Don't a lot of EULA's have prohibitions against reprinting them in full in settings other than their original form?
If you don't agree to the terms then you should be able to print the EULA! The question is whether or not you can copyright a legal document such as the EULA.
As for the database itself. I can't stand to read the damn EULA's when I buy the software. Why would anybody want to go and read them off of a website? Yuk.
Italy passed a new law regulating electromagnetic emissions in February, which sets a limit of six volts per square metre for inhabited areas. Residents in Cesano have complained that the eletromagnetic emissions in their homes sometimes exceed 50 volts per metre.
Wow! I thought the neighbors described in the article were whining until I got to this part. This is a staggering amount of radiation that they are pumping out.
I once spoke to some Air Force dudes about this sort of stuff, and they said that the big concerns were over endocerine systems. It would be very interesting to see if there are any problems with diabetes or other such diseases in the area. Sounds like a perfect test bed to see if e-mag emissions really can be harmful.
Of course the complication here is that if someone there gets sick, they can rest assured that the pope will be praying for them. It is probaly a bit tough to add such complications into your statistical models.
The examples of space going radiation given in the article are all point sources. The power per area for such sources should be exceedingly small for those sources within a relatively small distance. Perhaps we need to build directional antenae to make sure that we can be heard.
Of course given the nature of directional antenae we should make sure that we build millions of them to make sure that they are pointing in the correct direction. (The down side of Fermi's dilema!)
What we need is a screensaver that will turn a monitor into a directional antena. Then everybody can then turn their monitor towards the heavens when their computers are not at work and let the screen saver then broadcast a message. This would be much more effective and much cheaper.
This way we can do the broadcasting for a change and let those free-loading, beer swilling aliens take a turn trying to decode noise from space for a change. Why should we do all the work?
You underestimate the imagination of children. Within a couple of days the treehouse has probaly been a mech pirate the scourge of the seven seas, a cowboy mech at a showdown at high noon, a police officer mech (oh wait that's already been made into a movie...), and of course the ever popular mech playing doctor.
The best way to get the politicos on the bandwagon is to create more open source tools that they will use. For example software for creating political websites that include pages for credit card "donations." Also, software to help our favorite uncle to coordinate information across different states to support homeland defense. How about software for better voting procedures? (Nah - that one has faded from the radar.)
Once the politicos see the value of Open Source and see it as filling a need that they understand, then it will be something that they value.
Motorola and Nintendo have demonstrated the isochronous gaming LAN privately at gaming conferences over the last quarter. The RF subsystems will be ready for volume production in the second half of this year, Burgess said.
In other news, Microsoft has announced extensions tothe protocal for use in their XBox. The new extensions are not compatible but according to MS sources offer better value to the consumer.
Actually you want the bug to bind the radioactive waste into a molecule that is chemically more reactive. The idea is that the new molecule will be more likely to react with the surrounding media and hence will "stick" to it. If the new molecule is inactive it will simply flow through the media along with the fluid it is immersed in.
First, MS is giving away the c++ stuff so it would be hard to turn away from that. (They do this for us anyways...) Second, from reading the article I was surprised to learn that it is "difficult" to program without a GUI.
<BITCH> Damn, I must be a bigger freak than I thought. I find it much easier to use emacs and a makefile. dbx is a bit clunky but come on, is this stuff really that difficult? How come students freak out if they have to actually type something rather than click on it. </BITCH>
More importantly, how come this makes it to slashdot, but this other
article at The Register does not? Life isn't fair....
The squid weighs up to 250 kilograms and, including tentacles, measured almost 18 meters (60 feet), the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported on Monday.
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"It's definitely of the giant squid group, which is exciting enough," the museum's senior curator of Zoology, David Pemberton said in the ABC report.
There is a reason why this guy is the senior curator and not just some silly junior curator mopping up the lab after hours.
I thought CNN was bad but this article is pretty skimpy. By the way, at the end of the article the y seem to hint that giant squid feed on whales when it is the opposite. Whales feed on squid. The problem is that the squid fight back, but there is absolutely no evidence that the squid feed on whales.
Unfortunately you are correct. There is nothing there. It would be much more beneficial to keep a list of configuration settings required for the different laptops rather than just keeping a list of companies that sell them!
I recently was given a Dell Inspiron 2650 and installed linux on it. Because it is a new design my linux distro. was not able to figure out what to do about the display. I ended up fiddling around with Xconfigurator until it worked. Dell wasn't much help, and I could not find anything on the web.
It works fine, but it was more of an inconvenience than it really needed to be. It would have been a much better experience had there been a place on the web that listed all of the configurations necessary for the different types of machines. Simply having a list of companies tells you nothing about installing linux on a particular machine!
Watch automated power point slides flash by with stupid questions about celebrities.
Teen age kid stops power point slides and brings up explorer browser.
