I went to the opensource database conference a few years back. I must say that even then the Firebird DB people came off as being very immature, and this behavior really doesn't surprise me.
Actually there's more than one web. There's the WWW (World Wide Web), but there are also private webs (think intranets).
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Keep in mind that not all of the product in this case falls under the GPL. Portions are commercial software under seperate copyright terms, and as such they only need to provide access to the source to those components that are GPL/LGPL, and nothing else, resulting in quite possibly a broken, useless distro.
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Yes, but this fee is limited to the physical cost. You could not charge for marketing, etc. You would only be able to charge for the media, the salary of the person(s) copying to the media, overhead related to the copying, and probably shipping. They couldn't, for example, force you to pay for an extra manual or box, or add on any additional $$ for profit.
If it takes $3.00 to produce the cd with the source code, all things considered, then that's what they would have to charge for it.
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You are incorrect. Look at 3b of the GPL. You can provide a written offer to provide a copy of the source code on a suitable distribution media (and the offer must be good for a minimum of 3 years) for the cost of physically providing the copy.
This is how GNU got $$ initially. RMS sold tapes with the source code to Emacs and other GNU software.
You've obviously never bothered to listen to any of Rollin's spoken word or read his books. There is a very keen intellect at work there, one that certainly recognizes that the pen (or the voice) is mightier than the sword (or the fist), but that there is a time and place for both.
Just because someone is physically fit or physically (and in Rollin's case psychologically, the guy can be very intense!) imposing doesn't mean that the person is a nerd beating brain-dead jock zombie.
I don't like the digital camera idea personally, unless you get a good small tripod and a macro lens, and have some good photography experience.
For a decent semi-portable scanner I'd say one of the canoscan N series. They use an array of LED's instead of an incandescent bulb and are USB powered. They're very thin and light, and could be put in a briefcase or backpack/laptop bag. I've even dropped mine a few times (with the lock on fortunately), and it's still ticking away just fine.
The higher end N series scanners from Canon have OSX drivers direct from Canon, the lower end ones will be supported eventually, but for now you can use VueScan.
This actually reminds me of the "seperate is not equal" supreme court ruling that integrated schools (Brown v. Board of Ed. if my memory serves). How can content that is different be equal, if schools that are differnt are not equal?
Note, I'm all for accessibility wherever possible, why anyone would want to exclude people who might want to pay them money, especially when it's not that difficult to avoid, is beyond me. I'm also all for non-segregated schools. I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
Damn straight. I've got larger than average hands, and the xbox controller is my favorite of the bunch. The old, non-dual shock psx controllers stunk, but the dual shock is ok.
I must say though, that nintendo's wavebird also kicks some serious butt. I played Sunshine last night for about 3 hours. The only caveat is they should have used 900Mhz instead of 2.4Ghz, ah well.;) Who needs to use their wireless lan while they're playing 'tendo!;)
unix-style cut and paste would be a nice option. I've been forced into a "standardized" ssh client for win32 at work... man I miss putty.
The MacOSX gui may be pretty, and fairly functional, however it's missing 1 *great* thing X11 has in it's favor - network transparency. It comes builtin, native, with X11. You have to use VNC or a commercial remote desktop soultion to come anywhere close (and those only do the whole desktop, not just individual applications!)
ie does reside in memory. At least most of it does, as it's part of the operating system. (open up the task manager after a clean boot if you don't believe me... - it's there.) The file manager in win98+ is basically ie.
The "dirty little hack" (which has never caused a problem for me) as you put it, is the only way that mozilla can even begin compete against a browser as closely tied to the operating system as ie is, seeing how the OS is closed (making it difficult if not impossible to replace the ie components with gecko bits)
I read the press release. It sounds all nice an hunky dory, but when you to the website, what do you find? 4.0.3 is a beta product. The Max 3.23 release does support InnoDB, but it has for quite awhile.
The big news is really that 4.0.3 is actually beta, not an alpha.
Unfortunately the Max compiles were listed for a long time as unstable on MySQL's website, causing many companies to ignore it.
When a 4.x stable branch is out, and 3.x is obsoleted, then I'll be a happy camper. 4.x adds improved fulltext indexes, UNION, MERGE tables, REVOKE and enhanced user limitations, multi-table deletes, enhanced replication, dynamic server variables (no more restarting the server to make my.cnf changes take effect), not to mention the InnoDB integration which adds transactions, row level locking, and foreign keys.
IBM and MS can spew whatever sort of FUD they want to about MySQL. I say use the tools you like and that get the job done. Would I run a multi-million dollar data center with terabyte plus databases on MySQL? No (postgres maybe though). But a very select heavy website, with fairly small tables? Sure thing!
