Let us not forget that Acer's purchase of Gateway will more then likely include Amiga Developement LLC which is the fileholder for Amiga patents. So Acer will now hold all licensing of those patents to Amiga Inc which is in a death match against Hyperion who was doing OS4. Yes, I know, Amiga Inc bought the code, the trademarks, existing hardware but not the patents. Gateway only licensed that to Amiga Inc.
So the Amiga curse is in full speed and Acer is now doomed.
I realize most of the/. readers are far, if not radical left, wingers, but when Hillary is in the White House, I expect not to see word one going against her. You know it, I know it.
But let me give you my opinion as a current Federal Employee. I operate under a ton of US Code which have some rather harsh legal aspects to it if I violate them. Sad fact the matter of the day, I am accountable for my actions, be it admin or criminal violations. If this clown violated a ton of US Code, it's Club Fed time. Justice is in deed blind, and regardless of your dripping venom for Bush, people who violate US Code for their personal agenda (gee isn't that what you want Bush impeached for?) need to face the music for their endangerment of gaing intelligence against a sworn enemy of the US.
There are indeed channels to operate for oversight, leaking highly secret information to the Media is not one of them.
"The administration began pressing for changes to the law after a recent ruling by the FISA court. That decision barred the government from eavesdropping without warrants on foreign suspects whose messages were being routed through U.S. communications carriers, including Internet sites."
The Bill seems reasonable enough. IMO, anything going out or in the US should be exempt from FISA. FISA should only apply to internal US wired calls.
Logging your location while your on private property would be unreasonable search. However, your using public (ie tax payer funded) roads so you have no expectations of privacy in your movement. I'll point out that anything in plain view in your car while on a public road is fair game for law enforcement (not wearing your seatbelt is a prime example of probable cause to initiate a vehicle stop).
Unless your doing something "special" your going to be a bunch of numbers in yet another db like the zillion others that got logged into that db on that day. That sure doesn't make me feel too special nor worried. I'd be more worried about the future uber db the USPS is proposing to track each and ever letter in their system that's going to your mailbox.;-) Bet the USPS will make a nice profit off of that db sales to Business Bulk Mailers, or to DHS.
Funny, Wall Street Journal reports Dems have raised 100 Million more then Republicans: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB11851538260 9874577.html?mod=blog/ . That tells me your numbers are not giving us all the information on donations. Isn't that like failing to tell folks the amount of money Speak Of the House's husband is making of the Iraq War while blaming Bush?
This story is worthy of/. news? What was I expecting this morning, more tech reports/stories on technology? Silly me, instead I get some silly liberal biased non-story instead.
What I'm wondering is how related this full buyout is for defense related projects. USAF's B3 budget went black several years ago (YF03?) and this year USMC called for sub orbital troop transports (most be a few fans of "Aliens" in USMC think tanks;) means a defense contractor looking for contract would eye Scaled as critical to their proposal. OTOH, having such contracts paying for multi use technology would put NG into a prime position for civilian space transportation manufacturing. I'd say it's a huge win for NG, I'm not too sure on how well it goes for Burt, if he remains.
I would have hoped every/. has (I haven't bought a new CD in well over a decade), but one has to remember population that reads/. is increasing with younger readers. IMO, it's worth repeating now and then for the new folks to understand their purchase of CDs/MP3 is what keeping the industry healthy enough to pay their lawyers.
Stop buying new CDs or MP3s is the first thing you can do. If you need it that badly, go buy it second hand or just listen to it on a FM or Digital radio station. Support your favorite artist by going to their concerts and buy their merchandise at those concerts. Music Industry has to go, it's up to all of us to starve it to death.
"Millions for defense, but not one penny for tribute," Robert Goodloe Harper (1818)
"Wish I had some mod points to rid you of the "Flamebait" moniker, because that moderation is blatantly unfair considering the fact that you have some good points - in particular that there might be some far better way to improve hurricane prediction than to launch more satellites. Perhaps better study of the dynamics of hurricanes or even ground based observation radar would be more cost effect and accurate."
Guess they can't take it that I'm a 45 year old native of Florida and live through enough hurricane tracks predictions to understand what is going on. And they don't.
"What the fuck are you talking about? As an avid watcher of hurricanes, not just those that hit Florida (have for ten years or so), NHC tracks are EXCELLENT within about 3 days. Now, if you go beyond that, then yes, expect track errors. Perhaps you are confusing the media with the NHC? The media tends to hype landfalls at specific locations for longer than they should."
