I love my Wii. It has nice gameplay innovation, although it is just a simple control system and 480P at best graphics. I can't wait for Star Wars
On my desktop I have 2600x1600 resolution. I want games to not have any jaggies, so 4xAA on this screen will be quite a while at least. They are ray tracing to get shadows correct, but the screen shots are terribly aliased and that bugs me a lot more than some problem with shadows or reflections.
I thought the Harvard and MIT coops were co-ops (cooperatives).
In the People's Republic of Cambridge, they should be working with the proletariat to fight the evils of capitalism!
REI is a great co-op, they send members profit sharing each year. Spend more and they make a profit, you get a big fat return at the end of the year (which you spend on more stuff, a never-ending cycle).
I see no reason to reach that conclusion. Under the BSD license, you can enforce your own copyrights however you want. You can place it under the GPL, MPL, reserve all rights, whatever. You don't need the dual licensing wording to do this. The point is that they are your own copyrights. Right, but if you specifically dual license, people have the option of taking a BSD version or a GPL version. As original author, you can re-release the original under whatever you want.
If I license my mods under GPL using a "GPL version" of the original code, the original author is stuck. They can't put that into BSD codebase, since BSD allows for closing of the code and selling it. GPL does not. So if someone makes a derivative work and releases it GPL, they have effectively forked the code, so there is the orginal dual-license code and the new GPL only code. I see no reason to reach this conclusion either. Your modifications may be under the GPL but you don't automatically gain any copyrights to the original author's work. I did not say that you gain copyright on the original code. If the original author releases as BSD or GPL and I release GPL only mods, the original author cannot pull my new mods into their BSD release. I would have to dual license my mods.
The original author grants permission under BSD and GPL. They own copyright on the original, so they could put it out under a third license (MPL) or even close the source sell it if they want. They are the original copyright holder, they can do what they want.
If I download the code licensed under the GPL or BSD, I can make modifications. I can choose to release my mods under BSD, GPL, or both. This is due to the way the dual license was worded, with an alternative licensing scheme.
If I license my mods under GPL using a "GPL version" of the original code, the original author is stuck. They can't put that into BSD codebase, since BSD allows for closing of the code and selling it. GPL does not. So if someone makes a derivative work and releases it GPL, they have effectively forked the code, so there is the orginal dual-license code and the new GPL only code.
This is not much different from a company taking a BSD version of the code, making mods, closing it and selling it. Both are legal and expected for BSD and GPL.
However, that is not the full license text in question. It was a dual-license that also said:
Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. Dual license code allows you to make changes and release the changes under both licenses, or release only under license A, or release only under license B. If you don't dual license your changes, you have forked the code so that is A or B only AFAIK.
As a previous poster stated, if you don't understand what "alternatively" means, this leads to disagreement and hand wringing and web forum arguments over a few lines of code that was never in a mainline distro in the first place.
The copyright owner does not control the terms of redistribution for dual license code. The license they distribute under controls the redistribution, so once they release it, the code amazingly is "released."
Assume the original person distributes the same code as BSD and GPL. Someone decides to get a copy, adds to it, then distributes it as GPL only. AFAIK, that is allowed due to the dual license, since the second person could get a "GPL version" or a "BSD version". They can choose to release the mod as dual, BSD only, or GPL only, it is up to them.
For some reason, I just assumed the antitrust ruling was about four years ago, so it was an idiotic question. Now that you point out that it can be interpreted in jest, it is actually funny.
Sometimes you argue with an idiot, sometimes you are the idiot.
You always have had choices. Mac has always been there. There have always been linux shops that sell hardware. More expensive and less support, but you could do it.
How do you define "more able" to buy something? Price? Availability? Support? Number of vendors?
MS bundles products, closes interfaces, and forces new version upgrades. This is an abuse of monopoly power.
IANAL, but MS was declared a monopoly back around 2000. I don't think a judge ever declared them to no longer be a monopoly, so I assume that ruling stands.
I know you can't cite wikipedia, but wikipedia cites the LA times:-)
In 2001, the Los Angeles Times accused Microsoft of astroturfing when hundreds of similar letters were sent to newspapers voicing disagreement with the United States Department of Justice and its antitrust suit against Microsoft. The letters, prepared by Americans for Technology Leadership, had in some cases been mailed from deceased citizens or nonexistent addresses.[1][2][3] Similar allegations were leveled against the "Freedom to Innovate Network", originally portrayed as an independent grassroots organization but web-hosted by Microsoft. and
In January 2007, an Australian writer revealed that a Microsoft employee had offered to pay him to edit Wikipedia articles regarding Microsoft products [10] While not specifically asking him to promote those products, the intent was to improve their image while concealing Microsoft's involvement. But this is the one that I think of from 1994.
