Hm. So what happens if you refactor the code in an Apache-licensed file by taking it apart and making many small files? does the Apache license still apply to any new file which uses part of the original code in the file, or since these are new files you can do whatever you want with it?
IOW, what happens to the code in the file? Can you grab it and do whatever you want with it, as long as you put it in another file?
I suspect this would put the Apache license in a gray area just as much as GPL has regarding include files and the concept of derived work.
Is it, now. So what characterizes exactly the DNA of the typical human? And how much discrepancy between the DNA of an individual and the median DNA sequence of human beings are you willing to accept before said individual is NOT considered human anymore? For example how many chromosomes more (or less) than our typical 46 chromosomes are you willing to accept into such a human being (e.g. what about Down syndrome?) How many variations?
The US soldiers are only dealing with the shit job they were assigned, nothing more, nothing less. Most would rather be home with their families, not sent into a hostile environment to further our Gov't.'s goals.
It is a fact that they are there, and if you would talk to some of them, you would understand that most do not want to be there, but they are doing their job, and some of it is appreciated by the Iraq people. (not all, but some)
It is a fact that they are there, and if you would talk to some of them, you would understand that most do not want to be there, but they are doing their job, and some of it is appreciated by the Iraq people. (not all, but some)
A solider can refuse to go to combat. It's called desertion and punished by military law, and it takes much more courage than just obeying order, but it shows consistency in hir ethics, assuming (s)he refuses to serve because (s)he disagree with the motives of the war and not just because to chicken out of danger.
"Obeying orders" is never a valid excuse for doing something unethical or illegal. It doesn't relieve the wrongdoer of responsibility.
BTW, what do YOU do for a living? Is your job totally without fault or negative repercussions for the whole world? Do you live in a glass house without fear of thrown rocks?
I'm not the OP and FWIW: I'm a mathematician and I worked in my last two years for a company that produces prostheses. My work for the next couple of years will be used to predict eruptions and reduce their threat.
Also, this has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the message.
Most of my family, me included, bought customized Dell laptops online. I was first, in 2002, then my father followed (different model), then a couple of cousins of mine, then my sisters and finally my mother. Overall, I think we bought no less than ten laptops from Dell, as private users. And although some of us bought models that other relatives had bought already, we didn't really care about being able to touch and hold the laptops before making the decision: customizability when buying online, on the other hand, was an extremely important point.
For example, I finally went with Dell because it was the only one that offered, in Italy, the option to buy a laptop with an American keyboard instead of an Italian keyboard, with an English version of the O/S instead of the localized one, and with a European electrical plug instead of the Italian one.
My laptop has served me rather well in these 6 years, despite my very rought handling, and requiring a bare minimum of upgrades and replacements (new cooling fans, more RAM, a new hard disk).
Now I'm starting to look around for a new system, and I found out that Dell doesn't offer any of the customization options I chose Dell for in the first place. When I bought my mom's laptop, it was extremely difficult to find a system that offered XP instead o Vista, now they are completely gone. I can't choose the O/S language, I can't choose the keyboard layout, and I can't choose the plugs. I'm going to look elsewhere, most definitely. A Lenovo, probably.
There are TeX distributions for Windows (the most commonly used being MiKTeX at http://www.miktex.org/ ). For learning LaTeX, you could start with "the (not so) short introduction to LaTeX2e" to get hold of the basics. For learning ConTeXt, there is a manual available online and some tutorials over at the ConTeXt wiki http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page
There is a WP2LaTeX tool http://www.penguin.cz/~fojtik/wp2latex/wp2latex.htm available for both Windows and Linux which does a pretty decent conversion. BTW inserting accented characters in TeX & friends is rather straightforwards: \`e, \'e, \"e etc so you can usually get by with just a couple of extras keystrokes on a standard US keyboard.
Of course it's going to take time, but the crucial point here is that it can be done with officially released specs, without having to waste time reverse engineering and wild-guessing how things should be done.
Consider this: I'm actually surprised how far nouveau development already went, without any specs and starting from the obfuscated nv driver. How much further could they be now if they had the specs and didn't have to waste uncountable hours tracing register changes and second-guessing their use?
Physically embedding the graphics in your document is madness. WordPerfect (don't know about Word or OOo) allow you to link to external graphics, so you don't need to actually include the file in the file itself.
