Its a prototype. If the design works then EVERY country other than a few oil states will be building them.
So the issue isn't who builds one first but by confusing the situation so no one builds one. When a country's foreign policy is based on supporting oil states, the last thing that can happen is some f*cking low-cost energy source tilting the balance of power.
France is thus NOT a good choice as it is part of Europe, has a stable political system and is very well suited to develope big projects.
Given Bush already has a two white elephants with Afganistan and Iraq - BTW: both which will be multi-year f*ckups which have NOT yet caught the instigator of 9/11. Bush and his poodle Blair are not going to allow the frogs the chance to divert the agenda away from oil.
Alan would make a good geek in the boardroom. Good to see he's making progress in welsh even if few out of Wales can read the menus either. He did mention that when he handed over maintainance to Marcelo Tosatti two years or so back.
Supporting minority languages on our favourite Open Source OS is about accessibilty to all. Essential in multi-cultural Europe. At least 500,000 people would be interested in welsh so still a very good audience.
I'm a good neighbour. Late at night I grab this months paper records and a bottle of white spirit and some beer and matches and go have a burn in the yard. That way I can see the cinders and so don't burn the shed down plus no-one else is doing gardening at midnight !
Hums, FIRE do do do do do, FIRE da da da...(Santana ?)
Microsoft finally ship release candidate for Longhorn sometime after Linux 2.8.
After SCO lose the 2005/2006 IP battles they spend next two years backporting Linux functionality to Unixware imposed as hard labor punishment by courts.
First US woman president gets elected.
Microsoft finally release Longhaul/Longhorn and in celebration of the 2001 movie sequel call it
Server 2010.
New kernel features allow for any Linux user to act as part of a compile cluster which also (p2p-like) allows you to simply download pre-built kernel modules on demand from "somewhere". Continuous building taking place in near-realtime. Kernel goes decentralised in a p2p+bittorrent fashion with all code being public key signed.
Expert/AI API added. Using distributed Kernel module build process across many platforms autonomous defect detection and patching behaviour seen.
Microsoft release SP1 for server 2010. Newspapers report that Windows administrators are STILL using GUIs on Windows to install software instead of the machine working out what it wants for itself !
Linus et al replaced with new.eko modules (Expert (AI) Kernel). Linus and team spends at least 5 years training expert engine. Patching Linux reduced to expressing feelings i.e. We feel that Linux should support 1024 processors or that we would like to see X work. Expert AI works out best way of doing this.
Microsoft release SP2 for server 2010, drop support for Server 2003. Most of Microsoft budget spent on fighting MS v. LKAI. Microsoft legal team had tried to sue the actual AI/Expert engine for patent issues. Courts undecided if kernel is alive or not. Kernel publishes own BLOG complaining about how it never reads any Patents.
A crowd is a safe place to hide. It doesn't matter how many pieces of data they have its the quality the intelligence. There is BIG catch here for you US citizens.
If someone bad gets into the US then do you think they'll retain that same persona ? No. They'll swap IDs. For them to be caught again given they get picked up on e.g. a speeding ticket, then the fun starts.
Superficially assuming that their (fake) ID is a good American ID then the only way to pick up if this is really valid is to perform some biometric scans on that "American" and see what comes up.
Its so funny: though its us foreigners who have to get into the US with our biometric enabled passports its actually ALL Americans domestically who'll end up being scanned else how can the Feds actually pick up the overstaying foreigners !.
Doh ! Also do you think that someone who intends to commit suicide in a very public way gives a shit that they get picked up with a dodgy ID. Probably not as my guess is that they'll have two goals:
1) sleep until called for. Make friends with everyone especially "good" Americans. Just wander around for a few years, leaving a paper trail a mile long. If caught then watch amused as couple of hundred Feds spin out trying to gather "intelligence" implicating many other Americans by association on the way.
2) if woken then visit what you have found to be the ideal target and have fun.
Just like the crypto patches for Linux are held out of the US so as to stop the US Federal goverment from interfering with the rest of the world, then US patent encumbered features should also be held out of the US.
Until the USPTO get funded as (e.g. a hypothecated tax) from all US citizens which also includes picking up the bills for the legal costs of those who lose a patent in court through not identifying prior art then the current lottery will prevail.
