To create true competition in this sector, the way to handle it is to allow their base Win32 API's to be implemented or copied... (Meaning, complete legal protection) In short, legalize Wine and similar projects... Plain and simple.. If they were to officially protect the Wine project, and similar API projects, this would allow for huge amounts of investment into this sector. Within two years nearly ever version of linux would be able to run "cleanly" virtually any Win32 application. This would also force M$ to once again compete by trying to get people to buy windows because it is better rather than because they are simply doing it..
I think you are talking about house fires my friend...:-)
I serious doubt your "the majority die of smoke inhalation" argument. In fact, a good friend of mine works at the famous aircraft salvage group in Griffin Ga, and I posed this question to him. He agreed in saying that commercial aircraft (Non-GA) crashes are not that common, but when they occur, the vast majority of them are fatal by major trauma and not smoke inhalation. In fact, he claims that the seats most of the time are the ultimate killer, but at a average 11G impact, most people didnt have a chance anyway simply due to the forces involved...
Carbon Fiber processes is no different that any other laminate molding. Yes there are resins resins that you would want high temp low moisture for curing, but it is more about removing moisture to ensure correct resin/fiber bonding than anything else. I suspect the resin is vaccumed originally to remove bubbles during mixing, but with a laminate piece as large as a fuselage, small bubbles during curing would be the least of there concerns. Proper pre-preg placement would the the most important. In other resins I know they use heat and pressure, but typically in your clear resins where high clarity is required. Meaning, the reason for the pressure in that case is to shink the bubbles during curing...
What I find interesting is the perception that using composites on aircrafts are something new. In the GA-experimental world, they are all considered superior for a whole range of reasons, and have been around for more than a decade. In the commercial world, various smaller parts have been used with composites for a number of years.
The burning argument is the one I find the most bizarre. So let me get this straight... A > 20 ton aircraft crashes, and all they can think about is the potential "toxic chemicals" when it burns? I would think the several tons of Jet-A all around you probably would be a larger concern. I mean we are talking about a crash here after all...
Have you ever been to a major rally, such as the G8 Summit? Meaning, at places where this "weapon" would be used, the people who are involved more than protect their faces and hands, but a weapon like this would go right thru their clothes. Hence, the reason it was developed. However, once these people figure out that even the thinnest metal will render the weapon useless, then its effectiveness becomes a moot point... This is just my opinion, though..:-)
I am talking about content here... Yes, AT&T is pissed with people cracking the IPhone, but they realize that the losses from the average subscriber would be quite limited... With this, it would be quite unlikely AT&T would pull out... In the case of music and video vendors, though, this is a completely different story... Hence NBC Universal..
To me, the scary part is not when the general population is scared of police, but rather when they become disinterested in their government. This is exactly what the current policy makers want... Keep you loaded up in debt and working to pay those bills, and unintereested in what they are doing... Did you notice the 11% approval rating in congress?
OK.. So this just means that the person lines they clothes with aluminum foil and problem solved... Yes, the aluminum foil will get hot, but it should dissipate it quite well... Once again, every weapon has its strengths and weaknesses. The key is to understand the technology...
Lip service. There is very little interest for Apple to stop people modifying their products because their current business model focuses on hardware sales. The problem is, though, if they are not looked upon by their content partners as working very hard to protect their content, then there will not be anything to put on that hardware... So, the end result is a constant stream of weak patches and allot of talk. (The recent iPhone ringtones "patch" is a great example of this) At the end of the day, though, nothing will change...
Counterfeit doctors, drugs have been around since the beginning of times. The success of the current medical industry dictates that they put processes in place to manage this type of issue, and they do this quite effectively...
What I dont hear the medical industry saying, however, is what Google is trying to say... And that is them trying to calcuate the business that these fraudulent vendors are taking away from them. Meaning, if they never made the money, then it does not belong to them in the first place.. Who knows that the person would have done in another case, but it is not worth calculating??
Seeing as the US federal government was bought and paid for by large US business, I would agree that they have no problems with it. Meaning, the core issue we are facing is not what they think, but rather the current situation we are in. The Feds decision to lower the funds rate today backs this up even more... Help the market fat cats, and leave it to the basic consumer to pay more for everything...
Distribution craziness?? Last time I checked, virtually every distro has their own config setup. Meaning, for Gentoo, it is gentoo-sources... Fedora has its own as well... Everyone tried the Univeral Linux and last time I checked it was a completel flop...
Personally I am confused why a focus on "Big Iron" is such a bad idea considering that Linux on the desktop is almost not there?? This is not because of any fault of its own, howver. Also, until someone is able to take out MS as the defacto monopoly kingping, this will not change either.
