No less than RMS has said you can sell software if you want.
He says it, but he doesn't live it. He doesn't make a living writing software, he doesn't make a living selling software... and the fact is he never did. He also thinks spam is perfectly okay.
I didn't receive the DEC message, but I can't imagine I would have been bothered if I have. I get tons of uninteresting mail, and system announcements about babies born, etc. At least a demo MIGHT have been interesting.
You still need 2 points on the circumference (which is itself defined by a series of points) for the calipers. So, points are still the ultimate. (and if you look at the calipers, the fact that they're pointy should have been a clue:-).
the circle has been considered the most perfect of shapes
And yet, the circle needs a point to define the center, and an infinite number of points around the circumference to define the circle itself. The most perfect of shapes is a point. It is the basis for all other shapes, both in flatworld, in 3d space, and in space-time. Without the point, there would be no point (pun intended) to trying to define a circle either as pi or tau (where is your center to get your diameter or radius from, hmmmm?).
So, when is point day? Since you ask, you have not yet achieved enlightenment:-)
I agree - I marked the submission as binspam in the firehose because it's pretty much crap designed for page views. A real article would have at least had a summary of the video. If they can't be arsed to at least summarize it, I can't be bothered to watch it.
I'd argue that colour screens did give us a big, obvious, and immediate improvement - syntax highlighting. No having to learn some new technique or method - just open your existing code and the editor highlights it accordingly. Off-hand, I can't think of anything else that, by itself, had as much of an impact across all programming languages.
It was in the firehose a few days ago and I down-modded it because (1) the idea was stupid, (2) the article did not give anything but the vaguest hand-waving of explanations, and (3) there is no way someone is going to sit through an hour video if the blogger can't even bother to provide a half-decent summary - which is why I labeled it as binspam... it's just link bait.
I've had multiple ati cards on window. FUCK THAT never again. The drivers are complete and total garbage that make the nvidia drivers look like space shuttle assembly quality.
Are you saying that nvidia drivers have a 2% chance of killing the user every time they're launched? I guess that means I should be happy that the nvidia gpu only killed my laptop.
because it was the most reliable linux distro at the time (and maybe still is)?
I guess you didn't get the memo - slackware is pretty much dead nowadays - the package browser/repo has been broken for almost a year, and most ftp/http sites only have a couple dozen updates available (if I had seen that before downloading 13.37, I wouldn't have bothered. What use is a distro with no updates between releases?)
It's there to at least try to stay competitive with the competition, not kill off the competition - because your local Wallyworld offers the same deals for other brands as well.
With cell phone number portability now a reality in Kanuckistan as well, pretty much everyone I know has either changed to a discount brand, or gotten the same deal when threatening to. So do yourself a favour - switch and save money.
Here in Canada there are plenty of mobile carriers that give you the option to buy the phone outright. But most people don't do this, as the usage cost is the same (but there is no contract).
Not true. Go to Rogers discount brand (chatr) and buy a phone- unsubsidized - for between $30 (basic feature phone) and $160 (low-end android) or use any unlocked phone, and pay between $25 (unlimited voice only), $35 (unlimited talk and text to anywhere in Canada, + voicemail), $45 ($0 more a month) gives you a crappy 100 megs of data, but instead of that, just connect through wifi and take the $25/month or $35/month plan. It's the same network.
The bottom line is that Pads are going to replace TV.
Are you insane? First, a 50" tablet is way too big to carry around. Second, the battery life would be absolutely terrible. Third, I like surround-sound.
worst story, ever. btw, i got this idea for a game where people run around and shoot each other, like wolfenstein but better....halp?
I got this idea for a game where people run around and shoot people who submit stories like this one, like duke nukem but better... halp?
... soon to be followed by...
I got this idea for a game where people run around and run and shoot the editors who post stories like this one, like left 4 dead 2 but better... halp?
Either you don't know what due process means (in which case your lie is just from your stupidity), or you're intentionally lying.
The sites were shut down pursuant to a federal court order - that's due process at work - they had to go through the courts, not just grab it. The owner has been indicted - see - more due process - he's not just thrown in Gitmo for the next 10 years without first an indictment being handed down. He has all the protections of the legal system available, same as any other person charged with a crime - due process again. If he doesn't like it, he's free to ask a court to overturn the judgement - more due process.
