If you're not a professional, you should keep it simple, stupid. K.I.S.S. - learn it, love it, live it. Its not that difficult to put a basic HTML page together. Also, contrary to what you insinuate, the only alternative to what I call horrid sites is not content that is presented in Flash or even content that is published by professionals. Plenty of content exists out there that is published by people that certainly aren't web professionals, that is still perfectly legible and not an eye strain. There is also plenty of content published by people who seem to think they are web professionals that are certainly not (my opinion, I'm allowed to voice it). A good number of very good web developers that are out there ought not to be designing the look of pages, but they are... plenty of designers out there ought not to be developing the HTML out there, but they are. Of course, some people out there are quite good developers and quite good designers. Kudos to them:) And kudos to those that recognize their limitations and team up with someone else to complement their skills.
Not to be pro-American or anti-American, but from what I've seen in the news, America hasn't been the major force in overstepping national boundaries or even enforcing national laws on the Internet at-large. France forced Yahoo! to remove questionable content, right? I thought Italy or the Vatican was doing something to that effect... oh, that was taking down the site of someone who lived in Italy but was hosted in the US, never mind. Australia seems to be hell bent on restrictions, as well (not that they're in Europe... just offering that up as well).
And who was it that forced eBay to remove certain items? France again? I might be getting mixed up a bit, but by and large, it seems that other countries are enforcing their laws, which in some instances are more restrictive, onto American soil.
I agree. The problem, in my opinion, isn't that there isn't good content out there (that isn't commercial), but rather that the content is soooooooooooooo poorly presented. It seems to me that folks that aren't professional designers (with years of experience designing professional sites and other materials) should stick to Jakob's rules of web site design. It sure would make a lot of the content out there more bearable to read. Just my thoughts, though..
Indeed. I think a good deal of Apple's 64-bit savviness may depend upon GCC3. When I stumbled on old news concerning Motorola's G5 (85xx) I tried to see if any GCC compatibility existed yet, but I couldn't find anything that pointed in that direction. I thought if GCC3 could target 85xx, there would be a decent possibility that Jag + new G5s in full 64-bit mode might not be too distant.
Who knows... Apple is so tight about releasing hardware related news and Motorola doesn't seem to really have their act together (as you indicated).
The G4 towers qualify as high end workstations. Especially the dual-1GHz systems. Also, the Xserve fits squarely into the entry level servers category. So, as others have noted, it certainly appears that IBM is pitching this straight at Apple. Who knows when we'll actually get anything, though. Back a few months, I heard rumours that Apple had already seeded G5 systems to certain testers, but... nothing has panned out since then.
I believe the 128 bit vector engine relates to the size of the data it can operate on, ie the size of the registers used for vector operations. The instructions, however, aren't 128 bit. I might be confused on this issue, though.
Either way, the entire chip surrounding the Altivec engine is 32-bit, so this would be an improvement on that.
If IBM wanted to have any hope at all of wooing Apple, they'd have to support AltiVec as is. There's now way that Apple would recode their OS for a different set of vector instructions and THEN try to convince Adobe, Mayasoft, etc. to rewrite their apps as well. Not likely.
So, yes, its very likely that the specialized vector instructions are exactly the AltiVec instructions. There is *supposedly* an alliance between Motorola and IBM on the PowerPC platform...
Though it's unclear what clock speed the new PowerPC will offer, IBM has been gunning for 2GHz.
Interesting... you'd think they'd set their sights a bit higher. This "MHz Myth" thing, while true in some respects, isn't going to sell more computers. And if you're not selling computers, you're not making money. Plain and simple:)
I'm an avid Mac fan, love 'em - use 'em - own 'em. But, I know that a 2.54GHz Pentium 4 will likely be quite a bit faster than even a dual-1GHz G4, much as I hate to admit. A dual Xeon will likely be even faster (with its increased cache size and a few other enhancements).
Now, the G5 (at 1.6GHz), in the works by Motorola, supposedly has SPECfp and SPECint scores to rival even the Itanium 2, which itself (supposedly) has scores that double any Intel predecessor. As usual, it seems that hope is in the wings... but when will we get our hands on it?!?
