Let this be a lesson to GPL v2 holdouts: You're now part of the DRM problem. GPL v3 is the solution. I know, Linux is (effectively) always GPL v2. I think we should thank move on to a new kernel that won't be an agent of the corporate DRM overlords. Unfortunately, HURD is more or less vaporware, however the *BSD kernel, the Darwin kernel, and the SunOS kernel are all available as FREE software.
Nokia is the (recent) corporate overlord of TrollTech, of QT fame. Sounds like they may be adding DRM to QT in the near future. If so, we could fork it (being GPL... the BSD license wouldn't allow us that freedom). But who knows what other surprises may be lurking in the source code. And GNOME, with the stink of Mono/Novell/MS/OOXML isn't any safer. Year of the linux desktop? X.org development is stagnant and the two most popular desktop environments are infected.
Ah yes. If only the US hadn't been waterboarding vietnamese POWs, John McCain wouldn't have been tortured for 5 years. American POWs have been -- and will be -- tortured regardless.
due to the Incumbent Re-election Act of 2002 (also known as McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform), blogging about John "Wipe my ass with the first amendment" McCain within 60 days of an election is illegal.
Per the article (Cringely, so not exactly trustworthy, but I don't feel like verifying the numbers) wholesale ethanol costs $1.42 a gallon and SwitftFuel production costs are ~40 cents/gallon. 1 Barrel of oil (42 gallons) currently goes for $130. That's converted to 20 gallons of gasoline (plus 20 gallons of other useful stuff), so the raw cost of gasoline is ~3.09/gallon. That's reasonably consistent with these numbers from the California gov't. Refinery costs for gasoline are slightly less, but not too far out of line.
Therefore, IF the ethanol price and ethanol conversion costs are accurate, the end user cost could easily be $1.50-1.60/gallon less than gasoline.
A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. In other words, copper is copper. Rice is rice. Stereos, on the other hand, come in many varieties of quality. And, the better a stereo is, the more it will cost. Whereas, the price of copper is universal, and fluctuates daily based on global supply and demand.
One of the characteristics of a commodity good is that its price is determined as a function of its market as a whole. Well-established physical commodities have actively traded spot and derivative markets. Generally, these are basic resources and agricultural products such as iron ore, crude oil, coal, ethanol, sugar, coffee beans, soybeans, aluminum, rice, wheat, gold and silver.
The GPL prevents ZFS integration (without a complete and total reimplementation of all the code... which won't happen since everybody prefers to write their own filesystem)
MS DOS/FAT is the universal file system for operating systems.
Yep. We recently swapped our production servers (from gentoo) to FreeBSD. Most of the senior linux admins quit in protest (they spent all day recompiling kde and testing themes so no big loss). Withe FreeBSD, we've seen better performance under heavy loads, but more importantly, that overwhelming stench of rancid pizza and dorito farts is gone.
It's Open Source -- unlike proprietary software, we're not at the mercy of a company to dictate the release schedule or fix bugs if they get around to it. If bugs aren't fixed, it's because we failed to fix them.
You don't seem to understand. No one was in the room with him while he was reading it. He might as well have been reading a story about eating shit in a public library or having butt sex with his wife.
Vodafone sued T-Mobile/Apple (in Germany) over that and lost [During the lawsuit, they sold an unlocked iPhone for 999 Euros]. Orange (France) sells an unlocked iPhone for 749 Euros vs 399 locked. So nothign will change (except maybe a lower price for the locked version).
One of my contacts at google is running android on a jail-broken iPhone. I hope they include iPhone support -- I know there will be a lot of pissed off iPhone users who want to install a better OS now that St. Steve threw them under a bus! They still don't support ogg vorbis. WTF?
Given the rising airfare prices and the move to make fat people buy two tickets, fatties like CowBoi Kneel (I think he's a 3-seater) won't be flying anywhere.
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Real men get a rimjob from their toilet slave.
Let this be a lesson to GPL v2 holdouts: You're now part of the DRM problem. GPL v3 is the solution. I know, Linux is (effectively) always GPL v2. I think we should thank move on to a new kernel that won't be an agent of the corporate DRM overlords. Unfortunately, HURD is more or less vaporware, however the *BSD kernel, the Darwin kernel, and the SunOS kernel are all available as FREE software.
