The GPL doesn't cover USAGE (In fact, it explicitly prohibits the placing of any restrictions on usage by downstream recipients...)- it covers a little different thing.
It covers publication and derivative works.
If you give a copy to someone else, you're publishing a copy.
If you make a modification to the protected work and then give that to someone else, you're making a derivative work.
Neither is usage in the eyes of Copyright Law.
If you fail to abide by the terms under which you are given permission to do so by the various rights holders, you don't have their permission and thereby are guilty of straight Copyright Infringement.
Willful acts thereof are viewed in a very dim light by the Courts and the Law.
The truth be known, if the FOSS licenses were held to be unenforceable, then most of the publication, etc. licenses that the record labels, book publishers, etc. live by would also be so- and NOBODY in that space wants that.
These licenses are NOT EULAs. They're all largely publication and derivative works licenses- with the royalties being whatever the terms of the license requires for being able to publish the stuff to downstream recipients.
No license?
No publication. No derivative works.
You publish or make a derivative work without the license to do so, you're guilty of willful infringement of the rights holders. That carries a much, much nastier penalty than accidental ones and it's something Verizon and Actiontec did NOT want to face the music on in court- so they settled out of it once it got filed.
Just use OpenGL ES 2.0- it's most of the promised clean-ups and you can either get wrappers that nicely work or actual drivers on desktop and embedded systems for it.
If it's good enough for the PS3 and the current in development shader rendering handheld units, it should be be fine for this generation of titles- seriously.
I'm more interested in ES 2.0 and forward. It's more akin to what's been needed here with OpenGL anyhow- and most of the really, really interesting spaces right at the moment (Wii, PS3, handhelds, embedded systems...) all use ES 2.0 if they're doing shader based systems. ES 2.0's a lot closer to what OpenGL 2.0 should have been and it's only going to get better because they made the break there with it that OpenGL 3.0 SHOULD have done with things with a compatibility layer overlay.
Do you HONESTLY think they're going to lower those prices on that basis?
I can't afford a lot of things either- I spend $60 per WEEK or more on gasoline alone just to go to work and back. Think your problems are the only ones- or that what they're selling is an answer?
Someone pointed out that prices came down twenty whole cents per gallon. Heh... So, now instead of $64 per tankful, I now end up spending $60 this week. It needs to come down to half of what it is right now to make a real change in things and the oil they're on about won't change the prices by that much- sorry, it just is that way. If it were otherwise, the other reserves we've tapped with this same rationale in the past would have put the $3/gal and the $2/gal gasoline prices back down a dollar or more.
Actually, the House moved to Adjourn at the scheduled time- because what was being proposed wasn't actually pressing business (Like a WAR...). That's not taking their ball and going home- that's just doing what ends up happening each and every year since the beginnings of the current form of Government we have in the US. It's far from the same thing as the antics going on right now from the Republicans.
Save that it wasn't the liberals that were doing this silly stunt...it's the ones that claim to be conservatives. The House adjourned for vacation. The Republican's chose to act like little kids and try to press for oil drilling that won't make a drop in the sea's worth of real change and call it an "Energy Policy".
I'm glad you qualified that with "in your experience".
Far, far too many have had the opposite experience.
And, moreover, I've a bit of difficulty buying into the Intel wireless NOT working- that's been working right and is my first choice (Over broadcom- it doesn't work to save your life in many cases...) right after Atheros and then Prism54.
A person has his failings and his strengths- and I suspect that you talk to those failings when you refer to the "not so good" stories about Randy Pausch.
Explain the physics of quantum mechanics, something we use as a model to define the technology of today with, to someone from the 10th century. What we do now is effectively sorcery or "godlike" in nature compared to the "physics" of the day.
In the end, Physics is a convenient model that partially describes how the world REALLY works.
The bubble was caused by people speculating (Read: GAMBLING...) on all these 'clever' ideas were going to make them insanely rich, insanely quick. It bursting was caused, ultimately, by the realization of these self-same get-rich-quick people, that they couldn't get rich quick off of an IPO, etc. out of most of this and moved their money elsewhere before they "lost" it.
We need to do ALL of them in parallel. Claiming one magic bullet or even a couple of them aren't going to work. Your suggestions are better than many, but unfortunately, have you accounted for the disruptions you'll be potentially causing much like the Cane Toads, etc. we've done in the past?
If you've not given it thought, then the suggestions have only some merit in the big picture sense. Suggestions of "doing things differently" more often than not seize on some specific like cars, when in reality the proposals end up being as bad or worse because they do not account for the pollution of the energy production to produce the vehicles or the energy costs of mass transit (In many cases, mass-transit isn't ANY cleaner than what we're doing right now- anyone telling you otherwise is selling something...).
