world is quite deterministic in any large enough scale Sensitive dependence on intial conditions will kill you here, and the best you can do with a digital computer is estimate. This means calculating a system with 80 bit of accuracy gives a different (often wildly given enough interations), than a 81 bits of accuracy one would. The Real world is often irrational as in pi or e. I'm amazed weather prediction works as well as it does.
The Japanese have a couple extra feet of intestine, that allows them to digest plant foods that I would slowly starve on; while I have an emzyme that alows me to digest dairy foods that they typicaly lack. Each trait has advantages in particular circumstances.
maybe source code would be a little much for something complex like a "hyperdrive" but for alot of software patents, what is actualy patented is a small precentage of what a finished product would be. If the patent was for a new gee-whiz graphics processor, and it's interface to the rest of the system was defined like say openGL then the software would be obvious. I think that any patent should be written in a style that is understandable to people "skilled in the arts" of what is being patented rather than patent attornies also. I'm looking for a patent from back in the 1930's, most that I've looked at are in the 3-5 pages in length (one page is figures), consise and readable, patents in the '50's are hitting 11 pages and only have a reasonaable amount of patent-ese fluff language, from the 90's and later it's OMG length and the signal-to-noise ratio is lucky to get up to 10%!
The prosspect for me is to wade through 50 K patents, stored on line as TIFF G4 images, so there is no text or catagory search.
European help was rejected with phony arguments even federal and private help was rejected with phoney arguements. What Europeans, actualy almost all of the world doesn't understand (including most Americans) is that in American soveregnty has been turned upside down, it starts with the individual to the state then to the country. Any power not specificaly given to the federal government belongs to the state
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people: Amendment X
Our set up is actualy more like the EU, with our states being more like the member countries; so for the federal government to just go in uninvited would have been an invasion; remember there were people on the roof shooting at rescue helicopters and ambulances on the ground. The constitution also taskes the federal government with
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; Article IV. Section 4
So why might not the state invite the federal government in, in time to make a difference? At best it seems petty territorialism on the New Orleans Mayor and the Louisianna Governor's part, at worse it was a big land grab. Most of the property was destroyed and contaminated making it a easy target for condemation, a lot of it didn't even have flood insurance and our normal property insurance doesn't cover flood damage. The owners are also scattered to the winds and jobless, they'll problably never be able to pay their property taxes so the property will be auctioned off real cheap to developers who are probably croonies of the currupt politicians. In a lot of way Louisianna is a little bit of the 3rd world right here in America
Lighten up a scientists understands far better than you, that in order to prove the existance of or the non-existance of God he would have to prove it experimentaly. The experiment would entail a control group and an experimental group such that he'd need two universes, one where God existed, and an other where God didn't exist. If God existed, it would be impossible to have a universe with out him, and if God didn't exists it would be impossible to have a universe where he did. Therefore a scientist would have to conclude that proof is impossible and religion is outside the realm of science. Even Oscam's razor can be argued both ways.
Beliefs and proofs aren't exclusive to science and religion, finding beliefs disgiesed as proofs often puts a scientist in the history books.
It's rather myoptic for anyone to assume that the lable terrorist is only applied to radical islamic groups that engage in murder and mathem on innocent christians living in english speaking countries. I know the federal 3 letter agencies take a much broader definition. I haven't seen anything to convince me the the typical victim of radical islamic terrorist groups are more likely to be christian westerners rather than more moderate Muslems living peacefully in their own countries.
they are two skill sets for the most part, but there is common skills in there as well. Most farmers I've met keep a very large family garden in addition to their commercial farming. Irrigation is much older than you suspect, I'm thinking minimum 4000 BC and a lot of our agricultural technology is a logic continuation of technics developed by the Amnish farmers. Now the Amish and the Mennonite are the people I would bet on durring a social-economic collapse.
If memory serves me correctly one of the Leakys publish some musings in this area. It centered arround indications we had a fairly constant level of individuals with xenophobia and xenophillia in society. Both are necessary to cause genes to become dispersed into other tribal groups (xenophillia) or not unduely dillunted via xenophobia. Also promiscuity was seen as a survival trait in hunter/gatherer societies, tending twoard promiscuity because of the village format make child rearing a group activity and agrarian/industrial tending toward fidelity and family centric child rearing
Sometimes a social stucture has secondary gains not appearent to us, a strong theocratic society might tend toward achieving common goals that could out-weight the sacrificial lose of a few selected individuals.
