It's not a completely invalid point. I'm not working on an open source product that competes directly with my own day job, but I might be working on one that competes with your job, and you might be working on one that competes with my job. With two people, it's a coincidence, but with a wide open source community, it's probable. That's not a side effect of open source, that's a side effect of a free market. It's no different from both of us holding two different paying programming jobs in different fields, where my primary job competes with your secondary, and your primary job competes with my secondary.
Likewise, in a large enough economy, this becomes probable.
If you're talking about a movement that theoretically changes the distribution model of software as a whole, then everyone with a software job is theoretically affected. The movement started hundreds of years ago with the concept of the free market.
A cynic might suggest that the people writing open source software are the ones who are making their daytime living working for a proprietary-solutions vendor and spend their nights tearing down the very house they live in. And that if open source replaced proprietary solutions, these people would not be able to make a daytime living that supports their night time hobby. The author's most important statement is in his second-to-last paragraph. And it's almost certainly wrong in most cases. After all, wouldn't an employer require their programmers to sign a noncompete clause which would inherently preclude them from participating in OSS projects that compete with their employer's products?
Link me. Ars Technica's Technopaedia may be found here. Of particular interest are the Technical Blackpapers (indexed at the bottom of that page) and the section on CPU Theory & Praxis.
I'll wait until the specs come out Tuesday* before I decide if the Power6 is interesting. Sure, it's got GHz. But how many ALUs does that cover? FPUs? What about its SIMD instruction capabilities? How long is the pipeline? Is it insanely long a la NetBurst?
Not to mention that IBM didn't seem to be putting any resources at all into a low-power verion of the POWER5; What makes you think they would for the POWER6? Without a low-power chip, Apple would have a hard time making laptops with a decent battery life.
* Well, I'd rather wait until that guy at Ars Technica does one of his in-depth analyses on the POWER6 architecture. His essays on Intel, AMD and Mac-basis CPUs were awesome, and his essays on hardware in general are how I learned that stuff. When I found their Technopaedia, I spent days soaking it in. Pity they didn't carry it over with their site redesign a couple years back.
That doesn't make his point any less valid If he finds honest-to-God socializing with friends sad, he needs to get out more. Or maybe he needs to improve his relations with his coworkers.
Anyone who stays after-hours and plays games or just hangs out is sad. It's not the job, it's the coworkers. Work is one of the few places I can meet computer geeks IRL.
Without lawyers I am quite certain the world be a better place. The pilot episode of ST:TNG presented one idea of what that would be like. I'm rather inclined to think they're right.
"There will be no legal trickery!"
In fact, if you banned the practice of civil law, things would be much, much worse. Laws like the DMCA would be used by everyone and their brother. Lawsuits alleging libel and slander would erupt from schoolyard fights.
And nobody would be allowed to school themselves in the very laws upon which such lawsuit chaos would erupt. Today, many frivolous lawsuits get recognized and thrown out of court. What happens when the judge is prohibited from learning how to interpret the laws they're supposed to rule on?
I don't know why on Earth I can't find a link to it now, but someone once flew a small prop plane into the Oval Office during Clinton's Presidency. I remember seeing it on the news a long while back.
If Lincoln were President today, he'd be very unpopular with the Slashdot crowd. Slavery issues aside, he believed and acted in a manner that strengthened the federal government. He even ordered confedracy sympathizers in Maryland arrested prior to election day so that Maryland, the seat of power for the Federal government, wouldn't secede.
In other words, he ran what might have been the most oppressive federal government since the Alien and Sedition acts of World War I, entirely contrary to the spirit of the American colonies' secession from the British Empire.
You're saying nobody today would have made a serious attempt on his life?
I find that funny, considering it includes an upload rate of 1.544Mb/s--more than you wound normally get with any DSL or cable package--and a guaranteed downstream rate of the same.
I'm sorry...it just has to be done. Source should be obvious. But I butchered it horribly because I kept getting pwned by the line length filter.
Anything you can do, ICANN do better./ICANN do anything Better than you.
No, you can't./Yes, ICANN. No, you can't./Yes, ICANN. No, you can't./Yes, ICANN, Yes, ICANN!
Anything you can be ICANN be greater./Sooner or later, I'm greater than you.
No, you're not. Yes, I am./No, you're not. Yes, I am./No, you're NOT!. Yes, I am./Yes, I am!
ICANN shoot a partridge With a single cartridge./ICANN get a sparrow With a bow and arrow. ICANN live on bread and cheese. And only on that?/Yes./So can a rat! Any note you can reach ICANN go higher. ICANN sing anything Higher than you. No, you can't. (High) Yes, ICANN. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher) Yes, ICANN. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher) Yes, ICANN. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher) Yes, ICANN. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher) Yes, ICANN! (Highest)
Anything you can buy ICANN buy cheaper./ICANN buy anything Cheaper than you.
