Yes , but i dont see where the pains will come from. VS 2 and VS 3 will be fully compatible and i know the license allows for duel licensing (ala trolltech) So the worst thing to hapen as i see it, will be the code having to be released as GPL2 and GPL3 code at the same time , and i know for a fact they will be compatible license Perhaps im missunderstanding the situation , but i see this as a pure storm in the teacup
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=143673&c id=12044418 As this poster states , the clause in the license allows us to avoid any situation such as this and secures the copyleft. However if said did hapen (which i strongly doubt) the only thing to occur would be the license would become more BSD license like allowing people to use the code with your supposed vs 10 for closed source projects
I doubt we will see any unplesant forking,The license must evolve just as the software does. If we didnt patch the linux kernel and left security holes in it we would have alot of massive problems , the license is like any other code(all be it legal code) bugs will arise and it will need to grow to support new platforms and new inovations. Thus the clause in the license that the parent states gives the backwards and forwards compatibility if you want it. unplesant forking will rarely occur
Im sure we will have plenty of people harp on about how XPDF is faster(which it is) or how the adobe reader is not compact , or how it has more bloat than a whale. The fact still remains that it renders PDFs excelently and it is another product for the linux world.
OSS is about freedom and our right to choose what we run. Every port to linux or BSD or one of the other alternat Operating systems is a major victory for freedom of choise. As much as i respect RMS and his iron stance on GNU everything , i have to disagree and say we also need to allow people to decide how they want there product licensed.
with Adobe finaly updating the antiquated reader , its just one more sign linux is gaining a stronger foothold in the desktop market, Now i may really dislike windows though i dont want to see it vanish , i want to see all products having an equal(or near enough) market share,. Let us hope we soon see photoshop on linux , the gimp is cool but right now linux really needs a program in that class with a little more omph.
Its the freedom to decide if you want to run comercial or OSS And the freedom to decide if you want to sacrafice a bit of HDD space and RAM space for frankly better PDF rendering(right now atleast , the xpdf team are doing a great job)
This seems to be my major problem with the PSP , it seems to be more a desktop replacment than a portable.Saying that i will definantly get one as i expect (semi)portable GTA 3. Though first im getting a Nintendo DS as it just has more portable titles, I dont see the PSP as being direct competition right now as the games its offering are far closer to the home systems than to mobile games. This is hopefully a lesson sony will learn , as we have seen the gameboy and kin come up against technicaly superior products before
"If you ever aspired to be the next Jerry Seinfeld instead of the next American Idol. Maybe the product featured by Wired is just right for you." I youve ever aspired to be either , then i can sugest a few other things you may enjoy *click click boom* seriously though
Its nice to see something to help people build the comedy stylings up, you could ask it if it runs linux and see if you get a laugh , or perhaps would a beowulf cluster of these substitute a studio audiance.
*cough* well everyone says my jokes are laughable or was that me they were talking about.
This could actualy be genuinly helpfull , if there is one thing i notice which is always a problem for aspiring acts on the comedy circut its timing and presentation. This should really help those intrested work on the delivery of the lines if it functions as advertised. Then the only hurdal left is actual funny jokes and demenur oh and confidence
The point being , the person was a domain farmer who instead of using the domain for a good purpose was using it to extort money and quite probably install a few bits of malware or tracking cookies to any unsuspecting windows users who stumbled across it , If he had of been using it for a genuine purpose then i would of been apauled by the decision , but as it stands these bastards deserve a slap for lack of ethics and for plainly abusing the rules
I should say thanksfor giving me a bit more backgrond to look into for this ( my electronic enginering skills are poor at best) , Solar power seems to be an excelent method for a device such a space elevator , And Maser technoligy sounds intresting I shall get to reading up on it, ? Is there any significant dangeour , say if something intersected the Beams path
The old Boys network , all be it in a diffrent form for some new boys and girls. Its the same type of social orgranisation for a digital age , It has worked well for hundreds of years and i shouldnt see why it wont work now though i wouldnt like to pay for it , if your in the IT industry making freinds on sites like this could help , it never hurts to make freinds at work
This is particularly bad even for a patent , I despise patents but i doubt we will get rid of them quickly , but a nice interim mesure would be forcing then to be made in jargon free standerd lingo as a vast majority of us do not have legal degrees and of those who do, few specialise in patent law. I suppose its in their intrests to let the mass continue on in latin
Well i was joking but thinking about it , The tether could surround the power cable , and perhaps the tether could have holes through it , so that some form of cog or two could stay in conection with the power line as the elevator ascends,so the line would be not much heavier
i have a light fitting that functions like that , i know the projects may not be related though its intresting to think about. Thinking about it , it would be a nice way of doing it. I would hayard a guess that nasa are probably looking for shorter range power transfer and perhaps a little safer
Another silly patent "1. A method for suppressing one or more features in an image of a page of content, comprising: (a) acquiring an image of a page of content; (b) identifying one or more features in the page image that are to be suppressed or not to be suppressed; and (c) preparing a substitute page image that only includes images of the identified features that are not to be suppressed. "
This sounds to me like a log-in site , with a feature kind of like that which slashdot subscription has,where you can "supress" Advertisments. Really its worded horribly This patent. The rest seems to mutter on about things like text recognition etc and image recognition
The USA is a country and Europe is a continent , i would be intrested to see how the numbers change if you include mexico and to a far lesser extent canada into that
"Next time you're in Europe, get away from the popular (among tourists) cities. You'll find very large numbers of people living in what amount to shacks."
