The second definition (even in decades-old dictionaries) is "copyright infringement". Thus "piracy" seems a perfectly serviceable word for this discussion. Repeated typing or saying "unauthorized copying", "copyright infringement", and similar terms becomes cumbersome.
The second definition simply parrots the deceiving definition that the FSF is trying to fight. That is the job of a modern dictionary. But there is no denying the word as been hijacted. I choose to highlight that fact to people who aren't thinking clearly. The notion that the correct terms are cumbersome is absurd. Proponents of extended copyright and patents have choosen the cumbersome code word 'intellectual property' and use IP as an abbreviation. Propoents of sharing information might abbreviate 'unauthorized copying' as UC. Thanks for the suggestion!
Piracy is a confusing word you should avoid.
The title of the story should read, "Software Sharing To Increase as the Internet Grows." Doesn't sound as bad, does it?
I also question your use of the word "ironic" in this context, but I'll leave discussion of english metallurgy to slashdot's esteemed group of grammar nazis.
Ah yes. It is a common technique used by karma whores to ensure a +1 by capping a weak argument with an editorial flame. I have a suggestion. Why don't you run a spell checker on all of the postings in this thread? You can then further occupy yourself and inflate your intellectual esteem by pointing out the errors.
currently forcing the general populace to live below the poverty line by punitive trade embargoes all based on misplaced ideology
And you say nothing of a megalomaniac Marxist king of sorts who runs a feudal state and who has been practicing economic voodoo for 40 years, and you blame the US for Cuba's poverty? Who is the real schizophrenic.
how many people will make a comment about communism and linux....
The FSF are denigrated as communists, yet they emphasize the free as in freedom of GNU/Linux constantly. It is ironic that the real communists want to use GNU/Linux because it is free as in beer.
Aaah, yes, Safire. The thinking man's Rush Limbaugh.
Dittos to that good buddy!
I'm not so much surprised that you read the Times for Safire, as I am that you read it at all.
I grew up in Massachusetts, so it was kind of hard to avoid. (I think I have 1 of the 4 Republican voter registration cards ever issued there.) So I learned to sift both the NYT and Boston Globe for what little factual news they actually contain.
You can't do that if you ignore what one side of the issue is saying. You're just seeking reinforcement of beliefs you already hold, rather than seeking out the truth on your own.
Good advice. It is the lack of diversity of opinion at the NYT that I am lamenting.
Great. It will be that much easier to ignore. The paper has gone downhill in the past 10 years enormously. Ever since William Safire left there has been little reason to read the OpEd at all. It is mostly become a collection of liberal left twaddle.
Really? So you're telling me that the ones we sent up on the Apollo missions don't exist? Or the ones sent up on Cassini?
No, the RTG applications on Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Viking... are superb acheivements of engineering and perfect applications of nuclear fission. And if one of the rockets carrying them crashed into a Greenpeace
ship in the Atlantic, I would cheer. But sharing
space with millions of Tritium batteries on Earth
is another matter. I am entirely correct.
Good God, you are acting stupid. Get educated, [wikipedia.org] will you?
You blather on in great confusion and condescension then use wikipedia as a reference?
LOL! How about Micro$oft Encarta? Slashdot in one tab, Wikipedia in another? A very powerful combination. Well, at least I know I am not trying to insult an nuclear scientist.
Ok, so the Tritium floats away harmlessly. I'm with you so far.
If ingested Tritium is lethal, it is also very difficult to contain. I doubt one of these things would earn a Good Housekeeping Seal. I'd like to see you use one in your iPod. Like most people on this forum you are inexplicably eager to lap up and vehemently defend the pseudo-scientific bilge that Cowboyneal can dish up. Tritium "Duracells" are right up there with other slashdot favorites like the space elevator, and cold fusion.
Well, if it keeps you occupied...
