Not to mention schools tend be treated a little rougher than your average office building, so I wonder what the building will look like in five or ten years.
I agree completely about the GPL and profit; however, I would have to add that the Creative Commons license is more restrictive than the GPL. Otherwise I would suspect that the use in question here would be allowed.
They took an image (no argument here - illegally), made minor changes to it and are now commercially distributing it. If the Creative Commons license was similar to the GPL, then as long as the source to the image (the flash presentation could be considered a compiled work) was available - this would be allowed. The Creative Commons is more restrictive than the GPL.
If find it interesting that a license like Troll Tech's is considered so terrible (when it is much like the Creative Commons), but everyone is so understanding about artists rights.
No problem, the truth is a very tricky thing sometimes. Just remember being skeptical is good, but the simplest answer is generally the correct answer. Big conspiracies are more than a little hard to pull off and even harder to maintain. Most of the lies are easily explained within the context of one person screwing up and then trying to hide the screw up.
I do not think the US feels the need to replace them, they (with numerous incremental updates) are still the quietest thing at sea and perfectly suitable for their mission. Of course we have far more than we need with the massive scale back in the Russian fleet (and lack of any other crediable threat above or below the sea), so they are decommisioning the older Ohio's and not replacing. But there are plans to retro fit some of the Ohio's for a more convential problem domain.
Of course there could not be a simpler explaination, could there? I am not saying the goverment never hides secrets, but pick and choose your stories, you sound a little worked up.
To pick a nit, the Virginia class is really an attack sub, optimized for for shallow waters and to be less expensive than the Sea Wolves. Of course it can fire Tomahawk cruise missiles which can carry nuclear weapons, but it is not a ballistic missle sub.
Spending money is always better then a tax cut which is pure flushing money down the drain and doesn't help anyone.
This makes no sense. By this logic, it would be better to tax at 100%, because any money in private hands is obviously flushing it down the toilet right? Now we can argue that the richest Americans do not need a tax cut, I would argue that you can give them a rate cut as long as you threw out 98% of the tax code, so there were no deductions (except for personal deductions - but hey that would rob lawmakers of a primary source of power and influence, so I am not holding my breath...
Not that I actually believe that this is the case, suppose for a moment they could crack PGP. Would not making a big fuss, be a good way to ensure that people who want to hide what they are typing use PGP? If the NSA yawned when you released your newest encryption method, you might spend more time, improving it.
I also have a hunch that much of what the NSA does is probably monitor "social nets" to identify who they need to track (john, talked to jane, we know john was involved in X so now we watch jane and whoever jane talks) - you cannot watch everyone all of the time (at least not yet *sigh*). Once identified (especially domestically), plain old fashion "spy stuff" (keyboard monitors, etc) are far more effective than huge machines cracking codes.
If I were Google, I would implement some form of bandwidth throttle, with a sliding time window per account and per connection. That way it could not be seriously abused.
Otherwise I would see this as a near perfect vehicle for warez/mp3/etc... I huge distributed file system in the sky, it could easily be wrapped accessing it like usenet with no "falling off" the server. You would have a number of "key" accounts that index the data accounts, which distribute the data across any number of accounts and messages in those accounts - all with googles bandwidth.
Might just be me, but that sounds like a pretty big loop hole. I could start a company, charge a monthly fee and hold monthly membership sweepstakes (only for people who were members last month of course, this is not gambling club or anything crass like that of course)?
Given the popularity of lotteries in this country (US), I would think you run a very profitiable business in this manner, keeping a small portion of the monthly dues and running the rest like a big lottery.
First, decide if you want your product to be GPL. If not, then you can't use any GPL code at all, on the level you're talking. If you want to include GPL software on your CD, but your actual program is separate and independent of the GPL stuff, no problem. You must provide sources for the GPL product, but not yours.
Just an aside (and while I would not recommend it, I believe it is legal, but I am also not a lawyer), you cannot statically or dynamically link against a GPL program (access at the function/class level); however, it would be allowed (but against the spirit of the GPL), to rewrite (and distribute) the GPL app with a "public" interface (TCP/IP socket, command line, etc) and then have a seperate (non-GPL) program access the GPL'd program as a "service". Again, I am not recommending this, but I cannot see how the GPL could reasonably prevent it (of course don't be surprised if the maintainer, does not accept your patch).
I have found that using those slow languages and a nice swig of low level goodness after performance tuning to be a very powerful combination. I try to get the problem correct first and optimize as needed.
Spec quality, not material quality. That is they keep the walls where they belong and the floors level. Just because they design homes with lesser materials then they did 120 years ago (when they did not design, but rather over built due to lack of design), does not make either of us wrong.
100+ year old homes are and were much better built than todays homes. They used heavier lumber, solid doors, plaster, etc. Todays homes (despite the prices) are built to keep costs down - they use hollow doors, tresses to minimize lumber, dry wall, etc. If you want a home built the "old" way be prepared to pay much more than the 10% premium for an architect, because it costs more to build a better home and people won't pay for it.
You are missing a rather important point, the cookie cutter developments are generally built by crews that know them - limiting building choices increases quality (hate to see what it would be like otherwise) and decreases cost.
