So you really do believe that open source software should be viral in that anyone who uses it should be forced to open up all their code?
The Point is, if an entity wants closed code, they should have to spend their resources to do so, and not be able to stand on top of libre software with their closed, propreitary product.
So yes, if you release under the GPL license, that's your Point. If you don't like it, release under BSD or one of the work-a-likes.
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WAY TOO SMALL. A JOKE.
This just goes to show how Congress is out of touch. Just what do they think a company is going to be able to do with 10 Million? No way that would cover the development costs. This is a joke, too bad the members probably don't know how rediculously low this is for the kind of manpower that is needed. A 500 Million prize might have a shot. 1 Billion and I could bring on the right people for long enough, and equip them - and I'm not talking thousands of staff. Hundreds, yes.
/me shakes head in shame. This should make for great jokes in OPEC areas.
Just for perspective, the avg daily PROFIT, for Exxon Mobil, the 4th quarter, ended Dec 31, was $199.6 million, EACH DAY. Revenues were $1.09 Billion, per day. Each Day. Don't forget, there are two other oil companies almost as large as ExxonMobil - Royal Dutch Shell and BP (British Petroleum)
Exxon Mobil numbers for 1st Quarter: Profit: 173.6 per day, Revenue: 997.8 per day
There's also something very different with Google's Balance sheet. No long-term debt. As for short term debt, they are carrying open payables reasonable for a company their size, so that's not a factor. Most public companies depend on their stock performance to influence their debt rating. This affects both what they can borrow, and current debt they are carrying.
Google has no reason to fear any impact on their company operations due to their stock performance's affect on debt rating, because there is no long-term debt that can be called in. When a company like Enron has a public relations disaster, their stock price tumbles, and their debt rating sinks to junk status. That's the force that destroys a public company. As they are still not carrying any long-term debt, it seems unlikely they plan to take on any in the near future, so they can get away with "their way" until that situation changes.
None of it matters. If they release a product and it works then people have to take them seriously. Sure, they'll probably come up with an explaination that is completely different and fits with current physics theory, but whatever floats your boat. What matters is the technology.
Well it's like this: The Theory of Quantum Mechanics is a good fit. Just like Theory of General Relativity is a good fit. Think of them both as the line of best bit to mapping your points in your first algebra class.
But they can't both be right. It's One universe of physics. There should be a away to explain both worlds of physics, the large, and the very small with one set of mathematical forumlae.
As far as developing the technology, that's way harder than the math and physics. I would not be surprised that an engineer has gone and accidentally stumbled upon a secret physical law of the universe, more so than developing a product from the hard science lessons learned.
Ah ha - its a direct competitor to MSDE/SQL Express for disconnected access to enterprise information systems. Sync the data to the local oracle db on the traveling users laptop, and then run the transactions later against the live one. Love it. If Oracle provides tools for the syncing without end-user license fees beyond access licenses, they'll have a key competitive advantage. That native installer feature is the giveaway... easy to manage and rollout to hundreds of users...
I understand that the entire.NET framework and runtime has been deeply integrated with it, and as such, all.NET languages can be used to create first class database objects like stored procedures, and even custom data types.
Yes and no. Yes, you can write.NET stored procedures. No, they have to fall back to SQL for database access, so they're not a complete replacement.
Well what do you expect? Something like Enterprise Data Objects from NeXT? Apple's CoreData?
Er, wait... well it takes time to rip something off THAT good without the source code. Microsoft can't even get the fabled WinFS shipping after like a decade of trying.
SQL is so damn mature for data querying; it's still one of the best thought out languages we have for computing, IMHO. That being said, for some tasks, its overkill. And some neat stuff has been developed to overcome that. OO databases are a totally different beast than rowscanning, indexing, optimizing, queryplanning rocket science of a database server. There's some neat work in object-oriented interfaces from Apple and NeXT for your traditional database server.
And so we keep getting hit by zombie machines taken over in the Education Department or from Liberal Arts:-).
This is the answer you'll love to hate. You can't just fix this with some software. Multiple idiots will no doubt get trojaned & wormed, and flood the network with trash packets.
There are plenty of good network design patterns that need to be applied. If your getting your network slammed then some of these haven't been implemented, and you might need to bite the bullet and hire in some contractors with chops. I am assuming you don't have any administrators with chops already, because this situation has occurred. You need to get your shit together, and it requires somebody with some experience. I noticed somebody recommended the Cisco book which is a good exposure to thinking about security and network design effectively.
