That is irrelevant to what I'm saying. The grapdparent seemed to imply that its OK to treat GPLed code as if it were public domain code, so long as you don't make money off it. That is simply not true. That is what I was responding to.
I don't know what the actual issue at hand is becuase the xchat.org server is a smoking pile now. If all they're doing is selling binaries and duly providing the complete sources, there's nothing wrong with that. (Redhat couldn't exist without this being allowed, for instance.) On the other hand, if he's including GPLed code and releasing code that is limited in anyway thats NOT ok.
If the people who contributed the code wanted you to use it without giving back what you build off it, they'd have put it under the BSD license instead. If people are giving you their code, you'd better play nice.
Hosting and transferring 1GB of mail costs a LOT more than keeping track of a few hundred bytes worth of contact lists, and relaying some IMs. A small percentage of 3rd part users is not likely to have a significant impact (or you can be sure Trillian would have been sued by now)
That is besides the point. The point is that WP has an extremely handy feature that Word doesn't. If thats fundamentally how it is, thats +1 point for ditching Word rather than waiting for "MS Office XP++ 2008 Extreme Edition"
I'll attest to that. I was in almost the same situation... 23 years old and never been on a date
At some point I decided to take the plunge into online dating and bought memberships at a website or two. Its not like things changed dramatically overnight, but I went from never having dated to having a date or two every month. Even though things didn't work out even a little bit with anyone for a long time, I felt like a lot less of a loser. Especially given that even if I got brushed off after a date, there were others I'd met mroe recently who "were in the pipeline"
I met several very nice (often also very attractive) women, chatted a while, decided to meet. It took me a while to even get a second date though, so take what the parent said about screw-ups and learning from them seriously. Most of the girls probably went from thinking of me as a "nice, fun guy" from chatting online to "nice but horribly socially inept" guy withing the first hour. After about a year of stumbling around I learnt to read signs, be just a little less awkward etc.
I think what the parents suggests about seeing a therapist might be a little too extreme unless you figure out there really is a problem that warrants professional help. For me, just keeping my eyes open helped go a long way. I learnt to pay attention to other people... those who are a lot more socially talented that I. Learn how to make small talk, know what topics to avoid with someone you've met 5 minutes ago, take notes from other peoples' sense of style. Don't copy them, but just observe and learn. I also made it a point to put myself in social situations that I used to avoid, talk to new people in bars/parties etc. (whether male or female).
I really do feel like a changed person over the past year that I decided to actively do something about it.
Well, time for me to go pick up a movie and bottle of wine and head over to my girlfriend's place:)
Amtrak isn't, but the USPS is. Well not in the same way that, say, the Department of Defense is, but its 100% owned by the federal government and its board of governors are appointed by the President.
This comes at no higher financial cost to society.
This is not strictly true. All ramps, elevators, extra parking spots, wider isles etc. don't come free or without costing extra resources for everyone.
That is not to say its a bad thing. As a civil society I think its is important for everyone to do that little bit to help the disadvantaged members. This is true of all forms of inequalities, not just able-bodied vs handicapped. For example, everyone pays a little bit to have public transport systems even in the suburbs, without which peuple who can't afford a car would be completely paralyzed.
Oh thats good. The guy commits a traffic violation, so of course he should be barred from flying. Silly me. Clearly, given his history of reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident, he is likely to be a threat to the flight and should be barred from flying.
Here's another one. If you're convicted of slander your rights to free speech should be taken away.
I don't know how to break this to you, but you're on Slashdot, so you're more than "wife of an uber geek"... you're a confirmed geek yourself. Welcome to the club.
a. For the rest of us, having our rights stripped away is more than something to be "a little annoyed" about. A fly buzzing around the room is something to be "a little annoyed" about.
b. You display precisely the kind of monomania that so many of us hate about the Republicans. "It doesn't matter that he stands for the opposite of what I believe in. He's a republican, I'm a republican so I'm going to vote for him"
The problem was that air was trapped under bubbles in the foam. When the engines were fired the temperature suddenly went from liquid oxygen temperatures to several thousand degrees, causing the trapped air to expand and blow the pieces of foam off explosively.
Thats how the foam was travelling at supersonic speeds relative to the shuttle.
Let me get a gun and shoot you in the chest. It only affects you--- the vulnerability of your chest to a high speed lead projectile is well known. I won't serve a life sentence simply because you didn't wear a kevlar vest!
If I leave my car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, in a bad neighborhood that might make me stupid, but that doesn't make the person who steals it any less of a criminal.
I leave my laptop in the lab... the door has a combination lock on it, and I'm sure my labmates won't steal it... but maybe the maintenance guy or janitor or just a random passerby who notices the door not quit shut sees a laptop lying unguarded for a few minutes and decides to take it.
I think that unless you're a complete idiot (eg. leave your laptop in the office overnight regularly) you're most likely to be a victime of a simple crime of opportunity like this. The cable will help prevent that. It won't be a lot of help against a preplanned and/or determined thief.
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You are thinking about the mikerowesoft.com case, where Mike Rowe responed to Microsoft's $11 offer and then they came down hard on him. That doesn't apply here, since katie.com was registered LONG before the book was published, so squatting is out of the question.
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So you trust Windows but won't trust the Firefox installer?
Well done! Welcome to my friends list :)
He wonders if Slashdot gives us an objective viewpoint. Hahaha.
That is irrelevant to what I'm saying. The grapdparent seemed to imply that its OK to treat GPLed code as if it were public domain code, so long as you don't make money off it. That is simply not true. That is what I was responding to.
