... and a very nice man. One of Science Fiction's most elegant and imaginative writers.
He will be missed. He was a good writer, and people were fond of his works. He created worlds within paragraphs, he did things with words that even for for an sf-author were quite beyond imagination. He taught me how to read, after school taught me how to recognize words and lines.
This Mac runs Debian Mint quite fine, thank you:) But I won't upgrade because bleeding edge is for my kamikaze machines, this machine needs proven stability. Like most machines do.
The testing/auditing is not necessarily only to evaluate the network, evaluating the admin/security team may also be part of the plan. In other words part of the test may be to verify that these folks get worried in a reasonably short amount of time and take appropriate actions.
Exactly. If a human activity is part of the required response action, then that activity is also to be tested and measured.
Although d33tah may be correct (dependant on the licence behind the code being "stolen"), your reply is exactly why I don't describe copyright/licence infringement as "stealing". Quite a few people seem to forget that the word has for a very long time had multiple meanings. Would you steal yourself away to steal a kiss? Ever stolen a look at something in the hope of stealing an idea?
You can steal a prognosed/expected profit from an idea. Like: I have an idea with monetary value (cure for cancer, cold fusion, desktop quantum computing) but the value is dependent on being the first to bring it to the market. Someone 'taking' that idea and marketing/patenting it, would cost me.
Girls in general are natural rule-followers. They do well in school because they follow the rules, work harder, pay attention more, etc. Teachers also cut them a lot more slack, especially when they lay on the charm or waterworks.
But boys are still smarter.
And I'd much rather be smarter in the end. Following the rules, paying attention in class, and kissing your teachers' asses can only carry you so far without real intelligence to back it up. And most of the A-student girls I went to school with were dumb as cold shit compared to me on my laziest B-student day. If you need someone to get the grade, fine--go to the girl. But if you need someone to get you to the moon--your best bet is still the guy.
Of course, there are plenty of exceptions, as I'm sure many of you politically-correct pansies will be falling over yourselves to point out.
Well, nothing much to add here: despite the fact that you're AC you clearly prove to be male. Stupid is as stupid does.
Abandonware implies already the not enforcing of copyright protection.
Laches (or estoppel) doesn't apply to copyright. So if one company abandons something, and the rights are acquired by someone else, anyone who treated the abandonware as non-copyrighted would be in serious trouble (some things like that have been known to happen).
All those worries would be gone if the loss of copyright was official. The point is to secure things for income, but if that's abandoned, then there's no reason to maintain the copyright. So let's just make it official.
As in explicitly releasing into the Public Domain? Would be a great idea, but it might be a bit difficult to get the right-holders to do that. After all, it might not be clear who that right-holder is, and wether he might suddenly claim rights after the public assumed the work to be abandonware.
Another reason why abandonware should immediately lose copyright protection.
Abandonware implies already the not enforcing of copyright protection. How does one find out? By trying to trigger the enforcement? That would be a copyright violation until there would be no judicial response to be expected anymore. It would open a new niche alike patent trolling.
You're assuming that only one person watches the TV, and that every movie goer lives in walking distance of the theatre.
Face it, we have a TV anyhow. We might want to buy a bigger one if we're movie buffs. So realistically, perhaps only $500-$1000 in extra expenses. Add the cost of renting or buying movies. Then subtract the cost of going to a movie theatre, including tickets, concession prices versus home prices, travel, and extra time. For a family, it quickly becomes far more expensive, with less choice and comfort, sitting behind Big Afro, with miss Wheezy Death coughing down your neck, two tweens who giggle and just won't shut up on one side, and an idiot who txts every 30 seconds on the other. At the end, you smile and tell your friends how great a time you had and that you should do it again soon, while in your mind you hope "soon" is far, far away.
That's the reason our family hardly sees a cinema from the inside anymore. 4 persons is $40 in tickets (rebate included, otherwise $50). Parking or public transport: another $10 (can't be combined with groceries, but I'll leave the petrol price out of it). So minimum $50 per visit, make that an monthly one and it ends at $600 EXTRA yearly costs. Plus no other people or distractions like Cackling Whig or Noisy Spoiled Brat.
So next time you're in a crowded theater, I should yell "fire"
You can't be arrested for doing so, because that would violate free speech. However, the theater owner can kick you out, because free speech is a mandate to the government, not private concerns. Also, your free speech does not prevent the theater owner from collecting damages from you scaring off his patrons. Free Speech does not guarantee you immunity from consequences of your speech, nor does it guarantee that you should be given free access to radio, tv or media to make your free speech, nor does it guarantee that anyone has to listen.
