In all candor: does anyone know of an actual brick and mortar banking institution that I can use that is not a member of the FDIC or NCUA? I prefer to keep the government out of my life as much as possible, but sadly I doubt that there is any way to avoid these damn agencies while continuing to use a banking institution.
Almost any check cashing service, they shouldn't charge much over 5% to cash a check, and they will offer Debit cards that charge something like $2 per transaction, and will pay something like 0% but you should be able to find one that is FDIC free.
Most of these stupid laws were passed in the Great Depression when banks went out of business and nobody got paid.
The stupid FDIC is the reason you got paid, pre FDIC, you would have just had the amount sitting in bankruptcy court, hoping that a judge would release the money to you, at some point, if you could figure out how to file a claim.
The current bureaucrats have as little clue about the history and the why of the organizations, so they do some really strange things, and fall for all types of lies by financial institutions, but the post crash laws were actually fairly well done.
Readability looks kinda cool. I could almost get to like it. Except - I don't much like anything that MIGHT track where I've been, and what I've read. Geez. Here I am, involved in the overthrow of the worlds ten biggest governments, and I want to be TRACKED????
Alright, I exaggerate. It's only the world's 5 largest governments, with a couple little puppet states thrown in - but still . ..
The javascript has a BSD style license so you can host it yourself. The ipad has a button that uses a custom version of readability.
- A non importance of solid data handling and storage. Flat files were the order of the day.
- Antialiasing was not prevalent. While not required for anayltical work, in presentation it was, but many big name tools did not make the jump. 8 bit was common.
- Presentation was done by govt depts and were fairly snazzy for the day, in 8bit alisaed glory
If that is how you count to 2, I hope to the spaghetti monster that I never have to use one of your maps.
Although, if someone is infringing on your copyright and you cannot afford to take legal action, shouldn't you be able to sell the work including all legal claims/liabilities?
Personally I would rather get rid of the doctrine of "holder in due course". Which seems to incite fraud, this just seems to incite vigilantism against those that thought that the victim was to inconsequential to worry about.
"Probably not until xorg and the linux kernel get decent 3d support for ati or nvidia. (decent meaning at least as fast the closed source drivers for a large subset of openGL and fully implements all the 3d functions of the closed source drivers.)"
The nVidia linux driver IS their closed source driver, FWIT.
And AMD have released a full 3D open source GPL compliant driver for their recent cards.
Please, go back and read some news sites from 5 years ago, they'll fill you in on what you missed while asleep.
Nouveau is the open source nvidia driver, The opensource AMD driver is much slower than the closed source fglrx ati drivers, This is slowly changing and nouveau is becoming closer to feature complete.
Progress is either happening very quickly or very slowly in this regard, depending on your perspective, from the end users point of view the stability is getting worse, as lots of slow stable code is discarded for new code that eventually will be much faster, but for the moment is the worst of all worlds. From the developer point of view, the specs are open the code is starting to work, and the features are being complete at a pretty amazing rate.
I would guess that the big event in Linux graphics is going to be when a release includes nouveau as the default and drops the NV and support for the nvidia.
What you don't seem to get is that unless there is a well documented opensource graphics subsystem, it won't be virtualized with near native speed.
Virtualization is the last refuge of a horrendously mis-engineered operating system.
That didn't come out like you intended.
I thought that you were taking the Micro Kernels rule and all those bloated monolithic kernel operating systems like Linux and Windows should die, then I read your other posts and realized what you were trying to say.
Are there VMs that offer the same (graphics) performance as native Windows? That's the only reason I still boot Windows.
Probably not until xorg and the linux kernel get decent 3d support for ati or nvidia. (decent meaning at least as fast the closed source drivers for a large subset of openGL and fully implements all the 3d functions of the closed source drivers.)
I would guess that until the opensource drivers happen, nobody is going to have enough documentation about what the commonalities are across video drivers to create a virtual video driver.
Although, I guess you might be able to pass a direct draw to full screen virtual terminal. The problems with this make me guess that it would be simpler to just go the natural path of writing the opensource video drivers, and then create a virtual video card that uses the unified video code.
