Most agnostics don't really following the Huxleyen definitions; mostly they follow the OP's working definition... "don't believe, don't want an argument"... as opposed to the atheist "don't believe, that belief is too intellectually silly to ever consider".
It was out of control, but blaming the victim for lashing out is itself a bad behavior. If you deliberately jabbed my foot with jack boots, would it be wrong or right to punch you in the face? Answer: it would be justified, but probably not productive.
The organization that he describes, with prayers sessions in its management meetings, IS BREAKING THE LAW. His rights were violated. They stepped on his feet with jack boots.
The productive thing for him to have done would be to sue, and make them FUCKING STOP DOING THAT.
They already are drafting, you just don't hear about it. I think cyberwar activities are closer to $100B at this point, including extensive offensive capability (although admittedly, this is a fraction of the above).
Wrong-o. Huge amounts of stuff is unclassified, but considered to be stuff we don't want our adversaries to have. It's a cost decision. Classified networks and contractor relationships with them are enormously expensive. There's a lot of valuable information and IP in unclassified space, and that's what the Chinese want.
You're an AC so prolly won't see this response, but Herpes infection is endemic. I believe that 90% of all adults are infected with the virus that causes Herpes. I know this is confusing, because of the confusion with genital herpes, which can be caused by at least two variants of the Herpes virus.
True; I was merely clarifying that if he does NOT own the rights to the software, "GPL'ing" it does less than nothing. Keep in mind that there are those that really do think that once something goes out to the public under an official looking license that it is irreversible. It's reversible, believe you me.
The average customer doesn't know what a byte is, so they probably don't know what MB/s is, not really. The average customer updates their computer when their internet is slow.
He can only get it GPL'd if it is A) his to begin with, or B) he gets a lawful agent of the university to authorize him to do so. If he, acting alone, merely applies a GPL label to it, this will do nothing, because he is not acting with legal capacity to surrender the rights in the first place. Just FYI.
Second if you haven't signed a contract that gives your intellectual property / inventions / authorship / works to the University then you own it, plain and simple.
You are wrong about this. In most states in the United States, and I should imagine many other countries, you do not own the copyright for the things that you are paid by your employer to create. This falls under a concept called "work for hire". No specific terms need be written in to your work contract for the employer to own the copyrighted material, it is the default.
Check out http://www.fusionio.com./ You can buy something like Micron's future product today from them, and it's available today. Albeit of course there is the little matter of price.
As another poster pointed out, the tender was not refused. It was, however, increased for showing deliberate disrespect to the court. Or so the story goes.
It doesn't require a prosecution. If the judge gets irritated enough regarding their civil contempt, he can jail them summarily until they comply. I think, however, that judges are often reluctant to do this.
I should imagine that there is a long list of well established procedures for handling contempt. While I think it's well within a judge's power to jail almost indefinitely for contempt until the contempt is remedied, I suspect that there are rules of jurisprudence that govern them otherwise to some degree.
The contempt charges can continue indefinitely by the way. They will have to reveal their code eventually or go bankrupt, and this still won't get them out of contempt. IOW, it's only a matter of time before they reveal, and they are being immensely stupid.
There is this story (urban legend?) that Larry Flint of Hustler fame was fined $10K per day for contempt once. He sent the fine in pennies. In response, the Judge said he liked pennies and would gladly accept $50K a day paid in pennies.
One should not baldly thwart the judge. Makes you wonder who their lawyers are.
End of 2010 at the very latest, and all 15K type drives are completely doomed. Go do a calculation on the rate of price change, purely on a $/GB basis, between flash and enterprise drives, take the current price points, and see when they intersect.
This is without taking into account the phenomenal pace at which flash is increasing in performance. For a glimpse of things to come, look here:
Some enthusiasts might pick such up... who knows? But I've seen, first hand, what's happening with power budgets in large data centers. With flash dropping in price the way it is, and improving in performance the rate it is, there is simply no way that a drive like that can be broadly deployed in the enterprise. SSD's will win. The trend curves alone show SSD's kicking 15K drives out of the market based on _price alone_ by mid 2011 at the "very most conservatively latest.
We've done a complete storage industry survey for Tier 2 and possible MAID systems that qualify as appliances. It is quite challenging to find the right confluence of capabilities.