Anyway, for extremely long documents (especially ones you don't have to exchange with others but only edit by yourself until you want the printer-ready PDF) your best bet is TeX, either in the LaTeX or the ConTeXt format.
I'm so sorry that your experience at a public school was so bad. Mine surely wasn't, and I've always been an eager learner, often ahead of my class and with a broader range of interests. But I never felt crippled or frustrated by my public school partipation.
Maybe part of the difference in experience comes from me being Italian, but I wouldn't put my finger on it.
You never hear anyone who speaks loudly condemn both sides for their ethical failures over the years.
Wrong. Lots of people do. But those who do are despised by BOTH the sides (instead of just one of the sides) so they get much less media coverage. SO it ends up that anybody that talks against Israel's landgrabbing is labelled antisemitic (which is ridiculous if not else because the Palestinians are as much semitic as the Israeli, and actually often more semitic because most of Israeli are Jew but with lots of caucasic blood in their veins, so even from a purely racist point of view the label doesn't even make sense), and anybody that talks against the Palestinians terrorism acts is labeled as 'sold-out to the Israelf-US capitalistic landgrabbing agenda' or whatever.
Also, the main problem is that people keep talking about culpability instead of thinkin in terms of find a solution. This is exactly the same reason why most vendettas go on for centuries. (Plus, if we have to talk about culpability in the Palestine case I would go for the UN, which almost literely threw the Jew colonists to the lions, by supporting the creation of the State of Israel despite the clear and loud voices against it from the neighbouring nations. And please nobody mention the Belford declaration, that was before WWII and the promise to wipe Israel out of the face of Earth if it got founded was declared right after WWII, and before the foundation of the State. As for the right of a nation to have a State, that goes for lots of persecuted nations around the world, but nobody gives a shit about them so that's quite obviously not enough of a reason.)
So the solution has to rely on a current analysis of the situation, and the current analysis is that Israel is still landgrabbing, using the settlers (or squatters, depending on the point of view) outside of its borders as an excuse to extend its control over Palestine. Until they dismantle those settlements (that serve no purpose but landgrabbing) and fully retreat within the UN-declared borders they simply have no right to complain about the Palestinian terrorism. Likewise, Palestine should officially and once for all acknolwedge the State of Israel (within the UN-declared borders) and cease all hostile activity against Israel.
Of course, it's not something that I foresee happening anytime soon.
I wouldn't call KTorrent 'lightweight'. Even with low CPU settins, it routinely eats up between 30% and 50% of my CPU cycles, with spikes in the 100% (old P4-M 1.6 GHz)
Well, given that he is the maintainer, Ingo Molnar's code is presumably more maintainable. It happens all the time in free software projects, someone submits a patch, the idea in the patch is good, but the section of the code is important enough that the maintainer must be certain he understands it. Rewriting it is a good way to gain such understanding.
I've done this kind of stuff myself, but this is not even remotely what happened for the Linux scheduler. See also other comments in this subthread for closer-to-the-truth descriptions of what happened.
Back when I was a maintainer, I guess I rewrote half the patches I got. Most submitters are just happy to see the functionality in there, but there was a few people with fragile egos take it as a personal insult That happens, life goes on, and usually the fragile egos grow more robust with time, and learn that developing what amounts to a prototype of the final code is also a valuable contribution.
Except that Con's implementation was everything but a prototype, and Ingo's implementation is not a rewriting of SD, but a different beast that shares some of the ideas with Con's scheduler (ironically, those same ideas that Ingo had dissed initially).
Better maintainenship is barely the issue here. If it really had been, Ingo could have prepared a simple framework to allow even just compile-time choice of scheduler, and then delegate the SD maintainership to Con. This would have given a much wider range of testers for the schedulers (the old one, SD, and even the new CFS), with significant means to determine which one was really better.
But no, apparently Ingo had no real intention to give SD a chance; heck, even just waiting for Con to get out of hospital would have been a sign of different intentions.
Ego? I am pissed at what happened, and my ego is not really directly involved with the events. I can just barely imagine how Con is feeling about it.
How does CFS work? CFS follows an approach similar to Con Kolivas' SD project:
Too bad that the NIH syndrome hit Linux Kernel development too, and Ingo Molnar, after blocking all the attempts to merge SD into mainline because "it couldn't be done", uses the same idea, whips out his own scheduler calling it "Completely Fair", and woosh it gets merged (easily, given that Ingo Molnar himself is the maintainer of that part of the kernel).
