Ok..I see a troll moderation in my future but please read this all the way before hitting apply.
If you actually read the article you would indeed see that one of the hurdles is getting the car approved to US standards including emission standards. Perhaps the leftist media in Europe spews gargbage that says that we are all cowboys driving drag racers over here but that is not (entirely) true.
The US has emissions and safty standards. In some cases stricter, in other cases more relaxed.
From the article itself:
Two years later, he's learned that it's not easy getting a foreign car modified for approval by U.S. agencies. But with the help of a G&K Automotive Conversion, a California company, he's finally gotten approval from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and is awaiting emission results from the Environmental Protection Agency.
And a little further down
Some 200 are in a California warehouse, he adds, ready to ship once the federal green light is given. Ironically, California won't be one of the first states to see the cars, since its car certification process is even more stringent than U.S. standards.
Furthermore, in a different http://www.newsletters.newsweek.msnbc.com/id/60919 13/ article (Yipes, now I know I am asking for too much, we can't even get people to read the original story) you can read how California has the "the world's most stringent rules to reduce auto emissions that contribute to global warming".
So what is wrong with the rest of the world..Come on. Catch up....frown..grimice..concern..
You would not believe the number of people who think that a 2 party system is somehow a result of the constitution. The major media is certainly partially to blame for the "two party system" that we have in the US. They rarely mention third party candidates and when they do it is almost always Nader even though Nader really really can not win (even if we all woke up tomorrow and decided to vote for what we wanted, Nader is not on enough ballots ot have a chance).
The libertarian candidate IS on enough ballots and generally has been either at the 50 state level or very close to it for almost 20 years... But you rarely will here major media mention the libertarian candidate.
I just checked mine and I can't find the article on the right to board a commercial airliner without proving you are who you say you are.
The constitution was meant to give specific limited rights to the government. Everything not listed was intended to be a right of the citizens. There was actually an argument agaist doing the bill of rights because it was feared that people would eventually believe that if it were not listed then it was not a right.
One can make reasoned arguments about the restrictions associated with airtravel and many other elements of our lives in the public but please don't spread the "FUD" that if it is not listed in the constitution than we do not have a right to it!
I think I have all the above stories beat. I installed Windows XP on my machine and yet it still occasionally functions. Sure the USB ports randomly stop working and viruses continue to plague my e-mail but it still generally works from time to time.:)
I'd buy something like this but I can't have a camera phone at work. I can't have one at the Gym. Might not be able to have one on the subway soon.
Add to that the fact that idiots with camera phones are 2x more annoying then people with phones in general and bamm..You have a product I won't buy.
Of couse it is just a matter of time before the camera/phone PDA makers claim sales are down because people are downloading phones for free over the internet. jcree
Sure Integrity is certified but it has very limited capability. If I were doing something that required DO178B level A certification, I would consider it and I would likely not consider Linux (yet). I would consider other vendors (Windriver pops into mind) as well as going OS'less and using a smaller microkernel approach.
However, very very little Defense software requires DO-178B level ANYTHING certification.
This certification does not mean that there are not bugs in the software. Based on some limited experience I would say it does not even imply that the compiler and OS that Greenhills provides actuall even works together.
In the end, selecting an environment for any system has little to do with a closed v.s. open source issue and more to do with selecting the tool fits the job. However, the portion of the trade space that deals with open v.s. closed would certainly tip in favor of Open since I have almost no hope of reviewing or discovering holes in a closed system.
according to the GPL...I thought they only had to provide source to paying customers at their request. No one ever said they had to offer it up for free...
You are somewhat close but if you don't know what you are taling about and are not willing to READ the GPL, stop posting "I thoughts".
They can EITHER
1) Provide the source with the binaries to everyone they give the binary to ("customers") and not place restrictions on who they give it to.
or
2) They can provide a written offer to those that they give the binary to to get access to the source for a "reasonable" copying fee. This is where the third party stuff starts coming in because now third parties can use this written offer to request and get the source from the vendor
The relevant section of the GPL says
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do
one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
I am asking same question again - why Linux world need to copy everything from Windows world? Do not integrate, do not unify, be free.
