This thinking is what Greg Kroah-Hartman and the Linux Drivers Project are trying to combat. Work upstream -- with the originating authors -- and you don't have to fight the platforms.
What that needs is the distribution maintainers to contribute upstream whenever they have external assistance, because all free software benefits.
Although you could play around with the dedicated-to-flash filesystems that Linux supports: Yaffs, JFFS2, LogFS or UBIFS.
I'd probably pick LogFS and make sure that the thing hibernates rather than shutting down -- to avoid the cost of scanning the entire LogFS filesystem at startup.
He got you fired by using an equivalent of the Godwin rule? You haven't said whether the flame war involved you making racial slurs about the programmer, but either way your anecdote about Microsoft matches their recent performances and buttresses my low opinion of their capability.
Or Oracle's btrfs, or... Debian's Adrian von Bidder describes the details: Filesystems in Linux. The idea that MS would Liberate NTFS is in crackpipe territory.
SunOS and subsequently Solaris, as inherited in OpenSolaris, the subject of this article, are AT&T UNIX System V derivatives, not from the Berkely Software Distribution (BSD) of UNIX. You're offtopic, my dear.
You have assumed a lot about my views on the revision of the present patent system. I've not represented them at all in this discussion yet. I have only objected to the original comment (23034442) that "The real purpose of patents is to make money for patent holders, patent experts, and patent lawyers. Anyone who says differently is lying or ignorant. Period." The poster clearly only sees value where Dollars are. I didn't speculate as to what people should do with the system, I only refuted the statement of the OP.
If you're interested in what I think, I believe that the patent system, in game theory terms, is weighted toward the rich. But that will not stop a canny inventor from profiting from her or his invention, if they negotiate well and licence effectively. I won't pretend that's easy, though.
I'm also open to hearing what an alternative system looks like. At present you might devise an invention, protect it with a patent and design patent (or industrial design rights), sell it under a trade mark. That all takes money, and the time scales for achieving this protection are far slower than the internet-enabled international community we live in. So we need a faster and broader reaching system. The cost of legal action is prohibitive to smaller players, and so the richer players can scare the smaller out of the game. So we need to have the legal advice start with mediation as the first move, hoping to avoid taking people to court. Anything else?
The comment I first responded to didn't discriminate between a valid or expired patent, and so my question still stands valid. I object to the notion that the only thing they do is commercial. The disclosure to the public of the invention and the unconditional public licence to work the invention when expired are important portions of the patent which aren't related to making money for "patent holders, patent experts, and patent lawyers".
The real purpose of patents is to make money for patent holders, patent experts, and patent lawyers. Anyone who says differently is lying or ignorant. Period.
I fail to see where an expired patent makes money for its inventor, licensees or any patent agents. When the invention is no longer monopolised by the patent proprietor, what is its purpose? Its purpose is that anyone can use the invention. Can you please show me how I'm ignorant or where I'm lying?
In the UK, designers for hire own their copyrights. They don't own the Design Right (whether registered or unregistered), the person who commissioned the work does. See UK's Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended), and the UK Registered Designs Act 1949 (as amended).
If these were commissioned, designed and made in the UK, then there's no inherent rights remaining. The UK (and Europe) have a maximum of 25 years on Registered industrial design rights, and either 15 years (GB) or 3 (EU) for unregistered design rights. There's the possibility that the designer is riding the shirt tails of the Star Wars phenomenon and is therefore an unlicensed user of its trade mark. But without branding (like "Star Wars(TM) Storm Trooper(TM) Suit!" -- with notes that "Star Wars" and "Storm Trooper" are trademarks of their respective owners) there's nothing to stop him using the public domain property.
Such a thing was probably not even considered a possibility all those thirty-odd years ago.
Yes, it was. Trade mark law in the UK is more than a century old; UK has had a Registered Designs Act since 1949 which moves industrial use of copyrighted work from the life + 50 years (as was) of Copyright to a maximum of 25 years when registered with the UK Patent Office.
I am not a patent or trade mark attorney and this is not legal advice.
I'm a build-it-myself kind of guy, so wouldn't buy less than 4 GiB when building. I haven't seen computers at retail with more than 2 GiB, because they've been using 32-bit Windows and so suffer from the peripheral addressing aperture/hole/flaw in x86-32.
[typical user] can't do "more" with a 64 bit system currently, it just costs more and it seems the additional ram is chewed away by additional overhead.
AIUI, 32-bit Windows has problems when you have between 2 and 4 GiB of memory as the peripherals (PCI bus and others use address space in place of RAM); 64-bit editions don't lose anything to peripherals. Are the slightly largers pointers to 48-bit memory under the AMD64 spec an issue for the average computer user?
What you don't know is that the Chinese official who came up with this idea, his name translates as 'big butterfly'. When he flaps his wings in the considerable land mass of China, who knows what happens to the weather in Florida...