MySQL is blindingly fast for most small applications, as well as being fairly easy to install and administer.
It doesn't matter if you correct them or not. You would have to send them to a re-education camp and put them through some massive clockwork orange style classical conditioning for them to be able to tell the difference. People are dumb.
The problem is the general populace doesn't know enough to make a distinction between hacker and cracker. They hear one news report that says hacker == bad, and it has a negative connotation forever with these people.
There's also the problem of the use of cracker as a racial slur in the south.
Right. If you don't like the contract (all ip rights remaining with the photographer in this case), negotiate the contract, find another photographer, or another solution. (It would have to be as work-for-hire for me.)
It's pretty sad though, a friend of mine was going to get married not to long ago (long story), and couldn't find a single professional (or semi-pro) photographer in the area who was willing to negotiate on the copryright ownership.
That said, I think these contracts should be written to be easily understandable for non-lawyers. If it's more than 1 page of 12pt. double spaced text, it's too freakin' long and complex. I'd hate to think I'd have to hire a lawyer to be able to hire a photographer.
I like the idea of the wedding photograph robot that was posted in the past week or two.:)
This is like saying the source code from programs isn't the "code", it's the computer, operating system, text editor, and well as the skill of the programmer.
In this case the negative or the original digital image is the source code.
Photography in and of itself isn't that difficult - it's all math. However, applying that math in a way that produces enjoyable results... that's art. Same as writing code. Not all that difficult, but to do it well...
The really not funny thing is... fat people are not a minority. They're actually the majority in the US, with over 1/2 of the population being overwieght, and a good sized (no pun intended) amount being obese.
The phone number given is for a woman named Bonnie Hammer. Unfortunately her voicemailbox is full. Does anyone have the number of anyone it would be appropriate to call?
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I live in Virginia, and call it home.
Don't forget, it is the South, so you better believe there will be a huge guy in your cell named "Bubba" who wants to make you "squeal like a pig".
I went to the opensource database conference a few years back. I must say that even then the Firebird DB people came off as being very immature, and this behavior really doesn't surprise me.
The cool hackableness is pretty much gone with a TiVo Series 2 anyway.
Bill Shatner? Are... You... Serious....?
I think someone needs to read that interview again.
Correction: Guns don't kill people, f=ma kills people. :)
Actually there's more than one web. There's the WWW (World Wide Web), but there are also private webs (think intranets).
Keep in mind that not all of the product in this case falls under the GPL. Portions are commercial software under seperate copyright terms, and as such they only need to provide access to the source to those components that are GPL/LGPL, and nothing else, resulting in quite possibly a broken, useless distro.
Yes, but this fee is limited to the physical cost. You could not charge for marketing, etc. You would only be able to charge for the media, the salary of the person(s) copying to the media,
overhead related to the copying, and probably shipping. They couldn't, for example, force you to pay for an extra manual or box, or add on any additional $$ for profit.
If it takes $3.00 to produce the cd with the source code, all things considered, then that's what they would have to charge for it.
You are incorrect. Look at 3b of the GPL. You can provide a written offer to provide a copy of the source code on a suitable distribution media (and the offer must be good for a minimum of 3 years) for the cost of physically providing the copy.
This is how GNU got $$ initially. RMS sold tapes with the source code to Emacs and other GNU software.
You've obviously never bothered to listen to any of Rollin's spoken word or read his books. There is a very keen intellect at work there, one that certainly recognizes that the pen (or the voice) is mightier than the sword (or the fist), but that there is a time and place for both.
Just because someone is physically fit or physically (and in Rollin's case psychologically, the guy can be very intense!) imposing doesn't mean that the person is a nerd beating brain-dead jock zombie.
I don't like the digital camera idea personally, unless you get a good small tripod and a macro lens, and have some good photography experience.
For a decent semi-portable scanner I'd say one of the canoscan N series. They use an array of LED's instead of an incandescent bulb and are USB powered. They're very thin and light, and could be put in a briefcase or backpack/laptop bag. I've even dropped mine a few times (with the lock on fortunately), and it's still ticking away just fine.
The higher end N series scanners from Canon have OSX drivers direct from Canon, the lower end ones will be supported eventually, but for now you can use VueScan.
This actually reminds me of the "seperate is not equal" supreme court ruling that integrated schools (Brown v. Board of Ed. if my memory serves). How can content that is different be equal, if schools that are differnt are not equal?
