Just like a taser: better than being shot, worse than being yelled at. Which of the above do you think would happen to most people who get tasered, if a taser wasn't available?
We all know Linus doesn't want to move into GPL v3. He never liked the GPL, or free software at all for that matter.
There's more than one problem with this. Firstly, Linus doesn't hate the GPL:
Making Linux GPL'd was definitely the best thing I ever did.
- Linus Torvalds, 1997
He just doesn't like version 3. Also, I see no reason to believe he hates free software either.
But it will happen eventually, he can't stay behind forever.
Secondly, he can indeed "stay behind forever": he owns the copyright to about 2% of the kernel source - the rest is owned by its many thousands of contributors, and there is no realistic way to contact them all about relicensing (though I should point out that not all of them have specified a GPL version).
I doubt you really believe that. How about pedophiles in a kindergarten?
In a relationship between a paedophile and a child, one party is very obviously more powerful and the other very obviously an unwilling (or incapable of consent) victim. The same is not true of a homosexual relationship between adults.
It is right and proper for the State and others to leave alone those who don't harm others, and act against those who do.
They base this on a selective reading of the Old Testament which they use to justify an opinion they already held previously
All Christians believe whatever they want, and justify it by selective reading of the Bible. Perhaps the fact that so many end up with "New Testament values of love and forgiveness" is comforting evidence that not everyone's inherent tendencies are towards violent opposition to people unlike themselves, but I don't think it has any bearing on what "correct" Christianity is.
Who says HTML5 video is any easier on batteries than Flash? If anybody has done a study on that, I haven't seen it.
Flash will not use a GPU's hardware video acceleration, will not use it's decoding acceleration (on cards that have that), and perhaps more importantly, also does not use the dedicated DSPs which an increasing number of mobile devices use to avoid doing video decoding on the CPU. Instead, everything is one on the CPU, which is typically much less efficient at those tasks.
As a real-world example, using the Flash version of BBC iPlayer kills the battery on an N900, but it will play the same content, downloaded with the wonderful get_iplayer perl script and viewed in the built-in media player, for hours, since the media player app uses a DSP.
In short, studies are not needed here - it is common sense that flash will kill the battery on many devices, and it can also be easily observed.
They are still Muslim hence still vulnerable to fundamentalism.
How does this differ from all the other countries where the majority is religious? I hope you aren't suggesting America isn't "vulnerable to fundamentalism".
Image recognition is certainly an considered a part of "AI" research, because it is still a task which is very simple for humans and very hard for machines. The term "AI" is a bit strange anyway - whenever a goal of AI research is reached, we realise that that task didn't' actually need "intelligence" (whatever that is) - for example, the world chess champion is a machine, and we still don't have consider AI to have arrived. I suspect we won't really notice the point at which machines start to get better at most jobs than humans.
Sounds like the "special relationship" means that passing laws against excessive surveillance by our own police will never achieve anything - they can just have the FBI spy on us instead. I wonder if they conduct questionable surveillance of American citizens in return?
That works because we have only have three types of receptor for colour vision (plus rods for greyscale night-vision). Colours are distinguished by how much they stimulate each receptor, and things that stimulate them in the same proportions are seen to be the same colour, even if the light is not composed of the same frequencies. Thus, you can approximately simulate any combination of frequencies at various intensities by combining, at appropriate intensities, just three frequencies that each stimulate one receptor strongly while having little effect on the other two.
Olafaction is rather less well understood, but almost certainly involves a much greater number of receptors.
Very good idea. Code reuse is always good. However, one minor point about the summary: fat chance of Android either helping or being helped by this - AFAIK, they've already messed up their Linux-derived kernel to the point where you can't assume that modules from actual Linux will work with it.
The fact that the BSD license requires you to include attribution kind of makes it incompatible with GPL since that is an 'additional restriction' which GPL forbids.
Try again.
Uh, I'm pretty sure the GPL requires that you don't remove the copyright notice from things too. You're probably a decade out-of-date, and thinking of the pre-1999 BSD license, which included a clause requiring attribution in any advertising material for the software as well. Practically nobody uses the old BSD licence for new software now, preferring the New BSD License or the FreeBSD License.
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I'm familiar with the inherent problems of most of these, but what's wrong with dbus?
They could have installed the software on multiple machines without having multiple dongles, which might count as copying.
Just like a taser: better than being shot, worse than being yelled at. Which of the above do you think would happen to most people who get tasered, if a taser wasn't available?
There's more than one problem with this. Firstly, Linus doesn't hate the GPL:
- Linus Torvalds, 1997
He just doesn't like version 3. Also, I see no reason to believe he hates free software either.