Slashdot is not about journalistic integrity, it never has been. It is about nerd topics and dupes.
ACs complaining about twitter does look like astroturfing. MS has enough money to pay a few guys to beat back public opinion on well-known public tech sites. Without facts disputing the current article, it looks like you are just pro-MS ranting against a anti-MS article without any substance.
Fact- WGA broke for a while causing many people troubles.
Fact- Some people don't like having to phone MS all the time to keep a product running.
Fact- MS has paid astroturfers to anonymously post pro-MS grassroots stuff online.
How is Tivo's use not free? You can get their source and you can recompile it and use it.
AFAIK, you can't get their source and use it on your hardware due to encryption/DRM issues, but you can use it on other hardware. So you can't take out the content control bits and run it on a Tivo box.
You still have the source, you can use it for what you want (as long as you want to do something possible). Running your own binaries on a Tivo box is not possible.
Exactly. rsync worked for me. Simple upload or download scripts for my laptop to mirror everything each morning or afternoon. And you can do it with ssh / scp
rsync even works pretty well from a PC with CYGWIN. Of course, permissions get screwed up and PCs have problems with oddball chars in file names, but it can work cross platform.
I don't know how rsync works if both the server and laptop change. I try to avoid that, since it just seems like trouble.
I am glad someone raised the library issue. Libraries lend books, CDs, and DVDs for free. Once you have it, you can copy it or do whatever. Are libraries the next target?
How is a library lending out DVDs different from you publishing a DVD on a public share?
What if you locked it down so only one person could download it at a time? That way only one person is ever using it?
Crazy mixed up world.
The only reason people bought CDs back in the day was the lack of space and compute power. 700 MB of uncompressed audio on a 33 MHz PC with a 100 MB HD meant you could not keep your CD collection on your PC and ripping was painful. Now, music is easy.
They could make a decent HD DVD format (1080P at 60 FPS, maybe 1 TB) that would make online transfers daunting and storage difficult (for a few years). I don't see multi-TB drives coming to my house for a while, but it could happen...
Or use LyX as a front end to LaTeX. A little closer to WYSIWYG with GUIs for most everything.
LaTeX is amazing, but hacking a plain text file is a bit rough for 95% of the people out there. There are a number of editors out there, but LyX is the one I have used for years. Free, and.lyx files are plain text (like.tex files). Why are people still using binary formats for documents?
We also tear down old dorms to build pretty new ones...
Inflation makes everything go up in cost. Granted, tuition has been running a higher rate than the normal 2.5% for inflation, but a some of it is inflation since faculty like to get raises:-)
State universities are becoming state-supported universities. Soon we will just be state-located universities. Basically, the big pile of $ states annual provide to public institutions is shrinking (or getting spread among more institutions).
In our state, most qualified in-state students get a big lotter scholarship. Undergrad is almost free if you keep your grades up. They are starting a program to give a scholarship bump to STEM students (Science Tech Eng & Math).
Of course, we try to charge engineering students more in "lab fees." Upper administration shot that down here, they don't want differential tuition. Amazingly, it costs more to educate engineers than it does to educate an english or history major. Engineering labs aren't cheap, and faculty are expensive too...
Sorry, I don't think a Newtonian physics model is in our brain from day one. I know saying anything against evolution is a bad idea, but in this case I think your internal physics model is a learned behavior.
Take an infant to the moon under 1/6 g and they would have different expectations on how to bounce and catch a baseball. Increase / decrease drag and kids would develop a different model.
I could be totally wrong, but I really don't believe our physics model is in our head, but maybe that is just a misconception due to my internal evolutionary and child development model...
There are glaciers that are expanding in some areas.
And I think those islands may be submerging due to some geological change, not rising sea level. I thought I read it was not definitive.
I will be a skeptic for a while still. My middle school science text taught both global warming and igloo effect on the same page. What kind of doublethink is that?
Recently I have heard people blame CO2 for "global climate change" so that anything that changes can be blamed on humans. Seems a little too broad a definition to me.
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But SLI works pretty well in parallel.
Put four awesome GPUs in a box and let them render 1/4 of the screen and you are in great shape, so maybe my 2600x1600 with 4x AA is totally possible.
