Of course the problem is the *current* oversubscription levels. Yes you need to oversubscribe however when you are approaching your total bandwidth level at peak times you work on expanding not dropping connections. Instead the big ISPs have decided to continue to increase the oversubscription numbers instead of reducing them as demand has increased.
This is just the same excuse that other telcos are giving for overselling their bandwidth vs their customers needs. These telcos need to learn how to provide enough bandwidth for peak times if that is what they're selling. If someone were to pick up a telephone at peak times and get an all circuits are busy message regularly during peak hours than there would be hell to pay.
We need to stop letting them get away with selling service to us that they cannot provide. As consumers we need to look towards other providers and build a market for service providers that don't pull these kinds of games. We also need to make it clear to these companies that their selling us services they cannot deliver is not acceptable to us. The only way they will ever get that message is through their subscriber numbers. As long as the big telcos and ISPs have the bulk of the customers they will never see the light until an exodus towards alternatives starts.
The only way that an exodus towards alternatives will occur is if we the people move in that direction and help the smaller companies build themselves up by moving to them.
This is all about overselling which has to be done to a certain extent but when the peak times cannot regularly be met then it is too oversold. Unfortunately consumers these days are sheep and will stay with these companies because they are cheaper/easier to get service from.
However no one will ever believe an ISP up front until they publish a public policy for open access and net neutrality. AT&T will never be completely believed until proven otherwise due to comments they have made in the past and continue to make.
If AT&T, Comcast, etc continue to sell more bandwidth to customers then they can provide (yes oversubscription is necessary but if they're at 80% during busy times then they should add more bandwidth and never reach saturation) instead of just bumping the speed they can advertise and tell customers oops you only get that speed the second thursday of every month when the moon is red then I for one will not buy the we need to do it to "protect" the network. The only protection the network needs is from the execs and marketing guys who vastly oversell.
The only two industries that I know of that can get away with selling more than what they have without landing in a prison cell is ISPs and airline industry. If I showed up for a baseball game and was told they had oversold for the game and my seat along with hundreds of others had been double sold I would be pissed off and it's time that the consumer reached the same level with both the airline industry and their ISP.
This is exactly what caused me to switch from Comcast and Qwest for ISP service to a local provider that brought fiber to my house and not only guaranteed me bandwidth but also that they will not block any ports or do anything to affect my packets. It's the local ISPs that are promising this that people should be looking toward and telling the corporate giants that only look at their wallet and don't care about customer satisfaction what to do with themselves.
And so comes another Great Wall of China. Is this so surprising from a government that has slipped back into "their old ways" of doing business? This is the real problem that our government doesn't seem to understand when they talk about "democracizing" the world until a people are ready for a real democracy any gain in that direction will ultimately be short lived unless they fight for it themselves. The old soviet union collapsed there was no real revolution for it just as in Iraq it probably will not stand because the people didn't fight for it and defend it.
In this country we're allowing ourselves to slip back into it because we're not fighting for it with our votes. Ultimately it is our votes (or lack thereof) for this issue that is allowing our own censorship in this country in the forms of internet restrictions by ISPs but instead of it being for political filtering it's for corporate filtering. We are becoming the sheep that must follow corporations.
First we have ISPs attempting to filter and/or "prioritize" services (some to profit off services they endorse) and now the FBI wants to read everything we do online. Just exactly why wouldn't there be the same expectation of privacy that you have with a phone call where they need a warrant to hear what you do? At this rate we'll all be able to visit only disney.com or other websites that the "ISP" and FBI want us to visit.
You also have to stop and consider that perhaps he had been waiting a while to leave. I believe that at this point Vista kept getting delayed and moving to the right. He probably had a lot of pressure from MS management to wrap up Vista as well and get it shipping ready or not. At some point he probably had to make the decision to cut their losses and get it out the door. With the ever stretching time frame of the development he probably hung in there longer then he wanted to.
HDCP is currently required by the DVD licensing group for all players that output at greater than 480p resolutions.
If you take a look at all the major dvd players out there that have scalers built into them you'll find that currently the only way to go above 480p on them is to use a dvi or hdmi output with hdcp. This is not new and Toshiba is not doing anything different. The problem is truly the standards bodies bowing to pressure from the MPAA and Hollywood to not allow unencrypted signals in high def off of players.
