2) The meaning of derivative work will not be broadened to include software created by linking to library programs that were designed and intended to be used as library programs. When a company releases a scientific subroutine library, or a library of objects, for example, people who merely use the library, unmodified, perhaps without even looking at the source code, are not thereby creating derivative works of the library.
Ok, cool. But doesn't the GPL also prohibit linking to proprietary programs under most (all?) circumstances? If I want some big company to use my libraries, I'll release them under LGPL which doesn't have this provision. Musicmatch Jukebox links to Lame, an LGPL library. I don't know that anyone ever implied that linking did create a derivative work. But it's still illegal if I link a proprietary program to a GPL library.
Although I will concede that the PPC has lagged behind x86 in overall speed (not by too much), there is one area that the PPC destroys the x86, Power consumption.
Now to a desktop user, power consumtion is not a very big deal, one loud fan takes care of it. But in laptops we see where the PPC shines. My 500Mhz ibook gets equal performance to a Sony Viao PIII 900 and about 2 hours more battery life (provided I'm not spinning the DVD drive). It is also way more compact because cooling is less an issue.
Don't get me wrong, performance is a big deal. And Motorola has should have kept up on PPC performance better. But the PPC has not lagged that much, and on a laptop scale I think the PPC is an overall better platform.
That's pretty odd. But I guess this would be another good example of what's not trademark infringement. Being that Linux, the kernel for an operating system, and Linux the (German?) i guess soap, are two completely different types of products.
Let's just hope for sanity's sake that this soap company doesn't make any software, or my head will soon explode.
Of course, as this is said time and time again. Windows is and has always been a generic term describing a window renderer or window manager. (i.e. Xwindows, Window Maker, IceWM, and Microsoft Windows)
Neither Linux nor Minix is by any means a generic term. Maybe ATT could have gotten upset by the use of this term when they owned UNIX but that's stretching it too. (Don't know the exact history here.)
This case, IMHO is the equivilant to me naming my motherboards that I produce. "Motherboard". I then take a dominance to the market. Some upstart comes along and names their motherboards "Otherboard" and I get all pissed off. Would I have the right to get pissed off? The term motherboard existed long before I came around.
I also have no sympathy for the "Soap" detergent company.
Price of the media was a factor for sure. Third parties would not get the profit margin they wanted. And true everyone wanted pre-rendered video. It was new and they wanted to play.
But I notice that pre-rendered video is going away in video games. I think nintendo was right on the pre-rendered video thing. It pulls you out of the game, instead of keeping you immersed in it.
I don't think that capacity of the media had anything to do with how long games were back then. FF7 could have easily fit on to one disk, or hell even an N64 cartrige if it weren't for all those cut scenes. But they just had to put 10 minutes of uncompressed video into every disk.
Oh well, I'm on a rant. I think the N64 was a great system, and the choice to not move from a cartrige system was well founded at the time. Load times on a 2x cdrom sucked. (-1 Offtopic here I come.)
A good example of the failure of mips is to look at the nintendo64, a video game system developed which uses a mips processor. It was so slow and underpowered that the playstation, which has been out for 2 years before the n64, still had better and smoother graphics. The n64 should have been the final nail in sgi's coffin.
For a minute I thought you might know what you are talking about. After reading this I see you do not. The Playstation had worse texture support, fewer polygons per second, and zero anti-aliasing. The N64 destroyed the Playstation in harware performance. The reason the Playstation sold more units and took popularity was quantity of games. Not quality of graphics (or games over-all IMHO). Play the two consoles side by side.
On another note, I'm not even going to begin to comment on your thoughts on clock speed etc. I'm sure everyone else will flame you over the whole Megahertz Myth®.
When I think of all of the worthy charities that help the less-fortunate, the idea of a bunch of self-indulgent computer programmers taking advantage of our tax code like this is revolting.
Ok.... where do I start? First off, what makes you think that the GNOME project, or any free software project does not help the less fortunate. The GNOME project, along with the rest of GNU, is constantly being deployed in less developed countries. This helps provide education on computer use and programming skills to people who otherwise couldn't afford the expensive software. The fact of the matter is education is the key to break out of poverty. GNOME, as part of GNU provides this.
How the hell is any free software project self-indulgent? Maybe the feeling of skill and greatness when you submit a patch for a bug fix, but self-indulgent what are you talking about? These "self-indulgent" programmers provided me with a desktop environment, and I have scarcely given a thing back.(sorry I'm poor too.)
The people who make the GNOME project possible don't see a return short of feeding themselves, just like the Salvation Army, or the American Cancer Society. They clear their overhead and donate their product and services to anyone who needs them, just like any legitimate charity.
