I'm very puzzled. I thought that the argument went as follows: IBM's licence from SCO gives SCO some rights over derivative works including late versions of AIX. Parts of AIX developed by IBM but possibly seen by SCO during the Monterrey project have found their way in to Linux. IBM might therefore be in breach of its licence and SCO has identified a number of potential breaches and also of revealing trade secrets. However the works written by IBM would still be copyright of IBM. I don't understand what SCO copyright, as opposed to the broader term IP, is supposed to have gotten into Linux. Without the breach of copyright what claim do they have?
So Microsoft is going to copy Mosix and/or grid computing.
I wish someone would make sure that journalists ask "You mean like Mosix or grid computing already available for some time in the world of open source?"
There are loads of types of car which is good but if they each need their own fuel that would be bad.
Since both of these are vessels it would be good to be able to share plugins. That suggests attempting to standardise an API but Karamba is still pretty young so it might be too soon to settle on the current state of Karamba, look at the mess caused by jumping to conclusions with RSS.
All very mudane but the thing to to is have a look at both and see if you can spot how they could share a good plugin architecture.
But email advertising is not intrinsically bad and where a real product is sold, spammer and spammee both benefit, just as with junk snail mail.
Rather than looking at one overall solution there are little things that could be done to make things better. A few ideas of mine (not necessarily original) 1 Use Spam filters to automate complaining/unsubscribing/recording abuses Some spammers will actually unsubscribe you but usually it is too much of a pain to do more than just delete. Other cases of abuse will be easier to document
2 Persuade ISPs to install user configurable spam filters at th server level. I think a general scheme is useless for the reasons described above but if the responsibility for potentially lost emails is the recipients it could be much more effective
3 Traceability of emails is really the only thing necessary to make opt outs enfoceable
What Scudsucker said plus: Of course the pirates are getting a free ride but such a big one as is being made out. I would say not paying tax is probably bigger than all of these, and of course not having to pay for security tags but then they have to risk having their stock impounded and probably don't get the best price for storage facilities.
Why should we be subsidising acts that none likes (even if that was the way it worked?)
# Don't pay for the recording or mastering that was done for the music
Neither do record companies - the artist does
# Don't pay the artist whose music they're stealing
True but it is typically less than ten per cent of the retail price
# Don't pay for the artwork on the cd
Couple of hundred bucks mostly
# Don't pay for promotion or advertising, since that's all done by the label
Not all promotion is paid for by the label. It does on the other hand promote the artist -- see Microsoft's attitude to piracy in China (would you rather they used linux?)
# Don't pay the lawyers to research the songs to ensure you're not stealing some stupid snippet of lyrics or a partial tune, as just happened with Flaming Lips and Cat Stevens
True but music is not supposed to be welfare for lawyers.
It is unclear why CDs should be have been more expensive than vinyl or why their prices should rise in real terms. Normal economics would suggest that faling production and distribution costs should make the optimal price lower, possibly substantially, but that hasn't happened.
At last someone understood the article and its an AC. Please mod up. as far as I can tell the article says that Microsoft et al are not going to be exploiting the latest and greatest in PCs anymore since business units are already more than powerful enough and XBox is where they are concentrating on gaming. Can open source software fill the gap and make compelling use of say 64 bit computing?
At a guess the delay on the 17" PowerBook probably had as much to do with the case and screen as the internals and replacing those wouldn't be that hard especially if the new chip uses less power.
How do these database like features relate to what Microsoft is supposed to be doing with Longhorn? Is it likely/possible/desirable to adapt an existing database like MySql/PostGreSQL/Oracle to provide full ddatabase functionality on top of your system? Are there likely to be any XML tools that exploit richer file systems?
Am I right in thinking that there is no need ot use a tool like DeCSS to copy a DVD? I believe you can just make a bit for bit copy of the DVD which is less likely to alarm the punters.
There are contantly stories mentioning DeCSS and file sharing in the same breath as piracy. While both may be in conflict with the law they are quite different and everything should be done to explain the differences between the two. ie
File sharing/DeCSS = personal, between friends, not for profit.
Piracy = for profit, doesn't use MP3s, doesn't need DeCSS, run by gangsters
The case against the latter is much stronger and more legitimate. Confusion between the two is very damaging and widespread.
DeCSS just overcomes a measure designed to reduce free trade in DVDs to allow the maintenance of differential pricing and irritate peole who travel a lot.
Well maybe not but what is an application server? An excuse for not thinking very deeply about the nature of the project and for preventing people doing introducing nasty changes.
How many java architectures are monolithic monstrosities where changing the smallest part of a page requires a day's work and the whole site needs to be brought down to release it.
I'm sure that there is stuff that PHP can't do but it isn't the only place that is braindead. Too many websites are being run like 70s mainframe shops which is all very well but isn't how the web got built.
That thought occurred to me too but the drag and drop saving the author mentions occurring in Oisc OS and ROX desktop sounds very sensible and in any case there should be some combination of undo and default file names that should improve the existing scenario.
