I doubt that they'll settle just for hiking your rates for driving too fast.
Heck, they might even go as far as to limit their liability if black box indicates that you were driving too fast at the time of accident - or prior to it. Or deny further coverage based on this etc..
Imagine sensors tracking your head or the usage of radio buttons or wether you used the turn signal. What about that stop sign before the intersection..
Yes it sounds like insurance company's heaven and a regular driver's nightmare.. Especially if it goes to that failure to follow traffic regulations limits insurance companies liability.
There's a lot more CO2 in this world than meets your nose.. Oceans hold huge reserves of co2(and o2), for instance. They act as a kind of buffer and can gradually release their reserves(which are not going to run out anytime soon).
Your're also forgetting that nature is pretty good at taking care of itself. A lightning strike here and couple of thousand acres of forest just burned there releasing co2. Then there are vulcanic eruptions, animals, bacteria, etc...
I believe that the real requirement for releasing the source code is public distribution, including sale of distribution, of binaries. And once you're in posession of a gpl'd program you can do whatever the license permits you to do with it(redistribute, modify, use, etc..)
Once anyone is permitted to obtain access to the program it is considered public. There are no non-disclosure agreements allowed with the distribution gpl'd source or binaries. If there seem to be any restrictions they are there purely because the people holding the code or binaries choose not to redistribute them.
You are permitted to make an internal release, such as within a company, and are not forced to release any of the changes to anyone in public. The recipients of this internal release are entitled to the source code upon request and they can also release the source if they so wish thus making it public.
Once you are in posession of a binary release you're entitled to the source code upon request but there is one interesting aspect that involves the licensing of modified versions and is kind of a cornerstone of gpl. If you make modifications to an existing gpl program all the recipients of the original program automatically have a license for your version once it is released to the public(even if you don't have a copy yet you're entitled to it).
Of course if someone owns the full copyright for the source code they can also relicense it with a different license. The gpl'd versions and their modifications are still considered to be public but this does not apply to the relicensed versions.
To summarize: If you have the binaries you can get the source. If you don't have them, stop whining.
There is one aspect that I don't fully understand. If I have a program that is gpl'd but not released to the public and it is somehow stolen from me is it legal for other people to distribute it. Gpl does grant me the right to distribute but as I understand it doesn't allow other people to claim as their birthright..
Yeah, but you also have to bear the cost of small claims court. Sending one of those corporate lawyers over there is not going to be cheap..
Business class flights, stay at a nice hotel, reimbursement for full time. Even if the consumer in the end gets only 500usd the company has spent a lot more by then.. overall 10kusd might not be a figure far off.
It is actually a lot more complex than that. You're thinking that a single electron would convey the message and have to move the distance between transistors in order to do this. This is however not the case.
Knowing the basic principle I read the following analogy somewhere:
Consider a fairly long empty garden hose. Once water is first turned on it takes a while for any water to come out of the other end of the hose. But, once the hose is filled with water any subsequent attempts to change the pressure, or turn water on and off, result in a rather rapid response over that same length.
So, it is pulses that convey this "information" in the water hose and similiarly in electronic chips electronic pulses of this very same kind are used to transmit information across the chip. These signal pulses move substantially faster than the individual electrons meaning that the individual speeds of electrons are in the end rather insignificant but still for the actual information transfer the limiting factor is that of speed of light..
So we just license the implementing programs with NGPL. Not-GPL, that is. It just so happens that the license terms are exactly the same as GPL but it is not GPL.
Kind of like gnu is not unix.. I just couldn't come up with anything as clever.
In F1 everything's been remotely adjustable for a while. It's just that FIA doesn't allow it so they settle for data collection. Otherwise you could technically adjust the wing angles on-the-fly for curves and straights. Heck, they even outlawed traction control (one of the contributions of F1 to regular drivers) quite a few years back..
..they are concerned that enlightened people will prefer AMD.
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the question really is: how do you define light?
simple answer: electromagnetic waves. more fundamental answer: energy
What did these scientists do? They directed a light into a cell of rubidium gas. As light goes through this gas it constantly excites atoms and these atoms lose their excited state a moment later and re-emit the pulse that originally excited them. This goes on constantly. So in a sense you can call this normal behaviour of light. This is also why light slows down in any material.
Now what happened was that they froze this process and later could restart it. So in a sense they really did stop light. As light is nothing but energy to begin with it really is not even recording. By recording you're saving information about something. In this case you're storing the actual energy in the excited states of atom. In a sense the light is hibernating..
