the reasons they are beyond the pale to Americans are because they don't glorify America, and because they aren't about Americans
Hmm, very good point. I recall some people being quite upset when U-571 came out, because the espionage coup of retrieving an Enigma machine suddenly became an American story. In real life, Polish cryptoanalysts got the machine analyzed back in 1939, before USA even joined the war
That said, Vichy France was VERY helpful to the Germans, and many Americans can't let go of the ideal of the valiant rebel fighting on in guerilla warfare as some kind of Platonic ideal. Thus, to the simplistic American, all French are now mistakenly considered surrender monkeys who not only surrendered, but aided the enemy.
Of course, the French Maquis fits the "valiant rebel" description quite well, and it's not that there were not many British Loyalists among the American colonists at the start of the War of Independence anyway.
There are even quite a few movies made about the French Resistance. Perhaps some of them are considered beyond the pale to some Americans, because of the two resistance movements, one is led by an American-snubbing De Gaulle and the other is, well, Communist..
A significant number of Qantas flights are 24 hours long
No single commercial plane can fly non-stop for more than, say, 16 hours. I have been on air trips that take more than 20 hours, but they invariably involve one or two stops. For the purpose of "number of flights", defining a flight as involving take-off and landing (which are the most dangerous events), each legs should be counted as a separate flight.
Once solar power becomes competitive with other energy sources, imagine the potential economic potential of countries around the Sahara desert. It might help to compensate for the water shortage..
One would have to find a way to efficiently protect the solar panels from sandstorms, though.
LGPL is compatible with GPL in the sense that you can link to an LGPL library from a GPL program, but I don't think the reverse is true (for example, see Why not LGPL).
So KDE's LGPL-ed libraries must be linking to Qt using Qt's QPL license rather than GPL. Otherwise it's a big loophole - I can take any GPL-ed library, wrap it in an LGPL interface that changes the API a bit (or not at all) and presto, I get something that can be used in a commercial application. That can't be the case.
So in order to develop a proprietary application with KDE, you need a commercial license for Qt, but it is possible.
Ah, thanks. I didn't realize KDE uses the LGPL license for its libraries -- do they make use of Qt's QPL, then? I was under the assumption that linking against a GPL'ed library would require your application (or extending library) to be GPL'ed as well.
What is needed is a single, de-facto GUI widget kit that is ubiquitous across all distributions of Linux.
Hmm. As far as I know, most Linux distribution comes with GTK+ and Qt installed by default, regardless of whether they use GNOME or KDE as their default desktops. And freedesktop.org is working at standardizing more parts of the desktop..
As far as licensing goes, with GTK+/GNOME you can develop proprietary applications; with Qt, if you want to do so you have to buy a commercial license, and with KDE.. you cannot. Simple as that.
Ah, my mistake. Hmm, perhaps IBM knew they would have problems ramping up the clock speed on the 970, and so tried to throw out as many unneeded circuitry as possible?
It's their first CPU with AltiVec/VMX support, after all. And if Apple users were pissed off at the slower emulation of x86 code, imagine how murderous they'd get if AltiVec were left out!
At 1 g (9.8 m/s^2), you'll get to the speed of light in (3e8 / 9.8) ~= 3e7 seconds, or just short of one year.
Doable, I'll say. If you can find a way to maintain an average acceleration of 1 g, that is -- the increase is mass is going to make the energy expenditure enormous!
The Mars atmosphere can retain its CO2, and oxygen would be fine as well (as long as it is constantly generated by living organisms, as it has a tendency to bind with other molecules through oxidation) -- on the other hand, as far as we know, it cannot retain water vapour, and so it cannot sustain liquid water, which will eventually evaporate and then escape.
This is where the lack of enough data causes problems. On the only planet that we know can support life, the more complex organisms all need both liquid water and oxygen. Is this necessary, though? Probably not.
Still, given an energy source, relatively stable conditions and something that can be oxidized, you can probably find life if you know where to look. We have all those anaerobic archaic bacteria living off those heat vents after all.
A bit bizarre that IBM does this after they decided to make POWER exclusively big-endian (starting from POWER4 / PPC 970, if I remember correctly). Before that it's endian-neutral, so writing an emulation layer is easier because you don't have to deal with endianness issues.
One of the reason for the relative performance drop of Virtual PC when run on a G5 rather than a G4 Mac is the software handling of endianness. (And yes, emulation of Intel x86 CPU on PPC has been done for a long time. Just not on the server)
I think that for libraries and other software that can be used in various different applications, "public domain" is the way to go. Just like SQLite has done. Even it can be used in closed source, it still helps the human kind in general, because the less is needed to invent the wheel again.
