there have been two things that have universally suffered: penmenship and spelling.
Skill at memorizing epics, writing cuniform and reading Latin and ancient Greek have also suffered. Funny: things people don't use and don't need to use tend to be skills that they aren't well-practiced at.
To learn a live language, no amount of flash cards will teach you, you need live people and live conversation. Otherwise all you can do is read and write.
It's not like most living languages are only spoken by illiterates...
Could someone tell me what the essential difference is between someone violating the license terms on a copyrighted work released under a GPL license, and someone violating the terms under which a CD is released by (for example) Sony?
I spent my money on the CD or DVD. Hundred-year old law says that CD or DVD is now _mine_ and I can lend it, rent it, or sell it. So why does the DVD tell me that's a violation of copyright law? Twenty year old law says I can make a rip of that CD for the car; why should I care that the CD producers don't like that law?
The GPL, on the other hand, doesn't tell me I can't do anything that that hundred-year old law permits me. It just gives me permission to do what that law forbids.
What will the situation be with older films? Many excellent movies are not available in a digitised form, and we may be at the mercy of the film studios as to when, if ever, they are re-released in a format that these projectors can play.
Honestly, I don't think I've ever been to a movie theater that wasn't showing the latest movies. I'm sure Rocky Horror Picture Show and Gone with the Wind and the few other old films that movie theaters actually play will turn up in digital formats.
For the old movie theater, or person with a private theater, no one is destroying the old projectors. I suspect you'll be able to get cheap new replacement parts for five or ten years, and cheap old or expensive new parts for the rest of the century; film isn't going to disappear in an instant.
but all this does is shift the pollution elsewhere.
Not exactly. A huge power plant is much more efficient than a smaller car engine, and has full-time engineers to keep it moving, rather than people who aren't concerned about the polution output (Oklahoma, and many other states, have no enforced emissions requirements) and can't afford to keep it running in top condition.
Why are people here up in arms when GPL code is stolen, but not when copyrighted music or movies are illegally downloaded or swapped?
When I give copies of music or movies to friends, it's because they'll enjoy it. It's done at my own expense and bother. Even when someone leaves stuff in their queue to be uploaded in some P2P program, they're still not making money off of it, and their motives are at worst apathetic.
If I want to share GPL code with my friends, I hand it to them, legally. The only people who are infringing on GPL code are those trying to make a buck off of someone else's labor. I think many of us aren't fans of the large Chinese pirate operations, either, where it's purely commerical.
It's ridiculous to send someone to jail for a long time for selling snake oil.
If you are a low class thief, and break into 7-11s or houses, you can get decades. Why should upscale thieves, who take the same money, get any less time?
Future games may have been tougher for blue if more restrictions were placed on it.
Future games would have been easier, too, since the bugs started to get worked out, and because the amount of computer power available to Deep Blue would keep going up.
the lack of copy-editing and fact checking--to name just two issues--makes blogging, at best, and outlet for editorializing.
And how do you know that they don't copy-edit and fact check?
I go to the Alva council meeting, write up what happened, have a friend look it over and post it to my blog.
My friend goes to the Alva council meeting, writes up what happens, have a coworker look it over, and prints it in the Alva Review-Courier. What's the fundamental difference?
If people looked at the intentions, as written, of the founding fathers, they would see that neither party is actually good for this country.
Why? I find it amazing that this mottly group of people who strongly disagreed on many points, many of whom were for slavery and held many other opinions that are unanimously decried nowdays, are held to have somehow been omniscient leaders who set up a perfect governemnt from the start if we would have only paid attention.
And neither the liberals or conservatives have a handle on reality.
Yeah, whatever. Calling your opponents nuts, that's a stunt you pull in debates when you have nothing better.
Do your research. Java's IEEE implementation is incomplete
Can the personal attacks. Whether or not Java's IEEE implementation is complete or offers the features you like, they still force all Java programs to use IEEE floating point.
By the same token, there's no reason why someone should have to employ me if he finds my politics odious.
Which means that to the extent that politics is seperated by money and power, those with money and power have the ability and right to crush their opponents. There's a reason why the voting boxes are secret, and avoiding that is a big part of it.
You can even discriminate on the basis of religion if you're clever about it.
You can kill a lot of people if you're clever about it. Doesn't mean it's legal or right.
It is possible the the library owns these copies of each image and you would need their permission to republish their copies of each image unless they clearly state otherwise.
