Where were you when American companies were making huge profits (and still are) by exporting products to every other country in the world? Exporting American culture, American food, clothes and lifestyles? When IBM, HP, Microsoft, Sun, Intel, AMD are selling their products all over the world and making a huge profit on it? Perhaps you took no part of the profits?
And now you want to whine when these companies want to make the products where they sell them?
Forgive me if I'm a little bitter, but Globalisation was forced on most of the world, when America could sell its products. Now that other countries have managed to get a foot-hold, suddenly Americans don't want to compete globally any more.
You used to win when you could sell your products everywhere, now that others are selling their products in America, you are not prepared to compete. Get a grip!
Right, after a few hundred years of European hegemony over much of the current third-world, you expect the countries to recover over-night? Much of European wealth over the past 300 years was built on income from China, India and Africa. Check your history before you spout 'facts'.
Normally your comments are spot on, not this time...
15K p.m. for a 21 yr old is pretty good. A new bike costs 30K-50K. So he can purchase one in a year. Even a car ( possibly 2nd hand ) is feasible if she decides to take on a loan.
Most people live in apartments, houses are few and far between, and very very expensive. Before the tech boom, it was very difficult for 'bachelors' to get apartments, as they were assumed to be 'not well behaved', and dangerous to the girls in the neighbourhood (I kid you not!!). After the tech boom, suddenly, having a sw engineer renting your house was the best you could get. They rarely were at home, they kept the house reasonably clean, and they had not too much time to get into trouble:-).
Transport is mostly bikes or buses/trains. Traffic is chaotic in most places, bikes can manoever around the jams.
Maidservants cost around Rs500 p.m. So most of the SW engg can afford one. Sometimes they even cook dinner. Computers are typically the same price, but one yr or 6 months older. With 15K the total expenses per month would be roughly 5K to 6K at most. Tax would be around 3K I guess. Which leaves a disposable income of around 3K-4K minimum. That's a LOT!!
Ummm, India's market is quite 'free' and open. Most of the consumer products are manufactured by multi-nationals. India also has much larger imports than exports.
As a developing country, some products do have import tariffs, but this is pretty much the same as any country I guess. Most multi-nationals are now competing in India, and how many complaints have you seen that India is a closed market??
Futher, India is a member of the Wto, and is therefore bound by al its statutes. Many countries have initiated action against some tariffs imposed by India, and these tariffs have been removed/reduced. Pretty much the same as the Bush position on Steel Imports.
The India of the 80's is not the India of the 90's, 00's...
Most people seem to think this is going to be very expensive for schools. However, RedHat is offering a full site license for $2500 p.a. This is nothing for a univ. The univ can also setup a local RHN update mirror, further cutting down on bandwidth costs.
Our univ. is on RH 9.0 now, and they use the free Pink Tie CD's. After the reports of Fedora's instability, the SysAdmins have kind of 'rebelled' and are asking for RH WS for the systems they admin. This agreement for $2,500 makes perfect sense in this scenario. The Uni already has substantial support people, and are going to require RH resources very very infrequently.
So RTFA before you assume the RH solution is going to be more expensive...
Since e-mail is an improvement over snail-mail (and possibly phone-alls), do you see everyone paying for it?
While all the previous improvements you mentioned needed new infrastructure, e-mail and VOIP do NOT!! Introducing new applications on the Internet is easy! That's where the end-to-end, dumb network, smart edge nature of the Internet shines!! And that, my friend is where your analogy breaks down.
This page gives a detailed description of the power of a metorite which end up at 12cm radius, mass of 20.133 kg, hitting with a final velocity of 133.994 m/s. Approximately the size of a basketball I guess.
The energy released is 180.737 kJ, in comparison, the nuke on Nagasaki released approx 84TJ , and the gravitational potential energy released by the fall of one of the Towers was 2.2TJ, the biggest ever explosion, the Novaya Zemlya Hydrogen bomb, produced 58 megatons, or 240,000 TJ.
Nice troll. So I guess you would be fine if there were no safety requirements on cars and airplanes? After all "open, barrier-free competition" is the only thing you are interested in.
While we are at it, let's remove all minimum safety testing on all drugs too.
Is man_of_mr_e trying to tilt the numbers in favor of Linux? Posting this story on/. is like waving a red rag in front of a raging bull. Here come the 1337 script-kiddies!!!
Umm, the guys who made the IV pump had all the code to ensure that it worked all right. They SHOULD spend money to make sure that the version they used contains little or no extraneous code, and that it contained no flaws.
