IBM published the assembler source to the BIOS in its Hardware Technical Reference Manuals. (I am the proud owner of both a PC and an AT HTRM. I wonder how much they'd get on Ebay.) The BIOS cloners had to set up clean room environments that included programmers who could state under oath that they hadn't read the IBM source. One group would read the source, document the functions and their return values and a second group would reproduct the (uncopyrightable) functionality without copying the copyrighted source.
IBM actually made the job legally more difficult because they published the code.
Also, remember that ground-based telescopy has enjoyed a generation of progress since the Hubble was designed, so it stands to reason that the Hubble's advantages would be fading and will soon be cancelled altogether.
Old telescopes that are no longer state of the art continue to do important astronomical work. The Palomar Telescope, for example, continues to do important work on asteroids. It's just not as sexy as the stuff that hits the news outlets.
If you obtain a domain name under one TLD, it should preclude you from obtaining the same under any other TLDs. It could be in the agreement/eula/ToS that a company which claims an address on.com is exluded from claiming any non-dotcom address.
Your proposed restriction actually restricts no one. McDonalds forms a dummy corporation in Delaware for $350, assigns part of their trademark rights and has that shell grab the other domain they want. Multiply by 500 and all it does it make it a little more expensive and inconvenient to hold the domains they want.
There are a great many traditions and organizations that fall under the generic label "Christian". These groups disagree on many points of doctrine, but they all lay claim the the Bible and to represent the faith of the original disciples.
Christians do not always fall into such neat categories such as Catholic and Protetant. Roman Catholics are the largest such group in the world. There are various national churches that could be described as Orthodox -- Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Coptic, etc. There is an international communion of Anglican Churches that trace their tradition to the established Church of England. Among "Protestants" there are Lutherans, various forms of Calvinism such as Presbyterianism, Baptists and the Reformed churches. In the US, there are a large number of non-denominational churches which may or may not have national organizations.
Some of these groups have a very literal approach to the Bible, but not all do. Anglicanism, for example, allows a certain amount of freedom in doctrine and does not confine its members to specific dogma.
Your roommate sounds like an Evangelical Protestant.
I am an Anglican. I don't use the King James Version because, while it was originally trnaslated by the Church of England, its language is so archaic as to obscure the meaning of the text to modern readers. I accept Evolution and all Scientific theories for what they are -- explanations of observable and verifiable phenenoma. So it's clear, from my point of view, that one can be Christian while not rejecting reason and the things that we observe in the Universe.
Boy, you've got a slow system if it takes you two months to compile three releases. Maybe if you invest in some more RAM or faster hard disks, you won't have this problem.
The other alternative is to stick with 2.2.19 or 2.0.39.
That's a very, well, Catholic point of view. Christianity does not offer one the freedom to choose to interpret a section of the Bible as "folklore." In Christianity, bible == word of god == truth. So, unfortunately, I don't see a good way for true, fundamental Christianity and Evolution to co-exist that peacefully.
You, sir, have a very narrow view of Christianity. Catholics *are* Christians.
Evolution and Christianity are not incompatible. Evolution and your type of Biblical Inerrantism are.
Now IANAL, but I doubt the GPL nor most web sites' terms of use would hold up in court. You can not be bound to what you do not have to read.
Sure you can. The GPL is a *license* not a *contract*. In a contract you have to have certain elements including "consideration" before it is legally binding. In a license, you don't need all the elements for a license.
The GPL is a license because it allows you to do stuff that you couldn't ordinarially do. The code is copywighted, so you can't distribute it unless you have a license that permits that. As soon as you have distributed GPL code (without arranging for a unique license from the copyright holder) you are either (a) in violation of copyright law or (b) bound by the terms of the license.
"That Catch-22, it's a might fine catch. It's the best one we've got."
So, Michigan wants to set up a cyber-court, not so that people will move their Internet businesses to that state, but so that Internet businesses will *incorporate* in that state, but not have to physically travel there if they get hauled into court. The analogy to Delaware where there is a special court just for businesses incorporated in the state was made in the article.
The biggest problem is the division of our laws into state and federal laws. A state court can only decide state cases. Now, many business related cases fall into state courts. The law of contracts is almost entirely state law. Not that I want to make a Federal case out of it or anything, but many disputes in the Internet arena involve Federal and not state law: copyright, trademark, many employment disputes. This court will not handle those cases and the startup will need lawyers present in Michigan to attend any Federal district court cases and at least one attorney present in MI to receive summonses and other legal demands.
