"And I think that claim is complete bullshit. It's fucking FREE. How can there be FREELOADERS with FREE FUCKING SOFTWARE? So my response was basically "What the hell? You don't get it."" No you don't get it. It is supposed to be free as in speech not free as in beer. If you really want a must have feature then you should. a. Suggest it. If the developer thinks it is a good feature and it is worth his time than he or she will add it.. b. Add it yourself. c. Pay for someone to add it. If I decide to release FOSS software which I have in the past most of the time I put in the features I want. If I contribute to FOSS I put in the features I want. If you find a bug and document it. Great I will fix it in the next release. Your the one that doesn't get it. FOSS doesn't mean that the developer becomes your slave. If you don't pay with money or your time then you are freeloader. Yes finding bugs is paying with your time, helping others is helping with your time, writing good docs is really helping with your time, paying for features is helping with your time.
So I will ask you. If the developer doesn't need a feater you want just why should he spend his time putting it in? Just to make you happy? I guess he might if that has value for him but it isn't an obligation.
So if you don't contribute and you don't like it then don't use it. Welcome to the new economy people that pay (in time or money) I listen too.
Well except that there is no proof that this is true. That story is kinda short on any proof at all. email? Does anybody think that email is private? It is sent in clear text so I would say that it is as private as a postcard. There is an election coming soon. So for those that really fear this find out where the candidates stand on it. Then vote. BTW don't focus so much on the President BTW take a hard look at your congressional reps.
"demand more of the helium supply coming from overseas, at the expense of the USA. Prices go up again..." Unless things have changed the US is the OPEC of helium. The US seems to have the majority of Helium. That is one of the reasons that everybody else used Hydrogen for their airships while the US used Helium. At the time it was considered a very dangerous strategic resources.
As a rule I tend to worry more about the fluoride part. While it can be safe if it is strongly bonded I still would stay clear of it unless I checked first.
Sorry I should have been a lot more clear. The lead isn't that expensive. The real cost is in the transportation of it. The restrictions on lead are so strong that AV gas can no longer be shipped using pipelines. transporting the stuff costs a lot. Add in the small amount being made each year and you have can see the problems. Current autogas can work but it has a lot of issues. A lot of it is getting alcohol added into it as well as other additives that may cause problems in an airplane. AV gas is being used less and less for anything but light aircraft. I am betting that at some point light aircraft will have to move to a combination of motorgas and diesels burning JET-A.
"It's really sad that a lot of right-wing wonks like yourself are so fucking far gone on the 'i'm not a right-wing wonk, i'm just slightly conservative' that you can't tell the difference between a criticism of who holds the power and a partisan bent. I suggest you watch less Fox News, and shoot yourself in the face, you big-government loving, nation-building loving, nanny-state right-wing loser." Yea that is why I suggested National Public Radio???? Just as I don't think that one liners are of any value when it comes to politics I really don't think calling names and foaming at the mouth ads anything. Frankly I don't watch Fox News. I don't like the way it uses one liners and over simplifies issues any more than I like the daily show. I really don't like any TV news because as far as I can tell they are all pretty counter productive to solving any of the real issues that people are facing.
"And then you will leave the project and someone else who is interested may retake it (if it is worth it). That is the beauty of Open Source, the programmers does not matter (even if they are the "inventors" of the program). Only the code matters." That is the idea but it doesn't happen all that often. Losing a few key developers will often kill a project. Have you ever tried to dig into a big complex project that someone else wrote? It really isn't as easy as you are stating.
I was thinking of database servers as one use. Unless you are storing a lot of video, graphics, or audio databases are pretty small. A 160 gigabyte database is a pretty big database. But yes it would be very specialized and very expensive.
As a comedy show it is funny but way to many people do think of it as their news source. I turned really sour on it when they had in interview with a person that wrote a book that was pro-life. It wasn't funny and consisted of the host screaming at the author that he was pro-rape by being pro-life. Frankly I find NPR far more balanced than the daily show and a much better source of news. Frankly I find most news/comedy shows to be pretty disgusting. I think that many of the subjects that both sides use jokes with to frankly be too serious too be funny. Of course my making an comment about why I don't like the daily show will bring out the mindless zelots. I am sure that at least one person will claim I am a Fox News watching right wing nut case. Of course that will skip over the fact that I recommended NPR as a source of news.
