You dont transport all that electicity all the way.
But the overall increase in electisity in the grid might
allow some more power to be used New Hampshire when
less is used in Arizona.
I love it when someone from Arizona tells me that solar power is going to solve all my power problems here in northern New Hampshire.
When everyone in Arizona gets solar power (and feeds the excess back to the grid) there will be
more energy total avaliable that you get get from the grid.
I am not from the US of A but to me it seems a paradoks that the republicans
who in prinsiple is the least favorable to the goverment interfering in much
of anything is the one most favorable to them rolling over the citizens
privacy.
I am a computer consultant/developer for hire, an as such I am a whore, what
the customer wants the customer gets.
That said, that does not mean I will not try to advice
the customer if I think he is headed in the wrong direction.
Personaly I dont like Microsoft much, not so much because of their
software, but because of theire buisness practices. If I was running
a buisness I would not thrust MS or their OS to be in charge of my
IT-infrastructure.
I have to admitt I actually like Visual studio 2005 as an IDE both for
C++, C# an asp.net. But I dont se the big ting about.net that I could
not acomplish in java an then avoid the vendor lock inn.
Others have already said some of the same but still,
BMI is usefull when considering populations. When the BMI
of a population goes up it is probably because they are getting
fatter, unless there is a bodybuilding craze on.
The problem with BMI is when it is used on individuals,
espesially when insuranse companies denies you health
insuranse because your BMI is to high, according to their
tables, even if it is all muscle.
I hope this initiative is successfull, i would love to have
a cellphone with an open software plattform where i could
dowload FOSS-applikations or write my own.
(I would like to have a Kanji gold
like program on my phone, excelent while waiting for the tube)
I you make your money making hardware like cellphones, why would you want
to give a third party power over your produkt? Espescialy when there is no
"default standard" yet as for the cellphone market.
I dont know much about symbians buisness pratices, but I would not
lett Microsoft get within a mile of my hardware i I was making cellphones.....
The article states it will be linux-kernel + java, and
of course it will be google servises as default for everyting.
That is all fine.
But my question is; what if I want to use other services,
will that be possible/difficult?
This is the US - we drive BIG cars. I'll believe in electric cars when they bring out a 4x4 that will go up a mountain with 2 deer in the back.
There is no law saying that an electric has to be small. Actually electric engines
outperform combustion engines, so if anyone could just invent some
fantastic batteries your mega 4x4 truck would not be far away.
Sterling engines will run on just about any fuel, but so will ICEs... Throw some Tequila in your gas tank, and watch it run. If you can figure a way to shovel ultra-fine coal dust in there, it'll burn that too. Diesels also support a wide range of fuels, and run at surprisingly good efficiency with most. And turbines can handle any fuels a sterling engine can.
Reminds me of a story about someone running a old military truck on fish-oil.
The whole village where smelling like rotten fish.
Also a norwegian fish-farm was looking into the economic viability off makin fuel from
wasted parts of the fish they slaugtered
But they would refine the fuel so it would probably smell less bad
The virbration generator would work from the vibrations
moving trough the body as a result of the heartbeat.
Basicaly waste energy that would othervise become
a tiny amount of heat in the body.
If its enough to power a pacemake I don't know.
...for companies when Microsoft stops supporting XP?
Nothing. Just because M$ stops its support, does NOT mean the OS will stop in its tracks. Companies are still successfully using DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95 and Win 98. These OSes have long been out of support, but in each of their own cases, the task they are accomplishing is probably still be accomplished just as effectively.
Exactly...
The one problem you face is that you will not get any fixes for security holes anymore.
So if your machine is connected to the internet your are f**ked.
Even behind a firewall you are in trouble if users is surfing the web or
reading email.
On the other hand if your machine does its job and does not
need a internet connection no need to upgrade.
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It should be interesting how this clashes with China's own obsessive need to control people's PCs.
Kina as many other Asian nations is moving towards Linux. They don't want to pay M$-tax and they espesialy
don't want MS or NSA spying on them.
True. But if I know that the software that I am creating is gonna have thousands of users, I would be a fool not to convert it into a business opportunity. Why would I give it away free when I know perfectly well that I can make a fortune out of it and retire at 30 ?
While your point is valid there are possible resons not to:
You might expect to make more money from your buisness that uses the software.
You cannot raise the cash to hire developers to develop the produkt as closed source
You expect that if your idea is successfull an open source project will pop up and
allow users to do it for free leavin your produkt obsolete
You get a big ego boost from the fame as a FOSS project leader:-)
You can start or contribute to a open source project for pure selfish reasons
If you are in need for software that does someting others also need you can
get free developers to pitch in improving it by going open source. If it is a very
spesific need maybe you get four developers and ten users, if it is a generic
need you may get hundreds of developers and tousands of users.
