So if for example I go buy a boxset and burn and give you a copy of the binary cds. I and not YDL would be the one who at that point would owe you the source.
No - the FSF says this:
What does this "written offer valid for any third party" mean? Does that mean everyone in the world can get the source to any GPL'ed program no matter what?
"Valid for any third party" means that anyone who has the offer is entitled to take you up on it.
If you commercially distribute binaries not accompanied with source code, the GPL says you must provide a written offer to distribute the source code later. When users noncommercially redistribute the binaries they received from you, they must pass along a copy of this written offer. This means that people who did not get the binaries directly from you can still receive copies of the binaries, along with the written offer.
The reason we require the offer to be valid for any third party is so that people who receive the binaries indirectly in that way can order the source code from you.
Of course, they are quite entitled to ask the same price for a copy of the source as for the box set.
The 'Ltd' or 'Limited' suffix used in the UK indicates a limited liability company. It is used by companies that are not publicly traded; publicly-traded companies use 'plc' (public limited company). I think both kinds of company are corporations.
There's no such thing as region 0. The regions are numbered from 1 to 8 and each disc stores a flag for each region indicating whether it is allowed to be played in that region. Region-free discs have all these flags set (or possibly all but the reserved one).
I sent my faulty drive back to the dealer to be repaired/replaced. Never had any problems with the drive that came back, though of course I couldn't read my Zip disks for the 6 weeks or so that it took.
In Standard C, getc() returns either a character value, c, as (int)(unsigned char)c, or EOF. So in Standard C you would write something like this instead:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
int i;
char c;
while ((i = getc()) != EOF)
{
c = (unsigned char)i;/* implicit cast to char */
pr intf("%c", c);/* implicit cast to int */
}
return 0;
}
You just have to trust the main server's md5 signatures, and never end up trusting the peer servers.
There is a known weakness in MD5 which, while it would not allow a malicious peer to replace arbitrary content, would allow them to send you corrupt content that you could not detect by checking the MD5 signature. This could perhaps serve as a denial of service. The other response to your article states that they are actually using SHA-1 signatures, which I think have no such known weaknesses.
The UK's New Scientist had an article about this a long time ago (Flesh and blood, free registration required). It referred to a number of studies that have found negative effects of at least some kinds of pornography.
One study found that exposure to pornography depicting women in degrading roles made men more 'callous' towards women.
Two studies found that viewing soft pornography made people less satisfied with their partners.
Quote: "Studies on the effects of hard-core pornography have been much more consistent in their findings. The main conclusion is simple: pornography with violent imagery does change men's attitudes about sexual aggression towards women."
Quote: "exposure to the sexually violent films increased male students' acceptance of 'rape myths' - for instance, that women actually enjoy being raped"
Do read the original article for the full story.
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It's a reference to the film "Doctor Strangelove".
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This trend is going full circle with the proliferation of applications to which various 'skins' can be applied, producing an entirely new look. This trend has appeared, I believe as a direct result of the advent of dynamic layout methodologies similar to HTML. Let's all remember it wasn't always so.
There are gadget libraries on the Amiga - MUI and BGUI - that have been doing dynamic layout since 1992 when HTML was new (and maybe didn't yet have forms). It always annoyed me that I couldn't easily do this when building a Windows GUI (which, thankfully I haven't had to do for a while now).
MUI allows a lot of user configuration of both look and feel - globally and specifically for individual applications. It's not exactly skinning, but because so many Amiga applications use MUI this is a much more powerful feature. You can see an example of customised MUI windows on its web site.
One can just modify the keyboard mapping to disable Caps Lock. I haven't figured out how to do that in Windows 2000 yet, but I have turned on the "Accessibility Option" of "ToggleKeys" which makes the computer beep when I hit (Caps|Num|Scroll) Lock. It's not ideal but it lets me know my mistake straight away.
This definitely used to happen in Windows 3.1, and I think it still happened in Windows 95 and NT 4. I think it must be a recent (and long overdue) fix.
when was the last time you saw a cellphone for sale without a network contract
I saw the latest Motorola Timeport for sale untied in Tottenham Court Road, London, a month back - but it cost about £400 if I remember correctly.
However, in the UK I think it's illegal to lock pre-paid phones to a network, and those cost less t han £100. And post-paid phones generally only require a minimum 12-month contract, which can cost as little as £120.
For those who say "no fucking way I'm paying a yearly subscription and still put up with ad banners", well that's how magazines work. You pay your 4.95 for newsweek or "out" magazine AND LO AND BEHOLD! The mag ALSO has advertisements.
Right. The real reason for subscription charges is to filter out subscribers that aren't interested in the content or related advertisements (or who can't afford advertised goods and services). It generally doesn't even pay for the cost of printing, let alone production - but it does save the magazine from delivering to people their advertisers aren't interested in.
The Nigerian Bank scam has been going on via other media as well. The Nigerian Embassy (I think) in the UK ran some full-page adverts in UK newspapers a while back, warning people not to fall for the scam.