I'm not proposing we do nothing. I'm proposing we do everything we can, including evaluating the things you suggest and the subject of this conversation, which is the sequestration via quicklime production where it's got an actual negative carbon footprint. But...we have to apply honest thought to it no matter what we all do- and so few honestly DO that sort of thing when they propose "answers".
Actually the energy to MAKE the steel, rubber, etc. produced 5 times the CO2 that I produced driving 20 minutes to work. You just don't see it because it's not right next to you. Try again.
It's an interesting place... And it sustains a substantive portion of the GDP of the US. I think there's a reason for the negotiation, though- Texas wasn't a territory or a former Colony of the British Crown, it was a Republic in it's own right.
Unfortunately doing nothing isn't the answer either. Nor is anything that I've seen most of the people suggesting (Suggested alternatives to the polluting vehicles, etc. end up producing their own global warming inducing pollution, either at only a slightly LESS rate than we are now or at the same or higher levels- you just don't have it happening locally...) including the seeding of the oceans with iron filings to produce algal blooms, etc.
While I'm not 100% on board with this, on the first reading, it's the first relatively "sane" thing that someone's suggested so far about the "global warming problem"- which is not to say I think we need to do it right away or that this is the sole answer.
And, for the record, we've been doing the old saw about the lady or the Simpson's gag since the earlier days of man. Just being on this earth, we cause a disruption like no other... I don't see us doing any less anytime soon, I'm afraid.
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It's NOT a EULA.
The GPL doesn't cover USAGE (In fact, it explicitly prohibits the placing of any restrictions on usage by downstream recipients...)- it covers a little different thing.
It covers publication and derivative works.
If you give a copy to someone else, you're publishing a copy.
If you make a modification to the protected work and then give that to someone else, you're making a derivative work.
Neither is usage in the eyes of Copyright Law.
If you fail to abide by the terms under which you are given permission to do so by the various rights holders, you don't have their permission and thereby are guilty of straight Copyright Infringement.
Willful acts thereof are viewed in a very dim light by the Courts and the Law.
Ahh... The wookie defense... >:-)
Yeah, the GPL was upheld in Germany as valid.
The truth be known, if the FOSS licenses were held to be unenforceable, then most of the publication, etc. licenses that the record labels, book publishers, etc. live by would also be so- and NOBODY in that space wants that.
These licenses are NOT EULAs. They're all largely publication and derivative works licenses- with the royalties being whatever the terms of the license requires for being able to publish the stuff to downstream recipients.
No license?
No publication. No derivative works.
You publish or make a derivative work without the license to do so, you're guilty of willful infringement of the rights holders. That carries a much, much nastier penalty than accidental ones and it's something Verizon and Actiontec did NOT want to face the music on in court- so they settled out of it once it got filed.
Sorry, but that's not QUITE true.
You need the DirectX 9c DLL's to do D3D stuff under WINE. That should be your first clue.
Just use OpenGL ES 2.0- it's most of the promised clean-ups and you can either get wrappers that nicely work or actual drivers on desktop and embedded systems for it.
If it's good enough for the PS3 and the current in development shader rendering handheld units, it should be be fine for this generation of titles- seriously.
I'm more interested in ES 2.0 and forward. It's more akin to what's been needed here with OpenGL anyhow- and most of the really, really interesting spaces right at the moment (Wii, PS3, handhelds, embedded systems...) all use ES 2.0 if they're doing shader based systems. ES 2.0's a lot closer to what OpenGL 2.0 should have been and it's only going to get better because they made the break there with it that OpenGL 3.0 SHOULD have done with things with a compatibility layer overlay.
That's because it sucks, unlike Blu-Ray...
I don't blame 'em for not wanting it.
Do you HONESTLY think they're going to lower those prices on that basis?
I can't afford a lot of things either- I spend $60 per WEEK or more on gasoline alone just to go to work and back. Think your problems are the only ones- or that what they're selling is an answer?
Someone pointed out that prices came down twenty whole cents per gallon. Heh... So, now instead of $64 per tankful, I now end up spending $60 this week. It needs to come down to half of what it is right now to make a real change in things and the oil they're on about won't change the prices by that much- sorry, it just is that way. If it were otherwise, the other reserves we've tapped with this same rationale in the past would have put the $3/gal and the $2/gal gasoline prices back down a dollar or more.
It doesn't work the way you think it does.
