begins by turning to your library of intellectual property as your source of revenue instead of products. By firing engineers and hiring lawyers, you make enemies with your founders, your partners, your customers, and everyone else. Only friends you make are your lawyers who have no loyalty, no responsibility, and who are definately *not* your friend.
Kodak died and another SCO is born. Welcome to IP hell.
It seems to me most of the commenters so far posted seem to laugh at or are purplexed by this "house guard." What they seem to not understand is what all these robot technology is ultimately supposed to do: replace people in menial labor.
They are making small steps to make robots a practical consumer device--pets, house guards, robot vacuum cleaners, small child-like assistants for the elderly (Honda). Eventually they will do more, but the basic technology has to be perfected, and market developed.
Sure, the robots seem hopelessly useless now, but what they (the japanese) invision is a future where these things will be common place as the VCR. And *they* want to be the ones making and selling them.
Remember when automobiles were first being invented, most people that they could never replace the horse carriage.
The reason for Intel's move actually simpler: *USERS* want backward compatibility.
It's the reason ethernet has been and will be around for ever (10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1000Mbps), it's the same reason there is a little version of DOS running inside Windows XP, same reason people are still using WordPerfect.
The same is true of Linux. The people who migrated to Linux early on were ones who used Unix before. And once Linux achieves backward compatibility with Windows (e.g. WINE), well, Linux will just EXPLODE.
Are there plans or people within IBM to switch to another distro, say Debian/UserLinux? If IBM is dedicated to "free" distros, I would think Debian would be more appealing than Redhat/Fedora.
So you have a wad of cash you don't know what to do with? Want to spend it on something cool but don't have any good ideas? Not a problem. We see this kind of a problem every day, and we have a great solution. If you are looking to install a wireless internet setup, why not invest an additional $2000 and go gigabit wireless? But hey, since you sound like a nice guy, I'll give you a discount, and set it up for only $8000. That's a savings of over 10%! But you have to act quick. I can't offer these kind of rates for ever--we'll go out of business! So here is what you should do now. Put the money in a padded envelope, and mail it to:
Tony's Construction 123 Fake Street. Spring Field, MA, 18332
And we'll come out and install it for you. Don't forget to tell us where you live!
...by attaching a *printer* to the voting machine. So, how is this better than a paper ballot with a stub you detach as proof of voting? It gives the machine makers millions that should have gone to public schools. Hooray for demcracy.
How come nobody wants to do a MS Office clone?
I don't mean just file formats, but the whole shebang--the same menues, the same dialogs, same icons. Users will have no reason not to switch, since it works just like their favorite program, it has years of user interfacing studies done on it, and it'll be FREE.
For any "unlimited" pricing scheme to work, there has to be a large enough low-usage subscriber population to subsidize the high usage subscribers. Currently, there are a lot more high-usage subscribers than the company can support. This figures, since those who want high speed internet are the tech savvy, so of course those who sign up first are going to use a lot of bandwidth.
But here is the thing. If you get a *lot* of low-usage customers(the general public at large), by lowering the price (let's say to $25/month), it might be possible to subsidize those bandwidth hogs without limiting them. I think the first company to figure this out might be SBC, with their $30/month plan. Of the phone company knows all about cheap unlimited rates--how many people do you know doesn't have unlimited local calls?
here is the FreeBSD version. Same thing, but more Free!
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Linux really needs a reference system that developers can target. At least in the Windows world, if you target Win95, you know it'll pretty much work everywhere else, now or later. Otherwise, Linux will never see the day when you can go to Wal-mart and pick-up a street mapping software for Linux. Imagine reading the fine print, after you've torn the box open and broken the software seal: (For Red Hat Linux Version x.x and Mandrake x.x Only. Requires glibc x.xx, kernel x.xx, and RPM support. May not work on other Linux distributions.)
I think a large company like IBM can make a big impact in this area. An IBM Linux based on Debian Reference System would stabilize the Linux market--finally, a standard file system and packaging system that's not tied to a company's whim! And with corporate support for business users and software freedom for everyone else! I can dream, can't I?
