You can set a watch on an article and receive a notification when anyone edits it. A lot of people who make major contributions tend to watch those articles.
supposedly a reliable encyclopedia Supposed by whom? Wikipedia is at best a starting point for information on anything of any importance. Fortunately most articles tend to cite their references, so you can go and check on facts relatively easily.
I do also notice that Wikipedia has a lot of entries for stuff that might not otherwise be considered important enough to be in an encyclopedia Why is that a problem?
You take out a loan and then "don't want to pay" because you don't like the terms which were known to you before you took the loan... but somehow the lenders are the crooks.
On what basis are you assuming that they're not going to give you a reduced interest rate if you consent to having this device installed? The extra security that this offers may allow the banks to offer credit to people they would otherwise have deemed too high a risk, or offer lower interest rates.
My personal reason was that when I first looked at Gnome and KDE, I got the impression that KDE was basically trying to ape windows... while there are compelling reasons to do that, part of my reason for switching to Linux was to get away from Windows so I chose Gnome... I've never heard a compelling reason to switch to KDE since then.
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Liberals even swear everything was their original idea !! Internet == Al Gore....
And today's "conservatives" seem to parrot what they hear without even knowing or understanding it. Al Gore never said that he "invented the internet".
I'm not saying they should have an open vote on the GPL clauses, but your argument doesn't necessarily make sense.
People could vote on what the clauses should be in principle (eg. patent licensing clause) and then professional lawyers could draft a coherent document that incorporates those principles. You could then potentially take another vote to ensure that the final document encompasses the ideas people approved.
It's your fault for putting on your software. That statement is not a part of the GPL itself, but is juat the boilerplate statement that is suggested for applying the GPL to your code. If you didn't want your users to be able to use future versions of the GPL without your approving it first, you shouldn't have included that statement. Instead, you could have taken a cue from the Linux kernel license and included a statement like this:
Also note that the only valid version of the GPL as far as the kernel
is concerned is _this_ particular version of the license (ie v2, not
v2.2 or v3.x or whatever), unless explicitly otherwise stated.
You completely missed the point of the article you linked to. The "World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics" is one of those academic "Conferences" that exist solely to make money. These conferences are a well known phenomenon used by organizers to make money on outrageous registration fees and by "attendees" to take vacations at their institute's expense. No reputable academic conference has such a thing as a "non-reviewed" paper. Even a cursory reading of the papers they submitted makes it obvious that it's random junk.
It's true that it's possible to sneak fabricated data past the peer-review process, but I think the damage is self-limiting in a way. If your results are significant, people will be interested in duplicating your results... either as a way of understanding them better or to compare against their own work. If nobody is able to duplicate your results, you are likely to have your fraud caught sooner or later.
If your results are not all that significant, it gets forgotten and nobody builds on your bad work so the scientific process itself isn't subverted although the dishonest researcher may have got an undeserved feather in his cap.
Because they trapped the rat on the second island? These are highly trained scientists, they can distinguish between a rat caught in a trap and bird poop.
0. Entries have a "short description" and "long description" attached to them that tell you what each setting does, what the valid values are and so on instead of just being some magical value.
GAIM works great for chat and IM, but things like file transfers are flaky at best. A lot of the "features" of the commercial clients are pure junk, but some like voice or video chat would be nice to have.
As for your upgrade problems... I don't know what distro you're using, but I'm using debian unstable, and have never, ever had any trouble.
Or they can just let you attempt as many downloads as you want in some timeframe. Lots of software vendors do that already. It doesn't just have to be a one shot download. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if they did something moronic like that.
The warranty is something extra on top of my consumer rights.
Exactly. The warranty is a contract between you and the manufacturer, which you assert to be valid even though there is no direct interaction between you and the manufacturer.
That's complete nonsense. If that were true, most warranties would be invalid because you buy products through a reseller not directly from the manufacturer.
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Heh
Slashdotters might still want to know about the book, say, to give as gifts or recommend to friends and family members.
