And, as a fallback plan, they make products people want.
Yes! Thats what all people here try to say, they should planly make products people want, and stop to spread and finance anti-GPL anti-Linux like in example just some stories ago.
Why do they need to crush anything else? Thats not the sense of economics, or "the american way".
Nah thats not true, there is a freeze at the end of development kernels.
However you no matter the less right. Why? Because only a few people use uneven series. So they are tested not really well. You can ask people millions of times to test the final 2.5.x releases, they will stay with 2.4.x.
However as soon 2.6.0 is released all will jump of it, and test in broad enviroenment, so it takes some even releases until most issues are done.
It's our social behaviour that defines this reality. Not a way the linux kernel development could improve.
Well do you know what statics and approxomations are?
Without knowing the detail of a black box system, you can predict future behaviour of the system due to past observations. Of course not certainly, but likely.
I think for me most important the ALSA sound system is finally part of the linus kernel. Meaning you do not need to patch the kernel anymore to get recent sound support.
Your message circle translated in googles babblefish. English -> German -> French -> English
This one is now this Patentzupacken which uses a defective system, is rather obvious. However two thoughts:
1. This patent "is described" like fixing "of a method and the system which translates immediate advertisements between users who" communicate "in the different languages", it considers that it is only one method which is patented; there is nothing, me with my own method comes in top stops. This one is not a good patent, but there is badly (Einklickeneinkaufen is come to concern).
2. This patent, if it is written contrary to a top, could fix a manner, between the mother tongues of the devices not to translate not the user which would be perhaps a more interesting patent, IPv6, piercing mutual transport between devices and will cetera considered transparent; Did Microsoft give up the ball on those?
Well for a 1/1000 inch glass sphere I calculate 1,6 Watt.
Okay that's possible. However this is a very very tiny sphere:o) Quite a bit smaller than a hair in diameter.
I just remeber years ago the "design" of photon engine. Meaing the task to calcate the power you need to put in a photon engine (spotlight) to accelerate the car say to 100 km/h in a minute.
As you can think of this is a huge huge huge number, making photonic engines irrelastic. (Using photons as repulsion element).
However I don't have the calculation any more, so I put up what I just guessed to remember about physics.
This is patently false, since my undergrad physics book has an actual picture of a small sphere being levitated by a powerful laser.
Are you really serious about that? Do you know how strong a laser would need to be for photons to carry enough momentum to move a single gram?
Okay lets say the sphere weighs one single gram. And we want to hold it in air, meaing we have to put the earth acceleration 9.81 m/s against it.
Every second we need to push the momentum into the ball it would generate if it would fall freely. Speed would be v = g*t. Momentum would be p = m*v = m*g*t.
Now we need to design a laser that pushes enough momentum into the ball. The momentum of light is defined as:
p = E / c.
The power of the laser is P = E/t (in watt). Set into the above equation:
p = P * t / c
which also equals p from above: P * t / c = m * g * t
So nice think this stupid time variable goes away and we get:
P = c * m * g = 300.000.000 * 0.001 * 9.81 ~= 3 MegaWatt.
Have I calculated correctly? Can we build such lasers?
The coolest job I want to have is the guy that is responsible in Jenifer Lopez videos, having her impassioned through the whole video taking sequence. (Yes they do that, since an impassioned women just looks a lot more sexy).
gowen I still highly doubt the existence and legality of such contract clauses.
I mean when doing any sport you have to calculate being hurt in normal ways the sport acts. This also includes blue spots in example at football. Don't tell me blue spots in football are illegal if not done by contract.
Even in boxing all we agree on is doing normal boxing sport. I don't know of any clause that allows me to punch you anyway beside the normal boxing sport goes (even in the ring, for example punches beside the rounds).
Put to get end it, beside this speciality of normal hurting during a sport, there are clauses that are obviously illegal, and they are not valid even if written in a contract, and signed by both parties.
Examples are: Ownership of persons (slavery), dealing with forbidden material (drugs), commissioning of illegal actions (assassin), generally anything violating the basic rights, and in general everything violating general morality (prostitution).
