If you were a native North American, you might tend to think that the European invasion created more problems than it solved, and that things are much worse now!
If it wasn't the Portugese and Puritans, it would've been the Nazis or Stalinists.
People in space may not be so helpful to other lifeforms potentially out there.
"Potentially". They may or may not exist. In fact, all evidence suggests that they don't exist in any of the top 20 places we might be able to colonize.
On the other hand, humans are known to exist with 100% certainty.
As living organisms, we are understandably life-centric: everyones' goal is to maximze the utlization of the universe's resources for the support of life. But with that in mind, isn't it pragmatic to focus on the kinds of life that (1) are positively 100% known to exist, and (2) have at least a medium chance of propagating across interstellar distances?
Even when that point comes, we'll just be back where we started - humans ruining other moons or planets.
Why ever have children? You'll just be back where you started from.
If we don't, we're just a virus and a plague on this galaxy.
Do you even know what a virus is? Hint: they can only live inside other already living organisms. Human colonists terraforming Mars and Alpha Centauri IV doesn't match any analogy with viruses.
I understand what you are trying to say, but I have to ask the question: how do you expect to develop spacefaring technologies without actually going into space
70 km from my house is the Pacific Ocean. About 150 m out further is a guy who spends 15 hours/day treading water. He says he's trying to get to Australia. I told him to come in, and use an airplane, or at least a boat, but he just asked "How do you expect me to cross the ocean without actually going into the ocean?"
If an Apollo astronaut had kicked over a rock and discovered a pile of gold pellets, how many hundreds of thousands of humans would be reading this from a cave under the surface of the moon right now?
Zero. If we had a magic wand that could turn dirt into gold, but only worked in orbit, that still wouldn't be enough to make spaceflight profitable. (Not to mention moonflight)
If it were *necessary* that humans colonize space, we'd be doing it already. Clearly it isn't necessary - yet.
This fallacy is technically called "diffusion of responsibility". The traditional example is "That guy laying in the street there can't need medical assistance, because if he did, one of these people would be helping him already. So I'll just walk on by".
See also the joke about the economist who saw a $100 bill on the sidewalk, and couldn't believe it existed, because if it was really laying there, someone would've picked it up by now.
What if your ISP prohibits you from acting as a server?
Then you are not allowed to install Ubuntu at all.
By default, Ubuntu installs a program called an "X11 server" to start up automatically when the computer boots. This server cannot be removed or deactivated without making the computer almost totally unusable.
it's going to be annoying trying to Google for stuff about Lua soon.
Do you remember ten years ago, and how hard it was to find info on "Windows 95" ?? "Lua" is a little bad, but it's infinitely better than a 2 digit number.
The most bizzare one, in my opinion, is Battlefield 1942,
It's not really too wierd- it's actually a preview of the "remote attestation" features you may get from "Trusted Computing" next decade.
Battlefield 1942, like all online games using the PunkBuster anti-cheating library, needs admin rights so that it can examine every other program you are running, in case any of them is meant to help you cheat.
By running a game like that, you are not only giving that software full control of your computer, but also allowing the publishers to remote-control your PC whenever they like. TCPA may make this behavior more elegant and compartmentalized.
who said "duh! that's the whole point of that clause."
No, he did not. But feel free to link, if you can.
you have to ask for forgiveness too.
If, theoretically, the clause had the effect you claim, then asking forgiveness would be futile, as the original author would have no ability to re-authorize your distribution (except by releasing the software to you under non-GPL license terms)
Some readings of the GPL would claim that once in Violation of and GPL licencing, you are forever banned from distributing any GPL code.
Some people have read the GPL that way, but those people are wrong.
If you violate the terms of the GPL, your rights to have the software under that license are terminated. But it says nothing about your ability to re-acquire the software under a second license, which happens to be textually identical to the first one. So just stop the violating behavior, download another copy of the software from the original offer, it contains another license (which you can then obey), and off you go.
When a license contains a self-reference ("this license"), it means only that specific license, and not every other license with text like this one.
the company probably won't share the source code with anyone because they don't want their competitors get the software they paid for.
It'll be quite useless if the company can only allow 1 (one) of their employees to have the software. And, if they allow anyone else to have a copy, they also MUST give that employee permission to send it out to all his friends.
I'm not familiar with WoW, but isn't there a thief class?
No. There is the Rogue class, but it is much more of an assasin / fighter than a thief. (In close combat, the Warrior class is best able to withstand damage, while Rogues are best at inflicting it)
In case you hadn't heard, Robert Rodriguez probably won't be doing many major-studio pictures any time soon.
You are wrong. DGA membership isn't important at all to a successful director. One or two $200 million domestic grosses behind you, and you can write your own ticket.
