That's like saying 'you intended me to take your car because you left your door unlocked'.
It's total BS, and you'd have a damned hard time arguing that in a court. Unauthorized use of computer resources is a criminal offence - it's just that the kind of people who don't know how to secure a router are also the kind of people who don't know how to find out who's using it illegaly.
However since the community version is gpl software, there is absolutely no problem to use it for commercial purposes, until you are actually changing mysql db , something you rarely really want to do.
Not true.
Changing is irrelevant - gpl covers distribution and linking. The moment you distribute an application that uses mysql that is *not* GPL you violate GPL. You need to buy a mysql license (mysql seem to be unique in requiring that linking to the client libraries incurs a per-user license fee* - not even Oracle do that).
* Confirmed by mysql themselves when we talked to them. They wanted $200 per user, for 100% of the copies, even the free ones! At 1.5 million free downloads we'd owe mysql 3 billion dollars!!! I really think they didn't think that one through.. or it was the salesmans first day or something... we merely did the obvious and dropped mysql support.
sqlite is a very simple single user db. It's easy to integrate and because it doesn't need a server, works extremely well where you'd like to use SQL but don't need a heavy database. It's not even in the same target application space as MySql.
MySql is a full fledged client/server database and *should* support referential integrity properly. Of course its biggest problem is licensing - you can only use mysql with 100% GPL applications (unless you're prepared to pay $200/user for the client licenses, or stick to the 3.23 client which is the last free to use version), which limits it somewhat.. TBH given that restriction I'm really surprised web hosts still ship it, as they're opening themselves up to all sorts of liability issues if one of their customers uses/builds a non-gpl app using it.
Postgresql is basically mysql without all the silly politics.
The last thing iPhone users need is to have happen what is the norm for Windows. There anyone can write and distribute any software including damaging code.
And OSX.
And damned near every other OS known to man.
Just because Windows is a virus laden piece of crap don't blame it on free software.
DSL is a modulated signal. It's sharing space with voice, and goes across cable paths with hundreds of cables all bound together. It manages to do this reasonably well over a distance of several miles.
Sending raw voltage down a cable is a completely different thing... plus HDMI is a twisted pair serial link (so your comparison with PATA is completely bogus). Compare it to network cable if you must - you can send that over large distances (50m+) with zero data loss at gigabit speeds (although it's recommended to go much shorter just checkout the cabling in the average office building.. repeaters cost money:p).
Clock skew is not an issue. That's just something that people like Monster throw in to confuse the issue. It's reclocked at the receiver. If that process failed you'd get no picture *at all* not merely a poor one.
Interference is not an issue. It's twisted pair - so it'll take a *hell* of a lot of interference for it to bury the signal completely (like wrapping it around a mains transformer or something.. not even sure that would do it).
HDMI (and most digital) cables are designed so they work 100% until they fail catastrophically. That's the fact of the matter. A $5 cable is not just 'good enough' it's perfect over less than 5m, or it's broken and won't work at all.
They are useful sometimes. I had a company threaten me with court action within 7 days for a debt I apprently owed 5 years previously (and to this day have no idea what they're talking about.. the threatening company was just some random agency I think). 10 minutes with a lawyer and I was able to send a letter back demanding written proof of the outstanding debt (which I expect they did not have), and words to the effect 'Any further letters on the matter to you will be billed at my standard rate of £150/hour' (which was in fact my contract rate at the time).
Anything sold as an HDMI cable has to meet a basic transmission standard to prove it can handle the maximum bandwidth. All cables on sale do this.. so don't be fooled by this 'HDMI 1.3 cable so it's more expensive' crap. A cable *tested* to HDMI 1.1 standard can more than likely handle HDMI 1.3, it's just nobody has tested it to that standard (90% of cables are tested to 1.3 standard anyway, so you might not need to choose - monoprice cables are fine for example).
The threshold between a few bit errors and catastrophic failure is so narrow it's not worth worrying about. Anything else the error correction can handle - but on any cable less than 5m I'd be surprised if there were any errors for it to correct. HDMI's error correction either works or it doesn't. If it does it's perfect, if it doesn't you're talking about more than a couple of bits and it'll be damned obvios.
