The GPL on the other hand somehow assumes that a company using open code to benefit themselves, and hence making better software available to everyone, is a bad thing, because people are making money off of it.
Wrong. The GPL writers assumed that self-interested companies will take open code and deliberately market slightly incompatible versions which must then be reverse-engineered to regain interoperability, at significant cost to whomever does not have the source code. This assumption has been borne out time and time again throughout the history of the PC (not UNIX!) industry. Preventing the company from closing the source means that whoever originally wrote the code is not placed at a disadvantage. THERE IS NOTHING IN THE GPL THAT FORBIDS YOU TO PROFIT FROM THE SOFTWARE.
No. Matrox does not provide open source drivers for any of their recent cards, nor specifications for any cards anymore. They have completely abandoned supporting third-party open source development. Furthermore, they have placed a license on their previously free software G-series drivers which is no longer usable in any free software project.
The problem is that a modem is a realtime application, and general purpose operating systems and computers are notoriously bad at realtime tasks. HCF modems are somewhat better than HSP modems, because only the UART is offloaded to the CPU. When the actual signal processing is also placed on the CPU, you are inviting latency and dropped connections when the CPU gets busy doing something else. Most of the time it won't happen, but when you're doing something like playing a game where the CPU has its hands tied up doing plenty of other things, the utility of offloading even simple realtime tasks to hardware becomes clear.
I've always thought this might be a good idea, and certain OTC drugs and alcohol should be included in it since it is as much a mind-altering and addictive drug as any other. To obtain this license you must show proof of either employment or disability and it will simply be added as a field on the driver's license to avoid additional administrative overhead. If you are found to be using drugs or drinking in unauthorized places or if you demonstrate an impaired condition while driving or operating machinery, the intoxication license is suspended for a minimum period (perhaps along with the driver's license in the latter case).
Correction: People are not dying for a lack of RECREATIONAL/RELIGIOUS pot. (However, people are dying because prohibition enforcement occasionally kills them. That is perceived to be a cost of doing business in prohibition, and thus acceptable somehow because prohibition is assumed to be necessary.)
The medical debate is completely separate, and isn't really even a debate anymore. No one can construct a reasonable argument that at once respects the rights of sick people, the rights of doctors to practice reasonable medicine, and respects the foundations of federalism in the US, and yet continues to criminalize and potentially jail people who have found symptomatic relief through a non-toxic plant, used for thousands of years for medical purposes and recommended by the AMA even after its prohibition was enacted.
Addiction is not a disease. "Addiction" as commonly used in the media these days is a habit, a psychological compulsion. Addiction is used to label all sorts of behavior which is either seen as immoral or driven by a desire which others cannot understand. Sometimes what is labeled addiction is harmful, but frequently it is just differences between folks.
Drug dependence most definitely is a disease. When someone wants to quit, but being physically sick or threatened with death every time they try (see heroin and alcohol among others), that condition is a disease because it requires medical intervention to resolve it.
Obviously, I don't care if my taxes or insurance go up as people must be treated for drug dependence. Why? You could say that knowing there is a safety net would increase the use of harmful dependence-forming drugs, but the rates of drug abuse have not measurably gone up in any country which has legalized drugs (correcting for individuals who would have lied about their drug use at a time when they could be imprisoned for it). And the cost of treating an individual for dependence is something like 1/10 the cost of housing them in a prison cell for a given period of time. I think it's a far better investment, especially when combined with taxation to fix the price as high as possible to discourage consumption yet still below the point where it would attract a black market. You'd make all the money back and then some to be spent on things that are actually useful.
Unfortunately, putting people in jail in most cases does more harm to them than the drugs ever would. Furthermore, not everyone demonstrates self-harm through the use of illegal drugs; it is simply assumed - while we largely ignore the self-harm due to legal drugs, or at least we don't put people in jail simply for being alcoholics.
The vehicle speed sensor is contained in the transmission on all modern cars. Unfortunately, this only tells you how fast the transmission output shaft(s) are rotating. To convert to speed, it needs to know the diameter of the wheels as well. If you are using oversize wheels, you are usually going much faster than the speed sensor indicates on your dash gauge.
A sensor which bounces a wave off any nearby solid object (including perhaps the road underneath) would be a more accurate measurement, if you could eliminate interference issues.