Just because you do something outside the country doesn't mean that it "doesn't count." Both Canada and the US, for example, require you to report and pay tax on ALL earnings, no matter where in the world they have been earned - even if you spend it there and never bring it back home. Both countries also have treaties with each other, and other countries, to avoid "double taxation". So, why should the US be able to tax your earnings outside the country? After all, according to you argument, it's money earned outside the US, and if it's not brought back home, "how dare" they tax it?
Due process in this case simply means that the government follows the rules (the "due process") of applying the law, and that the person affected can also, via the same rules ("the due process") contest their actions.
Enough is enough - you've had more than ample opportunity to try to show why this is illegal - and yet every step of the way, the law (due process) was followed.
You're the one who changed the analogy and then tried to say it was stupid. Look in the mirror.
Besides, your arguments are going against the current laws and treaties of both countries - so stop being such a jerk already. If you don't like those treaties, go buy yourself a Sealand and declare yourself an independent country.
Really - all you're doing is showing the same mental blocks that freetards have - "my way is better because I say so and I can't hear you!!!" Whaaahmbulance alert...
Actually, if you don't pay for your car in the US and move to Canada, it's perfectly legal for an American to go to Canada and seize your car (or hire a Canadian to do it and ship it back). They don't even need a court order - just the paperwork from the lender - so it's a great analogy. No cops, nothing... just hook it up to the tow-truck and drive off.
There are plenty of animals that are self-aware that we treat as slaves. Why would non-living robots be any different? "Young chimpanzees have outperformed human college students in tasks requiring remembering numbers." [citation]
"how do you teach humans to teach robots? Or, more precisely, how can you teach robots to teach humans to teach robots?"
The real question is "how to build robots that can learn." Dogs can learn. Cats can learn. Birds and bees can learn. People... the results are not so good...
So what? The site was violating both Canadian and American law (or are you continuing to ignore that fact because it torpedoes your arguments?)
It would be no different, to use a car analogy, to the Canadian cops seizing an American car in Canada because they didn't renew their American license plates - except that the cops wouldn't even need a warrant.
... or just don't use swap. It's not like you need it any more. I'm running with no swap partition, no swap file, and even with openoffice and eclipse and firefox and opera open, I still use less than a gig of ram.
Of course, I also close firefox every day - it leaks memory.
Simple example - "automagic" unicode translation in perl - the only way around it was to write a program in c to crawl 40 gigs of data and manually get rid of the foreign characters.
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He says it, but he doesn't live it. He doesn't make a living writing software, he doesn't make a living selling software ... and the fact is he never did. He also thinks spam is perfectly okay.
You still need 2 points on the circumference (which is itself defined by a series of points) for the calipers. So, points are still the ultimate. (and if you look at the calipers, the fact that they're pointy should have been a clue :-).
And yet, the circle needs a point to define the center, and an infinite number of points around the circumference to define the circle itself. The most perfect of shapes is a point. It is the basis for all other shapes, both in flatworld, in 3d space, and in space-time. Without the point, there would be no point (pun intended) to trying to define a circle either as pi or tau (where is your center to get your diameter or radius from, hmmmm?).
So, when is point day? Since you ask, you have not yet achieved enlightenment :-)
I agree - I marked the submission as binspam in the firehose because it's pretty much crap designed for page views. A real article would have at least had a summary of the video. If they can't be arsed to at least summarize it, I can't be bothered to watch it.
I'd argue that colour screens did give us a big, obvious, and immediate improvement - syntax highlighting. No having to learn some new technique or method - just open your existing code and the editor highlights it accordingly. Off-hand, I can't think of anything else that, by itself, had as much of an impact across all programming languages.
It was in the firehose a few days ago and I down-modded it because (1) the idea was stupid, (2) the article did not give anything but the vaguest hand-waving of explanations, and (3) there is no way someone is going to sit through an hour video if the blogger can't even bother to provide a half-decent summary - which is why I labeled it as binspam ... it's just link bait.
Are you saying that nvidia drivers have a 2% chance of killing the user every time they're launched? I guess that means I should be happy that the nvidia gpu only killed my laptop.
