I instantly pictured a room full of lab rats directly wired into various X-Box and PS2 consoles, honing their FPS/fragging skills, and getting ready to take over the world. But then I remembered that Super-Strong Rats, or SSRs, are intelligent and friendly, just like in "The Secret of NIMH".
So I am no longer worried about our new SSR overlords.
Yeah, me too. The Challenger disaster was just that, a gut-wrenching, traumatic, and mind-numbing event that sent shivers through the nation's psyche.
Everyone was shocked to learn that Challenger was completely avoidable and largely due to management indifference to engineers' warnings, and incredible pressure to launch on time or else. Of course, another large part of the cause was the culture of "do more with less, because that's all you're going to get" crap that has been flowing down from Washington to NASA since Apollo was cancelled by Nixon.
And now Columbia, the first to launch and second best shuttle vehicle (behind Challenger), has also fallen to launch timeliness pressures, budget pressures, procrastination on correcting serious safety issues (debris strikes during launch), and management pooh-poohing of engineers' warnings. Will we never learn?
In the end, you get what you pay for. And although I am 100% behind Bush's Moon and Mars goals, I am very worried about his stance that it can all be done with only a 5% bump in the NASA budget. This is what has gotten NASA into trouble before: give low-ball figures to get project XYZ started, start experiencing cost overruns, then testify that the project (XYZ) can't be cancelled because of all the money we already spent on it.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm old enough that the space program actually means something to me. I want to remain a member of a spacefaring nation, and I don't plan on moving anywhere!
Thanks, sirsex! That makes sense, if a laser or abrasive jet couldn't be used to cut the wafers into dies. That still leaves triangles as an option, but I guess that would just be too different. After all, everyone likes right angles, they're just so natural and easy to work with.
I can see why they want bigger wafers, so that proportionately you get less wastage from the non-square edge areas left after inscribing all those square processors. But for the love of God, why are the processors square? They should be hexagonal. This would increase yields by filling in the edges of wafers much more efficiently than rectangular designs.
Let's see, the current Opterons are 193mm2 using 130nm process, as you can see here, so AMD is getting at most 148 dies from one wafer.
If we assume a regular hexagon of 193mm2, using the formulae for regular hexagons found here (Google to the rescue, Insta-Math!) each hexagonal die would be 14.93mm wide and 8.619mm to a side. That'll give you 13.39 dies across and 11.6 dies verically on a single wafer. SO, ok, all you Slashdot-lurking mathemeticians, how many hexagons of the given size can be completely inscribed by both 200mm and 300mm diameter circles?
And, as an additional exercise, what are the maximun number of hexagonal dies for 200mm and 300mm wafers when circuit dimensions are halved, i.e. 65nm process as planned for Fab-36?
Actually, that was the initial plan. Including hanging it from the ceiling in the Smithsonian. But now with the Columbia accident, no one wants to put astronauts' lives on the line just to retreive a museum piece.
I think it would be stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hoverly optimistic to de-orbit Hubble until the new Webb space telescope is launched and fully tested. After all, how dumb would NASA look if it destroyed a perfectly good piece of equipment, and then its replacement fubared because of a mismatched washer or something.
And right now, the plan is to do just that, to bring down Hubble before Webb is even launched, to save a few (million) bucks in Hubble operational costs. And the big debate is that everyone with any sense, and any sense of history, is telling them (NASA penny pinchers) that they're crazy.
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Something NASA should consider before taking penny-wise, pound-foolish steps.
I can see heads exploding all over the freeway already!
Cheers!
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It was big enough to put an entire space station up in one shot: Skylab!
This baby would still be up there if NASA hadn't let it fall to Earth due to orbital decay. There was talk at the time of sending up a booster rocket to raise Skylab's orbit, but due to Shuttle development sucking up every penny NASA had in the late 70's, it never got past the 'good idea' stage.
Luckily, due to random chance, Skylab's molten remains mostly impacted in the Indian Ocean and Australia, where no one lives. =).
I say resurrect the Saturn program lock, stock, and barrel, and leave the fancy schmancy space planes to the DoD, who can afford it.
Let's finally go back to space, damn it! I miss the future.
Whoever conjured this monster up is definitely going to be tracked down and prosecuted by the Feds! The business world will never accept a Microsoft virus that actually leaves systems in better shape than before they were infected.
Now, if only GNU/Linux(TM-RMS) had enough defects to allow this sort of unsolicited optimization to take place. Clearly Windows(TM-MS) is superior in this regard!
