Yes it's crossplatform alright if the compiler in question works for x86, x86 and you guessed it: x86.
What's making the porting hard in case of different software ecologies is not the compiler, cause gcc is really crossplatform and ubiquitous for years now. It's all those OS and otherwise libraries (gtk vs. cocoa vs. GDI) which do it. And I don't see Intel selling any crossplatform versions of those
Japan doesn't give a damn if they reach the goal
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What they give a damn however are all the cool spinoff techs it hopefully creates.
It's like the Apollo project: landing on the moon is nice from a propaganda viewpoint, but ultimately a very useless thing to accomplish, at least the way they did it. The real benefit was all the tech that was developed to get there. THAT was the real payoff of the whole thing. Same with this attempt to create a holodeck.
Welte doesn't do it against private citizens by threatening them to sue, extorting money for settlements. A typical filesharer doesn't sell the downloaded music for money either.
The first thing a filesharer sees from the RIAA is a C&D letter demanding money. Welte tells the infringing companies "We know you use GPLed code in your products you sell. Clean up your act or we will do more than just remind you about it.". At this time, there is no fine to pay if the company complies.
The company in question, Fortinet, ignored him and did what all scumbags do then: they tried to hide the GPL violations by obfuscation.
Here's the correction: Look at your taskmanager (or top output) and look which is the task with the most cpu time by about 99% on your desktop machine. It's the idle task. So while there are 20 tasks and 50 threads running, they don't really need much CPU, certainly not so much to warrant a second CPU.
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I think you're missing an important point...
Skype don't need no stinkin' phone numbers...;-)
(at least when talkin' computer-to-computer)
No, you are missing the point: computer to computer connections don't make skype any money, but they are a for profit corporation.
Perhaps now is the time to make sure VoIP offerings can be easily encrypted - before they are taken up by the masses. If high grade opportunistic encryption was available it might jsut be used, whereas to trya nd introduce it retrospectively... well we all know how successful that has been with email.
Nic thought but wrong: the only corporations which can make VoIP mainstream are fairly big ones. Either pure VoIP operators like Vonage or entrenched telcos like SBC. Vonage will fall over backwards to comply with this in hope of averting (too much) grief about issues like 911 or discrimination from old telcos. Unlike this issue, 911 and discrimination can severely hurt the bottom line, so better do anything the FCC wants in hope they then look favourably on Vonage. As for the old telcos: they're in bed with the FCC for so many decades now, is there any distinguishable difference between 'em and the FCC?
Sorry for the bad news, but the reality is that, in the US, you are screwed as the "little guy" doing commercial programming (and Free programming too).
This is why in Europe both, the free software community and the small and middle sized corporations are all fighting hard to prevent software patents: http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn The Linus defense http://uk.builder.com/manage/work/0,39026594,20276 078,00.htm of not researching what patents you might infringe will help you a bit by possibly avoiding punitive damages when/if you get sued, since you can claim not to have infringed willfully on a patent. But it won't decrease your lawyer bills for defending yourself in the slightest and neither will it decrease the future licensing costs. So if you are stepping on any big corporation's toes or are in the same business as another, failing company (*cough*SCO*cough*), it is highly likely you might get sued successfully for infringement
Maybe you should read the article a bit better: with the built-in 200W powersupply this thing can neither sustain a P3 3.6GHz nor a GF6800. You are lucky if it powers a P4 3.0 Prescott and a GF6600 in the same case.
That said: if the manufacturer put openings with fans at suitable places in the case to exhaust all the produced heat quickly, and uses a beefy power supply, nothing prevents it from running a Presshot with a GF6800. It might be a tad loud though since the fans certainly will be on the very fast spinning side. Most SFF PCs out there are very loud if performance parts are used: manufacturers mostly use small 40 and 60mm fans which spin at ridiculous 5000rpm and more. Often using low quality fans to boot, making the PCs sound like sirens.
