Well, if someone has the same metadata embedded in their mp3 file, why would you care if they have two copies or one? And if it doesn't it's not identical, is it?
Problem with that is that our culture is gaining a sense of entitlement thanks to the "always connected" fad.
Ah, the 'always connected' fad. Is that like those indoor plumbing and pervasive electricity fads, in that people can accept them for a while, but get really frustrated the longer it goes on? Thought so.
I agree with much of what you're saying, but fads go out of fashion. I don't think being always connected will.
Liberty without condition is impossible if two people want opposing things. As my buddy said, "How is it freedom if I can't have a piece of property just because someone else is already using it?" The answer, of course, is, "How is it freedom for the other guy if you can just take it away?" That's an example where freedom and license (using the definition of latitude of action, especially in behavior or speech) diverge. Or put another way, "My right to swing my fist ends at the tip of your nose."
On that note, I'm not against GPL, in any form since it gives you more freedom than you would have under traditional copyright (generally, none beyond personal use), and retains full rights as chosen by the producer of the work. It's also less restrictive than most, if not all, end-user licenses. As a user, I'm ahead of the game. As a developer, I'm generally ahead, too.
On the other hand, I think it's a very poor license for certain types of work - utilities, reference code, etc. I believe the web would have taken a lot longer to take off, and would have been a lot more unstable, if the original TCP stack hadn't been BSD.
There's a value to more relaxed licenses in areas where you're trying to achieve ubiquity. And clearly, that's not what users of GPL licenses are trying to achieve. That's fine - freedom is about being able to make your choices, and not hamper others' choices. The only presumption in that application of the term 'freedom' is that you have no inherent right to do whatever you want with code someone else wrote.
The GPL license is free as in liberty. Developers who wish to base products on existing GPL software must agree to maintain the liberty of the derived software's users to use the software with the same liberties that the developer did.
If you associate the words "must agree" with the word "liberty," I think you have pretty jacked up definition of liberty.
If you believe that liberty has no conditions, such as equality, then you might be thinking of the word license.
Or it could just be typical social behaviour where people make fun of anything that is different. Given that the article you point to as a reason to hate him acknowledges that half of the stuff on there is just rumor mill fluff, I can only attribute it to one thing. Bullying on a global level. But I suppose the piles of cash give you something to wipe away the tears with.
I've noticed over the years that stuff I like isn't necessarily stuff everyone likes, and vice versa. People should just ignore the stuff they don't like, and enjoy stuff they do.
I have a list of music artists from all countries that I don't like. Michael Jackson, Kesha, Spice Girls, Justin Bieber, U2, among others. Some I don't like because of things they've done, some because I just don't like their music. That doesn't necessarily mean their music is bad, but different people like different things.
Besides, if you think there's something wierd with a young boy having a high pitched voice, you should check out the Vienna Boys Choir. Apparently, they have about 100 students per year.
Correction: The group in power always wins. Now ask yourself what proportion of federal elected officials are lawyers. This page says 54% of Senate and 36% of Congress (about 40% total). And who benefits if laws are complex? That's right, the lawyers.
This is kind of like letting the developer write the software documentation. Sure, it's correct, but 90% of the users will never be able to understand it.
This is almost, but not quite, as absurd as the $75 trillion lawsuit. Take just a few minutes and see if you can't think of a few ways this can be horribly abused. As a starting point, consider BP and the Gulf oil spill.
I think there's a joke in here somewhere. So Microsoft, Google, and the EFF walk into a courtroom...I think it ends with the judge dying from shock when they're all on the same side.
Interesting point. In North America, a house that is 100 years old is considered terribly old, and is devalued. In Europe and other parts of the world, houses and other large structures that are still in use were built centuries before. Why would you want to build a dwelling out of something that wouldn't last for centuries? Is there some indication that there will be fewer people in the future? Another great example is appliances. There's no reason a stove shouldn't last for 20 years - there are almost no moving parts and the elements are replaceable.
Then there are other things. If a CPU continues to function for 20 years, that might be too long. Not because it removes a sale, but because by that point you could buy something ridiculously more capable for a reasonable amount of money. OTOH, in certain situations, an expected lifespan of 20 years is mandated. Voyager comes to mind.
I really do think planned obsolescence is one of the evils of this world, and is primarily fueled by greed. Make things to last, and so they can be recycled when they fail, and the world will have smaller trash heaps.
The alternative is that you believe that your kid is just slightly above average and you don't want him held back to the level of the dumbest kid in his class, or that you think the current education system is crap (which is almost saying the same thing. And how many times do we hear that opinion stated on Slashdot?
Which I specifically stated. I also wouldn't classify Einstein as homeschooled. From what I read, he was in formal schooling most of his life, except for some extracurricular study in math, physics, and philosophy.
Because the last thing the world needs is a bunch of highly intelligent people using their skills to benefit mankind! </sarcasm>
And before you say something about the prize money, and it just being selfish desire, Intel didn't put up the reward because they didn't think it was worth it.
