On the other hand with more than half of the population working in management and accounting, economic viability of the space elevator already is known 200 years before it would become technically feasible.
Thanks for raising awareness of that!
Stream processing could be great for machine vision. However the situation seems to be almost as bad as with most FPGA boards where you need proprietary compilers and proprietary libraries to compile and run your programs (not to talk about firmware and hardware design). Not hacker-friendly at all:(
If anyone has time and money to spend please join and support something like the Open Graphics Project instead.
Don't know why they included it. However I've seen PDF documents with buttons and forms. There's even a style file for pdflatex called pdfanim which allows you to do animations with Javascript in your PDF document. However I noted that it behaves slightly different under GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.
It's not about performance or any other feature. It is about the freedom to run the program as you wish and the freedom to modify the software and/or share it with your neighbour. Of course this software also is very fast and stable, looks nice, and can play your videos. But this is only because there are still people who care to do the work and/or take the legal risk to make it happen.
Incidentally I also was wondering what the situation is in other languages. I am using Ruby and C++. In Ruby this is not an issue since namespaces and classes are capitalized. The IRC discussion references a Wiki entry with an example highlighting the problem. I've translated the example to C++:
Trying to compile the example with g++ gives a strange result. While the class-definition successfully hides the namespace, the two method definitions seem to clash at the linking stage.
/tmp/ccXa637g.s: Assembler messages: /tmp/ccXa637g.s:181: Error: symbol `_ZN3foo3barEv' is already defined
Myself I would try a lot of other things before using a backslash as separator though. The syntax is out of the ordinary (compared to other languages) and it's likely that it'll cause problems elsewhere.
There actually was a project in this direction and I just noted that it's still around: OScar. I guess there are significant technical and legal challenges though: Manufacturing, distributed CAD, vehicle dynamics, patents,... All these problems need to be solved in a different way.
The Microsoft Media Pack will be a product distributed by Microsoft that includes a license to the various media codecs for video and audio and will be available from Microsoft's web site for Moonlight to consume.
I can recommend Miro for Internet TV (I disable the auto-download though). Thanks to TED Talks, Google TechTalks, NASA, Linux.com, and others, there's a lot of interesting content to watch.
Publish your work in a reputable Open Access Journal or make it available as part of the Digitalcommons. Making it visible on the Internet is the best protection against someone taking credit for your work.
LOLCODE is rapidly gaining popularity. It's at least as readable as COBOL and very popular among programmers. At the same time integration and migration is very business friendly. While there has been a lot of press about the Y2K bug affecting large-scale COBOL installations, you will hardly find any news concerning Y2K issues in LOLCODE. In 2003 Gartner group predicted that most business transactions will be done in LOLCODE by the end of the decade.
I'm now using KDE3 with Compiz Fusion and Emerald Window Decorator. IMHO it surpasses Vista and Apple already in terms of look and feel. Once I went into an Apple store, I opened Safari on one of those things and I plaid a Youtube video showing Compiz Fusion on it. Customers where crowding behind me and even the staff had a hard time pretending they're not interested! Ok, maybe the average user would have a hard time trying to install it. But then again why should we make ourselves redundant? The article forgets to mention, that Mark Shuttleworth also said that it is about making software which gets it's users laid.
I use kphone in conjunction with vic video conferencing. I can also recommend openmash for video. You need to make sure that the necessary ports are not blocked and tat you do port forwarding for incoming calls if you have a router. kphone is a real SIP/VoIP client. The SIP protocol does not look you in to a particular vendor (such as the Skype protocol does). However there are SIP providers with a gateway which only accepts certain providers.
The fact that some company can take it, write a little bit on top of it, and sell it, does not in any way affect my project.
However in reality the company will take away users and developers from the BSD project which will loose traction in the process. The original code may still be available under the BSD license but it won't be of much use if noone is maintaining it!
The Ms-PL (and also the other license) are an interesting read. Nearly half of the text is about software patents. First it says:
Patent Grant - Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to... its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software. Sounds nice. This is an assertion not to get sued over software patents. Let's check section 3. Among other things it says there:
If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically. Sounds reasonable. If I sue Microsoft, they should be able to assert their patents against me as well.
But then section 3 says:
If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. This text does not make sense as part of an OSI approved license. While trying to solve problems caused by software patents the license requires me to spread the patent FUD at the same time.
Let's play out this license in a different setting. What happens if I contribute and Microsoft or a third party like SCO or Novell sues me? In this case the license allows me to withdraw my software patents. But I don't have any software patents! LOL
There is an article about Ms-PL and patents on Oreillynet.com which confirms my concerns. Furthermore the article points out that only contributors have these rights. If you are a user of the software, the license doesn't offer you protection against software patents at all.
Well. I certainly prefer the GPL which allows me to withdraw my contribution if patent claims are made by Microsoft or a third party.
Z-Corp are producing (printing?) 3D printers and they use a bath of powder instead of deposition. This has the advantage that you don't need to print supports any more. They also have a colour printer (inkjet I think). They have some nice videos of their 3D printers.
1) The Software shall not be used for commercial production or sale of any commercial product or derivative incorporating the Software. Should the user desire to use the Software for any such commercial purpose, the user must contact the Office of Technology Transfer at Caltech to obtain permissions and pay the appropriate royalty; and...
