Ohhh.. I have a doomsday scenario. Let's say one of those dead dudes' brother - who cares nothing about computers and software - gets a phone call from a lawyer saying they need him to grant permission to change the license on his code in the linux kernel. He quickly calls his lawyer who gets in touch with Microsoft and sells the rights to that little bit of the linux kernel to Bill. Now Bill can say "nope, you can't upgrade to GPL v3." Linus has to get someone to strip out the code that Bill now has a claim to and anything that is a derivative work. They have to be really careful cause if Bill's lawyers do a code audit and find out that just a little bit of the code is still in the GPL v3 linux kernel Bill can use that little known clause of the GPL which allows to you prohibit people from further distributing your source code. Bill could actually revoke Linus' right to distribute the linux kernel!
Of course, then the linux hackers would just remove the last traces of the code Bill owns and release a legit GPL v3, but Bill could probably sue the shit out of them all anyways.
if you don't trust RMS then why the fuck are you using his license? Seriously. RMS is the pope of Free Software. When he says X is Free Software and Y isn't, that's it, end of discussion. So if you don't trust RMS, bugger off and use a BSD license or some other license.
Yeah, that's a pretty good idea! I was going to respond that there is no way I could find the paper in question but I think I did:) There's a number of other papers that cover the same sort of studies that are cited on that page too.
can we now have some innovation? I remember reading a scientific paper, around 1999, which showed that 90% of web browser users hate "history". They use the back button, hardly ever use the forward button and get annoyed as hell when they lose an entire "forward history" because they happened to click on a link after they went "back". Every browser on the planet (probably, maybe, probably not Opera, don't flame me) still has this annoying behaviour. The paper found that the best "history" was a pictorial one that actually showed the user when and how they got to a page with a thumbnail of that page as each node in the tree. That was pretty damn cool! Unfortunately I don't have it for FireFox or any of the many clones.
That's one aspect of a web browser, there's dozens more. I kinda feel like tabs are the last real innovation for web browsers. Kinda like cup holders in cinemas. Guess I should be greatful it didn't take 30 years.
yeah, actually that was stated in the very first press release from Ubuntu. They indend to make money from support services for Ubuntu and they encourage other companies to do the same.
I ment an end user tax on video games sold in stores. So when Mom and Pop go to the store to buy Billy a video game they have to pay a tax for the pleasure of having a G rating on the game they buy. Seeing as Mom and Pop are the ones demanding that games be rated as suitable for Billy to play, Mom and Pop should pay the tax which helps them make the informed decision what kind of games Billy is allowed to play.
Dude, how does the ISS not teach us about keeping astronauts' muscles from atrophying. I can't believe you can put "we already know how to live in space for a year at a time" and "keep astronauts' muscles from atophying" in the same sentence. Yes, we can live in space for a year, but after doing so we're crippled for months of intensive care. If you send astronauts on a one year trip to another planet what are you going to have them do when they get there? Die on the surface.
That sounds great. The reason I use the present tense is because it sounds almost word for word like the Ubuntu philosophy. Please, do check out Ubuntu. I think you'll like it.
I think what he was trying to say was, why would someone choose UserLinux over, say, Ubuntu, if there's no new work being put into it? I don't know anything about UserLinux but I thought I'd do my part to stop this conversation spiraling out of control. We all know you "do stuff" for Free Software, your antagoniser just wanted to know what you do for UserLinux.
heh, that's so funny. Ya know, maybe Sony just recognises that "busting people" isn't their business so they're using their money to fund the development of an "educational" program. It's not like our friend is having a very good time in the scene. He's gotten in too deep and now he's going down.
My original comment specifically said that game manufacturers should be able to submit their game to a review board which could hand out classifications for ratings other than 18+. I don't want to ban any games, I want all games to be 18+ and available on the shelf until such time as the manufacturer gets a lower rating.
