When my son was in 3rd grade, I bought the book: "Robot Building for Beginners", by David Cook. It was still too advanced for him to tackle alone, but we made a point of getting together for a couple hours each weekend and worked through the line-following robot project that the book describes.
It took about two months to complete at that rate, but it was a blast and we both got alot out of it. He got to learn how to breadboard a circuit, cut/drill metal, control an electric motor, fry LEDs;-), and assemble the final bot. And the circuitry itself was so simple that at the end he *really* understood how it worked.
I really recommend this approach, if you've got the time and patience to work with your kid on it.
I have the Linsys WRT54G, and a good variety of devices that hang off both the physical ports (a couple of Dell PCs) and the wireless interface (a couple iPhones, an AirportExpress in client-mode, a Wii, a wireless printer, several wireless notebooks). I can go endlessly w/o rebooting the router *except* when I've been recently accessing my corporate network via VPN over the wireless interface. I do this on occasion and usually it's not long after I've been online that *other* devices in my household can no longer see the router. Interestingly enough, the notebook with the VPN connection never complains.
Anyway, that's been my experience.
I'll ditto the others on GoDaddy, I've been using them for 2 years and have been very pleased with their domain management interface. And their domain registration fees are bargains if you avoid all the additional bells and whistles they want to sell you.
I've written some truly amazing code which works quickly, efficiently and is used on hundreds of different high traffic websites. I have yet to find someone who can understand what it does and how it does it. Its voodoo to everyone. Its a 20 line snippet which never needs to be touched.
LOL - I double-dog dare you to post these magical 20 lines here. If you do, I guarantee you will find that:
(A) Most of us will understand it.
(B) Many of us could make it better.
(C) It's definitely not voodoo.
I went through the same calculus before buying a new phone, and went with the iPhone even though it really didn't stack up on paper. No regrets, but it's hard to explain why. It's just a completely different animal from every other handheld device you've ever used. I have to laugh at the idea of ever going back to one of those glorified pagers with the itty-bitty keyboards.
Since there's a 14 day return period, my advice is to try the iPhone for a week and see what you think.
I don't know much about Javascript, so maybe this can't be done for some reason. But couldn't a script be embedded in the page that uses the DOM to detect whether the images were successfully loaded, and if not, blank out the page or put up some kind of message telling you that the content is only available if you're willing to look at the ads? Seems like this would at least make it more difficult for plug-ins like AdBlock Plus to block.
And you're right, you never did mention the RIAA. Which just goes to show that you paid absolutely no attention to the original post, or any that followed. All you really wanted to do was rant and rave against folks that license their software under the GPL. My suggestion is that you just not use any of it. It's that simple.
...you understand everything and nobody else understands anything.
Oh buh-whah, you sound like a little girl. Get over yourself, you made a very weak argument that was entirely irrelevant to the posts you were replying to.
In other words, a copyleft license TREATED AS A CONTRACT...
See, this is where you reveal how little you understand. A license *is* a contract. A contract that is entered into willfully by both parties, the licensor, and the licensee. There is no coercion (check out http://dictionary.com/ you may want to look this word up). It would be a pretty useless contract, however, if there were not provisions. The provisions of the GPL are very simple:
(1) The licensor relinquishes his legal right to limit your usage of this software, and
(2) If you redistribute it to others, identically or modified, you must extend this same license.
If you don't like (2), then don't do (1). There's no coercion, you can just walk away if you want (might not be a bad idea, in your case). Not sure how much simpler I can make this for you. And it's exactly the opposite from how the RIAA works, which was in fact the point of the earlier posts.
Yeah, "copyleft" is just a word. Like "copyright", and "slashdot", and "moron"...
If you read the GP, without skipping every other word this time, you'll notice that it acknowledges that the GPL is in fact a license (that's what the little 'L' at the end is for). However, what you don't seem to get is that it is a license that removes the implicit copyright protection that federal law grants to every written work. It actually *removes* the automatic restrictions governing it's use. Isn't that lovely?
Now back to the original point... the GGP is equating the GPL copyleft (yes, COPYLEFT) license which nullifies the implicit federal copyright protections on the work, with the RIAA's copyright controls on music. It's a senseless comparison, the former is a license intended to grant total freedom of use to the recipient, whereas the latter is intended to limit the recipient's use to a bare minimum.
