I'm not too sure what they are complaining about, but isn't this what IPV6 is supposed to fix? Actually, ICANN is already a non-profit, non-government entity (they won the contract to control everything a while back). So, the real question is what is the EU planning that they want to reinstate political control over the internet?
I say let em "split off" and I can guarantee that within a weeks time, the companies that do business with the US will be asking (demanding) to be put back on the US network. Not only that, but imagine all of the services that would be unavailable to those countries outside of the US...Wikipedia, Google, Microsoft, Slashdot, Electronic Arts...I understand that some of these have geographically located server farms to make access easier from different parts of the world, but without access to the "home" US servers, these systems will not be updated and bug fixes like those from Microsoft would be unable to make it to countries outside of the US...
If you want something that specific it will probably be cheaper online anyhow...and that's the problem...what the internet sites like ebay and amazon hasn't done to kill the brick & mortar gaming stores, discount stores (like walmart and target) and more generalized electronics stores (like best buy and circuit city) have done.
Here's a tip...try talking very softly when this is happening. Most peoples brains are trained that when someone is whispering, they should listen...because it's a secret, a good tip, or some kind of gossip...
Really, I had always thought 16MP was the technical limitation of 35mm...and the effecive range goes further down the scale...plus, ISO 50 is only good for still subjects, for motion you need something closer to ISO 400 which shows even more grain...
Of course, as far as digital medium format cameras go...there's the Hassleblad H1D and here's a new 39MP camera back...which according to this table is somewhere around double the "Apparent Image Quality"...now even if you don't belive this guys calculations (which seem to hold true in the field, Medium Format ISO 50 only equates to about 50MP...which means a 39MP camera is definately getting into Medium Format quality...
This could be a way of Oracle gaining "street cred" with the OSS crowd. Oracle sees that OSS is gaining in popularity...PostgreSQL and MySQL end up being the backends for most OSS apps that require a database...which leaves Oracle out of the picture...
Oracle may be thinking of releasing an OSS version of their database server. What better way to start off than by buying the developer of one of the most popular database formats for OSS.
Their "new" business model would probably be similar to MySQL and they may even sell a new version of InnoDB to MySQL every now and then (an older version of course)...
In their eyes, this would be a good way of Oracle being written into OSS apps...Write a new version of Oracle database that is identical to the commercial version in every way except that you are using InnoDB as the backend...
This happened a while back when Ford bought Jaguar. At the time Dodge was working on the Viper and word was that it would be a "Mustang killer". Ford was scared to death that one of their most popular automobiles would be outsold by the Viper. There was very little known about the vehicle at the time, but what was known was that it was going to be a big engine...bigger than a V-8... Ford knew that the only company with a V-12 was Jaguar and figured that this was the most likely powerplant to be used in the vehicle (or some variation). They decided that if Dodge was going to make a killing with the Viper then they might as well get in on the action by licensing the engine design for every Viper produced...So, Ford bought Jaguar...of course, Dodge went with their own V-10 design...some say this was always then intent, others say the original design called for a V-12...
I think this has been said here before, but I'll put it in plain english...
The US Gov't no longer has control of the internet...ICANN does...which is a non-profit corporation...
How exactly are they going to about "forcibly" removing the established governing body from control? There are quite a few alt-root DNSes out there, but they aren't widely used...and they are for TLDs not governed by the ICANN...if the US companies like Google refuse to use these alt-roots, then how are they going to "force" this on us at all??? Remove our routes to Australia...UK...China??? Maybe that would be good for our infrastructure...
These people are trying to turn what is now a private venture (ICANN) into a political issue...
I say let em cut themselves off from the US...they were begging to be added to "our" network a few years back and now they're taking it from us...
Umh, since AOL/Netscape "cut the cord" to Mozilla a few years back (when the Mozilla Foundation was formed), there probably won't be anything. Most likely someone else (like HP, Novell, and/or IBM) would start releasing a browser based on Firefox...acutally since AOL is not 100% behind Netscape right now anyhow, it may be the best thing to happen to Mozilla since Firefox.
