I believe your interpretation of the GPL is incorrect. The person sharing code does not expect any direct return (through money or credit) from their code.
GPL = Kid who shares his toys with goodwill, and says that anyone who wants to use the toy must share their toys as well.
If the Red Cross sells the painting at an auction for $1000, then the painting is worth $1000, and the artist should get a receipt for that amount.
You can donate cars and get a receipt for the blue-book value of the car, even if it doesn't run.
These things would come into the tax paper as an itemized deduction, which comes off of your regular income and doesn't require you to have a separate business.
If you're a Linux consultant and donate hours to a non-profit and get a receipt for the time you spent there, and the time is in line with the other customers you have, why can't you deduct that time?
Now, in all these cases, there are services or items you're donating. Writing software is a different subject. Go talk to your tax lawyer/accountant.
Most of the good shows on Discovery, History, and TLC came from the public-funded BBC.
Junkyard wars, walking with dinosaurs, robotica, and the history of britain (watching that now).
PBS is really good at carrying the shows that would not have success on regular broadcast TV - Dr. Who, Red Green, Are You Being Served, etc. Which are all done outside the US as well. *sigh*
The typical "Libertarian babble" is to allow corporations to do as they please. If a company wants to do something to piss off its customers, then the customer should be smart enough (read: not too apathetic) to not do business with that company.
Riiiight. Boycots don't work anymore. Companies are too well diversified for this to happen easily, especially the large multinationals. Go take a look at companies like GE, GM, Sony, and Philip Morris and tell me you can drive any of them out of business. We've been working on MS for 10 years and have barely put a dent in their bottom line.
As aliens with no legal rights (but advanced technology we can't communicate with) learn sex tips from ESR, DALNet, Perl and Python have announced that AOL has inserted GPL'd code into Windows, causing many to ask "What isn't in the Internet when Slashdot is at war?". Meanwhile, in another part of the galaxy, Star Bridge is using lzip compression to manufacture boots that will let you jump 6 feet in the air, enough to see the movie screen from behind Jon Katz's head.
India is set to conduct the first test of a rocket to launch geostationary satellites this week. India, which aims to launch a satellite with the GSLV after three successful tests, will join the United States, the European Space Agency, Japan, Russia and China as a member of the satellite launch club if all goes to plan.
Now according to this, it's a test of a ROCKET to put a satellite into geosync orbit (so it stays over the same point relative to the surface of the earth). After three tests of this rocket, THEN India will put a satellite up, presumably in geosync orbit.
I don't think the added expense is worth it. As it is, the ILECs don't even want to upgrade their COs, let alone upgrade the "last mile". I'm 18,000+ ft from my CO, and I'm 10 miles outside Boston(!). Verizon out here is losing more DSL customers than it's signing up because of the low quality lines, and Verizon hasn't done a thing to improve the quality. Fortunately there's cable modem service that actually comes to my house and gets me a decent rate.
Running fiber to my house brings me nothing but a higher phone bill. Maybe faster service, but I've had the cable modem for three years and have been quite satisfied with the performance.
I mean, really. What good is having 1GB to your house when you're all going through a 100Mbps box in the CO, which goes to a 45Mb backbone in another location? I can now share at 1GB to my neighbor? I can pay $8 to watch a movie? I can get phone service that has lower QOS than cell or POTS?
If he's going to be so adament about this point, then ask him what you should use. Let him do the worrying about what format, encoder and decoder to use.
Also see if this means you can use the "RMS format" and Real for streaming.
The rest were an unfortunate result of the times. WB and HB cartoons through the 60s, 70s, and much of the 80s were junk.
It wasn't until the latest batch of toons from WB (Tiny Toon Adv., Animaniacs, Batman, etc) and from the now Time-Warner (PPG, Dexter's Lab, etc) that we're starting to see actually funny and well-written/drawn toons.
*whack* What did it cost Iridum to put up it's satellites? $2 billion +?
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*whine* Where will they get pilots?