IANAL, but whoever bought up the assets during the bankruptcy process now owns the source code, even if they don't have it in their possession. If YOU turned up with the source code, you would be compelled to turn it over, assuming that the new owner was keeping watch on the market.
However, it the company tanked so badly that there WAS no bankruptcy / asset sell-off, then you may be in the clear.
The best thing to do would be to hire an actual attorney in your jurisdiction and go from there.
Of course, you could just start marketing the products as your own and see what happens. But then you would always be waiting for that certified letter in the mail hauling you into court to seize all of your assets. Hmmm... which way to go?;^)
Privacy is for terrorists. Only terrorists have any need for privacy, so what are you trying to hide?
Cisco is just being an upstanding and Patriotic American(TM) under the all-American DMCA, CTEA, and PATRIOT Acts, lawfully passed by the Congress Corporation, and signed into American Best-Practices by Chairman Bush.
Nice Chart there, cowboy. I only have problems with the last few lines of your summary, but thats not your fault.
First, a byte is eight bits exactly, not just any old set of bits. Second, you are mostly correct that network speeds and feeds are quoted in powers of 10, and that memory and storage are quoted in powers of 2.
However, that is no longer the case. Now, storage vendors are also quoting capacities in powers of 10. This allows them to brag about their drives that hold 250,000,000,000 bytes as if they were 250GB drives, instead of the 232GB that they really hold. A real 250GB drive would hold 268,435,456,000 bytes of data. They are overquoting capacity by more than 7 percent!
Finally, I expect that memory vendors will follow this trend any day now, and that those shiny new 16GB DIMMs will only hold 16,000,000,000 bytes instead of the 17,179,869,184 bytes that God intended! Or else they will start calling them 17.2GB DIMMs.
So in summary, buyers want to know capacities in units that make sense in relation to their use with computers, and sellers want to sell in units that inflate the perceived value of their wares. This will continue until the buyers get tired of doing these conversions in their heads and demand sensible units from the sellers.
Boromir was Denethor's eldest son, Faramir was Boromir's younger brother. None of them were ever king of anything, Denethor was the last Steward of Gondor, i.e. standing in for the real king, Isildur.
Isildur went off to war, whacked off Sauron's finger(s), took the One Ring of Power, decided not to destroy it in the Crack of Mt. Doom (btw that sounds kinda nasty nowadays), and subsequently got himself killed in an ambush up north.
And ever since then, the Stewards of Gondor faithfully waited for the real king's return. And of course the real king was Isildur's heir, after several (many?) generations, the Ranger of the North Frodo and his faithful sidekick, Samwise the Great.
In order to see some real action in the asteroid diversion arena, we need a rock. Not a huge Earth-buster, nor a dinosaur-killer, nor even a 'Lucifers Hammer' type calamity, but a nice, friendly, tap-on-the-shoulder hey-stop-ignoring-me 100 meter rock. Big enough to do some damage, small enough not to end our civilization, and easy enough to have been taken care of if someone had gotten off their ass.
Of course, the scientists would be blamed for 'not warning us' about this possibility, in spite of countless books and movies on the subject. NASA would be disbanded, and there would be lynchings, both political and otherwise. I doubt any politicians would be held accountable, how could it have been their fault? Obviously NASA and the scientists should have stopped it, since they have the rockets!
Anyway, a rock that size would get everyone's attention and hopefully motivate our leaders in the right direction.
Now, where should we land this puppy? Any volunteers?;^)
Clearly the GPL must be a virus, a cancer, a Pac-Man! What else could explain the continuing barrage of both open and proprietary software converting to the GPL/LGPL? Is RMS twisting their arms? Holding their children for ransom? Asking too many rhetorical questions?
Hah! You never heard of a software package spontaneously converting from GPL to the revered and exalted Windows EULA, have you? Proof that Windows is NOT viral, cancerous, or Pac-Man, and is therefore infinitely superior! So There, GPL weenies!
Now I will prove which cup contains the Iocaine powder! [sip] Bwahahahahaha! Bwahahahahaha! Erk...
Glory Season by David Brin is also a study in the societal dynamics of a planet where the settlers altered their reproductive system, although perhaps not to the same extent as in LHOD.
