I fail to see the real point in a Coldfire. What can it do that an ARM or whatever can't? A lot of the justification for Coldfire was for the Motorola zealots to move to something other than 68k (you'd be suprised how many engineering companies will only use Motorola). A lot moved to PPC. It is exceedingly hard for Motorola to justify an extra architecture in between 68k and PPC - more so still since Motorola has also started making ARM-based parts.
Microsoft has a real business and a real business plan, but SCO is just a pump and dump.
What the OJ, SCO and Microsoft cases have in common is that their future was not determined by the justice system (ie. the courts have not succeeded in materially altering anything). SCO will die not because of the courts but because Darl does not care and they have no real business.
The inefficiencoies in Windows are not just a function of the useful speed of the system. You could get high speed gaming etc with a lot less cycle and power than Windows needs. All that XML eye candy takes a lot of processing with very little utility.
While Moore's Law is used as the solution to the processing bottleneck, the software will just get worse and CPU/power consumption will continue to grow. Microsoft is not motivated in any way to make their software more efficient.
My laptop has a fan and blows out hot air.My ARM-based PDA at 400MHz is so cool you can't even tell that it is turned on.
The major reason we need these ultra-fast and hot Pentiums in our machines is crap, inefficient software. Look at Longhorn: it wants 2G of RAM and a two CPUs.
A friend of mine has a RiscOS box running a 100MHz ARM cpu. It is slicker than my Winshit PC with a 2GHz processor.
Not necessarily. Many standards are based on patentented technology. eg. SmartMedia includes FAT (Microsoft), various SAE/ISO specs include CAN(Bosch). What is bad though is if the patent is then used to leverage power in a bad way.
Not necessarily. I believe you have a year to make the application after it becomes public. However, they better have some strong records to back up the claims that they made the invention at an earlier date.
To what extent can you be held responsible for your actions with unfathomable technology?
There is a vast distinction between "causing" and "triggering" an event. The malware (and by extension the malware author) caused the event, even though the bloke triggered it. Analogy: If someone wired up a bomb so that when you cranked the engine the bomb blew up killing hundreds, the person who wired the bomb is responsible, not the purson who unknowingly turned the key. Of course if you knew there was a bomb attached to the car that is another matter.
If someone was lurking around the car park looking in to car windows, you'd get suspicious and report it to security. If someone was leaning over your shoulder and noting down your passwords, that would be suspicious. Anything suspicious is worth following through on.
Now of course the FBI etc have an obligation to check things out. They get their power from people's fears so of course they are likely to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
So who gets the 20k and how do they get it? I bet the abusee gets none of it.
I can see this whole thing just mealting down to be a mechanism whereby MS periodically smacks a spammer's hand and takes the $20k or part thereof. Nice money for MS, nice legitimised biz for spammers. Everyone wins except the abusee.
If it is steerable, then it needs some idea of the direction to steer to. This could be done in a location-based way (eg. GPS) or by tracking signal strengths etc. But basically it means that to use this you will be giving away some idea of your position. It will be like the finger of God pointing at you: "There's the bloke viewing pron".
Pollen isolation is probably impossible, depending on plant breed etc. Some pollen is tiny, light, and can stay viable for quite a while. For pollen to blow thousands of miles is completely possible.
Now of course I didn't RTFM since that would go against the spirit of/. but this all sounds like you'll have to carry around a flask of liquid nitrogen to run that super small, low power cell phone.
Essentially, doing stuff like this is very old, but maybe the mechanism is changing. Commercial airliners and others have extension flaps etc used for take off and landing.
The real question is whether the new scheme can be made sufficiently reliable/low cost to use in production aircraft.
RPN is the best for calculator input. OK, perhaps you need to learn how to use it, but once you understand the stack thing there is nothing better. RPN is for more predictable and efficient.
One really GoodThing about backporting (or any porting for that matter) is that it beats up on the code in a different way. This is likely to help flush out bugs.
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Given the stupid state of the law and the justice department this dumb-ass might just win!
