The security organisations get their power (and money for toys) through fear. They need to keep the fear alive and they can do that by coming up with new security measures at airports/borders/whatever. These all help to build the perception that there is a dangerous world full of hippies/commies/rag-heads/$MONSTER_OF_THE DECADE.
Also, being politically driven, these organisations must pander to perceptions rather than reality. They respond to, and help fan, the perceived external threat rather than deal to the more real internal one.
No doubt Apple and Cingular were both negotiating hard. I expect that Apple did it to Cingular as hard as they got it.
The only real losers were the customers who can't put together the deals that they want. THis will cause some churn due to some people really wanting Apple.
If some more hhighly branded phones (Google, Starbucks,...) came onto the scene then this could eventually force common carrier cellphones. However, to do that they will all need to use a common protocol.
If you run a small business then you need to be an integrator to an extent. You need to have a family that can tolerate the fact that the line between your business and personal life is a bit fuzzy. In small busines, you are the business and the business is you. If you can't integrate, then don't get into small business/consulting etc.
Likewise, if you are an integrator, then don't be a wage slave. If you do you just screw yourself down for no gain to anyone. You need to be a segmentor to leave all the office shit behind you.
Personally, I'm both. I work 9-5 in regular employment and I also do moonlighting. I have a 9-5 segmentor relationship with my employer and evenings, early mornings and weekends integrator lifedyle for moonlighting. This has worked for me for over 20 years.
If you can't get all your regular work done between 9 to 5, then you're just trying to compensate for some screw up (bad management or perhaps poor skills) and giving them extra time for nothing. If you really want to spend extra time being a geek, then do something different and maybe make a buck or two too. Apart from making money, this builds your skill base which means you benefit and quite likely your regular emplyer will benefit too.
In theory there is freedom of speech etc. In practice there isn't because the companies are too scared of losing their connections within the White House etc. If their employees step out of line, they jump on them to keep their relationships with the government (or those likely to get into government intact). Pretty much the same happened to Robert Scheer.
In the press, time to market and access to stories is everything. If your paper/TV station steps out of line, then the WH staffers return your calls, but just a bit later: lost scoop. Got journalists in Iraq? Step out of line and your crew gdon't get indented with the front line soldiers with nice TV footage to send home - no they get sent off withthe soldiers washing trucks at the motor pool... and how many viewers will that get you?.
So while, in theory, you have freedom of the press the editors and TV bosses are really chicken-shit scared and keep in line.
By your argument, you'd be suprised that US phone makers use Linux (Finnish) or Symbian(British) OSs in cell phones. Why do people in the US buy German cars, you'd think they'd be able to make there own premium brand cars.
The EU only wants to regulate the way US credit card companies deal with EU citizens.
Welcome to the global community. All the EU is saying is that a fair set of rules need to be put in place so that people don't get abused. What EU proposes against Microsoft would help US companies too, it is just that the US goverment lacks the balls to do this.
As soon as you label a kid as being gifted, you stop treating them as a kid. Poor behavior: "Oh, that's just gifted kids for you". Don't want to take out the trash: "He really shouldn't be wasting his talents". There seems to be a complete obsession with labelling people to get status or to excuse behavior. Worst is when the kids are told that they are gifted: they soon learn to use this as a manipulative tool: "I need to do $FUN_ACTIVITY to expand my experiences. $CHORE crushes me".
Most kids are gifted one way or another, some academically, some otherwise. Just most kids don't experience the environments that bring the best out of the kids.
Even in consumer goods space you often need some gates for a particular logic/dsp function + you need a micro for supervisory/user interaction type activity. You could use an FPGA + a normal micro or you could just run the micro in the FPGA. These days the gates required to run a low-end micro in an FPGA only cost 50c or so, about the same cost as a very low end 8-bit micro. A $3 FPGA will run an 8-bit CPU core + do a whole raft of other functions. The FPGA-based solution has some interesting benefits: (1) Less chips and board area == reduced manufacturing cost. (2) Ability to customise parts to your specification without the costs (time and money) normally associated with doing an ASIC. (3) Less issues with parts supply.
All FPGA vendors now offer CPU cores (or you can get others from opencores.org). These cores can do a slew of different functions from DSP to straight CPU functions... and yes they do run Linux!
For example, Xilinx FPGAs can be reconfigured to run at least 5 different CPU cores, including Java processors etc in single or multi-core arrangements. They can also be reconfigured to do hardware DSP (eg. GPS receivers, sonar processing...). They can implement any peripheral function you care to think of. This makes them pretty versatile for military applications: instead of having to carry a whole raft of different hardware, you can carry one set of boards which can be reconfigured as required.
These days email is cheap and simple. A real snail-mail letter grabs attention.
Get yogether with your buddies and collect a pile of ATI and competitor proofs of purchase.
With the ATI ones say that you are a customer and would really like to see Linux support. With all the competitor ones, say that you would have bought ATI but for the driver issue. make sure you youtube it, blog it,...
You can bet your bottom that they are not going all the way to make the EU happy. They've give a bit, with a bunch of clauses and limitations, but they won't give everything asked for. Then they'll haggle a bit more and try to reach some compromise.
