Just because something is patented doesn't mean it can't be released under the GPL.
The GPL is a licence for granting specific permissions for people to use what *you* (still) own.
In particular, the GPL (as opposed to the LGPL) only allows non-commercial software to use your copyrighted/patented work, so you can still make a good business licensing it to commercial users.
That said, the current version of the GPL is great for licensing copyright, but somewhat murky on more complex patent issues in a global market, and that is what is being improved in GPL version 3.
Where did you get this crazy idea that *your* confidence is somehow hinged upon how *others* judge you?
Confidence: "Yeah, I've never had a girlfriend, but that's just because I'm waiting for the right girl. I might be able to arrange for you to have a tryout, if you think you're up for it, but don't be dissapointed, because I'm not making any promises;)"
All women look great today which removes the excitement of that bullet point on a dating profile. There's some historical context and speculation on younger womans' effect on men." From the article: "I guess we're getting closer to super-models, but I just don't care. The girls shown don't look markedly better than any woman from this generation. I guess they're impressive in a 'that's close to the porn movies now' kind of way, but the looks aren't changing lifestyle in any way that I can see. They just make my traditional lifestyle look prettier. For the people who absolutely adore beautiful women and have this superficial need to be with the best looking woman, there will certainly be things to cheer in the next generation. I'm sure I'll eventually date these younger women myself and be at least modestly excited at their looks, but I've just grown so accustomed to the nice looking women of the current generation that there's no 'wow' factor anymore.
People keep talking like Java has failed and is now dead and gone.
I have been programming primarily in Java since 97, and if you ask me, it's just *starting* to pick up steam.
The language itself is just becoming mature - with big strides (generics, etc) in Java 1.5. And only now are we seeing alternate implementations to Suns, with GNU Classpath approaching a million lines of code, and GCJ compiled applications shipping in Fedora Core 4. Java applications such as Eclipse are also just starting to become popular, and Java API's for things like GNOME are just appearing on the horizon.
The Web Tools Project is adding Eclipse support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSD, XSLT, SVG, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, SQL, XQuery, etc: http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/index.html
And keep in mind that Eclipse can currently run on an entirely Free Software platform using GCJ (with prebuilt RPM's included in Fedora Core 4!): http://klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/setup.html
I don't find most videogames appealing, but rather just frustrating.
It's like an arbitrarily endless supply of frustration. I don't find overcoming problems fun, because I do that at *work*, and when I get home, I just want to play, stress free. Forget AAA games appealing to a broad audience including casual female gamers, I'm an active gaming 30 year old male, but not a lot of game designs appeal to me.
I do really like multiplayer first person shooters:
- A multiplayer FPS is something I can just pick up and put down easily. - If I screw up in an FPS, I may not get as good a kill ratio, but it's still fun, not like, ie, Mario Bro's, where I spend 2 hours trying to clear some section, never make it, get frustrated and just never play the game again. - In a single player shooter (ala HL2), your opponents skill level is totally arbitrary, it's a constant in some header file... they could all have perfect aim if they wanted, and I find overcoming this type of obstacle pointless - there is no satisfaction. Killing live opponents is not arbitrary, and much more satisfying. - Plus with games like Battlefield, it's like an arcade quality flight sim built in too!:)
it provides a nice framework guiding "old dogs" like me into standards-compliant code.
XHTML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on 26 January 2000, meaning it has been around almost as long now as HTML was when it came out! (Well, at least, almost as long as HTML had been in popular use when XHTML came out).
The only excuse for not using XHTML today is laziness and ineducation on the part of designers and those educating them. The same reasons most web sites don't validate as proper HTML. Sadly, "just good enough" is the rule of the day.
The article has this overwhelming tone of "thank god the poor kid was saved" and "this could happen to anyone", but I don't think it could. I certainly don't agree with how Apple handled the situation, but in my opinion this guy should have had more sense. I think taking a pre-release from an early access developer program and creating a torrent for it should set off alarm bells in anyones head. I have a hard time believing he didn't understand the possible repercussions of his actions in this case.
How does this effect "internal corporate communications"? It is my understanding that you are allowed to use and modify GPL licensed software *internally* without having to release your changes.
Some of the material there is pretty much required reading to get this stuff working, and includes posts with patches from ATI developers to make the driver work with the latest kernels (2.6.10, etc).
I agree, printing is to be expected, and is just fine by me. In that case, you still get the standard one page version you would have had with a conventional approach. This is purely an *augmentation* for if you do view it in a browser.
If I make it past the first screening, to the point where they are thinking about calling for an interview - they can slap my URL from the top of the page into their browser and find out all about me if they want. Will they? Who knows. My current employer did though, and it helped.
I use html title attributes you can click on for detail about a particular project I have done, or skill category. All the information is included in the single emailable html document. You can also print it out, though that will lose the popups, hence the encouragement at the start for people to view the online version.