Thats an easy one to answer. We could cut to the chase and just copy everything directly from the Mac, but it is easier to let Windows copy it from the Mac first to work out the portability kinks... Then we can copy it and do it right the third time in Linux:)
Microsoft CTO indicates that no one has ever gotten a strain of the flu until after the vacine was created. In fact, he can only think of one case where someone got the flu before the vacine was created.
If we're going back to the moon and need a heavy launch rocket I wouldn't be suprised if they reverse engineer some stuff from the Saturn V down there (since supposedly the plans have all been lost to time).
Sorry...The plans are not lost. They never were lost. That is a myth .
You are not seeing the curvature of the planet. You are seeing an effect of the wide angle lense that causes the picture to have a fish-eye like distortion.
Ok,
Somehow the flamebait/troll parent got mod'd as interesting.
In that vein, I felt the need to respond.
Oh thank god for the EU overlords who are "looking out for you" by forcing what should be market based decisions down your throat.
This certainly has the impact of preventing hundreds if not thousands of people from ending up with DVD players that eventually break in a year. Of course part of the way it accomplishes this is by preventing a large number of these people from getting the DVD player at all.
There are plenty of people who can not affort the $120 player that is obsolete every 2 years (can't play recordable media, can connect to new digital TV, etc) and so are quite happy to have access to players in the $30-$40 range.
The real truth of the matter is that what is likely happening is that people in the EU get to buy the same crap players as we do in the US but instead of paying $30 for a 90 day warrenty they get to may $100 for a 2 year warrenty. They can of course to that here too by optionally BUYING and extended warrenty. Of course I would not recommend wasting money on a warrenty like that but you have already had your EU overlords make that decision for you. I suspect that the retailers actually love that rule. Gives them an excuse to include the warrenty for free and make a healthy profit.
Actually, the original poster was half right and you are half wrong.
On some platforms (Windows only I believe) QT is no longer being released under the GPL.
Granted the slashdot posting on this was a few days ago and it did have somewhat of a sensationalized title
Trolltech Discontinue Non-Commercial Qt but it is still essentially correct.
Note that the parent thread that started this was indicating that they thought the toolkit needed to be integrated into the server (which is what started a minor Qt/KDE/Gtk/GNOME war in the parent).. If we ignore the flames and humor for a bit though I think there is something to the discussion.
For years I saw some people programing directly in xlib since it was "the most standard".. Most of the Apps were pretty horrible and helped to contribute to X's bad name. A lot of widget sets popped up and died. Motif had a brief stint as a big standard. Now we have KDE/Gnome. I do like the choices but the churn between toolkits that were never intended to be API compatible certainly has been painful.
So, whether this new X server replacement is the one that gains traction or it is standard X that continues to dominate I think that standardization on one or two toolkit APIs that remain (even mostly) backwards API compatible for several years is very important
I dunno..I might wait and see...sheez enough
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I am not sure about this whole deterministic computer thing. I mean, I keep hearing a lot about this new quantum computer thing. I am going to keep using paper and pencil until this quantum v.s. deterministic silicon thing plays out... This is just like VHS v.s. Beta.
Oh wait..Not sure about the pencil. I hear the pen might win. I think I'll wait on that too.
P.S. - Someone please make a slashdot filter that prevents any post that says VHS and Beta from showing up anywhere at any level. The comparison almost never really applies (and in fact it does not really even apply to VHS and Beta the way people think it does).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,1 2449,881780,00.html
Exactly. I also like how we pretend that "we never had blackouts before deregulation"..
Hmm...SO the big blackouts in the USin 65, 77, etc what were those caused by. If we started to see a major multi day black out a year we might have to look at the "why why why" question...
Remember correlation is NOT causation. In this case, I have yet to see any evidence that we even have true correlation!
Perhaps the blackouts are caused by by sister being born..I man afterall the blackouts started in 65 just like her. Ever since we was born we seem to be plagued by blackouts (65, 77, 03)...This correlates better than deregulation and blackouts...