And as special example this whole story is about. In europe it is illegal for companies when doing deals with consumers, to refrain from warrenty. Beside that there is a whole set of laws for company-costumer deals, which is called are costumer-portection-laws.
These are devided in generally in two major parts, that are first things that are generally illegal, and other things a company needs to proove they explicitly negotiated them with the costumer (general terms and conditions are never negotiated explicitly).
For example there companies right to resign from the deal without giving a reason needs to be negotiated explictly.
A withdrawel right by deals done outside the rooms of the company (street and door deals).
A withdrawel right by violating of important cicumstances. (A window seller tells there where never magisterial approval problems with these windows, but your approval gets voided).
Or another important example is the company agreement in a stock corporation. Normally association right is substitable, meaning in your contract you can make any rules different from the law which suit best for you and your partners. However in a stock corporation this is different. When you buy stock nobody can demand from you to read the company agreement of any company you hold shares of, you often even can't access that document. So you must be able to trust that the stock corporation behaves just like it is defined by law for such corporations. So stock corporatoin law is a forcing law.
However I must say all I know is the european right system (based on the roman right system), in the US which bases on the british common law things may be different. I don't know them both too deep, but as far I could form an opinion, I think our roman law system is by far superiour in contrast to the comman law chaos.
And I don't think a special contract is required to be allowed in an amateur boxing round.
And I too think boxing is a so constructed sport where I knock you out (or the other way around), but both sides should without accidents not carry harms from the event.
And even there if I kick your balls, during a boxing round, you would still be able to sue me.
Well I ment something different into forcing into conditions. Well you cannot force somebody to sign something. However you can force them into side rulings of a main contract.
When you depend on being able to make a contract with me (or may one other person with the same intention (oligopol)) I could then add anything to the contract I like, if it would not be illegal to do so.
For example an often seen example the renter, where you just need a flat, and well I could put anything in the side rulings. However here in europe in example just because of this reason renting law is rather strict. And of course it's a forcing law meaning you cannot override it in contract, or else it would not make any sense.
If you give something away without compensation, your liability is very limited under German law, anyway. In particular, you can only be held liable in case of gross negligence or premeditation. So, for software authors who just offer their software for download, this is not a problem.
People who sell open source/free software (either written by themselves or someone else) might be held liable to a certain extent. In that, they're no different from people who sell propietary software.
YES thats the way it is. Mostly. It is the consumer protection law, that forbids voiding the warrenty.
However as you applied first it only applies to deals with compensation. Meaning if you give it away for free it is for free.
Next is consumer proteciton law only applies to certain deals, namely following: One side is a company that acts in it's companies field, and this is not true for the other side.
Meaning as a private person selling (GPL) stuff you may void warranty. As a company selling (GPL) stuff to costumer you may not void warranty.
All true and insightfull, however one exception warrenty in germany is only forced in consomer-deals.
Defined is it this way: one side is a company acting in it's companies field, and this does not apply to the other side.
As a private person selling anything you can void warrenty. A company selling to another company working in the same field can void warrenty.
However a company acting in it's field of buisness may not void warrenty for a private person or a company concentrating on another field and thus has little knowledge on the field which is base of the contract
Slashdot Mirror
I counted already the posts until this very predictable joke appears :)
How about learning the details of the english language? :o)
comme -> come
archieve etc.
WTF, why is this moderated interesting.
Derivate works are protected by copyright law, just like exact copies are. Duh!
You can't even write your own book regarding harry potter as main person, as this would be derivate work!!
Sorry mister your understand of PR is maybe a public one, but it is false!
PR is everything a cooperation or person does.
Please smack me seriously.
Everybody is PR. And why do you think about PR guys beeing negative?
Founding is public broadly used PR move, if you have the money to spend. PR is important for everybody of us.
And, as a fallback plan, they make products people want.
Yes! Thats what all people here try to say, they should planly make products people want, and stop to spread and finance anti-GPL anti-Linux like in example just some stories ago.
