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"The balloon idea depended on the time of year: summer."
Don't forget, us Americans had some pretty cockamamie ideas too. For instance, taping explosives to bats...yes *BATS*...and sending them over to Japan. The idea was that since most Japanese buildings were made from light wood and paper, that we could burn them down easily.
"civilian deaths from a blockade would have been much higher than from the two atom bombs."
Except of course for the effects of radiation that we probably didn't anticipate (there wasn't enough time to bomb Native Americans in New Mexico over several generations to see the effects, oh well). So AFAIK we basically doomed several generations to all sorts of f*cked up genetic problems.
When Mozilla comes out, it really is going to have to be heads above everything else. Since it is not officially tied to a company trying to make a profit, it is going to have to include the "gutsy" features like per-domain cookie management, *ad blocking*, spam blocking, etc. Things that will heighten the user experience, possibly to the chagrin of those trying to commercialize the web.
But Mozilla is really more than a browser...it's a UI engine, and that should probably be exploited. If you look at the Windows XP interface (and the prototype "Odyssey" interface before it), it is (or at least appears to be) web-centric rendered markup language. Perhaps Mozilla could play a role in providing a similar UI for potential first time home users?
If you have a decent quality work chair, and adjust your seat correctly you can pretty much do away with the back pain (lower your chair so your legs are at 90 degrees...or even to the point that your knees are a bit above your hips...then lower your monitor, etc. accordingly).
My problem is with my hips. I'm always crossing my legs one way or another, resting my elbows on the arm rests, slouching this way or that. You have to do something other than sit directly on your ass all day. I guess the only solution is the get up frequently and stretch/move around, and to get some decent exercise outside of work.
BTW, you know that study that found that some given percentage of people that sat on long airplane trips would get embolisms, etc? Well, guess what else is very similar? Sitting on your butt all day in front of a computer.
...doesn't Google *need* to do this, so that when we scream that our record of internet history needs to be preserved, that Google actually has the *right* to sell/give away/transfer/maintain/whatever the whole collection? If Google didn't have the rights to the collection, we'd all be digging in our hard drives to reconstitute it.
If you look at those Ogg files, they claim to be like ~100MB. That seems insane to me. Last time I checked, I think an hour's worth of normal speech fit in ~10MB in MP3 format. What is up with Ogg? Who is going to download >100MB for 2 hours of speech?
AFAIK, every American car should at least nominally work perfectly on gasahol (this was like mandated or something). However, where are all the gasahol pumps? I think there are about 100 in the whole country (something like that).
I hope you don't hold your breath for diesel or gasahol...or any not-standard petroleum.
By the way, did you catch the quote from the President's chief of staff:
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was adamant Monday when asked whether the president would ask Americans to stop using so much energy.
"The president believes that it's an American way of life, that it should be the goal of policy-makers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one."
So stop being such a damn commie and join your other red-blooded Americans in handing your tax cut right over to the oil industry. We can't waste money on alternative clean sources of energy, we have a "blessed" way of conspicuous energy consumption to uphold!!
Ok, I still don't get it. What the hell is the "puzzle"? Is it really a physical jigsaw puzzle? Like with a picture? If so how exactly do you "translate the missing pieces into binary", and what sense does the puzzle page make?
Yes, perhaps I should read the whole damn story and explanation, but perhaps main Slashdot articles shouldn't require you to do so much work just to figure out what the heck is going on.
"If [proprietary sections] can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same [proprietary] sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the [GPLed] Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."
The question then is "does dynamically linking to GPL code automatically make the linking program a work based on that code". I can imagine a case where proprietary standalone tools were developed, each dynamically linking to the same GPLed library for some functions. These tools, or sections of proprietary code, could be "reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves". Why then is an application (which is nothing but a much larger "section" of proprietary code) automatically infringing on the GPL if it also links against a GPLed library? If *none* of the code within the application is a derivation of GPLed code, then isn't that an "independent and seperate work"?
Seems like there is still a grey area here.
Ok, now every slashdotter is going to turn 180 degrees and whale on RBL, I'm sure. "It's censorship! *Burn her*!"