You need to approach this with real techniques. For example, Segment the network and put firewalls between logical use areas. I would imagine that the local servers in the various departments have mostly local clients. So you shouldn't have a performance problem using proper vlans and doing real routing anf firewalling your networks from each other. Then have your system administrators document and figure what services are allowed to pass.
I can't help but think that either a) DigitalConvergence had grander schemes in the pipes and this CueCat thing was just to be the first, or b) The DigitalConvergence guys were con artists and the whole thing was a scam to get lots of money from VC's. The 260+ other employees were just pawns in a ponzi scheme.
I choose b) - http://www.jhuttonpulitzer.com/ - is the man to blame for that whole shebang known as DigitalConvergence. Make your own conclusions. I shit you not, that's not a mock site. I know it's hard to believe that the guy is serious with the copy written there about himself.
Wasn't there an allegation of embezzlement from the ISP he worked for in marketing, whilst starting up his own marketing firm with the budget from the ISP?
Now that Apple has announced that it is moved to Intel, who is going to buy a G5 now? I am sure as hell not. Apple just killed the sales of its hardware for the rest of the year. Also does this mean I will be able to buy a Dell PowerEdge 2850 running Mac OSX Server?
I think you were joking about the Dell. But perhaps an HP server model running OS X. I mean, those HP iPods NEVER made sense until now.
Interesting points. Then there's also the fact that Steve Jobs is rich enough to simply fuck with Bill and Steve. Perhaps he's decided to finally go for broke, and compete head-to-head with Microsoft on the only two makers that matters - Dell and HP. Perhaps Lenovo;-) F@!#$ those beige boxes.
Especially now that he/they (Apple+Pixar) is/are a viable media company in their own right. And Microsoft is starting to get there with the XBox. Losing the battle won't kill either of his companies, at least not quickly. His sphere of control and resources is now diverse enough to give it a spin.
Looking at the iMac G5, I can't see why not. I mean, that things almost a laptop already! I'm really surprised there are no laptops with G5's yet. I thought it was the next step from that iMac...
You have obviously had an experience with a Pentium 4 HP "desktop replacement" unit. Of which seem to actually run hotter and weigh more than the iMac G5 (once you remove the stand;-)
They could always create their own motherboard, chipset, and drivers. I mean, right now Darwin doesn't run on any x86 other than the 440BX chipset. so if Apple get's it's own chipset I don't see why OS X would run on any other. Right now every release of new hardware has a corresponding point release of the OS that includes firmware and drivers for the new machine.
VMWare could nip that bit of DRM in the bud;-) Try Again.
You'd be wrong then....
Now, how long as OSX been out? Since 2001 was it? Wouldn't that mean it isn't as old as Windows 2000? Gee, that'd make it where as long as OSX has been out, the My Docs directory under Windows has been the same, shouldn't it?
Yes, but Mac did this for years before OS X was released. Music. Documents. etc. Sorry. Pictures and Movies were new for OS X. So was Library. If only Microsoft would get the concept of/System/Library,/Library and ~/Library. MMM.
Note in the article, encrypted files were not EVEN located on the computer used in evidence.
This is tantamount to pointing to a car in which drugs were sniffed (but not found), and telling the jury, it has locks, so they must be trying to hide something. ( and further introducing the car or its locks, and the police testimony thereof as evidence )
Yes, I read that the girl involved testified against him, so forget about whether he's a slimeball or not, he probably is, the jury assumedly believed her story.
That would mean that a cracker would know that every encryption key generated utilized the same random input at time of the key creation. And that would make it non-random, even if the sequence "passes the test" when analyzed by their algorithim.That would make the encryption just a tad more effective than ROT13.
The scientists' randomness analysis is flawed and way too simplistic: A naturally occuring scalar approximation of a constant tests as good randomness. I suggest they recruit a brilliant economist weigh in on their algorithim.
One good example: analysis of digits occuring in accounting books can reveal cooked books with a high degree of accuracy. The specific cooked numbers are not revealed, but the occurences (but not frequency) of digits in the books is understood to be non-random. Don't ask me to explain why. Google for it, there's papers on it.
Point being, the article states they are only testing for the randomess of the sequence as it compares to chunks of itself, but all those chunks are a fixed set of digits, and are unchanging. No one believes that's good enough for RNG do they? And you'll still need a RNG to pick which 10digit sequence of PI you will employ;-)
30 folks to a server for developers... 64GB server, 32way processors, gige x4 or x8, that should fit the bill, right?
Now think about the cost of 32 invidual xeon workstation with a gig or 2 of memory, versus one server that can be upgraded as technology progresses and handed down to accounting, etc. While ALL of development gets the latest and greatest.
