What you've said isn't technically wrong, but your title is horrible. Cancer is usually not "self-inflicted". EVERYONE who lives long enough will get cancer. You can reduce your chances, a bit, not really dramatically, of getting one while you're young by being basically healthy.
What he's saying is that Red Hat doesn't really care who uses Red Hat, even if its called CentOS, because they make most of their money on support contracts, NOT licensing. So the threat is not that you might pay someone else for the CDs (or get them free) but that you might pay someone else for support.
Buying from VMWare might give Red Hat the price of a license but VMWare gets the lucrative support contract.
It's kind of like how MS practically gives away windows to OEMs because then you're likely to buy Office from them.
Totalitarianism doesn't seem to like communication, and communism was (usually) totalitarian. You'll notice from this map that many of the places with freest communication are in fact fairly socialist, an economic system that today is generally paired with democracy.
Before widespread buried fibre optic, long distance communications were necessarily pretty vulnerable. A high altitude nuke does a good job of screwing up your radio (which wasn't really very long range anyway, except at night in good conditions) AND your land lines.
You've got it backwards. Anything without an explicit license is all rights reserved. That guy who took your code and sold it is guilty of copyright infringement.
Licenses explicitly license some of your rights to someone else. In the case of the GPL the app collection guy has NOT committed a crime so long as he makes the source code available to his customers.
I'm not sure I understand the purpose. Having been in huts of several different designs, and a few urban shanties, daytime light doesn't seem to really be a problem. You spend most of the daylight outdoors abyway, and when you're not you use windows or open the door.
I'm not sure anybody I visited would be too enthusiastic about cutting holes in their nice thatched roof, and certainly not in that status-symbol tin one. Waterproofing the pop bottle skylight would be a bit of a problem.
Yes, it is now, which is a pleasant surprise. Prior to 2009 it was GPL/commercial, which meant if you didn't want to share the code for your whole application you had to cough up for a commercial license.
I am pleasantly surprised to see that QT was LGPL licensed in 2009. Before that it was GPL, which is really an exceedingly poor option for a GUI toolkit, unless your goal is to sell commercial licenses (which it was).
There isn't a lot of difference in the core Cocoa API between the later versions. Many, MANY OS X developers target 10.6 because it runs fine under everything more recent and unless you're using the latest goodies, which are unlikely to be ported by GNUStep anyway, there's no difference.
GNUStep is a reimplementation of the OS X GUI toolkit. If you want to write a Mac application that will work on Linux at the moment you can write the whole thing in C and use something like Qt or GTK. Qt is proprietary and GTK is bloated and sucks. GNUStep makes available the NeXT/OS X equivalent of Qt/GTK/etc., which is really very good.
I do care for lots of OS X software, and perhaps some of it would be useful ported to Linux, but I agree the real value of GNUStep is as a cross platform GUI toolkit in it's own right. Write something using a good toolkit (nicer than GNOME and KDE and free unlike Qt) and it happens to run on OS X, Linux and other Unixes.
I'd agree with you that they hacked up the definition to agree with popular usage. The proper definition of racism, looking at the construction of the word, is ANY belief that is based on general ideas of race.
Anyway, using the MW definition, examine the OPs assertion: black people commit more crimes, therefore it is justifiable to preferentially stop and search them. That sounds like a race-based belief of inferiority, no?
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races:
The belief that a man is dangerous (or not dangerous, or good in bed, or a good clarinet player) because he is black (or white, or yellow, or brown) is, by definition, racist. It might be true, but it is racist.
In reality, the involved factors are probably wealth, education and environment. Poor, poorly educated people who grew up surrounded by crime and violence are more likely to commit crimes. It's very unlikely it has anything to do with skin colour.
Because some people decided that it wasn't a good idea to judge a person based on his or her skin colour, sex, etc. No matter who you are, I can come up with some demographic you belong to that is more likely to do something undesirable, so that sort of profiling can be used to justify anything.
Apple makes more profit on iPhones than everyone else who makes smartphones put together. Not to mention Apple makes other things as well. They've got a ways to go before they "stall out."
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That was hilarious. Even better were all the other Google hits of media (traditional and blogs) saying he blasted the hyperloop concept.
Not that it would matter if he was... comedians aren't really people you want to be taking engineering advice from.
What you've said isn't technically wrong, but your title is horrible. Cancer is usually not "self-inflicted". EVERYONE who lives long enough will get cancer. You can reduce your chances, a bit, not really dramatically, of getting one while you're young by being basically healthy.
What he's saying is that Red Hat doesn't really care who uses Red Hat, even if its called CentOS, because they make most of their money on support contracts, NOT licensing. So the threat is not that you might pay someone else for the CDs (or get them free) but that you might pay someone else for support.
