Each license has different goals. Since it applies few restrictions on how the code can be used, the BSD license is sorta like putting the code into the public domain without giving up ownership of it. The GPL, on the other hand, seeks to keep the original code and any improvements made to it as open source. It also seeks to insure that anybody that gets a product containing the original or modified code can get the source to it without having to go on a wild goose chase. If you use the BSD license you are keeping your original work open source, but not any fork of it and only in your original distribution of it. If you use the GPL you preserve the open source nature of your code everywhere it gets used, not just in the original distribution that you make.
The real problem with the GPL is determining what constitutes a modification and what is an unrelated new application not part of the original, but making use of the original, that's why the LGPL exists. I personally disagree with static linked GPL libraries with user code as involking the GPL provisions of requiring the user code to be released under the GPL as well. Using a dynamic linked library solves the issue, but in the end there is no difference between the linking being done in memory by the kernel at load time, or on disk by the GCC link phase. Certainly the GPL'ed libraries need to be identified and their sources provided with the distribution of the user application. However the user application did not require any of the library source code to compile (only the prototypes in a header at the most), so use of the library is on the same level as running under the Linux kernel (which you can do with closed source applications under the GPL). The LGPL for libraries removes this issue, but I think it shouldn't be necessary.
Since it rides on tracks in the street it's more like a trolly car (or LRV) on stilts than a bus. And because of the tracks drivers in cars on the street will know how to get of it's way, since the 'bus' has to follow the tracks.
The writer of this comment is an ignorant bigot who should be downrated to super troll along with the assholes that rated him insightful. I do agree on one thing, any tax rebate given out should be based on the income level of the recipient, with people in higher tax brackets getting less rebate on buying a green car. Also, any rebates are indirectly a bailout of Chevy for developing the Volt in the first place. At the moment products such as the Chevy Volt are like a fart in in hurricane as far as their total impact on the reduction of carbon emissions. Somehow, their cost must come down and their acceptance levels increase. It's a chicken and egg problem though, the support infirstructure must be in place before more people will buy.
Stephen Hawking has Lou Gehrig's disease and his condition is actually stable. While some people might think that living in a wheelchair in his condition not much of a life, they should realize just how much he has accomplished while in that condition! He has even remarried and fathered childeren!
GE had purchased the right to use the software. When the dongles died, they manged to use the software by other means. Since they HAD the rights under their license agreement to use the software bypassing the dongles was not illegal. If they had done so to use an illegal copy that would have been another story.
By this thinking, it is LEGAL for me to us a certain piece of software to play DVD's that I own on Linux. Also developing software to crack the copy protection on BD's for use on BD disks I OWN would also be LEGAL. We have a legal foot in the door here folks!
Hard disk storage should be as good as tape, they are BOTH magnetic media and the aluminum platters should hold up better than the plastic backing tape is made of. This would mean only powering up the disk when actually being accessed. The weak points are the capacitors on the disk circuit boards, and the lubrication on the bearings of the moving parts. Since the inside of the disk is in theory sealed the lube shouldn't dry out. So that leaves the capacitors on the circuit board as the only thing to fail while the disk is sitting idle and powered down. If the disk was fitted with a 'soft start' circuit to limit inrush current and never subject to vibration while being accessed storage life of the contents should be quite long.
First make it a law that ANY company OWNED by us citizens (IE: 50.00001 percent of the stock holders) is a US company regardless of where it is based or incorporated. Then the IRS should demand payroll and income taxes on all salaries paid by the corporation to individuals or by third party holding companies paid by the corporation in question. These payroll and income taxes will be based on what a US citizen would be paid NOT what a third world employee was actually being paid. The reason is that the IRS should declare that a US company (see above) that off-shores their labor is CHEATING the IRS out of tax revenue that would have been collected had a US citizen been doing the work.
A very clever idea, probably thought up by an employee in his spare time and "stolen" by Microsoft under the employment agreements all companies make their employees sign. You know, "we own everything you think of during company time and on your own time". Seems M$ has an "Edison" or a "Farnsworth" or a "Telsa" among their grunts.
Having said that, this idea probably won't work on all batteries as there are many rechargeable batteries that have very short positive terminals, or positive terminal faces surrounded by a large connected metal front which would result in a short circuit with this type of battery holder. Also if "mercury" batteries are still made they had the NEGATIVE terminal with the extended post (I remember my Father's old Zenith "owl eye" transistor radio used mercury AA cells and the instructions showed to insert them BACKWARDS!)
Still, this is one of those simple "I should have thought of that" things. Is this the future of Microsoft, a think tank of patents they license while selling nothing?
