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I agree, however it should be pointed out that there is a third option - have all the toolbars and pallets docked to the top/sides of the image window. This is what Krita and Paint.net both do, and new users generally find this layout to be much easier to manage. The disadvantage is that if you are editing more than one image at a time you end up wasting space with duplicate toolbars, but as long as you retain the option to undock the pallets for advanced users, then you haven't lost anything.
Nevermind, that interpretation can't be correct, otherwise the section would be completely meaningless. It was originally explained to me that section 13 only applied if you made the software available for use to others, but after rereading the definitions section I cannot see how it could be interpreted that way.
The text you are quoting does not appear anywhere in the AGPLv3. You must be looking at the old Affero license, which did have significant problems, or a draft of the AGPL.
The only difference between the AGPLv3 and the GPLv3 (apart from the preamble which is non-binding) is section 13:
13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software. This Corresponding Source shall include the Corresponding Source for any work covered by version 3 of the GNU General Public License that is incorporated pursuant to the following paragraph.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the work with which it is combined will remain governed by version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
Note the "Not withstanding any other provision" phrase. Earlier in the license it says:
You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force.
where,
A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program or a work based on the Program.
Section 13 does not override this - you are perfectly free to modify works that you do not distribute in any way you wish.
Furthermore, this is not EULA in any way shape or form - the restrictions in section 13 only apply if you are making derivative works. Under US copyright law third parties do not have permission to create derivative works (apart from what is allowed under fair use) without approval from the copyright holder. This section is only giving the terms under which you are granted permission to make derivate works.
In case anyone else was wondering, industrial/commercial uses of C02 are on the order of 120 megatons per year, while CO2 emissions are about 13 gigatons (source). But if they can reclaim the CO2 using less energy/money that other sources, it wouldn't hurt to reuse it.
The article said they got up to 90% humidity at times. Remember, they didn't have any humidity controls at all, and it does rain in New Mexico resulting in short durations of high humidity.
I would say that fluctuations in humidity were tested quite well - long term effects of constant humidity, not so much.
But I do particularly miss StrongEd. That had some great features I've not seen anywhere else. Wonderful for editing lists as it had a feature that allowed you to select a block of text, then move the cursor into the middle of a line. Whatever you inserted or deleted was replicated on every line selected.
Ultraedit (windows shareware) has that ability. I've used it a ton when editing large tab-delimited data definition files at work. Emacs also has some commands to do vertical editing, but I don't use them often enough to remember them (apart from M-x edit-picture).
Firefox 3.0 has a feature that blocks sites that are on Mozilla's phishing blacklist. They would like users to accept a service agreement before using this feature, and they would like the feature to be on by default, which means having the user accept the agreement the first time the program runs.
I can understand their desire for the service agreement. Trademark and copyright law apply implicitly - other people have no rights to distribute the software or use the trademarks unless granted by a license (or fair-use), so there is no need to ask someone to agree to them. Service agreements are different - they are honest-to-goodness contracts and not licenses of any sort, so it really is best to get an explicit agreement. And the whole "by simply using this service you agree to the terms posted somewhere on our website" is hard to uphold in court if the user doesn't even know he is using the service.
At the minimum they need to have some sort of nag-screen displayed when activating this feature letting people know that it is getting data from an external server, and to deny liability for inaccuracies etc. Preferably (from the point of view of lawyers), this would require a click-through agreeing to the terms. But if they do this at all it should be done in a way that is clear that they are not agreeing to a license to use the software. Something like:
Firefox has a new phishing protection feature to protect you from fraudulent websites designed to obtain your private information (like passwords and credit card numbers) by disguising themselves to look like legitimate websites (like banks or online shops).
This feature relies on an online service provided by Mozilla Corp. By using phishing protection, you are accepting the terms of the Mozilla Website Service Agreement.
