If you mean allowing adding GPLv3 code to a GPLv2 project, that would allow anyone to write just a few lines of GPLv2 code and then bring in a bunch of GPLv3 stuff, and have it all under the GPLv2.
If you mean adding GPLv3 code to a GPLv4 project, that's already allowed; it's just optional. Anybody can choose to release their code as GPLv3 or later just as much code has already been released as GPLv2 or later.
If you're asking why they're making the or later part optional instead of mandatory, that's probably because many developers don't like the or later part.
Apparently Mozilla believes in the GNOME ideals of UI design: It's better to hide functionality than expose users to something they might not understand. If you give users an option, they'll always chose the wrong one. It's better to just make the decision for them.
which would you rather lose, your guns or your privacy? Neither! It doesn't have to be one or the other!
Losing your guns only affects gun owners Taking away gun rights affects everyone's rights.
I've never owned a gun in my life, and I actually hate being around guns, but I enjoy knowing that I have the right to own guns, and I enjoy knowing that others do too. By taking away freedoms that aren't important to you, you are affecting your own freedom as well!
I used to think things would be different now, due to vastly improved and widely employed communications technology. Nobody would let their government go out of control if they always had a live view of everything it's doing, right? It wouldn't be able to hide it's dirty secrets so easily, right?
Well now I'm not so sure. In some cases, modern communications technologies just make it easier for the government to keep a tighter watch on its citizens. But while America is going downhill fast in this area, the world as a whole seems to be generally improving, so at least it's not universal.
I for one am totally willing to move to a different country if it means more freedom. For now America seems to be about as good as it gets, and it really is a pretty awesome place, but when it stops being so awesome I'm not going to stick around just because of nostalgia and history. I'll move where the freedom goes.
That's not true. Many contributions have been made under just "the GPL", or "version 2 or later of the GPL", etc. Not every contribution was limited to version 2 of the GPL.
the entire UI is written in XML and JavaScript doesn't exactly help. I have been thinking very seriously about starting to write my own web browser
It's completely insane to write a new web browser just because you don't like how the UI of Firefox/SeaMonkey is implemented. First of all, Gecko doesn't have to be used with XUL. Galeon/Epiphany, Camino, K-Meleon, and others all use Gecko to render web content while using traditional methods for the browser UI. Secondly, Gecko isn't the only open source layout engine. (Shock!) KHTML has better support for the web than any one-man project could ever have.
In particular, I cannot find any exact specification of exactly how things such as CSS "float"ing elements are supposed to be treated... If someone can point me to reliable documentation on that, I'd be really happy.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#floats Your post is completely ridiculous. You claim to be "thinking very seriously", but you obviously haven't done the slightest bit of research. You have no clue how much work it would be to write your own layout engine and web browser UI.
is fundamentally different than a cell used as an ingredient in a laboratory process to create embryos
Compare to artificial insemination. If scientists created an embryo from skin cells, and it could become a normal person if a woman was impregnated with it, the fundamentalists would probably claim it was a human life.
It would be fun to create and destroy trillions of human embryos in a petri dish or something and make the fundys all worried about heaven filling up.
I don't understand people's fascination with printing photos.
I think it's snobbery. Some people feel 1337 when they pay for an expensive film camera, learn about every tiny detail of film photography, and take pictures of family/friends that are no better/worse than anybody else's. Of course, to them their pictures are infinitely better than the ones Uncle Roy took with his digital camera he got from Wal-Mart, but they're usually the only ones to think there's much of a difference.
I was creating hundreds of tags until the tags started being filtered. Many of my tags were descriptive and useful, but what got me to do the tagging was the tags that were just for fun. Yes no maybe, fud notfud, slownewsday, dupe, etc. Now that the fun tags are being filtered out, I no longer have any desire to tag articles or look at the tags.
If you filter user content for what you think is useful and relevant, it'll end up only being useful and relevant for yourself. You've badly crippled the social aspect. You're telling your users, "This is my feature and you will use it the way I tell you to use it!" If the people running Slashdot are going to strip out any tags they don't like, they might as well just tag all the articles themselves.
People don't come to Slashdot for article summaries carefully selected by diligent Slashdot editors. They come for the comments, the user created content! The Slashdot people seem to have no clue what made Slashdot so popular.
In my opinion, Slashdot should remove the Submit button from the post screen, and force everyone to preview.
If they're going to do that, they should Ajaxify the preview, or better yet, translate the server-side logic into JavaScript and provide a real-time preview. It's crazy that with a big site like Slashdot I still have to wait for the entire page to reload just to see a preview.
The release builds of GNU Emacs don't support anti-aliased text?
I've never understood why Emacs (or Vi/Vim) got so much praise. Sometimes I think maybe I'm crazy and all the zealots are the ones who have it right, but this makes me feel pretty certain that I'm the one who hasn't lost it.
A text editor has got to be extremely shitty to not support anti-aliased text. That is absolutely completely insane. The more I learn about Emacs/Vi(m), the worse they sound.
It has been pretty obvious for quite a while that Linux has better out-of-the-box driver support than any version of Windows (or any OS really). Many Windows drivers have to be installed from CDs or over the internet.
When I installed Windows (before switching to Ubuntu) I had to use a CD to install drivers just to connect to the internet, and then I had to use Windows Update again and again (rebooting between each one) to get all the other drivers.
There's lots of support for Windows, but Windows itself actually supports very little.
The God who exists, as revealed to us in the Bible is the One who is outside of, apart from our time-space universe.
And why should anyone believe the Bible? I know of no logical reasons.
