This is just anothe shot in the new war on pirates. This is like the war on drugs, only we are all pirates now, even if we never shared anything. Perhaps this will be felt by all soon.
There is a difference between "easy to use" and "easy to learn". Good old command line shell can be very easy to use, but not to learn. The old MacOS was very easy to learn, but not so easy to use in the long run for repetitive tasks.
Actually those alpha emitters are very poisonous. Artificial radionucleides like Neptunium, Plutonium etc can easily get into the food chain and stay there as heavy metals. The fact that they are radioactive is not a nice bonus. It's very important we know how to store them safely for extremely long periods with no access to underground water.
Natural Uranium is by nature very diluted. Plutonium essentially does not occur naturally. We are talking here about very concentrated sources produced by the nuclear industry. If you have a workable solution let's hear it.
Worst-case biological events are not necessarily bombs. The two examples you quote were very small bombs by today's standard BTW. However a blown up plant like Chernobyl releases far more nasty stuff than bombs : tons rather than kilos. I don't think the area around Chernobyl will be habitable in 50 years time.
People perhaps don't like to change their behaviour intentionnally, but there are many records of people being forced to change their behaviour in times of need or want.
It's nice to drive your car around, but when oil is $100 a barrel, perhaps soon way more than that, then people will need to adapt. It's better to plan ahead, because we can see it coming.
Simple really, compare to "oh no, I do not *want* to change therefore I *will* not" mentality of the 3-year-old.
Your morality system is screwed up if you need some kind of absolute unshakable reference system. Many philosophers have advocated on simple reprocical grounds that needless pain and suffering should be avoided. Simply put, the main idea is : if you wouldn't like this done to you, then don't to it onto others (pain, torture, suffering, meanness, etc), as well as : if you would like this done to you (save from emergency, comfort, gentleness, etc), then do it onto others as well. This requires no deity of any kind, although it echoes some Christian new testament views.
Plus, the ${deity} reference is shaky at best. Looking at Judeo-Christian deities, which page of the Bible should I turn to for reference? The Bible is hardly consistent.
For more you should consult, among others, Immanuel Kant and his ethics.
The US is not going to drop them. The executive makes up the treaty. They know that the US mostly export IP, in the form of cultural items mostly (films, music, some software). The US wants severe and enforced IP laws everywhere in the world, because this is in its best commercial interest. The US executive does not care in the least for civil liberties of non-voters.
Here the judiciary arm of US gov. is asking itself whether this rigmarole makes sense, but this debate will not affect treaties in the least.
Teaching on the blackboard, especially for math, is much more effective than slides or powerpoints. Math can rarely be explained by pretty pictures. If the prof writes on the board, then normally it is written at a pace you can follow, and you check the derivations, proofs, etc.
I cannot do this with any GPL software, it violates the terms of the licence. The GPL is therefore more restrictive than the BSD licence. This is an unassailable fact.
Actually it is very much assailable. The BSD license gives you more rights to the code as a software developer, but as a software user, GPL guarantees my current and future rights better over that code.
BSD is more developer-friendly perhaps, but GPL is more user-friendly. That doesn't mean you can't make money over my GPL code, you just have to be more careful as a developer in the way you handle it (see TrollTech for example).
I can't see how you can complain BTW, my GPL code is free, you can try and use it, test it and see if it fits your need as a developer. If you decided to use it in your own software AND redistribute it, then, and only then, do you have to abide by the provisions of the GPL regarding opening your own code.
The alternative is no code at all for you. GPL forces you to share, yes. Is it bad? discuss.
Sure one can probably block BT, but then how does one block TOR? other P2P protocols to come that will cleverly hide behind innocuous-looking web servers and use port 80 or 22 for traffic ? What about all the legal content delivered via P2P ?
This is a battle that cannot be won, unless the whole Internet is shut down. Most people in the content business would like to regulate P2P like TV or shut it down like unregulated radio, but unlike these media, P2P doesn't require more equipment or knowledge than ordinary citizen already possess in order to be able to broadcast.
