The large sources aren't always the best ones to cut, but they are the best place to start looking. For instance, if you looked at your mortgage and found that you could get a better interest rate by switching providers, it might save you much more than the $19.99 Netflix subscription, even though the percentage change in your mortgage repayements is quite small.
No Google does not face any lawsuit, since the patents surrounding the PDF format are licensed royalty free by Adobe to anyone implementing a PDF writer or reader. The potential lawsuit your link refers to concerned antitrust issues, not IP issues.
What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years
Since soon after the start of the industrial revolution, and the introduction of the motor car. And that is your evidence that human CO2 production has no effect on the climate?
PNG wasn't supported [well] in old browsers, and many web developers don't like to drop support for those browsers until it's necessary.
Which browsers are you talking about? Do developers really care about IE 2.0 and Netscape 4.03 these days? Or are you talking about alpha channel support on IE, in which case please explain how you are going to fix that by sticking with GIF.
Its not just a function of the reader. The standard RFID tags are passive, powered off the signal from the reader. If you make them active (amplify the signal using onboard batteries) and use a bigger aerial, then the range can be increased considerably.
If anything, blocking a site should be worth more than double, since most people I know seem to just ignore warning dialogs.
My first thought was that the false positive rate is probably going to be about the same as WGA, blocking far too many sites, but you're right. The ideal solution would be to have it configurable and default to blocking, since the users who click through without reading are probably not going to go anywhere near the Options dialog.
Isn't this more or less just an attempt to reduce the completely ridiculous amount of money they're going to have to pay?
They haven't lost the case yet. They are reducing what they have to defend against, or if their client is going to admit guilt, possibly reducing the amount of any potential settlement.
Also legally who's responsible to release the sources: the OEM (DLink), the design house (Redsonic), or the company who probably customized the kernel for the SI8210 (Sigma)?
Dlink, or maybe even the retailer you bought it from, is distributing the product to you, so they are responsible for distributing the source to you. They can chase up the chain to get the source from whoever distributed the binaries to them, but they shouldn't be trying to deflect you up the chain and claiming no responsibility. Unless they were sold binary modules without being told there was GPL code in it, then they might have a case for passing the buck, but it does seem in this case they were well aware of what they were distributing.
If a manufacturer creates hardware that limits a person's ability to modify the software that runs on it then let the market forces apply pressure.
One of those market forces being that they should pay for using Free software in non-Free ways, if the developer is willing to license it to them on non-Free terms.
It's just different ways of measuring octane. US 91 octane is the same as 95 octane in Europe. Europe uses the Research Octane Number (RON), US uses an average of RON and Motor Octane Number ie: (RON + MON) / 2
I think he must mean this post. The post is about adding image support to the windows port of Emacs, and mentions that the image support uses DLLs which it links to at runtime. I can only guess that he mistakenly assumes that I took this approach for licensing reasons, and thinks that because my changes were accepted into Emacs CVS, then it supports his case. But this is a false assumption. The libraries I link to are all released under a GPL compatible license.
There is no case-law as yet to clarify whether that is £5000 per spam-run sent, or £5000 per spam receivied. If sending a million spam emails can be counted as a million offenses under the law, a significant fine can be given (though the judge is probably not going to land them with the full 5 billion squid).
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The large sources aren't always the best ones to cut, but they are the best place to start looking. For instance, if you looked at your mortgage and found that you could get a better interest rate by switching providers, it might save you much more than the $19.99 Netflix subscription, even though the percentage change in your mortgage repayements is quite small.
I'm pretty sure the GP meant 16 bits per channel. Otherwise, I'm not quite sure why he was complaining about lack of support.
I am quite tired of guessing which system producers of hard disks/CDROMs/DVD+±×RWs use to figure out if that is enough for my needs.
It really isn't that difficult to "guess". System producers use whichever units make their product look better.
No Google does not face any lawsuit, since the patents surrounding the PDF format are licensed royalty free by Adobe to anyone implementing a PDF writer or reader. The potential lawsuit your link refers to concerned antitrust issues, not IP issues.
She might have some difficulty answering the questions though, what with being dead for the last 154 years.
