The difference with the GPL is you can download and use it to your heart's content. The GPL GRANTS you rights to redistribute the stuff, rights you otherwise wouldn't have under normal copyright law.
The GPL is a PERMISSIVE license. This thing is a RESTRICTIVE license, and it's applied retroactively. Neither of which happens with the GPL.
Next time you go to court, represent yourself. The Internet needs a laugh.
Exactly my point. If kids learn how to do multiplication and the basics by using only computers, they will never be prepared to properly understand higher-level concepts like physics.
I'm worried that the hypothetical Microsoft is using that "fake" shell group to shield the connection of their funding and name to the content of the ad.
There's no problem with people having speech. But you should not be able to use sock-puppets to make that speech to protect yourself from association with the speech. This is completely different from the ability to have anonymous speech as a protection against retribution.
You either fund political ads as yourself, or you don't do political ads. Political speech is significantly different than normal speech because it can affect the very laws that allow free speech by getting the right people into the right political positions. There need to be many more limits and accountability on political speech.
If someone has more wealth and therefore power, yes, I do think it's reasonable. That's the entire point of the First Amendment, that nobody's voice is marginalized because someone else can shut them up.
I'm not saying we should force the wealthy to be quiet. I'm saying we should force them to be honest about what they're funding. If BP or BP executives are funding "Americans for the Environment" ads that say "Oh, spilling oil isn't a problem!", you don't have a problem with that anonymous "group" being the one responsible for the content of the advertising, basically acting to shield the actual company responsible for the ad from being publicly associated with the ad.
That's only for mass-market sale. To simply get a handbuilt vehicle street-legal, you just have to have bumpers of the right height, lights that work, license plates, whatever the local ordinances require. There's no crash-testing needed.
You think custom motorcycle manufacturers make 10 bikes for each one they sell?
The problem I've seen when I got my degree in engineering is that kids who grew up with computers doing their math had absolutely no idea when the numbers they were getting out were even in the ballpark of being right. No "horse sense" about the mathematics. They learned the process, but they didn't know the reasons or underlying purposes, so whatever came out of the machine was the answer. Even if it meant that the bullet coming out of the gun had.5J of energy, that's what the calculator said and they never questioned it.
I'm not saying that computers aren't useful. I'm saying that people need to understand things conceptually and intrinsically before they should be allowed to use tools to make the jobs easier. Otherwise all you get is GIGO.
But if you don't understand basic arithmetic and multiplication and such, your simulation is just pretty. That is the point... kids don't learn how to conceptualize math, they instead just learn where to put the inputs to get the outputs.
The problem now is that carriers have been slow to get their phones updated to 2.2. That makes the system much smoother, and even the default interface is both functional and attractive. Android doesn't have the power of the iPhone where it can force those kinds of updates across the board, but in exchange for that you get a much more powerful and flexible phone. It's a matter of priorities. Yours are obviously with shiny, walled gardens that control the user experience to a high degree. I'm not sold on that, which is why I have a Nexus One.
Yes. Everybody drinking water is bad. Doesn't matter that you can make juice out of it, or soda, or beer... water as the base for all of it is horribly insecure and dangerous!
No idea. I have an Android phone and I don't have the freezes. Sometimes apps crash, but that's the way it is on all systems. It's the power and flexibility of the system that keeps me on Android instead of iCrap. That, and the fact that I'm not locked into Steve Jobs' vision of how things should be. I don't happen to think his way is the best way to do everything.
You miss unprotected memory, apps running in global address spaces and random guru meditations taking the whole system down when some programmer did something stupid? Your view of the past is through very rose-tinted glasses. There's a reason there's nothing like AmigaOS any more. Because it would be horribly unworkable on a modern network and machine.
1080p is "enough" because the mass market of people use their computers as mobile Internet + video machines. And for little else. These are the same people coming from setting 1600x1200 monitors to 1024x768 because the text is "too small".
Why would digital cameras have tens of megapixels? We've pretty much plateaued for megapixel counts on digital cameras for a few years now. There is a point where you get diminishing returns for more pixels, and you're better served by better sensors instead of more pixels.
Current "HD" isn't really high-definition except when you're talking about video. For everything else computers do, it's relatively low resolution as far as history is concerned.
Using 64bit? They've been breaking the JavaScript compilation in 64bit builds every few days lately. It's getting a little annoying. Use one of the tracemonkey builds instead of the "proper" nightlies. Seems that they're building the 64bit builds, but not really caring about them for development.
I've got a pair of Radeon 4670's right now. A 6850 would give me a performance boost over those even in CrossFire, and it will be quieter and use less electricity. If I already owned a 5870, there's no way. But not everyone buys everything in the latest generation. Most people skip a generation or three.
You paid 45%. Corporations and other exceptionally wealthy people get tax breaks and other incentives making it so that they pay much less. 15-30%. I'm not saying you should pay more. I'm saying that the taxation should be fair, and should not be applied to things that are necessities like food and under a certain value of housing, because those taxes hit the poorest most disproportionately.
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The difference with the GPL is you can download and use it to your heart's content. The GPL GRANTS you rights to redistribute the stuff, rights you otherwise wouldn't have under normal copyright law.
The GPL is a PERMISSIVE license. This thing is a RESTRICTIVE license, and it's applied retroactively. Neither of which happens with the GPL.
