What, did you think that you were just entitled to all that modern infrastructure? That magic fairies set it all up and it costs nothing to maintain?
Half of the things you cite (to wit, telephones, internet connectivity and electricity) are, in fact, not "payed" for and maintained by tax dollars. They are paid for and maintained by for-profit companies that charge money for services and take a portion of those monies and use them for maintenance, product development, et al.
If the calls sound choppy to you, then the problem probably is the incoming bandwidth, which a router on your premises is not going to be equipped to solve. By the time the packets come in to your border router, they've already occupied the bandwidth that you would be attempting to reserve.
Seriously, though, does anybody know of significant Java apps that use that javax.sound API which is the problem in OpenJDK? Well, "significant" is in the eyes of the beholder, but the OGG player applets on Wikipedia use the java sound stuff, if I am not mistaken.
Bill Joy used the code written at Berkley to create the original SunOS. You do realize that Bill Joy was recruited to Sun from the UCB CSRG that was working on BSD, right? Your statement leaves out the fact that Bill Joy was himself a rather major contributor to BSD before he left to join Sun.
I'm willing to concede that there was likely a historical Jesus. Well, then, going back to the original question to which I replied, Jesus is, indeed, "real." That is, using the dictionary definition, "actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed."
As I said, if you intended to question something beyond that, then you should have worded the question better.
why should I accept your authority that God exists and Jesus is real? I have nothing for the former, but as to the latter, it's pretty well established that Jesus was a real, historical figure.
Perhaps that's not what you meant in your question, but then that simply means you should have worded the question better.
I was an active ham back in college - about 1998. 20 meters was great back then. But I moved into a series of apartments where I couldn't put up an antenna, and the Internet came along, so I let it slide. Recently, my wife sort of convinced me to take the hobby back up again (probably to take some of my time away from Poker), and now that I'm back on the air.... the Sun isn't cooperating.:(
But that's ok. At least we're on the upswing rather than the downswing.
how would making sure the person holding the ID match the name on the boarding pass help, other than making it impossible to give your ticket to someone else without a fee? Ding ding ding... That's the huge ulterior motive of which I made mention.
I've read a lot of replies that said that TSA security checks were theatre, and they're right, but nobody has mentioned the requirement to present identification. To me, this is the most glaring bit of airline security theatre, because it has almost no security value at all, but a huge ulterior motive for the airlines.
So if the moon landings were faked, why did they keep going back up over and over and over after people mostly stopped paying attention? NASA fed in-flight programming of Apollo 13 to all 3 TV networks and it was politely ignored (of course, shortly afterwards shit went sour and suddenly it was news again). This after only having landed there twice before (though there were also two non-landing lunar orbit manned missions before Apollo 11).
I just don't see how the same administration that couldn't keep Watergate hushed up could at the same time fake something so momentous and public and that involved so many people, and successfully keep the secret for, what, just shy of 40 years now? It's just far more likely that it really did happen.
I don't suppose that it's the only calendar, smart-ass, but when you're discussing Anno Domini (which is implied by the references to Jesus' birth), or CE (if you insist), the other calendars are out of context.
The "us vs. them" mentality you describe is, indeed, a regrettable one, but it transcends the definition of "cult." By your rule, lots and lots of things are "cults" - German national socialism, Soviet communism... it even underlies racism. I think it's too broad for the context of deciding whether to label something a "religion" or a "cult."
1. There is no year 0. The year before year 1 was 1 BC.
2. They didn't know it was year 1 at the time. That whole thing was worked out many, many years later. It turns out that the guy that worked it out was wrong. The best guess is that the fellow you're talking about was born in 4 BC, but given the state of record keeping at the time (particularly given that fellow's official status at the time of his life and death), that has to be taken with a "Lot's wife" sized grain of salt.
people give sex away for free. You're not from around here, are you?
And yet prostitution is still a profitable business. Why? Because your assumption is faulty. People don't really give sex away for free. If they did, it'd be more like the circuit in Logan's Run. People engage in a very costly (both in money and time) ritual that leads to them agreeing to have sex. Prostitution is profitable because it replaces the ritual with a straightforward economic proposition.
There is a substantial difference between "the market won't support your price or business model" and "the license doesn't allow it". But not a practical one.
People can, and do, sell GPL'd software. An existence proof does not answer my argument.
But there is consideration on both sides. The user's consideration is the granting of the right to produce copies. The grantor's consideration is all of the restrictions that come along with the GPL.
A GPL codebase is a monopoly (on that codebase), and the GPL is using a monopoly to extend the monopoly. Let me correct a typo for you:
A copyrighted codebase is a monopoly (on that codebase).
... And that's on purpose. That's what copyright is - the grant of exclusive rights to the creator of a work for a limited (snicker) time. The copyright bargain is that by granting this monopoly over a work to its creator it encourages folks to, well, create. And after the copyrights expire (which the Disney corporation, I'm sure, will never allow to happen), those works become part of the public domain, which enriches us all.
But if he must give you the source code, and must allow you to redistribute it, then surely there won't be a market willing to pay $10M for a copy when the first person who bought it can simply give it away for free if they like. Ergo, you can't, in a practical sense, sell GPLed code. If you charged $19.95 for it, 5 hippies would club together to buy one copy and then fork it.
As for the second comment, yes, the inverter is not the expensive part of that box, but when you look in the catalogs for those boxes, they are called inverters.
As for your last comment, I got as far as designing and pricing a solar system for our house. Unfortunately, the site survey found insurmountable shading issues, so we never implemented it. But fuck you very much for your presumption.
If you're going to do grid intertie, that implies that you're not talking about something trivial. Your meter works in kilowatt-hour units. A kW-h is about enough energy to run the background processes of the human body for about half a day. Running a single 100 watt bulb for an hour consumes a hundred of them. If you want to tick your electric meter one step backwards, it's going to take a not-so-unsubstantial level of effort to do it.
