The parent does not deserve a "funny" tag. Rather, it points out a serious error in the summary, which largely justifies an edit.
The BBC article reports on a "group of people". How on Earth did they become a "scientific community" on/.?
The International Music Score Library Project are Cowards, for not standing up for their legal rights in their own country.
This is a rather strong statement. The administrators were providing the service voluntarily, and it benefited countless students, scholars and music lovers. I would not call them cowards simply because they cannot spend the additional time and effort needed to defend themselves or cannot afford even the risk of litigation.
If the claims of UE are really unfounded, then people should be working on gathering legal and institutional support for the admins so that they can operate the site again without feeling at risk.
Gaff knew who the replicants were, and he marked Deckard as such. I don't see the need for having somebody come out and say it... Thank you for reminding people of this. The scenario as described in TFA strictly matches the "Director's cut" released eons ago. This sounds like they removed a scratch here and there and re-released the very same friggin' thing. Which I loved, by the way, but it isn't new.
Well, that's interesting. As a European living in the US, my impression is that anti-French feelings don't run so deep in US mentality. They really got momentum after the invasion of Iraq, though. But from what I know of the French, they are more deeply anti-American than people here are anti-French. Not that they hate the US or envy its power, quite the contrary, somehow they consider themselves superior (in terms of education, culture, lifestyle, not invading other countries for no reason, and so on) and kind of despise Americans. Of course, that's a very broad generalization, there are also many French people who like the US (and many even come and live here) but I've found it really hard to find a French person saying "I wish I were American".
I did play TES III: Morrowind and enjoyed it a lot. Unfortunately, I don't have a windows machine anymore to install this when it sells, and I certainly don't have plans to build one in the future.
Win PC and XBox don't make a multiplatform game, really. I had some kind of hope a long time ago, when they were still talking about a PS3 port.
This quote is actually from 12th century scholar Bernard de Chartres:
Nous sommes comme des nains montés sur les épaules de géants, si bien que nous pouvons voir plus de choses qu'eux et des choses plus éloignées, nullement de par l'acuité de notre propre vision, ou la hauteur de notre corps, mais parce que nous sommes soulevés et portés en haut par leur grandeur gigantesque.
We are like midgets mounted on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more things and more distant ones, not because of the acuity of our own sight our the height of our body, but because we are elevated by their mighty stature.
All the arguing that's going on here is just depressing.
So YES, the US is the largest militaristic country ever. Yes, it can nuke the crap out of any country it happens to dislike. Yes, this costs a lot of taxpayer money. It has also cost a lot of human lifes, and it's not over yet.
Now, is *this* something to claim and be proud of?
Well, suppose an employee gets a GPL'ed "internal document", then this employee is allowed to distribute it to anyone, even outside the company, so the document isn't internal anymore. And there is no way the company could forbid that in its contracts or internal rules, because then it would violate the GPL.
You are talking about the restrictive part of the license, but you are omitting the fact that the GPL is above all a free license.
In the case of a document, it says that anyone who is given the document is allowed to copy and redistribute it, and to modify it and distribute the modified version, granted that he keeps the original copyright notice and the GPL license.
This is a lot more freedom than that given by basic copyright law.
Right, it IS in beta.
And the worse part is, there are good reasons for that. Last time I checked, it still had show-stopper bugs. I have seen a couple presentations that will not load in Impress 2.0beta without making it crash.
I'm really puzzled to see they included it in Suse 9.3. I wonder how much patching they've been able to do before releasing it. I don't expect miracles, anyway.
I hope I won't hurt anyone's feelings if I say that until very recently, free-as-in-speech PDF readers sucked badly.
They have been improving wildly in the last year or so, with xpdf 3.0 and its forked library, Poppler. The really good news here is that people now have a real choice between a popular and well-supported proprietary app and free software that is efficient and usable (evince, kpdf...)
You have to remember that English has a very strong dynamics, with some syllables being markedly stressed and others conversely weak.
"Grammar" has a stress on the first syllable, making the first vowel sound very distinctly, while the second vowel ends up being pronounced with the generic weak vowel sound, or "schwa". So there is actually no distinction between the pronunciations of "grammar" and "grammer".
I'm pretty sure there will be a download version. They're just not hyping it too much in their PR - which is clearly more business-oriented than community oriented.
they would just like the teaching of evolution to acknowledge that it is not a proven fact
Maybe we have to come to an agreement on what "proven" means. However, in the view of the scientific community at large, and of educated people in most of the world's countries, the idea of evolution is just as proven as anything can be. (I'm referring to the general idea of evolution here, not to all specific points of Darwin's theory).
Someone with adequate beliefs could as well argue that the Sun is not a star, but a huge lamp hanging from the sky, and that some allmighty being constantly makes sure that everything looks exactly as if things were what we believe (aka "know") them to be.
There is a short description here, with links:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/reg.html
Briefly, they are based on electronic fluctuations that get amplified and sampled. The algorithms themselves look quite basic, they just have to ensure that the statistical distribution of the outcome has the desired properties. For instance, XORing the data from two similar generators looks like a good way to get ones and zeroes with equal probability.
Actual science is published in peer-reviewed journals, that's the only way I know to get the scientific community to *consider* whether or not your claims are valid.