Kid then looks around to find the link to the movie.
We wait for the buffer to fill before movie starts.
Except for the occasional hicup in the downlink or the odd system hanging up we enjoy the experience.
Price of popcorn sky rockets to cover cost of new toys in the projection booth.
So what's wrong with movies the way they are now? The resolution is fine and the motion is fine. The only people complaining about it are the Hollywood types who have something to sell. Besides the real money in Hollywood is in renting videos. The new formats that are being proposed will have zero impact on the television even if you are using hdtv.
What makes the government adoption so important is that when the government expects all of the stuff sent to them to be in an MS format then there is pressure for a very large number of organizations to adopt MS software. It is a minor annoyance for MS to have to bribe the government when they can make up for it in a big way with all of the people who have to deal with the Peruvian government.
Sure it is possible to use Open Source and keep all of your files in MS format, but it is a royal pain. There is a huge impetus to go with MS.
Currently a large number of US government agencies work in MS formats. Anybody who wants to deal with the US government had better use MS formats or they are screwed. This alone means that MS has a huge advantage over every competitor.
When you open it up, it shouldn't display the creepy logo and suspicious agenda of "Microsoft, Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel" or any of those "trusted computing" jaspers.
So somebody is supposed to build computers for everybody on the whole planet, but that somebody shouldn't be big enough that they are capable of doing such a thing? Maybe we should put some plans on our desks and let the computer gnomes build them overnight?
The problem is that these mathematical terrorists form small cells (usually located near institutions of "higher education") which are extremely difficult to penetrate. It usually requires connections made early during college and 4-5 years after that. Some people have been known to take much longer.
Even if you are able to get into a cell it can be extremely difficult to stay in and keep your sanity. Many people who do get in just sort of drift off from society and are all but lost. Those few that make it often end up working alone, late at night in the back of dimly lit coffee houses.
There is simply no way to stop someone who is willing to make such sacrifices.
With the new world, astronomers say that they have just about finished surveying all the Sun-like stars out to a distance of 100 light-years from Earth.
Looks like they *think* that they've poked around in a 100 light year radius of earth. Given the extremely poor precision in which distances are measured this may be a bit optimistic.
Also from the article: And if stellar statistics gathered in our local region of space are applied to our galaxy of 300 billion stars, then there may be 30 billion Jupiter-like worlds and perhaps as many Earth-like worlds as well.
Since our universe is not uniform this may be an abuse of statistics. They've only looked at one very small corner. This is a heck of a Monte-Carlo simulation, though!
Why did the sharks make the trip? Reproduction isn't a likely motive: pregnant females have been seen only in the far western Pacific (scientists now suspect these may be the sharks' only spawning grounds)
Uhmm... If you are a Great White (or even a mediocre White) and you live in California and want to look for some action, wouldn't you have to head west? Since Hawaii is west of California and at least offers the possibility of a snack on the way, why not stop by? Then again, maybe they are just attracted to surf boards?
Well... KDE is mighty slow and gnome is only really slow.
Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3 seem fine on recent machines with enough memory. (Howz that for vague?) But we have a lab with a bunch of 5 year old machines and 32 mb or ram. We *have* to use icewm on them. It is possible to get gnome running on them but kde just plain won't run on them.
If you've got a recent machine there isn't much difference between the two, except that kde has some different features which are kind of nice. If you do not have a big machine then gnome is much nicer to work on. If you've got an old beater, then your best bet is icewm.
If it weren't for ice we would not have a back door for installing linux. Our argument to the money holders is that linux lets us use older machines and still be efficient. We can't do that with these "modern" window managers. The code bloat has just plain gotten out of hand. Thank goodness for ice! It allows us to sneak linux in the back door which then permeates the system!
It's not a bad economic strategy. Let the US and the old Soviets develop the technology for reusable orbital systems. But then again, why did they wait this long? The article says it won't be in place until 2015!
It sounds like there are 7 experts in eCos who are now available. Your company could be the center of the eCos universe in a short time! Then again you could consider one of the other ten companies for embedded linux.
The article says: Walmart.com has a few well-placed electronics buyers who are savvy to Linux, and a management team looking for ways to reinvigorate stagnant computer sales numbers. The combination has resulted in innovations like the Windows-free Microtel line and has generated strong sales and low return numbers...
Contrary to what was posted in the last slashdot story about this, Walmart is not selling these machines to unsuspecting rubes who are still trying to figure out how the door to their mobile home works. It sounds like Walmart knows their customers which is exactly why they are able to reach a large portion of the American public. A large number of the good folk here at slashdot seems to equate this with ignorant masses but that is not the case.
I live in a small town and have seen what Walmart can do to a community. I don't like Walmart but I certainly am not going to underestimate it. This appears to be a very shrewd move by a company which is the master of its domain.
