How exactly are you going to get users to accept an EULA for a virus?
"Hello, I'm a virus about to infect your computer - please read the following statement and click 'I Agree' to continue or 'Cancel' to abort infection."
"In order to view this website, you have to sign these terms of use:
I completely sympathize with Blizzard's motives; the desire to keep WoW "clean" is a great one, and I think virtual/mmo gaming has a huge future, and some day, we'll all be joking about how ridiculously small WoW was as a game.
Well, I don't. This EULA is evil. I wont buy a thing from Blizzard again. Fuck SC2.
If i buy you're improved car, i can modify it too. Including the things you added/changed. And i can look at your modifications to study them (you don't have to divulge anything, it's "in the code"). So your car is clearly GPL licensed.
The GPL only would prevent you from booby-trapping the car in a way (or make it otherwise inaccessible/very hard to access) so that the only thing i can do with your car is to drive it. (And then i certainly wouldn't buy it in the first place)
I happen to switch between Gnome and KDE3 regularly (several month cycle) because i never could decide which to use. Gnome didn't interrupt my workflow by throwing huge amounts of configuration dialogues in my way but KDE had better applications (like KStars and Amarok). Now that KDE3 lost ground to current Gnome (and even KDE4. They both lack a proper working desktop search engine. Strigi isn't as good as beagle or even tracker) and KDE4 isn't ready for someone who simply wants to get some work done (crashes way too often, dolphin is slow like hell, plasma doesn't focus on basics like a clock&date applet that is viewable even on small panels but on fancy things i don't care about) I found Gnome's evolutionary approach to be quite better.
What you're describing sounds more like engineering than science, you know. As an engineer, I don't care too much about why nature acts the way it does - as long as I can find a usable method to get things working the way I need them to work. I take the pragmatic approach, because I have a real-life goal.
What's the difference between an engineer and a physicist?
noitcnuf naissuaG ehT
;)
Science, on the other hand, is not per se concerned about "using what you just told me", it's about discovering the whys and hows.
No. Science is only concerned with the "hows". "Whys" are assigned to philosophy/religion.
What defines the Web for me is not a protocol, it's a file format: Hypertext. I view the Web as an interlinked document, not as an application. Maybe, just maybe, that's why I'm not impressed by this "Web 2.0" hype. KISS.
To answer the question stated in TFA: is Wikipedia part of the Web? Yes. Are AJAX apps part of the Web? No.
Actually, that is incorrect. An acoustic and an electric guitar are fundamentally the same. They are both musical instruments which generate tones through the use of strings which are set to vibrating by strumming or picking with fingers or a pick.
By your definition, a violin is a guitar, too. Maybe that's because you just give the definition of a string instrument.
If you ever had played both electric and acoustic guitars you would know that they differ in fundamental ways, like amount of space between strings and fingerboard, breadth of fingerboard and distance between frets. Well, that's nothing you can see by just looking at these two types of guitar, but you notice it when you play them.
Flash NEEDS competition. End of fucking story. Go compare an h.264 video to an FLV encoded video and you'll understand why.
Well, you're right. But I don't know what h.264 has to do with Silverlight. Ever used a videoplayer? I don't need a browser plugin to view videos in a web-browser. That's what videoplayers are for.
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Write a benign virus ... put an EULA on i ...
How exactly are you going to get users to accept an EULA for a virus?
"Hello, I'm a virus about to infect your computer - please read the following statement and click 'I Agree' to continue or 'Cancel' to abort infection."
"In order to view this website, you have to sign these terms of use:
(...several pages of text...)
[ ] I agree to the above terms
[ Enter! ] "
I completely sympathize with Blizzard's motives; the desire to keep WoW "clean" is a great one, and I think virtual/mmo gaming has a huge future, and some day, we'll all be joking about how ridiculously small WoW was as a game.
Well, I don't. This EULA is evil. I wont buy a thing from Blizzard again. Fuck SC2.
So what? VM/Wine users will be sued, too?
Hunting: from sunrise to the point where the sun reaches it's upper culmination (morning)
Getting home: rest of the day
I found it insufficient for undergraduate courses.
