This seems like another example of what I would call a Pyrrhic victory. As long as the system can throw someone in jail for 16 months for doing something both legal and defensible then I see little reason to celebrate our freedoms.
As noted in the cited article CardBus is the portable form factor that utilizes the PCI bus. The PC Card designation was first used to designate Release 2 PCMCIA cards. It predates the PCI bus.
Idiot moderator, the car is named Tau Zero.
Google for Tau Zero and tell me why the car was named Tau Zero, and then tell me my post was offtopic.
OR you could be informative rather than petulant and explain that in general relativity "tau zero" means the condition where the value of tau--the proper time, or time experienced by a system (or person) traveling in a straight, constant-speed path along the vector (x, y, z) over coordinate time t--is equal to zero. Of course, that condition is achieved precisely when that speed is c, the speed of light. In effect, "tau zero" is a shorthand way of saying "when travelling at the speed of light and time stops."
I predict that Bush won't veto the bill. Congress has been getting enormous pressure from its constituents to overturn the recent FCC decision. I'm pretty sure the bill will also be passed by the Senate. If Bush then vetoes the bill he'll be putting members of his own party in a difficult position and risk giving his opposition another issue on which he can be attacked in the next election.
Rather than do that he'll probably back off on his threat to veto the bill, sacrifice the current FCC Chairman Michael Powell, have the next Chairman sabotage the enforcement mechanisms via administrative fiat and creative legislative re-interpretation. And then he'll vow to Big Media to make a full-court press to reinstate the changes...after his re-election.
Japan is a very crowded country; most Japanese live in large urban areas where the average home has approximately 800 square feet of interior space. (In Tokyo that number is reduced to approximately 660 square feet). As a result there is simply no space for anything unnecessary, making recycling a necessity. People in Japan tend to buy things, use them for a while, then dispose of them when the newest, latest, greatest thing is affordable. As a result the Japanese have become very good at recycling. We can learn a lot from their knowledge. Of course, it would probably be better for the planet to be a bit less acquisitive.
In a word, NO. In the U.S., Federal law states that the public owns the airwaves and that government's role is to ensure that they are used in the public's interest. Congress is currently in the process of reminding Michael Powell of the F.C.C. of this fact.
>Come on now, $3500 for a quad server isn't anything close to "cheap". Checking pricewatch, you can buy a quad Xeon board for under $500, and Xeons@2.4GHz for under $250. That leaves you with $2000 to spend on a power supply, hard disks, etc, for a machine that will kick the crap out of this great machine IBM will release sometime in the future.
No, the serious flaw in your comparison is you are comparing 32 bit Xeon processors with 64 bit PowerPC processors. If you need a 64 bit address space your comparison is completely invalid...the Xeon just can't do it. Think really big databases. Really, really big.
The reality is that $3,500 for a complete quad processor 64 bit server is a GREAT price.
1. Maximum theoretical PCI bus bandwidth over a 32-bit bus is 132 Mbytes/second or 1,056 Mbits/second.
2. 22Mbytes/second (176Mbits/second) of sustained bandwidth is about 16.7% of the maximum theoretical 32-bit PCI bus bandwidth.
3. There are both wider and faster PCI implementations. Some motherboards (such as those using the nVidia NForce2 architecture) connect to an onboard network interface via a special high speed transport that is significantly faster than a standard 32-bit PCI bus.
>please stop looking at everything microsoft does as immoral - they are a company, their purpose is to make money.
Not immoral...amoral. Importance difference. When your only purpose is to make money, you don't care about morality, only about actions that you know will ultimately reduce profits. Occasionally those actions intersect with popular notions of morality.
Ah, yes...that's probably a result of the printer technology that Xerox got when they bought Tektronix. Good stuff. I'm sure it's a great printer, but the price is still a tad stiff (~$1,500USD) and toner cart prices on Pricewatch seem a bit spendy, though certainly better than inkjet per-print prices. Probably a great choice for a workgroup printer but a bit of a stretch for a home office printer. Good suggestion though...thanks for the feedback.
Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze!