Only an idiot would run closed-source code in such an application. Use open-source, and audit the code like hell - that is the only way to be sure. Then make sure your application is fail-safe.
The true definition merely states - "The density of transistors on an IC will approximately double every 18 months". Many people seem to think that this implies a processing performance doubling, or a frequency doubling. It is nothing of the sort.
The only direct effect is that the cost for a chip is halved every 18 months (assuming cost ~ die area). A side-effect is the fact that smaller transistors can be run at higher clocks than larger transistors, and/or dissipate less heat.
It is upto processor architects, and designers to make better use of the larger number of transistors available. Dr Yale Patt, of UT Austin, stated in a lecture that his team had found that chip architects had improved the performance of their designs faster than Moore's law by adding new features when they got more transistors to play with.
I'm sorry, but what does your comment have to do with Moore's law? Moore's law merely states that the density of transistors on a IC doubles every 18 months. This has nothing to do with the frequency of operation, power consumption or RISC/CISC.
You merely make the statement that Moore's law is ending, and then provide some totally unrelated comments.
Although I see that blaming MS directly for may not be appropriate. They have certainly contributed heavily to enabling the mechanisms of these worms/virii.
For e.g., not showing the extension of a file by default. If you could train users not to double-click attachments with suspicious extensions, most of these e-mail virii would be non-existent. Executing an attachment, when a user double-clicks it, is definitely a foolish idea. Allow attachments to be data, which can be read by external programs; require the user to change a configuration setting if the file itself has to be executed.
Ease of use you say? How many of the people spreading these virii, actually have a legitimate need to be sending each other executable files? In Evolution for e.g., you can open the attachment with an external program, but not run the attachment. I have never found this to be a problem.
Hiding files which MS 'thinks' need not be seen, is another irritation. I had a friends' Win 98 computer, which had a few hidden directories in Windows/Temp Files, having around 600MB of his browser cache. The only way of getting to those directories was to use the command line to list hidden directories, and then use the directory name to get there.
Sorry if this came off as a bit of a rant, but absolving MS of all blame, when clearly it would be much more difficult for virus writers if they hadn't made things so easy is ridiculous.
This last thing I try to do quite a lot to paste a new URL into the URL textbox of a web browser, so I can replace the old URL with the new URL I want to visit. However, in X11, highlighting some text makes it "the selection", so a paste will just paste in the text I'd selected, which was the text I wanted to replace.
In Moz, center-clicking the link you want to go to works!! You don't need to clear the URL box. Simply center click on the page. I absolutely LOVE this!!
But for other applications, I find that the lack of this feature is a problem. Of course, if you keep the clipboard in the system tray, it is alleviated somewhat..
Under the GPL or BSD licences, the code the 'goons' worked for is still free/open. All that was lost was a companies support. Ximian can't sell the copyright to Evolution, and stop it from being GPL'd. So what exactly have we lost?
Re:how much was Ximian worth?
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They've got approximately $600M in cash, if you say 5% is "not expected to have a material effect", then it could be up to $30M!!
Why not? You don't have to pick up the phone. If contacting someone for a purpose they don't appreciate is illegal, we have already lost many of our freedoms.
Bullshit! Commercial speech is NOT subject to freedom of speech. The DNC list does not cover charities, surveys, or politicians:-(. Any person wanting to pursue true free speech, would have no problem finding a spot in one of these categories.
wouldn't mounting everyones directory, through a remote directory work just as well? Let's say all the localdisks are mounted at one of the server's directories, then this directory is mounted onto all the users systems. This would take away all the variables, and you could use anyone's hdd the same way you would use yours. We might be doing something like this in our lab. Haven't gotten around to it though, and haven't really invested in thinking it out.
Why browsable? Simply have the various drives mounted using NFS. Use the same file browser you always use. What does SAMBA do that NFS does not? This is not a troll, I have to use SAMBA only rarely when I login to some Windows boxen which mount my (NFS) home directory.
Actually, they are cheaper. Car(mid-size) - Rs400,000 ~ $8K. TV(21") - Rs5,000 - $100. Computers are the same price -BUT most people don't need a 3.2GHz P4, and they are rapidly becoming durables, and don't need replacement every 3 years. Housing and food are probably the biggest expenses, a 2 bedroom (~800sqft) will cost $100-$200 a month. Food is cheap, may be max of $25 for cooking at home. $2-$5 for a really amazing restaurant. Most are in the $1-$2 range.
The reareason MS is indemnifying their customers?
