I think laser missile defense systems are cool and the ABL as well. But it was cancelled for a reason. It is just not cost effective. Nor is it practical against countries with reasonably decent missile technology. Heck even Pakistan probably has solid fueled vehicles as well. If there is one thing I have found puzzling about North Korea is why is their missile program so obsolete. They keep making their Nodong and Taepodong missiles which keep having launch failures while even Iran and Pakistan manage to do better. Weird considering they were the source of the technology (supposedly) to begin with.
If you are bothering with lawyers you are probably doing it wrong anyway. "Check GPL compliance"? Heck, IANAL and I can understand the clauses of the GPL perfectly fine. The GPL is not anti-corporate. It is anti-closed source. Several corporations were built on GPLed software which would not have been otherwise like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, or Akamai. If you are in the business of selling software you have a problem. If you are in the business of providing solutions to customers you are not. So of course, money hoarders do not like the GPL, it shrinks their profits to everyone's benefit.
There is no argument. Apple is a wannabe corporate monopolist as usual. They will be rendered into a pile of ashes by a slew of Android devices in a decade or two. People will think of them then like they think of Palm now. People do not want specialized devices if there is a general purpose device available at the same price even if it has inferior usability. This is why smartphones killed PDAs, will kill handheld game consoles, handheld TVs, etc. This is also why the PC killed the typewriter.
Apple wants to get other people's work for free but does not want them to be able to use their own devices for whichever purposes they want to. The guy which did their famous '1984' superbowl commercial is either turning in his grave now or laughing himself to pieces.
They counted with their hands and feet (base 20 system) if that ain't kewl what is? Of course the thing is, people (particularly journalists) never quite understand the Mayans properly. The thing is just like we have leap years to correct the fact that the year isn't exactly 365 days they had a similar corrective system once a couple of decades were past where they added extra days. These days were in tradition associated with harmful events or whatever so they were usually holydays were people did nothing at all! Then there is the fact that they essentially did not bother extending that basic calendar past a certain year because they saw no use for it (they went extinct like in the XVIth century?). They do have a calendar system which is basically infinite but is seldom used. So the "end of the Mayan calendar" is a bit like the "end of the 32-bit Unix time_t epoch". A big DUH!
Uh, I already read stuff like The Prince from Project Guttenberg and it wasn't terrible at all. There is so much literature from the XIXth century or before to read that you would be hard pressed to read it all. Of course they do not sell because they do not cost anything duh.
Leakage was handled in several ways. Materials technology in semiconductor manufacturing (in particular CPU manufacturing) advanced a lot in the last decade and a half. It used to be chips were all made from polysilicon. Eventually as the transistors got smaller closer to the nanoscale there was work done on new materials (so called low-k and high-k materials). You probably heard about names such as Black Diamond low-k or Hafnium high-k (aka metal gates) along the way. These reduced the leakage issue. Instead of using aluminum for the wires today we use copper to reduce power consumption because copper is a better conductor. Then there is germanium doping to produce so called 'strained silicon' so that the silicon atoms are further apart to improve electron mobility. Taking these material changes and a couple of design changes today's processors are clocking higher than they were 10 years ago even if not at the rate Intel used to predict back then. You probably noticed by now we are either hitting or close to hitting 4 GHz on CPUs while not so long ago they used to be 2 GHz or less with regular air cooling.
Today people are either doing chip stacking (e.g. on cellphones it is common to stack the DRAM and Flash on top of the CPU module) to make the system more compact. Then there are people working on so called vertical transistors and trigate transistors instead of using regular planar transistors. Ivy Bridge for example is the first processor featuring trigate transistors which is one reason for its low power consumption and reduced leakage over Sandy Bridge. It has been more trouble than usual but it seems everything is ok for the next two process shrinks to work in technological terms. Ultimately we will see the whole system on a chip and CPU/GPU integration is simply the first step with DRAM probably following soon afterwards.
Apple produces crippleware. e.g. if I have an iPhone with an USB cable I cannot use the Flash as a regular storage device. I can only access files generated by the camera app. Ridiculous. I have to use iTunes software and only transfer signed or otherwise applications. Then there are other issues like not having smartcard support for removable storage like most Android phones have, or forbidding certain types of applications such as emulators. It's my hardware, I bought it for several times what it cost to manufacture in China with their slave workers, so I damned well should be able to choose what to do with it.
Have you ever read an Apple license agreement? They seem to change them on a quarterly basis and they keep getting more omnious and Big Brotherish as time passes.
The main people at cause for the anti-GPL licensing bullshit with projects that matter today are Apple and Google. The thing is, its biting them in the ass. Google got slapped with an Oracle lawsuit for copying Java since IIRC they are using pieces of Harmony code. Apple is eventually bound to be bitten by some obscure compiler patent lawsuit against clang eventually.
