Your all over the place. Basicly your just repeating the concept of a stub library. The slightly potential problems are first the acutal list of functions in a library are potentially copyrightable. You have no legitimate reason for using a broken stub library. If your talking about "optional" functionality then I would say you could do it. Second after all these RIAA and MPAA lawsuits it is likely that you could be sued for contibutory violations for facilitating users to do something in violation of a software licence.
A much better tactic would be to sue the FSF over something they did wrong and since they probably don't have much in the way capital to actually be awarded the foudation itself. A take over. You can then null and void any limitations to GPL code you don't like for everyone. A clause in the GPL gives the FSF power to relicence code however they want; and that kind of power is an asset. You could make all code public domain if you wanted or sell specific projects code to closed source companies for a profit. I'm surprised microsoft and the old unix companies havn't tried this. The question is what to sue over... but lawyers are pretty crafty.
I am very socically liberal but this is getting rediculous. First the cripple suing over the right to use a golf cart in a sporting event and now this. Disgusting. I don't blame the disabled but rather the lawyers and law makers and judges that implement the law. F the letter of the law, it's all about intent, and this is only hurting the cause.
First off I support the idea of a gauranteed QOS internet subspace if you will. A background network that can gaurantee the quality of connections between computers. Be this connections for internet games or connections to transfer audio and video feeds for real time communication. And it should be comsumers that directly pay the extra costs for this background internet. Kind of like long distence service.
I don't support ISP's blackmailing websites for extorion money or being filtered out. And they will do it. Imaging the shitting quality of a site like myspace which is caused by poor design and exponential growth actually being caused by your ISP. At first it will only be the biggest sites. Or giving one site a bandwidth edge over compeditiors. But eventually it will be all sites and the ISP's will degenerate into what AOL use to be.
There are already many rogue TLD namespaces. Why would people run them? Why do people serve blackspace lists? Why do people offer any free services on the net? Why is a different subject. Point is many people with run TLD's. And many others will pick and choose and map other TLD's under theirs.
Any astronomer that would admit pluto as a planet probably supports creationist science and a law rounding pi to 3.
Either there are 8 planets, or something like 30. They demoted pluto to a platetoid or whatever label they decided on. Big deal, sentimentality has no place in science.
Serious I actually like quite a few HP printers but I avoid them like the plague. Only if they would offer reasonably priced printers without lockins would I ever look at them again. It's all about TCO baby...
Real NDA's which is a BIG standard practice prevent you from talking about work for other contractors. If you are legally obligated you can't contract with companies requiring disclosure. If other fouls are signing that's their problem. Your a foul if you sign.
Translation, life isn't easy. It's part of your work to find reasonable customers.
This is how they determined she wiped her computer. A computer would normally be filled with all sorts of random junk, not zero'd out, or ramdom data. Just do incremental backups people or download all your crap on an external drive.
And I've said it once and a million times because it's happens to me every so often. There are lots of hacks out that that while they won't break the security of your computer, it will give the hacker some user level access. Just recently I discovered my honeypot VM was being used as a redirector and remote for BT and to send mail through my ISP.
But another poster is correct, destruction of supposed evidence isn't evidence. It may be contempt but it's not evidence. And contempt is a crime punishable by jail time. This judge overstepped himself.
Technically if she were guilty all she would have needed to do is go on irc and have them infect her computer. Any date time stamps on infected files are irrlevent as trojans modify those times and real hackers update their trojans to stay ahead of detection programs. All it would take is one well publicized example of this and every RIAA and MPAA suit would be dismissed before it ever got to trial. They would have to reasonable prove the computer was secure before it got to trial.
There isn't anything to prevent a register from taxing the hell out of any website that gets popular. This ammounts to extortion by registers not being banned. The internet community will not stand for it and the offical DNS servers will cease to be recognized as such. Instead ICANN will be religated to it's own TLD. This can both be done at a user and register level. www.slashdot.org.icann It's how TLD DNS should work, with mapping to whom you recognize as the authority.
Now it finally makes sence why the settlement goes down if someone else licences the tech...
It's not a payoff for the tech, it's more for the lockin factor. They paid creative to sue everyone else and give them huge legal bill and hence make the market less attractive and profitable. A hundred million is nothing in marketing terms. If creative does the sueing then no one can apply any anti compeditive or antitrust statutes. The patent will be invalidated but not until after years of stall tactics and legal fees.