Dude seriously , those aree garden sheds , hahaha . Right now im living in the one of the poorer areas of the EU (former east germany) and the average house around here is rather nice , You may have seen sheds , they are rather commen as alot of people live in flats(apartments to you) and buy land to do gardening etc. Trust me on this one , people dont live in shantys , and yes i have traveld around alot of europe.I have never been to the USA , but from what i hear from people,life is exactly the same well except a few obvious difrences
Having a look at some fiqures here, The average wage in the USA is around $36,764 the Uk has an average salary of £22,411 which is around $41,958.91 The same for germany and france roughly... so i dont know where your pulling these GDP fiqures from .
She forced a cybersquater off a page , fair enough plenty other people may also have rights to this domain , but she is the one that sought it first. Im sick fed up of these domain farmers , They obviously just bought up this domain in hopes of making a bit of cash off the name , which is in clearly wrong.Hell i would have suported Anyone (nearly) in a case like this, the sooner we get better regulation in to stop the domain farmers , the better our web experiance shall be.
We can but hope , this really reminds me why i so used to love genetics , cheers for the links. I really had intended on getting back into readding up on my Genetic theory and this seems like a good area
Thats all we need , Creationalist plants that refuse to evolve just to prove a point. Seriously though , i left biolgy behind years ago as a possible avenue of study however this is extremly intresting , If we could isolate the gene that is used to check for equality (or genes which i would more suspect) it would be intresting in the field of cancer prevention , just imagine a hormone treatment that could scan your healthy genes and make a comparison against them and terminate any rouge cells. Ofcourse in a pure sci-fi writter vent what if people used these hormones already set to attack rouge cells for one person and inject them into another person... its a new scary sci-fi plot. (c)me
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Yes , but i dont see where the pains will come from .
VS 2 and VS 3 will be fully compatible and i know the license allows for duel licensing (ala trolltech)
So the worst thing to hapen as i see it, will be the code having to be released as GPL2 and GPL3 code at the same time , and i know for a fact they will be compatible license
Perhaps im missunderstanding the situation , but i see this as a pure storm in the teacup
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=143673&c id=12044418 .
As this poster states , the clause in the license allows us to avoid any situation such as this and secures the copyleft
However if said did hapen (which i strongly doubt) the only thing to occur would be the license would become more BSD license like allowing people to use the code with your supposed vs 10 for closed source projects
I doubt we will see any unplesant forking ,The license must evolve just as the software does . . .
If we didnt patch the linux kernel and left security holes in it we would have alot of massive problems , the license is like any other code(all be it legal code) bugs will arise and it will need to grow to support new platforms and new inovations
Thus the clause in the license that the parent states gives the backwards and forwards compatibility if you want it
unplesant forking will rarely occur
Dont worry men ,I think I'm still a little tipsy from last night no so here goes..
... tada ..Awaits down moderation to the pits of hell
In soviet Russia , a Beowulf cluster of these runs linux
Im sure we will have plenty of people harp on about how XPDF is faster(which it is) or how the adobe reader is not compact , or how it has more bloat than a whale. The fact still remains that it renders PDFs excelently and it is another product for the linux world .
,. .
OSS is about freedom and our right to choose what we run.
Every port to linux or BSD or one of the other alternat Operating systems is a major victory for freedom of choise. As much as i respect RMS and his iron stance on GNU everything , i have to disagree and say we also need to allow people to decide how they want there product licensed.
with Adobe finaly updating the antiquated reader , its just one more sign linux is gaining a stronger foothold in the desktop market, Now i may really dislike windows though i dont want to see it vanish , i want to see all products having an equal(or near enough) market share
Let us hope we soon see photoshop on linux , the gimp is cool but right now linux really needs a program in that class with a little more omph
Its the freedom to decide if you want to run comercial or OSS
And the freedom to decide if you want to sacrafice a bit of HDD space and RAM space for frankly better PDF rendering(right now atleast , the xpdf team are doing a great job)
This seems to be my major problem with the PSP , it seems to be more a desktop replacment than a portable .Saying that i will definantly get one as i expect (semi)portable GTA 3.
Though first im getting a Nintendo DS as it just has more portable titles, I dont see the PSP as being direct competition right now as the games its offering are far closer to the home systems than to mobile games.
This is hopefully a lesson sony will learn , as we have seen the gameboy and kin come up against technicaly superior products before
You know you have masterd comedy when you can get a laugh out of a Chicken crossing the road joke .Either that or you left the NO2 running
"If you ever aspired to be the next Jerry Seinfeld instead of the next American Idol. Maybe the product featured by Wired is just right for you."
