The ones that I wrote with the Debian developers. ESR didn't have anything to do with them, he came along 6 months later and adopted them. RMS approved of them at the time. If you don't like them, that's your privilege, but the DFSG and its derivitave the OSD are the generally-accepted definition of Open Source (and for that matter, Free Software as well).
Sun can indeed use the GPL on Java, or any other Open Source license. However, Open Source licenses may not, in themselves, prohibit forking. That would be a prohibition on modification or distribution of the modifications, which is specificaly excluded in the Open Source definition.
What Sun can do is use a certification program and trademarks to enforce the Java definition. If you modify it, you can't call it Java(R) any longer, and you can't display their certification badge on your product's packaging and literature.
We must either use the Census data anonymously, or we can expect bad data from the census. I never answer the questions about race, due to the way ethnic Japanese U.S. citizens were treated during World War II - their census answers were used to find them and put them in concentration camps. They weren't even doing that to ethnic Germans at the time. Interesting double-standard, isn't it?
Well, I appreciate that journalists like you are around. I wish there were more. But the point I was attempting to make is that news organizations aren't really being held to a standard. Would you like to post a counter-argument?
Nothing bad happens to a news agency for distributing bad stories. It's not like they get fined, and they don't lose readers. Libelous stories can be done with impunity, few people can afford to sue, and when they do, they lose.
It would be good if they were for real. If you read their plans, you won't be sanguine about their chances. But naive investors might believe them. Perhaps, that's the point.
The VM is what I'd call "disclosed source-code", but isn't Open Source. They are proposing to eventually put a Motif-style license on it (which fails the Open Source definition because it discriminates about the type of system and the other software on the system). The current license is very far from Open Source because it doesn't allow modification of the way the VM works.
There are technical problems as well, but I'll leave those to others.
OK, Bob's known for saying dumb things about Linux and Open Source. But he's one of the more well-known PARC graduates, who took Ethernet (another thing they declined to market) and made a Billion with it. Let's have him use those profits to buy the lab he took them from. Nice irony. But then, Metcalfe's not the only candidate for this.
If you plug the wavelan-provided antenna in to a wavelan card, and you modify neither the antenna and its cable nor the card, it's a Part 15 device. If you open it up and do your own thing, it's not a Part 15 device any longer.
Note that the 14 dB antenna isn't an omni. You don't get 14 dB from an onmi. Gain is at the expense of concentrating the energy in one direction or at least one plane.
There's no point in amplification at the base if you don't amplify the other station (the one in your laptop, in this case) too - it's only one side of a 2-way connection. There is a point in a better antenna, because that gain works in both directions, although we are talking about a 3 dB gain here, not 14.
Note also that once you modify it, it's not a Part-15 device any longer and you should have a license.
Money in the hands of foundations works just as hard for the economy as money in the hands of families and individuals. Both parties spend the money, and bank or invest the money. When money is spent, banked, or invested, the recepients of the money themselves spend, bank, and invest it. And so on.
The only difference is that in the foundation's hands, at least once the money may be spent on the public good.
You speak as if you think that foundations are burying the money in their backyards.
The Apple Airport is a $300 direct-sequence 11 MB 802.11b Ethernet-to-Wireless base station. It connects directly to 10-base-T Ethernet and operates either as a bridge, repeating all packets, or as an IP masquerader and DHCP server. It can serve DHCP to Ethernet as well as the radio link, and serves up to 10 DHCP hosts. It is also a DHCP client. It comes configured to be a DHCP client, IP masquerader, and DHCP server, and thus you can plug it into the typical DSL connection and it will serve your local network immediately. The software that comes with it is Mac-only, but there is a Java application on the net that manages it. The management protocol is SNMP, so a native Linux application to manage it would be easy enough.
