I can see this coming to America and watching all the overweight people fail their DEX checks, run off to lawyers, and sue it into the ground, ruining it for the rest of us. If you can't do the run/hop to get on, or the hop/run to get off, then go for a walk, you obviously need one.
Extending the hand rails a ways past the moving mat on either end makes the transitions VERY easy to do even for a total clutz. From the pic I can't tell if they knew that or not.
He's just about right, isn't that about the time PDF and Flash happened? Both of which are far better then HTML/Javascript for content.
Just look at how many sites are an index.html that's just gluing together a pile of Flash and PDF from that point on. Anything else is just a pile of php/asp/cfm as a hacked frontend to SQL - just like Slashdot.
Javascript is great for popups, and Java is great if you want to write a version of the code per browser version, but Flash and PDF have won the battle.
Even Google figured this out, 90% of the stuff I search for ends up being.pdf now days.
Oh look *shuffles* it's the economy. Oh look *hides things* it's just a slowdown. Don't look behind the curtain.
No, it's not. This happens in every industry, over and over and over - well, make that once per industry.
First there is something new, then there are thousands of companies that do it, and then there are 3. How many car companies, oil companies, trucking companies, railroad companies were there in the beginning, thousands of them. And how many now?
Yeap, TCP/IP won, CPU's are all fast, the NT/Linux/OSX kernels differ by barely a function call. Only Nvidia and ATI remain. Remember when a graphics card review had 20 different companies, and they weren't almost identical?
IT is a cost you pick one vendor, and put it on everything in the company. If you're smart you pick the same thing as your partners/customers use. No more running 10 different systems because that costs more. If your secretary has a faster CPU then your competitors secretary it doesn't matter, one company just paid too much.
Intel won, HP/Sun/SGI/Alpha lost. Oracle won. Windows won a long time ago, if we're lucky GNU will overtake so noone will ever have to pay people to write software again. The middleware battle is still going, but it will be over if Oracle gets PeopleSoft.
Back in the day when you needed something shipped, you got to pick between a truck or a train or a million small companies. Now everything is in the standard shipping container, and all you do is bid it out. Guess how many companies there are now, oh and it's a heck of alot cheaper too.
Java is rapidly winning too, not because it's any different then any other language but because it's so dumbed down everyone can learn it in an hour so you can bid the work out to high school grads in India - it's cheaper stupid.
Look around, noone is willing to buy from the guy with less then 50% market share anymore, so if that isn't your company, you better keep that resume at the ready and just pray you get acquired instead of killed.
2.3B is probably a very lowball estimate based just on what they can see with all the P2P snooping software - if you think you're anonymous you're an idiot.
While us Americans are chuckling and wondering why anyone would want this, as many posts are showing...
In Japan is is absolutely critical for every teenage girl to have exactly the same stuff as every other, or else she faces some rather severe social consequences. It's no secret that these girls/sheep run the Japanese economy.
So once sales of product-X reaches some critical mass all the girls phones can be programmed to detect it and keep up by ordering the product immediately.
In all seriousness, this will relive the stress of keeping up for many girls, and make their lives a bit better.
[chimes.mp3] You have forty [agrivating pause] three new bills.
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Wow, had it not been for the link inside that article I wouldn't have known SARS had hit the US at all (sarcasm). 404 total cases (insert joke here). The media has suppressed all information about any US-based cases - even Google news can't find a single story about US infections. Impressive censorship for a free country.
Of course by now we all know SARS only active when it's cold, so this coming winter should be interesting... but meanwhile dozens of stories are running about SARS being wiped out completely.
Considering a PC now costs as much at Walmart as a speeding ticket costs.... and people aren't exactly driving the speed limit...
Even if you could blow up the computer remotely, they would just go buy another and fire up the P2P again. So he's an idiot, not because he's wrong to protect artists (the RIAA is evil, not the artists folks!), but because it wouldn't stop anyone.
But, seriously, you shouldn't ask this kind of question while giving http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/ as your URL, knowing that Adam Beberg wrote a paper about Open Source licences for IBM, and that Mithral inc. is working on a product named Cosm, wich is competing against Plan9.
*laughs* OK, like I don't know who posted that one. And you know as well as I do that Cosm sits on top of the OS, try and keep up.
And for the people that wonder, the concern is not about being able to use it in non-open projects, the concern is conflicts with _other_ open licenses.
The OSI world desperately needs license portability.
