Right. But If I take gnucleus, change the name, re-do any graphics so it looks different, and put up a site hawking CD versions and not mentioning the original authors, that is my RIGHT under the GPL, so long as I follow the terms of the GPL. The GPL does not require you to cite sources, give credit, or any other such thing. It requires that you provide the source code in a commonly readable form on the platform in question. (So if you re-write the software in your custom version of C in which you only have the compiler... that is probably your right)
the linux kernel license specifically exempts binary-only kernel modules that use an interface already existing in the kernel from the GPL.
If you take my GPL code, and build upon it, even if the resulting product is 100x bigger, you are STILL using my code, and still have a derivative work.
(If I steal your code off your computer, but then use it to make something 100x bigger, can you no longer sue me for damages because your code is insignificant? No..)
They only give us one side of it, nobody tells us what he actually said... and he claims his certified mail was never received....
Well.. that should be fairly easy to show in court, eh? If he *signed* for his mail, and ignored it, and is now claiming he never received it... (if)...
I love how Canada is referred to as some rural backwater nation....
But seriously.
Isn't this what we always talk about in the tech world? Telecommuting? If a person can work from home, why can't a company work from the boonies?
The country has benefits over the city.. I once had teh opportunity to work at a high-tech startup in a beautiful small canadian town on a lake in BC.
Now... THAT was perfect. Sure, eventually the office moved to a major center for more political reasons than anything.... but it was excellent. *especially* for those with families.
No city hassles. Fishing. Community.. etcetera... and the high tech job you like.
In a normal contract... there is a point where the contract an agreement is reached, the contract is signed. If a clause in the contract causes the contract to be terminated, it's null & void.
But you see, with the GPL, there is no negotiation. What prevetns someone from re-licencing the software under the GPL again? Nothing. As long as they are currently complying with the terms, they can keep using it.
Why is the GPL different? Because nobody CHOOSES to let someone license it.
Good to see progress in the commercial sector... but I believe this was discovered and prototyped at the MIT media lab at least 2 years go..... I believe/. did an article about it....
Something to do with invisible speakers;)
(exact same thing.. nonlinear response of sound in air, ultrasound breaknig down, etc)
Lasers are very good at producing omnidirectional light.
Pop the columnating lens out of a laser pointer to see just how omnidirectional it is (and please don't look right at it). It's just like any other light source in that respect.. the only difference is that the light it produces is of one wavelength, and in-phase. Both reasons why it's not an ideal room light. But direction has nothing to do with it.
Lasers are focused using a columnating lens.. just like any other light.
As the article said... this produces laser lightevenly distributed across the mid-infrared range.
It's not like sound where you can do active noise cancelling..light waves 180 degrees out of phase will not cancel each other out.
The single phase output of the laser effect has interesting optical properties.. but I don't believe it actually causes it to be any 'stronger'.
10 lasers all out of phase with each other, all focused into the same beam would not weaken anything.
Don't mix up the optical propetries with the energy released... You can pack the same amount of non-coherent light into a beam and get the same results as far as burning or cutting... it's just that devices using the laser effect are much more efficient, and hence, practical.
Of course, I'm talking out my ass... but that all makes sense to me.
Very common. Any decently good watch has a sapphire face. Why? It's really hard, so it doesn't scratch easy.
My Esquire has one... so did my Luminox... (Oh.. regarding those Luminox navy seal dive watches..... they are indestructuble, for sure. Just don't wear one to bed.. I woke up and found one of the prongs that hold sthe strap pin in had sheared right off the main housing. GO figure. Waterproof to 200 meters, used by navy seals, can take a hell of a beating.. but don't ware it to bed;)
Couple of points.
First... this does not mean that "IF you sleep less you will live longer"
It just means that there is some relation between lifespan and sleep. It could also be that those who live longer tend to have lifestyles that involve getting up earlier.
Or that, for some reason, those predisposed to along life just plain sleep less.
Also... not getting your 8 hours? Think you can get by on 4 or 5 hours a night? I've heard people say that...
Studies show very conclusively that you basically need 8 hours of sleep a night. If you don't get it one night, you'll make up for it later. When you don't sleep enough, you accumulate a 'sleep-debt' that the body WILL pay off eventually, even over a span of months.
