From the GPL V2:
3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:
a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,
c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)
I believe part c is what you are referring to. There is no other mention of "commercial" in the licence text, so I can only assume that if Microsoft were not charging for the distribution and had not modified the code, then they need only point to the source code on the Ubuntu website. This is another way of saying "you can be a free binary-only mirror.
Unfortunately, however, CNet were the ones hosting the file, Not Microsoft. I don't believe putting a link to a page on another website where you can download it from counts as redistribution.
Disclaimer: IANAL.
I thought of the standard clause but it always puzzled me. Who chooses what licence is actually in use? What does "any later version" mean? What if someone breaks only one of the multiple versions of the license? Let's say, if someone TiVO-izes my "GPLv2 or any later" code, that's perfectly fine for me (that thinks GPLv2 is mostly fine), but that could be NOT fine at all for some contributor. What happens in this case?
In that case the contributor would have to re-release the code plus his changes entirely under the GPLv3 (Assuming the original release included the "or any subsequent version" clause.) Or, the contributor could choose not to release his contributions. You do not choose which license is in use until you release the code yourself. The original releaser may limit the options you have for doing this, e.g. GPLv2 or any subsequent version, GPLv2 only, etc.
The GPL gives you the freedom to do whatever you want to or with the code, under the condition that if you release a modified version that your changes are also released. You can make all the changes you want for yourself, but if you want to release those changes they must be in accordance with the license you received the code under.
Your irresponsible lack of keyboard sanitisation will lead to the deaths of 2/3rds of the population of this planet - they will die from a disease caught from a dirty keyboard. The other 1/3rd, consisting of hairdressers and keyboard sanitisers and the like, will be shipped off to another planet where the answer to life, the universe and everything will be discovered.
Agreed. The patent system was intended to promote innovation by ensuring that individuals and companies would be able to recoup the costs involved in inventing a new product by giving the individual or company a monopoly on that product for a set period of time. In the pharmaceutical industry, billions of dollars are spent on new drugs, most of which never work, let alone go to market. Unless the pharmaceutical companies were sure they could recoup these billions of dollars, there would be no incentive to invent any new drugs.
Software is different, and the patent office has made some attempt to recognise this: You cannot patent an algorithm, but it gets disguised as "a system and method" and the patent is awarded. The costs of "inventing" the things that software companies have patented in the past is next to non-existent. One-Click shopping? I bet that cost a few billion dollars.
If it can be truly argued that these companies spent a large sum of money on software innovation, (note NOT programming, every company does that), then perhaps a patent could be awarded. But these sums of money are likely to be tiny. Perhaps the patent could be awarded for a shorter period of time, perhaps 3 years? Even Debian releases new products at least that often. Or 5 years so that Microsoft can milk us for longer?
Finally a lot of what gets passed of as patentable should come under copyright law. A user-interface is not an innovative means of performing an action. It is a cloudy picture painted over what you're actually doing. Indeed, by publishing a product with a particular user interface you automatically own copyright on that user interface and can sue those who copy you. There is no need to bog down the patent system with something that is already protected and is not even innovative in the first place.
Whoever modded this "insightful" needs to get a clue. The article doesn't even have 3 pages, it has 2. Also the only mention of "Linux" is in the ads around the story, not in either of the two pages of the story.
Yes, because decompression at the height of the twin towers would have been fatal.
Seriously, even if the plane was flying at maximum altitude, a few bullet holes aren't that dangerous. Even if you took out an entire window such that pressure loss could result in unconsciousness, you have oxygen masks, and the pilot can take the plane down to 8000 feet, the level most planes are pressurised to. Although, when I say "aren't that dangerous" I mean compared to terrorists taking control of the plane and executing hostages or crashing the plane.
Ricocheting bullets is another problem, which air marshals have overcome by using fragmenting bullets, which also will not pass through a target, piercing the fuselage or window behind them.
That said, I do not support free for all concealed permits. Possibly air marshals, with appropriate training. When was the last time a passenger was able to bring a gun onto a plane? Even with ceramic guns, the bullets would be detected in a metal detector.
Radiation given off by the sun: 4*10^9 kg/s * (3*10^8)^2 J/kg
Yes, but the amount of energy per square meter that reaches the earth's surface is about 1KW/m^2 at the equator, while it is sunny, or around 160W/m^2 on average around the globe throughout a 24 hour day.
