Monterey was the joint effort of IBM, SCO, and two others to port a high-end, enterprise class unix to Itanium (IA-64). The excitement driving the buzz was that Monterey looked like the migration path for AIX.
I have RoadRunner and will change to DSL ASAP. Despite the deceptive ads DSL is still better than a cable modem.
That varies by region. Where I am we have both DSL and @Home. A lot of my friends with DSL cry - the installation/servicing is what you'd expect from a phone company, but Cox cable/@home has been suprsingly good. Locally cable modems are regarded as better. oh, and I have hit 290k/sec (bytes, not bits) using my cable modem 8)
Watt Humphrey of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute pushes the Capability Maturity Model, which he claims marries Total Quality Management (made famous by the Japanese) with software engineering. It's sounds a bit like Scientology to me, with PSP/TSP, reviews, and lot of acronyms, but I have seen rave reviews around the web.
Could some please let me know if the CMM and the "Best Practices" being discussed have anything to do with each other?
Thanks.
Moderators: this isn't intended to be offtopic - I am trying to get at what "best practices" are driving the discussion
SAP is the German company that makes the R/3 business software. The company you are describing is probably SAS institute, who makes statistics/ data analysis software.
/. loves to beatup on Hillary Rosen, chief asshole for the RIAA. Yet in the article:
Hillary Rosen, the president of the RIAA, conceded to me that "there are not enough lawyers in the world to sue all the people we'd have to sue."... Stop fighting to preserve the past, Rosen counsels record labels. It can't be done....She says the industry should "embrace the opportunities" provided by the Internet. Don't try to stop the flow of zeros and ones -- rechannel it!
Wow. M$ porting to linux, now this...we live in wondrous times.
A nice piece, but he missing one of ESRs key points: Economic Viability.
His discussion of peer approval being crucial reinforces ESRs insight that a "gift economy" lies at the heart of Open Source culture, but the author gives no hint of how his (or anyone elses) open source coding would be compatible with long term economic self-interest
"I don't worry anymore about people being able to control
Linux with money." He also said big corporations such IBM are now... a part of the "Linux community"
I recall a lot of teeth gnashing that "evil corporate influence" would corrupt the soul of linux. Linus says "don't worry, be happy."
Didn't Nietzsche say "That which does not close the source can only make us stronger." ?
IANAKH (kernel hacker), but the big change I have seen discussed is removeing system "races." Up until 2.2, sometime two process could "compete" for the same "resource," mucking things up.
Hopefully a real kernel hacker can do a better job explaining.
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How do these folks differ? After 10 minutes of reading, I had found few differences.
Maybe a really well-written Perl script could diff these jokers for us?
As speculation about extra-terrestial life, this piece is just that... speculation.
As a critique of our current space efforts...I love it.
Shostak,[is] trying to beat it
out of our heads that humankind will inevitably encounter what he calls "soft and squishy aliens."...headaches increase exponentially when a human is placed in the payload of a space launch -- all while mission
duration is hacked down mercilessly.
If this logic applies to extra-terrestials, it applies to terrestials. We need to get over our protoplasm fixation, scrap manned space travel, and get serious about going to the stars
If AOL is going to want to build into Mozilla these proprietary components, aren't we looking at GPL conflicts all over the place
NO
Aol still owns the codebase. By releasing a copy of the source under GPL, they are letting others play with it. But all of the stuff AOL generated, and perhaps all the stuff submitted under MPL, are owned by AOL and they can do anything they want.
The GPL just says we can't close the stuff we play with --- the original author is not so bound.
No one is forcing the individuals who live in France to use English words -- they, as individuals, choose to.
Armed invaders are not forcing anyone in France to renounce their ideals. Rather, the people of France are searching the market place of ideas for what they most want - as any free people should. As a result, the French elite is seeing its myth of self-assured superiority undermined.
Why this is bad? Shouldn't we be happy for the French people? Now they can choose their culture instead of having it dictated to them by laws.
They...[have]important patents, and they collect royalties
ERGO
RMBS DID contribute significantly to advances in memory technology
FALSE
Your argument shows that RMBS laid claim to advances and that, for whatever reason, others see it in their self-interest to respect that claim. Given the tenuous link from idea generation to legal claim, and then from legal claim to royalty payment, your argument simply does not suppport your conclusion.
I encourage you to be more skeptical as to the degree any given legal situation reflects reality.
Couldn't any motivated user could poll the FreeNet and build his/her own archive?