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_quadsli.html
I personally don't mind having to fake reflection and shadow effects to some extent, as long as you get decent FPS and resolution without jaggies...
I love my Wii. It has nice gameplay innovation, although it is just a simple control system and 480P at best graphics. I can't wait for Star Wars
On my desktop I have 2600x1600 resolution. I want games to not have any jaggies, so 4xAA on this screen will be quite a while at least. They are ray tracing to get shadows correct, but the screen shots are terribly aliased and that bugs me a lot more than some problem with shadows or reflections.
The worst is when the prof writes some terrible text and requires the class to buy it. Damn you Peter Skelland!
I give my text / handouts away for free online. Or you can buy it from an online publisher for $10 (and I would get a couple of bucks).
I doubt profs get kick backs directly from bookstores. Maybe I should look into that...
We do get free reference copies for evaluation, which I guess a shady character could resell...
I thought the Harvard and MIT coops were co-ops (cooperatives).
In the People's Republic of Cambridge, they should be working with the proletariat to fight the evils of capitalism!
REI is a great co-op, they send members profit sharing each year. Spend more and they make a profit, you get a big fat return at the end of the year (which you spend on more stuff, a never-ending cycle).
Maybe the Coop got bought out by B&N or Amazon?
The original author grants permission under BSD and GPL. They own copyright on the original, so they could put it out under a third license (MPL) or even close the source sell it if they want. They are the original copyright holder, they can do what they want.
If I download the code licensed under the GPL or BSD, I can make modifications. I can choose to release my mods under BSD, GPL, or both. This is due to the way the dual license was worded, with an alternative licensing scheme.
If I license my mods under GPL using a "GPL version" of the original code, the original author is stuck. They can't put that into BSD codebase, since BSD allows for closing of the code and selling it. GPL does not. So if someone makes a derivative work and releases it GPL, they have effectively forked the code, so there is the orginal dual-license code and the new GPL only code.
This is not much different from a company taking a BSD version of the code, making mods, closing it and selling it. Both are legal and expected for BSD and GPL.
As a previous poster stated, if you don't understand what "alternatively" means, this leads to disagreement and hand wringing and web forum arguments over a few lines of code that was never in a mainline distro in the first place.
The copyright owner does not control the terms of redistribution for dual license code. The license they distribute under controls the redistribution, so once they release it, the code amazingly is "released."
Assume the original person distributes the same code as BSD and GPL. Someone decides to get a copy, adds to it, then distributes it as GPL only. AFAIK, that is allowed due to the dual license, since the second person could get a "GPL version" or a "BSD version". They can choose to release the mod as dual, BSD only, or GPL only, it is up to them.
And LyX is a nice powerful frontend to LaTeX. Works on *nix,PC, and Mac. Free.
Thanks for explaining the joke to me. LOL.
For some reason, I just assumed the antitrust ruling was about four years ago, so it was an idiotic question. Now that you point out that it can be interpreted in jest, it is actually funny.
Sometimes you argue with an idiot, sometimes you are the idiot.
What a maroon!
Your questions is ridiculous.
You always have had choices. Mac has always been there. There have always been linux shops that sell hardware. More expensive and less support, but you could do it.
How do you define "more able" to buy something? Price? Availability? Support? Number of vendors?
MS bundles products, closes interfaces, and forces new version upgrades. This is an abuse of monopoly power.
IANAL, but MS was declared a monopoly back around 2000. I don't think a judge ever declared them to no longer be a monopoly, so I assume that ruling stands.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/2479.html
An earlier comment found a nice page with a single list of many instances.
http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/ms
I know you can't cite wikipedia, but wikipedia cites the LA times
http://www.pjprimer.com/jihad.html
Why do I even respond to this garbage? Turf away!
You must be new here.
Slashdot is not about journalistic integrity, it never has been. It is about nerd topics and dupes.
ACs complaining about twitter does look like astroturfing. MS has enough money to pay a few guys to beat back public opinion on well-known public tech sites. Without facts disputing the current article, it looks like you are just pro-MS ranting against a anti-MS article without any substance.
Fact- WGA broke for a while causing many people troubles.
Fact- Some people don't like having to phone MS all the time to keep a product running.
Fact- MS has paid astroturfers to anonymously post pro-MS grassroots stuff online.
If you release dual licensed code under GPL and BSD can't use it anymore, is that worse than taking BSD code and closing it so nobody gets it?
