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ReactOS is an attempt to build a full Windows clone including kernel and everything. Not just the Win32 API but a full-fledged OS that does not require an underlying OS like Wine on Linux.
It looked very promising to the point where several Windows applications and I was about to start playing with it. Then someone in the core developers group found some suspicious additions of code fragments that did not make sense at all at first but started to work later. These code fragments compile into machine code that is identical to fragments of leaked Windows source code. The developer smelled a rat, jumped the project and now the main guy is calling a halt.
No, they won't make petrol-based cars illegal. They simply move to close all gas stations or convert them to stations that supply other sources of sustainable energy.
Nothing, that's why they can build it so cheaply.. That's why they cut cost on all safety features, which brought the cost down to an incredible 1/20th of the price of a full falesafe design.
I tried to register a patent once but was scared off by the cost at the time. This was 1997 or so, and the Dutch patent organisation told me it would be about 20.000 Guilders (~$10.000) out of pocket with little chance of ever enforcing it. That was half a year salary for me, so I didn't file.
As someone else already mentioned, My idea is that the inventor can either produce or license his patented product, but that he can't sell the patent. That way the 'IP technology vultures' couldn't exist.
Simple solution.. Only the original inventor gets to benefit from having invented something. If the inventor (either private or company) decides to sell it's assets, then any patents become void and the knowledge public domain.
Where in the food chain does Microsoft expect to get these $25c from? For instance, 32MB USB Flash keys are produced millions at a time for about $10c each in Asia. Are they going to ask $25c for each manufacturer, causing the end-user price to more than double? Or will they charge the end-user?
Ohh puhleeease.. Have you realy been brain-washed enough by your government to see potential terrorist actions *everywhere*? We have been dragged into an Orwellian world with thousands of camera's and undercover agents to report everything about everyone. It's getting totally disgusting.
Here in Holland it gets so far that today they are taking down an entire forest in the name of 'safety' for Awacs planes that take-of and land just across the border in Germany. They could have lengthened the runway 300ft to get the same 'extra safety' but reality is they are afraid a potential terrorist may hide in the forrest to shoot an Awacs down. How incredibly sick!
Let's hide all rivers under a concrete shield. Terrorists may try to pollute them upstream and make the water undrinkable... Let's forbid air travel entirely, a terrorist may slip through security and turn the plane into a bomb.
Instead of seeing terrorists everywhere and trying to avoid every possible 'attack', deal with the reasons for people to turn into terrorists.
Although they appear to provide 'free' energy, in reality today's solar cells cost more energy to produce then they generate in their entire lifespan. So it's not an option. Negative return on investment.
I was amazed this week when a friend asked me to look at his system. He couldn't get his wireless card to work. When he booted the system it turned out to be an AMD K6-400 with only 80MB RAM. And he had XP Pro SP2 on it! It was sluggish, but we did get the wireless card to work and were able to browse the internet to some point. No, it probably won't run MS Office 12, but still I was shocked to see it work as well as it did.
Not so much because these systems can be broken, but because it's yet another way to criminalise what you have the right for to do today. This combined with illegal evesdropping, data retention laws and other BS makes for the perfect toolset to turn each and every one of us into criminals.
I had such an experience with a company I used to work for. They had a filter policy on the firewall. I was researching a problem with a SCSI host adapter under Linux. When I tried viewing the source code on-line I was blocked from doing so. The file was for an Adaptec SCSI adapter, filename "drivers/scsi/AIC7xxx.c"...
Although you are absolutely right that they can find all the pervs in a city block, they will most likely find that *all* males with an internet connection in *all* city blocks would then qualify as a perv. The problem is that most communities are hypocrits about this and go "Ohh, Noooo, What a shame!" towards anyone who is publicly caught watching pr0n.
Not for slander, but because this case has set a precedent that allows the music industry to trample on privacy and retrieve full contact information for anyone who they think *might* have done something that *could* be a violation of a law.
Brain (or Brein in Dutch) is a government-appointed foundation which acts as the 'watchdog' of the Dutch entertainment industry. Unfortunately they get way too much power and act like the Gestapo. Paying Brein is like paying off the mafia for protection money.
Just what we needed. The Dutch music industry is thrilled with this verdict. They will use it to go after each and every P2P user, blogger and industry critic they can find. As if 'Brein' doesnt' have enough extortion power already 8-(((
Having a kernel API for drivers allows developers to stay away from the mainstream kernel. This will enhance the stability of the kernel in general and also allow hardware vendors to support Linux with less effort.
With this technology your are not allowed to have any *memory* of any broadcasted event. Please stay home tonight, someone will stop by to erase *your* memory too..
This has been done before, and even today you can buy adapters to get next-generation CPU's working on older motherboards. However, most of these hybrids have to make trade-offs that do not benefit the end-user. It would benefit ECS for economy of scale, but end-users would always be stuck with proprietary expansion modules that may or may not be available anymore by the time they want to change CPU.
IMO you're better off selecting the mobo+CPU that fits your needs today, and by the time you need to upgrade just select a new mobo+CPU du jour..
Apple has just decided to switch to Intel. They are known to pick the underdog technologies in the industry. Power 5 is about to become mainstream, and Intel will become underdog, that's obvious.
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Flying pigs have been spotted over Montana.
ReactOS is an attempt to build a full Windows clone including kernel and everything. Not just the Win32 API but a full-fledged OS that does not require an underlying OS like Wine on Linux.
