Remember. This is Rob Endlerle "of the Enderle Group", which as it turns out, is a one man consulting job, aparently payed to write nasty articles about Linux. Remember the last one? The one that claim Microsoft is indeed more secure and an overall better server platform than anything else. He addressed security concerns using such advanced techniques as "block port 80" (which was eventually changed...). It is a payed troll, ignore, continue.
But is it publically availible in a list format? For example, you can ask the patent and trademark office, if a particular word is already trademarked in a context, but you can't get a list from them of all of the trademarks, period (it would be a HUGE list, anyway). You can't expect everyone to run to the trademark office and ask if a word is trademarked every time they use it. That would slow commerce to a halt, as _every_ public correspondance would have to be checked-- word per word.
I never really have any trouble finding linux support for hardware that I use. I used to, back when I started with linux (about 4 or 5 years ago). I imagine this would help some with more obscure hardware, but even then it would be limited by the fact that the drivers will no doubt be slower than native ones. For example, I can't imagine using this with a high quality sound card without getting audio artifacts from buffer underruns. For non-real time kinds of communications (umm... digital cameras, i guess) I guess another layer isn't a big problem.
How is google supposed to know if a word is trademarked? Does France have some kind of list of all registered trademarks, and what kind of product or company they specifically refer to availible electronically? Or even on paper? Even if such a list were availible, how is google supposed to know whether I was searching for information pertaining to a product with a trademarked name or just a normal combination of words? Perhaps I was slightly off in my terminology, and happened to enter a trademarked phrase as opposed to what I was actually looking for (because I didn't know exactly what it was called)? I fear that the simpliest thing for google to do at this point is to start running banner ads. Otherwise, it is likely that some daft frenchmen are going to put them under, one search at a time.
XSI and SolidEdge I don't know anything about, but I've run Gentoo on systems with much, much less ram than 512. I've never come even close to needing that much memory, even when emerging two or three things in parallel. I agree that G++ eats CPUs alive, but again, its footprint isn't _that_ large. That said, my workstation/server is using close almost 512 between main memory and tasks currently swapped out...
What are you RUNNING home boy? For christ sake, it's a laptop, not a web server. If you think 512M is a limitation for a laptop, maybe you need to sit in a dark corner and think about what you are doing wrong. Maybe you're just thinking of using WinXP?
Finally, please note that they have issued a challenge to you Linux folk: "The custom-built devices can't run ordinary computer software; they're good for shopping and nothing else." Wanna bet?
My boycott list grows larger every hour, it seems. I'm sure my opinion doesn't matter in the end as far as corporate America is concerned, but it would piss me off if a single one of my dollars went to weakening the GPL and Linux. Let us just hope that money can't buy a favorable judgement for SCO. Oh, wait....
100% of their previous chat 'customers' x $0 = $0. ~10% of their previous customers x $20 a year = Well, some quanitity above zero, assuming that anyone used it to start with.
Well, that depends on your architecture, but generally circutry is built in that prevents NOPs from going through the execution phase of the circut. They decode, increment the program counter, then go on. So, instead of running the whole processor (using all the power required for that), NOPs only activate a small part of the circutry, drawing a smaller amount of power. So yes, they would run at "full speed", but that doesn't mean they would run at full power.
I like how if someone violates Microsoft or SCO's license, they are dastardly software pirates, that obviously need to be put to death. If someone violates the liscense of a GPL program, continuously, with no intent of stopping, all of the sudden, the liscense holder is portrayed as suit happy. Let's face it. Big business wants something for free (that's what they do, after all-- their nature is spend less and make more), and they aren't happy when they have to play by the same rules as everyone else.
VT got a better deal from Apple, relatively, than UT got from Dell. From what I hear, Apple wouldn't give UT the same deal on longstar (because the VT cluster was Apple's "hey, look, you can cluster these" move. they don't see a need for two of those). It should be pointed out that the cluster in question hasn't been benchmarked yet, because it hasn't been fully installed yet. Anything at this point would be speculation. That said, I think VT's cluster will win in the end by a (smaller than predicted) margin.