Im wih you on this one... They should have used the night stick on him. There is nothing that says "stop it" like a lead filled pipe hitting you... In fact, I bet he would have given the mic back when he was politely asked if he know he would have had a beating coming to him...
So I guess IBM promoting Linux had nothing to do with its increased use in the business server world? Also, so I guess no AIX code (IBM changes only) made it into Linux helping give it credability to most big business? IBM right now is OSS's friend. They know they have a monopolist that must be taken down, and for now the OSS world is aligned to help them with this goal.
As far as them picking the Lotus Symphony name.. To me, this is obvious. Open Office just has a "cheap feel" to it for most non-tech because money has never been spent building a brand. By adding the more mature Lotus name to it, many users will feel it is has more added value. From the OSS's perspective, it does not matter what the call it because it is GPL. Meaning, whatever changes their 35 programmers make, those changes will just be merged back into main Open Office anyway. The best of both worlds if you ask me..
I guess it depends on what "assets" you are talking about. Most of the time for situations like this, the person who gets the assests is the first to run off with it... When it get to this point, it is kind of a every man for himself type business model...
Wow.. So one of my neighbors is actually just my imaginary friend? Now that is just too cool, but I guess as long as he keeps mowing his lawn Im OK with it...:-)
I spoke with a comcast friend of mine who is at the executive level about two weeks ago on this... He said that the reason they do not want ot specify the exactly amount is that most of the time they do not care because they have plenty of throughput. Meaning, because their network is mostly shared (unlike the telcos) bottelnecks do occur from time to time. He saids that most of their subnets are fine (over 90% in fact), but occasionally they get a couple areas where he says they constantly have problems with getting their digital services to work well and they almost always find that it is because of huge amounts of p2p traffic. He also said that in an ideal world this would be handled at the network level, but that their p2p limiting ability does not work at this point for balancing balancing the traffic. He said he had no clue what routers they are using, though... He said that the worst part is that in some cases, if they upgrade their "uplink" (my word, not his) to fix the issue, it just means that more traffic, and the problem still is there. In short, the end result is that when they have allot of customers call in saying they are having problems with their service in a particular area, they first try to upgrade their "uplink", then if that does not work, they tell the particular customers to please stop it, and in the few cases where this does not work then they finally just pull the plug on the problematic customer. He mentioned that it rarely happens, though, which is why they are completely baffled internally on why the press is so against on them right now...
That is why there are four distinct types of products in business. Meaning, to you, cost is more important than anything else. For me, however, I do not mind paying more if it means less hassle. I very much understand the virtues of linux as most of my business servers run Gentoo. (The rest run Solaris and AIX) On my laptop, though, I really need something that out of the box is solid and that I can rely on for my everyday work, especially when I am travelling. I have tried several different flavors of Linux in the past on my old IBM T42 and it did work, but I constantly had several issues with wireless connectivity relability probably begin the most frustrating as I moved place to place... My MacBookPro is ideal for this, and I will say that Airport is quite refreshing if you never have used it before... Yes, it costs more, but for me personally, cost really does not matter as long as it is reliable...
As far as games, I dont know anything about this, but I suspect any games you want to play on a Mac can easily be done on the VMWare Fusion. I have found it to be quite good and very usable in Unity mode...
I havent updating a number of my workstations from XP SP1 to SP2. Talk about a performance hit with almost no benefit to me at all...
Personally, I prefer to accept the obvious, which is that Windows is never secure no matter what number of "security patches" you put on it... I just have my router monitor all their network traffic and keep them on a very tight leash...
Hell, I had to use Vista for a couple days, isnt that enough??? I mean talk about mental anguish... Even my poor brand new hardware took a serious beating until I was able to take that warm turd off that machine..... I mean talk about bad news..
Proprietary software has its strengths as well.. Meaning, I use Gentoo and Ubuntu everyday, but, in my opinion, OSX is superior in every way to Ubuntu on the desktop side...
My Opinion??... Work with a company you feel you can trust, but certainly always take the approach that good fences make good neighbors... (Meaning, Trust, but Verify)... As long as Jobs is at the helm at Apple, though, I personally would never worry one bit about this sort of thing happen... He as a person is trust worthy in my opinion...
Port blocking it is.... Nothing ticks me off more than someone "thinking" that they know what is better for me than I do.... I dont care who it is.. If Apple did something like this I would be just as pissed!!! In fact, M$ is giving me even more reasons why I love OSS...
Let me get this straight.. Not even two weeks ago, their WGA system completely blew up leaving millions of genuine users "in the dark", and now they are do confident in their system that they are going to do something like this?
I think I will just wait a few days for M$ to shot themselves in the foot... This type of poor business behavior is not sustainable longterm...
