This is EXACTLY what we need to fight for our rights. We've all seen how programmers are seen as less than a minority by people who take governmental decision.
Also, people are free to release their GPL'ed projects with whatever GPL license they prefer.
From TFA:
The idea is that if someone uses software patents against free software, that company or person loses the right to distribute that particular program and use it in their product, he added.
This means, in Joe sixpack's terms, that if SCO is suing companies because of patent stuff... SCO isn't allowed to use GPL 3 software. Doing so would be illegal for them.
So, companies are free to choose: Get rid of their "defensive patents", face lawsuits from the FSF, _OR_ switch to 100% proprietary products.
I think this is a very good idea! If the people in the government don't fight for our rights, it's about damn time we do!
Well, the transition from html4 to xhtml isn't a difficult one. Let's wait until the CSS model is finished, and maybe then we'll start posting the xhtml feature request. I'm confident that it will take at most 1 year as opposed to 8...
Kodama and colleagues are now upgrading their laser system in order to approach "breakeven" - the point at which the energy output is equal to the energy needed to sustain the reaction. They then plan to further enhance their system so that it reaches ignition, which happens when the fusion reactions generate enough energy to sustain themselves without the need for further heating. Finally, they hope to build a demonstration fast-ignition facility. Physicists in the US are also studying fast ignition.
the scene when Tidus and company take the shoopuff ride thru the river. Then tidus sees a sunken city, and Waka told him it was a city build over a river (on a gigantic bridge). Eventually, the bridge collapsed and the city ended up below the river.
- So, why do you think they built a city over the river? asks Waka. -Because it might be... convenient? - No! Because they thought they could defy nature! And this is the lesson they learned.
Nanorods article: Physicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues at the University of Bayreuth made the new material by subjecting carbon-60 molecules to immense pressures.
Diamond Nanotubes: Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory...
and:
The new hybrid material was created using Ultrananocrystalline(TM) diamond (UNCD(TM) ), a novel form of carbon developed at Argonne. The researchers made the two materials - ultrananocrystalline diamond and carbon nanotubes - grow simultaneously into dense thin films.
So, in summary: * Diamond nanorods: Germany - UNCD (TM) : U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory * Diamond nanorods: Compressing C60 (buckyballs) - UNCD: grow diamond and nanotubes into dense thin films.
The LGPL allows you to use its code in commercial projects without releasing the source. This way they can charge for any improvement they make over OpenOffice.
No more vulgar scrolling through artist and album names. I call my invention the iHum interface.
You know, this is the *FIRST* good idea i've seen in a long time. But, why not just spell the song name and title, and with a simple speech-to-text conversion, it'll search for the determinate songs?
Shouldn't be hard, I worked on speech recognition on college 10 years ago, using ONE bit instead of the 16 we're used to (we used the Fast Walsh Transform and GRNN neural network) and worked like a charm.
a system for stating opinions on Slashdot about how the patent system is currently broken whenever another ridiculous patent gets granted/and/or disputed, and it happens to appear on Slashdot. My system of posting such opinions assumes that there will be an obvious positive response to such "The patent system is broken" posts, granting them a +5 Insightful.
It's about the freedom of interoperability. If this case had appeared before, the SAMBA guys wouldn't have been able to give us their server, because Microsoft would've sued the hell out of them (AND win).
Certainly we MUST NOT allow this to become a legal precedent.
* Microsoft Windows Explorer interface (the same one that is on your system).
* New ICE format which is excellent for reducing the size of text files.
* Built-in compression for ICE, ZIP and Built-out compression for ARJ.
* Built-in decompression for ICE,ARJ, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, MS-CAB, RAR, ACE, Quake 3 compressed files, Internet Mail files (Mime, UUE, XXE, B64, HQX), Java Archive (JAR, EAR, WAR), LZS, LZH, LHA, IMP, BZ2.
* Multi-volume spanning for ICE,ARJ, ZIP, RAR, ACE et MS-CAB
* Password encryption and comment for ICE, ZIP and ARJ.
* Data protection with ARJ32.
* Added properties page for ICE,ARJ, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, MS-CAB, RAR, ACE, Quake 3 compressed files, Internet Mail files (Mime, UUE, XXE, B64, HQX), Java Archive (JAR, EAR, WAR), LZS, LZH, LHA, IMP, BZ2 files
* Full Drag and Drop (left and right mouse button) and Copy/Cut and Paste functionality.
