And, as has been pointed out on/. before, that also means for continued development/improvement/bugfix of XFree86 linked GPL'd code XFree86 will have to be forked at 4.3.
The XFree86 existing team can continue to work on 4.4 to their heart's content, and anyone willing to link to their work under a non-GPL is perfectly free to continue to develop with 4.4+. Anyone that wants to use a "better than 4.3" XFree86 and release under the GPL will have to develop to the new forked code.
This is both the boon and bane of OSS. If someone does something you don't like with their code, fork it and do it the way you want. But that means trying to put to gether an equivalent number of developers, with an equivalent amount of experience with the project in question, who also have an equivalent amount of spare time to devote to the new project, as the the existing team. While this sounds great in theory, in reality, unless you can just wholesale steal coders from the original project, it will be almost impossible to create an equivalent and competing fork.
There are projects that have essentially done this (Gnome/KDE comes to mind) but they seem to be few.
And I feel guilty/lucky in some way that I have a legitimate way out.
You shouldn't feel guilty. You answer is not "a legitimate way out." It is honest and truthful. It is an indication of the corruption of the legal system that saying it turns out to get you dismissed. If the legal system were as honest and fair as they claim to be, your comment would be answered by the judge with, "I and the attorneys for both sides respect that. A thoughtful, intelligent, well read, honest person is exactly the type we want on the jury." Instead, your dismissal just proves that the judge and attorneys on both sides want weak minded sheep with as little knowledge and common sense as they can find.
Unfortunately it's my mom and girlfriend who are the worst about sending me HTML formatted email. I have tried over and over again to explain to them why this is bad, and how lousy their emails sent to me look while I have HTML turned off, but they "Think it looks cute" to have a purple fairy for the background image behind bold pink text.
And obviously if Incredimail's advertising says it's "safe, fun, and cool", and CNet gives it a #1 software, and ZDNet and Tucows both go gaga over it, then it must be great, and it's me that's broken.
Here in Texas a lot of the trans-state electrical transmission lines run across ranches, or the right-of-way is leased to ranchers. Many, many generations of cattle are conceived, born, raised, bred, slaughtered, and sent to market spending thier, and thier ancestor's, lives entirely under the power lines. Considerably closer than U.S. regulations allow you to build your house to the same power lines.
I have yet to have any of my friends who are ranchers complain about cancer, or other health problems in thier cattle raised under these conditions.
A lot of regular movie goers, especially professional movie critics, have complained about those final scenes. Anyone who regularly goes to live theatre, however, instantly recognized those scenes for what they were.
All of the scenes after Frodo and Sam are picked up by the Eagles, are the final bows of the cast members on closing night. Every one of the major characters (except I can't remember a Boromir flashback at the end, but maybe that will be in the extended edition) gets one more scene at the end to "take thier final bows" and the major characters get several "bows". Even Andy Serkis shows up one final time in the Green Dragon Pub as a hobbit.
If you watch the movie, and think of the curtain closing while you see the Eagles flying off, and then look at the rest just as final bows and a chance for you as the audience to show your final appreciation of the performers, it makes a lot more sense, and brings much better closure.
Ask yourself this: Would you volunteer for a moon mission using the same equipment as they did in '69?
In a heartbeat, no hesitation whatsoever. To be that significant a part of the greatest endeavor mankind has ever achieved was what kept me going through my aerospace degree. The short time I spent at NASA (before budget cutbacks caused the first NASA layoffs ever) is still the most memorable and amazing part of my life. I am saddened by the bean-counters and professional managers that seem to have sucked the life and spirit of adventure out of the NASA culture that I knew. While I was there the feeling that everyone was on the edge (or sometimes in the middle of) the most amazing discoveries was palpable. The conversations overheard or participated in in the lunchroom were so far outside of "normal" life that sometimes I had trouble re-adjusting to dealing with "normal" people and conversation.
What that chart fails to point out though, is that you will always and forever be paying Apple's "suggested" retail price.
However, a quick Dealtime search shows that most of the other players are being offered by reputable dealers at far below the sugg. retail shown in that chart.
After watching the Gollum Special on the Two Towers special edition DVD, I would have no problem with Serkis getting the Best Supporting Actor nomination. What's more, I don't think anyone on the LotR cast or production crew would dispute it either.
I know Hollywood isn't ready to award a digital representation an oscar, but for all the work and effort Andy put in (watch the Gollum documentary in the Special Edition "Two Towers" DVD) he deserved at least a nomination.
Not only that, but the "supporters" of the Patriot Act that I have heard over the last few days, have all used the excuse that "the person that teaches a terrorist how to make a bomb is as guilty as the terrorist that sets off the bomb." This sounds good to the knee jerk reactionists, but is so wrong on so many levels it is frightening. Does playing video games cause you to kill people, and should the game makers be held responsible? Etc., etc., etc.