"they own the design of the car. but the photographer owns their picture." Yet another stupid law. If I PAY a photographer then I should own the pictures. Under this law if you hire a photographer to take pictures of your wedding there is nothing to prevent him from selling any of the pictures to anyone at any time. So yes it is totally legal for him to sell your image for any ad he wants to.
The Ford Fusion is actually a very good car. It got a better reliability rating than the Camry which is a bit of a gold standard. Also Ford owns a big chunk of Mazda. Consumer reports actually gives a lot of Ford cars high marks.
It has been that way for a long time it is called a cache. but the cache isn't as big as the drive. Flash is actually slower for writes and has limited write cycles. What I was imagining was using a ram drive for reading and writing data and then backing that up to a slow flashdrive when you powered down the drive. On power up You could pre cache the ram or just use it as a very large cache.
Mythbusters is fun as is Dirty Jobs. Educational maybe a little. The Daily Show? Fun if it matches your politics but frankly it is the Fox News for people that have a liberal bent. Of course I unusual in that I think any news source that contains a one liners is trash. If you want news listen to NPR, read a few news papers, and or watch the Sunday news shows like Meet the Press. If you just want to laugh and have your world view reinforced then the Daily Show is just fine. For educational TV I am still a big fan of Nova on PBS.
"He makes a good living, evangelizes the hell out of OSS (he's a true believer), and drives money back into the projects." If he really does get his commercial companies to put money into projects then yes he is contributing. The problem really is the freeloaders. Even if you love working on a project in your spare time eventually you will get sick of people nagging you for features that you don't want to do.
"There are a lot of businesses that rely on people working for them for free because they get a pay check somewhere else, and I think that a recession would make people question working without getting any dollars in return.'"" If this is your business model then you are doomed to fail. FOSS is supposed to involve you getting a return for you effort. You should be adding features that your customers want for pay or adding features you need for your own use. That the idea of how it is supposed to work. This is one of the reasons why FOSS will not replace all closed source software. Too many freeloaders.
That will not help if it is in the BIOS. If I was a government and was set to plant spyware on a system I would do it in the BIOS and not on anything that the user could scan or format. Let's face it. The VAST majority of FOSS system have a lot of closed source firmware on them.
"Once students have a firm grasp of the scientific method and can learn to think about these things critically, once they do set their mind on origin theories, they will be prepared to see non-scientific explanations for what they are." Actually you might be surprised just how scientific some of the ID theories have gotten. I find it very disappointing because I often feel that somebody with a pretty good science background is actually knowingly trying to deceive people. I have an okay science background and I do go to church every Sunday. All to often what I see in ID "Science" is offensive from both view points.
Oh well everything that old is new again I guess. I used a RAM drive on my Amgia way back when. Yes I know that they are how using flash but it does seem very familiar. I wonder when we might see a hybrid flash-ram drive? A big bunch of ram for high speed and flash for permanent storage. Just use a super cap for a power backup and have it copy the ram to flash on power down. A little bit pricey but if you need the speed you need the speed.
I would say a ballistic parachute is the only answer. I have been an EAA member since I was 12 and that was a long time ago. When people ask me about this or the Skycar I tell them the same thing. Until I see that it flew as Oshkosh it isn't real.
"I totally agree with you. Pilots have to be 100% sober, have no criminal records, good sight (without the use of glasses), and pass a billion other tests." Not exactly. You can wear glasses and get your pilot's license. Also you don't have to pass a billion other tests. Learning to fly isn't all that hard. It is expensive but not all that hard. The FAA has even started to make it cheaper and easier with the new sport pilot license. You can only fly light two place aircraft in good weather but the planes cost about as much as a nice boat or a very nice car. The big problem with learning to fly is the price of gas. AV gas still has lead so it is a lot more expensive than auto-gas. I have seen it is high as five or six dollars a gallon here. Some planes can now use autogas and some are starting to use Jet-A which is a lot cheaper. Learning to fly is more involved than learning to drive a car but it doesn't take super human effort.
* Helium is used as a shielding gas in arc welding processes on materials that are contaminated easily by air. It is especially useful in overhead welding, because it is lighter than air and thus floats, whereas other shielding gases sink. welding is pretty important in a lot of industries Except for overhead welding Argon is often used for this. It is cheaper and just as inert.
