If they can't fix the company what they did with assets is moot. But disposition of assets reduces valuation over time despite any momentary uptick, so it can hinder fixing the company as well as help.
Actually, Kone has had their ups and downs over the past decade. They suffered from a consolidation in the elevator market - their major business at the time - that pushed them out of the market to a great extent.
Were they in a better position, they'd be able to sell stock to make money. But that will be more difficult now. Assets like real estate keep the value of the company from being entirely speculative. After this, expect them to sell some patents. And at the end of that, their value will be based entirely on whether people think the company can pull itself out of its current problems or not, they'll be a really poor rated stock, and they'll have no more sources of cash if they can't fix the company in the short term.
I don't think we're contradicting each other, are we? Of the companies you've mentioned, I think Broadcom is the least litigious. They sued Qualcomm once.
Maybe I'm not the average customer but the Symbian kernel is differentiating to me. Symbian phones are fast as hell and have battery life that Linux and BSD powered smartphones can only dream of.
Maybe so, but would you have spent a king's ransom to make it run IPV6? I think they did.
I have a Nokia n770 and n900, and they were capable systems. In some ways Android is only now reaching a similar capability. If Nokia could have been convinced to market them, Android might never have taken the market the way it did.
I was one of a series of consultants they did not listen to with regard to Open Sourcing Symbian and what was, and was not, still of value in Symbian at that late date. Much of what they really valued - like the Symbian kernel - wasn't really business-differentiating in the eyes of the customer and nobody wanted it any longer, but yet they spent Billions on it.
Their destiny is to become a patent troll or to have their assets bought by one. What a shame.
Ask an innocent person on death row which one they'd prefer.
I assure you, there are lots of people in prison, and people who have incurable illness, etc., who would take a dignified and painless death over the painful and pointless life they've been forced into. It is unfortunate that our society can not see fit to offer them one.
Yes? There is absolutely nothing in your definition that precludes the rule of law. And the rule of law is, and can only be, enforced through violence. To cause death is an extreme form of violence, but not the most extreme. To jail a person for their entire life is more extreme.
Oh, yes, we can let them go if we find we were wrong. Just like the way we've recently freed a man who spent his entire adult life in jail and is now ready for the senior home. That's more humane than killing him?
It's likely an exofart - methane detected by the SAM sensor. The idea is that life that is somewhat like ours would produce methane, while an absence of methane would mean that there isn't life like ours.
It is probably using RTS for its own clients, and just not acknowledging them. But yes, it could hog the channel, not using interframe pauses and not backing off until it's done.
It's all rather silly, because the AP would not have queues that full were it not for bufferbloat.
If the entire network end-to-end mitigated the present bufferbloat issues, you would not need this. It's only because a local AP gets too-full queues that this problem happens.
Yes, I meant 75K per sold device not for the entire development cost.
Unfortunately, right now you might have to allocate tens of Millions to such a company just to operate the patent defense. Never mind that this was a vacuum tube device. There are current patents on computer implementations.
75K seems a good amount for taking something that could be done in Open Source and making it safe, reliable, and repeatably measurable for use in a hospital.
Sure, we can get these things to cost $5000 like a good hearing aid. But I'm not sure that version is going to be used to make the final assessment of whether there is a living person in a locked-in patient or not.
Hm. I worked for 19 years in film, 12 of them at Pixar. I am aware that Intel graphics are not a high-performance solution at this time. What is ATI lacking today in cards that run properly with open drivers?
I have 3D hardware here too. It has wonderful frame rates and drives a whole lot of monitors from just one card. It runs on the open driver. I was just careful what I bought. Please try that next time.
There will come a day when that binary doesn't run with modern kernels, and the manufacturer has gone on to other things and no longer supports it.
Why are proprietary drivers the only way you can get your work done? I'm not asking you so much as I am asking you to tell me why it happened to you. It's probably going to be something like company X wouldn't make open drivers. And then tell me if you really think that company X is protecting some precious intellectual property and if they would actually be damaged if it was released as Open Source.
Very often the driver only works on their specific hardware, and there isn't really any chance of financial damage from opening the driver.
Linux Foundation is an organization of really large businesses. They currently pay the salary of Linux Torvalds and a handful of other programmers, but they are first and foremost an organization of really large businesses. Many of the businesses are not particularly friendly to Linux. Most of them don't deserve your trust. A number of them produce proprietary drivers which run in the kernel, against the licensing of Linux itself.
