As a UK taxpayer, I already paid for the NPG free entry and for
them to digitize these paintings. Levying a secret tax (ie. copyright)
is not the way to get the NPG out of financial staits - if they need more
money, get it through the usual bargaining with the Treasury, government
and the people.
What if Kennedy had set a lesser goal, such as orbiting the moon?
The Russians quite probably could have achieved with with Soyuz-based
technology. We "know" this, sorta, because recently someone proposed
putting a Soyuz capsule around the moon for a rich billionaire with $100m to spare.
Now you're in the situation where both superpowers are orbiting the
moon, which makes it a military race. You can drop stuff easily from
lunar orbit down to the earth, so both powers have to remain there.
Assuming we hadn't ended up dead (this is a high risk alternate history)
I suspect we'd be a lot further along in space travel and technology now.
Or how about leaking information that could end up making it easier to take out the President?
Why should you even have a President to take out? What decisions does he make
that can't be made by a large group of people, such as a democratically elected
Parliament or Congress?
If you have a single, central figure, then you set yourself up for these
unnecessary security problems, plus you have someone who can go rogue
and destroy the reputation of your country, as Americans found out recently.
Seems more likely he was caught by auditing through the audit daemon in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It records both high level "actions" taken on the machine, and (in some cases) commands typed at the shell. Unless you have root (in some cases, even if you have root), it's hard to erase those logs.
What a load of nonsense. There are super-efficient functional languages like OCaml, SML, F# and
others in the ML family, which can beat C if tweaked, and even used in a functional
style still get near to C's speed.
Parallelizing pure functional languages is also far simpler, and that really
matters too.
This isn't "next generation", this is compilers that we use regularly right now.
In real world, commercial programming.
What I don't understand is that PRS asks for 3-5% of your Net Broadcasting Revenue yet if you're an online radio they ask for 6-8% of your total revenue.
Because they're a monopoly, backed by the power of the government, so they will define
each market as they please and set their
prices in each market based on maximizing the amount they can get away. Literally they'll
do this until
companies run away and exit the business, as apparently happened with YouTube.
If they wanted 20% from people wearing green clothes, they could demand it, because the
people with green clothes would have no other choice other than to not play music in
their shops and offices.
I had to use Word XP for the entire book, and I can safely say it is the most
utterly useless piece of crap for writing books. It's inaccurate, does random stuff to
your text, hard to use, badly designed. Give me TeX or even Docbook/XML any day.
Say a developer uses a number of 3rd party libraries (ie. Boost, TinyXML, etc), who will be pay damages if the program crashes in a bad way? The developer for not trying to catch 3rd party crashes, or the 3rd party for writing in bad code?
But also it's not like we don't know how to isolate software modules and enforce contracts between modules.
This has been well-known how to do this for 30 or 40 years. There are even processors which
enforce it.
Of course you'll get the usual
"but but it causes a 10% slow down", often spoken by the same people who then go and write
everything in Ruby, or decide that they need to cache everything in memory, or they say garbage
collection is "inefficient" but hand-code reference counting instead.
Apart from the fact that the UK has a Secretary of State for the Environment and a Minister for climate change, and the Tories cancelled a £ multi-billion road-building scheme.
I can assure you these things were unthinkable 20 years ago.
First of all, even parties which don't get seats can have influence beyond their representation. Look at the influence of the Green Party and green politics in Europe through the 80s and 90s to see this. The mainstream parties literally got scared that they might lose seats (they didn't) and changed their policies radically in response.
But OK, you want to get seats. The situation now is that you don't like either main party. Each is as bad as the other. In that case, using your vote for the two main parties is a waste (because you don't want to help either one), and not using it is also a waste. So clearly you should vote for a third party, since you're not doing any worse than wasting the vote, it might have an effect on the main parties, and if everyone does the same, the third party will gain some seats.
Now all you need is a third party to vote for. I'm sure there are some you like already, but if not, start one.
Our system insures third parties never get anywhere.
I wasn't aware that voting for a third party in the US was illegal... Oh wait, it isn't illegal. You're just enunciating the "nothing we can do" argument.
