Non-Final - Hmmm...remember the FAT patent that MS got? It was rejected at this stage, but later upheld in the "FINAL" review. (FAT - File Allocation Table as invented by Gary Kildal in CP/M (or maybe even earlier than that???))
So if experience is a teacher here, then this means nothing.
No - but they have subs. Missle plus sub is a bad thing.
The simple fact is that the shield was NEVER built to defend against the Russians. When it is finally completely deployed, it MIGHT be sufficient to give some protection against the Chineese because they don't have 5000 warheads... And they had something like 18 missles - though I think they are building that number up some as the US proceeds with buliding it's defense.
So - it is mostly against the "rogue" state.
The other thing that people don't realize is that this is a system of systems. There are several levels of defense that are being worked on.
The Aegis cruiser now can be upgraded for theater missle defense (and it has a fair test record.) this is a fielded system.
Then there is the Airborne Laser sytem (big 747 with BIG laser) that is used to knock out things in the buster phase. (Still very much a technology under development.)
Finally - Patriots have been upgraded to do a better job than they did during Desert Storm, and actually also have a decent test record.
Beyond the fact that you can't move the kernel due to not all contributors agreeing - is it possible that Linus simply doesn't like the new provisions in GPL3.
I can tell you that I don't care for several of the provisions. They are VERY anti-business. This license is less free than others because of the new provisions. I predict that the new wording will drive more new projects to BSD style licensing.
Don't get me wrong - I hate DRM just like everyone else, but I think GPL3 goes over-board. It seems more a political statement than a practical license now.
First - I said "stand up in a public meeting" I suppose I need to clarify that I was talking about John Q Public. Place me at a City Council meeting where I'm talking to elected officials. So I'm not an "agent of the government" in this scenario, yet that is what is being demanded!
Let's talk about a REAL common scenario. My city council has a program where different denominations come in to open City council meetings with a prayer. One week it's "Congregationalists" while the next it's "Catholics" followed by a Rabi. There is nothing un-constitutional here.
Lastly - you guys read the Constitution as if it is a restrictive document for the citizens. It is only restrictive of the government meaning that ALL other things not explicity prohibited are allowed! That means that anything OTHER than establishing a state religion or impairing the practice of religion by the citizenry is allowable unless modified by legislative action!
Please show me where in the Constitution it says I CAN'T perform my religious rites during government business?
I believe it says Congress shall pass no law restricting the practice of religion or establishing a state religion.
That is ALL it says. It says CONGRESS won't - not an individual citizen.
So if I get up and pray to OHMYGOD before I talk in a public meeting, how is that either the government establishing a state religion OR limiting me in the practice of my worship of the great OMIGOD? Well - if the ACLU, et al. has it's way - my worship of OHMYGOD can't occur in that state meeting - so by legislating from the bench on behalf of the ACLU - the government actually is VIOLATING the Constitution. Unless you believe (mistakenly) that because the courts did it instead of Congress - it's constitutional then..
I just want to second what was said to the parent to this. I have run a couple of separate part-time businesses and the steps above are exactly what I went through.
The only thing I would add is - you'll also likely need a business license from your community to set up the Business account at the bank. From memory, they are looking for the business license not the DBA (Doing Business As) registration. Depending on the community - this is likely $100-$200 a month (YMMA).
Bob Metcalfe's fortune telling abilities have been put to the test in the past and he has constantly proven to not have a clue. Remember him saying the internet was going to roll over and die due to it's own weight within a year??? That didn't happen - and everything else he's GUESSED about has been pretty much wrong too.
I think this is a marvelous idea, especially since it has worked so well in the past.
Look at how successful the Steal Workers (Unionized) were at saving their jobs!
Whoops - that didn't work did it?
They priced themselves right out of a globally competitive market. The same thing is happening in engineering, IT, and programming now-adays. There are well trained individuals willing to take less money that can do the job.
Uhm - it's called supply and demand. Capital goes to where the lowest cost of production is - simple economics....
Unionization is merely a method for one to stick one's head in the sand and say Hmmm..Hmmm...Hmmm...I can't hear you...
This doesn't stand up to the simplest of analysis. Consider that Wintel ISN'T the platform of choice for most if not all CAD software. The platform of choice 5 years ago was Solaris NOT NT/XP/etc.
