Engage brain? I wish they would. They ordered the American Yahoo! auctions site to prevent people in France from being able to access their auction, after all. All Yahoo! were doing was sending IP packets in response to requests from within France, and the courts told them to stop. How is that different from me sending SS armbands in response to a cheque from within France?
They went out of fashion, like the hindenburg, after an "explosion". A steam car was being used to attempt to break the world land speed record, but the beach was slightly uneven, it had ribs in the sand that set up a vibration that cracked a steam pipe. The damage was minimal and not dangerous, but it let out a great cloud of steam, and was reported in the press as having exploded, and that was that for steam-powered cars. Petrol engines are more practical nowadays only because they've had most of a century of development, and steam has been largely ignored. There's a swiss company that's making steam engines for locomotives, they've got ultra-efficient gas burners, and are 99% insulated, so they stay hot overnight and don't need 2 hours of warm-up in the morning, it's more like 10 minutes. Here's some info I just found: http://www.steam.demon.co.uk/trains/modern10.htm
There is no reason why Play247 couldn't offer the same service to our French friends over there.
If they can tell Yahoo! to remove Nazi material from their American auctions or make them inaccessible from France (cut the cables?), then they can tell 247 that they aren't allowed to sell Z1 DVDs into France. Enforcing it is another matter, but at least with physical post like this they can claim that the company knew that they were dispatching to France.
But the viral nature of the GPL means that a line of code that is copied from one project to another contaminates other code that might be used in a third project.
I don't understand how you have come to this conclusion. If I take a function that I wrote as part of a larger system, and contribute it to a GPL project, that in no way affects my original system. I have granted permission to use that code in GPL projects, without restricting myself as the copyright owner. I could contribute the same code to a BSD project, and there would be no conflict. If either of the contributions were modified, then there may be problems with me taking that modified version back into my code, or across into the other project, but even the GPL accepts the concept of derived works, and presumably the copyright status thereof (that is, belonging to the author of the original). This last point is the real stinger - I believe that could create a program and release it as GPL, wait for the rest of the world to fix all the bugs and add cool new features, then rescind the GPL status and sell it commercially as closed-source.
The authers seldem have the rights to the software.
Or if they do, they may not have rights to parts of the code - like 3rd party libraries etc. I'm currently struggling with this issue with an old piece of software that my father and I wrote in the late eighties, one of the.asm files is licenced from another piece of software, so we can't release all the source under the GPL.
Is it not simply the U.S. Patent system that is the problem here, and if so why do people continue to let the work they love be subjected to it?
Interesting point, but that wouldn't help the h/w manufacturers that want to sell Ogg players in the US. Also, if I write some software that violates an US patent (entirely legal over here) and publish it on my website, and someone in America downloads it, have I broken American law? Could I find myself stepping off the plane at JFK for my hols and be handed a fine for $1M or thrown in jail?
What this corporatist pion dosnt realize is that Ogg is both libre and gratis it is neither a product for sale - nor a competitor in the 'marketplace'.
They're rattling their sabres about filing suit against the likes of Diamond Multimedia for adding Ogg compatability to the Rio, and all the other current MP3 hardware manufacturers.
No it is not time to calm down. It is time to bash down these folks, Monty.
So what do you recommend? Sue them for libel in saying that Ogg Vorbis infringes their patents? If they're trying to defame the brand, then it could work. All you need is lots of money and good lawyers.
PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong, but you have your monsters, "classes", etc and so forth, but no real central characters.
Good point. If they'd done a Dragonlance movie, or Forgotten Realms, or Dark Sun, or may favouirite, Birthright, then they'd have had more characterisation to work with. I haven't seen the film, so this is all speculation based on the comment posted.
No, it's just that when Microsoft get around to issuing an advisory about a security problem, the text of the advisory is copyrighted, and cannot be republished on another web site. Microsoft aren't even sending out the full text in emails any more, they want people to click the link and see the MS web site with banner ads, hit counters, etc.
It's amazing how people suddenly start replying to your post when it suddenly gets modded to the top of the "Highest Scores" order.
There was an interview on Radio 4 (the BBC's highbrow radio channel) with I think Jeremy Paxman (of the Enigma Machine recovery story). The chap who had a chip implanted in his arm last year was talking about cyborgs and enhanced capabilities, and Paxman was beligerantly saying how credulous he was, and kept going back to the "why not just switch them off" defence against global cyborg domination. It was quite a mess.
