Here's a thought...how about a kernel hook to automatically bump up processor speed when there's more than one process waiting to execute, and knock it down when there's only one?
It does help redefine professional photography, though. Just enough so that us consumers don't put the professionals out of business with commodity hardware.:)
Actually, I'd like to see the numbers on just how many people make money in OSS versus commercial software, and how much work they had to do to get that money.
Directly or inderectly? Ask Phil Katz how much money he made after putting a ZIP manipulation library in the public domain. Ask Linus Torvalds how much giving Linux away has made him.
Money made with OSS doesn't come with the sale. It comes through other avenues like support (Red Hat) or concurrent development (IBM plugins for Eclipse).
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I haven't seen it yet, but wrt to The Cat in the Hat:
Most people who liked it in its heydey are adults by now. So they're probably trying to appeal to the same age group that originally read Dr. Seuss all those years ago.
Papyrus is not made of wood. It is made of reeds. Neither is a lot of your better paper made of wood. The better stuff is pure hemp or cotton in the West and bast (mulberry) in the East. In fact, even your basic wood pulp papers these days have so many clays and polymers (sizing and bindings which make it possible to even run paper through something like an ink-jet printer without it falling apart) in them that saying they are made from wood pulp is almost misleading.
Huh. I don't doubt you, it's just that I was taught about paper in elementary school.
BTW, What the hell is paper anyways? Is it anything like papyrus?
Sort of. They're both made of wood.
Unfortunately, while you can make papyrus with a good hand planar, it takes a dickens of a time to chew wood shavings into something that when dried makes good paper.
You know, I suspect they've already discovered copied code...by a Caldera employee. Possibly even with written permission on file.
But the point of their lawsuit is to prove that at least some of the code in Linux came from SCO's IP through IBM. They're damned sure not to point out any pasting they did. It would point to an apparent flaw in their logic.
(And whether that flaw is really a flaw, and not a dynamic company changing its policies, is a subject for another debate. But I won't represent them.)
Personally, I just try to trade discount cards with like minded people on a regular basis.
So getting hanged on evidence based on someone else's behavior is better than getting hanged on evidence based on your own behavior? That's like trading firearms with someone so that their murder is traced to a weapon registered to you.
Read it now. Personally, I favor having voices like you and voices like the EFF out there. It's the only way to keep a middle road available.
...and so it's really a better way to get a sense for where I stand...
Not sure about that. You can learn plenty about who a person wants you to think he is by reading carefully prepared and spellchecked documents. But that sort of personality is usually hollow, finite and static. The only way to really get to know a person is to catch them off-gaurd.
And if you're going to debate with someone, you need to know them. Not their public persona.
I try hold myself to the letter of the law. Sure, I speed. But I won't give the officer any lip when he gives me a ticket; I'll thank him for doing his duty to the community, and probably shake his hand.
As for the rest of this, I'm speaking on behalf of a huge number of projects...not just the Linux kernel.
If a closed source company tries to sue you for thinking that your code is close to theirs, you must ask yourself, how much water does their claim hold if there is no way you can view the sources? in a court case, you, the defense has a right to see their evidence against you, and the code that you are infringing on. You do have rights you know.
Yeah, but do you know how much it costs to defend those rights? How much it costs to come up with enough exculpatory evidence to convince a judge or jury that you didn't copy it?
All their lawyers have to do is bury your lawyer in a mountain of paperwork. And where are you going to get an who's affordable, competent, understands technology and understands IP law? Your best bet is going to be to call the EFF for help. And I don't know if they'd do anything for you if they don't consider your project pivotal to their cause.
And then there's your day job. How long is your boss going to allow you to skip work for the court case? If you don't skip work, how long is he going to tolerate the reduced quality due to stress? How are you going to travel back and forth to whatever district the company chose to file the suit?
If you live in china or where ever and dont want to get in trouble for writing encryption code, DONT.
