Sure MS may suck at times, but at least you don't hear this juvenile crap from their camp. Of course you don't. You can't have their source to see if they do it or not (use GPL'd stuff). They do however include a whole IP stack from BSD... Hmm.. there is a thought..
For starters it just shows an extreme amount of corporate immaturity, it shows that the Open Source community cannot get their act right Open source community has nothing to do with this. They do not have access to the UNIX souce.. How could they have copied it? If it was contributed, it was from a company that had access.
Your whole paraphrase with the item1, item2 is flawed because: 1. If they released code under GPL (they have) they can retract it, but the code that has been under GPL stays that way. I.e. if you gave me code, said its GPL and I learned from it, and then said, not its billy-bobs-pay-o-rama-licence and demanded money, then you are entitled to none. Simple. 2. If they are still distributing the source code, and not upping their licence per Linux product sold, then they are in violation of their own licencing here! 3. If you port code from one product to another, and then decide that you should have not done so, tough. That's life, its noone's fault but your own for not being able to keep your stategy consistent.
The only way SCO is right is if they haven't distributed GPL'd the code of the linux kernel themselves. Or for that matter continue to do so.
Or when that Antec dies and takes a mobo with it. I had 2 go within 5 months of eachother. Both times I lost the mobo, chip, ram, drives.. The whole works.
Never will I ever buy antec supply again.
Then again, that $30 case psu I had running for 3 years is still good.
schmuck programmers if you don't understand hex and bin systems you should not be in this line of work. Besides afbc.3fa31b.ca329b is 16-bit.24-bit.24-bit, which leaves you tons short of the 128bit addressing space. A properly formed IPv6 address (fully expanded) would look like this, where xxxx is from 0x0 to 0xFFFF: xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx This and any IPv4 address can be represented by either: 0:ffff:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx or 0:0:xxx.xxx.x xx.xxx (alternatively:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) under the IPv6 scheme depending on addressing capabilities of the device.
Now, on topic. I think the change will not come from the USA this time around, but from elsewhere, most likely China or Japan. Why? Simply, they have the problem, they will adapt to new protocol to aleviate it. Then rest of the world will follow. It should be noted that not all technology is governed or created in the USA, and that there are many other very powerfull players (countries, coorporations) that fit into the picture.
It's not tracking software, so you can still move freely about the globe as long as you are supposed too.... as well as locating kidnapped or missing children. Emphasis added.
Now how is your first statement not a negation of the other one? You can have either or but not both. (Unless you consider the possiblity that all minors will be tracked whereas adults are not.)
Either way, I can't see a good thing comming of this in terms of anonymity.
Actually you would be providing more clues (double the amount of information per strip or square). All they would have to do is use transparencies to glue the pages together. There, doublesided case closed.
3. All the firms who've picked up a stake so far in the Unix code patent have been American firms. This could be the beginning of some polarisation, where all important IP is within the US. This could have serious repercussions for firms like Fujitsu, Siemens etc. who aren't based in the US. Huh? How so? Linux is by far not US bound IP property... Neither is Word Perfect *, or Open Office... Need I continue.
Besides, how does that impact the rest of the world? It doesn't there is enough talent outside the US (I know shocking) to produce any missing piece to the IP puzzle in a short timespan*.
*That is if IP laws of the US are to be respected globally (another discussion alltogether)
So in short, No this will not change anything on the global market. It might however make working IT in the States hell.
Of course it does. You have to have a backend. I personally wouldn't want the backend that is supposed to figure out how much to pay me to run on windows. Would you? As for client... Who cares? As you said it should be techincally cross platform... (The developers can have their linux, and beancouters their windows).
Common name for the bus in 'big-iron' business. I.E. Nortel's Passport 15k backplane can do something like 60Gb/s throughput (been a while since I looked up spec. Might be more, and I have no idea about the frequency of it) The main reason for calling it backplane vs a bus, is typically the differrence in the connection types, etc.
quite possibly orignally stolen from BSD You can't steal something that if free. You can't even blame Microsoft for using the BSD Network arch. BSD is free for any use. You can't steal something that is given to you for free.
However, I agree, there should be similarities between BSD / Linux kernels, which would lead me to believe that there should be similarities in the Linux / Sys5 kernels as well...
I think everyone so far has missed as to why exactly this is such a big deal. It is not important what game the robot mastered. What is important is the fact that the robot is capable of on the fly visual/apendage (arm) coordination. That means we have technology that will allow for application of this in other areas (think retrieval robots for disaster zones, etc.) That is what makes this story so exciting.