What about the Motorola 8500?
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Motorola's 85xx processor, aka G5, is 64-bit, if this article is to be believed.
Is this IBM just coming out with their own 64-bit PPC core? I thought Apple, Motorola and IBM were in an alliance? Seems to me that its quite a competitive alliance, eh?
It doesn't look like the Kyocera 2255 can even do data, 1xRTT or not. Maybe I'm wrong, but the CNET review doesn't mention anything about it and a quick look at the user opinions indicates that no data link is available. Also, what about speakerphone? For those that have never tried it - speakerphone is an amazingly useful innovation for cell phones, especially if you do any type of support for people where you're trying to type or use the mouse on your PC at the same time your explaining how to do something on your phone.
Does Voicestream have data capability? Do they have a 3G network in planning? Plans that include nationwide long-distance, no roaming, etc.? I'm not trolling, I'm interested... some of the sites I've gone to to figure these things out are so horrible I have to leave, lest I get a terrible headache.
You're making far too many assumptions based on views that the media is ethical and moral, versus trying to report in such a way that it increases their revenues.
What the parent post said was right... most companies and organizations that are large enough to have a legal dept. would require that anything and everything said by any employee to anyone else, with the possibility of it being publicly displayed, be reviewed by the lawyers.
Chances are, if Slashdot sent the media relations office an interview request, indicating they would like to interview this particular examiner, and then within the EPO, that examiner's responses were routed through legal, everything would be legit. Doing anything less than this is suicide for large organizations and corporations.
Incidentally, the original poster didn't say "good".. the poster wrote "first-rate", which is exactly what it is. Whatever applications you have the source for on a Linux box will likely run, with much the same results, on an OS X box. Put it this way, if it runs in Linux and it runs in FreeBSD, chances are real good that it'll run in OS X.
Why dismiss an OS that contains a portion of closed-source proprietary code? That seems to be overly pedantic.
As for the bluetooth bit, unfortunately, we Sprint PCS faithfuls are screwed a bit. From what I've seen, the only bluetooth phones (by Ericsson) are GSM phones. The only nationwide network that I know of using GSM is AT&T, whose GSM network is quite small (and not too useful at the moment). So, while its cool that Steve Jobs demoed Bluetooth integration with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar at MWNY, apparently, we still have a ways to go before we can enjoy that.
I've been using Sprint PCS for years now, eagerly awaiting this nationwide upgrade. Now that its arrived, where's the information on what phones can take advantage of the new network? I have a Sanyo SCP-4500, which apparently is not compatible with the new 1xRTT network... the 4700 model is, but apparently only with the voice side of 1xRTT, data speeds are still as slow as regular CDMA.
The Sprint PCS site has NO readily apparent information on the new 3G network - you'd think it would be front-page news, either on the PCS site or on Sprint.com. What would be even nicer is an email from Sprint PCS to all current subscribers of the Wireless Web option indicating (a) which phones will be able to take advantage of the faster speeds on the 1xRTT network (b) what the costs plans are for the networks (c) what additional peripheral devices are available and (d) what to do to sign-up (online, preferably).
I think I have the Thanksgiving episode... there are a few that I'm missing that are really good episodes, but otherwise, most of my collection is recorded from the A&E channel, I agree - the Hallmark channels cuts WAY too much.
I also have recordings of many of the original airings, but that set is *very* incomplete.
I'd like to have it all on DVD sometime... and not just the 13 episodes they decided to release VHS tapes for, either!
Maybe, just maybe, if I ever get an inexpensive video to DV converter box of some sort for my Mac, I might just hook up my VCR and start compiling the episodes to DVD myself. Maybe.:)
Folks, if you haven't discovered SpamAssassin yet, do yourself a HUGE favor and at least look into it. If you're not running a Linux box and are relegated to Windows, talk to your ISP about it. If you're running Mac OS X, I believe you should have no problem getting SpamAssassin to filter your mail, if you route it through a local MTA.
