Is a country that gives you the freedom to keep slaves more free than a country that doesn't?
If you repackage my software and are better at marketing it than me, but you build vendor lock in into the code and a million people end up beholden to you as a consequence, did my code help bring people freedom?
Why do drug companies have to release their secret recipies, and car companies have to submit to stringent supervision, but software companies are allowed to release binary software onto billions of computers with absolutely zero oversight?
Releasing source should be required. It's a public safety concern that it is not.
Except that the GPLv3 doesn't benefit them at all. It doesn't even benefit "everyone." It benefits you, not them. Why should they do something that is harmful to themselves just because you want it?
Charitable != Harmful.
One motive might be a desire to remain relevant rather than irrelevant. Personally, that's always been a major motive behind my charitable deeds...
They could have.
No, they couldn't have, at least not if they wanted it to be distributable with Linux (which was kinda the point). The Linux kernel is GPL v.2 only, which is incompatible with the GPL v.3.
Furthermore, even the GPL 2 provides some protection against patents, as a couple people have pointed out.
In short, FUD.
What a load of horseshit. You can distribute binary device drivers alongside the Linux kernel if you wish, as long as you have the permissions of the rights holders. Nvidia drivers anyone? There is absolutely zero preventing distributing GPLv3 device drivers. Everything you said was false.
Besides, who puts something on Facebook that they _want_ to keep _private_?
Facebook made it's mark by being a place you could safely share things that were only meant for friends and family. It offered a place where you had some privacy and could put up pictures that you wouldn't put on the general internet. That was what made it go big. People who would never put their kids pictures up on a my myspace profile felt this was a safe way to share pictures with grandma.
It was all a big snow job, but still, that was how Facebook came to be big. Facebook users indeed came there to put things up that they wanted to keep private.
Bill Gates sure does seem to spend a lot of time talking to this tranny...
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That's why you give them something that makes the coding easy as in not monotonous but not easy as in done for you. Then they have fun creating and learn to enjoy creating. When they have an idea that they can't implement, THAT is when you introduce the syntax.
Not talking out of my ass here... I tried a bunch of different things, including LOGO and Squeak. Scratch was the best received. Eventually, Scratch will naturally lead to Smalltalk.
As long as you have a point to it, nothing. But if you are doing it just 'because all the cool kids are' then eventually you are going to have to face the realization that you still need to be able to make money to pay for it.
Unless you can build it once and have it continue to operate indefinitely. Then, all you need to do is guard it against sabotage. No money involved. That's good design.
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Scratch is great in that it teaches how to "think" like a programmer. However, ends up not really doing you a lot of good in the long run. Python is an easy to use language but it also is very "real" in that knowing Python can get you somewhere. That said, Scratch is very easy to use and you can make decent applications in there, but in the end you have effectively a "toy" language which won't really help you in the long run.
You need to get them hungry to create first. Once they hit those limitations, that's when you raise the bar. You can do pretty sophisticated event driven programming in Scratch, and you can reverse engineer other kid's creations from within the IDE. I know there are a lot of kids who moved on to ActionScript from Scratch.
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Get em a RepRap. Teach em to do 3D modeling, back off and let em make their own toys. That's what I'm doing... my kid has already developed a bunch of toys and the circuit boards for our RepRap are in the mail.
As for teaching kids programming, I'd suggest starting with Scratch from MIT. My daughter loves it.
Personally, I think to a degree it's about getting people in the consumer sector to fund certain kinds of technological development. Realistic simulators with a good interface are important to, say, building military drones, and Americas Army: The Game is pretty compelling evidence that the military thinks it's important to be involved in this sort of technology. Could be there are back room contracts that game engines are being built to meet, after which the creator can scoop up some extra cash selling games on the side.
Hell, John Carmack builds a) 3D engines and b) spacecraft. He would totally have both the skills and the connections that would make these sorts of business arrangements plausible.
I've been thinking about ways to utilize human urine for energy for a while now... you can make very powerful high explosives out of it, if you could find a way to harness that, we could make our own fuel.
It is wrong to blindly behave according to law. It is right to behave according to your conscience.
It is right for systems of which individuals are only a component to elevate some individuals to higher levels of power and responsibility and to reduce other individuals capacity to wield the power of the system.
However, the intersection of these facts do not create a situation where it is right to become a two faced liar and behave according to laws that are not consistent with your conscience while scheming to further the agenda of your conscience.
The system of law and punishment creates the two faced liars. It is not civilized in the slightest.
A civilized system does not act to punish by causing harm, but elevates and reduces the influence of individuals according to their suitability at any particular moment in time, and allows them to be safe, happy and as involved and connected with others as is reasonable every step of the way.