Con Kolivas is (obviously and justifiably) disgruntled, to say the least, he stops working on the SD project, and Linux loses an excellent developer because of politics.
Those 5 and 10 percent numbers are for percentages of registered voters to request a referendum on that particular decree. Once that hurdle is passed, fifty percent is the target number. The killer, though, is the provision that 40% of registered voters must vote or the referendum is invalid. Venezuela has had the most ambitious voter registration campaign in the Americas the past several years. When looking at historical voting percentages, this means that repeal of any decree is highly unlikely.
Guess what, that's the definition of democracy: people get to choose on the issue. If the majority of registered voters LIKE the president's decree, they keep it, if they don't they can repel it. And it only takes 5% of the registered voters to call for a referendum on it. Does the "hated for its demakrassy" "democracy-exporting" US have any similarly democratic way to repel laws?
hacking hardware is still orders of magnitude more difficult and expensive than hacking software
Oh is it? I guess that's the reason why most computer shops around here sold cheap PS mods that allowed them to play on pirated games, with minimum overprice if you wanted the mod installed by the shop techs instead of doing it yourself.
Oh I'll just love it when my ISP blocks my internet connection because I just sent a patchset by email to a *-devel list for peer review.
I know the good intentions and all that, but seriously, I'm already pissed enough at my ISP (Tiscali.it) that doesn't allow me to send more than 3 consecutive emails.
So either implement this kind of stuff with a proper way to tell spam sending from acceptable mass mailing, or be ready to handle hordes of very angry customers.
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IOW, what happens to the code in the file? Can you grab it and do whatever you want with it, as long as you put it in another file?
I suspect this would put the Apache license in a gray area just as much as GPL has regarding include files and the concept of derived work.
Same thing here in Italy if you want to become a minister. (Not that anybody abroad gives a damn about it.)
Is it, now. So what characterizes exactly the DNA of the typical human? And how much discrepancy between the DNA of an individual and the median DNA sequence of human beings are you willing to accept before said individual is NOT considered human anymore? For example how many chromosomes more (or less) than our typical 46 chromosomes are you willing to accept into such a human being (e.g. what about Down syndrome?) How many variations?
"Obeying orders" is never a valid excuse for doing something unethical or illegal. It doesn't relieve the wrongdoer of responsibility.
I'm not the OP and FWIW: I'm a mathematician and I worked in my last two years for a company that produces prostheses. My work for the next couple of years will be used to predict eruptions and reduce their threat. Also, this has absolutely nothing to do with the rest of the message.For example, I finally went with Dell because it was the only one that offered, in Italy, the option to buy a laptop with an American keyboard instead of an Italian keyboard, with an English version of the O/S instead of the localized one, and with a European electrical plug instead of the Italian one.
My laptop has served me rather well in these 6 years, despite my very rought handling, and requiring a bare minimum of upgrades and replacements (new cooling fans, more RAM, a new hard disk).
Now I'm starting to look around for a new system, and I found out that Dell doesn't offer any of the customization options I chose Dell for in the first place. When I bought my mom's laptop, it was extremely difficult to find a system that offered XP instead o Vista, now they are completely gone. I can't choose the O/S language, I can't choose the keyboard layout, and I can't choose the plugs. I'm going to look elsewhere, most definitely. A Lenovo, probably.
Really, since when you need a proxy to reach Groklaw?
There is a WP2LaTeX tool http://www.penguin.cz/~fojtik/wp2latex/wp2latex.htm available for both Windows and Linux which does a pretty decent conversion. BTW inserting accented characters in TeX & friends is rather straightforwards: \`e, \'e, \"e etc so you can usually get by with just a couple of extras keystrokes on a standard US keyboard.
Consider this: I'm actually surprised how far nouveau development already went, without any specs and starting from the obfuscated nv driver. How much further could they be now if they had the specs and didn't have to waste uncountable hours tracing register changes and second-guessing their use?
Physically embedding the graphics in your document is madness. WordPerfect (don't know about Word or OOo) allow you to link to external graphics, so you don't need to actually include the file in the file itself. Anyway, for extremely long documents (especially ones you don't have to exchange with others but only edit by yourself until you want the printer-ready PDF) your best bet is TeX, either in the LaTeX or the ConTeXt format.
More simply put, people watch Fox because it gives them what they want to hear.
