In Python the package (+module) is formed by the filesystem hierarchy and the name of the file, so you don’t have to spell it explicitly in the defining file. Essentially there’s less duplication of information.
Java: Filename: java/lang/Math.java Content: package java.lang ... class Math… ... _ int max… access via java.lang.Math.max()
Python: Filename: math.py Content: def max… access via math.max()
TV sets had the problem that they couldn’t show a sufficient framerate, so they showed frame 1,3,5 in one set of lines and frame 2,4,6 in the other set of lines.
> if search engines don't want to pay, then they can simply stop showing the snippets!
Except if then the newspapers could start an antitrust case to force the search engines to treat all newspapers the same, even those who want money to be treated the same as others who don’t want money.
The one thing which really strikes me as incredible is that the decentralized spam protection in Freenet works very well at keeping discussions friendly: If you disrupt communication, you quickly disappear for all those people who trust others who think that you are disruptive. But everyone can make you visible again for him- or herself and it’s always transparent why someone isn’t visible.
It even works with the real anonymity Freenet provides.
You sent me on a Quest ☺ I happily return with the fruits of that quest:
“The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness.” — Martin Reiser in Oberon Systems 1991¹ (also known as Wirth’s law since February 1995,⁰ started being called Page’s Law in 2009 by Sergey Brin)
“The speed of software halves every 18 months.” — Gates Law²
“Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's law.” — May’s Law (David May)³
⁰: Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software". Computer 28 (2): pp. 64–68. doi:10.1109/2.348001. Retrieved 2007-01-13. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.348001 ¹: Reiser, Martin (1991). The Oberon System User Guide and Programmer's Manual. ACM Press. ISBN 0-201-54422-9. ²: Gates' law, from the Jargon Lexicon, in the Jargon File (version 4.4.7). http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/Gatess-Law.html ³: Eadline, Douglas. "May’s Law and Parallel Software". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2011. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8422/
So, to make the confusion complete, shall we call your version the Law of Oberon, king of fairies who are well versed in trickery to trap humans in a feast from which they return decades later without having changed (just as slow as before)? ☺ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon
The paradox thing about this lawsuit is that it is not about money at all: Java is licensed under a free software license, so Google was always free to use it.
The license said however, that whoever uses the code has to make all additions compatible with the original license and put the derived work under the same free software license. It said that it is not allowed (for anyone but Oracle) to distribute unfree additions to Java.
Google however decided to put the android developer tools which use the Java API under a license which allows unfree additions.
For the free software community this an especially strange situation: If Oracle wins, then Java in Android must be completely free licensed. If Google wins, then the free software community has the right to replace unfree implementations of programming languages with free ones.
I hope Google wins in the end, because even though it is nice to have a strong copyleft language now, on the long term I consider it as more important to be allowed to replace any unfree tool with free ones without having to rewrite everything which uses the tool.
I loved that speech! And when he finished, I had tears in my eyes
But what I thought again and again: We need more people to use Freenet: Decentral free software, can be read anonymously, easy to write to, and not even the need to be online 24/7 to publish your website or blog - but avoiding central control.
I loved that speech! And when he finished, I had tears in my eyes
But what I thought again and again: We need more people to use Freenet: Decentral free software, can be read anonymously, easy to write to, and not even the need to be online 24/7 to publish your website or blog - but avoiding central control.
This shows painfully how the powers are currently distributed.
90% of the recources, so they have more influence on the media which then influences which people are elected into positions of power, and then these elected pass laws which shift more power towards the
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Re: Re: Re: The python example would have been less pertinent
In Python the package (+module) is formed by the filesystem hierarchy and the name of the file, so you don’t have to spell it explicitly in the defining file. Essentially there’s less duplication of information.
Java:
Filename: java/lang/Math.java
Content: package java.lang
... class Math…
... _ int max…
access via java.lang.Math.max()
Python:
Filename: math.py
Content: def max…
access via math.max()
Re: Re: Re: The python example would have been less pertinent
Same flexibility, different philosophy.
Re: Democracy
Interlaced video reinvented…
Doesn’t that count as prior art?
