You fool! Don't you realize that when normal and dark packets interact, there is a non-zero probability that they will merge to form a 'strange' packet! When a strange packet comes into contact with another other kind of packet, it too is converted into a strange packet! Even a simpleton can see that eventually, the entire Internet will consist exclusively of strange packets!
When will these selfish and arrogant network engineers stop putting all of our Internet existences at risc just to satisfy their own curiosity?
The Anthropic Principle is really a result of a bunch of assumptions: There is only one universe, it happens to be tuned to life, ergo it must have been designed. This is a legitimate viewpoint, I think.
I disagree. We live on a planet that is one of many that orbit our star; a star that is one of many in our galaxy; a galaxy that is one of many in our so-called "universe". It would be foolish to assume that there is only one universe.
Let me put this another way: can you name anything, anything at all, that we know exists and of which there exists exactly one, and no other?
Like he was friends, and his wife was seeing, a guy that murdered several people.
A guy that claimed to have murdered several people, none of whom were actually dead. Not much point in trying to defend people with the wrong facts, dumbass.
1080p is a luxury, not a necessity. If you ate fine food everyday of your life, imagine what the shit you're eating now would taste like.
Then there's the minor detail that the vast vast majority of all content currently only exists in standard definition or lesser quality (I'm taking television here - cinema is a cultural wasteland).
But then again, I'm watching SD with 576 lines, rather then 480. PAL 4 th win!
So? That's called 'Freedom'. I'd rather have too much of it than too little.
No you wouldn't. You really, really wouldn't. Too much freedom means a pointless, uninteresting existence in which nothing you do has any real meaning. Too much freedom means an endless cycle of asking yourself "So now what?", again and again until the end of your life. Too much freedom means nothing will ever get done, because everyone else is using their over-supply of freedom to do things their way and arguing with anyone who disagrees with their way of doing things (sound familiar? There's a lot of "freedom" in Slashdot article comments).
Most people simply would have no idea what to do with their lives without some figure of authority directing their actions. It's not that they're lazy or incompetent, it's just that we are social animals - what we do together has more meaning in our minds that what we do alone (trust me, I have spent enough time alone to know the truth of this statement).
Freedom these days feels more and more like abandonment - "You can do whatever you want with your life! Just go and do it somewhere else".
I would rather have too little freedom then too much. Any day.
(God, I don't know why I keep reading Slashot comments, I really don't; but I guess an eleven year habit habit is hard to break...)
Let's start with the obvious, shall we?
With the GPL, you're really only free to make more GPL software.
That's the whole bloody point, except that instead of that second 'GPL' you should be saying 'copyleft'. The GPL and other copyleft licenses are specifically designed to prevent covered code from being used in non-copyleft projects. It's a basic design principal!
... the freedom I want is the freedom to license my code as I see fit...
You still have that freedom, you just don't have the freedom to relicense other people's code. Not even the BSD style licenses allow you this so-called 'freedom'.
... when it comes to library code that [other] folks have... [I'm] just using it...
I added that [other] above to emphasize my point - that it's other people's code that you want to use. You didn't write it, so you can have no expectations that you should be allowed to use it. In this case, these other folks have decided to let you use the code that they have written, but only under their terms. You either have to agree to these terms, rewrite the library so that you can release the code under your own license, or bitch and moan about how unfair it is that you can't just do whatever the fuck you want with other people's hard work (you appear to have chosen the latter).
Freedom does not mean being able to do whatever the fuck you want to do - that's anarchy, and it doesn't work. Freedom is having a set of universally recognized rights, and the means to enforce those rights on those that seek to trespass against them. Like copyright - it gives you (and only you) the freedom to do whatever you like with your work, and the power to prevent other people from doing whatever they like with your work. In this instance, QuasiEvil, you are the other people.
Until everyone can be trusted to just 'do the right thing' (whatever the hell that is), freedom will always mean trading some small convenience (like the ability to walk into my neighbours house and take his stuff) for a larger convenience (like not having people walk into my house and taking my stuff). The GPL is no different.
