I have read several times about someone standing in line behind a guy at the ATM, where he can watch the person enter his PIN. As soon as the money comes out and the mark is putting it in his wallet, the thief drops a $20 bill on the floor and says, "Is that your $20?" The mark reaches down to grab the money and the thief quickly switches the card in the machine (probably for the previous victim's card). The mark puts the card in his wallet and walks out. The thief proceeds to clean out that account and then leaves or waits for the next victim.
Yup. And after you make the list ten times longer, what space is left for you to include the advertising that you intended to do for your product/company?
You have to purchase a full-page ad in the paper just to mention "Eat at Joe's! And by the way, we use the following software to assemble your sandwich..."
Is it actually legal to change the reference in the license like that? It seems to me that Berkley would have a copyright on their license and that would preclude someone else popping by and making arbitrary changes to it.
Or are there other forces at work here that I'm not aware of?
As I recall, the instruction manual that came with my microwave oven said that small amounts of metal like a handle on a dish or whatever, could be placed in it without harm. I was amazed to read that, and haven't ever take them up on it.
This is the slickest automatic backup system you can possibly imagine for a small Windows or Linux network. Reasonably cheap, RAID 5 if you want it, and it even runs on Linux!
I believe it is because the chip makers do not have a "presence" in the USA, where the patent is enforceable. As the cell phone makers do have a "presence", they can be sued.
Not all CFL bulbs are created equal. I have had excellent luck (and light) from Sylvania brand CFL bulbs. Slightly less so with Phillips. The amount and colour of light seems to vary greatly between brands.
we've found that CFLs work very poorly in the cold.
I live in Saskatchewan.
I have CFL bulbs in the outdoor security lights around my building. In very cold weather they take a while to warm up and start producing light. Maybe 10 or 15 minutes in really cold weather (-40), a bit less when it's not cracking cold like that.
Once they get warmed up, they are fine. I can't use CFL's in my garage due to the long warm-up time, but they are great in my security lights because those come on at dusk and by the time it's dark they are up and running regardless of how cold it is.
I use CFL's pretty much everywhere else, though.
I have never had one not start at all due to the cold. They just take a while to warm up and give off a bit of eerie pink light while they are starting.
and used QT (not KDE integrated of course) to handle application GUI.
How did they manage that, in view of the fact that Trolltech's license requires a fee for anything not GPL that is developed to use QT?
What I mean is, did everything developed using Kylix have to be GPL or did a separate fee have to be paid to Trolltech, or did Borland have some special arrangement with them?
I used to see power switch banks that sat under your monitor with several (half-dozen or so) rocker switches on the front labelled "monitor" "computer" "printer" and so on. I don't see any reason why you couldn't plug anything else into it, though.
I think the most common ones were Radio Shack branded -- have you checked there?
You seem use a lot of power for lighting for one person, especially if you use CFL bulbs to do it.
I just did some figuring here. I live in a good-sized commercial building (my business and my home are both here) and I have five 7-watt CFL bulbs that are on 24/7 as night lights in my basement, kitchen and living room. I have three 13-watt CFL bulbs and one regular 20-watt fluorescent bulb that are on overnight as outside security lights and a night light in my business lobby. I have another 7-watt bulb for my computer desk and my wife has one for her computer desk that we turn on when we are on our computers (which, frankly, is most of the time that we are here).
So that's a total of 108 watts at night when we are both here and that includes night lighting and security lighting for my business premises as well.
Adventure (Colossal Cave) and a whole stack of other classic games (Hunt the Wumpus, Trek, etc.) are available as a standard RPM for Fedora Core, right out of the box. "yum install bsd-games" gets you the lot.
The FSF may relicense their version of the toolchain v3 only, but it is far from clear that all key developers will go along -- some have supposedly said they will not.
To the best of my knowledge, the toolchain is currently licensed under the GPL v2, which includes the statement "or (at your option) any later version".
Based on this, doesn't that mean that the FSF could take any contributions submitted by outsiders (which would have to be licensed under the GPL as originally applied to the original software) and bump it up to V3 "at their option".
Given Novell's recent actions I'm thinking of going back to Red Hat
The macro that is included as a VBA demo in the article http://www.linuxtalk.co.uk/ooo_vba/hypocycloid-dem o.xls works with the OpenOffice that is included with Fedora Core 6. I just tried it on this computer. So the "evil patch" is apparently already present in Red Hat's OpenOffice.
Slashdot Mirror
Becasue no software is ever developed outside of the USA, and no servers are run anywhere else either,right?
Low-tech theft still works.
I have read several times about someone standing in line behind a guy at the ATM, where he can watch the person enter his PIN. As soon as the money comes out and the mark is putting it in his wallet, the thief drops a $20 bill on the floor and says, "Is that your $20?" The mark reaches down to grab the money and the thief quickly switches the card in the machine (probably for the previous victim's card). The mark puts the card in his wallet and walks out. The thief proceeds to clean out that account and then leaves or waits for the next victim.
