OLPC is providing mechanism, not policy.
You seem to have the negative view of human nature posed by some of old:
"For two and a half years Bet Shammai and Bet Hillel debated this question. These said: It would have been better for man not to have been created than for him to be created. These said: It is better for man to have been created, than for him not to have been created. They concluded: It would have been better for man not to have been created, but now that he has been created - let him examine his deeds." (Eiruvin, 13: 72).
http://kerenyishai.org/shiur_english/bereshit61.htm
I'd take the view that, if enough are helped, the urge to waste the gift may be minimized. You at least have to give Negroponte et al. credit for doing something
Because the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx maintain their nice, contented world by burying the lumpen proletariat in guilt, fear, and shame.
Salute your Templar Overlords, sheeply scum.
Freedom was overrated, anyway.
What scares me is the total gutting of the American manufacturing sector as companies build factories in areas with slave labor... megacorps don't care what happens to any particular country. Race to the bottom, anyone?
Why be scared?
If there is sufficient demand, and insufficient supply, then won't prices adjust to the point that it makes sense to bring manufacturing back to the US? "The market goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the market returneth again according to his circuits."
By all means, be smart about the investments. Remind me again, though, the point of all this fretting?
When push comes to shove, tyrants murder people like you and me.
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Have the usual suspects, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and Google, been turning over information about these people?
The listed companies all provide various mechanisms.
I'm not sure it's cool to imply that they are somehow culpable without a fully developed theory linking mechanism to policy, in terms of culpability.
You may very well have a point, but the idea deserves more than four sentences of slogans like:
There is no free speech without anonymity.
Without linkages between people and speech, there is also no accountability.
Fortunately, on this here internet, no one has figured out that I am a toothless, incontinent pomeranian living in Idaho.;)
The interesting thing about this troll is the tension between the liberal guilt in the first paragraph and the libertarian bile in the second.
A fine Tuesday entry, all around.
language isn't evolved by a central authority, but by a lot of people. So it's constantly getting forked, making version numbers useless.
Useless? Can't you differentiate between a bug and a feature, sir?
Lack of central authority renders language a giant, abstract petri dish.
Everyone is cheerfully invited to fork the language, and publish useless dreck about the versioning of it to their heart's content:
"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." -- Henry Kissinger
Remember: a vote for academic chaos is a vote for diversity. Don't be a fascist!
DaBears, starting with the original teddy, (Roosevelt), are as much a symbol of soul-sucking capitalism as DeBeers. The world should give all the teddys and diamonds to me, as a means of purifying itself.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No.
Lawsuits are seppuku.
The point of interest here is the revenue stream; dragging people into court will win Redmond as much popularity as lawsuits have for the RIAA.
Redmond's chief stranglehold on everyone is proprietary file formats.
Look for the next version or so of MS Office executables to either show up as CLR assemblies, and, while not exactly hyped for such, run quite well on Mono.
Users get to run operating systems that don't suck, and maintain file-compatibility with those that insist on suction, and Redmond protects its revenue stream.
Novell's satanic pact ensures that the resulting beast is reasonably tested.
Call the bluff.
Your question is akin to asking "why buy insurance?".
Neither company has perfect information, and they can make a lot of money out of acting as if there were significant risk, and then doing all of this legal ballet to mitigate the risk.
It's a belief system. And if your faith is insufficient to make the subjective leap, quaff the kool aid, take the magic pill, then you can join the rest of us in the crowd that find the whole thing just a tad bit whiffy.
why pay for protection?
It's either a marketing campaign or a cookbook, my friend.
No, on the grounds of excessive CPU overhead.
A simpler approach would be to have the UN put out a resolution asking everyone to be nice.
Oh, and another resolution asking people not to send spam, pretty please, would also be helpful.
Visio has an XML format, though I haven't tried composing such externally and then opening it within Visio--you never know exactly when MS has some kind of catch-me-screw-me thing going on, but you figure they do most of the time.
What I would like to know is if anyone has found a way to automate the UML add-in. I would really like to use it (and I have a legal copy) as a reporting tool. It makes swell pictures, but the interface is completely in the way.
I suspect Samba to be hit or at least a target. It is a key part of replacing a lot of windows servers.
You touch the money nerve here.
When you touch that nerve, an awful lot of people become highly interested.
MS would have to tread very, very carefully to make an attack on GPLv3 and not face ridiculous blowback in the form of anti-trust proceedings.
The outcome would be far from certain, and I don't think big money moves in uncertain waters.
To respond to you and parent, keep in mind that the court of public opinion is very strong. Even if there is some wild technicality that MS can use to challenge a license, e.g., their covenant-not-to-sue through Novell, MS has to respect the GPL, even if they don't like it.
The real public opinion of MS is expressed in the continued popularity of XP. Vista was their last gasp^Wrelease. Now, do they go 'nucular' on the GPL, a la their SCO meat-puppet, and try some courtroom shenanigans?
I suppose if one of their brain-children lawyers dreams up some attack on GPLv3.
