While they cannot force your ISP to remove the content for you if the law in that country does not allow them to do so, they can force you to remove the content from your own website as a court order. If you refuse to obey the court order, you can be held in contempt of court and jailed until such time as you agree to the order.
Anyone else read _Trouble_and_Her_Friends_ by Melissa Scott? Her novel predates the DCMA but coveres some of the same ideas coincidentally, and some of the ideas in this latest european action as well.
Suppose your business consists of processing digital image files that customers submit. If the software that does this is built from GPL'd components, you nevertheless do *not* need to release the source code as long as it runs only on your servers. If instead you release a consumer version of the software, that is the point at which you must release the source as well.
Exactly! Isn't this much of the point of the GPL? That users who buy software can do their own support (via the source code) but in this case the users are getting an end product so they have no need for the source code. If the code is buggy and the images are bad they'll complain to you to make them another picture but don't have the right to the source as they bought an image, not a program. The GPL attempts to keep non-proprietary code that way but doesn't restrict use of the resulting code itself.
This is why you have to release your own code if you release linked binaries. Just releasing the original code would not let them support the program as bugs in your code could be the cause.
> Its for their own good, really - if they don't fix it, they'll end up the dumbasses, cos people will lose their trust in the Passport system, and use other means for online transactions.
What, you mean someone HAS trust in Passport? Wow...
Not true. Atlantis was already on its launch pad in preparation for its March launch. It probably could have been moved up so as to be launchable in 2 weeks. If Columbia had gone to a minimal use state it probably could have lasted until it got up there. Not sure how well it would have worked to transfer them with just a couple of space suits so it was a real long shot, but it was not impossible as you say.
What would I have them do? Use resources available to them. The piece floating away (from heating and/or regular orbiting maneuvers) was logged during the mission but not noticed until after the fact -- why? Engineers wanted to take a look with spy satellites but higher ups turned them down -- why? The 'simulation' on the foam hit has been called nothing more than a spreadsheet and woefully inadequate and yet the Boeing contractors were believed and no one asked to double check their numbers -- why?
Were there other good options other than just bringing them home with your fingers crossed? Maybe not but the point is they didn't do the right analysis while they were up there and didn't even try to come up with something.
If you ask me, the space shuttle is fatally flawed and has been from the start. NASA has had its head in the sand about it for a long time and continues to be that way. Will they just 'use' up the rest of the shuttles? Only time will tell.
Having no diversity means you are ripe for an epidemic.
Dolly this week, Matilda last week
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More than one data point. Dolly is actually the second cloned sheep to die in a week. Matilda, a cloned sheep born in the year 2000 in Australia died last week. Autopsy results were inconclusive. Matilda's passing.
Ever worked on a project with a deadline? Notice how more work always gets done right at the end, no matter what you do? Specification, design, etc. at the beginning seem to take a long time while getting nothing done but implementation goes quickly near the end. Testing -- what testing?
In Starfish by Peter Watts, some of the book is centered around genetically programmed pseudo-AIs used to patrol the net for spam, virii, worms, etc. I won't say more as it might spoil the book for you but read it and I'm sure you'll enjoy it! What you said in your message has something to do with it;-)
BTW, I meant, does anyone know where I can find them recorded on a Gravis with standard instrument patch set? Or do I have to put the old card in the box and make 'em myself?
Doom wasn't the first game I played much of. I'm older than that!
None of the arcade games I played have left that kind of impact. "Warrior Needs Food" from Gauntlet leaves some sort of comical impression but other than dropping bags of quarters into Street Fighter to get all the way to the end with my friend (only way to win as one player could curl up into a ball and hide while the other one fed more quarters to come back to life) before kicking his ass. Dumping quarters was most of my impression of arcade games once they invented the "" function.
None of the 2600 games or Nintendo games did either. Who gets that excited over Donkey Kong or Super Mario (same old rehash still being sold today with more whizz-bang graphics and sound).
