A post which starts at 2 and is rated "+1 Informative", "-1 Overrated" ends up as "2, Informative". If it was overrated precisely because it isn't informative, that's not the desired result.
I RTFA (sorry, I know I shouldn't) before making the comment about contempt of court. The summary is roughly a duplicate of the first half of TFA, but the telling phrase is in the second half:
"All these arguments were persistent, legally improper, and in direct violation of the Court's instructions," Davis said.
Directly violating a court's instructions is generally contempt.
The thing which surprises me is that the story doesn't say anything about a direct punishment of the lawyers. It seems like a straightforward case of contempt of court.
The Boeing 737 family was introduced 20 years before the Airbus A320 family. If you want to compare the safety of the planes you have to take into account some factor reflecting quantity of usage (e.g. number of flights, distance flown, time flown) and changes in quality of pilot training, quality of air control training, quality of medical care for crash victims, etc. Without at least a couple of pages of detailed explanation of how you're controlling for all variables any statistics you throw around are irrelevant and any conclusions you draw are invalid.
I haven't specifically looked at the USACO problems, but the IOI isn't about programming so much as algorithm design. People who do well in it are likely to be capable of getting a PhD in computer science.
The careers department at my school gave us all a questionnaire to fill out when we were 17. The results were pretty much exactly what I expected them to be, so it was a waste of time.
I've just catted 65536 to mmap_min_addr to replace the previous value of 0. I presume that the previous value was the default compiled into the kernel, and that my distro (Debian stable) won't change that default. I have no desire to compile my own kernel, but I don't want to lose the protection when I reboot after installing the new kernel.
Is the best way to stay safe within those constraints to add a script to init.d referenced by all of the rc*.d to redo the cat? I did try Googling it but I'm mainly getting dosemu and wine bug reports.
It doesn't have to be the 20-year-old version to retain copyright.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I wasn't suggesting that patched version of UNIX would be PD while the original remained in copyright. In fact, it's the other way round: assuming that at some point in the future copyright in HP-UX 6.0 expires the later versions will still be protected from copying. Derived works are works.
The Simpsons is 20 years old, but they still release new episodes.
What does that have to do with the rate at which software loses its usefulness?
you can't sing "Happy Birthday" in the UK without paying a license fee
Citation needed. The music is out of copyright in the EU (more than 70 years since the death of the author). The words are of unknown authorship, so unless there's a special provision or a legal precedent applicable in the UK there's no claim there either.
I think most children ask about where babies come from when they're three or four. Failure to explain sex at that age doesn't prevent you from explaining it when they're nine or ten, which should be early enough to avoid unwanted pregnancies and STDs.
GP may be commenting on "growed". It's an irregular verb: the past tense is "grew". I presume this is a case of English being your second language, since you have a Finnish e-mail address. However, my best guess is that GP thought you were deliberately using an incorrect form with your children to simplify things for them.
My point about "getting with the times" is that nowadays it should be possible to automate it and not have anything to manage.
I agree that people will tend to use their holiday time around public holidays and summer, but that's true of any system. My suggestion wasn't to do with avoiding that; and it wasn't about when holiday starts accruing (the start of the year) but when it has to be used up (the end of the year):
I... am 'required' to take 6 of my 20 days of vacation this year, during Q1 this year.
Companies do that so that they don't get stuck short staffed in the Fall trying to get everyone's vacations in before the new year.
If HR got with the times they could avoid that instead by operating each person's holiday year from their date of joining.
"Defining a subclass of a class defined by the Library" - relevant only to to OO languages
Some spectacularly vague stuff about "invoking" a "facility"
"material from a header file that is part of the Library" - this is the specific example I gave in GP
"small macros, inline functions and templates" - C++ only? But what if "template" has a completely different meaning in the language in which the project is developed?
GPL v3 does seem more language-neutral than I thought. I'm still not happy about "linking", though: can you provide a waterproof definition of linking in the context of Java programs? And if you can, would GNU's lawyers agree with your definition?
Note: I'm just trying to understand... perhaps more importantly, why you think a "language-specific license" would be a good thing.
As far as I'm concerned a licence should be as short as it's possible to make it while communicating clearly what permissions it does and doesn't grant. Trying to make a licence too general results in it becoming longer and harder to understand. Using specific terms with agreed meaning is simply good communication.
After all, we've already got more software licenses than anyone can keep track of, having a license for each programming language out there too would only make a bad situation worse.
How many people need to keep track of all software licences? Distro managers, maybe. Programmers would only need to know the licences relevant to the languages they work with - and even then, maybe not. When using a project you read its licence; when creating one, you pick a licence you know, and if you don't know a suitable one you search or write one.
However, if devs believe otherwise and GPL everything I have no problem with it
I wish people would use licences appropriate to the language they're developing in. The GPL and LGPL contain terms which are only really well-defined in the C/C++ paradigm. Rather than make people who want to use your project wrap their brains about how the provisions on header files or linking apply to Java or Perl, use a licence which expresses your intentions clearly in the standard terms used for your language.
I still find the concept of sick time bizarre. The culture I'm used to is that you have as many sick days as days you are genuinely sick. You can take a single day on your honour, but for more than that you need a note from a doctor.
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A post which starts at 2 and is rated "+1 Informative", "-1 Overrated" ends up as "2, Informative". If it was overrated precisely because it isn't informative, that's not the desired result.
I use xine and skip the FBI warnings. I don't think the FBI have much jurisdiction in Europe anyway.
