Superconductor research (especially that which works at "room temperature") could be immediately applied to this problem once refined, drastically reducing energy costs and our largest source of pollution.
(Think of the bandwidth to scan, and how difficult it will be to scan for all such serials in realtime. How fast can you grep for a single 8 characeter string in a file with a 3.2GHz PIV?)
This is absolutely correct, and whining doesn't help. If the Mplayer group doesn't get it's ass in gear and start quickly banging out some letters, things are going to just get worse.
Mplayer should be asking the EFF, etc. for assistance if they don't have sufficient legal representation to take on violations in a foreign nation.
definition is not exactly a good argument anymore.
The meaning of words change. "Ironic", isn't it.
Marriage is now equated in many peoples mind with a "license" to fuck someone, and get various financial breaks from the government, banks, and insurance companies, etc.
You're thinking of "matrimony", which is a less commonly used word whose meaning has not changed.
It's a one-time use recyclable MC CC number. You can always send money to yourself, then spend it with that card. Your transactions are logged along with all other transactions at paypal online.
Rumsfeld, Bush Sr., and their acquaintenaces had formulated a plan to strike hard against Iraq, but never got to carry it out as Clinton got elected. It represented the work of a lot of important people, but it got shelved, which deflated a lot of rather large egos. Once Bush Jr. got back in power, they waited for just the right moment (after 9/11) to put it back into motion.
at this point, the only architectures that are cheap enough to mass produce that perform well are: CPU+MMU, RAM channel, interconnect to northbridge or crossbar, single/multiple PCI (infiniband?) busses, AGP, with some built-in chips on the non-extendable PCI bus that graduates the offering levels (+SCSI, +dual GB LAN, +S-ATA, etc.) That's it. Doing anything else is expensive and dooms you right out the gate.
The only people that can afford to do that on a large scale is Sun. But they choose more complex architectures solely to provide scalability with multiple CPUs. But even they stick to standard extension technologies (Fiber Channel, PCI, etc.)
So the "idea" of the Amiga as a personal workstation is not relevant today.
The only other option would be to initially treat it as a game console, but then Sony and Nintendo would slaughter them.
Like the PS2, the multi-chip architecture was neccessary in order for the machine to be close to usable for the things people wanted to do with it.
Some of that ideology still lives today, what with the everything-but-the-kitchen sink northbridges used by modern PCs and machintoshes. They shrunk it down to one chip, but the purpose is the same: take care of all the I/O in one place, and interrupt the CPU when it can use busmaster DMA to ferry it somewhere else.
If they were to produce an Amiga today, in order for the design to break price-points, they'd basically need to use of the existing chip vendor's recommended system boards. (i.e. IBM or Motorola). What they come up with will basically be a Macintosh.
Maybe that's why no one is releasing an updated Amiga. Everytime they get some engineers to come up with a system architecture, Steve Jobs reveals something almost exactly the same at MacWorld.
as the worst movie of not only this year, but every year since it was released (1992). It was so bad, people kept asking to re-evaluate it, just to see if anyone could do any worse.
not withdraw the product, buying themselves some time to code their own stuff to replace the disputed parts. Or relicense, orwhatever. The penalties/actions for copyright violation are not set in stone or anything... especially when the plantiff is willing to cooperate.
I mean, just because someone chooses the GPL for protection doesn't mean that person is unreasonable.
PS - Any code analyzed in court could be sealed evidence to prevent dilution of IP.
This kind of distinction should be hashed out in court. My personal belief is that use of an API does not constitute GPL violation. The new code written that uses a GPL library does not, in it's total body, actually contain any derived code. The act of building it into a binary may integrate it, but that doesn't mean the author created a derived work. The only part the author created are the modules made from the code he compiled. If he had to, he could just offer to refer them to the download site for the API he used, and that should be enough.
Anyway, all of these details should be argued in court, where the current state of the art in API design, Computer Science, and interpretations of Copyright Law can be dessimated. Arguing dynamic linking is retarded if JIT compiling becomes the new whiz-bang thing. Who says the GPL won't be applicable to the source code of toolkits in the future after the time of dlopen has past?
