Here at work I've been through about a half dozen UNIX boxen depending on what development I'm doing. Moving from box to box only take me a couple minutes of adjustment/toy with some desktop settings. All my data is kept NFS in home dirs and apps are NFS/usr/local. The avg home user could do the same in linux by backing up/home and /usr/local to CD once in awhile. 20min fresh install, restore the directories and away you go. This does not help if you across teh country and want to use your apps which is a whole different prob.
However, I just bought 2 from Sun on a developer deal for ~800 a piece. How much was the Athlon 1.9? If it wasn't stolen, they ought to be the same price. Also what are you running to "benchmark"?
For a more "real" Sun Box try on the Blade 1000 or Blade 2000. They cost "considerably" more but they are not teathered by slow 5400 IDE HD's etc. Cheap video etc. Note that you cannot get this crazy video card for the Blade 100.
The Blade 100 is what it was meant to be, a cheap entry level box. Definatly effient and economical for farms of UNIX coders.
I may be misinformed about the Billboard chart, but NYT I'm sure of. A question does remain, how are the Billboard charts tallied so quickly and how to they account for my local "one man shop" retailer who has no electronic inventory accounting system.
A 6mo commercial private beta cycle is NOT uncommon. Hell we have a product here that's on 9mo. Seriously Games don't even have the "benefit" of being able to updated with a.1 or.5 release. If your games doesn't work enough that QA can compelete the game 6 months before release, which means 4 months from packaging/shipping, then changes are the game is going to have SEIOUS bugs.
Both of these charts gather thier info from "Number of items shipped form the publisher".
What this means is that if B&N order 10 million copies of the new Stephen King book then that book gets the NY Times Best Seller #1 spot for that week even though those books my sit unbought on the shelf for months and even returned to the distributer. The NYT BS list is just that BS. This statistical method is also the reason why the same authors on on it again and again. Large retailer will buy bulk (with gratutious discount) the 1st week or three of release if an author's last book sold well.
Same deal for the music albums. "Debuted at #1" means that the publisher convinced large reatiler to buy in bulk up front.
Money says that that EB video games "chart" is based on the same style statistics.
When it comes to music there is "AudioScan" which tries to figure out how many copies were actually sold. A tough number to figure out quickly because most smaller reatilers do not have the necessary inventory control eqip install.
GPL stipulates that the code must be released, its not monetary issue. If company X is making a billion using my code for 3/4 of thier stuff then I deserve 3/4 of a billion. No judge will argue that. However, the issue that comes up is a license without a value exchange. There haven't been any in court that have stood up. These were cases in where someone gave "free liceses etc" of thier software, tehn they go bought and teh new company revolked the licenses.
Code excahge is a thing large companies do too. "Oh you want to use out code to derive a new product... How about 300K plus your code in return and we will promise not to make a direct competator (i.e. different platforms or differnt product, etc) to your product with our derived works? Deal". Its all about value exchange.
Its going to be tough to argue the GPLed code was licensed for any value at all
If MS licensed someone Windows Souce Code via "Shared-Source"(tm) and they made a dervivative work with the code, even if it wasn't an OS in the end and they wanted to distribute that new product they would have to give MS something. Its called "money".
If I license you my project under the GPL, which is a license afterall and you want to distribute a derivative work you would have to give me, and the world at large, something. Its called "Your new code under the GPL".
As in all "Free Trade" situations, its a trade. Instead of "money for code' its "code for code". It all sounds very fair to me. If you don't want to submit to the license of my orgional code then "innovate it yourself". MS wouldn't give you thier code for a project for free and you won't get my code with out code exchange.
Ummmm.... did you notice the list of enhancements? New generation of kernel, glibc, gcc, RPM. Sounds like a new major version number is REQUIRED here considering there may be some binary compatibilty issues here with the 7.x series of Mandrake Linux.
....Each of them appears to attempting to bring out a version number higher than the others, and ends up releasing a product that hasn't had enough testing........ I'm sticking with Debian unstable.
Anyone else love the irony in that statement?
Kivio for example was written around the idea of pluggable stencil sets. The Kompany plans on selling a closed source(i.e. for money) GUI stencil builder and stencil sets as well as other utilites. One in the works for Kivio is a network scanner and diagram generator.
I think Kapital is completely closed source money make is 'cause well, there isn't really a way to sell add-on's to that type of thing.
Now KDE Studio Gold is an easy one. Take working GPL projects, throw it in one easy to open and install box after some testing and offer support ala Redhat.
