In exchange for each copyright assignment from an Open Source developer, the company will covenant to continue to support and maintain the Open Source version of their product for a period of three years – they won't take it private during that time. The three-year clock will start anew every time there's another copyright contribution.
Now, consider that LN will maintain your modification for you with paid employees, if they accept it. Yes, there is value in that.
Indeed there is, for both parties. But there is a legal asymmetry, since one party actually owns the code, and it's not the coder.
One consequence is how bankruptcy affects ownership, control, and related duties. Exactly how that covenant could be gutted during bankruptcy proceedings is likely to be of considerable interest to any coder who submits to this license. At present, the covenant is silent on the issue of bankruptcy, but includes the text:
"You assign to HPCC Systems all copyright rights, title, and interest to the Source Code."
Unless the contract were to explicitly state that the company entering bankruptcy would immediately cause all rights to revert to the coder, we can expect that the code and copyright will be treated like just another asset. Contract terms limiting disposal of assets can be arbitrarily modified or thrown out by a bankruptcy court and the code rendered immediately closed source by court fiat. Since the copyright has been assigned, the AFPL could be canceled to further boost the disposal value of the asset.
Well if you use a laptop in compact spaces and/or while travelling, your only alternative to "shitty touchscreen interface" would be keyboard and even shittier touchpad.... I'd poke at the screen with my finger all day long before having to use a fucking touchpad. But for real Power Computing(TM) a keyboard and mouse is definitely best.
A properly made keyboard clit is easier to use both for precision and large movements than any damn touchpad. I usually disable the touchpad shortly after getting a new laptop at work (I do try them, but they always suck). The mouse is far superior as a pointing device, of course.
in any case, it seemed to assume that networks only have one pc attached to each end.
For a home of just 2-3 "computers" (quite normal these days, particularly when you count all mobile devices as "computers"), Gigabit could very easily be maxed out.
Exactly. We often have up to 4 client machines sucking stuff from the internet, and any one of them can saturate the 100Mb downlink on our fiber (just download an ISO from a good mirror). In addition, the web server is always connected, and a couple of smartphones are intermittently connected via WiFi, but they rarely use much downlink capacity.
Interesting question: with a Gb downlink, how long would it take to use up the miserly monthly throughput quotas that ISPs in some countries are imposing? A 1Gb/sec downlink would exhaust a 100GB quota in about 15 minutes, for example.
Thank you for that confession on behalf of all Anonymous Cowards. I'll use your confession in my own defense against every kind of accusation, should it ever become necessary:
Me: "Your honor, that AC already admitted his guilt, so there is no case for me to answer..."
But the reverse is also true they can also be found hunted down and eradicated fumigated and deleted from the record of humanity
Really? From the article:
In April, Miami Beach police busted a ring of Bulgarian nationals....
The Secret Service took over the Miami Beach case, and the four defendants were each released on a $100,000 cash and signature bond. Three, including alleged ringleader Nikolai Hristov Arabov, jumped bail and went on the lam last month.
That goes beyond stupidity and incompetence and possibly straight to collusion. And this isn't corruption in the ex-Soviet bloc. This is the Secret Service and our own court system.
And Bulgaria is even a member of the EU, which is essentially impotent against Bulgaria's state-sanctioned corruption and state-protected criminals. Forget getting the local police to track down the absconded defendants and forget about getting them extradited outside the EU[*] even if they are found.
As a member of the EU, Bulgaria is required to honor the European Arrest Warrant. I don't know whether that could be helpful for an extradition outside the EU.
It's better to be warned by the name up front than learning it the hard way as with Ubuntu.
Yup. I've used Ubuntu since Hoary (quickly replaced by a beta of Breezy), and suffered on two of the upgrades since. In fact, shortly after Dapper failed to upgrade to Edgy on one laptop, I began to realize how much safer it is to stick to the LTS releases. Nowadays, I don't upgrade any of our PCs to a new LTS release until a few months after it comes out.
...for hobos and other mobile homeless. How will they be kept out of all those uninhabited buildings? They may look uninhabitable to people with a place to live, but to the homeless, they might look not too bad.
These missions were cancelled partly because hardly anybody was watching on TV any more (hence budget cuts because there were no votes to be had by supporting the program). I was one of those who watched every mission that went to or around the Moon, even getting up at weird hours to watch live footage from Apollo 8 and 11.
There are two potential directions that might attract follow-up studies. Many here have already pointed to treatments for baldness. The other possibility is whether it would lead to the opposite - an improved process for removal of unwanted hair. The former is mostly of concern to males, and involves the scalp. The latter is more often a female issue, and involves face, legs, pubes, etc.
No. Perhaps partly by design, but mostly because the Cosmos project has been dead for a year or so, while Linux is apparently alive and well. The Cosmos site linked in TFS has lots of dead links (check the screenshots page) and empty forms (milestones page), with the last news posted in early August 2010. Where do the submitters dredge up corpses like Cosmos from anyway?