Now I think the feeble point you are trying to make is that the GPL has a "catch". It is in fact true, the GPL prevents you from taking advantage of it's free use, passing it off as your own work, and refusing to offer the same freedom of use to the next guy. How on earth you can twist your eyes enough to see this as somehow "coercive" is beyond me. Everyone has the right to take it or leave it, as with any other software license.
No, no, no... try to keep up. The GPL is not a copyright license, it is a copyleft license. It explicitly releases the work from copyright restrictions on the sole condition that the same rights are passed on to derivative works. The point at issue is whether or not VMware's product is, or is not, a derivative work. The answer to that question will affect their theoretical obligations with repsect to the code they currently consider proprietary. I say theoretical because I can't see Linus backing an effort to coerce VMware into opening up their code. RMS on the other hand...
Only the privileged pre-IPO buyers got the stock at $29. An ordinary investor putting in an order the minute the exchange opened this morning would have bought it at roughly $51. It's at $51.77 right now.
I give the guy credit for going in and working to solve the problem in the true FOSS way, but I really can't relate to his conclusions.
I have an old Dell Inspiron notebook, Pentium III, 128MB, 8GB HD, that I was about to throw away because the only thing from Microsoft that could run on it was Windows 98 (which is completely unacceptable for obvious reasons). When I put Fedora Core 6 on it, though, it ran like a champ. And I'm not exaggerating here, I was genuinely shocked at how really smooth and snappy Firefox and OpenOffice are on this almost 10-year-old notebook! I gave the whole thing to my 9-year-old and he's been able to figure out just about everything he needs, so ease-of-use is certainly there as well.
So, as far as I'm concerned, Linux has *already* succeeded on the desktop. In a big way.
"Imagine a car that accelerates from zero to sixty in 250 feet, and then rockets to 120 miles per hour in just one more inch.... Because electrons already travel at near light's speed in an accelerator, the physicists actually doubled the energy of the electrons, not their speed."
Hmm. Well which is it, are we doubling velocity or engery? I'm no rocket surgeon, but I'm pretty sure these are different things. If it's energy then I think the analogy should have been, "...and then rockets to 85 miles per hour...".
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When my son was in 3rd grade, I bought the book: "Robot Building for Beginners", by David Cook. It was still too advanced for him to tackle alone, but we made a point of getting together for a couple hours each weekend and worked through the line-following robot project that the book describes. It took about two months to complete at that rate, but it was a blast and we both got alot out of it. He got to learn how to breadboard a circuit, cut/drill metal, control an electric motor, fry LEDs ;-), and assemble the final bot. And the circuitry itself was so simple that at the end he *really* understood how it worked.
I really recommend this approach, if you've got the time and patience to work with your kid on it.
Oh c'mon, mod parent up! That was funny :D.
Err... diffraction grating. Let the flames begin ;-).
I'm no expert on plasmonic collimators, or spintronics, but it sounds a little bit like they've just re-invented the refraction grating.
I have the Linsys WRT54G, and a good variety of devices that hang off both the physical ports (a couple of Dell PCs) and the wireless interface (a couple iPhones, an AirportExpress in client-mode, a Wii, a wireless printer, several wireless notebooks). I can go endlessly w/o rebooting the router *except* when I've been recently accessing my corporate network via VPN over the wireless interface. I do this on occasion and usually it's not long after I've been online that *other* devices in my household can no longer see the router. Interestingly enough, the notebook with the VPN connection never complains. Anyway, that's been my experience.
I'll ditto the others on GoDaddy, I've been using them for 2 years and have been very pleased with their domain management interface. And their domain registration fees are bargains if you avoid all the additional bells and whistles they want to sell you.
Mod parent up, and informative.
Gotta love Lode Runner, Choplifter, Karateka, and Conan, but my top billing has to go to Wizardry. That game was unbelievably addictive!
LOL - I double-dog dare you to post these magical 20 lines here. If you do, I guarantee you will find that:
(A) Most of us will understand it.
(B) Many of us could make it better.
(C) It's definitely not voodoo.
I went through the same calculus before buying a new phone, and went with the iPhone even though it really didn't stack up on paper. No regrets, but it's hard to explain why. It's just a completely different animal from every other handheld device you've ever used. I have to laugh at the idea of ever going back to one of those glorified pagers with the itty-bitty keyboards.
