To be honest, I rather like the model of files having no direct location, rather, just a byte-heap in a database. For a long time, this is actually how I've organized my files on my disk, but the problem is, every now and again, your mind changes how you want to lay out all of the files, and it takes a few hours to refile everything in the correct folders.
With folders going the way of the highway, you can just heap whatever files you want, wherever you want, without all of that path confusion. Deal with namespace collisions either with longer, more descriptive file names, unique file identifiers, or a mixture of the two.
You might find it idiotic, but I find it as the best way to organize my files and find what I want, as fast as possible. Pair it with a program that can rip my files apart for all of the metadata that it can give up, index that along side the files, and no file is ever more than a few mouseclicks away. Best yet, instead of having to delete and move files around, which thrashes the disk and makes the filesystem a disaster, the filesystem can effeciently use space because it can know exactly how big the files are, and start sticking files right up next to each other. And if I were designing the UI for this thing, you'd be able to change over to a pane, change the SQL query, and poof, the folder displays what you want.
No more rediculous symlinks. No more folder paths, executable paths, etc. Better isolation of executable files and libraries and configurations, verses userspace files. Honestly, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages IMO.
If you work where I do, you'd know that there's no modification nessicary for our fax. Simply put in the piece of paper, press send, and preso, a wad of paper on one end, and a perfect copy on the other.
We must work in the same office.. some days I just wanna shoot that Nina lady though. If I hear Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina speaking, just a moment one more time I'm gonna snap. And God help you if you say I'm just having a case of the Mondays.
I love IBM for all of the documentation they've provided at this point in time; one could actually start writing code to run on the SPUs right now, and probably only have to do a minimal amount of debugging once they get the hardware.
But.. that being said, where's the hardware:(? I don't want to buy a PS3-dev kit (even if I could manage to get my hands on one); I just want to make my code fly on those seven SPUs. I wonder if there's an emulator currently available for the Cell processor, does anyone know?
Hey thanks. I thought it'd be harder to get one of those IDs.
I've been wondering when I could get my hands on one; I'd like to see how it could do some artificial intelligence research that I've been working on. Here's for hoping!
They do this because they don't have a choice; all of that silicon, errors are happening all over the place, and the best way to deal with the errors is to allow the 7 SPEs that work, to do so, and the lone SPE that probably didn't survive the manufacturing process is then cast as irrelevant.
Personally, I've wondered if this is what has kept today's higher end chips out of my desktop. One has to realize how much it would affect pricing with error rates being higher than ever (smaller etching, and so many more transistors than before).
I'm just waiting for my eight-die ARM machine, with maybe a Pentium 3 thrown in for some occasional light gaming.
I officially note that this is the funniest article in Slashdot history. The first 7 posts have all broken the funny barrier:
That explains... (Score:5, Funny)
Yellow Teeth (Score:5, Funny)
Not for us anymore (Score:5, Funny)
Ob-dilbert (Score:4, Funny)
See (Score:5, Funny)
Coffee drinkers... (Score:4, Funny)
Didn't see that coming (Score:4, Funny)
Well then this is a weapon within a weapon. It's manipulating people without access to the technology into believing what we have is "God", sending them the message to fuck off.
It's a terrible powerplay, and if the government endorces it, I think it'd cause a backlash, but hey, land of the free, manipulate whomever you want. I'm pretty sure they'll use their second amendment rights to keep these things rolling out.
Perhaps no restructuring is scheduled as of yet; all products survive the merger, and they let the consumer vote on which products survive the merger (vote with your dollar, that is).
That being said, there's no reason once so ever that The big money making applications would not survive; Flash, Dreamweaver, Premier, Photoshop and Acrobat are undoubtely going to survive. Most of the rest of the company is frenge products, and a lot of those overlap.
Truthfully, I'd approve the merger, but I dunno if the SEC should (have?). It means a lot of money for the company, an easy way to cut products that aren't making money, and perhaps a way to make Adobe Less Evil (tm).
...REAL? I hope this is a troll or just a really bad attempt at a joke. Real has been irrelevant for quite a while now.
Now, a real merger would be with *brace yourselves*. Apple.
Adobe has long been an Apple shop, and the acquisition of Macromedia gives them penetration into the Internet realm. Add in Apple's marketing, and you've got a powerhouse that it'd be hard for even Microsoft to compete with. Of course, Slashdot would hate it, and people would cry monopoly and Apple would be split into a hardware and a software company, but eh.. it's a pipedream.
