I've thought of a scenario (don't know if it's ever been tried) that you could do this.
The GPL only requires that the source is released if the binary is released. Let's say you develop a Really Cool(TM) application for which businesses are clamoring. You show them demos showing how slick it is and how it will revolutionize their own business. Then you tell them you won't release it (binary, and thus under the GPL, source code as well) until you get $X (presumably enough to cover cost + profit). You don't care if this business wants to cough it up themselves, partner with other businesses, or get X number of people to contribute $1 each, but once you get $X, you will release it.
Updates could be handled the same way, but with the risk that somebody could enhance your product before you did.
IIRC, MySQL used to work somewhat similarly before it was GPL'd (maybe they still do?).
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The shape of galaxies - and interactions of galaxies in clusters and super-clusters, shows that the universe is "flat" on the scale of many millions of light years.
Sure, that's what ALL the scientists said about the Earth prior to Magellan.
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I was browsing through a bookstore in a mall one day (Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, or some sort), and there was a nice smallish book, probably a couple hundred pages, about the size of a one-photo-per-page photo album. It was labeled "The Wit and Wisdom of Vice-President Dan Quayle".
One of those links was particularly interesting - The SIIA (Response linked from the word 'mean' in the parent article. The SIIA is vehemently against "software piracy", and opposes the sale of software on auction sites.
It just really surprised me that they are denouncing Mundie's comments as well.
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Actually there are 64^13 (=2^156) possibilities for the chess board (of course, many of which are impossible in real life).
(Each of the 64 squares could have one of {white rook, white knight,... white pawn, black rook, black night,... black pawn, nothing}), but since a maximum of half the pieces can be on the board at a time, you wouldn't need 1/2 of these entries. So a database with (slightly less than) 2^155 entries could "solve" chess.
It would be a very large but finite number, so yes, someday technology will solve chess as easily as it did tic-tac-toe in War Games --
... the teachers are getting their nicotine fix in the staff lounge, right next to the government-provided coffee.
I'll have you know that in our staff "lounge" (they're now called "workrooms"), the teachers have to step out the back door to get their nicotine fix, and we have to bring our own coffee.
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Re:Another PDA Whoopee!!!
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...I've knocked up spreadsheets...
This gives me a mental picture I did NOT need to have.
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This would be impossible around here, unless you've got your own generator. Our power was out here just last night for about 45 minutes, and our UPS's last for 15-20 tops - and that was a fairly mild storm.
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impugn: To attack as false or questionable; challenge in an argument
This makes sense in context, if you could make up your own word "impugnity" - they are attacking MasterCard's claim to that phrase as if they don't have such a claim.
First of all, this is way offtopic, but I'll feed the troll anyway...
you dont have much choice when... buying CPUs.
Not much choice, I admit, but I was sure happy to be able to get an Athlon at about 1/2 the price of the comparable PIII last summer. Gee, now that I think about it, the PIII had just dropped in price, also. I wonder why that was?
Try buying a non x86 PC - what are your 'real choices'?
Lessee... Mac (PowerPC), SGI MIPS, Sparc, RS/6000 (also PowerPC, but significantly different design other than the CPU), HP's got a RISC that I can't think of its exact name off the top of my head, S/390. Seems to me there are quite a few of choices. What? None of them serve your needs or are within your price range? Hmmm...maybe consumers have 'voted with their dollars' that x86 provides the best price/perforance ratio?
Your about as likely to find a car designed with anything > than 250000km lifespan because of the collusive auto-industry agrees it is bad for business.
Seems to me that if you have a real problem with this, you can get off your backside and design one. I have a feeling its not as easy as you think. It has nothing to do with a 'collusive auto-industry', as it is that consumers will buy what they find to be the best price/performance. If your price/performance is far superior to everyone else, you can raise the price and still beat the competition. What is that called? Reward for doing a good job (a.k.a. profit). I don't know about you, but I like making a profit.
Don't let the 'Buy With Your Dollars' propaganda convince you that you private interests can replace the duties of a Democratic (Republic) Government - they are certainly trying.
Ah - here's where we get to our fundamental differences. Who has the 'duty' to educate children? You say the government. I say the parents. I have no problem with the government helping the parents (obviously, as I work at a public school), but it isn't the government's responsibility, and if you blindly turn over your responsibilities to the government, you deserve whatever you get.
