Indeed. I for one welcome our new power company and mechanic internet overlords. They'll surely understand issues like P2P and fight the good fight for us.
I fail to see how it's possible to release an alternative to something which can't be acquired in any form.
Really? So if all proprietary compilers where not sold, but were instead kept in-house as development tools, then GCC would cease to be an open source/free software alternative to them?
Build your own fucking computer. if you can't do that you could always slit your fucking wrists as you are obviously too fucking stupid to even exist let alone use a fucking computer.
Or smart enough** to understand economies of scale.
If the law changes and requires software to offer a warranty then the GPL will be vulnerable.
Surely that only applies when you enter into a contract to provide software as a service to some client. If code is written for the sake of intellectual curiosity or challenge, and released to other geeks for their curiosity and challenge (of enhancing it), then what is there to warrant? IANA(copyright)L, but speaking in terms of ethics and common sense, I suspect it'd only be the leaf-node developers, who take GPL'd stuff and sell it to clients, that would be facing issues.
Providers: Yeah, it's broken, sorry. Contact our insurance company, and put in a claim.
Clients: Oh, you're insured for this? Great.
Providers: Yeah, of course. We're pros, and totally insured for this, like all the other pros. Why else do you think you couldn't get a two-page website for less than $12,000?
Stop being a lazy prick and go read their blog if you're so damn interested. I'm not doing to hold your hand like you're a two year-old when it was only posted recently. And watch the attitude.
Not sure. Probably just because MySQL is "good enough" (albeit, far from perfect, and I personally prefer PostgreSQL regardless), and perhaps just because it's free, or because the nature of database-backed applications is gradually changing from a huge, complex, expensive setup on reliable hardware to a redundant, flexible, simple, cheap setup on commodity hardware.
I think Oracle themselves will probably provide more insight into the issue, when we see what way they proceed with MySQL and Oracle RDBMS.
Seems to me that any... say, swedish... citizens who are deemed to harm American corporations could be targetted as terrorists seeking to undermine the US way of life under this act.
Don't ask me, ask Oracle. They're the ones who blogged this anecdote. But I suspect it's entirely possible for Oracle to survive on past successes for quite a while.
You do realize we were supposed to be against them because they were assholes, not because of their skin color?
Well, calling an entire group "assholes" is not much different from racism anyway. Understanding and mediation always requires finding common ground, not just stereotyping and assigning blame. Most of the other treks had much more nuanced shades of grey in enemies, and lessons to be learned on both sides. Enterprise may have eventually got to that, but I watched it for a long time and it seemed to just get more and more hate-filled.
Nice optimisation, but this sort of stuff doesn't belong in most programs. Compiler/machine Optimisations should be in libraries where possible (ESPECIALLY in specialist, highly power-hungry areas like bignum libraries), or directly supported in the language/compiler itself. If you find some particular code to be an unacceptable bottleneck, or you're finished implementing the project and have fixed every bug and feel the universe isn't quite right without some new ones, then it's time to start making your code less readable with yak-shaving stuff like this.
Totally agreed on (2). That's why I loved TNG so much, and why I hated Enterprise so much. TNG with the grittiness/action of this would probably be great, but if they're "rebooting the series" to be just another action series about projecting current xenophobic animosity onto "safe" aliens, then I've no interest whatsoever.
Some things take time, and should be savored. If people don't have enough time to drink a coffee properly, they need to negotiate better work hours or take up a less insane lifestyle. Drinking tea used to be a beautiful ceremony ffs, and now we can't even handle having it made FOR us? Encouraging people to do everything at light speed -- especially when it means inferior heated-then-chilled or not-heated-enough coffee, is solving entirely the wrong problem.
I think there's definitely room for more guidance from teachers/parents, and that this could mitigate the "youtube effect" somewhat. But yes, what you said is equally true, and the best solution is certainly a path between these two extremes.
Why Bother... they're still going to end up in court
But now they can legitimately claim to be pussies and sheep led around by others, instead of people who believed in something and defied an unjust law, like the Pirate Bay team.
As a once poor-kid-from-a-poor-neighborhood, I'd have loved to get a decent laptop as a kid. I did get a computer at one point, and a few (pirated) disks with... yes, games but mostly apps and docs, and it opened a whole new world for me: audio editing, animation, multimedia, 3d modelling and architecture, movie subtitling, programming... That computer did more for my future than anything else I learned in my teens.
If they're given laptops with internet, the effect could be even greater. Just one thing... I really hope they don't let the kids get on youtube with these, and think that's all computers are for. Or worse, get some stupid school "learn multiplication with bingo" app, and think that's all their computers can do. If so, it'll be a detriment, rather than an aid.
Sorry, no. The halting problem is specified in terms of an imaginary program running on an imaginary machine. It's a thought-experiment with arbitrary limits, and therefore the definition of the problem is incomplete. When that's actually implemented on a real-world machine, you have much deeper issues to resolve, like defining energy, defining quantum mechanics, etc. With real-world unknowables, it's impossible to tell for sure what will happen, just as you can't say for sure that the sun will rise tomorrow. Yes, statistically, we can say it's likely. But we can't prove it. Even when we fully understand these things, we won't know for sure there isn't another layer of unknowable complexity, just like we once thought atoms were the smallest components of matter.
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Indeed. I for one welcome our new power company and mechanic internet overlords. They'll surely understand issues like P2P and fight the good fight for us.