Only if you're an unknown, or have a poor track record, is a DGA card somewhat important. Studio producers won't waste any time looking at Rodriguez's DGA standing when they have the Sin City returns to consider.
His decision to share directing credit with Frank Miller (and, to a certain extent, Tarantino) forced him to drop out of the Director's Guild of America.
If it actually mattered, he could rejoin in about 2 weeks of waiting on paperwork.
Few joints are actually capable of a full 3 degrees of freedom- many, like your knee and elbow, can only bend one (significant) way. Furthermore, for the level of detail needed to watch realtime 3d, 1 byte of number resolution is adequate (especially considering that most joints can only swing about 150 degrees).
(And yes, I have programmed networked 3d articulation- 1 byte has proven adequate even for 360 degree rotation, although going up to 16 bit numbers doesn't hurt)
Wrong. It's pretty well known that Hollywood became the movie-making
We were writing about the period before 1890- back when the USA's technology was inferior to that of Europe, so that flouting laws gave it advantage. By Edison's time, the positions had reversed.
Movies that are made from books are never as good as the original.
Forest Gump was far, far better as a movie than book.
"Never as good as" is an empty phrase, because it leaves open the possibility of being worse or better. All you've effectively said is "Different things are non-identical to each other", which doesn't convey anything meaningful.
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Having a front-row seat to devastation makes people do everything they can to avoid it happening again (see 9/11 attacks for proof)
Completely false. If they actually did "everything" to avoid it happening, the USA would've
(1) added a $5/gallon gasoline sales tax.
(2) de-criminalized all drugs (cocaine, heroine, etc)
(3) banned private ownership of all firearms.
If you were a native North American, you might tend to think that the European invasion created more problems than it solved, and that things are much worse now!
If it wasn't the Portugese and Puritans, it would've been the Nazis or Stalinists.
People in space may not be so helpful to other lifeforms potentially out there.
"Potentially". They may or may not exist. In fact, all evidence suggests that they don't exist in any of the top 20 places we might be able to colonize.
On the other hand, humans are known to exist with 100% certainty.
As living organisms, we are understandably life-centric: everyones' goal is to maximze the utlization of the universe's resources for the support of life. But with that in mind, isn't it pragmatic to focus on the kinds of life that (1) are positively 100% known to exist, and (2) have at least a medium chance of propagating across interstellar distances?
Even when that point comes, we'll just be back where we started - humans ruining other moons or planets.
Why ever have children? You'll just be back where you started from.
If we don't, we're just a virus and a plague on this galaxy.
Do you even know what a virus is? Hint: they can only live inside other already living organisms. Human colonists terraforming Mars and Alpha Centauri IV doesn't match any analogy with viruses.
Um, Hydrogen can be fused to produce more energy than we get by burning it.
The word was "chemical fuels". Fusion isn't chemical.
I understand what you are trying to say, but I have to ask the question: how do you expect to develop spacefaring technologies without actually going into space
70 km from my house is the Pacific Ocean. About 150 m out further is a guy who spends 15 hours/day treading water. He says he's trying to get to Australia. I told him to come in, and use an airplane, or at least a boat, but he just asked "How do you expect me to cross the ocean without actually going into the ocean?"
If an Apollo astronaut had kicked over a rock and discovered a pile of gold pellets, how many hundreds of thousands of humans would be reading this from a cave under the surface of the moon right now?
Zero. If we had a magic wand that could turn dirt into gold, but only worked in orbit, that still wouldn't be enough to make spaceflight profitable. (Not to mention moonflight)
If it were *necessary* that humans colonize space, we'd be doing it already. Clearly it isn't necessary - yet.
This fallacy is technically called "diffusion of responsibility". The traditional example is "That guy laying in the street there can't need medical assistance, because if he did, one of these people would be helping him already. So I'll just walk on by".
See also the joke about the economist who saw a $100 bill on the sidewalk, and couldn't believe it existed, because if it was really laying there, someone would've picked it up by now.
As far as I can tell, GNOME 2.10.1 isn't supposed to be released until
You could tell further if you learned the difference between "10.1" and "Eleven".
What if your ISP prohibits you from acting as a server?
Then you are not allowed to install Ubuntu at all.
By default, Ubuntu installs a program called an "X11 server" to start up automatically when the computer boots. This server cannot be removed or deactivated without making the computer almost totally unusable.
it's going to be annoying trying to Google for stuff about Lua soon.
Do you remember ten years ago, and how hard it was to find info on "Windows 95" ?? "Lua" is a little bad, but it's infinitely better than a 2 digit number.
The most bizzare one, in my opinion, is Battlefield 1942,
It's not really too wierd- it's actually a preview of the "remote attestation" features you may get from "Trusted Computing" next decade.