Sorry, but the fact is if you use GPL code in other code in any way you are infected. It works EXACTLY the same way that seeing Microsoft's code would then infect you. Many employment contracts now have statements about not using GPL'd code in your work.
The result is different, with GPL you can't make a living off your work, and with Microsoft they sue you. But make no mistake both are equally bad.
And no, it wasn't a troll, I actually do need to know if the license is viral or not, but looks like noone will answer that question now will they.
And Ford is not alone, many economists predict that pensions will eventually bankrupt most if not all of the long-unionized undustrial businesses in this country.
And second, Ford has access to all the same technology the students used, but the American public would never buy it. Heavy is seen as safe, and low fuel economy is a status symbol. It's not Ford's fault the American education level rates up with 3rd world nations - they just sell what the public wants.
But fear not, the Japanese companies ARE using the technology and are going to kick Ford's ass soon enough, just like last time.
But the floppy disk driver NEEDS free access to every users process memory space.
And I dont wanna impliment anything more then the supervisor bit of the 1000+ pages of memory and security protections intel chips have, *whaaaaaaaaaaaa*
Linux and Windows arent "bad" they are just profoundly LAZY. Microkernels and doing everything right is way too much work. OK, wait, they are kinda crap becasue there is no memory protection aren't they.
Dunno where you've been, but everyone I know that still has a job is already being forced to work 12 hour days because employers know they replace an anyone who wont in about 30 seconds. So their quality of life is absolute crap.
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G5 compared to Itanium and Opteron as soon as someone actually writes a G5 compiler, news at 11:00.
Benchmarking a system thats not out yet with unoptimized code with compilers written for systems from 3 years ago, old news.
Good thing we have some more bogus benchmarks, it's a slow nerdy news day.
I can see this coming to America and watching all the overweight people fail their DEX checks, run off to lawyers, and sue it into the ground, ruining it for the rest of us. If you can't do the run/hop to get on, or the hop/run to get off, then go for a walk, you obviously need one.
Extending the hand rails a ways past the moving mat on either end makes the transitions VERY easy to do even for a total clutz. From the pic I can't tell if they knew that or not.
He's just about right, isn't that about the time PDF and Flash happened? Both of which are far better then HTML/Javascript for content.
.pdf now days.
Just look at how many sites are an index.html that's just gluing together a pile of Flash and PDF from that point on. Anything else is just a pile of php/asp/cfm as a hacked frontend to SQL - just like Slashdot.
Javascript is great for popups, and Java is great if you want to write a version of the code per browser version, but Flash and PDF have won the battle.
Even Google figured this out, 90% of the stuff I search for ends up being
It's good to see that the EFF is focusing on getting them to create a way to pay people, rather then the usual P2P chant of making the theft legal.
Apple has it right, people will pay if there is a way to do so, otherwise they WILL just steal stuff.
Oh look *shuffles* it's the economy. Oh look *hides things* it's just a slowdown. Don't look behind the curtain.
No, it's not. This happens in every industry, over and over and over - well, make that once per industry.
First there is something new, then there are thousands of companies that do it, and then there are 3. How many car companies, oil companies, trucking companies, railroad companies were there in the beginning, thousands of them. And how many now?
Yeap, TCP/IP won, CPU's are all fast, the NT/Linux/OSX kernels differ by barely a function call. Only Nvidia and ATI remain. Remember when a graphics card review had 20 different companies, and they weren't almost identical?
IT is a cost you pick one vendor, and put it on everything in the company. If you're smart you pick the same thing as your partners/customers use. No more running 10 different systems because that costs more. If your secretary has a faster CPU then your competitors secretary it doesn't matter, one company just paid too much.
Intel won, HP/Sun/SGI/Alpha lost. Oracle won. Windows won a long time ago, if we're lucky GNU will overtake so noone will ever have to pay people to write software again. The middleware battle is still going, but it will be over if Oracle gets PeopleSoft.
Back in the day when you needed something shipped, you got to pick between a truck or a train or a million small companies. Now everything is in the standard shipping container, and all you do is bid it out. Guess how many companies there are now, oh and it's a heck of alot cheaper too.
Java is rapidly winning too, not because it's any different then any other language but because it's so dumbed down everyone can learn it in an hour so you can bid the work out to high school grads in India - it's cheaper stupid.
Look around, noone is willing to buy from the guy with less then 50% market share anymore, so if that isn't your company, you better keep that resume at the ready and just pray you get acquired instead of killed.
Good lord man, that's not even funny in the Linux reality distortion field.
