Actually the owner of the software has COMPLETE CONTROL over the distribution rights. Thats what copyrights are ALL about. They don't really do anything else...
It is only the rights given by the GPL that let Novell, or anyone else, distribute the code AT ALL in the first place - otherwise they would be 'stealing' the copyrighted work. When the GPL version changes on core components (e.g. the compiler, or say, GNU's C library) then the conditions on those distribution rights WILL change. Just what that change entails could have drastic effects on Novell because of its dealings.
It can't retroactively affect existing source-code out in the wild, but Novell simply doesn't have the expertise or resources to fork every GNU project - in the case that the V3 license will prevent them from distributing new versions covered by it.
If you read the article closely, they are talking about GPL3. The article is poorly written.
i.e. they're saying that they'll change the license of code they own to be GPL3 once it has been finalised, and they may revoke Novell's right to distribute said code, since they will be in breach of this new license. That is why it will only affect 'future versions of linux'. By which the author probably actually meant 'GNU', not the Linux kernel - e.g. gcc for instance.
Which would force Novell to fork and continue to use old versions if they wanted to stay in the linux business (without altering the ms deal). But they don't have the resources for that, and there's little reason for any other company to join their fork.
But there's nothing 'underhanded' going on, it is only possibly because of the imminent completion of the GPL3.
Maybe they meant 'electrical storm', not 'magentic'... magnetism is the direct, and only direct result of current flow. Must've forgotten their yr 12 physics.
Think about it, "Big Mac" index reflects local production costs, etc.
IPOD reflects a FIXED production cost, probably a fairly minimal range of shipping costs, and that's it*.
Basically the opposite of the big mac index, i.e. global fixed production cost, wildly varying sales price vs wildly varying production cost and sales price.
It doesn't reflect the same information, but it does reflect important relational information about each economy and market. It doesn't TELL you anything directly but it gives a relationship between markets which still indicates useful information.
* Taking into account tax rates isn't as big an issue as people make out - it still reflects the 'buying power' of the public, and/or at least their expectation.
Although, because there is no longer any 'corner shops', well, on the corner, everyone thinks they have to drive everywhere to do everything...
Although they don't. They're just lazy.... Speaking as one who has never owned a car, even when living in Perth, one of the most car-is-king locations on earth...
Never heard of 'tag' being 'anything special' until these recent stories. I've only ever seen it used to mean 'keywords' on slashdot, and that's hardly a canonical source. 'keywords' probably has roots in other indexing systems that pre-date computer networking too, such as library card indices?
Given that tags are part of HTML, XML and their ilk, 'tag' seems a rather poor choice for a 'standard part of the web' at any rate. It also appears to be a colloquially used as a form of 'label' more commonly in use in the USA, so probably less international in its meaning.
By definition a 'tag' is just a mechanism used to attach a 'label' to an object. Similarly a 'label' can be used as a mechanism to associate a 'keyword' with an object.
Label looks more correct in that sense, assuming you want a more generalised mechanism than keywords provide.
The language is largely at fault. Sure the PHP developer space is filled with 'ASP-level' programmers - but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can blame on the monkey's cutting code. PHP is an awful language, doesn't scale, doesn't promote anything remotely 'good', but still does the job. It isn't alone.
It isn't an entirely bad thing either. At the end of the day people need software that does something. Security is for the most part not a priority - and why should it be really? Only because of arseholes is it even be an issue.
But anyway, to cut it short - avoid PHP. The security issues are not even the start of how fucked a language it is. I'd much much rather code in C (C, not C++) than PHP any day (and yes, I've written production software in both). It doesn't have any more security issues - yet the ones it has are more obvious - it is orders of magnitude more scalable and performant, and it doesn't have any of the limitations.
Another stupid article making unfounded and unfoundable claims. 30+ years of database design isn't totally wrong all of the time - it's even pretty good most of the time. Why do people write these stupid stories, and why do people bother to give them any weight?