A US patent should never stop any Open Source project from developing what is claimed if the method is obvious and found to be obvious through peer review. If there is only one way of doing something then its obvious.
Given the US at just 5% or so of the worlds population its perverse to presume that the experts in the field of the endevour that is being patented are all located in the one company that filed the claims. Especially true with software which requires a lot less capital to get involved compared to e.g. pharma/drugs, medical or high tech engineering.
If the test for obviousness is looked at globally there is little that is patentable BUT when it is then it truely deserves the protection. The trouble is that patents are viewed as a cheap way of gaining a monopoly in a business area without the hard graft and legal issues that e.g. Microsoft, have had to go through to get their monopoly.
Science is not advanced by someone patenting the obvious and society does not benefit if the claims are not exploited until someone else does the hard work of bringing a product to market and then gets stung for punitive damages from the original patent holder who has done nothing to progress their patent.
The intent of holding a closed court session is somewhat frustrated by the fact that ALL of the relevant SCO code has already been released and is fully visible to the public !
Its just that SCO finds that even they don't fully know which lines it is either. Its embarrassing for them so they have resorted to a closed court.
If it takes a closed court for IBM to discover what the hell SCO are going on about then so be it but fact remains that NO ONE wants the SCO code if it compromises the freedoms that the GPL affords us with respect to the Linux kernel.
I'm happy to pay good money for a product or service but all I want to know is what exactly am I paying my money for ? Its REAL simple SCO: simply tell me what I am getting for my money. I'll show you my money if you show me your code. Deal ?.
Then I can make a call if I want it or not. Always wanted to look at OpenBSD/FreeBSD but its the freedoms of the GPL that keep me with Linux.
Mandrake always has been a desktop distro. Wider adoption requires two things to happen; financial stability for Mandrake and an equal playing field for Linux.
Red Hat have handed Mandrake the desktop baton. The failure of US Justice department to get anywhere near solving the antitrust issues with current desktops pretty well spoiled the opportunity for Linux desktops in the US. Maybe Lindows will fight the defence on behalf of the US consumer.
Mandrake is delivering on the financials. Now lets see what the EU Commission on competition does on helping to create a level playing field. Will the rights of consumers prevail ? Munich is an important proving ground
but expect some serious payola to flow to stop other cities. Whats 40 Billion USD work out to be in Euros now ?.
I disagree: Highspeed trains are the technology thats needed to...
a)Ease airport takeoff/landing slots,
b)Reduced terrorist risks (obligatory anti-terror polemic),
c)Not affected by fog and less affected by adverse weather,
d)Can run from central/main business districts without issues of noise or air pollution.
e) Protect the population from unneccessary death.
Dollar for dollar its the cheapest per passenger mile transport system. Its also the safest. OK so someone will show pictures of massive crashes but stats for US in 2000... http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
show 14,813 deaths for cars compared to 20 for Buses and 30 for Trains etc. Hey in the 1/2 hour or so I wrote this someone in the US has probably died in a car.
But trains that run at just 100 mph are not the answer. You have to get to at least 180 mph or more to start to compete with commuter flights.
This is where Maglev should be in its sweetspot *if* the technology could work.
It does need Goverments to help oil the wheels and incentivise private contractors. Fast trains work in the UK for the London-Paris/London-Brussels routes which has 30 miles of that as an underwater tunnel. Trains also work across France and Germany very well.
But they do need Goverment money to help support them even if its in helping buy up land for tracks, because payback times are many decades and not the short term 1 or 2 year returns.
What do IBM grid/clusters do while they are not playing chess/protein folding or gene cracking ?.
Maybe someone accidently told some a master node to go walk through SCO's web site for evidence. I'd suspect that the node could have then found some SCO PR statements. It tried to parse these but discovered , as the rest of us have, seriously illogical statements.
Then (without normal human intelligence to disregard SCO PR statements with a laugh) it decided to summon up more compute power to help solve the meaning of SCO PR statements.
It then ended up in an endless loop trying to come to a conclusion, trying to find meaning, but failing spectacularly.
Just joking IBM.
These low-end chips are very much for general office and light retail/home use and not gaming
or fancy rendering.
Dollar for dollar you can configure a system thats more "productive" when using AMD then you ever will with Intel.
