I think their claim that MIT has "permanently damaged" their trademark is ridicolous. Did their sales go down because of that? They probably get more attention due to this (I have never heard of the comic).
And, by the way, there are things you can do in photo/image manipulation AND your new (derivative) work will be the manipulators copyright. Photo montages and p-shop/gimp jobs can be covered by this.
kNIGits: "I expect that the Linux community will have something to say about this article; I welcome comments and constructive criticism. Flames will be automatically sent to the Windows equivalent of/dev/null, once I find where that actually is."
Try to pipe it to the NUL: device (an old DOS trick)
I worked at phone support for a local ISP. There was one summer where it was very slow (it went very up&down in intensity) -- it was all good weather, and no-one bothered to troubleshoot their Internet in the evenings.
A lot of the other guys there played Starcraft. It is not that I'm not interested in games -- I'm just a little weary of getting sucked into a big time-waster... I know myself, and I was caught by Starcraft later...
Anyways -- I spent that free time waiting learning things instead. I tried to learn both Emacs and vi at that time. I actually started with Emacs, but gave up quite soon, and threw myself over vi instead. And boy, am I grateful for that now!
I'd love to see a similar device for the c64 (but I can run c64 games on my laptop...) with a built in joystick, and perhaps a ramdisk... or 5 1/4 floppy?
When are we going to see a "full" laptop with this form factor? Perhaps a little larger due to a battery (and skip that CD-rom). Then one connects monitor/goggles and a keyboard (if needed) w/ touchpad, to work on the plane...
I actually think he's got some point, even though it is too early to bash TransMeta (and Linus).
Since the Crusoe architecture is so much software, wouldn't that be something that could be OS:ed? (and perhaps it may be) It would still just run on Crusoe (but perhaps Crusoe could be more easily reverse engineered then, and then the sharks jumps in).
Isn't this somewhat like open sourced hardware drivers, that we are screaming for (not binaries, that we are also screaming for)
I have been wondering, Napster was created by a small Californian (?) firm. Why? How do they plan to make some $$$ out of it. Have they planned to make napster a commercial (licensed) program after the beta period (changing something in the servers, so the beta wouldnt be able to acces again?).
A few comments: I would like to see licenses concentrating on the data (content) rather than the whole database (the collection of data) - that would let you modify, it resell it etc -- much like the US census data or USGS geographic datasets.
This question is very interesting, especially for geographic data (for GIS -- Geographic Information Systems). The situation in the US is like a dream, where all the USGS data is distributed without any tough restrictions (a BSD-ish license for data). The datasets are very expensive to create and a valuable asset.
In comparison, the situation in most of Europe (for example UK or Sweden, where Im from) is that the mapping agencies are recovering most of the costs associated in creating digital geographic datasets. They are incredibly expensive!!! Thus the use of GIS is much more restricted (as well as development in the field) in this part of the world.
Another interesting point, the license which NASA licenses the new Landsat 7 digital imagery. They are a lot cheaper than before (a few hundred $$$) and the license is 100% non-restricted (even here a BSD-ish license). In comparison, earlier Landsats, and the current competitors are a magnitude more expensive, and in most cases they require you to license the USE of the data, not the 'ownership' of the data. That way you had to buy one license to use a satellite image for education/classes and another license to use the same image for an analysis... Landsat is run by the US government, so it is you tax payers that are paying for this give-away (they are not obviously recovering all the costs for the operation)
Nowadays there are people that have bought (and used) the new Landsat images and are making them available for download (for free!). Of course this is under great debate (imagine the competitors to Landsat).
I think the MD had a chance once, to have been the "next floppy" (as well as zip, ls120 etc) but they blew it. It has never been a data-format really. Losers.
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Now I want an overview of the BSODs!
I think their claim that MIT has "permanently damaged" their trademark is ridicolous. Did their sales go down because of that? They probably get more attention due to this (I have never heard of the comic).
