I really think you're under the same delusion as a large number of people in the software industry in that you think compiling software somehow magically encrypts it so people can't possibly know how it works. If you come up with some brilliant algorithm and your business hinges on you maintaining control of this algorithm, giving an implementation of it to your customers, even if in binary form, will be the end of you. Your competitors will reverse engineer your software and provide an implementation of your algorithm in their product.
So what of it? If you rule out patents there is absolutely no market for new algorithms. Thankfully academics who come up with new algorithms have the incentive of career advancement. Not that I'm in any way advocating software patents as the system currently stands. But it would be great if we had something other than academia to incite people to work on developing new algorithms full time.
In what universe? If they're passing on someone else's binary distribution that came with an offer to supply source code they can pass on the offer to supply source code as a third party, but if they're downloading the source code and making a binary distribution themselves they have to supply source code (be that through an offer to supply source at a later date or not).
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Obviously any channel which has 1000 users on it isn't going to have much conversation going on. Unlike a cocktail party where 1000 people can congregate and have 200 different conversations simultaniously with 4-6 people per conversation, an irc channel with 1000 people is more like an auditorium where only a few people can talk at a time (usually one). This is hardly what you would call "chat".
It's quite possible that Korg have ported it an architecture that has not previously been supported by Linux, or they've made some other changes. Maybe you don't get this whole Free Software thing, so you don't think it is important that you be free to modify the software on your synthesiser, but thankfully the people who work on Linux do and they require Korg to supply you with the source code if they want to distribute Linux.
I know what you think you are saying, but we're not talking about their software, we're talking about Linux. If they distribute Linux they must supply the source code to Linux. It's that simple.
No, I just think repeatably asking people not to be jerks will eventually have some effect. I see posting without reading the article the same as arguing with someone at a book reading when you havn't read the book. It's just offensive.
They have to provide a formal offer to give you the source code upon request. Seeing as this is a synthesiser it's quite possible you don't even have a computer let alone an internet connection, so an ftp site really doesn't cut it. If I send them a blank CD and a stamped return envelope requesting the source code they best be burning the linux source they used onto the CD and sending it back to me or I'll be telling Linus who will probably threaten to sue them just for shits and giggles.
I used to like giving shit to Wolfram. I mean, he's an easy target. Then one day I was in the presence of a pure science nut who quietly listened to my rant about why Wolfram is a dickhead. Although he agreed that Wolfram wouldn't know scientific humility if it walked up and shook his hand, he told me I was really missing something important by disgarding Wolfram's discovery. Of course, as far as I was concerned Wolfram had made no discovery. He'd just gone into a cave and stared at his navel for 10 years. Well as it turns out Wolfram did more than that and I was just so blinded by his personality that I couldn't see it.
The plot vehicle in that movie wasn't fusion, it was cheap efficient hydrogen production. Of course, I can understand why you would be confused, the movie consisted of 1% science fiction and 99% running, shooting and "whoa"ing.
You know that a black hole and a worm hole are two different suggestions of which is a possible shape of space according to general relativity right? If you really want to say that worm holes are just silly, all you need to do is look at a single component of a worm hole that is necessary for it to function: exotic matter. There is no reason to believe that exotic matter exists. There has been no observed phenomona which suggests that exotic matter could exist. There's a lot of reason to believe that negative energy is just a silly concept. Finally, any hope that we have to make worm holes will not be until we have mastered stellar engineering. I can't even hazard a guess as to when that will be, can you?
Just a wild guess here, but your home country is a member of the EU right? When I travelled through Europe on my Australian passport I got nothing but trouble from immigration and every country I went to. When I finally got my UK passport (dual citizenship, aint it grand) I found that could have been travelling around a single country with the little immigration officials cared. It's a great system the EU has there.
Well you're not actually a citizen of that country. As a citizen of Australia I'm very glad that my government monitors where visitors to this country are staying and what they're doing here. I'm sure citizens of the US feel the same way about us visiting them.
Yeah, sorry, I was wrong. I have actually seen this done before. It's known as a pre-clearance process and the result is that you get a nice little stamp in your passport and can just walk through customs on the other end. However the airline is not required to supply this service, it's just something they can do. When the security guard said that it was a regulation they were probably answering his specific question of why he has to give a name and address where he is staying. Pre-clearance is a lot stricter than a standard immigration check as once you have it you are cleared to come into the country for a certain period of time.
Have you read Frank Herbert's The Eyes of Heisenburg? As in all Herbert's books, technology is shunned in preference to a human social structure (if robots do all the work you have no underclass and writing a book about a society about no underclass is a little boring). So there's these Optimums which are immortals who need their monthly perscriptions to live and there are steriles who do all the work and breaders who supply the gene pool (but don't actually carry the child). There's also cyborgs, who find this whole genetic engineering thing sickening and much prefer to modifying their existing bodies with technology, who are fighting the Optimums. It's not a bad book.
