My brother and I wrote a linux kernel driver for the em8400 chip, i.e. Netstream card, for convergence (see this link and this one). The driver implements the linux DVB API (described at linuxtv.org), but we can't publish anything because of NDA agreements with Sigma Designs. The card is very nice and has a very good MPEG decoder. I don't see why they don't want it published as open source.
there shouldn't be a problem. The code just documents the method of the patent which is not infringing. Private users and educational institutions should also have no problems, that's what patents are for.
Not only the government employees, but every citizen must be allowed to review the code the government uses. To review not necessarily to be able to use it. If you can't check the code that adds your votes, calculates your taxes, keeps your private data or handles other vital areas of the government, you can't trust it.
The government shouldn't necessarily force the use of OSS, but rather make it a requirement to have full access to the source of a product they intent to use. The difference would be that the software manufacturer doesn't need to change the license, but will have to make the source code available for review by the public. That doesn't mean that they give away their software. They still have the copyright and any use of the code without a license would be illegal.
The zilla is only a relict of a misleading transcription of the ji syllable which is the soft form of shi (or si) in the alternate trasncription. Anyway, the zilla could be an allusion to jirasu (to irritate);-)
that releasing government software under GPL doesn't prevent the authors to also release it under a different license. In much the same way that Trolltech released their software. In this way you can guaranty that the taxpayer can profit without having to pay for it twice and if a software company would like a different license they can pay for it.
to your C code. You just have to know how FORTRAN arrays are held in memory and how long the FORTRAN types are. Then you need to know what standard FORTRAN libs you need to link, so that your numerical libs will work. I did that for lots of my numerical work and it worked fine. You have to test it of course and it takes a while to work out the kinks.
Why are all those articles so negative. Right now it looks like they overcame the production difficulties and are moving ahead with new costumers that are actually building notebooks with Crusoe CPUs. The U1 from Sony is the hihest selling notebook in Japan already and the Fujitsu P series is also selling well in the USA. With the upcoming HP tablet and the OQO, I would say they aren't doing so badly.
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Mr. Joe Average doesn't install his OS. If he would there would be even more complaining about M$.
the w3c validator. Sometimes the webmasters of the site even respond and are surprised that such a thing exists. If people would keep doing that, web desingers might use the validator as well. The real problem are those so-called authoring tools which produce invalid html in the first place. Everybody who bought such a program should complain to the manufacturer.
can you play a game a record a TV show at the same time. In case you don't want to interrupt your session and your favorit TV show is about to start. But I doubt the Xbox is capable of that.
The em847x is a very nice chip and cries out for being used in STBs. It is the successor of the em8400 which was used in the netstream PCI cards and in some STBs and which provides a great MPG1/2 decoder with a very high quality TV picture. The great thing is that some of the em847x chips are pin compatible with the em8400, so that manufactures don't have to change their layout. The only shortcomings are that it only provides overlay for the display on your PC, i.e. no DMA into the graphics memory like most TV capture cards. That's of course because of the paranoia of the DVD consortium. There will probably also be Linux drivers, in the same fashion as for the em8400 (closed user space and with a pass through kernel module) which is unfortunate and ill designed. That means no video4linux or Linux DVB API support (although you can probably get the latter also closed source).
I'd rather get a Sony Vaio U with Transmeta CPU. Have a look at these specs.
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In the books they explain the Kessel run as a smuggling route passing by a cluster of black holes. The closer you can pass by the cluster without being pulled out of hyperspace by their mass the shorter the distance (in real- and in hyperspace). Making a shorter run without dropping into a black hole requires a good ship and pilot which explains why Han is boasting about it. I still think that Lucas screwed up that line and that the auhor of one of those Han Solo books ( I forgot which one) tried to save him, with that elaborate explanation.
We already started to have routing trouble here in Germany. Mostly routes to German sites can't be established. That is from my regionla ISP here in Cologne (NetCologne), don't know how T-Online is doing. You could even see where a traceroute broke down when reaching KPN and was later established through other providers.
when they say that the open source community is not a community. Not only are many open source projects not that large that they need a whole bunch of developers, but even then most of them depend on feedback from the users who report bugs and send in small fixes and even suggestions for further development. Those people usually are not listed as developers, but are sometimes mentioned and thanked in the READMEs. They are nevertheless as much part of the development process as the ones that develop the program. And may even become developers themselves after some time. They form the community.
