Heh, could always just rename all the entries in the address book to mum1, mum2, mum3... and so on. And then just remember numbers for people instead of what name you put them under.
compulsaory schooling was created 150 years ago to turn independent minded US citizens into compliant workers
And all those other countries around the world copied the US, who were the first to implement it, right? Aha. I think you misspelled "ignorant-minded US citizens".
I think the parent meant that peer-to-peer is also client-server, which it is. If peerA requests something from peerB, then peerA=client, peerB=server. They can then swap roles later on, if peerB needs to request data from peerA.
I hope Vista will come with some serious eye-candy then, cos there's little else people will want it for. (Other than to satisfy their own bandwagon-jumping egos.)
Well, it was a cartoon. But so are South Park and Oruchuban Ebichu. It doesn't mean the content is in any way aimed at the under-fives.
I think it's a nice follow-up to the Creative Commons promotion tool that was released last year some time. I can't remember what it was called, but it was a nice, public-friendly rendering of the ideas that CC stands for. Unfortunately when I just watched the video for this EFF animation my sound wasn't working, so I don't know if it had funky sounds or amusing commentary.
Open Source is basically FSF-lite and was invented to make the whole Free Software thing more palatable to businesses. Unfortunately, as with many things made more appealing to business, the actual ideals of Free Software were utterly lost in the process.
I agree completely with you (and RMS) that the ideals of Free Software were lost when Open Source was formulated, but I also think that true Open Source, that provides the advantages which ESR suggests it should, is actually closer to GPL3 (and maybe even beyond).
The "traditional" GPL has not required that Free Software used and augmented 'locally' (ie, without distribution) be contributed back to the community. If you make changes, but don't publish it, you don't have to supply those changes for the greater good.
ESR's justification of Open Source (from The Cathedral..., etc.) rested on being good for the developer. But since, if (to take an example) Google make massive improvements to some Free Software component but only use it server-side, they don't have to contribute those changes back to the community. Thus, Google have invented a new wheel, but nobody else knows. The next developer to come along has to, again, reinvent the wheel. Where is the advantage to the developer? Nowhere.
Of course, ESR would never admit that his justifications of Free Software imply he should be completely supportive of GPL3 etc.
Well there's your problem. If you're going to artificially constrict the population you sample then you'll get a biased result. People have been tattooing and piercing and head-binding and foot-binding and growing their nails to extraordinary lengths etc. for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Women not wearing trousers could be considered a fashion. Men not wearing trousers has a far bigger presence throughout history. These are all totally useless metrics for measuring the way society has changed.
Not someone who works in a chip shop then? Oh well.
More shocking would be women in trousers.
Well, considering that in the 1920s the Great War was a very recent event, when women had to wear trousers as they worked in munitions factories, I think they wouldn't be so shocked by the idea.
I'm shocked by the idiots that think we're all so advanced nowadays.
You need a simple document structure that doesn't embed a lot of formatting crap in your document.
That is a reason to use LaTeX or similar markup scheme which promotes separation of content from styling. I don't know much about DocBook, so it may be an even better candidate for that sort of thing.
Using RTF from may be feasible, but from what I remember its RTF output is just as ugly as its HTML. It would be horrible to use with diff.
LaTex may be terminally cool for creating fancy-looking documents. But it doesn't solve any problems that this guy cares about. For his purposes, it's just another word processing format.
Not true. The OP asks about version control and branching... and the best way to store something for version control is as plain text. Yes, modern version control software allows fairly sophisticated binary deltas (for example, I believe SVN has this capability) but there are still features that can't be done without text.
For example, can your version control software tell you what text changed between two revisions of Word documents? It can if they're LaTeX documents.
And you apparently have no ability to read what the GP said. Specifically, he suggested that most of Wiles' effort was directed at proving the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture. From that point on, it was a simple step to prove Fermat's Last Theorem (for some extremely esoteric value of 'simple').
Note this line here:
Actually, Wiles proof of FLT is a simplification of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture which he proved I believe.
Whether the grandparent poster's assertion about this method is accurate or not is neither here nor there. You managed to quote him grossly out of context and completely twisted the original message.
It really pisses me off that I can never get <ecode> to work properly. Is it supposed to be like <pre>? It always seems to ignore space indents for me, so code is always bang up against the left. And entities are always a bit hit and miss.
Agreed. The poster assumes an awful lot in his blurb. No, we weren't all hanging around on the edge of our seats until China implemented stronger IP laws. In fact, I don't think anything has been further from my mind.
It has always been a good thing that poor and industrialising haven't assumed the same set of IP laws as, for example, the US. All countries doing things the same way creates an implicit assumption that that way is somehow superior. But that is not the case. China has a duty to its own citizens and not to foreign corporations. (Indeed, I don't think anyone has a duty to foreign corporations.)
This is just the first step in a Chinese implementation of the DMCA; and for all that the US isn't a very free place to live, I wouldn't like to see how transgressors are dealt with in China.
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Heh, could always just rename all the entries in the address book to mum1, mum2, mum3 ... and so on. And then just remember numbers for people instead of what name you put them under.
And all those other countries around the world copied the US, who were the first to implement it, right? Aha. I think you misspelled "ignorant-minded US citizens".
