He misses another point (though reference to competition hints at it). With Apples switch from PowerPC to x86 and now this move to ARM, and Linux going mainstream via Android on ARM, software developers are getting ever better at making things portable and hence making the underlying CPU architecture irrelevant. Also notice that Android tried to make this explicit by running most stuff on the Dalvik VM.
Sure, power efficiency and die-area are important in many places, but don't think ARM is somehow going to have a lock on that.
"So, would you feel comfortable being judged by the online company you keep?"
That is pretty much how people are judged in real life too (minus the word online).
Yeah, when I joined linked-in I "connected" only to the most competent people I knew at first. I had just assumed people would judge me by the quality of my connections. Then the requests started coming in larger quantities. Not sure what to think, the more connected you are the more someone will find you but it seems like you'd be less relevant as as well. Once everyone is connected to everyone else it's just a directory of people.
Lets start writing code in more efficient languages so they can use fewer servers. Does anyone have a data on the relative performance of code written in different languages? Which ones have the lowest carbon footprint for various tasks?
No, he wants to take other people's software and use it without permission in his product. That's why he doesn't like GPL. And that's why his opinion is of zero value.
No, he's willing to get permission. He wants to use it without compensation or obligation. There are plenty of words with negative connotations to describe a person who desires that. People who release their code under GPL just don't want their work used by those folks.
With BSD software, not only are you giving away the source code, but you are giving it away with even fewer restrictions than with GPL.
Yeah, but someone who forks it may not offer source to other people. Now you've got a fork out there that offers less freedom than the original. You can argue that "the original is still there" but that's an assumption - presumably a closed source commercial version might become more polished and more popular. Perhaps the original maintainer dies (oh wait, that is a certainty) and the only one actually distributing it is the commercial version that doesn't come with source. GPL protects the freedom of all users of the software, not just subsequent developers. And don't get confused, it's not the BSD license that offers source to subsequent users of a fork - it's the developers of the fork that often do that, but they don't have to.
The freedom to deny someone the same freedom that you enjoy is... odd.
So your company wrote a bunch of software as a product. Obviously you didn't want to give away your source code with that product under any license, not GPL or BSD. So your example fails from the start to make a distinction.
The software is always free. What they do is not make their changes free, but the original is still free as ever.
An idea cannot be "stolen" or "taken away". The original will always remain.
That's nice - you can freely obtain the version of BSD that later became Apples Mac OSX. That doesn't really allow you to use it on a Mac now does it? It doesn't do anything for you should you want to tweak the OS on your Mac - not a darn thing. Now that's fine, people who put out code under a BSD license are OK with that. Others want ALL users of their code to have access to the source of derivative works too and they put a GPL license on it.
But imagine if the BSD projects today failed due to lack of interest. Then the authors die, the archived copies go offline and disappear. Now all that's left is a proprietary product built on that formerly open work. One can argue that the BSD developers would be happy that their work lives on, but one can also see that someone else would be upset that their work is no longer open even though it is widely used. As and aside - I wonder how said BSD developer would feel if someone took the BSD code, changed it to GPL (interesting that that's allowed, but hey the original is still available) and eventually the GPL branch was the only one in existence.
There are two different views and for that there are two different license. I wish people firmly in each camp could clearly see and appreciate the reasons for the others existence rather than saying they're philosophy is wrong in some way. IMHO GPL is preferable from a philosophical point of view, but BSD can be (I think) more practical in some cases.
Most GM engineering is done at the Warren Tech Center or the GM Proving Grounds. WTC is outside the city of Detroit and an easy commute from many many fine areas. PG is out in the country and an easy drive from rural areas with actual farmland and also some of the finest cities in the area - Oakland county MI is among the richest (per capita) in the nation.
I like both Wisconsin and Michigan. In the W, winters are significantly colder. In M you are correct that the west side of the state gets lots of lake effect snow, but in the greater Detroit area well I typically shovel my driveway twice a year. OTOH I believe W gets more sunshine than M (lake effect clouds?). Detroit proper is crappy, but the burbs are fine (similar to those around Milwaukee) and also where most of the jobs are - jobs which the W doesn't have. M leads the nation in second homes - often on a lake within a couple hour drive. I'd take either state over most places in America.
Why do so many people who like other parties ALWAYS TALK ABOUT POT! Dammit. even if you WON, a single president isn't going to legalize pot. All a 3rd party president could do is VETO stuff and talk. Every time you mention pot, you convince the independents that your candidate is the "weed" candidate, which is probably NOT why they don't like the R and D guys. Bring up other issues, bring up philosophy, but please try to suppress the urge to talk about pot - it doesn't matter if you call it "medial marijuana" it's still pot and your candidate is a long haired hippie.
