I'll have to hit the "agree" button on that. OMG, the gov'ment knows I'm sober. I think I'm ok with that. They can know whatever they want as long as I get to plead the third (I hate having sleepovers with soldiers against my will in peacetime).
afford to make more than 12 Warehouse episodes a season.
I was a huge fan of SG-1, and Atlantis was better than nothing, but SGU was about to lose my interest. The reveal of the bridge ALMOST took me back in, but it was not enough to overcome the poor writing. Death of Ginn. QED.
Oh, and not to mention that the premise of them being "the wrong people" doesn't jive with how they got to be the scientists and the defense of one of the most secret bases.
All that shows is someone not understanding their chosen license and getting angry that they didn't get credit for their work.
Restrictions in the name of freedom is not freedom. Perhaps what you mean is that BSD doesn't work quite so well in a world where people hunger for fame and recognition. I'd bet Data would be BSD if Soong lived long enough to perfect things.
Why can't they let us change what units we want to see file sizes in?
Maybe I want all my file sizes in multiples of linear block size for the device in question (I only ever use desktop PCs where the devices have blocks of either 512 or 2048 bytes), or define custom units of the number of 128bit double quadwords in base 6.
Why not let the user decide? A program that opens a file is still going to get the number of bytes anyway (it can query the operating system to convert between the custom units).
"Big business historically have been the target of GPL lawsuits."
That is exactly what I meant in that most people can't afford to sue. I don't dispute your last paragraph, but it still means you need to be large company to accomplish such a feat. Otherwise you are, at this point in time, rather better off staying completely proprietary and creating a coolness cult around your product (even though Apple uses plenty of free software themselves. portions of LLVM come to mind.).
A) First time I've ever seen this SFLC. (Can you point me to other/. articles about this SFLC. I wiki'd, but it reads like an ad). B) Seems like an assumption that they would choose to help. After all, they can only help so many, and its not like they get paid (unless you pay them with winnings or something).
And then a bigger company comes along, does what's allowed in the license, and makes all the money while giving you none because they have a far greater ability to market YOUR product.
The GPL is essentially pro-big business. If the little guy writes a library and releases under the GPL, any major corp. can come along and *yoink* (technical term) it. Assuming said little guy finds out, he probably cannot afford to do anything about it. There's places that'll probably help (EFF? ACLU? I don't recall specific cases, but I am mildly intoxicated right now), but that doesn't change the advantage.
The GPL is especially annoying when you find the ONLY library that does a certain thing, and you really don't feel like releasing code while at the same time being unable to write an equivalent (whether that mean skill or time-wise). Just about the only thing I can immediately think of that should be GPL is standard libraries for a programming language (C++ STL for example).
People talk about "code freedom". It seems ridiculous (to me) for code to have freedom. What about my freedom? If I make something awesome with a library that is GPL and I'm feeling altruistic, I can't let people sell it without distributing source? That's ridiculous.
And how many people care about source code anyway? About half the planet is populated by females ya know (ie Natalie Portman)!
Like say, Red Giantness? We're going to vaporize; it's only going to take 4.5 billion years to happen. We NEED to leave (at some point), because it's going to happen.
A lot of other things can happen before then, making it essentially, we need to leave NOW.
Speaking of comparisons, anyone have some links about memory usage?
Some simulations/virtualizations of Win7 I've been present for seem to show it using less RAM idling than WinXP, albeit the Win7 is a clean install, and the XP is Scotty style rigged holding together after 6 years or so.
However my laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 seems to use about half the available 464MB RAM. With Win7 idling at 40% used, should I average everything and call it about even?
But then what about not having to use Anti-Virus on Linux? Speed boost, eh? I'm not concerned with look and feel. I just want my computer to run optimally. My XP install is old. I don't even know how I managed to fix the broken MSI install capability.
My only other concern is drivers. If I have an old enough ATI card, will there by some kind of accelerated driver for it? I'm guessing the answer to this is going to be use-the-live-cd and find-out.
My CPU is an early Pentium 4 and a recent upgrade to 1.5GB from 512MB of RDRAM.
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VBDOS was amazing.
Obama would probably use the money to socialize auto insurance. Or the legislation also makes everyone pay insurance by the mile.
Massive font size? First thing I did upon opening the page was zoom way in.
You insensitive clods with your perfect vision...
Mr. Welfare is already a general. How much higher are we going to promote this guy? Are people really suggesting we should provide for him too?
I'll have to hit the "agree" button on that. OMG, the gov'ment knows I'm sober. I think I'm ok with that. They can know whatever they want as long as I get to plead the third (I hate having sleepovers with soldiers against my will in peacetime).
on CNN
afford to make more than 12 Warehouse episodes a season.