Definition of a celebrity: someone who is famous for being famous. While this is a little overboard in many cases, it is far from applicable to Brin.
Sergei Brin is known by reputation to those who could not distinguish between a celebrity and a hole in the ground. He is a co-founder of Google and well-known as such, so that makes him a public figure, but by no means a celebrity. Now, do they have similar rules for "public figures", or merely for "celebrities"?
So it seems from the other replies that "crossing your fingers" in that way is used by at least some English speakers as well. Neat. Didn't know that, primarily because Swedish English education teaches that it is a false friend since "crossing your fingers" is already something else in English.
With this in mind, I'm not surprised that AliasMarlowe is Swedish per the above because I've never heard a native English speaker use it in that context.
Um, not exactly, but Google Translate was helpful. I spent a few months in Sweden back in the 80's, and have made shorter visits since then, but never picked up much of the language. I'm a native English speaker and have spent decades in various places on both sides of the Atlantic, so consider myself fluent in British and American English and familiar with many local variants (Ontario, BC, Alabama, Florida, Maine, Wisconsin, as well as several regions of the British Isles).
On the "fingers crossed" phrase, which seemed to cause unexpected confusion, I had thought the meaning clear from context. If fingers are crossed in plain view, then it has the connotation of hopeful intent. If they are crossed while concealed - such as behind one's back or under a table - then the implication is that one is lying. The assertion that one's fingers were not crossed would be necessary only if one or both hands were not in plain view, so the association would be an untrustworthy denial of lying. Both usages are found on both sides of the Atlantic, in every place I've lived.
Front page still hacked, but fairly harmlessly. Does that hacker know what sort of wasps' nest he may have poked his nose into? No doubt, we shall hear more from the BOFH.
Well, OK, whatever, so what does meat-grinder mean in Swedish? Slang for some body orifice, I'm guessing from context.
No. It means a meat-grinder, or köttkvarn - the mechanical device which turns lumps of meat into ground meat or minced meat.
Pro tip: don't stick your dick into one of these.
No, no, it's not a trap, not in the slightest. Just insert your penis into this device... I assure you, it's not a meat-grinder, really, it's not! And I didn't have my fingers crossed when I said that, not even a little bit.
HTC Desire Z, or whatever they call it in $YOUR_AREA
Definitely one of the best options. If you buy it in your own area, it will have a keyboard with easy generation of whatever accented characters (ä, ö, etc.) you're likely to need for the local language.
In GSM-only markets, like Australia and parts of Europe, where all carriers had the iPhone at the same time, Android Phone market share is only marginally better than Android Tablet market share.
Speaking from a GSM-only market (Finland), I don't see this at all, and your rant looks like fiction. Android phones greatly outnumber Apple's iPhones in public places such as shopping malls and airports, and in corporate environments. Hint: most corporations here don't provide iPhone or Android phones, people must buy their own and stick the company SIM card in it unless they're happy with the corporate-issue Nokia crap; they seem to be choosing Android by a substantial margin.
The increases in Android sales coincided with supply issues of iPhones. People would only buy Android phones when they couldn't get and iPhone and *needed* a phone now.
Do you have any data to back up this fascinating conjecture, which looks like baseless wild speculation from here. I don't know anyone who has an iPhone. I know many people who have Android phones.
David Leigh and Dumbshit-Borg are either pathetic and self-serving dupes, or sickening quislings
Indeed. According to Der Spiegel, the encrypted file was among those taken from Wikileaks by Domscheit-Berg when he acrimoniously left to start his own rival Openleaks site. It was then released by Openleaks using volunteers to seed torrents of many of their files. Meanwhile, David Leigh of The Guardian published the password which Assange had given him, thereby apparently breaking an agreement of confidentiality. Later, an Openleaks-associated news site let people know where the key to this particular file could be found.
Smelly sticky shit is indeed flying, but it looks like a side effect of Assange/Wikileaks being stabbed in the back by Domscheit-Berg/Openleaks and David Leigh of The Guardian. Whether the stabbing occurred by coordinated malice or combined stupidity and incompetence is still a little uncertain. Either way, it's hard to blame this directly on Assange/Wikileaks.
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In exchange for each copyright assignment from an Open Source developer, the company will covenant to continue to support and maintain the Open Source version of their product for a period of three years – they won't take it private during that time. The three-year clock will start anew every time there's another copyright contribution.
Now, consider that LN will maintain your modification for you with paid employees, if they accept it. Yes, there is value in that.
Indeed there is, for both parties. But there is a legal asymmetry, since one party actually owns the code, and it's not the coder.