When I took psycology several decades ago the definition of intellegence was "what IQ tests measure", the average IQ of a black American Male is 85, and Coco, a low-land gorrila taught to speech sign language scored 85 on the same test therfore I believe that an general IQ test doesn't really measure what people think it measures; and using a single test score for any purpose is invalid. In fact the definition of a general IQ test score of intelectual age / chronological age * 100 quickly becomes non-sensicaly as you move away for a score of 100. I'd be very surprised if genetics played any role greater than determining a range of possible scores.
Without SOX you would have problems of more problems of bad accounting reporting which would hurt the general market more.
But basicaly SOX make a company's executives personally liable for crimes that are committed by the coporations, that they would have been responsible for if the companies weren't corporations. I'm sure if a corporation had to purchase "accounting fraud" insurance privately, the terms of the policy would be a lot stricter than anything the SEC could dream up.
You would be surprised at how many Americans not only hate/distrust big government, but big business, big religion, anything that's too-big/powerful.
It's not the GPL clashing with SOX, it's when a company knowingly uses GPL code in their proprietary product, lies to the stockholders by saying they own the code i.e. list it as an asset on the balance sheet, and then refuses to release the source code as required by distributing software containing GPL'd code.
Would be like a bank robber worrying about an unpaid traffic ticket he got enroute to the bank robbery.
OPPS your right i said, "Conduct unbecoming" as in Article 133 and should have said "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces" as in article 134. There are lots of changes since I served, but that wasn't one of them.
I would also point out that "indecorum" is a pretty broad term.
One thing I noticed about most of the sites on that list is they have forums; it only takes is one General to find out one of his Troops were engaged in a flame-fest with Civilians, to start locking things down. Conduct unbecoming is a violation of the UCMJ, and it's not unusual for an establishment where unbecoming conduct frequently occures to be place off limits.
Depends on the situation, during your first 180 days it's very easy to quit the US military. In fact I remember my Drill Instructor saying things like "You don't belong in MY MILLITARY, why don't you QUIT and go home to your MOMMA?" The discharge papers you'd get will probably make getting a good job difficult, as they'd be neutral rather than good. After that and until you've fullfilled your legal military obligation, quitting is primarily one-way, the military can quit you, but not vica-versa, but you can ask for a hardship discharge, and of course developing certain medical conditions will do the trick. After your initial contract (usualy someting like 4 year active duty, 4 years inactive reserve) is complete and your obligation is fullfilled you can quit, but I'm not sure what the discharge would be like. The National Guard decided to tranfer me to the retired reserves with 2 1/2 years remaining on my contract. That really pissed me off because I thought they were just screwing me out of some retirement money, but it turned out that the 20 years was legally defined as 19 years, six months and a day:)
Of course IANAL, and even most lawyers are clueless here; Laws and Regualtions change all the time so if anybody is looking for advice, it's go to the Chaplain and JAG Officer for it.
personaly I think they should have to supply a non-copyrighted prototype of any software drivers in source-code format, with their patent applications that involve software, that are complete enough to actualy opperate the device or method.
With their patent-pending method of writing to the hard drive, HD24 and HD24XR are the first hard disk recorders built from the ground up exclusively for the purpose of recording music instead of data
It is probably going to be patent encumbered. The Patent will protect the device no matter how public knowlege its interface is!
The biggest thing is it takes more physical labor to implement open source because it isn't pre-packaged,' The problem is developers think all the software should be download-centric, so libararies that are linked to are assumed to be on the system already, or downloaded seperately prior to installation. If they just had a package that had the software and all of the dependencies, the install script could just test for the required dependencies and install from the disk any that are missing or inadequet.
For some of the other issue FTA I'm thinking wahha; if they were building a closed source server, the vendor would say "use this system period; third party software and upgrades are unsupported"; I'm pretty sure Oracle dictates what enviroments their database can be used in.
The simple fact is its basicaly paint with copper in it, it's probably not even conductive because the copper is inside clay particles. To do the same all you'd need is to get some paint and mix in some aluminum powder and or some graphite. Graphite is cool it suckes up microwaves like nobodies bussiness. get acouple cups of water, microwave one with a golf pencil over the rim and one without, you'll be amazes at the temperature difference in the two cups. I thought about painting my car with graphite pigmented paint and a nice Kandy apple blue over coat for some serious radar suppression. Even metalic wallpaper would work in a auditorium.
1. most theaters have a sign that says turn off cell phones and pagers 2. if communications are essential to you, you really need to make periodic commo checks, especialy when moving into a new enviroment 3. most things people think are emergencies are not
Trying to sue somebody because your inherently unreliable communications device failed to operate in an area where it's use is prohibited, might be a lot tougher than you think; you might even be counter-sued for tresspass.