It could be argued that not being surrounded by under-supervised near-sociopaths until such an age as to not be a near-sociopath yourself isn't a bad thing. A number of famous people in many walks of life were home-schooled, including the likes of Thomas Edison. Here's a link of famous homeschooled people you might recognize. Granted, it's from a site promoting home schooling, but it still gives you plenty of names to google for further verification.
You could easily, and relatively cheaply accomodate a 10-foot shift in any direction. If you're getting more than that affecting a majority of your installations, well, then you have bigger problems. Like building immediately above a fault line.
Many places hit bedrock at 30 m or less. Soil liquefaction wouldn't be a problem. Unless major shifts occur, it's doubtful that there would be enough distance change to actually tear the cables. Especially if they actually account for a reasonable amount of shifting (put a zig zag section in the buried area near the reactor). After that, monitoring should take care of the rest. It's not like the long term plan is to bury them and forget them.
Moreover, a democracy is predicated on an informed, educated public. We've lost those for years in most countries and votes are bought with promises of bread and circuses.
In general, a well-run government of any type is better than a poorly-run government of any type. The big difference is, a poorly-run democracy takes longer for things to degrade than they do in a dictatorship.
And what do you do when there's no obvious connection between a certain act and it's consequence? How would you explain to someone about covering your mouth when you sneeze if you couldn't explain microbes and the germ theory? The common one is, "It's gross," which is a societal conformity response, much like what religions use to promote their edicts ("You'll go to hell!").
It's been known for a very long time that St. John's Wort has anti-depressant properties, rivaling modern pharmaceuticals. I guess they were fools to believe it too, since they had little means to determine why.
Don't take your great vision compared to people ages ago for granted. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, many of whom merely stood head and shoulders above their peers at the time.
Looks like a D-cell battery pack, like a MagLite body. I suppose that's easier than hooking into the car's power, or having to change batteries every day.
Shortly gone the way of kleenex. Maybe we should start making an effort to call all the windows in a windowing system (checkbox, textbox, window, etc.) by their more general name in hopes of genericizing that term, too.
It may lose some of its impact being used in that respect, but it still gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect from them. 'Them' being sociopaths as individuals and corporations.
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Well, if someone has the same metadata embedded in their mp3 file, why would you care if they have two copies or one? And if it doesn't it's not identical, is it?
Redundancy is for data availability. The data safety is just a handy side-effect. Data safety can be achieved by backups. You do those, right?
Problem with that is that our culture is gaining a sense of entitlement thanks to the "always connected" fad.
Ah, the 'always connected' fad. Is that like those indoor plumbing and pervasive electricity fads, in that people can accept them for a while, but get really frustrated the longer it goes on? Thought so.
I agree with much of what you're saying, but fads go out of fashion. I don't think being always connected will.
Liberty without condition is impossible if two people want opposing things. As my buddy said, "How is it freedom if I can't have a piece of property just because someone else is already using it?" The answer, of course, is, "How is it freedom for the other guy if you can just take it away?" That's an example where freedom and license (using the definition of latitude of action, especially in behavior or speech) diverge. Or put another way, "My right to swing my fist ends at the tip of your nose."
On that note, I'm not against GPL, in any form since it gives you more freedom than you would have under traditional copyright (generally, none beyond personal use), and retains full rights as chosen by the producer of the work. It's also less restrictive than most, if not all, end-user licenses. As a user, I'm ahead of the game. As a developer, I'm generally ahead, too.
On the other hand, I think it's a very poor license for certain types of work - utilities, reference code, etc. I believe the web would have taken a lot longer to take off, and would have been a lot more unstable, if the original TCP stack hadn't been BSD.
There's a value to more relaxed licenses in areas where you're trying to achieve ubiquity. And clearly, that's not what users of GPL licenses are trying to achieve. That's fine - freedom is about being able to make your choices, and not hamper others' choices. The only presumption in that application of the term 'freedom' is that you have no inherent right to do whatever you want with code someone else wrote.
If you associate the words "must agree" with the word "liberty," I think you have pretty jacked up definition of liberty.
If you believe that liberty has no conditions, such as equality, then you might be thinking of the word license.
Or it could just be typical social behaviour where people make fun of anything that is different. Given that the article you point to as a reason to hate him acknowledges that half of the stuff on there is just rumor mill fluff, I can only attribute it to one thing. Bullying on a global level. But I suppose the piles of cash give you something to wipe away the tears with.
I've noticed over the years that stuff I like isn't necessarily stuff everyone likes, and vice versa. People should just ignore the stuff they don't like, and enjoy stuff they do.
I have a list of music artists from all countries that I don't like. Michael Jackson, Kesha, Spice Girls, Justin Bieber, U2, among others. Some I don't like because of things they've done, some because I just don't like their music. That doesn't necessarily mean their music is bad, but different people like different things.
