Yes, Microsoft has ALWAYS indemnified it's customers from patent infringement suits filed against its customers. Google "Microsoft indemnity". I'm a little out of date about commercial Linux vendors but as of a few years ago, no commercial Linux distributor offered indemnity because they couldn't. Thinks might of change by now though. Irrespective of this JP Morgan would still never use community Linux distros. They would use commercially support distros that have stringent SLAs and pricey support contracts. So if push came to shove, an ATM terminal network using Linux would likely cost much more when factoring both support, dev, testing, security, patching, and upgrade costs. No Linux provider comes close to Microsoft's support lifecycle either.
I'm not saying Linux is bad, sucks, or is never right choice, I'm just saying that in this case for this customer, Linux for ATM is probably more expensive to support than Windows Embedded. The cost of Windows Embedded licensing and support is a rounding error for a firm like JPM
Just because one company successfully defends against one or two reported cases doesn't diminish the claims of patent infringement for all companies who use Linux. Just Google it. Microsoft isn't the only one who earns patent royalties from Linux. The reason a company like IBM can defend itself is because they can duke it out with their own patent portfolio to countersue, in addition to wiping the floor with trolls with an army of lawyers.
Is it your believe that Linux violates no patents recognised by the world's patent offices?
FUD? Hardly. These are matters of reporting, public record, and common sense. And I guarantee you that each and everyone of the firms you have listed has paid some patent holder licensing fees for patents that are implemented in Linux. Even small commercial Linux shops have had to deal with patent suits. The point is for a bank as large as JP Morgan, using Linux for ATMs makes zero sense, technologically, legally, and financially. Due to the high volume of infringements in a national ATM network, the damages could easily be many multiples more than the cost of a windows embedded license with tier one support. Now using Linux for internal servers or a HPC cluster is a different story completely, here JP would not be as easily exposed from a discovery perspective, plus there is a rational use case for financial/scientific computing to utilize Linux.
Umm if your only standard is the number of successful patent claims against Linux, than you really need to brush of on tech litigation and tech settlements related to Linux. Microsoft has extracted millions from companies that support the Linux ecosystem. Heard of Android for that matter? Even the biggest corporate proponents of Linux are paying millions of dollars in patent licenses a year to small time patent trolls and legitimate patent holders. There is a reason that "Linux" doesn't get sued. "Linux" has no money. It's the big dogs who sell, distribute, support, and use Linux commercially who get targeted by law firms representing patent holders.
Most people who comment on Microsoft stories here are clueless about the company's product portfolio, customer base, policies, and competitive status. Not saying that you're one of them though >:)>
Why would a risk averse organization that makes billions of dollars a quarter expose itself to potential lawsuits for an operating system that provides no indemnity from patents?
I think you aren't recognizing the significance of being able to quickly and efficiently clean nuclear waste water. All the major nuclear waste storage sites in US are struggling to find the area necessary to store waste. This cuts down the waste volume by a huge margin. As for solid "waste" as you describe, I agree with you that I'm all for thorium and salt reactors. India and China is actually leading in this area if I'm not mistaken.
But as to your implication that nuclear waste is a serious issue, it's really not even close to the damage caused by coal fly ash, which is more radioactive than nuclear waste. Today we can count the number people who die prematurely from coal; how many people die from nuclear waste? Statistically none.
As a Dem, I can understand some members of the party seeing a need for this, but I'm shocked that Lamar Alexander is co-sponsoring this. So much for anti-regulation republicans. While I agree that voice calls should not be permitted in planes, there is no reason to legislate this. It is very reasonable that in the future there may be airlines dedicated to business passengers who would find value in having phone calls on a flight.
Let us also forget the fact that many airplanes already have seat tethered phones that no one uses. A passenger etiquette policy determined by airlines would be preferable than a blanket ban. I see this more as a generational issue where old people are once again on the losing side.
Hold the boat, a return to C or C++ would be a HUGE boost, no need to throw the baby out with bath water.
ASM programmers could never build rich content apps that the world relies on today. The code would be ridiculous, think the worst COBOL app times a 1000 for every application used today.