My ultrasparc 10 (tatung clone, not SUN original) machine is probably my oldest piece of kit I still use, though some of my CD drives might be older (I never upgrade those things, because I can't really tell the difference between 24x and 48x). Anything much older than a couple of years generally gets passed on to someone in my family who just broke the last machine I gave them.
Chess players tend to think that they will always have an edge on machines, because they like to think that chess is more than just some mathematical system. Often times, they associate chess skill with intelligent thought. If a computer can beat them, then there's nothing magical about the game that makes it a judge of "intelligence." Furthermore, you can hardly say that computers will never beat humans at chess because they havn't been 100% sucessful in doing so thus far. A couple of generations of architecture ago, a computer would not have posed to challenge to a grandmaster. Now, computers and humans look about even. Unfortunatly for the people rooting for humanity, computers "evolve" faster than we do, and in a couple of years, this debate will probably be over.
Who said anything about the source code? Just because it runs linux doesn't mean it has to be open source. In fact, I would guess that because this is coming from the telecos, it will be anything but open.
Nah, Sun already payed their Linux tax (second largest 'contributer', next to Microsoft). They're maybe not buddy-buddy with SCO, but SCO won't mess with them.
Sorry, I forgot to mention this: that was addressed to any DragonFly users in the crowd. The comment doesn't make much sense otherwise. Though I have been known to talk to myself...
If I am a happy Linux or BSD (of some non-Dragonfly kind), then what would you say to entice me to switch? In other words, what do you think Dragonfly is particularly good at, that maybe is lacking elsewhere?
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Remember. This is Rob Endlerle "of the Enderle Group", which as it turns out, is a one man consulting job, aparently payed to write nasty articles about Linux. Remember the last one? The one that claim Microsoft is indeed more secure and an overall better server platform than anything else. He addressed security concerns using such advanced techniques as "block port 80" (which was eventually changed...). It is a payed troll, ignore, continue.
But is it publically availible in a list format? For example, you can ask the patent and trademark office, if a particular word is already trademarked in a context, but you can't get a list from them of all of the trademarks, period (it would be a HUGE list, anyway). You can't expect everyone to run to the trademark office and ask if a word is trademarked every time they use it. That would slow commerce to a halt, as _every_ public correspondance would have to be checked-- word per word.
I never really have any trouble finding linux support for hardware that I use. I used to, back when I started with linux (about 4 or 5 years ago). I imagine this would help some with more obscure hardware, but even then it would be limited by the fact that the drivers will no doubt be slower than native ones. For example, I can't imagine using this with a high quality sound card without getting audio artifacts from buffer underruns. For non-real time kinds of communications (umm... digital cameras, i guess) I guess another layer isn't a big problem.
How is google supposed to know if a word is trademarked? Does France have some kind of list of all registered trademarks, and what kind of product or company they specifically refer to availible electronically? Or even on paper? Even if such a list were availible, how is google supposed to know whether I was searching for information pertaining to a product with a trademarked name or just a normal combination of words? Perhaps I was slightly off in my terminology, and happened to enter a trademarked phrase as opposed to what I was actually looking for (because I didn't know exactly what it was called)? I fear that the simpliest thing for google to do at this point is to start running banner ads. Otherwise, it is likely that some daft frenchmen are going to put them under, one search at a time.
XSI and SolidEdge I don't know anything about, but I've run Gentoo on systems with much, much less ram than 512. I've never come even close to needing that much memory, even when emerging two or three things in parallel. I agree that G++ eats CPUs alive, but again, its footprint isn't _that_ large. That said, my workstation/server is using close almost 512 between main memory and tasks currently swapped out...
What are you RUNNING home boy? For christ sake, it's a laptop, not a web server. If you think 512M is a limitation for a laptop, maybe you need to sit in a dark corner and think about what you are doing wrong. Maybe you're just thinking of using WinXP?