It took me about 30 minutes to get SpamAssassin integrated properly with qmail, vpopmail, sqwebmail and I've been happy ever since. I get maybe one spam a week now that isn't caught by the assassin and about 35-40 a day get routed into my Trash automagically.
SpamAssassin has a huge set of heuristics it uses to detect spam as well as some auxiliary tools that it can use to check global databases for common SPAM - if someone else has gotten it and is providing SPAM information to these databases, it saves everyone else from having to check it, basically.
Bottom line: check out SpamAssassin - its by far the best tool I've found in blocking spam, far better than simply blocking yahoo.com and hotmail.com addresses! Take some time, check it out - you'll be quite happy you did, I assure you! Its configurability is pretty much unmatched out there as well.
If you're watching Trading Spaces - you're missing out! My wife and I got hooked watching Changing Rooms and Ground Force on BBC America and when Trading Spaces got going, though - heck, that's probably good, too. *eh, no* The humor is not *nearly* there, the designers aren't *nearly* as good (though quite a few of the designs on Changing Rooms suck, too). And the narrative is poor as well.
Go figure... in any case, TiVo in our household (expecting our first child) would probably look like this: Changing Rooms/Ground Force, Martha Stewart anything, Stargate (at times), ST:TNG as much as I can swing, Enterprise (when nothing above is on) and Sex and the City Sunday nights. What else? Oh yeah - Love Boat (LOL), Simpsons and Futurama (at times - but not reruns).
When none of these things are on and no good old movies are on AMC or other movie channels, we'll stick in the faithful Northern Exposure tapes, which are pretty much complete, save a couple (maybe 5, tops) episodes. Seems in the summer we're grabbing the NE tapes more and more!
Agreed. Think about it: the gov't. cannot refuse insurance to anyone with socialized medicine. Yet, this is precisely how insurance companies in the US (and other, non-socialized countries) manage to stay profitable while keeping costs down for their subscribers. My insurance costs a boatload as it is (in excess of $350/mo., my wife and I own our own company, so we pay the 50% additional that most employees don't see their companies paying). It currently increases between 14 and 16% yearly (I know, I just got our renewal papers). I certainly wouldn't want it to go up on account of them no longer being selective about whom they insure.
Now, if, in a socialized health care system, those that were more of a drain on the system than others, were asked to pay more into the system than others, then it'd be more fair... but then it wouldn't be socialized health care any more and people wouldn't be yelling about its virtues, would they?
Numbers don't solve everything... so don't come back at me saying that if 100% of a country subscribes to socialized medicine, it can very well support the fractional percentage that require so much more healthcare. That's nice and all, but that "little" percentage keeps growing and the 100% doesn't... so, how do you solve that?
I've lived in Germany for a year at a time, back when I was younger, and I have no complaints about its medical system - it was first rate, at least what I saw of it (granted, not much). But, I did keep my ears open and I managed to hear quite a few folks complaining about how much they were paying in taxes... especially when they worked overtime. 65% or more in taxes when you work overtime seems a bit harsh, wouldn't you agree?
Last but not least, you'll notice that health insurance costs rise 14-16% yearly (at least here, don't know if that's typical or not) - with inflation typically set between 3-5%, insurance far outstrips that. How would the gov't. manage that, exactly? Would people go for such a rise in taxes every year? Doubtful...
There's certainly nothing wrong with having children at home, especially using trained midwives. However, not all hospitals in America are bad (and many are quietly getting better). My wife and I are expecting our first child, which will be born in our local hospital's birthing center, with a midwife present at all times and a doctor available "on call" in case complications arise.
The birthing center rooms have the amenities that are desirable to mothers who would consider having their children at home - shower, bath, squat bars, aroma therapy, stereo, vcr + tv, couch w/ fold-away bed for dad, muted lighting, etc. The nurses will do all the "after birth" things right in the room with you and won't cart the baby off to a nursery unless its medically necessary, so in most cases, birth progresses and ends just as it would at home, minus the comfort of your own sheets and the pain of having to setup and cleanup after yourself!
