The reason you won't see this is that lawyers and MBAs deal with social interactions, so they need to be very familiar with the culture that they are working within.
Programmers and scientists mostly work with concepts that follow unvarying physical and logical laws. These laws apply equally in any country.
The ultimate limit on the salaries of lawyers and MBAs will come when we've shipped all productive jobs overseas and there will be nobody left here to generate any capital with which to pay them.
But in this case, the parent post said:
" I know going in if a specific client wants to use the mapping features, he/she must either buy the mapping component seperately, or through me.", so I surmise that this library is not royalty free.
Yet, if the library was GPL'ed tomorrow, all of a sudden my work should be free?
Only if you wanted to redistribute the library for free. Today, you can't distribute the library for free at all: you or your customer must buy it.
If the library was GPLed, it would not change the situation one bit. You would still have to buy it from the author under a different license in order to distribute it with your binary app. Some other people could use the library for free under different circumstances, but that wouldn't affect your usage. How is this a problem?
Know what else? Commercial software companies write programs that use MS libraries too. And they profit from MS labor. And if they don't give any money to MS in the process (such as buying VS.NET or something) then MS don't get crap from it.
That's not true. Each Microsoft library comes with or runs on a copy of Windows. Each copy of Windows is supposed to be individually licensed and paid for. The more popular your MS library using app is, the more copies of Windows get sold, and Microsoft makes more money.
386 Released with a math CoProcessor
reviews explaining the performance difference between the 386SX and 386DX here
Feh. Benchmark this: Weitek sold a 3-chip FP coprocessor for the 386 that was over twice as fast as the 387. (IIRC, it was memory mapped over a large address space; the opcodes were encoded on the adress lines.)
The advent of integrated FPUs put a bit of a damper on their business model, though.
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A better way to ask the question would be, why should corporate persons not enjoy free speech?
Mabye it's because the term "corporate person" is an oxymoron.
In spite of 50 years of lax security, the U.S. airline industry has traditionally had little problem with hijackings and bombings. What can we learn from this statistic? As things turned out, not much.
Likewise, every remote root exploit makes it technically possible for this to happen. Even if relatively few people are being hacked by script kiddies today, that says nothing about the odds of a highly skilled attacker pulling off a single massively devestating attack.
Yeah but its not as useful in reality as C.
While its good to use programming languages to teach math concepts, its also good to teach languages which students can actually use in the real world.
Maybe if we started teaching C at the 3rd grade level, we would finally have a pool of C programmers talented enough to avoid buffer overflows. In fact, I think that a child who writes an exploitable security bug in their C application should be subjected to corporal punishment. Nobody should pass the 5th grade unless they can write a solid FTP server.
In the long run, this strategy is the only way to improve the quality of software development in this country. We need to teach children at the earliest possible age to have proper respect for the power of pointer arithmetic.
Santa gives things away, like some kind of commie bastard.
He's worse than a commie bastard. He's a commie bastard fool.
People have leeched trillions of dollars by ripping off his valuable trademark image, and he's done nothing to stop it. He is such a poor steward of his own intellectual property that he should be sued for negligence.
His business plan sucks:
1) His elven employees make toys all year
2) Give away toys
3) WTF ???????? No profit!!!
This is worse than any.COM boondogle. When he runs out of cash, all of his elves are going to be out in the street. How can he live with himself?
I've got news for all of the slasbots out there: there's no such thing as a free sugarplum. This Santa fairy tail is going to end soon. Milk and cookies don't pay the rent. Mark my words, if Saint Nicholas wants to make a go of it in this economy against heavyweights like Wal Mart and Best Buy, he's going to have to demand that people leave a major credit card out for him. And he's going to have to charge a steep premium for holiday home delivery and setup. The writing's on the wall, folks. It's time to pay a fair price for your toys.
The major reason hospitals don't want you running around with an Airport card in your laptop is because their monitoring systems use the same frequencies.
If they've got mission critical wireless systems, WTF don't they run them on their own exclusive licensed frequencies?
You wont be able to see them. Even the giant airships of the '3os were invisible when flying at altitude.
Huh? These things were several times longer than a 747 and had a cruising altitude of only about 1000 feet. The Hindenburg flying right over you would not only be visible, but it would blot out much of the sky.
Even the high-altitude Zeppelin bombers of WWI were unpressurized and maxed out around 17000 feet; they were certainly not invisible.
normally, the GPL doesn't allow for non-source availible binaries to be linked into GPL code in the manner that kernel modules are added.
The GPL does not stop you from linking binary only code to GPLed code. Nor does it stop you from distributing your own binary-only code that can be linked to GPLed code. It only stops you from redistributing someone else's GPLed code which is linked to your binary-only code.