We've spent more than a $100 billion trying to make fusion man. Much more. And guess what? We still havn't done it! Betting the farm on better propulsion systems is stupid. If we wanna put humans on mars we need to figure out how to do it using today's technology. That means, slow chemical rockets and micro-gravity.
Besides, say we did make a new propulsion system that could get us to Mars in a week without crushing the astronauts to death.. great, now how long will it takes us to get to Jupiter? Oh bother, we've still got all those problems with living in space.
You might as well hope for someone to invent artifical gravity.
I figured this out once, but you have to be a bit cynical to get it. First of all, this is only true for some types of women. Most women hate assholes. So who are these women who like assholes and why? Well, I believe they are women who drive men crazy. You described them as well-endowed.
If you're a perfectly normal guy who has ever happened to land himself a hot chick who usually dates assholes you probably know what I'm about to say. They expect and demand that you act like a prick. If you don't they dump you cause you're "not a man". But, surely you say, you havn't addressed why they date assholes in the first place?
Well, I think that comes down to women going after the "hot guy". It really doesn't matter if there are an equal number of nice hot guys as there are hot guys who are assholes. What matters is that women who can have any man they want tend to pick the most famboyant hot guy at some point. This guy might not even be an asshole, but at some point he comes to realize that no matter how he treats his woman he can get away with it cause he's hot. The hot girl doesn't want to leave him because what if her next boyfriend isn't as hot? How will that look to her friends? So she sticks with him no matter how bad he treats her, thus estabilishing in her mind what a "real man" is.
Of course, that's coming from the perspective that the hot chick wasn't predisposed to assholes in the first place. If she had an asshole father, then obviously she will seek out a man who is also an asshole -- that's just basic psychology. But there's more than one path to hot women becoming obsessed with dating assholes.. and frankly, I don't know what you can do to fix it (maybe act like an asshole, get the hot chick and then wien her off her obsession, but don't try to go too fast or she'll dump you for not being "a man".)
I have a better theory. If you're in pain your body starts synthesising drugs to reduce your pain. The fact that the body isn't producing enough of these drugs is caused by a lack of feedback at a chemical inhibitory level. So your doctor gives you morphine. Now your body and stop synthesising pain releaving drugs and redirect its energies elsewhere. Now you take the morphine away. The pain receptors start screaming bloody murder which wakes up the inhibitory pathways and results in massive drug production.
Man, I can't even believe we're arguing here. The government wants to ban lude and "unacceptable" conduct in video games because they're "just for kids" and you're defending them. Games are not just for kids. Adults play video games and we should be able to get adult content in them. I don't want my choise of video games to consist of Mario and Spiro The Dragon, ok?
Maybe you should actually read what I wrote before replying. I said, games which are rated for children should be available. Games that are not rated (at all) should also be available -- to people over the age of 18. Parents are obviously free to allow their children to play any game they see fit -- even if it is unrated -- but children cannot buy these games.
I think that's simple and straight forward, but your government (and mine even more so) do not understand that because they think of games as being solely for children. Here in Australia we don't even have an 18+ rating for games. We also don't allow unrated games on the shelves. The result is that the vast majority of people who play games (which, as I said, is mostly over the age of 18) are saddled with kiddie junk. The few companies that actually try to make games for adults have their games effectively banned from my country (as they are refused a classification and unrated games are banned from the shelves). So think yourself lucky that you have any adult rated games there at all.
Let's make every game 18+ by default. Then let's set up a classification board, staffed by people who actually know how to play a game, that you have to go to if you want a game which is rated for younger audiences. Then let's change this mantra of the protectorate which I hear all the time: games are for kids. Games are not for kids. Surveys have shown that the vast majority of gamers are over 18 years of age. The fact that games contain elements which are distasteful in ordinary society is no big surprise when you stop thinking about games as entertainment for kids and start thinking about them as an escape from reality for adults.
