From the article: While they cannot make out the ship itself, the image shows a 1 km (0.62 mile) wide crater at the center of the 70 by 10 km (43.5 by 6 mile) target area near the Martian equator, Pillinger said. It is possible, although unlikely, that the Beagle may be unable to communicate because it landed in the crater, he said. "This would be an incredibly unlucky situation," he said.
So, according to the theory, the probe didn't make a crater, it landed in one. Just to make things clear.
They aren't - the GPL doesn't specify how the code must be made available. They simply have to make the source available somehow, and are entitled to charge the cost of providing it.
The GPL DOES specify how the code must be made available, either by using a or b:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
The cause: average consumers will soon get to the point where they don't NEED a faster processor.
Sure, there will always be things like rendering high resolution computer animations... but these uses don't have the economical force that is behind processor development today.
What I want is real time ray tracing. In my computer games. And I think that quite some people, when they see stuff like real time ray tracing in action, they'll suddenly "NEED" it. And they pay big bucks for it.
Sure.. Full disclousure is usually a good thing (tm). But if it's about closed source, you can't always do something about it (like IE bugs - there are no ports you can block..). Other then shutting down the net or forcing the users to switch to another platform. Isn't it better then that nobody really knows about the security flaw until it's fixed?
Now imagine a steganography-capable cell phone! The wire-tapping people wouldn't even know the call is encrypted and just hear a totally different conversation. (And yes - if someone tries to patent this, this counts as prior art)
It might shock you but on my Linux boxes the superuser is not called 'root' either.
Root always has UID 0, so that wouldn't protect you from the rootkits. For login/ssh/whatever vurnabilities, remember that you can disable root login there too.
A possibility is to patch the kernel to map root to another UID, but then again you have to create lots of fake root accounts, so the attacker won't know which one is which.
Now, IANAL, but I've always been told that if you don't take steps to defend your patents as soon as you discover that someone is violating them, you effectively looses it.
I thought that you had to defend trademarks in order to keep them exclusive. Remember Unisys and the gif-patent? Or the IE plugin patent? Apperently these patents were "sleeping" for some years before the owners started suing.
In fact, the classical Unix security model with ugw/rwx permissions and the omnipotent root is pretty poor (granted, it is better then no permissions or mostly unused ones).
Why is the classig Unix security model poor? Why do we need something like ACL? I'm not trolling, just curious why it's so necessary.. It's simple and therefore people understand it.
Finally, Windows 98SE had a similar bug where it shut down too quickly without allowing the heads to park and would ultimately self corrupt.
Wrong. It's not about head parking. It's about not being able to synchronize data not yet written to the disk before shutdown. It can lead to loss of data, but it won't wreck your harddisk.
For instance, I don't have a clue whether or not its ok to use a dynamically linked GPL library with a closed source app. Honestly I don't even really know how I would find answers to this short of posting here or hiring a lawyer.
You can't just link your app to a library licensed under the GPL if you're not obeying the GPL yourself. But you CAN link to library licensed under the LGPL, even if your software is closed source.
I think the licenses are pretty clear, to read them is the best way to know what it's all about.
Apple, IBM and a handful of other companies heavily invested in Open Source and gave a lot of their work back to public. Granted, they are out to make money, but they still took a big risk and huge number of users got free (both as in speech and as in beer) stuff without paying them a cent.
Companies are out there for one thing: to make money. They are taking the risk to release their software under the Open Source license to make MORE money (by getting some of "their" programmers to work for free). I don't believe a second that Apple's primarly purpose is to help the Open Source movement if they get nothing back for their effort.
I think FSF has to be free to criticise all who's not supporting their definition of "Free Software" - because they "kindof" invented the definition - and they have been true to their belief for a long time.
And if we should listen to the FSF? Let the rest of the Open Software world decide that..
Install *BSD instead. Then silently replace it with Linux (or just keep *BSD) when everything is settled in court. But that could of course take a while..
I think you should make your own binary packages, or get someone else to do it for you (for the distros/architectures you don't have access to). I've seen you already have rpm's on your site, so that's a good start. This way you (or someone you know) can be an inofficial maintainer for your package. When your software becomes popular enough, it may eventually be included with the major distributions. So my advice is basically: patience =)
All major ISPs offer free dialup accounts in Sweden. The only catch is that you still have to pay about 2.5 cents per minute to our Telco monopoly... Well, most can get ADSL or LAN access for about $30-40/month, so it doesn't really matter anymore =) As a student, I pay about $23/month for a 10 Mbit connection.
Dell does ship to Hungary. Just visit their local Hungarian site.
A lot of these big companies have local resellers. I think one main reason is that the main company in US doesn't want to compete with their own partners/branches.
Unfortunately, sometimes this means higher prices for the buyers. A Thinkpad bought directly from IBM in the US is far cheaper than buying it here in Sweden (like 30% something).
You can also learn, in a well made game, that your previous actions will indeed have consequences - something that many parents in this culture do not teach their children.
Well, most games have save/load functions, which real life lacks (wouldn't it be neat, though?).
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From the article:
While they cannot make out the ship itself, the image shows a 1 km (0.62 mile) wide crater at the center of the 70 by 10 km (43.5 by 6 mile) target area near the Martian equator, Pillinger said. It is possible, although unlikely, that the Beagle may be unable to communicate because it landed in the crater, he said.
"This would be an incredibly unlucky situation," he said.
So, according to the theory, the probe didn't make a crater, it landed in one. Just to make things clear.
