proprietary foundations which compete directly with truly free alternatives like PHP and
IMHO, the best way to run a small - medium - semi large site is apache/php/mysql, 3 products that go hand in hand. for truly massive sites apparently mysql breaks down - I've never had a site with more then about 500,000 hits a day though.
Does this mean they/will/ go after people who use their "patents" in their lgpl/bsd licensed software?
Depends who. A random person, or a company. If a company [microsoft] wrote a bsd implementation of the patents, then included it in some proprietry software, that would be bad.
If software patents are here to stay, the more that are in the hands of competitive non monopoly open source companies, instead of microsoft/aol etc, the better.
It doesnt "execute" a file, the data track is just garbled.
Redbook CD standards are for non "enhanced" cd's. They dont cover cd audio (no fat) followed by data (fat), apparently.
Bluebook standards are, however, for "enhanced" cd's.
cd's like this one, are "enhanced" with a data track. However said track apprears to read, then fails, miserably.
3 things then occur:
drive attempts to read for ever
drive ejects it
drive dies of a heart attack and refuses to open.
2 is annoying. 1 & 3 are "fatal".
Sony are disributing deliberatly cripple bluebook standard cd's. They arent cd digital audio (hence no logo on them), however they are deliberatly crippled with the intent to destroy equipment. I sense a class action court case.
They dont care about piracy (which this doesnt protect against), and arent interested in destroying fair use (which is unprofitable on its own). They are interested in destroying first sale rights, the same rights that allow a video store to buy 1 video and rent it out 50 times without paying any royalties.
they are attempting to corner the market by eliminating competiters, because they know they are too late to enter on a level playing field.
Unlike during the cold war, where the threat of nuclear missiles landing on LA, NYC, Washington, London, Paris, and wiping out not 3,000 but 300,000,000 was very real.
Really? I have a couple of friends being paid to develop and install Free software (web based content system). The organisation they are working for doesnt care what happens to the system after they write it, they pay $4000 to get the system written, then its done. No problem. Most of the system is already written in bits and bobs of gpl code arround. They pay programers to put it together (think building lego when the bricks are free).
Ultimatly, if you dont like the GPL, fine, dont use it in your code. I could hardly see microsoft letting you off any easier.
"Real Americans" are, IMO, the people with the pioneering spirit that founded the country hundereds of years ago.
People (in general) couldnt give a damn about a robot going to another planet, they are much more interested in seeing other people walking arround on their TV's. The human aspect.
Safty is not an issue, if someone dies in space, its not the end of the world. By stunting manned space flight's growth, we are spitting in the ashes of those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice, challanger, apollo 1, a few russian missions.
Perhaps you arent going off planet in your life time, but I've got at least another 50 years ahead of me, even now all it takes is a few million dollars (big lottery win) and you can go up to the ISS.
If America is full of people like you, then thank god china is looking in to things.
You had me until while we've got terrorists bombing buildings
Perhaps you should have including "wont someone think of the children!"
But as you've been modded up: What I don't believe in is risking human life
No ones asking you to go, there are many scientists, astronauts, entrepenurs, people with spirit, hell, Real Americans, that are more then willing to risk their lives in the same way their forefathers did when they fled europe.
So why cant we use really low frequencys (1Hz, 0.5Hz) etc. Because they dont have neough bandwidth?
How about minor variations in frequency. Eg 100,000,000Hz, 100,000,000.5Hz etc. Or is that what the article is going on about (its late, I'm tired, and I hate RF)
Remember That ALL Default settings in Microsoft's Browser points to thier own in jouse web sites. )and to change that setting you have to be a little tech savvy.
Its scary the amount of people I have talked to that didnt know you could change your homepage. Worse then that some people have asked me if its legal to change it!
Not to mention one law undergraduate student that thought it was a legal requirement to register your software, and have no problems with the DMCA, CDBTPA (or whateer the sssca is), except after many days of discussion before finally finding an analogy that she could understand.
the "threat" of china settling a permament base on the moon might be enough to pass the space exploration act of 2002 - putting the u.s. on mars in 2022.
China might retaliate with mining a local asteroid, or large space station. As long as neither economy collapses, great.
I hope so. Perhaps this is the start of the second space race?
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We know that the russians have traditionally been leaders in space (you missed first space station - saylut, and longest space flight, to name but two), he was finding the unusual reversal of public/private funds fueling innovation and growth.
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"What if they find something down there that should not be brought back up?" "
Like the balrog in Kazhadum? the srawves dug deeper and deeper for gold (profit), but it was their own undoing..
proprietary foundations which compete directly with truly free alternatives like PHP and
IMHO, the best way to run a small - medium - semi large site is apache/php/mysql, 3 products that go hand in hand. for truly massive sites apparently mysql breaks down - I've never had a site with more then about 500,000 hits a day though.
Does this mean they /will/ go after people who use their "patents" in their lgpl/bsd licensed software?
Depends who. A random person, or a company. If a company [microsoft] wrote a bsd implementation of the patents, then included it in some proprietry software, that would be bad.
If software patents are here to stay, the more that are in the hands of competitive non monopoly open source companies, instead of microsoft/aol etc, the better.
It's not just the people who use their OS, but also the people who write their OS.
Does Alan Cox still work for them?