HDMI is twisted pair. This makes it *extremely* resilient to external interference (I'm running gigabit ethernet over 30m of unshielded twisted pair with no errors, and that stuff cost next to nothing)
Also there's the HDCP wrinkle. An error in the bitstream that's uncorrectable is going to screw up the decrypt, leading to complete loss of picture. Any errors will be very, very obvious. I have seen this.. I have a cheap 15m cable that isn't quite up to job of 1080p/60, so every now and then the picture disappears and the PJ needs to resync the data stream. At 1080p/24 it's 100% perfect.
This is *not* analogue. Different rules apply.. There is no gradual degradation Monster and their ilk are simply lying to take money from people.
Joe public simply donesn't need durability.. they're not exacrtly going on tour with them (and even if they were there's nothing that gaffer tape won't fix..)
It needs to be durable enough to go into the holes at the back of the cable box and the TV, and sit there undisturbed for the next 5 years.. ie. not at all. The only stress those cables are going to have to endure is an increasing layer of dust.
There's still time to amend the law so he can have another term. Another war breaking out should just about do it.
If he can't manage that, just engineer an election. That's quite easy provided you don't get stupid.. win by 51%-49% and few will be able to seriously question the result.
And both are declining dramatically (there's an area in china that apparently has no bees left at all - the farmers there who grow pears for a living have to hand-pollinate otherwise there would be no more crops).
It may be worth pointing out at this point that the other broadcasters *do* get a cut of the license fee. Doesn't stop them making lowest common denominator crap though.
It's actually quite useful - I've found a lot of stuff that I wouldn't normally watch whilst browsing through it. Probably the first implementation I've ever seen that was actually usable, as long as you don't get suckered into downloading that kontiki crap.
They *are* tasked with examining the options regarding funding from time to time though.
The BBC Charter was only settled last year. The next charter review is 2012 - at which time the landscape regarding ISPs, broadband, etc. will be totally different (we should be mostly if not totally digital by then for example). The incumbent government of the time will then make the final decision, present it to the queen (it being a royal charter) and carry on as usual.
Part of the license fee going towards broadband structure to support TV distribution has some precedent - some of it goes to the commercial TV channels already (not that they use any of it to make decent programmes, but I digress...). I believe this is what Ofcom are proposing, despite the way Slashdot have decided it's the other way around.
Basically it's a consultation document.. one of many, that will all be gathered up somewhere towards 2012, given to the politician in charge then who then has to decide what to do. Absolutely nothing is going to come of it in the short term.
... and lose 90% of its revenue thereby having to charge as much or more as Sky (which works out at something like £1000 a year - 10* the BBC cost) and depriving those without that much money of the BBC entirely. Worse, it could start taking advertising and become something like the scumheap that is ITV.
The most popular TV programmes in the UK by a long, long way are *not* things like the simpsons.
Most popular programmes on british TV are a bunfight between Eastenders and Coronation street, between them taking up most of the top 10 viewing slots at around 10 million per showing. Add in Emmerdale and Casualty and that pretty much takes up the top 20, with the BBC News slipping in there at the bottom (yes, paxman earns his keep).
Sky are nowhere. The colour of magic was by far their most popular programme at only 1.2 million viewers (that's a british programme BTW), pulling in double the second place programme Stargate ark of truth which managed only half a million. Even the rerun of 'Ben Hur' on five got more than that.
Scan through the BARB figures and you'll find the vast majority of popular TV in britain is british. The rest is made up of Australian and US stuff... but none of the things you mention are in the list.
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And I'd be more than happy to charge you ground rent for the amount of my property that you were invading.
Long and bitter lawsuits have been fought over *much* less... it's not worth even thinking of borrowing a neigbors space.
That's like saying 'you intended me to take your car because you left your door unlocked'.
It's total BS, and you'd have a damned hard time arguing that in a court. Unauthorized use of computer resources is a criminal offence - it's just that the kind of people who don't know how to secure a router are also the kind of people who don't know how to find out who's using it illegaly.
However since the community version is gpl software, there is absolutely no problem to use it for commercial purposes, until you are actually changing mysql db , something you rarely really want to do.
Not true.