Solar cell output, if 50x50 cm: 1000 W/m^2 * 40% * 1/4 m^2
In other words, the solar cells have an efficiency 2.8*10^-25 by the metric you suggest, so I don't think that's what they used. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell
By the way, the answer to your question is in the Wikipedia article, as well as in the calulation above, of course. The 1000 W/m^2 seems to be a convention. Oh,
So it's not the percentage of energy converted from the total energy given off from the sun, but from the energy given off from the sun that reaches the earth's surface. This is affected by things like atmosphere, space dust and so forth, but most importantly by the fact that the area that is illuminated by the sun increases as a square of the distance from the sun, so our watts per square meter figure is going to drop rapidly as we get further from the sun.
and TFA ripped off the solar cell picture from Wikipedia. And Wikipedia in turn ripped it off from the Department of Energy some 2 years ago.
You wouldn't want to go over a bump with a flywheel like that mounted vertically. Or up or down a hill. And for that matter, what's to stop the car spinning instead of the flywheel? Do we put a fan on a tail on the car like on a helicopter?
If you heat your tyres up by locking them, you will melt them. You will see melted rubber in nice black streaks on the road behind you as you fishtail into the car in the other lane or the tree by the side of the road. The melted rubber beneath your tyres provides a nice, frictionless surface to make sure you get the longest thrill out of the experience and don't stop too soon.
With ABS, you brake hard. The wheels may lock, in which case the brakes will release and apply again with slightly less pressure. The idea is to make sure there is just enough friction between the brakes and the wheels to ensure that the braking force is as close to, but not greater than, the maximum frictional force between the road and the rolling tyre before you exceed the coefficient of static friction. Once you exceed that, the frictional forces actually drop very suddenly as sliding friction takes over. Plus you then also have melted rubber to worry about.
Ah, nothing encrypts like a bottle of fine single malt whisky.
What, like this?
b cpuumf pg gjof tjohmf nbmu xijtlz.
--
main(i){putchar((unsigned long long)0xA44D81BB9F22B423>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<13)<<6 )&&main(++i);} With thanks to David for the original idea. I've lost your Slashdot UID, sorry.
Indeed. You could also argue that you are not denying the producer of the good from any revenue if you would not purchase the product if you had to pay full price, and if it costs the producer nothing for you to obtain the product (download it from somebody else).
Who here has purchased software? Who here has pirated software? Who here if it was not possible to pirate software would purchase that same software? Who here would look for an open-source alternative?
I'm guessing that piracy will spike with small businesses in the next year.
Probably no more than usual. The support that is ending is not security patches, but pay-per-incident support. Most low IT budget companies would not be using this support, and a pirated version will not get any support. These businesses are not losing any of the support they were using, so are no more likely to pirate their way up the chain.
A couple of studies, I've lost the links, found that Windows 2K crashed about 2/3 as often as XP, but that was before Service Pack 2. Since XP SP2, I've found the two to be more or less equal when it comes to crashing frequency.
It is hard to compare laptops and desktops fairly. Laptops get shut down and put to sleep more often, shut down badly if they get battery problems, and get bashed around leading to more hard drive problems. Compare the two when new, and they should be roughly equal.
As for Mandrake, I found it almost kiddy at times. I've tried Redhat, a few Debian-based versions, and eventually settled on Suse. Yast was the tool that really made my decision to use Suse.
True, remote desktop is pretty cool, I used to use it to control a media centre from other computers, but it can't be used when other users are logged in.
This makes it next to useless for some things like updating virus checkers while somebody else is using the computer. Get a proper VNC client, or use Linux. I chose the latter for the media centre, and installed an X client for the games machine.
Slashdot Mirror
From the GPL V2: 3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following: a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or, c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you received the program in object code or executable form with such an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.) I believe part c is what you are referring to. There is no other mention of "commercial" in the licence text, so I can only assume that if Microsoft were not charging for the distribution and had not modified the code, then they need only point to the source code on the Ubuntu website. This is another way of saying "you can be a free binary-only mirror. Unfortunately, however, CNet were the ones hosting the file, Not Microsoft. I don't believe putting a link to a page on another website where you can download it from counts as redistribution. Disclaimer: IANAL.
