The answer is simple to phrase but hard to acheive. We need to get off planet and set up solar collectors in space which transfer their energy to a power station in a geostable orbit around the earth, which transfers the energy to a power station on the equator, which feeds it into the global grid. Anything else is a stop-gap measure which cannot scale, whereas a setup like I've described can scale as long as there are materials to build more collectors. Practically limitless power.
As an aside, put this together with more advanced versions of rapid prototyping devices, the sort that started off printing 3D versions of X-Rays and are now advanced enought to print off cell phones and the like, and you can do to centralized manufacturing what the internet did to mass media.
Heady stuff, and nearing if not already within the realm of practical. This is the sort of environment where a communist economy would actually work, where the market is destroyed because there is PLENTY. But don't expect to see any capitalist robber barons pursuing such a dream... they'd rather destroy what PLENTY we already achieved with laws like those surrounding intellectual property. Am I the only one that finds it all reminiscent of the traditional "burning of wealth" parties that the Native Americans used to throw to keep their people working?
Is it actually illegal to redistribute, or does the GPL "infect" their code, because they are the ones who comingled it with their own code?
Well, technically, since you're modifying the code you externally sourced, it's not a matter of the GPL infecting your code. The GPL'd code that you downloaded was a perfectly healthy entity before you came along and started adding bits to it.
It's more like you inject something into the healthy code, and if what you injected turned out to be proprietary and whatnot, the GPL acts like antibodies to kill the infection. Which is your proprietary code.
Situation One:
Your company owns the copyright to the software outright, released it under the GPL, and doesn't accept contributions. No problems.
Situation Two:
Your company distributes GPL software that it didn't write, with or without modifications. Your company recogizes that this is not its intellectual property, and never should have been, being that it wasn't written by them, and doesn't claim it as an asset. No problems.
Situation Three:
Your company distributes GPL software that it didn't write, with modifications. Your company fails to recognize that part of this software was never theirs in the first place and that the rest of it is not an economic asset because they do not have the ability to control access to it in exchange for money, but you try to pull some bullshit with the numbers to make it seem like an asset. By doing this, you're misleading your investors and committing fraud. You have a problem.
But the problem isn't with the law. The law is working exactly as it should. If you're an OEM using open source software that you sourced externally for free and modified, it's not your property, and you shouldn't be listing it at all. If you've built your business around this lie, you're SUPPOSED to be fucked. That's what the law is for.
Yeah, but kids also seem to know surpsingly little about strategy and tactics. Their nimble little fingers may rule FPSs and fighting games but RTS and TBS will always be the domain of a well sculpted mind.
Don't know about you, but when I was younger playing MegaTF on Quakeworld, we were doing offense vs defense training and tactics twice a week for weekly 12-on-12 CTF league matches. I'm proud to say that at one point, I was the top ranked Pyro in the world, and could use evasion, communication and guerilla tactics to penetrate and disrupt the flow of just about any defensive strategy. I imagine young people today are doing the same sort of thing, and generalizing them as poor thinkers and strategists is both prejudicial and stupid.
I think that's wrong. As a smart, disciplined hard working person who cares about the welfare of other people, I've found that you are inevitably going to make enough money regardless.
I have a family to support too, but I never sell out. Selling out is about greed and laziness. I'm not an american, and I don't want that "dream". I'll just keep doing work that furthers my ideals while I'm alive, keep making money doing it, and die my own hero.
"let themselves be bought"? Perhaps they just finally realized ideals dont pay the bills, or feed the family. Just because you goto work for the man, doesnt mean you sold out your ideals.
If you create something with an objective that is based on ideals rather than profit, then proceed to sell control of that something to an entity that has as its mandate that it MUST be driven entirely by profit motive, it means you've sold out your ideals. You made a statement when you sold. That statement was "I know when I surrender control you may or may not continue to run this thing in a fashion that upholds my ideals, and I don't care, as long as you pay me."
If you go to work for the man, you sold out your ideals. Is that good, is that bad, subject to debate, but lets call a spade a spade, shall we?
It seems to me that there are a great many people in this thread, a common identifier being the use of the phrase IANAL, who are debating whether or not this is permitted under the law, when the whole gist of the story is that it's a humourous anecdote demonstrating that it's been established as fact that this is permitted. So, um... why not find a more interesting area to discuss, this is kind of past the point of debate.
