You need to understand the difference between the GPL and most licences. Most licences impose additional restrictions on top of what is already provided for by copyright law. Eg some Database management software prohibits you from running benchmarks on their software. This is an additional restriction imposed by the licence on top of copyright law.
GPL doesn't add any restrictions that copyright law doesn't already have. It grants additional privileges to the licensee that otherwise would not be legal - like the right to distribute the software in its original or modified form - with the sole caveat being that you have to ensure that the source code for any changes you make available to anyone who asks.
If you don't accept the terms of the licence, standard copyright law applies and you can't distribute the software to anyone or modify it in any way.
So, using the standard click through mechanism designed to restrict a persons use of software that Windows Installers provide, the author grants you additional privileges on top of those normally granted by copyright law. your usage is not restricted and you are now allowed to give away copies and modify yours in whatever way you want - provided that if you give away a modified copy you need to give away the source code.
If the click through mechanism is unenforceable, then, no problem. Standard copyright law still applies and you aren't allowed to give away copies or modify the original.
Heh, I got a birthday pack in my room with a cake and fruit and stuff once because a Chinese hotel I was staying in got the month and the day crossed up and thought it was my birthday. I was so touched I didn't have the heart to enlighten them.
You should give Lego Starwars 2 a go. It covers Episodes IV through VI and you can use the characters you earned in the original Lego Star Wars. General Grievous vs the Emperor from Episode VI anyone?
You can also make up custom characters, ride in vehicles like walkers and snow speeders. Try blowing up the Death Star using a TIE fighter or a snow speeder!
My 8yo loved it. It stands out among kid's games from all the crappy movie tie-in games out there. Certainly gets my vote for Kid's Game of the Year if there is such a category.
Like what was used on the Foundlanders at the end of "The Chrysalids?" Though I think that particular stuff did kill the people it was used on eventually, when it dried and shrank around them.
I've also seen these really long and annoying ads for Cathay Pacific that are setup to look like some kind of travelogue documentary. They run these during Mythbusters on Discoveryy Channel in Australia. It would be hard to distinguish them from the actual content becuase they don't, at first glance, appear to be ads.
Problem is for us non-DVR users, they're even more annoying than regular ads.
At least they're long enough for a toilet break/snack break/whatever.
The ABC here in Oz doesn't have ads (at least never in the middle of programs, and in between shows only to promote their other shows)
Same with the BBC in the UK, except here in Australia we don't have the licencing system. Problem with that is the Govco here cuts the ABC's budget whenever they say something it doesn't like. Can't do that to the BBC.
It's Office 95 to Office 97 all over again. You wanna try Open Office instead? That probably won't read the new format either until someone reverse engineers it, and even then it won't be 100% compatible any more than the current one is.
That would be the polymer idea mentioned in the article. When these are used as flocculants in sewage treatment, the batching and dosing plants need to be equipped with special high grip flooring because otherwise the floor gets lethally slippery if you spill this stuff and get it wet. Think banana peel times ten.
Makes absolutely no difference unless the black thing is hot enough to be glowing.
The frequency range of radiant energy emitted by a body is dependent on its temperature. As the temperature of the body rises, so does the upper limit of the emitted frequency. You can thus measure the temperature of a distant hot body by it's colour (like stars for example). That's why stuff glows red and then white as you heat it to extreme temperatures. In this range, colour makes a difference.
Things that are black get hotter in the sun than shiny things because they absorb more of the sun's radiant energy including visible light, but because of their own temperature, they only emit heat at invisible infra-red ranges, where the visible colour makes no difference. Painting a heatsink black will REDUCE the amount of energy it emits, because the surface temperature is lower due to the insulating effect of the coating (unless it's in the sun). You will get better heat transfer from an unpainted heatsink.
Upshot - NEVER EVER PAINT A HEATSINK - NOT EVEN BLACK. You will actually reduce its performance.
It is, but it also insulates a bit. If you paint something black, it emits and absorbs radiant heat with the properties of the paint, not the metal. This is about making the metal itself black so it absorbs/emits more efficiently.
My Grandfather had this ability to fall asleep for short periods when there was not much happening, but would wake and be fully alert if called upon to do so.
I was told he learned to do this in the trenches at Gallipoli. You can see how this ability would be useful in a situation like that. In fact you wouldn't have much choice. Funny how it stayed with him for the rest of his life long after he finished needing it.
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Will this cause problems for the machine you got it from?
Not with cats. We exist only to serve their every need. If you didn't know this, you obviously never had a cat.
Don't forget to download your licence key from the server.
US and Australia didn't exist as nations in 1499. the people who lived there were subsequently the victims of European exploration.
You need to understand the difference between the GPL and most licences. Most licences impose additional restrictions on top of what is already provided for by copyright law. Eg some Database management software prohibits you from running benchmarks on their software. This is an additional restriction imposed by the licence on top of copyright law.
