It seems to me that the BSD people are attempting to say that a dual-licensed BSD-GPL code must remain either BSD-GPL or BSD only. Therefore a closed-source entity taking their code and closing it is good. But a Free Source entity taking their code and making it Free is bad? If you remove one of the license options, how is that "making it Free"? Less choice == more freedom?
You realize, of course, that my portrayal of Mr. Clarke's message said nothing about the monolith or his choice of Iapetus as its location. I was merely referring to the fact that, as is evidenced by the text of "2001", his physical description of Iapetus is eerily accurate for the time, all things considered. Believe me, that fact has given rise to more than one website's claim of conspiracy... While the text in 2001 may have been accurate, what I was responding to was that the summary appeared to assert that he (specifically) reminded them that he described it accurately whereas in the transcript there's no mention of accuracy.
As for the perceived transitive nature of the verb "reminded"...actually, that's not how I meant it at all. I suppose I intended more to imply that the audience was reminded by inference, but in my excitement probably failed to make that clear. My bad. No worries. You can always count on someone on/. for pedantry.:) And now that you mention it, interpreting "reminded" in that light makes it much clearer. It wasn't a direct reminder, but those who read the book were probably reminded by its mere mention.
I'm also with the poster that suggests that Clarke is due a little ego-stroking now and then... You make it sound as if geosynchronous orbiting satellites and other concepts he pioneered were important! Yeah, I agree he's earned the right to boast now and again.
someone who writes code under BSD licence knows that this could be used for commercial projects without returning ANY source at all. one could argue that thus wirting code under BSD licence is stupid in the first place. but why do these people complain when someone uses it under GPL if they would even allow use it for bloody comercial, binary only products? this is stupid hypcriticism... It's quite simple, really. The BSD license allows you to distribute your compiled code in any manner you choose. However, if you choose to distribute the source code, you must reproduce the author's copyright and the list of conditions. If you're offended by GPL violations, then you should be just as offended by a BSD license violation regardless of whether you find the license appropriate for your own use.
People who choose the BSD license grant the freedom to do whatever you want with the binary, but if you distribute the code you must keep the license intact. That's not hypocritical.
For the last decade+, people have been claiming that the BSD licenses are more free than the GPL, because they effectively place no restrictions on what you can do with the code. Now we're being told that there are restrictions on what you can do with the code. Actually, you can do anything you want with the compiled code, such as produce a closed-source program and you don't have to distribute the source code to anybody. That's the freedom of the BSD license. However, if you choose to distribute the source code you're required to do so under the BSD license as the license requires you to reproduce the author's copyright notice and the list of conditions.
The Linux guys could have used the source code and released binaries only, and there would be no problems doing so. However, because they released the source code and didn't reproduce the author's copyright notice and list of conditions, then the argument being presented here is that they have violated that license.
The crux of the matter is whether dual-licensed BSD and GPL code means the code must remain dual-licensed (BSD && GPL) or whether you can choose to throw away one of the licenses and ignore its terms and conditions (BSD || GPL).
Just to note: There is approx. one billionaire per 4.5 million people in the US.
Lots of people dream that dream, but know it's just that, a dream. The chances of attaining that are insane. Yet many people regularly play the lottery not just for entertainment value, but thinking that it's the only way they'll get ahead. And most lotteries have jackpot payouts significantly smaller than a billion and at significantly greater odds. So, ignoring all other factors (large hand waving here), it's more likely that you'll become a billionaire than win a few million in a lottery.
That's not how I read it. FTA:
This is a particularly exciting moment for fans of 2001: A Space Odyssey - because that's where the lone astronaut Dave Bowman discovers the Saturn monolith, which turns out to be a gateway to the stars. Chapter 35 in the novel is titled 'The Eye of Iapetus', and it contains this passage:
"Iapetus was approaching so slowly that it scarcely seemed to move, and it was impossible to tell the exact moment when it made the subtle change from an astronomical body to a landscape, only fifty miles below. The faithful verniers gave their last spurts of thrust, then closed down forever. The ship was in its final orbit, completing a revolution every three hours at a mere eight hundred miles an hour - all the speed that was required in this feeble gravitation field."
After more than 40 years, I cannot remember why I placed the Saturn monolith on Iapetus. The submitter makes it sound like a boast but in reality it's simply saying that enthusiasts will appreciate the reference.
