But those who would contribute to free software shouldn't be working for companies that won't let them. I know the company I work for is great about this.:-) And this was something I looked at before signing.
A small part...well..lets see...when your company spends about $5 billion per yr on R&D and 20% of that is on Linux (straight out of the previously quoted Linux Journal ad)....I think that is not a small part..but believe what you like. Only time will tell.
For those of you trying to make a quick buck. Find a good article, put a link, and put your comments in the submission with a lot of banner ads. i.e. "Check out this on cnn.com and my comments."
How about the industry becomes unprofitable because those in the hardware business (making chips...not selling a computer) are generally not making their cash in the services. I am a capitalist. I believe that companies should be able to make money. The Open Source model works so wll for software while companies can sell services while making less money on the software. Hardware does not work that way. While this does have its advantages to use the power of the open collaboration...it makes companies do the cheapest possible production (like RAM). Although it may help the quality of the design in the long run...it will not help the quality of the product or the stability of the company.
For example, Company X, Y and Z make these cpus. Company X employs 4 people to work on the spec of this chip so they have their inhouse employees. Company Y employs 2 people. And Company Z employs none. Company Z has less overhead of employees to work on the product and can sell the same thing for less. That puts Company X out of business. In order to compete, Company Y has to lay of its employees that work on the product.
Who or where do the tech people make a living off of this model? We can try to sell support is someone is writing a compiler for it...but...wait...the compiler is gnu and the money isn't there since the spec is open anyway. They will figure it out on their own. Where do we make our money? Maybe I fail to see the model correctly and I apologize if I am being ignorant to how this system will work.
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As always, my opinons do not represent those of my employer.
Open source hardware seems a bit odd. The nice thing is, yes, we can have the specs to make apps really fast. Instead of, for example, having to wait for Intel to decide to contribute to gcc, kernelsm or (finally) release their in-house (Linux) compiler. So a more open spec on the processor would allow people to actually get things right. I guess the question that sits on my mind is what is truly more valuable, a truly wide open spec or a more open design so anyone can manufacture one.
I guess my feelings are known because I believe that hardware's design should not be completely open. Let a manufacturer keep it all to themselves. However, when you buy the processor you should have the _complete_ spec available. (which is way different than Intel does now)
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My opinions do not represent those of my employer of course.
Actually, as I have heard from others (with NT code experience) they have serious problems. From what I understand...the code is tough to do anything with after the fact. The reason for this is that MS supports "free thinking" and lets people do whatever they want. This makes poor interfaces and worse debugging.
I work for a fairly large company. One of the people I work with is such a large MS nut...that he even wrote part of NT 4.0. (not that that is something to be proud of;-)) Anyway, he is a big fan of Indrema. Why? Because he believes it provides for the ultimate flexibility. Its not an Open Source issue for myself and others like him. Its the fact that this represents real flexibility in a sort of appliance that plays games.
Anyway...I and many others I know will buy one...just give me the chance Indrema!
Here is my plan...I am going to start a security company and point out problems that everyone already knew about (And professors at half decent schools have pointed out in lectures)...using the media for publicity. Then we can watch every site gobble up a story on how our company cracked it.
And how does a company propose to do this for those people who do not have external access. This is a very REAL thing...there are many Windows machines I have seen that have no connection beyond the firewall. Internal liscense servers? hmmm..just another excuse to move to another product.
I thought movie screenshots were illegal without permission...same with like a hockey or football game capture. If so, I'd say this may not be new for Nintendo either.
Interesting theory...but be a big company like Intel and try to move your campus of engineers, let's say 10,000, out of Santa Clara. That costs a lot. Who do you think ultimately pays for that?
In one way or another. You or your company most likely buys a product from a company in Silicon valley...and if the price of electricity is going up and the outages are costing the companies..the price will slowly be passed on to you or your company as the consumer.
After reading that article, I can honestly say that it almost seems like apples to apples when comparing the Intel and VIA chipset...until you get to the integrated video which VIA did better in easily. That and the SIS chipset sucks was pretty much it.
But even with all the benchmarks in the world..we all know that the Intel chipset will sell twice as much as VIA...for, as much as I like and I would buy VIA chipsets, Intel is well...Intel. And my girlfriend and mother and father still have no clue who VIA is.