I agree. I think a lot of people are distracted by the eye-candy and bad dialog. But they're are missing lot of the cool ideas in the film. For example, the idea of choice and freedom: **Spoiler warning**
The matrix was perfected by giving people choices (Oracle's idea). It took away the perfect controllability, but it made people happier because it gave them a sense of freedom. But it wasn't true freedom, because everything inside the matrix was inevitable--choices can be predicted and acted upon. But the Final Choice, the choice that the ONE makes is the one that could un-do the matrix. It didn't happen for 6 previous matricies, but the seventh one it did. However when Neo chooses to save trinity instead of the rest of the human kind (in the 2nd film), and also when trinity comes with neo in the third one , they do it out of love, but it means that their choices really weren't free. They're bound to the "inevitability" of love. But at the same time, they *are* free to make the choices that could doom them. So there is a paradox that "inevitablity" and "fate", can both come from having free choice and not having free choice. But which one is real?
Also, having peace and war is also matter of choices. The machines choose to honor their bargain, neo chose to (potentially) sacrifice himself to save the machines. So havin pgeace or war is also choices made by the parties (think Israel-palestine).
There are a lot of hard ideas/paradoxes in the film besides, but people should look past the eye-candy and some bad acting and see it's not really that bad of a film at all.
The phone is being launched in Korea first, which is all CDMA2000. I wonder if you could use the PDA's browser on the CDMA 1x-DO network in korea. Now that would be cool (sustained rate of 800kbps--faster than my DSL at home!).
I'm sure LG will follow with a GSM model for Europe and the rest of the world soon.
Are you telling me you're logged in as "Administrator" by default?
Why do you need to run Word and Excel and IE as root? Well, there is Microsoft security for ya.
No wonder all the manufacturing is moving out of the US. If the company is responsible for such an obvious neglect on part of the worker, I won't want to do manufacturing in the US either. Maybe the cause is our neglected public education system.
On the other hand, it's interesting that while GM and Ford are moving manufacturing out of the US, the Japanese and German auto manufacturerers are opening more auto plants in the US. Which leads me to think that it's not the workers that's the blame, but wasteful management.
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Not only dynimically compressed music sound terrible, at the same time it drowns out the quieter, better made albums. A solution has been proposed that records maximum and average loudness into the sound file, so a music library can be played at a constant volume, to help alleviate the problem. See: http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/
> if Windows desktop systems are cheaply-made, assembly-line automobiles, more or less well-built, all exactly alike aside from the odd optional leather seat or cup-holder, then Linux can feel more like a hand-built Rolls Royce, using more or less the same parts as another Rolls, but fundamentally an individually-crafted machine.
Since when is Linux Rolls Royce, and Microsoft a Ford? Maybe that means FreeBSD is a Ferrari!
I just called up Dell and told them what to put in my box. I told them to put in P4 3Ghz, instead of 2.8GHz because it's better, and only slightly more expensive. I also told them what color cables to use.
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What's the point of putting an article together if you just hire some guys to do it for you? Is choosing the cable type and faceplate style that big of a deal? That's like saying "I wrote this article about building a computer from scratch, and we just asked Dell to do it for us. Oh, btw, I asked them to use grey face plates instead of the black one."
I've seen a lot of programmers/sysadmins leave their jobs after 4-5 years. This high turn over rate is driven not only by the age discrimination, but also high rates of burn-out among programmers. It's similar to the financial consulting market, where people are worked to death until they get sick of it and leave for another job that's less stressful. Sure, the pay is good, but quality of life suffers. And with the tech downturn, they pay isn't what it used to be either.
What I hate is the current business mentality of "let's burn out this bunch of programmers since we can hire fresh ones out of college next year." It diminishes programmers as disposable labor. Hopefully now that the boom is over and the market isn't flooded with new programmers, this attitude will subside. I hope.
---Bitter complaint mode on--- How is this "News"? How is this "Stuff that Matters"? Slow news day, eh? Can't dupe another SCO story eh? I'm so glad I don't pay to read about your new toy earlier than everyone else.
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begins by turning to your library of intellectual property as your source of revenue instead of products. By firing engineers and hiring lawyers, you make enemies with your founders, your partners, your customers, and everyone else. Only friends you make are your lawyers who have no loyalty, no responsibility, and who are definately *not* your friend.
