Problem is there is no consideration so the contract is probably not legally binding.
From the same page as before:
"It is our intent that this pledge be legally binding and enforceable by any open source software developer, distributor, or user who uses one or more of the 14 listed U.S. patents and/or the counterparts of these patents issued in other countries." http://ca.com/patents/oss/
IANAL, so I don't know if the page itself is legally binding, but I'm giving them the benifit of the doubt by assuming that they're not lying to us and leaving it up to the lawyers in our community to tell us otherwise (or confirm).
That's nice and all, but is there actually any legal assurance that they won't change their mind and sue a developer for patent infringement at a later day?
"In order to foster innovation and avoid the possibility that a party will take advantage of this pledge and then assert patents or other intellectual property rights of its own against Open Source Software, thereby limiting the freedom of Computer Associates or any other Open Source Software developer to create innovative software programs, the commitment not to assert any of these 14 U.S. patents and all counterparts of these patents issued in other countries is irrevocable except that Computer Associates reserves the right to terminate this patent pledge and commitment only with regard to any party who files a lawsuit asserting patents or other intellectual property rights against Open Source Software." http://ca.com/patents/oss/
There are actually many satellite projects for stuff this small. The space industry in Florida holds an annual competition for college students to design picosats called Funsat that uses the Cubesat format.
And on their website, they have a rather large list of other developers that use the CubeSat design. Indeed, small satellites are nothing new.
>>> cmburns69: >>> Until the general population knows how to use TLD's properly, companies will not start using them properly. But companies will not start using them properly until the general population knows how.
>> Kamerynn: >> Exactly! Until the egg hatches, the chicken will never be born. But the chicken will never be born until the egg hatches!
> Garion Maki: > erm... got the feeling your a bit wrong there, you just took the sentence and turned it around.
If you re-read the parent's post you'll see that he was not referring to the eight minutes it take light to reach Earth from the Sun. He was pointing out that michael posted this at 23:52 21-Jan-2005 (8 minutes until 22-Jan-2005) and said "...until January 22."
Definitely. I was going to mention this book too, but you beat me to it. This is the only book I know of that goes into the internal workings of the Zend Engine, which powers PHP, and teaches you how to write PECL extensions and SAPI interfaces.
Kilogram is a measurement of weight. Newton talked about the gravity force between objects with mass. 1 kg is about 9.8 N at sea level, depending on what latitude you are.
Were you asleep during physics class?;P
Actually, he was right. Kilogram is mass; Newton is weight. Mass never changes, weight changes based on gravity. A 1 kg object at sea level weighs 1 kg x 9.8 m/s/s = 9.8 N. A 1 kg object on the moon (roughly 1/6g) weighs roughly 1.63 N, but it's still 1 kg.
Really, who's going to use these things if they have DRM?
Of course when they're marketed to Joe User, they're not going to count on DRM as a selling point. They're going to count on the multi-channel capabilities to sell the file format to the average user. There's no mistake that these two "features" are paired together.
What use is 5.1 if CDs (most anyway) only have 2 channels?
... are a few uses I can think of off the top of my head. DVD-A and SACD are both hi-fidelity audio formats, and just because it's an MP3 doesn't mean that it has to be used for music. It could be used for an audio track for a movie file.
I agree. I wasn't trying to justify it. Just the other day I shelled out close to $50 for UT2004. Now that I'm in my twenties I can afford to buy games and I do.
Are you talking about TAKING or unauthorized copying?
Contrary to what the RIAA and MPAA would have us believe, there is a difference.
That is true. If you were taking the source code and artwork from the developers, I suppose that would be stealing (certainly if you then deleted it from their hard drives as well), but downloading an illegal copy is copyright infringement.
If they had no value to you, you wouldn't want to copy them anyway.
Having no value and having a value less than $50 are two different things. There's plenty of games out there that people wouldn't mind playing for free, but would never consider paying $50 for. The Sims comes to mind.
I just woke up from sleeping off yesterday's GeForce LAN where nVidia released the 6800, and I happened to win a 6800 Ultra. During the LAN was a presentation for the press and the gamers present at the LAN, and all I can say is you should have been there. If for nothing else, just to see the demos of the Unreal 3 and other engines.
One of the most impressive demos was Nalu (the mermaid). All her hair is rendered in real time by the 6800.
I actually did something similar for a website I created. Using PHP, I searched for 'MSIE' in the USER_AGENT, and if found displayed an alternate HTML page which essentially said 'upgrade your browser n00blar' (I was young when I did this:P), and then listed all alternate web browsers I could think of, not just Mozilla.
Oh yeah, and at the bottom of the page it said 'Your browser will crash in 10 seconds' and of course it worked;)
That is a really really good idea. Might want to figure ahead of time how many copies you expect to download, then calculate how much space that many hardcopies would take up. People are impressed by big numbers like that.
