If one defines freedom by lack of restrictions, GPLed code is less free than public domain code by virtue of the GPL's specific copying conditions.
The GPL attempts to enhance freedom by creating a balance that ensures the liberties it provides are available to a wider group of people. It does so by explicitly eliminating the freedoms that would allow an entity to completely remove any freedom from others who might otherwise benefit. In other words, while the freedoms of a single individual or entity might be somewhat restricted, you at least get in return guarantee that every person or entity is entitled to the same freedoms as everyone else.
Thus the only thing seperating GPLed code from other proprietary code is those cost and conditions.
I don't see this as the case. In essence, you trade costs and conditions. You must pay to purchase proprietary code (even more so if you want the source). You need special permission to modify the code and distribute your changes. With GPL you pay nothing for the code and need no special permission to modify it and distribute the changes, but in return you are under the condition that you will provide the source code of the modified version and grant the same freedom to modify and distribute to others. These are two completely different sets of restrictions and are useful in completely different circumstances.
I happily pay money for mags that do product reviews so they have income (plus ads in said mag), if its too cost prohibitive then they shouldn't be flaunting their 'Product Reviewer' title at me claiming to be some damn expert.
You are, of course, correct, but people have trouble balancing the "pay for integrity" concept against "information (particularly on the web) should be free" concept.
Thank you for sharing your opinions on HTML development with us. While I respect what you've said, we also need to examine today's reality...
Good HTML means separating content from presentation as far as possible.
Reality is, not everybody is interested in writing GOOD HTML. Most are interested in getting cool looking content up and running quickly. While you are theoretically correct about what creating good HTML involves, this is not the direction in which many people are headed.
The whole idea of Dreamweaver is fundamentally flawed - attempting to impose a type of user interface onto a task which is, by its nature, unsuited to that user interface. You can't use a point-and-drool system to place precise insertions into text and have it work reliably.
And yet this works reliably for many people. They are able to quickly create layouts and get a web page up with the minimum of fuss. A little bit of testing on the "popular" browsers makes sure that what they have built is reliable enough for their audience. Like it or not, most humans will take the short cut whenever possible. Even if it means struggle in the long run.
On the web, there really is no such thing as What You See Is What You Get, because What You See Is Not Necessarily What Everyone Else Gets.
And Dreamweaver usually does a pretty good job of indicating what portions of your document aren't going to work as intended in certain browsers. This is one of the features I've always liked most about the product.
Also, Dreamweaver uses tags all the time - how long have we had cascading style sheets now, for chuff's sake?
You are aware that there are still browsers heavily in use that don't support CSS very well, right? Besides that, Dreamweaver uses whatever you tell it to use. If I highlight something and change the font, then it uses a tag. If I highlight something and select a CSS style, it uses CSS. This functionality dates back to at LEAST version 3.
This really points out that the problem is not 'abundance' per se, but over-use.
Or more to the point, the real problem is abundance of one resource with scarcity of another. If we had limitless amounts of time, we wouldn't be so concerned with the amounts of spam that enter our Inbox. If we had limitless space on the roads in which to drive (and rarely had to wait at a traffic light), we wouldn't care whether everybody and their brother had the tools for stacking the light change in their favor. (for that matter, nobody would buy the device anyway)
In space there is no friction to stop your inertia.
In the article, which I took the time to read, they stated that shock waves created by the model were intended to be analogous to shock waves created by passing through the space time continuum in a warp field. Obviously, this is only theoretical (if you can even call it that) and mostly just for fun, but one day space traveling people may look back and say these folks were ahead of their time.
2) With every post, display the advertising policy (buying an ad on the site is $5000)
3) Make sure they confirm that if their message is an ad, they agree to pay the $5000
4) Host their ad for them, and collect your money. Small claims is helpful here.
This is exactly what I was considering suggesting. Any lawyers out there know if this would be legally binding? If so, I may quit my job and start my own BLOG today. Let's see, 20 spamvertisements * $5000 per day = $100,000 per day. I could handle that -- even AFTER legal expenses.
A few years ago I had a rather nasty realization; as 100 is the mean IQ, that means fully one half of the population has an IQ below 100.
It may not be that bad. You're confusing "mean" with "median." The arithmetic mean is obtained by summing all of the values and then dividing by the count of the values you summed. The median is obtained by choosing the middle value in a ranked list. If the mean IQ is 100, there could be many people at or slightly above this value with only a few who are significantly below.
However, IQ and "common sense" are not the same thing. I know a lot of otherwise bright people who need a real kick in the pants to get them to think about their actions before doing them.
I'll bet a few bucks that it does not allow customers to "indemnify" MS in any manner that the agreement could possibly defend against in a court of law, and a few that it couldn't, just for good measure.
I can only go by the Windows XP EULA.... You have a 90 day warranty. Subsequent patches are not under warranty. Your recovery should there be a problem with the product is the cost of the software. And here's my favorite...