It looked very promising to the point where several Windows applications and I was about to start playing with it. Then someone in the core developers group found some suspicious additions of code fragments that did not make sense at all at first but started to work later. These code fragments compile into machine code that is identical to fragments of leaked Windows source code. The developer smelled a rat, jumped the project and now the main guy is calling a halt.
No, they won't make petrol-based cars illegal. They simply move to close all gas stations or convert them to stations that supply other sources of sustainable energy.
Nothing, that's why they can build it so cheaply.. That's why they cut cost on all safety features, which brought the cost down to an incredible 1/20th of the price of a full falesafe design.
I tried to register a patent once but was scared off by the cost at the time. This was 1997 or so, and the Dutch patent organisation told me it would be about 20.000 Guilders (~$10.000) out of pocket with little chance of ever enforcing it. That was half a year salary for me, so I didn't file.
As someone else already mentioned, My idea is that the inventor can either produce or license his patented product, but that he can't sell the patent. That way the 'IP technology vultures' couldn't exist.
Simple solution.. Only the original inventor gets to benefit from having invented something. If the inventor (either private or company) decides to sell it's assets, then any patents become void and the knowledge public domain.
Where in the food chain does Microsoft expect to get these $25c from? For instance, 32MB USB Flash keys are produced millions at a time for about $10c each in Asia. Are they going to ask $25c for each manufacturer, causing the end-user price to more than double? Or will they charge the end-user?
Ohh puhleeease.. Have you realy been brain-washed enough by your government to see potential terrorist actions *everywhere*? We have been dragged into an Orwellian world with thousands of camera's and undercover agents to report everything about everyone. It's getting totally disgusting.
Here in Holland it gets so far that today they are taking down an entire forest in the name of 'safety' for Awacs planes that take-of and land just across the border in Germany. They could have lengthened the runway 300ft to get the same 'extra safety' but reality is they are afraid a potential terrorist may hide in the forrest to shoot an Awacs down. How incredibly sick!
Let's hide all rivers under a concrete shield. Terrorists may try to pollute them upstream and make the water undrinkable... Let's forbid air travel entirely, a terrorist may slip through security and turn the plane into a bomb.
Instead of seeing terrorists everywhere and trying to avoid every possible 'attack', deal with the reasons for people to turn into terrorists.
Although they appear to provide 'free' energy, in reality today's solar cells cost more energy to produce then they generate in their entire lifespan. So it's not an option. Negative return on investment.
I was amazed this week when a friend asked me to look at his system. He couldn't get his wireless card to work. When he booted the system it turned out to be an AMD K6-400 with only 80MB RAM. And he had XP Pro SP2 on it! It was sluggish, but we did get the wireless card to work and were able to browse the internet to some point. No, it probably won't run MS Office 12, but still I was shocked to see it work as well as it did.
Not so much because these systems can be broken, but because it's yet another way to criminalise what you have the right for to do today. This combined with illegal evesdropping, data retention laws and other BS makes for the perfect toolset to turn each and every one of us into criminals.
I had such an experience with a company I used to work for. They had a filter policy on the firewall. I was researching a problem with a SCSI host adapter under Linux. When I tried viewing the source code on-line I was blocked from doing so. The file was for an Adaptec SCSI adapter, filename "drivers/scsi/AIC7xxx.c" ...
Although you are absolutely right that they can find all the pervs in a city block, they will most likely find that *all* males with an internet connection in *all* city blocks would then qualify as a perv. The problem is that most communities are hypocrits about this and go "Ohh, Noooo, What a shame!" towards anyone who is publicly caught watching pr0n.
Yes, there will be a reduction in taxes. Unfortunately the politicians always have a way to translate a reduction into "less increase"..
Not for slander, but because this case has set a precedent that allows the music industry to trample on privacy and retrieve full contact information for anyone who they think *might* have done something that *could* be a violation of a law.
Brain (or Brein in Dutch) is a government-appointed foundation which acts as the 'watchdog' of the Dutch entertainment industry. Unfortunately they get way too much power and act like the Gestapo. Paying Brein is like paying off the mafia for protection money.
Just what we needed. The Dutch music industry is thrilled with this verdict. They will use it to go after each and every P2P user, blogger and industry critic they can find. As if 'Brein' doesnt' have enough extortion power already 8-(((
So, can you name *one* company that will favor stability over time-to-market??
Having a kernel API for drivers allows developers to stay away from the mainstream kernel. This will enhance the stability of the kernel in general and also allow hardware vendors to support Linux with less effort.
With this technology your are not allowed to have any *memory* of any broadcasted event. Please stay home tonight, someone will stop by to erase *your* memory too..
This is what happens when they *do* vote. Where do you think the bumper sticker with the text "Don't blame me, I voted for the majority" came from...
Have you talked to both of them??
This has been done before, and even today you can buy adapters to get next-generation CPU's working on older motherboards. However, most of these hybrids have to make trade-offs that do not benefit the end-user. It would benefit ECS for economy of scale, but end-users would always be stuck with proprietary expansion modules that may or may not be available anymore by the time they want to change CPU.
IMO you're better off selecting the mobo+CPU that fits your needs today, and by the time you need to upgrade just select a new mobo+CPU du jour..
.. that Dark Doesn't Matter??
Apple has just decided to switch to Intel. They are known to pick the underdog technologies in the industry. Power 5 is about to become mainstream, and Intel will become underdog, that's obvious.