Open source hardware will not happen. People do not build things for free.
It might happen. You just interpret the word free wrongly. Open source hardware just means the specs were created by a non-profit community. However, to actually get one of those chips you will have to pay. Pretty much like buying a linux distro. The only difference is that they do not toast it onto a CD but onto a chip. The only difference is that you won't be able to download the result for free or apply patches yourself
Having said this, it strikes me as extremely unlike that we will ever have open-source CPUs
In my old company, we did use terminal server systems. Unfortunately some people in that group (including myself) did some very CPU-intensive things (optimizing multimillion record databases, compiling big programs etc etc). Whenever we 'took control' the rest of the workforce could go for their coffee break, as all of their CPU supply was eaten by our process.
In such an environment the CPU blades might be usefull
Obviously you do not know what you are talking about.
MS terminal server *is* a hardware solution, as all the users require is a small ($450) box on their desktop. These boxes do not contain CPU nor Hard drive, although they might have a video processor. This way you can share CPU time making it way more efficient.
The only thing that does not make this the cheapest solution for larger offcies is those %#&$ MS license fees
Is it just that sharing big files will get you a letter of threat? In that case you can't share your Linux ISO's anymore... I don't think they are allowed to do that.
If they look for specific files (*.mov?) All you need to do is rename it Linux-distri.iso and you're done.
My point: going after file sharing systems will just never work. That's just attacking symptoms. The real problems is that people *want* to share files. This 'need' can be made smaller by decreasing prices for CD's, and making less-strict copyright rules (e.g. CD very cheap after 5 years). A compromise should go both ways.
But then again. I'm not in 'the land of the free' so I can 'freely' copy all the stuff I want =)
indeed, "the difference is the value they place on human life. "
Mainly because the peaceful project intends to save lifes, whereas the US military tries to make things that are very efficient as possible.
So I'm not interested whether the project will be more succesfull when run by the military. Because it then no longer has its original purpose. All we end up with is another weapon
Isn't this just brilliant
A bunch of scientists working on a craft that will enable cheap space flight (so we can cure cancer, world peace, blah blah), and now that it's not going as well as planned, the project is taken over by US military so they can make yet another weapon out of it. If I was one of these original engineers, I'd be pissed off!
To ensure that this doesn't happen, all space projects should me international (and open source as far as that is possible) so no countries can use methods of peace for war
The ISS does have value, although not a whole lot.
Not all experiments planned for ISS can be performed in unmanned sattelites, because human judgement is necessary to make these crystals grow properly. Making protein crystals is *extremely* difficult. Unfortunately it is also very important to do, as it is pretty much the only way to figure out how proteins work. Protein function (proteomics) will be *the* hot topic in the next 10 years now that genomics (DNA sequencing) is pretty much finished
However, on the other side we should not forget that gravity on Mir2 or ISS is not zero. Because the astronauts move around in it, the ship slightly moves around in the opposite direction. This 'action = reaction' is very small because of the weight of the ship, but it might just be enough to disturb the protein crystal formation.
So; is it usefull to have a manned spaceship (we can make those crystals). But because there are some downsides to these ships, my opinion is we definitely do not need two. Let the russians (and all other countries with them) work on unmanned spacecraft, so we can have the best of both worlds
I though the whole deal of Napster was to copy 'copyright-free' material. At least I can remember that that is what they claimed in court. How is the RIAA ever going to make a list of non-copyrighted material if that exactly covers the material that is not in any list? Am I supposed to register my home-made music with the RIAA or something? Clearly they did not think this through...
Getting rid of Napster does mean getting rid of people copying music. People have been doing that as long as it was technically possible. Because of the enormous amount of people interested in copying music, all copy/crack protections will be overcome within days.
Instead, by making Napster a 'bad' way to distribute music, all that happens is that people go elsewhere for their stuff. Usually these alternatives (gnutella, sharesniffer) are much easier for script kiddies to attack (especially those that use M$ shared folder tech).
So, all that happens by banning or harrassing napster is that general computer security goes down.
just for your information
Rating the advances in biotechnology simply by looking at DNA sequencing improvements is not very smart..
We will not advance in understanding biology by simply looking at genes. That is like deciphering german ENIGMA codes, only to find out that you don't speak german. At the moment the advances are made in protein function (very difficult, and relatively slow progression).
Until we understand the *function* of the proteins that are derived from these genes, all biotechnology can do is recombine the already existing technologies.
On my old job, we had to sign an agreement that we were not allowed to work at a competetive company for 5 years after resigning. This means that, If I, for instance, left my job because my boss was being an asshole, I could not get a new job for which I was actually trained. Of course, nobody signed the agreement, after which the management decided to stop pay rises in total. This became my 'old job; pretty quickly after that...
Isn't this what we all like so much? To have a choice?
Of cource the best thing would be to get it all for free with no ads. But then again, the people that make these sites do need to get paid. One way or the other.