Deja News would seem to be a useful analogy: USENET stuff hangs around for a while and then expires, but nothing stops motivated users, like Deja News, from archiving for later use.
Whoever does the archiving becomes vulnerable to physical/legal attact, but that is the nature of any physical archive
You question can be regarded as deep, since we are talking about how information get passed between conceptually distinct parts of the program. For most C++ work, it boils down to how things are passed to functions:
In pass by value, a complete copy is made of the thing being passed. The function being called the works on the copy, leaving the original untouched.
In pass by reference, only enough information for the called rouitne to find the original thing is passed. The small smidgeon of information can be called the reference. There is only one (original) copy of the thing, and the called function uses it reference to find and operate on the original thing.
copyright owner is a matter of law, not a matter of fact...... Am I reading this correctly?
Careful here - lawyers don't mean what you and I mean by "fact" and "law." Substituting "adjudication" and "evidence" for "law" and "fact" gets closer to the conventional meanings.
By way of example, consider the Microsoft anti-trust case. While the entire finding is merely the opinion of one man (Judge Jackson), the findings of law are appealable, but the findings of fact basically are not.
breaking the shrinkwrap...Presto! Instant contract.
Nope. A shrinkwrap license has never been tested in a serious court case. Given that the "shrinkwrap" approach runs counter to two major currents of contract law { (1) a contract is unenforceable if informed consent is absent (2) shrinkwrap license seems to violate consumer protection laws of many states} , I wouldn't bet that any of these shrinkwrap approaches would survive a serious legal assault
Is OS X going into a Palm/Newton near you? No obvious benefit there.
I, and many I know, can type faster than I can write. No obvious benefit there
A computer input "for the rest of us" ? I don't see much that handwriting can do that you can't do with a mouse and hunt-and-peck. ( I know of what I speak: I help a lot of 2-6 year olds use iMacs). No obvious benefit there
A writing tablet. Cross has sold one these for years. My office mate has one. Cool toy, not too useful for getting work done. No obvious benefit there.
Could somebody help me with the obvious: why, beyond the "kewl" factor, is handwriting technology useful for a masss market computer?....aaahhhhh, but maybe that is the point. If non-computer users think that they can avoid the keybaord, maybe they'll be more likely to buy a Mac.
However one feels about Napster, there may be a silver lining for Open Source: two of three mostly likely successors (Gnutela and freenet) are both Open Souce, so we may have another high profile success on our hands. The third runner-up, Scour, is closed -- but it is already having legal problems.
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Monterey was the joint effort of IBM, SCO, and two others to port a high-end, enterprise class unix to Itanium (IA-64). The excitement driving the buzz was that Monterey looked like the migration path for AIX.
Looks like Linux inherits all that buzz.
GO TRILLIAN
This means IBM will use LInux over AIX for it's future unix growth --- Sun must be scared...and the SCO carcass is being picked clean 8)
just my $0.02
I have a question:
Watt Humphrey of Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute pushes the Capability Maturity Model, which he claims marries Total Quality Management (made famous by the Japanese) with software engineering. It's sounds a bit like Scientology to me, with PSP/TSP, reviews, and lot of acronyms, but I have seen rave reviews around the web.
Could some please let me know if the CMM and the "Best Practices" being discussed have anything to do with each other?
Thanks.
Moderators: this isn't intended to be offtopic - I am trying to get at what "best practices" are driving the discussion
SAP is the German company that makes the R/3 business software. The company you are describing is probably SAS institute, who makes statistics/ data analysis software.
Acting civilized pays off in the long term.
Or, as I like to say, "Time wounds all heels."
Wow. M$ porting to linux, now this...we live in wondrous times.
A nice piece, but he missing one of ESRs key points: Economic Viability.
His discussion of peer approval being crucial reinforces ESRs insight that a "gift economy" lies at the heart of Open Source culture, but the author gives no hint of how his (or anyone elses) open source coding would be compatible with long term economic self-interest
ESR does so in the Magic Cauldron
IANAKH (kernel hacker), but the big change I have seen discussed is removeing system "races." Up until 2.2, sometime two process could "compete" for the same "resource," mucking things up.
Hopefully a real kernel hacker can do a better job explaining.
How do these folks differ? After 10 minutes of reading, I had found few differences.
Maybe a really well-written Perl script could diff these jokers for us?
