nobody want to declare the shuttle a "failure" and put the money on the table for something else. After all, the shuttle represents the height of US cold war "supremecy" because we made it work thru sheer force of will... It's done it's job and time for us to move on...actually it was planned to move on 10 years ago, but nobody wants to pay..so they keep cobbeling them back together...
If you REALLY want a space program you need to scrap 90% of the NASA bueracracy and get automotive level engineering involved. Auto engineering surpassed the aerospace industry in reliability, tolerances, and productivity a long time ago [and that's just the americans!] we need space parts cheap and reliable so we can toss 1-out-of-4 because they're not PERFECT...and not bother to reuse them...perhaps even design launch/payload vehicles to be reused as station components... for any space program to really work well we need to build parts by the HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS, not the one-off engineering samples we fly now.
The Shuttle was a great project for our national identity. As the biggest, baddest country around we should be doing stuff like this...that shows how cool we can be...rather than beating up third-world countries to show how big our prez's balls are. We may have won the Cold War, but we sold our souls to the capialists/corpratists just as bad as the russians sold out to the commies... If the corperate masters can't find the money to do truely GREAT things we're much worse off for it. There's been nothing GREAT done in america in the 20 years since we "won" the cold war. The last great Skyscraper was built 30 years ago [and wiped out in 01...we're arguing about how tall it should be!] the last great public works were longer ago than that..and the last great space work was 30 years ago [yes the shuttle is THAT old!] The generation Who's parents won WW2 and the cold war have done NOTHING great but count their silly stocks and interest rates...the current adminstration is the most glaring example of that... They're selling our soul while riding the coattails of greatness..
Linux doesn't look because it provides him with some protection...without willing intent concequences are less. Also, at the time linux was written, Software patents were not valid in Europe..so again he wasn't breaking ANY laws where he lived.
The other reason for not looking is that he wouldn't learn anything anyway. Most software patents [except for IBMs] are so vague that viewing the patent would only cause you troble...because most don't have ACTUAL implementaion...just "works-like-this". What ever implementations they DO have are locked up n copyright where nobody could ever see. That leaves many options for different intrepetations...look how many mousetraps are patented [versus 1 mouse catching device] Also, patents are invalid if the idea was published ANYWHERE prior to being patented.
That last one is where MAD comes in. I'd bet a great many things were in Linux and OSS LONG before they were patented...too many to count. Remember, OSS is published INSTANTLY! Type your idea up and post a working model on sourceforge and it can't legally be patented...ever! Any upstart company trying to sic the patent lawyers on Linus would end up with all of OSS brought into court to start invalidating patents...and OSS goes Way back before software patents were even Legal! No company in their ritht mind [SCO excluded!] would open that can of worms... After the first 100 or so invalid software patents, the Judges would declare them all void and tell the PTO to stop creating junk! That would ruin the whole little game.
I like the contesting idea best. It helps eliminate playing the system. You'd have to have real deadlines to meet so your app would be on the table...or you'd loose 1 years turn! They'd have to be sane & reasonably worded because again, redos cost you a try. making it a public limit gives everybody a chance to see it. No more hiding or obfuscating patent apps. The limited number means you have to put the best ones up...crapflood the system and you're likely to never turn up! Overall it makes patents and even BETTER value for the company because they are publiclly vetted...people can try to get around or they know they gotta pay...but they'd be more willing to pay because they would be getting a much higher quality of information!!!
you miss the point...HTTP has gone as far as is reasonable...and thats OK!
Why can't anybody see that? It's time for something new to be developed that meets the needs of the NEXT 10 years. It's not about "control" or rather my post was that OSS should grab the reins FIRST. HTTP was mostly an OSS-type project and that made it very successful. It's time to put all the ducks in a row and lay out a new course....before THEY do it for us!
My current car is a 95 neon with 206K. My very favorite car is a 1984 Nissan Sentra... Great car! no power anything! I don't even think it had air... but it was a champ.. really fun to drive, reliable, great on gas, cheap to fix. Of course it had NOTHING under the hood... I'm too poor, but that's also the reaon so many old Beetles are still on the road. Nice simple car to drive around... My opinion of the current crop of new cars is cheap plastic trash...cause when all those gadgets go it's not an inconveinance anymore, it's downright dangerous.
but installing the filter's would count as "due dilligence" in addition to informing everybody they're not to look at the stuff. It would be enough to keep you from being sued...unless it was some type of habitual abuse.