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Why is motion in spacetime impossible? It has to do with the definitions of space and time and the equation of velocity v = dx/dt. What the equation is saying is that, if an object moves over any distance d x, there is an elapsed time d t. Since time is defined in physics as a parameter for denoting change (evolution), the equation for velocity along the time axis must be given as v = dt/dt which is self-referential. The self-reference comes from having to divide dt by itself. dt/dt always equals 1 because the units cancel out. This is of course meaningless as far as velocity is concerned.
Does the impossibility of motion in spacetime invalidate Einstein's relativity? The answer depends on whether one takes spacetime to be physically existent (as relativists do) or as an abstract, non-existent, mathematical construct for the historical mapping of measured events. If one chooses the former, one is obviously a crackpot or a fraud, or both. If one chooses the latter, then general relativity is to be seen as a mere math trick: the physical mechanism of gravity is still out there and it is incumbent upon physicists to find it.
This guy seems like an idiot to me. If you make the step to say that this is a mathematical construct that best describes our limited understanding of reality, which I believe to be true, you'll never be able to describe OR refute a more complete understanding of reality using that construct. You often need to discard and rethink the original concept or adapt it for it to improve.
None of our knowledge, scientific or otherwise, is fully and completely right. Not one bit, it's just the best abstract model we've got. Everything we know will eventually be demonstrated to be incomplete, inconsistent or wrong. Which means you can't use any existing models to refute a new one. You can use them as a guide, you can say that the old and the new are inconsistent, but to refute them you need to go to the real world.
It's really simple. The current corporate viewpoint clearly is that the value of a reputation is measured by how much money you can extract from it. In other words, figure out how much cheap crap can you sell for way more than anyone would pay for it if not for the reputation, add it all up, that's the value of your reputation.
Everyone's cashing in. Hell, companies speculate on it, they buy each others names and reputations from each other with all their merger/aquisition bullshit so they can use them to sucker us.
I don't think this is aimed at gamers, exactly. I would think this would be aimed at professionals. I could be wrong. Who else would need the ability to drive 4 monitors at over 1600x1200 each?
While I would agree that this is aimed at professionals, it's not intended to drive 4 monitors. It's intended to use 4 graphics cards to drive 1 monitor, that being what SLI is all about.
This keyboard is small, yes, but that's because it has no numbers on it. Is this for real? It can't be for real... it's purported to have been designed by a professional in ergonomics, but four of the five vowels are under the two pinky fingers.
You know why they call them "Banner Advertisements"?
It's because not all banners are advertisements. Banner refers to a place on a layout. I wouldn't use a path that included the word "banner" anymore, but there are still numerous internet applications I designed years ago in use by a great many people, and this adblock script would break quite a few of them.
I'm a professional internet app developer giving you a tip to prevent you causing yourself inconvenience with your adblock script. If you choose to ignore it, that's your option. At the end of the day though, guys like me build what you hack and modify with your scripts, so I'd say intentionally ignoring the advice of someone like me who tries to help you with it makes you the moron.
The original reason why the telcos needed to be regulated was because they were a monopoly. Now that they're not a monopoly, but are subject to healthy competition, what is the purpose in extending those regulations to the internet? Why not just stop regulating the telcos... the reason for that regulation is gone.
Speak for yourself. I block ads because my brain is not for sale. If I see an advertisement for something, I look for alternatives just on principle because I don't give money to companies that support brainwashing.
Also, further, if you want to hear about a tense political situation, listen to "What's Left of the Flag," by Flogging Molly. The lyrics are about the lead singer's father being shot to death. American Idiot is a meaningless rant that merely insults the United States as many times as possible.
Which one of these do you think more people can relate to?
And I think a good number of "us" are afraid to fess up to the fact that these actions that "our" nation has taken will in the long term lead to a few more thousand people getting blown up every few years than would have otherwise.
Meanwhile, true threats to the globe [read, North Korea] are left to fester.
Why is North Korea more of a threat to the globe than the US?
