What happens if Microsoft doesn't do what they settlement says? Will they face harsher penalties?
DOJ: Microsoft is not complying with the settlment terms. Fetch the Comfy Chair!!
Bailiff: The... Comfy Chair??!!
DOJ: So you think you are strong because you scoff at our remedies. Well, we shall see. Bailiff! Put them in the Comfy Chair! Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven.
Yeah, that's what I wanna hear- I'm a dog, and I get to listen to kibbles and bits and bits and bits next time I call to get my dog neutered.
For maximum effectiveness, you need to direct your advertisements more carefully at the target market. If your callers are primarily nuetered dogs, you should consider playing to your customers promotional material for products such as:
Silicone prosthetic testicles
Pheromone based urine enhancers
Viagra
This targeted marketing strategy will help ensure maximum return for your marketing expenditures.
Wall plates, contractors, planning -- feh. Do it the easy way: buy a $2.99 package of ethernet cable wall staples at Home Depot. Grab a hammer, and you can have cables routed all over your house within minutes.
Did you type your comment on a PC? If so, was it an IBM brand PC? If not, you're using a totally reverse-engineered machine, and by your definition that's illicit stolen goods. You're no better than a common thief.
To atone for your sins, you need to take a cue from Senator Hatch and physically destroy your machine. Now.
whats going to happen if there was an incident like Apollo 13 that relied on human ingenuity to fix the problem.
That example is circular reasoning. The only reason we cared about fixing Apollo 13's problem was because there were 3 people riding the thing. If it were an unmanned probe, we would have just written it off like dozens of other failed 1960s space probes and launched another one.
If it has any chance to compete with windows, they should consider Redhat's strategy of allowing a free download (especially for home users) and charging for support. Right now, there is no chance to try it out without paying 80 bucks.
As others pointed out, you can do an FTP install for free. Leaving that aside, I prefer SuSE's business model for my purposes. Red Hat makes money by charging for easy updates, and SuSE makes money by charging for easy access to ISOs. In my case, I have several computers I install it on, so I'm glad to pay the $70 once and get easy free patches without having to register with the vendor. (Not to mention I don't feel like babysitting my CD writer while I burn 5 ISOs.)
Plus, SuSE Professional 8.2 comes with just about the coolest CD packaging I've ever seen. It has 5 CDs and 2 DVDs in this cardboard foldout pack that flips open in various directions. The feel of flipping through that thing is almost worth the price by itself:).
He says AC and DC. I assume that means it needs an AC waveform superimposed over a DC bias. That seems obscure, but actually any phone jack will supply such a voltage. Therefore, I conclude that this system is powered by telephone dialtones.
I hope you've got plenty of blankets for this coming winter. It's going to be a cold one without fire for heating. Also, I hope you're not planning on going too far for the next few years. If you fire up your internal combustion engine, you could be sued.
Those are tough breaks for all of us, but it's all worth it to protect this inventor. Think of how many new innovations he'll come up with now that he's finally going to get just payment for his discovery of fire.
1994: Your peecees suck so bad because they're soooo slow. Our CPU benchmarks kick your butts. We are the speed kings!
1999: So what if your peecee CPUs are faster than ours. It's not about speed, it's about quality. Speed is totally irrelevant. You're all just speed whores.
2004: Your peecees suck so bad because they're soooo slow. Our CPU benchmarks kick your butts. We are the speed kings!
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That was the point of my post. Even though the data registers are 64-bit, 64-bit integers aren't very useful. Today's 32-bit CPUs already have 64-bit floating point and many parallel 32-bit or smaller ALUs. Most 64-bit OSes use a default data model that uses 64-bit pointers (C void*) and 32-bit integers (C int), and most 64-bit CPUs efficiently handle 32-bit integers to support this. There just isn't very much reason to add together numbers like 3853929385484823 and 48384945858683290 in real-world apps.
Desktop users will only benefit from 64 bits once someone writes an all-new non-[unix/windows]-influenced OS that has a unified memory and filesystem address space. This would be truly useful, but it is probably 10 to 20 years in the future.
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They would have a toaster farm probably running 'open toast' insted of winToast
Toaster farms are unrealistic. I worked for a startup during the bubble that wanted to revolutionize the market with huge toaster farms. They went bust in under 18 months after burning (no pun intended) $20 million in cash.
