Using MetaRAM hardware to double or triple the physical RAM each slot will accept makes more sense in a desktop or server situation, I think. This might be handy in the embedded and pocket computer spaces, where they're talking about in TFA.
Even Johnny Mnemonic already did this, though, and even in the crappy movie. If they get a patent, it'd better be on a specific method of increasing the performance of something like RAMDoubler.
Actually, Microsoft should be allowed to rip the biggest part of the TiVo's OS and put it on their own device, complete with the source code to the Linux kernel that TiVo uses to run the box.
Never met a cat or a terrier, huh? Cats will bring you dead mice as gifts, but only after catching and releasing them many times over. Rat terriers and fox terriers will bring you opossum, mice, squirrels, birds, snakes, moles, gophers, and more.
It could be that Homo Sapiens adapted more readily to a more varied diet, whereas the Neanderthals could not (or would not) eat and digest the food available in the area they inhabited. When there is a shortage of food, being able to eat and digest a broader range of possible food stocks is a serious advantage.
Okay... and you're probably one of those who call RMS and ESR radical idealists?
Here's a hint: RMS wants software that's totally and completely free, too. He wants the information, including the source, to always be free to everyone.
The GPL is the closest to that he and his cohorts have found to allowing that under the current copyright laws, treaties, and conventions.
Nobody said it was perfect, but can you can't exactly say you're not idealistic and he is when your ideal is that freedom means absolute freedom.
That person isn't forced to give you anything. If they had written the code they provided you from scratch, they could do whatever they want with the source and binary. They made a choice to save themselves labor by leveraging a GPLed project. It's a choice.
The silent film "Metropolis" predates "Caves of Steel" by a few decades. It doesn't bother to explain how the city is self-reliant and carbon neutrality is never an issue. It is very much about having a rich upper class living above a poor lower class and taking advantage of their willingness to serve in the dark squalor of the depths of the city.
The GPL is more free than the BSD/MIT from a certain point of view. The GPL is less free than those licenses from a certain other point of view.
From the point of view of a developer who enhances another developer's code, the BSD is more free. This developer has more choices of what to do with the code regarding how he distributes it.
From the point of view of the person getting the object code from a developer, from the point of view of the code itself, and from the point of view of the original author, the GPL is more free. The person receiving the object code is given more choices for how to get updates and customizations. The original author is assured his work won't be sealed up from the end user.
If people were willing to view both points of view, it'd be clear that what matters is your point of view and which set of freedoms mean more to you.
This is why the OSI has the trademarked phrase "Open Source", and why many people are using the capitalized term "Software Libre", which is otherwise quite uncommon usage in English. They're not trying to redefine words.
Not every international business machines corporation is IBM. Best Buy isn't necessarily where you'll find the best deal on electronics and appliances. Circuit City isn't actually a city made up of circuits. General Motors actually makes motors specific to automobiles, and the whole automobiles, too. People claim phrases as distinct from the dictionary definitions of the individual words all the time.
The person with whom you are arguing should be capitalizing "Free Software" to make it more clear that he's not talking about some random software that is free in some random sense.
Three of the top five are among the smallest states in the Union by total land area. They are mostly densely populated, too.
Virginia has the extra bonus that it has suburbs of Washington, D.C. and several government installations. The Pentagon is actually not in D.C. (although its postal address says it is), but is in Arlington. The FBI and CIA are headquartered in the state. One of the largest USMC bases is there, along with the DEA and FBI training centers. There's a Federal Reserve Bank. Qimonda has a DRAM fab there, and Genworth Financial is headquartered in the state. Of course it has all kinds of telecom infrastructure.
"The people", as in, "The People of the United States vs. Larry Flynt". IOW, the government prosecutes crimes because they are crimes. Civil law is interested in making the victim whole. Criminal law is interested in prosecuting the crime as a deterrent, punishment, and possibly as a chance to reform.
I find it very funny that your username is "kraut" and you say that hiding (probably illicit) funds from war-torn countries is the job of Swiss bankers.
Actually, if you offer to take a cop posing as a hooker to dinner there's nothing illegal about that. Even to offer to have mutually consensual sex with no exchange of money is not a crime. If you're in a jurisdiction with an overzealous police department, you might get arrested for such actions "because he knew she was a hooker", but a good lawyer would break the case to tiny pieces.
Here's basically how it works here. Perhaps he gets arrested for assault (threatening), but definitely not battery (causing damage to a person through force). More likely, he'd get something for being drunk and disorderly, disturbing the peace, or something like that if someone actually reports it. The guy who stepped closer intending to also fight might also be arrested for the same if the police need to show up.
The police might send both home, might arrest both, or might arrest one. It might be based as much on their provocation and argumentative nature with the police as with each other if they actually get arrested. Once the police arrest them, if that happens, then the court gets to hear from the people themselves, the police, and possibly other witnesses before anyone can even go to trial, let alone be convicted.
That's a somewhat separate issue to whether it should be considered a crime. It is a very good point, though. Probation makes more sense than immediate jail time for anyone who's not a threat to repeat their crimes anyway.
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Using MetaRAM hardware to double or triple the physical RAM each slot will accept makes more sense in a desktop or server situation, I think. This might be handy in the embedded and pocket computer spaces, where they're talking about in TFA.
Even Johnny Mnemonic already did this, though, and even in the crappy movie. If they get a patent, it'd better be on a specific method of increasing the performance of something like RAMDoubler.
Nah. If you're going to drop $3,000 you're probably going to want the gaming rig.
An Eee, Beagle Board, Gumstix, or a Pandora will set you back a lot less.