The truth is that is is possible to circumvent the GPL (i.e. to mix GPL and non-GPL code in the same project) - you just have to ensure that, when you are running the non-GPL code, the CPU's instruction pointer never refers to a block of GPL-covered code. You can achieve this by using networking and/or message passing techniques to pass information from one module to another, without requiring your non-GPL module to be linked with the GPL module. Yes, it's a fuck around, but one again we are simply trading a small convenience for a larger one.
This post is from someone who releases code under the GPL to everyone in this forum that bashes the GPL at every opportunity (like the first poster). I've made my decision and I'm comfortable with it, so you might as well just shut the fuck up - you're bitching about something that no-one has any intention of changing.
No, sorry, it's you who are being an imprecise slacker because... umm... you failed to correctly capitalize your no-spam kludge! Yeah! Take that!
Anyway, keeping with the subject, and regardless of what the FA actually says (I haven't read it and I don't plan to), unless the RIAA/MediaSentry actually download the content the defendant was not uploading it, they were only making it available. It is the the position of those that oppose the RIAA and MPAA in this matter that 'making available' is not infringement, and so far the courts appear to agree with us.
As for you guys, you can just keep on trading insults like the immature little shits that you are - it appears that's all you're good at (that goes for most of the rest of you too).
The article summary suggests that BASIC was invented, in part, because existing languages (such as FOTRAN) were too complicated for beginner programmers. The GP post (sadly submitted as an AC, meaning their opinion doesn't mean squat) is suggesting that there's nothing particularly difficult about FORTRAN that a talented teenager can't handle, an opinion that I agree with.
Also, in my experience it is those that rush to point other people's insecurities that are in fact the most insecure, but you're just another AC, so who gives a fuck what you think anyway?
NULL isn't a value, it's the lack of a value. The set of all possible boolean values when using tristate logic is TRUE, FALSE and neither. And if you throw in quantum superposition, you can include "both".
It's funny. Every time I watch the Wargames movie, seem to remember bits that are missing - bits I remember watching when I was a kid. I must have read the novel and "transposed" them into the movie via my imagination (I was only like seven or eight at the time). Funny old brain, huh?
Third party software vendors (i.e. the companies that make the software that industries actually rely on)...very damn relevant.
Can't argue with that. Oh, wait, yes I can.
A lot of you fail to understand that businesses do live or die by Microsoft Office and Windows. There are three major management system providers for the insurance agency industry. None of them have anything written that will work on anything other than Windows.
Gee, that sound's like more like an opportunity then anything else. Y'know, I used to work as a programmer in the insurance industry... I wonder...
Insurance companies, Medical companies, Finance...the run a ton of stuff that was developed in house.
Yes, for DOS and Windows 3.1. Seriously.
Most business users could give a damn whether they use Office, OpenOffice, CoolOffice923432 as long as it lets them type their letters and email them. But take away their 3rd party app that really does the work and they shit.
Most business would only have a need for Office, Email and Internet. Everything you've described is specialist shit.
That's where the problem is, convince those companies to rewrite their software and we'll see what happens.
I doubt there's a need to rewrite anything. Anyone used WINE recently? I've been playing Civ4 on my Linux laptop all week - it rocks!
I can't see any way that this move could damage OSS, and there is, in my opinion, a better then average chance that it could benifit us. So why is everyone here acting so cynical and paranoid (I mean, more than usual)? Cheer up for fuck's sake!
I had been using ReiserFS since it was first integrated into the kernel, on several systems over several years, without incident. I considered it to be a superior design over ext[2,3] for large filesystems - the complete lack of a filesystem check at boot time was a huge bonus in the days it took tens of minutes to perform a full scan of a typical ext2 partition.
I migrated to ext3 when Reiser was initially charged - just in case. I guess I won't be switching back...
