A patent will not stop China (who makes everything) from making copies of your product, because it's not the USA. A Patent will not stop Microsoft from using your product, because they can pay more to lawyers then you can - which is how the "legal system" works.
Noone cares about your major anymore, as long as you can get the connections to get a job in investment banking. No other job really appeals to American college students anymore. But then with culture being all about the bling, what do you really expect of them?
This may be biased, my sample set is only Stanford undergrads (I feel old), 3/4 of which would not consider any other job, because the pay is too low. The idea of having to work more then 5 years making a mil a year before they retire is completely absurd to them.
Yes, undergrad/masters college is 100% about the connections and the salary, duh. If you want to talk about research and education, then you're dealing in the world of PhDs and faculty - which has nothing to do with the undergrads/masters world.
As a computer scientist I'd like to welcome you all to the near-40 year old world of virtual machines, hypervisors, and extreme flexibility. Tho I've only been using them personally for ~20 years.
Server CPU's have for all practical purposes always had VMs. Intel resisted adding the needed hardware support to it's consumer chips for a very very long time, to avoid exactly what we see happening now.
And yes, VMware rocks harder then a fox with socks.
GCC is an application, not a library, that mean noone cares what the source code license is because IT DOES NOT MATTER. If all the Web 2.0 BB has shown us anything, it's that the source code license has no effect on anyone anymore. Do developers care what the license on the LAMP stack is? Of course not.
The GPLv3 guys have just taken their obsession with dark lord Gates to the point where they are looking completely nuts, even to us open source advocates. They are trying hard to fork everything because of it.
Can Microsoft use GCC under v2? Yes. Can Microsoft use GCC under v3? Yes. OH NO!!!
As with a number of recent Apple-related security discoveries, the author, InfoSec Sellout, is delaying reporting the vulnerability to Apple until after completing full testing of the worm.
If by fully testing you mean "auctioning it to the highest bidder" then yea.
You can't stop China (the US won't even try since they own our debt) so there is no real value to patents anymore.
That's it, the end. Make a product, China will rip it off and sell it for 1/2 the price. Make a web/software product and they will copy it. I've had one of my websites mirrored entirely, tweaked, and put up in China (for an open source product, so I don't know WTF the point was).
Patents would have some value if they were enforced, but they are not. Add to that the fact that less then 1% of patents are in any way valid to start, and the system is just silly. They do let large companies intimidate small companies, and easily put them out of business with lawyer costs, so the system lives on.
Shhhh, you're gonna disturb/. readers little fantasy of taking down the evil MS empire by making GPL'd code even more dangerous to people who want to keep their jobs.
To bad bait and switch doesn't work in the real world eh;)
Absolutely, I use GPL applications all the time, so does everyone else.
But people use BSD libraries - code - but not GPL libs because they probably cannot due to the GPL.
There is a profound difference between an app and code. GPL is fine for apps because when you're dealing with an app, the GPL isn't really saying anything about what you do with it. Google, Yahoo, and others are all built on GPL's apps, do they care? Does anyone? Not at all! But if Google went withing 1000 miles of GPL'd code, all hell would break loose.
People continue to avoid the GPL in favor of BSD and other types of code just like before. Nothing has changed, the GPL world is still cut off from everything else by ideology, GPL3 cits off even more in fact. Nothing to see except a 3-ring circus, move along.
Since humans destroyed most of the old ones. Now we have a new hit list. Bush is probably already planning to find WMD there. Having a new list also removes the ugly past from memory.
All part of the plan to make sure kids only have happy thoughts, never fail, and don't have anything to worry about when they are born with over $500k of debt thanks to the old people.
I'm also amazed anyone didn't know this was how things work, and that all posted ads are fake - either for this reason, or they have a friend already to hire. How could you be that oblivious? Of course there are many many thousands of workers unemployed here in the US, dumped by their companies when they hit 30 and wouldn't work 80 hour weeks anymore. And yet we need H1-B for something, wonder what that could be?
2 + 2 = wake up and see the corporate slave state you live in. You don't have to fight it, but at least don't be clueless.