I don't like the D candidate - he's a f'ing socialist. I don't like the R candidate - he's a f'ing elitist (as pointed out by my favorite in his own party). Both of them want to ruin the country financially (neither will balance the budget never mind reducing debt). Why on earth would I vote for either one? And which one should that be? You have 24 hours and one slashdot comment to win me over;-)
It seems the cause of those panics is always that the banks don't actually hold your money and then there's a run on them for one reason or another. In other words, the banks are the enabler for those panics, something just needs to trigger it. If we had secure digital currency people wouldn't need to keep it in a "safe place" like a bank. I don't know what that solution is, but bitcoin doesn't seem to fit the bill.
Moderate inflation means you need to invest your money in something other than currency or you will be losing value. Moderate deflation means you should hoard your currency because it will automatically become more valuable (have more purchasing power) over time. And when people start hoarding, the money supply decreases which causes faster deflation. Problem is you haven't plugged +1% and -1% into all the correct equations to see that there is a difference depending on the sign. You might think that 0% inflation would be optimal, but that simply sits on the line between stability and instability which is an undesirable place to be.
You may have done this prior to availability. But you missed the Ford Focus EV. It's substantially larger than the Leaf but I'd like to see the analysis include it.
What drug would they prescribe? And what if a person starts taking it and then changes their mind after half of it? Ideally it would be a drug that does not damage the person if it doesn't kill them. Otherwise botched self administrations might just harm people or make them worse off but still alive. I'm not sure how much of an issue this is, but it seems worth considering.
How does it stimulate the muscles to contract? I had realized it's probably great physical therapy, causing far more movement than anything else. I would also think if there is any chance of the nerves repairing themselves this kind of real-world use would help with that too.
Not every plane is equipped to receive those signals and not every plane is required to transmit those signals. I have friends whose planes don't even have a battery / electrical system (they use magnetic compass and vacuum gauges). So long as the drones stay above say 30,000 feet and takeoff / land only at certain airports I suppose they might not interfere.
Might AMD just license the instruction set and not the hardware design? Could they then bolt an ARM instruction decoder onto their core right next to the x86 decoder and run code for either architecture on mostly the same hardware?
cross-platform development across the 8s – from Windows 8 on a desktop to Windows Phone 8 – will be a simple matter
People developing mobile apps don't care about ease of going between those platforms. They care about covering all the mobile devices which means you need to help with them to run across: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Given the momentum the others have, who is going to make the effort to port apps to WP8? There are still nice apps that haven't crossed the iOS/Android chasm and you want to add another big leap? Dream on.
How much work would it have been to port the dalvik VM to Windows Phone to enable existing android apps? Now THAT would be doing developers a favor.
French publishers want to share in the revenue that Google earns from advertising displayed alongside their news snippets in search results.
First, there are no ads on Google news. Second, search results? What? People doing a search are most likely going to follow one of the links on the results page. I haven't seen anyone do a search and just browse the results listing and be satisfied.
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He misses another point (though reference to competition hints at it). With Apples switch from PowerPC to x86 and now this move to ARM, and Linux going mainstream via Android on ARM, software developers are getting ever better at making things portable and hence making the underlying CPU architecture irrelevant. Also notice that Android tried to make this explicit by running most stuff on the Dalvik VM.
Sure, power efficiency and die-area are important in many places, but don't think ARM is somehow going to have a lock on that.
Yeah, when I joined linked-in I "connected" only to the most competent people I knew at first. I had just assumed people would judge me by the quality of my connections. Then the requests started coming in larger quantities. Not sure what to think, the more connected you are the more someone will find you but it seems like you'd be less relevant as as well. Once everyone is connected to everyone else it's just a directory of people.
Lets start writing code in more efficient languages so they can use fewer servers. Does anyone have a data on the relative performance of code written in different languages? Which ones have the lowest carbon footprint for various tasks?
No, he's willing to get permission. He wants to use it without compensation or obligation. There are plenty of words with negative connotations to describe a person who desires that. People who release their code under GPL just don't want their work used by those folks.
Yeah, but someone who forks it may not offer source to other people. Now you've got a fork out there that offers less freedom than the original. You can argue that "the original is still there" but that's an assumption - presumably a closed source commercial version might become more polished and more popular. Perhaps the original maintainer dies (oh wait, that is a certainty) and the only one actually distributing it is the commercial version that doesn't come with source. GPL protects the freedom of all users of the software, not just subsequent developers. And don't get confused, it's not the BSD license that offers source to subsequent users of a fork - it's the developers of the fork that often do that, but they don't have to.
The freedom to deny someone the same freedom that you enjoy is... odd.
So your company wrote a bunch of software as a product. Obviously you didn't want to give away your source code with that product under any license, not GPL or BSD. So your example fails from the start to make a distinction.
That's nice - you can freely obtain the version of BSD that later became Apples Mac OSX. That doesn't really allow you to use it on a Mac now does it? It doesn't do anything for you should you want to tweak the OS on your Mac - not a darn thing. Now that's fine, people who put out code under a BSD license are OK with that. Others want ALL users of their code to have access to the source of derivative works too and they put a GPL license on it.
