The GPL does not require you to re-implement, however, if you refuse to adhere to the GPL which made the code available to you in the first place then yes you must re-implement
I'd just like to not that re-implement DOES NOT mean that one removes the old copyright and attribution, and slaps their own on the code.
Seeing a large and fairly complex piece of code I worked on for years appear as a contribution to a major open source project, WITH SOMEONE ELSES NAME AND COPYRIGHT plastered on the files pretty much soured me on the 'open source' movement. I'm sure there's lots of good work out there, but it just takes a few petty thieves and an egomaniac or two to taint a community.
The chip is a foreign object in the body, a glass capsule. It's not surprising that the body reacts to it in some way, trying to encapsulate it. These devices also include a coating to promote growth of connective tissue in the vicinity of the device so as to anchor it and prevent movement of the capsule.
So, what we have here is a biologically active foreign object. This result is, unfortunately, not surprising.
So, will Citywatcher.com be laying off their data center workers as being 'at-risk' for higher future medical costs?
We've just received word from one of our friends inside AT&T that the US carrier has been successful in their attempts to lockdown the GPS functionality in their upcoming BlackBerry 8820 so that the only functioning 3rd party software will be TeleNav.
TeleNav. That would be the mapping service that AT&T will allow, rather than one of the third party ones that one can get for free or at minimal cost, often using Google Maps.
I wonder if there is a reason AT&T might prefer TeleNav? Perhaps because it is a product that AT&T sells?
TeleNav GPS Navigator TeleNav GPS Navigator Basic: $5.99 per month per device for 10 routes* TeleNav GPS Navigator Premium: $9.99 per month per device for unlimited routes*
*A route is determined when a user types in the address of their destination in the TeleNav GPS Navigator application. The route would be from their starting location to the address/destination they originally entered into the application. That would be considered 1 route. If you miss a turn, re-routes are automatically sent to your device and are still considered part of the original route.
TeleNav Track (Mobile Workforce Management) TeleNav Track Basic: $12.99 a month per device TeleNav Track Premium: $21.99 a month per device
Please note: There is a one-time set up fee of $19.99 per device and eligible data plan.
I don't know. Does anyone here think that there might be a profit motive involved, instead of this whole 'won't show up the iPhone' wankage? Probably not. I can't see a company as altruistic as AT&T doing something for profits. Can you?
I can't believe the/. moderators du jour rated this +4 Informative.
That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is.
Can we stop pretending we're going to send astronauts to Mars?
Of course. Think of all the urgent projects we need to fund here, like bridges to nowhere in Alaska, or touring polka groups to entertain the few troops remaining on their bases in the South, or replacing all that spent ammunition and broken military hardware, or invading Iran.
Stop wasting money in space, and lets get on with our proper business of wasting money here on Earth while killing each other off. It's our real purpose in life, after all.
The primary questions of computer science are not of computational possibilities but of expressional possibilities. Computer science does not need a theory of computation; it needs a comprehensive theory of process expression."
And for those expressional possibilities that are not computable? It's not like they won't occur in the Real World.
Actually, it occurs to me that we may have already reached a point of mathematical illiteracy among those practicing computer programming. At least once a month I see a problem report or feature request from one of our so-called 'software engineers' that reduces to a request that we disprove RIce's Theorem [1] or Godel's incompleteness theorems [2]. These do have a certain entertainment value, although I have recently been told not to toy with the employee's minds and so am somewhat restricted in how much entertainment I can derive from them.
Greenpeace has responded already, demanding more action, specifically, the products being green from the outset
In other news, Apple will be introducing a line of macrobiotic vegan hemp-based iPods. The devices are rumored to be slippery and have poor battery life, however.
However, Apple and several thousand other companies were surprised to learn that their understanding of FASB 123 might be flawed, and so the Federal Accounting Standards Board issued a clarification in December 2004, the cleverly named Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), more commonly known as FASB 123R.
Now, it will be intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer that there are certain technical differences between these documents, extending beyond mere thickness and into the mystical realm of public accountancy. I won't belabor the obvious by going into details of the audits and revisions that resulted from this event.
A programmer can get a good job maintaining software, if there is insufficient public interest to do this
OK, seems pretty clear to me. My five years of work to create something new are worthless to you, but if I do a sufficiently poor job of it, you're willing to slip me a few kroner to fix bugs in it.
Sounds like the take-home lesson is to not waste effort on the original software to make it robust or bug-free, just crank out something flashy, and make it up selling bugfixes on the backside. Nice. Think about that next time you hop onto a modern fly-by-wire aircraft...
