Actually most, at least a year ago, hovered around the 3000 yen mark, or just under 30 bucks. Though I did find all three Beatles anthologys for 1800 yen once, that was during the economic problems so that was less than 15 bucks each at the time
It doesn't matter really... I don't think they mean to deny you GPL rights in any case. It is probably a standard thing on all their downloads(?).
It is a non-issue anyways... You do not have the right to distribute someones intellectual property without their permission. The GPL DOES NOT change this basic fact of copyright law. What the GPL is is that permission that you require. Compaq is within their rights to require written permission to use their code, even code they have placed under the GPL. The GPL constitues that required written permission as much as agreements to get the source of their closed products.
I was able to tell you read it.. It may be full of exceptions, but it isn't too bad. It is definitely better than the Sun license. You do have to register changes you distribute, but so long as you do so you can use it as freely as GPL code, unless you were working for Apple on that particular modification. For a closed source company moving to Open Source it is a very pragmatic step. Apple doesn't have to worry about a competitor taking their stuff and creating something that they can't benefit from(which would be possible with the BSD License) and it provides options for them to make closed improvements to protect their competitive edge. Yet it provides the code and as much freedom of use as the GPL(more in a way- you can mix it with code under other licenses if you want, though Darwin code you release stays under the APL) for independent developers. Overall I'd say its superior to the GPL, and I'll probably use a modified version of it myself(probably without the clauses allowing me to make closed modifications) for my own projects.
Thats true, the GPL is not intended to benefit the developer, however if a company sells closed source software suddenly threw out all their stuff under the GPL that could be bad. Apple is making sure that they can benefit from this, but unlike Sun for example they are making sure the developers benefit as well.
Yes, Apple "grants" you the "right" to distribute your modifications or more specifically to "deploy" modified code. But, they retain the right to use, to modify, and to distribute your modifications as they see fit without royalty. In other words, they can take your changes, make one or two changes, incorporate their hacked up version of your code into commercial OSX without folding that code back into Darwin
They retain the right to use your code, under the same license. Unless your code is developed specifically for apple, your code stays in the apple public license.
You hereby grant to Apple and all third parties a non-exclusive, royalty-free license, under Your Applicable Patent Rights and other intellectual property rights owned or controlled by You, to use, reproduce, modify, distribute and Deploy Your Modifications of the same scope and extent as Apple's licenses under Sections 2.1 and 2.2;
This is saying that Apple can take your modifications and distribute them as per the Apple Public License
Apple retains all rights, title and interest in and to the Original Code and any Modifications made by or on behalf of Apple ("Apple Modifications"), and such Apple Modifications will not be automatically subject to this License. Apple may, at its sole discretion, choose to license such Apple Modifications under this License, or on different terms from those contained in this License or may choose not to license them at all.
This is the section I think concerns you, this is stating that modifications made by or for Apple can be released under other licenses.
Here are a couple of examples of how I see this working:
You take Darwin, modify it and add other software to make it Linux compatible. You distribute this new Darwin on your own. Apple can then use your modifications under the terms of the Apple Public License, and therefore must release the source. This is covered under Section 3 of the license. SInce your personal modifications are your own intellectual property, which they recognize as such, they must abide by the same terms you must under the Apple Public License.
Now, if Apple calls you up and has you under contract of some sort to do the same thing, those modifications are covered under section 11 of the license, as they are done not for you but for Apple, and those modifications are Apples property not yours. Thus Apple can release the code under any license it desires.
Very good. I like it. Personally I would probably prefer it over the GPL on first reading, I'd have to print it out and compare it clause for clause to really judge. But at first glance here are the benefits:
No royalties Source MUST be included if you distribute it, whether modified or not The license to use the code is automatically terminated if you violate it. You can distribute it ON YOUR OWN, you do have to register mods but are not prevented from distribution
Apple does get full rights to use any of your code, but you still have full rights to distribute. Mods made for apple specifically are under whatever license apple wants, but personal mods are still under this one. Modifications are REQUIRED to be documented clearly.
