too many people are taking my comment about the kernel part seriously. That was meant to be a joke. I was just referring to the microsofts arguement that IE cannot seperate IE from windows. :-), belated smiley here.
From bruce perens article: SCO is also party to the GPL, which invalidates their patent portfolio for any of their patents that happen to have been used in a Linux system that they distributed. Under the GPL terms, if you distribute your patented practice in GPL software, you must grant a license to everyone to make use of that patent in any GPL software, for any field of use.
Would be interesting if it comes to court, if nothing else, just to see just how enforcable GPL is.
I doubt if my manager can understand this
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In manager speak value=money.
From rule 6 and 4 , money moves to suburbs and adding value to internet lowers its value. So the suburbs have real low value. Now rule 5 says All of internets money grows on its edges, again edges=suburbs . So rule 4 and 6 together contradict rule 5.
So if all these rules hold at once, Internet is real complicated, hence rule 1: "Internet is simple" is false.
So only rule 2 holds:"Internet is stupid".
IE according to Microsoft is integral to the OS. So Microsoft cannot change it without rewriting the Kernel. So don't wait for tabbed browsing support too soon.
Note that not all MS Office tools work properly with tab like features? You open two excel files at the same time you get two listings on the taskbar, while the close button on top of each document window is for entire excel?
Does not seem so Nobel page site (i think), seems to say photoelectric effect. Yes, his theory of Brownian motion is important, but he didnt win a nobel for that.
Yes, But if you get into physics almost all the rules he gives are broken. But then they are not accepted till all the seven rules have been.For eg. When Einstein gave his relativity theory (funny the story should have a picture of him), he was breaking almost all the rules. He worked alone, he almost had no evidence (except the light speed, which had alternate explanations at that time),he proposed new laws of nature and he was suppressed at that time.
But then again no one accepted the theories till the eclipse experiment proved that einstein was right (heck they gave him a nobel not for telativity but for his photoelectric effct theory)
Galeleo was persecuted, till he was proved right (which is after his death) etc. etc.
Funny thing is that India and China still does not comply fully with internatinal laws on patents. India has only process patents on medicines (not product), so you can take a drug and make it differently and sell it cheap. (The laws are changing notw tho). Same with china
The thing is, that the offshore push is not just in High Tech. They are moving entire back-end-office (that i believe, was the term used). Here is a sample from a google search .
We will see a whole lot of accounting,data-entry and similar mundane jobs moving to India (China and Russia, not yet, assumption being that they are not too good at english.).
Now these jobs don't contribute too much to the US economy, but wonder what effects it will have if this goes on for too long?
One more difference would be that a fibre channel is protected from external interference (well,almost). But with an open wire, we got to worry about refractive effect of air, ie you got a beam pointed north, sun is shining from east, but still sunrays get to your receiver cause air turns em around, causing signal loss/noise. You probably will have to use some stronger filters.
Then again you probably will have more attenuation, fibre channels being solid and these beams having to pass through air (containing dust etc.)
The reason for federal regulation is so that people don't end up using the same frequency and block each others communication (and maybe also to stop some old commie era spying stuff...).
Light being restricted to a line(or a narrow cone), cannot cause interference(using the term in a non-physics sense) , unless you use a very large cone-angle (ie make it non-directional, like a naked bulb).Laser should cause no problems, but ordinary light might , think about using a light bulb on a tower to spam everybody in the town. But it certainly will take time till somebody does that and then maybe laws will catch up.
I am not too sure of this.... , dhs has legal powers in the US, can force companies to do so in the US. Right now when a large chunk of software gets develped by US companies, this works fine.
What happens when a non-US company/individual finds a bug? The information might be held back in the US for security reasons, but *might* break out outside. What would then happen is that US would be the most affected. Remember that a lot of the later viruses/worms were of non-US origin.In this case they got ISS to shut up, might not be true always.
Just some clever mettalurgy here.... The pillar you are referring to is in Delhi and its mystery has apparently been solved Apparently the metal had a high hydrogen content and formed a coating of "misawite" .
It seems is not to go where no man has gone before but
1) To get proper pictures of pluto (it seems telescopes are not good enuff
and 2) to get a view of outer space unhindered by the space dust of the solar system....
Some links here and here
Now, The Comparison with Dell as it appears is an outright lie. The base PE6650 costs around 7k. Add almost all the periperals and still could be under 15 k.Try it yourselves here Can the original contributor explain?
