As far as I can tell, the major rights/obligations of the GPL are:
You are permitted to redistribute the software in source form.
If you distribute the software in binary form, you must make source available to the recipient.
Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see that the GPL requires people to let you redistribute their binaries. As far as I can tell, the creator of this software can prohibit you from redistributing his binaries, even if they are derived from GPL'ed source code.
Job creation may be a partial priority of Congress, and they may address this priority substantially through the DoD, but I don't think the DoD itself holds this as a high priority.
I agree that the term "DoD" to refer to people making spending decisions is wrong; someone else started using that term and I didn't want to enter into a lengthy discussion why it was wrong.
My point was and remains that much of US defense spending is driven by considerations of job creation. Most of the people and organizations responsible actually responsible for those decisions are outside the DoD: Congress and the President.
It's easy for right wing demagogues in Congress to stand up and bang on the table: they don't have to fight and neither do their children. People in the military generally know better than wanting to endanger themselves by getting involved in unnecessary wars or spending funds poorly. The part I don't understand is why so many people in the military keep voting right wing; I suspect it comes down to that they feel that a risky job under a war-mongering government is still better than no job under a peacenik government.
That's actually a trademark and product from an existing company (nanomuscle.com). They make the older generation of actuators mentioned in the article.
However, $0.50 is probably pie-in-the-sky. That's also what the current Nanomuscle actuators should cost, but in real life, they seem to be more like $20
1. Define "excessive" in the term "excessive defense spending.
Spending more than the next dozen or so countries combined is excessive, no matter what you may think you will be up against.
As a final note, recognize being wrong can lead to the elimination of your country and society.
I prefer the possibility of having my society eliminated by an unlikely war to the certainty of having my society eliminated by trying to achieve perfect safety. Freedom is risky, but that risk still beats the alternatives. And you can't have freedom and safety together--they are mutually exclusive.
But your irrational attitude and arguments are precisely why we are in this mess: "look at what might happen" is a very convincing way for politicians to scare people, and that gives legitimacy to even the most clueless politician. Like our president.
Apparently, and regrettably, it is. At least that's the argument behind a lot of decisions of where to place defense manufacturing facilities and what gets built.
Yes, good point. People are wasting too much time not only studying business, but also taking English spelling far too seriously. You are a prime example.
I'd imagine an overhaul to "cell proof" all commercial planes would cost the already struggling air industry more than they can handle.
So? It's supposed to be a free market--let them go out of business if they can't provide necessary security and robustness at a competitive price. Let's also stop the government subsidies for security, air traffic control, noise abatement, airports, etc.
The problem isn't the design of the airplane, it's basic physics.
No, it's not.
Signal strength is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the emitter and receiver. That means that someone's cheap CD player in the passenger cabin can easily jam a navigation beacon that is 50 kilometers away.
We have these wonderful things called "frequencies" and "spread spectrum". That's why, say, you can use your 2.4GHz cell phone, WiFi card, microwave oven, and live next to a bunch of radio stations and still have them all work.
The problem could be fixed by redesigning all aircraft communication and navigation systems to use jam-resistant modulation techniques.
Of course. That was my point: they should be redesigned, and the sooner the better.
Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. Voice communications still use AM.
It would probably save money in the long run anyway--maintaining ancient AM radios must cost a fortune compared to using commercial, high-volume components.
If navigation and other electronic systems on airplanes malfunction because of consumer devices that are tens of feet away, then there is a problem with the design of airplane electronics that needs to get fixed. Otherwise, airplanes are just way too vulnerable. And transmitters can masquerade as just about any kind of electronics--if they don't get fixed, then pretty much all electronics will have to be banned for security reasons. Just more deterioration of service--"we won't fix it, we'll just make things even more uncomfortable for our customers"--and people wonder why airlines are going bankrupt.
I don't particularly like Microsoft, but this is really not much of an "exploit". Mozilla crashes, Galeon crashes, Phoenix crashes, Safari crashes, and IE crashes. They crash due to particular snippets of JavaScript, DHTML, images, and plug-ins. As long as people keep writing end user applications in C/C++, they will crash. But they do so rarely enough that apparently most people aren't really bothered by it.
64bit is not primarily about raw processor speed, it's about being able to address more than 4G of memory. But, FWIW, the AMD chips seem to be a bit faster than the current crop of 32bit chips as well.
Oh, goodie, I think I'm going to patent using a PDA while seated in the backseat of a car. I'm sure nobody has a patent on that already, so it must be novel.
(BTW, xman is used a lot over a network--it uses NFS for remote access to its structured documents.)