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While we all thought that MS was indemnifying their customers in order to present Linux in a bad-light, might that have been to assuage customers against this ruling? This news seems to be put MS WindowsXX in a much worse position than Linux/IBM is now. There is already a ruling against MS, as opposed to only 'legal vaporware' against Linux. Convince your company to stay away from MS based on this!!
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Where were you when American companies were making huge profits (and still are) by exporting products to every other country in the world? Exporting American culture, American food, clothes and lifestyles? When IBM, HP, Microsoft, Sun, Intel, AMD are selling their products all over the world and making a huge profit on it? Perhaps you took no part of the profits?
And now you want to whine when these companies want to make the products where they sell them?
Forgive me if I'm a little bitter, but Globalisation was forced on most of the world, when America could sell its products. Now that other countries have managed to get a foot-hold, suddenly Americans don't want to compete globally any more.
You used to win when you could sell your products everywhere, now that others are selling their products in America, you are not prepared to compete. Get a grip!
It's flamebait or a troll, and bullshit.
Right, after a few hundred years of European hegemony over much of the current third-world, you expect the countries to recover over-night? Much of European wealth over the past 300 years was built on income from China, India and Africa. Check your history before you spout 'facts'.
Normally your comments are spot on, not this time...
15K p.m. for a 21 yr old is pretty good. A new bike costs 30K-50K. So he can purchase one in a year. Even a car ( possibly 2nd hand ) is feasible if she decides to take on a loan.
:-).
Most people live in apartments, houses are few and far between, and very very expensive. Before the tech boom, it was very difficult for 'bachelors' to get apartments, as they were assumed to be 'not well behaved', and dangerous to the girls in the neighbourhood (I kid you not!!). After the tech boom, suddenly, having a sw engineer renting your house was the best you could get. They rarely were at home, they kept the house reasonably clean, and they had not too much time to get into trouble
Transport is mostly bikes or buses/trains. Traffic is chaotic in most places, bikes can manoever around the jams.
Maidservants cost around Rs500 p.m. So most of the SW engg can afford one. Sometimes they even cook dinner. Computers are typically the same price, but one yr or 6 months older. With 15K the total expenses per month would be roughly 5K to 6K at most. Tax would be around 3K I guess. Which leaves a disposable income of around 3K-4K minimum. That's a LOT!!
Ummm, India's market is quite 'free' and open. Most of the consumer products are manufactured by multi-nationals. India also has much larger imports than exports.
As a developing country, some products do have import tariffs, but this is pretty much the same as any country I guess. Most multi-nationals are now competing in India, and how many complaints have you seen that India is a closed market??
Futher, India is a member of the Wto, and is therefore bound by al its statutes. Many countries have initiated action against some tariffs imposed by India, and these tariffs have been removed/reduced. Pretty much the same as the Bush position on Steel Imports.
The India of the 80's is not the India of the 90's, 00's...
Most people seem to think this is going to be very expensive for schools. However, RedHat is offering a full site license for $2500 p.a. This is nothing for a univ. The univ can also setup a local RHN update mirror, further cutting down on bandwidth costs.
Our univ. is on RH 9.0 now, and they use the free Pink Tie CD's. After the reports of Fedora's instability, the SysAdmins have kind of 'rebelled' and are asking for RH WS for the systems they admin. This agreement for $2,500 makes perfect sense in this scenario. The Uni already has substantial support people, and are going to require RH resources very very infrequently.
So RTFA before you assume the RH solution is going to be more expensive...
Which one is worse?
Posting from work, with too much work to do?
Or, posting from home, because you have no job, and nothing else to do?
Can you remove this already?
Since e-mail is an improvement over snail-mail (and possibly phone-alls), do you see everyone paying for it?
While all the previous improvements you mentioned needed new infrastructure, e-mail and VOIP do NOT!! Introducing new applications on the Internet is easy! That's where the end-to-end, dumb network, smart edge nature of the Internet shines!! And that, my friend is where your analogy breaks down.
The energy released is 180.737 kJ, in comparison, the nuke on Nagasaki released approx 84TJ , and the gravitational potential energy released by the fall of one of the Towers was 2.2TJ, the biggest ever explosion, the Novaya Zemlya Hydrogen bomb, produced 58 megatons, or 240,000 TJ.
WOW!!
Nice troll. So I guess you would be fine if there were no safety requirements on cars and airplanes? After all "open, barrier-free competition" is the only thing you are interested in.
While we are at it, let's remove all minimum safety testing on all drugs too.
Actually, if you get a job in India, you can quite easily get a work visa. May be even more easily than a H1 in the USA..
Is man_of_mr_e trying to tilt the numbers in favor of Linux? Posting this story on /. is like waving a red rag in front of a raging bull. Here come the 1337 script-kiddies!!!
