I'll take a Shuttleworth against a Jobs anytime. May he stay on the path of Open Source. Maybe being fork-happy is not the best way to go, but as long as it stays open source, I'll show him some love, even if he fails. And I say that as a ubuntu user and hater.
The carbon footprint of the fuel transport or of the bus construction is smaller than its average consumption, especially when divided by number of people transported and number of kilometers driven.
It should not be suprising that we release more CO2 than a bus for a simlar distance : humans are not optimized to minimize the CO2 they emit while bus are, to some extent.
Yet, the ecological problem about CO2 coming from fuel is its fossil origin. Human breathing is included in a cycle. CO2 gets absorbed by plants, eaten by humans, which emit CO2. Fuel is made of CO2 captured long ago and come additionally in this cycle.
Yet, too many ecologists lose the sight of that notion and believe that no matter what, CO2 is a poison. Under this assumption, taxing bicycles more than buses make sense. this is why more than CO2 emission, I wish we were taxing fossil fuels.
The Nobel price is not about the money, it is about the reputation the reputation is from the Nobel committee. They will have to assemble a well-functioning one, otherwise it is no more than a set of private grants.
In theory you can't, but that is a common complaint of lawyers here that it actually opens quite frequently that suspects get a lower sentence if there is doubt about their culpability. In theory, if the punishment is 10 years in jail, either there is doubt and the suspect is released, or there is proof and the suspect is jailed for 10 years. Currently, the more doubt there is, the lowest will the jail time be.
You are right that this is not how it is supposed to work.
That's even more stupid than that. By refusing to put a licence, they get the default package : proprietary software. The closest they can say to "fuck licences!" is to put their work in the public domain. It requires one line in the header ("Herd Derp puts this work in the public domain as of 2013") but not putting licences to protest them shows a lack of understanding of the issue.
My understanding is that no one sets prices : Antigua has to use these copyrights to get $21 millions. If they do so by selling album and DVDs for 1 cent per download, it is fair.
Yep, and notice how Anonymous never tried to deny anyone's free speech. They took down websites as a way of protesting, but no one ever claimed that it was to stop the spread of an information. The mean is the same, but the goal is very different.
Do you think that an illegal action can never be appropriate? I certainly don't see Anonymous as a monolithic group and approve some of their operations (like attacks against Visa during the wikileaks scandal) and would have even approved them if they used even more illegal means. I approved of Telecomix breaking the Syrian laws by helping people create anonymous connections. I approve Tor that helps circumvent some Chinese censor laws.
We don't approve a group because of its method, but because of its goals. We may withdraw support for too extreme methods, but usually, the method is a mean to an end. The end is what makes you support them or not.
Well I don't see where is the problem in supporting a given group A and not supporting another group B with other goals and similar methods. I don't think that DDOS is a mean that automatically makes its user right, no more that I believe that everyone using an AK-47 is automatically in the wrong or in the right.
The technical solution is like a patch, but the problem is to be solved through the legal or political process. A battle of ideas is ongoing in Egypt. Yes, she should at least complain, and then complain about her ignored complaints.
There is no double standard : very few people support DDOSes as a legitimate way of protesting. However, many protest that it is punished more harshly than, say, vandalism inside a shop you disagree with.
Use something like http://ruhoh.com/ for your blog : have all your content in an easy-to-mirror git database. Host a backup in github, have friends with backups.
There is probably a legal solution too, after all, we do complain that this kind of moves are considered like high-level terrorist intrusions. I still find the punishments disproportionate, but they do exist, use the legal process.
Well it IS actually insightful : Apple, fortunately, doesn't rule a country, but his process in approving contents for iPhones is pretty much the same : opaque and arbitrary, depending on hidden agenda and personal preferences. They used to push for no flash, no VoIP, no pornography. They allow themselves to forbid a standard, a technology, or a type of content. Their rejections come with minimal comment.
There is actually little proof that evolution favors smarter individuals. One hominind, on the Savanah plains, used this path with success but several other animals didn't when they could. Being able to withstand 10 less degrees of temperature may have been a better adaptation than 10 more IQ points.
Neanderthals' brains were probably larger than ours. It doesn't guarantee a higher intelligence, but this is an interesting datum.