Now, I know what I'm about to say will sound terribly selfish and attached to my own culture, but here goes: So much for progress... Do you think China would be dragging itself to a free market system if there weren't ways to smuggle information into the country? Information about how a hard worker can build a better life for himself? I don't know what France's problem is; I can only imagine it has to do with law enforcement.
Well, in SC2K Fusion Power kind of wobbled back and forth in the timeline, but I think it usually came around 2050.
I loved it...Two plants and and I could power a map packed with buildings. Compare that to about six microwave plants, a significan portion of my acreage dedicated to solar or wind power, or way too many coal plants.
The innovator usually never reaps the rewards because the true potential of their innovation is only realized by an outside pair of eyes.
I disagree with the first part, but agree with the reason. Take PK-ZIP, Ethernet, RS-232, and Eclipse for example. Their creators released the specifications to the world. Suddenly, their product is compatible with a lot more machines out there, so people will buy products centered around it.
ZIP became the standard, and PK's closed version of the library was the fastest around for dealing with it. (A big deal when you consider the speeds of commodity hardware at the time.
Ethernet still is the standard. There's still lots of money to be made in hardware implementations.
RS-232 isn't the standard on the home PC any more, but it's still widespread in industrial equipment. Analysis tools are still big money there.
IBM's Eclipse is close to a de facto standard. IBM can still make money off it by developing plugins.
In fact, that's one of those business models that was mentioned in the OSS compatibility handbook [;) ] Slashdot linked to last week.
The point is, innovation can survive in a copycat-filled world. You ju
What exactly do Dell intend to do if everyone does stop innovating?
Building a limited lifetime into a product is hardly innovation. A plastic shell, cheap plastic parts, built-in print heads--they all lead to a consumer purchasing a new one.
The problem you describe, however, was one of the issues faced in the 1930s. Clothes washers and dryers in particular, had been in high demand. Thus, the companies kept ramping up production. Nobody expected the market to get saturated...
I think it's a problem all durable-goods manufacturers face. Especially those whose new product concepts' markets havn't been saturated yet.
Akamai provides a DNS load balancing solution to many major internet companies/sites including (but notlimited to) Google, Yahoo, etc. Is it a bad idea to rely so heavily upon one service for our major internet needs?
Don't you see the irony? How much of the internet populace depends on Google for their searching needs?
I suspect the problem here, as there, is that there aren't many who can compete at a service level.
So what happens to people who want to contribute code, but don't want their name attached to it, for various reasons?
Such as encryption development in France or China, where unauthorized encryption is illegal, IIRC.
Or some employee whose boss wants to own all his creative work, on and off the clock.
Or people who simply don't want to take the risk of being unfairly targeted by some software company for writing code that looks vaguely like the company's.
Or people who had a great idea, but couldn't possibly know someone else had come up with the idea and copyrighted or patented it.
IMO, it has its ups and its downs. It allows a greater degree of delegate-the-blame (Good for any large project, Objectively speaking), but it will reduce contributions.
ask "which most closely matches the uncompressed source"
Subjectively, ala an untrained consumer, or objectively using a computer?
(Not critisizing...just curious.)
I'm not an audio specialist by any means, or even all that well versed in audio compression, but here are some thoughts:
If you wanted to do it with a computer, the best means (or so it would seem to me) would be run a continuous frequency analysis of the original digital sample and of the digital outputs of each of the competing codecs.
You can compare the running frequency analysis and find out considerably more than which one comes closest to the original sample. For example, you could find out the overall frequency response, and how much it changes at points in a sample where there's a lot of different sounds or signals to contend with.
...that they might have said the same thing about all the mandatory copy protection systems in place (or proposed) on devices. Like console systems. Or Palladium.
There's only so much you can do, even building a new house, without adding too much extra cost.
Our house is relatively cool in the summer, without air conditioning. And it doesn't take much to heat it in the winter, up here in Michigan. And we don't get icicles.
However, due to budget constraints when we built it, we don't have solar energy, and not all the lights are compact-flourescants.
I'm sure I'm missing a few things...I'm one of the sons of the couple that built the house. I wasn't really part of the design process.