Yup. And after you make the list ten times longer, what space is left for you to include the advertising that you intended to do for your product/company?
You have to purchase a full-page ad in the paper just to mention " Eat at Joe's! And by the way, we use the following software to assemble your sandwich..."
Is it actually legal to change the reference in the license like that? It seems to me that Berkley would have a copyright on their license and that would preclude someone else popping by and making arbitrary changes to it.
Or are there other forces at work here that I'm not aware of?
As I recall, the instruction manual that came with my microwave oven said that small amounts of metal like a handle on a dish or whatever, could be placed in it without harm. I was amazed to read that, and haven't ever take them up on it.
Does anyone have any suggestions for books and resources and compilers? I wouldn't mind playing around with COBOL, just for fun and so on.
This is the slickest automatic backup system you can possibly imagine for a small Windows or Linux network. Reasonably cheap, RAID 5 if you want it, and it even runs on Linux!
I believe it is because the chip makers do not have a "presence" in the USA, where the patent is enforceable. As the cell phone makers do have a "presence", they can be sued.
Not all CFL bulbs are created equal. I have had excellent luck (and light) from Sylvania brand CFL bulbs. Slightly less so with Phillips. The amount and colour of light seems to vary greatly between brands.
Try a Sylvania. I recommend them.
we've found that CFLs work very poorly in the cold.
I live in Saskatchewan.
I have CFL bulbs in the outdoor security lights around my building. In very cold weather they take a while to warm up and start producing light. Maybe 10 or 15 minutes in really cold weather (-40), a bit less when it's not cracking cold like that.
Once they get warmed up, they are fine. I can't use CFL's in my garage due to the long warm-up time, but they are great in my security lights because those come on at dusk and by the time it's dark they are up and running regardless of how cold it is.
I use CFL's pretty much everywhere else, though.
I have never had one not start at all due to the cold. They just take a while to warm up and give off a bit of eerie pink light while they are starting.
and used QT (not KDE integrated of course) to handle application GUI.
How did they manage that, in view of the fact that Trolltech's license requires a fee for anything not GPL that is developed to use QT?
What I mean is, did everything developed using Kylix have to be GPL or did a separate fee have to be paid to Trolltech, or did Borland have some special arrangement with them?
I used to see power switch banks that sat under your monitor with several (half-dozen or so) rocker switches on the front labelled "monitor" "computer" "printer" and so on. I don't see any reason why you couldn't plug anything else into it, though.
I think the most common ones were Radio Shack branded -- have you checked there?
You seem use a lot of power for lighting for one person, especially if you use CFL bulbs to do it.
I just did some figuring here. I live in a good-sized commercial building (my business and my home are both here) and I have five 7-watt CFL bulbs that are on 24/7 as night lights in my basement, kitchen and living room. I have three 13-watt CFL bulbs and one regular 20-watt fluorescent bulb that are on overnight as outside security lights and a night light in my business lobby. I have another 7-watt bulb for my computer desk and my wife has one for her computer desk that we turn on when we are on our computers (which, frankly, is most of the time that we are here).
So that's a total of 108 watts at night when we are both here and that includes night lighting and security lighting for my business premises as well.
Adventure (Colossal Cave) and a whole stack of other classic games (Hunt the Wumpus, Trek, etc.) are available as a standard RPM for Fedora Core, right out of the box. "yum install bsd-games" gets you the lot.
You can find it right here: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/
There is a radio station near here that is run by an Indian tribe on their reservation. It is by far the BEST radio station available in this area.
in all matters except those effecting the physical, psychological and social well-being of the child
That doesn't leave much out, though.
This theme is explored in depth in "The Little Black Bag" and "The Marching Morons" by C.M. Kornbluth. I highly recommend that you read them.
they *did* make a Wargames game based on the movie.
I'd imagine they made several. I have one for the Commodore 64, in fact, dated 1984.
Got a basement? Or maybe a bathroom? All you need is a piece of string.....
You are free to sell GPL software at any price that you choose to sell it for.
The person who purchases it from you is also free to sell it for any price that he chooses, in exactly the same way.
And This one will get you from Intercourse to Climax. In just over 33 hours....
The FSF may relicense their version of the toolchain v3 only, but it is far from clear that all key developers will go along -- some have supposedly said they will not.
To the best of my knowledge, the toolchain is currently licensed under the GPL v2, which includes the statement "or (at your option) any later version".
Based on this, doesn't that mean that the FSF could take any contributions submitted by outsiders (which would have to be licensed under the GPL as originally applied to the original software) and bump it up to V3 "at their option".
which 3D accelerated graphics adapter would you suggest that has a GPL-ed driver?
I suggeset Intel, since you asked...
Given Novell's recent actions I'm thinking of going back to Red Hat
m o.xls works with the OpenOffice that is included with Fedora Core 6. I just tried it on this computer. So the "evil patch" is apparently already present in Red Hat's OpenOffice.
The macro that is included as a VBA demo in the article http://www.linuxtalk.co.uk/ooo_vba/hypocycloid-de