I can stand RBL because, as Paul says, it does not (or claims not to) make a subjective judgement of the *content* of the spam. If it was unsolicited, it's spam. Whether somebody wants to give you money or send you a picture of the virgin mary with dung on her face, it's still spam. Secondly, at the bottom of the spam problem is that it is a denial of service, or at least degradation of service. It wastes bandwith, mail queues, and *my* time. That big sites, or innocent people, get hit once in a while is the price for an organic system like this. And I do consider it a more "organic" system than the typical censorware here-is-the-"thou-shalt-not"-list approach.
Yes it may be mean. But it's a necessary evil (oh, no I'm compromising my principles! put on my asbestos pants). If you think of the internet as an organic, ever-changing system, then you'll have to accept organic solutions that err once in a while, but most often get it right.
"Haven't you seen how much people make mods? Since the market is spammed with mods none can charge for their work."
The market is spammed with a lot of crappy mods that take a long time to download and never really reach a stable state. There are notable exceptions of course, but I would definately rather pay $10-20 dollars for a mod created by paid artists and game designers, than waste my time downloading and trying out mods off the web. $10-20 dollars is cheap as far as games go, but then they wouldn't be investing so much in R&D for the engine, which is extremely costly.
...thinks that renewable alternative sources of energy are not "practical" enough to seriously research and fund, but a fancifal multibillion dollar ballistic missile shield is...
ok, that's my political troll for the day...just thought it was ironic
* because there is less of a given resource per person *
The poster was saying that soda is an elastic resource. Unlike gold, or diamonds, if more people want soda, soda manufacturers can just make more.
Soda machines jacking prices up due to temperature has nothing to do with the scarcity of the resource. It's jacked up because it can be jacked up.
I sure wouldn't want to foot medical bills for ER doctors who operated under that premises. "Let's see, how much money do you have? Why, what a coincidence, that is *exactly* how much your emergency surgery costs!"
Also, more and more game development these days is artists creating art, architects designing maps, modelers creating realistic models, people writing plot and dialog, etc. E.g. Content is king. Nobody plays a crapola game just because it runs on the Unreal or Q3 engine. Just look at the popularity of games like Counter-Strike, and the high reviews of No One Lives Forever.
Game companies can concentrate on developing *content*. I think this *is* a pretty good fit. Anybody who has a cool idea for content for an engine (a "game") can get up and running cheaply. I think this will have the effect of producing more diversity and in the long run a healthier game market. I mean, really, how many Command and Conquer clones can you stand? Taking the burden of engine development of game houses might result in better (or at least original) games being made.
His argument is that hoarding ("protecting") IP is the only way to economic success. And he may be correct. There's no doubt that keeping your code proprietary and out of the eyes of others will make you more money when your product is the code itself. But who cares? Who is arguing against this? This is not an argument. This is a truism.
The discussion is at a more fundamental level - should people be allowed to monopolize ideas indefinately? He casually skirts this larger undercurrent by preemptively Fearing us with some blather about IP resulting in economic growth, IP making us rich and happy. *You* don't want to be the one to ruin the economy, *do you* hippy free code slacker? What's good for Microsoft is good for America.
Seeing as he was talking to a business school, it does make sense that he was saying that Open Source is not the way to make money (so, and helping old ladies accross the street all day isn't either). His arguments seem to stem from the assumption that making money is the ultimate test of human endeavor. Whereas the Free Software community has different values.
Man, do I those damn Scientologists. They just people and their money. What a total . If I ever get my hands on a Scientologist I swear I will until they are red with .
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...right on the heels of Open Source's unified shot back at Microsoft, we have evidence that in the Open Source world, even the *viruses/worms* are beneficial!:) What next, Open Source code that mows your lawn, increases your sex life, and automatically sends presents and cards to your friends and relatives on their birthdays?
Too funny...
But seriously...maybe this'll nudge those black-hatters to actually compete with each other to *fix* holes.
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"The balloon idea depended on the time of year: summer."
Don't forget, us Americans had some pretty cockamamie ideas too. For instance, taping explosives to bats...yes *BATS*...and sending them over to Japan. The idea was that since most Japanese buildings were made from light wood and paper, that we could burn them down easily.
"civilian deaths from a blockade would have been much higher than from the two atom bombs."
Except of course for the effects of radiation that we probably didn't anticipate (there wasn't enough time to bomb Native Americans in New Mexico over several generations to see the effects, oh well). So AFAIK we basically doomed several generations to all sorts of f*cked up genetic problems.
