we needed free software. GNU got it off the ground and protected it long enough. Now we can have more freedom that that. We can have LLVM instead of GCC etc etc.
Uhm you miss that people actually need money to survive. RMS never cared about regular people. He could have come up with a system that was capable of working for regular folks who need to work for a living if he did care.
The point is that under GNU your labor will almost certainly be forced to be free as in "not paid"; that's the practical consequences of the license. Under BSD you don't have that problem at all.
And that was my point. Giving away your time for free isn't something that normal people can afford. And as programming becomes no longer so lucrative (hey, they do it in India, China and east Europe now) then getting work out of people from lower classes becomes more important.
miss developers who've said that GCC has been made deliberately harder to understand than clang... Something about wanting to keep the wrong sort of developers out. Freedom to obfuscate your code isn't really freedom of information either.
If the Ubuntu phone isn't too overpriced for its hardware, it's fine.
I still don't understand why anyone who isn't wealthy would pay $1000 for an iPhone.
Ok, I'm poor so I have a small, cheap samsung. For 1/6th the cost of an iPhone it runs Android and does everything just fine with a tiny screen and crumby cameras.
"In the UK the age of consent is actually lower than the age at which you are considered to be a child for child porn laws, meaning if a naked teenage couple take a selfie in bed after 100% legal sex, the result can be considered child porn and trigger the full weight of the law."
Same in most of the US.
Federal age when sex becomes legal = 16 when pictures become legal = 18
The odd thing is that that the states don't agree on the first number at all, so what's incredibly illegal in one state is perfectly legal in the next, but they make sure that crossing a state border never makes sex legal for anyone as illogical as that sounds.
You forgot to mention the Palestinians sweetening the pot by blowing up buses (unless that's inconvenient because of walls or border guards), shooting at kids at a 12 year old's party, blowing up a holiday dinner for widowers, shooting rockets or artillery toward towns during morning commute (at a rate of one or two a week during "cease fires").
I could go on for days, actually. People who think the Israelis are ugly should turn their heads and look around 360 degrees and get to know all of Israel's neighbors.
Or the NRA, or the NSA, the KGB...."..Like the FBI, and the CIA And the BBC, BB King And Doris Day, Matt Busby Dig it, dig it, dig it, dig it..." - John Lennon
The child will lose out on a huge amount of 'non-curriculum learning'. Things like 'how to avoid the schoolyard bully', 'how to read a schedule and navigate to classrooms', 'how to meet project deadlines without parental intervention', 'how to negotiate the fickle friendships that happen in life', 'observe adult role models outside the family'. There are dozens of things like this.
"Avoid the schoolyard bully," I never learned this, all I did was suffer. Come on, school being a totally miserable experience is normal for a huge number of kids.
"how to meet project deadlines" - never learned this either. As a programmer I'm still terrible at it.
"how to negotiate the fickle friendships that happen in life" - uhm that will happen if they're homeschooled too unless homeschooling means "no friends." By the way the answer to this is "suffer". You're welcome.
"Observe adult role models outside the family." That I got to do, and lost all respect for authority. Of course reading history books contributed. Hint, if you want a well adjusted kid don't have him do a report on the Holocaust after reading two or three histories on it and meeting a survivor like I did at age 8.
The FDA has been faking the science on diet ALL ALONG.
They NEVER TESTED their diet advice, not for heart disease, not for much of anything. There was an excuse that it would cost too much and take too long and might never be conclusive... which is no excuse for promoting bullshit, but promote bullshit they did.
And the world ate it up, and everyone pretended that mere guesses were settled science.
The FDA is set up to test drugs that companies will make money on. But you can't patent nutrition information so it can't fund nutrition research.
I had a different account here 15 years ago when Slashdot was full of intelligent people...
I'd say slashdot isn't at the worst it's ever been, you can't even blame dice or whoever owns it now for that, but it's been moribund for a LONG time...
Also I noticed that they slashdotted the dilbert site. No wait, linking there didn't cause ANY posts over there for the 20 minutes the link has been up.
Well I think part of what makes a higher level language is the potential for writing powerful special purpose languages in it easily. Scheme and prolog both have macros and both have the ability to compile code at run time as well. Prolog also has the ability to define new operators. And it's awfully good at parsing, building and walking trees.
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we needed free software. GNU got it off the ground and protected it long enough. Now we can have more freedom that that. We can have LLVM instead of GCC etc etc.
Uhm you miss that people actually need money to survive. RMS never cared about regular people. He could have come up with a system that was capable of working for regular folks who need to work for a living if he did care.
BSD allows you to incorporate the code into something that DOESN'T give the source away for free.
The point is that under GNU your labor will almost certainly be forced to be free as in "not paid"; that's the practical consequences of the license. Under BSD you don't have that problem at all.
And that was my point. Giving away your time for free isn't something that normal people can afford. And as programming becomes no longer so lucrative (hey, they do it in India, China and east Europe now) then getting work out of people from lower classes becomes more important.
miss developers who've said that GCC has been made deliberately harder to understand than clang... Something about wanting to keep the wrong sort of developers out. Freedom to obfuscate your code isn't really freedom of information either.
