No people are using your code in exactly the way you want them to. You picked the GPL and you decided that the restrictions that it puts on your code are the ones that you want. You don't want to let people take your code and put it into a closed source program.
If you don't want to use the GPL then you would pick a different way to release your code.
I really don't like GPL V3 so none of my code will be released under GPL V3. That is my choice.
You picked the trade offs so they are the ones you want. That right is the same right as the guy that releases his code as closes source.
What a load of tripe. Sorry but good software is scarce. How many really good Operating systems are out there? Not that many. How many programs as good as Photoshop, Autocad, or even Office? Dang few. The talent and work to make programs of that quality is scarce. Yes once they are made it is easy to reproduce them. But the same is true about books and has been true about books for around 200 years! This load of dung is simply a want for free stuff that others work hard to make. IF you don't like copyrighted works like movies, books, and software then. a Don't use them EVER. b Create your own and release them under Creative Commons, GPL, or the BDSL. But don't go around and justify taking away the right of authors. If I write a program I have just as much right to sell it for $1000 dollars a copy and not allow you to make copies of it as I do two write a program and release it under the GPL.
So cut out this subterfuge. You think because it is easy to copy that you have a right to free stuff no matter what.
No the GPL ensures that your work can not be used by others a way you don't like.
I can not take some GPL code put DRM on it and then sell it. Even if I don't copyright it. After all I don't have to copyright anything if I don't want to. I also can not take GPL code, compile it, and put in the internet for free download. Unless I offer the source to people.
What? This is trying to restrict distributing copyrighted material. This had nothing to do with free speech. If you want to say that you think GW Bush likes to have tea parties with stuffed animals nobody is going to stop you.
Those evil laws are the same laws that keep me from taking GIMP, making a few changes, closing the source, slapping DRM on it, changing the name to Uber PhotoMax 6000, and selling it at Best Buy for $85 a copy.
If you want people to respect the GPL then you must respect copyright law in general. Are there currently abuses with copyright law? Things like DMCA and other attacks on fair use and time shifting? Yes there is. But not allowing people to distribute copyrighted material that they don't have a right to? Well how good an idea this law is should be up to debate. Is it an attack on free speech or censorship? I don't think so.
Dude what is to stop someone from moving to your new place? They can just chase you from place to place. Unless you make laws to prevent that. What you think that nobody would bother chasing down people they don't like? Dude I suggest you start reading some history books I bet if you look really hard you will find at least one example...
If people can not act morally in MMOGs they will never act morally in real life. Take a look at the behavior on Slashdot for another example of why it can not work.
That is the problem. Everybody has there idea of what a free and open society would be. The problem is they all tend to biased one what we think is right or wrong. Some would like to ban any oppression by religious groups. But they feel that the mention of religion or the statment that my religion is better than yours or your lack of religion is oppressive. Of course they themselves have no problem with people saying that a total lack of religion is better than having one. Just about everyone's vision of Utopia is a place where everybody thinks like they do.
I on the other hand will be happy with non utopia where everybody just tries to be a little polite to each other.
Yes there are Linux Users out there. My wife uses Linux to do digital scarp booking. There are a large number of women using GIMP to do digital scrap booking. Oh her scrap booking forums you will see them talking about how everybody should use Firefox as well... Yes women with kids that have never written a single line of code use FOSS. Some of them are now moving to Linux. The reason is they don't want Vista, they are tired of the problems they have with Windows, and Macs are too expensive. Even then some users have moved to macs. The first step to trying something new is often dissatisfaction with what you have.
As to BSD vs Linux. I have installed BSD and it worked but I didn't really do much with it. Right now for a desktop or even most servers BSD doesn't offer enough befit over Linux to make me want to switch. But that is just for me.
Not really. Very few new power plants are going to built that burn oil. The majority of new plants now are coal, followed by natural gas, and soon I hope Nuclear. Wind farms will replace the Coal fired plants first so it really is a win for the oil companies to expand their revenue base. Same reason that BP makes solar cells. The Oil companies would like nothing more than to make more money selling wind power at the expense of coal. Which will make coal cheaper so the oil companies can use cheap coal to make expensive gas and diesel fuel to sell us to run our cars and trucks.