[I accept the service agreement - Enable phishing protection] [Do not enable at this time]
First, stop pretending that Hawking Radiation is a fact. It is a theory based on an ad-hoc combination of relativity and quantum mechanics, applied in situations where we know that neither are completely correct. We have no emperical evidence to either support or disprove it. It is an impressive derivation, and it is likely that black holes do emit some mass/energy, but it is not a fact.
Furthermore, a black hole the size of the earth would take 10^50 years to evaporate from Hawking Radiation. Much longer than the sun is expected to last. We loose more mass from solar wind slowly striping the atmosphere than a black hole would loose in the same amount of time. Heck we probably loose more from black-body radiation.
When looking at the total energy budget of getting to orbit, something like the White Knight provides practically zero energy gains and cannot really be thought of a dual-stage system. It's primary advantages are to avoid the need for expensive launch facilities, and to get above the most turbulent parts of the atmosphere, allowing you to be less affected by the weather (and thus preventing expensive delays). It really isn't scalable beyond getting small packages to low earth orbit - like the Pegasus rocket from Orbital Sciences which launches from a B-52.
The new J2-X to be used on the Ares V is a toroidal aerospike engine, and should be more powerfull/efficient than the linear aerospike designs tested for the VentureStar.
And yeah, SSTO is an inherently wasteful approach. It makes much more sense to ditch the weight of your fuel tanks once they are empty, either treating them as expendable, or just recovering them separately from the cargo/manned portion of the craft. Frankly, it is a good thing that the VentureStar/X-33 were canceled, as the concept of the craft itself was a bad idea from the start. The only useful money spent on them was researching some new materials / components like the areospike and new ideas for heat-shielding.
I was wondering the same thing so I did some looking around. It is easy to find used drives (especially 20GB) - look on ebay, amazon, your local game shop, etc.
If you want a larger drive, you can hack one in. I don't think anyone has had luck getting any SATA drive to work, but you can buy the exact same model that MS uses and flash the firmware to make it compatible. Then you can either swap out the case with another 360 hdd, or solder up a cable to use the drive internally.
Potting is used to keep the components from moving (usually in high-G environments. Sometimes you use it to keep close conductors from shorting (like solder-cup connector), but again the risk there is mostly movement of the conductors, not the environment. Potting materials usually do not have good thermal dissipation properties, and aren't really the best thing for environmental protection (humidity, liquid immersion etc) either. Conformal coating is what you want for the latter.
I don't get your MDI comment at all. MDI is annoying when you want to look at things side-by-side and have to rearrange windows inside of a window, and when you later want to look at one of those subwindows beside a window for another application you have to resize everything again to prevent the portion of the main window which doesn't contain that subwindow from covering up the other application when you switch between the applications, not to mention the issue of what does and doesn't show up in the taskbar.
But this is nothing like that - the url shown in the address bar always the one for the currently selected tab, regardless of where it is placed. There is zero functional difference - just a visual one.
This is not the same. First it allows you to configure settings for normal browsing and private browsing and switch between them easily. In Firefox there are about 7 different settings and two plugins that I change when I'm trying to cover my tracks, and it gets very cumbersome to do so manually. So much so that I usually just have two browsers installed - one configured for private browsing and one configured for normal browsing.
Secondly, the privacy features go beyond what Firefox(+plugins) and Safari can do. It doesn't depend on blacklists/whitelists but instead looks at the behavior of third-party content. If it notices that it is tracking you over more than a handful of sites it starts blocking that content.
And as other folks have pointed out, the crash recovery is per-tab.
My two biggest feature requests with Firefox have been the ability to thwart tracking without blocking all advertisements, and to not have the entire browser lockup when one tab is loading (FF3 seems better at this but it still happens). IE8 addresses both of those, and if I ran windows I would definitely be downloading the Beta right now to check it out.
I've been wanting to block this sort of behavior in Firefox for years, and haven't found any settings or plugins that can do so. You can either turn on the full-blown ad-blocking, or are stuck with manually creating whitelists/blacklists for cookies and ads.
