NASA should be spending most - if not all - of its budget preparing to avert a comet/asteroid from hitting earth.
No! We should be concentrating on moving our entire solar system away from the galactic core at just under the speed of light. After we clear out all asteroids and comets.
Signed,
Hindmost
I've done this experiment! When you whisper into the deaf ear asking for cigarettes, you don't get nearly as many as when you whisper into the hearing ear. The paper will be coming out in JAMA next month.
Imagine telling a 30 year old that they are going to have to spend three years doing something before they get a reward. How would they react to it?
For some of us, at age 22 we decided that it would be ok to spend 5 years of our lives doing something before we could get a reward: a PhD. 5 years was more that 20% of our current life, but we did it anyway.
As far as I'm concerned, paying kids for grades delivers the message... "If you work hard, you will be rewarded." School is the equivalent of work for kids.
Won't it teach them that doing well in school will get you rewards? If you want to teach them that hard work is rewarded, why not reward work, either chores or studying. Otherwise, won't your 120 IQ kid who gets straight-As without studying look at his 80 IQ C student brother who studies 40 hours/week learn that hard work is never rewarded, only intelligence?
If you can get to the game before they've played it, then your kids will just mope and complain. If they've played it, even just seen that startup screen for the game, they'll probably kill you before you even get out the door.
I think the hangup there is, someone has to be convicted of a crime before they can be pardoned. And a conviction requires an investigation.
You do not have to be convicted of a crime to be pardoned. You do not even have to be accused of a crime to be pardoned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon#United_States
(I'm assuming that wikipedia is correct, but strong evidence is that Nixon was never charged with anything, but was pardoned by Ford.)
ill this hurt the image of political figures from Alaska? So close to election day, could this affect Sarah Palin's image? Morality? (Which has already been questioned).
Actually, being the target of a bribe shows that Stevens is an experienced candidate. Being linked to experience can only help Palin.
Look carefully at the 1st amendment -- it only protects citizens from the government. The government isn't preventing her speech (not even in a chilling-effect kind of way), so free speech arguments don't hold.
I call bullshit. Name one category of software that would not have been developed without patents and name a few specific products. PNG would not have been developed without patents on the LZW algorithm. Oh wait, I guess that isn't the kind of example that you wanted....
If Jane had just put in her max bid of $100, she would be listed as the high bidder at $10. When Bob snipes for $11, he is immediately outbid by Jane for $12. If Bob is sitting there, he can try for it at $13, but he'll be outbid again.
All you need is one person who actually puts in their max bid, either at the last minute or early on, and sniping won't get the item for cheap.
The major benefit (for the buyer) that I see with sniping is that buyers won't get into an emotional bidding war. One of the first auctions that I bid on was for an out of print book. I got into a bidding war with another person and finally dropped out when the book reached $50. The next week the same title came up for auction and I bid at the last minute. The current price was $5, I put in $20 and got it for $11.
Of course, when was the last time that you built your compiler from scratch. I hand-wrote your own. In binary. Without any tools. After all, all of the tools that you use to compile open source were compiled with a compiler that [were compiled with a compiler, etc.] that you didn't inspect. So the original person could have put in code that would do *anything*, including self-propagation. See Thompson's article "Reflections on Trusting Trust": http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
It wouldn't have any consequences. Novell already has a license to distribute GNU/Linux as long as they comply with the license restrictions. Nowhere does the GPL (v2) say that the license can be revoked on a whim. The owners can, of course, relicense their code under a different license. However, that does not affect Novell's license.
I would be very upset if the ACLU tried to prevent *individuals* from expressing their religious beliefs. However, I'm very much in favor of the ACLU's fight to remove *governmental* expressions of religion. The ten commandments that the ACLU fought against were not displayed in front of a (private citizen's) house, they were in front of a public courthouse. There was no "individual expression," it was a government sponsored display of religion. If the judge who erected the ten commandments had put them in front of his own house, I would have supported him.
Note that google has changed the text when you visit the URL in the parent. It used to just say that the video was not available in your country, and now makes the reason more explicit.
Every file should compile cleanly with a specified set of warnings on. With gcc, I use -Wall -Werror (with some other flags like -Wshadow that aren't turned on by -Wall).
> t's still bound by the GPL and can't then decide to sell the work.
Please read the GPL. Anyone can sell anything under GPL. There just happen to be some restrictions on the sale, like distribution of the source code. But I could go out and start selling gcc today if I wanted.
> Linux allows the user to have a far greater degree of confidence for a relatively small expenditure of effort. For example: It is possible to understand your firewall's operation and to validate that there are no vendor supplied backdoors and that there are no port knocking exploits other that those you may choose to define yourself.
You think that you can really know that there are no backdoors? Why? Because you can look at the source code and understand all of it? Even then, you can't guarantee that the gcc didn't compile in a backdoor. What, you have the gcc code too?! Well, how was that compiled? Read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" here: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
Because that's the slashdot way:
* Remember that you can't call it theft, you must call it copyright violation.
* There are different levels of copyright violations. For example, violating the GPL is a Bad Thing, while downloading songs is an ok copyright violation.
Why? Because people who post to slashdot aren't likely to violate the GPL, but ARE likely to steal^H^H^H^H^Hviolate other copyrights.
A better question than whether open-source ventures fail more often than the average IT venture is asking whether the open-source ones that succeed have a better return on the investment than the closed-source ones. That is how VC companies measure success: earnings (or profit) vs investment, not what fraction fail.
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Do they play Vigilante Wars?
NASA should be spending most - if not all - of its budget preparing to avert a comet/asteroid from hitting earth.