They say....
back buttons shouldnt be stack based, instead tree based.
I am willing to settle for a list....each instance of a page being a member of list ie a->b->cb->e would have [a,b,c,b,e] in "memory" instead of current [a]
Use mouse gestures, saves time switching between kbd and mouse
I kind of tend to use keyboard exclusively.....But mouse gestures are nice for the average guy
Nice to see that Opera has a mouse gestures option, and that its "history" includes not just the urls you typed in, but all the pages you visited....
AFAIK all Dell desktops have a USB (actually 2) ports on the front. Dell Servers have them in the back, mainly because they have a funny Cover on the front which you remove to access the CD etc. Note that the new "blade" servers have no floppy at all (duh) but have a USB easily acccesible.Some workstations have 'em in the front too.
The real problem I have is that USB cannot really talk without an OS.I cant find any bioses which has a "boot from USB " on dell machines....(or anywhere else Ive looked)
From the article How much would you pay for a Linux distribution that took essentially no work or skill to install and administer? What commercial software or other features (like compatibility with popular online tax prep applications) might make you decide to lay out $100 or more for a Linux distribution or annual Linux software subscription?
If a company puts in a lot of usability features and then puts it on top of linux and then makes that part of code non-GPL (even if open source) it would be a different question altogether. But a "generic" user is not going to pay for it if he can get it for free , and what stops me from redistributing it as long as it is GPL? In other words If some company still releases a linux distro with some non-GPL code, the can make money for 1) The part of code which is non-GPL (The user is really paying for only that intrinsically) 2) Support 3)Work put in by the company for hw/sw testing (i want to be sure it works on my box), package selection,CD burning etc.
Certainly not going to get you 90% margins like M$ gets
Also you miss the part that if you turn full screen mode (use F11) you dont see ads at all. As long as you know the keyboard shortcuts, it is the way to browse. Remarkably good for reading books and long articles....
I say this is denigration by analogy
This is like "Microsoft is a bad company,
they force you to upgrade every so often
redhat also asks you to upgrade
So redhat is a bad company"
The difference here is that Redhat products are open source and can be supported theoretically by anyone. Microsoft products don't work that way. As I see it this leaves the field open for a lot of companies to be providing purely support. Redhat ships OS, supports OS for a year, then turns over the support job to a third party. Seems OK to me.
Redhat's job is then redefined to choosing the right packages, testing them on different platforms (this actually costs a lot of money, especially in servers) and then making sure it works on your machine (which is where the one year part comes in).
Register article is slightly biased, especially since they had a problem of their own, and there was no third party support avlbl./they wouldnt spend the money. And they had good tech guys own their team who could support debian.
I doubt that they will make money out of Hardware. Most Game consoles are sole at just breakeven or below. Companies actually make money on Software and not on the box itself. Here is a sleisha old link abt m$s pricing strat.
IBM has a long history of releasing open standards and not making money of it starting from "IBM-compatible PCs ". Then laptop standards and now this....
Now by specifying PowerPC as the chip , which they own, maybe they will make actual money out of it...
Now HPQ, and last quarter Dell, sold the maximum number of "IBM comaptible PCs" in US. Even if this goes similarly IBM still can profit...Dell's current PDA uses Intel chips and Microsoft and HP uses Intel in iPAQ and Strongarm in Jornada. Dell being such a follower of "Industry Standards",might switch but lets see about HP
From the article The technology behind HPM is based on that used in household microwave ovens
Now even if the microwave rays are many times stronger and even if you use a directional antenna shouldnt it be easy to stop the rays?
From a google search i got http://www.provincia.venezia.it/comenius/eu_oven2. htm which says There is a metallic net either inside the plastic panel or inside the glass panel, because the holes of the net are smaller than the length wave of microwave frequencies of about 12,5 cm at 2.5 Ghz. the glass panel is essentially opaque to the microwaves so all the energy of the microwaves is reflected inside the cavity of the oven.
Or I think you can just use an aluminum foil wrapper around your computer to temporarily stop the rays (atleast till the aluminium starts burning, and then you can have fun) , Anyway how long is a drone going to be able to produce some millions of watts of power ? (746 watts =1 horsepower, I think?)
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too many people are taking my comment about the kernel part seriously. That was meant to be a joke. I was just referring to the microsofts arguement that IE cannot seperate IE from windows.