As Pirates (I am a member of the Swedish Pirate Party) we believe there is no inherent right in getting paid for copies. We do however believe in a right to charge for performing a work.
So, it's OK to make free copies of my software, but you are willing to pay for a live performance?
In that case, I think I'll book Stockholms Konserthus for a very special performance of Der WindowServer, with some very special appearances from little-seen system software.
Now, I need to strap 110 college educated French speakers in parallel, tied to the output of wikiedia.fr...
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The AppleTV was designed by the makers of ElGato's EyeTV. Apple literally walked into ElGato and took their entire development team for it
Um. No.
So all this really is is just a crippled version of a product Apple bought and killed.
This turns out not to be the case.
The "hard apple" I'm sleeping on was the fact that I own an EyeTV and this immediately became unsupported when Apple "bought" the ElGato developers.
I dunno, Stimpy. I think maybe someone pushed the History Eraser button, because in my universe ElGato seems to be in business and providing support.
Funny story: I have this shiny new ElGato EyeTV Hybrid here, recording Lost from the local HD broadcast, and set to transcode it to H.264 and add it to iTunes. Once it hits iTunes, it also will be synced to the shiny little box upstairs. ElGato seems to be supporting their product.
"... could use these small UAVs, which have a wingspan of only a few meters, to deliver biological agents to its neighbors or if transported, to other countries, including the United States." -- Secretary of State Colin Powell in a presentation before the U.N. Security Council, February 5, 2003
Oh, snap! These are just students trying to set a new endurance record. The purity and essence of our natural... fluids are not at risk. Surely we must issue the recall code immediately.
As specified by the employer. You forgot that part.
'Competitive' in the Silicon Valley, an area with a very high cost of living, is being defined as just under 40K/year for a Level 1 Engineer. That's the bottom quintile of starting salaries for a person with a title 'Engineer' in the DOL western region. After the H-1B wage slave pays taxes, and placement fees to the H-1B agency (or worse, works directly through such an agency structured as a consulting firm that takes a substantial cut off the top) there's not much left beyond the basics of food and housing.
When job reqs get that specific, it means that there already someone with exactly the same qualifications working for them, most likely an H1B and or someone with F1-practical-training waiting to become H1B. These adverts are crafted to reduce or reject other applicants, not to select any.
Good news, everyone! The Department of Labor has addressed this, and employers no longer need to pretend that they tried to hire someone that was already in the US.
The Department of Labor has published it's strategic 5 Year Plan.
Under Performance Goal 2H, "Address worker shortages through the Foreign Labor Certification Program", we find:
"H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker."
Isn't that special? I could bring in a new hire H1-B at what DOL thinks are the prevailing wages for Engineers, a whole 40K/year in Silicon Valley (Level 1 Engineer, DOL stats!), and I can use them to displace overpriced US college grads. Pretty slick. Of course the displaced workers can be retrained to something more appropriate.
Microsoft have a policy of not employing software engineers over 30 - apparently, according to Bill Gates, a software engineers skills peak at age 26, and goes downhill from then on.
That can't be a real engineer, then. A person who wants to become an engineer has to take and pass the Fundamentals of Engineering/Engineer in Training examination, a seriously difficult exam (all day, about 8 hours) that requires knowledge at the Bachelor Degree level. The exam is often taken after the graduate has been in the workforce for a year or so. After passing the FE/EIT, the prospective engineer has to work several years (typically 4-5 years) in an Engineering position that the state board finds acceptable, and then must pass another exam, the Professional Engineers Examination, before they are credentialed as an Engineer.
You just don't find many people at age 26 in the engineering community that have acquired a Professional Engineer's license, and, to be blunt, I wouldn't consider them to be at the peak of their profession for many years after that.
Now, if you are looking for a coding drone who can type out reams of C++ really fast to a predefined specification, well, that's different. That's a skill more analogous to a construction laborer than to an engineer. Being able to set forms really quickly doesn't make one qualified to design a bridge.
I bought a copy of "Destroy All Humans 2" for my PlayStation. It won't play in my XBox. Microsoft says I have to buy another copy for the XBox.
I invented an interesting technology. My business partners all insist on using it. Now the government has noticed, and insists I provide it to non-partners and competitors on an equal basis to my partners.
