Comment Where is Ccairo? (Score 2) 42
I have never heard of that place.
I have never heard of that place.
some form of ID.
Yes somebody is keeping a list. And anyway, logging air passengers doesn't require a vast database by today's standards.
But is it allowed to break the speed of sound in urban areas?
So someone has given you something to use, for free. And you're saying that it's a problem because you don't want to return the favour? If you're going to be so selfish, then don't use it in the first place. Their condition for you to use it was that you help increase the amount of free software available in the world, and you're refusing to do that, and then blaming them because they want to do good, but you don't want to.
If you're going to do that, you might as well just go buy some proprietary libraries and use them and stay away from this whole free software world entirely, you don't really fit in at all.
Right, but since no one else can relicense your software and make a real project using it, it's only non-GPL'd software that's useful to working people. It's the non-GPL stuff that's more free in real usage.
Sorry, but that's stupid and wrong.
Where I work, we can only use free and open source software, preferably GPL. So by releasing your software as proprietary software, you're making it not useful to people like me who earn money by doing things with software.
There's no forcing to give back anything.
It's just that if you give the software to someone else, you have to also pass on the same rights that you got with it. How is that possibly a bad thing? To do anything else is selfish and antisocial.
I make money of GPLv3 software.
What was your actual point?
Last I heard (quite some years ago) the JVM didn't do it by default, as it was considered more important to keep stack traces intact. This might have changed now.
The Turing Test is a thought experiment. It's just saying "if you can talk to this, and can't tell if it's a person or a computer, then it doesn't matter: it's intellegent." It's not a method for a scientific, practical process. It's just something to think about when considering what might constitute intelligence.
I wouldn't mind having a phone as thin and light as a credit card. Then it would feel like a... credit card, which you know, feels fine in my hand.
Until you sit on it, forget it's there and run it through the was, or leave it on a pile of paper on your desk that later gets shredded...
Funnily enough similar arguments were made against VLSI microprocessors in the days of mainframes. What if I left my computer in my pants pocket and it got washed?
Wow, that sounds bad.
I'm in the
Now, I only have one provider I can use via that cable, and they're not terrible. However I also have DSL as an option, and by law the copper and infrastructure provider can't be in the telecoms retail business. As such, I have no idea how many ISPs I could chose from. Dozens maybe.
The country is also getting fibre put down all over (the central city here has had it for years now through another provider, but now it's coming to houses), but it'll be a fair while before it gets to my place, just due to location. But, 50Mb cable will keep me happy until then.
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