Sounds like he means it
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Linux Kernel 3.0?
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· Score: 3, Interesting
While I defiantly see the point about binary compatibility, it doesn't have to be the only major upgrade reason. I think I'll go compile it right now to make sure we are ready for this...
The truth is changing major version numbers would give the Linux business a major shot in the arm. Every press establishment would have no choice but to run a story about Linux and it's capibilities at a time when MS is chasing it's customers off, and everybody would have to upgrade their Linux mascot.
Do you really think there would be version wars if the announcments didn't make the participants money?
I have thought about this alot, and come up with a few ideas for cheap shows to start.
Dead car lot wars
A comedy news talk/show
Garth's world
Compuhelp netTV
A church show (many churches would be interested I think.)
Rebuildahouse.
Kids book reading show
How to repair your car
Single indepth 3 minute commercials for comercial breaks...
Mainly HOWTO shows seem to me to have the lowest overhead.
We will win if we fight them with open content, just like fighting them with open code. I've been getting back into music lately because there is opportunity once again. I think things are actually going pretty well for new art.:)
"Of course, if you file suit against the client, for breach of contract, your filing of a lawsuit will be a matter of public record, and your attorney might find it necessary to schedule depositions or subpoena the financial backers for some reason, in which case the financial backers would find out."
That's it. You can't threaten them directly but you can tell them you have spoken to council (after you have of course), and you can mention that signifigant stakeholders may be called to testify.
So long as you can find some other fairly similar case where stakeholders were suppoenaed by a contractor, you can reply to any challenge to your "threat" with the case. You know Joe Smith vs BobCorp, and we all know what public record says happened to BobCorp after the VCs had to appear...
People who don't know what they're doing should either get help, or RTFM.
Now only if we could get people to apply this princible to elections.
Three branches, each protect their own power...
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RIAA Headway Dwindling
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Remember when MSFT tried to argue the states had no right to to bring it to court with different antitrust charges. Thirty somthing states awoke from their slumber and chalenged it.
Microsoft asked the court to take some of the states power.
Now Congress and President Clinton have tried to take some of the courts power and hand it to law enforcement and a group of wealthy companies!
The DMCA circumvents the judicial branches power approve or deny the when where and how of law enforcment action when criminal charges are brought. The courts can do somthing about it too, they can strike the law down as violating due process as stated in the constitution.
Verizon and friends lawyers just need to present it to the Judge that way and it will be gone in a second.
Judges must face peer review too, how can they face their equals and superiors with, "I took the moral low ground, contridicted the constitution, and made you condierably less powerful.
My bad, you said 50 TB so it would be $112,500 and $125,000 respectively. Also you could setup an exact duplicate network (lets say hot swap), and fall over based on a heartbeat to rsynced to within seconds on a seperate network, (add another $20,000 for net equiptment) and you would be looking at $270,000 dollars for the twice redundant 50TB bad ass disk array from hell.
I gladly take the $170,000 pay cut for my foolish exuberance to 19,730,000.:)
I recently picked up a Promise Supertrak 6000. I droped an email to Promise and found out that one machine should be able to run two supertrack (hardware raid) cards. With 6 IDE buses (12 drives) and two cards per machine. You could setup each machine with linear raid and 24 320 meg hard drives. If you did that you would only need seven machines!
Realistically though you would need redundancy in this kind of system which means some lost storage. With raid 5 it would be more like 14 machines for 40+ terrabytes.
Now figure about 1000 bucks for a MB case processor gig of ram etc, and 300 for each card and $350 for each drive * 12. That comes to $5800 a piece. $3500*14=$81,200. If you want hot swap it would be +130 for the card Hot swap package, plus 9 more drives at $80 a pop is $720 per machine, multiply that by 14 and hot swap capibility will cost you an aditional $10080 dollars. That is a hot swap, raid 5 total of 91,280 dollars.
With a few top notch megabit switches with channel bonding, you're looking at $100,000. Can you hire me for the additional $19,900,000? I would like to continue to work in NY.
Re:Attractive Perpendicular force...Velcro mirrors
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At a distance of 0, wouldn't the force be undefined?
Well I guess so, but of course it wouldn't really be zero, just very very close. Atomic forces would insure that.