No, moving dynamic languages and compiling them to optimized C or chunking out high level critical code into optimized C/C++ is what every major web service is focusing on today. Facebook for example is realizing well over 50% gains by just scraping some PHP components with unmanaged code.
While most non-tech people would agree with your 99% statement, if left to people with this belief, we'd still be stuck with command line PC. Hell, why innovate at all?! The reality is that we are really just scratching the surface of ubiquitous computing. PC absolutely need to get faster because life has more resolution, more data, and ever increasing demand for analysis. I have a perfectly working iBook G4 that can't even browse today's web because it's so media intense. Imagine a world where HD content or HI DPI displays are the norm. Imagine the amount of number crunching a future version of Kinect needs to better understand sensor data.
The point is that if you spend a few minutes to think about all the things that would be nice to be able to do when not at a computer, you will realize that our demand for local compute capacity is not really slowing. The business model maybe changing, but we all still want better faster cheaper and more.
Its fucking 2013 and voice recognition still sucks beyond belief in real-world scenarios. Need more compute and storage and bandwidth to address the issues.
Your excellent explanation is exactly why bitcoin will never be a primary currency, because people will almost never buy products in BTC irrespective of exchange rates. The product sold using BTC are priced not based on BTC fundamentals, they are priced based on the local currency fundamentals and than converted to the Exchange rate on BTC markets. Because of the volatility in the BTC market, ecommerce sites must implement hedging systems pegged with the market.
Thank you, whoever you are. Your response reminds me of a classic definition of feminism being the radical notion that women are people.
Typically, when you get into a good committed relationship between capable people, then each helps support the other when they need it. Man or woman doesn't matter when the chips are down, love and committment do.
Children, on the other hand, are way more expensive than a lot of would-be parents give them credit for. To age 18, it's about $400K. If you're helping with college expenses, tack on another $200K. The little rascals are also the greatest diminisher of marital happiness, according to serious studies on the subject. I'm sure being a parent is a wonderful experience (that I've never had), but be careful out there and don't end up a parent by accident.
It is worth noting that the cost projections for children that you have outlined are unique to American society. The way we've engineered the economic incentives in this country have made it so that children are seen as an "expense" as opposed to an investment for future societal returns. Not all countries are structured in this manor. In America we incentivize middle and upper income people to not reproduce.
Actually researchers are required by state laws and university guidelines to follow research consent laws regardless of whether they are done via the university or not. In this case however, the issue is blurred because it depends what the researcher is doing. The line between research using aggregated data and using platform BI tools to benchmark effectiveness are related things but different. It may not be easy to draw the lines as easily as before because data is used for everything now.
No speculation on NHS funding at this point will matter. The UK has the same ability to to spend more money on NHS as does the US and issuing more reserve currency. Even if NHS doesn't issue more currency to cover the gap, they can easily reallocate spending from their tax revenues.
Comparatively the UK spends roughly HALF of what the US does and achieve far better outcomes. NHS funding base been cut and flattened so today it is massively underfunded. As a former UK expat, the British people will throw out any government that changes the social contract of the NHS. £30B is chump change for the UK economy. This article exist simply as a comparative fodder for news between US and UK. It's totally apples and oranges.
...insurance company states that extended warranties and their corresponding value to consumers are a function of individual risk factors....duhhhhhhhhhh.
I did a personal experiment in college. I bought a vintage engineering calculus text book from the 1940s to see if I could learn from it and apply I learned in class. My hypothesis was correct.
I failed miserably. Those Manhattan project boys were one of a kind.
Facts: Tax revenue as a percentage as a % of GDP is the lowest in US history. So taxes aren't killing innovation.
If by inflation you mean CPI, this has gone up but only marginally. Inflation on the other hand is targeted at 2% which is the norm for most OECD countries. The risk-free rate in finance is the lowest it's ever been. Even the 10-year treasury note is at an all time low.
Investors don't invest is early stage companies if the return is only 15-20%. You can get shitty returns like that in the stock market with much less risk. Try 500% returns or more.
Intensive Labor utilizing Manufacturing will never return to America again, nor should it. Manufacturing as an industry to lower unemployment is a fantasy. People should get over it.
Regulations aren't killing jobs. The lack of demand in the economy is killing jobs.
