This could be ideal for one of those fish restaurants where you select the live fish you want to eat. The surplus heat from your computer keeps the aquarium at the right temperature, while the water from the aquarium keeps the EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) cool!
If lobster was involved, then the aquarium could become an instant cookpot by pressing the turbo button on your PC (overclocking your machine and increasing the CPU heat output!)
No, but each time one of these requests comes through, billing the sender $100 or so for your time and effort in investigating the claim may stop them.
Linux actually needs to win soon in one of the populous developing countries (I include China in this category); it would've been nice to be China, but I'm under the impression Microsoft doesn't stop copies of it's operating system quite so hard there as it would here.
India would be good, especially since a lot of IT is done over there; with a bit of luck it will lead to another huge influx of Linux developers who speak English
Since you read Slashdot, you're aware of the general interests of most of its readers. Where do you stand on issues of particular interest to any California resident Slashdot voters e.g. Microsoft, copyright, SCO, censorship v freedom of speech etc.
You may make your answer to this question as long as you wish...:-)
Maybe I'm in a minority, but I actually like XP Home. All my systems dual boot into Linux, and i do have a Linux fileserver, but I have to say XP Home does seem to be the most stable MS offering yet. OK, its got it's flaws, and the security and user separation isn't in the same league as Linux, but it does the jab and plays games.
I may be wrong, but AFAIK non-compete agreements are not totally illegal in the UK (or in Europe); however they are restricted in the sense that you cannot stop someone carrying on in the same trade somewhere else. The scope of the non-compete agreement determines its enforceability.
For example, it is legal say, for an estate agent to employ someone with a contract preventing them from opening or joining another agency within 5 miles of where they work. It is not legal for them to have a term preventing them opening or joining an agency anywhere in the UK.
...then surely SCO is breaking copyight law. I thought the whole point of the GPL is that if found null and void then copyright law stood as its last line of defence.
In this case, that means every single Linux developer can now sue SCo for unauthorised distribution of their copyrighted material!!
So what alternatives are there to Intel? I'm obviously aware of AMD, but what other contenders are there?
I'd be particularly interested in anything which can provide approximately Athlon XP1800 performance with low heat output and comparable cost, since I'd like to build a PVR which is as silent as possible.
Obviously low noise fans are needed, but I suppose the other alternative is to water cool it.
I think you are taking the Slashdot populist line too far. Whilst I am normally against extension of copyright, I think some copyright and patents protection must be present, even if the actual duration should be much shorter than it is now.
What you fail to realise is that without it, ideas would be spread much less rapidly and protected as trade and even national secrets. Even if someone has a patent on an idea, expression and widespread publication of that idea allows the possibility of someone seeing it and making improvements to it, or even producing an entirely defferent way of doing the same process.
In my opinion, there has to be some quid pro quo for publishing an idea, and that is best expressed in providing the inventor/ writer a monopoly for a short duration. The fact that the duration is currently 70-95 years for copyrights and nearly 20 for patents is obscene; somewhere around 20 and 10 would probably give just as much incentive.
The crossing the Channel is regarded as a big barrier since The Daily Mail sponsored a competition to cross the channel, which was won by Louis Bleriot (1909?). Since the Channel is the first significant distance between major powers (England/France) it meant new means of post, transport and communication, and aslo meant that flying could be commercialised.
Since then, flyers have regarded it as a sort of first step
OK, lets try and sell it to you. Wood has one advantage most metals don't - the ability to flex under pressure without snapping. A bicycle which exploits some of the natural give and take of woods may have some advantages.
Second, if wood shatters, the bits are less likely to hurt so much as metal bits
I'm not sure what the limits of LASIK correction are nowadays, but have you checked it out recently? Whn mine was done about 3 years ago the limit was about -14 dioptres (my eyesight was -10.25/-9.75), but these things tend to move on.
Some of these have been stated elsewhere, but I felt them to be good points
a) Did Gartner recommend not installing Microsoft software, for ever? After all, there's always one suit or another going on against MS, whether from someone trying to rape Microsoft for money, or more serious cases like STAC and the antitrust case. b) There must be some basis on which to counter-sue or claim for malicious libel, even in the US. Is there anything to make this case roll along instead of plod as seems to be the case. c) Are there any areas of dispute in Linux code apart from the IBM stuff? SCO seem to be making statements in random directions, but without placing any hard evidence in front of us. d) can we put together a fund large enough to bribe a SCO employee to release the entire SCO code history, so we can see if they do have any real evidence? After all if the US can do it for Uday and Qusay, we ought to be able to pay enough for one engineer to holidayb in the sun so Linux can progress by either changing the disputed code or find SCOs claims to be rubbish.
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..anyone claiming long Linux uptimes in the Eastern US is almost certainly a liar or a survivalist!! :-)
The triple and long jump records will be broken by a large margin Real Soon Now
This could be ideal for one of those fish restaurants where you select the live fish you want to eat. The surplus heat from your computer keeps the aquarium at the right temperature, while the water from the aquarium keeps the EPOS (Electronic Point of Sale) cool!
If lobster was involved, then the aquarium could become an instant cookpot by pressing the turbo button on your PC (overclocking your machine and increasing the CPU heat output!)
No, but each time one of these requests comes through, billing the sender $100 or so for your time and effort in investigating the claim may stop them.
