You'ill find that there are a whole load of restrictions when doing ANY work with government, these restrictions are there (in general) to protect the public interest.
An example being anything to do with the defense industry is very tightly restricted.
You talk about freedom without realising that this is about freedom, freedom of government to have control over the code that keeps it running.
If a company stipulates an Open Source requirement for a contract and your company does not provide Open Source solutions, you dont try and force the company to change their requirements citing "Freedom to choose" etc etc.
It seems government contracts have become cash cows to be milked by large corporations. What ever happened to "government for the people" and getting the best value for money for the tax payer?
Just offer a copy of Linux for the ultra low price of $1, stipulate the product comes with no support what-so-ever and voila, problem solved.
Of course, MS would probably hit them back hard for doing something like that.
So buy that defintion all Intel processors since the Pentium Pro are RISC processors. RISC does n't mean anything in todays processors, the Instruction decode section of the latest SPARC looks awfully complicated to me.
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Moores law has nothing to do with CPU speed doubling. Moores law is about the CPU transistor count doubling, thats not the same thing.
P4 at the end of it's cycle? The Pentium Pro started up at 150MHz and the core was tweaked and added to and is still used in the Pentium III-S running at 1.2GHz.. to say the P4 is at the end of if's cycle is either stupid or naive (you choose). I'm no fan of the P4 but I can easily see it reaching atleast 8GHz.
Hmm, PCI slots, SDRAM, IDE hard disk, ATI graphics cards.. other than the CPU/OS what else inside a Mac does n't come the PC world?
When you buy a Mac you buy it for the OS and more recently the ergonics.. this has been the case for a couple of years now.
Yes I can see it now, same questions originally to be answered by patent guy is now answered 5 minutes later by "anonymous cowarf"... 5 minutes after that patent guy is fired.
Thats a very tame use of the word greed I would say.. I think more accurate for what you describe would be ambition. Greed for me is gaining something to the detriment of others. Wanting to do well and advance yourself is not greed unless you can only do it by making other peoples lives misreable.
This WorldCom incident is a classic greed example in my book, a few people got rich while people who had invested directly or indirectly (via pensions) have been harmed.
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You'ill find that there are a whole load of restrictions when doing ANY work with government, these restrictions are there (in general) to protect the public interest.
An example being anything to do with the defense industry is very tightly restricted.
You talk about freedom without realising that this is about freedom, freedom of government to have control over the code that keeps it running.
If a company stipulates an Open Source requirement for a contract and your company does not provide Open Source solutions, you dont try and force the company to change their requirements citing "Freedom to choose" etc etc. It seems government contracts have become cash cows to be milked by large corporations. What ever happened to "government for the people" and getting the best value for money for the tax payer?
The reason for keeping Solaris for x86 alive?
Just offer a copy of Linux for the ultra low price of $1, stipulate the product comes with no support what-so-ever and voila, problem solved. Of course, MS would probably hit them back hard for doing something like that.
Yes and 90+% of the population are ignorant too so I guess MS dont mind one bit.
So buy that defintion all Intel processors since the Pentium Pro are RISC processors. RISC does n't mean anything in todays processors, the Instruction decode section of the latest SPARC looks awfully complicated to me.
Moores law has nothing to do with CPU speed doubling. Moores law is about the CPU transistor count doubling, thats not the same thing.
P4 at the end of it's cycle? The Pentium Pro started up at 150MHz and the core was tweaked and added to and is still used in the Pentium III-S running at 1.2GHz.. to say the P4 is at the end of if's cycle is either stupid or naive (you choose). I'm no fan of the P4 but I can easily see it reaching atleast 8GHz.
Hmm, PCI slots, SDRAM, IDE hard disk, ATI graphics cards.. other than the CPU/OS what else inside a Mac does n't come the PC world? When you buy a Mac you buy it for the OS and more recently the ergonics.. this has been the case for a couple of years now.
Yes I can see it now, same questions originally to be answered by patent guy is now answered 5 minutes later by "anonymous cowarf"... 5 minutes after that patent guy is fired.
Thats a very tame use of the word greed I would say.. I think more accurate for what you describe would be ambition. Greed for me is gaining something to the detriment of others. Wanting to do well and advance yourself is not greed unless you can only do it by making other peoples lives misreable.
This WorldCom incident is a classic greed example in my book, a few people got rich while people who had invested directly or indirectly (via pensions) have been harmed.