If I could buy a 'brand new' 2008 car whose owner's manual was wrinkled at 2008 car prices I would happily do it.
The gaming experience of a used title is identical as a new one the only difference being that Gamestop gets $20 in revenue and the developers get nothing.
That doesn't make it ok for a game publisher to artificially introduce a degradation just because the laws of physics are different to the laws of information. If you buy a car that's only 6 months old, you're getting a car that is better than if you buy a car that is 6 years old. How should that be modelled in this "emulated degradation" scheme? It's ridiculous. Your example is interesting, but by making piracy easier they would also make re-selling easier, you can't really allow one while disallowing the other.
I'm not sure what the ice on the surface would be made of, or what the density of the liquid methane ocean would be since density depends on pressure, but Methane Clathrate ice is about twice as dense as liquid methane is at atmospheric pressure. Pure methane ice is less dense than liquid methane, so would behave like water ice, but I think it's unlikely to be pure.
Yes, that's pretty much what the article says. They don't know what the answer is, but a large underground ocean seems to fit the observations. Hence "May Have" in the title.
So all those Facebook games that this guy probably doesn't play will work...
Unless they have any kind of mouseover interface. And if the flash content that he did try didn't work properly, why do you expect Facebook games will be any different even if they don't use mouseover? They aren't all that reliable even in Internet Explorer (I don't use it, but my friend that plays facebook games does).
Do you have any evidence of wrongdoing? How do I know you didn't mug an old lady to pay for your internet connection that allowed you to post that, you granny-bashing scumbag?
Gandalf's resurrection doesn't mean that Boromir or Theoden or any of the various other mortal characters might return.
Indeed, I saw it as a way of demonstrating how different Gandalf is to the regular mortals or even the "immortal" elves. So when the Lich King stands up to Gandalf, you know that's a big deal.
1. Senior government official gives a talk about oppression of free speech 2. Elderly man stands up and turns his back in silent protest 3. Plain-clothes officers beat the old man to the ground and drag him out and throw him in jail
Even someone who only has minimal knowledge of how to work a computer can figure out how to install a crack (especially considering that there's instructions).
I disagree. Not all cracks come with instructions, some of them are in.rar files which a lot of people will just scratch their head at, and some people only know how to click on icons. A.rar file sitting in whichever directory they last used to download a file (which may be My Pictures, for instance) will sit there doing nothing while they wonder why their game still isn't working after downloading the crack. This is ordinary people we are talking about here.
The way I think of it is, prime numbers are the building blocks of numbers. When you find a new prime number, you can use multiplication to make new numbers that you couldn't make before. The number 1 doesn't help making new numbers, so it isn't a multiplicational building block.
Linux is a kernel, and it's called Linux, and it's not part of the GNU project. A distribution that includes the GNU tool set and the Linux kernel is a GNU/Linux distribution. This is not a story about a GNU/Linux distribution, it's a story about the kernel. If you're going to be pedantic, get it right.
Scoffing about anything isn't going to make friends. Don't scoff, study and publish. Then you will be taken seriously. And if you're in the pay of an industry that has a financial stake in the matter, well, it's obvious that's not a good way to be taken seriously.
Earthquakes and tsunamis are part of the Japanese environment. If you're going to build a nuclear power plant on the east coast of Japan, it needs to be built to withstand a 9.0 quake and the resultant tsunami. It was not. However, the positive spin is that whilst the five old reactors are all having major problems, reactor number 6, which is of a newer design, is perfectly safe and sound. If the brakes fail on my Ford Prefect and I run someone over, well, maybe I shouldn't be driving a Ford Prefect nowadays. We aren't building cars like that any more, and we aren't building nuclear reactors like that any more, and really, Japan should not have still been running that reactor the way it was. Saying "cars are not safe" because of my Ford Prefect accident is not a rational response.
They are very smart. They're making billions of money for themselves, and getting us bozos to bail them out when they manage to make it look like they've hit hard times. Seems pretty smart to me. Being a genius does not preclude being evil.
