For example, imagine an advanced alien species which is living on a planet near the end its usefull time. There are billons of desperate aliens looking for a habitable planet. And then they find earth.
Would they respect our ownership of our planet? Would we if it was the other way around? I do not think so. After all, we propably appear rather primitive and weird to their senses.
Why would we need a gategory like "sports". Lets just call every interesting activity and competition by their precise name like chess, hockey, porn etc...
What does it matter whether something can be classified as "sport" or not?
There are more phone manufactures out there than there is room for. The war has begun and casulties are imminent. When the dust settles there will be less competitors around.
The strongers players and winner candidates are those with best reserves and profitability and preferably other branches of business. For example the chips company like AMD which supported the unprofitable cpu line with cash-cow flash-memory business for years.
Nokia has large reserves, good profibility and high market share going for it. It needs to sacrifice both the reserves and profibility to save the market share though. Sony-Erickson, motorola and Samsung have other business branches they can use to wage the pricewar. In the end there will be just two major phone manufacturers.
The longer the pricewar continues, the more upper hand the multi-branches companies will gain over Nokia. This would put Nokia in a position where it in order to survive needs to merger with a profitable company in a different business which can support it over the war. I for one welcome our new Microsoft-Nokia overlords!
A better mousetrap is a term used to reflect a certain phase in a life of product-type. It basicly means that the product has been developed to a point where it fullfills its purpose with ease and all further improvements become unnecessary and unprofitable.
When it comes to IT, I would say that applications like word processors and beginning to fall in the better mousetrap -gategory. Many people I know use word97 for example. Perhaps the OS/GUIs are experiensing the same thing.
With CPUs it seems to be a different story tho. Both intel and AMD are pulling nice profits and both the sales volume and speed of CPUs is increasing at a rapid pace.
I wonder how much CPU power would be enough to make further improvements unattractive to buyers. I would bet we are talking about multi-core quantum (or whatever shall be) cpus with the mainmemory on-die.
Imagine weapons like beam riffles and HF granade launchers. Then imagine how the world will be changed becouse of them.
With a scoped beam riffle you can kill anyone within line of scope sight, no matter the distance. You can also get away with it, since you are shooting from 10 miles away. There will be no flashes or bangs, you will just aim and pull the trigger. The target 10 miles away will die. If you do not want to be around the you can use remote control.
With a hf granade launcer you can shoot golf-ball-sized granades that are worth 10 tons of dynamite. Just get on a roof a skycraper with 1000 granades and start leveling the city. With such explosions happaning around no-one will even notice you.
These thigs are unlikely to happen everyday. But just think what lenghts the society has to go to prevent such things from happening. The level of surveillance and control will be suffocating.
You can not make money by being the supply channel at the internet age. These commercial supply channels will disappear as the first successfull productions launches/bids happen.
All you need is a bidding system, offered by eBay or PayPal or the like. Artist the supplies a few samples of his new production and offers a full, free release if a certain sum of compensations is raised, say 10 million.
The bid organiser then takes binding bid-offers from the audience, say at 10 dollars each. Once the 10 million total is reached, the production gets released free for all. If the 10 million total is not reached, all bids are canseled and no-one loses a dime.
SCO is a bunch of modern pirates, nothing more. They conduct large scale stockmarket manipulation and IP hijacking.
The lawyers/pirates at SCO and Rambus etc... have a lot of money to invest in their ventures and no respect for anyone. The target is IBM now, next it will be MicroSoft (now a SCO licensee!).
I am suprised that MS did not see trough these guys. But then, neither did Intel when it came to Rambus. MS legal department seems to be high paid crap (IAAL, sue me). Well anyway, MS it will find itself open to a comparable attack to what IBM is under now in the near future. Good:-)
MS will propably be forced to show windows source at the trial which can be leaked and we get to see it. What a feast that case will be.
You can get your share of the loot too, just remember that the news always come as good-bad-good-bad series in these cases and the SCO stock goes up-down-up-down accordingly.
Western people live on the same side of the earth -- and they dont care too much about this either.
