You'd guess that a government that is able to buy those $100 laptops for hundreds of people is also able to to pay some people to write educational books so it can distribute them (and save the pressing costs). But who knows, writters are so expensive nowadays...
I am from Brazil. Around here we have a price index that means exactly how much a low income family spends to eat for a mounth, and it is normaly just bellow US$100 (it varies from place to place, but not a lot).
I wouldn't really like to know where Dvorak takes his numbers from.
MS is terrified for a long time now... Vista must be VERY BAD for MS being even more afraid now, that they are releasing it than when they where delaying the release.
Well, Brazil aready has the widest immunization program on the World (it reaches a bit more than 90% of children). Can we have the OLPC now, or you'll put other priorities?
The answer here is NO, your Linux box is not in danger.
You know... Windows malware don't count on a stupid user that much, on this case the Linux user is safe simply because MPlayer doesn't go out at the net dowloading and running any codec that a movie tell it to.
Yes, normaly you can show the problem by just pointing it to any smart person. But you'll never make MS aknowledge the flaw without somebody exploiting it (and lots of times not even then). The situation is almost the same.
There is nothing forbiding you from asking the user to accept the
license, although it is a bit confusing, since the user doesn't have to accept it to use the software.
But the problem with that dialog is that it makes it difficult to bundle software. Imagine what would happen if all the libraries you use showed a dialog to the user at install time. I guess nobody would use your software, ever (that is not a hypotetical situation, you can see it by downloading DevC++ and instaling a few extensions, for example). Now imagine what would happen while installing a free OS, like Linux, if every package asked the user to accept a license... Installing any modern distro would take days!
Well, a distro doesn't have to show your dialog. But that solution would be almost as bad as the problem, since every distro would have to fork it. This way, no software would have a big userbase, and the work needed to create a distro (that is alread huge) would skyrocket.
So, no. Please con't ask the user to accept the GPL. It seems harmless at the beginning, but does a lot of harm to your project and the community.
The size of a economy is the amount of wealth that its people have. You don't automaticaly increase it by trowing wealth out of the planet (of course, well done science pays well, but it is not your point).
And, yes, most investiments pay off some amount (not all of them, like you assume), but government investments tend to pay much less than private ones, it is even usual that they have negative pay-offs (that's why communism didn't work). The main reasons that government spents benefits the economy is because it changes the wealth distribution and can have long time rewards. Both factors that capitalism alone don't deal well with.
Now, comparing the economy with a bank is a pretty bad analogy. Of course, MONEY won't go away, but money is not wealth (that's why we have inflation).
You are the one who didn't go far enough. If all devices used a standard 12V input, you wouldn't need to carry power adaptors around. There would be 12V power sources wherever you go.
If you had to reboot your computer on every patch you receive, and risk breaking half your programs to patch a browser, you'd WANT to have patches only once a month.
But, as a previous poster aready said, Firefox behaviour isn't nice either. I disble auto update on every system I touch.
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A few days on a weak signal area.
Well, you can always transfer those files to a Linux machine via Samba, FTP, or a lot of DVDs...
I for one wouldn't mind small cell phones, if their battery lasts enough.
The point is being able to call someone and carry it.
Wow!!! "Just" a subset of Newtonian dynamics is a bit misleading. Did you ever see any of the math involved on solid body and fluid dynamics?
Remember that Newtonian dynamics is not completely solved.
What do you mean by "when"? It is designing a fusion reactor! It did already happen!!!! Run for your lifes!!!
Oh, whait... There is no place to run.
You'd guess that a government that is able to buy those $100 laptops for hundreds of people is also able to to pay some people to write educational books so it can distribute them (and save the pressing costs). But who knows, writters are so expensive nowadays...
I am from Brazil. Around here we have a price index that means exactly how much a low income family spends to eat for a mounth, and it is normaly just bellow US$100 (it varies from place to place, but not a lot).
I wouldn't really like to know where Dvorak takes his numbers from.
Yes, I know. But most people that call themselves libertarians aren't true libertarians.
Oh yes, they do. At least most of them do belive on bordes and market protection.
Well, everybody always expected the killer bots at DMZ, that's why you have a firewall!
Well, the way the GP wrote, I'm quite sure he meant it as a joke.
The scaty stuff it that the mods don't agree with me.
Novell is aready telling their customers that their product is 'safe from litigation'. That is enough to boycott them.
Now, it they start behaving nicely again, we can change our mind latter... There is just no reason to wait.
MS is terrified for a long time now... Vista must be VERY BAD for MS being even more afraid now, that they are releasing it than when they where delaying the release.
Or maybe they know something we don't.
Well, Brazil aready has the widest immunization program on the World (it reaches a bit more than 90% of children). Can we have the OLPC now, or you'll put other priorities?
I have a perfect alfgorithm to fight spam I can tell you... But you'll need to ditch IPv4 too.
The answer here is NO, your Linux box is not in danger.
You know... Windows malware don't count on a stupid user that much, on this case the Linux user is safe simply because MPlayer doesn't go out at the net dowloading and running any codec that a movie tell it to.
Funny thing is that it's useless, it won't stop people from copying data or emulating hardware.
At least not until the hardware itself is able to recognize Windows and refuse to run everything else. And even then, it is a hard problem to solve.
Yes, normaly you can show the problem by just pointing it to any smart person. But you'll never make MS aknowledge the flaw without somebody exploiting it (and lots of times not even then). The situation is almost the same.
Now the long answer:
There is nothing forbiding you from asking the user to accept the license, although it is a bit confusing, since the user doesn't have to accept it to use the software.
But the problem with that dialog is that it makes it difficult to bundle software. Imagine what would happen if all the libraries you use showed a dialog to the user at install time. I guess nobody would use your software, ever (that is not a hypotetical situation, you can see it by downloading DevC++ and instaling a few extensions, for example). Now imagine what would happen while installing a free OS, like Linux, if every package asked the user to accept a license... Installing any modern distro would take days!
Well, a distro doesn't have to show your dialog. But that solution would be almost as bad as the problem, since every distro would have to fork it. This way, no software would have a big userbase, and the work needed to create a distro (that is alread huge) would skyrocket.
So, no. Please con't ask the user to accept the GPL. It seems harmless at the beginning, but does a lot of harm to your project and the community.
The size of a economy is the amount of wealth that its people have. You don't automaticaly increase it by trowing wealth out of the planet (of course, well done science pays well, but it is not your point).
And, yes, most investiments pay off some amount (not all of them, like you assume), but government investments tend to pay much less than private ones, it is even usual that they have negative pay-offs (that's why communism didn't work). The main reasons that government spents benefits the economy is because it changes the wealth distribution and can have long time rewards. Both factors that capitalism alone don't deal well with.
Now, comparing the economy with a bank is a pretty bad analogy. Of course, MONEY won't go away, but money is not wealth (that's why we have inflation).
And you , sir, have a strange idea of economics...
I'd love to know what all those mean...
And, no, I'm not new here.
You are the one who didn't go far enough. If all devices used a standard 12V input, you wouldn't need to carry power adaptors around. There would be 12V power sources wherever you go.
If you had to reboot your computer on every patch you receive, and risk breaking half your programs to patch a browser, you'd WANT to have patches only once a month.
But, as a previous poster aready said, Firefox behaviour isn't nice either. I disble auto update on every system I touch.
Don't do that. It is insensitive, and people will simply ignore your comment!
Those comments go on the header (.h), not the source...