If you read the page you linked to carefully you will find:
The making, dealing in or use of infringing copies is a criminal offence (s. 107).
This is an example of /. needing a "-1 Factually incorrect" to cancel "+1 Informative" mods.
A circle is two dimensional. When you roll up dollar bills to snort drugs you actually have a vicious tube, or a vicious cylinder without end-caps.
Men in Black.
I RTFA (sorry, I know I shouldn't) before making the comment about contempt of court. The summary is roughly a duplicate of the first half of TFA, but the telling phrase is in the second half:
"All these arguments were persistent, legally improper, and in direct violation of the Court's instructions," Davis said.
Directly violating a court's instructions is generally contempt.
The thing which surprises me is that the story doesn't say anything about a direct punishment of the lawyers. It seems like a straightforward case of contempt of court.
The Boeing 737 family was introduced 20 years before the Airbus A320 family. If you want to compare the safety of the planes you have to take into account some factor reflecting quantity of usage (e.g. number of flights, distance flown, time flown) and changes in quality of pilot training, quality of air control training, quality of medical care for crash victims, etc. Without at least a couple of pages of detailed explanation of how you're controlling for all variables any statistics you throw around are irrelevant and any conclusions you draw are invalid.
I travel to the airport by metro, you insensitive clod.
Which house would you rather break into to rob
The one that doesn't have a dog.
I haven't specifically looked at the USACO problems, but the IOI isn't about programming so much as algorithm design. People who do well in it are likely to be capable of getting a PhD in computer science.
Computer science is not programming. It's an area of mathematics. API design is software engineering, not computer science.
The careers department at my school gave us all a questionnaire to fill out when we were 17. The results were pretty much exactly what I expected them to be, so it was a waste of time.
I've just catted 65536 to mmap_min_addr to replace the previous value of 0. I presume that the previous value was the default compiled into the kernel, and that my distro (Debian stable) won't change that default. I have no desire to compile my own kernel, but I don't want to lose the protection when I reboot after installing the new kernel.
Is the best way to stay safe within those constraints to add a script to init.d referenced by all of the rc*.d to redo the cat? I did try Googling it but I'm mainly getting dosemu and wine bug reports.
It doesn't have to be the 20-year-old version to retain copyright.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I wasn't suggesting that patched version of UNIX would be PD while the original remained in copyright. In fact, it's the other way round: assuming that at some point in the future copyright in HP-UX 6.0 expires the later versions will still be protected from copying. Derived works are works.
The Simpsons is 20 years old, but they still release new episodes.
What does that have to do with the rate at which software loses its usefulness?
There is. That's why the BNP won two seats in the last European elections.
Well, UNIX is extremely useful.
Sure, but would you run a 20-year-old UNIX on a server you wanted to be secure?
you can't sing "Happy Birthday" in the UK without paying a license fee
Citation needed. The music is out of copyright in the EU (more than 70 years since the death of the author). The words are of unknown authorship, so unless there's a special provision or a legal precedent applicable in the UK there's no claim there either.
I think most children ask about where babies come from when they're three or four. Failure to explain sex at that age doesn't prevent you from explaining it when they're nine or ten, which should be early enough to avoid unwanted pregnancies and STDs.
GP may be commenting on "growed". It's an irregular verb: the past tense is "grew". I presume this is a case of English being your second language, since you have a Finnish e-mail address. However, my best guess is that GP thought you were deliberately using an incorrect form with your children to simplify things for them.
My point about "getting with the times" is that nowadays it should be possible to automate it and not have anything to manage.
I agree that people will tend to use their holiday time around public holidays and summer, but that's true of any system. My suggestion wasn't to do with avoiding that; and it wasn't about when holiday starts accruing (the start of the year) but when it has to be used up (the end of the year):
I ... am 'required' to take 6 of my 20 days of vacation this year, during Q1 this year.
Companies do that so that they don't get stuck short staffed in the Fall trying to get everyone's vacations in before the new year.
If HR got with the times they could avoid that instead by operating each person's holiday year from their date of joining.
"Circular argument" is probably better than a literal translation.
LGPL v3 has the following:
GPL v3 does seem more language-neutral than I thought. I'm still not happy about "linking", though: can you provide a waterproof definition of linking in the context of Java programs? And if you can, would GNU's lawyers agree with your definition?
Note: I'm just trying to understand ... perhaps more importantly, why you think a "language-specific license" would be a good thing.
As far as I'm concerned a licence should be as short as it's possible to make it while communicating clearly what permissions it does and doesn't grant. Trying to make a licence too general results in it becoming longer and harder to understand. Using specific terms with agreed meaning is simply good communication.
After all, we've already got more software licenses than anyone can keep track of, having a license for each programming language out there too would only make a bad situation worse.
How many people need to keep track of all software licences? Distro managers, maybe. Programmers would only need to know the licences relevant to the languages they work with - and even then, maybe not. When using a project you read its licence; when creating one, you pick a licence you know, and if you don't know a suitable one you search or write one.
However, if devs believe otherwise and GPL everything I have no problem with it
I wish people would use licences appropriate to the language they're developing in. The GPL and LGPL contain terms which are only really well-defined in the C/C++ paradigm. Rather than make people who want to use your project wrap their brains about how the provisions on header files or linking apply to Java or Perl, use a licence which expresses your intentions clearly in the standard terms used for your language.
I still find the concept of sick time bizarre. The culture I'm used to is that you have as many sick days as days you are genuinely sick. You can take a single day on your honour, but for more than that you need a note from a doctor.