I guess how you earn the money and how you spend the money are different issues. Bill Gates should be encouraged to be more responsible and try to make money by writting good code rather than kiling competition. At the same time, Larry and Steve should share at least half of their fortune by contributing to worthy causes.
This is not a sure thing by any means. Apple/NeXT probably chose BSD over Linux because they were affraid they would have to release the source to MacOSX UI over some obscure GPL vs LGPL issue. Otherwise, Linux would get all kind of patches like KHTML does from the company that spends hunreds of millions on OS development.
Sure you should be able to lend your books to other people or write your own one using broad ideas you got from other people's work. But does it really mean you can just sell your own copies of Harry Potter without paying a penny to the original author? If not, you should support IP laws but only ones permitting fair use - like using a Linux DVD player to enjoy movies you paid for.
Say I hire 100 top computer scientists for a year and they find a way to sort text strings in O(n*log(log(n))) time instead of O(n*log(n)) for the average text in real life programs (If you think that's impossible, radix sort is O(n) for small integers).
After the project is finished, I am $10M in the red just by paying $100K salary which is not unreasonable for a talanted individual in Bay Area. Add health insurance, office rent, bank interest and it can be easily double that amount. How do you propose I cover that cost? An $20M government grant is not a sure thing for something relatively obscure. Asking people to work for free and starve their families doesn't sound right. Maybe charge $1/copy to a spreadsheet developer who wants to use faster sorting time as an edge over Excel? Hmm, we might have something here.
This is not justifying ridiculous patents like Amazon's 1-click or Apple's iPod scroll wheel. Also, the reason patents are published is to promote further innovation, so there has to be an exception for free software used for non-profit purpose. But if you want to abolish the whole instituation, you better prepare to cough up tax for those $20M grants.
I usually don't read bools. A society should have more than 10 values, you know?
However, I am under impression that its possible to build a small nuke - approporiate to bust a tank and with radiation small enough to not kill the shooter immediately - by "simply" using elements more heavy than uranium. Producing them is the devil of course - uranium at least occurs naturally and there are a few grams of it in any pile of tock - and it's a "use it or loose it" situation as half-life is likely to be days or weeks. I learned that from a physics professor in Soviet Russia, so either we don't guard secrets as closely or he was full of bs.
Fahrenheit 9/11 was by far the absolute most racist movie I have ever seen... The entire movie uses Saudi like a curse word.
Saudi who is probably in a government or big company doing business with US, but not "Arab" or an everyday Saudi citizen - unless he is cheering 9/11? I don't see how cursing leadership of a particular country is racist or any other word except "normal" given that people have different opinions.
Saudi government is not democratic - they have a king for heaven's sake - and they could well be acting against popular will of the people by supporting US and especially by allowing US troops in the country. The bait is money and no doubt a good sum goes to the "royal family".
If they listened to their people more, US might have more difficulty in the region or have to drive fuel-efficient cars, but Bin Laden would have much less support.
And if republicans must have time to refute F911, surely democrats must have time to refute the refulation... this way we never get to vote, huh? What I mean is that Michael is allowed to air F911, republicans will be allowed to air some movie that supports their worldview at the same time. "Pashion of Christ" or pro-american documentary of 911 and Iraq war or something.
Republicans will have a chance to respond in whatever way Moore talks. Do you mean Christian Coalition hasn't made any decent movies during its whole existance?
The thing is, long after earth rotating around the sun was proven, the majority still believed otherwise and the wiki article would still have a nice picture with 3 turtles.
As for the source, I hope encyclopedias are written by experts on the subject who are also known for objective thinking. I kind of hope the real ones are not revised by popular vote of current readers.
So if someone has been recently proven wrong but is still a misconception of most people, you would include the old version into Brintannica? Like "Iraq is a country with lots of WMDs".
At the time Copernicus discovered that Earth spins around the Sun, it was deffinitely not the popular opinion. I guess he wouldn't be able to turn to wiki for help. An encyclopedia is supposed to tell one accurate facts, not to help the majority of readers validate their own false beliefs. I see horrors ahead for a society where people get their important beliefs from google, slashdot or wiki.
US government so far didn't give any sign it would prosecute people based on their vote. The real problems, in the order importance are lack of choice (Republican vs Democratic, what if I disagree with both on different issues?), people not voting and only then mistakes in vote count.