With one prominent MAID vendor, the TCO saving for power and drive replacement was destroyed, simply enough, by their CAPEX. The TCO analysis, taking in all factors, including power, cooling costs, power and cooling provisioning, service charges, disk replacement fees, and so forth, said that it would be better to build a whole new data center and pay for the power than it would be to go with that vendor.
Flash $/GB is already lower than 15K 36GB 2.5" drives. $/IOPS is silly compared to 15K drives. Power and physical space are also wins on the SSD side, so this leaves only wear.
Only for MLC. MLC will not be seriously considered in an enterprise setting for a couple of years yet, although I of course have hope, and the last 12 months of progress has shown me that things are developing faster than simple projections would expect, because a commoditization phenomenon is in effect.
I work on an application that fills the drives up and only reads from them ever after, adding content predictably at the rate of.5PB a month. We are very power challenged, tape won't work, and are on a budget. Alas, only SATA works for us right now, but if you look at it, SSD would be idle at certain price point, eh?
SSD's will reach $/GB equity for enterprise disks within 2 years. They already beat them on $/IOPS, and will soon on $/MB/s.
A reasonable projection for SATA is 6-7 years. However, if you know technology, that's like talking about what's going to happen in a thousand years. One just cannot know. The cross-industry pressure is definitely going to incentivize the spinning media makers to work on areal density.
In spite of that, I feel pretty sure that SSD's are going to wipe out Tier 1 entirely. Tier 1 is an IOPS-centric thing. The real formula is something like $/IOPS/GB or some weighted mutation. When that hits, 15K drives are DEAD.
And I doubt very much you will EVER see a 20K drive. Power is something like the cube of the RPM. Such a drive would be dead on arrival.
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Most agnostics don't really following the Huxleyen definitions; mostly they follow the OP's working definition... "don't believe, don't want an argument"... as opposed to the atheist "don't believe, that belief is too intellectually silly to ever consider".
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It was out of control, but blaming the victim for lashing out is itself a bad behavior. If you deliberately jabbed my foot with jack boots, would it be wrong or right to punch you in the face? Answer: it would be justified, but probably not productive.
The organization that he describes, with prayers sessions in its management meetings, IS BREAKING THE LAW. His rights were violated. They stepped on his feet with jack boots.
The productive thing for him to have done would be to sue, and make them FUCKING STOP DOING THAT.
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You could have sued, and prevailed, for the prayer at the beginning of the management meetings. I'm not sure why you didn't...
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You were correct. I meant pandemic.
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They already are drafting, you just don't hear about it. I think cyberwar activities are closer to $100B at this point, including extensive offensive capability (although admittedly, this is a fraction of the above).
Wrong-o. Huge amounts of stuff is unclassified, but considered to be stuff we don't want our adversaries to have. It's a cost decision. Classified networks and contractor relationships with them are enormously expensive. There's a lot of valuable information and IP in unclassified space, and that's what the Chinese want.
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You're an AC so prolly won't see this response, but Herpes infection is endemic. I believe that 90% of all adults are infected with the virus that causes Herpes. I know this is confusing, because of the confusion with genital herpes, which can be caused by at least two variants of the Herpes virus.
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True; I was merely clarifying that if he does NOT own the rights to the software, "GPL'ing" it does less than nothing. Keep in mind that there are those that really do think that once something goes out to the public under an official looking license that it is irreversible. It's reversible, believe you me.
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Thank you for the clarification. :-)
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The average customer doesn't know what a byte is, so they probably don't know what MB/s is, not really. The average customer updates their computer when their internet is slow.
Just sayin' man.
He can only get it GPL'd if it is A) his to begin with, or B) he gets a lawful agent of the university to authorize him to do so. If he, acting alone, merely applies a GPL label to it, this will do nothing, because he is not acting with legal capacity to surrender the rights in the first place. Just FYI.
Second if you haven't signed a contract that gives your intellectual property / inventions / authorship / works to the University then you own it, plain and simple.
You are wrong about this. In most states in the United States, and I should imagine many other countries, you do not own the copyright for the things that you are paid by your employer to create. This falls under a concept called "work for hire". No specific terms need be written in to your work contract for the employer to own the copyrighted material, it is the default.
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Then maybe they should be sold as such.