The virtualized video should be slower than the unvirtualized video, but it should be able to get within 10-20% which can be compensated for buying a faster video card.
I suspect the reason for this is that Google wants to have an enforceable contract with developers. This was the quick and easy way to do it.
I am not a lawyer so this is a genuine question. Does money need to change hands in order to meet the "consideration" requirement of a contract?
If no money changes hands and the contract consists of "you write extensions" and "we provide visibility for them", is it then invalid and unenforcable?
IINAL, but to answer your question no the elements of a valid contract under English common law (the legal system in the England and most of it's former colonies, including the USA) are:
Meeting of the Minds
Offer and Acceptance
Exchange of value - Both sides have to get something out of it.
Performance or Delivery
Good Faith (more important in some locations than other, very important in California)
Although the length of the wheel base is an important issue in designing the steering system, and it certainly looks like some of the shorter and longer models of some cars share a little too much of the steering system for it to be optimal in both models.
I have had about a 95% success rate for doing upgrades without console access.
Which sort of sucks that one out of 20 times the server just goes away.
The only supported upgrade is if you do it in single user mode. Although this seems to be understood to not be a completely realistic assumption by the FreeBSD team, so this may change.
You get security updates, but no new versions and new configuration options that may break your working system
and any bugs that do make it into Debian 'stable' will remain unfixed no matter how bad they are unless they are security-related bugs.
Ie if the Debian package maintainers miss something critical (and, no shit, they *DO*) then they sit on their arses and do NOTHING to fix in that release.
Ie When Debian release to stable with bugs you are stuck with those bugs until the next stable, and even then the bugs aren't necessarily fixed.
BTW, your sig is wrong. BSD is free as in speech, some would argue much more so than the GPL with me being one. Quite frankly, trying to simply paint BSD as only free as in beer is asinine. Now which OS was it that was the first campaigned against binary blobs? I'll give you hint, it has BSD in its name.
That is especially silly considering the price UC charged for netBSD on tape. (ftp was free of course)
I guess because it doesn't attract the glamour-seekers, nor does it consider itself elite.
I think that Debian suffers from a different form of elitism; the elitism that says "if we release something thats broken to stable we won't fix it because its *STABLE*"
The problem, as I've seen it over the last 10 years as a Debian sysadmin, is that Debian is not run as a business; it doesn't have customers, it has users.
If you want to use Debian in enterprise you NEED a really good engineering team; its really risky to use Debian in the small/medium business eg with sole-sysadmin because when Debian release something thats broken it STAYS broken and you need an internal engineering team to fix, patch and maintain the fixes.
This is why I am encouraging my employer to go with Redhat instead; because Redhat is run as a BUSINESS, they understand the needs of business. For Redhat you are not just a user, you are a CUSTOMER and that actually counts for something.
You might look at the php disaster in RHEL 5.x
Basically, Rackspace is pleading with Redhat to compile pcre with unicode support, and Redhat seems to be saying wait until RHEL 6
php in RHEL is so far behind that many open source and closed source php applications do not support the ancient version of php in RHEL because of the known security issues. (yes Redhat claims to have backported security fixes, but that does not mean that the latest versions of your software support the version of php in RHEL that php does not support.
Of course some of this is the fault of the php project, but still, I think you are suffering from a grass is greener on the other side of the fence syndrome.
Personally, I am leaning to Debian SID and Fedora as my preferred distributions for running web apps. FreeBSD upgrades without console access are not well supported so I am not a big fan of using it on leased servers, but otherwise it is easy to keep the application stack up to date. I don't dislike gentoo, but it has never "felt right" which I guess is just personal work habits or which OS you learned on or some other non-objective thing.
No, it would happen the same as Xfree86: it would be forked and the work would continue.
In fact, technically every kernel developer has a fork - that's how git works. Linus' is only special because people choose to trust his as the main kernel branch, and they could as easily choose any other branch as "main".
No Linus' tree is special because it is sprinkled with holy penguin pee, (at least according to Linux).