But imagine if the BSD projects today failed due to lack of interest. Then the authors die, the archived copies go offline and disappear. Now all that's left is a proprietary product built on that formerly open work. One can argue that the BSD developers would be happy that their work lives on, but one can also see that someone else would be upset that their work is no longer open even though it is widely used. As and aside - I wonder how said BSD developer would feel if someone took the BSD code, changed it to GPL (interesting that that's allowed, but hey the original is still available) and eventually the GPL branch was the only one in existence.
There are two different views and for that there are two different license. I wish people firmly in each camp could clearly see and appreciate the reasons for the others existence rather than saying they're philosophy is wrong in some way. IMHO GPL is preferable from a philosophical point of view, but BSD can be (I think) more practical in some cases.
Or you could just take 100mg of magnesium every other day.
Most GM engineering is done at the Warren Tech Center or the GM Proving Grounds. WTC is outside the city of Detroit and an easy commute from many many fine areas. PG is out in the country and an easy drive from rural areas with actual farmland and also some of the finest cities in the area - Oakland county MI is among the richest (per capita) in the nation.
The Giants almost got swept in the previous series (3-0). Then it seemed like they started taking ADHD meds so they could focus!
I like both Wisconsin and Michigan. In the W, winters are significantly colder. In M you are correct that the west side of the state gets lots of lake effect snow, but in the greater Detroit area well I typically shovel my driveway twice a year. OTOH I believe W gets more sunshine than M (lake effect clouds?). Detroit proper is crappy, but the burbs are fine (similar to those around Milwaukee) and also where most of the jobs are - jobs which the W doesn't have. M leads the nation in second homes - often on a lake within a couple hour drive. I'd take either state over most places in America.
Why do so many people who like other parties ALWAYS TALK ABOUT POT! Dammit. even if you WON, a single president isn't going to legalize pot. All a 3rd party president could do is VETO stuff and talk. Every time you mention pot, you convince the independents that your candidate is the "weed" candidate, which is probably NOT why they don't like the R and D guys. Bring up other issues, bring up philosophy, but please try to suppress the urge to talk about pot - it doesn't matter if you call it "medial marijuana" it's still pot and your candidate is a long haired hippie.
I don't like the D candidate - he's a f'ing socialist. I don't like the R candidate - he's a f'ing elitist (as pointed out by my favorite in his own party). Both of them want to ruin the country financially (neither will balance the budget never mind reducing debt). Why on earth would I vote for either one? And which one should that be? You have 24 hours and one slashdot comment to win me over ;-)
It seems the cause of those panics is always that the banks don't actually hold your money and then there's a run on them for one reason or another. In other words, the banks are the enabler for those panics, something just needs to trigger it. If we had secure digital currency people wouldn't need to keep it in a "safe place" like a bank. I don't know what that solution is, but bitcoin doesn't seem to fit the bill.
Moderate inflation means you need to invest your money in something other than currency or you will be losing value. Moderate deflation means you should hoard your currency because it will automatically become more valuable (have more purchasing power) over time. And when people start hoarding, the money supply decreases which causes faster deflation. Problem is you haven't plugged +1% and -1% into all the correct equations to see that there is a difference depending on the sign. You might think that 0% inflation would be optimal, but that simply sits on the line between stability and instability which is an undesirable place to be.
You may have done this prior to availability. But you missed the Ford Focus EV. It's substantially larger than the Leaf but I'd like to see the analysis include it.
What drug would they prescribe? And what if a person starts taking it and then changes their mind after half of it? Ideally it would be a drug that does not damage the person if it doesn't kill them. Otherwise botched self administrations might just harm people or make them worse off but still alive. I'm not sure how much of an issue this is, but it seems worth considering.
It may have been 30% stronger, but what about Cholestra with 10 percent less anal leakage?
How does it stimulate the muscles to contract? I had realized it's probably great physical therapy, causing far more movement than anything else. I would also think if there is any chance of the nerves repairing themselves this kind of real-world use would help with that too.
Will Enlightenment be moving to Wayland any time soon, or is it hopelessly intertwined with X?
Not every plane is equipped to receive those signals and not every plane is required to transmit those signals. I have friends whose planes don't even have a battery / electrical system (they use magnetic compass and vacuum gauges). So long as the drones stay above say 30,000 feet and takeoff / land only at certain airports I suppose they might not interfere.
Might AMD just license the instruction set and not the hardware design? Could they then bolt an ARM instruction decoder onto their core right next to the x86 decoder and run code for either architecture on mostly the same hardware?
Will the new architecture run Dalvik any faster? You know, 'cause Android apps aren't native anyway.
People developing mobile apps don't care about ease of going between those platforms. They care about covering all the mobile devices which means you need to help with them to run across: iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. Given the momentum the others have, who is going to make the effort to port apps to WP8? There are still nice apps that haven't crossed the iOS/Android chasm and you want to add another big leap? Dream on.
How much work would it have been to port the dalvik VM to Windows Phone to enable existing android apps? Now THAT would be doing developers a favor.
First, there are no ads on Google news. Second, search results? What? People doing a search are most likely going to follow one of the links on the results page. I haven't seen anyone do a search and just browse the results listing and be satisfied.