Or you could roll your own. Isn't the the biggest advantage of open source, that you have that final level of control?
That's like saying the biggest advantage of the US Constitution is that it leaves open the possibility of revolution.
A better advantage of publicly developed open source used to be that good ideas bubbled up to the top. Unfortunately the heads of projects are starting to behave like banana republic dictators, refusing to acknowledge any ideas but their own. Forking is tiresome enough that people don't want to bother unless things get really, really bad.
The EFF is older than google and has always been against this sort of thing
So what if it's older. They get huge bushels of cash from Google and the Brin foundation today. And so they dance like any hired gun.
If you they were going against their original charter, I would agree with you, but EFF is acting within character for the EFF. Google gave EFF money so that EFF could continue doing EFF-y things like oppose DRM on principle.
DRM is secure communication.
Only in the same way transporting gpg encrypted files zipped up with the keys and passphrases that can decrypt said files is secure communication. DRM is an attempt to restrict who has the keys while simultaneously spreading the keys.
Segways might work for LA, but what about Seattle? How do you carry a kayak with a segway? How do you transport small furniture with a segway? How do you park with your best gal up on lovers'-leap with a segway? How do you seamlessly transition from one topic to another? With a segue.
I'm betting a From: "Lucless, Lord" would fool more than half of your list, especially if your friends use a client that only shows the portion in quotes without any digging. That's still good odds even if they're focusing on one account.
Exactly. Similarly when I taught C: I'd tell students what the desired output of a project should be, provide a few example inputs/outputs, and there would always be one or two students who decide to make their program just be a printf statement with the example outputs. They're like the teachers who think they know what the test is, but they're wrong. The teachers who "teach to the test" and ignore all else are doing their students and society a great disservice, because the real tests don't begin until after school is out.
The sound quality coming from other people in the car is great. The sound quality from your phone is compartively terrible. Your brain has to do a lot of extra work to parse language coming from a low-quality source, which impairs your ability to drive. I would be interested in a comparison between talking on the phone and listening to AM talk radio.
I recall hearing this at one point. I don't recall if it was in one of my science magazines or on NPR's Science Friday but it makes a lot of sense
Not necessarily. If antimatter falls up, it would imply a repulsion effect between normal mass and antimatter mass. If we are a matter bubble we wouldn't be floating in antimatter, we'd likely be repelling it with a gap between it and us.
And the longer the universe exists, the greater the gap, and the greater the gap, the "faster" our portion of the universe seems to expand. Yay pseudo-science!
Because it doesn't sound so crazy in its original context where it's nationally funded and only one of a group of qualifications that are joined by logical ors, not logical ands.
Do you know who or what is currently best player in chess? It is not a human, it is not a computer. It is a team of people, who work with the computers.
Now, apply that idea to work.
That would be great if humans are all equally brilliant. Do you want to use the auto-driving car that was programmed by the guy who used to repeatedly punch a specific hole in sheet metal for a living? Maybe he's really smart, and is a diamond in the rough. I doubt it though. There will be a lot of people who can't do non-automatable jobs.
as companies invest in factories in such a "poor" country, it'll have to pay higher wages to attract workers, and employers in non-tradable industries will have to raise their prices to keep employees from flocking to industries that produce goods for export. This inflates wages across the board, and over time, the cost of living in the "poor" country increases.
And then the companies move manufacturing to another "poor" country, leaving disaffected workers in the former "poor" country without the means to support their new cost of living.
Technically, this isn't apache. It's more like a pod-person version of apache (a modified binary replaces/usr/sbin/httpd or/usr/local/sbin/httpd outside of apache's control).
Indeed. The pirates who don't later pay for a game are either sociopaths or poor. The poor folk might feel bad, but they can't pay for the game, so the studio will never get their money. The sociopaths make up a minority of society, so when most people see their poor friends playing a new game, they'll go buy a copy. And if they copy it from their poor friend, they eventually feel guilty (because they're not sociopaths), and buy a legit copy. Unless they can't stand DRM... There is a growing number of users who eschew any DRM, and the ones like me just avoid the big title games altogether, providing negative word of mouth advertising.
No, at best they get you back in a funny way; at worst you freak them out for a bit and after a short laugh you set them straight.
At worst, this is a "last straw" issue and they contact the police hoping that some prison time will straighten you out. After the police find out you were following the lead of a stupid prank, you still get uber-grounded by your parents as if you really were a dealer (and just didn't get convicted). And that's just the realistic "worst". Fantastical-scientific near-worst is all of your atoms split and cause a your-mass sized nuclear fission explosion.
NYC Tourism is off the table after NYC Police Comm'r's "Privacy Is 'Off the Table'" comment. I may go as far as to stop doing business with NYC based companies. Where will I buy my salsa now?
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Let me know when there's a DRM free version; preferably FOSS.
TSA are not police. They're governmental security guards.
Or you could roll your own. Isn't the the biggest advantage of open source, that you have that final level of control?
That's like saying the biggest advantage of the US Constitution is that it leaves open the possibility of revolution.
A better advantage of publicly developed open source used to be that good ideas bubbled up to the top. Unfortunately the heads of projects are starting to behave like banana republic dictators, refusing to acknowledge any ideas but their own. Forking is tiresome enough that people don't want to bother unless things get really, really bad.
you can now buy a 3-D printer at Staples
One that prints 5"x5"x5" max.
