It may be a dupe, but neither the original article, nor the current one has a comment about the Answers.com definition of slashdot. I've had that in my sig for over a month (and I missed the previous article) but I was amused at the 'slashdot == chip and dip' response I got...
Service contracts, etc, are irrelevant; if you provide source along with your product under an approved licence ("The GNU GPL, GPL-compatible licenses, or any other approved open source license will do.") you can use the free version. If you do not provide source, you must buy a developer licence to develop your product.
As I said to the great-grandparent a good reference for "commercial" is Opera... Opera does not provide source for its product, so it needs developer licences for QT. KDE provides source, so KDE can use the free QT.
The basic idea is: - " program a FTP client and want to charge people money for it" - if you provide source under acceptable licence, no payment needed; if you don't provide source, buy a commercial licence. - "program a closed-source FTP client" - you said closed source; you need a commerical licence.
It should be perfectly clear.
Relevant quote from the FAQ:
Q: Why did you change the name of the Qt Open Source Edition?
A: The purpose of changing the name from "Qt Free Edition" to "Qt Open Source Edition" is to clarify the intention behind this edition.
Trolltech is a strong believer in Open Source development. We are proud to support the KDE project and many other Open Source projects. We support the idea of Free Software.
However, some people interpreted the "Free Software" as meaning purely free of charge, without any obligation to make source code available. We wanted to avoid encouraging this interpretation.
Q: Why do I need to buy a commercial edition when I can get it for free?
A: If you want to develop Open Source Software, you are welcome to use our Qt Open Source Edition. If you don't want to develop Open Source Software (for example to keep your source code secret or to produce commercial software), you must purchase a commercial edition of Qt.
Q: I don't want to give away my source code. What do I do?
In all cases, you're using a GPL'd version of QT. Redhat/Debian/Suse have licences (under the GPL) to distribute the QT library to you without oblication to TT.
However, if you use Opera, (even the free version) TT gets paid, because Opera does not distribute its sources. Opera Corporation licences QT under a proprietary licence, and pays TT for that privelige.
maybe it's me, but I read that as "120 watts per square inch"...
That's a whole lot harder to swallow, but at that claim, I'm sure that the power requirements for a laptop come in under the ~90 square inches on the top of the screen...
MoneyBookers is an international alternative to Paypal... I haven't used it, but came across it while looking up money transfer services for a friend...
Unless you count getting GPL'd software via BitTorrent as "download[ing] something of questionable legal status", I'm sure that there are at least a few of us around who have not used P2P in such a manner...
Some of us do believe in respecting copyright/trademark/patent "property" rights while they exist... even while arguing against them.
what part of "also: the pattern of interference itself" are you failing to understand? The screen consists of a flim containing a pattern of interference produced by a split laser. The screen is a hologram.
scratch that.... I downloaded all the general information plus the one available datasheet (for the evaluation board, others "Download not available yet") - no details. The best I got was from the brochure:
Fast switching speeds Past attempts to use electrochromic effects in display applications suffered from both weak colouration and long switching times. With NCD technology, the electrochromic viologen molecules are bound to the surface of the nanostructured cathode, meaning they can be switched very rapidly from colourless to coloured and vice versa.
The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. `Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like `gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme.(2) If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to `memory', or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with `cream'.
The Footnote (2) reads:
(2) Meme
The word meme seems to be turning out to be a good meme. It is now quite widely used and in 1988 it joined the official list of words being considered for future editions of Oxford English Dictionaries. This makes me the more anxious to repeat that my designs on human culture were modest almost to vanishing point. My true ambitions -- and they are admittedly large -- lead in another direction entirely. I want to claim almost limitless power for slightly inaccurate self-replicating entities, once they arise anywhere in the universe. This is because they tend to become the basis for Darwinian selection which, given enough generations, cumulatively builds systems of great complexity. I believe that, given the right conditions, replicators automatically band together to create systems, or machines, that carry them around and work to favour their continued replication. The first ten chapters of The Selfish Gene had concentrated exclusively on one kind of replicator, the gene. In discussing memes in the final chapter I was trying to make the case for replicators in general, and to show that genes were not the only members of that important class. Whether the milieu of human culture really does have what it takes to get a form of Darwinism going, I am not sure. But in any case that question is subsidiary to my concern. Chapter 11 will have succeeded of the reader closes the book with the feeling that DNA molecules are not the only entities that might form the basis for Darwinian evolution. My purpose was to cut the gene down to size, rather than to sculpt a grand theory of human culture.
I think you missed his point... It's not about "not documenting it because you might change it"... It is about not documenting it because you ARE TOO BUSY changing it!
If you try to start documenting the code, you will be distracted by the URGE to modify the code... You will spend the rest of your life and a goodly portion of your afterlife coding, and will never get around to actually finishing the documentation...
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415-273-9164.
HTH. HAND.
