Is this based on the combined/library thign? Meaning even lgpl works?
Just asking because I've not heard this before, but it makes sense.
What would the result be if I distribute someone else's gpl plugin? I suppose I'd be violating their copyright, which would mean they could sue me. Ineresting.
It may be the patent portion of GPLv3, or fears a locked phone leads to tivoization.
There hands would be tied in disttributing of GPLv3 software if they sue over a patent against any GPLv3 software (I think).
And the tivoization portion may or may not apply, but if I were distributing signed software for locked hardwarex, it would give me pause even if I knew it was allowed.
Unless they only allow distribution in areas that the patents are invalid (there is an exception in the GPL allowing that restriction to be placed on redistribution).
Perhaps it's the type of thing that can be a slump time release.
If there's a fan base, it will have the advantage of getting some people in during non movie season, and could be a good investment.
Watchmen grossed $185 million in the box office, hardly a flop in the scheme of things, just way too much expense.
Considering Sin City only cost $40 million, I think there is space for R rated fantasy (it grossed $150 million, but Watchmen cost $120 million to make).
I haven't seen Watchmen, but I can't imagine it couldn't of been made for less in the context of special effects movies being done for under $100 million now (Sin City; Spider-man, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Lord of the rings (under 300 total for three films)).
Pan's Labyrinth is an example of a greatly successful R rated fantasy ($20 million budget), that had no built in fan base, and probably wouldn't have done as well with a PG-13 rating.
People need to be smart about budgeting, but there is a a market that can be tapped here. It would be stupid for it to be ignored, especially as I imagine they bring a lot of extra revenue in non typical movie goers. They just need to get the budgets sane for any R rated movie.
I would want at least a good web browser (you didn't mention that either way, but lock-down sounds like no web browser).
I, as a casual geek, really wanted a smart phone, and got a G1 the first week it was available. I found very quickly I was using it MORE than i expected I would. Mostly to use Wikipedia in bar conversations,and as a map/GPS/411. There are games worth short diversions when waiting at places like the doctors office (or the internet for the same).
I also, really liked that my contacts sync with my google account automatically, this was the killer app in the end. If I forget my phone, I can look someone up on a friends and call the, same if my battery goes dead (which is kind-of a big negative to any smart phone I've used, if I spend more than a couple hours web browsing, I generally don't get past midnight).
It's great to be able to easily find and call pizza wherever I am, or find a good restaurant, or call a cab company in a new city that doesn't have cabs like NYC (or even PHL) has. I find the e-mail, internet, map part of my phone is more important than being a phone in the end, though the G1, N1, and G2 all work great as phones IMO (except for battery life on a long day).
Htc is on the map for making good hardware, and finding decent software to augment. Android was not the start of that. I like sense enough to use it on my american g2
I believe the real problem with the dragon scales is the effective operating temperatures.
I also think you'll find that our soldiers are fairly thinking. It was a strength vs the Germans in WW2 (large numbers of German soldiers could be immobilized by taking out an officer or two). It is the reason the Army does not want a draft.
I imagine the bad decisions often come from outside of the military, and highly doubt the soldiers are the ones that want to be escorting non-soldier truck drivers.
Our savings rate was negative, and is still very low.
We have a weak pension system to boot.
Consumption needs to be discouraged. Though I agree 20% would be terrible.
I'd like to see future tax increases (and there will be some, as we under-collect buy something like 30%) in the form of a VAT, with a refundable income tax credit to make it not hit those under the poverty line.
Something like 3% VAT, with $500 per a dependent (a somewhat generous 15k *.03).
Or even boil the frog, and do it 1% or.5%/year until it hits 3-5%. I don't think it wants to go too much past 5%, as this starts getting the total up around 10-15% in some states.
People need to save some more and spend some less. The trade deficit will not be supported by lending and investment forever.
1) Consumption tax is the least damaging tax for the economy (Capitol Gains is the most), this is part of the justification for what some may call a less fair tax. 2) Existing fortunes will be taxed (this could be called double taxing I suppose) 3) the rich already pay lower taxes, as they earn their money through capitol gains.
I would personally support it if I didn't think it would open up a huge black market (they are talking about what we think of as a 30% sales tax). I also suspect there will be loopholes to buy an extraordinary yacht and keep it somewhere else most of the time, killing the argument that at least the rich are getting taxed more than they do now.
Things I like about completely fair tax are: 1) prebates allow thrifty poor to have capitol once a year, and perhaps start a small business. Basic landscaping equipment could be withing the reach of many hard-working poor. 2) Every extra dollar earned is kept. The marginal benefit of an extra hour of work never goes down, and if it is savings, it actually goes up vs the base 40 3) less costly to keep tract of, this is an overall boost to the economy, small, but probably in the billions saved on broken windows 4) The most beneficial forms of spending are tax free.
It should also help skew the economy towards one with a savings rate by taxing spending, this is important in the US at the very least (other companies could be argued to have too high a savings rate, and taxing consumption could make things worse, though the early predictions I heard about the risk of a high savings rate in early '09 did not pan out).
Um, patented things can be open source for certain.