No, the sign "No shirt, No shirt, No service" is not a law in all places. When was the last time you went to Daytona Beach? Sorry for the metaphor but that was the best way to put into the perspective that sometimes one does not have to sign noterize and witness before God an agreement that can be settled by a notice such as a sign.
By the way, if metaphors had no place in deciding law, then how would the legalities of new technologies be determined?
I expected to see people raving about how much crap Nintendo games are. They're kiddy games etc. Thankfully few people have chimed in with that garbage.
People make fun of me for owning a Gamecube. Why would I play a bunch of goofy little kids games? I say, since when did I need to play video games to feel grown up? I can go down a couple blocks to the bad part of town, or watch the news to see violence and war. I want to get away from that for a little while.
If I put up a sign at the front of my store saying "No Shirt No Shoes No Service" It is understood that a term of using my store is wearing a shirt and shoes. If you don't abide by my terms, I can refuse you service. We didn't sign an agreement. I hardly see how this is different. (That is, in general principles for all you nitpickers out there.)
I mean, come on, they have access to all your information in case of need anyway. They can already subpoena banks, airlines, get your criminal records etc...
They can do this. You are correct. But this requires concent of something called a "judge". I like to think of this "judge" as an impartial third party with little interest besides the law. Under the TIA, they won't need a judge, they can just access all your information and profile you.
Having information accessible to governments is not a problem unless you're naughty.
Ok... let's throw up a for instance. You make a large cash withdrawl to loan a friend money for rent. You have to do this every couple of months he's kind of down on his luck. Now you go to the book store to purchase a book for your English class, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. A couple months later you move to Chicago, so you buy a one way plane ticket. No big deal, you are not doing anything wrong.
Now, do the same things, for the same reasons, being a 26 year old Middle Eastern Male...... Now you have the FBI NSA ATF etc. grilling you. But you weren't being "naughty." just "Middle Eastern."
If you seriously think that a central repository of information about you is so much worse than the chance of it doing good by catching criminals or terrorists, I personally think you're a dumbass.
I am just trying to help you see the flaws in your logic. You are entitled to that opinion. Just as I am entitled to the opinion that if you seriously think a central repository of information will do so much good in catching terrorists, that you would waive your right to privacy and proper searches, I personally think you're a coward.
I suppose I should rephrase my statements. Is it possible... In theory. However, I suspect that it is more complicated than that. Were talking about a whole metric butt ton of different radios. How do they know which uses a sum freq and which uses a diff. freq to derive the IF? And I guess given the spectrum they could figure the result with either.
I guess I just find it hard to buy that a billboard would have a receiver so sensitive just for advertising. I know there are some Air Force planes that do figure what freq. the enemy is listening to.
The circuit you cite is has diodes, but they are not exactly for rectification in the traditional sense. However, after I did further research I found an older detection method called a slope detector. The slope detector simply converts FM to AM and does AM detection in the traditional method using rectifiers.
As far as shielding goes, I know you can block your LO from escaping, as other replies have stated there is something called TEMPEST (shielding against the transient emissions to which you refer) Encase your radio in a copper mesh and viola`. Now I know some feed back may bleed out your receive antenna, but the effect is drasticly reduced. (I suspect so little will bleed out due to VSWR problems.)
And acctually the Navy uses FM at times. Usually in the UHF and microwave range. But mostly its single sideband for HF. The reason is not TEMPEST. (SSB acctually requires more oscillators.) The reason is spectrum usage.
Finnally, I apologize for the harshness of my reply. You seemed to oversimplify things so much that I thought you were talking out your ass after physics 101. Please accept this appology in that I concede it is possible to read your station, I just don't think it's likely. But I still maintain that you could shield from it very effectively.
-ET2
So you're trying to tell me the billboard has a receiver so sensitive to pick up on the internal oscillator in my car radio. Not only will it pick up on this EXTREMELY low level signal, past all the noise and crap in the air, it will take an aggregate of all the cars in the area and figure the most listened to station.
No... First off your method of demodulating an FM signal is all wrong. You got the first stage right. The RF is broken down into an intermediate frequency (IF) by mixing it with a locally generated signal. But then you are all wrong. The IF is not rectified and filtered in an FM receiver. That is for AM.
In FM, the IF is run past a discriminator circuit. A change in frequency is interpreted as a change in amplitude and thus produces the audio.
Finally, even if they did have a receiver that was able to pick up the signal on my local oscillator, en-casing the radio chassis in copper shielding would then definitely keep the oscillator signal inside WITHOUT blocking the signal on the air. That's why you have an antenna.
