I would like to know where the basis for this "file-based" theory came about. I see nothing in the CDDL that specifies this. It only talks about "modifications", which must be licensed under the terms of the CDDL, and "Larger works" which can be subject to any license you wish, with the stipulation that the portions that are under the CDDL license are still bound by it. It does not specify that a file is the boundary where a modification ceases, and larger work begins.
I have a Lucent/Agere AMR based modem in my laptop, and I use Alsa + the SmartLink daemon to run it. Never had an oops or kernel panic (mostly because all the crashable code is in usermode in this configuration). As a side bonus, I no longer need to taint my kernel to run the modem. Sadly, I still end up tainting it by installing nvidia.ko.
There is one downside to this approach. The modem device is no longer a device node, but rather a pipe. Some apps don't like this, and say that there's no modems installed in the sytem. I do wish that more Linux winmodem drivers would use this approach, though. It's much easier to restart a user-mode program than to reboot after the kernel crashed because of the bad driver.
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Check out modem chipsets from Intel (or Ambient). Many of them have Linux drivers available from Intel for them (and they are less trouble than licensing from Conexant). No idea what kind of pricing you might be able to get on them. There are a lot of OEMs that put them on their cards.
Except most smaller companies can't afford to spend the millions required to defend their patents, unless the smaller company only consists of lawyers. And if the smaller company files against the larger, the smaller company may be hit with counterclaims from patents the bigger company holds. It's a mess.
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You seem to be under some sort of an impression that Dell is only allowed to sell processors from one manufacturer.
There is no such law, but it is quite likely that Dell has signed a contract with Intel to exclusively purchase and sell Intel processors only in exchange for preferential pricing. It's also likely that this same contract just expired, and Dell is simply putting pressure on Intel to continue with the favorable terms in exchange for ignoring AMD again. Such contracts are common practice for OEMs.
Defensive "robots" don't even need to be mobile, or self-propelled in any way. The article doesn't mention any movement capabilities, so they may just be stationary objects.
Umm. I charted out those numbers and did find a fair level of correlation. 1945 increased the minimum wage, and 1946 through 1948 saw a fair bit of inflation. 1950 saw minimum wage increase by 87%, and the following year, there was 8% inflation. 1974 saw an increase on both minimum wage and inflation. On the other hand, the 1990/1991 and 1996,1997 minimum wage increases didn't have any noticable correlation with inflation. Now, this is no where near the amount of required data to prove that one causes the other. However, minimum wage is increasing at a higher rate than inflation, which I would assume means that even if minimum wage affects inflation, it's not the sole factor, and perhaps not even a primary factor.
On the other hand, we have people claim that they've used Windows Me for years, never had to reinstall, never had a blue screen of death, and ran all the latest versions of Visual Studio on it. All it really goes to show is that you can never really trust what you read online.
Now, that said, installing an operating system (any OS) is not a task for the faint of heart. Most people who know how to install their own OSs (any OS) know how to maintain that OS. The vast majority of Windows users have never needed to install an OS because it came with their systems, whereas Linux users typically had no choice but to install their own OSs. However, exerienced Windows users can even survive without antivirus, anti-spyware and Firefox (although you'd have to put up with IE) by knowing what behaviour is safe, and what is not. Unfortunately, a firewall is not optional for either Windows or Linux.
Regarding maintainance... At 22.2 miles per weekday, you still put on enough miles to need to have two oilchanges per year (plus whatever other travelling you do). That adds about $0.77 per week (assuming a $20 oil change). You'll also be adding wear & tear on the brakes, transmission, engine, and just about every other moving part.
The biggest problem with your comparison is the fact you live 10 miles from the nearest public transport terminal! And is public transportation REALLY that expensive there? $4.60 per day seems excessive unless that's for two one-way tickets or something. Is there no monthly passes or something similar? Here in Winnipeg, we have a lousy bus system for our public transit system, and for ~$70CDN, you can ride any bus for the month (or ~$16CDN for a monday to friday pass). It's slow, uncomfortable, noisy, and often dirty, but it's cheap.