"Enough copies to go around the equator."
Or maybe from here to the moon, or enough copies to cover the land area of Alaska, or Russia.
We've all heard sayings like those before. That's because they're effective.
2.5Gbps (2.5x10^9 bits/sec = 298MB/sec), which is slower than U320's transfer rate of 320MB/sec. Then there's fibrechannel. And most systems that use these harddrives have RAID arrays that increase the overall transfer speed anyway. So that's how you can use 2.5Gbps with one system.
But... A 2.5Gbps typically wouldn't be used for a single machine. Behind that connection would hundreds of computers each using their share of the bandwidth. Maybe a colocation site. The colocation site I use houses about a hundred servers each at 100Mbps.
I say no, there's nothing new about this. Remember activation with Windows XP? It wasn't all that long ago... This has always been how Microsoft operates. They lock the world, not just users, into their products (Windows, MS Office, MSN), then when they feel they have enough market dominance they force it upon users who find ways around using/buying their products. Activation is one example. And not all that long ago/. reported MS incorporating DRM into the next version of MS Office. This is where locking the world into their products comes into play. Sure, you don't have to use the next version of MS Office, but then you might not be able to read documents from the web because other users are locked into it. And sure, you don't have to use MSN Messenger, but then you might not be able to comunicate with some buddies. For now it seems MSN Messenger is free, but don't be surprised if MS gradually starts to encorporate fees into MSN Messenger. So yeah, taste of things to come (DRM in Office) as well as a blast from the past (activation).
It is, Smith admitted, "a very ambitiously rapid schedule." But he noted NASA pulled off such magic in the early days of the space program.
"Mercury, Gemini and Apollo all did things faster than that," he said.
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo all benifitted from Werner von Braun's genius. It is thanks to him that "NASA pulled off such magic in the early days of the space program," so I don't think that is a fair comparison to mondern-day NASA.
Mauhur > ROFL! Late-breaking news: "Pew Study: File Traders Don't Care About Copyright"
Mjolnir > back
Mjolnir > lol
Mjolnir > i wonder how long it took for them to figure that out
Mauhur > what kind of genius figured that out?
Mauhur > lol
Mjolnir > seriously
Mjolnir > its like majority of traders are poor college students with no money to pay for a cd
My eleven year-old sister has grown up on Windows. She's seen me running a few Linux computers in my room, and when I had to install an OS on her machine (after a nasty crash), she asked for Linux. Since then, she's fallen in love with Linux and surprisingly, I didn't have to teach her much at all. She found all the games, OpenOffice, gaim, and everything she needed on her own and figured out how to use them without my help. Now she's begging our dad to get her a faster computer for Christmas so she can play UT2003!
Now if I can only convert my dad to Linux, we'd have 8 out of 8 PC's in our house running Linux.:-/
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"It is our intent that this pledge be legally binding and enforceable by any open source software developer, distributor, or user who uses one or more of the 14 listed U.S. patents and/or the counterparts of these patents issued in other countries."
http://ca.com/patents/oss/
IANAL, so I don't know if the page itself is legally binding, but I'm giving them the benifit of the doubt by assuming that they're not lying to us and leaving it up to the lawyers in our community to tell us otherwise (or confirm).
http://ca.com/patents/oss/
I'd take that as a "yes."
There are actually many satellite projects for stuff this small. The space industry in Florida holds an annual competition for college students to design picosats called Funsat that uses the Cubesat format. And on their website, they have a rather large list of other developers that use the CubeSat design. Indeed, small satellites are nothing new.
Just the reply I was looking for. I put in my application to work on CubeSat recently and hope to get started soon.
>>> cmburns69:
;)
>>> Until the general population knows how to use TLD's properly, companies will not start using them properly. But companies will not start using them properly until the general population knows how.
>> Kamerynn:
>> Exactly! Until the egg hatches, the chicken will never be born. But the chicken will never be born until the egg hatches!
> Garion Maki:
> erm... got the feeling your a bit wrong there, you just took the sentence and turned it around.
Don't worry Kamerynn, at least I got it.
If you re-read the parent's post you'll see that he was not referring to the eight minutes it take light to reach Earth from the Sun. He was pointing out that michael posted this at 23:52 21-Jan-2005 (8 minutes until 22-Jan-2005) and said "...until January 22."
> Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle
Definitely. I was going to mention this book too, but you beat me to it. This is the only book I know of that goes into the internal workings of the Zend Engine, which powers PHP, and teaches you how to write PECL extensions and SAPI interfaces.
Kilogram is a measurement of weight. Newton talked about the gravity force between objects with mass. 1 kg is about 9.8 N at sea level, depending on what latitude you are.
;P
Were you asleep during physics class?