If you want serious office or web surfing productivity then invest the savings in a dual-screen setup and more memory and NOT more CPU.
What the hell is SCO, who's involved in a minor spat with IBM in some local court over a contract issue commenting on European law ?.
The EU and UK law on copyrights and patents are very clear and have worked well to date. If it wasn't for lobbying by certain vested interests who's contributions to the general commonweath are innovations in legal theory and tort.
Sounds like its time to ask SCO for a copy of what is licensed by SCO. Can they produce this ?. I doubt it and if they did then it just tells you what to NOT use in your kernel.
A lot of Reuters stories are available for research purposes as a set corpus. See http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corp us/
for details on this. Perfect and designed for just this sort of work.
Also BT a few years back was working on a summariser called Prosum. Don't know what happened to that in the.don churn.
Sounds like its time for the Open Source community to create a do-not-spam list server for the Feds to host.
Screw waiting for the Feds to take another 10 years (i.e. from 1991 for the do-not-call).
Give a whole new meaning to DNS - DO NOT SPAM, because such a list srever would have to be as grunty as a root DNS.
I also envisage a hash server for real spam too to show that the do-not-spam was searched. The spammer does an MD5 hash of the spam message and then passes this to the do-not-spam yes/no server with your email address. The do-not-spam replies back with a timestamped cryptographic hash made up of the spam MD5 hash+your email + yes/no reply from do-not-spam. Thus end user mail servers can verify that the spam content is intended for that particular email destination and was not-not asked for.
Sounds like an easy to implement thing to me.
On the subject of programmer jobs then the writing was on the wall anyway since the first visual GUI was invented and made the assembly programmers redundant ! But on a more serious note....
US trade deficit with the rest of the world is 500 billion (or in forex speak - 500 yards). In the end this means that you are exporting 500 billion dollars every year worth of someones labour.
Doesn't take a genius to work out that at say USD 100,000 per job (including all the pensions and other costs) then this 500 billion could represent in US over 5 million jobs. Its the US consumer who's exporting those jobs.
IANAL but I love sophistry and given that copyright lasts for around 50 years then a backup which has a life of much less than this is transient. All typical media including CDs has a life of less than 50 years. Even fusible link PROMS and EPROMS die out in 30 years or so.
Ripping your shop purchased CD onto hard disk and then transfer to a MP3 player is transient (unless you are really weird and want the same song for 50 years). Even shop bought CDs are transient i.e. the layers will rot in much less than 50 years. Both the hard disk surface, any intermediate CDRs and the MP3 player are transient with no independent economic significance i.e. assuming there was never an intent to sell ripped CDRs. Seems to me that making backups rests on the definition of "transient" and "independent economic significance". BTW: ripping from CD to harddisk is "an integral and essential part of a technological process" and listening to the copyright works on your MP3 player is "a lawful use of the recording".
So it doesn't really affect anyone unless all your music comes from P2P or CDRs.
I've used Acronis PartitionExpert to copy partitions from disk to disk. The Trueimage does this role but PartitionExpert seemed more flexible for what I wanted as I did upgrade by physically installed the disk and then copied over and automatically resized my partitions 1 by 1 over a period of time (week or so).
The software created a bootable CDROM for you to get around the silly windows file locking. Very neat.
IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTE: remember to edit the old c:\boot.ini to add in the new physical location if you've changed the count of the partitions i.e. primary verses logical for partition 1,2,3, etc. It its identical then OK, but sometimes you may wnat to stick in a spare partition to keep aside for alternate OS (especially on some great big 120 Gig drive which even most peoples MP3 collection would have trouble filling). You can edit this file in Notepad.exe before you copy the partition else it won't boot correctly on the new disk (error message like can't find C:\windows\system32 etc etc).
Thats all the Carlsberg beer adverts do, probably.
You got to understand we're different over here. And according to the ITC at least 8 of us are REALLY different.
Never used it but Eclipse has a COBOL plug-in. Eclipse ( www.eclipse.org ) is 40 Million USD of free software from IBM: I suspect Microsoft simply playing catchup here as Eclipse is a force to be reckoned with.
I shoved that into a database and (just quickly to get it to do it) I had to...
