Since many people are asking about the terms and conditions of non-commercial Qt 3.2 for Windows, here's the full text of TrollTech license, so that you know what you get when you buy the book.
Qt Book Edition Non-Commercial License Agreement North andSouth AmericaAgreement version 1.1
IMPORTANT-READ CAREFULLY:
1. This Trolltech End-User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a legal entity) ("Licensee") and Trolltech Inc ("Trolltech"), and pertains to the Trolltech software product(s) accompanying this Agreement, which include(s) computer software and may include "online" or electronic documentation, associated media, and printed materials, including the source code, example programs and the documentation ("Licensed Software").
2. The Licensed Software is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as by other intellectual property laws and treaties. The Licensed Software is licensed, not sold.
3. By installing, copying, or otherwise using the Licensed Software, Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If Licensee does not agree to the terms of this Agreement, Licensee should not install, copy, or otherwise use the Licensed Software.
4. Upon Licensee's acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Trolltech grants Licensee the right to use the Licensed Software in the manner provided below.
5. Trolltech grants to Licensee as an individual a personal, nonexclusive, non-transferable license to make and use copies of the Licensed Software. Licensee may install copies of the Licensed Software on an unlimited number of computers provided that Licensee is the only individual using the Licensed Software.
6. Licensee may not modify or distribute the Licensed Software. Licensee may not loan, rent, lease, or license the Licensed Software or any copy of it. Licensee may not alter or remove any details of ownership, copyright, trademark or other property right connected with the Licensed Software.
7. Licensee may use the Licensed Software to compile, link and run software legally developed by Licensee or others. If any software, e.g a scripting wrapper, gives Licensee direct or indirect access to functionality of the Licensed Software, usage of the software is considered to be usage of the Licensed Software and is thus bound by this Agreement.
GENERAL TERMS THAT APPLY TO APPLICATIONS AND REDISTRIBUTABLES
8. Licensee is as an individual granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, in a non-commercial setting, to develop application programs, reusable components and other software items that link with or in any other way require certain parts of the Licensed Software ("Redistributables") as specified in Appendix 1 ("Applications"). A non-commercial setting means that the Licensed Software may not be used in the course of Licensee's employment or whilst engaged in activities that will be compensated.
9. (i) Applications must add primary and substantial functionality to the Licensed Software; (ii) Applications may not pass on functionality which in any way makes it possible for others to create software with the Licensed Software; (iii) Applications may not compete with the Licensed Software; and (iv) Licensee may not use Trolltech's or any of its suppliers' names, logos, or trademarks to market the Application(s), except to state that the Application was developed using the Licensed Software.
10. Distribution of the Applications are subject to the following requirements: (i) The Application(s) must be distributed for free and/or be freely downloadable; (ii)The Application(s) must be licensed under a license which is compliant with the Open Source Definition version 1.9 as published by the Open Source Initiative (please refer to http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php); and (iii) Licensee must explicitly license all recipients of the Applications to use and re-distribute original and modified versions of the Applications in
You're over-analyzing it. I taught Java for two years and have used it professionally (although currently it's more of a C world for me), and frankly have little reason for bashing it.
I just needed some opening line to introduce the concept of Qt's cross-platform nature. If the flamewar was the point, I'd post something like this.
Borland C++ 5.5 (Non-Commercial) shipped with the book is free (as in beer) and fully functional. However, you cannot ship a commercial app with it, must use for educational purposes only. The trial version is Borland 6.0.
His point (if you read the posting) was that Microsoft licenses their DRM to hundreds of manufacturing, so the WMA stuff would be playing on numerous devices. While anything you buy from iTunes can be played on a wonderful variety of devices: 1) iPod 2) iPod Mini 3) There's no #3
While WMA is licensed to car stereo manufacturers, TV makers, digital player makers and so on, and today there's literally a "suitcase" of devices supporting Microsoft's DRM.
I believe they consider phones with PDA features counted as smartphones. Don't quote me on this, as the criteria seems to be vague, depending on whose research you read into.
