Would it really have been better for Europe to bypass North and South America, leaving them in the perpetual grip of brutal Stone Age cultures? Invasion and displacement are basal Darwinian forces. They are neither good nor bad.
I'm british, and i can admit we've done some really crappy stuff in the past (appeasment, Colonizing america/australia,
Why do you think colonizing America was a bad thing? England provided an essential cultural and institutional base that set America on a solid course. The monarchy was rotten, no doubt about that, but it produced some fastastic people and a great civilization. England's influence on world culture in the past 300 years has been profound, more so than any other European colonial power.
I generally keep my own projects GPL-free because I personally think the GPL is excessively restrictive...
GPL puts software in perpetual freedom. That won't appeal to you if you want to keep open the option
re-enslaving your software. History has shown
the free software community that it is unwise to rely on less restrictive licenses.
Anyone who believes that no source code management or CVS is superior to more powerful alternatives is showing "profoundly bad judgment".
I only point out that the kernel went from having no SCM to BK practically over night. A few months would have been sufficient to develop a new, free SCM system that everyone could agree with. What was the harm in waiting that long? Instead Linus made an autocratic decision
that offended 100's of kernel developers, and put
kernel development at the mercy of proprietary software. The worst thing that could have happened was that McVoy would recind the BK free
client. That has now (predictably) happened. I call that profoundly bad judgement on Linus' part. Linus is becoming a most unsafe guardian of the Linux kernel.
It was a tremendous error for Linus to use BitKeeper on a GPL project in the first place. It shows profoundly bad judgement for the future of the kernel effort. Was it really necessary to switch from having virtually no source code management, to using a proprietary product using a decision-making process that disregarded the opinions of 100's of developers? In the controversial years that BitKeeper was used a suitable free alternative, tailored to the kernel development process, could have been done several times over. Perhaps it is finally time to consider life in the Linux kernel after Linus?
That is an excellent idea. I had never thought of trying to maneuver a comet using its own mass. Same goes for entire asteroids. You could consume them completely for their metals.
I don't dispute the utility of H2 or O2 for space exploration. They are most definitely useful. My point is that is it worth wrecking a small, localized, no renewable geologic feature for such short sighted uses? I say no.
Does it really make sense to strip mine the moon of an incredibly rare and scientificly interesting geological feature? If it exists at all the icy soil areas are small and still pretty dry. It is likely that tons of regolith would have to be processed to extract even a small amount of water. There are lots of abundant and useful resources on the moon. Water is not among them.
The Russians seem to have started building their Kliper [mosnews.com] lifting body [wikipedia.org] space craft.
No, they have floated a design idea in hopes that the EU or US (unlikely) will fund it. It is a direct response to the US call for a Crew Exploration Vehicle. It seems to the that it would be smart for the EU to fund this using the Ariane V as a launcher.
OSI is formed because they want to make free software more appealing to corporations by supressing essential discussions of freedom. This leads to a profusion of 'open source' licenses. Sensing opportunity in the confusion rapacious corporations hatch their own restrictive licenses and call them 'open source'. OSI responds by aligning more closely with GPL. There is a lesson here. To all of you 'open source' advocates, stop writing licenses! Use GPL and let Stallman think for you!
Theft is theft, you would be no happier if I stole your car than if you steal my intellectual property.
Ah, that is the crux to the free vs proprietary software debate? Is copying software the equivalent to stealing a car? No one is denied use of the software like the material object. I am not sure what you mean by 'intellectual property'. Corporations use it to try to get the unwary to think about software in a particular way which is advantageous to them. Copyright and patent laws deal with the control of inventions. They were never intended to apply to abstract ideas.
Larry has a very clear moral standpoint: "You can compete with me, but you can't do so by riding on my coat-tails. Solve the problems on your own, and compete _honestly_. Don't compete by looking at my solution."
If this is the same Andrew Tridgell that created rsync and samba, that is not his reputation. There are many successful examples of reverse engineering software without consulting the original sources. Heck, samba and linux are formost among these! Why should Mr. McVoy think that BitKeeper is perpetually immune from immitation?
"Cooperation is just like two pagodas, one hardware and one software," Wen said. "Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.
A laudable goal for China, but they don't make any computer hardware except for some skank PC's (Lenovo) and some motherboards outsourced from Taiwan. Fact is is that China and India will be competing for the same capital and resources in the coming decades and are natural rivals.
According to the BBC, the ESA is set to send a robotic probe to Mars around 2011. They apparently want to return samples of Martian soil with the probe...
You'd think the poster would RTA. The 2011 mission is a rover mission.
NASA is already considering a sample return mission prior to the 2016 timeframe. I am not sure what plans there are for
international collaboration. I would like to see the US work more closely with Japan.
