I wouldn't go as far as "poison", but the GPL mission is clearly is more important than the efforts of the people who write the GPLed code, ie its aims must win out over the aims and IP of the creative contributors. For example, if I want to make my code easy to use commercially, then using or publishing code under a BSD licence is far easier than GPL. IMHO.
Note: a (resting) person and a candle each give out about 100W in heat. So me + 1 candle would indeed keep this room comfortable now with a temperature outside of ~5C. The thermostat for the heating is set at 15C and is not turning on the heating, so room temperature is above 15C now.
I am sitting in my aerogel-drylined living room now.
It's not quite as dramatic as you say, but two of us in here can easily maintain a 10C+ temperature differential from outside. (Wall U value now ~0.23W/Km^2.)
No, those policies are not liberal at all. They may be liberal *compared to those around them*, but what you seem to consider liberal in the land of the free wouldn't fly over here in the UK under the thumb of Her Maj.
I have in the past created a company to hold IP for a friend so that their new employer knew that they had no hold over it or any derivative thereof, just to make sure, and I entirely support things to stop two-timing employers stealing their employer's IP, but what you describe is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too far in the other direction IMHO.
Rgds
Damon
PS. Does this officially make the UK's National Heath Service the friend of entrepreneurial IP?
Are you aware that you can usually buy LEDs (like CFLs) in at least "warm" (~2700K) and "cool"/"daylight" (~6000K) colours? I use cool to work by (eg my desk anglepoise) and warm for (for example) our hallway light. That's 7W LED, 40W incandescent equiv. (In the kitchen we use a mixture, warm over the table, cool for the stove and work areas, efficiency up to 100lm/W.)
I believe several US retailers offer the same flavour of LED lamps that I use, all made in Taiwan as it happens. Give one of those a shot: instant on for a start.
Remember that various places have no DST at all, the solution I'd prefer. GMT/UTC year-round in the UK would be my choice. Let businesses and schools adjust their hours if they really must, preferably to follow daylight so we don't expend vast amounts of energy on lighting and artificial rush-hours for which there really is no fundamental need. (Ie do less in the winter and more in the summer when the light/energy is around, which would also help with balancing and electricity grid with more renewables.)
It'll be somewhat silly IMHO to never have GMT at Greenwich, but there you go.
For IE8 I've had to turn off the ads as they get overlaid on the text on the front page. (Which also happens to violate some AdSense rules, I believe.)
Yes, I have some similarly old addresses that initially were bang-path routed and I also have seen spates of @ combinations, often tried alphabetically, though I wasn't counting. In fact, the logging of rejections was starting to become a significant source of potential wear on my server SSD storage...
I *do* understand probability pretty well (indeed I help with pricing and risk of the books of major investment banks) and yet I still think it makes some sense to spend a little money on the Lottery (in the UK's case, with a very large jackpot).
Yes, I know I'm immediately giving about 50% away of the price of each ticket, but what percentage do you expect to get back on each movie ticket that you buy for example, or condom, or other pleasure/risk related expenditure?
And the point is that winning any of the major prizes will have such a life-transforming effect for me as for almost anyone, it's worth a small punt. The price of less than half a pint of beer each week for example. Indeed, I'm probably healthier at the margins for not drinking that beer.
Sometimes, in terms of depth of insight in non-binary matters outside the narrow world of technology and our mom's basements, we here should aspire to Mount Slashdot becoming a large-ish pimple at the base of the Mariana Trench, if we're ambitious...
I think I've had one custom-drawn.ico file sent to me on RapidShare recently, so that was about 300 bytes of legitimate non-infringing content that I can vouch for!
All the time I see new links c/o Google Alerts for ripped-off copies of the TV work of a member of my family, so much so that if I see a URL fragment containing one of those as I open my alert mail I know that it's almost always going to be such. Not a force for good IMHO.
I get tens of thousands of SPAMs each day (last time I counted) which take significant system resources to deal with the initial filtering of and quite considerable extra time on my part to deal with what is left. Time that I might like to spend, say, with my children, or working on business projects. Real opportunity costs as well as resource costs. And repeated unwanted approaches from people I've asked to leave me alone sure feels like harassment (including big legit companies that should know better).
And I also do lose 'ham' messages as collateral damage with some unpleasant consequences for my business; I am smarting from a case just this last week or so.
So, just because it seems not to be a problem for *you* doesn't mean it isn't a real measurable problem generally.
For example, a retail customer can pick any of the suppliers for their power.
Rgds
Damon
PS. I think everyone (especially retail customers in the US) is paying *far too little* for energy considering how inefficiently we use it and the downsides of doing so. We're pissing away fossil-fuel energy in large part, which is increasingly expensive and messy to get by the kWh, and which belches out CO2 plus other nasties...
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I wouldn't go as far as "poison", but the GPL mission is clearly is more important than the efforts of the people who write the GPLed code, ie its aims must win out over the aims and IP of the creative contributors. For example, if I want to make my code easy to use commercially, then using or publishing code under a BSD licence is far easier than GPL. IMHO.
Rgds
Damon
Note: a (resting) person and a candle each give out about 100W in heat. So me + 1 candle would indeed keep this room comfortable now with a temperature outside of ~5C. The thermostat for the heating is set at 15C and is not turning on the heating, so room temperature is above 15C now.
I am sitting in my aerogel-drylined living room now.
It's not quite as dramatic as you say, but two of us in here can easily maintain a 10C+ temperature differential from outside. (Wall U value now ~0.23W/Km^2.)
http://www.earth.org.uk/superinsulating-our-living-room.html
Rgds
Damon
PS. With this and other measures we've roughly halved our heating demand, even in the teeth of the harshest winters in many years.
