The CDDL under which the code in question was released is a slightly modified version of the Mozilla Public License. So if you used Mozilla or firefox or whatever to post that screed, then you've clearly sinned against the church of RMS.
Oh, and the CDDL IS an OSI approved license, so that means DTrace IS (by the definition most programmers who don't wear Birkenstocks agree on) Open Source.
As a developer, if you value your work, the GPL is the better license under which to release code, as it means no-one can take your work, close the source, and sell it as their own.
CDDL Section 3.1:
Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this License. You must include a copy of this License with every copy of the Source Code form of the Covered Software You distribute or otherwise make available. You must inform recipients of any such Covered Software in Executable form as to how they can obtain such Covered Software in Source Code form in a reasonable manner on or through a medium customarily used for software exchange.
I actually ran Pointcast on a spare laptop in the living room back in the day. I actually thought it was pretty useful.
Once in the middle of the night I got up and went out to the kitchen for a snack. Our cat was on the back of the couch staring at the Pointcast screensaver. She was transfixed. Everytime it would change, she would twitch a little. She loved to watch it while we were sleeping. I guess she liked the contrasting colors and movement.
I wrote a note to the Pointcast folks about this. They were quite amused. They sent me a T-shirt. I thought that was nice of them.
The victory actually looks rather weak to me. If Apple had been able to demonstrate that they had no other means by which they could have rooted out the source of the leak, then it would seem the court would not have been able to dismiss this so easily.
And lest anyone think that the comment at the end of this story about the version used not being publicly available... That is no longer correct. The shipping version of Safari as been ACID2 compliant for a while now.
Conceptually a pint container of water is no different than a gallon container either.
For radio, the important factor is height above average terrain and the number of nodes that are significantly high, given that measure.
If you built a city on top of the mountain, and had lots of folks using cell phones, then the cell service in the valleys below would be terrible. Fortunately, that's not how it usually happens.
A few mountain climbers using cell phones higher than the average terrain aren't enough to cause trouble. But an airplane usually operates significantly above the average terrain. It's a different situation.
So... to wreak havoc on communications, all a "terrorist" needs to do is tie a bunch of cheap cellphones to helium_filled balloons, dial 911, and let go?
That overstates things by a fair degree. It's an incremental thing. If it were allowed, then it would happen so often that the idea of cellular service wouldn't really work.
Why does being visible to multiple towers HAVE to be a problem?
Basically for the same reason that spam is bad. It overwhelms a channel dedicated to one conversation with a bunch of unrelated traffic that isn't useful.
I've (very) occasionally caught a virus present on the machine before it was ever executed or did any harm. I've (very) rarely wound up with spyware - but nothing major, and nothing that couldn't either be uninstalled via its own well-behaved uninstaller or removed easily via something like adaware.
There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. More than we would care to admit. Jenkins! No!
RFI is not the reason cell phones are banned on airplanes. It's nothing to do with the FAA. It's against FCC regulations because the cellphone up in the air is visible to way too many cell towers and thus causes excessive interference. A pico-cell in the plane, as you said, fixes all that by forcing the phones to work at extremely low power. But unless they put a pico cell in for every carrier, it's going to make enforcement a problem. How are the baliffs^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hstewards going to know whether someone on a cell phone is legally using the plane's picocell or not?
I was on SouthWest about 6 months ago. Before we took off, I put my phone in airplane mode so that when we got up to cruising altitude I could play games on it. I then turned it off. The plane took off and got up to cruising altitude and when they said you could bring out your portable electronics, I fired it up and was immediately accosted. I explained that I had put the phone in airplane mode and that its transmitter was disabled. They said, "We don't recognize airplane modes. Turn it off." With a grumble, I did so. Meanwhile, the bozo three rows up pulls out his treo and starts using it. I don't know whether he had his in airplane mode or not. But he got a pass. I effectively got shat on because of the shape of my computer.
I personally PREFER people with zero knowledge of computers. they do exactly what I ask them to quickly and efficiently.
There is a flip side to that coin.
My story is about AT&T (nee SBC) DSL support. Nothing at all to do with Apple.
My DSL is pretty reliable. Still, every once in a while it does go down. When it does, I know how to diagnose the problem pretty well. And because I have a nicer DSL "modem" than they give out, I can actually go in and see pretty detailed status reports. I can even try doing ATM pings and stuff like that.
So usually when it's something not on my end, I've got a pretty good idea of that before I make the call.
Of course, the person I get on the phone asks me what's wrong and I give him all of the steps I've taken and all of the evidence that I've collected that points to a problem at their end.
"Ok. Can we try power cycling the DSL modem?"
"Don't you remember me telling you 5 minutes ago that that was the first thing I did?"
It all goes downhill from there.
Finally, when the guy transfers me to tier 2, they listen to my report and then go check if there are known outages. Every time but one, it's wound up being a known outage. Why the first guy wouldn't go look that up immediately is beyond me.
The one bright spot? When they ask what sort of computer I'm using, I tell them I have a mac. It's not actually true (it's a FreeBSD machine), but it winds up getting me to a group of folks who don't just have a script in front of them, and that usually helps.