And just because I have to (yes, I really do)... Yes, IAAL, but I don't represent you, and this is not legal advice. If you are charged with a crime and you rely on this post as legal advice, you are a moron. Actually, if you rely on any post on Slashdot as legal advice for any reason, you are a moron. Also, I do patents, copyrights and trademark, not murder. So assume I don't know what I'm talking about.
Except for all the fans that already downloaded and watch the entire season... (Hint: David Tennant is a great tenth doctor)
So? That's not going to stop me from buying the DVD box set in November.
I have a simply policy when it comes to illegaly downloading material off the Internet: Don't download anything you don't indend to buy later. After all, why should a licence to view the material only apply after the date of purchase? Hmm?
Chances are option #2- just like when the guy who wrote "Thank you for not smoking" asked the lobbyist why she did what she did "It's a way to pay the mortgage"...
The correct way to deal with this situation is to burn her house down, preferably with an unextinguished cigarette butt. Make sure she's not home, though; she can't appreciate the irony if she's dead.
C'mon, how many biologists do you know? You might as well ask people to say IANASBTFTOROTAS (I Am Not A Small Blue Turkey From The Outer Rim Of The Andromeda Spiral).
No no no, you've got it all wrong! It's the mice that have genetically reprogrammed us to have arthritis, epilipsy and/or obesity! It's all part of a long running experiment to discover the true nature of the universe! The fact that the scientist think they're the ones performing the experiments just proves how ingeniously subtle the mice really are!
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<yoda>That ... is why you fail.</yoda>
(In case that was too subtle for you: never, ever, ever assume you have no rights. Ever!)
You fool! Don't you realize that when normal and dark packets interact, there is a non-zero probability that they will merge to form a 'strange' packet! When a strange packet comes into contact with another other kind of packet, it too is converted into a strange packet! Even a simpleton can see that eventually, the entire Internet will consist exclusively of strange packets!
When will these selfish and arrogant network engineers stop putting all of our Internet existences at risc just to satisfy their own curiosity?
I disagree. We live on a planet that is one of many that orbit our star; a star that is one of many in our galaxy; a galaxy that is one of many in our so-called "universe". It would be foolish to assume that there is only one universe.
Let me put this another way: can you name anything, anything at all, that we know exists and of which there exists exactly one, and no other?
No, neither can I. QED.
A guy that claimed to have murdered several people, none of whom were actually dead. Not much point in trying to defend people with the wrong facts, dumbass.
Your experience is obviously as limited as your intelligence (see, we can be pretty condescending down here in Oz too. I mean, "bombastic"? C'mon!).
1080p is a luxury, not a necessity. If you ate fine food everyday of your life, imagine what the shit you're eating now would taste like.
Then there's the minor detail that the vast vast majority of all content currently only exists in standard definition or lesser quality (I'm taking television here - cinema is a cultural wasteland).
But then again, I'm watching SD with 576 lines, rather then 480. PAL 4 th win!
No you wouldn't. You really, really wouldn't. Too much freedom means a pointless, uninteresting existence in which nothing you do has any real meaning. Too much freedom means an endless cycle of asking yourself "So now what?", again and again until the end of your life. Too much freedom means nothing will ever get done, because everyone else is using their over-supply of freedom to do things their way and arguing with anyone who disagrees with their way of doing things (sound familiar? There's a lot of "freedom" in Slashdot article comments).
Most people simply would have no idea what to do with their lives without some figure of authority directing their actions. It's not that they're lazy or incompetent, it's just that we are social animals - what we do together has more meaning in our minds that what we do alone (trust me, I have spent enough time alone to know the truth of this statement).
Freedom these days feels more and more like abandonment - "You can do whatever you want with your life! Just go and do it somewhere else".
I would rather have too little freedom then too much. Any day.
(God, I don't know why I keep reading Slashot comments, I really don't; but I guess an eleven year habit habit is hard to break...)
Let's start with the obvious, shall we?
