I'm pretty certian that T. Zhan didn't just decide to write SW novels; he was contracted by Lucas to produce N novels over Y years, and receives payment for that work under that contract. Assuming this is the case, Lucasarts unambiguously owns the IP rights to Zhan's work, since he did it for pay at their behest. He has no more right to his work than I have to the code I write for my employer.
Sybase also offers free (as in beer) releases of older versions of Adaptive Server Enterprise. ASE 11.9.2 is $0 for development use only, and ASE 11.0.3.3 is $0 for development or production. Since 11.9.2 is now end-of-lifed, you can't purchase a license even if you wanted to. This makes it's usability on production systems somewhat ambiguous.
There are also developer versions available as free downloads (registration required) for ASE 12.5.1 and ASA 9.0 on all supported platforms.
Life would indeed be sweet if Sybase were to open the source for their free (as in beer) release of Adaptive Server 11.0.3.3 for Linux. 11.0 is a little long in the tooth in terms of features, but it's still FAR more mature than an inexplicably popular crappy toy database.
If you don't know what OpenWatcom is, then it's likely you don't care about it. Of course if you had the reading comprehension skills of a trained chimpanzee, you could tell from context that it's some kind of compiler. The sentence "the Watcom C/C++ and Fortran products will be the first mass market, proprietary compilers to be Open Sourced" kind of gives it away. If you still had questions you could have actually CLICKED ON THE FREAKING LINK and looked at the project web site, instead of whining that you aren't being spoon fed information.
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It's pretty pathetic that a professional has to sign off with a disclaimer when speaking in a public forum about his area of expertise out of fear of liability. I'm a software engineer, I hope things don't get to the point where I can't talk about programming without worrying about getting sued. The damn lawyers are ruining it for everyone...
Well, since APS is basically just a Kodak marketing gimmick, that's not suprising. APS was a consumer technology for people who didn't want the complexity, and didn't need the quality of 35MM. Digital has all but killed the market for mass-market film. 35MM will still remain the choice for serious photographers for some time to come. Film is here to stay. 35MM will probably be rendered obsolete eventually (not for at least another 5 years, by my guess), but large format professional film will be around for a LONG damn time.
Most people go batshit whenever they hear the N-word. That's why NUCLEAR Magnetic Resonance Imaging had to lose the N before it could go mainstream. NMRI became MRI for PR purposes, not because the technology changed.
The environmental whackos go nuts (and let slip the lawyers of war) when you launch a totally sealed reactor, can you imagine what they would do if you wanted to launch something that *gasp* released radioactive gasses into the atmosphere?
Hey, at least they're offering something of value in exchange for your money. Most churches just expect you to plunk down the cash without so much as a thank you.
Hell, a lot of the far-right Protestant churches tell you that if you don't give them 10% of everything you make that you'll burn in hell. Then, after you give them their tithe, they still pass around the collection plate and expect you to give some MORE for whatever project they're pushing this week (support missionaries in India, new hot tub in the rectory, etc)
I say more power to these monks. They are being useful members of society, which sets them apart from the other 99% of the religion industry who are nothing more than parasites. And, unlike many TV preachers *cough*Fallwell*cough* they aren't being loud-mouthed hipocrits.
Defining "spam" precisely enough that a ban could be meaningful is a giant problem
Only if you make it that way. Personally, I think spam can be defined *exactly* by a two question test:
Is it unsolicited?
Is it commercial? (Where "commercial" means "attempting to seperate me from my money")
If the answer to both questions is yes, then it's spam. I can't think of any non-spam message that is both unsolicited and commercial. Unsolicited non-commercial messages fall through this definition, but that's an acceptable compromise. I don't mind spam that's not after my money as long as I get rid of 100% of the spam that IS after my money.
From the Microsoft's point of view, people running Win 98 are almost as evil as people running Linux
Actually, they're even worse: Linux users don't actually cost MS any money, they just represent a sale that isn't going to happen. Win98 users, on the other hand, represent a bigger liability, since MS has to actually fork out real money on support, bug fixes, etc.
Sounds cool. To answer your original question, munchkin 1.0 just had his first birthday. Munchkin 2.0 is in active development and should be released in early August.:-)
Thanks for the link. They look a lot like the Fisher-Price Little People line of toys. The grandparents bought him a truckload of those for Yule and his birthday.