This is a great thing. You could take Darwin and port say BASH, other necesary GNU utilities and throw X on it to make a full OS. The license specifically allows you to mix it with code from other licenses, with the sensible provision that code under the Apple license is clearly marked as such. I would have to look at the GPL more carefully, but Apple seems to have made a far better balance between the interests of the otiginal developer and the interests of OSS developers in the real world than the GPL does
So, apparently Mariah Careys rights don't matter? The bulk of the of money artists make is from the album. Tours are from a business standpoint advertising rather than actual presentation of the product. If Mp3s become popular among the masses, it will bite seriously into their profits. It hasn't happened yet but it is coming. With broadband net access becoming more common, its almost more convenient to download an album in Mp3 than buy it, if you own a Rio or a CD-R it is. Heck with a cable modem from a provider that has a reasonably solid network downloading entire CD images is almost practical. As the masses catch on and CD burners become more common piracy will skyrocket. Something has to be done, or we will not have as much great music as we do.
Ok let me get this straight... I release a document under this license, and then if the FSF changes it in a way that I disagree with to the point I decide it is as evil as Microsoft, I can't leave it under the old version? I'm stuck with my document being under a liscense I feel is morally wrong. I could go and release a new version under a license I do agree with, but all the old versions are under the license I don't like. Or would I be legally allowed to declare that my document is no longer under GFDL? How do I do that without screwing over all of the people who have benefited from it being a GFDL document?
Good points, but sometimes the greatest breakthroughs are made not by those who have been working on something for decades, but those who just started and try something noone has ever done. Why was this small company able to do it? They simply didn't know it couldn't be done the way they tried.
Daily Radar has experienced Ridge Racer V saved game files wiping out the PS2's DVD drivers. We were able to replace the old drivers using the Utilities disc, but the memory card bug is still a significant flaw that Sony has not yet addressed.
Apparently Sony is denying the problems. What I think is they shipped the cards, found the bug, managed to quickly fix the problem. However they are now having supply problems putting out enough of the fixed cards to meet demand. The delay in sales is simply to give them time to make enough of the new cards to be marketable. The idea that they are simply short on cards is just BS, they just don't want to admit to making a mistake. If they were producing good cards to begin with, why would they stop selling? If I was them I'd keep selling, I don't see the point in halting shipping.
The Dreamcast problems, IIRC, were a significant portion of game discs were glitched, however the system itself was fine. I bought on of the initial shipment to the base electronics store and have had no problems playing it. And even with the games glitched, I think it was something lik 10-20% of the discs for a couple of the games were bad, the vast majority were fine. The Dreamcast problems were nothing compared to this. At least the Dreamcast hardware was ok.
Actually, I don't know how far youve gotten in FFVIII but the majority of the cast were friends in their youth, including major villians(Seifer and Sorceress Edea)
I see the humour in your post, but in answer to why, he likes EMACS calc module. But he doesn't like having to pull up EMACS to use it. Since the source is available, just delete all the non calc code and recompile. Maybe have to tweak the code a little to run outside of EMACS but it shouldn't be a huge problem, so long as RMS commented the code well and any contributors to the calc module did so as well.
Perhaps pulling the CALC code out of EMACS and adding necesary code and recompling it as a stand alon program? That may work. Most of the issues would probably be in user interface, and hunting around the EMACS code to make sure you have everything CALC needs.
But let's assume that, at some point, the Secret Service decided that the Cyberpunks game was "dangerous" or "criminal" in some way. I have yet to see anything by SJG to suggest they did,
Go to your local game store and find the book GURPS: Cyberpunk. On the front cover lower right corner it says "The book that was confiscated by the US Secret Service" and in the first few pages is a statement regarding the book being targeted. Sounds like a rather official SJG statement about the government targeting the book.
I play females sometimes. Its interesting to try to get another perspective in role playing games, in other games it is for tactical advantage. In Soul Edge and Soul Calibur, Sophitia is faster than most, deals more damage and can take more than the few who are faster than her. So I play her, she is well balanced. I won't play females in LARP though. That would take a bit too much costuming to pull off..
ACtually, there was a point where it was believed you could not travel faster than sound. May have been a bit before the X-1, but it was believed at one point.
