it's that the landscape has changed drastically since 1991. Companies got the DMCA thru which says legally if I put a password on something to "protect" content, you can't crack it... or tell people how. So companies immediately began using GPL source code but "encrypting" the binaries so YOU couldn't run the code..and they could legally sue you for it... that's a big change. Also, the patent clause has been in GPL2 but the wording was not enough. SCO and Microsoft were coming in making deals to allow infringement and "not to sue" companies (but not give them an actual patent license that would apply to the GPL work) for using OTHER people's GPL code, but they can't legally pass on the GPL code to other people! GPL3 was beefed up to "sink or swim" to remove that loophole.
it's the web apps clause that allows required links to "credits" pages including source code if the author chooses. That feature is MORE copyleft, but removes their need to create a custom license simply to get proper credit and ensure other companies are using their code correctly (as they provide non-free versions also)
probably because the GPL3 adds a clause for web services that are GPLd to have a link back to source. If the author includes that, it's not supposed to be removed, so things like CRM are more in line with what the private licenses were trying to do.. keep people from rebranding their source code services and taking all the credit. Now that they can require re-users to link to the source for web apps, they can use a less restrictive license. Like every body else, they want CREDIT for their free product and that it can't be used against them without telling the customers.. GPL3 does that.
Dell has something the community doesn't have... sales orders for chips!! If Dell wants drivers they stand a good chance in getting them. They just started building AMD systems and bundling ATI chipsets is a key part of the sales pitch. Hopefully several hundred thousand computers will be enough to get the ball rolling!!!
but corporation "IP" assets are almost ALWAYS sold to another corporation... so somebody "owns" these if you looked really closely but the "owners" don't usually know it... until somebody like EA buys them up at fire sale to sue every body over. So yes, the myth of abandonware is EXACTLY what that witty tag says.. These works have "died" before they expire and there's nothing legally you can do about it. I do believe the copyright office is making some attempt to poke a hole in the situation, but not much... especially now that everybody has downloadable content (using Open source emulators for the "illegal" Roms no less!!!) But the irony of collectors being the only people that "own" a version of the work is lost on the copyright office.
I don't view Asperger's as a biological "problem" as much as a social problem. I think it goes in-hand with ADD/ADHD. But it's not biology's fault, our society has just changed too rapidly to being paranoid, home-bound suburb folk.
if you look at what was the type of person that would have strong beliefs to strike out on their own travel 1,000 miles and start a farm from scratch with no supermarkets or hardware stores, the ability of a child to grow up bouncing around helping out, learning little bits of 100 different things a day (ADHD) is a necessary survival feature. The "hunter-gatherer" mindset. It would also explain the Asperger's, as the ability to spend large amounts of time, basically alone, working fields tending animals was more important(and later craftsmen and tradesmen that lived in their little corner of small towns), and those more social oriented simply couldn't stand the farm and moved away... leading to some genetic stratification. 50 years ago it simply wasn't as important to be as socially mobile... let alone 100 years ago...
I would say that it's always existed in grumpy old men, but not until we've tried to push children into a specific mold that we're starting to see biology outright rebel against our social "order"... or what a small class think it should be. Realize children get less free time to wiggle in school than any adult job... tell me you can sit at your desk and work 6.5 hours a day with only 45 minutes of break time... including time to eat and play, but we expect it of 5-10 year olds!!! Think about that an how many kids really need to be medicated?
That is why GW is still in the White House and the whole thing is fucked up in a nutshell. Our court system is purely adversarial. You can't sue Microsoft for illegal business practice because the practices are all "secret contracts", you can't stop the President from making illegal executive orders and illegally imprisoning and torturing people because "you" aren't being tortured. You can't sue for being spied on because the orders are "secret" so nobody can prove "they" were harmmed... it's crap.
As these justices will soon see, the reason the courts are so "liberal" is that they can only act upon what manages to get to them..no matter how much despicable stuff is going on. and as Bush has shown, many prosecutors are increasingly clever to collude with lower courts to keep important cases from ever being tried... Note that Bush has released his suspected "terrorists" just before their court date to keep them out of court so they court can't rule. That's an extreme case, but it happens more and more. That's why when they put smack down whenever they get the chance.
it's not what you breathe that's the problem.. but the fact that anything that BURNS (wood, coal, oil, natural gas, gasoline, etc) gives off 100x what you breathe per unit of time. That 15 gallon tank of gas turns almost entirely into carbon dioxide... that would be enough "air" for a person for weeks. Then account for the lack of green things to turn the CO2 back into O2 and it gets worse.
and how much on "Google in a box" projects to make portable mini Googles? To put at the end of the dark fiber? and attach to wireless antennae.
