27th January 1976. Much more logical IMO. You start with the least significant item - the day of month, then a bit more significant - the month, then the most significant - the year.
The Japanese and Arabs say it as 1976/01/27, but of course they write from right to left.
06/02/2036 - systems which use unsigned 32-bit seconds since 01/01/1900 01/01/2037 - NTP time rolls over 19/01/2038 - Unix 32 bit time, signed 32 bit seconds (that's to say, 2^31) since 01/01/1970 06/02/2040 - Older Macintosh 17/19/2042 - IBM 370 family mainframe time ends, 2^32 "update intervals, a kind of 'long second'" since 01/01/1900 01/01/2044 - MS DOS clock overflows, 2^6 years since 01/01/1980 01/01/2046 - Amiga time overflows 01/01/2100 - many PC BIOS become useless 28/11/4338 - ANSI 85 COBOL date overflow, 10^6 days since epoch of 01/01/1601
Transport for London's Oyster Card is a contactless ticketing system for the London Underground and London Buses.
At the moment, it can only hold season tickets, so it isn't a great problem if you accidently use it. From next year, you can hold other types of ticket in there as well.
It has some advantages, like being able to recharge it over the phone or online without having to wait for the tickets to arrive through the post.
You can get through the ticket barriers without taking it out your bag, though you have to hold the bag petty close to the sensor.
People don't like it because it allows TFL to trace your travel habits much more than they could before.
In the case of credit cards, I can't see how just holding it close to a sensor could be evidence of your approval of the transaction. You would need some sort of verification process like a signature or a PIN/password.
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I get a lot of spam from computers located in China and S Korea, but they are advertising for companies based in the US.
Of course it is. Why ever should it not be recognised by law?
It is a lot less contentious than the likes of the Microsoft EULA.
There is a reason why no-one other than SCO has attempted to challenge the GPL. There is absolutely nothing to challenge about it. It is totally watertight.
Quite simple really. Here is some copyrighted code. Distribute it under a licence from the copyright holder, or it is what some people call software piracy.
OK, there is the issue about whether or not dynamic linking represents a derivative work, but it is no more a problem for linking GPL code than for linking copyrighted code from anywhere else.
A lower risk alternative would be to buy a "put option" in SCO shares. What this gives you is the right, but not the obligation (hence option) to sell shares at a future date, for a price fixed now.
You might, for example, pay $1 for the option to sell SCO shares at $15 on 30th June 2004.
If the shares are trading at $0.00000001 on that day, you buy some of them and use your option to sell for $15, making a nice tidy profit.
If, however, on 29th June, they announce that they on the rights to ITron (the most popular OS around), and the share price shoots up to $350, then you aren't required to make a $335 loss on each share. You let the option lapse, and you lose your $1.
There is no guarantee that the shares will collapse before 30th June, though I would say that a mid Jan collapse is pretty likely.
The only problem is that apparently you can't get put options on SCO shares.
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution"
In the UK anyway, it was one of the big milestones in computing.
It was the first affordable x86 machine, running MS DOS and GEM and capable of running Lotus 123 and MS Flight Simulator - the two killer apps of the time.
The fact that it was available in Dixons meant that the typical non techie person got to see it.
It was a lot cheaper, and better specced than the typical IBM machine.
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
What can I say? I totaly, completely, 100% agree with every single word of what he said there.
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Of course. I saw an AMD-64 version of SuSE in PC World today.
Haven't seen a 64 bit version of Windows yet.
Which of course is rubbish. The BSD licence allows you to put a GPL copyright header on it, or even an MS EULA on it.
Depends how much of their $70m bribe is left.
I say a date like this:
27th January 1976. Much more logical IMO. You start with the least significant item - the day of month, then a bit more significant - the month, then the most significant - the year.
The Japanese and Arabs say it as 1976/01/27, but of course they write from right to left.
> If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
So *that's* where they messed up. Thanks for pointing it out.
No. You see, unlike the dislexic en-US readers amongst us, we actually express our dates in a sensible order - dd/mm/yy rather than mm/dd/yy.
But if we can show the press that they are talking complete b******, then that can only be a good thing.
