Internet Radio is only OK.. My parents listen to NPR from Pittsburg in Ohio where they now live to get a show they otherwise wouldn't be able to. I found a few shoutcast stations that I like. Especially Digitally Imported. But I never listen to it live. I taped a few days worth of it and burned them onto mp3 cds. As a result, I can now listen to great techno music at work on my computer, out jogging on my portable mp3 cd player, in my car on my mp3 cd player, or at home with my dvd player that plays mp3 cds.
My current employer, GCC Printers (No relation to the compiler), does not key the cartridges sold with printers. Keying is typically done physically or electronically. GCC does neither.
There is no such thing as a "loosing side". There is such a thing as a "losing side".
Perhaps you were confused becouse "lose" is related to "loss" and "lost", each which has one 'o' and "loose" (as in your mother) rhymes with "caboose", "moose", and "goose". The only exception to this excellent rule of thumb is "choose". It isn't spelled with one 'o', is that "chose" is already a word.
You only have to be able to tell the difference between five people. That should make any system easier if you want to do it yourself. If you use biometrics it shouldn't be that complicated to tell the difference between 5 people. The fact that the autistic kid is the middle kid makes it more challenging though.
Specifically, I'm thinking of the stuff my high school chemistry teacher rigged up. He was a very bright guy, and had a very limited budget. He found ways to rig up cheap versions of very expensive scientific equipment. He usually did so with parts from Radio Shack and old computers that the computer lab was throwing out.
I would suggest getting an led, and a detector, having everybody in your family put their finger in between and see how much light each transmits. You would have to find a way to disable access for one while allowing access for four. If the differences are great enough, that would work. Just have everybody in your family stick their finger in a hole. You might want to work with pinky fingers so there is only one finger that will fit.
How about a scale on each side of the door? It would be easy to defeat for a regular person, but I'm not so sure for an 8 year old with autism. Again, you only have 5 people to worry about, not a lot more.
Job openings are crammed with requirements that are not necessary. Applicant should have 5 years experience with C#. Applicant should be fluent in Perl, Lisp, Scheme, and Fortran (Yeah I'm sure you'll use all those).
Furthermore, the searcher omitted C. C is still a very popular language for embedded applications. Everybody I know around here that got hired recently got hired to write C or assembly for hubs, cell phones, TVs or printers. I program almost entirely in C for work but I program in Java for fun.
These job sites are not the way to go. I'd say a survey of recent CS grads, and people that recently got new jobs would give much different results. Even a slashdot survey saying "Which language do you use most at work?" would be better.
Ok there is a GPL'd Web Server. Kickass and fast. So I develop an ISAPI interface onto the GPL'd Web Server. The ISAPI interface can then execute plugin's from both IIS and this kickass Web Server. So now comes the question, does the ISAPI plugins need to be Open Source? According to your previous comment no. But yet I linked into the Web Server, albeit a standard interface. Therefore I can sell my product with both IIS and the Kick Ass Web Server since IIS is already distributed for free.
Under your loophole, you could probably distribute your work. Normally the GPL would try to prevent you from distributing your work by claiming that your work is a derivative.
However, as others have pointed out in other comments here, the GPL has a clause to fall back on even if the linking does not make a derivative work (as is almost certainly the case here.) In this case, the GPL forbids your from distributing the GPLed server.
You could sell your product, but you would have to tell people to buy a copy of IIS or download the GPLed web server separately from a different source.
The GPL uses linking to define acceptable uses for what might be considered derivative works under the law.
With your first point about a Winamp plugin making Winamp GPL: This could never happen as Winamp is a standalone product, the plugin is not. Since Winamp does not depend on the plugin, it is not a derivative work. It doesn't matter what the GPL says because copyright law takes precedent.
As to your second point, this is where the article and I disagree. The article says that the plugin to winamp would not be a derivative work, I say it would. To my knowledge this has never been tested in a court of law.
As to your third point, you try to show a contradition, but the missed sublety about copright law being stronger than the GPL in your first point makes the contradition dissappear. In this case, if a plugin can function without the GPLed software (it was originally written as a plugin for something else) then under copyright law it would not be considered a plugin and GPL would have no say.
It has not been tested in court to my knowle
The LGPL/GPL don't just "assume" the meaning of derivative work. They quite explicitly define it.
But if copyright law defines derivative work as the article suggests, then the definition in the LGPL/GPL is meaningless because those licenses get their teeth from copyright law. If the courts decide that usage does not constitute a derivative work, than anybody may use your GPLed code (without modifying it) and distribute their stuff even though the GPL says otherwise.
The primary indication of whether a new program is a derivative work is whether the source code of the original program was used, modified, translated or otherwise changed in any way to create the new program. If not, then I would argue that it is not a derivative work.
