Not so much because of its average-case power, but because of what happens when you pull out all the stops and optimize some game like crazy for it. Look at the PS2-- really weak machine in a lot of ways, but when someone who knows how to really harness the hardware makes a game for it you periodically get an Ico or Metal Gear Solid 3 or something where the graphics just absolutely blow you away. The Cell looks to have the same tweakability features of the Emotion Engine, only times like a thousand.
I also want a Cell just, like, to play around with. They say Linux is running on this thing? Awesome. I just want to play with the microchip and see what I can get it to do. OK, yeah, I'm something of a compiler junkie. Blah:P
as there are actually very few risks to Fusion recations. There is no waste by-product that is harmful to the area (like plutonium, for instance), there are few risks of "meltdown", the process uses only non-lethal fuels (seawater may suck to drink, but it isn't deadly to fish), and magnetic fields can be contained
Yes, but what about the very real risk that the Fusion reactor will get out of control, exploding in the face of its operators and turning them into battle-scarred machine-slaved monsters with mechanical octopus arms, an addiction to Tritium and an obsessive drive to build more Fusion reactors?
I swear, I think Greenpeace is more concerned about making sure nobody builds any new powerplants than they are about protecting the environment.
I just find it funny that Greenpeace and such groups are probably doing more to promote fossil fuels-- far more harmful by almost every single possible measure than anything nuclear will ever be-- than they are in practice doing anything else at this point. Talk or harrass people out of using nuclear power and all that you're going to result in is people sticking with the existing coal and oil technology, which is both cost effective and for some reason (everyone's too used to it?) mostly leaves you free of protesters.
The most publicity-effective coal lobby in the world is doing so in the name of the environment. Great thinking!
(I'll assume you're right that grokster is open source; there probably is something comparable and open source, anyway, and it isn't directly relevant to the question anyhow.)
Actually no, see the other comments; Grokster isn't open source. Morpheus is open source, or was at one time. I got the two confused. The programs are nearly identical though aren't they? And this decision certainly applies to Morpheus even if they aren't the defendent.
I do not quite think you know what a garbage collector is. A garbage collector is generally only expected to reclaim unreferenced memory. Here, look:
public class memoryleak { memoryleak next; public static void main(String[] args) { memoryleak head = new memoryleak(); for(memoryleak n = head;;n = n.next) { n.next = new memoryleak; } } }
No garbage collector on earth, in any language, will be able to handle the above code. I shall leave the implementation of a similar demonstration program in LISP to the reader.
Norway is a member of Nato - so USA will come to its defence!
The USA will initially rush to the defense of norway after the invasion. However rather than repelling Microsoft's invasion force, the US military will surround the the Microsoft private army on all sides, capture their leaders, and bring the invasion to a halt-- then suddenly announce a "settlement" by which a truce is called under the terms that Microsoft gets to rule norway, and doesn't have to give any of the land back or disband their army, but must set up an internal review board to prevent further invasions from occurring
My mistake, I was thinking of Morpheus. I don't actually use these programs so it is easy for me to get them confused. But the question is no different. This decision applies to Morpheus the same way it does to Grokster, or any other similar program.
Meanwhile many of the important P2P apps are open source, and the portion is getting larger all the time. Even aside from open source, the protocols are open or reverse engineered; applications from many different vendors can be using the same network.
So, the question remains: How responsible is a P2P app developer for "promotion" or "intent" by a developer or group using the same network? If Gnutella is found to be found infringing, would this decision also apply to Morpheus because it's on the same network? If Morpheus is found to be infringing, and I've created some kind of fork of Morpheus, does the decision Morpheus is infringing apply to me? This decision seems to concern developers-- it concerns things like "promotion" and "intent". But increasingly the developers are becoming irrelivant, what's important is the programs. In which way does this decision apply to programs?
So who determines "intent", and how? Can you not say one word about illegal software-- or even put a "DO NOT USE FOR ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING", disclaimer on your P2P app / license agreement-- and still be found to have "intent" for piracy to happen because you didn't do anything to stop it? That's the important thing and it seems suspiciously vague.
This sounds like a problem with Freenet, not with Java. You can write code with memory leaks in any language. Java makes memory leaks a little harder, but it in no way makes memory leaks impossible. If you had a C program where the author forgot to call free() would you complain about the "leak" in C?