" I have been under his direct supervision in this whole process; much of the new content was his idea that I ended up implementing." So your boss decided what needed to be done, how it should be done, and picked you to do it. He then took credit for it. Gee imagine that. You work for him and you did what he said to do. Yes it is his credit to take. If you did a crummy job he would take the heat and then fire you but he might still loose his job if you did a bad enough job and he approved it. Any credit you get will be from him. That is the way it really is supposed to work. If you do an extraordinary job then he may decide that are worth praising to his boss.
It does seem unlikely but an extremely long lived life form would tend to see time differently. Think of your own life. When you are 10 the idea of working on one project for a year seems like forever. Heck you can not even stand ten minutes of down time. It seems sooo long to you. By the time your 40 a year seems like a short amount of time and five minutes is a blink of an eye. If you where a 1000 years old and where going to live for another 50,000 years waiting 200 years for a reply wouldn't seem so bad. Even waiting a thousand years for data to come back from a probe is very doable. But no I do not think you can have ultra turtles.
"This I don't even know what you are talking about. Hell, Ubuntu comes with a shitload of preinstalled stuff." True. Installed software bundles are not a problem. The problem is when they preinstall junk. Of course I am not all that fond that Ubuntu installes game bundels. I would like the option of installing just the little games I want to. Over all a small issue.
"I realize you're joking (and I agree that the parallel port is useless), but RS232 is still pretty useful." You may want to re think that. Take a look here.
Actually I work with RS-232 devices all the time. Most USB serial devices are a real pain. Often they just shut down after some random amount of time. No messing with USB root hub power management or other silliness solves the problem. Put the same device on a PCMCIA seral card or a good Express card serial card and it works like a charm.
SPARC? POWER? Both of those are actually popular when it comes to big iron. Yes Intel is it on the desktop but for big honking server it is just so so. For small lower power devices it is pretty lame. There is no reason why a small light mobile device has to be an X86.
A new package format. Just what we need. Man I have to admit that after reading the site I really want noting to do with this distro. Why is it even on Slashdot?... Oh well must be a slow day.
Not a problem. And thank you for wanting to hear and different view point with an open mind. Hopefully this is the start of bit of understanding and tolerance, and maybe even friendship. If so then it is well worth the effort.
"Couldn't that be mitigated by putting cargo and fuel down the middle and only using the edges for passengers? You wouldn't have to go 100% flying wing." I don't think that is a great idea. That would put your windows on the leading edge of the wing. The leading edge is the must critical part of the wing. Getting a clean leading edge with windows would be tricky. Then you would have to worry about the stresses of a window on the leading edge that is pressurized as well. The problems keep going from there. I love the blended body idea but I see some real problems as well. TO me the solution to the widow problem would be virtual windows. Offer screens to all the passengers and mount cameras all over the plane.
Lifting bodies suck at subsonic speeds. You need a high aspect ratio wing to get a good lift to drag ratio. Now a blended body might work but then you have the problems with windows, and pressurizing the structure. A blended body shape makes a really bad pressure vessel. The lower density I still see as an issue. Now CH4 has some possibility. Sort of a best of both worlds.
I have to admit that I find it strange that Wal-Mart isn't using trains more. They built a Wal-Mart Distribution center not too far from where I live a few years ago. It is actually very near the tracks but it isn't on them. Seems like hauling trainloads of containers to the distro center and then sending trucks out from there would save a lot of fuel.
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No people are using your code in exactly the way you want them to. You picked the GPL and you decided that the restrictions that it puts on your code are the ones that you want.
You don't want to let people take your code and put it into a closed source program.
If you don't want to use the GPL then you would pick a different way to release your code.
I really don't like GPL V3 so none of my code will be released under GPL V3. That is my choice.
You picked the trade offs so they are the ones you want.
