Rep (standing for "read evaluate print") is a dependancy for sawfish, which is probably why you have it. May be phased out in sawfish in favor of guile, but the sawfish author wrote rep, so don't hold your breath.
Rights are bullshit. Rights are impossible and meaningless without a third party who threatens you with violent force when it thinks you do not have one of these rights they define for you. Your own willingness to do is worth more than any right.
This kind of adressing a question while leaving the original question open is called "begging the question". People misuse the phrase "begging the question" all the time though, so it is approaching meaninglesness.
I don't get it. Is this some joke about The LSB and having a directory called/div? Are you playing stupid? Are you trying to repeat a Unix joke you once heard, while knowing nothing about Unix? Have I just been trolled? I just don't get it.
Technicly, if you want to get anal about it, yes, the free software development model is a technology. Methods are technologies. The person you are responding to is probably either lauding the advances Linux has made in kernel technology though (if there are any - I am no kernel expert) or admiring the GNU/Linux system's design, borrowed 100% from the original Unix inventors at Bell Labs.
People like the distortion of tubes (everything that touches analog distorts) because it is closer to a natural distortion of a sound (like that caused by hearing damage or a wierd room or whatever) than transistor distortion (which, ironicly, has no natural analog to its distorting behavior).
Don't misunderstand *facts* with *explanations* (aka theories). Facts are facts are facts.
That is an excelent point, and it is too bad that the distinction gets so blurred between facts and explanations. People want their explanations of the facts they experience so badly to be as sure as the facts themselves. For example, I have an easier time addressing 'you' in terms of 'what you think' than 'what I heard you say' (the first being an explanation of the latter).
Here are the raw numbers: 1,491 wiretap applications were authorized, each intercepting an average of 1,565 conversations. No judge anywhere in the United States denied a police wiretap request. State courts authorized 67 percent of wiretaps. The average length was about two months, and 68 percent of taps were on "portable" devices, such as pagers and cell phones.
I don't know if I should be upset that so many conversations are listened to, or amused that they spent as much time listening to "how much for a dime bag" as they did. I wonder what's up with the sixteen people using encryption? Was it pig latin or omethingsay?
Calculating the Universe impossible from within it is impossible, because you would have to calculate the aforementioned calculations, which would put you into an infinite recursive loop.
Not neccisarily, think of a quine or Zeno's paradox (the sum of an infinite series is not always infinite).
The greatest musicians, most gifted artists, and noted monumental minds in the history of this world have focused their works, attributed their talents, and credited their wisdom to God alone. How is it that we think we are smarter than those who have come before us and foolishly ponder finite material items cabaple of creating, as only God can?
A question about this goat spider silk - does spider silk scale linearly? What I mean is, for example, multicellular organisms don't scale linearly. A human that was six times as tall would crush it's legs to splinters if it tried to stand up, and fleas or other insects can jump or fall many hundreds of times their own height safely, unlike a human scale animal. What I wonder is if spider webs are similar - amazing properties on a spider scale, but pretty pathetic at a larger scale.
I would hate to live near a power pole made of this stuff, after it had been up for a couple of years.
I see what the angle is now - this is a semi-disposable technology. Instead of charging once on installation, you get annual repair bills. Sounds pretty lucrative to me.
I'm beating my head against a wall trying to figure out why anyone wouldn't buy this
This hardly seems an objective description of a product. It looks like a good idea - I love the idea of a one pound bike frame - but they should lay of the hyperbole a little.
Here is a trick for my favorite shell, es the Extensible Shell, a derivitive of plan9's rc shell. The es shell has the most logical set of syntax rules I have ever seen in a shell. It is also the only shell where I have figured out how to do automated file renaming (very handy). Here is a transcript of a session as an example:
this functionality is great for preventing name collisions when consolidating files from two directories into a single directory.
as some explanation <={...} is like typing the return value of the command inside the braces, ~~ returns the part of the second aruments matches that were expanded from the the first argument's glob.
If there is then more free software out there, covering a wider variety of application than your average 'shrink-wrap' stuff, that means less of a demand for programmers-for-hire, too.
This argument is flawed. Sure, I program, so I don't think a-priori that work for programmers to do should be reduced. But, that which increases work to do or maintains the amount of work to be done is usually counter-productive in any field. Sure, rampant pyromania would be great for the construction and fire prevention industries, but I would be sickened by these people campaining against measures preventing arson. Wasted resources are a drain on all of society. If programmers need to be duplicating each other's work to stay employed, maybe some of the less qualified prorammers should be doing something else that society at large would benifit from.
a) to have free software and free Operating System.
b) to give GNU-project free publicity and recognition
The Linux project is more a kernel that happens to be free, than a free kernel. And there never has been and probably never will be a Linux operating system. Linux was and is a kernel, the one big thing the Gnu project couldn't get working yet. I was introduced to GNU/Linux through RedHat, which my roommates installed on our shared computers. Eventually we got hacked, so we had to reinstall, and I'd heard rumors that Debian was pretty good, so we tried it out. It wasn't till I installed Debian that I learned what the GNU project was, not to mention it's significance in the world of Free software. If we left things to everyone else, I don't think any organization would have the same proncipled and unqualified support for Free software that GNU has had under the leadership of RMS.