If you think they have had an excellent tracking record three days out of it's actual landfall, there is nothing more I can say to you.
Yes, it is that bad and even 16% worse prediction isn't going to matter. If they can get it right with a new satellite that will make a real world difference (ie they can actually predict where the beasties are headed to) and it'll take longer, that's fine by me. What the article does not go into detail, does the new sat make a significant increases over the current one? If it's only marginally, I'm even less impressed.
As a native Floridian who still resides in FL, let me assure all/.ers, 16% worst prediction of the job they are currently doing won't mean squat. Their prediction of hurricane tracks has been horrid at best within any timeline of meaning preparedness time period. One has to take exhausting prep if it's coming for you, but you only have to do minor prep if it's passing within hundred miles. Had their predictions been on the nose, more or less, I would be horrified that they let a satelite go beyond it's expected life without having backups already in orbit. Having suffered getting my cage rattled or lead to believe it wouldn't hit here 12 hours before the Eyewall actually does hit, I'm not impressed with forecasting predictions. Therefore, 16% is meaningless to those of us who are sitting in the bulleye zone.
Because there are a bunch of smaller OSs out there that are getting the short end of closed source drivers. They are not big enough for the nVidia to notice for 3D support (how long ago was it nVidia didn't care about Linux?). AMD/ATI seems to be getting it's about making their hardware attractive to end users. After all, sales are sales, they don't have to care what OS is accessing their hardware.
Perhaps if they made cards with superdupersecret stuff on a ROM, charge an extra $25 and release the SDK for OSS that would meet their legal/technical requirements?
Let's see here, they are worried about turning data over to the US government but they have no qualms about getting on their knees to the Communist Chinese government? Am I ever glad I no longer spend my company's money on AdWords.
If it was helping Hollywood, then it would be far more useful then what it's doing now, sucking NASA's budget dry. Abandon the White Elephant and deorbit it over the Pacific Ocean so we can ground the killing machines, the shuttles. NASA would have it's budget back inline and could be saving yet another seven lives. There is work to be done in space and the ISS is standing in the way.
Dammy
IMO, the REAL Amiga Went Open Source
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Amiga turned into a three ring circus. First you have those who sort of own the copyrights (most of the patents still are owned by Gateway and are licensed out to Amiga). The sad tale of OS4, it was suppost to be owned, sort of, by Amiga Inc and Hyperion. Hyperion's orginal contract to roll out OS4 had a $25K buy back option (which I under was executed by Amiga Inc). Little did Amiga Inc know or realize, Hyperion allowed a newly coded kernel that was owned by Hyperion subcontractors (Frieds (SP) Brothers) to be used so when the buyback option was executed, Amiga Inc couldn't get the kernel since that was owned by a third party. Think it all still in the hands of lawyers and there is no licensed hardware to use for OS4. I don't expect to see any licensed OS4 products being offered for sale for a long period of time.
Second is another closed sourced called MorphOS which runs on third party PPC hardware made by Genesi (the OS and hardware are owned by seperate companies).
Third is where I think the true Amiga spirit lies, a open source version called Amiga Research Operating System (AROS). It's a community OS driven by what we loved in our Amigas. The orginal AROS coders realized that we would never see customized hardware that gave the real Amigas such power and capabilities compared to the painful window boxes of the 1980s. Common hardware (x86) was targetted as the new enviroment, it was the OS that mattered since the x86 had grown far beyond what the A4000 could have offered at the time. AROS is also being ported to PPC (and specifically Genesi's new PPC, EFIKA), x86_64 and hopefully one day, ARM. Self booting x86 ISO can be download (free as in beer) at http://www.aros.org/. AROS is a work in progress so it's not as nice as OS4. Then again, unlike OS4, it can be used on just about any old x86 that you have laying about. AROS is always looking for more developers and there is a third party bounty system setup to motivate AROS developers at http://www.teamaros.org/
As a consumer and someone who CAN produce his own hydrogen (Living in South Florida, I certainly do have access to significant amount of solar energy), do I really care how ineffecient splitting water is compared to a perfect solution? I know, I'm an evil SOB for even thinking individuals can tell the oil company AND government to go stick their pricing and taxes where the sun doesn't shine. But the last is what has the leftist in the biggest uproar, hydrogen will mean a shortfall of tax revenues needed to fund their agenda and having independence for individuals of not having the government controling their daily life by yet another means (taxes does indeed control behavior, see sin taxes).