The reason is practical and historical in nature. These applications needed more memory, stability, and horsepower than the average PC had. Many applications wanted to be in a 64 bit address space. None of the MS products supported this until very recently.
I don't need to bash MS with the above. MS products were more aimed at the home than the back server room from the beginning.
Only recently the perferred platform for these types of applications has become Linux on 64 bit Operterons. They all still support Solaris as well - though not Solaris x86 yet that I'm aware.
To address the original poster's question of whether these apps will become available on OS-X. I doubt it for two reasons. The first is that the hardware will still be sourced from Apple, therefore there will be an "Apple Hardware Tax" applied. The next issue is that as of today, OS-X is still a minor player in both the server space and the desk-top space. Only if this changes will vendors decide to begin supporting yet another OS (which has a cost to it -it's more than just compiling it to the new environment for a product to come into being!)
I don't see a whole lot of difference - they are using JIT techniques to get around the recompile for new hardware problems of VLIW. Beyond that it's just VLIW warmed over.
Maybe they have some new ideas within the VLIW compiler space?
In any case, I don't see it as revolutionary...more like evolutionary - and even then, just barely.
What if the "information" they take from you is your credit card number, and then they use it. That's just information after all, but this choice of information has OBVIOUS economic cost. Saying that just copying information doesn't constitute theft is niave.
The other problem with your complaint is the way the law is structured. The law is structured around the concept of property. Property can be tangible, i.e. you can hold it, or intangible, i.e. credit in a bank account. General "information" that would be found on a computer is obviously of the second category, but it is STILL property. What if we're talking about a play that isn't published yet, or a program you've worked on for N years and are about to sell (excluding GPL arguments here). The theft is every bit as real even though they are just computer bits on a hard disk.
yep - the other little detail folks are not mentioning here is that the kids used some sort of rootkit equivalent to find the password AFTER it had been changed.
Doesn't that qualify for breaking and entering?????
These kids aren't angels...and whoops - there was consequences for their illegal actions..oh and to make sure everyone here gets that. These kids committed a crime. They KNOWNINGLY violated the machines by using the admin password they weren't suppose to have. Look - if I leave my house unlocked, does that make it any more wrong for someone to enter and start taking my things?
The other issue is that these are still kids, and if they're under 18.... it isn't on their permanent record. If you guys are constantly going to make excuses though about oh- it wasn't that bad, then the rest of the rules of society might as well fly out the window as well.
Kind sir, it can be quite expensive. Another OS means another SKU number - and modified documentation, etc. There is a definite cost to bringing out a product on another OS.
This is almost silly, but what about all of the applications? It took 5 years roughly to start seeing a major number of commercial applications appear on Linux X86. Does that imply that these folks are going to have to support SUNx86 TOO...
Granted that most all of them CAME from SUN on SPARC, but it is at least a recompile and ANOTHER OS to support...something that vendors don't take on lightly (one reason it has taken so long to get a critical mass of applications for Linux)
Yep - the interesting thing is that they changed the design to use NON-FREON material, though the FREON based foam didn't have as large a problem with breakage. Was this a good tradeoff??
Oh stop blaming the Republicans for this. The FBI has been seeking this type of capability for a LONG time, including during the entire Clinton administration.
An ODDLY - the simple fact is that the manufacturers are happy to comply because the capability is likely already there.
A few years ago I had a discussion with a friend who was the CEO of a networking company (before it got bought by Alcatel...) He told me that the companies build this type of backdoor into the routers, etc. for their own reasons anyway. The government therefore, is only codifying what the manufacturers are likely doing anyway. The ISPs want this capability TOO!
Actually, you seem to miss the point of the article. Americans are MORE productive - We're getting the same or more production out of our technology workers with few people. How is that NOT working harder??????
I'll use myself as an example. I just got of of a project, i.e. a chip design where the final place & route, timing analysis, etc. was handled by two people on my company's side (working 90 hour weeks for a month solid - I was one of them.) Did I receive overtime - Nope.
The simple fact is - if you want to keep yourself employed, even though your "hourly" rates drops in half due to the required hours, you'll likely work them.