The old argument remains that Hollywood says they will not release movies in that format unless they can't be protected from copying and thus the technology giants bow to them in order to sell their product. I am still awaiting a technology giant to dare Hollywood to not support a format and thus lose the sales that way. Of course with companies like Sony running their own music and movie divisions that probably will not happen any time soon.
Please read the fine print on the site. It does not indicate that you will receive the same movie correctly formatted. Instead you will be trading in your existing movie for a different dvd off of a list.
"may exchange each Eligible DVD for (i) a new MGM DVD from a list of 325 titles"
Don't send in your existing movie you love to own expecting the same movie back. However if you own a dvd on the list and don't care much about it then you may be able to get a movie you like better from them. Without the list of 325 titles to choose from though it's quite a risk right now.
They could do the same as the RIAA did and dump movies that weren't selling well.
The question that no one in this article has asked is what do you do if the voting machine has a hard drive crash during an election so you literally lose all of the votes cast on the machine before it can even report what votes were cast that day.
Multiply the number of machines in use across the country and eventually this will happen.
Do you ask all the voters who used that machine to come back and vote again ? Probably not.
Although it would be nice to do this I believe that the real hurdle is yet to come when people can move their cell phone numbers. That hurdle is when you move between long distance areas. Yes I can now keep my cell phone number, Yes I have free long distance, Yes I have a nationwide long distance provider providing my cell phone, No one where I moved to can call me from a land line free of charge however.
The next real question is how do we handle this? Why can't modify long distance next. Long distance has not had an overhaul in over a decade. Since my new cell phone company is local I should now be able to be called locally from anywhere that cell phone company does business in my opinion not just based on the 3 digit archaic area code. With my free roaming across the country when I'm on the other coast from my local area people should still be able to call me for free if my cell phone company provides me free long distance and has local service in that region.
I am sure that sprint for example does not get handed the call and route the data all the way to my home town in order to send it back to where I am currently.
Anyone have any ideas when we'll see a major overhaul of long distance to accomidate roaming numbers and perpetual numbers anytime soon?
That in my opinion will be the next real battle to be fought as local carriers and long distance carriers will fight against.
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Harlan Ellison has always been bitter about the rewrites to City on the Edge of Forever and how his story was taken away from him. In the book about it he wrote that you had come over and counted the words in the script and had it torpedoed for due kirk having less lines than spock.
My question is what is your take on what happend with his script and your response to his accusations in the book? There is plenty out there about this that I'm sure has never come to light and I was wondering what your point of view on this issue is.
Is it possible for open source individuals to argue that the nondiscriminatory clause does in fact discriminate against them if they are forced into non disclosure agreements or monetary licenses in order to get access to APIs. Since a charge or non disclosure agreement would prevent most open source software developers from gaining access to this information can it be considered to be discriminating since Microsoft Corp. understands that this will prevent open source development.
Also using the term nondiscriminatory does this mean that if Microsoft were to release API's and details to other companies that they consider to be not for general publication because of "security" reasons is this discriminatory and therefore not allowed as well. In other words can Microsoft allow some but not others access to "security" API s and information?
A lot of people are so focused on Microsoft that they ignore their direct competeitors at times. Sun Microsystems has one of the worst agreements IMHO. If I sell a Sun system to another company or whatever the Solaris licencenses NEVER transfer. According to the license agreement if you purchase a Sun system the only way that you get a license to run Solaris is if you buy it from Sun. In all other cases you are REQUIRED to purchase a license from Sun Microsystems to run Solaris on that system. Also Sun changed their licensing terms with Solaris 9. It is now any system with more than 1 processor that the license is no longer free (as opposed to the previous number of 4). A lot of Sun workstations at the higher end run with at least 2 processors with only the low end desktop stuff running with 1. Buying that dual Ultra 60 off of Ebay will now cost you in licensing for Solaris 9.
Actually they already manufacture cards with duplicate macs and spread out the distribution of them. The idea is that the MAC doesn't have to be UNIQUE to the entire world just to that network. Since there are so many cards manufactured etc. The probability of them duplicating in the same network is extremely small.
