Just to clarify, what you heard as "ho!" was probably the word "oho" which basically means the same as "oops" in English. For some Finnish people, especially for the younger urbanites, this word has replaced the Finnish equivalent for sorry, "anteeks(i)" [UN-tayk-s(ee)], presumably because they are too "busy" to ponder whether the incident was their fault or not. It's like pleading "no contest":) This behavior is a product of Finland's accelerated post-WW2 urbanization which relinquished the grip of Finland's traditionally quite strict ethics on how you addressed your superiors and peers. You see, the rural societies were quite hierarchical but in the industrialized communities, where sons and daughters of farmers moved to work in factories, the young people declared themselves free of formal speech patterns -- for instance insisting on egalitarian thees and not yous (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-V_distinction).
Unfortunately the current generation, the kids of these baby boomers (the 20 and 30-somethings of today) don't have the same sense of community that their parents had when they grew up, so they have gone over the top and partially lost their moral compass wrt. what is polite enough to be acceptable. There are signs of a counter-phenomenon emerging as a result of the very good economic growth in Finland's telecommunications sector (read: Nokia) which has increased the number of well-off people considerably and made middle class values somewhat fashionable again. Whether this will make people less rude on icy boardwalks, remains to be seen.
Please, could you elaborate on how you cured yourself of Lyme? I've got a bad case of chronic fatigue going on for 6 years -- clinically dx'd as Asperger's + depression, but I'm not sure that covers my increasing dysfunction. My Lyme test came weakly positive for borrelia but a repeat test was not done because the neurologist insisted it was nothing. And I didn't insist on doing the repeat due to various reasons (confusion on my part, miscommunications with the neuro, etc.). Yet I seem to be developing an increasingly debilitating condition: fatigue; muscle twitches or myoclonuses (minor epileptic activity) in my legs, arms, hands (basically everywhere); narcolepsy-like shocks in my head (almost like dozing off or having a brief feeling of sinking); almost constant (but mild) migraine including light sensitivity, tinnitus/ringing, and trigeminal neuralgia; minor chest pain connected with anxiety or panic attacks; feelings of hypoglycemia (yet my blood glucose levels are fine); major food sensitivities including verifiable allergies (basically Irritable Bowel Syndrome) triggering other symptoms. The list goes on and on. I'm at the end of my tether here, because I don't seem to communicate my problems to doctors and very few tests get done here in "upstate Finland" (wrt our capital Helsinki).
Unfortunately it's not bullshit but a sour reality for countries participating in the European Economic Area without being a member of EU. A bad case of power politics, I know, where a larger entity bullies smaller ones (in this case Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein). It's one thing I'm shamed of being an EU citizen.
Hear, hear! Or you could even say it's an Intellectual Prerogative, as in "it is the prerogative of the author/inventor/creator to designate appropriate uses (expressions) of their works by (ab)using a monopoly vested in/with them by the state" [a simulacra of legal language I whipped up at a moment's notice:P ]. And the acronym still applies! IMHO the term "prerogative" in this case confers a principal's strong interest in a copyrighted/patented/trademarked idea they hold. I think it's like jealously guarding a thing that cannot by nature be held exclusively and that's why you enter into agreement with the state to gain more control over it by way of coercion. This coercion then hopefully (for the principal that is) translates into remuneration in a form of private taxation. You are then said to be licensing the work(s).
On the other hand (and this is where I'm aiming at), the term "prerogative" also suggests that the principal can be whimsical about applying their rights. And as is/was the case with the Royal Prerogative, it is always the duty of us the stakeholders of this arrangement, to question the extent of the definition through time.
It is bizarre. This kind of unfair and predatory practise by American lawyers and their clients will at some point make living (and making living) in the US socially more expensive than the high taxes so often moaned about in Europe. Better to have taxation by the government for the good of public services, than taxation by millions of blood-sucking opportunistic agents (corporations and their lawyers) needing their daily fix!
