against the government; all patent applications are screened to see if there is a national secutrity interest involoved. If the gov. decides there is, there is no application published, and the idea/device becomes property of the governent for as long as they deem appropriate.
I believe the binary for each kernel version is unique, keeping one from willy-nilly mixing and matching.
The OP may have misspoke a little, but unless two distributions use identical kernel versions, I believe they will require different binaries.
The source code, of course, could be identical. This situation usually requires a module or driver be compiled to suit the kernel in use, traditionally by the Linux user.
Microsoft *may* have already tried to evolve a Windows-like Linux Desktop OS -- with the help of Caldera (now SCO). Anyone remember Redmond Linux? http://freshmeat.net/projects/redmondlinux/ It debuted just after IIRC Caldera got a whole lot of unspecified MS money from the settlement of a long-standing suit over DR-DOS, which Caldera inherited from Ransom Love, who got it from his friends at Novell when he left that company to start Caldera. Caldera used the MS settlement money to purchase SCO's business and some licenses over which SCO and IBM, Novell, and others are in court at this moment.
The question I would like answered, however, is not whether they will build or support the building of a Linux Windows (whatever that might be) but whether they are after agreements that would allow MS to use Novell's Unix patents and licenses. Perhaps they bought SCO's story of owning that IP and funded work with that company (including the threat of suit against Linux users and actual suit against Daimler-Chrysler for IP infingement) in order to secure full legal rights to use Unix patents and licenses and other Novell IP (networking, for example) to make a Linux-like Windows clone that gets around the GPL and is functionally similar, that is, Posix compliant but with embracement and extension?
That would make Linux a much harder sell than it seems to be right now.
One final question: has the tipping point been reached, with respect to Linux being used by top-tier manufacturers, and is it too late for MS to counter the Linux/GNU/GPL combination?
Intel, a giant corp with continued antitrust oversight, was quite happy to allow AMD to appear to be a genuine competitor to the US authorities, as long as AMD's market share remained a relative sliver. Once AMD's CPUs achieved a much better price/performance ratio than Intel, Intel moved to squash them like a deer tick in Olde Lyme, CT.
Does AMD stand a chance against Intel? Not unless they can make a profit out of having less than five per cent market share for the rest of eternity. Perhaps they can.
In any event, any competition is better than none. If it weren't for AMD's great processor architecture and 64-bit extensions, we doubtless would not have Core-2 duos and quads at an affordable price point now.
But Intel's R+D PIZZA BUDGET must be larger than AMD's total worldwide cash flow.
(Full disclosure: I build my own boxen, and have since 1991. I have never used an Intel chip in any computer I've assembled. So I have no grudge against AMD; I used them because they performed very well for a low price. They still do.)
You may be right. When I saw news of pneumatic valve operation on F1 cars, I made the leap, assuming they made the entire transition to pneumo. So I cannot be sure they are opening the valve with air.
Makes sense, though. I am an amateur racer/crew chief and I guess I should be hard at work designing this thing, then.... Seems to make sense to me, given the physics involved in flowing air and the variation different engine speeds have on the time and timing available to the inflowing and exhaust charges.
No. Water vapor is the principle product of gas/diesel combustion anyway.
Cars which have head gasket leaks causing coolant (mostly water) to enter the combustion chamber typically have immaculate surfaces, scrubbed well by steam. I have never found any rust in a recently-running engine with water injection or induction.
In Formula One racing, motors have featured compressed air to open and close the poppet valves. This is related to that development, at least 20 years old. It makes valve timing independent of crankshaft angle, so maximum efficiency can be reached at any or all engine speeds. Parasitic losses are less, and so is weight, the cam, cam drive and other associated rotating parts can be replaced with air or oil operated solenoids.
The other "development" you mention is that adding water to the combustion process allows a higher compression ratio to be used without the risk of preignition or knock. This results in more (and more even) combustion pressure, meaning more torque everywhere from the same amount of gas. This method is very popular among drag racers, and is sometimes used with air/water injection into a turbo- or supercharger's plenum to keep the pressurized air from becoming uselessly hot before compression in the motor.