From the wired article: Haldeman recounts in his now out-of-print book, The Ends of Power, that Nixon struggled with the most basic functions of cassette recorders.
They go on to detail how they had to mark the buttons so that Nixon could use a tape recorder. Wow.
There has been a lot of talk about people complaining that in the digital age most information will get lost. As long as techno-idiots like this are drawn to public service I doubt that there will be any problem in keeping track of what they say and write. I seriously doubt these folks are going to be able to get rid of information.
Even if they have high priced people to handle things for them, I can't help but think that they are going to leave behind really stupid stuff.
This is interesting stuff. I've always read that scientists thought that the core was made out of iron (Fe). If this new revelation is true then the density of the center of the core may be much higher than previously thought. What does that mean for the rest of the core? The density must be lower than previously thought???
Some native populations have an amazing capacity for rebounding. This is especially true of insect populations which have a reputation of getting through population bottlenecks better than any other animal. However, the "Allee effect" is a well known biological phenomenon.
Many populations have a critical population level, and if they fall below that level they have a low probability of rebounding. For example, fruit fly maggots are more efficient when eating in groups and cannot survive if they cannot get enough eggs on the same fruit.
By the way if you pick up an ecology journal you are likely to find at least one paper on this subject. Trying to understand the Allee effect is an important aspect of understanding an organism and how it interacts with its environment.
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If you don't agree to the terms then you should be able to print the EULA! The question is whether or not you can copyright a legal document such as the EULA.
As for the database itself. I can't stand to read the damn EULA's when I buy the software. Why would anybody want to go and read them off of a website? Yuk.
Wow! I thought the neighbors described in the article were whining until I got to this part. This is a staggering amount of radiation that they are pumping out.
I once spoke to some Air Force dudes about this sort of stuff, and they said that the big concerns were over endocerine systems. It would be very interesting to see if there are any problems with diabetes or other such diseases in the area. Sounds like a perfect test bed to see if e-mag emissions really can be harmful.
Of course the complication here is that if someone there gets sick, they can rest assured that the pope will be praying for them. It is probaly a bit tough to add such complications into your statistical models.
What we need is a screensaver that will turn a monitor into a directional antena. Then everybody can then turn their monitor towards the heavens when their computers are not at work and let the screen saver then broadcast a message. This would be much more effective and much cheaper. This way we can do the broadcasting for a change and let those free-loading, beer swilling aliens take a turn trying to decode noise from space for a change. Why should we do all the work?
Maybe the real problem with academia is that there are a boatload of people like this trying to talk to one another?
You underestimate the imagination of children. Within a couple of days the treehouse has probaly been a mech pirate the scourge of the seven seas, a cowboy mech at a showdown at high noon, a police officer mech (oh wait that's already been made into a movie...), and of course the ever popular mech playing doctor.
Once the politicos see the value of Open Source and see it as filling a need that they understand, then it will be something that they value.
In other news, Microsoft has announced extensions tothe protocal for use in their XBox. The new extensions are not compatible but according to MS sources offer better value to the consumer.
Actually you want the bug to bind the radioactive waste into a molecule that is chemically more reactive. The idea is that the new molecule will be more likely to react with the surrounding media and hence will "stick" to it. If the new molecule is inactive it will simply flow through the media along with the fluid it is immersed in.
<BITCH>
Damn, I must be a bigger freak than I thought. I find it much easier to use emacs and a makefile. dbx is a bit clunky but come on, is this stuff really that difficult? How come students freak out if they have to actually type something rather than click on it.
</BITCH>
More importantly, how come this makes it to slashdot, but this other article at The Register does not? Life isn't fair....
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"It's definitely of the giant squid group, which is exciting enough," the museum's senior curator of Zoology, David Pemberton said in the ABC report.
There is a reason why this guy is the senior curator and not just some silly junior curator mopping up the lab after hours.
I thought CNN was bad but this article is pretty skimpy. By the way, at the end of the article the y seem to hint that giant squid feed on whales when it is the opposite. Whales feed on squid. The problem is that the squid fight back, but there is absolutely no evidence that the squid feed on whales.
I recently was given a Dell Inspiron 2650 and installed linux on it. Because it is a new design my linux distro. was not able to figure out what to do about the display. I ended up fiddling around with Xconfigurator until it worked. Dell wasn't much help, and I could not find anything on the web.
It works fine, but it was more of an inconvenience than it really needed to be. It would have been a much better experience had there been a place on the web that listed all of the configurations necessary for the different types of machines. Simply having a list of companies tells you nothing about installing linux on a particular machine!
So what's wrong with movies the way they are now? The resolution is fine and the motion is fine. The only people complaining about it are the Hollywood types who have something to sell. Besides the real money in Hollywood is in renting videos. The new formats that are being proposed will have zero impact on the television even if you are using hdtv.
