Doesn't this all really stem from the FSF's hijacking of the term "Free"? They lay claim to the term and then proceed to distort it to suit their political aims. It's all very disturbing.
The argument isn't over which license is best, because that can't ever really be resolved as long as people have different conceptions of their needs. The argument is over taking back the term Free from the FSF whose license is decidedly un-Free. It may be Open Source. It may grant many rights to the user. But it doesn't come close to being public domain, the true home of Freedom.
That's why the BSD zealots are so loud on this issue. The BSD license is about as close as you can come to declaring a work public domain without giving up copyright. The Artistic License was like this too, but sadly it has been rewritten to line up nicely with the GPL and has lost all its attraction.
A subway system would be awesome, but very expensive.
Put in a couple lines connecting Eastside and Seattle, one under 520, the other under I-90. Add a couple of loops that criss-cross each side, and one line from Redmond to Mukilteo through Kenmore/Bothell, and another through Tukwila/Skyway, and pull it all together with large underground hubs in downtown Seattle and Bellevue.
That's what I'd like to see. But hey, those politicians must know what they're doing clogging up traffic with light rail and all.
I hate flying. The cramped seats. The claustrophobia. The ridiculous rules about standing and walking around...
I'd much rather travel by train, but it's always been much too slow. Even though these new trains are still slower than flying, they make up the difference quite a bit.
A smooth, relaxing train ride where all seats are Business class or better? Sign me up.
Grab Platform Builder and whip up a set top box image in half an hour.
Then download it via ethernet to your box (CEPC in WinCE terms).
Piece of cake. Really. Maybe a day's development.
The software will only work for 120 days from the date of installation, but seeing as how quickly you should be able to get a STB up and running, there really isn't any reason to keep the software that long.
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My theory is that until the Midichlorians are completely destroyed we won't have the disappearing act. They were introduced for some reason, so I think it's so that they can be killed off (so as to wipe out the Jedi) only to have the Jedi discover that the Force is the ultimate power of the universe that flows through us blah blah blah.
The Midichlorians are preventing the Jedi from disintegrating and joining their power into the Force, actually. Wipe them out and we get dissolving Jedi and ghosts.
I agree that the acting was pretty bad in all the movies. However, the storytelling in episode IV was good enough as a standalone movie and V probably also falls into that category.
Now Ewoks? It definitely doesn't stand on its own merits.
What is to stop someone within your organization from taking the source from your internal app and distributing it outside the company?
Threat of termination. Lumpish Scholar posted his interpretation of just such a scenario above.
Anyone who is willing to divulge company secrets is not someone who should remain in your employ. Kaner, et al discuss interviewees divulging private company information, but the same reasoning can be applied to currently employed engineers as well.
What is written in some EULA's may surprise the unwary. Microsoft Windows products, for instance, contain a provision that the purchaser of these products does not actually own the software. They are merely renting the software and are restricted in how they may copy it.
Demands on respect for copyright come as a surprise to people?
Microsoft will come out of this smelling like roses and the OSS camp will look like a bunch of Communists. The fact of the matter is that the GPL is too complicated for the layman to understand in toto.
Recently there was a/. story about an FSF quiz that was designed to gauge your GPL knowledge. Just about everyone here on/. scored 70% or so. That's 30% misunderstanding. And this is among people who argue for the GPL all the time. How much less do you think the average person is going to understand the license?
With regards to OSS tools, there are two choices. Use them or not. Using them entails following the GPL which adds all sorts of weird, non-obvious restrictions. Not using them means they can get on with their normal routine.
Microsoft is pushing this aspect to its limit. To understand Microsoft licenses, it's pretty straightforward. You can't copy the product to another machine. They play this up to its fullest as well.
No matter what you think of the GPL or OSS, it's underlying value system is so contrary to the American psyche that you'd need a true revolution to make any significant inroads. Such a revolution won't happen in the near future because the anger and bile that OSS zealots have for closed source products doesn't resonate with Capitalist Joe.
We're talking, of course, about the most crowd-pleasing scene in a movie so far this year, wherein the little green Jedi Master summons the Force to bounce and whoop and haiiii-yah!
No... The most crowd pleasing scene in a movie so far this year was Kirsten Dunst giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to Spiderman in the rain with her nipples hard from the cold.
Seriously, no one cares about you. Maybe your immediate family, but certainly not the government.
If you harbor enough paranoia about such a system, it begs the question, what do you have to hide?
Open systems are infinitely better than completely closed systems. If they opened the data to everyone in the country, this system would be made even better.
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It still happens though and makes the evening (always the evening) commute hellish.
Doesn't this all really stem from the FSF's hijacking of the term "Free"? They lay claim to the term and then proceed to distort it to suit their political aims. It's all very disturbing.
The argument isn't over which license is best, because that can't ever really be resolved as long as people have different conceptions of their needs. The argument is over taking back the term Free from the FSF whose license is decidedly un-Free. It may be Open Source. It may grant many rights to the user. But it doesn't come close to being public domain, the true home of Freedom.
That's why the BSD zealots are so loud on this issue. The BSD license is about as close as you can come to declaring a work public domain without giving up copyright. The Artistic License was like this too, but sadly it has been rewritten to line up nicely with the GPL and has lost all its attraction.