Also it’s been shown before that displaying information side-by-side allows humans to take it in more easily: http://news.mit.edu/2011/miller-memory-0623
(I already talked about the lessons learned from that for code — and for roleplaying games — way back in 2012: http://draketo.de/light/english/free-software/write-programs-you-can-hack-while-you-feel-dumb#commen t-1141 )
So this is pretty obvious.
Re: Re:
Except if then the newspapers could start an antitrust case to force the search engines to treat all newspapers the same, even those who want money to be treated the same as others who don’t want money.
Sounds a lot like the community-curated discussions in Freenet
It even works with the real anonymity Freenet provides.
For a guide how to test it, see https://d6.gnutella2.info/freenet//USK@t5zaONbYd5DvGNNSokVnDCdrIEytn9U5SSD~pYF0RTE,guWyS9aCMcywU5PFB rKsMiXs7LzwKfQlGSRi17fpffc,AQACAAE/fsng/58/wot_en.html
Re: Re:
“It is a confusion of ideas to suppose that the economical use of fuel is equivalent to diminished consumption. The very contrary is the truth.” — William Stanley Jevons, 1865 in the book The Coal Question (Jevons Paradox), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox source: http://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Jevons/jvnCQ7.html (page 11, VIII.3)
So Moore’s law is countered by Jevons Paradox, which celebrates its 150th birthday this year.
Re: Re:
I happily return with the fruits of that quest:
“The hope is that the progress in hardware will cure all software ills. However, a critical observer may observe that software manages to outgrow hardware in size and sluggishness.” — Martin Reiser in Oberon Systems 1991¹ (also known as Wirth’s law since February 1995,⁰ started being called Page’s Law in 2009 by Sergey Brin)
“The speed of software halves every 18 months.” — Gates Law²
“Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's law.” — May’s Law (David May)³
⁰: Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software". Computer 28 (2): pp. 64–68. doi:10.1109/2.348001. Retrieved 2007-01-13. http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.348001
¹: Reiser, Martin (1991). The Oberon System User Guide and Programmer's Manual. ACM Press. ISBN 0-201-54422-9.
²: Gates' law, from the Jargon Lexicon, in the Jargon File (version 4.4.7). http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/G/Gatess-Law.html
³: Eadline, Douglas. "May’s Law and Parallel Software". Linux Magazine. Retrieved 9 May 2011. http://www.linux-mag.com/id/8422/
All found on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law
So, to make the confusion complete, shall we call your version the Law of Oberon, king of fairies who are well versed in trickery to trap humans in a feast from which they return decades later without having changed (just as slow as before)? ☺ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberon
Re: Oracle really didn't think this one through
The license said however, that whoever uses the code has to make all additions compatible with the original license and put the derived work under the same free software license. It said that it is not allowed (for anyone but Oracle) to distribute unfree additions to Java.
Google however decided to put the android developer tools which use the Java API under a license which allows unfree additions.
For the free software community this an especially strange situation: If Oracle wins, then Java in Android must be completely free licensed. If Google wins, then the free software community has the right to replace unfree implementations of programming languages with free ones.
I hope Google wins in the end, because even though it is nice to have a strong copyleft language now, on the long term I consider it as more important to be allowed to replace any unfree tool with free ones without having to rewrite everything which uses the tool.
Writing to the web (as Arne Babenhauserheide)
But what I thought again and again: We need more people to use Freenet: Decentral free software, can be read anonymously, easy to write to, and not even the need to be online 24/7 to publish your website or blog - but avoiding central control.
I hope it will be part of the freedombox.
→ http://freenetproject.org
Writing to the web (as Arne Babenhauserheide)
But what I thought again and again: We need more people to use Freenet: Decentral free software, can be read anonymously, easy to write to, and not even the need to be online 24/7 to publish your website or blog - but avoiding central control.
I hope it will be part of the freedombox.
→ http://freenetproject.org
Powers that be… money concentration vs democracy (as Arne Babenhauserheide)
90% of the recources, so they have more influence on the media which then influences which people are elected into positions of power, and then these elected pass laws which shift more power towards the
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