But you *are* reinventing the wheel when you have to reimplement a closed-source addition that some company did to the original code without sharing, or sharing it with a more restrictive license (like FreeBSD cannot take in changes that Apple make verbatim, because APSL != BSD). As an earlier reply said, what's wrong with LGPL for libraries?
Wow, I paid just over $30 to file using TaxAct online. They even have an option where you don't pay in advance, but let them take their cut from the refund.
I have an odd feeling that the reason IE developers are draging their feet on standard compliance is that they want to move web developers to using Visual Studio.NET for anything non-trivial.
VS.NET's WebForms does greatly simplify the development of web applications - they behave just like normal WinForms applications -- but you can only select HTML 4.0, Netscape 4.7, IE 4, 5, and 6 (this was back in VS 2003, if I remember correctly).
Metacity has some rudimentary compositing support, but it's turned off by default, and I believe the suggested recommendation is you use Compiz instead if you want 3D. I'm not sure what the situation is vis-a-vis KWin -- did it ever have compositing? Presumably they will put it in for 4.0 though.
Real's DNA platform is based on AAC as well, so really, the only players in trouble are those that only does PlayForSure, and they have a bigger problem from Microsoft abandoning them anyway.
Add to games, the fact that everyone and their sister seems to be glued firmly to MS Office, and MS is sitting in a pretty good position.
Sure, because MS actually sells Office for Mac, and has been for a *long* time. Microsoft Word even started its life as a Mac-only application, before Windows even existed.
And while Office 2007 for Windows' look-and-feel still does not match the rest of the Windows desktop, the pre-release of Office 2008 for Mac actually looks really good.
Since GPLv3 is more relaxed in interoperability requirement with other licenses than GPLv2, forking a GPLv2 project will involve rewriting all the GPLv2 code whose copyright owners refuse to move. Sounds painful.
The reverse is more likely: if a project decides to move to GPLv3, presumably some die-hard GPLv2ists could continue maintaining the present version. Though the purpose of doing this is unclear.
.. an anonymous coward already said it, but to make sure more people sees this, let me reiterate:
The first-generation Macbooks suffered from an overheating problem. On the quadrant where the CPU housing is located, the temperature would reach several degrees C higher than a comparable PC laptop (running the same CPU); there have been anecdotal tales of people disassembling their Macbooks, scraping off excess thermal paste and obtaining lower running temperatures.
The second-generation Macbooks are less affected, but I'm not sure if Apple's assembly manuals have changed or not, or whether it's a result of Merom outputting less heat on average than Yonah. The version that was out at the time of the first-gens apparently instructs the technician to use thermal paste too liberally.
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Hmm, very good point. I recall some people being quite upset when U-571 came out, because the espionage coup of retrieving an Enigma machine suddenly became an American story. In real life, Polish cryptoanalysts got the machine analyzed back in 1939, before USA even joined the war
Hmm, interesting. That means KDE's Mac port would be GPL, not LPGL'ed, and any patch they get from Mac users would be under the GPL as well.
Of course, the French Maquis fits the "valiant rebel" description quite well, and it's not that there were not many British Loyalists among the American colonists at the start of the War of Independence anyway.
There are even quite a few movies made about the French Resistance. Perhaps some of them are considered beyond the pale to some Americans, because of the two resistance movements, one is led by an American-snubbing De Gaulle and the other is, well, Communist..
No single commercial plane can fly non-stop for more than, say, 16 hours. I have been on air trips that take more than 20 hours, but they invariably involve one or two stops. For the purpose of "number of flights", defining a flight as involving take-off and landing (which are the most dangerous events), each legs should be counted as a separate flight.
Once solar power becomes competitive with other energy sources, imagine the potential economic potential of countries around the Sahara desert. It might help to compensate for the water shortage ..
One would have to find a way to efficiently protect the solar panels from sandstorms, though.
LGPL is compatible with GPL in the sense that you can link to an LGPL library from a GPL program, but I don't think the reverse is true (for example, see Why not LGPL).
So KDE's LGPL-ed libraries must be linking to Qt using Qt's QPL license rather than GPL. Otherwise it's a big loophole - I can take any GPL-ed library, wrap it in an LGPL interface that changes the API a bit (or not at all) and presto, I get something that can be used in a commercial application. That can't be the case.
Ah, thanks. I didn't realize KDE uses the LGPL license for its libraries -- do they make use of Qt's QPL, then? I was under the assumption that linking against a GPL'ed library would require your application (or extending library) to be GPL'ed as well.
Hmm. As far as I know, most Linux distribution comes with GTK+ and Qt installed by default, regardless of whether they use GNOME or KDE as their default desktops. And freedesktop.org is working at standardizing more parts of the desktop..
As far as licensing goes, with GTK+/GNOME you can develop proprietary applications; with Qt, if you want to do so you have to buy a commercial license, and with KDE.. you cannot. Simple as that.