If it was so easy to tell what radio frequency one was listening to, what would I (as a member of the US Navy) do? The enemy would know what frequencies we were listening to. That would get them one step closer to breaking our encryption and listening to our messages.
The problem is not simply being shipped overseas. The PCs are being shipped overseas to be recycled. Recycling of paper, metal, and obviously PCs is not a clean process. Hazardous wastes are produced and such. But, when regulated properly, it is cleaner than pulling up virgin resources. These recycling facilities in China are obviously not being regulated properly.
Despite what you may have been taught in grade school, we can't just recycle our all resources and all our problems will go away. We have to re-use our components as well, that produces no waste.
Look, I am in the Navy. So are these midshipmen. In the Navy you don't have the freedom to privacy or search and seizure without due process. A search warrant can be superseded by a commanding officer, no judge required.
Further, this sharing is on the Navy's computer network. I will almost guarantee they were briefed on the acceptable network uses.
The fact is, as a member of the armed services, your civil rights are waived by simply serving.
Everyone is saying, 1. "Why?" 2. "What's wrong with X?" 3. "It looks like crap."
Nobody realizes the answers are easy. 1. Why not? They want a better, simpler windowing environment. 2. Read the page. There are performance issues, resolution issues, and network issues. They also hope to add an X compatibilty layer at some point. 3. It's not done, not by a longshot.
Frankly, a rival project is a good thing. Good luck to Fresco for doing something that no one else dares, writing what could turn in to an X substitue.
It really doesn't matter who they get for an OSS rep. The fact of the matter is any reasonably OSS experienced IT professional can make a strong argument for OSS. It takes a marketing pro to make a good argument for MS.
And there goes that lack of bias I was trying to have on this subject.
It seems that a lot of people are wondering why MS is on this evaluation board. I am by no means a fan of Microsoft, but has the very name come to immediately spawn that much distrust in anyone who even hears them out?
The reason MS is on the board is simple. As it says in the article, Japan doesn't want to base their (potential) migration on hearsay. Simply put, they want to hear both sides of the story. I know a lot of us have heard the MS side of the story and dismissed it as garbage, but not everyone has.
Why do so many of us critisize somebody for trying to objectively attack a subject like this?
Although I know the situation is different for a corporate environment. (I am in the US Navy.) But we run into similar problems constantly. The rotation at my station is between 18-30 months. So, as you can imagine, a lot of local knowlege gets lost with transfers. We would have to e-mail someone at their new command at least once a month. They were the only one who would know how to fix a certain problem.
Finnally, my new boss, got fed up with this. We changed the policy on transfering. Everyone has a mandatory two month turnover on their knowlege. This is coupled with a massive cross-training policy.
The result, everyone knows everything, no knowlege gets lost.
The point to my rant is that the company should have never let you go with out a proper turnover, and if you charge an outrageous fee for your freelance support, that's what they deserve for their lack of planning. Maybe next time they'll let someone else go, not their better techs.
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Although I will concede that the PPC has lagged behind x86 in overall speed (not by too much), there is one area that the PPC destroys the x86, Power consumption.
Now to a desktop user, power consumtion is not a very big deal, one loud fan takes care of it. But in laptops we see where the PPC shines. My 500Mhz ibook gets equal performance to a Sony Viao PIII 900 and about 2 hours more battery life (provided I'm not spinning the DVD drive). It is also way more compact because cooling is less an issue.
Don't get me wrong, performance is a big deal. And Motorola has should have kept up on PPC performance better. But the PPC has not lagged that much, and on a laptop scale I think the PPC is an overall better platform.
That's pretty odd. But I guess this would be another good example of what's not trademark infringement. Being that Linux, the kernel for an operating system, and Linux the (German?) i guess soap, are two completely different types of products.
Let's just hope for sanity's sake that this soap company doesn't make any software, or my head will soon explode.
Of course, as this is said time and time again. Windows is and has always been a generic term describing a window renderer or window manager. (i.e. Xwindows, Window Maker, IceWM, and Microsoft Windows)
Neither Linux nor Minix is by any means a generic term. Maybe ATT could have gotten upset by the use of this term when they owned UNIX but that's stretching it too. (Don't know the exact history here.)
This case, IMHO is the equivilant to me naming my motherboards that I produce. "Motherboard". I then take a dominance to the market. Some upstart comes along and names their motherboards "Otherboard" and I get all pissed off. Would I have the right to get pissed off? The term motherboard existed long before I came around.
I also have no sympathy for the "Soap" detergent company.
Price of the media was a factor for sure. Third parties would not get the profit margin they wanted. And true everyone wanted pre-rendered video. It was new and they wanted to play.