* Because it is inert, helium is used as a protective gas in growing silicon and germanium crystals, in titanium and zirconium production, in gas chromatography, and as an atmosphere for protecting historical documents. This property also makes it useful in supersonic wind tunnels. silicon based computers have become a pretty vital part of the world economy And again wouldn't argon tend to work just fine for this? It is inert and a heck of a lot easier to seal. This one I am not sure about but if inertness what needed then argon is just fine for many of the uses.
You stated that staying past your visa is no worse than a speeding ticket. So I don't see getting your visa in order as any different than paying the ticket. If your past your Visa then you need to fix it aka the same as paying a ticket. "Not at all. My argument is all about severity. Convicted felons have all kinds of restrictions placed on them, people convicted of civil infractions and 4th degree misdemeanors are not similarly restricted." But I am not talking about the severity at all. I do think we need to fix our immigration problem. I don't like seeing illegal immigrants victimized which happen because they are here illegally. That needs to be fixed. But I don't see how a better id system is part of the problem. You are the one throwing mess into it.
So how hard will it be to put back in the plane crashes? That I I wounder if I could port it to OpenGL to make a super pretty 3d version. Yes I know it would be possible but I haven't messed with OpenGL so it maybe more than I have time for.
Actually the hack away idea is just great. How about themes? You could have Futurama SimCity, Simpsons Sim City... you name it. Sound like a fun project maybe I will grab the source and compile it.
I didn't you said over staying a Visa is no worse than having a speeding ticked. Well then since it is still expired then it is an unresolved ticket. So the current law is then the simple answer is yes since it already is. Your argument is that we shouldn't enforce a law because it isn't just. That is a a dangerous system at best. If you don't think that being in this country with an expired visa isn't a crime then work to change that law. Don't try and make it easy to break the law. As I said I feel we need to change our immigration laws but I don't like people having to live as criminals in the country and to keep hoping we will not enforce the laws on the books. People that are here illegally need to have a path to citizenship or at least a path to a legal status that they can take or to get out. Right now they don't have that path.
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"And I think that claim is complete bullshit. It's fucking FREE. How can there be FREELOADERS with FREE FUCKING SOFTWARE? So my response was basically "What the hell? You don't get it.""
No you don't get it. It is supposed to be free as in speech not free as in beer.
If you really want a must have feature then you should.
a. Suggest it. If the developer thinks it is a good feature and it is worth his time than he or she will add it..
b. Add it yourself.
c. Pay for someone to add it.
If I decide to release FOSS software which I have in the past most of the time I put in the features I want.
If I contribute to FOSS I put in the features I want.
If you find a bug and document it. Great I will fix it in the next release.
Your the one that doesn't get it. FOSS doesn't mean that the developer becomes your slave. If you don't pay with money or your time then you are freeloader.
Yes finding bugs is paying with your time, helping others is helping with your time, writing good docs is really helping with your time, paying for features is helping with your time.
So I will ask you. If the developer doesn't need a feater you want just why should he spend his time putting it in? Just to make you happy? I guess he might if that has value for him but it isn't an obligation.
So if you don't contribute and you don't like it then don't use it. Welcome to the new economy people that pay (in time or money) I listen too.
Well except that there is no proof that this is true. That story is kinda short on any proof at all.
email? Does anybody think that email is private? It is sent in clear text so I would say that it is as private as a postcard.
There is an election coming soon. So for those that really fear this find out where the candidates stand on it.
Then vote.
BTW don't focus so much on the President BTW take a hard look at your congressional reps.
"demand more of the helium supply coming from overseas, at the expense of the USA. Prices go up again..."
Unless things have changed the US is the OPEC of helium.
The US seems to have the majority of Helium. That is one of the reasons that everybody else used Hydrogen for their airships while the US used Helium. At the time it was considered a very dangerous strategic resources.
As a rule I tend to worry more about the fluoride part. While it can be safe if it is strongly bonded I still would stay clear of it unless I checked first.
"There are four known forces in the universe, "
I thought that they unified the electromagnetic and the weak force into the electro-weak force.
Sorry I should have been a lot more clear. The lead isn't that expensive.
The real cost is in the transportation of it. The restrictions on lead are so strong that AV gas can no longer be shipped using pipelines. transporting the stuff costs a lot. Add in the small amount being made each year and you have can see the problems.
