Okay, so is Kororaa a derived work of the Linux kernel, or a collection of works?
Since every element in Kororaa is compiled in a standard way, separately, I'm inclined to say it's a collection of works. But the lawyers have to sort that out.
In other words, in the worst case, nVidia has to license the sections of their code that directly interface with the Linux kernel using some GPL-compatible license, such as BSD. That portion of their code would be just about useless to anyone else, though, and they should already have kernel interfaces in a separate library to save work, so it's a minor matter.
Linus Torvalds/FSF was serving people with papers? Do you have references?
Now, if the people who wrote the proprietary drivers were serving the papers, then it's an issue with the distribution terms of said drivers, not with the GPL's distribution terms.
Great. I'll just inform these people that they should stop offering GPL'd stuff based on a system with a non-GPL license.
Now. The question of whether they can be distributed together, not just run together, is addressed in section 3 of the GPL. Briefly, it states that you must make the source available to any GPL binaries you distribute. Since the GPL binaries in question are the kernel and just about everything besides the nVidia/ATi drivers, you need to have the source for those available. Since those drivers aren't GPL, you don't have to have the source for the drivers available.
The GPL says nothing about whatever else you want to distribute with your distribution.
Then I'll have to hover the mouse for a few seconds to see the URL. And when it's displayed, I'll have to read it and then move the mouse away if I want to continue reading the context.
And if I specify any alt text on my links, it'll be more likely to be ignored.
I don't have a problem with that being the default option, or with the location bar showing the loading status like Safari does. Still, if I can't turn that behaviour off, I might well stay with 1.5 for quite some time. Or create an extension to give those options.
I used TabX, but then they made two changes: they removed the reliable close-tab button on the end of the tab bar disappear, and they used the same visual for the tab close buttons as the theme uses.
The latter change is minor, but makes the default theme look worse in my opinion. The former meant that I had to move the mouse to whichever tab I wanted to close each time I wanted to close a tab--not good when I wanted to destroy multiple tabs.
So here's hoping they have two options: 'show close buttons on tabs' and 'show close button on tab bar'.
"But we do have the option of becoming the employers.. There really isn't an excuse anymore for being oppressed.. Unless perhaps you have disabilities or a conscious."
How much does it cost to become self-employed? It depends on the industry, of course, but what's a reasonable minimum? $50k? $100k? Do regular people have that kind of money?
Or let's say you wanted to get a loan to start a business instead. Would a bank be willing to provide you with the necessary funds? If so, would you be able to feed yourself while paying back the loan?
And what if a larger corporation took notice of what you're doing and decided it didn't want the competition? How long would your company last?
The truth is, self-employment is an option for a select few. So in this regard, it's more of an aristocracy than anything else, even if the border between the classes is loosely defined.
If you wanted a comfortable controller, why not go for something that looks like a handgrip from a motorcycle and extrapolating from there? You'd want to bend them so your wrists could stay in a natural position--which current controllers do decently but not exceptionally well--and if you could find a convenient way for users to access more buttons at once, you'd have everyone singing your praises.
There are models that walk with tentacles, though.
Here at Stony Brook, there was some research into using small (1-2 inch thick) tentacles as a means of propulsion, with obvious benefits for rough terrain. Again, DARPA or DOD (can't recall which at the moment) took over funding, and the current design features tentacles over six inches thick and a chassis that you could practically ride.
We were thinking of bringing the prototype to I-CON and showing it to Ghastly (of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic). Unfortunately, we didn't get the paperwork in because we're lazy.
And when they visit Google, they'll see a pretty little link to let them change their default search engine to Google. This will help a lot of users realize that they have a search bar and encourage them to use it, too.
So, does it matter? Probably not. After all, the only way we'd be satisfied is if there were a high-quality, non-profit search engine that MS used as the default. And then we'd have to find something else to bitch at them over.
You could be sending encrypted information. Heck, even using some sort of Vignere system would probably suffice to hide the content. So packet sniffing isn't worth much, if it's checking content. It has to check format, and then it only checks format. So if you have substantial non-infringing usage, that looks the same, in a cryptographically secure system, as substantial infringing usage.
So, if you simply target peer-to-peer systems in a campus network (connections between any two student computers), well, you'll stop me from using SSH on my computer, and I'll complain bitterly. Then if you allow SSH, I'll just have to use port 22 for all my filesharing. (Which means I have to run BitTorrent as root, and I'm not willing to do that....)
By coincidence, though, today's keyword is 'bootlegs'.
It's not TCO; it's cost of changing. Regardless of what you start out with, you're largely stuck with it.
However, it's simple enough to do a gradual change. You'll lose some productivity for a while while your sysadmins learn LAMP, but all your main functions will be running continually. Plus, if Windows is actually better for your business, you'll find out the easy way.
