And even then, with everything right, the testing, the right lube, etc. It can still develop a pinhole through the act of sex anyhow- and agains, you lose control over the situation, but have all the responsibility, etc.
Sad, isn't it, that people just think that using a condom will actually "protect" them; it'll do it most of the time- MOST OF THE TIME.
Just exactly what part of "unsupported" did you not understand? This is not analogous to a XP Service Pack installation breaking things as you put it. It's analogous to a service pack breaking all the registry hacks you've done to make Home act like Professional and not report back home. What you did was unsupported and it doesn't matter whether it's Windows, MacOS, Linux, or any other OS you choose to name. Unsupported means precisely that- and if it breaks on you you get both pieces.
Actually, they have a thin metal version of this technology in a removable cartridge form that's the size and thickness of a credit card with a smartcard contact point on it for the crypto control on the disc. 100Mbytes to over 5Gbytes in a device allegedly more durable than Flash (it's got the same vibration, etc. characteristics supposedly, but it's write endurance vastly exceeds Flash right at the moment...)- in a credit card's space. What Bob did was suggest that they apply the tech to fixed disc devices- and the article talks to the potential results thereof.
Uhm... That's NOT quite true... Cut the power off, the disc eventually stops spinning because of friction, etc.
You need to supply a constant input of angular momentum to keep the discs spinning. Spinning a smaller mass will ALWAYS mean a lower power input, from start to finish and everything in betweeen.
They don't have to have source code, all they need do is provide the register level info- what each register in the PCI/PCIE space does and what you're supposed to set them with. That's all anyone had when they did the RagePRO, Rage128, i810, or G400 chipsets in the days of the Utah-GLX or the early days of the DRI project. I know, I was there DOING it. Doesn't matter much, though... Saying Intel's part is less complex isn't quite the case, and me bitching about how silly it all is to not release register info doesn't change the situation any. If AMD sees fit, they'll make ATI open up the info a little more. If they don't, well, just hope that their OpenGL driver group catches up with NVidia soon...:-D
Heh... They both sit on the ARB board, come up with new OpenGL extensions together. They can figure out the other's tricks easily enough. It's not REALLY that they're not being nice. It's because of some bad advice from IP attorneys that think EVERYTHING should be kept secret, lest they lose the right of patentability, copyright, etc. Believe me when I tell you this; it's a story that keeps playing itself out at each and every place I've been contracting at for the last 3-4 years now.
Actually, no... All the technical data does is tell you how to drive the chips. It doesn't reveal all too much of how the silicon actually does what's being asked of it. If they've got any mojo that can't be revealed in that manner, they've got piece-parts of tech where they shouldn't be. Intel opened up everything except how to drive the Macrovision pieces of the chip (per their agreements with Macrovision and DVD CCA/MPAA...)- if it were Patent concerns, I assure you, it'd not been open sourced.
The lawsuit in question wasn't about infringement enabling devices (read: modchips...). It was about selling PSP's to the UK without Sony's permission. Completely different thing altogether.
Not really... If they can't afford the lawsuit, closing their doors might be the only action they've got at their disposal. In reality, they were a primary source for a lot of the enthusiast comunity's toys not available in their own respective markets. They weren't hurting in the business department.
The prevailing attitude is that you must use Windows, regardless of how painful it is. Everyone else uses Windows, and the business of business is business. CTOs and CIOs don't want to hear about OpenOffice or Samba, etc, because it just muddies the waters they're paid to keep clear.
The sad thing about that statement is that the waters they're paid to keep clear are already muddied up worse than anything like OpenOffice or Samba could or would- with all the trojans, worms, virii, spyware, drifting versions and user interfaces...
Those are pictures of a mesh networking product/project that runs on Linux and doesn't even USE that Marvell chip.
There's other low-power options that do this sort of thing- sure, it may be "harder" without the assist from the Marvell chip, but don't play the "It's the only way to do this thing" card- it's not at all close to the truth here.
