Sun's Sunfire servers may be a better buy, they are well designed, solid, well serviced, less expensive and I think they are faster at this point in time, but they are not using the Intel chips.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
It looks like China gets to be held to Annex I standards as soon as it feels like it.[1] When they agree to targets they get to be Annex I. However even when they become Annex I, they have provisionally excluded Hong Kong and Macao from the protocol.[2]
[1]?url, google on first sentence "China is a non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, meaning that it has not agreed to binding targets for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. While the Chinese government is concerned with its environmental problems, it tends to be more concerned with local problems, such as particulate matter and sulfur dioxide emissions. Thus, it is undertaking efforts to lessen emissions of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, through improved pollution controls on power plants as well as policies designed to increase the share of natural gas in the country's fuel mix, particularly around major metropolitan areas."
[2] From the UN kyoto pages (kpstats.pdf) In a communication received on 30 August 2002, the Government of the People's Republic of China informed the Secretary-General of the following:
"In accordance with article 153 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special Adminstrative Region of The People's Republic of China of 1990 and article 138 of the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China of 1993, the Government of the People'e Republic of China decides that the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change shall provissionally not apply to the Hong Kong Special Adminstrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region the the People's Republic of China."
I think they are getting it from the wikipedia entry the grandparent linked to.
"China has since ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and is expected to become an Annex I country within the next decade."
From some other site: "China is a non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, meaning that it has not agreed to binding targets for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol."
So, it looks like you become an Annex I country when you decide to agree to binding targets for CO2 emission reduction. Quite convienient.
From Artslaw
"The copyright provides the owner with a number of exclusive rights, including the right to make new versions of the original work, called derivative works." It also grants them the right to prevent others from creating derivative works.
It does protect the expression and not the actual idea. What was proposed was to take an original work, substitute new words for all of the old words, in order to screw the original copyright holder out of their rights. The proposal has nothing to do with the idea, just the expression of the idea. That is the kind of thing that will put your laywers kids through college. It will also have the US Attorney show up to make things difficult. If you care about the idea, then do your own research and present your own take on the subject.
Unless you're writing a parody(amongst other things), you don't have a right to create a derivative work without the copyright holders permission. Even if you write a parody, you might get sued to death. Person wrote a parody of "Gone With the Wind", and the court decided that the work had infringed (Findlaw).
Don't get me wrong, I think most copyright law is overly broad, and the DMCA is just bloody evil. Even more annoying is the fact that most of the crap in the DMCA is there to comply with conditions in the WIPO treaty.
All that needs to be done is that something needs to be re-written enough to escape copyright protection.
That would just create a derivative work. Since your work is strictly based on the other persons work, it is a derivative work.
If you take the persons idea, research it yourself and then write what you've discovered doing your own research, no problem.
Besides it would probably make your head hurt to read it. Ever used one of these web translators. Usually not very pretty.
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They are now:
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Article I. Section 8. Clause 8.
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
(Copyrights and patents)
From the protocol
Article 3 Paragraph 2
2. Each Party included in Annex I shall, by 2005, have made demonstrable progress in achieving its commitments under this Protocol.
It looks like China gets to be held to Annex I standards as soon as it feels like it.[1] When they agree to targets they get to be Annex I. However even when they become Annex I, they have provisionally excluded Hong Kong and Macao from the protocol.[2]
[1]?url, google on first sentence
"China is a non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, meaning that it has not agreed to binding targets for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol. While the Chinese government is concerned with its environmental problems, it tends to be more concerned with local problems, such as particulate matter and sulfur dioxide emissions. Thus, it is undertaking efforts to lessen emissions of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, through improved pollution controls on power plants as well as policies designed to increase the share of natural gas in the country's fuel mix, particularly around major metropolitan areas."
[2] From the UN kyoto pages (kpstats.pdf)
In a communication received on 30 August 2002, the Government of the People's Republic of China informed the Secretary-General of the following:
"In accordance with article 153 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong Special Adminstrative Region of The People's Republic of China of 1990 and article 138 of the Basic Law of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China of 1993, the Government of the People'e Republic of China decides that the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change shall provissionally not apply to the Hong Kong Special Adminstrative Region and the Macao Special Administrative Region the the People's Republic of China."
I think they are getting it from the wikipedia entry the grandparent linked to.
"China has since ratified the Kyoto Protocol, and is expected to become an Annex I country within the next decade."
From some other site:
"China is a non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, meaning that it has not agreed to binding targets for reduction of carbon dioxide emissions under the Kyoto Protocol."
So, it looks like you become an Annex I country when you decide to agree to binding targets for CO2 emission reduction. Quite convienient.
Disclaimer - IANAL
From Artslaw "The copyright provides the owner with a number of exclusive rights, including the right to make new versions of the original work, called derivative works." It also grants them the right to prevent others from creating derivative works.
It does protect the expression and not the actual idea. What was proposed was to take an original work, substitute new words for all of the old words, in order to screw the original copyright holder out of their rights. The proposal has nothing to do with the idea, just the expression of the idea. That is the kind of thing that will put your laywers kids through college. It will also have the US Attorney show up to make things difficult. If you care about the idea, then do your own research and present your own take on the subject.
Unless you're writing a parody(amongst other things), you don't have a right to create a derivative work without the copyright holders permission. Even if you write a parody, you might get sued to death. Person wrote a parody of "Gone With the Wind", and the court decided that the work had infringed (Findlaw).
Don't get me wrong, I think most copyright law is overly broad, and the DMCA is just bloody evil. Even more annoying is the fact that most of the crap in the DMCA is there to comply with conditions in the WIPO treaty.
All that needs to be done is that something needs to be re-written enough to escape copyright protection.
That would just create a derivative work. Since your work is strictly based on the other persons work, it is a derivative work. If you take the persons idea, research it yourself and then write what you've discovered doing your own research, no problem.
Besides it would probably make your head hurt to read it. Ever used one of these web translators. Usually not very pretty.
2.4.20-pre6 came out before 2.4.20-rc4
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2.4.19 was released
2.4.20-pre1 to 2.4.20-pre11 were released
2.4.20-rc1 to 2.4.20-rc4 were released
2.4.20-rc4 became 2.4.20
Pre's come before rc's (release candidates)