As far as I can tell the only places you'll see Coldfire is in Motorola parts or ASICs made for people by Motorola (probably very few of those).
In the 90's the 8051 core was used by just about everyone for various embedded micros. ARM is set to be the "new 8051".
I fail to see the real point in a Coldfire. What can it do that an ARM or whatever can't? A lot of the justification for Coldfire was for the Motorola zealots to move to something other than 68k (you'd be suprised how many engineering companies will only use Motorola). A lot moved to PPC. It is exceedingly hard for Motorola to justify an extra architecture in between 68k and PPC - more so still since Motorola has also started making ARM-based parts.
What the OJ, SCO and Microsoft cases have in common is that their future was not determined by the justice system (ie. the courts have not succeeded in materially altering anything). SCO will die not because of the courts but because Darl does not care and they have no real business.
Like slash-dotting?
While Moore's Law is used as the solution to the processing bottleneck, the software will just get worse and CPU/power consumption will continue to grow. Microsoft is not motivated in any way to make their software more efficient.
The major reason we need these ultra-fast and hot Pentiums in our machines is crap, inefficient software. Look at Longhorn: it wants 2G of RAM and a two CPUs.
A friend of mine has a RiscOS box running a 100MHz ARM cpu. It is slicker than my Winshit PC with a 2GHz processor.
Not necessarily. Many standards are based on patentented technology. eg. SmartMedia includes FAT (Microsoft), various SAE/ISO specs include CAN(Bosch). What is bad though is if the patent is then used to leverage power in a bad way.
Not necessarily. I believe you have a year to make the application after it becomes public. However, they better have some strong records to back up the claims that they made the invention at an earlier date.
To what extent can you be held responsible for your actions with unfathomable technology?
There is a vast distinction between "causing" and "triggering" an event. The malware (and by extension the malware author) caused the event, even though the bloke triggered it. Analogy: If someone wired up a bomb so that when you cranked the engine the bomb blew up killing hundreds, the person who wired the bomb is responsible, not the purson who unknowingly turned the key. Of course if you knew there was a bomb attached to the car that is another matter.
Now of course the FBI etc have an obligation to check things out. They get their power from people's fears so of course they are likely to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
I can see this whole thing just mealting down to be a mechanism whereby MS periodically smacks a spammer's hand and takes the $20k or part thereof. Nice money for MS, nice legitimised biz for spammers. Everyone wins except the abusee.
If it is steerable, then it needs some idea of the direction to steer to. This could be done in a location-based way (eg. GPS) or by tracking signal strengths etc. But basically it means that to use this you will be giving away some idea of your position. It will be like the finger of God pointing at you: "There's the bloke viewing pron".
Some distros don't support loading drivers and software too well - so much so that I've changed distros to do what I needed.
Pollen isolation is probably impossible, depending on plant breed etc. Some pollen is tiny, light, and can stay viable for quite a while. For pollen to blow thousands of miles is completely possible.
It would seem VW bought the naming rights at the fire sale.
Interesting to note too that VW started out as the car maker for the "volk", ie the unwashed masses. Seems like they've lost their roots.
No... The point is that you want those small-dicked meatheads to kill themselves, just so long as they don't kill us geeks in the process.
C'mon folks, what's wrong with using satellite imagery or flying over with a light aircraft.
Now of course I didn't RTFM since that would go against the spirit of /. but this all sounds like you'll have to carry around a flask of liquid nitrogen to run that super small, low power cell phone.
The term "law" should only be applied to true laws, eg. thermodynamics, Newton's and Murphy's.
The real question is whether the new scheme can be made sufficiently reliable/low cost to use in production aircraft.
Of course I didn't RTFM - that would be cheating!
RPN is the best for calculator input. OK, perhaps you need to learn how to use it, but once you understand the stack thing there is nothing better. RPN is for more predictable and efficient.
One really GoodThing about backporting (or any porting for that matter) is that it beats up on the code in a different way. This is likely to help flush out bugs.