The problem is that these kinds of decisions open up new slippery slopes in places where there wasn't any sign of one. People have settled and paid substantial chunks of change to the RIAA and MPAA when they weren't even the ones infringing, because they were afraid that if they fought they'd end up paying more. It's only been recently that any of these false lawsuits have been successfully fought. Once they get their foot in the door they'll start throwing the "linking" argument in their bag of dirty tricks, and who knows how many people will end up getting nailed by this who had no idea that there was a slope anywhere near them.
This has NOTHING to do with whether I object to "paying for music or movies". My shelves full of CDs and DVDs should answer that. This isn't about me, I don't run a music search engine. This is about bad law and bad precedents creating new ways for people to unwittingly infringe.
If I recall, Hypercard stacks could do pretty much anything they wanted to on your computer. We could have had the ActiveX security nightmare years earlier.
You kids these days. In my day I had to write my own mail server as a shell script running out of inetd! Now you get to choose between Angry Maintainers!
Chromatically accurate displays are not necessarily used for direct use by the human eye. Consider the article a few months back about what it took to get chromatically accurate white light from arrays of LEDs for illuminating pictures in a gallery.
Pixels don't actually "change color" now. The individual pixels in your display change the relative brightness of three sub-pixel elements, but the frequency of each element emits doesn't change... the relative proportions of three fixed colors change. This is of course an approximation an approximation that is usually good enough to fool the eye, which means it's good enough for most purposes, but it's not chromatically accurate and there are applications where that matters.
When Dell is selling laptops under $1k with 3GB of RAM and dual core procs, the argument that it uses more resources than XP is a little thin.
The resources I worry about in a laptop aren't dollars... they're electrons. If your laptop is running Vista, you need a faster processor (less battery life) and more RAM (less battery life) and you run the CPU at a higher power level (less battery life) to get the same experience as you would with XP. Paying $200 more for a laptop isn't a big deal. Not having to play musical power cables in a meeting room is.
Best laptop I ever had was a Toshiba Libretto. The battery pack was the size of a joke pen, and I got five hours of actual use out of it, so with two charged batteries I could go all day without ever needing to find a power point.
How tunable would these emitters be? Are they suitable as general light emitting components, rather than "just" lasers? Would it be possible to create displays where the color of a pixel was actually changed in real time?
the majority of people will never engage in such lawsuits, so the majority of people will never benefit from it.
The goal of the market as an economic system is not equitable results, it's efficient allocation of resources. If the cost of polluting is reflected in the cost of gasoline, then the usage of gasoline will adjust to this reality, reducing pollution. Whether the people benefitting from this change are litigants, lawyers, or large corporations is beside the point.
Now, if there was a licence that said "all the code in this package is GPL, if you use any of it you're bound to releases any changes you make to the code in this package only. Linked/compiled/merged/etc etc code that you add to it does not need to be re-released, only changes to the code you received",
That's basically what the LGPL is about. If you want to add code but not release it you just make it a separate library.
The vast majority of air pollution in large cities is generated by citizens like you, driving around in their vehicles. The only fair way to regulate that would be to tax gasoline.
Which is the logical next step, at least in the location where the cities have the ability to respond to lawsuits by flexing their tax authority.
Passing the cost of pollution back to polluters instead of letting it be carried by the commons would allow the market to solve the pollution problem. Let the invisible hand do the dirty work.
Different strokes for different folks. I find different products compelling than you, perhaps it's possible that you're mistaken about what's good and what's bad?
I don't like Firefox. It's better than IE, but that's like pointing out a bad cold is better than ebola. My browser is Camino, on the Mac... there isn't a comparable product on Windows opr Linux that I can see.
iTunes is a great user interface to music, I haven't found one that does a better job for the way I listen to music.
The iPod clickwheel sucks, luckily they went with a more conventional interface for the iPod Shuffle. Which also does a great job for the way I listen to music.
Adium kicks Pidgin's butt.
Open Office is made of fail, because it emulates Office, just like Gnome is a pain for the way it emulates Windows.
The Gimp isn't up to photoshop yet, but it's getting closer.
And you'll find people who disagree with all of these. How about that. People actually have different preferences.
