And then what, they used a replicator or something to scale the model up to full size once they got it into space?
Makes sense to me. Why build a dozen or so ships in space when you can build one big giant orbiting replicator and use the model to program it with the specifications for a Constitution-class ship? That way you can produce as many as you have energy for with the press of a button.
Linus specifically struck the "or any later version" clause out of the copy of the gpl2 he used to license Linux.
That piece of text isn't part of the license itself, it's part of a separate standard notice that states that the software is copyrighted and gives permission to redistribute or modify it under the terms of the GPL. It could just as easily have said "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any license you want in exchange for buying Linus a beer" and still be under version 2 of the GPL.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that port yet. Looks like the same guy has created ports for several editing tools as well as PrBoom-plus, but none of them have been included in the ports tree yet. (Too close to 4.4 release time, maybe...)
Or did you conveniently forget that it's GNU/Linux?
Like how people conveniently forget that it wasn't published under the GPL until late 1992. Or that it can currently be compiled with at least one compiler other than GCC. Or that it's possible to run it with a modified *BSD userland and non-glibc C library. But yeah, aside from that, it's all Stallman's doing...
Consider the effects of changed water flows downstream.
Lake Ontario.
Aside from a reduction in the flow of water over a waterfall in between the two, a couple of tunnels under a nearby city named after the waterfall, and a 750 acre reservoir on former farmland, I don't see how this particular hydroelectric plant has destroyed an ecosystem.
(That's why I added "all of the time" in my earlier comment. It may be true that most sources of hydroelectric power require destruction of the landscape, but there's at least a few exceptions...)
ZDoom's problem was that it was using non-GPL code, yet was made available according to the GNU General Public License.
ZDoom's problem isn't that it was using non-GPL code, it was that it was trying to use GPL code: version 1.16 used the minilzo decompressor and Qmus2midi, and the whole thing was released as GPL. Version 1.22 had Qmus2midi ripped out, but minilzo was still there and there was nothing in the source indicating what license the whole thing could be distributed under. Well, we know now that it couldn't be distributed due to the mixing of Doom Source Licensed code with GPLed code (not to mention the Hexen bits that were in there), but I don't know what it claimed to be under at the time.
I don't have the source for any 2.0 versions except 2.0.96 handy. That one has no GPL code, although a few files have an exception that if they're used outside of ZDoom or one of its derivatives, then they fall under the GPL. The only piece of GPL code in GZDoom is Fragglescript, and the author of that has granted an exception so it can be linked with GZDoom. The author of GZDoom has put a lot of his own code under the LGPL, mostly to make it more difficult for closed-source ZDoom derivatives ZDaemon and Skulltag to use it...
Really? The Wii is limited to 480p - so that's a rubbish picture for those of us in PAL territories. The sound is limited to stereo - so no DD or DTS. Considering an £20 DVD will have digital sound and better quality - why bother using the Wii in that way?
I have a standard definition TV in an NTSC region with only two speakers hooked up to it, you insensitive clod!
I know, it seems like only nine years ago it was a four-clause license, now allthreemajor BSDs have gone to two-clause licenses. Within a decade it'll be a zero-clause license and BSD will finally die...
I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television. I don't even own one.
I'm not an elitist, it's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen. If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I'll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university. I certainly wouldn't waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out.
People don't realize just how much time their TV-watching habit -- or, shall I say, addiction -- eats up. Four hours of television a day, over the course of a month, adds up to 120 hours. That's five entire days! Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of watching fictional people live theirs? I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a television.
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Makes sense to me. Why build a dozen or so ships in space when you can build one big giant orbiting replicator and use the model to program it with the specifications for a Constitution-class ship? That way you can produce as many as you have energy for with the press of a button.
The longer a country's name is, the less likely it is to be true...
Which would make a World Series between the two of them that much more amazing...
Mr. McCain, shouldn't you be worrying about your Presidential campaign instead of wasting time on Slashdot?
