Price fixing? Collusion? I don't understand what you mean. Price fixing doesn't really apply to this analogy... I mean, the fictitious company simply gives away its software. There's no reason a real corporation couldn't do that; it just wouldn't be very cost effective. And collusion doesn't even come into it. You paint the imagined GPL corporation as illegal, but it's more a bad business than anything. That is, it isn't a very good way to make money.
But, SOAP itself doesn't neccessarily have much to do with what you're talking about. All it is is a way to do RPC's through XML. While you could call it an "enabling technology" to application subscription, it can be easily used for benevolant purposes as well. SOAP is a useful little bugger.
The point is that the non-sterile male moths can't mate because there's too much comptetition from the sterile ones. If enough sterile moths are put into the population at the right time, it will essentially vanish within a generation.
The critical disadvantage of all tape media is that they aren't random access. Now, that may not be incredibly important when watching a movie, but it's certainly nice to have.
Also, observe DVD's acceptance in both the pc and the home video markets - that's hard to do with a sequential access medium.
I once worked at a place that migrated from Clearcase to Perforce because the former was just too damned expensive. I did lots of work with perforce, and I found it to be lightweight and easy to understand.... no filesystem access, but you get fancy merging like clearcase. Plus, there's a client for pretty much any platform you can think of. But you'll still need a dedicated admin for any installation of size.
This seems the perfect time to mention the Dune board game, by Avalon Hill, circa 1979. I've played it a few times with some geeked out friends of mine, and it's a WHOLE lot of fun. Parker brothers made one too, but that was in response to the movie... but I doubt it's as much fun.
info here
(you can get it on ebay... they don't make it anymore.)
I was recently fortunate enough to get to work with some code that was written by some other company. The main problem that I had was that they didn't code with maintainability or expandibility in mind, but rather towards a particular solution. While it did rather well for its intended purpose, it was utterly miserable to try and get it to work with anything else. I ended up rewriting the whole damn thing.
But if you want to take the analogy to it's extremes (usually not a good idea, and almost never actually relevant, but oh well) then a gun is just a metal tube that accelerates slugs of lead to high velocities. What I think is really needed is a clear line between the legality of an action and the the tool that facilitates that action.
I have a hard time beliving this "entry point" stuff. It seems to me that most linux users have used windows at one time or another, and or using linux INSTEAD of windows. I know I do. Why don't they just sell the silly thing, just like any other software product? Is it really neccessary to levarage the dominance of windows with every corporate move?
There's been an effort to create an open inventor clone, called coin3d. Think along the lines of Mesa - same api, but unofficial. But what happens to them now? Or perhaps more importantly, what happens to the programming contest the parent company is sponsering to get people to use the toolkit? I want prizes, damnit!
I had a similar problem for awhile. I would be good to go until the sound effects got intense, at which point the game (and thus the x server) would hang with the standard irq conflict sound. The wierd part is that they were on different irqs... I checked a great many times. Anyhow, problem was solved by getting rid of the crappy ess1868 that was in there and replacing it with an Ensoniq Something.
Hope this helps, though it probably won't.:)
Price these suckers at $150 per card, and all other graphics card companies will go out of business.
That's actually quite an interesting point. Suppose that nvidia had enough money in the bank that they could afford to do that? It certainly wouldn't be profitable, but they would gain customers like nothing else, and nobody else could even come CLOSe to competing. And after they're all gone, back to business as usual. With a convenient corner on the graphics market.
1) C# may be strongly (highly?) typed, but it seems to me that that is rather negated by the absence of anything resembling templates - how do you handle basic collections? Unless a reference has a type implicitly associated with it, you throw away alot of your advantages when you start to use these untyped data structures.
2) I've not the slightest idea what early binding and late binding mean, but there must be SOME advantage to late binding if it's used at all...
All the talk I'm hearing seems to be about securing music, such that only the buyer may listen to it. I think it's well accepted that this is a misguided attempt, as it simply makes things more difficult.
BUT... Suppose they took this watermarking technology they say they have an use it for just that - watermarking. When you buy a track from the record company, it would be invisibly watermarked with your tracking information - but keep it in mp3. Simply watermark the signal. While copying is easily possible, it discourages the average joe from posting his song to the net, as it can be tracked back to him. It also would still allow trading between friends. Fair use or not, that's another story...
I don't know whether this can be done with audio, though they seem to be claiming it can. It's been done with images for quite some time now. (Digimarc and the like)
Yes, there are many holes in this idea, but it has a chance of being accepted by the community. (vs. SDMI... blech)
I use lilo myself, but does anybody know of some alternative boot loaders? Awhile ago I used a pretty slick commercial one that was configurable at boot time and had an n-curses style menu... but it was rather commercial. I've seen some opensourced ones that do similar things, but I haven't the guts to blow away my MBR just like that.:) Any recommendations?