Additionaly if your software contains routine you view as confidential, just leave them out and replace them with stubs. If I think my fancy security module is proprietarey, I can replace them with plain modules from the GPL community. How many packages are distributed with a file like conf-dist.php rather than the conf.php which contains proprietary data?
all you had to do is leave out the "and furture Versions" part, and specify that the license was GPL version 2. I'm doing the same with my code. maybe after the dust settles on the GPL version 3, I might dual license, version 2 and version 3, but likely not unless it's changed considerably. I find forcing license version change on end users, offensive.
these guys seem to be FUD spreading fucktards, check this out;
The GPL expressly provides that software compiled with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is not infected by the GPL. Presumably the Free Software Foundation considers other GPL compilers will infect the compiled software.
I guess by that considered legal opinion it follows that if I compile my software with a microsoft compiler, the generated program belongs to Microsoft.
No warranties: Open source software is generally provided "as is", without any warranties as to its fitness for a purpose, performance, title or infringement, and without any indemnities against third party claims of intellectual property infringement.
for the most part, I fail to see how this is different from any software; I suppose SCO could sue IBM into bankruptcy rendering their indemity program ineffective, but that could happen to anybody. The real question is how likely is it, a meteor could destroy all life on Earth before your exposed to that legal risk.
It can be argued that any output from a piece of open source software is "derived" from that software, and accordingly is infected.
Yeah you can argue that, and you can also get bitch-slapped by the court for argueing that. Data is not copyrightable, you can concievable copyright the formatting of the data, but not the data; and a programs output is data.
Many open source licences are drafted in language which is ambiguous or even downright vague - phrases such as "derivative" and "separate works" do not provide any clear indications as to which methods of integration (e.g. static linking, dynamic linking) will result in sufficient separation and which will not. "Derivative" is a term originating under US copyright law - US courts have determined that to be a "derivative", software must be substantially similar to and in some form include a portion of the original work. Derivative may or may not have the same meaning under NZ law.
The GPL actualy has a section that explain the licensor's intentions with the licence irregardless of what the lawyers may try to weazzle into or out of in the sifting sand of legal definitions. "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom... " if that is a problem for the kiwi government, they have a bigger problem than software licenses.
here's how it works parent company sets up a sale plan' 25% profit + if sales is over $300, 3% bonus if sales is over $900, 6% bonus if sales is over $1200, 9% bonus first guy sells $301, he makes $84.28; then he gets 3 other to do the same, they each get $84.28 from the first guy just like they would from the parent company, but first guy now gets $1204 in sales so he get $409.36 and pays out 253.84 leaving an extra $337.12.
As long as the dealers follow the rules, nobody gets hurt, a few make a big chunk of change; but normaly what happens is people get greedy, do tons of recruiting and nobody bothers to sell product and nobody makes any money. Sometimes people get stupid greedy and buy inventory that they don't have a snowballs chance in hell of selling and they lose their asses. The parent companies usualy have strict rules about excess inventory, but few follow them. Most of the horror stories you hear invovles people who get stupid greedy and blame eveerybody else for it.
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world is quite deterministic in any large enough scale
Sensitive dependence on intial conditions will kill you here, and the best you can do with a digital computer is estimate. This means calculating a system with 80 bit of accuracy gives a different (often wildly given enough interations), than a 81 bits of accuracy one would. The Real world is often irrational as in pi or e. I'm amazed weather prediction works as well as it does.
The Japanese have a couple extra feet of intestine, that allows them to digest plant foods that I would slowly starve on; while I have an emzyme that alows me to digest dairy foods that they typicaly lack. Each trait has advantages in particular circumstances.
maybe source code would be a little much for something complex like a "hyperdrive" but for alot of software patents, what is actualy patented is a small precentage of what a finished product would be. If the patent was for a new gee-whiz graphics processor, and it's interface to the rest of the system was defined like say openGL then the software would be obvious. I think that any patent should be written in a style that is understandable to people "skilled in the arts" of what is being patented rather than patent attornies also. I'm looking for a patent from back in the 1930's, most that I've looked at are in the 3-5 pages in length (one page is figures), consise and readable, patents in the '50's are hitting 11 pages and only have a reasonaable amount of patent-ese fluff language, from the 90's and later it's OMG length and the signal-to-noise ratio is lucky to get up to 10%!
The prosspect for me is to wade through 50 K patents, stored on line as TIFF G4 images, so there is no text or catagory search.
