Come on man, you're looking for arguments, not solutions. LGPL is acceptable to Stallman's ethics.
The real problem is how to you get resources (ie money) from people who need software to people who can build it. Our current method works alright, but it also distributes billions to stockholders. Surely you can think of other methods for people to get the software they need.
Incidentally the vast majority of software is written in-house, so even if all software were forced to be GPL, and it put Microsoft + Apple + Oracle out of business, it wouldn't really be that bad for programmers.
The fact that you don't like some of the proposed solutions does not mean there is not a problem. Go look at the list of the top 100 companies, the largest political donors, etc. and then try to make a cogent argument as to how big bad environmental and/or poverty lobby has some how convinced 1000s of scientists to participate in whatever strange and huge conspiracy you appear to be proposing.
There's no conspiracy, it's out in the open. This isn't something people are trying to hide.
The problem, of course, is that his approach to the "ethical way" would result in a software market that is several orders of magnitude smaller than it is today.
You're like someone who was frozen in time.....all your conspiracy theories are from over a decade ago. Even the phrasing you use is from back then. Fascinating.
The self-confidence you have in your ignorance hasn't changed, though. Your argument is "I can't think of anything the DoD has done." It's an argument from ignorance. Of course not, if anyone showed you evidence, the cognitive dissonance would force you to disregard it.
Your name calls yourself an "autodidact." Find some new places to teach yourself from, you'll be glad you did.
Crazy thing......in my school, we spent way more time discussing evolution in discussions about current events than in biology class. By the time we got to it in biology, it was like, "That was what everyone was upset about?" Straightforward, not particularly controversial once you get down to it.
That's why modern-day Southerners do not view the Civil War as simply about slavery.
Southerners are just trying to cover up their guilt (or now, the guilt of their ancestors). If you actually look at the historical documents, it was clearly about slavery.
Of course, there were great war heroes in the south, but that doesn't change the fact that the south seceded because of slavery.
Yeah, people like you always have excuses, but they can never deny who fired the first shot.
The ironic thing is, if the south hadn't started it, they might have gotten away. Northern support for a war was ambivalent until the South started shooting. So the South failed at fighting a war, and failed at thinking smartly.
The only way I'd accept the job would be if it were for a sub-division within the company which only targets older gamers who want "classic/retro" games.
Really though, Nintendo mainly builds remakes of classic/retro games. So if you're going to work for a gaming company, that might be the one.
If it detects rain starting then it gives a 60 second warning and pulls over to the side of the road.
Imagine you have a road full of driverless cars, and it starts to rain. Suddenly the shoulders get jammed as every single car tries to pull over.
I see no reason why driverless
cars couldn't do the same where you could only engage autopilot on certain known safe highways with good shoulders to do emergency stops.
There are none. Any road has potential to have construction at any time, for example, without warning. This particular problem could be fixed with legislation requiring all construction projects to be entered into a database in advance, but do you really want your cars driving to be affected by a remote database? Seems like a security issue.
The civil war was clearly about slavery. All you have to do is read the declaration of secession. Their only complain was about the North not respecting the South with regards to slavery. Here is a typical section of that declaration:
A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.
After the war, southerners felt immoral for supporting slavery, and tried to come up with other reasons for the war, the famous "Lost Cause". Charles A. Beard was not the first of these historians, and he was not the last. Slavery was clearly the central issue.
Which isn't to say that everyone fought because of slavery: some people had other reasons for fighting. General Lee didn't want the war, he liked the union. When war came, he found his devotion to Virginia was deeper than his devotion to his country (also, he had plenty of family members in Virginia and didn't want to fight against them).
But was the company actively involved in the illegal activity?
Probably. To understand the legal arguments, the Limewire case is instructive. Essentially to be guilty you need two things:
1) Aid others in copyright infringement.
2) Intend to do so.
Youtube avoids guilt by providing several tools for copyright holders, and also by actively removing infringing movies. Thus although they are aiding infringers, you can't prove that's their intent. They don't have to be perfect at it, just good enough to avoid the legal standard.