In my not so humble opinion the American people has subscribed to some quite questionable values when it is generally accepted that you are entitled to a renumeration every time your fellow man has erred and not been vigilant enough. Cutting some slack would be a sensible thing to do, but alas.
The system is very much the same in Finland (.fi). I find it a sensible solution regarding to strictly national TLDs. Would you want a domain like ho-give-me-a-quickie.us? The two-letter country code is like a national flag and needs more respect -- this way there's some level of screening beforhand. On the other hand there's a place for generic TLDs -- among others.com:-) -- where you can register on a first come first serve basis. For legitimate non-profit purposes I would also advocate a system of (national) light-weight trademarks, available with a small (couple of hundred Euros) registration fee.
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It's called a liter -- a liter of milk. Can't you loose your Anglo-Merkin excuses for measurements already! They certainly aren't part of any "civilization" this side of Atlantic anymore.
That's right. It was only beginning with 2.4.6-ac5 that my Dell PowerEdge 2400 w/ 512MB/1024MB of RAM/Swap stabilized. There were constant oopses and races while accessing the disk more aggressively. Especially Ext3 and Reiserfs were bitten by the pathetic state of the VM. The VM just couldn't handle the load journaling filesystems placed on it. But it's all right now, I can stress the VM all I want and it doesn't falter. A kernel compile with concurrent make 'make -j bzImage' does grind the machine into a halt but thankfully it doesn't go belly up.
That's the most amazing coincidence! It so happened that me and my buddies rented the same flick and watched it in the wee ours only a couple of ours after the coronal mass eruptions.
Well, the problem so far has been the fact that we haven't been able to rely on closed source drivers. The target (ie. the kernel interfaces) is moving constantly, and while we are drooling for all the cool new features of Linux 2.4 we can't easily upgrade because most certainly the drivers would break if they were networking or disk drivers or other drivers relying on generally frequently modified kernel interfaces. Linus et al. have held the position that no kernel binary interface (ie. stable interface) will surface for the foreseeable future.
It's certainly possible to maintain closed source drivers but that would mean a commitment far greater than the current penguin courting business crowd is willing. It would mean that any prospective change in the kernel would need to be mirrored in a timely fashion by such a party. And then the higher commitment would bring more criticism of closed source mentality, a whole deal of stress to the company support personnel and engineers, and possibly a split in the user community between those conforming (pro-closed-source) and those reforming (pro-open-source).
Frankly, the Linux movement is mainly a social rebellion to the control of corporations, a way to interact in a similar vein to municipal (community) democracy. It's a reaction to the capitalization of services. The capital forms conglomerates of interest and power, and if the moral target is consumer/citizen choice, it's only a natural reaction that people criticize prosesses in which they are not able to take part.
In my opinion, conformity where it means suffering to those taking part in an activity, is weakness at its best. On the other hand, reforms are never to be expressed in violence against basic or expressly agreed-upon transient human rights.
But when will the Japanese abandon Kanji alltogether? To me it seems very antiquated to write with a syllabus poorly adapted to modern needs like the very constant borrowing and forming of new words. I say Japanese is a language like any other and can be written phonetically (whether in kana or romaji) and should be done so! I think it is a bit patronizing of the Japanese to think that their culture needs Kanji to define an identity! It makes the writing just damn hard to first-graders and foreigners alike to learn the spelling.
If adapting a word to phonetical spelling makes it clash with other similar sounding words (homonyms), and you can't make it up from the context then it's time to invent a new compound word based on native kunyomi (native Japanese word form) readings.
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Just a thing that has been bothering me for some time...
I think this logic is reversed. The rule has tradionally been that everything not explicitely allowed is denied. In particular, there should be a minimal set of attachments that can be executed (in the Windows sense of double clicking a file) for viewing. This shouldn't be any different than the way IE deals with the problem. If you click an executable file, you have the option of either saving it or executing it. The last thing we need is an arbitrarily selected list of files that are disparaged upon. This will not benefit anyone other than WinZip Computing et al.
