Do't ever forget that the *original* code is always released under the license it was released under.
If I write code, release it under BSD, then someone takes it, modifies it and releases *their work* under Proprietary licence #5, so what! My work is still BSDed. Just that if you want it, you can't get it from this derivative work. (which isn't a problem generally)
The BSD licence doesn't care about guaranteeing rights to other people's work - it does however guarantee your own.
cost of physically performing source distribution,
Q. does this mean that (theoretically) that I could charge my expenses involved in a taxi ride to the person who wanted to view the source, with the source on a floppy? Then another taxi ride with disk 2... etc
Floppies are customarily used for software interchange, and it can cost quite a bit to physically distribute the software, in this way, if you so wanted. If I hired a bonded courier to perform this distribution, the cost could end up pretty high.
I'm not trolling, just pushing the boundaries of what the legalities actually mean.
We ought to install a few in the locker rooms, too, because after all, those dreaded perverts are going to be sneaking around in there trying to catch a glimpse after girls' volleyball practice.
Well, at least *those* cameras won't need taxpayer funding:)
you can click the 'personalise windows update' link and stop seeing those updates again you know. sure, I think you ghave to do it on every machine (cookie probably), but what else do you expect from a web interface.
True, but I don't think what you describe applies so much to forking as to new projects.
Take a look at sourceforge, guess how many project there are that do pretty much what already exists. Instead of helping the current leader, OSS people are all too ready to start a new project, many of which don't get anywhere, others just confuse potential users.
I think some push towards re-use of existing code would be a good thing.
you do have customers on Win3.1 - think of all those banks that still run it because it does exactly what they want (ie. client apps), and they've rolled it out to hundreds of thousands of desktops.
Now, the difference is that MS doesn't support that product anymore, it costs too much to maintain that and the others, but the customer is still using it. (note that the cost of upgrade isn't in new licences - so no 'they should get linux posts please', but in the cost of physically rolling it out to all the branches).
At some point the same thing will happen with OSS - the existing stuff will be used, but not upgraded past any end of support - the customer will be happy though as thwey have the source code and can twiddle it themselves. (which raises an interesting point if, say a bank has OSS product that was superseded by new versions, but modified it to be a niche product, would it still be unsupported?)
I think the biggest deal with floppies is that you just drag and drop files on to them (and I never had quite that much joy with packet-writing CD software.)
DVD-RAM apparently is just as good - so, assuming you get a DVD writer that supports the format (like the LG superwriter models), then these may be the true end for floppies.
My advice: get a DVD writer with DVD-RAM support. The LG model is available in the UK for 75UKP ($129, but DVD writers are cheaper in the US anyway), and can write DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW too.
yes, but now you'll know for sure that the email came from Yahoo - and not some forged return-to that dumps on some ordinary Joe's server.
step, by step, the spam problem can be solved. That doesn't mean that you should not take the first step simply because it doesn't provide a total cure.
ANDERSEN CONSULTING: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in oorder to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.
of course, if you cut your initial price to the point where its competitive, then you'll start losing money - and so, to make it up, you'll have to charge extra once they're hooked.
I suppose once upona time, people paid the fair price for things up front, and add-on charges were minimal, if at all. Now, due to the pressures of getting the customer in the first place... you have to find other ways of making money.
Its a bit like free shipping - you know you're paying the shipping fee in the price of the item. You know its costing you a little more than the other shop. and you don't mind.
or.. its a bit like open source. You give the product away for free, and make your money by selling support, bugfixes, or enhancements.
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no, makes a lot of sense. For those places where you pay indirectly (ie through insurance), you must remember that you still pay. The insurance companies are never going to lose money by paying out outrageous fees without fleecing their customers in turn.
Trouble is, everyone thinks that its free as they don't have to pay any of it, and so the fees are increased and increased, and the premiums go up and up.
The other thing to watch out for is compensation paytments for everything. (you should have sued your doctor for.. something, a lawyer could give you a list:), and that would be ok, as her insurance would pay for it......
its those that cause inflation, not a 0.02 here and there.
Well, I did think to try adding an IDE controller card - but the card I added didn't allow booting from CD
I think you've answered your own question about why mobo manufacturer's supply everything integrated on board. In most cases you can still disable the integrated feature (like sound graphics, lan, usb) and add your own card.
