Some of us just use the middle button as God intended...
Firefox now has a setting to open links from other apps in a new tab. That's the great thing about free software: useful features do get added in a timely fashion--and if they don't you can add them yourself.
Nope--the BSD license doesn't prevent anything. It requires that one give credit to the original writers, but other than that you are permitted to do whatever you want with the code. Thus BSdLed code is in Windows. But BSDLed code can also be used in GPLed software, or anywhere else.
Many folks preer the BSD license because they find it freer than the GPL. That is perhaps true. I prefer the GPL because it means that my code itself will always be free.
...it most CERTAINLY does not deserve a fresh link from every MySQL article to hit Slashdot.
I'm not so certain. A lot of folks think that MySQL is a good idea; it seems to me that it is in almost every case a mistake, and so posting such things helps ensure that this is well-known. Much like linking to GNU/Linux resources when an article concerns Windows.
If the shooter is still there, she deserves to be caught.
In English, we do not posess a grammatical gender to refer to the unknown: we have male, female, and neither, but not a possibly-either. The convention in English for nearly two millennia, and in her precursor languages (English is grammatically feminine, incidentally, much like a ship), has always been to use the masculine when referring to the unknown or the general. That is, the masculine gender serves double duty: it (amusingly, the masculine grammatical gender is itself grammatically neutral) refers to both males and other grammatically-male individuals, but also to those whose grammatical gender is unknown or general. This isn't sexist so much as a limitation of the language. Incidentally, the very word 'man' is actually a gender-unknown holdover from Old English; the word for a male man (a phrase which seems redundant now) was 'were' (like werewolf, and pronounced similarly); because 'man' could refer to either a man or a woman, words like 'wifman' (means wife-man), which became 'woman,' or 'leman' (a mistress: means love-man) could be formed.
Moreover, in this specific case the distribution of male vs. female shooting perpetrators can hardly be said to justify the use of the feminine. Quite the opposite, really.
Those were using umbilical stem cells IIRC--that is, it wasn't necessary to kill anyone to get them. I don't know of anyone who opposes adult stem cell research, or umbilical stem cell research. What we oppose is killing humans for their stem cells, a not unreasonable position one would think.
Were the Founding Fathers or the revolutionaries involved in the Boston Tea Party?
I don't know if that was terrorism per se, but it should certainly have been punished appropriately. I suggest hanging for terrorists in general because it is the fitting punishment for murder; imprisonment or fines would be fitting for destruction of property.
How about the people who fought in the French Revolution?
The sans culottes--to the gallows with every last one of them. The Revolutionaries beheaded women and children (and invented a thoroughly ridiculous system of measurements, but that's another issue).
Were the French and Italian resistances terrorists when they fought the Nazis?
If they killed innocents, yes. As an example in our own recent history, the bombing of the USS Cole is not properly called a terrorist action: it was a military attack (and should have been responded to appropriately, with military force). The bombing of embassies is more of a grey area: on the one hand they are official representatives of our United States; on the other there are plenty of innocent folks who work there. The 11 September attacks are properly deemed terrorist, as they were attacks on civilian persons and businesses (the Pentagon attack was terrorist in that it involved the deaths of the civilians aboard the plane).
Military attacks are one thing: we must defeat a military opponent, but we can respect him. Terrorist attacks are another thing entirely: we must defeat our enemy and we must not respect him. The terrorist is among the lowest of the low: murdering innocents in his impotent fury.
I hope that was meant as a joke. A Unix admin, of course, would just have run find/usr/src -name '*.h' -o '*.c' -print (the -print may or may not be needed--I believe it's not actually needed on BSD).
The IRA then and the IRA now (two separate organisations) were terrorists, plain and simple: they committed acts of terror against civilians, against innocent women and children.