Section 7 clearly states that it is an issue if you are asked to stop, but not before (though says it is up to you to try it, and not intended to induce infringement).
Section 8 clearly states you can limit distribution to where patents do not apply and still be compliant.
There were abuses, of course, but those didn't count as official indulgences and they sure don't disprove indulgences altogether.
The problem was not Church doctrine, but these abuses, and some parts of Church doctrine that allowed them to continue. The fact that a priest must be involved in confession is good when dealing with honest people, but if an organization is infiltrated with a few percent of corrupt priests it becomes a big problem.
Similar with the hierarchical construction of power. A few corrupt cardinals could do damage to thousands of people.
We can see the issue with the child sex abuse scandals. Priests appear to be no more likely to diddle child parishioners that leaders of any church, but the power structure kept incidents secret for decades, and wrong-headed cardinals were moving them from church to church. The end result was a huge scandal where decades of stories are released all at once. It is the type of thing that lead to the reformation (decades of abuse hidden, and moved, then let out).
Dante, a Catholic, put a Cardinal in hell. It was corruption that caused the reformation, and it was rampant, and the structure of those above always being right allowed it to spread in a time when there was no instant communication.
Except for Tmobile, that offers a $20/month discount in a no-contract plan.
This is particularly surprising to me, as the contract is not only to cover the cost of the phone, but also to guarantee future revenue, and diffuse the cost of customer acquisition over a period of time.
Exactly, the law wants to legalize in the US exactly what happened in Egypt. It will be a series of calls still. Currently though, if the President calls Level 3 and says, stop your series of tubes from flowing, Level 3 may or may not do it, and is not obligated to.
The law would give the president the same power here as in Egypt (with regards to the internet that is).
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It pave the way for a somebody eles' problem field.
Is this based on the combined/library thign? Meaning even lgpl works?
Just asking because I've not heard this before, but it makes sense.
What would the result be if I distribute someone else's gpl plugin? I suppose I'd be violating their copyright, which would mean they could sue me. Ineresting.
It may be the patent portion of GPLv3, or fears a locked phone leads to tivoization.
There hands would be tied in disttributing of GPLv3 software if they sue over a patent against any GPLv3 software (I think).
And the tivoization portion may or may not apply, but if I were distributing signed software for locked hardwarex, it would give me pause even if I knew it was allowed.
Doesn't work with GPL code.
Unless they only allow distribution in areas that the patents are invalid (there is an exception in the GPL allowing that restriction to be placed on redistribution).
Especially since the computer code has copyright protection anyway.
Effects are getting cheaper rapidly though.
Perhaps it's the type of thing that can be a slump time release.
If there's a fan base, it will have the advantage of getting some people in during non movie season, and could be a good investment.
Watchmen grossed $185 million in the box office, hardly a flop in the scheme of things, just way too much expense.
Considering Sin City only cost $40 million, I think there is space for R rated fantasy (it grossed $150 million, but Watchmen cost $120 million to make).
I haven't seen Watchmen, but I can't imagine it couldn't of been made for less in the context of special effects movies being done for under $100 million now (Sin City; Spider-man, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; and Lord of the rings (under 300 total for three films)).
Pan's Labyrinth is an example of a greatly successful R rated fantasy ($20 million budget), that had no built in fan base, and probably wouldn't have done as well with a PG-13 rating.
People need to be smart about budgeting, but there is a a market that can be tapped here. It would be stupid for it to be ignored, especially as I imagine they bring a lot of extra revenue in non typical movie goers. They just need to get the budgets sane for any R rated movie.
I don't think Pink Flamingos needs a remake.
It was worse in CIV 1.
It was fairly likely even, like I would say 1 in 10 chance for a phalanx to take out a bomber.
For some reason I think it was some group like cult of the dead cow that came up with hactivism.
With peekabooty.
But I'm probably making it up. I am almost certain I heard it self-described before I heard it in the media.
Do you drive (in the usa)?
Because I'm pretty sure I speed enough times a day to lose my license.
I don't think the two are mutually exclusive.
I know in a period of my past I've been a willing participant in corporate piracy, but over time it wears one down.
Being asked to commit a crime (circumvent drm ) on a regular basis for work was no fun.
Ugh.
I would want at least a good web browser (you didn't mention that either way, but lock-down sounds like no web browser).
I, as a casual geek, really wanted a smart phone, and got a G1 the first week it was available. I found very quickly I was using it MORE than i expected I would. Mostly to use Wikipedia in bar conversations,and as a map/GPS/411. There are games worth short diversions when waiting at places like the doctors office (or the internet for the same).
I also, really liked that my contacts sync with my google account automatically, this was the killer app in the end. If I forget my phone, I can look someone up on a friends and call the, same if my battery goes dead (which is kind-of a big negative to any smart phone I've used, if I spend more than a couple hours web browsing, I generally don't get past midnight).
It's great to be able to easily find and call pizza wherever I am, or find a good restaurant, or call a cab company in a new city that doesn't have cabs like NYC (or even PHL) has. I find the e-mail, internet, map part of my phone is more important than being a phone in the end, though the G1, N1, and G2 all work great as phones IMO (except for battery life on a long day).
