GSM can locate you within a cell, why waste time, money, intellectual powers, technology on something it's not intended for. As for the one useful feature - the map - if you need it get a normal gps for your car (or hand.) Just as usefull.
If you were to put a small electric engine and a powersource in these bikes then you would have a light, fast, simple, one man craft for easy transportation, parking and economic use.
I do belive that an electric engine with the same effect as a human would be light. Only one problem as I can think of battery weight.
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Real Programmers...:
* Doesn't get mixed into/. flamewars.
* Doesn't care how other people do their work - as long as they get it done.
* Do care enough about how he/she does the job and makes his own choises.
(I've currently only broken 1 of the aboves. Getting closer.)
First:
MicroTest could have done things simple just by printing a Readme-first documet stating that their system is built upon GPL'd software and printing the links to ftp-sites where it could be downloaded. Should sombody ask for the sourcecode it wouldn't be very hard having an ISO-image laying around with all the source on it. (One could say MicroTest acted a bit stupid.)
Second:
... but [FSF] were unable to do anything specific as they do not hold copyright on any of the programs I knew of at the time...
I would like to see the next version of the GPL including a clause granting FSF the right to sue on behalf of the copyrightholder(s.)
The essay says that trying to defy the GPL will only harm the company doing so. True, but will that stop them from doing it?
Imagine company X, project Y and programmer Z. Company X want's to include some ingenious code from project Y made by Z. The problem is that Y is protected by the GPL thus forcing company X to publish their program under the GPL or any compliant license. Company X is small and needs all the money it can get, the GPL won't insure profit so they have to abandon their project. Had the program or parts of it been published under the LGPL this would not been a problem. Fair should be fair, the company X has got one option. They could ask Z to re-publish Y as a whole or partially under the LGPL, this however requires an unnessecary amount of work.
I would like to see future GPL's as a fusion between the LGPL and the GPL making it possible for makers of proprietary code to include parts of GPL'd code in their work. (Providing that those parts, or the whole project, are published in source-form.)
(Flamestopper: X, Y, Z - I'm good at the alphabet.)
I don't know how it works in the US but I assume that when you've got to drive for two hours to get to work they've got to pay for it. I would put the focus on what they would save. All companies will bend over for money - don't think that I don't think that they are concerned about other things, they are, but...
They'll save the - probably not too large - money it costs to have you commuting. They'll also get space freed in their office making room for another person doing something profitable. You've got chairs, desks, trash cans etc. at home they'll only need to get you a computer and pay parts of your phone bills, maybe an extra line.
They'll save additional money. When you're a little ill (say you've caught a heavy cold,) you don't show up for work, but if you were working at home you would get - at least some - work done since you're working on a computer, at your house.
Third you'll save the business money by being in friendly environments wich will increase work efficensy and make you able to make your work-schedule more efficient.
I'm sure I haven't thaught of the most obvious, please help making this list longer.
By using GPL licensed code you are agreeing to follow the GPL license as if you'd signed a contract. As far as I know breaking a written agreement is a crime and can be prosecuted by the legal authorities in the US or Finland. If somebody filed a charge and made a lot of noise about it the state attorny has got to listen to it, especially if several people did so.
I'm not a Tolkien fanatic, nor a know-all, but I'm a great fan of his books. What I've reacted to reading his books is the drawings of the hobbits and also the way the upcoming movies present them. In my imagination I've made up a picture of creatures closer to dwarfs than to human children. If I don't recall much wrong dwarfs are in fact taller than hobbits.
In the movie Frodo looks like a human child, but wasn't he rather old (40 years or so.) In the paintings in the books and in the movie he looks too young. Although hobbits don't have beards one would expect a more rugged face. In addition hobbits are normally fat - in a jovial sense.
One thing I'm sertain about are their feet and toes. They should be hairy, but I've never seen drawings of their feet.
What do other people think. Are the pictures of hobbits correct, as the book presents them.
Is DVD+RW going to be the next DVD-burning standard? (That's what I've heard) Isn't it the only standard wich will burn DVD's that can be played in a DVD-movie-player for the TV? Where is DVD-R and DVD-RAM in this?
When Palestinian terrorists are killed more Palestinians are pissed off and becomes terrorists. This ends with all Palestinians being killed. Then - or a little earlier - the arab countries would be - more - pissed off on Israel. This would lead to a war killing either all arabs or all Israelians.
If peace worked that way, peace would be equal to total anahilation. No humans.
The american people will cry out for revenge, but you should calm down before striking whoever responsible. Revenging - you must remember - is hard. Traditionally, revenge leads to someone revenging the revenge, unless the revenge is targeted with high political and practical accuracy. Remember, a missil can't tell Bush from e.g. BinLaden. In addition the pressision is not high enough to avoid hitting civilians. If civilians is hit the governmet controlled media in the target country can:
1. condemn the action agains WTC and the Pentagon, thus condemning the attack on their country.