"just-as-fast-as-necessary" That almost begs to introduce nice asych arch into the mix. This way you can stay current for so much longer. This and we would get rid of the whole 'penis envy' speed thing. Let's leave that to cars.
Wow. They said OGG... That would be nice. Open souce codec, and they are willing to build in support. Wow. I am just speachless. Maybe we are making more headway than we have previously thought.
I realize this is very off topic, but after reading the articles, and some of the Massas' ->'massa mesa' postings. ALL I can imagine is JarJar. Man now that is bad PR.;-)
3 miles per hour.. Wow, damn I that is some top speed. Better keep those pesky snails on leashes, you wouldn't want them embarrasing that 24kRPM engine now would you?
That would remove the need for having a 'stale' air environment... Think about it. The projection TVs right now do it. And it adds that nice look to it. So if this was encased between 2 sheets of plexi (both transparent, or the back one black) and sealed on the sides, with a vent on top, Voila, instant HUGE screen display. And no problems with it being 'foggy' (couln't help myself) or distorted..
What do you think?
Now that'be nifty picture frame for displaying my 5mp images on a wall, and it wouldn't necessairly stick out of the wall too much.
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Yes, but for most systems installing those 60+ packages is a simple one-fell-swoop task.
debian:
apt-get install gnome
gentoo:
emerge gnome
for rpm systems:
rpm-get install gnome, or wait till its part of the install (then you match/better the WinXP install!)
for source:
here you are on your own. this will take time, but it will be very satisfying.
Sure MS may suck at times, but at least you don't hear this juvenile crap from their camp.
Of course you don't. You can't have their source to see if they do it or not (use GPL'd stuff).
They do however include a whole IP stack from BSD... Hmm.. there is a thought..
For starters it just shows an extreme amount of corporate immaturity, it shows that the Open Source community cannot get their act right
Open source community has nothing to do with this. They do not have access to the UNIX souce.. How could they have copied it? If it was contributed, it was from a company that had access.
Your whole paraphrase with the item1, item2 is flawed because:
1. If they released code under GPL (they have) they can retract it, but the code that has been under GPL stays that way. I.e. if you gave me code, said its GPL and I learned from it, and then said, not its billy-bobs-pay-o-rama-licence and demanded money, then you are entitled to none. Simple.
2. If they are still distributing the source code, and not upping their licence per Linux product sold, then they are in violation of their own licencing here!
3. If you port code from one product to another, and then decide that you should have not done so, tough. That's life, its noone's fault but your own for not being able to keep your stategy consistent.
The only way SCO is right is if they haven't distributed GPL'd the code of the linux kernel themselves. Or for that matter continue to do so.
For that you have to contact your undergrad advisor.
For me it was possible to GPL the code.
Some profs however like to keep it.
Some universities have different rules as to this sort of thing.
Sometimes you can get away with a simple NDA in the Document.
I would ask you specific registrar/school office about the detailed rules that you have to abide by.
Simple. Migrate to BSD.
Case solved.
Tools are all the same.
No biggie.
Let them blow smoke out their collective.. Well use your imagination here.
Or when that Antec dies and takes a mobo with it.
I had 2 go within 5 months of eachother. Both times I lost the mobo, chip, ram, drives.. The whole works.
Never will I ever buy antec supply again.
Then again, that $30 case psu I had running for 3 years is still good.
Strange how experiances differ.
schmuck programmers
This and any IPv4 address can be represented by either:x xx.xxx (alternatively :xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)
if you don't understand hex and bin systems you should not be in this line of work.
Besides afbc.3fa31b.ca329b is 16-bit.24-bit.24-bit, which leaves you tons short of the 128bit addressing space.
A properly formed IPv6 address (fully expanded) would look like this, where xxxx is from 0x0 to 0xFFFF:
xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx
0:ffff:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
or
0:0:xxx.xxx.
under the IPv6 scheme depending on addressing capabilities of the device.
Now, on topic.
I think the change will not come from the USA this time around, but from elsewhere, most likely China or Japan. Why? Simply, they have the problem, they will adapt to new protocol to aleviate it.
Then rest of the world will follow.
It should be noted that not all technology is governed or created in the USA, and that there are many other very powerfull players (countries, coorporations) that fit into the picture.
It's not tracking software, so you can still move freely about the globe as long as you are supposed too. ...
as well as locating kidnapped or missing children.