There is so much prior art for this that it isn't funny: lots of document browsers, WYSIWYG text editors, etc., had user interface features that provided this kind of navigational support.
HTML 3.0, published in 1995, may not have standardized frames, but it did standardize the LINK element, which also constitutes prior art for this patent.
Of course, this isn't even a question of prior art, it's a question of obviousness.
Try re-writing to a sector a couple of thousand times:-)
They last a lot more than that.
Plenty of Linux systems use flash for storage, formatted in DOS or ext2.
If it really worries you, mount with "noatime" and put/tmp and/var/log in RAM.file system. If it really, really worries you, use the block-remapping flash support in the Linux kernel.
C-JDBC is an open-source software that implements a new concept called RAIDb (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Databases).
It's good that these are becoming available in open source form, but the concept is not new at all. IBM and Oracle both have had commercial versions for a while (I suppose the "inexpensive" part is new).
AFAIK, Dell makes no guarantees that their systems are silent or even quiet. The Dell I have is quite noisy, actually. You are only guaranteed a silent PC if you build it yourself or buy it as such.
For about $20, you can buy a CompactFlash-to-IDE adapter and use it with a Mini-ITX board in place of an IDE drive. You can then use a 512M CF card as your disk--plenty for installing a pretty usable Linux system.
The BIOS on many machines can't be used to access drives reliably anymore: increasingly the only thing that gets tested and implemented is something that manages to read the first few megabytes off a boot device.
In fact, this is getting to be a real problem with SYSLINUX-based installers and rescue disks--those fail with many machines using USB or FireWire CD-ROMs for booting.
It can get easier by not having to worry about updating software at all. On (Debian) Linux, all I tell it is that I want "abiword" installed. The system finds the latest version on the Internet, any other packages I may need, downloads it all, and installs it. From then on, it will be up-to-date. For uninstall, I tell it to get rid of "abiword" and it's gone. This works for every part of the system and applications.
Apple does software updates for system software and a few applications. But drag-and-drop installs are not kept up-to-date automatically. Neither are the installer-based packages. You usually have to notice that a new version is out, download it, and install it. That's why VersionTracker is so popular.
I don't see why people would get upset about it. Presumably, you got both the P2P and the IM software and service for free. The RIAA can participate in it as much as you can, and it's not like they are lying or threatening violence.
I shudder to think on what legal basis the RIAA could be prohibited from doing this. If anything like that existed, it would probably be sweeping and be a threat to P2P and IM in general. However, the creator of the P2P software might be able to do something if it bugs enough users.
If you aren't offering copyrighted songs and they still keep bothering you, maybe you can sue them for some kind of harrassment. If you are offering copyrighted songs, just live with it, or, alternatively, perhaps you should just stop.
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As far as I can tell, the major rights/obligations of the GPL are:
- You are permitted to redistribute the software in source form.
- If you distribute the software in binary form, you must make source available to the recipient.
Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see that the GPL requires people to let you redistribute their binaries. As far as I can tell, the creator of this software can prohibit you from redistributing his binaries, even if they are derived from GPL'ed source code.I agree that the term "DoD" to refer to people making spending decisions is wrong; someone else started using that term and I didn't want to enter into a lengthy discussion why it was wrong.
My point was and remains that much of US defense spending is driven by considerations of job creation. Most of the people and organizations responsible actually responsible for those decisions are outside the DoD: Congress and the President.
It's easy for right wing demagogues in Congress to stand up and bang on the table: they don't have to fight and neither do their children. People in the military generally know better than wanting to endanger themselves by getting involved in unnecessary wars or spending funds poorly. The part I don't understand is why so many people in the military keep voting right wing; I suspect it comes down to that they feel that a risky job under a war-mongering government is still better than no job under a peacenik government.
However, $0.50 is probably pie-in-the-sky. That's also what the current Nanomuscle actuators should cost, but in real life, they seem to be more like $20
Spending more than the next dozen or so countries combined is excessive, no matter what you may think you will be up against.
As a final note, recognize being wrong can lead to the elimination of your country and society.
I prefer the possibility of having my society eliminated by an unlikely war to the certainty of having my society eliminated by trying to achieve perfect safety. Freedom is risky, but that risk still beats the alternatives. And you can't have freedom and safety together--they are mutually exclusive.
But your irrational attitude and arguments are precisely why we are in this mess: "look at what might happen" is a very convincing way for politicians to scare people, and that gives legitimacy to even the most clueless politician. Like our president.
Apparently, and regrettably, it is. At least that's the argument behind a lot of decisions of where to place defense manufacturing facilities and what gets built.