But I notice that pre-rendered video is going away in video games. I think nintendo was right on the pre-rendered video thing. It pulls you out of the game, instead of keeping you immersed in it.
I don't think that capacity of the media had anything to do with how long games were back then. FF7 could have easily fit on to one disk, or hell even an N64 cartrige if it weren't for all those cut scenes. But they just had to put 10 minutes of uncompressed video into every disk.
Oh well, I'm on a rant. I think the N64 was a great system, and the choice to not move from a cartrige system was well founded at the time. Load times on a 2x cdrom sucked. (-1 Offtopic here I come.)
I figured they more than likely did. I think you missed the point. It wasn't very funny anyhow.
The R16000 has Out-of-order instruction execution? Sweet! So what was SGI's plan when they made this?
1.???
2.Profit!
3.Build new processor.
On another note, I'm not even going to begin to comment on your thoughts on clock speed etc. I'm sure everyone else will flame you over the whole Megahertz Myth®.
Ok.... where do I start? First off, what makes you think that the GNOME project, or any free software project does not help the less fortunate. The GNOME project, along with the rest of GNU, is constantly being deployed in less developed countries. This helps provide education on computer use and programming skills to people who otherwise couldn't afford the expensive software. The fact of the matter is education is the key to break out of poverty. GNOME, as part of GNU provides this.
How the hell is any free software project self-indulgent? Maybe the feeling of skill and greatness when you submit a patch for a bug fix, but self-indulgent what are you talking about? These "self-indulgent" programmers provided me with a desktop environment, and I have scarcely given a thing back.(sorry I'm poor too.)
The people who make the GNOME project possible don't see a return short of feeding themselves, just like the Salvation Army, or the American Cancer Society. They clear their overhead and donate their product and services to anyone who needs them, just like any legitimate charity.
No, the sign "No shirt, No shirt, No service" is not a law in all places. When was the last time you went to Daytona Beach?
Sorry for the metaphor but that was the best way to put into the perspective that sometimes one does not have to sign noterize and witness before God an agreement that can be settled by a notice such as a sign.
By the way, if metaphors had no place in deciding law, then how would the legalities of new technologies be determined?
I expected to see people raving about how much crap Nintendo games are. They're kiddy games etc. Thankfully few people have chimed in with that garbage.
People make fun of me for owning a Gamecube. Why would I play a bunch of goofy little kids games? I say, since when did I need to play video games to feel grown up? I can go down a couple blocks to the bad part of town, or watch the news to see violence and war. I want to get away from that for a little while.
If I put up a sign at the front of my store saying "No Shirt No Shoes No Service" It is understood that a term of using my store is wearing a shirt and shoes. If you don't abide by my terms, I can refuse you service. We didn't sign an agreement. I hardly see how this is different. (That is, in general principles for all you nitpickers out there.)
They can do this. You are correct. But this requires concent of something called a "judge". I like to think of this "judge" as an impartial third party with little interest besides the law. Under the TIA, they won't need a judge, they can just access all your information and profile you.
Ok... let's throw up a for instance. You make a large cash withdrawl to loan a friend money for rent. You have to do this every couple of months he's kind of down on his luck. Now you go to the book store to purchase a book for your English class, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. A couple months later you move to Chicago, so you buy a one way plane ticket. No big deal, you are not doing anything wrong.
Now, do the same things, for the same reasons, being a 26 year old Middle Eastern Male...... Now you have the FBI NSA ATF etc. grilling you. But you weren't being "naughty." just "Middle Eastern."
I am just trying to help you see the flaws in your logic. You are entitled to that opinion. Just as I am entitled to the opinion that if you seriously think a central repository of information will do so much good in catching terrorists, that you would waive your right to privacy and proper searches, I personally think you're a coward.
Oh yea, well you are a vestisio.... See, I can make up words too.
Sorry for the formatting on my last reply. I mistekenly posted HTML, I wanted text. I just got off work, bad day. Sorry for the eyesore.