13. EXCLUSION OF INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL AND CERTAIN OTHER DAMAGES. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER.
So basically, if your business goes down the tubes due to failure of the software or because you were sued by some other company as a result of a problem with the software, Microsoft is indemified. Not you.
That's the most ignorant thing I've read on here in a long time. Call your parents right now and ask them what their computer runs.
Gosh, that's funny. My Dad knew what Linux was before I even told him I was running it at home. After all of the viruses, ad-ware, spy-ware, spam and pop-ups while browsing, he's actually considering switching to Linux. BTW, Dad is pretty much the average user: Word documents, spreadsheets, occasional presentation, email and web browsing.
Now, after you finish asking all of the people you are SURE won't know about Linux, let's look at the other half of the population: College students, Professors and business professionals. I'd wager more than half of them at least know about Linux.
The EFFICIENCY dropped from 80% to 40%. The total output (in TFLOPS) went up from the previous test with only a fraction of the processors. Perhaps you're thinking it went down because actual is less than theoretical? That was, of course, to be expected.
The idea was to point out that you can get the top of the line devices for what you'd pay for the phone. (Probably LESS than the phone.)
Yeah, but then you've argued against your own point because you're saying you can get nearly $2000 worth of features for only $500 and still have to carry only one device. Granted, the quality isn't as good as the $2000 package, but for a lot of people it meets their needs.
Still, I know what you mean. I'm one of those who just wants a phone that works and works well. Unless you can manage to fit all of the other devices into the package without diminishing their usefulness, I'm not interested in the extras. I don't care about color screens. I don't care about polyphonic ringtones. I don't even really care about games.
The role that I was thinking VeriSign (and many others, I hope) might want to play would be analogous to that of a credit reporting agency.
Absolutely not. We need a "for profit" company (particularly VeriSign) to have this kind of power like we need a hole in the head. Have you EVER dealt with one of the credit reporting companies that mysteriously had a black mark on your credit record and tried to get it removed? This would be even worse. How much would you have to pay (supposedly for the background check) to get your server white-listed? How much extra would you have to pay to make that process happen in something less than six months?
I know, i'll just hook that generator up to my pickup truck...
I'd be a WHOLE lot more concerned about terrorists stealing cores from the manufacturing facility. Once the reactor is installed, stealing the radioactive material is far from trivial.
wonder how many gallons of fuel oil a village goes through a year.
According to the article, this one goes through 700,000 of diesel fuel just for generation of electricity. This doesn't include oil used in furnaces or gasoline used in vehicles. The article also notes that the cost of gasoline is a whopping $3.35/gallon, which puts it nearly on par with the prices I've seen in Germany.
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You're running the wrong operating system. Maybe you need VMS. :-)
The GPL attempts to enhance freedom by creating a balance that ensures the liberties it provides are available to a wider group of people. It does so by explicitly eliminating the freedoms that would allow an entity to completely remove any freedom from others who might otherwise benefit. In other words, while the freedoms of a single individual or entity might be somewhat restricted, you at least get in return guarantee that every person or entity is entitled to the same freedoms as everyone else.
Thus the only thing seperating GPLed code from other proprietary code is those cost and conditions.
I don't see this as the case. In essence, you trade costs and conditions. You must pay to purchase proprietary code (even more so if you want the source). You need special permission to modify the code and distribute your changes. With GPL you pay nothing for the code and need no special permission to modify it and distribute the changes, but in return you are under the condition that you will provide the source code of the modified version and grant the same freedom to modify and distribute to others. These are two completely different sets of restrictions and are useful in completely different circumstances.
You are, of course, correct, but people have trouble balancing the "pay for integrity" concept against "information (particularly on the web) should be free" concept.
And who would pay for this?
Most likely because doing so would be somewhat cost-prohibitive.
Good HTML means separating content from presentation as far as possible.
Reality is, not everybody is interested in writing GOOD HTML. Most are interested in getting cool looking content up and running quickly. While you are theoretically correct about what creating good HTML involves, this is not the direction in which many people are headed.
The whole idea of Dreamweaver is fundamentally flawed - attempting to impose a type of user interface onto a task which is, by its nature, unsuited to that user interface. You can't use a point-and-drool system to place precise insertions into text and have it work reliably.
And yet this works reliably for many people. They are able to quickly create layouts and get a web page up with the minimum of fuss. A little bit of testing on the "popular" browsers makes sure that what they have built is reliable enough for their audience. Like it or not, most humans will take the short cut whenever possible. Even if it means struggle in the long run.
On the web, there really is no such thing as What You See Is What You Get, because What You See Is Not Necessarily What Everyone Else Gets.
And Dreamweaver usually does a pretty good job of indicating what portions of your document aren't going to work as intended in certain browsers. This is one of the features I've always liked most about the product.
