The whole FSF/iPhone kerfuffle (that started with GNU Go) is basically Stallman trying to exploit a technicality and wording in his license and a technicality and wording in the Apple terms of service to try in a vain and most likely symbolic attempt to get apple to complete ditch their DRM for all apps.
The spirit of the GPL is being adhered to. The code for GPL'ed iPhone stuff is available to everyone, and everyone can install a GPL'ed binary on their iDevice without paying apple a cent.
I can't blame Apple for not wanting to deal with this nonsense and just keeping all GPL apps out of the app store.
Cost In Todays Dollars Of 1960's moon program: $170,000,000,000 # of Saturn V rockets in Moon program: 15 Maximum Payload of Saturn V rocket: 272,000 (170,000,000,000 / 15) / 272,000 = $41666 per lunar pound 1.62oz golf ball = $4218 to get a golf ball on the moon using 1960's technology.
Let's see if we can land a golf ball on the moon for $1 million and perfect our technique before we go wasting half-billion dollar boosters that might explode on launch.
You merely need to register with the Ministry of Free Speech. Due to a backlog of requests in Saudi Arabia, your license to speak freely might take twenty years to process.
The solution is (somehow) to bring back the $20/hr w/benefits living-wage blue collar jobs wage to these American shores so all the kids whose only purposing in sitting in college classroom is to avoid flipping burgers for the rest of their life won't get in the way of the kids going to college to actually learn stuff.
In many states, if the age you were diagnosed with a fine motor impairment is far enough from your age going into college, the college will completely drop you from consideration for disability accomodations.
In high school I was diagnosed with Fine Motor Coordination impairment that prevented me from ever having speedy, readable handwriting. I had to go through enormous amounts of testing, having a professional interview my teachers, etc in a process that costed thousands of dollars. This is easier to do when you're young and constantly surrounded by teachers, and have school psychologists freely available to diagnose you. When you have to engage this duplication of effort again when you're older and paying for everything yourself, it's nigh impossible to get it done as a cash-strapped college student.
I asked for laptop accomodations when I was 25, 8 years after I was diagnosed with ADD and fine motor impairment. I couldn't get it, because I'd have to have been diagnosed more than three years prior to my admission. If I had a professor who wasn't okay with my laptop, I would have had to drop out of the course.
Given how silly the laws are, students should be universally allowed to use laptops.
A more impressive feat would be rewriting Tom Lehrer's elements song to accomodate all the new elements of which the news has come to Harvard. Ununseptium doesn't have the lyrical qualities of "Indium" and "Gallium".
Karl Marx supports communism. Steve Wozniak supports net neutrality. Karl Marx had a beard. Steve Wozniak has a beard. Therefore, Steve Wozniak is a communist and net neutrality is communism.
Similarly:
Clowns are have painted white faces and entertain people. Rush Limbaugh has a white face and entertains people. Therefore, Rush Limbaugh is a clown.
The following week Ben Stiller broke into the Museum of Natural History and the museum's computers started having Y2K problems when the 50 year-old COBOL exhibit came to life.
With the increasing desertification going around throughout the world, especially in Africa, the transmission line problem will shortly be a non-issue.
Or we could ban software companies lobbying to lower security standards and we could push for changing government pay grade scales for security experts so gov't actually has a chance of competing for talent with the private sector.
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How about Peripheral Vision? I'd like to be able to see NPC cars and bad guys out of the corner of my eye for a change.
He is Melvar! Seer of the Tapes, Knower of the Episodes. Tremble before his encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek.
The whole FSF/iPhone kerfuffle (that started with GNU Go) is basically Stallman trying to exploit a technicality and wording in his license and a technicality and wording in the Apple terms of service to try in a vain and most likely symbolic attempt to get apple to complete ditch their DRM for all apps.
The spirit of the GPL is being adhered to. The code for GPL'ed iPhone stuff is available to everyone, and everyone can install a GPL'ed binary on their iDevice without paying apple a cent.
I can't blame Apple for not wanting to deal with this nonsense and just keeping all GPL apps out of the app store.