# The current accepted theory of gravitation, general relativity, works extremely well: it's predictive power has so far never be successfully challenged. Many have tried, noone has succeeded.
You mean, apart from the fact that you need to create 90+ percent more matter in the universe than what is visible to prevent galaxies from flying apart?
i.e. without dark matter (and dark energy), gravity doesn't predict much.
This "problem" was always part of doing business with Indian subcontractors. The first time I encountered an Indian team was on a project around 1997 - back when it was just called subcontracting, and not 'out-sourcing'. We had a major problem of trying to get the guys up to speed, since they were just fresh out of university, and very green - and just when you got them trained to a useful stage, they would be gone. None of the coders would be on the project for more than 3 months before they left (left the company, or got promoted, I have no idea), and everyone had different styles and skills - and none were too great. I found out years later - when working with other Indian developers hired by the company I was in at the time, that the company these others were part of - Tata Infotech, is basically a graduate-eating meat shop with an extremely high turnover even for India. Of course with so much competition for workers, the same happens in all Indian I.T. shops, not just Tata.
Needless to say, for the original project we threw away all of the rubbish they'd coded and two of us wrote a working version in about 6 months - it was only a small bit of code really, but before that time we'd wasted 18 months 'reviewing' mostly crap code, and training their graduates for them in the process.
HULA is C, not C++. It is also built ontop of standards. IMAP, SMTP, etc. They are the industry standards. Sendmail is not, it is just an, unfortunately, still popular implementation of some standards. Tomcat? Wtf has a java j2ee container got to do with a web server? Not going to be much use for a C project... A web server is nothing particularly special anyway, particularly when you're serving fully dynamic content. The architecture wasn't particularly well documented, but it was simple, about as simple as it can get. It was a lean simple architecture written in straight C, it isn't bloated. The web frontend isn't 'the architecture' either, its just one module.
Your arguments are pretty dumb - why not just say it was too immature for you or you didn't like it, and leave it at that, rather than making stuff up which doesn't match reality.
Yes, it would generate extra some heat - since it isn't 100% efficient. But passing electricity through it makes it a heat pump. You would need a temperature differential to make it cool/warm something (i.e. a heatsink or solar collector). e.g. like a fridge, its cold on the inside, but warm on the outside.
It's already possible using other devices, but not as efficient as this is claimed to be.
Hmm, yeah i see ice bursting into 'sandy fountains' all over the earth when summer comes to each hemisphere... errr, hang on, no, the ice just melts and runs away, or simply sublimes and vanishes into thin air.
Why on mars would it be any different?
I think astronomers and 'planetary scientists' have really lost the plot lately - they're letting their imaginations get in the way of, well, common sense.
As subject says. It was a good game, but a bit too short, and definitely too girly (for mainstream).
Having said that, I stayed up for 3 nights in a row and finished it faster than most games I've played - it was definitely fun, quite playable, and i liked the slight quirkyness, but i'm probably not your average player.
XML works perfectly? Only for some strange definition of "perfectly" I think.
Yes sure, it works. It is an easy solution to various simple data-interchange-like problems.
However, it is also bulky, inefficient and overly complex. Bulky - needs no explanation. Inefficient - parsing it isn't that trivial, and also applying schemas is expensive and complicated. Multiple levels of namespaces, and so on can lead to complex heirarchical data structures that need a load of work to make sense of.
The observable behaviour of black holes? Everyone seems to have forgotten that black holes are just limits of a purely hypothetical mathematical model - and have never been observed, ever.
The supposed effects which have been observed as "indirect evidence" of black holes is a fantastic leap of faith with no basis in observable or testable reality (nor even in the above-mentioned mathematical models, i'll wager).
There is more than one state in Australia. There are also 5 other states and 2 territories in Australia, which also have their own "State Governments".
In this case, i believe, it was the State Government of Western Australia which has called on the army - who knows what for, I can't see what they can do.
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Actually the owner of the software has COMPLETE CONTROL over the distribution rights. Thats what copyrights are ALL about. They don't really do anything else ...