There are several sites that I visit which are entirely ad-supported but restrict their advertisers to using unobtrusive ads. I don't want to block these. On the other hand, I'm not able to manually keep track of all the advertisers (and their myriad of servers) that have shady tracking practices.
Microsoft has identified a useful metric for automatically limiting this sort of behavior, and they should commended for it. If I didn't use linux, this feature would definitely give me reason to try out IE8 and possibly switch.
And the reason for the name is because Lego also introduced larger figures at the same time (1974). This is actually the 30 year anniversary of articulated minifigs, as the originals didn't have movable arms or legs.
This is WTC 7 that we are talking about, not towers 1 or 2. It wasn't struck by a plane and didn't have hundreds of gallons of aviation fuel in it. As colfer pointed out, it had some diesel fuel tanks in the basement, but these were found to have not contributed largely to the fire (which was on the upper stories).
The conclusion of the board is that a normal building/office fire starting by falling debris from WTC 1 is what brought the building down. If we are going to be building dense cities with skyscrapers then it is important that a normal fire merely gut the building, not compromise it's structural support. The building techniques used in WTC 7 were not sufficient, and shouldn't be used in the future.
No, he is saying that ATI has an insignificant portion of the low-end market, which is true. Both ATI and NVIDIA cards are now seen as upgrades to the default Intel chipset in practically every laptop sold, whereas in the past they provided both the low-end and high-end cards for that market.
There is also a FUSE plugin which will display the MythTV database as a filesystem, which you can then share using samba which saves filespace. You can still use the batch tool in MythTV to tag and remove commercials in the background if you want.
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I agree, however it should be pointed out that there is a third option - have all the toolbars and pallets docked to the top/sides of the image window. This is what Krita and Paint.net both do, and new users generally find this layout to be much easier to manage. The disadvantage is that if you are editing more than one image at a time you end up wasting space with duplicate toolbars, but as long as you retain the option to undock the pallets for advanced users, then you haven't lost anything.
The referrer can be spoofed using javascript (XMLHttpRequest), and thus cannot be depended on even with trusted browsers.
Nevermind, that interpretation can't be correct, otherwise the section would be completely meaningless. It was originally explained to me that section 13 only applied if you made the software available for use to others, but after rereading the definitions section I cannot see how it could be interpreted that way.
The point about the EULA still stands.
The text you are quoting does not appear anywhere in the AGPLv3. You must be looking at the old Affero license, which did have significant problems, or a draft of the AGPL.
The only difference between the AGPLv3 and the GPLv3 (apart from the preamble which is non-binding) is section 13:
13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software. This Corresponding Source shall include the Corresponding Source for any work covered by version 3 of the GNU General Public License that is incorporated pursuant to the following paragraph.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, you have permission to link or combine any covered work with a work licensed under version 3 of the GNU General Public License into a single combined work, and to convey the resulting work. The terms of this License will continue to apply to the part which is the covered work, but the work with which it is combined will remain governed by version 3 of the GNU General Public License.
Note the "Not withstanding any other provision" phrase. Earlier in the license it says:
You may make, run and propagate covered works that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force.
where,
A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program or a work based on the Program.
Section 13 does not override this - you are perfectly free to modify works that you do not distribute in any way you wish.
Furthermore, this is not EULA in any way shape or form - the restrictions in section 13 only apply if you are making derivative works. Under US copyright law third parties do not have permission to create derivative works (apart from what is allowed under fair use) without approval from the copyright holder. This section is only giving the terms under which you are granted permission to make derivate works.
In case anyone else was wondering, industrial/commercial uses of C02 are on the order of 120 megatons per year, while CO2 emissions are about 13 gigatons (source). But if they can reclaim the CO2 using less energy/money that other sources, it wouldn't hurt to reuse it.
The article said they got up to 90% humidity at times. Remember, they didn't have any humidity controls at all, and it does rain in New Mexico resulting in short durations of high humidity.