85% ethanol (an alchohol-based fuel made from corn)
Ethanol is the alcohol found in alcoholic drinks. It isn't 'alcohol-based'.
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Before the colonists came to Plymouth so they could worship as they pleased, there was a group that went to Jamestown and nearly starved because they were all looking for gold instead of growing food.
I don't think they were looking for gold. There were violent conflicts among them, and widespread illness. There is a theory that the were being poisoned by Spanish agents on their supply ships.
There is no such language as C/C++ - there's C, and there's C++. C++ programmers use string classes. The standard library for C++ includes a pretty good string class (actually a template class that can be used for byte strings and wide character strings).
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No - the FSF says this:
Of course, they are quite entitled to ask the same price for a copy of the source as for the box set.
The 'Ltd' or 'Limited' suffix used in the UK indicates a limited liability company. It is used by companies that are not publicly traded; publicly-traded companies use 'plc' (public limited company). I think both kinds of company are corporations.
You mean, include optional filtering software on the CD... just like AOL in the US of A?
There's no such thing as region 0. The regions are numbered from 1 to 8 and each disc stores a flag for each region indicating whether it is allowed to be played in that region. Region-free discs have all these flags set (or possibly all but the reserved one).
I sent my faulty drive back to the dealer to be repaired/replaced. Never had any problems with the drive that came back, though of course I couldn't read my Zip disks for the 6 weeks or so that it took.
Damn' good value for $30/year. I subscribe for the articles, though...
In Standard C, getc() returns either a character value, c, as (int)(unsigned char)c, or EOF. So in Standard C you would write something like this instead:
#include <stdio.h> /* implicit cast to char */ /* implicit cast to int */
int main()
{
int i;
char c;
while ((i = getc()) != EOF)
{
c = (unsigned char)i;
pr intf("%c", c);
}
return 0;
}
I can sympathise with these users. I've been using Gnome for over a year, and I always gave up when trying to find out how to change font size.
s/replace/substitute/
s/you could not detect by checking the/would have the same/
s/article/comment/
There is a known weakness in MD5 which, while it would not allow a malicious peer to replace arbitrary content, would allow them to send you corrupt content that you could not detect by checking the MD5 signature. This could perhaps serve as a denial of service. The other response to your article states that they are actually using SHA-1 signatures, which I think have no such known weaknesses.
The UK's New Scientist had an article about this a long time ago ( Flesh and blood , free registration required). It referred to a number of studies that have found negative effects of at least some kinds of pornography.
Do read the original article for the full story.
It's a reference to the film "Doctor Strangelove".
I don't think you can reverse an F1 car.
There are gadget libraries on the Amiga - MUI and BGUI - that have been doing dynamic layout since 1992 when HTML was new (and maybe didn't yet have forms). It always annoyed me that I couldn't easily do this when building a Windows GUI (which, thankfully I haven't had to do for a while now).
MUI allows a lot of user configuration of both look and feel - globally and specifically for individual applications. It's not exactly skinning, but because so many Amiga applications use MUI this is a much more powerful feature. You can see an example of customised MUI windows on its web site.
One can just modify the keyboard mapping to disable Caps Lock. I haven't figured out how to do that in Windows 2000 yet, but I have turned on the "Accessibility Option" of "ToggleKeys" which makes the computer beep when I hit (Caps|Num|Scroll) Lock. It's not ideal but it lets me know my mistake straight away.
This definitely used to happen in Windows 3.1, and I think it still happened in Windows 95 and NT 4. I think it must be a recent (and long overdue) fix.
I saw the latest Motorola Timeport for sale untied in Tottenham Court Road, London, a month back - but it cost about £400 if I remember correctly.
However, in the UK I think it's illegal to lock pre-paid phones to a network, and those cost less t han £100. And post-paid phones generally only require a minimum 12-month contract, which can cost as little as £120.
Right. The real reason for subscription charges is to filter out subscribers that aren't interested in the content or related advertisements (or who can't afford advertised goods and services). It generally doesn't even pay for the cost of printing, let alone production - but it does save the magazine from delivering to people their advertisers aren't interested in.
PanQuake produces some rather Escher-like views.
The Nigerian Bank scam has been going on via other media as well. The Nigerian Embassy (I think) in the UK ran some full-page adverts in UK newspapers a while back, warning people not to fall for the scam.
Ethanol is the alcohol found in alcoholic drinks. It isn't 'alcohol-based'.
I don't think they were looking for gold. There were violent conflicts among them, and widespread illness. There is a theory that the were being poisoned by Spanish agents on their supply ships.
There is no such language as C/C++ - there's C, and there's C++. C++ programmers use string classes. The standard library for C++ includes a pretty good string class (actually a template class that can be used for byte strings and wide character strings).
In any case, it's not Bill Gates' book - Nathan Myhrvold ghost-wrote most of it. (Myhrvold is credited as co-author in later editions.)
Points 1-4 are the arguments of the Open Source movement. Points 2 and (to some extent) 5 are the arguments of the Free Software movement.