I love how it took someone at Stanford to point out the idea of painting it white *laughs*
It will be a couple more days of work before they figure out to put a reflective cover slightly above the container, as even white paint is still very absorbent.
The iPhone is awesome. Everything my iBook has including WiFi for VoIP.
Too bad they partnered with AT&T so at minimum it's going to cost you 600(+tax) plus another $100/month at least. At $3,000 for a phone that won't even work in my house, or lab, or many other places because the monopoly AT&T has no reason to make it work - I live in silicon valley so even less reason AT&T should make anything work. AT&T can just go screw themselves and take Apple along with them.
When you can buy it without the completely useless AT&T plan, it will sell faster then they possibly make them for many years to come.
Poor Apple, gonna catch an STD getting screwed by a dirty whore like AT&T.
GPL is a closed community. Code cannot be allowed to leave because it's viral, so I cannot use any GPL code and neither can anyone else I have ever worked with. If you don't want others to use your code, why are you coding? You MUST dual license.
GPL only works for big stand-along software that's now a commodity and noone needs to reuse. But even then, BSD would be a much better option.
No, it wasn't. Linux developers spent all their time fighting about how cut&paste should work with a dozen different ways of doing it, up until about 2004:)
Don't worry, they are still fighting over a huge number of other things that just piss everyone off and make developers have to target each distribution separately.
*laughs* do you have any idea how OLD what Google calls map-reduce is? Well new to them I suppose, their oldest programmer is what, 25? Of course it's new!
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Actually that chart is sustained as well.
Oh my, 1 PFLOPS... that's not that big anymore. 4 years from now they should be talking 20+ PFLOPS at least.
I'm very interested in their bandwidth numbers and architecture, which the ydo not mention.
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A patent will not stop China (who makes everything) from making copies of your product, because it's not the USA.
A Patent will not stop Microsoft from using your product, because they can pay more to lawyers then you can - which is how the "legal system" works.
How are patents helping the inventors exactly?
Noone cares about your major anymore, as long as you can get the connections to get a job in investment banking. No other job really appeals to American college students anymore. But then with culture being all about the bling, what do you really expect of them?
This may be biased, my sample set is only Stanford undergrads (I feel old), 3/4 of which would not consider any other job, because the pay is too low. The idea of having to work more then 5 years making a mil a year before they retire is completely absurd to them.
Yes, undergrad/masters college is 100% about the connections and the salary, duh. If you want to talk about research and education, then you're dealing in the world of PhDs and faculty - which has nothing to do with the undergrads/masters world.
They look NOTHING alike, at all. Maybe with enough special effects?
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As a computer scientist I'd like to welcome you all to the near-40 year old world of virtual machines, hypervisors, and extreme flexibility. Tho I've only been using them personally for ~20 years.
Server CPU's have for all practical purposes always had VMs. Intel resisted adding the needed hardware support to it's consumer chips for a very very long time, to avoid exactly what we see happening now.
And yes, VMware rocks harder then a fox with socks.
I have plenty of choices. There is the 768k plan, the 1.5Mbit plan, the 3Mbit plan and the 6Mbit plan from AT&T.
GCC is an application, not a library, that mean noone cares what the source code license is because IT DOES NOT MATTER. If all the Web 2.0 BB has shown us anything, it's that the source code license has no effect on anyone anymore. Do developers care what the license on the LAMP stack is? Of course not.
The GPLv3 guys have just taken their obsession with dark lord Gates to the point where they are looking completely nuts, even to us open source advocates. They are trying hard to fork everything because of it.
Can Microsoft use GCC under v2? Yes.
Can Microsoft use GCC under v3? Yes. OH NO!!!
So why does anyone care? What a bunch of bull.
As with a number of recent Apple-related security discoveries, the author, InfoSec Sellout, is delaying reporting the vulnerability to Apple until after completing full testing of the worm.
If by fully testing you mean "auctioning it to the highest bidder" then yea.
You can't stop China (the US won't even try since they own our debt) so there is no real value to patents anymore.
