It is said at the web site that Academic Dissertations
Contentville offers you access to the only comprehensive catalogue of every doctoral dissertation within the U.S. in the last 100 years. After searching by subject and reviewing the abstract, you can order a copy of the dissertation. Dissertations written since 1997 are available for immediate electronic download. Dissertations written before 1997 are available in a printed format and will be shipped within five days.
So someone may have downloaded your thesis if it is after 1997.
Firstbrook also takes issue with Linux's most famous feature--the fact that it is free. "Our analysis says that the cost of the operating system is only 3 percent of the total cost of ownership of the server," he says.
Let's see, a distro cd containing the OS is around 3 bucks. If it is 3 percent of the total, that makes the total cost of ownership 100 bucks in all.
Perhaps they use RedHat, then that would only be 2000 dollars? for all servers!!
We all know that BGINAL!! But does he read the conclusion of law at all? In his comments today following the judge rulling, he said, "Two years ago I said that we would vigorously defend a principle that is critical to both consumers and the future of the high-tech industry -- the right of every company to innovate and improve its products. Today we move forward to protect this principle and maintain our commitment to innovation." - Microsoft Yes, that is right and fine with all but your company broke the antitrust law, man! Bill Gates thinks Microsoft has a very strong case in the appeal court. Is he going to tell the appeal court that Microsoft did not break the law or Microsoft broke the law but the remedy is not right?
Hmmm, at least it is still working. If for some reason you do not see this post, then something has changed. If something has changed, you may not see this post.
VA sucks, VA sucks, VA sucks...
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As Linux invades Microsoft's desktop OS turf, I expect complains like this to surface from Microsoft's once satisfied customers. Hell, no. They even come up with theories like this to mock us. The author obviously isn't familiar with open source or just beginning to learn about open source.
This is a bazaar. If there is a demand for good interface, somebody will eventually make it. Why? Because it is open source! Stupid. Anybody is free to create a good interface. You have the source code and you see everything. How can something this open and transparent to the kernel level be "skin deep"? If you want good interface, hack it, like Corel Linux. Oh, the author is talking about the end users and they don't know anything. That is because Microsoft failed them! As we progress in technology, everyone has to keep up. If you don't know how to use a cell phone, well, use your lazy brain and think. If it wasn't Microsoft that spoon-fed those end users, they might be making rockets to the moon already! Even as an end-user, you can't let technologies take control of you, you need to get hold of them, to use them wisely and make greater achievement.
I am also an alien, not the one from outer space but the one from another country. So, here is my 3 cents for the internet communities in US:
One major goal of DMCA is to protect many intellectual properties. That is great. However, the provisions against circumventing copy-protection technologies is not fair. Circumventing copy-protection technologies is itself an intellectual work and should be protected under the title. On the other hand, unless the copy-protection technologies are protected by patents or this title, they do not deserve to be protected as such. Some uses of circumventing copy-protection technologies besides to provide interoperability are to improvement performance and burden created by the slow and huge protection mechanisms or to simply detect malfunction copy-protection mechanism that may be used to expose the end user's privacy or any other rights of the end user. This may create a problem because there isn't (not sure) any provision that control the use of copy-protection technologies. (pause, hey/.! Is there anything in US law that control copy-protection technologies for copyrighted work? "Copy-protection technologies" here means a mechanism that prevent copying copyright work which may be an application of any encryption technology, but may be NOT! This term is referred to as the copyright protection systems under title 17 sec.1201. Anyway, I hope that you get my point.)
I have written that may crack CSS. The code is A16F1CA16641FD. That's it. However, you need my own "secret" algorithm to use the code. If you reverse-engineered my algorithm, I will sue your butt out.
You have a genuine Intel x86 chip running x86 software with hard instruction set. Then, you have "cool shoes" running very long instructed road with soft ware, morphing to be x86 compartible. How does that make it any faster than an intel chip ? Even Einstein cannot break the speed of light and Linus cannot break the software gates. Before I go any further towards off topic, all I want to say is, don't trust Transmeta! They make claims but show no real benchmark or real solid evidents. I felt pity for Linus after I watched the webcast.. what was he thinking, being manipulated by some corporates "bad guys" to play quake like a kid. Remember what the guy said? It was his show!! I bet they fixed the match, so that Linus will loose and makes Linux looks bad. Now, take a look at transmeta's website and see who are the bosses? Linus is nobody, an employee and a tool used by a startup company to attact Microsoft's attention. Oh yeah, Linux will run on the 400mhz chip and that's all it can do, forever doom in a rom chip. If you want real mobile solution, try the 700mhz solution that runs on Microsoft Windows!!! (Too bad this is just a joke and do not represent my view of the actual event.)
