The core of Marx was not as you say. Rather, the core of Marx was to coerce and force "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". There's a big difference there. All the difference in the world between socialism and capitalism.
Nonsense! I use the BSD or MIT licenses for everything I write (with the exception of contributions to pre-existing (L)GPL works). I'm not non-sensical for doing this, but have thought it out completely and thoroughly beforehand.
I don't like placing restrictions on the work that I give away. Period. Some restrictions are of course necessary, like passing along the warranty disclaimer when you redistribute. But beyond that, anything I place on the software I write as a hobby during my free time on weekends would be excessive.
While I still fully consider myself the owner of my works, and will defend my copyright, I do not consider the *copies* I have given away to be my property. What this means is that as long as you don't tarnish my good name, pretend that you wrote it, or sue someone over it, I could care less what you do with it, because I don't consider the copy you possess to be mine.
If you're a commercial developer competing with other commercial developers, then the GPL might be more appropriate. In such a case you might need the heavy legal club that the GPL lets you wield in order to compete with those wielding heavy proprietary license clubs against you. But don't fall under the illusion that you're doing this in the name of the FSF's "software should not be owned" style of freedom, because you're really doing this for the opposite reason of explicitly asserting ownership over your software.
I remember working in a union printing shop in the late 80's. One lady spilled an entire drum of ink on the printing floor in sight of everyone, and calmly walked away saying "I don't have to clean it up, it's not in my job description."
...in response to dimming prospects of success for rank-and-file employees.
The best way to avoid success as a rank-n-file employee is to follow the advice in this book. Don't chance failing in your failure, be proactive and guarantee it!
While the various Linux distros vary wildly in the default configurations, none of those packages or other dependent upon them were enabled by default on FreeBSD/OpenBSD five years ago.
That's the trick right there. People are willing to learn new things, but most are only willing to learn them once. If they already know Windows, then they will claim that everything else is too difficult for them. I once met someone who claimed that OSX was too difficult for them, and they returned their iMac a week after buying it and got an eMachine instead.
To be fair, you should compare Windows 98 to other operating systems of that time. Mst other systems at the time were light years ahead of Windows in terms of security.
Solaris, Linux, and *BSD might not have been ready fo the average consumer's desktop, but that's not an excuse for Microsoft, which was fully aware of Windows' security shortcomings.
Yet major ISPs like Earthlink still strongly recommend a "bare" broadband connection. I'm using an external consumer hardware router/firewall, and the Earthlink support staff just goes nuts whenever they find out about it. Of course their heads would explode if they found out I'm not using their Earthlink branded software...
Far violet (~400nm) and far red (~700) are both visible.
But not necessarily to everyone. At these ends of the visible spectrum the bell curve really starts to come into play.
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No, that's just women. Being steeped in the makeup/fasion industry all her life, she had a much larger color vocabulary than you did. You can distinguish between different shades of red as easily as she, but you simply don't have the vocabulary to name them.
And not only does she have a complete vocabulary for different hues of "red", she also has a vocabulary for different saturations of "red". After all, "ruby" is about as pure red as you can get, but that wasn't the "red" she wanted, was it? Odds are it was a much lower saturation, probably on the order of "M&M Red".
Of course, each woman has their own unique color vocabulary. I used to work in interior design, and different women used to name the exact same color swath differently. And heaven help me if they wanted to see a "taupe", because they could have meant anything from "doeskin" to "peach". It all depends on their particular exposure to makeup and fashion marketing.
You're mostly right, and I humbly acknowledge your superior post. My problem was unclear thinking.
I focused in too much, when my problem with the new crop of scifi has much broader roots. I would classify most "classic" science fiction as being positive speculations. That is they were all speculative as opposed to fantastic, and largely positive towards technology and the humanity. There were notable exceptions of course, but most of science fiction fit this mold. The goal wasn't to depress the reader.
But the new crop seems to be very dark and negative. How much of cyberpunk has been positive? Outside of Vinge I can't think of any. And you just about need Prozac to survive the glut of environmental destruction novels. Or we have traditional fantasy masquerading as science fiction by replacing magic with psionics and setting it among the stars. Of course, there are notable exceptions here as well.
Wow! Let's just take the four leading names in the world's largest corporate sponsored political party, put them in a room to share tactics and strategies, and call it "grass roots". The longer this campaign goes on the more confusing it gets...
The problems of sci-fi aren't the singularity. The problem is that the genre has undergone a huge paradigm shift. Take a look at the current sci-fi shelves and you'll find half of it is outright fantasy, another quarter is a rehash of the last two decade's themes, and the rest are "biting social commentaries" set in a space opera or cyberpunk milieu. Out of the hundreds of scifi novels published each year, you might find half a dozen that break out of the mold.
What happened to popular music is happening to science fiction.