Buying from VMWare might give Red Hat the price of a license but VMWare gets the lucrative support contract.
It's kind of like how MS practically gives away windows to OEMs because then you're likely to buy Office from them.
One of? Shakespeare wrote popular plays for the commoners. They're filled to the brim with multilayered sex jokes. You can find a lot older though.
Nah. Song of Solomon. They're more afraid of porn than violence.
Although, is there a book of the bible that doesn't have any deviant sex or over the top violence in it?
Not stolen. Shakespeare was a screenwriter doing adaptations of public domain legends. Like Disney. Ironically.
Sounds like outright sarcasm to me. Last refuge of the tortured.
Read the comment I replied to.
Because they didn't have any satellites?
Totalitarianism doesn't seem to like communication, and communism was (usually) totalitarian. You'll notice from this map that many of the places with freest communication are in fact fairly socialist, an economic system that today is generally paired with democracy.
http://filipspagnoli.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/reporters-without-borders-press-freedom-index-2012.jpg
Before widespread buried fibre optic, long distance communications were necessarily pretty vulnerable. A high altitude nuke does a good job of screwing up your radio (which wasn't really very long range anyway, except at night in good conditions) AND your land lines.
You've got it backwards. Anything without an explicit license is all rights reserved. That guy who took your code and sold it is guilty of copyright infringement.
Licenses explicitly license some of your rights to someone else. In the case of the GPL the app collection guy has NOT committed a crime so long as he makes the source code available to his customers.
That's why you keep your cows and sheep indoors and/or light a fire. Seriously.
I'm not sure I understand the purpose. Having been in huts of several different designs, and a few urban shanties, daytime light doesn't seem to really be a problem. You spend most of the daylight outdoors abyway, and when you're not you use windows or open the door.
I'm not sure anybody I visited would be too enthusiastic about cutting holes in their nice thatched roof, and certainly not in that status-symbol tin one. Waterproofing the pop bottle skylight would be a bit of a problem.
Yes, it is now, which is a pleasant surprise. Prior to 2009 it was GPL/commercial, which meant if you didn't want to share the code for your whole application you had to cough up for a commercial license.
I am pleasantly surprised to see that QT was LGPL licensed in 2009. Before that it was GPL, which is really an exceedingly poor option for a GUI toolkit, unless your goal is to sell commercial licenses (which it was).
Sorry for not checking the QT website constantly.
There isn't a lot of difference in the core Cocoa API between the later versions. Many, MANY OS X developers target 10.6 because it runs fine under everything more recent and unless you're using the latest goodies, which are unlikely to be ported by GNUStep anyway, there's no difference.
GNUStep is a reimplementation of the OS X GUI toolkit. If you want to write a Mac application that will work on Linux at the moment you can write the whole thing in C and use something like Qt or GTK. Qt is proprietary and GTK is bloated and sucks. GNUStep makes available the NeXT/OS X equivalent of Qt/GTK/etc., which is really very good.
GNUStep is a free, cross platform reimplementation of the NeXT/OS X GUI toolkit. Darwin is the open source kernel and command line userspace of OS X.
I do care for lots of OS X software, and perhaps some of it would be useful ported to Linux, but I agree the real value of GNUStep is as a cross platform GUI toolkit in it's own right. Write something using a good toolkit (nicer than GNOME and KDE and free unlike Qt) and it happens to run on OS X, Linux and other Unixes.
I'd agree with you that they hacked up the definition to agree with popular usage. The proper definition of racism, looking at the construction of the word, is ANY belief that is based on general ideas of race.
Anyway, using the MW definition, examine the OPs assertion: black people commit more crimes, therefore it is justifiable to preferentially stop and search them. That sounds like a race-based belief of inferiority, no?
Not quite. You've committed one of the classic blunders - believing people have a clue what the hell they're talking about.
http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/racism:
The belief that a man is dangerous (or not dangerous, or good in bed, or a good clarinet player) because he is black (or white, or yellow, or brown) is, by definition, racist. It might be true, but it is racist.
In reality, the involved factors are probably wealth, education and environment. Poor, poorly educated people who grew up surrounded by crime and violence are more likely to commit crimes. It's very unlikely it has anything to do with skin colour.
Actually, that's kind of the definition of racism. You can argue about whether it's justifiable racism, but it is, by definition, racism.
Because some people decided that it wasn't a good idea to judge a person based on his or her skin colour, sex, etc. No matter who you are, I can come up with some demographic you belong to that is more likely to do something undesirable, so that sort of profiling can be used to justify anything.
Apple makes more profit on iPhones than everyone else who makes smartphones put together. Not to mention Apple makes other things as well. They've got a ways to go before they "stall out."