What I wonder..is who in the hell doesn't care about 10% of his viewers? They may be a minority...but thats a lot of people to blow off. Personally...I think thats moronic.
I'd add a reply to this...but I am not convinced you know what you are talking about and thus it wouldn't be worth it. The following quote:
Apple invented the personal computer as you and I know it
suggests you either haven't a clue or believe everything you are told. Ever heard of Xerox PARC? history lesson: they were responsible for GUIs, Ethernet, file servers, print servers, routing (RIP), and a whole bunch of other stuff you probably attribute to Apple, Novell, or maybe even Cisco depending on what you have been told. Do your research before you start believing you are high and mighty.
Ya know...first of all I will be completely honest and say I don't know which came first. But, from this statement you sound like one of those saps who thinks Windows comes *free* (as in beer) with your PC when you buy your...well..based from this statement...HP Pavilion? Sorry if I misunderstood genius for ignorance.
-E
What constantly amazes me is how companies pull this #$%^ on the web. I hate using a generic term like that...but the world is just too small to fight over your.com name sometimes. this is not like Typosquatting...but more like registering a new domain.
I, for example, have a site registered for my family that is my last name. However, put a.com after it and your get someones business. That does not make me wrong and evil..we both just used the same name. But, that business could (and there have been cases of it) charge me with squatting or sue me for the rights? Just because he owns a business named after my family name? Imagine the problem this would cause in the US with someone of the last name of Smith!
Now, granted those sites are different and this fandom one is the same sort of content. But this isn't amazon.net, the network of books. This is a commonly used word since 1906 (according to the article). Besides even the evil geniuses at amazon.com allow someone else to own amazon.net. If I remember..there was once a dispute over gateway.com, where the computer company was forced to gw2k.com? Was that so bad? Did people still make it there?
Bottomline, IMHO, there is room enough for all of us out there. Can't we all just get along?
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But those who would contribute to free software shouldn't be working for companies that won't let them. I know the company I work for is great about this. :-) And this was something I looked at before signing.
A small part...well..lets see...when your company spends about $5 billion per yr on R&D and 20% of that is on Linux (straight out of the previously quoted Linux Journal ad)....I think that is not a small part..but believe what you like. Only time will tell.
With having invested $1 billion on Linux development, IBM has met expectations for the second quarter in a row. Now, they are purchasing Mainspring and Informix.
Who said that working with open source software wasn't profitable?
Rumor has it that we IBMers are being offered $ to get these tatooed on our foreheads too.
YOu are correct. I apologize for I was unable to get to the article.
For those of you trying to make a quick buck. Find a good article, put a link, and put your comments in the submission with a lot of banner ads. i.e. "Check out this on cnn.com and my comments."
In the next Zelda, we will be fighting a giant ogre brought to you by Microsoft. :-) Kinda symbollic....
How about the industry becomes unprofitable because those in the hardware business (making chips...not selling a computer) are generally not making their cash in the services. I am a capitalist. I believe that companies should be able to make money. The Open Source model works so wll for software while companies can sell services while making less money on the software. Hardware does not work that way. While this does have its advantages to use the power of the open collaboration...it makes companies do the cheapest possible production (like RAM). Although it may help the quality of the design in the long run...it will not help the quality of the product or the stability of the company.
For example, Company X, Y and Z make these cpus. Company X employs 4 people to work on the spec of this chip so they have their inhouse employees. Company Y employs 2 people. And Company Z employs none. Company Z has less overhead of employees to work on the product and can sell the same thing for less. That puts Company X out of business. In order to compete, Company Y has to lay of its employees that work on the product.
Who or where do the tech people make a living off of this model? We can try to sell support is someone is writing a compiler for it...but...wait...the compiler is gnu and the money isn't there since the spec is open anyway. They will figure it out on their own. Where do we make our money? Maybe I fail to see the model correctly and I apologize if I am being ignorant to how this system will work.
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As always, my opinons do not represent those of my employer.
Open source hardware seems a bit odd. The nice thing is, yes, we can have the specs to make apps really fast. Instead of, for example, having to wait for Intel to decide to contribute to gcc, kernelsm or (finally) release their in-house (Linux) compiler. So a more open spec on the processor would allow people to actually get things right. I guess the question that sits on my mind is what is truly more valuable, a truly wide open spec or a more open design so anyone can manufacture one.
