USB will load a module based upon the Vendor/product ID of the USB device. Individual modules will check what hardware variant you are running.
etc.....
What you mean is that there is no way to automaticly configure a kernel to meet you system requirements which include hardware performance and stability.
Just a simple script, Are you using this machine as a desktop or server? Desktop gets a time slice freq boot, pre-emption turned on. etc...... some you might need these modules turned on..
server get's all unstable components turned off and more modules compiled into the kernel
You hardware is scanned and drivers and there deps for everything you have are enabled (The tool could even search for patches on the web using the Linux hardware DB and other [stuff])
And your correct, it's fucking stupid that such an easy tool hasn't been put into the kernel configuration yet...... and modulatrity has been dropped from 2.6 because it 'takes too long' I'd do some kernel development if it was modular but not in the state that it's currently in/.
Which you own a license for, this is like Spectrum emulators, there ok to use on a PC (copyright BIOS etc...) so long as you used to own(but it's up in the lost) a spectrum.
No problem there....
So how the hell can there be a problem with those mod chips are people using them in something other that an X-Box?
Lets say I take blood samples from 1000 people with the same illness, Use a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer ( and some of the work done by the noble prize for chemistry winner) to identify everything in there blood. (this is automated)
A computer then applies statistical analysis and identifies a protein or chemical that is responsible for the illness.
The proteins are then cross referenced with DNA to find out what makes the protein, binding sites for the protein etc.....
Then another application searches for drugs to block that protein, or stop it's production etc...
Etc............
At the end of the process you get a drug, how to synthesise the drug possible side affected yada yada yada...
Can I get a patent here?
A few animal trails and a human trial (your probably 99% sure that the drug will work) and your ready to market.
'Hint: the only way is to ask the patent applicant himself, and trust him.'
1: Well for most patents this is easy, you know exactly when the company started developing xyz and you know when now is, a lot of decent patents are a matter of applying first principals to a particular problem until a solution is reached.
2: Ask Intel how long it took them to developed there patent violating technology. (proof required and a big fuck off jail sentence for lying)
3: When it comes to computed patents then you should also be able to work out or find out how long it would take.
4: have a panel review the patent, when someone come to you with a job offer do you turn them down because you haven't a clue how long it will take to do the work? There are lots of good statistical processes out there for working out how long it takes.
5: if the applicant lies then send them to do charitable work (in there chosen field), make there patents public domain etc..., there are too many cheating, lieing business men in the world, maybe sending a few to do [only] charitable work would help clean up the system.
He knew exactly what problems had to be solved to produce a long lasting eclectic light.
1: a decent vacuum pump (invented by the Edison team) 2: a decent filament, Swan waited until synthetic fibres could be used, Edison tried anything and everything.
Knowing how to make A light bulb is trivial, finding the raw materials isn't.
Other examples are things like peniciline, peniciline was quashed by patents because there was no current fermentation process to produce large quantities of peniciline until it was patented.
The majority of patent ideas are obvious or come from the direct result of research. It is not the value of the idea that needs to protected but the investement you made in research. If you can come up with novel ideas at the drop of the hat then don't sit on them for 50years keep comming up with novel ideas. The current patent system is going to go tit's up when computers can design drugs, it also engourages people to sit on patents or patent ideas to block the market.
If i fed 1billion years worth of knowlage into a computer, and it generated thousands of patents an hour should I get the current full patent turm on those patents?
When somone else infringes my patent and they say it only took 2 years of research and here's the proof then the term of the patent i hold could be reduced, this incourages fast ideas and implemention of those ideas instead of sitting on a patent for 50 years
A Patent should last for twice the length of time it would take an 'expert' to perform research that would produce the same effect.
What do I mean? Well say I came up with a new drug based on xyz and it took me 5 years to research this, then the patent would last for 10 years.
Or say I fed everything through a computer and it took 10days to come up with the drug, well then the patent would only last 20days.
It's not goinging to be too long before you can use computer software to generate patentable ideas in a very short space of time, especially in the field of genetics and drugs.
The same idea of 'time to invent' could be applied to other patents, simple patents would still be granted but they may only last for a couple of hours!
The company I work for has thousands of workstations and servers of various types accros various lan and wan networks, we used to use novel but migrated to LDAP about 6 months ago witout any problems.
"It's that it's run by humans", it is also run against non OSS. Which means there a a lot of people who on one hand want one thing 'OSS' and agree but on the other hand want something different to come out of there OSS efforts and argue.
In a company were you are payed you don't realy care(well I do a bit, but then I'm fucked up) about what is done with your work so long as you keep your job etc....
