GPL is a license to use the software. It has nothing to do with copyright validity. When you create something and copyright it, then you are granted certain rights to that work, and you can use a license to relax some of those rights or to restrict certain rights (within the confines of allowable restrictions). If the license is found invalid then your rights revert to the stock copyright rights, which means if Skype wins they can no longer distribute the code and can no longer use the then illegal derivative works and the copyright holder might have the ability to ownership of the derivative work. So either way Skype loses and their lawyer is stupid for trying such, but sometimes stupid wins in court. Although I smell malpractice suit down the road for this lawyer.
A decent size solar electric generating plant in the Nevada desert could be built today that could power all of America's electricity needs at about $0.05 KWH. All we would have to do is build it. But then we wouldn't need all those electric companies, and all the support personnel, etc. Of course it would require a plant the size of a small state like Vermont, but in Nevada or someplace in the Southwest. And of course it'd cost tons of money to build. But by all means let's keep finding new ways to pollute the planet, rather than finding a simple solution that just works.
I guess you've never heard of a something called a vacuum cleaner? I hear they're really useful for collecting dust, food crumbs, paperclips, rubberbands and lot's of interesting things.
SpaceLab actually had a simulated gravity, plus many of the effects of microgravity can be overcome by using varying methods. Exercise is a critical element. Some of the effects cannot be overcome, and it is unknown whether creating a simulated gravity will have any impact on these effects. Additionally the ISS will have a Centrifgual module to create gravities up to twice that of Earth's. Lastly, simulating the lack of gravity may not produce the same results as actual low gravity environments. Lastly while the idea of creating a gravity may sound simple, actual implementation using the known technology may not be so easy. It's really simple to say to get to the refrigerator, "simply walk three feet north, the seven feet west-northwest". It's quite another thing programming a robot to actually walk those ten steps. But, I suppose since everyone here seems so convinced we know all the effects and treatments for low-gravity NASA should just pack up and go away. Nothing left to learn here so why bother, right. We've done such a great job of solving all the other medical/bio-physical problems like flu, the common cold, AIDS, mental illness. We know all there is to know right? Why do any more research?
You mean now I have to change my Nick, because of the clueless masses?
No thank you, I'll continue to call myself a hacker and continue to hack radio controlled cars into drinkbots, collect, demolish and reconstruct all manner of mad science electronics and yes, even hack my computers. What do I care what the ignorant masses think, and if they fear me, then so much the better. I've been hacking for nearly 40 years, and I'm not going to give up the word so easily.
And yes I tilt at Windmills.
I don't care if I wind up being the last White Hat Hacker, I will not go quietly into the Night.
There should be Rage at the dying of the Light. The meaning of words change when those who use them let them change. Perhaps the best we can hope for is a word with dual meanings, but we should not give up so easily. We should instill the true meaning into the next generation, only then will we be able to preserve and perhaps reverse the decline of the word. I've seen people using the word "ethical hacking" to refer to hacking opposed to cracking, so there is yet some hope.
I remember on my 17th birthday, my mother bought me a book of Limericks.
On the cover the book specifically noted it was not for sale to minors. (NY State)
Inside the book they explained:
"First there are Limericks you can tell in front of women, then there are Limericks you can tell in front of Priests, and then there are Limericks. This book is full of Limericks."
Let me tell you these limericks are not for the faint of heart. There are no pictures. The words themselves are quite graphic.
However, this law sounds a bit overbroad and probably is unconstitutional on the face of it.
I'm aware of the other filesystems that do internal defragging, but since EXT3 is what I use (I used to use Reiser) that is where my example came from. I was really just trying to point out that the posting author missed a lot of the pros of SSD drives. The time to seek anywhere on a flash disk is the same, whereas on a platter it depends on where in the ring it is located. I'd say the article actually got it wrong. If I had the extra cash to spend, it'd be SSD for sure. I'm still waiting for it to come down a bit more. Although I may take the time to hack up a little project and build my own expandable one and "grow" some new drives over time with mad money. I've been looking for a good pic and usb project, and this fits the bill nicely.
Let's not get too excited or too under-excited about SSDs until we have done some serious comparisons.
I'd like to know: 1: How fast are they at reading in a bunch of data fragmented over a good size area (not a concern for me, thank you EXT3), 2: How reliable are they at holding the data, ie what is the decay rate for the data compared to a HD, 3: how would they satnd up to repeated exposure to airport and other scanning equipemnt vs HDs, 4: How high can you drop a laptop with each type of drive, and what kind of other travel related shock, 5: How sensitive is a SSD compared to a HD in regards to say static electricity.