Still, you don't know as much as you think. The Harrier was a joint US/UK project. I fact the current versions the RAF/RN and the USMC are quite different, both countries have gone on their own development path after the initial models. And Harriers for all their benefits are some of the most unsafe aircraft in any militaries inventory, are unreliable, limited in ordinance they can carry, etc... The vertical takeoff is almost never used, they can't carry enough weapons that way.
As for food, the average infantryman can carry several days worth of food in MRE's. And the MRE won't go bad for oh at least 5 years. Solves that problem. Plus, in combat if they need to keep going, theres always methamphetamines which do get issued in dire situations, and research on a variant of a nicotine patch that delivers nutrients instead.
EMP is great, but the only technology that can set loose a practical blast of EMP is nuclear weapons. Resaearch is continuing, but it is not a practical tactic yet.
I'd like to know the experience you have to judge the need for military power. Have you spent any time in uniform? I am currently serving in the United States Marine Corps Intelligence community, and trust me, if you saw all I do, you would believe in the need.
As for the Americans pulling the Europeans out of the fire - there would BE no America if England hadn't single-handedly defeated the entire Luftwaffe, WITHOUT help from the oh so mighty US of A.
Actually, the Luftwaffe was still active when the US came into the war. Shot down quite a few US aircraft too. And as for their being no america? WHo in gods name would have successfully invaded and conquered? No nation had the naval capability to launch an invasion. Any fleet would have been destroyed before it got anywhere vital. At most we might have lost Alaska and the island territories. Remember the top two navies in the world were the British and the American. And if Britian were defeated, the surviving government officials would have fled to Canada and cooperated to keep US shores secure. Not to mention the fact that if they did manage by an act of god(thats what it would take) to land a serious invasion force on the US mainland, there were quite a few guns in the hands of private citizens, who would stand up and fight off any invader. The US would not fall. Lose territory, yes, but even if the other allies failed the US would have held out. You cannot defeat a people that are 100% behind a war for the survival of their people, who have more industrial might than any other nation, who produce enough food to feed the entire planet, with some of the most advanced technology in the world, fighting on their home ground, with freedom to own personal weapons. Only a fool expects to win against that sort of enemy. It would literally take an act of god for the axis to conquer the US.
Russia not a threat? You must miss that their fighter aircraft are some of the most advanced in the world, a match for ours technologically, and able to operate from less built up airfields. The MiG-29 can operate from a grassy field. I'd love to see an F-16, or any US fighter do that without exploding from FOD damage. The Russian infantry weapons beat ours in some respects. Their rifles are more reliable than our M-16. They use.30 caliber rounds so they are less deadly than our.223(its true, too much to go into here.) The point is all things balance out. The Russian armed forces if they could be brought up to the funding and morale levels of US forces would be exceedingly dangerous, nearly a match for ours. And if it wasn't for our head start, they would beat us. Don't dismiss the threats that are out there. There are alot that could erupt into war against US interests. Thus we must remain ready to fight for those interests.
2 - Develop faster-than-light communication. Well, this is the SF part. Without that, telepresence would be limited to the Moon.
Actually... Maybe not. If the sensors on the craft could see well into the future, say give about an hour warning of any impending collisions so that the route could be adjusted, remote controlled navigation could work. Of course, faster than light communication would enable much more flexibility. I don't know for sure that is is scifi. Before Chuck Yeager, everyone said the sound barrier was impenetrable. And there are slight indications that some deep space objects travel faster than light. Besides, just because you can't linearly travel faster than light doesn't mean you have to travel linearly to your destination.
What people need to see in the Linux community is that Linux is not an Anti-Windows. Linux is a great operating system on its own merits. It will get to the desktop. It will take a couple more releases. the 2.4 kernel will help alot. KDE is a better environment than Windows on many levels. But there are things that need to be done. Easy switching between 8, 16, 24 bit graphics, more support for hardware. The application situation is fixing itself already, and should get better over time. WINE will provide a bridge while we wait for more apps to get ported.
I don't know if thats an accurate quote, never heard it before. Its a moronic idea either way. A standing military MUST be under the control of a civilian government if there is to be guarantees of freedom.
