For software that uses the phrase "or later" in its licence, I really fail to see the problem. "v2 or later" is basically a superset of "v3 or later"
"This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) version 2 or any later version.
What possible problem is there with that? It is logically identical to the existing rules, it just suggests GPL3 as the preferred version.
So getting mad at people who buy dogs from breeders is just being ill-informed...
Selective breeding of dogs is the cause of these genetic defects, not the solution to them!
Of course the damage has already been done now - the more ludicrous the shape of your dog, the finer the "pedigree". Buy a mongrel - the genetic diversity should reduce the likelihood of some of these problems.
Congratulations on being successfully brainwashed by the RIAA. I don't care how many times I have to sit through advertisements telling me downloading an MP3s is stealing, that doesn't make it true. I can only speak for the UK (where I live), and here it is copyright infringement which is a civil rather than a criminal offence.
I know being pedantic with words doesn't actually make it OK, but I'd much rather people stopped talking about stealing, huge fines, jail-time, etc when many of the artists whose rights are supposedly being infringed don't take the issue nearly as seriously.
As you'll notice, the turntable you linked to is "belt drive", which is great for playing records from start to end (like most people do), but if you try to stop and then abruptly start the record again, it takes the belt some time to get it spinning at the correct RPMs again.
Hmm. Have you ever tried using that little lever that raises the arm? Give it a try sometime!
But seriously, he said he was using it to rip his vinyl to CD, so all he wants is for it to sound reasonable and play all the way through. Direct drive turntables are DJ-tech - as far as I am aware you won't find even an entry level 'hifi' or 'audiophile' turntable using direct drive. Belt drive helps to keep all that wobbly motor stuff well away from all that sensitive stylus stuff.
I'd be curious to know what proof you think would be reasonable for backing up their non-belief. I can't really see what scientific discovery could ever be made that would finally convince religionists that God doesn't exist. That's the main problem with all this God business really.
They are not saying "Should have", they are not saying "Should've". They are saying "Should of".
This is the same as people selling their "labtop" computers on eBay. It's completely wrong, but it's completely understandable - people just misheard the word when they learnt it. The audible different between "should've" and "should of" is pretty much zero... language hasn't evolved a new phrase - what you are saying sounds exactly like it did before, so why try to insist on spelling it differently when you come to write it down?
Mozilla on the other hand fires off two requests. Thus doubling its market
You've got to be joking? Yes, sure it is wasteful to send another request when there could be the option to catch and ignore double clicks... but doubling market share? Nobody in their right mind decides marketshare by counting GET requests - even the simplest stats package will count the number of visits rather than number of hits ('visits' is a very vague term, but generally it groups all the hits from the same IP/browser/hour as a single visit)
Links to articles featured on slashdot turn up all over the place due to the RSS feed. Also, if the article is interesting then bloggers will link to it by the bucketful.
We've had a couple of slashdotted articles, and the logs have shown visitors coming in from thousands of new links. Although for whatever reason, Google picked up on almost none of them...
Conciousness is so poorly understood that I don't think you can even say that for sure. Am 'I' the matter or the data in my brain? If I go into a teleporter, do 'I' come out the other end?
I don't understand why the community has a problem with this in the first place. The original source code is still under the GNU license.
People who release code under the GPL are perfectly entitled to 'have a problem' with people breaching their software licence of choice. Anyone who thinks it's OK for others to take their programs, close the source and release modified versions shouldn't be using the GPL - try the BSD licence instead.
I thought that Google had doctored up this obvious territorial infringement on the Mac OS X desktop as a warning shot fired across Apple's bow...
Hmm, yeah. The menacing threat conveyed by the Google X tagline certainly backs up your theory: "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you."
A DVD collection is similar to a music collection - it's a significant investment of time and money. If it doesn't fill up a shelf and people can't browse it and admire/laugh at your taste, then it seems less worthwhile.
It's still very difficult for a lot of people to attach value to 1s and 0s that don't come in a pretty container. It's obviously more convenient if you you have all your movies on a hard-drive, but it's definitely lacking something.
Going around the world on one tank of gas isn't that incredible when compared to other recent achievements such as SpaceShip One and our Martian rovers.
Very true. That new airbus A380 is supposed to get half way round the world in good time without refueling - and that's a fricking jumbo jet with 500+ people on board!
OK, so it's tough doing it all without a co-pilot and a good nights sleep. Congrats.
Yes, they should take the shortest route around the world - just fly in a tight circle around the north or south pole!
Oh, that's cheating? OK, make sure the route takes in both hemispheres - start just south of the equator, head straight for the north pole, fly round it and back again. I'd be curious to know what the actual requirements are for "around the world".
I agree completely - proper auctions don't end at a fixed time, and neither should eBay auctions. But the way they work at the moment, sniping is definitely a useful technique because you can win an auction without other bidders even knowing you are interested.