On this planet, the founders wanted to both eliminate man's violence to women (and everything else in general), and to create a very stable society where change is possible, but frowned on. So they created a society consisting of 95% clones (all female), 4% 'vars', and 1% males. The 'vars' and males are produced by normal sexual means, but only very rarely. The clones are seen as normal, and each clone dynasty provides a specialized product or service to society. The vars are turned out into the world at adolesence to try to find their way, and if successful will create their own clone clan. The men are relegated to sailing ships and other minor tasks, are only used once a year to stimulate the cloning.
The story is about one var's coming of age in this society. And although it is not central to the story line, this planet has also been recently rediscovered by the main stellar society, which has sent a lone ambassador to attempt to initiate relations with the outside world.
Brin makes it plausible, and the storyline keeps the pages turning. I know most s.f. readers probably know him by his Uplift universe series, but this one is also a keeper.
IMHO, the 'limited time' phrase of the Constitution is what the case should hinge on. If a 'limited time' is longer than the average lifetime of a person, then I hold that to be effectively unlimited. To be limited, one must have the opportunity to look forward to the expiration of that 'limited' time. Otherwise, it is forever as far as that person is concerned.
I think a reasonable period for copyrights is 50 years from the date of publication, irrespective of whether the author is a person or a corporation. That's more than half the average person's life span, but at least it holds out hope. And if a corporation can't think of anything else original to take a copyrighted work's place within 50 years, as far as income is concerned, then that's their tough luck.
Also, not being a lawyer myself, I'm not sure if publication of a work is a prerequisite for granting a copyright. But if its not, it should be. After all, if a work has not been published, then there is no way for the copyrighted work to be copied, lawfully or not. So, no publication, no copyright.
If one goes with the majority's opinion, then Congress could establish a copyright extension that lasts for 'only' 1000 years. While this may seem like a long time to us, it is definitely a 'limited time'. Heck, why not 10,000 years, or a million? Those are very short terms, cosmically speaking.
As others have noted, there is hope. One of the three judges did in fact dissent. While the majority made every effort to avoid any constitutional interpretation of the case, the dissenting judge recognized that Congress does not have the power to decide what is constitutional, that it must work within the constitutional framework, and that it is the judiciary's responsibility to be the check on congressional power.
This is what happens when the all the giant content providers, i.e. Hollywood, have bought up all of, or a big chunk of, the content distribution infrastructure, i.e. consumer electronics manufacturers (DVD/CSS) and cable TV. They are all in bed together, one big money-lubricated orgy of consumer abuse.
This is why the FCC, FTC, or any other alleged 'consumer protection' agency, should never have let those mega-mergers go through. Now that the content providers have a lock on distribution, they can dictate the terms of any entertainment transaction. Soon everything will by copy protected and/or encrypted, and of course it will be illegal to even think about breaking that encryption, under the DMCA. As others have noted, even general purpose PC hard drives will have built-in copy protection, with no recourse, alternative, or consumer choice. Every 'view' will be a 'pay-per-view'. Every use will be metered and billed. All in the name of protecting the poor little media companies from the big bad hackers and pirates.
You won't be able to format a drive, because you might be erasing someone's copyrighted content. You won't be able to replace a failed hard drive, because it will be licensed to one PC. You won't be able to copy a file from one PC to another, because it might possibly contain copyrighted material. You won't be able to make a backup, because making a backup would violate the copyright holders license. All software usage will be monitored and metered and billed, pay-per-use.
Welcome to the new world of digital convergence, where nothing will be digital unless it is encrypted and copy-protected. Where every playback device has 'content protection' built into the hardware below the level where any possible hacking could take place. Where the rights of the so-called innocent are sacrificed in an effort to punish the always-presumed guilty.
Hopefully these devices will be accurately crafted as well as precisely crafted.
Microscopic mirrors may not capture our imagination the same way the
precisely crafted mirrors in the Hubble Space Telescope do.
The Hubble's mirror was precisely crafted, more precise than any mirror ever made. Unfortunatly, it was precisely the wrong shape because someone left a half-mm shim out of the manufacturing jig. And the jig was never double-checked due to budget overruns and shoddy oversight.
Only after the HST was in orbit, and it turned out to have a bad case of spherical aberration, did anyone think to review the manufacturing history. Luckily, our intrepid engineers, astronauts, and optics geeks were able to squeeze in a set of corrective mirrors during HST's first maintenance visit a few year later.
Oh, well, its like they always say. Hindsight is 20/20.
Nor will it be for quite a while. So all of RMS's comments are valid. Trolltech is promising to make Qt v2.2 available under either the QPL or GPL, whichever the developer desires, but the shipping version, 2.0, is still QPL only.