Since they define the smartphone OS market shares, I am assuming that one of the requirement would be for a phone to have its own OS (Symbian/Windows/Palm), as opposed to a single-app environment peculiar to older models.
Many companies store a database of resumes that they later perform a keyword search on. Some make a point that you use their own electronic submission system and/or e-mail so that you can be archived in their database.
Nobody gives a crap about your hobbies, unless then involve lots of theft of past employers property, in which case they'll appreciate your candor.
Not always true. Once you're past the initial interview stage and left fighting for the same position with, let's say, 5-6 top candidates, the resumes are passed to the bosses you will be working with. For many people in management it's important to see the person behind the resume, and things like hobbies and free time activities can help to judge whether the person is well-balanced and has a life beyond work.
People who have hobbies are generally a bit more passionate about their work. It also shows the employer that a truly talented person is talented in many ways, so if your hobbies include good skills in some sports or crafts, some bosses can have a tendency to prefer you to other candidates who among hobbies listed "I troll on/. and talk on IRC with my friends".
For small businesses the top results included CheckPoint certs and Microsoft MCSA (not Systems Engineer, mind you, but Solution Architect, which is on of their developer certifications).
For large businesses it was MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) and MCDBA (database).
Web Design Best Practices, was a research project to see where the majority of sites place their links, shopping carts, global navigation, search boxes, etc. Unfortunately, the site seems to have disappeared, so the link is Google cache.
From the review it looks like an excellent books to read and maybe have around. I will check it out on Safari, since it looks like they made it available to subscribers.
However, looking at these hacks:
68. Checking Blogs for New Comments
69. Aggregating RSS and Posting Changes
70. Using the Link Cosmos of Technorati
71. Finding Related RSS Feeds
Do they offer any hacks on working with XML, perhaps XML::RSS or other parsing engines from CPAN? Or is most of the XML handled through regexp?
How bothersome is spam for most slashdotters?
on
The Life of a Spammer
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· Score: 4, Interesting
Comparing my daily inbox reading routine a year ago and now, I hardly worry about spam nowadays. I have three e-mail boxes, one at yahoo.com, another one for personal e-mails, and the third one spam-only, that I only check when I expect a registration confirmation to come from some site I register at.
Yahoo Mail has its own filters, my Linux mailserver has spamassassin, and the spam e-mail address gets discarded on a weekly basis automatically.
Yeah, occasionally 2-3 letters per day pass though Spamassassin, but they are easy to see right from the subject line and delete right away. Spamassassin and other free (as well as commercial ) products seem to do a pretty decent job at it, and 2-3 spam e-mails per day can be just treated as a cost of using the system.
I got an e-mail from their admin today saying my account has been temporarily suspended. I actually had a mirror of that single page, and was planning to redirect to it as soon as my bandwidth quota would approach the max.
The page that I linked to is not that big, has some text and table on it, no graphics or heavy items, I figured I'd survive.
However, the story was posted at 5 am Pacific, when I was seeing the sweetest dreams. Everything seems to be back to normal by now, except that hoster might ask me to move.
Slashdot Mirror
People will actually buy more cell phones next year. With 1 billion GSM users there will be more than half a billion phones sold next year.
Part of that is new users, but yes, people are buying replacements like no one had expected.
In the United States cable owns 75% of the market, while satellite only has 22%. 10 years ago cable had pretty much a monopoly on non-broadcast channels.
It's in the review - both 6.0 and .NET are supported, and two Borland compilers.
Qt Book Edition Non-Commercial License Agreement North andSouth AmericaAgreement version 1.1
IMPORTANT-READ CAREFULLY:
1. This Trolltech End-User License Agreement ("Agreement") is a legal agreement between you (either an individual or a legal entity) ("Licensee") and Trolltech Inc ("Trolltech"), and pertains to the Trolltech software product(s) accompanying this Agreement, which include(s) computer software and may include "online" or electronic documentation, associated media, and printed materials, including the source code, example programs and the documentation ("Licensed Software").
