Broadband doesn't have to be expensive. It's extremely popular in S. Korea, and that's hardly a rich country. Given broadband, you don't need a floppy disk drive, and can get away without a CD-ROM. Given prices though, a CD-RW would be a better bet than a hard drive. You can just about get one for $35, and I couldn't find a hard drive for that low a price. Use the internet for networking, with a USB ADSL modem ($40), and you can avoid needing the NIC. Can get a case with PSU for $35.
So, that's $63 for the motherboard and CPU, $20 for the RAM, $35 for the CDROM, $40 for the modem and $35 for the case and CPU. $192. Still a far cry from the $100, but a useable Linux box, and more reliable than your setup (hardly any parts to go wrong)
You could probably go cheaper starting with an existing barebones system. To break the $100 barrier though, you would need to mass produce cheaper components. Just about any 32 bit CPU should be adequate. Then design a motherboard that comes with built in networking and everything els ethat might be needed.
As we all know, the record industry are bastions of honesty and fair play, and the sole crusaders against evil terrorist pirates who steal music, and therefore murder the poor artists who create the songs.
Given their record of fair play, being law abiding citizens, and their respect for the laws of this country - so great that they even write the laws - it is quite clear that they have not done anything wrong, and should not be investigated at all.
Your competitor spends $299 and has a reference board. The card he builds can't be exactly like yours, but he can take good ideas from your board and implement them as long as there isn't a patent against it.
I don't see how this is a problem. A board is just a board. The chip is the part we're concerned about. It takes a long time to get from the specs to an actual working chip. Having nVidia's latest piece of tech when you're designing the thing isn't going to give you a heck of an advantage 2 years down the line. And anything worth having is patented anyway.
He's not in breach of contract. He never agreed to a contract. The GPL is a license. not a contract. These are different. A license is typically unilateral permission (often with limitations). A contract typically involves an exchange. The GPL simpyl gives permission to copy, modify and do various other things with the code that would otherwise not be permitted by copyright.
So, he may be in breach of copyright, but not contract.
MS sees Linux as a potential threat. They also know that they can develop their own version of the OS without having to pay a licencing fee. It would be pretty bad business for them not to have at least a small team looking into ways to make "Microsoft Linux", add features to add product diversity, and add some closed source applications software.
while not an error per se, not using curly brackets in conditionals might introduce unexpected subtleties in the control flow in more complex code with deceptive indentation
Yes, especially if you put 2 statements on one line.
i.e
if(condition) a++;b++;
Another possibility here is the classic mistake
if(VoteForBush()); { Bush++; } else if (VoteForGore()) { Gore++; }
Is sending spam illegal? I thought it was legal under US law for political and non-commercial reasons, as well as commercial, assuming it complies with CAN-SPAM.
That's the wrong way round. The breakdown is that way because they charge $15.99 for a disc. The actual reason they're $15.99 is that they can maximise Label profit at the price.
Captain Cyborgs implant was a little more substantial than the dog chip that the register likes to make out.
It is considerably less than the start of a new master race of cyborgs that Prof. Warwick likes to make out, but it does actually allow him to record nerve impulses. It's a useful experiment, which may provide some useful data for neural prosthesis.
If a patent is restricting the use of the code then it is not Open Source.
This is the sort of reason that the FSF makjes a distinction between "free software" and "Open source". It is open source (because the source is available). It isn't free software (because its use is heavily restricted).
Compulsory licensing is a nice idea, but I don't think anything quite so simple would work. Some standards organisations have a concept of "Reasonable and Non-Descriminatory" licensing, which may be possible to apply to all patents, but while a standards committee can be fairly arbitrary when it decides what's reasonable, the legal definition has to be a lot more specific.
Inventors are already required to disclose how the invention works to someone skilled in the domain of the invention. Hence, such a diagram should be either in a programming language, or some sort of standard design (e.g UML).
For some reason, a vague, verbose wordy description seems to be accepted by the USPTO.
Licenses - Players would generally like to think that they are playing for a major team (say Manchester United in football). They might not enjoy the experience of playing the game if they were playing street football. (One of the reasons why the FIFA 200x series is so popular despite having relatively shallow gameplay as compared to Pro Evolution Soccer).
Well, we'll need a decent sized developer to produce it, but there's no reason these can't be licenced. Alternatively, if the game was successful enough, then some people might want to create their own clubs, which will have their own reputation within the game.
How do you address the aspect of every player wanting to be a part of the action. Take the case of football again. Almost everyone, would like to be in control of the player who is dribbling the ball. Playing the game sort of loses it's excitement if one has to stand at the back of the defense.
I think this could be self balancing. If nobody wants to play in goal, then a reasonable goalkeeper will be able to advance a lot more quickly than an excellent striker.
It's not clear until you visit though. www.michaelhowardmp.org.uk is a reasonably logical choice to try to find Mr. Howard's home page. The Labour party are taking advantage of that to send their own political message. It's very underhand. Civilised people shouldn't behave like that. They could just as easily have gone for MichaelHowardSucks.org.uk, or possibly something more polite, or, for that matter, michaelhoward.labour.org.uk.
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Why not boot from a CD?
Broadband doesn't have to be expensive. It's extremely popular in S. Korea, and that's hardly a rich country. Given broadband, you don't need a floppy disk drive, and can get away without a CD-ROM. Given prices though, a CD-RW would be a better bet than a hard drive. You can just about get one for $35, and I couldn't find a hard drive for that low a price. Use the internet for networking, with a USB ADSL modem ($40), and you can avoid needing the NIC. Can get a case with PSU for $35.
