There's a lawsuit going on about the matter right now, but it looks like the Unix copyrights were never actually transfered from Novell to SCO.
That raises an interesting possibility for Novell. I wonder if they've thought about integrating their Unix copyrights into their Linux distribution and later suing other makers (and, heck, users) of Linux distributions for copyright infringement.
It sounds like a long shot, but with good lawyers, enough FUD and a few mil from certain anonymous backers, anything's possible.
Open source is one thing, but I'm wondering how useful to us Sun's move really is if the code will not be put out under a GPL-like or BSD-like license
Depends who "us" is. Kernel sources are very useful to device driver writers, and the most recent Solaris source release was Solaris 8 (that I'm aware of.)
We don't need more temporizing. We need the overwhelming application of military force, right now. That means using strategic nuclear weapons against the PRK to destroy every military installation, followed by a rapid invasion to secure the countryside and assure there can be no belated retaliation.
If that happens, it won't be the U.S. doing it, it will be China.
The U.S. and many other countries are understandably nervous about North Korea possessing nuclear weapons. Imagine how China must feel.
Just because the previous poster is a registered libertarian and tends to vote libertarian in elections doesn't mean that he actually wants the libertarian party to take over complete control of the country.
Perhaps he votes libertarian in the hopes that a major party will, in the future, attempt to garner some of the "libertarian vote" by adopting some libertarian principles, or by re-adopting those libertarian principles that they used to pay lip service to, but have recently found it convenient to discard.
There's truth to that. A key element is adequate logging, both for enforcing accountability and for tweaking whatever filters one sees fit to establish.
Well, that sounds good, but I'm pessimistic. The same parents who bitch about our educational system but who won't sit down with their kids and discuss what Johnny learned in school today will continue to scream and scream loudly.
That's a different problem, which this solution doesn't attempt to address. This gives proactive parents another tool, which is a good thing.
Think one step farther: combine persistent personal video recorders with PVR functionality and you don't even need to know ahead of time that you're going to want to tape something. Rather than recording the aftermath of the accident, you could record the entire thing.
There would be great potential for use, but there would also be great potential for abuse. The internet has been described as giving everybody their own printing press; how would life be different if, in addition to that, everybody had their own cable TV channel?
Phones will not replace computers as they currently stand unless our technology begins to approach near Star Trekian levels (which I'm not entirely ruling out, but won't be for a little while at least).
That seems shortsighted to me. It is conceivable that wearable computing might someday give us the functionality of a general purpose computer in a package that looks like a cell phone, or walkman, or whatever. The display can be handled by my glasses and input can be handled by tracking the positions of my fingers on a virtual keyboard (which could be shown on my eyeglass-display, allowing people who aren't touch-typists to use the system.)
Maybe we just have different ideas about what constitutes "near Star Trekian levels". I would be surprised if warp drives or transporters are invented in my lifetime; I wouldn't be surprised to see a computer that communicates to me through my eyeglasses (or even through my contact lenses) instead of through a monitor in my lifetime.
Note that the article also gives justification to ignore the environment to liberal, green, communist, socialist, and anarchist folks. I guess you could call it an equal opportunity article: it justifies regardless of the race, creed, color and sex of the reader... what a country!
It depends on how the battery engine is implemented. With the Insight, the battery motor is mostly used at highway speeds, relying on the gasoline motor at lower speeds. With the Prius it's reversed: the gasoline motor gives it the oomph for highway speeds, while the battery motor is what's used in city traffic. That's why with the Prius the MPG rating is higher for city traffic than for highway traffic. (Comparing city vs highway MPG is a good way to guess which kind of battery augmentation a hybrid car is equipped with.)
If some Microsoft employee posts the Windows code under the GPL, that will not make the code GPL. If Frankel had no power to approve the release under the GPL, then it was unauthorized and the GPL does not apply.
Since Frankel had the power to release software under the GPL, and it was only after the software was released that his employers thought to limit his power to release the software, it is ok for us to continue to distribute the software.
Well then you should try going to a movie without knowing the plot. It's a totally different experience.
I've tried it, and found that I didn't enjoy it. I enjoy movies a lot more when I notice the little details and whatnot that I don't notice if I don't already understand the plot. If it's a movie I'm looking forward to (like The Phantom Menace... sigh) I'll even read the book first.
This is the same effect that one would get from watching the same movie twice in a row, but I seldom have the time, attention span or inclination for that.
The side benefit of knowing things in advance is that it can help identify movies that I won't enjoy as much. Also, if I have a more realistic expectation of what a movie is like, I won't be as disappointed when, once again, it sucks.
That's all true, but there may still be some benefit to using gigabit ethernet even if he's not able to saturate the network with one machine. If he's only getting 10 MB/sec with his fast ethernet (a typical number - divide the Mbps by 10 to approximate throughput after protocol overhead is taken out), 30 MB/sec would be a huge improvement for high throughput tasks (like copying a DVD image from one machine to another.)
It really does matter how the PCI buses are set up in the machine, and how many times the data has to cross the same PCI bus. A bigger question, though, is where the data is going to and coming from: if it's a fairly normal disk subsystem, then that will probably be the choke point. If the network subsystem is doing a data copy on each transmit or receive, that will hurt too.
Another consideration is that using standard ethernet frames (not jumbo frames) can dramatically increase the cpu overhead. Throwing a gige nic into an old machine will probably not saturate the PCI bus, for this reason.