Yea, because those international bodies (like the UN) have proven time and time again that they are so fast to respond.
The backbone of what is now known collectively as "the internet" was originally a collection of "fragmented networks" which can trace their origin back to ARPANET (a project done by the US DOD)...at some point in time these countries were begging to become part of "our" network (or someone elses that would eventually become part of "our" network). But, in 1998, ICANN won the bid to take control of the contract to take control of the root dns servers from the US Government...
So, the "fracturing of the internet" is a step backwards...and if it actually happened, then they would essentially be stepping back into the days of compuserve...which may be just fine...I mean how many sites in the US do people in the EU visit? Google? Yahoo? Slashdot? Wikipedia? Micro$oft? Cisco?...nah...just cut the cord...remember that even resources that have servers located in other countries share information with the US centers of operation...
Maybe they would come up with good alternatives to the more popular sites, but what's more than likely to happen is about a week later...once all of the sites that use ICANN's servers (everyone right now) started blocking the new "rogue dns root(s)", the people on these networks would be calling to be reconnected to the American resources that were previously available to their countries. What's funny is there ARE actually a few "alternate dns roots" that hand out top level domains that many are not too familiar with...what it sounds like they are actually arguing for is control of the "generic" tlds (.com,.net, etc)...and let me guess...the real people behind this are likely to be for-profit companies in the EU instead of the non-profit companies based out of the US (like ICANN and OSRC)...
Of course the reason for this is that for a number of PC Games, you don't NEED the CD/DVD to play the game (or can be cracked with software) and most require a serial number of some sort that is checked against blacklisted serials, players currently playing online (in the case of online games), and in the case of MMORPGs used to activate the users account...so you would end up with a lot of users installing the game only to find that their serial had been blacklisted, the former owner was still playing it, or finding that to reenable their account they had to pay a huge fee that had been racked up by the previous owner.
For this to happen with a console someone has to mod their machine and make a working copy of the game...which is probably seen as being more trouble than not buying the game in the first place and simply downloading it.
It's pretty much the same reason that you can rent console games at blockbuster, but not PC Games.
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
But that's what this means...
* Free use for those who never copy, modify or distribute. As long as you never distribute the MySQL Software in any way, you are free to use it for powering your application, irrespective of whether your application is under GPL license or not.
...it's just worded differently because it's a database and not an OS.
You're kind of right...this doesn't happen as much in writing or pre-production as it does when the film is being edited. Directors are much more likely to cut a segment from the theatrical release because they know that they can still include it in the deleted scenes. Advancements in technology also allow for scenes to be recorded that would never have been recorded before...mostly because they were not likely to make it into the final cut.
So, there's noone really siting there writing material to specifically be put into deleted scenes...but, the fact that they simply exist makes it a higher probability that it will end up in deleted scenes.
No, no, no...that's the whole idea of the library. If you use the functions from the standard library, you aren't required to comply with the GPL, only if you redistribute and/or modify the library. It's like saying that if you build your application on top of Linux that you are required to comply with the GPL. Only if you make modifications/distribute/copy the Linux kernel for your project would this requirement hold.
It's pretty much just Burnout 3 + Destructable Traffic. Not that this is bad, but it's not a huge change from Burnout 3. The "Traffic Checking" mode is ok. The new addition to Crash Mode makes playing it more like playing a game of golf (knock traffic into other cars to avoid crashing your own).
If the Burnout series turns out to be like the Need for Speed series, then we will probably see a new game every 1-2 years (many based on an older engine). EA tends to recycle old engines into at least 1 sequel. This is of course as opposed to what Acclaim did which was pretty much a complete redesign for every sequel...
* Free use for those who never copy, modify or distribute. As long as you never distribute the MySQL Software in any way, you are free to use it for powering your application, irrespective of whether your application is under GPL license or not.
So, unless you actually distribute/modify/copy MySQL, then you are free to do whatever you want with the database.