I expect though that the EU are wiser than MS is hoping for.
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MS slowdown is caused by thousands of poor lines of code which require countless programmers. ReactOS achieves the same slowdown by just using a few lines of code in slow_down.c:
The numbers are misleading because they track hostnames, not servers.
So Netcraft shows 45M*60% = 30 million web sites running Apache. Lets, for argument sake, say all of these are on Linux boxes. Some of these websites (Google etc) are very busy and will be running multiple servers. Some (probably more than 80% of websites) will be running on hosted systems (ie. 1 server == 10 websites or more). That probably means the there are approx 5 million web servers running Linux.
In comparison, Motorola alone shipped a million Linux-based phones in one quarter http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2325312567.html... and there are many more companies selling Linux cell phones and there are many companies embedding Linux into TVs and all kinds of thing.
It depends on where the bloat is coming from. Potentially using common components/shared libs could reduce bloat relative to having mozilla browser + kde + gnome apps, each of which need their own bloat libs.
The product is a long way off. Often/. will post very "first announcement" kind of things
Well by the third or fourth dupe you'd expect to start seeing something.
With automotive stuff, I think it likely that there are two primary factors that slow things down. Firstly there's the infrastructure. There's a huge setup to support gas sales through the world. Changing to H2 or compressed air, redox battery or whatever is difficult because there's a chicken-and-egg problem with supporting infrastructure. Redox battery technology was technically viable about 20 years back and has a very simple usage model.
Secondly, the automotive manufacturers don't really want to change. They'd rather limit their "innovations" to changing round headlights to square, then back again a few years later.
with a biofeedback that makes them feel like they are jumping and add a sunlamp to the ceiling so they think they're in the sun, they can have a virtual session on the trampoline without even going outside and getting any of that boring exercise stuff!
Cmon folks! Games are already way to attractive to kids. We should be doing things to get them a bit more active.
The sniffer dog is trained by a trainer who eats fast food which is served by a waitress who has a boyfriend with a computer connected to the internet.
Nope. I just mean to point out that in some areas of science (eg. the laws of motion of slow things where Newton is Good Enough, thermodynamics,...) we have very robust models and in others (eg. climatology, earthquake prediction and functioning of the human brain we do not). We should be careful to take all results from the weaker models with a grain of salt. The "oooh look at last winter" remark in the summary was just plain stupid - particularly in a pievce about being rational.
"... you should always reject every conclusion, ever." Nope. Just be cautious about what you say and to the degree you accept what is being said. The unwashed masses don't understand that some science is robust and other science is very tentative. I personally believe that we are having a global warming impact of sorts, but I don't believe that this is "scientifically proven" or even very strongly modelled. Reacting with alarm is not scientific. That's not to say we should not proceed with caution (ie. we are likely having an impact, therefore we should do things to lessen the impact.).
As for the tweaking of models, well that's exactly what ckimatologists do. They try to make models that describe how the climate operates. Unfortunately this is a very difficult, slow, and error prone process. You cannot set up an experiment: "Say, tomorrow I'll heat up 500cubic km of ocean and see what that does.".THis makes it very difficult to control the variables and make robust models which is why most models have "best case scenarios" saying sea levels will raise by a foot or so, and "worst case" saying by ten feet or more. The result is that we have no real predictions for what will happen.
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Also, being politically driven, these organisations must pander to perceptions rather than reality. They respond to, and help fan, the perceived external threat rather than deal to the more real internal one.
.. because they didn't realise they live in America. They thought they live in Texas.
Step zero is to buy from Dell in Europe, not in USA. European consumer protection is far better than in USA.
The only real losers were the customers who can't put together the deals that they want. THis will cause some churn due to some people really wanting Apple.
If some more hhighly branded phones (Google, Starbucks,...) came onto the scene then this could eventually force common carrier cellphones. However, to do that they will all need to use a common protocol.
Likewise, if you are an integrator, then don't be a wage slave. If you do you just screw yourself down for no gain to anyone. You need to be a segmentor to leave all the office shit behind you.
Personally, I'm both. I work 9-5 in regular employment and I also do moonlighting. I have a 9-5 segmentor relationship with my employer and evenings, early mornings and weekends integrator lifedyle for moonlighting. This has worked for me for over 20 years.
If you can't get all your regular work done between 9 to 5, then you're just trying to compensate for some screw up (bad management or perhaps poor skills) and giving them extra time for nothing. If you really want to spend extra time being a geek, then do something different and maybe make a buck or two too. Apart from making money, this builds your skill base which means you benefit and quite likely your regular emplyer will benefit too.
In the press, time to market and access to stories is everything. If your paper/TV station steps out of line, then the WH staffers return your calls, but just a bit later: lost scoop. Got journalists in Iraq? Step out of line and your crew gdon't get indented with the front line soldiers with nice TV footage to send home - no they get sent off withthe soldiers washing trucks at the motor pool... and how many viewers will that get you?.
So while, in theory, you have freedom of the press the editors and TV bosses are really chicken-shit scared and keep in line.