One thing about VLIW is it is different on both chips - the 400mhz and the 700mhz. It sorta points out that a cpu core instruction set does not matter anymore. As long as you have a good software morphing program, you can actually design a special instruction set that tailored to your specific needs, like just playing dvd, and still be compartible to any platform using software morphing technique. Right now transmeta has coded the morphing program for x86 compartibility only, which is the largest sector of the mobile computing market. That's another reason why they patented the software morphing technique and not disclosing anything about the VLIW
By the way, this is true too: "I [also] call this kind of thing a publicity attack. It's a blatant attempt by [CRYPTO-GRAM] to get some free publicity for the [article at/.]..., and to bother [/. readers to moderate down some comments like this one]. And [he critizes] this, again and again." Anyway, since the problems are so obvious as the author said, nobody is going to buy the nCipher's story.
yayaya, it is very fast and supports very real time bandwidth hungry applications. But what is it and why it is so fast? The truth can be explained clearly by my introduction of Internet 3: Internet 3 (I3) is the next next generation of internet with even more bandwidth and speed that can provide faster than light communication. It is so fast that Slashdotters can read the next topic even before Hemos put it up. Anybody wants I4 ?
The report is not about those in the community. It is about those out there. Specifically, the article is talking about the linux hysteria in those big corporate people who make decisions and investment without knowing what is free software. The real linux hysteria has existed and will continue to exist as it was in the linux community. If you truly believe in the course of open source or free software, you are in, else you are out. Furthermore, it can be implied that those people who don't know where they are may know exactly by next year.
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It is said at the web site that
Academic Dissertations
Contentville offers you access to the only comprehensive catalogue of every doctoral dissertation within the U.S. in the last 100 years. After searching by subject and reviewing the abstract, you can order a copy of the dissertation. Dissertations written since 1997 are available for immediate electronic download. Dissertations written before 1997 are available in a printed format and will be shipped within five days.
So someone may have downloaded your thesis if it is after 1997.
Firstbrook also takes issue with Linux's most famous feature--the fact that it is free. "Our analysis says that the cost of the operating system is only 3 percent of the total cost of ownership of the server," he says.
Let's see, a distro cd containing the OS is around 3 bucks. If it is 3 percent of the total, that makes the total cost of ownership 100 bucks in all.
Perhaps they use RedHat, then that would only be 2000 dollars? for all servers!!
We all know that BGINAL!! But does he read the conclusion of law at all? In his comments today following the judge rulling, he said, "Two years ago I said that we would vigorously defend a principle that is critical to both consumers and the future of the high-tech industry -- the right of every company to innovate and improve its products. Today we move forward to protect this principle and maintain our commitment to innovation." - Microsoft
Yes, that is right and fine with all but your company broke the antitrust law, man! Bill Gates thinks Microsoft has a very strong case in the appeal court. Is he going to tell the appeal court that Microsoft did not break the law or Microsoft broke the law but the remedy is not right?
VA sucks, VA sucks, VA sucks...
- ------------------------------ Apache/1.3.6 Server at linux362.dn.net Port 80
Hmmm, at least it is still working. If for some reason you do not see this post, then something has changed. If something has changed, you may not see this post.
VA sucks, VA sucks, VA sucks...
This is sucks, after making this post, I received the following:
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, malda@slashdot.org and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. -------------------------------------------------
As Linux invades Microsoft's desktop OS turf, I expect complains like this to surface from Microsoft's once satisfied customers. Hell, no. They even come up with theories like this to mock us. The author obviously isn't familiar with open source or just beginning to learn about open source.
