Slightly freer than Europe? At least in most European countries, your home cannot be searched or your phone tapped without a court order, and you cannot be imprisoned without a legal process.
Great. So now this'll just further fuel the movement of the extremely large file-sharers to move to those P2P networks that are completely anonymous
There's no such thing as complete anonymity, and you should distrust any P2P product that claims complete anonymity. There are only degrees of anonymity, and you select your degree according to the situation, and incur some tradeoffs the higher the degree goes (for example, higher latency). Freenet is certainly not "completely anonymous", and they don't claim to be. Tracing a Freenet transaction is, however, not feasible for most people and most situations.
This is just SUN throwing a bone to the free software community who has been asking for a free Java. What they want is the four software freedoms. SUN, by allowing this "shared source" access to take quick, careful peeks at the source code and hope SUN won't go SCO on your behind, want to be able to say "we're meeting you half-way, you stupid hippies!" This move is guaranteed to get them excellent scores in the press, which thinks they've listened and acted. At the same time, the free software community won't be able to complain any more, since they'll just look like arrogant whiners.
The interesting thing about open-source consumers is that they're mostly talk, ... Just look at the failure of Lokigames to make a profit, not to mention id's big profile attempt to push Linux by doing a simultaneous Linux/Mac/Windows release of Quake III - sales of Linux Quake III were abysmal.
I'm sorry, neither of those products were Open Source. So you're complaining that "open source customers" don't buy proprietary software. Well, duh.
What we're talking about here is the hardware analogy to "Open Source", though. I'd probably buy it in a heartbeat. (I chose my current card explicitly because I could use it with free drivers)
My favorite moment was when Stewart was making the point that although Crossfire tried to keep a serious profile, it's all just partison hackery theater:
STEWART: Now, this is theater. It's obvious. How old are you?
Kerry: I believe that the death penalty should only be used for terrorists. I do not think that executing minors is good policy. I will, however, enforce the laws of the land.
What? "Only for terrorists"? What kind of populistic drivel is that?
As a non-American, I sincerely hope Kerry wins the election, but I wish he'd be more honest in his comments. It's so clear he's trying to please ALL sides, it's patehetic.
As for the death penalty, I believe you can either be for it or against it. Kerry can define "terrorist" however he wants to legally kill whoever he wants. And he's against killing minors, but he'll do it since it's the law?
It was also frustrating to hear his comments on the PATRIOT Act in the second presidential debate. He's against it because of the rights it takes away, but he voted FOR it since he believes the Act is necessary to fight terrorism. Hello?
It's too bad when you only have two real candidates to vote for and both suck noodles. I'd normally say vote third-party, but this time it's so important to get Bush out of office that I hope everyone will agree to vote Kerry instead.
Just my 0.2 Norwegian kroners. Thanks for reading, and vote Kerry!
I got rid of my television because I didn't watch it that much, and I didn't pay license for it (in Norway it's pretty expensive). Instead a rely on my internet connection to feed me news and entertainment. I'd be really frustrated if I had to pay the same license, and I'm thinking there can't be that few in my situation.
If you're of the opinion that all software should be free (as in speech), KDE is the better alternative philosophically. The GPL lisence of Qt creates a strong incentive for developers to release their applications under the GPL. Sure, they can purchase a license from Trolltech, but that's sufficiently expensive that many are bound to consider going Free instead.
I believe this was what the grandparent was referring to when he said he prefers KDE for philosophical reasons.
It is of course copyrighted. Anything you create which is at least vaguely novel or demanded a wee bit of effort, is automatically copyrighted by you. It is up to the copyright owner to decide how that peace of work can be distributed. So what you're really asking is "is redistribution allowed", which I don't know.
You don't have to reload the page to fix the rendering. Just force a re-rendering by zooming out, then in again (ctrl+minus, ctrl+plus). Saves you bandwidth and is faster.
So, you're saying that any pedophile who downloads pornography from the internet will not go out and abduct a child. I don't think that statement is completely correct. Whenever there is an arrest of a person who's abducted/abused a child, there usually is an entire library of DVDs/CDs/photoalbums found.
Just because police find child pornography at many convicted offenders', that doesn't imply causality. Of course, such a causality may exist, but it hasn't been shown yet.
The grandparent post postulated that access to porn may prevent many from molesting children, by creating a "safe" vent. I suppose that for some (maybe even for many), it will. For others, the effect may be opposite, and dangerous. Human beings are not lemmings, they don't react mechanically and deterministically to stimuli. Still, there may exist research to help us form opinions based on something other than moral bias and fear. The intent must always be to act in the best interest of the children.
For the record, child pornography doesn't have to have victims. But because of the moral outrage, even computer-generated child porn and texts are outlawed most places.
Sorry to have to used you as an example. That wasn't me.
