Kicking the coolies in the trenches in the teeth like this is very disgusting.
Re:How can one steal lines of code?
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This is just word selection for emotive value.
Words like "steal" and "IP theft" sound much more evil than "copy" or "clone".
"Business model" et al
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Darl says OSS lacks a business model and therefore lacks value. I've seen similar comments from others too. One of the things being argued over is the term 'value'. This means different things to different people.
SCO and the like: 'value' means being able to make money out of it. OSS clearly undermines the business viability of proprietary Unix (and other OS's). Therefore from their perspective Linux has negative value.
OSS community: 'value' means having good quality, freely available software.
To make a suscessful OSS-based business (even a small one like getting a grant to do OSS development) you need to be able to get a shot at both these values. No money == no food. However, you might be prepared to do without the private jet etc.
There seems a strange mindset amongst users of OSS. They'll freely hand over a few hundred dollars to buy software, but feel screwed if they pay a single cent for "free stuff". Hopefully one day people will start freely contributing money to OSS (eg. lets say make a contribution of say 20% what they would have been prepared to pay for a commercial offering). This way the users get high quality, low cost software and the OSS folks get to eat (and keep programming).
No, they have these rights because they bought them
They were bought only because you have a system which allows these rights to be sold. In theory, the USA is a democracy - and is controlled by the people. If this is true, then only the people could have given them these rights, or to look at it another way, the rights are for sale only because the people allow this.
Their tactics are to hit hard. Thumping a 12yr old in a housing project shows that they are not going to go softly.
They have these rights because they were given them by you.
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I don't see this in use in PCs for a long time yet. Maybe cellphones and PDAs. The biggest issues are price per cell (bit, speed and density (bits per package). Likely it will be a long time before MRAM can compete with DRAM and NAND flash for universal application. A cellphone spends most of its life sleeping so maybe theis MRAM stuff will be nice for extending battery life etc.
SDRAM is power hungry during sleep mode ( a few mA) and has a slow sleep/wake-up sequence. This is not very nice for some devices like cellphones.
I think the most likely use we'll see for MRAM in the short term is having, say, 256kB of MRAM in a cellphone for running the cellphone engine and using SDRAM etc for the extended features.
Ummm, serious collectors that scrunge estate sales collect things that are valuable because of their rarity and novelty (that first edition book; that 1980s record; that Victorian silver marrow spoon). iTunes are both readily available and there unlimited. Not really a worthwhile collectable.
Hey, I'm not anti-science/pro-engineering. What I am anti though are scientist types who see a spark in a test-tube and make rash predictions of a changed world.
Every (physical) engineering effort is underpinned by the corresponding scientific discoveries etc, but that does mean that a new discovery ensures some major change in the way we live.
There are definitely some soteric applications of superconductivity (IR detectors etc), but they have not entered mainstream application. Even those superconductive propulsion systems are only demonstration/experimental. Stream and gas turbines are here for a long time still.
Bullshit. You don't need long distance autonomy to remove landmines. You need simple low cost items that can be maintained and operated by simple folks in the third-world countries. 50 metres remote control distance is enough.
Scientist sees a wee spark in a test tube and starts ranting about free energy etc. Engineer thinks about real-world problems that need to be solved to scale the technology into real world applications.
Well I remember the time when high temperature superconductivity was announced (little pill of material magnetically levitated in a cooled environment). Scientists started spouting on about lossless power lines using superconductors. Engineers skeptically thought that the energy required for the refridgeration was way more than the losses with conventional wiring. High temperature superconductors have very few realworld applications beyond generating Nobel prizes.
The touted "comuterisation productivity gains" have not proven themselves. It will be interesting to see if, maybe, productivity increases during these down times.
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On the bright side, I hope now the powers that be have overstepped the mark far enough that the people will kick back.
Typically impermissible grounds for making hiring decisions include:
-sex testosterone count in blood sample
-race how much light your skin reflects
-religion knowledge of the bible
-age ratio of grey hairs on head
Surely, discrimination is discrimination in any form. Discriminating against people for past SCO associations is just as bad as any other IMHO.
Kicking the coolies in the trenches in the teeth like this is very disgusting.
Words like "steal" and "IP theft" sound much more evil than "copy" or "clone".
SCO and the like: 'value' means being able to make money out of it. OSS clearly undermines the business viability of proprietary Unix (and other OS's). Therefore from their perspective Linux has negative value.
OSS community: 'value' means having good quality, freely available software.
To make a suscessful OSS-based business (even a small one like getting a grant to do OSS development) you need to be able to get a shot at both these values. No money == no food. However, you might be prepared to do without the private jet etc.
There seems a strange mindset amongst users of OSS. They'll freely hand over a few hundred dollars to buy software, but feel screwed if they pay a single cent for "free stuff". Hopefully one day people will start freely contributing money to OSS (eg. lets say make a contribution of say 20% what they would have been prepared to pay for a commercial offering). This way the users get high quality, low cost software and the OSS folks get to eat (and keep programming).
They were bought only because you have a system which allows these rights to be sold. In theory, the USA is a democracy - and is controlled by the people. If this is true, then only the people could have given them these rights, or to look at it another way, the rights are for sale only because the people allow this.
They have these rights because they were given them by you.
SDRAM is power hungry during sleep mode ( a few mA) and has a slow sleep/wake-up sequence. This is not very nice for some devices like cellphones.
I think the most likely use we'll see for MRAM in the short term is having, say, 256kB of MRAM in a cellphone for running the cellphone engine and using SDRAM etc for the extended features.
They would be divulging SCO's biggest trade secret, that all their claims are just FUD.
This is just regular PC Linux. Real embedded Linux runs on ARM, PowerPC etc CPUs.
Ummm, serious collectors that scrunge estate sales collect things that are valuable because of their rarity and novelty (that first edition book; that 1980s record; that Victorian silver marrow spoon). iTunes are both readily available and there unlimited. Not really a worthwhile collectable.
Every (physical) engineering effort is underpinned by the corresponding scientific discoveries etc, but that does mean that a new discovery ensures some major change in the way we live.
There are definitely some soteric applications of superconductivity (IR detectors etc), but they have not entered mainstream application. Even those superconductive propulsion systems are only demonstration/experimental. Stream and gas turbines are here for a long time still.
People are stupid enough to get suckered by the Nigerian scam every day. This one is far more sensible.
It's a "contact harvesting" scam. Expect a lawyer's letter :-).
Also on special: licenses to breath in California. $5.
Bullshit. You don't need long distance autonomy to remove landmines. You need simple low cost items that can be maintained and operated by simple folks in the third-world countries. 50 metres remote control distance is enough.
Well I remember the time when high temperature superconductivity was announced (little pill of material magnetically levitated in a cooled environment). Scientists started spouting on about lossless power lines using superconductors. Engineers skeptically thought that the energy required for the refridgeration was way more than the losses with conventional wiring. High temperature superconductors have very few realworld applications beyond generating Nobel prizes.
The cowarxddly kind!
... a programmer that lost his job offshore? If you were any fscking good you'd still be able to get work!
The touted "comuterisation productivity gains" have not proven themselves. It will be interesting to see if, maybe, productivity increases during these down times.
There is a **big** difference.
The Itsy (Linux pre-cursor to the IPaq) had an accelerometer hooked to the UI. You could "flip" pages with a flick of the wrist etc.
I tried and the fscking thing bit me!