I'd prefer if this money went to the FSF, or perhaps the folks at SourceForge to sponsor worthy projects, ideally those which don't already have corporate interest.
This isn't enough money to really run a big office or something, but it is enough to get some useful cracks filled in.
In New Hampshire, at least, absentee ballots are exactly the same as the ballots you'd get at the polls, and are either collected at the town office, or mailed are in. The envelope that they are sealed inside has the votors name, address and ward, as well as a signed statement that you won't be around on election day.
On election day, they are delivered to the appropriate polling place. Then, from 1pm to 5pm, they are opened and fed to the vote-scanning machines, just as if they were cast by the votors there.
They end up counted at the same time as all the other votes.
For the company, each computer would need power & maintenance, but, assuming that you put a cellphone-style "minutes" limit on the computers, this is doable.
Many people in 3rd world countries already use Cybercafe's, this would just be cheaper & more convenient. Balmer wants personal computers because people don't buy software for computers they don't own.
I've not actually got off my butt to buy one, but I thought one of those accordian files (seen being toted around by debate teams everywhere) would be perfect for storing cables.
One neatly-coiled cable per slot, and they'll never get tangled with each other.
* As part of the kernel evolution toward modular naming, the * functions malloc, and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree. * Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembly code: * (also see mfree/rmfree below) */
The difference between authors and milk cows is that authors don't have to produce work.
If a potential full-time author looks at how much $$ he's likely to receive for his books, and sees that he's not going to be able to support his family, he's not going to write them at all.
Unlike cows which get ground up into hot dogs, authors can stop writing and get income from somewhere else.
Copyright law needs to be favourable enough to authors to pursuade them to write.
One of the best arguments against copyright extensions is that, because copyright exists to encourage people to create works, extending it after they've created the works is against the spirit, as the author has already been adequately compensated.
During the 'DSL providers falling like leaves' period, DSL wasn't offered in my area, so I picked up 2 SDSL modems off of eBay, ordered a dry pair from my apartment to my office, and now leach bandwidth off of them in the off-hours.
For me, the costs were $400 setup for the line, $60 total for the modems, and I pay $34 monthly to keep the line open.
Uh, the company was a Russian company, therefore the US has no particular authority to sue them (unless they can convince Russia that it's a good idea, which I highly doubt).
The DOJ's only recourse in this situation was to use the criminal aspect of the DMCA to arrest the individual.
Well, unless you give the source to everyone when they buy the binary, you do have to make it pretty close to freely available, as, under paragraph 3c, you have to provide source to anyone who has come across a copy of the binary...
You can, of course, just give away stuff in source form only, which is good, as this keeps developers from being legally shackled to spend all of their time sending people floppies...
OK, OK... In the longish COPYING file that comes with many of the programs I own, paragraph 3 clearly states under what conditions one can distribute GPL'd binaries.
In order to have the right to distribute GPL-covered binaries, you are required to make the source freely available.
Note that it isn't the user's right to have the source, it's your responsibility to provide it. If you do not provide it, you are not complying with the GPL. If you distribute the software without complying with the GPL, you are breaking the law.
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I'd prefer if this money went to the FSF, or perhaps the folks at SourceForge to sponsor worthy projects, ideally those which don't already have corporate interest.
This isn't enough money to really run a big office or something, but it is enough to get some useful cracks filled in.
-jeff
Clifford Ross already has a 1-gigapixel camera.
What he wants to build is a 1-gigapixel screen.
-jeff
In New Hampshire, at least, absentee ballots are exactly the same as the ballots you'd get at the polls, and are either collected at the town office, or mailed are in. The envelope that they are sealed inside has the votors name, address and ward, as well as a signed statement that you won't be around on election day.
On election day, they are delivered to the appropriate polling place. Then, from 1pm to 5pm, they are opened and fed to the vote-scanning machines, just as if they were cast by the votors there.
They end up counted at the same time as all the other votes.
Sell Flash drives for holding user data that can be used on $1000 public kiosk-style computers.
256 MB USB flash drive: ~ $25
Monthly cost, say, $5
= 2 years of computer access for $100
For the company, each computer would need power & maintenance, but, assuming that you put a cellphone-style "minutes" limit on the computers, this is doable.
Many people in 3rd world countries already use Cybercafe's, this would just be cheaper & more convenient. Balmer wants personal computers because people don't buy software for computers they don't own.
I've not actually got off my butt to buy one, but I thought one of those accordian files (seen being toted around by debate teams everywhere) would be perfect for storing cables.
One neatly-coiled cable per slot, and they'll never get tangled with each other.
if (size == 0)
return) ((ulong_t NULL);
What is this, amateur night?
* As part of the kernel evolution toward modular naming, the
* functions malloc, and mfree are being renamed to rmalloc and rmfree.
* Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembly code:
* (also see mfree/rmfree below)
*/
The difference between authors and milk cows is that authors don't have to produce work.
If a potential full-time author looks at how much $$ he's likely to receive for his books, and sees that he's not going to be able to support his family, he's not going to write them at all.
Unlike cows which get ground up into hot dogs, authors can stop writing and get income from somewhere else.
Copyright law needs to be favourable enough to authors to pursuade them to write.
One of the best arguments against copyright extensions is that, because copyright exists to encourage people to create works, extending it after they've created the works is against the spirit, as the author has already been adequately compensated.
During the 'DSL providers falling like leaves' period, DSL wasn't offered in my area, so I picked up 2 SDSL modems off of eBay, ordered a dry pair from my apartment to my office, and now leach bandwidth off of them in the off-hours.
For me, the costs were $400 setup for the line, $60 total for the modems, and I pay $34 monthly to keep the line open.
-jeff
Uh, the company was a Russian company, therefore the US has no particular authority to sue them (unless they can convince Russia that it's a good idea, which I highly doubt).
The DOJ's only recourse in this situation was to use the criminal aspect of the DMCA to arrest the individual.
1-202-737-0001 East coast/Central
1-202-737-0002 Mtn./Pacific
Call back five or six times, and you'll be able to get on the air.
So far, the calls have been dominated by a fine collection knowledge-free pro-M$-types.
Tell people the other side of the story!
I do hope we come up with a better business model before we have a rather annoying cleanup job...
You can, of course, just give away stuff in source form only, which is good, as this keeps developers from being legally shackled to spend all of their time sending people floppies...
In order to have the right to distribute GPL-covered binaries, you are required to make the source freely available.
Note that it isn't the user's right to have the source, it's your responsibility to provide it. If you do not provide it, you are not complying with the GPL. If you distribute the software without complying with the GPL, you are breaking the law.
It's that simple.