Well. Your lawyer would write their demand a bit differently.:-P If you can find a lawyer to write the demand the same way, please have him send me the demand. Also make sure he owns real property, I could use some extra income.:-P
You're question is missing something: the Enterprise virtualization market. It's huge. It's inherently parallel. It's basically the main thing that has driven the entire multicore market for the last 3-4 years.
Well, you'll at least be amused to note that I did not say your message was inaccurate, but rather that the interpretations would be.:-P Believe it or not, I teased out the probable intention in what you said. Really I was accusing you of improper language for Communicating with the Gallery (tm).:-P
Your message was phrased in such a way that one or more interpretations of your message would be inaccurate. For example, they are NOT saying that if in individual user increases his/her internet use, they are more likely to become depressed.
You're question "would that really matter" is a good one. You are right, in the consumer market things are judged on "price per," but rather "just price". In the enterprise mass storage market, however, yes, it will matter quite a lot.
This is not to say that there might not be an inflection point sooner than raw $$/GB. Savvy operators may have TCO models that switch them over sooner.
Withstanding recently trends in the flash market pointing to a slow down of the very fast price drops that have been happening, flash will beat 15K drives on price within 2 years or so. SATA is 6+ years. That may as well be an eternity in technology time. All bets are off. By then, one of the platter manufacturers could pull a density rabbit out of the hat.
Was NetBurst P4? Anyway, whether or not it was or wasn't, NetBurst was inferior. If Core hadn't come out of the Israeli lab, Intel was within 18 months of wholesale defection of HP, Dell, and IBM to AMD. Would have happened sooner if AMD had trustable manufacturing capacity.
Well. I'm sorry if this is a not-nice comment, but it was pretty obvious as the market developed that the early versions just weren't ready, and what the probable pit falls of the technology were likely to be. I.e., I don't think it took hind sight to know that early adoption was risky.
True. Consider the consequences of the gunfight. Either A) you are dead, which you probably would have been anyway, or B) you have a big chunk of fresh, warm meat to devour.
I guess you could also do the Luke Skywalker thingy and cuddle.
This is Alaska we're talking about here. Option 3: take down your shotgun, and force the ongoing motorist to stop at gunpoint. Hope he doesn't respond with his own shotgun.:-P
California, with it's bust-ass budget and spiraling social program costs is a preview of what might happen to the rest of the country. They're still $21 billion in the hole, and yet now they want to enact a statewide universal health care program, with costs upwards of $200 Billion over the next decade?
Not really. Many of our budgetary problems are unique to the Proposition system, which is a facet of very few other state politics. What's interesting is within a few short years, California will quite possibly be facing a genuine Constitutional crises. The Proposition system just has to go.
Are you sure that the main reason is "discrimination". I don't think so. I think what happens is that as the programmers age, they lose the ability, and they know it, so move into other jobs. Like mathematicians, programmers age rapidly after 30. There are exceptions. Just not many.
That's not the only problem, believe me. Sun has trouble with pricing their x86 solutions. Dell so thoroughly kills them that the quiet cry of silence I've gotten from my Sun rep any time I've forwarded him a Dell quote in response to one of his has gotten to be pitiable. They have a long row to ho. I suspect that killing off the expensive cruft organization may be part of it.
From your over the top response of crawling over all my threads and spamming with profanity, this apparently stung you pretty deep. You would be able to easily avoid the emotional pain you just experienced by avoiding the taunt in the first place, you know. Are you aware how your lack of self-control is resulting in self disgrace?
Your response was pretty retarded, equating the definitions of insurrection or rebellion with something other than the matter being discussed. To answer your taunt, it would appear that my lack of constitutional scholarship is topped by your lack of reading comprehension. I guess expecting intelligent conversation on Slash was a bit delusional on my part.
I suspect that in a dispute over such things, the US Supreme Court would have original jurisdiction.
In the matter of a war, all bets are off, because there is no way SCOTUS would hear a case from an active enemy, and as the winner we would dictate terms as pert the armistice, and as the loser, vice versa.
If the matter weren't a war, SCOTUS might not hear just based on their whim.
What precisely do propose we actually do about it?
Spying has not traditionally been accepted as casus belli in the historical record, and there's the little matter of the fact that escalated military engagements with China are just a bad idea.
I'm not a Constitutional scholar by any means, but I am curious how you think the U.S. could unilaterally cancel a debt, considering Amendment 14, Article 4.