Regardless how much thrust is applied/generated, a pig is simply the wrong shape. An unmodified pig can not fly or glide. But what if the pig were suspended via twine attached to the dorsal feathers of a flock of swallows?
Similarly, a player dismembering someone by using a chainsaw is quite different than having them drawn & quartered. You seem to think what the ESRB reviews contains a bullet list with "dismemberment" as one of the items. If they're viewing a video, it will be plainly obvious whether someone is going around randomly hacking up people with a chainsaw or whether it's a medieval game with a prisoner being drawn and quartered.
To me, this is like rating a novel by listening to an audio book rather than having to read and turn the pages. Yes, you read that right -- some organizations rate a novel without even turning one single page!
But seriously, as long as the content they review is what someone would experience were they to play, what does it matter that the marginal amount of additional context you get from playing is absent? Unless there's a game that shows a mother nursing her newborn child and the ESRB has a form with a checkbox for "Contains nudity", I think if a game is presented roughly in sequence the context should be quite apparent.
Addition to this, note that they think we should not be able to useor search the words, so if something does unfortunately happen, how can we warn others? "Theres a man in the back with a skimask on holding a complex exothermic chemical compound over there, run for your lives" ??? By the time your blog posting gets indexed by Google, I'm sure said man will have long since been a fine red mist.
This is a good thing for people outside of India. I always worry about key loggers, but no systems I use remotely allow me to use any other means of authentication besides passwords. This will make other better systems more common, and more available. But in the mean time, this sucks for them... When I travel, I consider any cyber cafe to be monitored either by the owners or by someone who has installed a trojan as most are running Windows XP as full administrator.
However, for other authentication mechanisms besides passwords you could always use One-Time Pads. As this article explains you can use this at least with FreeBSD (I'm sure others have this implemented as well) to login remotely, type your password in plaintext, and nobody can replay the login as the OTP has changed to the next one. There are even programs for phones/PDAs to generate the next password in the sequence given the initial seed values.
That should be secure enough, assuming that your session doesn't get hijacked for example. And it depends on the cafe you're at to support SSH. As to then logging in to other services and bringing up a GUI, that I don't have any experience with. But for basic server admin and email, it should be adequate.
Interestingly enough, man himself fits that description pretty neatly Unfortunately, man keeps breaking down so we continually have to create new ones.
Maybe if you'd RTFA you would know what glare is. Since you won't, let me help you:
"glare bombs": fixtures that cast much of their light sideways, into the eyes of passersby, or upward, into the sky
Nothing at all to do with windshields though I suppose windshields can magnify the effects of glare.
how do you propose they walk without streetlights?
You're the one who proposed that. The post you responded to mentioned reducing their illumination.
Streetlights were intended to reduce crime, and I'd say they do a pretty good job of that.
From the article:
Crawford pointed out a cluster of mailboxes across the street from his garage. The lighting near the mailboxes was of a type that Crawford calls "criminal-friendly": it was almost painful to look at, and it turned the walkway behind the boxes into an impenetrable void. "The eye adapts to the brightest thing in sight," he said. "When you have glare, the eye adapts to the glare, but then you can't see anything darker."
[...]
Much so-called security lighting is designed with little thought for how eyes--or criminals--operate. Marcus Felson, a professor at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, has concluded that lighting is effective in preventing crime mainly if it enables people to notice criminal activity as it's taking place, and if it doesn't help criminals to see what they're doing. Bright, unshielded floodlights--one of the most common types of outdoor security lighting in the country--often fail on both counts, as do all-night lights installed on isolated structures or on parts of buildings that can't be observed by passersby (such as back doors). A burglar who is forced to use a flashlight, or whose movement triggers a security light controlled by an infrared motion sensor, is much more likely to be spotted than one whose presence is masked by the blinding glare of a poorly placed metal halide "wall pack." In the early seventies, the public-school system in San Antonio, Texas, began leaving many of its school buildings, parking lots, and other property dark at night and found that the no-lights policy not only reduced energy costs but also dramatically cut vandalism.
