One reason for enterprise is, 'You have the source code; if it doesn't work, you can fix it.' But the fact is, if I'm an enterprise, I don't want to fix it. I want somebody else to fix it," Goldman said. This is a sign of bad logic. Because I want to be able to pay somebody to fix it, I need the source.
The CTO of BigCorp is not going to hack code, but he wants to be able to pay someone *lots_of_money* to fix it so it works for his organisation. The fix might be becuase of a problem unique to his situation... (we've all seen how some programs can break OS), and so not on top list of priorities for whichever co built the software.
This is taking overclocking to the next level. The kind of people who do this sort of thing have always had the "warranty voided" hanging over their heads.....
What I would be keen on is for someone who has done this to tell us how stable their machine is.
I am yet to read a article on overclocking etc that does not say that some users have experienced problems...... I think tech writers use this spiel instead of the less friendly "we are not going to be held responsible if you fsck up"
I think that this could be the killer application that Bluetooth has been looking for.
When you look at the number of little kids with mobiles (in the UK), arming them with mobile phones that can do micro payments would be all that.
For one, they would be able to share telephone credits, and use this technology for simple payments.
This would be an extra revenue stream for all those big mobile firms that need to recoup the billions they invested in 3g licences.... make money from the interest as people load up the cards before they use them, and charge merchants a transaction charge.
The US cannot continue to try and impose its laws on the rest of the world. The De Beers example is a case in point.
For years the directors of DeBeers have been unable to travel to the US due to outstanding anti-trust caes's against them.
Still they continue to trade, and travel the rest of the world. This article tells how previous cases against the company have failed. Now, having realised how futile their attempts are, they are trying to play nice with the company.
The US can declare jurisdiction over the entire internet, but unless they do a Noriega, and go in and kidnap a few people, the laws will not mean much unless people visit the US.
hear hear. Another guild in the same vein are the accountants.
While they restrict supply, the law (at least here in the UK and most of Africa) decrees that a limited company *SHALL* employ the services of a qualified accountant to audit its books.
... and before you go on about how this is done to safeguard the interests of investors, think ENRON!
NO, I do not think that it is too much to ask for.
What you will probably find is that as time goes on, this might become the Linux company's competitive advantage.
I remember when I was in university, our varsity prided itself in employing the highest number of A rated scientists in any educational institution on the continent... or some similar claim.
Why employ your Co. instead of Co. B would therefore be answered by "we employ 7 of the 10 name-the-program-here core developers!"
Capitalism at work and benefiting the open source community.
Couple that with MicroSoft's security trackhistory, and possible T1 pipes in every home in a few years, and I see virii mailing entire directories of data.
The article does not say how much this Yamhill cost to develop... Wonder how much of a plan B it really is.
A nice way to extend the x86 lifespan though. I can just see server PrescottHill chips with the yamhill turned on and the lower end Prescotteron without.
I just don't really see them pouring this research and tech down the line.
I doubt it. The article says that the shareholders will also be asked to approve a dissolution of Be.
That means no more Be. No Be means noone to sue microsoft as Be, unless Be has transferred those rights to another body corporate before it is dissolved.
I doubt therefore, that they would retain the rights to sue Microsoft if they are planning on not being around very soon.
I hate to say this, but the way things are going, Microsoft will win the PDA war.
Most users out there like the safety (or feel good) that a familiar environment provides. Most will buy a PDA not because it has the best OS, but because the migration from their PC to the PDA is not difficult.... ie it is still fairly intuitive.
Palm forking and introducing another OS would just muddy the waters, and at best I think would win market share from the other minor OSes, instead of Microsoft.
Incorporate some the good bits of BeOS into PalmOS if you must, but please do not introduce yet another PDA OS.
For what it's worth, I think Palm should bequeth BeOS to the GNU/Linux crew, and slowly migrate PalmOS to Linux. The result would be more critical mass, and a concerted and coordinated challenge to Windows on the desktop, on the servers, and on the PDA.
You seem to forget that Sun went off and bought StarOffice and did open source it.
Might not be pure GPL, but they still might opensource it if it adds value to their business model, although I honestly cannot figure out how this acquisition does.
Even though, there are a couple of people I would be willing to blast off into space and never see again:)
My fear is that given the enviromental issues on earth, a lot of companies might one day find it expedient to send their toxic waste to the moon.
Establishing a moon government would have been bad enough, with some people claiming to own parts of the moon, (I think it was slashdot article), but with the current political situation, I do not see too many people agreeing to a XX govt led moon colonisation.
If you think that this sounds too far fetched, think about the fact that even today, a lot of western companies/countries export toxic waste to poor nations, because it is more economically expedient than 'home' disposal or recycling.
I can just see the arguments for optimum amounts of pollution, and how much more pollution the moon's atmosphere (or lack thereof) can sustain.
Having the government offer these services as a service to the community might not be the best thing.
