How much better? If you're using one fifth of the bandwidth over the same channel, you can withstand a noise level that's five times higher. At least in theory.
If you don't need the bandwidth, just use 802.11b.
No argument about the sound engineers (hell, I was one for a while. Colour me biased) but the promoters and distributors? There's a *lot* of dead wood there. It doesn't matter if you've spent years learning a craft if that craft is obsolete.
The problem is that the scam involves links not coming from quasi-strangers, but potentially people you trust. For about half the people I follow, I wouldn't even give it a second thought - no chance I'd click it. For the other half, it would honestly depend what mood I was in and how distracted I was. But you do have to be some kind of divot to log in to a previously unknown non-twitter site with your twitter account details.
IANAL but it would be interesting to see if using a social network as a proxy would give one any sheilding from CAN-SPAM or other state statutes since their is no protection on social networking sites, and users did opt-in to reiceve emails from the social network site.
Here in the UK they'd probably be liable under the Computer Misuse Act for breaking the T&Cs of the social network site in question, which is arguably a bigger deal. I don't know what the US equivalent would be.
I find it really hard to criticise Lynch for failings in his Dune film. So much was cut, and there are so many little moments of genius in what's left, that I think the full 3-hour version might well have been an order of magnitude better, and a better version than the SciFi channel one.
Trivia fact I didn't know until I just went to wikipedia to read up on this: Lynch was offered Return of the Jedi. My, how history could have been different.
That might make it perfect for a franchise, though, because you're not reliant on having to have the same cast available for each film. Hell, you wouldn't even need the same director. That being said, I think there are some directors around who could pull it off as a one- or two-parter, Aronofsky, for one. The Fountain convinced me of that.
Yes. The correct response to this is "if the law is never going to be used like that, and we agree that it would be wrong to do so, why is the law not framed to make it illegal?"
Sorry, what part of this is difficult for you? They say "You may pick one of these licenses." GPLv3 is not one of those licenses. Ergo, you may not pick the GPLv3.
It does not matter that Inter.NET and openLabel think they've released under GPLv3. Let me quote again from the use agreement, in case you missed it:
in the event another license, or other terms or conditions, appear on, in or are otherwise referenced in your project, you agree that the Project License will control your Project.
They have agreed to be bound by the GPLv2 as far as Microsoft are concerned.
Oh and lets not forget how "cool" it'd be if the runtime of every pet scripting language was embedded directly in common web browsers. Yes Cletus, that sure would be 'great'!
Could you show me where it plainly states that the GPL v3 is not allowed for projects hosted on CodePlex?
From the Codeplex use agreement when you sign up to create a new project:
You must select one of the listed licenses to govern your Project ("Project License"). The license You select (the "Project License") will appear in the license text box of your Project...in the event another license, or other terms or conditions, appear on, in or are otherwise referenced in your project, you agree that the Project License will control your Project.
You don't get to see the list of acceptable licenses until after you sign up for a project, but when you do, the list is as follows:
Apache License 2.0
Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL)
Eclipse Public License (EPL)
GNU General Public License (GPL) v2
GNU Library General Public License (LGPL)
Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)
Microsoft Reciprocal License (Ms-RL)
Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL)
New BSD License
The MIT License
I don't see the GPLv3 in that list.
You are correct "open source" is not a trademark but is suppose to be a standard. If you check out the history of the OSI, you wil find that the OSD is intended to define a standard by which to judge a projects openness.
Unfortunately, this plan falls down at 1 purely through the existence of botnets. They are geographically diverse, across exactly the sort of IP spaces that MS want to have access to their service - home Windows installs.
Without 1, the rest of the plan falls apart. There's no point limiting the number of email addresses per time period if you've got the ability to sign up 20,000 accounts at once, so 2 falls. The number of spams per account can be small, so 3 falls.
This is a hard problem. Fortunately, there are ways of turning it to general advantage, like using CAPTCHA results to tune OCR for scanning old texts.
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How much better? If you're using one fifth of the bandwidth over the same channel, you can withstand a noise level that's five times higher. At least in theory.
If you don't need the bandwidth, just use 802.11b.
Unfortunately you'll have the word "unfamiliarity" thrown right back at you. It's a bigger hurdle than you might think.
Or, indeed, Java. Language != implementation.
There are in the UK. Dunno about the US.
No argument about the sound engineers (hell, I was one for a while. Colour me biased) but the promoters and distributors? There's a *lot* of dead wood there. It doesn't matter if you've spent years learning a craft if that craft is obsolete.