Maybe in many cases it is not a malicious attempt to fool users into selecting their software. Often it is a lack of understanding (or a different understanding) what the term "open source" actually means. If someone wrongly claims that his/her software is licensed with an OSI approved license, this is a different story however. I think it is much safer to use terms like GNU Public License or OSI approved license to avoid misunderstandings and to hamper any attempts of twisting the meaning of what you are saying.
This whole thing reminds me a bit of mimicry.
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On the other hand with more than half of the population working in management and accounting, economic viability of the space elevator already is known 200 years before it would become technically feasible.
It's already happening. Just think about stream processing cards such as NVidia's CUDA.
The atmosphere can protect us from much larger objects. However orbiting debris is a real threat for satellites, spaceships and astronauts.
We saw it already in earlier news. Thanks to NASA for not warning us!
Thanks for raising awareness of that! Stream processing could be great for machine vision. However the situation seems to be almost as bad as with most FPGA boards where you need proprietary compilers and proprietary libraries to compile and run your programs (not to talk about firmware and hardware design). Not hacker-friendly at all :(
If anyone has time and money to spend please join and support something like the Open Graphics Project instead.
I wonder how the software is able to distinguish between shadows and occlusions.
Don't know why they included it. However I've seen PDF documents with buttons and forms. There's even a style file for pdflatex called pdfanim which allows you to do animations with Javascript in your PDF document. However I noted that it behaves slightly different under GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows.
It's not about performance or any other feature. It is about the freedom to run the program as you wish and the freedom to modify the software and/or share it with your neighbour. Of course this software also is very fast and stable, looks nice, and can play your videos. But this is only because there are still people who care to do the work and/or take the legal risk to make it happen.
Trying to compile the example with g++ gives a strange result. While the class-definition successfully hides the namespace, the two method definitions seem to clash at the linking stage.
Myself I would try a lot of other things before using a backslash as separator though. The syntax is out of the ordinary (compared to other languages) and it's likely that it'll cause problems elsewhere.
Looking at the IRC discussion it seems that they didn't have much of a choice.
There actually was a project in this direction and I just noted that it's still around: OScar. I guess there are significant technical and legal challenges though: Manufacturing, distributed CAD, vehicle dynamics, patents, ... All these problems need to be solved in a different way.
The Microsoft Media Pack will be a product distributed by Microsoft that includes a license to the various media codecs for video and audio and will be available from Microsoft's web site for Moonlight to consume.
That does not sound like open source to me!
There's only an amateur video of a small fragment's impact.
I can recommend Miro for Internet TV (I disable the auto-download though). Thanks to TED Talks, Google TechTalks, NASA, Linux.com, and others, there's a lot of interesting content to watch.
Publish your work in a reputable Open Access Journal or make it available as part of the Digitalcommons. Making it visible on the Internet is the best protection against someone taking credit for your work.
LOLCODE is rapidly gaining popularity. It's at least as readable as COBOL and very popular among programmers. At the same time integration and migration is very business friendly. While there has been a lot of press about the Y2K bug affecting large-scale COBOL installations, you will hardly find any news concerning Y2K issues in LOLCODE. In 2003 Gartner group predicted that most business transactions will be done in LOLCODE by the end of the decade.
Horrible creatures are constantly probing the walls of reality and trying to get in.
I'm now using KDE3 with Compiz Fusion and Emerald Window Decorator. IMHO it surpasses Vista and Apple already in terms of look and feel. Once I went into an Apple store, I opened Safari on one of those things and I plaid a Youtube video showing Compiz Fusion on it. Customers where crowding behind me and even the staff had a hard time pretending they're not interested! Ok, maybe the average user would have a hard time trying to install it. But then again why should we make ourselves redundant? The article forgets to mention, that Mark Shuttleworth also said that it is about making software which gets it's users laid.
I use kphone in conjunction with vic video conferencing. I can also recommend openmash for video. You need to make sure that the necessary ports are not blocked and tat you do port forwarding for incoming calls if you have a router. kphone is a real SIP/VoIP client. The SIP protocol does not look you in to a particular vendor (such as the Skype protocol does). However there are SIP providers with a gateway which only accepts certain providers.
The article says:
The fact that some company can take it, write a little bit on top of it, and sell it, does not in any way affect my project.
However in reality the company will take away users and developers from the BSD project which will loose traction in the process. The original code may still be available under the BSD license but it won't be of much use if noone is maintaining it!
... is a 3D map of the Microsoft Campus.
Anyone knows what other presents are coming up?
You can reuse this joke under the terms and conditions of the GFDL.
The Ms-PL (and also the other license) are an interesting read. Nearly half of the text is about software patents. First it says:
Patent Grant - Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents toLet's play out this license in a different setting. What happens if I contribute and Microsoft or a third party like SCO or Novell sues me? In this case the license allows me to withdraw my software patents. But I don't have any software patents! LOL
There is an article about Ms-PL and patents on Oreillynet.com which confirms my concerns. Furthermore the article points out that only contributors have these rights. If you are a user of the software, the license doesn't offer you protection against software patents at all. Well. I certainly prefer the GPL which allows me to withdraw my contribution if patent claims are made by Microsoft or a third party.
Z-Corp are producing (printing?) 3D printers and they use a bath of powder instead of deposition. This has the advantage that you don't need to print supports any more. They also have a colour printer (inkjet I think). They have some nice videos of their 3D printers.
N. Kroes answer (according to Volkskrant article): "I don't have the immortal life."