National Public radio news had a long story on this on Friday. One of the possibilities identified is that a judge might allow the sale of the very valuable data (this sort of thing goes for 15 bucks a name,) to a company that agrees to uphold the same garauntee. The issues are complicated here, as the shareholders want some return of their investment, and this is one of the most valuable assets the company has.
Well, this article, though appearing smart from the outside, is yet another grossly uninformed peice of semiFUD. First jumps to mind, the Linux core kernel was/not/ written by one person (Linux), if one looks at current development, there are many, many developers that have contributed parts to the core. Rik van Riel and Andrea Arcangeli (plus John Quintela and many others) work on the VM subsystem. Alan Cox works on almost everything:) The statement that Linus wrote the whole core is total BS - there have been many many contributors. Secondly, the "priests over the bazaar" statement is BS as well. RMS never suggested that there should be no control over the development process by project leaders, etc... And this would not be priests - these would be individual operators standing at their tables, and choosing which suggestions and contributions to take. Total bull. Now, the GUI issues. Apparently, he has never used GNOME or KDE, and never heard of Eazel. Not only that, but he fails to remember the overall crappiness of elder GUI's. He fails to see the original purpose of Linux (just a toy??) and does not point out that it has it's priorities straight : a rock-hard core built for security, stability, and networking, and GUI's, etc... on top of that. This is the only right way to design a system - what good is a GUI that crashes a lot (i.e. MacOS 8? MacOS 7? MacOS 9?) Of course, our talented (ahem) writer fails to point out that there is a good reason that MacOS X is being built on top of a BSD kernel. Why? For the same reasons that I stated above - MacOS 7-8-9, etc... did not have a solid core.
This is so wrong. See below, after commentary -commentary- Wow, I've seen troll posts, but I've never seen a troll story submission before.... Geez, I wonder if there is a possibility of a more trollish interpretation of the story. It's a typical bash-/. idea: "You're all a bunch of MS hating hypocrites" it seems to say. -end commentary- Well, if you used your head, you'd realize that there is nothing illegal in hiring private investigators. People do it all the time. Businesses do it all the time. Credit checks are a kind of investigation. When venture capitalists invest, they investigate deeply. When companies invest in alliances, they investigate deeply. There is nothing wrong or illegal about that. The difference between Oracle doing it and M$ doing it is that M$ doing it might constitute an unfair trade practice, depending on how they used the knowledge. Oracle, however, is not a monopoly, and it's invetigation could not be used as an unfair trade practice. And M$ has done investigations before. You think it hasn't? Of course it has, and there's nothing wrong with most of it (I'm sure there were some heavy-handed tactics at some point.) You think Bill Gates doesn't investigate every little biotech or computer firm he invests in?
Look! They've already raised $12 million! This must be an internet con! Just watch out for their sponsorship of some reunion concert....
Seriously, this seems like good-looking technology, but I don't think file transfer is a good application of it - with file transfer, you want packets to be as bare as possible, with as much data as possible. No XML wrapping.
If these were modified to use AGP (or an AGP-like bus) that would give a tremendous advantage. PCI DMA was fast a few years ago, but AGP allows almost direct access to memory windows, which would allow these processors far more bandwidth and system interaction, as well as reducing contention for a narrow PCI bus. That said, I think this would also be good for distributed.net and SETI, or whatever other data-cruncher you happen to favor.
Well, at first glance this doesn't look like an internet language. It compiles into.exe files, and not into bytecodes or anything along those lines. Of course, this should mean that this is not an internet language, and is just another tool for desktop programs or Windows LANs. However, knowing MS, this is probably intended to compete with Java despite native compilation. I can even see how that might succeed, in the still-Windows-dominated Internet user environment. This, of course, allows all sorts of brutally bad secuirty holes (native code? hello? anyone home?) Overall, the language seems to be a cheap replica of Java with some of the statements renamed and a different class set.
Hey, I noticed that some of them are blocking RealVideo, etc... as well as Napster/Gnutella. That is much more disturbing. Those are vital for information sharing and broadcasting, such as online radio shows (Geeks in space!!:) Which leads me to wonder if they blocked the Microsoft media player as well.... I doubt they did.
