The J.Neubuser quote is in reference to using proprietary, closed source software for proofs. The point being that without seeing the guts of the software it is hard to tell if the proof is correct, or dependent on a flaw in the software.
Old light from a long time a go, in galexies far, far away...
had to be said.
Mr P.
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Peer to Peer outfits that work like scour will work because of an even GREATER forces than human greed, human LAZINESS and IGNORANCE. Sure you can shut off the file sharing and refuse to upload, but why bother? Most people don't care, and will leave their drives open for the pickings. And I'm sure there are more than a few users out there who had it set up by a friend of theirs, and know the basics but nothing beyond that. They may be few, but they still share...
Mr.P
"So which is it son, ignorance or apathy?"
"I don't know coach, and I don't care..."
Isn't there a company that already does this? I seem to recall somecompany selling harddrives with linux pre-installed. Don't remember any of the details at the moment...
I think Handspring is the company you're thinking about (the ones lead by former Palm people). Palm is trying to licence their OS for other non-3com made devices (similar to IBM's Workpad). If their claims about da Vinci are true, abd this is a case of someone just copying code. I'd say Palm's the right.
Sun has a white paper describing the implementation of the JVM for the Palm system, codenamed "Spotless" It goes into detail about the design of the system. At the end it include a short description of some stuff they've implemented in Spotless.
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The J.Neubuser quote is in reference to using proprietary, closed source software for proofs. The point being that without seeing the guts of the software it is hard to tell if the proof is correct, or dependent on a flaw in the software.
Old light from a long time a go, in galexies far, far away...
had to be said.
Mr P.
Peer to Peer outfits that work like scour will work because of an even GREATER forces than human greed, human LAZINESS and IGNORANCE. Sure you can shut off the file sharing and refuse to upload, but why bother? Most people don't care, and will leave their drives open for the pickings. And I'm sure there are more than a few users out there who had it set up by a friend of theirs, and know the basics but nothing beyond that. They may be few, but they still share...
Mr.P
"So which is it son, ignorance or apathy?"
"I don't know coach, and I don't care..."
Nice to see someone doing something interesting with wireless
Isn't there a company that already does this?
I seem to recall somecompany selling harddrives with linux pre-installed. Don't remember any of the details at the moment...
mr. Peabody
I think Handspring is the company you're thinking about (the ones lead by former Palm people). Palm is trying to licence their OS for other non-3com made devices (similar to IBM's Workpad). If their claims about da Vinci are true, abd this is a case of someone just copying code. I'd say Palm's the right.
Sun has a white paper describing the implementation of the JVM for the Palm system,
b stract-73.html
codenamed "Spotless" It goes into detail about the design of the system. At the end it include a short description of some stuff they've implemented in Spotless.
http://www.sunlabs.com/technical-reports/1999/a
Mr. Peabody