The Visual Studio editor cannot even do rectangular cut & paste, like Vim. Last time I checked it didn't autoindent code or integrate easily with CVS either. While Vim does.
GCJ developers add support for version 1.4.1, Sun releases version 1.4.2. GCJ developers add support for version 1.4.2, Sun releases version 2.0.0. Rinse, repeat.
Embrace and extend people! The only way to counter is to use real Open Source languages such as Python or stable open standard languages like C or C++.
OpenOffice.org is slow, bloated and uses oodles of RAM. Porting it to Java will not help things! Java on Linux sucks and does not run on all the platforms like Linux for PowerPC. Most distros do not bundle it. Sun's JRE is for all effects closed source software. Alternatives are incomplete and since the train is moving will always be so.
The notion that by killing any other species we are killing ourselves is a fallacy. Mammoths and other animals have been hunted to extinction and yet our species thrived and multiplied until it filled every corner on this planet. Humans do not depend on every single other lifeform in this planet to survive. Especially because, as you pointed out yourself, we are omnivores.
The fact is we have selectively bred specific plant and animal species (even fungi) to feed us already. Those are in no danger of extinction, quite the contrary.
We are preserving other species not because we need to, but because we can and we want to.
National parks were created for this purpose, as were nature preserves.
Tell that to Germany. They have had negative population growth for several years and they are not having any war. By definition, if their negative growth continues, eventually they will become extinct. Sudan has positive population growth.
War does not kill as many people directly as it kills indirectly. Most people who die in wars, they die of famine and disease caused by the collapse of support structures, not the bullets or bombs.
Regarding Malthusian catastrophes, they are overrated. The fact is we have managed to increase productivity in agriculture by about 200x since medieval times. There is no reason to believe this process will cease, now that we are unlocking the secrets of life itself. The so called environmentalists like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club are myopic. Current technology already allows to feed the entire population on Earth given current production levels, let alone after the next agricultural revolution happens. Advanced technology means less land and resources will be required for agriculture. We see this in Europe, where vast tracts of land which used to be farmed now lie fallow and are turning back into wilderness, while we burn and trash excess food production.
Our only current resource shortage problem is in the energy sector, even that has long term solutions based on current technology that will provide power for the human species for the next millenium at least.
There is enough nuclear fuel, coal, wind, solar thermal, hydro, etc, to last us for the next millenium and beyond.
Given enough energy to do desalination, water shortages are irrelevant since two thirds of our planet surface are covered by water.
I will tell you what is an ecological disaster. The slash and burn farming methods used in Africa or South America. Elsewhere we have learned that land must be treated better to remain productive, with crop rotation or fertilizer.
Yes, it is sheer hypocrisy. But war is sporadic and localized, while people get born all the time. Russia still has deep negative growth and never recovered their population level. Other countries with constant war, like Sudan, manage to keep their population going up.
You limit it to human life because it is your own species. Are you telling me it is more important for pigs to survive than humans?
All other life forms have a lower priority, simple as that. *If* we get enough resources, we might consider extending even more protections to other mammals and perhaps birds as a next step (curiously noone seems to like reptiles, insects, plants, or bacteria).
You might say some people like plants, but I have never seen anyone claim they shouldn't eat vegetables because that is hurting their feelings. Never heard that you shouldn't take antibiotics to cure pneumonia because that is killing millions of pneumonia bacteria while you are only one person.
Oh, nearly forgot. For many beggining artists, the contract usually states that they are getting zero from their first couple of records, to pay expenses of several sorts. In fact, I have known artists who have *paid* to get their record pressed, and get no cut from any profits that may arise.
The money an artist gets from those royalties is usually zero. The label usually claims they had enormous expenses in distribution or marketing (which is strange, since they manage to have vast profits). The artists gets a cut from the profits, which conveniently are nearly always zero.
Wrong. Selling records is the way the producer/record company make money off music. Most artists get their money from doing tours and live concerts. Only a small minority (like Madonna) get any actual cash from selling records.
You still have to pay Apple for the songs when using PyMusique. The only differences are the code is open source, runs on linux, and the final files are not DRM encumbered.
What makes you think he will not go over other distribution systems as well? He already publically claimed they only went for the Apple store because it was the most widely used and visible.
The problem is compiling apps can take an awful long amount of time. Just try compiling Mozilla.
So you distribute binaries. But then you find out they are not portable across Linux distributions in the same architecture, because of different glibc API versions or something like that, let alone across different architectures.
This is definitively a problem. Although more acute for a closed source app, open source apps are not immune to it. Not until we start stardardizing and fixing ABI and API formats at least.
It is relative. Which invention do you think was more important? The automobile or the wheel and axle?
The fact that knowledge is incremental by nature means that the later inventions will tend to be more spectacular by accretion of previously known things.
Anyway I think copyright is ok, given reasonable terms. Patents on the other hand can be quite bad, since they prevent someone from selling something they created, just because someone else had the idea first and you didn't know about it. It is totally stupid.
FYI, that would work fine as a business model, but the bride and groom would pay more money than they pay now. A wedding photographer gets most of his profit from the copies sold to the people invited to the wedding. Usually it pays off, but sometimes it doesn't and you actually lose money on the wedding. A publicity or industrial photographer on the other hand, often gets all his money as a lump sum.
Listened to Iceberg, Woo!! BASS!!! and Barfight. I must say it is pretty good, nice sound. Liked Woo!! BASS!! best. My gripes are some of the lyrics are a bit short and some of the musics seem a bit, hm, unbalanced, hard to put it into words. I like the tempo changes. Some extra minor variations in some bits would be nice, its all about detail really.
