Let me try to decode that... you're saying exclude all Jews, because they have a standing offer of citizenship from Israel?
I think that would fall afoul of racial discrimination law.
What's really, really annoying is that these right-wingers who think it's OK to threaten to rape women because it's "not actually a threat", are probably the VERY SAME people who think that the police should be allowed to arrest someone at an airport for having a suspicious-looking beard and praying in Arabic.
If someone buys the copyright (remember an entity going bankrupt will sell assets to pay creditors), they get it. If no-one buys it... who's going to sue? It's effectively public domain, right?
This is a very early prototype, and should be treated as such. I think people's expectations are quite high because of how large and complex Wikipedia currently is. They forget what Wikipedia looked like when it first launched!
NO! NO! NO! Exactly the OPPOSITE! People have very low expectations because of the nightmare dystopia that Wikipedia has become.
No matter how loudly you scream, you cranks will be in the minority.
Wikia is not the same thing as Wikipedia, even though Jimmy Wales is centrally involved in both.
The problem is that it's an incredibly incestuous relationship. And the question arises as to just how much of the resources of the NON PROFIT Wikipedia are now being used for the FOR PROFIT Wikia CORPORATION.
There's no evidence of this happening. There are laws to stop this kind of misappropriation of funds.
The US "two-horse" election style only works (i.e. doesn't lead to social breakdown) because both sides' supporters are reasonably sure that, on average, the supporters of the opposition are not bent on their destruction. In Kenya (or, if you think about it, many countries to which democracy has been exported), citizens do not have this luxury
Actually, the supporters of the opposing parties in Kenya lived in relative harmony until these disputed elections happened.
Isn't there software available that automatically moves VMs around based on statistical models of demand and second-by-second performance measurements, much like CPU schedulers for ordinary operating systems?
Three questions for nuclear power fans: How many nuclear power stations per day would the world likely need to build to stabilise CO2 levels in the atmosphere at a tolerable level? How much would this cost, including all decomissioning and nuclear waste storage costs? And finally, how likely is this to happen?
But surely if you have some cool ideas that you're capable of implementing, for a large enough value of "cool" (and you're foolish enough to give them all away to a corporation under the standard corporate NDA / non-compete / EULA type thing, which Zed no doubt isn't... but I digress) even just being at Google and talking to people at the staff canteen could well be enough to get you a big break?
I think he was going more for the whole "legal fight" angle, which is what a lot of commenters seem to have missed. It may be "tough" to burn someone's house down, but it's not very smart, especially if his kids and him are witnesses.
Your theory has the slight problem that the SSA actually works, unlike all Ponzi schemes, which are destined to fail - and it is one of the most popular government programs in the United States. If you want a look at what happens when real Ponzi schemes are promoted by a government, look at the recent history of Albania. That might help you understand the difference.
Because that's not his job. He's there to run the business not make the tech decisions. That's a completely different skillset.
Now if the CTO didn't run Linux we'd have a problem.
But Red Hat's business is tech. If he didn't know anything about Linux or open source he'd be unsuited for the job. Risk of cultural mismatch, for one thing.
Too bad most of the administrators think they know more than you, simply because they read an article on the subject. The others are all to happy to demonstrate the Wikipedia caste system to you.
In practice, for approximately 99% of free software users (and for approximately 99.99% of non-technical free software users), it's usually quicker to install a binary package than to build a package from source. We should not be encouraging Joe Sixpack or Grandma to compile packages from source, generally speaking.
It's far too easy to screw up the Wiki talk pages. It's intimidating to edit.
A simple "Have a suggestion for this article? Leave it for the editors! _____________ [submit]" would be better.
The current system is like an intelligence test for contributions. If you lack the intelligence to contribute to the Talk page, it's probably a good thing that you don't contribute at all.
Right, because no-one would ever think of hacking Windows to report a false hard drive size. What are you going to do, bring in a bunch of DVDs and start copying them on to the hard drive to see if it gets full? Come on...
Your analysis doesn't mention animal products, which suggests to me that it is flawed. If the goal here is to fight global warming, you need to take into accont secondary contributions to global warming, like methane emissions from cows, which gets complicated.
If everyone in the world had to pay taxes or spend emissions credit for the emissions they directly gave rise to, there would be a better economic incentive to reduce carbon emissions in the most efficient ways possible. Of course that's a pipe dream, so we have to make do with patchy emissions trading schemes and suchlike.
