Many local communities are demanding that US military bases be reduced or removed (Japan, Germany & Saudi Arabia come to mind). US aid money has much more to do with American interests and American lobbyists, outside of Israel and Oil producing nations US foreign aid is limited and capricious. America can't buy good will anymore and it has lost the respect that was gained, after WWII, during the cold war.
It's obvious you should get out more and understand how the world views America: Only interested in Money & Oil and dangerous.
I must say, the US election process is the most reported, this is looking more & more foolish here in the EU.
I am queried almost daily now on embarrassing topics such as this. Really I am at loss to explain that just because politicians are lying thieving bastards, and the political process is corrupt doesn't mean that there are a lot of reasonable Americans and a lot a very beautiful places to visit. Shame we have disposed of the reputation of moral, good people that we used to enjoy.
And before the republicans who are reading start to protest, The world is not just angry at Republican Americans they are disgusted at all of us.
Fuuny, I just was locked out of my account for going over my 1.5gig network share and I've got an 80 gig local drive. I take this to mean that there are hundreds of big IDE drives in this building that have only a small amount used....
The company I work for mandates the desktop (company logo) and screen saver (power point like pro-company propaganda) and the MSIE home page (company Intranet start page). Do to "security" few users have write access to the local hard drive and so makes really fiddling with it difficult. Really they claim they do things for "security" and still people must use MSIE! Fortunately for me one of my compilers pre-dates ubiquitous networking and will only work when it's directory is in the root of the "C" drive and well the screen saver and desktop had to go.
Wikipedia is the responsibility of us all, if most of slashdot readers picked a topic they were reasonably familiar with and spent a few minutes with google checking facts and a few minutes correcting spelling and grammar most of the frequently traveled topics would be much improved. Many topics are close to or equal the level of traditional encyclopedias already.
Wikipedia has already proved that encyclopedias can be created by the unwashed masses of the Bazaar.
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SCO has rejected the GPL, the part of this clause I highlighted leads me to believe that since they do not accept the license they are prohibited from distributing code protected by it. So I think that legally many more people could prevent them from distributing code protected by GPL.
How ever I agree with your comments in entirety and I hope that the GPL will come out stronger at the end.
And I still think that once it's all over a "SCO Linux" distribution aimed at migrating current SCO users to Linux is a good (as in the right thing to do and as in profitable) idea.
I remember reading a study which claimed that by the time a solar panel was installed, more energy had been consumed that it ever would produce...but it's been a while.
The company no, not really; The Employees very much so. Air quality laws are pretty good, and maybe tightened soon because we have a majority of diesel cars.
I know GPL is "not a blanket instrument" but SCO has made blanket claims. They did not say "IBM's Linux activities are not covered by the GPL" nor did they say "GPL does not apply to Linux" They said that the GPL was both invalid and unconstitutional. So basically they have no license to ship anything covered by the GPL license.
An ocean is a bit larger than Kennedy Space Centre and therefor slightly more difficult to miss.
But outside of cosmonauts and hubble what else is in space that we want back... well ok the comet thingy they are going to catch with a helicopter, but besides those things.
My old bartender in the US used go on about "Big Dumb Rockets" rather than shuttles...he's got a point!
I work for a big pharma company, and we reviewed the GPL & BSD licenses, along with many of the points the parent brings up and concluded that software of both licenses is useful to us, the license is compatible with our business model, and it's very easy to not only stay in compliance with GPL & BSD but in most cases cheaper. Of course this is only for Embedded or Machine control projects we still us windows on the desktop.
Anyway I had labeled the parent at best a Microsoft fan or at worst a troll and wasn't going to put the effort you did in refuting him. Bottom line both the GPL and BSD licenses have their use's and places and you can make money using both (and still comply with them), actually I think only the truly stupid or arrogant run afoul of either license.
Very interesting, although I can't get the video codec for the avi file here at work. Still it sounds like you get paid for nearly blowing things up, which is not bad at all.
You know, that's pretty cool and all but this is/. it doesn't have nukes, hasn't launched a creator of a video game and it's not going to Mars. Man I hope you're running Linux!
Seriously though your site is interesting but I have one suggestion: you should put a scale of reference in the photos. How big is that RAP thing (I'm guessing the connector is a little wider than a VGA conneector) or the "payload_sampler_smaller" thing. I take pictures of things I design & build at work too and I put a metal ruler in the frame and make sure the divisions are in focus. But maybe I'm special because sometimes we work on tiny things and sometimes they're pretty big...
