The GPL is binding upon the distributor, not the consumer, and so is "more real" in that its legal effect occurs even before the consumer opens the box. The consumer can do whatever he wants with the code once he gets it, as long as he doesn't distribute it an a manner inconsistent with the GPL. Therefore, your analogy to DVDs is invalid on this basis, although other analogies may still be made.
The difference with Ghostscript is that there the author explicitly makes it a condition of accepting patches into the main tree that the patches' authors must sign over the right to use those patches in the closed-source commercial version, an if the patches' authors wanted the patch to only go into a fork of the gpled version, then there's nothing Alladin could do about it. This is not an example of a general doctrine, and others who don't negotiate for such permission cannot unilaterally and retroactively claim it.
Have you ever considered that, in a nation where 'We the People' are sovereign, it is a blight upon that sovereignty that so many ideas and data are kept from their knowledge? If The People are supposed to determine their own destiny by making informed decisions about whom to elect and whose policies to enforce, then how are they to do so if the most critical information to those ends is kept from them? Secrecy has few places in a true democracy or republic.
And while you're at it, don't forget to run rough shod over the first amendment and freedom of the press. Yeah, that's the ticket.
As we all know, Csharp has 7 accidentals, whereas D flat only has five. If they'd named it Dflat, then they'd have saved an entire 2 accidentals, greatly reducing the amount of work necessary for implementation and otherwise vastly improving safety for all concerned. But no, they foreswore all concern for users and had to go with the marketing angle. Curses be upon them!
Judging from the prominent (aka "big-ass") quote on their website, it was inspired by Dante's opus of the same name. It also fits in nicely with the name of the related programming language: Limbo.
I had hoped he'd answer my question about what influence the writings of Lewis Carroll had on him. It had gotten modded up to +5, but perhaps it contained one-too-many references to 42 and got unilaterally rejected on those grounds.
If anyone knows the answer, please speak up. This one's bothered me for the last decade or so.
Caffeine's a naturally occurring insecticide, so all it demonstrates is a prevalence of space-faring giant mutant killer insects. And those of you in the audience who've seen Starship Troopers all know that all that indicates is the prevalence of buff-yet-stupid humans who must prevail despite all odds, including box-office ones, culminating in a genuinely silly ending.
In conclusion, caffeine is no proper indicator of intelligence. At best, it weakly corrolates.
Interstellar aspartame would be a wonderful discovery, inasmuch as aspartame consists of the two amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid. Amino acids aggregate into proteins, and we all know what proteins are good for; if it's extraterrestrial/interstellar life, then it's likely/perhaps cold and could use some enzymes.
Earlier today, the House voted to rescind much of the DOJ's funding for its civil suit against the tobacco industry, prompting the DOJ to announce that if it did not receive the necessary funding, it would have no choice but to drop the tobacco case. The House reversed itself just moments ago and reinstated the funding, but the message is clear: Congress is willing to set a precedent and inject itself into DOJ lawsuits and exercise a financial veto in politically unpopular ones.
Albeit, Microsoft does supply much smaller amounts of political contributions/bribes, and the Microsoft case is much more progressed and would require less funding to continue (especially once it reaches the Supreme Court), but the implications are still scary, were members of Congress (especially from Washington) to wake up and realize what power they can hold over this affair.
It depends. Often the dissenting Justices will write out their dissent, and sometimes members of the majority will in turn write a concurrence that responds to that dissent. Look at Callins v. Collins (1994), for example: the Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution "without comment", but Blackmun wrote a lengthy dissent (in which he admitted that the death penalty as applied is inconsistent with notions of due process) which was preceded by Scalia's fiery concurrence with the majority (which appears first by convention as a majority concurrence, although logically it would seem Blackmun's opinion should precede it, as Scalia's was entirely a rebuttal).
It would surprise me if the Supreme Court turned away the case completely without a peep; the emotions on this one are just riding too high.
Basically, the moderators got a good chuckle out of "llamas hemorrhag[ing] out of [one's] ass" but realized that if they moderated it as funny, they'd be slammed in metamoderation, because humor is far from universal. "Insightful" comments are rarely touched.
You get to satisfy your porn addiction in peace, it would seem, assuming we postulate the narrow view of racial segregation in erotic desire (as if...).
Two pages: info and downloads. It's still sketchy on the stability side of things, but if you don't have several hundred dollars to shell out to Adobe, then it's all you've got.
MS actually tried to buy out Quicken back in 1995 or so, but it was nixed by the appropriate regulating authorities on antitrust grounds. They've since tried winning on their own product's merits, but without much success.
Actually, it's Latin (durabilis)-->Old French-->Middle English-->English, but who's counting? And then there's always the indo-european root d-e-u-schwa....
The problem is that the KDE folk are incorporating other people's GPLed code in their work. If it were only about original code on their part, then they could release it under any liscense they wanted, such as a modified GPL one.
It's not that GPLed code can be linked against more permissively liscensed software, so much as such software lets itself be reliscensed under the GPL when the linking is to occur.
It's been too late for a while, since Apple's been shipping cheesy mostly useless voice recognition software for the last couple years. About all it's good for is asking it to tell knock-knock jokes, but at least it has some novelty value.
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The GPL is binding upon the distributor, not the consumer, and so is "more real" in that its legal effect occurs even before the consumer opens the box. The consumer can do whatever he wants with the code once he gets it, as long as he doesn't distribute it an a manner inconsistent with the GPL. Therefore, your analogy to DVDs is invalid on this basis, although other analogies may still be made.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
The difference with Ghostscript is that there the author explicitly makes it a condition of accepting patches into the main tree that the patches' authors must sign over the right to use those patches in the closed-source commercial version, an if the patches' authors wanted the patch to only go into a fork of the gpled version, then there's nothing Alladin could do about it. This is not an example of a general doctrine, and others who don't negotiate for such permission cannot unilaterally and retroactively claim it.