I don't know what the actual issue at hand is becuase the xchat.org server is a smoking pile now. If all they're doing is selling binaries and duly providing the complete sources, there's nothing wrong with that. (Redhat couldn't exist without this being allowed, for instance.) On the other hand, if he's including GPLed code and releasing code that is limited in anyway thats NOT ok.
There's more to it than money.
If the people who contributed the code wanted you to use it without giving back what you build off it, they'd have put it under the BSD license instead. If people are giving you their code, you'd better play nice.
Hosting and transferring 1GB of mail costs a LOT more than keeping track of a few hundred bytes worth of contact lists, and relaying some IMs. A small percentage of 3rd part users is not likely to have a significant impact (or you can be sure Trillian would have been sued by now)
The idea, my humor impaired friend, is that most people don't announce new products and suggest that they are fit to be placed next to dinosaur bones.
That is besides the point. The point is that WP has an extremely handy feature that Word doesn't. If thats fundamentally how it is, thats +1 point for ditching Word rather than waiting for "MS Office XP++ 2008 Extreme Edition"
I'll attest to that. I was in almost the same situation... 23 years old and never been on a date
:)
At some point I decided to take the plunge into online dating and bought memberships at a website or two. Its not like things changed dramatically overnight, but I went from never having dated to having a date or two every month. Even though things didn't work out even a little bit with anyone for a long time, I felt like a lot less of a loser. Especially given that even if I got brushed off after a date, there were others I'd met mroe recently who "were in the pipeline"
I met several very nice (often also very attractive) women, chatted a while, decided to meet. It took me a while to even get a second date though, so take what the parent said about screw-ups and learning from them seriously. Most of the girls probably went from thinking of me as a "nice, fun guy" from chatting online to "nice but horribly socially inept" guy withing the first hour. After about a year of stumbling around I learnt to read signs, be just a little less awkward etc.
I think what the parents suggests about seeing a therapist might be a little too extreme unless you figure out there really is a problem that warrants professional help. For me, just keeping my eyes open helped go a long way. I learnt to pay attention to other people... those who are a lot more socially talented that I. Learn how to make small talk, know what topics to avoid with someone you've met 5 minutes ago, take notes from other peoples' sense of style. Don't copy them, but just observe and learn. I also made it a point to put myself in social situations that I used to avoid, talk to new people in bars/parties etc. (whether male or female).
I really do feel like a changed person over the past year that I decided to actively do something about it.
Well, time for me to go pick up a movie and bottle of wine and head over to my girlfriend's place
Amtrak isn't, but the USPS is. Well not in the same way that, say, the Department of Defense is, but its 100% owned by the federal government and its board of governors are appointed by the President.
This comes at no higher financial cost to society.
This is not strictly true. All ramps, elevators, extra parking spots, wider isles etc. don't come free or without costing extra resources for everyone.
That is not to say its a bad thing. As a civil society I think its is important for everyone to do that little bit to help the disadvantaged members. This is true of all forms of inequalities, not just able-bodied vs handicapped. For example, everyone pays a little bit to have public transport systems even in the suburbs, without which peuple who can't afford a car would be completely paralyzed.
Oh thats good. The guy commits a traffic violation, so of course he should be barred from flying. Silly me. Clearly, given his history of reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident, he is likely to be a threat to the flight and should be barred from flying.
Here's another one. If you're convicted of slander your rights to free speech should be taken away.
Because we all know that the Indian government has an infinite supply of money.
"As they should"???
This system is ostensibly a way of preventing terrorist attacks, not keeping "immoral" people off airplanes.
You got two +5 and one +3 out of what is essentially one post? You've taken karma whoring to a whole new level :)
I don't know how to break this to you, but you're on Slashdot, so you're more than "wife of an uber geek"... you're a confirmed geek yourself. Welcome to the club.
a. For the rest of us, having our rights stripped away is more than something to be "a little annoyed" about. A fly buzzing around the room is something to be "a little annoyed" about.
b. You display precisely the kind of monomania that so many of us hate about the Republicans. "It doesn't matter that he stands for the opposite of what I believe in. He's a republican, I'm a republican so I'm going to vote for him"
Thats right... the correct spelling is lusers.
You are probably a troll, but I'll bite.
The problem was that air was trapped under bubbles in the foam. When the engines were fired the temperature suddenly went from liquid oxygen temperatures to several thousand degrees, causing the trapped air to expand and blow the pieces of foam off explosively.
Thats how the foam was travelling at supersonic speeds relative to the shuttle.
Let me get a gun and shoot you in the chest. It only affects you--- the vulnerability of your chest to a high speed lead projectile is well known. I won't serve a life sentence simply because you didn't wear a kevlar vest!
If I leave my car unlocked with the keys in the ignition, in a bad neighborhood that might make me stupid, but that doesn't make the person who steals it any less of a criminal.
Bush can quote Kerry (and often does) in order to make a logical debate
I believe you mean Bush is allowed to. I'm convinced that man is incapable of logic
I leave my laptop in the lab... the door has a combination lock on it, and I'm sure my labmates won't steal it... but maybe the maintenance guy or janitor or just a random passerby who notices the door not quit shut sees a laptop lying unguarded for a few minutes and decides to take it.
I think that unless you're a complete idiot (eg. leave your laptop in the office overnight regularly) you're most likely to be a victime of a simple crime of opportunity like this. The cable will help prevent that. It won't be a lot of help against a preplanned and/or determined thief.
You are thinking about the mikerowesoft.com case, where Mike Rowe responed to Microsoft's $11 offer and then they came down hard on him. That doesn't apply here, since katie.com was registered LONG before the book was published, so squatting is out of the question.
That should be ^H not ^D
Whats so scary about that? Just move the mouse and it goes away?