Last time I touched it, Oracle's accounting package required IE6 or IE7 (not 8!) to function, even though the UI was a single java applet running inside the browser. The login process would fail with any other client.
This is not a terribly unusual case. There are often mysterious dependencies on Windows even where logically, none should exist.
Taking the daily recommended maximum dose of alcohol will not destroy your liver.
Taking double the daily recommended maximum dose of alcohol will not destroy your liver.
Taking triple the daily recommended maximum dose will not destroy your liver.
Alcohol will cause acute CNS depression and kill you long before it causes acute liver damage. Only chronic abuse allows it to scar your liver. The same is not true of acetaminophen.
VMware comes to mind. When demand for compute resources falls, there's no reason to have all nodes operating.
Load balanced environments also have daily and nightly peaks and dips.
Like many fruits, most tomato plants are grown by grafting. The fruiting part of the plant is a perfect clone of its parents. GM contamination of the genepool is both unlikely and unimportant.
The problem is how to distribute your music to people like myself, without getting bent over by the distributors. If you can figure out a way for a band to get their music into my home, while still guaranteeing the artist >50% of the profit, you'd be the savior of music. However, with digital audio being what it is, and with 95% of people having no moral objection to grabbing a song off of P2P instead of actually paying for it, that's a long, uphill climb.
Well, really, that's more *your* problem than *our* problem. The nature of the market is such that some products just won't get made. What you happen to enjoy exists only by virtue of a badly distorted market. If that product disappears due to a more efficient allocation of resources, *you* may be worse off, but society as a whole will have benefited.
In some cases, scarcity can drive both price and demand. Prestige, hand-crafted items for example - Aston Martin cars being an excellent example.
Bullshit. Backwards-bending demand curves have been discredited for decades. Not everything in your 1960s high school textbooks was bull, but most of it was. Back then, folks were desperate to find exceptions to fundamentals like the law of demand.
"It is interesting that Apple do not do this, they don't even have separate "upgrade" prices. If you want the latest version of their OS or basic software (iWorks or iLife), then you pay one price. As a customer I like that."
Au contraire: OSX Server costs nearly ten times as much as the client version.
Microsoft's anti-spyware group has an undisclosed set of "objective criteria" to handle this problem. They were well aware that if they did not set guidelines ahead of time, they would run into issues with conflicts of interest. Absolutely anything that meets these criteria, regardless of its source, is considered spyware. Anything that does not, is not.
Microsoft may not play nice with the competition, but you can't say that they don't try to serve the consumer.
Have you looked at Movitz? It's a minimal operating system and lisp runtime environment for x86 PCs, which makes kernel development in Lisp practical.
Movitz is arguably the first step to a modern "Lisp Machine." Actually doing it in hardware would be foolish; even Symbolics abandoned that path. Their last-generation products were a tagged-memory RISC architecture and a VM system that ran Genera (and Symbolics Common Lisp) on top of UNIX on the DEC Alpha.
Unfortunately, the Symbolics RISC project never saw the light of day. OpenGenera, the Genera-for-Tru64, is still available, but costs thousands of dollars.
Trolling about Java and Lisp at the same time?
Isn't that a little bit like ASKING FOR IT?
Fast Fourier Transform is actually one of the traditional benchmarks for Common Lisp, the Gabriel series.
Now run along and play in traffic.
Actually, unlike the Itanium, Edsel had a very good launch. Sales in the first two years were higher than any previous product launch in the auto industry.
Itanium sales, in contrast, make it the crappiest product launch in quite some time.
Not all developers might be known, but that's not HIS fault. If people contribute to the kernel without leaving a comment of what they did and who they are, I'm not sure what copyright law says about claims those people can make.
In that case, copyright law allows the owners to sue to stop infringement. That is, while they cannot sue for damages unless they have a registered copyright, they can sue everyone who is distributing and have the court order them to stop. In the United States, you hold copyright unless you very carefully and explicitly abandon it. It's actually not all that easy to put something directly into the public domain. While registration gives you a few more legal protections, you can certainly stop unlicensed distribution of your work under any circumstances.
Courts have also upheald the right to anonymous copyright.
Think about somebody who came out in 2004 claiming to have authored your favorite folklore song; I don't think any court would assign rights a posteriori, with the song being printed in thousands of song books marked "traditional".