Outside revelation, there is no way for any man to find out anything about how we got here and about the God who put us here.
Maybe many "gods" worked together to create the universe. Maybe some kind of unconscious cascade of events created it by chance. There is no logical reason to believe one single god consciously worked to put us here. There is no logical reason to believe there are definitely any gods at all.
That is why all human speculations about origins, whether called science or religion are entertaining fiction.
Yet I doubt you would admit your own religious fantasies are purely fictitious. Everyone who doesn't believe the same things you believe is kidding themselves, but you know the truth? Your argument makes no sense.
Everyone will know for sure when we all stand before the judgment seat of God.
Or maybe nobody will ever know for sure, because there is no afterlife.
I'm personally looking forward to the Express multiplication, but that won't be out until long after the Express subtraction, which doesn't even have a release date yet. I guess the Express derivative will probably released around the same time as GNU Hurd and Duke Nukem Forever.
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If you mean allowing adding GPLv3 code to a GPLv2 project, that would allow anyone to write just a few lines of GPLv2 code and then bring in a bunch of GPLv3 stuff, and have it all under the GPLv2.
If you mean adding GPLv3 code to a GPLv4 project, that's already allowed; it's just optional. Anybody can choose to release their code as GPLv3 or later just as much code has already been released as GPLv2 or later.
If you're asking why they're making the or later part optional instead of mandatory, that's probably because many developers don't like the or later part.
The article says it was flightless. You know what else says it was flightless? The summary. Can't you at least read the summary?
Right on! Real hackers prefer to pay for magazines with a tiny predetermined set of information. Only lusers and n00bs read stuff online for free.
Apparently Mozilla believes in the GNOME ideals of UI design: It's better to hide functionality than expose users to something they might not understand. If you give users an option, they'll always chose the wrong one. It's better to just make the decision for them.
I've never owned a gun in my life, and I actually hate being around guns, but I enjoy knowing that I have the right to own guns, and I enjoy knowing that others do too. By taking away freedoms that aren't important to you, you are affecting your own freedom as well!
Oh lawd, don't call the internet "Al Gore's little invention". If anything, it just makes him look bad.
I used to think things would be different now, due to vastly improved and widely employed communications technology. Nobody would let their government go out of control if they always had a live view of everything it's doing, right? It wouldn't be able to hide it's dirty secrets so easily, right?
Well now I'm not so sure. In some cases, modern communications technologies just make it easier for the government to keep a tighter watch on its citizens. But while America is going downhill fast in this area, the world as a whole seems to be generally improving, so at least it's not universal.
I for one am totally willing to move to a different country if it means more freedom. For now America seems to be about as good as it gets, and it really is a pretty awesome place, but when it stops being so awesome I'm not going to stick around just because of nostalgia and history. I'll move where the freedom goes.
Your post is completely ridiculous. You claim to be "thinking very seriously", but you obviously haven't done the slightest bit of research. You have no clue how much work it would be to write your own layout engine and web browser UI.
Macs are PCs!
Apple's marketing will never change that. Why are you people so easily swayed by marketing?
It would be fun to create and destroy trillions of human embryos in a petri dish or something and make the fundys all worried about heaven filling up.
I was creating hundreds of tags until the tags started being filtered. Many of my tags were descriptive and useful, but what got me to do the tagging was the tags that were just for fun. Yes no maybe, fud notfud, slownewsday, dupe, etc. Now that the fun tags are being filtered out, I no longer have any desire to tag articles or look at the tags.
If you filter user content for what you think is useful and relevant, it'll end up only being useful and relevant for yourself. You've badly crippled the social aspect. You're telling your users, "This is my feature and you will use it the way I tell you to use it!" If the people running Slashdot are going to strip out any tags they don't like, they might as well just tag all the articles themselves.
People don't come to Slashdot for article summaries carefully selected by diligent Slashdot editors. They come for the comments, the user created content! The Slashdot people seem to have no clue what made Slashdot so popular.
That makes sense. I already knew the GUIs for Emacs were extremely shitty, so I guess this really doesn't change how I feel about Emacs.
I still don't understand why anyone would want to run an interactive program inside a terminal though.
No matter how great Mac OS X is, it's still closed source. I'm never going to support non-free software when there are good free alternatives.
The release builds of GNU Emacs don't support anti-aliased text?
I've never understood why Emacs (or Vi/Vim) got so much praise. Sometimes I think maybe I'm crazy and all the zealots are the ones who have it right, but this makes me feel pretty certain that I'm the one who hasn't lost it.
A text editor has got to be extremely shitty to not support anti-aliased text. That is absolutely completely insane. The more I learn about Emacs/Vi(m), the worse they sound.
It has been pretty obvious for quite a while that Linux has better out-of-the-box driver support than any version of Windows (or any OS really). Many Windows drivers have to be installed from CDs or over the internet.
When I installed Windows (before switching to Ubuntu) I had to use a CD to install drivers just to connect to the internet, and then I had to use Windows Update again and again (rebooting between each one) to get all the other drivers.
There's lots of support for Windows, but Windows itself actually supports very little.
The link is to a store. The post is just spam to make money.
Licensing. It may not be technically superior enough to supplant other technologies, but the licensing issues will probably give this a huge push.
"Tebibyte"? That's so ambiguous! Please be more specific and use the term "tebioctet" if that's what you're referring to.
As many file systems as there are, I'd be surprised if such a thing didn't already exist.
I'm personally looking forward to the Express multiplication, but that won't be out until long after the Express subtraction, which doesn't even have a release date yet. I guess the Express derivative will probably released around the same time as GNU Hurd and Duke Nukem Forever.