Just in case you actually care. The reason spinning space stations don't work is called coriolis acceleration. Basically spinning results in horizontal as well as vertical acceleration. The vertical is what you want. The horizonal is what disorients and makes astronauts sick. Now, if you happen to have a really really big wheel you can reduce the effects of coriolis acceleration but yeah, you need all that mass. One solution to this is to use a tether and spin a small station around a very very long axis (like kms). That's great an all but 1) it doesn't work in low earth orbit and 2) if the tether breaks you've got a nice uncontrollable projectile there. Then there's the actual problem of getting it spinning in the first place.
You seem to forget the russians who take space habitats very seriously. They've done dozens of experiments with spinning habitats and yet they've never chosen such a design for a perminate space station? That seems kinda illogical for our russian friends doesn't it? Unless, of course, that all those experiments led them to believe that spinning habitats just aint as useful as the science fiction would have us believe.
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Of course, then the linux hackers would just remove the last traces of the code Bill owns and release a legit GPL v3, but Bill could probably sue the shit out of them all anyways.
if you don't trust RMS then why the fuck are you using his license? Seriously. RMS is the pope of Free Software. When he says X is Free Software and Y isn't, that's it, end of discussion. So if you don't trust RMS, bugger off and use a BSD license or some other license.
Presumably the reason why people in the UK are downloading the most TV shows is because the shows that are on the BBC are no good.
Yeah, that's a pretty good idea! I was going to respond that there is no way I could find the paper in question but I think I did :) There's a number of other papers that cover the same sort of studies that are cited on that page too.
That's one aspect of a web browser, there's dozens more. I kinda feel like tabs are the last real innovation for web browsers. Kinda like cup holders in cinemas. Guess I should be greatful it didn't take 30 years.
yeah, actually that was stated in the very first press release from Ubuntu. They indend to make money from support services for Ubuntu and they encourage other companies to do the same.
I ment an end user tax on video games sold in stores. So when Mom and Pop go to the store to buy Billy a video game they have to pay a tax for the pleasure of having a G rating on the game they buy. Seeing as Mom and Pop are the ones demanding that games be rated as suitable for Billy to play, Mom and Pop should pay the tax which helps them make the informed decision what kind of games Billy is allowed to play.
Ya know, I never said anything about fees. There should be a tax on games to pay for the board.
Dude, how does the ISS not teach us about keeping astronauts' muscles from atrophying. I can't believe you can put "we already know how to live in space for a year at a time" and "keep astronauts' muscles from atophying" in the same sentence. Yes, we can live in space for a year, but after doing so we're crippled for months of intensive care. If you send astronauts on a one year trip to another planet what are you going to have them do when they get there? Die on the surface.
That sounds great. The reason I use the present tense is because it sounds almost word for word like the Ubuntu philosophy. Please, do check out Ubuntu. I think you'll like it.
Wow. Let the children get their parent's permission to buy a linux distribution. Who cares.
I think what he was trying to say was, why would someone choose UserLinux over, say, Ubuntu, if there's no new work being put into it? I don't know anything about UserLinux but I thought I'd do my part to stop this conversation spiraling out of control. We all know you "do stuff" for Free Software, your antagoniser just wanted to know what you do for UserLinux.
Does Mepis actually contribute back to the community?
if he's an actor then who's paying him?
heh, that's so funny. Ya know, maybe Sony just recognises that "busting people" isn't their business so they're using their money to fund the development of an "educational" program. It's not like our friend is having a very good time in the scene. He's gotten in too deep and now he's going down.
Why does debian-stable even have to exist? Let Ubuntu and the other distributions based on debian do your stablising.
My original comment specifically said that game manufacturers should be able to submit their game to a review board which could hand out classifications for ratings other than 18+. I don't want to ban any games, I want all games to be 18+ and available on the shelf until such time as the manufacturer gets a lower rating.
Besides, say we did make a new propulsion system that could get us to Mars in a week without crushing the astronauts to death.. great, now how long will it takes us to get to Jupiter? Oh bother, we've still got all those problems with living in space.
