They will either have to back away from this policy, challenge the rules themselves, or start filtering traffic even more agressively than the Chinese.
I'm probably a bit older than your average/.'er so I remember lots of applications that 'violate' this patent. There was a great task switcher called Desqview (Quarterdeck software) too. Toward the end they made a product called "Desqview X" which actually supported the X-window protocol directly under DOS.
Of course Sun had stuff that predates this too. Their Open Look Window Manager (olwm) was around for quite a while before this. Olwm was the first window manager that I used under Linux too. That would have been in 1991 or so which may or may not pre-date the patent.
GM has its problems. I'll never own another GM product. I think their biggest issue is that they do not learn from their mistakes. If the design engineers screw up and produce a product that fails repeatedly, they never hear about it. There's no feedback mechanisim between the service departments and the engineering team. This is the primary difference between them and their Japanese competitors.
All of that aside, this step crosses the line. What they have implemented here is a means to remotely take control of the car from the driver. Think about that for a minute. They've decided that an "override" function should exist which would superceed the judgement and will of the pilot of the vehicle. This is the same kind of reasoning that caused the Airbus A320 crash at the Habsheim air show in 1988. The computer overrode the pilots attempts to climb and crashed the aircraft, killing many.
If I ever own a vehicle with such technology installed, the first thing I'll do before driving it will be to completely disable it.
I bought an IBM (server) motherboard last year which has a Linux kernel (and even an X window manager) in the BIOS. The downside is that if I plug in a PCIe video card instead of using the on-board graphics controller, the X gui fails to start and I have no way to check or change the settings.
I am a member of the general public and I have *NOT* accepted HD-DVD or Blueray as viable formats. I have been waiting for something else to come along that promises my ability to view HD movies that I buy on future players. Part of the DRM system incorporated into both standards will "bind" the discs to the players and play them at reduced resolution in any other player. What happens when my player wears out? Must I re-purchase my entire movie collection?
Then wouldn't it be in Microsoft's best interest to ship all installable releases with deliberately deficient code? This way they virtually guarantee that the end user will connect for an update. In a way they are already doing this with manditory activation (some features turn off if Windows is never "activated").
Get somebody with a clear view of the sky to allow you to set up a satellite terminal on their property, and then use WiFi, lasers, or some other technology to close the link between your property and theirs. Alternatively, you could certainly use an Irridium based data phone but that might cost more than my previous suggestion.
I could not have said it better myself. You've covered nearly all of it. The one point that you did not expound upon is the illegal bundling of IE with Windows in an attempt to quash Netscape (who had the dominant browser at the time).
I'm giving up my ability to mod this thread but I need to set the record straight. DirecTV went as far as obtaining lists of people who purchased smart card equipment on the internet, and corelating them with people who had bought DirecTV equipment. Anybody who fit the profile was sent a "demand letter" which threatened a federal lawsuit unless they paid DirecTV thousands of dollars. There were lots of innocent folks caught up in this (and lots of not-so-innocent ones too). At issue is the fact that the innocent people who had an interest in smart card research for computer security purposes, and who happened to purchase equipment from low-priced on-line retailers were wrongly harrassed by DirecTV.
If you've got imagery from before and after the crash (if there was one), why not let the computer do the searching? It would make for an interesting software project.
303-499-7111 (or tune your shortwave receiver to any one of the internationally allocated standard carrier frequencies of 2.5, 5, 10, 15, or 20 megahertz).
You should blame the politicians who voted to allow the monopoly deal in the first place. Do you believe for one second that they did not know what they were doing?
It is a 90% drop. The network bandwidth drops to 10% of what it should be. From what I recall reading about this last week, I thought it only became apparent with a GIGABIT ethernet NIC. All of these posts discussing no effects with mp3 players and 10/100 cards have missed the mark. A 10/100 card running at 100 megabits has 10% of the network bandwidth of a gigabit nic. Nonetheless, MS Windows sucks and this is just another fine example.
Sun paid SCO $10M for those "rights". SCO owes most of that money to Novell (and more). Novell will likely never get their money from SCO and they should make Sun feel some of the pain too. After all Sun failed in their due dilligance with regard to the IP rights they bought. Any competent lawyer can plainly see that there was no written conveyance of the copyrights to SCO. Sun should have known what they were doing. Now they should pay for their mistake and offset some of the huge legal costs that Novell had to bear.