GPL doesn't add any restrictions that copyright law doesn't already have. It grants additional privileges to the licensee that otherwise would not be legal - like the right to distribute the software in its original or modified form - with the sole caveat being that you have to ensure that the source code for any changes you make available to anyone who asks.
If you don't accept the terms of the licence, standard copyright law applies and you can't distribute the software to anyone or modify it in any way.
So, using the standard click through mechanism designed to restrict a persons use of software that Windows Installers provide, the author grants you additional privileges on top of those normally granted by copyright law. your usage is not restricted and you are now allowed to give away copies and modify yours in whatever way you want - provided that if you give away a modified copy you need to give away the source code.
If the click through mechanism is unenforceable, then, no problem. Standard copyright law still applies and you aren't allowed to give away copies or modify the original.
People Eating Tasty Animals? Aren't rabbits tasty?
Heh, I got a birthday pack in my room with a cake and fruit and stuff once because a Chinese hotel I was staying in got the month and the day crossed up and thought it was my birthday. I was so touched I didn't have the heart to enlighten them.
In Australia, if you want the PVR function, you have to pay Foxtel A$500 for a box you don't even own.
You should give Lego Starwars 2 a go. It covers Episodes IV through VI and you can use the characters you earned in the original Lego Star Wars. General Grievous vs the Emperor from Episode VI anyone?
You can also make up custom characters, ride in vehicles like walkers and snow speeders. Try blowing up the Death Star using a TIE fighter or a snow speeder!
My 8yo loved it. It stands out among kid's games from all the crappy movie tie-in games out there. Certainly gets my vote for Kid's Game of the Year if there is such a category.
In Flatout 2 aren't you supposed to fall out of the car?
Whether it's legal or not, it's a sure way to ensure you get cavity searched every time you go through customs.
Then even with the law as it stands they'll be provided for. Are they going to be dependent until they're 60?
Like what was used on the Foundlanders at the end of "The Chrysalids?" Though I think that particular stuff did kill the people it was used on eventually, when it dried and shrank around them.
I've also seen these really long and annoying ads for Cathay Pacific that are setup to look like some kind of travelogue documentary. They run these during Mythbusters on Discoveryy Channel in Australia. It would be hard to distinguish them from the actual content becuase they don't, at first glance, appear to be ads.
Problem is for us non-DVR users, they're even more annoying than regular ads.
At least they're long enough for a toilet break/snack break/whatever.
You're in the wrong country.
The ABC here in Oz doesn't have ads (at least never in the middle of programs, and in between shows only to promote their other shows)
Same with the BBC in the UK, except here in Australia we don't have the licencing system. Problem with that is the Govco here cuts the ABC's budget whenever they say something it doesn't like. Can't do that to the BBC.
It's Office 95 to Office 97 all over again. You wanna try Open Office instead? That probably won't read the new format either until someone reverse engineers it, and even then it won't be 100% compatible any more than the current one is.
Curse you Microsoft! (shakes fist)
That would be the polymer idea mentioned in the article. When these are used as flocculants in sewage treatment, the batching and dosing plants need to be equipped with special high grip flooring because otherwise the floor gets lethally slippery if you spill this stuff and get it wet. Think banana peel times ten.
Makes absolutely no difference unless the black thing is hot enough to be glowing.
The frequency range of radiant energy emitted by a body is dependent on its temperature. As the temperature of the body rises, so does the upper limit of the emitted frequency. You can thus measure the temperature of a distant hot body by it's colour (like stars for example). That's why stuff glows red and then white as you heat it to extreme temperatures. In this range, colour makes a difference.
Things that are black get hotter in the sun than shiny things because they absorb more of the sun's radiant energy including visible light, but because of their own temperature, they only emit heat at invisible infra-red ranges, where the visible colour makes no difference. Painting a heatsink black will REDUCE the amount of energy it emits, because the surface temperature is lower due to the insulating effect of the coating (unless it's in the sun). You will get better heat transfer from an unpainted heatsink.
Upshot - NEVER EVER PAINT A HEATSINK - NOT EVEN BLACK. You will actually reduce its performance.
It stops anyone else from trying it.
It is, but it also insulates a bit. If you paint something black, it emits and absorbs radiant heat with the properties of the paint, not the metal. This is about making the metal itself black so it absorbs/emits more efficiently.
It's so black, even the white bits are black!
I know - boring
My Grandfather had this ability to fall asleep for short periods when there was not much happening, but would wake and be fully alert if called upon to do so.
I was told he learned to do this in the trenches at Gallipoli. You can see how this ability would be useful in a situation like that. In fact you wouldn't have much choice. Funny how it stayed with him for the rest of his life long after he finished needing it.
Serenity Now!
Serenity Now!
Way to go! break out the champagne.
Oh....wait.....
It's not a good thing?