If the summary is correct then no, this only comes into play if an overseas company has violated copyright. Actually it isn't correct, but you have to bounce on to Seattle Times to find out that it doesn't just affect overseas companies.
You are offering a tradeoff - an improved product, but with restrictions on the user's ability to fix any bugs in that product. The FSF philosophy is that losing that freedom is a very high price to pay for your improvements. You're free to believe that it is not a high price, fine, choose some other crap software with looser licencing to improve, not my crap software.
People here like to point out that you can't steal bits, so the bits of your "free software" must still be in your possession.
I never said it wasn't. And I don't generally download warez or pirate music, although I won't claim to be 100% innocent. I believe that copyright has a valid place in society, and one useful application of copyright is the GPL, it allows me to release software with restrictions that ensure that the end user has the freedom to fix and modify my software. That some middle-man does not have the freedom to hobble it and pass it on to end users in a restricted form is the intention of the GPL. I don't care about the middle-man, I care about the user.
If someone uses your code, they have not deprived you of the original code or indeed truly stolen anything of value.
You have reduced the freedoms that I want to give to the users of my software - there are people now using my software that are not free to fix it if it breaks. That's how this all started, Stallman wanted to fix the software that made a printer work, and he couldn't fix it.
However, you chose to make it freely available.
No, I chose to release it with limitations that prevent someone from reducing the amount of freedom that applies to use of my software.
GPL is saying if you want to use my code, then I have to be able to use your code.
Close, but not quite, it says that the users of your version have to have the same freedom that I gave you. You are under no obligation to give me your software, or even to let me know that it exists. One of your users might give me a copy, you can't stop that, but you don't have to.
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If I could buy a 'brand new' 2008 car whose owner's manual was wrinkled at 2008 car prices I would happily do it.
The gaming experience of a used title is identical as a new one the only difference being that Gamestop gets $20 in revenue and the developers get nothing.
That doesn't make it ok for a game publisher to artificially introduce a degradation just because the laws of physics are different to the laws of information. If you buy a car that's only 6 months old, you're getting a car that is better than if you buy a car that is 6 years old. How should that be modelled in this "emulated degradation" scheme? It's ridiculous. Your example is interesting, but by making piracy easier they would also make re-selling easier, you can't really allow one while disallowing the other.
I'm not sure what the ice on the surface would be made of, or what the density of the liquid methane ocean would be since density depends on pressure, but Methane Clathrate ice is about twice as dense as liquid methane is at atmospheric pressure. Pure methane ice is less dense than liquid methane, so would behave like water ice, but I think it's unlikely to be pure.
Yes, that's pretty much what the article says. They don't know what the answer is, but a large underground ocean seems to fit the observations. Hence "May Have" in the title.
So all those Facebook games that this guy probably doesn't play will work...
Unless they have any kind of mouseover interface. And if the flash content that he did try didn't work properly, why do you expect Facebook games will be any different even if they don't use mouseover? They aren't all that reliable even in Internet Explorer (I don't use it, but my friend that plays facebook games does).
I'd put forward Angelika Langer and Kevlin Henney as well, but I'm biased because I've had dinner with them.
Do you have any evidence of wrongdoing? How do I know you didn't mug an old lady to pay for your internet connection that allowed you to post that, you granny-bashing scumbag?
Gandalf's resurrection doesn't mean that Boromir or Theoden or any of the various other mortal characters might return.
Indeed, I saw it as a way of demonstrating how different Gandalf is to the regular mortals or even the "immortal" elves. So when the Lich King stands up to Gandalf, you know that's a big deal.
Complaining about Gandalf's resurrection is a bit thin, since it hadn't really been abused all that much when Tolkien wrote LotR.
1. Senior government official gives a talk about oppression of free speech
2. Elderly man stands up and turns his back in silent protest
3. Plain-clothes officers beat the old man to the ground and drag him out and throw him in jail
Guess which country I'm talking about.
Even someone who only has minimal knowledge of how to work a computer can figure out how to install a crack (especially considering that there's instructions).