Gates is on record as saying they don't fix bugs at M$. He said their main focus is on new features. I'm not going to bother looking for the quote. Google it yourself and learn about your master.
Microsoft is not interested in fixing the problems with their operating systems. They need a certain number of bugs and annoyances present in the OS so the consumer will be unsatisfied and will rush to purchase the next "upgraded" OS. This business model has been hugely successful for them and it will continue to be until people wise up. Microsoft are capitalizing on human nature. Most people believe that "newer is better" but it is not always true.
Tried booting the 11 DVD with every available kernel and none of the would recognize my 3ware 8xxx 2.5TB array. Of course I know how to build a new kernel and this is what I did back before anybody supported RAID out of the box. I stopped building custom kernels (at least for initial installation) 5 years ago.
RedHat's NFS large file support has been solid since version 7. Slackware still had problems as of version 11. I'm downloading version 12 now so we'll see how it's doing now.
I think I said doesn't FULLY support as in the NFS client and server. I understand that you must force the version to >2 but it still doesn't work (at least with 11).
It's amazing that my parent was moderated at 0 - troll.
I've used Slackware since the beginning (just after the SLS days). Recently I tried to install it on a high-end server. I was appalled to discover that Slackware does not support (at least not out of the box) 3ware RAID controllers. If you're serious about setting up a server, a hardware RAID controller is essential. 3ware makes some of the best that their Linux support is good.
Another gripe about Slackware is the lack of large file support. Unbelievable as it may sound, Slackware does not yet fully support large (>2GB) files.
Despite the above, I'm going to grab this latest release and play with it. I've got Slackware installed on 3 of my boxes now. Maybe I'll upgrade one of them to see what's new.
I ran an AMD Athlon in an Asus MB as a Linux server for 4 years with no trouble (other than noticing that mplayer didn't work right). A few years after I decomissioned the MB, I decided to set it up as an XP box for my 4 year old. I was very surprised to discover that it just would not work right. After some troubleshooting, I found that the CPU had a bug in some of the MMX instructions. By this time it was too late to exchange the chip for a functional one so I just threw it away and bought another one from eBay. My 4 year old is happy with his computer.
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They will either have to back away from this policy, challenge the rules themselves, or start filtering traffic even more agressively than the Chinese.
I'm probably a bit older than your average /.'er so I remember lots of applications that 'violate' this patent. There was a great task switcher called Desqview (Quarterdeck software) too. Toward the end they made a product called "Desqview X" which actually supported the X-window protocol directly under DOS.
Of course Sun had stuff that predates this too. Their Open Look Window Manager (olwm) was around for quite a while before this. Olwm was the first window manager that I used under Linux too. That would have been in 1991 or so which may or may not pre-date the patent.
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GM has its problems. I'll never own another GM product. I think their biggest issue is that they do not learn from their mistakes. If the design engineers screw up and produce a product that fails repeatedly, they never hear about it. There's no feedback mechanisim between the service departments and the engineering team. This is the primary difference between them and their Japanese competitors.
All of that aside, this step crosses the line. What they have implemented here is a means to remotely take control of the car from the driver. Think about that for a minute. They've decided that an "override" function should exist which would superceed the judgement and will of the pilot of the vehicle. This is the same kind of reasoning that caused the Airbus A320 crash at the Habsheim air show in 1988. The computer overrode the pilots attempts to climb and crashed the aircraft, killing many.
If I ever own a vehicle with such technology installed, the first thing I'll do before driving it will be to completely disable it.
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I bought an IBM (server) motherboard last year which has a Linux kernel (and even an X window manager) in the BIOS. The downside is that if I plug in a PCIe video card instead of using the on-board graphics controller, the X gui fails to start and I have no way to check or change the settings.
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I am a member of the general public and I have *NOT* accepted HD-DVD or Blueray as viable formats. I have been waiting for something else to come along that promises my ability to view HD movies that I buy on future players. Part of the DRM system incorporated into both standards will "bind" the discs to the players and play them at reduced resolution in any other player. What happens when my player wears out? Must I re-purchase my entire movie collection?
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Then wouldn't it be in Microsoft's best interest to ship all installable releases with deliberately deficient code? This way they virtually guarantee that the end user will connect for an update. In a way they are already doing this with manditory activation (some features turn off if Windows is never "activated").
Get somebody with a clear view of the sky to allow you to set up a satellite terminal on their property, and then use WiFi, lasers, or some other technology to close the link between your property and theirs. Alternatively, you could certainly use an Irridium based data phone but that might cost more than my previous suggestion.