The real wild card is the PIM/E-mail client. AFAIK its a GPL'd project, but I can't fihure out thier money making plan.
The rest of thier contributions have been faily strategic if you ask me. They needed a solid scripting langauge for thier money makers so they threw money (er, people) at python and made VeePee. The work they've given to KOffice will hopefully sell thier stencils.
I care about having a fully functional AIM client. Until AOL makes thier linux client as good as GAIM I have no problem switching over even if it did have an annoying ad. I use GAIM because its more feature complete than "Offical AIM for Linux". I like having an aliased buddy list, highlighting misspelled words, fixing common mispsellings. Hell, no only does offical aim do none of that, but it doesn't even do real OSCAR featues such as direct IM and getting away messages. GAIM did all these to a degree. And to those who say 'screw the extra stuff' I have friends who are NOT technical. They send me things, or try to at least, through AIM, whether its some document to look at or a picture of thier new motorcycle. I don't like having to say 'sorry AOL likes to screw me there is no way I can see your pic through IM because AOL won't put a developer on AIM for Linux and they are screwing the open-source, radiply evolving projects, thus forcing me to use this incomplete software. I'd like to see AOL 1)Give me a functional client or 2)Cut GAIM some slack (i.e. give them permission to distribute a aim.exe binary to give Linux users a stopgap solution while they work on AIM for linux(it exists, but I consider it broken). Its not like AIM fo rlinux has ads right now anyway.)
I can import myself a BMW from say Germany wo/Cali Emissions installed as an option as long as I can pass inspection including visual equipment test and sniffer test. Which won't be possible since Cali's emissions tests are just about impossible wo/ the extra stuff. However, If I had a Ferrari shipped from Italy and just place it in a showroom, drive it around a private track, and bring it to show/race in a trailer, then I never need worry about inspection.
Car Inpections have nothing to do with interstate trade. There would have to be a law that you have to "register" your computer or something. How ware they going to even tell you had a computer shipped to your house from CA? Are Vendors required report sales to states they have no physical presence in, I don't think so.
If the software is still not mature enough to be useful to joe avergeuser then the idea should be "If you can't figure out how to compile this its probably not going to be useful for you and going to break so much you don't want to use it." Developer releases should be for developers.
Anyone can pick up the code and fix it. Would MS allow you to fix thier code. No you are at thier mercy as to if or when they'd fix it. Not that MS is going out of business or anything, but what if Redmond dissappeared into a black hole. Linus could be hit by a truck but the code marches on. By having all the sources you can hire anyone qualified to modify, fix, enhance the software. Under the traditional model you are at the mercy of whoever holds the sources.
Point in case here. If you are going to charge exorbient amounts of money for something then it had better be worth it. Apparetnly Free Office Suites have gotten to the point that they so the same job as over-priced suites. Now if they made something revolutionary they would be able to make money easily. This is just keeping corporations from getting comfortable with selling the same OLD thing in a shinier box.
The name of the chip by AMD was the DX4 (not 486 DX4). The 4 stood for 486, not the multiplier( which was also 4x). This chip came in 100, 120 and 133Mzh flavors. All made by AMD. The chip came out after the pentium machines worked thier way down to a high, but reasonable price level. The chip was made with the same philosophy that was suscessful with the 386DX-40. Take the current chip being dropped by intel and push some life back into it. I really liked these chips becaus ethey were cheap and fast. I owned a couple of each DX4 flavor at one point or another.
I don't think they'd really care too much if people hacked them apart. In fact I don't think it will be to hard to mess with these things. Its not like they are seriously loss leading the box. $499-$599 is a very fair price for the hardware. From the dexription is just seems like a toiuch screen i-opener. I didn't see any mention of portable or wireless in any PR or article. Infact I bet the reason teh went with transmeta was for the heat reduction and not requiring a fan. I bet they will give a huge rebate (i.e. the immensely popular $400 new pc rebate) for new or extended subscription requireing ca. 3 years of service.
Lets see here. Two out of five were cracked within weeks, granted that one is questionable. Seriously how long would it take for the rest to fall? A few more week? A few months? I'd be willing to be all would go down within a year at that rate. One being broken in a matter of weeks is enough to show that if you work enough at it you will find a hole to exlopit.
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Here at work I've been through about a /usr/local. The avg home user /home and
half dozen UNIX boxen depending on what development
I'm doing. Moving from box to box only take me
a couple minutes of adjustment/toy with some
desktop settings. All my data is kept NFS in home
dirs and apps are NFS
could do the same in linux by backing up
/usr/local to CD once in awhile. 20min fresh install,
restore the directories and away you go. This does
not help if you across teh country and want to use your
apps which is a whole different prob.