The time that is incurred by such stunts and the anger that arises is evidence that something in the Wikipedia process isn't working very well. What? The article was fixed in a very short time. If anything, your stunt evidenced how effective the Wikipedia process is. I didn't see any "anger" either.
Fortuneately I wasn't bent on vandalism or else I would have added false information or substracted good information from that page.
At any time, thousands of people watch the "Recent changes" list, and authors of articles keep their articles in their watch lists so they are notified as soon as someone edits them. What doesn't get picked up in that way, will be picked up by the next knowledgable reader.
However had I not given up, I'm sure your time and consitution would have been affected even more adversely.
Had you not given up, there'd have been a ban on you. Plenty of people "don't give up"; Wikipedia deals with persistent vandals around the clock -- there are sound mechanisms in place that deal with that.
There definitely needs to be some sort of moderation before information is posted.
The whole point of Wikipedia is to have no barriers whatsoever to post. (The founder had an encyclopedia project before Wikipedia, that had an elaborate moderation process, and in two years they had just a few hundred articles.) If you don't like that, no problem, get Microsoft Encarta (which, incidentally, has some pretty outrageous errors on a Norwegian political party, but hey, what can you do). I'll continue to use Wikipedia as a great resource whenever I want to broaden my horizons, and editing articles whenever I can help. It's great fun, and quite useful.
Oh really, see how long that cunning comment of yours in the Authority article got to live? And then, you added it again, and it was killed one minute later, and then the same again and again. You must have little respect for other people's time. I'm glad to see you finally gave up your vandalism though -- I think it served poorly as a case for your point.
Tail call elimination only reduces the amount of stack frames needed. Most of the overhead associated with function calls are still there. That said, recursion is a lot more natural in some types of languages, especially functional ones. And regardless of language, recursion can be much more intuitive and maintainable than imperative loops. Overhead isn't everything.
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Slightly freer than Europe? At least in most European countries, your home cannot be searched or your phone tapped without a court order, and you cannot be imprisoned without a legal process.
Interestingly, Nokia is a Scandinavian country
That's a common misconception. Nokia is not a country, it's the capital of Finland! Gee, stupid Americans.
That's nothing. Imagine iTunes on internet pornography!
Great. So now this'll just further fuel the movement of the extremely large file-sharers to move to those P2P networks that are completely anonymous
There's no such thing as complete anonymity, and you should distrust any P2P product that claims complete anonymity. There are only degrees of anonymity, and you select your degree according to the situation, and incur some tradeoffs the higher the degree goes (for example, higher latency). Freenet is certainly not "completely anonymous", and they don't claim to be. Tracing a Freenet transaction is, however, not feasible for most people and most situations.
This is just SUN throwing a bone to the free software community who has been asking for a free Java. What they want is the four software freedoms. SUN, by allowing this "shared source" access to take quick, careful peeks at the source code and hope SUN won't go SCO on your behind, want to be able to say "we're meeting you half-way, you stupid hippies!" This move is guaranteed to get them excellent scores in the press, which thinks they've listened and acted. At the same time, the free software community won't be able to complain any more, since they'll just look like arrogant whiners.
Dear the USA,
I think I speak for surprisingly many here in the world when I say:
YOU MANIACS. YOU BLEW IT UP. DAMN YOU. GOD DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL.
The distro is called SUSE, not SuSE. It happened like a year ago, you'd think people catch up :)
I have friends who refuse to use the Ctrl-+ Ctrl-- trick. They reload instead, to "punish" slashdot for the poor HTML. I can't be bothered. :)
The interesting thing about open-source consumers is that they're mostly talk, ... Just look at the failure of Lokigames to make a profit, not to mention id's big profile attempt to push Linux by doing a simultaneous Linux/Mac/Windows release of Quake III - sales of Linux Quake III were abysmal.
I'm sorry, neither of those products were Open Source. So you're complaining that "open source customers" don't buy proprietary software. Well, duh.
What we're talking about here is the hardware analogy to "Open Source", though. I'd probably buy it in a heartbeat. (I chose my current card explicitly because I could use it with free drivers)
My favorite moment was when Stewart was making the point that although Crossfire tried to keep a serious profile, it's all just partison hackery theater:
STEWART: Now, this is theater. It's obvious. How old are you?
CARLSON: Thirty-five.
STEWART: And you wear a bow tie.
Jon Stewart is gold.
Kerry: I believe that the death penalty should only be used for terrorists. I do not think that executing minors is good policy. I will, however, enforce the laws of the land.
What? "Only for terrorists"? What kind of populistic drivel is that?
As a non-American, I sincerely hope Kerry wins the election, but I wish he'd be more honest in his comments. It's so clear he's trying to please ALL sides, it's patehetic.
As for the death penalty, I believe you can either be for it or against it. Kerry can define "terrorist" however he wants to legally kill whoever he wants. And he's against killing minors, but he'll do it since it's the law?
