Shared screen? Why not just run 12 VMs and have everybody share mouse and keyboard too. Form a line, everybody gets 1 min of play then hit ctrl-alt-esc and on to the next guy. Super fun times!
Lots of posters say unoriginal movies are lame but seriously given the budget what did you expect?! If you want originality go read a book. But what I think is amazing is how it packed in so many ideas from modern sci/fi and fantasy in a single movie with a coherent plotline.
Dragonriders of Pern (need I say more) Phaze/Proton world of Piers Anthony -- In the inevitable sequel we'll find that "unobtanium" is what makes Pandora's biology cool... Orson Scott Card (Speaker for the Dead, specifically containing conscious trees, and particularly all the issues around human/alien relations) Piers Anthony's Cluster series "Thousandstar" and "Viscous Circle" (Pushing your consciousness into another living creature) Issues around technology disparities between intelligent aliens (in Orson Scott Card and so many others) Dune spice mining The Gaia hypothesis (in too many novels to count). The mechwarrior suits.
If only it had a computer network spontaneously generate consiousness it would have EVERYTHING! I guess they wanted to leave room for a sequel!
Traditional open source licenses like GPL create a hard-to-cross chasm between it and traditional economics; essentially you can trade code for code, but cannot trade code for anything else (with the traditional medium of that trade being $).
Imagine if some highly successful OSS product "expanded" GPL to include a monetary contribution clause (i.e if you don't want copyleft then just pay X -- instead of contributing code the licensor has the option to contribute money). That money could trivially be used to hire programmers and therefore be converted back into code... or used to pay contributers.
Of course this opens up a huge can of worms, like who gets paid how much (I think that it was very wise for OSS and GPL to steer clear of these issues during its incubation period). As many people have posted, a "trust network" can only be part of the equation... I think that a more quantitative algorithm could be created that captures contributions in code, docs, and community. But the big problem with any quantitative algorithm is that people could change their style to trick the algorithm into thinking they contributed more; for example, to fake out SLOC counts its pretty easy to deliberately write large amounts of code to do small jobs. Enter the trust network; perhaps it can be used to catch and regulate abusers.
What if to join the forum something was buried in the agreement like "you agree that any code or comments that you post are released to the public domain for others to use and modify"?
I haven't checked for this sort of thing but if I was administrating one of these forums, I'd certainly have put something like this in the terms-of-use. After all, as many people have pointed out disallowing use of posted code runs counter to the purpose of the forum.
My question is whether a term like this in a use agreement can override the implicit copyright.
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Shared screen? Why not just run 12 VMs and have everybody share mouse and keyboard too. Form a line, everybody gets 1 min of play then hit ctrl-alt-esc and on to the next guy. Super fun times!
What about a "contributor license agreement" that lets the main company release your stuff under a commercial license?
Lots of posters say unoriginal movies are lame but seriously given the budget what did you expect?! If you want originality go read a book. But what I think is amazing is how it packed in so many ideas from modern sci/fi and fantasy in a single movie with a coherent plotline.
Dragonriders of Pern (need I say more)
Phaze/Proton world of Piers Anthony -- In the inevitable sequel we'll find that "unobtanium" is what makes Pandora's biology cool...
Orson Scott Card (Speaker for the Dead, specifically containing conscious trees, and particularly all the issues around human/alien relations)
Piers Anthony's Cluster series "Thousandstar" and "Viscous Circle" (Pushing your consciousness into another living creature)
Issues around technology disparities between intelligent aliens (in Orson Scott Card and so many others)
Dune spice mining
The Gaia hypothesis (in too many novels to count).
The mechwarrior suits.
If only it had a computer network spontaneously generate consiousness it would have EVERYTHING! I guess they wanted to leave room for a sequel!
Traditional open source licenses like GPL create a hard-to-cross chasm between it and traditional economics; essentially you can trade code for code, but cannot trade code for anything else (with the traditional medium of that trade being $).
Imagine if some highly successful OSS product "expanded" GPL to include a monetary contribution clause (i.e if you don't want copyleft then just pay X -- instead of contributing code the licensor has the option to contribute money). That money could trivially be used to hire programmers and therefore be converted back into code... or used to pay contributers.
Of course this opens up a huge can of worms, like who gets paid how much (I think that it was very wise for OSS and GPL to steer clear of these issues during its incubation period). As many people have posted, a "trust network" can only be part of the equation... I think that a more quantitative algorithm could be created that captures contributions in code, docs, and community. But the big problem with any quantitative algorithm is that people could change their style to trick the algorithm into thinking they contributed more; for example, to fake out SLOC counts its pretty easy to deliberately write large amounts of code to do small jobs. Enter the trust network; perhaps it can be used to catch and regulate abusers.
I've expanded on the idea in my blog here: http://effluviaofascatteredmind.blogspot.com/2009/03/thoughts-on-gpl-open-company-concept.html. I think I've already exceeded what most slashdot readers really want to read :-).
What if to join the forum something was buried in the agreement like "you agree that any code or comments that you post are released to the public domain for others to use and modify"?
I haven't checked for this sort of thing but if I was administrating one of these forums, I'd certainly have put something like this in the terms-of-use. After all, as many people have pointed out disallowing use of posted code runs counter to the purpose of the forum.
My question is whether a term like this in a use agreement can override the implicit copyright.
Thin? TFA says its based on Ubuntu!
Looks like it wouldn't work for left handed people at all...