Heh, the irony: This has actually happened. In the 90's, ASCAP threatened to sue several groups that ran children's summer camps, including the Girl Scouts, for not paying royalties on songbook tunes like "Ring around the Rosie."
Correction, when UNIX "came out," it was written in the lowest level language of any operating system. Everything else was either written in straight assembly or a sane language, like Lisp or PL/I. Furthermore, Lisp had all those lovely features in 1975.
It's also worth noting that many the problems we have today are based in the concept of the "operating environment" -- today's software and hardware design paradigms are rooted in C. Implementing any language other than Algol-derivatives on top of C certainly fits into the category of "disgusting machinations."
In short, as people have recognized for twenty years or more, UNIX succeeded because it was the lowest common denominator, not because it was any good.
Actually, all Windows versions are already crippled as you describe. You cannot fully internationalize Windows without the Microsoft Multilingual User Interface, which is almost totally unavailable, except to Microsoft's bosom buddies.
This is done to prevent re-importing, even forcing some people to buy a second copy of Windows in order to run foreign software.
Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1 were both ported to PowerPPC, complete with a Sun compiler suite.
They supported all the Power Series machines (including the PPC thinkpads!) and most of the 43P line. I don't know which 43P's don't work, actually, because the official Sun 2.5.1 PPC edition HCL is lost in the mists of time.
The folks in this thread are woefully misinformed.
The reason that most MST3K episodes are unavailable is that they didn't buy licenses to distribute them on VHS or DVD, just to broadcast them. The original owners of the rights to those movies *gasp* still own the rights.
This is part and parcel of 1976's major overhaul to copyright law that made things like MST3K possible in the first place. IANAL, but as I understand it, under the 1909 law, the copyright owners would have been forced to give the makers of MST3K nearly unlimited rights, effectively selling the copyright. And if that had been the case, there never would have been a MST3K.
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Last time I touched it, Oracle's accounting package required IE6 or IE7 (not 8!) to function, even though the UI was a single java applet running inside the browser. The login process would fail with any other client.
This is not a terribly unusual case. There are often mysterious dependencies on Windows even where logically, none should exist.
Yes, look at IBM now. They're the world's leading holder of technology patents and the world's second largest software vendor.
If we abuse Oracle enough, we can cause the #2 and #3 software vendors to change places!
Cisco also sells a prominent line of layer-3 switches (almost routers) based on Linux, running "NX-OS." The interface is similar to classic IOS.
(IOS-XR, however, is QNX.)
Taking the daily recommended maximum dose of alcohol will not destroy your liver.
Taking double the daily recommended maximum dose of alcohol will not destroy your liver.
Taking triple the daily recommended maximum dose will not destroy your liver.
Alcohol will cause acute CNS depression and kill you long before it causes acute liver damage. Only chronic abuse allows it to scar your liver. The same is not true of acetaminophen.
VMware comes to mind. When demand for compute resources falls, there's no reason to have all nodes operating. Load balanced environments also have daily and nightly peaks and dips.
I seem to remember some kind of conflict about a state's right to leave the union, mid-19th century. Any ideas?
Can you give an example of a competing technology that is practical for backing up 1TB daily? Short of having your own tape/cd burner farm?
Tape "farms" are cheap. Almost everyone has one. They're called tape libraries.
400G tapes, and libraries to hold them, are very, very affordable. It's the tape drive itself that costs the serious bucks, but that's a fixed cost.
Like many fruits, most tomato plants are grown by grafting. The fruiting part of the plant is a perfect clone of its parents. GM contamination of the genepool is both unlikely and unimportant.
In some cases, scarcity can drive both price and demand. Prestige, hand-crafted items for example - Aston Martin cars being an excellent example.
Bullshit. Backwards-bending demand curves have been discredited for decades. Not everything in your 1960s high school textbooks was bull, but most of it was. Back then, folks were desperate to find exceptions to fundamentals like the law of demand.
"Healthiness" is a word, but not the word you want. People are "healthy." Food is "healthful."
"It is interesting that Apple do not do this, they don't even have separate "upgrade" prices. If you want the latest version of their OS or basic software (iWorks or iLife), then you pay one price. As a customer I like that."