Next time you go to court, represent yourself. The Internet needs a laugh.
I'm just wondering why that required a wikipedia link?
Exactly my point. If kids learn how to do multiplication and the basics by using only computers, they will never be prepared to properly understand higher-level concepts like physics.
I'm worried that the hypothetical Microsoft is using that "fake" shell group to shield the connection of their funding and name to the content of the ad.
There's no problem with people having speech. But you should not be able to use sock-puppets to make that speech to protect yourself from association with the speech. This is completely different from the ability to have anonymous speech as a protection against retribution.
You either fund political ads as yourself, or you don't do political ads. Political speech is significantly different than normal speech because it can affect the very laws that allow free speech by getting the right people into the right political positions. There need to be many more limits and accountability on political speech.
If someone has more wealth and therefore power, yes, I do think it's reasonable. That's the entire point of the First Amendment, that nobody's voice is marginalized because someone else can shut them up.
I'm not saying we should force the wealthy to be quiet. I'm saying we should force them to be honest about what they're funding. If BP or BP executives are funding "Americans for the Environment" ads that say "Oh, spilling oil isn't a problem!", you don't have a problem with that anonymous "group" being the one responsible for the content of the advertising, basically acting to shield the actual company responsible for the ad from being publicly associated with the ad.
That's only for mass-market sale. To simply get a handbuilt vehicle street-legal, you just have to have bumpers of the right height, lights that work, license plates, whatever the local ordinances require. There's no crash-testing needed.
You think custom motorcycle manufacturers make 10 bikes for each one they sell?
The problem I've seen when I got my degree in engineering is that kids who grew up with computers doing their math had absolutely no idea when the numbers they were getting out were even in the ballpark of being right. No "horse sense" about the mathematics. They learned the process, but they didn't know the reasons or underlying purposes, so whatever came out of the machine was the answer. Even if it meant that the bullet coming out of the gun had .5J of energy, that's what the calculator said and they never questioned it.
I'm not saying that computers aren't useful. I'm saying that people need to understand things conceptually and intrinsically before they should be allowed to use tools to make the jobs easier. Otherwise all you get is GIGO.
But if you don't understand basic arithmetic and multiplication and such, your simulation is just pretty. That is the point... kids don't learn how to conceptualize math, they instead just learn where to put the inputs to get the outputs.
kekekekekekekekeke zergling rush?
All we have to do is check for the Evil Bit! Brilliant!
The problem now is that carriers have been slow to get their phones updated to 2.2. That makes the system much smoother, and even the default interface is both functional and attractive. Android doesn't have the power of the iPhone where it can force those kinds of updates across the board, but in exchange for that you get a much more powerful and flexible phone. It's a matter of priorities. Yours are obviously with shiny, walled gardens that control the user experience to a high degree. I'm not sold on that, which is why I have a Nexus One.
That's Steve's fault. It's not "hard to compete", he just chooses not to.
Yes. Everybody drinking water is bad. Doesn't matter that you can make juice out of it, or soda, or beer... water as the base for all of it is horribly insecure and dangerous!
No idea. I have an Android phone and I don't have the freezes. Sometimes apps crash, but that's the way it is on all systems. It's the power and flexibility of the system that keeps me on Android instead of iCrap. That, and the fact that I'm not locked into Steve Jobs' vision of how things should be. I don't happen to think his way is the best way to do everything.
You expect someone who says "America, Fuck Yeah!" to understand the difference between Persians and Arabs?
When the organization itself contributes to the Republican party, all "news" is suspect.
There needs to be a "+1 Sad but True" mod option
You miss unprotected memory, apps running in global address spaces and random guru meditations taking the whole system down when some programmer did something stupid? Your view of the past is through very rose-tinted glasses. There's a reason there's nothing like AmigaOS any more. Because it would be horribly unworkable on a modern network and machine.
1080p is "enough" because the mass market of people use their computers as mobile Internet + video machines. And for little else. These are the same people coming from setting 1600x1200 monitors to 1024x768 because the text is "too small".
Why would digital cameras have tens of megapixels? We've pretty much plateaued for megapixel counts on digital cameras for a few years now. There is a point where you get diminishing returns for more pixels, and you're better served by better sensors instead of more pixels.
Current "HD" isn't really high-definition except when you're talking about video. For everything else computers do, it's relatively low resolution as far as history is concerned.
Using 64bit? They've been breaking the JavaScript compilation in 64bit builds every few days lately. It's getting a little annoying. Use one of the tracemonkey builds instead of the "proper" nightlies. Seems that they're building the 64bit builds, but not really caring about them for development.
A little bit of Google would have been faster than even typing out that post. How lazy can you get?
http://www.google.com/search?q=wsus+third+party+software
I've got a pair of Radeon 4670's right now. A 6850 would give me a performance boost over those even in CrossFire, and it will be quieter and use less electricity. If I already owned a 5870, there's no way. But not everyone buys everything in the latest generation. Most people skip a generation or three.
You paid 45%. Corporations and other exceptionally wealthy people get tax breaks and other incentives making it so that they pay much less. 15-30%. I'm not saying you should pay more. I'm saying that the taxation should be fair, and should not be applied to things that are necessities like food and under a certain value of housing, because those taxes hit the poorest most disproportionately.
Didn't Robot Chicken show a preview of that? A coked-out Abominable Snowman?