Actually Micrsoft created quite a nice implementation of Java for windows, including the first JIT JVM that I know of. Of course, they also tried to "embrace and extend" Java... But Sun layed the smack down in court, and Microsoft is now prohibited from adding extra features to the language. So what's there to fear?
These sort of ultra high speed lines are not intended to ever be used by the public. They are for building backbones with (hence the 700km testing.) However, if you want really fast access to your home or buisiness, they might be coming out with 40 Mbps dedicated cable connections (by dedicated I mean that the bandwidth isn't shared with everyone else on your loop.) Or you could always lease a T3...
No no no... the just plan on replacing the Sun's operating system. With the latest kernel version, solar flares should be reduced by 57% and of course, it will be open source. With thousands of hackers constantly toiling, plus so much heat that it could vaporise a cockroach from miles away, the sun should stay 99% free of bugs.
as fascdot set, correlation is not cause. Maybe it was the introduction of the Apple II that caused this takeoff? Maybe it was the color display? There are many factors it could have been other than Bill Gates' precedent-setting copyright.
Sent chills up and down my spine. Geek pride! Anyway, this does bring up briefly the important distinction between software and hardware. This is something I have been wondering about lately: what is software, and what is hardware? How can you define them? After all, "software" does exist in the physical worlds, whether as bumps in a CD or magnetic direction in a hard disk. So what is a clear and universal definition for "hardware" and "software?"
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Yeah, man. If you checked out the screenshots, are they still in your cache? Because henzai's been slashdotted to hell.
a great way to code a new kernel is to look at other, open-sourcekernels. Also, learn assembly if you don't know it already. It is a low-level language so you get a feel for the architecture, and the concepts in assembly are definitely needed in kernel development.
The difference in the law, at least, is that reverse-engineered "emulators" do not use any of Sony or whoever's copyrighted material. The material was produced completely by the person who reverse-engineered it. In the case of pirated software, obviously Microsoft or whoever's copyrighted code was simply re-distributed. You have a point, though, philosophically.
Blockbuster has ownership licenses on every copy of every videogame that they rent. They have special licenses which state that the product can be resold, which is pretty common in software licenses for corporations. When Joe Average picks up a copy of quake 3, he can't rent it out to the neighborhood because the license he bought the game with does not include the 'reselling' or 'renting' part.
It is only legal for Blockbuster to rent games because they have made special deals with the publishers. No-one has made these kind of deals with PC software manufacturers... I guess there probably isn't a big enough market to justify the cost of creating copyright protections for rental and then factoring in the cost of what gets pirated despite the copyright protections. Macromedia's ESD techology could probably be modified for rental pretty easily... it would just have to be changed so that: a) The timer is reset every time you install the software. currently Macromedia uses a registry key or something to make sure you only instal the trial version once. B) The installer program self-destructs. Then you could go to a site, pay to rent the software for 30 days, and download the installer program. You could do this whenever you wanted.
I bet that if this happens, somebody (sony, playstation, nintendo, or even microsoft) will throw some sort of lawsuit out. I mean, sony did one for bleem!, to think of what they'd do for reverse engineering........
If this has a FireWire port. I remember back when I first read about FireWire, one of its potential applications was the "digital home entertainment system" you firewire VCR connects to your firewire TV and your firewire stereo system, etc... Everything is exttremely easy to use and analog degredation is a thing of the past. Of course, DVD manfucturers are prevented by the MPAA from making FireWire DVD players, but it would still be cool...
Didn't the Matell suits already establish a precendent in this sort of thing? It really sucks, though. When domain names become subject to trademark laws, then we know that the Internet is becoming owned by companies. (What, you say you want yourname.com? Sorry, yourname is also the name of our company. We're suing.) I think that this illustrates the need for domain name decetralization. Maybe the.com TLD should be subject to trademark infringment, whereas.org and whatever other TLD's get created should be given to whomever wants them.
Redhat is less of a hardcore/server distribution than, say, slackware, because, as you say, it tries for both the desktop and the server market.
You are certainly wrong about general users wanting or needing PCs in the future. Did you even read the article? The first issue that is brought up is 'the metaphor crisis.' Because PCs must support many different applications and varieties of hardware, they are hard(er) to use, because the mouse/keyboard metaphor is not optimal for many applications. Let's say, for example, that a door, a lamp, and a TV were controlled by a generic PC interface - a mouse and keyboard. It would be horribly backwards, because the interface is not optimized and adjusted for the application. A door has a handle, because it is the most logical interface. A lamp has a switch, because it is the most logical interface. A TV has a remote control - because it is the most logical interface. What happens is that the PC is divided into many appliances, each with its interface AND hardware optimized for its application. Things finally become easier to use - what the user wants. Keep in mind that the general user is the guy who bought an iMac to check 'that internet' out, not the linux junkie worried about where his shell prompt will go.