This is not the definition of derivative work that is assumed by the GPL. The GPL assumes that a derivative work is any work that uses another work. (In the GPLs case, by linking to it). If this were (legaly) not the case, as the article exists, then there would be very little difference between the GPL and the LGPL (which specifically allows usage without modification).
I myself have written popular Java libraries that I license under the GPL (not the LGPL) because I want to encourage free software development.
If you wanted to make a movie, and in your movie you had another movie playing in the background on a tv on the set, do you think you should have the right to distribute your movie containing somebody else's movie? (Ignoring fair use such as parody) I don't think you should be able to.
The article seems to be written to allay fears of business leaders that they occur legal risk by using open source software. The article does not offer good advice. I would recommend, that if you were to use open source software in closed source, look for a license that specifically allows you to do so (such as the LGPL) rather than relying on an untested definition of derivative work.
Can the moderator that marked this a troll explain themselves? These are factual numbers that I pulled from my server logs. You can check my site, I actually have done the mozilla ad, and I have the stats to back up my results.
I get between 1500 and 2000 unique visitors a day. Most of my stuff is programming related, so visitors to my site are not representative of the entire intenet population. I do have a significant number of students and teachers that visit my TI Calculator programs.
I got tired of folks visiting my website using IE. I use Mozilla when develop and I code to standards. There have been numerous cases when I've had to regress something because IE doesn't do it right. In any case, I did a popunder ad for Mozilla for those that are using IE.
From this I found a few interesting things. The first, which is encouraging, is that it seem to be working. The percentage of people who visit my site using Mozilla started rising sharply. I went from about 1% to almost 5%. The second thing, which is curious, is that a lot less people are actually using IE than you might think. My server logs show that about 80% of my visitors use IE, but only about 40% get the popunder. My conclusion is that there are a lot of browsers out there that fake the user agent, or many people have found a way to disable popunders in IE. (have javascript disabled, or some such).
If you want the code to do the popunder so you can advertise mozilla on your site, its easy to grab the Javascript from my home page, just view source.
Java has Resource Bundles for different locales. The PropertyResourceBundle is especially useful for translations because it is the one that handles Strings. The nice thing though, is that you can also control behaviours by overriding the correct resource bundle. (Useful for currency display, etc). If you want to internationalize a Java program, check out the i18n Java Tutorial.
After making a few of myopen source projectsinternationalized, I ran into a problem. The text files that need to be translated are in the Western character set (ISO-8859-1). This is a problem because characters outside this set all need to be escaped. People volunteering to translate didn't have the time or skill to figure out how to do that. I wrote a Java translation editor called Attesoro to make the process easier.
For open source projects I ran into some people that do their translations using Babelfish. The automatic translations are generally horrible, but they say that this almost always encourages somebody that knows the language to volunteer to do the job better.;-)
This appears to be a nice summary of the "Your Rights Online" section of Slashdot from the past year. There is a paragraph about each of the following:
I want to be able to meet my meat. Why can't they just breed cows that desire to be eaten. Then we could all have a nice meal at The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe.
You have no control of your email address. I only give my address that I use for personal correspondence to my family and closest friends. My father gave me a DVD rental for my Birthday, and on of my friends invited me to a party and used one of those web sites that do invitations. Between the two leaks, my address is now in the hands of spammers and I am getting 2 to 3 a day at that address. Short of beating my friends and family around the head, I don't think I can stop that sort of thing.
Not posting your address is important. If you you post your address on the internet, expect more than 10 spam a day. Similarly if you use it to post on usenet, expect more than that. It seems to be hardly sufficient, however.
I have decided that my only recourse is to change my address every time it starts getting spam. People that email me at an old address get a note saying why the address has been disabled and a url on my website where they can fill out a form to contact me. (btw, if you are interested, you can get the contact form that I use on my website, it is designed to thwart spammers, unlike formmail and other cgi to email gateways.)
Running 5 times a week, it will repeat in what, 3 weeks? How many episodes of Futurama are there? It seems like fox was always pushing it off for their weekly special or the football game.
I used to watch fox almost exclusivly, but now they don't have anything I want to see. It looked like they would hold me a bit longer with Futurama, but then they dropped it. Thank goodness for cable. Now I like The Learning Channel and Comedy Central.
My Aunt is a teacher and she is somewhat frustrated by the computers that her elementary students get to use. She thinks that there are some valuable things that can be taught on the computers: Typing, internet research, math drills, etc. The biggest problem to her is that by the time you get the kids hearded to the computer room, everybody logged in, and the correct program loaded, you only have 15 minutes of instruction out of an hour period left. She also feels that the computers would be too distracting on the students desk in the main classroom all the time.