That right is the same right as the guy that releases his code as closes source.
What a load of tripe.
Sorry but good software is scarce. How many really good Operating systems are out there? Not that many. How many programs as good as Photoshop, Autocad, or even Office?
Dang few.
The talent and work to make programs of that quality is scarce. Yes once they are made it is easy to reproduce them. But the same is true about books and has been true about books for around 200 years!
This load of dung is simply a want for free stuff that others work hard to make.
IF you don't like copyrighted works like movies, books, and software then.
a Don't use them EVER.
b Create your own and release them under Creative Commons, GPL, or the BDSL.
But don't go around and justify taking away the right of authors.
If I write a program I have just as much right to sell it for $1000 dollars a copy and not allow you to make copies of it as I do two write a program and release it under the GPL.
So cut out this subterfuge. You think because it is easy to copy that you have a right to free stuff no matter what.
If you notice I did say that the DMCA is in my option an abuse of copyright law.
No the GPL ensures that your work can not be used by others a way you don't like.
I can not take some GPL code put DRM on it and then sell it. Even if I don't copyright it. After all I don't have to copyright anything if I don't want to.
I also can not take GPL code, compile it, and put in the internet for free download. Unless I offer the source to people.
What?
This is trying to restrict distributing copyrighted material. This had nothing to do with free speech.
If you want to say that you think GW Bush likes to have tea parties with stuffed animals nobody is going to stop you.
Those evil laws are the same laws that keep me from taking GIMP, making a few changes, closing the source, slapping DRM on it, changing the name to Uber PhotoMax 6000, and selling it at Best Buy for $85 a copy.
If you want people to respect the GPL then you must respect copyright law in general.
Are there currently abuses with copyright law? Things like DMCA and other attacks on fair use and time shifting? Yes there is. But not allowing people to distribute copyrighted material that they don't have a right to? Well how good an idea this law is should be up to debate. Is it an attack on free speech or censorship? I don't think so.
Dude what is to stop someone from moving to your new place? They can just chase you from place to place. Unless you make laws to prevent that. What you think that nobody would bother chasing down people they don't like? Dude I suggest you start reading some history books I bet if you look really hard you will find at least one example...
What about this card?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814195040
It may just work for you.
If people can not act morally in MMOGs they will never act morally in real life. Take a look at the behavior on Slashdot for another example of why it can not work.
That is the problem. Everybody has there idea of what a free and open society would be. The problem is they all tend to biased one what we think is right or wrong.
Some would like to ban any oppression by religious groups. But they feel that the mention of religion or the statment that my religion is better than yours or your lack of religion is oppressive. Of course they themselves have no problem with people saying that a total lack of religion is better than having one.
Just about everyone's vision of Utopia is a place where everybody thinks like they do.
I on the other hand will be happy with non utopia where everybody just tries to be a little polite to each other.
Yes there are Linux Users out there. My wife uses Linux to do digital scarp booking. There are a large number of women using GIMP to do digital scrap booking. Oh her scrap booking forums you will see them talking about how everybody should use Firefox as well... Yes women with kids that have never written a single line of code use FOSS. Some of them are now moving to Linux. The reason is they don't want Vista, they are tired of the problems they have with Windows, and Macs are too expensive. Even then some users have moved to macs.
The first step to trying something new is often dissatisfaction with what you have.
As to BSD vs Linux. I have installed BSD and it worked but I didn't really do much with it. Right now for a desktop or even most servers BSD doesn't offer enough befit over Linux to make me want to switch. But that is just for me.
Maybe at a mega corp but I have spent more time taking heat for what an underling did or did not do than I can shake a stick at.
Not really.
Very few new power plants are going to built that burn oil. The majority of new plants now are coal, followed by natural gas, and soon I hope Nuclear.
Wind farms will replace the Coal fired plants first so it really is a win for the oil companies to expand their revenue base.
Same reason that BP makes solar cells.
