The more times I read that clause the less sense it makes. It begins very straight forwardly, saying "Licensee may use, sell or give away the Cougaar Software or any Derivative Work...". Okay, so, fine: I can sell it. The last part is where the double-take happens: "If [insert conditions here] provided that Licensee does not charge for the Cougaar Software or Derivative Work." I don't get it. Can I sell it, or can't I?
Perhaps the intended limitation is that if one intends to stand behind one's work for a fee (i.e. "warranty of support") the liability must not be extended to include Cougaar? That still doesn't totally resolve the contradiction though.
"Entering Fraudulent information is against the law. If done so on this form you are now hereby notified that AOL will persecute, fine, and charge anybody trying to commit fraud with our accounts.
persecute:
To oppress or harass with ill-treatment, especially because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs.
Windows users can easily substitute their own Mozilla splash screen. According to an old FAQ, one need only save a copy of their desired image (any size) as mozilla.bmp in the same place as mozilla.exe.
Well, heck! If your keyboard has all those keys on it, why not use 'em for something?
For all you other card-carrying keyboard shortcut phanatics out there, here are some more things to do with that logo key. Microsoft actually has an entire KB article on, well, KB shortcuts. Also, here is a list for Mozilla users.
Please excuse me if this has been covered already. Is this your project, or a project that you simply happen to be participating in? There is a big difference between hiring the guy who presumably knows the most about the product in question, and just hiring one of the (possibily many) people who is in a position to contribute code to it.
I agree with the posters who have cautioned against low-balling yourself. In fact, I know someone (not a coder) who used to get more clients by raising his fees. All the same, make sure you're at least in the right ballpark. The company probably won't negotiate with you if they don't think they can.
People have it backwards. As the previous poster correctly observed, SI units are well defined and widely used. Only in this backwards, litigious society of ours would a group of people complain... nay, sue over the fact that hard drive makers were sticking to standard units and cheating the customers out of some measly number of extra bytes.
Let's see... If I buy and eighty gigabyte drive, and I'm thinking in powers of two, I would expect to have 85,899,345,920 bytes of usable space. What? You're telling me it's only 80,000,000,000? I want my extra 7%! Never mind that at current street prices drives sell for around $1/GB, which means that buy the extra space (in SI units) would probably cost less than the cost of shipping the drive.
Imagine this scenario: I buy some ram for my computer. Lessee... I got 512MB, so I should have 512,000,000 bytes. Say again? You mean I actually have 536,870,912 bytes? Cool! 36.87x10^6 bytes (mega-) for free!
Call me old-fashioned, but since when is it really that vital to install extra software for a mouse or keyboard? For the wireless functionality? I think not. The transmitter and receiver simply replace a section of cable. When the computer sees the signal it shouldn't even be able to tell that what it's seeing is wireless. At least not any more than the person on the other end of your phone conversation being able to tell that you're on a cordless phone.
"I'm sorry, caller. I just got a new 2.4GHz cordless phone, and I haven't yet enabled it by installing the software that came with it, the primary feature of which is to track my phone calls and send reports to Panasonic."
You'll have to excuse my cynicism, but I always try to avoid installing more crap on my system if I can help it. And look, I'm saner as a result <twitch, twitch>.
As of April 26, 2003, Cisco has about $3,940,000,000 in cash. As of March 31, 2003, IBM has about $4,195,000,000 in cash. SCO sure knows how to pick a good fight.
How about as of August 5th (see links below)? If I'm not mistaken, recent data shows the combined cash of IBM and Cisco exceeding 14 billion dollars. Over 100 times that of SCO's paltry 10 million. As others have pointed out, this isn't about picking a good fight, this is more like a desperate bid for survival. As SCO takes on more and more adversaries, spreading their resources ever thinner, it becomes that much more meaningless to compare things like financial clout. Apples and oranges? No. Apples and apple orchards.
