If you can get 15 different types of ketchup in the store then clearly you have a great society.
All societies have pros and cons. Personally, even though I'm a geek, I'd say having a reasonable healthcare for all should be prioority ofver bandwidth for all.
Kevin McBride, Darl's brother, is one of SCO's lawyer. Lots of legal work means more money gets shunted out of SCO into the McBride family.
If they've got their mitts on some more money then more legal work is a good way to pump some of that cash into a safe place. No point in them leaving cash in a sinking ship.
Moore's Law tells us that we'll get more transistors for $x, something that MS and many other software vendors rely on when bloating up their software ("Ho cases about CPU usage, by the time it ships quad cores and 4G ram will be the default).
However the flip side is that x million transistors gets cheaper and cheaper. If you're frugal with computer resources then the solution can run on lower and lower cost hardware.
This is particularly important in embedded space where 32-bit micros with small amounts of memory can now be bought for under a buck per part. Just don't expect to run any fat-ass code on these.
Hitler did not use Vokswagen to whitewash himself because he did not see that he was doing wrong. Most of Volkswagen's triumphs have been post Hilter. Hilter just started the ball rolling.
Bill Gates, on the other hand, uses his philanthropy to Microsoft's benefit. Even the big press meeting where Warren Buffett made his announcements was on a stage draped in Microsoft ad material. Clearly Microsoft was supposed to absorb some of the good karma.
Clinton didn't get into trouble for getting a blowjob and vandalising a cigar. No he got into trouble for lying. Jimmy Wales is getting scorched because he made a bunch of rules and flagrantly ignores them when it suits his needs. The real bad thing here is that it undermines the whole supposed democratic nature of wikipedia. Jimmy Wales might have started Wikipedia (arguably by editing Sanger out of the Wikipedia history himself), but Wikipedia is now bigger than Jimmy.
If you read the post above properly, you'll see that it does not say Wales == Hitler or use a Hitler reference to slur Wales, it just uses Hitler as an extreme case to say don't equate the product with the person.
The real crazy thing about GPL is that copyright, and thus GPL, only protects the rights of the author. I've written many k lines of code reelased under GPL and the copyright holders have the rights to this code, including releasing it under other licenses.
This code would be far less valuable if it had not been tested by hundreds of people throughout the world, some of which have spend hundreds of hours on testing. These people have made a huge investment and contribution, yet they have no rights.
Product development and selling are also huge skills, often far harder than programming, and are part of code being successful.
The Florida breatalyzer thing probably oversteps the mark of being reasonable unless the level was within a few % of the legal limit. You could always keep on requesting more information until the situation becomes absurd: * Give us the source and schematics. * Now give us the chip design details for all the chips used in the device. * Give us the source for the compiler used to generate the firmware. * Now we want an expert witness stating that electrons will actually flow through these chips....
The judge goofed here and should have requested that the brethalyser makers provide a testing certificate to show that the device actually works as specced and provides a reasonable reading. That's all that matters and finer details do not matter.
Being absurd can invalidate any evidence. You could call into doubt that an eye witness can actually see, or that the court house actually exists (perhaps the witness fell asleep and it could all just be a dream). That's where the "reasonable doubt" test comes in - to smack down really stupid lines of argument.
But back to the RIAA. They should have to provide proof that their evidence is of sufficient quality to meet the courst's test of "beyond reasonable doubt".
Electricity wars (AC vs DC), tape wars (VHS vs BETA, 8 track vs cassette) or HD Format wars are nothing new and if nobody learnt then, why should anyone learn this time around?
You can still provide a userspace environment that provides the kernel APIs.
The extra engineering might pay off. People with older (or even current) machines with XP drivers might have bought Visa. hardware vendors would have had an easier job and the whole anti-Vista wave might not have happened.
Plane freight is loaded with modular bins, so why not do the same for passengers? You'd hop in your seat module, kinda like getting into a rollercoaster car, then get rolled into the plane when it is ready and rolled off the other end when you arrive. Just like the freight bins, these could be consistent sizes/shapes/mounting points making it easier to cater to different planes.
Modern switchers do a pretty good job, but as with everything else there are compromises. As you tune for stability you tend to give away performance. Dealing with wider voltage ranges makes the whole trade-off even harder.