Why do they need to crush anything else? Thats not the sense of economics, or "the american way".
Well you know this are the moves your PR department suggest you to do. Since you can get the money back sue to the positive PR.
Well I was talking about statistics not approximations.
So your are talking about statistics regarding statistics.
Now is there something biting in it's ass?
Nah thats not true, there is a freeze at the end of development kernels.
However you no matter the less right.
Why? Because only a few people use uneven series. So they are tested not really well. You can ask people millions of times to test the final 2.5.x releases, they will stay with 2.4.x.
However as soon 2.6.0 is released all will jump of it, and test in broad enviroenment, so it takes some even releases until most issues are done.
It's our social behaviour that defines this reality. Not a way the linux kernel development could improve.
Moderators can be soo stupid thats not offtopic!
Well do you know what statics and approxomations are?
Without knowing the detail of a black box system, you can predict future behaviour of the system due to past observations. Of course not certainly, but likely.
IMHO also: thats not insightful!
I think for me most important the ALSA sound system is finally part of the linus kernel. Meaning you do not need to patch the kernel anymore to get recent sound support.
Too bad "-1 not funny" does not exist ;)
Your message circle translated in googles babblefish.
English -> German -> French -> English
This one is now this Patentzupacken which uses a defective system, is rather obvious. However two thoughts:
1. This patent "is described" like fixing "of a method and the system which translates immediate advertisements between users who" communicate "in the different languages", it considers that it is only one method which is patented; there is nothing, me with my own method comes in top stops. This one is not a good patent, but there is badly (Einklickeneinkaufen is come to concern).
2. This patent, if it is written contrary to a top, could fix a manner, between the mother tongues of the devices not to translate not the user which would be perhaps a more interesting patent, IPv6, piercing mutual transport between devices and will cetera considered transparent; Did Microsoft give up the ball on those?
Well for a 1/1000 inch glass sphere I calculate 1,6 Watt.
:o) Quite a bit smaller than a hair in diameter.
Okay that's possible. However this is a very very tiny sphere
I just remeber years ago the "design" of photon engine. Meaing the task to calcate the power you need to put in a photon engine (spotlight) to accelerate the car say to 100 km/h in a minute.
As you can think of this is a huge huge huge number, making photonic engines irrelastic. (Using photons as repulsion element).
However I don't have the calculation any more, so I put up what I just guessed to remember about physics.
And I want to add we're a speaking of an continues laser! Not a short laser pulse of 3MW, a continuous beam!
This is patently false, since my undergrad physics book has an actual picture of a small sphere being levitated by a powerful laser.
Are you really serious about that? Do you know how strong a laser would need to be for photons to carry enough momentum to move a single gram?
Okay lets say the sphere weighs one single gram. And we want to hold it in air, meaing we have to put the earth acceleration 9.81 m/s against it.
Every second we need to push the momentum into the ball it would generate if it would fall freely. Speed would be v = g*t. Momentum would be p = m*v = m*g*t.
Now we need to design a laser that pushes enough momentum into the ball. The momentum of light is defined as:
p = E / c.
The power of the laser is P = E/t (in watt).
Set into the above equation:
p = P * t / c
which also equals p from above:
P * t / c = m * g * t
So nice think this stupid time variable goes away and we get:
P = c * m * g = 300.000.000 * 0.001 * 9.81 ~= 3 MegaWatt.
Have I calculated correctly?
Can we build such lasers?
A solar sail is essentially a giant mirror that reflects photons of sunlight back in the direction they came from.
Wrong! Even I know that solar sails are not driven bz reflectens of the photons, but get their momentum very normal from the solar particles.
These are the particles that also cause the aurora borealis. These have rest mass, normal momentum and anything normal.
Simple as that. So can somebody explain what the fuzz is about?
The coolest job I want to have is the guy that is responsible in Jenifer Lopez videos, having her impassioned through the whole video taking sequence. (Yes they do that, since an impassioned women just looks a lot more sexy).