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To create true competition in this sector, the way to handle it is to allow their base Win32 API's to be implemented or copied... (Meaning, complete legal protection) In short, legalize Wine and similar projects... Plain and simple.. If they were to officially protect the Wine project, and similar API projects, this would allow for huge amounts of investment into this sector. Within two years nearly ever version of linux would be able to run "cleanly" virtually any Win32 application. This would also force M$ to once again compete by trying to get people to buy windows because it is better rather than because they are simply doing it..
I think you are talking about house fires my friend... :-)
I serious doubt your "the majority die of smoke inhalation" argument. In fact, a good friend of mine works at the famous aircraft salvage group in Griffin Ga, and I posed this question to him. He agreed in saying that commercial aircraft (Non-GA) crashes are not that common, but when they occur, the vast majority of them are fatal by major trauma and not smoke inhalation. In fact, he claims that the seats most of the time are the ultimate killer, but at a average 11G impact, most people didnt have a chance anyway simply due to the forces involved...
Carbon Fiber processes is no different that any other laminate molding. Yes there are resins resins that you would want high temp low moisture for curing, but it is more about removing moisture to ensure correct resin/fiber bonding than anything else. I suspect the resin is vaccumed originally to remove bubbles during mixing, but with a laminate piece as large as a fuselage, small bubbles during curing would be the least of there concerns. Proper pre-preg placement would the the most important. In other resins I know they use heat and pressure, but typically in your clear resins where high clarity is required. Meaning, the reason for the pressure in that case is to shink the bubbles during curing...
What I find interesting is the perception that using composites on aircrafts are something new. In the GA-experimental world, they are all considered superior for a whole range of reasons, and have been around for more than a decade. In the commercial world, various smaller parts have been used with composites for a number of years.
The burning argument is the one I find the most bizarre. So let me get this straight... A > 20 ton aircraft crashes, and all they can think about is the potential "toxic chemicals" when it burns? I would think the several tons of Jet-A all around you probably would be a larger concern. I mean we are talking about a crash here after all...
Have you ever been to a major rally, such as the G8 Summit? Meaning, at places where this "weapon" would be used, the people who are involved more than protect their faces and hands, but a weapon like this would go right thru their clothes. Hence, the reason it was developed. However, once these people figure out that even the thinnest metal will render the weapon useless, then its effectiveness becomes a moot point... This is just my opinion, though.. :-)
I am talking about content here... Yes, AT&T is pissed with people cracking the IPhone, but they realize that the losses from the average subscriber would be quite limited... With this, it would be quite unlikely AT&T would pull out... In the case of music and video vendors, though, this is a completely different story... Hence NBC Universal..
To me, the scary part is not when the general population is scared of police, but rather when they become disinterested in their government. This is exactly what the current policy makers want... Keep you loaded up in debt and working to pay those bills, and unintereested in what they are doing... Did you notice the 11% approval rating in congress?
OK.. So this just means that the person lines they clothes with aluminum foil and problem solved... Yes, the aluminum foil will get hot, but it should dissipate it quite well... Once again, every weapon has its strengths and weaknesses. The key is to understand the technology...
Lip service. There is very little interest for Apple to stop people modifying their products because their current business model focuses on hardware sales. The problem is, though, if they are not looked upon by their content partners as working very hard to protect their content, then there will not be anything to put on that hardware... So, the end result is a constant stream of weak patches and allot of talk. (The recent iPhone ringtones "patch" is a great example of this) At the end of the day, though, nothing will change...
Counterfeit doctors, drugs have been around since the beginning of times. The success of the current medical industry dictates that they put processes in place to manage this type of issue, and they do this quite effectively...
What I dont hear the medical industry saying, however, is what Google is trying to say... And that is them trying to calcuate the business that these fraudulent vendors are taking away from them. Meaning, if they never made the money, then it does not belong to them in the first place.. Who knows that the person would have done in another case, but it is not worth calculating??
Last year I lost 500000 Billion dollars to people stealing my "stuff"...By my own internal research of course...
:-)
In short, there is an old saying for this... You didnt loose what you never had...
Well they could have also worked for the BSA... You know, the "Bogus Statistics Association"...
Seeing as the US federal government was bought and paid for by large US business, I would agree that they have no problems with it. Meaning, the core issue we are facing is not what they think, but rather the current situation we are in. The Feds decision to lower the funds rate today backs this up even more... Help the market fat cats, and leave it to the basic consumer to pay more for everything...
Distribution craziness?? Last time I checked, virtually every distro has their own config setup. Meaning, for Gentoo, it is gentoo-sources... Fedora has its own as well... Everyone tried the Univeral Linux and last time I checked it was a completel flop...
Personally I am confused why a focus on "Big Iron" is such a bad idea considering that Linux on the desktop is almost not there?? This is not because of any fault of its own, howver. Also, until someone is able to take out MS as the defacto monopoly kingping, this will not change either.