That's one of the clearer comments in the whole thread. Copying it for quotation purposes.
>If it turns out that my video card isn't good enough for Valve, then I can upgrade it. I can't do that with a Mac.
Almost all Mac machines are laptops (the Mac Mini and the iMac count as laptops as they use laptop components). When was the last time you saw an upgradeable laptop?
Good point you made there. Apple nigh abandoned its desktop users. Now I'm quite fond of desktops, and desktop gaming. And on my budget my next desktop won't be a mac, but probably/hopefully a linux-mint-debian (I hope I wrote that correctly) desktop. Not a laptop. Not a mac.
You spent several manyears in coding an app, and just before release you consider implementing an Easter Egg?! How about the splash screen with the name of the app and "dedicated to my grandmother", that should do it.
To me, having multiple operating systems on a computer is like having multiple wives--there's no tangible downside to it, but it just feels wrong.
It's more like a good restaurant and a good snack-bar. Most of the times the restaurant is the go-to place, but darnit sometimes there has to be snacks!
I alway felt very comfortable with his writings when I was a little Jerry. Century-old excitement, what's not to love!:) Before him I read Paul d' Ivoy, after him H. G. Wells. Everything else forks from there. Clarke, Asimov, Vroon, Heinlein, Ellison, they made me see what I wanted, and left me pining for the future. And now in a teaching job, and trying to find little Jerry's, the same dreamers, knowing to dream, not wanting to wake up.
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... and a very nice man. One of Science Fiction's most elegant and imaginative writers.
He will be missed.
He was a good writer, and people were fond of his works. He created worlds within paragraphs, he did things with words that even for for an sf-author were quite beyond imagination. He taught me how to read, after school taught me how to recognize words and lines.
It might be time for a Mac.
There, I said it!
This Mac runs Debian Mint quite fine, thank you :) But I won't upgrade because bleeding edge is for my kamikaze machines, this machine needs proven stability. Like most machines do.
Because the news that PETA kills a far higher percentage of the animals it receives than ASPCA, for example, is not widely publicized.
Because PETA is the darling of the bleeding-heart liberals, assumed to value all living things except humans.
Very good summarised, good sir.
Radiation? Life support system malfunctions? Launch related problems? Bit more details would make it interesting.
My eldest son is reading it (he's 12) and it's a good start!
The testing/auditing is not necessarily only to evaluate the network, evaluating the admin/security team may also be part of the plan. In other words part of the test may be to verify that these folks get worried in a reasonably short amount of time and take appropriate actions.
Exactly. If a human activity is part of the required response action, then that activity is also to be tested and measured.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Iä! Shub-Niggurath!
Only countries in the world to still use Fahrenheit.
Although d33tah may be correct (dependant on the licence behind the code being "stolen"), your reply is exactly why I don't describe copyright/licence infringement as "stealing". Quite a few people seem to forget that the word has for a very long time had multiple meanings. Would you steal yourself away to steal a kiss? Ever stolen a look at something in the hope of stealing an idea?
You can steal a prognosed/expected profit from an idea. Like: I have an idea with monetary value (cure for cancer, cold fusion, desktop quantum computing) but the value is dependent on being the first to bring it to the market. Someone 'taking' that idea and marketing/patenting it, would cost me.
Girls in general are natural rule-followers. They do well in school because they follow the rules, work harder, pay attention more, etc. Teachers also cut them a lot more slack, especially when they lay on the charm or waterworks.
But boys are still smarter.
And I'd much rather be smarter in the end. Following the rules, paying attention in class, and kissing your teachers' asses can only carry you so far without real intelligence to back it up. And most of the A-student girls I went to school with were dumb as cold shit compared to me on my laziest B-student day. If you need someone to get the grade, fine--go to the girl. But if you need someone to get you to the moon--your best bet is still the guy.
Of course, there are plenty of exceptions, as I'm sure many of you politically-correct pansies will be falling over yourselves to point out.
Well, nothing much to add here: despite the fact that you're AC you clearly prove to be male. Stupid is as stupid does.
Abandonware implies already the not enforcing of copyright protection.
Laches (or estoppel) doesn't apply to copyright. So if one company abandons something, and the rights are acquired by someone else, anyone who treated the abandonware as non-copyrighted would be in serious trouble (some things like that have been known to happen).
