But not as much radioactive waste as coal fired stations. And it does not dump its waste into the atmosphere, like coal fired stations. And does not kill as many workers in the extraction of the raw material. etc. etc.
Only a relatively small number of consumers are prepared to pay $4999 for a Plasma TV. Microsoft's market would be 1000's times larger. Also, a plasma TV has some "excitement" attached to it, it can be shown off to the neighbors etc. Software has long ago lost that "excitement", at least amongst your average consumers.
Which is Microsoft's big problem. Can you imagine asking your neighbours over to look at an update to an OS, or word processor?
Love this from the referenced articale "We unfortunately were indoors watching the data on monitors during the experiment and were busy scrambling trying to make sure the effects were real and not some glitch with the equipment,"
Picture in mind of geeks staring at glowing screens while the 1 MW RF beam blasts the crap out of a 747 or worse.
Not sure if this was a troll or not - I guess the drugs have/have not kicked in yet.
However assuming it is not....
The question concerned internal systems, not a platform for external or software for distribution. So it is no consquence whether the license is GPL, CDDL, MPL, *BSD or any other free to use type license.
"The other day, my wife went shopping, and correctly bought an item that I had written down on our shopping list, even though I myself couldn't read my own handwriting."
Probably she knows that you need beer and pizza every day!
"2) It is not clear what the actual scope of the licensing is and whether it will be GPL-compliant"
Depends what GPL-Compliant means. CDDL is very similar to GPL and appears to have much the same end game - if you develop with CDDL/GPL then all derivative works must use the same license.
However that also means that they are mutually un-compliant. Something developed under the GPL cannot be licensed under CDDL and vice-versa.
- When someone calls my cell phone, I can his a button to mute the stereo, answer the call, and use my car stereo (with a mic in the car) for taking the call so it doesn't distract me while driving."
But how can I stop someone hijacking my phone etc. when I an stopped at the lights, or in a public car park etc. Have the vendors really sorted the security issues? I doubt it.
Right.... so anything released under the GPL is not "free" either, as it cannot be used in all accredited F/OSS licenses?
I know this is/. , but is there not a hint of hypocracy here when anything GPL is good, and anything with another very similar license is bad because it prevents integrating the code into another licence (which GPL also prevents).
"My personal concern is that Sun who used BSD code for its fine operating system didn't make its new license compatible with the BSD license."
Nothing new about that. Microsoft used BSD code in its.... operating system (TCP/IP stack at least), but I don't think the Microsoft license is compatible with the BSD license.
"Why would I want to use Netscape (or even Mozilla) instead of Firefox/Thunderbird/all my favorite extensions?"
Because I want an enterprise browser/email client that:
- has proper LDAP support, such as being able to use ldap to populate mail lists
- properly supports simple mapi
- has an enterprise client setup package.
Mozilla does not do the above, Netscape 4.xx did so I assume the later versions of Netscape do too.
So how can you tell if the disconnected line with no dial tone is just marked down at the switch or has an actual line fault? I don't think it would be a good idea to rely on such a line. If the Telco was sort of switch ports or cable pairs your 911 service could be lost without notice.
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This /. On /. BSD is always dying, like Solaris
Can you show an example of a software license that does other than disclaim tort and contract liability for any problems resulting from the code?
I know Microsoft product licenses don't.
And be warned all you patent thieves, they have the operating model of another succesful defender of IP to follow - SCO.
But not as much radioactive waste as coal fired stations. And it does not dump its waste into the atmosphere, like coal fired stations. And does not kill as many workers in the extraction of the raw material. etc. etc.
Only a relatively small number of consumers are prepared to pay $4999 for a Plasma TV. Microsoft's market would be 1000's times larger. Also, a plasma TV has some "excitement" attached to it, it can be shown off to the neighbors etc. Software has long ago lost that "excitement", at least amongst your average consumers.
/.'s around....
Which is Microsoft's big problem. Can you imagine asking your neighbours over to look at an update to an OS, or word processor?
There are only so many
"PS OT I know."