The only travesty is if he doesn't pass on the holy penguin pee.
The original story when the torrent was first released indicated that the so-called "hack" was merely scraping the publicly listed information of people with search listings turned on. So the torrent is just convenient, not useful.
The issue is that a lot of people tightened up their privacy settings about two months ago. so being slightly dated might be a lot more useful.
I was very surprised to find out how much water seems to be lost in nuclear power plants, on paper you are right, one would think that it would almost all get recycled. Either economics or changing environmental regulations seems to cause evaporative cooling to be used. (this is for rivers that you cannot put over heated water back into them due to environmental regulations.)
Super critical coal plants and Nuclear plants on the Mississippi use about 30% more water than one would expect and it seems that this is being lost to evaporation in some manner that is not clearly explained and is just a best guess. Is this a secondary cooling system to comply with environmental regulations? I don't know but it seems like coal and nuclear power plants on the Mississippi are losing a lot of water to evaporation. I like you am not really sure why, because as you say, you basically run a closed system with a cooling system that should make the water loss just that of the evaporative effects of the water being a few degrees warmer.
Most reactors only use up a fraction of the energy in Uranium (less than 1%). Breeder reactors (which will become much more viable once we have large stockpiles of 'spent' fuel) can use almost all of it and leave very little radioactive waste behind.
In theory. I am not that convinced that any one source of electricity is that much better than others. In the real world they all have lots of problems and lots of skeletons in the industry closets.
My big grip with nuclear power is that the plants are huge, so the disasters from the inevitable F* up is huge. (all forms of power have disasters, either from the uncontrolled unwanted release of energy, or
from the discharge of toxic waste from mining.)
The biggest disaster from non-nuclear energy is probably Kingston Fossil Plant slurry spill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill which as bad as it is/was makes the comparison to Chernobyl Semi-reasonable, but the dead zone seems to a worse disaster, and both of these are not "maybe" or hypothetical disasters, they are what happens in the real world with people more worried about their year end bonus than maybes.
More localized smaller scale power generation may not be as efficient, but it might reduce the scale of the disasters.
The trend is nonsense, but the data is not.... Once production increases again, this should stabilise (not, as that graph indicates, continue to increase forever).
True, however it appears that it will stabilize at a much hirer price than before, as the easy super cheap to get at high grade ore seems to be mostly mined. (this does not mean there is a shortage, just that the new mines are going to have higher costs and have more waste per pound of uranium extracted.)
Care to support this with a citation? The only news I read about nuclear is how to get rid of waste and at the same time stop teRRists from getting it.
I don't have a citation handy, but as I understand the situation, the rich uranium deposits are very low, resulting in the mining of lower grade deposits, Thus the cost of extracting uranium is going up, on a semi permanent basis.
That said, Uranium is a fairly small cost of a reactor, and reactors on the Mississippi river shut down when there is a concern over water, not uranium.
The other myth is that carbon dioxide is the major green house gas. Water vapor is the major green house gas (about 80% of the green house effect that makes earth livable is from water vapor.) This is relevant because Nuclear power plants, like coal fired power plants, are big steam engines, many of which release large quantities of steam into the atmosphere.
Power plants like Diablo Canyon in Southern California get around the issue of needing large quantities of water by being feed by the ocean, but the new power plants on the Mississippi river seem to be causing other power plants to run short of water, so more power plants on the Mississippi probably will not result in much of an increase in electricity produced.
I don't know which issue the grand parent poster was referring to, but in summary, the economics of an isolated nuclear power plant looks pretty good, but when you put them in the real world... well as the saying goes, the difference between practice and theory is small, in theory.
Remember, the G5 already exists. It is, therefore, free. And it may be quite fast enough for the non-specified purpose that the asker was asking about.
Meanwhile, the Dell box (while probably faster) is not free.
How long does it take the power savings of a $300 Dell T110 to break even?
Depends on your power source and electricity costs.
Most wordpress themes that I have seen are very similar to the gpl themes from automattic. (most of them referencing themes that reference one of automattics themes.)
So for the most part our discussion is moot.