There's no justification for terrorism. Whether it's the KKK, the IRA, the provisional IRA, the PLO, Basque separatists or Nana Sahib (orchestrator of the Cawnpore Massacre), terrorists are evil: they do not restrain themselves to legitimate targets, but instead target innocents. Now, there are those who don't care, and applaud terrorists. Very few Irish seem to feel any regret for the atrocities committed by the IRA, but rather glorify it; very few Arabs regret the atrocities committed by the PLO (e.g. murdering an elderly man in a wheelchair and tossing his body in the Mediterranean); the government of India put Nana Sahib on a stamp. That doesn't matter: terrorists of any stripe and for whatever cause deserve to be hanged.
Ummm...last I checked just about all the Lisp family--and all the popular members thereof--are strongly typed. That is, one cannot ever add a string to a number. Many of them do typically perform the standard funny dance with numeric types (e.g. allowing addition of complex and integer types without casts), but otherwise they are very strongly typed, much more so than C or Perl (but less so than I imagine Haskell or ML is--no experience with them, though).
What the Lisp family are is strongly dynamically typed. That is, a variable can point to a value of any type (that's the dynamic bit) but only operations for that type are allowable (that's the strong bit).
What a lot of folks like are statically typed languages: a variable can only point to a value of a particular type. This does prevent a certain class of runtime errors, but it also leads to longer development times and less elegant code. It's a tradeoff.
The new head of the CIA, Porter Goss, has said that all CIA officers must support the Bush government's policies. Draw your own conclusions about political control of instruments of the state
Since they are part of the executive branch, they are supposed to implement the President's policies; if they will not do so, they should be replaced. For four years both the CIA and the State Department have been pretending that they are not responsible to the President, and that they can just play their own games. Well, they can't--Constitutionally they are his creatures.
BSDLed code can be converting to anything; one just must preserve the license on the original code. One can take BSDLed code and take it propietary, or GPLed or whatever.
The license terms are that you can do anything you want, so long as credit is given.
I'm a strong supporter of the GPL and I prefer it over the BSDL. But PostgreSQL is free and better: that's all that matters. If someone wishes to, he could make some changes to PostgreSQL and GPL his forked version. Yeah, I'd prefer it if the dev team went full GPL, but the BSDL is just as free.
You don't see folks using Joe's Piddly Little Piss-ant GPLed HTTPD instead of Apache; why do people use a piddly, incapable, inscalable database?
What I don't understand is the love for MySQL when there is a better alternative available which is just as free and just as easy to use. PostgreSQL is a joy to use, and it actually does what one would expect with regards to referential integrity &c.
Yeah--not everyone will be a great artist, just like not everyone will be a great football player. But everyone can create decent art, just like everyone can be a decent player.
I'd love to see a server-only distro, something suited for web serving that practically every Web host would offer, that installs with the minimum of apps required, and easy access to install new ones and keep them all up to date. And not be updated every 6 months for the fun of it.
Sounds like Debian stable. It ain't pretty, and it ain't sexy, and it ain't even very fun--but it runs forever.
Well, the phrase 'sine qua non' simply isn't used that way. You can't write by simply looking up synonyms in a thesaurus: different words and phrases can be used quite differently even when meaning approximately the same.
I don't quite get the sine qua non of the story, although its a nice story and I'd like to.
Ummm, sine qua non is Latin for 'without which nothing.' E.g. egg white is the sine qua non of meringues. The sine qua non of a story would be words, maybe.
Maybe you were just searching for an erudite way to say 'point'?
No, it doesn't. It raises the question. Petitio Principii, as it is called in Latin, or 'begging the question' in English, is circular reasoning: assuming that which is to be proven.
This is not rocket science. It's the sort of thing one learns in any semi-decent grade school. Sheesh.
That said, this Christmas I'm hoping to receive a sweater or two--it's indeed sad when one gets so old that the dreaded gifts of one's youth are looked forward to.
There have been several proposals for decimalised time, including the French revolutionary calendar (which like the rest of the French was discarded but unlike the rest was never restored). The only reason the French system of units was popular to begin with was that the European system had become approx. a thousand local systems with slight and not-so-slight variations, and it was easier to get folks to change to a new system than to get them to change over to someone else's system. Since everyone measures time the same way (in Europe--other parts of the world had their own systems), there was never a need to adopt a new system for time.