Why doesn't a powerful (rich) Linux supporter like IBM buy out SCO and make all this mess go away? SCO's total market cap (the current share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding) is just over $160M, or roughly 3% of IBM's available cash.
"Fascinating stuff about how one sysadmin managed to keep the country online up until a US missle struck the roof of the Ministry of Information building."
More recent intelligence suggests that the explosion was actually the resulted of an SCIS server reacting violently to being/.'d. US military experts are now considering trying to harness the power of slashdot to use as a weapon against terrorists.
"...you still need a patent license to create your.Z archives and compressed GIFs in these areas."
But certainly one could create LZW-compressed material in a place where the patent has expired and then transmit that material to or publish it in a place where it has not.
...or we could get Sen. Orrin Hatch to create the material for us with his properly licensed implementation of LZW!
Something is bugging me
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· Score: 5, Interesting
IANAP[hysicist], and so I have some questions about this process.
So, when light is converted to a higher frequency (shorter wavelength) where does the necessary energy come from? The shockwave? What about when it is converted to a lower frequency (longer wavelength)? Where does the excess energy go? If the conversion really is 100% efficient (I'm a bit skeptical of that claim), then just imagine the solar panels we could have; sucking up all the UV raining down on us and emitting a soft red glow.
Fascinating stuff. I've got to study more optics and electromagnetic physics.
"The Real World Linux Security cover features Cerberus, the three headed dog that safeguarded the entrance to Hades. Hades is an underground place from Greek mythology where deceased people ended up."
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that Cerberus is the Latin spelling and Kerberos (the security framework we all know and love... or not) is the Greek spelling.
It's very appropriate that a beast that guards something is a icon for security, and at the same time ironic that what it's guarding (one's network) is "where deceased people ended up". I know/.'ers have particular attitudes about their users, but give me a break!
"If someone where more concerned about long term security, they could setup a system to refresh the keys on any encrypted data, say every year or every quarter."
It seems to me that encryption has little value for long term security. Encryption won't stop a thief from breaking in and absconding with one's files. It may deter them electronically but not physically. At that point, it doesn't matter how many times you've refreshed the keys on your files since you won't have another opportunity do so. The thief could have all the time they want to crack the code.
If you want to get your data from point A to point B and have some assurance that no one has peeked at it or modified it, then encryption is a wonderous thing. If you want to keep something a secret for many years, then you need a concrete bunker!
"... you take the blue pill: the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
As the blub states: "A blue pill for applications." You can get the applications to "believe whatever you want [them] to believe".
but why is it that we despise spam so much more than other mass marketing techniques? It might be that there's simply more opportunity to rail against spammers. For some reason though, people who send UCEs are called devil-spawn whereas companies that engage in mass marketing via snail-mail (for example) are just a mild nuisance most of the time.
Distiguishing between latency and throughput
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Given the physical dimensions of the platters, the RPM of the motor, and the density of the bits you can come up with the rate at which bits pass under the sensor. This figure is the continuous throughput of the drive. On several of the high-end drives I've looked at lately this number is in the neighborhood of 40MB/s.
Because of various tricks - like reading more data in one go than is necessary to fill the current request - the drive can, from time to time, exceed the limitation described above by sending data out on the bus from it's cache (which is a heckuvalot faster than the platters). The cache has a finite capacity, however, so this technique is only useful for smallish periods of time and for smallish blocks of data, or when very particular demands are made on the the drive.
In my little geeky heart, I can't help but get excited when I discover that storage bus speeds have yet again been doubled. The excitement doesn't last long though because the hard drive is still the slowest part of the computer, and until the RPM doubles, or I can afford to hook up a big stripe set (a situation that makes the "I" in "RAID" seem rediculous), that extra bandwidth won't mean a thing.
Corrections and flames are welcome, as are large cash donations.