It's interesting the difference with the US. "Kids" in Sweden are engaging properly in the political process, forming a party and making (real) change happen. Rather than just rolling over and accepting the situation with "nothing we can do" and "who can we vote for, they're all the same".
You're right that chippies use "fake" newspaper, but it's probably not because of the "dangers" of ink. I cook with newspaper a fair bit - eg. wrapping fish in damp newspaper before roasting in the oven so the scales come off when you unwrap it.
The real reason is to do with the fact that it would take too many newspapers to service a busy chip shop.
It wasn't a name change, it was a support issue for a free product which suddenly became non-free. When you have many dozens of servers, you want support. Red Hat wanted us to pay for security updates and such.
You were greatly misinformed. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is completely Free software. You can
download every single line of source from Red Hat's FTP server. It is
recompiled and offered at no cost by third parties such as CentOS.
CentOS makes available the security updates, at no cost.
Red Hat's releases are supported for 7 years from the date of release, and
licenses that large businesses pay support this work and (more practically) get them
direct access to experts to help them fix their problems.
But if paying for the huge amount of work involved in backporting features
and security fixes into the stable versions of RHEL is too much trouble, you
can get CentOS to give you them for no cost.
How did the parent comment get "+4 interesting" when it so full of gross errors?
Ubuntu depends on the kernel and GNOME developers funded by Red Hat. Red Hat contributes
everything back into the upstream projects, which Ubuntu has been noticeably bad
about doing.
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The NPG gets free entry out of taxes. It was a Labour manifesto commitment.
As a UK taxpayer, I already paid for the NPG free entry and for them to digitize these paintings. Levying a secret tax (ie. copyright) is not the way to get the NPG out of financial staits - if they need more money, get it through the usual bargaining with the Treasury, government and the people.
Rich.
Utter nonsense. As a UK taxpayer, I already paid for the NPG to digitize these pictures.
Rich.
What if Kennedy had set a lesser goal, such as orbiting the moon?
The Russians quite probably could have achieved with with Soyuz-based technology. We "know" this, sorta, because recently someone proposed putting a Soyuz capsule around the moon for a rich billionaire with $100m to spare.
Now you're in the situation where both superpowers are orbiting the moon, which makes it a military race. You can drop stuff easily from lunar orbit down to the earth, so both powers have to remain there.
Assuming we hadn't ended up dead (this is a high risk alternate history) I suspect we'd be a lot further along in space travel and technology now.
Rich.
It's vital to their funding model, and they're just protecting their interests. Suddenly cutting off a major stream of revenue would be catastrophic.
That's nonsense. I pay for the NPG through my taxes, and I'm not happy about this silly action.
Rich.
if they sue him in the UK, he can ignore the lawsuit, have a default judgement entered against him, and good luck to them in pursuing it.
It's only a shame that this won't be a UK test case.
Rich.
Or how about leaking information that could end up making it easier to take out the President?
Why should you even have a President to take out? What decisions does he make that can't be made by a large group of people, such as a democratically elected Parliament or Congress?
If you have a single, central figure, then you set yourself up for these unnecessary security problems, plus you have someone who can go rogue and destroy the reputation of your country, as Americans found out recently.
Rich.
Seems more likely he was caught by auditing through the audit daemon in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It records both high level "actions" taken on the machine, and (in some cases) commands typed at the shell. Unless you have root (in some cases, even if you have root), it's hard to erase those logs.
Rich.
Have you written a web page / blog entry about this some place?
Rich.
What a load of nonsense. There are super-efficient functional languages like OCaml, SML, F# and others in the ML family, which can beat C if tweaked, and even used in a functional style still get near to C's speed.
Parallelizing pure functional languages is also far simpler, and that really matters too.
This isn't "next generation", this is compilers that we use regularly right now. In real world, commercial programming.
I wrote a little "literate" FORTH tutorial if any readers of the above comment are interested in it: jonesforth.
What I don't understand is that PRS asks for 3-5% of your Net Broadcasting Revenue yet if you're an online radio they ask for 6-8% of your total revenue.