One consequence is how bankruptcy affects ownership, control, and related duties. Exactly how that covenant could be gutted during bankruptcy proceedings is likely to be of considerable interest to any coder who submits to this license. At present, the covenant is silent on the issue of bankruptcy, but includes the text:
"You assign to HPCC Systems all copyright rights, title, and interest to the Source Code."
Unless the contract were to explicitly state that the company entering bankruptcy would immediately cause all rights to revert to the coder, we can expect that the code and copyright will be treated like just another asset. Contract terms limiting disposal of assets can be arbitrarily modified or thrown out by a bankruptcy court and the code rendered immediately closed source by court fiat. Since the copyright has been assigned, the AFPL could be canceled to further boost the disposal value of the asset.
Well if you use a laptop in compact spaces and/or while travelling, your only alternative to "shitty touchscreen interface" would be keyboard and even shittier touchpad.... I'd poke at the screen with my finger all day long before having to use a fucking touchpad. But for real Power Computing(TM) a keyboard and mouse is definitely best.
A properly made keyboard clit is easier to use both for precision and large movements than any damn touchpad. I usually disable the touchpad shortly after getting a new laptop at work (I do try them, but they always suck). The mouse is far superior as a pointing device, of course.
in any case, it seemed to assume that networks only have one pc attached to each end.
For a home of just 2-3 "computers" (quite normal these days, particularly when you count all mobile devices as "computers"), Gigabit could very easily be maxed out.
Exactly. We often have up to 4 client machines sucking stuff from the internet, and any one of them can saturate the 100Mb downlink on our fiber (just download an ISO from a good mirror). In addition, the web server is always connected, and a couple of smartphones are intermittently connected via WiFi, but they rarely use much downlink capacity.
Interesting question: with a Gb downlink, how long would it take to use up the miserly monthly throughput quotas that ISPs in some countries are imposing? A 1Gb/sec downlink would exhaust a 100GB quota in about 15 minutes, for example.
We are all guilty on their internets.
Thank you for that confession on behalf of all Anonymous Cowards. I'll use your confession in my own defense against every kind of accusation, should it ever become necessary:
Me: "Your honor, that AC already admitted his guilt, so there is no case for me to answer..."
But the reverse is also true they can also be found hunted down and eradicated fumigated and deleted from the record of humanity
Really? From the article:
In April, Miami Beach police busted a ring of Bulgarian nationals ....
The Secret Service took over the Miami Beach case, and the four defendants were each released on a $100,000 cash and signature bond. Three, including alleged ringleader Nikolai Hristov Arabov, jumped bail and went on the lam last month.
That goes beyond stupidity and incompetence and possibly straight to collusion. And this isn't corruption in the ex-Soviet bloc. This is the Secret Service and our own court system.
And Bulgaria is even a member of the EU, which is essentially impotent against Bulgaria's state-sanctioned corruption and state-protected criminals. Forget getting the local police to track down the absconded defendants and forget about getting them extradited outside the EU[*] even if they are found.
As a member of the EU, Bulgaria is required to honor the European Arrest Warrant. I don't know whether that could be helpful for an extradition outside the EU.
It's better to be warned by the name up front than learning it the hard way as with Ubuntu.
Yup. I've used Ubuntu since Hoary (quickly replaced by a beta of Breezy), and suffered on two of the upgrades since. In fact, shortly after Dapper failed to upgrade to Edgy on one laptop, I began to realize how much safer it is to stick to the LTS releases. Nowadays, I don't upgrade any of our PCs to a new LTS release until a few months after it comes out.
For one horrible moment of puke-inducing fear, I thought you wrote "Invensys".
One letter makes a big difference, sometimes.
The whole situation is a nasty, twisty problem...
...and it is dark. And I smell a Wumpus...
...for hobos and other mobile homeless. How will they be kept out of all those uninhabited buildings? They may look uninhabitable to people with a place to live, but to the homeless, they might look not too bad.
the Apollo 18 landing site!
and 19 and 20 as well.
These missions were cancelled partly because hardly anybody was watching on TV any more (hence budget cuts because there were no votes to be had by supporting the program). I was one of those who watched every mission that went to or around the Moon, even getting up at weird hours to watch live footage from Apollo 8 and 11.
"Paralyzed Patients Control Robot With Brain Waves..."
There are two potential directions that might attract follow-up studies. Many here have already pointed to treatments for baldness. The other possibility is whether it would lead to the opposite - an improved process for removal of unwanted hair. The former is mostly of concern to males, and involves the scalp. The latter is more often a female issue, and involves face, legs, pubes, etc.
does it run Linux?
No. Perhaps partly by design, but mostly because the Cosmos project has been dead for a year or so, while Linux is apparently alive and well. The Cosmos site linked in TFS has lots of dead links (check the screenshots page) and empty forms (milestones page), with the last news posted in early August 2010. Where do the submitters dredge up corpses like Cosmos from anyway?