Maybe part of the difference in experience comes from me being Italian, but I wouldn't put my finger on it.
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You never hear anyone who speaks loudly condemn both sides for their ethical failures over the years.
Wrong. Lots of people do. But those who do are despised by BOTH the sides (instead of just one of the sides) so they get much less media coverage. SO it ends up that anybody that talks against Israel's landgrabbing is labelled antisemitic (which is ridiculous if not else because the Palestinians are as much semitic as the Israeli, and actually often more semitic because most of Israeli are Jew but with lots of caucasic blood in their veins, so even from a purely racist point of view the label doesn't even make sense), and anybody that talks against the Palestinians terrorism acts is labeled as 'sold-out to the Israelf-US capitalistic landgrabbing agenda' or whatever.
Also, the main problem is that people keep talking about culpability instead of thinkin in terms of find a solution. This is exactly the same reason why most vendettas go on for centuries. (Plus, if we have to talk about culpability in the Palestine case I would go for the UN, which almost literely threw the Jew colonists to the lions, by supporting the creation of the State of Israel despite the clear and loud voices against it from the neighbouring nations. And please nobody mention the Belford declaration, that was before WWII and the promise to wipe Israel out of the face of Earth if it got founded was declared right after WWII, and before the foundation of the State. As for the right of a nation to have a State, that goes for lots of persecuted nations around the world, but nobody gives a shit about them so that's quite obviously not enough of a reason.)
So the solution has to rely on a current analysis of the situation, and the current analysis is that Israel is still landgrabbing, using the settlers (or squatters, depending on the point of view) outside of its borders as an excuse to extend its control over Palestine. Until they dismantle those settlements (that serve no purpose but landgrabbing) and fully retreat within the UN-declared borders they simply have no right to complain about the Palestinian terrorism. Likewise, Palestine should officially and once for all acknolwedge the State of Israel (within the UN-declared borders) and cease all hostile activity against Israel.
Of course, it's not something that I foresee happening anytime soon.
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I wouldn't call KTorrent 'lightweight'. Even with low CPU settins, it routinely eats up between 30% and 50% of my CPU cycles, with spikes in the 100% (old P4-M 1.6 GHz)
I've done this kind of stuff myself, but this is not even remotely what happened for the Linux scheduler. See also other comments in this subthread for closer-to-the-truth descriptions of what happened.
Except that Con's implementation was everything but a prototype, and Ingo's implementation is not a rewriting of SD, but a different beast that shares some of the ideas with Con's scheduler (ironically, those same ideas that Ingo had dissed initially).
Better maintainenship is barely the issue here. If it really had been, Ingo could have prepared a simple framework to allow even just compile-time choice of scheduler, and then delegate the SD maintainership to Con. This would have given a much wider range of testers for the schedulers (the old one, SD, and even the new CFS), with significant means to determine which one was really better.
But no, apparently Ingo had no real intention to give SD a chance; heck, even just waiting for Con to get out of hospital would have been a sign of different intentions.
Ego? I am pissed at what happened, and my ego is not really directly involved with the events. I can just barely imagine how Con is feeling about it.
Too bad that the NIH syndrome hit Linux Kernel development too, and Ingo Molnar, after blocking all the attempts to merge SD into mainline because "it couldn't be done", uses the same idea, whips out his own scheduler calling it "Completely Fair", and woosh it gets merged (easily, given that Ingo Molnar himself is the maintainer of that part of the kernel).
Con Kolivas is (obviously and justifiably) disgruntled, to say the least, he stops working on the SD project, and Linux loses an excellent developer because of politics.
Not for the target of the sarcasm.
Oh is it? I guess that's the reason why most computer shops around here sold cheap PS mods that allowed them to play on pirated games, with minimum overprice if you wanted the mod installed by the shop techs instead of doing it yourself.
I know the good intentions and all that, but seriously, I'm already pissed enough at my ISP (Tiscali.it) that doesn't allow me to send more than 3 consecutive emails.
So either implement this kind of stuff with a proper way to tell spam sending from acceptable mass mailing, or be ready to handle hordes of very angry customers.
testers.delete_if { |tester| tester.name.match /^richard$/i }
A 30% mileage increase with a car that weights 50% more (74 vs 02 diesel) is a pretty good advancement, if you ask me.
Really :D
And how would that be different from, say, Iraq?