Yeah, but I'd suspect they'd consider it to be the lesser of two evils- NK is only 30 miles away from Seoul. While it'd be difficult to do much with such a small bomb (if they've actually detonated one...) it's enough for them to build up to lobbing the damn things easily over the border and make an unholy mess of South Korea. NK is a whole hell of a lot less stable than China is. You do the math.
...but IBM wouldn't have fielded this unless they had some proof of Goldfarb's claims to back them up in court. This means there's very definitely more lurking, waiting to be fielded.
As to when, your guess is as good as mine. But, this is definitely NOT a spurious thing (IBM's lawyers subpoenaed everyone touching this SCO thing, looking for dirty hands outside of SCO. It wouldn't surprise me if there's more to come over the next 4-6 months... One case at a time though- only the desperate or a fool wages a war on more than one front if they can help it.
Up until this filing, we only had peripheral snippets that showed this was the case.
Enough for someone mounting a case to have enough traction to start discovery, but not enough to carry the case forward. Now, we've got testimony with some backing behind it that indicates that MS IS as guilty as a cat caught in a goldfish bowl of trying to knife a competitor in the back by funding a nonexistent lawsuit through intermediaries to do their dirty work.
If IBM has any more, it's not going to be pretty for Baystar, RCB, or Microsoft.
This would fall under something prohibited by the Antitrust Acts. Since they have been found to be an effective monopoly under those acts in a Findings of Fact from a prior Antitrust Trial, with really no change in the circumstances, they're at violating the law again. (Small surprise that- with nothing but slaps on the wrist, they really don't have any incentive to NOT do it again and again, with more flagrant violations of the law being done over time.)
IBM wouldn't have fielded this as part of their filings unless they were laying the groundwork for going after each and every party involved with this charade for it's worth. I'm hoping so myself- it'd be nice to see all the people responsible for this whole lame affair being pilloried for their efforts.
IBM wouldn't have submitted it unless there was something to back it all up with (This is something submitted as testimony/evidence in a Civil Trial- IBM is not wont, unlike MS and SCO to fabricate things for the court (Both of the latter mentioned companies are VERY guilty of that!)...they don't HAVE to...). A paper trail.
We see glimpses of it floating about on the Internet, if you know where to look. Not as much of a libel or fiction as you'd like to believe.
Yeah, but I just got told by one of the people we've got at my current contract job (Who WOULD know...) that this is the case- the really skilled ones are collecting close to what we'd make over here and living like kings over there.
All you see is the more careless ones getting caught. Identity theft actvities goes on, even in the US- we just have a better handle on it so that the sloppy ones don't get very far. In India and elsewhere, you pay for cheap, they don't give a care about security- what costs is the pay for the labor to be less inclined to do corrupt things and for the security to ensure that if they do, they typically get caught real quick.
All because of some idiot that has an MBA that thinks he has a solid handle on economics and business thinks that it'll be cheaper to do this "offshoring" thing- because everyone else is doing it and you can't afford to not do it.
Well, I'm here to tell you that if you can't afford to pay people here in the States (or UK, or Australia, or...) you probably really can't afford offshoring it unless you get lucky. Offshoring is a damn crapshoot- and you might get lucky, the odds with you for a while. But, at some point, it comes back to roost and all that money you "saved" just got flushed down the toilet in liability suits, lost reputation, and reperations to the poor sots that got screwed by the identity thefts, etc. that comes from it.
Sure, there's sharp people over in India and Russia. Do you think for one moment that you're GETTING those people when you offshore? If you do, you're fooling yourself. The really competent ones cost as much as they do here over there. What are you getting when you do the offshore thing? The middle of the crowd at best and the bottom of the barrel leavings- because they're cheaper.
My dad had SEVERAL of these things since I was a kid- of course, from a different vendor than Crescent. Bought them out at Canton from a tools vendor. The things have been around for decades now.
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And even then, with everything right, the testing, the right lube, etc. It can still develop a pinhole through the act of sex anyhow- and agains, you lose control over the situation, but have all the responsibility, etc.
Sad, isn't it, that people just think that using a condom will actually "protect" them; it'll do it most of the time- MOST OF THE TIME.
