To say that the product is GPL and to say that it cannot be used for commercial purposes are mutually exclusive statements. If it's GPL'd, they can't add additional restrictions.
That's not what they're saying. It really is the GPL, with no additional restrictions. According to the GPL, if you release an application that links against Qt (which is GPL, not LGPL), your application must be licensed under the GPL. And, in accordance with the GPL, you can sell copies of your application for a fee, as long as you provide source code and don't place additional restrictions on your customers (they're free to redistribute your software if they want).
So, if that sounds good to you, go for it! But if you don't like that idea, and you'd rather use Qt for a proprietary closed-source project, you need a different license.
The Linux kernel also includes code to mount a root filesystem over NFS after obtaining an IP address from a DHCP server, then route TCP/IP packets between an 802.11 wireless LAN, ham radio, and an AppleTalk network (using an ISA LocalTalk card), with QoS. If WinNT can do that, it's not all in the kernel.
They want to know who requested a meal without pork? As a vegetarian, that is going to include me. Does that make me a potential terrorist?
As a vegetarian, you would not ask for a meal without pork, you would ask for a meal without meat. There's a distinction. You don't want pork, but nor do you want beef or chicken.
come on guys, be serious here, acting has a lot to do with facial expressions, and body language and these are not effective when done by animated characters no matter how reallistic they look
Many people think that a CG character's performance is created from scratch on a computer; this is not the case. Usually, the scene is filmed first with the voice actor standing in - this gives the live actors an idea of what to expect, and how to react. The voice actor is actually there, in the scene, acting their part. Then the scene is shot again without the voice actor, the voice is recorded seperately, and the whole thing is sent to the animation team. The animation of the CG character is done to closely match the performance of the voice actor. Why? Because real people do things that aren't scripted. They shift their weight, scratch an itch, gesture, change their expressions, etc. CG characters don't do any of these things unless each tiny movement is created deliberately by the animation team. By modeling the CG character after the voice actor, they capture these subtleties. So yes, the voice actor is actually acting, and their performance does contribute to the movie.
I was very impressed by Gollum, and I think the performance is worthy of recognition.
By the way, did you know that in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, in a few shots Obi-Wan Kenobi was a digital CG character?
In the end what's the difference between shoutcasting to 10 friends or threedegreeing to 10 friends?
The latter is sponsored by a multibillion dollar corporation with deep pockets who makes large contributions to bureaucrats, while the former is operated by broke college students?
Well, I see your posts marked "friend, fan, friend of friend, and foe of friend", and I'll admit all those colored dots do draw my eye - but only if you're already modded up high enough.
What if Slashdot put the little friend dots next to every post, not just the ones that are modded up?
Not the whole thing, but significant chunks of it are. Personaly I don't have a problem with using proprietary software if it does a better job than the Free alternatives, or if no Free alternatives exist, as long as it's not in some way Evil (contributes to Microsoft's monopoly, or writes to your boot track, or whatever).
Would you consider buying an nVidia GeForce card? Their drivers are proprietary - however, they do actively support Linux and Free Software. So does Apple.
You might want to take a look at BBEdit, and see if it's useful to you - there's a demo at www.barebones.com. See how you like it compared to vim/emacs. Not affiliated with them, I just love the app and thought I'd share.
On Mac OS X it's even easier (isn't everything?): Hold down Command-S while booting to get a root prompt in single-user mode. Or you can boot from an OSX CD and reset the root password.
Remember that on most Linux machines, you can boot from a floppy or CD, mount the hard drive, and do whatever you want, including change the root password or replace system binaries with hacked versions. Of course a PC can be locked down (disable booting from floppy/CD in BIOS, set a CMOS password, padlock the case) while a Mac can't (that I'm aware of), but how many people do that?
If you have physical access to the console, all bets are off. Don't underestimate the importance of physical security.
I mean what are you going to do, take a wole bunch of 56k lines.
Actually, this is a cool idea: if you can find an ISP that supports multilink (aka shotgun), you can get multiple phone lines and multiple modems dialed in simultaneously for a connection that would be much faster than a single 56k line, and then use NAT to share that connection on a LAN, which you connect to your neighbors (hint: 10base2 coax has a longer range than cat5). Each neighbor pays the same amount for a dedicated phone line that they'd normally pay if it was in their own house, plus their share of the ISP fee (which should be lower than a single dialup account, depending on how the ISP wants to charge for multilink access). However, each neighbor now has a semi-broadband connection available, as long as everyone isn't downloading simultaneously. If you want to download an ISO, just let everyone know, and do it when they won't be online.