It is only the rights given by the GPL that let Novell, or anyone else, distribute the code AT ALL in the first place - otherwise they would be 'stealing' the copyrighted work. When the GPL version changes on core components (e.g. the compiler, or say, GNU's C library) then the conditions on those distribution rights WILL change. Just what that change entails could have drastic effects on Novell because of its dealings.
It can't retroactively affect existing source-code out in the wild, but Novell simply doesn't have the expertise or resources to fork every GNU project - in the case that the V3 license will prevent them from distributing new versions covered by it.
If you read the article closely, they are talking about GPL3. The article is poorly written.
i.e. they're saying that they'll change the license of code they own to be GPL3 once it has been finalised, and they may revoke Novell's right to distribute said code, since they will be in breach of this new license. That is why it will only affect 'future versions of linux'. By which the author probably actually meant 'GNU', not the Linux kernel - e.g. gcc for instance.
Which would force Novell to fork and continue to use old versions if they wanted to stay in the linux business (without altering the ms deal). But they don't have the resources for that, and there's little reason for any other company to join their fork.
But there's nothing 'underhanded' going on, it is only possibly because of the imminent completion of the GPL3.
Maybe they meant 'electrical storm', not 'magentic' ... magnetism is the direct, and only direct result of current flow. Must've forgotten their yr 12 physics.
Think about it, "Big Mac" index reflects local production costs, etc.
IPOD reflects a FIXED production cost, probably a fairly minimal range of shipping costs, and that's it*.
Basically the opposite of the big mac index, i.e. global fixed production cost, wildly varying sales price vs wildly varying production cost and sales price.
It doesn't reflect the same information, but it does reflect important relational information about each economy and market. It doesn't TELL you anything directly but it gives a relationship between markets which still indicates useful information.
* Taking into account tax rates isn't as big an issue as people make out - it still reflects the 'buying power' of the public, and/or at least their expectation.
People make people fat.
...
... Speaking as one who has never owned a car, even when living in Perth, one of the most car-is-king locations on earth ...
Although, because there is no longer any 'corner shops', well, on the corner, everyone thinks they have to drive everywhere to do everything
Although they don't. They're just lazy.
Never heard of 'tag' being 'anything special' until these recent stories. I've only ever seen it used to mean 'keywords' on slashdot, and that's hardly a canonical source. 'keywords' probably has roots in other indexing systems that pre-date computer networking too, such as library card indices?
Given that tags are part of HTML, XML and their ilk, 'tag' seems a rather poor choice for a 'standard part of the web' at any rate. It also appears to be a colloquially used as a form of 'label' more commonly in use in the USA, so probably less international in its meaning.
By definition a 'tag' is just a mechanism used to attach a 'label' to an object. Similarly a 'label' can be used as a mechanism to associate a 'keyword' with an object.
Label looks more correct in that sense, assuming you want a more generalised mechanism than keywords provide.
Actually it just shows that colourful letters are bad and a waste of time for you.
It doesn't show anything whatsoever about HTML, in fact.
The language is largely at fault. Sure the PHP developer space is filled with 'ASP-level' programmers - but at the end of the day, there's only so much you can blame on the monkey's cutting code. PHP is an awful language, doesn't scale, doesn't promote anything remotely 'good', but still does the job. It isn't alone.
It isn't an entirely bad thing either. At the end of the day people need software that does something. Security is for the most part not a priority - and why should it be really? Only because of arseholes is it even be an issue.
But anyway, to cut it short - avoid PHP. The security issues are not even the start of how fucked a language it is. I'd much much rather code in C (C, not C++) than PHP any day (and yes, I've written production software in both). It doesn't have any more security issues - yet the ones it has are more obvious - it is orders of magnitude more scalable and performant, and it doesn't have any of the limitations.
You took 3 YEARS to find a flaw in PHP? ... err, ok.
Yeah, it's only 90% relevant.
Another stupid article making unfounded and unfoundable claims. 30+ years of database design isn't totally wrong all of the time - it's even pretty good most of the time. Why do people write these stupid stories, and why do people bother to give them any weight?