I guess you didn't get the memo - slackware is pretty much dead nowadays - the package browser/repo has been broken for almost a year, and most ftp/http sites only have a couple dozen updates available (if I had seen that before downloading 13.37, I wouldn't have bothered. What use is a distro with no updates between releases?)
With cell phone number portability now a reality in Kanuckistan as well, pretty much everyone I know has either changed to a discount brand, or gotten the same deal when threatening to. So do yourself a favour - switch and save money.
Not true. Go to Rogers discount brand (chatr) and buy a phone- unsubsidized - for between $30 (basic feature phone) and $160 (low-end android) or use any unlocked phone, and pay between $25 (unlimited voice only), $35 (unlimited talk and text to anywhere in Canada, + voicemail), $45 ($0 more a month) gives you a crappy 100 megs of data, but instead of that, just connect through wifi and take the $25/month or $35/month plan. It's the same network.
Or a few skunks wandering around - dogs just love to run after them thinking they're just funny-looking cats.
Or a porcupine or two - just to make a point or 10.
Or a bag of dirty diapers.
Are you insane? First, a 50" tablet is way too big to carry around. Second, the battery life would be absolutely terrible. Third, I like surround-sound.
I got this idea for a game where people run around and shoot people who submit stories like this one, like duke nukem but better ... halp?
I got this idea for a game where people run around and run and shoot the editors who post stories like this one, like left 4 dead 2 but better ... halp?
Either you don't know what due process means (in which case your lie is just from your stupidity), or you're intentionally lying.
The sites were shut down pursuant to a federal court order - that's due process at work - they had to go through the courts, not just grab it. The owner has been indicted - see - more due process - he's not just thrown in Gitmo for the next 10 years without first an indictment being handed down. He has all the protections of the legal system available, same as any other person charged with a crime - due process again. If he doesn't like it, he's free to ask a court to overturn the judgement - more due process.
Just because you do something outside the country doesn't mean that it "doesn't count." Both Canada and the US, for example, require you to report and pay tax on ALL earnings, no matter where in the world they have been earned - even if you spend it there and never bring it back home. Both countries also have treaties with each other, and other countries, to avoid "double taxation". So, why should the US be able to tax your earnings outside the country? After all, according to you argument, it's money earned outside the US, and if it's not brought back home, "how dare" they tax it?
Due process in this case simply means that the government follows the rules (the "due process") of applying the law, and that the person affected can also, via the same rules ("the due process") contest their actions.
Enough is enough - you've had more than ample opportunity to try to show why this is illegal - and yet every step of the way, the law (due process) was followed.
Besides, your arguments are going against the current laws and treaties of both countries - so stop being such a jerk already. If you don't like those treaties, go buy yourself a Sealand and declare yourself an independent country.
Really - all you're doing is showing the same mental blocks that freetards have - "my way is better because I say so and I can't hear you!!!" Whaaahmbulance alert ...
So try again - you're losing.
There are plenty of animals that are self-aware that we treat as slaves. Why would non-living robots be any different? "Young chimpanzees have outperformed human college students in tasks requiring remembering numbers." [citation]
The real question is "how to build robots that can learn." Dogs can learn. Cats can learn. Birds and bees can learn. People ... the results are not so good ...
So much like Total Recall P. K. Dick really did have a direct line on the future.
It would be no different, to use a car analogy, to the Canadian cops seizing an American car in Canada because they didn't renew their American license plates - except that the cops wouldn't even need a warrant.
Don't like it? Then don't break the law.
Of course, I also close firefox every day - it leaks memory.
Simple example - "automagic" unicode translation in perl - the only way around it was to write a program in c to crawl 40 gigs of data and manually get rid of the foreign characters.
It's impossible to have a sustainable lifestyle for everybody on the planet. We're way past that. Like about 5-6 billion past that.
Hard economic realities are the only way to force the population down to something that can be managed long-term above subsistence levels.
Here's what you claim I'm saying:
That's not what I wrote. Indeed, I went out of my way to write:
in my last reply.
All this shows is that people who think scripting languages are all you need are retarded.
How is that not an accurate statement?
Also, on a side note, people do tended to do things informally before someone else lays down a formal declaration of "this is how to do it."