I beleive the exact code they cited as stolen was:
return 0;
Bastards!
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I'm a private pilot and I appreciate the fact that barring a mechanical meltdown with the engine, it will keep running if fed with fuel. I'd like some high-tech in my aircraft too, but it comes at a price. Take a look at this panel:
It's a very nice aircraft with all the extras, and it costs $350,000+ And it has magnetos on the engine. Go figure.
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A GA airplane has one alternator and a small battery. You can have any number of faults with the electrical system: failed alternator, broken alternator belt, short in system. Commercial and military aircraft will have multiple redundancies to cover this: multiple power sources with seperate electrical systems.The problem for GA is weight and complexity (==cost).
The easiest way around this is a non-electronic engine. Simple, proven and light weight considering the alternatives. Besides, when was the last time your car was struck by lightning?
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1. General Aviation engines are air-cooled because they must operate in a wide range of temperatures. You may descend from 15,000 feet at -50F to 120F on the ground. I don't think there is an air-cooled wenkel.
2. Aircraft engines must operate without electricity. They use magnetos instead of distributor/electronic ignition. This is a safety/reliability feature. How much performance would your car engine put out with all mechanical ignition?
3. It is very difficult/time consuming to get an engine certified by the FAA.
4. The aircraft market is very small compared to cars. Shipping 50 airplanes would be considered a good year for many manufactures. Comibine this with #3 and you see why no one has done it.
>How long did it take you to get someone out there to hook it up after you ordered it?
I live in Las Vegas where it isn't available yet. Worst part is that Sprint owns the FCC license for MMDS in my area so I'm screwed. Well not exactly screwed. I have a cable modem and DSL is available and Ricochet2 (128Kbps) is "comming soon" to LV.
Sprintbroadband already offers service in Phoenix and Tuscon. $40/month for 1 Mbps bi-directional. The technology is called MMDS (multichannel multipoint distribution service) and it should work up to ~38 miles using a "pizza box" sized onnidirectional antenna. Very cool. Wish they offered it in Las Vegas.
Reading all of this crap about Napster/Gnutella this and copyright that I been playing a game to determine if I'm a crook or not [it depends on who you ask]. Play and see how you score!
You just downloaded the latest Metallica song from Napster [or where ever]. Are you a thief?
1. You already own that very song on CD.
2. You have a similar song [same basic words/music but difference performance].
3. The song was recorded from a live performance which you attended.
4. Same as #3 but you didn't attend the live performance.
5. The song is a cover of a KISS song which you own [you own KISS's performance of that song on one of KISS's CDs].
(5 1/2. You don't own the KISS CD. Who did you just rip off?)
6. The song consists of Mozart's music redone with electric guitars and Lars on drums. [ie 1/2 copyright, 1/2 public domain]
7. The song on Napster was captured by someone who recorded it off the radio via analog audio tape. [time shift]
8. Same as #7 but this time they captured the song from Pay-Per-View playing Mission Impossible 4 via HDTV [ie. digitally perfect recording from a paid cable channel] [can you time shift a rental? Can you shift it outside the rental period?]
9. Same as #8 but they waited until it 2009 and MI4 was on broadcast TV [digitally perfect again].
10. The song was part of charity event to raise money for homeless RIAA exec's. The song was played on the radio but it included a 10 second preamble that was essentially a shrink-wrap license agreement about listening to the rest of the song. You accidently agreed to the contract by hearing it.
So how did you score? If you'd figured this game out already you'd know that you lost and that you are a criminal. Bastard. Next time you will realize that it isn't a good idea to make the consumer the one who has to figure out if it's legal.
"We're kind of early in the process, which is a benefit with something like this,"
Early in the process is catching the problem during the design or testing phase. Shipping something out and having your customers tell you it is broken is The Wrong Thing.
Granted, this is better behavior than Sun but it doesn't make it the right way to do things.
The ultimate goal of any software developer should be to put themselves out of business. Ideally, a program should do what it set out to do, be as fast & small as it can be, and be bug-free. Once this is done you are out of business, that program is done and you move on. In reality there will always be some sort of maintenance work: a new bug, a new port, some small new feature - but substantially the program is done. I'd say vi is substantially done - and I love vi.
This is the same goal I have for medical doctors - stamp out disease and your pretty much out of business (except for broken bones, car accidents, etc.) This is a good thing. This is ideal.
Free software programmers are this way (I think). Create a program. Do it well. Move on. The commercial programmer, however, is a different beast. He doesn't want to be *done* with a program. He doesn't want to be out of business. He want to add some new features and sell me an upgrade (and change the file format so I have to buy it). He's the type that would withhold the cure for the flu to protect the inoculation business. He is the Mac programmer described in the MacOpinion article. Is he making it *easier* for the user by adding features and changing things around? I don't think he is doing his customers a service at all.
I want a credit card with a $3 millon limit! I'd create a fake identity, beam myself a bunch of cash, disappear to some tropical island and "pleasure code" for the rest of my life.
Company X writes a program that works perfectly according to the OS's APIs but the Customer uses a video card from Comany Y that doesn't work properly when used in a motherboard from yet another company. The bottom line is Company X's software doesn't work in THIS configuration but works fine in other systems.
Who would get the blame? The Program's developer/distributor who didn't do enough testing? The OS maker for "certifying" devices that don't work properly? The video card or mother board maker for not adhering to specs?
Computer Associates (Cheyenne) does have an ARCserve Linux agent available that lets you backup a Linux box to a Netware (or NT?) server. I use it at work to backup our web server using ARCserve on Netware. It saved me having to buy a another tape drive just for Linux and as a bonus it's available for free on their FTP site.
Another example of how Linux can integrate with existing Netware/NT services.