Oh, yeah, on the extensions issue -- admittedly I don't use very many, but most of the ones I rely on have been updated by now.
That was my experience too. Of the 18 extensions I have installed, only 4 have not been updated.
I assure you this is a win-win situation!
I'm sure it is for the execs who negotiate these agreements. Just not for their companies and shareholders.
What about glaciers in Greenland that have been shrinking for 100 years
Since soon after the start of the industrial revolution, and the introduction of the motor car. And that is your evidence that human CO2 production has no effect on the climate?
one out of 40 engineers interviewed would be qualified to learn Ajax.
The scary part is the other 39 are all working as consultants on J2EE and ASP.NET projects, and noone at management level questions their ability.
PNG wasn't supported [well] in old browsers, and many web developers don't like to drop support for those browsers until it's necessary.
Which browsers are you talking about? Do developers really care about IE 2.0 and Netscape 4.03 these days? Or are you talking about alpha channel support on IE, in which case please explain how you are going to fix that by sticking with GIF.
The only real danger is that some hot woman with an rfid reader decides to bump into you and just happen to place her hand where your passport is.
I'm gonna start keeping my passport down my pants. Just in case.
Its not just a function of the reader. The standard RFID tags are passive, powered off the signal from the reader. If you make them active (amplify the signal using onboard batteries) and use a bigger aerial, then the range can be increased considerably.
If anything, blocking a site should be worth more than double, since most people I know seem to just ignore warning dialogs.
My first thought was that the false positive rate is probably going to be about the same as WGA, blocking far too many sites, but you're right. The ideal solution would be to have it configurable and default to blocking, since the users who click through without reading are probably not going to go anywhere near the Options dialog.
Isn't this more or less just an attempt to reduce the completely ridiculous amount of money they're going to have to pay?
They haven't lost the case yet. They are reducing what they have to defend against, or if their client is going to admit guilt, possibly reducing the amount of any potential settlement.
Also legally who's responsible to release the sources: the OEM (DLink), the design house (Redsonic), or the company who probably customized the kernel for the SI8210 (Sigma)?
Dlink, or maybe even the retailer you bought it from, is distributing the product to you, so they are responsible for distributing the source to you. They can chase up the chain to get the source from whoever distributed the binaries to them, but they shouldn't be trying to deflect you up the chain and claiming no responsibility. Unless they were sold binary modules without being told there was GPL code in it, then they might have a case for passing the buck, but it does seem in this case they were well aware of what they were distributing.
Nevermind Netflix, what about ringo@media.mit.edu back in the early 1990s - before Web 0.9 even existed?
If a manufacturer creates hardware that limits a person's ability to modify the software that runs on it then let the market forces apply pressure.
One of those market forces being that they should pay for using Free software in non-Free ways, if the developer is willing to license it to them on non-Free terms.
As my high school physics teacher once said, real men use millimetres. Centimetres are for dressmakers.
Except the article was about 7" singles, which traditionally came in plain paper sleeves
It's just different ways of measuring octane. US 91 octane is the same as 95 octane in Europe. Europe uses the Research Octane Number (RON), US uses an average of RON and Motor Octane Number ie: (RON + MON) / 2
Your statement is only true in market segments approaching perfect competition, and there are very few of those outside farming.
Farming? You're joking right? Agriculture is about the most over-subsidized industry in the developed world!
A shame they haven't included Guantanamo Bay in their "rest of the world". Military kangaroo courts excepted.
I think he must mean this post. The post is about adding image support to the windows port of Emacs, and mentions that the image support uses DLLs which it links to at runtime. I can only guess that he mistakenly assumes that I took this approach for licensing reasons, and thinks that because my changes were accepted into Emacs CVS, then it supports his case. But this is a false assumption. The libraries I link to are all released under a GPL compatible license.
I couldn't find anything related on Jason Rumney's blog, even with a google search.
I can't think of anything related on my blog either, and if I were to post something, it would certainly not support Rabinovich.
they face a maximum fine of 5,000 pounds
There is no case-law as yet to clarify whether that is £5000 per spam-run sent, or £5000 per spam receivied. If sending a million spam emails can be counted as a million offenses under the law, a significant fine can be given (though the judge is probably not going to land them with the full 5 billion squid).