I guess I'm confused by your comment. Safari publishes full text searchable books online for a fee. Why would that make Tim in favor of the Google Library project? It would seem to me that O'Reilly currently is one of the 'winners' in the current system. Their content is indexed and available, so they get to ride the long tail.
It doesn't directly help O'Reilly to make their competiter's books available...except, that in the game of multiplying knowledge it is in everyone's best interest to have more material available.
There is the free http://geocoder.us/ web site that uses the Geo::Coder::US perl module.
The perl module is free software, and the Tiger data that it uses is also free.
The Geocoder.us web site runs this module to do lookups for non-profits for free (commercial use of the web site is not free-but you are welcome to download the code and the data and do it yourself for free).
As a note: The full census data when loaded into Postgis is something like 40 gb, and is dog slow. Refractions is working (or was working) on a pure SQL geocoder. The Geo::Coder::US version uses Berkeley DB files and is about 800 mb.
GRASS UI - You can now run the beautiful QGIS on top of GRASS, which gives you the best of both worlds.
The posters who mention the GRASS user interface neglect to mention that the prime GRASS UI is the unix shell. You can do _anything_ that GRASS can do within shell scripts, or python or perl, etc.
This also means that your scripting language has the power of the full UNIX tool chain philosophy.
The new GRASS Vector model also rocks, very hard, and you have full connectivity to PostGIS-the geospatial extensions to PostgreSQL that also rock, very hard.
There is a fundamental difference between crapola click thru agreements on web pages and software and the GPL.
The click through agreements are attempting to impose additional restrictions on your rightful activities.
Installing software which you have purchased is your right. The click through is attempting to impose additional restrictions on what you may do.
The difference is that the GPL provides you with the right to redistribute someone else's property. The price exacted for that distribution is to comply with the terms of the GPL.
This is straight contract land. Offer, acceptence, consideration. There is no confusion. No ambiguity.
Unlike the click through license, the GPL does not come into play until you attempt to do something that would be prohibited in the abscence of the GPL (or other license): redistribute the code.
Click throughs and lame web Terms of Service controls your use of intellectual property. The GPL controls your distribution of intellectual propery.
...in certain situations. Such as hidden gps connected transmitters. The rental car companies using GPS to remotely assess fines for speeding and out of area.
The knowledge of where I am belongs, and must belong, solely to me. Any attempts to ascertain my location without my consent must be fought.
"The only lasting monopolies have been government enforced."
> Microsoft is government enforced? News to me..
Microsoft currently has a lot of economic power. Billions in the bank, ready to market the snot out of their 'innovation' of the day, a strong grip around the necks of the PC market, and even some mostly failed forays out of the 'PC' and into content and set top boxes and the like.
Microsoft does not have a 'lasting monopoly' on anything. Microsoft has not yet existed long enough to be capable of having a 'lasting monopoly.'
I know this is comparing apples to oranges, but ISDN technology is older than Microsoft's ownership of DOS.
Hell, Windows itself (if you disregard those rather non 'windowish' versions before 3.0) is just about ten years old...
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I guess I'm confused by your comment. Safari publishes full text searchable books online for a fee. Why would that make Tim in favor of the Google Library project? It would seem to me that O'Reilly currently is one of the 'winners' in the current system. Their content is indexed and available, so they get to ride the long tail.
It doesn't directly help O'Reilly to make their competiter's books available...except, that in the game of multiplying knowledge it is in everyone's best interest to have more material available.
There is the free http://geocoder.us/ web site that uses the Geo::Coder::US perl module.
The perl module is free software, and the Tiger data that it uses is also free.
The Geocoder.us web site runs this module to do lookups for non-profits for free (commercial use of the web site is not free-but you are welcome to download the code and the data and do it yourself for free).
As a note: The full census data when loaded into Postgis is something like 40 gb, and is dog slow. Refractions is working (or was working) on a pure SQL geocoder. The Geo::Coder::US version uses Berkeley DB files and is about 800 mb.
GRASS UI - You can now run the beautiful QGIS on top of GRASS, which gives you the best of both worlds.
The posters who mention the GRASS user interface neglect to mention that the prime GRASS UI is the unix shell. You can do _anything_ that GRASS can do within shell scripts, or python or perl, etc.
This also means that your scripting language has the power of the full UNIX tool chain philosophy.
The new GRASS Vector model also rocks, very hard, and you have full connectivity to PostGIS-the geospatial extensions to PostgreSQL that also rock, very hard.
> Insecurity doesn't affect the user until they get burned - mainly by lower performance as their bandwidth gets leached
I share my network on purpose with several neighbors, including a heavy user who downloads like crazy. I don't get 'burned' by lower performance.
OTOH, the overhead of WEP 'burns me' pretty regularly. And really, what is the point of having WEP on to encrypt my ssl and ssh traffic?
Open by default...it's a good idea.
I disagree. Open wifi is a social good.
Screw the cops and their paranoia.
There is a fundamental difference between crapola click thru agreements on web pages and software and the GPL.
The click through agreements are attempting to impose additional restrictions on your rightful activities.
Installing software which you have purchased is your right. The click through is attempting to impose additional restrictions on what you may do.
The difference is that the GPL provides you with the right to redistribute someone else's property. The price exacted for that distribution is to comply with the terms of the GPL.
This is straight contract land. Offer, acceptence, consideration. There is no confusion. No ambiguity.
Unlike the click through license, the GPL does not come into play until you attempt to do something that would be prohibited in the abscence of the GPL (or other license): redistribute the code.
Click throughs and lame web Terms of Service controls your use of intellectual property. The GPL controls your distribution of intellectual propery.
Big difference.
...in certain situations. Such as hidden gps connected transmitters. The rental car companies using GPS to remotely assess fines for speeding and out of area.
The knowledge of where I am belongs, and must belong, solely to me. Any attempts to ascertain my location without my consent must be fought.
"The only lasting monopolies have been government enforced."
> Microsoft is government enforced? News to me..
Microsoft currently has a lot of economic power. Billions in the bank, ready to market the snot out of their 'innovation' of the day, a strong grip around the necks of the PC market, and even some mostly failed forays out of the 'PC' and into content and set top boxes and the like.
Microsoft does not have a 'lasting monopoly' on anything. Microsoft has not yet existed long enough to be capable of having a 'lasting monopoly.'
I know this is comparing apples to oranges, but ISDN technology is older than Microsoft's ownership of DOS.
Hell, Windows itself (if you disregard those rather non 'windowish' versions before 3.0) is just about ten years old...
Markets take time to shake out.
Rich