Don't forget the labor involved often does not speak english natively, so that increases the savings involved in training on five plans rather than 30.
Proprietary drivers are not optimal, but they may become a fact of life for newer hardware. Too much of the functionality of many devices (and therefore their advantage in the marketplace) is now in the drivers.
One novel approach would be for the company, in this case Intel, to produce a binary driver and place the source code in some form of trust, to be released when they no longer support the driver or the company no longer feels that the source code would provide an advantage to other companies.
I do not disagree with you on how the current action will lead to special interest groups (e.i. RIAA, MPAA, etc) attempting to get stricter interpretations; however I also see these actions as response on how far copyright law has swung in the opposite direction.
Copyright was originally about exact copies (publishing) and did not create a blury protection of derivative works - this only stifles ideas - what is the public good?
I agree to a point, but if we are talking about a mixed environement where you are using Oracle, I am using DB2, our friend Bob has his data in a legacy ISAM setup and a customer wants to integrate a search system across the tree systems they are going to have to write a lot of custom glue.
If an XML aspect of the data is available (you can still keep it all in Oracle - just provide a "view" of it in XML) from each of us - common search tools and methods can be utilized.
Used to carry mine everywhere too, and then they started taking any tool away from you when you traveled on a plane - now, I have beg and borrow when on the road. Cna't count how many little screw drivers I have had to give up at the airport.
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My favorite has always been:
An engineer, physicist and computer programmer are in a car going down a mountain when the brakes go out. The car accelerates down the slope, tires squealing, slipping danergously at every turn. With a great deal of luck the three make it to the bottom where the car comes to a stop.
The engineer immediately hops out of the car, pops the hood and begins examining the brake system. The physicist grabs his notepad and begins working out the various forces that where acting against the car.
The programmer looks around for a couple minutes and says, "Let's push back to the top and see if it happens again".
Of course if you don't use images.google.com for those searches, they both return exactly that for which you were looking (the second had to be adjusted, too much porn in the world, so the searchs need to be more specific - I saw what you were after without changing the query, but it was not the first link).
I'll be the first to admit we have not pushed it very hard (our app uses a very small and primitive subset of wxWindows), but it has worked well for us. It is also the case that I have not even looked at the OSX port, but have been playing with the Linux frame buffer version, which looks interesting.
Many of the people doing open source work started (and continue) because of their exposure to open source, GNU, etc. Which will be limited if the initial exposure is completely proprietary.
None CS students will be exposed only to MS solutions and when they enter the business world (as our wonderful managers) they will request/require solutions based upon what they already know.
Many venues of higher education are not much more than glorified business schools and their graduates are not getting a good foundation in concepts, but rather are becoming trades(wo)men. And they will be pounding with the only hammer they know.
Microsoft is well aware that controlling education (especially higher eduation) will give the a huge leg up in the future. I'm not sure that if I were in charge of a CS dept. and was offered a large grant even knowing all this I would turn it down, but there is a downside.
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Not to mention schools tend be treated a little rougher than your average office building, so I wonder what the building will look like in five or ten years.
I agree completely about the GPL and profit; however, I would have to add that the Creative Commons license is more restrictive than the GPL. Otherwise I would suspect that the use in question here would be allowed.
They took an image (no argument here - illegally), made minor changes to it and are now commercially distributing it. If the Creative Commons license was similar to the GPL, then as long as the source to the image (the flash presentation could be considered a compiled work) was available - this would be allowed. The Creative Commons is more restrictive than the GPL.
If find it interesting that a license like Troll Tech's is considered so terrible (when it is much like the Creative Commons), but everyone is so understanding about artists rights.
No problem, the truth is a very tricky thing sometimes. Just remember being skeptical is good, but the simplest answer is generally the correct answer. Big conspiracies are more than a little hard to pull off and even harder to maintain. Most of the lies are easily explained within the context of one person screwing up and then trying to hide the screw up.
I do not think the US feels the need to replace them, they (with numerous incremental updates) are still the quietest thing at sea and perfectly suitable for their mission. Of course we have far more than we need with the massive scale back in the Russian fleet (and lack of any other crediable threat above or below the sea), so they are decommisioning the older Ohio's and not replacing. But there are plans to retro fit some of the Ohio's for a more convential problem domain.
Of course there could not be a simpler explaination, could there? I am not saying the goverment never hides secrets, but pick and choose your stories, you sound a little worked up.
To pick a nit, the Virginia class is really an attack sub, optimized for for shallow waters and to be less expensive than the Sea Wolves. Of course it can fire Tomahawk cruise missiles which can carry nuclear weapons, but it is not a ballistic missle sub.
Not that I actually believe that this is the case, suppose for a moment they could crack PGP. Would not making a big fuss, be a good way to ensure that people who want to hide what they are typing use PGP? If the NSA yawned when you released your newest encryption method, you might spend more time, improving it.
I also have a hunch that much of what the NSA does is probably monitor "social nets" to identify who they need to track (john, talked to jane, we know john was involved in X so now we watch jane and whoever jane talks) - you cannot watch everyone all of the time (at least not yet *sigh*). Once identified (especially domestically), plain old fashion "spy stuff" (keyboard monitors, etc) are far more effective than huge machines cracking codes.