I'd say the article's author is only doing a very narrow comparison of pros and cons of SSDs vs HD. I'd be willing to spend some serious bucks on a hotplug SSD for backup purposes, or even for extendable space. After all, it wouldn't take much to build a nice little "disk" from sticks that would be "hot-pluggable" in any PC with a usb slot. Quick-N-Dirty disk: take one 4 (6, 8,...) port usb hub, add 4 (6, 8,...) 8GB usb sticks and voila a 32 (48, 64,...) GB drive although you'd have to use RAID or mount points (in Linux), or something to combine them. Now what we need is someone to build a pluggable case that has an internal card that combines the sticks installed into a single disk from the visible USB port. Then, where's your agurment SSDs aren't worth the cost? I'd like to see you hotswap an HD platter. Damn, that's such a good Idea, I should have implemented it myself and marketed it, now someone is going to read this and "steal" my Idea and make...
A whole can of worms. I could see this being used to strip plenty of small time authors of rightful copyright protection. I haven't read the bills, but your idea is like a Louis Black joke,"Hey Congress has got a really sh***y idea, let's make it even worse!". If the bill doesn't allow for the age of a copyrighted material to be considered, then anyone who writes anything on the internet or self-publishes, could see all of their copyrights disappear in days from publishing. Whereas things that are old (say 10-20 years) and no author can be found, I'm all for PDing them, so long as a certain definitive bar is met in searching for the author.
R**A: "Well, your honor, we didn't know where to write to to contact the author, it was posted on Youtube, and we didn't receive a response from Google with the poster's address." Judge: "Did you try contacting the poster directly?" R**A: "We didn't have his/her contact information from Youtube." Judge: "Did you try to send an email?" R**A: "It is a company policy to block internet traffic to or from Google and youtube, so no one in the company can send an email to a Youtube or Google account."...
I don't know why there seems to such a scare in the article. The Earth's magnetic force is one gauss. This is not something to really be terribly concerned about. I mean really one stinking Gauss. Sure it covers a large distance, but this tail has got to be really weak at even the Moon's closest approach to Earth. It's more likely Earth's gravitational pull has a larger impact and cause of dust storms on the Moon than it's totally lame Magnetic tail.
Anyone dumb enough to submit information to wikileaks from their work deserves any humiliation that follows. Furthermore, anyone using SSL to send data to Wikileaks from work is equally stupid. The logs you speak of can just as easily identify who connected to Wikileaks over a secure connection and thus are just as easily identified as the PGP encrypted fool who does so.
Besides, they don't seem to get much pgp tagged submissions, according to them. Or perhaps it's all someone pretending to be them, and the real wikileaks people are now in the hands of unknown blacksuits and everything submitted to them now goes directly to a white farmhouse somewhere in Virginia to be analyzed.
People don't care about the applications, gamers excepted of course. People care about continuity and getting the task done as painlessly as possible.
If you make an easy to use application that is comparable to what they are used to using, and outperforms what they currently used, you'll have a market winner... Provided you can get it in front of the people in the first place.
People don't like change. My wife complained about me obliterating Windows from the household. But she's adapted. I haven't made things easy though because of my constant tinkering.
She uses MS Office at work and OpenOffice at home, but there is enough difference that she's still uncomfortable with OOo, even though it is far superior. This is not to knock OOo, which has done a great job, but when applications get to a size such as this, there is no good way to make it quick and easy to learn, they're just too complex. Thus it's not the applications that people will care about, it's fear of the unknown and change. The Linux Desktop will eventually win, because the adventurous will experiment and find it good. Slowly, OSS will get better with lots of hands and eyes. The chafe will be left by the wayside in the heap of the abandoned OSS mountain. It;s not going to happen this year or next or probably even in 5. In 5 Linux may have doubled or tripled in deployments. I don't wish to sound pessimistic, but I suspect the year of the Linux Desktop is more like 15 to 20 years away. It will be our children who will benefit from our Revolution. This is often the way it is with War, those who fight the good cause and win, often don't get a great benefit from it in their lifetimes. Some do of course, but it is those who come after that benefit the most.
And of course, Windows and it's applications will improve over these years by adapting in all the useful things they learn from us, you know like tabbed web browsing and built-in pop-up blocking.
