If there is any real enefit in space, then surely no government sponsored handout is needed. Govt sponsorship destroys your whole argument. As soon as there is some overnment-set goal to meet to get the sponsorship, then other profit oriented goals go out of the window.
one last week which found that Mars isn't watery now
... but that was last week. Things change you know.
That's why even though various probes over the last few years found nothing it is important to keep watch!
Those bastard Neaderthals didn't write down what they saw (or forgot where they put their notebooks). Now we can all look at Mars with our telescopes and do our bit.
If SCO claimed license fees for something it does not own then surely they will be liable for refunds (at least) when the the ownership is resolved.
If I was a company using Linux I might just pay up (it's easier than dealing with lawyers) and then ask for my money back later. Of course SCO will not be in any financial position to refund...
The more you look at this it looks more like a stock pumping exercise. This is the only explanation that makes any sense at all.
Well at least counting to 9 (ie 20 base 3) will be easier than hex. Only few of us embedded folks were born with sixteen fingers, and octal never really took off.
A mate of mine worked in industrial diamond synthesis for a whle. You'd be hard-pressed to build a 8-bit micro on on of those babies, a Pentium-size device will be a long way off.
"Breaking into the computer business" is no doubt some of the hype they're trying to use to spin up their stock.
That is true if you're talking about a software developer's ability to generate revenue, but false if you're talking about the value of the software itself. GPL software is likely to improve faster and become more valuable because the feedback loops are better.
My major GPL effort is YAFFS - a file system for NAND. This is extremely valuable software as is proven by it being used in a wide range of devices. It is literally worth tens of millions of dollars to the people using it and sell NAND chips, yet getting any financial support to improve YAFFS is difficult. The attitude seems to be that people feel cheated if they pay, in any way, for "free" software.
This problem faces many other GPL developers too. SCO is right to an extent: writing GPL code is not the fastest way to a fat bank account.
Somewhere along the line people need to get past the "free" issue. People need to feel the urge to volunarily pay for valuable things they get.
Sure I can answer that question. Shitty old SCADA technology combined with higher risks.
Shitty SCADA technology: the responsiveness of the control and monitoring systems is often very slow. Many seconds, by the time the data arrives at the control centres, the lines have tripped automatically. When shit happens you get many events (data overload) and knowing which ones to respond to is difficult. [Example: Three mile island: Each event gets logged to a printer. So many events were triggered that the printer was hacklogged three hours within a minute].
The mighty buck: to save money, the networks are run with less redundancy and at higher risk levels. This means that you lose control (time/space to respond) and the consequences of a failure are more ugly.
people that RUN THE FSCKING GRID do not know what went wrong
I worked in the power control/data aquisition field for a while and can assure you that in a complex grid it is very difficult to pin-point failures.
Consider that there are normally many redundant lines and generation points. If a generation point goes offline, then the load through the lines changes. If a line's capcacity is exceeded it trips. This increses the load through other lines and you can get run-away instability. All this shit goes down in a second or so, so figuring out where things went wrong is not easy. Figuring the *trigger* might be easy (eg. generation point failed), but at what point does the redundancy fail (ie does the system itself fails)?
To keep on top of this, most grids run constant 'what if' analysis of their network. ie. if line x or generator y trips what will happen? if load increases at point x what will happen? The analysis helps to ensure that sufficient redundancy is switched in to cover certain failures to a certain risk level.
Unfortuantely with cost cutting etc, building of new lines and upgrading often gets delayed. Thus, the opportunities for redundancy are decreased and the risk levels are increased.
BTW: It is also a hell of a task to restart a grid.
Why are so many US cities and states broke? Upping taxes to fix the problem is not a vote winner.
Same thing with power, personal debt and quarterly reporting. Doubling the cost of electricity to expand the grids capability or rationing power (no aircon) will not be well received. A short-term view will always win over a long-term view if there is some pain involved.
flavor" is the common spellingCommon? Surely flavour would be the most common usage? I expect more people in the world use English rather than 'merican. Basically the American empire uses American (flavor) and the British Commonwealth (inc India) uses English (flavour).
After 3 WinCE projects and a Linux project I can assure you the Linux option is far less painful, IMHO.
I guess if your definition of "embedded system" was a rack server set-up and your programmers were already Microsofted then you might make better progress with WinXP embedded.
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If there is any real enefit in space, then surely no government sponsored handout is needed. Govt sponsorship destroys your whole argument. As soon as there is some overnment-set goal to meet to get the sponsorship, then other profit oriented goals go out of the window.
Yup, you're right. Dammit I can see some problems with this trinary stuff!