Furthermore, I am not sure if sourceforge is an accurate representation of the OSS community.
because the GPL doesn't require me to pay. The fact that a work is copyrighted doesn't mean it costs money, a fact that some people can't get into their heads. In my view copyright is not mainly about making money, but about acknowledging the originator of a work and his or her right to decide what is to be done with it. That is also why copyright infringement is not comparable to stealing but more a lack of respect for the work of others. The fact that the so called content providers see that differently is because they lack that respect themselves especially when they are only providers and not creators.
CSS is certainly not patented and many of the others are software patents which only exist in the US. The license is not for the patents, but for CSS and the DVD Specs, i.e. the informatin the.ifo file contains.
The next step must be to require everyone to get a chip in the brain, so that only legally aquired music, videos, books etc. can be accessed. While we are at it throw in an anti-violence program a la Spike and we are all set.
no it's sad really. So the code is so flawed that it can't be shown because it would threaten national security. They even know which part is flawed. Great, why don't they fix it? The DoD and other US goverment institutions surely would welcome a patch and apply it immediatly. Or better, why not use a more secure operating system. I don't think the existence of the flaw should allow them to hide it. On the contrary, it should be made public immediatly, so that everyone will have the chance to decide if it is wise to keep using the OS. In any case, MS should not be the one to decide what threatens national security. And if the NSA has seen the code and decided it would threaten security, then every other country, company or individual should think about what that means for their security, if they should not be allowed to see the code themselves.
Strongarm has no FPU and is not as fast as a Crusoe. A Pentium III still needs way more energy than a Crusoe. You have to keep in mind that those energy savings of Intel ships are usually accomplished by lowering the processor clock rate which will not help very much if you need processing power. The Crusoe also changes the clock rate, but does so dynamically, so that you always have the speed you need. Additionally, it has far fewer transistors and therefore needs less energy even at full speed.
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My brother and I wrote a linux kernel driver for the em8400 chip, i.e. Netstream card, for convergence (see this link and this one). The driver implements the linux DVB API (described at linuxtv.org), but we can't publish anything because of NDA agreements with Sigma Designs. The card is very nice and has a very good MPEG decoder. I don't see why they don't want it published as open source.
there shouldn't be a problem. The code just documents the method of the patent which is not infringing. Private users and educational institutions should also have no problems, that's what patents are for.
Not only the government employees, but every citizen
must be allowed to review the code the government uses. To review not necessarily to be able to use it.
If you can't check the code that adds your votes, calculates your taxes, keeps your private data or handles other vital areas of the government, you can't trust it.
The government shouldn't necessarily force the use of OSS, but rather make it a requirement to have full access to the source of a product they intent to use.
The difference would be that the software manufacturer doesn't need to change the license, but will have to make the source code available for review by the public. That doesn't mean that they give away their software. They still have the copyright and any use of the code without a license would be illegal.
The zilla is only a relict of a misleading transcription of the ji syllable which is the soft form of shi (or si) in the alternate trasncription. ;-)
Anyway, the zilla could be an allusion to jirasu (to irritate)
that releasing government software under GPL doesn't prevent the authors to also release it under a different license. In much the same way that Trolltech released their software. In this way you can guaranty that the taxpayer can profit without having to pay for it twice and if a software company
would like a different license they can pay for it.
to your C code. You just have to know how FORTRAN arrays are held in memory and how long the FORTRAN types are. Then you need to know what standard FORTRAN libs you need to link, so that your numerical libs will work. I did that for lots of my numerical work and it worked fine. You have to test it of course and it takes a while to work out the kinks.
Why are all those articles so negative. Right now it looks like they overcame the production difficulties and are moving ahead with new costumers that are actually building notebooks with Crusoe CPUs. The U1 from Sony is the hihest selling notebook in Japan already and the Fujitsu P series is also selling well in the USA. With the upcoming HP tablet and the OQO, I would say they aren't doing so badly.
Mr. Joe Average doesn't install his OS. If he would there would be even more complaining about M$.
Once you got their credit card number, you got their money.
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If you got their passport, you don't need their credit card number.
the w3c validator.
Sometimes the webmasters of the site even respond and are surprised that such a thing exists. If people would keep doing that, web desingers might use the validator as well.