Having every kid have their own login is too much of a pain. Getting them set up, then having kids forget their passwords, took too much time. Her kids did not want use a computer logged in as somebody else because they wanted it personalized as "theirs".
Another headache was software licenses. Some programs required a disk be brought around to each computer to activate the session. The school district was (understandably) reluctant to spring for the best rated (but expensive) instructive software. This is an area in which free software would be a boon.
One can easily see how the headaches of computers easily distract from the learning process.
The Open Directory Project - A list of all the websites on the internet categorized with descriptions. Editors are responsible for finding websites, weeding and sorting submissions, and writing descriptions for each site. The project was started by Netscape and AOL now pays for two full time employees. Almost all of the actual work is done by volunteers. The content is made available via RDF dump and is licensed under an Open Content License.
There was recently a slashdot article about Distributed Proofreaders in support of Project Gutenburg. Volunteers proofread one page at a time from public domain books which have been scanned and OCRed.
The nice thing about these two is that you can spend as much or as little time as you would like. Have an hour a month? Thats fine. Want to spend 16 hours a day? You can. If you want to do less later or you just want to try it out, that is no problem.
In short, it's the practice of having people post "reviews" or "opinions" into usenet/forums/irc, that are actually paid adverts by the company.
This is very different than what I have known as viral marketing. ICQ did a great job of viral marketing to get their chat client to be the most popular. They did this by having the chat client prompt you to tell all of your friends about it.
Viral marketing is having your product communicate with each of your customers contacts. The viral part of it is that it has exponential growth. As the number of customers grow, the number of messages sent will grow.
This really makes sense for some products such as chat clients that are meant for communication. If you made a fridge that said "Hi, check me out!" whenever somebody new walked into the kitchen, you would have made a fridge with viral marketing. I don't know how much sense that would make given that fridges don't usually communicate and adding viral marketing might increase the costs significantly.
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Internet Radio is only OK.. My parents listen to NPR from Pittsburg in Ohio where they now live to get a show they otherwise wouldn't be able to. I found a few shoutcast stations that I like. Especially Digitally Imported. But I never listen to it live. I taped a few days worth of it and burned them onto mp3 cds. As a result, I can now listen to great techno music at work on my computer, out jogging on my portable mp3 cd player, in my car on my mp3 cd player, or at home with my dvd player that plays mp3 cds.
My current employer, GCC Printers (No relation to the compiler), does not key the cartridges sold with printers. Keying is typically done physically or electronically. GCC does neither.
Damn that was moderated into oblivion. Where is the lose not loose guy to support me when I need it?
Perhaps you were confused becouse "lose" is related to "loss" and "lost", each which has one 'o' and "loose" (as in your mother) rhymes with "caboose", "moose", and "goose". The only exception to this excellent rule of thumb is "choose". It isn't spelled with one 'o', is that "chose" is already a word.
Specifically, I'm thinking of the stuff my high school chemistry teacher rigged up. He was a very bright guy, and had a very limited budget. He found ways to rig up cheap versions of very expensive scientific equipment. He usually did so with parts from Radio Shack and old computers that the computer lab was throwing out.
I would suggest getting an led, and a detector, having everybody in your family put their finger in between and see how much light each transmits. You would have to find a way to disable access for one while allowing access for four. If the differences are great enough, that would work. Just have everybody in your family stick their finger in a hole. You might want to work with pinky fingers so there is only one finger that will fit.
How about a scale on each side of the door? It would be easy to defeat for a regular person, but I'm not so sure for an 8 year old with autism. Again, you only have 5 people to worry about, not a lot more.
Furthermore, the searcher omitted C. C is still a very popular language for embedded applications. Everybody I know around here that got hired recently got hired to write C or assembly for hubs, cell phones, TVs or printers. I program almost entirely in C for work but I program in Java for fun.
These job sites are not the way to go. I'd say a survey of recent CS grads, and people that recently got new jobs would give much different results. Even a slashdot survey saying "Which language do you use most at work?" would be better.
However, as others have pointed out in other comments here, the GPL has a clause to fall back on even if the linking does not make a derivative work (as is almost certainly the case here.) In this case, the GPL forbids your from distributing the GPLed server.
You could sell your product, but you would have to tell people to buy a copy of IIS or download the GPLed web server separately from a different source.
The GPL uses linking to define acceptable uses for what might be considered derivative works under the law.
With your first point about a Winamp plugin making Winamp GPL: This could never happen as Winamp is a standalone product, the plugin is not. Since Winamp does not depend on the plugin, it is not a derivative work. It doesn't matter what the GPL says because copyright law takes precedent.
As to your second point, this is where the article and I disagree. The article says that the plugin to winamp would not be a derivative work, I say it would. To my knowledge this has never been tested in a court of law.