You are right in your assessment: the Linux kernel is monolithic and the Windows one modular, but that's totally irrelevant. When have you seen the last vulnerability in either kernel? NTOSKRNL (or vmlinuz) isn't really the problem, it's all the crappy rest which is. Sure there have been some, but the vast majority of flaws are in various userland software. And Windows certainly is monolithic and Linux very modular, we aren't comparing kernels, but systems as a whole.
put a proxy between you and ad server and replace the images with things you like. Put in your favvourite porn and have "Sims 3: Red Light District", "GTA:1920" with oldtimers, etc
Sure: as soon as you connect to the game you are required to "opt in" in order to be able to play. Problem solved. I know what I do: look into proxies and getting the IP of that massive ad-server
He hasn't, but due to the linking clause his part of the code has to be GPL too, and then everybody can freely trade copies of CherryOS without paying a cent. So who would buy a copy?
It runs a full Linux under a WindowsNT based OS. Only thing that's missing is a X server so you need an X server on the Windows side (cygwin XFree86). It can use your NICs bridged or use NAT, it can access any Linux partition you have on your disk and can use image files too. Yes it is slower than native Linux but so is Usermode Linux or VMWare I currently run colinux as my router and the XP host is NAT-ed behind it. Crazy setup but it works and beats any "personal" firewall hands down
Cause then you don't need to tell the cardholder "Your ID card please, citizen". You just bring an antenna in his general vicinity and check who he is. Also, normal chips with contact pads wear out over time when put into card readers, get dirty, etc. RFID doesn't have those problems
a) The US is one of the biggest markets, if not the biggest market worldwide b) Most of the stuff advertised with spam is "shady": porn, 419scams, viagra. Done by mostly "fly by night" companies. c) Most of the stuff relating to patents and copyrights is done by normal, upstanding companies (RIAA and MPAA and their ilk notwithstanding but bear with me: they still have a pretty good image with the common man).
So, as soon as there are laws against it, the shady people (spammers) will just move to countries where it is still legal to spam and spam from there. Or they just break the law outright as they already do by using open relays and trojans to distribute their products.
On the other hand, a legal business who abides by the law can't sell their patent-infringing warez (sic!) in the US anymore. Moving offshore won't help him either since he still can't sell back to the US (one of the biggest markets) either since it would be still illegal there and his assets can be frozen. Doing everything from outside the country is just too big a hassle to be worthwhile and they just lost their biggest market to boot. The spammer can do this since they usually don't have expenses: they are mostly scams anyways.
To recap: a law abiding business man is screwed by those harsh laws and the scummy spammer don't gives a fuck. All clear now?
OpenH323 is available on all 3 platforms and has very good voice quality. It can do video as well. Setup is not always trivial: it needs lots of open ports, udp and tcp. The license is MPL.
NVidias driver for the intgretated NIC in the nforce2 chipset is closed source only. There just isnt any source available. EIther it works with 2.5 or it doesnt (the driver is for 2.4)
I can (barely) understand why a videocard driver is binary only, but not a cheap, a dime a dozen, netowrd chip
You can listen to a non-US radio station. European broadcasters have no CARP (yet).
There are public radiostations in Germany and Austria which are funded by mandatory fees from the citizens of these countries which also broadcast over the net.
Yyour right "fix" wouldnt work for the following reasons:
You can decide if its a CD-R by reading out the so called ATIP-field where the manufacturer of the CD-R and other things are recorded. Pressed CDs are lacking this field, and you can only read it with a CD-burner, not with CD-ROM readers.
Some protections (like Safedisc2) even check for it. The problem is: CloneCD, the #1 software used to make copies comes with a small program for your systray which prevents the copy protection from getting the ATIP-field data. So copy-protection is back to square one as usual.
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Yes it's crossplatform alright if the compiler in question works for x86, x86 and you guessed it: x86.