...now back on topic... you have the right under the constitution to tell your supervisor that (s)he's the most incompetent nimwit you've ever had the misfortune to be in contact with, and (s)he has the right under the constitution to tell you "you're fired".
Don't confuse the right to free speech (the student didn't have charges filed against him) with the right to do whatever you damn well please without consequences.
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First of all, this is way offtopic, but I'll feed the troll anyway...
you dont have much choice when... buying CPUs.
Not much choice, I admit, but I was sure happy to be able to get an Athlon at about 1/2 the price of the comparable PIII last summer. Gee, now that I think about it, the PIII had just dropped in price, also. I wonder why that was?
Try buying a non x86 PC - what are your 'real choices'?
Lessee... Mac (PowerPC), SGI MIPS, Sparc, RS/6000 (also PowerPC, but significantly different design other than the CPU), HP's got a RISC that I can't think of its exact name off the top of my head, S/390. Seems to me there are quite a few of choices. What? None of them serve your needs or are within your price range? Hmmm...maybe consumers have 'voted with their dollars' that x86 provides the best price/perforance ratio?
Your (sic) about as likely to find a car designed with anything > than 250000km lifespan because of the collusive auto-industry agrees it is bad for business.
Seems to me that if you have a real problem with this, you can get off your backside and design one. I have a feeling its not as easy as you think. It has nothing to do with a 'collusive auto-industry', as it is that consumers will buy what they find to be the best price/performance. If your price/performance is far superior to everyone else, you can raise the price and still beat the competition. What is that called? Reward for doing a good job (a.k.a. profit). I don't know about you, but I like making a profit.
Don't let the 'Buy With Your Dollars' propaganda convince you that you private interests can replace the duties of a Democratic (Republic) Government - they are certainly trying.
Ah - here's where we get to our fundamental differences. Who has the 'duty' to educate children? You say the government. I say the parents. I have no problem with the government helping the parents (obviously, as I work at a public school), but it isn't the government's responsibility, and if you blindly turn over your responsibilities to the government, you deserve whatever you get.
...now back on topic... you have the right under the constitution to tell your supervisor that (s)he's the most incompetent nimwit you've ever had the misfortune to be in contact with, and (s)he has the right under the constitution to tell you "you're fired".
Don't confuse the right to free speech (the student didn't have charges filed against him) with the right to do whatever you damn well please without consequences.
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First of all, this is way offtopic, but I'll feed the troll anyway...
you dont have much choice when... buying CPUs.
Not much choice, I admit, but I was sure happy to be able to get an Athlon at about 1/2 the price of the comparable PIII last summer. Gee, now that I think about it, the PIII had just dropped in price, also. I wonder why that was?
Try buying a non x86 PC - what are your 'real choices'?
Lessee... Mac (PowerPC), SGI MIPS, Sparc, RS/6000 (also PowerPC, but significantly different design other than the CPU), HP's got a RISC that I can't think of its exact name off the top of my head, S/390. Seems to me there are quite a few of choices. What? None of them serve your needs or are within your price range? Hmmm...maybe consumers have 'voted with their dollars' that x86 provides the best price/perforance ratio?
Your about as likely to find a car designed with anything > than 250000km lifespan because of the collusive auto-industry agrees it is bad for business.
Seems to me that if you have a real problem with this, you can get off your backside and design one. I have a feeling its not as easy as you think. It has nothing to do with a 'collusive auto-industry', as it is that consumers will buy what they find to be the best price/performance. If your price/performance is far superior to everyone else, you can raise the price and still beat the competition. What is that called? Reward for doing a good job (a.k.a. profit). I don't know about you, but I like making a profit.
Don't let the 'Buy With Your Dollars' propaganda convince you that you private interests can replace the duties of a Democratic (Republic) Government - they are certainly trying.
Ah - here's where we get to our fundamental differences. Who has the 'duty' to educate children? You say the government. I say the parents. I have no problem with the government helping the parents (obviously, as I work at a public school), but it isn't the government's responsibility, and if you blindly turn over your responsibilities to the government, you deserve whatever you get.
...now back on topic... you have the right under the constitution to tell your supervisor that (s)he's the most incompetent nimwit you've ever had the misfortune to be in contact with, and (s)he has the right under the constitution to tell you "you're fired".