An old TI-994A game I played called Parsec (space game, sort of a cheesy Defender ripoff, nothing like the Parsec multi-server game mentioned elsewhere on/.) was a lot of fun. I once played for about 9 hours straight before I got bored waiting for the secret level (was supposed to be at level twenty but just kept getting faster and faster, yawn).
None of those arcade or console games ever made me AFRAID, or got me into a game like Doom did. I admit it, Doom was a dumb shooter, kill, kill, kill, but it was the first one of that type after Castle Wolfenstein and it was the first to have the atmosphere to pull off a game with so little premise other than "you are dropped off on a planet, all your men are dead, go get 'em." The music, the graphics with the textured walls and advanced lighting, the simple to render (ie. fast) 3D view, the physics of it all, combined to create an atmosphere which was new and unique.
The best thing since has been System Shock I and II. Better story, plot and puzzles than Half-life (came out before Half-life), good gameplay. Probably best game ever IMO but really just an extension of Doom so I don't consider System Shock to be as ground breaking as Doom. I have the soundtrack to System Shocks I and II on my Creative Nomad Jukebox and I still get chills down my spine listening to some of the level music. How many games can do that? (Anyone know where I can get MP3s for the Doom soundtracks?)
Will I wait a long time? Forever? Perhaps, but not because Doom is the first game I fell in love with. Because it was great and innovative and it seems like there is little room for an independent, innovative game anymore in the industry.
Even Quake I was a knock-off
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Doom was the original and even Castle Wolfenstein 3D before that should get the real credit but it didn't quite have the environment that Doom had (the secret levels paying homage to Wolf3D and Keen were great).
Playing Doom with my Gravis Ultrasound MAX sound card so I could hear guitars in the music was just awesome. Simply hearing the music for level 1 was amazing. And the stereo separation was so good that I could kill enemies with the (single barrel only) shotgun with my eyes closed. Played great on Linux in an X11 window too.
I wish another game would come along with the impact that Doom had. It was just SOOOO amazing and nothing has come close since. Every 3D shooter since is just the same old with better graphics and sound, aside from interesting forms of multiplayer action like Team Fortress and Infiltration. Pretty sad, actually, but at least 3D shooters haven't had to go down the cheesy movie route like adventure games.
Multiplayer really came along with Quake. In Doom it worked better as a cooperative feature. Deathmatch was really born in Quake, along with Capture the Flag, Team Fortress, etc.
Physicists in the UK built a nano-metre scale logic gate made entirely from metal that works at room temperature.... If such devices could be built, they would be ideal for mobile applications such as phones and smart cards because the data could be stored without a power source."
Isn't that essentially core memory on a smaller scale? Everything old is new again...
I sure hope China gets their Taikonauts up in space soon! If they put a space station up and start heading for the Moon, it should light a fire under NASA's @$$.
I hope NASA will stop wasting money in earth orbit getting no research done with expensive meatbots. They should save the big bucks and human beings for the real deals, the Moon, Mars and beyond!
NASA claims that the ISS is paving the way for long-term space flight but Mir had already done that. Paying to help the Russians to keep Mir going would have been much cheaper but was not politically acceptable which is a real shame.
Does your car come with blueprints and CAD design CDs? Does it even come with a parts list? No. Does your computer? Does your washing-machine? If they are really nice, your washing machine will have a little schematic in it for the repair guy to plug in his multi-tester and have a clue which overly expensive part to replace but you get nothing more.
Just because we currently get LESS out of software, ie. a guarantee only that the media is readable not that it actually works, doesn't mean we should expect more out of it anywhere else.
I can't believe they need meat-bots up there to do things! Why not have autonomous, semi-autonomous or remote-controlled (perhaps virtually to stuff a buzzword in there) machines? Then you wouldn't need to fill the entire thing with an atmosphere and keep it heated. You'd just heat and pressurize the experiments that required it. Shuttles with space-walkers could still come up when necessary for repairs which require new parts.
Send people where they haven't gone before or where they haven't been for 30 years, not where they've been many times before and don't do much good.