Some of us have used more permissive licenses in the past to find our code used by someone else who doesn't even bother to say hello or mention your name anywhere even if the only thing they changed was the boot screen. So we prefer the GPL family of licenses. Of course you are free to use whichever license you want. Even Stallman is fine with other people using the MIT license.
For an EU military to be formed, the EU nations with strategic weapons should have an agreement on standardized nuclear weapon systems and possibly cooperation in some platform design. This means the UK and France. Regarding conventional forces I think the Rapid Reaction Force is the wrong way of doing things. Had it been done under a different environment the layout would be quite different.
As far as Milosevic goes if the US had not intervened some sort of EU armed forces would eventually be formed. Necessity always breeds a solution. Which is probably the reason the US intervened so quickly in the first case. In fact France and the UK had already done joint military actions in the 1950s when Anthony Eden was Prime-Minister. However US-Soviet meddling during the Suez crisis promptly deflated any chance of that happening. The fact is the US and the Soviet Union wanted to wrest control from the European powers post WWII once they were weakened by the war by whatever means.
In that case you should kick France and Germany out of the Euro zone as well, since they were among the first to break the fiscal responsibility pact they wrote themselves!
There was a cease fire and there is a DMZ line with barbed wire and ditches demarcating the two territories. Troops regularly patrol both sides of the DMZ. South Korea has recently started experimenting with automated gun turrets to reduce the required manpower. The US stations some 28K troops in South Korea proper and more in Japan.
That was what Saddam and Gaddafi did. They suspended weapon testing and missile launches, dissassembled their rocket artillery forces for food aid. They eventually got invaded. I think the NKPR is not very willing to see what will happen the 3rd time. So yes of course they will retain their rocket artillery forces and nuclear weapon research and development.
Nuclear weapons were already small enough you could store one in a suitcase or use them as mortar rounds (see W54). Soon it would be like in Heinlein's Starship troopers where personnel were assigned nuclear hand grenades or somesuch. After all those proxy wars after WWII the two major powers decided to remove all portable nuclear weapons where possible to ensure few people had access to the weapons triggering a conflict of some sort.
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I think laser missile defense systems are cool and the ABL as well. But it was cancelled for a reason. It is just not cost effective. Nor is it practical against countries with reasonably decent missile technology. Heck even Pakistan probably has solid fueled vehicles as well. If there is one thing I have found puzzling about North Korea is why is their missile program so obsolete. They keep making their Nodong and Taepodong missiles which keep having launch failures while even Iran and Pakistan manage to do better. Weird considering they were the source of the technology (supposedly) to begin with.
If you are bothering with lawyers you are probably doing it wrong anyway. "Check GPL compliance"? Heck, IANAL and I can understand the clauses of the GPL perfectly fine. The GPL is not anti-corporate. It is anti-closed source. Several corporations were built on GPLed software which would not have been otherwise like Google, Yahoo, Facebook, or Akamai. If you are in the business of selling software you have a problem. If you are in the business of providing solutions to customers you are not. So of course, money hoarders do not like the GPL, it shrinks their profits to everyone's benefit.
There is no argument. Apple is a wannabe corporate monopolist as usual. They will be rendered into a pile of ashes by a slew of Android devices in a decade or two. People will think of them then like they think of Palm now. People do not want specialized devices if there is a general purpose device available at the same price even if it has inferior usability. This is why smartphones killed PDAs, will kill handheld game consoles, handheld TVs, etc. This is also why the PC killed the typewriter.
Apple wants to get other people's work for free but does not want them to be able to use their own devices for whichever purposes they want to. The guy which did their famous '1984' superbowl commercial is either turning in his grave now or laughing himself to pieces.
They counted with their hands and feet (base 20 system) if that ain't kewl what is? Of course the thing is, people (particularly journalists) never quite understand the Mayans properly. The thing is just like we have leap years to correct the fact that the year isn't exactly 365 days they had a similar corrective system once a couple of decades were past where they added extra days. These days were in tradition associated with harmful events or whatever so they were usually holydays were people did nothing at all! Then there is the fact that they essentially did not bother extending that basic calendar past a certain year because they saw no use for it (they went extinct like in the XVIth century?). They do have a calendar system which is basically infinite but is seldom used. So the "end of the Mayan calendar" is a bit like the "end of the 32-bit Unix time_t epoch". A big DUH!
Uh, I already read stuff like The Prince from Project Guttenberg and it wasn't terrible at all. There is so much literature from the XIXth century or before to read that you would be hard pressed to read it all. Of course they do not sell because they do not cost anything duh.
Like Windows 95?