Actually, it says nothing about toner and everything about the high price of ink. Note that:
1. Ink is for inkjet printers.
2. Toner is for laser printers.
3. Toner is usually MUCH cheaper per page than ink.
I've been waiting to find a color printing option that approaches the cost per page of a laser printer with the color quality and resolution of a good inkjet printer. So, has anyone here on Slashdot found an optimal solution that offers reasonably quick printing? Extra points for built-in network support.
> Why does this give me a mental picture of a giant, half-naked female warrior beating off hordes of bad guys, armed only with a rolled up piece of paper?
No, the biggest problem is that 1) there are no laws against selling your personal information, 2) if businesses violate their own policies there is usually little or no recourse, 3) standard business philosophy is that if it isn't specifically illegal then it's fair game, and 4) many businesses will still do illegal things if they think they can get away with it (before getting busted or going out of business).
The likes of Lotus Notes/Domino and Oracle DB, which are higher up on the food chain, may be next on the OSS hit list. In the end, where is the commercial software market? And then what happens to OSS? A parasite cannot survive without its host. And in this case, the commercial software market is OSS host. Commercial software feeds the OSS parasite with models to copy. We know what drives the free market. What drives OSS innovation if the commercial software market dies?
Total, complete, utter *bullshit*.
90% of software companies got put out of business by acquisition or competition from other software companies LONG AGO...I saw the consolidation of sofware companies was causing a major reduction in the number of new products and companies as long ago as the early 1990s. The ones that were done in recently frequently had inferior products, unrealistic business objectives, or no expectation of ever seeing a profit.
Free software parasitic? Are you high? More often than not it's the other way around. Virtually ALL the software that made the Internet great...including Mosaix, Eudora, Apache...were FREE...and much of the rest was shareware. Large corporations came to the table late. They are the *beneficiaries* of free software and open protocols that created the market.
The current job market has less to do with OSS and everything to do with a recession caused by a huge bubble economy fueled by the growth of the Internet plus a *huge* glut of IT spending that occured to replace non-Y2K compliant software and hardware just before the year 2000. The result? An enormous oversupply of labor combined with a lack of demand for products. And the current labor market? Not all that different from before the bubble. A lot of employers see this as their opportunity to "get back" at that expensive labor they paid for dearly during the 1990s.
What does the source of funds have anything to do with it?
It has EVERYTHING to do with your earlier comment that "The argument of actually wanting OSS is crap, when in reality they just want a free ride." The point is that an IS Director that chooses OSS ain't getting a free ride regardless of which choice he makes. Here, in the REAL world, he's taking a RISK by choosing OSS over an established name brand product. Ever hear the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"? In most large companies free software has traditionally been regarded with suspicion. If the business wants a "free ride" they usually wouldn't bother to use OSS...THEY SIMPLY PIRATED COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE.
Companies that sell software need to recognize that their use of OSS is promoting their own demise. The old catalyst for software development (money) has been replaced by geek fame. That and a dollar will get a cup of coffee.
Christ, you sound bitter. OSS is *not* unique in providing products that can affect other products and businesses. Where the hell were you when Microsoft started putting everything but the kitchen sink into Windows and put countless small software developers out of business? Probably weren't born yet. Stop bitching like a wuss and figure out another way to make a buck. I know lots of good programmers who still have good jobs. And even OSS software needs to be installed, configured, modified, and enhanced. Many people make a good living doing that.
The reason is that most in the OSS community just want free knockoffs of MS products.
Actually, the users want the MS products, while the IS folks just want a product that won't cause friction with management and users, won't eat up all their time and budget, and won't require signing some Faustian deal with a large corporation that has put ever greater demands on them to provide a full accounting for every single piece of software on every desktop in your organization...all while constantly changing their contractual and support terms, reducing the support lifetime of the product, and demanding ever more time-consuming and intrusive license tracking requirements.
The argument of actually wanting OSS is crap, when in reality they just want a free ride.
Actually, given that IS folks don't pay for this stuff out of their pockets but instead are spending funds allocated for internal business systems, your notion that "they just want a free ride" is crap. There are very good reasons for wanting OSS. Just ask all those companies that could easily afford to use Win2K/IIS but chose Linux/Apache instead.
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This seems like another example of what I would call a Pyrrhic victory. As long as the system can throw someone in jail for 16 months for doing something both legal and defensible then I see little reason to celebrate our freedoms.
