Opinion. I think RMS was a hack. But that's just my opinion.
there would be no Free tools for Linus or other engineers to write software at all.
Perhaps. Linux would definitely be different. He could have used a cheap compiler (Borland, etc) and there are other free compilers and equivalent tools. There has been a lot of conjecture about this very topic actually....
You're also dead wrong on saying that "RMS wants to restrict you to only using it for things that are "free"." That could not be more wrong !
I disagree. When I say "use", I don't just refer to running a program. I also refer to "copying, distribution and modification" (especially modification); this is where RMS is trying to impose his views on software patents and DRM. Maybe *I* want to use linux in conjunction with DRM. Why the hell should I let RMS tell me no? Just because he thinks he doesn't like it? He doesnt even *develop* linux!
If this were the case, why did he choose GPL instead of the BSD license?
Look at the post before yours, it offered enough protections to attract developers while still offering enough flexibility to attract users. BSD licenses tend to scare developers (in some cases...)
Linus is an engineer. RMS is an idealogue. Linus wants to make a kernel that the maximum number of people can use for whatever they want. He doesn't care what you use it for. RMS wants to restrict you to only using it for things that are "free".
Linus has openly stated that DRM is OK with linux. There's your (potential) beef.
Linus is down with open source. RMS is down with free software. There is a difference, and they don't always get along.
Odds are very high that Rutan will put people into orbit in the next decade in a spacecraft he's designed and built. I can't say the same about NASA.
Rutan was using design information derived from NASA. I've heard him speak, he and his engineers read NASA technical papers, the engine manufacturers read NASA technical research. They didn't start from square one. They made use of millions of dollars and many man-years of NASA research. You can't say that Rutan did it all. He used a lot of NASA research and resources. He used a different design paradigm and manufacturing method.
the other problem is he is going to have one hell of a time with hypersonic reentry. It is going to take a complete system redesign . I place it on the 25 year track.
Last time I tried using it as a pop3 (with it set to delete downladed messages) , I then logged into gmail to find my messages still there. Just cause gmail fakes an implementation of pop3 doesn't mean they follow the rules. YMMV and they may have changed it (perpetual beta applies)
By "long term" I mean a person's lifetime, and his children's, not 10 years. I should have made that more clear.
Agreed, it was just the only graph I could pull up quickly enough. Hard at work, you know:)
BTW: do your mutual funds consistently return more, in nominal dollar terms, than the dollar's value falls (against whatever other currency or commodity that you consider valuable)?
Apparently it crashed in the 90's too. I only looked back 10 years.
If you're smart, you'd take advantage of your profits in the manipulated stock market and get out.
What goes up through coercion always come down, what goes up because of market creation tends to stay up until someone else finds a new way to copy it. Currency can be copied, infinitely. Gold can only be mined. Which will be around in 5 years? 50 years? 500 years?
you are still participating in a market that is being manipulated by market forces. The value of gold depends on the market. Circular logic. (Unless you believe that there will be all-out thermonuclear war, and in a post-apocalyptic world, Gold will rule. I tend to believe that if that is the case, guns will rule. It won't be a barter economy, it will be a give-me economy. And if it is a barter economy, those who have force will use it to even the score.)
Where will mutual funds be then?
as a conservative investor? Same place its always been, a historical 7% return (stock market). Averaging the whole shebang. Those of us who are smart do better. Mutual funds are a worldwide market, if they all of a sudden crash the whole world is in for a rough time, as is the value of your precious gold.
Where will the housing market be?
People keep making babies. I don't forsee a problem. I don't invest in property, save for the land I live on.
The money I invested as a child and young adult for college outpaced gold - the past 10 years, gold made 27%, my funds doubled and then some - I have every confidence over the long haul (20-40 years) that the same will hold true. Rocks are for geologists, investing in people who are innovative and creative are where the real money is at.
I meant what I said; lower density. Hydrogen does happen to have slightly better energy density (Energy per unit volume.) But only slightly. You need a tank 4 times bigger than that of gasoline to get the same amount of energy from hydrogen.