Is it just me or are we getting dumber and dumber? We used to have great leaders who led us to great achievements and great hights. Now we have these rich politicians who do not have enough balls to go against the will of their stupid voters.
How does their thinking go? "Hmmm.... the professors are telling me that we are damaging the environment and that I should tax gasoline heavily and ban SUVs. LOL! I would lose the re-election, are they stupid or what?"
We are too stupid to survive. Stupid stupid stupid. Vote.
I do not think there is or ever has been a free society on earth. Bevar C and all but still...
There is always some sort of power system and control of individuals. The difference is in the shades of gray, so to speak.
In Europe and North America individuals have common rights (human rights, civil rights) that the powersystem (the state) should not restrict. Free speech is usually considered one of these rights, but it too has limitations, for example regarding rasistic expressions and classified information. There are others, right to vote, due process, private property...
Some people call this set of rights "freedom", but I would not go that far. It is a status quo between the powersystem and the common man. The chains are pleasant, protective and light to carry. They are even invisible for the majority.
However, if you fight the system in a *forbidden* way and disregard the warnings, you will be dealt with force and even violence you have no capasity to defend against. The system can and will, if necessary, take away your most presious rights.
The ironic things is that the powersystem consists of ordinary people like you who are subjects to the system just like you. You can even have a saying on who they are. Or would if you just bothered.... nah, you wouldnt, would you? Whining here is just so much more |337.
Jump from 266 to 333 (+25%) is rather nice (10-20% performance speedup depending on application, 18% in specfp2000) if you can stay at the same latency settings. Jump from 333 to 400 (+20%) usually comes with a higher latency settings and less performance speedup (5-10%).
I would estimate that a Barton 3000+ with 200mhz ddr bus (400mhz effective)is about 50-150% faster in common whole system level benchmarks than with 133mhz sdr bus.
Freedom of speech was made (yes, made) in to a common human right quite resently (enlightment, a few centuries ago). At that time free speech meant being able to make a political speech at the city square without being arrested.
The right has degraded in meaning over the decades as means of mass communication have become available to the common man. Free speech can be concluded to include broadcasting over an open channel like the net. But it can also be concluded not to do so, as it has become with the radio and the television.
This could, at least in theory, happen with the net too. Only those with a license could provide content in to the net. Only those who pay for the right to view the content of the net could do so. Impossible, you say? Perhaps. But why not write it (open and free net) down to the friggin constitution, just to be on the safe side, eh? It does not really cost anything and gives more exact, real-life meaning to the right of free speech.
My guess is that Caldera/SCO is trying to make itself an irresistable strategic investment for MicroSoft. MS could not stomach buying the unix IP by itself, that would anticompetitive behaviour to the extreme. Even if the US DoJ would be silensed by the present US regime, the EU Comission would put the foot down on MS.
SCO suing IBM is a win-win situation to both SCO and MS. The longer and blurrier this situation goes on, the better for MS. Linux now has a legal risk attached to it. Many CEOs are not willing to take risk, neither are many corporate lawyers. Would you bet your career on this IP issue? Do you trust the courts to make the proper judgement? I did not think so.
At some point MS will have buy SCO, or SCO will GPL the unix code for good. At that point MS needs to drop the suit against IBM and others for image reasons. But it can still leave the IP issue open to keep Linux steadily FUDed.
The next logical step would be to classify infringement of intellectual property right as a crime. After full criminalization of IP theft only criminals would download mp3s, warez games and practise business in violation of someone elses intellectual property.
Of course there would be few transition problems with this approach. Firstly it would, as such, hugely increase the amount of criminals, particularly among the young net-users. That would be unacceptable, so the penalties would have to be harshened to a dragonian level and supervision would have to be tightened to an Orwelian level.
The ideal should be a IP violation free society. How are we going to achieve that? Though penalties and tight supervision, that is the way. Perhaps we should copy the society model of high security prisons. I doubt that large scale IP violation is possible in such circumstances.
This would benefit the business and development, prevent crime and lead us towards the society of the future.
Write your favourite politician today and support this cause!