They weren't really clear on how a perpendicular casimir force works either. Does it twist like a right hand rule(the balls and plate), does fold at an angle, or is it held in place. The story said the force was observed, but what movement?
It's possible even likely I misunderstood, I was jsut wondering if anyone else gets it.
Attractive Perpendicular force...Velcro mirrors?
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The Casimir Effect
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I understand that two parallel mirrors are attracted to each other and presumably meet exactly even, What do perpendicular 90 degreee surfaces do? They said the effect was present but not what the natural motion was.
It would seem to me that both surfaces would want to become the leg on the T on the other (if both sides of the leg are mirrored). Would the absence of protons cause collapse into the shape of a V on the connected (or close to connected) side? I would think not since the 90 degree would be broken as soon as the force was observed, I'm assuming it would not be the only force because if so wouldn't momentum eventually make the plates paralell and the effect would complete the movement.
Sounds like nanites will look like modern art or sports cars, composed of paralellagrams and curves.
Perhaps structures could use several atom mirrors like velcro in construction? Does the force disappear when the distance is 0?
FUD. The PS3 is at least two years out from now, if not more. Sony is simply trying to do to Microsoft what they did to Sega (ie, when the Dreamcast started doing well, they began flooding the media with PS2 announcements, even though you wouldn't see the console for another year and some months).
It almost seems as if Sony was not ready for this. It would kill the Xbox if PS/3 came out right now. It makes you wonder why Sony didn't release the PS/2 enhanced or somthing. you know the blinkn lights edition with full compatibility and obscure XYZ GPU postprocessing.
It doesn't seem like the Recording Artists Coalition is got anything new planned. "Work for hire" reform seems blazingly obvious to me. I hope other issues like insuring cheap Internet download purchase(not DRM), are not as opeque to them as "work for hire" is obvious to me.
It seems to me the best way change copyright abuse is to encourage more adoption of music published under copyleft type licences. Unfortunatly that ultimatly leaves singed artists out in the cold for as long as the RIAA leaves them there.
Utimatly illogical laws can lead to logical social patterns. One way or another "popular" artists representation will not treat the fans like criminals. Even if the fans have to find new musicans.
Is there anything in your assorted contracts, past and present, that disallows you from organizing with other musicans to protest or strike against your label or the RIAA?
Has artists ever sucessfully orginized against the RIAA or one of it's member companies, to stop a practice that makes the industry money at the artists expense?
"#2 - Install your sp3 and disable the auto-update. Sometimes I think slashdot puts this kind of crap up as one large troll. Not that microsoft is a saint, or even a normal sinner, but 2 wrongs don't make a right. The stance that you leave out a little information to try to make a point is bias. Every day slashdot slips down the slippery slope and it is starting to get ugly."
If you agree to a contract with your landlord that says he may legally enter your apartment and move about freely at any time, what differance does it make what you do to lock the windows and doors?
It's a IT manger (PHB) magic trick. They create a big cost somewhere over there somewhere, and then when management/stockholders start asking questions about their failures they point at the contract. Blaming government policy, the legal team, hardware vendors, in house IT staff, whatever. If you are an incompetant decision maker this is a "must have" play.
It works best if you have two expensive products that work together then you point your fingers at both vendors at once. With two or more gratuitously expensive contracts/software a PHB can race to to the a pay raise on the next job or retirment while the vendors publicly fight, their superiors none the wiser.
If a PHB has a dozen contracts to blame he dosn't even have to try.
Inteligent, capible business people seem to turn into uneducated newbies as soon as a CUm-peU-Tor is mentioned. "Snake oil 3.0 here, get your snake oil 3.0"
Time and experience and open source will fix industry lies, but perhaps you should think of a hiring a salesman to pitch for you in the meantime.
This came just a few weeks ago. It was a top story on LWN the week that LWN said they might go under.
Apparently, all of a sudden the NSA's partner, Secure Computing Corporation, came out and made a special exception from their Manditory Access Control Patents for SELinux. It may have been a desperate act to keep the NSA on board. It seems this company was deriving exclusive software patents from work partial completed/funded by the NSA. If I were a generally unaware politican told of this situation by a Microsoft birdie, I would see it a fraud/waste as well.
