The support people use Windows tools to diagnose the problem remotely. It's difficult to do this when the system is not running Windows. Therefore the support people cannot diagnose the system to determine how to fix it under warranty. They simply do not have the process in place to diagnose this for Linux for "normal" customers.
I think you are ignoring the point.
The point Mr. Thompson is making is that there is a possible conflict of interest for the person who played the game for the court. The court wants to know what a typical game experience would be like to know whether it would incite angsty teenagers or angsty twenty-somethings to violence. The person playing the game does not share the motivation, and in fact that person is motivated to show that the game is not too violent. The person demonstrating the game has the power to influence what the evidence will be be for the court.
Microsoft fixing some of the old buggy APIs would break some applications that use them. Wine purposefully implements even the bugs in the Windows API. Thus if Microsoft were to "fix" the bugs, Wine would become more compatible with older Windows software than Windows. Of course people could also keep the broken versions of dlls from Microsoft or Wine to run their older programs.
I think he must be referring to the applications, not the OS itsef. LynxOS is not Linux. It's proprietary real-time OS that can run Linux applications. The LynxOS itself is backed by the vendor, and it's pretty good from what I hear. However, the applications built on it depend on the skill of the application developers, not the OS vendor.
Fortunately for you and everyone else who is writing-off this article, the only comment about what the "new tech" might be is that it is something to let the user know when the volume is too loud. Nothing claimed it would limit the sound without the user's control.
Fortunately the hinted solution doesn't allege to do either of the things you find annoying. As for what the solution might be, the article claims only, "I gleaned it's some sort of software solution for the iPod that can make users aware of unsafe volumes."
Thus, it would let you know when your music is too loud. Humans are usually unaware that the volume is unsafe since it's not always painful to listen to music too loud. This seems more like a friendly reminder to turn the music down. Of course it only matters to those who value their hearing, and I'm not sure how they will know what headphones are being used, but on could have the user enter the headphones model into iTunes or have it settable on the iPod via a menu.
Thank you, Jerf. It seems you are in the 1% of posters who have a clue about the issues and even about what the article is about.
The software solution briefly alleged in the article would provide a way to let the user know what the levels were, presumably by knowing the variables for the frequency range, the volume setting, and the signal amplitude, all of which are stored as variables in the iPod. I do not see it alleged that the solution will automatically reduce volumes outside the user's control, but such a feature should be possible, and at the least it will let the user know when the volume is "too high." However, I didn't see in anything relating to how the system will calibrate the "too loud" settings based on the response of the headphones the user has.
I can't see how such a feature would be detrimental to anyone unless the implementation has some noticable effect on battery life.
It was not the same vibe at all. The 1980s cold fusion debacle has little to do with this. If people were claiming this to be a power source, then it would have something to do with the cold fusion vibe, but the people involved are not because the technology is not suitable for power generation as they have stated. The pyroelectric fusion technique is effective as a means to produce neutrons rather than energy. Cold fusion experiments hoped to see excess neutrons as a signal of fusion occuring, while with the new technique the production of neutrons is the primary function.
That could be, but I'm not sure what they think they need for the application to run other than Wine. They already state that it needs to run on Wine, so they're not looking for a replacement to Wine itself.
Support for Microsoft's installer has been a hot development item for Wine lately, but I may be mistaken if the challenge isn't looking for something that works better than what the Wine team has managed to build.
Wine Weekly Newsletter
A full Wine replacement or similar product doesn't seem to be what they want through this challenge as I understand it.
The summary of this story is a misunderstanding or fabrication. The offer appears to be for an XP application installer solution for Wine, not for an XP emulator.
Then again, maybe the Full Text post and mirror are fabrications, but from what I read, they just want the installer, not a full XP emulator.
They would not be pumping the CO2 into the ocean. They would be pumping it underneath the seafloor from which they are currently extracting petroleum.
The article and summary even state that it is going under the seafloor, not into the ocean.
You make a lot of big claims, but offer no evidence related to the product in question. Even some evidence for your generalizations would be interesting to read. Please post!