2. The Licensed Software is protected by copyright laws and international copyright treaties, as well as by other intellectual property laws and treaties. The Licensed Software is licensed, not sold.
3. By installing, copying, or otherwise using the Licensed Software, Licensee agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If Licensee does not agree to the terms of this Agreement, Licensee should not install, copy, or otherwise use the Licensed Software.
4. Upon Licensee's acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, Trolltech grants Licensee the right to use the Licensed Software in the manner provided below.
5. Trolltech grants to Licensee as an individual a personal, nonexclusive, non-transferable license to make and use copies of the Licensed Software. Licensee may install copies of the Licensed Software on an unlimited number of computers provided that Licensee is the only individual using the Licensed Software.
6. Licensee may not modify or distribute the Licensed Software. Licensee may not loan, rent, lease, or license the Licensed Software or any copy of it. Licensee may not alter or remove any details of ownership, copyright, trademark or other property right connected with the Licensed Software.
7. Licensee may use the Licensed Software to compile, link and run software legally developed by Licensee or others. If any software, e.g a scripting wrapper, gives Licensee direct or indirect access to functionality of the Licensed Software, usage of the software is considered to be usage of the Licensed Software and is thus bound by this Agreement.
GENERAL TERMS THAT APPLY TO APPLICATIONS AND REDISTRIBUTABLES
8. Licensee is as an individual granted a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license, in a non-commercial setting, to develop application programs, reusable components and other software items that link with or in any other way require certain parts of the Licensed Software ("Redistributables") as specified in Appendix 1 ("Applications"). A non-commercial setting means that the Licensed Software may not be used in the course of Licensee's employment or whilst engaged in activities that will be compensated.
9. (i) Applications must add primary and substantial functionality to the Licensed Software; (ii) Applications may not pass on functionality which in any way makes it possible for others to create software with the Licensed Software; (iii) Applications may not compete with the Licensed Software; and (iv) Licensee may not use Trolltech's or any of its suppliers' names, logos, or trademarks to market the Application(s), except to state that the Application was developed using the Licensed Software.
10. Distribution of the Applications are subject to the following requirements: (i) The Application(s) must be distributed for free and/or be freely downloadable; (ii)The Application(s) must be licensed under a license which is compliant with the Open Source Definition version 1.9 as published by the Open Source Initiative (please refer to http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php); and (iii) Licensee must explicitly license all recipients of the Applications to use and re-distribute original and modified versions of the Applications in
You're over-analyzing it. I taught Java for two years and have used it professionally (although currently it's more of a C world for me), and frankly have little reason for bashing it.
I just needed some opening line to introduce the concept of Qt's cross-platform nature. If the flamewar was the point, I'd post something like this.
Borland C++ 5.5 (Non-Commercial) shipped with the book is free (as in beer) and fully functional. However, you cannot ship a commercial app with it, must use for educational purposes only. The trial version is Borland 6.0.
Yeah, my Grandma called me today, she mentioned she was writing AAC->QuickTime converter, too, to listen to the music on her home stereo.
His point (if you read the posting) was that Microsoft licenses their DRM to hundreds of manufacturing, so the WMA stuff would be playing on numerous devices. While anything you buy from iTunes can be played on a wonderful variety of devices:
1) iPod
2) iPod Mini
3) There's no #3
While WMA is licensed to car stereo manufacturers, TV makers, digital player makers and so on, and today there's literally a "suitcase" of devices supporting Microsoft's DRM.
Read Robert Scoble on why Apple is locking users into the DRM only one product supports (iPod). Scoble works for Microsoft, for those, who didn't know.
Ah, I went there in IE and found out myself.
Sorry about that, yes, Firebird cut those ads out, hence I had no clue.
Which one has the porn ads? (I submitted the story).
My apologies, though. I am using Mozilla Firebird, so if there are any popups or Flash animations, it probably got cut out.
I believe they consider phones with PDA features counted as smartphones. Don't quote me on this, as the criteria seems to be vague, depending on whose research you read into.
Since they define the smartphone OS market shares, I am assuming that one of the requirement would be for a phone to have its own OS (Symbian/Windows/Palm), as opposed to a single-app environment peculiar to older models.
