I know somebody who works for IBM Global Services (which is not quite the same as IBM). Notes is pretty well entrenched there. It is not going to be ditched at any time in the near future.
They did, however, stop using Lotus Smartsuite (their office suite) some time ago because it is rubbish compared with M$ Office and - more importantly - all their customers used M$ Office, so they had to.
My main thinking behind this move to Open Source is that they don't want to have to pay enormous licence fees to their biggest competitor anymore. Open source software now perovides reaistic competition to M$ in the most important space (office productivity tools), so why not?
I'm willing to bet that most people in say Bangladesh have no access to a computer of any kind.
Richard Stallman has totally overestimated the importance of this issue to society as a whole. There was no free software before RMS came along with GNU (except in the ivory tower that RMS inhabited at the time). To the average person in the street, Free or otherwise software is simply not an issue to be bothered with if they've even heard of it. If society is collapsing, the reasons have nothing to do with the fact that most software in use today is proprietary.
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Galileo is a project being run by the European Space Agency. The ESA was set up mainly with French backing. Can you see them ever giving in to pressure from the US military?
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They solved the problem of human intervention years ago in motor racing. They have some sort of optical or radio based sensor on the car so they can measure lap times to the nearest 1000th of a second apparently.
Why not just use that technology which is available off the shelf?
That was at the end of a five day siege of the Iranian embassy in London. The World's - well Britain's - media were already camped across the road. It would have been impossible to take the embassy without them noticing.
Further, the embassy was full of civilian hostages. You couldn't possibly have stopped them blabbing.
"How did you get out?"
"Can't tell you, the SAS man said to keep it a secret... oh bugger."
In any power generation and distribution system the fuel is a much smaller proportion of the total cost than you might think (about 16% for fossil fuels). The best you can do with even free fuel is save 16%. On the other hand, after about 30 years you have an enormous pile of concrete and radioactive machinery to dispose of which is incredibly expensive to do.
This is why, taking into account all of the costs, nuclear power is actually quite expensive.
Really, the ideal thing for nVidia would be for THEM to publish an API (not necessarily full docs for the chips, just hooks into the binary), and for the hacker/enthusiast community to link it into the kernel. At least, that seems ideal to me
They do publish the source code to the bit which talks to the Linux kernel. They've effectively written their own standard ABI and published it.
I assume you mean Bruce Perens. So why don't you *read* his article? His one and only reason for going with Gnome is because you don't have to pay the developers a royalty if you develop a commercial solution with it.
I don't have any problems with this at home, but get exactly the same problem as you do at work. I put it down to the work machines windows lm names not being the same as their DNS names (they are mostly DHCP'd).
For e.g. I have a Windows XP box at work named MACBOY which my Mac can see in the network browser, but it's DNS name will be dhcp-2-1-xx where xx depends on the IP address it picks up from DHCP. The Mac won't pick up any shares from MACBOY. I suppose I could test this by adding an entry for MACBOY in the netinfo host database.
Actually, the V2, being supersonic, gave no warning whatever of impending doom. If you knew about it, you had survived.
Infact, it was arguable that by diverting lots of resources to the V2 effort, that could otherwise have been used for tanks etc, the V2 programme saved allied lives on the whole.
I don't think you can be as simplistic about this whole thing as you are. For instance, the USA would have done nothing about Nazi Germany if my country hadn't held out long enough for you to have a base to launch your invasion from.
Come to think of it, your country wouldn't exist as a separate entity if my county hadn't buggered up its handling of the War of Independence.
Not only that, but if you put an image of their binary software on your FTP server, unless you provide a link to the source code of the GPL bit, *you* are in violation of the GPL.
And how does society provide the gifted individuals with the time to be creative? Easy: members of society give *money* to the gifted individuals in exchange for the works that they produce. The gifted individuals can then use the money to buy things like food and housing which they would otherwise have to spend their entire time looking for.
Copyright is one way in which society guarantees that the gifted individuals actually get the money they need so thay can concentrate on their creative work. It's not perfect, but it provides some protection against the members of society who would prefer not to give the gifted individuals the ability not to starve.
The system is just a tool. You could ensure that the system is up all the time but not letting anybody do anything on it, but then all you have is a really good SETI@home box.
Everybody's responsibility is towards the company's goals to provide services at a price and thereby make money. From the sysadm's point of view this means not having the developers, other employees or outside people fuck up the production box.
Humans are just getting started in the "god" business
No they haven't. I wouldn't expect the effects of introducing a genetically engineered species to be much different than say introducing rabbits to Australia or wheat to North America or any of the other cases where we have taken species from one ecosystem and introduced them to another which is something we have been doing since we learnt to traverse the oceans.
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I know somebody who works for IBM Global Services (which is not quite the same as IBM). Notes is pretty well entrenched there. It is not going to be ditched at any time in the near future.
They did, however, stop using Lotus Smartsuite (their office suite) some time ago because it is rubbish compared with M$ Office and - more importantly - all their customers used M$ Office, so they had to.
My main thinking behind this move to Open Source is that they don't want to have to pay enormous licence fees to their biggest competitor anymore. Open source software now perovides reaistic competition to M$ in the most important space (office productivity tools), so why not?