Speaking of Newton MessagePads, sadly there is such a thing as being too innovative too early. The office was not nearly as "paperless" in the early 90's as it's now. That's why Apple didn't get a sufficient clientele or an affordable supply of components for the thingy. In market economies one has to be able to define the product in terms of what consumers expect. In a world of razor thin margins, it's a no-no to surpass customer expectations.
>Or, and this is my personal view, the means that >science condones (randomness, mutagens) are the >tools of the divine, omniscient but non- >conscious universe that just plain IS. > >It's been said that mankind is the universe's >attempt to comprehend itself. That all of >creation is God made manifest. That we, being >part of creation, are each a different face of >God.
My sentiments exactly! That we as humankind are a single part (an organ?) in an amorphous, pantheistic but non-partial, and at most only partially sentient entity, is the only conclusion that I can adhere to without behaving like an over-religious zealot that craves for confrontation with other like zealots (Serbs vs. Kosovars, Pakistani vs. Indians,..., the list goes on and on...)
One's beliefs can't be contradictory to science in any realistical ways, by any larger margin. Of course the science as conducted in the West might be even fascistically narrow-minded in perception, but as it evolves, it must take into consideration the full depth of the phenomena in Universe. I believe that the Universe genuinely has such physical capabilities which can be utilized by higher cultures in some godlike characteristics. Remember the A.C.Clarkian principle that any sufficiently high technology is undistinguishable from magic! And consider godlike but not divine beings like the Q in ST: TNG! Gods are not needed, but they might exist nonetheless. Gods are not omnipotent any more than your parents were when you were an infant.
> One reason for choosing the QPL could be that the GPL is > a) not compatible with (many) other Open Source licences and > b) unlikely to be defensible in court.
Could you please elaborate more on that? What makes you think the GPL is legally any more different than the other free licenses? I have not heard any convincing arguments so far...
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Just to clarify, what you heard as "ho!" was probably the word "oho" which basically means the same as "oops" in English. For some Finnish people, especially for the younger urbanites, this word has replaced the Finnish equivalent for sorry, "anteeks(i)" [UN-tayk-s(ee)], presumably because they are too "busy" to ponder whether the incident was their fault or not. It's like pleading "no contest" :) This behavior is a product of Finland's accelerated post-WW2 urbanization which relinquished the grip of Finland's traditionally quite strict ethics on how you addressed your superiors and peers. You see, the rural societies were quite hierarchical but in the industrialized communities, where sons and daughters of farmers moved to work in factories, the young people declared themselves free of formal speech patterns -- for instance insisting on egalitarian thees and not yous (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-V_distinction).
Unfortunately the current generation, the kids of these baby boomers (the 20 and 30-somethings of today) don't have the same sense of community that their parents had when they grew up, so they have gone over the top and partially lost their moral compass wrt. what is polite enough to be acceptable. There are signs of a counter-phenomenon emerging as a result of the very good economic growth in Finland's telecommunications sector (read: Nokia) which has increased the number of well-off people considerably and made middle class values somewhat fashionable again. Whether this will make people less rude on icy boardwalks, remains to be seen.
Yksi kuiva siideri, kiitos. Pankille, kiitos.
Please, could you elaborate on how you cured yourself of Lyme? I've got a bad case of chronic fatigue going on for 6 years -- clinically dx'd as Asperger's + depression, but I'm not sure that covers my increasing dysfunction. My Lyme test came weakly positive for borrelia but a repeat test was not done because the neurologist insisted it was nothing. And I didn't insist on doing the repeat due to various reasons (confusion on my part, miscommunications with the neuro, etc.). Yet I seem to be developing an increasingly debilitating condition: fatigue; muscle twitches or myoclonuses (minor epileptic activity) in my legs, arms, hands (basically everywhere); narcolepsy-like shocks in my head (almost like dozing off or having a brief feeling of sinking); almost constant (but mild) migraine including light sensitivity, tinnitus/ringing, and trigeminal neuralgia; minor chest pain connected with anxiety or panic attacks; feelings of hypoglycemia (yet my blood glucose levels are fine); major food sensitivities including verifiable allergies (basically Irritable Bowel Syndrome) triggering other symptoms. The list goes on and on. I'm at the end of my tether here, because I don't seem to communicate my problems to doctors and very few tests get done here in "upstate Finland" (wrt our capital Helsinki).