What's making the porting hard in case of different software ecologies is not the compiler, cause gcc is really crossplatform and ubiquitous for years now. It's all those OS and otherwise libraries (gtk vs. cocoa vs. GDI) which do it. And I don't see Intel selling any crossplatform versions of those
What they give a damn however are all the cool spinoff techs it hopefully creates.
It's like the Apollo project: landing on the moon is nice from a propaganda viewpoint, but ultimately a very useless thing to accomplish, at least the way they did it. The real benefit was all the tech that was developed to get there. THAT was the real payoff of the whole thing. Same with this attempt to create a holodeck.
Skype
They're commercial and their software uses P2P to provide the bandwith needed for all those VoIP conversations.
So what does skype have over other VoIP solutions which existed before:
Ease of use
Make the BT client easy to use and well working, and people will use their lines willingly to distribrute whatever the big media company wants.
WPS and SOM depended a lot on extended attributes. Which (Free) filesystems has those?
NTFS has these streams which could work as EAs, but Linux?
Considering the normal desktop computer runs to 99% of time idle: what speedhit?
Welte doesn't do it against private citizens by threatening them to sue, extorting money for settlements. A typical filesharer doesn't sell the downloaded music for money either.
The first thing a filesharer sees from the RIAA is a C&D letter demanding money. Welte tells the infringing companies "We know you use GPLed code in your products you sell. Clean up your act or we will do more than just remind you about it.". At this time, there is no fine to pay if the company complies.
The company in question, Fortinet, ignored him and did what all scumbags do then: they tried to hide the GPL violations by obfuscation.
Here's the correction: Look at your taskmanager (or top output) and look which is the task with the most cpu time by about 99% on your desktop machine. It's the idle task. So while there are 20 tasks and 50 threads running, they don't really need much CPU, certainly not so much to warrant a second CPU.
I think you're missing an important point...
;-)
Skype don't need no stinkin' phone numbers...
(at least when talkin' computer-to-computer)
No, you are missing the point: computer to computer connections don't make skype any money, but they are a for profit corporation.
Perhaps now is the time to make sure VoIP offerings can be easily encrypted - before they are taken up by the masses. If high grade opportunistic encryption was available it might jsut be used, whereas to trya nd introduce it retrospectively... well we all know how successful that has been with email.
Nic thought but wrong: the only corporations which can make VoIP mainstream are fairly big ones. Either pure VoIP operators like Vonage or entrenched telcos like SBC. Vonage will fall over backwards to comply with this in hope of averting (too much) grief about issues like 911 or discrimination from old telcos. Unlike this issue, 911 and discrimination can severely hurt the bottom line, so better do anything the FCC wants in hope they then look favourably on Vonage. As for the old telcos: they're in bed with the FCC for so many decades now, is there any distinguishable difference between 'em and the FCC?
This is why in Europe both, the free software community and the small and middle sized corporations are all fighting hard to prevent software patents: http://kwiki.ffii.org/SwpatcninoEn6 078,00.htm of not researching what patents you might infringe will help you a bit by possibly avoiding punitive damages when/if you get sued, since you can claim not to have infringed willfully on a patent. But it won't decrease your lawyer bills for defending yourself in the slightest and neither will it decrease the future licensing costs. So if you are stepping on any big corporation's toes or are in the same business as another, failing company (*cough*SCO*cough*), it is highly likely you might get sued successfully for infringement
The Linus defense http://uk.builder.com/manage/work/0,39026594,2027
Maybe you should read the article a bit better: with the built-in 200W powersupply this thing can neither sustain a P3 3.6GHz nor a GF6800. You are lucky if it powers a P4 3.0 Prescott and a GF6600 in the same case.
That said: if the manufacturer put openings with fans at suitable places in the case to exhaust all the produced heat quickly, and uses a beefy power supply, nothing prevents it from running a Presshot with a GF6800. It might be a tad loud though since the fans certainly will be on the very fast spinning side. Most SFF PCs out there are very loud if performance parts are used: manufacturers mostly use small 40 and 60mm fans which spin at ridiculous 5000rpm and more. Often using low quality fans to boot, making the PCs sound like sirens.