What about unauthorized code plagiarism? If it turns out that some lazy programmer snuck obscure GPL code into my product years ago, aren't I bound to the conditions of the license though I didn't choose so?
No.
Your lazy programmer has no legal authority to commit your company to a legal agreement. Your legal obligation as the owner or the owner's agent is to make the copyright violation stop. You can do this by removing the offending code, for example.
This also explains why your use of the term "force" is inappropriate. It's both wrong and inflammatory.
There are still many unresolved questions about the GPL in the US, as I'm aware it's only been rarely if ever tested in most jurisdictions in an actual court of law.
Pretty much FUD. Ask an attorney practicing in this area about this, and outside of speculative thisses and thats, they'll agree with the GPL's murmoring about nothing else granting one the right to use the code other than the license. Since nothing else grants the right, what ranking fool would go to court to declare that they willfully violated the copyright holder's rights? Many programs are significant works, man. It takes a certain degree of lunacy to even think of going to court over this. This is why it's "rarely tested". It's hard to find people that dumb.
Sounds like management at your company has its head firmly up the proverbial dark spot.
I work at one of the world's largest defense companies.
We may integrate open source, for our DEFENSE CUSTOMERS, into our defense projects, insofar as we follow certain rules.
The primary two rules are:
1. The source from which we obtain the open source product must be domestically located, and a significant commercial operation. E.g., Red Hat, or: 1b. We review every line of code ourselves for security purposes, and 2. The license, and our approach to the use of the licensed product, must be one already approved by legal.
Stock licenses such as BSD, Apache, GPL, LGPL are all approved according to specific use cases.
It's not a brazen error. The license cannot force you because you are not forced into using the product or the license. "Force" is the brazen error, a choice of words which is at best, inflammatory.
You can't be wrong about this, because a great many people, men and women alike, are confused about what men want from their relationships. The answer to the basic question lurks in asking a guy why he shouldn't just use a prostitute regularly over having a girlfriend or a wife. It's because deep down we really do want to be loved, cared about, and cherished.
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Well. Your lawyer would write their demand a bit differently. :-P If you can find a lawyer to write the demand the same way, please have him send me the demand. Also make sure he owns real property, I could use some extra income. :-P
You're question is missing something: the Enterprise virtualization market. It's huge. It's inherently parallel. It's basically the main thing that has driven the entire multicore market for the last 3-4 years.
C//
Well, you'll at least be amused to note that I did not say your message was inaccurate, but rather that the interpretations would be. :-P Believe it or not, I teased out the probable intention in what you said. Really I was accusing you of improper language for Communicating with the Gallery (tm). :-P
Anyway, have a good one,
--C
Your message was phrased in such a way that one or more interpretations of your message would be inaccurate. For example, they are NOT saying that if in individual user increases his/her internet use, they are more likely to become depressed.
C//
You're question "would that really matter" is a good one. You are right, in the consumer market things are judged on "price per," but rather "just price". In the enterprise mass storage market, however, yes, it will matter quite a lot.
This is not to say that there might not be an inflection point sooner than raw $$/GB. Savvy operators may have TCO models that switch them over sooner.
Joe.
Withstanding recently trends in the flash market pointing to a slow down of the very fast price drops that have been happening, flash will beat 15K drives on price within 2 years or so. SATA is 6+ years. That may as well be an eternity in technology time. All bets are off. By then, one of the platter manufacturers could pull a density rabbit out of the hat.
Was NetBurst P4? Anyway, whether or not it was or wasn't, NetBurst was inferior. If Core hadn't come out of the Israeli lab, Intel was within 18 months of wholesale defection of HP, Dell, and IBM to AMD. Would have happened sooner if AMD had trustable manufacturing capacity.
C//
Well. I'm sorry if this is a not-nice comment, but it was pretty obvious as the market developed that the early versions just weren't ready, and what the probable pit falls of the technology were likely to be. I.e., I don't think it took hind sight to know that early adoption was risky.
What's happened is that demand has been higher than expected.
True. Consider the consequences of the gunfight. Either A) you are dead, which you probably would have been anyway, or B) you have a big chunk of fresh, warm meat to devour.
I guess you could also do the Luke Skywalker thingy and cuddle.