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If they can't fix the company what they did with assets is moot. But disposition of assets reduces valuation over time despite any momentary uptick, so it can hinder fixing the company as well as help.
Actually, Kone has had their ups and downs over the past decade. They suffered from a consolidation in the elevator market - their major business at the time - that pushed them out of the market to a great extent.
Were they in a better position, they'd be able to sell stock to make money. But that will be more difficult now. Assets like real estate keep the value of the company from being entirely speculative. After this, expect them to sell some patents. And at the end of that, their value will be based entirely on whether people think the company can pull itself out of its current problems or not, they'll be a really poor rated stock, and they'll have no more sources of cash if they can't fix the company in the short term.
I don't think we're contradicting each other, are we? Of the companies you've mentioned, I think Broadcom is the least litigious. They sued Qualcomm once.
Maybe so, but would you have spent a king's ransom to make it run IPV6? I think they did.
I was one of a series of consultants they did not listen to with regard to Open Sourcing Symbian and what was, and was not, still of value in Symbian at that late date. Much of what they really valued - like the Symbian kernel - wasn't really business-differentiating in the eyes of the customer and nobody wanted it any longer, but yet they spent Billions on it.
Their destiny is to become a patent troll or to have their assets bought by one. What a shame.
The article's really garbled. It uses "Curiousity" to mean "Opportunity" several times.
And yes, there are just wars.
I assure you, there are lots of people in prison, and people who have incurable illness, etc., who would take a dignified and painless death over the painful and pointless life they've been forced into. It is unfortunate that our society can not see fit to offer them one.
Yes? There is absolutely nothing in your definition that precludes the rule of law. And the rule of law is, and can only be, enforced through violence. To cause death is an extreme form of violence, but not the most extreme. To jail a person for their entire life is more extreme.
Oh, yes, we can let them go if we find we were wrong. Just like the way we've recently freed a man who spent his entire adult life in jail and is now ready for the senior home. That's more humane than killing him?
Lots of civilizations do it. Thus, it must be civilized.
It's likely an exofart - methane detected by the SAM sensor. The idea is that life that is somewhat like ours would produce methane, while an absence of methane would mean that there isn't life like ours.
It's all rather silly, because the AP would not have queues that full were it not for bufferbloat.
If the entire network end-to-end mitigated the present bufferbloat issues, you would not need this. It's only because a local AP gets too-full queues that this problem happens.
Just of its own clients and other stations that can hear it. Some packets will potentially be lost due to the hidden-transmitter problem.
Unfortunately, right now you might have to allocate tens of Millions to such a company just to operate the patent defense. Never mind that this was a vacuum tube device. There are current patents on computer implementations.
I have a legal document that tells my family to pull the plug in such a case. I don't care who thinks I'm a "quitter".
Sure, we can get these things to cost $5000 like a good hearing aid. But I'm not sure that version is going to be used to make the final assessment of whether there is a living person in a locked-in patient or not.
It was a typo. But you know, it fits. Maybe we should all call him that.
Hm. I worked for 19 years in film, 12 of them at Pixar. I am aware that Intel graphics are not a high-performance solution at this time. What is ATI lacking today in cards that run properly with open drivers?
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There are people in the world who like to disassemble proprietary code. Surely the folks who bring patent suits employ some of them.
I have 3D hardware here too. It has wonderful frame rates and drives a whole lot of monitors from just one card. It runs on the open driver. I was just careful what I bought. Please try that next time.
There will come a day when that binary doesn't run with modern kernels, and the manufacturer has gone on to other things and no longer supports it.
Hi Chibi Merrow,
Why are proprietary drivers the only way you can get your work done? I'm not asking you so much as I am asking you to tell me why it happened to you. It's probably going to be something like company X wouldn't make open drivers. And then tell me if you really think that company X is protecting some precious intellectual property and if they would actually be damaged if it was released as Open Source.
Very often the driver only works on their specific hardware, and there isn't really any chance of financial damage from opening the driver.
Linux Foundation is an organization of really large businesses. They currently pay the salary of Linux Torvalds and a handful of other programmers, but they are first and foremost an organization of really large businesses. Many of the businesses are not particularly friendly to Linux. Most of them don't deserve your trust. A number of them produce proprietary drivers which run in the kernel, against the licensing of Linux itself.
Martin, whatever problems you have, I did not make them. This is a nutcase crusade, and you're just making yourself a nutcase by pursuing it.