"'Once a long, long time ago, when I was a little boy, another little boy, equally young and foolish, and I formed a club. Just the two of us. Since we had a club, we had to have rules...and the first rule we passed--unanimously, I should add--was that henceforth we would always call our mothers, 'Crosspatch.' Silly, of course...but we were very young. Mr. Kung, can you deduce the outcome of that rule?' 'I won't guess, Dr. Harshaw.' 'I tried to implement our 'Crosspatch' decision once. Once was enough and it saved my chum from making the same mistake. All it got me was my bottom well warmed with a peach switch. And that was the end of the 'Crosspatch' decision.' -- Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Congratulations, Norway, on your "Crosspatch Decision"
is that these guys are not officers of the company, or employees. They are stockholders.
These two gentlemen founded what was a perfectly legal business in the Isle of Man, Neteller PLC, in 1999. Mr Lawrence resigned as a non-executive director of the Company on 13 October 2006 having stepped down as non-executive chairman of the Company on 11 May 2006. Mr Lefebvre resigned as a non-executive director of the Company on 15 December 2005.
With the passage of the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006" the activities of Neteller PLC in regard to transferring funds of US citizens for the purpose of gambling became illegal.
Think it through. If you founded, or are an 'owner' by virtue of stock holdings, of a company whose activities are declared illegal somewhere in the world, and you happen to pass through a territory of that country, you could be held, your passport take away, without recourse. Before you hop on that next international flight, is every company in your retirement plan's mutual funds squeaky clean in all places you might touch down?
It's also interesting that this "report" came out a couple days before December stock options expiration
Actually, the report was issued on December 6, presumably to whoever had ordered it. The report was then released to the press three trading days later, on Dec 11, with the first headline reports proclaiming a fall crossing the wire services later Monday.
Hypothetically one could easily establish a large short position over three days without too much impact on the stock price, and then cover that short during the high volume of a panic selloff during the last 70-80 minutes of trading on Tuesday.
Of course, nobody in the stock market or the independent analyst business would actually do such a thing, as that would be unethical.
Slashdot Mirror
The GPL does not require you to re-implement, however, if you refuse to adhere to the GPL which made the code available to you in the first place then yes you must re-implement
I'd just like to not that re-implement DOES NOT mean that one removes the old copyright and attribution, and slaps their own on the code.
Seeing a large and fairly complex piece of code I worked on for years appear as a contribution to a major open source project, WITH SOMEONE ELSES NAME AND COPYRIGHT plastered on the files pretty much soured me on the 'open source' movement. I'm sure there's lots of good work out there, but it just takes a few petty thieves and an egomaniac or two to taint a community.
Good times. Bankruptcy, so SCOX stock gets written down as worthless, and I never have to cover.
The chip is a foreign object in the body, a glass capsule. It's not surprising that the body reacts to it in some way, trying to encapsulate it. These devices also include a coating to promote growth of connective tissue in the vicinity of the device so as to anchor it and prevent movement of the capsule.
So, what we have here is a biologically active foreign object. This result is, unfortunately, not surprising.
So, will Citywatcher.com be laying off their data center workers as being 'at-risk' for higher future medical costs?
Finally I can filter out all the deadly tritium oxide...
We've just received word from one of our friends inside AT&T that the US carrier has been successful in their attempts to lockdown the GPS functionality in their upcoming BlackBerry 8820 so that the only functioning 3rd party software will be TeleNav.
TeleNav. That would be the mapping service that AT&T will allow, rather than one of the third party ones that one can get for free or at minimal cost, often using Google Maps.
I wonder if there is a reason AT&T might prefer TeleNav? Perhaps because it is a product that AT&T sells?
http://www.wireless.att.com/businesscenter/popup/
I don't know. Does anyone here think that there might be a profit motive involved, instead of this whole 'won't show up the iPhone' wankage? Probably not. I can't see a company as altruistic as AT&T doing something for profits. Can you?
+5 Funny!
/. moderators du jour rated this +4 Informative.
I can't believe the
That's a joke, son. A flag waver. You're built too low. The fast ones go over your head. Ya got a hole in your glove. I keep pitchin' 'em and you keep missin' 'em. Ya gotta keep your eye on the ball. Eye. Ball. I almost had a gag, son. Joke, that is.
Can we stop pretending we're going to send astronauts to Mars?
Of course. Think of all the urgent projects we need to fund here, like bridges to nowhere in Alaska, or touring polka groups to entertain the few troops remaining on their bases in the South, or replacing all that spent ammunition and broken military hardware, or invading Iran.
Stop wasting money in space, and lets get on with our proper business of wasting money here on Earth while killing each other off. It's our real purpose in life, after all.