It turns out that except for the big guys like Melba, nobody needs that much toast. And the big guys already have their own custom big-iron industrial toasters. They're not going to outsource their bread-and-butter business to some pimply startup with an array of flimsy Sunbeam toasters.
64bit chips process twice as much information as 32bit chips - this is more than just a memory-addressing thing.
Other than high-resolution timestamps, nobody uses 64-bit integers for anything. In the real world, 64-bit quantities are used for floating point numbers and address pointers. The X86 architecture has had 80-bit floating point for 20 years now. In fact, it has had 128-bit wide multimedia processing logic for the last 7 years.
64 bits is just a memory addressing thing. However, unless the working dataset of your apps is both non-streamable and larger then 3 gigabytes, you have absolutely no need for 64-bit pointers.
In fact, if you keep all other parameters constant, changing a CPU to 64 bits slows it down. This is because you are now filling precious cache memory space with useless zeros in the upper 32 bits of the vast majority of your pointers.
What China should do is to beat US in the manned mission to Mars. Then they can claim that Mars is historically theirs 100 years later and demand re-unification to the "renegade planet".
Too late. SCO bought all of the development and mineral rights to the planet Mars from a struggling ex-Soviet aerospace design bureau in 1992. (This recently disclosed situation has thrown the legal status of this year's three Mars probes into doubt.)
An album is not a work of art. It's an implementation detail. Before LP records, all music was released as singles (78 rpm and/or 45 rpm). Once the LP was introduced, songs were bundled together into albums. This was not because of "art", it was because it was cheaper per track to put ten songs on one disk with the new technology.
Now, technology shifts again, and electronic distribution makes the cost per track of singles similar to albums.
Anyway, who ever said that all artists always want to create a piece of "art" exactly 70 minutes long? Most music will be distributed as singles because most songs do fine as standalone works. Some artists will occasionally release a "concept" album that would work better bundled. The length of such a work will now be able to vary from a few minutes to many hours. This is no big deal.
Surely they don't really mean batteries only have "1% efficiency" in terms of energy usage. I'm too lazy to look it up now, but I would bet that the process of charging and discharging a good battery would achieve 50% to 75% efficiency. IOW, you get up to 75% of the electrical energy back out that you put in. Otherwise, electric cars would be totally out of the question, and charging a 20W laptop would consume kilowatts of power.
What they probably meant is that a battery of a given mass is only able to store electrical energy equivalent to 1% of the chemical energy available in the same mass of hydrocarbon fuel. I'm guessing that they also meant that micro engines are able to convert up to 10% of that chemical energy to mechanical energy (as opposed to good macro-sized engines which can convert around 50%, IIRC). Therefore, a micro engine could deliver 10 times the energy per gram of weight that a battery could on one charge.
I'm all for sending a manned mission to Mars. If that's what we want to do, let's do it. Sitting in a tin can orbiting the earth with no explicit mandate to prepare for a Mars mission is not accomplishing anything, however.
The current situation is as if Lewis and Clark set out from Philadelphia to explore the West, but then stopped on the Ohio border and sat on their butts doing nothing but spending government money for 10 years.
yet you think it's unreasonable for people to criticize these coders who blatantly copy Windows
What coders who copy Windows? You do realize that to install Win4Lin, you need to already own a Win9X CD. You go through the entire Windows installation process, including loading the Windows CD and typing in a valid product ID code. An entire standard Win9X installation is created on your PC, it just happens to live in a Linux file system.
Funny that you bring up SCO. Win4Lin is based on a DOS-virtualization technology called "merge" that SCO has also used. Here is a summary I found of its very convoluted history. (Google cache; real page is broken.)
Money is money, if more money can be raised for scientific research by sending rich idiot tourists up in space, then so be it.
Space tourist tickets have recently been selling for $2e+7. ISS cost ~= $1e+11. At those prices, you'd have to send up 50,000 tourists just to pay for the amusement park, ignoring the cost of gas and a ride.
With the bloated costs of running the ISS, there is no way that the presence of an extra tourist on the ISS is not somehow costing the U.S. taxpayers more than what he paid the Russians for the ticket.
And if you are that concerned, consider that the other option is more of your tax dollars going up in space.
You're neglecting the best option, which would be for the current crew to initiate the self-destruct sequence and bail out. This would free up enough money to launch dozens of unmanned probes to unexplored parts of the solar system.
Microsoft has reached new lows in ripping off ideas from the free software world: They've started using recursive acronyms for names. Where is it going to stop?