That press release is seriously lacking in substantive content. Yawn....
There is a very interesting article on About.com that shows how to measure the speed of light using your microwave to melt chocholate.
Big deal...I can measure Hubble's Constant by charring bagels in my toaster. Pffft.
PC Card -> PCI
Actually, that should be:
CardBus -> PCI
As noted in the cited article CardBus is the portable form factor that utilizes the PCI bus. The PC Card designation was first used to designate Release 2 PCMCIA cards. It predates the PCI bus.
Idiot moderator, the car is named Tau Zero.
Google for Tau Zero and tell me why the car was named Tau Zero, and then tell me my post was offtopic.
OR you could be informative rather than petulant and explain that in general relativity "tau zero" means the condition where the value of tau--the proper time, or time experienced by a system (or person) traveling in a straight, constant-speed path along the vector (x, y, z) over coordinate time t--is equal to zero. Of course, that condition is achieved precisely when that speed is c , the speed of light. In effect, "tau zero" is a shorthand way of saying "when travelling at the speed of light and time stops."
>OpenGL screen savers on NT 3.51 Server almost slowed down everything to a halt. (NT3 ran video drivers in Ring 3).
Didn't Microsoft move video drivers from ring 1 to ring 3 in WinNT 4.0? I don't think WinNT 3.51 ran video drivers in Ring 1.
I predict that Bush won't veto the bill. Congress has been getting enormous pressure from its constituents to overturn the recent FCC decision. I'm pretty sure the bill will also be passed by the Senate. If Bush then vetoes the bill he'll be putting members of his own party in a difficult position and risk giving his opposition another issue on which he can be attacked in the next election.
Rather than do that he'll probably back off on his threat to veto the bill, sacrifice the current FCC Chairman Michael Powell, have the next Chairman sabotage the enforcement mechanisms via administrative fiat and creative legislative re-interpretation. And then he'll vow to Big Media to make a full-court press to reinstate the changes...after his re-election.
Japan is a very crowded country; most Japanese live in large urban areas where the average home has approximately 800 square feet of interior space. (In Tokyo that number is reduced to approximately 660 square feet). As a result there is simply no space for anything unnecessary, making recycling a necessity. People in Japan tend to buy things, use them for a while, then dispose of them when the newest, latest, greatest thing is affordable. As a result the Japanese have become very good at recycling. We can learn a lot from their knowledge. Of course, it would probably be better for the planet to be a bit less acquisitive.
>They own the site, but do they own the airwaves?
In a word, NO. In the U.S., Federal law states that the public owns the airwaves and that government's role is to ensure that they are used in the public's interest. Congress is currently in the process of reminding Michael Powell of the F.C.C. of this fact.
>Alright slashdotters, who's the good guy? The one being bagged on in the software patent arena, or the one standing up to the 800lb gorilla?
Neither.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
>Oh! Haha! A PENIS joke! That was funny!
>Seriously, though: where did all you sickos come from?
Apparently you've already forgotten that you are reading Slashdot.
>Come on now, $3500 for a quad server isn't anything close to "cheap". Checking pricewatch, you can buy a quad Xeon board for under $500, and Xeons@2.4GHz for under $250. That leaves you with $2000 to spend on a power supply, hard disks, etc, for a machine that will kick the crap out of this great machine IBM will release sometime in the future.
No, the serious flaw in your comparison is you are comparing 32 bit Xeon processors with 64 bit PowerPC processors. If you need a 64 bit address space your comparison is completely invalid...the Xeon just can't do it. Think really big databases. Really, really big.
The reality is that $3,500 for a complete quad processor 64 bit server is a GREAT price.
1. Maximum theoretical PCI bus bandwidth over a 32-bit bus is 132 Mbytes/second or 1,056 Mbits/second.
2. 22Mbytes/second (176Mbits/second) of sustained bandwidth is about 16.7% of the maximum theoretical 32-bit PCI bus bandwidth.
3. There are both wider and faster PCI implementations. Some motherboards (such as those using the nVidia NForce2 architecture) connect to an onboard network interface via a special high speed transport that is significantly faster than a standard 32-bit PCI bus.
>please stop looking at everything microsoft does as immoral - they are a company, their purpose is to make money.