Uh, guess what? If the data is transferred 20-30% more efficiently, then your connection is still maxed out as before, but you receive the file 20-30% faster.
So we have a joint requirement; either being 'not normal' or 'doing acid' suffices to produce the outcome, compared to the control group (the normal population who did not do acid and did not invent the Mac). Unfortunately, it is impossible to prove that one or the other (not normal, or acid) was what led to the conclusion (the Mac being invented) without further evidence or firsthand testimony from Jobs.
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Thanks. Is there some other name that H.264 normally assumes (i.e., a marketing name of some sort)?
Without releasing ISA documentation, people can't program your fucking CPU.
This post is terrible. It is actually quite common today for companies to release a C compiler and libraries for a CPU, with no assembler. For example, look at the Sharp 16-bit CPUs. Yes, these are smaller machines, but the practice is becoming more and more common due to the flexibility and widespread use of C as a low-level programming language. It is conceivable that someday we will have no idea what the stream the CPU is receiving to execute represents at the low level.
You would probably be surprised to find out that not all recreational drugs have the withdrawal symptoms that "smack" does, and especially psychedelics do not produce the intense false pleasure that tempts "smack" users into becoming dependent through repeated ingestion of the substance. Trying to use the effects of "smack" as an argument against relatively harmless psychedelics is a red herring.
You would also probably be surprised to find out that heroin addicts can lead normal productive lives when maintained. A heroin addict is an ill person. He cannot stop using heroin without physical ill effects. He got into that state by his own choice, as many of us become ill through our own life choices.
The insanity of treating an illness as a criminal problem is why this fellow you depict is in a dumpster; since his property was seized by the police, he has nowhere else to live.
He has no money because he must spend an inordinate amount of time seeking out the fix for his condition instead of being gainfully employed, and because any potential employer would reject him on the basis of a drug test.
Because he is not employed, he must rob others to afford the black-market prices for a drug which would be extremely cheap to produce by a pharmaceutical company.
He reuses dirty needles, risking AIDS and hepatitis which will consign him to a life of permanent dependency and unproductivity, because it is thought that providing addicts with clean needles would somehow increase the number of addicts. Well yes, if you regard "preventing the death of addicts" as somehow increasing the number of addicts.
Some junkies are hopeless losers, just as there are people living in trash bins who never needed heroin to get there. But it is a false economy in every way to deny legal help to those who have become addicts and who wish to remove or lessen the impact of that dependency so they can move on with their lives, especially when the help comes in the form of opiate maintenance and/or clean needles, two commodities with a near-zero production cost.
The question is not whether or not there is a causal effect, but whether or not the acid was an enabling factor. An enabling factor does not imply the conclusion, but is necessary to reach it.
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The GGP was referring to ripping off the record companies, NOT the artists themselves.
No. Matrox does not provide open source drivers for any of their recent cards, nor specifications for any cards anymore. They have completely abandoned supporting third-party open source development. Furthermore, they have placed a license on their previously free software G-series drivers which is no longer usable in any free software project.
If you are running a 2.4 kernel this was a known bug (google for it).
The problem is that a modem is a realtime application, and general purpose operating systems and computers are notoriously bad at realtime tasks. HCF modems are somewhat better than HSP modems, because only the UART is offloaded to the CPU. When the actual signal processing is also placed on the CPU, you are inviting latency and dropped connections when the CPU gets busy doing something else. Most of the time it won't happen, but when you're doing something like playing a game where the CPU has its hands tied up doing plenty of other things, the utility of offloading even simple realtime tasks to hardware becomes clear.
I've always thought this might be a good idea, and certain OTC drugs and alcohol should be included in it since it is as much a mind-altering and addictive drug as any other. To obtain this license you must show proof of either employment or disability and it will simply be added as a field on the driver's license to avoid additional administrative overhead. If you are found to be using drugs or drinking in unauthorized places or if you demonstrate an impaired condition while driving or operating machinery, the intoxication license is suspended for a minimum period (perhaps along with the driver's license in the latter case).