Sorry, you're right he was in Gatwick. I believe what was happening was a simple pre-clearance process. This means you don't have to spend as much time in customs when you get to the US because your information has already been forwarded to them. The reason why they told him it wasn't necessary was probably because he was a frequent traveller and already had pre-clearance status.
Why you gotta be an asshole? There IS a requirement for the airlines to collect the information if you are staying in the country. It's not some new law that was made up last Tuesday, it's been like this for a long long time. The exact information he was asked for is standard for a non-resident entering the country. I know, I've travelled to the US and many other countries numerous times and I've always been asked that information. I know people who work for airlines and they say it is a requirement. I know people who have been deported from the US for not supplying this information. But hey, if you don't believe me I suggest you go jump on a plane to Australia (cause you're probably an American right?) and refuse to fill in the card. Just don't expect to be coming back any time soon.
Will you just chill out please? Jesus. It's a requirement of the airline to collect the information for the immigration department. I'm sure the guy wasn't asked to write his detail down on a cocktail napkin. This is simply a case of someone discovering that when you're in a foreign country you don't have all the freedom that you have when you're in your home country and freaking out about it.
I'm sorry, did you actually read the open letter. He was in the US travelling from the UK on a Canadian passport. US immigration, like every other country in the world, required him to fill out an entry card because he wasn't a citizen of that country. As for not knowing the particular regulation number under which this is a requirement, that's just good old fashioned american incompetence. In Australia we write the regulation on the card and detail what will happen to you if you fail to abide by the requirements or supply false information.
I should mention that nothing that I said above applies to Australian citizens. We just tick the box that says "Australian Citizen" and show our passport on returning to our own country. I'm sure the same goes for Americans returning to the US.
Do not follow this person's advice, please. If you lie to immigration there is a significant chance that you will be found out and then you will be denied entry to the country next time you want to visit.
You sure will and what's more you'll be sent back to where you came from unless you can show that you have the means to pay for a hotel or can name a friend with whom you are staying. Your travel agent should have told you of these requirements. They're not unusual. Many countries have the same requirements. For example, my country, Australia requires all passengers on international flights to fill in an arrival card on the plane before it lands. If you refuse to fill in the arrival card you won't even be allowed into the airport and chances are the next time you try to book a flight to Australia you will be denied entry and will have to apply for a review of your status.
The Lifters Experiments home page. It's well known technology but I'm not aware of anyone who has used microwave power transmission to power them. Presumably you could put tilt control electronics on the lifter which would vary the voltage to the four quadrants so it stays flat. From what I've read of rail guns at scale the track actually bends and is damaged by the high power throughput. It's an interesting idea but I think that whole mach-8-at-sea-level thing is the killer.
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So what of it? If you rule out patents there is absolutely no market for new algorithms. Thankfully academics who come up with new algorithms have the incentive of career advancement. Not that I'm in any way advocating software patents as the system currently stands. But it would be great if we had something other than academia to incite people to work on developing new algorithms full time.
In what universe? If they're passing on someone else's binary distribution that came with an offer to supply source code they can pass on the offer to supply source code as a third party, but if they're downloading the source code and making a binary distribution themselves they have to supply source code (be that through an offer to supply source at a later date or not).
Obviously any channel which has 1000 users on it isn't going to have much conversation going on. Unlike a cocktail party where 1000 people can congregate and have 200 different conversations simultaniously with 4-6 people per conversation, an irc channel with 1000 people is more like an auditorium where only a few people can talk at a time (usually one). This is hardly what you would call "chat".
It's quite possible that Korg have ported it an architecture that has not previously been supported by Linux, or they've made some other changes. Maybe you don't get this whole Free Software thing, so you don't think it is important that you be free to modify the software on your synthesiser, but thankfully the people who work on Linux do and they require Korg to supply you with the source code if they want to distribute Linux.
Actually I was deliberately trying not to be a jerk. If you want me to flame you back to last week I can.
I know what you think you are saying, but we're not talking about their software, we're talking about Linux. If they distribute Linux they must supply the source code to Linux. It's that simple.
No, I just think repeatably asking people not to be jerks will eventually have some effect. I see posting without reading the article the same as arguing with someone at a book reading when you havn't read the book. It's just offensive.
They have to provide a formal offer to give you the source code upon request. Seeing as this is a synthesiser it's quite possible you don't even have a computer let alone an internet connection, so an ftp site really doesn't cut it. If I send them a blank CD and a stamped return envelope requesting the source code they best be burning the linux source they used onto the CD and sending it back to me or I'll be telling Linus who will probably threaten to sue them just for shits and giggles.
I believe this is another good reason to RTFA.
I used to like giving shit to Wolfram. I mean, he's an easy target. Then one day I was in the presence of a pure science nut who quietly listened to my rant about why Wolfram is a dickhead. Although he agreed that Wolfram wouldn't know scientific humility if it walked up and shook his hand, he told me I was really missing something important by disgarding Wolfram's discovery. Of course, as far as I was concerned Wolfram had made no discovery. He'd just gone into a cave and stared at his navel for 10 years. Well as it turns out Wolfram did more than that and I was just so blinded by his personality that I couldn't see it.