Ok, now I'm convinced of the other dimentions.
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I can see some new science fiction themes coming from this.
It's obvious now that I see the pictures that dark matter really is dark in that it's not signifigantly interacting with matter in the classical three dimentions of space except for gravity which is diluted through all the dimentions. You can somewhat see the gravitational lens slightly distorted and bleeding off slightly in the direction of the relatively insignifigant matter.
There must be at least one more dimention with matter in each three dimentional cross section not interacting with others. Is the matter similar or exotic in these hyper and subspaces? Gravity would be the same but would the other laws of physics apply equally?
But if there are parallel panes unless the matter is very unusual I would think that it would clump together just like stars and planets. But with gavity bleeding through wouldn't massive sun like objects contribute gravitationally to each other and hence in our space a sun would appear to have more mass than the gravity it generates...
You said it. From which they will select twelve, their 12. Not famous nobel winning scientists with something to lose. Hence their tech will be confirmed and enough people out of the people that register to recieve the results will be duped into developing the tech. Classic fud.
You just have to read the paper and it spells it out. Other than VMWARE making a hybrid software/hardware mode it's not going to get any faster. Every time there is data recieved or sent there is an expensive context switch for hardware VM. So databases, web servers, and file servers will waste more cycles virtualized than compared to Seti or Folding programs. Clicking your heals together is not going to change the result. This is first generation virtualization results. How many SSE amd MMX revisions have there been?
The good news is now windows CAN be virtulized in hardware. The bad news is it's slow. This means that no one is going to go through the trouble of reinventing VMWARE's software virtualization for open source when a hardware VM is so much easier to create. VMWARE is still relevent if you want a little edge on performance and are willing to pay for it.
With unix easily being paravirtualized you have to wonder when MS is going to release a vitualized edition of windows of their own. It would probably only need a new new HAL (hardware abstraction layer) library.
I highly recommend that someone setup a QOS router and firewall for the house with five or more NIC's. Everyone will otherwise be complaining about how much other people are pips. Also I think it would be imparitive that you actually get 5 or more real IP addresses otherwire it's will be a bear setting up certain programs.
AMD just destroyed the only competition that nVidia could possibly face. No other graphics company out there has enough IP that they could compete and survive an nVidia lawsuit. It also mean that nVidia no longer has to push it's development and release cycle and can somewhat sit on their ass as they rake in the money. You can't fight two wars on two fronts people. nForce for AMD is dead in two years. Hopefully ATI has enough talent onboard that they can shift from graphics card design and focus on chipset design. The only thing that's going to happen with ATI graphics is it being offered as builtin server video in comparison to intel integrated graphics. The only thing I can imagine is the video team working on slower "workstation graphics" and after five or more years being sold off.
They obviously have no idea how this is going to taste to all their previous fans. Party at Intels house tonight!
This is precisely what a marketing guy would come up with to get people to attend an otherwise boring announcement. Something is in the works but not a merger.
You really think they are abandoning the PS2 anytime soon? Or perhaps do you think 1000 games are going to be available for the PS3 at launch?
Read your video game industry history. The PS2 will still be sold for the next five years. New games are still going to be created for it because it has the installed base.
The PS3 is the next generation where generations last 10 years and overlap previous and suceeding generations. Consoles are stable computers designed for games, they don't come out with new versions every six months like camcorders. It's expensive now because it has to be as powerful as possible so that it can be viable for ten years. Spend the big bucks now and be smug that you have the best system out there or wait five years and you can get it for $150. Your money, your choice.
I said it before and I'll obviously have to say it hundreds more, the OS wars are over.
Microsoft is a software bussiness. All they care about is that you have and are paying for their software.
People in the past could only run one OS at a time. Multibooting doesn't count. Even if you multibooted you were still running the same OS 95% of the time. Multibooting was an alternative to buying multiple machines. Now with virtualization microsoft no longer competes with any other operating system, be it Linux or Mac OS. They will all run side by side.
You ain't seen nothing yet, just wait until microsoft creates more windows versions and they each become more distinct such as (gasp!) windows server without a GUI interface.
