When MS does it, there are API subsets with enough differences to bite the developer with the huge MS GUI always coming along for the ride. When someone does it with Linux, they are free to port any bit of API that they need and discard the rest.
If you are putting Linux on a 256 CPU box, you may well have some very valuable input to the kernel developers about scaling beyond 16 CPUs.
Is it the Optimum thing? That depends on your criteria. If your primary criteria is speed to market, maybe it is the right thing to do. If your criteria is to squeeze the highest possible performance out of your hardware, the answer might still be a free OS, but you'll spend time and money to optimize the kernel. It might still pay if you have few other options to buy an OS for that platform.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Linux is an OS that has been implemented on tiny devices like the Itsy and huge platforms like OS/390. There is no other OS that has such a large range of targets.
Now, just imagine trying to use an Itsy "rock and scroll" driver on a bookcase sized mainframe.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Also you could have multiple high speed printers I really can't believe that you need a mainframe to increase something that is on the device end like a printer.
And here is where you betray your ignorance of things mainframe. Mainframe devices are much faster than similir devices in the PC world. A mainframe printer connects like a network device does and utilizes huge transfer rates. Mainframes are built for IO. IO from tapes, to tapes, to printers. Mainframes exist for IO.
Beowulf clusters are built for parallel processes -- think solving intractable differential equations through simulation like weather models where the state of point A influences its neighbors.
Billing and accounting systems don't have the same kind of dependance between data points. It's just that there is a massive number of them. And they need to be processed quickly. Some of the files I work with every day have 7 million records with 2K of data per record. That 14GB just for that dataset and we get a new dataset every month. And that's just one file. I use about 10 different files. My company has literally tens of thousands of data files on tape cartridges in the mainframe data center. I can process *any* of them on request in a matter of minutes. I could process those 7 million records of data in a half hour if I had the machine all to myself. That's about 9 MBytes/sec of sustained throughput *with* calculations on every one of 7 million records in that time.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This happened with Debian, Corel, and libapt. Corel wrote a QT frontend using libapt. Libapt is covered under the GPL (not LGPL). Corel would have been a violation of the GPL except that the author(s) of libapt gave Corel a special licence.
I think that this is perhaps the weakest part of the GPL. Corel gave in, but the next violator may not.
Vendor A provides a library, libA, (perhaps with header files) under the GPL. I produce product B which uses dynamic linking to access the routines provided in LibA. Is my product a "derivative work" in the sense of copyright law?
I might argue that my use of libA is using an uncopyrightable method of operation exposed by libA. My work is not a derivative of the copyrightable elements of libA as an independantly derived and non-GPL library sharing libA's API could also be used with my dynamically linked package.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Actually, I think I am. I use this sub-notebook mostly for email and light web browsing (usually with lynx). Now, perhaps my daily load of email (200-400 messages depending on the day of the week) is more than most and I like to carry around a 20MB archive of messages. I have the Sierra Wireless Aircard for CDPD and an external battery for 5 hours of battery life. I have the ususal assortment of TCP/IP applications including fetchmail and ssh.
Now, your $279 price is a lot better than the $400 mentioned in the submission. But take that $400 unit mentioned above, add in 40 MB of Flash to have a filesystem big enough to hold a kernel a few apps and some data (click click click) for $328 at Insight and we're rapidly approaching my $800 figure. It dosn't look as good a deal.
For $279, I think that you're looking at a very attractive price point given that you still need to add on to get it to do much of anything. At $400, not so much.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I have an $800 Mitsubishi Amity with a 1.4 GB hard drive, a Pentium 133 and 32MB of RAM running a stock Mandrake 7.0 distribution. Why am I going to spend $800 (after I finish upgrading the system to have even less capability than the one I have now) for a machine that only runs experimental Linux ports?
Sounds like a loser move to me.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Which would be easier? Who knows. Which will they do: Port their virtual win32 environment.
Otherwise, they'd have to help fix WINE. The day that MS helps fix WINE is the day I buy the ice skating rink concession at the innermost circle of Hell.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Is it morally acceptable to do away with strict safety standards for airlines and allow the marketplace to punish airlines with poor safety records? No.
Is it morally acceptable to allow companies to sell adulterated foods and at best worthless and at worst dangerous drugs to people who don't have the time, knowledge or inclination to do the safety studies themselves? No.
Just take a look at some of the yellow journalism from only 100 years ago about the adulteration of foods and the sale of patent medicines prior to mandatory Federal inspections of meats and regulations of drugs. Do you want companies to slip addictive substances into products again without disclosure requirements? Coca Cola used to be a highly addictive product.
