Perhaps they are just not getting wrapped up in the whole nonsense of everything. I mean, I think if somethings freely downloadable, its pretty safe to assume its ok to pass it on.
Sure you might get some clowns like SCO whinging and whining about laws etc. But the facts are:
1 people are even allowed to copy and distribute copyright material in most cases, noone cares about copying records and cds onto cassete tapes for friends. Noone worries about people recording tv shows onto vhs.
2 Copyright isnt even criminal law, its civil. The police dont actually care.
3 Fair use
4 Who cares if all the commercial artists go broke, they suck anyway, truely good artistic creations are done by those that love the art, not the $$$$.
5 Software is just a pattern of 0s and 1s. What company may be so cheeky to claim a certain pattern of 0s and 1s on MY hard drive.
6 All these laws only apply within countries anyway, this is the net, its above all that, information intends to be, and will be, free.
7 By even caring and considering all this license rubbish, you are just giving credibility to the SCOs of this world.
Just try to stay rational about everything and use common sense to decide whats right and wrong, and try not to get all wrapped up in legalses crap, lawyers really dont deserve to get taken so seriously!
Since we stopped waging wars, well since most countries stopped waging wars, governments have always needed some way of justifying themselves. In Europe, one of the biggest tools to do this is environmentalism. Its an industry, it creates jobs, it makes people scared, it gives the government a role in the same way wars used to, and still do in less civilised nations like America. In fact most of the ways European governments push for environmental protection actually make things worse for the environment, so dont start thinking they have noble goals. For example recycling:
Recycling uses huge amounts of energy, water, chemicals, and causes a great deal of pollution, mostly through shipping materials around to various processing centers. The chemicals used in cleaning recyclable bottles etc also cause pollution. The answer is actually quite simple. Landfills are still the most environmentally friendly method of disposing of most forms of waste. But it doesnt create as many jobs, and it doesnt require as much government control. Of course lower levels of consumerism and materialism, and a general distaste of excessive packaging on the part of the average human being would be even better, better for the environment at least, not so good for government jobs and big businesses. And lets face it, people seem addicted to brightly colored packaging.
Greenpeace also plays these games. The fact is the environment is in no where near as much danger as Greenpeace and other companys and governments claim, but it serves their financial interests to claim otherwise. Dont be tricked. This danish outfit is simply patting their sponsers on the back and spreading some "thanks for the cash" FUD. You only have to look where the money is coming from, if an outfit is sponsored by a government or a big business, they simply dont have credibility. If they are normal uni professor doing independant research, or a self employed scientist, or a hobbyist, then they have credibility. Simple formula really. So dont be tricked by the environmentalist wankers. Its all just FUD, a religion basically, for the 21st century. Preying on ignorance, spreading fear, and collecting the profits.
Nobody is being accurate by using such an antiquated unit as a calorie.
Nowdays most of the world has switched to Joules. Also, calories are rather "large", Usually amounts of energy in food can be measured in calories without needing the kilo multiplier.
Joules on the other hand are small, and almost always used with the kilo multiplier when measuring energy levels in food.
I suspect you were getting confused between calories and kilojoules.
Anyway using calories these days is about as silly as measuring distances in multiples of some old roman emperors foot length, and calling it "feet".
I cant believe Chong got 9 months in Jail for selling bongs! Is it really illegal in America to sell pipes and bongs?
Man you yanks are losing the plot big time... I am glad I am in Europe, but I would choose Chinas Human Rights over the fear, conservatism and ignorance of America any-day.
Gives me the creeps to see that such a fucked up country is now acting as the worlds policeman and enforcing its will on the rest of the world.
I think America should follow Libyas example and let UN inspectors in to inspect Americas WMD programs.
I am really fucking scared of America now, and its fucked up facist leader Bush. Its out of control and the world needs to band together to stop this tyranny and change the regime in America NOW! Before its too late.
I just want the source code, then I can make it better myself. Remember better is subjective, only I can make it better for me, but to do that it MUST be open source.
As a programmer, microsoft and windows are useless to me untill I have the source code.
I dont know what they hope to learn from linux, but the most important advantages linux has come directly from its open source philosophy.
If MS arent willing to adopt a free and open method of developing software, and release the source, without restrictions under the GPL, then I cant think what else they are trying to achieve by looking at linux.