The corporations will not largely affect information flow, either. Mass media corporations like aol/time warner can certainly do their share, but the Web will still flourish as it does today. Most information will be free, but, sadly, some things will be littered with ads. But, then again, the same happens today.
AHHHH! I will never never never post without using "preview" again. The name of the hypothesis is the "sapir-whorf hypothesis" and the link should point to "http://www.lojban.org/files/papers/SW.BI B" Sorry everybody!
In the days of redhat 5.2 (apollo), their distribution was praised for its great RPM technology. But ever since the 6.0 release, Redhat has been more aggressive in the market than anything else. The redhat distribution now focuses on the ease of installation and maintenance. By doing this, they are capturing the desktop (newbie?) market. Assuming that linux is the future (and it may not be: PCs are on the go. IAs are moving in.), Redhat needs to take the desktop market in order to win the general server share. Here's an example of why: how did Microsoft win the early server market? Not by pushing a better server product, but by winning the desktop market (windows...). The same people who are buying Redhat for their desktops, because they know no other linux, will buy Redhat for their servers, just out of convenience (and ignorance?). Maybe by acquiring openBSD, redhat could turn things around and put out a great, secure server linux.
I think that by making these moves they've gotten alot of news (man, look at their stock prices) and business partners (almost every big corporation "involved in the open-source revolution" ships with redhat linux, no other), but they've lost alot of support from the hardcore open source community. Now, a lot of people blacklist redhat, associating it with newbies and ignorance. But, as I said before, maybe they will push a good server linux too.
Finally, major companies have started to respect the open source revolution! However, I have a feeling that all the big names are doing it for company PR and stuff: "Well, the Dell corporation is interested in only the best for our clients, and we believe that offering linux solutions is reaching that goal." I wish they would start shipping with *BSD and beOS, but I doubt that's going to happen in the next few years....
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Actually Micrsoft created quite a nice implementation of Java for windows, including the first JIT JVM that I know of. Of course, they also tried to "embrace and extend" Java... But Sun layed the smack down in court, and Microsoft is now prohibited from adding extra features to the language. So what's there to fear?
These sort of ultra high speed lines are not intended to ever be used by the public. They are for building backbones with (hence the 700km testing.) However, if you want really fast access to your home or buisiness, they might be coming out with 40 Mbps dedicated cable connections (by dedicated I mean that the bandwidth isn't shared with everyone else on your loop.) Or you could always lease a T3...
That's not the fault of the OS or database software, it is the fault of weather.com's database and their scripting.
No no no... the just plan on replacing the Sun's operating system. With the latest kernel version, solar flares should be reduced by 57% and of course, it will be open source. With thousands of hackers constantly toiling, plus so much heat that it could vaporise a cockroach from miles away, the sun should stay 99% free of bugs.
has cnet actually been slashdotted, or is it an unrelated problem? sweet jesus!
great definition, gwernol!
as fascdot set, correlation is not cause. Maybe it was the introduction of the Apple II that caused this takeoff? Maybe it was the color display? There are many factors it could have been other than Bill Gates' precedent-setting copyright.
Sent chills up and down my spine. Geek pride! Anyway, this does bring up briefly the important distinction between software and hardware. This is something I have been wondering about lately: what is software, and what is hardware? How can you define them? After all, "software" does exist in the physical worlds, whether as bumps in a CD or magnetic direction in a hard disk. So what is a clear and universal definition for "hardware" and "software?"
Yeah, man. If you checked out the screenshots, are they still in your cache? Because henzai's been slashdotted to hell.
a great way to code a new kernel is to look at other, open-source kernels. Also, learn assembly if you don't know it already. It is a low-level language so you get a feel for the architecture, and the concepts in assembly are definitely needed in kernel development.
Actually, the PS2 can use both controllers and games from the original PS, with only a few exceptions.
The difference in the law, at least, is that reverse-engineered "emulators" do not use any of Sony or whoever's copyrighted material. The material was produced completely by the person who reverse-engineered it. In the case of pirated software, obviously Microsoft or whoever's copyrighted code was simply re-distributed. You have a point, though, philosophically.
Blockbuster has ownership licenses on every copy of every videogame that they rent. They have special licenses which state that the product can be resold, which is pretty common in software licenses for corporations. When Joe Average picks up a copy of quake 3, he can't rent it out to the neighborhood because the license he bought the game with does not include the 'reselling' or 'renting' part.
It is only legal for Blockbuster to rent games because they have made special deals with the publishers. No-one has made these kind of deals with PC software manufacturers... I guess there probably isn't a big enough market to justify the cost of creating copyright protections for rental and then factoring in the cost of what gets pirated despite the copyright protections. Macromedia's ESD techology could probably be modified for rental pretty easily... it would just have to be changed so that: a) The timer is reset every time you install the software. currently Macromedia uses a registry key or something to make sure you only instal the trial version once. B) The installer program self-destructs. Then you could go to a site, pay to rent the software for 30 days, and download the installer program. You could do this whenever you wanted.
