If Sweet indeed owns the copyrights to all the code, he can certainly sell them to Apple. At this point Apple can relicense future versions of CUPS.
This is to me the downside of using open source code in one of your projects - at any time your ability to use future versions with their bug fixes, security fixes, etc. may go away.
Some bits are more important. A UDP packet that is part of a RTP session when dropped may result in an unacceptable quality 911 phone call. A TCP packet part of a HTTP session will just get resent.
It should be obvious that if you don't prioritize traffic based on QoS requirements that you will need more bandwidth. This has been a basic given for many years now. The question is what will it cost to prioritize the traffic to meet a given QoS level vs. just adding bandwidth.
There are a lot lot of people who think the various prioritization schemes that have been proposed just won't work because they are not scalable - while a fast dumb core is.
To me the problem with prioritization is that it is just harder to implement, and once it is in place it makes management harder. Also it tends to place limits as to what you can do on the IP network. Fast-dumb doesn't have these problems.
There is a lot of dark fiber in the ground along major backbones, but that doesn't mean the switching and last mile distribution to use it is in place. And a lot of that fiber is not up to specs needed for 100Gbps DWDM.
Right, so we are supposed to just throw away 2300 years of the use of mathematics as the underpinning of all rational abstraction of concrete problems because Mr. Fant thinks some other method i.e. "invocational process expression", which is essentially undefined by him or anyone else is a more suitable tool. All I can say is LOL.
Traditional math courses do not teach iteration? What do you think long division is? Or addition of multiple numbers? Or multiplication of two 6 digit numbers? These are all iterative processes that are at the root of our mathematics education. When you advance a bit then you get solutions of sets of simultaneous equations, or calculations of Fibonacci or factorials. If you that a course in basic statistics calculations are riddled with iterations.
I have to wonder how anyone who passed a course in math would say such a thing.
Actually power consumption per instruction has remained pretty constant over the years if you exclude the Pentium 4. The Yohah uses about the same amount of power per instruction as the Pentium. So if you are running 100 times more instructions per second, well you will be using 100 times more energy.
There is nothing illegal or even immoral about forming a business trade association to lobby for favorable laws. That politics, an age old process that can be ugly but that's the way of the world.
I do think though this prosecution of customers is counter-productive and some of the tactics being used are pretty abusive. The way to attack this is through the court system, possibly through the formation of a consumer's union or similar political action group.
I'm in a similar boat, with the possible additional reason that I don't particularly like most current pop/rock.
Well mastered CD's can have superb sound quality, and the catalog is immense. I also like having the media with the music on it as a backup after I rip it to my music server. The newer so-called hi-resolution formats have not shown to be better in real-world use; most audiophiles feel that any apparent improvements in the sound are due the practice of remastering before release on the new formats rather than anything to do with the format itself.
I don't see CD's going obsolete any time soon; after all many new releases are still coming out on vinyl LPs as well.
The loudness war is tied hand in hand with modern listening habits - in the car, from an MP3, in an iPOD where the music is competing with a lot of other background noise.
Those are not my listening habits so I have no interest in music tailored for that lifestyle.
Exactly what freedoms did the article state were being restricted? I didn't see any such thing - merely some sort of awareness training for university administrators.
I all don't understand what exactly is the deal here regarding the research being discussed. Unclassified research is published in academic journals or reported in symposia that are freely available world-wide. There is no reason for anyone to spy on such research. The list of behaviors that was disscussed was the result of a DIA study regarding protecting compartmentalized secrets - very different from academic research.
The key to understanding whether or not you should re-take a course is whether or not that course is really fundamental. If it is something core to the area you wish to work in, and you feel that you missed mastering the topic then yes, do retake it, or at least take something in the same area to butress your knowledge.
Grades after your first job are not very important. But mastery of the subject material is a life-long tool for career advancement.
So what happens to legacy commercial DVD's? They just stop working? I'm sure that would go over big. Music CD-R media were designed for another reason altogether - to cash in on people buying CD recorders for their home audio system. Totatlly different application.
You are making some pretty broad assertions with absolutely no factual foundation. Patent law came into being at about the same time the industrial revolution occurred. Every major industrial nation on the planet has an active patent system. The US is by far the most succesful in the software sector, and it is the prinary grantor of software patents. While correlation is no proof of causation, one with think that if patents were actually an impediment to industrial growth or medicine or software an alternative system would have arisen somewhere over the past 300 years and shown it's effectiveness in international competition.
Diseases like malaria and dengue fever are both mosquito borne disease that are not problems in developed countries, exactly where patent systems are in force. Agriculture has also failed to prevent famine in exactly the same areas afflicted with those diseases today. The political forces that prevent effective agriculture also prevent effective health care delivery.
So the statement that he was not allowed to appeal is false? It seems to me that this story does not rise to any reasonable journalistic standard. Perfect for slashdot.
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Voila it is not. Nor is it walla or whala or vwala or anything other than voi là.
What bus controller would be able to write to RAM that fast?
If Sweet indeed owns the copyrights to all the code, he can certainly sell them to Apple. At this point Apple can relicense future versions of CUPS.
This is to me the downside of using open source code in one of your projects - at any time your ability to use future versions with their bug fixes, security fixes, etc. may go away.