Here in Canada, the profits on phone sales are razor thin, or may even be a small loss. So, if you buy a cell phone, there's always a very large push to buy accessories for it that are marked up 400%. There's fierce competition on the prices of the phones, but a gentlemen's agreement on not undercutting each other on accessory prices.
Except USB is 500mA per port before any hubs. Unpowered USB hubs, for instance, can leave you with a lot less power to go around. Then there's the fact that if I'm running my laptop off batteries, I may not want to deplete the laptop's batteries charging the USB device just because I plugged it in. I may have it hooked up for other reasons, and charging a battery with another battery rarely makes much sense.
Yeah, and if you read it, it's about misuse of Red Hat's trademarks. Those lawyers need to settle down a bit, though. They claim that Red Hat prohibits linking to their website, and that linking to their website implies that Red Hat endorses your website. There are a few other ridiculous claims in the letter as well.
Except for the fact the NDP support these measures, and would be willing to go even further. This could quite easily pass, unfortunately. Besides, one moment the conservatives are saying that they won't topple the government and won't block the budget from being passed, the next they're saying they will.
Now, the law we're getting is far less lopsided than the one the Heritage Committee proposed. Unfortunately, private copying, the CD media levy and how it works with the anticircumvention measures is not being addressed. Curiously enough, despite this big push to get this adopted, they seemingly "forgot" about the CPCC and the levy.
Oh, and did you know that the CPCC squandered nearly $4 million dollars in 2003 of levy money, making their overhead for that year is nearly 15%. Or how about the fact, they've only distributed half of the money they've collected between 2003 and 1999. Hell, they didn't even bother to start paying the money out until 2003.
Unless you're SCO, you NEVER talk to the press about an impending lawsuit. One way or another, the other side will find a way to make those words come back and haunt you. Just about the only comment that is safe is to simply say that you deny all the allegations the other side has put forth against you, and leave it at that. If you tell the press you've found a mountain of illegally copied code in a public operating system, the other side will get the judge to force you to disclose it to them.
Wouldn't the file format be a purely functional element, and therefore not covered by copyright? I'm no lawyer, but I think it could be argued that the format is unprotectable as per Sega v. Accolade. And even if the format was covered by copyright, wouldn't that only affect generation of the file format in question?
I'm assuming that by the time the rumor was proven to be false, it would've spread so far as to have accomplished it's goal, and the next rumor would already be starting circulation. Those Clinton Suicide rumors are still floating around, and no one has proven them false or true. Just lots of innuendo. Or how about the equally futile rumors spread that "Bush Knew!". These have both been proven false, right? If so, why are they still floating around out there?
I AM an English speaking Canadian. Moreover, I live in Manitoba, which has it's own problems with a small minority of French speaking residents who attempt to impose their will on the rest of the population. My point wasn't to blame the English speaking majority, but rather to point out that everyone in the country (myself included) pretty much picked out one or two things they didn't like about it, and voted against it for that reason.
And I said the Quebecois voted against it because it didn't grant them enough powers because that was exactly what the "No" forces (read: separatists) in Quebec were telling them. Unsurprisingly, those same separatists managed to get a referendum shortly after the accord failed.
The Charlottetown accord was an attempt to finally disarm the gun that Quebec has had pointed at the heads of the rest of Canada once and for all, and it failed. The worst part of it isn't really the idea of Quebec separating, but the uncertainty of it. Although, it's hard to say what would become of Canada if Quebec really did separate. A lot of people fear that Alberta may try to do the same thing if Quebec succeeded at it. How long would it be until Canada itself fell apart?
