Basically, a company can't be sued for not accepting the terms of the GPL, since they don't have to accept them. However, the GPL grants them certain distribution rights that copyright law would normally prohibit; therefore, if a company does not comply with the GPL but redistributes the code anyway, it's a violation of copyright, with (probably steep) monetary punishment.
Forcing a company to accept a license is not a punishment the courts would hand down, but would probably be on the table as far as private settlement goes. They would most certainly be barred from further redistribution pending a settlement/trial, though, which is what I think the grandparent meant. Basically if a company (or contractors, sub-contractors, etc.) includes GPL'ed code in a project they'd face monetary damages and would have to stop distributing the code until they rewrite the GPL'ed code or comply with the GPL.
This is pretty much the same issue a company would face if they incorporated, say, some of the Windows source into their project, except without the option to GPL their code.
Screw all that. Just make copyright terms short, and everything you mentioned is unnecessary. Private citizens and museums can archive the work, abandonware is no longer an issue since the copyright expired, we even get a richer public domain instead of relying on abandonware. All this without piling on to an already massive government beauracracy!
Then it'll always be 10 years. I mean, how many artists have gotten screwed because the RIAA *somehow* didn't make any profits on that platinum album? Better to just set a time limit. 10 years is more than enough in a society where you can ship around the world in a week.
Yeah, you think you've spotted all the americans, but those of us that work out and buy clothes when we arrive in a foreign country to blend in are there too. While you're gaping at man tits and back fat, we're hiding in the shadows, sizing you up for an invasion.
It's all part of the plan. Just keep laughing, and pray you don't discover any natural resources, mate.
just keep running winzip over and over again until it's only 700mb. It helps if it's done over a network. Just ftp into 127.0.0.1 and start zipping the files. Try it, it works.
-- Stupidity is the root of all evil.
but if the game has all the memory it needs what would the point of having more be?
So the unused RAM can pitch in and help the other RAM go faster, silly! Now, please excuse me, I gotta go paint some racing stripes on my case to up my 3dMark score!
Somewhere, someone is thinking of a killer application that needs 512MB of video RAM to work.
I just can't, for the life of it, imagine what it could be...
I'd say it's fairly important for those religious people to realize thou is the familiar form, since that would change the tone of the ten commandments significantly. Also, it seems important that people in the new testament refer to god with thou, indicating they had a familiar relationship with him.
So, while language may be continually evolving, there's something to be said for knowing its history, since so many works that are a part of our culture take on an entirely different meaning otherwise. How else to do that than point out when people are wrong?
What I think is happening is that the judicial branch isn't entirely under the control of the two political parties in this country, given the number of judges (even SCOTUS judges) that end up giving decisions that don't agree with the party that appointed them. The politicians are happy to try to do something against sex offenders or other nearly undefendable people, and point their fingers at the judges* when their ridiculous actions get thrown out.
They're trying to rile up the public to put pressure on those judges to get them to pick a side. It'd be great for them if judicial objectivity went the way of journalistic objectivity: gone, and replaced with partisan hacks .
*[remark type="stupid" src="senator"]
After all, it's decisions like the one in the Terry Schiavo case that cause convicted rapists and murderers to kill judges. [/remark].
"Well, I live in Jonestown on 1st and Main... ...but I take my laptop to work, so from 9-5 M-F I'm at 43rd and H... ...But that means I'm in traffic from 8-9 and 5-6... ...Oh, and I'll be ~100 miles north in Williamsburg every other weekend to visit family... ...And I have this vacation to Hawaii coming up next month..."
And so on. No one is going to update their location every time they move, so you'd have to specify the location when making the call...which is hard if you're on fire or something.
People don't look at icons, they look at text. If you can find 5 non techy, end user types that can draw the power symbol (circle with line through top part) from memory I'll give you a rim job. I've pointed out that that symbol always means "power" and the reaction I get is always a suprised "well, I never!"
Anecdotally, the monitors at work are Dell monitors. The power button is mid-sized and off to the right with the power symbol on it and a perfectly visible LED next to it. A line runs from the LED a quarter inch to the power putton. There is also a large circle with the Dell logo on it that looks like a big button. Guess which one people push when you give them the monitor?
How many people in the world does that describe 100% of the time? The novice sysadmin protects the system from other people's fuckups; the master protects it from his.
Metaphors should be like driving: a privilege, not a right. Reading those was like stuffing strips of colored paper into my bleeding eye sockets and calling it a ticker-tape parade.
No, your body would still radiate heat. And then there's the whole thing with the lack of pressure, as illustrated in Total Recall. I'd like to keep my eyes inside my head, thank you very much.
The reason people think it's so big might be the size of the screen. From that last picture, the PSP looks about as big as the GBA (pre SP), but with so much more screen area.