Rotary valves are a much older development. They have no history of producing more power or reliability (or even efficiency) than traditional valves. Of course, there is no reason they should. Both of the above techniques combined might double the efficiency of the internal combustion engine.
In A Clockwork Orange, the main character, a teenage thug, is forced to watch "therapeutic" messages in an attempt to reprogram his behavior. In this tale, forceps hold his eyelids wide open while the video is beamed directly onto his retina and audio into headphones.
Kubric was prophetic, but it's not government propoganda that's being forced down our throats, it's ads.
Both suck.
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I am Anna Merikin and I feel very strongly about things. I call this thinking.
Damn, I hate to correct my own syntax in a post, but I feel I must before some eagle-eyed/.-er siezes on my error:
I should have written (in the first sentence) "The first occurence (the experiment itself) was discovered when a fire in the lab was investigated;......." rather than what I wrote, which might be misunderstood to reverse cause and effect. Sorry.
the first occurrence of cold fusion was a bottle making bubbles.
Not so. The first occurence (the discovery itself) was caused by a fire in the lab where the experiment was housed; the starting point of the fire was the closet that contained the cooler with the heavy water.
Several years later, probably the first replication of the effect was marked by a fire in the Palo Alto Lab containing the experiment. (To this day, both Stanford and the City of Palo Alto deny there was such a fire, but the local newspapers including the SF Chronicle carried the story.)
So, yes "cold" fusion can provide a source of heat. Obviously.
Wasn't the same warning given SCO several years ago...just before Microsoft and Sun bought SCO's expensive UNIX licenses for linux, bringing SCO's per share price back above the penny-stock listings?
This was just a warning, like last time, not a notice of delisting. That would come just about the time SCO v. IBM finishes.
Canopy (and Noorda's family and associates,) apparently are not people who have both oars in the water.
Does anyone want to speculate as to whether PJ has a right to fear these deaths were other than self-inflicted? Under the circumstances, would YOU feel threatened by these people?
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This was my idea in a nutshell. I couldn't get into CMOS w/o a RAM chip installed, though, and I guess there was the rub -- where do you map memory divided into ordinary RAM and L2? Use a RAM disk to the cache? That makes no sense, the overhead of the RAMdisk will kill any performance boost.
And I suspect any DOS program will run instantaneously on a Pentium anyway, so what would I have gained -- outside of the fun of doing it for the hell of it?
Now, of course, looking for a fast flash 1-Gb USB thumb drive to install Knoppix onto....
Knoppix' live CD can already boot from a RAMdisk (if one has >1-Gig RAM.) It moves along quite well, though not as fast as Feather, which uses fluxbox sted of KDE.... Now that combination flies. Each click of the mouse seems to make the system explode into action. Rxvt seems to open BEFORE the mouse is clicked. Even Firefox opens instantly. Now that's fast!
Hey, you got too far when you trash-talk Caldera OpenLinux. Ver 1.3 was the first Linux I installed and then actually USED; I had installed an earlier SuSE, but could not grok how to use any of the programs it installed. COL-1.3 had KDE-1.0; WordPerfect's free Linux word processor was my main app. (I'm a writer.) I used it for several years until Netscape started requiring glibc6 and I had to change to another distro (RH)
OK, COL wouldn't compile even trivial programs out of the box, binary RPMs were nearly impossible to find as its directory structure was unique, and support was nonexistent, but it WASN'T WINDOWS, it didn't crash, and Lisa, its version of SuSE's YaST, was easy to use and worked well, making configuration easier.
We all have our first loves. Sometimes they had pimples and bad breath, but no one likes to hear our first Linux distro called bad names.
And for all this time I thought that was just a figure of speech.
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Yeah, I noticed this after it had been submitted. I'm an oldtimer, but I still get caught in the occasional typo. Of course I meant 1024 Kb, or 1-meg.