* Recursive archive extraction and multi archive extraction.
* Convert archive file to archive folder (without uncompressing it).
* Shell integration to create archive ("right-click").
* Quick-View support.
* Create and test SFV (Simple File Validator).
* Restore structure directory, attributes and last modified date for all archives.
* Restore creation date and last accessed date for ARJ32 file.
* Test file for ICE,ARJ, ZIP, RAR, ACE, GZIP, IMP, LHA, LZS, LZH, BFL,SFV files.
* Multithread.
* Help file.
* Self-Extracting module for WIN32 and WIN CE 2.0.
* Full MUI (Multi-language User Interface) with English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Swedish versions.
* And more....
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This is EXACTLY what we need to fight for our rights. We've all seen how programmers are seen as less than a minority by people who take governmental decision.
Also, people are free to release their GPL'ed projects with whatever GPL license they prefer.
From TFA:
The idea is that if someone uses software patents against free software, that company or person loses the right to distribute that particular program and use it in their product, he added.
This means, in Joe sixpack's terms, that if SCO is suing companies because of patent stuff... SCO isn't allowed to use GPL 3 software. Doing so would be illegal for them.
So, companies are free to choose: Get rid of their "defensive patents", face lawsuits from the FSF, _OR_ switch to 100% proprietary products.
I think this is a very good idea! If the people in the government don't fight for our rights, it's about damn time we do!
(Read as: POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!)
Well, the transition from html4 to xhtml isn't a difficult one. Let's wait until the CSS model is finished, and maybe then we'll start posting the xhtml feature request. I'm confident that it will take at most 1 year as opposed to 8...
It's that the dialog of a typical IM user can't be distinguished from a brain-dead conversation bot...
:D
Me, too!
It was famous Wussian scientist that cweated first decoder for Enigma, in same facility where they kept nuclear wessels.
- Pavel Checkov
I think you mispelled "Elmer Fudd" in there.
What makes this any different?
Fast Ignition. From TFA:
Kodama and colleagues are now upgrading their laser system in order to approach "breakeven" - the point at which the energy output is equal to the energy needed to sustain the reaction. They then plan to further enhance their system so that it reaches ignition, which happens when the fusion reactions generate enough energy to sustain themselves without the need for further heating. Finally, they hope to build a demonstration fast-ignition facility. Physicists in the US are also studying fast ignition.
yes, but MySQL got some HELP...
h pant_elroubio.gif
:D
http://www.elroubio.net.nyud.net:8090/commun/elep
Now we have a Dolphin AND an elePHPant!
Its a fact that, n parallel processors is less efficient than one n-times-faster processor.
And n-times hotter, because they use n-times the energy. Hello, ever heard the term "performance per watt"?
http://www.geocities.com.nyud.net:8090/mailsoftwar e42/db/
It was updated March '05.
Online fraud: The return of cash payments?
I thought the space elevator was far-fetched, but THIS is ridiculous!
the scene when Tidus and company take the shoopuff ride thru the river. Then tidus sees a sunken city, and Waka told him it was a city build over a river (on a gigantic bridge). Eventually, the bridge collapsed and the city ended up below the river.
- So, why do you think they built a city over the river? asks Waka.
-Because it might be... convenient?
- No! Because they thought they could defy nature! And this is the lesson they learned.
It would be a total of 19200 pixels. To display the full image, one pixel per second, it would take (19200 / 3600) = 5 hrs 20 mins.
One hour of waiting would get you about 20% of the image...
assumming it's a 160x120 image. Of course, the real image is 197x197 = 38809 pixels, which means twice the wait.
(Sometimes, it's much more practical to do the math first to see if trying's worth it)
I can imagine a fella being arrested for refilling his cartridge. As he's handcuffed, he listens to the lecture of a bald man with a monocule:
"You only ink twice, Mr. Bond"
What if this happened to people, but the behavior was at least passable, until it was 'too late'?
Yes, but instead of a pant and trees, it's cable TV. And then it's Reality TV. You tell me which is scarier.
Here's some comparison on TFA's:
Nanorods article:
Physicists in Germany have created a material that is harder than diamond. Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues at the University of Bayreuth made the new material by subjecting carbon-60 molecules to immense pressures.
