*Almost* is something that someone buying Sun does not want to consider. Almost is not good enough.
If you have an 8-node cluster, then running each node for 21 hours a day and staggering each node's scheduled downtime will provide 7 available nodes 100% of the time, provided that your UPS is good enough to weather any power outages caused by bad weather.
OK, maybe I was wrong. Linux and BSD operating systems may have value to users, especially in network environments, but some say the Linux distributions published in the first half of 2003, when used as desktop operating environments especially in a home environment, are free only to those whose time is worth nothing.
Most inexperienced home users don't feel a need to do most of what you listed. Many of the things you listed need a second computer; many families can afford only one. Many of the things you listed (receive and process e-mail, run web servers) are prohibited by typical acceptable use policies of residential Internet access providers. GUI programs can feel as easy as your text mode programs provided that they're made keyboard accessible. Most commercial PC games are made for inexperienced home users with one computer per household.
but in the end the political process will always revert to majority rule.
The people may control the republic through voting, but the broadcasters control the people to a large extent. TV and radio advertising paid for with campaign contributions from broadcasters seems exempt from FCC "equal time" regulation. MPAA movie studios own all major U.S. commercial broadcast networks except NBC. Get the picture?
Drug dealers don't care about the health of other people.
I have pharmacists in my family. Please don't knock the profession.
Bush invaded Iraq for Oil.
Are you sure? I seem to recall that the government had evidence that Iraq was getting ready to attack the United States. The forces in Iraq may not have found a smoking gun, but there was still enough evidence to warrant an invasion under the previous United Nations resolutions.
Communism is a oppressive dictatorship.
Perhaps as misimplemented by Joseph Stalin and his followers, but I've read that even Vladimir Lenin didn't like the direction the government was going under Stalin.
Why not - machines are cheap. Especially cheap machines (intel).
I can sell an optimized program for an existing machine for $40, or I can sell a faster computer plus a less-optimized program for $400. What is the customer more likely to buy?
Cocoa models undo like this: Do is a transaction. Undo is a compensating transaction that performs the inverse of do. Multiple undo/redo is a pair of stacks of such transactions.
If you help the developers to improve the document-view-controller structure and abstract changes to the document into transactions, you're one step closer to implementing undo.
Find a similarly diehard Pepsi fan, and each buy the other's soda for them. So both pay less than the mean rate
Unless the store's TOS forbids this. The store may not be able to enforce this on things like soda, but for anything electronic and more personalized to the user, enforcement becomes feasible.
Also unless the store catches on. See, if you swap soda for long enough, the store will think both people buy Pepsi and Coke equally.
More interestingly, is how are they going to deal with someone browsing a website anonymously, and then loggin into their account, and seeing a different price?
List most items' prices as $CALL until the user logs in.
Primarily because the wizard user has already paid for the creative elements of the development environment by purchasing the IDE.
The wizard will usually copy a library of boilerplate code into the generated program. This boilerplate code is copyrighted. The IDE's EULA specifies under what terms the boilerplate code is licensed for distribution.
then stick that in a library and charge for the library.
This is exactly what some IDE publishers are doing. The terms under which the wizard's library is licensed become more liberal as the customer pays the IDE publisher for more expensive versions of the IDE.
So what if "GNU General Public License and a couple others" of one version's EULA becomes "any license requiring publication of full or partial source code of derivative works" of the next, or worse yet "any license approved by the Open Source Initiative"?
And then you don't have to figure out if the number in brackets is actually the number of times it was mentioned or maybe makes up part of the title.
Pattern matching saves you there. Given knowledge of your favorite text processing language's regular expression syntax, it's trivial to make a regexp that matches only lines containing a positive integer in parentheses (that is, ([1-9][0-9]*)), and it's also trivial to extract and sort on that number.
The real worry I'd have is how someone will be able to get the stuff off of the media if the directory and interface standards change.
ATAPI (Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface) is a simple enough connection standard. Describe ATAPI in printed English and Esperanto in enough detail that a person skilled in the art of electronics could make an ATAPI device. Make a CD-ROM drive that connects via ATAPI. In printed English and Esperanto, describe how the drive was built, and include a hard copy of the Philips CD-ROM specification in both English and Esperanto.