Yahoo isn't endangering their position because they are reacting to his lawsuit with due dilligence. They aren't editing, but reacting to a proper court proceeding...I'm sure he sent detailed messages about which ones to delete and they just entered the numbers without bothering to read the posts... By their size they probably have an entire department devoted to complying with frivilous suits.
AMD-64 blows intel out of the water at 32 bits...with 2/3 the GHz! imagine what could be with a proper 64 bit OS, driver, program to run on there. The point is that the tool is created, ready and installed...it's the multi-billion dollar companies that can't keep up with progress...so they're slowing progress down because it's "stupid"...like little kids. Get in there and compete boys!!!
most Opterons are motherboard limited to how much ram they can have and still be affordable. Remember that Opterons are Dual channel so wiring gets pretty crowded on a dual board...meaning you almost HAVE to move to 6,8, + layer boards which cost big $$$.
Techincally Opteron works in NUMA [non-Uniform Memory Access] so each processor has ram connected to it...see Tyan's "superboard" with 4 processors, 8 channels of DDR $ 16 slots for an example of one crowded MOBO! Remember too, that you can only "barely" get 2GB ram chips and they're VERY expensive... there's nobody with enough money to max the things out...or at least be more than a niche!! Combine NUMA with the 1Gig hypertransport dedicated point-to-point between processors and you've got HUGE Bandwidth going on.
seriously, the peak of the MS monololy is the Intel, Microsoft, Dell cabal... in the corperate relm they'll do ANYTHING to keep sales of THEIR stuff going... Even though AMD is cheaper, it's not that much cheaper than what you can get a Dell for. Until an AMD maker show up that's Dells equal you won't see AMD taken seriously.
Gee, it's too bad there isn't a really good offering to put together a new cabal... we've got Linux & AMD-64, we just need one serious, hacker/. friendly PC maker to get desperate enough to turn the screws.
I love my Abit BX6-R2 they just don't make um like that anymore. It's had a celeron 300a@450, a cel 566@850 [in a slocket!], and now it has a cel 1.2 in a powerleap adapter. It's still running across the room! The BX set the standard for what PC hardware SHOULD be! Unfortunately the marketroids will see that it never happens again...bummer.
The "buzzz" is poor shielding of the audio chipset on the MOBO...not AMD's problem...just a cheap motherboard. Also, the SB live was ENTIRELY creative's problem. They went more than 3YEARS without driver updates for those cards...meaning that they didn't account for the variations in higher-speed/ processor changes in that time... heck, I have an INTEL board/proc [i815 made by asus] from 2001 that simply refused to work with the thing. Anyway you can't blame AMD for SB problems!
actually it happens a lot. After all, there's a whole legal profession dedicated to Trademark law. What these guys were doing is to find something they want but not technically trademarked, get the trademark in a higher/different venue and then sue the unsuspecting holder. Technically it works because they can put the suit in a far away federal court that the victim can't reach or be represented in without $5,000 up front...for small people like katie.com it works all the time in "meatspace". Several years [pre dot com] ago a local long standing [10-15 years!] PBS show "Michigan Outdoors" went thru exactly the same thing. Another magazine wanted the title so they simply published and then sued the PBS TV show! Unfortunately, at that time such disputes were fairly rare, so the lawyers screwed up and they were put off the air for 6 months until they came back with the "approved" name "Michigan Out of Doors". Much like the katie.com thing they were just a local huntin' & fishin' show... it was foolish and petty and should have been laughed out of court. but they didn't have 10's of thousands of dollars to fight over a silly name thing...
fortunately for katie.com the whole issue is much more public nowdays...and the rules for internet presence are slightly more sane toward "first come" status.
but what they'd really need to sell is a way to get you there...if YOU the buyer can't take posession of it, then you're not going to put down money. Hence "squatting" is the only fair way to divy it up.