The button in your hypothetical gadget in this case is nothing but a trigger for a laser beam that causes the atoms to release their stored energy and thus release the "stopped" light.
This is not about what I know but about past incidents.. Hell, I should hope that a military ship is running something more stable than the nt I can buy from a store that I personally have used and crashed several times (a day)..
But.. Is Microsoft basing their campaigns on straight facts? Two can play that game so how about quoting an incident where a ship running nt was left uncontrollable for a few moments.. image is everything..
..noting some of the inherent weaknesses in MS products and point out the fact that mostly all modern services for the most part rely on unix systems?
You could start by showing ticketing systems, web servers, scientific computing, engineers hard at work on a complex design,... quick cuts with a cool fast paced music and a voiceover explaining what is happening..
..and then cut to a battleship in the water and show a computer inside the ship first showing a windows startup screen and then bluescreening(maybe with a flashing red "computer error" added for effect) with a sound of engines turning off and people running frantically around with a final voiceover: "would you want our nations future to depend on unsafe software and put our brave men in danger when fighting for our freedom.. choose right, choose the most trusted name in computing.. choose unix".
Yeah.. sounds corny, but it could be a powerful message if done right(not to imply that the above is "right").
Actually promise's controllers are protected against this. So if you have your drive attached to an additional ide-controller card, more than likely the data lines are buffered.
This is a sure way to fry an onboard ide-controller, however.
I just came back from tokyo and happened to visit the sony building where they had a ton of these to play with(aside new aibos and lot's of other cool stuff that they didn't even have in japanese electornics stores yet)... and it is SWEET!
It has everything you could possible want. You can use it as a regular looking pda or as a flip open communicator with a keyboard on the bottom. The screen looks amazing compared to regular palms.
Graffitti area could be turned into a click keyboard too (meaning that it was part of the screen) and the videos were actually worth watching. Sound was decent and of course it came with a sony style headphone plug(with the remote pins too) for when you actually want to listen to music.
I did not have too much time to stay there(how much can you do in a day and a half in tokyo) but the immediate impression (and for an aibo too) was that I want one! If only half of the programs on the display model hadn't been in japanese I might have been able to play with it a little more extensively..
Remember those tom's hardware videos of amd chips burning in flames and pentium 4 working fine when the heatsinks were suddenly taken off?
Don't worry about any underclocking. Just run the chip as is with as much cooling as you feel like it and it will automatically adjust it's speed to suit the conditions.
Note. I will take zero responsibility for any direct or indirect damage to your system that results from the advice above. It should work but you can't tell for sure until you try..
I'd still say that unless you need to have over 4gigs of data in memory at any given point you probably are better off going smp or higher ghz on a regular platform. That 32bit limitation really is mostly a memory addressability one.
I'm not saying that any of these applications couldn't benefit from 64bit processing and the extra registers that come with it but rather: it is going to be a lot more reasonable(cost effective) for at least few more years to come to stretch the limits of 32bit platforms in applications where that 4gig limit is not unmanageable.
Actually, a lot of these applications are primarily going to benefit from increased memory bandwidth. Once the memory bandwidth equals cpu's fsb we could see full cpu i/o utilisation. This does not really happen even with 32bit platforms yet(Never mind when doubling the bandwidth requirements).
What would you benefit from running a 64bit platform?
Key applications for 64bit computing are more or less involved with anything that requires a huge amount of memory. Servers(massive databases), high-end engineering(airplanes, ships, etc.) and scientific computing come into my mind.
In these kind of applications and systems you're not concerned whether or not you like windows xp but rather: how cost effective is it and what is the performance advantage?
Unless your computers memory capacity is exhausted(what, 4 gigs is not enough for everyone?) and it is crunching numbers on full load 24/7 I don't see too many reasons aside the coolness factor to even consider 64bit computing. Heck, smp systems would make much more sense in most of the cases.
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I doubt that they'll settle just for hiking your rates for driving too fast.
Heck, they might even go as far as to limit their liability if black box indicates that you were driving too fast at the time of accident - or prior to it. Or deny further coverage based on this etc..
Imagine sensors tracking your head or the usage of radio buttons or wether you used the turn signal. What about that stop sign before the intersection..
Yes it sounds like insurance company's heaven and a regular driver's nightmare.. Especially if it goes to that failure to follow traffic regulations limits insurance companies liability.