Darn, I just got RC3 built into my Knoppix remaster yesterday, and now I have to go get the Final. Anyway, I do like it, and have seven rss feeds in the toolbar, which are a lot of fun to click on and see the stories available on each site, all while looking at the current web page. Yes, I do have Slashdot as one of the rss feeds.
Awhhh... doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
This is exploitation of drunk people, plain and simple. Just like the 10c/joke services. No one in their right mind would pay for any of these services, and I strongly believe that no one in their right mind actually does.
These people make their money off drunk young people who find they blew hundreds of dollars on stupid inane crap when they were bored. It might not be criminal, but it's exploitative as hell.
Not that a lot of us Americans aren't idiots, but I don't think you're quite right here. Americans don't make those assumptions about Canada because of geographic proximity, we do so because Canada is generally seen as being, in very general terms, a lot like the US -- or, at least, more like the US than western Europe.
We're not. We're more like Western Europe. And generally, to the person on the street, the elements of our culture that make us more like the US than Western Europe are ones that we dislike, the ones that were forced upon us by US business interests and corrupt politicians.
When you tell a Canadian that he or she is like an American, you're pretty much guaranteed to piss them off. Oh, and while we're on the subject of defamation, stop wearing our flag on your backpack when you travel, you bastards, you're damaging our reputation!
Evolution is a fact. There is a theory about precisely how and why it occurs, the mechanism, they call this the Theory of Evolution. But evolution isn't uncertain. You can watch it happen in real time around you.
Gravity is a fact. There are theories about precisely how and why it occurs, the mechanism, the most widely accepted of which is called General Relativity. It doesn't jive with what we know about quantum mechanics, and it's generally accepted that it is incomplete and therefore wrong. But gravity isn't uncertain. You can drop an apple and watch it happen.
Intelligent design is demonstratably wrong. Claims that the existance of evolution is in doubt are demonstratably wrong. The more we understand, the more we come to realize just how inevitable it is that some sort of order must come out of universal chaos.
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The answer is simple to phrase but hard to acheive. We need to get off planet and set up solar collectors in space which transfer their energy to a power station in a geostable orbit around the earth, which transfers the energy to a power station on the equator, which feeds it into the global grid. Anything else is a stop-gap measure which cannot scale, whereas a setup like I've described can scale as long as there are materials to build more collectors. Practically limitless power.
As an aside, put this together with more advanced versions of rapid prototyping devices, the sort that started off printing 3D versions of X-Rays and are now advanced enought to print off cell phones and the like, and you can do to centralized manufacturing what the internet did to mass media.
Heady stuff, and nearing if not already within the realm of practical. This is the sort of environment where a communist economy would actually work, where the market is destroyed because there is PLENTY. But don't expect to see any capitalist robber barons pursuing such a dream... they'd rather destroy what PLENTY we already achieved with laws like those surrounding intellectual property. Am I the only one that finds it all reminiscent of the traditional "burning of wealth" parties that the Native Americans used to throw to keep their people working?
Is it actually illegal to redistribute, or does the GPL "infect" their code, because they are the ones who comingled it with their own code?
Well, technically, since you're modifying the code you externally sourced, it's not a matter of the GPL infecting your code. The GPL'd code that you downloaded was a perfectly healthy entity before you came along and started adding bits to it.
It's more like you inject something into the healthy code, and if what you injected turned out to be proprietary and whatnot, the GPL acts like antibodies to kill the infection. Which is your proprietary code.
Situation One: Your company owns the copyright to the software outright, released it under the GPL, and doesn't accept contributions. No problems. Situation Two: Your company distributes GPL software that it didn't write, with or without modifications. Your company recogizes that this is not its intellectual property, and never should have been, being that it wasn't written by them, and doesn't claim it as an asset. No problems. Situation Three: Your company distributes GPL software that it didn't write, with modifications. Your company fails to recognize that part of this software was never theirs in the first place and that the rest of it is not an economic asset because they do not have the ability to control access to it in exchange for money, but you try to pull some bullshit with the numbers to make it seem like an asset. By doing this, you're misleading your investors and committing fraud. You have a problem. But the problem isn't with the law. The law is working exactly as it should. If you're an OEM using open source software that you sourced externally for free and modified, it's not your property, and you shouldn't be listing it at all. If you've built your business around this lie, you're SUPPOSED to be fucked. That's what the law is for.