Fifty cents?/Forty cents! Thirty cents?/Twenty cents! No, you can't! Yes, ICANN, Yes, ICANN!
Anything you can say ICANN say softer./ICANN say anything Softer than you. No, you can't. (Softly) Yes, ICANN. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer) Yes, ICANN. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer) Yes, ICANN. (Softer) YES, ICANN! (Full volume) ICANN drink my liquor Faster than a flicker./ICANN drink it quicker And get even sicker!
ICANN open any safe. Without bein' caught?/Sure./That's what I thought--you crook!
Any note you can hold ICANN hold longer.ICANN hold any note Longer than you.
No, you can't. Yes, ICANN No, you can't/Yes, ICANN No, you can't. Yes, ICANN Yes, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I No, you C-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-N'T-- CA-A-A-A-N! (Cough, cough!) Yes, you ca-a-a-an!
Anything you can wear ICANN wear better./In what you wear I'd look better than you. In my coat?/In your vest! In my shoes?/In your hat! No, you can't!/Yes, ICANN Yes, ICANN!
Anything you say ICANN say faster./ICANN say anything Faster than you. No, you can't. (Fast) Yes, ICANN. (Faster) No, you can't. (Faster) Yes, ICANN. (Faster) Noyoucan't. (Faster) YesIcan! (Fastest)
ICANN jump a hurdle./ICANN wear a girdle. ICANN knit a sweater./ICANN fill it better! ICANN do most anything!/Can you bake a pie? No./Neither can I. Anything you can sing ICANN sing sweeter./ICANN sing anything Sweeter than you.
No, you can't. (Sweetly) Yes, ICANN. (Sweeter) No, you can't. (Sweeter) Yes, ICANN. (Sweeter) No, you can't. (Sweeter) Yes, ICANN. (Sweeter) No, you can't, can't, can't (sweeter) Yes, ICANN, CAN, CAN (Sugary)
AMD64 has several ISA enhancements (Such as additional GPRs) which make developing software for them much more efficient, which will aid in improving application performance.
Will companies upgrade hardware in orer to get the latest version of Windows? Based on release rate, figure on Office 13 doing it. Office 11 already has mechanisms in place to make it difficult for low-end users to share documents with users of Office 2003 and earlier. It wouldn't surprise me if Office 13 held features that made it a pain to go back to Office 11/12.
I don't believe that's still true. ISTR using the write support once or twice without facing such limitations. (Notice they took the "DANGEROUS!" warning off of the kernel compile option?)
Regardless, there's more to NTFS than how data is written. There's how it's organized, how files are stored, how the internal file compression works, metadata, etc. And those are things that would be present in a read-only implementation.:wq
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Likewise, in a large enough economy, this becomes probable. If you're talking about a movement that theoretically changes the distribution model of software as a whole, then everyone with a software job is theoretically affected. The movement started hundreds of years ago with the concept of the free market.
I RTFA just to find that out. That's what he calls a "Really Smart Enterprise User"
OK, that does it. This processor is awesome. I haven't lusted for a processor this much since Stokes did a piece detailing AMD's Hammer architecture.
(Delicious link. Thanks.)
I'll wait until the specs come out Tuesday* before I decide if the Power6 is interesting. Sure, it's got GHz. But how many ALUs does that cover? FPUs? What about its SIMD instruction capabilities? How long is the pipeline? Is it insanely long a la NetBurst?
Not to mention that IBM didn't seem to be putting any resources at all into a low-power verion of the POWER5; What makes you think they would for the POWER6? Without a low-power chip, Apple would have a hard time making laptops with a decent battery life.
* Well, I'd rather wait until that guy at Ars Technica does one of his in-depth analyses on the POWER6 architecture. His essays on Intel, AMD and Mac-basis CPUs were awesome, and his essays on hardware in general are how I learned that stuff. When I found their Technopaedia, I spent days soaking it in. Pity they didn't carry it over with their site redesign a couple years back.
Intellectual Property: The American Empire
Like father, like son?
Perhaps you need to find a job you enjoy?
"There will be no legal trickery!"
In fact, if you banned the practice of civil law, things would be much, much worse. Laws like the DMCA would be used by everyone and their brother. Lawsuits alleging libel and slander would erupt from schoolyard fights.
And nobody would be allowed to school themselves in the very laws upon which such lawsuit chaos would erupt. Today, many frivolous lawsuits get recognized and thrown out of court. What happens when the judge is prohibited from learning how to interpret the laws they're supposed to rule on?
