I found a price of $19 for this part at: http://www.spartantech.com/. I have bought stuff from them before, but I am in no way affiliated, blah, blah, blah...
Q - What license will be used for the release of COAS?
A - The whole work is released under the Gnu Public License (GPL), which makes its development and use available to everyone. It is intended that the development model, copyright use, and licensing be similar to that of the Linux kernel. Just as some drivers for Linux may be released in binary form only, not under the GPL, modules may be written for COAS which are released under a license of the author's choosing. However, the core system will always be available under GPL. Certain major library elements of COAS are released under the LGPL (Library Gnu Public License) to allow developers to write commercial programs on top of the COAS system without encumbering them with GPL restrictions.
Anoyone want to organize the announcement of a boycott of NSI? With the new registries about to open up and a pending boycott, that may be enough to depress their share price (which is the only thing that matters to them anyway). Might be enough to scare them off.
I haven't been able to get at the whitepaper yet due to it being slashdotted, but I was able to read the press release. It looked fishy to me that they were only comparing peak throughput. Does the whitepaper say how they defined peak throughput? It could be just a statistical aberration if they weren't careful. In any case, I hope they were honest enough to use sustained peak throughput.
I used to read Katz's NetCitizen column on Wired and thought he was (very) occasionally insightful about new media topics and their resultant political impact. However, I never was impressed by his ability to grasp the underlying technical issues and was always a bit amused to see him either use some flowery hand-waving when discussing them or repeat the same mistakes. It seemed to me it was clear that not only did he not understand the technology but had no interest to do so.
In this way, he never really struck me as being very different from the "old media" journalists he used to castigate daily. The only real difference being that he was somehow aware that he had a jump on the rest of them by exploiting the internet.
Thus, I was somewhat aghast to see him pop up in this forum, which I had been reading and contributing to for about a year. It's not that I object to strong personalities or celebrities. It's the fact that he has never taken a CS class, or written a line of code, or soldered a wire, or done anything else that makes us geeks. Or the fact that he doesn't really join in our discussions but instead posts his "essays" which are nearly content-free, self-serving monologues.
Basically, what I object to is that Katz being here violates the sense of community that (I thought) was at the heart of slashdot. As much as I have grown to like this forum, if someone starts a new one that's Katz-free, I have to admit that I'll probably migrate there. And don't worry, I won't let the door hit me on the way out.
Whadja expect from the little Conde Nast rag Wired has become? They're probably angling for an ad placement from Kipling in their travel mags. Remember that this is the cesspool that spawned Katz.
You said "all the Indian programmers were working on software for US companies". This is quite different from finding software written in India selling on the shelf in the US.
My firm deals with a number of Indian and Russian software consulting companies. One of the Indian companies produces high-end NC software for mechanical flame cutters which is sold not only in India, but in the US and Europe. I think that serves quite effectively to demolish your original statement.
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I ordered two 6905's plus some cables, and S&H was still only 10 bucks, so YMMV.
I found a price of $19 for this part at: http://www.spartantech.com/. I have bought stuff from them before, but I am in no way affiliated, blah, blah, blah...
Can it take itself apart and put itself back together again?
From ftp://ftp.coas.org/pub/FAQ
Q - What license will be used for the release of COAS?
Anoyone want to organize the announcement of a boycott of NSI? With the new registries about to open up and a pending boycott, that may be enough to depress their share price (which is the only thing that matters to them anyway). Might be enough to scare them off.
I haven't been able to get at the whitepaper yet due to it being slashdotted, but I was able to read the press release. It looked fishy to me that they were only comparing peak throughput. Does the whitepaper say how they defined peak throughput? It could be just a statistical aberration if they weren't careful. In any case, I hope they were honest enough to use sustained peak throughput.
Here's a "Family Circus" site to get that funny taste out of your mouth:
http://www.prehensile.com/tales/c ircus/circus.htm
I used to read Katz's NetCitizen column on Wired and thought he was (very) occasionally insightful about new media topics and their resultant political impact. However, I never was impressed by his ability to grasp the underlying technical issues and was always a bit amused to see him either use some flowery hand-waving when discussing them or repeat the same mistakes. It seemed to me it was clear that not only did he not understand the technology but had no interest to do so.
In this way, he never really struck me as being very different from the "old media" journalists he used to castigate daily. The only real difference being that he was somehow aware that he had a jump on the rest of them by exploiting the internet.
Thus, I was somewhat aghast to see him pop up in this forum, which I had been reading and contributing to for about a year. It's not that I object to strong personalities or celebrities. It's the fact that he has never taken a CS class, or written a line of code, or soldered a wire, or done anything else that makes us geeks. Or the fact that he doesn't really join in our discussions but instead posts his "essays" which are nearly content-free, self-serving monologues.
Basically, what I object to is that Katz being here violates the sense of community that (I thought) was at the heart of slashdot. As much as I have grown to like this forum, if someone starts a new one that's Katz-free, I have to admit that I'll probably migrate there. And don't worry, I won't let the door hit me on the way out.
Whadja expect from the little Conde Nast rag Wired has become? They're probably angling for an ad placement from Kipling in their travel mags. Remember that this is the cesspool that spawned Katz.
So OS X can saturate a T1 a few milliseconds faster than Linux. Big deal. Anyway, I'd like to see exactly which WebBench stats they're using.
Isn't it about time?
Microsoft has repeatedly announced a 64 bit version of NT. Where the hell have YOU been?
Yes, we all know about Microsoft's sterling record in living up to preannounced enhancements of NT. Can you say Cairo? Good, I knew you could.
If anyone is allowed to ship "munitions" overseas, it would be the military.
And if reading Chomsky's too much for you, go and rent "Manufacturing Consent".
Nah, I doubt you'd get motion sickness from one of those, but if you want some real vestibular stimulation, try the Symmetron.
Yeah, I guess we've arrived: finally, we have our own clueluess Pepys.
distributed.net is /.'ed to hell and back, so if someone
could post the damn plan, that would be a good thing.
You said "all the Indian programmers were working on software for US companies". This is quite different from finding software written in India selling on the shelf in the US.
My firm deals with a number of Indian and Russian software consulting companies. One of the Indian companies produces high-end NC software for mechanical flame cutters which is sold not only in India, but in the US and Europe. I think that serves quite effectively to demolish your original statement.
All Indian programmers, eh? So I would need just one example to disprove your point?
Yet another Katz piece telling us what we already know. While this stuff was OK on hotwired, I question it's value here.