3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
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Seems pretty clear to me that, yes, you do. Is the wrapper executable? Is it based on a GNU GPL'd source? You'd have a hard time arguing that section 3 doesn't apply.
Look it up. When you were a kid in the late 60s, American kids ranked in about the same place they do now in math and science, and we became (and still are) a technology superpower. 80% of the innovation in technology comes from the US. I'm not saying we can't improve, I'm just saying it's not as bad as the media makes it out to be.
I think some people have been turned to the pessimistic side by the media.
Whatever happened to "American ingenuity"? You can't teach that. We just have it. It comes from being a nation of immigrants, who can survive pretty much anything.
The sky isn't falling, we just need some tweaks.
I will agree with you on the anti-intellectualism that is creeping up, but kids are kids.
Wow, you are very lucky. I've lost two tv's and a cable box over the years due to power surges. The cable box was about 3 years ago when the pole my electricity comes off of got struck by lightning. I lost a lot of stuff that time. The tv's were ok because they were plugged into a surge protector. Ruined the protectors, but I'd rather spend $50 replacing a few surge protectors than a $2000 tv.
I've always had my audio stuff on power conditioners, though I probably don't need that on that stuff, but I did notice a boost in clarity in audio output.
True, a surge protector won't protect you from direct lightning strikes (says that right on the box, so they don't even promise that), but it can protect you from indirect ones, and power fluctuations overall. I used to work for a tv retailer (in sales, I know, I'm evil), and I can't tell you how many tv's we had to write off over the 5 years I worked there due to problems attributed to power conditions. Those were all plugged to utility power.
3D does make a difference to some people. Not me, but I'm not really an early adopter to that stuff.
There's a difference between power conditioners and surge protectors, though, make sure you point that out.
Surge protectors don't regulate voltage, they just trip a switch if the voltage gets too high. A power conditioner actually regulates the voltage going into your electronics.
Dirty power can affect audio output quality, especially in cheaper amplifiers that don't have their own power filters.
You wouldn't plug your computer straight into the wall, so why would you plug your very expensive home theater equipment directly into the wall? They are far more sensitive to power fluctuations than your PC.
You ever seen a flatscreen with a line drop? Not a pretty sight, and often caused by power surges. Plasmas used to have this problem we used to call "the sparkles" when a power surge would hit them. Not sure if that still happens, haven't been in the TV "game" for a few years.
But this HDMI stuff is pure bullshit. The only time it matters is when it comes to 3D. Some of the older (and newer cheaper) cables don't have the bandwidth for it.
I love using Access to create databases for clients/coworkers. It's fast and easy, scriptable with VBA and if you get frustrated with the GUI, it even has a SQL execution function.
It won't work for massive databases, but for things like a client list and (snail) mailing list management, it's very ideal.
Ahh, and there's the rub. The people who use Photoshop and the GIMP aren't necessarily the same kind of people who develop it. Adobe realizes this, therefore no scripting is required.
A user of imaging software (who are usually artsy types who do photography and/or design) shouldn't have to learn programming to get their software to do what they want. Scheme and Perl are not easy to learn for non-CS types. I almost pulled my hair out trying to get my coworkers (who are all designers by trade) to grasp regular expression syntax so they could use it inside Dreamweaver.
The last time I used GIMP (2.2.0, I believe), the dockable "pallets" or dialogs were very buggy.
Overall, while GIMP is great as free software, it's nowhere near production quality for design and photography professionals.
As far as the ICO issue, look into png2ico, it's a wonderful little program. Also, there are plug-ins out there that allow PS to natively save into ICO format.
As for WMF, Photoshop is a raster editor. WMF is a vector format. If they added vector support, what would be the point of Illustrator?
The point isn't that Photoshop can do things that the GIMP can't (and there are features in Photoshop that the GIMP doesn't offer, and vice versa, like batch processing and droplets), it's more that those of us who are more used to Photoshop see the GIMP's UI and are lost. I love the dockable pallets and the toolbars that Photoshop offers. They make my workflow so much less complicated.
I usually drive mid-size six-cylinder sedans. I love my Camry. You usually can't tell the difference when the air kicks on.
However, on a recent trip to Vegas, we took a friend's brand-new 2005 Corolla (a four-cylinder). When the air kicked on, you could definitely notice a "kick" in the steering as (I suspect) the A/C jolted the serpentine belt. It wasn't as noticeable as when I drove an Escort in the early 90s (shut up!), but it was still there. And it definitely made a difference on fuel mileage.
When you have 4000 miles to drive, you get to conduct lots of mileage experiments.
One of my lifelong goals is to live simply, on a large plot of undeveloped land somewhere.
