Without some radically improved method of natural language recognition, you'd have to translate licenses into some decidable system of symbolic logic. That is, not surprisingly, the most difficult part of the task--any first or second year philosophy student knows the algorithm for checking the logical consistency of a set of statements in symbolic logic.
Replace your post with something that takes into account the context in which I said my remarks, and you might have something that isn't a waste of time for me to read.
I think that says more good about drugs than bad about the Beatles. A better example would be Marilyn Monroe. On the other hand, Monroe's breakdown and death was seen as tragic, a consideration we never extend to celebrities anymore.
Depends. Sure, they may get billed for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but if most of that goes uncollected, you have a business collapse that's only as obvious as your accountants are honest.
And my problem with the GPL trolls is their belief that inanimate software deserves freedom more than developers do. Look, GPL offers a fair bargain: I'll show you mine if you show me yours. BSD fulfills its purpose too: an unconditional donation of code to the world. The real freedom is that we have a choice between the two, and to make our own license if we want to.
I'm sure the Iranians are a progressive people, but the government is another story. Keep in mind that Iran is most known in America for taking our embassy workers hostage. I've long had the feeling that Iran's government was out of step with its people, and that the Iranian people haven't supported things like hostage-taking and terrorism for years, despite their government's use and support of those tactics. Of course, as in all politics, no one really cares about things that don't affect them, so the government gets away with it.
I've also gathered that there was dissatisfaction with the gasoline rationing, that many people want a more democratic system. Is this accurate? I wouldn't expect the Iranian people to have the same complaints about their government that we do, mainly because they're affected by different policies than we are.
I'm not sure what those pictures are supposed to prove--Nazi Germany had cars and trees and apartment buildings and highways too. It is not quite accurate to compare the two, however. Iran is more like pre-Reformation Europe--a civilization whose people are growing more advanced, leading to tensions with a medieval theocratic regime.
Exactly. By that logic, "world wide web" is a fiendish plot devised by Lex Luthor to enmesh the entire planet, and "mathematical induction" is the use of less-than-deductive arguments to suggest but not prove a result in mathematics. If you relativists are going to be pricks about ruining technical terms, then maybe those of us who actually use them should just go back to Latin. "Petitio principii" has a nice ring to it anyway, and I always liked "reductio ad absurdum", "modus tollens", and "modus ponens".
"To beg the question" is a technical term that was never used in the now-popular sense of "raising the question" (which, even in popular usage, is not necessarily "humble or urgent") until some people who didn't know what it meant started using it as such.
DVD's are designed to be watched in a quiet home theatre environment, where ideally, you do want dynamic range. While I saw it in theater and not on DVD, Minority Report is all the much better for the occasional gunshot being realistically louder than the low background level of dialogue--rather adds to the dramatic surprise, even.
Rubbish law. When you log into a network, so long as you're not hacking it, you politely ask the router "may i use this network and have an IP address?". The router says "yes", on behalf of you, the owner. Therefore it is authorized.
When I twist the doorknob of your front door, I politely ask the doorknob, "may I open the door and step inside?". The doorknob says "yes" on behalf of you, the owner. Therefore, I get to come in and eat your food (since your fridge is even more yielding than your front door). Here's an idea: you can't pretend that deterministic machines are agents working on your behalf, when in reality they're just broadcasting numbers at each other to trigger algorithms..
You may be right. As a matter of fact, you probably are. But rare indeed is the person who favors their country's "ability to compete in the world market" over their own interests, while those who conflates their own interests with those of society as a whole are a vast majority.
Honestly, with the state of American schools, I think a lot of students are better off dropping out than they are graduating. As for the jail thing, I think a better way to reduce cost would be to stop going overboard with sentencing and stop imprisoning people for smoking the wrong plants.
Americans don't even care about sports. Until I can turn on the NFL and see large crowds of people standing up and singing throughout the whole game, I have to say Americans are just apathetic and spoiled compared to, for instance, Europeans or Latin Americans.
So in other words, there's absolutely no chance at all that some of these graduates will be people like, I dunno, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who went on to create more jobs? They're all just going to be the standard guy who sits in his underwear surfing Monster.com? No, if you have a glut of engineers sitting around, eventually one of them will invent something and employ all the others.