If I had a smart phone provided by business, I too would have a dumb phone for personal.
Specifically for the charge issue.
Didn't sidekick get them on the map?
I think it was them that built that.
Even their winmo phones were appealing.
Htc is on the map for making good hardware, and finding decent software to augment. Android was not the start of that. I like sense enough to use it on my american g2
I've been wondering that too.
The newest kde is the first I would rate as stable (with 4.2 being the first usable) .
And it seriously improves with every version.
It would be a shame if this slpws down developement.
(I still mmay prefer gnome + compiz, but it's getting hard to tell)
I believe the real problem with the dragon scales is the effective operating temperatures.
I also think you'll find that our soldiers are fairly thinking. It was a strength vs the Germans in WW2 (large numbers of German soldiers could be immobilized by taking out an officer or two). It is the reason the Army does not want a draft.
I imagine the bad decisions often come from outside of the military, and highly doubt the soldiers are the ones that want to be escorting non-soldier truck drivers.
I think the argument is essentially that algorithms are math, and have always existed. They are discovered, not created.
Just as we cannot patent a naturally occurring chemical that gets discovered, we cannot patent an algorithm that gets discovered.
Additionally, the virtual mouse trap is far cheaper to build, rebuild, refine etc.
Our savings rate was negative, and is still very low.
We have a weak pension system to boot.
Consumption needs to be discouraged. Though I agree 20% would be terrible.
I'd like to see future tax increases (and there will be some, as we under-collect buy something like 30%) in the form of a VAT, with a refundable income tax credit to make it not hit those under the poverty line.
Something like 3% VAT, with $500 per a dependent (a somewhat generous 15k * .03).
Or even boil the frog, and do it 1% or .5%/year until it hits 3-5%. I don't think it wants to go too much past 5%, as this starts getting the total up around 10-15% in some states.
People need to save some more and spend some less. The trade deficit will not be supported by lending and investment forever.
Completely Fair tax argues a couple things.
1) Consumption tax is the least damaging tax for the economy (Capitol Gains is the most), this is part of the justification for what some may call a less fair tax.
2) Existing fortunes will be taxed (this could be called double taxing I suppose)
3) the rich already pay lower taxes, as they earn their money through capitol gains.
I would personally support it if I didn't think it would open up a huge black market (they are talking about what we think of as a 30% sales tax).
I also suspect there will be loopholes to buy an extraordinary yacht and keep it somewhere else most of the time, killing the argument that at least the rich are getting taxed more than they do now.
Things I like about completely fair tax are:
1) prebates allow thrifty poor to have capitol once a year, and perhaps start a small business. Basic landscaping equipment could be withing the reach of many hard-working poor.
2) Every extra dollar earned is kept. The marginal benefit of an extra hour of work never goes down, and if it is savings, it actually goes up vs the base 40
3) less costly to keep tract of, this is an overall boost to the economy, small, but probably in the billions saved on broken windows
4) The most beneficial forms of spending are tax free.
It should also help skew the economy towards one with a savings rate by taxing spending, this is important in the US at the very least (other companies could be argued to have too high a savings rate, and taxing consumption could make things worse, though the early predictions I heard about the risk of a high savings rate in early '09 did not pan out).
Um, patented things can be open source for certain.
Section 7 clearly states that it is an issue if you are asked to stop, but not before (though says it is up to you to try it, and not intended to induce infringement).
Section 8 clearly states you can limit distribution to where patents do not apply and still be compliant.
GPL V2
They used to get your whole address.
They used it to send catologs and cue cats.
There were abuses, of course, but those didn't count as official indulgences and they sure don't disprove indulgences altogether.
The problem was not Church doctrine, but these abuses, and some parts of Church doctrine that allowed them to continue. The fact that a priest must be involved in confession is good when dealing with honest people, but if an organization is infiltrated with a few percent of corrupt priests it becomes a big problem.
Similar with the hierarchical construction of power. A few corrupt cardinals could do damage to thousands of people.
We can see the issue with the child sex abuse scandals. Priests appear to be no more likely to diddle child parishioners that leaders of any church, but the power structure kept incidents secret for decades, and wrong-headed cardinals were moving them from church to church. The end result was a huge scandal where decades of stories are released all at once. It is the type of thing that lead to the reformation (decades of abuse hidden, and moved, then let out).
Dante, a Catholic, put a Cardinal in hell. It was corruption that caused the reformation, and it was rampant, and the structure of those above always being right allowed it to spread in a time when there was no instant communication.
Skype is a big deal to those that have friends internationally.
Except for Tmobile, that offers a $20/month discount in a no-contract plan.
This is particularly surprising to me, as the contract is not only to cover the cost of the phone, but also to guarantee future revenue, and diffuse the cost of customer acquisition over a period of time.
Exactly, the law wants to legalize in the US exactly what happened in Egypt. It will be a series of calls still. Currently though, if the President calls Level 3 and says, stop your series of tubes from flowing, Level 3 may or may not do it, and is not obligated to.
The law would give the president the same power here as in Egypt (with regards to the internet that is).