And the problem with that is the low density of hydrogen. Hydrogen in liquid form has 10% of the density of gasoline. And it is cryogenic, requiring a large amount of energy to put it into a cryogenic state and then a well-insulated tank and more energy to keep it cryogenic. You could easily have to send 15+ trucks in place of 1 truck with gasoline to get out the same amount of energy. Not to mention the amount of hydrogen you spend powering those trucks. People complain about the inefficiencies of power lines... its nothing compared to the inefficiencies of a "green" hydrogen economy.
Look at the 10 year chart. Only gained ~27% over 10 years. My mutual funds did that in under a year and a half. You obviously have only been paying attention to the very near term and not the long term. Gold is rising very quickly now, yes, but over the long term it is a very unwise investment.
Remember the national providers are NOT your only option. Theres always the little guy. Growing up in the midwest 2 of the 3 high speed options were the little guys: 1 sold high-speed DSL (obviously not interested in your case) the other sold wireless for ~$5 a month more than dialup. I could regularly get 250k/sec. Not bad for living in the middle of nowhere.
Do a little digging. 5 minutes of research on google popped up at least 5 ISP's that offered high-speed options you might be interested in. (and whats so bad about comcast? I picked them out of the bunch!)
Just remember one thing -- if MegaCorp X is a monopoly provider of high speed bandwidth in your town, it isn't MegaCorp X's fault. Go blame the government who gave them the monopoly. If MegaCorp Y created their connections over previous monopoly status, don't ask MegaCorp Y to give you back what you gave them originally -- the right to be a monopoly. This is why I am against government licensing and regulations -- it creates these monopolies which come to affect us decades later.
What the hell happened to personal/corporate responsibility?
This may be true in some small areas. It has never been true anywhere I have lived (three cities in three states in the past 5 years). Right now I can purchase high speed internet from 4 different providers (Verizon, Comcast, Knology, BellSouth). And yes, I grew up in a small town in the midwest, single high speed providers are a rare circumstance there as well. Small town of 8,000 I grew up with in the middle of nowhere in WI has three high-speed providers, including wireless.
Not to mention this whole deal is prettymuch a non-issue anyways. Tiered pricing has existed for awhile. Comcast will sell you high-speed, or "premium" highspeed (6mbit or 8mbit). Knology will too (down to 256k). DSL has been offered in multiple "flavors" (for technical reasons, but you can downgrade at will... save a little money if you don't want the bandwidth).
You said "if private industry doesn't need it, we don't need it either"... hence my post. I didn't think I needed to quote it, that the tenent was obvious enough, but aparently I was wrong.
- Half of the voting public agrees with him. This is completely true. Note the word "voting" They preferred Bush to the undead automoton known as John Kerry.
- Just because they preferred Bush doesn't mean they agree with every bullet point on the list. When you only have several choices, you WON'T agree on every bullet point. DUH. Same would hold true for every candidate. 50M+ voters will have varying opinions...
Note in the article that "Congressmen" are condemning Microsoft and Google. A fair number of them also condemn the so-called spying operations. They are mutually exclusive.
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RMS was a hacker (a very good one btw)
Opinion. I think RMS was a hack. But that's just my opinion.
there would be no Free tools for Linus or other engineers to write software at all.
Perhaps. Linux would definitely be different. He could have used a cheap compiler (Borland, etc) and there are other free compilers and equivalent tools. There has been a lot of conjecture about this very topic actually....
You're also dead wrong on saying that "RMS wants to restrict you to only using it for things that are "free"." That could not be more wrong !
I disagree. When I say "use", I don't just refer to running a program. I also refer to "copying, distribution and modification" (especially modification); this is where RMS is trying to impose his views on software patents and DRM. Maybe *I* want to use linux in conjunction with DRM. Why the hell should I let RMS tell me no? Just because he thinks he doesn't like it? He doesnt even *develop* linux!
Got an email from IT first thing this morning saying "do not install Google Desktop" on any work machine.
