Depends on maturity of market and competition. 50% margin isn't a lot for an early adoption / niche product. Do the math on how many inkjet printers and cameras there are, you'll see.
Not really that daunting. They can shutdown their hardware part and turn it into an intellectual property portfolio by throwing a bunch of lawyers around it. Then, they just target x86 while cross-licensing stuff. It'll take a few years to pan out, but it's a likely scenario.
Bzzzt. Wrong. Buyer and Seller didn't know each other's existence without eBay's existence. They could go through other means and that's the point. You advertise on eBay, you play by their rules. Getting into a tissy fit about some ephemeral "rights" does no one good except encumber the system. This is the problem. People need to step back, take a breath, and realize that there are other alternatives.
Honestly, IANAL, but I don't see it as within the rights of eBay to dictate how people accomplish the financial transactions for Rearranging the World's Junk, as they are merely the facilitators.
The problem with you is that you believe "rights" appear from nowhere and that all institutions in society are obligated to you. The unfortunate reality is that, in this space, eBay can do whatever they want to restrict your rights for payment method--except creating their own currency. It is not a federally, state, or constitutionally protected right. Though by no means I represent anyone here but my opinions, Google probably could care less. In fact, who knows? Google probably enjoys this restriction.
If there was a case, it wouldn't hold water. Cause if it did, we could all go to Arco and sue them for forcing you to pay Cash to get the gas prices as advertised on their signs. And of course, all the Mom and Pop stores that don't take Visa...
GNU/Linux adheres to standards where it benefits the community. Arbitrary formal standards are adhere to by corporate organizations mainly when dictated by marketing and not by engineering. Only in rare circumstances does a ragtag non-profit, free-software group form with a sole purpose to push a free operating system into standards adoption. Efforts thus far--at the level of unix03--have been very distro specific and driven by corps in it for the $$.
Though, I'm certain you can create a domain and website to begin promoting the adoption of unix03 standard across all flavors of Linux. Good luck!
*yawn*, tired argument. If you enable third party repositories for Fedora, you get the same. It's not in by default because Fedora/Redhat actually follow Free Software principles. Whilst Ubuntu/Debian are whining about whether to include FDL docs in free or non-free, they include non-free firmware in default repositories.
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All your base?
From the description, it sounds like this is found in TBB and research done for DARPA in PGAS. GCN had a blog post, "Does parallel processing require new languages?", about this the other day.
Google is supporting Firefox as well.
The Singularity sounds boring.
Depends on maturity of market and competition. 50% margin isn't a lot for an early adoption / niche product. Do the math on how many inkjet printers and cameras there are, you'll see.
You're right. I can't think of any way to ask questions online.
Not really that daunting. They can shutdown their hardware part and turn it into an intellectual property portfolio by throwing a bunch of lawyers around it. Then, they just target x86 while cross-licensing stuff. It'll take a few years to pan out, but it's a likely scenario.
The question is: why haven't OSes gotten this right for all applications? (I know apt, yum, macports, blah blah .. still not there.)
Perhaps Somalia will help curb the trend.
But the question is: is it free? And does it apply in the State of California?
See Taiwan's DPP as another example.
Yes. Right here: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1123229&cid=26811271
Hope they got a good firewall when they start creating these holes in the lab. Nothing like tunnelling two systems and security hardening.
This is the last thing that's holding me back from adopting Linux. If it came with stock pick software, I would use it.
Bzzzt. Wrong. Buyer and Seller didn't know each other's existence without eBay's existence. They could go through other means and that's the point. You advertise on eBay, you play by their rules. Getting into a tissy fit about some ephemeral "rights" does no one good except encumber the system. This is the problem. People need to step back, take a breath, and realize that there are other alternatives.
The problem with you is that you believe "rights" appear from nowhere and that all institutions in society are obligated to you. The unfortunate reality is that, in this space, eBay can do whatever they want to restrict your rights for payment method--except creating their own currency. It is not a federally, state, or constitutionally protected right. Though by no means I represent anyone here but my opinions, Google probably could care less. In fact, who knows? Google probably enjoys this restriction.
If there was a case, it wouldn't hold water. Cause if it did, we could all go to Arco and sue them for forcing you to pay Cash to get the gas prices as advertised on their signs. And of course, all the Mom and Pop stores that don't take Visa...
>>> ... so if we go by population (not number of countries), the majority of the world (or very close to it) has not joined the treaty.
FYI--According to Wiki, the list comprises 60% of the worlds population:
Name Rank Population
.*Armenia.* 136 3016000
.*Azerbaijan.* 90 8411000
.*Bahrain.* 163 727000
.*Myanmar.* 24 50519000
.*China.* 1 1315844000
.*Cuba.* 73 11269000
.*Egypt.* 16 74033000
.*Finland.* 112 5249000
.*Georgia.* 117 4474000
.*India.* 2 1103371000
.*Indonesia.* 4 222781000
.*Iran.* 18 69515000
.*Iraq.* 40 28807000
.*Israel.* 99 6725000
.*Kazakhstan.* 62 14825000
.*North Korea.* 48 22488000
.*South Korea.* 25 47817000
.*Kuwait.* 137 2687000
.*Kyrgyzstan.* 111 5264000
.*Laos.* 103 5924000
Lebanon.* 129 3577000
Libya.* 105 5853000
Marshall Islands.* 206 62000
.*Micronesia.* 193 110000
Mongolia.* 139 2646000
Morocco.* 37 31478000
Nepal.* 42 27133000
Oman.* 140 2567000
Pakistan.* 6 157935000
Palau.* 217 20000
Poland.* 31 38530000
Russia.* 7 143202000
Saudi Arabia.* 46 24573000
Singapore.* 120 4326000
Somalia.* 91 8228000
Sri Lanka.* 52 20743000
Syria.* 55 19043000
Tonga.* 195 102000
Tuvalu.* 222 10000
United Arab Emirates.* 116 4496000
United States.* 3 298213000
Uzbekistan.* 44 26593000
Vietnam.* 12 84238000
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The key test to know when to leave slashdot.org:
Roland Piquepaille posting a regurgitation of Cringley's articles.
Just wait for it!
Now, if he can only ban dupes...
Like COE certification?
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http://www.redhat.com/en_us/USA/home/company/news
GNU/Linux adheres to standards where it benefits the community. Arbitrary formal standards are adhere to by corporate organizations mainly when dictated by marketing and not by engineering. Only in rare circumstances does a ragtag non-profit, free-software group form with a sole purpose to push a free operating system into standards adoption. Efforts thus far--at the level of unix03--have been very distro specific and driven by corps in it for the $$.
Though, I'm certain you can create a domain and website to begin promoting the adoption of unix03 standard across all flavors of Linux. Good luck!
Forget the environmental wackos, has PETA caught wind of this? PETA vs. The Heartland Institute....
It's called HIV.
*yawn*, tired argument. If you enable third party repositories for Fedora, you get the same. It's not in by default because Fedora/Redhat actually follow Free Software principles. Whilst Ubuntu/Debian are whining about whether to include FDL docs in free or non-free, they include non-free firmware in default repositories.
Move along, nothing to be seen here.
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Time for /. to convert to scoop! Oh, wait...