The plot vehicle in that movie wasn't fusion, it was cheap efficient hydrogen production. Of course, I can understand why you would be confused, the movie consisted of 1% science fiction and 99% running, shooting and "whoa"ing.
You know that a black hole and a worm hole are two different suggestions of which is a possible shape of space according to general relativity right? If you really want to say that worm holes are just silly, all you need to do is look at a single component of a worm hole that is necessary for it to function: exotic matter. There is no reason to believe that exotic matter exists. There has been no observed phenomona which suggests that exotic matter could exist. There's a lot of reason to believe that negative energy is just a silly concept. Finally, any hope that we have to make worm holes will not be until we have mastered stellar engineering. I can't even hazard a guess as to when that will be, can you?
Just a wild guess here, but your home country is a member of the EU right? When I travelled through Europe on my Australian passport I got nothing but trouble from immigration and every country I went to. When I finally got my UK passport (dual citizenship, aint it grand) I found that could have been travelling around a single country with the little immigration officials cared. It's a great system the EU has there.
Well you're not actually a citizen of that country. As a citizen of Australia I'm very glad that my government monitors where visitors to this country are staying and what they're doing here. I'm sure citizens of the US feel the same way about us visiting them.
Yeah, sorry, I was wrong. I have actually seen this done before. It's known as a pre-clearance process and the result is that you get a nice little stamp in your passport and can just walk through customs on the other end. However the airline is not required to supply this service, it's just something they can do. When the security guard said that it was a regulation they were probably answering his specific question of why he has to give a name and address where he is staying. Pre-clearance is a lot stricter than a standard immigration check as once you have it you are cleared to come into the country for a certain period of time.
Have you read Frank Herbert's The Eyes of Heisenburg? As in all Herbert's books, technology is shunned in preference to a human social structure (if robots do all the work you have no underclass and writing a book about a society about no underclass is a little boring). So there's these Optimums which are immortals who need their monthly perscriptions to live and there are steriles who do all the work and breaders who supply the gene pool (but don't actually carry the child). There's also cyborgs, who find this whole genetic engineering thing sickening and much prefer to modifying their existing bodies with technology, who are fighting the Optimums. It's not a bad book.
Sorry, you're right he was in Gatwick. I believe what was happening was a simple pre-clearance process. This means you don't have to spend as much time in customs when you get to the US because your information has already been forwarded to them. The reason why they told him it wasn't necessary was probably because he was a frequent traveller and already had pre-clearance status.
Why you gotta be an asshole? There IS a requirement for the airlines to collect the information if you are staying in the country. It's not some new law that was made up last Tuesday, it's been like this for a long long time. The exact information he was asked for is standard for a non-resident entering the country. I know, I've travelled to the US and many other countries numerous times and I've always been asked that information. I know people who work for airlines and they say it is a requirement. I know people who have been deported from the US for not supplying this information. But hey, if you don't believe me I suggest you go jump on a plane to Australia (cause you're probably an American right?) and refuse to fill in the card. Just don't expect to be coming back any time soon.
Will you just chill out please? Jesus. It's a requirement of the airline to collect the information for the immigration department. I'm sure the guy wasn't asked to write his detail down on a cocktail napkin. This is simply a case of someone discovering that when you're in a foreign country you don't have all the freedom that you have when you're in your home country and freaking out about it.
I'm sorry, did you actually read the open letter. He was in the US travelling from the UK on a Canadian passport. US immigration, like every other country in the world, required him to fill out an entry card because he wasn't a citizen of that country. As for not knowing the particular regulation number under which this is a requirement, that's just good old fashioned american incompetence. In Australia we write the regulation on the card and detail what will happen to you if you fail to abide by the requirements or supply false information.
I should mention that nothing that I said above applies to Australian citizens. We just tick the box that says "Australian Citizen" and show our passport on returning to our own country. I'm sure the same goes for Americans returning to the US.
Do not follow this person's advice, please. If you lie to immigration there is a significant chance that you will be found out and then you will be denied entry to the country next time you want to visit.
If they check (and they do check) and you were lying you will find that you can't book a flight to that country next time you want to go.
You sure will and what's more you'll be sent back to where you came from unless you can show that you have the means to pay for a hotel or can name a friend with whom you are staying. Your travel agent should have told you of these requirements. They're not unusual. Many countries have the same requirements. For example, my country, Australia requires all passengers on international flights to fill in an arrival card on the plane before it lands. If you refuse to fill in the arrival card you won't even be allowed into the airport and chances are the next time you try to book a flight to Australia you will be denied entry and will have to apply for a review of your status.
The Lifters Experiments home page. It's well known technology but I'm not aware of anyone who has used microwave power transmission to power them. Presumably you could put tilt control electronics on the lifter which would vary the voltage to the four quadrants so it stays flat. From what I've read of rail guns at scale the track actually bends and is damaged by the high power throughput. It's an interesting idea but I think that whole mach-8-at-sea-level thing is the killer.