If you read the kernel list, there are always people who want to write something but can't code (I haven't coded, but at least I stay quiet!) These people compensate for their ignorance by raising issues and questioning the development process. I'm 'glad' to see one of them has moved onto Slashdot.
Next up, the field I'm prowd to be working in! Bioinfomatics, people! The nucleotide sequences don't mean anything unless you interpret them. That's where massive data analysis comes in. Protein sequences have to be isolated, the shape and folding of the proteins simulated and their interactions catalogued. Additionally, there is gene expression data to combine with genomic data - there is no good in knowing what a gene is unless you know how much protein is being made from it. Here comes in the cDNA microarrays which measure just that. (cDNA microarrays work by figuring out how much mRNA (the template for proteins) for a given gene is in a certain type of cell, and do this for 5000 or more genes at a time) With comprehensive parallelized databases of all the genes, with protein and expression data, we will be able to do much more with the genome than a bunch of letters.
Voodoo is/not/ the best Linux 3d driver. Analysis of Windows/Linux drivers showed that 3dfx performs at 70% of Windows on Linux, while nVidia cards perform at up to 100% of Windows performance. Outdated is not the problem - benchmarks work on old or new. The question is the effort they put into configuring Linux properly. (Which, of course, is still a Linux flaw)
Yeah? Show me the benchmarks comparing it to ReiserFS, and then we can see. I don't mean to get pissy, but you've posted about 20 messages on this news article, many of them blindly pro-Be. I agree that Be is a great OS, but you go to the same extremity many Linux advocates go to. The numbers are not 'hard numbers', btw - as you said above - Benchmarks are an art. These benchmarks were skewed towards Be and Windows and against Linux - hence the lack of up-to-date technologies used in the tests. Not only that, but these benchmarks reveal very little - for all we know, these are just differences in the Voodoo driver implementations, and not in the architecture. Until we see more graphics cards tested, we cannot reach a conclusion either way.
You are quite wrong about Linux not wanting to be like BeOS. The differences you point out are entirely GUI-based - a small subsegment of the OS. Linux does want the ultra-low latency of BeOS. Linux does want a unified and integrated architecture for multimedia (though one should not be required to/have/ those devices to run, they should be seamlessly integrated if they are there) The Be kernel is by far one of the best in the world of operating systems. In terms of real-time performance, no OS comes close. Linux can get some degree of garaunteed latency, Windows can't get that at all, but Be - well, it's as close to an RT kernel without actually being one that anybody's gotten. (Of course, there's always RT-linux, but that's for a different set of applications) If Linux could borrow some of the undoubtedly killer code from the BE VM and multimedia subsystems it would be a lot better.
Although I agree that BeOS has a screaming advantage over Windows or Linux, it's the Windows/Linux difference that disturbs me. Seeing as they used Corel Linux, they probably did not bother getting any real hardware state-of-the-art Linux drivers. The reason for this is not just Linux-trolling! The Linux Games article compared Linux and Windows performance, and got much better results for Windows vs. Linux.
Well, if you think you're smart for bashing down the dumb Americans, think again. Britain only held out in the Battle of Britain thanks to US aid. You think those were all British fighters in the air? Ha! The United States was sending aid to GB since 1939. You think the crappy British tanks did anythink in Tobruk? Think again, there were Shermans on those fields. Without US supplies, the British would have been raped.
Aside from the use of terminals and modems that has already been pointed out by others, there are other limitations to the patent. It refers to:two: blocks of data. One is text, the other is control. This is very different from hyperlinks, which are:embedded: in the data. Additionally, the patent literally refers to:keyboard: signals as a navigation method, which is pretty weak terminology.
The reason is, those video cards/suck/. The cursor is either not being rendered properly by the game engine due to graphics slowness, or the graphics subsystem is getting too bogged down to process the blitting operations for cursor movement. Why would you waste a good P2 system with a Mach64?