So there you go. Street lights are good, but if they shine light directly in the eyes of people walking at night, then those people will be unable to see into the shadows, which would be a great place for a mugger to lurk. However, if those street lights are subdued to decent levels and designed to be free of glare then not only can you see your path but your eyes will also still be adjusted for the darkness and you're better able to see what's outside of a brilliantly lit area. There are other benefits too:
Calgary, Alberta, recently cut its electricity expenditures by more than two million dollars a year, by switching to full-cutoff, reduced-wattage street lights.
Reduce the power output of your street lights and save millions. Additionally:
Diminishing the level of nighttime lighting can actually increase visibility. In recent years, the California Department of Transportation has greatly reduced its use of continuous lighting on its highways, and has increased its use of reflectors and other passive guides, which concentrate luminance where drivers need it rather than dispersing it over broad areas. (Passive guides also save money, since they don't require electricity.) F.A.A.-regulated airport runways, though they don't use reflectors, are lit in a somewhat similar fashion, with rows of guidance lights rather than with high-powered floodlights covering broad expanses of macadam. This makes the runways easier for pilots to pick out at night, because the key to visibility, on runways as well as on roads, is contrast.
I used to have the emulator installed but don't anymore. However, I dusted off the old yellowed Apple//c (monitor doesn't seem to work, so typing blind) and entered the now 8 byte program using D0 and you're right... it's not terminating. Ahh... nostalgia!
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Baptism - Is this some new linux distro I haven't heard of? You're thinking of Baptix (Avid Aqua release), but this was later made obselete by Crucifix (Rusty Rail release) which managed to nail down a good balance of features.
But the LDA operation will set the zero flag if it happens to load that value from $C030. So while your program is substantially (ha!) smaller, it will also terminate. Of course, I could be wrong if $C030 never has a zero value. Damn... now you made me dust off my assembly reference. It looks like BVS (Branch on oVerflow Set) would be a suitable replacement as LDA doesn't affect this flag. Awesome... an 11% space savings! Thanks.
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Isn't that like saying that web sites requiring the user to be 18 will earn your web browser an AO rating?
They finally listened to his comments! Now with wireless and *more* space than a Nomad.
People who choose the BSD license grant the freedom to do whatever you want with the binary, but if you distribute the code you must keep the license intact. That's not hypocritical.
The Linux guys could have used the source code and released binaries only, and there would be no problems doing so. However, because they released the source code and didn't reproduce the author's copyright notice and list of conditions, then the argument being presented here is that they have violated that license.
The crux of the matter is whether dual-licensed BSD and GPL code means the code must remain dual-licensed (BSD && GPL) or whether you can choose to throw away one of the licenses and ignore its terms and conditions (BSD || GPL).
Lots of people dream that dream, but know it's just that, a dream. The chances of attaining that are insane. Yet many people regularly play the lottery not just for entertainment value, but thinking that it's the only way they'll get ahead. And most lotteries have jackpot payouts significantly smaller than a billion and at significantly greater odds. So, ignoring all other factors (large hand waving here), it's more likely that you'll become a billionaire than win a few million in a lottery.
"Iapetus was approaching so slowly that it scarcely seemed to move, and it was impossible to tell the exact moment when it made the subtle change from an astronomical body to a landscape, only fifty miles below. The faithful verniers gave their last spurts of thrust, then closed down forever. The ship was in its final orbit, completing a revolution every three hours at a mere eight hundred miles an hour - all the speed that was required in this feeble gravitation field."
After more than 40 years, I cannot remember why I placed the Saturn monolith on Iapetus. The submitter makes it sound like a boast but in reality it's simply saying that enthusiasts will appreciate the reference.
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but I guess that's what makes the code so funny.
To me, this is like rating a novel by listening to an audio book rather than having to read and turn the pages. Yes, you read that right -- some organizations rate a novel without even turning one single page!
But seriously, as long as the content they review is what someone would experience were they to play, what does it matter that the marginal amount of additional context you get from playing is absent? Unless there's a game that shows a mother nursing her newborn child and the ESRB has a form with a checkbox for "Contains nudity", I think if a game is presented roughly in sequence the context should be quite apparent.
"Theres a man in the back with a skimask on holding a complex exothermic chemical compound over there, run for your lives" ??? By the time your blog posting gets indexed by Google, I'm sure said man will have long since been a fine red mist.
http://www.google.com/search?q=information+on+how+the+amateur+grinds+mirrors?+What+kind+of+equipment+do+you+need?
