I would automatically question any comparison between Sun and any Intel based platform. However even Sun recognizes the future looks to be Linux on Intel.
We recently performed an internal cost/benefit analysis of Sun vs. Linux on Intel. Our study showed that while Intel platforms are very competetive, they fall behind on supportability. Intel machines require VGA port, BIOS, and keyboard/mouse ports. To provide remote OOB management you end up spending a fortune in cards and/or console managers, that Sun has built-in to their low end equipmnt. By low end I'm talking about a 1U $995 machine.
In fact we recently had a conference call with Sun about their Linux boxes... I told them that if they wanted us to buy Sun Intel Linux machines they would need to dispense with the VGA port and provide the same Light Out Management console port that their Sparc machines have. Which effectively means they need to build an OpenFirmware/OpenBoot machine with a RJ45 console port. Sun's rep stated that they are working on incorporating those technologies into the Intel platform.
So I think if Sun can deliver such a machine, in the sub $1000 category they will end up as the trendsetter for Intel based Linux boxes.
Might I add this scheme sounds a lot like a silver bullet. Silver bullets never solve the problem because invariably they try to patch the symptom and doesn't address the root cause.
Reasonable (read short) time limits, non-renewable patents and a mandatory licensing system would be nice starts to correcting the imbalance. I really think a system that requires the patent holder to license the patent for a small fixed percentage is a better system.
I don't feel that anyone has a right beyond recognition. By that I mean if a person contributed substantially they deserve to have their name listed as a contributor but even that shouldn't be mandatory.
I don't believe we should have a patent office, or pay royalties, or disallow copying of other peoples work. The sooner we get rid of patents the happier we will all be.
I'm tired of all the fighting over copyrights. I'm ready for revolution. Let's end it now, NO MORE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. No more secrets.
Musicians should make their money on public performance and teaching. Companies should have their charter revoked. I would gladly accept a pre-Industrial revolution economy over these stupid restrictions.
I've been thinking that signing email would be the best way to get rid of spam.
A group of companies and individual need to organize, maybe as an IETF group, to work out an email requirement of signing email with certificates. You can even set some dates, like email must be signed starting X day to receive priority treatment, otherwise it gets handled second class. Some point in the future you might even set a date to stop accepting unsigned email.
So at this point, if handled correctly, you could at least be assured that the sender of received email is verifiable. You can still receive your unsigned mail but in a second-class inbox.
I really think this idea could work to limit the appeal of mass spamming. What do you think?
My team mates and I have been using Linux on our desktops since we arrived at our present position several years ago. However we still can't justify a move from Sun hardware and Solaris. The price point and quality are too good.
If Intel compatible machines would put in OpenFirmware or equivalent, remove keyboard and monitor, and allow power management/console access through a single RJ-45 serial connector at a similar price point we could talk. Sun Fire v100 has this in a 1U for $995 retail.
What I'm trying to point out is that Intel machines have an incredible amount of horsepower but have consistently failed on bringing managability in at a reasonable price.
Further I think Sun is in the course of reinventing itself. They are supporting numerous open source efforts, looking for Solaris to Linux exit strategies, and moving away from proprietary hardware that kept its price point high. Just within the last few generations of hardware look at the changes. Say goodbye to SBUS for PCI, special memory for DDR, standard monitors. Similar to the reinvention Apple has gone through isn't it?
It would require a myriad of NDAs, the purchase of an XBox development system, and closed source. In other words, Microsoft XBox Development and Linux are incompatible through the upfront approach.
It has the public key in the XBox. The discs are signed with the private key at the factory. The public key is the mathematical inverse of the private key. So in order to get the other half, you either factor a lot of large primes or steal it from Microsoft.
We need the private key to sign the linux boot CD so that the XBox thinks it is an official XBox product and allows it to boot.
The world is made of rules. The Internet only works because of rules. There is a forum for extending and creating new rules. They should learn to use it.
If Microsoft does this it breaks firewalls that statefully inspect. Because the initial request may very well break and waste log space, because the non-SYN packet without a state table entry will fail. Also you don't want HTTP over UDP because it is difficult to secure. You would need the server to inspect the data portion to ensure that the protocol was actually HTTP traffic and not something else.
I own the new Moby CD and let's be frank. It just isn't as good as 'Play'. It is good, but it was going to be tough to follow 'Play' with another great album. So lukewarm sales indicate lukewarm reception.
To those who might have overlooked, There is always a political bias to everything. Slashdot like all things human is far from objective. Some of think technology is more important than money or power. However we might realize the unholy alliance of all three. I dislike money, I dislike companies meddling to create a world best suited to them, I want a world best suited for playing with toys. I want playing for the sake of playing. I have no interest in wealth, power or fame. Just really cool stuff. The BSA should not be talking to religious organizations and vice versa. It is using the influence of the church to achieve a specific business, political and social belief. That is as dangerous as it gets.