By the way, I was recently in Sandpoint, north of Coeur D'Alene, helping somebody move. It's COLD up there! We were glad to get back to Portland where it's much warmer.
To be honest i'm not sure why AOL/TW haven't sold/EOLed Netscape long ago.
Why do you suppose AOL bought Netscape in the first place?
Unless they're planning on providing services for other platforms, there just doesn't seem to be a lot of money in developing a separate web browsing platform.
This is precisely what they're planning. If you'd bothered to RTFA, you might have noticed that in addition to Mac OS X and Linux, they're looking at PDAs and cell phones.
Plop in an IE control and you can be done with it. It'd save them a lot of grief.
That works on Win32, but not on any other platform (yes, there are ports of IE on other platforms, but I believe it can only be used in this way on Win32). Microsoft may have 90% market share now, but that's slowly dropping. What about when it gets down to 80%? What if it gets down to 70%? What if AOL only worked on 70% of personal computers? What if MSN only worked on 70% while AOL worked on 95%?
That it's unsolicited isn't really the problem. The problem is the deceptive measures taken to trick people into opening spam they're not interested in by making them think it might not be spam, and further deceptive measures to hide their tracks so it's impossible to find the spammer's ISP and complain.
Example of the former: subject lines like "Re: hi!" on spam offering to refinance my mortgage (I don't own a house). Example of the latter: spammer hacks into a Windows box on a cable modem infected with Nimda, and connects from there to an open relay in Korea, instructing the relay server to send one message to 15,000 recipients. The Korean server happily obliges, and the only IP addresses in the headers are the hacked Windows box and the open relay.
This would also be troublesome if you told your kid to do it since you'd be "Inducing a minor to commit a crime". Judges don't look too lightly on this and you'd face heavy penalties.
Several months ago I received spam with a return address that I recognized - it was the address of an old friend of mine from high school, whom I'd been out of touch with for a few years. I tried sending her e-mail, and the address still worked! I explained how I came across her address; she thought that was pretty weird.
A couple months later, I received a few "user unknown" bounces. An old e-mail address of mine is apparently being used as the From address for some spam. Fortunately I only got a few bounces and no replies, but I'm sure it'll happen again.
I hate the idea of spam going out with my e-mail address on it. It's like being falsely accused of doing something horrible.
And everybody knows smoking pot is as American as apple pie?
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These exploits won't be around for long. As opposed to website administrator's, Unreal administrator's care about their sites not going down. I'm serious.
You've got a good point here. The problem with worms like Code Red and Nimda is, the patches have been available for months, but the server admins are simply incompetent, and haven't installed them (still!). In many cases, there is no "admin"; the owner of the business paid some paper-MCSE to set it up a long time ago, and they'd have to pay somebody to come back and do maintenance.
This won't be a major issue with an Unreal exploit. Since there is no ppatch yet, it may take awhile for all the servers to get patched, but they will get patched.
To sign off, a parent basically signs a form saying "no access", "filtered access" or "unfiltered access". It is explained to them that "filtered access" is a "best effort only" and that the library staff aren't babysitters or the moral guardians of your children.
This is IMHO the best solution. However, as I understand it, the CIPA would mandate that unfiltered access not be available, even with parental consent, and failure to abide by this would mean the library can no longer receive funding from the federal government. That's the problem with the CIPA.
And before someone suggests it, I HAVE installed Mozilla on several of the workstations and enabled pop-up blocking, but most users who come to the library to surf have no idea what's going on and simply revert to Internet Explorer because they think it IS the Internet.
Delete the IE icon, make a shortcut to Mozilla labeled "The Internet", change the icon to the IE logo, and install the Internet Explorer skin for Mozilla. If anybody notices and inquires, explain what you've done and why, and show them how to get into IE if they really want to.
It isn't unreasonable for one of the librarians to keep an eye on the 3 net computers in the kids section.
Here's another issue: if littly Johnny is browsing pr0n in full view of the librarian, is the librarian legally permitted to stop him? I know I've heard librarians complain that they're not allowed to throw out people who are disruptive, particularly kids who shouldn't have been left alone by their parents but were.
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To say that the product is GPL and to say that it cannot be used for commercial purposes are mutually exclusive statements. If it's GPL'd, they can't add additional restrictions.
That's not what they're saying. It really is the GPL, with no additional restrictions. According to the GPL, if you release an application that links against Qt (which is GPL, not LGPL), your application must be licensed under the GPL. And, in accordance with the GPL, you can sell copies of your application for a fee, as long as you provide source code and don't place additional restrictions on your customers (they're free to redistribute your software if they want).