Ah, my mistake. Hmm, perhaps IBM knew they would have problems ramping up the clock speed on the 970, and so tried to throw out as many unneeded circuitry as possible?
It's their first CPU with AltiVec/VMX support, after all. And if Apple users were pissed off at the slower emulation of x86 code, imagine how murderous they'd get if AltiVec were left out!
At 1 g (9.8 m/s^2), you'll get to the speed of light in (3e8 / 9.8) ~= 3e7 seconds, or just short of one year.
Doable, I'll say. If you can find a way to maintain an average acceleration of 1 g, that is -- the increase is mass is going to make the energy expenditure enormous!
The Mars atmosphere can retain its CO2, and oxygen would be fine as well (as long as it is constantly generated by living organisms, as it has a tendency to bind with other molecules through oxidation) -- on the other hand, as far as we know, it cannot retain water vapour, and so it cannot sustain liquid water, which will eventually evaporate and then escape.
This is where the lack of enough data causes problems. On the only planet that we know can support life, the more complex organisms all need both liquid water and oxygen. Is this necessary, though? Probably not.
Still, given an energy source, relatively stable conditions and something that can be oxidized, you can probably find life if you know where to look. We have all those anaerobic archaic bacteria living off those heat vents after all.
A bit bizarre that IBM does this after they decided to make POWER exclusively big-endian (starting from POWER4 / PPC 970, if I remember correctly). Before that it's endian-neutral, so writing an emulation layer is easier because you don't have to deal with endianness issues.
One of the reason for the relative performance drop of Virtual PC when run on a G5 rather than a G4 Mac is the software handling of endianness. (And yes, emulation of Intel x86 CPU on PPC has been done for a long time. Just not on the server)
But you *are* reinventing the wheel when you have to reimplement a closed-source addition that some company did to the original code without sharing, or sharing it with a more restrictive license (like FreeBSD cannot take in changes that Apple make verbatim, because APSL != BSD). As an earlier reply said, what's wrong with LGPL for libraries?
Ah, he's not a GNOMEr
Scary that we hear about this about the same time as Slashdot carries a Russian media censorship article.
I'd make a Soviet Russia joke, but this time it's an apt comparison for a change.
Wow, I paid just over $30 to file using TaxAct online. They even have an option where you don't pay in advance, but let them take their cut from the refund.
I have an odd feeling that the reason IE developers are draging their feet on standard compliance is that they want to move web developers to using Visual Studio.NET for anything non-trivial.
VS.NET's WebForms does greatly simplify the development of web applications - they behave just like normal WinForms applications -- but you can only select HTML 4.0, Netscape 4.7, IE 4, 5, and 6 (this was back in VS 2003, if I remember correctly).
Metacity has some rudimentary compositing support, but it's turned off by default, and I believe the suggested recommendation is you use Compiz instead if you want 3D. I'm not sure what the situation is vis-a-vis KWin -- did it ever have compositing? Presumably they will put it in for 4.0 though.
Real's DNA platform is based on AAC as well, so really, the only players in trouble are those that only does PlayForSure, and they have a bigger problem from Microsoft abandoning them anyway.
Sure, because MS actually sells Office for Mac, and has been for a *long* time. Microsoft Word even started its life as a Mac-only application, before Windows even existed.
And while Office 2007 for Windows' look-and-feel still does not match the rest of the Windows desktop, the pre-release of Office 2008 for Mac actually looks really good.
Microsoft will get quite nervous once those new Mac users realize they could get along just fine with Crossover Office..
Since GPLv3 is more relaxed in interoperability requirement with other licenses than GPLv2, forking a GPLv2 project will involve rewriting all the GPLv2 code whose copyright owners refuse to move. Sounds painful.
The reverse is more likely: if a project decides to move to GPLv3, presumably some die-hard GPLv2ists could continue maintaining the present version. Though the purpose of doing this is unclear.
You can use Groovy with it, you know =)
.. an anonymous coward already said it, but to make sure more people sees this, let me reiterate:
The first-generation Macbooks suffered from an overheating problem. On the quadrant where the CPU housing is located, the temperature would reach several degrees C higher than a comparable PC laptop (running the same CPU); there have been anecdotal tales of people disassembling their Macbooks, scraping off excess thermal paste and obtaining lower running temperatures.
The second-generation Macbooks are less affected, but I'm not sure if Apple's assembly manuals have changed or not, or whether it's a result of Merom outputting less heat on average than Yonah. The version that was out at the time of the first-gens apparently instructs the technician to use thermal paste too liberally.
Aha! I was wondering if it had something to do with the interaction between the faulty gene and its normal counterpart. That makes sense -- thanks.