Since it appears that the FCC will not worry about devices that play havoc with other devices as long as they follow the rules of the unlicensed spectrum it seems as though no matter where in the spectrum wireless standards move they may end up being disrupted. Would it instead be more intelligent of the standards bodies to accept donations from companies that wish to create devices following the standard and then license the necessary spectrum for the industry to use as long as the specifications of the standard are followed.
I have a cable modem from Comcast and use a dish for tv. Comcast specifically told me that I would get basic cable with my cable modem for free. (Basic meaning the local stations and pbs not all the cable stations) They were very up front about that fact and told me to use it if I wanted. Also they do indeed charge an extra $10 a month since I have no cable tv service which I believe is reasonable considering that with normal cable tv they factor in the cost of maintenance to their tv lines and repair services at your home which do not increase with cable modems so therefor that cost doesn't have to be charged twice to those with cable service. Althogh I do believe that $5 a month is more reasonable.
The most tragic part of both episode 1 and 2 is that Lucas needs to learn that he has lost the knack for directing (some may argue that he never had it) American Graffiti was superbly directed with Star Wars being an acceptable directing. Episode 1 and 2 are to be honest amateurish directing. Before Episode 1 Lucas had not directed a major movie since Star Wars. One of the major improvements for 3 should be him turning over the reins to a better director.
Another major improvement should be the writing. The plot of this movie is superb. It shows that the sith have everything planned from beginning to end with very few surprises occuring throughout the entire set of movies (The only major surprise yet in any of these movies is when Vader kills the Emperor) other then that Palpatine has everything well planned. Lucas may have had a co-writer for this movie but frankly if he helped make the movie better then I'd hate to see the original script. Lucas needs to find himself a good writer and a writer who can write the type of material needed (the love story parts were very poorly written).
The actors that he used are all top quality actors he only needs better directing and writing to let them shine (and I believe they can if they're given the correct direction and good lines)
ILM is what saved this movie overall with the superb special effects. Yoda was superbly done after 5 years of trying to get him right they've done it.
So please Lucas next time find a good director and a good writer to give justice to your vision.
What most people are missing is something quite simple. They're preventing you from distributing their compilation. This is in fact quite legal as long as no GPL software was modified. If the GPL software was compiled and included but not changed they do not need to release the source since the source is already freely available.
Look at other Linux distributions from TurboLinux, Caldera, etc. which are not totally freely available. If however there is GPL software included which was modified by Corel then they do need to make that available. Saying that you cannot copy their packaging however is quite legal since the packaging of the software cannot be construed legally as a changed piece of software if the source for the software was not changed before it was compiled.
Actually Intel has been doing this all along. That's why the PII and PIII were introduced at such low prices compared to for example the 486 or first Pentiums.
AMD is in a position with the Athlon to compete against the Xeon's as well. Their capable of a larger cache then the Xeon's as well as using a much better bus for multiprocessing. While Intel still uses the same 100 MHZ bus in dual and quad systems for all processor communication the EV6 bus allows for more. In the EV6 bus each of the processors have their own bus to memory and I/O. In addition each bus can be clocked at up to 400 MHZ according to current specs. It is more difficult to implement for more then 2 processors but it can easily support up to at least 32 processors while Intel has to play games with their bus to get up to just 8.
Until Intel changes their system bus significantly AMD will be able to blow them away when the proper motherboards are released. Also this bus will allow AMD to go toe to toe with Sun, IBM, SGI, and Alpha on multiprocessing should they choose to do so.
I just tried the Meta-Moderation however I noticed a small problem. I clicked on the parent link to see the parent of a comment to put things in context. The problem however was when I hit my back button to to say the moderation was fair. Since it's being generated with a perl script it gave me a new set of 10 moderations making looking at the parent useless since I now had a whole new set of moderations to deal with.
For all of you that think this is spam think again this is a GREAT offer. Why is this great? Well simply put this is an offer to get in on the ground floor price before it shoots through the ceiling. By the end of the day the price will more then likely be triple or more the initial price and that is quite a return on an investment. If you sell at the end of the day it's quite profitable.
Admittedly some do not have the $$ to open an E*Trade account and partake but those who can it is an excellent offer. All I can say is that Red Hat did have a good idea here since it is an excellent offer (whether you like the company or not) to make some $$ quite easily and with virtually no risk. No one says you *HAVE* to hang on to the shares at the end of the day (or week) they'll be worth quite a bit more and make you a nice profit.