... and block the RFID machine from reading the label on that Discman you have under your jacket.
but surely selling thin air is not legal (unless you say it is thin air)?
they ran out of paint near the bottom.
... but that was last week. Things change you know.
That's why even though various probes over the last few years found nothing it is important to keep watch!
Those bastard Neaderthals didn't write down what they saw (or forgot where they put their notebooks). Now we can all look at Mars with our telescopes and do our bit.
If I was a company using Linux I might just pay up (it's easier than dealing with lawyers) and then ask for my money back later. Of course SCO will not be in any financial position to refund...
The more you look at this it looks more like a stock pumping exercise. This is the only explanation that makes any sense at all.
If I was a woman, I'm sure I'd be more attracted to a game than I would be to a young boy.
Well at least counting to 9 (ie 20 base 3) will be easier than hex. Only few of us embedded folks were born with sixteen fingers, and octal never really took off.
"Breaking into the computer business" is no doubt some of the hype they're trying to use to spin up their stock.
Microwave ovens. Aren't magnetrons just fancy tubes?
Does this mean the end of geekdom as a bloke's domain?
A diamond with enough surface for a Pentium 4 is going tocost a few million bucks.
Only a few such diamonds have been found. Maybe that IBM bloke was right - there will be only 5 supercomputers in the world.
That is true if you're talking about a software developer's ability to generate revenue, but false if you're talking about the value of the software itself. GPL software is likely to improve faster and become more valuable because the feedback loops are better.
My major GPL effort is YAFFS - a file system for NAND. This is extremely valuable software as is proven by it being used in a wide range of devices. It is literally worth tens of millions of dollars to the people using it and sell NAND chips, yet getting any financial support to improve YAFFS is difficult. The attitude seems to be that people feel cheated if they pay, in any way, for "free" software.
This problem faces many other GPL developers too. SCO is right to an extent: writing GPL code is not the fastest way to a fat bank account.
Somewhere along the line people need to get past the "free" issue. People need to feel the urge to volunarily pay for valuable things they get.
they could get a device with the capabilities of a 30year old.... or at least a 29 year and 3 month old.
They're bitching that the carefully crafted marketing image is being undermined. Big difference.
The fact that the crapness of their movie is undermining the marketing image is a different issue!
Now I know why it's called the Red Planet.
Shitty SCADA technology: the responsiveness of the control and monitoring systems is often very slow. Many seconds, by the time the data arrives at the control centres, the lines have tripped automatically. When shit happens you get many events (data overload) and knowing which ones to respond to is difficult. [Example: Three mile island: Each event gets logged to a printer. So many events were triggered that the printer was hacklogged three hours within a minute].
The mighty buck: to save money, the networks are run with less redundancy and at higher risk levels. This means that you lose control (time/space to respond) and the consequences of a failure are more ugly.
Us: OOP, patterns, Extreme Programming...
Them: fire, matches, detonation...
I worked in the power control/data aquisition field for a while and can assure you that in a complex grid it is very difficult to pin-point failures.
Consider that there are normally many redundant lines and generation points. If a generation point goes offline, then the load through the lines changes. If a line's capcacity is exceeded it trips. This increses the load through other lines and you can get run-away instability. All this shit goes down in a second or so, so figuring out where things went wrong is not easy. Figuring the *trigger* might be easy (eg. generation point failed), but at what point does the redundancy fail (ie does the system itself fails)?
To keep on top of this, most grids run constant 'what if' analysis of their network. ie. if line x or generator y trips what will happen? if load increases at point x what will happen? The analysis helps to ensure that sufficient redundancy is switched in to cover certain failures to a certain risk level.
Unfortuantely with cost cutting etc, building of new lines and upgrading often gets delayed. Thus, the opportunities for redundancy are decreased and the risk levels are increased.
BTW: It is also a hell of a task to restart a grid.
Same thing with power, personal debt and quarterly reporting. Doubling the cost of electricity to expand the grids capability or rationing power (no aircon) will not be well received. A short-term view will always win over a long-term view if there is some pain involved.
flavor" is the common spellingCommon? Surely flavour would be the most common usage? I expect more people in the world use English rather than 'merican. Basically the American empire uses American (flavor) and the British Commonwealth (inc India) uses English (flavour).
I guess if your definition of "embedded system" was a rack server set-up and your programmers were already Microsofted then you might make better progress with WinXP embedded.
Dumb bastard! It is a MIPS CPU, not x86. It consumes less than a Watt. Without a heatsink you can't even feel the heat up when it is running 400MHz
VMWare and Wine are x86 and won't help here.