Cool. Though, I think you left out the most relevant part.
"Nokia Corporation announced today that it allows all its patents to be used in the further development of the Linux Kernel. Nokia believes that open source software communities, like open standards, foster innovation and make an important contribution to the creation and rapid adaptation of technologies."
So its conceivable that Nokia could sue for an infringement of its patents for closed source software, but not for linux based phones. Android would then, seem to be in the clear.
I'm afraid I don't understand. Why not get your own DSL Modem of your choosing so they can't pull any shenanigans? I was pretty glad I did after the vulnerability in the 2wire mode/routers att tries to sell was discovered. It often pays to have less popular hardware/software to avoid being targeted by scanners. Wouldn't prevent a more targeted attack, but those are more rare.
I wonder how many of those same patents are included in the Linux based Maemo OS that the N900 has.
What exactly does that mean? If you have patents on some technology, but then release a device that implements them with code that's GPL V2 licensed? Does it mean that anyone can now use those patents royalty free as long as they use the gpl'd code? Or does it somehow invalidate them? Would GPL V3 change the situation appreciably?
For what its worth I have a fedora proof box as well. Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, Suse, ( heck BeOs 5 ) have no problem with it. Fedora does. Weird.
Better yet: Standard dvd which you can then enroll in their crazy electronic only scheme. Each Dvd should have a serial id which can be enrolled once ( with some sort of way to reset it in the case of a used dvd sale). Then you can watch it on any supported device with out the dvd. If the system goes kaput, you still have a dvd, sorry for the convince. Heck charge a buck or two for the registration to pay for the service. Ease of use will stop the casual mom & pop pirate, Nothing will stop the determined pirate hacker, don't try its not worth the investment.
What many people do not realize, is that the cubs that won in 1908 were a completely different team playing in a different field. Wrigely field ( then called wigman park) was built for the Chicago Whales. The whales kicked but winning two championships at the same ballpark that the Cubs suck in. So yadda yadda yadda. Federal league goes kaput, the whales owner buys the cubs, just changes the name of the whales to the cubs and presto chango they never win again.
The obvious problem is that aliens can no longer communicate with the chicago whales. And thus are cursing them from space. Manipulating the flights of balls. Temporary blinding out fielders. Not even the Modern steroids coursing through Sosa's veins were a match for the alien interlopers.
So we need to go back, BACK into the past and rescue the chicago whales and bring them into the modern era where they can successfully communicate with the pissed aliens and allow the Cubs to win or lose as their abilities permit.
Why do you think Ken Jennings, a programmer, was the best Jeopardy contestant of all time?
Uhm... Because he was the best jeopardy contestant of all time. A single individual's achievements cannot be attributed to members of any group they belong to.
Won't you feel funny when we do discover negative mass. It would actually make a lot of things easier. The accelerated expansion of the universe cries out for a repulsive force. Throw a negative sign on a mass and voila, repulsion! Also, it would lead to the possibility of negative energy, which we can then use for warp drives. At least according to my creative star trek esque imagination. Science has taught us to never say never until experiments tell us to say never.
Yeah, that's not always true, depending on the processor. But, yes merchants should find a processor that limits the merchant's need to store that info.
Oh, the flat lightgreen space next to the white rectangle with a black isosceles triangle on top? Sorry, I thought your house was a rocket. My bad, I'll stop trying to pick it up now.
The guys I know (not personally acquaintances of acquaintances who worked with them) who have worked on slot machines are in jail. Their clever programing back doors were no match for their inability to launder money at or above a fourth grade level.
Even recently released games didn't work right on xp. They actually ran faster on 98 with less crashes. But overall, the system was more stable when not playing games, which was a big reason why I didn't go back. I think ntfs over fat32 was worth the price of admission, right there.
So.. we can have more time based software licensing? Yeah, I'll get right on that.
I was once part of an in house testing group of a software package. Even in pre alpha stage dev, they time limited the testing builds. I guess it was to entice us to always test with the latest, rather than the stable version from last month. That's about the only good use of it I've known.
I'm still not clear, are you trying to say that all or of Nvidia's problems are there own due to poor quality and none of it is due to their legal inability to produce chipsets supporting current Intel chips?
No. I was alluding to the fact that BSD branched off unix main line ( resulting in the trial with AT&T) where as Linux merely is an adopted child in the unix family. Its also closer to Solaris, HP-UX, and other Open group certified UNIX(TM) OS es. But compared with windows, they are both unix-y.