However, I just bought 2 from Sun on a developer deal
for ~800 a piece. How much was the Athlon 1.9? If
it wasn't stolen, they ought to be the same price.
Also what are you running to "benchmark"?
For a more "real" Sun Box try on the Blade 1000 or
Blade 2000. They cost "considerably" more but they
are not teathered by slow 5400 IDE HD's etc. Cheap
video etc. Note that you cannot get this crazy
video card for the Blade 100.
The Blade 100 is what it was meant to be, a cheap
entry level box. Definatly effient and economical
for farms of UNIX coders.
I may be misinformed about the Billboard chart, but NYT I'm sure of. A question does remain, how are the Billboard charts tallied so quickly and how to they account for my local "one man shop" retailer who has no electronic inventory accounting system.
A 6mo commercial private beta cycle is NOT uncommon. Hell we have a product here that's on 9mo. Seriously Games don't even have the "benefit" of being able to updated with a .1 or .5 release. If your games doesn't work enough that QA can compelete the game 6 months before release, which means 4 months from packaging/shipping, then changes are the game is going to have SEIOUS bugs.
Both of these charts gather thier info from "Number of items shipped form the publisher".
What this means is that if B&N order 10 million copies of the new Stephen King book then that book gets the NY Times Best Seller #1 spot for that week even though those books my sit unbought on the shelf for months and even returned to the distributer. The NYT BS list is just that BS. This statistical method is also the reason why the same authors on on it again and again. Large retailer will buy bulk (with gratutious discount) the 1st week or three of release if an author's last book sold well.
Same deal for the music albums. "Debuted at #1" means that the publisher convinced large reatiler to buy in bulk up front.
Money says that that EB video games "chart" is based on the same style statistics.
When it comes to music there is "AudioScan" which tries to figure out how many copies were actually sold. A tough number to figure out quickly because most smaller reatilers do not have the necessary inventory control eqip install.
Oh yeah...
Security Not My Problem
I like how the professional hockey talent gets spread around the globe which makes for great international sport unlike so called "US Dream Teams".
I think That's still used as the VMS desktop of choice for Compaq.
Almost forgot about that long gone goodie. Actually there's a VMS box around here still using it. Where'd that thing run off to.....
Those who haven't been around for awhile, Sun owns that one :)
1) The compnay does not ofically support rsync. It does NOT appear the the cradle is using TCP/IP for communication.
Whoever own this trademark, let your power roar!
GPL stipulates that the code must be released, its not monetary issue. If company X is making a billion using my code for 3/4 of thier stuff then I deserve 3/4 of a billion. No judge will argue that. However, the issue that comes up is a license without a value exchange. There haven't been any in court that have stood up. These were cases in where someone gave "free liceses etc" of thier software, tehn they go bought and teh new company revolked the licenses.
Code excahge is a thing large companies do too. "Oh you want to use out code to derive a new product... How about 300K plus your code in return and we will promise not to make a direct competator (i.e. different platforms or differnt product, etc) to your product with our derived works? Deal". Its all about value exchange.
Its going to be tough to argue the GPLed code was licensed for any value at all
If MS licensed someone Windows Souce Code via "Shared-Source"(tm) and they made a dervivative work with the code, even if it wasn't an OS in the end and they wanted to distribute that new product they would have to give MS something. Its called "money".
If I license you my project under the GPL, which is a license afterall and you want to distribute a derivative work you would have to give me, and the world at large, something. Its called "Your new code under the GPL".
As in all "Free Trade" situations, its a trade. Instead of "money for code' its "code for code". It all sounds very fair to me. If you don't want to submit to the license of my orgional code then "innovate it yourself". MS wouldn't give you thier code for a project for free and you won't get my code with out code exchange.
Ummmm.... did you notice the list of enhancements? New generation of kernel, glibc, gcc, RPM. Sounds like a new major version number is REQUIRED here considering there may be some binary compatibilty issues here with the 7.x series of Mandrake Linux.
Anyone else love the irony in that statement?
Which I think is a great business idea.
Kivio for example was written around the idea of pluggable stencil sets. The Kompany plans on selling a closed source(i.e. for money) GUI stencil builder and stencil sets as well as other utilites. One in the works for Kivio is a network scanner and diagram generator.
I think Kapital is completely closed source money make is 'cause well, there isn't really a way to sell add-on's to that type of thing.