There's no irony, you fucking commie bastard.
The correct spelling is Kansas Board of "Education"
The site loads fine, but I don't think much of her photography skills. All the photos are completely overexposed. They look completely white.
You can set a watch on an article and receive a notification when anyone edits it. A lot of people who make major contributions tend to watch those articles.
supposedly a reliable encyclopedia
Supposed by whom? Wikipedia is at best a starting point for information on anything of any importance. Fortunately most articles tend to cite their references, so you can go and check on facts relatively easily.
I do also notice that Wikipedia has a lot of entries for stuff that might not otherwise be considered important enough to be in an encyclopedia
Why is that a problem?
You take out a loan and then "don't want to pay" because you don't like the terms which were known to you before you took the loan... but somehow the lenders are the crooks.
On what basis are you assuming that they're not going to give you a reduced interest rate if you consent to having this device installed? The extra security that this offers may allow the banks to offer credit to people they would otherwise have deemed too high a risk, or offer lower interest rates.
It's taken decades of activity at a global scale to come to this point. No amount of focussed activity is giong to make a dent.
My personal reason was that when I first looked at Gnome and KDE, I got the impression that KDE was basically trying to ape windows... while there are compelling reasons to do that, part of my reason for switching to Linux was to get away from Windows so I chose Gnome... I've never heard a compelling reason to switch to KDE since then.
Liberals even swear everything was their original idea !! Internet == Al Gore....
n s/
And today's "conservatives" seem to parrot what they hear without even knowing or understanding it. Al Gore never said that he "invented the internet".
http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_10/wiggi
Some people are opportunistic enough to want to cash in on their son's death
Hard disks typically spin down with inactivity anyway.
I'm not saying they should have an open vote on the GPL clauses, but your argument doesn't necessarily make sense.
People could vote on what the clauses should be in principle (eg. patent licensing clause) and then professional lawyers could draft a coherent document that incorporates those principles. You could then potentially take another vote to ensure that the final document encompasses the ideas people approved.
You completely missed the point of the article you linked to. The "World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics" is one of those academic "Conferences" that exist solely to make money. These conferences are a well known phenomenon used by organizers to make money on outrageous registration fees and by "attendees" to take vacations at their institute's expense. No reputable academic conference has such a thing as a "non-reviewed" paper. Even a cursory reading of the papers they submitted makes it obvious that it's random junk.
It's true that it's possible to sneak fabricated data past the peer-review process, but I think the damage is self-limiting in a way. If your results are significant, people will be interested in duplicating your results... either as a way of understanding them better or to compare against their own work. If nobody is able to duplicate your results, you are likely to have your fraud caught sooner or later.
If your results are not all that significant, it gets forgotten and nobody builds on your bad work so the scientific process itself isn't subverted although the dishonest researcher may have got an undeserved feather in his cap.
Because they trapped the rat on the second island? These are highly trained scientists, they can distinguish between a rat caught in a trap and bird poop.
So a "fake print button" is one that actually prints rather than taking you to another page?
0. Entries have a "short description" and "long description" attached to them that tell you what each setting does, what the valid values are and so on instead of just being some magical value.
GAIM works great for chat and IM, but things like file transfers are flaky at best. A lot of the "features" of the commercial clients are pure junk, but some like voice or video chat would be nice to have.
As for your upgrade problems... I don't know what distro you're using, but I'm using debian unstable, and have never, ever had any trouble.
What's so hard to use about the GIMP UI?
Or they can just let you attempt as many downloads as you want in some timeframe. Lots of software vendors do that already. It doesn't just have to be a one shot download. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if they did something moronic like that.
The warranty is something extra on top of my consumer rights.
Exactly. The warranty is a contract between you and the manufacturer, which you assert to be valid even though there is no direct interaction between you and the manufacturer.
That's complete nonsense. If that were true, most warranties would be invalid because you buy products through a reseller not directly from the manufacturer.