The submitter should RTFA. tSpace is not proposing a shuttle replacement. They have apparently ceeded that to Boeing or Lockmart. They are proposing a lunar transfer vehicle. They are trying to get in on the CEV bidding without going through the formal review process. These earth LEO rendezvous achitectures are dumb. It is all because bidders seem to believe that the only booster vehicles are EELV's (Delta 4, Atlas V), which are too small for the job. This is foolish. A shuttle derived unmanned launcher could be easily developed from existing hardware and deliver 250,000 lbs to LEO. The manned CEV might then launch on an EELV.
Why does slashdot see fit to report minute incremental engineering progress, or lack thereof, in deploying a science instrument on a mission of average interest?
No, our highwater mark for the last ten years is a solar-powered toy car which rolled around for a few days on the surface of Mars.
I am generallly critical of the current US space program, but the Mars rover missions are truely historic. "Roll around on the surface for a few days", you say? They have been alive for almost 1.5 years! They have discovered and imaged evaporite rocks, salts, dust devils; climbed up hills, into craters, probed rock outcrops, got stuck in sand dunes...! This is success beyond scientists wildest hopes. No, the Mars rovers deserve their place among Apollo, Voyager, Viking as great voyages of exploration.
I do agree with you that this story is not noteworthy at all.
The mobo market is intensely competative. So for $120 you can something loaded! How much cheaper do you expect your mobo to get? The mobo is the sacred heart of you machine! Get a good one. If you already have a sound or ethernet card, run 2 interfaces! Its all in good fun! The Linux kernel will surprise you with what it can do. Whats wrong with having 10 USB's? SATA RAID? Muliple DVD's? Get an ASUS, MSI, Abit, Soltec, DFI, AOpen, Chaintech, Gigabyte, Foxconn, Epox... They're all good. Get something that looks good through your side panel. Get cool cables. What no glass side panel, no LED's? You have a modest machine indeed.
I dont see them surpassing India anytime, if this is the trend... Hardware...maybe.. software... never!
A common notion has developed that Indian IT consists of software only. China emphasized this
a few weeks ago when Wen Jiabao spoke fancifully about dividing up the IT market with software going
to India and hardware to China, with his twin pagodas remark. I don't see India
going along with this silly stereotype. Thier potential market advantages in hardware are the same as China's. Expect them
to compete fiercely.
Yes I work for LMT and yes I am a rocket engineer.
I also work for a large aerospace company and feel I am qualified to judge. What Rutan does is not magic, his genious and resourcefulness are simply not constrained by mindnumbing group think. Lockheed was like that in the 50's and 60's. I wonder what Kelly Johnson would think today about pace of innovation in aerospace engineering? I don't blame you engineers. No, you are not dumber than the people of your glorious past. But at Lockmart, the engineers definitely do not run the place. A rocket engineer, huh? You guys let the Russians design the engines! I guess you make good fuel tanks and are a good system integrator.
We can all see the result of the drastic consolidation in the aerospace industry in the past few decades. Mediocrity. The Lockmart design seems to be very conservative and very small. It looks like a very scaled down X33 with a slightly upsized Centaur upper stage. What use the tiny mission module is I can't guess. It looks weird. I'm sure this is all sized to be compatible with a Lockmart Atlas V. Pathetic. I expect more from a clean sheet design. I am rapidly losing faith in the clods working for these giant space consortia. Hopefully Northrup/Boeing with produce better design, but I doubt it. It honestly might be a good idea to give Burt Rutan a few billion with no strings and see what he can produce.
AFAIK, all the "water" finds on Mars have been indirect - albeit very convincing - evidence of surface water in the past.
Radar sounding will produce no more direct evidence of water/ice than this or this. Radar just adds another plodding data point to something that has already been established, by NASA by the way.
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The second definition (even in decades-old dictionaries) is "copyright infringement". Thus "piracy" seems a perfectly serviceable word for this discussion. Repeated typing or saying "unauthorized copying", "copyright infringement", and similar terms becomes cumbersome.
