I know the feeling, my GF is half Indian (Navajo to be exact) and when we are out the locals will sometime just start speaking Spanish to her thinking she is Mexican. She just blushes and says no habla but I just love how her brother handles it "Me no Mexican, me Indian. Me scalp your kind!".
2 billion offenders tracked should be fine, as there are only about 300 million people in the US. But 2 billion locations? Someone needs a real database. Or a chron job to archive these puppies.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if you think it's spelled "chron", you probably shouldn't be making suggestions on this subject.
Pretty much the same in the US. Antenna placement is governed by the FCC, and any local or state laws and regulations that have a significant impact on the ability of anyone to put up an otherwise-legal antenna are void.
Lots of cities try to pull this crap. Some of them back off once a few lawyers get involved, others waste millions of tax dollars in court only to be smacked around by an unamused US District Court judge.
In defence of all that is holy, it may just be the formatting choice of whoever typed the summary/article, to represent something that made more sense in the exam paper.
For example, it might have been formatted (for a low age or ability group): 4 + 3 + 2 = [_____] + 2 Where the pupil is expected to complete the equation correctly by filling in the box.
I vaguely remember questions in that format from my early maths education.
You may be right, though it still leaves us with the inescapable conclusion that the person typing it and those defending them have had no math education beyond what I received when I was about 9, or they would have immediately recognized the problem the rest of us were alluding to.
Therein lies the problem. You're treating an unassigned value as zero. Zero is a value. ( ) has no value, but can contain one. Logic would denote that to balance the equation, one would add some value somewhere. That somewhere is obviously within the brackets that currently have no value.
No, I'm treating the whole thing as not making sense within the context of the math education that is likely to be received by an American child. It may well be that neither of my reactions upon seeing it were *correct*, but either way I did the equivalent of throw a DoesNotMakeSense exception rather than somehow magically decide that the left side of the equation should end up in the parentheses.
I'm not saying there's not a problem here, just that anyone expecting a typical US schoolchild to do the _right_ thing with that equation is off their rocker.
For the most part, my math skills are about that of a competent sophomore or maybe junior in high school, which isn't so bad for an adult American these days. I have never seen anyone present an equation like "4 + 3 + 2 = () + 2". To me, that's either a syntax error, or somebody saying "9 = 2", which is just wrong. I've never seen empty parentheses treated as a variable, and I'd be shocked if it's commonly-taught in American schools.
That said, I would never come up with putting 4+3+2 in the parentheses. That's just a WTF.
My parents didn't inherit any copyright (or other) money. So my father got a job. Worked pretty well.
The US _is_ a third-world country. Like all our other public infrastructure, our public schools are complete shit, and our private schools are ridiculously expensive for anyone not firmly in the middle class or above.
The idea of mandatory voting is anathema to freedom, a fact obvious even to the most backwards, shit-for-brains redneck. Those few countries that practice it are either totalitarian dictatorships, third-world "democracies" still trying to find their legs, or pseudo-democracies who A) don't really enforce it, and B) have other policies that are also worse than any shit-for-brains redneck would come up with.
It's all people dicking around with other people's money.
No strawmen involved - just an extension of the base topic - you create something, and get money for it. If you just hand that to your kid, or anyone else, they haven't earned it by doing anything useful. At that point, it's more likely they will have a negative impact on society, because they're wielding influence they didn't earn by being a useful member of society. Sorry I didn't completely spell it out for you.
So, 100% estate tax for everyone of all income brackets then? And no gifts?
By the way, in case you hadn't noticed, we don't _have_ a good society in the United States (which is the country at issue here). The social safety nets are an absolute joke. I don't know what you think the US is, but it doesn't seem to be reality. We're a third-world country with a lot of bullets. That's all.
What the fuck does massive environmental catastrophe brought on by negligence of a multinational corporation have to do with the ability of an artist to support his family after death?
I'd like to see copyright last for the author's lifetime. Period. After that, public domain. Why should some author's possibly douchebag kids benefit from what he or she did? You made your stuff, may or may not have made some money on it, now it's time to let everyone else build on that and have a chance to do the same.
There is no good reason for copyright to be able to be passed from the author to some other entity. It in no way benefits society.
So instead of letting the author's work earn a little money for his or her family, society gets to pay for the care of the author's disabled kid, elderly parents, cancer-stricken spouse, or whatever?
Copyright should last a fixed, limited period not exceeding 50 years. Period.
It is a bit ridiculous to argue that they are violating the first amendment by not supporting net neutrality. While I am a proponent of net neutrality myself, we need to keep the arguments for it logical. The first amendment prohibits government from restricting the right of free speech. It doesn't restrict a private corporation from doing the same over the infrastructure that it owns. We need to cite actual, applicable rules or lobby for new, relevant ones to be created.
So long as exclusive rights to land and spectrum continue to be auctioned off by governments to the highest bidder, said highest bidder is effectively a government actor and should be subject to all constitutional restrictions placed on the government.