That's true, but it was banned the exact same way.
No it wasn't. Multiple opinion polls showed that the majority of Brits were in favour of a ban. That is how we find out what people think - professionally-done opinion polls, not petitions.
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Let me try to decode that... you're saying exclude all Jews, because they have a standing offer of citizenship from Israel? I think that would fall afoul of racial discrimination law.
What's really, really annoying is that these right-wingers who think it's OK to threaten to rape women because it's "not actually a threat", are probably the VERY SAME people who think that the police should be allowed to arrest someone at an airport for having a suspicious-looking beard and praying in Arabic.
If someone buys the copyright (remember an entity going bankrupt will sell assets to pay creditors), they get it. If no-one buys it... who's going to sue? It's effectively public domain, right?
Moreover, celebrity signatures are readily available for many celebs, e.g. on Wikipedia.
Does travel insurance cover this confiscation?
No matter how loudly you scream, you cranks will be in the minority.
There's no evidence of this happening. There are laws to stop this kind of misappropriation of funds.
Actually, the supporters of the opposing parties in Kenya lived in relative harmony until these disputed elections happened.
Isn't there software available that automatically moves VMs around based on statistical models of demand and second-by-second performance measurements, much like CPU schedulers for ordinary operating systems?
Three questions for nuclear power fans: How many nuclear power stations per day would the world likely need to build to stabilise CO2 levels in the atmosphere at a tolerable level? How much would this cost, including all decomissioning and nuclear waste storage costs? And finally, how likely is this to happen?
But surely if you have some cool ideas that you're capable of implementing, for a large enough value of "cool" (and you're foolish enough to give them all away to a corporation under the standard corporate NDA / non-compete / EULA type thing, which Zed no doubt isn't... but I digress) even just being at Google and talking to people at the staff canteen could well be enough to get you a big break?
I think he was going more for the whole "legal fight" angle, which is what a lot of commenters seem to have missed. It may be "tough" to burn someone's house down, but it's not very smart, especially if his kids and him are witnesses.
Your theory has the slight problem that the SSA actually works, unlike all Ponzi schemes, which are destined to fail - and it is one of the most popular government programs in the United States. If you want a look at what happens when real Ponzi schemes are promoted by a government, look at the recent history of Albania. That might help you understand the difference.
Now if the CTO didn't run Linux we'd have a problem.
But Red Hat's business is tech. If he didn't know anything about Linux or open source he'd be unsuited for the job. Risk of cultural mismatch, for one thing.
That's from Men in Black, although someone else probably said it first.
Mind you, that's a made up quote, but it has the right "feel" to show what I mean. Some articles look genuinely like that.
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The average man can't afford to build his own house. Duh.
Too bad most of the administrators think they know more than you, simply because they read an article on the subject. The others are all to happy to demonstrate the Wikipedia caste system to you.
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Actually, Java took off in the enterprise to much greater extent than it took off on the desktop. This might go the same way, who knows.
In practice, for approximately 99% of free software users (and for approximately 99.99% of non-technical free software users), it's usually quicker to install a binary package than to build a package from source. We should not be encouraging Joe Sixpack or Grandma to compile packages from source, generally speaking.
They said "most of their life time", not "all of their life time".
A simple "Have a suggestion for this article? Leave it for the editors! _____________ [submit]" would be better.
The current system is like an intelligence test for contributions. If you lack the intelligence to contribute to the Talk page, it's probably a good thing that you don't contribute at all.
Right, because no-one would ever think of hacking Windows to report a false hard drive size. What are you going to do, bring in a bunch of DVDs and start copying them on to the hard drive to see if it gets full? Come on...
Your analysis doesn't mention animal products, which suggests to me that it is flawed. If the goal here is to fight global warming, you need to take into accont secondary contributions to global warming, like methane emissions from cows, which gets complicated.
If everyone in the world had to pay taxes or spend emissions credit for the emissions they directly gave rise to, there would be a better economic incentive to reduce carbon emissions in the most efficient ways possible. Of course that's a pipe dream, so we have to make do with patchy emissions trading schemes and suchlike.
No it wasn't. Multiple opinion polls showed that the majority of Brits were in favour of a ban. That is how we find out what people think - professionally-done opinion polls, not petitions.