...there will never be a way to ensure that the originating PBX is telling the truth. DID ranges are (for the most part) not tied directly to outgoing phone lines, so they can't even be verified against those.
This sounds very similar to the arguments against filtering spoofed packets on the Internet. "Our network is designed such that it needs spoofed packets to work," etc. And yet, responsible ISPs managed to adapt. It's time for the telcos to do the same.
It's certainly true that the MPAA members don't want competition, but this isn't even competition IMO. If you buy a movie on DVD and then rip it, that doesn't compete with DVD sales.
Performance for games and performance for media apps are not the same thing. And performance is not the only consideration for a console. There are rumors that MS wanted to own their chip designs, which was not an option for Intel processors. Also consider power, cost, customizability, etc.
Why didn't the FSF continue to use the LGPL, which is equivalent, instead of creating new variants of the GPL. Isn't this producing the same kind of license confusion they complain about with the Creative Commons license family?
LGPL forbids static linking; the exception allows static linking.
AFAIK, both HD DVD and Blu-ray players currently on the market already use the same previous-generation Broadcom chip. And the Sigma Designs wonderchip has claimed to support both formats for a year or two. But a dual-format chip only means that you can use the chip to build either a Blu-ray player or an HD DVD player; licensing, physical differences, and firmware development cost will probably prevent dual-format players from happening.
It's really not fair to expect a $500 console to have the same graphics as a $2,000 PC. For mainstream gamers, PS3 will probably compare favorably to a PC when it comes out.
Actually, I would not be surprised if some people fork HotSpot precisely because they don't want to participate in the JCP. IIRC, Kaffe lead developer Dalibor Topic refuses to agree to the JCP's NDA. Let me be the first to propose "HotWeasel" as the project name.
A no-forking license would not meet the Open Source Definition, so many developers would shun it. Forking provides an important check against mismanagement; some prominent projects have only survived due to forks (GCC comes to mind).
That's not how most Java developers interpret the GPL. But unfortunately, Sun will never be able to educate everyone about how they interpret the GPL, so this misunderstanding will live forever.
Consider that the PS3 is $500 and a high-end graphics card is now $600. The days of consoles having the most powerful graphics are over; the economics don't support it.
Also, if this precedent is set, what would stop someone from setting up a "company" that hosts MP3s on a website, same as YouTube hosts videos? The RIAA would swamp the company with requests to take down specific songs, and the community could respond to it.
I think you just described Usenet. However, watch out for ALS v. Remarq.
Microsoft already created their own pseudo-Java (.NET), so now there's nothing worse they could do to Java. Likewise, there are already N different incompatible open source JVMs, so that situation can't get any worse either. Having nothing to lose, Sun can now give up some control.
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And any new "fusion" instructions will work the same way, so it's not a problem.
That mess already exists: MMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4... Yet software just works.
So my question is, how long until we see widespread PPU (Physics processing unit) usage, and beyond that, a Physics extension to the x86 ISA?
Never, since it looks like physics can efficiently run on GPUs now.
...there will never be a way to ensure that the originating PBX is telling the truth. DID ranges are (for the most part) not tied directly to outgoing phone lines, so they can't even be verified against those.
This sounds very similar to the arguments against filtering spoofed packets on the Internet. "Our network is designed such that it needs spoofed packets to work," etc. And yet, responsible ISPs managed to adapt. It's time for the telcos to do the same.
It's certainly true that the MPAA members don't want competition, but this isn't even competition IMO. If you buy a movie on DVD and then rip it, that doesn't compete with DVD sales.
The existing IBM PPC/Linux VM should run fine. Getting Java to use SPUs sounds insanely hard, though.
Sony won't boot a non-approved OS so don't hold out hope for a Linux that uses the RSX.
The PS3 will boot any OS, but it runs under the hypervisor.
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I am totally ignorant about SL, so maybe someone can educate me.
If your business' products are entirely reproducible and then sold for cheap, you cannot sustain a living in such a place.
Is SL intended to sustain businesses? AFAIK you can't make a living in IRC or most computer games either, but I don't consider that to be a problem.
There is no gift culture like in OSS
Why? If the OSS world can sustain a working gift culture and SL can't, maybe we can learn from the differences and improve SL.
Performance for games and performance for media apps are not the same thing. And performance is not the only consideration for a console. There are rumors that MS wanted to own their chip designs, which was not an option for Intel processors. Also consider power, cost, customizability, etc.
I wonder how much faster the Intel versions will be in comparison to the G5s...
Look at #20; it's almost identical to an Intel Xserve.
Why didn't the FSF continue to use the LGPL, which is equivalent, instead of creating new variants of the GPL. Isn't this producing the same kind of license confusion they complain about with the Creative Commons license family?
LGPL forbids static linking; the exception allows static linking.
He said "affordable".
(It depends on your perspective; enterprisey customers probably think ESX is cheap, while whiteboxers think "OMG it costs more than the server".)
That would be like "combining" Windows and Mac OS X to make a better operating system. It doesn't quite work that way.
Why not? OS X is a train wreck of OS 9, BSD, Mach, and NeXT code and it works pretty well.
AFAIK, both HD DVD and Blu-ray players currently on the market already use the same previous-generation Broadcom chip. And the Sigma Designs wonderchip has claimed to support both formats for a year or two. But a dual-format chip only means that you can use the chip to build either a Blu-ray player or an HD DVD player; licensing, physical differences, and firmware development cost will probably prevent dual-format players from happening.
It's really not fair to expect a $500 console to have the same graphics as a $2,000 PC. For mainstream gamers, PS3 will probably compare favorably to a PC when it comes out.
Actually, I would not be surprised if some people fork HotSpot precisely because they don't want to participate in the JCP. IIRC, Kaffe lead developer Dalibor Topic refuses to agree to the JCP's NDA. Let me be the first to propose "HotWeasel" as the project name.
Sun already said that they won't be releasing some parts that they don't own, so people shouldn't act surprised when the source is incomplete.
A no-forking license would not meet the Open Source Definition, so many developers would shun it. Forking provides an important check against mismanagement; some prominent projects have only survived due to forks (GCC comes to mind).
That's not how most Java developers interpret the GPL. But unfortunately, Sun will never be able to educate everyone about how they interpret the GPL, so this misunderstanding will live forever.
It's a fact.
Consider that the PS3 is $500 and a high-end graphics card is now $600. The days of consoles having the most powerful graphics are over; the economics don't support it.
All chip docs suck, and it costs money to finish them and clean them up for public consumption. Vendors probably just don't see the business case.
Also, if this precedent is set, what would stop someone from setting up a "company" that hosts MP3s on a website, same as YouTube hosts videos? The RIAA would swamp the company with requests to take down specific songs, and the community could respond to it.
I think you just described Usenet. However, watch out for ALS v. Remarq.
Microsoft already created their own pseudo-Java (.NET), so now there's nothing worse they could do to Java. Likewise, there are already N different incompatible open source JVMs, so that situation can't get any worse either. Having nothing to lose, Sun can now give up some control.