2. using their government controlled media to make the people - even those personally neutral to the US - condemn the US, thus making new terrorist killing more people.
I would like to urge the American people to look for other solutions, silent actions. For instance they can through heavy intelligence - which will be conducted - locate and arrest the people responsible. A trial and conviction would be a much more satisfying and peaceful solution.
Two bonuses will also be given by doing it this way:
1. you are sertain the people responsible are caught, not just presumingly dead.
2. the country housing the terrorist would be put in an - for them - unbeneficial position giving the western countries a good way to excess political pressure on them with a small, but larger than normal effect.
People of america: let the your government know what you belive is right!!
(This is a repost from a previous discussion, but it was to important.)
The american people will cry out for revenge, but you should calm down before striking whoever responsible. Revenging - you must remember - is hard. Traditionally, revenge leads to someone revenging the revenge, unless the revenge is targeted with high political and practical accuracy. Remember, a missil can't tell Bush from e.g. BinLaden. In addition the pressision is not high enough to avoid hitting civilians. If civilians is hit the governmet controlled media in the target country can:
1. condemn the action agains WTC and the Pentagon, thus condemning the attack on their country.
2. using their government controlled media to make the people - even those personally neutral to the US - condemn the US, thus making new terrorist killing more people.
I would like to urge the American people to look for other solutions, silent actions. For instance they can through heavy intelligence - which will be conducted - locate and arrest the people responsible. A trial and conviction would be a much more satisfying and peaceful solution.
Two bonuses will also be given by doing it this way:
1. you are sertain the people responsible are caught, not just presumingly dead.
2. the country housing the terrorist would be put in an - for them - unbeneficial position giving the western countries a good way to excess political pressure on them with a small, but larger than normal effect.
People of america: let the your government know this!!
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>80% of Slashdot readers are from the US, 10% are Canadian, and then 10% "Miscellaneous"
Let's have a poll:
Norway, Europe
it's the position locator, the phone must be on to place an emergency call. It's not magic you know.
GSM can locate you within a cell, why waste time, money, intellectual powers, technology on something it's not intended for. As for the one useful feature - the map - if you need it get a normal gps for your car (or hand.) Just as usefull.
If you were to put a small electric engine and a powersource in these bikes then you would have a light, fast, simple, one man craft for easy transportation, parking and economic use.
I do belive that an electric engine with the same effect as a human would be light. Only one problem as I can think of battery weight.
Real Programmers...: /. flamewars.
* Doesn't get mixed into
* Doesn't care how other people do their work - as long as they get it done.
* Do care enough about how he/she does the job and makes his own choises.
(I've currently only broken 1 of the aboves. Getting closer.)
... integrated.
We all know what history has done to integrated.
The reason I'm using a PC is that there is nothing integrated. Unlike a console, or obviously a future nForce based motherboard.
What about all those - few - that isn't subject to infection? E.g. Linux users.
A small, good firewall would be nice. There's defenitly a market for small - palm sized maybe - firewalls.
First:
... but [FSF] were unable to do anything specific as they do not hold copyright on any of the programs I knew of at the time ...
MicroTest could have done things simple just by printing a Readme-first documet stating that their system is built upon GPL'd software and printing the links to ftp-sites where it could be downloaded. Should sombody ask for the sourcecode it wouldn't be very hard having an ISO-image laying around with all the source on it. (One could say MicroTest acted a bit stupid.)
Second:
I would like to see the next version of the GPL including a clause granting FSF the right to sue on behalf of the copyrightholder(s.)
... if they could convince AMD not to call their future CPUs for AthlonXP rather AthlonRedHat.
The essay says that trying to defy the GPL will only harm the company doing so. True, but will that stop them from doing it?
Imagine company X, project Y and programmer Z. Company X want's to include some ingenious code from project Y made by Z. The problem is that Y is protected by the GPL thus forcing company X to publish their program under the GPL or any compliant license. Company X is small and needs all the money it can get, the GPL won't insure profit so they have to abandon their project. Had the program or parts of it been published under the LGPL this would not been a problem. Fair should be fair, the company X has got one option. They could ask Z to re-publish Y as a whole or partially under the LGPL, this however requires an unnessecary amount of work.
I would like to see future GPL's as a fusion between the LGPL and the GPL making it possible for makers of proprietary code to include parts of GPL'd code in their work. (Providing that those parts, or the whole project, are published in source-form.)
(Flamestopper: X, Y, Z - I'm good at the alphabet.)
... I hear they pay good money for pure silicium.
... it can replace my power cord.
... it's affordable.
I don't know how it works in the US but I assume that when you've got to drive for two hours to get to work they've got to pay for it. I would put the focus on what they would save. All companies will bend over for money - don't think that I don't think that they are concerned about other things, they are, but ...
They'll save the - probably not too large - money it costs to have you commuting. They'll also get space freed in their office making room for another person doing something profitable. You've got chairs, desks, trash cans etc. at home they'll only need to get you a computer and pay parts of your phone bills, maybe an extra line.