Don't worry, those knobs who believe in their 'god' will pray for their salvation, and we'll all be saved by their 'sacrifice'
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
# The current accepted theory of gravitation, general relativity, works extremely well: it's predictive power has so far never be successfully challenged. Many have tried, noone has succeeded.
You mean, apart from the fact that you need to create 90+ percent more matter in the universe than what is visible to prevent galaxies from flying apart?
i.e. without dark matter (and dark energy), gravity doesn't predict much.
Or did you mean a moot one? :)
This "problem" was always part of doing business with Indian subcontractors. The first time I encountered an Indian team was on a project around 1997 - back when it was just called subcontracting, and not 'out-sourcing'. We had a major problem of trying to get the guys up to speed, since they were just fresh out of university, and very green - and just when you got them trained to a useful stage, they would be gone. None of the coders would be on the project for more than 3 months before they left (left the company, or got promoted, I have no idea), and everyone had different styles and skills - and none were too great. I found out years later - when working with other Indian developers hired by the company I was in at the time, that the company these others were part of - Tata Infotech, is basically a graduate-eating meat shop with an extremely high turnover even for India. Of course with so much competition for workers, the same happens in all Indian I.T. shops, not just Tata.
Needless to say, for the original project we threw away all of the rubbish they'd coded and two of us wrote a working version in about 6 months - it was only a small bit of code really, but before that time we'd wasted 18 months 'reviewing' mostly crap code, and training their graduates for them in the process.
Your arguments are pretty dumb - why not just say it was too immature for you or you didn't like it, and leave it at that, rather than making stuff up which doesn't match reality.
Yes, it would generate extra some heat - since it isn't 100% efficient. But passing electricity through it makes it a heat pump. You would need a temperature differential to make it cool/warm something (i.e. a heatsink or solar collector). e.g. like a fridge, its cold on the inside, but warm on the outside.
It's already possible using other devices, but not as efficient as this is claimed to be.
Rather surprisingly this is what americans actually say when they mean "couldn't care less". But then, they call main meals "entrees" too.
We'll see who's right, if they ever waste the money to go visit.
Well, it also took off because of GNU - without GNU Linux isn't usable.
And unlike Linux, GNU was never 'just a hobby'.
Stop trying to rewrite history, ESR does it enough as it is, but for some reason people listen to the nut.
Hmm, yeah i see ice bursting into 'sandy fountains' all over the earth when summer comes to each hemisphere ... errr, hang on, no, the ice just melts and runs away, or simply sublimes and vanishes into thin air.
Why on mars would it be any different?
I think astronomers and 'planetary scientists' have really lost the plot lately - they're letting their imaginations get in the way of, well, common sense.
They ARE random hunks of pop electronics!
As subject says. It was a good game, but a bit too short, and definitely too girly (for mainstream).
Having said that, I stayed up for 3 nights in a row and finished it faster than most games I've played - it was definitely fun, quite playable, and i liked the slight quirkyness, but i'm probably not your average player.
XML works perfectly? Only for some strange definition of "perfectly" I think.
Yes sure, it works. It is an easy solution to various simple data-interchange-like problems.
However, it is also bulky, inefficient and overly complex. Bulky - needs no explanation. Inefficient - parsing it isn't that trivial, and also applying schemas is expensive and complicated. Multiple levels of namespaces, and so on can lead to complex heirarchical data structures that need a load of work to make sense of.
The observable behaviour of black holes? Everyone seems to have forgotten that black holes are just limits of a purely hypothetical mathematical model - and have never been observed, ever.
The supposed effects which have been observed as "indirect evidence" of black holes is a fantastic leap of faith with no basis in observable or testable reality (nor even in the above-mentioned mathematical models, i'll wager).
There is more than one state in Australia. There are also 5 other states and 2 territories in Australia, which also have their own "State Governments".
In this case, i believe, it was the State Government of Western Australia which has called on the army - who knows what for, I can't see what they can do.