Don't confuse the right to free speech (the student didn't have charges filed against him) with the right to do whatever you damn well please without consequences. --
However, the mathematics of the quantum wave function, which is one of the most well-tested formulae in existence, shows that every interaction which a particle undergoes with its environment reduces the possibilities available to it, so that impossible things remain impossible, and you don't come home to find your sofa hanging three feet above the floor.
It's easy to see you've never read Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.
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The GPL only requires that the source is released if the binary is released. Let's say you develop a Really Cool(TM) application for which businesses are clamoring. You show them demos showing how slick it is and how it will revolutionize their own business. Then you tell them you won't release it (binary, and thus under the GPL, source code as well) until you get $X (presumably enough to cover cost + profit). You don't care if this business wants to cough it up themselves, partner with other businesses, or get X number of people to contribute $1 each, but once you get $X, you will release it.
Updates could be handled the same way, but with the risk that somebody could enhance your product before you did.
IIRC, MySQL used to work somewhat similarly before it was GPL'd (maybe they still do?).
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Why not?
$ man mail
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INTRODUCTION ...
Mail is an intelligent mail processing system
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Sure, that's what ALL the scientists said about the Earth prior to Magellan.
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All the pages were blank.
I almost bought it for the coffee table.
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It just really surprised me that they are denouncing Mundie's comments as well.
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Look at the bright side. You're only out $25.
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Actually there are 64^13 (=2^156) possibilities for the chess board (of course, many of which are impossible in real life).
(Each of the 64 squares could have one of {white rook, white knight, ... white pawn, black rook, black night, ... black pawn, nothing}), but since a maximum of half the pieces can be on the board at a time, you wouldn't need 1/2 of these entries. So a database with (slightly less than) 2^155 entries could "solve" chess.
It would be a very large but finite number, so yes, someday technology will solve chess as easily as it did tic-tac-toe in War Games
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I'll have you know that in our staff "lounge" (they're now called "workrooms"), the teachers have to step out the back door to get their nicotine fix, and we have to bring our own coffee.
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This gives me a mental picture I did NOT need to have.
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Actually, to keep the prefixes consistent, it would have to be a 'Hexium', which has different, but still interesting, connotations.
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What was the funniest?
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This would be impossible around here, unless you've got your own generator. Our power was out here just last night for about 45 minutes, and our UPS's last for 15-20 tops - and that was a fairly mild storm.
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impugn: To attack as false or questionable; challenge in an argument
This makes sense in context, if you could make up your own word "impugnity" - they are attacking MasterCard's claim to that phrase as if they don't have such a claim.
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IMHO, just AR and KidPix/HyperStudio alone would be enough I would give it a try.
- Kyle Hutson, Director of Technology, Rock Creek School District.
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you dont have much choice when ... buying CPUs.
Not much choice, I admit, but I was sure happy to be able to get an Athlon at about 1/2 the price of the comparable PIII last summer. Gee, now that I think about it, the PIII had just dropped in price, also. I wonder why that was?
Try buying a non x86 PC - what are your 'real choices'?
Lessee... Mac (PowerPC), SGI MIPS, Sparc, RS/6000 (also PowerPC, but significantly different design other than the CPU), HP's got a RISC that I can't think of its exact name off the top of my head, S/390. Seems to me there are quite a few of choices. What? None of them serve your needs or are within your price range? Hmmm...maybe consumers have 'voted with their dollars' that x86 provides the best price/perforance ratio?
Your about as likely to find a car designed with anything > than 250000km lifespan because of the collusive auto-industry agrees it is bad for business.
Seems to me that if you have a real problem with this, you can get off your backside and design one. I have a feeling its not as easy as you think. It has nothing to do with a 'collusive auto-industry', as it is that consumers will buy what they find to be the best price/performance. If your price/performance is far superior to everyone else, you can raise the price and still beat the competition. What is that called? Reward for doing a good job (a.k.a. profit). I don't know about you, but I like making a profit.
Don't let the 'Buy With Your Dollars' propaganda convince you that you private interests can replace the duties of a Democratic (Republic) Government - they are certainly trying.