Yes, have you considered donating the prize money to the human fund? I can take care of all of the paper work and hassle for you, if you just sign over the check.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. IMHO, Unix means UNIX (TM) which means its been formally submitted and certified as UNIX by the Open group. I find BSD systems to be more like those official UNIX systems like Solaris and Mac OS X ( well the unix-y underlying parts) at least with the userland utilities.
Shit does happen everywhere, but that shouldn't be your policy. If your redundant set of routers turns into baseballs, that can't really be prevented and that's sort of okay, because electrical equipment usually don't turn into sporting equipment and having it happen to both is a pretty odd day. But having a web server compromised because every service in the apt repository was installed and running with root users remote access enabled and passwords set to 'password', that should be prevented. And if it does happen, "Shit Happens" isn't the appropriate response.
That depends upon what you mean by veteran, and what you mean by UNIX. FreeBsd is closer to Unix due to its BSDness. So if you are used to kernels that are more Unix-y than Linux-y you may prefer it for that reason. If you are simply a fan of OSS that runs it as a desktop, there may not be any obvious advantages and perhaps some disadvantages due to lack of desktop like software. It should also include ZFS & dtrace which may entice you. Its also just a different kernel with a different schedule that may perform better for your specific tasks. Osnews carried a story about a benchmark between FreeBSD and Ubuntu the comments from osnews readers are also pretty insightful which is why I linked to them and not the source article. .
Yes, but 30 seconds according to who's clock? If I could arrange to be thrown naked into space into a black hole, I like my chances of not freezing in 30's seconds of the observer outside of the event horizon's clock.
So if someone would kindly arrange for a black hole to be present inside this giant ring so that I might be able to remark on my inability to realize that I'm inside a giant ring due to the sparseness, without freezing/exploding/boiling, I'd appreciate it.
The author is highly biased and inflammatory. MS's.Net framework is NOT the answer in every situation, but it is a solid platform for Windows/Web based development.
Well, forgive me if I'm mistaken, but the point of this article is that for this high profile high performance situation.net is not the answer. So if I have a performance critical web application (and I do), I would be inclined to consider this a reason to not consider the.net platform (and I'm not).
Although, its a bit disapointing that they don't revel more details about the new platform other than the OS. However, we can pretty much assume its not any of the following popular open source web languages ( php, ruby, python, perl). I'm really curious to learn what they are using. Any guesses ( Java, scala, erlang) ???
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Cool. Though, I think you left out the most relevant part.
"Nokia Corporation announced today that it allows all its patents to be used in the further development of the Linux Kernel. Nokia believes that open source software communities, like open standards, foster innovation and make an important contribution to the creation and rapid adaptation of technologies."
So its conceivable that Nokia could sue for an infringement of its patents for closed source software, but not for linux based phones. Android would then, seem to be in the clear.
I'm afraid I don't understand. Why not get your own DSL Modem of your choosing so they can't pull any shenanigans? I was pretty glad I did after the vulnerability in the 2wire mode/routers att tries to sell was discovered. It often pays to have less popular hardware/software to avoid being targeted by scanners. Wouldn't prevent a more targeted attack, but those are more rare.
I wonder how many of those same patents are included in the Linux based Maemo OS that the N900 has.
What exactly does that mean? If you have patents on some technology, but then release a device that implements them with code that's GPL V2 licensed? Does it mean that anyone can now use those patents royalty free as long as they use the gpl'd code? Or does it somehow invalidate them? Would GPL V3 change the situation appreciably?
So why don't you get your own dsl model that is completely under your control?
For what its worth I have a fedora proof box as well. Ubuntu, Debian, Mandrake, Gentoo, Suse, ( heck BeOs 5 ) have no problem with it. Fedora does. Weird.
Better yet: Standard dvd which you can then enroll in their crazy electronic only scheme. Each Dvd should have a serial id which can be enrolled once ( with some sort of way to reset it in the case of a used dvd sale). Then you can watch it on any supported device with out the dvd. If the system goes kaput, you still have a dvd, sorry for the convince. Heck charge a buck or two for the registration to pay for the service. Ease of use will stop the casual mom & pop pirate, Nothing will stop the determined pirate hacker, don't try its not worth the investment.
What many people do not realize, is that the cubs that won in 1908 were a completely different team playing in a different field. Wrigely field ( then called wigman park) was built for the Chicago Whales. The whales kicked but winning two championships at the same ballpark that the Cubs suck in. So yadda yadda yadda. Federal league goes kaput, the whales owner buys the cubs, just changes the name of the whales to the cubs and presto chango they never win again.
