No, he added the cosmological constant to keep the equation from implying that the universe was expanding, because all the astronomers believed in the Steady State model back then (rather than the Big Bang, which the equations actually predicted originally).
Nerd rage aside here, the programs in question aren't dangerous, nor do the operators necessarily have to have expertise to use them. What purpose could this legislation possibly serve?
Don't worry, AC. We're talking noncommercial, personal use of only part of the game (the soundfiles) in a way that ain't cutting into Nintendo's profits. In other words, textbook fair use and legal as sea salt.
Not that you are likely to have meant that comment to begin with.
I'd want to see a compiler from Perl/Ruby/Python to machine code (not bytecode!) before I'd be comfortable doing away with the "scripting language" terminology.
Well, assuming that you wanted to play the game in the first place, it'll affect you as soon as Wine gets its DX9 support caught up - they've already gotten around SecuRom issues.
2) What deserves to be modded Insightful? Is not "I agree" implicit in the adjective?
3) "Sheeple" makes you sound arrogant, even when it's accurate.
4) Your quest would be a useful and great idea, if you actually responded to posts that were unjustly modded. And it looks like you were doing that for a while. But now all you do is copypasta the same "HELP, HELP, I'M BEING REPRESSED" rant over and over. In short, you've lost your legitimacy until you start owning idiots again. Don't give up - there are plenty of people who read at -1 and if some of them agree with you (put your account's purpose in the sig, maybe?) you'll be back in the green in no time.
Unfortunately, AIs aren't much better. Computers are literalists, and bugs in a massive codebase can stay dormant for incredible lengths of time - heck, nobody thought the perihelion of Mercury was a problem for centuries after the Principia hit the streets. And besides, a centralized AI running society is a Single Point of Failure - if the AI dies/breaks/goes rampant/what-have-you, society breaks along with it.
Yes, Computer Science has something to lend to the creation of an ideal governmental-societal system. But it's the techniques of CS - NOT the technology - that'll get us there. The fact that we've been doing systems and algorithms design on computers for the past few decades is that the computer industry was the first place that needed that level of formal design work; as I mentioned before, computers are literalists to a fault, and need to be handed a perfect system to work the way we want them to work. But now that we've got that groundwork of theory, how could we expect to build a system that is scalable (population boom), robust in the face of failure (the misinformed) and attacks (the powermongers), and highly-responsive (every single crisis in the history of ever) without taking advantage of it?
Send me an e-mail or something. Let's get on this.
For what it's worth to you, it's been known for some time that the Open Document Foundation doesn't represent any actual source of authority vis-a-vis ODF - nobody's really sure what the organization was for to begin with. More info in this (oft-linked) blog entry.
I've always thought of the GPL as an overlay network... sort of a "we don't like having any license at all, so we'll pretend there's no need for it if you do too". If Stallman wasn't worried about other people taking his decent stuff and doing what he thinks are wrong things with it, I'm sure he wouldn't need copyleft in the first place.
Then again, I've charitably misinterpreted the man before. *shrug*
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Especially since, y'know, the plan to let Python 3000 be backwards-incompatible has been in place for at least two years now.
*shrug*
http://yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index397.html
And where's Alderaan now, pray tell?
No, he added the cosmological constant to keep the equation from implying that the universe was expanding, because all the astronomers believed in the Steady State model back then (rather than the Big Bang, which the equations actually predicted originally).
Nerd rage aside here, the programs in question aren't dangerous, nor do the operators necessarily have to have expertise to use them. What purpose could this legislation possibly serve?
Don't worry, AC. We're talking noncommercial, personal use of only part of the game (the soundfiles) in a way that ain't cutting into Nintendo's profits. In other words, textbook fair use and legal as sea salt. Not that you are likely to have meant that comment to begin with.
Lisp = The Church of All Worlds?
I had a teacher like that. Too bad she only taught first grade :(
Yeah, but then the "obese vote" would suddenly become a power bloc on the political scene.
ISO/IEC 26300 would like a word with you outside.
I'd want to see a compiler from Perl/Ruby/Python to machine code (not bytecode!) before I'd be comfortable doing away with the "scripting language" terminology.
Well, assuming that you wanted to play the game in the first place, it'll affect you as soon as Wine gets its DX9 support caught up - they've already gotten around SecuRom issues.
;)
Any day now.
/usr/bin/please on my system is a symlink to /usr/bin/sudo.
1) IQ tests are not intelligence.
2) What deserves to be modded Insightful? Is not "I agree" implicit in the adjective?
3) "Sheeple" makes you sound arrogant, even when it's accurate.
4) Your quest would be a useful and great idea, if you actually responded to posts that were unjustly modded. And it looks like you were doing that for a while. But now all you do is copypasta the same "HELP, HELP, I'M BEING REPRESSED" rant over and over. In short, you've lost your legitimacy until you start owning idiots again. Don't give up - there are plenty of people who read at -1 and if some of them agree with you (put your account's purpose in the sig, maybe?) you'll be back in the green in no time.
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Given your posting record thus far, I'm gonna side with Sean Connery on this one and say that you're missing a space after that "e".
Warning: Serious Offtopicery Ahead.
Unfortunately, AIs aren't much better. Computers are literalists, and bugs in a massive codebase can stay dormant for incredible lengths of time - heck, nobody thought the perihelion of Mercury was a problem for centuries after the Principia hit the streets. And besides, a centralized AI running society is a Single Point of Failure - if the AI dies/breaks/goes rampant/what-have-you, society breaks along with it.
Yes, Computer Science has something to lend to the creation of an ideal governmental-societal system. But it's the techniques of CS - NOT the technology - that'll get us there. The fact that we've been doing systems and algorithms design on computers for the past few decades is that the computer industry was the first place that needed that level of formal design work; as I mentioned before, computers are literalists to a fault, and need to be handed a perfect system to work the way we want them to work. But now that we've got that groundwork of theory, how could we expect to build a system that is scalable (population boom), robust in the face of failure (the misinformed) and attacks (the powermongers), and highly-responsive (every single crisis in the history of ever) without taking advantage of it?
Send me an e-mail or something. Let's get on this.
Venser admired his handiwork and smiled. His first prototype had joined with the hive mind all too well, running with the brood and becoming a predator itself. This one, he thought, would be accepted into the hive but still obey his commands.
So you write "This page intentionally left blank" on it first. Problem solved ;)
For what it's worth to you, it's been known for some time that the Open Document Foundation doesn't represent any actual source of authority vis-a-vis ODF - nobody's really sure what the organization was for to begin with. More info in this (oft-linked) blog entry.
In before five million Sparta jokes.
Most significant bit. Otherwise, someone might have claimed that Slashdot was only 0x05. Got to nip those endian issues in the bud. ;)
I've always thought of the GPL as an overlay network... sort of a "we don't like having any license at all, so we'll pretend there's no need for it if you do too". If Stallman wasn't worried about other people taking his decent stuff and doing what he thinks are wrong things with it, I'm sure he wouldn't need copyleft in the first place.
Then again, I've charitably misinterpreted the man before. *shrug*
YES, IT DOES RUN LINUX.