A new standard is emerging. Of course, only large corporations can afford to implement and get autited for this.
What a great way to prevent small businesses from taking a market share if you make it "compulsory" to have a certification only existing large companies can obtain easily.
It's just going to be another buzzword affecting the corporate world and they are trying to piggyback the homeland security (another buzzword) to make it easier.
I agree with you in some respect. My software development business run on Linux from scratch for everything from its web server to the development boxes. When it comes to testing the software, it must be done against a baselined distribution.
While you can do your best insuring source code does not have bugs in it, you can only certify a binary executable for proper functionning.
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If it hasn't happened in the US, then, according to CNN, it has never happened.
I used to be on a Solar Car team back back at University. I'm a mech. eng so bear with my limited understanding.
You need what is called a (or several) power point tracker. This creates a "dummy" load of your solar panel to bring the voltage down (and the intensity up) so that you get the maximum power. We used AERL power point trackers. We decided to have 6 sections on our panel because of the shape of the car. It's probably not an issue for you.
Now, you still need a battery pack to regulate your voltage (should be about 120V). The rule of thumb however is to use the power from the sun right away as you will lose almost half of it in the charging/draining process (depending on your batteries of course).
Since you need the power when the sun shines, I would spend the money on the solar pannels and get cheapy batteries whose purpose is being a reference voltage (and not a reserve).
It's crazy the amount of stupid mistakes just get by if you don't ask anybody (who has not worked on your project preferably) to review your stuff. The stuff that works perfectly for you will segfault right away when a colleague does something slightly differently. End-users can also be fairly creative at crashing a piece of software.
While it's all right for a business to make good and fast money on their ideas, most lack the discipline to get things reviewed before release.
A million million years... That's a long time... The average empire (Roman, British...) hasn't lasted this long. The difference this time is the US has the potential to destroy the world before going.
This is the end of the fiscal year in Canada. This means that the budgets will be coming out soon.
Now, over the last decade, there has been (from whithin Canada) a concerted effort to made the Canadian Defense look bad in an effort to reduce their budget.
Add to that the feud between the current prime minister and the former one... It is not a surprise that all of these scandals come out at the same time. The formar prime minister is still pulling some strings and is trying to do as much damage as possible.
As technically sound as this is, the point is: if SCO can get away with being as evasive and ambiguous as they are, Microsoft will score a major FUD blow if they use a similar trick.
The Windows source code leak has not happened by accident. Windows is using SCO as a test case. If it works (or if they set a reasonable precedent), Microsoft will then start claiming that their code ended up in Linux. Since you're not supposed to have the source code without being tagged a criminal, nobody will be able to come forward and say it is not so without opening themselves to criminal charges... But hey, if Linux "contains" Windows code, it'll be deemed illegal (at least in the US...)
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A new standard is emerging. Of course, only large corporations can afford to implement and get autited for this.
What a great way to prevent small businesses from taking a market share if you make it "compulsory" to have a certification only existing large companies can obtain easily.
It's just going to be another buzzword affecting the corporate world and they are trying to piggyback the homeland security (another buzzword) to make it easier.
I can just see some religious freaks in the States invoking the DMCA on scientists because they're trying to break "God's" encoding.
I agree with you in some respect. My software development business run on Linux from scratch for everything from its web server to the development boxes. When it comes to testing the software, it must be done against a baselined distribution.
While you can do your best insuring source code does not have bugs in it, you can only certify a binary executable for proper functionning.
If it hasn't happened in the US, then, according to CNN, it has never happened.
>>> In some cases the mirror image of something existing in our bodies would actually be toxic.
Isn't that what mad cow disease is? A mirrored protein that get used as a template which our body replicates.
Not only that, but doesn't American law cover companies performing anti-trust activity abroad?
Before you can give anybody lessons about how not to impede innovations, maybe you should the reform the American patent system...
This will all come out as
Gnome webserver security breach + gnome open source => open source insecure...
Another FUD is born
Maybe Internet Explorer filters slashdot and "translates" it to pro-microsoft propaganda.
They didn't realize you can just download it from the public ftp.
Apparantly, some thick headed manager still can't concieve that code you can download for free can be valuable.
Hello,
I used to be on a Solar Car team back back at University. I'm a mech. eng so bear with my limited understanding.
You need what is called a (or several) power point tracker. This creates a "dummy" load of your solar panel to bring the voltage down (and the intensity up) so that you get the maximum power. We used AERL power point trackers. We decided to have 6 sections on our panel because of the shape of the car. It's probably not an issue for you.
Now, you still need a battery pack to regulate your voltage (should be about 120V). The rule of thumb however is to use the power from the sun right away as you will lose almost half of it in the charging/draining process (depending on your batteries of course).
Since you need the power when the sun shines, I would spend the money on the solar pannels and get cheapy batteries whose purpose is being a reference voltage (and not a reserve).
just as Red Hat got Gnome and KDE to look exactly the same... Merge the wrappers, split the libraries
It's crazy the amount of stupid mistakes just get by if you don't ask anybody (who has not worked on your project preferably) to review your stuff. The stuff that works perfectly for you will segfault right away when a colleague does something slightly differently. End-users can also be fairly creative at crashing a piece of software.
While it's all right for a business to make good and fast money on their ideas, most lack the discipline to get things reviewed before release.
A million million years... That's a long time... The average empire (Roman, British...) hasn't lasted this long. The difference this time is the US has the potential to destroy the world before going.
This is the end of the fiscal year in Canada. This means that the budgets will be coming out soon.
Now, over the last decade, there has been (from whithin Canada) a concerted effort to made the Canadian Defense look bad in an effort to reduce their budget.
Add to that the feud between the current prime minister and the former one... It is not a surprise that all of these scandals come out at the same time. The formar prime minister is still pulling some strings and is trying to do as much damage as possible.
>>> we'd revert to 2.6.2 or thereabouts
As technically sound as this is, the point is: if SCO can get away with being as evasive and ambiguous as they are, Microsoft will score a major FUD blow if they use a similar trick.
The Windows source code leak has not happened by accident. Windows is using SCO as a test case. If it works (or if they set a reasonable precedent), Microsoft will then start claiming that their code ended up in Linux. Since you're not supposed to have the source code without being tagged a criminal, nobody will be able to come forward and say it is not so without opening themselves to criminal charges... But hey, if Linux "contains" Windows code, it'll be deemed illegal (at least in the US...)
Things smell different around Uranus
...had made a sphere but it rolled off the table before he could take a picture.
SCO has bought the rights to the J in Java and is suing IBM for trying to help making Java open source...
that Microsoft is going to stop selling the "forward to" e-mail addresses of their hotmail users?
wow... you actually took time to reply...
Next thing you know... Microsoft is suing Home Depot for selling windows...
It all started going down when they changed the opening tune... I can just imagine the crew line dancing when I hear it.
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