Serious reply here. On my way to Vegas last week, I saw a sign in Salina, UT that read "Undeveloped land, $500 per acre". Maybe you should check that out.
iTunes music is the most heavily DRM'd and proprietary music out there. I can't play the music on anything other than an iPod, and I can't play it in any program besides iTunes. Yet it's the #2 way people get their music. I'll never buy a cd again.
My God, you people are nerds, aren't you? If you're using a Windows box, and you've got kids on it, you just get some of the filtering software - NetNanny is a popular one - and put the.xxx on the block list.
Microsoft has told attendees of WinHEC that the UI in the betas right now is only temporary, and that they don't expect the new one to show up until 2006.
And right about now, we have a whole lot of people at MS updating their resumes
Not that I have a problem with Windows, but it makes a really *bad* web server.
It's not the tools, it's how you use them. Despite being very proprietary and requiring an almost complete commitment to the platform, IIS on Windows can do just as well as a web server as what any of the unixes does.
Microsoft, with Windows, has to support every reasonable configuration of x86 hardware there is - with all the quirky motherboards, audio, video, serial ports, 250 formats of memory and that old 5.25" floppy drive you insist on using. The problem being, MS doesn't make any of that.
Apple, being the control freaks they are, dictate that their OS will only work on their proprietary architecture. That way, the hardware is designed for a certain OS (much like many PC hardware is) and, unlike PC OSs, Apple can optimize its OS for its components. It doesn't have to worry how it works on XYZCorp's motherboard or whether it will support the next version of Podunk Inc's sound card.
That's the rationale, and I think it's a good one.
This is great for niche publications like WSJ, who have content you can't find anywhere else (I know, I used to have a student subscription back when I was a sleazy business student). This won't work so well for the more mainstream publications like the New York Times or your local paper. There will always be free places like Yahoo! News that have the same content for free.
If I were running an online version of a print periodical, I would find the stuff I have that no one else does and charge for that. Interviews, analysis, exclusive columnists, etc.
or (c) there are extensions to the PDF spec that Adobe puts in its software (they do) like security, forms, javascript, and other things that are proprietary.
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You'd have a hard time arguing that an installer wrapper is based on the software it's installing.
GNU GPLv2:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
...
Seems pretty clear to me that, yes, you do. Is the wrapper executable? Is it based on a GNU GPL'd source? You'd have a hard time arguing that section 3 doesn't apply.
Um, he has no convictions.
From TFA:
Look it up. When you were a kid in the late 60s, American kids ranked in about the same place they do now in math and science, and we became (and still are) a technology superpower. 80% of the innovation in technology comes from the US. I'm not saying we can't improve, I'm just saying it's not as bad as the media makes it out to be.
I think some people have been turned to the pessimistic side by the media.
Whatever happened to "American ingenuity"? You can't teach that. We just have it. It comes from being a nation of immigrants, who can survive pretty much anything.
The sky isn't falling, we just need some tweaks.
I will agree with you on the anti-intellectualism that is creeping up, but kids are kids.
Won't somebody please think of the children?
Wow, you are very lucky. I've lost two tv's and a cable box over the years due to power surges. The cable box was about 3 years ago when the pole my electricity comes off of got struck by lightning. I lost a lot of stuff that time. The tv's were ok because they were plugged into a surge protector. Ruined the protectors, but I'd rather spend $50 replacing a few surge protectors than a $2000 tv.
I've always had my audio stuff on power conditioners, though I probably don't need that on that stuff, but I did notice a boost in clarity in audio output.
True, a surge protector won't protect you from direct lightning strikes (says that right on the box, so they don't even promise that), but it can protect you from indirect ones, and power fluctuations overall. I used to work for a tv retailer (in sales, I know, I'm evil), and I can't tell you how many tv's we had to write off over the 5 years I worked there due to problems attributed to power conditions. Those were all plugged to utility power.
3D does make a difference to some people. Not me, but I'm not really an early adopter to that stuff.
There's a difference between power conditioners and surge protectors, though, make sure you point that out.
Surge protectors don't regulate voltage, they just trip a switch if the voltage gets too high. A power conditioner actually regulates the voltage going into your electronics.
Dirty power can affect audio output quality, especially in cheaper amplifiers that don't have their own power filters.
You wouldn't plug your computer straight into the wall, so why would you plug your very expensive home theater equipment directly into the wall? They are far more sensitive to power fluctuations than your PC.
You ever seen a flatscreen with a line drop? Not a pretty sight, and often caused by power surges. Plasmas used to have this problem we used to call "the sparkles" when a power surge would hit them. Not sure if that still happens, haven't been in the TV "game" for a few years.
But this HDMI stuff is pure bullshit. The only time it matters is when it comes to 3D. Some of the older (and newer cheaper) cables don't have the bandwidth for it.
Yes! Exactly.
I love using Access to create databases for clients/coworkers. It's fast and easy, scriptable with VBA and if you get frustrated with the GUI, it even has a SQL execution function.