The EU only wants to regulate the way US credit card companies deal with EU citizens.
Welcome to the global community. All the EU is saying is that a fair set of rules need to be put in place so that people don't get abused. What EU proposes against Microsoft would help US companies too, it is just that the US goverment lacks the balls to do this.
Most kids are gifted one way or another, some academically, some otherwise. Just most kids don't experience the environments that bring the best out of the kids.
Even in consumer goods space you often need some gates for a particular logic/dsp function + you need a micro for supervisory/user interaction type activity. You could use an FPGA + a normal micro or you could just run the micro in the FPGA. These days the gates required to run a low-end micro in an FPGA only cost 50c or so, about the same cost as a very low end 8-bit micro. A $3 FPGA will run an 8-bit CPU core + do a whole raft of other functions. The FPGA-based solution has some interesting benefits: (1) Less chips and board area == reduced manufacturing cost. (2) Ability to customise parts to your specification without the costs (time and money) normally associated with doing an ASIC. (3) Less issues with parts supply.
All FPGA vendors now offer CPU cores (or you can get others from opencores.org). These cores can do a slew of different functions from DSP to straight CPU functions... and yes they do run Linux!
For example, Xilinx FPGAs can be reconfigured to run at least 5 different CPU cores, including Java processors etc in single or multi-core arrangements. They can also be reconfigured to do hardware DSP (eg. GPS receivers, sonar processing...). They can implement any peripheral function you care to think of. This makes them pretty versatile for military applications: instead of having to carry a whole raft of different hardware, you can carry one set of boards which can be reconfigured as required.
... or charge themselves for Linux licenses.
Get yogether with your buddies and collect a pile of ATI and competitor proofs of purchase.
With the ATI ones say that you are a customer and would really like to see Linux support. With all the competitor ones, say that you would have bought ATI but for the driver issue. make sure you youtube it, blog it,...
I expect though that the EU are wiser than MS is hoping for.
Read http://news.com.com/SCO+seals+deal+for+legal+expen se+cap/2100-7344_3-5440361.html
The lawyers clearly have a vested interest in dragging this case out and, being a good family man, why should Darl complain?
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IBM does not really benefit is suing. SCO is broke. What are they going to get?
So Netcraft shows 45M*60% = 30 million web sites running Apache. Lets, for argument sake, say all of these are on Linux boxes. Some of these websites (Google etc) are very busy and will be running multiple servers. Some (probably more than 80% of websites) will be running on hosted systems (ie. 1 server == 10 websites or more). That probably means the there are approx 5 million web servers running Linux.
In comparison, Motorola alone shipped a million Linux-based phones in one quarter http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2325312567.html... and there are many more companies selling Linux cell phones and there are many companies embedding Linux into TVs and all kinds of thing.
you're probably above the law too.
Probably most of those don't even know that Linix is involved.
It depends on where the bloat is coming from. Potentially using common components/shared libs could reduce bloat relative to having mozilla browser + kde + gnome apps, each of which need their own bloat libs.
Well by the third or fourth dupe you'd expect to start seeing something.
With automotive stuff, I think it likely that there are two primary factors that slow things down. Firstly there's the infrastructure. There's a huge setup to support gas sales through the world. Changing to H2 or compressed air, redox battery or whatever is difficult because there's a chicken-and-egg problem with supporting infrastructure. Redox battery technology was technically viable about 20 years back and has a very simple usage model.
Secondly, the automotive manufacturers don't really want to change. They'd rather limit their "innovations" to changing round headlights to square, then back again a few years later.
Just your memory doesn't function as well, so you better make all the passwords really simple.
Cmon folks! Games are already way to attractive to kids. We should be doing things to get them a bit more active.
The sniffer dog is trained by a trainer who eats fast food which is served by a waitress who has a boyfriend with a computer connected to the internet.
Nope. I just mean to point out that in some areas of science (eg. the laws of motion of slow things where Newton is Good Enough, thermodynamics,...) we have very robust models and in others (eg. climatology, earthquake prediction and functioning of the human brain we do not). We should be careful to take all results from the weaker models with a grain of salt. The "oooh look at last winter" remark in the summary was just plain stupid - particularly in a pievce about being rational.
"... you should always reject every conclusion, ever." Nope. Just be cautious about what you say and to the degree you accept what is being said. The unwashed masses don't understand that some science is robust and other science is very tentative. I personally believe that we are having a global warming impact of sorts, but I don't believe that this is "scientifically proven" or even very strongly modelled. Reacting with alarm is not scientific. That's not to say we should not proceed with caution (ie. we are likely having an impact, therefore we should do things to lessen the impact.).
As for the tweaking of models, well that's exactly what ckimatologists do. They try to make models that describe how the climate operates. Unfortunately this is a very difficult, slow, and error prone process. You cannot set up an experiment: "Say, tomorrow I'll heat up 500cubic km of ocean and see what that does.".THis makes it very difficult to control the variables and make robust models which is why most models have "best case scenarios" saying sea levels will raise by a foot or so, and "worst case" saying by ten feet or more. The result is that we have no real predictions for what will happen.