*whack* A lot of pilots have to get a lot of hours in jets before they can fly commercial airlines. Most wind up joining the air nat'l guard or air force so they can get the hours. This is a great way to get highly experienced pilots. Takeoffs and landings are the two places where most accidents happen, and most pilots spend a lot of hime working on those. Three flights a day will give a lot of experience.
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*whine* It will use too much fuel
*whack* Probably not as much as you think. They'll be very high up, so be rather effieient. They're not hauling people or too much equipment, so those jets will be very efficient.
Where's the police record? It's not like they came by, arrested the kids and threw them in jail without bail for two weeks. The cops came by, took a look, gave up, and left. If they weren't called, FOX would find out and have an hour long show about how private schools have their own rules for dealing with situations like this - IS YOUR SCHOOL NEXT?
In this country, nobody is responsible for anything he does,
Funny, coming from someone who blamed everyone but the shooters at Columbine.
In the 80s, more than 90 percent of all U.S. families regularly watched one of the three major evening newscasts. Today, the number has fallen below 20 per cent, and TV has become an electronic nightmare, degrading civic life more often than elevating it.
Here I go into my "why I don't watch broadcast TV anymore".
There's a large number of reasons why "the big three" aren't getting the same percentages as before. People are working longer hours and don't watch it on TV. Many turn to all-news channels (MSNBC/CNN/Fox (ecch) News) to get the news in one shot without all the BS that usually gets introducted.
I watch none of it. My news comes from Yahoo, a local newspaper, and NPR. Broadcast TV has, as I've grown older, become increasingly dumbed down. Maybe it's always been dumb and I just got smarter. Broadcast TV has always been for the lowest common denomonator, with programs aimed for people that don't know Alaska is a state and think that Bill Clinton is still president. Go watch your local Fox channel during prime time some night and tell me that is not the case. Fox is probably at the extreme end of this, but the other channels all have the same problems.
As evening news broadcasting drops because of these and other issues, (non-cable) broadcasters have to come up with new ways to get people to watch their channel. Then came OJ.
OJ's little publicity stunt with the white bronco and its associated ratings have made said broadcasters think that since ratings were high for OJ, all high-speed chases are important. Prime-time TV now has highlights of these chases going on.
Where will it end? I don't know. It's increasingly difficult to get true information. Everyone has their spin on events, and that spin is becoming larger and more erratic.
Take a look at the Linux Terminal Server Project (http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/). I've created bootable CDs that go over the Ethernet to boot Linux. Shouldn't be too hard to adapt this so each node that gets booted becomes part of the cluster.
Documentation is key here. Make sure you have everything in writing, including the fact that they think they own your work. This doesn't sound like an IP issue, but more of a contract issue, since you both signed a legal document saying your privately-done work is owned by you.
Satellite phones have their uses, especially for very remote areas. The article indicates that Iridium was originally going after regular cell phone users, and that's just plain wrong. The low startup cost to the new company will allow them to break even sooner, keep costs down, and make sure they're marketing to the right kinds of people - those who want cell phone service ANYWHERE.
My point of the comment was that these kinds of corporations have their fingers in everything. If you want to completely boycott Disney, it's more than not buying "The Little Mermaid IV". In fact, if you have cable, you're still giving money to Disney since you have at least one or two channels that is part of standard service in many areas. Try taking a look at what AOL-TW owns and see if you can effectively boycott them. You have to do a LOT of research and stop buying a LOT of things. Same with RJR.
Boycotts are much harder now than they were years ago. Boycotting Disney was as easy as not going to Florida/Calif, and not going to Disney movies.
I use Disney as an example here. I don't really have anything against them, aside from the fact that they're part of the MPAA.
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I remember the same from the premiere episode of Voyager.
But we know who will lose the fight.
Us, or more accurately "the consumer".
I believe your interpretation of the GPL is incorrect. The person sharing code does not expect any direct return (through money or credit) from their code.
GPL = Kid who shares his toys with goodwill, and says that anyone who wants to use the toy must share their toys as well.
At least he's not Jon Katz.
If the Red Cross sells the painting at an auction for $1000, then the painting is worth $1000, and the artist should get a receipt for that amount.