Qt 2.0 is also less than 6 months old. How long was it between the initial promise of a free Qt license and the final QPL? How long were GPLed KDE programs linked to proprietary Qt 1.x libraries, under the excuse that TrollTech would 'real soon now' release a free Qt license?
In spite of all that, RMS has forgiven all past GPL violations by KDE that infringed on FSF copyrighted code. That seems pretty generous to me, I don't know how KDE can complain about it.
Anyway, what do I know. I'm just another frenzied/. poster trying to be heard over the thunder of the herd on the move.;^)
There is NOTHING you can do in DELPHI...
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There is NOTHING you can do in DELPHI...
... that you can't do in ASSEMBLER.
... that you can't do in PL/I.
... that you can't do in LISP.
... that you can't do in PILOT.
... that you can't do in TURING.
... that you can't do in FORTH.
Get over it, bud. People use the tools they like for the jobs they can. Other jobs, where shit like this is forced down their throats by PHB's, they grumble and do the best they can.
Personally, I like Delphi. And I can't wait for Kylix to debut. But you don't have to be an asshole about it.
Well, really. This is the best news for civil rights and personal privacy thats come down in quite a while. It looked for some time that the FBI was going to have carte blanche when it came to digital surveillance.
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I instantly pictured a room full of lab rats directly wired into various X-Box and PS2 consoles, honing their FPS/fragging skills, and getting ready to take over the world. But then I remembered that Super-Strong Rats, or SSRs, are intelligent and friendly, just like in "The Secret of NIMH".
So I am no longer worried about our new SSR overlords.
CHeers!
Eric makes good analogies between Java and NFS, and Java and Jini.
SO there. Nothing insightful, just a quick "Me, too!".
Cheers!
Everyone was shocked to learn that Challenger was completely avoidable and largely due to management indifference to engineers' warnings, and incredible pressure to launch on time or else. Of course, another large part of the cause was the culture of "do more with less, because that's all you're going to get" crap that has been flowing down from Washington to NASA since Apollo was cancelled by Nixon.
And now Columbia, the first to launch and second best shuttle vehicle (behind Challenger), has also fallen to launch timeliness pressures, budget pressures, procrastination on correcting serious safety issues (debris strikes during launch), and management pooh-poohing of engineers' warnings. Will we never learn?
In the end, you get what you pay for. And although I am 100% behind Bush's Moon and Mars goals, I am very worried about his stance that it can all be done with only a 5% bump in the NASA budget. This is what has gotten NASA into trouble before: give low-ball figures to get project XYZ started, start experiencing cost overruns, then testify that the project (XYZ) can't be cancelled because of all the money we already spent on it.
Sorry for the rant, but I'm old enough that the space program actually means something to me. I want to remain a member of a spacefaring nation, and I don't plan on moving anywhere!
Cheers!
Cheers!
Let's see, the current Opterons are 193mm2 using 130nm process, as you can see here, so AMD is getting at most 148 dies from one wafer.
If we assume a regular hexagon of 193mm2, using the formulae for regular hexagons found here (Google to the rescue, Insta-Math!) each hexagonal die would be 14.93mm wide and 8.619mm to a side. That'll give you 13.39 dies across and 11.6 dies verically on a single wafer. SO, ok, all you Slashdot-lurking mathemeticians, how many hexagons of the given size can be completely inscribed by both 200mm and 300mm diameter circles?
And, as an additional exercise, what are the maximun number of hexagonal dies for 200mm and 300mm wafers when circuit dimensions are halved, i.e. 65nm process as planned for Fab-36?
Cheers!
I think it would be stupid^H^H^H^H^H^Hoverly optimistic to de-orbit Hubble until the new Webb space telescope is launched and fully tested. After all, how dumb would NASA look if it destroyed a perfectly good piece of equipment, and then its replacement fubared because of a mismatched washer or something.
And right now, the plan is to do just that, to bring down Hubble before Webb is even launched, to save a few (million) bucks in Hubble operational costs. And the big debate is that everyone with any sense, and any sense of history, is telling them (NASA penny pinchers) that they're crazy.
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Something NASA should consider before taking penny-wise, pound-foolish steps.
Cheers!
Cheers!
This baby would still be up there if NASA hadn't let it fall to Earth due to orbital decay. There was talk at the time of sending up a booster rocket to raise Skylab's orbit, but due to Shuttle development sucking up every penny NASA had in the late 70's, it never got past the 'good idea' stage.