It was also frustrating to hear his comments on the PATRIOT Act in the second presidential debate. He's against it because of the rights it takes away, but he voted FOR it since he believes the Act is necessary to fight terrorism. Hello?
It's too bad when you only have two real candidates to vote for and both suck noodles. I'd normally say vote third-party, but this time it's so important to get Bush out of office that I hope everyone will agree to vote Kerry instead.
Just my 0.2 Norwegian kroners. Thanks for reading, and vote Kerry!
I got rid of my television because I didn't watch it that much, and I didn't pay license for it (in Norway it's pretty expensive). Instead a rely on my internet connection to feed me news and entertainment. I'd be really frustrated if I had to pay the same license, and I'm thinking there can't be that few in my situation.
You must not have gotten the latest edition of the doubleplusgood Newspeak dictionary. It's called the minihomsec now.
If you're of the opinion that all software should be free (as in speech), KDE is the better alternative philosophically. The GPL lisence of Qt creates a strong incentive for developers to release their applications under the GPL. Sure, they can purchase a license from Trolltech, but that's sufficiently expensive that many are bound to consider going Free instead.
I believe this was what the grandparent was referring to when he said he prefers KDE for philosophical reasons.
The question to ask is _why_ should they write it in C# ?!
:)
I'm sorry, but he didn't mention C# at all. He said mono. Mono works with any number of languages (including your mentioned Python).
(btw, there's no space between a sentence and a question mark
It is of course copyrighted. Anything you create which is at least vaguely novel or demanded a wee bit of effort, is automatically copyrighted by you. It is up to the copyright owner to decide how that peace of work can be distributed. So what you're really asking is "is redistribution allowed", which I don't know.
You don't have to reload the page to fix the rendering. Just force a re-rendering by zooming out, then in again (ctrl+minus, ctrl+plus). Saves you bandwidth and is faster.
So, you're saying that any pedophile who downloads pornography from the internet will not go out and abduct a child. I don't think that statement is completely correct. Whenever there is an arrest of a person who's abducted/abused a child, there usually is an entire library of DVDs/CDs/photoalbums found.
Just because police find child pornography at many convicted offenders', that doesn't imply causality. Of course, such a causality may exist, but it hasn't been shown yet.
The grandparent post postulated that access to porn may prevent many from molesting children, by creating a "safe" vent. I suppose that for some (maybe even for many), it will. For others, the effect may be opposite, and dangerous. Human beings are not lemmings, they don't react mechanically and deterministically to stimuli. Still, there may exist research to help us form opinions based on something other than moral bias and fear. The intent must always be to act in the best interest of the children.
For the record, child pornography doesn't have to have victims. But because of the moral outrage, even computer-generated child porn and texts are outlawed most places.
Because Mono is Free Software, for one thing.
Miguel is not a Microsoft employee.
If developed for Java, you could easily use it from C# with IKVM.
Sorry to have to used you as an example.
That wasn't me.
The time that is incurred by such stunts and the anger that arises is evidence that something in the Wikipedia process isn't working very well.
What? The article was fixed in a very short time. If anything, your stunt evidenced how effective the Wikipedia process is. I didn't see any "anger" either.
Fortuneately I wasn't bent on vandalism or else I would have added false information or substracted good information from that page.
At any time, thousands of people watch the "Recent changes" list, and authors of articles keep their articles in their watch lists so they are notified as soon as someone edits them. What doesn't get picked up in that way, will be picked up by the next knowledgable reader.
However had I not given up, I'm sure your time and consitution would have been affected even more adversely.
Had you not given up, there'd have been a ban on you. Plenty of people "don't give up"; Wikipedia deals with persistent vandals around the clock -- there are sound mechanisms in place that deal with that.
There definitely needs to be some sort of moderation before information is posted.
The whole point of Wikipedia is to have no barriers whatsoever to post. (The founder had an encyclopedia project before Wikipedia, that had an elaborate moderation process, and in two years they had just a few hundred articles.) If you don't like that, no problem, get Microsoft Encarta (which, incidentally, has some pretty outrageous errors on a Norwegian political party, but hey, what can you do). I'll continue to use Wikipedia as a great resource whenever I want to broaden my horizons, and editing articles whenever I can help. It's great fun, and quite useful.
Oh really, see how long that cunning comment of yours in the Authority article got to live? And then, you added it again, and it was killed one minute later, and then the same again and again. You must have little respect for other people's time. I'm glad to see you finally gave up your vandalism though -- I think it served poorly as a case for your point.
There's a nice overview over what's new in 2.8 here.
Tail call elimination only reduces the amount of stack frames needed. Most of the overhead associated with function calls are still there. That said, recursion is a lot more natural in some types of languages, especially functional ones. And regardless of language, recursion can be much more intuitive and maintainable than imperative loops. Overhead isn't everything.