hmm.. I think there are simila rules for patents, about alowing a product that you know violates you patent to gain a high market share and then taking them down with you patent.
It would be nice to a judge to say 5% of purchase price as a settlement and see SCO get nothing.
Well say you churn out 3000 lines of code a day working to RFS's (not that hard rally, since you just copying into structures and re-writing) Though finding the RFC's would take a while. If RFC's are half the code base then that's 3 months work. Ok that still leaves almost 1000 lines a day for the rest of the time.
I don't know how it managed to take so much code to write a browser though, cut'n'paste?
Anyhow, the story's fulla' shit, Mozilla works at a deamon speed over a 56K modem....., with my cache set at 200MB memory and 1GB HDD after I've downloaded everything.
That 5% of the cost of linux per CPU, that should be easy for most people to pay.
Doesn't the use it or loose it rule apply anyhow, Linux has been out for ages, the source codes there for anyone to look at. SCO should have cried wolf a long time ago, they have no excuse.
It's eaasy to curn out that amount of code when you 'that age', and have project that inspires you. I've written a C++ windowing wrapper for windows, inluding string and varient datatypes (which are quite big in thenselfs) in less than a 5 day week, it contained few bugs and had 10000+ lines of code.
Working against RFC's and using other peoples designs makes coding easy, there's not much to think about and you can just sit there are curn away line after line, about as quickly as you can cut and paste.
I don't believe the speed imporvement though, TCP/IP over a 56k modem is TCP/IP over a 56K modem.
No seriously, My PC's too fast, I can't get as many things done in a day as my PC can manage, you know I need to think a little between tasks and a fast pc just leaves me....ummmm.... not waiting and bored.
Please give me a slower computer so that I can be less bored and more productive...
Does anyone know if there are plans for an 'international' EFF, I know the US is one for litigation but Europe's getting some nasty laws and catching up on the 'eye for an eye' social model. (thanks to ambulence chasers)
Not a flaim, but, Judges tend to be better than police offices, purly because of the nature of the job. A Judge judges, a police office is out to catch people (well most of the time).
Though having thought about what I'd do if I went to court, my only defence would be, 'so, buy doing xzy to me, your going to make the world a better place, how?' I think that should be the only defence anyone needs.
C++ is beauty in a language. Well apart from not having dynamic functions on classes (but Borlands compiler fixes that problem with closures)
Ok there's a lot of old 'depriciated' junk kicking around, like several different styles of declaring the paramiters for a function. the horrible ++a syntax (checkout decss for a a=(++a)... bit of code)
And unless you really get a 'feel' for what your doing then the code can end up quite nasty.
I think they should have taken base C++, removed some of the crap, added dynamic class members, added threading/locking 'hints' for the compiler (or a universal locking/threading system),and COM/ADO style functionality in the basic C++.
languange.
Cuba's not Soviet you fool. The US is. OK a Soviet is like an american state, the soviets joined together (russia being one of them) to form the USSR, a collection of soviets.
If WMP9 wasn't free or at least wasn't bundled then there wouldn't be a problem. But it's only available as 'free' and bundled, you can't even buy a version for linux..... (refer to earlier story about MS licensing WMF/DRM or whatever for linux)
Buy taking Netscape out of the market, many web sites only work correctly with IE and windows(maybe mac).
Also there is no choice, or very little.
If Microsoft price standards bodies out of existence then there will be no non M$ standards (ok gross oversimplification), open standards tend to be free for free use.
Wrong, it's the abuse of a monoply position to unfairly leverage another market.
So if they bundle WMP9 with a monopoly product and then set the licensing at a loss making level then that's unfair, since there leveraging a monopoly product (windows) by intergrating WMP9, and then undercutting the competition on content costs.
No I can't remeber who, but there was a story kicking around about someguy, who asked M$ if Longhorn? would be used for DRM, M$ said no. He then went and took out a lot of patents on using Longhorn for DRM.
I'm fairly sure this was real and not part of my weird imagination.
Now, if you could connect everything upto a fastish laptop you could use Neural nets to reprogramme the control systems on the fly. Say for more power, speed or fuel efficiency.
It shouldn't be 'too' hard to do and could adjust to the wear of the engine &co. over it's lifetime.
It could even have a special emmissions test mode.
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hmm.. I think there are simila rules for patents, about alowing a product that you know violates you patent to gain a high market share and then taking them down with you patent.
It would be nice to a judge to say 5% of purchase price as a settlement and see SCO get nothing.
Well say you churn out 3000 lines of code a day working to RFS's (not that hard rally, since you just copying into structures and re-writing)
Though finding the RFC's would take a while.
If RFC's are half the code base then that's 3 months work.
Ok that still leaves almost 1000 lines a day for the rest of the time.
I don't know how it managed to take so much code to write a browser though, cut'n'paste?
Anyhow, the story's fulla' shit, Mozilla works at a deamon speed over a 56K modem....., with my cache set at 200MB memory and 1GB HDD after I've downloaded everything.