The fact that everything from the first pregnancy appointment to post-partum care is covered by our insurance makes it even better.
And who says all HMOs are bad?;) Though for the $350+ our insurance costs in a month, I'd say we're getting everything we're paying for:)
Yep, looks like its legit (unless they've only recently posted these links, since the outcry). Either way, they're legit now - they even credit CDex, which indicates to me that they probably didn't change the copyright information in the source, as some have alleged.
Granted, it sucks that someone takes a great GPL app and rebundles it with spyware/adware, but as long as they abide by the GPL, that's perfectly legit... you cannot control how your GPL'd application gets reused, can ya? Don't think so..
Many CLI installers (VMware comes to mind) already require you to "click through" (via 'more') a license both for VMware and for DHCP (or BIND, one of the two). Its a pretty simple process, really... and since its 'more', you can simply hit "q" to skip reading it, if you're going to agree to it anyway... the main thing is that you've agreed to it!
One possibility, if limitation of liability is desired, is to define a auxiliary compression format to the popular.gz and.bz2 codecs, which when uncompressing indicates to the user that by uncompressing this file they agree to be bound by the included LICENSE file and if they don't agree, they are directed to remove the software from their system. I don't see that you necessarily have to ask someone to "click-thru"... merely defining a format that will *always* present this message insures that the user will at least be notified of the fact that they are bound by the LICENSE file included in the software tarball.
Granted, one could say "well, I opened it with a script and didn't see anything"... true, but if we spin-off a new version of gzip & bzip2 (keep the originals, too) called "lic-gzip" and "lic-bzip2" and the files are called.gz.lic and.bz2.lic or something, then a user couldn't *really* claim that they weren't aware that this was a "protected" archive, as it is clearly distinguished from any other archive format.
Just an idea... I agree with Bruce, though - a line in the sand must be drawn, pursuing things from the side of changing the law has a far greater chance of long-term success.
Precisely, the GPL license essentially lifts copyright, with a few restrictions (the source of the code must be available, etc.). Without accepting any license, you have to abide by standard copyright law which, quite simply, restricts your rights severely.
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If you're not a professional, you should keep it simple, stupid. K.I.S.S. - learn it, love it, live it. Its not that difficult to put a basic HTML page together. Also, contrary to what you insinuate, the only alternative to what I call horrid sites is not content that is presented in Flash or even content that is published by professionals. Plenty of content exists out there that is published by people that certainly aren't web professionals, that is still perfectly legible and not an eye strain. There is also plenty of content published by people who seem to think they are web professionals that are certainly not (my opinion, I'm allowed to voice it). A good number of very good web developers that are out there ought not to be designing the look of pages, but they are ... plenty of designers out there ought not to be developing the HTML out there, but they are. Of course, some people out there are quite good developers and quite good designers. Kudos to them :) And kudos to those that recognize their limitations and team up with someone else to complement their skills.
Not to be pro-American or anti-American, but from what I've seen in the news, America hasn't been the major force in overstepping national boundaries or even enforcing national laws on the Internet at-large. France forced Yahoo! to remove questionable content, right? I thought Italy or the Vatican was doing something to that effect ... oh, that was taking down the site of someone who lived in Italy but was hosted in the US, never mind. Australia seems to be hell bent on restrictions, as well (not that they're in Europe ... just offering that up as well).
And who was it that forced eBay to remove certain items? France again? I might be getting mixed up a bit, but by and large, it seems that other countries are enforcing their laws, which in some instances are more restrictive, onto American soil.
I agree. The problem, in my opinion, isn't that there isn't good content out there (that isn't commercial), but rather that the content is soooooooooooooo poorly presented. It seems to me that folks that aren't professional designers (with years of experience designing professional sites and other materials) should stick to Jakob's rules of web site design. It sure would make a lot of the content out there more bearable to read. Just my thoughts, though ..
Indeed. I think a good deal of Apple's 64-bit savviness may depend upon GCC3. When I stumbled on old news concerning Motorola's G5 (85xx) I tried to see if any GCC compatibility existed yet, but I couldn't find anything that pointed in that direction. I thought if GCC3 could target 85xx, there would be a decent possibility that Jag + new G5s in full 64-bit mode might not be too distant.