Let's not underestimate the safety issue, either. Feeding power into the grid when the grid is otherwise dead is tremendously dangerous - not only for the utility workers, but potentially for ordinary passers-by (imagine if a tree knocks the lines down, but the side that touches the ground is the side that comes FROM your house, with its grid intertied co-generation facility.
No, if you're going to do solar power other than to charge batteries, you're talking about a substantial amount of power. Generating that much power will cost you enough that the extra 2 grand for the inverter is line noise.
That's a different thing. AT&T DSL customers have been able to log in to Starbucks hot spots for a while now. I'm both an iPhone owner and an AT&T DSL customer and have actually been using my DSL login stuff on the iPhone while waiting for the native connectivity. Actually, at the moment I am using my MacBook in a Starbucks to type this reply, believe it or not.
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What, did you think that you were just entitled to all that modern infrastructure? That magic fairies set it all up and it costs nothing to maintain?
Half of the things you cite (to wit, telephones, internet connectivity and electricity) are, in fact, not "payed" for and maintained by tax dollars. They are paid for and maintained by for-profit companies that charge money for services and take a portion of those monies and use them for maintenance, product development, et al.
If the calls sound choppy to you, then the problem probably is the incoming bandwidth, which a router on your premises is not going to be equipped to solve. By the time the packets come in to your border router, they've already occupied the bandwidth that you would be attempting to reserve.
As I said, if you intended to question something beyond that, then you should have worded the question better.
Perhaps that's not what you meant in your question, but then that simply means you should have worded the question better.
I was an active ham back in college - about 1998. 20 meters was great back then. But I moved into a series of apartments where I couldn't put up an antenna, and the Internet came along, so I let it slide. Recently, my wife sort of convinced me to take the hobby back up again (probably to take some of my time away from Poker), and now that I'm back on the air.... the Sun isn't cooperating. :(
But that's ok. At least we're on the upswing rather than the downswing.
I've read a lot of replies that said that TSA security checks were theatre, and they're right, but nobody has mentioned the requirement to present identification. To me, this is the most glaring bit of airline security theatre, because it has almost no security value at all, but a huge ulterior motive for the airlines.
So if the moon landings were faked, why did they keep going back up over and over and over after people mostly stopped paying attention? NASA fed in-flight programming of Apollo 13 to all 3 TV networks and it was politely ignored (of course, shortly afterwards shit went sour and suddenly it was news again). This after only having landed there twice before (though there were also two non-landing lunar orbit manned missions before Apollo 11).
I just don't see how the same administration that couldn't keep Watergate hushed up could at the same time fake something so momentous and public and that involved so many people, and successfully keep the secret for, what, just shy of 40 years now? It's just far more likely that it really did happen.
I don't suppose that it's the only calendar, smart-ass, but when you're discussing Anno Domini (which is implied by the references to Jesus' birth), or CE (if you insist), the other calendars are out of context.
The "us vs. them" mentality you describe is, indeed, a regrettable one, but it transcends the definition of "cult." By your rule, lots and lots of things are "cults" - German national socialism, Soviet communism... it even underlies racism. I think it's too broad for the context of deciding whether to label something a "religion" or a "cult."
1. There is no year 0. The year before year 1 was 1 BC.
2. They didn't know it was year 1 at the time. That whole thing was worked out many, many years later. It turns out that the guy that worked it out was wrong. The best guess is that the fellow you're talking about was born in 4 BC, but given the state of record keeping at the time (particularly given that fellow's official status at the time of his life and death), that has to be taken with a "Lot's wife" sized grain of salt.
But there is consideration on both sides. The user's consideration is the granting of the right to produce copies. The grantor's consideration is all of the restrictions that come along with the GPL.
Consideration need not be monetary.
A copyrighted codebase is a monopoly (on that codebase).
But if he must give you the source code, and must allow you to redistribute it, then surely there won't be a market willing to pay $10M for a copy when the first person who bought it can simply give it away for free if they like. Ergo, you can't, in a practical sense, sell GPLed code. If you charged $19.95 for it, 5 hippies would club together to buy one copy and then fork it.
None of which applies in the instant case, which is being tried in Germany.
You got me on the math error. Touche.
As for the second comment, yes, the inverter is not the expensive part of that box, but when you look in the catalogs for those boxes, they are called inverters.
As for your last comment, I got as far as designing and pricing a solar system for our house. Unfortunately, the site survey found insurmountable shading issues, so we never implemented it. But fuck you very much for your presumption.
If you're going to do grid intertie, that implies that you're not talking about something trivial. Your meter works in kilowatt-hour units. A kW-h is about enough energy to run the background processes of the human body for about half a day. Running a single 100 watt bulb for an hour consumes a hundred of them. If you want to tick your electric meter one step backwards, it's going to take a not-so-unsubstantial level of effort to do it.
Let's not underestimate the safety issue, either. Feeding power into the grid when the grid is otherwise dead is tremendously dangerous - not only for the utility workers, but potentially for ordinary passers-by (imagine if a tree knocks the lines down, but the side that touches the ground is the side that comes FROM your house, with its grid intertied co-generation facility.
No, if you're going to do solar power other than to charge batteries, you're talking about a substantial amount of power. Generating that much power will cost you enough that the extra 2 grand for the inverter is line noise.
So, Daryl, is margarine a copy of butter?
That's a different thing. AT&T DSL customers have been able to log in to Starbucks hot spots for a while now. I'm both an iPhone owner and an AT&T DSL customer and have actually been using my DSL login stuff on the iPhone while waiting for the native connectivity. Actually, at the moment I am using my MacBook in a Starbucks to type this reply, believe it or not.