It is, and you knew that when you bought it. Pretending, somehow, that you were innocently unaware of that fact is a total lie.
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Check out http://www.fusionio.com./ You can buy something like Micron's future product today from them, and it's available today. Albeit of course there is the little matter of price.
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The OP is somewhat loose on details, but he mentioned using free online accounts. I would assume the TOS was there...
Planning ahead of time to breach a contract, with malice aforethought, may not be as free of moral constraint as your letting on.
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Well, yes, however to be clear, it's not the CDDL that prohibits this, but rather the GPL.
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As another poster pointed out, the tender was not refused. It was, however, increased for showing deliberate disrespect to the court. Or so the story goes.
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It doesn't require a prosecution. If the judge gets irritated enough regarding their civil contempt, he can jail them summarily until they comply. I think, however, that judges are often reluctant to do this.
I should imagine that there is a long list of well established procedures for handling contempt. While I think it's well within a judge's power to jail almost indefinitely for contempt until the contempt is remedied, I suspect that there are rules of jurisprudence that govern them otherwise to some degree.
The contempt charges can continue indefinitely by the way. They will have to reveal their code eventually or go bankrupt, and this still won't get them out of contempt. IOW, it's only a matter of time before they reveal, and they are being immensely stupid.
There is this story (urban legend?) that Larry Flint of Hustler fame was fined $10K per day for contempt once. He sent the fine in pennies. In response, the Judge said he liked pennies and would gladly accept $50K a day paid in pennies.
One should not baldly thwart the judge. Makes you wonder who their lawyers are.
C//
End of 2010 at the very latest, and all 15K type drives are completely doomed. Go do a calculation on the rate of price change, purely on a $/GB basis, between flash and enterprise drives, take the current price points, and see when they intersect.
This is without taking into account the phenomenal pace at which flash is increasing in performance. For a glimpse of things to come, look here:
http://www.fusionio.com/
700MB/s sustained read, 600MB/s sustained write.
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Ironically, they are said to be "working" on one.
Some enthusiasts might pick such up... who knows? But I've seen, first hand, what's happening with power budgets in large data centers. With flash dropping in price the way it is, and improving in performance the rate it is, there is simply no way that a drive like that can be broadly deployed in the enterprise. SSD's will win. The trend curves alone show SSD's kicking 15K drives out of the market based on _price alone_ by mid 2011 at the "very most conservatively latest.
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Interesting things, interesting things, let's just say I'm quite sure. :-)
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We've done a complete storage industry survey for Tier 2 and possible MAID systems that qualify as appliances. It is quite challenging to find the right confluence of capabilities.
With one prominent MAID vendor, the TCO saving for power and drive replacement was destroyed, simply enough, by their CAPEX. The TCO analysis, taking in all factors, including power, cooling costs, power and cooling provisioning, service charges, disk replacement fees, and so forth, said that it would be better to build a whole new data center and pay for the power than it would be to go with that vendor.
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Flash $/GB is already lower than 15K 36GB 2.5" drives. $/IOPS is silly compared to 15K drives. Power and physical space are also wins on the SSD side, so this leaves only wear.
Only for MLC. MLC will not be seriously considered in an enterprise setting for a couple of years yet, although I of course have hope, and the last 12 months of progress has shown me that things are developing faster than simple projections would expect, because a commoditization phenomenon is in effect.
I work on an application that fills the drives up and only reads from them ever after, adding content predictably at the rate of .5PB a month. We are very power challenged, tape won't work, and are on a budget. Alas, only SATA works for us right now, but if you look at it, SSD would be idle at certain price point, eh?
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SSD's will reach $/GB equity for enterprise disks within 2 years. They already beat them on $/IOPS, and will soon on $/MB/s.
A reasonable projection for SATA is 6-7 years. However, if you know technology, that's like talking about what's going to happen in a thousand years. One just cannot know. The cross-industry pressure is definitely going to incentivize the spinning media makers to work on areal density.
In spite of that, I feel pretty sure that SSD's are going to wipe out Tier 1 entirely. Tier 1 is an IOPS-centric thing. The real formula is something like $/IOPS/GB or some weighted mutation. When that hits, 15K drives are DEAD.
And I doubt very much you will EVER see a 20K drive. Power is something like the cube of the RPM. Such a drive would be dead on arrival.
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