We are in the bronze age of science fiction. The golen age was marked by an unabashed love of science and technology, with a dash of unadulterated libertarianism thrown in. Stories of this era showed that a free individual could solve any problem given enough gadgetry and smarts. Next was the silver age of scifi, when we started to invent alient societies and extrapolate cultures into the future. No longer were Mesklinites mere copies of human beings. The science took a back seat in the new wave authors' vehicles, but the science was still there.
Now we're in the bronze age, and frankly it's a fizzle. Most of it is fantasy with a thin veneer of techno-trappings. A signficant amount of it is downright hostile to science and technology. All of the genre's rigorousness has evaporated. It isn't just books, it's movies and television too.
The problem isn't the singularity, the problem is that science fiction has become popular.
The driver broke on me going from 5.1 to 5.2.1. I tried all sorts of things to get it to work, including juggling schedulers and threading libraries, to no avail. Now I've got a card that still has fast openGL, and runs slightly cooler as well.
My aunt and uncle live in a poduct midwestern town, where the only church is Episcopal. In any case, I though Eipscopaleans have long since dropped the practice of confession.
It's too late for me. Tired of waiting for a driver that didn't hang my system, I finally sold my NVidia card and bought an ATI Radeon 9200. The Open Source radeon driver might not be as good as the proprietary nvidia driver, but it's more than enough to meet my needs.
I understand both sides of the free vs proprietary driver debate. But for me it comes down to a driver that I don't have to wait a year for to get a bug fix.
Not just plot holes, "culture holes". If I didn't know better that he actually grew up in the US, I would swear that Shyamalan was a hack director working out of Bangalore.
Gibson's character just didn't make sense to me. He sure looked like a Catholic priest. But he was married. While watching I thought maybe I was mistaken and he wasn't supposed to be Catholic. But as soon as I think that he goes and takes confession in the drug store!
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The core of Marx was not as you say. Rather, the core of Marx was to coerce and force "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". There's a big difference there. All the difference in the world between socialism and capitalism.
To the programmer, BSD makes no sense
Nonsense! I use the BSD or MIT licenses for everything I write (with the exception of contributions to pre-existing (L)GPL works). I'm not non-sensical for doing this, but have thought it out completely and thoroughly beforehand.
I don't like placing restrictions on the work that I give away. Period. Some restrictions are of course necessary, like passing along the warranty disclaimer when you redistribute. But beyond that, anything I place on the software I write as a hobby during my free time on weekends would be excessive.
While I still fully consider myself the owner of my works, and will defend my copyright, I do not consider the *copies* I have given away to be my property. What this means is that as long as you don't tarnish my good name, pretend that you wrote it, or sue someone over it, I could care less what you do with it, because I don't consider the copy you possess to be mine.
If you're a commercial developer competing with other commercial developers, then the GPL might be more appropriate. In such a case you might need the heavy legal club that the GPL lets you wield in order to compete with those wielding heavy proprietary license clubs against you. But don't fall under the illusion that you're doing this in the name of the FSF's "software should not be owned" style of freedom, because you're really doing this for the opposite reason of explicitly asserting ownership over your software.
You're absolutely right. Your problems with workman's comp is all the justification needed for that woman not to clean up her spilled mess.
US citizens have higher disposable income than EU citizens because US citizens work 40% more hours
That's not true. Our actual productivity is much higher than the Europeans. While we certainly do work 40% more, that 40% is pure slack.
Wow! You had better not hire an Australian, or your head will explode in indignation!
I remember working in a union printing shop in the late 80's. One lady spilled an entire drum of ink on the printing floor in sight of everyone, and calmly walked away saying "I don't have to clean it up, it's not in my job description."
...in response to dimming prospects of success for rank-and-file employees.
The best way to avoid success as a rank-n-file employee is to follow the advice in this book. Don't chance failing in your failure, be proactive and guarantee it!
While the various Linux distros vary wildly in the default configurations, none of those packages or other dependent upon them were enabled by default on FreeBSD/OpenBSD five years ago.
...and hadn't touched a computer in her life.
That's the trick right there. People are willing to learn new things, but most are only willing to learn them once. If they already know Windows, then they will claim that everything else is too difficult for them. I once met someone who claimed that OSX was too difficult for them, and they returned their iMac a week after buying it and got an eMachine instead.
he brought an unsecured Win98 system -- with it's C drive shared. To EVERYONE.
Hey, I used to date a girl like that!
We found the following: two separate users were connected to it... eight (!) separate viruses were on the system
With remarkably similar results!
Your 'mum' can at least get a cheap $50 hardware router/firewall.
To be fair, you should compare Windows 98 to other operating systems of that time. Mst other systems at the time were light years ahead of Windows in terms of security.