At least he might believe in the hot place to which his credibility hand-basket may be headed... B^>
Rgds
Damon
No, those policies are not liberal at all. They may be liberal *compared to those around them*, but what you seem to consider liberal in the land of the free wouldn't fly over here in the UK under the thumb of Her Maj.
I have in the past created a company to hold IP for a friend so that their new employer knew that they had no hold over it or any derivative thereof, just to make sure, and I entirely support things to stop two-timing employers stealing their employer's IP, but what you describe is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too far in the other direction IMHO.
Rgds
Damon
PS. Does this officially make the UK's National Heath Service the friend of entrepreneurial IP?
Mine is called ... the NHS.
Indeed, if the generally-free-when-you-need-it NHS didn't exist then I couldn't be freelance as my health has had some bumps over the years.
Rgds
Damon
"After all, were funding it indirectly. Its only fair. " In whose universe, or at least in whose time?
Goodness.
And people ask me why I stay freelance.
Rgds
Damon
Are you aware that you can usually buy LEDs (like CFLs) in at least "warm" (~2700K) and "cool"/"daylight" (~6000K) colours? I use cool to work by (eg my desk anglepoise) and warm for (for example) our hallway light. That's 7W LED, 40W incandescent equiv. (In the kitchen we use a mixture, warm over the table, cool for the stove and work areas, efficiency up to 100lm/W.)
I believe several US retailers offer the same flavour of LED lamps that I use, all made in Taiwan as it happens. Give one of those a shot: instant on for a start.
Rgds
Damon
It's not perfect for that at all: incandescents fail regularly.
If you're not trolling, get a small heater (eg pipe tape) on a thermostat instead.
Don't wilfully confuse *lighting* with *heating*.
Rgds
Damon
Remember that various places have no DST at all, the solution I'd prefer. GMT/UTC year-round in the UK would be my choice. Let businesses and schools adjust their hours if they really must, preferably to follow daylight so we don't expend vast amounts of energy on lighting and artificial rush-hours for which there really is no fundamental need. (Ie do less in the winter and more in the summer when the light/energy is around, which would also help with balancing and electricity grid with more renewables.)
It'll be somewhat silly IMHO to never have GMT at Greenwich, but there you go.
Rgds
Damon
LIFFE != LSE
Ah, /. is at least sane from FF4b9, but the IE8 rendering *is* a complete mess.
Rgds
Damon
For IE8 I've had to turn off the ads as they get overlaid on the text on the front page. (Which also happens to violate some AdSense rules, I believe.)
I'm getting lots of overlaid stuff...
Rgds
Damon
Arggh! Will not be able to read /. from client sites! Doom!
Rgds
Damon
Hi,
Yes, I have some similarly old addresses that initially were bang-path routed and I also have seen spates of @ combinations, often tried alphabetically, though I wasn't counting. In fact, the logging of rejections was starting to become a significant source of potential wear on my server SSD storage...
Rgds
Damon
My entire primary server uses less than 5W when operating except when absolutely flat-out when it eats a whole 7W, so I agree with you!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/11/diy_zero_energy_home_server/
Rgds
Damon
I *do* understand probability pretty well (indeed I help with pricing and risk of the books of major investment banks) and yet I still think it makes some sense to spend a little money on the Lottery (in the UK's case, with a very large jackpot).
Yes, I know I'm immediately giving about 50% away of the price of each ticket, but what percentage do you expect to get back on each movie ticket that you buy for example, or condom, or other pleasure/risk related expenditure?
And the point is that winning any of the major prizes will have such a life-transforming effect for me as for almost anyone, it's worth a small punt. The price of less than half a pint of beer each week for example. Indeed, I'm probably healthier at the margins for not drinking that beer.
Rgds
Damon
Sometimes, in terms of depth of insight in non-binary matters outside the narrow world of technology and our mom's basements, we here should aspire to Mount Slashdot becoming a large-ish pimple at the base of the Mariana Trench, if we're ambitious...
Rgds
Damon
I think I've had one custom-drawn .ico file sent to me on RapidShare recently, so that was about 300 bytes of legitimate non-infringing content that I can vouch for!
All the time I see new links c/o Google Alerts for ripped-off copies of the TV work of a member of my family, so much so that if I see a URL fragment containing one of those as I open my alert mail I know that it's almost always going to be such. Not a force for good IMHO.
Rgds
Damon
That's simply nonsense.
I get tens of thousands of SPAMs each day (last time I counted) which take significant system resources to deal with the initial filtering of and quite considerable extra time on my part to deal with what is left. Time that I might like to spend, say, with my children, or working on business projects. Real opportunity costs as well as resource costs. And repeated unwanted approaches from people I've asked to leave me alone sure feels like harassment (including big legit companies that should know better).
And I also do lose 'ham' messages as collateral damage with some unpleasant consequences for my business; I am smarting from a case just this last week or so.
So, just because it seems not to be a problem for *you* doesn't mean it isn't a real measurable problem generally.
Rgds
Damon
"known"? [citation required]
i18n is the work of the [devil|diablo|Teufel], clearly.
Rgds
Damon
Good point, well made.
A virtual prawn cracker for you. ~~~~_~_~_-~~
Rgds
Damon
That's how the UK market works too.
For example, a retail customer can pick any of the suppliers for their power.
Rgds
Damon
PS. I think everyone (especially retail customers in the US) is paying *far too little* for energy considering how inefficiently we use it and the downsides of doing so. We're pissing away fossil-fuel energy in large part, which is increasingly expensive and messy to get by the kWh, and which belches out CO2 plus other nasties...
Well, congrats on being more relaxed and rational than 99% of your peers; I hope you can hang onto that and the blameless life you lead!
Rgds
Damon