This is actually why some of the newer Linux distros don't include a version of MySQL with the OS...it's offered as a seperate RPM/DEB/PKG/etc...
Nothing has changed...this doesn't mean that you can't write an app that uses MySQL and release it under a LGPL/BSD/Proprietary license...as long as you aren't modifying the code in MySQL, then you're fine.
Postgres may have a few things going for it over MySQL, but license is not really one of em...
In early July 2005, the project discovered its first exploit for a vulnerability that had not been publicly disclosed, the researchers said in the paper. The attack used the JView profiler vulnerability that Microsoft announced later in July.
...Translation...M$ sits on exploits until they know they are in the wild...this we have pretty much expected, but this time we hear it from the horse's mouth so to speak...
Are you saying the Mozilla "Foundation" has some kind of "weird stench" to it??? Foundations aren't good or bad, the reasons they are formed are.
The aim of most OSS projects forming "Foundations" is to make their projects more appealing to corporate interests. The Mozilla Foundation has been nothing but good for Mozilla and Firefox. As a matter of fact, Firefox gained its current popularity after the "split" from Netscape/AOL...
I don't know about that, the last 2 GTA games had many varied, well known voice talents...
It's true that SOME games have done this because they otherwise sucked, but on the whole, games that do it are doing it to add value and drama (sports games do this too, only with sports figures)...however, you can still add drama to a storyline with any decent stage actor...
It's also the same reason popular songs are put into video game soundtracks...the actors are betting that if you like their character in the game then you'll go see their newest film...or like some of the actors in Vice City, it gives older actors a chance to return to the public eye.
Most people have a finite amount of money to spend on "entertainment"...movies, video rentals, DVDs, music (CDs/iTunes/etc), video games...
The SAG has a hand in Theatrical Movies, video rentals, and DVDs as well. As video games take off (this is partly to blame on the economy...video games, magazines, books, etc all have better sales when the economy sucks because it's cheap/reusable entertainment) the SAG is starting to see their other forms of income shrink...
The problem is, and I don't know if they understand this...the whole video game industry can do without them...it is a novelty at best to have a well known name do voice acting in a game...some even prefer unknowns as it enhances the sense of realism...
BF2 is just like BF1942...an OK game that will be the basis for many mods. BF2 is almost an exact copy of Desert Combat for BF1942...I assume that BF2 will have a mod that comes to the top and BF3 will be based on that one.
We bought a WeatherGoose for one of our server rooms. They are fairly cheap ($399 for the unit) and have many accessories that can be purchased as well as leads for "homebrew"/specialty sensors.
The WeatherGoose has a builtin web server that has (among other things) an xml feed...this makes writing scripts to interpret the data a breeze...not to mention it has a builtin "pager" alarm that will email and address whenever an alarm is tripped (high temp for instance)...
This is just a guess...and I am not a doctor, but I would figure they would teach the dog to do something...walk a course, press a button when a bell rings, etc and if the dog could still do the "trick(s)" or recognise a person, animal, or place..."my" bed, cat, owner, etc (this can be attached to a chemical response in the brain as well)...then it would be ok...I think what they are saying is that the dogs "higher brian functions" are operating...meaning it's not a vegatable and it seems to have no noticable memory loss or loss of motor skills.
How much of this is attributable to Apple? I figure the Konqueror team has more to do with the security of Safari than Apple...and isn't this more because there isn't a browser for Win32 that uses KHTML as its engine???
If there was a Win32 browser that used KHTML, I'ld figure the number of vulnerabilities would go up signifigantly...
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I'm not too sure what they are complaining about, but isn't this what IPV6 is supposed to fix? Actually, ICANN is already a non-profit, non-government entity (they won the contract to control everything a while back). So, the real question is what is the EU planning that they want to reinstate political control over the internet?