Besides, if you think there's something wierd with a young boy having a high pitched voice, you should check out the Vienna Boys Choir. Apparently, they have about 100 students per year.
Correction: The group in power always wins. Now ask yourself what proportion of federal elected officials are lawyers. This page says 54% of Senate and 36% of Congress (about 40% total). And who benefits if laws are complex? That's right, the lawyers.
This is kind of like letting the developer write the software documentation. Sure, it's correct, but 90% of the users will never be able to understand it.
This is almost, but not quite, as absurd as the $75 trillion lawsuit. Take just a few minutes and see if you can't think of a few ways this can be horribly abused. As a starting point, consider BP and the Gulf oil spill.
I think there's a joke in here somewhere. So Microsoft, Google, and the EFF walk into a courtroom...I think it ends with the judge dying from shock when they're all on the same side.
Interesting point. In North America, a house that is 100 years old is considered terribly old, and is devalued. In Europe and other parts of the world, houses and other large structures that are still in use were built centuries before. Why would you want to build a dwelling out of something that wouldn't last for centuries? Is there some indication that there will be fewer people in the future? Another great example is appliances. There's no reason a stove shouldn't last for 20 years - there are almost no moving parts and the elements are replaceable.
Then there are other things. If a CPU continues to function for 20 years, that might be too long. Not because it removes a sale, but because by that point you could buy something ridiculously more capable for a reasonable amount of money. OTOH, in certain situations, an expected lifespan of 20 years is mandated. Voyager comes to mind.
I really do think planned obsolescence is one of the evils of this world, and is primarily fueled by greed. Make things to last, and so they can be recycled when they fail, and the world will have smaller trash heaps.
The alternative is that you believe that your kid is just slightly above average and you don't want him held back to the level of the dumbest kid in his class, or that you think the current education system is crap (which is almost saying the same thing. And how many times do we hear that opinion stated on Slashdot?
Which I specifically stated. I also wouldn't classify Einstein as homeschooled. From what I read, he was in formal schooling most of his life, except for some extracurricular study in math, physics, and philosophy.
Because the last thing the world needs is a bunch of highly intelligent people using their skills to benefit mankind! </sarcasm>
And before you say something about the prize money, and it just being selfish desire, Intel didn't put up the reward because they didn't think it was worth it.
It could be argued that not being surrounded by under-supervised near-sociopaths until such an age as to not be a near-sociopath yourself isn't a bad thing. A number of famous people in many walks of life were home-schooled, including the likes of Thomas Edison. Here's a link of famous homeschooled people you might recognize. Granted, it's from a site promoting home schooling, but it still gives you plenty of names to google for further verification.
You could easily, and relatively cheaply accomodate a 10-foot shift in any direction. If you're getting more than that affecting a majority of your installations, well, then you have bigger problems. Like building immediately above a fault line.
Many places hit bedrock at 30 m or less. Soil liquefaction wouldn't be a problem. Unless major shifts occur, it's doubtful that there would be enough distance change to actually tear the cables. Especially if they actually account for a reasonable amount of shifting (put a zig zag section in the buried area near the reactor). After that, monitoring should take care of the rest. It's not like the long term plan is to bury them and forget them.
I ran 5 miles one day. The first mile was fine.
Given the premise, did I run 5 miles, or one?
Your pedantry needs work.
That's all fine and dandy, but considering that presumably, females of other species don't want them, either, why do they still exist there?
That's something of a presumption, given the fact that condoms can still be bought "ribbed for her pleasure".
Moreover, a democracy is predicated on an informed, educated public. We've lost those for years in most countries and votes are bought with promises of bread and circuses.
In general, a well-run government of any type is better than a poorly-run government of any type. The big difference is, a poorly-run democracy takes longer for things to degrade than they do in a dictatorship.
And what do you do when there's no obvious connection between a certain act and it's consequence? How would you explain to someone about covering your mouth when you sneeze if you couldn't explain microbes and the germ theory? The common one is, "It's gross," which is a societal conformity response, much like what religions use to promote their edicts ("You'll go to hell!").
It's been known for a very long time that St. John's Wort has anti-depressant properties, rivaling modern pharmaceuticals. I guess they were fools to believe it too, since they had little means to determine why.
Don't take your great vision compared to people ages ago for granted. We all stand on the shoulders of giants, many of whom merely stood head and shoulders above their peers at the time.
Meaning some people took it seriously and didn't have to suffer the admittedly uncommon negative consequences?
Looks like a D-cell battery pack, like a MagLite body. I suppose that's easier than hooking into the car's power, or having to change batteries every day.
I'm personally proud to see that my country is on the copyright watch list of a country with one of the most broken copyright laws in the world.
Shortly gone the way of kleenex. Maybe we should start making an effort to call all the windows in a windowing system (checkbox, textbox, window, etc.) by their more general name in hopes of genericizing that term, too.
It may lose some of its impact being used in that respect, but it still gives you a pretty good idea of what to expect from them. 'Them' being sociopaths as individuals and corporations.