Sure it is possible to use Open Source and keep all of your files in MS format, but it is a royal pain. There is a huge impetus to go with MS.
Currently a large number of US government agencies work in MS formats. Anybody who wants to deal with the US government had better use MS formats or they are screwed. This alone means that MS has a huge advantage over every competitor.
So somebody is supposed to build computers for everybody on the whole planet, but that somebody shouldn't be big enough that they are capable of doing such a thing? Maybe we should put some plans on our desks and let the computer gnomes build them overnight?
Even if you are able to get into a cell it can be extremely difficult to stay in and keep your sanity. Many people who do get in just sort of drift off from society and are all but lost. Those few that make it often end up working alone, late at night in the back of dimly lit coffee houses.
There is simply no way to stop someone who is willing to make such sacrifices.
Looks like they *think* that they've poked around in a 100 light year radius of earth. Given the extremely poor precision in which distances are measured this may be a bit optimistic.
Also from the article:
And if stellar statistics gathered in our local region of space are applied to our galaxy of 300 billion stars, then there may be 30 billion Jupiter-like worlds and perhaps as many Earth-like worlds as well.
Since our universe is not uniform this may be an abuse of statistics. They've only looked at one very small corner. This is a heck of a Monte-Carlo simulation, though!
Uhmm... If you are a Great White (or even a mediocre White) and you live in California and want to look for some action, wouldn't you have to head west? Since Hawaii is west of California and at least offers the possibility of a snack on the way, why not stop by? Then again, maybe they are just attracted to surf boards?
Gnome 2.0 and KDE 3 seem fine on recent machines with enough memory. (Howz that for vague?) But we have a lab with a bunch of 5 year old machines and 32 mb or ram. We *have* to use icewm on them. It is possible to get gnome running on them but kde just plain won't run on them.
If you've got a recent machine there isn't much difference between the two, except that kde has some different features which are kind of nice. If you do not have a big machine then gnome is much nicer to work on. If you've got an old beater, then your best bet is icewm.
If it weren't for ice we would not have a back door for installing linux. Our argument to the money holders is that linux lets us use older machines and still be efficient. We can't do that with these "modern" window managers. The code bloat has just plain gotten out of hand. Thank goodness for ice! It allows us to sneak linux in the back door which then permeates the system!
It's not a bad economic strategy. Let the US and the old Soviets develop the technology for reusable orbital systems. But then again, why did they wait this long? The article says it won't be in place until 2015!
1) I am a terrible speller.
2) I work with people in the UK. Sometimes I need british spelling and sometimes I need American spellings.
3) I do technical work and a lot of the words I need do not appear in standard dictionaries. Can I add words to the dictionary?
4) I also use many three letter acronyms (TLM's). It would seem that a TLM may not be quicker to use anymore!
It sounds like there are 7 experts in eCos who are now available. Your company could be the center of the eCos universe in a short time! Then again you could consider one of the other ten companies for embedded linux.
Walmart.com has a few well-placed electronics buyers who are savvy to Linux, and a management team looking for ways to reinvigorate stagnant computer sales numbers. The combination has resulted in innovations like the Windows-free Microtel line and has generated strong sales and low return numbers...
Contrary to what was posted in the last slashdot story about this, Walmart is not selling these machines to unsuspecting rubes who are still trying to figure out how the door to their mobile home works. It sounds like Walmart knows their customers which is exactly why they are able to reach a large portion of the American public. A large number of the good folk here at slashdot seems to equate this with ignorant masses but that is not the case.
I live in a small town and have seen what Walmart can do to a community. I don't like Walmart but I certainly am not going to underestimate it. This appears to be a very shrewd move by a company which is the master of its domain.
Haldeman recounts in his now out-of-print book, The Ends of Power, that Nixon struggled with the most basic functions of cassette recorders.
They go on to detail how they had to mark the buttons so that Nixon could use a tape recorder. Wow.
There has been a lot of talk about people complaining that in the digital age most information will get lost. As long as techno-idiots like this are drawn to public service I doubt that there will be any problem in keeping track of what they say and write. I seriously doubt these folks are going to be able to get rid of information.
Even if they have high priced people to handle things for them, I can't help but think that they are going to leave behind really stupid stuff.
This is interesting stuff. I've always read that scientists thought that the core was made out of iron (Fe). If this new revelation is true then the density of the center of the core may be much higher than previously thought. What does that mean for the rest of the core? The density must be lower than previously thought???
Many populations have a critical population level, and if they fall below that level they have a low probability of rebounding. For example, fruit fly maggots are more efficient when eating in groups and cannot survive if they cannot get enough eggs on the same fruit.
By the way if you pick up an ecology journal you are likely to find at least one paper on this subject. Trying to understand the Allee effect is an important aspect of understanding an organism and how it interacts with its environment.