The one thing Google needs to make this work is "universal" wireless access. They'd like to simply buy 1 channel (bonus points for 2 next to each other) across the entire USA... then they could let their PHDs lay out a neat, clean spec. Google would be willing to let a bunch of companies compete for devices on this network... as long as they support Google ads... it's a win-win for users, businesses, Google... not so much for the phone/wireless/cable companies right now. It's too bad the FCC can't think in this manner...or worse, they're going to pander to those who "follow the rules" by gross brown-nosing rather than actually open up to some new inventions... and this will hurt the USA for the next 20 years!!!
That would seem what the state should be doing... fine the casino ANOTHER $500,000 for putting faulty or mis-tested machines into production. After all, who reports when the errors are in the Casino's favor? After all, that's how they make their money from user error. Seems like a double standard and the state should be taking the "tough luck" route with the casino.
the arrangement of bits in the file and the algorithm to make a movie/music out of them is patented... ALL versions that read the codex are breaking patent restrictions. There's no fair use in the patent realm.
I knew about ACC, but I though H.264 was like MP3 with "submarines" all over the place. Much like MP3 originally was part of an open standard group, but clever companies withdrew their patents from the pool after the sharing was agreed so they could get more royalties... and it's happened AGAIN in the case of mp3. Ogg's formats were patented and officially granted to the program writers.. so it's 100% legal. If Apple would put it on iPods we'd be all set for a universal format. The source code is even BSD based for just such a purpose.. there's no legal reason not to include the format.
of course those who used Internet Explorer with Eloas Patants or the Access/Excel combination were also using "illegal" software that was not licensed from the patent holder... but nobody brings that up or the pundits would be on the front lines against software patents.
The reason they put that statement in there is because Ubuntu in particular is a South African distro.. many silly IP laws don't apply there, so they don't have to follow them. In all cases, the code has clean copyright, but other countries don't have silly anti-reverse engineering rules, DMCA, or software patents at all. They do this to show how much freedom you DON'T have that the authors of the product do!!! The other thing of course is to push for patent free formats (OGG vorbis *& theora, FLAC), just like EULA free software! but the author misses this point!
That's a bad example because a user wouldn't know about details like that, they would stick to the repos or what was appropriately packaged. Doing things differently is not bad... for a matter of fact it's great. It's what keeps viruses and hackers from getting in... there's no 1 secret shot that can take them all out. The small deliberate differences do have valid reasons, but the biggest is diversity. It's good to do things slightly different to see what works. For instance how Gnome and KDE go back and forth each "wins" a round and each "concedes", but the ecosystem wins for allowing the differences to happen in the first place.
distros now have FEWER cores than back then. If you really look at the list there are only a few groups. Red Hat (and off-brand clones), Suse (all by itself, but RPM), Mandrake (all by itself but RPM, funny these are old), Slackware (and it's spin offs), the fringe like Gentoo (left field), and a whole bunch of Debian spin-offs. The majority of the list is Debian or Slackware spin-offs...
The question not asked is how portable is the DATA and can you get the same programs on these distros? If the data is highly portable, then you don't need much compatibility in programs... but the code is open and in most cases programs packaged correctly will work on a big number of distros.. if they're not included.
The Unix fragmentation was akin to the old Red Hat, Caldera, Suse devide of years ago... note that while they SELL big numbers, the hobbiests typically don't use them, 1 is dead and 1 is dying. The fastest growing ones are the truly open distros that anybody can re-spin to suit their needs. They come and go like fashion, but the lessons learned stick around. Ubuntu was originally User Linux a Knoppix re-spin... and the cycle repeats.
also remember they created that "triangle" based color optical code for Xbox cameras. that would be related. The camera reads the device code thru the table surface. They also are using IR cameras to measure "finger pressure" on the surface. It's quite clever. In some ways much cheaper because the surface is "just" a sheet of glass, not a special electrical surface... easily replaceable in commercial environs. The processor overhead is way too much though...
except that this implementation of "mult-touch" uses standard hardware on the market...attached to Open source X server that he had already modified to handle extra keyboards an mice in one application space. He just built "one more piece" to make fingers work. I believe he has emulated what the other guys do quite nicely with standard components...and obviously no access to the software or hardware used by the other guys.. that is more interesting. Open source apps can be converted relatively easily to adjust to new paradigms. Closed source can't.