I only wish that I'd received an email about this however a lot of my work is not high profile or where they would have heard of me. For the developers overseas all I can surmise is that RedHat did it in this way by email to limit the number of offers to just those developing and not to where the average person could get the info and take advantage of it. Why all the Debian developers? Simple they probably needed a quick and easy way to get the info out or it would be useless to waste a lot of people's time just looking for people that would be interested.
This is in a way them saying thank you to the developers by letting them make some $$ off of their IPO whether they like the company or not.
Yes the Netscape calendar server does use LDAP for storing the data and they say it can work with any LDAP server that follows the standards properly.
The client can store local calendars or it can connect to a server. The only server that it can connect to however, is the Netscape Calendar server. Netscape state that they will follow any standard as it becomes available.
The Netscape calendar server also allows for the ability to work with your calendar through web pages instead of their client if you wish to.
If you read it closely it allows you to use the software on any machine you own or lease. So in a heterogeneous network you can compile and install it on other machines and then freely use it. Just because it's not allowed to be included with Solaris does not mean that you can't compile and install it yourself.
Although the exception is stupid especially when you consider that they admit that older versions are being distributed with other Unixes because of the BSD licensing.
It would be nice to have a much better license however at least it can still be installed by individuals or companies on their systems even if it can't be included.
Yes he can do it here easily. You're missing the point of what a license is. A license is the legal usage of your product. Unfortunately the GPL has been waved around so much recently that it's taken to be a holy grail of a sort that is all or nothing. People take the approach that something is good or bad based solely on it being GPL or not.
Since it is his software he can license it in any manner he wishes. Although lots of people wish that all software was GPL licensed he still has the freedom to make whatever licensing terms he wishes. The GPL contains no statements saying that it cannot be modified for other use. In cases like this it is very important that it can be changed depending upon the data being output. That data for example could be highly confidential business or personal information which if it was under GPL could then be stolen legally.
The license can also of course be changed in the future as was done with bison, ssh, rdist, etc. to apply more restrictive terms as long as he does not include others code he requires no ones permission to do such.
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Of course the problem is the *current* oversubscription levels. Yes you need to oversubscribe however when you are approaching your total bandwidth level at peak times you work on expanding not dropping connections. Instead the big ISPs have decided to continue to increase the oversubscription numbers instead of reducing them as demand has increased.
This is just the same excuse that other telcos are giving for overselling their bandwidth vs their customers needs. These telcos need to learn how to provide enough bandwidth for peak times if that is what they're selling. If someone were to pick up a telephone at peak times and get an all circuits are busy message regularly during peak hours than there would be hell to pay.
We need to stop letting them get away with selling service to us that they cannot provide. As consumers we need to look towards other providers and build a market for service providers that don't pull these kinds of games. We also need to make it clear to these companies that their selling us services they cannot deliver is not acceptable to us. The only way they will ever get that message is through their subscriber numbers. As long as the big telcos and ISPs have the bulk of the customers they will never see the light until an exodus towards alternatives starts.
The only way that an exodus towards alternatives will occur is if we the people move in that direction and help the smaller companies build themselves up by moving to them.
This is all about overselling which has to be done to a certain extent but when the peak times cannot regularly be met then it is too oversold. Unfortunately consumers these days are sheep and will stay with these companies because they are cheaper/easier to get service from.
However no one will ever believe an ISP up front until they publish a public policy for open access and net neutrality. AT&T will never be completely believed until proven otherwise due to comments they have made in the past and continue to make.
If AT&T, Comcast, etc continue to sell more bandwidth to customers then they can provide (yes oversubscription is necessary but if they're at 80% during busy times then they should add more bandwidth and never reach saturation) instead of just bumping the speed they can advertise and tell customers oops you only get that speed the second thursday of every month when the moon is red then I for one will not buy the we need to do it to "protect" the network. The only protection the network needs is from the execs and marketing guys who vastly oversell.
The only two industries that I know of that can get away with selling more than what they have without landing in a prison cell is ISPs and airline industry. If I showed up for a baseball game and was told they had oversold for the game and my seat along with hundreds of others had been double sold I would be pissed off and it's time that the consumer reached the same level with both the airline industry and their ISP.