You can have what you can hold! means you better bring people to help!
That's what happened in the USA until the Revolution..we were considered "represented" by our corperate masters across the sea. At the time, all of america was considered "company property". Until people like Jefferson rose up and MADE them respect us as a nation...
odds are it will happen again...and you're absolutely right it will be us against the corps.
But it was SCO that ended it first...they sold the company to Caldera and the Engineers working on Montery left to start a new company...IBM just choose not to pick up the contract with Caldera...no use crying about it.
Look at them as the solution to the H1-B visa problem. If they show Americans can do all the same things maybe the politicans will learn there is NO engineering shortage!!! Basically, they're just providing americans to fill the shoes of all those forigners. I could see many larger companies falling for this in the future.
but only 25% of the jobs in the country are for Fortune 1000 companies... The rest of the employers simply want an employee to do a job. Sure there are always companies that want specific degrees from specific universities... but those are more social clubs than not...and now days they all lay you off the same.
IS is all about what you know...if you can get really good at something in demand fast...then you'll have a leg up. the key is really to KEEP learning... which is what these schools REALLY offer. They offer 2 years and they'll work with my employer! That way every 4-5 years I can go back and do something new! On a resume, being flexable is MUCH more valuable than the degree... You have to get in positions to do INTERESTING projects... Typically all the 4 year gets you is the management desk. And we all "love" PHBs
Well let's see, most companies see a 4 year degree as over qualified for most low to medium jobs...so the universities comply by making dumber students... Meanwhile the same universities take YEARS of prodding to teach the classes the PAYING students want... to the point in CS that if they DO teach it at school it's obsolete.
My stepdad predicted this years ago, that people would start demanding education to do their jobs and go around the university "establishment" to do it. There's a large group of 25-30 year olds right now that need to change jobs and learn new skills...collage or university is woefully unprepared and unequipt to educate people that demand it. There's a growing number of people that need JOBS...not four years of pissing off.
I've been to enough on-the-job training to know that a focused group of ADULTS can pound down in a week or two what a Uni would expect a full semester of 1-hour slices for... but they deal in kids that don't know any better!
Why don't they have a "real" computer typing test...perhaps a few hundred lines of perl or C++. I work help desk all day and do some programming also. My wife is shocked that can properly use number keys and all the puncuation keys.
but in 6 months the price of the PC version will be 39.99 or less and the xbox version will still be 49.99 new...the PC titles have a very short attention span and a steeper pricing drop off than other markets...
at this point Activision could probably get away with more than that because it's so eagerly awaited. Of course if they'd plan a little better they could include cool stuff in the first round not included later...as better "swag" for getting it early and paying the higher price. If they'd put more swag in up front for the first round of buyers they'd get more of the high priced sales...versus the people that pick it up on sale at christmas.
their choice of retail price is in line with the market for AAA video games. You'all must not get out much because most PS2 or Xbox games cost that much nodays too...and don't come down as quickly as PC games.
Seriously, give it a couple weeks and it will be on sale for 5$-10$ off very shortly at all the usual places...you gotta give them credit for trying to make a buck while it's new and shiny!
isn't it funny how that works! I had an employer that did much the same thing...the changes weren't that big a deal, but still it was the point of the thing. What good is a carefully negotiated contract if they can come back a year later and force-feed changes? More than that, how would such an issue work with things like unemployment? After all, they are unilaterally demanding new contract terms on their terms....you can you "negotiate" fairly in such a situation?
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it was at least secure thru obscurity untill you told the people on slashdot!!!! now it will be hacked next week!!!!
If you REALLY want a space program you need to scrap 90% of the NASA bueracracy and get automotive level engineering involved. Auto engineering surpassed the aerospace industry in reliability, tolerances, and productivity a long time ago [and that's just the americans!] we need space parts cheap and reliable so we can toss 1-out-of-4 because they're not PERFECT...and not bother to reuse them...perhaps even design launch/payload vehicles to be reused as station components... for any space program to really work well we need to build parts by the HUNDREDS or THOUSANDS, not the one-off engineering samples we fly now.