Frankly I'd prefer if the Conservative party was actually worth voting for. There are some good candidates, but the party leadership is quite frankly scary. Frankly, in my opinion, Stephen Harper makes Brian Malroney look like a moderate. With the choice of the NDP, who obvious don't know how to manage money based on their proposals, and the Conservatives who seem to be the same these days (and to make matters worse seem to be emulating everything they see the U.S. Republicans do), who exactly are we left with?
I can think of one other thing the conservative government tried to accomplish. The Charlottetown Accord would've been valuable to our country had it succeeded. Sadly it was defeated because English speaking Canadians weren't told what "distinct society" actually granted to Québécois. Aboriginals voted against it because the self-government measures in it were too meager. Ontarians and Quebeccers voted against it because the senate reform would've decreased their power over government. And Québécois voted against it because it didn't grant them enough powers.
Despite the good intentions of the accord, the aftermath has been uniformly negative. The closest ever sucsession vote narrowly failed in 1995. Western canadian distrust of Quebec was pushed to all time highs. Aboriginal people are still no closer to self-government than they were back then. And finally, the senate continues to be a place where the Prime Minister's buddies are sent off to to collect a paycheque so long as they care to, regardless of if they decide to show up during the year or not. So, I don't really know which category you would place this under. The intentions were good, but the outcome was very bad.
Well, how about the other side of this story. Weblogs are becoming an ever increasingly popular method for astroturfing. What better way to make it seem like there's a ground spring of popular support for something than to make a couple of blogs that support your position. Frankly, the public deserves to know if an opinion was bought or if it's genuine (I would further state that so-called non-profit think tanks should have the same obligation).
Want to start an unsubstantiated rumour about your political opponent? What better place to start than at some anonymous blog, and then for good measure, post some trackbacks at a few more anonymous blogs. Like any good rumour mill, the bloggers will repeat and repost it, all the while believing they're scooping the traditional media.
The Public Relations industry has always been at the forefront of technology in their eternal pursuit of manipulating public opinions. Their use of weblogs should be of no surprise, but bloggers seem to continue to insist that their 'community' has not been infected by these corporate interests. Like it or not, you are being used to spread misinformation, and blinding yourself to it only does yourself a disservice.
There's one address I saw recently that confused me for a moment -- Ontario, CA. Is that Ontario, Canada? No, it's apparently Ontario, California. Can't people get their own place names?
Did Netcraft confirm that, or are you blazing new trails here? Silly, silly. Let's see what other factors may have affected voting... Let's see.... What happened last week... How about EASTER! But please, don't let me stop you from jumping to conclusions on your own!
MSFT will soon sue the mono project over violated patents and DMCA violations concerning reverse engineering and stolen IP.
Okay, now who's spreading FUD? Violated patents, sure, I can see that happening. Microsoft has patents on a number of things in.NET, especially ASP.Net which mono does implement. However, DMCA violations concerning reverse engineering? Reverse engineering for interoperability is the one thing the DMCA specifically allows for! And stolen IP? Have you seen the Rotor license? It disallows direct copying, but allows you to reimplement from memory anything you learn from the source code.
Geeze. I can't believe I'm actually defending Microsoft on this... The fact of the matter is that both Java and.NET have a number of strikes against them. Don't forget that Kodak has a patent that affects Java implementations, and I'm sure Sun has patents that affect the Java standard as well.
The only thing that bothers me is asking someone what the last thing they did on their compuer prior to it failing was, and getting the stock answer, "I didn't do anything -- it just stopped working by itself". This, of course, forces you to go through an entire long troubleshooting process of figuring out what happened. When you almost inevitably do find out it's user error, you're left with the troubleshooting time, which could've been avoided completely, if the user had only been honest with you.
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I would like to know where the basis for this "file-based" theory came about. I see nothing in the CDDL that specifies this. It only talks about "modifications", which must be licensed under the terms of the CDDL, and "Larger works" which can be subject to any license you wish, with the stipulation that the portions that are under the CDDL license are still bound by it. It does not specify that a file is the boundary where a modification ceases, and larger work begins.