There is a bright side to this. When it comes to immaterial rights, thigs need to get worse before they get better. The inertia of the status quo has to be overcome by unbearable stupidity and cost of the current legislation.
I would urge everyone to seek patents whenever possible, as broad as possible and as harmfull to development as possible. Lets get it over with and move on...
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For example, imagine an advanced alien species which is living on a planet near the end its usefull time. There are billons of desperate aliens looking for a habitable planet. And then they find earth.
Would they respect our ownership of our planet? Would we if it was the other way around? I do not think so. After all, we propably appear rather primitive and weird to their senses.
What does it matter whether something can be classified as "sport" or not?
Should you be feeling generous, please send an invite to s3uss at hotmail com.
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The strongers players and winner candidates are those with best reserves and profitability and preferably other branches of business. For example the chips company like AMD which supported the unprofitable cpu line with cash-cow flash-memory business for years.
Nokia has large reserves, good profibility and high market share going for it. It needs to sacrifice both the reserves and profibility to save the market share though. Sony-Erickson, motorola and Samsung have other business branches they can use to wage the pricewar. In the end there will be just two major phone manufacturers.
The longer the pricewar continues, the more upper hand the multi-branches companies will gain over Nokia. This would put Nokia in a position where it in order to survive needs to merger with a profitable company in a different business which can support it over the war. I for one welcome our new Microsoft-Nokia overlords!
A better mousetrap is a term used to reflect a certain phase in a life of product-type. It basicly means that the product has been developed to a point where it fullfills its purpose with ease and all further improvements become unnecessary and unprofitable. When it comes to IT, I would say that applications like word processors and beginning to fall in the better mousetrap -gategory. Many people I know use word97 for example. Perhaps the OS/GUIs are experiensing the same thing. With CPUs it seems to be a different story tho. Both intel and AMD are pulling nice profits and both the sales volume and speed of CPUs is increasing at a rapid pace. I wonder how much CPU power would be enough to make further improvements unattractive to buyers. I would bet we are talking about multi-core quantum (or whatever shall be) cpus with the mainmemory on-die.
Imagine weapons like beam riffles and HF granade launchers. Then imagine how the world will be changed becouse of them.
With a scoped beam riffle you can kill anyone within line of scope sight, no matter the distance. You can also get away with it, since you are shooting from 10 miles away. There will be no flashes or bangs, you will just aim and pull the trigger. The target 10 miles away will die. If you do not want to be around the you can use remote control.
With a hf granade launcer you can shoot golf-ball-sized granades that are worth 10 tons of dynamite. Just get on a roof a skycraper with 1000 granades and start leveling the city. With such explosions happaning around no-one will even notice you.
These thigs are unlikely to happen everyday. But just think what lenghts the society has to go to prevent such things from happening. The level of surveillance and control will be suffocating.
All you need is a bidding system, offered by eBay or PayPal or the like. Artist the supplies a few samples of his new production and offers a full, free release if a certain sum of compensations is raised, say 10 million.
The bid organiser then takes binding bid-offers from the audience, say at 10 dollars each. Once the 10 million total is reached, the production gets released free for all. If the 10 million total is not reached, all bids are canseled and no-one loses a dime.
The lawyers/pirates at SCO and Rambus etc... have a lot of money to invest in their ventures and no respect for anyone. The target is IBM now, next it will be MicroSoft (now a SCO licensee!).
I am suprised that MS did not see trough these guys. But then, neither did Intel when it came to Rambus. MS legal department seems to be high paid crap (IAAL, sue me). Well anyway, MS it will find itself open to a comparable attack to what IBM is under now in the near future. Good :-)
MS will propably be forced to show windows source at the trial which can be leaked and we get to see it. What a feast that case will be.
You can get your share of the loot too, just remember that the news always come as good-bad-good-bad series in these cases and the SCO stock goes up-down-up-down accordingly.
Is it just me or are we getting dumber and dumber? We used to have great leaders who led us to great achievements and great hights. Now we have these rich politicians who do not have enough balls to go against the will of their stupid voters.