Dual licensed code you should be able to get either "version", GPL or BSD. You can then release it after modification as GPL, BSD, or dual.
AFAIK, BSD allows for modification and commercialization without forced release of source.
GPL requires source release, so commercialization is out and the BSD guys can't use it.
Which one is more in the mindset of "free as in freedom" software?
So it sounds like you can easily fork dual license code. Make a modification and release it under one license, or maybe I am wrong...
How is Tivo's use not free? You can get their source and you can recompile it and use it.
AFAIK, you can't get their source and use it on your hardware due to encryption/DRM issues, but you can use it on other hardware. So you can't take out the content control bits and run it on a Tivo box.
You still have the source, you can use it for what you want (as long as you want to do something possible). Running your own binaries on a Tivo box is not possible.
Exactly. rsync worked for me. Simple upload or download scripts for my laptop to mirror everything each morning or afternoon. And you can do it with ssh / scp
rsync even works pretty well from a PC with CYGWIN. Of course, permissions get screwed up and PCs have problems with oddball chars in file names, but it can work cross platform.
I don't know how rsync works if both the server and laptop change. I try to avoid that, since it just seems like trouble.
I am glad someone raised the library issue. Libraries lend books, CDs, and DVDs for free. Once you have it, you can copy it or do whatever. Are libraries the next target?
How is a library lending out DVDs different from you publishing a DVD on a public share?
What if you locked it down so only one person could download it at a time? That way only one person is ever using it?
Crazy mixed up world.
The only reason people bought CDs back in the day was the lack of space and compute power. 700 MB of uncompressed audio on a 33 MHz PC with a 100 MB HD meant you could not keep your CD collection on your PC and ripping was painful. Now, music is easy.
They could make a decent HD DVD format (1080P at 60 FPS, maybe 1 TB) that would make online transfers daunting and storage difficult (for a few years). I don't see multi-TB drives coming to my house for a while, but it could happen...
Or use LyX as a front end to LaTeX. A little closer to WYSIWYG with GUIs for most everything.
.lyx files are plain text (like .tex files). Why are people still using binary formats for documents?
LaTeX is amazing, but hacking a plain text file is a bit rough for 95% of the people out there. There are a number of editors out there, but LyX is the one I have used for years. Free, and
We also tear down old dorms to build pretty new ones...
:-)
Inflation makes everything go up in cost. Granted, tuition has been running a higher rate than the normal 2.5% for inflation, but a some of it is inflation since faculty like to get raises
State universities are becoming state-supported universities. Soon we will just be state-located universities. Basically, the big pile of $ states annual provide to public institutions is shrinking (or getting spread among more institutions).
In our state, most qualified in-state students get a big lotter scholarship. Undergrad is almost free if you keep your grades up. They are starting a program to give a scholarship bump to STEM students (Science Tech Eng & Math).
Of course, we try to charge engineering students more in "lab fees." Upper administration shot that down here, they don't want differential tuition. Amazingly, it costs more to educate engineers than it does to educate an english or history major. Engineering labs aren't cheap, and faculty are expensive too...
I think the administration has been careful to not directly link Saddam to 9/11.
There were WMDs found in Iraq, just not large quantities. It did not get much media attention because they found a few old shells.
Stem cell research was never outlawed, it was just banned on new lines. Private funds were ok.
They now are on track to double the NSF budget in ten years.
Right, but the model in your brain that tells you where the ball will go when you throw it is a learned behavior, not an evolved behavior or instinct.
I did not say we did not use Newtonian physics in evolution, just that our brain was not wired to know about physics when we are born.
Sorry, I don't think a Newtonian physics model is in our brain from day one. I know saying anything against evolution is a bad idea, but in this case I think your internal physics model is a learned behavior.
Take an infant to the moon under 1/6 g and they would have different expectations on how to bounce and catch a baseball. Increase / decrease drag and kids would develop a different model.
I could be totally wrong, but I really don't believe our physics model is in our head, but maybe that is just a misconception due to my internal evolutionary and child development model...
Thundercats is in pre-production, slated for 2010.
http://imdb.com/title/tt1047015/
There are glaciers that are expanding in some areas.
And I think those islands may be submerging due to some geological change, not rising sea level. I thought I read it was not definitive.
I will be a skeptic for a while still. My middle school science text taught both global warming and igloo effect on the same page. What kind of doublethink is that?
Recently I have heard people blame CO2 for "global climate change" so that anything that changes can be blamed on humans. Seems a little too broad a definition to me.