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Here's a thought...how about a kernel hook to automatically bump up processor speed when there's more than one process waiting to execute, and knock it down when there's only one?
It does help redefine professional photography, though. Just enough so that us consumers don't put the professionals out of business with commodity hardware. :)
All in all, good for everyone.
I'm no expert, but couldn't you improve your indoor signal even better with your external antenna being pointed towards the tower?
Actually, I'd like to see the numbers on just how many people make money in OSS versus commercial software, and how much work they had to do to get that money.
Directly or inderectly? Ask Phil Katz how much money he made after putting a ZIP manipulation library in the public domain. Ask Linus Torvalds how much giving Linux away has made him.
Money made with OSS doesn't come with the sale. It comes through other avenues like support (Red Hat) or concurrent development (IBM plugins for Eclipse).
I haven't seen it yet, but wrt to The Cat in the Hat:
Most people who liked it in its heydey are adults by now. So they're probably trying to appeal to the same age group that originally read Dr. Seuss all those years ago.
er...that's in Michigan. (There's also a Grand Rapids in Minnesota...A huge organ was once shipped there by mistake.)
Listen to small stations. In Grand Rapids, there's 88.1 WYCE. I mostly listen to news radio, but 88.1 has a lot of odd stuff.
Papyrus is not made of wood. It is made of reeds. Neither is a lot of your better paper made of wood. The better stuff is pure hemp or cotton in the West and bast (mulberry) in the East. In fact, even your basic wood pulp papers these days have so many clays and polymers (sizing and bindings which make it possible to even run paper through something like an ink-jet printer without it falling apart) in them that saying they are made from wood pulp is almost misleading.
Huh. I don't doubt you, it's just that I was taught about paper in elementary school.
BTW, What the hell is paper anyways? Is it anything like papyrus?
Sort of. They're both made of wood.
Unfortunately, while you can make papyrus with a good hand planar, it takes a dickens of a time to chew wood shavings into something that when dried makes good paper.
Not worth the trouble, IMO.
You know, I suspect they've already discovered copied code...by a Caldera employee. Possibly even with written permission on file.
But the point of their lawsuit is to prove that at least some of the code in Linux came from SCO's IP through IBM. They're damned sure not to point out any pasting they did. It would point to an apparent flaw in their logic.
(And whether that flaw is really a flaw, and not a dynamic company changing its policies, is a subject for another debate. But I won't represent them.)
Personally, I just try to trade discount cards with like minded people on a regular basis.
So getting hanged on evidence based on someone else's behavior is better than getting hanged on evidence based on your own behavior? That's like trading firearms with someone so that their murder is traced to a weapon registered to you.
Read it now. Personally, I favor having voices like you and voices like the EFF out there. It's the only way to keep a middle road available.
...and so it's really a better way to get a sense for where I stand...
;)
Not sure about that. You can learn plenty about who a person wants you to think he is by reading carefully prepared and spellchecked documents. But that sort of personality is usually hollow, finite and static. The only way to really get to know a person is to catch them off-gaurd.
And if you're going to debate with someone, you need to know them. Not their public persona.
Oh, and check that journal link again.
I'm not sure, but I think the Debian project compiles x86-32 packages for i686.
and it is possible for spoof a real kernel contributor.
So some company's going to run a black-op to steal the developer's private GPG key?
I won't say it's impossible. But it does sound an awful lot like AntiTrust. (An excellent movie, BTW. I enjoyed it.)
I try hold myself to the letter of the law. Sure, I speed. But I won't give the officer any lip when he gives me a ticket; I'll thank him for doing his duty to the community, and probably shake his hand.
As for the rest of this, I'm speaking on behalf of a huge number of projects...not just the Linux kernel.
If a closed source company tries to sue you for thinking that your code is close to theirs, you must ask yourself, how much water does their claim hold if there is no way you can view the sources? in a court case, you, the defense has a right to see their evidence against you, and the code that you are infringing on. You do have rights you know.
Yeah, but do you know how much it costs to defend those rights? How much it costs to come up with enough exculpatory evidence to convince a judge or jury that you didn't copy it?