The Shuttle was a great project for our national identity. As the biggest, baddest country around we should be doing stuff like this...that shows how cool we can be...rather than beating up third-world countries to show how big our prez's balls are. We may have won the Cold War, but we sold our souls to the capialists/corpratists just as bad as the russians sold out to the commies... If the corperate masters can't find the money to do truely GREAT things we're much worse off for it. There's been nothing GREAT done in america in the 20 years since we "won" the cold war. The last great Skyscraper was built 30 years ago [and wiped out in 01...we're arguing about how tall it should be!] the last great public works were longer ago than that..and the last great space work was 30 years ago [yes the shuttle is THAT old!] The generation Who's parents won WW2 and the cold war have done NOTHING great but count their silly stocks and interest rates...the current adminstration is the most glaring example of that... They're selling our soul while riding the coattails of greatness..
The other reason for not looking is that he wouldn't learn anything anyway. Most software patents [except for IBMs] are so vague that viewing the patent would only cause you troble...because most don't have ACTUAL implementaion...just "works-like-this". What ever implementations they DO have are locked up n copyright where nobody could ever see. That leaves many options for different intrepetations...look how many mousetraps are patented [versus 1 mouse catching device] Also, patents are invalid if the idea was published ANYWHERE prior to being patented.
That last one is where MAD comes in. I'd bet a great many things were in Linux and OSS LONG before they were patented...too many to count. Remember, OSS is published INSTANTLY! Type your idea up and post a working model on sourceforge and it can't legally be patented...ever! Any upstart company trying to sic the patent lawyers on Linus would end up with all of OSS brought into court to start invalidating patents...and OSS goes Way back before software patents were even Legal! No company in their ritht mind [SCO excluded!] would open that can of worms... After the first 100 or so invalid software patents, the Judges would declare them all void and tell the PTO to stop creating junk! That would ruin the whole little game.
I like the contesting idea best. It helps eliminate playing the system. You'd have to have real deadlines to meet so your app would be on the table...or you'd loose 1 years turn! They'd have to be sane & reasonably worded because again, redos cost you a try. making it a public limit gives everybody a chance to see it. No more hiding or obfuscating patent apps. The limited number means you have to put the best ones up...crapflood the system and you're likely to never turn up! Overall it makes patents and even BETTER value for the company because they are publiclly vetted...people can try to get around or they know they gotta pay...but they'd be more willing to pay because they would be getting a much higher quality of information!!!
Why can't anybody see that? It's time for something new to be developed that meets the needs of the NEXT 10 years. It's not about "control" or rather my post was that OSS should grab the reins FIRST. HTTP was mostly an OSS-type project and that made it very successful. It's time to put all the ducks in a row and lay out a new course....before THEY do it for us!
My current car is a 95 neon with 206K. My very favorite car is a 1984 Nissan Sentra... Great car! no power anything! I don't even think it had air... but it was a champ.. really fun to drive, reliable, great on gas, cheap to fix. Of course it had NOTHING under the hood... I'm too poor, but that's also the reaon so many old Beetles are still on the road. Nice simple car to drive around... My opinion of the current crop of new cars is cheap plastic trash...cause when all those gadgets go it's not an inconveinance anymore, it's downright dangerous.
Yahoo isn't endangering their position because they are reacting to his lawsuit with due dilligence. They aren't editing, but reacting to a proper court proceeding...I'm sure he sent detailed messages about which ones to delete and they just entered the numbers without bothering to read the posts... By their size they probably have an entire department devoted to complying with frivilous suits.
AMD-64 blows intel out of the water at 32 bits...with 2/3 the GHz! imagine what could be with a proper 64 bit OS, driver, program to run on there. The point is that the tool is created, ready and installed...it's the multi-billion dollar companies that can't keep up with progress...so they're slowing progress down because it's "stupid"...like little kids. Get in there and compete boys!!!