Solaris, Linux, and *BSD might not have been ready fo the average consumer's desktop, but that's not an excuse for Microsoft, which was fully aware of Windows' security shortcomings.
Hey they he goes again! Every midnight like clockwork this guy tries to break into my system. You would think he would have learned by now...
Yet major ISPs like Earthlink still strongly recommend a "bare" broadband connection. I'm using an external consumer hardware router/firewall, and the Earthlink support staff just goes nuts whenever they find out about it. Of course their heads would explode if they found out I'm not using their Earthlink branded software...
Far violet (~400nm) and far red (~700) are both visible.
But not necessarily to everyone. At these ends of the visible spectrum the bell curve really starts to come into play.
No, that's just women. Being steeped in the makeup/fasion industry all her life, she had a much larger color vocabulary than you did. You can distinguish between different shades of red as easily as she, but you simply don't have the vocabulary to name them.
And not only does she have a complete vocabulary for different hues of "red", she also has a vocabulary for different saturations of "red". After all, "ruby" is about as pure red as you can get, but that wasn't the "red" she wanted, was it? Odds are it was a much lower saturation, probably on the order of "M&M Red".
Of course, each woman has their own unique color vocabulary. I used to work in interior design, and different women used to name the exact same color swath differently. And heaven help me if they wanted to see a "taupe", because they could have meant anything from "doeskin" to "peach". It all depends on their particular exposure to makeup and fashion marketing.
You're mostly right, and I humbly acknowledge your superior post. My problem was unclear thinking.
I focused in too much, when my problem with the new crop of scifi has much broader roots. I would classify most "classic" science fiction as being positive speculations. That is they were all speculative as opposed to fantastic, and largely positive towards technology and the humanity. There were notable exceptions of course, but most of science fiction fit this mold. The goal wasn't to depress the reader.
But the new crop seems to be very dark and negative. How much of cyberpunk has been positive? Outside of Vinge I can't think of any. And you just about need Prozac to survive the glut of environmental destruction novels. Or we have traditional fantasy masquerading as science fiction by replacing magic with psionics and setting it among the stars. Of course, there are notable exceptions here as well.
Wow! Let's just take the four leading names in the world's largest corporate sponsored political party, put them in a room to share tactics and strategies, and call it "grass roots". The longer this campaign goes on the more confusing it gets...
The problems of sci-fi aren't the singularity. The problem is that the genre has undergone a huge paradigm shift. Take a look at the current sci-fi shelves and you'll find half of it is outright fantasy, another quarter is a rehash of the last two decade's themes, and the rest are "biting social commentaries" set in a space opera or cyberpunk milieu. Out of the hundreds of scifi novels published each year, you might find half a dozen that break out of the mold.
What happened to popular music is happening to science fiction.
We are in the bronze age of science fiction. The golen age was marked by an unabashed love of science and technology, with a dash of unadulterated libertarianism thrown in. Stories of this era showed that a free individual could solve any problem given enough gadgetry and smarts. Next was the silver age of scifi, when we started to invent alient societies and extrapolate cultures into the future. No longer were Mesklinites mere copies of human beings. The science took a back seat in the new wave authors' vehicles, but the science was still there.
Now we're in the bronze age, and frankly it's a fizzle. Most of it is fantasy with a thin veneer of techno-trappings. A signficant amount of it is downright hostile to science and technology. All of the genre's rigorousness has evaporated. It isn't just books, it's movies and television too.
The problem isn't the singularity, the problem is that science fiction has become popular.
The driver broke on me going from 5.1 to 5.2.1. I tried all sorts of things to get it to work, including juggling schedulers and threading libraries, to no avail. Now I've got a card that still has fast openGL, and runs slightly cooler as well.
My aunt and uncle live in a poduct midwestern town, where the only church is Episcopal. In any case, I though Eipscopaleans have long since dropped the practice of confession.
11% to 12.5% conversion efficiency is a "HUGE improvement"?
It's too late for me. Tired of waiting for a driver that didn't hang my system, I finally sold my NVidia card and bought an ATI Radeon 9200. The Open Source radeon driver might not be as good as the proprietary nvidia driver, but it's more than enough to meet my needs.
I understand both sides of the free vs proprietary driver debate. But for me it comes down to a driver that I don't have to wait a year for to get a bug fix.
Not just plot holes, "culture holes". If I didn't know better that he actually grew up in the US, I would swear that Shyamalan was a hack director working out of Bangalore.
Gibson's character just didn't make sense to me. He sure looked like a Catholic priest. But he was married. While watching I thought maybe I was mistaken and he wasn't supposed to be Catholic. But as soon as I think that he goes and takes confession in the drug store!
Doesn't anybody read the articles?
Yes I do, but I wasn't responding to the article, I was responding to the writeup of the article.