Software companies license code from other companies all the time. If you come to that conclusion, then the argument is really against using any licensed code at all.
The GPL is not that difficult to comply with. Compliance is simply the cost of licensing the GPLed code. It's still a hell of a lot cheaper than Linksys licensing some other embedded OS and paying a per-unit royalty.
Everything else is popular trash by people who weren't there.
Because we all know, nothing exciting has happened in the computer world in the last 20 years.
Hacker culture is more alive today than ever. We have Linux, a shining example of what can be accomplished with the hacker philosophy. BSD is still around too, and actively maintained, an example of how even obselete code that is still useful to a couple people can live on, far after commercial viability has faded.
These are the good old days. The last three years has seen a huge surge in open source and free software popularity and development. Linux, for better or worse, has been a huge commercial success in the server and developer markets.
Regarding ESR... I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an editor's personality to show through in a document they edit. I don't hear people bashing Knuth for his eccentric views that show through in his works.
As long as it isn't one of the many forbidden herbs, in which case you could go to jail.
where you work,
Unless you want to work for a government contractor and happen to enjoy the aforementioned forbidden herbs. All government contractors are required to give drug tests.
Or maybe you want to conduct business on Sunday, or sell alcohol, things that are still forbidden in many areas.
what entertainment you are allowed
Unless you want to:
Have anal or oral sex (in most states) Have sex before marriage Be homosexual Hire a prostitute Watch porn on broadcast TV Smoke a joint in the privacy of your own home Crack a commercial DRM product Trade music online Light a bonfire (california emissions laws)....
I mostly agree with you, things aren't too bad here, things are a lot worse in some aspects in some other countries. That doesn't mean there aren't severe limitations on what is allowed and what is not.
It has come to our attention that on or about 6/6/2003 you circumvented our access control method and "viewed the source" of a comment posted by GigsVT. Under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), we demand that you cease and desist immediately from all infringing behavior.:)
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Comments are often a good way to tell lifted code.
Things like two spaces between certain words, mispelings, Weird Capitilization, etc.
Those are the kinds of things that are most damning.
In college, my roommate and I worked on a project for a programming class together. It was three parts, the last part was the largest part of your grade. We worked together for the first two parts, but I did all the work. He literally didn't write one line of code. I think he might have tried to write some header or something, that I wound up heavily changing anyway.
Anyway, so I told the professor about it, and asked that we work seperately on the final part. I got the project nearly completed, and I could tell from his testing that he wasn't getting nearly anywhere. Then near the time to turn in the project, suddenly his version had nearly all the features mine had.
I told the professor right away, and it almost went to honor court, but the professor didn't want to press it, he said it would mostly be his word against mine, etc..
Anyway, the bottom line is, the most compelling evidence of code theft was mispellings and other things of that sort in comments and variable names.
Having the exact same esoteric bugs is also pretty compelling.
"To generate enthusiasm for our company and innovations, we must also communicate more broadly and in a more human and compelling voice. We will increase our advertising budget significantly for all audiences â" developers, IT, information workers, consumers, small business, and business leaders â" becoming one of the largest advertisers in our industry. We will explain our mission to help people realize their potential and discuss the amazing work we and our partners are doing."
The only misquoted part is they did not put "our" in brackets. I'm sure they story was approved by Ballsack anyway, it came from MSNBC. Do you really think MSNBC is going to run a story about MS without it being approved first?
To back up this new push to promote a more customer-friendly Microsoft, Ballmer promised that the company would âoeincrease our advertising budget significantly for all our audiences.â
This pretty much sums it up.
An equal headline and probably more accurate one would be "MS launches new media campaign to portray company as customer-friendly".
Neither article was about launching satellites from balloons. One was about railguns, the other was about a large balloon. I skimmed them.
What does relativity have to do with this? I kinda wonder what kind of education you military guys get, it seems to be pretty lacking on the theory side.
He has a point, this only works with registered works. Works that are covered under automatic copyrights will be a difficult thing to deal with under this system.
Alright, here's a pitch in case Carmack is reading:
Game title: Therapist
Game starts out, you are a psychologist, you see a few patients. The some weird voices start talking in your head, telling you to do things. Insert more weird crap like from Momento or Pi, the player themselves shouldn't know what is going on.
Anyway, bottom line, you become a serial rapist, etc etc. Would sell millions of copies.