Because they're a monopoly, backed by the power of the government, so they will define each market as they please and set their prices in each market based on maximizing the amount they can get away. Literally they'll do this until companies run away and exit the business, as apparently happened with YouTube.
If they wanted 20% from people wearing green clothes, they could demand it, because the people with green clothes would have no other choice other than to not play music in their shops and offices.
Rich.
Sadly there are -- I worked on one.
I had to use Word XP for the entire book, and I can safely say it is the most utterly useless piece of crap for writing books. It's inaccurate, does random stuff to your text, hard to use, badly designed. Give me TeX or even Docbook/XML any day.
Rich.
Say a developer uses a number of 3rd party libraries (ie. Boost, TinyXML, etc), who will be pay damages if the program crashes in a bad way? The developer for not trying to catch 3rd party crashes, or the 3rd party for writing in bad code?
But also it's not like we don't know how to isolate software modules and enforce contracts between modules. This has been well-known how to do this for 30 or 40 years. There are even processors which enforce it.
Of course you'll get the usual "but but it causes a 10% slow down", often spoken by the same people who then go and write everything in Ruby, or decide that they need to cache everything in memory, or they say garbage collection is "inefficient" but hand-code reference counting instead.
Sort of, although if I give you a free cake and you get poisoned by it, then I might still be liable for that.
I would give you mod points if I had them ...
Apart from the fact that the UK has a Secretary of State for the Environment and a Minister for climate change, and the Tories cancelled a £ multi-billion road-building scheme.
I can assure you these things were unthinkable 20 years ago.
Rich.
First of all, even parties which don't get seats can have influence beyond their representation. Look at the influence of the Green Party and green politics in Europe through the 80s and 90s to see this. The mainstream parties literally got scared that they might lose seats (they didn't) and changed their policies radically in response.
But OK, you want to get seats. The situation now is that you don't like either main party. Each is as bad as the other. In that case, using your vote for the two main parties is a waste (because you don't want to help either one), and not using it is also a waste. So clearly you should vote for a third party, since you're not doing any worse than wasting the vote, it might have an effect on the main parties, and if everyone does the same, the third party will gain some seats.
Now all you need is a third party to vote for. I'm sure there are some you like already, but if not, start one.
Rich.
Our system insures third parties never get anywhere.
I wasn't aware that voting for a third party in the US was illegal ... Oh wait, it isn't illegal. You're just enunciating the "nothing we can do" argument.
Rich.
It's interesting the difference with the US. "Kids" in Sweden are engaging properly in the political process, forming a party and making (real) change happen. Rather than just rolling over and accepting the situation with "nothing we can do" and "who can we vote for, they're all the same".
Rich.
What, you mean like this?
These are defensive patents. You have to file them if you're in the US software business, or else risk getting sued for $billions. Read how Red Hat licenses their patent portfolio to all open source projects.
I suggested "Git for government" to a UK MP recently.
You're right that chippies use "fake" newspaper, but it's probably not because of the "dangers" of ink. I cook with newspaper a fair bit - eg. wrapping fish in damp newspaper before roasting in the oven so the scales come off when you unwrap it.
The real reason is to do with the fact that it would take too many newspapers to service a busy chip shop.
Rich.
It wasn't a name change, it was a support issue for a free product which suddenly became non-free. When you have many dozens of servers, you want support. Red Hat wanted us to pay for security updates and such.
You were greatly misinformed. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is completely Free software. You can download every single line of source from Red Hat's FTP server. It is recompiled and offered at no cost by third parties such as CentOS. CentOS makes available the security updates, at no cost.
Red Hat's releases are supported for 7 years from the date of release, and licenses that large businesses pay support this work and (more practically) get them direct access to experts to help them fix their problems. But if paying for the huge amount of work involved in backporting features and security fixes into the stable versions of RHEL is too much trouble, you can get CentOS to give you them for no cost.
Rich.
How did the parent comment get "+4 interesting" when it so full of gross errors?
Ubuntu depends on the kernel and GNOME developers funded by Red Hat. Red Hat contributes everything back into the upstream projects, which Ubuntu has been noticeably bad about doing.
RHEL has both GNOME and KDE (and obviously X11).
Rich.