Human rights violations with 9/11 as an excuse raise a vague concern that someday a "pro-terrorist" vote will become an issue. But as of today, anyone who is affraid of being punished for voting Democratic or Republican probably should be isolated from society because of mental instability.
No, but it's too low level. If I want a resizable window with high level control on which components are aligned and which get the extra space when the window is enlarged, I don't want to explicitely set "properties" or worse write the code myself. I just want to click to toggle between flexible springs and rigid rods in Interface Builder.
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Are you suggesting that all NY residents constantly wear rubber suits and maintain a large enough oxygen supply to get out of the city? If they don't and the aftereffect for survivors is episodes of sudden, unpredictable violence, the "cleanup" will be either extremly long or extremly inhumane. Like dropping a nuke to finish 'em for good.
As for degradation, I think DDT was banned for more than a few months before bold eagle population started recovering.
Basically, both nuclear and conventional attacks can be terrible and the only hope is to pray that most humans are sane and neighbors or even the most screwed up governments will successfully stop the ones who are not.
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There are other ways to contaminate an area. I am sure neural poison is both cheaper to make and has more impressive long-term health effects.
In the meantime, developing countries can really wreck their environment and global climate by burning coal or worse firewood. Give them a hand in solving their power problems responsibly and perhaps we'll have such a relationship that we don't have to worry about them sneaking any kind of bombs in our cities.
That's why I intend to keep writting Apple-only software until Microsoft makes Windows pleasent to develop for. Their slogan should be "We put F in MFC".
Maybe Indians can start paying US income taxes then? Otherwise it's kind of weird that we give away half of our money and still don't get any special consideration.
Maybe capitalism will play itself out and lost jobs will be replaced in some other area. But that hasn't always happened before. US has many laws to regulate conduct of companies - anti-monopoly laws, anti-discrimination laws and so on. If unemployment skyrockets, one day there will be anti-outsourcing laws. If not, well then we don't have to worry about finding a job.
I think slashdot people know they are annoying most people, but somehow refuse to correct it. If one person posts a link to correct the problem near the start of the discussion, maybe it's even Ok.
Don't give any ideas to spammers on how to sneak their "pneis elnraegemnt ceram" past the filters. I do suspect that the effect is local to the small group of letters and long words that are totally randomized will be difficult to read.
Well, UK has allowed Apple and countless PC makers to sell computers with one-click CD ripping capability. In fact the government knowingly accepted customs duties on computer boxes that proclaimed "Rip, mix, burn!". If it was even technically illegal, either the shipments would be stopped or the customs officials would request that the government modifies the law that apparently makes no sense.
There doesn't have to be a law to make something legal. If it's a common sense assumption and the law doesn't say otherwise, the action is legal by default. Perhaps there is no british law that prohibits you from modifying something your purchase in order to enjoy it better yourself, as opposed to making many copies and distributing it to other people. I wouldn't even be surprised if the Common Law, which after all originated in UK, has some privacy considerations that allow you to do just that without having to deal with complaints from the seller.
A Democracy doesn't scale beyond a few thousand people
Well, California has millions of people and has initiatives that are decided by a popular vote. Sure it's not practical for even a thousand people to vote on every minor issue about which they may not be even knowlegable, but the system could be set up so that people can overrule the current government on issues they care strongly about.
Democracy includes not invading other countrys: the right of self-determination of the peoples.
This has nothing to do with democracy - people can vote to invade another country. As for self determination, french apparently don't believe one can choose to wear a head scarf.
Democracy allows things like two people voting to take the third one's money, which is pretty much what happens with tax. In a decent society, it prevents jerks from coming to power. But it doesn't help if the whole society is corrupted or apathetic about politics. US would degenerate into chaos a long time ago if not for non-democratic constitution (framers deciding what's best for the people) and election system that encourages stability.
They might have refused to license the scroll wheel to Rio. Just like one-click on iTMS - Apple got a license from Amazon, but other companies have to artificially make a song purchase "multi-click". The patent system is retarded in both cases. However, I suspect that some kind of joystick with dynamic speed depending on how far it's tilted would do just as well.
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I am affraid I am a Mac user, so I will take a gmail invite instead of DNF. The stick is optional.