Ah - here's where we get to our fundamental differences. Who has the 'duty' to educate children? You say the government. I say the parents. I have no problem with the government helping the parents (obviously, as I work at a public school), but it isn't the government's responsibility, and if you blindly turn over your responsibilities to the government, you deserve whatever you get.
Don't confuse the right to free speech (the student didn't have charges filed against him) with the right to do whatever you damn well please without consequences.
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you dont have much choice when ... buying CPUs.
Not much choice, I admit, but I was sure happy to be able to get an Athlon at about 1/2 the price of the comparable PIII last summer. Gee, now that I think about it, the PIII had just dropped in price, also. I wonder why that was?
Try buying a non x86 PC - what are your 'real choices'?
Lessee... Mac (PowerPC), SGI MIPS, Sparc, RS/6000 (also PowerPC, but significantly different design other than the CPU), HP's got a RISC that I can't think of its exact name off the top of my head, S/390. Seems to me there are quite a few of choices. What? None of them serve your needs or are within your price range? Hmmm...maybe consumers have 'voted with their dollars' that x86 provides the best price/perforance ratio?
Your (sic) about as likely to find a car designed with anything > than 250000km lifespan because of the collusive auto-industry agrees it is bad for business.
Seems to me that if you have a real problem with this, you can get off your backside and design one. I have a feeling its not as easy as you think. It has nothing to do with a 'collusive auto-industry', as it is that consumers will buy what they find to be the best price/performance. If your price/performance is far superior to everyone else, you can raise the price and still beat the competition. What is that called? Reward for doing a good job (a.k.a. profit). I don't know about you, but I like making a profit.
Don't let the 'Buy With Your Dollars' propaganda convince you that you private interests can replace the duties of a Democratic (Republic) Government - they are certainly trying.
Ah - here's where we get to our fundamental differences. Who has the 'duty' to educate children? You say the government. I say the parents. I have no problem with the government helping the parents (obviously, as I work at a public school), but it isn't the government's responsibility, and if you blindly turn over your responsibilities to the government, you deserve whatever you get.
Don't confuse the right to free speech (the student didn't have charges filed against him) with the right to do whatever you damn well please without consequences.
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you dont have much choice when ... buying CPUs.
Not much choice, I admit, but I was sure happy to be able to get an Athlon at about 1/2 the price of the comparable PIII last summer. Gee, now that I think about it, the PIII had just dropped in price, also. I wonder why that was?
Try buying a non x86 PC - what are your 'real choices'?
Lessee... Mac (PowerPC), SGI MIPS, Sparc, RS/6000 (also PowerPC, but significantly different design other than the CPU), HP's got a RISC that I can't think of its exact name off the top of my head, S/390. Seems to me there are quite a few of choices. What? None of them serve your needs or are within your price range? Hmmm...maybe consumers have 'voted with their dollars' that x86 provides the best price/perforance ratio?
Your about as likely to find a car designed with anything > than 250000km lifespan because of the collusive auto-industry agrees it is bad for business.
Seems to me that if you have a real problem with this, you can get off your backside and design one. I have a feeling its not as easy as you think. It has nothing to do with a 'collusive auto-industry', as it is that consumers will buy what they find to be the best price/performance. If your price/performance is far superior to everyone else, you can raise the price and still beat the competition. What is that called? Reward for doing a good job (a.k.a. profit). I don't know about you, but I like making a profit.
Don't let the 'Buy With Your Dollars' propaganda convince you that you private interests can replace the duties of a Democratic (Republic) Government - they are certainly trying.
Ah - here's where we get to our fundamental differences. Who has the 'duty' to educate children? You say the government. I say the parents. I have no problem with the government helping the parents (obviously, as I work at a public school), but it isn't the government's responsibility, and if you blindly turn over your responsibilities to the government, you deserve whatever you get.
Don't confuse the right to free speech (the student didn't have charges filed against him) with the right to do whatever you damn well please without consequences.
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I hope so. I did it myself last week.
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It's called 'humor' - the same type of thing G.C. does.
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It's = it is
Its = belonging to it
I caught the grammar nazi.
I caught the grammar nazi.
Nanny, nanny, boo-boo
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Excel on the other hand...
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I didn't know George Carlin philosophized on copyright law.
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(OK, so if you want to jump through some hoops, you actually can get an Agenda, but we still have nothing ready for prime time.)
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