I am more in favour of a mutual versus a municipal service. Before you go and knock it, think that some of the biggest financial services firms began life as mutuals. This would really be a case of a service for the people.
Should folk ever want to cash out eventually, they could demutualise the whole thing, and to be honest I would rather have one of these than have a politician tell me how he is 'doing' me good by providing this service. I would also be against either tax dollars subsiding such a venture, or conversely, profits from this being milked to fund other pork barrel projects.
What local authorities should do, especially in places like the UK where BT frustrates the competition while providing really shite service, is to give groups that want to do this as much support as possible.
That is the kind of stuff 'my local politician' should be doing for me.
Servers are like Rolls Royces... they cost a bundle but are as reliable as hell.
Like Rolls Royces, servers tend to stay away from bleeding edge technology, instead focusing on tried and tested stuff built with only the best components and only the best craftsmen.
I remember reading somewhere about a woman who was suiing JK Rowling for plagiarism. Seems this woman had published her book(s) a while aga, and although they were not a huge commercial success, the story line, and naming conventions were extremely similar to that in the Harry Potter books.
Does anyone else recall this, and know what happened to the lawsuit???
A combination of a fair amount of old hardware still in use, and the expense of software... typical licence (Win 9x) costs more than the minimum monthly wage.
Compound this with the fact that there are many enterprising minds in Africa... and you have a team of hackers to rival any in the 'First World1
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Not even the mighty USA is immune from economic downturns. Although many in the US think that they are the dog that wags the tail (world economy) sometimes the tail does wag the dog.
You start chasing out websites, soon... Who would have thought that people would be looking away from the USA for the right to free speech??
This excessive legislature will be the undoing of the US. Built on innovation, entrepreneurship and the freedom of expression, some wigs in Washington seem to have taken it upon themselves to preserve the American way.
The only problem is that the American way, until now has been freedom, both of expression and of innovation.
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This is taking overclocking to the next level. The kind of people who do this sort of thing have always had the "warranty voided" hanging over their heads.....
... I think tech writers use this spiel instead of the less friendly "we are not going to be held responsible if you fsck up"
What I would be keen on is for someone who has done this to tell us how stable their machine is.
I am yet to read a article on overclocking etc that does not say that some users have experienced problems...
Just for the record though.. infinity is not a number but a direction!
Infinity minus one day is still infinity.
I think that this could be the killer application that Bluetooth has been looking for.
When you look at the number of little kids with mobiles (in the UK), arming them with mobile phones that can do micro payments would be all that.
For one, they would be able to share telephone credits, and use this technology for simple payments.
This would be an extra revenue stream for all those big mobile firms that need to recoup the billions they invested in 3g licences.... make money from the interest as people load up the cards before they use them, and charge merchants a transaction charge.
The US cannot continue to try and impose its laws on the rest of the world. The De Beers example is a case in point.
For years the directors of DeBeers have been unable to travel to the US due to outstanding anti-trust caes's against them.
Still they continue to trade, and travel the rest of the world. This article tells how previous cases against the company have failed. Now, having realised how futile their attempts are, they are trying to play nice with the company.
The US can declare jurisdiction over the entire internet, but unless they do a Noriega, and go in and kidnap a few people, the laws will not mean much unless people visit the US.
I totally agree. The US cannot argue that just because the servers were hosted on US land they should fall under US jurisdiction.
If they did, we will see a rise in hosting of servers in "nationless" sites such as The Principality of Sealand
Linux does need these "nuts" as you call them.
.... keep going ESR!
Every movement, (and yes, I do think that Linux is part of a movement) needs a few extremists to get the ball rolling, and start people talking.
The Malcom Xs, the Ghandis, the (whats that woman's name, the one who fought for the female vote??).....
They were all extremists, but they did succeed in bringing public attention to their movements.
The important trick for our "spokesmen" will be knowing when linux has reached a level of maturity that such extremism becomes unnecessary.
If you ask me, we are not there yet, so
hear hear. Another guild in the same vein are the accountants.
While they restrict supply, the law (at least here in the UK and most of Africa) decrees that a limited company *SHALL* employ the services of a qualified accountant to audit its books.
... and before you go on about how this is done to safeguard the interests of investors, think ENRON!
What you will probably find is that as time goes on, this might become the Linux company's competitive advantage.
I remember when I was in university, our varsity prided itself in employing the highest number of A rated scientists in any educational institution on the continent... or some similar claim.
Why employ your Co. instead of Co. B would therefore be answered by "we employ 7 of the 10 name-the-program-here core developers!"
Capitalism at work and benefiting the open source community.
A db coupled filesystems will probably make it harder to share files across multiple platforms.
Tighter lockin into Microsoft prducts. Once they have you, you are hooked.
And if you think XP phones-home, wait till you get this baby. It should be a lot easier for Microsoft to control things on YOUR machine via db.