If this were the case, why did he choose GPL instead of the BSD license?
Look at the post before yours, it offered enough protections to attract developers while still offering enough flexibility to attract users. BSD licenses tend to scare developers (in some cases...)
Fork the kernel. Like everything else Linux :)
(for the record I agree with Linus... on the kernel level keep things as open as possible. Possibilities are endless.)
Linus is an engineer. RMS is an idealogue. Linus wants to make a kernel that the maximum number of people can use for whatever they want. He doesn't care what you use it for. RMS wants to restrict you to only using it for things that are "free".
Linus has openly stated that DRM is OK with linux. There's your (potential) beef.
Linus is down with open source. RMS is down with free software. There is a difference, and they don't always get along.
Odds are very high that Rutan will put people into orbit in the next decade in a spacecraft he's designed and built. I can't say the same about NASA.
Rutan was using design information derived from NASA. I've heard him speak, he and his engineers read NASA technical papers, the engine manufacturers read NASA technical research. They didn't start from square one. They made use of millions of dollars and many man-years of NASA research. You can't say that Rutan did it all. He used a lot of NASA research and resources. He used a different design paradigm and manufacturing method.
the other problem is he is going to have one hell of a time with hypersonic reentry. It is going to take a complete system redesign . I place it on the 25 year track.
Last time I tried using it as a pop3 (with it set to delete downladed messages) , I then logged into gmail to find my messages still there. Just cause gmail fakes an implementation of pop3 doesn't mean they follow the rules. YMMV and they may have changed it (perpetual beta applies)
Logging can be incredibly useful when you're using IM for online meetings and collaboration.
Logging on *my* computer is fine and useful. Logging on *their* server is not.
By "long term" I mean a person's lifetime, and his children's, not 10 years. I should have made that more clear.
:)
:P
Agreed, it was just the only graph I could pull up quickly enough. Hard at work, you know
BTW: do your mutual funds consistently return more, in nominal dollar terms, than the dollar's value falls (against whatever other currency or commodity that you consider valuable)?
What is more valuable than the Almighty Dollar?
Because gold had "crashed" in the 80s
Apparently it crashed in the 90's too. I only looked back 10 years.
If you're smart, you'd take advantage of your profits in the manipulated stock market and get out. What goes up through coercion always come down, what goes up because of market creation tends to stay up until someone else finds a new way to copy it. Currency can be copied, infinitely. Gold can only be mined. Which will be around in 5 years? 50 years? 500 years?
you are still participating in a market that is being manipulated by market forces. The value of gold depends on the market. Circular logic. (Unless you believe that there will be all-out thermonuclear war, and in a post-apocalyptic world, Gold will rule. I tend to believe that if that is the case, guns will rule. It won't be a barter economy, it will be a give-me economy. And if it is a barter economy, those who have force will use it to even the score.)
Where will mutual funds be then?
as a conservative investor? Same place its always been, a historical 7% return (stock market). Averaging the whole shebang. Those of us who are smart do better. Mutual funds are a worldwide market, if they all of a sudden crash the whole world is in for a rough time, as is the value of your precious gold.
Where will the housing market be?
People keep making babies. I don't forsee a problem. I don't invest in property, save for the land I live on.
The money I invested as a child and young adult for college outpaced gold - the past 10 years, gold made 27%, my funds doubled and then some - I have every confidence over the long haul (20-40 years) that the same will hold true. Rocks are for geologists, investing in people who are innovative and creative are where the real money is at.
http://www.rps.psu.edu/hydrogen/form.html
I meant what I said; lower density. Hydrogen does happen to have slightly better energy density (Energy per unit volume.) But only slightly. You need a tank 4 times bigger than that of gasoline to get the same amount of energy from hydrogen.