While the Soyuz can be used to save the people inside, the fuel in the Progress is used to keep the station's orbit from decaying. I'd say keeping the station up is a priority if they can keep it in the sky without people on board.
"The microsurgical procedure, a technique already used by doctors, could involve a patient being given new lips, chin, ears, nose, skin and bone from a recently deceased person."
It sure sounds to me like they are considering transplating bone as well. Bone transplants are not new. I don't know that it can be done perfectly as there is only so much you can add and remove to the basic shape of a person's skull but with the right match it would be fairly close.
Pathfinder surface FAQ, including links below:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/
Rover batteries are non-rechargeable but lander batteries are rechargeable, to a point:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/Re ading_amount_of_lander_and_rover_battery_power.txt
Why recharging on Mars is different from recharging on Earth: Too cold to charge and do work:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/Re charging_lander_batteries.txt
Continuing after the winter? Not likely:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/Co ntinuing_mission_after_winter.txt
Will the equipment make it through winter? Not likely and we haven't heard anything since so I think we can say no:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/Wi ll_equipment_make_it_through_winter.txt
Where is Sojourner today? We don't really know.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/rovercom/rovfaqt.html #faq3
It is likely that the rover came up to an error condition and is waiting there a few meters from the lander but it is fun to imagine that it spiraled outward instead of inward and is still trekking to this day...
Harry
This is atmospheric water, not surface water that they have, presumably, found. Mars has only a tiny bit of water in its atmosphere, just 210 parts per million. Europa has practially no atmosphere at all, just a tenuous one of oxygen at 1e-11 bar of pressure. If we find a planet with more water in its atmosphere than Mars or Europa, it will be at least the second most watery planet we know of!
I don't know directly about their space programme but when I worked at the Pacific Weather Centre we had a guy there from China on exchange and he couldn't believe we just had two meteorologists on duty. He said they would have had thirty to do the same thing. It wasn't just that our computers are better, they just had a lot of people to employ. If their space programme is similar then I can see where the money is going.
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While they cannot force your ISP to remove the content for you if the law in that country does not allow them to do so, they can force you to remove the content from your own website as a court order. If you refuse to obey the court order, you can be held in contempt of court and jailed until such time as you agree to the order.
Anyone else read _Trouble_and_Her_Friends_ by Melissa Scott? Her novel predates the DCMA but coveres some of the same ideas coincidentally, and some of the ideas in this latest european action as well.
Exactly! Isn't this much of the point of the GPL? That users who buy software can do their own support (via the source code) but in this case the users are getting an end product so they have no need for the source code. If the code is buggy and the images are bad they'll complain to you to make them another picture but don't have the right to the source as they bought an image, not a program. The GPL attempts to keep non-proprietary code that way but doesn't restrict use of the resulting code itself.
This is why you have to release your own code if you release linked binaries. Just releasing the original code would not let them support the program as bugs in your code could be the cause.
> Its for their own good, really - if they don't fix it, they'll end up the dumbasses, cos people will lose their trust in the Passport system, and use other means for online transactions.
What, you mean someone HAS trust in Passport? Wow...
Not true. Atlantis was already on its launch pad in preparation for its March launch. It probably could have been moved up so as to be launchable in 2 weeks. If Columbia had gone to a minimal use state it probably could have lasted until it got up there. Not sure how well it would have worked to transfer them with just a couple of space suits so it was a real long shot, but it was not impossible as you say.
Was it that different? Seems to me the nerds were pretty worried about the re-entry but the message didn't make its way up the chain.
What would I have them do? Use resources available to them. The piece floating away (from heating and/or regular orbiting maneuvers) was logged during the mission but not noticed until after the fact -- why? Engineers wanted to take a look with spy satellites but higher ups turned them down -- why? The 'simulation' on the foam hit has been called nothing more than a spreadsheet and woefully inadequate and yet the Boeing contractors were believed and no one asked to double check their numbers -- why?
Were there other good options other than just bringing them home with your fingers crossed? Maybe not but the point is they didn't do the right analysis while they were up there and didn't even try to come up with something.