... Apple is so tight about releasing hardware related news and Motorola doesn't seem to really have their act together (as you indicated).
Who knows
The G4 towers qualify as high end workstations. Especially the dual-1GHz systems. Also, the Xserve fits squarely into the entry level servers category. So, as others have noted, it certainly appears that IBM is pitching this straight at Apple. Who knows when we'll actually get anything, though. Back a few months, I heard rumours that Apple had already seeded G5 systems to certain testers, but ... nothing has panned out since then.
I believe the 128 bit vector engine relates to the size of the data it can operate on, ie the size of the registers used for vector operations. The instructions, however, aren't 128 bit. I might be confused on this issue, though.
Either way, the entire chip surrounding the Altivec engine is 32-bit, so this would be an improvement on that.
If IBM wanted to have any hope at all of wooing Apple, they'd have to support AltiVec as is. There's now way that Apple would recode their OS for a different set of vector instructions and THEN try to convince Adobe, Mayasoft, etc. to rewrite their apps as well. Not likely.
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So, yes, its very likely that the specialized vector instructions are exactly the AltiVec instructions. There is *supposedly* an alliance between Motorola and IBM on the PowerPC platform
I'm an avid Mac fan, love 'em - use 'em - own 'em. But, I know that a 2.54GHz Pentium 4 will likely be quite a bit faster than even a dual-1GHz G4, much as I hate to admit. A dual Xeon will likely be even faster (with its increased cache size and a few other enhancements).
Now, the G5 (at 1.6GHz), in the works by Motorola, supposedly has SPECfp and SPECint scores to rival even the Itanium 2, which itself (supposedly) has scores that double any Intel predecessor. As usual, it seems that hope is in the wings ... but when will we get our hands on it?!?
Motorola's 85xx processor, aka G5, is 64-bit, if this article is to be believed.
Is this IBM just coming out with their own 64-bit PPC core? I thought Apple, Motorola and IBM were in an alliance? Seems to me that its quite a competitive alliance, eh?
It doesn't look like the Kyocera 2255 can even do data, 1xRTT or not. Maybe I'm wrong, but the CNET review doesn't mention anything about it and a quick look at the user opinions indicates that no data link is available. Also, what about speakerphone? For those that have never tried it - speakerphone is an amazingly useful innovation for cell phones, especially if you do any type of support for people where you're trying to type or use the mouse on your PC at the same time your explaining how to do something on your phone.
Cheers.
Does Voicestream have data capability? Do they have a 3G network in planning? Plans that include nationwide long-distance, no roaming, etc.? I'm not trolling, I'm interested ... some of the sites I've gone to to figure these things out are so horrible I have to leave, lest I get a terrible headache.
You're making far too many assumptions based on views that the media is ethical and moral, versus trying to report in such a way that it increases their revenues.
... most companies and organizations that are large enough to have a legal dept. would require that anything and everything said by any employee to anyone else, with the possibility of it being publicly displayed, be reviewed by the lawyers.
What the parent post said was right
Chances are, if Slashdot sent the media relations office an interview request, indicating they would like to interview this particular examiner, and then within the EPO, that examiner's responses were routed through legal, everything would be legit. Doing anything less than this is suicide for large organizations and corporations.
Cheers.
Incidentally, the original poster didn't say "good" .. the poster wrote "first-rate", which is exactly what it is. Whatever applications you have the source for on a Linux box will likely run, with much the same results, on an OS X box. Put it this way, if it runs in Linux and it runs in FreeBSD, chances are real good that it'll run in OS X.
Why dismiss an OS that contains a portion of closed-source proprietary code? That seems to be overly pedantic.
As for the bluetooth bit, unfortunately, we Sprint PCS faithfuls are screwed a bit. From what I've seen, the only bluetooth phones (by Ericsson) are GSM phones. The only nationwide network that I know of using GSM is AT&T, whose GSM network is quite small (and not too useful at the moment). So, while its cool that Steve Jobs demoed Bluetooth integration with Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar at MWNY, apparently, we still have a ways to go before we can enjoy that.
