Same thing here. I waited a while to register, got a (relatively) high UID. Also, at the time I registered I'd been named as a co-contributor to the VRML spec, so I choose a userid to brag about it. Now I'm stuck with a name that I don't use anywhere else, and if I start a new id I'll lose all my karma.
Looking at all the comments, I'd guess that there must be over a thousand people who missed getting four digit uids because we didn't register early enough.
"No,we're not listening to your phone calls," the man said in a mocking whine. "That would be unconstitutional. We see only the ads that show up when you talk on your phone."
"No, I'm not looking at your searches," the man said in a mocking whine. "That would be unconstitutional. We see only the ads that show up when you read your mail and do your searching."
The problem is finding decent ISDN equipment. I just threw out my old ISDN modem. Hello? Do you see the contradiction is those two sentences? Did you try to list the thing on ebay before you tossed it? If you did and no one bit, OK, but if you didn't, I suspect (based on current ebay listings) that there are lots of people who would've bought the thing for $25 or so. And if you don't want to use ebay for some reason, there's always craigslist.
Virgin Galactic are expecting to be doing regular sub-orbital flights within a year or two, soon after that, they or someone else will start of orbital flights. That could be done in 5-10 years, quite easily. Getting from LEO to the Moon is easy compared to getting from the ground to LEO, so I would expect more than a few years for that. I'm not sure what you mean by your last sentence, however I'm more interested in your second one. The article "Suborbital spaceflight: a road to orbit or a dead end?" discusses how much harder LEO is than sub-orbital. "If you accelerate in a vehicle straight up and reach Mach 5 or so, you can coast up to X Prize territory and cross the generally accepted threshold of space. However, you will immediately fall back to earth like a dropped cannon ball. Staying in space requires that you also accelerate to about Mach 25 horizontally so that you fall around the earth rather than back onto hard ground. This speed is five to six times greater than the typical maximum speed of an X Prize vehicle. This means that you need at least twenty-five times more energy for orbital flight than suborbital, since kinetic energy goes as the square of the speed." Virgin Galactic's (or their contractor's) abilities would have to increase at Moore's Law-like rates to get to LEO in 5-10 years, and I suspect that won't happen. For one thing, there is little incentive to reach incremental goals. There could be an X-Prize for a trans-Atlantic flight that reaches 100 km, but then your RLV is stuck thousands of miles from home. (OK, maybe FedEx could use it, but how many packages need to cross the ocean in thirty minutes or less?)
A CC license is all that's required for some types of photographs; others require more from the commercial user. If I take a picture of just landscape, say the Grand Canyon or Niagra Falls, and put it on Flickr, Virgin could have used it without any problems. If I took a picture of a single hot air ballon floating among the clouds and put it on Flickr, it would pretty much hinge on whether the balloon's design was copyrighted, i.e. rainbow stripes, good, Energizer Bunny, bad. An unposed picture of a large number of indistinguishable people, no problems. A picture of a few people posing for the camera, bad. Lastly, a news organization has more freedom to use pictures than advertisers. A picture of an Energizer Bunny hot air balloon crashing behind someone who's posing for a picture, perfectly usable by CNN, especially if it's the only photo available of the crash. Using that same picture for the cover of a record album, however, requires multiple permission slips.
Are you too busying watching "survivor" to be bothered with fundamental issues of right and wrong? Actually, I'm too busy watching "Lost", "Heros" and "Jerico".
OTTH, Admiral Heinlein, I salute you sir! I suspect you meant to say, "OTGH". This, BTW, is an especially appropriate reference since LN made him an Admiral in "The Return of William Proxmire".
In seven years of time you would expect that it would have expanded, got polished and all that stuff. Nope, didn't happen Amen, brother! Have you ever heard of Todd McFarlane or and Eric Larsen? Back when Image Comics got started, most of the founders preached these grandiose ideas about what they would be doing with their new company. McFarlane stood out by saying that his plan was to get an issue of Spawn out every month, on time, period. And he did. If you look at Image now, only two of the original comics survive, Spawn and Savage Dragon. They were the only ones not plagued by missed schedules and late shipments. Woody Allen once remarked that 80 percent of success is showing up on time. I wish more OSS developers would take that advice.