I bet that when you turned 18, your dad presented you with a bill for all the expenses made during your upbringing, and kicked you out of the house in your knickers, too, right?
Helping eachother is the human superpower. Having big teeth and claws is the tiger superpower. You don't see many tigers around these days, do you?
Note the "each other" here. Your parents care for you in your youth, you care for them in their old age. Just because the debt isn't written out in precise numbers doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Unless, of course, you mean in the sense that as a citizen of the United States, I am asking you to make my life better by encouraging my other citizens to improve themselves, in which case I suppose you may have a point, although I'm trying to make your life better, as well.
Don't be so sure. I might be a highly paid engineer who is loath to see his earning potential plummet. (I'm not.) You're asking me to make your life better by making my earning power plummet just so you can buy cheaper electronics. How selfish of you. (I say that somewhat lightly and facetiously, of course--I don't really think you're being consciously selfish--but it is curious how most people's idea of "the common good" turns out to be just a little self-serving.)
One reason the United States is competitive on a global scale (there's a shrinking list of reasons, which is why the United States is increasingly less competitive) is that getting a job in the United States is like the all-star game. The best people from all around the world work here, as a general rule. (There are exceptions both ways, generalities are rarely universally true, assorted other disclaimers), At the same time, the American education system is becoming increasingly worse. So increasing numbers of Americans are no longer competitive individuals in the world market, even though they're more than competitive on a national level. In some respect, we're stuck between employing more and more foreigners and falling behind as a country even more than we are now.
Educating not more, but better scientists, engineers, and other professionals is the way to employ more Americans. Growing industry beyond the point of the competitive worldwide labor market is the other way. Embracing protectionism will just sink the country entirely. I'm not saying American engineers are necessarily dead weight, just that if you're the typical large American business building an all-star team out of workers from all around the world, you might not pick an otherwise very qualified American, and that the slight advantages from employing an international all-star team is one of the few things helping American businesses to compete.
You know, sometimes you have to do what's best for everyone, instead of what's best for yourself.
That's funny. Every person who I've ever heard this from turned out to be tacitly saying, "sometimes you have to do what's best for me, instead of what's best for yourself".
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Without some radically improved method of natural language recognition, you'd have to translate licenses into some decidable system of symbolic logic. That is, not surprisingly, the most difficult part of the task--any first or second year philosophy student knows the algorithm for checking the logical consistency of a set of statements in symbolic logic.
Replace your post with something that takes into account the context in which I said my remarks, and you might have something that isn't a waste of time for me to read.
I think that says more good about drugs than bad about the Beatles. A better example would be Marilyn Monroe. On the other hand, Monroe's breakdown and death was seen as tragic, a consideration we never extend to celebrities anymore.
Depends. Sure, they may get billed for hundreds of thousands of dollars, but if most of that goes uncollected, you have a business collapse that's only as obvious as your accountants are honest.
And my problem with the GPL trolls is their belief that inanimate software deserves freedom more than developers do. Look, GPL offers a fair bargain: I'll show you mine if you show me yours. BSD fulfills its purpose too: an unconditional donation of code to the world. The real freedom is that we have a choice between the two, and to make our own license if we want to.
I'm sure the Iranians are a progressive people, but the government is another story. Keep in mind that Iran is most known in America for taking our embassy workers hostage. I've long had the feeling that Iran's government was out of step with its people, and that the Iranian people haven't supported things like hostage-taking and terrorism for years, despite their government's use and support of those tactics. Of course, as in all politics, no one really cares about things that don't affect them, so the government gets away with it.
I've also gathered that there was dissatisfaction with the gasoline rationing, that many people want a more democratic system. Is this accurate? I wouldn't expect the Iranian people to have the same complaints about their government that we do, mainly because they're affected by different policies than we are.
I'm not sure what those pictures are supposed to prove--Nazi Germany had cars and trees and apartment buildings and highways too. It is not quite accurate to compare the two, however. Iran is more like pre-Reformation Europe--a civilization whose people are growing more advanced, leading to tensions with a medieval theocratic regime.