I say let em "split off" and I can guarantee that within a weeks time, the companies that do business with the US will be asking (demanding) to be put back on the US network. Not only that, but imagine all of the services that would be unavailable to those countries outside of the US...Wikipedia, Google, Microsoft, Slashdot, Electronic Arts...I understand that some of these have geographically located server farms to make access easier from different parts of the world, but without access to the "home" US servers, these systems will not be updated and bug fixes like those from Microsoft would be unable to make it to countries outside of the US...
If you want something that specific it will probably be cheaper online anyhow...and that's the problem...what the internet sites like ebay and amazon hasn't done to kill the brick & mortar gaming stores, discount stores (like walmart and target) and more generalized electronics stores (like best buy and circuit city) have done.
Here's a tip...try talking very softly when this is happening. Most peoples brains are trained that when someone is whispering, they should listen...because it's a secret, a good tip, or some kind of gossip...
Really, I had always thought 16MP was the technical limitation of 35mm...and the effecive range goes further down the scale...plus, ISO 50 is only good for still subjects, for motion you need something closer to ISO 400 which shows even more grain...
Of course, as far as digital medium format cameras go...there's the Hassleblad H1D and here's a new 39MP camera back...which according to this table is somewhere around double the "Apparent Image Quality"...now even if you don't belive this guys calculations (which seem to hold true in the field, Medium Format ISO 50 only equates to about 50MP...which means a 39MP camera is definately getting into Medium Format quality...
This could be a way of Oracle gaining "street cred" with the OSS crowd. Oracle sees that OSS is gaining in popularity...PostgreSQL and MySQL end up being the backends for most OSS apps that require a database...which leaves Oracle out of the picture...
Oracle may be thinking of releasing an OSS version of their database server. What better way to start off than by buying the developer of one of the most popular database formats for OSS.
Their "new" business model would probably be similar to MySQL and they may even sell a new version of InnoDB to MySQL every now and then (an older version of course)...
In their eyes, this would be a good way of Oracle being written into OSS apps...Write a new version of Oracle database that is identical to the commercial version in every way except that you are using InnoDB as the backend...
This happened a while back when Ford bought Jaguar. At the time Dodge was working on the Viper and word was that it would be a "Mustang killer". Ford was scared to death that one of their most popular automobiles would be outsold by the Viper. There was very little known about the vehicle at the time, but what was known was that it was going to be a big engine...bigger than a V-8... Ford knew that the only company with a V-12 was Jaguar and figured that this was the most likely powerplant to be used in the vehicle (or some variation). They decided that if Dodge was going to make a killing with the Viper then they might as well get in on the action by licensing the engine design for every Viper produced...So, Ford bought Jaguar...of course, Dodge went with their own V-10 design...some say this was always then intent, others say the original design called for a V-12...
I think this has been said here before, but I'll put it in plain english...
The US Gov't no longer has control of the internet...ICANN does...which is a non-profit corporation...
How exactly are they going to about "forcibly" removing the established governing body from control? There are quite a few alt-root DNSes out there, but they aren't widely used...and they are for TLDs not governed by the ICANN...if the US companies like Google refuse to use these alt-roots, then how are they going to "force" this on us at all??? Remove our routes to Australia...UK...China??? Maybe that would be good for our infrastructure...
These people are trying to turn what is now a private venture (ICANN) into a political issue...
I say let em cut themselves off from the US...they were begging to be added to "our" network a few years back and now they're taking it from us...
Kinda like this?
Umh, since AOL/Netscape "cut the cord" to Mozilla a few years back (when the Mozilla Foundation was formed), there probably won't be anything. Most likely someone else (like HP, Novell, and/or IBM) would start releasing a browser based on Firefox...acutally since AOL is not 100% behind Netscape right now anyhow, it may be the best thing to happen to Mozilla since Firefox.
Yea, because those international bodies (like the UN) have proven time and time again that they are so fast to respond.
.net, etc)...and let me guess...the real people behind this are likely to be for-profit companies in the EU instead of the non-profit companies based out of the US (like ICANN and OSRC)...
