Linus has never tried to go commercial with Linux. He avoids this side of things. I think this is a strength. Commercial OSs are driven by the desire to sell and as a ressult suffer technically.
This reminds me of a question on a 1980s data comms paper.
Q:A man with a delivery bike can pedal at 20mph between the organisations two offices that are 5 miles apart. The basket on the bike can carry five half-inch tape reels. What is the effective throughput of this datalink? For extra credits: A modem can transfer data at 300bps. At what distance does this outperform person with bike.
Sometimes quick and dirty is the way. Sometimes you need to do some fire fighting. However, firefighting does not stop when the fire is out - you still need to go back and clean up the mess.
Tell the PHB that the action was a temporary firefight measure and now the real solution needs to be put in place. If the quick fix was a turd, then throw it out and do it properly - don't go polish the turd
Unfortunately I think too many PHBs are overcommitting and too many engineers are shit scared of losing their jobs ("You can't do that in a 40 hour week? No sweat that Indian outsourcing place will do it in one 60 hour week."). This means that likely you don't get a chance to catch up and straighten out the mess. Put out one fire, move to the next.......
You have to be careful that you don't end up creating more problems than you solve.
One of the reasons ethernet is AC coupled (transformers etc) is to break direct current paths. It scares me somewhat that people are thinking of reintroducing these by power down the wire.
To achieve reasonable distances and power, the voltage will need to be highish.
This reminds me of an incident that happened about 15 years ago. We had an ethernet cable between two buildings. The cable was terminated on computer chassis on each end. Unfortunately the two buildings were powered from different phases, so when I opened a connector I became part of the ground loop passing mains. This was not in USA, but was in a country with real (>200V) power.
Assuming they are loading their drivers as modules (ie. not statically linking), then I do not beleive they are obligued to release them under GPL unless the modules were themselves based on GPL code.
Keeping IP in binary modules is fairly straght formward way to partition IP in kernel space and is fairly common in the embedded industry.
Now I know RMS and others frown on this, but it is not illegal.
Surely space exploration fits within the frame of pointless information gathering? Or watching documentaries on Australian wildlife? Or 90% of the stuff on/.?
Infotainment seems to be a significantly western condition.
Surely millionaires are no less representative of humanity than astronauts and NASA employees?
Spending billions on Hubbles etc is hardly serving humanity (ie. in the public's interest). If space travel was really caring about your fellow man, then surely we'd see a few more homeless bums on spaceflights.
You help the company out of a hole, then they can give you some extra time/bonus/spare computer/whatever afterwards.
If you can prove to be flexible and valuable, then the company will want to keep you around. The flip side is that you signed up for a reasonable workload, not 12/7. There is no need to be screwed.
Therefore try to figure something out to keep it win-win.
sure you can make it more humane. Just don't buy the inhumanely kept and slaughtered stuff.
By the time a chicken hits your plate it has been de-beaked, pumped with hormones, lived in huge stressful flocks (natural flock size is arounf 12 birds), denied perching, gathered then inhumanely slaughtered.
Seems to me like the major reason for introducing this device is the mighty buck. The industry is pushing the humane side, though in fact this contributes only a small fraction of the inhumanity in raising chickens.
Another approach would be to eat ducks. Ducks are far more stupid than chickens and are far less stress prone too. However, ducks don't produce meat as fast, so the mighty buck kicks in again....
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Outsourcing means giving away the whole problem (and it sounds good in management circles too).
Agree. This is a stepping stone. They cannot realisticly go cold turkey.
Geez I wish I lived in a free country like the USA!
Linus has never tried to go commercial with Linux. He avoids this side of things. I think this is a strength. Commercial OSs are driven by the desire to sell and as a ressult suffer technically.
1: Geek commuter toy.
2: Toy robot.
What next... I guess if you lie it on its side you could sell it as a pottery wheel.
Q:A man with a delivery bike can pedal at 20mph between the organisations two offices that are 5 miles apart. The basket on the bike can carry five half-inch tape reels. What is the effective throughput of this datalink? For extra credits: A modem can transfer data at 300bps. At what distance does this outperform person with bike.
Think about it a ringtone you can't hear. Stops those pesky calls getting through too.
Tell the PHB that the action was a temporary firefight measure and now the real solution needs to be put in place. If the quick fix was a turd, then throw it out and do it properly - don't go polish the turd
Unfortunately I think too many PHBs are overcommitting and too many engineers are shit scared of losing their jobs ("You can't do that in a 40 hour week? No sweat that Indian outsourcing place will do it in one 60 hour week."). This means that likely you don't get a chance to catch up and straighten out the mess. Put out one fire, move to the next.......
You have to be careful that you don't end up creating more problems than you solve.
Nice exit strategy. Stocks ten times their value of 6 months ago.
To achieve reasonable distances and power, the voltage will need to be highish.
This reminds me of an incident that happened about 15 years ago. We had an ethernet cable between two buildings. The cable was terminated on computer chassis on each end. Unfortunately the two buildings were powered from different phases, so when I opened a connector I became part of the ground loop passing mains. This was not in USA, but was in a country with real (>200V) power.
Look at Bush telling little lies about WMD. Nobody seems to care that he lied to get his way.
Linux is important to SCO's business nonsense - SCO does not have a business.
CELF is all uni-processor. All SCOs claims are for SMP etc. I wonder how they will try to make this stick
Keeping IP in binary modules is fairly straght formward way to partition IP in kernel space and is fairly common in the embedded industry.
Now I know RMS and others frown on this, but it is not illegal.
Infotainment seems to be a significantly western condition.
Imagine a world in which inerest groups start lobbying /. moderators.... Interesting.
Spending billions on Hubbles etc is hardly serving humanity (ie. in the public's interest). If space travel was really caring about your fellow man, then surely we'd see a few more homeless bums on spaceflights.
I bet for every NASA dollar that goes into space, at least ten NASA dollars are squandered on the ground in departmental politics etc.
You don't get to be a millionaire by pissing away your time in meetings and buying $16000 toilet seats.
Yup, it only looks like doldrums because it comes after the dotcom bubble where spending was irrational.
This is quite open to abuse and self-fulfilling. If you have some shit to sell, just say "everyone has got to have it" and soon everyone will.
Where is Bush when you need him?
You help the company out of a hole, then they can give you some extra time/bonus/spare computer/whatever afterwards.
If you can prove to be flexible and valuable, then the company will want to keep you around. The flip side is that you signed up for a reasonable workload, not 12/7. There is no need to be screwed.
Therefore try to figure something out to keep it win-win.
SCOicide: to kill yourself the SCO way.
SCue: to sue people to your own detrement.
SCOurce code: invisible, yet high value code that does not exist in any physical form. Beyond quantum code.
Ducks are way easier to heard than chickens.
By the time a chicken hits your plate it has been de-beaked, pumped with hormones, lived in huge stressful flocks (natural flock size is arounf 12 birds), denied perching, gathered then inhumanely slaughtered.
Seems to me like the major reason for introducing this device is the mighty buck. The industry is pushing the humane side, though in fact this contributes only a small fraction of the inhumanity in raising chickens.
Another approach would be to eat ducks. Ducks are far more stupid than chickens and are far less stress prone too. However, ducks don't produce meat as fast, so the mighty buck kicks in again....