All it takes is a good pinhole stretched in it- which can happen if you use the wrong stuff for lubricant, etc...
Just exactly what part of "unsupported" did you not understand? This is not analogous to a XP Service Pack
installation breaking things as you put it. It's analogous to a service pack breaking all the registry
hacks you've done to make Home act like Professional and not report back home. What you did was unsupported
and it doesn't matter whether it's Windows, MacOS, Linux, or any other OS you choose to name. Unsupported means
precisely that- and if it breaks on you you get both pieces.
Actually, they have a thin metal version of this technology in a removable cartridge form
that's the size and thickness of a credit card with a smartcard contact point on it for
the crypto control on the disc. 100Mbytes to over 5Gbytes in a device allegedly more durable
than Flash (it's got the same vibration, etc. characteristics supposedly, but it's write
endurance vastly exceeds Flash right at the moment...)- in a credit card's space. What Bob
did was suggest that they apply the tech to fixed disc devices- and the article talks to the
potential results thereof.
Uhm... That's NOT quite true... Cut the power off, the disc eventually stops spinning because of friction, etc.
You need to supply a constant input of angular momentum to keep the discs spinning. Spinning a
smaller mass will ALWAYS mean a lower power input, from start to finish and everything in betweeen.
They don't have to have source code, all they need do is provide the register level info- what each register in the PCI/PCIE space does and what you're supposed to set them with. That's all anyone had when they did the RagePRO, Rage128, i810, or G400 chipsets in the days of the Utah-GLX or the early days of the DRI project. I know, I was there DOING it. Doesn't matter much, though... Saying Intel's part is less complex isn't quite the case, and me bitching about how silly it all is to not release register info doesn't change the situation any. If AMD sees fit, they'll make ATI open up the info a little more. If they don't, well, just hope that their OpenGL driver group catches up with NVidia soon... :-D
Heh... They both sit on the ARB board, come up with new OpenGL extensions together. They can figure out the other's tricks easily enough. It's not REALLY that they're not being nice. It's because of some bad advice from IP attorneys that think EVERYTHING should be kept secret, lest they lose the right of patentability, copyright, etc. Believe me when I tell you this; it's a story that keeps playing itself out at each and every place I've been contracting at for the last 3-4 years now.
It might have been "official" there- but go to their websites... ATI's has radically changed to be AMD logoed, etc.
Actually, no... All the technical data does is tell you how to drive the chips. It doesn't reveal all too much of how the silicon actually does what's being asked of it. If they've got any mojo that can't be revealed in that manner, they've got piece-parts of tech where they shouldn't be. Intel opened up everything except how to drive the Macrovision pieces of the chip (per their agreements with Macrovision and DVD CCA/MPAA...)- if it were Patent concerns, I assure you, it'd not been open sourced.
As of today, they've announced that they've completed the merger. Now begins the integration of the companies in question...
The lawsuit in question wasn't about infringement enabling devices (read: modchips...). It was about selling PSP's to the UK without Sony's permission. Completely different thing altogether.
Not really... If they can't afford the lawsuit, closing their doors might be the only action
they've got at their disposal. In reality, they were a primary source for a lot of the enthusiast
comunity's toys not available in their own respective markets. They weren't hurting in the business
department.
The sad thing about that statement is that the waters they're paid to keep clear are already
muddied up worse than anything like OpenOffice or Samba could or would- with all the trojans,
worms, virii, spyware, drifting versions and user interfaces...
Muddying the waters... Heh...
I can buy the power issue. Marvell's chip is one of the better choices for this. Mesh networking, I don't buy.
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Those are pictures of a mesh networking product/project that runs on Linux and doesn't even USE that
Marvell chip.
There's other low-power options that do this sort of thing- sure, it may be "harder" without the assist from
the Marvell chip, but don't play the "It's the only way to do this thing" card- it's not at all close to the
truth here.
So, in other words, it'd be six of one, half-dozen of another for them. Sad.