Reuters has an interesting article today on the "popularity" of CS degrees.
High-Tech Degrees Don't Guarantee Jobs
Ah, you're right, well, since I admin the site quoted, should be an easy fix. Thanks for the tip.
Just last year, there were 3 million smartphones sold
Symbian owned two-thirds of the market, Microsoft - 14%, Palm - 13%
HP is becoming the biggest name in the industry with 33% market share globally, but Nokia has 78% in Europe, Middle East and Asia.
Many companies store a database of resumes that they later perform a keyword search on. Some make a point that you use their own electronic submission system and/or e-mail so that you can be archived in their database.
Nobody gives a crap about your hobbies, unless then involve lots of theft of past employers property, in which case they'll appreciate your candor.
/. and talk on IRC with my friends".
Not always true. Once you're past the initial interview stage and left fighting for the same position with, let's say, 5-6 top candidates, the resumes are passed to the bosses you will be working with. For many people in management it's important to see the person behind the resume, and things like hobbies and free time activities can help to judge whether the person is well-balanced and has a life beyond work.
People who have hobbies are generally a bit more passionate about their work. It also shows the employer that a truly talented person is talented in many ways, so if your hobbies include good skills in some sports or crafts, some bosses can have a tendency to prefer you to other candidates who among hobbies listed "I troll on
In September the CRN magazine did its own survey of employers and asked what certifications were the most sought for.
For small businesses the top results included CheckPoint certs and Microsoft MCSA (not Systems Engineer, mind you, but Solution Architect, which is on of their developer certifications).
For large businesses it was MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer) and MCDBA (database).
I wasn't sure whether it was scripted, but there was a good repartee from her end:
Fallon: Is it roomy inside Paris Hilton?
Hilton: Yeah, might feel a little spacy for you, but other people find it cozy.
or something to that extent
I am sorry, looks like I got it right in the book description box, but then misspelled it through out the review.
Dell ships RealOne Player Free with their PCs and resells RealOne paid version. Dell commands 17.4% and sells at least 120,000 PCs a day.
Even though Real did not get HP (17.1% market share), it doesn't look like that was Microsoft intervention, with HP being the Unix vendor and all.
Web Design Best Practices, was a research project to see where the majority of sites place their links, shopping carts, global navigation, search boxes, etc. Unfortunately, the site seems to have disappeared, so the link is Google cache.
Here's the surviving mirror in Russian with links to the resources in English if you scroll down.
From the review it looks like an excellent books to read and maybe have around. I will check it out on Safari, since it looks like they made it available to subscribers.
However, looking at these hacks:
68. Checking Blogs for New Comments
69. Aggregating RSS and Posting Changes
70. Using the Link Cosmos of Technorati
71. Finding Related RSS Feeds
Do they offer any hacks on working with XML, perhaps XML::RSS or other parsing engines from CPAN? Or is most of the XML handled through regexp?
Comparing my daily inbox reading routine a year ago and now, I hardly worry about spam nowadays. I have three e-mail boxes, one at yahoo.com, another one for personal e-mails, and the third one spam-only, that I only check when I expect a registration confirmation to come from some site I register at.
Yahoo Mail has its own filters, my Linux mailserver has spamassassin, and the spam e-mail address gets discarded on a weekly basis automatically.
Yeah, occasionally 2-3 letters per day pass though Spamassassin, but they are easy to see right from the subject line and delete right away. Spamassassin and other free (as well as commercial ) products seem to do a pretty decent job at it, and 2-3 spam e-mails per day can be just treated as a cost of using the system.
I got an e-mail from their admin today saying my account has been temporarily suspended. I actually had a mirror of that single page, and was planning to redirect to it as soon as my bandwidth quota would approach the max.
The page that I linked to is not that big, has some text and table on it, no graphics or heavy items, I figured I'd survive.
However, the story was posted at 5 am Pacific, when I was seeing the sweetest dreams. Everything seems to be back to normal by now, except that hoster might ask me to move.