Want to access more than 50 files a day... upgrade to corporate.
P2P at the filesystem level!
Couple that with MicroSoft's security trackhistory, and possible T1 pipes in every home in a few years, and I see virii mailing entire directories of data.
Scary thought huh??
The article does not say how much this Yamhill cost to develop... Wonder how much of a plan B it really is.
A nice way to extend the x86 lifespan though. I can just see server PrescottHill chips with the yamhill turned on and the lower end Prescotteron without.
I just don't really see them pouring this research and tech down the line.
You are all talking about avoiding being stiffed by the websites. What about the situation from the webmasters point of view.
How do they deal with search engines, or services like google that provide cached copies of pages??
I doubt it. The article says that the shareholders will also be asked to approve a dissolution of Be.
That means no more Be. No Be means noone to sue microsoft as Be, unless Be has transferred those rights to another body corporate before it is dissolved.
I doubt therefore, that they would retain the rights to sue Microsoft if they are planning on not being around very soon.
I hate to say this, but the way things are going, Microsoft will win the PDA war.
Most users out there like the safety (or feel good) that a familiar environment provides. Most will buy a PDA not because it has the best OS, but because the migration from their PC to the PDA is not difficult.... ie it is still fairly intuitive.
Palm forking and introducing another OS would just muddy the waters, and at best I think would win market share from the other minor OSes, instead of Microsoft.
Incorporate some the good bits of BeOS into PalmOS if you must, but please do not introduce yet another PDA OS.
For what it's worth, I think Palm should bequeth BeOS to the GNU/Linux crew, and slowly migrate PalmOS to Linux. The result would be more critical mass, and a concerted and coordinated challenge to Windows on the desktop, on the servers, and on the PDA.
You seem to forget that Sun went off and bought StarOffice and did open source it.
Might not be pure GPL, but they still might opensource it if it adds value to their business model, although I honestly cannot figure out how this acquisition does.
Even though, there are a couple of people I would be willing to blast off into space and never see again :)
My fear is that given the enviromental issues on earth, a lot of companies might one day find it expedient to send their toxic waste to the moon.
Establishing a moon government would have been bad enough, with some people claiming to own parts of the moon, (I think it was slashdot article), but with the current political situation, I do not see too many people agreeing to a XX govt led moon colonisation.
If you think that this sounds too far fetched, think about the fact that even today, a lot of western companies/countries export toxic waste to poor nations, because it is more economically expedient than 'home' disposal or recycling.
I can just see the arguments for optimum amounts of pollution, and how much more pollution the moon's atmosphere (or lack thereof) can sustain.
Having the government offer these services as a service to the community might not be the best thing.
I am more in favour of a mutual versus a municipal service. Before you go and knock it, think that some of the biggest financial services firms began life as mutuals. This would really be a case of a service for the people.
Should folk ever want to cash out eventually, they could demutualise the whole thing, and to be honest I would rather have one of these than have a politician tell me how he is 'doing' me good by providing this service. I would also be against either tax dollars subsiding such a venture, or conversely, profits from this being milked to fund other pork barrel projects.
What local authorities should do, especially in places like the UK where BT frustrates the competition while providing really shite service, is to give groups that want to do this as much support as possible.
That is the kind of stuff 'my local politician' should be doing for me.
Funniest post I have seen on the topic so far.
Seriously, I do think that an open source virus project to continually test the integrity of the OSes and other software out there.
Like all warts, you just keep squeezing until it pops
Is it just me, or is the US now falling behind in all fields, from bio-tech through freedom of expression to telecoms.
Is this the beginning of the end for the nation that led in most fields for most of the last century??
Servers are like Rolls Royces... they cost a bundle but are as reliable as hell.
Like Rolls Royces, servers tend to stay away from bleeding edge technology, instead focusing on tried and tested stuff built with only the best components and only the best craftsmen.
I remember reading somewhere about a woman who was suiing JK Rowling for plagiarism. Seems this woman had published her book(s) a while aga, and although they were not a huge commercial success, the story line, and naming conventions were extremely similar to that in the Harry Potter books.
Does anyone else recall this, and know what happened to the lawsuit???
Arica as well is fast becoming Linux Country.
A combination of a fair amount of old hardware still in use, and the expense of software... typical licence (Win 9x) costs more than the minimum monthly wage.
Compound this with the fact that there are many enterprising minds in Africa... and you have a team of hackers to rival any in the 'First World1
Not even the mighty USA is immune from economic downturns. Although many in the US think that they are the dog that wags the tail (world economy) sometimes the tail does wag the dog.
You start chasing out websites, soon... Who would have thought that people would be looking away from the USA for the right to free speech??
This excessive legislature will be the undoing of the US. Built on innovation, entrepreneurship and the freedom of expression, some wigs in Washington seem to have taken it upon themselves to preserve the American way.
The only problem is that the American way, until now has been freedom, both of expression and of innovation.