So why might not the state invite the federal government in, in time to make a difference? At best it seems petty territorialism on the New Orleans Mayor and the Louisianna Governor's part, at worse it was a big land grab. Most of the property was destroyed and contaminated making it a easy target for condemation, a lot of it didn't even have flood insurance and our normal property insurance doesn't cover flood damage. The owners are also scattered to the winds and jobless, they'll problably never be able to pay their property taxes so the property will be auctioned off real cheap to developers who are probably croonies of the currupt politicians. In a lot of way Louisianna is a little bit of the 3rd world right here in America
Lighten up a scientists understands far better than you, that in order to prove the existance of or the non-existance of God he would have to prove it experimentaly. The experiment would entail a control group and an experimental group such that he'd need two universes, one where God existed, and an other where God didn't exist. If God existed, it would be impossible to have a universe with out him, and if God didn't exists it would be impossible to have a universe where he did. Therefore a scientist would have to conclude that proof is impossible and religion is outside the realm of science. Even Oscam's razor can be argued both ways.
Beliefs and proofs aren't exclusive to science and religion, finding beliefs disgiesed as proofs often puts a scientist in the history books.
It's rather myoptic for anyone to assume that the lable terrorist is only applied to radical islamic groups that engage in murder and mathem on innocent christians living in english speaking countries. I know the federal 3 letter agencies take a much broader definition. I haven't seen anything to convince me the the typical victim of radical islamic terrorist groups are more likely to be christian westerners rather than more moderate Muslems living peacefully in their own countries.
they are two skill sets for the most part, but there is common skills in there as well. Most farmers I've met keep a very large family garden in addition to their commercial farming. Irrigation is much older than you suspect, I'm thinking minimum 4000 BC and a lot of our agricultural technology is a logic continuation of technics developed by the Amnish farmers. Now the Amish and the Mennonite are the people I would bet on durring a social-economic collapse.
If memory serves me correctly one of the Leakys publish some musings in this area. It centered arround indications we had a fairly constant level of individuals with xenophobia and xenophillia in society. Both are necessary to cause genes to become dispersed into other tribal groups (xenophillia) or not unduely dillunted via xenophobia. Also promiscuity was seen as a survival trait in hunter/gatherer societies, tending twoard promiscuity because of the village format make child rearing a group activity and agrarian/industrial tending toward fidelity and family centric child rearing
Sometimes a social stucture has secondary gains not appearent to us, a strong theocratic society might tend toward achieving common goals that could out-weight the sacrificial lose of a few selected individuals.
When I took psycology several decades ago the definition of intellegence was "what IQ tests measure", the average IQ of a black American Male is 85, and Coco, a low-land gorrila taught to speech sign language scored 85 on the same test therfore I believe that an general IQ test doesn't really measure what people think it measures; and using a single test score for any purpose is invalid. In fact the definition of a general IQ test score of intelectual age / chronological age * 100 quickly becomes non-sensicaly as you move away for a score of 100. I'd be very surprised if genetics played any role greater than determining a range of possible scores.
Without SOX you would have problems of more problems of bad accounting reporting which would hurt the general market more.
But basicaly SOX make a company's executives personally liable for crimes that are committed by the coporations, that they would have been responsible for if the companies weren't corporations. I'm sure if a corporation had to purchase "accounting fraud" insurance privately, the terms of the policy would be a lot stricter than anything the SEC could dream up.
You would be surprised at how many Americans not only hate/distrust big government, but big business, big religion, anything that's too-big/powerful.
It's not the GPL clashing with SOX, it's when a company knowingly uses GPL code in their proprietary product, lies to the stockholders by saying they own the code i.e. list it as an asset on the balance sheet, and then refuses to release the source code as required by distributing software containing GPL'd code.
Would be like a bank robber worrying about an unpaid traffic ticket he got enroute to the bank robbery.
OPPS your right i said, "Conduct unbecoming" as in Article 133 and should have said "all conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces" as in article 134. There are lots of changes since I served, but that wasn't one of them.
I would also point out that "indecorum" is a pretty broad term.
you forgot his ex-wife is still known as Hanoi-Jane.
One thing I noticed about most of the sites on that list is they have forums; it only takes is one General to find out one of his Troops were engaged in a flame-fest with Civilians, to start locking things down. Conduct unbecoming is a violation of the UCMJ, and it's not unusual for an establishment where unbecoming conduct frequently occures to be place off limits.