If my program includes libraries written by other people, do I have authority to do this? You probably don't (although the Linux and OpenBSD communities are hashing out the details of this even as we speak), but you do have the ability to clarify that your use of GPL or CC licenses in your works does not "contaminate" code or media that were originally issued under some other license. You can read Linus' exact thoughts on the subject here: http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
Practically, how do I manage the case where an author of something in the CC licensed portion of the Collective Work invokes the copyright notice removal clause? Let's see...
If You create a Collective Work, upon notice from any Licensor You must, to the extent practicable, remove from the Collective Work any credit as required by clause 4(c), as requested. If You create a Derivative Work, upon notice from any Licensor You must, to the extent practicable, remove from the Derivative Work any credit as required by clause 4(c), as requested. I'd say that you delete the licensor's name from every file that you distribute. If you make old versions available, delete it from them as well. It's not a code change, so nothing should break (unless you do something funky like runtime checksums on the licenses). Something like this: find . -type f | xargs perl -ie "s/Licensor/Anonymous Contributor/"
Not really new structures, at least not on a physical scale. People who suffer brain damage somehow re-purpose other areas of their brain to replace the damaged areas. The process works better the younger the person is; I know because my oldest daughter suffered a stroke when she was born. The MRI scans indicated that most of the left hemisphere was knocked out, but you'd have a hard time telling it today. Along with slight clumsiness, she's the only left-handed person in our family, but her IQ is perfectly normal. Based on this experience, I'd guess than anyone who grows up with some sort of extra haptic or proprioceptic sense would adapt to it quite well.
Take Linus Torvales' approach. He simply defined exactly what types of combination he would consider to be aggregations and which wouldn't. If you package everything in a.jar file, then append a clause to the GPL license stating that for the purposes of the GPL, only things in the 'bin' directory are covered. If you have everything as resources in a Windows.exe or.dll, do someting similar, maybe all odd-numbered ids or something.
That happened to a house I know. When I got out of college, my best friend bought a building that had originally been a Victorian Romanesque-Revival quadraplex (one duplex on the first floor, another upstairs). The rehabers had gutted one side and installed an indoor pool. We had some wild parties there, especially at New Year's; some of them even broke up people's marriages. Eventually, though, my buddy sold the building (the pool side was a maintenance nightmare) and everyone in our circle of friends moved out to the suburbs.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I was in the neighborhood and drove by. I immediately noticed that the windows on the pool side, which had previously been frosted, were now transparent. Through them, I could see a table lamp where the diving board had been.
So long, pool, it was nice knowing you.
P.S. Here's a chance to reference my "bio": "A wise old man once told me, if you're looking for someone to have sex with, you live in the city; if you've got someone to have sex with, you live in the suburbs." -- David Parrish
The price of a product only relates to the price of its components to the degree that the maker avoids taking a loss. I keep having to explain this to people. Adding a $50,000 extension to your house doesn't increase its value by $50,000; in some cases it could actually decrease the value. iPods are just jewelry (why else would there be a special U2 edition?), and the last time I checked the mark-ups on jewelry is way higher than any margnis that Apple would dream of.
And there was his mistake. If he was going to go to that much trouble, he should have just shot the guy and walked away. Nothing tied him to the bad guy, so the police would have had no leads to investigate. And if he did get caught, he claims it was a crime of passion; he just saw the bad guy and lost control of his actions.
Despite both the summary and the article, it's a real 3-core chip, designed that way from the ground up, so I presume that the data paths are the same length. IIRC, somebody designed and sells a three socket mobo where all the data paths are also equal. (Ah, here it is: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/08/13/1749213.shtml, a three socket Opteron machine with two PCIe slots and two Infiniband 4x ports.) I'd like to see a version for the Phenom 3-core CPUs; even better would be building some sort of Beowulf cluster using three of them, each using a pair of cross-over cables for the interconnects. That would give you one sweet 27-way cluster.