The problem is that the scam involves links not coming from quasi-strangers, but potentially people you trust. For about half the people I follow, I wouldn't even give it a second thought - no chance I'd click it. For the other half, it would honestly depend what mood I was in and how distracted I was. But you do have to be some kind of divot to log in to a previously unknown non-twitter site with your twitter account details.
Here in the UK they'd probably be liable under the Computer Misuse Act for breaking the T&Cs of the social network site in question, which is arguably a bigger deal. I don't know what the US equivalent would be.
I find it really hard to criticise Lynch for failings in his Dune film. So much was cut, and there are so many little moments of genius in what's left, that I think the full 3-hour version might well have been an order of magnitude better, and a better version than the SciFi channel one.
Trivia fact I didn't know until I just went to wikipedia to read up on this: Lynch was offered Return of the Jedi. My, how history could have been different.
That might make it perfect for a franchise, though, because you're not reliant on having to have the same cast available for each film. Hell, you wouldn't even need the same director. That being said, I think there are some directors around who could pull it off as a one- or two-parter, Aronofsky, for one. The Fountain convinced me of that.
Yes. The correct response to this is "if the law is never going to be used like that, and we agree that it would be wrong to do so, why is the law not framed to make it illegal?"
The huge field of shipping containers with racks and racks of servers to run the thing on is pretty new.
A ton would be more like... 907.18474 kg.
You're welcome.
Fixed that for you.
From the silverlight terms of agreement:
You may not
 work around any technical limitations in the software;
There - right there - it says that if your computer is limited by this software you may not find a way to fix it!
That's also in the Vista terms. I break it every day; I'm sure everybody does.
"Exceptionally grave damage to the human race?" Then again, that would assume some sort of altruism on the part of the people who frame these things.
Yes, but that's precisely three kiloFarnsworthies less funny.
Sorry, what part of this is difficult for you? They say "You may pick one of these licenses." GPLv3 is not one of those licenses. Ergo, you may not pick the GPLv3.
It does not matter that Inter.NET and openLabel think they've released under GPLv3. Let me quote again from the use agreement, in case you missed it:
in the event another license, or other terms or conditions, appear on, in or are otherwise referenced in your project, you agree that the Project License will control your Project.
They have agreed to be bound by the GPLv2 as far as Microsoft are concerned.
I just see C# as an intermediate step to get the industry ready for F#.
String matching. Seriously.
Somehow it's heartening that this is "Insightful", not "Funny".
Oh and lets not forget how "cool" it'd be if the runtime of every pet scripting language was embedded directly in common web browsers. Yes Cletus, that sure would be 'great'!
My word. You've just described Silverlight.
Could you show me where it plainly states that the GPL v3 is not allowed for projects hosted on CodePlex?
From the Codeplex use agreement when you sign up to create a new project:
You must select one of the listed licenses to govern your Project ("Project License"). The license You select (the "Project License") will appear in the license text box of your Project...in the event another license, or other terms or conditions, appear on, in or are otherwise referenced in your project, you agree that the Project License will control your Project.
You don't get to see the list of acceptable licenses until after you sign up for a project, but when you do, the list is as follows:
I don't see the GPLv3 in that list.
You are correct "open source" is not a trademark but is suppose to be a standard. If you check out the history of the OSI, you wil find that the OSD is intended to define a standard by which to judge a projects openness.
That's precisely my point.
...as long as it's black. There are a few licenses that you can't have on Codeplex (like GPLv3, for instance, although GPLv2 is allowed).
Also:
'Open Source'(which seems to be hijacked by the OSI as a trademark?)
It's not trademarked, but they did define it.
Great in theory, doesn't work in practice. Unfortunately this one has been debunked.
Unfortunately, this plan falls down at 1 purely through the existence of botnets. They are geographically diverse, across exactly the sort of IP spaces that MS want to have access to their service - home Windows installs.
Without 1, the rest of the plan falls apart. There's no point limiting the number of email addresses per time period if you've got the ability to sign up 20,000 accounts at once, so 2 falls. The number of spams per account can be small, so 3 falls.
This is a hard problem. Fortunately, there are ways of turning it to general advantage, like using CAPTCHA results to tune OCR for scanning old texts.
If the human race needs an emblem, we could do a lot worse.
What's the cost-per-kilo for payload on a probe? What would it actually cost to land a rubber duck on Europa?