Just get even with the spammers by "helping" them to spread their message. Post a link to the
site of spammers on a site like slashdot and make the cost of $0.00000000001 per spam message spike as their servers melt and their ISPs freak out due to the bandwidth requirements.
Thats what I did:)
Now that we have "taken out" the telemarketers via the slashdot effect I have often thought
we should have a link on the main page for
the fraud/spammer of the day that we can click to
let them know we do not approve of their methods.
For example, I have been getting hundreds of "bounced" emails to my domain from this site's advancedprescription.info attempt to spam people and forge my domains return address.
Their ISP says they have "warned them" to stop but the ISP is not shutting down the domain... Can we?
Gee..What we need is a language that has been around for a long time. Is ISO standardized. Supports OO. Has the power to do low level programming when required. It would actually have to be fast and efficient . It would also be good if it had run time checks on things like buffer overflows but also made them less likely by the structure of the language itself (e.g. Doing pass and array and a separate array size but have the language know about the size of the array to start with).
It would be good if this language already had a free implementation. It would have to work under Windows, Linux, most other Unixs and a lot of embedded targets.
It would have to have the option of easily letting the user suppress the run-time checks if required but have them basically on by default. Hopefully we could do something in the language that would at least help reduce bugs.
But we have to be realistic too. We probably won't be getting rid of Windows any time soon so this made up language would also need to be able to interface easily to things like COM/DCOM for windows.
It should also support things like Gtk+ and GNOME out of the box.
Hmm...Sounds Like Ada. Oh but wait..It does not use ugly C syntax so programmers will never use it...Not to mention that problem with the military being involved at the beginning (but lets just overlook that for the whole internet thing)...
In the US, there are anti-trust laws that say that you can not (under specific rules) force people to buy one less desireable product in order to get a more "desireable" product. It is called bundling and in some cases it is a violation of anti-trust law.
This is one of the area's that Microsoft was getting in trouble for with bundling the browser with the OS since in order to get the "desireable" product (cough...windows) you HAD to buy (bundled) the Browser.
So, apparently the artists are in favor of Big Money/Anti-competative/Corporate rip-offs...As long as it is in the name of art.
You know, I think strip mining is an important artistic commentary on our world today..I think I will try to bring it back in the name of Art.
At least Madonna and Alanis Morissette will be on my side.
It is not sensationalism at all! From a legal standpoint there is NO difference between downloading a copyrighted song without permission and using software in violation of the software license agreement (since if you do not comply with the terms of the license, you ARE violating the copyright holders rights).
Seems pretty clear cut. Seems like if I was the author/copyright holder of the software I would be well withinmy rights to destroy his computer.
And on your second point, I do indeed register all the shareware that I keep. Have I ever made a mistake and not deleted something before the date? Probably. But if I launch it and it is expired I will uninstall it or register it. Again, I am not perfect but I do make an effort.
Just because you (and many others) like to steal/and or violate copyrights does not mean everyone does.
Not everyone who writes/uses GPL software or thinks that there should be more services like apples itunes service are interested in violating copyrights.
Not everyone who things congress went too far when they started down the path of "perpetual" copyright with recent laws thinks stealing is ok.
As for your final request to direct you to all shareware registered in under 30 days.
Hmm, I own valid licenses for
winzip getright numerous video/image editing apps/plugins Nero Easy Video Joiner.
There are many others. Including 5-10 palm OS applications.
Shareware is usually pretty cheap. If you are using it, REGISTER IT.
We all know Redhat is Linux. Or more correctly of course GNU/Linux.
GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix.
Therefore Redhat is not Unix... This is all really simple.
In a related story, Manager Buzzword journal reports this month that the fragmentation in the Windows market spells the end of Windows. "Developers need to write their apps with Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP and not.NET in mind". "This is all too confusing."
Hmm..A big part of my brain is screaming Troll alert but on the off chance that you were serious, I thought I should reply.