SWT runs on Java the language but it is not Java itself. That is to say, it is not part of the Java platform. It is a product of IBM-- it's a third party library-- and is not promoted or supported by Sun. If he wants to complain about the Java language maybe he's being unreasonable, but if he wants to complain about Sun's Java then things are quite different.
Except Grokster is open source. So let's say I'm using Grokster for some legal purpose, and I repackage and sell it as is legal under the GPL, and promote it myself promoting its legal purposes only. So, because OTHER PEOPLE promoted Grokster for illegal purposes, does that mean I can't distribute Grokster either? Or do they get nailed for promoting Grokster for illegal purposes and I get to keep doing my thing?
5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
The GPL's stance on things would appear to be somewhat closer to, the act of distributing GPLed content constitutes accepting the GPL by itself, which would mean SCO's public statements are irrelivant. Except maybe to any of their stockholders curious about why they were lied to.
Meanwhile, I have difficulty seeing how any of SCO's actions concerning their GPL license to distribute mysql could have anything to do with SCO's actions considering GPL licenses to distribute Linux.
The message I heard was speaking to the United States, it spoke very clearly, and it said "you can give us all the concessions we could possibly ask for, you can let the be balance of power be tipped as far toward the corporations and as far away from the workers as it can realistically go, and we'll still drop your jobs and ship them to developing Asian countries, the exact same way we do to noncompliant, socialist Europe".
'We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that competes with and beats us in the marketplace.'
It combines all the hassles, headaches and spotty reliability of a P2P piracy service with the inherently limited music catalog of your average legal download service, plus unlike the iTunes Music Store it doesn't appear to feature indie music. ... Well gee where do I sign up.:P
The adaptation of general journalism to film and television, as correctly noted by Dave Barry, has largely gradually taken the form where the journalistic entity will find something that a 'reporter' can stand in front of and then film them standing in front of it, talking about it. (Television journalism follows this idiom so strictly that if a story occurs which concerns something you inherently can't film someone standing in front of, television media will generally just not cover it.)
I am just sitting here trying to figure out how, if at all, they will be able to adapt this idiom to computer security reporting.
"...and we go to Sharon for the story."
"Thanks bob. Well, as you can see, I'm standing in front of a TCP/IP packet and as you can plainly see, it is highly malformed."
Aside from this, I wonder if they're going to adopt a Headline News style "looping tape" format, or if they'll have shows. I actually could totally go for a Snow-Crash-CIC-wet-work style "reality" show demonstrating various white and black hats at work.
Slashdot Mirror
Since Merril Lynch owns Sony and all... they'd know what Sony plans to charge for things...
Right?
Not so much because of its average-case power, but because of what happens when you pull out all the stops and optimize some game like crazy for it. Look at the PS2-- really weak machine in a lot of ways, but when someone who knows how to really harness the hardware makes a game for it you periodically get an Ico or Metal Gear Solid 3 or something where the graphics just absolutely blow you away. The Cell looks to have the same tweakability features of the Emotion Engine, only times like a thousand.
:P
I also want a Cell just, like, to play around with. They say Linux is running on this thing? Awesome. I just want to play with the microchip and see what I can get it to do. OK, yeah, I'm something of a compiler junkie. Blah
It's no surprise, look at the licensing differences
I'm not sure why the kernel's licensing need be relevant to the creation of a desktop system?
Why can't it just support ^W like UNIX terminals do
So... in other words it's... a rotary phone?
:O
"Java bytecode" isn't very specific. Will this be running J2ME? Something new? What?
Microsoft's codec is also in the Blu-Ray spec
What will France do then?
I swear, I think Greenpeace is more concerned about making sure nobody builds any new powerplants than they are about protecting the environment.
I just find it funny that Greenpeace and such groups are probably doing more to promote fossil fuels-- far more harmful by almost every single possible measure than anything nuclear will ever be-- than they are in practice doing anything else at this point. Talk or harrass people out of using nuclear power and all that you're going to result in is people sticking with the existing coal and oil technology, which is both cost effective and for some reason (everyone's too used to it?) mostly leaves you free of protesters.
The most publicity-effective coal lobby in the world is doing so in the name of the environment. Great thinking!
(I'll assume you're right that grokster is open source; there probably is something comparable and open source, anyway, and it isn't directly relevant to the question anyhow.)
Actually no, see the other comments; Grokster isn't open source. Morpheus is open source, or was at one time. I got the two confused. The programs are nearly identical though aren't they? And this decision certainly applies to Morpheus even if they aren't the defendent.