You can donate cars and get a receipt for the blue-book value of the car, even if it doesn't run.
These things would come into the tax paper as an itemized deduction, which comes off of your regular income and doesn't require you to have a separate business.
If you're a Linux consultant and donate hours to a non-profit and get a receipt for the time you spent there, and the time is in line with the other customers you have, why can't you deduct that time?
Now, in all these cases, there are services or items you're donating. Writing software is a different subject. Go talk to your tax lawyer/accountant.
Most of the good shows on Discovery, History, and TLC came from the public-funded BBC.
Junkyard wars, walking with dinosaurs, robotica, and the history of britain (watching that now).
PBS is really good at carrying the shows that would not have success on regular broadcast TV - Dr. Who, Red Green, Are You Being Served, etc. Which are all done outside the US as well. *sigh*
The problem is the vast majority of people that just don't care.
...which is the other reason why they don't work.
The typical "Libertarian babble" is to allow corporations to do as they please. If a company wants to do something to piss off its customers, then the customer should be smart enough (read: not too apathetic) to not do business with that company.
Riiiight. Boycots don't work anymore. Companies are too well diversified for this to happen easily, especially the large multinationals. Go take a look at companies like GE, GM, Sony, and Philip Morris and tell me you can drive any of them out of business. We've been working on MS for 10 years and have barely put a dent in their bottom line.
Because they would just hire the Pinkertons, who would show up and kill the rioters.
See early 1900s history, unions, and Buffalo for more on that one.
As aliens with no legal rights (but advanced technology we can't communicate with) learn sex tips from ESR, DALNet, Perl and Python have announced that AOL has inserted GPL'd code into Windows, causing many to ask "What isn't in the Internet when Slashdot is at war?". Meanwhile, in another part of the galaxy, Star Bridge is using lzip compression to manufacture boots that will let you jump 6 feet in the air, enough to see the movie screen from behind Jon Katz's head.
That sound about right?
Try:
google to get info about Win2k SNMP agents
google for info about regular windows SNMP agents.
Agents are available for both OS's and seem to be built in (gasp!)
According to CNN:
India is set to conduct the first test of a rocket to launch geostationary satellites this week.
India, which aims to launch a satellite with the GSLV after three successful tests, will join the United States, the European Space Agency, Japan, Russia and China as a member of the satellite launch club if all goes to plan.
Now according to this, it's a test of a ROCKET to put a satellite into geosync orbit (so it stays over the same point relative to the surface of the earth). After three tests of this rocket, THEN India will put a satellite up, presumably in geosync orbit.
I don't think the added expense is worth it. As it is, the ILECs don't even want to upgrade their COs, let alone upgrade the "last mile". I'm 18,000+ ft from my CO, and I'm 10 miles outside Boston(!). Verizon out here is losing more DSL customers than it's signing up because of the low quality lines, and Verizon hasn't done a thing to improve the quality. Fortunately there's cable modem service that actually comes to my house and gets me a decent rate.
Running fiber to my house brings me nothing but a higher phone bill. Maybe faster service, but I've had the cable modem for three years and have been quite satisfied with the performance.
I mean, really. What good is having 1GB to your house when you're all going through a 100Mbps box in the CO, which goes to a 45Mb backbone in another location? I can now share at 1GB to my neighbor? I can pay $8 to watch a movie? I can get phone service that has lower QOS than cell or POTS?
You're right. I haven't. This still doesn't answer the quesiton: What format does he want used?
If he's going to be so adament about this point, then ask him what you should use. Let him do the worrying about what format, encoder and decoder to use.
Also see if this means you can use the "RMS format" and Real for streaming.
The rest were an unfortunate result of the times. WB and HB cartoons through the 60s, 70s, and much of the 80s were junk.
It wasn't until the latest batch of toons from WB (Tiny Toon Adv., Animaniacs, Batman, etc) and from the now Time-Warner (PPG, Dexter's Lab, etc) that we're starting to see actually funny and well-written/drawn toons.