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Actually most, at least a year ago, hovered around the 3000 yen mark, or just under 30 bucks. Though I did find all three Beatles anthologys for 1800 yen once, that was during the economic problems so that was less than 15 bucks each at the time
It doesn't matter really... I don't think they mean to deny you GPL rights in any case. It is probably a standard thing on all their downloads(?).
It is a non-issue anyways... You do not have the right to distribute someones intellectual property without their permission. The GPL DOES NOT change this basic fact of copyright law. What the GPL is is that permission that you require. Compaq is within their rights to require written permission to use their code, even code they have placed under the GPL. The GPL constitues that required written permission as much as agreements to get the source of their closed products.
I was able to tell you read it.. It may be full of exceptions, but it isn't too bad. It is definitely better than the Sun license. You do have to register changes you distribute, but so long as you do so you can use it as freely as GPL code, unless you were working for Apple on that particular modification. For a closed source company moving to Open Source it is a very pragmatic step. Apple doesn't have to worry about a competitor taking their stuff and creating something that they can't benefit from(which would be possible with the BSD License) and it provides options for them to make closed improvements to protect their competitive edge. Yet it provides the code and as much freedom of use as the GPL(more in a way- you can mix it with code under other licenses if you want, though Darwin code you release stays under the APL) for independent developers. Overall I'd say its superior to the GPL, and I'll probably use a modified version of it myself(probably without the clauses allowing me to make closed modifications) for my own projects.
Thats true, the GPL is not intended to benefit the developer, however if a company sells closed source software suddenly threw out all their stuff under the GPL that could be bad. Apple is making sure that they can benefit from this, but unlike Sun for example they are making sure the developers benefit as well.
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Yes, Apple "grants" you the "right" to distribute your modifications or more specifically to "deploy" modified code. But, they retain the right to use, to modify, and to distribute your modifications as they see fit without royalty. In other words, they can take your changes, make one or two changes, incorporate their hacked up version of your code into commercial OSX without folding that code back into Darwin
They retain the right to use your code, under the same license. Unless your code is developed specifically for apple, your code stays in the apple public license.
You hereby grant to Apple and all third parties a non-exclusive, royalty-free license, under Your Applicable Patent Rights and other intellectual property rights owned or controlled by You, to use, reproduce, modify, distribute and Deploy Your Modifications of the same scope and extent as Apple's licenses under Sections 2.1 and 2.2;
This is saying that Apple can take your modifications and distribute them as per the Apple Public License
Apple retains all rights, title and interest in and to the Original Code and any Modifications made by or on behalf of Apple ("Apple Modifications"), and such Apple Modifications will not be automatically subject to this License. Apple may, at its sole discretion, choose to license such Apple Modifications under this License, or on different terms from those contained in this License or may choose not to license them at all.
This is the section I think concerns you, this is stating that modifications made by or for Apple can be released under other licenses.
Here are a couple of examples of how I see this working:
You take Darwin, modify it and add other software to make it Linux compatible. You distribute this new Darwin on your own. Apple can then use your modifications under the terms of the Apple Public License, and therefore must release the source. This is covered under Section 3 of the license. SInce your personal modifications are your own intellectual property, which they recognize as such, they must abide by the same terms you must under the Apple Public License.
Now, if Apple calls you up and has you under contract of some sort to do the same thing, those modifications are covered under section 11 of the license, as they are done not for you but for Apple, and those modifications are Apples property not yours. Thus Apple can release the code under any license it desires.
Very good. I like it. Personally I would probably prefer it over the GPL on first reading, I'd have to print it out and compare it clause for clause to really judge. But at first glance here are the benefits:
No royalties
Source MUST be included if you distribute it, whether modified or not
The license to use the code is automatically terminated if you violate it.
You can distribute it ON YOUR OWN, you do have to register mods but are not prevented from distribution
Apple does get full rights to use any of your code, but you still have full rights to distribute. Mods made for apple specifically are under whatever license apple wants, but personal mods are still under this one. Modifications are REQUIRED to be documented clearly.
This is a great thing. You could take Darwin and port say BASH, other necesary GNU utilities and throw X on it to make a full OS. The license specifically allows you to mix it with code from other licenses, with the sensible provision that code under the Apple license is clearly marked as such. I would have to look at the GPL more carefully, but Apple seems to have made a far better balance between the interests of the otiginal developer and the interests of OSS developers in the real world than the GPL does
Actually, its Tactical Simulations Rules and they were bought by Wizards of the Coast which has been bought in turn by Hasbro.
