Depends what you call "significant". When I was admin of several unix clusters in my university, from roughly 1989 to 1995, we called everything "open source", regardless if it was BSD/MIT or GPL licenses. It was just the logical name to call it. And actually except for one ephangelist, no one was talking about "free software". We only were interested in downloading it, installing it and complaining that it was not cross platform and did either not compile or the makefile was broken on a certain OS... Or we had to hunt for dependencies and download yet another library...
Well, we could argue back and forth, but for me the GPL is the license with the least freedom. With MIT/BSD/Apache etc. licenses the "user" can do what ever he wants, e.g. make a commercial product for sale without including the source. GPL only makes sense for me if you do some kind of dual licensing. However for most software that makes no sense, the potential customer would simply take the GPL version. Anyway, I'm still looking at it from the perspective of a single developer running his one man company wanting to make his living from software development. Of course it looked completely different if you would be a payed developer for eclipse.org or apache.org.
exactly why I made my original comment that organic and anti-GMO is the global warming denial of the left. What has 'global warming' or 'left versus right' to do with it?
You want to tell me that more left tending people are more global warming deniers?
You are the one asserting that I'm an idiot, and then when I call you out on it you have nothing to back up your assertion. Yes you are. Because you mix up things that have nothing to do with each other. E.g. I never claimed that GMO has health risks, so why do you ask me to find a study that shows it has health risks?????? Of course it has health risks, but I did not mention this in this discussion... e.g. allergic reactions to chicken proteins in tomatoes... that is the classic one.
I don't get your point. Philippines is not a country that is notorious for having a vitamin A problem. So they will have a hard time to sell the rice there, regardless of "anti GMO" wackos or not. Look at the colour, it looks ugly, I would not eat it bases on that already. This "VAD" thing is a made up myth. No one needs extra vitamine A in asia. The GMO industry simply wants to earn money via patent fees, thats all. And that is why greenpeace and others are against GMOs. I'm against most of them, because they have nothing to do in our food chain. Why the fuck would I eat a roundup(TM) resistent crop? Why do you need to use round up on it? Ah... because you farm it in monocultures spreading for dozens if not hundreds of kilometers.
Again: 40% - 50% of the world wide food production is thrown away, after it reached the shops. That does not even include the food that does not reach the shops because of esthetic reasons (cucumber to curved etc.)
If people think there is a need for golden rice, they should grow it on their own fields and ship it to the crisis regions and give it away (or sell it).
Destroying the local rice production by forcing farmers to plant crops/rice they can not afford the seeds of is basically a war declaration. Actually not a war declaration but a war...
There is no real distinction between a "server OS" and a "desktop OS" since decades.
Gaming normally wants to bypass a lot of the OS layer hence the popularity of DirectX That is nonsense. There never was an "OS layer" to access the graphics card. What exactly should that be?
Because Linux wants to act like a server OS, and not give normal users so much raw access to the hardware. That is nonsense.
Linux is a competitive gaming platform. You don't need more than a graphics card, a keyboard and a mouse to play a game. And as far as I know, Linux supports Open GL just fine. E.g. Descent, one of my favourite games: https://www.dxx-rebirth.com/
The problem is that there are no mayour players targeting the market. I for my part would love to _write_ a game on/for linux, but I suck in marketing and doing it for free, I don't have the time.
Thanx for the reference. Then she actually is an idiot. We used the term in my university long before it was 'coined'. I simply could not believe that some people actually proclaim themselves as 'I coined the term'.
Yes, all those factors don't apply. You can run a continent wide industry with zero emissions. No idea what law of physics you want to call upon to claim otherwise.