All they need now is one application you can't live without to compel you buy the OS. In fact computer 'games' literally are right now the killer app for windows but I don't expect that to remain so for long. You'll probably need a seperate version of Media Center edition if you want to play DRM'd music and movies. Microsoft can now tailer make versions of windows bundled with their own software that will appeal to dozens of market segments. The one key advantage of virtualization is that they can give up on trying to keep windows so compatable in the future. Vista will in a sence be the last version of windows burdened by legacy compatability issues. It also means a quicker release schedule and more upgrade versions.
It's just a completely different game. Get your mind out of the past and wrap you mind around the future.
This is just a completely absurd use of technology when a deck of picture cards would suffice. Tape record two different rooms, syncronize with a watch, and whamo - the same thing test sans computers. I love computers but misusing them like this to make a simple thing overly complicated is just plain wrong.
Why can't someone hack something useful like a cheap gigabit 16 port router? The wrt54g is certainly promising for hacking some private vpn wireless connections but other than that it only has 4 ports.
I dream of a powerful 16/24 port gigabit swiich I could load linux on. I could then get IPv6, broadcast, anycast, multicast, and all the other new IPv6 protocols I'd love to play with and customize it to my hearts content. No more proprietary BS.
I'd settle for an 8 port gigabit switch and a 16 10/100 for appliences.
I need all those ports because eventually everything will be hooked into it, routers, phones, stereo, if it's possible I'm going to do it. It's disgusting how all the home user venders are ignoring a feature they could hype.
This is just a pure and simple case of negative publicity blackmail. There is no merit but it certainly attracts lots of negative publicity on myspace, hence this will be paid off in two day for $50K at least. This is why court cases should be kept quiet until they are resolved unless there is truely a redeaming purpose in making it public other than entertainment value. Seal the cases and have anyone that wants to look at it privately sign an NDA.
It all amounts to slander.
What we really need on the internet is a reputation tracking system for lawyers that take on cases like this.
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Your all over the place. Basicly your just repeating the concept of a stub library. The slightly potential problems are first the acutal list of functions in a library are potentially copyrightable. You have no legitimate reason for using a broken stub library. If your talking about "optional" functionality then I would say you could do it. Second after all these RIAA and MPAA lawsuits it is likely that you could be sued for contibutory violations for facilitating users to do something in violation of a software licence.
A much better tactic would be to sue the FSF over something they did wrong and since they probably don't have much in the way capital to actually be awarded the foudation itself. A take over. You can then null and void any limitations to GPL code you don't like for everyone. A clause in the GPL gives the FSF power to relicence code however they want; and that kind of power is an asset. You could make all code public domain if you wanted or sell specific projects code to closed source companies for a profit. I'm surprised microsoft and the old unix companies havn't tried this. The question is what to sue over... but lawyers are pretty crafty.
I am very socically liberal but this is getting rediculous. First the cripple suing over the right to use a golf cart in a sporting event and now this. Disgusting. I don't blame the disabled but rather the lawyers and law makers and judges that implement the law. F the letter of the law, it's all about intent, and this is only hurting the cause.
First off I support the idea of a gauranteed QOS internet subspace if you will. A background network that can gaurantee the quality of connections between computers. Be this connections for internet games or connections to transfer audio and video feeds for real time communication. And it should be comsumers that directly pay the extra costs for this background internet. Kind of like long distence service.
I don't support ISP's blackmailing websites for extorion money or being filtered out. And they will do it. Imaging the shitting quality of a site like myspace which is caused by poor design and exponential growth actually being caused by your ISP. At first it will only be the biggest sites. Or giving one site a bandwidth edge over compeditiors. But eventually it will be all sites and the ISP's will degenerate into what AOL use to be.
There are already many rogue TLD namespaces. Why would people run them? Why do people serve blackspace lists? Why do people offer any free services on the net? Why is a different subject. Point is many people with run TLD's. And many others will pick and choose and map other TLD's under theirs.
Any astronomer that would admit pluto as a planet probably supports creationist science and a law rounding pi to 3.
Either there are 8 planets, or something like 30. They demoted pluto to a platetoid or whatever label they decided on. Big deal, sentimentality has no place in science.