You might as well hope for someone to invent artifical gravity.
If you're a perfectly normal guy who has ever happened to land himself a hot chick who usually dates assholes you probably know what I'm about to say. They expect and demand that you act like a prick. If you don't they dump you cause you're "not a man". But, surely you say, you havn't addressed why they date assholes in the first place?
Well, I think that comes down to women going after the "hot guy". It really doesn't matter if there are an equal number of nice hot guys as there are hot guys who are assholes. What matters is that women who can have any man they want tend to pick the most famboyant hot guy at some point. This guy might not even be an asshole, but at some point he comes to realize that no matter how he treats his woman he can get away with it cause he's hot. The hot girl doesn't want to leave him because what if her next boyfriend isn't as hot? How will that look to her friends? So she sticks with him no matter how bad he treats her, thus estabilishing in her mind what a "real man" is.
Of course, that's coming from the perspective that the hot chick wasn't predisposed to assholes in the first place. If she had an asshole father, then obviously she will seek out a man who is also an asshole -- that's just basic psychology. But there's more than one path to hot women becoming obsessed with dating assholes.. and frankly, I don't know what you can do to fix it (maybe act like an asshole, get the hot chick and then wien her off her obsession, but don't try to go too fast or she'll dump you for not being "a man".)
I have a better theory. If you're in pain your body starts synthesising drugs to reduce your pain. The fact that the body isn't producing enough of these drugs is caused by a lack of feedback at a chemical inhibitory level. So your doctor gives you morphine. Now your body and stop synthesising pain releaving drugs and redirect its energies elsewhere. Now you take the morphine away. The pain receptors start screaming bloody murder which wakes up the inhibitory pathways and results in massive drug production.
Man, I can't even believe we're arguing here. The government wants to ban lude and "unacceptable" conduct in video games because they're "just for kids" and you're defending them. Games are not just for kids. Adults play video games and we should be able to get adult content in them. I don't want my choise of video games to consist of Mario and Spiro The Dragon, ok?
I think that's simple and straight forward, but your government (and mine even more so) do not understand that because they think of games as being solely for children. Here in Australia we don't even have an 18+ rating for games. We also don't allow unrated games on the shelves. The result is that the vast majority of people who play games (which, as I said, is mostly over the age of 18) are saddled with kiddie junk. The few companies that actually try to make games for adults have their games effectively banned from my country (as they are refused a classification and unrated games are banned from the shelves). So think yourself lucky that you have any adult rated games there at all.
Let's make every game 18+ by default. Then let's set up a classification board, staffed by people who actually know how to play a game, that you have to go to if you want a game which is rated for younger audiences. Then let's change this mantra of the protectorate which I hear all the time: games are for kids. Games are not for kids. Surveys have shown that the vast majority of gamers are over 18 years of age. The fact that games contain elements which are distasteful in ordinary society is no big surprise when you stop thinking about games as entertainment for kids and start thinking about them as an escape from reality for adults.
Just in case you actually care. The reason spinning space stations don't work is called coriolis acceleration. Basically spinning results in horizontal as well as vertical acceleration. The vertical is what you want. The horizonal is what disorients and makes astronauts sick. Now, if you happen to have a really really big wheel you can reduce the effects of coriolis acceleration but yeah, you need all that mass. One solution to this is to use a tether and spin a small station around a very very long axis (like kms). That's great an all but 1) it doesn't work in low earth orbit and 2) if the tether breaks you've got a nice uncontrollable projectile there. Then there's the actual problem of getting it spinning in the first place.
You seem to forget the russians who take space habitats very seriously. They've done dozens of experiments with spinning habitats and yet they've never chosen such a design for a perminate space station? That seems kinda illogical for our russian friends doesn't it? Unless, of course, that all those experiments led them to believe that spinning habitats just aint as useful as the science fiction would have us believe.