Remember, the current owner sets the starting price, so if you really wanted to hold on to it for a while and not sell, just set a very high starting price. As long as no one meets it, you keep the art.
You'll have to have a special "netflix" blueray in for it to work, this is how they're getting around the 360-exclusive. apparently a WII solution is coming next year and etflix will also be coming to the PS3 desktop at that point (I assume that is because the 360 exclusive will be ending at that time).
Sorry, then you think wrong. Most squid species have 8 arms and 2 tentacles. The difference between arms and tentacles is mainly that arms have suckers all the way along their length and tentacles only have suckers at the end. Also, tentacles are generally longer.
Also of interest:
"In mature male squid, one basal half of the left
ventral tentacle is hectocotylised - it ends in a
copulatory pad rather than suckers. This is used for
intercourse between mature males and females."
That from a romantic email from my girlfriend entitled "Let's talk about sex". I love that girl!
How difficult would a "not for military use" licence be to write? How could it be defined so as to allow as broad as possible use without allowing the covered software to be used in the development or operation of military equipment/operations?
While many multinationals which do important work which we might like to see use our code for good purposes also do work for the military. Would there be a way to ensure that they could still use it for purposes we approve of (medical/scientific research and devices)?
How do we disallow use by and for the military/espionage while still allowing the "white hats" (doctors, teachers, etc...) use? Is there a legally binding description anywhere (U.N., U.S. law) of what military technology is?
Obviously, such a licence wouldnät be for everyone (it shouldn't be in the GPL), but for those who want it, could it be an additional licence/extension in addition to the GPL?
not easy, but I know I'd use it if it was available. And obviously, if you didn't want to use it, you wouldn't have to, so please understand I'm not trying to start a debate on whether *you* should support the military. I only want to explore the option of not supporting it for those who so choose.
Onnel
No, it's more a signifier that different problems need different solutions. If all you have is a hammer, everything may look like a nail, but if you know c++, perl, php, java and a few others, your toolbox will contain an appropriate solution for a broad range of problems.
I write my games in c++, my websites in php and my text parsing utilities in php. Java and python also serve their niches.
Anyone who believes that a single language is the best solution to all of the broad range of problems faced by programmers is sorely mistaken.
Onnel
I have a small travel site, mainly just a DB of entries for the places I've visited. What I really want is for every entry to have values in two categories: location and type (restaurant, nightlife, hotel, sight, etc...).
I haven't found a system yet that will let me define different attributes (location, type) and sort/search by those. Someone should easily be able to see all entries for hotels in Budapest or for all hotels in the world.
Any suggestions? I've currently got it up and runnong on Wordpress, but it really doesn't have the flexibility I want (right now I define categories for each location and sub categories for every type...less than ideal!).
Onnel
You're right, they were looking for U.S. missle silos...strangely portable ones called submarines. there's a very good reason they were/are snooping the oceans!
Actually, GPL (Grand Prix Legends) is/was such a success exactly because the game engine itself could not easily be modified. sure you can add graphics and new tracks, but the physics engine itself and the characteristics of the car are just about unhackable (engines can be swapped in to different chassis, but that's as far as it goes).
What this has lead to (combined with the amazing network code that Sierra wrote) is a very competitive online atmosphere even 4 years later. 180 degrees from counterstrike, there is no worrying about cheats or hacking..just VERY competitive racing. It probably helps that learning to drive the sim is overwhelming and won't appeal to your aver 12 year old.
Wheil the game has many add ons, new tracks and anlyzing tools written by third parties, the core engine hasn't been hacked and this is a big part of the success.
It is an interesting comparison to the usual story which is mod-able == successful.
As an interesting aside, check out www.racer.nl for an open source racing game made to be 100% mod-able (including totally customized vehicle creation with up to 10 wheels!).
I don't think it would be too obvious to ask them to train at the FBI...heck most of the terrorists in the world were at least armed by the CIA, if not actually trained by them. Pick your death squad in South America, they've all got a few graduates from the "School of Americas", A.K.A The School of Death.