It's VERY unlikely that a ham or cb operator is interferring with wifi as the frequency involved is several orders or magnitude removed. Some hams do operate on vhf and uhf frequencies, but even here the highest frequency used is in the 470 MHZ region about 5 times removed from the 2400mhz wifi 'band'. Also ham equipment is usually very well filtered so they don't have much spurious junk out of band.
I don't know about wifi, but I'm having problems with my garage door opener. Most of the time I can open the door from my car from the street at the end of a long driveway, but sometimes I can't even get it to work with the car right in front of the frag'n door! I have no idea what frequency Sears uses for their remote controls but it's probably in the 900mhz or 2400mhz bands.
The President also has the power to suspend the Constitution, something that has never happened though several wars. Things would have to get very dire before either of these events would be triggered.
Since I have quite a few Adaptec PCI SCSI cards and a few PCI network cards, plus a TV Tuner PCI card or two, I wondered if any of these can be found in PCI-E. Yes for the tuner cards and the network cards (and not too expensive) but holly cow are SCSI PCI-E cards expensive! What to do with my HP-scanjet?
My twin daughters are in band in High School. The school DOES have some loaner instruments but most of them look like they got in the way of an elephant stampeede. Let me tell you that the cost of a good Clarinet or Trumpet is far GREATER than a Mac laptop!
Eventually such laws will end up before the supreme court in a first amendment (freedom of speech) test. Then (hopefully) it will fail the constitutionality test.
How could they have written a complier for a language they don't know? You do realize that GCC already does support C++? This means the GNU guys are admitting they don't know the language that they already wrote a complier for? How good a C++ complier could GCC be?
HP's ink carts contain not just the ink, but the nozzels as well. In fact, HP printers do not have print heads, because the ink carts ARE the print heads. Every time you change the ink cart you change the print head. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because you don't have to worry about clogged ink heads, you get a new clean head every time you run out of ink. It's bad because it's more expensive to do it this way. Epson ink carts ONLY contain ink. The print head is in the printer. That sucking sound you hear everytime you turn the printer on is the sound of the printer cleaning the heads, and they waste some ink doing it. However, I still think HP overcharges for ink.
Not to mention the errors made in adding names to the list. A coworkers 6 year old son was on the list, they discovered this while checking in to board a flight while on vacation. The airport officials had the good common sense to realize a 6 year old kid isn't a terrorist and let them all board the flight. Now they have to go through channels to get the kid removed from the NFL.
Why does the idea of unlocking cores in a cpu remind me of the scene in Young Frankenstein where Igor grabs the jar containing the abnormal brain? (Whose brain is this? Some guy named Abienormal).
While the use of BSD code in a GPL'd project is possible (because the BSD license lets you do ANYTHING!) I'm not sure the inverse is true. So if the BSD kernel became the mainstream instead of Linux the only way it could use GNU/GPL code would have been to wrap the entire project in GPL. I guess this is what Debian is doing. However BSD has it's own versions of the GNU programs and stands quite well on it's own.
Twice now my family has opted for taking the Auto-Train from Sanford Fl to the D.C. area instead of a direct flight from Fort Lauderdale to NYC. When you consider the cost of a rental car for the period of the visit (say a week) the train fare is less than flying since we are taking our own vehicle with us. The train gets into the D.C. area around 9am, but you will be lucky to have your vehicle unloaded and be ready to leave by 10am (Noon would be the latest). You have to be at the station by 2pm to get your vehicle loaded and the train leaves by 4pm (usually 3pm). The usual room/roomette options apply, or just the coach seating which is comfortable. If the train is not fully booked you can make use of two seats to sorta lay down. The train makes no stops (except short ones to pass other trains on single tracked parts of the line and a long one in the middle of the night to change crew and refuel the engines). All in all a VERY good alternative to flying between Fl and NY, but you do have to add an extra day of travel. Also don't forget the tolls on the NJTP and the bridges between NJ and NYC when figuring out the fare differences. I wish Auto-Train service was available over more Amtrack routes, but the railroad employees tell me that on the East-West routes the tunnels are too low to allow the double deck auto carrier cars (strange, how did new cars get shipped by rail out of Detroit?).
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There are some things that possession of SHOULD be a serious crime. Like plutonium, anthrax, and unregistered nuclear accelerators.
