No, don't ban them; It's not going to solve anything.
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You might not want to choose this route if you want to use X windows because personally, switching back and forth between desktops is just plain annoying (and last I checked, Seamless mode only works with Windows). Also, if you're going to be testing hardware on linux, you'll probably be better off getting a new machine. But for all other cases, virtualization is the way to go.
My current setup is a Macbook with an Ubuntu 7.10 server VM for development (nothing beats apt).
Firefox is standard on Ubuntu. If I download and install a new OS, does that make me a super power user? Don't some Dells come with Ubuntu pre-installed?
That's an interesting point, but 1) would the university not have sued if it were a student (or professor) that provided the IP? and 2) then why shouldn't he just use the code outright, especially since he claims to have written it and the university is not likely to care?
(a) That the university might have insanely unrealistic ideas about terms, because they're so inexperienced, and (b) that it could take so long to arrange the deal that it would literally be faster to rewrite it.
Licensing is there for a purpose--someone paid for him to develop this software, so he has an obligation to that employer to at least ask permission before using the software.
Imagine if a startup took seed money from you to develop their software, then turned around to rewrite it for use in another project and thereby sidestepping your 2-10% share. Wouldn't that be unethical? They could even claim both (a) and (b) above.
University of Wisconsin sues Intel for Core 2 Duo patent infringement: http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/07/intel-sued-for-core-2-duo...
Northeastern University sues Google over Database Architecture: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/10/google-being-sued-over-...
This goes to show that universities aren't always benevolent when it comes to IP. Even if the software is rewritten, there's no guarantee that university lawyers won't accuse you of infringement down the line.
Isn't licensing specifically designed to address this issue of IP? What would be a reason not to license the software from the university?
Matz and the Ruby team are doing good work on Ruby. Too bad Rails doesn't run on 1.9.0 yet (something about waiting for changes to Mongrel).
2. The address bar breaks with http://fusecal.com as input.
Another issue is accountability. If someone is abusing my service, I want to be able to ban them from ruining things for everyone else. If you look at sign up forms in terms of security, the psychological acceptability of filling out a form and providing an e-mail address is actually quite high compared to more robust ways of verifying identity (driver's license, social security number, etc).
Glad you're feeling better.
This is a direct democracy, which has some shortcomings, particularly in voter apathy and the promotion of self-interests, where voters put their own needs before the needs of the whole. As the population of a direct democracy grows, it becomes increasingly difficult to accurately represent the will of the people (successful direct democracies usually emphasize consensus over majorities).
These problems are addressed in a representative democracy, where representatives are elected to vote in place of the people, as in the case of Congress or Parliament.
I believe that as online communities grow, voting systems begin to fall apart because the votes cease to represent the will of the community as a whole (the special interest groups take over the site). A common way website owners deal with this problem is by bringing in moderators or by somehow weighing votes based on some criteria, seniority or otherwise.
But I digress...
Karma is there to give people power over the direction of the community. Without karma, you would have no control over what you see, much like state-run media.
He uses a lot of LEDs. If I were to design something like this, I'd just use a speaker from a PC case and have it beep different tones depending on the distance to the object.
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