Slashdot Mirror
The more times I read that clause the less sense it makes. It begins very straight forwardly, saying "Licensee may use, sell or give away the Cougaar Software or any Derivative Work...". Okay, so, fine: I can sell it. The last part is where the double-take happens: "If [insert conditions here] provided that Licensee does not charge for the Cougaar Software or Derivative Work." I don't get it. Can I sell it, or can't I?
Perhaps the intended limitation is that if one intends to stand behind one's work for a fee (i.e. "warranty of support") the liability must not be extended to include Cougaar? That still doesn't totally resolve the contradiction though.
"Entering Fraudulent information is against the law. If done so on this form you are now hereby notified that AOL will persecute, fine, and charge anybody trying to commit fraud with our accounts.
persecute:
As technology advances, fitting more and more into smaller and smaller spaces... Why do cars keep getting bigger and bigger?
Windows users can easily substitute their own Mozilla splash screen. According to an old FAQ, one need only save a copy of their desired image (any size) as mozilla.bmp in the same place as mozilla.exe.
Well, heck! If your keyboard has all those keys on it, why not use 'em for something?
For all you other card-carrying keyboard shortcut phanatics out there, here are some more things to do with that logo key. Microsoft actually has an entire KB article on, well, KB shortcuts. Also, here is a list for Mozilla users.
Please excuse me if this has been covered already. Is this your project, or a project that you simply happen to be participating in? There is a big difference between hiring the guy who presumably knows the most about the product in question, and just hiring one of the (possibily many) people who is in a position to contribute code to it.
I agree with the posters who have cautioned against low-balling yourself. In fact, I know someone (not a coder) who used to get more clients by raising his fees. All the same, make sure you're at least in the right ballpark. The company probably won't negotiate with you if they don't think they can.
Please tell me you're joking. If so, it was way too subtle for me.
People have it backwards. As the previous poster correctly observed, SI units are well defined and widely used. Only in this backwards, litigious society of ours would a group of people complain... nay, sue over the fact that hard drive makers were sticking to standard units and cheating the customers out of some measly number of extra bytes.
Let's see... If I buy and eighty gigabyte drive, and I'm thinking in powers of two, I would expect to have 85,899,345,920 bytes of usable space. What? You're telling me it's only 80,000,000,000? I want my extra 7%! Never mind that at current street prices drives sell for around $1/GB, which means that buy the extra space (in SI units) would probably cost less than the cost of shipping the drive.
Imagine this scenario: I buy some ram for my computer. Lessee... I got 512MB, so I should have 512,000,000 bytes. Say again? You mean I actually have 536,870,912 bytes? Cool! 36.87x10^6 bytes (mega-) for free!
Call me old-fashioned, but since when is it really that vital to install extra software for a mouse or keyboard? For the wireless functionality? I think not. The transmitter and receiver simply replace a section of cable. When the computer sees the signal it shouldn't even be able to tell that what it's seeing is wireless. At least not any more than the person on the other end of your phone conversation being able to tell that you're on a cordless phone.
"I'm sorry, caller. I just got a new 2.4GHz cordless phone, and I haven't yet enabled it by installing the software that came with it, the primary feature of which is to track my phone calls and send reports to Panasonic."
You'll have to excuse my cynicism, but I always try to avoid installing more crap on my system if I can help it. And look, I'm saner as a result <twitch, twitch>.
As of April 26, 2003, Cisco has about $3,940,000,000 in cash. As of March 31, 2003, IBM has about $4,195,000,000 in cash. SCO sure knows how to pick a good fight.
How about as of August 5th (see links below)? If I'm not mistaken, recent data shows the combined cash of IBM and Cisco exceeding 14 billion dollars. Over 100 times that of SCO's paltry 10 million. As others have pointed out, this isn't about picking a good fight, this is more like a desperate bid for survival. As SCO takes on more and more adversaries, spreading their resources ever thinner, it becomes that much more meaningless to compare things like financial clout. Apples and oranges? No. Apples and apple orchards.