In Europe, they work as a team and are credited as members of a team. In the USA people get credit for outstanding work individually, not a team. So it is interesting to see how this plays out.
A sweeping and absurd generalization. Consider the wildly successful Spirit and Opportunity missions. Are you suggesting that anything other than excellent engineering teamwork and program management have made these missions what they are?
AMD's technology is on par with Intel. It's their marketing that falls short.
I think AMD's marketing is pretty smart. As all of the pro-AMD postings on this forum suggest, AMD has a rabid following among enthusiasts, gamers, hobbiests, etc. By targeting this group AMD has smartly sown the seeds of further success. Most AMD home users have jobs. Eventually the good experience they've had with the processor at
home will influence the equipment purchases of their employers.
What about the sources for the solutions for the medalists? They would answer many of the questions that are circulating around this forum, as to how good these programmers are. My guess is that they are very good indeed.
Yes, but tell me, when is the next time we'll have a probe that far out in say, oh, the next 20-30 years??
A lot sooner than you think. The Pluto probe will be launched by a souped up Atlas V (Model 551). That with a Jupiter flyby will have the probe screaming into the outer Solar system in a few years. It will be wandering the Kuiper belt like the Voyagers in 2020.
There are too many people that think their humor is the best and other kinds are "bad, cheap, too British, too dry, needs more salt, etc." Stop being one of them.
Your point is absurd. I make no claims to promoting my brand of humor. I merely point out that the parent's remark was banal. You and the parent author are obviously kindred spirits. Your ultimate achievement is to get that +1 Funny. I find your kind tiresome. Other replies to my post agree. So go back to the main forum. You might
get a chance to comment on the next slashdotted website.
P.S. So you have a high Karma value huh? Wow,
I'm impressed. I bet you have lots of Friends too. Lamer.
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Would it really have been better for Europe to bypass North and South America, leaving them in the perpetual grip of brutal Stone Age cultures? Invasion and displacement are basal Darwinian forces. They are neither good nor bad.
I'm british, and i can admit we've done some really crappy stuff in the past (appeasment, Colonizing america/australia,
Why do you think colonizing America was a bad thing? England provided an essential cultural and institutional base that set America on a solid course. The monarchy was rotten, no doubt about that, but it produced some fastastic people and a great civilization. England's influence on world culture in the past 300 years has been profound, more so than any other European colonial power.
I generally keep my own projects GPL-free because I personally think the GPL is excessively restrictive...
GPL puts software in perpetual freedom. That won't appeal to you if you want to keep open the option re-enslaving your software. History has shown the free software community that it is unwise to rely on less restrictive licenses.
Anyone who believes that no source code management or CVS is superior to more powerful alternatives is showing "profoundly bad judgment".
I only point out that the kernel went from having no SCM to BK practically over night. A few months would have been sufficient to develop a new, free SCM system that everyone could agree with. What was the harm in waiting that long? Instead Linus made an autocratic decision that offended 100's of kernel developers, and put kernel development at the mercy of proprietary software. The worst thing that could have happened was that McVoy would recind the BK free client. That has now (predictably) happened. I call that profoundly bad judgement on Linus' part. Linus is becoming a most unsafe guardian of the Linux kernel.
It was a tremendous error for Linus to use BitKeeper on a GPL project in the first place. It shows profoundly bad judgement for the future of the kernel effort. Was it really necessary to switch from having virtually no source code management, to using a proprietary product using a decision-making process that disregarded the opinions of 100's of developers? In the controversial years that BitKeeper was used a suitable free alternative, tailored to the kernel development process, could have been done several times over. Perhaps it is finally time to consider life in the Linux kernel after Linus?
Beam me up Scotty, ay?
That is an excellent idea. I had never thought of trying to maneuver a comet using its own mass. Same goes for entire asteroids. You could consume them completely for their metals.
I don't dispute the utility of H2 or O2 for space exploration. They are most definitely useful. My point is that is it worth wrecking a small, localized, no renewable geologic feature for such short sighted uses? I say no.
Does it really make sense to strip mine the moon of an incredibly rare and scientificly interesting geological feature? If it exists at all the icy soil areas are small and still pretty dry. It is likely that tons of regolith would have to be processed to extract even a small amount of water. There are lots of abundant and useful resources on the moon. Water is not among them.
The Russians seem to have started building their Kliper [mosnews.com] lifting body [wikipedia.org] space craft.
No, they have floated a design idea in hopes that the EU or US (unlikely) will fund it. It is a direct response to the US call for a Crew Exploration Vehicle. It seems to the that it would be smart for the EU to fund this using the Ariane V as a launcher.