Nope; copies of images in the public domain have no new copyright, so barring other factors, you don't need their permission.
in each case each archive owns their copy of the image so you can only use a copy of their copy under their terms and conditions.
They own the physical copy; they have no rights over copies of that copy, unless they make you sign a license before giving you access to their copies.
C# is a winner for these kinds of applications: it is far simpler and less error prone than C++,
For a community that still uses Fortran? I don't think that's their biggest concern.
Sun really screwed this up with Java: if they had taken the scientific and numerical communities seriously and added the necessary features to Java, Java could be the undisputed winner in this market.
Standard Java requires IEEE floating point, so Java programs run the same everywhere. A community that used Crays (which were renown for their lousy, but fast, floating point) doesn't want their programs to run everywhere with precise but slow mathematics; they want their programs to run on their hardware with the hardware floating point as fast as possible.
ultimately turned into a bloated web applications platform.
Isn't that what Java is? It sounds like you're asking Java to service an audience completely different from what it was designed for.
C# is a winner for these kinds of applications: it is far simpler and less error prone than C++,
For a community that still uses Fortran? Not my biggest concern.
I don't see either Java or C# offering the raw speed that the scientific community wants. Speed and predictability come first, not portability or security (scientific code never needs to run as root and frequently runs on computers disconnected from the internet.)
Korea should wonder? Asia goes all the way west to Iran, north to Siberia and south to Indonesia, including the itsybitsy country of India. Korea is just a tiny speck compared to greater Asia.
If we applied to what normal people do online (and then blame), what would you say if somebody cashed those "Loan Checks" sent in the mail? Most people know its a acceptance of a loan. Yet, common sense is thrown out the window on the net.
Why shouldn't we blame those people who send out the checks? The goal there is to prey on the stupid and unwary. "I put it all in the fine print" may be a defense to a fraud charge, but it's not a defense to a charge of being a sleezeball and scumbag.
No matter how stupid users are, these programs still have significant bad sides that are willfully hid from the user and made difficult to remove. That makes the creators sleezeballs and scumbags, and the program spyware.
I want to live in a world where I don't have to be paranoid all the time, and one step towards that is making clear that this type of crap isn't acceptable.
How about everybody being paitient and hold off for a "quality" review.
I think it more likely everyone will be patient and just ignore Solaris. People who care want to know now; for people who don't, this is probably the only thing they're going to hear about it.
From time to time in Canada Parliament sends a proposed bill to the Supreme Court to rule if it's constitutional before they vote on it.
Way back in history, George Washington sent such a bill to the US Supreme Court and they refused to rule on it until it became law. Bad precedent, IMO, but that's the way it is.
The difference between Us and John Gilmore? We're not millionaires who think bureaucracy should be spat upon at every step. Sure it sucks, but this is a persons job- show 'em some respect and they chill out (*'cept for the real jerks).
Rights are not just for nice guys. Rights are for everyone. The government shouldn't give random people jobs to harrass people and only let the nice ones travel.
They just searched her. And at BWI, we were so late for the plane, they didn't even search her.
So, if you're nice, no one even bothers to look twice at you. That's amazing high-quality security. Is the whole point of this is to randomly harass not-nice people, or protect people?
The compiler is the proper place for the optimisations, the processor should be left to do the actual processing.
The theory behind the highly-touted JIT optimizations for the JVM is that it's often better to optimize at run-time, when you know the data, then at compile time when you don't. And compilers don't usually have even the minimal knowledge the programmers have about which switches will be taken.
Intel's iAPX432 should have warned it about depending too much on the compiler. The iAPX432, the replacement for the 80286, was an intrepit chip of unique design that was sunk, in part, by a lack of compilers that could create compentent code for it. The benchmark compiler would always use the 700-cycle procedure call instead the cheaper, more specialized procedure calls available, for example.
And what happens when the underlying chip changes? You optimize for a Pentium in very different ways than for an i386 or a Pentium III, especially in the ordering that the Itanium wanted to shove to the compiler. If we wanted to recompile our code for every new chip, the x86 series would long be dead.
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some are just too stupid to begin with to waste much time on...
So why are you wasting their time in the classroom? Should we really have contempt for people less intelligent than us?
won't someone think of the children?!?
Yeah, you know, it's a classroom for children; someone should be thinking of the children there.
there have been two things that have universally suffered: penmenship and spelling.