Exactly. By that logic, "world wide web" is a fiendish plot devised by Lex Luthor to enmesh the entire planet, and "mathematical induction" is the use of less-than-deductive arguments to suggest but not prove a result in mathematics. If you relativists are going to be pricks about ruining technical terms, then maybe those of us who actually use them should just go back to Latin. "Petitio principii" has a nice ring to it anyway, and I always liked "reductio ad absurdum", "modus tollens", and "modus ponens".
"To beg the question" is a technical term that was never used in the now-popular sense of "raising the question" (which, even in popular usage, is not necessarily "humble or urgent") until some people who didn't know what it meant started using it as such.
DVD's are designed to be watched in a quiet home theatre environment, where ideally, you do want dynamic range. While I saw it in theater and not on DVD, Minority Report is all the much better for the occasional gunshot being realistically louder than the low background level of dialogue--rather adds to the dramatic surprise, even.
Beware what you ask for. It's complaints like that that got us "Head-On! Apply diRECTly to the FOREhead!"
Should he have tested it until it exploded instead?
I like how complimenting a country's beer is supposed to make up for jokingly insulting their literature.
When I twist the doorknob of your front door, I politely ask the doorknob, "may I open the door and step inside?". The doorknob says "yes" on behalf of you, the owner. Therefore, I get to come in and eat your food (since your fridge is even more yielding than your front door). Here's an idea: you can't pretend that deterministic machines are agents working on your behalf, when in reality they're just broadcasting numbers at each other to trigger algorithms..
You may be right. As a matter of fact, you probably are. But rare indeed is the person who favors their country's "ability to compete in the world market" over their own interests, while those who conflates their own interests with those of society as a whole are a vast majority.
You got a tank of gas? Damn, that's a good deal!
Honestly, with the state of American schools, I think a lot of students are better off dropping out than they are graduating. As for the jail thing, I think a better way to reduce cost would be to stop going overboard with sentencing and stop imprisoning people for smoking the wrong plants.
Americans don't even care about sports. Until I can turn on the NFL and see large crowds of people standing up and singing throughout the whole game, I have to say Americans are just apathetic and spoiled compared to, for instance, Europeans or Latin Americans.
Then move out of Ohio. Honestly, what next? "I'm an agriculturalist specializing in oranges but I can't get a job in my native Alaska"?
So in other words, there's absolutely no chance at all that some of these graduates will be people like, I dunno, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who went on to create more jobs? They're all just going to be the standard guy who sits in his underwear surfing Monster.com? No, if you have a glut of engineers sitting around, eventually one of them will invent something and employ all the others.
Helping eachother is the human superpower. Having big teeth and claws is the tiger superpower. You don't see many tigers around these days, do you?
Note the "each other" here. Your parents care for you in your youth, you care for them in their old age. Just because the debt isn't written out in precise numbers doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
As soon as I have an opinion on that, I'll teach it to you.
Don't be so sure. I might be a highly paid engineer who is loath to see his earning potential plummet. (I'm not.) You're asking me to make your life better by making my earning power plummet just so you can buy cheaper electronics. How selfish of you. (I say that somewhat lightly and facetiously, of course--I don't really think you're being consciously selfish--but it is curious how most people's idea of "the common good" turns out to be just a little self-serving.)
One reason the United States is competitive on a global scale (there's a shrinking list of reasons, which is why the United States is increasingly less competitive) is that getting a job in the United States is like the all-star game. The best people from all around the world work here, as a general rule. (There are exceptions both ways, generalities are rarely universally true, assorted other disclaimers), At the same time, the American education system is becoming increasingly worse. So increasing numbers of Americans are no longer competitive individuals in the world market, even though they're more than competitive on a national level. In some respect, we're stuck between employing more and more foreigners and falling behind as a country even more than we are now.
Educating not more, but better scientists, engineers, and other professionals is the way to employ more Americans. Growing industry beyond the point of the competitive worldwide labor market is the other way. Embracing protectionism will just sink the country entirely. I'm not saying American engineers are necessarily dead weight, just that if you're the typical large American business building an all-star team out of workers from all around the world, you might not pick an otherwise very qualified American, and that the slight advantages from employing an international all-star team is one of the few things helping American businesses to compete.
That's funny. Every person who I've ever heard this from turned out to be tacitly saying, "sometimes you have to do what's best for me, instead of what's best for yourself".