NASA has picked computer maker Silicon Graphics Inc. and chipmaker Intel to develop a major supercomputer based on Linux to simulate space exploration and conduct other research, SGI announced Tuesday.
DRM might be required by law, and Linus stated in an interview that he didn't oppose to DRM in Linux, so you might HAVE to accept it unless we can stop DRM from being implemented to begin with.
And Linux isn't ONE operating system. Technically, Linux isn't an operating system at all. If you classify them that widely, OSX is a *Nix variant, hence *Nix is the second most popular OS.
You are entitled to use whatever license you want for your own products, and although IANAL either, that should at least mean that you can say "in this country GPL applies, while in that country CeCILL applies".
Well, I didn't say Apple would do it, but they do have the advantage now. Some other company may very well pick up the trail and develop iMovies or whatever, I hope Jobs comes to his senses and that Apple at least considers such a solution.
RTFA; Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermouse remix) by Zero7; the 100 millionth song purchased from the iTunes music store. He will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his new iPod. In addition we awarded 50 special 20GB iPods -- one to the purchaser of each 100,000th song downloaded between 95 million and 100 million songs.
.. to Apple! It's good to see that some are able to look new ways when it comes to distributing music, perhaps other contents, like movies, can be distributed in the same manner in the near future.
As I suspected, the site is fairly old, click on "Introduction": '120 Years Of Electronic Music' is an ongoing project and the site will be updated on a regular basis (currently v3.0 feb 1998).
Not only that, P2P is an interesting alternative to the traditional C/S model. This appears to be a move that is not very well thought out, are they going to ban FTP since you can distribute copyrighted material over FTP as well? I don't think these guys know enough about technology to really tell what's going on and what needs to be done. I'm fairly sure they are not even willing to hear expert opinions on this either..
Cisco's software is completely different. Add to the fact that they may not normally allow unlicensed books about their software, and you've got a sticky situation.
What you're basically saying is that you cannot write about how you configure a Cisco router? What about books like these ? I would be very surprised if Cisco demanded licencse from the "Dummies" series, just as an example.
And just to add to what the others have said, Java and VB.Net are not ECMA standards. Sun has kept a tight grip around Java so as not to loose control over it, there are still hundreds of books available on Java.
But has he done that? My point was that they cannot sue him just for publishing a book, he must violate some copyright if that's to be the case. Could Deitel be sued for publishing books on Java and.Net?
Sue him for what exactly? He wrote the book and unless he's plagiarised some of its content, then they wouldn't have much of a case. Given his profession, I'm sure he's more than capable of writing this book on his own.
He's the owner of the material, and I seriously doubt that he can be sued for anything at all.
Why is this modded flamebait? Women, and also alot of men, really HAVE problems parking because it often involves driving in reverse. It doesn't help that you often have little time to do the parking because of the other cars waiting to get past you. Alot of people tend to turn the wheels the wrong way when driving in reverse.
Everything doesn't have to be functional. I have a P4 computer running at 3.25 ghz with a lot of RAM and even though I'm a developer and do alot of programming, my CPU rarely goes much above 1 - 2%. I would love to have something like this. I admit, the increase in functionality probably won't be that great at the moment, but it's eye-candy and can perhaps incorporate some cool features. From the demo it also appears that it can be turned of (He clicks a leaf to start it, so I assume it can go the other way), so it might be just shutting off PLG when you're doing some heavy compiling, playing games or in any other way need some more CPU cycles.
The package you get when buying SuSE is also quite impressive. I haven't bought it in a long time (SuSE 7.1), been using Slackware exclusively, but I remember getting a couple of books in addition to the 7cd's and 1 dvd. Hell, it wasn't even that expensive. Do they still supply the books in the package?
I did that on SuSE 9.0, downloaded the entire tree and mirrored it on one machine. It worked great! It's still not the same as downloading the.iso files, burn them and boot up. The entire tree was somewhere close to 9 gb, while the iso files are often only 3 cd's. It does work rather well though, so if you have a fast connection and don't mind waiting a bit for it, downloading the tree is an excellent way of getting SuSE.
It's a prototype, they most likeley want to try it out and see if it's worth the money. For now, at $46,000 a copy for the prototypes, no one is eager to blow any Dragon Runners apart.
By taking down these people they are effectively removing parts of it. If you're talkign about servers, remember it's the legislation in the country where the server is located that applies, and it's that governemnts responsibility to track them down. If they don't want to, there's nothing American or European governements can do but put pressure on them. At least with this, they are fighting the P2P spreading of it. A lot of these people produce the pr0n themselves and distribute it, it would be hard to destroy every file out there, it's easier to take the men behind them.
What is the problem in it? If you've read the article you'd see that there is no difference here compared to tapping a telephone, it's just the first time it's been done this way. If they can catch child pr0n people with this stuff I'm all for it.
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If they do manage to sell these successfully, I'll be even more scared of their Marketing division.
NASA has picked computer maker Silicon Graphics Inc. and chipmaker Intel to develop a major supercomputer based on Linux to simulate space exploration and conduct other research, SGI announced Tuesday.
Read it here
DRM might be required by law, and Linus stated in an interview that he didn't oppose to DRM in Linux, so you might HAVE to accept it unless we can stop DRM from being implemented to begin with.
