I get a laugh out of these confidentiality addendums. The note is garbage, and is clearly only intended to scare. If by your incompetence, I suddenly find myself with incriminating information about you, what legal obligation do I have to keep that information confidential? I signed no agreement with you, and you have no other legal recourse.
Not only that but by sending it to your address you are the addressed recipient. The whole thing's ridiculous.
But wouldn't this permission take the form of an agreement very simmilar to the GPL? After all, that's what GNUCash's authors wanted the terms to be...
Sure, but a specific license agreement negotiated and signed by the parties involved will likely be looked on with a lot more favour by the courts (I'm assuming here that the courts have already taken a negative view on the legality of the GPL). The conditions and term may be exactly the same as the GPL but because the two parties are named specifically it will have more weight. Note that in the GNUCash case this is probably impossible to achieve since it will probably be impossible to contact all the copyright holders. Reiser FS may or may not suffer from the same issue.
* Could a court revolk my GPL-given right to modify GNUCash?
Yes. What GPL given right? You speak of the GPL as if it is GOD or something. It is not. If the courts say the GPL is worthless. Well, it's worthless.
Correct. If a court ruled that the GPL was invalid with respect to GNUCash you would lose the right to distribute changes (you could still make and use changes privately, unless the court ordered the destruction of the source code you have). To continue to distribute changes you would require the permission of the copyright holder.
* Could a court grant the right to Novel to sell a modified, binary-only version of Reiser v 4?
Sure. Are you ok? I'm starting to be conserned for your health here. You do understand that the courts MAKE the laws right?
Possible but exceedingly unlikely. Anything Novell derived from Reiser FS would contain considerable code copyrighted by Hans Reiser's company. If the GPL does not apply then Novell would need an agreement with that company to distribute that product. A court could order such an agreement but it would be a very unusual situation. More likely the court would rule that Novell cannot distribute anything based on Reiser FS and leave it to Novell and Reiser to negotiate any licensing agreement they desire.
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As you can see, one part of this header is spelled with a u and the other without. This could create some developer
Not a header, just a c file I believe. And the author quite correctly pointed out that had he said:
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Then no-one would have noticed or cared.
It's a variable name so it really doesn't matter if the spelling is not 100% consistent.
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If you 506 million is right, with 260} of them in the US, that still gives us a majority, albeit not a large one.
According to the CIA World Factbook the US has a literacy rate of 97%. There goes your majority.
Of course I doubt the literacy of the rest of the 506 million is as high as 97%.
I have a lot of family, a lot of friends, and a lot of coworkers (all in all, about 50 people that I converse with weekly, and at least 15 of whom I converse with daily). All but a few of them participate in music piracy. All of them used to buy cassettes and CDs. I can't remember the last time that I saw any of them even set foot in a music store. I don't know anyone that has purchased a CD in the past year.
Well guess what - I fall into that category too. I have downloaded a few songs, maybe a couple of dozen in the last few years. I've also largely stopped buying CDs, but not because I can get it for free. These days my entertainment dollars go on games and DVDs. I've probably spent $1000 in the last three years on DVDs and less than $100 on CDs.
He claims that she did not have surgery, in part because she didn't know any surgeons.
He said: "There is no record of Marilyn's having had an operation at that point in her life...". To me that is not the introduction of a new claim (which would require supporting evidence), it is the observation that there is no evidence to support someone else's contention that surgery might have occured. You then introduced the idea that there may have been a family friend or similar involved and he again asks "where is the evidence?" I don't see how there is any burden on David to provide evidence that there is no evidence of surgery. It's not even possible without accounting for every single day of Monroe's life over a fairly large period of time.
Also note that I likely agree with his enventual conclusion. I really doubt that Marilyn Monroe had six toes.... Thinking something is true is a far cry from claiming to have proved that it is true.
"I likely agree"? How can photos from the same photo shoot not be accepted as absolute proof that the claim is false? Exactly what still gives you pause?
David correctly said that "lack of negative evidence is not the same as positive evidence", but then contends that she couldn't have had the surgery because "no other friend or relative of Marilyn's knew this mysterious 'friend' or surgeon". It works both ways; lack of postive evidence is also not the same as negative evidence, and to see those two statements back-to-back bothered me.
You introduced the assertion that there could have been "a pro-bono helping hand from a family friend or compassionate surgeon?". David appears to be simply questioning why there is no evidence of that. To paraphrase his first response: it's up to those who make the claim to provide proof.