So, that's $63 for the motherboard and CPU, $20 for the RAM, $35 for the CDROM, $40 for the modem and $35 for the case and CPU. $192. Still a far cry from the $100, but a useable Linux box, and more reliable than your setup (hardly any parts to go wrong)
You could probably go cheaper starting with an existing barebones system. To break the $100 barrier though, you would need to mass produce cheaper components. Just about any 32 bit CPU should be adequate. Then design a motherboard that comes with built in networking and everything els ethat might be needed.
As we all know, the record industry are bastions of honesty and fair play, and the sole crusaders against evil terrorist pirates who steal music, and therefore murder the poor artists who create the songs.
Given their record of fair play, being law abiding citizens, and their respect for the laws of this country - so great that they even write the laws - it is quite clear that they have not done anything wrong, and should not be investigated at all.
Your competitor spends $299 and has a reference board. The card he builds can't be exactly like yours, but he can take good ideas from your board and implement them as long as there isn't a patent against it.
I don't see how this is a problem. A board is just a board. The chip is the part we're concerned about. It takes a long time to get from the specs to an actual working chip. Having nVidia's latest piece of tech when you're designing the thing isn't going to give you a heck of an advantage 2 years down the line. And anything worth having is patented anyway.
Why? This would probably make the ad more effective.
MS: Buy Microsoft. What else is there?
Firefox: Don't! You have a choice.
And, sadly, doing this would not violate the GPL at all as long as the broken Linux was given away.
Nitpick: You are permitted to sell GPL code for as much money as people are willing to pay. You just can't stop them from doing the same.
He's not in breach of contract. He never agreed to a contract. The GPL is a license. not a contract. These are different. A license is typically unilateral permission (often with limitations). A contract typically involves an exchange. The GPL simpyl gives permission to copy, modify and do various other things with the code that would otherwise not be permitted by copyright.
So, he may be in breach of copyright, but not contract.
MS sees Linux as a potential threat. They also know that they can develop their own version of the OS without having to pay a licencing fee. It would be pretty bad business for them not to have at least a small team looking into ways to make "Microsoft Linux", add features to add product diversity, and add some closed source applications software.
Yes, especially if you put 2 statements on one line. i.e Another possibility here is the classic mistake
Is sending spam illegal? I thought it was legal under US law for political and non-commercial reasons, as well as commercial, assuming it complies with CAN-SPAM.
That's the wrong way round. The breakdown is that way because they charge $15.99 for a disc. The actual reason they're $15.99 is that they can maximise Label profit at the price.
Captain Cyborgs implant was a little more substantial than the dog chip that the register likes to make out.
It is considerably less than the start of a new master race of cyborgs that Prof. Warwick likes to make out, but it does actually allow him to record nerve impulses. It's a useful experiment, which may provide some useful data for neural prosthesis.
If a patent is restricting the use of the code then it is not Open Source.
This is the sort of reason that the FSF makjes a distinction between "free software" and "Open source". It is open source (because the source is available). It isn't free software (because its use is heavily restricted).
Compulsory licensing is a nice idea, but I don't think anything quite so simple would work. Some standards organisations have a concept of "Reasonable and Non-Descriminatory" licensing, which may be possible to apply to all patents, but while a standards committee can be fairly arbitrary when it decides what's reasonable, the legal definition has to be a lot more specific.
Inventors are already required to disclose how the invention works to someone skilled in the domain of the invention. Hence, such a diagram should be either in a programming language, or some sort of standard design (e.g UML). For some reason, a vague, verbose wordy description seems to be accepted by the USPTO.
You have several teams, and a complete league.
Licenses - Players would generally like to think that they are playing for a major team (say Manchester United in football). They might not enjoy the experience of playing the game if they were playing street football. (One of the reasons why the FIFA 200x series is so popular despite having relatively shallow gameplay as compared to Pro Evolution Soccer).
Well, we'll need a decent sized developer to produce it, but there's no reason these can't be licenced. Alternatively, if the game was successful enough, then some people might want to create their own clubs, which will have their own reputation within the game.
How do you address the aspect of every player wanting to be a part of the action. Take the case of football again. Almost everyone, would like to be in control of the player who is dribbling the ball. Playing the game sort of loses it's excitement if one has to stand at the back of the defense.
I think this could be self balancing. If nobody wants to play in goal, then a reasonable goalkeeper will be able to advance a lot more quickly than an excellent striker.
Soccer is a contraction of "Association football". Of course, almost everyone in the rest of the world call this game football.
Ummm... Trademarks can be licenced. This is what the official sports games do.
Haven't been keeping up with the crypto soap opera. Has the transexual subplot involving Victor/Vanna come to a head yet?
It's all Eve's fault.
It's not clear until you visit though. www.michaelhowardmp.org.uk is a reasonably logical choice to try to find Mr. Howard's home page. The Labour party are taking advantage of that to send their own political message. It's very underhand. Civilised people shouldn't behave like that. They could just as easily have gone for MichaelHowardSucks.org.uk, or possibly something more polite, or, for that matter, michaelhoward.labour.org.uk.
Nitpicker.
Yup, there is no #1.
Other people have said how it coulkd be done, but that's not really the point.
Even if it is currently impossible, assuming someone does find a solution, it means that it would be legal to use it.
If you know of a job that has all of those, let me know.
I recommend tramp/beggar.
Gives you a guaranteed minimum amount of money;
At least $0 per hour.
Gives you a guaranteed maximum number of hours;
At most 168 hours per week.
Has clearly established goals that can be achieved with some time left over for personal growth;
Goal is to stay alive. Quite measurable. Either you're alive or dead. Have time for growth of fungi and fingernails.
Can see you going away for the weekend or on vacation without everything falling apart;
Okay... falls down here. Pays a good, solid living wage;
You'll live.
Is not dangerous;
Apart from the risk of hypothermia, it's fairly safe.
Staffs people who respect you, and who are themselves worthy of respect;
erm... Okay, I'm running out of ideas now.