Anything's good for a laugh while the ship's going down, I suppose.
And Apple the new Microsoft, and Microsoft the new IBM. Was there reality before IBM? and what will succeed Google? What if IBM succeeds Google? Would this be proof of reincarnation?
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Sure you can. It's right in there => .
You seem to have the negative view of human nature posed by some of old:
http://kerenyishai.org/shiur_english/bereshit61.htm
I'd take the view that, if enough are helped, the urge to waste the gift may be minimized.
You at least have to give Negroponte et al. credit for doing something
Because the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx maintain their nice, contented world by burying the lumpen proletariat in guilt, fear, and shame.
Salute your Templar Overlords, sheeply scum.
Freedom was overrated, anyway.
IPv4 is creaky, migrate to IPv6 for good justice.
If there is sufficient demand, and insufficient supply, then won't prices adjust to the point that it makes sense to bring manufacturing back to the US? "The market goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the market returneth again according to his circuits."
By all means, be smart about the investments. Remind me again, though, the point of all this fretting?
I'm not sure it's cool to imply that they are somehow culpable without a fully developed theory linking mechanism to policy, in terms of culpability.
You may very well have a point, but the idea deserves more than four sentences of slogans like: Without linkages between people and speech, there is also no accountability.
Fortunately, on this here internet, no one has figured out that I am a toothless, incontinent pomeranian living in Idaho.
Ah, but Bush didn't give you enough courage to run against Cthillary, Mr. Gingrich?
The interesting thing about this troll is the tension between the liberal guilt in the first paragraph and the libertarian bile in the second.
A fine Tuesday entry, all around.
"Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away."
Lack of central authority renders language a giant, abstract petri dish.
Everyone is cheerfully invited to fork the language, and publish useless dreck about the versioning of it to their heart's content: Remember: a vote for academic chaos is a vote for diversity. Don't be a fascist!
DaBears, starting with the original teddy, (Roosevelt), are as much a symbol of soul-sucking capitalism as DeBeers. The world should give all the teddys and diamonds to me, as a means of purifying itself.
Yep, that mod was a total hoot. Better tool for this job, though, is leo: http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&search=Muttersprachler&relink=on
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No.
Lawsuits are seppuku.
The point of interest here is the revenue stream; dragging people into court will win Redmond as much popularity as lawsuits have for the RIAA.
Redmond's chief stranglehold on everyone is proprietary file formats.
Look for the next version or so of MS Office executables to either show up as CLR assemblies, and, while not exactly hyped for such, run quite well on Mono.
Users get to run operating systems that don't suck, and maintain file-compatibility with those that insist on suction, and Redmond protects its revenue stream.
Novell's satanic pact ensures that the resulting beast is reasonably tested.
Vielleicht ein Deutsch Muttersprachler.
Your question is akin to asking "why buy insurance?".
Neither company has perfect information, and they can make a lot of money out of acting as if there were significant risk, and then doing all of this legal ballet to mitigate the risk.
It's a belief system. And if your faith is insufficient to make the subjective leap, quaff the kool aid, take the magic pill, then you can join the rest of us in the crowd that find the whole thing just a tad bit whiffy. It's either a marketing campaign or a cookbook, my friend.
No, on the grounds of excessive CPU overhead.
A simpler approach would be to have the UN put out a resolution asking everyone to be nice.
Oh, and another resolution asking people not to send spam, pretty please, would also be helpful.
The other reason to run at high voltage with low current flow is to gain efficiency by minimizing loss due to heat.
Visio has an XML format, though I haven't tried composing such externally and then opening it within Visio--you never know exactly when MS has some kind of catch-me-screw-me thing going on, but you figure they do most of the time.
What I would like to know is if anyone has found a way to automate the UML add-in. I would really like to use it (and I have a legal copy) as a reporting tool. It makes swell pictures, but the interface is completely in the way.
When you touch that nerve, an awful lot of people become highly interested.
MS would have to tread very, very carefully to make an attack on GPLv3 and not face ridiculous blowback in the form of anti-trust proceedings.
The outcome would be far from certain, and I don't think big money moves in uncertain waters.
To respond to you and parent, keep in mind that the court of public opinion is very strong. Even if there is some wild technicality that MS can use to challenge a license, e.g., their covenant-not-to-sue through Novell, MS has to respect the GPL, even if they don't like it.
The real public opinion of MS is expressed in the continued popularity of XP. Vista was their last gasp^Wrelease. Now, do they go 'nucular' on the GPL, a la their SCO meat-puppet, and try some courtroom shenanigans?
I suppose if one of their brain-children lawyers dreams up some attack on GPLv3.
Anything's good for a laugh while the ship's going down, I suppose.
And Apple the new Microsoft, and Microsoft the new IBM. Was there reality before IBM? and what will succeed Google? What if IBM succeeds Google? Would this be proof of reincarnation?
..and the US Air Force http://www.google.com/search?q=f22+raptor&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS230US230&aq=t
Could be a joke in here, but the weather is too nice for cheap shots.
We are certain that these new birds are featherless, however.