And who manufactured the firmware chips? Another question is then: how do you know that the rest of the design/manufacturing wasn't tampered with? That's what Thompson's story was about: can you trust a compiler unless you wrote it yourself? Can you trust compiler of a compiler? Can you trust a manufacturing process that places your design upon a wafer? Can you trust the wafer? etc.
If something has to give, well, then again, how do you know that what gave can be trusted?
For many they have a one-track-mind. Anything and everything they blame it on "Made In China", as if if the thing is made in the U. S. of A. nothing wrong will happen, no people with malicious intention would appear and trojan would ever be inserted into the chip's firmware.
Thus Dell is forced to outsource their firmware development and manufacture to China with too little oversight, leaving greater opportunity for exploitation by those with malicious intent.
Does it follow that if the servers are manufactured in the U. S. of A. there will be no people "with malicious intent" and thus the servers would surely be guaranteed safe?
Basically the entire computer's assembled in a sweatshop by barely literate people who are being paid jack-shit to assemble a "rich-boy toy" for some perceived fat cat in the US who sleeps on piles of money.
I hope you take back the "barely literate people" part because it is untrue.
To say that is to think too highly of your own self.
In this world of outsourcing, and those who outsource the server fabrication themselves outsource other parts to other sub-contractors.
And Dell is not alone in doing this. Almost all the brand name computers (and almost all types of electronic gadgets) are one-way-or-another outsourced.
Most of the big media/software companies the managements have to answer to the shareholders. If performance (earning) is down, they have to find a way to convince the shareholders that it's not them (the management) that is at fault, rather, it's something else (market, recession, piracy, etc).
That comes to the second item, scapegoating.
Piracy is a ready-made scapegoat for all the media/software companies. They have fine-tune the scapegoat campaign so much so that they can almost blame everything on piracy.
Instead of raising the value on the products their produce (software / music / movie) thus offering more incentive for the consumer to pay for their products, they blame piracy if an album doesn't sell well, for example.
Ask youself: How many of the singer / actor / movie / album / software on the shelf today are worth the price-tag?
The song sux.
The singing sux.
The music sux.
The acting sux.
The story sux.
Everything sux and yet they (the movie/music/software companies) expect us to pay and pay and pay through our nose for their wares.
Enough of this.
In my case, I haven't bought ONE SINGLE COPY OF MUSIC CD for the past 5 years. It's not that I do not like music, I do. But the music on the market, oh please !
And I have NOT downloaded any music (pay or pirated) either. Turn on the radio and you know what I mean --- same old shit, repackaged.
I read through the over 200 messages, lots and lots of complains.
So, instead of complaining brand X sux brand Y sux too, can someone please tell me which equipment that you would recommend, that uses Linux / GPL softwares that also comes with readily tweakable firmware ?
... as it is designed so that the not-so-wealthy don't get to patent anything.
That poor guy may end up having to sell his invention to the wealthy elites, and the elites can then patent the thing and rake in much much much more $$$ with it.
I can't blame the Chinese government for wanting to have the encryption information... and I can't blame India for not trusting Chinese technology. Nobody wins when no one trusts each other.
But there *are* winners !
In the case of India not importing Chinese equipments, the Japanese, European, Korean, and American companies suddenly become the de facto winners.
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I've been on the online scene since the Fidonet era, circa the 1980's, and I'm still trying to learn new online slangs all the time.
How about bringing the fabs back to the U.S.? Too many chip manufacturers have gone overseas.
There you go.
Another with that "Made in the U. S. of A. would be the perfect cure of all ills" guy.
And who manufactured the firmware chips? Another question is then: how do you know that the rest of the design/manufacturing wasn't tampered with? That's what Thompson's story was about: can you trust a compiler unless you wrote it yourself? Can you trust compiler of a compiler? Can you trust a manufacturing process that places your design upon a wafer? Can you trust the wafer? etc.
If something has to give, well, then again, how do you know that what gave can be trusted?
For many they have a one-track-mind. Anything and everything they blame it on "Made In China", as if if the thing is made in the U. S. of A. nothing wrong will happen, no people with malicious intention would appear and trojan would ever be inserted into the chip's firmware.
Thus Dell is forced to outsource their firmware development and manufacture to China with too little oversight, leaving greater opportunity for exploitation by those with malicious intent.
Does it follow that if the servers are manufactured in the U. S. of A. there will be no people "with malicious intent" and thus the servers would surely be guaranteed safe?
If you are implying that if the servers are made in the U. S. of A. this will never happen?
Think again.
And by the way, how much are you really willing to pay extra for stuffs made in the U. S. of A. ?
Logistics, my dear sir, logistics.
Basically the entire computer's assembled in a sweatshop by barely literate people who are being paid jack-shit to assemble a "rich-boy toy" for some perceived fat cat in the US who sleeps on piles of money.
