AT&T rejected the idea of packet switching because it was a threat to it's monopoly. The contract for the first IMP was awarded to BBN. Packet switching was innovated by ARPA and it's contractors and funded by the US Government.
On a science show, I would expect that people would have differing views, and people listening to the show would accept that.
Are you kidding? Science has become the religion of our day, with it's own priests, bishops and pope. Look what happens when people try to make a better model of the universe. They get labeled as heretics because we don't have the technology to verify the model. (String Theory).
I'm not saying the Science is bad, I'm just saying that I think many good ideas may be lost because they challenge a lifetime of work of someone well respected, who is simply wrong on some fine point or another.
This isnt a demonstration of IBMs 'self restraint' - if they were to 'unleash the patent dragon', as it were, they would be sued back to the stone age under antitrust law. Again.
As I recall it, the US government said "Uncle" when the tractor trailers full of evidence showed up. I wouldn't call that being "sued back to the stone age".
I disagree. In short, BSD is for the benefit of developers and GNU is for the benefit of users.
Unless your users want to use GNU tools (QT, Cygwin, etc) in their commercial undertaking, of course.
No, users can use GNU tools all they want. There is no restriction on how you use GNU software, only in how you distribute it.
The OpenBSD project has no qualms about anyone making a commercial fork of it (in fact, they even list commerical products based on OpenBSD somewhere on their page); FreeBSD, in turn, is quite proud to have contributed to OS X.
This sounds like you are talking about developing and distributing software, not using it.
To the best of my knowledge neither organisation turned around and demanded (tens of) thousands of dollars (theo's request for help was just that -a request) from people using their projects commercially.
Well good for them, however, now the actual end user of said commercial product does not have access to the source code of the software they are using. I don't see that as a benefit to the user, only to the developer.
Edwin H. Armstrong went on the air as an FM broadcaster with as test transmitter in Alpine, NJ, April 10, 1938. Operating 600 watts of power at 43.7 MHz with callsign W2XMN.
Mr. Armstrong started experimenting with Frequency Modulation after the Radio Act of 1927 was passed, therefore, he needed a license in order to transmit.
Despite the splashy success of companies such as Google (GOOG ) and Yahoo! (YHOO ), businesses at the core of the information economy -- software, semiconductors, telecom, and the whole gamut of Web companies -- have lost more than 1.1 million jobs in the past five years. Those businesses employ fewer Americans today than they did in 1998, when the Internet frenzy kicked into high gear.
"That Guy" got replaced by a small shell script. This industry is one of the few that has the ability to do more with less.
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Who the fuck is "Jethro Tull"?
AT&T rejected the idea of packet switching because it was a threat to it's monopoly. The contract for the first IMP was awarded to BBN. Packet switching was innovated by ARPA and it's contractors and funded by the US Government.
Tim invented the Net in his spare time; not as part of his work for CERN.
Don't you mean the Web? The ARPAnet/Internet has been around much longer than the World Wide Web.
But Bacon Tastes Good... Pork Chops Taste Good.
War is never altruistic nor compassionate. It's just killin' folks and breakin' things.
Or as I like to say, "It's killing people and blowing up stuff, in a very organized way. The purpose of which is to take and hold land.".
They give patent like protections to copyright holders. It's bad and wrong. A lot of the DMCA is not too bad and in some cases is good.
On a science show, I would expect that people would have differing views, and people listening to the show would accept that.
Are you kidding? Science has become the religion of our day, with it's own priests, bishops and pope. Look what happens when people try to make a better model of the universe. They get labeled as heretics because we don't have the technology to verify the model. (String Theory).
I'm not saying the Science is bad, I'm just saying that I think many good ideas may be lost because they challenge a lifetime of work of someone well respected, who is simply wrong on some fine point or another.
It's 9AM, why am I ranting?
This isnt a demonstration of IBMs 'self restraint' - if they were to 'unleash the patent dragon', as it were, they would be sued back to the stone age under antitrust law. Again.
As I recall it, the US government said "Uncle" when the tractor trailers full of evidence showed up. I wouldn't call that being "sued back to the stone age".
or other "intelligent" life, then the Earth and the rest of the universe is a big waste of space.
Hey, at least he didn't use the Enlightenment icon, again!
Not the first time it's happened either. :(
The first thing that I thought when I read the headline is, "Do you know what the Posse Comitatus Act is?". I am sure it was just a typo.
I disagree. In short, BSD is for the benefit of developers and GNU is for the benefit of users.
Unless your users want to use GNU tools (QT, Cygwin, etc) in their commercial undertaking, of course.
No, users can use GNU tools all they want. There is no restriction on how you use GNU software, only in how you distribute it.
The OpenBSD project has no qualms about anyone making a commercial fork of it (in fact, they even list commerical products based on OpenBSD somewhere on their page); FreeBSD, in turn, is quite proud to have contributed to OS X.
This sounds like you are talking about developing and distributing software, not using it.
To the best of my knowledge neither organisation turned around and demanded (tens of) thousands of dollars (theo's request for help was just that -a request) from people using their projects commercially.
Well good for them, however, now the actual end user of said commercial product does not have access to the source code of the software they are using. I don't see that as a benefit to the user, only to the developer.
In short, BSD is 'free' as in 'free to do whatever you like'; whereas GNU is free as in 'free do it my way or free go to the gulag'.
I disagree. In short, BSD is for the benefit of developers and GNU is for the benefit of users.
Nope, I was too.
Better than Tom Baker, but not by much :) I just loved what he did with the character.
Edwin H. Armstrong went on the air as an FM broadcaster with as test transmitter in Alpine, NJ, April 10, 1938. Operating 600 watts of power at 43.7 MHz with callsign W2XMN.
Mr. Armstrong started experimenting with Frequency Modulation after the Radio Act of 1927 was passed, therefore, he needed a license in order to transmit.
Your turn.
I remember feeling 1337 because I got a 1200 baud half/duplex Apple-cat modem.
:)
We called it !200 baud
Did Edwin Armstrong [wikipedia.org] need a license?
Yes, he did.
Yep, looks like a definite downturn in the debt industry, IMHO.
Despite the splashy success of companies such as Google (GOOG ) and Yahoo! (YHOO ), businesses at the core of the information economy -- software, semiconductors, telecom, and the whole gamut of Web companies -- have lost more than 1.1 million jobs in the past five years. Those businesses employ fewer Americans today than they did in 1998, when the Internet frenzy kicked into high gear.
"That Guy" got replaced by a small shell script. This industry is one of the few that has the ability to do more with less.
They are not the same thing. One is for dectecting the type of client, the other is for detecting a specific client.
That should read VCO, not VFO.
Der di Der, my bad
That's correct. The majority of what they see is the "ring" of the VFO when the radio transmits.