"Can you imagine a rendering pipeline where all the geometry and textures have to go from one process to the next?"
Yes, several. X11 involves, at a minimum, both server and client processes, while graphics accelerator cards use at least one entire other processor that you have to coordinate with. Finally, the PS3 uses its cell processors quite well for rendering. The trick to getting good performance in all of these cases is to use shared memory. You just need a good system of communicating between the processes to keep them from stepping on each other's toes.
Before I make yet another shiny drink coaster, is there any trick to getting the program to run? The Pirate Bay link pointed to a collection of files, not an ISO image. I burned a CD, installed the program, but now it complains that it can't find the correct CD.
Other replies have spoken about scraping this particular site's CC content and copying it to another wiki. That's fine if you can get to the content, but what if a hypothetical site abruptly converted to a fee-for-access format? Obviously you'd then need to either pay to recover what should be freely available, or scrape the data from someplace else, such as Google's cache or the Internet Archive. That assumes, however, that the content is available from those places, which could be prevented by adding suitable meta tags (nosearch, noarchive) during a period prior to the conversion.
So here are my questions: Are there any search engines or archive sites that will ignore meta tags that contradict a CC license and cache the content anyway? Is there any way to somehow cause Google or the Internet Archive to cache such content despite its meta data?
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Same thing here. I waited a while to register, got a (relatively) high UID. Also, at the time I registered I'd been named as a co-contributor to the VRML spec, so I choose a userid to brag about it. Now I'm stuck with a name that I don't use anywhere else, and if I start a new id I'll lose all my karma.
Looking at all the comments, I'd guess that there must be over a thousand people who missed getting four digit uids because we didn't register early enough.
How about e-gold? I hear it's growing in popularity every single day.
Check the ad appearing next to this article: http://samwyse.googlepages.com/slashdot-autodesk.jpg
"No,we're not listening to your phone calls," the man said in a mocking whine. "That would be unconstitutional. We see only the ads that show up when you talk on your phone."
"No, I'm not looking at your searches," the man said in a mocking whine. "That would be unconstitutional. We see only the ads that show up when you read your mail and do your searching."
Alan Tudyk's just glad he didn't have to wear a bright-green wet suit the whole time he was working on the project.
The problem is finding decent ISDN equipment. I just threw out my old ISDN modem. Hello? Do you see the contradiction is those two sentences? Did you try to list the thing on ebay before you tossed it? If you did and no one bit, OK, but if you didn't, I suspect (based on current ebay listings) that there are lots of people who would've bought the thing for $25 or so. And if you don't want to use ebay for some reason, there's always craigslist.
A CC license is all that's required for some types of photographs; others require more from the commercial user. If I take a picture of just landscape, say the Grand Canyon or Niagra Falls, and put it on Flickr, Virgin could have used it without any problems. If I took a picture of a single hot air ballon floating among the clouds and put it on Flickr, it would pretty much hinge on whether the balloon's design was copyrighted, i.e. rainbow stripes, good, Energizer Bunny, bad. An unposed picture of a large number of indistinguishable people, no problems. A picture of a few people posing for the camera, bad. Lastly, a news organization has more freedom to use pictures than advertisers. A picture of an Energizer Bunny hot air balloon crashing behind someone who's posing for a picture, perfectly usable by CNN, especially if it's the only photo available of the crash. Using that same picture for the cover of a record album, however, requires multiple permission slips.
Steve Jobs is still mad at Gordon Brown because of that incident last month.
Big Macs also seem to work well. http://www.economist.com/markets/Bigmac/Index.cfm
Not really new structures, at least not on a physical scale. People who suffer brain damage somehow re-purpose other areas of their brain to replace the damaged areas. The process works better the younger the person is; I know because my oldest daughter suffered a stroke when she was born. The MRI scans indicated that most of the left hemisphere was knocked out, but you'd have a hard time telling it today. Along with slight clumsiness, she's the only left-handed person in our family, but her IQ is perfectly normal. Based on this experience, I'd guess than anyone who grows up with some sort of extra haptic or proprioceptic sense would adapt to it quite well.