I guess how you earn the money and how you spend the money are different issues. Bill Gates should be encouraged to be more responsible and try to make money by writting good code rather than kiling competition. At the same time, Larry and Steve should share at least half of their fortune by contributing to worthy causes.
Now the GPL probably helped Linux beat BSD
This is not a sure thing by any means. Apple/NeXT probably chose BSD over Linux because they were affraid they would have to release the source to MacOSX UI over some obscure GPL vs LGPL issue. Otherwise, Linux would get all kind of patches like KHTML does from the company that spends hunreds of millions on OS development.
Sure you should be able to lend your books to other people or write your own one using broad ideas you got from other people's work. But does it really mean you can just sell your own copies of Harry Potter without paying a penny to the original author? If not, you should support IP laws but only ones permitting fair use - like using a Linux DVD player to enjoy movies you paid for.
Say I hire 100 top computer scientists for a year and they find a way to sort text strings in O(n*log(log(n))) time instead of O(n*log(n)) for the average text in real life programs (If you think that's impossible, radix sort is O(n) for small integers).
After the project is finished, I am $10M in the red just by paying $100K salary which is not unreasonable for a talanted individual in Bay Area. Add health insurance, office rent, bank interest and it can be easily double that amount. How do you propose I cover that cost? An $20M government grant is not a sure thing for something relatively obscure. Asking people to work for free and starve their families doesn't sound right. Maybe charge $1/copy to a spreadsheet developer who wants to use faster sorting time as an edge over Excel? Hmm, we might have something here.
This is not justifying ridiculous patents like Amazon's 1-click or Apple's iPod scroll wheel. Also, the reason patents are published is to promote further innovation, so there has to be an exception for free software used for non-profit purpose. But if you want to abolish the whole instituation, you better prepare to cough up tax for those $20M grants.
s/tock/rock/. Some joker I am, making fun of a typo and then adding one to my own post.
"I suggest as a minimum reading a bool"
I usually don't read bools. A society should have more than 10 values, you know?
However, I am under impression that its possible to build a small nuke - approporiate to bust a tank and with radiation small enough to not kill the shooter immediately - by "simply" using elements more heavy than uranium. Producing them is the devil of course - uranium at least occurs naturally and there are a few grams of it in any pile of tock - and it's a "use it or loose it" situation as half-life is likely to be days or weeks. I learned that from a physics professor in Soviet Russia, so either we don't guard secrets as closely or he was full of bs.
Fahrenheit 9/11 was by far the absolute most racist movie I have ever seen... The entire movie uses Saudi like a curse word.
Saudi who is probably in a government or big company doing business with US, but not "Arab" or an everyday Saudi citizen - unless he is cheering 9/11? I don't see how cursing leadership of a particular country is racist or any other word except "normal" given that people have different opinions.
Saudi government is not democratic - they have a king for heaven's sake - and they could well be acting against popular will of the people by supporting US and especially by allowing US troops in the country. The bait is money and no doubt a good sum goes to the "royal family".
If they listened to their people more, US might have more difficulty in the region or have to drive fuel-efficient cars, but Bin Laden would have much less support.
And if republicans must have time to refute F911, surely democrats must have time to refute the refulation... this way we never get to vote, huh? What I mean is that Michael is allowed to air F911, republicans will be allowed to air some movie that supports their worldview at the same time. "Pashion of Christ" or pro-american documentary of 911 and Iraq war or something.
Republicans will have a chance to respond in whatever way Moore talks. Do you mean Christian Coalition hasn't made any decent movies during its whole existance?
It will get people to vote either to oppose Bush or to oppose people who are influenced by the movie. Either way, democracy wins over apathy!
The thing is, long after earth rotating around the sun was proven, the majority still believed otherwise and the wiki article would still have a nice picture with 3 turtles.
As for the source, I hope encyclopedias are written by experts on the subject who are also known for objective thinking. I kind of hope the real ones are not revised by popular vote of current readers.
So if someone has been recently proven wrong but is still a misconception of most people, you would include the old version into Brintannica? Like "Iraq is a country with lots of WMDs".
At the time Copernicus discovered that Earth spins around the Sun, it was deffinitely not the popular opinion. I guess he wouldn't be able to turn to wiki for help. An encyclopedia is supposed to tell one accurate facts, not to help the majority of readers validate their own false beliefs. I see horrors ahead for a society where people get their important beliefs from google, slashdot or wiki.