What can an OSS BIOS do against DRM? If DRM is enforced onto motherboards, the BIOS will have to support it, open source or not.
0.9.2 is only 0.9.1 with the patch for the shell:// vulnerability.
And Linux isn't ONE operating system. Technically, Linux isn't an operating system at all. If you classify them that widely, OSX is a *Nix variant, hence *Nix is the second most popular OS.
You are entitled to use whatever license you want for your own products, and although IANAL either, that should at least mean that you can say "in this country GPL applies, while in that country CeCILL applies".
Kinda funny, if you look at the site in the wayback machine, the site hasn't been altered since their first cache in 1998.
Well, I didn't say Apple would do it, but they do have the advantage now. Some other company may very well pick up the trail and develop iMovies or whatever, I hope Jobs comes to his senses and that Apple at least considers such a solution.
RTFA; Kevin Britten of Hays, Kansas downloaded Somersault (Dangermouse remix) by Zero7; the 100 millionth song purchased from the iTunes music store. He will receive a 17-inch PowerBook, a 40GB iPod, and a gift certificate for 10,000 iTunes songs to create the ultimate music library for his new iPod. In addition we awarded 50 special 20GB iPods -- one to the purchaser of each 100,000th song downloaded between 95 million and 100 million songs.
He got some really nice prizes out of it too.
.. to Apple! It's good to see that some are able to look new ways when it comes to distributing music, perhaps other contents, like movies, can be distributed in the same manner in the near future.
As I suspected, the site is fairly old, click on "Introduction":
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'120 Years Of Electronic Music' is an ongoing project and the site will be updated on a regular basis (currently v3.0 feb 1998).
Regular basis
But a big corporation is "loosing" money on P2P, cars MAKES money for corporations. Unfortunately, it really is that cynical.
Not only that, P2P is an interesting alternative to the traditional C/S model. This appears to be a move that is not very well thought out, are they going to ban FTP since you can distribute copyrighted material over FTP as well? I don't think these guys know enough about technology to really tell what's going on and what needs to be done. I'm fairly sure they are not even willing to hear expert opinions on this either..
Cisco's software is completely different. Add to the fact that they may not normally allow unlicensed books about their software, and you've got a sticky situation.
.Net are not ECMA standards. Sun has kept a tight grip around Java so as not to loose control over it, there are still hundreds of books available on Java.
What you're basically saying is that you cannot write about how you configure a Cisco router? What about books like these ? I would be very surprised if Cisco demanded licencse from the "Dummies" series, just as an example.
And just to add to what the others have said, Java and VB
But has he done that? My point was that they cannot sue him just for publishing a book, he must violate some copyright if that's to be the case. Could Deitel be sued for publishing books on Java and .Net?
Sue him for what exactly? He wrote the book and unless he's plagiarised some of its content, then they wouldn't have much of a case. Given his profession, I'm sure he's more than capable of writing this book on his own.
He's the owner of the material, and I seriously doubt that he can be sued for anything at all.
Why is this modded flamebait? Women, and also alot of men, really HAVE problems parking because it often involves driving in reverse. It doesn't help that you often have little time to do the parking because of the other cars waiting to get past you. Alot of people tend to turn the wheels the wrong way when driving in reverse.
and rednecks instead of orcs
The difference is.. ?
Everything doesn't have to be functional. I have a P4 computer running at 3.25 ghz with a lot of RAM and even though I'm a developer and do alot of programming, my CPU rarely goes much above 1 - 2%. I would love to have something like this. I admit, the increase in functionality probably won't be that great at the moment, but it's eye-candy and can perhaps incorporate some cool features.
From the demo it also appears that it can be turned of (He clicks a leaf to start it, so I assume it can go the other way), so it might be just shutting off PLG when you're doing some heavy compiling, playing games or in any other way need some more CPU cycles.
The package you get when buying SuSE is also quite impressive. I haven't bought it in a long time (SuSE 7.1), been using Slackware exclusively, but I remember getting a couple of books in addition to the 7cd's and 1 dvd. Hell, it wasn't even that expensive.
Do they still supply the books in the package?
I did that on SuSE 9.0, downloaded the entire tree and mirrored it on one machine. It worked great! It's still not the same as downloading the .iso files, burn them and boot up. The entire tree was somewhere close to 9 gb, while the iso files are often only 3 cd's.
It does work rather well though, so if you have a fast connection and don't mind waiting a bit for it, downloading the tree is an excellent way of getting SuSE.
It's a prototype, they most likeley want to try it out and see if it's worth the money.
For now, at $46,000 a copy for the prototypes, no one is eager to blow any Dragon Runners apart.
By taking down these people they are effectively removing parts of it. If you're talkign about servers, remember it's the legislation in the country where the server is located that applies, and it's that governemnts responsibility to track them down. If they don't want to, there's nothing American or European governements can do but put pressure on them. At least with this, they are fighting the P2P spreading of it.
A lot of these people produce the pr0n themselves and distribute it, it would be hard to destroy every file out there, it's easier to take the men behind them.
What is the problem in it? If you've read the article you'd see that there is no difference here compared to tapping a telephone, it's just the first time it's been done this way. If they can catch child pr0n people with this stuff I'm all for it.