When your society is organized as a vicious competition, you're nothing but a pack of savages. Pointing to a formalized legal structure doesn't make that sort of behavior civilized.
On our way to destruction is bit over-dramatic. Our population growth has dipped into the negative, but that's not a bad thing. In fact its required as the worlds population was/is still nearing unmanageable numbers.
China and India hold 2/3 of the worlds population. They both export food. Sorry, but all you are doing is perpetuating a myth that was never real, but rather was created by those whose ideological goals are furthered by that assumption.
Welcome to your future. The western world is on the same trend, just a little behind the curve. I wonder why the rest of the world doesn't want to be like us?
It was originally called Acedia. It's an ancient Greek word describing a state of listlessness or torpor.
This was subdivided into Despair (Latin, Tristitia) and Sloth (Latin, Socordia)
It wasn't until around the 17th century that the interpretation of laziness became dominant. It was intended to refer to a sadness and depression that kills the charitable nature of a mans soul, cutting him off from the possibility of redemption.
It's true. That's why when you take a sales job you have to get in a circle at 7 am and do the big "ra ra ra" thing. It allows you to be contagiously happy and make money. It's pretty commonplace in workplaces all over the world. The only difference is, the Japanese don't have enough population to be able to make ends meet, so they've created a robot to fill the role that would otherwise be filled by your "team leader".
Did you know Sadness is and has always been one of the seven deadly sins? Nowadays, they call it "Sloth".
1) Be generous 2) Create trust 3) Scale out 4) Betray trust 5) Profit
It's called "Selling out". Also known under such words as "Betrayal" and "Traitor".
Yes, this is a good way to make money.
It's such a good way to make money, it really ought to make us re-evaluate this whole "money" concept as an organizational structure. Betrayal should not systematically lead to power. It should lead to death at the hands of your peers, or if you're a sympathetic sort, it should lead to disenfranchisement and a permanent spot at the bottom of societies totem pole.
How about "If you live off the backs of slaves, you will die by the hands of slaves"?
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Replace the word "Manager" with the word "Parasite", and this article becomes very enlightening.
Is a country that gives you the freedom to keep slaves more free than a country that doesn't?
If you repackage my software and are better at marketing it than me, but you build vendor lock in into the code and a million people end up beholden to you as a consequence, did my code help bring people freedom?
Why do drug companies have to release their secret recipies, and car companies have to submit to stringent supervision, but software companies are allowed to release binary software onto billions of computers with absolutely zero oversight?
Releasing source should be required. It's a public safety concern that it is not.
Except that the GPLv3 doesn't benefit them at all. It doesn't even benefit "everyone." It benefits you, not them. Why should they do something that is harmful to themselves just because you want it?
Charitable != Harmful.
One motive might be a desire to remain relevant rather than irrelevant. Personally, that's always been a major motive behind my charitable deeds...
They could have. No, they couldn't have, at least not if they wanted it to be distributable with Linux (which was kinda the point). The Linux kernel is GPL v.2 only, which is incompatible with the GPL v.3. Furthermore, even the GPL 2 provides some protection against patents, as a couple people have pointed out. In short, FUD.
What a load of horseshit. You can distribute binary device drivers alongside the Linux kernel if you wish, as long as you have the permissions of the rights holders. Nvidia drivers anyone? There is absolutely zero preventing distributing GPLv3 device drivers. Everything you said was false.
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They can sue for infringement of software patents.
Which is why they didn't use the GPLv3. They could have. They didn't, because they prefer to reserve the right to do exactly that.
Besides, who puts something on Facebook that they _want_ to keep _private_?
Facebook made it's mark by being a place you could safely share things that were only meant for friends and family. It offered a place where you had some privacy and could put up pictures that you wouldn't put on the general internet. That was what made it go big. People who would never put their kids pictures up on a my myspace profile felt this was a safe way to share pictures with grandma.
It was all a big snow job, but still, that was how Facebook came to be big. Facebook users indeed came there to put things up that they wanted to keep private.
Bill Gates sure does seem to spend a lot of time talking to this tranny...
That's why you give them something that makes the coding easy as in not monotonous but not easy as in done for you. Then they have fun creating and learn to enjoy creating. When they have an idea that they can't implement, THAT is when you introduce the syntax.
Not talking out of my ass here... I tried a bunch of different things, including LOGO and Squeak. Scratch was the best received. Eventually, Scratch will naturally lead to Smalltalk.
As long as you have a point to it, nothing. But if you are doing it just 'because all the cool kids are' then eventually you are going to have to face the realization that you still need to be able to make money to pay for it.
Unless you can build it once and have it continue to operate indefinitely. Then, all you need to do is guard it against sabotage. No money involved. That's good design.