Since there's a 14 day return period, my advice is to try the iPhone for a week and see what you think.
I don't know much about Javascript, so maybe this can't be done for some reason. But couldn't a script be embedded in the page that uses the DOM to detect whether the images were successfully loaded, and if not, blank out the page or put up some kind of message telling you that the content is only available if you're willing to look at the ads? Seems like this would at least make it more difficult for plug-ins like AdBlock Plus to block.
And you're right, you never did mention the RIAA. Which just goes to show that you paid absolutely no attention to the original post, or any that followed. All you really wanted to do was rant and rave against folks that license their software under the GPL. My suggestion is that you just not use any of it. It's that simple.
References? Oh wait, this isn't wikipedia...
I think the fact that you have a "portfolio manager" answers your own question.
Oh buh-whah, you sound like a little girl. Get over yourself, you made a very weak argument that was entirely irrelevant to the posts you were replying to.
In other words, a copyleft license TREATED AS A CONTRACT...
See, this is where you reveal how little you understand. A license *is* a contract. A contract that is entered into willfully by both parties, the licensor, and the licensee. There is no coercion (check out http://dictionary.com/ you may want to look this word up). It would be a pretty useless contract, however, if there were not provisions. The provisions of the GPL are very simple:
(1) The licensor relinquishes his legal right to limit your usage of this software, and
(2) If you redistribute it to others, identically or modified, you must extend this same license.
If you don't like (2), then don't do (1). There's no coercion, you can just walk away if you want (might not be a bad idea, in your case). Not sure how much simpler I can make this for you. And it's exactly the opposite from how the RIAA works, which was in fact the point of the earlier posts.
If you read the GP, without skipping every other word this time, you'll notice that it acknowledges that the GPL is in fact a license (that's what the little 'L' at the end is for). However, what you don't seem to get is that it is a license that removes the implicit copyright protection that federal law grants to every written work. It actually *removes* the automatic restrictions governing it's use. Isn't that lovely?
Now back to the original point... the GGP is equating the GPL copyleft (yes, COPYLEFT) license which nullifies the implicit federal copyright protections on the work, with the RIAA's copyright controls on music. It's a senseless comparison, the former is a license intended to grant total freedom of use to the recipient, whereas the latter is intended to limit the recipient's use to a bare minimum.
Now I think the feeble point you are trying to make is that the GPL has a "catch". It is in fact true, the GPL prevents you from taking advantage of it's free use, passing it off as your own work, and refusing to offer the same freedom of use to the next guy. How on earth you can twist your eyes enough to see this as somehow "coercive" is beyond me. Everyone has the right to take it or leave it, as with any other software license.
No, no, no... try to keep up. The GPL is not a copyright license, it is a copyleft license. It explicitly releases the work from copyright restrictions on the sole condition that the same rights are passed on to derivative works. The point at issue is whether or not VMware's product is, or is not, a derivative work. The answer to that question will affect their theoretical obligations with repsect to the code they currently consider proprietary. I say theoretical because I can't see Linus backing an effort to coerce VMware into opening up their code. RMS on the other hand...
Still, 77 cents is 77 cents...
Nevermind.
I give the guy credit for going in and working to solve the problem in the true FOSS way, but I really can't relate to his conclusions.
I have an old Dell Inspiron notebook, Pentium III, 128MB, 8GB HD, that I was about to throw away because the only thing from Microsoft that could run on it was Windows 98 (which is completely unacceptable for obvious reasons). When I put Fedora Core 6 on it, though, it ran like a champ. And I'm not exaggerating here, I was genuinely shocked at how really smooth and snappy Firefox and OpenOffice are on this almost 10-year-old notebook! I gave the whole thing to my 9-year-old and he's been able to figure out just about everything he needs, so ease-of-use is certainly there as well.
So, as far as I'm concerned, Linux has *already* succeeded on the desktop. In a big way.
Hmm. Well which is it, are we doubling velocity or engery? I'm no rocket surgeon, but I'm pretty sure these are different things. If it's energy then I think the analogy should have been, "...and then rockets to 85 miles per hour...".
But I guess that doesn't sound as cool...
The internet is now the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face.
Now if someone would just explain that to the dissenting Honorable C. Thomas...
The next thing you know, they'll be selling printers without cables! Oh, wait...
It would be nice if it was *only* twice... :-/