Indeed maybe they will happen, they would provide a great reason for corporate users to upgrade and would potentially be a better way for somebody like Microsoft to protect their turf than obfuscating file formats.
Pedigree and its offspring prestige are of course the vital ingredients of important journals. Mathematics is fortunate in that the most prestigious journal is owned by a university with a quite enlightened outlook. Annals of Mathematics is now an overlay of the matematics eprint arXiv. Other less fortunate disciplines may not be able to make such a leap without switching favourite journals.
Who abolished slavery first? What was that Dr King was protesting against? Why are htere so few Native Americans? Who was handing out blankets with smallpox? Who's founding fathers were slave owners?
I think that it's not just whether individual trials work but the combination of political destabilisation (We've got nukes and you can't hit us can sound fairly threatening if you are on the wrong end of it) and economic flaws. Even if you can solve the problem as it stands, the economic model is unhelpful. The cost of doubling the number of targets for the system is much cheaper than adjusting the system to compensate.
If you want 2733 QphH then it is the only contender.
On a unit cost basis it would also be interesting to see single CPU results.
It's odd to hear carping about Linux being tested on an unfairly large machine!
I was trying to avoid using EOF as a cop out.
Is it also the case that I could not win through choice of run (zeroes, digits of pi, exponentials of small numbers)? I imagine that this wins just a few bits and the length of the program bounds the maximum number of different checks. and each method only wins about a bit.
Also the files would get very large.
Still since I only have to do better than one fiftieth it ought to be possible to get quite close.
How about this:
take the file,
1 look for the longest sequence of 1s. (length x)
2 record its starting point (position y).
3 remove the ones and write a program to insert x 1s at position y.
4 choose the file size to ensure a high enough (>50% say given the terms of the bet) probability of finding enough 1s in a row to be longer than the code to reinstate the ones.
Of course the decompressor is not general but there will be one such that will work on any sufficiently large randon number and hte length of the program will only increase logarithmically with the size of the file.
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I'm very puzzled. I thought that the argument went as follows:
IBM's licence from SCO gives SCO some rights over derivative works including late versions of AIX.
Parts of AIX developed by IBM but possibly seen by SCO during the Monterrey project have found their way in to Linux.
IBM might therefore be in breach of its licence and SCO has identified a number of potential breaches and also of revealing trade secrets.
However the works written by IBM would still be copyright of IBM. I don't understand what SCO copyright, as opposed to the broader term IP, is supposed to have gotten into Linux. Without the breach of copyright what claim do they have?
So Microsoft is going to copy Mosix and/or grid computing.
I wish someone would make sure that journalists ask "You mean like Mosix or grid computing already available for some time in the world of open source?"
2 ?!?
3 Profit
There are loads of types of car which is good but if they each need their own fuel that would be bad.
Since both of these are vessels it would be good to be able to share plugins. That suggests attempting to standardise an API but Karamba is still pretty young so it might be too soon to settle on the current state of Karamba, look at the mess caused by jumping to conclusions with RSS.
All very mudane but the thing to to is have a look at both and see if you can spot how they could share a good plugin architecture.
But email advertising is not intrinsically bad and where a real product is sold, spammer and spammee both benefit, just as with junk snail mail.
Rather than looking at one overall solution there are little things that could be done to make things better. A few ideas of mine (not necessarily original)
1 Use Spam filters to automate complaining/unsubscribing/recording abuses
Some spammers will actually unsubscribe you but usually it is too much of a pain to do more than just delete. Other cases of abuse will be easier to document
2 Persuade ISPs to install user configurable spam filters at th server level. I think a general scheme is useless for the reasons described above but if the responsibility for potentially lost emails is the recipients it could be much more effective
3 Traceability of emails is really the only thing necessary to make opt outs enfoceable
What Scudsucker said plus:
Of course the pirates are getting a free ride but such a big one as is being made out. I would say not paying tax is probably bigger than all of these, and of course not having to pay for security tags but then they have to risk having their stock impounded and probably don't get the best price for storage facilities.
Why should we be subsidising acts that none likes (even if that was the way it worked?)
# Don't pay for the recording or mastering that was done for the music
Neither do record companies - the artist does
# Don't pay the artist whose music they're stealing
True but it is typically less than ten per cent of the retail price
# Don't pay for the artwork on the cd
Couple of hundred bucks mostly
# Don't pay for promotion or advertising, since that's all done by the label
Not all promotion is paid for by the label. It does on the other hand promote the artist -- see Microsoft's attitude to piracy in China (would you rather they used linux?)
# Don't pay the lawyers to research the songs to ensure you're not stealing some stupid snippet of lyrics or a partial tune, as just happened with Flaming Lips and Cat Stevens
True but music is not supposed to be welfare for lawyers.
It is unclear why CDs should be have been more expensive than vinyl or why their prices should rise in real terms. Normal economics would suggest that faling production and distribution costs should make the optimal price lower, possibly substantially, but that hasn't happened.