Scratch is great in that it teaches how to "think" like a programmer. However, ends up not really doing you a lot of good in the long run. Python is an easy to use language but it also is very "real" in that knowing Python can get you somewhere. That said, Scratch is very easy to use and you can make decent applications in there, but in the end you have effectively a "toy" language which won't really help you in the long run.
You need to get them hungry to create first. Once they hit those limitations, that's when you raise the bar. You can do pretty sophisticated event driven programming in Scratch, and you can reverse engineer other kid's creations from within the IDE. I know there are a lot of kids who moved on to ActionScript from Scratch.
Get em a RepRap. Teach em to do 3D modeling, back off and let em make their own toys. That's what I'm doing... my kid has already developed a bunch of toys and the circuit boards for our RepRap are in the mail.
As for teaching kids programming, I'd suggest starting with Scratch from MIT. My daughter loves it.
So, use an acronym for your password, but write down the full sentence.
Use the password "Dftpu2jomaw!" and write yourself a note that says "Don't forget to pick up 2 jugs of milk after work!"
Personally, I think to a degree it's about getting people in the consumer sector to fund certain kinds of technological development. Realistic simulators with a good interface are important to, say, building military drones, and Americas Army: The Game is pretty compelling evidence that the military thinks it's important to be involved in this sort of technology. Could be there are back room contracts that game engines are being built to meet, after which the creator can scoop up some extra cash selling games on the side.
Hell, John Carmack builds a) 3D engines and b) spacecraft. He would totally have both the skills and the connections that would make these sorts of business arrangements plausible.
I've been thinking about ways to utilize human urine for energy for a while now... you can make very powerful high explosives out of it, if you could find a way to harness that, we could make our own fuel.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I guess... looks like a beautiful sunset obscured by a bunch of crap to me...
It is wrong to blindly behave according to law. It is right to behave according to your conscience.
It is right for systems of which individuals are only a component to elevate some individuals to higher levels of power and responsibility and to reduce other individuals capacity to wield the power of the system.
However, the intersection of these facts do not create a situation where it is right to become a two faced liar and behave according to laws that are not consistent with your conscience while scheming to further the agenda of your conscience.
The system of law and punishment creates the two faced liars. It is not civilized in the slightest.
A civilized system does not act to punish by causing harm, but elevates and reduces the influence of individuals according to their suitability at any particular moment in time, and allows them to be safe, happy and as involved and connected with others as is reasonable every step of the way.
When your society is organized as a vicious competition, you're nothing but a pack of savages. Pointing to a formalized legal structure doesn't make that sort of behavior civilized.
Don't you hate it when parasitic, lying, adulterous whores follow you around? Yeah, me too...
On our way to destruction is bit over-dramatic. Our population growth has dipped into the negative, but that's not a bad thing. In fact its required as the worlds population was/is still nearing unmanageable numbers.
China and India hold 2/3 of the worlds population. They both export food. Sorry, but all you are doing is perpetuating a myth that was never real, but rather was created by those whose ideological goals are furthered by that assumption.
You are wrong. Japan is a society on its way to destruction because their population have intentionally sterilized themselves.
Some sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7084749.stm
Welcome to your future. The western world is on the same trend, just a little behind the curve. I wonder why the rest of the world doesn't want to be like us?
It was originally called Acedia. It's an ancient Greek word describing a state of listlessness or torpor.
This was subdivided into Despair (Latin, Tristitia) and Sloth (Latin, Socordia)
It wasn't until around the 17th century that the interpretation of laziness became dominant. It was intended to refer to a sadness and depression that kills the charitable nature of a mans soul, cutting him off from the possibility of redemption.
Nowadays, we label it "mental illness".
Work is work, it's not to be freakin' enjoyed.
I have a label for people who have that attitude about life. It's "WHORE".
It's true. That's why when you take a sales job you have to get in a circle at 7 am and do the big "ra ra ra" thing. It allows you to be contagiously happy and make money. It's pretty commonplace in workplaces all over the world. The only difference is, the Japanese don't have enough population to be able to make ends meet, so they've created a robot to fill the role that would otherwise be filled by your "team leader".
Did you know Sadness is and has always been one of the seven deadly sins? Nowadays, they call it "Sloth".
1) Be generous
2) Create trust
3) Scale out
4) Betray trust
5) Profit
It's called "Selling out". Also known under such words as "Betrayal" and "Traitor".
Yes, this is a good way to make money.
It's such a good way to make money, it really ought to make us re-evaluate this whole "money" concept as an organizational structure. Betrayal should not systematically lead to power. It should lead to death at the hands of your peers, or if you're a sympathetic sort, it should lead to disenfranchisement and a permanent spot at the bottom of societies totem pole.
How about "If you live off the backs of slaves, you will die by the hands of slaves"?
Yeah, that one holds a lot of appeal.
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