Lastly, I've had to go the route of getting Multimedia friendly distros (Ubuntu and similar) so she can have a (mostly) smooth internet experience (flash and all that interactive email stuff and such), while still catering to my need to control and ease of maintenance. Which may be why RH has seen the light here. There's no way to make ONE Linux Desktop that will be popular enough to make money with. There are too many Linux Zealot Factions (LZF) each fanatically defending they're Religious Belief (RB) of the Best Desktop Software Combination (BDSM... err BDSC). Whatever choice they made they would immediately be Flamed To Death by all of the factions for various nonsensical reasons.
Oh yeah, I forgot to add, that if it comes close enough to hit a man-made satellite, the Earth is going to deflect it's path too. Even a near miss with the Moon would deflect it, and cause tidal problems for us because of the wobble of the Moon, until it resettles. Should be lot's of fun... now where's my surfboard gone to!? Narly, Dude!
You, wouldn't have to deflect it much. just a fraction of a fraction of a degree. We're talking about huge distances here. Ever played pool on a pool table with sand? Try making that rebound shot, where you bounce it off three bumpers from one corner and sink it in the fourth corner with a single piece of sand in the the path of travel. Now multiple by a factor of a billion and you begin to get the idea. When Russia launched a probe to the Moon, they were off by less than a degree and missed the Moon by something on the order of a million miles. Don' forget Apophis is going pretty damn fast too. Action - reaction and all that. Whether the satellite is traveling towards or away, etc.
Mercury poisoning can be linked to autism and other health side affects. Why would anyone in their right mind want to have a vaccine with thimerosol in it? Oh, because thimerosol is a stable mercury compound. How stable is it? Is there no way to break down the mercury compound chemically? I don't know, I haven't researched it. I simply told my doctor to use an alternative vaccine that doesn't use thimerosol. Since all vaccines that need to be given come in a form without thimerosol, why would anyone choose one with mercury in any form in it? If enough people choose to use vaccines without thimerosol in it, then guess what... companies will stop using it. Still, this is an obnoxious abuse by the lawyer, but then we are talking about a litigator here (the bottom feeders of attorneys). Oh no, now I'll get a subpoena!
So this would be like creating super-conducting rare-earth magnets with dry ice. This is actually a fun experiment to do. Not sure where the record of 185 comes from because there are experiments easy to reproduce using dry ice and rareearth magnets. there are even some posted on the 'net.
10W lasers are frequently used for engraving in metals and will, if left on long enough burn a hole through steel. While it may take a while, and your body will no longer be twitching, it can and will eventually burn a hole through a human body. The grandparent of your post is wrong about the "heat thing" is also wrong. You have to use the instantaneous power. While the explosive power of firecrackers exploded 1 per second is small, one firecracker explosion is enough to do serious harm to a finger. If any of you think this petawatt laser isn't producing significant energy output, I dare any of you to stick your finger in it's path. I guarantee, you'll lose some flesh and bone.
BTW, surgical lasers are generally in the range of 3-100W and a 30 watt laser will rapidly burn a hole completely through your hand, and you won't even know it happens until it's done. It will be quite painless. Maybe some residual heat, or a reaction from a nerve after the fact.
And a 5mW Laser will easily burn through your retina, depending on the wavelength of the laser. Of course a single look in a 5mW laser will leave a very small bindspot, unless you keep it on your eye looking at it from lots of angles.
Naturally there is a difference between pulsed and continuous beam lasers, and this petawatt laser is not a continuous beam. There are no continuous beam lasers in this region of energy output, because nothing could hold up to the continuous heat produced by one.
These are identity thieves, we're talking about right? They're stealing money from accounts electronically, right? Or being used to buy things in stores? How many of these identity thieves are going into banks and withdrawing money? How many banks and stores are going to want to let these people walk in and "buy/withdraw" something to get the pictures of these people in the hopes of the police someday catching them? What fingerprints? When is the last time you used your fingerprints to access your bank account or buy something? What you're most likely to get is an ip address for some pwned PC in either the US or China. Yeah, that's going to be helpful in catching these guys.
Although, you'll likely be able to catch the bottom feeding crooks this way, you know the ones we like to watch on "World's Dumbest Criminals". Which of course the rest of the criminal world will be very thankful to you for your suggestion, there should be some healthy profit in it:
1) no money stream,
2) less dumb criminals on the street - saving the real criminals from having to take them out and waste good money on a bullet.