I'm really happy that companies (Eudora being the first one I think) give us the chance of deciding where they get their money.
Hoping not to offend anyone...
Why does a US politician decide on the internet? I always thought that the net spread beyond the US...
Wouldn't it be good to have global legislation? United Nations maybe(hmmm maybe not)?
Ratings are nothing new really. And they are very usefull for those parents that do want to consider non-violence in the upbringing of their kids. By giving ratings, you simply give a choice. What's wrong with that?
1) RH supplies software with bugs
2) My software crashes: I find bug and tell RH about it. I lose money because of downtime
3) RH fixes bugs (i.e. finally does the job right)
4) I pay money because they couldn't get it right the first time
All I know is I've got 100+ user complaining about the windows OS. To the Linux-guru community these are all John Doe's. I care about those, because I'm being paid to care about them. And what Alternative can I give them? At the moment Win95 *is* the only userfriendly OS. My life would be easier if they all move to Linux. But at the moment this would only be more work for me than less. If the Linux community only aims for people that can use shell scripting and C++, I think we are doing something wrong here.
Didn't someone just post that Nautilus was sluggish? On a 600MHz? I though one of the main concerns of Win95 was that it was to damn slow. I know how fast Win95 is on my 400MHz. Not sluggish.
Brilliant. Just as RH Fisher and Mandrake 8 are in Beta this is released. Why do I get the feeling that we will have to wait another 6 months before this is integrated in the distro'?
Oh sure you can just compile it yourself. But to be honest compiling software is not my hobby, and we all know it takes ages to do (wrong libs dependencies etc).
And then still: even if Nautilus is twice as good as the old Gnome, it still won't have the functionality of the Old Win95 GUI. Sure it is more stable, and you get the source code. And it can't be con/con-ed. But John Doe doesn't care anbout that. He just wants something really simple to use. Something which hedoes not have to compile himself. Untill we reach that point, Linux will not be the first choice on the consumer desktop. Which of course is the thing it should be.
Are they now going to email these 180MB vector postscript files to everyone?
...
O dear
...
Does anyone know where I can get a new Hard Drive like Really fast? =/
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Open source hardware will not happen. People do not build things for free.
It might happen. You just interpret the word free wrongly. Open source hardware just means the specs were created by a non-profit community. However, to actually get one of those chips you will have to pay. Pretty much like buying a linux distro. The only difference is that they do not toast it onto a CD but onto a chip. The only difference is that you won't be able to download the result for free or apply patches yourself
Having said this, it strikes me as extremely unlike that we will ever have open-source CPUs
In my old company, we did use terminal server systems. Unfortunately some people in that group (including myself) did some very CPU-intensive things (optimizing multimillion record databases, compiling big programs etc etc). Whenever we 'took control' the rest of the workforce could go for their coffee break, as all of their CPU supply was eaten by our process.
In such an environment the CPU blades might be usefull
Obviously you do not know what you are talking about.
MS terminal server *is* a hardware solution, as all the users require is a small ($450) box on their desktop. These boxes do not contain CPU nor Hard drive, although they might have a video processor. This way you can share CPU time making it way more efficient.
The only thing that does not make this the cheapest solution for larger offcies is those %#&$ MS license fees
Is it just that sharing big files will get you a letter of threat? In that case you can't share your Linux ISO's anymore... I don't think they are allowed to do that.
If they look for specific files (*.mov?) All you need to do is rename it Linux-distri.iso and you're done.
My point: going after file sharing systems will just never work. That's just attacking symptoms. The real problems is that people *want* to share files. This 'need' can be made smaller by decreasing prices for CD's, and making less-strict copyright rules (e.g. CD very cheap after 5 years). A compromise should go both ways.
But then again. I'm not in 'the land of the free' so I can 'freely' copy all the stuff I want =)
indeed, "the difference is the value they place on human life. "
Mainly because the peaceful project intends to save lifes, whereas the US military tries to make things that are very efficient as possible.
So I'm not interested whether the project will be more succesfull when run by the military. Because it then no longer has its original purpose. All we end up with is another weapon
Isn't this just brilliant
A bunch of scientists working on a craft that will enable cheap space flight (so we can cure cancer, world peace, blah blah), and now that it's not going as well as planned, the project is taken over by US military so they can make yet another weapon out of it. If I was one of these original engineers, I'd be pissed off!
To ensure that this doesn't happen, all space projects should me international (and open source as far as that is possible) so no countries can use methods of peace for war
The ISS does have value, although not a whole lot.