Luckily, due to random chance, Skylab's molten remains mostly impacted in the Indian Ocean and Australia, where no one lives. =).
I say resurrect the Saturn program lock, stock, and barrel, and leave the fancy schmancy space planes to the DoD, who can afford it.
Let's finally go back to space, damn it! I miss the future.
Cheers!
Now, if only GNU/Linux(TM-RMS) had enough defects to allow this sort of unsolicited optimization to take place. Clearly Windows(TM-MS) is superior in this regard!
Cheers!
However, it the company tanked so badly that there WAS no bankruptcy / asset sell-off, then you may be in the clear.
The best thing to do would be to hire an actual attorney in your jurisdiction and go from there.
Of course, you could just start marketing the products as your own and see what happens. But then you would always be waiting for that certified letter in the mail hauling you into court to seize all of your assets. Hmmm... which way to go? ;^)
Cheers!
- a space beaureacracy that stifles all private initiatives in the area of space access.
- constant pressure on NASA to do more and more with less and less.
- overzealous use of outsourcing, for both the shuttle processing and its supervision.
- management overriding engineers in areas of operations and mission safety.
- lack of faith by NASA management in its own ability to pull off a rescue mission.
- the use of inappropriate computer models by inexperienced technicians to decide that the foam impact was not a mission threat.
- lack of long term direction for our space program
- lack of a modern replacement for the antique 1970's era space shuttle technology.
- lack of concern over previous shuttle strikes by detaching foam.
In other words, you get what you pay for, and complacency sets in no matter how hard you fight it.Yeah, the 'CUPS Unix Printing System' sounds more advanced than any old common printing system anyway.
Cisco is just being an upstanding and Patriotic American(TM) under the all-American DMCA, CTEA, and PATRIOT Acts, lawfully passed by the Congress Corporation, and signed into American Best-Practices by Chairman Bush.
"Privacy is dead. Get over it." - Scott McNealy
First, a byte is eight bits exactly, not just any old set of bits. Second, you are mostly correct that network speeds and feeds are quoted in powers of 10, and that memory and storage are quoted in powers of 2.
However, that is no longer the case. Now, storage vendors are also quoting capacities in powers of 10. This allows them to brag about their drives that hold 250,000,000,000 bytes as if they were 250GB drives, instead of the 232GB that they really hold. A real 250GB drive would hold 268,435,456,000 bytes of data. They are overquoting capacity by more than 7 percent!
Finally, I expect that memory vendors will follow this trend any day now, and that those shiny new 16GB DIMMs will only hold 16,000,000,000 bytes instead of the 17,179,869,184 bytes that God intended! Or else they will start calling them 17.2GB DIMMs.
So in summary, buyers want to know capacities in units that make sense in relation to their use with computers, and sellers want to sell in units that inflate the perceived value of their wares. This will continue until the buyers get tired of doing these conversions in their heads and demand sensible units from the sellers.
Cheers!
Isildur went off to war, whacked off Sauron's finger(s), took the One Ring of Power, decided not to destroy it in the Crack of Mt. Doom (btw that sounds kinda nasty nowadays), and subsequently got himself killed in an ambush up north.
And ever since then, the Stewards of Gondor faithfully waited for the real king's return. And of course the real king was Isildur's heir, after several (many?) generations, the Ranger of the North Frodo and his faithful sidekick, Samwise the Great.
Or something like that.
Of course, the scientists would be blamed for 'not warning us' about this possibility, in spite of countless books and movies on the subject. NASA would be disbanded, and there would be lynchings, both political and otherwise. I doubt any politicians would be held accountable, how could it have been their fault? Obviously NASA and the scientists should have stopped it, since they have the rockets!
Anyway, a rock that size would get everyone's attention and hopefully motivate our leaders in the right direction.
Now, where should we land this puppy? Any volunteers? ;^)
Hah! You never heard of a software package spontaneously converting from GPL to the revered and exalted Windows EULA, have you? Proof that Windows is NOT viral, cancerous, or Pac-Man, and is therefore infinitely superior! So There, GPL weenies!
Now I will prove which cup contains the Iocaine powder! [sip] Bwahahahahaha! Bwahahahahaha! Erk...
Aha! That's it! Maybe his sould is locked up, and isn't receiving any more signals from his conscienced message loop.
Well, that's just Windows(TM) multitasking for you.
