Yes, Parent is already at +4. However, I had never heard these things. Are you a lawyer? Wow, time to pay off my loans and change the way I keep my books! Is there any way to get the MSO from the State?
If you have bought a copy of software US law explicitly states that it is not copyright infringment install and run that software, that you do not need any license at all.
Okay, but how do I use the software when it won't install unless I click "I Agree"? How do I get the media out without unwrapping the shrinkwrap? I'm not creative enough to find a way to actually install and run my software and circumvent the crippled package without doing something illegal.
That's the nice thing about Free Software. Its value in the market is higher than Microsoft Software because the license allows usage in a way I can understand.
Oh, and I'm not sure I agree that there is "no license at all," even without opening the package or agreeing to the EULA. The software license is the legal term used to describe the code which is intentionally copied from, say, the CD to the HDD, and then into the RAM and the Cache before it gets copied into the CPU and executed. These copies are part of the license, which may be a license of "Fair Use" as you say "if you have bought a copy of software." IANAL but I'm guessing the law draws the line when the same code is executed on behalf of two different users simultaneously. (From this, we get that it can't be installed on two machines, etc, etc.)
You offer the tantalizing possibility of using the software and circumventing the EULA, but you go as far as to say no license is required. I'm not so certain. Explain, please.
I just called my Senator. Apparently the decisions that were going to be finalized today have been postponed until next week. This means there's more time for anyone and everyone to contact their Senator and express their opinion. The intern I spoke with on the phone was very helpful.
However, I am not certain this information is correct, since the decision is so new. Please post a reply if you know more about whether the subcommittee voted today or postponed for a week. Thanks!
The test seems to not have very good resolution at the low end. It's almost discrete, with scores > 30 ms, 27 ms, and then 16 ms. Oh, and by the way, it couldn't even get through the training in Firefox. Either the Firefox Shockwave plugin has bugs, or the software is incompatible with Firefox/WinXP. But it's obvious they never tested that. When I finally, reluctantly, opened Internet Explorer, it worked fine.
"Your score is 16 milliseconds
in auditory processing speed"
Actually, the lowest duration that you could get two distinct frequencies in the 800 Hz - 1000 Hz range would be 2*2/800 s (Nyquist Theorem). That's 5 milliseconds. And it would take a human a long time to train to that speed. 10 ms is probably as fast as anyone's motivated to go.
It's true that you can train your brain back to a high speed. But that doesn't reverse the effects of aging, it just dedicates more of your brain's diminishing resources to that one task.
Are found outside the US, but here's a rough yearly breakdown for the cheapest in the US:
Rent: $3600 (utilities included)
Food: $1200
Tuition and Fees: $5000
So for a round $10K a year, you get your basic Grad Student(TM). Pay them $50K and you will get a whole lot more than that. It has been my experience that there's a lot of distance from the bottom of the grad student pile to the top. Top students can accomplish two orders of magnitude more, and you don't have to pay them a whole lot, just give them a diploma at the end.
Hey, thanks! Instead of complaining about the article, let me see what I can come up with as a counter-argument. Good idea! So here's my list of GPL projects that seem to be relatively open to random contributions. This is IMHO, and you're welcome to disagree with what I think of the "openness" of each development community.
I'm sticking to GPL projects because I don't know about other ones as well. This is not meant to diss the BSD crowd.
ALSA everyone welcome to submit a driver for their card. I might add that most Linux Kernel drivers and most drivers for a number of other projects (X, CUPS, gcc backends, etc.) are fairly open and you can jump right in.
gentoo packages you might not get into the main distribution right away, but the community is very open and will try out pretty much anything you have to contribute. Like drivers, above.
GIMP and GTK at least, pre-2000. Now there are a lot more developers, so jumping in isn't quite as easy.
kino has a very flat hierarchy. linux1394 is the same. Like drivers, above.
Okay, but I also think that cataloging open source projects is kind of fruitless, since there are so many. The internet connects people with common interests. They develop projects. Some are more open than others. Still, if the project gets too rigidly hierarchical, someone will fork the code and head off in a different direction. Example: the different flavors of BSD.