The biggest problem from here would be how to bootstrap knowledge of the English or Esperanto language so that future people will know how to decipher the printed instructions for building reader devices. We don't know if Earth civilization will still readily understand Latin, English, French, German, Japanese, Esperanto, or any other language after 10,000 years.
So what if N64 doesn't play Compact Disc Digital Audio format recordings? By 1996, a CD player was in every household.
Likewise, a GameCube owner who wants DVD capability can pick up an Apex DVD player at Wal-Mart for $50, which isn't that much more than the price difference between the GCN and the Xbox. Having a separate DVD player has an advantage: you can use it on one tv and the console on the other when somebody else in the household is watching 12 straight hours of Meg Ryan movies.
[Microsoft] are beating the [Game]cube by a huge amount in North America and Europe.
Yeah, and the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is outselling Microsoft's handheld gaming platform, partly because Microsoft's platform 1. is too expensive per unit and 2. has controls that are ill-suited to action gaming.
today the RIAA supeonaed 70 8 year olds for reproducing other music they have heard off the radio.
Modulo some minor details (the NMPA, not the RIAA, manages musical works themselves), your joke isn't far from what has happened. Read Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs and weep.
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The Open Source Now fund predates the SCO case by at least a year if not more.
*Almost* is something that someone buying Sun does not want to consider. Almost is not good enough.
If you have an 8-node cluster, then running each node for 21 hours a day and staggering each node's scheduled downtime will provide 7 available nodes 100% of the time, provided that your UPS is good enough to weather any power outages caused by bad weather.
Please excuse us while we take the $313 million in box office revenues from "Finding Nemo,"
And use it to cover the losses on "Treasure Planet", which raked in only $38 million in the States.
I'm talking about a *headless* server that sits under my desk and serves the house's networking needs
OK, I get most of your point, but I wonder why most households households don't have such a headless server. Why is that?
OK, maybe I was wrong. Linux and BSD operating systems may have value to users, especially in network environments, but some say the Linux distributions published in the first half of 2003, when used as desktop operating environments especially in a home environment, are free only to those whose time is worth nothing.
Most inexperienced home users don't feel a need to do most of what you listed. Many of the things you listed need a second computer; many families can afford only one. Many of the things you listed (receive and process e-mail, run web servers) are prohibited by typical acceptable use policies of residential Internet access providers. GUI programs can feel as easy as your text mode programs provided that they're made keyboard accessible. Most commercial PC games are made for inexperienced home users with one computer per household.
but in the end the political process will always revert to majority rule.
The people may control the republic through voting, but the broadcasters control the people to a large extent. TV and radio advertising paid for with campaign contributions from broadcasters seems exempt from FCC "equal time" regulation. MPAA movie studios own all major U.S. commercial broadcast networks except NBC. Get the picture?
Drug dealers don't care about the health of other people.
I have pharmacists in my family. Please don't knock the profession.
Bush invaded Iraq for Oil.
Are you sure? I seem to recall that the government had evidence that Iraq was getting ready to attack the United States. The forces in Iraq may not have found a smoking gun, but there was still enough evidence to warrant an invasion under the previous United Nations resolutions.
Communism is a oppressive dictatorship.
Perhaps as misimplemented by Joseph Stalin and his followers, but I've read that even Vladimir Lenin didn't like the direction the government was going under Stalin.
Linux and FreeBSD are for free.
In other words, you confirm that your time is worth little to nothing.
Change two letters of "Delos" and you get Duloc, the analog of Disney theme parks from the anti-Disney allegorical film Shrek published by DreamWorks.
Perhaps Disney could license some biped robotics technology and create a walking talking puppet with a faux wood finish. See an artist's conception.
Mickey.
Mouse.
Mickey Mouse.
Disney.
The Walt Disney Company (NYSE:DIS) is a racket.
So sue me.
If you're only planning on staying in business for the next month, you'd better go with something optimized for a few years ago.
Exactly. I plan to work in video games, and a game can be no longer new after a couple months.
Why not - machines are cheap. Especially cheap machines (intel).
