Uptime doesn't matter to home users, so they won't be interested in supplying statistics to the uptime site so they won't be included.
The ony people who will supply statistics to the site are those people who are interested in uptimes - administrators mainly and for systems that they expect to stay up for a significant period.
I like the fact that you can get Debian for ix86, Sparc, Ultra Spark, m68k, PowerPC, Alpha, ARM, MIPS.
I can't think of another distribution which tries this.
Now, if only there was an M88K port...
I disagree, entropy won't allow it ultimately.
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If the forked code is poorer quality lets say, it crashes more often then the maintainer will need to increase the investment to keep it going. If it does have a significant advantage then the features it has can be re-implemented in an acceptable manner.
However I don't see the sense in deliberately forking code to provide incompatability, especially when you know that all the original maintainer has to do to foil your plan is to say yes I'll incorporate the changes. A lot of money and effort down the drain.
The article is about keeping Java "pure and compatible" and defeating "embrace and extend".
The GPL can perform this function, the BSD license can't.
On the other hand, the GPL license is no good for implementing new universally accepted APIs or features because of it's restrictions.
Look, I use both the GPL and the BSD license, but for different things. The GPL for relatively standalone stuff and the BSD for highly integratable stuff.
This shouldn't be GPL vs BSDL argument anyway though that's my fault I guess for pushing the button.
What If I told you that a German company had this idea for using giant airships to lift and transport hundreds of tonnes of cargo thousands of miles? Nuts eh?
Well, that's exactly what they're going to do, and I believe that they *will* do it. Want to know why?
Market research a business plan, a working prototype and some discipline in executing the plan. They now have millions of DM in backing from large banks and thousands of private investors who have applied through the web site. They they don't have an airship yet and the hangar isn't finished but both will be. They just do it.
Have a look at their web site at http://www.cargolifter.com/
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A lot of people seem to misunderstand the GPL.
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A lot of people seem to be missing the implications of the requirement to release the source code of any changes.
There have been a couple of articles recently which describe well how the GPL's requirement that source code must also be distributed vastly reduces or removes the forking that everyone is so afraid of. (don't remember the links)
If someone takes a GPL'd product and forks it, they then have to maintain the fork all by themselves, and they have to produce the source for their changes.
If the changes are good then they can be folded back into the main product and the fork becomes superfluous.
If the changes are bad then the fork will wither and die anyway.
If the changes are fantastic then everyone will rush to the new fantastic product and the original becomes superfluous.
Note, the BSD license doesn't give this protection. The ability to keep the source closed means it can be worthwhile forking the code and maintaining it yourself. The BSD license is useful in other ways.
It's better than that! We can steal their changes!
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Under the GPL, if someone makes a change and distributes it, they must distribute the source code too. Embrace and extend doesn't work any more, it becomes very expensive for no gain.
Believe it when you see it in Nature, with corroborating evidence from independant researchers.
Vacuuming, mail delivery & stuff - industrial apps
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Most of this stuff is more appropriate for offices and the commercial environment than the home environment. The environment is more controlled and commercial organisations would have the cash to buy the things.
The mail delivery bit could be used to deliver parts from a stock room to production lines etc.
Just think, companies wouldn't need cleaners or mail delivery people any more.
These things are greyscale for a reason. Battery life.
A palmtop or PDA is no blooming good if the batteries are always dead. One of the reasons I like my Psion is the 30 hour battery life; I can pull it out and use it without worrying that the battery is going to fail any minute.
One of the reasons I like MP3 is that it works on everything, it makes my life much simpler.
I can put an mp3 file up on a web site and be pretty sure that everything from mobile phone browsers to Psions, CE, Palm, Macs, Unix systems and mp3 players will all be able to play the format.
The bizarre prices of these internet stocks and Linux can't possibly last but the interesting question is will the US economy collapse as a result of the huge falls that are on the way? Will it cause panic amoung the day traders and then the hardened professionals?
Will you have to dodge the jumpers when you walk past a cyber cafe?
In the UK, collecting VAT is the law. The government comes down on people who keep the VAT like a tonne of bricks. They often end up losing their business, car, house, savings etc etc. it can be very very nasty.
Why on earth would you have the individual attempt to calculate how much they've spent on internet based purchases, that's just stupid, expensive and unworkable.
Instead, the business should collect the tax and be legally obliged to display prices including the tax.
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THE END IS NIGH!!
BANG FLASHES AND CRASHES EVERYWHERE - THE SKY IS FALLING!!!
So does that mean that you're running an insecure site?
Well, looks like we're all well prepared.
You can pat yourselves on the back and take those enormous paycheques home now..