The backbone of what is now known collectively as "the internet" was originally a collection of "fragmented networks" which can trace their origin back to ARPANET (a project done by the US DOD)...at some point in time these countries were begging to become part of "our" network (or someone elses that would eventually become part of "our" network). But, in 1998, ICANN won the bid to take control of the contract to take control of the root dns servers from the US Government...
So, the "fracturing of the internet" is a step backwards...and if it actually happened, then they would essentially be stepping back into the days of compuserve...which may be just fine...I mean how many sites in the US do people in the EU visit? Google? Yahoo? Slashdot? Wikipedia? Micro$oft? Cisco?...nah...just cut the cord...remember that even resources that have servers located in other countries share information with the US centers of operation...
Maybe they would come up with good alternatives to the more popular sites, but what's more than likely to happen is about a week later...once all of the sites that use ICANN's servers (everyone right now) started blocking the new "rogue dns root(s)", the people on these networks would be calling to be reconnected to the American resources that were previously available to their countries. What's funny is there ARE actually a few "alternate dns roots" that hand out top level domains that many are not too familiar with...what it sounds like they are actually arguing for is control of the "generic" tlds (.com,
Of course the reason for this is that for a number of PC Games, you don't NEED the CD/DVD to play the game (or can be cracked with software) and most require a serial number of some sort that is checked against blacklisted serials, players currently playing online (in the case of online games), and in the case of MMORPGs used to activate the users account...so you would end up with a lot of users installing the game only to find that their serial had been blacklisted, the former owner was still playing it, or finding that to reenable their account they had to pay a huge fee that had been racked up by the previous owner.
For this to happen with a console someone has to mod their machine and make a working copy of the game...which is probably seen as being more trouble than not buying the game in the first place and simply downloading it.
It's pretty much the same reason that you can rent console games at blockbuster, but not PC Games.
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
...it's just worded differently because it's a database and not an OS.
But that's what this means...
* Free use for those who never copy, modify or distribute. As long as you never distribute the MySQL Software in any way, you are free to use it for powering your application, irrespective of whether your application is under GPL license or not.
You're kind of right...this doesn't happen as much in writing or pre-production as it does when the film is being edited. Directors are much more likely to cut a segment from the theatrical release because they know that they can still include it in the deleted scenes. Advancements in technology also allow for scenes to be recorded that would never have been recorded before...mostly because they were not likely to make it into the final cut.
So, there's noone really siting there writing material to specifically be put into deleted scenes...but, the fact that they simply exist makes it a higher probability that it will end up in deleted scenes.
No, no, no...that's the whole idea of the library. If you use the functions from the standard library, you aren't required to comply with the GPL, only if you redistribute and/or modify the library. It's like saying that if you build your application on top of Linux that you are required to comply with the GPL. Only if you make modifications/distribute/copy the Linux kernel for your project would this requirement hold.
It's pretty much just Burnout 3 + Destructable Traffic. Not that this is bad, but it's not a huge change from Burnout 3. The "Traffic Checking" mode is ok. The new addition to Crash Mode makes playing it more like playing a game of golf (knock traffic into other cars to avoid crashing your own).
If the Burnout series turns out to be like the Need for Speed series, then we will probably see a new game every 1-2 years (many based on an older engine). EA tends to recycle old engines into at least 1 sequel. This is of course as opposed to what Acclaim did which was pretty much a complete redesign for every sequel...
The key paragraph here is this one:
* Free use for those who never copy, modify or distribute. As long as you never distribute the MySQL Software in any way, you are free to use it for powering your application, irrespective of whether your application is under GPL license or not.
So, unless you actually distribute/modify/copy MySQL, then you are free to do whatever you want with the database.
This is actually why some of the newer Linux distros don't include a version of MySQL with the OS...it's offered as a seperate RPM/DEB/PKG/etc...
Nothing has changed...this doesn't mean that you can't write an app that uses MySQL and release it under a LGPL/BSD/Proprietary license...as long as you aren't modifying the code in MySQL, then you're fine.