Others earlier mentioned burn-out. That is result of these kind of hours will cause.
Yet the proposition is still the same. The engineer in the Valley is working HARDER than his counterparts in other places in the measurable area of productivity. (Note that the typical engineer in the valley will be of european decent or from India of China or Korea or..., i.e. the place is VERY metropolitan!)
The son of one of my closest friends has Asberger syndrome ( a relative of autism - sometimes it is classified as a form of autism). Well guess blinkin what. He has a hyper-sensitivity to Mercury which was used as the preservative in his innoculations a few years ago. He has been undergoing treatment for heavy metal poisoning for a couple of years now and it IS helping...though not a cure.
Further, it turns out that the drug companies continued to use the mercury based preservative for upto two years AFTER they said it was gone from the product!
Who is at fault here?
We won't bother to go into what it took to get the diagnosis of Mercury poisoning from conventional medical practitioners here...just say ALOT!
Yep, I was on Maruitius 20 years ago. At the time I applied for an amateur radio license and spent 3 hours at the PTT office watching a gentlemen with a Phd in shuffling paper. The memory I have of the place is perhaps 75 people sitting in this large room moving paper from point A to point B. I had the thought that you could put one small sized main-frame in to do their work. Then I realized that an important part of this island's economy was the "manual" labor these folks were doing. I've got to wonder how much "computerization" is going to help Mauritius....
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Non-Final - Hmmm...remember the FAT patent that MS got? It was rejected at this stage, but later upheld in the "FINAL" review. (FAT - File Allocation Table as invented by Gary Kildal in CP/M (or maybe even earlier than that???))
So if experience is a teacher here, then this means nothing.
Well -the shield wasn't built to defeat the Russians - Regan's shield was to defeat the Soviet Union - uhm - it isn't around anymore.
Further, I was speaking about today's effort - not the Star Wars effort of yester-year.
No - but they have subs. Missle plus sub is a bad thing.
The simple fact is that the shield was NEVER built to defend against the Russians. When it is finally completely deployed, it MIGHT be sufficient to give some protection against the Chineese because they don't have 5000 warheads... And they had something like 18 missles - though I think they are building that number up some as the US proceeds with buliding it's defense.
So - it is mostly against the "rogue" state.
The other thing that people don't realize is that this is a system of systems. There are several levels of defense that are being worked on.
The Aegis cruiser now can be upgraded for theater missle defense (and it has a fair test record.) this is a fielded system.
Then there is the Airborne Laser sytem (big 747 with BIG laser) that is used to knock out things in the buster phase. (Still very much a technology under development.)
Finally - Patriots have been upgraded to do a better job than they did during Desert Storm, and actually also have a decent test record.
The mind BOGGLES at the concept that someone named MCBride is against suing (see SCO Vs IBM, Autozone, MBZ, and Novell)
I almost fell out of my chair. Good for him!
Beyond the fact that you can't move the kernel due to not all contributors agreeing - is it possible that Linus simply doesn't like the new provisions in GPL3.
I can tell you that I don't care for several of the provisions. They are VERY anti-business. This license is less free than others because of the new provisions. I predict that the new wording will drive more new projects to BSD style licensing.
Don't get me wrong - I hate DRM just like everyone else, but I think GPL3 goes over-board. It seems more a political statement than a practical license now.
First - I said "stand up in a public meeting" I suppose I need to clarify that I was talking about John Q Public. Place me at a City Council meeting where I'm talking to elected officials. So I'm not an "agent of the government" in this scenario, yet that is what is being demanded!
Let's talk about a REAL common scenario. My city council has a program where different denominations come in to open City council meetings with a prayer. One week it's "Congregationalists" while the next it's "Catholics" followed by a Rabi. There is nothing un-constitutional here.
Lastly - you guys read the Constitution as if it is a restrictive document for the citizens. It is only restrictive of the government meaning that ALL other things not explicity prohibited are allowed! That means that anything OTHER than establishing a state religion or impairing the practice of religion by the citizenry is allowable unless modified by legislative action!
Please show me where in the Constitution it says I CAN'T perform my religious rites during government business?
I believe it says Congress shall pass no law restricting the practice of religion or establishing a state religion.