The Oil companies would like nothing more than to make more money selling wind power at the expense of coal. Which will make coal cheaper so the oil companies can use cheap coal to make expensive gas and diesel fuel to sell us to run our cars and trucks.
" I have been under his direct supervision in this whole process; much of the new content was his idea that I ended up implementing."
So your boss decided what needed to be done, how it should be done, and picked you to do it. He then took credit for it. Gee imagine that.
You work for him and you did what he said to do. Yes it is his credit to take. If you did a crummy job he would take the heat and then fire you but he might still loose his job if you did a bad enough job and he approved it.
Any credit you get will be from him. That is the way it really is supposed to work. If you do an extraordinary job then he may decide that are worth praising to his boss.
It does seem unlikely but an extremely long lived life form would tend to see time differently.
Think of your own life. When you are 10 the idea of working on one project for a year seems like forever. Heck you can not even stand ten minutes of down time. It seems sooo long to you.
By the time your 40 a year seems like a short amount of time and five minutes is a blink of an eye.
If you where a 1000 years old and where going to live for another 50,000 years waiting 200 years for a reply wouldn't seem so bad.
Even waiting a thousand years for data to come back from a probe is very doable.
But no I do not think you can have ultra turtles.
"This I don't even know what you are talking about. Hell, Ubuntu comes with a shitload of preinstalled stuff."
True. Installed software bundles are not a problem. The problem is when they preinstall junk.
Of course I am not all that fond that Ubuntu installes game bundels. I would like the option of installing just the little games I want to.
Over all a small issue.
It does have a riser for two PCI slots.
Just enough to add a second NIC or a gigbit nic, and or a raid card or sata card for more IO.
For a home or small office NAS it would be just fine.
"I realize you're joking (and I agree that the parallel port is useless), but RS232 is still pretty useful."
You may want to re think that. Take a look here.
http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/parallel_output.html
And here
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/233
And here
http://www.phanderson.com/stamp/intro/intro.html
And here
http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/an_pk/3230
For your average PC user the parallel port is pretty useless. But for a hardware hacker they are great!
Actually I work with RS-232 devices all the time. Most USB serial devices are a real pain. Often they just shut down after some random amount of time. No messing with USB root hub power management or other silliness solves the problem. Put the same device on a PCMCIA seral card or a good Express card serial card and it works like a charm.
SPARC? POWER?
Both of those are actually popular when it comes to big iron. Yes Intel is it on the desktop but for big honking server it is just so so. For small lower power devices it is pretty lame. There is no reason why a small light mobile device has to be an X86.
Or anybody else for that matter.
A new package format. Just what we need. ... Oh well must be a slow day.
Man I have to admit that after reading the site I really want noting to do with this distro. Why is it even on Slashdot?
Not a problem. And thank you for wanting to hear and different view point with an open mind. Hopefully this is the start of bit of understanding and tolerance, and maybe even friendship. If so then it is well worth the effort.
"Couldn't that be mitigated by putting cargo and fuel down the middle and only using the edges for passengers? You wouldn't have to go 100% flying wing."
I don't think that is a great idea. That would put your windows on the leading edge of the wing. The leading edge is the must critical part of the wing. Getting a clean leading edge with windows would be tricky. Then you would have to worry about the stresses of a window on the leading edge that is pressurized as well. The problems keep going from there. I love the blended body idea but I see some real problems as well. TO me the solution to the widow problem would be virtual windows. Offer screens to all the passengers and mount cameras all over the plane.
Lifting bodies suck at subsonic speeds. You need a high aspect ratio wing to get a good lift to drag ratio. Now a blended body might work but then you have the problems with windows, and pressurizing the structure. A blended body shape makes a really bad pressure vessel. The lower density I still see as an issue. Now CH4 has some possibility. Sort of a best of both worlds.
I have to admit that I find it strange that Wal-Mart isn't using trains more. They built a Wal-Mart Distribution center not too far from where I live a few years ago. It is actually very near the tracks but it isn't on them. Seems like hauling trainloads of containers to the distro center and then sending trucks out from there would save a lot of fuel.