Actually, Turkey used to be an exemplary country when it comes to separation of religion and politics. It was enforced by the army, held as a crucial value by Ataturk, the founder of the country. The rise of islamists is recent, they managed to neutralize the role of the army and are now turning Turkey more into a middle-eastern country than into a european one.
Well, I may be a bit alone here, but I do see this as a good thing. It makes petitions harder to complete but less legitimate to dismiss. 100,000 persons begins to be a significant demographic group. At one million, we get closer to a percent of the US voting population.
At this level, it will be worth pointing out that in Switzerland, it is mandatory to make a referendum when a petition reaches such a level of support (50,000 signatures, apx 1% of the poppulation). Dismissing such a petition would be far less acceptable.
Join our guild "Grumpy Old Men", we hang out at this level called "Real Life". Some of us refuse to have credit cards or cell phone (even non-smart ones).
A comment on the 4. : Nouveau can do OpenCL. You may be thinking about CUDA maybe? The situation seems less clear on this one.
I am curious about what you mean by "feature complete 2d and 3d rendering", obviously the main problem with the nouveau driver is that all the features are not available yet. I feel I am missing a point.
Didn't you get the memo? A totally hostile regime armed with nukes and ICBM capabilities that we cannot attack because it holds Seoul hostage of its artillery must be mocked as often as possible in the media.
Forget Iran, forget Syria. North Korea is a Damn Serious threat that will be very difficult to solve.
Well, I can't help but feel for the people who are on the field, fighting the conspiracy theories and learning one day that one of these crazy conspiracies was actually right. The CIA through its fake operation gave ammo to opponents to vaccination. This was a totally predictable outcome and a very bad thing to do. Was getting Bin Laden worth the delaying on the extermination of polio? I personally think that this is fucked up priorities.
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I'll take a Shuttleworth against a Jobs anytime. May he stay on the path of Open Source. Maybe being fork-happy is not the best way to go, but as long as it stays open source, I'll show him some love, even if he fails. And I say that as a ubuntu user and hater.
The carbon footprint of the fuel transport or of the bus construction is smaller than its average consumption, especially when divided by number of people transported and number of kilometers driven.
It should not be suprising that we release more CO2 than a bus for a simlar distance : humans are not optimized to minimize the CO2 they emit while bus are, to some extent.
Yet, the ecological problem about CO2 coming from fuel is its fossil origin. Human breathing is included in a cycle. CO2 gets absorbed by plants, eaten by humans, which emit CO2. Fuel is made of CO2 captured long ago and come additionally in this cycle.
Yet, too many ecologists lose the sight of that notion and believe that no matter what, CO2 is a poison. Under this assumption, taxing bicycles more than buses make sense. this is why more than CO2 emission, I wish we were taxing fossil fuels.
The Nobel price is not about the money, it is about the reputation the reputation is from the Nobel committee. They will have to assemble a well-functioning one, otherwise it is no more than a set of private grants.
Cut down on defense programs, raise civilian programs budget.
But yes, you are right, cutting down military budget is not really an option in US...
Here is an hint : funding a better diplomacy can allow to save military funds. Rely on strong alliances on things you are not very good at.
In theory you can't, but that is a common complaint of lawyers here that it actually opens quite frequently that suspects get a lower sentence if there is doubt about their culpability. In theory, if the punishment is 10 years in jail, either there is doubt and the suspect is released, or there is proof and the suspect is jailed for 10 years. Currently, the more doubt there is, the lowest will the jail time be.
You are right that this is not how it is supposed to work.
The difference being that the majority of voters are apparently ok with that.
That's even more stupid than that. By refusing to put a licence, they get the default package : proprietary software. The closest they can say to "fuck licences!" is to put their work in the public domain. It requires one line in the header ("Herd Derp puts this work in the public domain as of 2013") but not putting licences to protest them shows a lack of understanding of the issue.
My understanding is that no one sets prices : Antigua has to use these copyrights to get $21 millions. If they do so by selling album and DVDs for 1 cent per download, it is fair.