It won't work for massive databases, but for things like a client list and (snail) mailing list management, it's very ideal.
yep. Access is great for small projects like that. The thing I like most about it is its scriptability with VBA.
Ahh, and there's the rub. The people who use Photoshop and the GIMP aren't necessarily the same kind of people who develop it. Adobe realizes this, therefore no scripting is required.
A user of imaging software (who are usually artsy types who do photography and/or design) shouldn't have to learn programming to get their software to do what they want. Scheme and Perl are not easy to learn for non-CS types. I almost pulled my hair out trying to get my coworkers (who are all designers by trade) to grasp regular expression syntax so they could use it inside Dreamweaver.
The last time I used GIMP (2.2.0, I believe), the dockable "pallets" or dialogs were very buggy.
Overall, while GIMP is great as free software, it's nowhere near production quality for design and photography professionals.
A graphic artist is only as good as his tools.
As far as the ICO issue, look into png2ico, it's a wonderful little program. Also, there are plug-ins out there that allow PS to natively save into ICO format.
As for WMF, Photoshop is a raster editor. WMF is a vector format. If they added vector support, what would be the point of Illustrator?
The point isn't that Photoshop can do things that the GIMP can't (and there are features in Photoshop that the GIMP doesn't offer, and vice versa, like batch processing and droplets), it's more that those of us who are more used to Photoshop see the GIMP's UI and are lost. I love the dockable pallets and the toolbars that Photoshop offers. They make my workflow so much less complicated.
Yeah, I noticed that stuff, too.
I usually drive mid-size six-cylinder sedans. I love my Camry. You usually can't tell the difference when the air kicks on.
However, on a recent trip to Vegas, we took a friend's brand-new 2005 Corolla (a four-cylinder). When the air kicked on, you could definitely notice a "kick" in the steering as (I suspect) the A/C jolted the serpentine belt. It wasn't as noticeable as when I drove an Escort in the early 90s (shut up!), but it was still there. And it definitely made a difference on fuel mileage.
When you have 4000 miles to drive, you get to conduct lots of mileage experiments.
One of my lifelong goals is to live simply, on a large plot of undeveloped land somewhere.
Serious reply here. On my way to Vegas last week, I saw a sign in Salina, UT that read "Undeveloped land, $500 per acre". Maybe you should check that out.
iTunes music is the most heavily DRM'd and proprietary music out there. I can't play the music on anything other than an iPod, and I can't play it in any program besides iTunes. Yet it's the #2 way people get their music. I'll never buy a cd again.
Thank God for Hymn.
Well, if you're that concerned about it, chances are you've already got one of these packages installed.
My God, you people are nerds, aren't you? If you're using a Windows box, and you've got kids on it, you just get some of the filtering software - NetNanny is a popular one - and put the .xxx on the block list.
You don't need to mess with HOSTS.
Geez, not everything has to be done the hard way.
Microsoft has told attendees of WinHEC that the UI in the betas right now is only temporary, and that they don't expect the new one to show up until 2006.
And right about now, we have a whole lot of people at MS updating their resumes
Proof? Or did you pull that out of your ass?
In fact get rid of modal windows in general
If that's not the most ignorant thing I've ever heard. Modal dialogs and windows are an important tool.
Not that I have a problem with Windows, but it makes a really *bad* web server.
It's not the tools, it's how you use them. Despite being very proprietary and requiring an almost complete commitment to the platform, IIS on Windows can do just as well as a web server as what any of the unixes does.
Yes, because tracking cookies are evil and "they" know who you are!!
Take your tinfoil hat off. It's roasting your brain.
Imagine it this way:
Microsoft, with Windows, has to support every reasonable configuration of x86 hardware there is - with all the quirky motherboards, audio, video, serial ports, 250 formats of memory and that old 5.25" floppy drive you insist on using. The problem being, MS doesn't make any of that.
Apple, being the control freaks they are, dictate that their OS will only work on their proprietary architecture. That way, the hardware is designed for a certain OS (much like many PC hardware is) and, unlike PC OSs, Apple can optimize its OS for its components. It doesn't have to worry how it works on XYZCorp's motherboard or whether it will support the next version of Podunk Inc's sound card.
That's the rationale, and I think it's a good one.
This is great for niche publications like WSJ, who have content you can't find anywhere else (I know, I used to have a student subscription back when I was a sleazy business student). This won't work so well for the more mainstream publications like the New York Times or your local paper. There will always be free places like Yahoo! News that have the same content for free.
If I were running an online version of a print periodical, I would find the stuff I have that no one else does and charge for that. Interviews, analysis, exclusive columnists, etc.
or (c) there are extensions to the PDF spec that Adobe puts in its software (they do) like security, forms, javascript, and other things that are proprietary.
I looked at a 15" Powerbook, and the price was $400 lower ($1,599 vs $1,999).