Japanese of today dont even relate to the murderous imperial japanese army. I cant imagine any Japanese thinking "oh my god, im killing my own people". If a Japanese DID feel that way I would be suspicious, but could only see that happening if they were actually supporters of the imperial army.
Its like in Germany, Return to Wolfenstein is real popular (even though its banned, everyone bought their copys over the nearest border).
Germans dont think of themselves as Nazis playing Americans killing their own side!
They seem to just play it from the point of view of either side. Not really relating to any side in particular. I would be worried if they did!
Heh you redneck. Just as now more than ever, developing nations need overseas investment so they can afford to feed themselves, and the western world needs to slow its development down due to pollution and over-population.
Yeah fuck the africans eh, lets build another factory in a big smoky american city!
Oh thanks a lot, now all the friggen "christian" readers will be rushing for the logging and filtering software.
What can concerned kids do about their parents interest in dangerous superstitous cults like christianity?
Fucking christians are dying to drag their kids along to the local Priest to exorcise that "faggitness" out of them.
Fuck Im glad christians are a cult and not a race, that way we are allowed to say fuck them! The Romans were right to burn these dangerous motherfuckers.
Kids must install filtering software now! Parents can not be trusted to stay away from dangerous religous material such as christianity.
Parents dont tend to have the same levels of cynicism as a teenager and therefore should not be going unattended in the internet without a teenager present.
Heh canon. This is Star Wars, its a soap. Its romeo and juliet in space. If there were no explosions it would be a chick flick.
I have heard canon refer to true sci fi such as Star Trek. But Star Wars will always just be the mainstream watered down attempt at Star Trek. Star Wars never tried to build up a "canon" anywhere near as intricate as the Star Trek saga. Hell 5 movies of cheesy effects. Compare that to 10 movies and 6 tv series.
Also why are all the geeks whinging that their dvds wont be the original version. Hell they should be whinging about DVDs and their zones and bullshit.
Its like when I complained to Salmonella Dub that their Cd was copy protected. Their answer was, "buy the vinyl then".
Same story here geeks. Buy the VHS. The original Star Wars soap opera girls drama wasnt digital you know...
Or better yet, download it! Thats what I ended up doing with the Salmonella Dub album too, cos I didnt have a vinyl player.
Look all you have done is renamed something perfectly good to something longer and more stupider sounding.
Mebibytes does not sound silly and people do use it. Long megabytes? Yuck...
Computer scientists never intended for thier misuse of kilo, mega etc, to become a standard, it was always just a shorthand slang.
Hard drive manufacturers have got it right this time. Now that we have the new kibi, mebi etc, units, there is no excuse to falsley claim that kilo can be anything other than 1000x.
Oh thats nothing. I remember being a research assistant in my Computer Science department, I was in an office upstairs with some Postgrads, and the lecturer in charge of teaching all the networking classes, sent some undergrad up to get one of us to help him with a problem he was having.
He couldnt ftp a file between his windows laptop and his windows desktop, because he wasnt running a server on the desktop.
This was the lecturer in charge of networking! And his name is Ray Hunt of Canterbury University. This guy used to teach stuff like X.25 and Netware still, and this was in 1999/2000! He skimmed over TCP/IP though I will give him that...
Sad thing is, this guy was made professor, while all the ones that actually knew stuff seem to have been victims of the politics that run universitys now.
Unis are becoming more and more like the media, Weapons of Mass Instruction
Just to stay on topic RPN rules, and LISP rules too. Learning stuff which idiots find hard is good in general, and thats not being pretentious, sorry if you think it is, Uni is not for you.
Man, 100 years ago we learnt Greek and Latin in schools, now students are taking remedial English in university! (my not using apostrophes is deliberate before you pedants accuse me of hypocrisy)
Whats the agenda behind all this dumming down of following generations?
set LANG=C in the relevant startup scripts, environment variable setting scripts, and shell configuration files. Or grep to find where the actual LANG=de is, and change that bit.
How are you stuck? Just tell them to fuck off. It seems like we cant scratch our asses these days without someone telling us its "illegal". Im sick of this shit. We are being legislated into a new dark ages. Lawyers are in charge now, and unfortunatley what they do is destructive rather than constructive.
Businesses are simply not developing new stuff, for fear of getting sued by some patent-holder. They are only maintaining existing revenue streams.
