I simply fail to understand how scientifically educated people can be so stubbornly blind to this simply because "they don't like the consequences"!
I had read too many articles above yours talking about humans being the main or only cause. It made me think your comment was accusing people that disagreed on the cause as stubborn.
The earth is warming substantially in time frames as short as 50 years, far faster than the thousands of years the cycles normally take.
Look at the chart at the bottom of this link. About 150 years ago a similar spike occurred.
Actually, that article looks informative since it lists many of the known causes of global warming and global cooling. This is why I believe the Earth is in a cycle.
I still have no problems with reducing pollution for other reasons: smell, taste, sight, life.
Why does it have only to be about solving one problem alone? Sometimes, we solve more than one problem at a time. If global warming is not a key issue to instigate us to act FAST, what is?
Read the very last thing I wrote. I have no problem with reducing pollution for other reasons besides global warming. Also, I see no reason to stop investigating. I just wish people could see that it may not be humans or humans only.
You misunderstand. If humans are not the cause, then reducing pollution will not help. It will take other actions to help. I would be very upset if we spent time (who cares about money if you are dead) taking actions that let us die anyway.
Personally, I think humans are not the cause or they are insignificant. Assuming the Earth and Sol are static is not very scientific. When they become interstellar-safe (instead of thread-safe), then we can make conclusions that humans are the culprits.
Here is an interesting article discussing the controversy about the Sun's involvement in global warming: Under a Variable Sun
P.S. I would like pollution reduced because I dislike breathing it.
I was about to ask why they did not use Subversion, but I searched Google and found it uses software licensed under at least the LGPL (neon). Of course, they could have just edited Subversion to use another HTTP library like Curl or fetch (at least on FreeBSD). Maybe this has been in the planning stages for awhile.
I see a removal of these "favorite" things people do: 1. Cutting around people just because they have a larger gap then 3cm although they are already pacing the car in front of them. 2. Multi-lane exits. "There is my exit. Other cars should get out my way, so I can exit NOW from the left lane!" 3. People going slow in the left lane, especially when they are matching the car in the right. 4. Tailgaters. x 10 feet is not a decent gap at 65+ MPH. 5. Texas has a law against using turn signals.;) They would not be necessary for a controlled car system. Gliding into another lane is the proper Texas method. 6. Break tapping every few seconds although this is not too common. 7. Speeding on rain and especially ice.
I am sure there are more if I spent a little more time thinking about it.
I like Gandi. The reason I switched to using them for my personal domain was because of Network Solutions claiming "ownership" of domains you had registered with them. That was a couple (or few?) years ago. Gandi's stance. Just look for "Will I be the owner of the domain name I have purchased?". Also the contract states it in point #1.
They cost only 12 euros (plus VAT in Europe).
P.S. My homepage is my brother's site and is why it is not with Gandi.
Personally, unless you're a multimillionaire and want to hoard more cash and make everyone else work their asses off for slave wages, or are a religious nut who totally falls for Bush's hypocritical appeal to Christians, I really don't understand why anyone would want to vote for this guy.
I do not fall for the "rich" causing the problems for the rest of us. I do think the corporations (in general) have too much power and could care less about people that they sell to or have working for them.
Kerry scares me. He has actually claimed that Bush has not done enough when it comes to national security. I cannot cite this as I heard it on the news (CNN maybe). I will not vote for anyone who thinks we need even more in the way of monitoring innocent citizens.
In my view this whole mess is simply the result of the Wine developers not using the GPL. If they had, all the code modifications would be public and Wine would be advancing.
OTOH, when Wine was BSD (or MIT), TransGaming did not have as much incentive to keep their version as far away from the base (Wine) as they do now.
Of course, this is all moot. TransGaming would probably never have existed if Wine was GPL'd.
You're going to get two answers. You'll get the "always used stored procedures" answer from people who actually do real database work and the "never use stored procedures" from the people who hack small websites in PHP.
Some PHP developers like stored procedures. I added PostgreSQL support to FreeTrade, an e-commerce system. When I added affiliate support, which necessitated RMA support, I found using stored procedures for triggers much easier and faster than creating queries to pull everything into PHP and processing there.
If I were a bit more of a tinfoil hat wearing man, I'd be Slashdot makes some of these "Ask Slashdot" topics up because the ensuing flamewar will cause more page hits than usual.
In the case of Microsoft versus Kerberos V, Microsoft wrote their own based on the standard. Their version extended the standard. I believe they used "reserved" places in structures for the extensions. The license was not even an issue. If Kerberos V had been GPL'd, it would not have carried any weight. Licenses only go as far as the code goes. They do not protect standards.