This is because the GPL puts no restrictions on the use of GPLed code, only on the redistribution of it. If you don't distribute the GPLed code, you can't violate the GPL. As long as a company that writes binary modules doesn't distribute the Linux kernel, there is no way that they can be in violation of the GPL.
The end user can link the binary module to the Linux kernel and use it. The end user can't redistribute this combo, however.
On the contrary, the ISS is a great science aid. As it orbits the earth, it proves that Newtonian physics applies even to very big, heavy, oddly shaped objects. Fortunately, this valuable validation of Newton's theories works equally well whether the station is manned or not.
I look forward to the ISS orbiting for many years as it helps to show the time invariance of Newton's laws of nature.
With CD copy protection preventing people from listening to cds on their PCs, this shouldn't be a problem.
That's the whole point of this kind of thing.
The ultimate goal is this: They fsck up the CD so your normal CD player software won't work. Instead, they include their own custom Windows utility to play the CD.
The catch is that you have to agree to their EULA to listen to the music on your computer. Under the EULA "contract" you waive most of the rights a consumer enjoys under copyright law, and you agree to give up some of your privacy and probably accept their spam.
Another problem: I got my first CD around 1985, and it still plays fine in any CD player or computer. Many of the old DOS or Windows apps I have from that time period don't work on today's computers. 17 years from now, it's likely that their custom music apps won't work on most peoples' equipment, and the industry will have worked hard to eliminate old-style unencumbered CD players. Every 5 to 10 years your CD collection could turn into a pile of coasters. (Actually, the CD format will probably eventually go away so you won't even get to keep the coasters, but the same problem remains with any DRM scheme.)
you know that they would buy a PCS phone that looks like a classic trek communicator.
An absolute requirement for this phone would be voice-activated dialing. You'd access your top three numbers using the voice commands: "Scotty!", "Spock!" and "Bones!".
This thing would be a bigger chick magnet than a puppy, without the annoying turds.
1 - regulated means you can't put a 200 megawatt transmitter on the cordless phone frequencies - it would jam all your neighbor's phones and be quite illegal.
In this scenario, your neighbors aren't going to be thinking about their phones.
With a 200 megawatt transmitter you could probably vaporize their houses.
One issue to worry about even if you keep your PC in storage over time is the ROMs. Many PCs use EPROM or flash BIOS. These work on the principle of injecting extra electrons into an insulator and keeping them trapped there. Over time, however, they might slowly leak out and erase the BIOS.
I don't know if they've improved the specs lately, but IIRC 10 years ago (the last time I was designing hardware), the EROM chip makers didn't guarantee that they would hold data much longer than a decade.
I've got a 50 year old Hallicrafters (sp?) short wave radio; my parents got it for me from an antique shop when I was a kid. I've never done any maintenence on it, but I fire it up every couple of years, and it still works perfectly.
This thing is just about the best built and coolest looking piece of equipment I've ever seen. The black steel cabinet is just about indestructable. The glowing green dials and big metal toggle switches look great. The all-tube electronics turns radio static, morse code and beat frequencies into a wonderful eerie ambience that's always changing as you twiddle the knobs.
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Programmers and scientists mostly work with concepts that follow unvarying physical and logical laws. These laws apply equally in any country.
The ultimate limit on the salaries of lawyers and MBAs will come when we've shipped all productive jobs overseas and there will be nobody left here to generate any capital with which to pay them.
But in this case, the parent post said: " I know going in if a specific client wants to use the mapping features, he/she must either buy the mapping component seperately, or through me.", so I surmise that this library is not royalty free.
Only if you wanted to redistribute the library for free. Today, you can't distribute the library for free at all: you or your customer must buy it.
If the library was GPLed, it would not change the situation one bit. You would still have to buy it from the author under a different license in order to distribute it with your binary app. Some other people could use the library for free under different circumstances, but that wouldn't affect your usage. How is this a problem?
That's not true. Each Microsoft library comes with or runs on a copy of Windows. Each copy of Windows is supposed to be individually licensed and paid for. The more popular your MS library using app is, the more copies of Windows get sold, and Microsoft makes more money.
He figures: "At long last, they will respect mae authoraetai!"
Feh. Benchmark this: Weitek sold a 3-chip FP coprocessor for the 386 that was over twice as fast as the 387. (IIRC, it was memory mapped over a large address space; the opcodes were encoded on the adress lines.)
The advent of integrated FPUs put a bit of a damper on their business model, though.
Mabye it's because the term "corporate person" is an oxymoron.
When all the payphones are gone, an anonymous call could only be coming ... from INSIDE the house!
GET OUT NOW!