Also, Dreamweaver uses tags all the time - how long have we had cascading style sheets now, for chuff's sake?
You are aware that there are still browsers heavily in use that don't support CSS very well, right? Besides that, Dreamweaver uses whatever you tell it to use. If I highlight something and change the font, then it uses a tag. If I highlight something and select a CSS style, it uses CSS. This functionality dates back to at LEAST version 3.
Or more to the point, the real problem is abundance of one resource with scarcity of another. If we had limitless amounts of time, we wouldn't be so concerned with the amounts of spam that enter our Inbox. If we had limitless space on the roads in which to drive (and rarely had to wait at a traffic light), we wouldn't care whether everybody and their brother had the tools for stacking the light change in their favor. (for that matter, nobody would buy the device anyway)
In the article, which I took the time to read, they stated that shock waves created by the model were intended to be analogous to shock waves created by passing through the space time continuum in a warp field. Obviously, this is only theoretical (if you can even call it that) and mostly just for fun, but one day space traveling people may look back and say these folks were ahead of their time.
3) Make sure they confirm that if their message is an ad, they agree to pay the $5000
4) Host their ad for them, and collect your money. Small claims is helpful here.
This is exactly what I was considering suggesting. Any lawyers out there know if this would be legally binding? If so, I may quit my job and start my own BLOG today. Let's see, 20 spamvertisements * $5000 per day = $100,000 per day. I could handle that -- even AFTER legal expenses.
A couple other possibilities:
Well now, that's depressing. I could have done without that piece of knowledge and still enjoyed the rest of my day. :-)
It may not be that bad. You're confusing "mean" with "median." The arithmetic mean is obtained by summing all of the values and then dividing by the count of the values you summed. The median is obtained by choosing the middle value in a ranked list. If the mean IQ is 100, there could be many people at or slightly above this value with only a few who are significantly below.
However, IQ and "common sense" are not the same thing. I know a lot of otherwise bright people who need a real kick in the pants to get them to think about their actions before doing them.
I can only go by the Windows XP EULA.... You have a 90 day warranty. Subsequent patches are not under warranty. Your recovery should there be a problem with the product is the cost of the software. And here's my favorite...
So basically, if your business goes down the tubes due to failure of the software or because you were sued by some other company as a result of a problem with the software, Microsoft is indemified. Not you.Gosh, that's funny. My Dad knew what Linux was before I even told him I was running it at home. After all of the viruses, ad-ware, spy-ware, spam and pop-ups while browsing, he's actually considering switching to Linux. BTW, Dad is pretty much the average user: Word documents, spreadsheets, occasional presentation, email and web browsing.
Now, after you finish asking all of the people you are SURE won't know about Linux, let's look at the other half of the population: College students, Professors and business professionals. I'd wager more than half of them at least know about Linux.
The EFFICIENCY dropped from 80% to 40%. The total output (in TFLOPS) went up from the previous test with only a fraction of the processors. Perhaps you're thinking it went down because actual is less than theoretical? That was, of course, to be expected.
I don't know why you got modded Offtopic...
Anyway, it would be Microsoft Windows that gets the warning. I wonder if that would change Microsoft's strategy of including the browser in the OS....
Yeah, but then you've argued against your own point because you're saying you can get nearly $2000 worth of features for only $500 and still have to carry only one device. Granted, the quality isn't as good as the $2000 package, but for a lot of people it meets their needs.
Still, I know what you mean. I'm one of those who just wants a phone that works and works well. Unless you can manage to fit all of the other devices into the package without diminishing their usefulness, I'm not interested in the extras. I don't care about color screens. I don't care about polyphonic ringtones. I don't even really care about games.
Are they saying that the mail system of the originating mail should temporarily whitelist replies coming from the destination? I hope so.
Absolutely not. We need a "for profit" company (particularly VeriSign) to have this kind of power like we need a hole in the head. Have you EVER dealt with one of the credit reporting companies that mysteriously had a black mark on your credit record and tried to get it removed? This would be even worse. How much would you have to pay (supposedly for the background check) to get your server white-listed? How much extra would you have to pay to make that process happen in something less than six months?
I think you mean www.roombavac.com.
Unfortunately, wind power is not really a good option for these people due to the cold climate and the exploding of windmills due to flying ice.
As for the numbers, althought the article doesn't specifically state it, I suspect they were provided by the government of the village in question.
I'd be a WHOLE lot more concerned about terrorists stealing cores from the manufacturing facility. Once the reactor is installed, stealing the radioactive material is far from trivial.
According to the article, this one goes through 700,000 of diesel fuel just for generation of electricity. This doesn't include oil used in furnaces or gasoline used in vehicles. The article also notes that the cost of gasoline is a whopping $3.35/gallon, which puts it nearly on par with the prices I've seen in Germany.
You're new here, aren't you? :-)
Absolutely agreed, but I don't think either of us has enough money to make sure that happens.