For Average Joes running a single-CPU linux box at home, how much of SCO's alleged property is being used? Not SMD. Probably not journaling FS (not that widespread yet). What about RCU? And I believe (correct me if wrong) that kernels older than 2.4 aren't affected.
I bring up this horrible interpretation of the GPL simply because when it comes to licenses, it pays to think like a slimeball to see where holes may lie. Case in point is this copying fee. If a slimeball was to use GPL code in a binary distribution, the fees associated with distributing the source could, in theory, be priced high enough to discourage code distribution. By the GPL's wording, this is plausible.
This is also what would be tested in court -- the wording of what constitutes reasonable fees. Things other than laws are "tested in court". The SCO/IBM deal is a licensing issue between two private parties that, IIRC from the very very few reports on Slashdot, is now being wrung through the courts. Tested, if you will, but I digress.
Since the GPL has not been tested in court, it is still quite open to interpretation. When I said you can charge a "fee" for providing source to the binaries you have already provided, I was thinking exactly about the "cost of physically performing source distribution."
Since, again, it has not be tested/interpreted in court, that "cost" may very well include not only media and delivery/bandwidth fees, but time it takes somebody to do it. That's where it's open.
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to me no racing game has matched gt3, NONE, it is the benchmark that all racing games are held to.
In 1998 Papyrus released "Grand Prix Legends" (GPL) which was a driving simulator based on the 1967 GP series.
Five years later, it remains perhaps the most accurate driving simulations and boasts about 300 "aftermarket" tracks and analysis utilities for downloading. Analysis utilities? Yep, they analyze your replay files so you can learn from them.
GT3 doesn't have much on GPL.
And you're right -- graphics alone don't make a driving game. So don't let the billboarded spectators in GPL drive you nuts -- it runs great even on an old PII@400 box.
With the faster machines, GPL could use an update to the graphics engine, but the simulation core rocks.
The sequels sucked so bad, I can't tell you how bad.
Somewhat true. The initial work was classic Clarke -- cut to the chase, no-nonsense, present the story. I don't think I've read more bloviated prose than Gentry Lee's additions in the sequels.
Although terse, Clarke's approach is very effective. He cleanly gets across the main ideas and issues in the story, and lets your imagination take it from there. Lee's approach was to stifle through belabored description that last, important part of good sci-fi: your imagination's interpretation/expansion.
I wouldn't say the later novels outright suck. They don't, and there is several good ideas in the later books. But skipping 20-30 pages at a time becomes routine with no lost content as one will see.
They are crackpots because the people making these claims have no credibility, the claims themselves are not credible, and they provide zero proof.
You are asking for proof incorrectly. We/NASA have/has plenty of proof of the manned trips to the moon.
It is the crackpots and their apologists such as yourself that are making the extraordinary claim we did *not* go to the moon. It is this camp that must provide proof. Their M.O. is simply, doubt some point, and run away to the next point without accepting *any* explanation, then repeat.
So-called logic bombs are pieces of software code buried within another program and are designed to disrupt computer systems. They are often delivered by e-mail.
Delivered by email? NOT. Taking a motto from another financial entity, "We deploy logic bombs the old-fashioned way -- we script them."
And never do a favour for a bloody business: she'll have saved hundreds/a few thousand, and she couldn't have spared a simple thankyou, which is all he wanted....?
Amen to that, brother!
A local restaurant (now gone) had huge manga posters, one of which had a businessman leaning over his desk saying, "How can you expect to take over the world when you're too afraid to fleece a couple corporations?" Not that this is fleecing by far, but the underlying sentiment is similar:
If a business wants your time, they pay.
What you do with it at that point is up to your needs, desires and principles.
Listen, just because the entire world of 6 billion people is motivated by money, it doesn't mean that the few thousand of us here at Slashdot have to be as well.
Motivation by money is irrelevant in this case. If I were unemployed, they'd be paying me by the minute for such an emergency fix, and I'd probably charge double for their convenience, especially if I were laid off.
Excellent point about how we abstract away the idea of a "successful" or "happy" life.
This article was very good. Programmers have been dealing with the law of leaky abstractions for a long time via innumerable workarounds, and unfortunately we accept it. The next time one must design an abstraction layer, think about how it can leak. Functionally? Conceptually? What can be changed to fix the leak?
Done last night. I checked it in and you get get it via CVS.
One problem is that the new government parser compiler Yet Another Constitution Compiler (YACC) has a few bugs. There are no array checks nor memory usage balances.
It is well understood how much GNU software is in a Linux distribution. However, that does not make it worthy of a "GNU/Linux" moniker.
After all, I used to admin Solaris and Irix boxes, which always had GNU software installed. The thought never occurred to me that I should have been calling them "GNU/Solaris" or "GNU/Irix".
I would like to echo similar interest -- being able to index PNG images would be a nice addition. Given the chunkular format of PNG and extra information that can be stored in a PNG, it seems Google would be able to index the images with slightly more depth... IF creators of PNG would use these fields.
Excellent points about initiative and professional tendencies.
At my current job I had to sign an IP forfeiture agreement, and in the blank area where I could name code that the company could not own, I of course listed things as my graduate projects, a few pet projects by name, and the clause "and miscellaneous current and future open source projects". HR reviewed all my stuff and this was not even contested, so I am covered.
Folks, we have to stand up and push back. There are times to compromise, but this is one area that is entirely abused.