The question becomes, in our discussion, does creating a template create a derivative work of the original CMS, or do you have a CMS with a template?
You claim that the template that does not work without the underlying CMS is not a derivative work. However, code such as <?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'erudite' ) . '&after=</div>') ?>
makes my point of view more likely
The code such as get_sidebar and get_footer would seem to support your point of view.
The reality is it probably depends on exactly what the template does.
If you unzip a wordpress theme in a publicly viewable directory and point a web browser at it, will it return an error message? Will it complain about not being able to find wordpress?
Being as you will get an error message complaining about lack of wordpress, you will have a long road to convince a judge and jury that it is not a derivative work.
This is not as cut and dried as a lot of people make it out to be, but the fact that almost all wordpress themes copy GPL code the edge case that you and I are debating is not really an issue.
If you had a theme that worked on multiple CMSes or worked as a standalone page, you can probably get around the derivative works issue, as long as you developed the template from a static page without wordpress running.
Automattic has a good enough case that almost every IP attorney I know would take their case (the one exception hates litigation, and spends her time on contracts)
The theme developer(s) would probably be advised to negotiate a settlement because it would be too risky and too expensive to fight. (probably about 80k - 500k depending on discovery for a case you have at best a 50-50 chance of winning, and if you win you are still going to eat the legal expenses.)
Handing the php out under the GPL and maintaining the proprietary license on images, css, and javascript is effectively the same as the current situation, and will save serious litigation expenses. Right and wrong has precious little to do with the law at times.
The only real issue is can you use php code to stop a theme from being copied or do you need to watermark your images and then use a spider or service to search for them to bust people for violating your copyright on a theme?
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In all candor: does anyone know of an actual brick and mortar banking institution that I can use that is not a member of the FDIC or NCUA? I prefer to keep the government out of my life as much as possible, but sadly I doubt that there is any way to avoid these damn agencies while continuing to use a banking institution.
Almost any check cashing service, they shouldn't charge much over 5% to cash a check, and they will offer Debit cards that charge something like $2 per transaction, and will pay something like 0% but you should be able to find one that is FDIC free.
Most of these stupid laws were passed in the Great Depression when banks went out of business and nobody got paid.
The stupid FDIC is the reason you got paid, pre FDIC, you would have just had the amount sitting in bankruptcy court, hoping that a judge would release the money to you, at some point, if you could figure out how to file a claim.
The current bureaucrats have as little clue about the history and the why of the organizations, so they do some really strange things, and fall for all types of lies by financial institutions, but the post crash laws were actually fairly well done.
Readability looks kinda cool. I could almost get to like it. Except - I don't much like anything that MIGHT track where I've been, and what I've read. Geez. Here I am, involved in the overthrow of the worlds ten biggest governments, and I want to be TRACKED????
Alright, I exaggerate. It's only the world's 5 largest governments, with a couple little puppet states thrown in - but still . . .
The javascript has a BSD style license so you can host it yourself. The ipad has a button that uses a custom version of readability.
Allow me
Readablity helps with that site a lot.
Two things stood out in the culture of GIS:
- A non importance of solid data handling and storage. Flat files were the order of the day.
- Antialiasing was not prevalent. While not required for anayltical work, in presentation it was, but many big name tools did not make the jump. 8 bit was common.
- Presentation was done by govt depts and were fairly snazzy for the day, in 8bit alisaed glory
If that is how you count to 2, I hope to the spaghetti monster that I never have to use one of your maps.
How a programmer counts to two: 0, 1, 2.
Although, if someone is infringing on your copyright and you cannot afford to take legal action, shouldn't you be able to sell the work including all legal claims/liabilities?
Personally I would rather get rid of the doctrine of "holder in due course". Which seems to incite fraud, this just seems to incite vigilantism against those that thought that the victim was to inconsequential to worry about.
Wow, it's Rip Van Winckle!
"Probably not until xorg and the linux kernel get decent 3d support for ati or nvidia. (decent meaning at least as fast the closed source drivers for a large subset of openGL and fully implements all the 3d functions of the closed source drivers.)"