Have you ever considered that, in a nation where 'We the People' are sovereign, it is a blight upon that sovereignty that so many ideas and data are kept from their knowledge? If The People are supposed to determine their own destiny by making informed decisions about whom to elect and whose policies to enforce, then how are they to do so if the most critical information to those ends is kept from them? Secrecy has few places in a true democracy or republic.
And while you're at it, don't forget to run rough shod over the first amendment and freedom of the press. Yeah, that's the ticket.
In the appropriate parlance, the shape of a falling raindrop is a "hamburger".
Microsoft is proving to be an obstinately indivisible quantity. Just ask Judge Jackson and the DOJ -- and they're professionals.
Instead, I propose: "What a pile of Microsoft"
As we all know, Csharp has 7 accidentals, whereas D flat only has five. If they'd named it Dflat, then they'd have saved an entire 2 accidentals, greatly reducing the amount of work necessary for implementation and otherwise vastly improving safety for all concerned. But no, they foreswore all concern for users and had to go with the marketing angle. Curses be upon them!
Right, but that's what MP3 Anywhere is for, and at a fifth the cost. So the question remains, what makes this worthwhile?
Judging from the prominent (aka "big-ass") quote on their website, it was inspired by Dante's opus of the same name. It also fits in nicely with the name of the related programming language: Limbo.
I had hoped he'd answer my question about what influence the writings of Lewis Carroll had on him. It had gotten modded up to +5, but perhaps it contained one-too-many references to 42 and got unilaterally rejected on those grounds.
If anyone knows the answer, please speak up. This one's bothered me for the last decade or so.
Space.com is reporting that NASA will announce next week it has found evidence of water on the Red Planet."
Typical slashdot, refusing to wait for the formal announcement and let NASA get the water out to the mirrors first.
Caffeine's a naturally occurring insecticide, so all it demonstrates is a prevalence of space-faring giant mutant killer insects. And those of you in the audience who've seen Starship Troopers all know that all that indicates is the prevalence of buff-yet-stupid humans who must prevail despite all odds, including box-office ones, culminating in a genuinely silly ending.
In conclusion, caffeine is no proper indicator of intelligence. At best, it weakly corrolates.
Interstellar aspartame would be a wonderful discovery, inasmuch as aspartame consists of the two amino acids phenylalanine and aspartic acid. Amino acids aggregate into proteins, and we all know what proteins are good for; if it's extraterrestrial/interstellar life, then it's likely/perhaps cold and could use some enzymes.
Earlier today, the House voted to rescind much of the DOJ's funding for its civil suit against the tobacco industry, prompting the DOJ to announce that if it did not receive the necessary funding, it would have no choice but to drop the tobacco case. The House reversed itself just moments ago and reinstated the funding, but the message is clear: Congress is willing to set a precedent and inject itself into DOJ lawsuits and exercise a financial veto in politically unpopular ones.
Albeit, Microsoft does supply much smaller amounts of political contributions/bribes, and the Microsoft case is much more progressed and would require less funding to continue (especially once it reaches the Supreme Court), but the implications are still scary, were members of Congress (especially from Washington) to wake up and realize what power they can hold over this affair.
It depends. Often the dissenting Justices will write out their dissent, and sometimes members of the majority will in turn write a concurrence that responds to that dissent. Look at Callins v. Collins (1994), for example: the Supreme Court lifted a stay of execution "without comment", but Blackmun wrote a lengthy dissent (in which he admitted that the death penalty as applied is inconsistent with notions of due process) which was preceded by Scalia's fiery concurrence with the majority (which appears first by convention as a majority concurrence, although logically it would seem Blackmun's opinion should precede it, as Scalia's was entirely a rebuttal).
It would surprise me if the Supreme Court turned away the case completely without a peep; the emotions on this one are just riding too high.
Basically, the moderators got a good chuckle out of "llamas hemorrhag[ing] out of [one's] ass" but realized that if they moderated it as funny, they'd be slammed in metamoderation, because humor is far from universal. "Insightful" comments are rarely touched.
Too bad we can't have 'software == smart', as a precursor operation to and not to be confused with 'software industry == smart'.
You get to satisfy your porn addiction in peace, it would seem, assuming we postulate the narrow view of racial segregation in erotic desire (as if...).
Two pages: info and downloads. It's still sketchy on the stability side of things, but if you don't have several hundred dollars to shell out to Adobe, then it's all you've got.
It is necessary to hyphenate "modern-day" in the original sentence, because otherwise, "modern" must modify "Genie" and not "day".
The trademark issue doesn't qualify as a grammatical error.
If you want to complain about something, then complain about how he doesn't capitalize the "n" in "[N]azi". Otherwise, bugger off. =)
MS actually tried to buy out Quicken back in 1995 or so, but it was nixed by the appropriate regulating authorities on antitrust grounds. They've since tried winning on their own product's merits, but without much success.
For the last time, we're "'Merkins", as in the pubic hair wigs worn by syphilitic noblemen.
Actually, it's Latin (durabilis)-->Old French-->Middle English-->English, but who's counting? And then there's always the indo-european root d-e-u-schwa....
The problem is that the KDE folk are incorporating other people's GPLed code in their work. If it were only about original code on their part, then they could release it under any liscense they wanted, such as a modified GPL one.
It's not that GPLed code can be linked against more permissively liscensed software, so much as such software lets itself be reliscensed under the GPL when the linking is to occur.
It's been too late for a while, since Apple's been shipping cheesy mostly useless voice recognition software for the last couple years. About all it's good for is asking it to tell knock-knock jokes, but at least it has some novelty value.