And when the rights of We, the People peaceably to assemble are abridged, then what do we do? Roll over and take it? Is that what the Founding Fathers would have done? Not just no, but Hell, no!
When government - Executive, Legislative and Judicial - ignore the Constitution, then they lose the authority to govern. It's that simple.
So cynical! If you read the technical specs, you'll find that it really does work; the packets slip through the cable faster because they've been liberally coated in snake oil.
... and shortly after you implement that, you realise that all you really need are the packets that tell you that Alice has started and stopped moving, with occasional absolute positional updates to keep everything in sync. Don't worry, you'll get there eventually.
See the classic X Wing vs TIE Fighter analysis on Gamasutra for an example of developers learning the slow, painful way about this. They settled on resending duplicates.
Pish, tosh. Any license would have sufficed. The germane point is that SCO released and continue to release their "trade secrets / methods and concepts" to a public audience. True, they did that because of the GPL, but that's a priori.
PC centralism aside, commercial toolchains targetting the Linux kernel are enough for many embedded applications. Even on a GUI PC, it'd be far easier to replace the FSF layers than those above and below them.
The apparent belief that GPL3 will somehow prevent crippled hardware from becoming the only thing available is ludicrous. Linux is and will continue to be GPL2, and there's no compelling reason to open hardware to accomodate any other software. Moglen's nastygrams don't provide enough of a disincentive to just steal Free software, if it comes to that.
As I see it, it's not Torvalds who needs to justify his position, it's you. You won't, of course, because you're so deep in cognitive dissonance that you can't acknowledge that the FSF is still drawing up battle plans when it's already lost the war. When the first beta of a Windows version that requires TC hardware is released, you may try to sue for peace, but by then it will be far too late.
Beg to differ; some DS9 episodes had a certain joie de vive. Or joie de mort, more specifically, in the episodes dealing with Klingons. Top unpolicically-correct quotes:
"I cannot defeat this Klingon; I can only kill him."
"Qa'pla!" [Dax to Worf, after a setup for a touchy feeling emotional handwringing wartime departure scene]
"Come ahead then if you think you're hard enough, you nancy boy Klingon fags." [Sisko in Way of the Warrior, slightly paraphrased]
Admittedly, it's hard to recall those highs after the grinding formulaic mediocrity of Voyager and Enterprise.
But seriously, go and watch some TOS. Tell me at which point you doubt, even for one second, that you are watching James Tiberius Kirk, the captain of the starship Enterprise. Shatner may not have anything like a range, but he owned that rôle.
They can always adopt the tactic of their customer "service" department, refuse to leave, and become insulting and abusive whenever their management try to make them.
They can detect organic compounds? Then the major use of this technology will be to detect THC. It'll be used in airports, then by cops in traffic stops, then in schools, then in your workplace.
The only place you'll never, ever see it being used for that purpose is a government building housing elected members.
You might want to do some research on how the law works. When the MPAA lose, the scam is over, because even my Aunt Mabel can afford to pay an attorney to cite the decision in a motion to dismiss. Not that she'll have to, as he'll do it pro bono and recover his fee in a counter-suit.
I think enough people have already opined that he's a selfish attention whoring man-child without your (Snopes unconfirmed) anecdote to demonstrate it.
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Tish, hyperbole. We'd only have a monarchy if there was a clear blood line of successi-
Oh, I see.
And when the rights of We, the People peaceably to assemble are abridged, then what do we do? Roll over and take it? Is that what the Founding Fathers would have done? Not just no, but Hell, no!
When government - Executive, Legislative and Judicial - ignore the Constitution, then they lose the authority to govern. It's that simple.
And if you happen to get footage of any uppity nigras sitting in the front of busses, it's your patriotic duty to hand it in to the FBI.
So cynical! If you read the technical specs, you'll find that it really does work; the packets slip through the cable faster because they've been liberally coated in snake oil.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
... and shortly after you implement that, you realise that all you really need are the packets that tell you that Alice has started and stopped moving, with occasional absolute positional updates to keep everything in sync. Don't worry, you'll get there eventually.
See the classic X Wing vs TIE Fighter analysis on Gamasutra for an example of developers learning the slow, painful way about this. They settled on resending duplicates.
Some have theorized that if you don't quote your sources, then you're just full of shit.
Pish, tosh. Any license would have sufficed. The germane point is that SCO released and continue to release their "trade secrets / methods and concepts" to a public audience. True, they did that because of the GPL, but that's a priori.
Actually, it isn't.
Well. Your turn.
PC centralism aside, commercial toolchains targetting the Linux kernel are enough for many embedded applications. Even on a GUI PC, it'd be far easier to replace the FSF layers than those above and below them.
If you insist on a childish framing of the issue into "sides", then Linus defines his own side. Are you with him or not?
How can someone who has never bought in sell out?
The apparent belief that GPL3 will somehow prevent crippled hardware from becoming the only thing available is ludicrous. Linux is and will continue to be GPL2, and there's no compelling reason to open hardware to accomodate any other software. Moglen's nastygrams don't provide enough of a disincentive to just steal Free software, if it comes to that.
As I see it, it's not Torvalds who needs to justify his position, it's you. You won't, of course, because you're so deep in cognitive dissonance that you can't acknowledge that the FSF is still drawing up battle plans when it's already lost the war. When the first beta of a Windows version that requires TC hardware is released, you may try to sue for peace, but by then it will be far too late.
Fair enough, but a bunch of developers who adopted the boilerplate "version 2 or later" license are going to get scorched. Their fault, mind.
Admittedly, it's hard to recall those highs after the grinding formulaic mediocrity of Voyager and Enterprise.
Rosario Dawson? Wasn't Uhura black?
But seriously, go and watch some TOS. Tell me at which point you doubt, even for one second, that you are watching James Tiberius Kirk, the captain of the starship Enterprise. Shatner may not have anything like a range, but he owned that rôle.
They can always adopt the tactic of their customer "service" department, refuse to leave, and become insulting and abusive whenever their management try to make them.
They can detect organic compounds? Then the major use of this technology will be to detect THC. It'll be used in airports, then by cops in traffic stops, then in schools, then in your workplace.
The only place you'll never, ever see it being used for that purpose is a government building housing elected members.
What's that you say? Bush has been impeached?
You might want to do some research on how the law works. When the MPAA lose, the scam is over, because even my Aunt Mabel can afford to pay an attorney to cite the decision in a motion to dismiss. Not that she'll have to, as he'll do it pro bono and recover his fee in a counter-suit.
Hentai High alumni represent.
How many people do you need laughing at you before you are officially - I mean on Wikipedia and everything, Snopes confirms - a "laughing stock"?
Slashdot has a lot of readers; I bet we could do it if we really pulled together. Who's with me? Let's roll!
John Romero? Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahaaahaha.
I think enough people have already opined that he's a selfish attention whoring man-child without your (Snopes unconfirmed) anecdote to demonstrate it.