It doesn't, but it prevents them from calling it "UserBSD." The original point was that someone would steal it, make it better, then sell it closed and put UserBSD out of business. If they change it, then it's not UserBSD and shouldn't be called that. People may prefer a Chevy to a Ford, but Chevy can't call their Mustang clone a Mustang, they have to call it a Firebird, so everyone will know which is the genuine Mustang. If Ford find themselves adding Firebird features to the next Mustang to retain customers, well, that's free enterprise and that's why competition is good for the consumer.
If you don't like it, use the GPL, but in any case the BSD license does not allow just anyone to use your good name if you take the proper steps to retain it.
There's a solution to your problem. 1) Form a corporation: UserBSD, inc. 2) UserBSD, Inc. registers the trademark "UserBSD". 3) If anyone takes the code and, as you fear, re-sells it as proprietary/closed software, UserBSD, Inc. sues their pants off if they so much as mention "UserBSD". They can call it "Sam" if they like, but not "UserBSD".
This will never catch on until it has the full backing and trust of the government, but since it allows total anonimity the government (any government) will never back it.
What good is it if your assets are locked into a system that can lose them without recourse? Who do you sue if the system wipes out your account? If people can't turn to the government for help in such situations, they won't use it. The government doesn't want people to use it, so they won't help. Hell, PayPal is only quasi-legal and on the edge of being shut down as it is -- what makes you think the government is going to allow DMT?
Yeah, I bought one for my five-year-old, and guess what? It won't work without the chicken-shit software, which is too difficult for a five-year-old (and it doesn't really work right even for an adult). What I want is a sub-$100 camera that acts like a usb drive when my boy connects it to his PC (like my $250 camera does). Then he can drag-and-drop the pictures himself. He doesn't need a fancy LCD, just point-and-shoot plus flash. And no chicken-shit software needed.
Relax. This and all other state anti-spam laws are void as of Jan. 1 (I believe; I don't know for sure, but it's soon) when the new federal law takes effect.
States, nail 'em while you can! Individuals, sue 'em while you can! (the fed. law prohibits individuals from sueing spammers -- gotta love the GOP)
USQWest is my phone company. USQWest is in Denver. I'm just outside Seattle. Except for their Denver customers, USQWest is not local. They are the true decendant of Ma Bell: We don't care; we don't have to.
the consensus at Groklaw is that either SCO are lying through their teeth and this is all FUD, or their network admin staff are a bunch of incompetents.
That's lawyers for you: always one or the other. Guilty or innocent. Right or wrong. Black or white. Never once considered the possibility that it's both.
Ah, but the Rice engineers weren't working on space elevators, they were working on nanotube fibers. To the space elevator engineers perhaps this is still physics research, but to the nanotube cable makers (with applications beyond space elevators) this is engineering.
No shit. First, he says the story (all nine episodes) is as recalled by the droids. Then he says the droid's memory is erased at the end of episode 3 (so that they "forget" that Annie is Vadar). Then he abandons the concept entirely and gives us key sequences in episode 2 that are witnessed by neither C3PO nor R2D2. Shesh! Lucas can't keep his story straight. You know what they say, once you start to lie you have to keep making new lies to cover up the fact that you're lying. Lucas has lied to the fans for years.
The truth is that he's just in it for the money, and he'll do anything that he thinks will pull in the most profit. He only put Lando in to sell tickets to blacks. He all but removed Jar-Jar from episode 2 because focus groups told him the diehards were only seeing episode 1 five times instead of ten because they hated Jar-Jar so much. In other words, he'll change the story line to sell tickets.
The whole DVD delay was just to sell as many video tapes as possible, then turn around and sell DVDs to all those who bought the tapes (nooo - it was for the art, man! Lucas won't release a DVD unless it's right. Uh-huh. Sure. Whatever). The whole digital special effects thing is just to avoid paying for real actors (but can you blame him? I mean, really -- imagine the payroll for a clone army of Hollywood extras). Geeze, if it was for the art then you wouldn't see the mattes on the episode 4-6 SFX shots. But Lucas found that Kubric's overkill on 2001 didn't sell tickets, so we get mattes you can spot with your eyes closed. Hell, for all the super-D-duper digital effects in 1 and 2, you can still spot the mattes.
He's said he will not make episodes 7-9, but I'll bet he will -- once the computer stuff is good enough that he can do the last three without any actors at all.
it's still a research problem. The engineering begins when we have a cable even a few feet long
I've been reading this thread with great interest, and I agree with points made by both sides. However, IAAE (I Am An Engineer), and I wish to point out that there's a fuzzy line between Physics and Engineering. When Roebling invented wire rope, was he a Physicist or an Engineer? At what point did his work transition from Research to Engineering? If you asked him, he'd say he was an Engineer and all his work was Engineering.
The headline (you did RTFS, right?) says it all: "Rice engineers make first pure nanotube fibers"
You're right. I'm too picky. I don't care to be a help desk jockey, I want to do what I'm good at. And I'm not looking in the right place, I'm looking where I live, with one of the highest unemployment rates in the USA. But I don't care to move, and things are not so bad for us that we have to move for me to find work. Maybe when we lose the house and have to move anyway...