Well, Voice over IP is currently where it's at, and unlike the Iridium network, that dark fiber has a lot of uses other than telecommunications.
First of all, they use that fiber to run IP over, then, anything you want. Voice and Wireless are the big things now, but I can bet that anything that's big in the future will communicate over internet protocol as well.
I feel that any investment that Google makes right now has to be played right, and I'm sure Google's investment in Dark Fiber was well thought out. It definitely plays out right with the current extra sold stock, Google's VoIP plays, and Google Talk.
Makes sense along side all of the other specualation of Google's wireless wantings and Google's recent stock selloff. Along side Google Talk's VoIP play, Google is the single corporation responisble for connecting everyone in America for the second time around.
I wouldn't worry about Google being evil this time around, though. Those anti-trust laws that broke up Bell are still right in place, and Google apparently doesn't want to go it alone (trying to bring in other VoIP services).
Your point is disturbing, but at the same time untrue.
I feel that the Chinese government could start to feed themselves, and any economic policy from the US that would cut off food supply to China in anything less than full out war would be generally seen by the American public as cruel and unusual punishment. You'd think Geneva would have something to say about it as well.
As for your nuclear doomsday theories, remember the principal of Mutually Assured Destruction. No nation can afford to use a nuclear weapon against any other nation at this point in time; a nuclear weapon is an invitation for other countries to get involved and use their nuclear weapons, and before you know it, the skies are full of them. North Korea might be one to try to use a nuclear weapon, but it's likely to only cause the next Korean war, and this time around, everyone will have an interest in "liberating" the people of North Korea.
My end point is this: China, nor India, nor Pakistan, nor any "third world" country these days can afford war. War has turned into a game of who's got the bigger penis economically; weapons to defeat stealth bombers are so expensive and computerized it's unimaginable (or just a whole hell of a lot of cheap ammunition and a whole lot of luck), and then you have to worry about the UN and the possible sanctions economically you'll bring on yourself.
War as turned into a Guerilla-style combat sitation; anyone who still has a will to fight a monster knows that you can't take the monster on by the horns, you've gotta sneak around and poke and jab and take your victories where you can. That's the future of warfare for countries in the economically downturned regions.
China doesn't want war. China wants to get their economy back running. And one way to do that is to get all of the information about anything and everything you can. Along with their Communism-system, they can order to people to build anything, and I do mean anything, they way, at any price. China's population gives them a huge advantage here: you have a diverse skill set to choose from, and if someone refuses to do their job, termination doesn't hurt that skill set at all. China doesn't need to innovate to outperform; Japan's cheap-car revolution wasn't innovation. It was outproducing the competition, at a lower cost, with cars that were simpler, and therefore lasted longer. All China needs is the next car, which, from the looks of it, China's attempting to get their "car" in the forms of space competition, and electronics/computers.
I honestly don't see why we are so afraid. What we're seeing is the start of the next industrial age occuring in China, at which a point America will have to put their collective asses together and start innovating again just to stay ahead of the competition which will offer everything we have now at half the price. Those companies which refuse to innovate will be left behind, and if that makes our country weak, then we know who to blame, and we know what to do about it.
I was gonna go with an n/t here, but you have some other points that I can address as well.
Some of us aren't music nazis. I am; I keep all of my music in a custom database, with a custom structure designed for tagging which I'm currently working on trying to design a way to serialize to ID3 without success. That being said, for the average person, they just keep whatever music in their iTunes, and if they care enough about the song, they rate it.
Personally, I use 1-5 ratings, and leave no stars to mean "unrated", but I might be a little different from the typical user. But then again, I also don't use iTunes for anything other than putting music on my iPod and grabbing podcasts occasionally.
Lastly, I never delete old music because there's always a chance you get a tune stuck in your head and remember that good old song, and you just want to hear it One More Time *daft punk*.
And yes, 4334 is an arbitrary number. But it's a good representation of the number of MP3s someone would have with access to some file sharing, cds, and a few online purchases. I'd give this article a thumbs up on accuracy.
Warning, we have a clueless environmentalist on the loose!
Kidding aside, as I like to help he planet I live on stay green, I see absolutely nothing wrong with nuclear energy in either form, fission or fusion. They yield a hell of a lot more power than any of the other solutions, as you could (in theory) extract a thousand years worth of power out of just one of the rods we're currently using, but fail to due so out of the now genuine concerns of nuclear power plant terrorism, ad nauseum.