Actually "users" don't touch source code, they might hire a programmer to do that, but then that's another developer.
GNU makes the right of "information" higher than that of people, ever.
It also allows programmers to make money off their work. You know, "evil deceptive" poor people and middle class people.
rights, so programming can be the domain of only trust fund babies, old retired men and people who have other jobs...
If he cared about the rights of poor programmers he'd be a different man.
So yes, people who need to work for a living will prefer a BSD license over a GNU one.
Also Judge Richard Goldstone has apologized for the poor quality of that report, for how much he was fooled.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Some liar who says that terrorism started in the 80's gets 5 insightful?
Jesus f****ing Christ on a pogo stick. Close down the website, all of the intelligent people have left.
If the Ubuntu phone isn't too overpriced for its hardware, it's fine.
I still don't understand why anyone who isn't wealthy would pay $1000 for an iPhone.
Ok, I'm poor so I have a small, cheap samsung. For 1/6th the cost of an iPhone it runs Android and does everything just fine with a tiny screen and crumby cameras.
It's my music source 100% of the time.
"In the UK the age of consent is actually lower than the age at which you are considered to be a child for child porn laws, meaning if a naked teenage couple take a selfie in bed after 100% legal sex, the result can be considered child porn and trigger the full weight of the law."
Same in most of the US.
Federal age when sex becomes legal = 16
when pictures become legal = 18
The odd thing is that that the states don't agree on the first number at all, so what's incredibly illegal in one state is perfectly legal in the next, but they make sure that crossing a state border never makes sex legal for anyone as illogical as that sounds.
You forgot to mention the Palestinians sweetening the pot by blowing up buses (unless that's inconvenient because of walls or border guards), shooting at kids at a 12 year old's party, blowing up a holiday dinner for widowers, shooting rockets or artillery toward towns during morning commute (at a rate of one or two a week during "cease fires").
I could go on for days, actually. People who think the Israelis are ugly should turn their heads and look around 360 degrees and get to know all of Israel's neighbors.
It's what private companies already do to us all over the web. :/
I actually like anonymity.
Or the NRA, or the NSA, the KGB... ."..Like the FBI, and the CIA
And the BBC, BB King
And Doris Day, Matt Busby
Dig it, dig it, dig it, dig it..." - John Lennon
The child will lose out on a huge amount of 'non-curriculum learning'. Things like 'how to avoid the schoolyard bully', 'how to read a schedule and navigate to classrooms', 'how to meet project deadlines without parental intervention', 'how to negotiate the fickle friendships that happen in life', 'observe adult role models outside the family'. There are dozens of things like this.
"Avoid the schoolyard bully," I never learned this, all I did was suffer. Come on, school being a totally miserable experience is normal for a huge number of kids.
"how to meet project deadlines" - never learned this either. As a programmer I'm still terrible at it.
"how to negotiate the fickle friendships that happen in life" - uhm that will happen if they're homeschooled too unless homeschooling means "no friends." By the way the answer to this is "suffer". You're welcome.
"Observe adult role models outside the family." That I got to do, and lost all respect for authority. Of course reading history books contributed. Hint, if you want a well adjusted kid don't have him do a report on the Holocaust after reading two or three histories on it and meeting a survivor like I did at age 8.
Thank you!
Oh come on, the gravity thing was a joke.
I enjoyed it, it was a cool puzzle to think of how many things you could find wrong with it.
BULLSHIT.
The FDA's advice that a low fat diet is good for heart disease? Nonsense. Not tested. A guess. Wrong.
That fat in diets cause obesity? Nonsense. Not tested. A guess. Wrong. Backwards.
Nope he's got it correct.
The FDA has been faking the science on diet ALL ALONG.
They NEVER TESTED their diet advice, not for heart disease, not for much of anything. There was an excuse that it would cost too much and take too long and might never be conclusive ... which is no excuse for promoting bullshit, but promote bullshit they did.
And the world ate it up, and everyone pretended that mere guesses were settled science.
The FDA is set up to test drugs that companies will make money on. But you can't patent nutrition information so it can't fund nutrition research.
I had a different account here 15 years ago when Slashdot was full of intelligent people...
I'd say slashdot isn't at the worst it's ever been, you can't even blame dice or whoever owns it now for that, but it's been moribund for a LONG time...
Also I noticed that they slashdotted the dilbert site. No wait, linking there didn't cause ANY posts over there for the 20 minutes the link has been up.
"Back in the day I learned Lua by programming 254-byte (I think) macros."
I know it's late to ask what you meant, but lua doesn't have macros.
Specialized chess hardware has been very high profile.
Deep Blue used specialize circuitry :(
Before that there was Hi Tech
Ouch.
You're reminding me how HARD chess is.
Chess isn't a game that I should be messing with, I'll never know what makes a good strategy in it.
Well I think part of what makes a higher level language is the potential for writing powerful special purpose languages in it easily.
Scheme and prolog both have macros and both have the ability to compile code at run time as well. Prolog also has the ability to define new operators. And it's awfully good at parsing, building and walking trees.