All their lawyers have to do is bury your lawyer in a mountain of paperwork. And where are you going to get an who's affordable, competent, understands technology and understands IP law? Your best bet is going to be to call the EFF for help. And I don't know if they'd do anything for you if they don't consider your project pivotal to their cause.
And then there's your day job. How long is your boss going to allow you to skip work for the court case? If you don't skip work, how long is he going to tolerate the reduced quality due to stress? How are you going to travel back and forth to whatever district the company chose to file the suit?
If you live in china or where ever and dont want to get in trouble for writing encryption code, DONT.
Now, I know what I'm about to say will sound terribly selfish and attached to my own culture, but here goes: So much for progress... Do you think China would be dragging itself to a free market system if there weren't ways to smuggle information into the country? Information about how a hard worker can build a better life for himself? I don't know what France's problem is; I can only imagine it has to do with law enforcement.
I've done that. I've even made the tower so high you couldn't see the top. (On the DOS version, anyway.)
Thing is, that's a lot of space to dedicate to power generation, which is why I passed over wind power anyway.
I had predicted 2050, actually
Well, in SC2K Fusion Power kind of wobbled back and forth in the timeline, but I think it usually came around 2050.
I loved it...Two plants and and I could power a map packed with buildings. Compare that to about six microwave plants, a significan portion of my acreage dedicated to solar or wind power, or way too many coal plants.
I disagree with the first part, but agree with the reason. Take PK-ZIP, Ethernet, RS-232, and Eclipse for example. Their creators released the specifications to the world. Suddenly, their product is compatible with a lot more machines out there, so people will buy products centered around it.
In fact, that's one of those business models that was mentioned in the OSS compatibility handbook [
The point is, innovation can survive in a copycat-filled world. You ju
What exactly do Dell intend to do if everyone does stop innovating?
Building a limited lifetime into a product is hardly innovation. A plastic shell, cheap plastic parts, built-in print heads--they all lead to a consumer purchasing a new one.
The problem you describe, however, was one of the issues faced in the 1930s. Clothes washers and dryers in particular, had been in high demand. Thus, the companies kept ramping up production. Nobody expected the market to get saturated...
I think it's a problem all durable-goods manufacturers face. Especially those whose new product concepts' markets havn't been saturated yet.
Akamai provides a DNS load balancing solution to many major internet companies/sites including (but notlimited to) Google, Yahoo, etc. Is it a bad idea to rely so heavily upon one service for our major internet needs?
Don't you see the irony? How much of the internet populace depends on Google for their searching needs?
I suspect the problem here, as there, is that there aren't many who can compete at a service level.
So we're protecting potential developers from themselves? What about people who don't want that protection? Such as political dissidents in China?
IMO, it has its ups and its downs. It allows a greater degree of delegate-the-blame (Good for any large project, Objectively speaking), but it will reduce contributions.
ask "which most closely matches the uncompressed source"
Subjectively, ala an untrained consumer, or objectively using a computer?
(Not critisizing...just curious.)
I'm not an audio specialist by any means, or even all that well versed in audio compression, but here are some thoughts:
If you wanted to do it with a computer, the best means (or so it would seem to me) would be run a continuous frequency analysis of the original digital sample and of the digital outputs of each of the competing codecs.
You can compare the running frequency analysis and find out considerably more than which one comes closest to the original sample. For example, you could find out the overall frequency response, and how much it changes at points in a sample where there's a lot of different sounds or signals to contend with.
and may be inconvinient for developers.
...that they might have said the same thing about all the mandatory copy protection systems in place (or proposed) on devices. Like console systems. Or Palladium.
There's only so much you can do, even building a new house, without adding too much extra cost.
Our house is relatively cool in the summer, without air conditioning. And it doesn't take much to heat it in the winter, up here in Michigan. And we don't get icicles.
However, due to budget constraints when we built it, we don't have solar energy, and not all the lights are compact-flourescants.
I'm sure I'm missing a few things...I'm one of the sons of the couple that built the house. I wasn't really part of the design process.