A subway system would be awesome, but very expensive.
Put in a couple lines connecting Eastside and Seattle, one under 520, the other under I-90. Add a couple of loops that criss-cross each side, and one line from Redmond to Mukilteo through Kenmore/Bothell, and another through Tukwila/Skyway, and pull it all together with large underground hubs in downtown Seattle and Bellevue.
That's what I'd like to see. But hey, those politicians must know what they're doing clogging up traffic with light rail and all.
Koizumi's on the case. He's introduced anti-umbrella legislation. Should go over like a ton of bricks with the typhoon and all.
Also keep in mind that as far as speed goes, steam locomotives have some pretty impressive records too.
Isn't 88mph their upper limit? Or is that only with a flux capacitor installed?
For eight years Clinton sat in office and didn't do a thing for the railways. Now you want to blame it on Bush?
No, there's something else at work here called inertia. The government is full of it.
a guy saying "it looks like it may rain today" may mean that he is beginning to hate your guts
I think I read that in a travel guide somewhere...
452CE is the year that Prince Wakanohana Akebono is alleged to have descended from Heaven and begun the Imperial dynasty.
From that point on the Japanese Imperial line has remained unbroken.
I hate flying. The cramped seats. The claustrophobia. The ridiculous rules about standing and walking around...
I'd much rather travel by train, but it's always been much too slow. Even though these new trains are still slower than flying, they make up the difference quite a bit.
A smooth, relaxing train ride where all seats are Business class or better? Sign me up.
Grab Platform Builder and whip up a set top box image in half an hour.
Then download it via ethernet to your box (CEPC in WinCE terms).
Piece of cake. Really. Maybe a day's development.
The software will only work for 120 days from the date of installation, but seeing as how quickly you should be able to get a STB up and running, there really isn't any reason to keep the software that long.
Nono. He said "like Unix".
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My theory is that until the Midichlorians are completely destroyed we won't have the disappearing act. They were introduced for some reason, so I think it's so that they can be killed off (so as to wipe out the Jedi) only to have the Jedi discover that the Force is the ultimate power of the universe that flows through us blah blah blah.
The Midichlorians are preventing the Jedi from disintegrating and joining their power into the Force, actually. Wipe them out and we get dissolving Jedi and ghosts.
Warning: Spoiler above.
I agree that the acting was pretty bad in all the movies. However, the storytelling in episode IV was good enough as a standalone movie and V probably also falls into that category.
Now Ewoks? It definitely doesn't stand on its own merits.
Perhaps Nathan Myhrvold as Billy Dee Williams?
Bwahahahaha hahaha hehe
Action is great!
Music isn't bad!
Acting is pathetic.
No amount of eye candy will ever make the prequels worth watching as standalone movies.
Please reprint a EULA here that specifically bars making of archival copies.
What is to stop someone within your organization from taking the source from your internal app and distributing it outside the company?
Threat of termination. Lumpish Scholar posted his interpretation of just such a scenario above.
Anyone who is willing to divulge company secrets is not someone who should remain in your employ. Kaner, et al discuss interviewees divulging private company information, but the same reasoning can be applied to currently employed engineers as well.
What is written in some EULA's may surprise the unwary. Microsoft Windows products, for instance, contain a provision that the purchaser of these products does not actually own the software. They are merely renting the software and are restricted in how they may copy it.
Demands on respect for copyright come as a surprise to people?
Who are these people?
Microsoft will come out of this smelling like roses and the OSS camp will look like a bunch of Communists. The fact of the matter is that the GPL is too complicated for the layman to understand in toto.
/. story about an FSF quiz that was designed to gauge your GPL knowledge. Just about everyone here on /. scored 70% or so. That's 30% misunderstanding. And this is among people who argue for the GPL all the time. How much less do you think the average person is going to understand the license?
Recently there was a
With regards to OSS tools, there are two choices. Use them or not. Using them entails following the GPL which adds all sorts of weird, non-obvious restrictions. Not using them means they can get on with their normal routine.
Microsoft is pushing this aspect to its limit. To understand Microsoft licenses, it's pretty straightforward. You can't copy the product to another machine. They play this up to its fullest as well.
No matter what you think of the GPL or OSS, it's underlying value system is so contrary to the American psyche that you'd need a true revolution to make any significant inroads. Such a revolution won't happen in the near future because the anger and bile that OSS zealots have for closed source products doesn't resonate with Capitalist Joe.
From the first paragraph:
We're talking, of course, about the most crowd-pleasing scene in a movie so far this year, wherein the little green Jedi Master summons the Force to bounce and whoop and haiiii-yah!
No... The most crowd pleasing scene in a movie so far this year was Kirsten Dunst giving mouth to mouth resuscitation to Spiderman in the rain with her nipples hard from the cold.
Care to elaborate? Can you provide some links?
So you're saying that court records should be closed?
Would you rather they simply did all this in secret like usual?
Seriously, no one cares about you. Maybe your immediate family, but certainly not the government.
If you harbor enough paranoia about such a system, it begs the question, what do you have to hide?
Open systems are infinitely better than completely closed systems. If they opened the data to everyone in the country, this system would be made even better.