I'm not sure about them, but I'd probably wrap the silicon densely around each canal, with sparser connections further out between canals. Something like the Sierpinski fractal.
I would have preferred continuing as Roxas. At any rate, I quite enjoyed the intro--you actually got to explore a new world from a reasonable perspective, not from the point of view of that world's savior. Compared to having a cutscene to introduce Nobodies, it was a clear choice.
How can a Linux distribution fail to survive? Become unmaintained, with a negligible userbase and no package repositories active? That's the closest possible, and even then, someone could restore it. FLOSS is quite difficult to kill.
The Board of Directors for CNet doesn't list Paul Allen. Paul Allen's website doesn't list CNet among his holdings; neither does a search of Vulcan Capital, which he owns.
So, who owns CNet? A number of people--it's publically traded--but Shelby Bonnie is probably the main leader, being the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of the company.
No; it's a stylistic derivative, but not a derivative of the content. Copyright doesn't cover style; trademarks, on the other hand, do. I don't know if anyone has trademarked a style of art in the US, but if they have, I'm packing my bags.
One glaring question is whether Google actually used Miro's images in its logo. Since Miro didn't ever paint a Google logo, the only issue is one of style. Style is trademarkable, not copyrightable; but copying other artists' styles is such a common practice in art that it's more noteworthy to see an original style than to see a copied (albeit altered) style.
Now, if the logo uses portions of Miro's work, then the portions used are likely too insignificant to count as an actual copyright infringement.
Also, Miro died in 1983. I'm not sure of the specific works involved, though his _Carbide Lamp_ looks vaguely similar, and _Catalan Landscape_ (though with a different color scheme). However, the eye is not drawn or colored as Miro would have done, and the lines all seem straighter and more angular than Miro usually used.
While I'm no art critic, the fact that I cannot tell that the style is supposed to be similar without someone pointing it first is rather indicative.
Next, someone's going to claim copyright on Platonic forms and charge people for using them in lectures or sculptures. Hold on while I copyright individual pixels.
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Okay, so is Kororaa a derived work of the Linux kernel, or a collection of works?
Since every element in Kororaa is compiled in a standard way, separately, I'm inclined to say it's a collection of works. But the lawyers have to sort that out.
In other words, in the worst case, nVidia has to license the sections of their code that directly interface with the Linux kernel using some GPL-compatible license, such as BSD. That portion of their code would be just about useless to anyone else, though, and they should already have kernel interfaces in a separate library to save work, so it's a minor matter.
Linus Torvalds/FSF was serving people with papers? Do you have references?
Now, if the people who wrote the proprietary drivers were serving the papers, then it's an issue with the distribution terms of said drivers, not with the GPL's distribution terms.
Great. I'll just inform these people that they should stop offering GPL'd stuff based on a system with a non-GPL license.
Now. The question of whether they can be distributed together, not just run together, is addressed in section 3 of the GPL. Briefly, it states that you must make the source available to any GPL binaries you distribute. Since the GPL binaries in question are the kernel and just about everything besides the nVidia/ATi drivers, you need to have the source for those available. Since those drivers aren't GPL, you don't have to have the source for the drivers available.
The GPL says nothing about whatever else you want to distribute with your distribution.
Then I'll have to hover the mouse for a few seconds to see the URL. And when it's displayed, I'll have to read it and then move the mouse away if I want to continue reading the context.
And if I specify any alt text on my links, it'll be more likely to be ignored.
I don't have a problem with that being the default option, or with the location bar showing the loading status like Safari does. Still, if I can't turn that behaviour off, I might well stay with 1.5 for quite some time. Or create an extension to give those options.
I used TabX, but then they made two changes: they removed the reliable close-tab button on the end of the tab bar disappear, and they used the same visual for the tab close buttons as the theme uses.
The latter change is minor, but makes the default theme look worse in my opinion. The former meant that I had to move the mouse to whichever tab I wanted to close each time I wanted to close a tab--not good when I wanted to destroy multiple tabs.
So here's hoping they have two options: 'show close buttons on tabs' and 'show close button on tab bar'.
"But we do have the option of becoming the employers.. There really isn't an excuse anymore for being oppressed.. Unless perhaps you have disabilities or a conscious."
How much does it cost to become self-employed? It depends on the industry, of course, but what's a reasonable minimum? $50k? $100k? Do regular people have that kind of money?
Or let's say you wanted to get a loan to start a business instead. Would a bank be willing to provide you with the necessary funds? If so, would you be able to feed yourself while paying back the loan?
And what if a larger corporation took notice of what you're doing and decided it didn't want the competition? How long would your company last?
The truth is, self-employment is an option for a select few. So in this regard, it's more of an aristocracy than anything else, even if the border between the classes is loosely defined.