What we need to do is take one of those old "Areas" out west, designate it as dangerous area, build the powerplant below ground, and have it produce energy enough for the nation. Transport the energy as far as you can with power lines, microwave transmissions if you could figure out how not to kill us with it, hydrogen power, gravitational pumps, etc.
(the above is partially a joke.. I know that power plant would be ridiculously huge, I know that power could never be routed economically that amount of distance, etc).
At least nuclear power keeps us off the need for oils for anything other than lubrication, and we can generate lubrications through synthetic processes now. Hell, there are a few places on earth where all of their oil comes from a synthetic oil opeation (I'm sure someone could post the wikipedia link).
Yeah. You should have been tought that in high school physics. The Strong Nuclear Force (the one which holds nuclei together) is the strongest force available to us, by a wide margin (followed by electro-magnetism, then weak nuclear followed by gravity. Someone recently figured out that the weak nuclear force can be tied into electromagnetism, and I think they actually call it "electroweak" or something like that.. I can't quite recall at this moment.. all that Grand Unifying Theory stuff's still a little vague to me).
Basically, if you can overcome the electromagnetic repulsion forces that force the protons apart due to their like charges, the strong nuclear takes over and the two protons come colliding together at emense forces. If you're looking for an answer to what actually drives the Strong Nuclear Force, well, take a ticket and get in line. Once they figure that one out, we'll have figured out what make the "fundamental forces" fundamental, and know a hell of a lot more about how our universe is put together.
It's possible that Desktop Nuclear Fusion that yields positive energy to us is just around the corner. And with all of the discoveries recently on how the internals of the "subatomic" particles work, I'd say we're closer to it than we have ever been. But these are the kinds of things that simply can't happen overnight, and I guarentee that if anyone did come up with the solution, it'd take us 60 years just to get it into service.
So many industries out there who rely on this kind of technology not existing. Imagine what all of the coal refineries, natural gas refineries, solar power farms, nuclear power plants.. they'd all instantly be out of business if this thing could even pull of a 1% positive yield. But of course, this is all speculation. My guess is that we're still a good twenty years off at least, and that the positive solution will have something to do with how neutrinos work/are produced.
Well, lawsuit tends to have the word "settlement" attached to it, which usually has a monitary value either in time, lawyer's paychecks, etc. And it's free publicity for Perfect 10, at the cost of Google's shining 'Do no evil' image.
So it may not have financial value, but it definitely has value. If it were a sane company/person, they would have emailed Google and said "hey, look. please, please take down those links, they're hurting our business and violating our copyright".. instead of waving around the DMCA and getting the media involved, which I'm sure Perfect 10's gonna use to their advantage in trying to get a bigger settlement.
Then.. uh... shouldn't Perfect 10 be going after the real offenders, and not the index server which simply aggrigates all of the images that fit the searched terms?
To me, it looks like everyone and their mother is trying to cash in on Google. They're such a huge target that they're easy to attack with lawsuits. This actually does make them like Microsoft, but unlike Microsoft, Google doesn't have a legal department the size of Kentucky to back it up... give it time though.
Who knows, I might sue Google for aggrigating my slashdot comments! That's about as frivilous as this lawsuit is.
Like being major OS manufacturer's platform of operations?
Windows would have never made it off the ground and running if it hadn't been for BSD network stacks and related code. OS X wouldn't be half the operating system if it didn't have its BSD kernel (though they did quite a bit of hacking on it).
BSDs are still alive because their code is needed to be alive. If you commit to a BSD, it's practically public domain; take it and do as you see fit. In my opinion it's the best kind of open source, but of course I see the need for the GPL as well. It's just too bad they can't work together more closely, and are instead moving apart gradually.
Wow, while dispelling one stereotype, you manage to pass on another one. There are plenty of guys out there who are less agressive, and plenty of women who are just as aggressive as you think men are.
Yeah, especially after RFTA'ing.. you really just wanna piss on the head of this guy. He also claims that White people are more intellegent than black...
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To be honest, I rather like the model of files having no direct location, rather, just a byte-heap in a database. For a long time, this is actually how I've organized my files on my disk, but the problem is, every now and again, your mind changes how you want to lay out all of the files, and it takes a few hours to refile everything in the correct folders.
With folders going the way of the highway, you can just heap whatever files you want, wherever you want, without all of that path confusion. Deal with namespace collisions either with longer, more descriptive file names, unique file identifiers, or a mixture of the two.
