I am very dubious about your stories; they have the air of an urban legend. I tried to google to find a news account that matched your story. The closest google came was the story of a young, uninsured man who died in LA ater being 'dumped' from a hospital. Here is the story: http://www.boulderweekly.com/archive/042403/newssp in.html
Thats because its complete bullshit.
Canadian hospitals you can walk into the emergency department. If you're severely injured the triage nurse will just bring out a resuss team to get you back alive and get you to a stable condition.
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They don't have to feel entitled. Linus' original quote was that you get shown all these cool toys and you can't incorporate them with the Microsoft shared source license.
My counter point was that you can't exactly do the same with GPL toys.
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I think you're half right.
GPL doesn't allow you to take your ball and go home but people do stop you from playing on their court and force you to make a copy of your own court and make your own game.
Although, my perspective was more from a small coder that would want to incorporate GPL code into a project of his. Either way, he can't use the "toys" without relinquishing his code.
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Q. What do you think about Microsoft's "shared source" program and similar programs offering some access to its code to engage developers?
A. I think they are fundamentally flawed, because there is no way their "shared source" thing can ever really engage a developer. It's like showing somebody the goods and telling them that they can play with all the cool toys, but that they can never really be part of it, and whatever they create will be owned and controlled by Microsoft.
Now if you replace the word Microsoft with "the community" you get what is in essence the GPL license.
Is this loss of freedom and control bad simply because its a loss of freedom and control or is it simply because it would require Microsoft to own the code whereas the community wouldn't abuse it and respect the contribution.
Having to put the memory controller on the CPU generates its own pain in the ass set of of problems.
For starters if a new RAM type comes out you can't upgrade your board. No siree bob! New CPU for you, buddy! Want to run your CPU in dual channel mode? Well you gotta throw out all your socket 754 gear and get ready to pay for it all over again for socket 939 kit.
Secondly it takes away transistors from the CPU when it could be devoted to more cache. Let's face it. No matter how much latency you save, it's always better to grab data out of L2 cache than main memory.
Yes. Instead of using up your included minutes or paying extortionate international tarrifs you can route it through a VoIP provider and pay cents per minute for a call to Uzbekistan.
I would sue the editors of slashdot. Straight out.
Their business model depends on my misery. They refuse to add things like caching or even policies to deal with the large amounts of users hitting a defenceless server. Not only is it negligent but it borders on malicious.
I have no problem with people linking to my site in a "Whoops. I didn't know that many users would hit your site" way. I do have a problem with people putting up a link to my page under a "pay us before we send this to oblivion" style system.
Slashdot is a leech on the internet. And if they try to leech off me I'm going to smack them off with a very large cigarette butt of a lawsuit.
The REAL reason, of course, is that figuring out a good caching policy would take thought and work, which don't seem in much supply for the last couple years.
The reason is that the subscription business model of "see it before the crowds turn the server into molten sludge" would disappear.
If I had a huge bandwidth bill because of slashdot herding 250K+ people to my website for fun and profit you sure as hell better believe I'll sue their asses to recover the bandwidth bills.
I'm so sick and tired of this bullshit excuse. I live in a country with a population that has a population density one tenth of that of the US and a market almost one fifthteenth smaller than the US and we've had 3G in the form of WCDMA in our state capitals for over a year now.
For places that don't have 3G coverage yet we *gasp* roam using GSM.
Also, you can only fit so many users on a base station and in a CDMA based system the cells only get smaller as more and more users jump onto them. So if you have large population densities you get sucky coverage and require more cells. If you have a small population desntiy you'll get longer range per cell and require less of them. While it doesn't work out exactly the same (the balance is still biased in favour of large population densities), X isn't nearly as small a number as you would think.
As for the network efficiency argument, stick the freaking towers in the middle of New York and LA. Theres 30 million users. 1/10th of the US market in 2 cities. Sure it doesn't solve the problem of "why can't I get 3G in the middle of the Arizona desert!" but theres no excuse for major cities not to be eqipped with the latest in cell phone technology.
The default is like 3 or 4, but if you upped it to say, 20, and then hit a site that had 30 images all on the same server... it is likely that some of your http requests will get queued until other connect() attempts complete the handshake.
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why any Canadian would want to buy consumer stuff in US to use in Canada
To dodge the GST.
Duhhhhhhhhhhh.
Power PC is dead?
What the hell is he smoking?
I'll take PPC over any other architechture any day of the week.
Yeah. The tarball is 30 megs.
Expand it.
I am very dubious about your stories; they have the air of an urban legend. I tried to google to find a news account that matched your story. The closest google came was the story of a young, uninsured man who died in LA ater being 'dumped' from a hospital. Here is the story: http://www.boulderweekly.com/archive/042403/newssp in.html
Thats because its complete bullshit.
Canadian hospitals you can walk into the emergency department. If you're severely injured the triage nurse will just bring out a resuss team to get you back alive and get you to a stable condition.
They don't have to feel entitled. Linus' original quote was that you get shown all these cool toys and you can't incorporate them with the Microsoft shared source license.
My counter point was that you can't exactly do the same with GPL toys.
I think you're half right.
GPL doesn't allow you to take your ball and go home but people do stop you from playing on their court and force you to make a copy of your own court and make your own game.