Diamond Nanotubes:
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory...
and:
The new hybrid material was created using Ultrananocrystalline(TM) diamond (UNCD(TM) ), a novel form of carbon developed at Argonne. The researchers made the two materials - ultrananocrystalline diamond and carbon nanotubes - grow simultaneously into dense thin films.
So, in summary:
* Diamond nanorods: Germany - UNCD (TM) : U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory
* Diamond nanorods: Compressing C60 (buckyballs) - UNCD: grow diamond and nanotubes into dense thin films.
Nope... they're not the same.
The LGPL allows you to use its code in commercial projects without releasing the source. This way they can charge for any improvement they make over OpenOffice.
I for one, welcome our new _____ overlords <-- Don't tell me this phrase is _NOT_ in the public domain!
No more vulgar scrolling through artist and album names. I call my invention the iHum interface.
You know, this is the *FIRST* good idea i've seen in a long time. But, why not just spell the song name and title, and with a simple speech-to-text conversion, it'll search for the determinate songs?
Shouldn't be hard, I worked on speech recognition on college 10 years ago, using ONE bit instead of the 16 we're used to (we used the Fast Walsh Transform and GRNN neural network) and worked like a charm.
a system for stating opinions on Slashdot about how the patent system is currently broken whenever another ridiculous patent gets granted/and/or disputed, and it happens to appear on Slashdot. My system of posting such opinions assumes that there will be an obvious positive response to such "The patent system is broken" posts, granting them a +5 Insightful.
:D
I'm gonna get rich!
A correct headline would have been:
Proprietary encoding of Media Player Broadcast definition files successfully reverse engineered.
Helloooo, this is Slashdot. Such a headline would've NEVER been published.
It's times like this when I wish there was a "+1, sarcastic" rating.
It's about the freedom of interoperability. If this case had appeared before, the SAMBA guys wouldn't have been able to give us their server, because Microsoft would've sued the hell out of them (AND win).
Certainly we MUST NOT allow this to become a legal precedent.
Gestures? Oh no.... I don't even want to think how the POWER RANGERS game will be controlled in the future!
:-S
Mod me down if you want, that mental image is really disturbing...
At -40 I'd be more worried about that little car even working than about crushing your keys.
Hah! At -40 I'd be worried about my frozen arm breaking when I turn the keys!
the key issue is that tiny button called "Clear all" that Firefox has under "privacy".
Not to mention some add-ons that add the "clear all" on the main browser window.
No wonder...
I copied this from the iceows site.
ICEOWS offers :
* Microsoft Windows Explorer interface (the same one that is on your system).
* New ICE format which is excellent for reducing the size of text files.
* Built-in compression for ICE, ZIP and Built-out compression for ARJ.
* Built-in decompression for ICE,ARJ, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, MS-CAB, RAR, ACE, Quake 3 compressed files, Internet Mail files (Mime, UUE, XXE, B64, HQX), Java Archive (JAR, EAR, WAR), LZS, LZH, LHA, IMP, BZ2.
* Multi-volume spanning for ICE,ARJ, ZIP, RAR, ACE et MS-CAB
* Password encryption and comment for ICE, ZIP and ARJ.
* Data protection with ARJ32.
* Added properties page for ICE,ARJ, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, MS-CAB, RAR, ACE, Quake 3 compressed files, Internet Mail files (Mime, UUE, XXE, B64, HQX), Java Archive (JAR, EAR, WAR), LZS, LZH, LHA, IMP, BZ2 files
* Full Drag and Drop (left and right mouse button) and Copy/Cut and Paste functionality.
* Recursive archive extraction and multi archive extraction.
* Convert archive file to archive folder (without uncompressing it).
* Shell integration to create archive ("right-click").
* Quick-View support.
* Create and test SFV (Simple File Validator).
* Restore structure directory, attributes and last modified date for all archives.
* Restore creation date and last accessed date for ARJ32 file.
* Test file for ICE,ARJ, ZIP, RAR, ACE, GZIP, IMP, LHA, LZS, LZH, BFL,SFV files.
* Multithread.
* Help file.
* Self-Extracting module for WIN32 and WIN CE 2.0.
* Full MUI (Multi-language User Interface) with English, French, German, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Hebrew, Ukrainian, Swedish versions.
* And more....
Nice for a freeware package, don't you think?