I'm not saying it's ideal, because I haven't done it either. It opens up the possibility to speed up some operations, like having a 32 node workstation cluster compile farm to work with.
You are not alone. This is the single most important feature since OpenDoc. Okay that didn't pan out, but this is so damn useful. My only gripe is that they apparently wrote it from the ground up, instead of leveraging the decade long experience with EOF. (Enterprise Object Framework), but maybe it will have all the polish it needs to be a success anyway.
He has pointed out many times before that he hacked the SMB protocol entire over the wire, without using any reverse engineering of other companies' binaries. I'd suspect the same is true of BK.
reading somebody else's crap networking chat code through a disassembler? that sucks. forget about it. don't do it. sniff the wire, write filters for tcpdump, roll out netcat.
Cheers to Tridge and even Larry (unwittingly) for trumpeting exactly why you should/not/ invest your time and money tying yourself up in somebody elses proprietary crapcode under their control. What an excellent example case for promoting either GPL or BSD licensed (free) software usage throughout your project needs.
Now the linux maintainers will have to export all their trees, and thats a lot of trunks. Add up their time and assign a cost. Now that's expensive! I betcha they won't have to go through such a mammoth task of changing SCM's like this ever again, unless they choose another proprietary solution. I hope Tridge can help with guidance for an automated tool to make this change. The trouble will be in the QA work. So many files, so many versions. Yikes!
And as for worrying about a 3rd-party client corrupting the SCM tree. Um whatever, the stories say Tridge was writing a tool to EXPORT the trees. If a non-exclusive checkout can cause corruption, hang up your hat as a professional computer engineer.
But seriously OO.org has a chance to compete because MS has not done much useful in MS Office in about 10 years. The only interesting thing they did was gut Foxpro, put a cheesy GUI on the Rushmore engine, and say look ma we can make one of them new fangle databases.
What the heck are you talking about? Access uses Jet - are you saying Jet was the rushmore engine from foxbase? I could have sworn they were two different technology bases.
Does that make me an alpha geek if i shoved OS X public beta on a Pismo as soon as i could, and liked it? (Pismo being a G3/500 Powerbook, the black ones, with the upside down apple logo, for the uninformed)
I don't buy that Apple will buy Tivo, but I can see them creating a Tivo-like device with these abilities:
Tivo would be worth it just for the talent - plus they get all the IP and the head start, and tivo fans to evangelize the product. If they have any interest in selling a best of breed DVR - TIVO Market Capitlization is only $340 million.
Second, such a device would require a dedicated AVC decoder chip, which would push the price range up into at least the $400 range. Mark my words, when it debuts at $399, every armchair CEO in the world is going to bitch about the price.
What? 400$? Is that all in IP Licensing or what? An MPEG2/MPEG4 ASIC will NOT cost Apple what you are thinking it will. Remember, they are one of the patent holders in MPEG4. They'd be turning these out in high enough volume - yeah it may be an apple box ($=x, $=2x), but unless they make a tivo clone and INCLUDE a HDD, 1080i, ATSC, and NTSC tuner for DVR, no way it will cost near that.
You cannot get an ATSC 1080i tuner box for much less than $400 as it is now. I think I saw one bargain priced for $349 - bottom of the barrel.
After all, everything else is being shared already.
Introducing Cleffster a P2P utility written in C# especially for the sharing of scanned sheet music.
Ahh my friend, but what of a recipe sharing P2P app? Gnutella just didn't live up to creator's promise of being the ultimate recipe sharing app. Where is that?
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The Point is, if an entity wants closed code, they should have to spend their resources to do so, and not be able to stand on top of libre software with their closed, propreitary product.
So yes, if you release under the GPL license, that's your Point. If you don't like it, release under BSD or one of the work-a-likes.
WAY TOO SMALL. A JOKE.
This just goes to show how Congress is out of touch. Just what do they think a company is going to be able to do with 10 Million? No way that would cover the development costs. This is a joke, too bad the members probably don't know how rediculously low this is for the kind of manpower that is needed. A 500 Million prize might have a shot. 1 Billion and I could bring on the right people for long enough, and equip them - and I'm not talking thousands of staff. Hundreds, yes.
Just for perspective, the avg daily PROFIT, for Exxon Mobil, the 4th quarter, ended Dec 31, was $199.6 million, EACH DAY. Revenues were $1.09 Billion, per day. Each Day. Don't forget, there are two other oil companies almost as large as ExxonMobil - Royal Dutch Shell and BP (British Petroleum)
Exxon Mobil numbers for 1st Quarter: Profit: 173.6 per day, Revenue: 997.8 per day
There's also something very different with Google's Balance sheet. No long-term debt. As for short term debt, they are carrying open payables reasonable for a company their size, so that's not a factor. Most public companies depend on their stock performance to influence their debt rating. This affects both what they can borrow, and current debt they are carrying.