Actually, he was right. Kilogram is mass; Newton is weight. Mass never changes, weight changes based on gravity. A 1 kg object at sea level weighs 1 kg x 9.8 m/s/s = 9.8 N. A 1 kg object on the moon (roughly 1/6g) weighs roughly 1.63 N, but it's still 1 kg.
1 knot = 1.1km/h
no, 1 knot = 1.15 mph = 1.852 km/h
Isn't 5.1 DVD-Audio just around the corner?
No, it's been here for a while.
Really, who's going to use these things if they have DRM?
Of course when they're marketed to Joe User, they're not going to count on DRM as a selling point. They're going to count on the multi-channel capabilities to sell the file format to the average user. There's no mistake that these two "features" are paired together.
What use is 5.1 if CDs (most anyway) only have 2 channels?
... are a few uses I can think of off the top of my head. DVD-A and SACD are both hi-fidelity audio formats, and just because it's an MP3 doesn't mean that it has to be used for music. It could be used for an audio track for a movie file.
But that doesn't justify anything.
I agree. I wasn't trying to justify it. Just the other day I shelled out close to $50 for UT2004. Now that I'm in my twenties I can afford to buy games and I do.
Are you talking about TAKING or unauthorized copying?
Contrary to what the RIAA and MPAA would have us believe, there is a difference.
That is true. If you were taking the source code and artwork from the developers, I suppose that would be stealing (certainly if you then deleted it from their hard drives as well), but downloading an illegal copy is copyright infringement.
If they had no value to you, you wouldn't want to copy them anyway.
Having no value and having a value less than $50 are two different things. There's plenty of games out there that people wouldn't mind playing for free, but would never consider paying $50 for. The Sims comes to mind.
I just woke up from sleeping off yesterday's GeForce LAN where nVidia released the 6800, and I happened to win a 6800 Ultra. During the LAN was a presentation for the press and the gamers present at the LAN, and all I can say is you should have been there. If for nothing else, just to see the demos of the Unreal 3 and other engines. One of the most impressive demos was Nalu (the mermaid). All her hair is rendered in real time by the 6800.
I actually did something similar for a website I created. Using PHP, I searched for 'MSIE' in the USER_AGENT, and if found displayed an alternate HTML page which essentially said 'upgrade your browser n00blar' (I was young when I did this :P), and then listed all alternate web browsers I could think of, not just Mozilla.
;)
Oh yeah, and at the bottom of the page it said 'Your browser will crash in 10 seconds' and of course it worked
That is a really really good idea. Might want to figure ahead of time how many copies you expect to download, then calculate how much space that many hardcopies would take up. People are impressed by big numbers like that.
"Enough copies to go around the equator."
Or maybe from here to the moon, or enough copies to cover the land area of Alaska, or Russia.
We've all heard sayings like those before. That's because they're effective.
2.5Gbps (2.5x10^9 bits/sec = 298MB/sec), which is slower than U320's transfer rate of 320MB/sec. Then there's fibrechannel. And most systems that use these harddrives have RAID arrays that increase the overall transfer speed anyway. So that's how you can use 2.5Gbps with one system.
But... A 2.5Gbps typically wouldn't be used for a single machine. Behind that connection would hundreds of computers each using their share of the bandwidth. Maybe a colocation site. The colocation site I use houses about a hundred servers each at 100Mbps.
100 servers X 100Mbps = 10Gbps.
Is this not just a taste of things to come ??
I say no, there's nothing new about this. Remember activation with Windows XP? It wasn't all that long ago... This has always been how Microsoft operates. They lock the world, not just users, into their products (Windows, MS Office, MSN), then when they feel they have enough market dominance they force it upon users who find ways around using/buying their products. Activation is one example. And not all that long ago /. reported MS incorporating DRM into the next version of MS Office. This is where locking the world into their products comes into play. Sure, you don't have to use the next version of MS Office, but then you might not be able to read documents from the web because other users are locked into it. And sure, you don't have to use MSN Messenger, but then you might not be able to comunicate with some buddies. For now it seems MSN Messenger is free, but don't be surprised if MS gradually starts to encorporate fees into MSN Messenger. So yeah, taste of things to come (DRM in Office) as well as a blast from the past (activation).
where the hell do you buy Windows from that costs you $600?!
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo all benifitted from Werner von Braun's genius. It is thanks to him that "NASA pulled off such magic in the early days of the space program," so I don't think that is a fair comparison to mondern-day NASA.
My eleven year-old sister has grown up on Windows. She's seen me running a few Linux computers in my room, and when I had to install an OS on her machine (after a nasty crash), she asked for Linux. Since then, she's fallen in love with Linux and surprisingly, I didn't have to teach her much at all. She found all the games, OpenOffice, gaim, and everything she needed on her own and figured out how to use them without my help. Now she's begging our dad to get her a faster computer for Christmas so she can play UT2003!
:-/
Now if I can only convert my dad to Linux, we'd have 8 out of 8 PC's in our house running Linux.