Adding an alternator would be of no help whatsoever in keeping the batteries charged. They would actually cause the batteries to drain faster because the energy the alernators put out would never be equal to or greater than the energy drain the consumed from the batteries (via the motors).
As for "making up the difference via solar...." Not any time soon....And also not ever on earth moving a vehicle of that weight/drag at 100 MPH. Even if we could make solar cells that convert the entire spectrum of solar energy that reaches the surface of the earth at 99% efficiency there would still not be enough power available to keep the batteries charged. In reality, peak conversion efficiency on these things is actually somewhere around 20-25% right now.
Hmm..It is probably a troll to respond to a troll but if the first troll is mod'd up to a 2 I think it is fair.
Yes..Clearly the goverment and the rest of us are entitled to deprive these people of thier property through the use of force. I suppose the goverment should (at gunpoint) take 33% of all GPL source code away from us. It seems only fair. A line of code tax...Don't let the Dem's (or replublicans for that matter) get wind of it...
Slashdot Mirror
You would not believe the number of people who think that a 2 party system is somehow a result of the constitution. The major media is certainly partially to blame for the "two party system" that we have in the US. They rarely mention third party candidates and when they do it is almost always Nader even though Nader really really can not win (even if we all woke up tomorrow and decided to vote for what we wanted, Nader is not on enough ballots ot have a chance). The libertarian candidate IS on enough ballots and generally has been either at the 50 state level or very close to it for almost 20 years... But you rarely will here major media mention the libertarian candidate.
The constitution was meant to give specific limited rights to the government. Everything not listed was intended to be a right of the citizens. There was actually an argument agaist doing the bill of rights because it was feared that people would eventually believe that if it were not listed then it was not a right.
This is not the intent of the constitution!
This is an interesting read about this argument.
One can make reasoned arguments about the restrictions associated with airtravel and many other elements of our lives in the public but please don't spread the "FUD" that if it is not listed in the constitution than we do not have a right to it!
I think I have all the above stories beat. I installed Windows XP on my machine and yet it still occasionally functions. Sure the USB ports randomly stop working and viruses continue to plague my e-mail but it still generally works from time to time. :)
I'd buy something like this but I can't have a camera phone at work. I can't have one at the Gym. Might not be able to have one on the subway soon.
Add to that the fact that idiots with camera phones are 2x more annoying then people with phones in general and bamm..You have a product I won't buy.
Of couse it is just a matter of time before the camera/phone PDA makers claim sales are down because people are downloading phones for free over the internet.
jcree
However, very very little Defense software requires DO-178B level ANYTHING certification.
This certification does not mean that there are not bugs in the software. Based on some limited experience I would say it does not even imply that the compiler and OS that Greenhills provides actuall even works together.
In the end, selecting an environment for any system has little to do with a closed v.s. open source issue and more to do with selecting the tool fits the job. However, the portion of the trade space that deals with open v.s. closed would certainly tip in favor of Open since I have almost no hope of reviewing or discovering holes in a closed system.
You are somewhat close but if you don't know what you are taling about and are not willing to READ the GPL, stop posting "I thoughts". They can EITHER
1) Provide the source with the binaries to everyone they give the binary to ("customers") and not place restrictions on who they give it to.
or
2) They can provide a written offer to those that they give the binary to to get access to the source for a "reasonable" copying fee. This is where the third party stuff starts coming in because now third parties can use this written offer to request and get the source from the vendor
The relevant section of the GPL says
Thats an easy one to answer. We could cut to the chase and just copy everything directly from the Mac, but it is easier to let Windows copy it from the Mac first to work out the portability kinks... Then we can copy it and do it right the third time in Linux :)
Microsoft CTO indicates that no one has ever gotten a strain of the flu until after the vacine was created. In fact, he can only think of one case where someone got the flu before the vacine was created.
Sorry...The plans are not lost. They never were lost. That is a myth .
You are not seeing the curvature of the planet. You are seeing an effect of the wide angle lense that causes the picture to have a fish-eye like distortion.
This certainly has the impact of preventing hundreds if not thousands of people from ending up with DVD players that eventually break in a year. Of course part of the way it accomplishes this is by preventing a large number of these people from getting the DVD player at all.