As far as Ford's vehicle, OMG is that damn thing ugly! Compared to Honda http://world.honda.com/fcx/ that thing looks like it should be back in the 1970s. Honda is also working on Home Energy Stations (can't find the latest press release showing what it would look like in a typical garage) with the first version using natural gas (home solar is in developement) that should be going on sale in 08 with the FCX.
Man made Global Warming is more of a myth then a theory. Al Gore's Inconvient Lies shouldn't be shown since it's full of holes you can drive a super tanker through.
"s it happens we're just reformatting the thermometer graphic to give people a better idea of global mean temperatures and trends. Using a thousand less-urbanized sites from the METAR database suggests the last year (calendar date to calendar date, in this case) was about as near average as can be expected, within a tenth of a degree of the calculated mean without any enhanced greenhouse forcing.
Is the world really hot and getting hotter? That's a very good question but one to which no one has a good answer. The urbanized record is a little warm but that doesn't mean very much. The planet? Well, that's an open question as yet."
Islands in that area are sinking and would be doing so regardless if mankind ever discovered fire. It's amazing for a bunch of tech geeks who are willing to believe anything that sounds like a disaster, if the other political party can be blamed for it. Go back watching your pr0n, it's more realistic then your AGW religion.
Funny, all I'm reading in the majority of the major media is how doomed we all are by Global Warming. I don't see something like this on Yahoo: http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/1 2/01/are-humans-involved-in-global-warming/ nor http://www.junkscience.com/challenge.htm/. Journalist like this issue because it will benefit their political (typically 80% of US Journals have answer polls showing they are somewhat liberal or very liberal in political ideaology). That spells out that only one side will be given to the public. Go ask a journalist major on what they want to do with their carreer, they are more then likely tell you they want to bring social justice to the world. Which of course is not what a journalist should be doing. They are suppost to be giving the public the facts and let us decide. Even if it's against their wished for political agenda.
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Let us not forget that Acer's purchase of Gateway will more then likely include Amiga Developement LLC which is the fileholder for Amiga patents. So Acer will now hold all licensing of those patents to Amiga Inc which is in a death match against Hyperion who was doing OS4. Yes, I know, Amiga Inc bought the code, the trademarks, existing hardware but not the patents. Gateway only licensed that to Amiga Inc.
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So the Amiga curse is in full speed and Acer is now doomed.
dammy
http://www.aros.org/
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-wawdce/cas
I realize most of the /. readers are far, if not radical left, wingers, but when Hillary is in the White House, I expect not to see word one going against her. You know it, I know it.
But let me give you my opinion as a current Federal Employee. I operate under a ton of US Code which have some rather harsh legal aspects to it if I violate them. Sad fact the matter of the day, I am accountable for my actions, be it admin or criminal violations. If this clown violated a ton of US Code, it's Club Fed time. Justice is in deed blind, and regardless of your dripping venom for Bush, people who violate US Code for their personal agenda (gee isn't that what you want Bush impeached for?) need to face the music for their endangerment of gaing intelligence against a sworn enemy of the US.
There are indeed channels to operate for oversight, leaking highly secret information to the Media is not one of them.
"The administration began pressing for changes to the law after a recent ruling by the FISA court. That decision barred the government from eavesdropping without warrants on foreign suspects whose messages were being routed through U.S. communications carriers, including Internet sites."
The Bill seems reasonable enough. IMO, anything going out or in the US should be exempt from FISA. FISA should only apply to internal US wired calls.
Logging your location while your on private property would be unreasonable search. However, your using public (ie tax payer funded) roads so you have no expectations of privacy in your movement. I'll point out that anything in plain view in your car while on a public road is fair game for law enforcement (not wearing your seatbelt is a prime example of probable cause to initiate a vehicle stop).
;-) Bet the USPS will make a nice profit off of that db sales to Business Bulk Mailers, or to DHS.
Unless your doing something "special" your going to be a bunch of numbers in yet another db like the zillion others that got logged into that db on that day. That sure doesn't make me feel too special nor worried. I'd be more worried about the future uber db the USPS is proposing to track each and ever letter in their system that's going to your mailbox.
Dammy
Funny, Wall Street Journal reports Dems have raised 100 Million more then Republicans: http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB11851538260 9874577.html?mod=blog/ . That tells me your numbers are not giving us all the information on donations. Isn't that like failing to tell folks the amount of money Speak Of the House's husband is making of the Iraq War while blaming Bush?
