Next time someone makes fun by shouting authentically "Fire! Fire! Run!" in a theater or some other 'suitable' place, and your relatives die there having been crushed by the panicking crowd trying to get out
Has there been a lot of that happening lately? Anybody whose relatives have died, please raise your hand. Or is that just the standard textbook example to excuse censorship?
The only way effective laws like this could be enacted is if totally clueless Liberal Arts types are made into the inspectors. In which case they will either end up led around by the nose at inspections, or will adopt an adversarial approach so aggressive that safety will be come a stealth thing at the facilities.
No, it is not possible to not hire industry-insiders as inspectors and regulators.
What a waste, the most educational website on the internet that I've ever seen (Khan Academy, 100% free) won't ever work with an iPad, because it won't support Flash.
There is a whole set of Khan Academy apps for the iPod Touch. I assume they work or there is a HD version of the same for the iPad.
I am not an iPad admirer. But wanted to correct an error.
Everything about both systems is arbitrary. Neither is better than the other. The only value in discussing the differences is it's merit as a trollable topic.
I'm typing this response using a Colemak keyboard layout. I'm still really slow at it since I only started learning it two weeks ago.
And you'd better stay tethered to that one workstation that you apparently intend to be the only one that you type at. Laptop? Blackberry? Forget about it!
It's a shame that Slashdot has to be based in 'IT Time' though, isn't it? Because it passes so quickly. Geek time runs so much more slowly. I have test equipment from the 1960's that is still fabulously powerful. But that's because I am a geek, not a member of the IT Drone collective that has slowly taken over here.
Also because it gives them more power. It's been years now since Stallman worked on any real code, so for his arguments to have any traction he needs to scuttle about like a hermit crab in someone elses shell.
The kind of developer/organization that releases software under the GPLv3 license is by definition a 'force the foot in the door to force open' type entity. So they'll do whatever they can by whatever means necessary to take advantage of the situation.
It's an a ideology-driven issue. Compromise just won't work.
I would be careful about equating it with bittorrent.
Bittorrent is just a pipeline, and it's used widely to circumvent the copyright on other people's works. And copyright law is the only 'teeth' the GPL has for enforcement.
That's the inherent contradiction of the GPL and a large part of the slashdot community.
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Has there been a lot of that happening lately? Anybody whose relatives have died, please raise your hand. Or is that just the standard textbook example to excuse censorship?
The only way effective laws like this could be enacted is if totally clueless Liberal Arts types are made into the inspectors. In which case they will either end up led around by the nose at inspections, or will adopt an adversarial approach so aggressive that safety will be come a stealth thing at the facilities.
No, it is not possible to not hire industry-insiders as inspectors and regulators.
Absorbing all the light only matters if your solar collector is pipework and gathering heat.
I would say that to a public school administrator who was spending our tax dollars.
There is a whole set of Khan Academy apps for the iPod Touch. I assume they work or there is a HD version of the same for the iPad.
I am not an iPad admirer. But wanted to correct an error.
Laptop 2.5" drives are a whole different category.
Well, Mindcontrolled people are, anyway.
When you italicize Reasonable it's to signify non-standard usage, correct?
Just march in a little circle chanting 'No Nukes'
A fan club indeed.
And why tolerate a bureaucracy when you can have a fancy status symbol on your roof?
Oh, right! Because that bureaucracy pays for the solar panel in artificial subsidies!
Steve Jobs was a coke dealer in the 1980's. Just saying.
Many of his closest associates are grease-stains on the sand.
It's a mistake to focus on just one single individual. I know you weren't meaning to explore the issue, though, just make some cheap points.
The android-based framework doesn't need to only be embedded in low-cost light-duty consumer hardware.
The point, I think, is:
Everything about both systems is arbitrary. Neither is better than the other. The only value in discussing the differences is it's merit as a trollable topic.
I'm typing this response using a Colemak keyboard layout. I'm still really slow at it since I only started learning it two weeks ago.
And you'd better stay tethered to that one workstation that you apparently intend to be the only one that you type at. Laptop? Blackberry? Forget about it!
Your program uses normal units
You're right. It uses hexadecimal.
I bet you're one of those people who thinks ASCII isn't enough, either. Go fucking with our character set, will you?
For a quick & dirty system, base 12 really is very useful, hence why things are often sold by the dozen for the same reason.
The first computer system I worked with, the PDP-8, is a 12 bit system.
Most notation for it is done in octal, four digits of 3 bits each.
At my last place of work, they had a Bridgeport Mill that had CNC that ran on Windows 3.1
But in the Test Lab, they were running Test Fixtures with GW Basic programs.
Windows 3. Not Windows 1. The big break-off was at Windows 3.
I have a Windows 98 version of a program that started with a Windows 1 version that I still use on XP, though.
MicroGrafx In-A-Vision became MicroGrafx Designer.
It only died as a product because Corel killed it.
The only one who has figured it all out is Oliver Stone. Yep.
It's a shame that Slashdot has to be based in 'IT Time' though, isn't it? Because it passes so quickly. Geek time runs so much more slowly. I have test equipment from the 1960's that is still fabulously powerful. But that's because I am a geek, not a member of the IT Drone collective that has slowly taken over here.
I didn't have any bones the last time the wolves showed up.
Also because it gives them more power. It's been years now since Stallman worked on any real code, so for his arguments to have any traction he needs to scuttle about like a hermit crab in someone elses shell.
The kind of developer/organization that releases software under the GPLv3 license is by definition a 'force the foot in the door to force open' type entity. So they'll do whatever they can by whatever means necessary to take advantage of the situation.
It's an a ideology-driven issue. Compromise just won't work.
I would be careful about equating it with bittorrent.
Bittorrent is just a pipeline, and it's used widely to circumvent the copyright on other people's works. And copyright law is the only 'teeth' the GPL has for enforcement.
That's the inherent contradiction of the GPL and a large part of the slashdot community.
See you in five years once you have a working implementation!--all harshness aside, you're free to have no connection to foss.
Consigning somebody to a sort of 'siberia' because they don't follow the party line seems a bit... well, stalinist.
I was going to misspell it 'stallmanist' but decided not to.