If you ask me, the space shuttle is fatally flawed and has been from the start. NASA has had its head in the sand about it for a long time and continues to be that way. Will they just 'use' up the rest of the shuttles? Only time will tell.
here is a clickable link to the patent at the USPTO.
Having no diversity means you are ripe for an epidemic.
More than one data point. Dolly is actually the second cloned sheep to die in a week. Matilda, a cloned sheep born in the year 2000 in Australia died last week. Autopsy results were inconclusive. Matilda's passing.
Ever worked on a project with a deadline? Notice how more work always gets done right at the end, no matter what you do? Specification, design, etc. at the beginning seem to take a long time while getting nothing done but implementation goes quickly near the end. Testing -- what testing?
In Starfish by Peter Watts, some of the book is centered around genetically programmed pseudo-AIs used to patrol the net for spam, virii, worms, etc. I won't say more as it might spoil the book for you but read it and I'm sure you'll enjoy it! What you said in your message has something to do with it ;-)
BTW, I meant, does anyone know where I can find them recorded on a Gravis with standard instrument patch set? Or do I have to put the old card in the box and make 'em myself?
Doom wasn't the first game I played much of. I'm older than that!
None of the arcade games I played have left that kind of impact. "Warrior Needs Food" from Gauntlet leaves some sort of comical impression but other than dropping bags of quarters into Street Fighter to get all the way to the end with my friend (only way to win as one player could curl up into a ball and hide while the other one fed more quarters to come back to life) before kicking his ass. Dumping quarters was most of my impression of arcade games once they invented the "" function.
None of the 2600 games or Nintendo games did either. Who gets that excited over Donkey Kong or Super Mario (same old rehash still being sold today with more whizz-bang graphics and sound).
An old TI-994A game I played called Parsec (space game, sort of a cheesy Defender ripoff, nothing like the Parsec multi-server game mentioned elsewhere on /.) was a lot of fun. I once played for about 9 hours straight before I got bored waiting for the secret level (was supposed to be at level twenty but just kept getting faster and faster, yawn).
None of those arcade or console games ever made me AFRAID, or got me into a game like Doom did. I admit it, Doom was a dumb shooter, kill, kill, kill, but it was the first one of that type after Castle Wolfenstein and it was the first to have the atmosphere to pull off a game with so little premise other than "you are dropped off on a planet, all your men are dead, go get 'em." The music, the graphics with the textured walls and advanced lighting, the simple to render (ie. fast) 3D view, the physics of it all, combined to create an atmosphere which was new and unique.
The best thing since has been System Shock I and II. Better story, plot and puzzles than Half-life (came out before Half-life), good gameplay. Probably best game ever IMO but really just an extension of Doom so I don't consider System Shock to be as ground breaking as Doom. I have the soundtrack to System Shocks I and II on my Creative Nomad Jukebox and I still get chills down my spine listening to some of the level music. How many games can do that? (Anyone know where I can get MP3s for the Doom soundtracks?)
Will I wait a long time? Forever? Perhaps, but not because Doom is the first game I fell in love with. Because it was great and innovative and it seems like there is little room for an independent, innovative game anymore in the industry.
Doom was the original and even Castle Wolfenstein 3D before that should get the real credit but it didn't quite have the environment that Doom had (the secret levels paying homage to Wolf3D and Keen were great).
Playing Doom with my Gravis Ultrasound MAX sound card so I could hear guitars in the music was just awesome. Simply hearing the music for level 1 was amazing. And the stereo separation was so good that I could kill enemies with the (single barrel only) shotgun with my eyes closed. Played great on Linux in an X11 window too.
I wish another game would come along with the impact that Doom had. It was just SOOOO amazing and nothing has come close since. Every 3D shooter since is just the same old with better graphics and sound, aside from interesting forms of multiplayer action like Team Fortress and Infiltration. Pretty sad, actually, but at least 3D shooters haven't had to go down the cheesy movie route like adventure games.