I'm not aware about peer-reviewed scientific studies that show that organic food has health benefits. Why actually are you asking for that? If you want to hire me to search for stuff like this, you could send me an email and make a proposal for the hourly rate. As I'm actually interested in that topic I would probably settle for about $50. However you might need to accept that there are no such studies. We could make a contract that tops my amount of time by perhaps 100h? That would be roughly two weeks. Best Regards, Angelo
Ah, it was Potassium, not Cesium. Anyway, bananas can only contain radioactive Potassium if they are panted at a place where they have radioactive Potassium in the ground, don't you agree?
Your graphs are for the inited states. Not for the world. Seems you don't get it. The EU and most of Asia does not tolerate GMO food, only a few countries in Africa do. The amount of genes you have in common with a jellyfish is extremely low... but if you like to feel like one, go on, I hope you have a bath tub:)
And why would putting out a net or a fishing rod cause evolutional pressure on some fish? They somehow magically develop a new gene called 'lets avoid the net'?
Really, sjbe, sometimes you make clever comments. But often you are simply super dumb. Sorry to say it that way...
And why would the Philippines need golden rice? Obviously they don't like GMO _food_ like no one else wants it.
You are a typical imperialistic asshole. Let a 'third world country' do the tests. Why don't you step forward and buy a farm, plant the rise and most importantly eat it?
The golden rice thing is just another attempt to subdue a country in the developing world, it produces vitamin A, you know? For what funk sake reason would a country like the Philippines need a GMO rice that produces vitamin A? Why would they need to pay patent fees to plant that rice? Why would they need to have half of their farmers run bankrupt because they can not pay for the fees, or can not plant their original rice anymore?
You are an idiot. You have no clue what is going on. And you have no clue about GMOs or about countries where you like to test them.
Why would it be stupid, expensive and wasteful? The organic farmers I know save a lot of money by not using artificial fertilizers or pesticides. Does not sound expensive. Does not sound wasteful, and is most certainly not stupid.
I'm actually tired about people that boast their non knowledge about a topic on the internet, where they never invested the time to research it a little bit...
Stupidity is an excuse for many things. Ignorance is not.
OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple put in some extra barriers against dual booting. And why would Apple do that after it invested so much to make dual booting Windows and OS X so easy, aka "Bootcamp"?
Apple has no build in 68k compatibility, that is true. But if you want to run an Apple 68k program, you just can download an emulator, facepalm. But why would you? Most software is ported to OS X/macOS and runs on an 86x just fine....
Point is that a mouse from the days of Windows 3.1 is still supported on a "modern" OS. That's nice, I suppose, but is that necessary? And I suppose you have no idea how a mouse is working. There is no 'special support' needed for an 'old mouse' or 'old track ball'.
A mouse/trackball is connected via serial port. It literally sends "-X25,+Y13" as ASCII text via that port when it is moved. If you ever had used a decent operation system, like any Unix, Linux, MacOs and cared to make a "> cat/dev/mouse" you would know that.
Yes, if you find a serial to PS/2 adapter your mouse will still work... or serial to USB.
Then Apple switched to PowerPC this forced all these companies to spend millions to rewrite code to support the new chips. That is nonsense. In the old times Mac software was written mostly in Pascal. You just recompile to switch from 68k to PowerPC... considering that the new PowerPC based OS had an emulator for 68k software, a recompile was not really necessary anyway.
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Depends what you call "significant". ... ...
When I was admin of several unix clusters in my university, from roughly 1989 to 1995, we called everything "open source", regardless if it was BSD/MIT or GPL licenses.
It was just the logical name to call it. And actually except for one ephangelist, no one was talking about "free software". We only were interested in downloading it, installing it and complaining that it was not cross platform and did either not compile or the makefile was broken on a certain OS
Or we had to hunt for dependencies and download yet another library
Well, we could argue back and forth, but for me the GPL is the license with the least freedom.
With MIT/BSD/Apache etc. licenses the "user" can do what ever he wants, e.g. make a commercial product for sale without including the source.
GPL only makes sense for me if you do some kind of dual licensing. However for most software that makes no sense, the potential customer would simply take the GPL version.