So what that you haven't put the voter's name on the receipt. That's not going to stop the selling of votes (etc).
I remember the first time I voted. NYS used mechanical machines, every candidate had a toggle switch (on/off). when you were done you pull the vote lever and it records the votes you toggled on. If you toggle a candidate for mayor and then toggle another candidate for mayor, then the first one flipped off.
This is freaking simple.
You display a page with radio buttons in groups, punching one de-selects another for the same position. When you're done, you press the "vote" button. Then in a window you can see the paper printout and vote# displayed, and it gives you a printed copy of the vote number and machine number. Perhaps a hashed barcode with the votes stored in it (using a hash so you can't visually compare votes). No need to print out in human readable form. Then when you open the voting booth, the paper advances, and/or a shutter is put over the paper display. The votes are then also posted to a SQL database with timestamps,etc. This is like CS201 level stuff.
The problem I see though is people will treat the receipts like a receipt from getting gas and leave it behind for the next person.
King Louis XII hires Galileo to build 50 statues of a Roman Gladiator. The basic idea is King Louis', but the design is the artistic expression of Galileo. Galileo then builds a mold, and makes crushed Marble and concrete statues of his own artistic realization and delivers them to King Louis. Galileo discovers that the statues are a fantastic hit with the royal courtiers, and proceeds to make numerous replicas for sale. Yes, Galileo was hired to make X number of some artform or an artistic design for some artform. Unless, the contract turns over the the rights to that artwork, then the artist is free to make other copies. This is does not on the surface look like a case of work for hire.
Although you are dead on right about we don't know enough details. Depending on how one defines the Imperial Storm Trooper armor, it could be: art, clothing (which can also be a type of art), a design, a purchase of a defined quantity of a product (i.e. 50 helmets for $70 ea). We don't know why the CA court found in Lucas' favor, perhaps it was a default judgment? Perhaps, Lucas produced the copyright, or the contract. We could argue one way or the other till the cows come home, but the simple truth is the stupid reporter neglects to fill us in with the 5Ws, which are so essentially necessary in order to draw any intelligent conclusion...
If you RTFA, then you'd know that the professor wrote the book and has a copyright on it, but also copyrighted the lectures, which are recorded, and the "official" notes, which are also for sale to the students. The students take notes of the the notes/lecture, and sell them to the company who then package it and sell it. To me this seems like entrapment by the professor, for no other purpose than to keep students from selling notes they take of his classes.
The solution here is simple... don't take any of his classes.
It's a vile business he's up to, I wonder if he used to work for SCO? He may just have a case here, but only because he's intentionally baiting and trying to prevent others from selling notes they take of his classes. Which hopefully are protected. This is a tough one, common sense says this is protected use, by careful reading of copyright law and precedent, but the professor seems to be trying to push to the limit the restriction of fair use by making and selling his own notes. So this case really hinges on whether he has the exclusive right to notes of his classes, simply by making his own notes to sell. If he wins, it could be disastrous for companies that make supplemental material for college and grade school classes.
he makes his living by being a voice on the internet for companies. You don't go to an interview and bad mouth you're previous employers. It's the quickest way to end your career opportunities with the company interviewing you. Which is another reason why no one seeking or thinking about ever wanting to seek employment should blast their former employers in publicly accessible forms like postings on the internet. If you are one of the top three coders in the world, you can probably say or do anything and not have to worry. But if you are just another advertising agent, you'd better not make any enemies or make any public anouncements like "So and So is the worst company in the world". So, nothing unusual that a salesman doesn't have anything bad to say about a company he was a salesman for. Doh!
This newly discovered Black Hole is the final result of a Large Hadron Collider, that caused a microsopic black hole on the third planet formerly circling the former star now known as 'XTE J1650-500'. So, this is not a naturally occuring black hole, but an alien-created one. Sadly this alien species is now extinct so they can't tell us how to avoid their mistake.
That the OOXML proposed standard is already outdated, because MS Office doesn't use it. If you apply OOXML to a Word Document you'll not get the entire document in it's original format. So, any Archiving of Word documents still won't be retrievable by anything other than the version of Word they were created on. in other words the OOXMl standard is nothing but a big fat lie, because it is not used by any word processor on the planet. A worthless time consuming attempt at a standard that has zero usefulness. But, Microsoft has gotten it's way, again, by hook and crook and just plain old BS. Personally I don't see how they can keep pulling this stuff and getting away with it. It really is amazing how they do it. If they were to apply these skills for good we could probably have World Peace.