The cat is out of the bag, and the clever ones will take advantage of it. The others will fight to the bitter end and lose, as always.
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The expenditure per student is likely misleading. I would surmise the Princeton accountants sum everything in the the "expenditure" column for the whole university, and then divide by the number of students. This would be how they would attain the 70,000 US$/student. However not everything at Princeton is related to education, I would expect most expenses are research-related, and unless I'm severely mistaken, these are pretty much self-funded. It would not be even remotely fair to make students pay for that.
In the old days in Europe, students attending a course would pay their teachers' salary themselves, and moreover they would pay whatever they thought was fair for the teacher. Even with the excellent salary Princeton is paying its tenured professor, I suspect the sum of all education-related expenses comes to far less than 70k$/student.
In fact Princeton charges 40k$+ / student because they can. Even with these prices their lecture halls are full. They can afford to be nice to bright and poor students so it makes them feel good, but in fact Princeton could probably run fine charging nobody anything.
A very real hatred demonstrated by what ? the U.N. is nothing more than a forum. Its institutions are neutral, the people running it even more so. Perhaps too neutral for the U.S.'s taste ? Perhaps due to the fact that at the U.N. the U.S. is only one nation amongst hundreds, albeit one with a permanent seat at the security council ?
It's not that bad, really. The ol' USA is still the #1 economy, everyone wants to do business with US-based companies. No one in their right mind wants China to be the next superpower.
A slightly less gung-ho attitude towards world matters would probably be enough to restore confidence, love and trust with the US. In other words, don't start a war with Iran and North Korea right now. Try to fix Iraq by actually rebuilding infrastructure there instead of sending more soldiers. Even support *some *UN decisions perhaps?
Note the all-important "pointer". Yes you have doubled the pointer size, who cares?? the data pointed to is still the same size. I'm sure you can find corner cases where a 32-bit cpu will be faster than the 64-bit counterpart, but for x86_64, my own developer's experience is that it does measureably improve performance.
Maybe the 11th of November 1918 is forgotten in Germany, as it was a huge defeat and the signal for the start of an incompetent democracy (Weimar) and the slow rise of the Nazi party.
However it is not forgotten in the UK, France or Australia. Not everybody who fought in that war is dead yet. The last remaining survivors are well over 100, but there are a few left, at least two in France.
With the barrel of oil at US$100, a flying car that requires conservatively 10x more energy per mile per traveler than a normal car is simply not going to happen. Even with cheap oil it would make no sense environmentally, plus it would be, with current technology, dangerous and stupid.
Instead I think it is vastly more likely that people will be traveling with a combination of public transport and bicycle in a few years from now. Much healthier for everyone.
Yes you did, you wrote about "others being blamed for the failure" talking about Utzon IIRC. What other failures would there be besides the building itself ? Who cares about the financial aspect, like I wrote it is of zero importance right now, and has been proven to have been the equivalent of an extremely sound investment. Feel free to elaborate.
The only real failures in the SOH case are that (1) the stupid kerfufle prevented Utzon to work on other masterpieces, and (2) had Utzon been allowed to continue on the project, there is no proof that it would have been any more expensive that it turned out to be, and the *interior* of the building would probably have been much more interesting than it is now.
Besides wikipedia is great as a jumping board for other sources than WP itself. You are free to do your own googling if you are not happy.
I've been in the concert hall many times, and it's OK, except from behind. They have this weird seating arrangement whereby you can sit behind the orchestra. Great for seeing the conductor and the way the orchestra reacts, but not so good for listening.
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That's OK, others did the work for you. Apparently it's fine now, at least the threads in Bugzilla say so.
In fact the 1394 stack in F7 was completely and utterly hosed. It didn't work for external disks either. Should be OK in F8 now, but I have yet to try.
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This is just anothe shot in the new war on pirates. This is like the war on drugs, only we are all pirates now, even if we never shared anything. Perhaps this will be felt by all soon.
And the South shall rise again, of course.