Scottish, not british.
"150,000 signatures" ... "2000 company owners"
But how much did you PAY the politicians to vote the way you want them to. Yea... I thought so...
Geeks just don't get it.
Given that this was in California, the drug me state... I wonder if all of the students have been put on Ritalin yet.
Think of the poor starving children in Africa that can't afford their Ritalin, running around and playing like... kids.
Since it was a chess computer, I'd say it could probably do about 0.000 FLOPS.
"NFS file locking"
After all these years, someone finally made this work? INCONCEIVABLE!
2.3B is probably a very lowball estimate based just on what they can see with all the P2P snooping software - if you think you're anonymous you're an idiot.
No, 2.3B is very conservative I'm sure.
While us Americans are chuckling and wondering why anyone would want this, as many posts are showing...
In Japan is is absolutely critical for every teenage girl to have exactly the same stuff as every other, or else she faces some rather severe social consequences. It's no secret that these girls/sheep run the Japanese economy.
So once sales of product-X reaches some critical mass all the girls phones can be programmed to detect it and keep up by ordering the product immediately.
In all seriousness, this will relive the stress of keeping up for many girls, and make their lives a bit better.
[chimes.mp3] You have forty [agrivating pause] three new bills.
Wow, had it not been for the link inside that article I wouldn't have known SARS had hit the US at all (sarcasm). 404 total cases (insert joke here). The media has suppressed all information about any US-based cases - even Google news can't find a single story about US infections. Impressive censorship for a free country.
Of course by now we all know SARS only active when it's cold, so this coming winter should be interesting... but meanwhile dozens of stories are running about SARS being wiped out completely.
Considering a PC now costs as much at Walmart as a speeding ticket costs.... and people aren't exactly driving the speed limit...
Even if you could blow up the computer remotely, they would just go buy another and fire up the P2P again. So he's an idiot, not because he's wrong to protect artists (the RIAA is evil, not the artists folks!), but because it wouldn't stop anyone.
But, seriously, you shouldn't ask this kind of question while giving http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/ as your URL, knowing that Adam Beberg wrote a paper about Open Source licences for IBM, and that Mithral inc. is working on a product named Cosm, wich is competing against Plan9.
*laughs* OK, like I don't know who posted that one. And you know as well as I do that Cosm sits on top of the OS, try and keep up.
Simple enough. Thanks.
And for the people that wonder, the concern is not about being able to use it in non-open projects, the concern is conflicts with _other_ open licenses.
The OSI world desperately needs license portability.
Sorry, but the fact is if you use GPL code in other code in any way you are infected. It works EXACTLY the same way that seeing Microsoft's code would then infect you. Many employment contracts now have statements about not using GPL'd code in your work.
The result is different, with GPL you can't make a living off your work, and with Microsoft they sue you. But make no mistake both are equally bad.
And no, it wasn't a troll, I actually do need to know if the license is viral or not, but looks like noone will answer that question now will they.
OK, IANAL, so someone wanna just tell us all if this is a viral like GPL or non-viral like BSD license?
If it's one of the viral types I don't want to accidently look at any of the code for obvious reasons.
"Ford's profit margin for the past twelve months is 1%; two of the last 4 quarters they've lost money."
No, they are losing money because they owe BILLIONS to the pension funds. You know, payments to union workers that don't even work for Ford anymore.
Pension Bomb
And Ford is not alone, many economists predict that pensions will eventually bankrupt most if not all of the long-unionized undustrial businesses in this country.
First the winning team doubled the fuel economy.
And second, Ford has access to all the same technology the students used, but the American public would never buy it. Heavy is seen as safe, and low fuel economy is a status symbol. It's not Ford's fault the American education level rates up with 3rd world nations - they just sell what the public wants.
But fear not, the Japanese companies ARE using the technology and are going to kick Ford's ass soon enough, just like last time.
But the floppy disk driver NEEDS free access to every users process memory space.
And I dont wanna impliment anything more then the supervisor bit of the 1000+ pages of memory and security protections intel chips have, *whaaaaaaaaaaaa*
Linux and Windows arent "bad" they are just profoundly LAZY. Microkernels and doing everything right is way too much work. OK, wait, they are kinda crap becasue there is no memory protection aren't they.
Slashdot, now with hourly SCO updates.
Dunno where you've been, but everyone I know that still has a job is already being forced to work 12 hour days because employers know they replace an anyone who wont in about 30 seconds. So their quality of life is absolute crap.