You are right in your assessment: the Linux kernel is monolithic and the Windows one modular, but that's totally irrelevant.
When have you seen the last vulnerability in either kernel? NTOSKRNL (or vmlinuz) isn't really the problem, it's all the crappy rest which is. Sure there have been some, but the vast majority of flaws are in various userland software. And Windows certainly is monolithic and Linux very modular, we aren't comparing kernels, but systems as a whole.
put a proxy between you and ad server and replace the images with things you like. Put in your favvourite porn and have "Sims 3: Red Light District", "GTA:1920" with oldtimers, etc
Sure: as soon as you connect to the game you are required to "opt in" in order to be able to play. Problem solved.
I know what I do: look into proxies and getting the IP of that massive ad-server
He hasn't, but due to the linking clause his part of the code has to be GPL too, and then everybody can freely trade copies of CherryOS without paying a cent. So who would buy a copy?
colinux http://www.colinux.org/
It runs a full Linux under a WindowsNT based OS. Only thing that's missing is a X server so you need an X server on the Windows side (cygwin XFree86). It can use your NICs bridged or use NAT, it can access any Linux partition you have on your disk and can use image files too. Yes it is slower than native Linux but so is Usermode Linux or VMWare
I currently run colinux as my router and the XP host is NAT-ed behind it. Crazy setup but it works and beats any "personal" firewall hands down
Cause then you don't need to tell the cardholder "Your ID card please, citizen". You just bring an antenna in his general vicinity and check who he is. Also, normal chips with contact pads wear out over time when put into card readers, get dirty, etc. RFID doesn't have those problems
That's pretty easy. First a few assumptions:
a) The US is one of the biggest markets, if not the biggest market worldwide
b) Most of the stuff advertised with spam is "shady": porn, 419scams, viagra. Done by mostly "fly by night" companies.
c) Most of the stuff relating to patents and copyrights is done by normal, upstanding companies (RIAA and MPAA and their ilk notwithstanding but bear with me: they still have a pretty good image with the common man).
So, as soon as there are laws against it, the shady people (spammers) will just move to countries where it is still legal to spam and spam from there. Or they just break the law outright as they already do by using open relays and trojans to distribute their products.
On the other hand, a legal business who abides by the law can't sell their patent-infringing warez (sic!) in the US anymore. Moving offshore won't help him either since he still can't sell back to the US (one of the biggest markets) either since it would be still illegal there and his assets can be frozen. Doing everything from outside the country is just too big a hassle to be worthwhile and they just lost their biggest market to boot.
The spammer can do this since they usually don't have expenses: they are mostly scams anyways.
To recap: a law abiding business man is screwed by those harsh laws and the scummy spammer don't gives a fuck. All clear now?
OpenH323 is available on all 3 platforms and has very good voice quality. It can do video as well. Setup is not always trivial: it needs lots of open ports, udp and tcp. The license is MPL.
I am sure this new law will be a overwhelming success story like the recent CANSPAM act.
And now excuse me, I need to clean my Inbox again.
NVidias driver for the intgretated NIC in the nforce2 chipset is closed source only. There just isnt any source available. EIther it works with 2.5 or it doesnt (the driver is for 2.4)
I can (barely) understand why a videocard driver is binary only, but not a cheap, a dime a dozen, netowrd chip
There are public radiostations in Germany and Austria which are funded by mandatory fees from the citizens of these countries which also broadcast over the net.
Yyour right "fix" wouldnt work for the following reasons:
You can decide if its a CD-R by reading out the so called ATIP-field where the manufacturer of the CD-R and other things are recorded. Pressed CDs are lacking this field, and you can only read it with a CD-burner, not with CD-ROM readers.
Some protections (like Safedisc2) even check for it. The problem is: CloneCD, the #1 software used to make copies comes with a small program for your systray which prevents the copy protection from getting the ATIP-field data. So copy-protection is back to square one as usual.