I don't think there will be any slashdotters accidentally infringing on the patent of making friends.
Each to their own I suppose. I appreciated the P-NP references.
I think the parent meant that peer-to-peer is also client-server, which it is. If peerA requests something from peerB, then peerA=client, peerB=server. They can then swap roles later on, if peerB needs to request data from peerA.
Watch out. Grammar nazis have been known to get the HIV Virus.
I can't decide whether you're currently at +3 Funny because either:
Methinks you must be new here.
I hope Vista will come with some serious eye-candy then, cos there's little else people will want it for. (Other than to satisfy their own bandwagon-jumping egos.)
Well, it was a cartoon. But so are South Park and Oruchuban Ebichu. It doesn't mean the content is in any way aimed at the under-fives.
I think it's a nice follow-up to the Creative Commons promotion tool that was released last year some time. I can't remember what it was called, but it was a nice, public-friendly rendering of the ideas that CC stands for. Unfortunately when I just watched the video for this EFF animation my sound wasn't working, so I don't know if it had funky sounds or amusing commentary.
I agree completely with you (and RMS) that the ideals of Free Software were lost when Open Source was formulated, but I also think that true Open Source, that provides the advantages which ESR suggests it should, is actually closer to GPL3 (and maybe even beyond).
The "traditional" GPL has not required that Free Software used and augmented 'locally' (ie, without distribution) be contributed back to the community. If you make changes, but don't publish it, you don't have to supply those changes for the greater good.
ESR's justification of Open Source (from The Cathedral..., etc.) rested on being good for the developer. But since, if (to take an example) Google make massive improvements to some Free Software component but only use it server-side, they don't have to contribute those changes back to the community. Thus, Google have invented a new wheel, but nobody else knows. The next developer to come along has to, again, reinvent the wheel. Where is the advantage to the developer? Nowhere.
Of course, ESR would never admit that his justifications of Free Software imply he should be completely supportive of GPL3 etc.
The French have a great reputation as food lovers, and should be only too happy to receive a foreign cook who is interested in their cuisine.
Well there's your problem. If you're going to artificially constrict the population you sample then you'll get a biased result. People have been tattooing and piercing and head-binding and foot-binding and growing their nails to extraordinary lengths etc. for hundreds or even thousands of years.
Women not wearing trousers could be considered a fashion. Men not wearing trousers has a far bigger presence throughout history. These are all totally useless metrics for measuring the way society has changed.
Maybe it's a red-black tree?
Seriously, it's salt 'n sauce — or nothing. :-)
Not someone who works in a chip shop then? Oh well.
Well, considering that in the 1920s the Great War was a very recent event, when women had to wear trousers as they worked in munitions factories, I think they wouldn't be so shocked by the idea.
I'm shocked by the idiots that think we're all so advanced nowadays.
In what way? We all block adverts surely, so all we're doing is sucking up bandwidth and filling up their databases with our complaints.
That is a reason to use LaTeX or similar markup scheme which promotes separation of content from styling. I don't know much about DocBook, so it may be an even better candidate for that sort of thing.
Using RTF from may be feasible, but from what I remember its RTF output is just as ugly as its HTML. It would be horrible to use with diff.
Not true. The OP asks about version control and branching... and the best way to store something for version control is as plain text. Yes, modern version control software allows fairly sophisticated binary deltas (for example, I believe SVN has this capability) but there are still features that can't be done without text.
For example, can your version control software tell you what text changed between two revisions of Word documents? It can if they're LaTeX documents.
And you apparently have no ability to read what the GP said. Specifically, he suggested that most of Wiles' effort was directed at proving the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture. From that point on, it was a simple step to prove Fermat's Last Theorem (for some extremely esoteric value of 'simple').
Note this line here:
Whether the grandparent poster's assertion about this method is accurate or not is neither here nor there. You managed to quote him grossly out of context and completely twisted the original message.
Or, to echo the FP's sentiments, the Jesuit saying:
"The tobacco industry. Oh, if only we had their numbers..."
Maybe you should tell the people at http://www.google.se/ that directing people to copyrighted works is illegal in Sweden.
Well, that's a good one. "There's no evidence that our product, having more flaws than their product, is actually any worse."
Oh puh-lease.
It really pisses me off that I can never get <ecode> to work properly. Is it supposed to be like <pre>? It always seems to ignore space indents for me, so code is always bang up against the left. And entities are always a bit hit and miss.
No, not really. Do you honestly think that the branches of McDonalds in Beijing are owned by the workers? Your naivete is touching.
Agreed. The poster assumes an awful lot in his blurb. No, we weren't all hanging around on the edge of our seats until China implemented stronger IP laws. In fact, I don't think anything has been further from my mind.
It has always been a good thing that poor and industrialising haven't assumed the same set of IP laws as, for example, the US. All countries doing things the same way creates an implicit assumption that that way is somehow superior. But that is not the case. China has a duty to its own citizens and not to foreign corporations. (Indeed, I don't think anyone has a duty to foreign corporations.)
This is just the first step in a Chinese implementation of the DMCA; and for all that the US isn't a very free place to live, I wouldn't like to see how transgressors are dealt with in China.