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OK, Why are people marking these FUD posts "Insightful"? All the way up to 4? There is no insight into the open source process, in fact, these people don't even remember the release early/often strategy that open source is about! Not only that, but this person seems to have neglected to read the web page at all. Otherwise, he would know more than the screenshots tell them. A non-retard would look at the page, and see that Berlin has a dramatically improved architecture over the kludge that is X, including a brilliant corba based inmplementation and a far superior, unified API.
IANAL, but: Firstly, I don't think you can be arrested for libel. Libel is a civil offense, and confiscating his computer and jailing him is completely uncalled for. I think that he might have some legal recourse against the state. Secondly, however, libel can be a very serious thing. However, cussing someone out, etc... is not libel. Libel has a precise legal definition. AFAIK, you must spread/false/ information about a person which results in financial or otherwise physical damages (i.e., they get beaten up because of misinformation, or lose their job, etc...)
I live in America, yes, though I have dual citizenship between US and Russia. I never said US businesses are 100% of the market, but they are a significant portion (unproportionally so.) If you want to get technical, I am sure Britain, with all their new cryptolaws, can also do similar things.
Only because they drafted most of their male population. The army is disorganized and poorly trained and not worth a dime. The Swiss Army, which is much smaller, but which has actual training could kick their ass. Now, to get back on topic, it would be very advantageous for a small rogue nation to hold the data haven hostage. Think of it - take it over, and then demand millions of dollars or something for its return. Watch every major business beg for mercy.
Is Sealand recognized by the United States? If a nation is not recognized as independent by other nations, it can't do much good. Additionally, how do we know other nations cannot interfere with Sealand? Even a tiny nation like Iraq could take over the island with a few gunboats and some chemical gases. Furthermore, Sealand, although independent, is still at the mercy of external controls. The fiber lines can be cut, network traffic can be intercepted, etc... And what about political pressure? Say the US government doesn't like it. It can pressure Sealand to enact controls by threatening to block US business access to the haven ( a significant portion of their market ) by passing a law (which would be quite constitutional, I think)
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National Public radio news had a long story on this on Friday.
One of the possibilities identified is that a judge might allow the sale of the very valuable data (this sort of thing goes for 15 bucks a name,) to a company that agrees to uphold the same garauntee.
The issues are complicated here, as the shareholders want some return of their investment, and this is one of the most valuable assets the company has.
Well, this article, though appearing smart from the outside, is yet another grossly uninformed peice of semiFUD. /not/ written by one person (Linux), if one looks at current development, there are many, many developers that have contributed parts to the core. Rik van Riel and Andrea Arcangeli (plus John Quintela and many others) work on the VM subsystem. Alan Cox works on almost everything :) The statement that Linus wrote the whole core is total BS - there have been many many contributors.
First jumps to mind, the Linux core kernel was
Secondly, the "priests over the bazaar" statement is BS as well. RMS never suggested that there should be no control over the development process by project leaders, etc... And this would not be priests - these would be individual operators standing at their tables, and choosing which suggestions and contributions to take. Total bull.
Now, the GUI issues. Apparently, he has never used GNOME or KDE, and never heard of Eazel. Not only that, but he fails to remember the overall crappiness of elder GUI's.
He fails to see the original purpose of Linux (just a toy??) and does not point out that it has it's priorities straight : a rock-hard core built for security, stability, and networking, and GUI's, etc... on top of that. This is the only right way to design a system - what good is a GUI that crashes a lot (i.e. MacOS 8? MacOS 7? MacOS 9?)
Of course, our talented (ahem) writer fails to point out that there is a good reason that MacOS X is being built on top of a BSD kernel. Why? For the same reasons that I stated above - MacOS 7-8-9, etc... did not have a solid core.
This is so wrong. See below, after commentary
-commentary-
Wow, I've seen troll posts, but I've never seen a troll story submission before....
Geez, I wonder if there is a possibility of a more trollish interpretation of the story. It's a typical bash-/. idea: "You're all a bunch of MS hating hypocrites" it seems to say.
-end commentary-
Well, if you used your head, you'd realize that there is nothing illegal in hiring private investigators. People do it all the time. Businesses do it all the time. Credit checks are a kind of investigation. When venture capitalists invest, they investigate deeply. When companies invest in alliances, they investigate deeply. There is nothing wrong or illegal about that.