I am running the Airport as a bridge, with my Linux server as the DHCP server with dynamic DNS and IP masquerader. I run it this way so that I save one static IP number (otherwise I would have to give the Airport a static IP), and so that I get dynamic DNS (which the Airport doesn't provide). The laptops use the Lucent Wavelan "Gold" with the kernel Wavelan driver and the Debian PCMCIA and wireless-tools packages.
This works great for toting the laptop around the house so that I can dip onto the net while watching the baby, etc. And it's cheap, too!
Remember the book (I hope I get the title right), 34 Charing Cross Road? I must have read it 20 years ago. If I remember it correctly, it's about the relationship that a an American customer has with the staff of a British bookstore during World War II. It's in the form of their letters to each other, which of course include business transactions - although the customer gets to know the people in the bookstore, he's writing to buy books.
The point of this is that the people in the bookstore know the customer and will send him what he asks for in a letter. Although he usually repeats his address in a letter, he doesn't have to - they know it. They know his payment history. This is essentially the "one-click" business system, without the clicks.
The problem with business system patents is that you can take a business system that's been going on without a computer for centuries, make a single change of using a computer to perform it, and that is granted a patent. There is no real invention and no patent should be granted.
I've been running my laptop on ext3 for a month or so. It is mount-compatible with ext2 and provides journaling. Just add the patch to the kernel, create the journal file, and mount your old ext2 filesystem as ext3. Debian's current release is ext3-ready and properly runs the journal and refrains from running fsck after a crash. It does have lower performance than what is proposed here, especially in this early version, as it writes a lot of things twice. However, my laptop is not write-bound and the writes happen in the background, so I don't notice how much faster or slower they are, anyway.
Phase tree filesystems sound like a better way to do this, but you don't have to wait. Get crash-proof today.
This is the part I'm dubious about, however, as is the poster above who points out what I think is a near-field effect (although he calls it "line source"). It seems to support the conclusion that antenna configuration is a large factor in how much energy is coupled to your head. I doubt it. All of these are omnidirectional short vertical radiators with the ground-plane provided by the case of the phone and the person holding it, fed a standard amount of power at a standard frequency. The antennas are not very different from each other, they are all within 1/2 wave of your head, and they should all be oriented vertically.
Let's consider effective radiated power, which is a combination of antenna gain (or loss) and transmitter power delivered to the antenna. It should be about the same from phone to phone, it's actually supposed to meet a standard. At 800 MHz one can assume that the phone antenna is within a half-wavelength of the head no matter what the configuration of the phone, although this might not be true for 1900 and 2100 MHz. If the antenna is perpendicular to your head, I.E. horizontal, it's not going to be very efficient at reaching the cell site compared to a vertical antenna. The cell site will probably get less signal and will command the phone to increase power!
I think the variations we are seeing here have more to do with how it was measured than anything else. If the phones were actually measured in the same rig instead of individually, we'd probably see very different values.
This is an extremely silly rating. The radiation output is a function of effective RF power, which is the same for all of those phones for a particular frequency and mode. There are three frequency bands and three modes found in common cell phones. If they'd just rated those, it would have been enough.
Also, your phone changes its power depending on how much is necessary to reach the cell base. If you are close to the cell and in line-of-sight, your phone will emit less RF.
And nobody's mentioning the most important factor, the inverse square law. Exposure decreases as the square of distance - which means don't hold it up to your head if you're worried, use a headset or a roof antenna on your car.
I really don't understand why the entire nation doesn't yell "B.S." every time either candidate says "surplus". The United States Government has a debt of a Trillion dollars. About 1/4 of your federal taxes go to paying interest on the loan! The surplus is much smaller than the debt, and should be used to pay down a piece of the debt. And we shouldn't call it a surplus if we owe more than we have.
I forgot to mention - look here for a picture of Debian developer Bdale Garbee (on left, in foreground) in the clean room in Kouru, doing pre-flight testing on his GPS receiver experiment. The rest of the album is here. The GPS receiver on the satellite is built to operate both inside and outside of the orbits of the GPS transmitter satellite constellation - something GPS wasn't designed for. If it works, it will transmit precise coordinates of the satellite to the ground, so that accurate ephemerides can be made without ground observation, without inertial navigation, etc.