Oops. s/little problem/few problems/
Likewise, every remote root exploit makes it technically possible for this to happen. Even if relatively few people are being hacked by script kiddies today, that says nothing about the odds of a highly skilled attacker pulling off a single massively devestating attack.
This report is no reason for complacency.
Maybe if we started teaching C at the 3rd grade level, we would finally have a pool of C programmers talented enough to avoid buffer overflows. In fact, I think that a child who writes an exploitable security bug in their C application should be subjected to corporal punishment. Nobody should pass the 5th grade unless they can write a solid FTP server.
In the long run, this strategy is the only way to improve the quality of software development in this country. We need to teach children at the earliest possible age to have proper respect for the power of pointer arithmetic.
He's worse than a commie bastard. He's a commie bastard fool.
People have leeched trillions of dollars by ripping off his valuable trademark image, and he's done nothing to stop it. He is such a poor steward of his own intellectual property that he should be sued for negligence.
His business plan sucks:
1) His elven employees make toys all year
2) Give away toys
3) WTF ???????? No profit!!!
This is worse than any .COM boondogle. When he runs out of cash, all of his elves are going to be out in the street. How can he live with himself?
I've got news for all of the slasbots out there: there's no such thing as a free sugarplum. This Santa fairy tail is going to end soon. Milk and cookies don't pay the rent. Mark my words, if Saint Nicholas wants to make a go of it in this economy against heavyweights like Wal Mart and Best Buy, he's going to have to demand that people leave a major credit card out for him. And he's going to have to charge a steep premium for holiday home delivery and setup. The writing's on the wall, folks. It's time to pay a fair price for your toys.
Not necessarily.
However, magnetic fields embedded in a tenuous plasma may be a bit more complicated.
If they've got mission critical wireless systems, WTF don't they run them on their own exclusive licensed frequencies?
Huh? These things were several times longer than a 747 and had a cruising altitude of only about 1000 feet. The Hindenburg flying right over you would not only be visible, but it would blot out much of the sky.
Even the high-altitude Zeppelin bombers of WWI were unpressurized and maxed out around 17000 feet; they were certainly not invisible.
The GPL does not stop you from linking binary only code to GPLed code. Nor does it stop you from distributing your own binary-only code that can be linked to GPLed code. It only stops you from redistributing someone else's GPLed code which is linked to your binary-only code.
This is because the GPL puts no restrictions on the use of GPLed code, only on the redistribution of it. If you don't distribute the GPLed code, you can't violate the GPL. As long as a company that writes binary modules doesn't distribute the Linux kernel, there is no way that they can be in violation of the GPL.
The end user can link the binary module to the Linux kernel and use it. The end user can't redistribute this combo, however.
On the contrary, the ISS is a great science aid. As it orbits the earth, it proves that Newtonian physics applies even to very big, heavy, oddly shaped objects. Fortunately, this valuable validation of Newton's theories works equally well whether the station is manned or not.
I look forward to the ISS orbiting for many years as it helps to show the time invariance of Newton's laws of nature.
That's the whole point of this kind of thing. The ultimate goal is this: They fsck up the CD so your normal CD player software won't work. Instead, they include their own custom Windows utility to play the CD.
The catch is that you have to agree to their EULA to listen to the music on your computer. Under the EULA "contract" you waive most of the rights a consumer enjoys under copyright law, and you agree to give up some of your privacy and probably accept their spam.
Another problem: I got my first CD around 1985, and it still plays fine in any CD player or computer. Many of the old DOS or Windows apps I have from that time period don't work on today's computers. 17 years from now, it's likely that their custom music apps won't work on most peoples' equipment, and the industry will have worked hard to eliminate old-style unencumbered CD players. Every 5 to 10 years your CD collection could turn into a pile of coasters. (Actually, the CD format will probably eventually go away so you won't even get to keep the coasters, but the same problem remains with any DRM scheme.)
You need to recalibrate your sarcasm detector.
An absolute requirement for this phone would be voice-activated dialing. You'd access your top three numbers using the voice commands: "Scotty!", "Spock!" and "Bones!".
This thing would be a bigger chick magnet than a puppy, without the annoying turds.
ISS shutdown
In progress - Shuttle ages
Replacement is where?
In this scenario, your neighbors aren't going to be thinking about their phones. With a 200 megawatt transmitter you could probably vaporize their houses.
I don't know if they've improved the specs lately, but IIRC 10 years ago (the last time I was designing hardware), the EROM chip makers didn't guarantee that they would hold data much longer than a decade.
This thing is just about the best built and coolest looking piece of equipment I've ever seen. The black steel cabinet is just about indestructable. The glowing green dials and big metal toggle switches look great. The all-tube electronics turns radio static, morse code and beat frequencies into a wonderful eerie ambience that's always changing as you twiddle the knobs.