of about 15-20 Euro for an XP Professional license, its an excellent price/performane ration when it comes to selecting something for your VM to browse occasionally under IE. Most Software still supperts XP and the Hardware requirements are modest, so that its not a pain in the ass to run it just for printing, scanning, browsing incompatible websites, updating my phone, programming FPGAs or microcontrollers where the SW primarily supports windows.
The funny thing is that i am against nuclear power (since the waste problem is not solved), but i don't understand that people get so unreasonable about categorizing dangers.
Day by day we take in many cancerous chemicals, even as non-smokers, but then some people find time to think about problems which are completely of the map.
My strategy is: neglect all risks in your consideration which are significantly lower than being hit by a car. You wont extent you life expectation by much if you don't and it will block you view to more important matters.
is easy, but i (a physicist who lived in jp until April) found the available information sufficient. Hotspots due to forgotten garbage/material from times when people were less careful exist around the planet and are difficult to detect.
It is my honest estimation that the distraction for carrying a Geiger counter all the day in Tokyo increases the likelihood of getting in a traffic accident more than it will lower your probablility of dying from effects of radiation (as an untrained an unqualified person you may have wrong alarms and yet not measure in a way suitable to detect a hotspot).
If you are very concerned, then check the places where you work and live (since only the radiation there will weight in heavily) by hiring somebody to measure it who knows what he is doing (i am sure this exists in Tokyo). In Japan he will be polite enough not to make fun of you.
Indeed, i believe that patenting certain things and licensing them in a java-style agreement could have served the purpose. Something like "if you implement an extension of HTML then you must open the patents and the description so that everybody can implement it" could have served well at some points of the development.
I guess Oracle wants to sell complete Boxes with Hardware to Database included. If the customer asks why the box does not perform ask predicted, with the total price, there may be a reliable answer required. So if the customer wants to run the box on linux, the mechanisms to answer these questions must be available in linux.
Yes. That is why it would be important not to put too much value on the money when discussing with them. Unless you want to ruin you reputation, exhibit a positive, productive and professional style of work:
-Dont leave or threaten in the middle of an important task, but make it clear you see it as your responsibility and that you want to complete it. Doing otherwise could sound like blackmail to your boss.Or to formulate it in terms of being loyal: it means you are loyal to your current project
-If you want to leave, put other things (commuting time etc) than money in the center, because ultimately people seldom leave due to money. If you value a 10% pay rise more than a cut of the commuting time by 1 hour per day it says much about your personality.
A theater professor? When i look at some Shakespeare plays i can only say that i did not want to meet people in a dark alley who find fun in directing something like king Lear.
Yes. sadly mine was stolen in 2004. i bought a z31 and was disappointed. Thing i liked about the m105:
*well readable under any lighting conditions *long stand by time *long battery life *no charger, you could get batteries for it at the end of the world (and have a pack of spares in your pocket) *back lighted display was extremely eye-friendly and could be used in complete darkness in the plane without disturbing your neighbors. *built-in PIM was better and faster than anything i have seen for Android or Symbian *Email could be read via modem/irda on mobile phones *beaming vcards by irda was fast, much faster and more reliable to initiate than by bluetooth (between siemens, nokia, palm) *the design of the protective cover was *brilliant*. when i had the m105 i did not need another watch *it did not crash on built-in applications (unlike my android or my nokia e63) *i miss the memo function to scribble with the stylus
So yes. they did squeeze every bit of user experience possible to achieve with a resistive touch screen of 160x200 pixels, 5 hardware buttons, 8MB of ram and 16MHz of processing power. Sad to see where their road took them.
That means: MS wants to first harvest good revenue market segments and not spoil things by selling anything too cheap to early. I see WP7-Starter editions coming after the fat cows have been milked.
Moreover, if you are an employee of the state department and you link to it you add credibility to it. AFAIU no official ever commented whether the wikileaks materials are correct and complete. Nobody guarantees that there was no deliberate misinformation introduced.
I think flash was bought by adobe to keep control until the ris of flash could not harm them any more. Adobes core business are WYSIWYG Document systems, pdf creation, management and form server tools. There is no other integrated product suite like Adobes. You can design an excellent looking printable document which integrates well with online services.
IMHO Adobe buying flash was good for nothing else but preventing flash from becoming relevant in managing online form data.
Use harddrives. They are cheap and fast. And if you store them under decent conditions and dont let them run all the time everything will be fine. In three years copy them to the next generation harddrives. If you are willing to pay in average $100 per two years it should be fine.
This statement is plainly wrong. The patent grant for jvm implementors was never about open source, but always about implementing the platform as specified.
Oracle offers some added value if you need it. If you are stuck on mysql for some reason and you project outgrew what the free verions handles, it may be reasonable to pay some money for well defined support of new features.
If you don't need it (and that applies to me and most people here), then just happily use the free version. If you are not convinced the support for the new features is worth the money, then don't buy it.
So, yes, oracle may have forked it. They are neither the first company to do something like this (see ghostscript) nor will they be the last. History shows that usually the commercial "value-added" distribution may be marginal in the installed base, but if the company plays the cards right its customers and the company can profit from the commercial version.
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of about 15-20 Euro for an XP Professional license, its an excellent price/performane ration when it comes to selecting something for your VM to browse occasionally under IE. Most Software still supperts XP and the Hardware requirements are modest, so that its not a pain in the ass to run it just for printing, scanning, browsing incompatible websites, updating my phone, programming FPGAs or microcontrollers where the SW primarily supports windows.