Really? So if all proprietary compilers where not sold, but were instead kept in-house as development tools, then GCC would cease to be an open source/free software alternative to them?
Or smart enough** to understand economies of scale.
** i.e., smarter than yourself, apparently.
Surely that only applies when you enter into a contract to provide software as a service to some client. If code is written for the sake of intellectual curiosity or challenge, and released to other geeks for their curiosity and challenge (of enhancing it), then what is there to warrant? IANA(copyright)L, but speaking in terms of ethics and common sense, I suspect it'd only be the leaf-node developers, who take GPL'd stuff and sell it to clients, that would be facing issues.
Actually it'll probably work out like:
Providers: Yeah, it's broken, sorry. Contact our insurance company, and put in a claim.
Clients: Oh, you're insured for this? Great.
Providers: Yeah, of course. We're pros, and totally insured for this, like all the other pros. Why else do you think you couldn't get a two-page website for less than $12,000?
Yeah, I am aware it's subjective. However, I'm quite comfortable being subjective about subjective things, such as life :)
Stop being a lazy prick and go read their blog if you're so damn interested. I'm not doing to hold your hand like you're a two year-old when it was only posted recently. And watch the attitude.
Not sure. Probably just because MySQL is "good enough" (albeit, far from perfect, and I personally prefer PostgreSQL regardless), and perhaps just because it's free, or because the nature of database-backed applications is gradually changing from a huge, complex, expensive setup on reliable hardware to a redundant, flexible, simple, cheap setup on commodity hardware.
I think Oracle themselves will probably provide more insight into the issue, when we see what way they proceed with MySQL and Oracle RDBMS.
Geek who prods too deeply?
Seems to me that any... say, swedish... citizens who are deemed to harm American corporations could be targetted as terrorists seeking to undermine the US way of life under this act.
Don't ask me, ask Oracle. They're the ones who blogged this anecdote. But I suspect it's entirely possible for Oracle to survive on past successes for quite a while.
Well, calling an entire group "assholes" is not much different from racism anyway. Understanding and mediation always requires finding common ground, not just stereotyping and assigning blame. Most of the other treks had much more nuanced shades of grey in enemies, and lessons to be learned on both sides. Enterprise may have eventually got to that, but I watched it for a long time and it seemed to just get more and more hate-filled.
No. More like "don't walk on the concrete and bitch about the hard ground, when all you have to do is step over and enjoy the lawn."
Don't hold the meetings. Guaranteed shorter meetings.
Nice optimisation, but this sort of stuff doesn't belong in most programs. Compiler/machine Optimisations should be in libraries where possible (ESPECIALLY in specialist, highly power-hungry areas like bignum libraries), or directly supported in the language/compiler itself. If you find some particular code to be an unacceptable bottleneck, or you're finished implementing the project and have fixed every bug and feel the universe isn't quite right without some new ones, then it's time to start making your code less readable with yak-shaving stuff like this.
There, fixed that for you.
Totally agreed on (2). That's why I loved TNG so much, and why I hated Enterprise so much. TNG with the grittiness/action of this would probably be great, but if they're "rebooting the series" to be just another action series about projecting current xenophobic animosity onto "safe" aliens, then I've no interest whatsoever.
At least, not ostensibly.
That's not what you said earlier:
Some things take time, and should be savored. If people don't have enough time to drink a coffee properly, they need to negotiate better work hours or take up a less insane lifestyle. Drinking tea used to be a beautiful ceremony ffs, and now we can't even handle having it made FOR us? Encouraging people to do everything at light speed -- especially when it means inferior heated-then-chilled or not-heated-enough coffee, is solving entirely the wrong problem.
I think there's definitely room for more guidance from teachers/parents, and that this could mitigate the "youtube effect" somewhat. But yes, what you said is equally true, and the best solution is certainly a path between these two extremes.
That must be why they kept going into companies to sell Oracle RDBMS, only to find the companies preferred MySQL.
But now they can legitimately claim to be pussies and sheep led around by others, instead of people who believed in something and defied an unjust law, like the Pirate Bay team.
As a once poor-kid-from-a-poor-neighborhood, I'd have loved to get a decent laptop as a kid. I did get a computer at one point, and a few (pirated) disks with... yes, games but mostly apps and docs, and it opened a whole new world for me: audio editing, animation, multimedia, 3d modelling and architecture, movie subtitling, programming... That computer did more for my future than anything else I learned in my teens.
If they're given laptops with internet, the effect could be even greater. Just one thing... I really hope they don't let the kids get on youtube with these, and think that's all computers are for. Or worse, get some stupid school "learn multiplication with bingo" app, and think that's all their computers can do. If so, it'll be a detriment, rather than an aid.
Sorry, no. The halting problem is specified in terms of an imaginary program running on an imaginary machine. It's a thought-experiment with arbitrary limits, and therefore the definition of the problem is incomplete. When that's actually implemented on a real-world machine, you have much deeper issues to resolve, like defining energy, defining quantum mechanics, etc. With real-world unknowables, it's impossible to tell for sure what will happen, just as you can't say for sure that the sun will rise tomorrow. Yes, statistically, we can say it's likely. But we can't prove it. Even when we fully understand these things, we won't know for sure there isn't another layer of unknowable complexity, just like we once thought atoms were the smallest components of matter.
No, that's what they try to do, and fail at, just like theists try to convince them of the opposite and fail. Big difference.