I completely disagree with his assertion that the lack of a body part is in any way similar to having that body part in agony, but he used that as a reason to dismiss my claim.
Well maybe. I've never had anything amputated. I'm sure that the wound resulting from even a small toe being amputated would hurt for a while, but it is possible that it could be concealled from everyone if it's only a few days. Still I think you're overreacting a bit - the other photos from the same shoot are more than sufficient to disprove the allegation. It seems a bit much to start questioning the whole site over one throw-away comment in an open and shut case.
Read the LKML archives on this. It's all been covered before. Briefly: the BK tool suite includes tools that will dump revision history to plain text files. Linus makes both a daily snapshot of the tree available and also patches in the traditional form. Everything is available to everyone, BK user or not.
If Microsoft buys Bitmover, nothing changes. They can't force Linus et al to upgrade to a "secured" version (i.e. they can't take the tools away) and they can't lock up the data that's already there (this is covered in the license - the data you put into BK is yours, Bitmover has no rights to it).
"Greg killed off 79 men total which is exactly one half the number of men the game involved"...
It doesn't say how many men he killed off intentionally (including the 3 he lost when he ran to the bathroom after 8 hours.) and how many he killed off actually in the course of gameplay.
I read it as saying he killed off 79 men during game play, leaving 79 men to be intentionally killed at the end. He is gaining men at twice the rate he is losing them, and as the game is not getting any harder he could play for as long as his body and mind hold out.
I agree Rutan is most likely to win, but don't forget that Rutan's funding is at least an order of magnitude higher than Carmack's. Carmack and co would actually make money if they won the prize, you certainly can't say the same about Rutan.
Ten Gs? That's an insane amount, enough to kill any human, that's for sure
No. Do some research.
I still think the X-Prize starlights belongs to Scaled Composities and their White Knight/SpaceShipOne
Keep in mind that Rutan's project will cost considerably more than 10 million, while Carmack's will cost a few million tops. Even if Rutan does win the X-Prize, if Carmack makes it to space then his will be greater achievement, IMHO.
but no one is going to catch up with Rutan's design
No one outside of Rutan's organisation really knows how far advanced Rutan's project is, so it's a bit hard to say if he's in the lead or not. Certainly when it was first announced and the website went up there were several pictures that had been doctored to make it look like things where more advanced than they actually were. Rutan lost some credibility in my eyes with that.
Yes, and he didn't say anything about how long he ran it in that configuration.
The article went up Apr 24, and while it's been updated to correct the NRC values there is no mention of problems with heat. It seems reasonably safe to assume that the machine has been running without trouble since then - 10 weeks.
The article claims 2,400 lbs of thrust, so by doubling the power range until it includes 2400 it is revealed that this would be an "L" class engine.
You need to know the burn time to calculate the rocket class, as the class is based on the total impulse not just the thrust. It had 3 engines which would Ls if the burn time was only 1 second, but it was probably considerably longer than that.
Decimals are not the end-all be-all of numbers. They have the nasty habit of repeating when describing perfectly rational numbers. SI is nice and all, but I still don't see it as being the alpha and omega of arbitrary measurement systems.
Nothing stops you from using fractions with SI units. And I think the point was that 1/3 of 1760 is not that easy to figure out.
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Or almost any other stock, e.g. MSFT, IBM. SCOX's growth is so high everything else is basically a flat line.
Of course I doubt the literacy of the rest of the 506 million is as high as 97%.
If Microsoft buys Bitmover, nothing changes. They can't force Linus et al to upgrade to a "secured" version (i.e. they can't take the tools away) and they can't lock up the data that's already there (this is covered in the license - the data you put into BK is yours, Bitmover has no rights to it).
I agree Rutan is most likely to win, but don't forget that Rutan's funding is at least an order of magnitude higher than Carmack's. Carmack and co would actually make money if they won the prize, you certainly can't say the same about Rutan.
My Mitsubishi 3000GT's engine generates 179kW to push around a 3200 pound car, about 56 W/lb. Of course it doesn't fly (by design).
Not just the nozzle though. The original pic of the two vehicles mated was fake, and the flight shot was very questionable.
Thanks. The Aria PDA appears to only have voice output though, so wouldn't work for those that are deaf and blind.
Get yourself an account. Then you can make the date format anything you like.
According to the project page the total impulse is close to the limit of O class, just under 41,000Ns.
The mention Sinfest several times and that started out on the web. In fact it's been rejected 11 times by the syndicates.