Why doesn't a powerful (rich) Linux supporter like IBM buy out SCO and make all this mess go away? SCO's total market cap (the current share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding) is just over $160M, or roughly 3% of IBM's available cash.
Yahoo! Profiles: Cisco, IBM, SCO
"Having a big mouth and being able to follow a script sounds like the job description of a politician."
And, oh, wait... politicians are exempt from the list. How awfully convenient!
More recent intelligence suggests that the explosion was actually the resulted of an SCIS server reacting violently to being /.'d. US military experts are now considering trying to harness the power of slashdot to use as a weapon against terrorists.
"...you still need a patent license to create your .Z archives and compressed GIFs in these areas."
But certainly one could create LZW-compressed material in a place where the patent has expired and then transmit that material to or publish it in a place where it has not.
...or we could get Sen. Orrin Hatch to create the material for us with his properly licensed implementation of LZW!
IANAP[hysicist], and so I have some questions about this process.
What I know:
So, when light is converted to a higher frequency (shorter wavelength) where does the necessary energy come from? The shockwave? What about when it is converted to a lower frequency (longer wavelength)? Where does the excess energy go? If the conversion really is 100% efficient (I'm a bit skeptical of that claim), then just imagine the solar panels we could have; sucking up all the UV raining down on us and emitting a soft red glow.
Fascinating stuff. I've got to study more optics and electromagnetic physics.
Ah, I see there is someone far more informed on the subject than I. Not surprising, really. :) Thanks Jake.
-John
"The Real World Linux Security cover features Cerberus, the three headed dog that safeguarded the entrance to Hades. Hades is an underground place from Greek mythology where deceased people ended up."
Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that Cerberus is the Latin spelling and Kerberos (the security framework we all know and love... or not) is the Greek spelling.
It's very appropriate that a beast that guards something is a icon for security, and at the same time ironic that what it's guarding (one's network) is "where deceased people ended up". I know /.'ers have particular attitudes about their users, but give me a break!
It seems to me that encryption has little value for long term security. Encryption won't stop a thief from breaking in and absconding with one's files. It may deter them electronically but not physically. At that point, it doesn't matter how many times you've refreshed the keys on your files since you won't have another opportunity do so. The thief could have all the time they want to crack the code.
If you want to get your data from point A to point B and have some assurance that no one has peeked at it or modified it, then encryption is a wonderous thing. If you want to keep something a secret for many years, then you need a concrete bunker!
My $0.02. Your milage may vary.
"... you take the blue pill: the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes."
As the blub states: "A blue pill for applications." You can get the applications to "believe whatever you want [them] to believe".
but why is it that we despise spam so much more than other mass marketing techniques? It might be that there's simply more opportunity to rail against spammers. For some reason though, people who send UCEs are called devil-spawn whereas companies that engage in mass marketing via snail-mail (for example) are just a mild nuisance most of the time.
Given the physical dimensions of the platters, the RPM of the motor, and the density of the bits you can come up with the rate at which bits pass under the sensor. This figure is the continuous throughput of the drive. On several of the high-end drives I've looked at lately this number is in the neighborhood of 40MB/s.
Because of various tricks - like reading more data in one go than is necessary to fill the current request - the drive can, from time to time, exceed the limitation described above by sending data out on the bus from it's cache (which is a heckuvalot faster than the platters). The cache has a finite capacity, however, so this technique is only useful for smallish periods of time and for smallish blocks of data, or when very particular demands are made on the the drive.
In my little geeky heart, I can't help but get excited when I discover that storage bus speeds have yet again been doubled. The excitement doesn't last long though because the hard drive is still the slowest part of the computer, and until the RPM doubles, or I can afford to hook up a big stripe set (a situation that makes the "I" in "RAID" seem rediculous), that extra bandwidth won't mean a thing.
Corrections and flames are welcome, as are large cash donations.
Regards,
John