A) Changed constraint ad_replicationstrategy to ad_replicationstrategy_key
B) Changed BLOB to BYTEA
C) Changed CLOB to BYTEA
I know Postgresql supports blobby data but how you access this is different from simply storing a blob so this would imply underlying changes to code.
Still its a fun exercise and shows that Compiere is quite a moderate size.
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So the issue isn't who builds one first but by confusing the situation so no one builds one. When a country's foreign policy is based on supporting oil states, the last thing that can happen is some f*cking low-cost energy source tilting the balance of power.
France is thus NOT a good choice as it is part of Europe, has a stable political system and is very well suited to develope big projects.
Given Bush already has a two white elephants with Afganistan and Iraq - BTW: both which will be multi-year f*ckups which have NOT yet caught the instigator of 9/11. Bush and his poodle Blair are not going to allow the frogs the chance to divert the agenda away from oil.
Now exactly where did I leave those WMD ?
Supporting minority languages on our favourite Open Source OS is about accessibilty to all. Essential in multi-cultural Europe. At least 500,000 people would be interested in welsh so still a very good audience.
Hums, FIRE do do do do do, FIRE da da da...(Santana ?)
Microsoft finally ship release candidate for Longhorn sometime after Linux 2.8.
After SCO lose the 2005/2006 IP battles they spend next two years backporting Linux functionality to Unixware imposed as hard labor punishment by courts.
First US woman president gets elected.
Microsoft finally release Longhaul/Longhorn and in celebration of the 2001 movie sequel call it Server 2010.
New kernel features allow for any Linux user to act as part of a compile cluster which also (p2p-like) allows you to simply download pre-built kernel modules on demand from "somewhere". Continuous building taking place in near-realtime. Kernel goes decentralised in a p2p+bittorrent fashion with all code being public key signed.
Expert/AI API added. Using distributed Kernel module build process across many platforms autonomous defect detection and patching behaviour seen.
Microsoft release SP1 for server 2010. Newspapers report that Windows administrators are STILL using GUIs on Windows to install software instead of the machine working out what it wants for itself !
Linus et al replaced with new .eko modules (Expert (AI) Kernel). Linus and team spends at least 5 years training expert engine. Patching Linux reduced to expressing feelings i.e. We feel that Linux should support 1024 processors or that we would like to see X work. Expert AI works out best way of doing this.
Microsoft release SP2 for server 2010, drop support for Server 2003. Most of Microsoft budget spent on fighting MS v. LKAI. Microsoft legal team had tried to sue the actual AI/Expert engine for patent issues. Courts undecided if kernel is alive or not. Kernel publishes own BLOG complaining about how it never reads any Patents.
But thats another story.
This all works first time !. Even networking works and mkinitrd stuff. Cool. Certainly looking good for production use quite quickly.
If someone bad gets into the US then do you think they'll retain that same persona ? No. They'll swap IDs. For them to be caught again given they get picked up on e.g. a speeding ticket, then the fun starts.
Superficially assuming that their (fake) ID is a good American ID then the only way to pick up if this is really valid is to perform some biometric scans on that "American" and see what comes up.
Its so funny: though its us foreigners who have to get into the US with our biometric enabled passports its actually ALL Americans domestically who'll end up being scanned else how can the Feds actually pick up the overstaying foreigners !.
Doh ! Also do you think that someone who intends to commit suicide in a very public way gives a shit that they get picked up with a dodgy ID. Probably not as my guess is that they'll have two goals:
1) sleep until called for. Make friends with everyone especially "good" Americans. Just wander around for a few years, leaving a paper trail a mile long. If caught then watch amused as couple of hundred Feds spin out trying to gather "intelligence" implicating many other Americans by association on the way.
2) if woken then visit what you have found to be the ideal target and have fun.
Until the USPTO get funded as (e.g. a hypothecated tax) from all US citizens which also includes picking up the bills for the legal costs of those who lose a patent in court through not identifying prior art then the current lottery will prevail.
A US patent should never stop any Open Source project from developing what is claimed if the method is obvious and found to be obvious through peer review. If there is only one way of doing something then its obvious.
Given the US at just 5% or so of the worlds population its perverse to presume that the experts in the field of the endevour that is being patented are all located in the one company that filed the claims. Especially true with software which requires a lot less capital to get involved compared to e.g. pharma/drugs, medical or high tech engineering.
