This is where I'm headed, too, plus my Obama vote goes to a third-party candidate whose views match mine (and I'm not taking crap from anyone for it--grrrr).
The truth is that our politicians are spineless or bought, and they've made themselves irrelevant. The only real power I feel that I have is to support organizations that do support my values, who may have some way to influence things.
Did you balance your decision with ALL the other things he stands for that you believe in?
If Obama rolls over on one issue the moment things get a little tough, why should I believe that he won't do the same for "ALL the other things he stands for"?
So instead of voting to take a way a tool in our war on terror, he voted for the bill as a whole.
It's barely possible that this would be justifiable if we lived in some bizarro world where once this bill had been voted on, no other bill on this subject could ever be offered again. But we don't, and so this apology for Obama's behavior is crap.
Basically, people use the GPL because they are thinking in terms of Capitalism--that is, they are doing work and wish to be compensated for it. The compensation in this case is the "price of admission" for deriving from the code.
BSD/etc. people, on the other hand, are thinking in terms of Communism--they work on their projects with no thought of (enforced) reward. Or I suppose you could call this altruism.
Personally, I think either of these approaches is perfectly reasonable, although up to this point I've chosen to be "selfish" and license my projects under the GPL.
If a mob of 1,000,000 people march on the white house with pitchforks and tourches demanding justice, there will be justice.
If a mob of 1,000,000 people march on the white house with pitchforks and tourches demanding justice, there will be Bushmasters, for a few minutes, and a big stinking mess for a few days.
We have passed beyond the point where overt violence like that can be effective. These days more subtlety will be required. Start by checking out of the economy. For every dollar you consider spending, ask yourself, is there any way I can not spend this, or spend less? Withholding your purchasing power is one of the few real powers you have left...
The belief that you have to have the skills of the people you manage is a misguided one. It is enough to simply understand those skills.
In my experience, some successful managers really do have the skills of the people they manage, even to the point of obvious mastery. Other successful managers barely understand what their underlings do. The key to success is to know which kind of manager you are.
In particular, if you correctly believe that you're the shit, so to speak, then you can make the decisions and success will ensue. If you correctly understand that you don't know shit, and you therefore delegate decisions to your trusted underlings, success will ensue. If neither of these two cases holds and you make the decisions, failure is pretty much assured. (This latter is the usual mode.)
a slight [sic] 54%/46% majority in the House is not what I would call "overwhelming" in any fashion.
On the contrary, it's completely decisive. All government funding must run through the House, and can only pass with a majority. The only thing the Democrats really had to do to fulfill their promises was to stop the war in Iraq, which they could have done trivially by staying in bed and not voting to fund it. They failed utterly in this.
So, with all due respect, f*** them and the horses they rode in on. That goes double for anyone who gets in my face about "wasting my vote" or "handing victory to the enemy" if I don't vote for the Democrat. I voted for the Democrats in 2006, and that's exactly what happened.
Well, the elegance and simplicity of comprehensions comes to mind. Frequently one line of Python can be used instead of the equivalent half-page of Java...
By "from", I meant "starting with". It's still slow today, at least as of 12 hours ago. Yes, it's within a factor of two of C, but remember that we're only using it for the performance-critical stuff, so this really does matter.
As for CORBA, yes it's a monster, but I don't see how that's relevant. I'm talking about calling Java from (say) Python in a reasonably efficient way.
Python has the Global Interpreter Lock, which means even though there are threads, they don't execute concurrently. Too bad if your server has several processors / cores.
That's what fork is for. I had my fill of "everything runs in the same address space" in my MSDOS days--threads are just a return to that nightmare.
That's where I'm at as well. For the 50/80/90/100% (usually 100%) of a program for which performance is not critical, Python just kills Java with respect to other factors. And for the 50/20/10% of the program for which performance is critical, Java is just too damn slow (even idiomatic C++ is often too slow). Plus, Java doesn't like to be called from other languages--it really wants to be "boss".
I've used Java from one of the first alpha releases, but it just hasn't panned out...
Having lived through his administration, I'd have to say that that's pretty much correct. GWB makes him look like Mother Theresa by comparison, of course...
The fact that GPL isn't compatible with ZFS is Linus's problem. Actually, it's more of a PR problem for Sun than anything else. The fact that Sun chose an explicit "poke in the eye" to the Linux community when they could easily have chosen otherwise has been duly noted (and is one more reason not to bother looking back at Solaris, IMO).
