This is the most sane and well thought out post here, whether or not the ruling turns out to be correct.
Am I the only one to notice that no one even tries to defend Rambus on a technological basis anymore? The only defense I hear is from their stockholders that they should, for some unstated reason that escapes me, be allowed to get away with extorting licensing fees from memory manufacturers. I have to say, I hope they are sent to jail, and all the stockholders lose big. I will be happy to hear of Rammedbut getting theirs after they tried to rape me and all my fellow consumers with crappy, 16bit memory.
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Read the article again:
is now just beginning to start showing up in Linux systems; for example the latest slackware. The source or binary for over a dozen architectures can be downloaded from (http://www.research.att.com/sw/download).
Install it yourself....
And what is up with this quote (from the bottom of slashdot - where do you guys get these????)
Q: What do you say to a Puerto Rican in a three-piece suit? A: Will the defendant please rise?
That is what they are afraid of. We have created great ways to share wealth as never before, and the publishers are attempting to prevent it because they make extravagant salaries by having a shortage. One can not help but believe that the same thing will happen once someone develops a way to create food for nearly nothing, and that is the sad part. We would rather have people starve (for knowledge, food, whatever) than share.
What you are saying is that it is acceptable to you if the company that created your software can EASILY break into your system, as long as the random hacker cannot.
Sorry, but I disagree. I would even call that a BIG PROBLEM
It would take a hacker a significant amount of time to discover a properly hidden and hardcoded backdoor in a closed source product. Notice how many years it took ANYONE to discover this.
You are wrong about the time aspect, the second any backdoor is introduced, there is a security problem - not when someone other than the person that coded it finds it.
That is the big difference - in an open source project, a security flaw is accidental, and not exploitable until someone finds it - and hopefully it is the comunity that finds it and not a hacker. With a backdoor in a closed source project, security is broken immediately. The person that coded it knows about, his friends, the person that asked him to put it there, etc....
I am happy about it too, we will see how many people are left supporting Windows when suddenly they are forced to follow the rules - and really that is the majority of people this is going to hurt.
I had to deal with this issue at work when reinstalling Publisher 2000. We use one machine for a multitude of graphics programs (conversions, items from out of office and things going out of the office for publication). Upgraded the hard drive, and was forced to re-register. That is an extra 30 minutes of my life I will never get back. It will be a happy day when I can start installing Red Hat on end user workstations!!!
See, the "Except" part is what makes the BUG and prevents you from using a PCI video card like you can in a normal system.... When you start using exceptions from the normal or expected behavior, that is what makes a bug. Hope I did not use to many big words for you...?
Headline says:
"or one on the AGP, one on the PCI."
That's just it, you can not add a video card to any PCI slots, you can only use the AGP slot for video. Since there is only one AGP slot, you can use only one video card!
I do not believe people do not vote because of apathy, or out of protest (at least not many). Most people that do not vote, do so because they realize that it in no way empowers them. In today political climate, it takes vast sums of money to have any influence at all with politicians. This basically breaks down to two groups with any political power at all. Special interest groups and corporations. So, if you vote, you are really voting for which corporations and special interest groups you wish to see run the country.
I am voting for Harry Browne, because he actually represents my views. If the libertarians did not have a candidate, I probably would not vote.
It is my observation that non-native English speakers often have a firmer grip on certain areas of the English language than a native speaker. I have also observed that given the freedom of C or PERL, they will solve problems in a much different manner than a native speaker. I believe that claiming that your language does not affect your thought patterns is foolish.
Your C code should be...
C:
If (a==1)
{
b=2;
printf ("Hello");
}
Yours would enter the if statement for a != 0
This is not something likely to make it into SUSE or Redhat, and I do not think that is the point - I believe the point is to make AOL available for Linux on an appliance, like the ones AOL is developing with Gateway or Larry's NIC. In a short amount of time we may have many more appliances running Linux than we do servers.
Sounds to me like Microsoft is planning to phase out the Java Virtual Machine and replace it with their own C# Virtual Machine - forcing any Java code to run in a different sandbox. That's a much bigger story than a new programming language.
I went and ordered my copy... I have a 768K DSL line so I could easily download it. But I really would like to support their pricing. I would also like to see them sell a Million copies faster than Windows2K....
What many people fail to realize is that more than your chip is at risk. I have seen motherboards go bad - and video, audio, and hard drives are at risk as well. I have replaced motherboards in systems where the owner overclocked their AMD system - and the cpu was fine. I have also seen corupted data.... not what I would call a good solution.
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This is the most sane and well thought out post here, whether or not the ruling turns out to be correct.