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Price fixing? Collusion? I don't understand what you mean. Price fixing doesn't really apply to this analogy... I mean, the fictitious company simply gives away its software. There's no reason a real corporation couldn't do that; it just wouldn't be very cost effective. And collusion doesn't even come into it. You paint the imagined GPL corporation as illegal, but it's more a bad business than anything. That is, it isn't a very good way to make money.
But, SOAP itself doesn't neccessarily have much to do with what you're talking about. All it is is a way to do RPC's through XML. While you could call it an "enabling technology" to application subscription, it can be easily used for benevolant purposes as well. SOAP is a useful little bugger.
The point is that the non-sterile male moths can't mate because there's too much comptetition from the sterile ones. If enough sterile moths are put into the population at the right time, it will essentially vanish within a generation.
That's an infinite number of bonobo's, isn't it?
Also, observe DVD's acceptance in both the pc and the home video markets - that's hard to do with a sequential access medium.
You mean 4.2.
duh.
I once worked at a place that migrated from Clearcase to Perforce because the former was just too damned expensive. I did lots of work with perforce, and I found it to be lightweight and easy to understand.... no filesystem access, but you get fancy merging like clearcase. Plus, there's a client for pretty much any platform you can think of. But you'll still need a dedicated admin for any installation of size.
This seems the perfect time to mention the Dune board game, by Avalon Hill, circa 1979. I've played it a few times with some geeked out friends of mine, and it's a WHOLE lot of fun. Parker brothers made one too, but that was in response to the movie... but I doubt it's as much fun. info here (you can get it on ebay... they don't make it anymore.)
I'm afraid he's not writing anything anymore... he passed away 8 years ago.
I was recently fortunate enough to get to work with some code that was written by some other company. The main problem that I had was that they didn't code with maintainability or expandibility in mind, but rather towards a particular solution. While it did rather well for its intended purpose, it was utterly miserable to try and get it to work with anything else. I ended up rewriting the whole damn thing.
But if you want to take the analogy to it's extremes (usually not a good idea, and almost never actually relevant, but oh well) then a gun is just a metal tube that accelerates slugs of lead to high velocities. What I think is really needed is a clear line between the legality of an action and the the tool that facilitates that action.
I have a hard time beliving this "entry point" stuff. It seems to me that most linux users have used windows at one time or another, and or using linux INSTEAD of windows. I know I do. Why don't they just sell the silly thing, just like any other software product? Is it really neccessary to levarage the dominance of windows with every corporate move?
What do you think packet loss is?
There's been an effort to create an open inventor clone, called coin3d. Think along the lines of Mesa - same api, but unofficial. But what happens to them now? Or perhaps more importantly, what happens to the programming contest the parent company is sponsering to get people to use the toolkit? I want prizes, damnit!
I had a similar problem for awhile. I would be good to go until the sound effects got intense, at which point the game (and thus the x server) would hang with the standard irq conflict sound. The wierd part is that they were on different irqs... I checked a great many times. Anyhow, problem was solved by getting rid of the crappy ess1868 that was in there and replacing it with an Ensoniq Something. :)
Hope this helps, though it probably won't.
That's actually quite an interesting point. Suppose that nvidia had enough money in the bank that they could afford to do that? It certainly wouldn't be profitable, but they would gain customers like nothing else, and nobody else could even come CLOSe to competing. And after they're all gone, back to business as usual. With a convenient corner on the graphics market.
Is such a move even legal?
nor does this one, for that matter. :)
Lintel?
1) C# may be strongly (highly?) typed, but it seems to me that that is rather negated by the absence of anything resembling templates - how do you handle basic collections? Unless a reference has a type implicitly associated with it, you throw away alot of your advantages when you start to use these untyped data structures.
2) I've not the slightest idea what early binding and late binding mean, but there must be SOME advantage to late binding if it's used at all...
All the talk I'm hearing seems to be about securing music, such that only the buyer may listen to it. I think it's well accepted that this is a misguided attempt, as it simply makes things more difficult.
BUT...
Suppose they took this watermarking technology they say they have an use it for just that - watermarking. When you buy a track from the record company, it would be invisibly watermarked with your tracking information - but keep it in mp3. Simply watermark the signal. While copying is easily possible, it discourages the average joe from posting his song to the net, as it can be tracked back to him. It also would still allow trading between friends. Fair use or not, that's another story...
I don't know whether this can be done with audio, though they seem to be claiming it can. It's been done with images for quite some time now. (Digimarc and the like)
Yes, there are many holes in this idea, but it has a chance of being accepted by the community. (vs. SDMI... blech)
Even though I like linux, and use it extensively....
there are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.
Yeah, well my new box runs at 1 uHz on the new Pentium .0004 (TM).
Unless you just copy it bit for bit, of course, which is what I think he was referring to.
...this is one of the best pieces of writing I've seen online in quite awhile.
I use lilo myself, but does anybody know of some alternative boot loaders? Awhile ago I used a pretty slick commercial one that was configurable at boot time and had an n-curses style menu... but it was rather commercial. I've seen some opensourced ones that do similar things, but I haven't the guts to blow away my MBR just like that. :) Any recommendations?