>Nobody is asking you to give away the source code for free, but to include it with the binary.
So you think that Microsoft should include the source code to Windows if you pay them 100 bucks?
>If I pay for something you spend 400 hours writing, I want the source to that as well. >The source is part of the product
Well sure, if it's contract work and you pay for the 400 hours. But if you pay 30 bucks for the product you haven't payed to get 400 hours work, but the right to use it.
What you suggest wouldn't feasible in the real world. But if you really want the sourcecode to the products you buy/use, use opensource or something. It's your own choice.
In the Denmark you can get ADSL starting at around $40/month for a 384/128 (depends on the ISP).
And a lot of buildings have 10MBit for a very low price per. subscriber. (Wireless radio connections is starting to kick in.)
But then again who cares! I'm on the.edu net here at my dorm. 100MBit.
(It's allways nice to be able to move the graph at kernel.org )
let me see... New feature...
Nope, called watchdog timer and is incorporated in most microprocessors (from the $3 8-bit and up) and your customized linux 2.4 kernel (don't know about older versions) supports this feature. Software emulation or hardware version.
But interresting point.
/. effect, server reboots,/. effect increases, server reboots....
And you have a rundown admin after 24-hours of./ing...
Robert Christiansen
Student at the Technical University of Denmark,
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling,
Computer Engineering & Technology Division (www.imm.dtu.dk/cet)
>This price war is something that Intel can afford. I wonder if AMD can afford it?
Why?
AMD isn't only selling CPU's. They are making A LOT of other chips also, so they can afford to cut the prices on CPU's while making money elsewhere.
Just my 5 cent.
Robert Christiansen
Student at the Technical University of Denmark,
Department of Applied Electronics, Datacommunucation Section
Hey, good for you.
But it isn't that easy if you want to make a high speed process. And the way you need to think is way different. The problem is that you CAN program. That will screw up your way of thinking.
You could probably learn it - but you need a couple of years to perfect it beyond the easy stuff - like
serial communication
display drives
control devices (moore and mealy machines) syncron and asyncron.
Basicly you need knowledge of digital electronics and experiance.
Robert Christiansen
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Student at the Technical University of Denmark,
Department of Applied Electronics, Datacommunication Section
Like who gives a sh..
I mean - I live in Denmark and study Electronic Enginering. All of our books are in (US) English and I don't think that this destroys the danish language.
When it comes to technical terms its better just to keep it all in English. Then its easy to talk to people from other contries without a vocabulary.
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>Nobody is asking you to give away the source code for free, but to include it with the binary.
So you think that Microsoft should include the source code to Windows if you pay them 100 bucks?
>If I pay for something you spend 400 hours writing, I want the source to that as well.
>The source is part of the product
Well sure, if it's contract work and you pay for the 400 hours. But if you pay 30 bucks for the product you haven't payed to get 400 hours work, but the right to use it.
What you suggest wouldn't feasible in the real world. But if you really want the sourcecode to the products you buy/use, use opensource or something. It's your own choice.
My 0.02
Robert
when you generate code. (I presume the machines created the matrix.)
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Robert Christiansen
so why don't you just get an European ISP?
That sounds rediculous.
.edu net here at my dorm. 100MBit.
In the Denmark you can get ADSL starting at around $40/month for a 384/128 (depends on the ISP).
And a lot of buildings have 10MBit for a very low price per. subscriber. (Wireless radio connections is starting to kick in.)
But then again who cares! I'm on the
(It's allways nice to be able to move the graph at kernel.org )
let me see... New feature...
/. effect increases, server reboots....
./ing...
Nope, called watchdog timer and is incorporated in most microprocessors (from the $3 8-bit and up) and your customized linux 2.4 kernel (don't know about older versions) supports this feature. Software emulation or hardware version.
But interresting point.
/. effect, server reboots,
And you have a rundown admin after 24-hours of
Robert Christiansen
Student at the Technical University of Denmark,
Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling,
Computer Engineering & Technology Division (www.imm.dtu.dk/cet)
>This price war is something that Intel can afford. I wonder if AMD can afford it?
Why?
AMD isn't only selling CPU's. They are making A LOT of other chips also, so they can afford to cut the prices on CPU's while making money elsewhere.
Just my 5 cent.
Robert Christiansen
Student at the Technical University of Denmark,
Department of Applied Electronics, Datacommunucation Section
Hey, good for you.
But it isn't that easy if you want to make a high speed process. And the way you need to think is way different. The problem is that you CAN program. That will screw up your way of thinking.
You could probably learn it - but you need a couple of years to perfect it beyond the easy stuff - like
serial communication
display drives
control devices (moore and mealy machines) syncron and asyncron.
Basicly you need knowledge of digital electronics and experiance.
Robert Christiansen
--
Student at the Technical University of Denmark,
Department of Applied Electronics,
Datacommunication Section
Like who gives a sh..
I mean - I live in Denmark and study Electronic Enginering. All of our books are in (US) English and I don't think that this destroys the danish language.
When it comes to technical terms its better just to keep it all in English. Then its easy to talk to people from other contries without a vocabulary.