They'll save additional money. When you're a little ill (say you've caught a heavy cold,) you don't show up for work, but if you were working at home you would get - at least some - work done since you're working on a computer, at your house.
Third you'll save the business money by being in friendly environments wich will increase work efficensy and make you able to make your work-schedule more efficient.
I'm sure I haven't thaught of the most obvious, please help making this list longer.
By using GPL licensed code you are agreeing to follow the GPL license as if you'd signed a contract. As far as I know breaking a written agreement is a crime and can be prosecuted by the legal authorities in the US or Finland. If somebody filed a charge and made a lot of noise about it the state attorny has got to listen to it, especially if several people did so.
Bilbo left middle-Earth at an age of 100 (I think) and he was then the oldes hobbit ever to live.
I'm not a Tolkien fanatic, nor a know-all, but I'm a great fan of his books. What I've reacted to reading his books is the drawings of the hobbits and also the way the upcoming movies present them. In my imagination I've made up a picture of creatures closer to dwarfs than to human children. If I don't recall much wrong dwarfs are in fact taller than hobbits.
In the movie Frodo looks like a human child, but wasn't he rather old (40 years or so.) In the paintings in the books and in the movie he looks too young. Although hobbits don't have beards one would expect a more rugged face. In addition hobbits are normally fat - in a jovial sense.
One thing I'm sertain about are their feet and toes. They should be hairy, but I've never seen drawings of their feet.
What do other people think. Are the pictures of hobbits correct, as the book presents them.
Because if it were open grandma' Jones could rip the StarTrek movie to all her grandchilds for Christmas. (Wich she - by the way - now can do.)
Is DVD+RW going to be the next DVD-burning standard? (That's what I've heard) Isn't it the only standard wich will burn DVD's that can be played in a DVD-movie-player for the TV? Where is DVD-R and DVD-RAM in this?
What was the final result of Pearl Harbour? Can you recall it?
spilled blood == to much blood spilled
spilled blood + spilled blood == way too much blood spilled
So you're saying kill all arabs?
When Palestinian terrorists are killed more Palestinians are pissed off and becomes terrorists. This ends with all Palestinians being killed. Then - or a little earlier - the arab countries would be - more - pissed off on Israel. This would lead to a war killing either all arabs or all Israelians.
If peace worked that way, peace would be equal to total anahilation. No humans.
... how technology isn't the solution to everything.
... how technology have improved the lives of humans on earth.
... how technology doesn't save life, humans do (and for some God.) They invent, learn.
... what we should learn now.
The american people will cry out for revenge, but you should calm down before striking whoever responsible. Revenging - you must remember - is hard. Traditionally, revenge leads to someone revenging the revenge, unless the revenge is targeted with high political and practical accuracy. Remember, a missil can't tell Bush from e.g. BinLaden. In addition the pressision is not high enough to avoid hitting civilians. If civilians is hit the governmet controlled media in the target country can:
1. condemn the action agains WTC and the Pentagon, thus condemning the attack on their country.
2. using their government controlled media to make the people - even those personally neutral to the US - condemn the US, thus making new terrorist killing more people.
I would like to urge the American people to look for other solutions, silent actions. For instance they can through heavy intelligence - which will be conducted - locate and arrest the people responsible. A trial and conviction would be a much more satisfying and peaceful solution.
Two bonuses will also be given by doing it this way:
1. you are sertain the people responsible are caught, not just presumingly dead.
2. the country housing the terrorist would be put in an - for them - unbeneficial position giving the western countries a good way to excess political pressure on them with a small, but larger than normal effect.
People of america: let the your government know what you belive is right!!
(This is a repost from a previous discussion, but it was to important.)
The american people will cry out for revenge, but you should calm down before striking whoever responsible. Revenging - you must remember - is hard. Traditionally, revenge leads to someone revenging the revenge, unless the revenge is targeted with high political and practical accuracy. Remember, a missil can't tell Bush from e.g. BinLaden. In addition the pressision is not high enough to avoid hitting civilians. If civilians is hit the governmet controlled media in the target country can:
1. condemn the action agains WTC and the Pentagon, thus condemning the attack on their country.
2. using their government controlled media to make the people - even those personally neutral to the US - condemn the US, thus making new terrorist killing more people.
I would like to urge the American people to look for other solutions, silent actions. For instance they can through heavy intelligence - which will be conducted - locate and arrest the people responsible. A trial and conviction would be a much more satisfying and peaceful solution.
Two bonuses will also be given by doing it this way:
1. you are sertain the people responsible are caught, not just presumingly dead.
2. the country housing the terrorist would be put in an - for them - unbeneficial position giving the western countries a good way to excess political pressure on them with a small, but larger than normal effect.
People of america: let the your government know this!!
Landing it on earth is much more likely to succeed