The funny thing is that i am against nuclear power (since the waste problem is not solved), but i don't understand that people get so unreasonable about categorizing dangers.
Day by day we take in many cancerous chemicals, even as non-smokers, but then some people find time to think about problems which are completely of the map.
My strategy is: neglect all risks in your consideration which are significantly lower than being hit by a car. You wont extent you life expectation by much if you don't and it will block you view to more important matters.
is easy, but i (a physicist who lived in jp until April) found the available information sufficient. Hotspots due to forgotten garbage/material from times when people were less careful exist around the planet and are difficult to detect.
It is my honest estimation that the distraction for carrying a Geiger counter all the day in Tokyo increases the likelihood of getting in a traffic accident more than it will lower your probablility of dying from effects of radiation (as an untrained an unqualified person you may have wrong alarms and yet not measure in a way suitable to detect a hotspot).
If you are very concerned, then check the places where you work and live (since only the radiation there will weight in heavily) by hiring somebody to measure it who knows what he is doing (i am sure this exists in Tokyo). In Japan he will be polite enough not to make fun of you.
turn on location transmission and surf to goople maps.
Kind of, doesn't it....
Consider my comment more a comment on the discussion on slashdot where the word "patent" triggers a reflex.
Indeed, i believe that patenting certain things and licensing them in a java-style agreement could have served the purpose. Something like "if you implement an extension of HTML then you must open the patents and the description so that everybody can implement it" could have served well at some points of the development.
I guess Oracle wants to sell complete Boxes with Hardware to Database included. If the customer asks why the box does not perform ask predicted, with the total price, there may be a reliable answer required. So if the customer wants to run the box on linux, the mechanisms to answer these questions must be available in linux.
Yes. That is why it would be important not to put too much value on the money when discussing with them. Unless you want to ruin you reputation, exhibit a positive, productive and professional style of work:
-Dont leave or threaten in the middle of an important task, but make it clear you see it as your responsibility and that you want to complete it. Doing otherwise could sound like blackmail to your boss.Or to formulate it in terms of being loyal: it means you are loyal to your current project
-If you want to leave, put other things (commuting time etc) than money in the center, because ultimately people seldom leave due to money. If you value a 10% pay rise more than a cut of the commuting time by 1 hour per day it says much about your personality.
A theater professor? When i look at some Shakespeare plays i can only say that i did not want to meet people in a dark alley who find fun in directing something like king Lear.
Yes. sadly mine was stolen in 2004. i bought a z31 and was disappointed. Thing i liked about the m105:
*well readable under any lighting conditions
*long stand by time
*long battery life
*no charger, you could get batteries for it at the end of the world (and have a pack of spares in your pocket)
*back lighted display was extremely eye-friendly and could be used in complete darkness in the plane without disturbing your neighbors.
*built-in PIM was better and faster than anything i have seen for Android or Symbian
*Email could be read via modem/irda on mobile phones
*beaming vcards by irda was fast, much faster and more reliable to initiate than by bluetooth (between siemens, nokia, palm)
*the design of the protective cover was *brilliant*. when i had the m105 i did not need another watch
*it did not crash on built-in applications (unlike my android or my nokia e63)
*i miss the memo function to scribble with the stylus
So yes. they did squeeze every bit of user experience possible to achieve with a resistive touch screen of 160x200 pixels, 5 hardware buttons, 8MB of ram and 16MHz of processing power. Sad to see where their road took them.
That means: MS wants to first harvest good revenue market segments and not spoil things by selling anything too cheap to early. I see WP7-Starter editions coming after the fat cows have been milked.
Moreover, if you are an employee of the state department and you link to it you add credibility to it. AFAIU no official ever commented whether the wikileaks materials are correct and complete. Nobody guarantees that there was no deliberate misinformation introduced.
I think flash was bought by adobe to keep control until the ris of flash could not harm them any more. Adobes core business are WYSIWYG Document systems, pdf creation, management and form server tools. There is no other integrated product suite like Adobes. You can design an excellent looking printable document which integrates well with online services.
IMHO Adobe buying flash was good for nothing else but preventing flash from becoming relevant in managing online form data.
Use harddrives. They are cheap and fast. And if you store them under decent conditions and dont let them run all the time everything will be fine. In three years copy them to the next generation harddrives. If you are willing to pay in average $100 per two years it should be fine.
No they just ran into the patent issues.
Violation of patents is independent from copyright.
No they could not have. They would have avoided a license problem but not the patent problem.
This statement is plainly wrong. The patent grant for jvm implementors was never about open source, but always about implementing the platform as specified.
The GPL has nothing to do with it.
No. They don't sue them for not obeying the license. They sue them for patent violations.
You don't understand it. Oracle has to obey no license terms at all. Its their code.
You dont understand it. oracle has to obey not license terms at all. Its their code.
Be quiet!
Dont give out stupid ideas to Sony what should be trademarked.
Oracle offers some added value if you need it. If you are stuck on mysql for some reason and you project outgrew what the free verions handles, it may be reasonable to pay some money for well defined support of new features.
If you don't need it (and that applies to me and most people here), then just happily use the free version. If you are not convinced the support for the new features is worth the money, then don't buy it.
So, yes, oracle may have forked it. They are neither the first company to do something like this (see ghostscript) nor will they be the last. History shows that usually the commercial "value-added" distribution may be marginal in the installed base, but if the company plays the cards right its customers and the company can profit from the commercial version.
Thats 300 logical qubits. It may require many more physical qubits.