I'm willing to bet that most people in say Bangladesh have no access to a computer of any kind.
Richard Stallman has totally overestimated the importance of this issue to society as a whole. There was no free software before RMS came along with GNU (except in the ivory tower that RMS inhabited at the time). To the average person in the street, Free or otherwise software is simply not an issue to be bothered with if they've even heard of it. If society is collapsing, the reasons have nothing to do with the fact that most software in use today is proprietary.
Galileo is a project being run by the European Space Agency. The ESA was set up mainly with French backing. Can you see them ever giving in to pressure from the US military?
They solved the problem of human intervention years ago in motor racing. They have some sort of optical or radio based sensor on the car so they can measure lap times to the nearest 1000th of a second apparently.
Why not just use that technology which is available off the shelf?
That was at the end of a five day siege of the Iranian embassy in London. The World's - well Britain's - media were already camped across the road. It would have been impossible to take the embassy without them noticing.
Further, the embassy was full of civilian hostages. You couldn't possibly have stopped them blabbing.
"How did you get out?"
"Can't tell you, the SAS man said to keep it a secret... oh bugger."
In any power generation and distribution system the fuel is a much smaller proportion of the total cost than you might think (about 16% for fossil fuels). The best you can do with even free fuel is save 16%. On the other hand, after about 30 years you have an enormous pile of concrete and radioactive machinery to dispose of which is incredibly expensive to do.
This is why, taking into account all of the costs, nuclear power is actually quite expensive.
Surely numbers as we write them now (in the West) are big endian i.e. the biggest power of 10 comes first.
Really, the ideal thing for nVidia would be for THEM to publish an API (not necessarily full docs for the chips, just hooks into the binary), and for the hacker/enthusiast community to link it into the kernel. At least, that seems ideal to me
They do publish the source code to the bit which talks to the Linux kernel. They've effectively written their own standard ABI and published it.
That would be "less than 0" wouldn't it?
If you wrote a statement testing whether an *unsigned* value is less than 0, I would expect to see a compilation error.
NT based systems use a 64bit time stamp IIRC.
Not open source != not documented
I assume you mean Bruce Perens. So why don't you *read* his article? His one and only reason for going with Gnome is because you don't have to pay the developers a royalty if you develop a commercial solution with it.
I don't have any problems with this at home, but get exactly the same problem as you do at work. I put it down to the work machines windows lm names not being the same as their DNS names (they are mostly DHCP'd).
For e.g. I have a Windows XP box at work named MACBOY which my Mac can see in the network browser, but it's DNS name will be dhcp-2-1-xx where xx depends on the IP address it picks up from DHCP. The Mac won't pick up any shares from MACBOY. I suppose I could test this by adding an entry for MACBOY in the netinfo host database.
Actually, the V2, being supersonic, gave no warning whatever of impending doom. If you knew about it, you had survived.
Infact, it was arguable that by diverting lots of resources to the V2 effort, that could otherwise have been used for tanks etc, the V2 programme saved allied lives on the whole.
I don't think you can be as simplistic about this whole thing as you are. For instance, the USA would have done nothing about Nazi Germany if my country hadn't held out long enough for you to have a base to launch your invasion from.
Come to think of it, your country wouldn't exist as a separate entity if my county hadn't buggered up its handling of the War of Independence.
What if my identical twin brother decides to make terrorism his profession?
It's a trial. They're just testing out technologies to see which ones work best.
Not only that, but if you put an image of their binary software on your FTP server, unless you provide a link to the source code of the GPL bit, *you* are in violation of the GPL.
They did - well it's nephew
Hmmm... I sell "jeremyp penis extensions". How do I put my biggest rival (deanfox dick enlargers) out of business?
I think I'll pay a spammer to send 20,000 Spams to the US Justice department (or whatever you call it). Do you have $20 million to spare?
How about if they did two things:
1 stop masquerading sender addresses
2 block port 25.
And how does society provide the gifted individuals with the time to be creative? Easy: members of society give *money* to the gifted individuals in exchange for the works that they produce. The gifted individuals can then use the money to buy things like food and housing which they would otherwise have to spend their entire time looking for.
Copyright is one way in which society guarantees that the gifted individuals actually get the money they need so thay can concentrate on their creative work. It's not perfect, but it provides some protection against the members of society who would prefer not to give the gifted individuals the ability not to starve.
Bull!
The system is just a tool. You could ensure that the system is up all the time but not letting anybody do anything on it, but then all you have is a really good SETI@home box.
Everybody's responsibility is towards the company's goals to provide services at a price and thereby make money. From the sysadm's point of view this means not having the developers, other employees or outside people fuck up the production box.
Why on Earth would you want to load balance the dev environment?
Humans are just getting started in the "god" business
No they haven't. I wouldn't expect the effects of introducing a genetically engineered species to be much different than say introducing rabbits to Australia or wheat to North America or any of the other cases where we have taken species from one ecosystem and introduced them to another which is something we have been doing since we learnt to traverse the oceans.
How new do you think interrupts and DMA really are?
My Atari ST had both in 1986 and they weren't new concepts then in the world of computers larger than a desktop machine.