If the test for obviousness is looked at globally there is little that is patentable BUT when it is then it truely deserves the protection. The trouble is that patents are viewed as a cheap way of gaining a monopoly in a business area without the hard graft and legal issues that e.g. Microsoft, have had to go through to get their monopoly.
Science is not advanced by someone patenting the obvious and society does not benefit if the claims are not exploited until someone else does the hard work of bringing a product to market and then gets stung for punitive damages from the original patent holder who has done nothing to progress their patent.
Its just that SCO finds that even they don't fully know which lines it is either. Its embarrassing for them so they have resorted to a closed court.
If it takes a closed court for IBM to discover what the hell SCO are going on about then so be it but fact remains that NO ONE wants the SCO code if it compromises the freedoms that the GPL affords us with respect to the Linux kernel.
I'm happy to pay good money for a product or service but all I want to know is what exactly am I paying my money for ? Its REAL simple SCO: simply tell me what I am getting for my money. I'll show you my money if you show me your code. Deal ?.
Then I can make a call if I want it or not. Always wanted to look at OpenBSD/FreeBSD but its the freedoms of the GPL that keep me with Linux.
Red Hat have handed Mandrake the desktop baton. The failure of US Justice department to get anywhere near solving the antitrust issues with current desktops pretty well spoiled the opportunity for Linux desktops in the US. Maybe Lindows will fight the defence on behalf of the US consumer.
Mandrake is delivering on the financials. Now lets see what the EU Commission on competition does on helping to create a level playing field. Will the rights of consumers prevail ? Munich is an important proving ground but expect some serious payola to flow to stop other cities. Whats 40 Billion USD work out to be in Euros now ?.
Who cares if its got advertising. Sounds like another node for SETI or other distributed client.
I disagree: Highspeed trains are the technology thats needed to ...
a)Ease airport takeoff/landing slots,
b)Reduced terrorist risks (obligatory anti-terror polemic),
c)Not affected by fog and less affected by adverse weather,
d)Can run from central/main business districts without issues of noise or air pollution.
e) Protect the population from unneccessary death.
Dollar for dollar its the cheapest per passenger mile transport system. Its also the safest. OK so someone will show pictures of massive crashes but stats for US in 2000 ... http://www.nsc.org/lrs/statinfo/odds.htm
show 14,813 deaths for cars compared to 20 for Buses and 30 for Trains etc. Hey in the 1/2 hour or so I wrote this someone in the US has probably died in a car.
But trains that run at just 100 mph are not the answer. You have to get to at least 180 mph or more to start to compete with commuter flights.
This is where Maglev should be in its sweetspot *if* the technology could work.
It does need Goverments to help oil the wheels and incentivise private contractors. Fast trains work in the UK for the London-Paris /London-Brussels routes which has 30 miles of that as an underwater tunnel. Trains also work across France and Germany very well.
But they do need Goverment money to help support them even if its in helping buy up land for tracks, because payback times are many decades and not the short term 1 or 2 year returns.
What do IBM grid/clusters do while they are not playing chess/protein folding or gene cracking ?. Maybe someone accidently told some a master node to go walk through SCO's web site for evidence. I'd suspect that the node could have then found some SCO PR statements. It tried to parse these but discovered , as the rest of us have, seriously illogical statements. Then (without normal human intelligence to disregard SCO PR statements with a laugh) it decided to summon up more compute power to help solve the meaning of SCO PR statements. It then ended up in an endless loop trying to come to a conclusion, trying to find meaning, but failing spectacularly. Just joking IBM.
These low-end chips are very much for general office and light retail/home use and not gaming or fancy rendering. Dollar for dollar you can configure a system thats more "productive" when using AMD then you ever will with Intel. If you want serious office or web surfing productivity then invest the savings in a dual-screen setup and more memory and NOT more CPU.
What the hell is SCO, who's involved in a minor spat with IBM in some local court over a contract issue commenting on European law ?. The EU and UK law on copyrights and patents are very clear and have worked well to date. If it wasn't for lobbying by certain vested interests who's contributions to the general commonweath are innovations in legal theory and tort. Sounds like its time to ask SCO for a copy of what is licensed by SCO. Can they produce this ?. I doubt it and if they did then it just tells you what to NOT use in your kernel.