See also:
Nexuiz (Quake 3 clone) http://alientrap.org/nexuiz/
Planeshift (Still in alpha stage, but it works) http://www.planeshift.it/
Also check the package list in Ubuntu etc.
If you're looking for games that work under Wine, look no further than World of Warcraft, Oblivion, and so forth.
McBride? God help us...
I thought of the standard clause but it always puzzled me. Who chooses what licence is actually in use? What does "any later version" mean? What if someone breaks only one of the multiple versions of the license? Let's say, if someone TiVO-izes my "GPLv2 or any later" code, that's perfectly fine for me (that thinks GPLv2 is mostly fine), but that could be NOT fine at all for some contributor. What happens in this case?
In that case the contributor would have to re-release the code plus his changes entirely under the GPLv3 (Assuming the original release included the "or any subsequent version" clause.) Or, the contributor could choose not to release his contributions. You do not choose which license is in use until you release the code yourself. The original releaser may limit the options you have for doing this, e.g. GPLv2 or any subsequent version, GPLv2 only, etc.The GPL gives you the freedom to do whatever you want to or with the code, under the condition that if you release a modified version that your changes are also released. You can make all the changes you want for yourself, but if you want to release those changes they must be in accordance with the license you received the code under.
Your irresponsible lack of keyboard sanitisation will lead to the deaths of 2/3rds of the population of this planet - they will die from a disease caught from a dirty keyboard. The other 1/3rd, consisting of hairdressers and keyboard sanitisers and the like, will be shipped off to another planet where the answer to life, the universe and everything will be discovered.
Agreed. The patent system was intended to promote innovation by ensuring that individuals and companies would be able to recoup the costs involved in inventing a new product by giving the individual or company a monopoly on that product for a set period of time. In the pharmaceutical industry, billions of dollars are spent on new drugs, most of which never work, let alone go to market. Unless the pharmaceutical companies were sure they could recoup these billions of dollars, there would be no incentive to invent any new drugs.
Software is different, and the patent office has made some attempt to recognise this: You cannot patent an algorithm, but it gets disguised as "a system and method" and the patent is awarded. The costs of "inventing" the things that software companies have patented in the past is next to non-existent. One-Click shopping? I bet that cost a few billion dollars.
If it can be truly argued that these companies spent a large sum of money on software innovation, (note NOT programming, every company does that), then perhaps a patent could be awarded. But these sums of money are likely to be tiny. Perhaps the patent could be awarded for a shorter period of time, perhaps 3 years? Even Debian releases new products at least that often. Or 5 years so that Microsoft can milk us for longer?
Finally a lot of what gets passed of as patentable should come under copyright law. A user-interface is not an innovative means of performing an action. It is a cloudy picture painted over what you're actually doing. Indeed, by publishing a product with a particular user interface you automatically own copyright on that user interface and can sue those who copy you. There is no need to bog down the patent system with something that is already protected and is not even innovative in the first place.
Whoever modded this "insightful" needs to get a clue. The article doesn't even have 3 pages, it has 2. Also the only mention of "Linux" is in the ads around the story, not in either of the two pages of the story.
Although I wouldn't mind a waist of money!
Yes, because decompression at the height of the twin towers would have been fatal.
Seriously, even if the plane was flying at maximum altitude, a few bullet holes aren't that dangerous. Even if you took out an entire window such that pressure loss could result in unconsciousness, you have oxygen masks, and the pilot can take the plane down to 8000 feet, the level most planes are pressurised to. Although, when I say "aren't that dangerous" I mean compared to terrorists taking control of the plane and executing hostages or crashing the plane.
Ricocheting bullets is another problem, which air marshals have overcome by using fragmenting bullets, which also will not pass through a target, piercing the fuselage or window behind them.
That said, I do not support free for all concealed permits. Possibly air marshals, with appropriate training. When was the last time a passenger was able to bring a gun onto a plane? Even with ceramic guns, the bullets would be detected in a metal detector.