As they say: You cannot make anything idiot-proof, because idiots are so ingenious.
free of charge buisness is never bounded to liability.
gowen I still highly doubt the existence and legality of such contract clauses.
I mean when doing any sport you have to calculate being hurt in normal ways the sport acts. This also includes blue spots in example at football. Don't tell me blue spots in football are illegal if not done by contract.
Even in boxing all we agree on is doing normal boxing sport. I don't know of any clause that allows me to punch you anyway beside the normal boxing sport goes (even in the ring, for example punches beside the rounds).
Put to get end it, beside this speciality of normal hurting during a sport, there are clauses that are obviously illegal, and they are not valid even if written in a contract, and signed by both parties.
Examples are: Ownership of persons (slavery), dealing with forbidden material (drugs), commissioning of illegal actions (assassin), generally anything violating the basic rights,
and in general everything violating general morality (prostitution).
And as special example this whole story is about. In europe it is illegal for companies when doing deals with consumers, to refrain from warrenty. Beside that there is a whole set of laws for company-costumer deals, which is called are costumer-portection-laws.
These are devided in generally in two major parts, that are first things that are generally illegal, and other things a company needs to proove they explicitly negotiated them with the costumer (general terms and conditions are never negotiated explicitly).
For example there companies right to resign from the deal without giving a reason needs to be negotiated explictly.
A withdrawel right by deals done outside the rooms of the company (street and door deals).
A withdrawel right by violating of important cicumstances. (A window seller tells there where never magisterial approval problems with these windows, but your approval gets voided).
Or another important example is the company agreement in a stock corporation. Normally association right is substitable, meaning in your contract you can make any rules different from the law which suit best for you and your partners. However in a stock corporation this is different. When you buy stock nobody can demand from you to read the company agreement of any company you hold shares of, you often even can't access that document. So you must be able to trust that the stock corporation behaves just like it is defined by law for such corporations. So stock corporatoin law is a forcing law.
However I must say all I know is the european right system (based on the roman right system), in the US which bases on the british common law things may be different. I don't know them both too deep, but as far I could form an opinion, I think our roman law system is by far superiour in contrast to the comman law chaos.
Boxing is a sport and not a contract.
And I don't think a special contract is required to be allowed in an amateur boxing round.
And I too think boxing is a so constructed sport where I knock you out (or the other way around), but both sides should without accidents not carry harms from the event.
And even there if I kick your balls, during a boxing round, you would still be able to sue me.
Well I ment something different into forcing into conditions. Well you cannot force somebody to sign something. However you can force them into side rulings of a main contract.
When you depend on being able to make a contract with me (or may one other person with the same intention (oligopol)) I could then add anything to the contract I like, if it would not be illegal to do so.
For example an often seen example the renter, where you just need a flat, and well I could put anything in the side rulings. However here in europe in example just because of this reason renting law is rather strict. And of course it's a forcing law meaning you cannot override it in contract, or else it would not make any sense.
If you give something away without compensation, your liability is very limited under German law, anyway. In particular, you can only be held liable in case of gross negligence or premeditation. So, for software authors who just offer their software for download, this is not a problem.
People who sell open source/free software (either written by themselves or someone else) might be held liable to a certain extent. In that, they're no different from people who sell propietary software.
YES thats the way it is. Mostly.
It is the consumer protection law, that forbids voiding the warrenty.
However as you applied first it only applies to deals with compensation. Meaning if you give it away for free it is for free.
Next is consumer proteciton law only applies to certain deals, namely following: One side is a company that acts in it's companies field, and this is not true for the other side.
Meaning as a private person selling (GPL) stuff you may void warranty. As a company selling (GPL) stuff to costumer you may not void warranty.
All true and insightfull, however one exception warrenty in germany is only forced in consomer-deals.
Defined is it this way: one side is a company acting in it's companies field, and this does not apply to the other side.
As a private person selling anything you can void warrenty. A company selling to another company working in the same field can void warrenty.
However a company acting in it's field of buisness may not void warrenty for a private person or a company concentrating on another field and thus has little knowledge on the field which is base of the contract