The medical debate is completely separate, and isn't really even a debate anymore. No one can construct a reasonable argument that at once respects the rights of sick people, the rights of doctors to practice reasonable medicine, and respects the foundations of federalism in the US, and yet continues to criminalize and potentially jail people who have found symptomatic relief through a non-toxic plant, used for thousands of years for medical purposes and recommended by the AMA even after its prohibition was enacted.
Drug dependence most definitely is a disease. When someone wants to quit, but being physically sick or threatened with death every time they try (see heroin and alcohol among others), that condition is a disease because it requires medical intervention to resolve it.
Obviously, I don't care if my taxes or insurance go up as people must be treated for drug dependence. Why? You could say that knowing there is a safety net would increase the use of harmful dependence-forming drugs, but the rates of drug abuse have not measurably gone up in any country which has legalized drugs (correcting for individuals who would have lied about their drug use at a time when they could be imprisoned for it). And the cost of treating an individual for dependence is something like 1/10 the cost of housing them in a prison cell for a given period of time. I think it's a far better investment, especially when combined with taxation to fix the price as high as possible to discourage consumption yet still below the point where it would attract a black market. You'd make all the money back and then some to be spent on things that are actually useful.
No, drugs = BAD, alcohol = OKAY. Don't you see the difference? That's why we lock up drug users.
No, more like "If it makes you happy AND DOES NOT HARM OR ENDANGER ANYONE ELSE, then it can't be that bad."
Unfortunately, putting people in jail in most cases does more harm to them than the drugs ever would. Furthermore, not everyone demonstrates self-harm through the use of illegal drugs; it is simply assumed - while we largely ignore the self-harm due to legal drugs, or at least we don't put people in jail simply for being alcoholics.
But the DFSG doesn't care about the ability to make it non-free. If that were the case, Debian would not include BSD-licensed software in 'main'.
I've yet to see someone demonstrate to me what is non-free about a GFDL document with no "Front-cover text" and no "Invariant sections".
A sensor which bounces a wave off any nearby solid object (including perhaps the road underneath) would be a more accurate measurement, if you could eliminate interference issues.
Uh, guess what? If the data is transferred 20-30% more efficiently, then your connection is still maxed out as before, but you receive the file 20-30% faster.
Not only that, but what about caching proxies that store the images on an intermediary machine?
If you can show me where such a document can be obtained, I will retract my argument.
So we have a joint requirement; either being 'not normal' or 'doing acid' suffices to produce the outcome, compared to the control group (the normal population who did not do acid and did not invent the Mac). Unfortunately, it is impossible to prove that one or the other (not normal, or acid) was what led to the conclusion (the Mac being invented) without further evidence or firsthand testimony from Jobs.
Thanks. Is there some other name that H.264 normally assumes (i.e., a marketing name of some sort)?
Sorry, that was Toshiba. The specific model I was unable to obtain ISA documentation for was the TLCS900H.
Can you point me to a free H.264 encoder for Linux?
You would also probably be surprised to find out that heroin addicts can lead normal productive lives when maintained. A heroin addict is an ill person. He cannot stop using heroin without physical ill effects. He got into that state by his own choice, as many of us become ill through our own life choices.
The insanity of treating an illness as a criminal problem is why this fellow you depict is in a dumpster; since his property was seized by the police, he has nowhere else to live.
He has no money because he must spend an inordinate amount of time seeking out the fix for his condition instead of being gainfully employed, and because any potential employer would reject him on the basis of a drug test.
Because he is not employed, he must rob others to afford the black-market prices for a drug which would be extremely cheap to produce by a pharmaceutical company.
He reuses dirty needles, risking AIDS and hepatitis which will consign him to a life of permanent dependency and unproductivity, because it is thought that providing addicts with clean needles would somehow increase the number of addicts. Well yes, if you regard "preventing the death of addicts" as somehow increasing the number of addicts.
Some junkies are hopeless losers, just as there are people living in trash bins who never needed heroin to get there. But it is a false economy in every way to deny legal help to those who have become addicts and who wish to remove or lessen the impact of that dependency so they can move on with their lives, especially when the help comes in the form of opiate maintenance and/or clean needles, two commodities with a near-zero production cost.
The question is not whether or not there is a causal effect, but whether or not the acid was an enabling factor. An enabling factor does not imply the conclusion, but is necessary to reach it.