There is one downside to this approach. The modem device is no longer a device node, but rather a pipe. Some apps don't like this, and say that there's no modems installed in the sytem. I do wish that more Linux winmodem drivers would use this approach, though. It's much easier to restart a user-mode program than to reboot after the kernel crashed because of the bad driver.
Check out modem chipsets from Intel (or Ambient). Many of them have Linux drivers available from Intel for them (and they are less trouble than licensing from Conexant). No idea what kind of pricing you might be able to get on them. There are a lot of OEMs that put them on their cards.
Except most smaller companies can't afford to spend the millions required to defend their patents, unless the smaller company only consists of lawyers. And if the smaller company files against the larger, the smaller company may be hit with counterclaims from patents the bigger company holds. It's a mess.
Defensive "robots" don't even need to be mobile, or self-propelled in any way. The article doesn't mention any movement capabilities, so they may just be stationary objects.
Umm. I charted out those numbers and did find a fair level of correlation. 1945 increased the minimum wage, and 1946 through 1948 saw a fair bit of inflation. 1950 saw minimum wage increase by 87%, and the following year, there was 8% inflation. 1974 saw an increase on both minimum wage and inflation. On the other hand, the 1990/1991 and 1996,1997 minimum wage increases didn't have any noticable correlation with inflation. Now, this is no where near the amount of required data to prove that one causes the other. However, minimum wage is increasing at a higher rate than inflation, which I would assume means that even if minimum wage affects inflation, it's not the sole factor, and perhaps not even a primary factor.
Now, that said, installing an operating system (any OS) is not a task for the faint of heart. Most people who know how to install their own OSs (any OS) know how to maintain that OS. The vast majority of Windows users have never needed to install an OS because it came with their systems, whereas Linux users typically had no choice but to install their own OSs. However, exerienced Windows users can even survive without antivirus, anti-spyware and Firefox (although you'd have to put up with IE) by knowing what behaviour is safe, and what is not. Unfortunately, a firewall is not optional for either Windows or Linux.
The biggest problem with your comparison is the fact you live 10 miles from the nearest public transport terminal! And is public transportation REALLY that expensive there? $4.60 per day seems excessive unless that's for two one-way tickets or something. Is there no monthly passes or something similar? Here in Winnipeg, we have a lousy bus system for our public transit system, and for ~$70CDN, you can ride any bus for the month (or ~$16CDN for a monday to friday pass). It's slow, uncomfortable, noisy, and often dirty, but it's cheap.
Here in Canada, the profits on phone sales are razor thin, or may even be a small loss. So, if you buy a cell phone, there's always a very large push to buy accessories for it that are marked up 400%. There's fierce competition on the prices of the phones, but a gentlemen's agreement on not undercutting each other on accessory prices.
Except USB is 500mA per port before any hubs. Unpowered USB hubs, for instance, can leave you with a lot less power to go around. Then there's the fact that if I'm running my laptop off batteries, I may not want to deplete the laptop's batteries charging the USB device just because I plugged it in. I may have it hooked up for other reasons, and charging a battery with another battery rarely makes much sense.
Yeah, and if you read it, it's about misuse of Red Hat's trademarks. Those lawyers need to settle down a bit, though. They claim that Red Hat prohibits linking to their website, and that linking to their website implies that Red Hat endorses your website. There are a few other ridiculous claims in the letter as well.
Now, the law we're getting is far less lopsided than the one the Heritage Committee proposed. Unfortunately, private copying, the CD media levy and how it works with the anticircumvention measures is not being addressed. Curiously enough, despite this big push to get this adopted, they seemingly "forgot" about the CPCC and the levy.
Oh, and did you know that the CPCC squandered nearly $4 million dollars in 2003 of levy money, making their overhead for that year is nearly 15%. Or how about the fact, they've only distributed half of the money they've collected between 2003 and 1999. Hell, they didn't even bother to start paying the money out until 2003.
hahaha. That's a good one.