I could modify an XBox to kill people, or fail emmissions tests (e.g. RF and Noise ) infact sticking a 2k amp and some speekers to match onto an XBox, and using it in my house would be illegal in the UK.
nitro is produced by the car engine during compustion. At high tempritures and compression (as found in a car engine) the oxygen and nitrogen in the air will combine to make nitros oxide
A man has been arrested to taking a sledge hammer to an Xbox after Microsoft said, "modification and disassembly of the XBox hardware is against the EULA"
1: Each module/function of a system should be given performance and footprint criteria (Normally something like =0.1secs at 80% CPU , =1k per transation, =1MB total footprint)
2: Complex areas of the system should be given to the highly skilled and simpler areas given to the skilled (the lesser skilled should be being trained and peer reviewing parts of the system)
3: don't rely on the compiler to produce optimized code, Design patterns have everything to do with performance and maintainability the compiler cannot re-organise the design patterns to meet the requirements setout in point 1. A good programmer who knows there stuff will always write good code, no matter how compact. The code will be designed so that when someone comes to maintain the code it's bliss.
Well I could have a sudo TiVo and be able to produce my own/mix content and burn it onto a DVD, DIVX it and stick it on a web site run over broad band, put it in a game..... with my PC.
umm.. The WinTV people sell a digital revciever card( WinTV Nexus-S )that can record out to MPEG2, a bit of software could sort out the rest(PCI bus withstanding!)
they also make the WinTV PVR 250
fortunatly I don't watch TV enough to bother recording it.
Well we were looking at buying an amiga(years and years ago) for control software development and playing games etc.... But opted for a PC and built a ISA DAC/ACD card out of a kit instead.
I can honestly say that I never looked back, I won't buy an X-Box or PS2 because, I have a PC. I won't be buying a Tivio, I'd rather by equivilent hardware and put it into my PC.
I use my PC to play DVD's, Music, Watch TV, Play games (though not so much now adays) unless someone comes up with a serious contender to the PC that's what I'm sticking with.
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USB will load a module based upon the Vendor/product ID of the USB device.
Individual modules will check what hardware variant you are running.
etc.....
What you mean is that there is no way to automaticly configure a kernel to meet you system requirements which include hardware performance and stability.
Just a simple script,
Are you using this machine as a desktop or server?
Desktop gets a time slice freq boot,
pre-emption turned on.
etc......
some you might need these modules turned on..
server get's all unstable components turned off and more modules compiled into the kernel
You hardware is scanned and drivers and there deps for everything you have are enabled (The tool could even search for patches on the web using the Linux hardware DB and other [stuff])
And your correct, it's fucking stupid that such an easy tool hasn't been put into the kernel configuration yet...... and modulatrity has been dropped from 2.6 because it 'takes too long' I'd do some kernel development if it was modular but not in the state that it's currently in/.
Which you own a license for, this is like Spectrum emulators, there ok to use on a PC (copyright BIOS etc...) so long as you used to own(but it's up in the lost) a spectrum.
No problem there....
So how the hell can there be a problem with those mod chips are people using them in something other that an X-Box?
You can make a light bulb without a vacuum (or inert gas which works far better!), the filiment will burn out quickly in the air though.
Lets say I take blood samples from 1000 people with the same illness,
Use a gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer ( and some of the work done by the noble prize for chemistry winner) to identify everything in there blood. (this is automated)
A computer then applies statistical analysis and identifies a protein or chemical that is responsible for the illness.
The proteins are then cross referenced with DNA to find out what makes the protein, binding sites for the protein etc.....
Then another application searches for drugs to block that protein, or stop it's production etc...
Etc............
At the end of the process you get a drug, how to synthesise the drug possible side affected yada yada yada...
Can I get a patent here?
A few animal trails and a human trial (your probably 99% sure that the drug will work) and your ready to market.
Or can I get a patent here?
On problem, what about those people who don't believe in money? and what to use a patend to force open-patents in a given field.
e.g. I have a major patent that block off development in Security systems, I want to use my patent to preven DRM from having a closed implementation.
'Hint: the only way is to ask the patent applicant himself, and trust him.'
1: Well for most patents this is easy, you know exactly when the company started developing xyz and you know when now is, a lot of decent patents are a matter of applying first principals to a particular problem until a solution is reached.
2:
Ask Intel how long it took them to developed there patent violating technology. (proof required and a big fuck off jail sentence for lying)
3: When it comes to computed patents then you should also be able to work out or find out how long it would take.
4: have a panel review the patent, when someone come to you with a job offer do you turn them down because you haven't a clue how long it will take to do the work? There are lots of good statistical processes out there for working out how long it takes.
5: if the applicant lies then send them to do charitable work (in there chosen field), make there patents public domain etc..., there are too many cheating, lieing business men in the world, maybe sending a few to do [only] charitable work would help clean up the system.
Swan is the inventor of the light bulb.
He knew exactly what problems had to be solved to produce a long lasting eclectic light.
1: a decent vacuum pump (invented by the Edison team)
2: a decent filament, Swan waited until synthetic fibres could be used, Edison tried anything and everything.