Lots of info on this school that teaches such things as torture (they even have a published manual for it!) at different sites. Some are out there liberal, but there is a lot of hard evidence available to anyone that wants it. Try here.
So don't be surprised when you hear that terrorists are trained in the USA! apparently, someone who may have been involved in the WTC attack was even trained at U.S. military schools. I guess that's only fair considering the groups we back have killed far more innocents than died in the attacks. Not trying to belittle the loss in the U.S., just pointing out that the hate we spread sometimes comes home to roost. would that it could end everywhere!
Even that isn't truly safe, is it? Isn't the public key you're typing in still going to be stored somewhere on your local machine at least temporarily? Is it going to be cached?
I honestly don't know and am certainly not an expert on how programs using PGP deal with the public key being input, but are they careful enough to not store it anywhere locally (outside of RAM while it's being initally processed, obviously)?
And of course, typing your key in by hand won't stop a keyboard logger for a second...
Let's get the Republicans on Sklyarov's side!
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I'm really surprised no one has thought of putting this in terms that matter to (average? normal? hick?) Americans.
Sklyarov produced a tool. People might do bad things with this tool, so the tool is illegal and Sklyarov is in jail. Let's carry this analogy over to, oh say, guns! They are tools that can do a great deal more damage than anything any of us software engineers (assuming we don't work for a defense contractor) are likely to do. By the very logic behind the DMCA, America is opening itself up to a law to outlaw guns (let's not mention cars or lots of other things in the name of staying focused).
What better way to get "real" Americans and certainly all of the Republicans to back Sklyarov and tear down the DMCA!
Having said that, we all know the reason the U.S. has a law banning the creation of software tools which might do something bad and not a law against guns is because of money plain and simple.
It is for many reasons like this that I no longer live in the United States (although I miss many things about it...cheap, high quality sushi anyone?).
When I first told my (relatively non-technophile) wife about the whole DMCA thing and especially about a Russian being one of the first people prosecuted with it, she shook her head and said, "See honey, that's why we left."
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Remember, the current owner sets the starting price, so if you really wanted to hold on to it for a while and not sell, just set a very high starting price. As long as no one meets it, you keep the art.
You'll have to have a special "netflix" blueray in for it to work, this is how they're getting around the 360-exclusive. apparently a WII solution is coming next year and etflix will also be coming to the PS3 desktop at that point (I assume that is because the 360 exclusive will be ending at that time).
Sorry, then you think wrong. Most squid species have 8 arms and 2 tentacles. The difference between arms and tentacles is mainly that arms have suckers all the way along their length and tentacles only have suckers at the end. Also, tentacles are generally longer. Also of interest: "In mature male squid, one basal half of the left ventral tentacle is hectocotylised - it ends in a copulatory pad rather than suckers. This is used for intercourse between mature males and females." That from a romantic email from my girlfriend entitled "Let's talk about sex". I love that girl!
How difficult would a "not for military use" licence be to write? How could it be defined so as to allow as broad as possible use without allowing the covered software to be used in the development or operation of military equipment/operations? While many multinationals which do important work which we might like to see use our code for good purposes also do work for the military. Would there be a way to ensure that they could still use it for purposes we approve of (medical/scientific research and devices)? How do we disallow use by and for the military/espionage while still allowing the "white hats" (doctors, teachers, etc...) use? Is there a legally binding description anywhere (U.N., U.S. law) of what military technology is? Obviously, such a licence wouldnät be for everyone (it shouldn't be in the GPL), but for those who want it, could it be an additional licence/extension in addition to the GPL? not easy, but I know I'd use it if it was available. And obviously, if you didn't want to use it, you wouldn't have to, so please understand I'm not trying to start a debate on whether *you* should support the military. I only want to explore the option of not supporting it for those who so choose. Onnel
No, it's more a signifier that different problems need different solutions. If all you have is a hammer, everything may look like a nail, but if you know c++, perl, php, java and a few others, your toolbox will contain an appropriate solution for a broad range of problems. I write my games in c++, my websites in php and my text parsing utilities in php. Java and python also serve their niches. Anyone who believes that a single language is the best solution to all of the broad range of problems faced by programmers is sorely mistaken. Onnel
Actually, it was originally designed for Egypt to commemorate the opening of the Suez Canal...