This is a bazaar. If there is a demand for good interface, somebody will eventually make it. Why? Because it is open source! Stupid. Anybody is free to create a good interface. You have the source code and you see everything. How can something this open and transparent to the kernel level be "skin deep"? If you want good interface, hack it, like Corel Linux. Oh, the author is talking about the end users and they don't know anything. That is because Microsoft failed them! As we progress in technology, everyone has to keep up. If you don't know how to use a cell phone, well, use your lazy brain and think. If it wasn't Microsoft that spoon-fed those end users, they might be making rockets to the moon already! Even as an end-user, you can't let technologies take control of you, you need to get hold of them, to use them wisely and make greater achievement.
I am also an alien, not the one from outer space but the one from another country. So, here is my 3 cents for the internet communities in US:
/.! Is there anything in US law that control copy-protection technologies for copyrighted work? "Copy-protection technologies" here means a mechanism that prevent copying copyright work which may be an application of any encryption technology, but may be NOT! This term is referred to as the copyright protection systems under title 17 sec.1201. Anyway, I hope that you get my point.)
One major goal of DMCA is to protect many intellectual properties. That is great. However, the provisions against circumventing copy-protection technologies is not fair. Circumventing copy-protection technologies is itself an intellectual work and should be protected under the title. On the other hand, unless the copy-protection technologies are protected by patents or this title, they do not deserve to be protected as such. Some uses of circumventing copy-protection technologies besides to provide interoperability are to improvement performance and burden created by the slow and huge protection mechanisms or to simply detect malfunction copy-protection mechanism that may be used to expose the end user's privacy or any other rights of the end user. This may create a problem because there isn't (not sure) any provision that control the use of copy-protection technologies. (pause, hey
I have written that may crack CSS. The code is A16F1CA16641FD. That's it. However, you need my own "secret" algorithm to use the code. If you reverse-engineered my algorithm, I will sue your butt out.
The case in New York isn't about trade secret. MPAA is using the new Digital Millennium Copyright Act against DeCSS.
You have a genuine Intel x86 chip running x86 software with hard instruction set. Then, you have "cool shoes" running very long instructed road with soft ware, morphing to be x86 compartible. How does that make it any faster than an intel chip ? Even Einstein cannot break the speed of light and Linus cannot break the software gates. Before I go any further towards off topic, all I want to say is, don't trust Transmeta! They make claims but show no real benchmark or real solid evidents. I felt pity for Linus after I watched the webcast.. what was he thinking, being manipulated by some corporates "bad guys" to play quake like a kid. Remember what the guy said? It was his show!! I bet they fixed the match, so that Linus will loose and makes Linux looks bad. Now, take a look at transmeta's website and see who are the bosses? Linus is nobody, an employee and a tool used by a startup company to attact Microsoft's attention. Oh yeah, Linux will run on the 400mhz chip and that's all it can do, forever doom in a rom chip. If you want real mobile solution, try the 700mhz solution that runs on Microsoft Windows!!! (Too bad this is just a joke and do not represent my view of the actual event.)
One thing about VLIW is it is different on both chips - the 400mhz and the 700mhz. It sorta points out that a cpu core instruction set does not matter anymore. As long as you have a good software morphing program, you can actually design a special instruction set that tailored to your specific needs, like just playing dvd, and still be compartible to any platform using software morphing technique. Right now transmeta has coded the morphing program for x86 compartibility only, which is the largest sector of the mobile computing market. That's another reason why they patented the software morphing technique and not disclosing anything about the VLIW
By the way, this is true too: "I [also] call this kind of thing a publicity attack. It's a blatant attempt by [CRYPTO-GRAM] to get some free publicity for the [article at /.]..., and to bother [/. readers to moderate down some comments like this one]. And [he critizes] this, again and again." Anyway, since the problems are so obvious as the author said, nobody is going to buy the nCipher's story.
yayaya, it is very fast and supports very real time bandwidth hungry applications. But what is it and why it is so fast? The truth can be explained clearly by my introduction of Internet 3: Internet 3 (I3) is the next next generation of internet with even more bandwidth and speed that can provide faster than light communication. It is so fast that Slashdotters can read the next topic even before Hemos put it up. Anybody wants I4 ?
The report is not about those in the community. It is about those out there. Specifically, the article is talking about the linux hysteria in those big corporate people who make decisions and investment without knowing what is free software. The real linux hysteria has existed and will continue to exist as it was in the linux community. If you truly believe in the course of open source or free software, you are in, else you are out. Furthermore, it can be implied that those people who don't know where they are may know exactly by next year.