VMware merely provides a virtual environment that makes the OS think it is the only OS one the system. The instructions execute on the processor unaltered.
I just got off the phone with the Technology affairs guy in Barbara Boxer's Washington office. He is denying any support of SSSCA by Barbara Boxer at this time. I read him the accusation from the article and gave him the info. He was less than happy.
To answer: Have you seen the cost a a CD single?! The CD single is primarily designed for the completist. Someone who wants to collect B-sides. They cost around $7 each. That of course isn't including many which are import only. Those start around $10 and go up. Nevermind that usually they put different B-sides on two different versions of the same single. This of course is complete crap.
The music industry is similar to De Beers the diamond company. It manufacturers artificial scarcity. There is nothing precious about diamonds. Diamonds are a worthless, except that De Beers has helped curtail supply and attached an emotional value to carbon. Music is nice and we need new music, but the record industry wants music to control how much music we have access to. This ensures that a valueless commodity like music retains value.
Ummm. You can't compare.
The government needs to act for the people effected by the WTC destruction. If they didn't you would have _serious_ confidence issues in this country. People, want and need to feel the government is their for them. This is done in the event of any major disaster.
Big Media is looking at this all wrong and they really stand to gain the most if they could stop preaching the mantra of the traditional TV format. I think as/. commentary proves there are a million ways to skin this cat. You could sell on a per season/per show basis, you could provide promotional tie-ins, shorten commercial breaks, pay-per-view, etc. But these all smack of TV v2.0. Not really a TV rethink.
I actually think that the future of television could be a producer-delivery-storage system. Television studios produce shows, a delivery network delivers those shows to a PVR and the user gets them in their INBOX every week like a magazine. Essentially like a magazine. The money could be made by subscription, and a subscription ensures access to back issues, special commentary, a nice fanzine, no commercials, guarantee of quality and on-time delivery, special subscriber only shows. You know, perks for being a subscriber.
I see the major stumbling blocks, other than adoption, as the corporate need to not standardize the format and make stupid alliances with one company and not the other. It should be possible for any PVR to play in this arena. Also a central location to manage your accounts and collection would be cool to. Then they could move to making sure their shows would play on 3G devices.
People will no longer beholden to the dross that any single station presents. Content will solely be profitable if it is worthwhile content.
Ideas contained herein are released under a GPL license.
If paying for a standard is the answer, could we rephrase the question? In a networked world where content has become effectively intangible, we need to have a societal rethink on life, the universe and intellectual property.
That is one of the worst online papers imaginable. Talk about the corporate mouthpiece. Britain must keep the pound and RIAA is the best thing ever for musicians? A bastion of enlightened thought?
Listen to this Mission Statement:
{
There are a number of people who have opinions that don't quite fit the norm. Because of this, they aren't welcome in many places. This is where they exercise their right to speak, where the dreams of tomorrow take flight today.
This site is aimed at middle class white male professionals - the sort of people who have been sadly sidelined by today's victim culture, and the domination of homosexuals, geeks, amputees, racial minorities and Canadians, who have all risen up with their discrimination laws and 'equality' to sadly control the media agenda.
These people are not welcome here. This is where we make a stand. This is where we fight back.
It is also squarely aimed at the marginalised of society -- homosexuals, geeks, amputees, racial minorities and Canadians, who remain in a state of oppression, kept down by the dominant white male patriarchy and by insufficiently rigorous 'discrimination' laws and the corporate media.
These people are welcome here. This is where we make a stand. This is where we fight back.
Controversial opinions, passionately held. We Are Adequacy.org.
}
I am a white heterosexual professional male and I can't say this paper represents my views and concerns.
Maybe you mistake honesty of opinion for truth. Making your views known openly doesn't make them good views, or even give them validity. It just puts them on the table. Objective fact and open discussion can lead to truths. But you can't find truth when you ignore large segments of the population. It is amusing that you are accusing others of a victim culture, when you are clearly trying to create one.
It is people like you, feeding your mind this sort of drivel, that makes me concerned for society.
Money is irrelevant. If you just want a piece of paper that says I'm a certified computer science plumber then you should go to Kinko's and make one. Not trying to be mean. Computer Science or any other degree is not about money it is about education. If you already know everything then you don't need the paper. Granted only a limited portion of and undergraduate is actually related to your 'major'. So shortcutting the degree doesn't make sense. You are missing the point of study.
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I just had to say it. My apologies.
I would automatically question any comparison between Sun and any Intel based platform. However even Sun recognizes the future looks to be Linux on Intel.