There are plenty of people who can not affort the $120 player that is obsolete every 2 years (can't play recordable media, can connect to new digital TV, etc) and so are quite happy to have access to players in the $30-$40 range.
The real truth of the matter is that what is likely happening is that people in the EU get to buy the same crap players as we do in the US but instead of paying $30 for a 90 day warrenty they get to may $100 for a 2 year warrenty. They can of course to that here too by optionally BUYING and extended warrenty. Of course I would not recommend wasting money on a warrenty like that but you have already had your EU overlords make that decision for you. I suspect that the retailers actually love that rule. Gives them an excuse to include the warrenty for free and make a healthy profit.
Actually, the original poster was half right and you are half wrong. On some platforms (Windows only I believe) QT is no longer being released under the GPL. Granted the slashdot posting on this was a few days ago and it did have somewhat of a sensationalized title Trolltech Discontinue Non-Commercial Qt but it is still essentially correct. Note that the parent thread that started this was indicating that they thought the toolkit needed to be integrated into the server (which is what started a minor Qt/KDE/Gtk/GNOME war in the parent).. If we ignore the flames and humor for a bit though I think there is something to the discussion. For years I saw some people programing directly in xlib since it was "the most standard".. Most of the Apps were pretty horrible and helped to contribute to X's bad name. A lot of widget sets popped up and died. Motif had a brief stint as a big standard. Now we have KDE/Gnome. I do like the choices but the churn between toolkits that were never intended to be API compatible certainly has been painful. So, whether this new X server replacement is the one that gains traction or it is standard X that continues to dominate I think that standardization on one or two toolkit APIs that remain (even mostly) backwards API compatible for several years is very important
I am not sure about this whole deterministic computer thing. I mean, I keep hearing a lot about this new quantum computer thing. I am going to keep using paper and pencil until this quantum v.s. deterministic silicon thing plays out... This is just like VHS v.s. Beta. Oh wait..Not sure about the pencil. I hear the pen might win. I think I'll wait on that too. P.S. - Someone please make a slashdot filter that prevents any post that says VHS and Beta from showing up anywhere at any level. The comparison almost never really applies (and in fact it does not really even apply to VHS and Beta the way people think it does). http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/story/0,1 2449,881780,00.html
Hmm...SO the big blackouts in the USin 65, 77, etc what were those caused by. If we started to see a major multi day black out a year we might have to look at the "why why why" question...
Remember correlation is NOT causation. In this case, I have yet to see any evidence that we even have true correlation!
Perhaps the blackouts are caused by by sister being born..I man afterall the blackouts started in 65 just like her. Ever since we was born we seem to be plagued by blackouts (65, 77, 03)...This correlates better than deregulation and blackouts...
Just get even with the spammers by "helping" them to spread their message. Post a link to the site of spammers on a site like slashdot and make the cost of $0.00000000001 per spam message spike as their servers melt and their ISPs freak out due to the bandwidth requirements. Thats what I did :)
Now that we have "taken out" the telemarketers via the slashdot effect I have often thought we should have a link on the main page for the fraud/spammer of the day that we can click to let them know we do not approve of their methods. For example, I have been getting hundreds of "bounced" emails to my domain from this site's advancedprescription.info attempt to spam people and forge my domains return address. Their ISP says they have "warned them" to stop but the ISP is not shutting down the domain... Can we?
Gee..What we need is a language that has been around for a long time. Is ISO standardized. Supports OO. Has the power to do low level programming when required. It would actually have to be fast and efficient . It would also be good if it had run time checks on things like buffer overflows but also made them less likely by the structure of the language itself (e.g. Doing pass and array and a separate array size but have the language know about the size of the array to start with). It would be good if this language already had a free implementation. It would have to work under Windows, Linux, most other Unixs and a lot of embedded targets. It would have to have the option of easily letting the user suppress the run-time checks if required but have them basically on by default. Hopefully we could do something in the language that would at least help reduce bugs. But we have to be realistic too. We probably won't be getting rid of Windows any time soon so this made up language would also need to be able to interface easily to things like COM/DCOM for windows. It should also support things like Gtk+ and GNOME out of the box. Hmm...Sounds Like Ada. Oh but wait..It does not use ugly C syntax so programmers will never use it...Not to mention that problem with the military being involved at the beginning (but lets just overlook that for the whole internet thing)...