This is exactly what caused me to switch from Comcast and Qwest for ISP service to a local provider that brought fiber to my house and not only guaranteed me bandwidth but also that they will not block any ports or do anything to affect my packets. It's the local ISPs that are promising this that people should be looking toward and telling the corporate giants that only look at their wallet and don't care about customer satisfaction what to do with themselves.
And so comes another Great Wall of China.
Is this so surprising from a government that has slipped back into "their old ways" of doing business? This is the real problem that our government doesn't seem to understand when they talk about "democracizing" the world until a people are ready for a real democracy any gain in that direction will ultimately be short lived unless they fight for it themselves. The old soviet union collapsed there was no real revolution for it just as in Iraq it probably will not stand because the people didn't fight for it and defend it.
In this country we're allowing ourselves to slip back into it because we're not fighting for it with our votes. Ultimately it is our votes (or lack thereof) for this issue that is allowing our own censorship in this country in the forms of internet restrictions by ISPs but instead of it being for political filtering it's for corporate filtering. We are becoming the sheep that must follow corporations.
First we have ISPs attempting to filter and/or "prioritize" services (some to profit off services they endorse) and now the FBI wants to read everything we do online. Just exactly why wouldn't there be the same expectation of privacy that you have with a phone call where they need a warrant to hear what you do? At this rate we'll all be able to visit only disney.com or other websites that the "ISP" and FBI want us to visit.
You also have to stop and consider that perhaps he had been waiting a while to leave. I believe that at this point Vista kept getting delayed and moving to the right. He probably had a lot of pressure from MS management to wrap up Vista as well and get it shipping ready or not. At some point he probably had to make the decision to cut their losses and get it out the door. With the ever stretching time frame of the development he probably hung in there longer then he wanted to.
HDCP is currently required by the DVD licensing group for all players that output at greater than 480p resolutions.
If you take a look at all the major dvd players out there that have scalers built into them you'll find that currently the only way to go above 480p on them is to use a dvi or hdmi output with hdcp. This is not new and Toshiba is not doing anything different. The problem is truly the standards bodies bowing to pressure from the MPAA and Hollywood to not allow unencrypted signals in high def off of players.
The old argument remains that Hollywood says they will not release movies in that format unless they can't be protected from copying and thus the technology giants bow to them in order to sell their product. I am still awaiting a technology giant to dare Hollywood to not support a format and thus lose the sales that way. Of course with companies like Sony running their own music and movie divisions that probably will not happen any time soon.
Please read the fine print on the site. It does not indicate that you will receive the same movie correctly formatted. Instead you will be trading in your existing movie for a different dvd off of a list.
"may exchange each Eligible DVD for (i) a new MGM DVD from a list of 325 titles"
Don't send in your existing movie you love to own expecting the same movie back. However if you own a dvd on the list and don't care much about it then you may be able to get a movie you like better from them. Without the list of 325 titles to choose from though it's quite a risk right now.
They could do the same as the RIAA did and dump movies that weren't selling well.
The question that no one in this article has asked is what do you do if the voting machine has a hard drive crash during an election so you literally lose all of the votes cast on the machine before it can even report what votes were cast that day.
Multiply the number of machines in use across the country and eventually this will happen.
Do you ask all the voters who used that machine to come back and vote again ? Probably not.
Although it would be nice to do this I believe that the real hurdle is yet to come when people can move their cell phone numbers. That hurdle is when you move between long distance areas. Yes I can now keep my cell phone number, Yes I have free long distance, Yes I have a nationwide long distance provider providing my cell phone, No one where I moved to can call me from a land line free of charge however.
The next real question is how do we handle this? Why can't modify long distance next. Long distance has not had an overhaul in over a decade. Since my new cell phone company is local I should now be able to be called locally from anywhere that cell phone company does business in my opinion not just based on the 3 digit archaic area code. With my free roaming across the country when I'm on the other coast from my local area people should still be able to call me for free if my cell phone company provides me free long distance and has local service in that region.
I am sure that sprint for example does not get handed the call and route the data all the way to my home town in order to send it back to where I am currently.
Anyone have any ideas when we'll see a major overhaul of long distance to accomidate roaming numbers and perpetual numbers anytime soon?
That in my opinion will be the next real battle to be fought as local carriers and long distance carriers will fight against.