I've been using Sprint PCS for years now, eagerly awaiting this nationwide upgrade. Now that its arrived, where's the information on what phones can take advantage of the new network? I have a Sanyo SCP-4500, which apparently is not compatible with the new 1xRTT network ... the 4700 model is, but apparently only with the voice side of 1xRTT, data speeds are still as slow as regular CDMA.
The Sprint PCS site has NO readily apparent information on the new 3G network - you'd think it would be front-page news, either on the PCS site or on Sprint.com. What would be even nicer is an email from Sprint PCS to all current subscribers of the Wireless Web option indicating (a) which phones will be able to take advantage of the faster speeds on the 1xRTT network (b) what the costs plans are for the networks (c) what additional peripheral devices are available and (d) what to do to sign-up (online, preferably).
What's the deal here?
I think I have the Thanksgiving episode ... there are a few that I'm missing that are really good episodes, but otherwise, most of my collection is recorded from the A&E channel, I agree - the Hallmark channels cuts WAY too much.
I also have recordings of many of the original airings, but that set is *very* incomplete.
I'd like to have it all on DVD sometime ... and not just the 13 episodes they decided to release VHS tapes for, either!
:)
Maybe, just maybe, if I ever get an inexpensive video to DV converter box of some sort for my Mac, I might just hook up my VCR and start compiling the episodes to DVD myself. Maybe.
Folks, if you haven't discovered SpamAssassin yet, do yourself a HUGE favor and at least look into it. If you're not running a Linux box and are relegated to Windows, talk to your ISP about it. If you're running Mac OS X, I believe you should have no problem getting SpamAssassin to filter your mail, if you route it through a local MTA.
It took me about 30 minutes to get SpamAssassin integrated properly with qmail, vpopmail, sqwebmail and I've been happy ever since. I get maybe one spam a week now that isn't caught by the assassin and about 35-40 a day get routed into my Trash automagically.
SpamAssassin has a huge set of heuristics it uses to detect spam as well as some auxiliary tools that it can use to check global databases for common SPAM - if someone else has gotten it and is providing SPAM information to these databases, it saves everyone else from having to check it, basically.
Bottom line: check out SpamAssassin - its by far the best tool I've found in blocking spam, far better than simply blocking yahoo.com and hotmail.com addresses! Take some time, check it out - you'll be quite happy you did, I assure you! Its configurability is pretty much unmatched out there as well.
If you're watching Trading Spaces - you're missing out! My wife and I got hooked watching Changing Rooms and Ground Force on BBC America and when Trading Spaces got going, though - heck, that's probably good, too. *eh, no* The humor is not *nearly* there, the designers aren't *nearly* as good (though quite a few of the designs on Changing Rooms suck, too). And the narrative is poor as well.
... in any case, TiVo in our household (expecting our first child) would probably look like this: Changing Rooms/Ground Force, Martha Stewart anything, Stargate (at times), ST:TNG as much as I can swing, Enterprise (when nothing above is on) and Sex and the City Sunday nights. What else? Oh yeah - Love Boat (LOL), Simpsons and Futurama (at times - but not reruns).
Go figure
When none of these things are on and no good old movies are on AMC or other movie channels, we'll stick in the faithful Northern Exposure tapes, which are pretty much complete, save a couple (maybe 5, tops) episodes. Seems in the summer we're grabbing the NE tapes more and more!
Agreed. Think about it: the gov't. cannot refuse insurance to anyone with socialized medicine. Yet, this is precisely how insurance companies in the US (and other, non-socialized countries) manage to stay profitable while keeping costs down for their subscribers. My insurance costs a boatload as it is (in excess of $350/mo., my wife and I own our own company, so we pay the 50% additional that most employees don't see their companies paying). It currently increases between 14 and 16% yearly (I know, I just got our renewal papers). I certainly wouldn't want it to go up on account of them no longer being selective about whom they insure.