Companies that use BSD code (or even the ones that violate the GPL?) usually try to follow the open source version due to economics. Splitting away can cost more in time than trying to stay close to the open source version. Only large (and evil:)) companies have the resources to go out on their own and extend a source base very far. These are the ones that can also write all of their code from scratch to avoid any licenses.
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But I sincerely fear that all this work might get "embrace and extend and sell" by a company - like what happened for the BSD TCP/IP stacks (ok, do an nmap -O on your favourite MS box).
I doubt anyone could "embrace and extend" it without trying to force the major players (i.e., Cisco) to accept the changes in standard protocols (i.e., SNMP, BGP). That will not happen. That is the beauty of standards.
BTW, you sound as if you have fallen into the FUD about BSD licenses. The source is always open even when a company copies it.
I read an article on their site against the idea of allowing only open source to compete for a bid. They would rather have it open for all to compete.
I agree. If the goal is to lower the cost of government, you never reduce the competition for a project.
From the article: The last argument was countered with a statement made by Chief Information Officer Peter Quinn at "Doing IT Business with Massachusetts State and Local Government," an American Electronics Association forum in Cambridge, Mass. Quinn told the conference, "Massachusetts will spend millions on open architecture systems. Everything will be open source. It will take years to implement, but if you are a parochial vendor, you will not be able to do business in Massachusetts." Quinn clearly indicated there would be no exceptions to the rule permitting only open-source/Linux software.
I just read the article--I must be a bad/.er--where they praised President Reagan for creating the Grace Commission and encouraging the formation of CAGW. It sounds like you are trying to revise their article, or I missed where it said what you said.:)
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If anyone wants a long analysis of the GPL vs BSD debate: Social aspects of the BSD vs. GPL debate (the notes) and Labyrinth of Software Freedom (the paper).
Too bad it wasn't around in time for the elections; there couldn't be more abuse of numbers than there.
Fact Check did a good job of analyzing what the politicians said during the election.
FreeBSD's SK/Yukon LAN driver stopped working properly between 5.2.1 and 5.3
I can attest that it has been working in 5.3-STABLE for over a month on my ASUS A7V880 board.
I think I did misunderstand your statement.
I simply fail to understand how scientifically educated people can be so stubbornly blind to this simply because "they don't like the consequences"!
I had read too many articles above yours talking about humans being the main or only cause. It made me think your comment was accusing people that disagreed on the cause as stubborn.
Do you think that the U.S. would really just let a state or two break away and declare independence?
:)
Yes. California was probably a bad example.
The earth is warming substantially in time frames as short as 50 years, far faster than the thousands of years the cycles normally take.
Look at the chart at the bottom of this link. About 150 years ago a similar spike occurred.
Actually, that article looks informative since it lists many of the known causes of global warming and global cooling. This is why I believe the Earth is in a cycle.
I still have no problems with reducing pollution for other reasons: smell, taste, sight, life.
Why does it have only to be about solving one problem alone? Sometimes, we solve more than one problem at a time. If global warming is not a key issue to instigate us to act FAST, what is?
Read the very last thing I wrote. I have no problem with reducing pollution for other reasons besides global warming. Also, I see no reason to stop investigating. I just wish people could see that it may not be humans or humans only.
You misunderstand. If humans are not the cause, then reducing pollution will not help. It will take other actions to help. I would be very upset if we spent time (who cares about money if you are dead) taking actions that let us die anyway.
Personally, I think humans are not the cause or they are insignificant. Assuming the Earth and Sol are static is not very scientific. When they become interstellar-safe (instead of thread-safe), then we can make conclusions that humans are the culprits.
Here is an interesting article discussing the controversy about the Sun's involvement in global warming: Under a Variable Sun
P.S. I would like pollution reduced because I dislike breathing it.
TenDRA is pretty good. Two different versions: http://www.ten15.org/ and http://www.tendra.org/
I was about to ask why they did not use Subversion, but I searched Google and found it uses software licensed under at least the LGPL (neon). Of course, they could have just edited Subversion to use another HTTP library like Curl or fetch (at least on FreeBSD). Maybe this has been in the planning stages for awhile.
Also, immigrants may be intra-state. They are not necessarily from another country.
I see a removal of these "favorite" things people do: ;) They would not be necessary for a controlled car system. Gliding into another lane is the proper Texas method.
1. Cutting around people just because they have a larger gap then 3cm although they are already pacing the car in front of them.
2. Multi-lane exits. "There is my exit. Other cars should get out my way, so I can exit NOW from the left lane!"
3. People going slow in the left lane, especially when they are matching the car in the right.
4. Tailgaters. x 10 feet is not a decent gap at 65+ MPH.
5. Texas has a law against using turn signals.
6. Break tapping every few seconds although this is not too common.
7. Speeding on rain and especially ice.
I am sure there are more if I spent a little more time thinking about it.
