My biggest concern is nothing will be done until it gets to the level we currently see for spam, and then it will be too late because as soon as half the taffic on the internet is false and can't be routed properly (due to spoofed addresses) we are all SCREWED
So game developers (the companies) are moaning that there isn't enough knowledge in the industry of all the ways to use every concept, fragment of code or method, and yet the easiest way to get people more knowledgable would be to open source all of the older games so others can learn from your past experiences.
Older games may not teach a developer all the latest techniques but it would sure as hell let you be able to compare 3 or 4 similar implementations of a function and pick the best or even merge parts of 2 together to make it better still, I know some companies di this but there are more that don't.
SCO don't need to distribute linux to get license money. If they believe (and can prove in a court of law) that their code has been added to linux without their consent then every copy already out there is a viable target and every download from kernel.org is too. Of after saying that it would seem very unlikely that they will be given the option to follow through with it even if they win the case(s), since I would expect damages to be paid by the defendant and the matter closed
OK I could be WAY wrong here since it's been a long time since I've played on the FSF site, but my understanding was this. If you GPL your program you have the option to transfer copyright(?) to the FSF. If Samba have done this then even if they are taking the moral high road the FSF can still file against SCO using Samba as the "killer app" (excuse the pun), since the FSF has the right to defend it weather the Samba team want them to or not.
AMD are not big enough to build chipsets, and they don't want to dilute their CPU product by moving people into building chipsets. While I agree that fats AMD chipsets would be a godsend, at the moment they don't have the resources to do it on a wide scale
It's slashdotted already but I'm pretty sure the bianries they are talking about are binaries of the server itself (so you don't have to download the source and compile it yourself to run it, rather than it not supporting binary files in the tree itself.
Hold the phone here, while I don't agree with the methods they are using to get information they are doing what they have a legal right to do in respect to protecting their property. Yes it is their property, without going into how they got it and if their contracts with musicians are screwing the musicians. Also forgetting that they would rather litigate than release a simple way to pay for the music online without only being able to listen to it once.
They own it, everyone downloading it is pirating it under the law, they have every right to take legal action and they are. This should be no surprise, they are simply using the laws we have allowed to be created. End of story
While this is all fine and good. Did it occur to you that indeed MySQL DIDN'T support the functions required?
Any serious SQL based piece of software makes EXTENSIVE use of stored procedures for the simple fact the the stored procedure effectivly sits in a compiled state on the server saving significant time when being run multiple times. As may have become obvious by now MySQL DOESN'T support stored prcedures (or triggers which I could rant on about also). This is no reason in my opinion to claim it MUST run on MS-SQL as I would imagine Postgres would support all the functions it needs.
While MySQL might be good for light DB work, more serious work should be done on a more serious DB package
I realise this is a generalisation, and with that in mind I agree, but you are forgetting one VERY important milestone that could not have been done without a shuttle type vehicle, and thast is Hubble.
Hubble has redefined our understanding of the universe in so many ways it's not funny. Go read Alpha and Omega for a descent run down of the leaps we have gained from that single piece of equipment.
Of course you mean GB, since 100MB is about an album.. and an album of legal music isn't that strange at all..... Well OK maybe it is on _some_ peoples HDD's;-)
You have also fallen into the "Clock speed is the measure of speed" myth. AMD could have easily boosted the clock speed of the AMD64's simple by extending the pipeline, just as intel did with the P4 and have rumoured to do with the Prescott code. This gives you the ability to clock the CPU higher but it does less per clock cycle
It can easily take 5 years, what surprises me is that the patent office didn't find any of the prior art in those 5 years.. bearing in mind they were almost certainly using it daily
I don't mean to be rude but you are dead wrong. Both XP/Pro and XP/Home are based on the same NT/2000 codebase. Home has less netowrk fuctionality and no dual processor support and thats about it.
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My biggest concern is nothing will be done until it gets to the level we currently see for spam, and then it will be too late because as soon as half the taffic on the internet is false and can't be routed properly (due to spoofed addresses) we are all SCREWED
So why the paramedic then? :-)
That was last year I believe.. This year he didn't even get nominated
So game developers (the companies) are moaning that there isn't enough knowledge in the industry of all the ways to use every concept, fragment of code or method, and yet the easiest way to get people more knowledgable would be to open source all of the older games so others can learn from your past experiences.