On this planet, the founders wanted to both eliminate man's violence to women (and everything else in general), and to create a very stable society where change is possible, but frowned on. So they created a society consisting of 95% clones (all female), 4% 'vars', and 1% males. The 'vars' and males are produced by normal sexual means, but only very rarely. The clones are seen as normal, and each clone dynasty provides a specialized product or service to society. The vars are turned out into the world at adolesence to try to find their way, and if successful will create their own clone clan. The men are relegated to sailing ships and other minor tasks, are only used once a year to stimulate the cloning.
The story is about one var's coming of age in this society. And although it is not central to the story line, this planet has also been recently rediscovered by the main stellar society, which has sent a lone ambassador to attempt to initiate relations with the outside world.
Brin makes it plausible, and the storyline keeps the pages turning. I know most s.f. readers probably know him by his Uplift universe series, but this one is also a keeper.
I think a reasonable period for copyrights is 50 years from the date of publication, irrespective of whether the author is a person or a corporation. That's more than half the average person's life span, but at least it holds out hope. And if a corporation can't think of anything else original to take a copyrighted work's place within 50 years, as far as income is concerned, then that's their tough luck.
Also, not being a lawyer myself, I'm not sure if publication of a work is a prerequisite for granting a copyright. But if its not, it should be. After all, if a work has not been published, then there is no way for the copyrighted work to be copied, lawfully or not. So, no publication, no copyright.
If one goes with the majority's opinion, then Congress could establish a copyright extension that lasts for 'only' 1000 years. While this may seem like a long time to us, it is definitely a 'limited time'. Heck, why not 10,000 years, or a million? Those are very short terms, cosmically speaking.
As others have noted, there is hope. One of the three judges did in fact dissent. While the majority made every effort to avoid any constitutional interpretation of the case, the dissenting judge recognized that Congress does not have the power to decide what is constitutional, that it must work within the constitutional framework, and that it is the judiciary's responsibility to be the check on congressional power.
This is why the FCC, FTC, or any other alleged 'consumer protection' agency, should never have let those mega-mergers go through. Now that the content providers have a lock on distribution, they can dictate the terms of any entertainment transaction. Soon everything will by copy protected and/or encrypted, and of course it will be illegal to even think about breaking that encryption, under the DMCA. As others have noted, even general purpose PC hard drives will have built-in copy protection, with no recourse, alternative, or consumer choice. Every 'view' will be a 'pay-per-view'. Every use will be metered and billed. All in the name of protecting the poor little media companies from the big bad hackers and pirates.
You won't be able to format a drive, because you might be erasing someone's copyrighted content. You won't be able to replace a failed hard drive, because it will be licensed to one PC. You won't be able to copy a file from one PC to another, because it might possibly contain copyrighted material. You won't be able to make a backup, because making a backup would violate the copyright holders license. All software usage will be monitored and metered and billed, pay-per-use.
Welcome to the new world of digital convergence, where nothing will be digital unless it is encrypted and copy-protected. Where every playback device has 'content protection' built into the hardware below the level where any possible hacking could take place. Where the rights of the so-called innocent are sacrificed in an effort to punish the always-presumed guilty.
Welcome to the new world of digital content.
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Only after the HST was in orbit, and it turned out to have a bad case of spherical aberration, did anyone think to review the manufacturing history. Luckily, our intrepid engineers, astronauts, and optics geeks were able to squeeze in a set of corrective mirrors during HST's first maintenance visit a few year later.
Oh, well, its like they always say. Hindsight is 20/20.
Qt 2.0 is also less than 6 months old. How long was it between the initial promise of a free Qt license and the final QPL? How long were GPLed KDE programs linked to proprietary Qt 1.x libraries, under the excuse that TrollTech would 'real soon now' release a free Qt license?
In spite of all that, RMS has forgiven all past GPL violations by KDE that infringed on FSF copyrighted code. That seems pretty generous to me, I don't know how KDE can complain about it.
Anyway, what do I know. I'm just another frenzied /. poster trying to be heard over the thunder of the herd on the move. ;^)
- ... that you can't do in ASSEMBLER.
- ... that you can't do in PL/I.
- ... that you can't do in LISP.
- ... that you can't do in PILOT.
- ... that you can't do in TURING.
- ... that you can't do in FORTH.
Get over it, bud. People use the tools they like for the jobs they can. Other jobs, where shit like this is forced down their throats by PHB's, they grumble and do the best they can.Personally, I like Delphi. And I can't wait for Kylix to debut. But you don't have to be an asshole about it.
Louis Freeh, eat my shorts.