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I may not be searching for it right, but I couldn't find any references to iWalk in in the US Trademark Electornic Search System, but iPod is there.
I don't have any experience in product development, so I don't know if this means anything. I guess they could file the trademark the day of announcement.....
To extend this question further, what is the most effective approach for convincing one's management that releasing a specific work as OpenSource is a business savy thing to do? I work for a 50 year old organization that tends to be very fixed in its ways, and the old farts at the top are very entrenched in circa 1970/80 business styles. It is an uproad battle, especially since that/really/ don't understand the internet software environment.
I've got a crappy Virge/VX card that came with my Pentium Pro Gateway computer, and I have had major problems with it causing the whole computer to lock-up when leaving an X session and going back to the xdm/gdm/kdm process while using the S3V server. I don't have the problem with the SVGA server, so I use that (even though it is much slower).
Regardless of how they go about it, they are still wasting everyone's time. Like you said, there are too many variables (e.g. competency of administrator) to make any of these security competitions interesting, although the LPPC one was about as good as it gets due to the "out of the box" criteria. What are we trying to prove? That M$ sucks technologically? If that is the case, I think the point has been missed as to why M$ is where it is.
Great idea!! I would certainly like to donate cycles to something more inspiring than cracking encryption keys. The Great Net Movie (TGNM) would get lots of good publicity, and with the kind of computing power available through this donation process, unparalleled, er paralleled, images could be had.
I *do* think that something like this should be done under a larger organizing structure such as distributed.net. I only wish that SETI@Home had worked with the distributed.net people so that everyone would benefit to the improvements to the infrastructure and organization.
It sounds like academia is just as fraught with Dilbertisms and idiotic management as industry. With the type of response SETI@Home has received from the world it seems that their problems could be solved with a simple call for help to the community. But it appears that they have not learned anything about community development success open source efforts have had, and are ego-inflated by their monopoly on SETI data and insist on being control freaks. The sad thing about this is that their attitude will eventually affect their ability to get funding, as skeptics can easily point out the fact that when they were donated millions (anyone care to really estimate?) in free computational power they wasted most of it.
I'm by no means a/leading/ contributor to the effort, but I am in the top 0.3%-tile overall, and in the top 30 in "team slashdot", having spent a decent amount of time to get the software running autonomously on a handful of SPARCs. But I think now I'm going to look more closely at distributed.net despite the fact that SETI engages the imagination (and fantasy) much more. Anything we can do to improve this process?
How long before Microsoft views the consoles as a threat, in the same vein as Linux is seen as a threat? My guess is the minute one of the console vendors ships with a web browser PPP/TCP/IP stack, and default connection to AOL. I'm all for "appliances" suited for a task, as they tend to be simpler to use in the long run for their designed task (VCRs notwithstanding). But the proliferation of such devices as internet nodes dilutes the Microsoft grip on the client side.
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I may not be searching for it right, but I couldn't find any references to iWalk in in the US Trademark Electornic Search System, but iPod is there. I don't have any experience in product development, so I don't know if this means anything. I guess they could file the trademark the day of announcement.....
I tried to RTFM, but it looks like their site has fallen prey to the slashdoteffect.
To extend this question further, what is the most effective approach for convincing one's management that releasing a specific work as OpenSource is a business savy thing to do? I work for a 50 year old organization that tends to be very fixed in its ways, and the old farts at the top are very entrenched in circa 1970/80 business styles. It is an uproad battle, especially since that /really/ don't understand the internet software environment.
I've got a crappy Virge/VX card that came with my Pentium Pro Gateway computer, and I have had major problems with it causing the whole computer to lock-up when leaving an X session and going back to the xdm/gdm/kdm process while using the S3V server. I don't have the problem with the SVGA server, so I use that (even though it is much slower).
Regardless of how they go about it, they are still wasting everyone's time. Like you said, there are too many variables (e.g. competency of administrator) to make any of these security competitions interesting, although the LPPC one was about as good as it gets due to the "out of the box" criteria. What are we trying to prove? That M$ sucks technologically? If that is the case, I think the point has been missed as to why M$ is where it is.
Great idea!! I would certainly like to donate cycles to something more inspiring than cracking encryption keys. The Great Net Movie (TGNM) would get lots of good publicity, and with the kind of computing power available through this donation process, unparalleled, er paralleled, images could be had.
I *do* think that something like this should be done under a larger organizing structure such as distributed.net. I only wish that SETI@Home had worked with the distributed.net people so that everyone would benefit to the improvements to the infrastructure and organization.
It sounds like academia is just as fraught with Dilbertisms and idiotic management as industry. With the type of response SETI@Home has received from the world it seems that their problems could be solved with a simple call for help to the community. But it appears that they have not learned anything about community development success open source efforts have had, and are ego-inflated by their monopoly on SETI data and insist on being control freaks. The sad thing about this is that their attitude will eventually affect their ability to get funding, as skeptics can easily point out the fact that when they were donated millions (anyone care to really estimate?) in free computational power they wasted most of it.
/leading/ contributor to the effort, but I am in the top 0.3%-tile overall, and in the top 30 in "team slashdot", having spent a decent amount of time to get the software running autonomously on a handful of SPARCs. But I think now I'm going to look more closely at distributed.net despite the fact that SETI engages the imagination (and fantasy) much more. Anything we can do to improve this process?
I'm by no means a
How long before Microsoft views the consoles as a threat, in the same vein as Linux is seen as a threat? My guess is the minute one of the console vendors ships with a web browser PPP/TCP/IP stack, and default connection to AOL. I'm all for "appliances" suited for a task, as they tend to be simpler to use in the long run for their designed task (VCRs notwithstanding). But the proliferation of such devices as internet nodes dilutes the Microsoft grip on the client side.