Even those people that buy redhat can just not buy redhat if they dont like the policies. They can download redhat (well, thread linux) for free.
Redbook CD standards are for non "enhanced" cd's. They dont cover cd audio (no fat) followed by data (fat), apparently.
Bluebook standards are, however, for "enhanced" cd's.
cd's like this one, are "enhanced" with a data track. However said track apprears to read, then fails, miserably.
3 things then occur:
2 is annoying. 1 & 3 are "fatal".
Sony are disributing deliberatly cripple bluebook standard cd's. They arent cd digital audio (hence no logo on them), however they are deliberatly crippled with the intent to destroy equipment. I sense a class action court case.
They dont care about piracy (which this doesnt protect against), and arent interested in destroying fair use (which is unprofitable on its own). They are interested in destroying first sale rights, the same rights that allow a video store to buy 1 video and rent it out 50 times without paying any royalties.
they are attempting to corner the market by eliminating competiters, because they know they are too late to enter on a level playing field.
The world is a mess right now
Unlike during the cold war, where the threat of nuclear missiles landing on LA, NYC, Washington, London, Paris, and wiping out not 3,000 but 300,000,000 was very real.
After this amazing news about GMR not supporting Terabit/square inch densities, slashdot reports that pigs *cannot* fly, and bill gates *isnt* poor.
Really? I have a couple of friends being paid to develop and install Free software (web based content system). The organisation they are working for doesnt care what happens to the system after they write it, they pay $4000 to get the system written, then its done. No problem. Most of the system is already written in bits and bobs of gpl code arround. They pay programers to put it together (think building lego when the bricks are free).
Ultimatly, if you dont like the GPL, fine, dont use it in your code. I could hardly see microsoft letting you off any easier.
"Real Americans" are, IMO, the people with the pioneering spirit that founded the country hundereds of years ago.
People (in general) couldnt give a damn about a robot going to another planet, they are much more interested in seeing other people walking arround on their TV's. The human aspect.
Safty is not an issue, if someone dies in space, its not the end of the world. By stunting manned space flight's growth, we are spitting in the ashes of those that have paid the ultimate sacrifice, challanger, apollo 1, a few russian missions.
Perhaps you arent going off planet in your life time, but I've got at least another 50 years ahead of me, even now all it takes is a few million dollars (big lottery win) and you can go up to the ISS.
If America is full of people like you, then thank god china is looking in to things.
troll alert
You had me until
while we've got terrorists bombing buildings
Perhaps you should have including "wont someone think of the children!"
But as you've been modded up:
What I don't believe in is risking human life
No ones asking you to go, there are many scientists, astronauts, entrepenurs, people with spirit, hell, Real Americans, that are more then willing to risk their lives in the same way their forefathers did when they fled europe.
perhaps it looked like This?
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karma suicde
(a deltic so please dont moan about spelling but the content)
whats a deltic?
there was an advert here in the uk a few yars ago that didnt have any sound. Well, it did but you had to turn up the volume to hear it.
I guarentee more people watched this then normal adverts.
So why cant we use really low frequencys (1Hz, 0.5Hz) etc. Because they dont have neough bandwidth?
How about minor variations in frequency. Eg 100,000,000Hz, 100,000,000.5Hz etc. Or is that what the article is going on about (its late, I'm tired, and I hate RF)
i usually eat the day old pizza before it gets to the microwave, but I digress.
Dont microwaves run on 2.4GHz? same as your wifi/bluetooth phone?
What about satelites that beam signals down to earth (long range, lots of people) at 10GHz+?
Why cant we just use higher and higer frequencies? 2GHz full? Use 20GHz? Or 50GHz? Or a googlehertz?
Are MDI's good or bad?
On the one hand we have the wonderful tabbed browsing thats been in mozilla and opera for ages.
On the other hand we have star office 5's intergrated desktop which caused a stink with people saying "I'll suply the window manager".
Whats the difference?
NO, you can't download it on the URL I posted. It's just an info site.
:)
Shame, you'd have had a +5 Informative if it was
So personal domain registrations have your own personal phone number on, ready for malicsious calls etc.
Any bets we'll have Bill's number for microsoft.com? Or even a 24 hour number?
Remember That ALL Default settings in Microsoft's Browser points to thier own in jouse web sites. )and to change that setting you have to be a little tech savvy.
Its scary the amount of people I have talked to that didnt know you could change your homepage. Worse then that some people have asked me if its legal to change it!
Not to mention one law undergraduate student that thought it was a legal requirement to register your software, and have no problems with the DMCA, CDBTPA (or whateer the sssca is), except after many days of discussion before finally finding an analogy that she could understand.
or a beowulf cluster of hundereds of 486 laptops
this is not a troll but wil be moderated as such
Challanger
Apollo 1
Also ariane 5 from the ESA
the "threat" of china settling a permament base on the moon might be enough to pass the space exploration act of 2002 - putting the u.s. on mars in 2022.
China might retaliate with mining a local asteroid, or large space station. As long as neither economy collapses, great.
"Can they pull it off"
I hope so. Perhaps this is the start of the second space race?
We know that the russians have traditionally been leaders in space (you missed first space station - saylut, and longest space flight, to name but two), he was finding the unusual reversal of public/private funds fueling innovation and growth.