So only rich people can run for office?
"My God...it's full of hollywood stars!"
I don't know why on Earth I can't find a link to it now, but someone once flew a small prop plane into the Oval Office during Clinton's Presidency. I remember seeing it on the news a long while back.
Erp...timeline error: s/since/prior to and following/
If Lincoln were President today, he'd be very unpopular with the Slashdot crowd. Slavery issues aside, he believed and acted in a manner that strengthened the federal government. He even ordered confedracy sympathizers in Maryland arrested prior to election day so that Maryland, the seat of power for the Federal government, wouldn't secede.
In other words, he ran what might have been the most oppressive federal government since the Alien and Sedition acts of World War I, entirely contrary to the spirit of the American colonies' secession from the British Empire.
You're saying nobody today would have made a serious attempt on his life?
I find that funny, considering it includes an upload rate of 1.544Mb/s--more than you wound normally get with any DSL or cable package--and a guaranteed downstream rate of the same.
You should look at the Firehose sometime. Most of the submissions are spun in similar ways.
No, you can't./Yes, ICANN. No, you can't./Yes, ICANN. No, you can't./Yes, ICANN, Yes, ICANN!
Anything you can be ICANN be greater./Sooner or later, I'm greater than you.
No, you're not. Yes, I am./No, you're not. Yes, I am./No, you're NOT!. Yes, I am./Yes, I am!
ICANN shoot a partridge With a single cartridge./ICANN get a sparrow With a bow and arrow.
ICANN live on bread and cheese.
And only on that?/Yes./So can a rat!
Any note you can reach ICANN go higher.
ICANN sing anything Higher than you.
No, you can't. (High)
Yes, ICANN. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, ICANN. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, ICANN. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, ICANN. (Higher) No, you can't. (Higher)
Yes, ICANN! (Highest)
Anything you can buy ICANN buy cheaper./ICANN buy anything Cheaper than you.
Fifty cents?/Forty cents! Thirty cents?/Twenty cents! No, you can't!
Yes, ICANN, Yes, ICANN!
Anything you can say ICANN say softer./ICANN say anything Softer than you.
No, you can't. (Softly)
Yes, ICANN. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer)
Yes, ICANN. (Softer) No, you can't. (Softer)
Yes, ICANN. (Softer)
YES, ICANN! (Full volume)
ICANN drink my liquor Faster than a flicker./ICANN drink it quicker And get even sicker!
ICANN open any safe.
Without bein' caught?/Sure./That's what I thought--you crook!
Any note you can hold ICANN hold longer.ICANN hold any note Longer than you.
No, you can't.
Yes, ICANN No, you can't/Yes, ICANN No, you can't.
Yes, ICANN
Yes, I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I No, you C-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-N'T--
CA-A-A-A-N! (Cough, cough!)
Yes, you ca-a-a-an!
Anything you can wear ICANN wear better./In what you wear I'd look better than you.
In my coat?/In your vest! In my shoes?/In your hat! No, you can't!/Yes, ICANN Yes, ICANN!
Anything you say ICANN say faster./ICANN say anything Faster than you.
No, you can't. (Fast)
Yes, ICANN. (Faster) No, you can't. (Faster)
Yes, ICANN. (Faster) Noyoucan't. (Faster)
YesIcan! (Fastest)
ICANN jump a hurdle./ICANN wear a girdle.
ICANN knit a sweater./ICANN fill it better!
ICANN do most anything!/Can you bake a pie?
No./Neither can I.
Anything you can sing ICANN sing sweeter./ICANN sing anything Sweeter than you.
No, you can't. (Sweetly)
Yes, ICANN. (Sweeter) No, you can't. (Sweeter)
Yes, ICANN. (Sweeter) No, you can't. (Sweeter)
Yes, ICANN. (Sweeter) No, you can't, can't, can't (sweeter)
Yes, ICANN, CAN, CAN (Sugary)
Yes, ICANN! No, you can't!
ICANN do anything better than you.
AMD64 has several ISA enhancements (Such as additional GPRs) which make developing software for them much more efficient, which will aid in improving application performance.
Yup. For even when major Linux distros stop paying to IA32, you'll still have NetBSD on your side.
Yeah. It's a real pain in the ass.
There you go. The first metapoem, in iambic verse. Written by Short Circuit.
I don't believe that's still true. ISTR using the write support once or twice without facing such limitations. (Notice they took the "DANGEROUS!" warning off of the kernel compile option?)
:wq
Regardless, there's more to NTFS than how data is written. There's how it's organized, how files are stored, how the internal file compression works, metadata, etc. And those are things that would be present in a read-only implementation.