So, apparently Mariah Careys rights don't matter? The bulk of the of money artists make is from the album. Tours are from a business standpoint advertising rather than actual presentation of the product. If Mp3s become popular among the masses, it will bite seriously into their profits. It hasn't happened yet but it is coming. With broadband net access becoming more common, its almost more convenient to download an album in Mp3 than buy it, if you own a Rio or a CD-R it is. Heck with a cable modem from a provider that has a reasonably solid network downloading entire CD images is almost practical. As the masses catch on and CD burners become more common piracy will skyrocket. Something has to be done, or we will not have as much great music as we do.
any later version
Ok let me get this straight... I release a document under this license, and then if the FSF changes it in a way that I disagree with to the point I decide it is as evil as Microsoft, I can't leave it under the old version? I'm stuck with my document being under a liscense I feel is morally wrong. I could go and release a new version under a license I do agree with, but all the old versions are under the license I don't like. Or would I be legally allowed to declare that my document is no longer under GFDL? How do I do that without screwing over all of the people who have benefited from it being a GFDL document?
Good points, but sometimes the greatest breakthroughs are made not by those who have been working on something for decades, but those who just started and try something noone has ever done. Why was this small company able to do it? They simply didn't know it couldn't be done the way they tried.
Driving down highway
Blue screen of death suddenly
I crash into tree
Daily Radar has experienced Ridge Racer V saved game files wiping out the PS2's DVD drivers. We were able to replace the old drivers using the Utilities disc, but the memory card bug is still a significant flaw that Sony has not yet addressed.
Apparently Sony is denying the problems. What I think is they shipped the cards, found the bug, managed to quickly fix the problem. However they are now having supply problems putting out enough of the fixed cards to meet demand. The delay in sales is simply to give them time to make enough of the new cards to be marketable.
The idea that they are simply short on cards is just BS, they just don't want to admit to making a mistake. If they were producing good cards to begin with, why would they stop selling? If I was them I'd keep selling, I don't see the point in halting shipping.
The Dreamcast problems, IIRC, were a significant portion of game discs were glitched, however the system itself was fine. I bought on of the initial shipment to the base electronics store and have had no problems playing it. And even with the games glitched, I think it was something lik 10-20% of the discs for a couple of the games were bad, the vast majority were fine. The Dreamcast problems were nothing compared to this. At least the Dreamcast hardware was ok.
Actually, I don't know how far youve gotten in FFVIII but the majority of the cast were friends in their youth, including major villians(Seifer and Sorceress Edea)
I see the humour in your post, but in answer to why, he likes EMACS calc module. But he doesn't like having to pull up EMACS to use it. Since the source is available, just delete all the non calc code and recompile. Maybe have to tweak the code a little to run outside of EMACS but it shouldn't be a huge problem, so long as RMS commented the code well and any contributors to the calc module did so as well.
Perhaps pulling the CALC code out of EMACS and adding necesary code and recompling it as a stand alon program? That may work. Most of the issues would probably be in user interface, and hunting around the EMACS code to make sure you have everything CALC needs.
But let's assume that, at some point, the Secret Service decided that the Cyberpunks game was "dangerous" or "criminal" in some way. I have yet to see anything by SJG to suggest they did,
Go to your local game store and find the book GURPS: Cyberpunk. On the front cover lower right corner it says "The book that was confiscated by the US Secret Service" and in the first few pages is a statement regarding the book being targeted. Sounds like a rather official SJG statement about the government targeting the book.
BTW the book is pretty good.
I play females sometimes. Its interesting to try to get another perspective in role playing games, in other games it is for tactical advantage. In Soul Edge and Soul Calibur, Sophitia is faster than most, deals more damage and can take more than the few who are faster than her. So I play her, she is well balanced. I won't play females in LARP though. That would take a bit too much costuming to pull off..
ACtually, there was a point where it was believed you could not travel faster than sound. May have been a bit before the X-1, but it was believed at one point.