There is a difference between "easy to use" and "easy to learn". Good old command line shell can be very easy to use, but not to learn. The old MacOS was very easy to learn, but not so easy to use in the long run for repetitive tasks.
Hi, which version of Solaris do you recommend ? this is a real question, I'm a bit lost in the various distributions.
Responding to your points :
Actually those alpha emitters are very poisonous. Artificial radionucleides like Neptunium, Plutonium etc can easily get into the food chain and stay there as heavy metals. The fact that they are radioactive is not a nice bonus. It's very important we know how to store them safely for extremely long periods with no access to underground water.
Natural Uranium is by nature very diluted. Plutonium essentially does not occur naturally. We are talking here about very concentrated sources produced by the nuclear industry. If you have a workable solution let's hear it.
Worst-case biological events are not necessarily bombs. The two examples you quote were very small bombs by today's standard BTW. However a blown up plant like Chernobyl releases far more nasty stuff than bombs : tons rather than kilos. I don't think the area around Chernobyl will be habitable in 50 years time.
People perhaps don't like to change their behaviour intentionnally, but there are many records of people being forced to change their behaviour in times of need or want.
It's nice to drive your car around, but when oil is $100 a barrel, perhaps soon way more than that, then people will need to adapt. It's better to plan ahead, because we can see it coming.
Simple really, compare to "oh no, I do not *want* to change therefore I *will* not" mentality of the 3-year-old.
Hello,
Your morality system is screwed up if you need some kind of absolute unshakable reference system. Many philosophers have advocated on simple reprocical grounds that needless pain and suffering should be avoided. Simply put, the main idea is : if you wouldn't like this done to you, then don't to it onto others (pain, torture, suffering, meanness, etc), as well as : if you would like this done to you (save from emergency, comfort, gentleness, etc), then do it onto others as well. This requires no deity of any kind, although it echoes some Christian new testament views.
Plus, the ${deity} reference is shaky at best. Looking at Judeo-Christian deities, which page of the Bible should I turn to for reference? The Bible is hardly consistent.
For more you should consult, among others, Immanuel Kant and his ethics.
The US is not going to drop them. The executive makes up the treaty. They know that the US mostly export IP, in the form of cultural items mostly (films, music, some software). The US wants severe and enforced IP laws everywhere in the world, because this is in its best commercial interest. The US executive does not care in the least for civil liberties of non-voters.
Here the judiciary arm of US gov. is asking itself whether this rigmarole makes sense, but this debate will not affect treaties in the least.
Teaching on the blackboard, especially for math, is much more effective than slides or powerpoints. Math can rarely be explained by pretty pictures. If the prof writes on the board, then normally it is written at a pace you can follow, and you check the derivations, proofs, etc.
I'm sure all these Vietnamese and Laotians of the 60's and 70's would like to agree with you regarding terror bombing.
Actually it is very much assailable. The BSD license gives you more rights to the code as a software developer, but as a software user, GPL guarantees my current and future rights better over that code.
BSD is more developer-friendly perhaps, but GPL is more user-friendly. That doesn't mean you can't make money over my GPL code, you just have to be more careful as a developer in the way you handle it (see TrollTech for example).
I can't see how you can complain BTW, my GPL code is free, you can try and use it, test it and see if it fits your need as a developer. If you decided to use it in your own software AND redistribute it, then, and only then, do you have to abide by the provisions of the GPL regarding opening your own code.
The alternative is no code at all for you. GPL forces you to share, yes. Is it bad? discuss.
Sure one can probably block BT, but then how does one block TOR? other P2P protocols to come that will cleverly hide behind innocuous-looking web servers and use port 80 or 22 for traffic ? What about all the legal content delivered via P2P ?
This is a battle that cannot be won, unless the whole Internet is shut down. Most people in the content business would like to regulate P2P like TV or shut it down like unregulated radio, but unlike these media, P2P doesn't require more equipment or knowledge than ordinary citizen already possess in order to be able to broadcast.
The cat is out of the bag, and the clever ones will take advantage of it. The others will fight to the bitter end and lose, as always.