The bottom line is you get more software for less of your time and money.
The basic idea behind open source in not to write software to make money, but because you need it. You open source it so other people that has the same or simmilar requirements can chip in.
Then it doesent really mather that 98% of your users never contribute as long as the projetcs commuity is large enough to drive the software forwards.
That said, there is ways to make money from open source, mostly by services like consulting, customising og support.
In the world of buisness there is always room for
more RAM and more disk and more CPU power.
Some computational problems soak up computerpower
so fast you hardly notices its increasing.
When it commes to games you can easily spend RAM
and cpu by better grapics and bigger and more interactive worlds. Think about a model of London where every window is breakable, every door can be opened. Ever car on the streets can be stolen. Every house has items that can be manipulate.
When the power is there someone will find a use for it.
2. If SCO releases Linux under GPL, then they have to make it available for download and anyone can get it for free.
Actually not. If they make sure anyone who get a
copy also get the source, by exsample only distributing the binaries on a CD with the source,
their obligations under the GPL is done.
On the other hand everyone who get such a CD can
make the contend downloadable on their own,
but then that person/company is responsible for making the source available to anyone who get the binaries.
3. If SCO's version of linux contains the copyrighted System V code, than there is somewhat of a mess:
Now that SCO "knows" the linux kernel contains their propiteary IP, they may only continue to distribute it if they put that IP under the GPL.
If not they will be in breach of the GPL and the GPL is the only ting that allows them to distribute it in the first place.
Well, the fact is that the GPL permits you do do certain things and it prohibits you from doing other things.
Wrong!
GPL permits you to do certain things provided you
comply with certain conditions. Without the GPL,
or some other license from the copyright holder, you could not do these at all!
What do you expect when you give your work away for free?
Licensing software under GPL is not nessesary giving it away for "free". It depend on your expectations. You can not expect to make money from it, unless it bekommes a big success and you can make money as a consultant on it or some company
uses it so exstensively that that they hire or sponsors you to make certain of its contiued develepopment. But those are the rare cases.
What you can expect is that if someone else is interestet in your software some of them will have the time and knowledge to participate making the software you wrote better with less effort from you.
So the GPL is suited for those who writes software
for fun, or those who write software to serve an need for themself and other have similar enough problems that they can pool their effort.
Off all those who participated to linux only a few
make money (directly) from it but we got a
real god OS out of it.
You stupid shit. This is called COMPETITION. This is what all the OSS freaks are always braying about. MS is dropping it's prices to COMPETE. So fuck off kid. You don't know what you're talking about, and you're nothing but another knee-jerk OSS fanatic drone without a brain.
It is competition if MS cuts their profit margin to be competetive.
It is unlawful (in most western contries) if they are selling with a net loss to kill the competition.
"Pure" capitalism is just as flawed as kommunism.
Whitout checks and balances (written in law) there is a point where a company gets big enough to kill
all competition no matter how much better the
competiors is on price, quality, service etc.
Think about what MS whas convicted of and whet they would have done if there was no laws to keep them in check.
And for those parents who can't afford the latest equipment, a Linux For Schools distro could be put together that specializes in offering only the stuff people need for schoolwork:
I do not support piracy, and I would not want to watch The Matrix Reloaded on anyting less than a
cinema screen with THX sound anyway:-).
But the fact that the movie has made huge amounts of money, and that other movies in the future will make huge amounts of money, piracy or no piracy, has a lot of weight when they try to obliterate fair use and show DRM down our throats.
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The old testament clearly states in multiple places that worship of other gods is punisble by death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impartiality
You dont transport all that electicity all the way. But the overall increase in electisity in the grid might allow some more power to be used New Hampshire when less is used in Arizona.
When everyone in Arizona gets solar power (and feeds the excess back to the grid) there will be more energy total avaliable that you get get from the grid.
I am not from the US of A but to me it seems a paradoks that the republicans who in prinsiple is the least favorable to the goverment interfering in much of anything is the one most favorable to them rolling over the citizens privacy.
That said, that does not mean I will not try to advice the customer if I think he is headed in the wrong direction.
Personaly I dont like Microsoft much, not so much because of their software, but because of theire buisness practices. If I was running a buisness I would not thrust MS or their OS to be in charge of my IT-infrastructure.
I have to admitt I actually like Visual studio 2005 as an IDE both for C++, C# an asp.net. But I dont se the big ting about .net that I could
not acomplish in java an then avoid the vendor lock inn.
