"You seem to care more about NVIDIA's image than about what the Linux community actually needs."
Of course they do. Why in the world would this surprise you? It's a public, for-profit company. The vast majority of contributions to open source by companies are not done out of altruism. They're done out of self-interest.
Good engineers dont think like marketing people, they think like engineers. How to do stuff rather than how to manipulate people.
"4 years later and ATI Linux drivers are still garbage"
Seeing AMD trying is all it takes to make me a loyal customer for life.
NVIDIA dont understand their own buisness, or the basics of Free software.
NVIDIA is a HARDWARE company, not a software company, placing restrictions on software essential to operate their hardware makes it more difficult to sell their hardware.
You would think they would have worked it out by now.
Why yes, teach them to conform to your values. Don't give them a choice in the matter! Why should anyone question the social mores of those around them?
So your suggesting we stop teaching 8 year olds, we let them work it out themseve, so they can become non-conformant.
More on that point, its good to have supervision so that kids can be *taught* to recognise things that are bad for them, and/or how to respond to those things.
Education is the best solution to many situations, the reason to have supervision is facilitate that education.
First of all, when you say "for crimes like rape" you make it sound like its a serious offence, its rape in sweeden, but not in any other coutnry in the world. Its more comparable in severity to shoplifting. If found guilty the normal penalty is a $1000 fine and told not to come back.
Secondy, he did offer to speak to prosecutors before he left sweeden and they didnt want to talk to him.
Thirdly, its common practices in normal countries to aks both people their sides of the story before deciding if charges should be laid.
Fouthly, the cost of flying prosecutors and judges to England would be much less than than legal costs they have incured in this long drawn out affair.
Fiftly, its not unheard of for people to be tried in absentia and an arrest warrent issued if required.
You say my question is nonsense, i say sweedens legal system is nonsense.
Because as a matter of process you have to be questioned before you're charged.
as a matter of process the next step is (potentially) charging you, which requires them to have you in custody.
Obviously they dont know if they can (potentially) charge him until he is questioned. Yet, you say he has to be in custody before they can question him to see if he can (potentially) be charged.
You want to work and work and work, and then after it's already done, you expect to get paid...
How does the success of the "Humble Indie Bundle" fit in with your views ?
If you ask for money when the work is done, you have taken a lot of risk out of the process, potential financial contributors have a much better idea of what they are getting.
Creativity is something that we dont value nearly as much as we should.
Maybe the difference between a Genius and an Insane person has more to do with how we see them than any real difference in them.
If someone tells you an idea that you havent heard of before its fair to consider them creative, but unless that creativness is within your area of rational then you will think them stupid. If its a creative idea that is in an area fam,iliar with you, and you havent thought of it before, you will have a much better opinion of them.
Personally, I blame the monothiests and the empiricists !
He was, of course, making irrational stuff up, that accidentally happened to turn out to be correct. Kind of like the ancient greek version of atomic theory.
Can you name one country which is less keen on censorship than the US? The US is not perfect, far from it, but is there anyone else who isn't actually worse?
The issue is not handing it over to another individual country, the issue is handing it over to an organisation the specialising in dealing with international regulations and diplomacy.
If the UN abuses the internet, its unlikely any one nation will be the cause or beneficiary.
"It is thanks to the SFLC that companies are afraid to use GPL code in their products... they think, quite reasonably, that it just isn't worth the hassle. Which is better, buy a licence for non-free software (fixed, one off cost) or use free software and pay for lawyers to be sure you are in compliance?"
Its better to use free software and pay for lawyers, because;
- You get the source code.
- You _should_ have a lawyer review non-free software licences also, so its not an extra cost.
If corporations are afraid to use GPL software because they are terrified they might have to _share_ something then there are little or no benefits to the Free software community from them being involved.
i.e. The invisible hand will slap down such corporations.
Assange and Controy would likely be in the same state (Victoria) and competing against each other.
Conroy is from the Australian Labor Party has tried very hard to impose stricter censorship on us, last election there was a campaign encouraging people from all parties to put conroy last on the ballot (preferential voting). He is not well liked by the people, well, excpet for when hes doing NBN stuff.
With Conroy and Assange on the same ballot, it would be difficult to not think about censorship when voting.
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"You seem to care more about NVIDIA's image than about what the Linux community actually needs."
Of course they do. Why in the world would this surprise you? It's a public, for-profit company. The vast majority of contributions to open source by companies are not done out of altruism. They're done out of self-interest.
Good engineers dont think like marketing people, they think like engineers. How to do stuff rather than how to manipulate people.
"4 years later and ATI Linux drivers are still garbage"
Seeing AMD trying is all it takes to make me a loyal customer for life.
NVIDIA dont understand their own buisness, or the basics of Free software.
NVIDIA is a HARDWARE company, not a software company, placing restrictions on software essential to operate their hardware makes it more difficult to sell their hardware.
You would think they would have worked it out by now.
Why yes, teach them to conform to your values. Don't give them a choice in the matter! Why should anyone question the social mores of those around them?
So your suggesting we stop teaching 8 year olds, we let them work it out themseve, so they can become non-conformant.
whatcouldpossiblygowrong.
Adults sure, eight year olds, no.
More on that point, its good to have supervision so that kids can be *taught* to recognise things that are bad for them, and/or how to respond to those things.