Decimal units in general are a stupid idea for a plethora of reasons, but those in most of the world are pretty much stuck for now. One can hope that some sanity will take hold eventually, but it's unlikely.
The standard system could use some modification, too. Among other things, there are too many different types of barrel, and none of them is the 32 gallon barrel it's supposed to be.
Open source does not mean compilable into standalone apps...
That's why I like the GPL: you must distribute source in the form it is normally edited, and you must distribute everything it relies on, precisely to prevent the sort of situation you describe: a free shell around a proprietary core (or a proprietary shell around a free core).
I'm fairly certain that man wasn't meant to live in North America. It's a rotten continent with a rotten climate: it's either too cold or too hot wherever one goes.
Europe, OTOH, has been pleasant whenever I've visited. I hope that climate change doesn't make Europe like America in terms of weather.
Source? I sincerely doubt that we are using chemical weapons, as those are quite strictly verboten. Do you have anything more than innuendo to justify your statement?
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Firefox now has a setting to open links from other apps in a new tab. That's the great thing about free software: useful features do get added in a timely fashion--and if they don't you can add them yourself.
Many folks preer the BSD license because they find it freer than the GPL. That is perhaps true. I prefer the GPL because it means that my code itself will always be free.
I'm not so certain. A lot of folks think that MySQL is a good idea; it seems to me that it is in almost every case a mistake, and so posting such things helps ensure that this is well-known. Much like linking to GNU/Linux resources when an article concerns Windows.
FWIW, I've used both PostgreSQL and MySQL.
In English, we do not posess a grammatical gender to refer to the unknown: we have male, female, and neither, but not a possibly-either. The convention in English for nearly two millennia, and in her precursor languages (English is grammatically feminine, incidentally, much like a ship), has always been to use the masculine when referring to the unknown or the general. That is, the masculine gender serves double duty: it (amusingly, the masculine grammatical gender is itself grammatically neutral) refers to both males and other grammatically-male individuals, but also to those whose grammatical gender is unknown or general. This isn't sexist so much as a limitation of the language. Incidentally, the very word 'man' is actually a gender-unknown holdover from Old English; the word for a male man (a phrase which seems redundant now) was 'were' (like werewolf, and pronounced similarly); because 'man' could refer to either a man or a woman, words like 'wifman' (means wife-man), which became 'woman,' or 'leman' (a mistress: means love-man) could be formed.
Moreover, in this specific case the distribution of male vs. female shooting perpetrators can hardly be said to justify the use of the feminine. Quite the opposite, really.
Those were using umbilical stem cells IIRC--that is, it wasn't necessary to kill anyone to get them. I don't know of anyone who opposes adult stem cell research, or umbilical stem cell research. What we oppose is killing humans for their stem cells, a not unreasonable position one would think.
I don't know if that was terrorism per se, but it should certainly have been punished appropriately. I suggest hanging for terrorists in general because it is the fitting punishment for murder; imprisonment or fines would be fitting for destruction of property.
How about the people who fought in the French Revolution?
The sans culottes--to the gallows with every last one of them. The Revolutionaries beheaded women and children (and invented a thoroughly ridiculous system of measurements, but that's another issue).
Were the French and Italian resistances terrorists when they fought the Nazis?
If they killed innocents, yes. As an example in our own recent history, the bombing of the USS Cole is not properly called a terrorist action: it was a military attack (and should have been responded to appropriately, with military force). The bombing of embassies is more of a grey area: on the one hand they are official representatives of our United States; on the other there are plenty of innocent folks who work there. The 11 September attacks are properly deemed terrorist, as they were attacks on civilian persons and businesses (the Pentagon attack was terrorist in that it involved the deaths of the civilians aboard the plane).
Military attacks are one thing: we must defeat a military opponent, but we can respect him. Terrorist attacks are another thing entirely: we must defeat our enemy and we must not respect him. The terrorist is among the lowest of the low: murdering innocents in his impotent fury.