I want to rent a robot in a far away place which I can control over the internet from home. It would let me drive around the attraction, and have a video camera I could aim (direction, raise, lower), along with a microphone. The software client for my computer would not only display the video/audio stream, but show an interactive GPS map of where I (my robot) am, and provide context sensitive supplementary text, audio, and video information akin to a tour guide - especially at any places my robot could not maneuver. I could even be able to interact with people in these places, and possibly so far as to purchase items that would be shipped to me. I would like to be able to rent such a robot (by the hour) at any major tourist attraction around the world (ie, Pyramids). And, of course, the rates would be really reasonable:P
I work from home, and OSDL provides some infrastructure that allows me to get my work done without having to worry about things.
Heh, "provides some infrastructure" ??
Such a sweet deal would normally make one wonder...
Richard Chesler : Get the f**k out of here, you're fired!
Narrator : I have a better solution. You keep me on the payroll as an outside consultant, and in exchange for my salary, my job will be never to tell people these things that I know. I don't even have to come into the office, I can do this job from home.
This is great, but what I would really like to see, to make this useful for me, is support within Eclipse (it's parser/compiler chokes on 1.5 code features right now). And for those of you sharing my anticipation here is the bug from Eclipse's bugzilla for tracking the support.
"At this time, we have no plans to support any Palm OS 4.1 or earlier devices (e.g. Tungsten W, Treo 300, Sony T665 etc.). Many of these devices cannot decode compressed audio without additional hardware support, and while some of them can, we do not plan to support them at this time."
The 7135 does not have the beefy Arm processor needed for this, it relies on it's MP3 only DSP hardware.
I just bought a Kyocera 7135 because it has recently been made to work with Linux. Though there are still some rough edges with gnome-pilot syncing (with Evolution), I easily got it working with J-Pilot. I like the 7135 because it's a more 'phone like' phone - rather than a PDA with a microphone and antennae:P
The good thing with the Treo is that it's CPU should allow for Vorbis decoding, whereas the 7135 relies on it's built in DSP for the cycles, which only supports MP3.
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Heh, well, maybe if they put more sex into video games, all those kids would instead decide they want to make love, not war :)
Just because something is patented doesn't mean it can't be released under the GPL.
The GPL is a licence for granting specific permissions for people to use what *you* (still) own.
In particular, the GPL (as opposed to the LGPL) only allows non-commercial software to use your copyrighted/patented work, so you can still make a good business licensing it to commercial users.
That said, the current version of the GPL is great for licensing copyright, but somewhat murky on more complex patent issues in a global market, and that is what is being improved in GPL version 3.
Where did you get this crazy idea that *your* confidence is somehow hinged upon how *others* judge you?
;)"
Confidence: "Yeah, I've never had a girlfriend, but that's just because I'm waiting for the right girl. I might be able to arrange for you to have a tryout, if you think you're up for it, but don't be dissapointed, because I'm not making any promises
All women look great today which removes the excitement of that bullet point on a dating profile. There's some historical context and speculation on younger womans' effect on men." From the article: "I guess we're getting closer to super-models, but I just don't care. The girls shown don't look markedly better than any woman from this generation. I guess they're impressive in a 'that's close to the porn movies now' kind of way, but the looks aren't changing lifestyle in any way that I can see. They just make my traditional lifestyle look prettier. For the people who absolutely adore beautiful women and have this superficial need to be with the best looking woman, there will certainly be things to cheer in the next generation. I'm sure I'll eventually date these younger women myself and be at least modestly excited at their looks, but I've just grown so accustomed to the nice looking women of the current generation that there's no 'wow' factor anymore.
People keep talking like Java has failed and is now dead and gone.
:)
I have been programming primarily in Java since 97, and if you ask me, it's just *starting* to pick up steam.
The language itself is just becoming mature - with big strides (generics, etc) in Java 1.5. And only now are we seeing alternate implementations to Suns, with GNU Classpath approaching a million lines of code, and GCJ compiled applications shipping in Fedora Core 4. Java applications such as Eclipse are also just starting to become popular, and Java API's for things like GNOME are just appearing on the horizon.
So quit calling Java dead
You can see what's coming in the next version of Eclipse here:c lipse_project_plan_3_1_2005_02_14.html
http://www.eclipse.org/org/councils/PC/platform/e
The Web Tools Project is adding Eclipse support for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, XSD, XSLT, SVG, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, SQL, XQuery, etc:
http://www.eclipse.org/webtools/index.html
And keep in mind that Eclipse can currently run on an entirely Free Software platform using GCJ (with prebuilt RPM's included in Fedora Core 4!):
http://klomp.org/mark/gij_eclipse/setup.html
I don't find most videogames appealing, but rather just frustrating.
:)
It's like an arbitrarily endless supply of frustration. I don't find overcoming problems fun, because I do that at *work*, and when I get home, I just want to play, stress free. Forget AAA games appealing to a broad audience including casual female gamers, I'm an active gaming 30 year old male, but not a lot of game designs appeal to me.