In the US, there are anti-trust laws that say that you can not (under specific rules) force people to buy one less desireable product in order to get a more "desireable" product. It is called bundling and in some cases it is a violation of anti-trust law.
This is one of the area's that Microsoft was getting in trouble for with bundling the browser with the OS since in order to get the "desireable" product (cough...windows) you HAD to buy (bundled) the Browser.
So, apparently the artists are in favor of Big Money/Anti-competative/Corporate rip-offs...As long as it is in the name of art.
You know, I think strip mining is an important artistic commentary on our world today..I think I will try to bring it back in the name of Art.
At least Madonna and Alanis Morissette will be on my side.
It is not sensationalism at all! From a legal standpoint there is NO difference between downloading a copyrighted song without permission and using software in violation of the software license agreement (since if you do not comply with the terms of the license, you ARE violating the copyright holders rights).
Seems pretty clear cut. Seems like if I was the author/copyright holder of the software I would be well withinmy rights to destroy his computer.
And on your second point, I do indeed register all the shareware that I keep. Have I ever made a mistake and not deleted something before the date? Probably. But if I launch it and it is expired I will uninstall it or register it. Again, I am not perfect but I do make an effort.
Just because you (and many others) like to steal/and or violate copyrights does not mean everyone does.
Not everyone who writes/uses GPL software or thinks that there should be more services like apples itunes service are interested in violating copyrights.
Not everyone who things congress went too far when they started down the path of "perpetual" copyright with recent laws thinks stealing is ok.
As for your final request to direct you to all shareware registered in under 30 days.
Hmm, I own valid licenses for
winzip
getright
numerous video/image editing apps/plugins
Nero
Easy Video Joiner.
There are many others. Including 5-10 palm OS applications.
Shareware is usually pretty cheap. If you are using it, REGISTER IT.
Sorry. You will have to trust those of us for which English IS our first language (even if we can't spell or use proper grammer :)
....."
Probably a better headline which would have prevented the confusion would be:
"UK government has been warned
But, trust me. The headline is NOT intended to imply that the UK government themselves made a warning in the past.
Redhat is not Unix.
.NET in mind". "This is all too confusing."
We all know Redhat is Linux. Or more correctly of course GNU/Linux.
GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix.
Therefore Redhat is not Unix... This is all really simple.
In a related story, Manager Buzzword journal reports this month that the fragmentation in the Windows market spells the end of Windows. "Developers need to write their apps with Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP and not
According to this link April PC sales were down 22.5 percent from last year . Are we to believe that everyone is downloading new computers? Hello the US is in a recession.
Hmm..A big part of my brain is screaming Troll alert but on the off chance that you were serious, I thought I should reply.
Adding an alternator would be of no help whatsoever in keeping the batteries charged. They would actually cause the batteries to drain faster because the energy the alernators put out would never be equal to or greater than the energy drain the consumed from the batteries (via the motors).
As for "making up the difference via solar...." Not any time soon....And also not ever on earth moving a vehicle of that weight/drag at 100 MPH. Even if we could make solar cells that convert the entire spectrum of solar energy that reaches the surface of the earth at 99% efficiency there would still not be enough power available to keep the batteries charged. In reality, peak conversion efficiency on these things is actually somewhere around 20-25% right now.
Hmm..It is probably a troll to respond to a troll but if the first troll is mod'd up to a 2 I think it is fair.
Yes..Clearly the goverment and the rest of us are entitled to deprive these people of thier property through the use of force. I suppose the goverment should (at gunpoint) take 33% of all GPL source code away from us. It seems only fair. A line of code tax...Don't let the Dem's (or replublicans for that matter) get wind of it...