Thank you for the details--that's a pretty good diet. One suggestion: you're probably better off getting a little variety rather than eating the same thing every day. (And some people would say that yogurt isn't really good for you.)
I've been working on my problem a long time. A few notable ventures: I once adhered 100% to a vegan diet for 11 months. Several times I've done a diet of fresh fruits/veggies with a bit of fish and whole grains for four-plus months. Once I did 30-hours fasts every third day for six months. I did a year-long Ornish-style LF diet for a year. I've done periods of a year going to the gym and sweating for an hour every night. I gave up Coke/Pepsi six years ago and haven't had a drop since.
I want to scream every time some idiot says that we "just" need to eat less/different/exercise more/not be so lazy/etc. It is possible to lose weight and get healthy, because some people do it, but it is by no means easy, and no one really knows how to do it. If you look through the scientific literature, the results are thin and contradictory. It's just a fucking complex problem, and no one really knows much about it. We're like children poking at our motherboards with screwdrivers, trying to glean information from a system beyond our comprehension.
Some of these regimes did make me feel quite a bit better, and in the right environment I could probably be okay on them indefinitely. But unfortunately I live in the real world, in the land of nutritional crap engineered to be addictive.
For those not in this situation, how can you imagine it? Imagine trying to breathe by respiring (in/out) only five times per minute, on average, day in and day out. It'd take a little concentration, but you could "just" do it, in theory. No one really could, though, in practice. Losing weight permanently is much more difficult than this.
you can bitch and moan about it being "proprietary" all you want, in the end that's what protects it- Adobe keeps and defends it as proprietary, and that's how they stay in business. Sorry, Flash is here for the long run. I've been in this field long enough to realize that no company--and certainly no technology or file format--is definitely "here for the long run". We can take bets, but it's no sure thing...
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This is where I'm headed, too, plus my Obama vote goes to a third-party candidate whose views match mine (and I'm not taking crap from anyone for it--grrrr).
The truth is that our politicians are spineless or bought, and they've made themselves irrelevant. The only real power I feel that I have is to support organizations that do support my values, who may have some way to influence things.
Did you balance your decision with ALL the other things he stands for that you believe in?
If Obama rolls over on one issue the moment things get a little tough, why should I believe that he won't do the same for "ALL the other things he stands for"?
So instead of voting to take a way a tool in our war on terror, he voted for the bill as a whole.
It's barely possible that this would be justifiable if we lived in some bizarro world where once this bill had been voted on, no other bill on this subject could ever be offered again. But we don't, and so this apology for Obama's behavior is crap.
Basically, people use the GPL because they are thinking in terms of Capitalism--that is, they are doing work and wish to be compensated for it. The compensation in this case is the "price of admission" for deriving from the code.
BSD/etc. people, on the other hand, are thinking in terms of Communism--they work on their projects with no thought of (enforced) reward. Or I suppose you could call this altruism.
Personally, I think either of these approaches is perfectly reasonable, although up to this point I've chosen to be "selfish" and license my projects under the GPL.
If a mob of 1,000,000 people march on the white house with pitchforks and tourches demanding justice, there will be justice.
If a mob of 1,000,000 people march on the white house with pitchforks and tourches demanding justice, there will be Bushmasters , for a few minutes, and a big stinking mess for a few days.
We have passed beyond the point where overt violence like that can be effective. These days more subtlety will be required. Start by checking out of the economy. For every dollar you consider spending, ask yourself, is there any way I can not spend this, or spend less? Withholding your purchasing power is one of the few real powers you have left...
The belief that you have to have the skills of the people you manage is a misguided one. It is enough to simply understand those skills.
In my experience, some successful managers really do have the skills of the people they manage, even to the point of obvious mastery. Other successful managers barely understand what their underlings do. The key to success is to know which kind of manager you are.
In particular, if you correctly believe that you're the shit, so to speak, then you can make the decisions and success will ensue. If you correctly understand that you don't know shit, and you therefore delegate decisions to your trusted underlings, success will ensue. If neither of these two cases holds and you make the decisions, failure is pretty much assured. (This latter is the usual mode.)
'Tis true--I swear! (*)
(* offer void where we can prohibit it by law)
a slight [sic] 54%/46% majority in the House is not what I would call "overwhelming" in any fashion.