Although I cannot know for sure, from the basic facts availible to me, this seems to be a case of SCC's software patent greed biting them on their own ass. MSFT probably spun it as, "the govenment partially paid for labor leading to a patent for a competitor of ours, and it's not public domain.
Disclaimer: I hate software patents, as much as I would hate math patents if they existed. This may bias me against SCC.
Slashdot Mirror
It was going to be so fun. Like a big treasure hunt.
I'm puting an orginal copyrighted haiku in all my server ident and hello strings. You know just in case they change their minds.
Then go to court and battle the stupidity of software patents. Noone will make a better case than you on this front.
If you do this the rising tide will lift all boats. Such things are not forgotten.
I guess I'm wondering how many people know it won't be a penguin anymore.
Fear the apt. Love the apt. Thank the Debian.
Check out www.musiciansview.com I haven't had alot of time to work on it but I will post any info I can confirm at contribute@musiciansview.com with info on how a musician or band sees it.
The truth is changing major version numbers would give the Linux business a major shot in the arm. Every press establishment would have no choice but to run a story about Linux and it's capibilities at a time when MS is chasing it's customers off, and everybody would have to upgrade their Linux mascot.
Do you really think there would be version wars if the announcments didn't make the participants money?
For some reason I picture one penguin sliding into 40 others at about 100 mph, tux racer style
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Dead car lot wars
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A comedy news talk/show
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Garth's world
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Compuhelp netTV
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A church show (many churches would be interested I think.)
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Rebuildahouse.
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Kids book reading show
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How to repair your car
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Single indepth 3 minute commercials for comercial breaks...
Mainly HOWTO shows seem to me to have the lowest overhead.We will win if we fight them with open content, just like fighting them with open code. I've been getting back into music lately because there is opportunity once again. I think things are actually going pretty well for new art. :)
That's it. You can't threaten them directly but you can tell them you have spoken to council (after you have of course), and you can mention that signifigant stakeholders may be called to testify.
So long as you can find some other fairly similar case where stakeholders were suppoenaed by a contractor, you can reply to any challenge to your "threat" with the case. You know Joe Smith vs BobCorp, and we all know what public record says happened to BobCorp after the VCs had to appear...
Now only if we could get people to apply this princible to elections.
Remember when MSFT tried to argue the states had no right to to bring it to court with different antitrust charges. Thirty somthing states awoke from their slumber and chalenged it.
Microsoft asked the court to take some of the states power.
Now Congress and President Clinton have tried to take some of the courts power and hand it to law enforcement and a group of wealthy companies!
The DMCA circumvents the judicial branches power approve or deny the when where and how of law enforcment action when criminal charges are brought. The courts can do somthing about it too, they can strike the law down as violating due process as stated in the constitution.
Verizon and friends lawyers just need to present it to the Judge that way and it will be gone in a second.
Judges must face peer review too, how can they face their equals and superiors with, "I took the moral low ground, contridicted the constitution, and made you condierably less powerful.
The documentation clearly states as many as 12 drives. I could have sworn there were cables with two connectors with the card. I'll check tonight.
Same basic idea. What experiance do you have with the Escalade, I heard it was undiscontinued due to demand.
I gladly take the $170,000 pay cut for my foolish exuberance to 19,730,000. :)
I love Linux. :)
320 GB = 156 / 4 IDE drives per box = 40 Boxes
I recently picked up a Promise Supertrak 6000. I droped an email to Promise and found out that one machine should be able to run two supertrack (hardware raid) cards. With 6 IDE buses (12 drives) and two cards per machine. You could setup each machine with linear raid and 24 320 meg hard drives. If you did that you would only need seven machines!
Realistically though you would need redundancy in this kind of system which means some lost storage. With raid 5 it would be more like 14 machines for 40+ terrabytes.
Now figure about 1000 bucks for a MB case processor gig of ram etc, and 300 for each card and $350 for each drive * 12. That comes to $5800 a piece. $3500*14=$81,200. If you want hot swap it would be +130 for the card Hot swap package, plus 9 more drives at $80 a pop is $720 per machine, multiply that by 14 and hot swap capibility will cost you an aditional $10080 dollars. That is a hot swap, raid 5 total of 91,280 dollars.