It's not cheating, and it's not harmful (except to newbies that don't enter a decent maximum bid before the auction ends) so I say snipe away!
I think that's going a bit far. Have you never tried to buy an item where lots of people are selling the same thing? Sure, I might be prepared to pay up to £100 for one, but if someone lists an identical one the next day, I'd rather have the option of trying a £50 bid on the first, and then bidding on the cheaper one if I get outbid. There's nothing worse than having your bid automatically incrementing whilst you are watching someone else get the same thing much cheaper.
Of course, auction sniping is the real way to go. Prevents all those fickle people upping their bids maximums.
Although we do have checklists, which (oddly) are usually ticked-off. Even though the person doing the ticking would announce 'Check!'
I don't know the origin of these words, but I've always imagined that a checklist is so called because you are checking that the the things on the list are present/correct. Perhaps over time, the mark on the paper also came to be a check. Although I imagine that could lead to some bearaucratic disaster: "Did you check the brakes?" <looks at list> "yep!". As for calling out "check" when marking a tick, I imagine that's travelled back across the atlantic from America - I expect people used to just say "Yes" or "OK".
Fair enough. You have a good point, but I don't think it's really Open Office, etc holding back MS Office sales - it's more peoples reluctance to keep paying the high prices. Especially paying to upgrade having already paid once for an older version of MS office. Perhaps people look at open source and it makes them angry when they next have to pay an arm and a leg to MS - even if they aren't really serious about switching to Linux, etc.
Umm... where does it say that? It doesn't. "This article explores the problems which Microsoft face in maintaining their stranglehold" means just that - MS are doing the strangling. RTFA. Or at least read the summary
Why is this same joke being modded funny on every story where it gets posted? If anyone were to bother to RTFA, they would see it is a pretty straight-forward article. What could there even be FUD about?
This is a nice idea, but wouldn't it be better to have a system that let you use your traditional landline-style handset even when you aren't in the house? http://www.pokia.com/
You're right, Emusic is nowhere near as great as when the downloads were unlimited. But I'm sure that wasn't really sustainable for them: The royalties from my $9.99/month must have been split between so many artists as to be insultingly small!
There are other problems too - like a 60min album with 40 tracks costing 10 times as much as a 60min album with 4 tracks. But even so, I'd hardly say they are charging "big money". It's cheaper and more convenient than buying the CDs
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For software that uses the phrase "or later" in its licence, I really fail to see the problem. "v2 or later" is basically a superset of "v3 or later"
"This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) version 2 or any later version.
What possible problem is there with that? It is logically identical to the existing rules, it just suggests GPL3 as the preferred version.
I don't think we need worry about the environmental impact of a few shuttles once in a while.
But we'd better sort out something a bit 'greener' before we are all blasting off for 2 weeks holiday on the sea of tranquility
So getting mad at people who buy dogs from breeders is just being ill-informed...
Selective breeding of dogs is the cause of these genetic defects, not the solution to them!
Of course the damage has already been done now - the more ludicrous the shape of your dog, the finer the "pedigree". Buy a mongrel - the genetic diversity should reduce the likelihood of some of these problems.
Congratulations on being successfully brainwashed by the RIAA. I don't care how many times I have to sit through advertisements telling me downloading an MP3s is stealing, that doesn't make it true. I can only speak for the UK (where I live), and here it is copyright infringement which is a civil rather than a criminal offence.
I know being pedantic with words doesn't actually make it OK, but I'd much rather people stopped talking about stealing, huge fines, jail-time, etc when many of the artists whose rights are supposedly being infringed don't take the issue nearly as seriously.
As you'll notice, the turntable you linked to is "belt drive", which is great for playing records from start to end (like most people do), but if you try to stop and then abruptly start the record again, it takes the belt some time to get it spinning at the correct RPMs again.
Hmm. Have you ever tried using that little lever that raises the arm? Give it a try sometime!
But seriously, he said he was using it to rip his vinyl to CD, so all he wants is for it to sound reasonable and play all the way through. Direct drive turntables are DJ-tech - as far as I am aware you won't find even an entry level 'hifi' or 'audiophile' turntable using direct drive. Belt drive helps to keep all that wobbly motor stuff well away from all that sensitive stylus stuff.
I'd be curious to know what proof you think would be reasonable for backing up their non-belief. I can't really see what scientific discovery could ever be made that would finally convince religionists that God doesn't exist. That's the main problem with all this God business really.
They are not saying "Should have", they are not saying "Should've". They are saying "Should of".
This is the same as people selling their "labtop" computers on eBay. It's completely wrong, but it's completely understandable - people just misheard the word when they learnt it. The audible different between "should've" and "should of" is pretty much zero... language hasn't evolved a new phrase - what you are saying sounds exactly like it did before, so why try to insist on spelling it differently when you come to write it down?
