With the Itanic doing it's rate of sales and the only great 64 arch going out the Windows (pun intended), there is a big opening in the high end processor market. Do not discount the Chinese! If I read their intentions correctly IT is high on the list. Unlike Intel there are visionaries working in China that can see the potential to completely dominated the upcoming 64 bit revolution.
Why will this be a revolution?
1. Because 64 bit micro processors are just around the corner.
2. There will be a huge market for real time digital video applications using cheap 64 bit tech.
3. Microsoft is right about the integration of the home entertainement possibilities, even though they have their head up their ass.
4. The Chinese will learn from our mistakes in deliberately not letting 64 bit processing into the main stream, eg; digital vid recorders, 24/96 audio recording.
In short I think the Chinese will take on Creative, HP, Intel and Microsoft and beat them the same way Toyota did with cars in the 70s and Hyundai did with heavies (ships, and marine engines). By alowing the entertainment industry in North America to dictate the pace of adoption of digital video and music recording and tech we are dropping the ball big time. HP and Intel will self destruct because of this. Microsoft will survive only because they could care less who builds the hardware as long as they can make a cut!
I play classical guitar, I also write my own arrangements of various pieces. To copyright an arrangement of non PD music is a process that the RIAA to date has nothing to do with (thank God). The problem is that I can record myself, rip the recording to an inet friendly format and send my recording to who ever I chose.
The process of getting permission to arrange a work by someone who might not be living, but is still not PD irks me. It is the reason why good arrangements are hard to come by. Piracy of music by musicians has always been a gray area and cannot be eliminated.
If in future the DMCA makes the legal re-arrangement of music even more difficult than it already is then it spells the death nell to great music. Traditionally it was once a great honour for one musician to pay homage to anothers work! This must continue. The reality of today is that the business aspect of todays POP and SCHLOCK is killing great musicianship.
If the RIAA and ASCAP, BMI etc, etc have their way it will not be too long before they are out in small clubs and concerts looking for people to sue. Here is an example; I take a great tune by the Duke and do a classical guitar arrangement then perform and sent it over the net as an MP3 or OGG or whatever. If this is one of his obscure non mainstream tunes, what is wrong with me popularising this tune?
Obtaining permission to do an arrangement of tunes is so time consuming that it is not even worth trying anymore! It has become a royal pain in the ass. Why? The recent changes to copyright and the fear of God that has been put into orgs like ASCAP etc!
Great music is dying and this is the reason, let us pray.
The google search " baystar investments pipe microsoft " tells the tale. It is Microsoft. They have invested appx 600 million since 2001 in baystar pipes. The cat is out of the bag MS is really trying to aquire the rights to UNIX. Plain and simple. Even though the US competition watchdogs have tried to slow MS down, the fact is they are just going to try to control all software world wide. They have struck a deal with Pheonix. The interesting thing is there is very little noise coming out of Redmond. The occasional grunt from Balmer but apart from that they are mum about SCO. The last thing MS wants is more anti-trust inquiries.
If he published a paper at least once a year for two or three years then maybe the University of Piddlesquat Oklahoma might want him. Need a job.. publish, young man! The trick is to publish about something esoteric enough to be considered tops in your field. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then...PUBLISH
The majority of comments have correctly pointed out that the problem with X is not the core. What Linux needs now more than ever is for hardware manufactures to help with sub-system optimisations. I still think the idea of a Linux friendly award might be a partial solution. Tux is becoming very well known, (especially in the asian market place), so a happy penguin sticker might work. The guys at RedHat and Suse could sponsor something like this. I have an cheap 1999 P11-P111 mainboard p6setML, it came with all the needed Linux drivers on a CDROM, amazing. Companies that do this need to be recognized for their efforts!
Bill Gates, eat my shorts. Phoenix, go take a flaming flying ----. The only result this bit of "innovation" can possibly have is to screw over OSS.
I usually do not become this pissed but this is serious. The only thing that can come of this developement is the advancement of the PC in China. Where the peoples bios will be developed in response.
We can only hope that the Asian manufactures start cranking out cheap non Phoenix based boards in response.
If you think it was easy cracking win modems, well think again. Some Tulip and other ethernet drivers were and still are a problem. With the advent of cheaper rom there is no reason why a rom booted PC cannot happen. It is time for Linux to also take the active rom boot approach.
