The second reason was an engineering problem. It's been a while and I forget the details of what he said, but basically it comes down to the fact that vehicles & pedestrians place different kinds of stress on a structure, and that in fact pedestrians bring a much greater load than vechicles do. Why? Because cars have their mass distributed more or less evenly across four pads placed very close to the corners of that overall mass; humans, on the other hand, have all of their mass bearing down on just two points, and those two points are directly underneath that mass. Moreover, people tend to move in groups, so you could end up with 20 people standing on the same surface area that one car takes up, and placing many times more stress on that area.
IANACivilEngineer, but that sounds like bullshit to me. I mean, say you've got 20 large people walking over the bridge spread out in a normal area for that many people. Each of them will be putting down 250 or so pounds on each foot, alternately. So, 5000 pounds over maybe 50 square feet. That's about the weight of one SUV, but the bridge has to support 35 ton loaded dump trucks. Granted, it's distributed differently, but I seriously doubt that a bridge that can take the strain of constant freight traffic would have to be redesigned to accommodate a few bicycles. Rush-hour traffic would make the weight of pedestrians completely negligible.
Both 8-lane bridges between Portland and Vancouver, WA (I-5 and I-205) have pedestrian/bicycle paths, and they get a lot of use. There really aren't any alternatives there though.
Not at all; this apologist is referring to the inclusion, accidental or deliberate, of GPLed code into an existing proprietary codebase. Stallman is referring to a programmer who, in the course of hir job, modifies an existing free-software codebase. The employer cannot, in that case, distribute the modifications without GPL protection.
The hypothetical software described in the article -- a proprietary codebase linked against, say a GPL library or with some GPLed function pasted in, also can't be distributed. But the company is not required to release their entire source as free software -- they just have to remove the GPLed bits.
I had always imagined seeing Tom Baker (although he's much too old now) play Bombadil. Forget Dr. Who -- check out his performance as Puddleglum in The Silver Chair. He's absolutely perfect.
I have a Neuros -- the Ogg support is very good & they are good about keeping it up to date. Xiph themselves wrote the ogg-playing firmware. It's got some other wonky stuff -- sometimes it will just refuse to work for a couple of days (but on the other hand, I haven't been very kind to it.) It will play through your car -- it has a built-in short range FM broadcaster which even sort of works, and it records from a built-in mic or a line-in jack. There are also two separate Linux managers for the database. They have a very good community forum section on their website which you can check out at http://www.neurosaudio.com/.
There are some irritating problems... the menus aren't threaded so you have to stop playing a song to change settings or look for another song. It's only USB-1.1, so it's also kinda slow on the transfers. Both of these are slated to be fixed, but there's no word on when.
I have a Neuros, which is like an iPod, and, like that, it uses FAT32 for both the long filenames and the larger filesystem size. But the device will automatically format the internal HD if it boots up unformatted, so it should be easy for the manufacturers to get around this license fee -- just ship it blank.
I was looking for this on my compass today, and I observed really wild swings in the reading. Normal declination here is 18 deg. east of north. At about 1:30PM PST, my compass was reading about 40 deg. E. Later, at about 4:00PM, it was reading about 80 degrees west of south (!!!) which is about 120 degrees off. (This was 40 miles north of the 1:30 reading.) Now, it's completely normal. I'm sure no one was messing with me... i was out by myself. It's an accurate compass, and it's never done anything like this before. What would cause this? The storm's not *that* strong, I hope...
Yeah, it seems to me that would be a normal thing to do. Apparently some of the VARs didn't even have it in writing. The problem here is really just that Appgen was lying scum, not that the software was closed source.
Read the article. Most of the VARs DID have an escrow agreement, but discovered afterwards that Appgen had never actually given the code to the escrow agent.
Unless I'm mistaken, fission plants just boil water with the heat generated by the reactor, and drive turbines. It's a new way of generating energy, but not electricity.
Of course it is. Everything on slashdot is an advertisement. What makes this any different from "Apache 2.0137 released! Now with more whistles!"? Both are interesting to the/. readership. How else would I find out about prospective cable science channels? I hope CSN gets as much free advertising as possible.
If it were a *paid* advertisement and michael didn't reveal that, that would be a different story...
If so, the Christians ought to explain why studies such as "Does Prayer Influence the Success of in Vitro Fertilization-Embryo Transfer?" claim to show a positive effect from remote intercessory prayer. Other studies claim to show that prayer is effective but that religion is irrelevant in the effect. Also, they should explain why testing God worked for Gideon and various other Bible celebrities, but doesn't work for us.
I suspect you're using an ad-blocking browser or proxy, which has blocked the image itself but has left a large (clickable) white space that would be the image if you hadn't blocked it. That's the behavior Firebird shows for me, blocking ads.osdn.com. If you're using Mozilla or Firebird, and you right-click on the "background" I think you'll find "block images from this server" or "block images from ads.osdn.com" checked.
Slashdot Mirror
Like this one?