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Which? WP's keys cannot be remapped, and, though it has a menu system, it is invoked with Alt++, which gets clobbered, and it requires Shift-F7 to save a file and Ctr+F7 simply to Quit. Assuming key remapping, what might I replace the Ctr, Alt and Function keys WITH? This is a word processor running keystroke macros. Almost all the key combinations are used by WP (including Home, PgDn, PgUp and End keys) leaving no way to use **nix keyboard commands (in the case of DOSemu) or virtualizer keystrokes in the case of Bochs, VMWare, etc.
For full disclosure, I kept a dedicated DOS box, an old Compaq luggable 486-DX4 100 that I use for WP most of the time (it still has Win-3.11 on it, and as its network card stopped working and there is no expansion capability, it is connected to a DEC laser printer in standalone mode.)
The triple boot with DOS on my main box is in case this aged machine stops working I can still print my WP documents. But now that Abiword and OO can read my WP files, perhaps it is time to retire that ancient OS on the big box (but those macros! Many cannot be reproduced under any other word processor and I would have to learn another macro language....:oP ).
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BC WP5.1 uses the function/ctr/alt/shift keys for its own purposes, clobbering its easy use on DOSemu (DOSbox) and emulators/virtualizers, which compete for the same keys.
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It reminds me of my old DOS days when I tried to map DOS into 1024 MBs of very fast level-2 cache on a Tyan Pentium-1 Motherboard. I never succeeded, but it booted quick and crashed faster!
I still run DOS (triple-booting with Mepis and Fedora) from time-to-time for WordPerfect and custom macros and it's right spritely on a Sempron-2800. DRDos 7.03 takes about 3 Mb.
They used to have a 1-Disk Linux distro that would fit on one floppy (1.72Mb?) with a tiny x-server, busybox, ed (an editor) and a web browser (dillo? elinks? I don't remember....) but I don't see it on the page anymore.
It is actually usable (I tried it) but I had some probs saving files to hard disk, IIRC. This was a long time ago, but the project looks still active.
Seems to me a better way to do this would be simply to sell two kinds of DVDs in retail stores, including a new kind that gives the RIAA a fee in place of royalties in exchange for the granting of rights to download and burn any kind of copyrighted material onto that disk anywhere. This fee, of course, would be added to the cost of the DVD the consumer pays.
So those who want the RIAA to get their pound of flesh can do so and burn with a clear legal conscience, and those who prefer to pirate can buy the cheaper DVDs we are already using.
This would require the RIAA to monitor all P2P downloads so the royalties can be divided pro rata to the artists due them. But since they already seem to be monitoring DLs, it would be of no significant added cost to them.
This os sooo OT. I am dating the daughter of a lawyer and am about to start training as a volunteer paralegal for a ngo, so I am getting to know how lawyers "think."
Of course, if you parse what I wrote and understand the use of the semicolon then you realize that the second clause reflects the beginning of the sentence, there being the very same subject for both (that damnable semicolon sted of a period.) Without the semicolon, I would have had to append "about this" to what would become the second sentence in that paragraph. With the semicolon the meaning is tied to the thoughts in the preceding clause.
Second, your remarks were opinions, interests, feelings or other nebulous mentation sted of the requested thoughts, which would be logical to the point of understanding what meaning the writer intended and "how the average person" reading the sentence would take it.
Sorry to burst your bubble. I understood your first reply, which is why I Lol'd it. I thoughgt you were satirizing lawyer-think. Now it seems you were serious.
Judging from your low/. registration number, you are probably old enough to have heard all this before; understanding it might be another thing altogether.
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against the government; all patent applications are screened to see if there is a national secutrity interest involoved. If the gov. decides there is, there is no application published, and the idea/device becomes property of the governent for as long as they deem appropriate.
They seem to have all the bases covered.
I believe the binary for each kernel version is unique, keeping one from willy-nilly mixing and matching.
The OP may have misspoke a little, but unless two distributions use identical kernel versions, I believe they will require different binaries.
The source code, of course, could be identical. This situation usually requires a module or driver be compiled to suit the kernel in use, traditionally by the Linux user.
I do not mind being corrected when I am wrong.