The primary questions of computer science are not of computational possibilities but of expressional possibilities. Computer science does not need a theory of computation; it needs a comprehensive theory of process expression."
s _theorem/
And for those expressional possibilities that are not computable? It's not like they won't occur in the Real World.
Actually, it occurs to me that we may have already reached a point of mathematical illiteracy among those practicing computer programming. At least once a month I see a problem report or feature request from one of our so-called 'software engineers' that reduces to a request that we disprove RIce's Theorem [1] or Godel's incompleteness theorems [2]. These do have a certain entertainment value, although I have recently been told not to toy with the employee's minds and so am somewhat restricted in how much entertainment I can derive from them.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice's_theorem/
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gdel's_incompletenes
Greenpeace has responded already, demanding more action, specifically, the products being green from the outset
In other news, Apple will be introducing a line of macrobiotic vegan hemp-based iPods. The devices are rumored to be slippery and have poor battery life, however.
Just remember, contributions to Greenpeace are not tax-deductible.
Apple had been operating under the common interpretation of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123:
http://www.fasb.org/pdf/fas123.pdf Oct 1995, 134 pages
However, Apple and several thousand other companies were surprised to learn that their understanding of FASB 123 might be flawed, and so the Federal Accounting Standards Board issued a clarification in December 2004, the cleverly named Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), more commonly known as FASB 123R.
http://www.fasb.org/pdf/fas123r.pdf Dec 2004, 286 pages
Now, it will be intuitively obvious to even the most casual observer that there are certain technical differences between these documents, extending beyond mere thickness and into the mystical realm of public accountancy. I won't belabor the obvious by going into details of the audits and revisions that resulted from this event.
Ground troops, you say? Through a tunnel between Asia and North America?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061387/
A programmer can get a good job maintaining software, if there is insufficient public interest to do this
OK, seems pretty clear to me. My five years of work to create something new are worthless to you, but if I do a sufficiently poor job of it, you're willing to slip me a few kroner to fix bugs in it.
Sounds like the take-home lesson is to not waste effort on the original software to make it robust or bug-free, just crank out something flashy, and make it up selling bugfixes on the backside. Nice. Think about that next time you hop onto a modern fly-by-wire aircraft...
As Pirates (I am a member of the Swedish Pirate Party) we believe there is no inherent right in getting paid for copies. We do however believe in a right to charge for performing a work.
So, it's OK to make free copies of my software, but you are willing to pay for a live performance?
In that case, I think I'll book Stockholms Konserthus for a very special performance of Der WindowServer, with some very special appearances from little-seen system software.
Y'all buy some tickets, now!
Quiet, coppertop. Get back to work.
Now, I need to strap 110 college educated French speakers in parallel, tied to the output of wikiedia.fr...
The AppleTV was designed by the makers of ElGato's EyeTV. Apple literally walked into ElGato and took their entire development team for it
Um. No.
So all this really is is just a crippled version of a product Apple bought and killed.
This turns out not to be the case.
The "hard apple" I'm sleeping on was the fact that I own an EyeTV and this immediately became unsupported when Apple "bought" the ElGato developers.
I dunno, Stimpy. I think maybe someone pushed the History Eraser button, because in my universe ElGato seems to be in business and providing support.
Funny story: I have this shiny new ElGato EyeTV Hybrid here, recording Lost from the local HD broadcast, and set to transcode it to H.264 and add it to iTunes. Once it hits iTunes, it also will be synced to the shiny little box upstairs. ElGato seems to be supporting their product.
"... could use these small UAVs, which have a wingspan of only a few meters, to deliver biological agents to its neighbors or if transported, to other countries, including the United States."
-- Secretary of State Colin Powell in a presentation before the U.N. Security Council, February 5, 2003
Oh, snap! These are just students trying to set a new endurance record. The purity and essence of our natural... fluids are not at risk. Surely we must issue the recall code immediately.
No H1B requires competitive pay
As specified by the employer. You forgot that part.
'Competitive' in the Silicon Valley, an area with a very high cost of living, is being defined as just under 40K/year for a Level 1 Engineer. That's the bottom quintile of starting salaries for a person with a title 'Engineer' in the DOL western region. After the H-1B wage slave pays taxes, and placement fees to the H-1B agency (or worse, works directly through such an agency structured as a consulting firm that takes a substantial cut off the top) there's not much left beyond the basics of food and housing.
