It is essentially the slingshot effect taken to extremes: calculate all possible "slingshot" effects and all their interactions and plot a trajectory that takes optimum advantage of all of them (that is not literally how it is done, of course).
Works produced by government employees on government time are effectively public domain. However, this does not require the goverment to distribute copies of such works. It just means that should you somehow acquire a copy of such a work they can't sue you for copyright infringement should you make copies of it.
Works produced by government contractors are not public domain, even if the government paid for their production.
New York State will supply the remaining $210
million. The really unusual thing about the deal
is that the state isn't offering any tax breaks
or loans to lure the consortium to its capital....just an outright handout of more than half the cost of the facility. Not a "lure"? Ok.
Today, while "maglev" trains remain a
technological curiosity, linear motors are being
quietly exploited in the less obviously
glamorous field of machine tools.
I consider machine tools that actually make things much more interesting then commuter trains hauling carloads of suits back and forth between their offices and their McMansions.
If I knew that any of the open source apps I use
needed money, I'd donate some money.
I doubt if there are any Free Software developers who don't buy groceries and pay light bills. Pick an application you use a lot and send one of the authors a check.
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"but you did exchange money for it, which means you agree to any licensing restrictions put forth by the manufacture (eg, if i open it i void my warrenty, whatever), don't you?"
It's a physical object. You bought it so you own it. That means you can do any damn thing you want with it. All the manufacturer can do is void the warrantee.
You're both right. The library was burned ("collateral damage" IIRC) by the Romans and then later torched by a mob of christians incited to do so by a bishop. The moslems finished it off.
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My wife runs Linux (on her computer, I mean).
...before the organization is renamed "The American Association of Artificial Intelligences"?
I know of a remote area with about 20-30 house
all of which could access a wireless lan
connection to share a 1.5 ADSL connection.
If you can get ADSL there it isn't remote.
It is essentially the slingshot effect taken to extremes: calculate all possible "slingshot" effects and all their interactions and plot a trajectory that takes optimum advantage of all of them (that is not literally how it is done, of course).
"you can get your fuel free from restaurant deep-fryers"
I don't think that is going to work too well in Northern Wisconsin in the winter.
"except for a handful of standard GPL'ed things like ncat"
I don't know of a package named "ncat", but if you mean netcat, it isn't GPL.
If they are applying those conditions to GPL software they are violating the GPL.
Works produced by government employees on government time are effectively public domain. However, this does not require the goverment to distribute copies of such works. It just means that should you somehow acquire a copy of such a work they can't sue you for copyright infringement should you make copies of it.
Works produced by government contractors are not public domain, even if the government paid for their production.
New York State will supply the remaining $210 ...just an outright handout of more than half the cost of the facility. Not a "lure"? Ok.
million. The really unusual thing about the deal
is that the state isn't offering any tax breaks
or loans to lure the consortium to its capital.
Symantec will detect the FBI Spy software.
Oh, well. It's ok, then. I mean, if they _said_ so, it _must_ be true, right?
It was about adopting linear motor technology
(orginally invented for trains I guess)
Linear motors were not invented for trains. They've been around a lot longer than maglev.
Rock-solid slides for milling machines would rock
the world.
Widespread deployment of hexapod milling machines would rock the world: no slides at all.
Today, while "maglev" trains remain a
technological curiosity, linear motors are being
quietly exploited in the less obviously
glamorous field of machine tools.
I consider machine tools that actually make things much more interesting then commuter trains hauling carloads of suits back and forth between their offices and their McMansions.
And 'MagLev' is not a synonym for 'linear motor'.
Why are people so quick to criticize China and so
quick to forget America's abuses of "human
rights" and "democracy"?
Why do you assume that anyone is forgetting anything?
This is a country trying to take care of 1
billion people.
India is also a country of one billion people. They don't seem to find this sort of thing necessary.
People seem to love picking on China because
it's got the label "Communist" in it's name.
How do you explain the fact the strongest criticism of China's civil liberties record comes from the Left?
Honestly, the promotion of free expression is
more a gift of the academic origins of the
internet than of the corporate uptake of it.
You evidently weren't around when NSF was in control.
If we'd all been networked via bulletin board
systems like AOL, Prodigy and MSN, there'd have
been a lot less freedom of expression than there
is now.
If we'd all been networked via a descendant of UUCP, there'd have been a lot more freedom of expression than there is now.
If I knew that any of the open source apps I use
needed money, I'd donate some money.
I doubt if there are any Free Software developers who don't buy groceries and pay light bills. Pick an application you use a lot and send one of the authors a check.
toncho/~ apt-cache search virus
clamav - powerful anti-virus scanner for Unix.
mailscanner - An email virus scanner and spam tagger.
renattach - Rename attachments on the fly.
sanitizer - The Anomy Mail Sanitizer - an email virus scanner
xbill - Get rid of those Wingdows Viruses!
amavis-exim - Interface between MTA and virus scanner.
amavis-milter - Interface between MTA and virus scanner.
amavis-postfix - Interface between MTA and virus scanner.
scannerdaemon - virus scanner written in Java
virussignatures - virus signatures for ScannerDaemon
"Ever wonder why most open-source project websites look completely unprofessional?"
I like the look of most open-source Web sites.
"Maybe we'd make better inroads to businesses if the marketing materials we used looked halfway decent."
Most commercial Web sites are cluttered and ugly.
"I think coding for ALL browsers would be rather hard."
It's easy. Write standards-compliant pages, validate, and you're done.
"but you did exchange money for it, which means you agree to any licensing restrictions put forth by the manufacture (eg, if i open it i void my warrenty, whatever), don't you?"
It's a physical object. You bought it so you own it. That means you can do any damn thing you want with it. All the manufacturer can do is void the warrantee.
I mean _truly_ distributed: not hierarchical.
"Cool idea, I'm wondering what other uses there might be for this."
Distributed DNS.
"My question to the Slashdot community is this: are there any pets out there that are especially conducive to a nerdish personality/lifestyle?"
MY 32 horses suit me fine. I may not be a very typical nerd, though.
"You're a geek..."
In which case the obvious pet is a chicken.]
You're both right. The library was burned ("collateral damage" IIRC) by the Romans and then later torched by a mob of christians incited to do so by a bishop. The moslems finished it off.
This looks like a serious problem for Linux
distributors like Red Hat, Mandrake, and Debian.
They sell their products
usually.
Wrong. Debian doesn't sell anything.
Now we see that what they put into their product
(i.e., the cost) is orders of magnitude beyond
that.
Wrong again. Red Hat's costs are what they actually spend, not what the stuff they distribute would have cost if it had not been given to them.
even if nobody downloaded it for free...
There's your clue: _Red_ _Hat_ downloads the stuff they distribute for free.