Radiation given off by the sun: 4*10^9 kg/s * (3*10^8)^2 J/kg
Yes, but the amount of energy per square meter that reaches the earth's surface is about 1KW/m^2 at the equator, while it is sunny, or around 160W/m^2 on average around the globe throughout a 24 hour day. Solar cell output, if 50x50 cm: 1000 W/m^2 * 40% * 1/4 m^2In other words, the solar cells have an efficiency 2.8*10^-25 by the metric you suggest, so I don't think that's what they used. Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell
By the way, the answer to your question is in the Wikipedia article, as well as in the calulation above, of course. The 1000 W/m^2 seems to be a convention. Oh,
So it's not the percentage of energy converted from the total energy given off from the sun, but from the energy given off from the sun that reaches the earth's surface. This is affected by things like atmosphere, space dust and so forth, but most importantly by the fact that the area that is illuminated by the sun increases as a square of the distance from the sun, so our watts per square meter figure is going to drop rapidly as we get further from the sun. and TFA ripped off the solar cell picture from Wikipedia. And Wikipedia in turn ripped it off from the Department of Energy some 2 years ago.But then again, who's surprised at anything when they're dead?
Try http://www.nexuiz.com/
Hmmm. Generate a random integer between 1 and 3 inclusive.
This must be done with a finite number of coin tosses.
The probability of each integer occuring must be equal.
Perhaps not Honda, but I would trust Fiat.
You wouldn't want to go over a bump with a flywheel like that mounted vertically. Or up or down a hill. And for that matter, what's to stop the car spinning instead of the flywheel? Do we put a fan on a tail on the car like on a helicopter?
If you heat your tyres up by locking them, you will melt them. You will see melted rubber in nice black streaks on the road behind you as you fishtail into the car in the other lane or the tree by the side of the road. The melted rubber beneath your tyres provides a nice, frictionless surface to make sure you get the longest thrill out of the experience and don't stop too soon.
With ABS, you brake hard. The wheels may lock, in which case the brakes will release and apply again with slightly less pressure. The idea is to make sure there is just enough friction between the brakes and the wheels to ensure that the braking force is as close to, but not greater than, the maximum frictional force between the road and the rolling tyre before you exceed the coefficient of static friction. Once you exceed that, the frictional forces actually drop very suddenly as sliding friction takes over. Plus you then also have melted rubber to worry about.
Hot on the heals of Skype
Sounds like they'd make a good priest or resto druid in WoW?
Ah, nothing encrypts like a bottle of fine single malt whisky.
6 )&&main(++i);}
What, like this?
b cpuumf pg gjof tjohmf nbmu xijtlz.
--
main(i){putchar((unsigned long long)0xA44D81BB9F22B423>>(i-1)*5&31|!!(i<13)<<
With thanks to David for the original idea. I've lost your Slashdot UID, sorry.
Could be worse, in Australia the Snickers would be poisonous too!
Couldn't you stick the CD's inside a thick book or wad of paper for insulation?
The same principle as making the whole plane out of the stuff they make black boxes with.
What do you mean "you foo'"?
Shouldn't that be "Blue Screen turn on"?
Indeed. You could also argue that you are not denying the producer of the good from any revenue if you would not purchase the product if you had to pay full price, and if it costs the producer nothing for you to obtain the product (download it from somebody else).
Who here has purchased software? Who here has pirated software? Who here if it was not possible to pirate software would purchase that same software? Who here would look for an open-source alternative?
I'm guessing that piracy will spike with small businesses in the next year.
Probably no more than usual. The support that is ending is not security patches, but pay-per-incident support. Most low IT budget companies would not be using this support, and a pirated version will not get any support. These businesses are not losing any of the support they were using, so are no more likely to pirate their way up the chain.
A couple of studies, I've lost the links, found that Windows 2K crashed about 2/3 as often as XP, but that was before Service Pack 2. Since XP SP2, I've found the two to be more or less equal when it comes to crashing frequency.
It is hard to compare laptops and desktops fairly. Laptops get shut down and put to sleep more often, shut down badly if they get battery problems, and get bashed around leading to more hard drive problems. Compare the two when new, and they should be roughly equal.
As for Mandrake, I found it almost kiddy at times. I've tried Redhat, a few Debian-based versions, and eventually settled on Suse. Yast was the tool that really made my decision to use Suse.
True, remote desktop is pretty cool, I used to use it to control a media centre from other computers, but it can't be used when other users are logged in.
This makes it next to useless for some things like updating virus checkers while somebody else is using the computer. Get a proper VNC client, or use Linux. I chose the latter for the media centre, and installed an X client for the games machine.