Unfortunately it's not bullshit but a sour reality for countries participating in the European Economic Area without being a member of EU. A bad case of power politics, I know, where a larger entity bullies smaller ones (in this case Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein). It's one thing I'm shamed of being an EU citizen.
Hear, hear! Or you could even say it's an Intellectual Prerogative, as in "it is the prerogative of the author/inventor/creator to designate appropriate uses (expressions) of their works by (ab)using a monopoly vested in/with them by the state" [a simulacra of legal language I whipped up at a moment's notice :P ]. And the acronym still applies! IMHO the term "prerogative" in this case confers a principal's strong interest in a copyrighted/patented/trademarked idea they hold. I think it's like jealously guarding a thing that cannot by nature be held exclusively and that's why you enter into agreement with the state to gain more control over it by way of coercion. This coercion then hopefully (for the principal that is) translates into remuneration in a form of private taxation. You are then said to be licensing the work(s).
On the other hand (and this is where I'm aiming at), the term "prerogative" also suggests that the principal can be whimsical about applying their rights. And as is/was the case with the Royal Prerogative, it is always the duty of us the stakeholders of this arrangement, to question the extent of the definition through time.
It is bizarre. This kind of unfair and predatory practise by American lawyers and their clients will at some point make living (and making living) in the US socially more expensive than the high taxes so often moaned about in Europe. Better to have taxation by the government for the good of public services, than taxation by millions of blood-sucking opportunistic agents (corporations and their lawyers) needing their daily fix!
In my not so humble opinion the American people has subscribed to some quite questionable values when it is generally accepted that you are entitled to a renumeration every time your fellow man has erred and not been vigilant enough. Cutting some slack would be a sensible thing to do, but alas.
The system is very much the same in Finland (.fi). I find it a sensible solution regarding to strictly national TLDs. Would you want a domain like ho-give-me-a-quickie.us? The two-letter country code is like a national flag and needs more respect -- this way there's some level of screening beforhand. On the other hand there's a place for generic TLDs -- among others .com :-) -- where you can register on a first come first serve basis. For legitimate non-profit purposes I would also advocate a system of (national) light-weight trademarks, available with a small (couple of hundred Euros) registration fee.
It's called a liter -- a liter of milk. Can't you loose your Anglo-Merkin excuses for measurements already! They certainly aren't part of any "civilization" this side of Atlantic anymore.
Indeed. It's tied to billg's bedpost with a handcuff.
That's right. It was only beginning with 2.4.6-ac5 that my Dell PowerEdge 2400 w/ 512MB/1024MB of RAM/Swap stabilized. There were constant oopses and races while accessing the disk more aggressively. Especially Ext3 and Reiserfs were bitten by the pathetic state of the VM. The VM just couldn't handle the load journaling filesystems placed on it. But it's all right now, I can stress the VM all I want and it doesn't falter. A kernel compile with concurrent make 'make -j bzImage' does grind the machine into a halt but thankfully it doesn't go belly up.
That's the most amazing coincidence! It so happened that me and my buddies rented the same flick and watched it in the wee ours only a couple of ours after the coronal mass eruptions.
:-)
Talk about synchronicity!
Well, the problem so far has been the fact that we haven't been able to rely on closed source drivers. The target (ie. the kernel interfaces) is moving constantly, and while we are drooling for all the cool new features of Linux 2.4 we can't easily upgrade because most certainly the drivers would break if they were networking or disk drivers or other drivers relying on generally frequently modified kernel interfaces. Linus et al. have held the position that no kernel binary interface (ie. stable interface) will surface for the foreseeable future.
