IBM Workplace 2 is intended as a replacement and extension for Notes uses an Eclipse based platform.
So you have to upgrade from Notes/Domino to Workplace 2 if you want an Eclipse based OS independant "Rich" client.
The point is about scientific and mathemetical methodology. If you prove a mathematical or scientific proposition using Mathematica how do you know its right?
You have no access to the source code to check it. It is just a black box as far as you are concerned. Then you go and publish it as a paper eh?
Yeah! the sh*t really will hit the fan. It is already underway and IBM has a finger in it. There is a Hong Kong company called Culturecom. It is one of the partners of IBM in Power.org. It has developed a cheap low powered Power PC based chip called the Dragon V chip. What is new about it is that it also has embedded on the chip a Chinese language character engine and a Midori Linux operating system.
It is already used in devices and set top boxes. But Culturecom not only has very good relations with IBM it also has very good relations with the Chinese government. It seems like the Chinese Ministry of Taxation has decreed that every retail outlet in China must soon have a POS device that reports back tax data to the Ministry. These devices are to be based on the Culturecom chip (rumour has it that Culturecom had a hand in advising the Ministry on the government specifications for the devices). This effectively means that every new cash register in China is going to have to be built round one of these chips. They estimate sales as 45-65 million chips over the next five years just for these devices alone.
But the ambitions go beyond just providing the chips for cash registers. Frank Cheung the CEO of Culturecom has a vision of a totally wired China where municipal governments and or telecoms provide kiosk access free or at low cost for all of China's rural poor who can't afford $500 PC's. This would be based on simple network computers using the Dragon V chip with most of the real computing done on the ISP's backend Linux servers. As he puts it this would create the worlds largest Linux community.
These chips should be able to produce some really cool compact WiFi based sub-laptop PC's/super web-enabled PDA's as a system requires no hard drive or fan and the chip has a very low power consumption. Finally the military applications of the chip has not escaped the notice of a number of commentators nor I should imagine the PLA.
1. Sell off the Windows based PC business. 2. Then start up a mass market line of 64 bit Workstations and Laptops running Linux on Power for both the corporate and consumer market. 3. Microsoft can no longer threaten reprisals on their PC business. 4. IBM clean up on the 32 to 64 bit conversion and get their revenge on MS and create a lot of business for their FAB plant.
"I'm sure some righty could post just as many reasons (or maybe more) to show that CNN is a left-leaning network. I'm not going to bother b/c I'm not a righty (I voted Libertarian)".
So called American "Libertarians" i.e supporters of the Libertarian Party are "righties" unlike real libertarians like Chomsky.
I love these neo-cons "quasi-free". I guess thats all they are concerned about the illusion of freedom. Personally I would prefer real freedom but hen thats something you don't have in the U.S.
As the industrialized countries keep getting richer - we keep hearing the propaganda from the right "We can't afford it". Are GNP's dropping ? - no they are going up! Are per capita GDP's dropping ? - no they are going up! Are the rich getting richer relative to the rest of the population - Oh Yes! that's why we can't afford it.
Me too. I just loved it when I got a CP/M home computer and found it had the PIP utility on it just the same as on the DEC OS-8, RT-11 and VMS machines I had used at work.
But of course Gary Kildall had worked at DEC developing operating systems.
Since MS used IBM's CPL as the open source license for this software there is nothing to fear on the patent question. The CPL explicitly grants a patent waver for use, development and distribution of the software (it is a viral waver). So Microsoft has legally comitted itself to not using its patents against anyone using this software. They are obviously using the CPL for the same reason that IBM originally introduced the CPL - not to scare off anyone from adopting open source software from a major patent holder, because of fears that it could be a patent trap.
It is this patent waver as a requirement for distributing the software that makes the CPL incompatible with the GPL as it imposes additional restrictions on redistribution over the GPL. However I understand that the FSF is considering putting in a patent clause in the next version of the GPL which would both make the CPL compatible with the GPL and restrict possible patent abuse.
American right wing "libertarians" believe that the freedom of capital is above the freedom of people. Real libertarians believe the freedom of people is in a fundamental contradiction with capital. Freedom from exploitation and oppression are freedoms that trump the freedom to make a fast buck of the back of others.
The right wing "libertarians" are not libertarian at all. They are just small businessmen that don't like paying taxes! Big businessmen and their corporations like the state - they know it's there to ensure that they keep making lots of profits no matter what the cost to society and human dignity.
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Sun has made a patent grant on the Java language so open source implementations like GJC and Kaffe face no legal risk. MS has not made a similar commitment to C# and the ECMA portions of.NET. It has commited only to RAND licensing which if inplemented would not be compatible with open source software.
