rick888

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by rick888 16y ago
"Chris Pearson's defense is thin at best: Switching to GPL wouldn't affect my business at all! It just rubs me the wrong way!" It will ruin his business. Anyone that buys the thesis theme will be able to share it for free (and he will have
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by rick888 16y ago
"The license explicitly says it has to be GPL. End of discussion. He is making up his own rules!" The license does. However, I don't think his theme uses actual wordpress code beyond function calls. I would hardly call this a derivative w
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by rick888 16y ago
This is the reason you don't use any GPL code if you want to: 1) distribute a commercial product 2) actually want to make a profit I've steered clear of the GPL for years.
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by rick888 16y ago
"I often hear 'more practical', but rarely 'better'" Why "more practical"? There are a slew of other languages and frameworks out there that could be used. PHP gives you the flexibility to create more complex projects without being pigeon-
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by rick888 16y ago
"Then, when you realise it's a runaway success and all the investment starts piling on board, the last thing you want to do is stop and tread water for 6 months whilst you rewrite everything (introducing a whole new set of problems as you d
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by rick888 16y ago
"So essentially what you're saying is we should judge people in the job market based on their High School performance which, IMHO, is kind of ridiculous." No, I'm saying that letting everyone into a university is a bad idea because most uni
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by rick888 16y ago
"Here everyone can join and communicate, and yet we can maintain a high level of communication. The ones who don't fit are quickly flagged or simply won't come back again." Universities aren't run by the students. There is only so much spa
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by rick888 16y ago
"They could let everyone in, they don't have to pass everyone. Let the cream rise to the top and let everyone else drop out. As long as the courses were rigorous enough then the degree would maintain it's credibility." Most colleges just do
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by rick888 16y ago
"There is absolutely no reason to be selective in an online college unless you are trying to create artificial scarcity." If every college let everyone in, it would be worthless. Colleges need to be selective. They should base admission o
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by rick888 16y ago
"Makes you wonder if, had the schools spent less effort attempting to block the kids from non-educational activities, the kids might have directed that self-directed learning impulse toward the education." Somehow, I don't think so. Why we
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by rick888 16y ago
"The point of contention here is that you think cheating will always catch up to you." so taking away grades will get rid of cheating? People that have the cheating mindset will just find some other way to shortcut success. "I'm saying tha
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by rick888 16y ago
"It's why people pad or lie on resumes. Some people do it 'cause they're lazy, but some do it because they believe the end justifies the means. The unfortunate part is that a lot of these students can continue doing this and get a job at a
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by rick888 16y ago
"Students cheat because the institution doesn't tell them to learn. Institutions tell them to get high grades. And students, being cunning smartasses they are, say "fine, I will get high grades," and thus they proceed to cheat because it is
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by rick888 16y ago
"There is a very big difference between "We should share generously" and "All data should be public." If they were advocating the sharing of their own property, that's one thing. However, they advocate (and facilitate), the sharing of othe
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by rick888 16y ago
I guess the piratebay is getting a taste of their own medicine. A third-party is sharing their data without their consent. Boo Hoo. I remember hearing a speech a couple of weeks ago from one of the guys that runs the Piratebay. He talked
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by rick888 16y ago
Even so, the numbers are still off. Everyone that down voted me never backed it up with a reason. Also, my point about Al Gore profiting from his legislation still stands.
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by rick888 16y ago
One of the errors from the article: "The original report said global warming will put 75 million to 250 million Africans at risk of severe water shortages in the next 10 years, but a recalculation showed that range should be 90 million to 2
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by rick888 16y ago
1pm on Friday. It's always better to quit on a Friday.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Strangely, I find myself in favour of marking exams (i.e. pointing out flaws and good points, maybe giving a score), but not so much in favour of grades." How does one fail a class if there are no grades? We can't let everyone pass (espec
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by rick888 16y ago
"Who knows? But I guess you know (or have heard) of some people who do not bother studying attending institutions that issue grades." Some. But why cater to the minority? If the grade system wasn't working, we would see more problems in s
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by rick888 16y ago
"With them, many people don't bother studying." Why? Because they are afraid of failing?
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by rick888 16y ago
"if you want students to study then you should eliminate grades. grades simply encourage them to game the system. of course, gaming the system is a very valuable real world skill." Grades many times give you the push you need to succeed. W
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by rick888 16y ago
"What do you propose instead that will have the effect of limiting downloading and sharing of the above, since that's what you seem to be after?" That people respect the wishes of the content providers by not going around them and downloadi
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by rick888 16y ago
"There's a reason why the world should work this way. I can use a wide array of objects as a lock pick (i.e. a banana). To prosecute me for walking down the street with any of these objects (including actual lock picks) is just ludicrous. H
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by rick888 16y ago
"Stealing a credit card is stealing in itself" no it's not. If you don't have the original card in hand, you just have data. Data can't be "stolen" according to the responses here, only copied.
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by rick888 16y ago
"Go to their site and look for something pushing illegal content. Their name contains pirate - that's a stretch. The mention they have music, movies, games, and software but these are not illegal in themselves. That's about as far as the ra
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by rick888 16y ago
"Well, i don't see it as a problem. All I say is try to adapt to the current situation, don't try to impose rules on people so that your way of seeing things continue. If people prefer to watch movies at their home w/out paying for it, what
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by rick888 16y ago
"But if someone takes money from your credit card then that amount is not there anymore, whereas if I download and watch a movie it does not diminish anyone's chance of watching it. Now I might become less likely to pay for the movie after
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by rick888 16y ago
"We apply this standard to manufacturers of lock picks, crowbars, physical key-loggers, books detailing the security of computers, etc. I'm curious why you feel a different standard should apply to someone who provides hosting for torrent f
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by rick888 16y ago
"Maybe your app developer should seek other ways of getting money out of his app. Not for this specific case but "in app purchase" and ads in apps are two great ways of earning money." So instead of dealing with the actual problem (people p

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