The nVidia linux driver IS their closed source driver, FWIT.
And AMD have released a full 3D open source GPL compliant driver for their recent cards.
Please, go back and read some news sites from 5 years ago, they'll fill you in on what you missed while asleep.
Nouveau is the open source nvidia driver, The opensource AMD driver is much slower than the closed source fglrx ati drivers, This is slowly changing and nouveau is becoming closer to feature complete.
Progress is either happening very quickly or very slowly in this regard, depending on your perspective, from the end users point of view the stability is getting worse, as lots of slow stable code is discarded for new code that eventually will be much faster, but for the moment is the worst of all worlds. From the developer point of view, the specs are open the code is starting to work, and the features are being complete at a pretty amazing rate.
I would guess that the big event in Linux graphics is going to be when a release includes nouveau as the default and drops the NV and support for the nvidia.
What you don't seem to get is that unless there is a well documented opensource graphics subsystem, it won't be virtualized with near native speed.
Virtualization is the last refuge of a horrendously mis-engineered operating system.
That didn't come out like you intended.
I thought that you were taking the Micro Kernels rule and all those bloated monolithic kernel operating systems like Linux and Windows should die, then I read your other posts and realized what you were trying to say.
Are there VMs that offer the same (graphics) performance as native Windows? That's the only reason I still boot Windows.
Probably not until xorg and the linux kernel get decent 3d support for ati or nvidia. (decent meaning at least as fast the closed source drivers for a large subset of openGL and fully implements all the 3d functions of the closed source drivers.)
I would guess that until the opensource drivers happen, nobody is going to have enough documentation about what the commonalities are across video drivers to create a virtual video driver.
Although, I guess you might be able to pass a direct draw to full screen virtual terminal. The problems with this make me guess that it would be simpler to just go the natural path of writing the opensource video drivers, and then create a virtual video card that uses the unified video code.
The virtualized video should be slower than the unvirtualized video, but it should be able to get within 10-20% which can be compensated for buying a faster video card.
I suspect the reason for this is that Google wants to have an enforceable contract with developers. This was the quick and easy way to do it.
I am not a lawyer so this is a genuine question. Does money need to change hands in order to meet the "consideration" requirement of a contract?
If no money changes hands and the contract consists of "you write extensions" and "we provide visibility for them", is it then invalid and unenforcable?
IINAL, but to answer your question no the elements of a valid contract under English common law (the legal system in the England and most of it's former colonies, including the USA) are:
A decent intro at expert law.
After all, what were the end results of Sun v. Microsoft?
MSFT Market cap two hundred billion, SUNW rescued before bankruptcy was forced on them?
Although the length of the wheel base is an important issue in designing the steering system, and it certainly looks like some of the shorter and longer models of some cars share a little too much of the steering system for it to be optimal in both models.
... When will we see implantations of this in Linux, *BSD, and, even, commercial Unix flavors ?
I believe you can patch FreeBSD 9 (current) to use this. Check the FreeBSD security mailing list for a link to the patches.
I have had about a 95% success rate for doing upgrades without console access.
Which sort of sucks that one out of 20 times the server just goes away.
The only supported upgrade is if you do it in single user mode. Although this seems to be understood to not be a completely realistic assumption by the FreeBSD team, so this may change.
You get security updates, but no new versions and new configuration options that may break your working system
and any bugs that do make it into Debian 'stable' will remain unfixed no matter how bad they are unless they are security-related bugs.
Ie if the Debian package maintainers miss something critical (and, no shit, they *DO*) then they sit on their arses and do NOTHING to fix in that release.
Ie When Debian release to stable with bugs you are stuck with those bugs until the next stable, and even then the bugs aren't necessarily fixed.
Just like RHEL and SLED.
That's probably a more apt title actually.
BTW, your sig is wrong. BSD is free as in speech, some would argue much more so than the GPL with me being one. Quite frankly, trying to simply paint BSD as only free as in beer is asinine. Now which OS was it that was the first campaigned against binary blobs? I'll give you hint, it has BSD in its name.