I don't think that's correct. Breaking free of Eros gravity would still leave it in orbit around the Sun. There's a minimum delta v necessary to get it on a trajectory where it would cross Earth's path when the Earth was there and an additional delta v necessary to get it in orbit around Earth.
It's all academic at this point, the burn won't take place and if it had, it would not have placed the craft in orbit areound Eros, just landed it elsewhere. See this press release from JHUAPL.
Does anyone know what OS their software is running on?
Vxworks, reportedly. It is a real-time OS.
From the NEAR FAQ 31. What kind of computer is on NEAR Shoemaker?
The computer is a 16-bit machine called a 1750A. Based on a military standard that is about 10 years old, it runs at 12 MHz and has 256 KB of storage. This is equivalent to the PCs produced in the mid-1980s.
I thought TCP had some design limitations that cause it to fail when the signal delay exceeds some threshold. If so, that puts a limit on the distance TCP can function.
There was some talk very early on in the mission that they would try to touchdown and then leave the asteroid again. Recently they've only been talking about the touchdown (controlled crash landing?) because of the high risk of damaging the probe. Now that that's sucessful and they can apparently send a new program to the device, it's time to finish the show.
I can't wait to see a picture of the mark they made on the surface of Eros. Way to go, APL! This is going out in style.
This was the same situation with the IRDA susbsystem as detailed in this Kernel Traffic thread. Linus dosn't like parge patches. If he gets 30 10K patches in seperate emails rather than one 300K patch, he can decide to merge 25 of them and ask questions about the other five and maybe later accept them or get them modified to fit his idea of the "right way" to do it. If Linus dosn't like a few lines of a 300K patch, he has no chouce but to reject the whole thing.
It has everything to do with the way that Linus works and nothing to do with the technical merit of the port.
It looks like a sleek little device - and is cheaper then the iPaq I bought from the shady looking store in NYC.
Hey those guys aren't shady. It just low overhead. You can get some great deals as long as you know what you are buying. I've gotten discontinued laptops from them for well under $1000.
Richochet has always been in that group of really cool technologies that I fully accept will never make it out to where I live. But I hope it makes it. National coverage would be cool to tho;)
Building a National infrastructure in an incredibly expensive proposition. Riccochet had a good plan. Their earliest service was geared toward the business traveller. They installed in major cities and airports. However, they needed to generate enough cashflow to fund expansion and the limited coverage they built didn't provide the cash they needed.
Look at the history of telephone and electric coverage which has similar requirements. Universal coverage didn't occur until the Federal Government got involved and subsidized rural infrastructure. It is unreasonable to expect that private companies can provide that kind of coverage.
I use a slow CDPD cell modem which is rated at 14.4 Kbps but actually performs worse than that due to the very bursty nature of CDPD. I inquired about Riccochet, but they only have service in Manhattan and the surrounding airports. I wanted service on my train ride to the suburbs and in my neighborhood which wasn't available. It appears that they weren't able to get the kind of minimum coverage necessary to make the service self-supporting.
I already use a rubber band to keep the antenna from breaking off of my cell modem. A card board backing cut to the shape of the units and a few rubber bands should keep everything in place without glue.
There's an animated sign opposite Penn Station in NYC which is stuck in a boot sequence. [64]0K OK is all that has appeared on the sign for the past several months.
I've been checking out the picture of the day since this time last year. There is some awfully interesting geology going on up there.
Eros is covered in regolith. As it slides down the walls of the craters, it exposes new surface which hasn't been darkened by the solar wind. Old craters melt into the background. Fine regolith pools in the bottom of craters.
I imagine that some impacts jolt the asteroid enough to shake everything up a little. I the microgravity near Eros, it shouldn't take much of a jolt to make something "airborne". Much of the same physics that describes shaking containers of different sized objects must describe what's going on here.
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IBM published the assembler source to the BIOS in its Hardware Technical Reference Manuals. (I am the proud owner of both a PC and an AT HTRM. I wonder how much they'd get on Ebay.) The BIOS cloners had to set up clean room environments that included programmers who could state under oath that they hadn't read the IBM source. One group would read the source, document the functions and their return values and a second group would reproduct the (uncopyrightable) functionality without copying the copyrighted source.