..that from the article Bill Gates dropping $400million into India helps increase sales of non-Microsoft products.
:-)
Maybe the Indian people are better at seeing through the charade and snake-oil salesmanship than we are... or can you come up with a better reason?
Linux actually needs to win soon in one of the populous developing countries (I include China in this category); it would've been nice to be China, but I'm under the impression Microsoft doesn't stop copies of it's operating system quite so hard there as it would here.
India would be good, especially since a lot of IT is done over there; with a bit of luck it will lead to another huge influx of Linux developers who speak English
Since you read Slashdot, you're aware of the general interests of most of its readers. Where do you stand on issues of particular interest to any California resident Slashdot voters e.g. Microsoft, copyright, SCO, censorship v freedom of speech etc.
:-)
You may make your answer to this question as long as you wish...
Maybe I'm in a minority, but I actually like XP Home. All my systems dual boot into Linux, and i do have a Linux fileserver, but I have to say XP Home does seem to be the most stable MS offering yet. OK, its got it's flaws, and the security and user separation isn't in the same league as Linux, but it does the jab and plays games.
Someone with modpoints decided you were saying something with a herd like mentality.
Even Unix boxes get hacked occasionally.
I may be wrong, but AFAIK non-compete agreements are not totally illegal in the UK (or in Europe); however they are restricted in the sense that you cannot stop someone carrying on in the same trade somewhere else. The scope of the non-compete agreement determines its enforceability.
For example, it is legal say, for an estate agent to employ someone with a contract preventing them from opening or joining another agency within 5 miles of where they work. It is not legal for them to have a term preventing them opening or joining an agency anywhere in the UK.
...then surely SCO is breaking copyight law. I thought the whole point of the GPL is that if found null and void then copyright law stood as its last line of defence.
In this case, that means every single Linux developer can now sue SCo for unauthorised distribution of their copyrighted material!!
Will I pay $32 for an embedded device or $699 (PC licence) for my MythTV box?
No we can't 'cos its on Geocities.
Looks like Spud was the editor who decided to post a story with a link to Geocities
I was thinking of buying a fast CPU and avoiding having a fan revving at 5000rpm to keep it cool, not overclocking.
So what alternatives are there to Intel? I'm obviously aware of AMD, but what other contenders are there?
I'd be particularly interested in anything which can provide approximately Athlon XP1800 performance with low heat output and comparable cost, since I'd like to build a PVR which is as silent as possible.
Obviously low noise fans are needed, but I suppose the other alternative is to water cool it.
I think you are taking the Slashdot populist line too far. Whilst I am normally against extension of copyright, I think some copyright and patents protection must be present, even if the actual duration should be much shorter than it is now.
What you fail to realise is that without it, ideas would be spread much less rapidly and protected as trade and even national secrets. Even if someone has a patent on an idea, expression and widespread publication of that idea allows the possibility of someone seeing it and making improvements to it, or even producing an entirely defferent way of doing the same process.
In my opinion, there has to be some quid pro quo for publishing an idea, and that is best expressed in providing the inventor/ writer a monopoly for a short duration. The fact that the duration is currently 70-95 years for copyrights and nearly 20 for patents is obscene; somewhere around 20 and 10 would probably give just as much incentive.
On the Front: The Competition Rules
On the Back: The lawyer got paid more for writing the rules than I did for designing this shirt!
The crossing the Channel is regarded as a big barrier since The Daily Mail sponsored a competition to cross the channel, which was won by Louis Bleriot (1909?). Since the Channel is the first significant distance between major powers (England/France) it meant new means of post, transport and communication, and aslo meant that flying could be commercialised.
Since then, flyers have regarded it as a sort of first step
I think he's jumped the shark though
I can sue my old school (uniform including tie required), for causing my eyesight to suffer? I was -10.25/-9.75 by the time I was 18!
OK, lets try and sell it to you. Wood has one advantage most metals don't - the ability to flex under pressure without snapping. A bicycle which exploits some of the natural give and take of woods may have some advantages.
Second, if wood shatters, the bits are less likely to hurt so much as metal bits
I'm not sure what the limits of LASIK correction are nowadays, but have you checked it out recently? Whn mine was done about 3 years ago the limit was about -14 dioptres (my eyesight was -10.25/-9.75), but these things tend to move on.
...they're not using their server farm to host the website!
Some of these have been stated elsewhere, but I felt them to be good points
a) Did Gartner recommend not installing Microsoft software, for ever? After all, there's always one suit or another going on against MS, whether from someone trying to rape Microsoft for money, or more serious cases like STAC and the antitrust case.
b) There must be some basis on which to counter-sue or claim for malicious libel, even in the US. Is there anything to make this case roll along instead of plod as seems to be the case.
c) Are there any areas of dispute in Linux code apart from the IBM stuff? SCO seem to be making statements in random directions, but without placing any hard evidence in front of us.
d) can we put together a fund large enough to bribe a SCO employee to release the entire SCO code history, so we can see if they do have any real evidence? After all if the US can do it for Uday and Qusay, we ought to be able to pay enough for one engineer to holidayb in the sun so Linux can progress by either changing the disputed code or find SCOs claims to be rubbish.
Just failed to access his site. Lawyers may fail to shut it down, but slashdot can do it in seconds! :-)