Either you bundle them in one horrid complex mess where maintainability gets inverse squared with any new feature, or you simply don't use the feature at all. With lots of separate daemons you have the option to axe those you don't want/need and the rest are benefiting from a modularized way of looking at things.
HPET is in the vanilla linux kernel since at least 2.6.21, because I had it working after a motherboard flash update. The patches you talk about is actually helping to enable HPET support for some chipsets, but are not mandatory for a working HPET support.
And DON'T say his movie has helped raise awareness and thus saved lives in danger of global warming. Because his over-hyping, and questionable statements merely clouded the arena and debate; creating more controversy and less positive action.
What you percieve as controversy and clouding the issue is merely oil interests and republican interests screaming from hurt, because his documentary raised awareness and directed the public's awareness towards climate change, so in order to look less unethical those certain interests try to make climate change a muddy, political, partisan issue, which of course it is not.
By the way, Gore only made very slight mistakes in his documentary, the "questionable" figures you get upset at are backed by science, so maybe you should get more upset when questionable people try to hide and censor those figures from you like the Bush administration did.
This example is one of the reasons why I view snopes and similar debunking sites with suspicion. They are amateur fact-finders and consequently miss a lot of things, also fail to keep updating their claims as new developments arise.
By a standard journalistic enquiry (phone calls, visit to Gore's home) snopes could have found out that Al Gore uses green energy, the house he bought in 2002 is undergoing renovation and he was fighting with the local authorities to let him install solar panels.
Besides, the whole issue what he does with his home is moot. He did more singlehandedly than possibly any other person on the planet to convince millions of people to pay attention to an important issue and live a more ecologically friendly life. Even if he would be living in a coal powerplant, it wouldn't matter for me. Science is not religion, the truth value of what Al Gore is saying does not depend on what he practices. He is not the typical, average person, so when people say "he didn't mention no carbon credits", well he wasn't talking to the audience that operates with carbon credits, but to the average person. When he was talking to an audience that could concievable use carbon credits, he did mention them to the rich people, corporate CEOs and others who own or operate companies.
Instead of FUD, let's actually look at reality. Quote:
Gore, who starred in the documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth" about global warming, already buys enough energy from renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and methane gas to balance 100 percent of his electricity costs.
What are you talking about? Do you have zero reading comprehension? Did you want to intentionally mislead? From your own article:
He agreed that Mr Gore's film was "broadly accurate" in its presentation of the causes and likely effects of climate change but said that some of the claims were wrong and had arisen in "the context of alarmism and exaggeration".
From wikipedia:
Following the issuing of the IPCC report into Climate Change on February 2, 2007 and following on from the The Stern Review into the economic effects to the UK from climate change, the UK Government announced that it would be issuing a copy of the DVD of An Inconvenient Truth together with further reading material on this subject to every secondary school in England and Wales to increase educational awareness of the issues raised in the movie.[54] This was challenged in the High Court, [4] by Stewart Dimmock, on the basis that schools are legally required to provide a balanced presentation of political issues. On October 10, 2007, London High Court judge Michael Burton ruled that the film was "broadly accurate", but must shown in schools with "a new Guidance Note... which the Defendant proposes to include in the pack, and which, to my satisfaction, addresses all of the above 9 'errors', both by drawing specific attention to where Mr Gore may be in error and/or in any event where he deviates from the consensus view "[55] Gore responded to the court ruling by saying that "there will always be questions around the edges of the science, and we have to rely upon the scientific community to continue to ask and to challenge and to answer those questions."
This sounds more like "fine, go ahead and show this to every student in the UK, but also include an errata with it" than "banned".
Actually, the GPL was always good at using the opponent's tools against them. It is after all using copyright to achieve it's goal. Without copyright, there would be no need for GPL, as we'd have a pretty level playing field, as all code would be practically BSD licensed. In such a world the advantages GPL provides for free software authors wouldn't be necessary anymore.
Ultimately, the GPL has begun the process that all legalese follows - it is now becoming too complicated to understand without paying a lawyer a very large sum of money. Given the target audience and the goals, this is not a good thing.
Your beef is with the legal system, specifically legalese. It is the way to enter into official, legally binding agreements. Without the GPL using legalese, it would be worthless for it's goals. If you want to know what the GPL is about, be sure to read the documents on FSF's site that detail the intentions ("spirit") of the license.