The obvious problem is that aliens can no longer communicate with the chicago whales. And thus are cursing them from space. Manipulating the flights of balls. Temporary blinding out fielders. Not even the Modern steroids coursing through Sosa's veins were a match for the alien interlopers.
So we need to go back, BACK into the past and rescue the chicago whales and bring them into the modern era where they can successfully communicate with the pissed aliens and allow the Cubs to win or lose as their abilities permit.
Uhm... Because he was the best jeopardy contestant of all time. A single individual's achievements cannot be attributed to members of any group they belong to.
Won't you feel funny when we do discover negative mass. It would actually make a lot of things easier. The accelerated expansion of the universe cries out for a repulsive force. Throw a negative sign on a mass and voila, repulsion! Also, it would lead to the possibility of negative energy, which we can then use for warp drives. At least according to my creative star trek esque imagination. Science has taught us to never say never until experiments tell us to say never.
Yeah, that's not always true, depending on the processor. But, yes merchants should find a processor that limits the merchant's need to store that info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell's_experiment
Now you're thinking like fifth grader!
Oh, the flat lightgreen space next to the white rectangle with a black isosceles triangle on top? Sorry, I thought your house was a rocket. My bad, I'll stop trying to pick it up now.
The guys I know (not personally acquaintances of acquaintances who worked with them) who have worked on slot machines are in jail. Their clever programing back doors were no match for their inability to launder money at or above a fourth grade level.
Even recently released games didn't work right on xp. They actually ran faster on 98 with less crashes. But overall, the system was more stable when not playing games, which was a big reason why I didn't go back. I think ntfs over fat32 was worth the price of admission, right there.
So.. we can have more time based software licensing? Yeah, I'll get right on that.
I was once part of an in house testing group of a software package. Even in pre alpha stage dev, they time limited the testing builds. I guess it was to entice us to always test with the latest, rather than the stable version from last month. That's about the only good use of it I've known.
That is a good explanation. Thank you for responding.
I'm still not clear, are you trying to say that all or of Nvidia's problems are there own due to poor quality and none of it is due to their legal inability to produce chipsets supporting current Intel chips?
No. I was alluding to the fact that BSD branched off unix main line ( resulting in the trial with AT&T) where as Linux merely is an adopted child in the unix family. Its also closer to Solaris, HP-UX, and other Open group certified UNIX(TM) OS es. But compared with windows, they are both unix-y.
Yes, have you considered donating the prize money to the human fund? I can take care of all of the paper work and hassle for you, if you just sign over the check.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. IMHO, Unix means UNIX (TM) which means its been formally submitted and certified as UNIX by the Open group. I find BSD systems to be more like those official UNIX systems like Solaris and Mac OS X ( well the unix-y underlying parts) at least with the userland utilities.
Shit does happen everywhere, but that shouldn't be your policy. If your redundant set of routers turns into baseballs, that can't really be prevented and that's sort of okay, because electrical equipment usually don't turn into sporting equipment and having it happen to both is a pretty odd day. But having a web server compromised because every service in the apt repository was installed and running with root users remote access enabled and passwords set to 'password', that should be prevented. And if it does happen, "Shit Happens" isn't the appropriate response.
That depends upon what you mean by veteran, and what you mean by UNIX. FreeBsd is closer to Unix due to its BSDness. So if you are used to kernels that are more Unix-y than Linux-y you may prefer it for that reason. If you are simply a fan of OSS that runs it as a desktop, there may not be any obvious advantages and perhaps some disadvantages due to lack of desktop like software. It should also include ZFS & dtrace which may entice you. Its also just a different kernel with a different schedule that may perform better for your specific tasks. Osnews carried a story about a benchmark between FreeBSD and Ubuntu the comments from osnews readers are also pretty insightful which is why I linked to them and not the source article. .
Yes, but 30 seconds according to who's clock? If I could arrange to be thrown naked into space into a black hole, I like my chances of not freezing in 30's seconds of the observer outside of the event horizon's clock.
So if someone would kindly arrange for a black hole to be present inside this giant ring so that I might be able to remark on my inability to realize that I'm inside a giant ring due to the sparseness, without freezing/exploding/boiling, I'd appreciate it.
Well, forgive me if I'm mistaken, but the point of this article is that for this high profile high performance situation .net is not the answer. So if I have a performance critical web application (and I do), I would be inclined to consider this a reason to not consider the .net platform (and I'm not).
Although, its a bit disapointing that they don't revel more details about the new platform other than the OS. However, we can pretty much assume its not any of the following popular open source web languages ( php, ruby, python, perl). I'm really curious to learn what they are using. Any guesses ( Java, scala, erlang) ???