But, also banned are medical advice, and advice on how to get water and sewage back working in the bombed out areas.
How about just a database of my personal information. Then if anyone sells my info to spammers, marketing agencies, etc., can I sue them for theft of copyright? I mean since they obvoisly had to have my name, phone number, address, email, whatever, to contact me...
IANAL, however, I believe you are wrong.
If that arguement worked, then every ISP could be held liable, and if I recall the ISPs have managed to get decisions in thier favor on this. If you have an unsecured access point you are, in effect, an ISP.
This probably violates your TOS with your ISP, and they can cancel your service, but you shouldn't be any more liable than they are.
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I always thought that the song "Bridge over troubled waters" was about network admin.
lame Simon & Garfunkel joke for you whippersnappers
It's about time we move on from the archaic state of the internet we're at right now. Besides the content, nothing's really changed in 10 years, and it needs to.
Besides the content? Ten years ago I was downloading ASCII porn from dialup BBS... now it's not ASCII anymore, but the content still seems pretty much the same.
WOW!
You just dicovered why Mars has it's orange-y color. Or is this just more of the NASA conspiracy? Re-color the images to orange, claim that Mars is the original source for Tang, and that the moon landings actually were a hoax, they really went to Mars!
No. Wrong. It's not "my" American recording industry association that forces Canadians to pay an extra 29% for recordable media. It's your Canadian elected officials that you voted for that imposed that particular farce on you. You can blame us Americans for the things that our elected officials do that you don't like, but at least have the balls to take responsibility for when your own elected officals are as bad or worse than ours.
If you don't know from personal experience, then you have no room to talk.
No one seems to remember what the secret service did to Steve Jackson Games. Just for a short on topic refresher here is a quote from the EFF site:
But now the board was closed down -- the
Secret Service physically removed it from Steve Jackson Games on March
1, 1990, and did not return it until sometime in the end of June of that
year. All in all, the Secret Service seized 3 computers, 5 hard disks
and more than 300 floppies from Steve Jackson Games on that fateful day.
No criminal charges were ever brought against Steve Jackson Games. Yet,
when the computer equipment was returned more than three months after
the raid, it appeared that someone inspecting the disks had read and
deleted all of the 162 electronic mail messages contained on the BBS at
the time of the raid. Not one of the users of the BBS was even under
investigation from the Secret Service.
Steve Jackson, owner of Steve Jackson Games, was angry. During the
three months his systems were under Secret Service investigation, he had
to layoff nearly half of his work force. Publication of at least one of
his games books was delayed, resulting in loss of revenues to the
company. He was written up in Business Week magazine as being a
computer criminal. Steve Jackson decided to fight back.
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And, as has been pointed out on
The XFree86 existing team can continue to work on 4.4 to their heart's content, and anyone willing to link to their work under a non-GPL is perfectly free to continue to develop with 4.4+. Anyone that wants to use a "better than 4.3" XFree86 and release under the GPL will have to develop to the new forked code.
This is both the boon and bane of OSS. If someone does something you don't like with their code, fork it and do it the way you want. But that means trying to put to gether an equivalent number of developers, with an equivalent amount of experience with the project in question, who also have an equivalent amount of spare time to devote to the new project, as the the existing team. While this sounds great in theory, in reality, unless you can just wholesale steal coders from the original project, it will be almost impossible to create an equivalent and competing fork.
There are projects that have essentially done this (Gnome/KDE comes to mind) but they seem to be few.
You shouldn't feel guilty. You answer is not "a legitimate way out." It is honest and truthful. It is an indication of the corruption of the legal system that saying it turns out to get you dismissed. If the legal system were as honest and fair as they claim to be, your comment would be answered by the judge with, "I and the attorneys for both sides respect that. A thoughtful, intelligent, well read, honest person is exactly the type we want on the jury." Instead, your dismissal just proves that the judge and attorneys on both sides want weak minded sheep with as little knowledge and common sense as they can find.
Yeah, but when chatting up a girl in a bar, do you REALLY want to flash your distro and admit that it's "Damn small"?
And there are those who believe this has already happened...
Unfortunately it's my mom and girlfriend who are the worst about sending me HTML formatted email. I have tried over and over again to explain to them why this is bad, and how lousy their emails sent to me look while I have HTML turned off, but they "Think it looks cute" to have a purple fairy for the background image behind bold pink text.
And obviously if Incredimail's advertising says it's "safe, fun, and cool", and CNet gives it a #1 software, and ZDNet and Tucows both go gaga over it, then it must be great, and it's me that's broken.
I lived in Barstow, there is a good part...
Highway 40 at 70 mph.
Here in Texas a lot of the trans-state electrical transmission lines run across ranches, or the right-of-way is leased to ranchers. Many, many generations of cattle are conceived, born, raised, bred, slaughtered, and sent to market spending thier, and thier ancestor's, lives entirely under the power lines. Considerably closer than U.S. regulations allow you to build your house to the same power lines.