C//
This is Alaska we're talking about here. Option 3: take down your shotgun, and force the ongoing motorist to stop at gunpoint. Hope he doesn't respond with his own shotgun. :-P
California, with it's bust-ass budget and spiraling social program costs is a preview of what might happen to the rest of the country. They're still $21 billion in the hole, and yet now they want to enact a statewide universal health care program, with costs upwards of $200 Billion over the next decade?
Not really. Many of our budgetary problems are unique to the Proposition system, which is a facet of very few other state politics. What's interesting is within a few short years, California will quite possibly be facing a genuine Constitutional crises. The Proposition system just has to go.
Joe.
Are you sure that the main reason is "discrimination". I don't think so. I think what happens is that as the programmers age, they lose the ability, and they know it, so move into other jobs. Like mathematicians, programmers age rapidly after 30. There are exceptions. Just not many.
That's not the only problem, believe me. Sun has trouble with pricing their x86 solutions. Dell so thoroughly kills them that the quiet cry of silence I've gotten from my Sun rep any time I've forwarded him a Dell quote in response to one of his has gotten to be pitiable. They have a long row to ho. I suspect that killing off the expensive cruft organization may be part of it.
From your over the top response of crawling over all my threads and spamming with profanity, this apparently stung you pretty deep. You would be able to easily avoid the emotional pain you just experienced by avoiding the taunt in the first place, you know. Are you aware how your lack of self-control is resulting in self disgrace?
Your response was pretty retarded, equating the definitions of insurrection or rebellion with something other than the matter being discussed. To answer your taunt, it would appear that my lack of constitutional scholarship is topped by your lack of reading comprehension. I guess expecting intelligent conversation on Slash was a bit delusional on my part.
I suspect that in a dispute over such things, the US Supreme Court would have original jurisdiction.
In the matter of a war, all bets are off, because there is no way SCOTUS would hear a case from an active enemy, and as the winner we would dictate terms as pert the armistice, and as the loser, vice versa.
If the matter weren't a war, SCOTUS might not hear just based on their whim.
What precisely do propose we actually do about it?
Spying has not traditionally been accepted as casus belli in the historical record, and there's the little matter of the fact that escalated military engagements with China are just a bad idea.
C//
I'm not a Constitutional scholar by any means, but I am curious how you think the U.S. could unilaterally cancel a debt, considering Amendment 14, Article 4.
Joe.
What about unauthorized code plagiarism? If it turns out that some lazy programmer snuck obscure GPL code into my product years ago, aren't I bound to the conditions of the license though I didn't choose so?
No.
Your lazy programmer has no legal authority to commit your company to a legal agreement. Your legal obligation as the owner or the owner's agent is to make the copyright violation stop. You can do this by removing the offending code, for example.
This also explains why your use of the term "force" is inappropriate. It's both wrong and inflammatory.
C//
There are still many unresolved questions about the GPL in the US, as I'm aware it's only been rarely if ever tested in most jurisdictions in an actual court of law.
Pretty much FUD. Ask an attorney practicing in this area about this, and outside of speculative thisses and thats, they'll agree with the GPL's murmoring about nothing else granting one the right to use the code other than the license. Since nothing else grants the right, what ranking fool would go to court to declare that they willfully violated the copyright holder's rights? Many programs are significant works, man. It takes a certain degree of lunacy to even think of going to court over this. This is why it's "rarely tested". It's hard to find people that dumb.
Joe
Sounds like management at your company has its head firmly up the proverbial dark spot.
I work at one of the world's largest defense companies.
We may integrate open source, for our DEFENSE CUSTOMERS, into our defense projects, insofar as we follow certain rules.
The primary two rules are:
1. The source from which we obtain the open source product must be domestically located, and a significant commercial operation. E.g., Red Hat, or:
1b. We review every line of code ourselves for security purposes, and
2. The license, and our approach to the use of the licensed product, must be one already approved by legal.
Stock licenses such as BSD, Apache, GPL, LGPL are all approved according to specific use cases.
It's not a brazen error. The license cannot force you because you are not forced into using the product or the license. "Force" is the brazen error, a choice of words which is at best, inflammatory.
There are areas inside of the US in which prostitution is perfectly legal, friend. Go to town.
Joe.
You can't be wrong about this, because a great many people, men and women alike, are confused about what men want from their relationships. The answer to the basic question lurks in asking a guy why he shouldn't just use a prostitute regularly over having a girlfriend or a wife. It's because deep down we really do want to be loved, cared about, and cherished.
Joe.