Current autogas can work but it has a lot of issues. A lot of it is getting alcohol added into it as well as other additives that may cause problems in an airplane.
AV gas is being used less and less for anything but light aircraft. I am betting that at some point light aircraft will have to move to a combination of motorgas and diesels burning JET-A.
"It's really sad that a lot of right-wing wonks like yourself are so fucking far gone on the 'i'm not a right-wing wonk, i'm just slightly conservative' that you can't tell the difference between a criticism of who holds the power and a partisan bent. I suggest you watch less Fox News, and shoot yourself in the face, you big-government loving, nation-building loving, nanny-state right-wing loser."
Yea that is why I suggested National Public Radio????
Just as I don't think that one liners are of any value when it comes to politics I really don't think calling names and foaming at the mouth ads anything.
Frankly I don't watch Fox News.
I don't like the way it uses one liners and over simplifies issues any more than I like the daily show. I really don't like any TV news because as far as I can tell they are all pretty counter productive to solving any of the real issues that people are facing.
"And then you will leave the project and someone else who is interested may retake it (if it is worth it). That is the beauty of Open Source, the programmers does not matter (even if they are the "inventors" of the program). Only the code matters."
That is the idea but it doesn't happen all that often. Losing a few key developers will often kill a project. Have you ever tried to dig into a big complex project that someone else wrote?
It really isn't as easy as you are stating.
I was thinking of database servers as one use. Unless you are storing a lot of video, graphics, or audio databases are pretty small. A 160 gigabyte database is a pretty big database. But yes it would be very specialized and very expensive.
As a comedy show it is funny but way to many people do think of it as their news source. I turned really sour on it when they had in interview with a person that wrote a book that was pro-life.
It wasn't funny and consisted of the host screaming at the author that he was pro-rape by being pro-life.
Frankly I find NPR far more balanced than the daily show and a much better source of news.
Frankly I find most news/comedy shows to be pretty disgusting. I think that many of the subjects that both sides use jokes with to frankly be too serious too be funny.
Of course my making an comment about why I don't like the daily show will bring out the mindless zelots. I am sure that at least one person will claim I am a Fox News watching right wing nut case. Of course that will skip over the fact that I recommended NPR as a source of news.
"they own the design of the car. but the photographer owns their picture."
Yet another stupid law.
If I PAY a photographer then I should own the pictures.
Under this law if you hire a photographer to take pictures of your wedding there is nothing to prevent him from selling any of the pictures to anyone at any time. So yes it is totally legal for him to sell your image for any ad he wants to.
The Ford Fusion is actually a very good car. It got a better reliability rating than the Camry which is a bit of a gold standard.
Also Ford owns a big chunk of Mazda.
Consumer reports actually gives a lot of Ford cars high marks.
It has been that way for a long time it is called a cache.
but the cache isn't as big as the drive.
Flash is actually slower for writes and has limited write cycles.
What I was imagining was using a ram drive for reading and writing data and then backing that up to a slow flashdrive when you powered down the drive.
On power up You could pre cache the ram or just use it as a very large cache.
Mythbusters is fun as is Dirty Jobs. Educational maybe a little.
The Daily Show? Fun if it matches your politics but frankly it is the Fox News for people that have a liberal bent. Of course I unusual in that I think any news source that contains a one liners is trash. If you want news listen to NPR, read a few news papers, and or watch the Sunday news shows like Meet the Press. If you just want to laugh and have your world view reinforced then the Daily Show is just fine.
For educational TV I am still a big fan of Nova on PBS.
"He makes a good living, evangelizes the hell out of OSS (he's a true believer), and drives money back into the projects."
If he really does get his commercial companies to put money into projects then yes he is contributing. The problem really is the freeloaders. Even if you love working on a project in your spare time eventually you will get sick of people nagging you for features that you don't want to do.
"There are a lot of businesses that rely on people working for them for free because they get a pay check somewhere else, and I think that a recession would make people question working without getting any dollars in return.'""
If this is your business model then you are doomed to fail.
FOSS is supposed to involve you getting a return for you effort. You should be adding features that your customers want for pay or adding features you need for your own use.
That the idea of how it is supposed to work.
This is one of the reasons why FOSS will not replace all closed source software. Too many freeloaders.