I think they're complaining that SMP was a restricted technology, so by helping to add SMP to the Linux kernel, and making it freely available, IBM violated US export laws.
Who else very recently made the Linux kernel freely available to any foreign party including terrorists, communists and all three vertices of the Axis of Evil?
Hmmm?
Could it be.... SCO!!!???
Didn't they do the due dilligence to see if the capabilities that they were distributing were exportable under U.S. law? Looks like they didn't, and now OBL himself could very well be running Caldera Linux on the Beowulf cluster in his cave simulating thermonuclear explosions.
I was doing the said activities on a 100 MHz machine back in the old days without much trouble.
That reminds me of an argument that one of my college profs made in one of my classes in the early 80s. He was making a point about system reliability. It went something like:
"Let's say that your organization has installed a 100 MIPS machine. Let's also assume that they have achieved 90% uptime on that system. That 90% sounds good - until you realize that the 10% downtime is wasting 10 of those MIPS. I bet that you would all just love to have your very own 10 MIPS machine to play with! That's what you're throwing away if you don't pay enough attention to availability."
Now we make arguments that an entire 100 MIPS machine is theoretically just adequate to write an e-mail (but nobody would really want to suffer it). I guess the uptime argument really doesn't carry much weight any more.
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DOJ: Microsoft is not complying with the settlment terms. Fetch the Comfy Chair!!
Bailiff: The... Comfy Chair??!!
DOJ: So you think you are strong because you scoff at our remedies. Well, we shall see. Bailiff! Put them in the Comfy Chair! Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunch time, with only a cup of coffee at eleven.
For maximum effectiveness, you need to direct your advertisements more carefully at the target market. If your callers are primarily nuetered dogs, you should consider playing to your customers promotional material for products such as:
This targeted marketing strategy will help ensure maximum return for your marketing expenditures.
Well, true hypersonic bombers are also almost 50 years old. Still very futuristic looking, too.
Wall plates, contractors, planning -- feh. Do it the easy way: buy a $2.99 package of ethernet cable wall staples at Home Depot. Grab a hammer, and you can have cables routed all over your house within minutes.
To atone for your sins, you need to take a cue from Senator Hatch and physically destroy your machine. Now.
That example is circular reasoning. The only reason we cared about fixing Apollo 13's problem was because there were 3 people riding the thing. If it were an unmanned probe, we would have just written it off like dozens of other failed 1960s space probes and launched another one.
As others pointed out, you can do an FTP install for free. Leaving that aside, I prefer SuSE's business model for my purposes. Red Hat makes money by charging for easy updates, and SuSE makes money by charging for easy access to ISOs. In my case, I have several computers I install it on, so I'm glad to pay the $70 once and get easy free patches without having to register with the vendor. (Not to mention I don't feel like babysitting my CD writer while I burn 5 ISOs.)
Plus, SuSE Professional 8.2 comes with just about the coolest CD packaging I've ever seen. It has 5 CDs and 2 DVDs in this cardboard foldout pack that flips open in various directions. The feel of flipping through that thing is almost worth the price by itself :).
He says AC and DC. I assume that means it needs an AC waveform superimposed over a DC bias. That seems obscure, but actually any phone jack will supply such a voltage. Therefore, I conclude that this system is powered by telephone dialtones.
Those are tough breaks for all of us, but it's all worth it to protect this inventor. Think of how many new innovations he'll come up with now that he's finally going to get just payment for his discovery of fire.
1994: Your peecees suck so bad because they're soooo slow. Our CPU benchmarks kick your butts. We are the speed kings!
1999: So what if your peecee CPUs are faster than ours. It's not about speed, it's about quality. Speed is totally irrelevant. You're all just speed whores.
2004: Your peecees suck so bad because they're soooo slow. Our CPU benchmarks kick your butts. We are the speed kings!
Desktop users will only benefit from 64 bits once someone writes an all-new non-[unix/windows]-influenced OS that has a unified memory and filesystem address space. This would be truly useful, but it is probably 10 to 20 years in the future.
Toaster farms are unrealistic. I worked for a startup during the bubble that wanted to revolutionize the market with huge toaster farms. They went bust in under 18 months after burning (no pun intended) $20 million in cash.
It turns out that except for the big guys like Melba, nobody needs that much toast. And the big guys already have their own custom big-iron industrial toasters. They're not going to outsource their bread-and-butter business to some pimply startup with an array of flimsy Sunbeam toasters.