If memory serves, it was that line of math, plus the fact that the peltiers are much less efficient under certain conditions. Don't recall exactly what it was offhand, but I think there was an efficiency curve with Delta-T and temperature as the parameters, and the beverage cooler came out on the worse end of it.
I really think peltiers are amazing, just not quite as amazing as they seem at first brush.:)
Lets try this again, this time in a browser that supports cookies.:)
I read the article. He doesn't post any concrete numbers comparing it when the device is not powered.
Also, with the sensor on the peltier itself, it indicates little about the temperature of the liquid. That's like putting a thermometer on your heater and saying room temperature is 120 degrees.
I've done the research and the math regarding building a similar device, and I believe the conclusion I came to was that it would require something like ten 70 watt peltiers to move the temperature of 12 ounces of fluid a few degrees per minute. That's 700 watts before you even count the power needed for all the fans to cool the hot side of the peltiers.
This is a nice excercize if you need some soldering practice, but there's a reason he doesn't post any real data regarding how much colder it kept the beer than without the cooler. It really isn't doing anything.
I'd be surprised if there was even a one degree difference in actual liquid temperature with the thing on than when off.
*Perfectly is taken to mean "Works about right as long as that system has the same brand and minor revision of the JRE"
Seriously though, every Java based piece of software we have looked at has been total crap. Many of them require a certain runtime, such as one web service from a major company we looked at, that only works with Apple's runtime. Other's only work with MS Java runtimes. The list goes on.
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I doubt it.
Software companies license code from other companies all the time. If you come to that conclusion, then the argument is really against using any licensed code at all.
The GPL is not that difficult to comply with. Compliance is simply the cost of licensing the GPLed code. It's still a hell of a lot cheaper than Linksys licensing some other embedded OS and paying a per-unit royalty.
If people didn't care, they would have used the BSD license.
Everything else is popular trash by people who weren't there.
Because we all know, nothing exciting has happened in the computer world in the last 20 years.
Hacker culture is more alive today than ever. We have Linux, a shining example of what can be accomplished with the hacker philosophy. BSD is still around too, and actively maintained, an example of how even obselete code that is still useful to a couple people can live on, far after commercial viability has faded.
These are the good old days. The last three years has seen a huge surge in open source and free software popularity and development. Linux, for better or worse, has been a huge commercial success in the server and developer markets.
Regarding ESR... I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an editor's personality to show through in a document they edit. I don't hear people bashing Knuth for his eccentric views that show through in his works.
hehe
[US govt doesn't] decide what you eat,
....
As long as it isn't one of the many forbidden herbs, in which case you could go to jail.
where you work,
Unless you want to work for a government contractor and happen to enjoy the aforementioned forbidden herbs. All government contractors are required to give drug tests.
Or maybe you want to conduct business on Sunday, or sell alcohol, things that are still forbidden in many areas.
what entertainment you are allowed
Unless you want to:
Have anal or oral sex (in most states)
Have sex before marriage
Be homosexual
Hire a prostitute
Watch porn on broadcast TV
Smoke a joint in the privacy of your own home
Crack a commercial DRM product
Trade music online
Light a bonfire (california emissions laws)
I mostly agree with you, things aren't too bad here, things are a lot worse in some aspects in some other countries. That doesn't mean there aren't severe limitations on what is allowed and what is not.
My crux about cable and satilite is that you pay for commercials.
So?
That's like saying you should get free groceries because you spent the money on gas to get to the store.
Letter of Cease and Desist
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Mr/Mrs. Darby,
It has come to our attention that on or about 6/6/2003 you circumvented our access control method and "viewed the source" of a comment posted by GigsVT. Under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), we demand that you cease and desist immediately from all infringing behavior.
Comments are often a good way to tell lifted code.
Things like two spaces between certain words, mispelings, Weird Capitilization, etc.
Those are the kinds of things that are most damning.
In college, my roommate and I worked on a project for a programming class together. It was three parts, the last part was the largest part of your grade. We worked together for the first two parts, but I did all the work. He literally didn't write one line of code. I think he might have tried to write some header or something, that I wound up heavily changing anyway.
Anyway, so I told the professor about it, and asked that we work seperately on the final part. I got the project nearly completed, and I could tell from his testing that he wasn't getting nearly anywhere. Then near the time to turn in the project, suddenly his version had nearly all the features mine had.
I told the professor right away, and it almost went to honor court, but the professor didn't want to press it, he said it would mostly be his word against mine, etc..
Anyway, the bottom line is, the most compelling evidence of code theft was mispellings and other things of that sort in comments and variable names.