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GPL is a license to use the software. It has nothing to do with copyright validity. When you create something and copyright it, then you are granted certain rights to that work, and you can use a license to relax some of those rights or to restrict certain rights (within the confines of allowable restrictions). If the license is found invalid then your rights revert to the stock copyright rights, which means if Skype wins they can no longer distribute the code and can no longer use the then illegal derivative works and the copyright holder might have the ability to ownership of the derivative work. So either way Skype loses and their lawyer is stupid for trying such, but sometimes stupid wins in court. Although I smell malpractice suit down the road for this lawyer.
A decent size solar electric generating plant in the Nevada desert could be built today that could power all of America's electricity needs at about $0.05 KWH. All we would have to do is build it. But then we wouldn't need all those electric companies, and all the support personnel, etc. Of course it would require a plant the size of a small state like Vermont, but in Nevada or someplace in the Southwest. And of course it'd cost tons of money to build. But by all means let's keep finding new ways to pollute the planet, rather than finding a simple solution that just works.
I guess you've never heard of a something called a vacuum cleaner? I hear they're really useful for collecting dust, food crumbs, paperclips, rubberbands and lot's of interesting things.
SpaceLab actually had a simulated gravity, plus many of the effects of microgravity can be overcome by using varying methods. Exercise is a critical element. Some of the effects cannot be overcome, and it is unknown whether creating a simulated gravity will have any impact on these effects. Additionally the ISS will have a Centrifgual module to create gravities up to twice that of Earth's. Lastly, simulating the lack of gravity may not produce the same results as actual low gravity environments. Lastly while the idea of creating a gravity may sound simple, actual implementation using the known technology may not be so easy. It's really simple to say to get to the refrigerator, "simply walk three feet north, the seven feet west-northwest". It's quite another thing programming a robot to actually walk those ten steps. But, I suppose since everyone here seems so convinced we know all the effects and treatments for low-gravity NASA should just pack up and go away. Nothing left to learn here so why bother, right. We've done such a great job of solving all the other medical/bio-physical problems like flu, the common cold, AIDS, mental illness. We know all there is to know right? Why do any more research?
You Really MUST be New Here.
There goes my Kharma...
Now it's back to Dharma
You mean now I have to change my Nick, because of the clueless masses?
No thank you, I'll continue to call myself a hacker and continue to hack radio controlled cars into drinkbots, collect, demolish and reconstruct all manner of mad science electronics and yes, even hack my computers. What do I care what the ignorant masses think, and if they fear me, then so much the better. I've been hacking for nearly 40 years, and I'm not going to give up the word so easily.
And yes I tilt at Windmills.
I don't care if I wind up being the last White Hat Hacker, I will not go quietly into the Night.
There should be Rage at the dying of the Light. The meaning of words change when those who use them let them change. Perhaps the best we can hope for is a word with dual meanings, but we should not give up so easily. We should instill the true meaning into the next generation, only then will we be able to preserve and perhaps reverse the decline of the word. I've seen people using the word "ethical hacking" to refer to hacking opposed to cracking, so there is yet some hope.
I remember on my 17th birthday, my mother bought me a book of Limericks.
On the cover the book specifically noted it was not for sale to minors.
(NY State)
Inside the book they explained:
"First there are Limericks you can tell in front of women,
then there are Limericks you can tell in front of Priests,
and then there are Limericks.
This book is full of Limericks."
Let me tell you these limericks are not for the faint of heart.
There are no pictures. The words themselves are quite graphic.
However, this law sounds a bit overbroad and probably is unconstitutional on the face of it.
I'm aware of the other filesystems that do internal defragging, but since EXT3 is what I use (I used to use Reiser) that is where my example came from. I was really just trying to point out that the posting author missed a lot of the pros of SSD drives. The time to seek anywhere on a flash disk is the same, whereas on a platter it depends on where in the ring it is located. I'd say the article actually got it wrong. If I had the extra cash to spend, it'd be SSD for sure. I'm still waiting for it to come down a bit more. Although I may take the time to hack up a little project and build my own expandable one and "grow" some new drives over time with mad money. I've been looking for a good pic and usb project, and this fits the bill nicely.
Let's not get too excited or too under-excited about SSDs until we have done some serious comparisons.