Techincally Opteron works in NUMA [non-Uniform Memory Access] so each processor has ram connected to it...see Tyan's "superboard" with 4 processors, 8 channels of DDR $ 16 slots for an example of one crowded MOBO! Remember too, that you can only "barely" get 2GB ram chips and they're VERY expensive... there's nobody with enough money to max the things out...or at least be more than a niche!! Combine NUMA with the 1Gig hypertransport dedicated point-to-point between processors and you've got HUGE Bandwidth going on.
seriously, the peak of the MS monololy is the Intel, Microsoft, Dell cabal... in the corperate relm they'll do ANYTHING to keep sales of THEIR stuff going... Even though AMD is cheaper, it's not that much cheaper than what you can get a Dell for. Until an AMD maker show up that's Dells equal you won't see AMD taken seriously.
Gee, it's too bad there isn't a really good offering to put together a new cabal... we've got Linux & AMD-64, we just need one serious, hacker/. friendly PC maker to get desperate enough to turn the screws.
I love my Abit BX6-R2 they just don't make um like that anymore. It's had a celeron 300a@450, a cel 566@850 [in a slocket!], and now it has a cel 1.2 in a powerleap adapter. It's still running across the room! The BX set the standard for what PC hardware SHOULD be! Unfortunately the marketroids will see that it never happens again...bummer.
The "buzzz" is poor shielding of the audio chipset on the MOBO...not AMD's problem...just a cheap motherboard. Also, the SB live was ENTIRELY creative's problem. They went more than 3YEARS without driver updates for those cards...meaning that they didn't account for the variations in higher-speed/ processor changes in that time... heck, I have an INTEL board/proc [i815 made by asus] from 2001 that simply refused to work with the thing. Anyway you can't blame AMD for SB problems!
fortunately for katie.com the whole issue is much more public nowdays...and the rules for internet presence are slightly more sane toward "first come" status.
You can have what you can hold! means you better bring people to help!
odds are it will happen again...and you're absolutely right it will be us against the corps.
Ever notice that while this stuff makes news on /. you feel like we've already seen this movie...these poor smucks forgot to watch it.
But it was SCO that ended it first...they sold the company to Caldera and the Engineers working on Montery left to start a new company...IBM just choose not to pick up the contract with Caldera...no use crying about it.
Look at them as the solution to the H1-B visa problem. If they show Americans can do all the same things maybe the politicans will learn there is NO engineering shortage!!! Basically, they're just providing americans to fill the shoes of all those forigners. I could see many larger companies falling for this in the future.
IS is all about what you know...if you can get really good at something in demand fast...then you'll have a leg up. the key is really to KEEP learning... which is what these schools REALLY offer. They offer 2 years and they'll work with my employer! That way every 4-5 years I can go back and do something new! On a resume, being flexable is MUCH more valuable than the degree... You have to get in positions to do INTERESTING projects... Typically all the 4 year gets you is the management desk. And we all "love" PHBs
My stepdad predicted this years ago, that people would start demanding education to do their jobs and go around the university "establishment" to do it. There's a large group of 25-30 year olds right now that need to change jobs and learn new skills...collage or university is woefully unprepared and unequipt to educate people that demand it. There's a growing number of people that need JOBS...not four years of pissing off.
I've been to enough on-the-job training to know that a focused group of ADULTS can pound down in a week or two what a Uni would expect a full semester of 1-hour slices for... but they deal in kids that don't know any better!
"Learn to type while you bask in the green glow!"
Why don't they have a "real" computer typing test...perhaps a few hundred lines of perl or C++. I work help desk all day and do some programming also. My wife is shocked that can properly use number keys and all the puncuation keys.
at this point Activision could probably get away with more than that because it's so eagerly awaited. Of course if they'd plan a little better they could include cool stuff in the first round not included later...as better "swag" for getting it early and paying the higher price. If they'd put more swag in up front for the first round of buyers they'd get more of the high priced sales...versus the people that pick it up on sale at christmas.
Seriously, give it a couple weeks and it will be on sale for 5$-10$ off very shortly at all the usual places...you gotta give them credit for trying to make a buck while it's new and shiny!
isn't it funny how that works! I had an employer that did much the same thing...the changes weren't that big a deal, but still it was the point of the thing. What good is a carefully negotiated contract if they can come back a year later and force-feed changes? More than that, how would such an issue work with things like unemployment? After all, they are unilaterally demanding new contract terms on their terms....you can you "negotiate" fairly in such a situation?