The letter from IBM is directed at TurboHercules, a commercial enterprise making money off of IBM's IPR.
The IPR in this case is the patents. They can only threaten these people because of the patents. That is IBM using patents against an Open Source project (regardless of whether people are making money - in this case for supporting people who like the code). That's evil any way you slice it.
Regardless of who gets served the paperwork, it affects both. Any customers of the infringing products are liable. Witness the suits by patent trolls against Intel being applied to Dell and others.
Unless you have an absolute standard, all positions are arbitrary.
Your position is extrinsic (what can you do). It is a moving target, based on what those in power decide is good enough for you to earn your rights (say, "lawyers have full rights, while coders shall toil endlessly in the data mines").
My position is intrinsic (what you are). It can never be taken from you.
If you can be resuscitated, you're not really dead. Just unconscious (and dying). "Dead" should be reserved for people whose brains have degraded beyond any chance of resuscitation. Then you have an information delta (the information in their brain is lost).
Good catch. By viable I meant alive. If the cells are consuming resources, growing, and dividing, they are alive.
The problem is, you attach some sort of miracle to birth. There is nothing special about birth. The child at nine months inside the womb is nearly identical to the child already born. To make this distinction smells of special pleading.
I don't know what "half-human" means. People with Downs syndrome are human beings (note the approx in my ~46).
I would define "human" as: "Any viable set of cells with common DNA and common experiences descended from a human." With all citizens of all countires grandfathered in as de facto "humans". So twins are two people (different experiences), parasitic twins are also two people, with a serious medical condition. You're arm is not (a whole, independent) human, but your upper torso (including your head) is.
The issue is not abortion per se, but what is means to be human, and when we confer rights on a human being.
Some argue self-awareness does not begin until age 1 or 2. There is no mental difference between a child at 9 months in the womb and out (not to mention, children born extremely prematurely often survive).
Our current laws are illogical, and should be overturned.
Science is not arbitrary. A fertilized embryo (one cell, where there were two gametes) is a new "person" for any measurable use of the term (avoiding arguments over "personhood" or "sentience").
Failure to implant is a death sentence. But being under a death sentence doesn't make you not a person.
The slavery analogy is referring to the law. The current law is that some human beings can be killed, while shifting those same people 1m in any direction suddenly gives them full rights.
Sex cells are not people. They have only 23 chromosomes, and all of those are taken from the parent/host. Embryos have ~46, and do not match either parent.
1. NIF is not about producing power. It is a nuclear weapons research facility. They mention fusion power to help sell the public.
2. Power density. Think aircraft carriers (and space craft)
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I am just about ready to give up development on Windows (outside Cygwin, which is becoming a walled garden).
Is there any solution for package management, library and header configuration (besides CMake)?
Vi - designed and used by people far off into the distance on the autistic spectrum.
Aka Slashdotters.
The letter from IBM is directed at TurboHercules, a commercial enterprise making money off of IBM's IPR.
The IPR in this case is the patents. They can only threaten these people because of the patents. That is IBM using patents against an Open Source project (regardless of whether people are making money - in this case for supporting people who like the code). That's evil any way you slice it.
Regardless of who gets served the paperwork, it affects both. Any customers of the infringing products are liable. Witness the suits by patent trolls against Intel being applied to Dell and others.
Records / joule might be interesting to some people, but it is a dangerous metric overall.
Why?
Because it ignores time.
It is accounted for somewhat in that there will be some power draw for spinning disks, or leakage; but all-in-all not good.
Not at all, as I said "information". New information is created at conception.
If you can be resuscitated, you're not really dead. Just unconscious (and dying). "Dead" should be reserved for people whose brains have degraded beyond any chance of resuscitation. Then you have an information delta (the information in their brain is lost).
Being dependent doesn't make you not a person. We are all dependent on other people (farmers, oil workers, auto workers, grocers).
Nearly identical from an information theory point of view (DNA, life experience).
Good catch. By viable I meant alive. If the cells are consuming resources, growing, and dividing, they are alive.
The problem is, you attach some sort of miracle to birth. There is nothing special about birth. The child at nine months inside the womb is nearly identical to the child already born. To make this distinction smells of special pleading.
I don't know what "half-human" means. People with Downs syndrome are human beings (note the approx in my ~46).
I would define "human" as: "Any viable set of cells with common DNA and common experiences descended from a human." With all citizens of all countires grandfathered in as de facto "humans". So twins are two people (different experiences), parasitic twins are also two people, with a serious medical condition. You're arm is not (a whole, independent) human, but your upper torso (including your head) is.
The issue is not abortion per se, but what is means to be human, and when we confer rights on a human being.
Well said, clone.
What?
Are you seriously suggesting a human being breathes atmospheric oxygen, while those who breath oxygen dissolved in liquid are not human?
What is on the slope here? We're saying it is unethical to kill embryos for research purposes.
Some argue self-awareness does not begin until age 1 or 2. There is no mental difference between a child at 9 months in the womb and out (not to mention, children born extremely prematurely often survive).
Our current laws are illogical, and should be overturned.
I'm not sure I understand your point.
Science is not arbitrary. A fertilized embryo (one cell, where there were two gametes) is a new "person" for any measurable use of the term (avoiding arguments over "personhood" or "sentience").
Failure to implant is a death sentence. But being under a death sentence doesn't make you not a person.
The slavery analogy is referring to the law. The current law is that some human beings can be killed, while shifting those same people 1m in any direction suddenly gives them full rights.
Sex cells are not people. They have only 23 chromosomes, and all of those are taken from the parent/host. Embryos have ~46, and do not match either parent.
Please see Dred Scott. Legal != Moral
Why?
The front end has always been open source. It was the full source which became available recently.
Yea, I follow the D newsgroups. Jarrett's meltdown is famous.
I don't program much in D, beyond some simple exploration (on Windows, no less). But when I think about new programming languages, I look at D.
The source code for dmd has been available since Mar 2009 (D 1.041 and D 2.026).
There are open source compiler implementations: gdc and ldc
The Tango library for D is open source (and much more extensive than the proprietary library - Phobos).
If you want a better C, check out D
1. NIF is not about producing power. It is a nuclear weapons research facility. They mention fusion power to help sell the public.
2. Power density. Think aircraft carriers (and space craft)
With a 9.7" screen?