That is ALL it says. It says CONGRESS won't - not an individual citizen.
So if I get up and pray to OHMYGOD before I talk in a public meeting, how is that either the government establishing a state religion OR limiting me in the practice of my worship of the great OMIGOD? Well - if the ACLU, et al. has it's way - my worship of OHMYGOD can't occur in that state meeting - so by legislating from the bench on behalf of the ACLU - the government actually is VIOLATING the Constitution. Unless you believe (mistakenly) that because the courts did it instead of Congress - it's constitutional then..
OHBYGOD - How can you read it this way???
I just want to second what was said to the parent to this. I have run a couple of separate part-time businesses and the steps above are exactly what I went through.
The only thing I would add is - you'll also likely need a business license from your community to set up the Business account at the bank. From memory, they are looking for the business license not the DBA (Doing Business As) registration. Depending on the community - this is likely $100-$200 a month (YMMA).
Bob Metcalfe's fortune telling abilities have been put to the test in the past and he has constantly proven to not have a clue. Remember him saying the internet was going to roll over and die due to it's own weight within a year??? That didn't happen - and everything else he's GUESSED about has been pretty much wrong too.
Summary: Move on - nothing to see here!
Doesn't this sound EXACTLY like what Apple is dissing the RIAA for, i.e. trying to make more money off of the IPOD?
If Apple doesn't do the engineering for accessories or the manufacturing - I see NO reason they should receive the profits?!?
I have similar feelings about Apple paying RIAA.
I think this is a marvelous idea, especially since it has worked so well in the past.
Look at how successful the Steal Workers (Unionized) were at saving their jobs!
Whoops - that didn't work did it?
They priced themselves right out of a globally competitive market. The same thing is happening in engineering, IT, and programming now-adays. There are well trained individuals willing to take less money that can do the job.
Uhm - it's called supply and demand. Capital goes to where the lowest cost of production is - simple economics....
Unionization is merely a method for one to stick one's head in the sand and say Hmmm..Hmmm...Hmmm...I can't hear you...
Sheesh!
This doesn't stand up to the simplest of analysis. Consider that Wintel ISN'T the platform of choice for most if not all CAD software. The platform of choice 5 years ago was Solaris NOT NT/XP/etc.
The reason is practical and historical in nature. These applications needed more memory, stability, and horsepower than the average PC had. Many applications wanted to be in a 64 bit address space. None of the MS products supported this until very recently.
I don't need to bash MS with the above. MS products were more aimed at the home than the back server room from the beginning.
Only recently the perferred platform for these types of applications has become Linux on 64 bit Operterons. They all still support Solaris as well - though not Solaris x86 yet that I'm aware.
To address the original poster's question of whether these apps will become available on OS-X. I doubt it for two reasons. The first is that the hardware will still be sourced from Apple, therefore there will be an "Apple Hardware Tax" applied. The next issue is that as of today, OS-X is still a minor player in both the server space and the desk-top space. Only if this changes will vendors decide to begin supporting yet another OS (which has a cost to it -it's more than just compiling it to the new environment for a product to come into being!)
Sounds an awful lot like Transmeta???
I don't see a whole lot of difference - they are using JIT techniques to get around the recompile for new hardware problems of VLIW. Beyond that it's just VLIW warmed over.
Maybe they have some new ideas within the VLIW compiler space?
In any case, I don't see it as revolutionary...more like evolutionary - and even then, just barely.
No - that is what I was thinking too - the only real difference seems to be the solar panels.
;-)
I suppose with all that 3Ghz computer gear running on it, it'll take more power than the original Apollo command module did.
I'm not impressed. There is nothing here to replace the things the shuttle can do? How do you deal with repair of craft all ready in orbit, etc?
There are simply some missions only a space-shuttle type vehicle can accomplish.
You'll find the story up on www.ARRL.org. Is that authentic enough for you?
Well - your reaction seems to me to be incorrect.
What if the "information" they take from you is your credit card number, and then they use it. That's just information after all, but this choice of information has OBVIOUS economic cost. Saying that just copying information doesn't constitute theft is niave.
