Anybody else finds it interesting that Roxio was sued shortly after they opened an online music store? I doubt that a connection between its competitors in the online music business and Optima can be traced easily, but why didn't Optima sue earlier?
Traditional telephone company uses public land for its infrastructure. Public demands something in return (in form of regulation). VOIP company doesn't use public resources directly, so the public can not ask for anything.
In this case they can not redistribute any GPL software without prior authorization of its copyright holders. If they distribute it and deny the GPL legal status, they open themselves to copyright infringement suits from thousands of companies and individuals. These suits will not mention GPL at all.
If you try to fight against it, you always loose more than you win. SCO: "GPL is invalid" IBM: "Fine, then you can not re-distribute our copyrighted code. There is plenty of it in Linux." SCO: "Ok, ok, it is valid then..." IBM: "Fine, then you can not take our code, strip GPL from it and re-distribute as your own"
Is Darl really saying, out loud, in public, that SCO owns the copyright for some software that's in Linux? More than that. He is saying that SCO owns copyright on all Linux code. Since they do not agree with the GPL terms for Linux, they can only distribute parts of it for which they own copyright. And he says they will continue to distribute all of it.
This most likely would be a contract violation, because of the ND clause in the employees contract. If somebody else gets the secret from an insider and publishes it, it is the insider who is at fault, not the publisher. Well, maybe publisher as well, but only if he knew the information was obtained in violation of the law. Publication by itself should not be illegal.
I am not sure if Boeing is currently supplying anything major to the USAF, but there is probably still an internal conflict of interests. To sell more commercial jets, they need world peace and real (not percieved) end to terrorism. They can pursue this by lobbying and puching the US administration in the direction of sanity. However, if their military contracts bring more money, there is more profit in pushing in the opposite direction.
In a simple setup: indoor aerial, regular beige box PC, cheap Taiwanese monitor - RF problems are huge. Even if you run a coax cable to an outdoor antenna, it still picks up interference from the nearby PC, because it is impossible to match antenna to the cable perfectly for all frequencies. LCD screen and well-shielded PC case can help a lot. Still, I haven't seen a setup without problems.
Tactile feedback and 3D vision. If the surgeon can not feel when the instrument touches the organ or encounters an obstruction, how can he operate at all? 3D vision is important, too. Or, even better, an ability to move the camera, controlled by his head movements - ability to look at the field from different angles. Then the surgeon's brain can restore the 3D picture of the field.
The problem with snow or fog is not obstruction, it is dispersion. Snowflakes/fog particles reflect light in different directions. Each does a little bit, but there is a huge number of them. A big scope aperture is useful because it collects more light from the diverged beam on the receiving side. Using off the shelf scopes has another nice advantage - you can aim precisely by looking into the scope, then replace the eyepiece with the tranceiver.
If the show is copyrighted, you can not distribute copies. DMCA has nothing to do with this. It only adds criminal liability in case when the copy was created by circumventing a protection scheme. The civil liability is always there.
I've bought a Seagate HDD with fluid bearings recently, and I am very impressed. I don't hear it at all, except when it spins up. Its noise is well below the CPU fan noise (and I have a quiet Zalman one). My concern about the PVR application is HDD reliability, not the noise.
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They should limit sound in these demos to carefully timed sequences of 0x07 character only. The demo should be fully playable on a dumb terminal!
Since I live in Ottawa, I can correct two errors in the story: 1. ottawa.com does not belong to City of Ottawa. It belongs to GlobalWest Communications Corp., as well as canada.com and many other similar domain names. 2. Slashdot crew, update the Corel logo!
They can not do the creative part of the design yet, so they use human slaves to create more advanced computers. I can literally feel it - chained to the workstation the whole day (sometimes more). Computers give us entertainment and some kind of social life, they are like drugs. In exchange, they require total devotion and take our health.
Massive amounts of fuel are necessary to change the orbit of a space probe so it differs sufficiently from the Earth orbit to reach other planets. If an object has an orbit similar to Earth, it is easy to reach. The spacecraft should be accelerated very slightly to change its orbit to coincide with the object.
Companies would gladly pay big bucks for secure products, if the promise of security is backed by liability or some kind of warranty. If EULA stays the same, MS will not provide an extra piece of mind, and nobody will pay more money for "maybe more secure" software.
This was discussed on/. some time ago. Below is a quote from the news.com article ( http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959544.html ). "FARC" is a link. I think this is a position on the issue, not just careless writers.
The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organization to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act.
School administrators have told the group, called the Che Cafe Collective, that linking to a site supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would not be permitted because it violated federal law.
It is a copyright infringement under the "traditional" copyright laws.
Sending all your friends a copy of DeCSS would be such violation. Or giving people on the street floppies with DeCSS - this one would be more public and likely to get some media and authorities' attention, which is the goal.
that the Cnet article itself has links to FARC and PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) websites? This clearly shows CNET position on the issue, even though they don't express it explicitly in the article.
I am an ASIC designer, and used PLLs in more than one of our products. It adds 0.5mm*0.5mm of silicon (even less for latest processes), plus some cost for testing it (small compared to the massive cost of DRAM test). I would expect cost increase on the motherboard side, because multiphase signals are very sensitive to timing and signal degradation. If they need better quality materials and precision board manufacturing process, the MB cost will definitely increase. These days, silicon is cheap, wires are expensive.
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Anybody else finds it interesting that Roxio was sued shortly after they opened an online music store?
I doubt that a connection between its competitors in the online music business and Optima can be traced easily, but why didn't Optima sue earlier?
Traditional telephone company uses public land for its infrastructure. Public demands something in return (in form of regulation).