If I were Google, I would implement some form of bandwidth throttle, with a sliding time window per account and per connection. That way it could not be seriously abused.
Otherwise I would see this as a near perfect vehicle for warez/mp3/etc... I huge distributed file system in the sky, it could easily be wrapped accessing it like usenet with no "falling off" the server. You would have a number of "key" accounts that index the data accounts, which distribute the data across any number of accounts and messages in those accounts - all with googles bandwidth.
Might just be me, but that sounds like a pretty big loop hole. I could start a company, charge a monthly fee and hold monthly membership sweepstakes (only for people who were members last month of course, this is not gambling club or anything crass like that of course)?
Given the popularity of lotteries in this country (US), I would think you run a very profitiable business in this manner, keeping a small portion of the monthly dues and running the rest like a big lottery.
Just an aside (and while I would not recommend it, I believe it is legal, but I am also not a lawyer), you cannot statically or dynamically link against a GPL program (access at the function/class level); however, it would be allowed (but against the spirit of the GPL), to rewrite (and distribute) the GPL app with a "public" interface (TCP/IP socket, command line, etc) and then have a seperate (non-GPL) program access the GPL'd program as a "service". Again, I am not recommending this, but I cannot see how the GPL could reasonably prevent it (of course don't be surprised if the maintainer, does not accept your patch).
According to the article :grin: they had three; however they failed due to either:
1. Poor maintance by "scab" workers
2. Sabotage by striking maintance works.
(not good either way), but it does answer your question.
It would also provide a minor form of copy protection that could push all the warez kiddies on to linux :-)
I have found that using those slow languages and a nice swig of low level goodness after performance tuning to be a very powerful combination. I try to get the problem correct first and optimize as needed.
Spec quality, not material quality. That is they keep the walls where they belong and the floors level. Just because they design homes with lesser materials then they did 120 years ago (when they did not design, but rather over built due to lack of design), does not make either of us wrong.
100+ year old homes are and were much better built than todays homes. They used heavier lumber, solid doors, plaster, etc. Todays homes (despite the prices) are built to keep costs down - they use hollow doors, tresses to minimize lumber, dry wall, etc. If you want a home built the "old" way be prepared to pay much more than the 10% premium for an architect, because it costs more to build a better home and people won't pay for it.
You are missing a rather important point, the cookie cutter developments are generally built by crews that know them - limiting building choices increases quality (hate to see what it would be like otherwise) and decreases cost.
Don't forget the labor involved often does not speak english natively, so that increases the savings involved in training on five plans rather than 30.
Proprietary drivers are not optimal, but they may become a fact of life for newer hardware. Too much of the functionality of many devices (and therefore their advantage in the marketplace) is now in the drivers.
One novel approach would be for the company, in this case Intel, to produce a binary driver and place the source code in some form of trust, to be released when they no longer support the driver or the company no longer feels that the source code would provide an advantage to other companies.
I do not disagree with you on how the current action will lead to special interest groups (e.i. RIAA, MPAA, etc) attempting to get stricter interpretations; however I also see these actions as response on how far copyright law has swung in the opposite direction.
Copyright was originally about exact copies (publishing) and did not create a blury protection of derivative works - this only stifles ideas - what is the public good?
I agree to a point, but if we are talking about a mixed environement where you are using Oracle, I am using DB2, our friend Bob has his data in a legacy ISAM setup and a customer wants to integrate a search system across the tree systems they are going to have to write a lot of custom glue.
If an XML aspect of the data is available (you can still keep it all in Oracle - just provide a "view" of it in XML) from each of us - common search tools and methods can be utilized.
Used to carry mine everywhere too, and then they started taking any tool away from you when you traveled on a plane - now, I have beg and borrow when on the road. Cna't count how many little screw drivers I have had to give up at the airport.
My favorite has always been:
An engineer, physicist and computer programmer are in a car going down a mountain when the brakes go out. The car accelerates down the slope, tires squealing, slipping danergously at every turn. With a great deal of luck the three make it to the bottom where the car comes to a stop.
The engineer immediately hops out of the car, pops the hood and begins examining the brake system. The physicist grabs his notepad and begins working out the various forces that where acting against the car.
The programmer looks around for a couple minutes and says, "Let's push back to the top and see if it happens again".
I will second the PCS and raise you a Worthing Distribution as a good supplier. And don't forget about Applied Digital for your controllers.
Of course if you don't use images.google.com for those searches, they both return exactly that for which you were looking (the second had to be adjusted, too much porn in the world, so the searchs need to be more specific - I saw what you were after without changing the query, but it was not the first link).
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I'll be the first to admit we have not pushed it very hard (our app uses a very small and primitive subset of wxWindows), but it has worked well for us. It is also the case that I have not even looked at the OSX port, but have been playing with the Linux frame buffer version, which looks interesting.
Microsoft is well aware that controlling education (especially higher eduation) will give the a huge leg up in the future. I'm not sure that if I were in charge of a CS dept. and was offered a large grant even knowing all this I would turn it down, but there is a downside.