Why can't they pick something more normal and business oriented, like "Biggus Clickus"?
Cost In Todays Dollars Of 1960's moon program: $170,000,000,000
# of Saturn V rockets in Moon program: 15
Maximum Payload of Saturn V rocket: 272,000
(170,000,000,000 / 15) / 272,000 = $41666 per lunar pound
1.62oz golf ball = $4218 to get a golf ball on the moon using 1960's technology.
Let's see if we can land a golf ball on the moon for $1 million and perfect our technique before we go wasting half-billion dollar boosters that might explode on launch.
With rails you can easily migrate your buildings.
You merely need to register with the Ministry of Free Speech. Due to a backlog of requests in Saudi Arabia, your license to speak freely might take twenty years to process.
The major western governments were still functioning democracies in calendar year 1984, so technically the film would be implausible.
Here's the one for autistic spectrum disorders. I'm sure that a similar page for ADHD is on their site.
http://www.ncsu.edu/dso/students/autism_documentation.html
"A fully completed Documentation of Disability Form and a written report of a current evaluation (within three years)."
Highly doubtful that a kid who's diagnosed with Aspergers in high school at 16 and goes to college at 26 is going to suddenly his Aspergers.
If I put Skype on my iPhone, what guarantee do I have that my phone won't get supernoded and superpwnded?
The solution is (somehow) to bring back the $20/hr w/benefits living-wage blue collar jobs wage to these American shores so all the kids whose only purposing in sitting in college classroom is to avoid flipping burgers for the rest of their life won't get in the way of the kids going to college to actually learn stuff.
In many states, if the age you were diagnosed with a fine motor impairment is far enough from your age going into college, the college will completely drop you from consideration for disability accomodations.
In high school I was diagnosed with Fine Motor Coordination impairment that prevented me from ever having speedy, readable handwriting. I had to go through enormous amounts of testing, having a professional interview my teachers, etc in a process that costed thousands of dollars. This is easier to do when you're young and constantly surrounded by teachers, and have school psychologists freely available to diagnose you. When you have to engage this duplication of effort again when you're older and paying for everything yourself, it's nigh impossible to get it done as a cash-strapped college student.
I asked for laptop accomodations when I was 25, 8 years after I was diagnosed with ADD and fine motor impairment. I couldn't get it, because I'd have to have been diagnosed more than three years prior to my admission. If I had a professor who wasn't okay with my laptop, I would have had to drop out of the course.
Given how silly the laws are, students should be universally allowed to use laptops.
A more impressive feat would be rewriting Tom Lehrer's elements song to accomodate all the new elements of which the news has come to Harvard. Ununseptium doesn't have the lyrical qualities of "Indium" and "Gallium".
"We expected a Limewire topology to be as reliable as a Phone companyi topology and oddly enough that bit us in the ass."
Karl Marx supports communism.
Steve Wozniak supports net neutrality.
Karl Marx had a beard.
Steve Wozniak has a beard.
Therefore, Steve Wozniak is a communist and net neutrality is communism.
Similarly:
Clowns are have painted white faces and entertain people.
Rush Limbaugh has a white face and entertains people.
Therefore, Rush Limbaugh is a clown.
By going out to Andorian restaurants and then spending the rest of the day plotzing in Holodecks?
The following week Ben Stiller broke into the Museum of Natural History and the museum's computers started having Y2K problems when the 50 year-old COBOL exhibit came to life.
With the increasing desertification going around throughout the world, especially in Africa, the transmission line problem will shortly be a non-issue.
If I had a pumpkin on top of me, I too would be pissed as hell about not having any head for 30 years.
Or we could ban software companies lobbying to lower security standards and we could push for changing government pay grade scales for security experts so gov't actually has a chance of competing for talent with the private sector.
The Finnish Linux is good, but I prefer the one written in the original Klingon.
but the headline makes it sound like NASA has patented Make and is auctioning it off to the highest bidder.
Given that Red Dwarf is a TV show, and given that a red dwarf is a member of this weird binary system...would you like a piece of toast?
to make a zillion-volt battery that lasts a fraction of a second.