Kodak died and another SCO is born. Welcome to IP hell.
It seems to me most of the commenters so far posted seem to laugh at or are purplexed by this "house guard." What they seem to not understand is what all these robot technology is ultimately supposed to do: replace people in menial labor.
They are making small steps to make robots a practical consumer device--pets, house guards, robot vacuum cleaners, small child-like assistants for the elderly (Honda). Eventually they will do more, but the basic technology has to be perfected, and market developed.
Sure, the robots seem hopelessly useless now, but what they (the japanese) invision is a future where these things will be common place as the VCR. And *they* want to be the ones making and selling them.
Remember when automobiles were first being invented, most people that they could never replace the horse carriage.
It looks like the KAME implementation got borked between 5.1 and 5.2. ISAKMP packets get filtered even when they're not supposed to.
see here.
As usual, Cringely got it only partly right.
The reason for Intel's move actually simpler: *USERS* want backward compatibility.
It's the reason ethernet has been and will be around for ever (10Mbps, 100Mbps, 1000Mbps), it's the same reason there is a little version of DOS running inside Windows XP, same reason people are still using WordPerfect.
The same is true of Linux. The people who migrated to Linux early on were ones who used Unix before. And once Linux achieves backward compatibility with Windows (e.g. WINE), well, Linux will just EXPLODE.
Are there plans or people within IBM to switch to another distro, say Debian/UserLinux? If IBM is dedicated to "free" distros, I would think Debian would be more appealing than Redhat/Fedora.
So you have a wad of cash you don't know what to do with? Want to spend it on something cool but don't have any good ideas? Not a problem. We see this kind of a problem every day, and we have a great solution. If you are looking to install a wireless internet setup, why not invest an additional $2000 and go gigabit wireless? But hey, since you sound like a nice guy, I'll give you a discount, and set it up for only $8000. That's a savings of over 10%! But you have to act quick. I can't offer these kind of rates for ever--we'll go out of business! So here is what you should do now. Put the money in a padded envelope, and mail it to:
Tony's Construction
123 Fake Street.
Spring Field, MA, 18332
And we'll come out and install it for you. Don't forget to tell us where you live!
...by attaching a *printer* to the voting machine.
So, how is this better than a paper ballot with a stub you detach as proof of voting?
It gives the machine makers millions that should have gone to public schools.
Hooray for demcracy.
How come nobody wants to do a MS Office clone? I don't mean just file formats, but the whole shebang--the same menues, the same dialogs, same icons. Users will have no reason not to switch, since it works just like their favorite program, it has years of user interfacing studies done on it, and it'll be FREE.
For any "unlimited" pricing scheme to work, there has to be a large enough low-usage subscriber population to subsidize the high usage subscribers. Currently, there are a lot more high-usage subscribers than the company can support. This figures, since those who want high speed internet are the tech savvy, so of course those who sign up first are going to use a lot of bandwidth.
But here is the thing. If you get a *lot* of low-usage customers(the general public at large), by lowering the price (let's say to $25/month), it might be possible to subsidize those bandwidth hogs without limiting them. I think the first company to figure this out might be SBC, with their $30/month plan. Of the phone company knows all about cheap unlimited rates--how many people do you know doesn't have unlimited local calls?
Where are my mod points when I need them?
Linux really needs a reference system that developers can target. At least in the Windows world, if you target Win95, you know it'll pretty much work everywhere else, now or later. Otherwise, Linux will never see the day when you can go to Wal-mart and pick-up a street mapping software for Linux. Imagine reading the fine print, after you've torn the box open and broken the software seal: (For Red Hat Linux Version x.x and Mandrake x.x Only. Requires glibc x.xx, kernel x.xx, and RPM support. May not work on other Linux distributions.)
I think a large company like IBM can make a big impact in this area. An IBM Linux based on Debian Reference System would stabilize the Linux market--finally, a standard file system and packaging system that's not tied to a company's whim! And with corporate support for business users and software freedom for everyone else!
I can dream, can't I?