VOIP company doesn't use public resources directly, so the public can not ask for anything.
Dogbert: I can't tell you my plans for the assets of this company...but it rhymes with 'village'.
Dilbert: I hope it's "fillage"...
In this case they can not redistribute any GPL software without prior authorization of its copyright holders. If they distribute it and deny the GPL legal status, they open themselves to copyright infringement suits from thousands of companies and individuals. These suits will not mention GPL at all.
If you try to fight against it, you always loose more than you win.
SCO: "GPL is invalid"
IBM: "Fine, then you can not re-distribute our copyrighted code. There is plenty of it in Linux."
SCO: "Ok, ok, it is valid then..."
IBM: "Fine, then you can not take our code, strip GPL from it and re-distribute as your own"
Is Darl really saying, out loud, in public, that SCO owns the copyright for some software that's in Linux?
More than that. He is saying that SCO owns copyright on all Linux code. Since they do not agree with the GPL terms for Linux, they can only distribute parts of it for which they own copyright. And he says they will continue to distribute all of it.
This most likely would be a contract violation, because of the ND clause in the employees contract.
If somebody else gets the secret from an insider and publishes it, it is the insider who is at fault, not the publisher. Well, maybe publisher as well, but only if he knew the information was obtained in violation of the law.
Publication by itself should not be illegal.
I am not sure if Boeing is currently supplying anything major to the USAF, but there is probably still an internal conflict of interests.
To sell more commercial jets, they need world peace and real (not percieved) end to terrorism. They can pursue this by lobbying and puching the US administration in the direction of sanity.
However, if their military contracts bring more money, there is more profit in pushing in the opposite direction.
In a simple setup: indoor aerial, regular beige box PC, cheap Taiwanese monitor - RF problems are huge.
Even if you run a coax cable to an outdoor antenna, it still picks up interference from the nearby PC, because it is impossible to match antenna to the cable perfectly for all frequencies. LCD screen and well-shielded PC case can help a lot. Still, I haven't seen a setup without problems.
The input box is limited to 5 symbols.
Because people who would otherwise buy pirated DVDs now download movies for free, thus depraving terrorists of their main funding source!
Tactile feedback and 3D vision.
If the surgeon can not feel when the instrument touches the organ or encounters an obstruction, how can he operate at all?
3D vision is important, too. Or, even better, an ability to move the camera, controlled by his head movements - ability to look at the field from different angles. Then the surgeon's brain can restore the 3D picture of the field.
The problem with snow or fog is not obstruction, it is dispersion. Snowflakes/fog particles reflect light in different directions. Each does a little bit, but there is a huge number of them.
A big scope aperture is useful because it collects more light from the diverged beam on the receiving side.
Using off the shelf scopes has another nice advantage - you can aim precisely by looking into the scope, then replace the eyepiece with the tranceiver.
If the show is copyrighted, you can not distribute copies. DMCA has nothing to do with this. It only adds criminal liability in case when the copy was created by circumventing a protection scheme. The civil liability is always there.
I've bought a Seagate HDD with fluid bearings recently, and I am very impressed. I don't hear it at all, except when it spins up. Its noise is well below the CPU fan noise (and I have a quiet Zalman one).
My concern about the PVR application is HDD reliability, not the noise.
They should limit sound in these demos to carefully timed sequences of 0x07 character only. The demo should be fully playable on a dumb terminal!
Since I live in Ottawa, I can correct two errors in the story:
1. ottawa.com does not belong to City of Ottawa. It belongs to GlobalWest Communications Corp., as well as canada.com and many other similar domain names.
2. Slashdot crew, update the Corel logo!
They can not do the creative part of the design yet, so they use human slaves to create more advanced computers. I can literally feel it - chained to the workstation the whole day (sometimes more). Computers give us entertainment and some kind of social life, they are like drugs. In exchange, they require total devotion and take our health.
Massive amounts of fuel are necessary to change the orbit of a space probe so it differs sufficiently from the Earth orbit to reach other planets. If an object has an orbit similar to Earth, it is easy to reach. The spacecraft should be accelerated very slightly to change its orbit to coincide with the object.
They have changed their logo more than a year ago. The new one is, for example, here..
Companies would gladly pay big bucks for secure products, if the promise of security is backed by liability or some kind of warranty. If EULA stays the same, MS will not provide an extra piece of mind, and nobody will pay more money for "maybe more secure" software.
This was discussed on /. some time ago.
Below is a quote from the news.com article ( http://news.com.com/2100-1023-959544.html ).
"FARC" is a link. I think this is a position on the issue, not just careless writers.
The University of California at San Diego has ordered a student organization to delete hyperlinks to an alleged terrorist Web site, citing the recently enacted USA Patriot Act.
School administrators have told the group, called the Che Cafe Collective, that linking to a site supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) would not be permitted because it violated federal law.
It is a copyright infringement under the "traditional" copyright laws.
Sending all your friends a copy of DeCSS would be such violation. Or giving people on the street floppies with DeCSS - this one would be more public and likely to get some media and authorities' attention, which is the goal.
that the Cnet article itself has links to FARC and PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) websites?
This clearly shows CNET position on the issue, even though they don't express it explicitly in the article.
I am an ASIC designer, and used PLLs in more than one of our products. It adds 0.5mm*0.5mm of silicon (even less for latest processes), plus some cost for testing it (small compared to the massive cost of DRAM test).
I would expect cost increase on the motherboard side, because multiphase signals are very sensitive to timing and signal degradation. If they need better quality materials and precision board manufacturing process, the MB cost will definitely increase.
These days, silicon is cheap, wires are expensive.