for each project and that's it. You might want to pipe the output from the run_client to a file so you can tail it if you want to see what it's been doing.
My only xbox related experience was very good. One of the sticks on a controller broke (was stuck going down and left internally) in the last month of the xbox's warranty. They gave me a freepost address to send it to and sent me another one by return mail. Of course that wasn't a 'hot' period like the launch is, so it will be interesting to see how well they handle it.
Slashdot just wanted to post this 'story' because they wanted to be able to laugh at MS and pretend the evil giant was on its knees because all Xbox 360s are defective. MS has it coming once in a while and deserves to be bashed but in this instance it's the MS-haters who sound like drooling fanboys.
I think that's a tad unfair. It's a 'story' because the 360 is hyped right now and anything that happens surrounding it is news. We've had months of rumour, speculation and hype. It hardly makes sense to start pointing the finger at 'MS-haters' when a story starts emerging showing the 360 in an unflattering light. Any details will be news on launch day and people will pick up whatever little bits they have and run with a story. That's just a natural follow-on from a much hyped launch.
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I'm about 100 pages from the end of the final book and I've been enjoying the trip thoroughly.
Unless you can show that Sony agreed to it or at least knew the code was GPL. If you can't then it's plain and simple copyright infringement.
At the end of the day I don't think you'll be able to claim anything more than that Sony have been buying pirated software. Given that piracy is quite an issue to them it could be quite damaging publically and would give them strong reason to go after First4Internet themselves
Firstly you are likely to want to hang on to the drive as potential evidence.
Secondly taking an image of the disk will only copy the data that is supposed to be on there. It won't copy any residual data that you may be able to detect with a more thorough analysis.
Plus at the end of the day there's no real reason to keep the guy locked up just because you want more time with his hard disk. If you haven't found _something_ to charge him with after 30 days then letting him out doesn't seem unreasonable and you can always keep him under surveillance and keep hold of his hard disk.
This is not good news. There is a massive amount of code out there which relies on the GPL. Let's say that you put out code under the GPL 2.x and Stallman suddenly decides in 3.0 to add a clause that says that the licensee no longer has to do the viral thing, can use your name in his advertisements, gets to poke you in the eye. Great, says the licensee: I'm upgrading! Time to get eye poked out.
I think there is at least some defence against that. In regards to to future versions the GPL states in clause 9 that "Such new versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may differ in detail to address new problems or concerns".
If the new version of the GPL had a "poke in the eye" clause I think it would be very easy to argue (in court if need be) that the new version is not "similar in spirit to the present version" and therefore the forward grant would be void.
Obviously "spirit" is a bit vague (and needs to be for any changes to be allowed) but it should protect against outrageous changes in direction.
Maybe benefits to fish could mitigate any problems for birds for people who are overly worried about this sort of thing.
If a bunch of these were in an area and the area were off-limits to boats, in particular trawlers, then perhaps the sea underneath them would act as a reserve and mitigate over-fishing?
I suppose it depends if these things would be deployed in a group over a large enough area or just dotted about the place individually.
Wind farms on the land take up massive amounts of landspace, I just don't know how you could acceptably occupy a similar amount area on water.
Surely there's much greater demand on land space than water space, especially at sea.
These windmills should produce more energy as there should be more wind available to them without land getting in the way.
What they are doing doesn't restrict choice. It will always be there for those that want to change themes or icon sets.
Having seen various distros expend energy over and over again getting Openoffice/Firefox/GNOME/KDE to look somewhat similar it seems like a waste of energy. If they can get to a situation where the defaults for each app play nice then perhaps they can focus more resources on making real improvements to free software and less on kludging things together to create the latest 'bluecurve'. It makes sense to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort by pushing the changes back to the source. If distros (or anyone else) then wants to do their own thing then they are free to do so but it is insane for them to need to do so if they want a consistant look.
I hate it when people point out the blindingly obvious limitations of something as if they are some devastating flaws that render it useless.
The sniper might run away? Wow such insight!
In reality encouraging snipers to run away is still going to be a win on the battlefield. Presumably most snipers hole up in a reasonably secure, hidden vantage point and remain there. If a technology makes that unfeasible then you've gone a long way to decreasing their effectiveness as their initial tactical advantage is neutralised on their first shot. A sniper who's legging it isn't shooting at you and if you have a camera automatically pointing in his direction then tracking him is a possibility.