No. Neither of those will tell you which way you're pointing. Both of those tell you where you are (actually, the cellestial version will only tell you where you are with the aid of an accurate clock).
Not quite the same thing.
On land, it's easy to walk in a straight line. You pick a tree or a rock or a mountain, walk towards it, then check your GPS gizmo and it will tell you which direction you walked. But while you're walking, you simply walk in the direction of the landmark you've chosen.
At sea, this is impossible. You can't just steer towards a landmark, because there are none. The best you can do is steer towards a particular star (the sun counts), but you'll probably have to make corrections for its motion. A compass serves the same purpose as a distant tree or mountain on land -- keeps you pointing in the same direction over the course of the present to near future. You need to be able to do that reliably before position fixes can help get you where you want to be.
Position references can be finessed into giving you a bearing track, but that's like telling a day trader that because the stock went up yesterday it's going to go up again tomorrow - maybe, but maybe not. You need more data to be sure.
Yes, except that's what you tell your descendents, a few generations after the compass becomes useless.
While the flips may occur quickly on a geological timeframe, they take much longer than a human lifetime to occur and stabilize.
A compass is a handy thing to have at sea, since without landmarks its the easiest way to keep pointing in the same direction. But there are other ways to navigate - with and without technology. We (or rather, "they," since we'll long be dust) will just have to make do with them.
When they first released Airport Express, it was unavailable for Titanium powerbooks, but it was possible to hack the Airport Express driver so that it would work with a Linksys card stuck in the cardbus slot. My site wound up getting mentioned on The Screen Savers.
The site has languished since Apple stopped preventing the driver from working without hackery. But that's the best use I've found for the Cardbus slot so far.
No country in the world should extract their citizens to U.S.A.
You misspelled "extradite."
If goverments are "forced" to extract their citizens to U.S., then U.S. should extract their citizens to abroad, if citizens are accused of violating the law of other country.
Yeah. That's how extradition treaties work. The fact that the US and UK have one is the reason we're having this "insightful" conversation.
The TiVo they showed at CES this year - dual tuner HD with cablecard - may get me to switch to cable from satellite. I don't particularly trust the cable companies to not screw with the feature set of a 'captive' TiVo, having been burned by DirecTV already. But with Cablecard, I don't *have* to trust them. And I was led to believe that it would support both cablecard and antenna input, so I also don't have to trust the cable company to not recompress the snot out of the local channels.
Of course, it's vapor until proven otherwise, but I am watching and waiting.
This is a little past 1987, but I remember QIC-20 tapes back in the day were pretty pricey - one would be a substantial fraction of the $150 quoted. I don't think, however, that a reel of 9 track (particularly one of the small reels) was that much. It was a pretty mature technology by that point and there isn't much to it apart from the reel and tape.
Of course, that doesn't mean that RMS still isn't a tool for selling autographs. He could be forgiven if all of the money was going to be donated back to the FSF, but unless TFA says so (I didn't bother to look), it probably means he's going to pocket it.
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The CDDL under which the code in question was released is a slightly modified version of the Mozilla Public License. So if you used Mozilla or firefox or whatever to post that screed, then you've clearly sinned against the church of RMS.
Oh, and the CDDL IS an OSI approved license, so that means DTrace IS (by the definition most programmers who don't wear Birkenstocks agree on) Open Source.
As a developer, if you value your work, the GPL is the better license under which to release code, as it means no-one can take your work, close the source, and sell it as their own.
CDDL Section 3.1:
So try again.Followed by:
All I really need is [...] my expresso [sic] setup.
Irony. It's what's for breakfast.
I actually ran Pointcast on a spare laptop in the living room back in the day. I actually thought it was pretty useful.
Once in the middle of the night I got up and went out to the kitchen for a snack. Our cat was on the back of the couch staring at the Pointcast screensaver. She was transfixed. Everytime it would change, she would twitch a little. She loved to watch it while we were sleeping. I guess she liked the contrasting colors and movement.
I wrote a note to the Pointcast folks about this. They were quite amused. They sent me a T-shirt. I thought that was nice of them.
They don't call it "PC World" for nothing.
Am I missing something?
Why, the rooster, of course.
Say what?!
And lest anyone think that the comment at the end of this story about the version used not being publicly available... That is no longer correct. The shipping version of Safari as been ACID2 compliant for a while now.
Gee, what other explanation is there for MS' tremendous market share? :)
For radio, the important factor is height above average terrain and the number of nodes that are significantly high, given that measure.
If you built a city on top of the mountain, and had lots of folks using cell phones, then the cell service in the valleys below would be terrible. Fortunately, that's not how it usually happens.
A few mountain climbers using cell phones higher than the average terrain aren't enough to cause trouble. But an airplane usually operates significantly above the average terrain. It's a different situation.
That overstates things by a fair degree. It's an incremental thing. If it were allowed, then it would happen so often that the idea of cellular service wouldn't really work.
Why does being visible to multiple towers HAVE to be a problem?
Basically for the same reason that spam is bad. It overwhelms a channel dedicated to one conversation with a bunch of unrelated traffic that isn't useful.