Changing is irrelevant - gpl covers distribution and linking. The moment you distribute an application that uses mysql that is *not* GPL you violate GPL. You need to buy a mysql license (mysql seem to be unique in requiring that linking to the client libraries incurs a per-user license fee* - not even Oracle do that).
* Confirmed by mysql themselves when we talked to them. They wanted $200 per user, for 100% of the copies, even the free ones! At 1.5 million free downloads we'd owe mysql 3 billion dollars!!! I really think they didn't think that one through.. or it was the salesmans first day or something... we merely did the obvious and dropped mysql support.
sqlite is a very simple single user db. It's easy to integrate and because it doesn't need a server, works extremely well where you'd like to use SQL but don't need a heavy database. It's not even in the same target application space as MySql.
MySql is a full fledged client/server database and *should* support referential integrity properly. Of course its biggest problem is licensing - you can only use mysql with 100% GPL applications (unless you're prepared to pay $200/user for the client licenses, or stick to the 3.23 client which is the last free to use version), which limits it somewhat.. TBH given that restriction I'm really surprised web hosts still ship it, as they're opening themselves up to all sorts of liability issues if one of their customers uses/builds a non-gpl app using it.
Postgresql is basically mysql without all the silly politics.
The last thing iPhone users need is to have happen what is the norm for Windows. There anyone can write and distribute any software including damaging code.
And OSX.
And damned near every other OS known to man.
Just because Windows is a virus laden piece of crap don't blame it on free software.
No - the GPL removes the freedom of others to license their own code independently of yours. It basically says 'GPL your own code as well or STFU'.
That's why it comes into conflict with so many other licenses.
LGPL isn't so bad, because it keeps itself to itself.
No they're not - they're merely packaging it for distribution, and that package includes a signature.
.rar to .zip would be 'modification' and require source code distribution, which is clearly ludicrous.
By your interpretation changing a package from
I thought it was bush seeing threats behind every NSA.
You're more likely to shatter it... I'm not sure I like the idea of 26,000 individual hiroshimas hitting earth any more than I like one big one..
Not the same thing at all.
:p).
DSL is a modulated signal. It's sharing space with voice, and goes across cable paths with hundreds of cables all bound together. It manages to do this reasonably well over a distance of several miles.
Sending raw voltage down a cable is a completely different thing... plus HDMI is a twisted pair serial link (so your comparison with PATA is completely bogus). Compare it to network cable if you must - you can send that over large distances (50m+) with zero data loss at gigabit speeds (although it's recommended to go much shorter just checkout the cabling in the average office building.. repeaters cost money
Clock skew is not an issue. That's just something that people like Monster throw in to confuse the issue. It's reclocked at the receiver. If that process failed you'd get no picture *at all* not merely a poor one.
Interference is not an issue. It's twisted pair - so it'll take a *hell* of a lot of interference for it to bury the signal completely (like wrapping it around a mains transformer or something.. not even sure that would do it).
HDMI (and most digital) cables are designed so they work 100% until they fail catastrophically. That's the fact of the matter. A $5 cable is not just 'good enough' it's perfect over less than 5m, or it's broken and won't work at all.
They are useful sometimes. I had a company threaten me with court action within 7 days for a debt I apprently owed 5 years previously (and to this day have no idea what they're talking about.. the threatening company was just some random agency I think). 10 minutes with a lawyer and I was able to send a letter back demanding written proof of the outstanding debt (which I expect they did not have), and words to the effect 'Any further letters on the matter to you will be billed at my standard rate of £150/hour' (which was in fact my contract rate at the time).
They replied with a profuse apology!
Corrosion?
If your AV equipment is in an area damp enough to suffer corrosion I suggest switching off the power and backing away, slowly, before there's a fire.
No they're just cables with HDMI connectors.
Anything sold as an HDMI cable has to meet a basic transmission standard to prove it can handle the maximum bandwidth. All cables on sale do this.. so don't be fooled by this 'HDMI 1.3 cable so it's more expensive' crap. A cable *tested* to HDMI 1.1 standard can more than likely handle HDMI 1.3, it's just nobody has tested it to that standard (90% of cables are tested to 1.3 standard anyway, so you might not need to choose - monoprice cables are fine for example).