As to your third point, you try to show a contradition, but the missed sublety about copright law being stronger than the GPL in your first point makes the contradition dissappear. In this case, if a plugin can function without the GPLed software (it was originally written as a plugin for something else) then under copyright law it would not be considered a plugin and GPL would have no say. It has not been tested in court to my knowle
For an interesting read of why usage constituting a derivative work would be important to free software (and is part of the GPL) read Why you shouldn't use the Library GPL for your next library from gnu.org.
I myself have written popular Java libraries that I license under the GPL (not the LGPL) because I want to encourage free software development.
If you wanted to make a movie, and in your movie you had another movie playing in the background on a tv on the set, do you think you should have the right to distribute your movie containing somebody else's movie? (Ignoring fair use such as parody) I don't think you should be able to.
The article seems to be written to allay fears of business leaders that they occur legal risk by using open source software. The article does not offer good advice. I would recommend, that if you were to use open source software in closed source, look for a license that specifically allows you to do so (such as the LGPL) rather than relying on an untested definition of derivative work.
Conestoga is just the name of a Boy Scout camp. I have moved around the country quite a bit, not a Mennonite, sorry.
Can the moderator that marked this a troll explain themselves? These are factual numbers that I pulled from my server logs. You can check my site, I actually have done the mozilla ad, and I have the stats to back up my results.
I get between 1500 and 2000 unique visitors a day. Most of my stuff is programming related, so visitors to my site are not representative of the entire intenet population. I do have a significant number of students and teachers that visit my TI Calculator programs.
From this I found a few interesting things. The first, which is encouraging, is that it seem to be working. The percentage of people who visit my site using Mozilla started rising sharply. I went from about 1% to almost 5%. The second thing, which is curious, is that a lot less people are actually using IE than you might think. My server logs show that about 80% of my visitors use IE, but only about 40% get the popunder. My conclusion is that there are a lot of browsers out there that fake the user agent, or many people have found a way to disable popunders in IE. (have javascript disabled, or some such).
If you want the code to do the popunder so you can advertise mozilla on your site, its easy to grab the Javascript from my home page, just view source.
After making a few of my open source projects internationalized, I ran into a problem. The text files that need to be translated are in the Western character set (ISO-8859-1). This is a problem because characters outside this set all need to be escaped. People volunteering to translate didn't have the time or skill to figure out how to do that. I wrote a Java translation editor called Attesoro to make the process easier.
For open source projects I ran into some people that do their translations using Babelfish. The automatic translations are generally horrible, but they say that this almost always encourages somebody that knows the language to volunteer to do the job better. ;-)
I want to be able to meet my meat. Why can't they just breed cows that desire to be eaten. Then we could all have a nice meal at The Restaraunt at the End of the Universe.
Not posting your address is important. If you you post your address on the internet, expect more than 10 spam a day. Similarly if you use it to post on usenet, expect more than that. It seems to be hardly sufficient, however.
I have decided that my only recourse is to change my address every time it starts getting spam. People that email me at an old address get a note saying why the address has been disabled and a url on my website where they can fill out a form to contact me. (btw, if you are interested, you can get the contact form that I use on my website, it is designed to thwart spammers, unlike formmail and other cgi to email gateways.)
I used to watch fox almost exclusivly, but now they don't have anything I want to see. It looked like they would hold me a bit longer with Futurama, but then they dropped it. Thank goodness for cable. Now I like The Learning Channel and Comedy Central.
Indeed, if you search, there are quite a few pay phones on ebay. Pretty impressive.
Having every kid have their own login is too much of a pain. Getting them set up, then having kids forget their passwords, took too much time. Her kids did not want use a computer logged in as somebody else because they wanted it personalized as "theirs".
Another headache was software licenses. Some programs required a disk be brought around to each computer to activate the session. The school district was (understandably) reluctant to spring for the best rated (but expensive) instructive software. This is an area in which free software would be a boon.
One can easily see how the headaches of computers easily distract from the learning process.
There was recently a slashdot article about Distributed Proofreaders in support of Project Gutenburg. Volunteers proofread one page at a time from public domain books which have been scanned and OCRed.
The nice thing about these two is that you can spend as much or as little time as you would like. Have an hour a month? Thats fine. Want to spend 16 hours a day? You can. If you want to do less later or you just want to try it out, that is no problem.
Viral marketing is having your product communicate with each of your customers contacts. The viral part of it is that it has exponential growth. As the number of customers grow, the number of messages sent will grow.
This really makes sense for some products such as chat clients that are meant for communication. If you made a fridge that said "Hi, check me out!" whenever somebody new walked into the kitchen, you would have made a fridge with viral marketing. I don't know how much sense that would make given that fridges don't usually communicate and adding viral marketing might increase the costs significantly.