There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount. More than we would care to admit. Jenkins! No!
I was on SouthWest about 6 months ago. Before we took off, I put my phone in airplane mode so that when we got up to cruising altitude I could play games on it. I then turned it off. The plane took off and got up to cruising altitude and when they said you could bring out your portable electronics, I fired it up and was immediately accosted. I explained that I had put the phone in airplane mode and that its transmitter was disabled. They said, "We don't recognize airplane modes. Turn it off." With a grumble, I did so. Meanwhile, the bozo three rows up pulls out his treo and starts using it. I don't know whether he had his in airplane mode or not. But he got a pass. I effectively got shat on because of the shape of my computer.
Except for the fact that it's a violation of FCC rules to use a cell phone in an airplane at all.
The problem is that when you raise a cell phone up high enough, it winds up being visible to way too may cells and causes excessive interference.
There is a flip side to that coin.
My story is about AT&T (nee SBC) DSL support. Nothing at all to do with Apple.
My DSL is pretty reliable. Still, every once in a while it does go down. When it does, I know how to diagnose the problem pretty well. And because I have a nicer DSL "modem" than they give out, I can actually go in and see pretty detailed status reports. I can even try doing ATM pings and stuff like that.
So usually when it's something not on my end, I've got a pretty good idea of that before I make the call.
Of course, the person I get on the phone asks me what's wrong and I give him all of the steps I've taken and all of the evidence that I've collected that points to a problem at their end.
"Ok. Can we try power cycling the DSL modem?"
"Don't you remember me telling you 5 minutes ago that that was the first thing I did?"
It all goes downhill from there.
Finally, when the guy transfers me to tier 2, they listen to my report and then go check if there are known outages. Every time but one, it's wound up being a known outage. Why the first guy wouldn't go look that up immediately is beyond me.
The one bright spot? When they ask what sort of computer I'm using, I tell them I have a mac. It's not actually true (it's a FreeBSD machine), but it winds up getting me to a group of folks who don't just have a script in front of them, and that usually helps.
See my other reply. GPS won't tell you which way you're pointing, only where you are.
No. Neither of those will tell you which way you're pointing. Both of those tell you where you are (actually, the cellestial version will only tell you where you are with the aid of an accurate clock).
Not quite the same thing.
On land, it's easy to walk in a straight line. You pick a tree or a rock or a mountain, walk towards it, then check your GPS gizmo and it will tell you which direction you walked. But while you're walking, you simply walk in the direction of the landmark you've chosen.
At sea, this is impossible. You can't just steer towards a landmark, because there are none. The best you can do is steer towards a particular star (the sun counts), but you'll probably have to make corrections for its motion. A compass serves the same purpose as a distant tree or mountain on land -- keeps you pointing in the same direction over the course of the present to near future. You need to be able to do that reliably before position fixes can help get you where you want to be.
Position references can be finessed into giving you a bearing track, but that's like telling a day trader that because the stock went up yesterday it's going to go up again tomorrow - maybe, but maybe not. You need more data to be sure.
Yes, except that's what you tell your descendents, a few generations after the compass becomes useless.
While the flips may occur quickly on a geological timeframe, they take much longer than a human lifetime to occur and stabilize.
A compass is a handy thing to have at sea, since without landmarks its the easiest way to keep pointing in the same direction. But there are other ways to navigate - with and without technology. We (or rather, "they," since we'll long be dust) will just have to make do with them.
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The site has languished since Apple stopped preventing the driver from working without hackery. But that's the best use I've found for the Cardbus slot so far.
It's actually a CardBus slot.
No country in the world should extract their citizens to U.S.A.
You misspelled "extradite."
If goverments are "forced" to extract their citizens to U.S., then U.S. should extract their citizens to abroad, if citizens are accused of violating the law of other country.
Yeah. That's how extradition treaties work. The fact that the US and UK have one is the reason we're having this "insightful" conversation.
The TiVo they showed at CES this year - dual tuner HD with cablecard - may get me to switch to cable from satellite. I don't particularly trust the cable companies to not screw with the feature set of a 'captive' TiVo, having been burned by DirecTV already. But with Cablecard, I don't *have* to trust them. And I was led to believe that it would support both cablecard and antenna input, so I also don't have to trust the cable company to not recompress the snot out of the local channels.
Of course, it's vapor until proven otherwise, but I am watching and waiting.
Well, according to the tagging (beta), it's already been done.
This is a little past 1987, but I remember QIC-20 tapes back in the day were pretty pricey - one would be a substantial fraction of the $150 quoted. I don't think, however, that a reel of 9 track (particularly one of the small reels) was that much. It was a pretty mature technology by that point and there isn't much to it apart from the reel and tape.
Of course, that doesn't mean that RMS still isn't a tool for selling autographs. He could be forgiven if all of the money was going to be donated back to the FSF, but unless TFA says so (I didn't bother to look), it probably means he's going to pocket it.
I guess communism doesn't pay well enough. :)
Nice fileserver you 'ave there. Shame if somefing were to 'appen to it. Know what I mean, 'squire?