I can sell an optimized program for an existing machine for $40, or I can sell a faster computer plus a less-optimized program for $400. What is the customer more likely to buy?
Cocoa models undo like this: Do is a transaction. Undo is a compensating transaction that performs the inverse of do. Multiple undo/redo is a pair of stacks of such transactions.
If you help the developers to improve the document-view-controller structure and abstract changes to the document into transactions, you're one step closer to implementing undo.
Find a similarly diehard Pepsi fan, and each buy the other's soda for them. So both pay less than the mean rate
Unless the store's TOS forbids this. The store may not be able to enforce this on things like soda, but for anything electronic and more personalized to the user, enforcement becomes feasible.
Also unless the store catches on. See, if you swap soda for long enough, the store will think both people buy Pepsi and Coke equally.
Unpaid ad: Coke sucks; drink RC instead.
More interestingly, is how are they going to deal with someone browsing a website anonymously, and then loggin into their account, and seeing a different price?
List most items' prices as $CALL until the user logs in.
Perhaps something could be done with a floppy
The primary reason to boot off USB nowadays is that fewer and fewer new computers have floppy drives.
Primarily because the wizard user has already paid for the creative elements of the development environment by purchasing the IDE.
The wizard will usually copy a library of boilerplate code into the generated program. This boilerplate code is copyrighted. The IDE's EULA specifies under what terms the boilerplate code is licensed for distribution.
then stick that in a library and charge for the library.
This is exactly what some IDE publishers are doing. The terms under which the wizard's library is licensed become more liberal as the customer pays the IDE publisher for more expensive versions of the IDE.
Yes, GPL. But not every Free Software license.
So what if "GNU General Public License and a couple others" of one version's EULA becomes "any license requiring publication of full or partial source code of derivative works" of the next, or worse yet "any license approved by the Open Source Initiative"?
And then you don't have to figure out if the number in brackets is actually the number of times it was mentioned or maybe makes up part of the title.
Pattern matching saves you there. Given knowledge of your favorite text processing language's regular expression syntax, it's trivial to make a regexp that matches only lines containing a positive integer in parentheses (that is, ([1-9][0-9]*)), and it's also trivial to extract and sort on that number.
The real worry I'd have is how someone will be able to get the stuff off of the media if the directory and interface standards change.
ATAPI (Advanced Technology Attachment Packet Interface) is a simple enough connection standard. Describe ATAPI in printed English and Esperanto in enough detail that a person skilled in the art of electronics could make an ATAPI device. Make a CD-ROM drive that connects via ATAPI. In printed English and Esperanto, describe how the drive was built, and include a hard copy of the Philips CD-ROM specification in both English and Esperanto.
The biggest problem from here would be how to bootstrap knowledge of the English or Esperanto language so that future people will know how to decipher the printed instructions for building reader devices. We don't know if Earth civilization will still readily understand Latin, English, French, German, Japanese, Esperanto, or any other language after 10,000 years.
So what if N64 doesn't play Compact Disc Digital Audio format recordings? By 1996, a CD player was in every household.
Likewise, a GameCube owner who wants DVD capability can pick up an Apex DVD player at Wal-Mart for $50, which isn't that much more than the price difference between the GCN and the Xbox. Having a separate DVD player has an advantage: you can use it on one tv and the console on the other when somebody else in the household is watching 12 straight hours of Meg Ryan movies.
[Microsoft] are beating the [Game]cube by a huge amount in North America and Europe.
Yeah, and the Nintendo Game Boy Advance is outselling Microsoft's handheld gaming platform, partly because Microsoft's platform 1. is too expensive per unit and 2. has controls that are ill-suited to action gaming.
Microsoft needs an Xboy. Badly.
Tell me about it.
If you like jazz, and you have ten dollars a month, try emusic.com, which provides its downloads in a DRM-free MP3 format.
today the RIAA supeonaed 70 8 year olds for reproducing other music they have heard off the radio.
Modulo some minor details (the NMPA, not the RIAA, manages musical works themselves), your joke isn't far from what has happened. Read Bright Tunes v. Harrisongs and weep.