The problem with BMI is when it is used on individuals, espesially when insuranse companies denies you health insuranse because your BMI is to high, according to their tables, even if it is all muscle.
(I would like to have a Kanji gold like program on my phone, excelent while waiting for the tube)
I you make your money making hardware like cellphones, why would you want to give a third party power over your produkt? Espescialy when there is no "default standard" yet as for the cellphone market.
I dont know much about symbians buisness pratices, but I would not lett Microsoft get within a mile of my hardware i I was making cellphones.....
The article states it will be linux-kernel + java, and of course it will be google servises as default for everyting. That is all fine.
But my question is; what if I want to use other services, will that be possible/difficult?
Then either OpenOffice, the ODF-standard or both is broken.
The point of a standard is that conforming parties can interoperate.
There is no law saying that an electric has to be small. Actually electric engines outperform combustion engines, so if anyone could just invent some fantastic batteries your mega 4x4 truck would not be far away.
Reminds me of a story about someone running a old military truck on fish-oil.
The whole village where smelling like rotten fish.
Also a norwegian fish-farm was looking into the economic viability off makin fuel from wasted parts of the fish they slaugtered
But they would refine the fuel so it would probably smell less bad
The virbration generator would work from the vibrations moving trough the body as a result of the heartbeat.
Basicaly waste energy that would othervise become a tiny amount of heat in the body.
If its enough to power a pacemake I don't know.
Exactly...
The one problem you face is that you will not get any fixes for security holes anymore. So if your machine is connected to the internet your are f**ked. Even behind a firewall you are in trouble if users is surfing the web or reading email.
On the other hand if your machine does its job and does not need a internet connection no need to upgrade.
Kina as many other Asian nations is moving towards Linux. They don't want to pay M$-tax and they espesialy don't want MS or NSA spying on them.
While your point is valid there are possible resons not to:
If you are in need for software that does someting others also need you can get free developers to pitch in improving it by going open source. If it is a very spesific need maybe you get four developers and ten users, if it is a generic need you may get hundreds of developers and tousands of users.
The bottom line is you get more software for less of your time and money.
The basic idea behind open source in not to write software to make money,
but because you need it. You open source it so other people that has the
same or simmilar requirements can chip in.
Then it doesent really mather that 98% of your users never contribute as
long as the projetcs commuity is large enough to drive the software forwards.
That said, there is ways to make money from open source, mostly by services
like consulting, customising og support.
When it commes to games you can easily spend RAM and cpu by better grapics and bigger and more interactive worlds. Think about a model of London where every window is breakable, every door can be opened. Ever car on the streets can be stolen. Every house has items that can be manipulate.
When the power is there someone will find a use for it.
Actually not. If they make sure anyone who get a copy also get the source, by exsample only distributing the binaries on a CD with the source, their obligations under the GPL is done. On the other hand everyone who get such a CD can make the contend downloadable on their own, but then that person/company is responsible for making the source available to anyone who get the binaries.
3. If SCO's version of linux contains the copyrighted System V code, than there is somewhat of a mess:
Now that SCO "knows" the linux kernel contains their propiteary IP, they may only continue to distribute it if they put that IP under the GPL. If not they will be in breach of the GPL and the GPL is the only ting that allows them to distribute it in the first place.
Wrong!
GPL permits you to do certain things provided you comply with certain conditions. Without the GPL, or some other license from the copyright holder, you could not do these at all!
Licensing software under GPL is not nessesary giving it away for "free". It depend on your expectations. You can not expect to make money from it, unless it bekommes a big success and you can make money as a consultant on it or some company uses it so exstensively that that they hire or sponsors you to make certain of its contiued develepopment. But those are the rare cases.
What you can expect is that if someone else is interestet in your software some of them will have the time and knowledge to participate making the software you wrote better with less effort from you.
So the GPL is suited for those who writes software for fun, or those who write software to serve an need for themself and other have similar enough problems that they can pool their effort.
Off all those who participated to linux only a few make money (directly) from it but we got a real god OS out of it.
It is competition if MS cuts their profit margin to be competetive.
It is unlawful (in most western contries) if they are selling with a net loss to kill the competition.
"Pure" capitalism is just as flawed as kommunism.
Whitout checks and balances (written in law) there is a point where a company gets big enough to kill all competition no matter how much better the competiors is on price, quality, service etc.
Think about what MS whas convicted of and whet they would have done if there was no laws to keep them in check.
In Norway some entusiats have done exactly that: http://www.skolelinux.no/
By the way, skole is school in Norwegian.
But the fact that the movie has made huge amounts of money, and that other movies in the future will make huge amounts of money, piracy or no piracy, has a lot of weight when they try to obliterate fair use and show DRM down our throats.