Comsumer Protection is just what it says it is. I don't have any market power to a corporation that sells millions of units. There is a huge disparity of power between me and a corporation. Laws give me some equity. I don;t want to give that up.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
We oppose all so-called "consumer protection" legislation [...] and call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. We advocate the repeal of all laws banning or restricting the advertising of prices, products, or services. We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.
We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration, [...] We call for privatizing the air traffic control system and transferring the FAA's other functions to private agencies.
We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration [...] We advocate an end to compulsory fluoridation of water supplies. We specifically oppose government regulation of the price, potency, or quantity able to be produced or purchased of drugs or other consumer goods.
Gack! I didn't realize how dangerous to my personal safety the Libertarian Party would be. Thanks but no thanks.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Probably. In the past when songs from Disney animations have been nominated, live singers have performed the song as part of a huge production number. They sometimes do mixtures of live action and animation in Oscar sequences, but not ususally in the song sections.
Sometimes the performer of the nominated song is the original performer and sometimes not.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I think that you deserve some of the credit for this victory. It just goes to show that geeks can make a difference when we take the time to get involved and to make our pitch in a way that can be understood by the average Joe.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
All Redhat is doing is waiting for Microsoft to make every move and then they mirror the same move.
Who cares?
Red Hat is one Linux company. There are other distributions out there with other goals. Let them chase the market that they see. It is a business after all.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
First, whatever happened to compromise? In most libraries, there's a kid's section and a general section, and even two varieties of library cards. With parental consent, a child can access the general selection. Why not apply the same thing to the computer section?
I agree with you, but the resolution facing Holland and other towns is the mandatory installation of blocking software on all Internet-connected computers in the library. Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Inside the gouge, however, only smaller craters are present, indicating that the area within the gouge is younger than the surface along the terminator.
I know that the general rule is that the more densly cratered a surface, the older it is. This tells us that the surface of Europa is very young while the surface of nearby Callista is older. But might it not be strictly true in this case?
It seems to me that the gouge is somewhat sheltered so that the proability of it being hit is something less that proportional to the surface area exposed. Consider the extereme case of an object shaped like a bowl. The inside and outside surfaces of a bowl are of roughly equal areas, but it seems to me that the probability of a strike on the outside of a bowl is higher than the probability of a strike on the inside of a bowl because the outside obscures the inside more often than vice versa.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Well, you know, if you think about a movie and maybe even imagine alternate endings, those thoughts are legally derivative works of a copyrighted work and as such the exculsive right to distribute them and all of the earnings derived from them belongs to the copyright holder.
Sony will grant you a "fair use" exemption if you only if you agree to keep your thoughts to yourself. The provisions of this license will be enforced by the thought police.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Tempest detects the EM emitted from the monitor as it displays the screen. Since the stff is still being displayed, Tempest-type equiptment can still read it.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
The common aphorism is if you can see it, you can rip it. (There are cases when this isn't true, but it's largely true.) This is an attempt to defeat that truism.
If your DVD player sat on a bus with your vidoe, then encrypted data can be sent to the video without it being available unencrypted for snooping. If your sound device sat on the same bus, you couldn't snoop the audio from your DVD movies or audio (assuming they got their act together and used some *real* encryption.)
This is the future of Firewire.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Looking on the Library of Congress DMCA pages, I see that the anti-circumvention measures go into effect on October 28, 2000. If that's true, I don't know how a judge could have made any ruling now based on that part of the law. Effectively, it isn't law, yet.
There are two subsections. One is law now and that is the part of the law that has been applied in the MPAA case, the other subsection has not taken effect and it is that sections that the LoC is asking for comments on.
Did you even reat the excellent comment by michael? Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
No matter what the defendants might say now it is almost impossible to prove to a judge that the true motives behind spreading the code were to play DVDs in Linux.
I strongly disagree. I won't give my reasons because MPAA lawyers read/. and they won't get any help from me. But, it can be clearly demonstrated. The actions of third parties are inconsequential.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Anonymity allows some people to abuse others because there is no accountability. Anonymity requires more self-restraint, not less. Unfortunately, we live in a culture wil very little self-restraint.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Slashdot Mirror
When MS does it, there are API subsets with enough differences to bite the developer with the huge MS GUI always coming along for the ride. When someone does it with Linux, they are free to port any bit of API that they need and discard the rest.