We recently performed an internal cost/benefit analysis of Sun vs. Linux on Intel. Our study showed that while Intel platforms are very competetive, they fall behind on supportability. Intel machines require VGA port, BIOS, and keyboard/mouse ports. To provide remote OOB management you end up spending a fortune in cards and/or console managers, that Sun has built-in to their low end equipmnt. By low end I'm talking about a 1U $995 machine.
In fact we recently had a conference call with Sun about their Linux boxes... I told them that if they wanted us to buy Sun Intel Linux machines they would need to dispense with the VGA port and provide the same Light Out Management console port that their Sparc machines have. Which effectively means they need to build an OpenFirmware/OpenBoot machine with a RJ45 console port. Sun's rep stated that they are working on incorporating those technologies into the Intel platform.
So I think if Sun can deliver such a machine, in the sub $1000 category they will end up as the trendsetter for Intel based Linux boxes.
Do I hear 5 years? 20 years is one quarter of your life. Way to long.
Might I add this scheme sounds a lot like a silver bullet. Silver bullets never solve the problem because invariably they try to patch the symptom and doesn't address the root cause.
Reasonable (read short) time limits, non-renewable patents and a mandatory licensing system would be nice starts to correcting the imbalance. I really think a system that requires the patent holder to license the patent for a small fixed percentage is a better system.
I don't feel that anyone has a right beyond recognition. By that I mean if a person contributed substantially they deserve to have their name listed as a contributor but even that shouldn't be mandatory.
I don't believe we should have a patent office, or pay royalties, or disallow copying of other peoples work. The sooner we get rid of patents the happier we will all be.
What I find interesting is IBM's lack of comment. I checked their press releases and they haven't even acknowledged their claim.
I have a feeling that we won't here from them until June 13th. I hope they are planning something special for SCO.
I'm tired of all the fighting over copyrights. I'm ready for revolution. Let's end it now, NO MORE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY. No more secrets.
Musicians should make their money on public performance and teaching. Companies should have their charter revoked. I would gladly accept a pre-Industrial revolution economy over these stupid restrictions.
So who will be the first against the wall???
I've been thinking that signing email would be the best way to get rid of spam.
A group of companies and individual need to organize, maybe as an IETF group, to work out an email requirement of signing email with certificates. You can even set some dates, like email must be signed starting X day to receive priority treatment, otherwise it gets handled second class. Some point in the future you might even set a date to stop accepting unsigned email.
So at this point, if handled correctly, you could at least be assured that the sender of received email is verifiable. You can still receive your unsigned mail but in a second-class inbox.
I really think this idea could work to limit the appeal of mass spamming. What do you think?
My team mates and I have been using Linux on our desktops since we arrived at our present position several years ago. However we still can't justify a move from Sun hardware and Solaris. The price point and quality are too good.
If Intel compatible machines would put in OpenFirmware or equivalent, remove keyboard and monitor, and allow power management/console access through a single RJ-45 serial connector at a similar price point we could talk. Sun Fire v100 has this in a 1U for $995 retail.
What I'm trying to point out is that Intel machines have an incredible amount of horsepower but have consistently failed on bringing managability in at a reasonable price.
Further I think Sun is in the course of reinventing itself. They are supporting numerous open source efforts, looking for Solaris to Linux exit strategies, and moving away from proprietary hardware that kept its price point high. Just within the last few generations of hardware look at the changes. Say goodbye to SBUS for PCI, special memory for DDR, standard monitors. Similar to the reinvention Apple has gone through isn't it?
It would require a myriad of NDAs, the purchase of an XBox development system, and closed source. In other words, Microsoft XBox Development and Linux are incompatible through the upfront approach.
It has the public key in the XBox. The discs are signed with the private key at the factory. The public key is the mathematical inverse of the private key. So in order to get the other half, you either factor a lot of large primes or steal it from Microsoft.
We need the private key to sign the linux boot CD so that the XBox thinks it is an official XBox product and allows it to boot.
The world is made of rules. The Internet only works because of rules. There is a forum for extending and creating new rules. They should learn to use it.
If Microsoft does this it breaks firewalls that statefully inspect. Because the initial request may very well break and waste log space, because the non-SYN packet without a state table entry will fail. Also you don't want HTTP over UDP because it is difficult to secure. You would need the server to inspect the data portion to ensure that the protocol was actually HTTP traffic and not something else.
I own the new Moby CD and let's be frank. It just isn't as good as 'Play'. It is good, but it was going to be tough to follow 'Play' with another great album. So lukewarm sales indicate lukewarm reception.
To those who might have overlooked,
There is always a political bias to everything. Slashdot like all things human is far from objective. Some of think technology is more important than money or power. However we might realize the unholy alliance of all three. I dislike money, I dislike companies meddling to create a world best suited to them, I want a world best suited for playing with toys. I want playing for the sake of playing. I have no interest in wealth, power or fame. Just really cool stuff. The BSA should not be talking to religious organizations and vice versa. It is using the influence of the church to achieve a specific business, political and social belief. That is as dangerous as it gets.