Its a total mess. Aotearoa has recently set up another 5 year moratorium on genetic engineering, totally wasting millions of invested funds, along with a 5 year moratorium on building casinos.
Apparently people dont make their own minds about whether to gamble or not.
What we fucking need is a 5 year moratorium on Governments banning stuff. When was the last time the law was used to permit something rather than ban it? The last thing I can think of was the un-banning of sodomy in the 70s. Not exactly the most economically stimulating, job creating activity in the world.
We just got to stand up to bullshit laws. Infringe copyrights, use drugs if you want. Its wrong to let the lawyers and governments legislate us further and further backwards.
Yeah, it works with english and most other languages, but german is an exception because of its overuse of single-syllable stems, conjugation, and its excessivley rigid fixation with writing things how they are pronounced and vice versa.
Thats also why its stuck in the middle ages with useless contructs like gender and different forms of address, for lords and slaves.
It really needs to free itself up a bit more and evolve like english did. Remember english started out as german, but its flexibility permitted improvement.
I'm the only person assigned to the project, and my company doesn't have the time or hardware resources to maintain an LDAP server.
all I need to do is retrieve a contact's e-mail or phone number from our database.
If your requirements are so simple, and your company really doesnt have the hardware resources to implement this simple little thing, (which could easily go on an existing server) then I would suggest two things.
1) Using a paper based system, or just writing a little database and client app or something. (I know, you lose LDAP buzzword points here) or..
2) If your company is too large for such a solution, and REALLY doesnt have the hardware resources, then somethings real wrong. Look at folding up the company.
Our large corporation also has a project, a client has requested that we implement BubbleSort, QuickSort, ShellSort, and one other sort that we learnt in cl^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H err, discussed in a business meeting. The err, client also requests a 1 page analysis comparing and contrasting the differences between the searches.
Can code generation do this? It could really increase my chances of a good mar^H^H^H err profit yeah.
The major difference between the American constitution and the European basic laws, is that the Constitution is a law restricting the activities that the Government could otherwise perform against its citizens. In Europe, its just another layer of law for the citizens. In Germany for example, the Grundgesetz specifies certain rights that people have, such as freedom of speech. But it specifies these rights, not to say that the government may NOT infringe on these rights, but as a starting base for what rights the Government CAN infringe on. For example later on in the Grundgesetz itself it yanks away the right to free speech, and prohibits speaking freely about holocaust denial, and expressing anti-democratic opinions.
I guess America got one thing right over Europe at least. But America owes Englands Common Law system for that. The rest of Europe is based on the more authoritarian Roman Law.
Well its a strange question to ask, normally one becomes a Kernel Developer, by having a need, usually unsupported hardware, and they write a driver for it.
I would consider myself a kernel developer at this stage, even before my driver is included in the mainstream kernel versions.
It sounds like you are at this stage already, so are you actually asking "How do I get a driver included in the kernel as distributed?". Well I think the answer to that is to keep submitting it to the maintainer of the relevant kernel. Things like revelance, and especially quality are important factors too.
For anyone at an earlier stage, perhaps "normal" programmers who need to learn how it all works in the kernel, I have (reccomend is too strong a word, as I have only read these 2 books on the topic) read 2 OReilly books.
It seems that if Sony can develop their graphics cards in-house, Microsoft should be large enough to do the same.
Its very little to do with size. Sony have had a long tradition of circuit design, they were one of the first licensees of the transistor, and that was back in the 40s I think. Microsoft have been writing software for a few years now, but their hardware experience is limited to mice and keyboards and only recently the x-box.
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Perhaps they are just not getting wrapped up in the whole nonsense of everything. I mean, I think if somethings freely downloadable, its pretty safe to assume its ok to pass it on.
Sure you might get some clowns like SCO whinging and whining about laws etc. But the facts are:
1 people are even allowed to copy and distribute copyright material in most cases, noone cares about copying records and cds onto cassete tapes for friends. Noone worries about people recording tv shows onto vhs.
2 Copyright isnt even criminal law, its civil. The police dont actually care.
3 Fair use
4 Who cares if all the commercial artists go broke, they suck anyway, truely good artistic creations are done by those that love the art, not the $$$$.
5 Software is just a pattern of 0s and 1s. What company may be so cheeky to claim a certain pattern of 0s and 1s on MY hard drive.
6 All these laws only apply within countries anyway, this is the net, its above all that, information intends to be, and will be, free.