Yes, I can. I think this technique is based on research described here:
Darks Physics Beats Light Limit
Paper:
Resonant Interferometric Lithography beyond the Diffraction Limit
WTH modded that funny? I meant it as i wrote it.
Uhm, well. Now i'm not so sure i got your joke. You meant only 1 line of perl fits in 128mb of RAM, did you?
from robotics import marslander
Actually this analogy fails completely because (one of the big) reason(s) people close source is because it's trivial to pirate it if its OSS.
You can't "pirate" OSS software (well, except in the case when your OSS is BSD licensed and someone uses it for a closed source project, IMHO).
If I'm a car manufacturer, then it doesn't really matter if you know how it works because you can't build your own and you're still dependent on me.
Why? What if I have access to a machine shop? And I don't have to buy original parts.
This is RIAA flamewars all over again.
Sorry, but i don't see the connection to RIAA.
Basically, both camps have some very different definitions of what "freedom" is... just like any other kind of politics.
GPL just emphasizes the good, old "Your freedom ends where it starts to interfere with the freedom of others".
The GPL only would prevent you from booby-trapping the car in a way (or make it otherwise inaccessible/very hard to access) so that the only thing i can do with your car is to drive it. (And then i certainly wouldn't buy it in the first place)
I happen to switch between Gnome and KDE3 regularly (several month cycle) because i never could decide which to use. Gnome didn't interrupt my workflow by throwing huge amounts of configuration dialogues in my way but KDE had better applications (like KStars and Amarok). Now that KDE3 lost ground to current Gnome (and even KDE4. They both lack a proper working desktop search engine. Strigi isn't as good as beagle or even tracker) and KDE4 isn't ready for someone who simply wants to get some work done (crashes way too often, dolphin is slow like hell, plasma doesn't focus on basics like a clock&date applet that is viewable even on small panels but on fancy things i don't care about) I found Gnome's evolutionary approach to be quite better.
So you're impressed that someone here obviously reviews his/her attitudes and change it accordingly?
The article says that the bodies are expected to precess which is kind of like a wobble, I guess, but a very specific one.
There, fixed it ;)
Well, I don't know about you, but: i'm bursting with childlike curiosity =)
What you're describing sounds more like engineering than science, you know. As an engineer, I don't care too much about why nature acts the way it does - as long as I can find a usable method to get things working the way I need them to work. I take the pragmatic approach, because I have a real-life goal.
What's the difference between an engineer and a physicist?
noitcnuf naissuaG ehT
;)
Science, on the other hand, is not per se concerned about "using what you just told me", it's about discovering the whys and hows.
No. Science is only concerned with the "hows". "Whys" are assigned to philosophy/religion.
... missing matter? Per reviewed: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/588582 Fulltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4164
To answer the question stated in TFA: is Wikipedia part of the Web? Yes. Are AJAX apps part of the Web? No.
Actually, that is incorrect. An acoustic and an electric guitar are fundamentally the same. They are both musical instruments which generate tones through the use of strings which are set to vibrating by strumming or picking with fingers or a pick.
By your definition, a violin is a guitar, too. Maybe that's because you just give the definition of a string instrument.
If you ever had played both electric and acoustic guitars you would know that they differ in fundamental ways, like amount of space between strings and fingerboard, breadth of fingerboard and distance between frets. Well, that's nothing you can see by just looking at these two types of guitar, but you notice it when you play them.
Flash NEEDS competition. End of fucking story. Go compare an h.264 video to an FLV encoded video and you'll understand why.
Well, you're right. But I don't know what h.264 has to do with Silverlight. Ever used a videoplayer? I don't need a browser plugin to view videos in a web-browser. That's what videoplayers are for.
The web is still way better than anything else we got.
Did you heard about books?
Yes. Nice idea. But, honestly: they certainly have a lack of easy search and cross-reference mechanisms.
Are there any languages popular X11 GUI-Toolkits like Gtk+ or Qt don't support nowadays?
Edison, is that you?
AFAICR, determining the number of atoms in a volume based on the materials density is most accurate when your volume is a sphere.