Leakage was handled in several ways. Materials technology in semiconductor manufacturing (in particular CPU manufacturing) advanced a lot in the last decade and a half. It used to be chips were all made from polysilicon. Eventually as the transistors got smaller closer to the nanoscale there was work done on new materials (so called low-k and high-k materials). You probably heard about names such as Black Diamond low-k or Hafnium high-k (aka metal gates) along the way. These reduced the leakage issue. Instead of using aluminum for the wires today we use copper to reduce power consumption because copper is a better conductor. Then there is germanium doping to produce so called 'strained silicon' so that the silicon atoms are further apart to improve electron mobility. Taking these material changes and a couple of design changes today's processors are clocking higher than they were 10 years ago even if not at the rate Intel used to predict back then. You probably noticed by now we are either hitting or close to hitting 4 GHz on CPUs while not so long ago they used to be 2 GHz or less with regular air cooling.
Today people are either doing chip stacking (e.g. on cellphones it is common to stack the DRAM and Flash on top of the CPU module) to make the system more compact. Then there are people working on so called vertical transistors and trigate transistors instead of using regular planar transistors. Ivy Bridge for example is the first processor featuring trigate transistors which is one reason for its low power consumption and reduced leakage over Sandy Bridge. It has been more trouble than usual but it seems everything is ok for the next two process shrinks to work in technological terms. Ultimately we will see the whole system on a chip and CPU/GPU integration is simply the first step with DRAM probably following soon afterwards.
Apple produces crippleware. e.g. if I have an iPhone with an USB cable I cannot use the Flash as a regular storage device. I can only access files generated by the camera app. Ridiculous. I have to use iTunes software and only transfer signed or otherwise applications. Then there are other issues like not having smartcard support for removable storage like most Android phones have, or forbidding certain types of applications such as emulators. It's my hardware, I bought it for several times what it cost to manufacture in China with their slave workers, so I damned well should be able to choose what to do with it.
Sleep with the fishes Apple fanboys (boy are they easy to bait).
Sun is bankrupt.
The GPL has no clause forbidding you to reverse engineer the software.
Have you ever read an Apple license agreement? They seem to change them on a quarterly basis and they keep getting more omnious and Big Brotherish as time passes.
Of course they are. Their aim is to Tivoize the world with incapacitated general purpose computers they call application specific devices.
The main people at cause for the anti-GPL licensing bullshit with projects that matter today are Apple and Google. The thing is, its biting them in the ass. Google got slapped with an Oracle lawsuit for copying Java since IIRC they are using pieces of Harmony code. Apple is eventually bound to be bitten by some obscure compiler patent lawsuit against clang eventually.
Some of us have used more permissive licenses in the past to find our code used by someone else who doesn't even bother to say hello or mention your name anywhere even if the only thing they changed was the boot screen. So we prefer the GPL family of licenses. Of course you are free to use whichever license you want. Even Stallman is fine with other people using the MIT license.
Tell that to the winehq folks.
In that case you just license Dalvik as GPL. It's not like it doesn't work for the kernel or GCC and I hardly see Dalvik as any different.
For an EU military to be formed, the EU nations with strategic weapons should have an agreement on standardized nuclear weapon systems and possibly cooperation in some platform design. This means the UK and France. Regarding conventional forces I think the Rapid Reaction Force is the wrong way of doing things. Had it been done under a different environment the layout would be quite different.
As far as Milosevic goes if the US had not intervened some sort of EU armed forces would eventually be formed. Necessity always breeds a solution. Which is probably the reason the US intervened so quickly in the first case. In fact France and the UK had already done joint military actions in the 1950s when Anthony Eden was Prime-Minister. However US-Soviet meddling during the Suez crisis promptly deflated any chance of that happening. The fact is the US and the Soviet Union wanted to wrest control from the European powers post WWII once they were weakened by the war by whatever means.
In that case you should kick France and Germany out of the Euro zone as well, since they were among the first to break the fiscal responsibility pact they wrote themselves!
Read the parable of the broken window.
There was a cease fire and there is a DMZ line with barbed wire and ditches demarcating the two territories. Troops regularly patrol both sides of the DMZ. South Korea has recently started experimenting with automated gun turrets to reduce the required manpower. The US stations some 28K troops in South Korea proper and more in Japan.
I also remember the "they never signed a peace treaty" line spouted by Bush Jr. just before Iraq War II.
That was what Saddam and Gaddafi did. They suspended weapon testing and missile launches, dissassembled their rocket artillery forces for food aid. They eventually got invaded. I think the NKPR is not very willing to see what will happen the 3rd time. So yes of course they will retain their rocket artillery forces and nuclear weapon research and development.
Nuclear weapons were already small enough you could store one in a suitcase or use them as mortar rounds (see W54). Soon it would be like in Heinlein's Starship troopers where personnel were assigned nuclear hand grenades or somesuch. After all those proxy wars after WWII the two major powers decided to remove all portable nuclear weapons where possible to ensure few people had access to the weapons triggering a conflict of some sort.