When Mozilla comes out, it really is going to have to be heads above everything else. Since it is not officially tied to a company trying to make a profit, it is going to have to include the "gutsy" features like per-domain cookie management, *ad blocking*, spam blocking, etc. Things that will heighten the user experience, possibly to the chagrin of those trying to commercialize the web.
But Mozilla is really more than a browser...it's a UI engine, and that should probably be exploited. If you look at the Windows XP interface (and the prototype "Odyssey" interface before it), it is (or at least appears to be) web-centric rendered markup language. Perhaps Mozilla could play a role in providing a similar UI for potential first time home users?
If you have a decent quality work chair, and adjust your seat correctly you can pretty much do away with the back pain (lower your chair so your legs are at 90 degrees...or even to the point that your knees are a bit above your hips...then lower your monitor, etc. accordingly).
My problem is with my hips. I'm always crossing my legs one way or another, resting my elbows on the arm rests, slouching this way or that. You have to do something other than sit directly on your ass all day. I guess the only solution is the get up frequently and stretch/move around, and to get some decent exercise outside of work.
BTW, you know that study that found that some given percentage of people that sat on long airplane trips would get embolisms, etc? Well, guess what else is very similar? Sitting on your butt all day in front of a computer.
...doesn't Google *need* to do this, so that when we scream that our record of internet history needs to be preserved, that Google actually has the *right* to sell/give away/transfer/maintain/whatever the whole collection? If Google didn't have the rights to the collection, we'd all be digging in our hard drives to reconstitute it.
If you look at those Ogg files, they claim to be like ~100MB. That seems insane to me. Last time I checked, I think an hour's worth of normal speech fit in ~10MB in MP3 format. What is up with Ogg? Who is going to download >100MB for 2 hours of speech?
AFAIK, every American car should at least nominally work perfectly on gasahol (this was like mandated or something). However, where are all the gasahol pumps? I think there are about 100 in the whole country (something like that).
I hope you don't hold your breath for diesel or gasahol...or any not-standard petroleum.
By the way, did you catch the quote from the President's chief of staff:
So stop being such a damn commie and join your other red-blooded Americans in handing your tax cut right over to the oil industry. We can't waste money on alternative clean sources of energy, we have a "blessed" way of conspicuous energy consumption to uphold!!
Ok, I still don't get it. What the hell is the "puzzle"? Is it really a physical jigsaw puzzle? Like with a picture? If so how exactly do you "translate the missing pieces into binary", and what sense does the puzzle page make?
Yes, perhaps I should read the whole damn story and explanation, but perhaps main Slashdot articles shouldn't require you to do so much work just to figure out what the heck is going on.
OMG, this was moderated down? This needs +5 Funny! Ha ha ha!
People can hear you when you talk on the phone!
"If [proprietary sections] can be reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. But when you distribute the same [proprietary] sections as part of a whole which is a work based on the [GPLed] Program, the distribution of the whole must be on the terms of this License, whose permissions for other licensees extend to the entire whole, and thus to each and every part regardless of who wrote it."
The question then is "does dynamically linking to GPL code automatically make the linking program a work based on that code". I can imagine a case where proprietary standalone tools were developed, each dynamically linking to the same GPLed library for some functions. These tools, or sections of proprietary code, could be "reasonably considered independent and separate works in themselves". Why then is an application (which is nothing but a much larger "section" of proprietary code) automatically infringing on the GPL if it also links against a GPLed library? If *none* of the code within the application is a derivation of GPLed code, then isn't that an "independent and seperate work"? Seems like there is still a grey area here.
Did you catch Frontline last night? No control is *way* worse than too much control.
Or perhaps IPv6 integrated into the current desktop OSes. Wait, isn't it already (Windows 2000, Linux, OS X)?
Holy Moses...do you see how many ads are in that screen shot?
Ok, fine, call me a socialist, please government, fund public internet access. Give out "internet access stamps" or something.
Ok, now every slashdotter is going to turn 180 degrees and whale on RBL, I'm sure. "It's censorship! *Burn her*!"
