There are non-big-bang cosmological theories that are not tied to (christian or otherwise) pseudoscience. This was probably meant to recognise that there are non-fringe, non-religiously-inspired other theories out there that some sane folks consider viable.
They only have that right if the people and legal system choose to give it to them. As part of the open source community, I think it's a good thing for us to demand and push for the most user-enabling, user-friendly technology and licenses we can possibly get. DRM hurts us. We should stop it.
SPI is perhaps legally Debian, but we do not think/operate strictly in the legal mode. If the "separatist cabal" includes the majority of the developers, then it's really Debian (one kind of "fiction" or group) itself splitting off from its legal fiction. There may be some consequences in order to maintain compliance with legal things, but I can't see any reason we shouldn't go on thinking of Debian as the group of people who make the software, even if that's not the legal arrangement.
Unrelated, it would've been a very good idea for Debian to talk to SPI a bit more on these issues, given that they have a kind of symbiotic relationship.
There are those of us who are unwilling to be shackled to support artists. If the artists want to find a way to make a living without this, it's their business to do so. If the public would fund them, that'd be fine. There may be other ways to do this too, but DRM and strong IP are unacceptable and things that will not be accepted.
I don't know if it's exactly newsworthy, but it's kind of cute (and interesting) that the amount of specialisation that's going on in graphics cards leads to situations where one can persuade the graphics card to do one's (not graphics-related) work faster than one would be using the general purpose CPU for the same task. It's more amusement than anything else (although for those who want to do the computation, it's also useful).
Of course, the obsession with money in capitalist economics would *never* lead to people who are primarily interested in making money reaching positions of power. We have the most moral people ever watching out for the interests of society, because self interest and interest in society *naturally* go hand-in-hand, thanks to the magic of the invisible hand.
Well, *I* blame it on the fact that we don't have a TRUE FREE MARKET[tm] medical system. Because we all clearly have time to become experts in everything, and because there are no systematic economic disparities that effectively make one person's life (and concerns) more important than a less wealthy person, we should let the market decide how we're healed. Fair competition between witch doctors, self-surgery, and the current medical position which enslaves us all would encourage medical people to actually heal people THROUGH COMPETITION! I've heard of doctors which actually try to make their patients sicker so they'll keep coming back for business, and if we allowed acupuncture and spiritual healing to compete, that just wouldn't happen. People should operate on their neighbours without needing to get the guildlike protections that protect the medical racket. Word-of-mouth should be good enough to let people know which neighbours are good for an appendectomy, and which are just good for oral surgery, and as we all know, government doesn't work, so it can't be worse than what we have now.:)
Why should we all have cars again? Why should any of us have cars, actually? It seems more intelligent to be sending these recources into public transit..
Sure, and if you stab someone, they'll be ok. Oh, sure their life processes might stop and they might cease to be recognisable for the attributes we value about them, but their bones and stuff will be around for quite some time.
With a BLOG, there's an expectation of significant innovation in content that expresses the views of those posting it. Slashdot, like Google News, is expected to be a collection of links with little to no original content (except, for slashdot, in the discussion areas).
I suppose I just take it for granted that the system isn't perfect, and that good stories that people put time into don't always get posted, and sometimes worse versions get posted from other people. I occasionally have submitted stories, and I don't think any of them have been posted, but.. no big deal. That's what BLOGs are for. I'm not saying that it doesn't suck when it happens, but the degree to which this bothers you seems extreme to me and suggests that there's a lot of ego involved.
The punk who made that software promised a source release for a very long time, getting the community heavily interested and involved in promoting it, and then chickened out and kept it closed. Irritating.
It would've been nice to see some kind of note that this was a Cato blog thing. Believe it or not, there are some of us who don't think the Randian or Libertarian vision of the world, even in their ideals, makes for a good society.
Just like Valerie (the previous persona they gave to the dalek-like roboceptionist), there's nothing particularly impressive that goes into it - mix the eliza software with a few queries that can produce canned answers and the (admittedly useful) ability to look up weather around the world and find where people's offices are, and you have this thing. The public face is nothing impressive -- anyone who has seen what the Final Fantasy movies will find the graphics on this thing ridiculously primitive -- Valerie's face looked like it was generated on the fly in the age of PentiumII/200, and Tank's face is the same but less attractive. I suppose that's not the point though -- the project is intended to study human/avatar interaction, and a number of people do seem to enjoy playing with the system.
I've heard that some aspects of the rendering engine, particularly the CSS support, is ahead of the Window s version of IE. Of course, I would still encourage people to work on Firefox, especially given the license people would likely be operating under if MS released it.
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There are non-big-bang cosmological theories that are not tied to (christian or otherwise) pseudoscience. This was probably meant to recognise that there are non-fringe, non-religiously-inspired other theories out there that some sane folks consider viable.
Same thing.
They only have that right if the people and legal system choose to give it to them. As part of the open source community, I think it's a good thing for us to demand and push for the most user-enabling, user-friendly technology and licenses we can possibly get. DRM hurts us. We should stop it.