Microsoft *may* have already tried to evolve a Windows-like Linux Desktop OS -- with the help of Caldera (now SCO). Anyone remember Redmond Linux? http://freshmeat.net/projects/redmondlinux/
It debuted just after IIRC Caldera got a whole lot of unspecified MS money from the settlement of a long-standing suit over DR-DOS, which Caldera inherited from Ransom Love, who got it from his friends at Novell when he left that company to start Caldera. Caldera used the MS settlement money to purchase SCO's business and some licenses over which SCO and IBM, Novell, and others are in court at this moment.
The question I would like answered, however, is not whether they will build or support the building of a Linux Windows (whatever that might be) but whether they are after agreements that would allow MS to use Novell's Unix patents and licenses. Perhaps they bought SCO's story of owning that IP and funded work with that company (including the threat of suit against Linux users and actual suit against Daimler-Chrysler for IP infingement) in order to secure full legal rights to use Unix patents and licenses and other Novell IP (networking, for example) to make a Linux-like Windows clone that gets around the GPL and is functionally similar, that is, Posix compliant but with embracement and extension?
That would make Linux a much harder sell than it seems to be right now.
One final question: has the tipping point been reached, with respect to Linux being used by top-tier manufacturers, and is it too late for MS to counter the Linux/GNU/GPL combination?
Intel, a giant corp with continued antitrust oversight, was quite happy to allow AMD to appear to be a genuine competitor to the US authorities, as long as AMD's market share remained a relative sliver. Once AMD's CPUs achieved a much better price/performance ratio than Intel, Intel moved to squash them like a deer tick in Olde Lyme, CT.
Does AMD stand a chance against Intel? Not unless they can make a profit out of having less than five per cent market share for the rest of eternity. Perhaps they can.
In any event, any competition is better than none. If it weren't for AMD's great processor architecture and 64-bit extensions, we doubtless would not have Core-2 duos and quads at an affordable price point now.
But Intel's R+D PIZZA BUDGET must be larger than AMD's total worldwide cash flow.
(Full disclosure: I build my own boxen, and have since 1991. I have never used an Intel chip in any computer I've assembled. So I have no grudge against AMD; I used them because they performed very well for a low price. They still do.)
You may be right. When I saw news of pneumatic valve operation on F1 cars, I made the leap, assuming they made the entire transition to pneumo. So I cannot be sure they are opening the valve with air.
Makes sense, though. I am an amateur racer/crew chief and I guess I should be hard at work designing this thing, then.... Seems to make sense to me, given the physics involved in flowing air and the variation different engine speeds have on the time and timing available to the inflowing and exhaust charges.
No. Water vapor is the principle product of gas/diesel combustion anyway.
Cars which have head gasket leaks causing coolant (mostly water) to enter the combustion chamber typically have immaculate surfaces, scrubbed well by steam. I have never found any rust in a recently-running engine with water injection or induction.
In Formula One racing, motors have featured compressed air to open and close the poppet valves. This is related to that development, at least 20 years old. It makes valve timing independent of crankshaft angle, so maximum efficiency can be reached at any or all engine speeds. Parasitic losses are less, and so is weight, the cam, cam drive and other associated rotating parts can be replaced with air or oil operated solenoids.
The other "development" you mention is that adding water to the combustion process allows a higher compression ratio to be used without the risk of preignition or knock. This results in more (and more even) combustion pressure, meaning more torque everywhere from the same amount of gas. This method is very popular among drag racers, and is sometimes used with air/water injection into a turbo- or supercharger's plenum to keep the pressurized air from becoming uselessly hot before compression in the motor.
Rotary valves are a much older development. They have no history of producing more power or reliability (or even efficiency) than traditional valves. Of course, there is no reason they should. Both of the above techniques combined might double the efficiency of the internal combustion engine.
In A Clockwork Orange, the main character, a teenage thug, is forced to watch "therapeutic" messages in an attempt to reprogram his behavior. In this tale, forceps hold his eyelids wide open while the video is beamed directly onto his retina and audio into headphones.