Finally, please note that they have issued a challenge to you Linux folk: "The custom-built devices can't run ordinary computer software; they're good for shopping and nothing else." Wanna bet?
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I bet NetBSD could already run on it.
Slashdot helped me overcome my fear of shiny objects and obscure technologies. Thank you /.!
My boycott list grows larger every hour, it seems. I'm sure my opinion doesn't matter in the end as far as corporate America is concerned, but it would piss me off if a single one of my dollars went to weakening the GPL and Linux. Let us just hope that money can't buy a favorable judgement for SCO. Oh, wait....
Or software RAID on Xserves. They don't reconstruct the data like they are supposed to, when you lose a disk.
100% of their previous chat 'customers' x $0 = $0.
~10% of their previous customers x $20 a year = Well, some quanitity above zero, assuming that anyone used it to start with.
Maybe we can have another space race now. Maybe I'll be able to go to the moon this time. Maybe they'll make me go to the moon this time.
Well, that depends on your architecture, but generally circutry is built in that prevents NOPs from going through the execution phase of the circut. They decode, increment the program counter, then go on. So, instead of running the whole processor (using all the power required for that), NOPs only activate a small part of the circutry, drawing a smaller amount of power. So yes, they would run at "full speed", but that doesn't mean they would run at full power.
As far as attempting to decipher the legalese, you've come to the right place. As far as sucessfully deciphering the legalese... Can't help you.
One set of doors cost our athletic department over one million dollars. Go UT admin!
Why would I want to Scrape my net? Why does AoL let me do that? It can't be safe for the children. AoL iz teh best! lololol.
I like how if someone violates Microsoft or SCO's license, they are dastardly software pirates, that obviously need to be put to death. If someone violates the liscense of a GPL program, continuously, with no intent of stopping, all of the sudden, the liscense holder is portrayed as suit happy. Let's face it. Big business wants something for free (that's what they do, after all-- their nature is spend less and make more), and they aren't happy when they have to play by the same rules as everyone else.
VT got a better deal from Apple, relatively, than UT got from Dell. From what I hear, Apple wouldn't give UT the same deal on longstar (because the VT cluster was Apple's "hey, look, you can cluster these" move. they don't see a need for two of those). It should be pointed out that the cluster in question hasn't been benchmarked yet, because it hasn't been fully installed yet. Anything at this point would be speculation. That said, I think VT's cluster will win in the end by a (smaller than predicted) margin.
My ultrasparc 10 (tatung clone, not SUN original) machine is probably my oldest piece of kit I still use, though some of my CD drives might be older (I never upgrade those things, because I can't really tell the difference between 24x and 48x). Anything much older than a couple of years generally gets passed on to someone in my family who just broke the last machine I gave them.
Destroy random targets? So don't you mean something more like this.
As far as intilling fear, I still think goatse wins the price though...
Chess players tend to think that they will always have an edge on machines, because they like to think that chess is more than just some mathematical system. Often times, they associate chess skill with intelligent thought. If a computer can beat them, then there's nothing magical about the game that makes it a judge of "intelligence." Furthermore, you can hardly say that computers will never beat humans at chess because they havn't been 100% sucessful in doing so thus far. A couple of generations of architecture ago, a computer would not have posed to challenge to a grandmaster. Now, computers and humans look about even. Unfortunatly for the people rooting for humanity, computers "evolve" faster than we do, and in a couple of years, this debate will probably be over.
Who said anything about the source code? Just because it runs linux doesn't mean it has to be open source. In fact, I would guess that because this is coming from the telecos, it will be anything but open.
Nah, Sun already payed their Linux tax (second largest 'contributer', next to Microsoft). They're maybe not buddy-buddy with SCO, but SCO won't mess with them.
Sorry, I forgot to mention this: that was addressed to any DragonFly users in the crowd. The comment doesn't make much sense otherwise. Though I have been known to talk to myself...
If I am a happy Linux or BSD (of some non-Dragonfly kind), then what would you say to entice me to switch? In other words, what do you think Dragonfly is particularly good at, that maybe is lacking elsewhere?