IANACivilEngineer, but that sounds like bullshit to me. I mean, say you've got 20 large people walking over the bridge spread out in a normal area for that many people. Each of them will be putting down 250 or so pounds on each foot, alternately. So, 5000 pounds over maybe 50 square feet. That's about the weight of one SUV, but the bridge has to support 35 ton loaded dump trucks. Granted, it's distributed differently, but I seriously doubt that a bridge that can take the strain of constant freight traffic would have to be redesigned to accommodate a few bicycles. Rush-hour traffic would make the weight of pedestrians completely negligible.
Both 8-lane bridges between Portland and Vancouver, WA (I-5 and I-205) have pedestrian/bicycle paths, and they get a lot of use. There really aren't any alternatives there though.
Well, the middle lane is actually used by traffic going both directions. Morning rush hour gets it before 11 am, evening rush hour gets it after 3. :-)
Come to think of it, that's not a bad idea. Just need some magic color changing paint...
Not at all; this apologist is referring to the inclusion, accidental or deliberate, of GPLed code into an existing proprietary codebase. Stallman is referring to a programmer who, in the course of hir job, modifies an existing free-software codebase. The employer cannot, in that case, distribute the modifications without GPL protection.
The hypothetical software described in the article -- a proprietary codebase linked against, say a GPL library or with some GPLed function pasted in, also can't be distributed. But the company is not required to release their entire source as free software -- they just have to remove the GPLed bits.
I had always imagined seeing Tom Baker (although he's much too old now) play Bombadil. Forget Dr. Who -- check out his performance as Puddleglum in The Silver Chair. He's absolutely perfect.
Just avoid that Triple Yield.... ouch.
Sorry for the interruption, couldn't control myself there. Please carry on.
I have a Neuros -- the Ogg support is very good & they are good about keeping it up to date. Xiph themselves wrote the ogg-playing firmware. It's got some other wonky stuff -- sometimes it will just refuse to work for a couple of days (but on the other hand, I haven't been very kind to it.) It will play through your car -- it has a built-in short range FM broadcaster which even sort of works, and it records from a built-in mic or a line-in jack. There are also two separate Linux managers for the database. They have a very good community forum section on their website which you can check out at http://www.neurosaudio.com/ .
There are some irritating problems... the menus aren't threaded so you have to stop playing a song to change settings or look for another song. It's only USB-1.1, so it's also kinda slow on the transfers. Both of these are slated to be fixed, but there's no word on when.
I have a Neuros, which is like an iPod, and, like that, it uses FAT32 for both the long filenames and the larger filesystem size. But the device will automatically format the internal HD if it boots up unformatted, so it should be easy for the manufacturers to get around this license fee -- just ship it blank.
Yeah, I wouldn't get too upset about anything inflammatory you read in a /. blurb. They're almost never true.
At the risk of sounding stupid...
I was looking for this on my compass today, and I observed really wild swings in the reading. Normal declination here is 18 deg. east of north. At about 1:30PM PST, my compass was reading about 40 deg. E. Later, at about 4:00PM, it was reading about 80 degrees west of south (!!!) which is about 120 degrees off. (This was 40 miles north of the 1:30 reading.) Now, it's completely normal. I'm sure no one was messing with me... i was out by myself. It's an accurate compass, and it's never done anything like this before. What would cause this? The storm's not *that* strong, I hope...
Nvu *is* Mozilla Composer. See here.
If you're anything like me, these stories hurt less than withdrawal pains...
Yeah, it seems to me that would be a normal thing to do. Apparently some of the VARs didn't even have it in writing. The problem here is really just that Appgen was lying scum, not that the software was closed source.
Read the article. Most of the VARs DID have an escrow agreement, but discovered afterwards that Appgen had never actually given the code to the escrow agent.
Back when we signed up, spam didn't exist yet because you had to toggle your emails in one at a time, bit-by-bit on the front of the machine.
Unless I'm mistaken, fission plants just boil water with the heat generated by the reactor, and drive turbines. It's a new way of generating energy, but not electricity.
Nah, he just ripped it off from here.
Because then nobody except you and me would be able to vote. ...Hey, you know, that's a great idea! :-)
Of course it is. Everything on slashdot is an advertisement. What makes this any different from "Apache 2.0137 released! Now with more whistles!"? Both are interesting to the /. readership. How else would I find out about prospective cable science channels? I hope CSN gets as much free advertising as possible.
If it were a *paid* advertisement and michael didn't reveal that, that would be a different story...
If so, the Christians ought to explain why studies such as "Does Prayer Influence the Success of in Vitro Fertilization-Embryo Transfer?" claim to show a positive effect from remote intercessory prayer. Other studies claim to show that prayer is effective but that religion is irrelevant in the effect. Also, they should explain why testing God worked for Gideon and various other Bible celebrities, but doesn't work for us.
You must have written that sig just for this message...
Something tells me those people were largely unaffected by Earthstation 5.
I suspect you're using an ad-blocking browser or proxy, which has blocked the image itself but has left a large (clickable) white space that would be the image if you hadn't blocked it. That's the behavior Firebird shows for me, blocking ads.osdn.com. If you're using Mozilla or Firebird, and you right-click on the "background" I think you'll find "block images from this server" or "block images from ads.osdn.com" checked.