Dammy
This story is worthy of /. news? What was I expecting this morning, more tech reports/stories on technology? Silly me, instead I get some silly liberal biased non-story instead.
Dammy
What I'm wondering is how related this full buyout is for defense related projects. USAF's B3 budget went black several years ago (YF03?) and this year USMC called for sub orbital troop transports (most be a few fans of "Aliens" in USMC think tanks;) means a defense contractor looking for contract would eye Scaled as critical to their proposal. OTOH, having such contracts paying for multi use technology would put NG into a prime position for civilian space transportation manufacturing. I'd say it's a huge win for NG, I'm not too sure on how well it goes for Burt, if he remains.
I would have hoped every /. has (I haven't bought a new CD in well over a decade), but one has to remember population that reads /. is increasing with younger readers. IMO, it's worth repeating now and then for the new folks to understand their purchase of CDs/MP3 is what keeping the industry healthy enough to pay their lawyers.
Dammy
Stop buying new CDs or MP3s is the first thing you can do. If you need it that badly, go buy it second hand or just listen to it on a FM or Digital radio station. Support your favorite artist by going to their concerts and buy their merchandise at those concerts. Music Industry has to go, it's up to all of us to starve it to death.
"Millions for defense, but not one penny for tribute,"
Robert Goodloe Harper (1818)
"Wish I had some mod points to rid you of the "Flamebait" moniker, because that moderation is blatantly unfair considering the fact that you have some good points - in particular that there might be some far better way to improve hurricane prediction than to launch more satellites. Perhaps better study of the dynamics of hurricanes or even ground based observation radar would be more cost effect and accurate."
Guess they can't take it that I'm a 45 year old native of Florida and live through enough hurricane tracks predictions to understand what is going on. And they don't.
Dammy
"What the fuck are you talking about? As an avid watcher of hurricanes, not just those that hit Florida (have for ten years or so), NHC tracks are EXCELLENT within about 3 days. Now, if you go beyond that, then yes, expect track errors. Perhaps you are confusing the media with the NHC? The media tends to hype landfalls at specific locations for longer than they should."
If you think they have had an excellent tracking record three days out of it's actual landfall, there is nothing more I can say to you.
Dammy
Yes, it is that bad and even 16% worse prediction isn't going to matter. If they can get it right with a new satellite that will make a real world difference (ie they can actually predict where the beasties are headed to) and it'll take longer, that's fine by me. What the article does not go into detail, does the new sat make a significant increases over the current one? If it's only marginally, I'm even less impressed.
Dammy
As a native Floridian who still resides in FL, let me assure all /.ers, 16% worst prediction of the job they are currently doing won't mean squat. Their prediction of hurricane tracks has been horrid at best within any timeline of meaning preparedness time period. One has to take exhausting prep if it's coming for you, but you only have to do minor prep if it's passing within hundred miles. Had their predictions been on the nose, more or less, I would be horrified that they let a satelite go beyond it's expected life without having backups already in orbit. Having suffered getting my cage rattled or lead to believe it wouldn't hit here 12 hours before the Eyewall actually does hit, I'm not impressed with forecasting predictions. Therefore, 16% is meaningless to those of us who are sitting in the bulleye zone.
Because there are a bunch of smaller OSs out there that are getting the short end of closed source drivers. They are not big enough for the nVidia to notice for 3D support (how long ago was it nVidia didn't care about Linux?). AMD/ATI seems to be getting it's about making their hardware attractive to end users. After all, sales are sales, they don't have to care what OS is accessing their hardware.
Perhaps if they made cards with superdupersecret stuff on a ROM, charge an extra $25 and release the SDK for OSS that would meet their legal/technical requirements?
Let's see here, they are worried about turning data over to the US government but they have no qualms about getting on their knees to the Communist Chinese government? Am I ever glad I no longer spend my company's money on AdWords.
Dammy
If it was helping Hollywood, then it would be far more useful then what it's doing now, sucking NASA's budget dry. Abandon the White Elephant and deorbit it over the Pacific Ocean so we can ground the killing machines, the shuttles. NASA would have it's budget back inline and could be saving yet another seven lives. There is work to be done in space and the ISS is standing in the way.