I was a huge fan of SG-1, and Atlantis was better than nothing, but SGU was about to lose my interest. The reveal of the bridge ALMOST took me back in, but it was not enough to overcome the poor writing. Death of Ginn. QED.
Oh, and not to mention that the premise of them being "the wrong people" doesn't jive with how they got to be the scientists and the defense of one of the most secret bases.
in a text editor.
What.. how... huh?
All that shows is someone not understanding their chosen license and getting angry that they didn't get credit for their work.
Restrictions in the name of freedom is not freedom. Perhaps what you mean is that BSD doesn't work quite so well in a world where people hunger for fame and recognition. I'd bet Data would be BSD if Soong lived long enough to perfect things.
Didn't the end of that quote just become "I know it when I see it"?
Why can't they let us change what units we want to see file sizes in?
Maybe I want all my file sizes in multiples of linear block size for the device in question (I only ever use desktop PCs where the devices have blocks of either 512 or 2048 bytes), or define custom units of the number of 128bit double quadwords in base 6.
Why not let the user decide? A program that opens a file is still going to get the number of bytes anyway (it can query the operating system to convert between the custom units).
About that goat... you'd be surprised. I probably shouldn't mention Soviet Russia at
all. That would just make it far worse.
But you also can't improve GPL'd things and give other downstream from YOU more freedom (ie, here I've followed the GPL, but I'm making my mods MIT).
"Big business historically have been the target of GPL lawsuits."
That is exactly what I meant in that most people can't afford to sue. I don't dispute your last paragraph, but it still means you need to be large company to accomplish such a feat. Otherwise you are, at this point in time, rather better off staying completely proprietary and creating a coolness cult around your product (even though Apple uses plenty of free software themselves. portions of LLVM come to mind.).
A) First time I've ever seen this SFLC. (Can you point me to other /. articles about this SFLC. I wiki'd, but it reads like an ad).
B) Seems like an assumption that they would choose to help. After all, they can only help so many, and its not like they get paid (unless you pay them with winnings or something).
And then a bigger company comes along, does what's allowed in the license, and makes all the money while giving you none because they have a far greater ability to market YOUR product.
* standard libraries always linked dynamically.
I'm totally to brunk to post on /.
The GPL is essentially pro-big business. If the little guy writes a library and releases under the GPL, any major corp. can come along and *yoink* (technical term) it. Assuming said little guy finds out, he probably cannot afford to do anything about it. There's places that'll probably help (EFF? ACLU? I don't recall specific cases, but I am mildly intoxicated right now), but that doesn't change the advantage.
The GPL is especially annoying when you find the ONLY library that does a certain thing, and you really don't feel like releasing code while at the same time being unable to write an equivalent (whether that mean skill or time-wise). Just about the only thing I can immediately think of that should be GPL is standard libraries for a programming language (C++ STL for example).
People talk about "code freedom". It seems ridiculous (to me) for code to have freedom. What about my freedom? If I make something awesome with a library that is GPL and I'm feeling altruistic, I can't let people sell it without distributing source? That's ridiculous.
And how many people care about source code anyway? About half the planet is populated by females ya know (ie Natalie Portman)!
Beans.
Words made a purchase of goods or services?
I did not know they could do that these days. 'round these parts that would not be tolerated.
Gmail is stable too, and STILL has the little "BETA" tag on it.
Beats there being noone pretending to be me at all.
Like say, Red Giantness? We're going to vaporize; it's only going to take 4.5 billion years to happen. We NEED to leave (at some point), because it's going to happen.
A lot of other things can happen before then, making it essentially, we need to leave NOW.
And damnit, I want to be beamed up.
Speaking of comparisons, anyone have some links
about memory usage?
Some simulations/virtualizations of Win7 I've
been present for seem to show it using less RAM
idling than WinXP, albeit the Win7 is a clean
install, and the XP is Scotty style rigged
holding together after 6 years or so.
However my laptop with Ubuntu 8.10 seems to use
about half the available 464MB RAM. With Win7
idling at 40% used, should I average everything
and call it about even?
But then what about not having to use Anti-Virus
on Linux? Speed boost, eh? I'm not concerned with
look and feel. I just want my computer to run
optimally. My XP install is old. I don't even
know how I managed to fix the broken MSI install
capability.
My only other concern is drivers. If I have an
old enough ATI card, will there by some kind of
accelerated driver for it? I'm guessing the
answer to this is going to be use-the-live-cd and
find-out.
My CPU is an early Pentium 4 and a recent upgrade
to 1.5GB from 512MB of RDRAM.
Do you know where I might be able to find cheap RDRAM? Back in '02, this totally seemed like a good idea...
The computer next to me has 64MB(I think) of EDO-RAM
I hear there's no spoon either. Now there's no wall. So now I have no privacy in my difficulties in consuming my soup.... Great.