I seem to recall that Nintendo charges licensing fees in order to do development work for their hardware.
I realize this doesn't concern the hobbiest coder, who just wants to play around with their own gameboy. What happens though if somebody releases custom ROM files or even ROM carts, either for sale or open source. Would they then be a target for the Nintendo law-machine?
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Ouch!
A quick way to double the size of your spam collection, though...
I like spam (the email kind)
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I collect all the spam I get, and store it in a directory on my HD. One day, when I've had a really, really, bad day, I'm going to mass forward all 13,000 pieces I've collected onto one unsuspecting, innocent bystander who accidentally pisses me off. I figure it's going to be great therapy.
BTW, notice me email address is not obfuscated...I truly do love spam!)
If there is a product that works really well, why not purchase it? The cost probably gets you not only the software that you need, but also a manual, tech support, etc.
Do you really need the source code to your VPN software? If so, that sounds like the "immature" code you want to avoid in the first place.
RealAudio, VBScript, Flash/Shockwave, ActiveX,.ASF, and many others are all things that have been widely used on the web for a long time. If Windows has 90% market share on the desktop, doesn't that go a long way towards making single-platform formats that run on Windows a standard?
The other 10% of the market is the exception, not the standard.
Windows has a monopoly on the desktop, and Linux users can always use WINE or VMWARE if they really need a closed-source codec. Mac users, I'm not so sure about.
The point is, Mr. Malda, that even if _your_ household is devoid of Win32 (and I doubt that), a Win32-only version of any piece of software is enough for it to "make significant inroads"
That's just the reality of a world where a single desktop OS has an overwhelming lock on the user community.
It may not be your favorite platform, but Win2K has support now for transparent, alpha-blended windows. MS uses it a bit in the interface already, for drag-and-drop, so that you can see what you are dropping icons on top off. It works quite well, especially with a fast video card, and the API is not a bugger to use at all.
What is that? Some kind of instruction or order to be carried out?
We'll discuss it if we like, but I sorta doubt the/. community needs any prodding, nor a direct order...Is somebody recording everything we "discuss"???
That technology adds no cost to the phones themselves. GPS adds cost and complexity to the handsets, so I don't think the GPS solution will take off at all.
Not likely to happen anytime soon...Here's why
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GPS is receive only. Yes, your cell phone could have an integrated GPS receiver, and then use the phone portion to transmit your location, but I don't think that's going to happen.
Here's why:
- The telcos still control the cell-towers. So it's gonna cost advertisers plenty of money to have cell phones that are broadcasting your whereabouts all the time, and sending down those adds. I bet the per-view cost of this type of advertising would be prohibitive for most advertisers.
- Battery power. GPS takes 10-30 seconds to lock up satellites, and it needs to be left turned on to hold a lock, so it would be activated quite a lot of the time. That adds battery drain to the cell phone, which is exactly what nobody wants
- GPS is Line-of-Sight. This isn't going to work in office buildings, shopping malls, subways, or even cars. So when exactly are they gonna target you for adds? During the 1.5 minutes it takes to walk from the parking lot to the mall entrance? GPS also performs poorly in major downtown cores, because of "Urban Valley" effect, which blocks satellites that are anything except directly overhead.
- Cost. GPS circuitry is getting cheaper all the time, but even a low-end consumer unit adds more cost to a phone than people are going to be willing to pay for.
Is anyone else afraid that splitting MS up would results in three smaller, more nimble, more competitive, and more aggressive companies? Large corporations move more slowly than smaller ones, and the last thing we need is a faster, deadlier MS
CPU speeds keep advancing, but throughput is always the limiting factor. The P-Pro 200mhz is a real workhorse. Team it up with a speedy RAID-5 array, driven by a dedicated controller (the HP NetRAID rocks), and you've got enough throughput to saturate a 100mpbs network easily.
Some servers need big CPU cycles, but for the average server, the P-Pro is smooth, cool (heat), and reliable.
I'd take a dual P-Pro-200 over my 400mhz P-II any day.
If Linux excels at a particular server-oriented task, use it. If another NOS (you pick) is better at a particular task, then I'd recommend you use it instead.
You needn't be ashamed to admit that Windows, Novel, BSD, etc. are particularly good at certain aspects of being a NOS.
I notice that you've failed to mention the obvious requirements of a _real_ server: - redundant disk drives (ie. RAID) - redundant power supplies - multiple network cards and adapter teaming - multiple processors - tape backup Also, if you're going to deploy this wonderful app of yours on a brand new JVM without testing, you are crazy. It doesn't sound to me like you've ever seen a real server...
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I seem to recall that Nintendo charges licensing fees in order to do development work for their hardware.
I realize this doesn't concern the hobbiest coder, who just wants to play around with their own gameboy. What happens though if somebody releases custom ROM files or even ROM carts, either for sale or open source. Would they then be a target for the Nintendo law-machine?
Damn! Does that mean that it'll be pushed back 24hrs, now that I've asked?
Where's the source code? Isn't it a little hypocritical using a closed-source utility to read a web site that promotes open source?
RAID-1 is mirroring. RAID-0 is striping
Ouch!
A quick way to double the size of your spam collection, though...