If you wanted a comfortable controller, why not go for something that looks like a handgrip from a motorcycle and extrapolating from there? You'd want to bend them so your wrists could stay in a natural position--which current controllers do decently but not exceptionally well--and if you could find a convenient way for users to access more buttons at once, you'd have everyone singing your praises.
There are models that walk with tentacles, though.
Here at Stony Brook, there was some research into using small (1-2 inch thick) tentacles as a means of propulsion, with obvious benefits for rough terrain. Again, DARPA or DOD (can't recall which at the moment) took over funding, and the current design features tentacles over six inches thick and a chassis that you could practically ride.
We were thinking of bringing the prototype to I-CON and showing it to Ghastly (of Ghastly's Ghastly Comic). Unfortunately, we didn't get the paperwork in because we're lazy.
No matter; it's still amusing either way.
And when they visit Google, they'll see a pretty little link to let them change their default search engine to Google. This will help a lot of users realize that they have a search bar and encourage them to use it, too.
So, does it matter? Probably not. After all, the only way we'd be satisfied is if there were a high-quality, non-profit search engine that MS used as the default. And then we'd have to find something else to bitch at them over.
You could be sending encrypted information. Heck, even using some sort of Vignere system would probably suffice to hide the content. So packet sniffing isn't worth much, if it's checking content. It has to check format, and then it only checks format. So if you have substantial non-infringing usage, that looks the same, in a cryptographically secure system, as substantial infringing usage.
So, if you simply target peer-to-peer systems in a campus network (connections between any two student computers), well, you'll stop me from using SSH on my computer, and I'll complain bitterly. Then if you allow SSH, I'll just have to use port 22 for all my filesharing. (Which means I have to run BitTorrent as root, and I'm not willing to do that....)
By coincidence, though, today's keyword is 'bootlegs'.
It's not TCO; it's cost of changing. Regardless of what you start out with, you're largely stuck with it.
However, it's simple enough to do a gradual change. You'll lose some productivity for a while while your sysadmins learn LAMP, but all your main functions will be running continually. Plus, if Windows is actually better for your business, you'll find out the easy way.
Is Vista going to decrypt my data on the fly when I'm trying to frag you in Quake V? Hell yeah!
I'm not sure about them, but I'd probably wrap the silicon densely around each canal, with sparser connections further out between canals. Something like the Sierpinski fractal.
I would have preferred continuing as Roxas. At any rate, I quite enjoyed the intro--you actually got to explore a new world from a reasonable perspective, not from the point of view of that world's savior. Compared to having a cutscene to introduce Nobodies, it was a clear choice.
Now just imagine Nethack with one of those.
It's not that Google isn't evil; it's that, if it is evil, it's subtle about it, not blatant. That just conveys a lack of respect.
Not at all--the CS department will maintain their own mail servers.
How can a Linux distribution fail to survive? Become unmaintained, with a negligible userbase and no package repositories active? That's the closest possible, and even then, someone could restore it. FLOSS is quite difficult to kill.
The Board of Directors for CNet doesn't list Paul Allen. Paul Allen's website doesn't list CNet among his holdings; neither does a search of Vulcan Capital, which he owns.
So, who owns CNet? A number of people--it's publically traded--but Shelby Bonnie is probably the main leader, being the cofounder, chairman, and CEO of the company.
Where did you get your information, I wonder?
You use Gentoo in a production environment? Urgh. At least you now have two spare computers for cross-compilation.
A large company like Google can't get away with snarky comments like that.
The Miro family spurned years of free advertising, though.
No; it's a stylistic derivative, but not a derivative of the content. Copyright doesn't cover style; trademarks, on the other hand, do. I don't know if anyone has trademarked a style of art in the US, but if they have, I'm packing my bags.
One glaring question is whether Google actually used Miro's images in its logo. Since Miro didn't ever paint a Google logo, the only issue is one of style. Style is trademarkable, not copyrightable; but copying other artists' styles is such a common practice in art that it's more noteworthy to see an original style than to see a copied (albeit altered) style.
Now, if the logo uses portions of Miro's work, then the portions used are likely too insignificant to count as an actual copyright infringement.
Also, Miro died in 1983. I'm not sure of the specific works involved, though his _Carbide Lamp_ looks vaguely similar, and _Catalan Landscape_ (though with a different color scheme). However, the eye is not drawn or colored as Miro would have done, and the lines all seem straighter and more angular than Miro usually used.
While I'm no art critic, the fact that I cannot tell that the style is supposed to be similar without someone pointing it first is rather indicative.
Next, someone's going to claim copyright on Platonic forms and charge people for using them in lectures or sculptures. Hold on while I copyright individual pixels.