Right. They're rare -- there are more Canadians than $.50 coins in circulation. They've given numismatists $.50 pieces. They have not given the people $.50 pieces, which is what I meant by "give us a $.50 piece."
If other programmers can not understand it, then it's bad.
I can't understand most of the kernel source. My C skills are rusty, and I know nothing of kernel design. That means it's my fault, not the kernel hackers'. Is it possible that the submitter isn't seeing the whole picture, and failing to take his own ignorance into account?
This relies upon the registered users of WTP to make the moral choice "yes this petition that I vehemently disagree with is valid for debate". I don't know that I could trust myself with that choice, given some of the things I see on that site.
Damn straight! As an American expat in Canada, I truly truly hate returning to the states and getting a wallet full of ones. Having $1 and $2 coins makes money so much easier to deal with. I say let's go the next step now: throw out the nickel and quarter, and give us a $.50 piece.
Worthless? Didn't you look at the pictures at the end of the article? It seems that the craftspeople who worked on the ship got an iPod shuffle each! That's a $50 value! Hardly worthless.
ABI is included in "etc". Consider, for example, the lack of fork() in windows. It's a complete showstopper for linux programs which depend on fork. That's an API-level problem.
Barriers are not "artificially created" between operating systems. Different operating systems have different APIs, different underlying assumptions, etc., so most barriers between them are very real and difficult to break down, often costing thousands of developer hours. And even then, nothing is guaranteed to work.
That will be true if such laws are passed. But this patent is not that law. And even then, there already exist open-source printers. It might not be legal to sell them, but it'll be legal to print every single part of them. Then, you take the parts home and assemble them yourself. Most likely, open-source printers will be offered for sale, fully DRM-encubered. Take it home, flash the firmware, and print away!
The point is, there are already open source printers. Hackers aren't just going to vanish (unless tech innovation also vanishes). In the worst case, we can group-buy an industrial printer that implements DRM, gut it of all electronics and restore it with our own.
Looks like the patent protects a technology to implement DRM on printers. So... if you want to implement DRM on your printer, you'll have to pay the owner of this patent licensing fees. Otherwise, no DRM. So, non-DRM printers will be cheaper and more readily available.
Remember guys, a patent is not a law that things must be done this way! It's the opposite -- if things are done this way, you'll have to pay for it.
Then get out. You're still young, you can learn an entirely new trade and expect to succeed. There'll be some pain and difficulty along the way... but it won't be as bad as hating your life for the next 40 years. (yes, 40 -- you don't think the retirement age is going to go down, do you?)
I'm sorry... did you say that not using SI prefixes is "more correct"? That is simply ridiculous. The whole point of SI is to make bringing things into scale easier. People get the weirdest ideas sometimes...
Your references only discuss carbon emission. In my post, I refer to nasty chemicals that are likely involved in the production of vatmeat. These are different topics. We can reduce our carbon emissions to zero and still destroy the world by inappropriate handling of chemical, biological, and radioactive products.
Please read before jumping to conclusions, and avoid ad hominem* attacks.
Of course factory farms cause environmental harm. Like all other large-scale production, we need to carefully capture and recycle products which are wasted. Personally, I'd love to see ecologically friendly production of healthy, nutritious, tasty vatmeat. However, I have concerns about the ecological impact, and about the safety of these products.
Finally, inhibiting progress can be a good thing. Monsanto GM corn / roundup have been linked to significant increase of cancer in rats. If we'd inhibited Monsanto's progress, we wouldn't be finding this out a full decade after they started selling this for human consumption.
*(oh... this is truly sad: Mozilla's spellchecker wants to correct 'hominem' to 'Eminem'... I like Eminem and all, but what has this world come to?)
What about dung, blood, gelatin, casein, bone meal, rennet, cysteine, tallow, and countless other cow byproducts? Like the storied native americans with the buffalo, we really make use of 100% of the cow. Hundreds if not thousands of products directly use cow byproducts, and artificial production of meat is likely to include nasty organic chemicals that are extremely harmful to the environment if spilled / released in significant quantities... without all of the useful byproducts.
What we should really be doing is breeding cows without heads. People should realize that the living bodies we see are simply the highest form of technology we have ever witnessed. Artificial replication of this stuff is just ridiculous. I dismiss veganism largely because of my holistic view of the world economy -- plastic replacements for these things are more destructive to the environment, we need animal-derived nutrients to live, and vat-grown meat is going to involve some seriously scary shit.
No. I do not pledge allegience. But if I must, I'd rather pledge to the unwashed masses than some soon-to-be-senile woman wielding supreme executive power on the basis of some watery tart throwing a sword at her.
As much as I want to go to mars myself, I totally agree with this. The trial of 6 russian men went well. I doubt it'd have gone as well if romantic intrigue were added to the mix. Here's a fun thought -- no matter how we select women, men / sperm to travel, we'll be practicing eugenics. Yay!
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Right. They're rare -- there are more Canadians than $.50 coins in circulation. They've given numismatists $.50 pieces. They have not given the people $.50 pieces, which is what I meant by "give us a $.50 piece."
If other programmers can not understand it, then it's bad.
I can't understand most of the kernel source. My C skills are rusty, and I know nothing of kernel design. That means it's my fault, not the kernel hackers'. Is it possible that the submitter isn't seeing the whole picture, and failing to take his own ignorance into account?