And the problem with that is the low density of hydrogen. Hydrogen in liquid form has 10% of the density of gasoline. And it is cryogenic, requiring a large amount of energy to put it into a cryogenic state and then a well-insulated tank and more energy to keep it cryogenic. You could easily have to send 15+ trucks in place of 1 truck with gasoline to get out the same amount of energy. Not to mention the amount of hydrogen you spend powering those trucks. People complain about the inefficiencies of power lines... its nothing compared to the inefficiencies of a "green" hydrogen economy.
http://www.kitco.com/charts/livegold.html
Look at the 10 year chart. Only gained ~27% over 10 years. My mutual funds did that in under a year and a half. You obviously have only been paying attention to the very near term and not the long term. Gold is rising very quickly now, yes, but over the long term it is a very unwise investment.
C++ takes a lot of platform-specific work to become portable
Bullshit. C++ written well is portable by default (between windows and linux). There are a few minor issues between linux and sgi.
Everquest had GM-sanctioned weddings and oft-followed wedding traditions, (in addition to wedding gear) unlike WoW.
This notion that some of their players aren't mature enough to be tolerant is bunk.
Bull! Heard in Barrens Chat:
chuck norris will round kick some tolerence into you!
Vin Diesel could cut teh tolorence on this server with his erect nipples!
YOUR MOM!
I think you meant to send that here ... otherwise its just trolling.
Remember the national providers are NOT your only option. Theres always the little guy. Growing up in the midwest 2 of the 3 high speed options were the little guys: 1 sold high-speed DSL (obviously not interested in your case) the other sold wireless for ~$5 a month more than dialup. I could regularly get 250k/sec. Not bad for living in the middle of nowhere.
Verizon also offers wireless broadband
Do a little digging. 5 minutes of research on google popped up at least 5 ISP's that offered high-speed options you might be interested in. (and whats so bad about comcast? I picked them out of the bunch!)
Just remember one thing -- if MegaCorp X is a monopoly provider of high speed bandwidth in your town, it isn't MegaCorp X's fault. Go blame the government who gave them the monopoly. If MegaCorp Y created their connections over previous monopoly status, don't ask MegaCorp Y to give you back what you gave them originally -- the right to be a monopoly. This is why I am against government licensing and regulations -- it creates these monopolies which come to affect us decades later.
What the hell happened to personal/corporate responsibility?
This may be true in some small areas. It has never been true anywhere I have lived (three cities in three states in the past 5 years). Right now I can purchase high speed internet from 4 different providers (Verizon, Comcast, Knology, BellSouth). And yes, I grew up in a small town in the midwest, single high speed providers are a rare circumstance there as well. Small town of 8,000 I grew up with in the middle of nowhere in WI has three high-speed providers, including wireless.
Not to mention this whole deal is prettymuch a non-issue anyways. Tiered pricing has existed for awhile. Comcast will sell you high-speed, or "premium" highspeed (6mbit or 8mbit). Knology will too (down to 256k). DSL has been offered in multiple "flavors" (for technical reasons, but you can downgrade at will... save a little money if you don't want the bandwidth).
You said "if private industry doesn't need it, we don't need it either" ... hence my post. I didn't think I needed to quote it, that the tenent was obvious enough, but aparently I was wrong.
- Half of the voting public agrees with him. This is completely true. Note the word "voting" They preferred Bush to the undead automoton known as John Kerry.
- Just because they preferred Bush doesn't mean they agree with every bullet point on the list. When you only have several choices, you WON'T agree on every bullet point. DUH. Same would hold true for every candidate. 50M+ voters will have varying opinions...
But, hey...at least he dramatically increased funding for weapons development!
... wait for it ... scientists and engineers :)
Yeah, where 95+% of the employees are
[I am a rocket scientist, I know what I'm talking about]
Private industry needs good turbojet engines (think 747) - guess what, they were developed during wartime.
Private industry needs robust satellite networks (think DirecTV, GPS, national television networks) - developed by the military for wartime use.
Private industry needs fast communications (think cell phone towers) - developed initially by the military.
Note in the article that "Congressmen" are condemning Microsoft and Google. A fair number of them also condemn the so-called spying operations. They are mutually exclusive.
Alito and Bush are members of the Government. A law firm is a corporation. Different rules apply.
You may not like it, but that's the way it is.