Some bits are more important. A UDP packet that is part of a RTP session when dropped may result in an unacceptable quality 911 phone call. A TCP packet part of a HTTP session will just get resent.
It should be obvious that if you don't prioritize traffic based on QoS requirements that you will need more bandwidth. This has been a basic given for many years now. The question is what will it cost to prioritize the traffic to meet a given QoS level vs. just adding bandwidth.
There are a lot lot of people who think the various prioritization schemes that have been proposed just won't work because they are not scalable - while a fast dumb core is.
To me the problem with prioritization is that it is just harder to implement, and once it is in place it makes management harder. Also it tends to place limits as to what you can do on the IP network. Fast-dumb doesn't have these problems.
There is a lot of dark fiber in the ground along major backbones, but that doesn't mean the switching and last mile distribution to use it is in place. And a lot of that fiber is not up to specs needed for 100Gbps DWDM.
Right, so we are supposed to just throw away 2300 years of the use of mathematics as the underpinning of all rational abstraction of concrete problems because Mr. Fant thinks some other method i.e. "invocational process expression", which is essentially undefined by him or anyone else is a more suitable tool. All I can say is LOL.
Traditional math courses do not teach iteration? What do you think long division is? Or addition of multiple numbers? Or multiplication of two 6 digit numbers? These are all iterative processes that are at the root of our mathematics education. When you advance a bit then you get solutions of sets of simultaneous equations, or calculations of Fibonacci or factorials. If you that a course in basic statistics calculations are riddled with iterations.
I have to wonder how anyone who passed a course in math would say such a thing.
Don't forget that the iCar has a square fuel filler tube that requires an iNozzle, and the iNozzle only dispenses iGas.
It takes time to build new institutions but I am optimistic that ever improving communications infrastructure will be what gets us there.
Current implementations (i.e. Freescale Coldfire) of the MC68000 draw more like 1 mW per MIPS.
Actually power consumption per instruction has remained pretty constant over the years if you exclude the Pentium 4. The Yohah uses about the same amount of power per instruction as the Pentium. So if you are running 100 times more instructions per second, well you will be using 100 times more energy.
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A dusty dead parrot I bet.
So finaly I'll be able to solve all those pesky NP-Hard problems.
There is nothing illegal or even immoral about forming a business trade association to lobby for favorable laws. That politics, an age old process that can be ugly but that's the way of the world.
I do think though this prosecution of customers is counter-productive and some of the tactics being used are pretty abusive. The way to attack this is through the court system, possibly through the formation of a consumer's union or similar political action group.
I'm in a similar boat, with the possible additional reason that I don't particularly like most current pop/rock.
Well mastered CD's can have superb sound quality, and the catalog is immense. I also like having the media with the music on it as a backup after I rip it to my music server. The newer so-called hi-resolution formats have not shown to be better in real-world use; most audiophiles feel that any apparent improvements in the sound are due the practice of remastering before release on the new formats rather than anything to do with the format itself.
I don't see CD's going obsolete any time soon; after all many new releases are still coming out on vinyl LPs as well.
The loudness war is tied hand in hand with modern listening habits - in the car, from an MP3, in an iPOD where the music is competing with a lot of other background noise.
Those are not my listening habits so I have no interest in music tailored for that lifestyle.
Exactly what freedoms did the article state were being restricted? I didn't see any such thing - merely some sort of awareness training for university administrators.
I all don't understand what exactly is the deal here regarding the research being discussed. Unclassified research is published in academic journals or reported in symposia that are freely available world-wide. There is no reason for anyone to spy on such research. The list of behaviors that was disscussed was the result of a DIA study regarding protecting compartmentalized secrets - very different from academic research.
The key to understanding whether or not you should re-take a course is whether or not that course is really fundamental. If it is something core to the area you wish to work in, and you feel that you missed mastering the topic then yes, do retake it, or at least take something in the same area to butress your knowledge.
Grades after your first job are not very important. But mastery of the subject material is a life-long tool for career advancement.
So what happens to legacy commercial DVD's? They just stop working? I'm sure that would go over big. Music CD-R media were designed for another reason altogether - to cash in on people buying CD recorders for their home audio system. Totatlly different application.
I disclaimed causality so your point is specious.
You are making some pretty broad assertions with absolutely no factual foundation. Patent law came into being at about the same time the industrial revolution occurred. Every major industrial nation on the planet has an active patent system. The US is by far the most succesful in the software sector, and it is the prinary grantor of software patents. While correlation is no proof of causation, one with think that if patents were actually an impediment to industrial growth or medicine or software an alternative system would have arisen somewhere over the past 300 years and shown it's effectiveness in international competition.
Diseases like malaria and dengue fever are both mosquito borne disease that are not problems in developed countries, exactly where patent systems are in force. Agriculture has also failed to prevent famine in exactly the same areas afflicted with those diseases today. The political forces that prevent effective agriculture also prevent effective health care delivery.
If you assume that most piracy reduces exports, yes then it does cost the country.
So the statement that he was not allowed to appeal is false? It seems to me that this story does not rise to any reasonable journalistic standard. Perfect for slashdot.
Such a study was done at the University of Utah. Driving at the legal alcohol limit (0.08%) is safer.