Stayed up on speed for 3 days? You might not sleep for 24 hours straight afterwards.. but you WILL catch up over the next few days.
that link also doesn't show much for an operation the size of wal-mart. I've seen small, independed supermakets with more claims than that.
Plus. their 'news' is stuff like "Wal-mart CEO sells millions of his stock". Oh wow....
Someone who was granted stock options actually used them to make money? SO WHAT. THATS WHY HE GOT THEM.
Except really, it's just a front for the UFCW to try to unionize wal-mart. Why.. because they have some great interest in the well-being of all the walmartians (hey.. cool word) out there? No.
Because adding the walmart staff to the UFCW roster will significantly boost the pay & profits of the union executives.
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ID can release doom under GPL with missing pieces because it BELONGS to them.
However, Morpheus is distrubing a binary that is a derivitave work of GPL code without complying with the GPL. Period.
however, the gnucleus people already gave permission to Morpheus to do this, under certain terms.
Those terms are known as the GPL.
Right. But If I take gnucleus, change the name, re-do any graphics so it looks different, and put up a site hawking CD versions and not mentioning the original authors, that is my RIGHT under the GPL, so long as I follow the terms of the GPL.
The GPL does not require you to cite sources, give credit, or any other such thing. It requires that you provide the source code in a commonly readable form on the platform in question.
(So if you re-write the software in your custom version of C in which you only have the compiler... that is probably your right)
the linux kernel license specifically exempts binary-only kernel modules that use an interface already existing in the kernel from the GPL.
If you take my GPL code, and build upon it, even if the resulting product is 100x bigger, you are STILL using my code, and still have a derivative work.
(If I steal your code off your computer, but then use it to make something 100x bigger, can you no longer sue me for damages because your code is insignificant? No..)
You cannot be forced to distribute source. As per the terms of the GPL, if you violate the GPL, you simply have to cease distribution.
They only give us one side of it, nobody tells us what he actually said... and he claims his certified mail was never received....
...
Well.. that should be fairly easy to show in court, eh? If he *signed* for his mail, and ignored it, and is now claiming he never received it... (if)
If most of them are uninhabitable, do you mean to say that some are?
Or is it just some lose adjective thrown in for editorial purposes without thought to what it really means.
And neither is someone to cheer for.
I'm not a conspiracy theorist.. I just think that large, public companies are NOT generally a good thing for society.
AOL must do whatever is best for it's shareholders. Period. Same with Microsoft.
Same with *any* public company.
You can hear a CEO talk about morals and whatnot.. but it's meaningless.. it's not HIS company.
You agreed to it when you signed up for your bandwidth. Are they violating that?
Now... also.
If you are telecommuting for real (you aren't working for yourself).. your employer should be paying for the bandwidth.
As for downtime.. if the downtime is so important, get multiple connections.
I love how Canada is referred to as some rural backwater nation....
But seriously.
Isn't this what we always talk about in the tech world? Telecommuting? If a person can work from home, why can't a company work from the boonies?
The country has benefits over the city.. I once had teh opportunity to work at a high-tech startup in a beautiful small canadian town on a lake in BC.
Now... THAT was perfect. Sure, eventually the office moved to a major center for more political reasons than anything.... but it was excellent. *especially* for those with families.
No city hassles. Fishing. Community.. etcetera... and the high tech job you like.
In a normal contract... there is a point where the contract an agreement is reached, the contract is signed. If a clause in the contract causes the contract to be terminated, it's null & void.
But you see, with the GPL, there is no negotiation. What prevetns someone from re-licencing the software under the GPL again? Nothing. As long as they are currently complying with the terms, they can keep using it.
Why is the GPL different? Because nobody CHOOSES to let someone license it.
This is about a threefold increase in factoring speed.. not an order of magnitude.
The NSA can afford huge hardware.. REALLY huge hardware, for breaking crypto... was there ever any doubt?
Good to see progress in the commercial sector... /. did an article about it....
;)
but I believe this was discovered and prototyped at the MIT media lab at least 2 years go.....
