Businesses may have a primary aim of making money but they are made of people too and those people do have an effect on how a company behaves, especially in smallish companies. There's no harm in supporting and appreciating a good company. At the very least it gives them some encouragement them to keep being good.
I don't know much about Valve and I've never played one of their games but they look like people trying hard to produce good software. There's no shame in liking that.
I have a bus stop right 20m from my apartment door and a few hundred meters from my workplace and I don't need to change buses. However taking a bus still takes twice as long as driving. Perhaps (more) dedicated bus lanes could ameliorate that but the pick-up, put-down time is still going to be a significant factor.
The most inconvenient thing about using a car is the money. Between insurance, upkeep and depreciation I think using public transport exclusively would be more cost effective for me. But spending an extra half hour each way to get too and from work is an investment in itself.
For me any claim of plausible deniability would go out the window when you see thay have categories like "Movies - CAM TS" or "Games - Console".
There is no credible reason for having those categories unless you are knowingly intending to help distribute content which you have no right to do. There simply isn't any legitimate content that would make those categories necessary.
Evidently this numbnut thought the payoff was worth the risk of punishment, so yes.
I don't argue against copyright infringement being illegal. What I argue is that it should be no more severe than a misdemeanor.
That's quite reasonable for minor copyright infringement. If this dude was doing it for profit then he's no different in motivation to the corporations you're ranting about. The difference is that he isn't creating _anything_ at all. White collar crime should be punished too and the maximum sentence is exactly what it says.
If anyone is being unethical it is the other party for trying to browbeat into place additional restrictions on top of the GPL
Open Source and Free Software work so well because no matter what differing motivations and desires different people have we all can all come together with a given licence as a basis for a sort of social contract.
If a party is trying to restrict what the licence in question normally allows then it is they that is being unethical.
So those long TransPacific flights will only have sporadic TV coverage?
No. As what you quoted clearly says a satellite connects the plane to the ground station.
Plane <--> Satellite <--> Ground station
Re:Star Fleet - where even a toaster can be Lt. Cm
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That episode needed to be completely re-written.
Data already had the rank of Lt. Commander. That means that Star Fleet already recognized his ability to make decisions on his own.
Therefore, his decision to NOT be disassembled would not be challenged.
In order for the case to make sense (I know, it's Star Trek) then the robot would have to not have any prior recognition of its independence or decision making.
Since when has the real world been consistant?
That Starfleet gave him some functional rights and responsibilites doesn't imply that he has been given equal status as humans. I'm sure slaves were given responsibilities and some degree of authority at times. That doesn't mean they weren't still slaves.
Do you think that there is really any difference between the scientific plausibility of the two similar hypotheses, considering that both the Big Bang and the existence of God are both entirely unprovable and impossible to disprove?
They are fundamentally different.
The Big Bang may not be provable in an absolute sense but it is certainly possible to find evidence that supports it as a model for the early universe and it would certainly be possible for us to obtain evidence which proved it wrong.
The existence of a God however is completely non-testable. It has nothing to do with science.
Certainly science is limited and theories are not absolute truths. All that means is that people should be taught science properly and taught to question current theories (that is after all exactly how science progresses). It does not mean that an "absolute" doctrine such as creationism should be taught alongside it as some sort of perverse attempt at "balance".
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I have a Master's in physics. I try to be careful to apply the scientific method when dealing with unknown subjects. Frankly, homeopathy works. Before you criticize, I am as baffled by it as you are. There is no reason it should work, but it does. And yes, there are studies. But because it is 'kooky', it is rejected out-of-hand.
Where are these studies? Have they been reproduced etc? Every vaguely serious inquiry into it I've seen hasn't come up with adequate studies.
Just to make the argument - all of the above apply to "big bang" theory as well.
That's simply not true. While it certainly isn't a complete how-to on universe creation it is a testable theory in the sense it enables us to ask "What would we expect to see if early on there were a very hot, rapidly expanding universe?" and then go looking for evidence that matches it.
It might not give us the reason for the "big bang" occurring but as far as I know nor does it claim to.
Mod it down because it's just a vague list nonsense. If he told us exactly why their config utils suck and how that impacts boot times it might be interesting or insightful. As it is it's just a boring rant with no real informational value at all.