The other problem with your complaint is the way the law is structured. The law is structured around the concept of property. Property can be tangible, i.e. you can hold it, or intangible, i.e. credit in a bank account. General "information" that would be found on a computer is obviously of the second category, but it is STILL property. What if we're talking about a play that isn't published yet, or a program you've worked on for N years and are about to sell (excluding GPL arguments here). The theft is every bit as real even though they are just computer bits on a hard disk.
So get over it.
yep - the other little detail folks are not mentioning here is that the kids used some sort of rootkit equivalent to find the password AFTER it had been changed.
Doesn't that qualify for breaking and entering?????
These kids aren't angels...and whoops - there was consequences for their illegal actions..oh and to make sure everyone here gets that. These kids committed a crime. They KNOWNINGLY violated the machines by using the admin password they weren't suppose to have. Look - if I leave my house unlocked, does that make it any more wrong for someone to enter and start taking my things?
The other issue is that these are still kids, and if they're under 18.... it isn't on their permanent record. If you guys are constantly going to make excuses though about oh- it wasn't that bad, then the rest of the rules of society might as well fly out the window as well.
Kind sir, it can be quite expensive. Another OS means another SKU number - and modified documentation, etc. There is a definite cost to bringing out a product on another OS.
This is almost silly, but what about all of the applications? It took 5 years roughly to start seeing a major number of commercial applications appear on Linux X86. Does that imply that these folks are going to have to support SUNx86 TOO...
Granted that most all of them CAME from SUN on SPARC, but it is at least a recompile and ANOTHER OS to support...something that vendors don't take on lightly (one reason it has taken so long to get a critical mass of applications for Linux)
Nope - got it for $16 at Fremont store and it wasn't a return.
Yep - the interesting thing is that they changed the design to use NON-FREON material, though the FREON based foam didn't have as large a problem with breakage. Was this a good tradeoff??
Maybe the cost was one space shuttle??
Oh stop blaming the Republicans for this. The FBI has been seeking this type of capability for a LONG time, including during the entire Clinton administration.
An ODDLY - the simple fact is that the manufacturers are happy to comply because the capability is likely already there.
A few years ago I had a discussion with a friend who was the CEO of a networking company (before it got bought by Alcatel...) He told me that the companies build this type of backdoor into the routers, etc. for their own reasons anyway. The government therefore, is only codifying what the manufacturers are likely doing anyway. The ISPs want this capability TOO!
Actually, you seem to miss the point of the article. Americans are MORE productive - We're getting the same or more production out of our technology workers with few people. How is that NOT working harder??????
I'll use myself as an example. I just got of of a project, i.e. a chip design where the final place & route, timing analysis, etc. was handled by two people on my company's side (working 90 hour weeks for a month solid - I was one of them.) Did I receive overtime - Nope.
The simple fact is - if you want to keep yourself employed, even though your "hourly" rates drops in half due to the required hours, you'll likely work them.
Others earlier mentioned burn-out. That is result of these kind of hours will cause.
Yet the proposition is still the same. The engineer in the Valley is working HARDER than his counterparts in other places in the measurable area of productivity. (Note that the typical engineer in the valley will be of european decent or from India of China or Korea or..., i.e. the place is VERY metropolitan!)
The son of one of my closest friends has Asberger syndrome ( a relative of autism - sometimes it is classified as a form of autism). Well guess blinkin what. He has a hyper-sensitivity to Mercury which was used as the preservative in his innoculations a few years ago. He has been undergoing treatment for heavy metal poisoning for a couple of years now and it IS helping...though not a cure.
Further, it turns out that the drug companies continued to use the mercury based preservative for upto two years AFTER they said it was gone from the product!
Who is at fault here?
We won't bother to go into what it took to get the diagnosis of Mercury poisoning from conventional medical practitioners here...just say ALOT!
Yep, I was on Maruitius 20 years ago. At the time I applied for an amateur radio license and spent 3 hours at the PTT office watching a gentlemen with a Phd in shuffling paper. The memory I have of the place is perhaps 75 people sitting in this large room moving paper from point A to point B. I had the thought that you could put one small sized main-frame in to do their work. Then I realized that an important part of this island's economy was the "manual" labor these folks were doing. I've got to wonder how much "computerization" is going to help Mauritius....
Good luck folks!