The difference between Oracle doing it and M$ doing it is that M$ doing it might constitute an unfair trade practice, depending on how they used the knowledge. Oracle, however, is not a monopoly, and it's invetigation could not be used as an unfair trade practice.
And M$ has done investigations before. You think it hasn't? Of course it has, and there's nothing wrong with most of it (I'm sure there were some heavy-handed tactics at some point.) You think Bill Gates doesn't investigate every little biotech or computer firm he invests in?
Look! They've already raised $12 million! This must be an internet con! Just watch out for their sponsorship of some reunion concert....
Seriously, this seems like good-looking technology, but I don't think file transfer is a good application of it - with file transfer, you want packets to be as bare as possible, with as much data as possible. No XML wrapping.
If these were modified to use AGP (or an AGP-like bus) that would give a tremendous advantage. PCI DMA was fast a few years ago, but AGP allows almost direct access to memory windows, which would allow these processors far more bandwidth and system interaction, as well as reducing contention for a narrow PCI bus.
That said, I think this would also be good for distributed.net and SETI, or whatever other data-cruncher you happen to favor.
Well, at first glance this doesn't look like an internet language. It compiles into .exe files, and not into bytecodes or anything along those lines.
Of course, this should mean that this is not an internet language, and is just another tool for desktop programs or Windows LANs.
However, knowing MS, this is probably intended to compete with Java despite native compilation. I can even see how that might succeed, in the still-Windows-dominated Internet user environment. This, of course, allows all sorts of brutally bad secuirty holes (native code? hello? anyone home?)
Overall, the language seems to be a cheap replica of Java with some of the statements renamed and a different class set.
Hey, I noticed that some of them are blocking RealVideo, etc... as well as Napster/Gnutella. That is much more disturbing. Those are vital for information sharing and broadcasting, such as online radio shows (Geeks in space!! :)
Which leads me to wonder if they blocked the Microsoft media player as well.... I doubt they did.
If you read the kernel list, there are always people who want to write something but can't code (I haven't coded, but at least I stay quiet!)
These people compensate for their ignorance by raising issues and questioning the development process. I'm 'glad' to see one of them has moved onto Slashdot.
Next up, the field I'm prowd to be working in! Bioinfomatics, people!
The nucleotide sequences don't mean anything unless you interpret them. That's where massive data analysis comes in. Protein sequences have to be isolated, the shape and folding of the proteins simulated and their interactions catalogued.
Additionally, there is gene expression data to combine with genomic data - there is no good in knowing what a gene is unless you know how much protein is being made from it. Here comes in the cDNA microarrays which measure just that. (cDNA microarrays work by figuring out how much mRNA (the template for proteins) for a given gene is in a certain type of cell, and do this for 5000 or more genes at a time)
With comprehensive parallelized databases of all the genes, with protein and expression data, we will be able to do much more with the genome than a bunch of letters.
It seems like it's time to start my online legal service. I think I'll call it e-legal.com :)
Instead of .alt, we have had a proposal for .god with the same properties.
Voodoo is /not/ the best Linux 3d driver. Analysis of Windows/Linux drivers showed that 3dfx performs at 70% of Windows on Linux, while nVidia cards perform at up to 100% of Windows performance. Outdated is not the problem - benchmarks work on old or new. The question is the effort they put into configuring Linux properly. (Which, of course, is still a Linux flaw)
Yeah? Show me the benchmarks comparing it to ReiserFS, and then we can see. I don't mean to get pissy, but you've posted about 20 messages on this news article, many of them blindly pro-Be. I agree that Be is a great OS, but you go to the same extremity many Linux advocates go to. The numbers are not 'hard numbers', btw - as you said above - Benchmarks are an art. These benchmarks were skewed towards Be and Windows and against Linux - hence the lack of up-to-date technologies used in the tests. Not only that, but these benchmarks reveal very little - for all we know, these are just differences in the Voodoo driver implementations, and not in the architecture. Until we see more graphics cards tested, we cannot reach a conclusion either way.