...) port usb hub, add 4 (6, 8, ...) 8GB usb sticks and voila a 32 (48, 64, ...) GB drive although you'd have to use RAID or mount points (in Linux), or something to combine them. Now what we need is someone to build a pluggable case that has an internal card that combines the sticks installed into a single disk from the visible USB port. Then, where's your agurment SSDs aren't worth the cost? I'd like to see you hotswap an HD platter. ...
I'd like to know:
1: How fast are they at reading in a bunch of data fragmented over a good size area (not a concern for me, thank you EXT3),
2: How reliable are they at holding the data, ie what is the decay rate for the data compared to a HD,
3: how would they satnd up to repeated exposure to airport and other scanning equipemnt vs HDs,
4: How high can you drop a laptop with each type of drive, and what kind of other travel related shock,
5: How sensitive is a SSD compared to a HD in regards to say static electricity.
I'd say the article's author is only doing a very narrow comparison of pros and cons of SSDs vs HD. I'd be willing to spend some serious bucks on a hotplug SSD for backup purposes, or even for extendable space. After all, it wouldn't take much to build a nice little "disk" from sticks that would be "hot-pluggable" in any PC with a usb slot. Quick-N-Dirty disk: take one 4 (6, 8,
Damn, that's such a good Idea, I should have implemented it myself and marketed it, now someone is going to read this and "steal" my Idea and make
PROFIT!
A whole can of worms. I could see this being used to strip plenty of small time authors of rightful copyright protection.
...
I haven't read the bills, but your idea is like a Louis Black joke,"Hey Congress has got a really sh***y idea, let's make it even worse!". If the bill doesn't allow for the age of a copyrighted material to be considered, then anyone who writes anything on the internet or self-publishes, could see all of their copyrights disappear in days from publishing. Whereas things that are old (say 10-20 years) and no author can be found, I'm all for PDing them, so long as a certain definitive bar is met in searching for the author.
R**A: "Well, your honor, we didn't know where to write to to contact the author, it was posted on Youtube, and we didn't receive a response from Google with the poster's address."
Judge: "Did you try contacting the poster directly?"
R**A: "We didn't have his/her contact information from Youtube."
Judge: "Did you try to send an email?"
R**A: "It is a company policy to block internet traffic to or from Google and youtube, so no one in the company can send an email to a Youtube or Google account."
I don't know why there seems to such a scare in the article. The Earth's magnetic force is one gauss. This is not something to really be terribly concerned about. I mean really one stinking Gauss. Sure it covers a large distance, but this tail has got to be really weak at even the Moon's closest approach to Earth. It's more likely Earth's gravitational pull has a larger impact and cause of dust storms on the Moon than it's totally lame Magnetic tail.
Anyone dumb enough to submit information to wikileaks from their work deserves any humiliation that follows.
Furthermore, anyone using SSL to send data to Wikileaks from work is equally stupid. The logs you speak of can just as easily identify who connected to Wikileaks over a secure connection and thus are just as easily identified as the PGP encrypted fool who does so.
Besides, they don't seem to get much pgp tagged submissions, according to them. Or perhaps it's all someone pretending to be them, and the real wikileaks people are now in the hands of unknown blacksuits and everything submitted to them now goes directly to a white farmhouse somewhere in Virginia to be analyzed.
People don't care about the applications, gamers excepted of course. People care about continuity and getting the task done as painlessly as possible.
... err BDSC). Whatever choice they made they would immediately be Flamed To Death by all of the factions for various nonsensical reasons.
If you make an easy to use application that is comparable to what they are used to using, and outperforms what they currently used, you'll have a market winner... Provided you can get it in front of the people in the first place.
People don't like change. My wife complained about me obliterating Windows from the household. But she's adapted. I haven't made things easy though because of my constant tinkering.
She uses MS Office at work and OpenOffice at home, but there is enough difference that she's still uncomfortable with OOo, even though it is far superior. This is not to knock OOo, which has done a great job, but when applications get to a size such as this, there is no good way to make it quick and easy to learn, they're just too complex. Thus it's not the applications that people will care about, it's fear of the unknown and change. The Linux Desktop will eventually win, because the adventurous will experiment and find it good. Slowly, OSS will get better with lots of hands and eyes. The chafe will be left by the wayside in the heap of the abandoned OSS mountain. It;s not going to happen this year or next or probably even in 5. In 5 Linux may have doubled or tripled in deployments. I don't wish to sound pessimistic, but I suspect the year of the Linux Desktop is more like 15 to 20 years away. It will be our children who will benefit from our Revolution. This is often the way it is with War, those who fight the good cause and win, often don't get a great benefit from it in their lifetimes. Some do of course, but it is those who come after that benefit the most.