That's it, the end. Make a product, China will rip it off and sell it for 1/2 the price. Make a web/software product and they will copy it. I've had one of my websites mirrored entirely, tweaked, and put up in China (for an open source product, so I don't know WTF the point was).
Patents would have some value if they were enforced, but they are not. Add to that the fact that less then 1% of patents are in any way valid to start, and the system is just silly. They do let large companies intimidate small companies, and easily put them out of business with lawyer costs, so the system lives on.
Evil monopolistic empire vs. evil all knowing empire. This is gonna be entertaining!
We lose either way of course. Capitalism rocks.
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Shhhh, you're gonna disturb /. readers little fantasy of taking down the evil MS empire by making GPL'd code even more dangerous to people who want to keep their jobs.
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To bad bait and switch doesn't work in the real world eh
Absolutely, I use GPL applications all the time, so does everyone else.
But people use BSD libraries - code - but not GPL libs because they probably cannot due to the GPL.
There is a profound difference between an app and code. GPL is fine for apps because when you're dealing with an app, the GPL isn't really saying anything about what you do with it. Google, Yahoo, and others are all built on GPL's apps, do they care? Does anyone? Not at all! But if Google went withing 1000 miles of GPL'd code, all hell would break loose.
People continue to avoid the GPL in favor of BSD and other types of code just like before. Nothing has changed, the GPL world is still cut off from everything else by ideology, GPL3 cits off even more in fact. Nothing to see except a 3-ring circus, move along.
Since humans destroyed most of the old ones. Now we have a new hit list. Bush is probably already planning to find WMD there. Having a new list also removes the ugly past from memory.
All part of the plan to make sure kids only have happy thoughts, never fail, and don't have anything to worry about when they are born with over $500k of debt thanks to the old people.
Double plus good.
$600 + $175 for 0-day termination and just use WiFi + VoIP once the proper "patches" are out.
The question really is, do you have to pay the first month $60 as well?
I'm also amazed anyone didn't know this was how things work, and that all posted ads are fake - either for this reason, or they have a friend already to hire. How could you be that oblivious? Of course there are many many thousands of workers unemployed here in the US, dumped by their companies when they hit 30 and wouldn't work 80 hour weeks anymore. And yet we need H1-B for something, wonder what that could be?
2 + 2 = wake up and see the corporate slave state you live in. You don't have to fight it, but at least don't be clueless.
I love how it took someone at Stanford to point out the idea of painting it white *laughs*
It will be a couple more days of work before they figure out to put a reflective cover slightly above the container, as even white paint is still very absorbent.
iPhone: $3,000 in 24 easy installments, after a 600$ down payment.
F' you AT&T!
The iPhone is awesome. Everything my iBook has including WiFi for VoIP.
Too bad they partnered with AT&T so at minimum it's going to cost you 600(+tax) plus another $100/month at least. At $3,000 for a phone that won't even work in my house, or lab, or many other places because the monopoly AT&T has no reason to make it work - I live in silicon valley so even less reason AT&T should make anything work. AT&T can just go screw themselves and take Apple along with them.
When you can buy it without the completely useless AT&T plan, it will sell faster then they possibly make them for many years to come.
Poor Apple, gonna catch an STD getting screwed by a dirty whore like AT&T.
You saved me the trouble of typing that.
GPL is a closed community. Code cannot be allowed to leave because it's viral, so I cannot use any GPL code and neither can anyone else I have ever worked with. If you don't want others to use your code, why are you coding? You MUST dual license.
GPL only works for big stand-along software that's now a commodity and noone needs to reuse. But even then, BSD would be a much better option.
So that must be the one we all need to buy, the Sempron. Megatasking might hurt someone and sounds like a war crime.
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Brilliant to market the new stuff only to weirdos
No, it wasn't. Linux developers spent all their time fighting about how cut&paste should work with a dozen different ways of doing it, up until about 2004 :)
Don't worry, they are still fighting over a huge number of other things that just piss everyone off and make developers have to target each distribution separately.
*laughs* do you have any idea how OLD what Google calls map-reduce is? Well new to them I suppose, their oldest programmer is what, 25? Of course it's new!