... but then it wouldn't be socialized health care any more and people wouldn't be yelling about its virtues, would they?
... so don't come back at me saying that if 100% of a country subscribes to socialized medicine, it can very well support the fractional percentage that require so much more healthcare. That's nice and all, but that "little" percentage keeps growing and the 100% doesn't ... so, how do you solve that?
... especially when they worked overtime. 65% or more in taxes when you work overtime seems a bit harsh, wouldn't you agree?
...
Now, if, in a socialized health care system, those that were more of a drain on the system than others, were asked to pay more into the system than others, then it'd be more fair
Numbers don't solve everything
I've lived in Germany for a year at a time, back when I was younger, and I have no complaints about its medical system - it was first rate, at least what I saw of it (granted, not much). But, I did keep my ears open and I managed to hear quite a few folks complaining about how much they were paying in taxes
Last but not least, you'll notice that health insurance costs rise 14-16% yearly (at least here, don't know if that's typical or not) - with inflation typically set between 3-5%, insurance far outstrips that. How would the gov't. manage that, exactly? Would people go for such a rise in taxes every year? Doubtful
I hope you have a job related to driving if they're checking your drivers record as a condition for employment?!?
There's certainly nothing wrong with having children at home, especially using trained midwives. However, not all hospitals in America are bad (and many are quietly getting better). My wife and I are expecting our first child, which will be born in our local hospital's birthing center, with a midwife present at all times and a doctor available "on call" in case complications arise.
;) Though for the $350+ our insurance costs in a month, I'd say we're getting everything we're paying for :)
The birthing center rooms have the amenities that are desirable to mothers who would consider having their children at home - shower, bath, squat bars, aroma therapy, stereo, vcr + tv, couch w/ fold-away bed for dad, muted lighting, etc. The nurses will do all the "after birth" things right in the room with you and won't cart the baby off to a nursery unless its medically necessary, so in most cases, birth progresses and ends just as it would at home, minus the comfort of your own sheets and the pain of having to setup and cleanup after yourself!
The fact that everything from the first pregnancy appointment to post-partum care is covered by our insurance makes it even better.
And who says all HMOs are bad?
Yep, looks like its legit (unless they've only recently posted these links, since the outcry). Either way, they're legit now - they even credit CDex, which indicates to me that they probably didn't change the copyright information in the source, as some have alleged.
... you cannot control how your GPL'd application gets reused, can ya? Don't think so ..
Granted, it sucks that someone takes a great GPL app and rebundles it with spyware/adware, but as long as they abide by the GPL, that's perfectly legit
Many CLI installers (VMware comes to mind) already require you to "click through" (via 'more') a license both for VMware and for DHCP (or BIND, one of the two). Its a pretty simple process, really ... and since its 'more', you can simply hit "q" to skip reading it, if you're going to agree to it anyway ... the main thing is that you've agreed to it!
.gz and .bz2 codecs, which when uncompressing indicates to the user that by uncompressing this file they agree to be bound by the included LICENSE file and if they don't agree, they are directed to remove the software from their system. I don't see that you necessarily have to ask someone to "click-thru" ... merely defining a format that will *always* present this message insures that the user will at least be notified of the fact that they are bound by the LICENSE file included in the software tarball.
... true, but if we spin-off a new version of gzip & bzip2 (keep the originals, too) called "lic-gzip" and "lic-bzip2" and the files are called .gz.lic and .bz2.lic or something, then a user couldn't *really* claim that they weren't aware that this was a "protected" archive, as it is clearly distinguished from any other archive format.
... I agree with Bruce, though - a line in the sand must be drawn, pursuing things from the side of changing the law has a far greater chance of long-term success.
One possibility, if limitation of liability is desired, is to define a auxiliary compression format to the popular
Granted, one could say "well, I opened it with a script and didn't see anything"
Just an idea
Precisely, the GPL license essentially lifts copyright, with a few restrictions (the source of the code must be available, etc.). Without accepting any license, you have to abide by standard copyright law which, quite simply, restricts your rights severely.