Secondly, he can indeed "stay behind forever": he owns the copyright to about 2% of the kernel source - the rest is owned by its many thousands of contributors, and there is no realistic way to contact them all about relicensing (though I should point out that not all of them have specified a GPL version).
Additionally, while Linus has been the most vocal about GPLv3, the majority of major kernel developers agree with him (not that the GPL and free software in general sucks, but that GPLv2 suits them better than GPLv3).
This means that even if Torvalds and the rest of the kernel team decide they like GPLv3, they still can't switch.
In a relationship between a paedophile and a child, one party is very obviously more powerful and the other very obviously an unwilling (or incapable of consent) victim. The same is not true of a homosexual relationship between adults.
It is right and proper for the State and others to leave alone those who don't harm others, and act against those who do.
All Christians believe whatever they want, and justify it by selective reading of the Bible. Perhaps the fact that so many end up with "New Testament values of love and forgiveness" is comforting evidence that not everyone's inherent tendencies are towards violent opposition to people unlike themselves, but I don't think it has any bearing on what "correct" Christianity is.
Flash will not use a GPU's hardware video acceleration, will not use it's decoding acceleration (on cards that have that), and perhaps more importantly, also does not use the dedicated DSPs which an increasing number of mobile devices use to avoid doing video decoding on the CPU. Instead, everything is one on the CPU, which is typically much less efficient at those tasks.
As a real-world example, using the Flash version of BBC iPlayer kills the battery on an N900, but it will play the same content, downloaded with the wonderful get_iplayer perl script and viewed in the built-in media player, for hours, since the media player app uses a DSP.
In short, studies are not needed here - it is common sense that flash will kill the battery on many devices, and it can also be easily observed.
How does this differ from all the other countries where the majority is religious? I hope you aren't suggesting America isn't "vulnerable to fundamentalism".
The plates have moved about extensively since the formation of fossil fuels; tropical areas probably do not have oil that was formed in the tropics.
You aren't allowed to comment on geopolitics any more until you can tell the difference between different sorts of people that aren't white...
Image recognition is certainly an considered a part of "AI" research, because it is still a task which is very simple for humans and very hard for machines. The term "AI" is a bit strange anyway - whenever a goal of AI research is reached, we realise that that task didn't' actually need "intelligence" (whatever that is) - for example, the world chess champion is a machine, and we still don't have consider AI to have arrived. I suspect we won't really notice the point at which machines start to get better at most jobs than humans.
Sounds like the "special relationship" means that passing laws against excessive surveillance by our own police will never achieve anything - they can just have the FBI spy on us instead. I wonder if they conduct questionable surveillance of American citizens in return?
This sounds an awful lot like a special version of mysql_real_escape_string() with extra buzzwords.
Apart from all the other problems with your post, what the hell do you think ^W means?
It hastens the demise of Wall Street.
That works because we have only have three types of receptor for colour vision (plus rods for greyscale night-vision). Colours are distinguished by how much they stimulate each receptor, and things that stimulate them in the same proportions are seen to be the same colour, even if the light is not composed of the same frequencies. Thus, you can approximately simulate any combination of frequencies at various intensities by combining, at appropriate intensities, just three frequencies that each stimulate one receptor strongly while having little effect on the other two.
Olafaction is rather less well understood, but almost certainly involves a much greater number of receptors.
Yeah, you're having a pretty bad Monday, given that it wasn't Monday in any time zone when you posted that. Oversleep?
Or about the GDP of Spain, or rather more than half the amount the IRS collects in a year (after refunds).
For a sense of scale, that rather silly number is about a thousand times the annual revenue of EMI. Also, this page feels kinda relevant.
This is a different meaning of the word than the one we use in day-to-day conversation, right?
Very good idea. Code reuse is always good. However, one minor point about the summary: fat chance of Android either helping or being helped by this - AFAIK, they've already messed up their Linux-derived kernel to the point where you can't assume that modules from actual Linux will work with it.
Uh, I'm pretty sure the GPL requires that you don't remove the copyright notice from things too. You're probably a decade out-of-date, and thinking of the pre-1999 BSD license, which included a clause requiring attribution in any advertising material for the software as well. Practically nobody uses the old BSD licence for new software now, preferring the New BSD License or the FreeBSD License.
Yeah, everybody knows that if it is more than one computer mouse being discussed, its "mices".
Doesn't seem likely with 3G, but 4G is expected to be IP-only, which would really make that look like the only sensible model.
Lucky you. A lot of people live in areas with ISP monopolies.