Harlan Ellison has always been bitter about the rewrites to City on the Edge of Forever and how his story was taken away from him. In the book about it he wrote that you had come over and counted the words in the script and had it torpedoed for due kirk having less lines than spock.
My question is what is your take on what happend with his script and your response to his accusations in the book? There is plenty out there about this that I'm sure has never come to light and I was wondering what your point of view on this issue is.
Is it possible for open source individuals to argue that the nondiscriminatory clause does in fact discriminate against them if they are forced into non disclosure agreements or monetary licenses in order to get access to APIs. Since a charge or non disclosure agreement would prevent most open source software developers from gaining access to this information can it be considered to be discriminating since Microsoft Corp. understands that this will prevent open source development.
Also using the term nondiscriminatory does this mean that if Microsoft were to release API's and details to other companies that they consider to be not for general publication because of "security" reasons is this discriminatory and therefore not allowed as well. In other words can Microsoft allow some but not others access to "security" API
s and information?
A lot of people are so focused on Microsoft that they ignore their direct competeitors at times. Sun Microsystems has one of the worst agreements IMHO. If I sell a Sun system to another company or whatever the Solaris licencenses NEVER transfer. According to the license agreement if you purchase a Sun system the only way that you get a license to run Solaris is if you buy it from Sun. In all other cases you are REQUIRED to purchase a license from Sun Microsystems to run Solaris on that system. Also Sun changed their licensing terms with Solaris 9. It is now any system with more than 1 processor that the license is no longer free (as opposed to the previous number of 4). A lot of Sun workstations at the higher end run with at least 2 processors with only the low end desktop stuff running with 1. Buying that dual Ultra 60 off of Ebay will now cost you in licensing for Solaris 9.
Actually they already manufacture cards with duplicate macs and spread out the distribution of them. The idea is that the MAC doesn't have to be UNIQUE to the entire world just to that network. Since there are so many cards manufactured etc. The probability of them duplicating in the same network is extremely small.
My favorite old SunOs error message was a kernel panic with the message
Error Free Freeing Free Frags
Since it appears that the FCC will not worry about devices that play havoc with other devices as long as they follow the rules of the unlicensed spectrum it seems as though no matter where in the spectrum wireless standards move they may end up being disrupted. Would it instead be more intelligent of the standards bodies to accept donations from companies that wish to create devices following the standard and then license the necessary spectrum for the industry to use as long as the specifications of the standard are followed.
I have a cable modem from Comcast and use a dish for tv. Comcast specifically told me that I would get basic cable with my cable modem for free. (Basic meaning the local stations and pbs not all the cable stations) They were very up front about that fact and told me to use it if I wanted. Also they do indeed charge an extra $10 a month since I have no cable tv service which I believe is reasonable considering that with normal cable tv they factor in the cost of maintenance to their tv lines and repair services at your home which do not increase with cable modems so therefor that cost doesn't have to be charged twice to those with cable service. Althogh I do believe that $5 a month is more reasonable.
The most tragic part of both episode 1 and 2 is that Lucas needs to learn that he has lost the knack for directing (some may argue that he never had it) American Graffiti was superbly directed with Star Wars being an acceptable directing. Episode 1 and 2 are to be honest amateurish directing. Before Episode 1 Lucas had not directed a major movie since Star Wars. One of the major improvements for 3 should be him turning over the reins to a better director.
Another major improvement should be the writing. The plot of this movie is superb. It shows that the sith have everything planned from beginning to end with very few surprises occuring throughout the entire set of movies (The only major surprise yet in any of these movies is when Vader kills the Emperor) other then that Palpatine has everything well planned. Lucas may have had a co-writer for this movie but frankly if he helped make the movie better then I'd hate to see the original script. Lucas needs to find himself a good writer and a writer who can write the type of material needed (the love story parts were very poorly written).
The actors that he used are all top quality actors he only needs better directing and writing to let them shine (and I believe they can if they're given the correct direction and good lines)
ILM is what saved this movie overall with the superb special effects. Yoda was superbly done after 5 years of trying to get him right they've done it.
So please Lucas next time find a good director and a good writer to give justice to your vision.
What most people are missing is something quite simple. They're preventing you from distributing their compilation. This is in fact quite legal as long as no GPL software was modified. If the GPL software was compiled and included but not changed they do not need to release the source since the source is already freely available.