Sounds like Microsoft never thought that anybody would ever have a machine that would ever be up and runing for more than 49 days. That's an OS bug.
Uptime doesn't matter to home users, so they won't be interested in supplying statistics to the uptime site so they won't be included.
The ony people who will supply statistics to the site are those people who are interested in uptimes - administrators mainly and for systems that they expect to stay up for a significant period.
BTW, you need 30-40 samples to be significant.
I like the fact that you can get Debian for ix86, Sparc, Ultra Spark, m68k, PowerPC, Alpha, ARM, MIPS.
I can't think of another distribution which tries this.
Now, if only there was an M88K port...
If the forked code is poorer quality lets say, it crashes more often then the maintainer will need to increase the investment to keep it going. If it does have a significant advantage then the features it has can be re-implemented in an acceptable manner.
However I don't see the sense in deliberately forking code to provide incompatability, especially when you know that all the original maintainer has to do to foil your plan is to say yes I'll incorporate the changes. A lot of money and effort down the drain.
The article is about keeping Java "pure and compatible" and defeating "embrace and extend".
The GPL can perform this function, the BSD license can't.
On the other hand, the GPL license is no good for implementing new universally accepted APIs or features because of it's restrictions.
Look, I use both the GPL and the BSD license, but for different things. The GPL for relatively standalone stuff and the BSD for highly integratable stuff.
This shouldn't be GPL vs BSDL argument anyway though that's my fault I guess for pushing the button.
What If I told you that a German company had this idea for using giant airships to lift and transport hundreds of tonnes of cargo thousands of miles? Nuts eh?
Well, that's exactly what they're going to do, and I believe that they *will* do it. Want to know why?
Market research a business plan, a working prototype and some discipline in executing the plan. They now have millions of DM in backing from large banks and thousands of private investors who have applied through the web site. They they don't have an airship yet and the hangar isn't finished but both will be. They just do it.
Have a look at their web site at http://www.cargolifter.com/
(Slight overuse of frames and javascript)
A lot of people seem to be missing the implications of the requirement to release the source code of any changes.
There have been a couple of articles recently which describe well how the GPL's requirement that source code must also be distributed vastly reduces or removes the forking that everyone is so afraid of. (don't remember the links)
If someone takes a GPL'd product and forks it, they then have to maintain the fork all by themselves, and they have to produce the source for their changes.
Note, the BSD license doesn't give this protection. The ability to keep the source closed means it can be worthwhile forking the code and maintaining it yourself. The BSD license is useful in other ways.
Under the GPL, if someone makes a change and distributes it, they must distribute the source code too. Embrace and extend doesn't work any more, it becomes very expensive for no gain.
The software just benefits from the changes.
Believe it when you see it in Nature, with corroborating evidence from independant researchers.
Most of this stuff is more appropriate for offices and the commercial environment than the home environment. The environment is more controlled and commercial organisations would have the cash to buy the things.
The mail delivery bit could be used to deliver parts from a stock room to production lines etc.
Just think, companies wouldn't need cleaners or mail delivery people any more.
Don't know what the range of bluetooth devices is though.
These things are greyscale for a reason. Battery life.
A palmtop or PDA is no blooming good if the batteries are always dead. One of the reasons I like my Psion is the 30 hour battery life; I can pull it out and use it without worrying that the battery is going to fail any minute.
The suits will love that...
I can put an mp3 file up on a web site and be pretty sure that everything from mobile phone browsers to Psions, CE, Palm, Macs, Unix systems and mp3 players will all be able to play the format.
None of the other formats allow this.
If you don't like it then why not f**k off somewhere else and leave us in peace?
NASA still doesn't have anything close to the clipper..
m enu_dcx.htm
Nasa's archive:
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x-33/
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951028.html
But how would they justify their budget if commercial operators were launching?
Maybe the DC-X should have been sold to the Chinese or the Russians... Anybody but NASA.
Damn, where are your moderator points when you need them.
The bizarre prices of these internet stocks and Linux can't possibly last but the interesting question is will the US economy collapse as a result of the huge falls that are on the way? Will it cause panic amoung the day traders and then the hardened professionals?
Will you have to dodge the jumpers when you walk past a cyber cafe?
If the company's registered in NC, then that's where the tax is collected and paid.
Anything else is simply stupid.
In the UK, collecting VAT is the law. The government comes down on people who keep the VAT like a tonne of bricks. They often end up losing their business, car, house, savings etc etc. it can be very very nasty.
Called Value Added Tax, it goes on almost all products.
Why on earth would you have the individual attempt to calculate how much they've spent on internet based purchases, that's just stupid, expensive and unworkable.
Instead, the business should collect the tax and be legally obliged to display prices including the tax.