Yes, the GPL *could* say explicitly that dynamic linking does not constitute derivation, but why would they want to? The FSF *wants* dynamic linking to be derivation (in most cases, anyway). If the courts decide any particular case doesn't constitute a derived work (as they probably would for, say, a GPL'd library that strictly implements the standard C library), so be it, but the FSF wants as much code as possible to come under the requirements of the GPL.
The wording of the GPL is based on copyright law, because there's no other way to word it. If the work is a derivative of a GPL'd work, it must be under the GPL. What constitutes a derived work is a question of copyright law, not the GPL.
you could say the same thing about software that calls functions in a GPL library, does software that dynamically links against a GPL library have to be GPL? Its calling functions in defined in GPL code.
Yes. Please read up on dynamic linking and the GPL and LGPL. The questions your asking have been asked, answered, and discussed by many people every day for the past twenty years. Try Google, it's very useful.
Let me put it this way: of the 4 computers that I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 on, not a single one recognized all the hardware and functioned properly without fiddling. Now maybe each of those computers only represent a tiny percentage of possible configurations, but that's not really the issue, is it?
And you're going to claim Windows recognized all the hardware and functioned properly without fiddling?
However, I've still had some problems with hardware support in a couple cases (each Ubuntu release seems to fix some problems and introduce others)
At this point, Linux hardware problems are not significantly different from Windows hardware problems (e.g. a fresh install of Linux on any given PC is at least as likely to run fine as Windows, probably more likely since more up-to-date drivers are included), but they're harder to fix when they do occur due to lack of direct manufacturer support.
In Windows it's usually "go download the driver from the manufacturer's site", in Linux that's less likely to be an option, and if it is, the installation process is probably going to involve the command line, which scares people.
and you're still missing some commercial packages that might be vital for a lot of users (e.g. Photoshop, where GIMP is pretty good but might still not be a viable alternative).
If you already own such packages, most of them work well in Wine these days (and Wine is a lot easier to use than it was in the past, though still not what it should be).
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Um, I think the words you're looking for is "GTK has never caught up to Qt". Qt was first, GTK was a crappy response to it by a panicked FSF.
I know the feeling, my GF is half Indian (Navajo to be exact) and when we are out the locals will sometime just start speaking Spanish to her thinking she is Mexican. She just blushes and says no habla but I just love how her brother handles it "Me no Mexican, me Indian. Me scalp your kind!" .
Best. Family. Ever. Marry her!
2 billion offenders tracked should be fine, as there are only about 300 million people in the US. But 2 billion locations? Someone needs a real database. Or a chron job to archive these puppies.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that if you think it's spelled "chron", you probably shouldn't be making suggestions on this subject.
Pretty much the same in the US. Antenna placement is governed by the FCC, and any local or state laws and regulations that have a significant impact on the ability of anyone to put up an otherwise-legal antenna are void.
Lots of cities try to pull this crap. Some of them back off once a few lawyers get involved, others waste millions of tax dollars in court only to be smacked around by an unamused US District Court judge.
That is an excellent question for a DBA evaluation exercise.
So...
Efficient SQL Usage == Programmer + DBA
Efficient NoSQL Usage == Programmer
Thank you for making the case for NoSQL so clearly.
This is amongst the coolest things that I have seen in a long time.
So you've never seen an iPhone with one of the dozens of games that have been out for years using similar control schemes, then?
Do you honestly think that Microsoft would do nothing if there was a non-patched privilege escalation exploit in Windows?
What rock have you been living under?
In defence of all that is holy, it may just be the formatting choice of whoever typed the summary/article, to represent something that made more sense in the exam paper.
For example, it might have been formatted (for a low age or ability group):
4 + 3 + 2 = [_____] + 2
Where the pupil is expected to complete the equation correctly by filling in the box.
I vaguely remember questions in that format from my early maths education.
You may be right, though it still leaves us with the inescapable conclusion that the person typing it and those defending them have had no math education beyond what I received when I was about 9, or they would have immediately recognized the problem the rest of us were alluding to.
Therein lies the problem. You're treating an unassigned value as zero. Zero is a value. ( ) has no value, but can contain one. Logic would denote that to balance the equation, one would add some value somewhere. That somewhere is obviously within the brackets that currently have no value.
No, I'm treating the whole thing as not making sense within the context of the math education that is likely to be received by an American child. It may well be that neither of my reactions upon seeing it were *correct*, but either way I did the equivalent of throw a DoesNotMakeSense exception rather than somehow magically decide that the left side of the equation should end up in the parentheses.
I'm not saying there's not a problem here, just that anyone expecting a typical US schoolchild to do the _right_ thing with that equation is off their rocker.
Well, it's sort of that confusing.
For the most part, my math skills are about that of a competent sophomore or maybe junior in high school, which isn't so bad for an adult American these days. I have never seen anyone present an equation like "4 + 3 + 2 = () + 2". To me, that's either a syntax error, or somebody saying "9 = 2", which is just wrong. I've never seen empty parentheses treated as a variable, and I'd be shocked if it's commonly-taught in American schools.
That said, I would never come up with putting 4+3+2 in the parentheses. That's just a WTF.