Ridiculous. I'll have you know people are actually very tasty and nutritious when prepared properly. Whereas MacDonalds....
Yeah, but kids also seem to know surpsingly little about strategy and tactics. Their nimble little fingers may rule FPSs and fighting games but RTS and TBS will always be the domain of a well sculpted mind.
Don't know about you, but when I was younger playing MegaTF on Quakeworld, we were doing offense vs defense training and tactics twice a week for weekly 12-on-12 CTF league matches. I'm proud to say that at one point, I was the top ranked Pyro in the world, and could use evasion, communication and guerilla tactics to penetrate and disrupt the flow of just about any defensive strategy. I imagine young people today are doing the same sort of thing, and generalizing them as poor thinkers and strategists is both prejudicial and stupid.
I bet my daughter would kick your ass at Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo. She beats me every time. But I can still beat her at Rapunzel.
I think that's wrong. As a smart, disciplined hard working person who cares about the welfare of other people, I've found that you are inevitably going to make enough money regardless.
I have a family to support too, but I never sell out. Selling out is about greed and laziness. I'm not an american, and I don't want that "dream". I'll just keep doing work that furthers my ideals while I'm alive, keep making money doing it, and die my own hero.
"let themselves be bought"? Perhaps they just finally realized ideals dont pay the bills, or feed the family. Just because you goto work for the man, doesnt mean you sold out your ideals.
If you create something with an objective that is based on ideals rather than profit, then proceed to sell control of that something to an entity that has as its mandate that it MUST be driven entirely by profit motive, it means you've sold out your ideals. You made a statement when you sold. That statement was "I know when I surrender control you may or may not continue to run this thing in a fashion that upholds my ideals, and I don't care, as long as you pay me."
If you go to work for the man, you sold out your ideals. Is that good, is that bad, subject to debate, but lets call a spade a spade, shall we?
It seems to me that there are a great many people in this thread, a common identifier being the use of the phrase IANAL, who are debating whether or not this is permitted under the law, when the whole gist of the story is that it's a humourous anecdote demonstrating that it's been established as fact that this is permitted. So, um... why not find a more interesting area to discuss, this is kind of past the point of debate.
Why is motion in spacetime impossible? It has to do with the definitions of space and time and the equation of velocity v = dx/dt. What the equation is saying is that, if an object moves over any distance d x, there is an elapsed time d t. Since time is defined in physics as a parameter for denoting change (evolution), the equation for velocity along the time axis must be given as v = dt/dt which is self-referential. The self-reference comes from having to divide dt by itself. dt/dt always equals 1 because the units cancel out. This is of course meaningless as far as velocity is concerned.
Does the impossibility of motion in spacetime invalidate Einstein's relativity? The answer depends on whether one takes spacetime to be physically existent (as relativists do) or as an abstract, non-existent, mathematical construct for the historical mapping of measured events. If one chooses the former, one is obviously a crackpot or a fraud, or both. If one chooses the latter, then general relativity is to be seen as a mere math trick: the physical mechanism of gravity is still out there and it is incumbent upon physicists to find it.
This guy seems like an idiot to me. If you make the step to say that this is a mathematical construct that best describes our limited understanding of reality, which I believe to be true, you'll never be able to describe OR refute a more complete understanding of reality using that construct. You often need to discard and rethink the original concept or adapt it for it to improve. None of our knowledge, scientific or otherwise, is fully and completely right. Not one bit, it's just the best abstract model we've got. Everything we know will eventually be demonstrated to be incomplete, inconsistent or wrong. Which means you can't use any existing models to refute a new one. You can use them as a guide, you can say that the old and the new are inconsistent, but to refute them you need to go to the real world.
It's really simple. The current corporate viewpoint clearly is that the value of a reputation is measured by how much money you can extract from it. In other words, figure out how much cheap crap can you sell for way more than anyone would pay for it if not for the reputation, add it all up, that's the value of your reputation. Everyone's cashing in. Hell, companies speculate on it, they buy each others names and reputations from each other with all their merger/aquisition bullshit so they can use them to sucker us.
I don't think this is aimed at gamers, exactly. I would think this would be aimed at professionals. I could be wrong. Who else would need the ability to drive 4 monitors at over 1600x1200 each?