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SPARC has been like that for years...
Many local communities are demanding that US military bases be reduced or removed (Japan, Germany & Saudi Arabia come to mind). US aid money has much more to do with American interests and American lobbyists, outside of Israel and Oil producing nations US foreign aid is limited and capricious. America can't buy good will anymore and it has lost the respect that was gained, after WWII, during the cold war.
It's obvious you should get out more and understand how the world views America: Only interested in Money & Oil and dangerous.
an end to exit of the ice age we are in and a return to the depths of a new a longer lasting ice age.
Global Warming is not exactly a good name, it should be called "fucking our environment up" or something more accurate.
Scientific American had a most excelent article on this years ago, it's still there...if you subscribe.
Also I support Linux, NetBSD & VxWorks at work.
I wish someone would make something as nice as OS X for something besides my Macs.
Still, I think my mum could use SusE, currently she uses OS X 10.3 on her iLamp and it suits her nicely.
I am queried almost daily now on embarrassing topics such as this. Really I am at loss to explain that just because politicians are lying thieving bastards, and the political process is corrupt doesn't mean that there are a lot of reasonable Americans and a lot a very beautiful places to visit. Shame we have disposed of the reputation of moral, good people that we used to enjoy.
And before the republicans who are reading start to protest, The world is not just angry at Republican Americans they are disgusted at all of us.
I've been using PCMCIA RS-485 and it works fine
Fuuny, I just was locked out of my account for going over my 1.5gig network share and I've got an 80 gig local drive. I take this to mean that there are hundreds of big IDE drives in this building that have only a small amount used....
The company I work for mandates the desktop (company logo) and screen saver (power point like pro-company propaganda) and the MSIE home page (company Intranet start page). Do to "security" few users have write access to the local hard drive and so makes really fiddling with it difficult. Really they claim they do things for "security" and still people must use MSIE! Fortunately for me one of my compilers pre-dates ubiquitous networking and will only work when it's directory is in the root of the "C" drive and well the screen saver and desktop had to go.
Wikipedia has already proved that encyclopedias can be created by the unwashed masses of the Bazaar.
I don't use Transmetta products only because of price...
Brilliant Sig!
I bash Sun because I was forced to waste money on their products when upper managment would not go with Fujitsu, which offers better products.
why didn't SPARC do beter I wonder, 'tis a shame
No, thank god it's not linked to sex. I'm colour blind but my GF still sleeps with me!
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SCO has rejected the GPL, the part of this clause I highlighted leads me to believe that since they do not accept the license they are prohibited from distributing code protected by it. So I think that legally many more people could prevent them from distributing code protected by GPL.
How ever I agree with your comments in entirety and I hope that the GPL will come out stronger at the end.
And I still think that once it's all over a "SCO Linux" distribution aimed at migrating current SCO users to Linux is a good (as in the right thing to do and as in profitable) idea.
I remember reading a study which claimed that by the time a solar panel was installed, more energy had been consumed that it ever would produce...but it's been a while.
The company no, not really; The Employees very much so. Air quality laws are pretty good, and maybe tightened soon because we have a majority of diesel cars.
Our generator uses Natural Gas, much cleaner.
I know GPL is "not a blanket instrument" but SCO has made blanket claims. They did not say "IBM's Linux activities are not covered by the GPL" nor did they say "GPL does not apply to Linux" They said that the GPL was both invalid and unconstitutional. So basically they have no license to ship anything covered by the GPL license.
But outside of cosmonauts and hubble what else is in space that we want back... well ok the comet thingy they are going to catch with a helicopter, but besides those things.
My old bartender in the US used go on about "Big Dumb Rockets" rather than shuttles...he's got a point!
Yes, a couple times a week if I'm lucky! "Mmmmm" is right on target.
Anyway I had labeled the parent at best a Microsoft fan or at worst a troll and wasn't going to put the effort you did in refuting him. Bottom line both the GPL and BSD licenses have their use's and places and you can make money using both (and still comply with them), actually I think only the truly stupid or arrogant run afoul of either license.
Oh and the Venus Transit photos are quite nice.
I was really trying not to say that...
Seriously though your site is interesting but I have one suggestion: you should put a scale of reference in the photos. How big is that RAP thing (I'm guessing the connector is a little wider than a VGA conneector) or the "payload_sampler_smaller" thing. I take pictures of things I design & build at work too and I put a metal ruler in the frame and make sure the divisions are in focus. But maybe I'm special because sometimes we work on tiny things and sometimes they're pretty big...