That is especially silly considering the price UC charged for netBSD on tape. (ftp was free of course)
I guess because it doesn't attract the glamour-seekers, nor does it consider itself elite.
I think that Debian suffers from a different form of elitism; the elitism that says "if we release something thats broken to stable we won't fix it because its *STABLE*"
The problem, as I've seen it over the last 10 years as a Debian sysadmin, is that Debian is not run as a business; it doesn't have customers, it has users.
If you want to use Debian in enterprise you NEED a really good engineering team; its really risky to use Debian in the small/medium business eg with sole-sysadmin because when Debian release something thats broken it STAYS broken and you need an internal engineering team to fix, patch and maintain the fixes.
This is why I am encouraging my employer to go with Redhat instead; because Redhat is run as a BUSINESS, they understand the needs of business. For Redhat you are not just a user, you are a CUSTOMER and that actually counts for something.
You might look at the php disaster in RHEL 5.x
Basically, Rackspace is pleading with Redhat to compile pcre with unicode support, and Redhat seems to be saying wait until RHEL 6
php in RHEL is so far behind that many open source and closed source php applications do not support the ancient version of php in RHEL because of the known security issues. (yes Redhat claims to have backported security fixes, but that does not mean that the latest versions of your software support the version of php in RHEL that php does not support.
Of course some of this is the fault of the php project, but still, I think you are suffering from a grass is greener on the other side of the fence syndrome.
Personally, I am leaning to Debian SID and Fedora as my preferred distributions for running web apps. FreeBSD upgrades without console access are not well supported so I am not a big fan of using it on leased servers, but otherwise it is easy to keep the application stack up to date. I don't dislike gentoo, but it has never "felt right" which I guess is just personal work habits or which OS you learned on or some other non-objective thing.
No, it would happen the same as Xfree86: it would be forked and the work would continue.
In fact, technically every kernel developer has a fork - that's how git works. Linus' is only special because people choose to trust his as the main kernel branch, and they could as easily choose any other branch as "main".
No Linus' tree is special because it is sprinkled with holy penguin pee, (at least according to Linux).
The only travesty is if he doesn't pass on the holy penguin pee.
The original story when the torrent was first released indicated that the so-called "hack" was merely scraping the publicly listed information of people with search listings turned on. So the torrent is just convenient, not useful.
The issue is that a lot of people tightened up their privacy settings about two months ago. so being slightly dated might be a lot more useful.
I was very surprised to find out how much water seems to be lost in nuclear power plants, on paper you are right, one would think that it would almost all get recycled. Either economics or changing environmental regulations seems to cause evaporative cooling to be used. (this is for rivers that you cannot put over heated water back into them due to environmental regulations.)
If you read the commentary about super critical coal powered plants at http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/cooling_power_plants_inf121.html you will see something odd about the water usage projections for super critical coal plants.
Super critical coal plants and Nuclear plants on the Mississippi use about 30% more water than one would expect and it seems that this is being lost to evaporation in some manner that is not clearly explained and is just a best guess. Is this a secondary cooling system to comply with environmental regulations? I don't know but it seems like coal and nuclear power plants on the Mississippi are losing a lot of water to evaporation. I like you am not really sure why, because as you say, you basically run a closed system with a cooling system that should make the water loss just that of the evaporative effects of the water being a few degrees warmer.
Most reactors only use up a fraction of the energy in Uranium (less than 1%). Breeder reactors (which will become much more viable once we have large stockpiles of 'spent' fuel) can use almost all of it and leave very little radioactive waste behind.
In theory. I am not that convinced that any one source of electricity is that much better than others. In the real world they all have lots of problems and lots of skeletons in the industry closets.
My big grip with nuclear power is that the plants are huge, so the disasters from the inevitable F* up is huge. (all forms of power have disasters, either from the uncontrolled unwanted release of energy, or
from the discharge of toxic waste from mining.)