Umm, the guys who made the IV pump had all the code to ensure that it worked all right. They SHOULD spend money to make sure that the version they used contains little or no extraneous code, and that it contained no flaws.
Only an idiot would run closed-source code in such an application. Use open-source, and audit the code like hell - that is the only way to be sure. Then make sure your application is fail-safe.
The true definition merely states - "The density of transistors on an IC will approximately double every 18 months". Many people seem to think that this implies a processing performance doubling, or a frequency doubling. It is nothing of the sort.
The only direct effect is that the cost for a chip is halved every 18 months (assuming cost ~ die area). A side-effect is the fact that smaller transistors can be run at higher clocks than larger transistors, and/or dissipate less heat.
It is upto processor architects, and designers to make better use of the larger number of transistors available. Dr Yale Patt, of UT Austin, stated in a lecture that his team had found that chip architects had improved the performance of their designs faster than Moore's law by adding new features when they got more transistors to play with.
I'm sorry, but what does your comment have to do with Moore's law? Moore's law merely states that the density of transistors on a IC doubles every 18 months. This has nothing to do with the frequency of operation, power consumption or RISC/CISC.
You merely make the statement that Moore's law is ending, and then provide some totally unrelated comments.
Although I see that blaming MS directly for may not be appropriate. They have certainly contributed heavily to enabling the mechanisms of these worms/virii.
For e.g., not showing the extension of a file by default. If you could train users not to double-click attachments with suspicious extensions, most of these e-mail virii would be non-existent. Executing an attachment, when a user double-clicks it, is definitely a foolish idea. Allow attachments to be data, which can be read by external programs; require the user to change a configuration setting if the file itself has to be executed.
Ease of use you say? How many of the people spreading these virii, actually have a legitimate need to be sending each other executable files? In Evolution for e.g., you can open the attachment with an external program, but not run the attachment. I have never found this to be a problem.
Hiding files which MS 'thinks' need not be seen, is another irritation. I had a friends' Win 98 computer, which had a few hidden directories in Windows/Temp Files, having around 600MB of his browser cache. The only way of getting to those directories was to use the command line to list hidden directories, and then use the directory name to get there.
Sorry if this came off as a bit of a rant, but absolving MS of all blame, when clearly it would be much more difficult for virus writers if they hadn't made things so easy is ridiculous.
In Moz, center-clicking the link you want to go to works!! You don't need to clear the URL box. Simply center click on the page. I absolutely LOVE this!!
But for other applications, I find that the lack of this feature is a problem. Of course, if you keep the clipboard in the system tray, it is alleviated somewhat..
More importantly, they have a pile of cash - approx. $45M, and their net assets = $295M.. So they can afford the lawyers...
Under the GPL or BSD licences, the code the 'goons' worked for is still free/open. All that was lost was a companies support. Ximian can't sell the copyright to Evolution, and stop it from being GPL'd. So what exactly have we lost?
They've got approximately $600M in cash, if you say 5% is "not expected to have a material effect", then it could be up to $30M!!
Bullshit! Commercial speech is NOT subject to freedom of speech. The DNC list does not cover charities, surveys, or politicians
wouldn't mounting everyones directory, through a remote directory work just as well? Let's say all the localdisks are mounted at one of the server's directories, then this directory is mounted onto all the users systems. This would take away all the variables, and you could use anyone's hdd the same way you would use yours. We might be doing something like this in our lab. Haven't gotten around to it though, and haven't really invested in thinking it out.
Why browsable? Simply have the various drives mounted using NFS. Use the same file browser you always use. What does SAMBA do that NFS does not? This is not a troll, I have to use SAMBA only rarely when I login to some Windows boxen which mount my (NFS) home directory.
Actually, they are cheaper. Car(mid-size) - Rs400,000 ~ $8K. TV(21") - Rs5,000 - $100. Computers are the same price -BUT most people don't need a 3.2GHz P4, and they are rapidly becoming durables, and don't need replacement every 3 years. Housing and food are probably the biggest expenses, a 2 bedroom (~800sqft) will cost $100-$200 a month. Food is cheap, may be max of $25 for cooking at home. $2-$5 for a really amazing restaurant. Most are in the $1-$2 range.
While we all thought that MS was indemnifying their customers in order to present Linux in a bad-light, might that have been to assuage customers against this ruling? This news seems to be put MS WindowsXX in a much worse position than Linux/IBM is now. There is already a ruling against MS, as opposed to only 'legal vaporware' against Linux. Convince your company to stay away from MS based on this!!