Each license has different goals. Since it applies few restrictions on how the code can be used, the BSD license is sorta like putting the code into the public domain without giving up ownership of it. The GPL, on the other hand, seeks to keep the original code and any improvements made to it as open source. It also seeks to insure that anybody that gets a product containing the original or modified code can get the source to it without having to go on a wild goose chase. If you use the BSD license you are keeping your original work open source, but not any fork of it and only in your original distribution of it. If you use the GPL you preserve the open source nature of your code everywhere it gets used, not just in the original distribution that you make.
The real problem with the GPL is determining what constitutes a modification and what is an unrelated new application not part of the original, but making use of the original, that's why the LGPL exists. I personally disagree with static linked GPL libraries with user code as involking the GPL provisions of requiring the user code to be released under the GPL as well. Using a dynamic linked library solves the issue, but in the end there is no difference between the linking being done in memory by the kernel at load time, or on disk by the GCC link phase. Certainly the GPL'ed libraries need to be identified and their sources provided with the distribution of the user application. However the user application did not require any of the library source code to compile (only the prototypes in a header at the most), so use of the library is on the same level as running under the Linux kernel (which you can do with closed source applications under the GPL). The LGPL for libraries removes this issue, but I think it shouldn't be necessary.
Since it rides on tracks in the street it's more like a trolly car (or LRV) on stilts than a bus. And because of the tracks drivers in cars on the street will know how to get of it's way, since the 'bus' has to follow the tracks.
The writer of this comment is an ignorant bigot who should be downrated to super troll along with the assholes that rated him insightful.
I do agree on one thing, any tax rebate given out should be based on the income level of the recipient, with people in higher tax brackets getting less rebate on buying a green car. Also, any rebates are indirectly a bailout of Chevy for developing the Volt in the first place. At the moment products such as the Chevy Volt are like a fart in in hurricane as far as their total impact on the reduction of carbon emissions. Somehow, their cost must come down and their acceptance levels increase. It's a chicken and egg problem though, the support infirstructure must be in place before more people will buy.
Stephen Hawking has Lou Gehrig's disease and his condition is actually stable. While some people might think that living in a wheelchair in his condition not much of a life, they should realize just how much he has accomplished while in that condition! He has even remarried and fathered childeren!
I hope members of the fourth estate feel threatened by this and run to this guy's aid.
GE had purchased the right to use the software. When the dongles died, they manged to use the software by other means. Since they HAD the rights under their license agreement to use the software bypassing the dongles was not illegal. If they had done so to use an illegal copy that would have been another story.
By this thinking, it is LEGAL for me to us a certain piece of software to play DVD's that I own on Linux. Also developing software to crack the copy protection on BD's for use on BD disks I OWN would also be LEGAL. We have a legal foot in the door here folks!
Hard disk storage should be as good as tape, they are BOTH magnetic media and the aluminum platters should hold up better than the plastic backing tape is made of. This would mean only powering up the disk when actually being accessed. The weak points are the capacitors on the disk circuit boards, and the lubrication on the bearings of the moving parts. Since the inside of the disk is in theory sealed the lube shouldn't dry out. So that leaves the capacitors on the circuit board as the only thing to fail while the disk is sitting idle and powered down. If the disk was fitted with a 'soft start' circuit to limit inrush current and never subject to vibration while being accessed storage life of the contents should be quite long.
First make it a law that ANY company OWNED by us citizens (IE: 50.00001 percent of the stock holders) is a US company regardless of where it is based or incorporated. Then the IRS should demand payroll and income taxes on all salaries paid by the corporation to individuals or by third party holding companies paid by the corporation in question. These payroll and income taxes will be based on what a US citizen would be paid NOT what a third world employee was actually being paid. The reason is that the IRS should declare that a US company (see above) that off-shores their labor is CHEATING the IRS out of tax revenue that would have been collected had a US citizen been doing the work.
A very clever idea, probably thought up by an employee in his spare time and "stolen" by Microsoft under the employment agreements all companies make their employees sign. You know, "we own everything you think of during company time and on your own time". Seems M$ has an "Edison" or a "Farnsworth" or a "Telsa" among their grunts.
Having said that, this idea probably won't work on all batteries as there are many rechargeable batteries that have very short positive terminals, or positive terminal faces surrounded by a large connected metal front which would result in a short circuit with this type of battery holder. Also if "mercury" batteries are still made they had the NEGATIVE terminal with the extended post (I remember my Father's old Zenith "owl eye" transistor radio used mercury AA cells and the instructions showed to insert them BACKWARDS!)
Still, this is one of those simple "I should have thought of that" things. Is this the future of Microsoft, a think tank of patents they license while selling nothing?