I hope you take back the "barely literate people" part because it is untrue.
To say that is to think too highly of your own self.
Can't really blame Dell.
In this world of outsourcing, and those who outsource the server fabrication themselves outsource other parts to other sub-contractors.
And Dell is not alone in doing this. Almost all the brand name computers (and almost all types of electronic gadgets) are one-way-or-another outsourced.
The ISO file supposed to be over 4 GB but I got less than 200 MB !!
This is the link I got http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.3/iso/openSUSE-11.3-DVD-x86_64.iso
An alternative link also got me an ISO that is less than 200 MB
http://ftp.riken.jp/Linux/opensuse/distribution/11.3/iso/openSUSE-11.3-DVD-x86_64.iso
Can someone please tell me what I have done wrong??
Whiskey was invented to prevent the irish from ruling the world
What about Sake? Preventing the Japanese from doing the same?
Can someone please tell me if any of our REAL CURRENCY is guaranteed ???
1. Shareholders.
2. Scapegoating.
Most of the big media/software companies the managements have to answer to the shareholders. If performance (earning) is down, they have to find a way to convince the shareholders that it's not them (the management) that is at fault, rather, it's something else (market, recession, piracy, etc).
That comes to the second item, scapegoating.
Piracy is a ready-made scapegoat for all the media/software companies. They have fine-tune the scapegoat campaign so much so that they can almost blame everything on piracy.
Instead of raising the value on the products their produce (software / music / movie) thus offering more incentive for the consumer to pay for their products, they blame piracy if an album doesn't sell well, for example.
Ask youself: How many of the singer / actor / movie / album / software on the shelf today are worth the price-tag?
The song sux.
The singing sux.
The music sux.
The acting sux.
The story sux.
Everything sux and yet they (the movie/music/software companies) expect us to pay and pay and pay through our nose for their wares.
Enough of this.
In my case, I haven't bought ONE SINGLE COPY OF MUSIC CD for the past 5 years. It's not that I do not like music, I do. But the music on the market, oh please !
And I have NOT downloaded any music (pay or pirated) either. Turn on the radio and you know what I mean --- same old shit, repackaged.
I read through the over 200 messages, lots and lots of complains.
So, instead of complaining brand X sux brand Y sux too, can someone please tell me which equipment that you would recommend, that uses Linux / GPL softwares that also comes with readily tweakable firmware ?
Thank you !
I bet you both are wrong. I bet gravity waves are sometimes seen, sometimes not.
I bet all three of you are wrong.
When measured, kenot be observed.
When observed, kenot be measured.
Am I getting at least a patent for this?
... as it is designed so that the not-so-wealthy don't get to patent anything.
That poor guy may end up having to sell his invention to the wealthy elites, and the elites can then patent the thing and rake in much much much more $$$ with it.
And btw, it is happening.
There is no plan, just infinite ignorance.
How do you know there is no plan?
It isn't "could kill small business", rather, the whole thing has turned into "Designed to kill all innovators that don't have big backers".
It's the system, man.
The elites want total control. The patent system is but a small part of their game plan.
what use are they if they are not installed on the user's macine?
They aren't installed on the user's machine. Instead, they are linked through CSS @font-face, but only licensed sites can hotlin the font that way.
This brings up a question on whether it is legal for websites to "virtually display" fonts that are not installed on users' computers.
What if the user doesn't like a certain font and purposely NOT install it but a particular website display it nevertheless.
Don't the users have right to NOT have a certain font displayed on their screen?
That's the Iranians' dark secret: They are developing new salad technology. They don't want to nuke the Jews, they just really love Caesar salad
If that's the case, they are waaaaaaay cuter than the Pakis, who tried to car-bomb Time Square.
... what would happen to the IP Mafia(TM) ?
Since the caratenoid gene can make things as red as cooked lobsters, why don't scientists find a way to transfer that gene into those tanning-philes?
One treatment and you got free tanning for life !
2. A billion dollars is relatively insignificant with respect to the total US budget.
As the saying goes ...
"A billion here and a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money. " --- Senator Everett Dirksen
Just asking:
Anyone knows what are the capabilities of James Webb telescope, as compared to the (upgraded) Hubble telescope that we have been using?
If the James Webb telescope is better, in what way it is better?
Just asking, and thanks !
The dual screen thing is very good idea. People still like closing their books and will want to close their electronic tablets too.
Someone in China will make it and it will be available somewhere in the near future.
If someone can come up with a UI that is at least as finger-friendly as iPhone OS I can get someone in China to come up with the hardware.
I can't blame the Chinese government for wanting to have the encryption information ... and I can't blame India for not trusting Chinese technology. Nobody wins when no one trusts each other.
But there *are* winners !
In the case of India not importing Chinese equipments, the Japanese, European, Korean, and American companies suddenly become the de facto winners.