See: here.
I could not have said it better myself. You've covered nearly all of it. The one point that you did not expound upon is the illegal bundling of IE with Windows in an attempt to quash Netscape (who had the dominant browser at the time).
After only 16 posts.
I'm giving up my ability to mod this thread but I need to set the record straight. DirecTV went as far as obtaining lists of people who purchased smart card equipment on the internet, and corelating them with people who had bought DirecTV equipment. Anybody who fit the profile was sent a "demand letter" which threatened a federal lawsuit unless they paid DirecTV thousands of dollars. There were lots of innocent folks caught up in this (and lots of not-so-innocent ones too). At issue is the fact that the innocent people who had an interest in smart card research for computer security purposes, and who happened to purchase equipment from low-priced on-line retailers were wrongly harrassed by DirecTV.
If you've got imagery from before and after the crash (if there was one), why not let the computer do the searching? It would make for an interesting software project.
303-499-7111 (or tune your shortwave receiver to any one of the internationally allocated standard carrier frequencies of 2.5, 5, 10, 15, or 20 megahertz).
You should blame the politicians who voted to allow the monopoly deal in the first place. Do you believe for one second that they did not know what they were doing?
It is a 90% drop. The network bandwidth drops to 10% of what it should be. From what I recall reading about this last week, I thought it only became apparent with a GIGABIT ethernet NIC. All of these posts discussing no effects with mp3 players and 10/100 cards have missed the mark. A 10/100 card running at 100 megabits has 10% of the network bandwidth of a gigabit nic. Nonetheless, MS Windows sucks and this is just another fine example.
Sun paid SCO $10M for those "rights". SCO owes most of that money to Novell (and more). Novell will likely never get their money from SCO and they should make Sun feel some of the pain too. After all Sun failed in their due dilligance with regard to the IP rights they bought. Any competent lawyer can plainly see that there was no written conveyance of the copyrights to SCO. Sun should have known what they were doing. Now they should pay for their mistake and offset some of the huge legal costs that Novell had to bear.
Notably missing from the list.
Gates is on record as saying they don't fix bugs at M$. He said their main focus is on new features. I'm not going to bother looking for the quote. Google it yourself and learn about your master.
Microsoft is not interested in fixing the problems with their operating systems. They need a certain number of bugs and annoyances present in the OS so the consumer will be unsatisfied and will rush to purchase the next "upgraded" OS. This business model has been hugely successful for them and it will continue to be until people wise up. Microsoft are capitalizing on human nature. Most people believe that "newer is better" but it is not always true.
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Tried booting the 11 DVD with every available kernel and none of the would recognize my 3ware 8xxx 2.5TB array. Of course I know how to build a new kernel and this is what I did back before anybody supported RAID out of the box. I stopped building custom kernels (at least for initial installation) 5 years ago.
RedHat's NFS large file support has been solid since version 7. Slackware still had problems as of version 11. I'm downloading version 12 now so we'll see how it's doing now.
I think I said doesn't FULLY support as in the NFS client and server. I understand that you must force the version to >2 but it still doesn't work (at least with 11).
It's amazing that my parent was moderated at 0 - troll.
I've used Slackware since the beginning (just after the SLS days). Recently I tried to install it on a high-end server. I was appalled to discover that Slackware does not support (at least not out of the box) 3ware RAID controllers. If you're serious about setting up a server, a hardware RAID controller is essential. 3ware makes some of the best that their Linux support is good.
Another gripe about Slackware is the lack of large file support. Unbelievable as it may sound, Slackware does not yet fully support large (>2GB) files.
Despite the above, I'm going to grab this latest release and play with it. I've got Slackware installed on 3 of my boxes now. Maybe I'll upgrade one of them to see what's new.
I have RTFA and cannot see where this group has successfully read data from the drive with a laser. All it talks about is writing.
True story:
I ran an AMD Athlon in an Asus MB as a Linux server for 4 years with no trouble (other than noticing that mplayer didn't work right). A few years after I decomissioned the MB, I decided to set it up as an XP box for my 4 year old. I was very surprised to discover that it just would not work right. After some troubleshooting, I found that the CPU had a bug in some of the MMX instructions. By this time it was too late to exchange the chip for a functional one so I just threw it away and bought another one from eBay. My 4 year old is happy with his computer.