It came in the basket of stuff we got from the hospital -- mostly product samples and what not. It's got a company logo; as a freebie it's a lot more useful and distinctive than another pen or refrigerator magnet. I wouldn't have bought one, but since it was free, I use it. The TP tube is a good idea.
You are exactly right about alertness & flexibility being the important qualities. You can never be too alert, especially once the little guys start walking. Love & attention is far more effective than any gizmo or gadget in keeping your kids safe.
That's why there's Duplo. My 1 year old son loves them. I build things, he chews on them. Once he gets past the put-everything-in-the-mouth stage, he'll graduate to real legos.
Regarding choking hazards, the hospital gave us this handy little plastic guage (basically just a clear acrylic tube with one end closed.) If it can fit in the tube and touch bottom, it needs to be out of reach.
The great part about parenthood is that "having a life" means that you spend time with the kids. Having kids means that you can go out and blow a wad of money on toys and not feel guilty about it. My munchkin is still a little young for lego, but when he's a little older you can bet that he & I are going to be spending many hours playing legos together.
Yes, the Harry Potter set was very popular, but how profitable was it? I'm sure that J.K. Rowling and her publisher took a hefty percentage of the gross. That's the trouble with licensing a popular property -- the more popular the tie-in, the bigger the licensing fee.
it's likeley that the programmers will right away take steps to avoid security leaks like buffer overflows and the like
What's your basis for this assertion? The software industry has shown a remarkable lack of hindsight -- we keep making the same old mistakes over and over again. History has show that the vast majority of software projects treat security as an afterthought rather than as a core requirement. Even highly security-concious programmers still make mistakes.
A big part of the problem is that virtually all of the core server programs are written in C or C++, which are inherently insecure by design. The features which make C/C++ perform so well -- no bounds checking, weak typing, no garbage collection, etc -- are also the same feature which allow security flaws to happen so easily. Java is derided for it's performance, but it was designed with security in mind at both the compiler and run-time levels.
The RICO (racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations) statute, originally designed to go after the Mafia, is one of the most over-broad pieces of federal legislation ever, next to the USA-PATRIOT act. What constitutes an "ongoing criminal enterprise" is pretty vague -- and the courts have been very sympathetic to the government when interperting the law. Do a little googling for RICO act abuses for some illuminating horror stories.
Nah, all the lawyers live in Fairfax and Montgomery counties. That way they can tie up traffic on 495 by driving their Beemers like maniacs during rush hour.
"Hi, I'm from the RIAA and you're committing an offense" then there's no impersonation involved
Uh hun. That assumes that the person being targeted knows what the RIAA actually is. To someone who isn't all that educated, the initials RIAA are just as intimidating as FBI, INS, LAPD, BATF, or USSS. You get a bunch of big guys who dress like cops and act like cops, then, to someone who doesn't know any better, they are cops. It doesn't matter if *they* think they're not impersonating the police, what matters is if the *victim* genuinely believes that they are the police.
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I'm pretty certian that T. Zhan didn't just decide to write SW novels; he was contracted by Lucas to produce N novels over Y years, and receives payment for that work under that contract. Assuming this is the case, Lucasarts unambiguously owns the IP rights to Zhan's work, since he did it for pay at their behest. He has no more right to his work than I have to the code I write for my employer.
Sybase also offers free (as in beer) releases of older versions of Adaptive Server Enterprise. ASE 11.9.2 is $0 for development use only, and ASE 11.0.3.3 is $0 for development or production. Since 11.9.2 is now end-of-lifed, you can't purchase a license even if you wanted to. This makes it's usability on production systems somewhat ambiguous.
There are also developer versions available as free downloads (registration required) for ASE 12.5.1 and ASA 9.0 on all supported platforms.
WTF? Slashcode ate my link. Download page for ASE 11.0.3.3
Life would indeed be sweet if Sybase were to open the source for their free (as in beer) release of Adaptive Server 11.0.3.3 for Linux. 11.0 is a little long in the tooth in terms of features, but it's still FAR more mature than an inexplicably popular crappy toy database.