For someone which usually does not like indie music, and has basically no musical hability whatsoever, I actually liked these.
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The Visual Studio editor cannot even do rectangular cut & paste, like Vim. Last time I checked it didn't autoindent code or integrate easily with CVS either. While Vim does.
Embrace and extend people! The only way to counter is to use real Open Source languages such as Python or stable open standard languages like C or C++.
OpenOffice.org is slow, bloated and uses oodles of RAM. Porting it to Java will not help things! Java on Linux sucks and does not run on all the platforms like Linux for PowerPC. Most distros do not bundle it. Sun's JRE is for all effects closed source software. Alternatives are incomplete and since the train is moving will always be so.
No cheese for you.
The fact is we have selectively bred specific plant and animal species (even fungi) to feed us already. Those are in no danger of extinction, quite the contrary.
We are preserving other species not because we need to, but because we can and we want to.
National parks were created for this purpose, as were nature preserves.
War does not kill as many people directly as it kills indirectly. Most people who die in wars, they die of famine and disease caused by the collapse of support structures, not the bullets or bombs.
Regarding Malthusian catastrophes, they are overrated. The fact is we have managed to increase productivity in agriculture by about 200x since medieval times. There is no reason to believe this process will cease, now that we are unlocking the secrets of life itself. The so called environmentalists like Greenpeace and the Sierra Club are myopic. Current technology already allows to feed the entire population on Earth given current production levels, let alone after the next agricultural revolution happens. Advanced technology means less land and resources will be required for agriculture. We see this in Europe, where vast tracts of land which used to be farmed now lie fallow and are turning back into wilderness, while we burn and trash excess food production.
Our only current resource shortage problem is in the energy sector, even that has long term solutions based on current technology that will provide power for the human species for the next millenium at least.
There is enough nuclear fuel, coal, wind, solar thermal, hydro, etc, to last us for the next millenium and beyond.
Given enough energy to do desalination, water shortages are irrelevant since two thirds of our planet surface are covered by water.
I will tell you what is an ecological disaster. The slash and burn farming methods used in Africa or South America. Elsewhere we have learned that land must be treated better to remain productive, with crop rotation or fertilizer.
Or it means that the project did its thing and is no longer useful because something else does the same job better.
They have higher life expectancy and a lower infant mortality rate. So yes, their health care is better.
Yes, it is sheer hypocrisy. But war is sporadic and localized, while people get born all the time. Russia still has deep negative growth and never recovered their population level. Other countries with constant war, like Sudan, manage to keep their population going up.
All other life forms have a lower priority, simple as that. *If* we get enough resources, we might consider extending even more protections to other mammals and perhaps birds as a next step (curiously noone seems to like reptiles, insects, plants, or bacteria).
You might say some people like plants, but I have never seen anyone claim they shouldn't eat vegetables because that is hurting their feelings. Never heard that you shouldn't take antibiotics to cure pneumonia because that is killing millions of pneumonia bacteria while you are only one person.
Then use Debian Potato. It is so mature it has roots and mold in it.
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Heheh.
I thought Adaptive Optics (AO) enabled us to build that sort of IR telescope right here on Earth and save the launch costs.
Here is the Death Star, right on our own solar system. No need to search for extra-solar Death Stars.
Star + Number makes sense. Earth would be Sol 3.
Oh, nearly forgot. For many beggining artists, the contract usually states that they are getting zero from their first couple of records, to pay expenses of several sorts. In fact, I have known artists who have *paid* to get their record pressed, and get no cut from any profits that may arise.
The money an artist gets from those royalties is usually zero. The label usually claims they had enormous expenses in distribution or marketing (which is strange, since they manage to have vast profits). The artists gets a cut from the profits, which conveniently are nearly always zero.
Wrong. Selling records is the way the producer/record company make money off music. Most artists get their money from doing tours and live concerts. Only a small minority (like Madonna) get any actual cash from selling records.
Analog? You mean like Macrovision, that can be bypassed by anyone using a TBC?
What makes you think he will not go over other distribution systems as well? He already publically claimed they only went for the Apple store because it was the most widely used and visible.
So you distribute binaries. But then you find out they are not portable across Linux distributions in the same architecture, because of different glibc API versions or something like that, let alone across different architectures.
This is definitively a problem. Although more acute for a closed source app, open source apps are not immune to it. Not until we start stardardizing and fixing ABI and API formats at least.
The *AA are Cartels, pure and simple.
Once there are software patents in the EU, reverse-engineering may not be possible, provided that interface is patented.
Wrong. Police raids are government, as are judges and the assorted paperwork and backend services.
The fact that knowledge is incremental by nature means that the later inventions will tend to be more spectacular by accretion of previously known things.
Anyway I think copyright is ok, given reasonable terms. Patents on the other hand can be quite bad, since they prevent someone from selling something they created, just because someone else had the idea first and you didn't know about it. It is totally stupid.
FYI, that would work fine as a business model, but the bride and groom would pay more money than they pay now. A wedding photographer gets most of his profit from the copies sold to the people invited to the wedding. Usually it pays off, but sometimes it doesn't and you actually lose money on the wedding. A publicity or industrial photographer on the other hand, often gets all his money as a lump sum.
For someone which usually does not like indie music, and has basically no musical hability whatsoever, I actually liked these.