Which is why a lot of people go with Windows. They know they are more likely to find software they like on Windows. And, after all, people buy computers to run software, not operating systems.
Macs are a compromise. There's a better variety of better software than if you sick purely to a FOSS platform, but the OS doesn't sit up and remind you that it's emulating a wrapper around DOS all the bloody time. It's possible to prefer Macs over Linux without being a raving Apple fanboy.
That's why it being public domain helps, but there's still the problem of either dealing with DJB or forking it.
Sounds like you need the solution applied by the Invisible Hand Society. Government is part of the market and if the government hasn't been deposed it's because the cost of deposing it is still higher than the cost of government interference, therefore there is no such thing as government interference. (TANSTAGI)
If the Angry Maintainer doesn't make you decide it's easier to fork than deal with him, then the Maintainer isn't Angry enough yet.
But if they want you to come in anyway once everything you have left to do is off limits, come in to be available for your co-workers questions. A coupe of weeks of letting other people's hands do the work while you just are available for questions is actually a very valuable training period for handing off your gig, and probably should be in your transition plan even if they'd left your access on.
One job I tried to do something like that, and even had a guy sitting there taking notes and asking questions afterwards, and it lasted all of half a day... then they got pulled off to fight fires.
Actually having your access cut off might be a good thing, since it'll force them to go through with this kind of training period.
Quoting from a recent slashdot-referenced article: "Government is an industry with a really high barrier to entry," he said. "You basically need to win an election or a revolution to try a new one. That's a ridiculous barrier to entry. And it's got enormous customer lock-in."
So Microsoft is like Eastern Europe if the Soviets had won the cold war?
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The problem is that these kinds of decisions open up new slippery slopes in places where there wasn't any sign of one. People have settled and paid substantial chunks of change to the RIAA and MPAA when they weren't even the ones infringing, because they were afraid that if they fought they'd end up paying more. It's only been recently that any of these false lawsuits have been successfully fought. Once they get their foot in the door they'll start throwing the "linking" argument in their bag of dirty tricks, and who knows how many people will end up getting nailed by this who had no idea that there was a slope anywhere near them.
This has NOTHING to do with whether I object to "paying for music or movies". My shelves full of CDs and DVDs should answer that. This isn't about me, I don't run a music search engine. This is about bad law and bad precedents creating new ways for people to unwittingly infringe.
If I recall, Hypercard stacks could do pretty much anything they wanted to on your computer. We could have had the ActiveX security nightmare years earlier.
See, that's what we need to find out. Do people want fire that can be fitted nasally?
You kids these days. In my day I had to write my own mail server as a shell script running out of inetd! Now you get to choose between Angry Maintainers!
Chromatically accurate displays are not necessarily used for direct use by the human eye. Consider the article a few months back about what it took to get chromatically accurate white light from arrays of LEDs for illuminating pictures in a gallery.
I wonder how you think pixels change color now?
Pixels don't actually "change color" now. The individual pixels in your display change the relative brightness of three sub-pixel elements, but the frequency of each element emits doesn't change... the relative proportions of three fixed colors change. This is of course an approximation an approximation that is usually good enough to fool the eye, which means it's good enough for most purposes, but it's not chromatically accurate and there are applications where that matters.
When Dell is selling laptops under $1k with 3GB of RAM and dual core procs, the argument that it uses more resources than XP is a little thin.
The resources I worry about in a laptop aren't dollars... they're electrons. If your laptop is running Vista, you need a faster processor (less battery life) and more RAM (less battery life) and you run the CPU at a higher power level (less battery life) to get the same experience as you would with XP. Paying $200 more for a laptop isn't a big deal. Not having to play musical power cables in a meeting room is.
Best laptop I ever had was a Toshiba Libretto. The battery pack was the size of a joke pen, and I got five hours of actual use out of it, so with two charged batteries I could go all day without ever needing to find a power point.
I don't think you could even boot Vista on it.
How tunable would these emitters be? Are they suitable as general light emitting components, rather than "just" lasers? Would it be possible to create displays where the color of a pixel was actually changed in real time?
the majority of people will never engage in such lawsuits, so the majority of people will never benefit from it.