In hindsight, that was a stupid business plan.
Other than high-resolution timestamps, nobody uses 64-bit integers for anything. In the real world, 64-bit quantities are used for floating point numbers and address pointers. The X86 architecture has had 80-bit floating point for 20 years now. In fact, it has had 128-bit wide multimedia processing logic for the last 7 years.
64 bits is just a memory addressing thing. However, unless the working dataset of your apps is both non-streamable and larger then 3 gigabytes, you have absolutely no need for 64-bit pointers.
In fact, if you keep all other parameters constant, changing a CPU to 64 bits slows it down. This is because you are now filling precious cache memory space with useless zeros in the upper 32 bits of the vast majority of your pointers.
Too late. SCO bought all of the development and mineral rights to the planet Mars from a struggling ex-Soviet aerospace design bureau in 1992. (This recently disclosed situation has thrown the legal status of this year's three Mars probes into doubt.)
Now, technology shifts again, and electronic distribution makes the cost per track of singles similar to albums.
Anyway, who ever said that all artists always want to create a piece of "art" exactly 70 minutes long? Most music will be distributed as singles because most songs do fine as standalone works. Some artists will occasionally release a "concept" album that would work better bundled. The length of such a work will now be able to vary from a few minutes to many hours. This is no big deal.
You actually don't want the -$350 one because that version is made of antimatter. It's a little too hot to handle.
What they probably meant is that a battery of a given mass is only able to store electrical energy equivalent to 1% of the chemical energy available in the same mass of hydrocarbon fuel. I'm guessing that they also meant that micro engines are able to convert up to 10% of that chemical energy to mechanical energy (as opposed to good macro-sized engines which can convert around 50%, IIRC). Therefore, a micro engine could deliver 10 times the energy per gram of weight that a battery could on one charge.
The current situation is as if Lewis and Clark set out from Philadelphia to explore the West, but then stopped on the Ohio border and sat on their butts doing nothing but spending government money for 10 years.
What coders who copy Windows? You do realize that to install Win4Lin, you need to already own a Win9X CD. You go through the entire Windows installation process, including loading the Windows CD and typing in a valid product ID code. An entire standard Win9X installation is created on your PC, it just happens to live in a Linux file system.
Funny that you bring up SCO. Win4Lin is based on a DOS-virtualization technology called "merge" that SCO has also used. Here is a summary I found of its very convoluted history. (Google cache; real page is broken.)
Space tourist tickets have recently been selling for $2e+7. ISS cost ~= $1e+11. At those prices, you'd have to send up 50,000 tourists just to pay for the amusement park, ignoring the cost of gas and a ride.
With the bloated costs of running the ISS, there is no way that the presence of an extra tourist on the ISS is not somehow costing the U.S. taxpayers more than what he paid the Russians for the ticket.
And if you are that concerned, consider that the other option is more of your tax dollars going up in space.
You're neglecting the best option, which would be for the current crew to initiate the self-destruct sequence and bail out. This would free up enough money to launch dozens of unmanned probes to unexplored parts of the solar system.
Microsoft has reached new lows in ripping off ideas from the free software world: They've started using recursive acronyms for names. Where is it going to stop?
Who else very recently made the Linux kernel freely available to any foreign party including terrorists, communists and all three vertices of the Axis of Evil?
Hmmm?
Could it be .... SCO!!!???
Didn't they do the due dilligence to see if the capabilities that they were distributing were exportable under U.S. law? Looks like they didn't, and now OBL himself could very well be running Caldera Linux on the Beowulf cluster in his cave simulating thermonuclear explosions.
Um... what if the worm writer used a new vulnerability that he discovered himself? There would be no patches.
Indeed. If its case were made of translucent candy-colored plastic, now that would ROCK.
That reminds me of an argument that one of my college profs made in one of my classes in the early 80s. He was making a point about system reliability. It went something like:
"Let's say that your organization has installed a 100 MIPS machine. Let's also assume that they have achieved 90% uptime on that system. That 90% sounds good - until you realize that the 10% downtime is wasting 10 of those MIPS. I bet that you would all just love to have your very own 10 MIPS machine to play with! That's what you're throwing away if you don't pay enough attention to availability."
Now we make arguments that an entire 100 MIPS machine is theoretically just adequate to write an e-mail (but nobody would really want to suffer it). I guess the uptime argument really doesn't carry much weight any more.