It's certainly possible to maintain closed source drivers but that would mean a commitment far greater than the current penguin courting business crowd is willing. It would mean that any prospective change in the kernel would need to be mirrored in a timely fashion by such a party. And then the higher commitment would bring more criticism of closed source mentality, a whole deal of stress to the company support personnel and engineers, and possibly a split in the user community between those conforming (pro-closed-source) and those reforming (pro-open-source).
Frankly, the Linux movement is mainly a social rebellion to the control of corporations, a way to interact in a similar vein to municipal (community) democracy. It's a reaction to the capitalization of services. The capital forms conglomerates of interest and power, and if the moral target is consumer/citizen choice, it's only a natural reaction that people criticize prosesses in which they are not able to take part.
In my opinion, conformity where it means suffering to those taking part in an activity, is weakness at its best. On the other hand, reforms are never to be expressed in violence against basic or expressly agreed-upon transient human rights.
<flame>
But when will the Japanese abandon Kanji alltogether? To me it seems very antiquated to write with a syllabus poorly adapted to modern needs like the very constant borrowing and forming of new words. I say Japanese is a language like any other and can be written phonetically (whether in kana or romaji) and should be done so! I think it is a bit patronizing of the Japanese to think that their culture needs Kanji to define an identity! It makes the writing just damn hard to first-graders and foreigners alike to learn the spelling.
If adapting a word to phonetical spelling makes it clash with other similar sounding words (homonyms), and you can't make it up from the context then it's time to invent a new compound word based on native kunyomi (native Japanese word form) readings.
</flame>
Just a thing that has been bothering me for some time ...
I think this logic is reversed. The rule has tradionally been that everything not explicitely allowed is denied. In particular, there should be a minimal set of attachments that can be executed (in the Windows sense of double clicking a file) for viewing. This shouldn't be any different than the way IE deals with the problem. If you click an executable file, you have the option of either saving it or executing it. The last thing we need is an arbitrarily selected list of files that are disparaged upon. This will not benefit anyone other than WinZip Computing et al.
Nuff said.
Speaking of Newton MessagePads, sadly there is such a thing as being too innovative too early. The office was not nearly as "paperless" in the early 90's as it's now. That's why Apple didn't get a sufficient clientele or an affordable supply of components for the thingy. In market economies one has to be able to define the product in terms of what consumers expect. In a world of razor thin margins, it's a no-no to surpass customer expectations.
>Or, and this is my personal view, the means that
..., the list goes on and on ...)
>science condones (randomness, mutagens) are the
>tools of the divine, omniscient but non-
>conscious universe that just plain IS.
>
>It's been said that mankind is the universe's
>attempt to comprehend itself. That all of
>creation is God made manifest. That we, being
>part of creation, are each a different face of
>God.
My sentiments exactly! That we as humankind are a single part (an organ?) in an amorphous, pantheistic but non-partial, and at most only partially sentient entity, is the only conclusion that I can adhere to without behaving like an over-religious zealot that craves for confrontation with other like zealots (Serbs vs. Kosovars, Pakistani vs. Indians,
One's beliefs can't be contradictory to science in any realistical ways, by any larger margin. Of course the science as conducted in the West might be even fascistically narrow-minded in perception, but as it evolves, it must take into consideration the full depth of the phenomena in Universe. I believe that the Universe genuinely has such physical capabilities which can be utilized by higher cultures in some godlike characteristics. Remember the A.C.Clarkian principle that any sufficiently high technology is undistinguishable from magic! And consider godlike but not divine beings like the Q in ST: TNG! Gods are not needed, but they might exist nonetheless. Gods are not omnipotent any more than your parents were when you were an infant.
> One reason for choosing the QPL could be that the GPL is
...
> a) not compatible with (many) other Open Source licences and
> b) unlikely to be defensible in court.
Could you please elaborate more on that? What makes you think the GPL is legally any more different than the other free licenses? I have not heard any convincing arguments so far