You are quite wrong about Linux not wanting to be like BeOS. The differences you point out are entirely GUI-based - a small subsegment of the OS. Linux does want the ultra-low latency of BeOS. Linux does want a unified and integrated architecture for multimedia (though one should not be required to /have/ those devices to run, they should be seamlessly integrated if they are there)
The Be kernel is by far one of the best in the world of operating systems. In terms of real-time performance, no OS comes close. Linux can get some degree of garaunteed latency, Windows can't get that at all, but Be - well, it's as close to an RT kernel without actually being one that anybody's gotten. (Of course, there's always RT-linux, but that's for a different set of applications)
If Linux could borrow some of the undoubtedly killer code from the BE VM and multimedia subsystems it would be a lot better.
Although I agree that BeOS has a screaming advantage over Windows or Linux, it's the Windows/Linux difference that disturbs me.
Seeing as they used Corel Linux, they probably did not bother getting any real hardware state-of-the-art Linux drivers. The reason for this is not just Linux-trolling!
The Linux Games article compared Linux and Windows performance, and got much better results for Windows vs. Linux.
Well, if you think you're smart for bashing down the dumb Americans, think again. Britain only held out in the Battle of Britain thanks to US aid. You think those were all British fighters in the air? Ha! The United States was sending aid to GB since 1939.
You think the crappy British tanks did anythink in Tobruk? Think again, there were Shermans on those fields. Without US supplies, the British would have been raped.
Aside from the use of terminals and modems that has already been pointed out by others, there are other limitations to the patent. :two: blocks of data. One is text, the other is control. This is very different from hyperlinks, which are :embedded: in the data. :keyboard: signals as a navigation method, which is pretty weak terminology.
It refers to
Additionally, the patent literally refers to
The reason is, those video cards /suck/. The cursor is either not being rendered properly by the game engine due to graphics slowness, or the graphics subsystem is getting too bogged down to process the blitting operations for cursor movement. Why would you waste a good P2 system with a Mach64?
OK, Why are people marking these FUD posts "Insightful"? All the way up to 4? There is no insight into the open source process, in fact, these people don't even remember the release early/often strategy that open source is about! Not only that, but this person seems to have neglected to read the web page at all. Otherwise, he would know more than the screenshots tell them. A non-retard would look at the page, and see that Berlin has a dramatically improved architecture over the kludge that is X, including a brilliant corba based inmplementation and a far superior, unified API.
IANAL, but: /false/ information about a person which results in financial or otherwise physical damages (i.e., they get beaten up because of misinformation, or lose their job, etc...)
Firstly, I don't think you can be arrested for libel. Libel is a civil offense, and confiscating his computer and jailing him is completely uncalled for. I think that he might have some legal recourse against the state.
Secondly, however, libel can be a very serious thing. However, cussing someone out, etc... is not libel. Libel has a precise legal definition. AFAIK, you must spread
I live in America, yes, though I have dual citizenship between US and Russia. I never said US businesses are 100% of the market, but they are a significant portion (unproportionally so.) If you want to get technical, I am sure Britain, with all their new cryptolaws, can also do similar things.
Now we just need hundreds of tons of Nazi gold and some World War II flashbacks, and we'll be in business.
Only because they drafted most of their male population. The army is disorganized and poorly trained and not worth a dime. The Swiss Army, which is much smaller, but which has actual training could kick their ass.
Now, to get back on topic, it would be very advantageous for a small rogue nation to hold the data haven hostage. Think of it - take it over, and then demand millions of dollars or something for its return. Watch every major business beg for mercy.
We can also store data that is too dangerous to store anywhere else, like Barbara Streissand MP-3s. :)
Is Sealand recognized by the United States? If a nation is not recognized as independent by other nations, it can't do much good.
Additionally, how do we know other nations cannot interfere with Sealand? Even a tiny nation like Iraq could take over the island with a few gunboats and some chemical gases.
Furthermore, Sealand, although independent, is still at the mercy of external controls. The fiber lines can be cut, network traffic can be intercepted, etc...
And what about political pressure? Say the US government doesn't like it. It can pressure Sealand to enact controls by threatening to block US business access to the haven ( a significant portion of their market ) by passing a law (which would be quite constitutional, I think)