Battle of bits: 1 is better than 0.
I like Gandi. The reason I switched to using them for my personal domain was because of Network Solutions claiming "ownership" of domains you had registered with them. That was a couple (or few?) years ago. Gandi's stance. Just look for "Will I be the owner of the domain name I have purchased?". Also the contract states it in point #1.
They cost only 12 euros (plus VAT in Europe).
P.S. My homepage is my brother's site and is why it is not with Gandi.
Personally, unless you're a multimillionaire and want to hoard more cash and make everyone else work their asses off for slave wages, or are a religious nut who totally falls for Bush's hypocritical appeal to Christians, I really don't understand why anyone would want to vote for this guy.
I do not fall for the "rich" causing the problems for the rest of us. I do think the corporations (in general) have too much power and could care less about people that they sell to or have working for them.
Kerry scares me. He has actually claimed that Bush has not done enough when it comes to national security. I cannot cite this as I heard it on the news (CNN maybe). I will not vote for anyone who thinks we need even more in the way of monitoring innocent citizens.
In my view this whole mess is simply the result of the Wine developers not using the GPL. If they had, all the code modifications would be public and Wine would be advancing.
OTOH, when Wine was BSD (or MIT), TransGaming did not have as much incentive to keep their version as far away from the base (Wine) as they do now.
Of course, this is all moot. TransGaming would probably never have existed if Wine was GPL'd.
Fortunately or unfortunately, IBM is.
All operating systems run the risk of infringing upon patents. How can anyone choose one system over another based on the same type of risk?
Since Windows is much bigger (code-wise) than *BSD/Linux/Amiga/etc., would that not mean that it has a higher chance of running into patent issues?
Would the users be immune to the issue since they did not infringe (the software developer(s) did)? Eolas did not go after the users but Microsoft.
You're going to get two answers. You'll get the "always used stored procedures" answer from people who actually do real database work and the "never use stored procedures" from the people who hack small websites in PHP.
:)
Some PHP developers like stored procedures. I added PostgreSQL support to FreeTrade, an e-commerce system. When I added affiliate support, which necessitated RMA support, I found using stored procedures for triggers much easier and faster than creating queries to pull everything into PHP and processing there.
If I were a bit more of a tinfoil hat wearing man, I'd be Slashdot makes some of these "Ask Slashdot" topics up because the ensuing flamewar will cause more page hits than usual.
I have thought that for quite some time.
I am currently about two-thirds through the Two Towers. I just passed that point in the book. :)
In the case of Microsoft versus Kerberos V, Microsoft wrote their own based on the standard. Their version extended the standard. I believe they used "reserved" places in structures for the extensions. The license was not even an issue. If Kerberos V had been GPL'd, it would not have carried any weight. Licenses only go as far as the code goes. They do not protect standards.
:)) companies have the resources to go out on their own and extend a source base very far. These are the ones that can also write all of their code from scratch to avoid any licenses.
Companies that use BSD code (or even the ones that violate the GPL?) usually try to follow the open source version due to economics. Splitting away can cost more in time than trying to stay close to the open source version. Only large (and evil
But I sincerely fear that all this work might get "embrace and extend and sell" by a company - like what happened for the BSD TCP/IP stacks (ok, do an nmap -O on your favourite MS box).
I doubt anyone could "embrace and extend" it without trying to force the major players (i.e., Cisco) to accept the changes in standard protocols (i.e., SNMP, BGP). That will not happen. That is the beauty of standards.
BTW, you sound as if you have fallen into the FUD about BSD licenses. The source is always open even when a company copies it.
I read an article on their site against the idea of allowing only open source to compete for a bid. They would rather have it open for all to compete.
I agree. If the goal is to lower the cost of government, you never reduce the competition for a project.
From the article:
The last argument was countered with a statement made by Chief Information Officer Peter Quinn at "Doing IT Business with Massachusetts State and Local Government," an American Electronics Association forum in Cambridge, Mass. Quinn told the conference, "Massachusetts will spend millions on open architecture systems. Everything will be open source. It will take years to implement, but if you are a parochial vendor, you will not be able to do business in Massachusetts." Quinn clearly indicated there would be no exceptions to the rule permitting only open-source/Linux software.
I just read the article--I must be a bad /.er--where they praised President Reagan for creating the Grace Commission and encouraging the formation of CAGW. It sounds like you are trying to revise their article, or I missed where it said what you said. :)
Novell is putting a lot of money and engineers behind Openswan. Other vendors are getting on board too.
Will it be as big as KAME's list of corporations? KAME's list:
Fujitsu Limited
Hitachi, Ltd.
Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
NEC Corporation
Toshiba Corporation
Yokogawa Electric Corporation