You might find it idiotic, but I find it as the best way to organize my files and find what I want, as fast as possible. Pair it with a program that can rip my files apart for all of the metadata that it can give up, index that along side the files, and no file is ever more than a few mouseclicks away. Best yet, instead of having to delete and move files around, which thrashes the disk and makes the filesystem a disaster, the filesystem can effeciently use space because it can know exactly how big the files are, and start sticking files right up next to each other. And if I were designing the UI for this thing, you'd be able to change over to a pane, change the SQL query, and poof, the folder displays what you want.
No more rediculous symlinks. No more folder paths, executable paths, etc. Better isolation of executable files and libraries and configurations, verses userspace files. Honestly, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages IMO.
If you work where I do, you'd know that there's no modification nessicary for our fax. Simply put in the piece of paper, press send, and preso, a wad of paper on one end, and a perfect copy on the other.
We must work in the same office.. some days I just wanna shoot that Nina lady though. If I hear Corporate Accounts Payable, Nina speaking, just a moment one more time I'm gonna snap. And God help you if you say I'm just having a case of the Mondays.
I love IBM for all of the documentation they've provided at this point in time; one could actually start writing code to run on the SPUs right now, and probably only have to do a minimal amount of debugging once they get the hardware.
:(? I don't want to buy a PS3-dev kit (even if I could manage to get my hands on one); I just want to make my code fly on those seven SPUs. I wonder if there's an emulator currently available for the Cell processor, does anyone know?
But.. that being said, where's the hardware
Hey thanks. I thought it'd be harder to get one of those IDs.
I've been wondering when I could get my hands on one; I'd like to see how it could do some artificial intelligence research that I've been working on. Here's for hoping!
They do this because they don't have a choice; all of that silicon, errors are happening all over the place, and the best way to deal with the errors is to allow the 7 SPEs that work, to do so, and the lone SPE that probably didn't survive the manufacturing process is then cast as irrelevant.
Personally, I've wondered if this is what has kept today's higher end chips out of my desktop. One has to realize how much it would affect pricing with error rates being higher than ever (smaller etching, and so many more transistors than before).
I'm just waiting for my eight-die ARM machine, with maybe a Pentium 3 thrown in for some occasional light gaming.
I officially note that this is the funniest article in Slashdot history. The first 7 posts have all broken the funny barrier:
That explains... (Score:5, Funny)
Yellow Teeth (Score:5, Funny)
Not for us anymore (Score:5, Funny)
Ob-dilbert (Score:4, Funny)
See (Score:5, Funny)
Coffee drinkers... (Score:4, Funny)
Didn't see that coming (Score:4, Funny)
Well then this is a weapon within a weapon. It's manipulating people without access to the technology into believing what we have is "God", sending them the message to fuck off.
It's a terrible powerplay, and if the government endorces it, I think it'd cause a backlash, but hey, land of the free, manipulate whomever you want. I'm pretty sure they'll use their second amendment rights to keep these things rolling out.
Perhaps no restructuring is scheduled as of yet; all products survive the merger, and they let the consumer vote on which products survive the merger (vote with your dollar, that is).
That being said, there's no reason once so ever that The big money making applications would not survive; Flash, Dreamweaver, Premier, Photoshop and Acrobat are undoubtely going to survive. Most of the rest of the company is frenge products, and a lot of those overlap.
Truthfully, I'd approve the merger, but I dunno if the SEC should (have?). It means a lot of money for the company, an easy way to cut products that aren't making money, and perhaps a way to make Adobe Less Evil (tm).
I'm sure they make almost zippo from all of those multimedia devices that play Windows Media content, too.
Oh, and Windows Media's pretty laden with advertisements for various companies, I'm sure that brings in a few pennies too.
...REAL? I hope this is a troll or just a really bad attempt at a joke. Real has been irrelevant for quite a while now.
Now, a real merger would be with *brace yourselves*. Apple.
Adobe has long been an Apple shop, and the acquisition of Macromedia gives them penetration into the Internet realm. Add in Apple's marketing, and you've got a powerhouse that it'd be hard for even Microsoft to compete with. Of course, Slashdot would hate it, and people would cry monopoly and Apple would be split into a hardware and a software company, but eh.. it's a pipedream.
Well, Voice over IP is currently where it's at, and unlike the Iridium network, that dark fiber has a lot of uses other than telecommunications.