What third world country do you live in?
My parents didn't inherit any copyright (or other) money. So my father got a job. Worked pretty well.
The US _is_ a third-world country. Like all our other public infrastructure, our public schools are complete shit, and our private schools are ridiculously expensive for anyone not firmly in the middle class or above.
Isn't it illegal to not vote?
The idea of mandatory voting is anathema to freedom, a fact obvious even to the most backwards, shit-for-brains redneck. Those few countries that practice it are either totalitarian dictatorships, third-world "democracies" still trying to find their legs, or pseudo-democracies who A) don't really enforce it, and B) have other policies that are also worse than any shit-for-brains redneck would come up with.
It's all people dicking around with other people's money.
No strawmen involved - just an extension of the base topic - you create something, and get money for it. If you just hand that to your kid, or anyone else, they haven't earned it by doing anything useful. At that point, it's more likely they will have a negative impact on society, because they're wielding influence they didn't earn by being a useful member of society. Sorry I didn't completely spell it out for you.
So, 100% estate tax for everyone of all income brackets then? And no gifts?
By the way, in case you hadn't noticed, we don't _have_ a good society in the United States (which is the country at issue here). The social safety nets are an absolute joke. I don't know what you think the US is, but it doesn't seem to be reality. We're a third-world country with a lot of bullets. That's all.
What the fuck does massive environmental catastrophe brought on by negligence of a multinational corporation have to do with the ability of an artist to support his family after death?
You're attacking a strawman.
I'd like to see copyright last for the author's lifetime. Period. After that, public domain. Why should some author's possibly douchebag kids benefit from what he or she did? You made your stuff, may or may not have made some money on it, now it's time to let everyone else build on that and have a chance to do the same.
There is no good reason for copyright to be able to be passed from the author to some other entity. It in no way benefits society.
So instead of letting the author's work earn a little money for his or her family, society gets to pay for the care of the author's disabled kid, elderly parents, cancer-stricken spouse, or whatever?
Copyright should last a fixed, limited period not exceeding 50 years. Period.
What the hell does copyright have to do with it? Patents and copyrights are very, VERY different things.
It is a bit ridiculous to argue that they are violating the first amendment by not supporting net neutrality. While I am a proponent of net neutrality myself, we need to keep the arguments for it logical. The first amendment prohibits government from restricting the right of free speech. It doesn't restrict a private corporation from doing the same over the infrastructure that it owns. We need to cite actual, applicable rules or lobby for new, relevant ones to be created.
So long as exclusive rights to land and spectrum continue to be auctioned off by governments to the highest bidder, said highest bidder is effectively a government actor and should be subject to all constitutional restrictions placed on the government.
It wouldn't help.
Yes, the GPL *could* say explicitly that dynamic linking does not constitute derivation, but why would they want to? The FSF *wants* dynamic linking to be derivation (in most cases, anyway). If the courts decide any particular case doesn't constitute a derived work (as they probably would for, say, a GPL'd library that strictly implements the standard C library), so be it, but the FSF wants as much code as possible to come under the requirements of the GPL.
A number of your questions would be answered, or at least be more intelligent, if you'd actually read the GPL thoroughly.
Can you point at the place where GPL provides a clear definition of "derived work"?
That's always been part of the problem. Sort of like determining whether including a Javascript file on a web page counts as distribution.
The GPL *can't* offer a definition of derived work, because the definition of "derived work" is wholly a question of copyright law.
The wording of the GPL is based on copyright law, because there's no other way to word it. If the work is a derivative of a GPL'd work, it must be under the GPL. What constitutes a derived work is a question of copyright law, not the GPL.
you could say the same thing about software that calls functions in a GPL library, does software that dynamically links against a GPL library have to be GPL? Its calling functions in defined in GPL code.
Yes. Please read up on dynamic linking and the GPL and LGPL. The questions your asking have been asked, answered, and discussed by many people every day for the past twenty years. Try Google, it's very useful.
Let me put it this way: of the 4 computers that I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 on, not a single one recognized all the hardware and functioned properly without fiddling. Now maybe each of those computers only represent a tiny percentage of possible configurations, but that's not really the issue, is it?
And you're going to claim Windows recognized all the hardware and functioned properly without fiddling?
Pull the other one.
However, I've still had some problems with hardware support in a couple cases (each Ubuntu release seems to fix some problems and introduce others)
At this point, Linux hardware problems are not significantly different from Windows hardware problems (e.g. a fresh install of Linux on any given PC is at least as likely to run fine as Windows, probably more likely since more up-to-date drivers are included), but they're harder to fix when they do occur due to lack of direct manufacturer support.
In Windows it's usually "go download the driver from the manufacturer's site", in Linux that's less likely to be an option, and if it is, the installation process is probably going to involve the command line, which scares people.
and you're still missing some commercial packages that might be vital for a lot of users (e.g. Photoshop, where GIMP is pretty good but might still not be a viable alternative).
If you already own such packages, most of them work well in Wine these days (and Wine is a lot easier to use than it was in the past, though still not what it should be).