I would say that fluctuations in humidity were tested quite well - long term effects of constant humidity, not so much.
They're already real cool heads
and they're making real cool bread
But I do particularly miss StrongEd. That had some great features I've not seen anywhere else. Wonderful for editing lists as it had a feature that allowed you to select a block of text, then move the cursor into the middle of a line. Whatever you inserted or deleted was replicated on every line selected.
Ultraedit (windows shareware) has that ability. I've used it a ton when editing large tab-delimited data definition files at work. Emacs also has some commands to do vertical editing, but I don't use them often enough to remember them (apart from M-x edit-picture).
Firefox 3.0 has a feature that blocks sites that are on Mozilla's phishing blacklist. They would like users to accept a service agreement before using this feature, and they would like the feature to be on by default, which means having the user accept the agreement the first time the program runs.
I can understand their desire for the service agreement. Trademark and copyright law apply implicitly - other people have no rights to distribute the software or use the trademarks unless granted by a license (or fair-use), so there is no need to ask someone to agree to them. Service agreements are different - they are honest-to-goodness contracts and not licenses of any sort, so it really is best to get an explicit agreement. And the whole "by simply using this service you agree to the terms posted somewhere on our website" is hard to uphold in court if the user doesn't even know he is using the service.
At the minimum they need to have some sort of nag-screen displayed when activating this feature letting people know that it is getting data from an external server, and to deny liability for inaccuracies etc. Preferably (from the point of view of lawyers), this would require a click-through agreeing to the terms. But if they do this at all it should be done in a way that is clear that they are not agreeing to a license to use the software. Something like:
Firefox has a new phishing protection feature to protect you from fraudulent websites designed to obtain your private information (like passwords and credit card numbers) by disguising themselves to look like legitimate websites (like banks or online shops).
This feature relies on an online service provided by Mozilla Corp. By using phishing protection, you are accepting the terms of the Mozilla Website Service Agreement.
[I accept the service agreement - Enable phishing protection]
[Do not enable at this time]
It wasn't my turn to watch them!
That was the submitters problem with it, along with kopete, which also works well. Stupid I know.
now I have to run and hide from the spelling nazis.
First, stop pretending that Hawking Radiation is a fact. It is a theory based on an ad-hoc combination of relativity and quantum mechanics, applied in situations where we know that neither are completely correct. We have no emperical evidence to either support or disprove it. It is an impressive derivation, and it is likely that black holes do emit some mass/energy, but it is not a fact.
Furthermore, a black hole the size of the earth would take 10^50 years to evaporate from Hawking Radiation. Much longer than the sun is expected to last. We loose more mass from solar wind slowly striping the atmosphere than a black hole would loose in the same amount of time. Heck we probably loose more from black-body radiation.
When looking at the total energy budget of getting to orbit, something like the White Knight provides practically zero energy gains and cannot really be thought of a dual-stage system. It's primary advantages are to avoid the need for expensive launch facilities, and to get above the most turbulent parts of the atmosphere, allowing you to be less affected by the weather (and thus preventing expensive delays). It really isn't scalable beyond getting small packages to low earth orbit - like the Pegasus rocket from Orbital Sciences which launches from a B-52.
The new J2-X to be used on the Ares V is a toroidal aerospike engine, and should be more powerfull/efficient than the linear aerospike designs tested for the VentureStar.
And yeah, SSTO is an inherently wasteful approach. It makes much more sense to ditch the weight of your fuel tanks once they are empty, either treating them as expendable, or just recovering them separately from the cargo/manned portion of the craft. Frankly, it is a good thing that the VentureStar/X-33 were canceled, as the concept of the craft itself was a bad idea from the start. The only useful money spent on them was researching some new materials / components like the areospike and new ideas for heat-shielding.
I was wondering the same thing so I did some looking around. It is easy to find used drives (especially 20GB) - look on ebay, amazon, your local game shop, etc.