The second definition simply parrots the deceiving definition that the FSF is trying to fight. That is the job of a modern dictionary. But there is no denying the word as been hijacted. I choose to highlight that fact to people who aren't thinking clearly. The notion that the correct terms are cumbersome is absurd. Proponents of extended copyright and patents have choosen the cumbersome code word 'intellectual property' and use IP as an abbreviation. Propoents of sharing information might abbreviate 'unauthorized copying' as UC. Thanks for the suggestion!
Piracy is a confusing word you should avoid. The title of the story should read, "Software Sharing To Increase as the Internet Grows." Doesn't sound as bad, does it?
I also question your use of the word "ironic" in this context, but I'll leave discussion of english metallurgy to slashdot's esteemed group of grammar nazis.
Ah yes. It is a common technique used by karma whores to ensure a +1 by capping a weak argument with an editorial flame. I have a suggestion. Why don't you run a spell checker on all of the postings in this thread? You can then further occupy yourself and inflate your intellectual esteem by pointing out the errors.
currently forcing the general populace to live below the poverty line by punitive trade embargoes all based on misplaced ideology
And you say nothing of a megalomaniac Marxist king of sorts who runs a feudal state and who has been practicing economic voodoo for 40 years, and you blame the US for Cuba's poverty? Who is the real schizophrenic.
how many people will make a comment about communism and linux....
The FSF are denigrated as communists, yet they emphasize the free as in freedom of GNU/Linux constantly. It is ironic that the real communists want to use GNU/Linux because it is free as in beer.
Any questions?
"Diversity" seems to be code for "no liberals."
No, it is code for some moderates and conservatives to counteract the confused chorus of liberalism.
Aaah, yes, Safire. The thinking man's Rush Limbaugh.
Dittos to that good buddy!
I'm not so much surprised that you read the Times for Safire, as I am that you read it at all.
I grew up in Massachusetts, so it was kind of hard to avoid. (I think I have 1 of the 4 Republican voter registration cards ever issued there.) So I learned to sift both the NYT and Boston Globe for what little factual news they actually contain.
You can't do that if you ignore what one side of the issue is saying. You're just seeking reinforcement of beliefs you already hold, rather than seeking out the truth on your own.
Good advice. It is the lack of diversity of opinion at the NYT that I am lamenting.
NY Times Op-Ed Page Goes Subscriber-Only
Great. It will be that much easier to ignore. The paper has gone downhill in the past 10 years enormously. Ever since William Safire left there has been little reason to read the OpEd at all. It is mostly become a collection of liberal left twaddle.
My deepest apology. I rarely have anyone on my side.
Stop frothing at the mouth you nitwit. My sarcasm is focused on the absurdity of the original claim, not on PJ or groklaw in any way.
I thought Groklaw is a front for Jehovas's Witness? (No flames please. PJ is great.)
Really? So you're telling me that the ones we sent up on the Apollo missions don't exist? Or the ones sent up on Cassini?
No, the RTG applications on Voyager, Galileo, Cassini, Viking... are superb acheivements of engineering and perfect applications of nuclear fission. And if one of the rockets carrying them crashed into a Greenpeace ship in the Atlantic, I would cheer. But sharing space with millions of Tritium batteries on Earth is another matter. I am entirely correct.
Good God, you are acting stupid. Get educated, [wikipedia.org] will you?
You blather on in great confusion and condescension then use wikipedia as a reference? LOL! How about Micro$oft Encarta? Slashdot in one tab, Wikipedia in another? A very powerful combination. Well, at least I know I am not trying to insult an nuclear scientist.
Ok, so the Tritium floats away harmlessly. I'm with you so far.
If ingested Tritium is lethal, it is also very difficult to contain. I doubt one of these things would earn a Good Housekeeping Seal. I'd like to see you use one in your iPod. Like most people on this forum you are inexplicably eager to lap up and vehemently defend the pseudo-scientific bilge that Cowboyneal can dish up. Tritium "Duracells" are right up there with other slashdot favorites like the space elevator, and cold fusion. Well, if it keeps you occupied...
The biggest concern with batteries such as this is actually cost.