Income inequality is killing jobs.
$32 Trillion locked up in overseas tax havens is killing jobs.
The effective corporate tax rates in USA is about 12%, even though the statutory rate is 35%.
The US tax code is killing jobs.
The current global economy values capital over labor. This is killing jobs.
Myths: Taxes are killing jobs Regulations are killing jobs.
Haha so true. At USC, they didn't event really teach VLSI or Verilog in the senior courses for the BSEE. But i luckily got an internship at intel where i quickly learned both. The tooling and software side of EE was totally unrepresented in the curriculum. It was sad.
Speaking as an electrical engineer, what you describe is 100% false. EMI is not summed in this manor. you can have hundreds of FCC regulated consumer devices active in the passenger area and it would not do a thing to the electrical operation of a plane. This is assuming that passegers NOT use airplane mode. If airplane mode is used, with the way most devices are built, they are as harmless as digital watches. Plus the relationship between EMI strength is inversely Proportional to distance. The greater the distance, the weaker the interference, we are talking centimeters here. Lastly, EMI is not summed like you describe because there is a directional component in the math. Unless everyone knew how to focus their devices interference toward the cockpit, which isn't even how the devices antennas are designed, it would be impossible to generate EMI strong enough to reach the cockpit or even your in-chair entertainment system.
If EMI was a serious concern terrorists would have employed such devices because it's not hard to build a dirty transmitter. I would imagine homeland security knows this point. If EMI in today's world was a serious threat, DHS would have overruled FAA long ago with an even stricter ban on electronics.
Fast forward 30-40 years, if battery technology becomes sufficiently advanced and portable, one may be able to generate a signal strong enough to interfere with a 1970's era passenger jet, but by that time, new planes will have better shielding from the ridiculous number of devices and transmitters and sensors in the just the cockpit area.
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Yes, Microsoft has ALWAYS indemnified it's customers from patent infringement suits filed against its customers. Google "Microsoft indemnity". I'm a little out of date about commercial Linux vendors but as of a few years ago, no commercial Linux distributor offered indemnity because they couldn't. Thinks might of change by now though. Irrespective of this JP Morgan would still never use community Linux distros. They would use commercially support distros that have stringent SLAs and pricey support contracts. So if push came to shove, an ATM terminal network using Linux would likely cost much more when factoring both support, dev, testing, security, patching, and upgrade costs. No Linux provider comes close to Microsoft's support lifecycle either.
I'm not saying Linux is bad, sucks, or is never right choice, I'm just saying that in this case for this customer, Linux for ATM is probably more expensive to support than Windows Embedded. The cost of Windows Embedded licensing and support is a rounding error for a firm like JPM
Just because one company successfully defends against one or two reported cases doesn't diminish the claims of patent infringement for all companies who use Linux. Just Google it. Microsoft isn't the only one who earns patent royalties from Linux. The reason a company like IBM can defend itself is because they can duke it out with their own patent portfolio to countersue, in addition to wiping the floor with trolls with an army of lawyers.
Is it your believe that Linux violates no patents recognised by the world's patent offices?
FUD? Hardly. These are matters of reporting, public record, and common sense. And I guarantee you that each and everyone of the firms you have listed has paid some patent holder licensing fees for patents that are implemented in Linux. Even small commercial Linux shops have had to deal with patent suits. The point is for a bank as large as JP Morgan, using Linux for ATMs makes zero sense, technologically, legally, and financially. Due to the high volume of infringements in a national ATM network, the damages could easily be many multiples more than the cost of a windows embedded license with tier one support. Now using Linux for internal servers or a HPC cluster is a different story completely, here JP would not be as easily exposed from a discovery perspective, plus there is a rational use case for financial/scientific computing to utilize Linux.
Umm if your only standard is the number of successful patent claims against Linux, than you really need to brush of on tech litigation and tech settlements related to Linux. Microsoft has extracted millions from companies that support the Linux ecosystem. Heard of Android for that matter? Even the biggest corporate proponents of Linux are paying millions of dollars in patent licenses a year to small time patent trolls and legitimate patent holders. There is a reason that "Linux" doesn't get sued. "Linux" has no money. It's the big dogs who sell, distribute, support, and use Linux commercially who get targeted by law firms representing patent holders.