If this logic applies to extra-terrestials, it applies to terrestials. We need to get over our protoplasm fixation, scrap manned space travel, and get serious about going to the stars
If AOL is going to want to build into Mozilla these proprietary components, aren't we looking at GPL conflicts all over the place
NO
Aol still owns the codebase. By releasing a copy of the source under GPL, they are letting others play with it. But all of the stuff AOL generated, and perhaps all the stuff submitted under MPL, are owned by AOL and they can do anything they want. The GPL just says we can't close the stuff we play with --- the original author is not so bound.
No one is forcing the individuals who live in France to use English words -- they, as individuals, choose to.
Armed invaders are not forcing anyone in France to renounce their ideals. Rather, the people of France are searching the market place of ideas for what they most want - as any free people should. As a result, the French elite is seeing its myth of self-assured superiority undermined.
Why this is bad? Shouldn't we be happy for the French people? Now they can choose their culture instead of having it dictated to them by laws.
They...[have]important patents, and they collect royalties
ERGO
RMBS DID contribute significantly to advances in memory technology
FALSE
Your argument shows that RMBS laid claim to advances and that, for whatever reason, others see it in their self-interest to respect that claim. Given the tenuous link from idea generation to legal claim, and then from legal claim to royalty payment, your argument simply does not suppport your conclusion.
I encourage you to be more skeptical as to the degree any given legal situation reflects reality.
Couldn't any motivated user could poll the FreeNet and build his/her own archive?
Deja News would seem to be a useful analogy: USENET stuff hangs around for a while and then expires, but nothing stops motivated users, like Deja News, from archiving for later use.
Whoever does the archiving becomes vulnerable to physical/legal attact, but that is the nature of any physical archive
Thanks!
I knew the trend of the law, but lacked these details.
tylerh
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In pass by value, a complete copy is made of the thing being passed. The function being called the works on the copy, leaving the original untouched.
In pass by reference, only enough information for the called rouitne to find the original thing is passed. The small smidgeon of information can be called the reference. There is only one (original) copy of the thing, and the called function uses it reference to find and operate on the original thing.
hope this helps.
One can always gain performance by throwing throwing away features.
Late Binding may be feature bloat to you, but it abosultely essential for me.
This one fact alone is probably enough to keep me away from Sea Harp, or whatever M$ calls this.
copyright owner is a matter of law, not a matter of fact...... Am I reading this correctly?
Careful here - lawyers don't mean what you and I mean by "fact" and "law." Substituting "adjudication" and "evidence" for "law" and "fact" gets closer to the conventional meanings.
By way of example, consider the Microsoft anti-trust case. While the entire finding is merely the opinion of one man (Judge Jackson), the findings of law are appealable, but the findings of fact basically are not.
breaking the shrinkwrap...Presto! Instant contract.
Nope. A shrinkwrap license has never been tested in a serious court case. Given that the "shrinkwrap" approach runs counter to two major currents of contract law { (1) a contract is unenforceable if informed consent is absent (2) shrinkwrap license seems to violate consumer protection laws of many states} , I wouldn't bet that any of these shrinkwrap approaches would survive a serious legal assault
Is OS X going into a Palm/Newton near you? No obvious benefit there.
I, and many I know, can type faster than I can write. No obvious benefit there
A computer input "for the rest of us" ? I don't see much that handwriting can do that you can't do with a mouse and hunt-and-peck. ( I know of what I speak: I help a lot of 2-6 year olds use iMacs). No obvious benefit there
A writing tablet. Cross has sold one these for years. My office mate has one. Cool toy, not too useful for getting work done. No obvious benefit there.
....aaahhhhh, but maybe that is the point. If non-computer users think that they can avoid the keybaord, maybe they'll be more likely to buy a Mac.
Could somebody help me with the obvious: why, beyond the "kewl" factor, is handwriting technology useful for a masss market computer?
anazon is not Amazon
dosney is not Disney
disny is not Disney
yehoo is not yahoo
yaoo is not Yahoo
suckdot used to be a parody site
bigfot is not bigfoot
Many of these sites have gotten legal letters of late, as they used to link direclty to porn sites (eg. dosney).
Are you claiming it is OK for me to sell a cola dirnk in a red bottle, but call it Coka Cola?
This is basic trademark law, and it is (and should be) illegal.
However one feels about Napster, there may be a silver lining for Open Source: two of three mostly likely successors (Gnutela and freenet) are both Open Souce, so we may have another high profile success on our hands.
The third runner-up, Scour, is closed -- but it is already having legal problems.