I suppose I should rephrase my statements. Is it possible... In theory. However, I suspect that it is more complicated than that. Were talking about a whole metric butt ton of different radios. How do they know which uses a sum freq and which uses a diff. freq to derive the IF? And I guess given the spectrum they could figure the result with either. I guess I just find it hard to buy that a billboard would have a receiver so sensitive just for advertising. I know there are some Air Force planes that do figure what freq. the enemy is listening to. The circuit you cite is has diodes, but they are not exactly for rectification in the traditional sense. However, after I did further research I found an older detection method called a slope detector. The slope detector simply converts FM to AM and does AM detection in the traditional method using rectifiers. As far as shielding goes, I know you can block your LO from escaping, as other replies have stated there is something called TEMPEST (shielding against the transient emissions to which you refer) Encase your radio in a copper mesh and viola`. Now I know some feed back may bleed out your receive antenna, but the effect is drasticly reduced. (I suspect so little will bleed out due to VSWR problems.) And acctually the Navy uses FM at times. Usually in the UHF and microwave range. But mostly its single sideband for HF. The reason is not TEMPEST. (SSB acctually requires more oscillators.) The reason is spectrum usage. Finnally, I apologize for the harshness of my reply. You seemed to oversimplify things so much that I thought you were talking out your ass after physics 101. Please accept this appology in that I concede it is possible to read your station, I just don't think it's likely. But I still maintain that you could shield from it very effectively. -ET2
So you're trying to tell me the billboard has a receiver so sensitive to pick up on the internal oscillator in my car radio. Not only will it pick up on this EXTREMELY low level signal, past all the noise and crap in the air, it will take an aggregate of all the cars in the area and figure the most listened to station.
No... First off your method of demodulating an FM signal is all wrong. You got the first stage right. The RF is broken down into an intermediate frequency (IF) by mixing it with a locally generated signal. But then you are all wrong. The IF is not rectified and filtered in an FM receiver. That is for AM.
In FM, the IF is run past a discriminator circuit. A change in frequency is interpreted as a change in amplitude and thus produces the audio.
Finally, even if they did have a receiver that was able to pick up the signal on my local oscillator, en-casing the radio chassis in copper shielding would then definitely keep the oscillator signal inside WITHOUT blocking the signal on the air. That's why you have an antenna.
If it was so easy to tell what radio frequency one was listening to, what would I (as a member of the US Navy) do? The enemy would know what frequencies we were listening to. That would get them one step closer to breaking our encryption and listening to our messages.
Next time do a little research before posting.
The problem is not simply being shipped overseas. The PCs are being shipped overseas to be recycled. Recycling of paper, metal, and obviously PCs is not a clean process. Hazardous wastes are produced and such. But, when regulated properly, it is cleaner than pulling up virgin resources. These recycling facilities in China are obviously not being regulated properly.
Despite what you may have been taught in grade school, we can't just recycle our all resources and all our problems will go away. We have to re-use our components as well, that produces no waste.
Look, I am in the Navy. So are these midshipmen. In the Navy you don't have the freedom to privacy or search and seizure without due process. A search warrant can be superseded by a commanding officer, no judge required.
Further, this sharing is on the Navy's computer network. I will almost guarantee they were briefed on the acceptable network uses.
The fact is, as a member of the armed services, your civil rights are waived by simply serving.
Everyone is saying,
1. "Why?"
2. "What's wrong with X?"
3. "It looks like crap."
Nobody realizes the answers are easy.
1. Why not? They want a better, simpler windowing environment.
2. Read the page. There are performance issues, resolution issues, and network issues. They also hope to add an X compatibilty layer at some point.
3. It's not done, not by a longshot.
Frankly, a rival project is a good thing. Good luck to Fresco for doing something that no one else dares, writing what could turn in to an X substitue.
"Give me back my code!"
It really doesn't matter who they get for an OSS rep. The fact of the matter is any reasonably OSS experienced IT professional can make a strong argument for OSS. It takes a marketing pro to make a good argument for MS.
And there goes that lack of bias I was trying to have on this subject.
It seems that a lot of people are wondering why MS is on this evaluation board. I am by no means a fan of Microsoft, but has the very name come to immediately spawn that much distrust in anyone who even hears them out?
The reason MS is on the board is simple. As it says in the article, Japan doesn't want to base their (potential) migration on hearsay. Simply put, they want to hear both sides of the story. I know a lot of us have heard the MS side of the story and dismissed it as garbage, but not everyone has.
Why do so many of us critisize somebody for trying to objectively attack a subject like this?
Although I know the situation is different for a corporate environment. (I am in the US Navy.) But we run into similar problems constantly. The rotation at my station is between 18-30 months. So, as you can imagine, a lot of local knowlege gets lost with transfers. We would have to e-mail someone at their new command at least once a month. They were the only one who would know how to fix a certain problem.
Finnally, my new boss, got fed up with this. We changed the policy on transfering. Everyone has a mandatory two month turnover on their knowlege. This is coupled with a massive cross-training policy.
The result, everyone knows everything, no knowlege gets lost.
The point to my rant is that the company should have never let you go with out a proper turnover, and if you charge an outrageous fee for your freelance support, that's what they deserve for their lack of planning. Maybe next time they'll let someone else go, not their better techs.
Insert joke about tinfoil hat here