It is fair enough that Ubuntu gets a lot of respect for the distro, I've found it to be of excellent quality. I look forward to seeing how these other tools help development.
Even though I'm not a contributor (other than occasional bug reports and financial contributions) to Free/Open Source Software one of the things that attracts me to it is that I can see the development taking place. I can read Kernel Traffic or various planets and see developers working together to produce something great.
So even thought they might not effect me directly, it's always exciting to read about new tools etc that might help the developers do their thing.
Ubuntu is Linux for Human Beings and thankfully most humans aren't humourless.
Criticising Ubuntu's 'marketing' is ludicrous given that they have had outrageous success in accruing brand recognition very quickly.
I don't think the problem you see really lies with Ubuntu. With your references to "half naked and interracial menage-a-trois" and Dapper Drake being a "gay duck" I think it is you that has maturity problems, not Ubuntu.
In most states, the same amount of money can also be used to have your electricity come from "green" sources
You would have to look at such a scheme carefully to ensure that your money is reinvested in new green sources.
For example lets say electricity production in general is 20% from green sources. Paying someone $x dollars so that your electicity use is nominally allocated out of that 20% doesn't directly change the amount of green energy produced. If you didn't 'buy' that green energy it would just have been sitting in the general electricity pool and 'used' by someone else.
Of course if there were enough market demand for the green energy products it might drive further investment but if there isn't enough demand to use up all the current green production then there isn't a market incentive to produce more.
So check the products to ensure that your good intentions result in real improvement.
Huh? There's only a requirement to GPL your code if it's linked to GPL'd code. You're not linking your program with grep, because grep isn't a library.
We are talking about a theoretical GPL3 and additional language it may have. What the GPL2 says is not relevant to the discussion.
The OP talked about a theoretical GPL3 where "websites running GPL software being required to release their source code". I was pointing out how such language was very far reaching and the language Richard used was far more limiting in reach.
Expounding upon your understanding of the GPL2 is irrelevant to this discussion, as we are talking about a GPL3 and the additional language it may hold.
This was never a requirement.
Never? We are talking about a no-yet-existing GPL3 and the language it might have. I don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
A simple "websites running GPL software being required to release their source code by some means" is quite scary and if it's that simple it could be quite burdensome as "running GPL software" is a very wide target.
If I have an (otherwise proprietary) web application that makes a call to a GPL3'd grep command then I'd have to distribute grep to people if they asked. That sounds silly and unnecessarily burdensome and would create the sort of administrative overhead that would push people to a non-free solution.
However the mechanism Richard Mentions:
We're looking at an approach where programs used (on a public server) will have to include a command for the user to download the source for the version that is running," Stallman said. "If you release a program that implements such a command, GPL 3 will require others to keep the command working in their modified versions of the program.
seems vastly more sane. GPL3'd applications that aren't web-apps won't suddenly require distribution if they are used in a web-app, only applications coded with such use and distribution in mind will.
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a site where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the characters of their content.
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Start it, eg: Then sign up for whatever projects you want and you will get an email with a project url and an account key in it. Once you have that just execute: for each project and that's it. You might want to pipe the output from the run_client to a file so you can tail it if you want to see what it's been doing.
I just installed it this morning and when that happened to me it seemed to be that the manager hadn't connected to the client properly.
I quit the manager and then restarted it from the start menu and then I could add projects without much fuss.
My only xbox related experience was very good. One of the sticks on a controller broke (was stuck going down and left internally) in the last month of the xbox's warranty. They gave me a freepost address to send it to and sent me another one by return mail. Of course that wasn't a 'hot' period like the launch is, so it will be interesting to see how well they handle it.
I'm about 100 pages from the end of the final book and I've been enjoying the trip thoroughly.
Unless you can show that Sony agreed to it or at least knew the code was GPL. If you can't then it's plain and simple copyright infringement.
At the end of the day I don't think you'll be able to claim anything more than that Sony have been buying pirated software. Given that piracy is quite an issue to them it could be quite damaging publically and would give them strong reason to go after First4Internet themselves
Firstly you are likely to want to hang on to the drive as potential evidence.
Secondly taking an image of the disk will only copy the data that is supposed to be on there. It won't copy any residual data that you may be able to detect with a more thorough analysis.