Oh come on, it's got to have been said before. It just seemed such an obvious quip when I wrote it. Oh well, I'm glad I brightened someone's day. You could always go over to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=moderation and ask if anyone's got any spare points to give me!
As long as you use the sun to brake yourself on the ay back in, no harm is done.
No, not ig you're coming in from the same direction that you went out in. Bouncing a ball between two plates knocks them further apart, and that's basically what you're doing.
The main problem with IDEs in Windows is that once you create a project using one of them, you're pretty much limited to just using that IDE, or shifting the project wholesale to another IDE. In OSS land, that would never work, you would limit your target developer audience to the fans of that particular IDE. IMO, OSS projects need to be equally accessible to VI, EMACS, KDevelop, etc. users.
What happens if a certain painter or professional photographer decides to put up his own copyrighted works for display ? It then becomes illegal for Microsoft (or anyone besides the artist) to redistribute that content, else they open up to a delicious onslaught of one-way lawsuits.They would be granting MSN permission by uploading. But if they got someone else to do it, who didn't have the right to grant copy rights, then they could sue MSN. The court might take a dim view of this if they found out that the artist was behind it all along. Especially if MSN has bigger lawyers.
they spell out in the Terms Of Use that if you upload your property to MSN, they may distribute it, reproduce it, etc., and "no compensation will be paid" to you.
So if I upload a picture that I didn't take, then they could be sued for handling stolen goods!
AIUI, they're paying the receiver, who will use the money to pay off companies that Iridium owed money to. Not investors, but people like landlords, electric, car leasing, maybe salaries, etc. All people who've lost out through no fault of their own.
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Engage brain? I wish they would. They ordered the American Yahoo! auctions site to prevent people in France from being able to access their auction, after all. All Yahoo! were doing was sending IP packets in response to requests from within France, and the courts told them to stop. How is that different from me sending SS armbands in response to a cheque from within France?
They went out of fashion, like the hindenburg, after an "explosion". A steam car was being used to attempt to break the world land speed record, but the beach was slightly uneven, it had ribs in the sand that set up a vibration that cracked a steam pipe. The damage was minimal and not dangerous, but it let out a great cloud of steam, and was reported in the press as having exploded, and that was that for steam-powered cars. Petrol engines are more practical nowadays only because they've had most of a century of development, and steam has been largely ignored. There's a swiss company that's making steam engines for locomotives, they've got ultra-efficient gas burners, and are 99% insulated, so they stay hot overnight and don't need 2 hours of warm-up in the morning, it's more like 10 minutes. Here's some info I just found: http://www.steam.demon.co.uk/trains/modern10.htm
So can I sell Nazi memorabilia by post to France?
It's amazing how people suddenly start replying to your post when it suddenly gets modded to the top of the "Highest Scores" order.
There was an interview on Radio 4 (the BBC's highbrow radio channel) with I think Jeremy Paxman (of the Enigma Machine recovery story). The chap who had a chip implanted in his arm last year was talking about cyborgs and enhanced capabilities, and Paxman was beligerantly saying how credulous he was, and kept going back to the "why not just switch them off" defence against global cyborg domination. It was quite a mess.
That's because there's no such word as "Bizaree", and probably no such website. Have you tried "Bizarre"?
Oh come on, it's got to have been said before. It just seemed such an obvious quip when I wrote it. Oh well, I'm glad I brightened someone's day. You could always go over to http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=moderation and ask if anyone's got any spare points to give me!
Problem Report There was a communication problem
Message ID TCP_ERROR
Problem DescriptionThe system was unable to communicate with the server.
etc
It took me a good few seconds before I realised I was looking at an error that had just occurred, rather than a description of a vulnerablilty.
as the article implies, it's just the Microsoft releases that they can't mirror word for word. They'd still reporting the bugs.
The main problem with IDEs in Windows is that once you create a project using one of them, you're pretty much limited to just using that IDE, or shifting the project wholesale to another IDE. In OSS land, that would never work, you would limit your target developer audience to the fans of that particular IDE. IMO, OSS projects need to be equally accessible to VI, EMACS, KDevelop, etc. users.
AIUI, they're paying the receiver, who will use the money to pay off companies that Iridium owed money to. Not investors, but people like landlords, electric, car leasing, maybe salaries, etc. All people who've lost out through no fault of their own.
Magnetism does not contravene Newton's laws of motion.