Postgres may have a few things going for it over MySQL, but license is not really one of em...
I think it's been mentioned before, but it bares repeating...
...Translation...M$ sits on exploits until they know they are in the wild...this we have pretty much expected, but this time we hear it from the horse's mouth so to speak...
Mozilla's reporting system is completely open to the public...nothing is really kept "under wraps" when it comes to reported bugs...
Microsoft's reporting system is closed...they sit on exploits that are not "in the wild"...
From Microsoft's own mouth...
In early July 2005, the project discovered its first exploit for a vulnerability that had not been publicly disclosed, the researchers said in the paper. The attack used the JView profiler vulnerability that Microsoft announced later in July.
Umh, you ever seen the little green/red/blue "upgrade" arrow in Firefox? It tells you when you should upgrade Firefox or your installed components...
Are you saying the Mozilla "Foundation" has some kind of "weird stench" to it??? Foundations aren't good or bad, the reasons they are formed are.
The aim of most OSS projects forming "Foundations" is to make their projects more appealing to corporate interests. The Mozilla Foundation has been nothing but good for Mozilla and Firefox. As a matter of fact, Firefox gained its current popularity after the "split" from Netscape/AOL...
I was actually surprised that LucasFilm wasn't keeping this, but I guess they have a bunch of famous lightsaber props to choose from...
But this doesn't really mean the series is done for...I'm sure they haven't actually used the thing for any of the new (prequel) movies...
Not to mention the new live action series that's in the works...
I don't know about that, the last 2 GTA games had many varied, well known voice talents...
It's true that SOME games have done this because they otherwise sucked, but on the whole, games that do it are doing it to add value and drama (sports games do this too, only with sports figures)...however, you can still add drama to a storyline with any decent stage actor...
It's also the same reason popular songs are put into video game soundtracks...the actors are betting that if you like their character in the game then you'll go see their newest film...or like some of the actors in Vice City, it gives older actors a chance to return to the public eye.
Most people have a finite amount of money to spend on "entertainment"...movies, video rentals, DVDs, music (CDs/iTunes/etc), video games...
The SAG has a hand in Theatrical Movies, video rentals, and DVDs as well. As video games take off (this is partly to blame on the economy...video games, magazines, books, etc all have better sales when the economy sucks because it's cheap/reusable entertainment) the SAG is starting to see their other forms of income shrink...
The problem is, and I don't know if they understand this...the whole video game industry can do without them...it is a novelty at best to have a well known name do voice acting in a game...some even prefer unknowns as it enhances the sense of realism...
BF2 is just like BF1942...an OK game that will be the basis for many mods. BF2 is almost an exact copy of Desert Combat for BF1942...I assume that BF2 will have a mod that comes to the top and BF3 will be based on that one.
We bought a WeatherGoose for one of our server rooms. They are fairly cheap ($399 for the unit) and have many accessories that can be purchased as well as leads for "homebrew"/specialty sensors.
The WeatherGoose has a builtin web server that has (among other things) an xml feed...this makes writing scripts to interpret the data a breeze...not to mention it has a builtin "pager" alarm that will email and address whenever an alarm is tripped (high temp for instance)...
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This is just a guess...and I am not a doctor, but I would figure they would teach the dog to do something...walk a course, press a button when a bell rings, etc and if the dog could still do the "trick(s)" or recognise a person, animal, or place..."my" bed, cat, owner, etc (this can be attached to a chemical response in the brain as well)...then it would be ok...I think what they are saying is that the dogs "higher brian functions" are operating...meaning it's not a vegatable and it seems to have no noticable memory loss or loss of motor skills.
How much of this is attributable to Apple? I figure the Konqueror team has more to do with the security of Safari than Apple...and isn't this more because there isn't a browser for Win32 that uses KHTML as its engine???
If there was a Win32 browser that used KHTML, I'ld figure the number of vulnerabilities would go up signifigantly...