What else is there to serve? You would have us spend our lives building practically useless monuments to some deity?
For a fence I can shine a certain amount of light on it and measure how much it scatters. But there is no way to use an instrument and do the same with moral standards. Yes, there is no strong standard for morality, but at the same time people "know it when they see it". It's pretty hard to convince people of the morality of something immoral.
Longer life is better because human life is good. I know I can't justify that objectively, but it's still true.
No, they are completely separate issues. You are the way you are. Whether or not you have evolved to be how you are has no bearing on how you should behave.
We could do that, but I think slavery is intrinsically wrong. Again, I can't justify this objectively - but neither can you. Why does believing in evolution mean I have to have an objective standard for everything?
Humanity's existence is empty and meaningless anyway - it's better to be empty and meaningless and happy than empty and meaningless and unhappy.
486? Bah, I have (well, had) a 386 at 40mhz running linux. Took five minutes to load up X when you ran startx. Couldn't use gentoo because the hard disk was too small though.
It prevents restriction because it doesn't allow additional restrictions on redistributed versions. It may seem strict by open source standards, but the restrictions that do exist are no practical problem (at least for me) and ensure derivatives are free, which seems to me to be worth the slightly greater initial restriction. I don't necessarily think all code should be open source, but I do think code should be open source unless there's a compelling reason for it not to be. GPL encourages this, because if you want to make your program closed and need a function from a GPL library you have to rewrite it yourself. This doesn't stop you making it closed, but should make you reconsider if that's really necessary. I think a lot of software, e.g. the hundreds of windows freeware programs, is still closed by default, where the author hasn't really thought about it, just stuck the binary up there and not worried about licensing.
How do you know you are using the same code base MS uses? They might just have taken a single function or two and done the rest themselves, and you have no way of knowing because you have no access to the source.
Hmm, ok. I can easily believe that python can be 150x slower in places, and I know it's no speed demon for raw computation, but that doesn't matter because it uses C for the bits which take up most of the run time. The fact is guis in python are far faster than those in swing. You could probably outperform the python programs with a java program that uses jni wrappers to qt or gtk, but that doesn't seem to be the java way. Sun swing is slow, and every desktop java app I've seen uses it.
The submitter claimed nothing of the short, merely that some open source projects, particularly BSD, welcome the inclusion of their code in propriety products and MS has done this. And your assertions about MS EULAs only hold true if you believe that one is always morally obliged to follow agreements one has been coerced into, and also ignores the possibility of bypassing the EULA.
The only thing that matters is whether reimplementations are legally derivatives. This depends on individual countries' laws, but it's certainly not clear-cut non derivative in all cases.
It could have a standard for extending it, and a way for implementations to tell what to do with extensions they don't understand. Ext2 does this - older kernels look at the bits in a newer version with ACLs etc and can tell whether they can open it normally, open it read only, or not open it at all.
No, because it only detects the exact same code - as someone else pointed out above, simply rewriting the OSS code would be enough to defeat it. Very few buffer overflows are written identically. One place you could use it to look for vulnerabilities, though, would be looking for older (vulnerable) versions of libraries in staticly compiled programs
Not really. Standards have to be essentially unchanging, that's why they're standard. Having people able to make their own version of pdf wouldn't help anyone. Having everyone able to make their own reader for the official pdf does.
They have less developers, working less of the time, and I think adobe releases the spec as they release their reader which can already read it. (Possibly because the spec only formed as they implemented it). So unofficial readers tend to lag behind the official one. Also, adobe licenses font patents which help rendering text nicely enormously.
Collaborative filtering. Things like irate radio and audioscrobbler/last.fm let you find the kind of music you like. Add a weighting towards new artists and you're there.
It's 800x600, and I'll take compatibility over prettiness any day. Until it knows your video card is capable of higher resolution (Apple can guarantee that because they control the hardware, MS can't, the system requirements are only recommendations) why risk it? How often do you install anyway?
It's not equivalent to a reboot. Restarting X takes all of 3 seconds, and that's because the graphics subsystem in linux is properly separated from the rest of the OS. Unlike windows, where it's far too deeply embedded.
Not easily. It runs Qt/Embedded, K-melon doesn't run on anything other than windows afaik. If you want Gecko you're probably best off using the kde port of gecko, most kde stuff ports fine with a little work (because there's no X server)
Share split the key among a number of trusted project leaders, and require over half but not all of them to restore the key. Maybe give the project manager more than one share, but ensure that s/he doesn't have enough shares to make them essential - that way you don't need any escrow, if someone goes AWOL you can recombine the rest of your shares and then split it again without them. That's probably the best way to do things. However, I think having a single person sign the build is probably "good enough" unless it's an extremely sensitive application.