Nokia is the (recent) corporate overlord of TrollTech, of QT fame. Sounds like they may be adding DRM to QT in the near future. If so, we could fork it (being GPL... the BSD license wouldn't allow us that freedom). But who knows what other surprises may be lurking in the source code. And GNOME, with the stink of Mono/Novell/MS/OOXML isn't any safer. Year of the linux desktop? X.org development is stagnant and the two most popular desktop environments are infected.
More anatomy of LinucksGirl, less anatomy of Linux file systems.
I'm in the same boat bro. I can't use it untile Flash and FlashBlock are both working correctly.
Ah yes. If only the US hadn't been waterboarding vietnamese POWs, John McCain wouldn't have been tortured for 5 years. American POWs have been -- and will be -- tortured regardless.
due to the Incumbent Re-election Act of 2002 (also known as McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform), blogging about John "Wipe my ass with the first amendment" McCain within 60 days of an election is illegal.
Per the article (Cringely, so not exactly trustworthy, but I don't feel like verifying the numbers) wholesale ethanol costs $1.42 a gallon and SwitftFuel production costs are ~40 cents/gallon. 1 Barrel of oil (42 gallons) currently goes for $130. That's converted to 20 gallons of gasoline (plus 20 gallons of other useful stuff), so the raw cost of gasoline is ~3.09/gallon. That's reasonably consistent with these numbers from the California gov't. Refinery costs for gasoline are slightly less, but not too far out of line.
Therefore, IF the ethanol price and ethanol conversion costs are accurate, the end user cost could easily be $1.50-1.60/gallon less than gasoline.
A commodity is anything for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market. In other words, copper is copper. Rice is rice. Stereos, on the other hand, come in many varieties of quality. And, the better a stereo is, the more it will cost. Whereas, the price of copper is universal, and fluctuates daily based on global supply and demand.
One of the characteristics of a commodity good is that its price is determined as a function of its market as a whole. Well-established physical commodities have actively traded spot and derivative markets. Generally, these are basic resources and agricultural products such as iron ore, crude oil, coal, ethanol, sugar, coffee beans, soybeans, aluminum, rice, wheat, gold and silver.
10.5 client includes readonly zfs support. The mac ZFS development is available here
Yep. We recently swapped our production servers (from gentoo) to FreeBSD. Most of the senior linux admins quit in protest (they spent all day recompiling kde and testing themes so no big loss). Withe FreeBSD, we've seen better performance under heavy loads, but more importantly, that overwhelming stench of rancid pizza and dorito farts is gone.
Smelly hippies?
I agree. I recently discovered the xfree86 project. It seems like a good alternative to x.org.
It's Open Source -- unlike proprietary software, we're not at the mercy of a company to dictate the release schedule or fix bugs if they get around to it. If bugs aren't fixed, it's because we failed to fix them.
You don't seem to understand. No one was in the room with him while he was reading it. He might as well have been reading a story about eating shit in a public library or having butt sex with his wife.
So, they don't hate Open Source (tm), they just hate Open Source (tm) advocates.
Vodafone sued T-Mobile/Apple (in Germany) over that and lost [During the lawsuit, they sold an unlocked iPhone for 999 Euros]. Orange (France) sells an unlocked iPhone for 749 Euros vs 399 locked. So nothign will change (except maybe a lower price for the locked version).
I own a baseball bat. Am I allowed to smack you upside the head with it a few times?
Doubtless. But inferior, cost-free tools sometimes make better, commercial ones unsellable. That is the tragedy.
Are you as happy when Microsoft or other monopolists do it?
One of my contacts at google is running android on a jail-broken iPhone. I hope they include iPhone support -- I know there will be a lot of pissed off iPhone users who want to install a better OS now that St. Steve threw them under a bus! They still don't support ogg vorbis. WTF?
The iPhone 3G web page still mentions edge (and states 10 hour talk time w/ 2G, 5 hour talk time w/ 3G), so it may support both.
the standard AT&T iPhone plan is $70/month, which works out to $1680/2 years.
iPhone + jailbreak = iPod touch with GPS at $100 discount.
Given the rising airfare prices and the move to make fat people buy two tickets, fatties like CowBoi Kneel (I think he's a 3-seater) won't be flying anywhere.