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So what about these leaked screenshots?
Eye candy rarely improves functionality, and never with a corresponding increase in performance.
I have to agree. While professors can guide, state of the art is, by definition, exactly what is required of most graduate degree work.
And it doesn't take that to do a "./configure ; make install" of SAMBA 3...
How many more people are going to post this same ridiculous claim?
For Average Joes running a single-CPU linux box at home, how much of SCO's alleged property is being used? Not SMD. Probably not journaling FS (not that widespread yet). What about RCU?
And I believe (correct me if wrong) that kernels older than 2.4 aren't affected.
I owe SCO nothing.
You know, I fully agree with you.
I bring up this horrible interpretation of the GPL simply because when it comes to licenses, it pays to think like a slimeball to see where holes may lie. Case in point is this copying fee. If a slimeball was to use GPL code in a binary distribution, the fees associated with distributing the source could, in theory, be priced high enough to discourage code distribution. By the GPL's wording, this is plausible.
This is also what would be tested in court -- the wording of what constitutes reasonable fees. Things other than laws are "tested in court". The SCO/IBM deal is a licensing issue between two private parties that, IIRC from the very very few reports on Slashdot, is now being wrung through the courts. Tested, if you will, but I digress.
No, I'm quite clear on it, actually.
Since the GPL has not been tested in court, it is still quite open to interpretation. When I said you can charge a "fee" for providing source to the binaries you have already provided, I was thinking exactly about the "cost of physically performing source distribution."
Since, again, it has not be tested/interpreted in court, that "cost" may very well include not only media and delivery/bandwidth fees, but time it takes somebody to do it. That's where it's open.
To die for... you got that right!
Rocketman!
The GPL doesn't say how the source must be distributed if you distribute a program. It must simply be available.
Charging fees for it is possible and within the GPL restrictions, too, so even if source is made available, it may not be free as in beer.
Ha ha, good bit of satire!
Sigh. And they will.
Somewhat true. The initial work was classic Clarke -- cut to the chase, no-nonsense, present the story. I don't think I've read more bloviated prose than Gentry Lee's additions in the sequels.
Although terse, Clarke's approach is very effective. He cleanly gets across the main ideas and issues in the story, and lets your imagination take it from there. Lee's approach was to stifle through belabored description that last, important part of good sci-fi: your imagination's interpretation/expansion.
I wouldn't say the later novels outright suck. They don't, and there is several good ideas in the later books. But skipping 20-30 pages at a time becomes routine with no lost content as one will see.
So who is this pundit, and what makes his opinion so spectacular and credible?
They are crackpots because the people making these claims have no credibility, the claims themselves are not credible, and they provide zero proof.
You are asking for proof incorrectly. We/NASA have/has plenty of proof of the manned trips to the moon.
It is the crackpots and their apologists such as yourself that are making the extraordinary claim we did *not* go to the moon. It is this camp that must provide proof. Their M.O. is simply, doubt some point, and run away to the next point without accepting *any* explanation, then repeat.
They are intellectual cowards, at best.
Delivered by email? NOT. Taking a motto from another financial entity, "We deploy logic bombs the old-fashioned way -- we script them."
They have sold out to the algebraic monolith and have forgotten their roots.
Customer
HP
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=> Everything is Possible
Amen to that, brother!
A local restaurant (now gone) had huge manga posters, one of which had a businessman leaning over his desk saying, "How can you expect to take over the world when you're too afraid to fleece a couple corporations?" Not that this is fleecing by far, but the underlying sentiment is similar:
If a business wants your time, they pay.
What you do with it at that point is up to your needs, desires and principles.
Motivation by money is irrelevant in this case. If I were unemployed, they'd be paying me by the minute for such an emergency fix, and I'd probably charge double for their convenience, especially if I were laid off.
Good deeds don't pay the bills, fool.
Excellent point about how we abstract away the idea of a "successful" or "happy" life.
This article was very good. Programmers have been dealing with the law of leaky abstractions for a long time via innumerable workarounds, and unfortunately we accept it. The next time one must design an abstraction layer, think about how it can leak. Functionally? Conceptually? What can be changed to fix the leak?
Done last night. I checked it in and you get get it via CVS.
One problem is that the new government parser compiler Yet Another Constitution Compiler (YACC) has a few bugs. There are no array checks nor memory usage balances.
It is well understood how much GNU software is in a Linux distribution. However, that does not make it worthy of a "GNU/Linux" moniker.
After all, I used to admin Solaris and Irix boxes, which always had GNU software installed. The thought never occurred to me that I should have been calling them "GNU/Solaris" or "GNU/Irix".
RMS/FSF -- get off your high horse about this!
I would like to echo similar interest -- being able to index PNG images would be a nice addition. Given the chunkular format of PNG and extra information that can be stored in a PNG, it seems Google would be able to index the images with slightly more depth... IF creators of PNG would use these fields.
At my current job I had to sign an IP forfeiture agreement, and in the blank area where I could name code that the company could not own, I of course listed things as my graduate projects, a few pet projects by name, and the clause "and miscellaneous current and future open source projects". HR reviewed all my stuff and this was not even contested, so I am covered.
Folks, we have to stand up and push back. There are times to compromise, but this is one area that is entirely abused.
How do you like these apples: nVidia
The point being that empty comparisons are just that. AAPL itself doesn't suck, the entire tech market (with few exceptions) sucks.