Google has no reason to fear any impact on their company operations due to their stock performance's affect on debt rating, because there is no long-term debt that can be called in. When a company like Enron has a public relations disaster, their stock price tumbles, and their debt rating sinks to junk status. That's the force that destroys a public company. As they are still not carrying any long-term debt, it seems unlikely they plan to take on any in the near future, so they can get away with "their way" until that situation changes.
Well it's like this: The Theory of Quantum Mechanics is a good fit. Just like Theory of General Relativity is a good fit. Think of them both as the line of best bit to mapping your points in your first algebra class.
But they can't both be right. It's One universe of physics. There should be a away to explain both worlds of physics, the large, and the very small with one set of mathematical forumlae.
As far as developing the technology, that's way harder than the math and physics. I would not be surprised that an engineer has gone and accidentally stumbled upon a secret physical law of the universe, more so than developing a product from the hard science lessons learned.
Ah ha - its a direct competitor to MSDE/SQL Express for disconnected access to enterprise information systems. Sync the data to the local oracle db on the traveling users laptop, and then run the transactions later against the live one. Love it. If Oracle provides tools for the syncing without end-user license fees beyond access licenses, they'll have a key competitive advantage. That native installer feature is the giveaway... easy to manage and rollout to hundreds of users...
Well what do you expect? Something like Enterprise Data Objects from NeXT? Apple's CoreData?
Er, wait... well it takes time to rip something off THAT good without the source code. Microsoft can't even get the fabled WinFS shipping after like a decade of trying.
SQL is so damn mature for data querying; it's still one of the best thought out languages we have for computing, IMHO. That being said, for some tasks, its overkill. And some neat stuff has been developed to overcome that. OO databases are a totally different beast than rowscanning, indexing, optimizing, queryplanning rocket science of a database server. There's some neat work in object-oriented interfaces from Apple and NeXT for your traditional database server.
This is the answer you'll love to hate. You can't just fix this with some software. Multiple idiots will no doubt get trojaned & wormed, and flood the network with trash packets.
There are plenty of good network design patterns that need to be applied. If your getting your network slammed then some of these haven't been implemented, and you might need to bite the bullet and hire in some contractors with chops. I am assuming you don't have any administrators with chops already, because this situation has occurred. You need to get your shit together, and it requires somebody with some experience. I noticed somebody recommended the Cisco book which is a good exposure to thinking about security and network design effectively.
You need to approach this with real techniques. For example, Segment the network and put firewalls between logical use areas. I would imagine that the local servers in the various departments have mostly local clients. So you shouldn't have a performance problem using proper vlans and doing real routing anf firewalling your networks from each other. Then have your system administrators document and figure what services are allowed to pass.
I choose b) - http://www.jhuttonpulitzer.com/ - is the man to blame for that whole shebang known as DigitalConvergence. Make your own conclusions. I shit you not, that's not a mock site. I know it's hard to believe that the guy is serious with the copy written there about himself.
Wasn't there an allegation of embezzlement from the ISP he worked for in marketing, whilst starting up his own marketing firm with the budget from the ISP?
I think you were joking about the Dell. But perhaps an HP server model running OS X. I mean, those HP iPods NEVER made sense until now.
Interesting points. Then there's also the fact that Steve Jobs is rich enough to simply fuck with Bill and Steve. Perhaps he's decided to finally go for broke, and compete head-to-head with Microsoft on the only two makers that matters - Dell and HP. Perhaps Lenovo ;-) F@!#$ those beige boxes.
Especially now that he/they (Apple+Pixar) is/are a viable media company in their own right. And Microsoft is starting to get there with the XBox. Losing the battle won't kill either of his companies, at least not quickly. His sphere of control and resources is now diverse enough to give it a spin.
It's good to be King.
You have obviously had an experience with a Pentium 4 HP "desktop replacement" unit. Of which seem to actually run hotter and weigh more than the iMac G5 (once you remove the stand ;-)
Making you a friend, cause it had to be said. Bonus points for the Z80 reference.
VMWare could nip that bit of DRM in the bud ;-) Try Again.
Yes, but Mac did this for years before OS X was released. Music. Documents. etc. Sorry. Pictures and Movies were new for OS X. So was Library. If only Microsoft would get the concept of /System/Library, /Library and ~/Library. MMM.
Note in the article, encrypted files were not EVEN located on the computer used in evidence.