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Do you own MONO? If not you then who?... nobody. The same with all open source. Who is MS going to sue?
Novell
You don't tell the PHB's that your.doc files were written in OOo Writer and they don't notice. You don't tell them that the presentation you just gave was created with Impress and the charts in were created by Calc - They just tell you what a good presentation it was.
I useful trick I learnt when I wsa using the TED RTF editor as my wordprocessor at home was to generate.rtf files and rename them as.doc. Word opens them and they never know.
"I think a reading of the works of (probable socialist) Richard Dawkins might be illuminating on the topic."
For information in British terms Dawkins views place him on the left wing of the ruling British Labour Party and thus are broadly socialist. His most recent political activity has been taking a strong stand against the war in Iraq in opposition to Blair's Labour Government.
Another important area is the theory of the evolutionary development of altruism by John Maynard Smith which are based on games theory - so much for the dumb antisocial objectivists.
Well both you guys are wrong - the Soviet Union was a form of bureaucrat state capitalism where bureaucrats and party functionaries took over the the role of capitalists in industrializing Russia and ruthlessly forcing the workers to work harder so that they could accumulate to further industrialize. What Marx called primitive accumulation.
The problem was not that Stalin was a "nasty" man or that Trotsky was jaust as bad, but rather a fundamental problem with Leninism that substituted the "vanguard" party for the self activity of the workers.
But then again given the stage of economic development at the time - it may have been the only way Russia could industrialize towards a modern capitalist society. In my view the coming singularity where abundance abolishes market value (which may only be as little as 20 years away) is also the basis social change that in its totality would amount to a global libertarian communist revolution.
FLOSS is the first post capitalist mode of production of this impending era.
Newton's religious views followed the "Arian Heresy" which was the root of Unitarianism. Newtown gave support to Socinian exiles from eastern europe who moved to england (Socinus the the Italian priest who become a leader of the reformation in eastern europe and founded the Polish Reform Churh which had a unitarian theology).
On the one hand Newton was a mystic in his alchemism on the other as a practising experimental alchemist he was like others working his way towards chemistry. Newton is regarded as being the forunner of the English enlightenment. Unitarians were at the forefornt of the enlightenment in England, particularily Joseph Priestly the chemist and discoverer of oxygen. He was also a Unitarian pastor and a political radical, because of his support of the French revolution he was forced to go into exile in America were he became the pastor to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
So in a sense Newton's religious ideas were not simply backward looking but also can be considered part of the burgeoning enlightenment.
"Well, if one of those interests is staying celibate until the day you die"
Some historians have argued that there is strong evidence that Newton was gay. This is interesting as this would make him the only prominent physicist that I can think of who was. Though if you count him as a mathematician the of course there ia Alan Turing.
Here in Toronto Canada it is dead for everything - IE, Firefox, Mozilla and Konqueror. Hell I haven't tried Opera yet I better go back to my Linux box where I've got a copy and check it.
Yeah - what if RH fight the case and win - then the lawyers get zilch. It would be nice for them if some one was providing insurance against this though a backdoor cash infusion lack with Baystar for SCO gives them the incentive to take the risk
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IBM Workplace 2 is intended as a replacement and extension for Notes uses an Eclipse based platform. So you have to upgrade from Notes/Domino to Workplace 2 if you want an Eclipse based OS independant "Rich" client.
The point is about scientific and mathemetical methodology. If you prove a mathematical or scientific proposition using Mathematica how do you know its right?
You have no access to the source code to check it. It is just a black box as far as you are concerned. Then you go and publish it as a paper eh?
Yeah! the sh*t really will hit the fan. It is already underway and IBM has a finger in it. There is a Hong Kong company called Culturecom. It is one of the partners of IBM in Power.org. It has developed a cheap low powered Power PC based chip called the Dragon V chip. What is new about it is that it also has embedded on the chip a Chinese language character engine and a Midori Linux operating system.
It is already used in devices and set top boxes. But Culturecom not only has very good relations with IBM it also has very good relations with the Chinese government. It seems like the Chinese Ministry of Taxation has decreed that every retail outlet in China must soon have a POS device that reports back tax data to the Ministry. These devices are to be based on the Culturecom chip (rumour has it that Culturecom had a hand in advising the Ministry on the government specifications for the devices). This effectively means that every new cash register in China is going to have to be built round one of these chips. They estimate sales as 45-65 million chips over the next five years just for these devices alone.
But the ambitions go beyond just providing the chips for cash registers. Frank Cheung the CEO of Culturecom has a vision of a totally wired China where municipal governments and or telecoms provide kiosk access free or at low cost for all of China's rural poor who can't afford $500 PC's. This would be based on simple network computers using the Dragon V chip with most of the real computing done on the ISP's backend Linux servers. As he puts it this would create the worlds largest Linux community.