Even discounting the problems getting very high capacity with low ESR, capacitors still have a drawbacks. The charge is proportional to the voltage which means that the voltage keeps going up with more charge. On the discharge side it means that the voltage keeps reducing as you discharge the capacitor. Thus, the power supplies that are powered by capacitors need to work with a wider range of voltages. This tends to make them less efficient and more complex.
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All societies have pros and cons. Personally, even though I'm a geek, I'd say having a reasonable healthcare for all should be prioority ofver bandwidth for all.
Fortran works better than anything else on punch cards.
If they've got their mitts on some more money then more legal work is a good way to pump some of that cash into a safe place. No point in them leaving cash in a sinking ship.
However the flip side is that x million transistors gets cheaper and cheaper. If you're frugal with computer resources then the solution can run on lower and lower cost hardware.
This is particularly important in embedded space where 32-bit micros with small amounts of memory can now be bought for under a buck per part. Just don't expect to run any fat-ass code on these.
Do we really need quantity? I'd rather have quality. Ten fuckwits easily negate the positive impact of one good programmer/cs guy.
Bill Gates, on the other hand, uses his philanthropy to Microsoft's benefit. Even the big press meeting where Warren Buffett made his announcements was on a stage draped in Microsoft ad material. Clearly Microsoft was supposed to absorb some of the good karma.
If you read the post above properly, you'll see that it does not say Wales == Hitler or use a Hitler reference to slur Wales, it just uses Hitler as an extreme case to say don't equate the product with the person.
It is easy to promise features, but a bit harder to deliver them.
No need to throw out the product with the person.
Not that I'm equating Wales with Hitler, just using an extreme case to make my point.
We only understand gravity because we observe it by falling on our diapered butts as babies. Therefore gravity becomes part of our logic.
Heavier than air flight was impossible (our logic told us), until proven otherwise and we had to modify our logic.
Going faster than 60mph, then 100mph, then sound would certainly kill people, until it was done.
Our logic tells us the world is flat, etc etc.
Stuff like quantum mechanics still completely baffles us, except for those few who have been able to modify their logic to actually understand it.
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But do you really expect people to think freely if they've been spouting the pledge of allegence since they were 5?
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he got hit my a flying desk.
This code would be far less valuable if it had not been tested by hundreds of people throughout the world, some of which have spend hundreds of hours on testing. These people have made a huge investment and contribution, yet they have no rights.
Product development and selling are also huge skills, often far harder than programming, and are part of code being successful.
* Give us the source and schematics.
* Now give us the chip design details for all the chips used in the device.
* Give us the source for the compiler used to generate the firmware.
* Now we want an expert witness stating that electrons will actually flow through these chips....
The judge goofed here and should have requested that the brethalyser makers provide a testing certificate to show that the device actually works as specced and provides a reasonable reading. That's all that matters and finer details do not matter.
Being absurd can invalidate any evidence. You could call into doubt that an eye witness can actually see, or that the court house actually exists (perhaps the witness fell asleep and it could all just be a dream). That's where the "reasonable doubt" test comes in - to smack down really stupid lines of argument.
But back to the RIAA. They should have to provide proof that their evidence is of sufficient quality to meet the courst's test of "beyond reasonable doubt".
Electricity wars (AC vs DC), tape wars (VHS vs BETA, 8 track vs cassette) or HD Format wars are nothing new and if nobody learnt then, why should anyone learn this time around?
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The extra engineering might pay off. People with older (or even current) machines with XP drivers might have bought Visa. hardware vendors would have had an easier job and the whole anti-Vista wave might not have happened.
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Plane freight is loaded with modular bins, so why not do the same for passengers? You'd hop in your seat module, kinda like getting into a rollercoaster car, then get rolled into the plane when it is ready and rolled off the other end when you arrive. Just like the freight bins, these could be consistent sizes/shapes/mounting points making it easier to cater to different planes.
would be a whole lot more fun!
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Modern switchers do a pretty good job, but as with everything else there are compromises. As you tune for stability you tend to give away performance. Dealing with wider voltage ranges makes the whole trade-off even harder.
Even discounting the problems getting very high capacity with low ESR, capacitors still have a drawbacks. The charge is proportional to the voltage which means that the voltage keeps going up with more charge. On the discharge side it means that the voltage keeps reducing as you discharge the capacitor. Thus, the power supplies that are powered by capacitors need to work with a wider range of voltages. This tends to make them less efficient and more complex.
If ndiswrapper can run XP drivers in Linux, then surely MS could have run XP drivers with no problems at all.