Get ready for the massive amounts of false positives. You went to the firing range last Tuesday? Terrorist Scum!
"DRM Does not work that way!!" - Morbo (paraphrased)
The EFF is older than google and has always been against this sort of thing
So what if it's older. They get huge bushels of cash from Google and the Brin foundation today. And so they dance like any hired gun.
If you they were going against their original charter, I would agree with you, but EFF is acting within character for the EFF. Google gave EFF money so that EFF could continue doing EFF-y things like oppose DRM on principle.
DRM is secure communication.
Only in the same way transporting gpg encrypted files zipped up with the keys and passphrases that can decrypt said files is secure communication. DRM is an attempt to restrict who has the keys while simultaneously spreading the keys.
Segways might work for LA, but what about Seattle? How do you carry a kayak with a segway? How do you transport small furniture with a segway? How do you park with your best gal up on lovers'-leap with a segway? How do you seamlessly transition from one topic to another? With a segue.
I'm betting a From: "Lucless, Lord" would fool more than half of your list, especially if your friends use a client that only shows the portion in quotes without any digging. That's still good odds even if they're focusing on one account.
Exactly. Similarly when I taught C: I'd tell students what the desired output of a project should be, provide a few example inputs/outputs, and there would always be one or two students who decide to make their program just be a printf statement with the example outputs. They're like the teachers who think they know what the test is, but they're wrong. The teachers who "teach to the test" and ignore all else are doing their students and society a great disservice, because the real tests don't begin until after school is out.
legal BB gun, you know, that shit that fires 6mm plastic bullets?
What's an illegal BB gun? The legal ones I'm aware of fire steel BBs or lead pellets.
Your measurement device is performing the work.
If you perform work on an object, it must perform work back to give your measuring device something to read. Action-equal-opposite-reaction.
The sound quality coming from other people in the car is great. The sound quality from your phone is compartively terrible. Your brain has to do a lot of extra work to parse language coming from a low-quality source, which impairs your ability to drive. I would be interested in a comparison between talking on the phone and listening to AM talk radio.
I recall hearing this at one point. I don't recall if it was in one of my science magazines or on NPR's Science Friday but it makes a lot of sense
Yeah, NPR would say that about AM radio.
Not necessarily. If antimatter falls up, it would imply a repulsion effect between normal mass and antimatter mass. If we are a matter bubble we wouldn't be floating in antimatter, we'd likely be repelling it with a gap between it and us.
And the longer the universe exists, the greater the gap, and the greater the gap, the "faster" our portion of the universe seems to expand. Yay pseudo-science!
in reality, all resources are free
If you come on to my property and try to take wood, sheep, clay, stone, or wheat, you'd quickly learn how "free" they are.
FritzListe?
I would rather have inefficient freedom than efficient tyranny.
every grant must benefit 'national defense'
Because it doesn't sound so crazy in its original context where it's nationally funded and only one of a group of qualifications that are joined by logical ors, not logical ands.
If they wanted new computers, they could have dumped or wiped the HDDs then auctioned the computers instead of just throwing them away.
The robots are taking our jobs.
Do you know who or what is currently best player in chess? It is not a human, it is not a computer. It is a team of people, who work with the computers.
Now, apply that idea to work.
That would be great if humans are all equally brilliant. Do you want to use the auto-driving car that was programmed by the guy who used to repeatedly punch a specific hole in sheet metal for a living? Maybe he's really smart, and is a diamond in the rough. I doubt it though. There will be a lot of people who can't do non-automatable jobs.
as companies invest in factories in such a "poor" country, it'll have to pay higher wages to attract workers, and employers in non-tradable industries will have to raise their prices to keep employees from flocking to industries that produce goods for export. This inflates wages across the board, and over time, the cost of living in the "poor" country increases.
And then the companies move manufacturing to another "poor" country, leaving disaffected workers in the former "poor" country without the means to support their new cost of living.
Technically, this isn't apache. It's more like a pod-person version of apache (a modified binary replaces /usr/sbin/httpd or /usr/local/sbin/httpd outside of apache's control).
Indeed. The pirates who don't later pay for a game are either sociopaths or poor. The poor folk might feel bad, but they can't pay for the game, so the studio will never get their money. The sociopaths make up a minority of society, so when most people see their poor friends playing a new game, they'll go buy a copy. And if they copy it from their poor friend, they eventually feel guilty (because they're not sociopaths), and buy a legit copy. Unless they can't stand DRM... There is a growing number of users who eschew any DRM, and the ones like me just avoid the big title games altogether, providing negative word of mouth advertising.
No, at best they get you back in a funny way; at worst you freak them out for a bit and after a short laugh you set them straight.
At worst, this is a "last straw" issue and they contact the police hoping that some prison time will straighten you out. After the police find out you were following the lead of a stupid prank, you still get uber-grounded by your parents as if you really were a dealer (and just didn't get convicted). And that's just the realistic "worst". Fantastical-scientific near-worst is all of your atoms split and cause a your-mass sized nuclear fission explosion.
NYC Tourism is off the table after NYC Police Comm'r's "Privacy Is 'Off the Table'" comment. I may go as far as to stop doing business with NYC based companies. Where will I buy my salsa now?