The threshold between a few bit errors and catastrophic failure is so narrow it's not worth worrying about. Anything else the error correction can handle - but on any cable less than 5m I'd be surprised if there were any errors for it to correct. HDMI's error correction either works or it doesn't. If it does it's perfect, if it doesn't you're talking about more than a couple of bits and it'll be damned obvios.
HDMI is twisted pair. This makes it *extremely* resilient to external interference (I'm running gigabit ethernet over 30m of unshielded twisted pair with no errors, and that stuff cost next to nothing)
Also there's the HDCP wrinkle. An error in the bitstream that's uncorrectable is going to screw up the decrypt, leading to complete loss of picture. Any errors will be very, very obvious. I have seen this.. I have a cheap 15m cable that isn't quite up to job of 1080p/60, so every now and then the picture disappears and the PJ needs to resync the data stream. At 1080p/24 it's 100% perfect.
This is *not* analogue. Different rules apply.. There is no gradual degradation Monster and their ilk are simply lying to take money from people.
Joe public simply donesn't need durability.. they're not exacrtly going on tour with them (and even if they were there's nothing that gaffer tape won't fix..)
It needs to be durable enough to go into the holes at the back of the cable box and the TV, and sit there undisturbed for the next 5 years.. ie. not at all. The only stress those cables are going to have to endure is an increasing layer of dust.
There's still time to amend the law so he can have another term. Another war breaking out should just about do it.
If he can't manage that, just engineer an election. That's quite easy provided you don't get stupid.. win by 51%-49% and few will be able to seriously question the result.
There's no such thing. They'd be called Danish.
Only the US has a peculiar obsession with separating its population into ethnic groups.
And both are declining dramatically (there's an area in china that apparently has no bees left at all - the farmers there who grow pears for a living have to hand-pollinate otherwise there would be no more crops).
It may be worth pointing out at this point that the other broadcasters *do* get a cut of the license fee. Doesn't stop them making lowest common denominator crap though.
iplayer seems to work OK.
It's actually quite useful - I've found a lot of stuff that I wouldn't normally watch whilst browsing through it. Probably the first implementation I've ever seen that was actually usable, as long as you don't get suckered into downloading that kontiki crap.
They *are* tasked with examining the options regarding funding from time to time though.
The BBC Charter was only settled last year. The next charter review is 2012 - at which time the landscape regarding ISPs, broadband, etc. will be totally different (we should be mostly if not totally digital by then for example). The incumbent government of the time will then make the final decision, present it to the queen (it being a royal charter) and carry on as usual.
Part of the license fee going towards broadband structure to support TV distribution has some precedent - some of it goes to the commercial TV channels already (not that they use any of it to make decent programmes, but I digress...). I believe this is what Ofcom are proposing, despite the way Slashdot have decided it's the other way around.
Basically it's a consultation document.. one of many, that will all be gathered up somewhere towards 2012, given to the politician in charge then who then has to decide what to do. Absolutely nothing is going to come of it in the short term.
... and lose 90% of its revenue thereby having to charge as much or more as Sky (which works out at something like £1000 a year - 10* the BBC cost) and depriving those without that much money of the BBC entirely. Worse, it could start taking advertising and become something like the scumheap that is ITV.
CNN leans to the left? Which version have you been watching!
CNN like all US news channels is extremely right wing.. not quite as bad as the average US slashdotter, but the agenda is clear.
lol. Sky are not one of the largest ISPs.. they're relatively small in fact.
BT are by far the dominant player having (last time I checked) around 60% of the broadband accounts in the country.
The most popular TV programmes in the UK by a long, long way are *not* things like the simpsons.
Most popular programmes on british TV are a bunfight between Eastenders and Coronation street, between them taking up most of the top 10 viewing slots at around 10 million per showing. Add in Emmerdale and Casualty and that pretty much takes up the top 20, with the BBC News slipping in there at the bottom (yes, paxman earns his keep).
Sky are nowhere. The colour of magic was by far their most popular programme at only 1.2 million viewers (that's a british programme BTW), pulling in double the second place programme Stargate ark of truth which managed only half a million. Even the rerun of 'Ben Hur' on five got more than that.
Scan through the BARB figures and you'll find the vast majority of popular TV in britain is british. The rest is made up of Australian and US stuff... but none of the things you mention are in the list.