The biggest disaster from non-nuclear energy is probably Kingston Fossil Plant slurry spill. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Fossil_Plant_coal_fly_ash_slurry_spill which as bad as it is/was makes the comparison to Chernobyl Semi-reasonable, but the dead zone seems to a worse disaster, and both of these are not "maybe" or hypothetical disasters, they are what happens in the real world with people more worried about their year end bonus than maybes.
More localized smaller scale power generation may not be as efficient, but it might reduce the scale of the disasters.
The trend is nonsense, but the data is not. ... Once production increases again, this should stabilise (not, as that graph indicates, continue to increase forever).
True, however it appears that it will stabilize at a much hirer price than before, as the easy super cheap to get at high grade ore seems to be mostly mined. (this does not mean there is a shortage, just that the new mines are going to have higher costs and have more waste per pound of uranium extracted.)
Care to support this with a citation? The only news I read about nuclear is how to get rid of waste and at the same time stop teRRists from getting it.
I don't have a citation handy, but as I understand the situation, the rich uranium deposits are very low, resulting in the mining of lower grade deposits, Thus the cost of extracting uranium is going up, on a semi permanent basis.
That said, Uranium is a fairly small cost of a reactor, and reactors on the Mississippi river shut down when there is a concern over water, not uranium.
The other myth is that carbon dioxide is the major green house gas. Water vapor is the major green house gas (about 80% of the green house effect that makes earth livable is from water vapor.) This is relevant because Nuclear power plants, like coal fired power plants, are big steam engines, many of which release large quantities of steam into the atmosphere.
Power plants like Diablo Canyon in Southern California get around the issue of needing large quantities of water by being feed by the ocean, but the new power plants on the Mississippi river seem to be causing other power plants to run short of water, so more power plants on the Mississippi probably will not result in much of an increase in electricity produced.
I don't know which issue the grand parent poster was referring to, but in summary, the economics of an isolated nuclear power plant looks pretty good, but when you put them in the real world ... well as the saying goes, the difference between practice and theory is small, in theory.
Remember, the G5 already exists. It is, therefore, free. And it may be quite fast enough for the non-specified purpose that the asker was asking about.
Meanwhile, the Dell box (while probably faster) is not free.
How long does it take the power savings of a $300 Dell T110 to break even?
Depends on your power source and electricity costs.
For most people probably about 24 months.
Most wordpress themes that I have seen are very similar to the gpl themes from automattic. (most of them referencing themes that reference one of automattics themes.)
So for the most part our discussion is moot.
The question becomes, in our discussion, does creating a template create a derivative work of the original CMS, or do you have a CMS with a template?
You claim that the template that does not work without the underlying CMS is not a derivative work. However, code such as
<?php wp_link_pages('before=<div class="page-link">' . __( 'Pages:', 'erudite' ) . '&after=</div>') ?>
makes my point of view more likely
The code such as get_sidebar and get_footer would seem to support your point of view.
The reality is it probably depends on exactly what the template does.
If you unzip a wordpress theme in a publicly viewable directory and point a web browser at it, will it return an error message? Will it complain about not being able to find wordpress?
Being as you will get an error message complaining about lack of wordpress, you will have a long road to convince a judge and jury that it is not a derivative work.
This is not as cut and dried as a lot of people make it out to be, but the fact that almost all wordpress themes copy GPL code the edge case that you and I are debating is not really an issue.
If you had a theme that worked on multiple CMSes or worked as a standalone page, you can probably get around the derivative works issue, as long as you developed the template from a static page without wordpress running.
Automattic has a good enough case that almost every IP attorney I know would take their case (the one exception hates litigation, and spends her time on contracts)
The theme developer(s) would probably be advised to negotiate a settlement because it would be too risky and too expensive to fight. (probably about 80k - 500k depending on discovery for a case you have at best a 50-50 chance of winning, and if you win you are still going to eat the legal expenses.)
Handing the php out under the GPL and maintaining the proprietary license on images, css, and javascript is effectively the same as the current situation, and will save serious litigation expenses. Right and wrong has precious little to do with the law at times.
The only real issue is can you use php code to stop a theme from being copied or do you need to watermark your images and then use a spider or service to search for them to bust people for violating your copyright on a theme?