So really apart from cost, there is no reason why its a problem. and the cost of mobos nowadays is really low...
because that Windows developer will have signed an NDA, and although losing it isn't a legal problem (unless it can be shown he was truly negligent), once you start using it, you will be charged with IP theft.
I suppose you could stick it on Kazaa and have done with it though!:)
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wow, wait a minute... you want a geeky reason not to use it... well, how about rolling your own binary parsing data format is a) much, much more difficult for others to understand, b) way faster, c) far more bandwidth efficient.
there you go - 3 classic geek reasons to do something the hard way instead of the standard, ordinary, easy but OK for mortals way.
Incidentally, XML really is slow. Sure it looks nice, is easy to understand, easy to create with the simplest of text editors, interoperable, and an industry standard. But it is still a technology that doesn't cut it when you need your data stored in small, fast blobs. A case in point - my previous company used XML everywhere (it was cool, after all), but after a while performance (when sclaed to many users) became an issue. Rewriting the XML-handling object to use a binary format made things much, much, much faster. The XML blobs were then only used for the browser front end, and for debugging on a developer machine. XML is good, but don't ever pretend its all things to all men, in all cases. It isn't. Its slow.
please.. "never use MS OS for the power system because it might fail", so they used a Unix system and.. it failed. Perhaps you think they should never use something as unreliable as a unix system either then.
The reason the DNS servers are super-reliable is because there are many of them, in a federated architecture. 1 can crash hourly, and the web will still work.
I scan-read the article.. blah blah power failure blah blah controller blah blah windows. 'oh no', thought I, not *another* something-run-by-windows fails story.
Imagine my surprise when I read it all. I'm even more surprised it got past the editors.
well the principle is still OK - and, in fact, better for spammed.
If you go to the web site and fill in the details with bogus-but-almost accurate data, they won't be able to contact you, and you get to flood them with 'spam' referrals. If its a telephone number to call... well, make sure you get through to a person, walk them through the whole 'yes, of course I want x' routine, then hang up right at the point where they ask for completion.
Even better is to get them to send a salesman round, as you obviously really would like to hear more about their other products, then.. tell him to sod off when he arrives. Or give them the address of big dave and his pit bull breeding business.
The whole point isn't anything to do with email - but to give the spammer's *client* so much bad referrals they'll accept that spamming is not an acceptable (from their point of view) means of selling.
However, anyone else thinking of doing this - do not use a herbivore rodent. Not only will they prefer to just sit there, but (I say from experience with Guinea pigs and speaker cable) they *like* the taste of cable plastic.
yep, I hold my hands up on that - I was reading too many posts (one of which mentioned the Messaging service) instead of clicking every link that was posted:(
well, changing boot.ini is easy - press F8 while booting, choose the 'command line' option (in XP at least). edit and fix. reboot.
Or.. for other versions (NT or W2k), boot from the OS CD you installed from, choose R for repair, then C for Recovery Console. correct boot.ini.
If you change the drive letter from C: to X: the OS will still load (you mean, you thought you had to load Windows on primary partition called C:? shame). Some apps won't run properly though (fair enough really, they were coded to read absolute paths). Go back to Disk Management and change it back to C:. And that's a genuine answer.
Isn't that procedure quite like what you'd do with Linux? See, windows isn't as bad as people think (no, really!), though I should say that that statement is qualified by a) windows being the NT-based kernels (not 95/98/ME), b) 'people' being Linux enthusiasts who aren't really that that knowledgeable about Windows.
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obviously unix programmers of today need a menu to get to their shell applications....
Do't ever forget that the *original* code is always released under the license it was released under.
If I write code, release it under BSD, then someone takes it, modifies it and releases *their work* under Proprietary licence #5, so what! My work is still BSDed. Just that if you want it, you can't get it from this derivative work. (which isn't a problem generally)
The BSD licence doesn't care about guaranteeing rights to other people's work - it does however guarantee your own.
cost of physically performing source distribution,
Q. does this mean that (theoretically) that I could charge my expenses involved in a taxi ride to the person who wanted to view the source, with the source on a floppy? Then another taxi ride with disk 2... etc
Floppies are customarily used for software interchange, and it can cost quite a bit to physically distribute the software, in this way, if you so wanted.
If I hired a bonded courier to perform this distribution, the cost could end up pretty high.
I'm not trolling, just pushing the boundaries of what the legalities actually mean.
We ought to install a few in the locker rooms, too, because after all, those dreaded perverts are going to be sneaking around in there trying to catch a glimpse after girls' volleyball practice.