Am I the only one to notice that no one even tries to defend Rambus on a technological basis anymore? The only defense I hear is from their stockholders that they should, for some unstated reason that escapes me, be allowed to get away with extorting licensing fees from memory manufacturers. I have to say, I hope they are sent to jail, and all the stockholders lose big. I will be happy to hear of Rammedbut getting theirs after they tried to rape me and all my fellow consumers with crappy, 16bit memory.
Read the article again:
is now just beginning to start showing up in Linux systems; for example the latest slackware. The source or binary for over a dozen architectures can be downloaded from (http://www.research.att.com/sw/download).
Install it yourself....
And what is up with this quote (from the bottom of slashdot - where do you guys get these????)
Q: What do you say to a Puerto Rican in a three-piece suit? A: Will the defendant please rise?
That is what they are afraid of. We have created great ways to share wealth as never before, and the publishers are attempting to prevent it because they make extravagant salaries by having a shortage. One can not help but believe that the same thing will happen once someone develops a way to create food for nearly nothing, and that is the sad part. We would rather have people starve (for knowledge, food, whatever) than share.
Sorry, but I disagree. I would even call that a BIG PROBLEM
You are wrong about the time aspect, the second any backdoor is introduced, there is a security problem - not when someone other than the person that coded it finds it.
That is the big difference - in an open source project, a security flaw is accidental, and not exploitable until someone finds it - and hopefully it is the comunity that finds it and not a hacker. With a backdoor in a closed source project, security is broken immediately. The person that coded it knows about, his friends, the person that asked him to put it there, etc....
I am happy about it too, we will see how many people are left supporting Windows when suddenly they are forced to follow the rules - and really that is the majority of people this is going to hurt.
I had to deal with this issue at work when reinstalling Publisher 2000. We use one machine for a multitude of graphics programs (conversions, items from out of office and things going out of the office for publication). Upgraded the hard drive, and was forced to re-register. That is an extra 30 minutes of my life I will never get back. It will be a happy day when I can start installing Red Hat on end user workstations!!!Yes, actually, I believe the headline is wrong. It states:
are just using the Matrox G450, or one on the AGP, one on the PCI.
And, whereas the Martox card is a viable solution, placing a second (or even only) card in a PCI slot is not.
Except on this motherboard (850 based).
See, the "Except" part is what makes the BUG and prevents you from using a PCI video card like you can in a normal system.... When you start using exceptions from the normal or expected behavior, that is what makes a bug. Hope I did not use to many big words for you...?
And it is quite possible to install video cards into PCI expansion slots if AGP is available. I've done so many times.
Not with the P4 - that's why it is a BUG
You can not use PCI for video on this system. The one in the article....
Headline says: "or one on the AGP, one on the PCI."
That's just it, you can not add a video card to any PCI slots, you can only use the AGP slot for video. Since there is only one AGP slot, you can use only one video card!
I do not believe people do not vote because of apathy, or out of protest (at least not many). Most people that do not vote, do so because they realize that it in no way empowers them. In today political climate, it takes vast sums of money to have any influence at all with politicians. This basically breaks down to two groups with any political power at all. Special interest groups and corporations. So, if you vote, you are really voting for which corporations and special interest groups you wish to see run the country. I am voting for Harry Browne, because he actually represents my views. If the libertarians did not have a candidate, I probably would not vote.
I show 35.84 BogoMIPS on an old 90MHz Pentium server here at work... so I would say >41 times is a decent increase ;)
It is my observation that non-native English speakers often have a firmer grip on certain areas of the English language than a native speaker. I have also observed that given the freedom of C or PERL, they will solve problems in a much different manner than a native speaker. I believe that claiming that your language does not affect your thought patterns is foolish.
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Your C code should be
C:
If (a==1)
{
b=2;
printf ("Hello");
}
Yours would enter the if statement for a != 0
This is not something likely to make it into SUSE or Redhat, and I do not think that is the point - I believe the point is to make AOL available for Linux on an appliance, like the ones AOL is developing with Gateway or Larry's NIC. In a short amount of time we may have many more appliances running Linux than we do servers.
Did you look at the website of the guy who wrote overkill? It's pretty funny, wonder what his attraction to strawberries is???
Sounds to me like Microsoft is planning to phase out the Java Virtual Machine and replace it with their own C# Virtual Machine - forcing any Java code to run in a different sandbox. That's a much bigger story than a new programming language.
Gnome Rocks!
What many people fail to realize is that more than your chip is at risk. I have seen motherboards go bad - and video, audio, and hard drives are at risk as well. I have replaced motherboards in systems where the owner overclocked their AMD system - and the cpu was fine. I have also seen corupted data.... not what I would call a good solution.
Why wasn't the Spec GPLed, it would have prevented this whole problem. Microsoft would have been forced to publish their changes.