Now why did you have to ruin a perfectly good reply by trying to introduce a rational comment?
Love this from the referenced articale "We unfortunately were indoors watching the data on monitors during the experiment and were busy scrambling trying to make sure the effects were real and not some glitch with the equipment,"
Picture in mind of geeks staring at glowing screens while the 1 MW RF beam blasts the crap out of a 747 or worse.
And if "government gives me access to Cray for free to do my research" then I have no doubt that you waste more than bandwidth.
What do you mean ONLY (as in could probably only cut tinfoil).
This would have a devastating impact on those of us with person radiation proctection over our heads.
Not sure if this was a troll or not - I guess the drugs have/have not kicked in yet.
However assuming it is not....
The question concerned internal systems, not a platform for external or software for distribution. So it is no consquence whether the license is GPL, CDDL, MPL, *BSD or any other free to use type license.
"The other day, my wife went shopping, and correctly bought an item that I had written down on our shopping list, even though I myself couldn't read my own handwriting."
Probably she knows that you need beer and pizza every day!
"2) It is not clear what the actual scope of the licensing is and whether it will be GPL-compliant"
Depends what GPL-Compliant means. CDDL is very similar to GPL and appears to have much the same end game - if you develop with CDDL/GPL then all derivative works must use the same license.
However that also means that they are mutually un-compliant. Something developed under the GPL cannot be licensed under CDDL and vice-versa.
Fairly obvious, they mean an 11 degree Kelvin rise, which is the same as 11 deg Centigrade or 19.8 F.
Try 22-33kbps on a country line with NO chance of ADSL or the like.
I assume you are talking about linux widows as in golf widows.. http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861691022/golf_ widow.html
I also assume you mean that said golf widows get pissed on wine, but I am still not sure I follow your logic...
" Reasons why I might want Bluetooth in my car:
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- When someone calls my cell phone, I can his a button to mute the stereo, answer the call, and use my car stereo (with a mic in the car) for taking the call so it doesn't distract me while driving."
Like this...
http://www.bmw.co.nz/content_accessories_cat.asp?
But how can I stop someone hijacking my phone etc. when I an stopped at the lights, or in a public car park etc. Have the vendors really sorted the security issues? I doubt it.
"An Air gap is a good idea for critical networks whether they be located in a nuclear power station or your spiffy new car"
I don't think bluetooth respects the isolation of an air gap.
Sure can. And it makes the page scroll up and down as well. Does not change the rendering though.
"but I imagine it could be integrated into BSD"
:=)
Beautiful. So Solaris and BSD can continue to die together
Right.... so anything released under the GPL is not "free" either, as it cannot be used in all accredited F/OSS licenses?
/. , but is there not a hint of hypocracy here when anything GPL is good, and anything with another very similar license is bad because it prevents integrating the code into another licence (which GPL also prevents).
I know this is
"My personal concern is that Sun who used BSD code for its fine operating system didn't make its new license compatible with the BSD license."
.... operating system (TCP/IP stack at least), but I don't think the Microsoft license is compatible with the BSD license.
Nothing new about that. Microsoft used BSD code in its
Why don't you have a look for yourself and give us the benefit of your experience...
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http://www.opensolaris.org/license/cddl_license.h
And it looks to me as if it would be as easy/hard to put OpenSolaris bits into GNU/Linux as it would to do the reverse.
Ah, no yet. Promised in an update to Solaris 10. And Solaris 10 is still not released.
"Why would I want to use Netscape (or even Mozilla) instead of Firefox/Thunderbird/all my favorite extensions?"
Because I want an enterprise browser/email client that:
- has proper LDAP support, such as being able to use ldap to populate mail lists
- properly supports simple mapi
- has an enterprise client setup package.
Mozilla does not do the above, Netscape 4.xx did so I assume the later versions of Netscape do too.
Oh, wait.......
So how can you tell if the disconnected line with no dial tone is just marked down at the switch or has an actual line fault? I don't think it would be a good idea to rely on such a line. If the Telco was sort of switch ports or cable pairs your 911 service could be lost without notice.