Serious I actually like quite a few HP printers but I avoid them like the plague. Only if they would offer reasonably priced printers without lockins would I ever look at them again. It's all about TCO baby...
Nothing more to say, she's hot.
But the main topic is what if your required to disclose all your ideas and every idea you heard since the beginning of time under an NDA they sign?
Real NDA's which is a BIG standard practice prevent you from talking about work for other contractors. If you are legally obligated you can't contract with companies requiring disclosure. If other fouls are signing that's their problem. Your a foul if you sign.
Translation, life isn't easy. It's part of your work to find reasonable customers.
This is how they determined she wiped her computer. A computer would normally be filled with all sorts of random junk, not zero'd out, or ramdom data. Just do incremental backups people or download all your crap on an external drive.
And I've said it once and a million times because it's happens to me every so often. There are lots of hacks out that that while they won't break the security of your computer, it will give the hacker some user level access. Just recently I discovered my honeypot VM was being used as a redirector and remote for BT and to send mail through my ISP.
But another poster is correct, destruction of supposed evidence isn't evidence. It may be contempt but it's not evidence. And contempt is a crime punishable by jail time. This judge overstepped himself.
Technically if she were guilty all she would have needed to do is go on irc and have them infect her computer. Any date time stamps on infected files are irrlevent as trojans modify those times and real hackers update their trojans to stay ahead of detection programs. All it would take is one well publicized example of this and every RIAA and MPAA suit would be dismissed before it ever got to trial. They would have to reasonable prove the computer was secure before it got to trial.
Computers are not easy to secure.
There isn't anything to prevent a register from taxing the hell out of any website that gets popular. This ammounts to extortion by registers not being banned. The internet community will not stand for it and the offical DNS servers will cease to be recognized as such. Instead ICANN will be religated to it's own TLD. This can both be done at a user and register level. www.slashdot.org.icann It's how TLD DNS should work, with mapping to whom you recognize as the authority.
Now it finally makes sence why the settlement goes down if someone else licences the tech...
It's not a payoff for the tech, it's more for the lockin factor. They paid creative to sue everyone else and give them huge legal bill and hence make the market less attractive and profitable. A hundred million is nothing in marketing terms. If creative does the sueing then no one can apply any anti compeditive or antitrust statutes. The patent will be invalidated but not until after years of stall tactics and legal fees.
I can see some new science fiction themes coming from this.
It's obvious now that I see the pictures that dark matter really is dark in that it's not signifigantly interacting with matter in the classical three dimentions of space except for gravity which is diluted through all the dimentions. You can somewhat see the gravitational lens slightly distorted and bleeding off slightly in the direction of the relatively insignifigant matter.
There must be at least one more dimention with matter in each three dimentional cross section not interacting with others. Is the matter similar or exotic in these hyper and subspaces? Gravity would be the same but would the other laws of physics apply equally?
But if there are parallel panes unless the matter is very unusual I would think that it would clump together just like stars and planets. But with gavity bleeding through wouldn't massive sun like objects contribute gravitationally to each other and hence in our space a sun would appear to have more mass than the gravity it generates...
You said it. From which they will select twelve, their 12. Not famous nobel winning scientists with something to lose. Hence their tech will be confirmed and enough people out of the people that register to recieve the results will be duped into developing the tech. Classic fud.
I remember that is was important to string theory, I just don't remember why. I did a search and found nothing. Can anyone elaborate?
You just have to read the paper and it spells it out. Other than VMWARE making a hybrid software/hardware mode it's not going to get any faster. Every time there is data recieved or sent there is an expensive context switch for hardware VM. So databases, web servers, and file servers will waste more cycles virtualized than compared to Seti or Folding programs. Clicking your heals together is not going to change the result. This is first generation virtualization results. How many SSE amd MMX revisions have there been?
The good news is now windows CAN be virtulized in hardware. The bad news is it's slow. This means that no one is going to go through the trouble of reinventing VMWARE's software virtualization for open source when a hardware VM is so much easier to create. VMWARE is still relevent if you want a little edge on performance and are willing to pay for it.
With unix easily being paravirtualized you have to wonder when MS is going to release a vitualized edition of windows of their own. It would probably only need a new new HAL (hardware abstraction layer) library.
Question for a science geek...
Ok speed and time are relative but shouldn't the size of the universe in light years correspond to double it's age? Just curious.