STOP IT already. Embryonic stems cells do not need to come from abortions. A typical source is leftover blastocysts from IVF treatments. Misinformed people who mistakenly associate embryonic stem cells with abortion helped sway the election in the U.S. even.
If you want to call a leftover fifty-cell blastocyst a baby so in order to support the embryonic stem cells = abortion claim, that's fine. I think you're wrong though.
Your NPR story clearly states, "The DOE says the material, left over from nuclear weapons production, won't pose a hazard."
Please do not confuse the waste from our weapons program with the waste from power plants.
If you think hydrazine is bad stuff, you should consider what goes into typical semiconductor manufacturing. Hydrazine is a simple compound of nitrogen and hydrogen. It's highly reactive, and it's only used in this process to spread one of the layers onto the substrate for making TFTs.
It is not present in the finished LCD product, so it's not going to kill you if you buy an LCD monitor, and it breaks. There are much nastier chemicals used all the time in manufacturing. You should be more concerned about things like heavy metals and arsenic from your home electronics.
Here's a better explanation. The latch was reset periodically. One would assume that the latch would allow notification as long as it was reset, which it would need to be after a disk was manually ejected. The Macintosh did not allow for manual ejection, so it had full control of resetting the latch when it wanted. Thus it did not need to reset the latch by moving the head as the Amiga does.
The polling was a secondary means of detecting a disk insertion for drives without the detection switch. There are "noclick" utilities that most will turn off the polling since most hardware did support the switch. noclick search on Aminet
As others have said, the legal fund is worse for SCO because they cannot bully small Linux users and thus build a case history of "winning" against them in court. Indemnification would make the end users not care, so the likelihood of a payout and a "win" for SCO is higher.
McBride is just trying to double-dog-dare Linux vendors into giving him what he wants---easy pickings. When they don't do it, he starts saying, "Come on! Are you chicken? Bawk, bawk, bawk!"
The press release refers to "evidence" at the scosource site, but I looked and was unable to find any. It might be hidden somewhere, or I'm an idiot because SCO says they've been completely honest and forthcoming with that evidence.
Wow, did you come up with that yourself? Of course they are the same elements, but the information presented is different because it is intended for use by astronomers and cosmologists rather than terrestrial chemists.
Slashdot Mirror
The support people use Windows tools to diagnose the problem remotely. It's difficult to do this when the system is not running Windows. Therefore the support people cannot diagnose the system to determine how to fix it under warranty. They simply do not have the process in place to diagnose this for Linux for "normal" customers.
I think you are ignoring the point. The point Mr. Thompson is making is that there is a possible conflict of interest for the person who played the game for the court. The court wants to know what a typical game experience would be like to know whether it would incite angsty teenagers or angsty twenty-somethings to violence. The person playing the game does not share the motivation, and in fact that person is motivated to show that the game is not too violent. The person demonstrating the game has the power to influence what the evidence will be be for the court.
Microsoft fixing some of the old buggy APIs would break some applications that use them. Wine purposefully implements even the bugs in the Windows API. Thus if Microsoft were to "fix" the bugs, Wine would become more compatible with older Windows software than Windows. Of course people could also keep the broken versions of dlls from Microsoft or Wine to run their older programs.
I think he must be referring to the applications, not the OS itsef. LynxOS is not Linux. It's proprietary real-time OS that can run Linux applications. The LynxOS itself is backed by the vendor, and it's pretty good from what I hear. However, the applications built on it depend on the skill of the application developers, not the OS vendor.
Fortunately for you and everyone else who is writing-off this article, the only comment about what the "new tech" might be is that it is something to let the user know when the volume is too loud. Nothing claimed it would limit the sound without the user's control.
Thus, it would let you know when your music is too loud. Humans are usually unaware that the volume is unsafe since it's not always painful to listen to music too loud. This seems more like a friendly reminder to turn the music down. Of course it only matters to those who value their hearing, and I'm not sure how they will know what headphones are being used, but on could have the user enter the headphones model into iTunes or have it settable on the iPod via a menu.