*whine* oh, it costs too much
*whack* What did it cost Iridum to put up it's satellites? $2 billion +?
--
*whine* Where will they get pilots?
*whack* A lot of pilots have to get a lot of hours in jets before they can fly commercial airlines. Most wind up joining the air nat'l guard or air force so they can get the hours. This is a great way to get highly experienced pilots. Takeoffs and landings are the two places where most accidents happen, and most pilots spend a lot of hime working on those. Three flights a day will give a lot of experience.
--
*whine* It will use too much fuel
*whack* Probably not as much as you think. They'll be very high up, so be rather effieient. They're not hauling people or too much equipment, so those jets will be very efficient.
Where's the police record? It's not like they came by, arrested the kids and threw them in jail without bail for two weeks. The cops came by, took a look, gave up, and left. If they weren't called, FOX would find out and have an hour long show about how private schools have their own rules for dealing with situations like this - IS YOUR SCHOOL NEXT?
What Mr. Volk should have said was:
Music hasn't had a successful new format in 20 years.
Don't forget DATs and minidiscs came and died. Maybe you could call compactflash a format as well (for MP3s) and say that that's a success??
In this country, nobody is responsible for anything he does,
Funny, coming from someone who blamed everyone but the shooters at Columbine.
In the 80s, more than 90 percent of all U.S. families regularly watched one of the three major evening newscasts. Today, the number has fallen below 20 per cent, and TV has become an electronic nightmare, degrading civic life more often than elevating it.
Here I go into my "why I don't watch broadcast TV anymore".
There's a large number of reasons why "the big three" aren't getting the same percentages as before. People are working longer hours and don't watch it on TV. Many turn to all-news channels (MSNBC/CNN/Fox (ecch) News) to get the news in one shot without all the BS that usually gets introducted.
I watch none of it. My news comes from Yahoo, a local newspaper, and NPR. Broadcast TV has, as I've grown older, become increasingly dumbed down. Maybe it's always been dumb and I just got smarter. Broadcast TV has always been for the lowest common denomonator, with programs aimed for people that don't know Alaska is a state and think that Bill Clinton is still president. Go watch your local Fox channel during prime time some night and tell me that is not the case. Fox is probably at the extreme end of this, but the other channels all have the same problems.
As evening news broadcasting drops because of these and other issues, (non-cable) broadcasters have to come up with new ways to get people to watch their channel. Then came OJ.
OJ's little publicity stunt with the white bronco and its associated ratings have made said broadcasters think that since ratings were high for OJ, all high-speed chases are important. Prime-time TV now has highlights of these chases going on.
Where will it end? I don't know. It's increasingly difficult to get true information. Everyone has their spin on events, and that spin is becoming larger and more erratic.
Take a look at the Linux Terminal Server Project (http://ltsp.sourceforge.net/). I've created bootable CDs that go over the Ethernet to boot Linux. Shouldn't be too hard to adapt this so each node that gets booted becomes part of the cluster.
Documentation is key here. Make sure you have everything in writing, including the fact that they think they own your work. This doesn't sound like an IP issue, but more of a contract issue, since you both signed a legal document saying your privately-done work is owned by you.
Satellite phones have their uses, especially for very remote areas. The article indicates that Iridium was originally going after regular cell phone users, and that's just plain wrong. The low startup cost to the new company will allow them to break even sooner, keep costs down, and make sure they're marketing to the right kinds of people - those who want cell phone service ANYWHERE.
My point of the comment was that these kinds of corporations have their fingers in everything. If you want to completely boycott Disney, it's more than not buying "The Little Mermaid IV". In fact, if you have cable, you're still giving money to Disney since you have at least one or two channels that is part of standard service in many areas. Try taking a look at what AOL-TW owns and see if you can effectively boycott them. You have to do a LOT of research and stop buying a LOT of things. Same with RJR.
Boycotts are much harder now than they were years ago. Boycotting Disney was as easy as not going to Florida/Calif, and not going to Disney movies.
I use Disney as an example here. I don't really have anything against them, aside from the fact that they're part of the MPAA.