7 By even caring and considering all this license rubbish, you are just giving credibility to the SCOs of this world.
Just try to stay rational about everything and use common sense to decide whats right and wrong, and try not to get all wrapped up in legalses crap, lawyers really dont deserve to get taken so seriously!
Since we stopped waging wars, well since most countries stopped waging wars, governments have always needed some way of justifying themselves. In Europe, one of the biggest tools to do this is environmentalism. Its an industry, it creates jobs, it makes people scared, it gives the government a role in the same way wars used to, and still do in less civilised nations like America. In fact most of the ways European governments push for environmental protection actually make things worse for the environment, so dont start thinking they have noble goals. For example recycling:
Recycling uses huge amounts of energy, water, chemicals, and causes a great deal of pollution, mostly through shipping materials around to various processing centers. The chemicals used in cleaning recyclable bottles etc also cause pollution. The answer is actually quite simple. Landfills are still the most environmentally friendly method of disposing of most forms of waste. But it doesnt create as many jobs, and it doesnt require as much government control. Of course lower levels of consumerism and materialism, and a general distaste of excessive packaging on the part of the average human being would be even better, better for the environment at least, not so good for government jobs and big businesses. And lets face it, people seem addicted to brightly colored packaging.
Greenpeace also plays these games. The fact is the environment is in no where near as much danger as Greenpeace and other companys and governments claim, but it serves their financial interests to claim otherwise. Dont be tricked. This danish outfit is simply patting their sponsers on the back and spreading some "thanks for the cash" FUD. You only have to look where the money is coming from, if an outfit is sponsored by a government or a big business, they simply dont have credibility. If they are normal uni professor doing independant research, or a self employed scientist, or a hobbyist, then they have credibility. Simple formula really. So dont be tricked by the environmentalist wankers. Its all just FUD, a religion basically, for the 21st century. Preying on ignorance, spreading fear, and collecting the profits.
Nobody is being accurate by using such an antiquated unit as a calorie.
Nowdays most of the world has switched to Joules. Also, calories are rather "large", Usually amounts of energy in food can be measured in calories without needing the kilo multiplier.
Joules on the other hand are small, and almost always used with the kilo multiplier when measuring energy levels in food.
I suspect you were getting confused between calories and kilojoules.
Anyway using calories these days is about as silly as measuring distances in multiples of some old roman emperors foot length, and calling it "feet".
I cant believe Chong got 9 months in Jail for selling bongs! Is it really illegal in America to sell pipes and bongs?
Man you yanks are losing the plot big time... I am glad I am in Europe, but I would choose Chinas Human Rights over the fear, conservatism and ignorance of America any-day.
Gives me the creeps to see that such a fucked up country is now acting as the worlds policeman and enforcing its will on the rest of the world.
I think America should follow Libyas example and let UN inspectors in to inspect Americas WMD programs.
I am really fucking scared of America now, and its fucked up facist leader Bush. Its out of control and the world needs to band together to stop this tyranny and change the regime in America NOW! Before its too late.
I just want the source code, then I can make it better myself. Remember better is subjective, only I can make it better for me, but to do that it MUST be open source.
As a programmer, microsoft and windows are useless to me untill I have the source code.
I dont know what they hope to learn from linux, but the most important advantages linux has come directly from its open source philosophy.
If MS arent willing to adopt a free and open method of developing software, and release the source, without restrictions under the GPL, then I cant think what else they are trying to achieve by looking at linux.
EU != Europe. One of the countries they are talking about isnt even in the EU, but it is most certainly in Europe.
Japanese of today dont even relate to the murderous imperial japanese army. I cant imagine any Japanese thinking "oh my god, im killing my own people". If a Japanese DID feel that way I would be suspicious, but could only see that happening if they were actually supporters of the imperial army.
Its like in Germany, Return to Wolfenstein is real popular (even though its banned, everyone bought their copys over the nearest border).
Germans dont think of themselves as Nazis playing Americans killing their own side!
They seem to just play it from the point of view of either side. Not really relating to any side in particular. I would be worried if they did!
Heh you redneck.
Just as now more than ever, developing nations need overseas investment so they can afford to feed themselves, and the western world needs to slow its development down due to pollution and over-population.
Yeah fuck the africans eh, lets build another factory in a big smoky american city!
This is rubbish. If someone has a south african mother, a australian father, and is born and raised in mexico.