If you need legal certainty that the GPL is what it appears to be and FSF's interpretation and execution of codifying their intentions into legalese is correct, then you of course need to consult a lawyer. It is the legal system's fault normal people need a legal interpreter in order to conduct official business.
Someone should do a study about the correlation between articles predicting a rift in the community and slashdot posters sneaking in goatse'd links. It might make more sense and possibly be more entertaining than the study in TFA.
You're essentially correct though I suspect you were trying to express sarcasm in your post.
The government takes the freedoms of killing, torturing and in general harming people away (the cynical might say to monopolize them for itself, but that's another subject), but few could argue that we are less free because of that.
The whole BSD vs. GPL issue stems from different viewpoints. The BSD/total freedom camp approaches freedom from the individual viewpoint, while GPL approaches it from the side of the common good.
From an individual viewpoint, freedom is decreased by not being able to kill, but from a community's view freedom is increased because of a highly philosophical and "zealot" viewpoint about the importance of life is uphold. The highly philosophical theories about the sacredness of life coincide* with the fact that if noone is allowed to kill, everyone is better off, which of course translates to individual good aswell. What is good for a community of people, is bound to be good for the majority of the individuals making up the given community after all...
*Moral right or wrong doesn't automatically translate into advantage in scientific terms, but in the case of GPL, sharing and being open is not only morally good but is also backed up by mathematical research and empirical observation telling us that by cooperating everyone gains and being selfish leads to temporary advantage of individuals, but consequently everyone is worse off. If the party wishing to cooperate follows the classical tit-for-tat strategy, the end result will be a good for everyone situation in the case of a cooperating environment and a very slightly worse off case for the cooperating individual if the environment is hostile. In case of a mixed environment, cooperation wins.
It is much easier for new projects to start out with GPLv3 than old projects to convert. Unless the committers transfer copyrights to a central body like in the case of the gnu tools and FSF, it is hard to move to another license if not bordering on impossible.
Hey, slow down cowboy! We're talking about a blogging software here, written on a cross-platform interpreter called PHP, not an operating system with hundreds of components and different hardware configurations!
Windows Update might need the information, because it deals with a lot of programs and I guess it would be impractical to send a 2Mb+ list of current versions. There are no such limitations in case of wordpress. As far as I'm concerned the update checking tool shouldn't send anything at all, just retrieve the current version number and that's it.
No. I actually happen to know a great deal about their setup and that solar system handles around ~600 users on average with great strain. Due to the bad architectural legacy Eve Online has (they started developing around 1998) only one machine is responsible for a given solar system and their server side code doesn't have multiprocessor support.
This causes lots of lag in high load/usercount systems as they cannot scale by putting in more hardware with increased demand, to the point which I wouldn't call a normal user experience.
As there is only one gaming instance in Eve Online.
Now that I think of it Second Life is a single instace too, so in this case to make a fair comparison it would be more apt to say that Eve Online handles around 100 users with what could be considered normal performance on a single (solar system) server.
Mr Beazley said the Americans knew what the Australians were doing and were intrigued by the progress they made.
So, we knew that they knew that we cracked the aircraft codes. But did they know that we knew that they knew? It also begs for the question that if they did, did we know that they knew that we knew that they knew?
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So what are the alternatives?
Either you bundle them in one horrid complex mess where maintainability gets inverse squared with any new feature, or you simply don't use the feature at all. With lots of separate daemons you have the option to axe those you don't want/need and the rest are benefiting from a modularized way of looking at things.
HPET is in the vanilla linux kernel since at least 2.6.21, because I had it working after a motherboard flash update. The patches you talk about is actually helping to enable HPET support for some chipsets, but are not mandatory for a working HPET support.
By the way, Gore only made very slight mistakes in his documentary, the "questionable" figures you get upset at are backed by science, so maybe you should get more upset when questionable people try to hide and censor those figures from you like the Bush administration did.
This example is one of the reasons why I view snopes and similar debunking sites with suspicion. They are amateur fact-finders and consequently miss a lot of things, also fail to keep updating their claims as new developments arise.
By a standard journalistic enquiry (phone calls, visit to Gore's home) snopes could have found out that Al Gore uses green energy, the house he bought in 2002 is undergoing renovation and he was fighting with the local authorities to let him install solar panels.