If I remember correctly there was a company that tried to release a bootable rom based pci for the PC. They found the going tough because MS sure as hell hates to have to adopt new tech, enless they control it. The name of the game for MS is monopoly and they just have a hell of a hard time when someone innovates. After all there has not been a real innovation in IBM 386 arch in 20 years, this is due to the MS monopoly and the hardware partner strategy.
What I read into this is obvious, a rom based boot to lock in the OS. MS has resisted this till now, but you can bet they will strongarm phoenix until they get their way, or go it alone.
So with 105W heat displacement, on the Prescott, and with the AMD 86-64 smokin' away we will have real flame wars on/. Might need to up our fire insurance.
Integration is not the issue, the security features are the problem. They will have to introduce the features in MS office, which they have done. Then the processor encoded content locks they want are giving Intel fits. Microsoft has now got to go it alone with their version of trusted computing. What the implimentation is trying to do is make it so business can send.docs, xls, in a read receipt form. This will be set so that unless you have the security key to read the document you will not be able to decode it. MS is trying to impliment its own encription that will only alow other MS based systems to comunicate. The same old shit but with the twist that it is for your security that you must only use MS encript locks and keys. Intel is getting some kind of pissed at Microsoft because they need the high end server and scientific multiprocessor market to make their current Itanium processor line pay. So far Unix and Linux is kicking the shit out of MS at this, so the 3 billion Intel invested in 64 bit multiprocessing is not paying off. That is why MS licensed SMP protocols from SCO, they are trying to catch up to IBM and Linux but are having one hell of a time because the Intel 64 bit implimentation sucks.
Most real humans like to create by tinker. If you take away toil then you open up a world of garage tinkerers. The farm is the most important place for robotics. Just imagine detailed crop and harvest control, without the need to to send thousands of human hands into the field. The farm hand now becomes a skilled technician that tends and tunes the machines. The most mechanicaly skillfull people I have ever met are by and large farmers. They cannot afford to be otherwise.
The use of robots in the field could revolutionise our society, and leave skilled hands and minds time to create. A second industrial revolution could take place. The huge city centered economy would start to become secondary to a vibrant rural economy. The complete reverse of the last 150 years.
Give all idle hands the chance to work for fun and our society will undergo fundimental change. Todays office centered city economies could become the economic waste lands. When a small business can do all the administration work cheaply and there is no need to support huge numbers of add ass city centered bureaucrats the economy will florish.
Being able to use your older machines as thin clients without worry of win 2000-2003-XP style obsolescence..priceless. This is the real value of Linux, the ability to create thin clients and scale to your needs, without the mandatory upgrades to hardware. The environmental savings are enormous as it can keep millions of old p1s and p2s functioning and save businesses billions. I go to the Government of British Columbia liquidations and see old p11 Dells and whatevers being sold cheap. They have all been made to be out of date and are just great as cheap Linux desktop thin clients. I use one myself. Cost me 100 canuck bucks. Runs great as a firewall, print server, etc. They even sell things like old Compact servers dirt cheap. An old prolient 4 processor with lots of ram, working for a couple hundred bucks. All of this is made possible by the MS upgrade madness. Small businesses can create viable small Linux systems with this hardware dirt cheap. Pare down the server and just use it right and the cost savings are enormous. As far as the huge cost of training staff to use Open Office or Star Office (if you want full Sun Java dev) that is bullshit. The migration to other office suites is easy for anybody who can use a word processor or spread sheet. If they insist that it is too difficult to use anything other than MS office, just start writing out a pink slip then watch how fast they learn!
If the MS audit guys are interested in your systems you have no choice. The software Gestapo will come to your door. Just ask Ernie Ball. When you get software audited it is the DMCA people who are working at the federal level in the US who do the audit based on a complaint from the software vendor that claims you are using their product illegaly.