Some would have a larger problem with the GPL being too restrictive and therefore on the wrong side of the moral line.
Are you part of "some?"
If you do not accept the GPL it is no more restrictive than normal copyright, beyond that, extra rights are granted.
I would hardly take seriously a claim that the GPL was immorally over restrictive, unless you consider nothing more restrictive than the public domain to be acceptable.
it takes away my right to produce commercial software and not distribute my source along with it. That isn't a grant, that's a restriction of use.
No
If my code is GPL, I have granted you the right to redistribute and modify my code under a specific set of conditions. If you want to ignore those conditions, I have denied you nothing which would otherwise be your right. The GPL is a License, but not a EULA. Using GPL'ed software does not in any way require accepting the terms of the GPL.
If colleges and universtities would just get off their asses and produce departments willing to donate gm crops to poor countries with no strings attached they may be able to finnally solve most of the world hunger not related to despotism.
If you add "market forces" to your despotism, we could probably feed them with a couple of carrots.
Ok, I know that is an exageration, but inavailability of food is rarely reducable to a lack of food. It is simple economics- the price of food is low, the producer cannot make a profit at that price, the producer keeps the food in a warehouse until the demand can raise prices, the food rots, people die, the price goes up. This seems crazy, but it happens over and over through modern history. Even in drought conditions, there is always an economic factor - otherwise one could live on imported food. Do not blame nature for the invisible hand's actions (though nature can be quite sadistic herself).
It is not pesticides that cannot be used in organic farming, but rather non-biological ones (you can use all the ladybugs or BT you want- both are technicly pesticides, though they are organisms).
The things you talk about seem to have more to do with composing dance than recording it... The formal composition of dance is a field that is hardly developed, most of dance is mixtures of repartorie learned one on one through generations with no formal theory or notation behind it. That means you're not gonna have very good luck finding any computerized tools for dance composition, AFAICT.
meteorological science is not a precise science as it stands now, expecially not over protracted periods of time, including global trends, chance plays a huge role, and until you can measure the precise effect of a house fly beating its wings one way as opposed to another on global weather then you can't produce a truly accurate model, because what if every house fly on the planet decides to do the same thing at the same time
Chaotic systems are strongly dependant on initial conditions, meaning that you can't know a system's behaviour to the second, but larger patterns can still be observed and predicted. A system where this is not true is random (and the weather is not random). Your case with all the houseflies on the planet doing the same thing at the same time is a quetion of statistics - as the sum of the data becomes more meaningful, freak occurances will become more common (the more times you flip a coin, the more likely you are to at some point land twenty heads in a row, and the closer your heads/tails ratio will be to one). About your last point, we can know alot about long term weather from plants (trees especially) for example...
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Rep (standing for "read evaluate print") is a dependancy for sawfish, which is probably why you have it. May be phased out in sawfish in favor of guile, but the sawfish author wrote rep, so don't hold your breath.
Hey, you're right, thanks for the tip...
Rights are bullshit. Rights are impossible and meaningless without a third party who threatens you with violent force when it thinks you do not have one of these rights they define for you. Your own willingness to do is worth more than any right.
This kind of adressing a question while leaving the original question open is called "begging the question". People misuse the phrase "begging the question" all the time though, so it is approaching meaninglesness.
I don't get it. Is this some joke about The LSB and having a directory called /div? Are you playing stupid? Are you trying to repeat a Unix joke you once heard, while knowing nothing about Unix? Have I just been trolled? I just don't get it.
Technicly, if you want to get anal about it, yes, the free software development model is a technology. Methods are technologies. The person you are responding to is probably either lauding the advances Linux has made in kernel technology though (if there are any - I am no kernel expert) or admiring the GNU/Linux system's design, borrowed 100% from the original Unix inventors at Bell Labs.
People like the distortion of tubes (everything that touches analog distorts) because it is closer to a natural distortion of a sound (like that caused by hearing damage or a wierd room or whatever) than transistor distortion (which, ironicly, has no natural analog to its distorting behavior).
But, the article only mentions provisions for taking data out of public view, not for correcting it.
Hey Nindalf, thanks for the new .sig!
That is an excelent point, and it is too bad that the distinction gets so blurred between facts and explanations. People want their explanations of the facts they experience so badly to be as sure as the facts themselves. For example, I have an easier time addressing 'you' in terms of 'what you think' than 'what I heard you say' (the first being an explanation of the latter).