If you don't know what OpenWatcom is, then it's likely you don't care about it. Of course if you had the reading comprehension skills of a trained chimpanzee, you could tell from context that it's some kind of compiler. The sentence "the Watcom C/C++ and Fortran products will be the first mass market, proprietary compilers to be Open Sourced" kind of gives it away. If you still had questions you could have actually CLICKED ON THE FREAKING LINK and looked at the project web site, instead of whining that you aren't being spoon fed information.
Nah, it's easy - all you need is a daemon to randomly put up the BSOD.
Desert Eagle? Nah, too quick & painless. Try a jar of honey, 4 tent stakes, some rope, and a nest of fire ants.
Well, since APS is basically just a Kodak marketing gimmick, that's not suprising. APS was a consumer technology for people who didn't want the complexity, and didn't need the quality of 35MM. Digital has all but killed the market for mass-market film. 35MM will still remain the choice for serious photographers for some time to come. Film is here to stay. 35MM will probably be rendered obsolete eventually (not for at least another 5 years, by my guess), but large format professional film will be around for a LONG damn time.
The environmental whackos go nuts (and let slip the lawyers of war) when you launch a totally sealed reactor, can you imagine what they would do if you wanted to launch something that *gasp* released radioactive gasses into the atmosphere?
Hell, a lot of the far-right Protestant churches tell you that if you don't give them 10% of everything you make that you'll burn in hell. Then, after you give them their tithe, they still pass around the collection plate and expect you to give some MORE for whatever project they're pushing this week (support missionaries in India, new hot tub in the rectory, etc)
I say more power to these monks. They are being useful members of society, which sets them apart from the other 99% of the religion industry who are nothing more than parasites. And, unlike many TV preachers *cough*Fallwell*cough* they aren't being loud-mouthed hipocrits.
- Is it unsolicited?
- Is it commercial? (Where "commercial" means "attempting to seperate me from my money")
If the answer to both questions is yes, then it's spam. I can't think of any non-spam message that is both unsolicited and commercial. Unsolicited non-commercial messages fall through this definition, but that's an acceptable compromise. I don't mind spam that's not after my money as long as I get rid of 100% of the spam that IS after my money.Sounds cool. To answer your original question, munchkin 1.0 just had his first birthday. Munchkin 2.0 is in active development and should be released in early August. :-)
Thanks for the link. They look a lot like the Fisher-Price Little People line of toys. The grandparents bought him a truckload of those for Yule and his birthday.
You are exactly right about alertness & flexibility being the important qualities. You can never be too alert, especially once the little guys start walking. Love & attention is far more effective than any gizmo or gadget in keeping your kids safe.
Regarding choking hazards, the hospital gave us this handy little plastic guage (basically just a clear acrylic tube with one end closed.) If it can fit in the tube and touch bottom, it needs to be out of reach.
The great part about parenthood is that "having a life" means that you spend time with the kids. Having kids means that you can go out and blow a wad of money on toys and not feel guilty about it. My munchkin is still a little young for lego, but when he's a little older you can bet that he & I are going to be spending many hours playing legos together.
Yes, the Harry Potter set was very popular, but how profitable was it? I'm sure that J.K. Rowling and her publisher took a hefty percentage of the gross. That's the trouble with licensing a popular property -- the more popular the tie-in, the bigger the licensing fee.
6 Hours? Speak for yourself. Some of us have much higher refresh rates :-)
A big part of the problem is that virtually all of the core server programs are written in C or C++, which are inherently insecure by design. The features which make C/C++ perform so well -- no bounds checking, weak typing, no garbage collection, etc -- are also the same feature which allow security flaws to happen so easily. Java is derided for it's performance, but it was designed with security in mind at both the compiler and run-time levels.
The RICO (racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations) statute, originally designed to go after the Mafia, is one of the most over-broad pieces of federal legislation ever, next to the USA-PATRIOT act. What constitutes an "ongoing criminal enterprise" is pretty vague -- and the courts have been very sympathetic to the government when interperting the law. Do a little googling for RICO act abuses for some illuminating horror stories.
Nah, all the lawyers live in Fairfax and Montgomery counties. That way they can tie up traffic on 495 by driving their Beemers like maniacs during rush hour.