Sure, spores which could survive for thousands of years inside pyramids or for several years in cold vacuum on the Moon didn't actually grow or thrive there, but we do have extremophiles which feel happy in only a notch more moderate conditions.
And if pressure is a problem, you can go under the ground -- you can get as high pressure as you want there.
Went to the website and it froze up...slashdotted already?
Note what TFA says: living in blue ice vents inside a frozen volcano. They're trying to reproduce the environment and temperatures from Mars, so freezing up makes sense.
Right, but Google is a service in English (primarily). The English name of Deutschland is "Germany", the English name of Polska is "Poland", the English name of Rossiya is "Russia". Uh oh... this would mean that you want us to use a couple of ideograms, as they are what the local population names Taiwan.
On an English-language webpage, I expect to get the English names.
"Taiwan, province of China" -- obvious bullshit, but it's required if you want to conduct business in the very biggest country of the world, one that happens to have one of most evil governments. "Chinese Taipei" -- obvious bullshit, Taipei is the capital of the country, not the country itself. "Republic of China" -- obvious bullshit, they were the Republic of China before the communist rebellion, but they can't claim to be the whole of China anymore. "Taiwan" -- the geographic name. Perfectly neutral.
So... we nearly say "Germany" instead of "Federal Republic of Germany", its real name. We use "Poland" instead of "Republic of Poland". We say "China" instead of "People's Republic of China". So, why won't we just call Taiwan... "Taiwan"?
However the smell of skunk can be cleaned to a reasonable level in a short amount of time, depending on what got "sprayed".
I wouldn't be so sure you can clean a building so easily. For example, if someone spills butyric acid in a school, the school gets closed for a week, and the strong smell remains for a long time. This was something people loved to do around here, until they started to get punished really harshly.
Unless you build every single element to be watertight (prohibitive cost), any building is full of tiny cracks everywhere.
now Netscape is essentially a re-branded Firefox Re-branded, with tons of crapware added, with everything hard-wired for using AOL's services. Oh, and they managed to stuff in a lot of bloat, too.
If you use GPL code within your company to, say, sell pants in a retail store, you're fine? But if you use GPL to, say, sell other products online, you're not? What is the difference? None, at least to me. Both are using, not distributing.
Note that GPLv2 specifically includes limits only to distribution, not to use. In fact, you are not even required to accept it at all:
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
Note that there is no way to restrict usage in a license -- you need a signed contract for that. Once you have the software in question, nothing save a separate agreement can stop your rights. GPLv2 is a pure license -- it only grants rights you wouldn't otherwise have (the right to distribute at certain conditions).
I am also concerned that RMS may have problems with reality checks these days. Come on, first the GFDL and now then -- can we have the old RMS who wrote gcc and GPL back, please?
You see, only one of computers I own and/or manage has a fan on its graphics card, and it's currently sitting headless in a closet. In fact, playing new mindless games is the only thing you need a powerful graphics card for.
I enjoy NetHack, MUDs, and if I feel like playing a graphical game, it's something which is playable. Master of Orion 2 is my favourite; it's still better than anything produced in recent years.
Doh, you're right. I forgot about this part: if you're developing something just on a single platform, it's very likely you'll subconsciously use platform-dependant ways to code things.
Locally, but not using any of OSX APIs. It's trivial to port calculation-only code: both X libraries and the GNU tools are already ported. Thus, the whole glory goes to the portability of GNU tools, but this is not what this article was about.
Hey, many many years ago I've ran Quake on ancient IRIX workstations. Oh wait... it was over X with the actual binaries running on a Linux x86 box. Oh, and I'm running KDE on Windows right now (Cygwin X server, of course, on a machine at work)! Hey, come, lookie, KDE for Windows!
How exactly running an X program over X can be considered a port? It just works as it should, but there is nothing special to it.
And we don't even need the IR detector, the police is nice enough to give us their own flash. When a sudden bright light is detected, we can flash back, blinding their camera.
Can't be disabled... hmm... show me how exactly are you going to prevent me from physically modding the camera's speaker. Sure, in the case of a phone it may take some functionality from me, but if I care more of having it as a camera with network capabilities, I can use something else to actually talk or resort to headphones.
Yeah, but can you shell out all the cash front up? Having it be returned to you in 5 years after the lawsuit and all apellations are done makes you suffer enough to make it worth it for the company.
Paying these settlements is an admission of guilt. If you're not guilty of violating the law, don't pay. Wrong. Your only choice lies between paying a few k dollars to an extortionist company, or getting many millions to be able to afford lawyers and stand through the trial. It's not something an average person can do, so the choice boils down to either paying the extortion or suffering a personal bankcrupcy. You're a citizen, not a company. You have no rights.
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Am I a thief? yes.
Tell me again, since when copyright infringement became theft?
I wouldn't even doubt that.
Sure, spores which could survive for thousands of years inside pyramids or for several years in cold vacuum on the Moon didn't actually grow or thrive there, but we do have extremophiles which feel happy in only a notch more moderate conditions.
And if pressure is a problem, you can go under the ground -- you can get as high pressure as you want there.