OSI is formed because they want to make free software more appealing to corporations by supressing essential discussions of freedom. This leads to a profusion of 'open source' licenses. Sensing opportunity in the confusion rapacious corporations hatch their own restrictive licenses and call them 'open source'. OSI responds by aligning more closely with GPL. There is a lesson here. To all of you 'open source' advocates, stop writing licenses! Use GPL and let Stallman think for you!
Theft is theft, you would be no happier if I stole your car than if you steal my intellectual property.
Ah, that is the crux to the free vs proprietary software debate? Is copying software the equivalent to stealing a car? No one is denied use of the software like the material object. I am not sure what you mean by 'intellectual property'. Corporations use it to try to get the unwary to think about software in a particular way which is advantageous to them. Copyright and patent laws deal with the control of inventions. They were never intended to apply to abstract ideas.
Larry has a very clear moral standpoint: "You can compete with me, but you can't do so by riding on my coat-tails. Solve the problems on your own, and compete _honestly_. Don't compete by looking at my solution."
If this is the same Andrew Tridgell that created rsync and samba, that is not his reputation. There are many successful examples of reverse engineering software without consulting the original sources. Heck, samba and linux are formost among these! Why should Mr. McVoy think that BitKeeper is perpetually immune from immitation?
"Cooperation is just like two pagodas, one hardware and one software," Wen said. "Combined, we can take the leadership position in the world.
A laudable goal for China, but they don't make any computer hardware except for some skank PC's (Lenovo) and some motherboards outsourced from Taiwan. Fact is is that China and India will be competing for the same capital and resources in the coming decades and are natural rivals.
According to the BBC, the ESA is set to send a robotic probe to Mars around 2011. They apparently want to return samples of Martian soil with the probe...
You'd think the poster would RTA. The 2011 mission is a rover mission.
In addition to the rover project, they also reiterated their support for an existing proposal - a "Mars return" mission, sketched for 2016, in which various space powers would pool their resources to send an unmanned probe to Mars, take soil samples, and bring them back to Earth.NASA is already considering a sample return mission prior to the 2016 timeframe. I am not sure what plans there are for international collaboration. I would like to see the US work more closely with Japan.
In Europe, they work as a team and are credited as members of a team. In the USA people get credit for outstanding work individually, not a team. So it is interesting to see how this plays out.
A sweeping and absurd generalization. Consider the wildly successful Spirit and Opportunity missions. Are you suggesting that anything other than excellent engineering teamwork and program management have made these missions what they are?
AMD's technology is on par with Intel. It's their marketing that falls short.
I think AMD's marketing is pretty smart. As all of the pro-AMD postings on this forum suggest, AMD has a rabid following among enthusiasts, gamers, hobbiests, etc. By targeting this group AMD has smartly sown the seeds of further success. Most AMD home users have jobs. Eventually the good experience they've had with the processor at home will influence the equipment purchases of their employers.
What about the sources for the solutions for the medalists? They would answer many of the questions that are circulating around this forum, as to how good these programmers are. My guess is that they are very good indeed.
It'd be great if NASA (or someone higher up on the food chain) had the cojones to put an orion drive on a probe.
You mean like Deep Space 1? It sounds like you have a good proposal for a mission. Personally, I think particle and fields science is pretty dull.
Yes, but tell me, when is the next time we'll have a probe that far out in say, oh, the next 20-30 years??
A lot sooner than you think. The Pluto probe will be launched by a souped up Atlas V (Model 551). That with a Jupiter flyby will have the probe screaming into the outer Solar system in a few years. It will be wandering the Kuiper belt like the Voyagers in 2020.
Are you still here?
"grammar."
Spelling flames are boring too.
Oh, and everyone who uses emoticons is dumb?
Weren't we talking about smileys? Do you have A.D.D.?
Try to learn English
A grammer flame? It requires about as much wit as your +1 Funny posts.
It's not the 1990's any more. Sorry. :'(
And what about smileys? God you're dumb.
There are too many people that think their humor is the best and other kinds are "bad, cheap, too British, too dry, needs more salt, etc." Stop being one of them.
Your point is absurd. I make no claims to promoting my brand of humor. I merely point out that the parent's remark was banal. You and the parent author are obviously kindred spirits. Your ultimate achievement is to get that +1 Funny. I find your kind tiresome. Other replies to my post agree. So go back to the main forum. You might get a chance to comment on the next slashdotted website.
P.S. So you have a high Karma value huh? Wow, I'm impressed. I bet you have lots of Friends too. Lamer.
Looking at your post history, you're not normally a dick. So maybe you just need a nap?
Judging from yours, you specialize in whoring for cheap laughs. I try to spank such posters off of this forum at every opportunity.
Queue the predictable Austin Powers quotes.