Older games may not teach a developer all the latest techniques but it would sure as hell let you be able to compare 3 or 4 similar implementations of a function and pick the best or even merge parts of 2 together to make it better still, I know some companies di this but there are more that don't.
SCO don't need to distribute linux to get license money. If they believe (and can prove in a court of law) that their code has been added to linux without their consent then every copy already out there is a viable target and every download from kernel.org is too. Of after saying that it would seem very unlikely that they will be given the option to follow through with it even if they win the case(s), since I would expect damages to be paid by the defendant and the matter closed
OK I could be WAY wrong here since it's been a long time since I've played on the FSF site, but my understanding was this. If you GPL your program you have the option to transfer copyright(?) to the FSF. If Samba have done this then even if they are taking the moral high road the FSF can still file against SCO using Samba as the "killer app" (excuse the pun), since the FSF has the right to defend it weather the Samba team want them to or not.
_PLUS_ CAL's for the Windows box, and on an enterprise server one would imagine thats quite a few CAL's
AMD are not big enough to build chipsets, and they don't want to dilute their CPU product by moving people into building chipsets. While I agree that fats AMD chipsets would be a godsend, at the moment they don't have the resources to do it on a wide scale
And thats why it's a BETA.. cos things don't work, admitadly a LOT of things dopn't work ;-), but it's still a beta
It's slashdotted already but I'm pretty sure the bianries they are talking about are binaries of the server itself (so you don't have to download the source and compile it yourself to run it, rather than it not supporting binary files in the tree itself.
She to is only using the laws created, but as the article says it is a long shot
Hold the phone here, while I don't agree with the methods they are using to get information they are doing what they have a legal right to do in respect to protecting their property. Yes it is their property, without going into how they got it and if their contracts with musicians are screwing the musicians. Also forgetting that they would rather litigate than release a simple way to pay for the music online without only being able to listen to it once.
They own it, everyone downloading it is pirating it under the law, they have every right to take legal action and they are. This should be no surprise, they are simply using the laws we have allowed to be created. End of story
Actually these days you'll want to use memtest86+ since it's current and is regularly updated
While this is all fine and good. Did it occur to you that indeed MySQL DIDN'T support the functions required?
Any serious SQL based piece of software makes EXTENSIVE use of stored procedures for the simple fact the the stored procedure effectivly sits in a compiled state on the server saving significant time when being run multiple times. As may have become obvious by now MySQL DOESN'T support stored prcedures (or triggers which I could rant on about also). This is no reason in my opinion to claim it MUST run on MS-SQL as I would imagine Postgres would support all the functions it needs.
While MySQL might be good for light DB work, more serious work should be done on a more serious DB package
Based on that logic no earth born bacteria could live on Mars... so what are we worried about?
I realise this is a generalisation, and with that in mind I agree, but you are forgetting one VERY important milestone that could not have been done without a shuttle type vehicle, and thast is Hubble.
Hubble has redefined our understanding of the universe in so many ways it's not funny. Go read Alpha and Omega for a descent run down of the leaps we have gained from that single piece of equipment.
Of course you mean GB, since 100MB is about an album.. and an album of legal music isn't that strange at all..... Well OK maybe it is on _some_ peoples HDD's ;-)
Espcially when you're 6 foot 7.. how many people would there be in the world that have that name and are that tall
You have also fallen into the "Clock speed is the measure of speed" myth. AMD could have easily boosted the clock speed of the AMD64's simple by extending the pipeline, just as intel did with the P4 and have rumoured to do with the Prescott code. This gives you the ability to clock the CPU higher but it does less per clock cycle
How exactly did you get 2 x 32bit processors running 64bit code?
It can easily take 5 years, what surprises me is that the patent office didn't find any of the prior art in those 5 years.. bearing in mind they were almost certainly using it daily
I don't mean to be rude but you are dead wrong. Both XP/Pro and XP/Home are based on the same NT/2000 codebase. Home has less netowrk fuctionality and no dual processor support and thats about it.
Lovely... it's bloody 30 degrees C every day and down to no less than 20 at night.... too hot I say!
The other fact is that they have also been under attack from you for the same amount of time
I'm fairly sure it is illegal here as well. I seem to recall a bar doing it a while ago and getting in trouble for it