I think you overestimate the importance of Linux to these large companies, if you think that some open source ultimatum is going to work wrt software patents.
They would drop anything that was made under this license like a hot potato.
You don't have to agree to the GPL to use GPL software, but you would have to agree to this to just simply use the software. If EULAs are found unenforcable, something we probably want to happen, then this will also be struck down, at least in part.
A college degree or equivalent experience is required in engineering, computer science.
HAH, take that all you "a degree is a requirement to get a good job" people.
You've been sold a bill of goods. Only idiot HR departments mandate a college degree with no exceptions for technical jobs.
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Uhh
they have dropped the initial 1. or 2. because it apparently seemed redundant.
I think you are arguing against yourself here. Wouldn't the situation be the same if they just called it Emacs 21.0, since the major has become irrelevant?
The minor has become the de facto major, is what I am trying to say. Their strict adherance to not incrementing the major has accomplished the opposite of what they wanted.
The dealer played a scene from Jurassic Park 3 where an airplane tries to take off and then subsequently crashes in a jungle.
That's an interesting choice of scene. When I watched this movie when it came on cable, it was the only part I found compelling enough to rewind and play again and again. I thought it was a very nicely done crash scene, IMO one of the most realistic I have seen in movies, compared to videos I have seen of air crashes, and numerous car crashes I have been involved in.
Yeah, that is true, but they are converting it to electricity, which means they are going to be working with high voltages at (relatively) high amperages. It's no small feat, a short or failure could blow a big chunk out of the plane.
For reference, a portable 1MW generation unit is usually mounted permanantly in a tractor-trailer trailer section.. of course that is designed to provide a continuous 1MW, whereas they probably only have to provide bursts.
Anyway, my point was "I'm sure they thought of that", to all the naysayers about the fuel heat dissipation system.
Ugh, a celebrity. I don't think I could ever say mine used to "run fine". That car was total trash. Only after I got rid of it did I see the consumer reports that ranked cars on how many repairs they required on average, the Celebrity was #1 by far.
start a fire or catch a fish, then they would have beaten every person that has been Survivor.
Yeah, no kidding. I watched exactly one episode of Survivor, one where they had to try to make a fire. It was like pulling teeth to see how stupid they were. They finally made a bow and were spinning it and getting a little smoke, but their tinder was laying two feet away... ARGH..
Anyway, I didn't attempt to watch much more after that.
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It extended the law by set amount of time, not indefinately, which means that the "limited time" clause is still literally true.
So if they extended it to 1000 years, it would still be constitutional?
discoveries- aka, published words and inventions - not digital representations of movies, music, cartoons,
I know you know better, but confusing copyright and patents is not a good thing to do when discussing this stuff. Scientific facts also cannot be patented, which most things that qualify as "discoveries" would be.
TCEA is a valid law by way of the Constitution, even if it is harmful
Is it? I think it goes against the clear spirit and meaning of the constitution. That's what the supreme court is there for anyway, to interpert the meaning of the constitution.
A much better way to make this unjust law go away is through Congress
That would be nice, but it is mostly the same congress that passed it, why would they change their mind now?
And one thing people seem to forget, anyone is free to start a corporation. You don't have to be in some elite class to get the same protections afforded to mega-corporations.
So it's not style sheets you have a problem with then, it's idiot web designers.
It's arguably easier to make crappy pages with absolute font sizes and resolution dependant features without stylesheets than with. At least with stylesheets, the "programmer" (I use the term loosely) can fix the problem in one place instead of having to change it throughout the site.
Sure, there are a lot of shitty sites out there, and a lot of terrible "web designers"... but stylesheets are not the problem.
Since this is offtopic, I'll start a journal entry for this, if you want to reply, reply to the journal.
This seems to be a common problem with HAM radio in general. It has actually been like that ever since I can remember (back maybe 20+ years). I call it engineer syndrome. For some reason engineers feel compelled to patent and hide everything they do.
Every radio I have gotten has always come with full schematics and block diagrams. I'm not sure what you are talking about.
but what's to stop, say, Sadaam from having a party one day and jaming all short wave channels with a few hundred megawatts of propoganda
It would take a hell of a lot of transmitters and electricity, antennas, etc, and you could easily track the source of the transmission through triangulation.
If this device were to hit any sort of reflective material, the potential to permenently blind large ammounts of people is great.
Probably not. Assume the surface is 95% reflective, that means it is absorbing 15% of the energy. 5kw in a tight beam would still blast a hole almost instantaneously, probably fast enough to not reflect much energy.
Of course, I know nothing about this area of science, so I may be wrong, but this seems reasonable.
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I think you overestimate the importance of Linux to these large companies, if you think that some open source ultimatum is going to work wrt software patents.
They would drop anything that was made under this license like a hot potato.
This is most definitely not the GPL3.
Well, those clauses make it an EULA basically.
You don't have to agree to the GPL to use GPL software, but you would have to agree to this to just simply use the software. If EULAs are found unenforcable, something we probably want to happen, then this will also be struck down, at least in part.
A college degree or equivalent experience is required in engineering, computer science.
HAH, take that all you "a degree is a requirement to get a good job" people.
You've been sold a bill of goods. Only idiot HR departments mandate a college degree with no exceptions for technical jobs.