Definition of a celebrity: someone who is famous for being famous. While this is a little overboard in many cases, it is far from applicable to Brin.
Sergei Brin is known by reputation to those who could not distinguish between a celebrity and a hole in the ground. He is a co-founder of Google and well-known as such, so that makes him a public figure, but by no means a celebrity. Now, do they have similar rules for "public figures", or merely for "celebrities"?
So it seems from the other replies that "crossing your fingers" in that way is used by at least some English speakers as well. Neat. Didn't know that, primarily because Swedish English education teaches that it is a false friend since "crossing your fingers" is already something else in English.
With this in mind, I'm not surprised that AliasMarlowe is Swedish per the above because I've never heard a native English speaker use it in that context.
Um, not exactly, but Google Translate was helpful. I spent a few months in Sweden back in the 80's, and have made shorter visits since then, but never picked up much of the language. I'm a native English speaker and have spent decades in various places on both sides of the Atlantic, so consider myself fluent in British and American English and familiar with many local variants (Ontario, BC, Alabama, Florida, Maine, Wisconsin, as well as several regions of the British Isles).
On the "fingers crossed" phrase, which seemed to cause unexpected confusion, I had thought the meaning clear from context. If fingers are crossed in plain view, then it has the connotation of hopeful intent. If they are crossed while concealed - such as behind one's back or under a table - then the implication is that one is lying. The assertion that one's fingers were not crossed would be necessary only if one or both hands were not in plain view, so the association would be an untrustworthy denial of lying. Both usages are found on both sides of the Atlantic, in every place I've lived.
Front page still hacked, but fairly harmlessly. Does that hacker know what sort of wasps' nest he may have poked his nose into? No doubt, we shall hear more from the BOFH.
Well, OK, whatever, so what does meat-grinder mean in Swedish? Slang for some body orifice, I'm guessing from context.
No. It means a meat-grinder, or köttkvarn - the mechanical device which turns lumps of meat into ground meat or minced meat.
Pro tip: don't stick your dick into one of these.
It's a trap! It HAS to be. /tinfoil
No, no, it's not a trap, not in the slightest. Just insert your penis into this device... I assure you, it's not a meat-grinder, really, it's not! And I didn't have my fingers crossed when I said that, not even a little bit.
I have never met a human who would be able to translate that sentence without handling it as a special case (specifically heard it before).
Yet another reason not to bow and grovel before any humans, either...
When a machine can correctly translate valid English sentences like "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" into another human language (without handling the sentence as a special case), I will bow and grovel before it.
HTC Desire Z, or whatever they call it in $YOUR_AREA
Definitely one of the best options. If you buy it in your own area, it will have a keyboard with easy generation of whatever accented characters (ä, ö, etc.) you're likely to need for the local language.
In GSM-only markets, like Australia and parts of Europe, where all carriers had the iPhone at the same time, Android Phone market share is only marginally better than Android Tablet market share.
Speaking from a GSM-only market (Finland), I don't see this at all, and your rant looks like fiction. Android phones greatly outnumber Apple's iPhones in public places such as shopping malls and airports, and in corporate environments. Hint: most corporations here don't provide iPhone or Android phones, people must buy their own and stick the company SIM card in it unless they're happy with the corporate-issue Nokia crap; they seem to be choosing Android by a substantial margin.
The increases in Android sales coincided with supply issues of iPhones. People would only buy Android phones when they couldn't get and iPhone and *needed* a phone now.
Do you have any data to back up this fascinating conjecture, which looks like baseless wild speculation from here. I don't know anyone who has an iPhone. I know many people who have Android phones.
Maybe engineers tend to believe Creationism
Balderdash. Engineers assign credibility to hypotheses based on actual evidence. That pretty much wipes out creationism and its ilk.
The Canadian Tea Party needs your help now!
LOL, those pathetic Yankee Tea-baggers are probably green with envy - perhaps so "envious" they'll puke.
David Leigh and Dumbshit-Borg are either pathetic and self-serving dupes, or sickening quislings
Indeed. According to Der Spiegel , the encrypted file was among those taken from Wikileaks by Domscheit-Berg when he acrimoniously left to start his own rival Openleaks site. It was then released by Openleaks using volunteers to seed torrents of many of their files. Meanwhile, David Leigh of The Guardian published the password which Assange had given him, thereby apparently breaking an agreement of confidentiality. Later, an Openleaks-associated news site let people know where the key to this particular file could be found.
Smelly sticky shit is indeed flying, but it looks like a side effect of Assange/Wikileaks being stabbed in the back by Domscheit-Berg/Openleaks and David Leigh of The Guardian. Whether the stabbing occurred by coordinated malice or combined stupidity and incompetence is still a little uncertain. Either way, it's hard to blame this directly on Assange/Wikileaks.