All those worries would be gone if the loss of copyright was official. The point is to secure things for income, but if that's abandoned, then there's no reason to maintain the copyright. So let's just make it official.
As in explicitly releasing into the Public Domain? Would be a great idea, but it might be a bit difficult to get the right-holders to do that. After all, it might not be clear who that right-holder is, and wether he might suddenly claim rights after the public assumed the work to be abandonware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense
Another reason why abandonware should immediately lose copyright protection.
Abandonware implies already the not enforcing of copyright protection. How does one find out? By trying to trigger the enforcement? That would be a copyright violation until there would be no judicial response to be expected anymore. It would open a new niche alike patent trolling.
You're assuming that only one person watches the TV, and that every movie goer lives in walking distance of the theatre.
Face it, we have a TV anyhow. We might want to buy a bigger one if we're movie buffs. So realistically, perhaps only $500-$1000 in extra expenses. Add the cost of renting or buying movies.
Then subtract the cost of going to a movie theatre, including tickets, concession prices versus home prices, travel, and extra time. For a family, it quickly becomes far more expensive, with less choice and comfort, sitting behind Big Afro, with miss Wheezy Death coughing down your neck, two tweens who giggle and just won't shut up on one side, and an idiot who txts every 30 seconds on the other.
At the end, you smile and tell your friends how great a time you had and that you should do it again soon, while in your mind you hope "soon" is far, far away.
That's the reason our family hardly sees a cinema from the inside anymore. 4 persons is $40 in tickets (rebate included, otherwise $50). Parking or public transport: another $10 (can't be combined with groceries, but I'll leave the petrol price out of it). So minimum $50 per visit, make that an monthly one and it ends at $600 EXTRA yearly costs. Plus no other people or distractions like Cackling Whig or Noisy Spoiled Brat.
So next time you're in a crowded theater, I should yell "fire"
You can't be arrested for doing so, because that would violate free speech. However, the theater owner can kick you out, because free speech is a mandate to the government, not private concerns. Also, your free speech does not prevent the theater owner from collecting damages from you scaring off his patrons. Free Speech does not guarantee you immunity from consequences of your speech, nor does it guarantee that you should be given free access to radio, tv or media to make your free speech, nor does it guarantee that anyone has to listen.
That's one of the clearer comments in the whole thread. Copying it for quotation purposes.
>If it turns out that my video card isn't good enough for Valve, then I can upgrade it. I can't do that with a Mac.
Almost all Mac machines are laptops (the Mac Mini and the iMac count as laptops as they use laptop components). When was the last time you saw an upgradeable laptop?
Good point you made there. Apple nigh abandoned its desktop users. Now I'm quite fond of desktops, and desktop gaming. And on my budget my next desktop won't be a mac, but probably/hopefully a linux-mint-debian (I hope I wrote that correctly) desktop. Not a laptop. Not a mac.
An example to many broadcasters around the world, very advanced in its views. Still one of my favourites.
Plus I torrent Linux quite often how long before they start threatening even legitimate torrent users?
You just have to pay $35 every time you want to be able to use the word "legitimate". Pay for your innocence.
He states very bluntly that his 15 year old son "will not be a scientist". How does he know that?
This is how he takes care of that. No son of his is going to become a scientist!
You spent several manyears in coding an app, and just before release you consider implementing an Easter Egg?! How about the splash screen with the name of the app and "dedicated to my grandmother", that should do it.
Good enough for the time being: I know my responsibilities as end-user.
To me, having multiple operating systems on a computer is like having multiple wives--there's no tangible downside to it, but it just feels wrong.
It's more like a good restaurant and a good snack-bar. Most of the times the restaurant is the go-to place, but darnit sometimes there has to be snacks!
Dammit Apple, how about doing something on your other lines?? Mobility is nice but desktop needs improvement! Big improvement!
I alway felt very comfortable with his writings when I was a little Jerry. Century-old excitement, what's not to love! :) Before him I read Paul d' Ivoy, after him H. G. Wells.
Everything else forks from there. Clarke, Asimov, Vroon, Heinlein, Ellison, they made me see what I wanted, and left me pining for the future. And now in a teaching job, and trying to find little Jerry's, the same dreamers, knowing to dream, not wanting to wake up.
A thinkgeek-shirt would cost me $18, the shipping would add $26: time to do some overseas promotion?