My wife had her laptop crash while working on here thesis. She looked at the screen and it said something like "Application Failed, exiting" and an "OK" button. She said: "No, it's not OK. I want a "Not OK" button!"
Here's a novel concept. Why don't they lower the price and make it more accessible. I'm an ACM member and journal access in ACM is a *lot* cheaper than IEEE's. I would be an IEEE member if I could afford it.
I'm not a lawyer, either, but I have done some reading on this. Fair use is a tricky thing, generally decided on a case-by-case basis. The people who posted these might have violated a license agreement (of questionable legality itself). Maybe not, is bypassing the click through violating the license? Hard to say. I know of no legal precedent for fair use and licenses and copyright intertwined like this.
As far as Microsoft backing down, well, that's a big risk. If I were them, I'd do everything possible to avoid the DMCA going to court because it is so shaky from a constitutional point of view. But you never know. They have a lot of money and a lot of nerve.
I actually chose to use Ada95 on a project. I found out about it because I bad-mouthed it in ignorance, then I thought "I really don't know anything about it, maybe I should research it a little before I deride it". I was pleasantly surprised and I did a moderate sized project in it that turned out well. I wouldn't say the same thing about Ada83. It lacks basic mechanisms to do polyporphism and it's task constructs are to large grained. But it just took a few small changes to end up with Ada95, which is the best general purpose language I have ever used, IMHO. What am I using now? Well, Java. It's certainly less error prone than C++. We are using it because it's a lot less error prone than C and C++ and doesn't have the stigma that Ada has.
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Not the same as NBD, but it is very similar to DRBD (http://www.drbd.org/). I've used DRBD before, and it works quite nicely.
My wife had her laptop crash while working on here thesis. She looked at the screen and it said something like "Application Failed, exiting" and an "OK" button. She said: "No, it's not OK. I want a "Not OK" button!"
Here's a novel concept. Why don't they lower the price and make it more accessible. I'm an ACM member and journal access in ACM is a *lot* cheaper than IEEE's. I would be an IEEE member if I could afford it.
According to the docs at http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s e7520bd2/sb/CS-013543.htm, this board supports up to 24GB with the right kind of RAM, assuming you can find 4GB RAM. With 2GB sticks, you could get 12GB.
As far as Microsoft backing down, well, that's a big risk. If I were them, I'd do everything possible to avoid the DMCA going to court because it is so shaky from a constitutional point of view. But you never know. They have a lot of money and a lot of nerve.
I actually chose to use Ada95 on a project. I found out about it because I bad-mouthed it in ignorance, then I thought "I really don't know anything about it, maybe I should research it a little before I deride it". I was pleasantly surprised and I did a moderate sized project in it that turned out well. I wouldn't say the same thing about Ada83. It lacks basic mechanisms to do polyporphism and it's task constructs are to large grained. But it just took a few small changes to end up with Ada95, which is the best general purpose language I have ever used, IMHO. What am I using now? Well, Java. It's certainly less error prone than C++. We are using it because it's a lot less error prone than C and C++ and doesn't have the stigma that Ada has.