:)
Well, at least *those* cameras won't need taxpayer funding
you can click the 'personalise windows update' link and stop seeing those updates again you know. sure, I think you ghave to do it on every machine (cookie probably), but what else do you expect from a web interface.
You'd think Sun'd sponsor them a little wouldn't you? What they're doing helps Sun's push for their desktop one hell of a lot.
True, but I don't think what you describe applies so much to forking as to new projects.
Take a look at sourceforge, guess how many project there are that do pretty much what already exists. Instead of helping the current leader, OSS people are all too ready to start a new project, many of which don't get anywhere, others just confuse potential users.
I think some push towards re-use of existing code would be a good thing.
you do have customers on Win3.1 - think of all those banks that still run it because it does exactly what they want (ie. client apps), and they've rolled it out to hundreds of thousands of desktops.
Now, the difference is that MS doesn't support that product anymore, it costs too much to maintain that and the others, but the customer is still using it. (note that the cost of upgrade isn't in new licences - so no 'they should get linux posts please', but in the cost of physically rolling it out to all the branches).
At some point the same thing will happen with OSS - the existing stuff will be used, but not upgraded past any end of support - the customer will be happy though as thwey have the source code and can twiddle it themselves. (which raises an interesting point if, say a bank has OSS product that was superseded by new versions, but modified it to be a niche product, would it still be unsupported?)
I think the biggest deal with floppies is that you just drag and drop files on to them (and I never had quite that much joy with packet-writing CD software.)
DVD-RAM apparently is just as good - so, assuming you get a DVD writer that supports the format (like the LG superwriter models), then these may be the true end for floppies.
My advice: get a DVD writer with DVD-RAM support. The LG model is available in the UK for 75UKP ($129, but DVD writers are cheaper in the US anyway), and can write DVD+R/RW and DVD-R/RW too.
For your convenience: a review
you can boot from those USB keydrives, well, with a motherboard/bios that supports it.
e hindboot ability.htm
lets see...
https://www.codidirect.com/shop/thefactsb
yes, but now you'll know for sure that the email came from Yahoo - and not some forged return-to that dumps on some ordinary Joe's server.
step, by step, the spam problem can be solved. That doesn't mean that you should not take the first step simply because it doesn't provide a total cure.
Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?
ANDERSEN CONSULTING: Deregulation of the chicken's side of the road was threatening its dominant market position. The chicken was faced with significant challenges to create and develop the competencies required for the newly competitive market. Andersen Consulting, in a partnering relationship with the client, helped the chicken by rethinking its physical distribution strategy and implementation processes. Using the Poultry Integration Model (PIM), Andersen helped the chicken use its skills, methodologies, knowledge, capital and experiences to align the chicken's people, processes and technology in support of its overall strategy within a Program Management framework. Andersen Consulting convened a diverse cross-spectrum of road analysts and best chickens along with Anderson consultants with deep skills in the transportation industry to engage in a two-day itinerary of meetings in order to leverage their personal knowledge capital, both tacit and explicit, and to enable them to synergize with each other in oorder to achieve the implicit goals of delivering and successfully architecting and implementing an enterprise-wide value framework across the continuum of poultry cross-median processes. The meeting was held in a park-like setting, enabling and creating an impactful environment which was strategically based, industry-focused, and built upon a consistent, clear, and unified market message and aligned with the chicken's mission, vision, and core values. This was conducive towards the creation of a total business integration solution. Andersen Consulting helped the chicken change to become more successful.
of course, if you cut your initial price to the point where its competitive, then you'll start losing money - and so, to make it up, you'll have to charge extra once they're hooked.
I suppose once upona time, people paid the fair price for things up front, and add-on charges were minimal, if at all. Now, due to the pressures of getting the customer in the first place... you have to find other ways of making money.
Its a bit like free shipping - you know you're paying the shipping fee in the price of the item. You know its costing you a little more than the other shop. and you don't mind.
or.. its a bit like open source. You give the product away for free, and make your money by selling support, bugfixes, or enhancements.
no, makes a lot of sense. For those places where you pay indirectly (ie through insurance), you must remember that you still pay. The insurance companies are never going to lose money by paying out outrageous fees without fleecing their customers in turn.
.. something, a lawyer could give you a list :), and that would be ok, as her insurance would pay for it......