If you are putting Linux on a 256 CPU box, you may well have some very valuable input to the kernel developers about scaling beyond 16 CPUs.
Is it the Optimum thing? That depends on your criteria. If your primary criteria is speed to market, maybe it is the right thing to do. If your criteria is to squeeze the highest possible performance out of your hardware, the answer might still be a free OS, but you'll spend time and money to optimize the kernel. It might still pay if you have few other options to buy an OS for that platform.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Linux is an OS that has been implemented on tiny devices like the Itsy and huge platforms like OS/390. There is no other OS that has such a large range of targets.
Now, just imagine trying to use an Itsy "rock and scroll" driver on a bookcase sized mainframe.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
What happens if you make a Beowulf cluster of mainframes? ;^>
Actually, you can virtualize a whole bunch of Linux systems on one mainframe and Beowulf them.
Talk about ridiculous extremes.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Also you could have multiple high speed printers I really can't believe that you need a mainframe to increase something that is on the device end like a printer.
And here is where you betray your ignorance of things mainframe. Mainframe devices are much faster than similir devices in the PC world. A mainframe printer connects like a network device does and utilizes huge transfer rates. Mainframes are built for IO. IO from tapes, to tapes, to printers. Mainframes exist for IO.
Beowulf clusters are built for parallel processes -- think solving intractable differential equations through simulation like weather models where the state of point A influences its neighbors.
Billing and accounting systems don't have the same kind of dependance between data points. It's just that there is a massive number of them.
And they need to be processed quickly. Some of the files I work with every day have 7 million records with 2K of data per record. That 14GB just for that dataset and we get a new dataset every month. And that's just one file. I use about 10 different files. My company has literally tens of thousands of data files on tape cartridges in the mainframe data center. I can process *any* of them on request in a matter of minutes. I could process those 7 million records of data in a half hour if I had the machine all to myself. That's about 9 MBytes/sec of sustained throughput *with* calculations on every one of 7 million records in that time.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
This happened with Debian, Corel, and libapt. Corel wrote a QT frontend using libapt. Libapt is covered under the GPL (not LGPL). Corel would have been a violation of the GPL except that the author(s) of libapt gave Corel a special licence.
I think that this is perhaps the weakest part of the GPL. Corel gave in, but the next violator may not.
Vendor A provides a library, libA, (perhaps with header files) under the GPL. I produce product B which uses dynamic linking to access the routines provided in LibA. Is my product a "derivative work" in the sense of copyright law?
I might argue that my use of libA is using an uncopyrightable method of operation exposed by libA. My work is not a derivative of the copyrightable elements of libA as an independantly derived and non-GPL library sharing libA's API could also be used with my dynamically linked package.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
How much flash are you going to add? And for how much?
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Actually, I think I am. I use this sub-notebook mostly for email and light web browsing (usually with lynx). Now, perhaps my daily load of email (200-400 messages depending on the day of the week) is more than most and I like to carry around a 20MB archive of messages. I have the Sierra Wireless Aircard for CDPD and an external battery for 5 hours of battery life. I have the ususal assortment of TCP/IP applications including fetchmail and ssh.
Now, your $279 price is a lot better than the $400 mentioned in the submission. But take that $400 unit mentioned above, add in 40 MB of Flash to have a filesystem big enough to hold a kernel a few apps and some data (click click click) for $328 at Insight and we're rapidly approaching my $800 figure. It dosn't look as good a deal.
For $279, I think that you're looking at a very attractive price point given that you still need to add on to get it to do much of anything. At $400, not so much.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I have an $800 Mitsubishi Amity with a 1.4 GB hard drive, a Pentium 133 and 32MB of RAM running a stock Mandrake 7.0 distribution. Why am I going to spend $800 (after I finish upgrading the system to have even less capability than the one I have now) for a machine that only runs experimental Linux ports?
Sounds like a loser move to me.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Get it here and cry.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Which would be easier? Who knows. Which will they do: Port their virtual win32 environment.
Otherwise, they'd have to help fix WINE. The day that MS helps fix WINE is the day I buy the ice skating rink concession at the innermost circle of Hell.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Is it morally acceptable to do away with strict safety standards for airlines and allow the marketplace to punish airlines with poor safety records? No.
Is it morally acceptable to allow companies to sell adulterated foods and at best worthless and at worst dangerous drugs to people who don't have the time, knowledge or inclination to do the safety studies themselves? No.