They aren't - the GPL doesn't specify how the code must be made available. They simply have to make the source available somehow, and are entitled to charge the cost of providing it.
The GPL DOES specify how the code must be made available, either by using a or b:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
Why is it so hard to make real, clickable links? WHY, Mr Anderson???
Here's the link
The cause: average consumers will soon get to the point where they don't NEED a faster processor.
... but these uses don't have the economical force that is behind processor development today.
Sure, there will always be things like rendering high resolution computer animations
What I want is real time ray tracing. In my computer games. And I think that quite some people, when they see stuff like real time ray tracing in action, they'll suddenly "NEED" it. And they pay big bucks for it.
Sure.. Full disclousure is usually a good thing (tm). But if it's about closed source, you can't always do something about it (like IE bugs - there are no ports you can block..).
Other then shutting down the net or forcing the users to switch to another platform.
Isn't it better then that nobody really knows about the security flaw until it's fixed?
Just imagine getting mugged...
"Don't try anything smart, we're just gonna cut that RFID out of you."
I'd rather have someone take my wallet.
Now imagine a steganography-capable cell phone! The wire-tapping people wouldn't even know the call is encrypted and just hear a totally different conversation.
(And yes - if someone tries to patent this, this counts as prior art)
Maybe. But don't forget that you can easily fool yourself and start to relax and think that your systems are more secure than they actually are.
It might shock you but on my Linux boxes the superuser is not called 'root' either.
Root always has UID 0, so that wouldn't protect you from the rootkits. For login/ssh/whatever vurnabilities, remember that you can disable root login there too.
A possibility is to patch the kernel to map root to another UID, but then again you have to create lots of fake root accounts, so the attacker won't know which one is which.
Security by obscurity, anyone?
Mirror of the trouble-starter thread.
Now, IANAL, but I've always been told that if you don't take steps to defend your patents as soon as you discover that someone is violating them, you effectively looses it.
I thought that you had to defend trademarks in order to keep them exclusive. Remember Unisys and the gif-patent? Or the IE plugin patent? Apperently these patents were "sleeping" for some years before the owners started suing.
In fact, the classical Unix security model with ugw/rwx permissions and the omnipotent root is pretty poor (granted, it is better then no permissions or mostly unused ones).
Why is the classig Unix security model poor? Why do we need something like ACL? I'm not trolling, just curious why it's so necessary.. It's simple and therefore people understand it.
Finally, Windows 98SE had a similar bug where it shut down too quickly without allowing the heads to park and would ultimately self corrupt.
Wrong. It's not about head parking. It's about not being able to synchronize data not yet written to the disk before shutdown. It can lead to loss of data, but it won't wreck your harddisk.
For instance, I don't have a clue whether or not its ok to use a dynamically linked GPL library with a closed source app. Honestly I don't even really know how I would find answers to this short of posting here or hiring a lawyer.
You can't just link your app to a library licensed under the GPL if you're not obeying the GPL yourself. But you CAN link to library licensed under the LGPL, even if your software is closed source.
I think the licenses are pretty clear, to read them is the best way to know what it's all about.
Heh, found a typo: "Open Source" it should be - and not "Open Software".
Apple, IBM and a handful of other companies heavily invested in Open Source and gave a lot of their work back to public. Granted, they are out to make money, but they still took a big risk and huge number of users got free (both as in speech and as in beer) stuff without paying them a cent.
Companies are out there for one thing: to make money. They are taking the risk to release their software under the Open Source license to make MORE money (by getting some of "their" programmers to work for free). I don't believe a second that Apple's primarly purpose is to help the Open Source movement if they get nothing back for their effort.
I think FSF has to be free to criticise all who's not supporting their definition of "Free Software" - because they "kindof" invented the definition - and they have been true to their belief for a long time.
And if we should listen to the FSF? Let the rest of the Open Software world decide that..
Install *BSD instead. Then silently replace it with Linux (or just keep *BSD) when everything is settled in court. But that could of course take a while..
I think you should make your own binary packages, or get someone else to do it for you (for the distros/architectures you don't have access to). I've seen you already have rpm's on your site, so that's a good start.
This way you (or someone you know) can be an inofficial maintainer for your package. When your software becomes popular enough, it may eventually be included with the major distributions.
So my advice is basically: patience =)
According to this chart, DVD-RW also seems more compatible than DVD+RW...
All major ISPs offer free dialup accounts in Sweden. The only catch is that you still have to pay about 2.5 cents per minute to our Telco monopoly... Well, most can get ADSL or LAN access for about $30-40/month, so it doesn't really matter anymore =) As a student, I pay about $23/month for a 10 Mbit connection.
Here.
Link here. Press F11 and enjoy =)
Well, there's an interesting article about hard drives here. Watch out, though, it's quite long and it's an easy way to waste some hours... But sure you wanted to know why we don't need to park the hard disk's heads anymore? =) Or, that in fact, there are holes in the hard drive, so it can "breathe".
Dell does ship to Hungary. Just visit their local Hungarian site.
A lot of these big companies have local resellers. I think one main reason is that the main company in US doesn't want to compete with their own partners/branches.
Unfortunately, sometimes this means higher prices for the buyers. A Thinkpad bought directly from IBM in the US is far cheaper than buying it here in Sweden (like 30% something).
You can also learn, in a well made game, that your previous actions will indeed have consequences - something that many parents in this culture do not teach their children.
Well, most games have save/load functions, which real life lacks (wouldn't it be neat, though?).