Depends on the situation, during your first 180 days it's very easy to quit the US military. In fact I remember my Drill Instructor saying things like "You don't belong in MY MILLITARY, why don't you QUIT and go home to your MOMMA?" The discharge papers you'd get will probably make getting a good job difficult, as they'd be neutral rather than good. After that and until you've fullfilled your legal military obligation, quitting is primarily one-way, the military can quit you, but not vica-versa, but you can ask for a hardship discharge, and of course developing certain medical conditions will do the trick. After your initial contract (usualy someting like 4 year active duty, 4 years inactive reserve) is complete and your obligation is fullfilled you can quit, but I'm not sure what the discharge would be like. The National Guard decided to tranfer me to the retired reserves with 2 1/2 years remaining on my contract. That really pissed me off because I thought they were just screwing me out of some retirement money, but it turned out that the 20 years was legally defined as 19 years, six months and a day :)
Of course IANAL, and even most lawyers are clueless here; Laws and Regualtions change all the time so if anybody is looking for advice, it's go to the Chaplain and JAG Officer for it.
personaly I think they should have to supply a non-copyrighted prototype of any software drivers in source-code format, with their patent applications that involve software, that are complete enough to actualy opperate the device or method.
obviously moodle can't be any good for teachers, it's open source. The fact that it's lead developer has a PhD in Education, is irrelevent!
The biggest thing is it takes more physical labor to implement open source because it isn't pre-packaged,'
The problem is developers think all the software should be download-centric, so libararies that are linked to are assumed to be on the system already, or downloaded seperately prior to installation. If they just had a package that had the software and all of the dependencies, the install script could just test for the required dependencies and install from the disk any that are missing or inadequet.
For some of the other issue FTA I'm thinking wahha; if they were building a closed source server, the vendor would say "use this system period; third party software and upgrades are unsupported"; I'm pretty sure Oracle dictates what enviroments their database can be used in.
The simple fact is its basicaly paint with copper in it, it's probably not even conductive because the copper is inside clay particles. To do the same all you'd need is to get some paint and mix in some aluminum powder and or some graphite. Graphite is cool it suckes up microwaves like nobodies bussiness. get acouple cups of water, microwave one with a golf pencil over the rim and one without, you'll be amazes at the temperature difference in the two cups. I thought about painting my car with graphite pigmented paint and a nice Kandy apple blue over coat for some serious radar suppression. Even metalic wallpaper would work in a auditorium.
1. most theaters have a sign that says turn off cell phones and pagers
2. if communications are essential to you, you really need to make periodic commo checks, especialy when moving into a new enviroment
3. most things people think are emergencies are not
Trying to sue somebody because your inherently unreliable communications device failed to operate in an area where it's use is prohibited, might be a lot tougher than you think; you might even be counter-sued for tresspass.
Additionaly if your software contains routine you view as confidential, just leave them out and replace them with stubs. If I think my fancy security module is proprietarey, I can replace them with plain modules from the GPL community. How many packages are distributed with a file like conf-dist.php rather than the conf.php which contains proprietary data?
all you had to do is leave out the "and furture Versions" part, and specify that the license was GPL version 2. I'm doing the same with my code. maybe after the dust settles on the GPL version 3, I might dual license, version 2 and version 3, but likely not unless it's changed considerably. I find forcing license version change on end users, offensive.
I guess by that considered legal opinion it follows that if I compile my software with a microsoft compiler, the generated program belongs to Microsoft.
for the most part, I fail to see how this is different from any software; I suppose SCO could sue IBM into bankruptcy rendering their indemity program ineffective, but that could happen to anybody. The real question is how likely is it, a meteor could destroy all life on Earth before your exposed to that legal risk.
Yeah you can argue that, and you can also get bitch-slapped by the court for argueing that. Data is not copyrightable, you can concievable copyright the formatting of the data, but not the data; and a programs output is data.
The GPL actualy has a section that explain the licensor's intentions with the licence irregardless of what the lawyers may try to weazzle into or out of in the sifting sand of legal definitions. "The licenses for most software are designed to take away your freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom... " if that is a problem for the kiwi government, they have a bigger problem than software licenses.
here's how it works parent company sets up a sale plan'
25% profit +
if sales is over $300, 3% bonus
if sales is over $900, 6% bonus
if sales is over $1200, 9% bonus
first guy sells $301, he makes $84.28; then he gets 3 other to do the same, they each get $84.28 from the first guy just like they would from the parent company, but first guy now gets $1204 in sales so he get $409.36 and pays out 253.84 leaving an extra $337.12.
As long as the dealers follow the rules, nobody gets hurt, a few make a big chunk of change; but normaly what happens is people get greedy, do tons of recruiting and nobody bothers to sell product and nobody makes any money. Sometimes people get stupid greedy and buy inventory that they don't have a snowballs chance in hell of selling and they lose their asses. The parent companies usualy have strict rules about excess inventory, but few follow them. Most of the horror stories you hear invovles people who get stupid greedy and blame eveerybody else for it.