I don't know how Pinterest avoids copyright infringement lawsuits, but your characterization of their business model made me laugh: it's so true.
Since you're an engineer, think of it as a supply-demand curve. When there are fewer of an object, the price will go up, which means the demand will drop (because some companies can't pay that much, and will go out of business). As the price goes up, companies will keep dropping out until the demand matches the supply. This is true of every market everywhere. (if it's a roughly free market).
Companies are always looking for ways to cut costs, so if they can pay you less, they will. It's the job of HR to get that information (for example, when employees leave, in the exit interview, they ask how much you will be making in your new job). When I leave a job, I always tell HR that they need to pay more money. Try to help out my programming brothers and sisters.
I also saw a job ad for a web developer who needed a master's degree, 5 or more years experience in long list of webby type things, spoken and written Mandarin and English and the willingness to work shifts. All for $25,000.
That's a thoughtful post. If we had more posts like this, Slashdot would be a better place.
I would argue that no one in the middle east has credibility in terms of "good intentions." Every army there has been serving its own purpose for thousands of years, and no one expects anything different.
The problem the US has now is one of credibility: when we say to a group, "we will support you, as long as you support us," we often break our promises on a whim. The next president comes, or the electorate gets bored, or whatever, we will turn our backs on our friends. IMO.
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Come on man, you're looking for arguments, not solutions. LGPL is acceptable to Stallman's ethics.
The real problem is how to you get resources (ie money) from people who need software to people who can build it. Our current method works alright, but it also distributes billions to stockholders. Surely you can think of other methods for people to get the software they need.
Incidentally the vast majority of software is written in-house, so even if all software were forced to be GPL, and it put Microsoft + Apple + Oracle out of business, it wouldn't really be that bad for programmers.
MySQL, Asterisk, QT, Ghostscript, LZO....
The fact that you don't like some of the proposed solutions does not mean there is not a problem. Go look at the list of the top 100 companies, the largest political donors, etc. and then try to make a cogent argument as to how big bad environmental and/or poverty lobby has some how convinced 1000s of scientists to participate in whatever strange and huge conspiracy you appear to be proposing.
There's no conspiracy, it's out in the open. This isn't something people are trying to hide.
The problem, of course, is that his approach to the "ethical way" would result in a software market that is several orders of magnitude smaller than it is today.
Why do you think that?
You're like someone who was frozen in time.....all your conspiracy theories are from over a decade ago. Even the phrasing you use is from back then. Fascinating.
The self-confidence you have in your ignorance hasn't changed, though. Your argument is "I can't think of anything the DoD has done." It's an argument from ignorance. Of course not, if anyone showed you evidence, the cognitive dissonance would force you to disregard it.
Your name calls yourself an "autodidact." Find some new places to teach yourself from, you'll be glad you did.
Wow, where do you come up with this stuff? Do you actually think that's rational thought? The sole task of the DoD is to protect the price of oil?
Crazy thing......in my school, we spent way more time discussing evolution in discussions about current events than in biology class. By the time we got to it in biology, it was like, "That was what everyone was upset about?" Straightforward, not particularly controversial once you get down to it.
You have a reality problem. You're hopeless.
This is what an agenda looks like. I don't know why, but whenever countries meet over AGW, the topic always turns to giving billions of dollars from one group to another.
That's why modern-day Southerners do not view the Civil War as simply about slavery.
Southerners are just trying to cover up their guilt (or now, the guilt of their ancestors). If you actually look at the historical documents, it was clearly about slavery.
Of course, there were great war heroes in the south, but that doesn't change the fact that the south seceded because of slavery.
Ironically, the most recent Zelda game (Link Between Worlds) is essentially a 2D game (isometric projection).
Yeah, people like you always have excuses, but they can never deny who fired the first shot.
The ironic thing is, if the south hadn't started it, they might have gotten away. Northern support for a war was ambivalent until the South started shooting. So the South failed at fighting a war, and failed at thinking smartly.
The only way I'd accept the job would be if it were for a sub-division within the company which only targets older gamers who want "classic/retro" games.