If you want a larger drive, you can hack one in. I don't think anyone has had luck getting any SATA drive to work, but you can buy the exact same model that MS uses and flash the firmware to make it compatible. Then you can either swap out the case with another 360 hdd, or solder up a cable to use the drive internally.
Potting is used to keep the components from moving (usually in high-G environments. Sometimes you use it to keep close conductors from shorting (like solder-cup connector), but again the risk there is mostly movement of the conductors, not the environment. Potting materials usually do not have good thermal dissipation properties, and aren't really the best thing for environmental protection (humidity, liquid immersion etc) either. Conformal coating is what you want for the latter.
I don't get your MDI comment at all. MDI is annoying when you want to look at things side-by-side and have to rearrange windows inside of a window, and when you later want to look at one of those subwindows beside a window for another application you have to resize everything again to prevent the portion of the main window which doesn't contain that subwindow from covering up the other application when you switch between the applications, not to mention the issue of what does and doesn't show up in the taskbar.
But this is nothing like that - the url shown in the address bar always the one for the currently selected tab, regardless of where it is placed. There is zero functional difference - just a visual one.
This is not the same. First it allows you to configure settings for normal browsing and private browsing and switch between them easily. In Firefox there are about 7 different settings and two plugins that I change when I'm trying to cover my tracks, and it gets very cumbersome to do so manually. So much so that I usually just have two browsers installed - one configured for private browsing and one configured for normal browsing.
Secondly, the privacy features go beyond what Firefox(+plugins) and Safari can do. It doesn't depend on blacklists/whitelists but instead looks at the behavior of third-party content. If it notices that it is tracking you over more than a handful of sites it starts blocking that content.
And as other folks have pointed out, the crash recovery is per-tab.
My two biggest feature requests with Firefox have been the ability to thwart tracking without blocking all advertisements, and to not have the entire browser lockup when one tab is loading (FF3 seems better at this but it still happens). IE8 addresses both of those, and if I ran windows I would definitely be downloading the Beta right now to check it out.
I've been wanting to block this sort of behavior in Firefox for years, and haven't found any settings or plugins that can do so. You can either turn on the full-blown ad-blocking, or are stuck with manually creating whitelists/blacklists for cookies and ads.
There are several sites that I visit which are entirely ad-supported but restrict their advertisers to using unobtrusive ads. I don't want to block these. On the other hand, I'm not able to manually keep track of all the advertisers (and their myriad of servers) that have shady tracking practices.
Microsoft has identified a useful metric for automatically limiting this sort of behavior, and they should commended for it. If I didn't use linux, this feature would definitely give me reason to try out IE8 and possibly switch.
And the reason for the name is because Lego also introduced larger figures at the same time (1974). This is actually the 30 year anniversary of articulated minifigs, as the originals didn't have movable arms or legs.
This is WTC 7 that we are talking about, not towers 1 or 2. It wasn't struck by a plane and didn't have hundreds of gallons of aviation fuel in it. As colfer pointed out, it had some diesel fuel tanks in the basement, but these were found to have not contributed largely to the fire (which was on the upper stories).
The conclusion of the board is that a normal building/office fire starting by falling debris from WTC 1 is what brought the building down. If we are going to be building dense cities with skyscrapers then it is important that a normal fire merely gut the building, not compromise it's structural support. The building techniques used in WTC 7 were not sufficient, and shouldn't be used in the future.
No, he is saying that ATI has an insignificant portion of the low-end market, which is true. Both ATI and NVIDIA cards are now seen as upgrades to the default Intel chipset in practically every laptop sold, whereas in the past they provided both the low-end and high-end cards for that market.
Renting is just a way to use something and throw it away, in the end.
Do you feel the same way about your employment?
There is also a FUSE plugin which will display the MythTV database as a filesystem, which you can then share using samba which saves filespace. You can still use the batch tool in MythTV to tag and remove commercials in the background if you want.