How does their thinking go? "Hmmm.... the professors are telling me that we are damaging the environment and that I should tax gasoline heavily and ban SUVs. LOL! I would lose the re-election, are they stupid or what?"
We are too stupid to survive. Stupid stupid stupid. Vote.
I do not think there is or ever has been a free society on earth. Bevar C and all but still... There is always some sort of power system and control of individuals. The difference is in the shades of gray, so to speak. In Europe and North America individuals have common rights (human rights, civil rights) that the powersystem (the state) should not restrict. Free speech is usually considered one of these rights, but it too has limitations, for example regarding rasistic expressions and classified information. There are others, right to vote, due process, private property... Some people call this set of rights "freedom", but I would not go that far. It is a status quo between the powersystem and the common man. The chains are pleasant, protective and light to carry. They are even invisible for the majority. However, if you fight the system in a *forbidden* way and disregard the warnings, you will be dealt with force and even violence you have no capasity to defend against. The system can and will, if necessary, take away your most presious rights. The ironic things is that the powersystem consists of ordinary people like you who are subjects to the system just like you. You can even have a saying on who they are. Or would if you just bothered.... nah, you wouldnt, would you? Whining here is just so much more |337.
Jump from 266 to 333 (+25%) is rather nice (10-20% performance speedup depending on application, 18% in specfp2000) if you can stay at the same latency settings. Jump from 333 to 400 (+20%) usually comes with a higher latency settings and less performance speedup (5-10%). I would estimate that a Barton 3000+ with 200mhz ddr bus (400mhz effective)is about 50-150% faster in common whole system level benchmarks than with 133mhz sdr bus.
Freedom of speech was made (yes, made) in to a common human right quite resently (enlightment, a few centuries ago). At that time free speech meant being able to make a political speech at the city square without being arrested. The right has degraded in meaning over the decades as means of mass communication have become available to the common man. Free speech can be concluded to include broadcasting over an open channel like the net. But it can also be concluded not to do so, as it has become with the radio and the television. This could, at least in theory, happen with the net too. Only those with a license could provide content in to the net. Only those who pay for the right to view the content of the net could do so. Impossible, you say? Perhaps. But why not write it (open and free net) down to the friggin constitution, just to be on the safe side, eh? It does not really cost anything and gives more exact, real-life meaning to the right of free speech.
My guess is that Caldera/SCO is trying to make itself an irresistable strategic investment for MicroSoft. MS could not stomach buying the unix IP by itself, that would anticompetitive behaviour to the extreme. Even if the US DoJ would be silensed by the present US regime, the EU Comission would put the foot down on MS. SCO suing IBM is a win-win situation to both SCO and MS. The longer and blurrier this situation goes on, the better for MS. Linux now has a legal risk attached to it. Many CEOs are not willing to take risk, neither are many corporate lawyers. Would you bet your career on this IP issue? Do you trust the courts to make the proper judgement? I did not think so. At some point MS will have buy SCO, or SCO will GPL the unix code for good. At that point MS needs to drop the suit against IBM and others for image reasons. But it can still leave the IP issue open to keep Linux steadily FUDed.
The next logical step would be to classify infringement of intellectual property right as a crime. After full criminalization of IP theft only criminals would download mp3s, warez games and practise business in violation of someone elses intellectual property.
Of course there would be few transition problems with this approach. Firstly it would, as such, hugely increase the amount of criminals, particularly among the young net-users. That would be unacceptable, so the penalties would have to be harshened to a dragonian level and supervision would have to be tightened to an Orwelian level.
The ideal should be a IP violation free society. How are we going to achieve that? Though penalties and tight supervision, that is the way. Perhaps we should copy the society model of high security prisons. I doubt that large scale IP violation is possible in such circumstances.
This would benefit the business and development, prevent crime and lead us towards the society of the future.
Write your favourite politician today and support this cause!
There is a bright side to this. When it comes to immaterial rights, thigs need to get worse before they get better. The inertia of the status quo has to be overcome by unbearable stupidity and cost of the current legislation. I would urge everyone to seek patents whenever possible, as broad as possible and as harmfull to development as possible. Lets get it over with and move on...