VMware merely provides a virtual environment that makes the OS think it is the only OS one the system. The instructions execute on the processor unaltered.
I just got off the phone with the Technology affairs guy in Barbara Boxer's Washington office. He is denying any support of SSSCA by Barbara Boxer at this time. I read him the accusation from the article and gave him the info. He was less than happy.
To answer:
Have you seen the cost a a CD single?! The CD single is primarily designed for the completist. Someone who wants to collect B-sides. They cost around $7 each. That of course isn't including many which are import only. Those start around $10 and go up. Nevermind that usually they put different B-sides on two different versions of the same single. This of course is complete crap.
The music industry is similar to De Beers the diamond company. It manufacturers artificial scarcity. There is nothing precious about diamonds. Diamonds are a worthless, except that De Beers has helped curtail supply and attached an emotional value to carbon. Music is nice and we need new music, but the record industry wants music to control how much music we have access to. This ensures that a valueless commodity like music retains value.
Ummm. You can't compare.
The government needs to act for the people effected by the WTC destruction. If they didn't you would have _serious_ confidence issues in this country. People, want and need to feel the government is their for them. This is done in the event of any major disaster.
Big Media is looking at this all wrong and they really stand to gain the most if they could stop preaching the mantra of the traditional TV format. I think as /. commentary proves there are a million ways to skin this cat. You could sell on a per season/per show basis, you could provide promotional tie-ins, shorten commercial breaks, pay-per-view, etc. But these all smack of TV v2.0. Not really a TV rethink.
I actually think that the future of television could be a producer-delivery-storage system. Television studios produce shows, a delivery network delivers those shows to a PVR and the user gets them in their INBOX every week like a magazine. Essentially like a magazine. The money could be made by subscription, and a subscription ensures access to back issues, special commentary, a nice fanzine, no commercials, guarantee of quality and on-time delivery, special subscriber only shows. You know, perks for being a subscriber.
I see the major stumbling blocks, other than adoption, as the corporate need to not standardize the format and make stupid alliances with one company and not the other. It should be possible for any PVR to play in this arena. Also a central location to manage your accounts and collection would be cool to. Then they could move to making sure their shows would play on 3G devices.
People will no longer beholden to the dross that any single station presents. Content will solely be profitable if it is worthwhile content.
Ideas contained herein are released under a GPL license.
If paying for a standard is the answer, could we rephrase the question? In a networked world where content has become effectively intangible, we need to have a societal rethink on life, the universe and intellectual property.
That is one of the worst online papers imaginable. Talk about the corporate mouthpiece. Britain must keep the pound and RIAA is the best thing ever for musicians? A bastion of enlightened thought?
Listen to this Mission Statement:
{
There are a number of people who have opinions that don't quite fit the norm. Because of this, they aren't welcome in many places. This is where they exercise their right to speak, where the dreams of tomorrow take flight today.
This site is aimed at middle class white male professionals - the sort of people who have been sadly sidelined by today's victim culture, and the domination of homosexuals, geeks, amputees, racial minorities and Canadians, who have all risen up with their discrimination laws and 'equality' to sadly control the media agenda.
These people are not welcome here. This is where we make a stand. This is where we fight back.
It is also squarely aimed at the marginalised of society -- homosexuals, geeks, amputees, racial minorities and Canadians, who remain in a state of oppression, kept down by the dominant white male patriarchy and by insufficiently rigorous 'discrimination' laws and the corporate media.
These people are welcome here. This is where we make a stand. This is where we fight back.
Controversial opinions, passionately held. We Are Adequacy.org.
}
I am a white heterosexual professional male and I can't say this paper represents my views and concerns.
Maybe you mistake honesty of opinion for truth. Making your views known openly doesn't make them good views, or even give them validity. It just puts them on the table. Objective fact and open discussion can lead to truths. But you can't find truth when you ignore large segments of the population. It is amusing that you are accusing others of a victim culture, when you are clearly trying to create one.
It is people like you, feeding your mind this sort of drivel, that makes me concerned for society.
Money is irrelevant. If you just want a piece of paper that says I'm a certified computer science plumber then you should go to Kinko's and make one. Not trying to be mean. Computer Science or any other degree is not about money it is about education. If you already know everything then you don't need the paper. Granted only a limited portion of and undergraduate is actually related to your 'major'. So shortcutting the degree doesn't make sense. You are missing the point of study.
I don't believe code can be stolen unless you fail to reference your sources.
There is nothing terribly restrictive about GPL. I like their license.
I guess I should try it while ripping three CDs at once and running XMMS.
cameron.