Most people who comment on Microsoft stories here are clueless about the company's product portfolio, customer base, policies, and competitive status. Not saying that you're one of them though >:)>
Why would a risk averse organization that makes billions of dollars a quarter expose itself to potential lawsuits for an operating system that provides no indemnity from patents?
I think you aren't recognizing the significance of being able to quickly and efficiently clean nuclear waste water. All the major nuclear waste storage sites in US are struggling to find the area necessary to store waste. This cuts down the waste volume by a huge margin. As for solid "waste" as you describe, I agree with you that I'm all for thorium and salt reactors. India and China is actually leading in this area if I'm not mistaken.
But as to your implication that nuclear waste is a serious issue, it's really not even close to the damage caused by coal fly ash, which is more radioactive than nuclear waste. Today we can count the number people who die prematurely from coal; how many people die from nuclear waste? Statistically none.
As a Dem, I can understand some members of the party seeing a need for this, but I'm shocked that Lamar Alexander is co-sponsoring this. So much for anti-regulation republicans. While I agree that voice calls should not be permitted in planes, there is no reason to legislate this. It is very reasonable that in the future there may be airlines dedicated to business passengers who would find value in having phone calls on a flight.
Let us also forget the fact that many airplanes already have seat tethered phones that no one uses. A passenger etiquette policy determined by airlines would be preferable than a blanket ban. I see this more as a generational issue where old people are once again on the losing side.
I actually wondered about this back when I was going through puberty.
Science has solved the waste issue. Titanate nanofibers. One gram cleans a ton of waste water.
Download it before the llama dies.
Hold the boat, a return to C or C++ would be a HUGE boost, no need to throw the baby out with bath water.
ASM programmers could never build rich content apps that the world relies on today. The code would be ridiculous, think the worst COBOL app times a 1000 for every application used today.
No, moving dynamic languages and compiling them to optimized C or chunking out high level critical code into optimized C/C++ is what every major web service is focusing on today. Facebook for example is realizing well over 50% gains by just scraping some PHP components with unmanaged code.
While most non-tech people would agree with your 99% statement, if left to people with this belief, we'd still be stuck with command line PC. Hell, why innovate at all?! The reality is that we are really just scratching the surface of ubiquitous computing. PC absolutely need to get faster because life has more resolution, more data, and ever increasing demand for analysis. I have a perfectly working iBook G4 that can't even browse today's web because it's so media intense. Imagine a world where HD content or HI DPI displays are the norm. Imagine the amount of number crunching a future version of Kinect needs to better understand sensor data.
The point is that if you spend a few minutes to think about all the things that would be nice to be able to do when not at a computer, you will realize that our demand for local compute capacity is not really slowing. The business model maybe changing, but we all still want better faster cheaper and more.
Its fucking 2013 and voice recognition still sucks beyond belief in real-world scenarios. Need more compute and storage and bandwidth to address the issues.
Your excellent explanation is exactly why bitcoin will never be a primary currency, because people will almost never buy products in BTC irrespective of exchange rates. The product sold using BTC are priced not based on BTC fundamentals, they are priced based on the local currency fundamentals and than converted to the Exchange rate on BTC markets. Because of the volatility in the BTC market, ecommerce sites must implement hedging systems pegged with the market.
Thank you, whoever you are. Your response reminds me of a classic definition of feminism being the radical notion that women are people.
Typically, when you get into a good committed relationship between capable people, then each helps support the other when they need it. Man or woman doesn't matter when the chips are down, love and committment do.
Children, on the other hand, are way more expensive than a lot of would-be parents give them credit for. To age 18, it's about $400K. If you're helping with college expenses, tack on another $200K. The little rascals are also the greatest diminisher of marital happiness, according to serious studies on the subject. I'm sure being a parent is a wonderful experience (that I've never had), but be careful out there and don't end up a parent by accident.
It is worth noting that the cost projections for children that you have outlined are unique to American society. The way we've engineered the economic incentives in this country have made it so that children are seen as an "expense" as opposed to an investment for future societal returns. Not all countries are structured in this manor. In America we incentivize middle and upper income people to not reproduce.