First of all, they use that fiber to run IP over, then, anything you want. Voice and Wireless are the big things now, but I can bet that anything that's big in the future will communicate over internet protocol as well.
I feel that any investment that Google makes right now has to be played right, and I'm sure Google's investment in Dark Fiber was well thought out. It definitely plays out right with the current extra sold stock, Google's VoIP plays, and Google Talk.
Makes sense along side all of the other specualation of Google's wireless wantings and Google's recent stock selloff. Along side Google Talk's VoIP play, Google is the single corporation responisble for connecting everyone in America for the second time around.
I wouldn't worry about Google being evil this time around, though. Those anti-trust laws that broke up Bell are still right in place, and Google apparently doesn't want to go it alone (trying to bring in other VoIP services).
Your point is disturbing, but at the same time untrue.
I feel that the Chinese government could start to feed themselves, and any economic policy from the US that would cut off food supply to China in anything less than full out war would be generally seen by the American public as cruel and unusual punishment. You'd think Geneva would have something to say about it as well.
As for your nuclear doomsday theories, remember the principal of Mutually Assured Destruction. No nation can afford to use a nuclear weapon against any other nation at this point in time; a nuclear weapon is an invitation for other countries to get involved and use their nuclear weapons, and before you know it, the skies are full of them. North Korea might be one to try to use a nuclear weapon, but it's likely to only cause the next Korean war, and this time around, everyone will have an interest in "liberating" the people of North Korea.
My end point is this: China, nor India, nor Pakistan, nor any "third world" country these days can afford war. War has turned into a game of who's got the bigger penis economically; weapons to defeat stealth bombers are so expensive and computerized it's unimaginable (or just a whole hell of a lot of cheap ammunition and a whole lot of luck), and then you have to worry about the UN and the possible sanctions economically you'll bring on yourself.
War as turned into a Guerilla-style combat sitation; anyone who still has a will to fight a monster knows that you can't take the monster on by the horns, you've gotta sneak around and poke and jab and take your victories where you can. That's the future of warfare for countries in the economically downturned regions.
China doesn't want war. China wants to get their economy back running. And one way to do that is to get all of the information about anything and everything you can. Along with their Communism-system, they can order to people to build anything, and I do mean anything, they way, at any price. China's population gives them a huge advantage here: you have a diverse skill set to choose from, and if someone refuses to do their job, termination doesn't hurt that skill set at all. China doesn't need to innovate to outperform; Japan's cheap-car revolution wasn't innovation. It was outproducing the competition, at a lower cost, with cars that were simpler, and therefore lasted longer. All China needs is the next car, which, from the looks of it, China's attempting to get their "car" in the forms of space competition, and electronics/computers.
I honestly don't see why we are so afraid. What we're seeing is the start of the next industrial age occuring in China, at which a point America will have to put their collective asses together and start innovating again just to stay ahead of the competition which will offer everything we have now at half the price. Those companies which refuse to innovate will be left behind, and if that makes our country weak, then we know who to blame, and we know what to do about it.
Your decimals look more like the pricing model than the weights for playing songs..
.285 -- $299, iPod (full?) 20gb .238 -- $249, iPod mini 6gb .190 -- $199, iPod mini 4gb .143 -- $149, iPod shuffle 1gb .095 -- $99, iPod shuffle 512mb
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I was gonna go with an n/t here, but you have some other points that I can address as well.
Some of us aren't music nazis. I am; I keep all of my music in a custom database, with a custom structure designed for tagging which I'm currently working on trying to design a way to serialize to ID3 without success. That being said, for the average person, they just keep whatever music in their iTunes, and if they care enough about the song, they rate it.
Personally, I use 1-5 ratings, and leave no stars to mean "unrated", but I might be a little different from the typical user. But then again, I also don't use iTunes for anything other than putting music on my iPod and grabbing podcasts occasionally.
Lastly, I never delete old music because there's always a chance you get a tune stuck in your head and remember that good old song, and you just want to hear it One More Time *daft punk*.
And yes, 4334 is an arbitrary number. But it's a good representation of the number of MP3s someone would have with access to some file sharing, cds, and a few online purchases. I'd give this article a thumbs up on accuracy.
Warning, we have a clueless environmentalist on the loose!
Kidding aside, as I like to help he planet I live on stay green, I see absolutely nothing wrong with nuclear energy in either form, fission or fusion. They yield a hell of a lot more power than any of the other solutions, as you could (in theory) extract a thousand years worth of power out of just one of the rods we're currently using, but fail to due so out of the now genuine concerns of nuclear power plant terrorism, ad nauseum.