Hardly. The biggest concern is a leak of anykind. Imagine a 10 year old breaking open a battery and killing the entire neighborhood.
The submitter should RTFA. tSpace is not proposing a shuttle replacement. They have apparently ceeded that to Boeing or Lockmart. They are proposing a lunar transfer vehicle. They are trying to get in on the CEV bidding without going through the formal review process. These earth LEO rendezvous achitectures are dumb. It is all because bidders seem to believe that the only booster vehicles are EELV's (Delta 4, Atlas V), which are too small for the job. This is foolish. A shuttle derived unmanned launcher could be easily developed from existing hardware and deliver 250,000 lbs to LEO. The manned CEV might then launch on an EELV.
Why does slashdot see fit to report minute incremental engineering progress, or lack thereof, in deploying a science instrument on a mission of average interest?
No, our highwater mark for the last ten years is a solar-powered toy car which rolled around for a few days on the surface of Mars.
I am generallly critical of the current US space program, but the Mars rover missions are truely historic. "Roll around on the surface for a few days", you say? They have been alive for almost 1.5 years! They have discovered and imaged evaporite rocks, salts, dust devils; climbed up hills, into craters, probed rock outcrops, got stuck in sand dunes...! This is success beyond scientists wildest hopes. No, the Mars rovers deserve their place among Apollo, Voyager, Viking as great voyages of exploration.
I do agree with you that this story is not noteworthy at all.
The mobo market is intensely competative. So for $120 you can something loaded! How much cheaper do you expect your mobo to get? The mobo is the sacred heart of you machine! Get a good one. If you already have a sound or ethernet card, run 2 interfaces! Its all in good fun! The Linux kernel will surprise you with what it can do. Whats wrong with having 10 USB's? SATA RAID? Muliple DVD's? Get an ASUS, MSI, Abit, Soltec, DFI, AOpen, Chaintech, Gigabyte, Foxconn, Epox ... They're all good. Get something that looks good through your side panel. Get cool cables. What no glass side panel, no LED's? You have a modest machine indeed.
What an original idea! You mean like this? What is with Europe? Mars Express, A380 and now this? Tone it down guys.
I dont see them surpassing India anytime, if this is the trend... Hardware...maybe.. software ... never!
A common notion has developed that Indian IT consists of software only. China emphasized this a few weeks ago when Wen Jiabao spoke fancifully about dividing up the IT market with software going to India and hardware to China, with his twin pagodas remark. I don't see India going along with this silly stereotype. Thier potential market advantages in hardware are the same as China's. Expect them to compete fiercely.
Yes I work for LMT and yes I am a rocket engineer.
I also work for a large aerospace company and feel I am qualified to judge. What Rutan does is not magic, his genious and resourcefulness are simply not constrained by mindnumbing group think. Lockheed was like that in the 50's and 60's. I wonder what Kelly Johnson would think today about pace of innovation in aerospace engineering? I don't blame you engineers. No, you are not dumber than the people of your glorious past. But at Lockmart, the engineers definitely do not run the place. A rocket engineer, huh? You guys let the Russians design the engines! I guess you make good fuel tanks and are a good system integrator.
We can all see the result of the drastic consolidation in the aerospace industry in the past few decades. Mediocrity. The Lockmart design seems to be very conservative and very small. It looks like a very scaled down X33 with a slightly upsized Centaur upper stage. What use the tiny mission module is I can't guess. It looks weird. I'm sure this is all sized to be compatible with a Lockmart Atlas V. Pathetic. I expect more from a clean sheet design. I am rapidly losing faith in the clods working for these giant space consortia. Hopefully Northrup/Boeing with produce better design, but I doubt it. It honestly might be a good idea to give Burt Rutan a few billion with no strings and see what he can produce.
AFAIK, all the "water" finds on Mars have been indirect - albeit very convincing - evidence of surface water in the past.
Radar sounding will produce no more direct evidence of water/ice than this or this. Radar just adds another plodding data point to something that has already been established, by NASA by the way.