Errmmm, I mean delight to replace the last "surprise". So much for humour. Damn.
With much fear, surprise, and surprise for some of the scientists, they began to read the new code... it began:
......
#!/usr/bin/perl -ane
One scientist looked at the other, and said "This explains everything!"
Give me rocket number nine! I want to watch!
Gosh, and betas for a new platform are supposed to be totally smooth and flawless....
SPI is perhaps legally Debian, but we do not think/operate strictly in the legal mode. If the "separatist cabal" includes the majority of the developers, then it's really Debian (one kind of "fiction" or group) itself splitting off from its legal fiction. There may be some consequences in order to maintain compliance with legal things, but I can't see any reason we shouldn't go on thinking of Debian as the group of people who make the software, even if that's not the legal arrangement.
Unrelated, it would've been a very good idea for Debian to talk to SPI a bit more on these issues, given that they have a kind of symbiotic relationship.
Where "fscked up" means not visiting 4chan often enough... *chuckle*..
There are those of us who are unwilling to be shackled to support artists. If the artists want to find a way to make a living without this, it's their business to do so. If the public would fund them, that'd be fine. There may be other ways to do this too, but DRM and strong IP are unacceptable and things that will not be accepted.
I don't know if it's exactly newsworthy, but it's kind of cute (and interesting) that the amount of specialisation that's going on in graphics cards leads to situations where one can persuade the graphics card to do one's (not graphics-related) work faster than one would be using the general purpose CPU for the same task. It's more amusement than anything else (although for those who want to do the computation, it's also useful).
Of course, the obsession with money in capitalist economics would *never* lead to people who are primarily interested in making money reaching positions of power. We have the most moral people ever watching out for the interests of society, because self interest and interest in society *naturally* go hand-in-hand, thanks to the magic of the invisible hand.
Well, *I* blame it on the fact that we don't have a TRUE FREE MARKET[tm] medical system. Because we all clearly have time to become experts in everything, and because there are no systematic economic disparities that effectively make one person's life (and concerns) more important than a less wealthy person, we should let the market decide how we're healed. Fair competition between witch doctors, self-surgery, and the current medical position which enslaves us all would encourage medical people to actually heal people THROUGH COMPETITION! I've heard of doctors which actually try to make their patients sicker so they'll keep coming back for business, and if we allowed acupuncture and spiritual healing to compete, that just wouldn't happen. People should operate on their neighbours without needing to get the guildlike protections that protect the medical racket. Word-of-mouth should be good enough to let people know which neighbours are good for an appendectomy, and which are just good for oral surgery, and as we all know, government doesn't work, so it can't be worse than what we have now. :)
Why should we all have cars again? Why should any of us have cars, actually? It seems more intelligent to be sending these recources into public transit..
Sure, and if you stab someone, they'll be ok. Oh, sure their life processes might stop and they might cease to be recognisable for the attributes we value about them, but their bones and stuff will be around for quite some time.
Apparently, spelling is not required knowledge for a career in network securit :)
With a BLOG, there's an expectation of significant innovation in content that expresses the views of those posting it. Slashdot, like Google News, is expected to be a collection of links with little to no original content (except, for slashdot, in the discussion areas).
Contracts can be based on a situation that is by nature coercive. There can be a public interest in overriding their specifics or entirety.
You're probably going to confuse BushJr, and he might bomb the white house! That would be .. oh, yes, that would be bad. ;)
I suppose I just take it for granted that the system isn't perfect, and that good stories that people put time into don't always get posted, and sometimes worse versions get posted from other people. I occasionally have submitted stories, and I don't think any of them have been posted, but .. no big deal. That's what BLOGs are for. I'm not saying that it doesn't suck when it happens, but the degree to which this bothers you seems extreme to me and suggests that there's a lot of ego involved.
Seriously. Why does it matter to you? The story's up, that's what matters. Don't think there's an obligation to hand a day in the sun to you.
The punk who made that software promised a source release for a very long time, getting the community heavily interested and involved in promoting it, and then chickened out and kept it closed. Irritating.
It would've been nice to see some kind of note that this was a Cato blog thing. Believe it or not, there are some of us who don't think the Randian or Libertarian vision of the world, even in their ideals, makes for a good society.
Just like Valerie (the previous persona they gave to the dalek-like roboceptionist), there's nothing particularly impressive that goes into it - mix the eliza software with a few queries that can produce canned answers and the (admittedly useful) ability to look up weather around the world and find where people's offices are, and you have this thing. The public face is nothing impressive -- anyone who has seen what the Final Fantasy movies will find the graphics on this thing ridiculously primitive -- Valerie's face looked like it was generated on the fly in the age of PentiumII/200, and Tank's face is the same but less attractive. I suppose that's not the point though -- the project is intended to study human/avatar interaction, and a number of people do seem to enjoy playing with the system.
I've heard that some aspects of the rendering engine, particularly the CSS support, is ahead of the Window s version of IE. Of course, I would still encourage people to work on Firefox, especially given the license people would likely be operating under if MS released it.