These chips should be able to produce some really cool compact WiFi based sub-laptop PC's/super web-enabled PDA's as a system requires no hard drive or fan and the chip has a very low power consumption. Finally the military applications of the chip has not escaped the notice of a number of commentators nor I should imagine the PLA.
What I think IBM plan to do is this:
1. Sell off the Windows based PC business.
2. Then start up a mass market line of 64 bit Workstations and Laptops running Linux on Power for both the corporate and consumer market.
3. Microsoft can no longer threaten reprisals on their PC business.
4. IBM clean up on the 32 to 64 bit conversion and get their revenge on MS and create a lot of business for their FAB plant.
Just a thought
So called American "Libertarians" i.e supporters of the Libertarian Party are "righties" unlike real libertarians like Chomsky.
I love these neo-cons "quasi-free". I guess thats all they are concerned about the illusion of freedom. Personally I would prefer real freedom but hen thats something you don't have in the U.S.
As the industrialized countries keep getting richer - we keep hearing the propaganda from the right "We can't afford it". Are GNP's dropping ? - no they are going up! Are per capita GDP's dropping ? - no they are going up! Are the rich getting richer relative to the rest of the population - Oh Yes! that's why we can't afford it.
Me too. I just loved it when I got a CP/M home computer and found it had the PIP utility on it just the same as on the DEC OS-8, RT-11 and VMS machines I had used at work.
But of course Gary Kildall had worked at DEC developing operating systems.
It is this patent waver as a requirement for distributing the software that makes the CPL incompatible with the GPL as it imposes additional restrictions on redistribution over the GPL. However I understand that the FSF is considering putting in a patent clause in the next version of the GPL which would both make the CPL compatible with the GPL and restrict possible patent abuse.
firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz
Destroy the American Empire save the World!
Property is theft.
The right wing "libertarians" are not libertarian at all. They are just small businessmen that don't like paying taxes! Big businessmen and their corporations like the state - they know it's there to ensure that they keep making lots of profits no matter what the cost to society and human dignity.
Sun has made a patent grant on the Java language so open source implementations like GJC and Kaffe face no legal risk. MS has not made a similar commitment to C# and the ECMA portions of .NET. It has commited only to RAND licensing which if inplemented would not be compatible with open source software.
Do you own MONO? If not you then who? ... nobody. The same with all open source. Who is MS going to sue?
Novell
Yes
I useful trick I learnt when I wsa using the TED RTF editor as my wordprocessor at home was to generate .rtf files and rename them as .doc. Word opens them and they never know.
Yes the Copenhagen Interpretation is gibbeish any meaningful interpretation of quantum mechanics must be based on the reality of the wavefunction.
For information in British terms Dawkins views place him on the left wing of the ruling British Labour Party and thus are broadly socialist. His most recent political activity has been taking a strong stand against the war in Iraq in opposition to Blair's Labour Government.
Another important area is the theory of the evolutionary development of altruism by John Maynard Smith which are based on games theory - so much for the dumb antisocial objectivists.
The problem was not that Stalin was a "nasty" man or that Trotsky was jaust as bad, but rather a fundamental problem with Leninism that substituted the "vanguard" party for the self activity of the workers.
But then again given the stage of economic development at the time - it may have been the only way Russia could industrialize towards a modern capitalist society. In my view the coming singularity where abundance abolishes market value (which may only be as little as 20 years away) is also the basis social change that in its totality would amount to a global libertarian communist revolution.
FLOSS is the first post capitalist mode of production of this impending era.
On the one hand Newton was a mystic in his alchemism on the other as a practising experimental alchemist he was like others working his way towards chemistry. Newton is regarded as being the forunner of the English enlightenment. Unitarians were at the forefornt of the enlightenment in England, particularily Joseph Priestly the chemist and discoverer of oxygen. He was also a Unitarian pastor and a political radical, because of his support of the French revolution he was forced to go into exile in America were he became the pastor to Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
So in a sense Newton's religious ideas were not simply backward looking but also can be considered part of the burgeoning enlightenment.
Some historians have argued that there is strong evidence that Newton was gay. This is interesting as this would make him the only prominent physicist that I can think of who was. Though if you count him as a mathematician the of course there ia Alan Turing.
Yes I just tried the Opera on my Linux box and it is working while Firefox isn't
Here in Toronto Canada it is dead for everything - IE, Firefox, Mozilla and Konqueror. Hell I haven't tried Opera yet I better go back to my Linux box where I've got a copy and check it.
It gave me the windows only page. But I am only using 0.8 without spoofing.
It smells of MS.