Skill at memorizing epics, writing cuniform and reading Latin and ancient Greek have also suffered. Funny: things people don't use and don't need to use tend to be skills that they aren't well-practiced at.
To learn a live language, no amount of flash cards will teach you, you need live people and live conversation. Otherwise all you can do is read and write.
It's not like most living languages are only spoken by illiterates...
Could someone tell me what the essential difference is between someone violating the license terms on a copyrighted work released under a GPL license, and someone violating the terms under which a CD is released by (for example) Sony?
I spent my money on the CD or DVD. Hundred-year old law says that CD or DVD is now _mine_ and I can lend it, rent it, or sell it. So why does the DVD tell me that's a violation of copyright law? Twenty year old law says I can make a rip of that CD for the car; why should I care that the CD producers don't like that law?
The GPL, on the other hand, doesn't tell me I can't do anything that that hundred-year old law permits me. It just gives me permission to do what that law forbids.
What will the situation be with older films? Many excellent movies are not available in a digitised form, and we may be at the mercy of the film studios as to when, if ever, they are re-released in a format that these projectors can play.
Honestly, I don't think I've ever been to a movie theater that wasn't showing the latest movies. I'm sure Rocky Horror Picture Show and Gone with the Wind and the few other old films that movie theaters actually play will turn up in digital formats.
For the old movie theater, or person with a private theater, no one is destroying the old projectors. I suspect you'll be able to get cheap new replacement parts for five or ten years, and cheap old or expensive new parts for the rest of the century; film isn't going to disappear in an instant.
How, by offering us a horribly unfree license and lying and calling it Open Source?
Sorry, http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=142705 &cid=11958134 says it better.
but all this does is shift the pollution elsewhere.
Not exactly. A huge power plant is much more efficient than a smaller car engine, and has full-time engineers to keep it moving, rather than people who aren't concerned about the polution output (Oklahoma, and many other states, have no enforced emissions requirements) and can't afford to keep it running in top condition.
Why are people here up in arms when GPL code is stolen, but not when copyrighted music or movies are illegally downloaded or swapped?
When I give copies of music or movies to friends, it's because they'll enjoy it. It's done at my own expense and bother. Even when someone leaves stuff in their queue to be uploaded in some P2P program, they're still not making money off of it, and their motives are at worst apathetic.
If I want to share GPL code with my friends, I hand it to them, legally. The only people who are infringing on GPL code are those trying to make a buck off of someone else's labor. I think many of us aren't fans of the large Chinese pirate operations, either, where it's purely commerical.
It's ridiculous to send someone to jail for a long time for selling snake oil.
If you are a low class thief, and break into 7-11s or houses, you can get decades. Why should upscale thieves, who take the same money, get any less time?
Future games may have been tougher for blue if more restrictions were placed on it.
Future games would have been easier, too, since the bugs started to get worked out, and because the amount of computer power available to Deep Blue would keep going up.
the lack of copy-editing and fact checking--to name just two issues--makes blogging, at best, and outlet for editorializing.
And how do you know that they don't copy-edit and fact check?
I go to the Alva council meeting, write up what happened, have a friend look it over and post it to my blog.
My friend goes to the Alva council meeting, writes up what happens, have a coworker look it over, and prints it in the Alva Review-Courier. What's the fundamental difference?
If people looked at the intentions, as written, of the founding fathers, they would see that neither party is actually good for this country.
Why? I find it amazing that this mottly group of people who strongly disagreed on many points, many of whom were for slavery and held many other opinions that are unanimously decried nowdays, are held to have somehow been omniscient leaders who set up a perfect governemnt from the start if we would have only paid attention.
And neither the liberals or conservatives have a handle on reality.
Yeah, whatever. Calling your opponents nuts, that's a stunt you pull in debates when you have nothing better.
Do your research. Java's IEEE implementation is incomplete
Can the personal attacks. Whether or not Java's IEEE implementation is complete or offers the features you like, they still force all Java programs to use IEEE floating point.
By the same token, there's no reason why someone should have to employ me if he finds my politics odious.
Which means that to the extent that politics is seperated by money and power, those with money and power have the ability and right to crush their opponents. There's a reason why the voting boxes are secret, and avoiding that is a big part of it.
You can even discriminate on the basis of religion if you're clever about it.
You can kill a lot of people if you're clever about it. Doesn't mean it's legal or right.
It is possible the the library owns these copies of each image and you would need their permission to republish their copies of each image unless they clearly state otherwise.