What we need to do is take one of those old "Areas" out west, designate it as dangerous area, build the powerplant below ground, and have it produce energy enough for the nation. Transport the energy as far as you can with power lines, microwave transmissions if you could figure out how not to kill us with it, hydrogen power, gravitational pumps, etc.
(the above is partially a joke.. I know that power plant would be ridiculously huge, I know that power could never be routed economically that amount of distance, etc).
At least nuclear power keeps us off the need for oils for anything other than lubrication, and we can generate lubrications through synthetic processes now. Hell, there are a few places on earth where all of their oil comes from a synthetic oil opeation (I'm sure someone could post the wikipedia link).
Yeah. You should have been tought that in high school physics. The Strong Nuclear Force (the one which holds nuclei together) is the strongest force available to us, by a wide margin (followed by electro-magnetism, then weak nuclear followed by gravity. Someone recently figured out that the weak nuclear force can be tied into electromagnetism, and I think they actually call it "electroweak" or something like that.. I can't quite recall at this moment.. all that Grand Unifying Theory stuff's still a little vague to me).
Basically, if you can overcome the electromagnetic repulsion forces that force the protons apart due to their like charges, the strong nuclear takes over and the two protons come colliding together at emense forces. If you're looking for an answer to what actually drives the Strong Nuclear Force, well, take a ticket and get in line. Once they figure that one out, we'll have figured out what make the "fundamental forces" fundamental, and know a hell of a lot more about how our universe is put together.
It's possible that Desktop Nuclear Fusion that yields positive energy to us is just around the corner. And with all of the discoveries recently on how the internals of the "subatomic" particles work, I'd say we're closer to it than we have ever been. But these are the kinds of things that simply can't happen overnight, and I guarentee that if anyone did come up with the solution, it'd take us 60 years just to get it into service. So many industries out there who rely on this kind of technology not existing. Imagine what all of the coal refineries, natural gas refineries, solar power farms, nuclear power plants.. they'd all instantly be out of business if this thing could even pull of a 1% positive yield. But of course, this is all speculation. My guess is that we're still a good twenty years off at least, and that the positive solution will have something to do with how neutrinos work/are produced.
Wow, using my pokerbot, you're already defeated. Sit back and supervise and when a question comes, answer. No problem.
Of course, I only play on free tables, and mine's for artificial intelligence research, but.. eh.
Kuroshin.org : stating the bleeding obvious in the most pretentious way possible
Oh the irony of this signature in the context of your post...
Well, lawsuit tends to have the word "settlement" attached to it, which usually has a monitary value either in time, lawyer's paychecks, etc. And it's free publicity for Perfect 10, at the cost of Google's shining 'Do no evil' image.
So it may not have financial value, but it definitely has value. If it were a sane company/person, they would have emailed Google and said "hey, look. please, please take down those links, they're hurting our business and violating our copyright".. instead of waving around the DMCA and getting the media involved, which I'm sure Perfect 10's gonna use to their advantage in trying to get a bigger settlement.
Then.. uh... shouldn't Perfect 10 be going after the real offenders, and not the index server which simply aggrigates all of the images that fit the searched terms?
To me, it looks like everyone and their mother is trying to cash in on Google. They're such a huge target that they're easy to attack with lawsuits. This actually does make them like Microsoft, but unlike Microsoft, Google doesn't have a legal department the size of Kentucky to back it up... give it time though.
Who knows, I might sue Google for aggrigating my slashdot comments! That's about as frivilous as this lawsuit is.
Like being major OS manufacturer's platform of operations?
Windows would have never made it off the ground and running if it hadn't been for BSD network stacks and related code. OS X wouldn't be half the operating system if it didn't have its BSD kernel (though they did quite a bit of hacking on it).
BSDs are still alive because their code is needed to be alive. If you commit to a BSD, it's practically public domain; take it and do as you see fit. In my opinion it's the best kind of open source, but of course I see the need for the GPL as well. It's just too bad they can't work together more closely, and are instead moving apart gradually.
Wow, while dispelling one stereotype, you manage to pass on another one. There are plenty of guys out there who are less agressive, and plenty of women who are just as aggressive as you think men are.
Yeah, especially after RFTA'ing.. you really just wanna piss on the head of this guy. He also claims that White people are more intellegent than black...