Really though, Nintendo mainly builds remakes of classic/retro games. So if you're going to work for a gaming company, that might be the one.
If it detects rain starting then it gives a 60 second warning and pulls over to the side of the road.
Imagine you have a road full of driverless cars, and it starts to rain. Suddenly the shoulders get jammed as every single car tries to pull over.
I see no reason why driverless cars couldn't do the same where you could only engage autopilot on certain known safe highways with good shoulders to do emergency stops.
There are none. Any road has potential to have construction at any time, for example, without warning. This particular problem could be fixed with legislation requiring all construction projects to be entered into a database in advance, but do you really want your cars driving to be affected by a remote database? Seems like a security issue.
And this is why Southerners viewed it as the War of Northern Agression.
War of Northern aggression? Why, I think you forget who fired the first shot. The south started that war.
What do I have to do to get a competent president then?
Of course. I figured out what it would do before running it (at least enough to make an educated guess).
Weirdly when I run it with the 'PS1=' at the front, it works fine. When I run it just as a normal command, it doesn't parse correctly.
is that they have NOT signed CAFTA. as a direct result of this they are still a sovereign nation.
Costa Rica has a defense agreement with the US. They are totally dependent. I'm not sure you can consider them completely sovereign.
A geographical line has been drawn across the Union, and all the States north of that line have united in the election of a man to the high office of President of the United States, whose opinions and purposes are hostile to slavery. He is to be entrusted with the administration of the common Government, because he has declared that that "Government cannot endure permanently half slave, half free," and that the public mind must rest in the belief that slavery is in the course of ultimate extinction.
After the war, southerners felt immoral for supporting slavery, and tried to come up with other reasons for the war, the famous "Lost Cause". Charles A. Beard was not the first of these historians, and he was not the last. Slavery was clearly the central issue.
Which isn't to say that everyone fought because of slavery: some people had other reasons for fighting. General Lee didn't want the war, he liked the union. When war came, he found his devotion to Virginia was deeper than his devotion to his country (also, he had plenty of family members in Virginia and didn't want to fight against them).
Everyone, except people in Michigan and Chicago
You don't know what we're offering, but you still run your mouth. How about shutting up and leave the discussion to the adults?
Yeah, your problem is the work environment. People see how rude you are in the interview, and anyone reasonably competent goes somewhere else.
But was the company actively involved in the illegal activity?
Probably. To understand the legal arguments, the Limewire case is instructive. Essentially to be guilty you need two things:
1) Aid others in copyright infringement.
2) Intend to do so.
Youtube avoids guilt by providing several tools for copyright holders, and also by actively removing infringing movies. Thus although they are aiding infringers, you can't prove that's their intent. They don't have to be perfect at it, just good enough to avoid the legal standard.
I don't know how Pinterest avoids copyright infringement lawsuits, but your characterization of their business model made me laugh: it's so true.
Since you're an engineer, think of it as a supply-demand curve. When there are fewer of an object, the price will go up, which means the demand will drop (because some companies can't pay that much, and will go out of business). As the price goes up, companies will keep dropping out until the demand matches the supply. This is true of every market everywhere. (if it's a roughly free market).
Companies are always looking for ways to cut costs, so if they can pay you less, they will. It's the job of HR to get that information (for example, when employees leave, in the exit interview, they ask how much you will be making in your new job). When I leave a job, I always tell HR that they need to pay more money. Try to help out my programming brothers and sisters.
I also saw a job ad for a web developer who needed a master's degree, 5 or more years experience in long list of webby type things, spoken and written Mandarin and English and the willingness to work shifts. All for $25,000.
They're missing a zero in that figure.
That's a thoughtful post. If we had more posts like this, Slashdot would be a better place.
I would argue that no one in the middle east has credibility in terms of "good intentions." Every army there has been serving its own purpose for thousands of years, and no one expects anything different.
The problem the US has now is one of credibility: when we say to a group, "we will support you, as long as you support us," we often break our promises on a whim. The next president comes, or the electorate gets bored, or whatever, we will turn our backs on our friends. IMO.