Natural selection is the phenomena of being removed from the gene pool prior to reproduction.
Actually, no. Natural selection is about having comparatively more offspring than competing selection units. To die early is a hard limiting factor in that game, but not the only factor. Living long enough to take care for your grandchildren while your (now adult) kids are out hunting probably has a major influence on your overall reproductive success, too.
It would be nice if there was some conformity with TV guide pages, now and next
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In german teletext, "WTF am I watching" is the rightmost of the four colored buttons on your TV remote (I think it was blue when it still had some color on it). Don't know what will happen to it once the go digital in november, though.
The other bummer is that a pringle can is only slightly better than a loose cable end, as a comprehensive comparision between different antennas by the german c't magazine has recently shown. You should rather use a coffee can with a larger diameter.
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One point speaking against including MM is that it was not really relevant to Einstein's work, he tried to solve theoretical inconsistencies between mechanics and electrodynamics.
The author mentioned that he sends a bounce message for a nonexistent account. Now assume an opt-in mechanism that works by including a characteristic string (like a hash value) in the message and its subject and scanning for this string in all incoming messages. Now a bounce message that cites even part of the bounced message would be regarded as an opt-in, no?
BSDi's code is now available for commercial operating systems (eg, Windows 2K+1?, *nix). What steps will new company take to protect against this scenario?
Well, of course nothing. This is exactly the philosophical difference between BSD-style free software and GNU-Style free software. The BSD license gives you the additional freedom to make the code non-free.
This is why supporters of both licenses have a legitimate point if they claim that their license if more free than the other one.
In my opinion, the government should only be responsible to pay the cost of a public good, such as highways, and national defense.
If you had actually read the announcement you are commenting on, you would have noticed that this will be financed by private enterprises. A major partner are for example local banks, which can only marginally be considered as "anti-capitalistic".
It will be a problem if the speed of the storage media does not keep pace with the capacity. There is a long technical paper on the issue of a storage surviability crisis over at the nasa site:
Over the past 10 years, tape data storage density (with the same form factor) has increased according to Moore's law, doubling every 18 months. However, during the same period, data transfer speeds have only increased at a rate of about 1.3 times every 18 months, and thus have fallen behind data density growth rates by a factor of at least 3.
On a related note, Heise has two articles on Sun and Java (in german). One says that sun announced not to charge any license fees for the Java Standard Edition, while the other one notes the Sun just withdrew Java from the ECMA standardization process, due to copyright considerations. The interesting bit: The technical commitee of ECMA is now thinking about standardizing Java without the participation of Sun.
So the sudden moves (no licence fees, linux support) may in fact be defensive maneuvres...
I'd be curious to see exactly what government agency or arm is giving this money to the GPG project.
It is the "Wirtschaftsministerium", an american equivalent would probably be the department of commerce. If you look at the more in depth article in telepolis you find the very interesting fact that the same department also plans to release a brochure advocating the use of Linux for small and medium enterprises.
Well that doesn't make any sense -- EVERY application written using the QT [Free] toolkit is released under the GPL (it's a requirement of the license).
Well, this is written in the QT licence, but who ever made this license has not understood the GPL. According to the GPL it is impossible to fulfill this requirement. Any code that is under the GPL cannot be linked with QT, since the QT license puts additional restrictions on the code. The only way to do so is to put a clause "You may distribute this code under the GPL. In addition, you are allowed to link it with the QT toolkit" in the code. But this has to be done by the original author.
There are different types of patent law out there. E.g. the german patent law only allows you to patent processes, not products (some people claim that this was the reason for the dominance of the german chemical industry in the late 19th century: people were forced to develop new processes like hell which could be put to unforeseen new uses), while the american patent law also allow to patent products (but not general ideas like "all types of shoe polish"). At least this was the situation a hundred years ago.
No, not really, the original version was 386BSD. If you can read german or trust babelfish, there is a nice litte text on the early history of *BSD by J. Wunsch available at the site formerly known as dejanews.
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It seems to me that GPL zelots are trying to dictate the licence of XFree.
He, he... Theo is a GPL zelot?
It is the menu key, you can bind it to Menu in X11 and then some applications recognize it. E.g., it is equivalent to M-x in emacs.
The other bummer is that a pringle can is only slightly better than a loose cable end, as a comprehensive comparision between different antennas by the german c't magazine has recently shown. You should rather use a coffee can with a larger diameter.
This very question (and a possible change of Linus' position on this) has just been the top story of the last LWN issue: Proprietary kernel modules - the boundary shifts?
One point speaking against including MM is that it was not really relevant to Einstein's work, he tried to solve theoretical inconsistencies between mechanics and electrodynamics.
The author mentioned that he sends a bounce message for a nonexistent account. Now assume an opt-in mechanism that works by including a characteristic string (like a hash value) in the message and its subject and scanning for this string in all incoming messages. Now a bounce message that cites even part of the bounced message would be regarded as an opt-in, no?
(How are you supposed to discuss code if you can't even use <pre> in comments?)
This is why supporters of both licenses have a legitimate point if they claim that their license if more free than the other one.
In that case they'd probably just outlaw to deliberatly confuse security sytems, and you will be caught in the act if you behave like this.
So the sudden moves (no licence fees, linux support) may in fact be defensive maneuvres...
You forgot to mention:
** Another MacWorld keynote by Apple interim CEO Steve Jobs
There are different types of patent law out there. E.g. the german patent law only allows you to patent processes, not products (some people claim that this was the reason for the dominance of the german chemical industry in the late 19th century: people were forced to develop new processes like hell which could be put to unforeseen new uses), while the american patent law also allow to patent products (but not general ideas like "all types of shoe polish"). At least this was the situation a hundred years ago.