Note, I'm all for accessibility wherever possible, why anyone would want to exclude people who might want to pay them money, especially when it's not that difficult to avoid, is beyond me. I'm also all for non-segregated schools. I'm just playing devil's advocate here.
Damn straight. I've got larger than average hands, and the xbox controller is my favorite of the bunch. The old, non-dual shock psx controllers stunk, but the dual shock is ok.
;) Who needs to use their wireless lan while they're playing 'tendo! ;)
I must say though, that nintendo's wavebird also kicks some serious butt. I played Sunshine last night for about 3 hours. The only caveat is they should have used 900Mhz instead of 2.4Ghz, ah well.
unix-style cut and paste would be a nice option. I've been forced into a "standardized" ssh client for win32 at work... man I miss putty.
The MacOSX gui may be pretty, and fairly functional, however it's missing 1 *great* thing X11 has in it's favor - network transparency. It comes builtin, native, with X11. You have to use VNC or a commercial remote desktop soultion to come anywhere close (and those only do the whole desktop, not just individual applications!)
Multiline prompts are the way to go, eg:
"\n[\w]\n\u@\h> "
ie does reside in memory. At least most of it does, as it's part of the operating system. (open up the task manager after a clean boot if you don't believe me... - it's there.) The file manager in win98+ is basically ie.
The "dirty little hack" (which has never caused a problem for me) as you put it, is the only way that mozilla can even begin compete against a browser as closely tied to the operating system as ie is, seeing how the OS is closed (making it difficult if not impossible to replace the ie components with gecko bits)
I read the press release. It sounds all nice an hunky dory, but when you to the website, what do you find? 4.0.3 is a beta product. The Max 3.23 release does support InnoDB, but it has for quite awhile.
The big news is really that 4.0.3 is actually beta, not an alpha.
Unfortunately the Max compiles were listed for a long time as unstable on MySQL's website, causing many companies to ignore it.
When a 4.x stable branch is out, and 3.x is obsoleted, then I'll be a happy camper. 4.x adds improved fulltext indexes, UNION, MERGE tables, REVOKE and enhanced user limitations, multi-table deletes, enhanced replication, dynamic server variables (no more restarting the server to make my.cnf changes take effect), not to mention the InnoDB integration which adds transactions, row level locking, and foreign keys.
IBM and MS can spew whatever sort of FUD they want to about MySQL. I say use the tools you like and that get the job done. Would I run a multi-million dollar data center with terabyte plus databases on MySQL? No (postgres maybe though). But a very select heavy website, with fairly small tables? Sure thing!
MySQL is blindingly fast for most small applications, as well as being fairly easy to install and administer.
It doesn't matter if you correct them or not. You would have to send them to a re-education camp and put them through some massive clockwork orange style classical conditioning for them to be able to tell the difference. People are dumb.
The problem is the general populace doesn't know enough to make a distinction between hacker and cracker. They hear one news report that says hacker == bad, and it has a negative connotation forever with these people.
There's also the problem of the use of cracker as a racial slur in the south.
Yes, that's a fairly obvious solution. And the cool thing is you could have that system go down or get blown up once in awhile. ;)
Seriously, using 3-d audio data for some positioning stuff when flying makes a lot of sense, be it in space or otherwise, especially at high speed.
Use those senses.
Just how many times can 1 character die and then be brought back to life?
Right. If you don't like the contract (all ip rights remaining with the photographer in this case), negotiate the contract, find another photographer, or another solution. (It would have to be as work-for-hire for me.)
:)
It's pretty sad though, a friend of mine was going to get married not to long ago (long story), and couldn't find a single professional (or semi-pro) photographer in the area who was willing to negotiate on the copryright ownership.
That said, I think these contracts should be written to be easily understandable for non-lawyers. If it's more than 1 page of 12pt. double spaced text, it's too freakin' long and complex. I'd hate to think I'd have to hire a lawyer to be able to hire a photographer.
I like the idea of the wedding photograph robot that was posted in the past week or two.
This is like saying the source code from programs isn't the "code", it's the computer, operating system, text editor, and well as the skill of the programmer.
In this case the negative or the original digital image is the source code.
Photography in and of itself isn't that difficult - it's all math. However, applying that math in a way that produces enjoyable results... that's art. Same as writing code. Not all that difficult, but to do it well...
The really not funny thing is... fat people are not a minority. They're actually the majority in the US, with over 1/2 of the population being overwieght, and a good sized (no pun intended) amount being obese.
The phone number given is for a woman named Bonnie Hammer. Unfortunately her voicemailbox is full. Does anyone have the number of anyone it would be appropriate to call?