The one thing I looked for on that website is a list of publications. There are few, in minor journals, and I saw nothing more recent than 1999.
I won't say they are saying BS. I won't even ask the question. Let's wait until they publish something serious, and then we'll see.
The other danger of privatisation is that the owner can damage their property with impunity.
This is a good point. Oil companies do not care about biodiversity. In many cases, damaging the environment, even on your property, yields more profit in the short term.
The other thing is, the environment is a common by nature, whether you like it or not. Pollution of air or water does not respect boundaries.
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The parent does not deserve a "funny" tag. Rather, it points out a serious error in the summary, which largely justifies an edit. The BBC article reports on a "group of people". How on Earth did they become a "scientific community" on /.?
They are a major contributor, but they are by no means the only ones, nor did they initiate the project.
This is a rather strong statement. The administrators were providing the service voluntarily, and it benefited countless students, scholars and music lovers. I would not call them cowards simply because they cannot spend the additional time and effort needed to defend themselves or cannot afford even the risk of litigation.
If the claims of UE are really unfounded, then people should be working on gathering legal and institutional support for the admins so that they can operate the site again without feeling at risk.
Well, that's interesting. As a European living in the US, my impression is that anti-French feelings don't run so deep in US mentality. They really got momentum after the invasion of Iraq, though. But from what I know of the French, they are more deeply anti-American than people here are anti-French. Not that they hate the US or envy its power, quite the contrary, somehow they consider themselves superior (in terms of education, culture, lifestyle, not invading other countries for no reason, and so on) and kind of despise Americans. Of course, that's a very broad generalization, there are also many French people who like the US (and many even come and live here) but I've found it really hard to find a French person saying "I wish I were American".
Unemployment is *not* sky rocketing in France. It's just high. And it has been so for quite some time now.
Well, I'm rather worried about those that couldn't.
I assume you understand that people currently dying of starvation will have a different viewpoint on that.
DOSbox IS multiplatform. It runs very smoothly on linux etc.
I did play TES III: Morrowind and enjoyed it a lot. Unfortunately, I don't have a windows machine anymore to install this when it sells, and I certainly don't have plans to build one in the future.
Win PC and XBox don't make a multiplatform game, really. I had some kind of hope a long time ago, when they were still talking about a PS3 port.
I don't know where this CamelCase spelling comes from, but I bet poor ol' Lagrange would be surprised.
All the arguing that's going on here is just depressing.
So YES, the US is the largest militaristic country ever. Yes, it can nuke the crap out of any country it happens to dislike. Yes, this costs a lot of taxpayer money. It has also cost a lot of human lifes, and it's not over yet.
Now, is *this* something to claim and be proud of?
Well, suppose an employee gets a GPL'ed "internal document", then this employee is allowed to distribute it to anyone, even outside the company, so the document isn't internal anymore. And there is no way the company could forbid that in its contracts or internal rules, because then it would violate the GPL.
You are talking about the restrictive part of the license, but you are omitting the fact that the GPL is above all a free license.
In the case of a document, it says that anyone who is given the document is allowed to copy and redistribute it, and to modify it and distribute the modified version, granted that he keeps the original copyright notice and the GPL license.
This is a lot more freedom than that given by basic copyright law.
Right, it IS in beta. And the worse part is, there are good reasons for that. Last time I checked, it still had show-stopper bugs. I have seen a couple presentations that will not load in Impress 2.0beta without making it crash. I'm really puzzled to see they included it in Suse 9.3. I wonder how much patching they've been able to do before releasing it. I don't expect miracles, anyway.
I hope I won't hurt anyone's feelings if I say that until very recently, free-as-in-speech PDF readers sucked badly.
They have been improving wildly in the last year or so, with xpdf 3.0 and its forked library, Poppler. The really good news here is that people now have a real choice between a popular and well-supported proprietary app and free software that is efficient and usable (evince, kpdf...)
You have to remember that English has a very strong dynamics, with some syllables being markedly stressed and others conversely weak. "Grammar" has a stress on the first syllable, making the first vowel sound very distinctly, while the second vowel ends up being pronounced with the generic weak vowel sound, or "schwa". So there is actually no distinction between the pronunciations of "grammar" and "grammer".
I'm pretty sure there will be a download version. They're just not hyping it too much in their PR - which is clearly more business-oriented than community oriented.
Trollbridge, we do NOT thank you for your goatse sig...
There is a short description here, with links:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/reg.html
Briefly, they are based on electronic fluctuations that get amplified and sampled. The algorithms themselves look quite basic, they just have to ensure that the statistical distribution of the outcome has the desired properties. For instance, XORing the data from two similar generators looks like a good way to get ones and zeroes with equal probability.
Actual science is published in peer-reviewed journals, that's the only way I know to get the scientific community to *consider* whether or not your claims are valid. The one thing I looked for on that website is a list of publications. There are few, in minor journals, and I saw nothing more recent than 1999.
I won't say they are saying BS. I won't even ask the question. Let's wait until they publish something serious, and then we'll see.
The other thing is, the environment is a common by nature, whether you like it or not. Pollution of air or water does not respect boundaries.