Finally! I would mod everyone who's whining down right now. Take a breath people, and let the guy clean up his instructions for submission. We know that once he posts them on the onmac.com forums, they're going to be plastered all over the web. So I understand if he's taking his time. Besides, it's only $12K. That's not very much money for months of work.
And if he's faking, he won't be able to hide. Anybody know more details on narf2006?
Just like the *AA are saying that we must have tighter and tighter Digital Restrictions Management, enforce the DMCA ever more stringently, and chase down those pirates, now Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon.
"Our systems will never be secure enough until we have full TPM hardware support. This will be released as part of Windows Vista SP2 in our effort to improve security."
Yep, we've found a killer way to make an awesome virus. Is the cure worse than the disease?
goldspider saysThis, RIGHT HERE, is the problem. An industry powerhouse like Michael Dell tells the Linux community what he wants, and how does the Linux community respond? By insisting that he's wrong and telling him what he actually wants.
And then metamatic says people are free to make decisions based on technical merit rather than marketing
Hey, goldspider, and all you marketing people out there, listen to this. There will always be people who don't want to tweak their config files and recompile their kernel. So there's a market there for you to capitalize on. (e.g. Ubuntu, Suse,...)
Dell could market to this audience, but they're the ones who need lots and lots of hand-holding, and that's not what Dell is good at. Dell is an assemble-and-distribute company. Their strengths are all in doing hardware. And the rest of us can probably handle installing the OS anyway. Win-win, as long as I don't have to pay the Microsoft tax.
Isn't it amazing how even a specialized distribution like Gentoo can offend Debian fans, not to mention others... Since we all paid nothing for these things, the least we can do is try a few more out and get some balanced opinions before flaming away.
If you've never installed Debian or Gentoo or Red Hat and don't want to waste a CD-R (or take the time to burn it, or whatever...) most of the distributions (including Knoppix) can be run "as if" from a CD but actually from the hard drive.
Marc Herbert's Windows Install Page details how to install a new distro using Windows without a CD. He also explains that the instructions are meant to be used for any OS, for example, trying Gentoo on a Fedora Core system. It's worth looking at!
Think of how much more you'll know after you've installed all the distros out there!
Microsoft is telling us they will "revolutionize RSS" and "bring RSS to the mainstream". We all know what Bill's "embrace and extend" plans have done in the past.
And, I hate to be the one to point it out to you, Bill, but RSS is mainstream. All you'll do is fragment its marketplace.
Slashdot Mirror
starts googling like crazy
If you have bought a copy of software US law explicitly states that it is not copyright infringment install and run that software, that you do not need any license at all.
Okay, but how do I use the software when it won't install unless I click "I Agree"? How do I get the media out without unwrapping the shrinkwrap? I'm not creative enough to find a way to actually install and run my software and circumvent the crippled package without doing something illegal.
That's the nice thing about Free Software. Its value in the market is higher than Microsoft Software because the license allows usage in a way I can understand.
Oh, and I'm not sure I agree that there is "no license at all," even without opening the package or agreeing to the EULA. The software license is the legal term used to describe the code which is intentionally copied from, say, the CD to the HDD, and then into the RAM and the Cache before it gets copied into the CPU and executed. These copies are part of the license, which may be a license of "Fair Use" as you say "if you have bought a copy of software." IANAL but I'm guessing the law draws the line when the same code is executed on behalf of two different users simultaneously. (From this, we get that it can't be installed on two machines, etc, etc.)
You offer the tantalizing possibility of using the software and circumventing the EULA, but you go as far as to say no license is required. I'm not so certain. Explain, please.
However, I am not certain this information is correct, since the decision is so new. Please post a reply if you know more about whether the subcommittee voted today or postponed for a week. Thanks!
Oh well, I give up. Lynx is not worth using.
I really should use firefox, but I'm on a terminal only right now.