Plus at the end of the day there's no real reason to keep the guy locked up just because you want more time with his hard disk. If you haven't found _something_ to charge him with after 30 days then letting him out doesn't seem unreasonable and you can always keep him under surveillance and keep hold of his hard disk.
Hyped up the Australian angle? It mentioned the word "Australia" once as the place the card was available.
Maybe someday Australians won't suffer from cultural cringe and feel the need to wince whenever their country is mentioned in public.....
If the new version of the GPL had a "poke in the eye" clause I think it would be very easy to argue (in court if need be) that the new version is not "similar in spirit to the present version" and therefore the forward grant would be void.
Obviously "spirit" is a bit vague (and needs to be for any changes to be allowed) but it should protect against outrageous changes in direction.
Maybe benefits to fish could mitigate any problems for birds for people who are overly worried about this sort of thing. If a bunch of these were in an area and the area were off-limits to boats, in particular trawlers, then perhaps the sea underneath them would act as a reserve and mitigate over-fishing? I suppose it depends if these things would be deployed in a group over a large enough area or just dotted about the place individually.
These windmills should produce more energy as there should be more wind available to them without land getting in the way.
The first thing 1% of KDE/GNOME/etc. users do is switch the theme they're using
What they are doing doesn't restrict choice. It will always be there for those that want to change themes or icon sets.
Having seen various distros expend energy over and over again getting Openoffice/Firefox/GNOME/KDE to look somewhat similar it seems like a waste of energy. If they can get to a situation where the defaults for each app play nice then perhaps they can focus more resources on making real improvements to free software and less on kludging things together to create the latest 'bluecurve'. It makes sense to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort by pushing the changes back to the source. If distros (or anyone else) then wants to do their own thing then they are free to do so but it is insane for them to need to do so if they want a consistant look.
I hate it when people point out the blindingly obvious limitations of something as if they are some devastating flaws that render it useless.
The sniper might run away? Wow such insight!
In reality encouraging snipers to run away is still going to be a win on the battlefield. Presumably most snipers hole up in a reasonably secure, hidden vantage point and remain there. If a technology makes that unfeasible then you've gone a long way to decreasing their effectiveness as their initial tactical advantage is neutralised on their first shot. A sniper who's legging it isn't shooting at you and if you have a camera automatically pointing in his direction then tracking him is a possibility.
but it seems to not be gaining much attention.
It is fair enough that Ubuntu gets a lot of respect for the distro, I've found it to be of excellent quality. I look forward to seeing how these other tools help development.
Even though I'm not a contributor (other than occasional bug reports and financial contributions) to Free/Open Source Software one of the things that attracts me to it is that I can see the development taking place. I can read Kernel Traffic or various planets and see developers working together to produce something great.
So even thought they might not effect me directly, it's always exciting to read about new tools etc that might help the developers do their thing.
Ubuntu is Linux for Human Beings and thankfully most humans aren't humourless.
Criticising Ubuntu's 'marketing' is ludicrous given that they have had outrageous success in accruing brand recognition very quickly.
I don't think the problem you see really lies with Ubuntu. With your references to "half naked and interracial menage-a-trois" and Dapper Drake being a "gay duck" I think it is you that has maturity problems, not Ubuntu.
Of course if there were enough market demand for the green energy products it might drive further investment but if there isn't enough demand to use up all the current green production then there isn't a market incentive to produce more.
So check the products to ensure that your good intentions result in real improvement.
The OP talked about a theoretical GPL3 where "websites running GPL software being required to release their source code". I was pointing out how such language was very far reaching and the language Richard used was far more limiting in reach.
Expounding upon your understanding of the GPL2 is irrelevant to this discussion, as we are talking about a GPL3 and the additional language it may hold. Never? We are talking about a no-yet-existing GPL3 and the language it might have. I don't know what the fuck you are talking about.
If I have an (otherwise proprietary) web application that makes a call to a GPL3'd grep command then I'd have to distribute grep to people if they asked. That sounds silly and unnecessarily burdensome and would create the sort of administrative overhead that would push people to a non-free solution.
However the mechanism Richard Mentions: seems vastly more sane. GPL3'd applications that aren't web-apps won't suddenly require distribution if they are used in a web-app, only applications coded with such use and distribution in mind will.