Just take a look at some of the yellow journalism from only 100 years ago about the adulteration of foods and the sale of patent medicines prior to mandatory Federal inspections of meats and regulations of drugs. Do you want companies to slip addictive substances into products again without disclosure requirements? Coca Cola used to be a highly addictive product.
Comsumer Protection is just what it says it is. I don't have any market power to a corporation that sells millions of units. There is a huge disparity of power between me and a corporation. Laws give me some equity. I don;t want to give that up.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
We oppose all so-called "consumer protection" legislation [...] and call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. We advocate the repeal of all laws banning or restricting the advertising of prices, products, or services. We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called "self-protection" equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.
We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration, [...] We call for privatizing the air traffic control system and transferring the FAA's other functions to private agencies.
We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration [...] We advocate an end to compulsory fluoridation of water supplies. We specifically oppose government regulation of the price, potency, or quantity able to be produced or purchased of drugs or other consumer goods.
Gack! I didn't realize how dangerous to my personal safety the Libertarian Party would be. Thanks but no thanks.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
c) live performance
Probably. In the past when songs from Disney animations have been nominated, live singers have performed the song as part of a huge production number. They sometimes do mixtures of live action and animation in Oscar sequences, but not ususally in the song sections.
Sometimes the performer of the nominated song is the original performer and sometimes not.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I think that you deserve some of the credit for this victory. It just goes to show that geeks can make a difference when we take the time to get involved and to make our pitch in a way that can be understood by the average Joe.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
All Redhat is doing is waiting for Microsoft to make every move and then they mirror the same move.
Who cares?
Red Hat is one Linux company. There are other distributions out there with other goals. Let them chase the market that they see. It is a business after all.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
First, whatever happened to compromise? In most libraries, there's a kid's section and a general section, and even two varieties of library cards. With parental consent, a child can access the general selection. Why not apply the same thing to the computer section?
I agree with you, but the resolution facing Holland and other towns is the mandatory installation of blocking software on all Internet-connected computers in the library.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
And it's about time.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
I know that the general rule is that the more densly cratered a surface, the older it is. This tells us that the surface of Europa is very young while the surface of nearby Callista is older. But might it not be strictly true in this case?
It seems to me that the gouge is somewhat sheltered so that the proability of it being hit is something less that proportional to the surface area exposed. Consider the extereme case of an object shaped like a bowl. The inside and outside surfaces of a bowl are of roughly equal areas, but it seems to me that the probability of a strike on the outside of a bowl is higher than the probability of a strike on the inside of a bowl because the outside obscures the inside more often than vice versa.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Well, you know, if you think about a movie and maybe even imagine alternate endings, those thoughts are legally derivative works of a copyrighted work and as such the exculsive right to distribute them and all of the earnings derived from them belongs to the copyright holder.
Sony will grant you a "fair use" exemption if you only if you agree to keep your thoughts to yourself. The provisions of this license will be enforced by the thought police.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Tempest detects the EM emitted from the monitor as it displays the screen. Since the stff is still being displayed, Tempest-type equiptment can still read it.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
The common aphorism is if you can see it, you can rip it. (There are cases when this isn't true, but it's largely true.) This is an attempt to defeat that truism.
If your DVD player sat on a bus with your vidoe, then encrypted data can be sent to the video without it being available unencrypted for snooping. If your sound device sat on the same bus, you couldn't snoop the audio from your DVD movies or audio (assuming they got their act together and used some *real* encryption.)
This is the future of Firewire.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Looking on the Library of Congress DMCA pages, I see that the anti-circumvention measures go into effect on October 28, 2000. If that's true, I don't know how a judge could have made any ruling now based on that part of the law. Effectively, it isn't law, yet.
There are two subsections. One is law now and that is the part of the law that has been applied in the MPAA case, the other subsection has not taken effect and it is that sections that the LoC is asking for comments on.
Did you even reat the excellent comment by michael?
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
No matter what the defendants might say now it is almost impossible to prove to a judge that the true motives behind spreading the code were to play DVDs in Linux.
/. and they won't get any help from me. But, it can be clearly demonstrated. The actions of third parties are inconsequential.
I strongly disagree. I won't give my reasons because MPAA lawyers read
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Fair Use is a defense to copyright infringement. It is not a defense to trademark infringement.
/. icon is a defense.
The presence of the registration mark in the
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected
Anonymity allows some people to abuse others because there is no accountability. Anonymity requires more self-restraint, not less. Unfortunately, we live in a culture wil very little self-restraint.
Anomalous: inconsistent with or deviating from what is usual, normal, or expected