If they get this right, we'd effectively have a safe, inexhaustable source of clean energy. You can only wonder what the world would be like:
- All roads with an inductive loop and electric cars standard
- Pentium IX 100 Ghz combination processor/home heating system
- No more turning the lights out after you
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"[Microsoft] will determine with Ximian whether technical assistance would be appropriate" = we'll have a look and see if we need to screw you.
"testament to the openness and viability of the.NET platform." = we have a thousand lawyers and ten thousand programmers poised for attack. Resistance is futile.
"Microsoft will do everything that it can to ensure that Windows remains the best place to run Windows applications" = Microsoft will ensure Windows is the only platform you can run anything. Period.
Yes, exactly, "And if you can find Metallica's version of the Star Wars Imperial March on tape or CD anywhere, let me know and I'll buy it."
This is an important point. The record companies need a swift kick up the arse. Why can't we buy any (as in every record ever published) music we want, online, for a fair market price (considering the price of distribution is zero and the demand enormous)? Becuase the record companies think they can force us to pay more for what they want to shove down our throats. Well fuck them. If they won't come to the party, we should stand up for our rights as cosumers and ignore an anachronistic unjust law.
Looks like the P4 goes pretty much as fast as anything else unless they turn on the chip specific optimisations, but I don't think that will matter at all, since the average PC purchaser will look at the 2Ghz(ish) ratings and go "Ohmygod - must be weelly fast!" I'm suprised they didn't have a 40 stage pipeline and really get people excited.
I wonder if they'll consider on-board 802.11b when they hit 2.5Ghz?
It's interesting to see open source companies slug it out over money. And play dirty to boot. People seem to be shocked and horrified by this, being so opposite to the noble idea of open source. It is unseemly, but the fact is that everybody's got to make money, and some people want to make it from open source. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and even RMS (I think) said the "free" in free software refered to availablity not price. What MySQL AB is doing is using the rights that it didn't sign away under the GPL, it's trademarks and copyrights, to make money. These things enable them to sell comercial licences and do deals like the one that went sour. They have every right (legal and moral) to do this I hope they are sucessful in protecting them.
Just becasue someone gives away their code under the GPL doesn't mean it somehow becomes public property. Nor should it, even if people contribute. They've worked had to create what they have (code and company) and should enjoy the fruits of their labour. Becuase they are free and open with it doesn't mean anyone should take advantage of that.
This situation is very sad mostly becuase thousands of perfectly good dollars (or croner or whatever) will go to fat lawyers instead of paying programmers for code for everybody.
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If they get this right, we'd effectively have a safe, inexhaustable source of clean energy. You can only wonder what the world would be like:
- All roads with an inductive loop and electric cars standard
- Pentium IX 100 Ghz combination processor/home heating system
- No more turning the lights out after you
...of ringing help desk, which is to be insulted and made to feel like an idiot by some spotty youth.
Or does eLiza ask you if you've rebooted?
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"[Microsoft] will determine with Ximian whether technical assistance would be appropriate" = we'll have a look and see if we need to screw you.
.NET platform." = we have a thousand lawyers and ten thousand programmers poised for attack. Resistance is futile.
"testament to the openness and viability of the
"Microsoft will do everything that it can to ensure that Windows remains the best place to run Windows applications" = Microsoft will ensure Windows is the only platform you can run anything. Period.
Yes, exactly, "And if you can find Metallica's version of the Star Wars Imperial March on tape or CD anywhere, let me know and I'll buy it."
This is an important point. The record companies need a swift kick up the arse. Why can't we buy any (as in every record ever published) music we want, online, for a fair market price (considering the price of distribution is zero and the demand enormous)? Becuase the record companies think they can force us to pay more for what they want to shove down our throats. Well fuck them. If they won't come to the party, we should stand up for our rights as cosumers and ignore an anachronistic unjust law.
Looks like the P4 goes pretty much as fast as anything else unless they turn on the chip specific optimisations, but I don't think that will matter at all, since the average PC purchaser will look at the 2Ghz(ish) ratings and go "Ohmygod - must be weelly fast!" I'm suprised they didn't have a 40 stage pipeline and really get people excited.
I wonder if they'll consider on-board 802.11b when they hit 2.5Ghz?
It's interesting to see open source companies slug it out over money. And play dirty to boot. People seem to be shocked and horrified by this, being so opposite to the noble idea of open source. It is unseemly, but the fact is that everybody's got to make money, and some people want to make it from open source. Not that there's anything wrong with that, and even RMS (I think) said the "free" in free software refered to availablity not price. What MySQL AB is doing is using the rights that it didn't sign away under the GPL, it's trademarks and copyrights, to make money. These things enable them to sell comercial licences and do deals like the one that went sour. They have every right (legal and moral) to do this I hope they are sucessful in protecting them.
Just becasue someone gives away their code under the GPL doesn't mean it somehow becomes public property. Nor should it, even if people contribute. They've worked had to create what they have (code and company) and should enjoy the fruits of their labour. Becuase they are free and open with it doesn't mean anyone should take advantage of that.
This situation is very sad mostly becuase thousands of perfectly good dollars (or croner or whatever) will go to fat lawyers instead of paying programmers for code for everybody.