Yep, and notice how Anonymous never tried to deny anyone's free speech. They took down websites as a way of protesting, but no one ever claimed that it was to stop the spread of an information. The mean is the same, but the goal is very different.
Do you think that an illegal action can never be appropriate? I certainly don't see Anonymous as a monolithic group and approve some of their operations (like attacks against Visa during the wikileaks scandal) and would have even approved them if they used even more illegal means. I approved of Telecomix breaking the Syrian laws by helping people create anonymous connections. I approve Tor that helps circumvent some Chinese censor laws.
We don't approve a group because of its method, but because of its goals. We may withdraw support for too extreme methods, but usually, the method is a mean to an end. The end is what makes you support them or not.
Well I don't see where is the problem in supporting a given group A and not supporting another group B with other goals and similar methods. I don't think that DDOS is a mean that automatically makes its user right, no more that I believe that everyone using an AK-47 is automatically in the wrong or in the right.
The technical solution is like a patch, but the problem is to be solved through the legal or political process. A battle of ideas is ongoing in Egypt. Yes, she should at least complain, and then complain about her ignored complaints.
There is no double standard : very few people support DDOSes as a legitimate way of protesting. However, many protest that it is punished more harshly than, say, vandalism inside a shop you disagree with.
Use something like http://ruhoh.com/ for your blog : have all your content in an easy-to-mirror git database. Host a backup in github, have friends with backups.
There is probably a legal solution too, after all, we do complain that this kind of moves are considered like high-level terrorist intrusions. I still find the punishments disproportionate, but they do exist, use the legal process.
Well it IS actually insightful : Apple, fortunately, doesn't rule a country, but his process in approving contents for iPhones is pretty much the same : opaque and arbitrary, depending on hidden agenda and personal preferences. They used to push for no flash, no VoIP, no pornography. They allow themselves to forbid a standard, a technology, or a type of content. Their rejections come with minimal comment.
No, really, the parallels are striking.
There is actually little proof that evolution favors smarter individuals. One hominind, on the Savanah plains, used this path with success but several other animals didn't when they could. Being able to withstand 10 less degrees of temperature may have been a better adaptation than 10 more IQ points.
Neanderthals' brains were probably larger than ours. It doesn't guarantee a higher intelligence, but this is an interesting datum.
Actually, Turkey used to be an exemplary country when it comes to separation of religion and politics. It was enforced by the army, held as a crucial value by Ataturk, the founder of the country. The rise of islamists is recent, they managed to neutralize the role of the army and are now turning Turkey more into a middle-eastern country than into a european one.
Well, I may be a bit alone here, but I do see this as a good thing. It makes petitions harder to complete but less legitimate to dismiss. 100,000 persons begins to be a significant demographic group. At one million, we get closer to a percent of the US voting population.
At this level, it will be worth pointing out that in Switzerland, it is mandatory to make a referendum when a petition reaches such a level of support (50,000 signatures, apx 1% of the poppulation). Dismissing such a petition would be far less acceptable.
Join our guild "Grumpy Old Men", we hang out at this level called "Real Life". Some of us refuse to have credit cards or cell phone (even non-smart ones).
A comment on the 4. : Nouveau can do OpenCL. You may be thinking about CUDA maybe? The situation seems less clear on this one.
I am curious about what you mean by "feature complete 2d and 3d rendering", obviously the main problem with the nouveau driver is that all the features are not available yet. I feel I am missing a point.
I am as amused as anyone, but it is still wrong on Google's side.
iCaves on the other hand will be accessible to every iConsumer registered at the iOvermind's office.
I am not sure that I want to allow Facebook to arm its own militia.
Didn't you get the memo? A totally hostile regime armed with nukes and ICBM capabilities that we cannot attack because it holds Seoul hostage of its artillery must be mocked as often as possible in the media.
Forget Iran, forget Syria. North Korea is a Damn Serious threat that will be very difficult to solve.
Well, I can't help but feel for the people who are on the field, fighting the conspiracy theories and learning one day that one of these crazy conspiracies was actually right. The CIA through its fake operation gave ammo to opponents to vaccination. This was a totally predictable outcome and a very bad thing to do. Was getting Bin Laden worth the delaying on the extermination of polio? I personally think that this is fucked up priorities.