sterling is saying that nuclear power is bad because it can be used by "a dictatorial megalomaniac in command of a
national economy, a secret police, and a large army" to develop nuclear weapons.
Also note that intended audience for this commentary is Viridian movement members so they will understand what Sterling means and the apparent attempt to "trick his audience into viewing even the safest reactor designs as weapons of mass destruction" is infact not a trick at all - it's a belief the audience already shares.
Unfortuately, coal and oil suck too.
Only if we dig it out of the ground. If we start to manufacture oil (e.g. algae farms or waste-to-oil plants) oil is just fine.
Eventually more oil, coal, and gas will form. Ultimately they are renewable energy sources. But for our purposes they are finite. "Somewhat finite" was a bad choice of phrase. "Practically finite" would have been better.
Is that the whole script? If so then I'd say no, it's not easy to follow. It looks like you're setting some variables (n,u) in the first section, but you never seem to use them anywhere. I also don't see anything setting the s variable you're using as your subject.
So no, SLES and RHEL are not referred to as toys, as far as I read it, since they are not full 64bit.
That's splitting hairs. Most people are going to read "we are the first linux distribution to offer a 64-bit top-to-bottom solution which is not a toy environment" as a claim that other Linux 64-bit releases are toys. IMHO, it's devious marketspeak aimed at smearing SLES and RHEL without actually being factually incorrect. They didn't need to include the toy reference.
Except this is 2^(odd number)-1, so if it's the lower of a twin prime, adding +2 would indeed make it another prime.
Only if it's the higher twin prime would it be divisible by 3.
2^(odd number)-1 can't be the lower of a twin prime because 2^(odd number)+1 is always divisible by three. 2^(odd number)-1 could be the higher of a twin prime.
You did say "I was going to list a batch of recent comics that didn't fit into your description, but I haven't found one yet...". It is pretty clear you accept his point.
However, you'll have to agree that they're not clear examples against the original poster's assertion.
I think they are. Neither of them clearly voice the opinion that anything sucks, and certainly neither of them use that as the main joke. There are also plenty of other examples - the Cardboard Samurai and Fruit Fucker 2000 comics immediately leap to mind as cases where "that sucks" can't possibly be inferred as the joke.
The Tycho You Didn't Know: Singles (Is it a Sims expansion?)
Oh, come on. Here's a hint: the joke is not in the first panel. Singles is used to introduce the subject of the joke. Gabe is showing frustration, but it's a bit of a leap to go from that to "the joke is that Singles sucks". There is a difference between frustration and condemnation.
The Double-You Bee: Recent WB releases and/or the review system.
And/or? You can't even decide what the comic is deriding. Let me spell it out for you: the comic is deriding the horrified reaction by developers to the idea of being paid on quality of work. They are not saying anything sucks, they are saying that developers have the wrong attitude.
I wonder if you actually understand the humor that you claim is simply "that sucks" jokes.
Of course I didn't read the article, as I don't subscribe
The space.com article would have answered your questions.
And how could 1 impact effect the entire planet with such a high amount of heat?
It was a very large impact. They estimate an object 10km in diameter, which left a crater 200km in diameter. They believe that material ejected during the impact actually reached suborbital altitudes and that much of the heat was generated by the friction of re-entry.
Wouldn't that metemorph rocks as well?
From the space.com article: "Previous work uncovered a global layer of material that had melted and then hardened when the impact vaporized terrestrial rock."
Or even react the atmosphere?
Not sure what you mean by that. They think the energy involved would have heated the atmosphere enough to cause widespread death, but that would require temperatures 100 degrees C.
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Ken Brown is saying "Linux is stolen code because it's impossible for a single person to write an OS in 6 months". But Linus didn't write an OS, he wrote a kernel. Brown is using, and according to Stallman deliberating exacerbating, the confusion between Linux-the-OS and Linux-the-kernal to support his argument.
Not only that but evolutionary pressure is toward leaving a legacy to your children because it makes it more likely that they will have children and grandchildren.
- it is found that the process is terminally flawed (e.g. byproducts are too hazardous), or
- there is widespread adoption of an alternative energy source before we reach the point where oil from biowaste is cheaper to produce than natural oil, or
- it is cheaper to produce oil from algae than oil from biowaste (so algae sourced oil is used instead).
Neither of the first two look likely. Number three is possible, but makes no difference really.Ultimately I think biodiesel and the waste-to-oil process are the only solutions that look workable. Expecting the world to suddenly stop using oil is hopelessly naive IMHO.
I think the XFree86 inner circle should have seen the writing on the wall and got rid of Dawes a long time ago. Especially given Dawes' apparently grating personality (not a recommended trait for your project leader). I can only imagine that they largely felt/feel the same way he does. Now their project appears to be on the fast track to irrelevancy.
On the sea. Notice how I mentioned algae. Take a look at this.
For more info on BTX have a look at this AnandTech article, or check out FormFactors.org if you want to look at the actual specifications.
Also note that intended audience for this commentary is Viridian movement members so they will understand what Sterling means and the apparent attempt to "trick his audience into viewing even the safest reactor designs as weapons of mass destruction" is infact not a trick at all - it's a belief the audience already shares.
Eventually more oil, coal, and gas will form. Ultimately they are renewable energy sources. But for our purposes they are finite. "Somewhat finite" was a bad choice of phrase. "Practically finite" would have been better.
Is that the whole script? If so then I'd say no, it's not easy to follow. It looks like you're setting some variables (n,u) in the first section, but you never seem to use them anywhere. I also don't see anything setting the s variable you're using as your subject.
I wonder if you actually understand the humor that you claim is simply "that sucks" jokes.
What exactly do you think they are saying sucks?
If you had started with todays comic you would have found one straight away.
Did you even read the story you cited?