:-), belated smiley here.
From bruce perens article:
SCO is also party to the GPL, which invalidates their patent portfolio for any of their patents that happen to have been used in a Linux system that they distributed. Under the GPL terms, if you distribute your patented practice in GPL software, you must grant a license to everyone to make use of that patent in any GPL software, for any field of use.
Would be interesting if it comes to court, if nothing else, just to see just how enforcable GPL is.
In manager speak value=money.
:"Internet is stupid".
From rule 6 and 4 , money moves to suburbs and adding value to internet lowers its value. So the suburbs have real low value. Now rule 5 says All of internets money grows on its edges, again edges=suburbs . So rule 4 and 6 together contradict rule 5.
So if all these rules hold at once, Internet is real complicated, hence rule 1: "Internet is simple" is false.
So only rule 2 holds
Not just that. It allows you to lesser RAM since the windowmanager doesnt have to open multiple windows.
IE according to Microsoft is integral to the OS. So Microsoft cannot change it without rewriting the Kernel. So don't wait for tabbed browsing support too soon.
Note that not all MS Office tools work properly with tab like features? You open two excel files at the same time you get two listings on the taskbar, while the close button on top of each document window is for entire excel?
Does not seem so Nobel page site (i think), seems to say photoelectric effect. Yes, his theory of Brownian motion is important, but he didnt win a nobel for that.
Yes, But if you get into physics almost all the rules he gives are broken. But then they are not accepted till all the seven rules have been.For eg. When Einstein gave his relativity theory (funny the story should have a picture of him), he was breaking almost all the rules. He worked alone, he almost had no evidence (except the light speed, which had alternate explanations at that time),he proposed new laws of nature and he was suppressed at that time.
But then again no one accepted the theories till the eclipse experiment proved that einstein was right (heck they gave him a nobel not for telativity but for his photoelectric effct theory)
Galeleo was persecuted, till he was proved right (which is after his death) etc. etc.
Funny thing is that India and China still does not comply fully with internatinal laws on patents. India has only process patents on medicines (not product), so you can take a drug and make it differently and sell it cheap. (The laws are changing notw tho). Same with china
The thing is, that the offshore push is not just in High Tech. They are moving entire back-end-office (that i believe, was the term used). Here is a sample from a google search .
We will see a whole lot of accounting,data-entry and similar mundane jobs moving to India (China and Russia, not yet, assumption being that they are not too good at english.).
Now these jobs don't contribute too much to the US economy, but wonder what effects it will have if this goes on for too long?
One more difference would be that a fibre channel is protected from external interference (well,almost). But with an open wire, we got to worry about refractive effect of air, ie you got a beam pointed north, sun is shining from east, but still sunrays get to your receiver cause air turns em around, causing signal loss/noise. You probably will have to use some stronger filters.
Then again you probably will have more attenuation, fibre channels being solid and these beams having to pass through air (containing dust etc.)
The reason for federal regulation is so that people don't end up using the same frequency and block each others communication (and maybe also to stop some old commie era spying stuff...).
Light being restricted to a line(or a narrow cone), cannot cause interference(using the term in a non-physics sense) , unless you use a very large cone-angle (ie make it non-directional, like a naked bulb).Laser should cause no problems, but ordinary light might , think about using a light bulb on a tower to spam everybody in the town. But it certainly will take time till somebody does that and then maybe laws will catch up.
I am not too sure of this.... , dhs has legal powers in the US, can force companies to do so in the US. Right now when a large chunk of software gets develped by US companies, this works fine.
What happens when a non-US company/individual finds a bug? The information might be held back in the US for security reasons, but *might* break out outside. What would then happen is that US would be the most affected. Remember that a lot of the later viruses/worms were of non-US origin.In this case they got ISS to shut up, might not be true always.
Just some clever mettalurgy here....
The pillar you are referring to is in Delhi and its mystery has apparently been solved
Apparently the metal had a high hydrogen content and formed a coating of "misawite" .
It seems is not to go where no man has gone before but
....
1) To get proper pictures of pluto (it seems telescopes are not good enuff
and 2) to get a view of outer space unhindered by the space dust of the solar system
Some links
here and here
I suppose lyrics dont count anymore?
Now, The Comparison with Dell as it appears is an outright lie. The base PE6650 costs around 7k. Add almost all the periperals and still could be under 15 k.Try it yourselves here
Can the original contributor explain?