And, by the way, there are things you can do in photo/image manipulation AND your new (derivative) work will be the manipulators copyright. Photo montages and p-shop/gimp jobs can be covered by this.
kNIGits: "I expect that the Linux community will have something to say about this article; I welcome comments and constructive criticism. Flames will be automatically sent to the Windows equivalent of /dev/null, once I find where that actually is."
Try to pipe it to the NUL: device (an old DOS trick)
Well,
I worked at phone support for a local ISP. There was one summer where it was very slow (it went very up&down in intensity) -- it was all good weather, and no-one bothered to troubleshoot their Internet in the evenings.
A lot of the other guys there played Starcraft. It is not that I'm not interested in games -- I'm just a little weary of getting sucked into a big time-waster... I know myself, and I was caught by Starcraft later...
Anyways -- I spent that free time waiting learning things instead. I tried to learn both Emacs and vi at that time. I actually started with Emacs, but gave up quite soon, and threw myself over vi instead. And boy, am I grateful for that now!
I'd love to see a similar device for the c64 (but I can run c64 games on my laptop...) with a built in joystick, and perhaps a ramdisk... or 5 1/4 floppy?
When are we going to see a "full" laptop with this form factor? Perhaps a little larger due to a battery (and skip that CD-rom). Then one connects monitor/goggles and a keyboard (if needed) w/ touchpad, to work on the plane...
Well, I don't think you really have to worry. After all Kevin is the guy behind Bochs, right (ported to a wide range of platforms).
Hmmm....
I actually think he's got some point, even though it is too early to bash TransMeta (and Linus).
Since the Crusoe architecture is so much software, wouldn't that be something that could be OS:ed? (and perhaps it may be) It would still just run on Crusoe (but perhaps Crusoe could be more easily reverse engineered then, and then the sharks jumps in).
Isn't this somewhat like open sourced hardware drivers, that we are screaming for (not binaries, that we are also screaming for)
I have been wondering, Napster was created by a small Californian (?) firm. Why? How do they plan to make some $$$ out of it. Have they planned to make napster a commercial (licensed) program after the beta period (changing something in the servers, so the beta wouldnt be able to acces again?).
Isnt rosewood an endangered/rare species of exotic wood... (It might actually be a multitude of species)
Object Desktop is a kit of utilities (and toys) that Stardock sells. Windowblinds (the skin/theme program) is a part of Object Desktop
A few comments:
I would like to see licenses concentrating on the data (content) rather than the whole database (the collection of data) - that would let you modify, it resell it etc -- much like the US census data or USGS geographic datasets.
This question is very interesting, especially for geographic data (for GIS -- Geographic Information Systems). The situation in the US is like a dream, where all the USGS data is distributed without any tough restrictions (a BSD-ish license for data). The datasets are very expensive to create and a valuable asset.
In comparison, the situation in most of Europe (for example UK or Sweden, where Im from) is that the mapping agencies are recovering most of the costs associated in creating digital geographic datasets. They are incredibly expensive!!! Thus the use of GIS is much more restricted (as well as development in the field) in this part of the world.
Another interesting point, the license which NASA licenses the new Landsat 7 digital imagery. They are a lot cheaper than before (a few hundred $$$) and the license is 100% non-restricted (even here a BSD-ish license). In comparison, earlier Landsats, and the current competitors are a magnitude more expensive, and in most cases they require you to license the USE of the data, not the 'ownership' of the data. That way you had to buy one license to use a satellite image for education/classes and another license to use the same image for an analysis... Landsat is run by the US government, so it is you tax payers that are paying for this give-away (they are not obviously recovering all the costs for the operation)
Nowadays there are people that have bought (and used) the new Landsat images and are making them available for download (for free!). Of course this is under great debate (imagine the competitors to Landsat).
So... More talk about data and databases!
I think the MD had a chance once, to have been the "next floppy" (as well as zip, ls120 etc) but they blew it. It has never been a data-format really. Losers.