With a few top notch megabit switches with channel bonding, you're looking at $100,000. Can you hire me for the additional $19,900,000? I would like to continue to work in NY.
Well I guess so, but of course it wouldn't really be zero, just very very close. Atomic forces would insure that.
They weren't really clear on how a perpendicular casimir force works either. Does it twist like a right hand rule(the balls and plate), does fold at an angle, or is it held in place. The story said the force was observed, but what movement?
It's possible even likely I misunderstood, I was jsut wondering if anyone else gets it.
It would seem to me that both surfaces would want to become the leg on the T on the other (if both sides of the leg are mirrored). Would the absence of protons cause collapse into the shape of a V on the connected (or close to connected) side? I would think not since the 90 degree would be broken as soon as the force was observed, I'm assuming it would not be the only force because if so wouldn't momentum eventually make the plates paralell and the effect would complete the movement. Sounds like nanites will look like modern art or sports cars, composed of paralellagrams and curves.
Perhaps structures could use several atom mirrors like velcro in construction? Does the force disappear when the distance is 0?
It almost seems as if Sony was not ready for this. It would kill the Xbox if PS/3 came out right now. It makes you wonder why Sony didn't release the PS/2 enhanced or somthing. you know the blinkn lights edition with full compatibility and obscure XYZ GPU postprocessing.
About midway through. Tux should offer to add lemon and sugar for $.50 but still give the water away for free to anyone.
You are absolutly right, to bad we can't get the patent reform message out past the big media copyright holders.
Media war room: a -> b -> c... "hmmmm, can you summerize the patent problem in 2 sentances or less? Sorry don't have time. "
Media back room:"You offered them two sentences? Are you nuts?" "But sir, we have to at least appear to be fair..."
It doesn't seem like the Recording Artists Coalition is got anything new planned. "Work for hire" reform seems blazingly obvious to me. I hope other issues like insuring cheap Internet download purchase(not DRM), are not as opeque to them as "work for hire" is obvious to me.
It seems to me the best way change copyright abuse is to encourage more adoption of music published under copyleft type licences. Unfortunatly that ultimatly leaves singed artists out in the cold for as long as the RIAA leaves them there.
Here's to copyleft only music promotion online.
Utimatly illogical laws can lead to logical social patterns. One way or another "popular" artists representation will not treat the fans like criminals. Even if the fans have to find new musicans.
Is there anything in your assorted contracts, past and present, that disallows you from organizing with other musicans to protest or strike against your label or the RIAA?
Has artists ever sucessfully orginized against the RIAA or one of it's member companies, to stop a practice that makes the industry money at the artists expense?
uuhhhh I mean when I saw someone else do it.... I swear |:).
If you agree to a contract with your landlord that says he may legally enter your apartment and move about freely at any time, what differance does it make what you do to lock the windows and doors?
It works best if you have two expensive products that work together then you point your fingers at both vendors at once. With two or more gratuitously expensive contracts/software a PHB can race to to the a pay raise on the next job or retirment while the vendors publicly fight, their superiors none the wiser.
If a PHB has a dozen contracts to blame he dosn't even have to try.
Inteligent, capible business people seem to turn into uneducated newbies as soon as a CUm-peU-Tor is mentioned. "Snake oil 3.0 here, get your snake oil 3.0"
Time and experience and open source will fix industry lies, but perhaps you should think of a hiring a salesman to pitch for you in the meantime.
Apparently, all of a sudden the NSA's partner, Secure Computing Corporation, came out and made a special exception from their Manditory Access Control Patents for SELinux. It may have been a desperate act to keep the NSA on board. It seems this company was deriving exclusive software patents from work partial completed/funded by the NSA. If I were a generally unaware politican told of this situation by a Microsoft birdie, I would see it a fraud/waste as well.
Although I cannot know for sure, from the basic facts availible to me, this seems to be a case of SCC's software patent greed biting them on their own ass. MSFT probably spun it as, "the govenment partially paid for labor leading to a patent for a competitor of ours, and it's not public domain.
Disclaimer: I hate software patents, as much as I would hate math patents if they existed. This may bias me against SCC.