The expenditure per student is likely misleading. I would surmise the Princeton accountants sum everything in the the "expenditure" column for the whole university, and then divide by the number of students. This would be how they would attain the 70,000 US$/student. However not everything at Princeton is related to education, I would expect most expenses are research-related, and unless I'm severely mistaken, these are pretty much self-funded. It would not be even remotely fair to make students pay for that.
In the old days in Europe, students attending a course would pay their teachers' salary themselves, and moreover they would pay whatever they thought was fair for the teacher. Even with the excellent salary Princeton is paying its tenured professor, I suspect the sum of all education-related expenses comes to far less than 70k$/student.
In fact Princeton charges 40k$+ / student because they can. Even with these prices their lecture halls are full. They can afford to be nice to bright and poor students so it makes them feel good, but in fact Princeton could probably run fine charging nobody anything.
A very real hatred demonstrated by what ? the U.N. is nothing more than a forum. Its institutions are neutral, the people running it even more so. Perhaps too neutral for the U.S.'s taste ? Perhaps due to the fact that at the U.N. the U.S. is only one nation amongst hundreds, albeit one with a permanent seat at the security council ?
It's not that bad, really. The ol' USA is still the #1 economy, everyone wants to do business with US-based companies. No one in their right mind wants China to be the next superpower.
A slightly less gung-ho attitude towards world matters would probably be enough to restore confidence, love and trust with the US. In other words, don't start a war with Iran and North Korea right now. Try to fix Iraq by actually rebuilding infrastructure there instead of sending more soldiers. Even support *some *UN decisions perhaps?
Note the all-important "pointer". Yes you have doubled the pointer size, who cares?? the data pointed to is still the same size. I'm sure you can find corner cases where a 32-bit cpu will be faster than the 64-bit counterpart, but for x86_64, my own developer's experience is that it does measureably improve performance.
You can visit google.com, it's the rightmost link under input field. It's labelled "Go to google.com".
No, people will travel by bus/train/whatever up to their nearest stop, then rent a bicycle for the last leg of the trip.
This is starting to work very well in some major European capitals.
Maybe the 11th of November 1918 is forgotten in Germany, as it was a huge defeat and the signal for the start of an incompetent democracy (Weimar) and the slow rise of the Nazi party.
However it is not forgotten in the UK, France or Australia. Not everybody who fought in that war is dead yet. The last remaining survivors are well over 100, but there are a few left, at least two in France.
With the barrel of oil at US$100, a flying car that requires conservatively 10x more energy per mile per traveler than a normal car is simply not going to happen. Even with cheap oil it would make no sense environmentally, plus it would be, with current technology, dangerous and stupid.
Instead I think it is vastly more likely that people will be traveling with a combination of public transport and bicycle in a few years from now. Much healthier for everyone.
Cheers.
Yes you did, you wrote about "others being blamed for the failure" talking about Utzon IIRC. What other failures would there be besides the building itself ? Who cares about the financial aspect, like I wrote it is of zero importance right now, and has been proven to have been the equivalent of an extremely sound investment. Feel free to elaborate.
The only real failures in the SOH case are that (1) the stupid kerfufle prevented Utzon to work on other masterpieces, and (2) had Utzon been allowed to continue on the project, there is no proof that it would have been any more expensive that it turned out to be, and the *interior* of the building would probably have been much more interesting than it is now.
Besides wikipedia is great as a jumping board for other sources than WP itself. You are free to do your own googling if you are not happy.
I've been in the concert hall many times, and it's OK, except from behind. They have this weird seating arrangement whereby you can sit behind the orchestra. Great for seeing the conductor and the way the orchestra reacts, but not so good for listening.
That's OK, others did the work for you. Apparently it's fine now, at least the threads in Bugzilla say so.
In fact the 1394 stack in F7 was completely and utterly hosed. It didn't work for external disks either. Should be OK in F8 now, but I have yet to try.
Cheers
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Hello,
Discovery of intelligent life elsewhere is not the same thing as interaction. If we are stuck with radio wave, this is going to be *very* slow.