In a day of environmental laws why is ANYTHING allowed to be dumped in a river or lake? Most companies have to control pollution from rain water run-off that might be contaminated by TOUCHING used metal or oil materials, or from even spills of material like auto shops or gas stations. How are companies getting away with actually DUMPING stuff in any body of water at all? I'm sure the other Great Lake states can nip this because there are lake-wide pacts between states that touch the lakes not to do this kind of stuff.
google won't bid unless they can get "lots" of channels across the country. If they're biding say 20 channels per market, Google would like the FCC to make 3-4 channels have a franchise across ALL the markets. For example then gooogle would bid on the lot of "channel 1" in every market at once. Google is interested in devices, not "phone" that scares the bejeebers out of the phone companies.
Google also wants provisions for national "open" channels if they can't get a nationwide one. That way a group of small people could buy them up for a "community" network and be able to mass-market devices without corporate interference. In effect Google is asking for what would amount to "wireless internet". It's right there, the FCC could create a wireless, pervasive, on good frequencies with high end spread-spectrum like wireless "n" uses.. on a national scale! It's too bad this is all going on in board rooms, it could be the biggest public sector news story not being reported!
But Blendtec is doing a public service putting this on the internet so dozens of people don't have to attempt something really stupid. Now a site blowing plastic army guys up with M-80s would be cool!!! Or a site with "chemistry gone wrong" of all the chemistry experiments you're NOT supposed to do.. but are really cool!
I looked thru the site but has anything NOT blended? Those are some tough blenders, I did see one clip with a crowbar, but I didn't want to watch all the videos.
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it's that the landscape has changed drastically since 1991. Companies got the DMCA thru which says legally if I put a password on something to "protect" content, you can't crack it... or tell people how. So companies immediately began using GPL source code but "encrypting" the binaries so YOU couldn't run the code..and they could legally sue you for it... that's a big change. Also, the patent clause has been in GPL2 but the wording was not enough. SCO and Microsoft were coming in making deals to allow infringement and "not to sue" companies (but not give them an actual patent license that would apply to the GPL work) for using OTHER people's GPL code, but they can't legally pass on the GPL code to other people! GPL3 was beefed up to "sink or swim" to remove that loophole.
it's the web apps clause that allows required links to "credits" pages including source code if the author chooses. That feature is MORE copyleft, but removes their need to create a custom license simply to get proper credit and ensure other companies are using their code correctly (as they provide non-free versions also)
probably because the GPL3 adds a clause for web services that are GPLd to have a link back to source. If the author includes that, it's not supposed to be removed, so things like CRM are more in line with what the private licenses were trying to do.. keep people from rebranding their source code services and taking all the credit. Now that they can require re-users to link to the source for web apps, they can use a less restrictive license. Like every body else, they want CREDIT for their free product and that it can't be used against them without telling the customers.. GPL3 does that.
Dell has something the community doesn't have... sales orders for chips!! If Dell wants drivers they stand a good chance in getting them. They just started building AMD systems and bundling ATI chipsets is a key part of the sales pitch. Hopefully several hundred thousand computers will be enough to get the ball rolling!!!
but corporation "IP" assets are almost ALWAYS sold to another corporation... so somebody "owns" these if you looked really closely but the "owners" don't usually know it... until somebody like EA buys them up at fire sale to sue every body over. So yes, the myth of abandonware is EXACTLY what that witty tag says.. These works have "died" before they expire and there's nothing legally you can do about it. I do believe the copyright office is making some attempt to poke a hole in the situation, but not much... especially now that everybody has downloadable content (using Open source emulators for the "illegal" Roms no less!!!) But the irony of collectors being the only people that "own" a version of the work is lost on the copyright office.