I do not quite think you know what a garbage collector is. A garbage collector is generally only expected to reclaim unreferenced memory. Here, look:No garbage collector on earth, in any language, will be able to handle the above code. I shall leave the implementation of a similar demonstration program in LISP to the reader.
Norway is a member of Nato - so USA will come to its defence!
The USA will initially rush to the defense of norway after the invasion. However rather than repelling Microsoft's invasion force, the US military will surround the the Microsoft private army on all sides, capture their leaders, and bring the invasion to a halt-- then suddenly announce a "settlement" by which a truce is called under the terms that Microsoft gets to rule norway, and doesn't have to give any of the land back or disband their army, but must set up an internal review board to prevent further invasions from occurring
The ideal language should have no memory management, no I/O and no syntax
So Haskell, then?
I was under the impression Morpheus was at this stage a repackaged version of the GPLed "Gnucleus" program. At least, they were using this strategy at one stage.
My mistake, I was thinking of Morpheus. I don't actually use these programs so it is easy for me to get them confused. But the question is no different. This decision applies to Morpheus the same way it does to Grokster, or any other similar program.
Meanwhile many of the important P2P apps are open source, and the portion is getting larger all the time. Even aside from open source, the protocols are open or reverse engineered; applications from many different vendors can be using the same network.
So, the question remains: How responsible is a P2P app developer for "promotion" or "intent" by a developer or group using the same network? If Gnutella is found to be found infringing, would this decision also apply to Morpheus because it's on the same network? If Morpheus is found to be infringing, and I've created some kind of fork of Morpheus, does the decision Morpheus is infringing apply to me? This decision seems to concern developers-- it concerns things like "promotion" and "intent". But increasingly the developers are becoming irrelivant, what's important is the programs. In which way does this decision apply to programs?
So who determines "intent", and how? Can you not say one word about illegal software-- or even put a "DO NOT USE FOR ILLEGAL DOWNLOADING", disclaimer on your P2P app / license agreement-- and still be found to have "intent" for piracy to happen because you didn't do anything to stop it? That's the important thing and it seems suspiciously vague.
This sounds like a problem with Freenet, not with Java. You can write code with memory leaks in any language. Java makes memory leaks a little harder, but it in no way makes memory leaks impossible. If you had a C program where the author forgot to call free() would you complain about the "leak" in C?
SWT runs on Java the language but it is not Java itself. That is to say, it is not part of the Java platform. It is a product of IBM-- it's a third party library-- and is not promoted or supported by Sun. If he wants to complain about the Java language maybe he's being unreasonable, but if he wants to complain about Sun's Java then things are quite different.
Except Grokster is open source. So let's say I'm using Grokster for some legal purpose, and I repackage and sell it as is legal under the GPL, and promote it myself promoting its legal purposes only. So, because OTHER PEOPLE promoted Grokster for illegal purposes, does that mean I can't distribute Grokster either? Or do they get nailed for promoting Grokster for illegal purposes and I get to keep doing my thing?
What do you mean?
Uh...
From the GPL:
The GPL's stance on things would appear to be somewhat closer to, the act of distributing GPLed content constitutes accepting the GPL by itself, which would mean SCO's public statements are irrelivant. Except maybe to any of their stockholders curious about why they were lied to.
Meanwhile, I have difficulty seeing how any of SCO's actions concerning their GPL license to distribute mysql could have anything to do with SCO's actions considering GPL licenses to distribute Linux.
The message I heard was speaking to the United States, it spoke very clearly, and it said "you can give us all the concessions we could possibly ask for, you can let the be balance of power be tipped as far toward the corporations and as far away from the workers as it can realistically go, and we'll still drop your jobs and ship them to developing Asian countries, the exact same way we do to noncompliant, socialist Europe".
Hmm.
'We don't necessarily have issues with open source, we just have an issue with open-source technology that competes with and beats us in the marketplace.'
It combines all the hassles, headaches and spotty reliability of a P2P piracy service with the inherently limited music catalog of your average legal download service, plus unlike the iTunes Music Store it doesn't appear to feature indie music. :P
...
Well gee where do I sign up.
I am just sitting here trying to figure out how, if at all, they will be able to adapt this idiom to computer security reporting.Aside from this, I wonder if they're going to adopt a Headline News style "looping tape" format, or if they'll have shows. I actually could totally go for a Snow-Crash-CIC-wet-work style "reality" show demonstrating various white and black hats at work.