Kubric was prophetic, but it's not government propoganda that's being forced down our throats, it's ads.
Both suck.
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I am Anna Merikin and I feel very strongly about things. I call this thinking.
Yes, peeps do keep hitting on me online.
Clue: I am NOT a woman.
Say my complete name out loud and you will get it.
Love, Anna.
Damn, I hate to correct my own syntax in a post, but I feel I must before some eagle-eyed /.-er siezes on my error:
I should have written (in the first sentence) "The first occurence (the experiment itself) was discovered when a fire in the lab was investigated;......." rather than what I wrote, which might be misunderstood to reverse cause and effect. Sorry.
Love, Anna.
Not so. The first occurence (the discovery itself) was caused by a fire in the lab where the experiment was housed; the starting point of the fire was the closet that contained the cooler with the heavy water.
Several years later, probably the first replication of the effect was marked by a fire in the Palo Alto Lab containing the experiment. (To this day, both Stanford and the City of Palo Alto deny there was such a fire, but the local newspapers including the SF Chronicle carried the story.)
So, yes "cold" fusion can provide a source of heat. Obviously.
Wasn't the same warning given SCO several years ago...just before Microsoft and Sun bought SCO's expensive UNIX licenses for linux, bringing SCO's per share price back above the penny-stock listings?
This was just a warning, like last time, not a notice of delisting. That would come just about the time SCO v. IBM finishes.
Nothing to see here, move along.
The SCO case includes some behind the scenes activities that might cause an otherwise sane person some paranoid thoughts. http://www.linuxbusinessweek.com/story/48789.htm?D E=1 The suicide of Noorda's granddaughter and heir to the fortune he built up at Novell and Canopy (the holding company that is SCO); the legal and family proceedings revolving around his Alzheimer's disease http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jh tml?articleID=193200278&subSection=Breaking+News; the suicide of Robert Penrose, a key canopy partner shortly after his firing from the Canopy http://www.smallworks.com/archives/00000250.htm and other details too lurid for even slashdot.
Canopy (and Noorda's family and associates,) apparently are not people who have both oars in the water.
Does anyone want to speculate as to whether PJ has a right to fear these deaths were other than self-inflicted? Under the circumstances, would YOU feel threatened by these people?
This was my idea in a nutshell. I couldn't get into CMOS w/o a RAM chip installed, though, and I guess there was the rub -- where do you map memory divided into ordinary RAM and L2? Use a RAM disk to the cache? That makes no sense, the overhead of the RAMdisk will kill any performance boost.
And I suspect any DOS program will run instantaneously on a Pentium anyway, so what would I have gained -- outside of the fun of doing it for the hell of it?
Now, of course, looking for a fast flash 1-Gb USB thumb drive to install Knoppix onto....
Knoppix' live CD can already boot from a RAMdisk (if one has >1-Gig RAM.) It moves along quite well, though not as fast as Feather, which uses fluxbox sted of KDE.... Now that combination flies. Each click of the mouse seems to make the system explode into action. Rxvt seems to open BEFORE the mouse is clicked. Even Firefox opens instantly. Now that's fast!
Hey, you got too far when you trash-talk Caldera OpenLinux. Ver 1.3 was the first Linux I installed and then actually USED; I had installed an earlier SuSE, but could not grok how to use any of the programs it installed. COL-1.3 had KDE-1.0; WordPerfect's free Linux word processor was my main app. (I'm a writer.) I used it for several years until Netscape started requiring glibc6 and I had to change to another distro (RH)
OK, COL wouldn't compile even trivial programs out of the box, binary RPMs were nearly impossible to find as its directory structure was unique, and support was nonexistent, but it WASN'T WINDOWS, it didn't crash, and Lisa, its version of SuSE's YaST, was easy to use and worked well, making configuration easier.
We all have our first loves. Sometimes they had pimples and bad breath, but no one likes to hear our first Linux distro called bad names.
It's so loud in here "I can't hear myself think."
And for all this time I thought that was just a figure of speech.