History of the Statue of Liberty
they may eat, but they don't swallow...
I have a small travel site, mainly just a DB of entries for the places I've visited. What I really want is for every entry to have values in two categories: location and type (restaurant, nightlife, hotel, sight, etc...). I haven't found a system yet that will let me define different attributes (location, type) and sort/search by those. Someone should easily be able to see all entries for hotels in Budapest or for all hotels in the world. Any suggestions? I've currently got it up and runnong on Wordpress, but it really doesn't have the flexibility I want (right now I define categories for each location and sub categories for every type...less than ideal!). Onnel
You're right, they were looking for U.S. missle silos...strangely portable ones called submarines. there's a very good reason they were/are snooping the oceans!
Onnel
Actually, GPL (Grand Prix Legends) is/was such a success exactly because the game engine itself could not easily be modified. sure you can add graphics and new tracks, but the physics engine itself and the characteristics of the car are just about unhackable (engines can be swapped in to different chassis, but that's as far as it goes).
What this has lead to (combined with the amazing network code that Sierra wrote) is a very competitive online atmosphere even 4 years later. 180 degrees from counterstrike, there is no worrying about cheats or hacking..just VERY competitive racing. It probably helps that learning to drive the sim is overwhelming and won't appeal to your aver 12 year old.
Wheil the game has many add ons, new tracks and anlyzing tools written by third parties, the core engine hasn't been hacked and this is a big part of the success.
It is an interesting comparison to the usual story which is mod-able == successful.
As an interesting aside, check out www.racer.nl for an open source racing game made to be 100% mod-able (including totally customized vehicle creation with up to 10 wheels!).
Now I gotta go race (www.vroc.com)!
Onnel
I guess I should learn not to feed the trolls.
you're black, I guess....
Lots of info on this school that teaches such things as torture (they even have a published manual for it!) at different sites. Some are out there liberal, but there is a lot of hard evidence available to anyone that wants it. Try here.
So don't be surprised when you hear that terrorists are trained in the USA! apparently, someone who may have been involved in the WTC attack was even trained at U.S. military schools. I guess that's only fair considering the groups we back have killed far more innocents than died in the attacks. Not trying to belittle the loss in the U.S., just pointing out that the hate we spread sometimes comes home to roost. would that it could end everywhere!
Even that isn't truly safe, is it? Isn't the public key you're typing in still going to be stored somewhere on your local machine at least temporarily? Is it going to be cached? I honestly don't know and am certainly not an expert on how programs using PGP deal with the public key being input, but are they careful enough to not store it anywhere locally (outside of RAM while it's being initally processed, obviously)? And of course, typing your key in by hand won't stop a keyboard logger for a second...
I'm really surprised no one has thought of putting this in terms that matter to (average? normal? hick?) Americans.
Sklyarov produced a tool. People might do bad things with this tool, so the tool is illegal and Sklyarov is in jail. Let's carry this analogy over to, oh say, guns! They are tools that can do a great deal more damage than anything any of us software engineers (assuming we don't work for a defense contractor) are likely to do. By the very logic behind the DMCA, America is opening itself up to a law to outlaw guns (let's not mention cars or lots of other things in the name of staying focused).
What better way to get "real" Americans and certainly all of the Republicans to back Sklyarov and tear down the DMCA!
Having said that, we all know the reason the U.S. has a law banning the creation of software tools which might do something bad and not a law against guns is because of money plain and simple.
It is for many reasons like this that I no longer live in the United States (although I miss many things about it...cheap, high quality sushi anyone?).
When I first told my (relatively non-technophile) wife about the whole DMCA thing and especially about a Russian being one of the first people prosecuted with it, she shook her head and said, "See honey, that's why we left."
Onnel