Besides, the whole issue what he does with his home is moot. He did more singlehandedly than possibly any other person on the planet to convince millions of people to pay attention to an important issue and live a more ecologically friendly life. Even if he would be living in a coal powerplant, it wouldn't matter for me. Science is not religion, the truth value of what Al Gore is saying does not depend on what he practices. He is not the typical, average person, so when people say "he didn't mention no carbon credits", well he wasn't talking to the audience that operates with carbon credits, but to the average person. When he was talking to an audience that could concievable use carbon credits, he did mention them to the rich people, corporate CEOs and others who own or operate companies.
Humans generally have a fascinating organ called the brain, that can actually be used to predict bad situations and take steps to prevent them.
Personally I rather herald someone who prevented a problem than someone who made an already existing one less than an issue.
...but at least now I have the excuse that there is no FA.
Actually, the GPL was always good at using the opponent's tools against them. It is after all using copyright to achieve it's goal. Without copyright, there would be no need for GPL, as we'd have a pretty level playing field, as all code would be practically BSD licensed. In such a world the advantages GPL provides for free software authors wouldn't be necessary anymore.
Vista was just the marketing codename for that operating system.
Didn't you hear that Microsoft announced yesterday that the official designation for the OS is "XP, Millenium+7 Edition"?
If you need legal certainty that the GPL is what it appears to be and FSF's interpretation and execution of codifying their intentions into legalese is correct, then you of course need to consult a lawyer. It is the legal system's fault normal people need a legal interpreter in order to conduct official business.
You're essentially correct though I suspect you were trying to express sarcasm in your post.
The government takes the freedoms of killing, torturing and in general harming people away (the cynical might say to monopolize them for itself, but that's another subject), but few could argue that we are less free because of that.
The whole BSD vs. GPL issue stems from different viewpoints. The BSD/total freedom camp approaches freedom from the individual viewpoint, while GPL approaches it from the side of the common good.
From an individual viewpoint, freedom is decreased by not being able to kill, but from a community's view freedom is increased because of a highly philosophical and "zealot" viewpoint about the importance of life is uphold. The highly philosophical theories about the sacredness of life coincide* with the fact that if noone is allowed to kill, everyone is better off, which of course translates to individual good aswell. What is good for a community of people, is bound to be good for the majority of the individuals making up the given community after all...
*Moral right or wrong doesn't automatically translate into advantage in scientific terms, but in the case of GPL, sharing and being open is not only morally good but is also backed up by mathematical research and empirical observation telling us that by cooperating everyone gains and being selfish leads to temporary advantage of individuals, but consequently everyone is worse off. If the party wishing to cooperate follows the classical tit-for-tat strategy, the end result will be a good for everyone situation in the case of a cooperating environment and a very slightly worse off case for the cooperating individual if the environment is hostile. In case of a mixed environment, cooperation wins.
It is much easier for new projects to start out with GPLv3 than old projects to convert. Unless the committers transfer copyrights to a central body like in the case of the gnu tools and FSF, it is hard to move to another license if not bordering on impossible.
Hey, slow down cowboy! We're talking about a blogging software here, written on a cross-platform interpreter called PHP, not an operating system with hundreds of components and different hardware configurations!
Windows Update might need the information, because it deals with a lot of programs and I guess it would be impractical to send a 2Mb+ list of current versions. There are no such limitations in case of wordpress. As far as I'm concerned the update checking tool shouldn't send anything at all, just retrieve the current version number and that's it.
Patriot act - unpatriotic
Clear skies act - no controls on pollution
No child left behind - everyone is left behind
FairPay act - no more overtime pay
Hmm. I would swear I can almost notice a pattern here!
I'm sorry, respect in security is like with all kinds of respect. It is earned, not demanded or bought.
The US spends the highest percentage in the world of it's GDP on healthcare. I don't think military expenses or not has anything to do with it.
No. I actually happen to know a great deal about their setup and that solar system handles around ~600 users on average with great strain. Due to the bad architectural legacy Eve Online has (they started developing around 1998) only one machine is responsible for a given solar system and their server side code doesn't have multiprocessor support.
This causes lots of lag in high load/usercount systems as they cannot scale by putting in more hardware with increased demand, to the point which I wouldn't call a normal user experience.
As there is only one gaming instance in Eve Online.
Now that I think of it Second Life is a single instace too, so in this case to make a fair comparison it would be more apt to say that Eve Online handles around 100 users with what could be considered normal performance on a single (solar system) server.
...lecturing the rest of us about 'spelling' and 'grammar' as you clearly have neither. ;)
Anyone got a graph handy that shows how the two dollars reached parity?