Actually, the House moved to Adjourn at the scheduled time- because what was being proposed wasn't actually pressing business (Like a WAR...). That's not taking their ball and going home- that's just doing what ends up happening each and every year since the beginnings of the current form of Government we have in the US. It's far from the same thing as the antics going on right now from the Republicans.
Save that it wasn't the liberals that were doing this silly stunt...it's the ones that claim to be conservatives. The House adjourned for vacation. The Republican's chose to act like little kids and try to press for oil drilling that won't make a drop in the sea's worth of real change and call it an "Energy Policy".
Shameful, really.
I'm glad you qualified that with "in your experience".
Far, far too many have had the opposite experience.
And, moreover, I've a bit of difficulty buying into the Intel wireless NOT working- that's been working right and is my first choice (Over broadcom- it doesn't work to save your life in many cases...) right after Atheros and then Prism54.
Noise canceling headphones and an MP3 player...oh, perhaps not, the DHS might confiscate that...
Heh...perhaps the booze isn't a bad idea after all... >:-)
Considering that MS LOVES DLL's- I don't see them seeing this as a real concern, the truth be known.
I would hesitate to claim him a "god".
He was a man. A good man in at least some ways.
A person has his failings and his strengths- and I suspect that you talk to those failings when you refer to the "not so good" stories about Randy Pausch.
Each morning it's brave to get up and go into that cruel, cruel world.
Each breath you take is one less to your last.
Each step or action you take is one less to your last.
The only difference with him and the rest of us was that he was revealed the sand left in the top of his hourglass.
If I were faced with this as he was, I could only hope to forge forward as he did.
Heh... "Physics"...
Explain the physics of quantum mechanics, something we use as a model to define the technology of today with, to someone from the 10th century. What we do now is effectively sorcery or "godlike" in nature compared to the "physics" of the day.
In the end, Physics is a convenient model that partially describes how the world REALLY works.
You forgot that it also clubs baby seals...
The bubble was caused by people speculating (Read: GAMBLING...) on all these 'clever' ideas were going to make them insanely rich, insanely quick. It bursting was caused, ultimately, by the realization of these self-same get-rich-quick people, that they couldn't get rich quick off of an IPO, etc. out of most of this and moved their money elsewhere before they "lost" it.
Did you READ me say that in my comment? NO.
Hush. Don't be reading things INTO what I'm commenting on.
We need to do ALL of them in parallel. Claiming one magic bullet or even a couple of them aren't going to work. Your suggestions are better than many, but unfortunately, have you accounted for the disruptions you'll be potentially causing much like the Cane Toads, etc. we've done in the past?
If you've not given it thought, then the suggestions have only some merit in the big picture sense. Suggestions of "doing things differently" more often than not seize on some specific like cars, when in reality the proposals end up being as bad or worse because they do not account for the pollution of the energy production to produce the vehicles or the energy costs of mass transit (In many cases, mass-transit isn't ANY cleaner than what we're doing right now- anyone telling you otherwise is selling something...).
I'm not proposing we do nothing. I'm proposing we do everything we can, including evaluating the things you suggest and the subject of this conversation, which is the sequestration via quicklime production where it's got an actual negative carbon footprint. But...we have to apply honest thought to it no matter what we all do- and so few honestly DO that sort of thing when they propose "answers".
No other species has QUITE the interruptive capacity we do. Anything we end up doing does this, ranging from agriculture to machinery.
Actually the energy to MAKE the steel, rubber, etc. produced 5 times the CO2 that I produced driving 20 minutes to work. You just don't see it because it's not right next to you. Try again.
It's an interesting place... And it sustains a substantive portion of the GDP of the US. I think there's a reason for the negotiation, though- Texas wasn't a territory or a former Colony of the British Crown, it was a Republic in it's own right.
DING! Give that anon coward a cigar!
Unfortunately doing nothing isn't the answer either. Nor is anything that I've seen most of the people suggesting (Suggested alternatives to the polluting vehicles, etc. end up producing their own global warming inducing pollution, either at only a slightly LESS rate than we are now or at the same or higher levels- you just don't have it happening locally...) including the seeding of the oceans with iron filings to produce algal blooms, etc.
While I'm not 100% on board with this, on the first reading, it's the first relatively "sane" thing that someone's suggested so far about the "global warming problem"- which is not to say I think we need to do it right away or that this is the sole answer.
And, for the record, we've been doing the old saw about the lady or the Simpson's gag since the earlier days of man. Just being on this earth, we cause a disruption like no other... I don't see us doing any less anytime soon, I'm afraid.