Take Linus Torvales' approach. He simply defined exactly what types of combination he would consider to be aggregations and which wouldn't. If you package everything in a .jar file, then append a clause to the GPL license stating that for the purposes of the GPL, only things in the 'bin' directory are covered. If you have everything as resources in a Windows .exe or .dll, do someting similar, maybe all odd-numbered ids or something.
That happened to a house I know. When I got out of college, my best friend bought a building that had originally been a Victorian Romanesque-Revival quadraplex (one duplex on the first floor, another upstairs). The rehabers had gutted one side and installed an indoor pool. We had some wild parties there, especially at New Year's; some of them even broke up people's marriages. Eventually, though, my buddy sold the building (the pool side was a maintenance nightmare) and everyone in our circle of friends moved out to the suburbs.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago I was in the neighborhood and drove by. I immediately noticed that the windows on the pool side, which had previously been frosted, were now transparent. Through them, I could see a table lamp where the diving board had been.
So long, pool, it was nice knowing you.
P.S. Here's a chance to reference my "bio": "A wise old man once told me, if you're looking for someone to have sex with, you live in the city; if you've got someone to have sex with, you live in the suburbs." -- David Parrish
The price of a product only relates to the price of its components to the degree that the maker avoids taking a loss. I keep having to explain this to people. Adding a $50,000 extension to your house doesn't increase its value by $50,000; in some cases it could actually decrease the value. iPods are just jewelry (why else would there be a special U2 edition?), and the last time I checked the mark-ups on jewelry is way higher than any margnis that Apple would dream of.
And there was his mistake. If he was going to go to that much trouble, he should have just shot the guy and walked away. Nothing tied him to the bad guy, so the police would have had no leads to investigate. And if he did get caught, he claims it was a crime of passion; he just saw the bad guy and lost control of his actions.
Despite both the summary and the article, it's a real 3-core chip, designed that way from the ground up, so I presume that the data paths are the same length. IIRC, somebody designed and sells a three socket mobo where all the data paths are also equal. (Ah, here it is: http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/08/13/1749213.shtml, a three socket Opteron machine with two PCIe slots and two Infiniband 4x ports.) I'd like to see a version for the Phenom 3-core CPUs; even better would be building some sort of Beowulf cluster using three of them, each using a pair of cross-over cables for the interconnects. That would give you one sweet 27-way cluster.
"Can you imagine a rendering pipeline where all the geometry and textures have to go from one process to the next?"
Yes, several. X11 involves, at a minimum, both server and client processes, while graphics accelerator cards use at least one entire other processor that you have to coordinate with. Finally, the PS3 uses its cell processors quite well for rendering. The trick to getting good performance in all of these cases is to use shared memory. You just need a good system of communicating between the processes to keep them from stepping on each other's toes.
Before I make yet another shiny drink coaster, is there any trick to getting the program to run? The Pirate Bay link pointed to a collection of files, not an ISO image. I burned a CD, installed the program, but now it complains that it can't find the correct CD.
Other replies have spoken about scraping this particular site's CC content and copying it to another wiki. That's fine if you can get to the content, but what if a hypothetical site abruptly converted to a fee-for-access format? Obviously you'd then need to either pay to recover what should be freely available, or scrape the data from someplace else, such as Google's cache or the Internet Archive. That assumes, however, that the content is available from those places, which could be prevented by adding suitable meta tags (nosearch, noarchive) during a period prior to the conversion.
So here are my questions: Are there any search engines or archive sites that will ignore meta tags that contradict a CC license and cache the content anyway? Is there any way to somehow cause Google or the Internet Archive to cache such content despite its meta data?
Arggh! Here are the missing links:
Buy a Nintendo DS, get a Games-n-Music card, and install some PDA software.