With the GPL, you're really only free to make more GPL software.That's the whole bloody point, except that instead of that second 'GPL' you should be saying 'copyleft'. The GPL and other copyleft licenses are specifically designed to prevent covered code from being used in non-copyleft projects. It's a basic design principal!
You still have that freedom, you just don't have the freedom to relicense other people's code. Not even the BSD style licenses allow you this so-called 'freedom'.
I added that [other] above to emphasize my point - that it's other people's code that you want to use. You didn't write it, so you can have no expectations that you should be allowed to use it. In this case, these other folks have decided to let you use the code that they have written, but only under their terms. You either have to agree to these terms, rewrite the library so that you can release the code under your own license, or bitch and moan about how unfair it is that you can't just do whatever the fuck you want with other people's hard work (you appear to have chosen the latter).
Freedom does not mean being able to do whatever the fuck you want to do - that's anarchy, and it doesn't work. Freedom is having a set of universally recognized rights, and the means to enforce those rights on those that seek to trespass against them. Like copyright - it gives you (and only you) the freedom to do whatever you like with your work, and the power to prevent other people from doing whatever they like with your work. In this instance, QuasiEvil, you are the other people.
Until everyone can be trusted to just 'do the right thing' (whatever the hell that is), freedom will always mean trading some small convenience (like the ability to walk into my neighbours house and take his stuff) for a larger convenience (like not having people walk into my house and taking my stuff). The GPL is no different.
The truth is that is is possible to circumvent the GPL (i.e. to mix GPL and non-GPL code in the same project) - you just have to ensure that, when you are running the non-GPL code, the CPU's instruction pointer never refers to a block of GPL-covered code. You can achieve this by using networking and/or message passing techniques to pass information from one module to another, without requiring your non-GPL module to be linked with the GPL module. Yes, it's a fuck around, but one again we are simply trading a small convenience for a larger one.
This post is from someone who releases code under the GPL to everyone in this forum that bashes the GPL at every opportunity (like the first poster). I've made my decision and I'm comfortable with it, so you might as well just shut the fuck up - you're bitching about something that no-one has any intention of changing.
No, sorry, it's you who are being an imprecise slacker because ... umm ... you failed to correctly capitalize your no-spam kludge! Yeah! Take that!
Anyway, keeping with the subject, and regardless of what the FA actually says (I haven't read it and I don't plan to), unless the RIAA/MediaSentry actually download the content the defendant was not uploading it, they were only making it available. It is the the position of those that oppose the RIAA and MPAA in this matter that 'making available' is not infringement, and so far the courts appear to agree with us.
As for you guys, you can just keep on trading insults like the immature little shits that you are - it appears that's all you're good at (that goes for most of the rest of you too).
The article summary suggests that BASIC was invented, in part, because existing languages (such as FOTRAN) were too complicated for beginner programmers. The GP post (sadly submitted as an AC, meaning their opinion doesn't mean squat) is suggesting that there's nothing particularly difficult about FORTRAN that a talented teenager can't handle, an opinion that I agree with.
Also, in my experience it is those that rush to point other people's insecurities that are in fact the most insecure, but you're just another AC, so who gives a fuck what you think anyway?
NULL isn't a value, it's the lack of a value. The set of all possible boolean values when using tristate logic is TRUE, FALSE and neither. And if you throw in quantum superposition, you can include "both".
d00d, u r th hax0r!!!
It's funny. Every time I watch the Wargames movie, seem to remember bits that are missing - bits I remember watching when I was a kid. I must have read the novel and "transposed" them into the movie via my imagination (I was only like seven or eight at the time). Funny old brain, huh?
And we know this is wrong since as most of us know, Al Gore invented the internet.
Actually, Vint Cerf, who practically did invent the Internet (or at very least the protocol upon which it currently operates) has said that Al Gore really does deserves a great deal of credit for his role in making the Internet available to civilian and commercial use.