Yeah, I noticed this after it had been submitted. I'm an oldtimer, but I still get caught in the occasional typo. Of course I meant 1024 Kb, or 1-meg.
Which? WP's keys cannot be remapped, and, though it has a menu system, it is invoked with Alt++, which gets clobbered, and it requires Shift-F7 to save a file and Ctr+F7 simply to Quit. Assuming key remapping, what might I replace the Ctr, Alt and Function keys WITH? This is a word processor running keystroke macros. Almost all the key combinations are used by WP (including Home, PgDn, PgUp and End keys) leaving no way to use **nix keyboard commands (in the case of DOSemu) or virtualizer keystrokes in the case of Bochs, VMWare, etc.
:oP ).
For full disclosure, I kept a dedicated DOS box, an old Compaq luggable 486-DX4 100 that I use for WP most of the time (it still has Win-3.11 on it, and as its network card stopped working and there is no expansion capability, it is connected to a DEC laser printer in standalone mode.)
The triple boot with DOS on my main box is in case this aged machine stops working I can still print my WP documents. But now that Abiword and OO can read my WP files, perhaps it is time to retire that ancient OS on the big box (but those macros! Many cannot be reproduced under any other word processor and I would have to learn another macro language....
BC WP5.1 uses the function/ctr/alt/shift keys for its own purposes, clobbering its easy use on DOSemu (DOSbox) and emulators/virtualizers, which compete for the same keys.
It reminds me of my old DOS days when I tried to map DOS into 1024 MBs of very fast level-2 cache on a Tyan Pentium-1 Motherboard. I never succeeded, but it booted quick and crashed faster!
I still run DOS (triple-booting with Mepis and Fedora) from time-to-time for WordPerfect and custom macros and it's right spritely on a Sempron-2800. DRDos 7.03 takes about 3 Mb.
Sure. Try here http://www.angelfire.com/linux/floorzat/2diskXwin. htm 2-Disk Linux.for a linux with x that will fit on two floppies, one for the base install and the second for x-windows.
They used to have a 1-Disk Linux distro that would fit on one floppy (1.72Mb?) with a tiny x-server, busybox, ed (an editor) and a web browser (dillo? elinks? I don't remember....) but I don't see it on the page anymore.
It is actually usable (I tried it) but I had some probs saving files to hard disk, IIRC. This was a long time ago, but the project looks still active.
What more can I say?
A Modest Proposal
Seems to me a better way to do this would be simply to sell two kinds of DVDs in retail stores, including a new kind that gives the RIAA a fee in place of royalties in exchange for the granting of rights to download and burn any kind of copyrighted material onto that disk anywhere. This fee, of course, would be added to the cost of the DVD the consumer pays.
So those who want the RIAA to get their pound of flesh can do so and burn with a clear legal conscience, and those who prefer to pirate can buy the cheaper DVDs we are already using.
This would require the RIAA to monitor all P2P downloads so the royalties can be divided pro rata to the artists due them. But since they already seem to be monitoring DLs, it would be of no significant added cost to them.
This os sooo OT. I am dating the daughter of a lawyer and am about to start training as a volunteer paralegal for a ngo, so I am getting to know how lawyers "think."
/. registration number, you are probably old enough to have heard all this before; understanding it might be another thing altogether.
Of course, if you parse what I wrote and understand the use of the semicolon then you realize that the second clause reflects the beginning of the sentence, there being the very same subject for both (that damnable semicolon sted of a period.) Without the semicolon, I would have had to append "about this" to what would become the second sentence in that paragraph. With the semicolon the meaning is tied to the thoughts in the preceding clause.
Second, your remarks were opinions, interests, feelings or other nebulous mentation sted of the requested thoughts, which would be logical to the point of understanding what meaning the writer intended and "how the average person" reading the sentence would take it.
Sorry to burst your bubble. I understood your first reply, which is why I Lol'd it. I thoughgt you were satirizing lawyer-think. Now it seems you were serious.
Judging from your low
With love, Anna.
Lol!
I guess I was wrong in saying "I'd like to hear..."
I would now change it to read "I expect to hear..."