And of course, Windows and it's applications will improve over these years by adapting in all the useful things they learn from us, you know like tabbed web browsing and built-in pop-up blocking.
Lastly, I've had to go the route of getting Multimedia friendly distros (Ubuntu and similar) so she can have a (mostly) smooth internet experience (flash and all that interactive email stuff and such), while still catering to my need to control and ease of maintenance. Which may be why RH has seen the light here. There's no way to make ONE Linux Desktop that will be popular enough to make money with. There are too many Linux Zealot Factions (LZF) each fanatically defending they're Religious Belief (RB) of the Best Desktop Software Combination (BDSM
Oh yeah and VI and EMACS SUCK!
Oh yeah, I forgot to add, that if it comes close enough to hit a man-made satellite, the Earth is going to deflect it's path too. Even a near miss with the Moon would deflect it, and cause tidal problems for us because of the wobble of the Moon, until it resettles. Should be lot's of fun ... now where's my surfboard gone to!? Narly, Dude!
You, wouldn't have to deflect it much. just a fraction of a fraction of a degree. We're talking about huge distances here. Ever played pool on a pool table with sand? Try making that rebound shot, where you bounce it off three bumpers from one corner and sink it in the fourth corner with a single piece of sand in the the path of travel. Now multiple by a factor of a billion and you begin to get the idea. When Russia launched a probe to the Moon, they were off by less than a degree and missed the Moon by something on the order of a million miles. Don' forget Apophis is going pretty damn fast too. Action - reaction and all that. Whether the satellite is traveling towards or away, etc.
I've not heard about that.
... companies will stop using it. Still, this is an obnoxious abuse by the lawyer, but then we are talking about a litigator here (the bottom feeders of attorneys). Oh no, now I'll get a subpoena!
Now let's think about that for a moment.
Thimerosol = mercury.
Mercury poisoning can be linked to autism and other health side affects. Why would anyone in their right mind want to have a vaccine with thimerosol in it? Oh, because thimerosol is a stable mercury compound. How stable is it? Is there no way to break down the mercury compound chemically? I don't know, I haven't researched it. I simply told my doctor to use an alternative vaccine that doesn't use thimerosol. Since all vaccines that need to be given come in a form without thimerosol, why would anyone choose one with mercury in any form in it? If enough people choose to use vaccines without thimerosol in it, then guess what
So this would be like creating super-conducting rare-earth magnets with dry ice. This is actually a fun experiment to do. Not sure where the record of 185 comes from because there are experiments easy to reproduce using dry ice and rareearth magnets. there are even some posted on the 'net.
10W lasers are frequently used for engraving in metals and will, if left on long enough burn a hole through steel. While it may take a while, and your body will no longer be twitching, it can and will eventually burn a hole through a human body. The grandparent of your post is wrong about the "heat thing" is also wrong. You have to use the instantaneous power. While the explosive power of firecrackers exploded 1 per second is small, one firecracker explosion is enough to do serious harm to a finger. If any of you think this petawatt laser isn't producing significant energy output, I dare any of you to stick your finger in it's path. I guarantee, you'll lose some flesh and bone.
BTW, surgical lasers are generally in the range of 3-100W and a 30 watt laser will rapidly burn a hole completely through your hand, and you won't even know it happens until it's done. It will be quite painless. Maybe some residual heat, or a reaction from a nerve after the fact. And a 5mW Laser will easily burn through your retina, depending on the wavelength of the laser. Of course a single look in a 5mW laser will leave a very small bindspot, unless you keep it on your eye looking at it from lots of angles.
Naturally there is a difference between pulsed and continuous beam lasers, and this petawatt laser is not a continuous beam. There are no continuous beam lasers in this region of energy output, because nothing could hold up to the continuous heat produced by one.
Although, you'll likely be able to catch the bottom feeding crooks this way, you know the ones we like to watch on "World's Dumbest Criminals". Which of course the rest of the criminal world will be very thankful to you for your suggestion, there should be some healthy profit in it: 1) no money stream, 2) less dumb criminals on the street - saving the real criminals from having to take them out and waste good money on a bullet.