Nope; copies of images in the public domain have no new copyright, so barring other factors, you don't need their permission.
in each case each archive owns their copy of the image so you can only use a copy of their copy under their terms and conditions.
They own the physical copy; they have no rights over copies of that copy, unless they make you sign a license before giving you access to their copies.
C# is a winner for these kinds of applications: it is far simpler and less error prone than C++,
For a community that still uses Fortran? I don't think that's their biggest concern.
Sun really screwed this up with Java: if they had taken the scientific and numerical communities seriously and added the necessary features to Java, Java could be the undisputed winner in this market.
Standard Java requires IEEE floating point, so Java programs run the same everywhere. A community that used Crays (which were renown for their lousy, but fast, floating point) doesn't want their programs to run everywhere with precise but slow mathematics; they want their programs to run on their hardware with the hardware floating point as fast as possible.
ultimately turned into a bloated web applications platform.
Isn't that what Java is? It sounds like you're asking Java to service an audience completely different from what it was designed for.
C# is a winner for these kinds of applications: it is far simpler and less error prone than C++,
For a community that still uses Fortran? Not my biggest concern.
I don't see either Java or C# offering the raw speed that the scientific community wants. Speed and predictability come first, not portability or security (scientific code never needs to run as root and frequently runs on computers disconnected from the internet.)
Korea should wonder? Asia goes all the way west to Iran, north to Siberia and south to Indonesia, including the itsybitsy country of India. Korea is just a tiny speck compared to greater Asia.
If we applied to what normal people do online (and then blame), what would you say if somebody cashed those "Loan Checks" sent in the mail? Most people know its a acceptance of a loan. Yet, common sense is thrown out the window on the net.
Why shouldn't we blame those people who send out the checks? The goal there is to prey on the stupid and unwary. "I put it all in the fine print" may be a defense to a fraud charge, but it's not a defense to a charge of being a sleezeball and scumbag.
No matter how stupid users are, these programs still have significant bad sides that are willfully hid from the user and made difficult to remove. That makes the creators sleezeballs and scumbags, and the program spyware.
I want to live in a world where I don't have to be paranoid all the time, and one step towards that is making clear that this type of crap isn't acceptable.
How about everybody being paitient and hold off for a "quality" review.
I think it more likely everyone will be patient and just ignore Solaris. People who care want to know now; for people who don't, this is probably the only thing they're going to hear about it.
From time to time in Canada Parliament sends a proposed bill to the Supreme Court to rule if it's constitutional before they vote on it.
Way back in history, George Washington sent such a bill to the US Supreme Court and they refused to rule on it until it became law. Bad precedent, IMO, but that's the way it is.
Family Guy is about 1 million per episode. I don't think that sci-fi shows are particularly more expensive than other shows...
Or rather, animation isn't particularly cheap either. Low budget shows are usually completely live action.
The difference between Us and John Gilmore? We're not millionaires who think bureaucracy should be spat upon at every step. Sure it sucks, but this is a persons job- show 'em some respect and they chill out (*'cept for the real jerks).
Rights are not just for nice guys. Rights are for everyone. The government shouldn't give random people jobs to harrass people and only let the nice ones travel.
They just searched her. And at BWI, we were so late for the plane, they didn't even search her.
So, if you're nice, no one even bothers to look twice at you. That's amazing high-quality security. Is the whole point of this is to randomly harass not-nice people, or protect people?
The compiler is the proper place for the optimisations, the processor should be left to do the actual processing.
The theory behind the highly-touted JIT optimizations for the JVM is that it's often better to optimize at run-time, when you know the data, then at compile time when you don't. And compilers don't usually have even the minimal knowledge the programmers have about which switches will be taken.
Intel's iAPX432 should have warned it about depending too much on the compiler. The iAPX432, the replacement for the 80286, was an intrepit chip of unique design that was sunk, in part, by a lack of compilers that could create compentent code for it. The benchmark compiler would always use the 700-cycle procedure call instead the cheaper, more specialized procedure calls available, for example.
And what happens when the underlying chip changes? You optimize for a Pentium in very different ways than for an i386 or a Pentium III, especially in the ordering that the Itanium wanted to shove to the compiler. If we wanted to recompile our code for every new chip, the x86 series would long be dead.
This only changes how it is displayed /after/ you type it in
But that makes spoofing xn--tdali-d8a8w.lv with xn--tdali-d3a8w.lv pretty easy.