Knowing how to make A light bulb is trivial, finding the raw materials isn't.
Other examples are things like peniciline, peniciline was quashed by patents because there was no current fermentation process to produce large quantities of peniciline until it was patented.
The majority of patent ideas are obvious or come from the direct result of research. It is not the value of the idea that needs to protected but the investement you made in research. If you can come up with novel ideas at the drop of the hat then don't sit on them for 50years keep comming up with novel ideas.
The current patent system is going to go tit's up when computers can design drugs, it also engourages people to sit on patents or patent ideas to block the market.
Other people comming up with the same idea, the main problem I have is with computed patents.
If i fed 1billion years worth of knowlage into a computer, and it generated thousands of patents an hour should I get the current full patent turm on those patents?
When somone else infringes my patent and they say it only took 2 years of research and here's the proof then the term of the patent i hold could be reduced, this incourages fast ideas and implemention of those ideas instead of sitting on a patent for 50 years
A Patent should last for twice the length of time it would take an 'expert' to perform research that would produce the same effect.
What do I mean?
Well say I came up with a new drug based on xyz and it took me 5 years to research this, then the patent would last for 10 years.
Or say I fed everything through a computer and it took 10days to come up with the drug, well then the patent would only last 20days.
It's not goinging to be too long before you can use computer software to generate patentable ideas in a very short space of time, especially in the field of genetics and drugs.
The same idea of 'time to invent' could be applied to other patents, simple patents would still be granted but they may only last for a couple of hours!
The company I work for has thousands of workstations and servers of various types accros various lan and wan networks, we used to use novel but migrated to LDAP about 6 months ago witout any problems.
"It's that it's run by humans", it is also run against non OSS. Which means there a a lot of people who on one hand want one thing 'OSS' and agree but on the other hand want something different to come out of there OSS efforts and argue.
In a company were you are payed you don't realy care(well I do a bit, but then I'm fucked up) about what is done with your work so long as you keep your job etc....
Ever watched politicians, most of them behave in the same way. Maybe it's because the OOS 'movement' is also a political movement?
you'd end up like this
I could modify an XBox to kill people, or fail emmissions tests (e.g. RF and Noise ) infact sticking a 2k amp and some speekers to match onto an XBox, and using it in my house would be illegal in the UK.
nitro is produced by the car engine during compustion.
At high tempritures and compression (as found in a car engine) the oxygen and nitrogen in the air will combine to make nitros oxide
A man has been arrested to taking a sledge hammer to an Xbox after Microsoft said, "modification and disassembly of the XBox hardware is against the EULA"
your not making the best agrument there.
1: Each module/function of a system should be given performance and footprint criteria (Normally something like =0.1secs at 80% CPU , =1k per transation, =1MB total footprint)
2: Complex areas of the system should be given to the highly skilled and simpler areas given to the skilled (the lesser skilled should be being trained and peer reviewing parts of the system)
3: don't rely on the compiler to produce optimized code, Design patterns have everything to do with performance and maintainability the compiler cannot re-organise the design patterns to meet the requirements setout in point 1. A good programmer who knows there stuff will always write good code, no matter how compact. The code will be designed so that when someone comes to maintain the code it's bliss.
LDAP is the correct solution. everything else is just a nasty hackarround....
Which is why we build our own hardware, ISA hardware is easy to build.
We were running DR-DOS and has a paradise Graphics card (1MB of ram I think?) a 40MB HDD and 4MB of ram. (also GEM and AutoCad)
Games weren't too much of a priority, we still had a BBC kicking around
Well I could have a sudo TiVo and be able to produce my own/mix content and burn it onto a DVD, DIVX it and stick it on a web site run over broad band, put it in a game..... with my PC.
That's why you have 2CPU's?
But seriously,
2 64Bit CPU's
128bit PCI
2 Serial ATA channels
Enough ram to hold The Simpsons
MPEG encoder card
USB2
etc....
Which is probably what I'm looking at getting MID 2003.
And yes I do ocasionally write software that needs that kind of power (matrix inversions &co).
umm..
The WinTV people sell a digital revciever card( WinTV Nexus-S )that can record out to MPEG2, a bit of software could sort out the rest(PCI bus withstanding!)
they also make the WinTV PVR 250
fortunatly I don't watch TV enough to bother recording it.
Well we were looking at buying an amiga(years and years ago) for control software development and playing games etc.... But opted for a PC and built a ISA DAC/ACD card out of a kit instead.
I can honestly say that I never looked back, I won't buy an X-Box or PS2 because, I have a PC. I won't be buying a Tivio, I'd rather by equivilent hardware and put it into my PC.
I use my PC to play DVD's, Music, Watch TV, Play games (though not so much now adays) unless someone comes up with a serious contender to the PC that's what I'm sticking with.