It may be a dupe, but neither the original article, nor the current one has a comment about the Answers.com definition of slashdot. I've had that in my sig for over a month (and I missed the previous article) but I was amused at the 'slashdot == chip and dip' response I got...
#define FREE(x) IsOpenSource(x)
#define COMMERCIAL(x) !IsOpenSource(x)
Service contracts, etc, are irrelevant; if you provide source along with your product under an approved licence ("The GNU GPL, GPL-compatible licenses, or any other approved open source license will do.") you can use the free version. If you do not provide source, you must buy a developer licence to develop your product.
As I said to the great-grandparent a good reference for "commercial" is Opera... Opera does not provide source for its product, so it needs developer licences for QT. KDE provides source, so KDE can use the free QT.
The basic idea is:
- " program a FTP client and want to charge people money for it" - if you provide source under acceptable licence, no payment needed; if you don't provide source, buy a commercial licence.
- "program a closed-source FTP client" - you said closed source; you need a commerical licence.
It should be perfectly clear.
Relevant quote from the FAQ:
HTH.
No, No, No and No...
In all cases, you're using a GPL'd version of QT. Redhat/Debian/Suse have licences (under the GPL) to distribute the QT library to you without oblication to TT.
However, if you use Opera, (even the free version) TT gets paid, because Opera does not distribute its sources. Opera Corporation licences QT under a proprietary licence, and pays TT for that privelige.
HTH.
I guess that would be this one.
HTH. Cheers.
maybe it's me, but I read that as "120 watts per square inch"...
That's a whole lot harder to swallow, but at that claim, I'm sure that the power requirements for a laptop come in under the ~90 square inches on the top of the screen...
Yeah, but the porn just doesn't have the same appeal in a text only browser.
Sez who?
http://www.moneybookers.com/
MoneyBookers is an international alternative to Paypal... I haven't used it, but came across it while looking up money transfer services for a friend...
Unless you count getting GPL'd software via BitTorrent as "download[ing] something of questionable legal status", I'm sure that there are at least a few of us around who have not used P2P in such a manner...
Some of us do believe in respecting copyright/trademark/patent "property" rights while they exist... even while arguing against them.
what part of "also: the pattern of interference itself" are you failing to understand? The screen consists of a flim containing a pattern of interference produced by a split laser. The screen is a hologram.
The image produced is not a hologram.
well, you can get them for up to 100" for under 6000 pounds... 40" starts a little over 2000...
Of course, you don't get the Limited Edition Harrods Emblem...
http://www.av-sales.com/html/svs_holoscreen.html
This appears to be the manufacturer of the screens...
http://www.scanvisionscreen.dk/holo.html
It has been around for a while...
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http://www.exn.ca/Stories/2003/03/18/56.cfm
http://www.anders-kern.de/presse/pr_holoscreen_en
http://www.innovations-vcs.co.uk/main/holoscreen.
You can buy your own one cheap here:
http://www.av-sales.com/html/svs_holoscreen.html
It's actually much cheaper... you can get them from around 2.5 thousand pounds...
on this page it claims "fast switching"s p ...
http://www.ntera.com/products/segmentedDisplays.a
Exactly what that means I'm not sure
But if someone wants to sign up for the datasheet downloads, then they can tell us for sure....
http://www.ntera.com/home/register.asp
Your arguments against SLI hold for SMP systems as well almost word for word.
Which is probably why he said "Furthermore, SLI is a lot like SMP."
Seriously, some people need to read what they're replying to...
From http://www.rubinghscience.org/memetics/dawkinsmem
The Footnote (2) reads:
I just checked (for my post below) - XP Home has no IIS/PWS support.
If you're running Windows, the easiest thing to run ASP in is IIS if you're on XP/2000, or its little brother PWS on Win9X/ME. (They're free for playing around with.) Note: Neither is available for XP Home.d eploy/setuppws.mspx ; en-us;306898 t ures/iis.mspx
e +hosting
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/pwebsrv/
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/evaluation/fea
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304197/EN-US/
If you're not, the easiest way to run your ASP is via a free hosting provider:
http://www.brinkster.com/Hosting/Educational.aspx
http://www.aspfree.com/asp/freeasphost.asp
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?q=free+asp+websit
HTH.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong... but I get:
gnuplot> plot [x=0:1] sin(sqrt(2.4*x))
Which is clearly not what you're describing...
Are you suggesting that we all code in chinese?
What about Sanskrit?
I think you missed his point... It's not about "not documenting it because you might change it"... It is about not documenting it because you ARE TOO BUSY changing it!
If you try to start documenting the code, you will be distracted by the URGE to modify the code... You will spend the rest of your life and a goodly portion of your afterlife coding, and will never get around to actually finishing the documentation...
And yes, I guess it was meant to be funny...
or buy it from out of the country?
Slashdot?