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4. Birks Works (ala Mancini) |
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5. Things To Come |
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6. Fiesta Mojo |
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7. Con Alma (With Soul) |
featuring The Ralph Morrison String Quartet |
8. Tin Tin Deo |
featuring Manolo Gimenez & Wally Minko |
9. Algo Bueno (Woody and Me) |
featuring Dan Higgins & Andy Martin |
10. A Night in Tunisia |
(actually an entire weekend!) |
featuring Bob McChesney & Ed Calle |
11. Every Day I Think Of You |
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The Ancient Manipulation of Time: Part 1 |
As I wrote in my blog The Genius of Cavemen, early human beings had remarkable powers of recall, powers that allowed them to accurately draw bison from memory. |
It is only recently that scholars have agreed that they also were keen observers of the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets and the seasons. This, of course, required a number of skills: accurate long term observations and memory of those observations, the ability to pass along that information to others and to pass ... |
Yet the implications are even more profound. By accurately observing the past and projecting that behavior into the future, humans could now, in a limited way, use time as a resource. They could manipulate time. Being able to predict meant that they not only knew when to plant, but when to start preparing months before... |
The following pictures from prehistoric and ancient astronomy show both the early interest in astronomy and something about the extent of knowledge, although our full understanding of what humans knew back then will always be incomplete. |
For a good listing of our current knowledge about this era, go to Archaeoastronomy: (Prehistoric Astronomers) on the Ancient Wisdom site in the UK. |
Also see a list of archaeoastronomical sites by country. |
Ironically, the advent of modern computers has made it easier to verify these astronomical calculators of the past -- because the complex movements of the planets thousands of years ago, for example, were quite difficult to simulate until now. |
Yet what you will read in this article is only the beginning of ancient wisdom -- in my next blog I will show how about 3800 years ago discoveries were made in astronomy, astronomical science and technology which led directly to the modern day computer and our modern way of life. |
The Goseck Circle in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, built around 4900 BCE, is the oldest solar observatory discovered so far. The two southern openings line up with the two solstices plus it could have been used to reconcile the monthly lunar cycle with the solar year. Built by stone age peoples and only recently discovered, ... |
Diagram showing the openings that correspond to the two solstices. |
It is now generally accepted that Stonehenge in England, built and reworked over a number of years between 3100 and 1600 BCE, was both a kind of clock that lined up with the sun during solstices and equinoxes and was possibly a astronomical calculator that could predict eclipses and other celestial occurrences. ( |
Gathering of people to see the sunrise on the summer solstice at Stonehenge 2005. |
The Nebra Sky Disk is the earliest -- ca. 1600 BCE -- accurate astronomical picture of the sky. Relatively small and portable it had the ability to reconcile the monthly lunar cycle with the solar year and could be used to predict when to plant. It was found not far from the Goseck Circle, but fabricated more than 3000... |
Southern star panel of the earliest Egyptian star catalog, known as the Egyptian Celestial Diagram, ca. 1470 BCE. It was found in the Tomb of Senemut. This shows the intense interest Egyptians had in mapping the heavens in detail. ( |
Copy of a chart that served as a night clock during the Egyptian month of Thoth, ca. 1140 BCE. The name of star is on the right, the hour on the left and the position of the star is indicated in the column. ( |
The month of Thoth was associated with the God Thoth. |
"He invented all the arts and sciences, astronomy...and most important of all - writing. ...he was the first of magicians and compiled books of magic which contained 'formulas which commanded all the forces of nature and subdued the very gods themselves'." |
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Model of an Egyptian sundial or shadow clock. |
Plowing in Egypt ca. 1200 BCE. |
Civilization was only possible because agriculture created a surplus of food. This ample supply of food was due in large part to a precise knowledge of the changing and repeating seasons that was uncovered by astronomy. The insights of astronomy were discovered because humans were able to see and grasp long term repeat... |
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The AGPL: Solution in Search of a Problem |
In short, the ASP loophole means that only those parties actually distributing their modified code would trigger the GPL. Google famously benefits from this; it is free to liberally modify the source to the Linux kernel, while being legally required to contribute nothing back, because it does not distribute Linux in th... |
Not so with the AGPL. The Affero General Public License was created to provide a version of the GPL with this loophole closed. Any modifications that are deployed in a network context need to be made available under the terms of the original license. |
Advocates of the AGPL or similar licenses such as my colleague argue that the license reduces fragmentation by compelling public rather than private development of assets. In my view, the AGPL is a solution in search of a problem. Worse, it is a potentially dangerous solution. |
To begin with, fragmentation is at best a theoretical risk for most projects. Consider popular permissively licensed projects like Hadoop, Subversion or the Apache web server. None enjoy protections from fragmentation, all can be privately modified, distributed and packaged and yet none have, at present, major issues w... |
Nor is there any evidence that open source contributions in general are a problem. If anything, the industry trend seems to be towards opening more software rather than less, because it more and more rarely confers a competitive advantage [coverage]. On an anecdotal basis [coverage] as well as a quantitative [coverage]... |