The 7 series has had significant development and innovation over it's lifetime and continues to do so.
Opera already _is_ a small and efficient browser despite having a mail/news and irc client built in. If you don't want to use those clients they just keep out of your way.
Many of the changes in the current 7.6 beta are specifically to make it more attractive and easy to understand for new customers.
So your standards based position for javascript being a "proper" way to create windows is incorrect.
And older HTML standards are still standards anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Nail punctured one of my rear tyres.
6 months earlier I replaced one of the front tyres because of a nail in that.
At least here in australia. The market here seems to be splitting between "high fashion" and budget markets.
I'll choose mine.
Businesses may have a primary aim of making money but they are made of people too and those people do have an effect on how a company behaves, especially in smallish companies. There's no harm in supporting and appreciating a good company. At the very least it gives them some encouragement them to keep being good.
I don't know much about Valve and I've never played one of their games but they look like people trying hard to produce good software. There's no shame in liking that.
I have a bus stop right 20m from my apartment door and a few hundred meters from my workplace and I don't need to change buses. However taking a bus still takes twice as long as driving. Perhaps (more) dedicated bus lanes could ameliorate that but the pick-up, put-down time is still going to be a significant factor.
The most inconvenient thing about using a car is the money. Between insurance, upkeep and depreciation I think using public transport exclusively would be more cost effective for me. But spending an extra half hour each way to get too and from work is an investment in itself.
That just isn't credible.
Who's going to distribute a cam copy of their own movie?
For me any claim of plausible deniability would go out the window when you see thay have categories like "Movies - CAM TS" or "Games - Console".
There is no credible reason for having those categories unless you are knowingly intending to help distribute content which you have no right to do. There simply isn't any legitimate content that would make those categories necessary.
If anyone is being unethical it is the other party for trying to browbeat into place additional restrictions on top of the GPL
Open Source and Free Software work so well because no matter what differing motivations and desires different people have we all can all come together with a given licence as a basis for a sort of social contract.
If a party is trying to restrict what the licence in question normally allows then it is they that is being unethical.
Given that the code in question is apparently GPL it should be fairly obvious that isn't the case.
After all, they are nice and look after our rovers.
Surely that post must be parody. I mean, "citizen-journalists of the blogsphere".
Plane <--> Satellite <--> Ground station
That Starfleet gave him some functional rights and responsibilites doesn't imply that he has been given equal status as humans. I'm sure slaves were given responsibilities and some degree of authority at times. That doesn't mean they weren't still slaves.
The Big Bang may not be provable in an absolute sense but it is certainly possible to find evidence that supports it as a model for the early universe and it would certainly be possible for us to obtain evidence which proved it wrong.
The existence of a God however is completely non-testable. It has nothing to do with science.
Certainly science is limited and theories are not absolute truths. All that means is that people should be taught science properly and taught to question current theories (that is after all exactly how science progresses). It does not mean that an "absolute" doctrine such as creationism should be taught alongside it as some sort of perverse attempt at "balance".
The BBC documentary on it was quite interesting.
It might not give us the reason for the "big bang" occurring but as far as I know nor does it claim to.
If you can get the bloody thing to work then just hold the world to ransom!
Not because "RH = King of Linux".
Mod it down because it's just a vague list nonsense. If he told us exactly why their config utils suck and how that impacts boot times it might be interesting or insightful. As it is it's just a boring rant with no real informational value at all.
How has Opera abandoned the desktop?
The 7 series has had significant development and innovation over it's lifetime and continues to do so.
Opera already _is_ a small and efficient browser despite having a mail/news and irc client built in. If you don't want to use those clients they just keep out of your way.
Many of the changes in the current 7.6 beta are specifically to make it more attractive and easy to understand for new customers.
I think most cars even have anti-stall technology these days. Basic operation of an F1 car would quite simple.
The problem most of us would face would be avoiding shitting ourselves when we put our foot on the loud pedal.
Of course, you need to be highly skilled to be even vaguely competative in one.
Mod that fucker up!
curl http://slashdot.org/ | gpg -se -r Bob
(this is a joke, I have no idea if that's a valid way of invoking GPG)
So your standards based position for javascript being a "proper" way to create windows is incorrect. And older HTML standards are still standards anyway.