It's VERY unlikely that a ham or cb operator is interferring with wifi as the frequency involved is several orders or magnitude removed. Some hams do operate on vhf and uhf frequencies, but even here the highest frequency used is in the 470 MHZ region about 5 times removed from the 2400mhz wifi 'band'. Also ham equipment is usually very well filtered so they don't have much spurious junk out of band.
I don't know about wifi, but I'm having problems with my garage door opener. Most of the time I can open the door from my car from the street at the end of a long driveway, but sometimes I can't even get it to work with the car right in front of the frag'n door! I have no idea what frequency Sears uses for their remote controls but it's probably in the 900mhz or 2400mhz bands.
The President also has the power to suspend the Constitution, something that has never happened though several wars. Things would have to get very dire before either of these events would be triggered.
Since I have quite a few Adaptec PCI SCSI cards and a few PCI network cards, plus a TV Tuner PCI card or two, I wondered if any of these can be found in PCI-E. Yes for the tuner cards and the network cards (and not too expensive) but holly cow are SCSI PCI-E cards expensive! What to do with my HP-scanjet?
Guess Harry Mudd will be there to sell wives to those lonely Afghan Lithium miners!
My twin daughters are in band in High School. The school DOES have some loaner instruments but most of them look like they got in the way of an elephant stampeede. Let me tell you that the cost of a good Clarinet or Trumpet is far GREATER than a Mac laptop!
AS long as Google still shows OTHER hits for such searches I would say let BP pay Google through their nose to get their links to the top of the list.
"And was the countdown off, or was the webcast not properly synchronized? I saw liftoff taking place at T -0:00:02."
Engine start takes place at T-0. For the first few seconds clamps hold the rocket down to the pad until the engines rev up to full power for liftoff.
Eventually such laws will end up before the supreme court in a first amendment (freedom of speech) test.
Then (hopefully) it will fail the constitutionality test.
How could they have written a complier for a language they don't know? You do realize that GCC already does support C++? This means the GNU guys are admitting they don't know the language that they already wrote a complier for? How good a C++ complier could GCC be?
HP's ink carts contain not just the ink, but the nozzels as well. In fact, HP printers do not have print heads, because the ink carts ARE the print heads. Every time you change the ink cart you change the print head. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. It's good because you don't have to worry about clogged ink heads, you get a new clean head every time you run out of ink. It's bad because it's more expensive to do it this way. Epson ink carts ONLY contain ink. The print head is in the printer. That sucking sound you hear everytime you turn the printer on is the sound of the printer cleaning the heads, and they waste some ink doing it. However, I still think HP overcharges for ink.
Not to mention the errors made in adding names to the list. A coworkers 6 year old son was on the list, they discovered this while checking in to board a flight while on vacation. The airport officials had the good common sense to realize a 6 year old kid isn't a terrorist and let them all board the flight. Now they have to go through channels to get the kid removed from the NFL.
Why does the idea of unlocking cores in a cpu remind me of the scene in Young Frankenstein where Igor grabs the jar containing the abnormal brain? (Whose brain is this? Some guy named Abienormal).
While the use of BSD code in a GPL'd project is possible (because the BSD license lets you do ANYTHING!) I'm not sure the inverse is true. So if the BSD kernel became the mainstream instead of Linux the only way it could use GNU/GPL code would have been to wrap the entire project in GPL. I guess this is what Debian is doing. However BSD has it's own versions of the GNU programs and stands quite well on it's own.
Twice now my family has opted for taking the Auto-Train from Sanford Fl to the D.C. area instead of a direct flight from Fort Lauderdale to NYC. When you consider the cost of a rental car for the period of the visit (say a week) the train fare is less than flying since we are taking our own vehicle with us. The train gets into the D.C. area around 9am, but you will be lucky to have your vehicle unloaded and be ready to leave by 10am (Noon would be the latest). You have to be at the station by 2pm to get your vehicle loaded and the train leaves by 4pm (usually 3pm). The usual room/roomette options apply, or just the coach seating which is comfortable. If the train is not fully booked you can make use of two seats to sorta lay down. The train makes no stops (except short ones to pass other trains on single tracked parts of the line and a long one in the middle of the night to change crew and refuel the engines). All in all a VERY good alternative to flying between Fl and NY, but you do have to add an extra day of travel. Also don't forget the tolls on the NJTP and the bridges between NJ and NYC when figuring out the fare differences.
I wish Auto-Train service was available over more Amtrack routes, but the railroad employees tell me that on the East-West routes the tunnels are too low to allow the double deck auto carrier cars (strange, how did new cars get shipped by rail out of Detroit?).