According to Black Duck’s data, usage of the GPLv2 (the most popular version of that license, still) is down 15.3% since August of 2009 (50.1% to 34.8%). Over that same span, usage of the permissive Apache license has jumped from 3.9% to 11.15%; MIT from 3.8% to 11.56%. Even if one chooses to regard Black Duck as less ... |
In the face of the growing developer preference for permissive licenses, then, it would seem difficult to attract developers to a license even more restrictive than the GPL. And so it has been. Nearly five years after the release of the AGPLv3, Black Duck is currently tracking a total of 413 projects using the license.... |
The most obvious downside to the AGPL – the fact that hostility towards it inhibits contributions to AGPL projects – is a marginal concern given the limited number of projects licensed under it. |
But the developer indifference towards the license may be misplaced given its downstream implications. By redefining distribution to include network deployments, the AGPL has the potential to expose consumers of licensed projects to uncomfortable and unprecedented questions of license compliance. How many are aware, fo... |
Particularly when the evidence suggests that it is solving a problem that very few have. |
Categories: licensing, Open Source. |
• Josh Berkus |
Stephen, there are two reasons to use the AGPL, one of which is a good reason, and one is a bad reason. The AGPL was created because of the good reason but is more often used because of the bad one. |
The good reason is if you’re a low-budget end-user open source project and you have good reason to fear a large predatory company slurping your code and offering a heavily-marketed, closed-to-the-user online service based on it. A good example of this is CiviCRM; if they were not AGPL, they would have a justified ... |
The bad reason is the many companies who want the PR of being open source without releasing any control of their software whatsoever. Open source in name only, if you will. A good example of this is MongoDB: they want the developer appeal of being open source, but thanks to the AGPL, development of MongoDB is and... |
Based on conversations, Bradley created the AGPL to support the first reason, without considering the second reason. |
• steve o’grady |
Josh: I agree that there are cases like CiviCRM in which the AGPL seems like a plausible solution to an existing problem, but I would argue that over time the costs will outweigh the benefits. It seems possible, as an example, that CiviCRM would run afoul of the many organizations that outright ban AGPL projects.... |
So while the license allows them to maintain an open source project in name, in practical terms I don’t see first category usage differing much from the second. |
• Christopher Thomas |
wait a second, what? AGPL code just means that if you modify the code, you have to release it even if it’s a private SASS for example, so I can still take mongodb, modify it and do what I want, I am merely forced to give the code back if I use it internally, stopping the google problem mentioned. |
but 100% in the hands of 10gen? since when? I can still do that and 10gen can’t do anything about it, but my mods will be open and 10gen’s will be too. |
so it’s about closing off modified versions hiding behind the SASS model, it has nothing to do with forcing everybody to deal with and only with 10gen, the normal GPL rules apply AFAIK. |
I’m 99% sure anyway…unless somebody can tell me otherwise. |
• Gavin |
The OSL v3 is similar to the AGPL with it’s “External Deployment” clause closing the ASP loophole. |
According to Black Duck it’s about as popular as AGPL, though the only major project I know of that uses it is Magento. In that case it is a mechanism to push customers towards the paid-for Enterprise edition. |
I’ve always recommended that people stay away from licenses such as AGPL and OSL3. The downside in the majority of cases outweighs the upside. |
• jasonbrooks |
To judge the effectiveness, it’d be interesting to see a direct AGPL vs. Permissive example. So, (AGPL) vs. ??? (Permissive) in microblogging. There’s AskBot (GPL) v. Shapado (AGPL) — that might be an interesting one to consider. |
As much as I love the “solution in search of a problem” frame (see,8832/ ) I think the problem is pretty clear (as Josh mentioned): how does a small outfit get GPL-like don’t-crush-me assurances in the Web world? |
• sogrady |
Jason: While it would be nice to see a more direct comparison as you propose, the data here seems pretty clear. In the five years since the introduction of the AGPLv3, Black Duck has seen just over 400 projects adopt the license. That’s around 7 per month. By that data – and I have no reason to suspect that it’s ... |
Nor is it just that interest in that license has lagged; the popularity of the permissive licenses, the philosophical opposite of the AGPL, has exploded. |
As for the question as to what do small outfits do, my answer would be find a model that doesn’t require the AGPL. The costs will outweigh the benefits, IMO. If a project is considering the AGPL, it’s worth asking why it requires protections that > 99% of other projects do not. |
• Holger Dyroff |
There are 413 AGPL projects and the number is growing. So what is the issue with this? What are the costs you associate? If organizations don’t like AGPL that is their choice and often (like with ownCloud) they will be willing to purchase a relicensed version! |
• Richard Fontana |
Stephen: There is one source file in the IcedTea codebase that is under AGPL, built and used solely as a tool in the build process. |
• Forbes Hirsch |
In my experience, the primary use of AGPL is to coerce a license payment (or support – same thing) by waiving the AGPL for money. Not exactly the principled rationale it started with. |
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Re: Romans 2:27 |
From: Carl W. Conrad ( |
Date: Thu Sep 28 1995 - 07:40:14 EDT |
At 10:57 PM 9/27/95, wrote: |
>Would someone help me with Romans 2:27: |
>"kai krinei hH ek phusews akrobustia ton nomon telousa se ton dia grammatos |
>kai peritomHs parabatHn nomou"? |
>1) Is the writer saying that "the one who is physically uncircumcised and |
>yet fulfills the law will judge you who are a transgressor of the law through |
>'letter' and circumcision"? |
(1) Yes, and KRINEI here probably should even be rendered "will condemn." |
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