I collect all the spam I get, and store it in a directory on my HD. One day, when I've had a really, really, bad day, I'm going to mass forward all 13,000 pieces I've collected onto one unsuspecting, innocent bystander who accidentally pisses me off. I figure it's going to be great therapy.
BTW, notice me email address is not obfuscated...I truly do love spam!)
If there is a product that works really well, why not purchase it? The cost probably gets you not only the software that you need, but also a manual, tech support, etc.
Do you really need the source code to your VPN software? If so, that sounds like the "immature" code you want to avoid in the first place.
no...
I just found a new nickname for the clueless Linux Zealots at work...cool!
Just out of curiosity, how is multithreading handled in BSD?
Will Java performance under BSD be any different than under Linux?
You can run any process under any user ID, for starters. That's multi-user in my books.
Terminal Server also allows more than one user to have a GUI session simultaneously.
Telnet Services, available for years now, allow multiple users to have text sessions simultaneously.
So shut up and do your homework!
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or one..."
If I'm an ISP with hundreds of customers, suspending one account to protect my infrastructure and the operation of my other clients seems fair to me.
What was the ISP supposed to do? Allow the DOS to continue unchecked?
The problem, of course, would be if he was banned from the ISP because of the incident, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
Define standard....
.ASF, and many others are all things that have been widely used on the web for a long time. If Windows has 90% market share on the desktop, doesn't that go a long way towards making single-platform formats that run on Windows a standard?
RealAudio, VBScript, Flash/Shockwave, ActiveX,
The other 10% of the market is the exception, not the standard.
Remind me again, please...
Windows has a monopoly on the desktop, and Linux users can always use WINE or VMWARE if they really need a closed-source codec. Mac users, I'm not so sure about.
The point is, Mr. Malda, that even if _your_ household is devoid of Win32 (and I doubt that), a Win32-only version of any piece of software is enough for it to "make significant inroads"
That's just the reality of a world where a single desktop OS has an overwhelming lock on the user community.
It may not be your favorite platform, but Win2K has support now for transparent, alpha-blended windows. MS uses it a bit in the interface already, for drag-and-drop, so that you can see what you are dropping icons on top off. It works quite well, especially with a fast video card, and the API is not a bugger to use at all.
What is that? Some kind of instruction or order to be carried out?
/. community needs any prodding, nor a direct order...Is somebody recording everything we "discuss"???
We'll discuss it if we like, but I sorta doubt the
That technology adds no cost to the phones themselves. GPS adds cost and complexity to the handsets, so I don't think the GPS solution will take off at all.
GPS is receive only. Yes, your cell phone could have an integrated GPS receiver, and then use the phone portion to transmit your location, but I don't think that's going to happen.
Here's why:
- The telcos still control the cell-towers. So it's gonna cost advertisers plenty of money to have cell phones that are broadcasting your whereabouts all the time, and sending down those adds. I bet the per-view cost of this type of advertising would be prohibitive for most advertisers.
- Battery power. GPS takes 10-30 seconds to lock up satellites, and it needs to be left turned on to hold a lock, so it would be activated quite a lot of the time. That adds battery drain to the cell phone, which is exactly what nobody wants
- GPS is Line-of-Sight. This isn't going to work in office buildings, shopping malls, subways, or even cars. So when exactly are they gonna target you for adds? During the 1.5 minutes it takes to walk from the parking lot to the mall entrance? GPS also performs poorly in major downtown cores, because of "Urban Valley" effect, which blocks satellites that are anything except directly overhead.
- Cost. GPS circuitry is getting cheaper all the time, but even a low-end consumer unit adds more cost to a phone than people are going to be willing to pay for.
If MS does get split up, would parts of the company have to move off-campus?
Could other companies take up residence in the abandoned buildings?
Is anyone else afraid that splitting MS up would results in three smaller, more nimble, more competitive, and more aggressive companies? Large corporations move more slowly than smaller ones, and the last thing we need is a faster, deadlier MS
CPU speeds keep advancing, but throughput is always the limiting factor. The P-Pro 200mhz is a real workhorse. Team it up with a speedy RAID-5 array, driven by a dedicated controller (the HP NetRAID rocks), and you've got enough throughput to saturate a 100mpbs network easily.
Some servers need big CPU cycles, but for the average server, the P-Pro is smooth, cool (heat), and reliable.
I'd take a dual P-Pro-200 over my 400mhz P-II any day.
Yes they are connected to the network, and serving 750-1000 users 24hrs a day.
These boxes don't have scheduled reboots, since we haven't had a need for them.
Funny that the only way you can get your point across is by calling me stupid. I thought UNIX admins were smarter than that...
Too bad there's no integrity amongst readers. That cheapshot about NT is not only off-topic and irrelevant, but untrue.
I've got NT servers here at one of the largest railroads in North America with uptimes of over 280 days...
If Linux excels at a particular server-oriented task, use it. If another NOS (you pick) is better at a particular task, then I'd recommend you use it instead.
You needn't be ashamed to admit that Windows, Novel, BSD, etc. are particularly good at certain aspects of being a NOS.
I notice that you've failed to mention the obvious requirements of a _real_ server: - redundant disk drives (ie. RAID) - redundant power supplies - multiple network cards and adapter teaming - multiple processors - tape backup Also, if you're going to deploy this wonderful app of yours on a brand new JVM without testing, you are crazy. It doesn't sound to me like you've ever seen a real server...