If you act in good faith, this shouldn't have to happen. You _know_ what I mean, developers.
to seperate the kernel headers into two classes, one which can be included by non-GPL apps, and a "deeper" one that can only be used by GPL'd apps.
The former would be dual-licensed (LGPL perhaps) and interface the latter.
This may have a side effect of making it easier to produce binary modules, etc. that are compatible across wider ranges of OS/distro versions in the future, since the meta-API would probably be 10 times stabler.
Unixware isn't good at ANYTHING. It's only that it's required by certain software packages (retail, billing, finance) that were ported to that x86 Unix 6-10 years ago when they were a cheaper platform then the competetion, but haven't ported to a new *nix like system since.
Anyone who pays them money (or continues using the supported applications) is encouraging stagnation. If you can afford an upgrade, do so, or plan to do one soon.
There are many cases where a changeover is ill-advised. But when setting up a new system, put yourself out, try some new software, and hire a poor college student if you need help.
balanced POV between the pluses and minuses of different brands, with little film-is-dead bashing, I think you're wrong!!!
Slashdot seems to be full of amateur photographers. Because if we were "real" artists, we wouldn't be hanging around here. It's the art for the technically inclined, or gadget collector.
Slashdot Mirror
n/t
consumes 30% of generated power in transit.
Superconductor research (especially that which works at "room temperature") could be immediately applied to this problem once refined, drastically reducing energy costs and our largest source of pollution.
The sooner, the better, I say.
(having an answer for everything, that is)
n/t
that implements that feature.
(Think of the bandwidth to scan, and how difficult it will be to scan for all such serials in realtime. How fast can you grep for a single 8 characeter string in a file with a 3.2GHz PIV?)
Radiating away as X/Gamma Ray bursts, whose incredibly rapid modulation redistributes this "information" back into space
This is absolutely correct, and whining doesn't help. If the Mplayer group doesn't get it's ass in gear and start quickly banging out some letters, things are going to just get worse.
Mplayer should be asking the EFF, etc. for assistance if they don't have sufficient legal representation to take on violations in a foreign nation.
definition is not exactly a good argument anymore.
The meaning of words change. "Ironic", isn't it.
Marriage is now equated in many peoples mind with a "license" to fuck someone, and get various financial breaks from the government, banks, and insurance companies, etc.
You're thinking of "matrimony", which is a less commonly used word whose meaning has not changed.
I had the same problem.
It's a one-time use recyclable MC CC number. You can always send money to yourself, then spend it with that card. Your transactions are logged along with all other transactions at paypal online.
Rumsfeld, Bush Sr., and their acquaintenaces had formulated a plan to strike hard against Iraq, but never got to carry it out as Clinton got elected. It represented the work of a lot of important people, but it got shelved, which deflated a lot of rather large egos. Once Bush Jr. got back in power, they waited for just the right moment (after 9/11) to put it back into motion.
at this point, the only architectures that are cheap enough to mass produce that perform well are: CPU+MMU, RAM channel, interconnect to northbridge or crossbar, single/multiple PCI (infiniband?) busses, AGP, with some built-in chips on the non-extendable PCI bus that graduates the offering levels (+SCSI, +dual GB LAN, +S-ATA, etc.)
That's it. Doing anything else is expensive and dooms you right out the gate.
The only people that can afford to do that on a large scale is Sun. But they choose more complex architectures solely to provide scalability with multiple CPUs. But even they stick to standard extension technologies (Fiber Channel, PCI, etc.)
So the "idea" of the Amiga as a personal workstation is not relevant today.
The only other option would be to initially treat it as a game console, but then Sony and Nintendo would slaughter them.
Reality is harsh mistress.
but it's nothing to pine over.
Like the PS2, the multi-chip architecture was neccessary in order for the machine to be close to usable for the things people wanted to do with it.