Im wih you on this one... They should have used the night stick on him. There is nothing that says "stop it" like a lead filled pipe hitting you... In fact, I bet he would have given the mic back when he was politely asked if he know he would have had a beating coming to him...
So I guess IBM promoting Linux had nothing to do with its increased use in the business server world? Also, so I guess no AIX code (IBM changes only) made it into Linux helping give it credability to most big business? IBM right now is OSS's friend. They know they have a monopolist that must be taken down, and for now the OSS world is aligned to help them with this goal.
As far as them picking the Lotus Symphony name.. To me, this is obvious. Open Office just has a "cheap feel" to it for most non-tech because money has never been spent building a brand. By adding the more mature Lotus name to it, many users will feel it is has more added value. From the OSS's perspective, it does not matter what the call it because it is GPL. Meaning, whatever changes their 35 programmers make, those changes will just be merged back into main Open Office anyway. The best of both worlds if you ask me..
I guess it depends on what "assets" you are talking about. Most of the time for situations like this, the person who gets the assests is the first to run off with it... When it get to this point, it is kind of a every man for himself type business model...
Wow.. So one of my neighbors is actually just my imaginary friend? Now that is just too cool, but I guess as long as he keeps mowing his lawn Im OK with it... :-)
I spoke with a comcast friend of mine who is at the executive level about two weeks ago on this... He said that the reason they do not want ot specify the exactly amount is that most of the time they do not care because they have plenty of throughput. Meaning, because their network is mostly shared (unlike the telcos) bottelnecks do occur from time to time. He saids that most of their subnets are fine (over 90% in fact), but occasionally they get a couple areas where he says they constantly have problems with getting their digital services to work well and they almost always find that it is because of huge amounts of p2p traffic. He also said that in an ideal world this would be handled at the network level, but that their p2p limiting ability does not work at this point for balancing balancing the traffic. He said he had no clue what routers they are using, though... He said that the worst part is that in some cases, if they upgrade their "uplink" (my word, not his) to fix the issue, it just means that more traffic, and the problem still is there. In short, the end result is that when they have allot of customers call in saying they are having problems with their service in a particular area, they first try to upgrade their "uplink", then if that does not work, they tell the particular customers to please stop it, and in the few cases where this does not work then they finally just pull the plug on the problematic customer. He mentioned that it rarely happens, though, which is why they are completely baffled internally on why the press is so against on them right now...
That is why there are four distinct types of products in business. Meaning, to you, cost is more important than anything else. For me, however, I do not mind paying more if it means less hassle. I very much understand the virtues of linux as most of my business servers run Gentoo. (The rest run Solaris and AIX) On my laptop, though, I really need something that out of the box is solid and that I can rely on for my everyday work, especially when I am travelling. I have tried several different flavors of Linux in the past on my old IBM T42 and it did work, but I constantly had several issues with wireless connectivity relability probably begin the most frustrating as I moved place to place... My MacBookPro is ideal for this, and I will say that Airport is quite refreshing if you never have used it before ... Yes, it costs more, but for me personally, cost really does not matter as long as it is reliable...
As far as games, I dont know anything about this, but I suspect any games you want to play on a Mac can easily be done on the VMWare Fusion. I have found it to be quite good and very usable in Unity mode...
I havent updating a number of my workstations from XP SP1 to SP2. Talk about a performance hit with almost no benefit to me at all...
Personally, I prefer to accept the obvious, which is that Windows is never secure no matter what number of "security patches" you put on it... I just have my router monitor all their network traffic and keep them on a very tight leash...
Hell, I had to use Vista for a couple days, isnt that enough??? I mean talk about mental anguish... Even my poor brand new hardware took a serious beating until I was able to take that warm turd off that machine..... I mean talk about bad news..
Proprietary software has its strengths as well.. Meaning, I use Gentoo and Ubuntu everyday, but, in my opinion, OSX is superior in every way to Ubuntu on the desktop side...
... As long as Jobs is at the helm at Apple, though, I personally would never worry one bit about this sort of thing happen... He as a person is trust worthy in my opinion...
My Opinion??... Work with a company you feel you can trust, but certainly always take the approach that good fences make good neighbors... (Meaning, Trust, but Verify)
Port blocking it is.... Nothing ticks me off more than someone "thinking" that they know what is better for me than I do.... I dont care who it is.. If Apple did something like this I would be just as pissed!!! In fact, M$ is giving me even more reasons why I love OSS...
Let me get this straight.. Not even two weeks ago, their WGA system completely blew up leaving millions of genuine users "in the dark", and now they are do confident in their system that they are going to do something like this?
I think I will just wait a few days for M$ to shot themselves in the foot... This type of poor business behavior is not sustainable longterm...