Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-27 Thread Dave Long
BTW, have you read Lexmark vs. Static Control? I mentioned it as an aside, because it's interesting, and because one of the rulings said something about fair use in software (I don't remember what, though :-). A similar situation held with the Vectrex game console, which wouldn't run

Re: [silk] Bussard on fusion power

2007-02-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 10:51:03AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote: This looks like an extremely interesting paper (it's the same guy who came up with the Bussard Ramjet idea). This has been discussed elsewhere, and appears highly implausible (and wildly convenient). 200 M$ is chump change in

Re: [silk] looking for hindi = english translators

2007-02-27 Thread Nishant Shah
Hi Ashok, I have been working as a freelance translator (Hindi - English) since quite some time now. If it does not have crazy deadlines, I am game for it. Let me know if you want me to send a sample of my work and resume and so on. cheers Nishant On 2/27/07, ashok _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [silk] Benford's global warming cure

2007-02-27 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 27 Feb 2007 7:25 am, Udhay Shankar N wrote: Benford's proposal involves suspending thousands of one-micron particles high in the stratosphere (approximately 82,000 feet above the Earth) to reflect solar radiation Hmm - a quick calculation tells me that thousands of particles is

Re: [silk] Benford's global warming cure

2007-02-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 07:28:10PM +0530, shiv sastry wrote: Hmm - a quick calculation tells me that thousands of particles is correct. In fact 19.635x10^23 thousand particles should give you a nice 1 micron thick layer all over earth 25 Km up. Encouraging jets to fly high and use

Re: [silk] Benford's global warming cure

2007-02-27 Thread Manar Hussain
Another background article and posted comments on much the topic: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/06/geo-engineering-in-vogue/

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-27 Thread Thaths
On 2/24/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: #include tangent.h While we are on the topic of Copyrights and Patents, what is the term on software Copyright? Is it the same Life + XX years (aka. Forever-minus-1) as in literary works? So, am I left alone in an echo-y silklist chanber listening

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-27 Thread Carey Lening
You're not -- I didn't see this earlier, as I sorta zoned out once the talk of code came back into the foreground ;) Software copyrights are the same as regular ol' literary copyrights Life of the Author + 70. Thank you Walt Disney. On 2/27/07, Thaths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/24/07,

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 08:32:23AM -0800, Thaths wrote: So, am I left alone in an echo-y silklist chanber listening to the sound of one hand clapping? Happens to me all the time. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org

Re: [silk] Silkmeet 2/21 (post Vint Cerf speech)

2007-02-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:46:38AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: I'm going to be terribly lame, and comment my own post. Perhaps it's going to make more sense now, perhaps not. If it doesn't, this conversation is perhaps not sufficiently intelligent, and I'll drop it. A lot of the original design

Re: [silk] contracts vs. copyright

2007-02-27 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 11:42 -0500, Carey Lening wrote: Software copyrights are the same as regular ol' literary copyrights Life of the Author + 70. or + 50 in many non USian parts of the world. -rishab