IBM actually made the job legally more difficult because they published the code.
Also, remember that ground-based telescopy has enjoyed a generation of progress since the Hubble was designed, so it stands to reason that the Hubble's advantages would be fading and will soon be cancelled altogether.
Old telescopes that are no longer state of the art continue to do important astronomical work. The Palomar Telescope, for example, continues to do important work on asteroids. It's just not as sexy as the stuff that hits the news outlets.
It would have been funny if the review had 8086 bytes in body.
Some squatter at Andover.net already owns these domains. ;^)
If you obtain a domain name under one TLD, it should preclude you from obtaining the same under any other TLDs. It could be in the agreement/eula/ToS that a company which claims an address on .com is exluded from claiming any non-dotcom address.
Your proposed restriction actually restricts no one. McDonalds forms a dummy corporation in Delaware for $350, assigns part of their trademark rights and has that shell grab the other domain they want. Multiply by 500 and all it does it make it a little more expensive and inconvenient to hold the domains they want.
There are a great many traditions and organizations that fall under the generic label "Christian". These groups disagree on many points of doctrine, but they all lay claim the the Bible and to represent the faith of the original disciples.
Christians do not always fall into such neat categories such as Catholic and Protetant. Roman Catholics are the largest such group in the world. There are various national churches that could be described as Orthodox -- Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Coptic, etc. There is an international communion of Anglican Churches that trace their tradition to the established Church of England. Among "Protestants" there are Lutherans, various forms of Calvinism such as Presbyterianism, Baptists and the Reformed churches. In the US, there are a large number of non-denominational churches which may or may not have national organizations.
Some of these groups have a very literal approach to the Bible, but not all do. Anglicanism, for example, allows a certain amount of freedom in doctrine and does not confine its members to specific dogma.
Your roommate sounds like an Evangelical Protestant.
I am an Anglican. I don't use the King James Version because, while it was originally trnaslated by the Church of England, its language is so archaic as to obscure the meaning of the text to modern readers. I accept Evolution and all Scientific theories for what they are -- explanations of observable and verifiable phenenoma. So it's clear, from my point of view, that one can be Christian while not rejecting reason and the things that we observe in the Universe.
Boy, you've got a slow system if it takes you two months to compile three releases. Maybe if you invest in some more RAM or faster hard disks, you won't have this problem.
The other alternative is to stick with 2.2.19 or 2.0.39.
That's a very, well, Catholic point of view. Christianity does not offer one the freedom to choose to interpret a section of the Bible as "folklore." In Christianity, bible == word of god == truth. So, unfortunately, I don't see a good way for true, fundamental Christianity and Evolution to co-exist that peacefully.
You, sir, have a very narrow view of Christianity. Catholics *are* Christians.
Evolution and Christianity are not incompatible. Evolution and your type of Biblical Inerrantism are.
it looks like NetBSD could give Linux a run for its money in the handheld arena.
And may the best code win.
Now IANAL, but I doubt the GPL nor most web sites' terms of use would hold up in court. You can not be bound to what you do not have to read.
Sure you can. The GPL is a *license* not a *contract*. In a contract you have to have certain elements including "consideration" before it is legally binding. In a license, you don't need all the elements for a license.
The GPL is a license because it allows you to do stuff that you couldn't ordinarially do. The code is copywighted, so you can't distribute it unless you have a license that permits that. As soon as you have distributed GPL code (without arranging for a unique license from the copyright holder) you are either (a) in violation of copyright law or (b) bound by the terms of the license.
"That Catch-22, it's a might fine catch. It's the best one we've got."
So, Michigan wants to set up a cyber-court, not so that people will move their Internet businesses to that state, but so that Internet businesses will *incorporate* in that state, but not have to physically travel there if they get hauled into court. The analogy to Delaware where there is a special court just for businesses incorporated in the state was made in the article.
The biggest problem is the division of our laws into state and federal laws. A state court can only decide state cases. Now, many business related cases fall into state courts. The law of contracts is almost entirely state law. Not that I want to make a Federal case out of it or anything, but many disputes in the Internet arena involve Federal and not state law: copyright, trademark, many employment disputes. This court will not handle those cases and the startup will need lawyers present in Michigan to attend any Federal district court cases and at least one attorney present in MI to receive summonses and other legal demands.