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This thinking is what Greg Kroah-Hartman and the Linux Drivers Project are trying to combat. Work upstream -- with the originating authors -- and you don't have to fight the platforms.
What that needs is the distribution maintainers to contribute upstream whenever they have external assistance, because all free software benefits.
Firefox freezes whenever it has to contend with high disk i/o on my AMD64 Ubuntu systems, for which the bug in the SQLite DB handling is known.
It's Qt. Like KDE, there's lots and lots and lots of options...
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Although you could play around with the dedicated-to-flash filesystems that Linux supports: Yaffs, JFFS2, LogFS or UBIFS.
I'd probably pick LogFS and make sure that the thing hibernates rather than shutting down -- to avoid the cost of scanning the entire LogFS filesystem at startup.
And confirmed by Harald Welte, of http://www.gpl-violations.org/ at his blog: http://laforge.gnumonks.org/weblog/2008/05/08/#20080508-olg_muenchen-skype
"If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them*, maybe you can hire..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Team
*: not on the maps/your SatNav and bad layout of the industrial estate they're based in.
He got you fired by using an equivalent of the Godwin rule? You haven't said whether the flame war involved you making racial slurs about the programmer, but either way your anecdote about Microsoft matches their recent performances and buttresses my low opinion of their capability.
Or Oracle's btrfs, or... Debian's Adrian von Bidder describes the details: Filesystems in Linux. The idea that MS would Liberate NTFS is in crackpipe territory.
Sir,
For your post, I thank you greatly. You got a big laugh out of me. Were it appropriate, I'd call this post of the day.
SunOS and subsequently Solaris, as inherited in OpenSolaris, the subject of this article, are AT&T UNIX System V derivatives, not from the Berkely Software Distribution (BSD) of UNIX. You're offtopic, my dear.
You have assumed a lot about my views on the revision of the present patent system. I've not represented them at all in this discussion yet. I have only objected to the original comment (23034442) that "The real purpose of patents is to make money for patent holders, patent experts, and patent lawyers. Anyone who says differently is lying or ignorant. Period." The poster clearly only sees value where Dollars are. I didn't speculate as to what people should do with the system, I only refuted the statement of the OP.
If you're interested in what I think, I believe that the patent system, in game theory terms, is weighted toward the rich. But that will not stop a canny inventor from profiting from her or his invention, if they negotiate well and licence effectively. I won't pretend that's easy, though.
I'm also open to hearing what an alternative system looks like. At present you might devise an invention, protect it with a patent and design patent (or industrial design rights), sell it under a trade mark. That all takes money, and the time scales for achieving this protection are far slower than the internet-enabled international community we live in. So we need a faster and broader reaching system. The cost of legal action is prohibitive to smaller players, and so the richer players can scare the smaller out of the game. So we need to have the legal advice start with mediation as the first move, hoping to avoid taking people to court. Anything else?
The comment I first responded to didn't discriminate between a valid or expired patent, and so my question still stands valid. I object to the notion that the only thing they do is commercial. The disclosure to the public of the invention and the unconditional public licence to work the invention when expired are important portions of the patent which aren't related to making money for "patent holders, patent experts, and patent lawyers".
I fail to see where an expired patent makes money for its inventor, licensees or any patent agents. When the invention is no longer monopolised by the patent proprietor, what is its purpose? Its purpose is that anyone can use the invention. Can you please show me how I'm ignorant or where I'm lying?
In the UK, designers for hire own their copyrights. They don't own the Design Right (whether registered or unregistered), the person who commissioned the work does. See UK's Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended), and the UK Registered Designs Act 1949 (as amended).
Yes, it was. Trade mark law in the UK is more than a century old; UK has had a Registered Designs Act since 1949 which moves industrial use of copyrighted work from the life + 50 years (as was) of Copyright to a maximum of 25 years when registered with the UK Patent Office.
I am not a patent or trade mark attorney and this is not legal advice.
When wasn't the Internet run on free or open source software?
I'm a build-it-myself kind of guy, so wouldn't buy less than 4 GiB when building. I haven't seen computers at retail with more than 2 GiB, because they've been using 32-bit Windows and so suffer from the peripheral addressing aperture/hole/flaw in x86-32.
I doubt it. Uniform zero doesn't need an imaginary axis.
AIUI, 32-bit Windows has problems when you have between 2 and 4 GiB of memory as the peripherals (PCI bus and others use address space in place of RAM); 64-bit editions don't lose anything to peripherals. Are the slightly largers pointers to 48-bit memory under the AMD64 spec an issue for the average computer user?
Easy on the Rick-rolling, pls.
Would sir also be interested in duct tape and a flashlight?
What you don't know is that the Chinese official who came up with this idea, his name translates as 'big butterfly'. When he flaps his wings in the considerable land mass of China, who knows what happens to the weather in Florida...
Last time you died in CounterStrike: Source, I used: Headshot via wallhack. And you never knew.
How nice of his evil twin to supply that correction!