"Approximately 700 pounds in weight, the titles would tower 828 feet if you stacked them atop each other--almost as tall as the Empire State Building."
This means end to end, rather than back to back.
So, the maths are correct. Your interpretation is wrong..!:-O
It is unfortunate it wasn't Open source in the first place - it will be gone forever now. Considering the author has been so constrained by whatever he has signed that he can't even name the plaintiff, how likely do you think that it is that his new contract doesn't state, for example:
You have broken the law, and if you do not do the following we will sue:
* Cease and desist everything * Notify mirrors * etc
If do the following at any point we will sue:
* Not protect the source from being released to the public * Issue the source to the public * Mention our name * Release this agreement * etc
I used to work for a large bank, the largest investment bank in the world in fact. A couple of years ago they sent an internal memo around proclaiming that they had just lodged their first patent and were well proud of it. They said something like "we have another several hundred in the pipeline". I wrote an semi-anonymous email back to the global head of the division of IT where I work, basically saying that that he'd better be ready to reap the whirlwind once all the banks started realising that they could patent ridiculously simple concepts (like using a PDA with realtime updates to enhance the productivity of specialists on the floor of the exchange, which was we had apparently 'invented').
I never heard another thing about software patents and a few months go I left.
One bad thing about working in the States is the amount of holiday you get. In the UK for example, it is fairly standard to get 23 paid days off per year along with 10 paid 'bank' holidays. And if you are sick, you get paid. (Up to some limit, which is about 3 months...)
Having said that, we tend to work extremely long hours.
This sound likes spamgourmet.com only not as good.
What if someone has already chosen a particular mailinator.com combination you've already selected?
I use spamgourmet all the time, and it is fantastic. You set up an account like psychofox123@spamgourmet.com and decide where emails will be forwarded to. You can then create email address on the fly like slashdot.5.psychofox123@spamgourmet.com which will direct the first 5 messages towards your normal email box. It also does clever things like masking the from address if you reply to an incoming email. You can reset the number of messages allowable to particular alias at any time, and you can create a 'watch word' which will only allow new aliases to be created when they contain the watchword (to stop people just creating nonsense aliases for your account, after they realise you are using spamgourmet).
"Request a signature. Ask the cardholder to sign the card and provide current government identification, such as a driver's license or passport (if local law permits)."
So she certainly did _not_ do exactly what she was supposed to.
A lot of people here seem to be complaining about Google's implementation, and their treatment of old book as copyrighted, when they are clearly not.
If everyone who posted to slashdot proofed a few pages every now and again at Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreading project, things would be a lot better. Go on, you'll be making a much more important contribution to the world!
It's just a pity that Bill Thompson, who represents the BBC is such a fool.
Reference:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3334531.stm
He writes for example:
"Earlier this year I wrote that Google was becoming so powerful that it should be regulated by a new 'office of search engines.'"
I simply never read BBC News tech stories with his name on them anymore.
> Companies dealing in intellectual property have never before faced this level of onslaught of piracy and infringement.
You obviously haven't read the article. It is littered with examples of how companies have in fact dealt with "piracy" and "infringement" many times before in the past. Going back over a hundred years in fact.
Why link to astrobio.net in the article instead of the jpl? The jpl has the bandwidth to handle the load from slashdot etc, it appears astrobio.net does not..
I wonder if its been confirmed that the bug is in Microsoft produced code. I seem to recall that a (large?) portion of IE was originally NCSA Mosaic code. Wouldn't it be amusing if, after all the self-righteousness, it turned out to be (to some extent) not their fault...
The reason its so 'easy' to hit the 46cm^2 target is that the beam has already diverged by the time it hits the moons surface.
Quoted from the article you reference: "At the Moon's surface the beam is roughly four miles wide. Scientists liken the task of aiming the beam to using a rifle to hit a moving dime two miles away. "
It may have 'more flexible' licensing, however it is non-free:
'Jess can be licensed for commercial use, and is available for academic use.'
This is not a problem per-se, I'm just a little surprised that this article is nothing more than an advertisement for a book on a non-free, commercial piece of software...
In short -
1) An electrical signal can travel close to the speed of light (of the order of 60%)
2) The electrons themselve can have a slow 'drift velocity'. Its like this. Imagine a tube full of marbles. When I push one in one end, a marble (almost instantly) pops out the other end. That is the electrical signal. Each individual marble moves only one 'space' along at a time.
I'd welcome someone who could provide a more detailed description...
Whilst I agree with you in principle, it is hardly logical to argue 'some guy try once and and it didn't work, so it should never be attempted again...'
4. Dumping binary objects leads to a JVM-specific repository. Again, using the Font example, storing the name and size would produce two values that could be used on any other JVM to produce a valid font (at least I think Java still uses default font values if it can't find the requested one?). Whereas, dumping an actual Font object results in the storing of the specific implementation of the object used. This means that if the user upgrades their JVM to a more recent version (e.g. JDK1.3 to JDK1.4), all their previously stored preferences may be unreadable.
If there were the case, this would be a significant argument against using Java serilization in general... Fortunately, Sun take great pains to make serializable objects portable between JVM implementations.
Slashdot Mirror
If you read and clicked through the article....
:-O
You would see at
http://tinyurl.com/bfj8v
"Approximately 700 pounds in weight, the titles would tower 828 feet if you stacked them atop each other--almost as tall as the Empire State Building."