So what that you haven't put the voter's name on the receipt. That's not going to stop the selling of votes (etc). I remember the first time I voted. NYS used mechanical machines, every candidate had a toggle switch (on/off). when you were done you pull the vote lever and it records the votes you toggled on. If you toggle a candidate for mayor and then toggle another candidate for mayor, then the first one flipped off. This is freaking simple. You display a page with radio buttons in groups, punching one de-selects another for the same position. When you're done, you press the "vote" button. Then in a window you can see the paper printout and vote# displayed, and it gives you a printed copy of the vote number and machine number. Perhaps a hashed barcode with the votes stored in it (using a hash so you can't visually compare votes). No need to print out in human readable form. Then when you open the voting booth, the paper advances, and/or a shutter is put over the paper display. The votes are then also posted to a SQL database with timestamps,etc. This is like CS201 level stuff. The problem I see though is people will treat the receipts like a receipt from getting gas and leave it behind for the next person.
Here's a better analogy.
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King Louis XII hires Galileo to build 50 statues of a Roman Gladiator. The basic idea is King Louis', but the design is the artistic expression of Galileo. Galileo then builds a mold, and makes crushed Marble and concrete statues of his own artistic realization and delivers them to King Louis. Galileo discovers that the statues are a fantastic hit with the royal courtiers, and proceeds to make numerous replicas for sale. Yes, Galileo was hired to make X number of some artform or an artistic design for some artform. Unless, the contract turns over the the rights to that artwork, then the artist is free to make other copies. This is does not on the surface look like a case of work for hire.
Although you are dead on right about we don't know enough details. Depending on how one defines the Imperial Storm Trooper armor, it could be: art, clothing (which can also be a type of art), a design, a purchase of a defined quantity of a product (i.e. 50 helmets for $70 ea). We don't know why the CA court found in Lucas' favor, perhaps it was a default judgment? Perhaps, Lucas produced the copyright, or the contract. We could argue one way or the other till the cows come home, but the simple truth is the stupid reporter neglects to fill us in with the 5Ws, which are so essentially necessary in order to draw any intelligent conclusion
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Scratch that last comment.
If you RTFA, then you'd know that the professor wrote the book and has a copyright on it, but also copyrighted the lectures, which are recorded, and the "official" notes, which are also for sale to the students. The students take notes of the the notes/lecture, and sell them to the company who then package it and sell it. To me this seems like entrapment by the professor, for no other purpose than to keep students from selling notes they take of his classes.
... don't take any of his classes.
The solution here is simple
It's a vile business he's up to, I wonder if he used to work for SCO? He may just have a case here, but only because he's intentionally baiting and trying to prevent others from selling notes they take of his classes. Which hopefully are protected. This is a tough one, common sense says this is protected use, by careful reading of copyright law and precedent, but the professor seems to be trying to push to the limit the restriction of fair use by making and selling his own notes. So this case really hinges on whether he has the exclusive right to notes of his classes, simply by making his own notes to sell. If he wins, it could be disastrous for companies that make supplemental material for college and grade school classes.
he makes his living by being a voice on the internet for companies. You don't go to an interview and bad mouth you're previous employers. It's the quickest way to end your career opportunities with the company interviewing you. Which is another reason why no one seeking or thinking about ever wanting to seek employment should blast their former employers in publicly accessible forms like postings on the internet. If you are one of the top three coders in the world, you can probably say or do anything and not have to worry. But if you are just another advertising agent, you'd better not make any enemies or make any public anouncements like "So and So is the worst company in the world". So, nothing unusual that a salesman doesn't have anything bad to say about a company he was a salesman for.
Doh!
This newly discovered Black Hole is the final result of a Large Hadron Collider, that caused a microsopic black hole on the third planet formerly circling the former star now known as 'XTE J1650-500'. So, this is not a naturally occuring black hole, but an alien-created one. Sadly this alien species is now extinct so they can't tell us how to avoid their mistake.
That the OOXML proposed standard is already outdated, because MS Office doesn't use it. If you apply OOXML to a Word Document you'll not get the entire document in it's original format. So, any Archiving of Word documents still won't be retrievable by anything other than the version of Word they were created on. in other words the OOXMl standard is nothing but a big fat lie, because it is not used by any word processor on the planet. A worthless time consuming attempt at a standard that has zero usefulness. But, Microsoft has gotten it's way, again, by hook and crook and just plain old BS. Personally I don't see how they can keep pulling this stuff and getting away with it. It really is amazing how they do it. If they were to apply these skills for good we could probably have World Peace.