No! We should be concentrating on moving our entire solar system away from the galactic core at just under the speed of light. After we clear out all asteroids and comets. Signed, Hindmost
I've done this experiment! When you whisper into the deaf ear asking for cigarettes, you don't get nearly as many as when you whisper into the hearing ear. The paper will be coming out in JAMA next month.
Imagine telling a 30 year old that they are going to have to spend three years doing something before they get a reward. How would they react to it?
For some of us, at age 22 we decided that it would be ok to spend 5 years of our lives doing something before we could get a reward: a PhD. 5 years was more that 20% of our current life, but we did it anyway.
As far as I'm concerned, paying kids for grades delivers the message... "If you work hard, you will be rewarded." School is the equivalent of work for kids.
Won't it teach them that doing well in school will get you rewards? If you want to teach them that hard work is rewarded, why not reward work, either chores or studying. Otherwise, won't your 120 IQ kid who gets straight-As without studying look at his 80 IQ C student brother who studies 40 hours/week learn that hard work is never rewarded, only intelligence?
If you can get to the game before they've played it, then your kids will just mope and complain. If they've played it, even just seen that startup screen for the game, they'll probably kill you before you even get out the door.
I think the hangup there is, someone has to be convicted of a crime before they can be pardoned. And a conviction requires an investigation.
You do not have to be convicted of a crime to be pardoned. You do not even have to be accused of a crime to be pardoned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon#United_States (I'm assuming that wikipedia is correct, but strong evidence is that Nixon was never charged with anything, but was pardoned by Ford.)
ill this hurt the image of political figures from Alaska? So close to election day, could this affect Sarah Palin's image? Morality? (Which has already been questioned).
Actually, being the target of a bribe shows that Stevens is an experienced candidate. Being linked to experience can only help Palin.
I've never once gotten a satisfactory answer as to what will cause the people to rise up.
Apparently this level of corruption will do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
Try boost::shared_ptr
And makes use of municipal facilities often, like schools, parks, and community centers.
The city of Berkeley, at least, decided that they would not give an Boy Scout affiliated group free berthing at the Marina: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20061016-1245-scotus-scouts.htmlLook carefully at the 1st amendment -- it only protects citizens from the government. The government isn't preventing her speech (not even in a chilling-effect kind of way), so free speech arguments don't hold.
If Jane had just put in her max bid of $100, she would be listed as the high bidder at $10. When Bob snipes for $11, he is immediately outbid by Jane for $12. If Bob is sitting there, he can try for it at $13, but he'll be outbid again. All you need is one person who actually puts in their max bid, either at the last minute or early on, and sniping won't get the item for cheap. The major benefit (for the buyer) that I see with sniping is that buyers won't get into an emotional bidding war. One of the first auctions that I bid on was for an out of print book. I got into a bidding war with another person and finally dropped out when the book reached $50. The next week the same title came up for auction and I bid at the last minute. The current price was $5, I put in $20 and got it for $11.
Of course, when was the last time that you built your compiler from scratch. I hand-wrote your own. In binary. Without any tools. After all, all of the tools that you use to compile open source were compiled with a compiler that [were compiled with a compiler, etc.] that you didn't inspect. So the original person could have put in code that would do *anything*, including self-propagation. See Thompson's article "Reflections on Trusting Trust": http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
It wouldn't have any consequences. Novell already has a license to distribute GNU/Linux as long as they comply with the license restrictions. Nowhere does the GPL (v2) say that the license can be revoked on a whim. The owners can, of course, relicense their code under a different license. However, that does not affect Novell's license.
I would be very upset if the ACLU tried to prevent *individuals* from expressing their religious beliefs. However, I'm very much in favor of the ACLU's fight to remove *governmental* expressions of religion. The ten commandments that the ACLU fought against were not displayed in front of a (private citizen's) house, they were in front of a public courthouse. There was no "individual expression," it was a government sponsored display of religion. If the judge who erected the ten commandments had put them in front of his own house, I would have supported him.
So white people should be pulled over at random in Oklahoma City?
Note that google has changed the text when you visit the URL in the parent. It used to just say that the video was not available in your country, and now makes the reason more explicit.
Every file should compile cleanly with a specified set of warnings on. With gcc, I use -Wall -Werror (with some other flags like -Wshadow that aren't turned on by -Wall).
> t's still bound by the GPL and can't then decide to sell the work. Please read the GPL. Anyone can sell anything under GPL. There just happen to be some restrictions on the sale, like distribution of the source code. But I could go out and start selling gcc today if I wanted.
> Linux allows the user to have a far greater degree of confidence for a relatively small expenditure of effort. For example: It is possible to understand your firewall's operation and to validate that there are no vendor supplied backdoors and that there are no port knocking exploits other that those you may choose to define yourself.
You think that you can really know that there are no backdoors? Why? Because you can look at the source code and understand all of it? Even then, you can't guarantee that the gcc didn't compile in a backdoor. What, you have the gcc code too?! Well, how was that compiled? Read Ken Thompson's "Reflections on Trusting Trust" here: http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/
Because that's the slashdot way: * Remember that you can't call it theft, you must call it copyright violation. * There are different levels of copyright violations. For example, violating the GPL is a Bad Thing, while downloading songs is an ok copyright violation. Why? Because people who post to slashdot aren't likely to violate the GPL, but ARE likely to steal^H^H^H^H^Hviolate other copyrights.
A better question than whether open-source ventures fail more often than the average IT venture is asking whether the open-source ones that succeed have a better return on the investment than the closed-source ones. That is how VC companies measure success: earnings (or profit) vs investment, not what fraction fail.