What are they? Mexican of course.
I guess you think all the white australians are actually english eh? No they are australian.
The crap you are talking is usually only pulled out in defense of xenophoba and racism.
Well 8Gb is only 1GB, so no. I dont think thats overkill.
By the way memory is usually measured in Gibibytes, not Gigabits.
Oh thanks a lot, now all the friggen "christian" readers will be rushing for the logging and filtering software.
What can concerned kids do about their parents interest in dangerous superstitous cults like christianity?
Fucking christians are dying to drag their kids along to the local Priest to exorcise that "faggitness" out of them.
Fuck Im glad christians are a cult and not a race, that way we are allowed to say fuck them! The Romans were right to burn these dangerous motherfuckers.
Kids must install filtering software now! Parents can not be trusted to stay away from dangerous religous material such as christianity.
Parents dont tend to have the same levels of cynicism as a teenager and therefore should not be going unattended in the internet without a teenager present.
Heh canon. This is Star Wars, its a soap. Its romeo and juliet in space. If there were no explosions it would be a chick flick.
I have heard canon refer to true sci fi such as Star Trek. But Star Wars will always just be the mainstream watered down attempt at Star Trek. Star Wars never tried to build up a "canon" anywhere near as intricate as the Star Trek saga. Hell 5 movies of cheesy effects. Compare that to 10 movies and 6 tv series.
Also why are all the geeks whinging that their dvds wont be the original version. Hell they should be whinging about DVDs and their zones and bullshit.
Its like when I complained to Salmonella Dub that their Cd was copy protected. Their answer was, "buy the vinyl then".
Same story here geeks. Buy the VHS. The original Star Wars soap opera girls drama wasnt digital you know...
Or better yet, download it! Thats what I ended up doing with the Salmonella Dub album too, cos I didnt have a vinyl player.
Look all you have done is renamed something perfectly good to something longer and more stupider sounding.
Mebibytes does not sound silly and people do use it. Long megabytes? Yuck...
Computer scientists never intended for thier misuse of kilo, mega etc, to become a standard, it was always just a shorthand slang.
Hard drive manufacturers have got it right this time. Now that we have the new kibi, mebi etc, units, there is no excuse to falsley claim that kilo can be anything other than 1000x.
kilo = 1000x
kibi = 1024x
Problem solved, end of story.
Oh thats nothing. I remember being a research assistant in my Computer Science department, I was in an office upstairs with some Postgrads, and the lecturer in charge of teaching all the networking classes, sent some undergrad up to get one of us to help him with a problem he was having.
He couldnt ftp a file between his windows laptop and his windows desktop, because he wasnt running a server on the desktop.
This was the lecturer in charge of networking! And his name is Ray Hunt of Canterbury University. This guy used to teach stuff like X.25 and Netware still, and this was in 1999/2000! He skimmed over TCP/IP though I will give him that...
Sad thing is, this guy was made professor, while all the ones that actually knew stuff seem to have been victims of the politics that run universitys now.
Unis are becoming more and more like the media, Weapons of Mass Instruction
Just to stay on topic RPN rules, and LISP rules too. Learning stuff which idiots find hard is good in general, and thats not being pretentious, sorry if you think it is, Uni is not for you.
Man, 100 years ago we learnt Greek and Latin in schools, now students are taking remedial English in university! (my not using apostrophes is deliberate before you pedants accuse me of hypocrisy)
Whats the agenda behind all this dumming down of following generations?
I just downloaded the torrent and the startup screen still says 3.3BETA. And all the changelogs I can find online refer to 3.3pre.
The ISO i have is KNOPPIX_V3.3-2003-09-22-DE.iso
Is this the newest one an actual release? Still beta? Or did I get the wrong one?
Can anyone help me out?
Also is there anyway to find the version from a running knoppix? And is the changelog stored on the cd anywhere?
And which of the 2 hard drive installation methods is best? knoppix-installer or knx-hdinstall?
Cheers.
set LANG=C in the relevant startup scripts, environment variable setting scripts, and shell configuration files. Or grep to find where the actual LANG=de is, and change that bit.
Assuming your in the USA, don't you have a constitutional amendment permitting free speech? Doesnt your website come under that?
Sure, the alumni can whinge and spam and threaten too, thats their free speech.
I cant believe they tried to charge YOU $1000 and snake your code! They sound just like SCO.