Lynx is giving me headaches, but w3m isn't installed
at my college. This is bad enough, but then I keep having to log in.
I'm having trouble using lynx to access this web page. Does anyone else have these problems? I accepted slashdot's cookie.
ADSL rates for different companies can be found at http://www.netstumbler.org/showthread.php?t=15403
A good website for bandwidth speed tests is http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/. They have multiple servers in different locations.
Thanks!
"Your score is 16 milliseconds
in auditory processing speed"
Actually, the lowest duration that you could get two distinct frequencies in the 800 Hz - 1000 Hz range would be 2*2/800 s (Nyquist Theorem). That's 5 milliseconds. And it would take a human a long time to train to that speed. 10 ms is probably as fast as anyone's motivated to go.
It's true that you can train your brain back to a high speed. But that doesn't reverse the effects of aging, it just dedicates more of your brain's diminishing resources to that one task.
I can't even get the test to run at all. I think it's a software problem, nothing wrong with his ears.
*snrk*
Rent: $3600 (utilities included)
Food: $1200
Tuition and Fees: $5000
So for a round $10K a year, you get your basic Grad Student(TM). Pay them $50K and you will get a whole lot more than that. It has been my experience that there's a lot of distance from the bottom of the grad student pile to the top. Top students can accomplish two orders of magnitude more, and you don't have to pay them a whole lot, just give them a diploma at the end.
Further, they say that they are getting the data direct in their blog.
Also, look again at the blog: Canadian Venture Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange.
I'm sticking to GPL projects because I don't know about other ones as well. This is not meant to diss the BSD crowd.
Okay, but I also think that cataloging open source projects is kind of fruitless, since there are so many. The internet connects people with common interests. They develop projects. Some are more open than others. Still, if the project gets too rigidly hierarchical, someone will fork the code and head off in a different direction. Example: the different flavors of BSD.
Check out wccsquad for coop online play or coop maps.
And if he's faking, he won't be able to hide. Anybody know more details on narf2006?
I have set up cooperative play against bots using the Battlefield 2 server. Not as convenient as doing it in-game, but it can be done.
Just to repeat: I'll post the details here when I try it later today.
Just like the *AA are saying that we must have tighter and tighter Digital Restrictions Management, enforce the DMCA ever more stringently, and chase down those pirates, now Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon. "Our systems will never be secure enough until we have full TPM hardware support. This will be released as part of Windows Vista SP2 in our effort to improve security." Yep, we've found a killer way to make an awesome virus. Is the cure worse than the disease?
And then metamatic says people are free to make decisions based on technical merit rather than marketing
Hey, goldspider, and all you marketing people out there, listen to this. There will always be people who don't want to tweak their config files and recompile their kernel. So there's a market there for you to capitalize on. (e.g. Ubuntu, Suse, ...)
Dell could market to this audience, but they're the ones who need lots and lots of hand-holding, and that's not what Dell is good at. Dell is an assemble-and-distribute company. Their strengths are all in doing hardware. And the rest of us can probably handle installing the OS anyway. Win-win, as long as I don't have to pay the Microsoft tax.
On the other hand, Linux ... well, all those hackers are probably putting in backdoors all the time.
</sarcasm>
If you've never installed Debian or Gentoo or Red Hat and don't want to waste a CD-R (or take the time to burn it, or whatever...) most of the distributions (including Knoppix) can be run "as if" from a CD but actually from the hard drive.
Marc Herbert's Windows Install Page details how to install a new distro using Windows without a CD. He also explains that the instructions are meant to be used for any OS, for example, trying Gentoo on a Fedora Core system. It's worth looking at!
Think of how much more you'll know after you've installed all the distros out there!
Just one cell processor in the PS3.
Microsoft is telling us they will "revolutionize RSS" and "bring RSS to the mainstream". We all know what Bill's "embrace and extend" plans have done in the past.
And, I hate to be the one to point it out to you, Bill, but RSS is mainstream. All you'll do is fragment its marketplace.