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I beleive the exact code they cited as stolen was:
return 0;
Bastards!
I'm a private pilot and I appreciate the fact that barring a mechanical meltdown with the engine, it will keep running if fed with fuel. I'd like some high-tech in my aircraft too, but it comes at a price. Take a look at this panel:
Cirrus
It's a very nice aircraft with all the extras, and it costs $350,000+ And it has magnetos on the engine. Go figure.
A GA airplane has one alternator and a small battery. You can have any number of faults with the electrical system: failed alternator, broken alternator belt, short in system. Commercial and military aircraft will have multiple redundancies to cover this: multiple power sources with seperate electrical systems.The problem for GA is weight and complexity (==cost).
The easiest way around this is a non-electronic engine. Simple, proven and light weight considering the alternatives. Besides, when was the last time your car was struck by lightning?
1. General Aviation engines are air-cooled because they must operate in a wide range of temperatures. You may descend from 15,000 feet at -50F to 120F on the ground. I don't think there is an air-cooled wenkel.
2. Aircraft engines must operate without electricity. They use magnetos instead of distributor/electronic ignition. This is a safety/reliability feature. How much performance would your car engine put out with all mechanical ignition?
3. It is very difficult/time consuming to get an engine certified by the FAA.
4. The aircraft market is very small compared to cars. Shipping 50 airplanes would be considered a good year for many manufactures. Comibine this with #3 and you see why no one has done it.
>How long did it take you to get someone out there to hook it up after you ordered it?
I live in Las Vegas where it isn't available yet. Worst part is that Sprint owns the FCC license for MMDS in my area so I'm screwed. Well not exactly screwed. I have a cable modem and DSL is available and Ricochet2 (128Kbps) is "comming soon" to LV.
Sprintbroadband already offers service in Phoenix and Tuscon. $40/month for 1 Mbps bi-directional. The technology is called MMDS (multichannel multipoint distribution service) and it should work up to ~38 miles using a "pizza box" sized onnidirectional antenna. Very cool. Wish they offered it in Las Vegas.
Reading all of this crap about Napster/Gnutella this and copyright that I been playing a game to determine if I'm a crook or not [it depends on who you ask]. Play and see how you score!
You just downloaded the latest Metallica song from Napster [or where ever]. Are you a thief?
1. You already own that very song on CD.
2. You have a similar song [same basic words/music but difference performance].
3. The song was recorded from a live performance which you attended.
4. Same as #3 but you didn't attend the live performance.
5. The song is a cover of a KISS song which you own [you own KISS's performance of that song on one of KISS's CDs].
(5 1/2. You don't own the KISS CD. Who did you just rip off?)
6. The song consists of Mozart's music redone with electric guitars and Lars on drums. [ie 1/2 copyright, 1/2 public domain]
7. The song on Napster was captured by someone who recorded it off the radio via analog audio tape. [time shift]
8. Same as #7 but this time they captured the song from Pay-Per-View playing Mission Impossible 4 via HDTV [ie. digitally perfect recording from a paid cable channel] [can you time shift a rental? Can you shift it outside the rental period?]
9. Same as #8 but they waited until it 2009 and MI4 was on broadcast TV [digitally perfect again].
10. The song was part of charity event to raise money for homeless RIAA exec's. The song was played on the radio but it included a 10 second preamble that was essentially a shrink-wrap license agreement about listening to the rest of the song. You accidently agreed to the contract by hearing it.
So how did you score? If you'd figured this game out already you'd know that you lost and that you are a criminal. Bastard. Next time you will realize that it isn't a good idea to make the consumer the one who has to figure out if it's legal.
What crap. Like the guy in the article:
"We're kind of early in the process, which is a benefit with something like this,"
Early in the process is catching the problem during the design or testing phase. Shipping something out and having your customers tell you it is broken is The Wrong Thing.
Granted, this is better behavior than Sun but it doesn't make it the right way to do things.
The ultimate goal of any software developer should be to put themselves out of business. Ideally, a program should do what it set out to do, be as fast & small as it can be, and be bug-free. Once this is done you are out of business, that program is done and you move on. In reality there will always be some sort of maintenance work: a new bug, a new port, some small new feature - but substantially the program is done. I'd say vi is substantially done - and I love vi.
This is the same goal I have for medical doctors - stamp out disease and your pretty much out of business (except for broken bones, car accidents, etc.) This is a good thing. This is ideal.
Free software programmers are this way (I think). Create a program. Do it well. Move on. The commercial programmer, however, is a different beast. He doesn't want to be *done* with a program. He doesn't want to be out of business. He want to add some new features and sell me an upgrade (and change the file format so I have to buy it). He's the type that would withhold the cure for the flu to protect the inoculation business. He is the Mac programmer described in the MacOpinion article. Is he making it *easier* for the user by adding features and changing things around? I don't think he is doing his customers a service at all.
I want a credit card with a $3 millon limit! I'd create a fake identity, beam myself a bunch of cash, disappear to some tropical island and "pleasure code" for the rest of my life.
Company X writes a program that works perfectly according to the OS's APIs but the Customer uses a video card from Comany Y that doesn't work properly when used in a motherboard from yet another company. The bottom line is Company X's software doesn't work in THIS configuration but works fine in other systems.
Who would get the blame? The Program's developer/distributor who didn't do enough testing? The OS maker for "certifying" devices that don't work properly? The video card or mother board maker for not adhering to specs?
Computer Associates (Cheyenne) does have an ARCserve Linux agent available that lets you backup a Linux box to a Netware (or NT?) server. I use it at work to backup our web server using ARCserve on Netware. It saved me having to buy a another tape drive just for Linux and as a bonus it's available for free on their FTP site.
Another example of how Linux can integrate with existing Netware/NT services.