Although, my perspective was more from a small coder that would want to incorporate GPL code into a project of his. Either way, he can't use the "toys" without relinquishing his code.
Q. What do you think about Microsoft's "shared source" program and similar programs offering some access to its code to engage developers?
A. I think they are fundamentally flawed, because there is no way their "shared source" thing can ever really engage a developer. It's like showing somebody the goods and telling them that they can play with all the cool toys, but that they can never really be part of it, and whatever they create will be owned and controlled by Microsoft.
Now if you replace the word Microsoft with "the community" you get what is in essence the GPL license.
Is this loss of freedom and control bad simply because its a loss of freedom and control or is it simply because it would require Microsoft to own the code whereas the community wouldn't abuse it and respect the contribution.
The nutritious Apple Macintosh: Part of this complete breakfast!
Having to put the memory controller on the CPU generates its own pain in the ass set of of problems.
For starters if a new RAM type comes out you can't upgrade your board. No siree bob! New CPU for you, buddy! Want to run your CPU in dual channel mode? Well you gotta throw out all your socket 754 gear and get ready to pay for it all over again for socket 939 kit.
Secondly it takes away transistors from the CPU when it could be devoted to more cache. Let's face it. No matter how much latency you save, it's always better to grab data out of L2 cache than main memory.
The idea is you have a carrier that can provide a mobile data cap. Like T-Mobile in the US or Vodafone and 3 over here in Australia.
Yes. Instead of using up your included minutes or paying extortionate international tarrifs you can route it through a VoIP provider and pay cents per minute for a call to Uzbekistan.
I thought cats did a decent job of getting the NOx out of the air.
Or are you talking about how the new emissions regulations are bastards about what comes out of the car in the first 30 seconds?
E=mc^2.
You can't get any more E when m is already as big as it gets.
Fusing the hydrogen beforehand would just reduce m for the matter-antimatter reaction.
I would sue the editors of slashdot. Straight out.
Their business model depends on my misery. They refuse to add things like caching or even policies to deal with the large amounts of users hitting a defenceless server. Not only is it negligent but it borders on malicious.
I have no problem with people linking to my site in a "Whoops. I didn't know that many users would hit your site" way. I do have a problem with people putting up a link to my page under a "pay us before we send this to oblivion" style system.
Slashdot is a leech on the internet. And if they try to leech off me I'm going to smack them off with a very large cigarette butt of a lawsuit.
The REAL reason, of course, is that figuring out a good caching policy would take thought and work, which don't seem in much supply for the last couple years.
The reason is that the subscription business model of "see it before the crowds turn the server into molten sludge" would disappear.
If I had a huge bandwidth bill because of slashdot herding 250K+ people to my website for fun and profit you sure as hell better believe I'll sue their asses to recover the bandwidth bills.
What kind of mouse do you have?
Is it a wireless mouse? Because I can tell you now that low quality and last generation mice all have a damn high (very noticable) latency on them.
Isn't this just 6to4 which has been around for ages?
Europe uses GSM and now UMTS, and there's no option to use something better, because GSM/UMTS is The Law.
Oh fuck. I better tell all these providers that GSM/UMTS is the law. Especially Portugal.
Or how about Sweden launching rural 3G in Sweden and Norway using 450MHz CDMA. Shit. I better ring them too. That was close!
I'm so sick and tired of this bullshit excuse. I live in a country with a population that has a population density one tenth of that of the US and a market almost one fifthteenth smaller than the US and we've had 3G in the form of WCDMA in our state capitals for over a year now.
For places that don't have 3G coverage yet we *gasp* roam using GSM.
Also, you can only fit so many users on a base station and in a CDMA based system the cells only get smaller as more and more users jump onto them. So if you have large population densities you get sucky coverage and require more cells. If you have a small population desntiy you'll get longer range per cell and require less of them. While it doesn't work out exactly the same (the balance is still biased in favour of large population densities), X isn't nearly as small a number as you would think.
As for the network efficiency argument, stick the freaking towers in the middle of New York and LA. Theres 30 million users. 1/10th of the US market in 2 cities. Sure it doesn't solve the problem of "why can't I get 3G in the middle of the Arizona desert!" but theres no excuse for major cities not to be eqipped with the latest in cell phone technology.
GooglOS?
Plus. My websites and the ones I'm responsible have a transfer limit. After that limit I pay cents in the meg for transfer.
You can sure as hell bet I'll sue Taco's ass if he diverts a few hundred thousand hits my way without warning. And I'll win it too.
The default is like 3 or 4, but if you upped it to say, 20, and then hit a site that had 30 images all on the same server... it is likely that some of your http requests will get queued until other connect() attempts complete the handshake.
Hey. 1998 called. They want HTTP 1.0 back.
In Australia we have a simple solution.
Our flagship cars are still RWD. The Ford Falcon and Holden Commodore are both RWD and are both Australia's biggest selling large sedans.
They come with engines ranging from 219 (3.6L) V6s to 357 V8s. There was a Holden HSV 427 coming to market but it was dropped.
VOIPOCSD*? That would be one hell of an acronym!
* Voice Over IP Over Circuit Switched Data
Shouldn't that read "seamless handoff to the free network once the cell phone company goes out of range"?