I guess my feelings are known because I believe that hardware's design should not be completely open. Let a manufacturer keep it all to themselves. However, when you buy the processor you should have the _complete_ spec available. (which is way different than Intel does now)
---
My opinions do not represent those of my employer of course.
Actually, as I have heard from others (with NT code experience) they have serious problems. From what I understand...the code is tough to do anything with after the fact. The reason for this is that MS supports "free thinking" and lets people do whatever they want. This makes poor interfaces and worse debugging.
I work for a fairly large company. One of the people I work with is such a large MS nut...that he even wrote part of NT 4.0. (not that that is something to be proud of ;-)) Anyway, he is a big fan of Indrema. Why? Because he believes it provides for the ultimate flexibility. Its not an Open Source issue for myself and others like him. Its the fact that this represents real flexibility in a sort of appliance that plays games.
Anyway...I and many others I know will buy one...just give me the chance Indrema!
Here is my plan...I am going to start a security company and point out problems that everyone already knew about (And professors at half decent schools have pointed out in lectures)...using the media for publicity. Then we can watch every site gobble up a story on how our company cracked it.
And how does a company propose to do this for those people who do not have external access. This is a very REAL thing...there are many Windows machines I have seen that have no connection beyond the firewall. Internal liscense servers? hmmm..just another excuse to move to another product.
You asked for a good ethics book. Well...you can learn from good and bad examples. ;-)
Where AMD states that Intel rules the planet and closes shop.
IRC is not bandwidth efficient...it just doesn't use much bandwidth.
I thought movie screenshots were illegal without permission...same with like a hockey or football game capture. If so, I'd say this may not be new for Nintendo either.
Interesting theory...but be a big company like Intel and try to move your campus of engineers, let's say 10,000, out of Santa Clara. That costs a lot. Who do you think ultimately pays for that?
In one way or another. You or your company most likely buys a product from a company in Silicon valley...and if the price of electricity is going up and the outages are costing the companies..the price will slowly be passed on to you or your company as the consumer.
After reading that article, I can honestly say that it almost seems like apples to apples when comparing the Intel and VIA chipset...until you get to the integrated video which VIA did better in easily. That and the SIS chipset sucks was pretty much it.
But even with all the benchmarks in the world..we all know that the Intel chipset will sell twice as much as VIA...for, as much as I like and I would buy VIA chipsets, Intel is well...Intel. And my girlfriend and mother and father still have no clue who VIA is.
What I wonder..is who in the hell doesn't care about 10% of his viewers? They may be a minority...but thats a lot of people to blow off. Personally...I think thats moronic.
I'd add a reply to this...but I am not convinced you know what you are talking about and thus it wouldn't be worth it. The following quote:
Apple invented the personal computer as you and I know it
suggests you either haven't a clue or believe everything you are told. Ever heard of Xerox PARC? history lesson: they were responsible for GUIs, Ethernet, file servers, print servers, routing (RIP), and a whole bunch of other stuff you probably attribute to Apple, Novell, or maybe even Cisco depending on what you have been told. Do your research before you start believing you are high and mighty.
Does that mean I could like have an uptime of like 500 years? ;-)
Ya know...first of all I will be completely honest and say I don't know which came first. But, from this statement you sound like one of those saps who thinks Windows comes *free* (as in beer) with your PC when you buy your...well..based from this statement...HP Pavilion? Sorry if I misunderstood genius for ignorance. -E
What constantly amazes me is how companies pull this #$%^ on the web. I hate using a generic term like that...but the world is just too small to fight over your .com name sometimes. this is not like Typosquatting...but more like registering a new domain.
.com after it and your get someones business. That does not make me wrong and evil..we both just used the same name. But, that business could (and there have been cases of it) charge me with squatting or sue me for the rights? Just because he owns a business named after my family name? Imagine the problem this would cause in the US with someone of the last name of Smith!
I, for example, have a site registered for my family that is my last name. However, put a
Now, granted those sites are different and this fandom one is the same sort of content. But this isn't amazon.net, the network of books. This is a commonly used word since 1906 (according to the article). Besides even the evil geniuses at amazon.com allow someone else to own amazon.net. If I remember..there was once a dispute over gateway.com, where the computer company was forced to gw2k.com? Was that so bad? Did people still make it there?
Bottomline, IMHO, there is room enough for all of us out there. Can't we all just get along?