However, for other authentication mechanisms besides passwords you could always use One-Time Pads. As this article explains you can use this at least with FreeBSD (I'm sure others have this implemented as well) to login remotely, type your password in plaintext, and nobody can replay the login as the OTP has changed to the next one. There are even programs for phones/PDAs to generate the next password in the sequence given the initial seed values.
That should be secure enough, assuming that your session doesn't get hijacked for example. And it depends on the cafe you're at to support SSH. As to then logging in to other services and bringing up a GUI, that I don't have any experience with. But for basic server admin and email, it should be adequate.
What about people WALKING at night?
What about them?
they don't experience glair [sic] (no windshield)
Maybe if you'd RTFA you would know what glare is. Since you won't, let me help you:
"glare bombs": fixtures that cast much of their light sideways, into the eyes of passersby, or upward, into the sky
Nothing at all to do with windshields though I suppose windshields can magnify the effects of glare.
how do you propose they walk without streetlights?
You're the one who proposed that. The post you responded to mentioned reducing their illumination.
Streetlights were intended to reduce crime, and I'd say they do a pretty good job of that.
From the article:
Crawford pointed out a cluster of mailboxes across the street from his garage. The lighting near the mailboxes was of a type that Crawford calls "criminal-friendly": it was almost painful to look at, and it turned the walkway behind the boxes into an impenetrable void. "The eye adapts to the brightest thing in sight," he said. "When you have glare, the eye adapts to the glare, but then you can't see anything darker."
[...]
Much so-called security lighting is designed with little thought for how eyes--or criminals--operate. Marcus Felson, a professor at the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, has concluded that lighting is effective in preventing crime mainly if it enables people to notice criminal activity as it's taking place, and if it doesn't help criminals to see what they're doing. Bright, unshielded floodlights--one of the most common types of outdoor security lighting in the country--often fail on both counts, as do all-night lights installed on isolated structures or on parts of buildings that can't be observed by passersby (such as back doors). A burglar who is forced to use a flashlight, or whose movement triggers a security light controlled by an infrared motion sensor, is much more likely to be spotted than one whose presence is masked by the blinding glare of a poorly placed metal halide "wall pack." In the early seventies, the public-school system in San Antonio, Texas, began leaving many of its school buildings, parking lots, and other property dark at night and found that the no-lights policy not only reduced energy costs but also dramatically cut vandalism.
So there you go. Street lights are good, but if they shine light directly in the eyes of people walking at night, then those people will be unable to see into the shadows, which would be a great place for a mugger to lurk. However, if those street lights are subdued to decent levels and designed to be free of glare then not only can you see your path but your eyes will also still be adjusted for the darkness and you're better able to see what's outside of a brilliantly lit area. There are other benefits too:
Calgary, Alberta, recently cut its electricity expenditures by more than two million dollars a year, by switching to full-cutoff, reduced-wattage street lights.
Reduce the power output of your street lights and save millions. Additionally:
Diminishing the level of nighttime lighting can actually increase visibility. In recent years, the California Department of Transportation has greatly reduced its use of continuous lighting on its highways, and has increased its use of reflectors and other passive guides, which concentrate luminance where drivers need it rather than dispersing it over broad areas. (Passive guides also save money, since they don't require electricity.) F.A.A.-regulated airport runways, though they don't use reflectors, are lit in a somewhat similar fashion, with rows of guidance lights rather than with high-powered floodlights covering broad expanses of macadam. This makes the runways easier for pilots to pick out at night, because the key to visibility, on runways as well as on roads, is contrast.
I used to have the emulator installed but don't anymore. However, I dusted off the old yellowed Apple //c (monitor doesn't seem to work, so typing blind) and entered the now 8 byte program using D0 and you're right... it's not terminating. Ahh... nostalgia!
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But the LDA operation will set the zero flag if it happens to load that value from $C030. So while your program is substantially (ha!) smaller, it will also terminate. Of course, I could be wrong if $C030 never has a zero value. Damn... now you made me dust off my assembly reference. It looks like BVS (Branch on oVerflow Set) would be a suitable replacement as LDA doesn't affect this flag. Awesome... an 11% space savings! Thanks.
It's probably about the most audiovisual fun you can have in 9 bytes.
How did you get either of those to run on your Apple II?
Who needs the bloat of Lynx when you can telnet to port 80?