At last someone understood the article and its an AC. Please mod up.
as far as I can tell the article says that Microsoft et al are not going to be exploiting the latest and greatest in PCs anymore since business units are already more than powerful enough and XBox is where they are concentrating on gaming. Can open source software fill the gap and make compelling use of say 64 bit computing?
At a guess the delay on the 17" PowerBook probably had as much to do with the case and screen as the internals and replacing those wouldn't be that hard especially if the new chip uses less power.
$600 gets you five licences, including for Crossver etc + 12 months support. Not for home use perhaps but not expensive either.
How do these database like features relate to what Microsoft is supposed to be doing with Longhorn? Is it likely/possible/desirable to adapt an existing database like MySql/PostGreSQL/Oracle to provide full ddatabase functionality on top of your system?
Are there likely to be any XML tools that exploit richer file systems?
Am I right in thinking that there is no need ot use a tool like DeCSS to copy a DVD? I believe you can just make a bit for bit copy of the DVD which is less likely to alarm the punters.
There are contantly stories mentioning DeCSS and file sharing in the same breath as piracy. While both may be in conflict with the law they are quite different and everything should be done to explain the differences between the two. ie
File sharing/DeCSS = personal, between friends, not for profit.
Piracy = for profit, doesn't use MP3s, doesn't need DeCSS, run by gangsters
The case against the latter is much stronger and more legitimate. Confusion between the two is very damaging and widespread.
DeCSS just overcomes a measure designed to reduce free trade in DVDs to allow the maintenance of differential pricing and irritate peole who travel a lot.
Possibly this has more to do with the performance of W2K on your systems than of Knoppix on his.
It would be nice to know what you are both doing (starting apps versus running for example.)
In any case the real point is that knoppix running from a cd is not seriously hndicapped. Quite an achievement for an OS run from CD.
Well maybe not but what is an application server? An excuse for not thinking very deeply about the nature of the project and for preventing people doing introducing nasty changes.
How many java architectures are monolithic monstrosities where changing the smallest part of a page requires a day's work and the whole site needs to be brought down to release it.
I'm sure that there is stuff that PHP can't do but it isn't the only place that is braindead. Too many websites are being run like 70s mainframe shops which is all very well but isn't how the web got built.
Is Longhorn the release that was supposed to integrate SQL Server with the file system? Kind of back to Pick?
If so will the open source movement have had time to do something interesting with ReiserFS by then?
That thought occurred to me too but the drag and drop saving the author mentions occurring in Oisc OS and ROX desktop sounds very sensible and in any case there should be some combination of undo and default file names that should improve the existing scenario.
Indeed maybe they will happen, they would provide a great reason for corporate users to upgrade and would potentially be a better way for somebody like Microsoft to protect their turf than obfuscating file formats.
This is how the BBC tackles this issue: Betsie It was simpler to handle things this way rather than expand rules for coding pages.
Pedigree and its offspring prestige are of course the vital ingredients of important journals.
Mathematics is fortunate in that the most prestigious journal is owned by a university with a quite enlightened outlook. Annals of Mathematics is now an overlay of the matematics eprint arXiv.
Other less fortunate disciplines may not be able to make such a leap without switching favourite journals.
An unecessarily harsh reply to a good question I feel but you have a vary interesting point.
What would be a good codec for voice material?
Who abolished slavery first?
What was that Dr King was protesting against?
Why are htere so few Native Americans?
Who was handing out blankets with smallpox?
Who's founding fathers were slave owners?
Who is racist?
Pots and Kettles
And my six year old
I think that it's not just whether individual trials work but the combination of political destabilisation (We've got nukes and you can't hit us can sound fairly threatening if you are on the wrong end of it) and economic flaws. Even if you can solve the problem as it stands, the economic model is unhelpful. The cost of doubling the number of targets for the system is much cheaper than adjusting the system to compensate.
If you want 2733 QphH then it is the only contender.
On a unit cost basis it would also be interesting to see single CPU results.
It's odd to hear carping about Linux being tested on an unfairly large machine!
I was trying to avoid using EOF as a cop out.
Is it also the case that I could not win through choice of run (zeroes, digits of pi, exponentials of small numbers)? I imagine that this wins just a few bits and the length of the program bounds the maximum number of different checks. and each method only wins about a bit.
Also the files would get very large.
Still since I only have to do better than one fiftieth it ought to be possible to get quite close.
How about this:
take the file,
1 look for the longest sequence of 1s. (length x)
2 record its starting point (position y).
3 remove the ones and write a program to insert x 1s at position y.
4 choose the file size to ensure a high enough (>50% say given the terms of the bet) probability of finding enough 1s in a row to be longer than the code to reinstate the ones.
Of course the decompressor is not general but there will be one such that will work on any sufficiently large randon number and hte length of the program will only increase logarithmically with the size of the file.