I bet that if this happens, somebody (sony, playstation, nintendo, or even microsoft) will throw some sort of lawsuit out. I mean, sony did one for bleem!, to think of what they'd do for reverse engineering........
If this has a FireWire port. I remember back when I first read about FireWire, one of its potential applications was the "digital home entertainment system" you firewire VCR connects to your firewire TV and your firewire stereo system, etc... Everything is exttremely easy to use and analog degredation is a thing of the past. Of course, DVD manfucturers are prevented by the MPAA from making FireWire DVD players, but it would still be cool...
Didn't the Matell suits already establish a precendent in this sort of thing? It really sucks, though. When domain names become subject to trademark laws, then we know that the Internet is becoming owned by companies. (What, you say you want yourname.com? Sorry, yourname is also the name of our company. We're suing.) I think that this illustrates the need for domain name decetralization. Maybe the .com TLD should be subject to trademark infringment, whereas .org and whatever other TLD's get created should be given to whomever wants them.
Redhat is less of a hardcore/server distribution than, say, slackware, because, as you say, it tries for both the desktop and the server market.
You are certainly wrong about general users wanting or needing PCs in the future. Did you even read the article? The first issue that is brought up is 'the metaphor crisis.' Because PCs must support many different applications and varieties of hardware, they are hard(er) to use, because the mouse/keyboard metaphor is not optimal for many applications. Let's say, for example, that a door, a lamp, and a TV were controlled by a generic PC interface - a mouse and keyboard. It would be horribly backwards, because the interface is not optimized and adjusted for the application. A door has a handle, because it is the most logical interface. A lamp has a switch, because it is the most logical interface. A TV has a remote control - because it is the most logical interface. What happens is that the PC is divided into many appliances, each with its interface AND hardware optimized for its application. Things finally become easier to use - what the user wants. Keep in mind that the general user is the guy who bought an iMac to check 'that internet' out, not the linux junkie worried about where his shell prompt will go.
The corporations will not largely affect information flow, either. Mass media corporations like aol/time warner can certainly do their share, but the Web will still flourish as it does today. Most information will be free, but, sadly, some things will be littered with ads. But, then again, the same happens today.
AHHHH! I will never never never post without using "preview" again. The name of the hypothesis is the "sapir-whorf hypothesis" and the link should point to "http://www.lojban.org/files/papers/SW.BI B" Sorry everybody!
If you want a less bloated lanuguge than English, look no further than lojban. Developed in the second half of this century, lojban is both an attempt to create a "logical language" (it is so logical than machines can parse it) and also to test the famous , which states that: I. Structural differences between language systems will, in general, be paralleled by nonlinguistic cognitive differences, of an unspecified sort, in the native speakers of the two languages. II. The structure of anyone's native language strongly influences or fully determines the world-view he will acquire as he learns the language. III. The semantic systems of different languages vary without constraint. This language intregues me, I think that it could be very useful. Imagine if everyone spoke it... it would do wonders for man-machine interaction (being that it is easy to write interpreters...)
"Scientists discover water, water pipe on Mars. Apparently the war against drugs is only beggining..."
I think Bill Gates's intellimouse already does that.
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In the days of redhat 5.2 (apollo), their distribution was praised for its great RPM technology. But ever since the 6.0 release, Redhat has been more aggressive in the market than anything else. The redhat distribution now focuses on the ease of installation and maintenance. By doing this, they are capturing the desktop (newbie?) market. Assuming that linux is the future (and it may not be: PCs are on the go. IAs are moving in.), Redhat needs to take the desktop market in order to win the general server share. Here's an example of why: how did Microsoft win the early server market? Not by pushing a better server product, but by winning the desktop market (windows...). The same people who are buying Redhat for their desktops, because they know no other linux, will buy Redhat for their servers, just out of convenience (and ignorance?). Maybe by acquiring openBSD, redhat could turn things around and put out a great, secure server linux.
I think that by making these moves they've gotten alot of news (man, look at their stock prices) and business partners (almost every big corporation "involved in the open-source revolution" ships with redhat linux, no other), but they've lost alot of support from the hardcore open source community. Now, a lot of people blacklist redhat, associating it with newbies and ignorance. But, as I said before, maybe they will push a good server linux too.
Finally, major companies have started to respect the open source revolution! However, I have a feeling that all the big names are doing it for company PR and stuff: "Well, the Dell corporation is interested in only the best for our clients, and we believe that offering linux solutions is reaching that goal." I wish they would start shipping with *BSD and beOS, but I doubt that's going to happen in the next few years....