This relies upon the registered users of WTP to make the moral choice "yes this petition that I vehemently disagree with is valid for debate". I don't know that I could trust myself with that choice, given some of the things I see on that site.
Damn straight! As an American expat in Canada, I truly truly hate returning to the states and getting a wallet full of ones. Having $1 and $2 coins makes money so much easier to deal with. I say let's go the next step now: throw out the nickel and quarter, and give us a $.50 piece.
No, they're the best defense against scam artists.
FTFY.
Weirdly... breaking user space could well result in more deaths than a piddly squad.
With drugs, he can't work. If he can't work, he can't afford the sanity-making pills. So insane he goes. The robots keep him away from that precipice.
Worthless? Didn't you look at the pictures at the end of the article? It seems that the craftspeople who worked on the ship got an iPod shuffle each! That's a $50 value! Hardly worthless.
ABI is included in "etc". Consider, for example, the lack of fork() in windows. It's a complete showstopper for linux programs which depend on fork. That's an API-level problem.
Barriers are not "artificially created" between operating systems. Different operating systems have different APIs, different underlying assumptions, etc., so most barriers between them are very real and difficult to break down, often costing thousands of developer hours. And even then, nothing is guaranteed to work.
That will be true if such laws are passed. But this patent is not that law. And even then, there already exist open-source printers. It might not be legal to sell them, but it'll be legal to print every single part of them. Then, you take the parts home and assemble them yourself. Most likely, open-source printers will be offered for sale, fully DRM-encubered. Take it home, flash the firmware, and print away!
The point is, there are already open source printers. Hackers aren't just going to vanish (unless tech innovation also vanishes). In the worst case, we can group-buy an industrial printer that implements DRM, gut it of all electronics and restore it with our own.
You can still use DRM-encumbered printers to print parts for open-source printers...
Looks like the patent protects a technology to implement DRM on printers. So... if you want to implement DRM on your printer, you'll have to pay the owner of this patent licensing fees. Otherwise, no DRM. So, non-DRM printers will be cheaper and more readily available.
Remember guys, a patent is not a law that things must be done this way! It's the opposite -- if things are done this way, you'll have to pay for it.
Then get out. You're still young, you can learn an entirely new trade and expect to succeed. There'll be some pain and difficulty along the way... but it won't be as bad as hating your life for the next 40 years. (yes, 40 -- you don't think the retirement age is going to go down, do you?)
Yeah, tsunamis never killed anybody...
I'm sorry... did you say that not using SI prefixes is "more correct"? That is simply ridiculous. The whole point of SI is to make bringing things into scale easier. People get the weirdest ideas sometimes...
Your references only discuss carbon emission. In my post, I refer to nasty chemicals that are likely involved in the production of vatmeat. These are different topics. We can reduce our carbon emissions to zero and still destroy the world by inappropriate handling of chemical, biological, and radioactive products.
Please read before jumping to conclusions, and avoid ad hominem* attacks.
Of course factory farms cause environmental harm. Like all other large-scale production, we need to carefully capture and recycle products which are wasted. Personally, I'd love to see ecologically friendly production of healthy, nutritious, tasty vatmeat. However, I have concerns about the ecological impact, and about the safety of these products.
Finally, inhibiting progress can be a good thing. Monsanto GM corn / roundup have been linked to significant increase of cancer in rats. If we'd inhibited Monsanto's progress, we wouldn't be finding this out a full decade after they started selling this for human consumption.
*(oh... this is truly sad: Mozilla's spellchecker wants to correct 'hominem' to 'Eminem'... I like Eminem and all, but what has this world come to?)
What about dung, blood, gelatin, casein, bone meal, rennet, cysteine, tallow, and countless other cow byproducts? Like the storied native americans with the buffalo, we really make use of 100% of the cow. Hundreds if not thousands of products directly use cow byproducts, and artificial production of meat is likely to include nasty organic chemicals that are extremely harmful to the environment if spilled / released in significant quantities... without all of the useful byproducts.
What we should really be doing is breeding cows without heads. People should realize that the living bodies we see are simply the highest form of technology we have ever witnessed. Artificial replication of this stuff is just ridiculous. I dismiss veganism largely because of my holistic view of the world economy -- plastic replacements for these things are more destructive to the environment, we need animal-derived nutrients to live, and vat-grown meat is going to involve some seriously scary shit.
No. I do not pledge allegience. But if I must, I'd rather pledge to the unwashed masses than some soon-to-be-senile woman wielding supreme executive power on the basis of some watery tart throwing a sword at her.
My biggest stumbling block to becoming a Canadian citizen is pledging allegience to the queen. It's mandatory for new citizens.
Especially when "what comes next" is independence from western control of your oil.
As much as I want to go to mars myself, I totally agree with this. The trial of 6 russian men went well. I doubt it'd have gone as well if romantic intrigue were added to the mix. Here's a fun thought -- no matter how we select women, men / sperm to travel, we'll be practicing eugenics. Yay!
Familiar with Branson's previous shenanigans, I must wonder: does he intend to impregnate all the women before they leave for / on the way to Mars?
Yeah... I read the source, and downloaded the images. Who the hell has time for all that mouse work?