The way I understand it, if you distribute GPL'd code to the public, you must also distribute the source code. It doesn't matter how much you modify it -- if you fail to release the source code then you are breaking copyright and can be sued.
For a great number of people, when technology news is posted on Slashdot it is their first exposure to it. When that news is distorted from truth because of editorializing, 250,000 people suddently have the wrong story.
It's true that Slashdot is being run as it always had -- but the lax way in which it is run is not approprite for a large site. It may have been fine when they were small but they have a greater responsibility now.
Now, cmdrtaco giving his opinion on something is fine. In fact, the editors giving their opinions on stories is what I love about this site most. But we're just asking for an intentional separation -- a facts part of the story and an opinion part of the story.
This article is intentionally hyped up. It says Morpheus is 'currently being distributed without source'. It's only been a day for christsakes!! And probably a very hectic and frustrating day for the Morpheus programmers i'd venture to say. They probably had always intended to release the source, but i'd venture to guess that they were just a little busy last night.
Furthur, I see no indication that the Gnuclus programmers are 'not too happy about this'. Their homepage stated that they did not know what to think, but that as long as the source was released they'd be fine with it.
David Spergel's new telescope lens
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I read an article in the last issue of Discover magazine about a breakthrough telescope design that could let NASA see much smaller planets.
The best part about it is that it's a cheap solution -- you just add this weird "cat's-eye" type lens onto a normal telescope. This deflects all the light from the center of the frame away, but allows the light on the side of from to come in. This way, the light of the much brighter nearby star won't block out the smaller planet.
The Discovery article was pretty cool. This is the only equivalent I could find online.. Unfortunately it doesn't go into as much detail.
If you install Junkbuster, don't forget to install this version version, which has support for HTTPv1.1. Otherwise it will completely foul up Galeon and Mozilla.
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To run KDE you really need a current machine with a decent amount of RAM. I haven't run any tests so I can't say what exactly the system requirements are. But I can say that it runs plenty fast on my machine (Duron 700 w/128mb RAM). And yes, KDE has gotten awesome in the past 12 months.
You actually can buy a poster of the nighttime earth picture. I had my mom get it for me for Christmas last year. It's really awesome -- It's mounted on my wall in the living room in a nice frame.
I believe that people's freedoms should stop when they begin to infringe on other people's freedoms. In this case, Cisco and Yahoo's "freedom" to do business with China is taking away 1 billion other people's freedom to read cnn's website. Like I said in another post -- it might not be illegal, but it's definitely immoral, at least by my standards.
You could do what I do -- go into your prefs and mark all 'funny' comments as -6. It sounds extreme, and at first I felt like I was missing something by not having funny comments. But then every time I turned it off, I could just feel brain cells dying.
Having watched Harrison Ford's speech the other night during the Golden Globe awards, I am confident that he is in no position to take on a role like this.
I watched his speech, and I didn't get that he was old and sickly at all.
Sure, his hands were shaking and his voice kept faltering. But I just think that he was incredibly nervous. He probably just wasn't used to being up in front of all those people. I probably would've acted the same way. When they were playing all the video clips of his old movies, i was laughing because he just looked incredibly bored with the whole thing. Everyone else thought the clips were great but he just had no reaction. But after he got up there I realized that he was probably dreading his upcoming speech.
Why do you all feel the need to insult John Romero?
Why do you think he's "full of himself", and "egotistical"? Just because of some overzealous marketing department? On what basis do you make this statement?
To you, he is only words on a screen. But he's a real person. When he reads all this, he will most likely feel insulted, hurt, or pissed off. Is there something wrong with treating your fellow man with respect?
If AOL/TW needs an OS for an entertainment device, they can obtain it for free, modify it, and distribute a million copies themselves. They don't need Red Hat for this.
There are other decent file-sharing networks people can get on besides FastTrack, like OpenNap or Gnutella. Good riddance to Kazaa, I say.
I just wish someone would write a file-sharing client for windows that doesn't suck so badly. Almost all of them have ads, spyware, and crummy interfaces.
I don't think Argentina is really the best location for a scientific observatory -- they're currently in the process of overthrowing their government. There is rioting in the streets, mass looting, etc, etc. If I was in charge I would want it to be in a country that was much more stable.
This is kinda cool I guess, but c'mon... only 1 pci slot? What if I want to add a radio or tv card, or more usb ports, or a scsi card? Or whatever? Seems like you're sacrificing expandability just so it can look good. If you want to do that, why not just buy an iMac? Or even better, find yourself one of those Mac cubes.
Direct Connect for Windows does something along these lines. I've only used it once, but I know that many of the servers you can log into require you to be sharing a minimum amount of data (say, 4 gigs) before you can join. As a result there is a hell of a lot of files available on the network. At least, there was when I signed on that one time several months ago.
I wonder if this could be used as a recording device? Perhaps you could have a crystal that takes 3-d photographs or videos (store light, emit light, translate light into image.
Now wait a minute. I remember about the time "Deep Impact" came out in the theaters, scientists assured us that the chances of a large asteroid hitting the earth were extremely remote. And now large asteroids are barely missing us? Have these assumptions been called into question?
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The way I understand it, if you distribute GPL'd code to the public, you must also distribute the source code. It doesn't matter how much you modify it -- if you fail to release the source code then you are breaking copyright and can be sued.
For a great number of people, when technology news is posted on Slashdot it is their first exposure to it. When that news is distorted from truth because of editorializing, 250,000 people suddently have the wrong story.