A speedup of 17x over a single core. Using an 8 core Xeon (16 threads with hyperthreading) would give a similar speedup.
From the two-page report: "When compared to a 6-core CPU (m-cpu), the speedup ratios range from 1.54 to 3.20."
so yeah, the 17x is misleading because what network monitoring load would run on a single core?
Actually researchers are required by state laws and university guidelines to follow research consent laws regardless of whether they are done via the university or not. In this case however, the issue is blurred because it depends what the researcher is doing. The line between research using aggregated data and using platform BI tools to benchmark effectiveness are related things but different. It may not be easy to draw the lines as easily as before because data is used for everything now.
No speculation on NHS funding at this point will matter. The UK has the same ability to to spend more money on NHS as does the US and issuing more reserve currency. Even if NHS doesn't issue more currency to cover the gap, they can easily reallocate spending from their tax revenues.
Comparatively the UK spends roughly HALF of what the US does and achieve far better outcomes. NHS funding base been cut and flattened so today it is massively underfunded. As a former UK expat, the British people will throw out any government that changes the social contract of the NHS. £30B is chump change for the UK economy. This article exist simply as a comparative fodder for news between US and UK. It's totally apples and oranges.
...insurance company states that extended warranties and their corresponding value to consumers are a function of individual risk factors....duhhhhhhhhhh.
I totally agree. They should start Socratic method I high school if they want more critical thinking.
I did a personal experiment in college. I bought a vintage engineering calculus text book from the 1940s to see if I could learn from it and apply I learned in class. My hypothesis was correct.
I failed miserably. Those Manhattan project boys were one of a kind.
Facts:
Tax revenue as a percentage as a % of GDP is the lowest in US history. So taxes aren't killing innovation.
If by inflation you mean CPI, this has gone up but only marginally. Inflation on the other hand is targeted at 2% which is the norm for most OECD countries. The risk-free rate in finance is the lowest it's ever been. Even the 10-year treasury note is at an all time low.
Investors don't invest is early stage companies if the return is only 15-20%. You can get shitty returns like that in the stock market with much less risk. Try 500% returns or more.
Intensive Labor utilizing Manufacturing will never return to America again, nor should it. Manufacturing as an industry to lower unemployment is a fantasy. People should get over it.
Regulations aren't killing jobs. The lack of demand in the economy is killing jobs.
Income inequality is killing jobs.
$32 Trillion locked up in overseas tax havens is killing jobs.
The effective corporate tax rates in USA is about 12%, even though the statutory rate is 35%.
The US tax code is killing jobs.
The current global economy values capital over labor. This is killing jobs.
Myths:
Taxes are killing jobs
Regulations are killing jobs.
Succinctly put...
Haha so true. At USC, they didn't event really teach VLSI or Verilog in the senior courses for the BSEE. But i luckily got an internship at intel where i quickly learned both. The tooling and software side of EE was totally unrepresented in the curriculum. It was sad.
Speaking as an electrical engineer, what you describe is 100% false. EMI is not summed in this manor. you can have hundreds of FCC regulated consumer devices active in the passenger area and it would not do a thing to the electrical operation of a plane. This is assuming that passegers NOT use airplane mode. If airplane mode is used, with the way most devices are built, they are as harmless as digital
watches. Plus the relationship between EMI strength is inversely
Proportional to distance. The greater the distance, the weaker the interference, we are talking centimeters here. Lastly, EMI is not summed like you describe because there is a directional component in the math. Unless everyone knew how to focus their devices interference toward the cockpit, which isn't even how the devices antennas are designed, it would be impossible to generate EMI strong enough to reach the cockpit or even your in-chair entertainment system.
If EMI was a serious concern terrorists would have employed such devices because it's not hard to build a dirty transmitter. I would imagine homeland security knows this point. If EMI in today's world was a serious threat, DHS would have overruled FAA long ago with an even stricter ban on electronics.
Fast forward 30-40 years, if battery technology becomes sufficiently advanced and portable, one may be able to generate a signal strong enough to interfere with a 1970's era passenger jet, but by that time, new planes will have better shielding from the ridiculous number of devices and transmitters and sensors in the just the cockpit area.