So, if that sounds good to you, go for it! But if you don't like that idea, and you'd rather use Qt for a proprietary closed-source project, you need a different license.
The Linux kernel also includes code to mount a root filesystem over NFS after obtaining an IP address from a DHCP server, then route TCP/IP packets between an 802.11 wireless LAN, ham radio, and an AppleTalk network (using an ISA LocalTalk card), with QoS. If WinNT can do that, it's not all in the kernel.
They want to know who requested a meal without pork? As a vegetarian, that is going to include me. Does that make me a potential terrorist?
As a vegetarian, you would not ask for a meal without pork, you would ask for a meal without meat. There's a distinction. You don't want pork, but nor do you want beef or chicken.
Shouldn't that be the alleged evil spammer? Come on, even spammers are innocent until proven guilty.
No, we called him evil, so that makes it OK. You should pay more attention to GW Bush.
And with that much listenable music out on the web, I'd probably never buy another CD again!
This is precisely what scares the RIAA so much.
come on guys, be serious here, acting has a lot to do with facial expressions, and body language and these are not effective when done by animated characters no matter how reallistic they look
Many people think that a CG character's performance is created from scratch on a computer; this is not the case. Usually, the scene is filmed first with the voice actor standing in - this gives the live actors an idea of what to expect, and how to react. The voice actor is actually there, in the scene, acting their part. Then the scene is shot again without the voice actor, the voice is recorded seperately, and the whole thing is sent to the animation team. The animation of the CG character is done to closely match the performance of the voice actor. Why? Because real people do things that aren't scripted. They shift their weight, scratch an itch, gesture, change their expressions, etc. CG characters don't do any of these things unless each tiny movement is created deliberately by the animation team. By modeling the CG character after the voice actor, they capture these subtleties. So yes, the voice actor is actually acting, and their performance does contribute to the movie.
I was very impressed by Gollum, and I think the performance is worthy of recognition.
By the way, did you know that in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, in a few shots Obi-Wan Kenobi was a digital CG character?
In the end what's the difference between shoutcasting to 10 friends or threedegreeing to 10 friends?
The latter is sponsored by a multibillion dollar corporation with deep pockets who makes large contributions to bureaucrats, while the former is operated by broke college students?
It's happened to all of us, admit it!
Actually, I just use Mozilla, and turn off popups. I also turn off images and JavaScript in my e-mail.
Well, I see your posts marked "friend, fan, friend of friend, and foe of friend", and I'll admit all those colored dots do draw my eye - but only if you're already modded up high enough.
What if Slashdot put the little friend dots next to every post, not just the ones that are modded up?
OS X != Free Software
Not the whole thing, but significant chunks of it are. Personaly I don't have a problem with using proprietary software if it does a better job than the Free alternatives, or if no Free alternatives exist, as long as it's not in some way Evil (contributes to Microsoft's monopoly, or writes to your boot track, or whatever).
Would you consider buying an nVidia GeForce card? Their drivers are proprietary - however, they do actively support Linux and Free Software. So does Apple.
You might want to take a look at BBEdit, and see if it's useful to you - there's a demo at www.barebones.com. See how you like it compared to vim/emacs. Not affiliated with them, I just love the app and thought I'd share.
Just curious, why YDL? What are the advantages over OSX?
On Mac OS X it's even easier (isn't everything?): Hold down Command-S while booting to get a root prompt in single-user mode. Or you can boot from an OSX CD and reset the root password.
Remember that on most Linux machines, you can boot from a floppy or CD, mount the hard drive, and do whatever you want, including change the root password or replace system binaries with hacked versions. Of course a PC can be locked down (disable booting from floppy/CD in BIOS, set a CMOS password, padlock the case) while a Mac can't (that I'm aware of), but how many people do that?
If you have physical access to the console, all bets are off. Don't underestimate the importance of physical security.
I mean what are you going to do, take a wole bunch of 56k lines.
Actually, this is a cool idea: if you can find an ISP that supports multilink (aka shotgun), you can get multiple phone lines and multiple modems dialed in simultaneously for a connection that would be much faster than a single 56k line, and then use NAT to share that connection on a LAN, which you connect to your neighbors (hint: 10base2 coax has a longer range than cat5). Each neighbor pays the same amount for a dedicated phone line that they'd normally pay if it was in their own house, plus their share of the ISP fee (which should be lower than a single dialup account, depending on how the ISP wants to charge for multilink access). However, each neighbor now has a semi-broadband connection available, as long as everyone isn't downloading simultaneously. If you want to download an ISO, just let everyone know, and do it when they won't be online.