Yes, good point. People are wasting too much time not only studying business, but also taking English spelling far too seriously. You are a prime example.
I'd imagine an overhaul to "cell proof" all commercial planes would cost the already struggling air industry more than they can handle.
So? It's supposed to be a free market--let them go out of business if they can't provide necessary security and robustness at a competitive price. Let's also stop the government subsidies for security, air traffic control, noise abatement, airports, etc.
The problem isn't the design of the airplane, it's basic physics.
No, it's not.
Signal strength is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the emitter and receiver. That means that someone's cheap CD player in the passenger cabin can easily jam a navigation beacon that is 50 kilometers away.
We have these wonderful things called "frequencies" and "spread spectrum". That's why, say, you can use your 2.4GHz cell phone, WiFi card, microwave oven, and live next to a bunch of radio stations and still have them all work.
The problem could be fixed by redesigning all aircraft communication and navigation systems to use jam-resistant modulation techniques.
Of course. That was my point: they should be redesigned, and the sooner the better.
Don't hold your breath waiting for that to happen. Voice communications still use AM.
It would probably save money in the long run anyway--maintaining ancient AM radios must cost a fortune compared to using commercial, high-volume components.
Using images of physical tokens to access documents is a really old idea. Of course, that won't stop BT from filing a patent.
If navigation and other electronic systems on airplanes malfunction because of consumer devices that are tens of feet away, then there is a problem with the design of airplane electronics that needs to get fixed. Otherwise, airplanes are just way too vulnerable. And transmitters can masquerade as just about any kind of electronics--if they don't get fixed, then pretty much all electronics will have to be banned for security reasons. Just more deterioration of service--"we won't fix it, we'll just make things even more uncomfortable for our customers"--and people wonder why airlines are going bankrupt.
I don't particularly like Microsoft, but this is really not much of an "exploit". Mozilla crashes, Galeon crashes, Phoenix crashes, Safari crashes, and IE crashes. They crash due to particular snippets of JavaScript, DHTML, images, and plug-ins. As long as people keep writing end user applications in C/C++, they will crash. But they do so rarely enough that apparently most people aren't really bothered by it.
64bit is not primarily about raw processor speed, it's about being able to address more than 4G of memory. But, FWIW, the AMD chips seem to be a bit faster than the current crop of 32bit chips as well.
How is the Debian support for the 64bit AMD chips coming along?
(BTW, xman is used a lot over a network--it uses NFS for remote access to its structured documents.)
The HTML Menu package version 4.7, announced on USENET in January 1995 contained support for generating frame-based navigational elements.
HTML 3.0, published in 1995, may not have standardized frames, but it did standardize the LINK element, which also constitutes prior art for this patent.
Of course, this isn't even a question of prior art, it's a question of obviousness.
I would guess the music selections are different, but on balance, I think I would prefer something like eMusic to Apple's $1/song.
They last a lot more than that.
Plenty of Linux systems use flash for storage, formatted in DOS or ext2.
If it really worries you, mount with "noatime" and put /tmp and /var/log in RAM.file system. If it really, really worries you, use the block-remapping flash support in the Linux kernel.
It's good that these are becoming available in open source form, but the concept is not new at all. IBM and Oracle both have had commercial versions for a while (I suppose the "inexpensive" part is new).
Even better, there will be SDL and OpenGL for Mono and C#; you can certainly write games in those.
AFAIK, Dell makes no guarantees that their systems are silent or even quiet. The Dell I have is quite noisy, actually. You are only guaranteed a silent PC if you build it yourself or buy it as such.
For about $20, you can buy a CompactFlash-to-IDE adapter and use it with a Mini-ITX board in place of an IDE drive. You can then use a 512M CF card as your disk--plenty for installing a pretty usable Linux system.
In fact, this is getting to be a real problem with SYSLINUX-based installers and rescue disks--those fail with many machines using USB or FireWire CD-ROMs for booting.
Apple does software updates for system software and a few applications. But drag-and-drop installs are not kept up-to-date automatically. Neither are the installer-based packages. You usually have to notice that a new version is out, download it, and install it. That's why VersionTracker is so popular.
I shudder to think on what legal basis the RIAA could be prohibited from doing this. If anything like that existed, it would probably be sweeping and be a threat to P2P and IM in general. However, the creator of the P2P software might be able to do something if it bugs enough users.
If you aren't offering copyrighted songs and they still keep bothering you, maybe you can sue them for some kind of harrassment. If you are offering copyrighted songs, just live with it, or, alternatively, perhaps you should just stop.
Isn't that punishment enough in and of itself?