Comment Re:Before you celebrate (Score 1) 293
the law does not say legitimate, it says legal. if it is not forbidden explicitly by other laws in the country, it can not be prevented by reference to this law.
Comment Re:What is "legitimate use" ? (Score 1) 293
no. the law doesn't say "legitimate", it says legal, as in "not forbidden by any other law of the nation".
Comment Re:Key Fickle Phrase (Score 1) 293
The spanish original does not use the word "legitimate", it uses the word "legal", as in "not explicitly forbidden by any other laws of the nation".
Comment Re:Who? (Score 1) 701
there is absolutely no possibility whatsoever of becoming even barely acquainted with anything remotely related with any field of modern philosophy without not only hearing of, but knowing who is, and hopefully directly reading, kant.
and he is called Immanuel.
and he is called Immanuel.
Submission + - Total victory for open source software in a patent (opensource.com)
AndGodSed writes: A really great article on a jury victory 3rd of May by Red Hat and Novell: The jury verdict last Friday in favor of Red Hat and Novell in a case based on bad software patents owned by "non-practicing entities" is an important victory for the open source community...we know that attacks on open source based on FUD will not stand up when subjected to the light of truth.
Comment Re:Oh dear (Score 1) 281
you are expecting people to behave rationally when it suits your anti-labour argument that workers are going to under perform in order to avoid paying training, but assume that they won't behave rationally when considering mikechant's reasonable argument of why your rational underperforming workers shouldn't do it.
looks like a true scotsman to me, ergo, fallacious. you loose the argument.
NEXT!
looks like a true scotsman to me, ergo, fallacious. you loose the argument.
NEXT!
Comment Re:Let's build a wall ... (Score 1) 515
Super-Earths Discovered Orbiting Nearby, Sun-Like Star 242
likuidkewl writes "Two super-earths, 5 and 7.5 times the size of our home, were found to be orbiting 61 Virginis a mere 28 light years away. 'These detections indicate that low-mass planets are quite common around nearby stars. The discovery of potentially habitable nearby worlds may be just a few years away,' said Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UCSC. Among hundreds of our nearest stellar neighbors, 61 Vir stands out as being the most nearly similar to the Sun in terms of age, mass, and other essential properties."
Comment Re:Expected (Score 1) 1654
then replace "Router" by (Gnome PPP / KPPP).
'nuff said.
Comment Re:Seems credible to me (Score 1) 198
well, since we lack a formal definition of "emergence", it is not so easy to measure. Sure, we can measure the appearance of a given phenomena previously determined to be "emergent", but we have no way of determining automatically what phenomena are in fact emergent, and which are just normal consequences of the design choices behind the game. Rocket Jumping, in FPS, for example... is it an "emergent" behaviour? Its emergence, depends only on it being included as a design choice or not?
If this is so, then anything not included in a precompiled list of possible behaviours and phenomena would be emergent.
Entropy is another thing, it can help measure order/disorder, and maybe the amount of "random stuff" happening, but to be an emergent phenomena ()in any relevant sense), it has to be interesting to an observer (or, in context, it has to be "fun"), and that criteria is not formally state-able (is that a word!? IANA Native English Speaker), at least as far as i know...
Would love to hear comments on formal definitions of emergence, specifically if it applies to providing a formal criteria to identify it.
Comment Re:R sucks as a language (Score 1) 382
you can use several assignment operators, including =
but i reckon that <- is quite un-intuitive
Comment Re:Not a language, really (Score 1) 382
?
'tis turing complete...
ever heard of "interpreted" languages?