The software solution briefly alleged in the article would provide a way to let the user know what the levels were, presumably by knowing the variables for the frequency range, the volume setting, and the signal amplitude, all of which are stored as variables in the iPod. I do not see it alleged that the solution will automatically reduce volumes outside the user's control, but such a feature should be possible, and at the least it will let the user know when the volume is "too high." However, I didn't see in anything relating to how the system will calibrate the "too loud" settings based on the response of the headphones the user has.
I can't see how such a feature would be detrimental to anyone unless the implementation has some noticable effect on battery life.
It was not the same vibe at all. The 1980s cold fusion debacle has little to do with this. If people were claiming this to be a power source, then it would have something to do with the cold fusion vibe, but the people involved are not because the technology is not suitable for power generation as they have stated. The pyroelectric fusion technique is effective as a means to produce neutrons rather than energy. Cold fusion experiments hoped to see excess neutrons as a signal of fusion occuring, while with the new technique the production of neutrons is the primary function.
Support for Microsoft's installer has been a hot development item for Wine lately, but I may be mistaken if the challenge isn't looking for something that works better than what the Wine team has managed to build. Wine Weekly Newsletter
A full Wine replacement or similar product doesn't seem to be what they want through this challenge as I understand it.
The summary of this story is a misunderstanding or fabrication. The offer appears to be for an XP application installer solution for Wine, not for an XP emulator. Then again, maybe the Full Text post and mirror are fabrications, but from what I read, they just want the installer, not a full XP emulator.
The summary is complete FUD.
They would not be pumping the CO2 into the ocean. They would be pumping it underneath the seafloor from which they are currently extracting petroleum. The article and summary even state that it is going under the seafloor, not into the ocean.
You make a lot of big claims, but offer no evidence related to the product in question. Even some evidence for your generalizations would be interesting to read. Please post!
STOP IT already. Embryonic stems cells do not need to come from abortions. A typical source is leftover blastocysts from IVF treatments. Misinformed people who mistakenly associate embryonic stem cells with abortion helped sway the election in the U.S. even. If you want to call a leftover fifty-cell blastocyst a baby so in order to support the embryonic stem cells = abortion claim, that's fine. I think you're wrong though.
Your NPR story clearly states, "The DOE says the material, left over from nuclear weapons production, won't pose a hazard." Please do not confuse the waste from our weapons program with the waste from power plants.
If you think hydrazine is bad stuff, you should consider what goes into typical semiconductor manufacturing. Hydrazine is a simple compound of nitrogen and hydrogen. It's highly reactive, and it's only used in this process to spread one of the layers onto the substrate for making TFTs.
It is not present in the finished LCD product, so it's not going to kill you if you buy an LCD monitor, and it breaks. There are much nastier chemicals used all the time in manufacturing. You should be more concerned about things like heavy metals and arsenic from your home electronics.
Here's a better explanation. The latch was reset periodically. One would assume that the latch would allow notification as long as it was reset, which it would need to be after a disk was manually ejected. The Macintosh did not allow for manual ejection, so it had full control of resetting the latch when it wanted. Thus it did not need to reset the latch by moving the head as the Amiga does.
The polling was a secondary means of detecting a disk insertion for drives without the detection switch. There are "noclick" utilities that most will turn off the polling since most hardware did support the switch. noclick search on Aminet
Many people do not want stacks of consoles if they can get away with fewer. That's a reason emulation is popular, too.
It's good so you can download all those legal DVDs?
As others have said, the legal fund is worse for SCO because they cannot bully small Linux users and thus build a case history of "winning" against them in court. Indemnification would make the end users not care, so the likelihood of a payout and a "win" for SCO is higher. McBride is just trying to double-dog-dare Linux vendors into giving him what he wants---easy pickings. When they don't do it, he starts saying, "Come on! Are you chicken? Bawk, bawk, bawk!"
The press release refers to "evidence" at the scosource site, but I looked and was unable to find any. It might be hidden somewhere, or I'm an idiot because SCO says they've been completely honest and forthcoming with that evidence.
Yes, he sounds like a really classy guy.
Wow, did you come up with that yourself? Of course they are the same elements, but the information presented is different because it is intended for use by astronomers and cosmologists rather than terrestrial chemists.