They shoot down the harriers with those damn flak cannons. Just keep sending spies in to delay the launch indefinitely. Or a navy seal. Not because he's good, but because seals are cool
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For a fence I can shine a certain amount of light on it and measure how much it scatters. But there is no way to use an instrument and do the same with moral standards. Yes, there is no strong standard for morality, but at the same time people "know it when they see it". It's pretty hard to convince people of the morality of something immoral.
Longer life is better because human life is good. I know I can't justify that objectively, but it's still true.
No, they are completely separate issues. You are the way you are. Whether or not you have evolved to be how you are has no bearing on how you should behave.
We could do that, but I think slavery is intrinsically wrong. Again, I can't justify this objectively - but neither can you. Why does believing in evolution mean I have to have an objective standard for everything?
Humanity's existence is empty and meaningless anyway - it's better to be empty and meaningless and happy than empty and meaningless and unhappy.
486? Bah, I have (well, had) a 386 at 40mhz running linux. Took five minutes to load up X when you ran startx. Couldn't use gentoo because the hard disk was too small though.
How do you know you are using the same code base MS uses? They might just have taken a single function or two and done the rest themselves, and you have no way of knowing because you have no access to the source.
Hmm, ok. I can easily believe that python can be 150x slower in places, and I know it's no speed demon for raw computation, but that doesn't matter because it uses C for the bits which take up most of the run time. The fact is guis in python are far faster than those in swing. You could probably outperform the python programs with a java program that uses jni wrappers to qt or gtk, but that doesn't seem to be the java way. Sun swing is slow, and every desktop java app I've seen uses it.
You can't assert that. GPLed code has to have the GPL copyright notice
You grabbed a random project off freshmeat that you knew was included in FreeBSD so you assumed it was BSD licensed without checking?
The submitter claimed nothing of the short, merely that some open source projects, particularly BSD, welcome the inclusion of their code in propriety products and MS has done this. And your assertions about MS EULAs only hold true if you believe that one is always morally obliged to follow agreements one has been coerced into, and also ignores the possibility of bypassing the EULA.
The only thing that matters is whether reimplementations are legally derivatives. This depends on individual countries' laws, but it's certainly not clear-cut non derivative in all cases.
It could have a standard for extending it, and a way for implementations to tell what to do with extensions they don't understand. Ext2 does this - older kernels look at the bits in a newer version with ACLs etc and can tell whether they can open it normally, open it read only, or not open it at all.
But when those restrictions are simply to prevent the addition of other restrictions, they result in less restrictions overall.
No, because it only detects the exact same code - as someone else pointed out above, simply rewriting the OSS code would be enough to defeat it. Very few buffer overflows are written identically. One place you could use it to look for vulnerabilities, though, would be looking for older (vulnerable) versions of libraries in staticly compiled programs
Some would argue that since it's immoral for them to be writing closed source operating systems, it is more moral to try and stop them doing this.
Not really. Standards have to be essentially unchanging, that's why they're standard. Having people able to make their own version of pdf wouldn't help anyone. Having everyone able to make their own reader for the official pdf does.
They have less developers, working less of the time, and I think adobe releases the spec as they release their reader which can already read it. (Possibly because the spec only formed as they implemented it). So unofficial readers tend to lag behind the official one. Also, adobe licenses font patents which help rendering text nicely enormously.
Koffice will be using it from 1.4, for which there is already a beta
Maybe give mepis a look?
At least cd burning in 2.2 actually works. Bluddy linus being arrogant and dictatorial, and bluddy schillig being so obstinate.
Get a decent pci hotplugging board and you can.
Collaborative filtering. Things like irate radio and audioscrobbler/last.fm let you find the kind of music you like. Add a weighting towards new artists and you're there.
It's 800x600, and I'll take compatibility over prettiness any day. Until it knows your video card is capable of higher resolution (Apple can guarantee that because they control the hardware, MS can't, the system requirements are only recommendations) why risk it? How often do you install anyway?
It's not equivalent to a reboot. Restarting X takes all of 3 seconds, and that's because the graphics subsystem in linux is properly separated from the rest of the OS. Unlike windows, where it's far too deeply embedded.
Not easily. It runs Qt/Embedded, K-melon doesn't run on anything other than windows afaik. If you want Gecko you're probably best off using the kde port of gecko, most kde stuff ports fine with a little work (because there's no X server)
Share split the key among a number of trusted project leaders, and require over half but not all of them to restore the key. Maybe give the project manager more than one share, but ensure that s/he doesn't have enough shares to make them essential - that way you don't need any escrow, if someone goes AWOL you can recombine the rest of your shares and then split it again without them. That's probably the best way to do things. However, I think having a single person sign the build is probably "good enough" unless it's an extremely sensitive application.
Actually I have heard of it, it is pretty major, though it always seems to be compared to the Nobel prizes and come out in their shadow, yes.
/played RA2 far too much