Does anyone else feel this is a little bit like a professional baseball player showing up to pitch at a little league game? Sure, he gets a lot of outs, but what did you expect?
Other than Google Video and Youtube, the TED talks have one of the best video players on the web.. except that you can't full screen the video for some reason. I can't understand why you might not have thought this was a useful feature at the time when TED talks were first being put on the web, but surely you use Youtube and have noticed the utility of full screen playback.. add the feature.. I'm sure it's one line of code.
I've witnessed iTunes users' response to DRM causing their stuff to stop working. They don't blame Apple. They blame themselves. "Damn, I shouldn't have clicked 'manage my own music', that was dumb of me." Or whatever. The idea of blaming Apple for the travesty of DRM is not even a consideration.
You're like the 4th idiot who has replied to me and moaned about me saying the computing platform was primitive.
I was trying to say that. I was trying to say that all of science related to space and rockets and launch, etc, is primitive because it has been so suppressed.
I make this clear just a little further on in the thread, but Slashdot's thread system encourages people to not read the entire thread, so we get misunderstandings like this.
Well, of course, the proper response to your query is "it doesn't work like that" or "neither are a good metric" or something, but that's a big boring, so let's consider an empirical result.
liblink-grammar.so.4.3.5 is 616129 bytes. It is built from 23289 lines of code. So that's about 26.4 bytes of code per line.
So 128 MB of RAM can hold about 5,084,005 lines of code:)
Stephen Baxter wrote about tapping the water in the Moon in his novel Manifold Space. Apparently the notion of deep wells of water on the Moon has been seriously contemplated by astrophysicists since the early 70s.
For sure. Thing is, you could be distributing that software under the GPL. Perhaps you didn't write it.. someone else did and you're just using it. My grievance is that Trolltech and MySQL will demand a license fee from the person who did write it. They will claim that the software is commercial and that entitles them to a fee, when the GPL makes no such claim. They're not deliberately confusing commercial with proprietary, but they're not willing to make the distinction either, because it will result in less revenue.
Say I write myself an app to apply some tax rule.. I use the software in my job as a tax accountant. I'm charging my clients for my expertise and some of that expertise I have embedded into this software, which I don't distribute to anyone.
Say I use Qt to make the interface for this little app. Trolltech will tell you that I need to buy a commercial license from them.
If I was using MySQL, they would tell you the same thing.
They are both dead wrong according to the FSF, or just about any lawyer or layman on the planet, but because they get so many people to cough up for commercial licenses by threatening to sue, they are quite happy to fool themselves into believing that they have the right.
The fundamental difference is that the Stallman philosophy says that certain restrictions on software are immoral. As such, the GPL prohibits placing these restrictions on the software.
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You're one of the PC dickwads I was talking about.
Separation of foreground and background fields is a hard problem in computer vision research. And there's other kinds of captchas too.
Why is this so terrible to admit? It's obvious to everyone, yet all these PC jerks want to deny it.
No-one takes the Turing Test seriously anymore dude.
Spammers are cracking some of the hardest problems of AI research.
How can they do that, and yet all the great academic minds can't? Two things:
* funding
* a willingness to use "anything that works"
What's really scary is that, in the end, spamming may turn out to be an agent of good.
If Apple tried to sue, Woz would likely pay for your defense.
Does anyone else feel this is a little bit like a professional baseball player showing up to pitch at a little league game? Sure, he gets a lot of outs, but what did you expect?
Did you even read your own quote?
and that it is used in no other manner
That's the crux of it, right there.
Other than Google Video and Youtube, the TED talks have one of the best video players on the web.. except that you can't full screen the video for some reason. I can't understand why you might not have thought this was a useful feature at the time when TED talks were first being put on the web, but surely you use Youtube and have noticed the utility of full screen playback.. add the feature.. I'm sure it's one line of code.
WTF is the EPA for anyway?
Putting giant domes over Springfield.
I've witnessed iTunes users' response to DRM causing their stuff to stop working. They don't blame Apple. They blame themselves. "Damn, I shouldn't have clicked 'manage my own music', that was dumb of me." Or whatever. The idea of blaming Apple for the travesty of DRM is not even a consideration.
You're like the 4th idiot who has replied to me and moaned about me saying the computing platform was primitive.
I was trying to say that. I was trying to say that all of science related to space and rockets and launch, etc, is primitive because it has been so suppressed.
I make this clear just a little further on in the thread, but Slashdot's thread system encourages people to not read the entire thread, so we get misunderstandings like this.
Hehe, by today's standards. Compared to the entire future history of space technology, we're still in the primitive phase.
Umm.. not talking about software.. talking about space travel in general.
Neither the basic science, nor the applied science (aka engineering) is open.
The only reason any of us know the rocket equation is because it was invented before these laws were.
This is basically the reason why space technology is so primitive. The science has been stifled for years by government regulations.
Well, of course, the proper response to your query is "it doesn't work like that" or "neither are a good metric" or something, but that's a big boring, so let's consider an empirical result.
liblink-grammar.so.4.3.5 is 616129 bytes. It is built from 23289 lines of code. So that's about 26.4 bytes of code per line.So 128 MB of RAM can hold about 5,084,005 lines of code :)
Nope. VxWorks.
These questions and more answered in TFA.
Stephen Baxter wrote about tapping the water in the Moon in his novel Manifold Space. Apparently the notion of deep wells of water on the Moon has been seriously contemplated by astrophysicists since the early 70s.
For sure. Thing is, you could be distributing that software under the GPL. Perhaps you didn't write it.. someone else did and you're just using it. My grievance is that Trolltech and MySQL will demand a license fee from the person who did write it. They will claim that the software is commercial and that entitles them to a fee, when the GPL makes no such claim. They're not deliberately confusing commercial with proprietary, but they're not willing to make the distinction either, because it will result in less revenue.
"counting users" is not how GPL advocates measure "success". That's the point. That's why its so important to define your terms.
"commercial" doesn't mean "selling" either.
Say I write myself an app to apply some tax rule.. I use the software in my job as a tax accountant. I'm charging my clients for my expertise and some of that expertise I have embedded into this software, which I don't distribute to anyone.
Say I use Qt to make the interface for this little app. Trolltech will tell you that I need to buy a commercial license from them.
If I was using MySQL, they would tell you the same thing.
They are both dead wrong according to the FSF, or just about any lawyer or layman on the planet, but because they get so many people to cough up for commercial licenses by threatening to sue, they are quite happy to fool themselves into believing that they have the right.
People often confuse "commercial" with "proprietary".. including the good people at Trolltech.
Could you at least define "successful" before making such a huge claim?
The article is about people using words that are confusing and here you are doing just that.
Sheesh.
The fundamental difference is that the Stallman philosophy says that certain restrictions on software are immoral. As such, the GPL prohibits placing these restrictions on the software.
The BSD license doesn't.
That's it.