Having the exact same esoteric bugs is also pretty compelling.
Do you know what NDA stands for?
is non-chiral
I was thinking it might be, which is why I said, "I don't know if this is what this is about or not".
My post is however an example of how the same molecule can have differing potentcies.
Thanks for the correction.
You realise that's several times higher res than most printed material, right?
I'd be happy if we got 300 dpi monitors.
"To generate enthusiasm for our company and innovations, we must also communicate more broadly and in a more human and compelling voice. We will increase our advertising budget significantly for all audiences â" developers, IT, information workers, consumers, small business, and business leaders â" becoming one of the largest advertisers in our industry. We will explain our mission to help people realize their potential and discuss the amazing work we and our partners are doing."
The only misquoted part is they did not put "our" in brackets. I'm sure they story was approved by Ballsack anyway, it came from MSNBC. Do you really think MSNBC is going to run a story about MS without it being approved first?
I don't know if this is the real answer, but they could be talking about optoisomers.
Usually the levo isomer of a drug is more active than the dextro isomer.
Example:
dextromethorphan= cough syrup, over the counter, addictive only in extremely large doses, considered non-analgesic.
levomethorphan=opiate, codeine analog, Schedule II controlled substance
Same molecule, different isomer, radically different pharmacological effects.
To back up this new push to promote a more customer-friendly Microsoft, Ballmer promised that the company would âoeincrease our advertising budget significantly for all our audiences.â
This pretty much sums it up.
An equal headline and probably more accurate one would be "MS launches new media campaign to portray company as customer-friendly".
All marketing, no real changes.
Neither article was about launching satellites from balloons. One was about railguns, the other was about a large balloon. I skimmed them.
What does relativity have to do with this? I kinda wonder what kind of education you military guys get, it seems to be pretty lacking on the theory side.
You know about that newton guy right? Had a unit named after him?
1. You need a balloon that is 100 times bigger to lift the same amount of weight where the atmosphere is 99% thinner.
2. For every action...
When you fire this thing, the balloon is going to recoil just as much as the projectile.
BTW-I thought the files on totse were old BBS files and a lot of really weird stuff.
This isn't offtopic.
He has a point, this only works with registered works. Works that are covered under automatic copyrights will be a difficult thing to deal with under this system.
Wasn't he a supporter of LPFM? Was that just a put-on that he expected to get struck down by congress?
Alright, here's a pitch in case Carmack is reading:
Game title: Therapist
Game starts out, you are a psychologist, you see a few patients. The some weird voices start talking in your head, telling you to do things. Insert more weird crap like from Momento or Pi, the player themselves shouldn't know what is going on.
Anyway, bottom line, you become a serial rapist, etc etc. Would sell millions of copies.
It makes sense doesn't it?
A game is mostly fixed costs, once those are paid off, you can lower the price and still make the same amount of money.
You mean like the LambdaMOO "rape"?
If memory serves, it was that line of math, plus the fact that the peltiers are much less efficient under certain conditions. Don't recall exactly what it was offhand, but I think there was an efficiency curve with Delta-T and temperature as the parameters, and the beverage cooler came out on the worse end of it.
:)
I really think peltiers are amazing, just not quite as amazing as they seem at first brush.
Lets try this again, this time in a browser that supports cookies. :)
I read the article. He doesn't post any concrete numbers comparing it when the device is not powered.
Also, with the sensor on the peltier itself, it indicates little about the temperature of the liquid. That's like putting a thermometer on your heater and saying room temperature is 120 degrees.
I've done the research and the math regarding building a similar device, and I believe the conclusion I came to was that it would require something like ten 70 watt peltiers to move the temperature of 12 ounces of fluid a few degrees per minute. That's 700 watts before you even count the power needed for all the fans to cool the hot side of the peltiers.
This is a nice excercize if you need some soldering practice, but there's a reason he doesn't post any real data regarding how much colder it kept the beer than without the cooler. It really isn't doing anything.
I'd be surprised if there was even a one degree difference in actual liquid temperature with the thing on than when off.
I think you forgot to add this:
and everything works perfectly*.
*Perfectly is taken to mean "Works about right as long as that system has the same brand and minor revision of the JRE"
Seriously though, every Java based piece of software we have looked at has been total crap. Many of them require a certain runtime, such as one web service from a major company we looked at, that only works with Apple's runtime. Other's only work with MS Java runtimes. The list goes on.