The goal of the market as an economic system is not equitable results, it's efficient allocation of resources. If the cost of polluting is reflected in the cost of gasoline, then the usage of gasoline will adjust to this reality, reducing pollution. Whether the people benefitting from this change are litigants, lawyers, or large corporations is beside the point.
The article itself links to an article from a year ago:
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Spirit_Rover_on_Mars_finds_water_made_'silica-rich_soil'
It's taken a year for the paper to be published in Science, along with more evidence of other silica outcrops.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080522145222.htm
Original sources:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/320/5879/1063
http://www.mars.asu.edu/news/news-silica.html
The Conference on Cold Fusion (known as ConFusion)
At least it reflects the subject matter.
Now, if there was a licence that said "all the code in this package is GPL, if you use any of it you're bound to releases any changes you make to the code in this package only. Linked/compiled/merged/etc etc code that you add to it does not need to be re-released, only changes to the code you received",
That's basically what the LGPL is about. If you want to add code but not release it you just make it a separate library.
The vast majority of air pollution in large cities is generated by citizens like you, driving around in their vehicles. The only fair way to regulate that would be to tax gasoline.
Which is the logical next step, at least in the location where the cities have the ability to respond to lawsuits by flexing their tax authority.
Passing the cost of pollution back to polluters instead of letting it be carried by the commons would allow the market to solve the pollution problem. Let the invisible hand do the dirty work.
Different strokes for different folks. I find different products compelling than you, perhaps it's possible that you're mistaken about what's good and what's bad?
I don't like Firefox. It's better than IE, but that's like pointing out a bad cold is better than ebola. My browser is Camino, on the Mac... there isn't a comparable product on Windows opr Linux that I can see.
iTunes is a great user interface to music, I haven't found one that does a better job for the way I listen to music.
The iPod clickwheel sucks, luckily they went with a more conventional interface for the iPod Shuffle. Which also does a great job for the way I listen to music.
Adium kicks Pidgin's butt.
Open Office is made of fail, because it emulates Office, just like Gnome is a pain for the way it emulates Windows.
The Gimp isn't up to photoshop yet, but it's getting closer.
And you'll find people who disagree with all of these. How about that. People actually have different preferences.
Which is why a lot of people go with Windows. They know they are more likely to find software they like on Windows. And, after all, people buy computers to run software, not operating systems.
Macs are a compromise. There's a better variety of better software than if you sick purely to a FOSS platform, but the OS doesn't sit up and remind you that it's emulating a wrapper around DOS all the bloody time. It's possible to prefer Macs over Linux without being a raving Apple fanboy.
The motion along the orbit also causes it to act like a generator, powered by the orbital momentum. (This was known - and also has possible uses.)
Don't forget the ObReference: Tank Farm Dynamo.
There is still the "bootstrap problem", where you need to find some nodes that are members of the network to connect.
It's not true that there are CryptNet levels above level 10.
I wonder who they're using Planetary Protector (Deniable) against this time?
That's why it being public domain helps, but there's still the problem of either dealing with DJB or forking it.
Sounds like you need the solution applied by the Invisible Hand Society. Government is part of the market and if the government hasn't been deposed it's because the cost of deposing it is still higher than the cost of government interference, therefore there is no such thing as government interference. (TANSTAGI)
If the Angry Maintainer doesn't make you decide it's easier to fork than deal with him, then the Maintainer isn't Angry enough yet.
Which one's Priss?
I thought cocaine could only blow your mind. It's explosive too?
But if they want you to come in anyway once everything you have left to do is off limits, come in to be available for your co-workers questions. A coupe of weeks of letting other people's hands do the work while you just are available for questions is actually a very valuable training period for handing off your gig, and probably should be in your transition plan even if they'd left your access on.
One job I tried to do something like that, and even had a guy sitting there taking notes and asking questions afterwards, and it lasted all of half a day... then they got pulled off to fight fires.
Actually having your access cut off might be a good thing, since it'll force them to go through with this kind of training period.
The really tough bit is watching the videos with telnet.
Quoting from a recent slashdot-referenced article: "Government is an industry with a really high barrier to entry," he said. "You basically need to win an election or a revolution to try a new one. That's a ridiculous barrier to entry. And it's got enormous customer lock-in."
So Microsoft is like Eastern Europe if the Soviets had won the cold war?