You could consider charging them, to submit to their demands.
You seem to be in safe ground anyway as a website like that is solidly in free speech territory.
It is true however that its "unsanctioned, unofficial etc." But you can live with that right?
Good Luck, and keep us updated if they try any more stunts. I bet they cant take it past the threating stage.
How are you stuck? Just tell them to fuck off. It seems like we cant scratch our asses these days without someone telling us its "illegal". Im sick of this shit. We are being legislated into a new dark ages. Lawyers are in charge now, and unfortunatley what they do is destructive rather than constructive.
Businesses are simply not developing new stuff, for fear of getting sued by some patent-holder. They are only maintaining existing revenue streams.
Its a total mess. Aotearoa has recently set up another 5 year moratorium on genetic engineering, totally wasting millions of invested funds, along with a 5 year moratorium on building casinos.
Apparently people dont make their own minds about whether to gamble or not.
What we fucking need is a 5 year moratorium on Governments banning stuff. When was the last time the law was used to permit something rather than ban it? The last thing I can think of was the un-banning of sodomy in the 70s. Not exactly the most economically stimulating, job creating activity in the world.
We just got to stand up to bullshit laws. Infringe copyrights, use drugs if you want. Its wrong to let the lawyers and governments legislate us further and further backwards.
Yeah, it works with english and most other languages, but german is an exception because of its overuse of single-syllable stems, conjugation, and its excessivley rigid fixation with writing things how they are pronounced and vice versa.
Thats also why its stuck in the middle ages with useless contructs like gender and different forms of address, for lords and slaves.
It really needs to free itself up a bit more and evolve like english did. Remember english started out as german, but its flexibility permitted improvement.
I'm the only person assigned to the project, and my company doesn't have the time or hardware resources to maintain an LDAP server.
all I need to do is retrieve a contact's e-mail or phone number from our database.
If your requirements are so simple, and your company really doesnt have the hardware resources to implement this simple little thing, (which could easily go on an existing server) then I would suggest two things.
1) Using a paper based system, or just writing a little database and client app or something. (I know, you lose LDAP buzzword points here) or..
2) If your company is too large for such a solution, and REALLY doesnt have the hardware resources, then somethings real wrong. Look at folding up the company.
Our large corporation also has a project, a client has requested that we implement BubbleSort, QuickSort, ShellSort, and one other sort that we learnt in cl^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H err, discussed in a business meeting. The err, client also requests a 1 page analysis comparing and contrasting the differences between the searches.
Can code generation do this? It could really increase my chances of a good mar^H^H^H err profit yeah.
The major difference between the American constitution and the European basic laws, is that the Constitution is a law restricting the activities that the Government could otherwise perform against its citizens.
In Europe, its just another layer of law for the citizens.
In Germany for example, the Grundgesetz specifies certain rights that people have, such as freedom of speech. But it specifies these rights, not to say that the government may NOT infringe on these rights, but as a starting base for what rights the Government CAN infringe on. For example later on in the Grundgesetz itself it yanks away the right to free speech, and prohibits speaking freely about holocaust denial, and expressing anti-democratic opinions.
I guess America got one thing right over Europe at least. But America owes Englands Common Law system for that. The rest of Europe is based on the more authoritarian Roman Law.
I would consider myself a kernel developer at this stage, even before my driver is included in the mainstream kernel versions.
It sounds like you are at this stage already, so are you actually asking "How do I get a driver included in the kernel as distributed?". Well I think the answer to that is to keep submitting it to the maintainer of the relevant kernel. Things like revelance, and especially quality are important factors too.
For anyone at an earlier stage, perhaps "normal" programmers who need to learn how it all works in the kernel, I have (reccomend is too strong a word, as I have only read these 2 books on the topic) read 2 OReilly books.
Understanding the Linux Kernel, 2nd Edition and Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition
Of course you should also be on the linux kernel mailing list
And the rest is dependant on exactly you want to add to the kernel.
Its very little to do with size. Sony have had a long tradition of circuit design, they were one of the first licensees of the transistor, and that was back in the 40s I think. Microsoft have been writing software for a few years now, but their hardware experience is limited to mice and keyboards and only recently the x-box.
Heh, so your wife is a materialistic whore that prefers lavish expenditure to respecting you.
Maybe your doing something wrong in bed man.
Send her to me for a weekend, and after that it wont be diamonds shes begging for.