Not all experiments planned for ISS can be performed in unmanned sattelites, because human judgement is necessary to make these crystals grow properly. Making protein crystals is *extremely* difficult. Unfortunately it is also very important to do, as it is pretty much the only way to figure out how proteins work. Protein function (proteomics) will be *the* hot topic in the next 10 years now that genomics (DNA sequencing) is pretty much finished
However, on the other side we should not forget that gravity on Mir2 or ISS is not zero. Because the astronauts move around in it, the ship slightly moves around in the opposite direction. This 'action = reaction' is very small because of the weight of the ship, but it might just be enough to disturb the protein crystal formation.
So; is it usefull to have a manned spaceship (we can make those crystals). But because there are some downsides to these ships, my opinion is we definitely do not need two. Let the russians (and all other countries with them) work on unmanned spacecraft, so we can have the best of both worlds
I though the whole deal of Napster was to copy 'copyright-free' material. At least I can remember that that is what they claimed in court. How is the RIAA ever going to make a list of non-copyrighted material if that exactly covers the material that is not in any list? Am I supposed to register my home-made music with the RIAA or something? Clearly they did not think this through...
Getting rid of Napster does mean getting rid of people copying music. People have been doing that as long as it was technically possible. Because of the enormous amount of people interested in copying music, all copy/crack protections will be overcome within days.
Instead, by making Napster a 'bad' way to distribute music, all that happens is that people go elsewhere for their stuff. Usually these alternatives (gnutella, sharesniffer) are much easier for script kiddies to attack (especially those that use M$ shared folder tech).
So, all that happens by banning or harrassing napster is that general computer security goes down.
just for your information
Rating the advances in biotechnology simply by looking at DNA sequencing improvements is not very smart..
We will not advance in understanding biology by simply looking at genes. That is like deciphering german ENIGMA codes, only to find out that you don't speak german. At the moment the advances are made in protein function (very difficult, and relatively slow progression).
Until we understand the *function* of the proteins that are derived from these genes, all biotechnology can do is recombine the already existing technologies.
On my old job, we had to sign an agreement that we were not allowed to work at a competetive company for 5 years after resigning. This means that, If I, for instance, left my job because my boss was being an asshole, I could not get a new job for which I was actually trained. Of course, nobody signed the agreement, after which the management decided to stop pay rises in total. This became my 'old job; pretty quickly after that...
Isn't this what we all like so much? To have a choice?
Of cource the best thing would be to get it all for free with no ads. But then again, the people that make these sites do need to get paid. One way or the other.
I'm really happy that companies (Eudora being the first one I think) give us the chance of deciding where they get their money.
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I thought the word was: foreign
tsk... only speak one language, and cannot even do that properly. And then say they lead the world into the future...
oh dear...
Hoping not to offend anyone...
Why does a US politician decide on the internet? I always thought that the net spread beyond the US...
Wouldn't it be good to have global legislation? United Nations maybe(hmmm maybe not)?
Is this a reason to get upset?
Ratings are nothing new really. And they are very usefull for those parents that do want to consider non-violence in the upbringing of their kids. By giving ratings, you simply give a choice. What's wrong with that?
1) RH supplies software with bugs
2) My software crashes: I find bug and tell RH about it. I lose money because of downtime
3) RH fixes bugs (i.e. finally does the job right)
4) I pay money because they couldn't get it right the first time
Why am I not happy about this?
It was so cute to find that the new RH release used a new glibc, making it pretty much incompatible with older versions.
Are the FSG members supposed to wait untill the linuxbase paper is finished before they start thinking about being backwards compatible themselves?
Tsk
All I know is I've got 100+ user complaining about the windows OS. To the Linux-guru community these are all John Doe's. I care about those, because I'm being paid to care about them. And what Alternative can I give them? At the moment Win95 *is* the only userfriendly OS. My life would be easier if they all move to Linux. But at the moment this would only be more work for me than less. If the Linux community only aims for people that can use shell scripting and C++, I think we are doing something wrong here.
Didn't someone just post that Nautilus was sluggish? On a 600MHz? I though one of the main concerns of Win95 was that it was to damn slow. I know how fast Win95 is on my 400MHz. Not sluggish.
Brilliant. Just as RH Fisher and Mandrake 8 are in Beta this is released. Why do I get the feeling that we will have to wait another 6 months before this is integrated in the distro'? Oh sure you can just compile it yourself. But to be honest compiling software is not my hobby, and we all know it takes ages to do (wrong libs dependencies etc). And then still: even if Nautilus is twice as good as the old Gnome, it still won't have the functionality of the Old Win95 GUI. Sure it is more stable, and you get the source code. And it can't be con/con-ed. But John Doe doesn't care anbout that. He just wants something really simple to use. Something which hedoes not have to compile himself. Untill we reach that point, Linux will not be the first choice on the consumer desktop. Which of course is the thing it should be.
Are they now going to email these 180MB vector postscript files to everyone?
...
O dear
...
Does anyone know where I can get a new Hard Drive like Really fast? =/
I say they should post the results of those spy sattelites back to the open source community. Has version 0.0.7 been released yet?
as in GNI's Not Intel?