Went to the website and it froze up...slashdotted already?
Note what TFA says: living in blue ice vents inside a frozen volcano. They're trying to reproduce the environment and temperatures from Mars, so freezing up makes sense.
It looks like the site loses if you have your cookies disabled.
Bearded sysadmins, I forgot to add.
So, uhm, where is the "Chicks for Sysadmins/C Programmers" section?
Right, but Google is a service in English (primarily). The English name of Deutschland is "Germany", the English name of Polska is "Poland", the English name of Rossiya is "Russia". Uh oh... this would mean that you want us to use a couple of ideograms, as they are what the local population names Taiwan.
On an English-language webpage, I expect to get the English names.
"Taiwan, province of China" -- obvious bullshit, but it's required if you want to conduct business in the very biggest country of the world, one that happens to have one of most evil governments.
"Chinese Taipei" -- obvious bullshit, Taipei is the capital of the country, not the country itself.
"Republic of China" -- obvious bullshit, they were the Republic of China before the communist rebellion, but they can't claim to be the whole of China anymore.
"Taiwan" -- the geographic name. Perfectly neutral.
So... we nearly say "Germany" instead of "Federal Republic of Germany", its real name. We use "Poland" instead of "Republic of Poland". We say "China" instead of "People's Republic of China". So, why won't we just call Taiwan... "Taiwan"?
Hmm, you never tried to make a bonfire then, using (reportedly) flammable wood.
However the smell of skunk can be cleaned to a reasonable level in a short amount of time, depending on what got "sprayed".
I wouldn't be so sure you can clean a building so easily. For example, if someone spills butyric acid in a school, the school gets closed for a week, and the strong smell remains for a long time. This was something people loved to do around here, until they started to get punished really harshly.
Unless you build every single element to be watertight (prohibitive cost), any building is full of tiny cracks everywhere.
now Netscape is essentially a re-branded Firefox
Re-branded, with tons of crapware added, with everything hard-wired for using AOL's services. Oh, and they managed to stuff in a lot of bloat, too.
Netscape is about as helpful as Bonzi Buddy.
Do you mean, whiter than white? I think I've heard that somewhere already.
None, at least to me. Both are using, not distributing.
Note that GPLv2 specifically includes limits only to distribution, not to use. In fact, you are not even required to accept it at all:
Note that there is no way to restrict usage in a license -- you need a signed contract for that. Once you have the software in question, nothing save a separate agreement can stop your rights. GPLv2 is a pure license -- it only grants rights you wouldn't otherwise have (the right to distribute at certain conditions).
I am also concerned that RMS may have problems with reality checks these days. Come on, first the GFDL and now then -- can we have the old RMS who wrote gcc and GPL back, please?
I got several of them. Would you want to swap one of them for one that produces sound?
You see, only one of computers I own and/or manage has a fan on its graphics card, and it's currently sitting headless in a closet. In fact, playing new mindless games is the only thing you need a powerful graphics card for.
I enjoy NetHack, MUDs, and if I feel like playing a graphical game, it's something which is playable. Master of Orion 2 is my favourite; it's still better than anything produced in recent years.
And of course you can't include Oracle in any impartial study.
Hmm... do I smell... fear?
*TeX is a typesetting system
Word/KWord/OOWriter are office word processors
The former is what you use when writing a book or a publication. The latter is what a secretary uses for writing a memo.
Doh, you're right. I forgot about this part: if you're developing something just on a single platform, it's very likely you'll subconsciously use platform-dependant ways to code things.
Locally, but not using any of OSX APIs. It's trivial to port calculation-only code: both X libraries and the GNU tools are already ported. Thus, the whole glory goes to the portability of GNU tools, but this is not what this article was about.
Hey, many many years ago I've ran Quake on ancient IRIX workstations. Oh wait... it was over X with the actual binaries running on a Linux x86 box. Oh, and I'm running KDE on Windows right now (Cygwin X server, of course, on a machine at work)! Hey, come, lookie, KDE for Windows!
How exactly running an X program over X can be considered a port? It just works as it should, but there is nothing special to it.
And we don't even need the IR detector, the police is nice enough to give us their own flash. When a sudden bright light is detected, we can flash back, blinding their camera.
If I read this correctly, they use infrared to detect cameras, but then blind them with the range the cameras record, that is, visible light.
Can't be disabled... hmm... show me how exactly are you going to prevent me from physically modding the camera's speaker.
Sure, in the case of a phone it may take some functionality from me, but if I care more of having it as a camera with network capabilities, I can use something else to actually talk or resort to headphones.
Yeah, but can you shell out all the cash front up? Having it be returned to you in 5 years after the lawsuit and all apellations are done makes you suffer enough to make it worth it for the company.
Paying these settlements is an admission of guilt. If you're not guilty of violating the law, don't pay.
Wrong. Your only choice lies between paying a few k dollars to an extortionist company, or getting many millions to be able to afford lawyers and stand through the trial. It's not something an average person can do, so the choice boils down to either paying the extortion or suffering a personal bankcrupcy.
You're a citizen, not a company. You have no rights.