"Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License". So it certainly appears that you can choose between distributing it and keeping the notice intact, or distributing it under the GPL. Now it may be that not all the files say that, or that you have to keep the notice anyway, or there's some other complication, but on the face of it it may be that the person who removed the notices thought they were allowed to.
Apple changes from PPC to x86 and suddenly there's no reason to buy them? I use both and *they're exactly the same*, except that the new ones are faster. Of course normal people don't care what the CPU is.
There seems to be a view in America that something is only censorship if the government does it. This is nonsense. It's just that in America the constitution *prevents* the government from doing it. It's still censorship even if it's legal.
Unix is a registered trademark of The Open Group, not Novell. But Linux is Unix anyway: trademark law only regulates the use of terms in trade, not what words mean.
If some marketing person asks me what the capital of France is, I say something like "Moscow". If they ask me who the prime minister is, I say "Michael Jackson". If someone is stupid enough to ask if I'd give up my phone for a million pounds, what do you think I'm going to say? These surveys are worthless, and we all have a duty to make them more so.
This article is nonsense from beginning to end. First, as others have pointed out, the arithmetic is wrong. Second, the point of penalising wrong answers is misrepresented: it's nothing to do with improving the accuracy of scoring for different abilities, but is to minimise the difference between those with equal abilities who choose to guess answers they don't know and those who don't. Finally, the model of abilities is completely wrong. A better student will not only know the answer to more questions, but will be more likely to be right on questions he guesses. So far from swamping the true difference, guessed answers add to the accuracy of the test.
Yes, I found that out with Google. The point is that writers should take account of the likely knowledge of their readers, and however well known Mark Shuttleworth is in some circles, the readership of Slashdot is much wider. If your readers have to look up the subject of the article, you've got it wrong.
15-30 years ago, I used to play lots of computer games. Adventure, Zork, Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, Seventh Guest. But now it's all real-time stuff needing fancy graphics hardware, and I'm not interested. If what gets ported to the Mac is the sort of thing I see people playing now, I certainly won't be buying it.
Whether or not it's trademarked, such a licence would not in fact be a later version of the GPL. Just giving a licence a name that implies it's the GPL doesn't make it true.
So did Palm time the announcement so that it would look slightly less boring than Microsoft's table-with-a-screen on it, or was it the other way round?
It seems that any fringe theorist can now post an apparently topical article to Slashdot as a way of getting hits on their Velikovski-style planetary catastrophe web site.
Of course Apple must have plans to use AMD as a second supplier eventually, but to smooth the switchover from PPC they will have needed to ensure that Intel gave them early access and preferential supplies. That means they almost certainly have an exclusive deal with Intel lasting several years. So don't expect them to buy AMD yet.
Sincer "submillimeter" implies a frequency greater than 300GHz, it makes no sense to talk about "usable submillimeter signals with a frequency higher than about 190 GHz".
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"Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License". So it certainly appears that you can choose between distributing it and keeping the notice intact, or distributing it under the GPL. Now it may be that not all the files say that, or that you have to keep the notice anyway, or there's some other complication, but on the face of it it may be that the person who removed the notices thought they were allowed to.
Apple changes from PPC to x86 and suddenly there's no reason to buy them? I use both and *they're exactly the same*, except that the new ones are faster. Of course normal people don't care what the CPU is.
There seems to be a view in America that something is only censorship if the government does it. This is nonsense. It's just that in America the constitution *prevents* the government from doing it. It's still censorship even if it's legal.
Where big companies are concerned, who cares about justice? It only matters for individuals. I suggest selling your Disney shares now.
As well as not showing the ads, adblock should "click" on them. That way the website gets their money, and the advertisers lose.
"So Novell could make Linux into Unix?"
Unix is a registered trademark of The Open Group, not Novell. But Linux is Unix anyway: trademark law only regulates the use of terms in trade, not what words mean.
The length of the slip is one of the key points in deciding whether it's fair use or not.
If some marketing person asks me what the capital of France is, I say something like "Moscow". If they ask me who the prime minister is, I say "Michael Jackson". If someone is stupid enough to ask if I'd give up my phone for a million pounds, what do you think I'm going to say? These surveys are worthless, and we all have a duty to make them more so.
This article is nonsense from beginning to end. First, as others have pointed out, the arithmetic is wrong. Second, the point of penalising wrong answers is misrepresented: it's nothing to do with improving the accuracy of scoring for different abilities, but is to minimise the difference between those with equal abilities who choose to guess answers they don't know and those who don't. Finally, the model of abilities is completely wrong. A better student will not only know the answer to more questions, but will be more likely to be right on questions he guesses. So far from swamping the true difference, guessed answers add to the accuracy of the test.
We may be geeks, but we're not all Linux-distribution geeks.
Yes, I found that out with Google. The point is that writers should take account of the likely knowledge of their readers, and however well known Mark Shuttleworth is in some circles, the readership of Slashdot is much wider. If your readers have to look up the subject of the article, you've got it wrong.
You might at least say who this guy is. We aren't all experts on the personnel of every Linux distribution.
15-30 years ago, I used to play lots of computer games. Adventure, Zork, Railroad Tycoon, Civilization, Seventh Guest. But now it's all real-time stuff needing fancy graphics hardware, and I'm not interested. If what gets ported to the Mac is the sort of thing I see people playing now, I certainly won't be buying it.
Why don't they just get the money from under the book on the shelf where they're going to put it once they've made megabucks?
Business plan:
Profit!
???
Invent time travel
Whether or not it's trademarked, such a licence would not in fact be a later version of the GPL. Just giving a licence a name that implies it's the GPL doesn't make it true.
So did Palm time the announcement so that it would look slightly less boring than Microsoft's table-with-a-screen on it, or was it the other way round?
... because it shows that Cringely's claim is not based on real IBM figures.
I wasn't even aware there *were* preview showings until I read this. It's hardly something that affects the ordinary person is it?
It seems that any fringe theorist can now post an apparently topical article to Slashdot as a way of getting hits on their Velikovski-style planetary catastrophe web site.
... has "school district police"? Has the USA completely lost its sanity?
Of course Apple must have plans to use AMD as a second supplier eventually, but to smooth the switchover from PPC they will have needed to ensure that Intel gave them early access and preferential supplies. That means they almost certainly have an exclusive deal with Intel lasting several years. So don't expect them to buy AMD yet.
No, old people related to Microsoft executives.
For the benefit of those of us who aren't Americans, why not say what an HMO is?
Millions of people will be inconvenienced by patent enforcement.
Sincer "submillimeter" implies a frequency greater than 300GHz, it makes no sense to talk about "usable submillimeter signals with a frequency higher than about 190 GHz".