There's a lot more CO2 in this world than meets your nose.. Oceans hold huge reserves of co2(and o2), for instance. They act as a kind of buffer and can gradually release their reserves(which are not going to run out anytime soon).
Your're also forgetting that nature is pretty good at taking care of itself. A lightning strike here and couple of thousand acres of forest just burned there releasing co2. Then there are vulcanic eruptions, animals, bacteria, etc...
I believe that the real requirement for releasing the source code is public distribution, including sale of distribution, of binaries. And once you're in posession of a gpl'd program you can do whatever the license permits you to do with it(redistribute, modify, use, etc..)
Once anyone is permitted to obtain access to the program it is considered public. There are no non-disclosure agreements allowed with the distribution gpl'd source or binaries. If there seem to be any restrictions they are there purely because the people holding the code or binaries choose not to redistribute them.
You are permitted to make an internal release, such as within a company, and are not forced to release any of the changes to anyone in public. The recipients of this internal release are entitled to the source code upon request and they can also release the source if they so wish thus making it public.
Once you are in posession of a binary release you're entitled to the source code upon request but there is one interesting aspect that involves the licensing of modified versions and is kind of a cornerstone of gpl. If you make modifications to an existing gpl program all the recipients of the original program automatically have a license for your version once it is released to the public(even if you don't have a copy yet you're entitled to it).
Of course if someone owns the full copyright for the source code they can also relicense it with a different license. The gpl'd versions and their modifications are still considered to be public but this does not apply to the relicensed versions.
To summarize:
If you have the binaries you can get the source. If you don't have them, stop whining.
There is one aspect that I don't fully understand.
If I have a program that is gpl'd but not released to the public and it is somehow stolen from me is it legal for other people to distribute it. Gpl does grant me the right to distribute but as I understand it doesn't allow other people to claim as their birthright..
Yeah, but you also have to bear the cost of small claims court. Sending one of those corporate lawyers over there is not going to be cheap..
Business class flights, stay at a nice hotel, reimbursement for full time. Even if the consumer in the end gets only 500usd the company has spent a lot more by then.. overall 10kusd might not be a figure far off.
It is actually a lot more complex than that. You're thinking that a single electron would convey the message and have to move the distance between transistors in order to do this. This is however not the case.
Knowing the basic principle I read the following analogy somewhere:
Consider a fairly long empty garden hose. Once water is first turned on it takes a while for any water to come out of the other end of the hose. But, once the hose is filled with water any subsequent attempts to change the pressure, or turn water on and off, result in a rather rapid response over that same length.
So, it is pulses that convey this "information" in the water hose and similiarly in electronic chips electronic pulses of this very same kind are used to transmit information across the chip. These signal pulses move substantially faster than the individual electrons meaning that the individual speeds of electrons are in the end rather insignificant but still for the actual information transfer the limiting factor is that of speed of light..
..it will land in USA, King County, ZIP-code 98052-6399 and create a huge explosion.
So we just license the implementing programs with NGPL. Not-GPL, that is. It just so happens that the license terms are exactly the same as GPL but it is not GPL.
Kind of like gnu is not unix.. I just couldn't come up with anything as clever.
Nope. purely genetical. In fact one gene alone in the y-cromosome(which women don't have) makes a man.
In F1 everything's been remotely adjustable for a while. It's just that FIA doesn't allow it so they settle for data collection. Otherwise you could technically adjust the wing angles on-the-fly for curves and straights. Heck, they even outlawed traction control (one of the contributions of F1 to regular drivers) quite a few years back..
I suppose how it works is that you get what you pay for.
;-)
plastic=cheap - metal=expensive
from here we can deduce that
ibook=plastic=cheap - tibook=metal=expensive
this is all relative apple-pricing of course..
Nah.. the best analogy would be:
A motherboard without a good BIOS is like a car without a good ECM.
Sure it works but occasionally it backfires and you can't utilise the engine to it's full potential etc..
..they are concerned that enlightened people will prefer AMD.
the question really is: how do you define light?
simple answer: electromagnetic waves.
more fundamental answer: energy
What did these scientists do? They directed a light into a cell of rubidium gas. As light goes through this gas it constantly excites atoms and these atoms lose their excited state a moment later and re-emit the pulse that originally excited them. This goes on constantly. So in a sense you can call this normal behaviour of light. This is also why light slows down in any material.