A lot of Reuters stories are available for research purposes as a set corpus. See http://about.reuters.com/researchandstandards/corp us/
for details on this. Perfect and designed for just this sort of work.
Also BT a few years back was working on a summariser called Prosum. Don't know what happened to that in the .don churn.
Sounds like its time for the Open Source community to create a do-not-spam list server for the Feds to host. Screw waiting for the Feds to take another 10 years (i.e. from 1991 for the do-not-call). Give a whole new meaning to DNS - DO NOT SPAM, because such a list srever would have to be as grunty as a root DNS. I also envisage a hash server for real spam too to show that the do-not-spam was searched. The spammer does an MD5 hash of the spam message and then passes this to the do-not-spam yes/no server with your email address. The do-not-spam replies back with a timestamped cryptographic hash made up of the spam MD5 hash+your email + yes/no reply from do-not-spam. Thus end user mail servers can verify that the spam content is intended for that particular email destination and was not-not asked for. Sounds like an easy to implement thing to me.
Shit just shat on that. Fugging slow browsers and crap 50:1 contention broadband at prime time. Next time I'll post anonymous and mod myself out.
Oh oh first post and I didn't bother to read the article.
On the subject of programmer jobs then the writing was on the wall anyway since the first visual GUI was invented and made the assembly programmers redundant ! But on a more serious note.... US trade deficit with the rest of the world is 500 billion (or in forex speak - 500 yards). In the end this means that you are exporting 500 billion dollars every year worth of someones labour. Doesn't take a genius to work out that at say USD 100,000 per job (including all the pensions and other costs) then this 500 billion could represent in US over 5 million jobs. Its the US consumer who's exporting those jobs.
IANAL but I love sophistry and given that copyright lasts for around 50 years then a backup which has a life of much less than this is transient. All typical media including CDs has a life of less than 50 years. Even fusible link PROMS and EPROMS die out in 30 years or so. Ripping your shop purchased CD onto hard disk and then transfer to a MP3 player is transient (unless you are really weird and want the same song for 50 years). Even shop bought CDs are transient i.e. the layers will rot in much less than 50 years. Both the hard disk surface, any intermediate CDRs and the MP3 player are transient with no independent economic significance i.e. assuming there was never an intent to sell ripped CDRs. Seems to me that making backups rests on the definition of "transient" and "independent economic significance". BTW: ripping from CD to harddisk is "an integral and essential part of a technological process" and listening to the copyright works on your MP3 player is "a lawful use of the recording". So it doesn't really affect anyone unless all your music comes from P2P or CDRs.
I've used Acronis PartitionExpert to copy partitions from disk to disk. The Trueimage does this role but PartitionExpert seemed more flexible for what I wanted as I did upgrade by physically installed the disk and then copied over and automatically resized my partitions 1 by 1 over a period of time (week or so). The software created a bootable CDROM for you to get around the silly windows file locking. Very neat. IMPORTANT SAFETY NOTE: remember to edit the old c:\boot.ini to add in the new physical location if you've changed the count of the partitions i.e. primary verses logical for partition 1,2,3, etc. It its identical then OK, but sometimes you may wnat to stick in a spare partition to keep aside for alternate OS (especially on some great big 120 Gig drive which even most peoples MP3 collection would have trouble filling). You can edit this file in Notepad.exe before you copy the partition else it won't boot correctly on the new disk (error message like can't find C:\windows\system32 etc etc).
Thats all the Carlsberg beer adverts do, probably. You got to understand we're different over here. And according to the ITC at least 8 of us are REALLY different.
Never used it but Eclipse has a COBOL plug-in. Eclipse ( www.eclipse.org ) is 40 Million USD of free software from IBM: I suspect Microsoft simply playing catchup here as Eclipse is a force to be reckoned with.
Unless you implemented and published your embodiment prior to the filing date anywhere in the world.
I shoved that into a database and (just quickly to get it to do it) I had to... A) Changed constraint ad_replicationstrategy to ad_replicationstrategy_key B) Changed BLOB to BYTEA C) Changed CLOB to BYTEA I know Postgresql supports blobby data but how you access this is different from simply storing a blob so this would imply underlying changes to code. Still its a fun exercise and shows that Compiere is quite a moderate size.