Mozilla on the other hand fires off two requests. Thus doubling its market
You've got to be joking? Yes, sure it is wasteful to send another request when there could be the option to catch and ignore double clicks... but doubling market share? Nobody in their right mind decides marketshare by counting GET requests - even the simplest stats package will count the number of visits rather than number of hits ('visits' is a very vague term, but generally it groups all the hits from the same IP/browser/hour as a single visit)
Links to articles featured on slashdot turn up all over the place due to the RSS feed. Also, if the article is interesting then bloggers will link to it by the bucketful.
We've had a couple of slashdotted articles, and the logs have shown visitors coming in from thousands of new links. Although for whatever reason, Google picked up on almost none of them...
Conciousness is so poorly understood that I don't think you can even say that for sure. Am 'I' the matter or the data in my brain? If I go into a teleporter, do 'I' come out the other end?
I don't understand why the community has a problem with this in the first place. The original source code is still under the GNU license.
People who release code under the GPL are perfectly entitled to 'have a problem' with people breaching their software licence of choice.
Anyone who thinks it's OK for others to take their programs, close the source and release modified versions shouldn't be using the GPL - try the BSD licence instead.
Good point! Although the fact that I've forgotten about it already does say something.
Yes, there were 2 series - each being 6 half hour episodes
I thought that Google had doctored up this obvious territorial infringement on the Mac OS X desktop as a warning shot fired across Apple's bow...
Hmm, yeah. The menacing threat conveyed by the Google X tagline certainly backs up your theory: "Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you."
A DVD collection is similar to a music collection - it's a significant investment of time and money. If it doesn't fill up a shelf and people can't browse it and admire/laugh at your taste, then it seems less worthwhile.
It's still very difficult for a lot of people to attach value to 1s and 0s that don't come in a pretty container. It's obviously more convenient if you you have all your movies on a hard-drive, but it's definitely lacking something.
Going around the world on one tank of gas isn't that incredible when compared to other recent achievements such as SpaceShip One and our Martian rovers.
Very true. That new airbus A380 is supposed to get half way round the world in good time without refueling - and that's a fricking jumbo jet with 500+ people on board!
OK, so it's tough doing it all without a co-pilot and a good nights sleep. Congrats.
Yes, they should take the shortest route around the world - just fly in a tight circle around the north or south pole!
Oh, that's cheating? OK, make sure the route takes in both hemispheres - start just south of the equator, head straight for the north pole, fly round it and back again. I'd be curious to know what the actual requirements are for "around the world".
I agree completely - proper auctions don't end at a fixed time, and neither should eBay auctions. But the way they work at the moment, sniping is definitely a useful technique because you can win an auction without other bidders even knowing you are interested.
It's not cheating, and it's not harmful (except to newbies that don't enter a decent maximum bid before the auction ends) so I say snipe away!
I think that's going a bit far. Have you never tried to buy an item where lots of people are selling the same thing? Sure, I might be prepared to pay up to £100 for one, but if someone lists an identical one the next day, I'd rather have the option of trying a £50 bid on the first, and then bidding on the cheaper one if I get outbid. There's nothing worse than having your bid automatically incrementing whilst you are watching someone else get the same thing much cheaper.
Of course, auction sniping is the real way to go. Prevents all those fickle people upping their bids maximums.
Although we do have checklists, which (oddly) are usually ticked-off. Even though the person doing the ticking would announce 'Check!'
I don't know the origin of these words, but I've always imagined that a checklist is so called because you are checking that the the things on the list are present/correct. Perhaps over time, the mark on the paper also came to be a check. Although I imagine that could lead to some bearaucratic disaster: "Did you check the brakes?" <looks at list> "yep!".
As for calling out "check" when marking a tick, I imagine that's travelled back across the atlantic from America - I expect people used to just say "Yes" or "OK".
Fair enough. You have a good point, but I don't think it's really Open Office, etc holding back MS Office sales - it's more peoples reluctance to keep paying the high prices. Especially paying to upgrade having already paid once for an older version of MS office.
Perhaps people look at open source and it makes them angry when they next have to pay an arm and a leg to MS - even if they aren't really serious about switching to Linux, etc.
Umm... where does it say that? It doesn't. "This article explores the problems which Microsoft face in maintaining their stranglehold" means just that - MS are doing the strangling. RTFA. Or at least read the summary
Why is this same joke being modded funny on every story where it gets posted? If anyone were to bother to RTFA, they would see it is a pretty straight-forward article. What could there even be FUD about?
This is a nice idea, but wouldn't it be better to have a system that let you use your traditional landline-style handset even when you aren't in the house?
http://www.pokia.com/
You're right, Emusic is nowhere near as great as when the downloads were unlimited. But I'm sure that wasn't really sustainable for them: The royalties from my $9.99/month must have been split between so many artists as to be insultingly small!
There are other problems too - like a 60min album with 40 tracks costing 10 times as much as a 60min album with 4 tracks. But even so, I'd hardly say they are charging "big money". It's cheaper and more convenient than buying the CDs