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I youve ever aspired to be either , then i can sugest a few other things you may enjoy *click click boom* seriously though
Its nice to see something to help people build the comedy stylings up
you could ask it if it runs linux and see if you get a laugh , or perhaps would a beowulf cluster of these substitute a studio audiance
*cough* well everyone says my jokes are laughable or was that me they were talking about
This could actualy be genuinly helpfull , if there is one thing i notice which is always a problem for aspiring acts on the comedy circut its timing and presentation.
This should really help those intrested work on the delivery of the lines if it functions as advertised. Then the only hurdal left is actual funny jokes and demenur oh and confidence
The point being , the person was a domain farmer who instead of using the domain for a good purpose was using it to extort money and quite probably install a few bits of malware or tracking cookies to any unsuspecting windows users who stumbled across it , If he had of been using it for a genuine purpose then i would of been apauled by the decision , but as it stands these bastards deserve a slap for lack of ethics and for plainly abusing the rules
I should say thanksfor giving me a bit more backgrond to look into for this ( my electronic enginering skills are poor at best) , Solar power seems to be an excelent method for a device such a space elevator , And Maser technoligy sounds intresting I shall get to reading up on it ,
? Is there any significant dangeour , say if something intersected the Beams path
The old Boys network , all be it in a diffrent form for some new boys and girls .
Its the same type of social orgranisation for a digital age , It has worked well for hundreds of years and i shouldnt see why it wont work now though i wouldnt like to pay for it , if your in the IT industry making freinds on sites like this could help , it never hurts to make freinds at work
This is particularly bad even for a patent , I despise patents but i doubt we will get rid of them quickly , but a nice interim mesure would be forcing then to be made in jargon free standerd lingo as a vast majority of us do not have legal degrees and of those who do, few specialise in patent law .
I suppose its in their intrests to let the mass continue on in latin
Well i was joking but thinking about it , The tether could surround the power cable , and perhaps the tether could have holes through it , so that some form of cog or two could stay in conection with the power line as the elevator ascends ,so the line would be not much heavier .
i have a light fitting that functions like that , i know the projects may not be related though its intresting to think about
Thinking about it , it would be a nice way of doing it.
I would hayard a guess that nasa are probably looking for shorter range power transfer and perhaps a little safer
Another silly patent
,where you can "supress" Advertisments.
"1. A method for suppressing one or more features in an image of a page of content, comprising: (a) acquiring an image of a page of content; (b) identifying one or more features in the page image that are to be suppressed or not to be suppressed; and (c) preparing a substitute page image that only includes images of the identified features that are not to be suppressed. "
This sounds to me like a log-in site , with a feature kind of like that which slashdot subscription has
Really its worded horribly This patent.
The rest seems to mutter on about things like text recognition etc and image recognition
Its more than an urban legend now, it is a fabel i would say.
Anyway the post was ment as a joke
If it is a space elevator , then why dont they transfer the power through the tether , or is this another case of space age pen vs pencil
yes that was the joke
The USA is a country and Europe is a continent , i would be intrested to see how the numbers change if you include mexico and to a far lesser extent canada into that
The gaurdian http://money.guardian.co.uk/news_/story/0,1456,141 5868,00.html
So fairly reliable , I converted the currency using XE.com
"Next time you're in Europe, get away from the popular (among tourists) cities. You'll find very large numbers of people living in what amount to shacks."
,life is exactly the same well except a few obvious difrences
Dude seriously , those aree garden sheds , hahaha . Right now im living in the one of the poorer areas of the EU (former east germany) and the average house around here is rather nice , You may have seen sheds , they are rather commen as alot of people live in flats(apartments to you) and buy land to do gardening etc.
Trust me on this one , people dont live in shantys , and yes i have traveld around
alot of europe.I have never been to the USA , but from what i hear from people
Having a look at some fiqures here, The average wage in the USA is around $36,764 ... so i dont know where your pulling these GDP fiqures from .
the Uk has an average salary of £22,411 which is around $41,958.91
The same for germany and france roughly
I would expect suse 10 to be next , iirc it went ..7.0 ,7.1,7.2,8.0,8.1,8.2,9.0 etc
She forced a cybersquater off a page , fair enough plenty other people may also have rights to this domain , but she is the one that sought it first . .Hell i would have suported Anyone (nearly) in a case like this, the sooner we get better regulation in to stop the domain farmers , the better our web experiance shall be.
Im sick fed up of these domain farmers , They obviously just bought up this domain in hopes of making a bit of cash off the name , which is in clearly wrong
We can but hope , this really reminds me why i so used to love genetics , cheers for the links .
I really had intended on getting back into readding up on my Genetic theory and this seems like a good area
Thats all we need , Creationalist plants that refuse to evolve just to prove a point. ... its a new scary sci-fi plot.
Seriously though , i left biolgy behind years ago as a possible avenue of study however this is extremly intresting , If we could isolate the gene that is used to check for equality (or genes which i would more suspect) it would be intresting in the field of cancer prevention , just imagine a hormone treatment that could scan your healthy genes and make a comparison against them and terminate any rouge cells. Ofcourse in a pure sci-fi writter vent what if people used these hormones already set to attack rouge cells for one person and inject them into another person
(c)me