That is what I thought as well, this is a bit off topic, but if that's true, what's to stop the person from charging an outrageous amount of money for the source code? I believe it is permitted under the GPL, but what if after you have the binary, and you want the source, and you find out you have to pay 50 thousand dollars? Is it once you have right to the binary, you have free (as in beer) access to the source as well?
I don't think the people that are influenced by mainstream media that easily would be a big contributor to the sciences anyways, but it definitely has an impact on children I'm sure. I know there is a bit of animosity between the nerds like myself, and "normal" people. The geeks being elitist and the "normal" people being stupid doesn't help. Wait...uhh...that's not elitism I swear...
I've wanted to put one together myself for sometime, use it as a pvr and a free software games "console". Could throw one together in a nice small case that looks like something made to go near a tv for about 250 bucks.
I'd have to agree. Although I feel that it's getting harder to learn every thing required in a certain field after each generation, I think that we'll always be able to, at least what's worth learning. I do see a bit of a problem with how we learn the sciences, I used to think just the engineers were guilty of using equations that seemed like magic, with no idea how to explain some of the fundamentals. I know now that even in math and physics, it's incredibly difficult to explain how we know some of these things early on. Some explanations seem only to circular if you try.
It's even difficult to explain simple things sometimes...just think back to some arithmetic properties, can you prove the commutative law of multiplication without induction, such as it always works numerically or drawing me a little grid? I don't think 7 year olds would like Peano's postulates so sometimes I feel we just have to put off explaining it sometimes. But it's not like this problem has only come up only recently. We just have more of it as we learn more collectively.
Anyways, sorry for going off on a tangent, I still feel eventually with enough effort, you can get the complete picture one day in whatever field you are in. For technology especially, I feel we'll always make tremendous strides but it will indeed be difficult Here's a quote that might be a dupe, but it sums up how I feel occasionally:
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - John von Neumann
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Yup, if the wraith can haxxor our x86, I'm sure those little gray ones could too. Don't forget the F-203 on the outside guys.
That is what I thought as well, this is a bit off topic, but if that's true, what's to stop the person from charging an outrageous amount of money for the source code? I believe it is permitted under the GPL, but what if after you have the binary, and you want the source, and you find out you have to pay 50 thousand dollars? Is it once you have right to the binary, you have free (as in beer) access to the source as well?
I don't think the people that are influenced by mainstream media that easily would be a big contributor to the sciences anyways, but it definitely has an impact on children I'm sure. I know there is a bit of animosity between the nerds like myself, and "normal" people. The geeks being elitist and the "normal" people being stupid doesn't help. Wait...uhh...that's not elitism I swear...
"I swear the EULA said she was 18 officer."
Does anyone else see a debian logo if you mirror that thing?
Bzflag and Wesnoth, what more do I need.
I've wanted to put one together myself for sometime, use it as a pvr and a free software games "console". Could throw one together in a nice small case that looks like something made to go near a tv for about 250 bucks.
Me included though :\
Clearly a solution will be to have haircuts fall under the LGPL...
Now that it's almost out for windows, there's only a few years left to wait until the linux client is made available...
It's even difficult to explain simple things sometimes...just think back to some arithmetic properties, can you prove the commutative law of multiplication without induction, such as it always works numerically or drawing me a little grid? I don't think 7 year olds would like Peano's postulates so sometimes I feel we just have to put off explaining it sometimes. But it's not like this problem has only come up only recently. We just have more of it as we learn more collectively.
Anyways, sorry for going off on a tangent, I still feel eventually with enough effort, you can get the complete picture one day in whatever field you are in. For technology especially, I feel we'll always make tremendous strides but it will indeed be difficult Here's a quote that might be a dupe, but it sums up how I feel occasionally:
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." - John von Neumann