Uhh
they have dropped the initial 1. or 2. because it apparently seemed redundant.
I think you are arguing against yourself here. Wouldn't the situation be the same if they just called it Emacs 21.0, since the major has become irrelevant?
The minor has become the de facto major, is what I am trying to say. Their strict adherance to not incrementing the major has accomplished the opposite of what they wanted.
Yeah, I'm a moron.
They probably meant it can be overclocked to 1.8Ghz which gives it an equivalent PR rating of around 3000.
Dr Hu.... Now if they can just keep those pesky Daleks away from the chips.
The dealer played a scene from Jurassic Park 3 where an airplane tries to take off and then subsequently crashes in a jungle.
That's an interesting choice of scene. When I watched this movie when it came on cable, it was the only part I found compelling enough to rewind and play again and again. I thought it was a very nicely done crash scene, IMO one of the most realistic I have seen in movies, compared to videos I have seen of air crashes, and numerous car crashes I have been involved in.
Yeah, that is true, but they are converting it to electricity, which means they are going to be working with high voltages at (relatively) high amperages. It's no small feat, a short or failure could blow a big chunk out of the plane.
For reference, a portable 1MW generation unit is usually mounted permanantly in a tractor-trailer trailer section.. of course that is designed to provide a continuous 1MW, whereas they probably only have to provide bursts.
Anyway, my point was "I'm sure they thought of that", to all the naysayers about the fuel heat dissipation system.
Ugh, a celebrity. I don't think I could ever say mine used to "run fine". That car was total trash. Only after I got rid of it did I see the consumer reports that ranked cars on how many repairs they required on average, the Celebrity was #1 by far.
FYI- Neon lights on cars are illegal in many states.
start a fire or catch a fish, then they would have beaten every person that has been Survivor.
Yeah, no kidding. I watched exactly one episode of Survivor, one where they had to try to make a fire. It was like pulling teeth to see how stupid they were. They finally made a bow and were spinning it and getting a little smoke, but their tinder was laying two feet away... ARGH..
Anyway, I didn't attempt to watch much more after that.
It extended the law by set amount of time, not indefinately, which means that the "limited time" clause is still literally true.
So if they extended it to 1000 years, it would still be constitutional?
discoveries- aka, published words and inventions - not digital representations of movies, music, cartoons,
I know you know better, but confusing copyright and patents is not a good thing to do when discussing this stuff. Scientific facts also cannot be patented, which most things that qualify as "discoveries" would be.
TCEA is a valid law by way of the Constitution, even if it is harmful
Is it? I think it goes against the clear spirit and meaning of the constitution. That's what the supreme court is there for anyway, to interpert the meaning of the constitution.
A much better way to make this unjust law go away is through Congress
That would be nice, but it is mostly the same congress that passed it, why would they change their mind now?
And one thing people seem to forget, anyone is free to start a corporation. You don't have to be in some elite class to get the same protections afforded to mega-corporations.
This is probably the best collection of public domain poetry. Enjoy.
So it's not style sheets you have a problem with then, it's idiot web designers.
It's arguably easier to make crappy pages with absolute font sizes and resolution dependant features without stylesheets than with. At least with stylesheets, the "programmer" (I use the term loosely) can fix the problem in one place instead of having to change it throughout the site.
Sure, there are a lot of shitty sites out there, and a lot of terrible "web designers"... but stylesheets are not the problem.
Since this is offtopic, I'll start a journal entry for this, if you want to reply, reply to the journal.
Change is scary.
Get over it. The best you can do it try to nudge it in the right direction. Being a luddite won't accomplish anything.
In 1943... there was.
Why do you think style sheets make web pages unreadable? Do you even know what style sheets are?
This seems to be a common problem with HAM radio in general. It has actually been like that ever since I can remember (back maybe 20+ years).
I call it engineer syndrome. For some reason engineers feel compelled to patent and hide everything they do.
Every radio I have gotten has always come with full schematics and block diagrams. I'm not sure what you are talking about.
or sharing certain files and/or IPX/SPX connections
Realize there is not-inconsiderable overhead with something like SSH tunnels, that doesn't exist with a lower level solution.
IPX/SPX->PPP->SSH->TCP->IP
It may work well enough for you, but if it winds up not being fast enough, you know you need something better.
ham radio buffs are a thing of the past
Uhhh, not quite.
what stops an unscrupulous person from spamming it and making it unusable to everyone else?
It happens. Also see this.
but what's to stop, say, Sadaam from having a party one day and jaming all short wave channels with a few hundred megawatts of propoganda
It would take a hell of a lot of transmitters and electricity, antennas, etc, and you could easily track the source of the transmission through triangulation.
. Assume the surface is 95% reflective, that means it is absorbing 15% of the energy
Uhhh, yeah... Note to self, smoke less crack. You get what I meant hopefully.
If this device were to hit any sort of reflective material, the potential to permenently blind large ammounts of people is great.
Probably not. Assume the surface is 95% reflective, that means it is absorbing 15% of the energy. 5kw in a tight beam would still blast a hole almost instantaneously, probably fast enough to not reflect much energy.
Of course, I know nothing about this area of science, so I may be wrong, but this seems reasonable.