Emphasis added.
Now how is your first statement not a negation of the other one?
You can have either or but not both. (Unless you consider the possiblity that all minors will be tracked whereas adults are not.)
Either way, I can't see a good thing comming of this in terms of anonymity.
Actually you would be providing more clues (double the amount of information per strip or square).
All they would have to do is use transparencies to glue the pages together.
There, doublesided case closed.
3. All the firms who've picked up a stake so far in the Unix code patent have been American firms. This could be the beginning of some polarisation, where all important IP is within the US. This could have serious repercussions for firms like Fujitsu, Siemens etc. who aren't based in the US.
Huh? How so? Linux is by far not US bound IP property... Neither is Word Perfect *, or Open Office... Need I continue.
Besides, how does that impact the rest of the world? It doesn't there is enough talent outside the US (I know shocking) to produce any missing piece to the IP puzzle in a short timespan*.
*That is if IP laws of the US are to be respected globally (another discussion alltogether)
So in short, No this will not change anything on the global market. It might however make working IT in the States hell.
Of course it does.
You have to have a backend.
I personally wouldn't want the backend that is supposed to figure out how much to pay me to run on windows. Would you?
As for client... Who cares? As you said it should be techincally cross platform... (The developers can have their linux, and beancouters their windows).
Enough already. Sure it was funny the first time around.. Good chuckle second time. Now its just getting old and annoying.
Common name for the bus in 'big-iron' business.
I.E. Nortel's Passport 15k backplane can do something like 60Gb/s throughput (been a while since I looked up spec. Might be more, and I have no idea about the frequency of it)
The main reason for calling it backplane vs a bus, is typically the differrence in the connection types, etc.
Ehm.. Don't we have enough landfill as it is. Well, especially with all those AOL cd's in there?
Serioulsy, for renting it _might_ be convinient, but how enviromentally friendly is it?
It CAME to conclusion...
I know. Sad. I just couldn't resist.
To moderator: The above joke is so lame it deserves to be modded down.
quite possibly orignally stolen from BSD
You can't steal something that if free. You can't even blame Microsoft for using the BSD Network arch.
BSD is free for any use. You can't steal something that is given to you for free.
However, I agree, there should be similarities between BSD / Linux kernels, which would lead me to believe that there should be similarities in the Linux / Sys5 kernels as well...
You sound like the editors...
Guess what. That was a story on slashdot before.
While it is an interesting read, this should have not been moded up as it was...
Sigh... Off to read some more reposts.
I think everyone so far has missed as to why exactly this is such a big deal.
It is not important what game the robot mastered. What is important is the fact that the robot is capable of on the fly visual/apendage (arm) coordination.
That means we have technology that will allow for application of this in other areas (think retrieval robots for disaster zones, etc.)
That is what makes this story so exciting.
"just-as-fast-as-necessary"
That almost begs to introduce nice asych arch into the mix. This way you can stay current for so much longer.
This and we would get rid of the whole 'penis envy' speed thing. Let's leave that to cars.
I call your bluff:
How in the world did you upgrade m100 to 8mb???
Unless you are talking about a different model.
Wow. They said OGG... That would be nice. Open souce codec, and they are willing to build in support. Wow. I am just speachless. Maybe we are making more headway than we have previously thought.
Hmm, strange, the only add I see is for the Radeon9700...
How convinient.
I realize this is very off topic, but after reading the articles, and some of the Massas' ->'massa mesa' postings. ALL I can imagine is JarJar. Man now that is bad PR. ;-)
Bad mental image.
3 miles per hour..
Wow, damn I that is some top speed. Better keep those pesky snails on leashes, you wouldn't want them embarrasing that 24kRPM engine now would you?
That would remove the need for having a 'stale'
;-)
air environment... Think about it. The projection TVs right now do it. And it adds that nice look to it. So if this was encased between 2 sheets of plexi (both transparent, or the back one black) and sealed on the sides, with a vent on top, Voila, instant HUGE screen display. And no problems with it being 'foggy' (couln't help myself) or distorted..
What do you think?
Now that'be nifty picture frame for displaying my 5mp images on a wall, and it wouldn't necessairly stick out of the wall too much.
I want one
Everyone seems to be forgetting the fact that this means that Sony does not condone PVRs.
I think that is a big step for a company that has a huge stake in the 'entertainment' industry (recording, producing, whatever).
They are sending a clear message that its ok with someone as big as them for the business to change. Its a good thing.
my 2 cents