Actually, Microsoft should be allowed to rip the biggest part of the TiVo's OS and put it on their own device, complete with the source code to the Linux kernel that TiVo uses to run the box.
If it hurts Apple computer hardware sales, it'll probably just be the Mac Mini. The Mac Pro is far and away more machine than the Open Computer.
Never met a cat or a terrier, huh? Cats will bring you dead mice as gifts, but only after catching and releasing them many times over. Rat terriers and fox terriers will bring you opossum, mice, squirrels, birds, snakes, moles, gophers, and more.
Hey, the sea lions are just protecting the herring!
Well, it's gotta be better than Scientific American.
It could be that Homo Sapiens adapted more readily to a more varied diet, whereas the Neanderthals could not (or would not) eat and digest the food available in the area they inhabited. When there is a shortage of food, being able to eat and digest a broader range of possible food stocks is a serious advantage.
What, Diebold is a company full of Neanderthals?
"Hubbardite". "Scientologist" is trademarked by a cult and actually makes it sound like something scientific might be taking place.
Which way does your planet rotate?
Okay... and you're probably one of those who call RMS and ESR radical idealists?
Here's a hint: RMS wants software that's totally and completely free, too. He wants the information, including the source, to always be free to everyone.
The GPL is the closest to that he and his cohorts have found to allowing that under the current copyright laws, treaties, and conventions.
Nobody said it was perfect, but can you can't exactly say you're not idealistic and he is when your ideal is that freedom means absolute freedom.
I'll never forgive them for what they did to my barracks -- before it was even built!
Why is it that you feel that it is done that nobody remembers remembers Eliza, Davester?
That person isn't forced to give you anything. If they had written the code they provided you from scratch, they could do whatever they want with the source and binary. They made a choice to save themselves labor by leveraging a GPLed project. It's a choice.
The silent film "Metropolis" predates "Caves of Steel" by a few decades. It doesn't bother to explain how the city is self-reliant and carbon neutrality is never an issue. It is very much about having a rich upper class living above a poor lower class and taking advantage of their willingness to serve in the dark squalor of the depths of the city.
I have no idea how you got modded flamebait. Hopefully the metamods will fix that. It's abundantly clear to me that you're right.
If you've bought the black box hardware and can't use it, the manufacturer already has your money.
If you refuse to buy the black box hardware, then they don't get your money.
It's a really simple difference to understand, and it would be a bigger incentive to hardware companies to put it to use.
The GPL is more free than the BSD/MIT from a certain point of view. The GPL is less free than those licenses from a certain other point of view.
From the point of view of a developer who enhances another developer's code, the BSD is more free. This developer has more choices of what to do with the code regarding how he distributes it.
From the point of view of the person getting the object code from a developer, from the point of view of the code itself, and from the point of view of the original author, the GPL is more free. The person receiving the object code is given more choices for how to get updates and customizations. The original author is assured his work won't be sealed up from the end user.
If people were willing to view both points of view, it'd be clear that what matters is your point of view and which set of freedoms mean more to you.
"Free Software" != "free software"
This is why the OSI has the trademarked phrase "Open Source", and why many people are using the capitalized term "Software Libre", which is otherwise quite uncommon usage in English. They're not trying to redefine words.
Not every international business machines corporation is IBM. Best Buy isn't necessarily where you'll find the best deal on electronics and appliances. Circuit City isn't actually a city made up of circuits. General Motors actually makes motors specific to automobiles, and the whole automobiles, too. People claim phrases as distinct from the dictionary definitions of the individual words all the time.
The person with whom you are arguing should be capitalizing "Free Software" to make it more clear that he's not talking about some random software that is free in some random sense.
Three of the top five are among the smallest states in the Union by total land area. They are mostly densely populated, too.
Virginia has the extra bonus that it has suburbs of Washington, D.C. and several government installations. The Pentagon is actually not in D.C. (although its postal address says it is), but is in Arlington. The FBI and CIA are headquartered in the state. One of the largest USMC bases is there, along with the DEA and FBI training centers. There's a Federal Reserve Bank. Qimonda has a DRAM fab there, and Genworth Financial is headquartered in the state. Of course it has all kinds of telecom infrastructure.
"The people", as in, "The People of the United States vs. Larry Flynt". IOW, the government prosecutes crimes because they are crimes. Civil law is interested in making the victim whole. Criminal law is interested in prosecuting the crime as a deterrent, punishment, and possibly as a chance to reform.
I find it very funny that your username is "kraut" and you say that hiding (probably illicit) funds from war-torn countries is the job of Swiss bankers.
Actually, if you offer to take a cop posing as a hooker to dinner there's nothing illegal about that. Even to offer to have mutually consensual sex with no exchange of money is not a crime. If you're in a jurisdiction with an overzealous police department, you might get arrested for such actions "because he knew she was a hooker", but a good lawyer would break the case to tiny pieces.
Here's basically how it works here. Perhaps he gets arrested for assault (threatening), but definitely not battery (causing damage to a person through force). More likely, he'd get something for being drunk and disorderly, disturbing the peace, or something like that if someone actually reports it. The guy who stepped closer intending to also fight might also be arrested for the same if the police need to show up.
The police might send both home, might arrest both, or might arrest one. It might be based as much on their provocation and argumentative nature with the police as with each other if they actually get arrested. Once the police arrest them, if that happens, then the court gets to hear from the people themselves, the police, and possibly other witnesses before anyone can even go to trial, let alone be convicted.
That's a somewhat separate issue to whether it should be considered a crime. It is a very good point, though. Probation makes more sense than immediate jail time for anyone who's not a threat to repeat their crimes anyway.