On the contrary, it's completely decisive. All government funding must run through the House, and can only pass with a majority. The only thing the Democrats really had to do to fulfill their promises was to stop the war in Iraq, which they could have done trivially by staying in bed and not voting to fund it. They failed utterly in this.
So, with all due respect, f*** them and the horses they rode in on. That goes double for anyone who gets in my face about "wasting my vote" or "handing victory to the enemy" if I don't vote for the Democrat. I voted for the Democrats in 2006, and that's exactly what happened.
Well, the elegance and simplicity of comprehensions comes to mind. Frequently one line of Python can be used instead of the equivalent half-page of Java...
Yes, that was my point.
Frankly, I fail to see how this is an improvement, as opposed to (say) yanking Network Solutions' monopoly...
By "from", I meant "starting with". It's still slow today, at least as of 12 hours ago. Yes, it's within a factor of two of C, but remember that we're only using it for the performance-critical stuff, so this really does matter.
As for CORBA, yes it's a monster, but I don't see how that's relevant. I'm talking about calling Java from (say) Python in a reasonably efficient way.
...but on the lighter side, ESR might actually be able to win an argument with RMS now.
Python has the Global Interpreter Lock, which means even though there are threads, they don't execute concurrently. Too bad if your server has several processors / cores.
That's what fork is for. I had my fill of "everything runs in the same address space" in my MSDOS days--threads are just a return to that nightmare.That's where I'm at as well. For the 50/80/90/100% (usually 100%) of a program for which performance is not critical, Python just kills Java with respect to other factors. And for the 50/20/10% of the program for which performance is critical, Java is just too damn slow (even idiomatic C++ is often too slow). Plus, Java doesn't like to be called from other languages--it really wants to be "boss".
I've used Java from one of the first alpha releases, but it just hasn't panned out...
There are none so blind as those that wish not to see...
Having lived through his administration, I'd have to say that that's pretty much correct. GWB makes him look like Mother Theresa by comparison, of course...
First of all, the question is not why they didn't use the GPL, but why they didn't use one of the many GPL-compatible licenses.
Second, a license that prevented programs from running on GNU/Linux would (by definition) not be an Open Source license.
Third, I suspect the GPL is the Open Source license *most* court-tested.
Fourth, Linux's GPL license does not prevent any codec from running on it. It's the authors of the codecs and patent holders that do that.
And finally, the GPL hurts Linux's stability? Truly it is a powerful license, but I never imagined that it had such capabilities...
25 years later there's still not a !@#^%^&$ single compiler that implements the entire language correctly. We're all waiting for Godot...
I stand corrected. I probably should have said that I've seen CEOs sink their companies many times--it's the "soar" part I haven't seen first hand...
Thank you for the details--that's a pretty good diet. One suggestion: you're probably better off getting a little variety rather than eating the same thing every day. (And some people would say that yogurt isn't really good for you.)
I've been working on my problem a long time. A few notable ventures: I once adhered 100% to a vegan diet for 11 months. Several times I've done a diet of fresh fruits/veggies with a bit of fish and whole grains for four-plus months. Once I did 30-hours fasts every third day for six months. I did a year-long Ornish-style LF diet for a year. I've done periods of a year going to the gym and sweating for an hour every night. I gave up Coke/Pepsi six years ago and haven't had a drop since.
I want to scream every time some idiot says that we "just" need to eat less/different/exercise more/not be so lazy/etc. It is possible to lose weight and get healthy, because some people do it, but it is by no means easy, and no one really knows how to do it. If you look through the scientific literature, the results are thin and contradictory. It's just a fucking complex problem, and no one really knows much about it. We're like children poking at our motherboards with screwdrivers, trying to glean information from a system beyond our comprehension.
Some of these regimes did make me feel quite a bit better, and in the right environment I could probably be okay on them indefinitely. But unfortunately I live in the real world, in the land of nutritional crap engineered to be addictive.
For those not in this situation, how can you imagine it? Imagine trying to breathe by respiring (in/out) only five times per minute, on average, day in and day out. It'd take a little concentration, but you could "just" do it, in theory. No one really could, though, in practice. Losing weight permanently is much more difficult than this.
If there are no wills, there are no weak wills. Any reason to think that they exist?
Yup. And it's even worse when some idiotic who's never even had to think about losing weight starts spouting off...