I disagree. Not all cracks come with instructions, some of them are in .rar files which a lot of people will just scratch their head at, and some people only know how to click on icons. A .rar file sitting in whichever directory they last used to download a file (which may be My Pictures, for instance) will sit there doing nothing while they wonder why their game still isn't working after downloading the crack. This is ordinary people we are talking about here.
Every integer n>1 has a unique factorisation as a product of primes (Prime factorisation)
Is that theorem supposed to include the prime numbers?
The way I think of it is, prime numbers are the building blocks of numbers. When you find a new prime number, you can use multiplication to make new numbers that you couldn't make before. The number 1 doesn't help making new numbers, so it isn't a multiplicational building block.
Linux is a kernel, and it's called Linux, and it's not part of the GNU project. A distribution that includes the GNU tool set and the Linux kernel is a GNU/Linux distribution. This is not a story about a GNU/Linux distribution, it's a story about the kernel. If you're going to be pedantic, get it right.
Scoffing about anything isn't going to make friends. Don't scoff, study and publish. Then you will be taken seriously. And if you're in the pay of an industry that has a financial stake in the matter, well, it's obvious that's not a good way to be taken seriously.
It begs the question, 60% of what? "60% of bumpiness removed" and "60% improvement in bumpiness reduction" are completely different.
Yes, 61.73% would be an "awfully exact" figure, 60% not so much.
PDFs.
Henchmen, you amateurs!
Earthquakes and tsunamis are part of the Japanese environment. If you're going to build a nuclear power plant on the east coast of Japan, it needs to be built to withstand a 9.0 quake and the resultant tsunami. It was not. However, the positive spin is that whilst the five old reactors are all having major problems, reactor number 6, which is of a newer design, is perfectly safe and sound. If the brakes fail on my Ford Prefect and I run someone over, well, maybe I shouldn't be driving a Ford Prefect nowadays. We aren't building cars like that any more, and we aren't building nuclear reactors like that any more, and really, Japan should not have still been running that reactor the way it was. Saying "cars are not safe" because of my Ford Prefect accident is not a rational response.
They are very smart. They're making billions of money for themselves, and getting us bozos to bail them out when they manage to make it look like they've hit hard times. Seems pretty smart to me. Being a genius does not preclude being evil.
Oh, under this new law, if your suppliers are violating open source copyright will be ok, you can't be sued because of that.
If the summary is correct then no, this only comes into play if an overseas company has violated copyright. Actually it isn't correct, but you have to bounce on to Seattle Times to find out that it doesn't just affect overseas companies.
Which do you think serves the public best?
You are offering a tradeoff - an improved product, but with restrictions on the user's ability to fix any bugs in that product. The FSF philosophy is that losing that freedom is a very high price to pay for your improvements. You're free to believe that it is not a high price, fine, choose some other crap software with looser licencing to improve, not my crap software.
People here like to point out that you can't steal bits, so the bits of your "free software" must still be in your possession.
I never said it wasn't. And I don't generally download warez or pirate music, although I won't claim to be 100% innocent. I believe that copyright has a valid place in society, and one useful application of copyright is the GPL, it allows me to release software with restrictions that ensure that the end user has the freedom to fix and modify my software. That some middle-man does not have the freedom to hobble it and pass it on to end users in a restricted form is the intention of the GPL. I don't care about the middle-man, I care about the user.
If someone uses your code, they have not deprived you of the original code or indeed truly stolen anything of value.
You have reduced the freedoms that I want to give to the users of my software - there are people now using my software that are not free to fix it if it breaks. That's how this all started, Stallman wanted to fix the software that made a printer work, and he couldn't fix it.
However, you chose to make it freely available.
No, I chose to release it with limitations that prevent someone from reducing the amount of freedom that applies to use of my software.
GPL is saying if you want to use my code, then I have to be able to use your code.
Close, but not quite, it says that the users of your version have to have the same freedom that I gave you. You are under no obligation to give me your software, or even to let me know that it exists. One of your users might give me a copy, you can't stop that, but you don't have to.