Anyway, I'm still looking at it from the perspective of a single developer running his one man company wanting to make his living from software development.
Of course it looked completely different if you would be a payed developer for eclipse.org or apache.org.
Radio waves is "everything".
UV light is a radio wave ...
Most radar systems work in spectrums that can give you cancer.
There are thousands of cases reported.
The wave length of mobile phone is in the micro wave range: that can cause cancer.
Actually the article you comment on is about a cancer study wich confirms that phone radio waves can cause cancer, you probably missed that.
exactly why I made my original comment that organic and anti-GMO is the global warming denial of the left.
What has 'global warming' or 'left versus right' to do with it?
You want to tell me that more left tending people are more global warming deniers?
You are the one asserting that I'm an idiot, and then when I call you out on it you have nothing to back up your assertion. ... e.g. allergic reactions to chicken proteins in tomatoes ... that is the classic one.
Yes you are. Because you mix up things that have nothing to do with each other.
E.g. I never claimed that GMO has health risks, so why do you ask me to find a study that shows it has health risks?????? Of course it has health risks, but I did not mention this in this discussion
I don't get your point. ... because you farm it in monocultures spreading for dozens if not hundreds of kilometers.
Philippines is not a country that is notorious for having a vitamin A problem.
So they will have a hard time to sell the rice there, regardless of "anti GMO" wackos or not.
Look at the colour, it looks ugly, I would not eat it bases on that already.
This "VAD" thing is a made up myth. No one needs extra vitamine A in asia. The GMO industry simply wants to earn money via patent fees, thats all. And that is why greenpeace and others are against GMOs.
I'm against most of them, because they have nothing to do in our food chain. Why the fuck would I eat a roundup(TM) resistent crop? Why do you need to use round up on it? Ah
Again: 40% - 50% of the world wide food production is thrown away, after it reached the shops. That does not even include the food that does not reach the shops because of esthetic reasons (cucumber to curved etc.)
If people think there is a need for golden rice, they should grow it on their own fields and ship it to the crisis regions and give it away (or sell it).
Destroying the local rice production by forcing farmers to plant crops/rice they can not afford the seeds of is basically a war declaration. Actually not a war declaration but a war ...
https://seedfreedom.info/campa...
There is no real distinction between a "server OS" and a "desktop OS" since decades.
Gaming normally wants to bypass a lot of the OS layer hence the popularity of DirectX
That is nonsense. There never was an "OS layer" to access the graphics card. What exactly should that be?
Because Linux wants to act like a server OS, and not give normal users so much raw access to the hardware.
That is nonsense.
Linux is a competitive gaming platform.
You don't need more than a graphics card, a keyboard and a mouse to play a game.
And as far as I know, Linux supports Open GL just fine. E.g. Descent, one of my favourite games: https://www.dxx-rebirth.com/
The problem is that there are no mayour players targeting the market. I for my part would love to _write_ a game on/for linux, but I suck in marketing and doing it for free, I don't have the time.
Thanx for the reference.
Then she actually is an idiot.
We used the term in my university long before it was 'coined'.
I simply could not believe that some people actually proclaim themselves as 'I coined the term'.
Yes, all those factors don't apply.
You can run a continent wide industry with zero emissions.
No idea what law of physics you want to call upon to claim otherwise.
I'm not aware about peer-reviewed scientific studies that show that organic food has health benefits.
Why actually are you asking for that?
If you want to hire me to search for stuff like this, you could send me an email and make a proposal for the hourly rate.
As I'm actually interested in that topic I would probably settle for about $50. However you might need to accept that there are no such studies. We could make a contract that tops my amount of time by perhaps 100h? That would be roughly two weeks.
Best Regards,
Angelo
Ah, it was Potassium, not Cesium.
Anyway, bananas can only contain radioactive Potassium if they are panted at a place where they have radioactive Potassium in the ground, don't you agree?