I don't view Asperger's as a biological "problem" as much as a social problem. I think it goes in-hand with ADD/ADHD. But it's not biology's fault, our society has just changed too rapidly to being paranoid, home-bound suburb folk.
if you look at what was the type of person that would have strong beliefs to strike out on their own travel 1,000 miles and start a farm from scratch with no supermarkets or hardware stores, the ability of a child to grow up bouncing around helping out, learning little bits of 100 different things a day (ADHD) is a necessary survival feature. The "hunter-gatherer" mindset. It would also explain the Asperger's, as the ability to spend large amounts of time, basically alone, working fields tending animals was more important(and later craftsmen and tradesmen that lived in their little corner of small towns), and those more social oriented simply couldn't stand the farm and moved away... leading to some genetic stratification. 50 years ago it simply wasn't as important to be as socially mobile... let alone 100 years ago...
I would say that it's always existed in grumpy old men, but not until we've tried to push children into a specific mold that we're starting to see biology outright rebel against our social "order"... or what a small class think it should be. Realize children get less free time to wiggle in school than any adult job... tell me you can sit at your desk and work 6.5 hours a day with only 45 minutes of break time... including time to eat and play, but we expect it of 5-10 year olds!!! Think about that an how many kids really need to be medicated?
That is why GW is still in the White House and the whole thing is fucked up in a nutshell. Our court system is purely adversarial. You can't sue Microsoft for illegal business practice because the practices are all "secret contracts", you can't stop the President from making illegal executive orders and illegally imprisoning and torturing people because "you" aren't being tortured. You can't sue for being spied on because the orders are "secret" so nobody can prove "they" were harmmed... it's crap.
As these justices will soon see, the reason the courts are so "liberal" is that they can only act upon what manages to get to them..no matter how much despicable stuff is going on. and as Bush has shown, many prosecutors are increasingly clever to collude with lower courts to keep important cases from ever being tried... Note that Bush has released his suspected "terrorists" just before their court date to keep them out of court so they court can't rule. That's an extreme case, but it happens more and more. That's why when they put smack down whenever they get the chance.
it's not what you breathe that's the problem.. but the fact that anything that BURNS (wood, coal, oil, natural gas, gasoline, etc) gives off 100x what you breathe per unit of time. That 15 gallon tank of gas turns almost entirely into carbon dioxide... that would be enough "air" for a person for weeks. Then account for the lack of green things to turn the CO2 back into O2 and it gets worse.
and how much on "Google in a box" projects to make portable mini Googles? To put at the end of the dark fiber? and attach to wireless antennae.
The one thing Google needs to make this work is "universal" wireless access. They'd like to simply buy 1 channel (bonus points for 2 next to each other) across the entire USA... then they could let their PHDs lay out a neat, clean spec. Google would be willing to let a bunch of companies compete for devices on this network... as long as they support Google ads... it's a win-win for users, businesses, Google... not so much for the phone/wireless/cable companies right now. It's too bad the FCC can't think in this manner...or worse, they're going to pander to those who "follow the rules" by gross brown-nosing rather than actually open up to some new inventions... and this will hurt the USA for the next 20 years!!!
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That would seem what the state should be doing... fine the casino ANOTHER $500,000 for putting faulty or mis-tested machines into production. After all, who reports when the errors are in the Casino's favor? After all, that's how they make their money from user error. Seems like a double standard and the state should be taking the "tough luck" route with the casino.
the arrangement of bits in the file and the algorithm to make a movie/music out of them is patented... ALL versions that read the codex are breaking patent restrictions. There's no fair use in the patent realm.
I knew about ACC, but I though H.264 was like MP3 with "submarines" all over the place. Much like MP3 originally was part of an open standard group, but clever companies withdrew their patents from the pool after the sharing was agreed so they could get more royalties... and it's happened AGAIN in the case of mp3. Ogg's formats were patented and officially granted to the program writers.. so it's 100% legal. If Apple would put it on iPods we'd be all set for a universal format. The source code is even BSD based for just such a purpose.. there's no legal reason not to include the format.
of course those who used Internet Explorer with Eloas Patants or the Access/Excel combination were also using "illegal" software that was not licensed from the patent holder... but nobody brings that up or the pundits would be on the front lines against software patents.