This means end to end, rather than back to back.
So, the maths are correct. Your interpretation is wrong..!
It is unfortunate it wasn't Open source in the first place - it will be gone forever now. Considering the author has been so constrained by whatever he has signed that he can't even name the plaintiff, how likely do you think that it is that his new contract doesn't state, for example:
You have broken the law, and if you do not do the following we will sue:
* Cease and desist everything
* Notify mirrors
* etc
If do the following at any point we will sue:
* Not protect the source from being released to the public
* Issue the source to the public
* Mention our name
* Release this agreement
* etc
Last time I checked, copyright certainly does not last in perpetuity...
I used to work for a large bank, the largest investment bank in the world in fact. A couple of years ago they sent an internal memo around proclaiming that they had just lodged their first patent and were well proud of it. They said something like "we have another several hundred in the pipeline". I wrote an semi-anonymous email back to the global head of the division of IT where I work, basically saying that that he'd better be ready to reap the whirlwind once all the banks started realising that they could patent ridiculously simple concepts (like using a PDA with realtime updates to enhance the productivity of specialists on the floor of the exchange, which was we had apparently 'invented').
I never heard another thing about software patents and a few months go I left.
One bad thing about working in the States is the amount of holiday you get. In the UK for example, it is fairly standard to get 23 paid days off per year along with 10 paid 'bank' holidays. And if you are sick, you get paid. (Up to some limit, which is about 3 months...) Having said that, we tend to work extremely long hours.
There are many gameboy emulators out there, written in C, and fairly easy to port with a little effort. It has not been written from scratch.
The BBC does not accept advertising.
Period.
I use spamgourmet all the time, and it is fantastic. You set up an account like psychofox123@spamgourmet.com and decide where emails will be forwarded to. You can then create email address on the fly like slashdot.5.psychofox123@spamgourmet.com which will direct the first 5 messages towards your normal email box. It also does clever things like masking the from address if you reply to an incoming email. You can reset the number of messages allowable to particular alias at any time, and you can create a 'watch word' which will only allow new aliases to be created when they contain the watchword (to stop people just creating nonsense aliases for your account, after they realise you are using spamgourmet).
Check it out!
Curious. That's pretty much what they did at Edinburgh University, Scotland, 5 years ago...
"Request a signature. Ask the cardholder to sign the card and provide current government identification, such as a driver's license or passport (if local law permits)."
So she certainly did _not_ do exactly what she was supposed to.
If everyone who posted to slashdot proofed a few pages every now and again at Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreading project, things would be a lot better. Go on, you'll be making a much more important contribution to the world!
http://www.pgdp.net
P.S., I'm not a hypocrite. I've done 4 pages today.
Oops. Here is an actual link:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3334531.stm
It's just a pity that Bill Thompson, who represents the BBC is such a fool. Reference: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3334531.stm He writes for example: "Earlier this year I wrote that Google was becoming so powerful that it should be regulated by a new 'office of search engines.'" I simply never read BBC News tech stories with his name on them anymore.
> But this is a wonderful example
> of how intertwined legal & software
> issues can become.
I think this would be more appropriately worded:
> But this is a frightening example
> of how intertwined legal & software
> issues can become.
> Companies dealing in intellectual property have never before faced this level of onslaught of piracy and infringement.
You obviously haven't read the article. It is littered with examples of how companies have in fact dealt with "piracy" and "infringement" many times before in the past. Going back over a hundred years in fact.
Mustard gas
Corporate site for Fluorinert
Why link to astrobio.net in the article instead of the jpl? The jpl has the bandwidth to handle the load from slashdot etc, it appears astrobio.net does not..
I wonder if its been confirmed that the bug is in Microsoft produced code. I seem to recall that a (large?) portion of IE was originally NCSA Mosaic code. Wouldn't it be amusing if, after all the self-righteousness, it turned out to be (to some extent) not their fault...
According to the Slashdot summary, it is apparently possible to destroy energy!!! Issac Newton may turn in his grave...
The reason its so 'easy' to hit the 46cm^2 target is that the beam has already diverged by the time it hits the moons surface.
Quoted from the article you reference:
"At the Moon's surface the beam is roughly four miles wide. Scientists liken the task of aiming the beam to using a rifle to hit a moving dime two miles away. "
It may have 'more flexible' licensing, however it is non-free: 'Jess can be licensed for commercial use, and is available for academic use.' This is not a problem per-se, I'm just a little surprised that this article is nothing more than an advertisement for a book on a non-free, commercial piece of software...
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electri c/ohmmic.html
No.
In short -
1) An electrical signal can travel close to the speed of light (of the order of 60%)
2) The electrons themselve can have a slow 'drift velocity'. Its like this. Imagine a tube full of marbles. When I push one in one end, a marble (almost instantly) pops out the other end. That is the electrical signal. Each individual marble moves only one 'space' along at a time.
I'd welcome someone who could provide a more detailed description...
Whilst I agree with you in principle, it is hardly logical to argue 'some guy try once and and it didn't work, so it should never be attempted again...'
If there were the case, this would be a significant argument against using Java serilization in general... Fortunately, Sun take great pains to make serializable objects portable between JVM implementations.
Read up on the serialVersionUID