Look at other Linux distributions from TurboLinux, Caldera, etc. which are not totally freely available. If however there is GPL software included which was modified by Corel then they do need to make that available. Saying that you cannot copy their packaging however is quite legal since the packaging of the software cannot be construed legally as a changed piece of software if the source for the software was not changed before it was compiled.
Oh yeah btw IANAL
Actually Intel has been doing this all along. That's why the PII and PIII were introduced at such low prices compared to for example the 486 or first Pentiums.
AMD is in a position with the Athlon to compete against the Xeon's as well. Their capable of a larger cache then the Xeon's as well as using a much better bus for multiprocessing. While Intel still uses the same 100 MHZ bus in dual and quad systems for all processor communication the EV6 bus allows for more. In the EV6 bus each of the processors have their own bus to memory and I/O. In addition each bus can be clocked at up to 400 MHZ according to current specs. It is more difficult to implement for more then 2 processors but it can easily support up to at least 32 processors while Intel has to play games with their bus to get up to just 8.
Until Intel changes their system bus significantly AMD will be able to blow them away when the proper motherboards are released. Also this bus will allow AMD to go toe to toe with Sun, IBM, SGI, and Alpha on multiprocessing should they choose to do so.
I just tried the Meta-Moderation however I noticed a small problem. I clicked on the parent link to see the parent of a comment to put things in context. The problem however was when I hit my back button to to say the moderation was fair.
Since it's being generated with a perl script it gave me a new set of 10 moderations making looking at the parent useless since I now had a whole new set of moderations to deal with.
For all of you that think this is spam think again this is a GREAT offer. Why is this great? Well simply put this is an offer to get in on the ground floor price before it shoots through the ceiling. By the end of the day the price will more then likely be triple or more the initial price and that is quite a return on an investment. If you sell at the end of the day it's quite profitable.
Admittedly some do not have the $$ to open an E*Trade account and partake but those who can it is an excellent offer. All I can say is that Red Hat did have a good idea here since it is an excellent offer (whether you like the company or not) to make some $$ quite easily and with virtually no risk. No one says you *HAVE* to hang on to the shares at the end of the day (or week) they'll be worth quite a bit more and make you a nice profit.
I only wish that I'd received an email about this however a lot of my work is not high profile or where they would have heard of me. For the developers overseas all I can surmise is that RedHat did it in this way by email to limit the number of offers to just those developing and not to where the average person could get the info and take advantage of it. Why all the Debian developers? Simple they probably needed a quick and easy way to get the info out or it would be useless to waste a lot of people's time just looking for people that would be interested.
This is in a way them saying thank you to the developers by letting them make some $$ off of their IPO whether they like the company or not.
Yes the Netscape calendar server does use LDAP for storing the data and they say it can work with any LDAP server that follows the standards properly.
The client can store local calendars or it can connect to a server. The only server that it can connect to however, is the Netscape Calendar server. Netscape state that they will follow any standard as it becomes available.
The Netscape calendar server also allows for the ability to work with your calendar through web pages instead of their client if you wish to.
If you read it closely it allows you to use the software on any machine you own or lease. So in a heterogeneous network you can compile and install it on other machines and then freely use it. Just because it's not allowed to be included with Solaris does not mean that you can't compile and install it yourself.
Although the exception is stupid especially when you consider that they admit that older versions are being distributed with other Unixes because of the BSD licensing.
It would be nice to have a much better license however at least it can still be installed by individuals or companies on their systems even if it can't be included.
Yes he can do it here easily. You're missing the point of what a license is. A license is the legal usage of your product. Unfortunately the GPL has been waved around so much recently that it's taken to be a holy grail of a sort that is all or nothing. People take the approach that something is good or bad based solely on it being GPL or not.
Since it is his software he can license it in any manner he wishes. Although lots of people wish that all software was GPL licensed he still has the freedom to make whatever licensing terms he wishes. The GPL contains no statements saying that it cannot be modified for other use. In cases like this it is very important that it can be changed depending upon the data being output. That data for example could be highly confidential business or personal information which if it was under GPL could then be stolen legally.
The license can also of course be changed in the future as was done with bison, ssh, rdist, etc. to apply more restrictive terms as long as he does not include others code he requires no ones permission to do such.