US government so far didn't give any sign it would prosecute people based on their vote. The real problems, in the order importance are lack of choice (Republican vs Democratic, what if I disagree with both on different issues?), people not voting and only then mistakes in vote count.
Human rights violations with 9/11 as an excuse raise a vague concern that someday a "pro-terrorist" vote will become an issue. But as of today, anyone who is affraid of being punished for voting Democratic or Republican probably should be isolated from society because of mental instability.
No, but it's too low level. If I want a resizable window with high level control on which components are aligned and which get the extra space when the window is enlarged, I don't want to explicitely set "properties" or worse write the code myself. I just want to click to toggle between flexible springs and rigid rods in Interface Builder.
Are you suggesting that all NY residents constantly wear rubber suits and maintain a large enough oxygen supply to get out of the city? If they don't and the aftereffect for survivors is episodes of sudden, unpredictable violence, the "cleanup" will be either extremly long or extremly inhumane. Like dropping a nuke to finish 'em for good.
As for degradation, I think DDT was banned for more than a few months before bold eagle population started recovering.
Basically, both nuclear and conventional attacks can be terrible and the only hope is to pray that most humans are sane and neighbors or even the most screwed up governments will successfully stop the ones who are not.
There are other ways to contaminate an area. I am sure neural poison is both cheaper to make and has more impressive long-term health effects.
In the meantime, developing countries can really wreck their environment and global climate by burning coal or worse firewood. Give them a hand in solving their power problems responsibly and perhaps we'll have such a relationship that we don't have to worry about them sneaking any kind of bombs in our cities.
That's why I intend to keep writting Apple-only software until Microsoft makes Windows pleasent to develop for. Their slogan should be "We put F in MFC".
Maybe Indians can start paying US income taxes then? Otherwise it's kind of weird that we give away half of our money and still don't get any special consideration.
Maybe capitalism will play itself out and lost jobs will be replaced in some other area. But that hasn't always happened before. US has many laws to regulate conduct of companies - anti-monopoly laws, anti-discrimination laws and so on. If unemployment skyrockets, one day there will be anti-outsourcing laws. If not, well then we don't have to worry about finding a job.
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I think slashdot people know they are annoying most people, but somehow refuse to correct it. If one person posts a link to correct the problem near the start of the discussion, maybe it's even Ok.
Don't give any ideas to spammers on how to sneak their "pneis elnraegemnt ceram" past the filters. I do suspect that the effect is local to the small group of letters and long words that are totally randomized will be difficult to read.
Well, UK has allowed Apple and countless PC makers to sell computers with one-click CD ripping capability. In fact the government knowingly accepted customs duties on computer boxes that proclaimed "Rip, mix, burn!". If it was even technically illegal, either the shipments would be stopped or the customs officials would request that the government modifies the law that apparently makes no sense.
There doesn't have to be a law to make something legal. If it's a common sense assumption and the law doesn't say otherwise, the action is legal by default. Perhaps there is no british law that prohibits you from modifying something your purchase in order to enjoy it better yourself, as opposed to making many copies and distributing it to other people. I wouldn't even be surprised if the Common Law, which after all originated in UK, has some privacy considerations that allow you to do just that without having to deal with complaints from the seller.
A Democracy doesn't scale beyond a few thousand people
Well, California has millions of people and has initiatives that are decided by a popular vote. Sure it's not practical for even a thousand people to vote on every minor issue about which they may not be even knowlegable, but the system could be set up so that people can overrule the current government on issues they care strongly about.
Democracy includes not invading other countrys: the right of self-determination of the peoples.
This has nothing to do with democracy - people can vote to invade another country. As for self determination, french apparently don't believe one can choose to wear a head scarf.
Democracy allows things like two people voting to take the third one's money, which is pretty much what happens with tax. In a decent society, it prevents jerks from coming to power. But it doesn't help if the whole society is corrupted or apathetic about politics. US would degenerate into chaos a long time ago if not for non-democratic constitution (framers deciding what's best for the people) and election system that encourages stability.
They might have refused to license the scroll wheel to Rio. Just like one-click on iTMS - Apple got a license from Amazon, but other companies have to artificially make a song purchase "multi-click". The patent system is retarded in both cases. However, I suspect that some kind of joystick with dynamic speed depending on how far it's tilted would do just as well.