The reason they put that statement in there is because Ubuntu in particular is a South African distro.. many silly IP laws don't apply there, so they don't have to follow them. In all cases, the code has clean copyright, but other countries don't have silly anti-reverse engineering rules, DMCA, or software patents at all. They do this to show how much freedom you DON'T have that the authors of the product do!!! The other thing of course is to push for patent free formats (OGG vorbis *& theora, FLAC), just like EULA free software! but the author misses this point!
That would be why they want this... so they can stick the middleman or retailer with product they can't move or legally discount.
That's a bad example because a user wouldn't know about details like that, they would stick to the repos or what was appropriately packaged. Doing things differently is not bad... for a matter of fact it's great. It's what keeps viruses and hackers from getting in... there's no 1 secret shot that can take them all out. The small deliberate differences do have valid reasons, but the biggest is diversity. It's good to do things slightly different to see what works. For instance how Gnome and KDE go back and forth each "wins" a round and each "concedes", but the ecosystem wins for allowing the differences to happen in the first place.
distros now have FEWER cores than back then. If you really look at the list there are only a few groups. Red Hat (and off-brand clones), Suse (all by itself, but RPM), Mandrake (all by itself but RPM, funny these are old), Slackware (and it's spin offs), the fringe like Gentoo (left field), and a whole bunch of Debian spin-offs. The majority of the list is Debian or Slackware spin-offs...
The question not asked is how portable is the DATA and can you get the same programs on these distros? If the data is highly portable, then you don't need much compatibility in programs... but the code is open and in most cases programs packaged correctly will work on a big number of distros.. if they're not included.
The Unix fragmentation was akin to the old Red Hat, Caldera, Suse devide of years ago... note that while they SELL big numbers, the hobbiests typically don't use them, 1 is dead and 1 is dying. The fastest growing ones are the truly open distros that anybody can re-spin to suit their needs. They come and go like fashion, but the lessons learned stick around. Ubuntu was originally User Linux a Knoppix re-spin... and the cycle repeats.
also remember they created that "triangle" based color optical code for Xbox cameras. that would be related. The camera reads the device code thru the table surface. They also are using IR cameras to measure "finger pressure" on the surface. It's quite clever. In some ways much cheaper because the surface is "just" a sheet of glass, not a special electrical surface... easily replaceable in commercial environs. The processor overhead is way too much though...
Lean manufacturing/office principals say you don't... store anything on table tops!
except that this implementation of "mult-touch" uses standard hardware on the market...attached to Open source X server that he had already modified to handle extra keyboards an mice in one application space. He just built "one more piece" to make fingers work. I believe he has emulated what the other guys do quite nicely with standard components...and obviously no access to the software or hardware used by the other guys.. that is more interesting. Open source apps can be converted relatively easily to adjust to new paradigms. Closed source can't.
In a day of environmental laws why is ANYTHING allowed to be dumped in a river or lake? Most companies have to control pollution from rain water run-off that might be contaminated by TOUCHING used metal or oil materials, or from even spills of material like auto shops or gas stations. How are companies getting away with actually DUMPING stuff in any body of water at all? I'm sure the other Great Lake states can nip this because there are lake-wide pacts between states that touch the lakes not to do this kind of stuff.
1 channel of nationwide wireless + dark fiber?
That's pretty scary for AT&T that Google could wipe out their business model in a few months!!
google won't bid unless they can get "lots" of channels across the country. If they're biding say 20 channels per market, Google would like the FCC to make 3-4 channels have a franchise across ALL the markets. For example then gooogle would bid on the lot of "channel 1" in every market at once. Google is interested in devices, not "phone" that scares the bejeebers out of the phone companies.
Google also wants provisions for national "open" channels if they can't get a nationwide one. That way a group of small people could buy them up for a "community" network and be able to mass-market devices without corporate interference. In effect Google is asking for what would amount to "wireless internet". It's right there, the FCC could create a wireless, pervasive, on good frequencies with high end spread-spectrum like wireless "n" uses.. on a national scale! It's too bad this is all going on in board rooms, it could be the biggest public sector news story not being reported!
But Blendtec is doing a public service putting this on the internet so dozens of people don't have to attempt something really stupid. Now a site blowing plastic army guys up with M-80s would be cool!!! Or a site with "chemistry gone wrong" of all the chemistry experiments you're NOT supposed to do.. but are really cool!
I looked thru the site but has anything NOT blended? Those are some tough blenders, I did see one clip with a crowbar, but I didn't want to watch all the videos.