Au contraire: OSX Server costs nearly ten times as much as the client version.
Microsoft's anti-spyware group has an undisclosed set of "objective criteria" to handle this problem. They were well aware that if they did not set guidelines ahead of time, they would run into issues with conflicts of interest. Absolutely anything that meets these criteria, regardless of its source, is considered spyware. Anything that does not, is not.
Microsoft may not play nice with the competition, but you can't say that they don't try to serve the consumer.
Because the RFID chips hold about 500,000 times as much data as a mag card at a comparable cost and convenience level. 64,000 bytes versus ~100 bits.
Have you looked at Movitz? It's a minimal operating system and lisp runtime environment for x86 PCs, which makes kernel development in Lisp practical.
Movitz is arguably the first step to a modern "Lisp Machine." Actually doing it in hardware would be foolish; even Symbolics abandoned that path. Their last-generation products were a tagged-memory RISC architecture and a VM system that ran Genera (and Symbolics Common Lisp) on top of UNIX on the DEC Alpha.
Unfortunately, the Symbolics RISC project never saw the light of day. OpenGenera, the Genera-for-Tru64, is still available, but costs thousands of dollars.
Yes. You won't notice that Linux NFS is totally, completely broken unless you're running with "a lot" of clients.
In this case, "a lot" actually means "any non-zero number."
Whether they're turning a profit is totally irrelevant.
If it's a valid case of "fair use," they can advertise all they like.
If it is not, they could be a not-for-profit run by nuns and it would still be illegal.
Trolling about Java and Lisp at the same time? Isn't that a little bit like ASKING FOR IT? Fast Fourier Transform is actually one of the traditional benchmarks for Common Lisp, the Gabriel series. Now run along and play in traffic.
Actually, unlike the Itanium, Edsel had a very good launch. Sales in the first two years were higher than any previous product launch in the auto industry.
Itanium sales, in contrast, make it the crappiest product launch in quite some time.
In that case, copyright law allows the owners to sue to stop infringement. That is, while they cannot sue for damages unless they have a registered copyright, they can sue everyone who is distributing and have the court order them to stop. In the United States, you hold copyright unless you very carefully and explicitly abandon it. It's actually not all that easy to put something directly into the public domain. While registration gives you a few more legal protections, you can certainly stop unlicensed distribution of your work under any circumstances.
Courts have also upheald the right to anonymous copyright.
Heh, the irony: This has actually happened. In the 90's, ASCAP threatened to sue several groups that ran children's summer camps, including the Girl Scouts, for not paying royalties on songbook tunes like "Ring around the Rosie."
Correction, when UNIX "came out," it was written in the lowest level language of any operating system. Everything else was either written in straight assembly or a sane language, like Lisp or PL/I. Furthermore, Lisp had all those lovely features in 1975.
It's also worth noting that many the problems we have today are based in the concept of the "operating environment" -- today's software and hardware design paradigms are rooted in C. Implementing any language other than Algol-derivatives on top of C certainly fits into the category of "disgusting machinations."
In short, as people have recognized for twenty years or more, UNIX succeeded because it was the lowest common denominator, not because it was any good.
Actually, all Windows versions are already crippled as you describe. You cannot fully internationalize Windows without the Microsoft Multilingual User Interface, which is almost totally unavailable, except to Microsoft's bosom buddies.
This is done to prevent re-importing, even forcing some people to buy a second copy of Windows in order to run foreign software.
Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1 were both ported to PowerPPC, complete with a Sun compiler suite.
They supported all the Power Series machines (including the PPC thinkpads!) and most of the 43P line. I don't know which 43P's don't work, actually, because the official Sun 2.5.1 PPC edition HCL is lost in the mists of time.
The folks in this thread are woefully misinformed.
The reason that most MST3K episodes are unavailable is that they didn't buy licenses to distribute them on VHS or DVD, just to broadcast them. The original owners of the rights to those movies *gasp* still own the rights.
This is part and parcel of 1976's major overhaul to copyright law that made things like MST3K possible in the first place. IANAL, but as I understand it, under the 1909 law, the copyright owners would have been forced to give the makers of MST3K nearly unlimited rights, effectively selling the copyright. And if that had been the case, there never would have been a MST3K.