...and ineffective.
/. needs a new moderation category "didn't get the joke".
I don't think that's correct. Breaking free of Eros gravity would still leave it in orbit around the Sun. There's a minimum delta v necessary to get it on a trajectory where it would cross Earth's path when the Earth was there and an additional delta v necessary to get it in orbit around Earth.
It's all academic at this point, the burn won't take place and if it had, it would not have placed the craft in orbit areound Eros, just landed it elsewhere. See this press release from JHUAPL.
Does anyone know what OS their software is running on?
Vxworks, reportedly. It is a real-time OS.
From the NEAR FAQ
31. What kind of computer is on NEAR Shoemaker?
The computer is a 16-bit machine called a 1750A. Based on a military standard that is about 10 years old, it runs at 12 MHz and has 256 KB of storage. This is equivalent to the PCs produced in the mid-1980s.
I thought TCP had some design limitations that cause it to fail when the signal delay exceeds some threshold. If so, that puts a limit on the distance TCP can function.
There isn't enough propellant to get it back to Earth.
There was some talk very early on in the mission that they would try to touchdown and then leave the asteroid again. Recently they've only been talking about the touchdown (controlled crash landing?) because of the high risk of damaging the probe. Now that that's sucessful and they can apparently send a new program to the device, it's time to finish the show.
I can't wait to see a picture of the mark they made on the surface of Eros. Way to go, APL! This is going out in style.
It's people who pay for a chair once who are abusing the intellectual property rights of seat designers.
No longer will you buy a chair, you will lease it.
And get your feet off of there, young man.
This was the same situation with the IRDA susbsystem as detailed in this Kernel Traffic thread. Linus dosn't like parge patches. If he gets 30 10K patches in seperate emails rather than one 300K patch, he can decide to merge 25 of them and ask questions about the other five and maybe later accept them or get them modified to fit his idea of the "right way" to do it. If Linus dosn't like a few lines of a 300K patch, he has no chouce but to reject the whole thing.
It has everything to do with the way that Linus works and nothing to do with the technical merit of the port.
Remember, it is Linus' kernel.
It looks like a sleek little device - and is cheaper then the iPaq I bought from the shady looking store in NYC.
Hey those guys aren't shady. It just low overhead. You can get some great deals as long as you know what you are buying. I've gotten discontinued laptops from them for well under $1000.
Caveat emptor.
Richochet has always been in that group of really cool technologies that I fully accept will never make it out to where I live. But I hope it makes it. National coverage would be cool to tho ;)
Building a National infrastructure in an incredibly expensive proposition. Riccochet had a good plan. Their earliest service was geared toward the business traveller. They installed in major cities and airports. However, they needed to generate enough cashflow to fund expansion and the limited coverage they built didn't provide the cash they needed.
Look at the history of telephone and electric coverage which has similar requirements. Universal coverage didn't occur until the Federal Government got involved and subsidized rural infrastructure. It is unreasonable to expect that private companies can provide that kind of coverage.
I use a slow CDPD cell modem which is rated at 14.4 Kbps but actually performs worse than that due to the very bursty nature of CDPD. I inquired about Riccochet, but they only have service in Manhattan and the surrounding airports. I wanted service on my train ride to the suburbs and in my neighborhood which wasn't available. It appears that they weren't able to get the kind of minimum coverage necessary to make the service self-supporting.
Statistics used for ratemaking are no more than a few years old. There is no data from even the 1980s underlying today's insurance rates.
Face it, young men get in more accidents than young women and the ones they do get into cause more damage.
I already use a rubber band to keep the antenna from breaking off of my cell modem. A card board backing cut to the shape of the units and a few rubber bands should keep everything in place without glue.
There's an animated sign opposite Penn Station in NYC which is stuck in a boot sequence. [64]0K OK is all that has appeared on the sign for the past several months.
I've been checking out the picture of the day since this time last year. There is some awfully interesting geology going on up there.
Eros is covered in regolith. As it slides down the walls of the craters, it exposes new surface which hasn't been darkened by the solar wind. Old craters melt into the background. Fine regolith pools in the bottom of craters.
I imagine that some impacts jolt the asteroid enough to shake everything up a little. I the microgravity near Eros, it shouldn't take much of a jolt to make something "airborne". Much of the same physics that describes shaking containers of different sized objects must describe what's going on here.