Get a list of all e-mail addresses to as many individuals with MS, Symantec, and all the other computer security outfits spawned by Gates. Include these in your address book and nothing else. Run an old unpatched MS office IE and Outlook express, get everybody that is pissed at MS security to do this world wide. Then do not run a firewall or virus scan. Now if everybody just let address book based garbage run wild and target the people who profit from garbage ware, and security patching, Gates might get the picture. Sometimes a little revolution is a good thing!
not a problem I just dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda..this kind of takes care of Windows software, viruses, worms and other annoyances perminently. Besides cfdisk works better. Not to mention which fdisk can be removed from windows and you can still boot if you edit your sys. Tricky old fart that I am. I wish she would learn a little about this sort of thing then she would stop adding windows shitware in the first place, I am the one that has to clean out all the shit and spyware that gets left behind. MS is going to start charging for messanger, and updates. What happens to them after they release the much touted longhorn I could care less. The entertainment restrictions that will be applied will make MS really hurt, I have the feeling people will just not rush out and buy it this time around and they certainly will not pay to patch their systems.
MyComputer\ControlPanel\addremoveprograms Scroll down to MSN messanger, click add\remove, if it tries to add click cancel, if it starts the script to remove MSN just keep clicking yes. End of MSN software problem. When daugthter or other person installs it again just repeat procedure. They will get the idea, sooner or later.
Ok you guys are missing the point, to write for a closed source OS, or linux or any OS, to optimise and make your binary more efficient, you need to use calls to externals. If you choose to dev your software offering based on a static binary, then you make it a little harder for others to decompile your software. The big question is how was Burst first offered to MS and did burst then re-write to use dynamic libs. This change in code would quickly open the door for MS to rip the ideas off. If Burst rewrote at the behest of MS so that the code would be more "Windows efficient" then one can argue that MS deliberately screws over the software that it wants first. This is the problem with closed source you can write a functioning binary but as soon as you optimise the software with windows dlls you are at the mercy of Microsoft because the calls to dlls are really easy to reverse. Yes I can believe MS wanting someone to "optimise" a dynamic version. The problem is the closed source system that MS has created is evil, it can be used to easily screw over coders.
So if you listen to modern Turkish in 7/4 and a 4 beat rock. Though in a little Jamaica and you will get Garth Brooks? Whenever you try to quantify music to find the ultimate groove you will get the ultimate in mediocre shlock. I once really tried to listen to an ultra post modern new music concert. The host stated that the music was written in a post modern a-tonal non serial fashion and was a-rythmic generated chance. The composer had then orchestrated some of the results. After really giving the music full attention and every chance to do something for me, I came to the conclusion that the result was decidedly A MUSICAL. I also came to the conclusion that the school of music that this composer was associated with was filled with air heads behind desks that most likely gave up actually playing real musical instruments after graduating from where ever. The musicians in the Orchestra gave it their best shot, which was rather sad. The applause was perfunctory so the lack of an encore was very much appreciated. If the composer/conductor had prepared one it will just have to wait.
Statistical analysis is just not the way to write music, except perhaps for tone deaf nerds, and record execs. You have every right to play whatever form of music you choose. I have every right to listen to something else! If it got groove I do not care. I have never heard any computer generated music that can even come close to a great composer or musician, the differences are obvious. What appeals to the audiance is never the way to write music. It is how to please record companies, but is artless garbage that is as quickly forgotten as fast as it is created.
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Why will this be a revolution?
1. Because 64 bit micro processors are just around the corner.
2. There will be a huge market for real time digital video applications using cheap 64 bit tech.
3. Microsoft is right about the integration of the home entertainement possibilities, even though they have their head up their ass.
4. The Chinese will learn from our mistakes in deliberately not letting 64 bit processing into the main stream, eg; digital vid recorders, 24/96 audio recording.
In short I think the Chinese will take on Creative, HP, Intel and Microsoft and beat them the same way Toyota did with cars in the 70s and Hyundai did with heavies (ships, and marine engines). By alowing the entertainment industry in North America to dictate the pace of adoption of digital video and music recording and tech we are dropping the ball big time. HP and Intel will self destruct because of this. Microsoft will survive only because they could care less who builds the hardware as long as they can make a cut!
The process of getting permission to arrange a work by someone who might not be living, but is still not PD irks me. It is the reason why good arrangements are hard to come by. Piracy of music by musicians has always been a gray area and cannot be eliminated.
If in future the DMCA makes the legal re-arrangement of music even more difficult than it already is then it spells the death nell to great music. Traditionally it was once a great honour for one musician to pay homage to anothers work! This must continue. The reality of today is that the business aspect of todays POP and SCHLOCK is killing great musicianship.