Education is the best solution to many situations, the reason to have supervision is facilitate that education.
First of all, when you say "for crimes like rape" you make it sound like its a serious offence, its rape in sweeden, but not in any other coutnry in the world. Its more comparable in severity to shoplifting.
If found guilty the normal penalty is a $1000 fine and told not to come back.
Secondy, he did offer to speak to prosecutors before he left sweeden and they didnt want to talk to him.
Thirdly, its common practices in normal countries to aks both people their sides of the story before deciding if charges should be laid.
Fouthly, the cost of flying prosecutors and judges to England would be much less than than legal costs they have incured in this long drawn out affair.
Fiftly, its not unheard of for people to be tried in absentia and an arrest warrent issued if required.
You say my question is nonsense, i say sweedens legal system is nonsense.
I certainly are confused, questioning (sweeden) = charged (most of the world), charged (sweeden) = sentencing (most of the world).
So they want to extradite him to charge him.
I still dont understand why they wouldnt want to communicate with him verbally and get his side of the story first.
Because as a matter of process you have to be questioned before you're charged.
as a matter of process the next step is (potentially) charging you, which requires them to have you in custody.
Obviously they dont know if they can (potentially) charge him until he is questioned.
Yet, you say he has to be in custody before they can question him to see if he can (potentially) be charged.
Did Monty Python come up with these procedure ?
So, my cant the question him at their embasy in london, or question him over the phone ?
If its not a setup, then why is the prosecution prepared to waste time and money trying trying to put him in a cell before they ask questions.
Since you have put your hand up...
Can you explain why Swedish prosecutors cant talk to Assange at the Swedish embasy in London, or over the phone or whatever.
Why doesnt does he need to be extradited for questioning even beofre havign been charged ?
Do you think the entire Insurance industry are fools too ?
Its pretty empty headed to show sympathy for the symptoms if you ignore the cause.
Every man and their dog told them that MS wasnt going to save them, but they took the money.
In my day Computer Science was run by Physics department
To me, design is an essential and unapreciated component of programming.
There arent many jobs where you just write big slabs of algorithms, it still requires a programmer to present the information as well.
When you implement mathematical algorthims, design is the difference between writing spageti code and low maintence code.
Students would be better served learning to appreciate design rather than learn more algorithms IMO.
You want to work and work and work, and then after it's already done, you expect to get paid...
How does the success of the "Humble Indie Bundle" fit in with your views ?
If you ask for money when the work is done, you have taken a lot of risk out of the process, potential financial contributors have a much better idea of what they are getting.
"In an effort to get ever more taxes for doing absolutely nothing, the United Nations will"
Could you possibly be more biased.
Creativity is something that we dont value nearly as much as we should.
Maybe the difference between a Genius and an Insane person has more to do with how we see them than any real difference in them.
If someone tells you an idea that you havent heard of before its fair to consider them creative, but unless that creativness is within your area of rational then you will think them stupid. If its a creative idea that is in an area fam,iliar with you, and you havent thought of it before, you will have a much better opinion of them.
Personally, I blame the monothiests and the empiricists !
Her soul ?
He was, of course, making irrational stuff up, that accidentally happened to turn out to be correct. Kind of like the ancient greek version of atomic theory.
Kind of like you are doing now...
If a "news" organisation makes up their own definition in order to provoke argument, or justify their own opinion they are definetly a troll.
CSIRO may or may not be a patentent troll but ITnews definetly posts troll stories.
Can you name one country which is less keen on censorship than the US? The US is not perfect, far from it, but is there anyone else who isn't actually worse?
The issue is not handing it over to another individual country, the issue is handing it over to an organisation the specialising in dealing with international regulations and diplomacy.
If the UN abuses the internet, its unlikely any one nation will be the cause or beneficiary.
The US demonstrated it is prepared to censor the Internet when they disrupted wikileaks.
The US has demonstrated it is not capable of behaving responsibly when it has influence over DNS.
Maybe the UN might be just as bad as the US, but they havent demonstrated that failure like the US has.
"It is thanks to the SFLC that companies are afraid to use GPL code in their products... they think, quite reasonably, that it just isn't worth the hassle. Which is better, buy a licence for non-free software (fixed, one off cost) or use free software and pay for lawyers to be sure you are in compliance?"
Its better to use free software and pay for lawyers, because;
- You get the source code.
- You _should_ have a lawyer review non-free software licences also, so its not an extra cost.
If corporations are afraid to use GPL software because they are terrified they might have to _share_ something then there are little or no benefits to the Free software community from them being involved.
i.e. The invisible hand will slap down such corporations.
In Australia, retailers will frequently impose 300-400% markups on items found easily online.
And said retails also complain when people buy stuff online.
I'm now going to use that line as my own. Thank you, kind sir.
So you are just going to take it, and use it as your own eh...
Would you also take his CAR ???
Assange and Controy would likely be in the same state (Victoria) and competing against each other.
Conroy is from the Australian Labor Party has tried very hard to impose stricter censorship on us, last election there was a campaign encouraging people from all parties to put conroy last on the ballot (preferential voting). He is not well liked by the people, well, excpet for when hes doing NBN stuff.
With Conroy and Assange on the same ballot, it would be difficult to not think about censorship when voting.