Some of the development systems for this experiment run Debian.
Check out the rest of the album. I found the emergency escape drills and the "spacesuits" worn while fueling the satellite with hazardous chemicals most interesting, after pictures of people I know:-).
The last mission brought up the first ham radio payload. They won't activate it on this trip, but they've given out callsigns for a mission later this year. Hams will be able to work the station with as little as a walkie-talkie and a hand-held beam antenna. When astronauts aren't operating voice, the system will be set up for packet radio and will answer and acknowledge a contact automaticaly. More information is here. Between this and the soon-to-be-launched Million-dollar amateur radio satellite, built and financed by hams, we're going to see a lot more space ham activity.
Oh gee. I joined the kernel mailing list well before the Linux virtual memory implementation was able to support Electric Fence, and of course that was my first concern at the time. That might have been 1994 or even 1993. I think Lars was running the list server then. It was well before 1.0 was released. I remember the 0.96 series, I'm not sure how much farther back from that I started.
Yes, he's really good. I've spent time with Alan and David, I've watched Alan's work from the time he started thinking about working on AX.25 in the kernel (I discouraged him at the time, thinking him a clueless newbie - my mistake) and David for quite a while, too. Both of them can do the job, and there are other people who can do as well.
I reject the statement that there are any number of people who are "allowed" to modify a Free Software product, either Linux or a BSD. If some core team stops working, another team would arise whether or not they are allowed. This has certainly been the case with *BSD, hasn't it? Otherwise, we'd still be waiting for Jolitz to do something.
As far as I can tell, neither Linus nor the FreeBSD core team have much power to compel. People go along with them because they want to do so, and if they had good reasons to do otherwise, they would
How is Linus important? Well, he's criticialy important to Tove and the kids. He is not so important to future development of the kernel. He's an excellent coordinator, and a person who merits a lot of respect, but Linus does not write the kernel, a whole bunch of people do that together.
Talk about him getting hit by a bus is absurdly morbid and is getting to be very tiresome, too. He could simply decide to go on to something else. If he did so, one of the other well-known kernel developers would step into his place. Alan could do it in a blink, but he's not the only one.
If you study the kernel development, you will find that it is at least as decentralized as that of any BSD if not more. The fact that there is one figurehead does not change the fact that the kernel development is actually carried out with no formal organization whatsoever, and it works darned well without one.
Another point that people don't think about enough is that these kernels will be finished eventually. Development will go on to something new. Free Software is forever, but Linux, Unix, and BSD are just steps on the way.
This is all exceedingly morbid, so let's just suppose Linus walks off in a huff, rather than being hit by a bus. It happens to the best of us:-)
The most work that could be lost would be the difference between the last "testing" release and what Linus has on his computer. In general this is less than a month's work. Today, there is a 10-day difference between the 2.4.0-test9 rekease and whatever has been done since.
But in fact, what would be lost is much less than that, because most of the deltas would be in the hands of the other developers who wrote them, and in the hands of second-stage coordinators like Alan Cox.
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What Sun can do is use a certification program and trademarks to enforce the Java definition. If you modify it, you can't call it Java(R) any longer, and you can't display their certification badge on your product's packaging and literature.
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Nothing bad happens to a news agency for distributing bad stories. It's not like they get fined, and they don't lose readers. Libelous stories can be done with impunity, few people can afford to sue, and when they do, they lose.
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There are technical problems as well, but I'll leave those to others.
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Note that the 14 dB antenna isn't an omni. You don't get 14 dB from an onmi. Gain is at the expense of concentrating the energy in one direction or at least one plane.
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Note also that once you modify it, it's not a Part-15 device any longer and you should have a license.