That piece of text isn't part of the license itself, it's part of a separate standard notice that states that the software is copyrighted and gives permission to redistribute or modify it under the terms of the GPL. It could just as easily have said "either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any license you want in exchange for buying Linus a beer" and still be under version 2 of the GPL.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that port yet. Looks like the same guy has created ports for several editing tools as well as PrBoom-plus, but none of them have been included in the ports tree yet. (Too close to 4.4 release time, maybe...)
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I agree, it is undeadly...
Like how people conveniently forget that it wasn't published under the GPL until late 1992. Or that it can currently be compiled with at least one compiler other than GCC. Or that it's possible to run it with a modified *BSD userland and non-glibc C library. But yeah, aside from that, it's all Stallman's doing...
Did you pick him up at the side of the road and give him a ride to the Sands Hotel?
Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you fool me can't get fooled again!
Lake Erie.
Lake Ontario.
Aside from a reduction in the flow of water over a waterfall in between the two, a couple of tunnels under a nearby city named after the waterfall, and a 750 acre reservoir on former farmland, I don't see how this particular hydroelectric plant has destroyed an ecosystem.
(That's why I added "all of the time" in my earlier comment. It may be true that most sources of hydroelectric power require destruction of the landscape, but there's at least a few exceptions...)
Hydroelectric power requires destroying ecosystems? All of the time? News to me.
ZDoom's problem isn't that it was using non-GPL code, it was that it was trying to use GPL code: version 1.16 used the minilzo decompressor and Qmus2midi, and the whole thing was released as GPL. Version 1.22 had Qmus2midi ripped out, but minilzo was still there and there was nothing in the source indicating what license the whole thing could be distributed under. Well, we know now that it couldn't be distributed due to the mixing of Doom Source Licensed code with GPLed code (not to mention the Hexen bits that were in there), but I don't know what it claimed to be under at the time.
I don't have the source for any 2.0 versions except 2.0.96 handy. That one has no GPL code, although a few files have an exception that if they're used outside of ZDoom or one of its derivatives, then they fall under the GPL. The only piece of GPL code in GZDoom is Fragglescript, and the author of that has granted an exception so it can be linked with GZDoom. The author of GZDoom has put a lot of his own code under the LGPL, mostly to make it more difficult for closed-source ZDoom derivatives ZDaemon and Skulltag to use it...
No they weren't, ZDoom and its derivatives don't use any GPL code because Doom was originally released with a different license.
(Although it's still possible that the licenses of the various bits of code mashed together in those ports are still incompatible with each other.)
But you're on Slashdot, and therefore have no life.
Not having read the article (this is Slashdot, of course) I don't know exactly what chipset(s) this is for, but this might help...
I have a standard definition TV in an NTSC region with only two speakers hooked up to it, you insensitive clod!
So you're saying there's nothing in the box? Absolutely nothing?!?!
Stupid!!! You're so STUPID!!!!!!
The only problem? They released them in Word format...
(Okay, not really -- someone must have realized that that would be silly.)
Who says Facebook users can't be both?
Alien hellspawn invasion?
I know, it seems like only nine years ago it was a four-clause license, now all three major BSDs have gone to two-clause licenses. Within a decade it'll be a zero-clause license and BSD will finally die...
I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television. I don't even own one.
I'm not an elitist, it's just that I'd much rather sculpt or write in my journal or read Proust than sit there passively staring at some phosphorescent screen. If I need a fix of passive audio-visual stimulation, I'll go to catch a Bergman or Truffaut film down at the university. I certainly wouldn't waste my time watching the so-called Learning Channel or, God forbid, any of the mind sewage the major networks pump out.
People don't realize just how much time their TV-watching habit -- or, shall I say, addiction -- eats up. Four hours of television a day, over the course of a month, adds up to 120 hours. That's five entire days! Why not spend that time living your own life, instead of watching fictional people live theirs? I can't begin to tell you how happy I am not to own a television.