That will not help if it is in the BIOS. If I was a government and was set to plant spyware on a system I would do it in the BIOS and not on anything that the user could scan or format.
Let's face it. The VAST majority of FOSS system have a lot of closed source firmware on them.
"Once students have a firm grasp of the scientific method and can learn to think about these things critically, once they do set their mind on origin theories, they will be prepared to see non-scientific explanations for what they are."
Actually you might be surprised just how scientific some of the ID theories have gotten.
I find it very disappointing because I often feel that somebody with a pretty good science background is actually knowingly trying to deceive people. I have an okay science background and I do go to church every Sunday. All to often what I see in ID "Science" is offensive from both view points.
Oh well everything that old is new again I guess.
I used a RAM drive on my Amgia way back when. Yes I know that they are how using flash but it does seem very familiar.
I wonder when we might see a hybrid flash-ram drive? A big bunch of ram for high speed and flash for permanent storage. Just use a super cap for a power backup and have it copy the ram to flash on power down. A little bit pricey but if you need the speed you need the speed.
I would say a ballistic parachute is the only answer.
I have been an EAA member since I was 12 and that was a long time ago. When people ask me about this or the Skycar I tell them the same thing.
Until I see that it flew as Oshkosh it isn't real.
"I totally agree with you. Pilots have to be 100% sober, have no criminal records, good sight (without the use of glasses), and pass a billion other tests."
Not exactly. You can wear glasses and get your pilot's license. Also you don't have to pass a billion other tests. Learning to fly isn't all that hard. It is expensive but not all that hard. The FAA has even started to make it cheaper and easier with the new sport pilot license. You can only fly light two place aircraft in good weather but the planes cost about as much as a nice boat or a very nice car.
The big problem with learning to fly is the price of gas. AV gas still has lead so it is a lot more expensive than auto-gas. I have seen it is high as five or six dollars a gallon here. Some planes can now use autogas and some are starting to use Jet-A which is a lot cheaper.
Learning to fly is more involved than learning to drive a car but it doesn't take super human effort.
* Helium is used as a shielding gas in arc welding processes on materials that are contaminated easily by air. It is especially useful in overhead welding, because it is lighter than air and thus floats, whereas other shielding gases sink.
welding is pretty important in a lot of industries
Except for overhead welding Argon is often used for this. It is cheaper and just as inert.
* Because it is inert, helium is used as a protective gas in growing silicon and germanium crystals, in titanium and zirconium production, in gas chromatography, and as an atmosphere for protecting historical documents. This property also makes it useful in supersonic wind tunnels.
silicon based computers have become a pretty vital part of the world economy
And again wouldn't argon tend to work just fine for this? It is inert and a heck of a lot easier to seal. This one I am not sure about but if inertness what needed then argon is just fine for many of the uses.
You stated that staying past your visa is no worse than a speeding ticket. So I don't see getting your visa in order as any different than paying the ticket. If your past your Visa then you need to fix it aka the same as paying a ticket.
"Not at all. My argument is all about severity. Convicted felons have all kinds of restrictions placed on them, people convicted of civil infractions and 4th degree misdemeanors are not similarly restricted."
But I am not talking about the severity at all. I do think we need to fix our immigration problem. I don't like seeing illegal immigrants victimized which happen because they are here illegally. That needs to be fixed. But I don't see how a better id system is part of the problem. You are the one throwing mess into it.
So how hard will it be to put back in the plane crashes?
That I I wounder if I could port it to OpenGL to make a super pretty 3d version. Yes I know it would be possible but I haven't messed with OpenGL so it maybe more than I have time for.
Actually the hack away idea is just great. How about themes? You could have Futurama SimCity, Simpsons Sim City... you name it.
Sound like a fun project maybe I will grab the source and compile it.
I didn't you said over staying a Visa is no worse than having a speeding ticked. Well then since it is still expired then it is an unresolved ticket. So the current law is then the simple answer is yes since it already is.
Your argument is that we shouldn't enforce a law because it isn't just. That is a a dangerous system at best. If you don't think that being in this country with an expired visa isn't a crime then work to change that law. Don't try and make it easy to break the law.
As I said I feel we need to change our immigration laws but I don't like people having to live as criminals in the country and to keep hoping we will not enforce the laws on the books. People that are here illegally need to have a path to citizenship or at least a path to a legal status that they can take or to get out. Right now they don't have that path.