I'm often amused by science types that say something is impossible because it doesn't fit any current theory
They don't. Not the *real* ones anyway, only the quacks with books to sell.
I think the parent poster was referring to people who could safely be called "science fanboys". If something doesn't fit their brand of scientific dogma, then it's obviously nonsense. They start from the conclusion they want (which was told to them by someone else - i.e., not original) and dismiss or ridicule what doesn't support it.
Of course, these people aren't "scientists", they're "science types". (Well, some real scientists might be like that - who am I to say that all scientists are good scientists.
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Hear that whooshing noise?
That raises an interesting possibility for Novell. I wonder if they've thought about integrating their Unix copyrights into their Linux distribution and later suing other makers (and, heck, users) of Linux distributions for copyright infringement.
It sounds like a long shot, but with good lawyers, enough FUD and a few mil from certain anonymous backers, anything's possible.
Depends who "us" is. Kernel sources are very useful to device driver writers, and the most recent Solaris source release was Solaris 8 (that I'm aware of.)
In addition to the other reasons people have mentioned:
1) because your boss tells you to
2) because your customer will pay you to do so
If that happens, it won't be the U.S. doing it, it will be China.
The U.S. and many other countries are understandably nervous about North Korea possessing nuclear weapons. Imagine how China must feel.
So even *mentioning* insanely stupid possibilities, without advocating them, is trolling? Nonsense.
Perhaps he votes libertarian in the hopes that a major party will, in the future, attempt to garner some of the "libertarian vote" by adopting some libertarian principles, or by re-adopting those libertarian principles that they used to pay lip service to, but have recently found it convenient to discard.
12 processors fit on one board, and 8 boards fit into the chassis they chose.
If 2.6.9 is out, I recommend you download that, not 2.6.8.
No, it's one of its biggest strengths. It shows a diversity of opinion; it shows that Slashdot is not a monoculture.
"never" is a very, very long time.
There's truth to that. A key element is adequate logging, both for enforcing accountability and for tweaking whatever filters one sees fit to establish.
That's a different problem, which this solution doesn't attempt to address. This gives proactive parents another tool, which is a good thing.
They're supposed to be dangerous to the other side.
Optimist.
Think one step farther: combine persistent personal video recorders with PVR functionality and you don't even need to know ahead of time that you're going to want to tape something. Rather than recording the aftermath of the accident, you could record the entire thing.
There would be great potential for use, but there would also be great potential for abuse. The internet has been described as giving everybody their own printing press; how would life be different if, in addition to that, everybody had their own cable TV channel?
That seems shortsighted to me. It is conceivable that wearable computing might someday give us the functionality of a general purpose computer in a package that looks like a cell phone, or walkman, or whatever. The display can be handled by my glasses and input can be handled by tracking the positions of my fingers on a virtual keyboard (which could be shown on my eyeglass-display, allowing people who aren't touch-typists to use the system.)
Maybe we just have different ideas about what constitutes "near Star Trekian levels". I would be surprised if warp drives or transporters are invented in my lifetime; I wouldn't be surprised to see a computer that communicates to me through my eyeglasses (or even through my contact lenses) instead of through a monitor in my lifetime.
Note that the article also gives justification to ignore the environment to liberal, green, communist, socialist, and anarchist folks. I guess you could call it an equal opportunity article: it justifies regardless of the race, creed, color and sex of the reader... what a country!
It depends on how the battery engine is implemented. With the Insight, the battery motor is mostly used at highway speeds, relying on the gasoline motor at lower speeds. With the Prius it's reversed: the gasoline motor gives it the oomph for highway speeds, while the battery motor is what's used in city traffic. That's why with the Prius the MPG rating is higher for city traffic than for highway traffic. (Comparing city vs highway MPG is a good way to guess which kind of battery augmentation a hybrid car is equipped with.)
That you see, or that you wonder about?
That seems like a pretty good reason for a wedge-shaped ship to me.
Since Frankel had the power to release software under the GPL, and it was only after the software was released that his employers thought to limit his power to release the software, it is ok for us to continue to distribute the software.
I've tried it, and found that I didn't enjoy it. I enjoy movies a lot more when I notice the little details and whatnot that I don't notice if I don't already understand the plot. If it's a movie I'm looking forward to (like The Phantom Menace... sigh) I'll even read the book first.
This is the same effect that one would get from watching the same movie twice in a row, but I seldom have the time, attention span or inclination for that.
The side benefit of knowing things in advance is that it can help identify movies that I won't enjoy as much. Also, if I have a more realistic expectation of what a movie is like, I won't be as disappointed when, once again, it sucks.
It really does matter how the PCI buses are set up in the machine, and how many times the data has to cross the same PCI bus. A bigger question, though, is where the data is going to and coming from: if it's a fairly normal disk subsystem, then that will probably be the choke point. If the network subsystem is doing a data copy on each transmit or receive, that will hurt too.
Another consideration is that using standard ethernet frames (not jumbo frames) can dramatically increase the cpu overhead. Throwing a gige nic into an old machine will probably not saturate the PCI bus, for this reason.
I think the parent poster was referring to people who could safely be called "science fanboys". If something doesn't fit their brand of scientific dogma, then it's obviously nonsense. They start from the conclusion they want (which was told to them by someone else - i.e., not original) and dismiss or ridicule what doesn't support it.
Of course, these people aren't "scientists", they're "science types". (Well, some real scientists might be like that - who am I to say that all scientists are good scientists.