Still, you don't know as much as you think. The Harrier was a joint US/UK project. I fact the current versions the RAF/RN and the USMC are quite different, both countries have gone on their own development path after the initial models. And Harriers for all their benefits are some of the most unsafe aircraft in any militaries inventory, are unreliable, limited in ordinance they can carry, etc... The vertical takeoff is almost never used, they can't carry enough weapons that way.
As for food, the average infantryman can carry several days worth of food in MRE's. And the MRE won't go bad for oh at least 5 years. Solves that problem. Plus, in combat if they need to keep going, theres always methamphetamines which do get issued in dire situations, and research on a variant of a nicotine patch that delivers nutrients instead.
EMP is great, but the only technology that can set loose a practical blast of EMP is nuclear weapons. Resaearch is continuing, but it is not a practical tactic yet.
I'd like to know the experience you have to judge the need for military power. Have you spent any time in uniform? I am currently serving in the United States Marine Corps Intelligence community, and trust me, if you saw all I do, you would believe in the need.
As for the Americans pulling the Europeans out of the fire - there would BE no America if England hadn't single-handedly defeated the entire Luftwaffe, WITHOUT help from the oh so mighty US of A.
Actually, the Luftwaffe was still active when the US came into the war. Shot down quite a few US aircraft too. And as for their being no america? WHo in gods name would have successfully invaded and conquered? No nation had the naval capability to launch an invasion. Any fleet would have been destroyed before it got anywhere vital. At most we might have lost Alaska and the island territories. Remember the top two navies in the world were the British and the American. And if Britian were defeated, the surviving government officials would have fled to Canada and cooperated to keep US shores secure. Not to mention the fact that if they did manage by an act of god(thats what it would take) to land a serious invasion force on the US mainland, there were quite a few guns in the hands of private citizens, who would stand up and fight off any invader. The US would not fall. Lose territory, yes, but even if the other allies failed the US would have held out. You cannot defeat a people that are 100% behind a war for the survival of their people, who have more industrial might than any other nation, who produce enough food to feed the entire planet, with some of the most advanced technology in the world, fighting on their home ground, with freedom to own personal weapons. Only a fool expects to win against that sort of enemy. It would literally take an act of god for the axis to conquer the US.
Russia not a threat? You must miss that their fighter aircraft are some of the most advanced in the world, a match for ours technologically, and able to operate from less built up airfields. The MiG-29 can operate from a grassy field. I'd love to see an F-16, or any US fighter do that without exploding from FOD damage. The Russian infantry weapons beat ours in some respects. Their rifles are more reliable than our M-16. They use .30 caliber rounds so they are less deadly than our .223(its true, too much to go into here.) The point is all things balance out. The Russian armed forces if they could be brought up to the funding and morale levels of US forces would be exceedingly dangerous, nearly a match for ours. And if it wasn't for our head start, they would beat us. Don't dismiss the threats that are out there. There are alot that could erupt into war against US interests. Thus we must remain ready to fight for those interests.
2 - Develop faster-than-light communication. Well, this is the SF part. Without that, telepresence would be limited to the Moon.
Actually... Maybe not. If the sensors on the craft could see well into the future, say give about an hour warning of any impending collisions so that the route could be adjusted, remote controlled navigation could work. Of course, faster than light communication would enable much more flexibility. I don't know for sure that is is scifi. Before Chuck Yeager, everyone said the sound barrier was impenetrable. And there are slight indications that some deep space objects travel faster than light. Besides, just because you can't linearly travel faster than light doesn't mean you have to travel linearly to your destination.
What people need to see in the Linux community is that Linux is not an Anti-Windows. Linux is a great operating system on its own merits. It will get to the desktop. It will take a couple more releases. the 2.4 kernel will help alot. KDE is a better environment than Windows on many levels. But there are things that need to be done. Easy switching between 8, 16, 24 bit graphics, more support for hardware. The application situation is fixing itself already, and should get better over time. WINE will provide a bridge while we wait for more apps to get ported.
I don't know if thats an accurate quote, never heard it before. Its a moronic idea either way. A standing military MUST be under the control of a civilian government if there is to be guarantees of freedom.