I can stand RBL because, as Paul says, it does not (or claims not to) make a subjective judgement of the *content* of the spam. If it was unsolicited, it's spam. Whether somebody wants to give you money or send you a picture of the virgin mary with dung on her face, it's still spam. Secondly, at the bottom of the spam problem is that it is a denial of service, or at least degradation of service. It wastes bandwith, mail queues, and *my* time. That big sites, or innocent people, get hit once in a while is the price for an organic system like this. And I do consider it a more "organic" system than the typical censorware here-is-the-"thou-shalt-not"-list approach.
Yes it may be mean. But it's a necessary evil (oh, no I'm compromising my principles! put on my asbestos pants). If you think of the internet as an organic, ever-changing system, then you'll have to accept organic solutions that err once in a while, but most often get it right.
"Haven't you seen how much people make mods? Since the market is spammed with mods none can charge for their work."
The market is spammed with a lot of crappy mods that take a long time to download and never really reach a stable state. There are notable exceptions of course, but I would definately rather pay $10-20 dollars for a mod created by paid artists and game designers, than waste my time downloading and trying out mods off the web. $10-20 dollars is cheap as far as games go, but then they wouldn't be investing so much in R&D for the engine, which is extremely costly.
"Believe me, you will have a completely different perspective on the world when you have kids and a family to support."
dana-carvey-doing-bush-sr: <wagging-finger>"Na' genna happen"</wagging-finger>
...thinks that renewable alternative sources of energy are not "practical" enough to seriously research and fund, but a fancifal multibillion dollar ballistic missile shield is...
ok, that's my political troll for the day...just thought it was ironic
"When demand increases, the price increases."
* because there is less of a given resource per person *
The poster was saying that soda is an elastic resource. Unlike gold, or diamonds, if more people want soda, soda manufacturers can just make more.
Soda machines jacking prices up due to temperature has nothing to do with the scarcity of the resource. It's jacked up because it can be jacked up.
I sure wouldn't want to foot medical bills for ER doctors who operated under that premises. "Let's see, how much money do you have? Why, what a coincidence, that is *exactly* how much your emergency surgery costs!"
Also, more and more game development these days is artists creating art, architects designing maps, modelers creating realistic models, people writing plot and dialog, etc. E.g. Content is king. Nobody plays a crapola game just because it runs on the Unreal or Q3 engine. Just look at the popularity of games like Counter-Strike, and the high reviews of No One Lives Forever.
Game companies can concentrate on developing *content*. I think this *is* a pretty good fit. Anybody who has a cool idea for content for an engine (a "game") can get up and running cheaply. I think this will have the effect of producing more diversity and in the long run a healthier game market. I mean, really, how many Command and Conquer clones can you stand? Taking the burden of engine development of game houses might result in better (or at least original) games being made.
His argument is that hoarding ("protecting") IP is the only way to economic success. And he may be correct. There's no doubt that keeping your code proprietary and out of the eyes of others will make you more money when your product is the code itself. But who cares? Who is arguing against this? This is not an argument. This is a truism.
The discussion is at a more fundamental level - should people be allowed to monopolize ideas indefinately? He casually skirts this larger undercurrent by preemptively Fearing us with some blather about IP resulting in economic growth, IP making us rich and happy. *You* don't want to be the one to ruin the economy, *do you* hippy free code slacker? What's good for Microsoft is good for America.
Seeing as he was talking to a business school, it does make sense that he was saying that Open Source is not the way to make money (so, and helping old ladies accross the street all day isn't either). His arguments seem to stem from the assumption that making money is the ultimate test of human endeavor. Whereas the Free Software community has different values.
yes this is rantish, i don't care
Man, do I those damn Scientologists. They just people and their money. What a total . If I ever get my hands on a Scientologist I swear I will until they are red with .
*----- This message has been sanitized for your protection by Scienositter -----*
um, yeah, this was a joke...
...right on the heels of Open Source's unified shot back at Microsoft, we have evidence that in the Open Source world, even the *viruses/worms* are beneficial! :) What next, Open Source code that mows your lawn, increases your sex life, and automatically sends presents and cards to your friends and relatives on their birthdays?
Too funny...
But seriously...maybe this'll nudge those black-hatters to actually compete with each other to *fix* holes.
What I want to see is the Bush administration funding Satanists to run soup kitchens and after school programs.