If the RIAA and ASCAP, BMI etc, etc have their way it will not be too long before they are out in small clubs and concerts looking for people to sue. Here is an example; I take a great tune by the Duke and do a classical guitar arrangement then perform and sent it over the net as an MP3 or OGG or whatever. If this is one of his obscure non mainstream tunes, what is wrong with me popularising this tune?
Obtaining permission to do an arrangement of tunes is so time consuming that it is not even worth trying anymore! It has become a royal pain in the ass. Why? The recent changes to copyright and the fear of God that has been put into orgs like ASCAP etc!
Great music is dying and this is the reason, let us pray.
"c'mon... it's expressly denied" ,So did OJ
Unless Bill Gates is wearing lifts.
The google search " baystar investments pipe microsoft " tells the tale. It is Microsoft. They have invested appx 600 million since 2001 in baystar pipes. The cat is out of the bag MS is really trying to aquire the rights to UNIX. Plain and simple. Even though the US competition watchdogs have tried to slow MS down, the fact is they are just going to try to control all software world wide. They have struck a deal with Pheonix. The interesting thing is there is very little noise coming out of Redmond. The occasional grunt from Balmer but apart from that they are mum about SCO. The last thing MS wants is more anti-trust inquiries.
MSN messanger who cares anyway?
Eat my shorts Microsoft.
Try typing in REDMOND then put it to wingdings, it says bomb the place if the sun doesn't shine. Near as I can figure.
If he published a paper at least once a year for two or three years then maybe the University of Piddlesquat Oklahoma might want him. Need a job.. publish, young man! The trick is to publish about something esoteric enough to be considered tops in your field. If you can't dazzle them with brilliance then...PUBLISH
The majority of comments have correctly pointed out that the problem with X is not the core. What Linux needs now more than ever is for hardware manufactures to help with sub-system optimisations. I still think the idea of a Linux friendly award might be a partial solution. Tux is becoming very well known, (especially in the asian market place), so a happy penguin sticker might work. The guys at RedHat and Suse could sponsor something like this. I have an cheap 1999 P11-P111 mainboard p6setML, it came with all the needed Linux drivers on a CDROM, amazing. Companies that do this need to be recognized for their efforts!
dd if=dev/urandom of=dev/ad0
this command will fix things up for you first.
I usually do not become this pissed but this is serious. The only thing that can come of this developement is the advancement of the PC in China. Where the peoples bios will be developed in response.
We can only hope that the Asian manufactures start cranking out cheap non Phoenix based boards in response.
If I remember correctly there was a company that tried to release a bootable rom based pci for the PC. They found the going tough because MS sure as hell hates to have to adopt new tech, enless they control it. The name of the game for MS is monopoly and they just have a hell of a hard time when someone innovates. After all there has not been a real innovation in IBM 386 arch in 20 years, this is due to the MS monopoly and the hardware partner strategy.
What I read into this is obvious, a rom based boot to lock in the OS. MS has resisted this till now, but you can bet they will strongarm phoenix until they get their way, or go it alone.
So with 105W heat displacement, on the Prescott, and with the AMD 86-64 smokin' away we will have real flame wars on /. Might need to up our fire insurance.
And that is exactly the reason, MS wants to have control of Inet docs. Their goal is to put Adobe out of the Inet document business.
Integration is not the issue, the security features are the problem. They will have to introduce the features in MS office, which they have done. Then the processor encoded content locks they want are giving Intel fits. Microsoft has now got to go it alone with their version of trusted computing. What the implimentation is trying to do is make it so business can send .docs, xls, in a read receipt form. This will be set so that unless you have the security key to read the document you will not be able to decode it. MS is trying to impliment its own encription that will only alow other MS based systems to comunicate. The same old shit but with the twist that it is for your security that you must only use MS encript locks and keys. Intel is getting some kind of pissed at Microsoft because they need the high end server and scientific multiprocessor market to make their current Itanium processor line pay. So far Unix and Linux is kicking the shit out of MS at this, so the 3 billion Intel invested in 64 bit multiprocessing is not paying off. That is why MS licensed SMP protocols from SCO, they are trying to catch up to IBM and Linux but are having one hell of a time because the Intel 64 bit implimentation sucks.
The use of robots in the field could revolutionise our society, and leave skilled hands and minds time to create. A second industrial revolution could take place. The huge city centered economy would start to become secondary to a vibrant rural economy. The complete reverse of the last 150 years.