Here are the raw numbers: 1,491 wiretap applications were authorized, each intercepting an average of 1,565 conversations. No judge anywhere in the United States denied a police wiretap request. State courts authorized 67 percent of wiretaps. The average length was about two months, and 68 percent of taps were on "portable" devices, such as pagers and cell phones.
I don't know if I should be upset that so many conversations are listened to, or amused that they spent as much time listening to "how much for a dime bag" as they did. I wonder what's up with the sixteen people using encryption? Was it pig latin or omethingsay?
Not neccisarily, think of a quine or Zeno's paradox (the sum of an infinite series is not always infinite).
Troll, forgive me, I almost fed you.
Also, watch out bringing up goats around here...
I see what the angle is now - this is a semi-disposable technology. Instead of charging once on installation, you get annual repair bills. Sounds pretty lucrative to me.
This hardly seems an objective description of a product. It looks like a good idea - I love the idea of a one pound bike frame - but they should lay of the hyperbole a little.
Here is a trick for my favorite shell, es the Extensible Shell, a derivitive of plan9's rc shell. The es shell has the most logical set of syntax rules I have ever seen in a shell. It is also the only shell where I have figured out how to do automated file renaming (very handy). Here is a transcript of a session as an example:
;; touch 123
;; touch 124
;; touch 125
;; touch 126
;; touch 127
;; touch 128
;; touch 129
;; ls
123 124 125 126 127 128 129
;; echo <={~~ (*) 1*}
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
;; for (i = <={~~ (*) 1*}) {mv 1$i one$i}
;; ls
one23 one24 one25 one26 one27 one28 one29
this functionality is great for preventing name collisions when consolidating files from two directories into a single directory.
as some explanation <={...} is like typing the return value of the command inside the braces, ~~
returns the part of the second aruments matches that were expanded from the the first argument's glob.
This argument is flawed. Sure, I program, so I don't think a-priori that work for programmers to do should be reduced. But, that which increases work to do or maintains the amount of work to be done is usually counter-productive in any field. Sure, rampant pyromania would be great for the construction and fire prevention industries, but I would be sickened by these people campaining against measures preventing arson. Wasted resources are a drain on all of society. If programmers need to be duplicating each other's work to stay employed, maybe some of the less qualified prorammers should be doing something else that society at large would benifit from.
a) to have free software and free Operating System.
b) to give GNU-project free publicity and recognition
The Linux project is more a kernel that happens to be free, than a free kernel. And there never has been and probably never will be a Linux operating system. Linux was and is a kernel, the one big thing the Gnu project couldn't get working yet. I was introduced to GNU/Linux through RedHat, which my roommates installed on our shared computers. Eventually we got hacked, so we had to reinstall, and I'd heard rumors that Debian was pretty good, so we tried it out. It wasn't till I installed Debian that I learned what the GNU project was, not to mention it's significance in the world of Free software. If we left things to everyone else, I don't think any organization would have the same proncipled and unqualified support for Free software that GNU has had under the leadership of RMS.
Are you part of "some?"
If you do not accept the GPL it is no more restrictive than normal copyright, beyond that, extra rights are granted.
I would hardly take seriously a claim that the GPL was immorally over restrictive, unless you consider nothing more restrictive than the public domain to be acceptable.
No
If my code is GPL, I have granted you the right to redistribute and modify my code under a specific set of conditions. If you want to ignore those conditions, I have denied you nothing which would otherwise be your right. The GPL is a License, but not a EULA. Using GPL'ed software does not in any way require accepting the terms of the GPL.
If you add "market forces" to your despotism, we could probably feed them with a couple of carrots.
Ok, I know that is an exageration, but inavailability of food is rarely reducable to a lack of food. It is simple economics- the price of food is low, the producer cannot make a profit at that price, the producer keeps the food in a warehouse until the demand can raise prices, the food rots, people die, the price goes up. This seems crazy, but it happens over and over through modern history. Even in drought conditions, there is always an economic factor - otherwise one could live on imported food. Do not blame nature for the invisible hand's actions (though nature can be quite sadistic herself).
It is not pesticides that cannot be used in organic farming, but rather non-biological ones (you can use all the ladybugs or BT you want- both are technicly pesticides, though they are organisms).
The things you talk about seem to have more to do with composing dance than recording it...
The formal composition of dance is a field that is hardly developed, most of dance is mixtures of repartorie learned one on one through generations with no formal theory or notation behind it. That means you're not gonna have very good luck finding any computerized tools for dance composition, AFAICT.
Chaotic systems are strongly dependant on initial conditions, meaning that you can't know a system's behaviour to the second, but larger patterns can still be observed and predicted. A system where this is not true is random (and the weather is not random). Your case with all the houseflies on the planet doing the same thing at the same time is a quetion of statistics - as the sum of the data becomes more meaningful, freak occurances will become more common (the more times you flip a coin, the more likely you are to at some point land twenty heads in a row, and the closer your heads/tails ratio will be to one). About your last point, we can know alot about long term weather from plants (trees especially) for example...