Trouble is, everyone thinks that its free as they don't have to pay any of it, and so the fees are increased and increased, and the premiums go up and up.
The other thing to watch out for is compensation paytments for everything. (you should have sued your doctor for
its those that cause inflation, not a 0.02 here and there.
no way! Bring back 'Buck Rogers in the 21st Century' (but without that wikiwikiwobot).
:) )
. ht ml
Ah, Erin Grey.. mmmm. (It was on in the UK during my formative years. those TV producers are bad people
http://members.aol.com/KatieKat91490/BuckRogers
(warning: site has sound).
Well, I did think to try adding an IDE controller card - but the card I added didn't allow booting from CD
I think you've answered your own question about why mobo manufacturer's supply everything integrated on board. In most cases you can still disable the integrated feature (like sound graphics, lan, usb) and add your own card.
So really apart from cost, there is no reason why its a problem. and the cost of mobos nowadays is really low...
because that Windows developer will have signed an NDA, and although losing it isn't a legal problem (unless it can be shown he was truly negligent), once you start using it, you will be charged with IP theft.
:)
I suppose you could stick it on Kazaa and have done with it though!
wow, wait a minute... you want a geeky reason not to use it... well, how about rolling your own binary parsing data format is a) much, much more difficult for others to understand, b) way faster, c) far more bandwidth efficient.
there you go - 3 classic geek reasons to do something the hard way instead of the standard, ordinary, easy but OK for mortals way.
Incidentally, XML really is slow. Sure it looks nice, is easy to understand, easy to create with the simplest of text editors, interoperable, and an industry standard. But it is still a technology that doesn't cut it when you need your data stored in small, fast blobs. A case in point - my previous company used XML everywhere (it was cool, after all), but after a while performance (when sclaed to many users) became an issue. Rewriting the XML-handling object to use a binary format made things much, much, much faster. The XML blobs were then only used for the browser front end, and for debugging on a developer machine. XML is good, but don't ever pretend its all things to all men, in all cases. It isn't. Its slow.
please.. "never use MS OS for the power system because it might fail", so they used a Unix system and .. it failed. Perhaps you think they should never use something as unreliable as a unix system either then.
The reason the DNS servers are super-reliable is because there are many of them, in a federated architecture. 1 can crash hourly, and the web will still work.
I scan-read the article.. blah blah power failure blah blah controller blah blah windows.
'oh no', thought I, not *another* something-run-by-windows fails story.
Imagine my surprise when I read it all. I'm even more surprised it got past the editors.
well the principle is still OK - and, in fact, better for spammed.
If you go to the web site and fill in the details with bogus-but-almost accurate data, they won't be able to contact you, and you get to flood them with 'spam' referrals. If its a telephone number to call... well, make sure you get through to a person, walk them through the whole 'yes, of course I want x' routine, then hang up right at the point where they ask for completion.
Even better is to get them to send a salesman round, as you obviously really would like to hear more about their other products, then.. tell him to sod off when he arrives. Or give them the address of big dave and his pit bull breeding business.
The whole point isn't anything to do with email - but to give the spammer's *client* so much bad referrals they'll accept that spamming is not an acceptable (from their point of view) means of selling.
excellent!
:)
However, anyone else thinking of doing this - do not use a herbivore rodent. Not only will they prefer to just sit there, but (I say from experience with Guinea pigs and speaker cable) they *like* the taste of cable plastic.
Best to stick with interns, just to be safe
lol. external firewire drive?? Then you only have to worry about your data-retention issues!
yep, I hold my hands up on that - I was reading too many posts (one of which mentioned the Messaging service) instead of clicking every link that was posted :(
well, changing boot.ini is easy - press F8 while booting, choose the 'command line' option (in XP at least). edit and fix. reboot.
Or.. for other versions (NT or W2k), boot from the OS CD you installed from, choose R for repair, then C for Recovery Console. correct boot.ini.
If you change the drive letter from C: to X: the OS will still load (you mean, you thought you had to load Windows on primary partition called C:? shame). Some apps won't run properly though (fair enough really, they were coded to read absolute paths). Go back to Disk Management and change it back to C:. And that's a genuine answer.
Isn't that procedure quite like what you'd do with Linux?
See, windows isn't as bad as people think (no, really!), though I should say that that statement is qualified by a) windows being the NT-based kernels (not 95/98/ME), b) 'people' being Linux enthusiasts who aren't really that that knowledgeable about Windows.