Translation for en-GB readers amoung us
06/02/2036 - systems which use unsigned 32-bit seconds since 01/01/1900
01/01/2037 - NTP time rolls over
19/01/2038 - Unix 32 bit time, signed 32 bit seconds (that's to say, 2^31) since 01/01/1970
06/02/2040 - Older Macintosh
17/19/2042 - IBM 370 family mainframe time ends, 2^32 "update intervals, a kind of 'long second'" since 01/01/1900
01/01/2044 - MS DOS clock overflows, 2^6 years since 01/01/1980
01/01/2046 - Amiga time overflows
01/01/2100 - many PC BIOS become useless
28/11/4338 - ANSI 85 COBOL date overflow, 10^6 days since epoch of 01/01/1601
The problem with that is that the people who didn't spend lots of money fixing their computers also didn't have any problems.
2.6 will probably be my Easter present. I don't plan on installing it until my distro supports it.
How about making the survey form work in Konqueror? Then I might consider filling it in.
QT is available under the GPL. This complies with the requirements of both the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative.
This happened on 4th September 2000 - over three years ago. Why do people still pretend that QT is not free software or open source software?
Britain can't even manage to sort out the West Coast Mainline at the moment.
Actually, never mind that. Broken rails and leaves on the line are enough of a challenge.
Their powerpoint slide giving evidence of illegal copying of code into linux is a perfect example of this.
Transport for London's Oyster Card is a contactless ticketing system for the London Underground and London Buses.
At the moment, it can only hold season tickets, so it isn't a great problem if you accidently use it. From next year, you can hold other types of ticket in there as well.
It has some advantages, like being able to recharge it over the phone or online without having to wait for the tickets to arrive through the post.
You can get through the ticket barriers without taking it out your bag, though you have to hold the bag petty close to the sensor.
People don't like it because it allows TFL to trace your travel habits much more than they could before.
In the case of credit cards, I can't see how just holding it close to a sensor could be evidence of your approval of the transaction. You would need some sort of verification process like a signature or a PIN/password.
I get a lot of spam from computers located in China and S Korea, but they are advertising for companies based in the US.
Of course it is. Why ever should it not be recognised by law?
It is a lot less contentious than the likes of the Microsoft EULA.
There is a reason why no-one other than SCO has attempted to challenge the GPL. There is absolutely nothing to challenge about it. It is totally watertight.
Quite simple really. Here is some copyrighted code. Distribute it under a licence from the copyright holder, or it is what some people call software piracy.
OK, there is the issue about whether or not dynamic linking represents a derivative work, but it is no more a problem for linking GPL code than for linking copyrighted code from anywhere else.
A lower risk alternative would be to buy a "put option" in SCO shares. What this gives you is the right, but not the obligation (hence option) to sell shares at a future date, for a price fixed now.
You might, for example, pay $1 for the option to sell SCO shares at $15 on 30th June 2004.
If the shares are trading at $0.00000001 on that day, you buy some of them and use your option to sell for $15, making a nice tidy profit.
If, however, on 29th June, they announce that they on the rights to ITron (the most popular OS around), and the share price shoots up to $350, then you aren't required to make a $335 loss on each share. You let the option lapse, and you lose your $1.
There is no guarantee that the shares will collapse before 30th June, though I would say that a mid Jan collapse is pretty likely.
The only problem is that apparently you can't get put options on SCO shares.
there are two things a cruise missile can't defend against.
1. The tax man
2. A slashdotting
Not quite. I think 40 bit can be brute forced in a couple of weeks.
What they had at No. 3
"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution"
They should be legally clear, as they don't contain any sharman networks code.
However, they could change the protocol again like they did between 1.3 and 1.5 to kick out Morpheus and the old giFT.
The Amstrad 1512?
In the UK anyway, it was one of the big milestones in computing.
It was the first affordable x86 machine, running MS DOS and GEM and capable of running Lotus 123 and MS Flight Simulator - the two killer apps of the time.
The fact that it was available in Dixons meant that the typical non techie person got to see it.
It was a lot cheaper, and better specced than the typical IBM machine.
IBM may not be "some business", but the people who buy S390s with GNU/Linux installed on it are.
This one is even better:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
What can I say? I totaly, completely, 100% agree with every single word of what he said there.