Not immoral...amoral. Importance difference. When your only purpose is to make money, you don't care about morality, only about actions that you know will ultimately reduce profits. Occasionally those actions intersect with popular notions of morality.
Ah, yes...that's probably a result of the printer technology that Xerox got when they bought Tektronix. Good stuff. I'm sure it's a great printer, but the price is still a tad stiff (~$1,500USD) and toner cart prices on Pricewatch seem a bit spendy, though certainly better than inkjet per-print prices. Probably a great choice for a workgroup printer but a bit of a stretch for a home office printer. Good suggestion though...thanks for the feedback.
Explains why I get daily spam about toner, but none at all for booze!
Actually, it says nothing about toner and everything about the high price of ink. Note that:
1. Ink is for inkjet printers.
2. Toner is for laser printers.
3. Toner is usually MUCH cheaper per page than ink.
I've been waiting to find a color printing option that approaches the cost per page of a laser printer with the color quality and resolution of a good inkjet printer. So, has anyone here on Slashdot found an optimal solution that offers reasonably quick printing? Extra points for built-in network support.
> But at least Ann Coulter is hot looking.
And Cyanide smells like almonds. Don't take the bait. You've been warned.
It's like putting Hilary Rosen and Ann Coultier into a spiked cage and fretting over who won't emerge.
No, it's like putting Hilary Rosen and Ann Coulter into a spiked cage and fretting that one might emerge.
> Why does this give me a mental picture of a giant, half-naked female warrior beating off hordes of bad guys, armed only with a rolled up piece of paper?
I bet you go to every Star Trek convention.
It doesn't matter who they blame, as long as they experience financial failure.
Problem is that the principals usually make out like bandits while the investors, business partners, creditors and employees get burned.
If in the end business dries up because of their behind-the-scenes bullshit, they only have themselves to blame.
They'll never blame themselves. They'll blame *you* first.
No, the biggest problem is that 1) there are no laws against selling your personal information, 2) if businesses violate their own policies there is usually little or no recourse, 3) standard business philosophy is that if it isn't specifically illegal then it's fair game, and 4) many businesses will still do illegal things if they think they can get away with it (before getting busted or going out of business).
Microsoft won't be happy about this. Wonder if they're gonna take 'em to court over the use of the letters "CE"....
Total, complete, utter *bullshit*.
What does the source of funds have anything to do with it?
It has EVERYTHING to do with your earlier comment that "The argument of actually wanting OSS is crap, when in reality they just want a free ride."
The point is that an IS Director that chooses OSS ain't getting a free ride regardless of which choice he makes. Here, in the REAL world, he's taking a RISK by choosing OSS over an established name brand product. Ever hear the phrase "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM"? In most large companies free software has traditionally been regarded with suspicion. If the business wants a "free ride" they usually wouldn't bother to use OSS...THEY SIMPLY PIRATED COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE.
Companies that sell software need to recognize that their use of OSS is promoting their own demise. The old catalyst for software development (money) has been replaced by geek fame. That and a dollar will get a cup of coffee.
Christ, you sound bitter. OSS is *not* unique in providing products that can affect other products and businesses. Where the hell were you when Microsoft started putting everything but the kitchen sink into Windows and put countless small software developers out of business? Probably weren't born yet. Stop bitching like a wuss and figure out another way to make a buck. I know lots of good programmers who still have good jobs. And even OSS software needs to be installed, configured, modified, and enhanced. Many people make a good living doing that.
The reason is that most in the OSS community just want free knockoffs of MS products.
Actually, the users want the MS products, while the IS folks just want a product that won't cause friction with management and users, won't eat up all their time and budget, and won't require signing some Faustian deal with a large corporation that has put ever greater demands on them to provide a full accounting for every single piece of software on every desktop in your organization...all while constantly changing their contractual and support terms, reducing the support lifetime of the product, and demanding ever more time-consuming and intrusive license tracking requirements.
The argument of actually wanting OSS is crap, when in reality they just want a free ride.
Actually, given that IS folks don't pay for this stuff out of their pockets but instead are spending funds allocated for internal business systems, your notion that "they just want a free ride" is crap. There are very good reasons for wanting OSS. Just ask all those companies that could easily afford to use Win2K/IIS but chose Linux/Apache instead.