They say....
back buttons shouldnt be stack based, instead tree based.
I am willing to settle for a list....each instance of a page being a member of list ie a->b->cb->e would have [a,b,c,b,e] in "memory" instead of current [a]
Use mouse gestures, saves time switching between kbd and mouse
I kind of tend to use keyboard exclusively.....But mouse gestures are nice for the average guy
Nice to see that Opera has a mouse gestures option, and that its "history" includes not just the urls you typed in, but all the pages you visited....
AFAIK all Dell desktops have a USB (actually 2) ports on the front. Dell Servers have them in the back, mainly because they have a funny Cover on the front which you remove to access the CD etc. Note that the new "blade" servers have no floppy at all (duh) but have a USB easily acccesible.Some workstations have 'em in the front too.
The real problem I have is that USB cannot really talk without an OS.I cant find any bioses which has a "boot from USB " on dell machines....(or anywhere else Ive looked)
From the article
How much would you pay for a Linux distribution that took essentially no work or skill to install and administer? What commercial software or other features (like compatibility with popular online tax prep applications) might make you decide to lay out $100 or more for a Linux distribution or annual Linux software subscription?
If a company puts in a lot of usability features and then puts it on top of linux and then makes that part of code non-GPL (even if open source) it would be a different question altogether.
But a "generic" user is not going to pay for it if he can get it for free , and what stops me from redistributing it as long as it is GPL? In other words
If some company still releases a linux distro with some non-GPL code, the can make money for
1) The part of code which is non-GPL (The user is really paying for only that intrinsically)
2) Support
3)Work put in by the company for hw/sw testing (i want to be sure it works on my box), package selection,CD burning etc.
Certainly not going to get you 90% margins like M$ gets
Also you miss the part that if you turn full screen mode (use F11) you dont see ads at all. As long as you know the keyboard shortcuts, it is the way to browse. Remarkably good for reading books and long articles....
I say this is denigration by analogy
This is like "Microsoft is a bad company,
they force you to upgrade every so often
redhat also asks you to upgrade
So redhat is a bad company"
The difference here is that Redhat products are open source and can be supported theoretically by anyone. Microsoft products don't work that way. As I see it this leaves the field open for a lot of companies to be providing purely support. Redhat ships OS, supports OS for a year, then turns over the support job to a third party. Seems OK to me.
Redhat's job is then redefined to choosing the right packages, testing them on different platforms (this actually costs a lot of money, especially in servers) and then making sure it works on your machine (which is where the one year part comes in).
Register article is slightly biased, especially since they had a problem of their own, and there was no third party support avlbl./they wouldnt spend the money. And they had good tech guys own their team who could support debian.
I doubt that they will make money out of Hardware. Most Game consoles are sole at just breakeven or below. Companies actually make money on Software and not on the box itself. Here is a sleisha old link abt m$s pricing strat.
IBM has a long history of releasing open standards and not making money of it starting from "IBM-compatible PCs ". Then laptop standards and now this .... ,might switch but lets see about HP
Now by specifying PowerPC as the chip , which they own, maybe they will make actual money out of it...
Now HPQ, and last quarter Dell, sold the maximum number of "IBM comaptible PCs" in US. Even if this goes similarly IBM still can profit...Dell's current PDA uses Intel chips and Microsoft and HP uses Intel in iPAQ and Strongarm in Jornada. Dell being such a follower of "Industry Standards"
From the article
. htm which says There is a metallic net either inside the plastic panel or inside the glass panel, because the holes of the net are smaller than the length wave of microwave frequencies of about 12,5 cm at 2.5 Ghz. the glass panel is essentially opaque to the microwaves so all the energy of the microwaves is reflected inside the cavity of the oven.
The technology behind HPM is based on that used in household microwave ovens
Now even if the microwave rays are many times stronger and even if you use a directional antenna shouldnt it be easy to stop the rays?
From a google search i got http://www.provincia.venezia.it/comenius/eu_oven2
Or I think you can just use an aluminum foil wrapper around your computer to temporarily stop the rays (atleast till the aluminium starts burning, and then you can have fun) , Anyway how long is a drone going to be able to produce some millions of watts of power ? (746 watts =1 horsepower, I think?)
a better Link with many more links , first linked on Google news 5 minutes ago.....