Battlefield 1942, like all online games using the PunkBuster anti-cheating library, needs admin rights so that it can examine every other program you are running, in case any of them is meant to help you cheat.
By running a game like that, you are not only giving that software full control of your computer, but also allowing the publishers to remote-control your PC whenever they like. TCPA may make this behavior more elegant and compartmentalized.
who said "duh! that's the whole point of that clause."
No, he did not. But feel free to link, if you can.
you have to ask for forgiveness too.
If, theoretically, the clause had the effect you claim, then asking forgiveness would be futile, as the original author would have no ability to re-authorize your distribution (except by releasing the software to you under non-GPL license terms)
Some readings of the GPL would claim that once in Violation of and GPL licencing, you are forever banned from distributing any GPL code.
Some people have read the GPL that way, but those people are wrong.
If you violate the terms of the GPL, your rights to have the software under that license are terminated. But it says nothing about your ability to re-acquire the software under a second license, which happens to be textually identical to the first one. So just stop the violating behavior, download another copy of the software from the original offer, it contains another license (which you can then obey), and off you go.
When a license contains a self-reference ("this license"), it means only that specific license, and not every other license with text like this one.
the company probably won't share the source code with anyone because they don't want their competitors get the software they paid for.
It'll be quite useless if the company can only allow 1 (one) of their employees to have the software. And, if they allow anyone else to have a copy, they also MUST give that employee permission to send it out to all his friends.
(There is NO "internal-use exception" to the GPL)
I'm not familiar with WoW, but isn't there a thief class?
No. There is the Rogue class, but it is much more of an assasin / fighter than a thief. (In close combat, the Warrior class is best able to withstand damage, while Rogues are best at inflicting it)
a more sane approach is to extract moonbase air from frozen ice or the regolith
Even if that is possible (a long shot), you'd still need to be stingy. Extracting gas from regolith is hard.
Unfortunately, quests like this are few and far between, but they ARE present.
That's a cheap way to "involve" players in the story: "Read it, because there will be a quiz later".
A quest is only TRUELY story-based if you need to known and understand the story to even complete the objectives, not just to fill in a blank.
In case you hadn't heard, Robert Rodriguez probably won't be doing many major-studio pictures any time soon.
You are wrong. DGA membership isn't important at all to a successful director. One or two $200 million domestic grosses behind you, and you can write your own ticket.
Only if you're an unknown, or have a poor track record, is a DGA card somewhat important. Studio producers won't waste any time looking at Rodriguez's DGA standing when they have the Sin City returns to consider.
His decision to share directing credit with Frank Miller (and, to a certain extent, Tarantino) forced him to drop out of the Director's Guild of America.
If it actually mattered, he could rejoin in about 2 weeks of waiting on paperwork.
They HAVE to protect their copyright.
And you HAVE to post cluelessly.
When was the last officially licensed sale of an NES game?
2005. The popular NES games are being re-released, either in PC collection packs, or for execution on mobile phones.
I submitted that to Slashdot as a story but it was rejected, I guess availability of RealBasic applications doesn't matter to Linux.
RealBasic was already covered heavily in the discussion of an article on migrating from Visual Basic, 48 hours ago.
Ok, so imagine you have 3 floats for each joint.
Your math is almost 10x too high.
Few joints are actually capable of a full 3 degrees of freedom- many, like your knee and elbow, can only bend one (significant) way. Furthermore, for the level of detail needed to watch realtime 3d, 1 byte of number resolution is adequate (especially considering that most joints can only swing about 150 degrees).
(And yes, I have programmed networked 3d articulation- 1 byte has proven adequate even for 360 degree rotation, although going up to 16 bit numbers doesn't hurt)
Wrong. It's pretty well known that Hollywood became the movie-making
We were writing about the period before 1890- back when the USA's technology was inferior to that of Europe, so that flouting laws gave it advantage. By Edison's time, the positions had reversed.
Star Wars: KOTR is much better than Star Wars: TPM or TCW.
It isn't based on them, either. KOTR is before any star wars movie.
Tim Burton's Batman was better than pretty much all of the batmen that came before that time.
But not The Dark Knight Returns, from 5 years earlier.
Starship Troopers was more entertaining as a movie than the short story upon which it is based.
Books in excess of 250 pages are never "short stories".
Movies that are made from books are never as good as the original.
Forest Gump was far, far better as a movie than book.
"Never as good as" is an empty phrase, because it leaves open the possibility of being worse or better. All you've effectively said is "Different things are non-identical to each other", which doesn't convey anything meaningful.
the movie's producers forced the director to tone the camp level down
The movie was far more campy (and less serious) than the TV show, and worse off for it.