While I would agree that this is aimed at professionals, it's not intended to drive 4 monitors. It's intended to use 4 graphics cards to drive 1 monitor, that being what SLI is all about.
Doesn't really impress me much, personally.
This keyboard is small, yes, but that's because it has no numbers on it. Is this for real? It can't be for real... it's purported to have been designed by a professional in ergonomics, but four of the five vowels are under the two pinky fingers.
This looks like a joke to me.
You know why they call them "Banner Advertisements"?
It's because not all banners are advertisements. Banner refers to a place on a layout. I wouldn't use a path that included the word "banner" anymore, but there are still numerous internet applications I designed years ago in use by a great many people, and this adblock script would break quite a few of them.
I'm a professional internet app developer giving you a tip to prevent you causing yourself inconvenience with your adblock script. If you choose to ignore it, that's your option. At the end of the day though, guys like me build what you hack and modify with your scripts, so I'd say intentionally ignoring the advice of someone like me who tries to help you with it makes you the moron.
The original reason why the telcos needed to be regulated was because they were a monopoly. Now that they're not a monopoly, but are subject to healthy competition, what is the purpose in extending those regulations to the internet? Why not just stop regulating the telcos... the reason for that regulation is gone.
Speak for yourself. I block ads because my brain is not for sale. If I see an advertisement for something, I look for alternatives just on principle because I don't give money to companies that support brainwashing.
I've kept non-advert banners in the /banners/ folder. Good luck using the site when you've blocked all the navigation.
Also, further, if you want to hear about a tense political situation, listen to "What's Left of the Flag," by Flogging Molly. The lyrics are about the lead singer's father being shot to death. American Idiot is a meaningless rant that merely insults the United States as many times as possible.
Which one of these do you think more people can relate to?
So are you saying that if we throw all our collective might behind the Iraqi army, we might defeat the evil overlords?
And I think a good number of "us" are afraid to fess up to the fact that these actions that "our" nation has taken will in the long term lead to a few more thousand people getting blown up every few years than would have otherwise.
Meanwhile, true threats to the globe [read, North Korea] are left to fester.
Why is North Korea more of a threat to the globe than the US?
Darn, I just got RC3 built into my Knoppix remaster yesterday, and now I have to go get the Final. Anyway, I do like it, and have seven rss feeds in the toolbar, which are a lot of fun to click on and see the stories available on each site, all while looking at the current web page. Yes, I do have Slashdot as one of the rss feeds.
Awhhh... doesn't that make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
I need another Glenfiddich... excuse me...
This is exploitation of drunk people, plain and simple. Just like the 10c/joke services. No one in their right mind would pay for any of these services, and I strongly believe that no one in their right mind actually does.
These people make their money off drunk young people who find they blew hundreds of dollars on stupid inane crap when they were bored. It might not be criminal, but it's exploitative as hell.
Not that a lot of us Americans aren't idiots, but I don't think you're quite right here. Americans don't make those assumptions about Canada because of geographic proximity, we do so because Canada is generally seen as being, in very general terms, a lot like the US -- or, at least, more like the US than western Europe.
We're not. We're more like Western Europe. And generally, to the person on the street, the elements of our culture that make us more like the US than Western Europe are ones that we dislike, the ones that were forced upon us by US business interests and corrupt politicians.
When you tell a Canadian that he or she is like an American, you're pretty much guaranteed to piss them off. Oh, and while we're on the subject of defamation, stop wearing our flag on your backpack when you travel, you bastards, you're damaging our reputation!
Evolution is a fact. There is a theory about precisely how and why it occurs, the mechanism, they call this the Theory of Evolution. But evolution isn't uncertain. You can watch it happen in real time around you.
Gravity is a fact. There are theories about precisely how and why it occurs, the mechanism, the most widely accepted of which is called General Relativity. It doesn't jive with what we know about quantum mechanics, and it's generally accepted that it is incomplete and therefore wrong. But gravity isn't uncertain. You can drop an apple and watch it happen.
Intelligent design is demonstratably wrong. Claims that the existance of evolution is in doubt are demonstratably wrong. The more we understand, the more we come to realize just how inevitable it is that some sort of order must come out of universal chaos.