Give all idle hands the chance to work for fun and our society will undergo fundimental change. Todays office centered city economies could become the economic waste lands. When a small business can do all the administration work cheaply and there is no need to support huge numbers of add ass city centered bureaucrats the economy will florish.
Being able to use your older machines as thin clients without worry of win 2000-2003-XP style obsolescence..priceless. This is the real value of Linux, the ability to create thin clients and scale to your needs, without the mandatory upgrades to hardware. The environmental savings are enormous as it can keep millions of old p1s and p2s functioning and save businesses billions. I go to the Government of British Columbia liquidations and see old p11 Dells and whatevers being sold cheap. They have all been made to be out of date and are just great as cheap Linux desktop thin clients. I use one myself. Cost me 100 canuck bucks. Runs great as a firewall, print server, etc. They even sell things like old Compact servers dirt cheap. An old prolient 4 processor with lots of ram, working for a couple hundred bucks. All of this is made possible by the MS upgrade madness. Small businesses can create viable small Linux systems with this hardware dirt cheap. Pare down the server and just use it right and the cost savings are enormous. As far as the huge cost of training staff to use Open Office or Star Office (if you want full Sun Java dev) that is bullshit. The migration to other office suites is easy for anybody who can use a word processor or spread sheet. If they insist that it is too difficult to use anything other than MS office, just start writing out a pink slip then watch how fast they learn!
If the MS audit guys are interested in your systems you have no choice. The software Gestapo will come to your door. Just ask Ernie Ball. When you get software audited it is the DMCA people who are working at the federal level in the US who do the audit based on a complaint from the software vendor that claims you are using their product illegaly.
Get a list of all e-mail addresses to as many individuals with MS, Symantec, and all the other computer security outfits spawned by Gates. Include these in your address book and nothing else. Run an old unpatched MS office IE and Outlook express, get everybody that is pissed at MS security to do this world wide. Then do not run a firewall or virus scan. Now if everybody just let address book based garbage run wild and target the people who profit from garbage ware, and security patching, Gates might get the picture. Sometimes a little revolution is a good thing!
not a problem I just dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda ..this kind of takes care of Windows software, viruses, worms and other annoyances perminently. Besides cfdisk works better. Not to mention which fdisk can be removed from windows and you can still boot if you edit your sys. Tricky old fart that I am. I wish she would learn a little about this sort of thing then she would stop adding windows shitware in the first place, I am the one that has to clean out all the shit and spyware that gets left behind. MS is going to start charging for messanger, and updates. What happens to them after they release the much touted longhorn I could care less. The entertainment restrictions that will be applied will make MS really hurt, I have the feeling people will just not rush out and buy it this time around and they certainly will not pay to patch their systems.
MyComputer\ControlPanel\addremoveprograms
Scroll down to MSN messanger, click add\remove, if it tries to add click cancel, if it starts the script to remove MSN just keep clicking yes. End of MSN software problem. When daugthter or other person installs it again just repeat procedure. They will get the idea, sooner or later.
Ok you guys are missing the point, to write for a closed source OS, or linux or any OS, to optimise and make your binary more efficient, you need to use calls to externals. If you choose to dev your software offering based on a static binary, then you make it a little harder for others to decompile your software. The big question is how was Burst first offered to MS and did burst then re-write to use dynamic libs. This change in code would quickly open the door for MS to rip the ideas off. If Burst rewrote at the behest of MS so that the code would be more "Windows efficient" then one can argue that MS deliberately screws over the software that it wants first. This is the problem with closed source you can write a functioning binary but as soon as you optimise the software with windows dlls you are at the mercy of Microsoft because the calls to dlls are really easy to reverse. Yes I can believe MS wanting someone to "optimise" a dynamic version. The problem is the closed source system that MS has created is evil, it can be used to easily screw over coders.
Too bad the /. effect is not permanent.
Statistical analysis is just not the way to write music, except perhaps for tone deaf nerds, and record execs. You have every right to play whatever form of music you choose. I have every right to listen to something else! If it got groove I do not care. I have never heard any computer generated music that can even come close to a great composer or musician, the differences are obvious. What appeals to the audiance is never the way to write music. It is how to please record companies, but is artless garbage that is as quickly forgotten as fast as it is created.
You would think Symantec should send him a check. For services rendered.