Unless you're SCO, you NEVER talk to the press about an impending lawsuit. One way or another, the other side will find a way to make those words come back and haunt you. Just about the only comment that is safe is to simply say that you deny all the allegations the other side has put forth against you, and leave it at that. If you tell the press you've found a mountain of illegally copied code in a public operating system, the other side will get the judge to force you to disclose it to them.
Wouldn't the file format be a purely functional element, and therefore not covered by copyright? I'm no lawyer, but I think it could be argued that the format is unprotectable as per Sega v. Accolade. And even if the format was covered by copyright, wouldn't that only affect generation of the file format in question?
I'm assuming that by the time the rumor was proven to be false, it would've spread so far as to have accomplished it's goal, and the next rumor would already be starting circulation. Those Clinton Suicide rumors are still floating around, and no one has proven them false or true. Just lots of innuendo. Or how about the equally futile rumors spread that "Bush Knew!". These have both been proven false, right? If so, why are they still floating around out there?
And I said the Quebecois voted against it because it didn't grant them enough powers because that was exactly what the "No" forces (read: separatists) in Quebec were telling them. Unsurprisingly, those same separatists managed to get a referendum shortly after the accord failed.
The Charlottetown accord was an attempt to finally disarm the gun that Quebec has had pointed at the heads of the rest of Canada once and for all, and it failed. The worst part of it isn't really the idea of Quebec separating, but the uncertainty of it. Although, it's hard to say what would become of Canada if Quebec really did separate. A lot of people fear that Alberta may try to do the same thing if Quebec succeeded at it. How long would it be until Canada itself fell apart?
I can think of one other thing the conservative government tried to accomplish. The Charlottetown Accord would've been valuable to our country had it succeeded. Sadly it was defeated because English speaking Canadians weren't told what "distinct society" actually granted to Québécois. Aboriginals voted against it because the self-government measures in it were too meager. Ontarians and Quebeccers voted against it because the senate reform would've decreased their power over government. And Québécois voted against it because it didn't grant them enough powers.
Despite the good intentions of the accord, the aftermath has been uniformly negative. The closest ever sucsession vote narrowly failed in 1995. Western canadian distrust of Quebec was pushed to all time highs. Aboriginal people are still no closer to self-government than they were back then. And finally, the senate continues to be a place where the Prime Minister's buddies are sent off to to collect a paycheque so long as they care to, regardless of if they decide to show up during the year or not. So, I don't really know which category you would place this under. The intentions were good, but the outcome was very bad.
Want to start an unsubstantiated rumour about your political opponent? What better place to start than at some anonymous blog, and then for good measure, post some trackbacks at a few more anonymous blogs. Like any good rumour mill, the bloggers will repeat and repost it, all the while believing they're scooping the traditional media.
The Public Relations industry has always been at the forefront of technology in their eternal pursuit of manipulating public opinions. Their use of weblogs should be of no surprise, but bloggers seem to continue to insist that their 'community' has not been infected by these corporate interests. Like it or not, you are being used to spread misinformation, and blinding yourself to it only does yourself a disservice.
There's one address I saw recently that confused me for a moment -- Ontario, CA. Is that Ontario, Canada? No, it's apparently Ontario, California. Can't people get their own place names?
Geeze. I can't believe I'm actually defending Microsoft on this... The fact of the matter is that both Java and .NET have a number of strikes against them. Don't forget that Kodak has a patent that affects Java implementations, and I'm sure Sun has patents that affect the Java standard as well.
The only thing that bothers me is asking someone what the last thing they did on their compuer prior to it failing was, and getting the stock answer, "I didn't do anything -- it just stopped working by itself". This, of course, forces you to go through an entire long troubleshooting process of figuring out what happened. When you almost inevitably do find out it's user error, you're left with the troubleshooting time, which could've been avoided completely, if the user had only been honest with you.