That 5% of the cost of linux per CPU, that should be easy for most people to pay.
Doesn't the use it or loose it rule apply anyhow, Linux has been out for ages, the source codes there for anyone to look at. SCO should have cried wolf a long time ago, they have no excuse.
It's eaasy to curn out that amount of code when you 'that age', and have project that inspires you.
I've written a C++ windowing wrapper for windows, inluding string and varient datatypes (which are quite big in thenselfs) in less than a 5 day week, it contained few bugs and had 10000+ lines of code.
Working against RFC's and using other peoples designs makes coding easy, there's not much to think about and you can just sit there are curn away line after line, about as quickly as you can cut and paste.
I don't believe the speed imporvement though, TCP/IP over a 56k modem is TCP/IP over a 56K modem.
No seriously,
My PC's too fast, I can't get as many things done in a day as my PC can manage, you know I need to think a little between tasks and a fast pc just leaves me....ummmm.... not waiting and bored.
Please give me a slower computer so that I can be less bored and more productive...
benine to any electronic circuit.....
Puts a bit fuckoff hole in the OZone Layer, though I think it's more or less closed up again since the ban.
Does anyone know if there are plans for an 'international' EFF,
I know the US is one for litigation but Europe's getting some nasty laws and catching up on the 'eye for an eye' social model. (thanks to ambulence chasers)
Not a flaim, but, Judges tend to be better than police offices, purly because of the nature of the job.
A Judge judges, a police office is out to catch people (well most of the time).
Though having thought about what I'd do if I went to court, my only defence would be, 'so, buy doing xzy to me, your going to make the world a better place, how?' I think that should be the only defence anyone needs.
C++ is beauty in a language.
... bit of code)
Well apart from not having dynamic functions on classes (but Borlands compiler fixes that problem with closures)
Ok there's a lot of old 'depriciated' junk kicking around,
like several different styles of declaring the paramiters for a function. the horrible ++a syntax (checkout decss for a a=(++a)
And unless you really get a 'feel' for what your doing then the code can end up quite nasty.
I think they should have taken base C++, removed some of the crap, added dynamic class members, added threading/locking 'hints' for the compiler (or a universal locking/threading system),and COM/ADO style functionality in the basic C++.
languange.
Cuba's not Soviet you fool. The US is.
OK a Soviet is like an american state, the soviets joined together (russia being one of them) to form the USSR, a collection of soviets.
Well, they may have won, Mcdonalds did, after a hell of a long time.
I hope some of the mail routed through California.
This would be the case, but I don't see any strawbery on the list of ingredients.
If WMP9 wasn't free or at least wasn't bundled then there wouldn't be a problem.
But it's only available as 'free' and bundled, you can't even buy a version for linux.....
(refer to earlier story about MS licensing WMF/DRM or whatever for linux)
No the free software movement is trying to give away everything, except a few rights.
It's the free/bundled WMP that makes the differance.
Buy taking Netscape out of the market, many web sites only work correctly with IE and windows(maybe mac).
Also there is no choice, or very little.
If Microsoft price standards bodies out of existence then there will be no non M$ standards (ok gross oversimplification), open standards tend to be free for free use.
Standards bodies should really be not for profit.
Wrong,
it's the abuse of a monoply position to unfairly leverage another market.
So if they bundle WMP9 with a monopoly product and then set the licensing at a loss making level then that's unfair, since there leveraging a monopoly product (windows) by intergrating WMP9, and then undercutting the competition on content costs.
Put lime in the exhaust to reduce the CO2 content.
It's good to see you think the watch is inane tripe too.
I aggree, why did Linus make it into the list 'modern saints' instead of RMS.
Sure Linus has done a fine job, but RMS's contribution is GPL and the FSF which is far greater (and more saintly).
RMS has been the most effective libertarian of modern times, people say what if the Nazis had won the war, well what if RMS hadn't have bothered.
Ok,
,lar lar, any one name that tune? Humm.. Wistle, be creative fine, music on my watch, boring.
The Weather, umm... look at the sky, that's how I get my forcast.
Sport, well GPL's a fun game to help play against Microsoft.(I never did see the attraction in watching somone else play)
The Time, umm... I already have a watch thankyou, maybe not atomicly perfect but it'll do.
Music, lar lar lar lar, lar lar
No I can't remeber who, but there was a story kicking around about someguy, who asked M$ if Longhorn? would be used for DRM, M$ said no. He then went and took out a lot of patents on using Longhorn for DRM.
I'm fairly sure this was real and not part of my weird imagination.
I think there are standards for the buses on cars.
And there are quite a few.
'Much has been made of the industry-wide IDB or ITS Data Bus development effort'
A bit of info?
Now, if you could connect everything upto a fastish laptop you could use Neural nets to reprogramme the control systems on the fly. Say for more power, speed or fuel efficiency.
It shouldn't be 'too' hard to do and could adjust to the wear of the engine &co. over it's lifetime.
It could even have a special emmissions test mode.