Ironically, if I were an American visiting either Australia or the UK, and the same thing happened to me, I'd get the same treatment for free. THAT irritates me... my tax dollars pay for treating US tourists, but they don't extend the same courtesy to me as a visitor to their country.
Actually, that *isnt* true.
We charge Americans (or their insurers more likely) for care required here while on holiday. We have reciprocal agreements in place with the rest of the EU and a few places besides for mutual free treatment of each others' citizens (eg. Aus), but we don't extend that privilege to countries which charge ours.
Xen provides a hardware virtualisation layer, so the images don't talk to the hardware directly, but talk through the Xen hypervisor. Therefore, the Xen hosting on the remote system will provide exactly the same 'hardware' as far as the image is concerned.
Think of your maglev train, and point it vertically instead of horizontally.
A maglev train generates a force which propels it forward over a stationery track, whereas this will generate a force which propels it upwards. Same principle.
Novell executives gave the impression that the Gnome and KDE open source desktop environments are not quite up to competing with Windows, but it is getting excited about the version of KDE that will accompany SuSE Linux 10 next year. This is based on Mono, another Novell takeover, which aims to provide a development environment that will run Java and Microsoft.net on Linux.
Oh dear, I hope smeone has told the KDE team that they've dropped Qt...
Technical validity of the article just went down the tubes.
"Like a padded cell, INTEGRITY PC prevents Linux, non-memory-protected operating systems such as Wind River's legacy VxWorks, and other insecure and unreliable software from harming the rest of a system while also limiting the harm it can do to itself," explained Dan O'Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software.
'and other insecure and reliable software'? Sounds like a true convert.
Well, health care in the UK, plus me suffering tendinitis - dont get me started on that;)
Yeah, Berkshire is fairly near London, and is near enough to be part of the expensive 'commuter belt'. I don't yet have a place in Seattle, but I do own (with mortgage) my house in the UK. If I was to sell it (I will rent it out for now), the weak $ would give me a fair amount of cash, that I could use to buy somewhere. I will need to look at it more closely before I make my final decision to relocate, of course.
So on sheer parity terms, the US job pays a touch more. In the UK, I'm based in Bracknell, Berkshire, which is not a cheap place to live in terms of house prices etc. The office in Seattle is fairly central, but parking is available fairly cheaply, and public transport is good - I will live slightly 'further out' from the city to get more space (both house/garden) - I'm not really an apartment person.
Also, don't forget, while the US salary converts to only slightly more in pounds, that looks worse than it is, due to the weak dollar and strong pound. In terms of *living expenses* and purchasing power, the US job gives me more bang for my buck, as it were.
Why am I probably cheaper? Because I'm not American? I'll have the same costs as an American, pay taxes like an American...
I speak the same language you do natively, have no communication issues with the 'native Americans', if you think you are such a thing, and am going to be living in Seattle.
I also understand grammar and punctuation - unlike some (cough). Surely that makes me a reasonable prospect for a company to hire because of my abilities and skills, rather than because you think I'd be cheaper (I won't be!) ?
I'm a UK UNIX support/developer/sysadmin, and I'm being relocated to Seattle under the H1-B programme..
I'm not planning on stealing anyone's job - my company is creating a new position for me here, and the experience I have with the company's products from working in the UK office is one of the main drivers for moving me, rather than hiring someone else.
I'm also not a cheaper option - my salary is on a par with US techies, and my company has to pay $$$ for the visa and relocation expenses. So, it's a sink or swim world - might be positions available in the UK or other places. It's not the third world outside, you know - this is free movement of jobs and labour:)
Overall, it's quite positive for open source. BUT:
Among other things, Novell would seek to address the claim by identifying prior art that could invalidate the patent; demonstrating that the product does not infringe the patent; redesigning the product to avoid infringement; or pursuing a license with the patent owner.
This paragraph came from the Novell statement about how they would deal with a patent infringement claim. The last bit "pursuing a licence with the patent holder" might not get you what you want. Imagine if your OSS program ends up being only usable by users of SuSE/Novell Linux, because they bought an exclusive license for the patent...
Personally, I found the article reasonably interesting, though I didnt think it said things that haven't already been said many times before.
I did get the impression that some of the research was a bit thin. e.g.
>Beyond the Foundation are many other Mozilla >enabled browsers such as Konqueror
Well, Konqueror isn't mozilla based - it uses KHTML as its rendering engine, which is also utilised by Apple's Safari browser. Mozilla isn't the only open-source standards-compliant web browser engine out there.
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Easy. Just put a narrow door on your restaurant and the fact people won't be able to get in.
Simples
Drone strike.....
"Ow!"
Ironically, if I were an American visiting either Australia or the UK, and the same thing happened to me, I'd get the same treatment for free. THAT irritates me ... my tax dollars pay for treating US tourists, but they don't extend the same courtesy to me as a visitor to their country.
Actually, that *isnt* true.
We charge Americans (or their insurers more likely) for care required here while on holiday. We have reciprocal agreements in place with the rest of the EU and a few places besides for mutual free treatment of each others' citizens (eg. Aus), but we don't extend that privilege to countries which charge ours.
David
Also, *compilers* should also be written to standards too, as well as code.
Don't let them off the hook too easily.
If all the compilers stuck rigidly to standards, you'd never be able to have code that compiled with one and not the other.
Davidhttp://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/26/2216241#
May I dream of wireless laptop power? I hate power cords
Depends - do you want kids in future?
> In a word, it's not that it's impossible to go to the moon now, but that it's inacceptable.
Me fail english? That's unpossible!