Now KDE Studio Gold is an easy one. Take working GPL projects, throw it in one easy to open and install box after some testing and offer support ala Redhat.
The real wild card is the PIM/E-mail client. AFAIK its a GPL'd project, but I can't fihure out thier money making plan.
The rest of thier contributions have been faily strategic if you ask me. They needed a solid scripting langauge for thier money makers so they threw money (er, people) at python and made VeePee. The work they've given to KOffice will hopefully sell thier stencils.
I care about having a fully functional AIM client. Until AOL makes thier linux client as good as GAIM I have no problem switching over even if it did have an annoying ad. I use GAIM because its more feature complete than "Offical AIM for Linux". I like having an aliased buddy list, highlighting misspelled words, fixing common mispsellings. Hell, no only does offical aim do none of that, but it doesn't even do real OSCAR featues such as direct IM and getting away messages. GAIM did all these to a degree. And to those who say 'screw the extra stuff' I have friends who are NOT technical. They send me things, or try to at least, through AIM, whether its some document to look at or a picture of thier new motorcycle. I don't like having to say 'sorry AOL likes to screw me there is no way I can see your pic through IM because AOL won't put a developer on AIM for Linux and they are screwing the open-source, radiply evolving projects, thus forcing me to use this incomplete software. I'd like to see AOL 1)Give me a functional client or 2)Cut GAIM some slack (i.e. give them permission to distribute a aim.exe binary to give Linux users a stopgap solution while they work on AIM for linux(it exists, but I consider it broken). Its not like AIM fo rlinux has ads right now anyway.)
Great now my computer can become a distribution point for the latest "singles". And I have to pay for it soon? Ummmmm. no thanks.
I can import myself a BMW from say Germany wo/Cali Emissions installed as an option as long as I can pass inspection including visual equipment test and sniffer test. Which won't be possible since Cali's emissions tests are just about impossible wo/ the extra stuff. However, If I had a Ferrari shipped from Italy and just place it in a showroom, drive it around a private track, and bring it to show/race in a trailer, then I never need worry about inspection.
Car Inpections have nothing to do with interstate trade. There would have to be a law that you have to "register" your computer or something. How ware they going to even tell you had a computer shipped to your house from CA? Are Vendors required report sales to states they have no physical presence in, I don't think so.
If the software is still not mature enough to be useful to joe avergeuser then the idea should be "If you can't figure out how to compile this its probably not going to be useful for you and going to break so much you don't want to use it." Developer releases should be for developers.
Anyone can pick up the code and fix it. Would MS allow you to fix thier code. No you are at thier mercy as to if or when they'd fix it. Not that MS is going out of business or anything, but what if Redmond dissappeared into a black hole. Linus could be hit by a truck but the code marches on. By having all the sources you can hire anyone qualified to modify, fix, enhance the software. Under the traditional model you are at the mercy of whoever holds the sources.
Point in case here. If you are going to charge exorbient amounts of money for something then it had better be worth it. Apparetnly Free Office Suites have gotten to the point that they so the same job as over-priced suites. Now if they made something revolutionary they would be able to make money easily. This is just keeping corporations from getting comfortable with selling the same OLD thing in a shinier box.
The name of the chip by AMD was the DX4 (not 486 DX4). The 4 stood for 486, not the multiplier( which was also 4x). This chip came in 100, 120 and 133Mzh flavors. All made by AMD. The chip came out after the pentium machines worked thier way down to a high, but reasonable price level. The chip was made with the same philosophy that was suscessful with the 386DX-40. Take the current chip being dropped by intel and push some life back into it. I really liked these chips becaus ethey were cheap and fast. I owned a couple of each DX4 flavor at one point or another.
I don't think they'd really care too much if people hacked them apart. In fact I don't think it will be to hard to mess with these things. Its not like they are seriously loss leading the box. $499-$599 is a very fair price for the hardware. From the dexription is just seems like a toiuch screen i-opener. I didn't see any mention of portable or wireless in any PR or article. Infact I bet the reason teh went with transmeta was for the heat reduction and not requiring a fan. I bet they will give a huge rebate (i.e. the immensely popular $400 new pc rebate) for new or extended subscription requireing ca. 3 years of service.
Lets see here. Two out of five were cracked within weeks, granted that one is questionable. Seriously how long would it take for the rest to fall? A few more week? A few months? I'd be willing to be all would go down within a year at that rate. One being broken in a matter of weeks is enough to show that if you work enough at it you will find a hole to exlopit.