This is tantamount to pointing to a car in which drugs were sniffed (but not found), and telling the jury, it has locks, so they must be trying to hide something. ( and further introducing the car or its locks, and the police testimony thereof as evidence )
Yes, I read that the girl involved testified against him, so forget about whether he's a slimeball or not, he probably is, the jury assumedly believed her story.
Bollocks!
f karma - i agree
I think he meant the two parties in this country which represent the corporations more than the people.
hear hear!
I just can't imagine what you are thinking.
That would mean that a cracker would know that every encryption key generated utilized the same random input at time of the key creation. And that would make it non-random, even if the sequence "passes the test" when analyzed by their algorithim.That would make the encryption just a tad more effective than ROT13.
The scientists' randomness analysis is flawed and way too simplistic: A naturally occuring scalar approximation of a constant tests as good randomness. I suggest they recruit a brilliant economist weigh in on their algorithim.
One good example: analysis of digits occuring in accounting books can reveal cooked books with a high degree of accuracy. The specific cooked numbers are not revealed, but the occurences (but not frequency) of digits in the books is understood to be non-random. Don't ask me to explain why. Google for it, there's papers on it.
Point being, the article states they are only testing for the randomess of the sequence as it compares to chunks of itself, but all those chunks are a fixed set of digits, and are unchanging. No one believes that's good enough for RNG do they? And you'll still need a RNG to pick which 10digit sequence of PI you will employ ;-)
30 folks to a server for developers... 64GB server, 32way processors, gige x4 or x8, that should fit the bill, right?
Now think about the cost of 32 invidual xeon workstation with a gig or 2 of memory, versus one server that can be upgraded as technology progresses and handed down to accounting, etc. While ALL of development gets the latest and greatest.
I'm not saying it's ideal, because I haven't done it either. It opens up the possibility to speed up some operations, like having a 32 node workstation cluster compile farm to work with.
You are not alone. This is the single most important feature since OpenDoc. Okay that didn't pan out, but this is so damn useful. My only gripe is that they apparently wrote it from the ground up, instead of leveraging the decade long experience with EOF. (Enterprise Object Framework), but maybe it will have all the polish it needs to be a success anyway.
He has pointed out many times before that he hacked the SMB protocol entire over the wire, without using any reverse engineering of other companies' binaries. I'd suspect the same is true of BK.
reading somebody else's crap networking chat code through a disassembler? that sucks. forget about it. don't do it. sniff the wire, write filters for tcpdump, roll out netcat.
Cheers to Tridge and even Larry (unwittingly) for trumpeting exactly why you should /not/ invest your time and money tying yourself up in somebody elses proprietary crapcode under their control. What an excellent example case for promoting either GPL or BSD licensed (free) software usage throughout your project needs.
Now the linux maintainers will have to export all their trees, and thats a lot of trunks. Add up their time and assign a cost. Now that's expensive! I betcha they won't have to go through such a mammoth task of changing SCM's like this ever again, unless they choose another proprietary solution. I hope Tridge can help with guidance for an automated tool to make this change. The trouble will be in the QA work. So many files, so many versions. Yikes!
And as for worrying about a 3rd-party client corrupting the SCM tree. Um whatever, the stories say Tridge was writing a tool to EXPORT the trees. If a non-exclusive checkout can cause corruption, hang up your hat as a professional computer engineer.
What the heck are you talking about? Access uses Jet - are you saying Jet was the rushmore engine from foxbase? I could have sworn they were two different technology bases.
Curious...
Does that make me an alpha geek if i shoved OS X public beta on a Pismo as soon as i could, and liked it? (Pismo being a G3/500 Powerbook, the black ones, with the upside down apple logo, for the uninformed)
You can pry my powerbook from my cold dead hands.
Tivo would be worth it just for the talent - plus they get all the IP and the head start, and tivo fans to evangelize the product. If they have any interest in selling a best of breed DVR - TIVO Market Capitlization is only $340 million.
What? 400$? Is that all in IP Licensing or what? An MPEG2/MPEG4 ASIC will NOT cost Apple what you are thinking it will. Remember, they are one of the patent holders in MPEG4. They'd be turning these out in high enough volume - yeah it may be an apple box ($=x, $=2x), but unless they make a tivo clone and INCLUDE a HDD, 1080i, ATSC, and NTSC tuner for DVR, no way it will cost near that.
You cannot get an ATSC 1080i tuner box for much less than $400 as it is now. I think I saw one bargain priced for $349 - bottom of the barrel.
Ahh my friend, but what of a recipe sharing P2P app? Gnutella just didn't live up to creator's promise of being the ultimate recipe sharing app. Where is that?