I have yet to have any of my friends who are ranchers complain about cancer, or other health problems in thier cattle raised under these conditions.
Excellent post. Exactly what I was thinking.
Until someone adds mouse gestures to Firegenericanimaloftheday, I won't be switching. I love mouse gestures, even better than tabbed browsing.
A lot of regular movie goers, especially professional movie critics, have complained about those final scenes. Anyone who regularly goes to live theatre, however, instantly recognized those scenes for what they were.
All of the scenes after Frodo and Sam are picked up by the Eagles, are the final bows of the cast members on closing night. Every one of the major characters (except I can't remember a Boromir flashback at the end, but maybe that will be in the extended edition) gets one more scene at the end to "take thier final bows" and the major characters get several "bows". Even Andy Serkis shows up one final time in the Green Dragon Pub as a hobbit.
If you watch the movie, and think of the curtain closing while you see the Eagles flying off, and then look at the rest just as final bows and a chance for you as the audience to show your final appreciation of the performers, it makes a lot more sense, and brings much better closure.
You're asking slashdoters this? The last time I tried to lay a 3 dimensional solid structure, I got my face slapped.
Not if the people you send are anyone from my daily cube hell. Those women are never warm enough.
Actually I think I may have just hit on the reason for Opportunity's failure. It's a woman and feels cold even when the house is at 80 degrees F.
In a heartbeat, no hesitation whatsoever. To be that significant a part of the greatest endeavor mankind has ever achieved was what kept me going through my aerospace degree. The short time I spent at NASA (before budget cutbacks caused the first NASA layoffs ever) is still the most memorable and amazing part of my life. I am saddened by the bean-counters and professional managers that seem to have sucked the life and spirit of adventure out of the NASA culture that I knew. While I was there the feeling that everyone was on the edge (or sometimes in the middle of) the most amazing discoveries was palpable. The conversations overheard or participated in in the lunchroom were so far outside of "normal" life that sometimes I had trouble re-adjusting to dealing with "normal" people and conversation.
After all this time I still miss it.
What that chart fails to point out though, is that you will always and forever be paying Apple's "suggested" retail price.
However, a quick Dealtime search shows that most of the other players are being offered by reputable dealers at far below the sugg. retail shown in that chart.
After watching the Gollum Special on the Two Towers special edition DVD, I would have no problem with Serkis getting the Best Supporting Actor nomination. What's more, I don't think anyone on the LotR cast or production crew would dispute it either.
Yeah, Andy Serkis got gypped again.
I know Hollywood isn't ready to award a digital representation an oscar, but for all the work and effort Andy put in (watch the Gollum documentary in the Special Edition "Two Towers" DVD) he deserved at least a nomination.
Not only that, but the "supporters" of the Patriot Act that I have heard over the last few days, have all used the excuse that "the person that teaches a terrorist how to make a bomb is as guilty as the terrorist that sets off the bomb." This sounds good to the knee jerk reactionists, but is so wrong on so many levels it is frightening. Does playing video games cause you to kill people, and should the game makers be held responsible? Etc., etc., etc.
But, also banned are medical advice, and advice on how to get water and sewage back working in the bombed out areas.
How about just a database of my personal information. Then if anyone sells my info to spammers, marketing agencies, etc., can I sue them for theft of copyright? I mean since they obvoisly had to have my name, phone number, address, email, whatever, to contact me...
More to the interest of the typical /. reader...
Girl Scout cookies aren't made from real girl scouts either.
IANAL, however, I believe you are wrong. If that arguement worked, then every ISP could be held liable, and if I recall the ISPs have managed to get decisions in thier favor on this. If you have an unsecured access point you are, in effect, an ISP.
This probably violates your TOS with your ISP, and they can cancel your service, but you shouldn't be any more liable than they are.
I always thought that the song "Bridge over troubled waters" was about network admin.
lame Simon & Garfunkel joke for you whippersnappers
Besides the content? Ten years ago I was downloading ASCII porn from dialup BBS... now it's not ASCII anymore, but the content still seems pretty much the same.
WOW! You just dicovered why Mars has it's orange-y color. Or is this just more of the NASA conspiracy? Re-color the images to orange, claim that Mars is the original source for Tang, and that the moon landings actually were a hoax, they really went to Mars!
No. Wrong. It's not "my" American recording industry association that forces Canadians to pay an extra 29% for recordable media. It's your Canadian elected officials that you voted for that imposed that particular farce on you. You can blame us Americans for the things that our elected officials do that you don't like, but at least have the balls to take responsibility for when your own elected officals are as bad or worse than ours.
No one seems to remember what the secret service did to Steve Jackson Games.
Just for a short on topic refresher here is a quote from the EFF site:
Too Late. Too many people essentially do this for free now.
Besides, that job would just be sent overseas where labor is cheap anyway.