How's the air up there in the clouds?
Wonderful. How's the shit down there in the mud?
Operating Systems, Drivers, Market Share...not relevant.
Facts, Figures, Trends ... nah, you're right, it's nothing.
Third party software vendors (i.e. the companies that make the software that industries actually rely on)...very damn relevant.
Can't argue with that. Oh, wait, yes I can.
A lot of you fail to understand that businesses do live or die by Microsoft Office and Windows. There are three major management system providers for the insurance agency industry. None of them have anything written that will work on anything other than Windows.
Gee, that sound's like more like an opportunity then anything else. Y'know, I used to work as a programmer in the insurance industry ... I wonder ...
Insurance companies, Medical companies, Finance...the run a ton of stuff that was developed in house.
Yes, for DOS and Windows 3.1. Seriously.
Most business users could give a damn whether they use Office, OpenOffice, CoolOffice923432 as long as it lets them type their letters and email them. But take away their 3rd party app that really does the work and they shit.
Most business would only have a need for Office, Email and Internet. Everything you've described is specialist shit.
That's where the problem is, convince those companies to rewrite their software and we'll see what happens.
I doubt there's a need to rewrite anything. Anyone used WINE recently? I've been playing Civ4 on my Linux laptop all week - it rocks!
I can't see any way that this move could damage OSS, and there is, in my opinion, a better then average chance that it could benifit us. So why is everyone here acting so cynical and paranoid (I mean, more than usual)? Cheer up for fuck's sake!
How many people ever used ReiserFS?
I had been using ReiserFS since it was first integrated into the kernel, on several systems over several years, without incident. I considered it to be a superior design over ext[2,3] for large filesystems - the complete lack of a filesystem check at boot time was a huge bonus in the days it took tens of minutes to perform a full scan of a typical ext2 partition.
I migrated to ext3 when Reiser was initially charged - just in case. I guess I won't be switching back...
And just because I have to (yes, I really do)... Yes, IAAL, but I don't represent you, and this is not legal advice. If you are charged with a crime and you rely on this post as legal advice, you are a moron. Actually, if you rely on any post on Slashdot as legal advice for any reason, you are a moron. Also, I do patents, copyrights and trademark, not murder. So assume I don't know what I'm talking about.
New initialism: IANYL - I Am Not Your Lawyer.
While Toshiba has publicly announced its achievement of developing a triple-layer HD DVD-ROM (read only) disc...
Wow, a read-only ROM. Who'da thunk it?
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But if they were only going to do it half-assed (0.196850394-assed for metric folks)
Shouldn't that be 0.196850394-arsed?Except for all the fans that already downloaded and watch the entire season... (Hint: David Tennant is a great tenth doctor)
So? That's not going to stop me from buying the DVD box set in November.
I have a simply policy when it comes to illegaly downloading material off the Internet: Don't download anything you don't indend to buy later. After all, why should a licence to view the material only apply after the date of purchase? Hmm?
It's even more confusing when every true Sci-Fi fan knows Kryten as their favourite ice-cube shaped head android.
That's mechanoid you insensitive clod!
</witticism>
Chances are option #2- just like when the guy who wrote "Thank you for not smoking" asked the lobbyist why she did what she did "It's a way to pay the mortgage"...
The correct way to deal with this situation is to burn her house down, preferably with an unextinguished cigarette butt. Make sure she's not home, though; she can't appreciate the irony if she's dead.
C'mon, how many biologists do you know? You might as well ask people to say IANASBTFTOROTAS (I Am Not A Small Blue Turkey From The Outer Rim Of The Andromeda Spiral).
No no no, you've got it all wrong! It's the mice that have genetically reprogrammed us to have arthritis, epilipsy and/or obesity! It's all part of a long running experiment to discover the true nature of the universe! The fact that the scientist think they're the ones performing the experiments just proves how ingeniously subtle the mice really are!
What, so now Novell are involved?!? When will it end!