Xen provides a hardware virtualisation layer, so the images don't talk to the hardware directly, but talk through the Xen hypervisor. Therefore, the Xen hosting on the remote system will provide exactly the same 'hardware' as far as the image is concerned.
David
Think of your maglev train, and point it vertically instead of horizontally.
A maglev train generates a force which propels it forward over a stationery track, whereas this will generate a force which propels it upwards. Same principle.
David
Hmmhmm.
You don't think it's a good thing to possibly get more than you paid for?
You'd rather be guaranteed to NOT get more than you paid for?
Okay, you could always go Dell, and get something random in a box - you might get more or less than you paid for!
David
From TFA:
Novell executives gave the impression that the Gnome and KDE open source desktop environments are not quite up to competing with Windows, but it is getting excited about the version of KDE that will accompany SuSE Linux 10 next year. This is based on Mono, another Novell takeover, which aims to provide a development environment that will run Java and Microsoft.net on Linux.
Oh dear, I hope smeone has told the KDE team that they've dropped Qt...
Technical validity of the article just went down the tubes.
David
Is this a "How subtle a spelling error can we get in an article title" competition?
You didn't get it past me, muhahaha..
"T-Moblile Cracker Pleads Guilty"
Nice try though!
David
From the article:
"Like a padded cell, INTEGRITY PC prevents Linux, non-memory-protected operating systems such as Wind River's legacy VxWorks, and other insecure and unreliable software from harming the rest of a system while also limiting the harm it can do to itself," explained Dan O'Dowd, founder and chief executive officer of Green Hills Software.
'and other insecure and reliable software'? Sounds like a true convert.
David
If he could make a filesystem that wouldn't chew my data, I'd be more inclined to take his prophesies seriously! ;)
David
you'll also be the owner of an activated RFID tag in your skull.
You'll need a tinfoil jawplate now to go with that helmet.
David
Well, health care in the UK, plus me suffering tendinitis - dont get me started on that ;)
Yeah, Berkshire is fairly near London, and is near enough to be part of the expensive 'commuter belt'. I don't yet have a place in Seattle, but I do own (with mortgage) my house in the UK. If I was to sell it (I will rent it out for now), the weak $ would give me a fair amount of cash, that I could use to buy somewhere. I will need to look at it more closely before I make my final decision to relocate, of course.
David
Well, lets have a go at this one:
UK Salary is 18k GBP.
US salary is 20k GBP.
So on sheer parity terms, the US job pays a touch more. In the UK, I'm based in Bracknell, Berkshire, which is not a cheap place to live in terms of house prices etc. The office in Seattle is fairly central, but parking is available fairly cheaply, and public transport is good - I will live slightly 'further out' from the city to get more space (both house/garden) - I'm not really an apartment person.
Also, don't forget, while the US salary converts to only slightly more in pounds, that looks worse than it is, due to the weak dollar and strong pound. In terms of *living expenses* and purchasing power, the US job gives me more bang for my buck, as it were.
David
But...
Two H1-Bs -> Green card -> US citizenship.
It's a very well worn path, and I intend to walk it too, at least as far as the green card (I'm a Brit waiting for my H1-B.
David
Why am I probably cheaper? Because I'm not American? I'll have the same costs as an American, pay taxes like an American...
I speak the same language you do natively, have no communication issues with the 'native Americans', if you think you are such a thing, and am going to be living in Seattle.
I also understand grammar and punctuation - unlike some (cough). Surely that makes me a reasonable prospect for a company to hire because of my abilities and skills, rather than because you think I'd be cheaper (I won't be!) ?
David
I'm a UK UNIX support/developer/sysadmin, and I'm being relocated to Seattle under the H1-B programme..
:)
I'm not planning on stealing anyone's job - my company is creating a new position for me here, and the experience I have with the company's products from working in the UK office is one of the main drivers for moving me, rather than hiring someone else.
I'm also not a cheaper option - my salary is on a par with US techies, and my company has to pay $$$ for the visa and relocation expenses. So, it's a sink or swim world - might be positions available in the UK or other places. It's not the third world outside, you know - this is free movement of jobs and labour
David
Overall, it's quite positive for open source. BUT:
Among other things, Novell would seek to address the claim by identifying prior art that could invalidate the patent; demonstrating that the product does not infringe the patent; redesigning the product to avoid infringement; or pursuing a license with the patent owner.
This paragraph came from the Novell statement about how they would deal with a patent infringement claim. The last bit "pursuing a licence with the patent holder" might not get you what you want. Imagine if your OSS program ends up being only usable by users of SuSE/Novell Linux, because they bought an exclusive license for the patent...
David
and multicolored!
David
Really?
What res is 1080i HDTV?
Xbox can do that, provided you have a game which supports it, so to laugh at Xbox graphics is kinda silly by saying 'its only TV quality'.
You can even buy VGA convertors here that can do PROPER resolutions.
David
You mean like the Cervisia plugin for Konqueror?
That's a fair match for what you want- I use it now and again and find it pretty usable.
David
Personally, I found the article reasonably interesting, though I didnt think it said things that haven't already been said many times before.
I did get the impression that some of the research was a bit thin. e.g.
>Beyond the Foundation are many other Mozilla
>enabled browsers such as Konqueror
Well, Konqueror isn't mozilla based - it uses KHTML as its rendering engine, which is also utilised by Apple's Safari browser. Mozilla isn't the only open-source standards-compliant web browser engine out there.
David
Sadly, if you think there are linux drivers for the MPEG accelerator, I suspect you are ALMOST CERTAINLY going to be disappointed..
:(
Linux drivers for these things are like hens' teeth
David