I'd been employed for 23 years before my last contract ran out. And I worked for three weeks this October. The work is there, but it's not steady and not like it used to be. And I'm not whining, I'm just saying the economy is more than any one index, and Bush conveniently ignores the unemployment statistics.
Yet I'm still unemployed, thank you. And thank you, too, Mr. Bush (and I use the term "Mr." loosely). Mostly, though, I thank Ralf Naffer and the Supreames.
Geeze, if we can't establish a base on the Moon, how do they think we can do it on Mars? Since a Mars mission will be several months long I thought it was a no-brainer that we'd first need to prove we can stay on the Moon for more than a few days.
You seem to assume the satellite CPUs will be some 2.5GHz Pentium VII or something. What if it's a 2.5MHz 8080, or something similar with just enough power to do the job at hand? Embedded systems tend to have low power (i.e., cheap) processors.
What if each wheel/suspension assembly contains it's own CPU, making eight identical, interchangeable, mass-produceable components that can plug onto virtually any chassis? That would not be overkill, that would be sensible.
Until I can read an English translation, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
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If you don't like it, use the GPL, but in any case the BSD license does not allow just anyone to use your good name if you take the proper steps to retain it.
OK, then why is Bruce calling for non-GPL licenses?
There's a solution to your problem.
1) Form a corporation: UserBSD, inc.
2) UserBSD, Inc. registers the trademark "UserBSD".
3) If anyone takes the code and, as you fear, re-sells it as proprietary/closed software, UserBSD, Inc. sues their pants off if they so much as mention "UserBSD". They can call it "Sam" if they like, but not "UserBSD".
What good is it if your assets are locked into a system that can lose them without recourse? Who do you sue if the system wipes out your account? If people can't turn to the government for help in such situations, they won't use it. The government doesn't want people to use it, so they won't help. Hell, PayPal is only quasi-legal and on the edge of being shut down as it is -- what makes you think the government is going to allow DMT?
Any cameras that meet these requirements?
States, nail 'em while you can! Individuals, sue 'em while you can! (the fed. law prohibits individuals from sueing spammers -- gotta love the GOP)
Apparently, SCO doesn't use a firewall. Or they claim they don't. Or something.
1) Find unsuspecting, IT illiterate small business owners who bought a $1395 "turn-key" solution.
2) Sell them real IT support.
3) Profit!
Sorry to nitpick, but you got them backwards. V1 came first; the buzz bomb. V2 came later, the first realy big rocket.
I said it was a fuzzy line...
The truth is that he's just in it for the money, and he'll do anything that he thinks will pull in the most profit. He only put Lando in to sell tickets to blacks. He all but removed Jar-Jar from episode 2 because focus groups told him the diehards were only seeing episode 1 five times instead of ten because they hated Jar-Jar so much. In other words, he'll change the story line to sell tickets.
The whole DVD delay was just to sell as many video tapes as possible, then turn around and sell DVDs to all those who bought the tapes (nooo - it was for the art, man! Lucas won't release a DVD unless it's right. Uh-huh. Sure. Whatever). The whole digital special effects thing is just to avoid paying for real actors (but can you blame him? I mean, really -- imagine the payroll for a clone army of Hollywood extras). Geeze, if it was for the art then you wouldn't see the mattes on the episode 4-6 SFX shots. But Lucas found that Kubric's overkill on 2001 didn't sell tickets, so we get mattes you can spot with your eyes closed. Hell, for all the super-D-duper digital effects in 1 and 2, you can still spot the mattes.
He's said he will not make episodes 7-9, but I'll bet he will -- once the computer stuff is good enough that he can do the last three without any actors at all.
The headline (you did RTFS, right?) says it all: "Rice engineers make first pure nanotube fibers"
You're right. I'm too picky. I don't care to be a help desk jockey, I want to do what I'm good at. And I'm not looking in the right place, I'm looking where I live, with one of the highest unemployment rates in the USA. But I don't care to move, and things are not so bad for us that we have to move for me to find work. Maybe when we lose the house and have to move anyway...
I'd been employed for 23 years before my last contract ran out. And I worked for three weeks this October. The work is there, but it's not steady and not like it used to be. And I'm not whining, I'm just saying the economy is more than any one index, and Bush conveniently ignores the unemployment statistics.
What do you mean, "this time"? We really went there last time, you know. Or are you one of those "Capricorn One" clowns?
Better use returnable glass bottles, then. Or was that so obvious you failed to mention it?
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See it here.
Maybe I missed something, but where did it show any other user interface? Or did you think those eight wheels each had their own controls?
What if each wheel/suspension assembly contains it's own CPU, making eight identical, interchangeable, mass-produceable components that can plug onto virtually any chassis? That would not be overkill, that would be sensible.
Until I can read an English translation, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.
I guess you missed the picture of it climbing stairs, staying level on hills, and changing direction 90 degrees without changing yaw. That's why it has eight wheels.