The real problem are those so-called authoring tools which produce invalid html in the first place. Everybody who bought such a program should complain to the manufacturer.
The site of another modchip manufacturer at http://www.xtender.info/ is also gone.
can you play a game a record a TV show at the same time. In case you don't want to interrupt your session and your favorit TV show is about to start.
But I doubt the Xbox is capable of that.
The em847x is a very nice chip and cries out for being used in STBs. It is the successor of the em8400 which was used in the netstream PCI cards and in some STBs and which provides a great MPG1/2 decoder with a very high quality TV picture. The great thing is that some of the em847x chips are pin compatible with the em8400, so that manufactures don't have to change their layout.
The only shortcomings are that it only provides overlay for the display on your PC, i.e. no DMA into the graphics memory like most TV capture cards. That's of course because of the paranoia of the DVD consortium.
There will probably also be Linux drivers, in the same fashion as for the em8400 (closed user space and with a pass through kernel module) which is unfortunate and ill designed. That means no video4linux or Linux DVB API support (although you can probably get the latter also closed source).
I'd rather get a Sony Vaio U with Transmeta CPU.
Have a look at these specs.
In the books they explain the Kessel run as a smuggling route passing by a cluster of black holes. The closer you can pass by the cluster without being pulled out of hyperspace by their mass the shorter the distance (in real- and in hyperspace). Making a shorter run without dropping into a black hole requires a good ship and pilot which explains why Han is boasting about it.
I still think that Lucas screwed up that line and that the auhor of one of those Han Solo books ( I forgot which one) tried to save him, with that elaborate explanation.
We already started to have routing trouble here in Germany. Mostly routes to German sites can't be established. That is from my regionla ISP here in Cologne (NetCologne), don't know how T-Online is doing. You could even see where a traceroute broke down when reaching KPN and was later established through other providers.
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At least there is no problem to connect to
when they say that the open source community is not a community. Not only are many open source projects not that large that they need a whole bunch of developers, but even then most of them depend on feedback from the users who report bugs and send in small fixes and even suggestions for further development. Those people usually are not listed as developers, but are sometimes mentioned and thanked in the READMEs. They are nevertheless as much part of the development process as the ones that develop the program. And may even become developers themselves after some time. They form the community.
Furthermore, I am not sure if sourceforge is an accurate representation of the OSS community.
because the GPL doesn't require me to pay. The fact that a work is copyrighted doesn't mean it costs money, a fact that some people can't get into their heads.
In my view copyright is not mainly about making money, but about acknowledging the originator of a work and his or her right to decide what is to be done with it.
That is also why copyright infringement is not comparable to stealing but more a lack of respect for the work of others. The fact that the so called content providers see that differently is because they lack that respect themselves especially when they are only providers and not creators.
CSS is certainly not patented and many of the others are software patents which only exist in the US. .ifo file contains.
The license is not for the patents, but for CSS and the DVD Specs, i.e. the informatin the
The next step must be to require everyone to get a chip in the brain, so that only legally aquired music, videos, books etc. can be accessed. While we are at it throw in an anti-violence program a la Spike and we are all set.
no it's sad really. So the code is so flawed that it can't be shown because it would threaten national security. They even know which part is flawed.
Great, why don't they fix it? The DoD and other US goverment institutions surely would welcome a patch and apply it immediatly. Or better, why not use a more secure operating system.
I don't think the existence of the flaw should allow them to hide it. On the contrary, it should be made public immediatly, so that everyone will have the chance to decide if it is wise to keep using the OS. In any case, MS should not be the one to decide what threatens national security.
And if the NSA has seen the code and decided it would threaten security, then every other country, company or individual should think about what that means for their security, if they should not be allowed to see the code themselves.
Actually, the Linux, Mac and Windows version will all come in the same box. (They just dropped the BeOS version)
Strongarm has no FPU and is not as fast as a Crusoe.
A Pentium III still needs way more energy than a Crusoe. You have to keep in mind that those energy savings of Intel ships are usually accomplished by lowering the processor clock rate which will not help very much if you need processing power. The Crusoe also changes the clock rate, but does so dynamically, so that you always have the speed you need. Additionally, it has far fewer transistors and therefore needs less energy even at full speed.