I agree. I think a lot of people are distracted by the eye-candy and bad dialog. But they're are missing lot of the cool ideas in the film. For example, the idea of choice and freedom:
**Spoiler warning**
The matrix was perfected by giving people choices (Oracle's idea). It took away the perfect controllability, but it made people happier because it gave them a sense of freedom. But it wasn't true freedom, because everything inside the matrix was inevitable--choices can be predicted and acted upon. But the Final Choice, the choice that the ONE makes is the one that could un-do the matrix. It didn't happen for 6 previous matricies, but the seventh one it did.
However when Neo chooses to save trinity instead of the rest of the human kind (in the 2nd film), and also when trinity comes with neo in the third one , they do it out of love, but it means that their choices really weren't free. They're bound to the "inevitability" of love. But at the same time, they *are* free to make the choices that could doom them. So there is a paradox that "inevitablity" and "fate", can both come from having free choice and not having free choice. But which one is real?
Also, having peace and war is also matter of choices. The machines choose to honor their bargain, neo chose to (potentially) sacrifice himself to save the machines. So havin pgeace or war is also choices made by the parties (think Israel-palestine).
There are a lot of hard ideas/paradoxes in the film besides, but people should look past the eye-candy and some bad acting and see it's not really that bad of a film at all.
How is this news? It was all over yahoo YESTERDAY.
The phone is being launched in Korea first, which is all CDMA2000. I wonder if you could use the PDA's browser on the CDMA 1x-DO network in korea. Now that would be cool (sustained rate of 800kbps--faster than my DSL at home!).
I'm sure LG will follow with a GSM model for Europe and the rest of the world soon.
Are you telling me you're logged in as "Administrator" by default? Why do you need to run Word and Excel and IE as root? Well, there is Microsoft security for ya.
No wonder all the manufacturing is moving out of the US. If the company is responsible for such an obvious neglect on part of the worker, I won't want to do manufacturing in the US either. Maybe the cause is our neglected public education system.
On the other hand, it's interesting that while GM and Ford are moving manufacturing out of the US, the Japanese and German auto manufacturerers are opening more auto plants in the US. Which leads me to think that it's not the workers that's the blame, but wasteful management.
Not only dynimically compressed music sound terrible, at the same time it drowns out the quieter, better made albums. A solution has been proposed that records maximum and average loudness into the sound file, so a music library can be played at a constant volume, to help alleviate the problem. See:
http://replaygain.hydrogenaudio.org/
> if Windows desktop systems are cheaply-made, assembly-line automobiles, more or less well-built, all exactly alike aside from the odd optional leather seat or cup-holder, then Linux can feel more like a hand-built Rolls Royce, using more or less the same parts as another Rolls, but fundamentally an individually-crafted machine.
Since when is Linux Rolls Royce, and Microsoft a Ford? Maybe that means FreeBSD is a Ferrari!
Although it's from AC, sounds serious to me.
I just called up Dell and told them what to put in my box. I told them to put in P4 3Ghz, instead of 2.8GHz because it's better, and only slightly more expensive. I also told them what color cables to use. Moderators: It's funny, because it's True
What's the point of putting an article together if you just hire some guys to do it for you? Is choosing the cable type and faceplate style that big of a deal? That's like saying "I wrote this article about building a computer from scratch, and we just asked Dell to do it for us. Oh, btw, I asked them to use grey face plates instead of the black one."
It's the High-Speed version, not the Full-Speed version. I hope that helps :)
Is this Full Speed 2.0 or High-Speed 2.0? :)
I've seen a lot of programmers/sysadmins leave their jobs after 4-5 years. This high turn over rate is driven not only by the age discrimination, but also high rates of burn-out among programmers. It's similar to the financial consulting market, where people are worked to death until they get sick of it and leave for another job that's less stressful. Sure, the pay is good, but quality of life suffers. And with the tech downturn, they pay isn't what it used to be either.
What I hate is the current business mentality of "let's burn out this bunch of programmers since we can hire fresh ones out of college next year." It diminishes programmers as disposable labor. Hopefully now that the boom is over and the market isn't flooded with new programmers, this attitude will subside. I hope.
Anyone else want to comment on this?
---Bitter complaint mode on---
How is this "News"? How is this "Stuff that Matters"? Slow news day, eh? Can't dupe another SCO story eh? I'm so glad I don't pay to read about your new toy earlier than everyone else.
---Bitter complaint mode off---