I do really like multiplayer first person shooters:
- A multiplayer FPS is something I can just pick up and put down easily.
- If I screw up in an FPS, I may not get as good a kill ratio, but it's still fun, not like, ie, Mario Bro's, where I spend 2 hours trying to clear some section, never make it, get frustrated and just never play the game again.
- In a single player shooter (ala HL2), your opponents skill level is totally arbitrary, it's a constant in some header file... they could all have perfect aim if they wanted, and I find overcoming this type of obstacle pointless - there is no satisfaction. Killing live opponents is not arbitrary, and much more satisfying.
- Plus with games like Battlefield, it's like an arcade quality flight sim built in too!
Namespaces!
The proliferation of XML allows everyone to create tag sets to meet their needs - from Scalable Vector Graphics to Chemistry Markup Language.
With this evolution, the browser becomes more of a host for a set of plugins glued together through XHTML.
XHTML, being a dialect of XML, allows you to create compound documents combining elements from multiple XML namespaces into a single document.
XHTML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation on 26 January 2000, meaning it has been around almost as long now as HTML was when it came out! (Well, at least, almost as long as HTML had been in popular use when XHTML came out).
The only excuse for not using XHTML today is laziness and ineducation on the part of designers and those educating them. The same reasons most web sites don't validate as proper HTML. Sadly, "just good enough" is the rule of the day.
The article has this overwhelming tone of "thank god the poor kid was saved" and "this could happen to anyone", but I don't think it could. I certainly don't agree with how Apple handled the situation, but in my opinion this guy should have had more sense. I think taking a pre-release from an early access developer program and creating a torrent for it should set off alarm bells in anyones head. I have a hard time believing he didn't understand the possible repercussions of his actions in this case.
How does this effect "internal corporate communications"? It is my understanding that you are allowed to use and modify GPL licensed software *internally* without having to release your changes.
Uhhh... methinks you may have spent one too many nights at Neverland
I bet this is also related to the differing perceptions of LCD response times?
I happily play FPS games on my LCD, without any noticeable blurring, but I know many people still view it as a problem on LCD's.
Those that are going to try using this should read the Rage3D Linux Drivers Forum.
Some of the material there is pretty much required reading to get this stuff working, and includes posts with patches from ATI developers to make the driver work with the latest kernels (2.6.10, etc).
I agree, printing is to be expected, and is just fine by me. In that case, you still get the standard one page version you would have had with a conventional approach. This is purely an *augmentation* for if you do view it in a browser.
If I make it past the first screening, to the point where they are thinking about calling for an interview - they can slap my URL from the top of the page into their browser and find out all about me if they want. Will they? Who knows. My current employer did though, and it helped.
Not knowing exactly what skills particular employers are looking for, I have always had trouble finding a good size balance. So now I use both!
http://www.hubick.com/resume/HubickResume.html
I use html title attributes you can click on for detail about a particular project I have done, or skill category. All the information is included in the single emailable html document. You can also print it out, though that will lose the popups, hence the encouragement at the start for people to view the online version.
The best forum to read/ask this topic is at Rage3D.
They have howto's, patches, and some ATI dev's even post there.
I want to rent a robot in a far away place which I can control over the internet from home. It would let me drive around the attraction, and have a video camera I could aim (direction, raise, lower), along with a microphone. The software client for my computer would not only display the video/audio stream, but show an interactive GPS map of where I (my robot) am, and provide context sensitive supplementary text, audio, and video information akin to a tour guide - especially at any places my robot could not maneuver. I could even be able to interact with people in these places, and possibly so far as to purchase items that would be shipped to me. I would like to be able to rent such a robot (by the hour) at any major tourist attraction around the world (ie, Pyramids). And, of course, the rates would be really reasonable :P
If you like to keep up with your favorite hackers in the FOSS world:
http://www.planetplanet.org/ has a list of blog aggregators for various projects!
Heh, "provides some infrastructure" ??
Such a sweet deal would normally make one wonder...
Parent is spot on!
Everyone seems to know XSLT, but not it's sister XSLFO spec. XSL-FO is designed for exactly this!
This is great, but what I would really like to see, to make this useful for me, is support within Eclipse (it's parser/compiler chokes on 1.5 code features right now). And for those of you sharing my anticipation here is the bug from Eclipse's bugzilla for tracking the support.
Seth Nickell has a blog entry discussing solutions in this area, including Gnome Storage, WinFS, Dashboard, Medusa, Spotlight, and Beagle.
The 7135 does not have the beefy Arm processor needed for this, it relies on it's MP3 only DSP hardware.
I just bought a Kyocera 7135 because it has recently been made to work with Linux. Though there are still some rough edges with gnome-pilot syncing (with Evolution), I easily got it working with J-Pilot. I like the 7135 because it's a more 'phone like' phone - rather than a PDA with a microphone and antennae :P
The good thing with the Treo is that it's CPU should allow for Vorbis decoding, whereas the 7135 relies on it's built in DSP for the cycles, which only supports MP3.