I hope that was meant as a joke. A Unix admin, of course, would just have run find /usr/src -name '*.h' -o '*.c' -print (the -print may or may not be needed--I believe it's not actually needed on BSD).
There's no justification for terrorism. Whether it's the KKK, the IRA, the provisional IRA, the PLO, Basque separatists or Nana Sahib (orchestrator of the Cawnpore Massacre), terrorists are evil: they do not restrain themselves to legitimate targets, but instead target innocents. Now, there are those who don't care, and applaud terrorists. Very few Irish seem to feel any regret for the atrocities committed by the IRA, but rather glorify it; very few Arabs regret the atrocities committed by the PLO (e.g. murdering an elderly man in a wheelchair and tossing his body in the Mediterranean); the government of India put Nana Sahib on a stamp. That doesn't matter: terrorists of any stripe and for whatever cause deserve to be hanged.
What the Lisp family are is strongly dynamically typed. That is, a variable can point to a value of any type (that's the dynamic bit) but only operations for that type are allowable (that's the strong bit).
What a lot of folks like are statically typed languages: a variable can only point to a value of a particular type. This does prevent a certain class of runtime errors, but it also leads to longer development times and less elegant code. It's a tradeoff.
Since they are part of the executive branch, they are supposed to implement the President's policies; if they will not do so, they should be replaced. For four years both the CIA and the State Department have been pretending that they are not responsible to the President, and that they can just play their own games. Well, they can't--Constitutionally they are his creatures.
One word: elisp. And thus do I disprove thine assertion:-)
People will learn a language specifically to use a tool, provided that the cost of learning is less than the value added thereby.
The license terms are that you can do anything you want, so long as credit is given.
You don't see folks using Joe's Piddly Little Piss-ant GPLed HTTPD instead of Apache; why do people use a piddly, incapable, inscalable database?
What I don't understand is the love for MySQL when there is a better alternative available which is just as free and just as easy to use. PostgreSQL is a joy to use, and it actually does what one would expect with regards to referential integrity &c.
Yeah--not everyone will be a great artist, just like not everyone will be a great football player. But everyone can create decent art, just like everyone can be a decent player.
70 tons is 2,240,000 ounces; silver is currently $7.65/oz. I'd say that $17,136,000 is still a lot of money.
So, is this program available? Under the GPL or BSDL, hopefully?
Sounds like Debian stable. It ain't pretty, and it ain't sexy, and it ain't even very fun--but it runs forever.
Well, the phrase 'sine qua non' simply isn't used that way. You can't write by simply looking up synonyms in a thesaurus: different words and phrases can be used quite differently even when meaning approximately the same.
Ummm, sine qua non is Latin for 'without which nothing.' E.g. egg white is the sine qua non of meringues. The sine qua non of a story would be words, maybe.
Maybe you were just searching for an erudite way to say 'point'?
No, it doesn't. It raises the question. Petitio Principii, as it is called in Latin, or 'begging the question' in English, is circular reasoning: assuming that which is to be proven.
This is not rocket science. It's the sort of thing one learns in any semi-decent grade school. Sheesh.
That said, this Christmas I'm hoping to receive a sweater or two--it's indeed sad when one gets so old that the dreaded gifts of one's youth are looked forward to.
Decimal units in general are a stupid idea for a plethora of reasons, but those in most of the world are pretty much stuck for now. One can hope that some sanity will take hold eventually, but it's unlikely.
The standard system could use some modification, too. Among other things, there are too many different types of barrel, and none of them is the 32 gallon barrel it's supposed to be.
That's why I like the GPL: you must distribute source in the form it is normally edited, and you must distribute everything it relies on, precisely to prevent the sort of situation you describe: a free shell around a proprietary core (or a proprietary shell around a free core).
Europe, OTOH, has been pleasant whenever I've visited. I hope that climate change doesn't make Europe like America in terms of weather.
Source? I sincerely doubt that we are using chemical weapons, as those are quite strictly verboten. Do you have anything more than innuendo to justify your statement?