Dammy
Amiga turned into a three ring circus. First you have those who sort of own the copyrights (most of the patents still are owned by Gateway and are licensed out to Amiga). The sad tale of OS4, it was suppost to be owned, sort of, by Amiga Inc and Hyperion. Hyperion's orginal contract to roll out OS4 had a $25K buy back option (which I under was executed by Amiga Inc). Little did Amiga Inc know or realize, Hyperion allowed a newly coded kernel that was owned by Hyperion subcontractors (Frieds (SP) Brothers) to be used so when the buyback option was executed, Amiga Inc couldn't get the kernel since that was owned by a third party. Think it all still in the hands of lawyers and there is no licensed hardware to use for OS4. I don't expect to see any licensed OS4 products being offered for sale for a long period of time.
Second is another closed sourced called MorphOS which runs on third party PPC hardware made by Genesi (the OS and hardware are owned by seperate companies).
Third is where I think the true Amiga spirit lies, a open source version called Amiga Research Operating System (AROS). It's a community OS driven by what we loved in our Amigas. The orginal AROS coders realized that we would never see customized hardware that gave the real Amigas such power and capabilities compared to the painful window boxes of the 1980s. Common hardware (x86) was targetted as the new enviroment, it was the OS that mattered since the x86 had grown far beyond what the A4000 could have offered at the time. AROS is also being ported to PPC (and specifically Genesi's new PPC, EFIKA), x86_64 and hopefully one day, ARM. Self booting x86 ISO can be download (free as in beer) at http://www.aros.org/. AROS is a work in progress so it's not as nice as OS4. Then again, unlike OS4, it can be used on just about any old x86 that you have laying about. AROS is always looking for more developers and there is a third party bounty system setup to motivate AROS developers at http://www.teamaros.org/
Dammy
As a consumer and someone who CAN produce his own hydrogen (Living in South Florida, I certainly do have access to significant amount of solar energy), do I really care how ineffecient splitting water is compared to a perfect solution? I know, I'm an evil SOB for even thinking individuals can tell the oil company AND government to go stick their pricing and taxes where the sun doesn't shine. But the last is what has the leftist in the biggest uproar, hydrogen will mean a shortfall of tax revenues needed to fund their agenda and having independence for individuals of not having the government controling their daily life by yet another means (taxes does indeed control behavior, see sin taxes).
As far as Ford's vehicle, OMG is that damn thing ugly! Compared to Honda http://world.honda.com/fcx/ that thing looks like it should be back in the 1970s. Honda is also working on Home Energy Stations (can't find the latest press release showing what it would look like in a typical garage) with the first version using natural gas (home solar is in developement) that should be going on sale in 08 with the FCX.
Dammy
Man made Global Warming is more of a myth then a theory. Al Gore's Inconvient Lies shouldn't be shown since it's full of holes you can drive a super tanker through.
See AGW challenge: http://www.junkscience.com/challenge.htm/ and
http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/index.html/
Dammy
Quoting from http://www.junkscience.com/ on this article:
"s it happens we're just reformatting the thermometer graphic to give people a better idea of global mean temperatures and trends. Using a thousand less-urbanized sites from the METAR database suggests the last year (calendar date to calendar date, in this case) was about as near average as can be expected, within a tenth of a degree of the calculated mean without any enhanced greenhouse forcing.
Is the world really hot and getting hotter? That's a very good question but one to which no one has a good answer. The urbanized record is a little warm but that doesn't mean very much. The planet? Well, that's an open question as yet."
Dammy
Islands in that area are sinking and would be doing so regardless if mankind ever discovered fire. It's amazing for a bunch of tech geeks who are willing to believe anything that sounds like a disaster, if the other political party can be blamed for it. Go back watching your pr0n, it's more realistic then your AGW religion.
Dammy
Funny, all I'm reading in the majority of the major media is how doomed we all are by Global Warming. I don't see something like this on Yahoo:1 2/01/are-humans-involved-in-global-warming/ nor http://www.junkscience.com/challenge.htm/. Journalist like this issue because it will benefit their political (typically 80% of US Journals have answer polls showing they are somewhat liberal or very liberal in political ideaology). That spells out that only one side will be given to the public. Go ask a journalist major on what they want to do with their carreer, they are more then likely tell you they want to bring social justice to the world. Which of course is not what a journalist should be doing. They are suppost to be giving the public the facts and let us decide. Even if it's against their wished for political agenda.
http://www.worldclimatereport.com/index.php/2006/
Dammy
Sure would like to see all these Global Warming folks take this challenge: http://www.junkscience.com/challenge.htm/.
The article itself has been given a good thrashing by Steven Milloy. Look under Tuesday (11-14-06) section. http://www.junkscience.com/
http://www.junkscience.com/ is always a good place to read.
Dammy