Some of that ideology still lives today, what with the everything-but-the-kitchen sink northbridges used by modern PCs and machintoshes. They shrunk it down to one chip, but the purpose is the same: take care of all the I/O in one place, and interrupt the CPU when it can use busmaster DMA to ferry it somewhere else.
If they were to produce an Amiga today, in order for the design to break price-points, they'd basically need to use of the existing chip vendor's recommended system boards. (i.e. IBM or Motorola). What they come up with will basically be a Macintosh.
Maybe that's why no one is releasing an updated Amiga. Everytime they get some engineers to come up with a system architecture, Steve Jobs reveals something almost exactly the same at MacWorld.
It'll probably make you get misty eyed at times, but you'll still feel empty inside afterwards.
as the worst movie of not only this year, but every year since it was released (1992). It was so bad, people kept asking to re-evaluate it, just to see if anyone could do any worse.
and the sad thing is that it is not much more than something like squid + ipfw (nice logging...), and it costs A TON. ::shakes head::
not withdraw the product, buying themselves some time to code their own stuff to replace the disputed parts. Or relicense, orwhatever. The penalties/actions for copyright violation are not set in stone or anything... especially when the plantiff is willing to cooperate.
I mean, just because someone chooses the GPL for protection doesn't mean that person is unreasonable.
PS - Any code analyzed in court could be sealed evidence to prevent dilution of IP.
It doesn't matter.
This kind of distinction should be hashed out in court. My personal belief is that use of an API does not constitute GPL violation. The new code written that uses a GPL library does not, in it's total body, actually contain any derived code. The act of building it into a binary may integrate it, but that doesn't mean the author created a derived work. The only part the author created are the modules made from the code he compiled. If he had to, he could just offer to refer them to the download site for the API he used, and that should be enough.
Anyway, all of these details should be argued in court, where the current state of the art in API design, Computer Science, and interpretations of Copyright Law can be dessimated. Arguing dynamic linking is retarded if JIT compiling becomes the new whiz-bang thing. Who says the GPL won't be applicable to the source code of toolkits in the future after the time of dlopen has past?
If you act in good faith, this shouldn't have to happen. You _know_ what I mean, developers.
to seperate the kernel headers into two classes, one which can be included by non-GPL apps, and a "deeper" one that can only be used by GPL'd apps.
The former would be dual-licensed (LGPL perhaps) and interface the latter.
This may have a side effect of making it easier to produce binary modules, etc. that are compatible across wider ranges of OS/distro versions in the future, since the meta-API would probably be 10 times stabler.
Unixware isn't good at ANYTHING. It's only that it's required by certain software packages (retail, billing, finance) that were ported to that x86 Unix 6-10 years ago when they were a cheaper platform then the competetion, but haven't ported to a new *nix like system since.
Anyone who pays them money (or continues using the supported applications) is encouraging stagnation. If you can afford an upgrade, do so, or plan to do one soon.
There are many cases where a changeover is ill-advised. But when setting up a new system, put yourself out, try some new software, and hire a poor college student if you need help.
I was NOT expecting that. Maybe a comment about Zhou needing braces, but not the erotic nerd fiction. You get a gold star.
Yishao Zhou
Two non-fugly math chicks! What are the chances?
But who's to say it wasn't instigated by somebody who makes linux users look like trapped animals.
Well, this ground has been tread in this forum before.
But if you know anyone who has hinted that they may be involved in something like this, you'd better re-evaluate your choice of friends.
Hint: THEY'RE l4m3 (sic)
If you're going to bother SCO, flood the official channels (phone, write letters, etc.). Don't do anything that could be considered vandalous.
balanced POV between the pluses and minuses of different brands, with little film-is-dead bashing, I think you're wrong!!!
Slashdot seems to be full of amateur photographers. Because if we were "real" artists, we wouldn't be hanging around here. It's the art for the technically inclined, or gadget collector.
What, did Molnar, Trovalds, and Tosatti all rent Rider trucks and run over your dog a few times?