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Basically, a company can't be sued for not accepting the terms of the GPL, since they don't have to accept them. However, the GPL grants them certain distribution rights that copyright law would normally prohibit; therefore, if a company does not comply with the GPL but redistributes the code anyway, it's a violation of copyright, with (probably steep) monetary punishment.
Forcing a company to accept a license is not a punishment the courts would hand down, but would probably be on the table as far as private settlement goes. They would most certainly be barred from further redistribution pending a settlement/trial, though, which is what I think the grandparent meant. Basically if a company (or contractors, sub-contractors, etc.) includes GPL'ed code in a project they'd face monetary damages and would have to stop distributing the code until they rewrite the GPL'ed code or comply with the GPL.
This is pretty much the same issue a company would face if they incorporated, say, some of the Windows source into their project, except without the option to GPL their code.
Probably free as in "I thought I was free from ever having to hear that line again." I guess this just goes to show how easily freedom can be lost :(
Screw all that. Just make copyright terms short, and everything you mentioned is unnecessary. Private citizens and museums can archive the work, abandonware is no longer an issue since the copyright expired, we even get a richer public domain instead of relying on abandonware. All this without piling on to an already massive government beauracracy!
Yeah, you think you've spotted all the americans, but those of us that work out and buy clothes when we arrive in a foreign country to blend in are there too. While you're gaping at man tits and back fat, we're hiding in the shadows, sizing you up for an invasion.
It's all part of the plan. Just keep laughing, and pray you don't discover any natural resources, mate.
Your mother's been talking about me again, huh?
[/braveheart]
In American Appalachia, sister unzips YOU.
just keep running winzip over and over again until it's only 700mb. It helps if it's done over a network. Just ftp into 127.0.0.1 and start zipping the files. Try it, it works.
--
Stupidity is the root of all evil.
How apropos.
Or just have really dry senses of humor. But, then, I'm an optimist.
I might have stayed in scouts longer if we had had those.
I'd say it's fairly important for those religious people to realize thou is the familiar form, since that would change the tone of the ten commandments significantly. Also, it seems important that people in the new testament refer to god with thou, indicating they had a familiar relationship with him.
So, while language may be continually evolving, there's something to be said for knowing its history, since so many works that are a part of our culture take on an entirely different meaning otherwise. How else to do that than point out when people are wrong?
Not a bad idea. We can just embed the GPS units in their hippy beards! We'd have to water proof them, of course, for fear of spilled ramen or coffee.
What I think is happening is that the judicial branch isn't entirely under the control of the two political parties in this country, given the number of judges (even SCOTUS judges) that end up giving decisions that don't agree with the party that appointed them. The politicians are happy to try to do something against sex offenders or other nearly undefendable people, and point their fingers at the judges* when their ridiculous actions get thrown out.
They're trying to rile up the public to put pressure on those judges to get them to pick a side. It'd be great for them if judicial objectivity went the way of journalistic objectivity: gone, and replaced with partisan hacks .
*[remark type="stupid" src="senator"]
After all, it's decisions like the one in the Terry Schiavo case that cause convicted rapists and murderers to kill judges.
[/remark].
"Please enter your location below."
...but I take my laptop to work, so from 9-5 M-F I'm at 43rd and H...
...But that means I'm in traffic from 8-9 and 5-6...
...Oh, and I'll be ~100 miles north in Williamsburg every other weekend to visit family...
...And I have this vacation to Hawaii coming up next month..."
"Well, I live in Jonestown on 1st and Main...
And so on. No one is going to update their location every time they move, so you'd have to specify the location when making the call...which is hard if you're on fire or something.
If obscurity is a big part of something's "coolness factor," is it really that cool to begin with?
(This is not a troll. I have a Gentoo box.)
"We all must fear evil, but the evil we must fear the most is the indifference of good men."
:)
-Boondock Saints
(I get all my moral philosophy from movies with lots of guns and violence.
People don't look at icons, they look at text. If you can find 5 non techy, end user types that can draw the power symbol (circle with line through top part) from memory I'll give you a rim job. I've pointed out that that symbol always means "power" and the reaction I get is always a suprised "well, I never!"
Anecdotally, the monitors at work are Dell monitors. The power button is mid-sized and off to the right with the power symbol on it and a perfectly visible LED next to it. A line runs from the LED a quarter inch to the power putton. There is also a large circle with the Dell logo on it that looks like a big button. Guess which one people push when you give them the monitor?
Metaphors should be like driving: a privilege, not a right. Reading those was like stuffing strips of colored paper into my bleeding eye sockets and calling it a ticker-tape parade.
No, your body would still radiate heat. And then there's the whole thing with the lack of pressure, as illustrated in Total Recall. I'd like to keep my eyes inside my head, thank you very much.
This isn't judicial activism, it's judicial stupidity.
I suppose your question still applies, though.
The reason people think it's so big might be the size of the screen. From that last picture, the PSP looks about as big as the GBA (pre SP), but with so much more screen area.