I highly recommend that someone setup a QOS router and firewall for the house with five or more NIC's. Everyone will otherwise be complaining about how much other people are pips. Also I think it would be imparitive that you actually get 5 or more real IP addresses otherwire it's will be a bear setting up certain programs.
AMD just destroyed the only competition that nVidia could possibly face. No other graphics company out there has enough IP that they could compete and survive an nVidia lawsuit. It also mean that nVidia no longer has to push it's development and release cycle and can somewhat sit on their ass as they rake in the money. You can't fight two wars on two fronts people. nForce for AMD is dead in two years. Hopefully ATI has enough talent onboard that they can shift from graphics card design and focus on chipset design. The only thing that's going to happen with ATI graphics is it being offered as builtin server video in comparison to intel integrated graphics. The only thing I can imagine is the video team working on slower "workstation graphics" and after five or more years being sold off.
They obviously have no idea how this is going to taste to all their previous fans. Party at Intels house tonight!
This is precisely what a marketing guy would come up with to get people to attend an otherwise boring announcement. Something is in the works but not a merger.
You really think they are abandoning the PS2 anytime soon? Or perhaps do you think 1000 games are going to be available for the PS3 at launch?
Read your video game industry history. The PS2 will still be sold for the next five years. New games are still going to be created for it because it has the installed base.
The PS3 is the next generation where generations last 10 years and overlap previous and suceeding generations. Consoles are stable computers designed for games, they don't come out with new versions every six months like camcorders. It's expensive now because it has to be as powerful as possible so that it can be viable for ten years. Spend the big bucks now and be smug that you have the best system out there or wait five years and you can get it for $150. Your money, your choice.
Sony did their homework. You didn't.
I said it before and I'll obviously have to say it hundreds more, the OS wars are over.
Microsoft is a software bussiness. All they care about is that you have and are paying for their software.
People in the past could only run one OS at a time. Multibooting doesn't count. Even if you multibooted you were still running the same OS 95% of the time. Multibooting was an alternative to buying multiple machines. Now with virtualization microsoft no longer competes with any other operating system, be it Linux or Mac OS. They will all run side by side.
You ain't seen nothing yet, just wait until microsoft creates more windows versions and they each become more distinct such as (gasp!) windows server without a GUI interface.
All they need now is one application you can't live without to compel you buy the OS. In fact computer 'games' literally are right now the killer app for windows but I don't expect that to remain so for long. You'll probably need a seperate version of Media Center edition if you want to play DRM'd music and movies. Microsoft can now tailer make versions of windows bundled with their own software that will appeal to dozens of market segments. The one key advantage of virtualization is that they can give up on trying to keep windows so compatable in the future. Vista will in a sence be the last version of windows burdened by legacy compatability issues. It also means a quicker release schedule and more upgrade versions.
It's just a completely different game. Get your mind out of the past and wrap you mind around the future.
This is just a completely absurd use of technology when a deck of picture cards would suffice. Tape record two different rooms, syncronize with a watch, and whamo - the same thing test sans computers. I love computers but misusing them like this to make a simple thing overly complicated is just plain wrong.
Why can't someone hack something useful like a cheap gigabit 16 port router? The wrt54g is certainly promising for hacking some private vpn wireless connections but other than that it only has 4 ports.
I dream of a powerful 16/24 port gigabit swiich I could load linux on. I could then get IPv6, broadcast, anycast, multicast, and all the other new IPv6 protocols I'd love to play with and customize it to my hearts content. No more proprietary BS.
I'd settle for an 8 port gigabit switch and a 16 10/100 for appliences.
I need all those ports because eventually everything will be hooked into it, routers, phones, stereo, if it's possible I'm going to do it. It's disgusting how all the home user venders are ignoring a feature they could hype.
This is just a pure and simple case of negative publicity blackmail. There is no merit but it certainly attracts lots of negative publicity on myspace, hence this will be paid off in two day for $50K at least. This is why court cases should be kept quiet until they are resolved unless there is truely a redeaming purpose in making it public other than entertainment value. Seal the cases and have anyone that wants to look at it privately sign an NDA.
It all amounts to slander.
What we really need on the internet is a reputation tracking system for lawyers that take on cases like this.