Now what happened was that they froze this process and later could restart it. So in a sense they really did stop light. As light is nothing but energy to begin with it really is not even recording. By recording you're saving information about something. In this case you're storing the actual energy in the excited states of atom. In a sense the light is hibernating..
The button in your hypothetical gadget in this case is nothing but a trigger for a laser beam that causes the atoms to release their stored energy and thus release the "stopped" light.
This is not about what I know but about past incidents.. Hell, I should hope that a military ship is running something more stable than the nt I can buy from a store that I personally have used and crashed several times (a day)..
But.. Is Microsoft basing their campaigns on straight facts? Two can play that game so how about quoting an incident where a ship running nt was left uncontrollable for a few moments.. image is everything..
..noting some of the inherent weaknesses in MS products and point out the fact that mostly all modern services for the most part rely on unix systems?
You could start by showing ticketing systems, web servers, scientific computing, engineers hard at work on a complex design,... quick cuts with a cool fast paced music and a voiceover explaining what is happening..
..and then cut to a battleship in the water and show a computer inside the ship first showing a windows startup screen and then bluescreening(maybe with a flashing red "computer error" added for effect) with a sound of engines turning off and people running frantically around with a final voiceover: "would you want our nations future to depend on unsafe software and put our brave men in danger when fighting for our freedom.. choose right, choose the most trusted name in computing.. choose unix".
Yeah.. sounds corny, but it could be a powerful message if done right(not to imply that the above is "right").
Oh.. I heard that debian is going to re-release their current distro so that they can fit in the latest technology.
Actually promise's controllers are protected against this. So if you have your drive attached to an additional ide-controller card, more than likely the data lines are buffered.
This is a sure way to fry an onboard ide-controller, however.
I just came back from tokyo and happened to visit the sony building where they had a ton of these to play with(aside new aibos and lot's of other cool stuff that they didn't even have in japanese electornics stores yet)... and it is SWEET!
It has everything you could possible want. You can use it as a regular looking pda or as a flip open communicator with a keyboard on the bottom. The screen looks amazing compared to regular palms.
Graffitti area could be turned into a click keyboard too (meaning that it was part of the screen) and the videos were actually worth watching. Sound was decent and of course it came with a sony style headphone plug(with the remote pins too) for when you actually want to listen to music.
I did not have too much time to stay there(how much can you do in a day and a half in tokyo) but the immediate impression (and for an aibo too) was that I want one! If only half of the programs on the display model hadn't been in japanese I might have been able to play with it a little more extensively..
I think you would have needed to chat with Linus' mother/father way back when about that..
..I just had my room repainted to mach the color of universe and now they tell me that I did all of that for nothing..
And people from where ever you come from are collectively called idiots..
Gnucleus does this. Try this. You need to use 1.6beta as multi-source downloading is not implemented in earlier versions.
Remember those tom's hardware videos of amd chips burning in flames and pentium 4 working fine when the heatsinks were suddenly taken off?
Don't worry about any underclocking. Just run the chip as is with as much cooling as you feel like it and it will automatically adjust it's speed to suit the conditions.
Note. I will take zero responsibility for any direct or indirect damage to your system that results from the advice above. It should work but you can't tell for sure until you try..
I'd still say that unless you need to have over 4gigs of data in memory at any given point you probably are better off going smp or higher ghz on a regular platform. That 32bit limitation really is mostly a memory addressability one.
I'm not saying that any of these applications couldn't benefit from 64bit processing and the extra registers that come with it but rather: it is going to be a lot more reasonable(cost effective) for at least few more years to come to stretch the limits of 32bit platforms in applications where that 4gig limit is not unmanageable.
Actually, a lot of these applications are primarily going to benefit from increased memory bandwidth. Once the memory bandwidth equals cpu's fsb we could see full cpu i/o utilisation. This does not really happen even with 32bit platforms yet(Never mind when doubling the bandwidth requirements).
What would you benefit from running a 64bit platform?
Key applications for 64bit computing are more or less involved with anything that requires a huge amount of memory. Servers(massive databases), high-end engineering(airplanes, ships, etc.) and scientific computing come into my mind.
In these kind of applications and systems you're not concerned whether or not you like windows xp but rather: how cost effective is it and what is the performance advantage?
Unless your computers memory capacity is exhausted(what, 4 gigs is not enough for everyone?) and it is crunching numbers on full load 24/7 I don't see too many reasons aside the coolness factor to even consider 64bit computing. Heck, smp systems would make much more sense in most of the cases.