It's true that Slashdot is being run as it always had -- but the lax way in which it is run is not approprite for a large site. It may have been fine when they were small but they have a greater responsibility now.
Now, cmdrtaco giving his opinion on something is fine. In fact, the editors giving their opinions on stories is what I love about this site most. But we're just asking for an intentional separation -- a facts part of the story and an opinion part of the story.
This article is intentionally hyped up. It says Morpheus is 'currently being distributed without source'. It's only been a day for christsakes!! And probably a very hectic and frustrating day for the Morpheus programmers i'd venture to say. They probably had always intended to release the source, but i'd venture to guess that they were just a little busy last night.
Furthur, I see no indication that the Gnuclus programmers are 'not too happy about this'. Their homepage stated that they did not know what to think, but that as long as the source was released they'd be fine with it.
The best part about it is that it's a cheap solution -- you just add this weird "cat's-eye" type lens onto a normal telescope. This deflects all the light from the center of the frame away, but allows the light on the side of from to come in. This way, the light of the much brighter nearby star won't block out the smaller planet.
The Discovery article was pretty cool. This is the only equivalent I could find online.. Unfortunately it doesn't go into as much detail.
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0416/6a.shtml
Has anyone mirrored this program onto a decent server? Looks like it's just a dead link now.
If you install Junkbuster, don't forget to install this version version, which has support for HTTPv1.1. Otherwise it will completely foul up Galeon and Mozilla.
I know this story is way old, but for the record: I found another site that sells posters of the daytime picture.
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http://www.adsat.com/thumnail/catalog/livearth.ht
To run KDE you really need a current machine with a decent amount of RAM. I haven't run any tests so I can't say what exactly the system requirements are. But I can say that it runs plenty fast on my machine (Duron 700 w/128mb RAM). And yes, KDE has gotten awesome in the past 12 months.
You actually can buy a poster of the nighttime earth picture. I had my mom get it for me for Christmas last year. It's really awesome -- It's mounted on my wall in the living room in a nice frame.
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http://www.weatherexperts.com/catalog/item.htm?ci
I believe that people's freedoms should stop when they begin to infringe on other people's freedoms.
In this case, Cisco and Yahoo's "freedom" to do business with China is taking away 1 billion other people's freedom to read cnn's website.
Like I said in another post -- it might not be illegal, but it's definitely immoral, at least by my standards.
Legality and morality are two different things. Just because something is legal does not make it right. Your mother should have taught you this.
What a tragedy... some webmaster was forced to re-edit a 2k index file!
A fine for defacement? I'm okay with that. Jail time? That's just immoral if you ask me.
lol.... man.. you moderators have a very sick sense of humor. :)
You could do what I do -- go into your prefs and mark all 'funny' comments as -6. It sounds extreme, and at first I felt like I was missing something by not having funny comments. But then every time I turned it off, I could just feel brain cells dying.
YMMV, though.
Having watched Harrison Ford's speech the other night during the Golden Globe awards, I am confident that he is in no position to take on a role like this.
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I watched his speech, and I didn't get that he was old and sickly at all.
Sure, his hands were shaking and his voice kept faltering. But I just think that he was incredibly nervous. He probably just wasn't used to being up in front of all those people. I probably would've acted the same way. When they were playing all the video clips of his old movies, i was laughing because he just looked incredibly bored with the whole thing. Everyone else thought the clips were great but he just had no reaction. But after he got up there I realized that he was probably dreading his upcoming speech.
'Course, this is all speculation on my part.
Why do you all feel the need to insult John Romero?
Why do you think he's "full of himself", and "egotistical"? Just because of some overzealous marketing department? On what basis do you make this statement?
To you, he is only words on a screen. But he's a real person. When he reads all this, he will most likely feel insulted, hurt, or pissed off. Is there something wrong with treating your fellow man with respect?
I still say that AOL could do all of this without buying Red Hat.
Then why buy Red Hat?
If AOL/TW needs an OS for an entertainment device, they can obtain it for free, modify it, and distribute a million copies themselves. They don't need Red Hat for this.
If it'll never happen, how exactly is it leverage?
Microsoft isn't stupid -- they're not going to give any ground on any deals knowing that they have all those stringent OEM contracts.
There are other decent file-sharing networks people can get on besides FastTrack, like OpenNap or Gnutella. Good riddance to Kazaa, I say.
I just wish someone would write a file-sharing client for windows that doesn't suck so badly. Almost all of them have ads, spyware, and crummy interfaces.
I don't think Argentina is really the best location for a scientific observatory -- they're currently in the process of overthrowing their government. There is rioting in the streets, mass looting, etc, etc. If I was in charge I would want it to be in a country that was much more stable.
This is kinda cool I guess, but c'mon... only 1 pci slot? What if I want to add a radio or tv card, or more usb ports, or a scsi card? Or whatever? Seems like you're sacrificing expandability just so it can look good. If you want to do that, why not just buy an iMac? Or even better, find yourself one of those Mac cubes.
Direct Connect for Windows does something along these lines. I've only used it once, but I know that many of the servers you can log into require you to be sharing a minimum amount of data (say, 4 gigs) before you can join. As a result there is a hell of a lot of files available on the network. At least, there was when I signed on that one time several months ago.
I wonder if this could be used as a recording device? Perhaps you could have a crystal that takes 3-d photographs or videos (store light, emit light, translate light into image.
Now wait a minute. I remember about the time "Deep Impact" came out in the theaters, scientists assured us that the chances of a large asteroid hitting the earth were extremely remote. And now large asteroids are barely missing us? Have these assumptions been called into question?