Multiplayer really came along with Quake. In Doom it worked better as a cooperative feature. Deathmatch was really born in Quake, along with Capture the Flag, Team Fortress, etc.
"7. Magnets in nanoscale logic devices
Physicists in the UK built a nano-metre scale logic gate made entirely from metal that works at room temperature. ... If such devices could be built, they would be ideal for mobile applications such as phones and smart cards because the data could be stored without a power source."
Isn't that essentially core memory on a smaller scale? Everything old is new again...
I sure hope China gets their Taikonauts up in space soon! If they put a space station up and start heading for the Moon, it should light a fire under NASA's @$$.
I hope NASA will stop wasting money in earth orbit getting no research done with expensive meatbots. They should save the big bucks and human beings for the real deals, the Moon, Mars and beyond!
NASA claims that the ISS is paving the way for long-term space flight but Mir had already done that. Paying to help the Russians to keep Mir going would have been much cheaper but was not politically acceptable which is a real shame.
Does your car come with blueprints and CAD design CDs? Does it even come with a parts list? No. Does your computer? Does your washing-machine? If they are really nice, your washing machine will have a little schematic in it for the repair guy to plug in his multi-tester and have a clue which overly expensive part to replace but you get nothing more.
Just because we currently get LESS out of software, ie. a guarantee only that the media is readable not that it actually works, doesn't mean we should expect more out of it anywhere else.
I can't believe they need meat-bots up there to do things! Why not have autonomous, semi-autonomous or remote-controlled (perhaps virtually to stuff a buzzword in there) machines? Then you wouldn't need to fill the entire thing with an atmosphere and keep it heated. You'd just heat and pressurize the experiments that required it. Shuttles with space-walkers could still come up when necessary for repairs which require new parts.
Send people where they haven't gone before or where they haven't been for 30 years, not where they've been many times before and don't do much good.
While the Soyuz can be used to save the people inside, the fuel in the Progress is used to keep the station's orbit from decaying. I'd say keeping the station up is a priority if they can keep it in the sky without people on board.
"The microsurgical procedure, a technique already used by doctors, could involve a patient being given new lips, chin, ears, nose, skin and bone from a recently deceased person." It sure sounds to me like they are considering transplating bone as well. Bone transplants are not new. I don't know that it can be done perfectly as there is only so much you can add and remove to the basic shape of a person's skull but with the right match it would be fairly close.
Pathfinder surface FAQ, including links below: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/ Rover batteries are non-rechargeable but lander batteries are rechargeable, to a point: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/Re ading_amount_of_lander_and_rover_battery_power.txt
Why recharging on Mars is different from recharging on Earth: Too cold to charge and do work:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/Re charging_lander_batteries.txt
Continuing after the winter? Not likely:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/Co ntinuing_mission_after_winter.txt
Will the equipment make it through winter? Not likely and we haven't heard anything since so I think we can say no:
http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/mars/ask/path-surface/Wi ll_equipment_make_it_through_winter.txt
Where is Sojourner today? We don't really know.
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/MPF/rovercom/rovfaqt.html #faq3
It is likely that the rover came up to an error condition and is waiting there a few meters from the lander but it is fun to imagine that it spiraled outward instead of inward and is still trekking to this day...
Harry
Perhaps the ringed terrestrial planet in ST:Insurrection wasn't impossible after all...
This is atmospheric water, not surface water that they have, presumably, found. Mars has only a tiny bit of water in its atmosphere, just 210 parts per million. Europa has practially no atmosphere at all, just a tenuous one of oxygen at 1e-11 bar of pressure. If we find a planet with more water in its atmosphere than Mars or Europa, it will be at least the second most watery planet we know of!
I don't know directly about their space programme but when I worked at the Pacific Weather Centre we had a guy there from China on exchange and he couldn't believe we just had two meteorologists on duty. He said they would have had thirty to do the same thing. It wasn't just that our computers are better, they just had a lot of people to employ. If their space programme is similar then I can see where the money is going.