By the way, I was recently in Sandpoint, north of Coeur D'Alene, helping somebody move. It's COLD up there! We were glad to get back to Portland where it's much warmer.
To be honest i'm not sure why AOL/TW haven't sold/EOLed Netscape long ago.
Why do you suppose AOL bought Netscape in the first place?
Unless they're planning on providing services for other platforms, there just doesn't seem to be a lot of money in developing a separate web browsing platform.
This is precisely what they're planning. If you'd bothered to RTFA, you might have noticed that in addition to Mac OS X and Linux, they're looking at PDAs and cell phones.
Plop in an IE control and you can be done with it. It'd save them a lot of grief.
That works on Win32, but not on any other platform (yes, there are ports of IE on other platforms, but I believe it can only be used in this way on Win32). Microsoft may have 90% market share now, but that's slowly dropping. What about when it gets down to 80%? What if it gets down to 70%? What if AOL only worked on 70% of personal computers? What if MSN only worked on 70% while AOL worked on 95%?
That it's unsolicited isn't really the problem. The problem is the deceptive measures taken to trick people into opening spam they're not interested in by making them think it might not be spam, and further deceptive measures to hide their tracks so it's impossible to find the spammer's ISP and complain.
Example of the former: subject lines like "Re: hi!" on spam offering to refinance my mortgage (I don't own a house). Example of the latter: spammer hacks into a Windows box on a cable modem infected with Nimda, and connects from there to an open relay in Korea, instructing the relay server to send one message to 15,000 recipients. The Korean server happily obliges, and the only IP addresses in the headers are the hacked Windows box and the open relay.
This would also be troublesome if you told your kid to do it since you'd be "Inducing a minor to commit a crime". Judges don't look too lightly on this and you'd face heavy penalties.
What crime?
Thank goodness the submitter told us that. For a second there I thought I was going to have to read the article and form my own opinion! :-)
Yeah, I was a little confused from the summary too, until I read that. Phew! Had me worried for a bit.
The ABA withdrawing support for UCITA, the ALA fighting CIPA, and IEEE asking for clarification on the DMCA. We live in interesting times.
Several months ago I received spam with a return address that I recognized - it was the address of an old friend of mine from high school, whom I'd been out of touch with for a few years. I tried sending her e-mail, and the address still worked! I explained how I came across her address; she thought that was pretty weird.
A couple months later, I received a few "user unknown" bounces. An old e-mail address of mine is apparently being used as the From address for some spam. Fortunately I only got a few bounces and no replies, but I'm sure it'll happen again.
I hate the idea of spam going out with my e-mail address on it. It's like being falsely accused of doing something horrible.
When you play CS, you're supporting terrorists!
And everybody knows smoking pot is as American as apple pie?
You've got a good point here. The problem with worms like Code Red and Nimda is, the patches have been available for months, but the server admins are simply incompetent, and haven't installed them (still!). In many cases, there is no "admin"; the owner of the business paid some paper-MCSE to set it up a long time ago, and they'd have to pay somebody to come back and do maintenance.
This won't be a major issue with an Unreal exploit. Since there is no ppatch yet, it may take awhile for all the servers to get patched, but they will get patched.
I got another Code Red hit today:
To sign off, a parent basically signs a form saying "no access", "filtered access" or "unfiltered access". It is explained to them that "filtered access" is a "best effort only" and that the library staff aren't babysitters or the moral guardians of your children.
This is IMHO the best solution. However, as I understand it, the CIPA would mandate that unfiltered access not be available, even with parental consent, and failure to abide by this would mean the library can no longer receive funding from the federal government. That's the problem with the CIPA.
And before someone suggests it, I HAVE installed Mozilla on several of the workstations and enabled pop-up blocking, but most users who come to the library to surf have no idea what's going on and simply revert to Internet Explorer because they think it IS the Internet.
Delete the IE icon, make a shortcut to Mozilla labeled "The Internet", change the icon to the IE logo, and install the Internet Explorer skin for Mozilla. If anybody notices and inquires, explain what you've done and why, and show them how to get into IE if they really want to.
It isn't unreasonable for one of the librarians to keep an eye on the 3 net computers in the kids section.
Here's another issue: if littly Johnny is browsing pr0n in full view of the librarian, is the librarian legally permitted to stop him? I know I've heard librarians complain that they're not allowed to throw out people who are disruptive, particularly kids who shouldn't have been left alone by their parents but were.
D'oh! Never mind, that's not what I thought it was. I thought I saw what you described once, but this isn't it.