Your graphs are for the inited states. Not for the world. ... but if you like to feel like one, go on, I hope you have a bath tub :)
Seems you don't get it. The EU and most of Asia does not tolerate GMO food, only a few countries in Africa do.
The amount of genes you have in common with a jellyfish is extremely low
And why would putting out a net or a fishing rod cause evolutional pressure on some fish?
They somehow magically develop a new gene called 'lets avoid the net'?
Really, sjbe, sometimes you make clever comments. But often you are simply super dumb. Sorry to say it that way ...
Refusing GMO products lowers crop yields, starving millions.
That is nonsense.
We throw 40% - 50% of our food away. And that does not even account for the fruits that don't reach the markets/shops for esthetic reasons.
The rest of your post only shows how dumb you are 'sometimes'
What exactly has acupuncture to do with magic?
Next time you want to tell me your body has no reflex zones? Massage does not work? What is next, surgery does not work either?
And why would the Philippines need golden rice?
Obviously they don't like GMO _food_ like no one else wants it.
You are a typical imperialistic asshole. Let a 'third world country' do the tests. Why don't you step forward and buy a farm, plant the rise and most importantly eat it?
The golden rice thing is just another attempt to subdue a country in the developing world, it produces vitamin A, you know? For what funk sake reason would a country like the Philippines need a GMO rice that produces vitamin A? Why would they need to pay patent fees to plant that rice? Why would they need to have half of their farmers run bankrupt because they can not pay for the fees, or can not plant their original rice anymore?
You are an idiot. You have no clue what is going on. And you have no clue about GMOs or about countries where you like to test them.
Why would it be stupid, expensive and wasteful?
The organic farmers I know save a lot of money by not using artificial fertilizers or pesticides.
Does not sound expensive. Does not sound wasteful, and is most certainly not stupid.
I'm actually tired about people that boast their non knowledge about a topic on the internet, where they never invested the time to research it a little bit ...
Stupidity is an excuse for many things. Ignorance is not.
And?
What exactly is your point?
Apple joined late ... they did not 'found' or 'invent' ARM, that is pretty clear from your wikipedia excerpt.
Ever used a laptop with a touch screen? ...
Guesses so
The amount of use cases is not minimal, nearly 90 of the time you are _reading_ something ... for that a touch screen is superb.
If I ever get a Hackintosh it certainly will be a laptop with a touch screen.
OTOH, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple put in some extra barriers against dual booting.
And why would Apple do that after it invested so much to make dual booting Windows and OS X so easy, aka "Bootcamp"?
Apple has no build in 68k compatibility, that is true. ....
But if you want to run an Apple 68k program, you just can download an emulator, facepalm.
But why would you? Most software is ported to OS X/macOS and runs on an 86x just fine
There are ADB to USB connectors, I happily use my Apple extended keyboard from my 1992 Mac SE on my laptop ... since a decade or more.
Point is that a mouse from the days of Windows 3.1 is still supported on a "modern" OS. That's nice, I suppose, but is that necessary?
And I suppose you have no idea how a mouse is working.
There is no 'special support' needed for an 'old mouse' or 'old track ball'.
A mouse/trackball is connected via serial port. It literally sends "-X25,+Y13" as ASCII text via that port when it is moved. /dev/mouse" you would know that.
If you ever had used a decent operation system, like any Unix, Linux, MacOs and cared to make a "> cat
Yes, if you find a serial to PS/2 adapter your mouse will still work ... or serial to USB.
Then Apple switched to PowerPC this forced all these companies to spend millions to rewrite code to support the new chips. ... considering that the new PowerPC based OS had an emulator for 68k software, a recompile was not really necessary anyway.
That is nonsense.
In the old times Mac software was written mostly in Pascal. You just recompile to switch from 68k to PowerPC
Apple was not a founder of ARM, how do you come to that idea?
ARM stands for Acorn Risk Machines, a spin off of Acorn.