I believe
Something to do with invisible speakers
(exact same thing.. nonlinear response of sound in air, ultrasound breaknig down, etc)
I believe you just answered your own question perfectly.
Lasers are very good at producing omnidirectional light.
Pop the columnating lens out of a laser pointer to see just how omnidirectional it is (and please don't look right at it). It's just like any other light source in that respect.. the only difference is that the light it produces is of one wavelength, and in-phase. Both reasons why it's not an ideal room light. But direction has nothing to do with it.
Lasers are focused using a columnating lens.. just like any other light.
As the article said... this produces laser lightevenly distributed across the mid-infrared range.
I think... you are mixed up a bit.
Light waves do not interfere with each other.
It's not like sound where you can do active noise cancelling..light waves 180 degrees out of phase will not cancel each other out.
The single phase output of the laser effect has interesting optical properties.. but I don't believe it actually causes it to be any 'stronger'.
10 lasers all out of phase with each other, all focused into the same beam would not weaken anything.
Don't mix up the optical propetries with the energy released... You can pack the same amount of non-coherent light into a beam and get the same results as far as burning or cutting... it's just that devices using the laser effect are much more efficient, and hence, practical.
Of course, I'm talking out my ass... but that all makes sense to me.
Really, clustering means so many different things that a question like this just can't be answered.
Even companies like Sun that talk about their 'Clustering technoloy'... are really talking about application specific solutions.
Beowulf? What, you mean using PVM? Windows could do as well as linux, why on earth couldn't it?
Mosix type clusters?
Web clusters that are more of a farm?
It's a silly question.
Not according to the DMCA.
If something's primary purpose is to enable circumvention of copy protection.... it's illegal.
The question is.. is augmenting a system where there was no way to copy something the same thing as violating a copy protection mechanism?
Very common. Any decently good watch has a sapphire face. Why? It's really hard, so it doesn't scratch easy.
;)
My Esquire has one... so did my Luminox...
(Oh.. regarding those Luminox navy seal dive watches..... they are indestructuble, for sure.
Just don't wear one to bed.. I woke up and found one of the prongs that hold sthe strap pin in had sheared right off the main housing. GO figure.
Waterproof to 200 meters, used by navy seals, can take a hell of a beating.. but don't ware it to bed
Couple of points.
First... this does not mean that "IF you sleep less you will live longer"
It just means that there is some relation between lifespan and sleep. It could also be that those who live longer tend to have lifestyles that involve getting up earlier.
Or that, for some reason, those predisposed to along life just plain sleep less.
Also... not getting your 8 hours? Think you can get by on 4 or 5 hours a night? I've heard people say that...
Studies show very conclusively that you basically need 8 hours of sleep a night. If you don't get it one night, you'll make up for it later. When you don't sleep enough, you accumulate a 'sleep-debt' that the body WILL pay off eventually, even over a span of months.
Stayed up on speed for 3 days? You might not sleep for 24 hours straight afterwards.. but you WILL catch up over the next few days.
Cool! I've been waiting for that for years.
What's a Republican? Bush?
I don't have a Republican congress.
Well.. to have a huge search network.. this is better.
As long as it has some sort of geometric shape, we can make searching more efficient.
Gnutella has no shape, It's a handful of spaghetti thrown on the floor.
The there's Fastrack.. it's like throwing a handful of spaghettios on top of the first pile of spaghetti.
Apple makes their profit selling hardware. GOOD hardware.
Porting OS-X to Intell will just decrease the amount of hardware they will sell. That's a no-brainer.
that link also doesn't show much for an operation the size of wal-mart. I've seen small, independed supermakets with more claims than that.
Plus. their 'news' is stuff like "Wal-mart CEO sells millions of his stock". Oh wow....
Someone who was granted stock options actually used them to make money? SO WHAT. THATS WHY HE GOT THEM.
Except really, it's just a front for the UFCW to try to unionize wal-mart. Why.. because they have some great interest in the well-being of all the walmartians (hey.. cool word) out there? No.
Because adding the walmart staff to the UFCW roster will significantly boost the pay & profits of the union executives.
UFCW... just say no.