Bruce
Money in the hands of foundations works just as hard for the economy as money in the hands of families and individuals. Both parties spend the money, and bank or invest the money. When money is spent, banked, or invested, the recepients of the money themselves spend, bank, and invest it. And so on.
The only difference is that in the foundation's hands, at least once the money may be spent on the public good.
You speak as if you think that foundations are burying the money in their backyards.
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I am running the Airport as a bridge, with my Linux server as the DHCP server with dynamic DNS and IP masquerader. I run it this way so that I save one static IP number (otherwise I would have to give the Airport a static IP), and so that I get dynamic DNS (which the Airport doesn't provide). The laptops use the Lucent Wavelan "Gold" with the kernel Wavelan driver and the Debian PCMCIA and wireless-tools packages.
This works great for toting the laptop around the house so that I can dip onto the net while watching the baby, etc. And it's cheap, too!
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The point of this is that the people in the bookstore know the customer and will send him what he asks for in a letter. Although he usually repeats his address in a letter, he doesn't have to - they know it. They know his payment history. This is essentially the "one-click" business system, without the clicks.
The problem with business system patents is that you can take a business system that's been going on without a computer for centuries, make a single change of using a computer to perform it, and that is granted a patent. There is no real invention and no patent should be granted.
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Phase tree filesystems sound like a better way to do this, but you don't have to wait. Get crash-proof today.
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Let's consider effective radiated power, which is a combination of antenna gain (or loss) and transmitter power delivered to the antenna. It should be about the same from phone to phone, it's actually supposed to meet a standard. At 800 MHz one can assume that the phone antenna is within a half-wavelength of the head no matter what the configuration of the phone, although this might not be true for 1900 and 2100 MHz. If the antenna is perpendicular to your head, I.E. horizontal, it's not going to be very efficient at reaching the cell site compared to a vertical antenna. The cell site will probably get less signal and will command the phone to increase power!
I think the variations we are seeing here have more to do with how it was measured than anything else. If the phones were actually measured in the same rig instead of individually, we'd probably see very different values.
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Also, your phone changes its power depending on how much is necessary to reach the cell base. If you are close to the cell and in line-of-sight, your phone will emit less RF.
And nobody's mentioning the most important factor, the inverse square law. Exposure decreases as the square of distance - which means don't hold it up to your head if you're worried, use a headset or a roof antenna on your car.
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Some of the development systems for this experiment run Debian.
Check out the rest of the album. I found the emergency escape drills and the "spacesuits" worn while fueling the satellite with hazardous chemicals most interesting, after pictures of people I know :-) .
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Yes, he's really good. I've spent time with Alan and David, I've watched Alan's work from the time he started thinking about working on AX.25 in the kernel (I discouraged him at the time, thinking him a clueless newbie - my mistake) and David for quite a while, too. Both of them can do the job, and there are other people who can do as well.
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As far as I can tell, neither Linus nor the FreeBSD core team have much power to compel. People go along with them because they want to do so, and if they had good reasons to do otherwise, they would
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Talk about him getting hit by a bus is absurdly morbid and is getting to be very tiresome, too. He could simply decide to go on to something else. If he did so, one of the other well-known kernel developers would step into his place. Alan could do it in a blink, but he's not the only one.
If you study the kernel development, you will find that it is at least as decentralized as that of any BSD if not more. The fact that there is one figurehead does not change the fact that the kernel development is actually carried out with no formal organization whatsoever, and it works darned well without one.
Another point that people don't think about enough is that these kernels will be finished eventually. Development will go on to something new. Free Software is forever, but Linux, Unix, and BSD are just steps on the way.
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The most work that could be lost would be the difference between the last "testing" release and what Linus has on his computer. In general this is less than a month's work. Today, there is a 10-day difference between the 2.4.0-test9 rekease and whatever has been done since.
But in fact, what would be lost is much less than that, because most of the deltas would be in the hands of the other developers who wrote them, and in the hands of second-stage coordinators like Alan Cox.
All of this hit-by-a-bus talk is pure guff.
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