When job reqs get that specific, it means that there already someone with exactly the same qualifications working for them, most likely an H1B and or someone with F1-practical-training waiting to become H1B. These adverts are crafted to reduce or reject other applicants, not to select any.
- 2011.pdf
Good news, everyone! The Department of Labor has addressed this, and employers no longer need to pretend that they tried to hire someone that was already in the US.
The Department of Labor has published it's strategic 5 Year Plan.
http://www.dol.gov/_sec/stratplan/strat_plan_2006
Under Performance Goal 2H, "Address worker shortages through the Foreign Labor Certification Program", we find:
"H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker."
Isn't that special? I could bring in a new hire H1-B at what DOL thinks are the prevailing wages for Engineers, a whole 40K/year in Silicon Valley (Level 1 Engineer, DOL stats!), and I can use them to displace overpriced US college grads. Pretty slick. Of course the displaced workers can be retrained to something more appropriate.
Repeat after me:
"Do you want fries with that?"
Microsoft have a policy of not employing software engineers over 30 - apparently, according to Bill Gates, a software engineers skills peak at age 26, and goes downhill from then on.
That can't be a real engineer, then. A person who wants to become an engineer has to take and pass the Fundamentals of Engineering/Engineer in Training examination, a seriously difficult exam (all day, about 8 hours) that requires knowledge at the Bachelor Degree level. The exam is often taken after the graduate has been in the workforce for a year or so. After passing the FE/EIT, the prospective engineer has to work several years (typically 4-5 years) in an Engineering position that the state board finds acceptable, and then must pass another exam, the Professional Engineers Examination, before they are credentialed as an Engineer.
You just don't find many people at age 26 in the engineering community that have acquired a Professional Engineer's license, and, to be blunt, I wouldn't consider them to be at the peak of their profession for many years after that.
Now, if you are looking for a coding drone who can type out reams of C++ really fast to a predefined specification, well, that's different. That's a skill more analogous to a construction laborer than to an engineer. Being able to set forms really quickly doesn't make one qualified to design a bridge.
I bought a copy of "Destroy All Humans 2" for my PlayStation. It won't play in my XBox. Microsoft says I have to buy another copy for the XBox.
I invented an interesting technology. My business partners all insist on using it. Now the government has noticed, and insists I provide it to non-partners and competitors on an equal basis to my partners.
"'Once a long, long time ago, when I was a little boy, another little boy, equally young and foolish, and I formed a club. Just the two of us. Since we had a club, we had to have rules...and the first rule we passed--unanimously, I should add--was that henceforth we would always call our mothers, 'Crosspatch.' Silly, of course...but we were very young. Mr. Kung, can you deduce the outcome of that rule?'
'I won't guess, Dr. Harshaw.'
'I tried to implement our 'Crosspatch' decision once. Once was enough and it saved my chum from making the same mistake. All it got me was my bottom well warmed with a peach switch. And that was the end of the 'Crosspatch' decision.'
-- Robert A Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Congratulations, Norway, on your "Crosspatch Decision"
is that these guys are not officers of the company, or employees. They are stockholders.
These two gentlemen founded what was a perfectly legal business in the Isle of Man, Neteller PLC, in 1999. Mr Lawrence resigned as a non-executive director of the Company on 13 October 2006 having stepped down as non-executive chairman of the Company on 11 May 2006. Mr Lefebvre resigned as a non-executive director of the Company on 15 December 2005.
With the passage of the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006" the activities of Neteller PLC in regard to transferring funds of US citizens for the purpose of gambling became illegal.
Think it through. If you founded, or are an 'owner' by virtue of stock holdings, of a company whose activities are declared illegal somewhere in the world, and you happen to pass through a territory of that country, you could be held, your passport take away, without recourse. Before you hop on that next international flight, is every company in your retirement plan's mutual funds squeaky clean in all places you might touch down?
as being utterly clueless?
No, no. It's all better now. The web site has put references to Apple Computer, Inc on her client list down the memory hole.
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth."
-- 1984
It's also interesting that this "report" came out a couple days before December stock options expiration
Actually, the report was issued on December 6, presumably to whoever had ordered it. The report was then released to the press three trading days later, on Dec 11, with the first headline reports proclaiming a fall crossing the wire services later Monday.
Hypothetically one could easily establish a large short position over three days without too much impact on the stock price, and then cover that short during the high volume of a panic selloff during the last 70-80 minutes of trading on Tuesday.
Of course, nobody in the stock market or the independent analyst business would actually do such a thing, as that would be unethical.