Yeah, but I'd suspect they'd consider it to be the lesser of two evils- NK is only 30 miles
away from Seoul. While it'd be difficult to do much with such a small bomb (if they've
actually detonated one...) it's enough for them to build up to lobbing the damn things easily
over the border and make an unholy mess of South Korea. NK is a whole hell of a lot less
stable than China is. You do the math.
...but IBM wouldn't have fielded this unless they had some proof of Goldfarb's claims to back
them up in court. This means there's very definitely more lurking, waiting to be fielded.
As to when, your guess is as good as mine. But, this is definitely NOT a spurious thing (IBM's
lawyers subpoenaed everyone touching this SCO thing, looking for dirty hands outside of SCO.
It wouldn't surprise me if there's more to come over the next 4-6 months... One case at a time though-
only the desperate or a fool wages a war on more than one front if they can help it.
Up until this filing, we only had peripheral snippets that showed this was the case.
Enough for someone mounting a case to have enough traction to start discovery, but not
enough to carry the case forward. Now, we've got testimony with some backing behind it
that indicates that MS IS as guilty as a cat caught in a goldfish bowl of trying to
knife a competitor in the back by funding a nonexistent lawsuit through intermediaries
to do their dirty work.
If IBM has any more, it's not going to be pretty for Baystar, RCB, or Microsoft.
This would fall under something prohibited by the Antitrust Acts. Since they have been found to
be an effective monopoly under those acts in a Findings of Fact from a prior Antitrust Trial, with
really no change in the circumstances, they're at violating the law again. (Small surprise that-
with nothing but slaps on the wrist, they really don't have any incentive to NOT do it again and
again, with more flagrant violations of the law being done over time.)
IBM wouldn't have fielded this as part of their filings unless they were laying the groundwork
for going after each and every party involved with this charade for it's worth. I'm hoping so
myself- it'd be nice to see all the people responsible for this whole lame affair being pilloried
for their efforts.
IBM wouldn't have submitted it unless there was something to back it all up with (This is something
submitted as testimony/evidence in a Civil Trial- IBM is not wont, unlike MS and SCO to fabricate
things for the court (Both of the latter mentioned companies are VERY guilty of that!)...they don't
HAVE to...). A paper trail.
We see glimpses of it floating about on the Internet, if you know where to look. Not as much
of a libel or fiction as you'd like to believe.
Yeah, but I just got told by one of the people we've got at my current contract job (Who WOULD know...)
that this is the case- the really skilled ones are collecting close to what we'd make over here and
living like kings over there.
All you see is the more careless ones getting caught. Identity theft actvities goes on, even in the US- we just
have a better handle on it so that the sloppy ones don't get very far. In India and elsewhere, you pay for cheap,
they don't give a care about security- what costs is the pay for the labor to be less inclined to do corrupt things
and for the security to ensure that if they do, they typically get caught real quick.
All because of some idiot that has an MBA that thinks he has a solid handle on economics and business thinks that
it'll be cheaper to do this "offshoring" thing- because everyone else is doing it and you can't afford to not do it.
Well, I'm here to tell you that if you can't afford to pay people here in the States (or UK, or Australia, or...)
you probably really can't afford offshoring it unless you get lucky. Offshoring is a damn crapshoot- and you might
get lucky, the odds with you for a while. But, at some point, it comes back to roost and all that money you "saved"
just got flushed down the toilet in liability suits, lost reputation, and reperations to the poor sots that got
screwed by the identity thefts, etc. that comes from it.
Sure, there's sharp people over in India and Russia. Do you think for one moment that you're GETTING those people
when you offshore? If you do, you're fooling yourself. The really competent ones cost as much as they do here over
there. What are you getting when you do the offshore thing? The middle of the crowd at best and the bottom of the
barrel leavings- because they're cheaper.
My dad had SEVERAL of these things since I was a kid- of course, from a different
vendor than Crescent. Bought them out at Canton from a tools vendor. The things
have been around for decades now.
New and innovative, my backside...
Now you put me right off my feed...
Must find suitable brain eraser for that mental image...