Who cares about H1? Last place I worked a dude had been there for years (I think 5 total in the USA) on an L1. Still there too. Why bother paying for the H1? L1's can never go free. I've seen HCL and Wipro scamming this L1 practice over the years.
Someone ought to do a study on how many people got IT degrees over the last 7 years and do not work in IT. Now that would probably be well over 147,000. In fact, just conjecture, I'm guessing around 50,000 per year and as many as 350,000 and that's not including tech schools and other training programs.
congrat.s on hanging in there. I hope you get your rewards over the next 5 years. I've met many people who couldn't even get a job in tech. Their tech degree got them a job at KMart, running a dry cleaner, and selling cell phones. Among others. And that's not including the old-timers who threw in the towel as the BS factor overtook the industry. I wish you good fortunes.
This angers me alot. I grew up in SC and you can walk down the street and find people with IS and other tech degrees. These young adults are stocking shelves at K-Mart, selling cell phones, et cetera. Maybe its racial (they are usually but not always of African American ancestry) or maybe just plain horde mentality but with an annual household income of about $34K (less than 1/2 of most places in CA) I believe the claims companies cannot find American works are just flat out bullshit.
I downloaded many G per day for months with no problems. I have slowness sometimes and never approach the advertised speeds except on the bandwidth test websites; but someone told me this is probably due to the physical connector. These need to be replaced from time to time; so I gotta call and work them over to come fix it I guess.
I read a recent article - in US News & World Report I think - where they mention "modern" traits appearing for hundreds of thousands of years. Their stated theory was the traits failed. It doesn't take much of a thinker to realize the extent forms are not the result of a linear, constantly improving evolution function; so, to make claims of evolution based on "advantage" and to continue to hold those despite such clear "advantages" occurring much older than what is claimed as "modern" is simply bad science. It is great to research and to have theories but the evidence does not seem to point to these same conclusions. FWIW, I don't think the claim the Mongolians developed in or around China holds any validity given the stated need for separation. A more probable guess is they developed in the Americas and then emigrated.
Few people seem to realize how fast time will ravage a civilization. A city built in a desert may have remains after 4000 years but a city built in a fertile valley will probably be washed away after eons of floods. Not to mention cities built on hills which will simply crumble down after thousands of years. Even highways paved in the 1950's can barely be located today if they have been abandoned. Trees are very powerful at breaking up concrete and other human building materials.
Maybe the caves are the entrances to the tunnels. At least that's what my conspiracy friend points out in the photos. You can clearly see the tunnels in other mars photographs. Hard to believe they are random acts of nature.
Several times over the past years I've seen announcements of DELL supporting Linux. Then it was mysteriously retracted after a day or a few. Hmmm. Anyways, Emperor Linux and others already sell DELL computers with Linux. IF, any good comp engr knows the hardware itself comes from Tiawan, China, etc and the chips are not designed by DELL (do they design any chips? at least HP does some). So, the system you buy from TigerDirect or NewEgg is basically the same. And everyone sells a warranty these days. Best, TimJowers, http://www.serviza.com/, We recommend Linux.
So is Win-Tel dead now that Intel is selling Linux? Imaginge the millions of people running Linux and contributing to Open Source. Sourceforge is going to have to innovate fast to keep things running efficiently.
When will Linux desktop shipments outstrip Mac OSX? Microsoft Windows? I evaluated as of Oct 24 with the release of Fedora Core 6 that the Linux Desktop is on parity with Windows. Novell SUSE, Madriva, and Ubuntu are all great desktops. Some features are superior to Windows. Some need some polish. We even have offered an "OpenBooter" with the top desktop Linuces pre-installed. Simply plug into your USB and fire away. (Of course old computers need to boot from a helper CD due to their BIOS not being able to boot from a USB drive.)
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Good post. Guess that's why Windows CE sells for $4 per copy. I noticed Softie has droped their OS price to around $60 while maintaining their Office price at around $300. STill waiting for Oracle to start selling at a reasonable price given equivalence with free software. Interesting economics. Tim BTW, the mozart music on the posted site is neither free as in GPL nor free as in BSD. Maybe someone ought to make a scroe-synth site and make the music really free (though only as good as the synth.) http://www.serviza.com/ Serviza Monster Linux Computers and Training Bundles.
The USA problem is the MNC's have used the government system to create an impasse for the small-time, would-be inventor. Takes $100k to bring an electronic product to market for instance (from what I was quoted about the FCC, UL, etc certifications). The individual in the USA has no freedom to invent. The mid-to-lower-middle class and lower class have no freedom to do business due to the regulated startup costs. This is by design as you should well know. The folks that pass these laws are not idiots. Compare this to Belize where no business license is even required. Of course this scares Americans because they have been taught to see freedom as risky.
You are correct about slavery. That was an exageration and demeaning to the memory of past slaves. But comparing the US system to serfdom is about right.
Of course, choice be said. Who had a choice about a rootkit being installed on their computer? Sony operates as the Plantation Owners did and that was my point. It believes it has full reach over what people can and cannot do. As for large DVD's, I cannot really say I'd personally have much if any use for them. As it is now I can backup my data to a regular DVD or two and mirror it on other disks.
Vegetable oil disposal is a sticky item when starting a restaurant. A requirement. The best way to avoid problem with the local gov arms is to give it to someone else.
The argument about electric cars can be ommitted. A quick search shows vegetable oil is far cheaper TODAY for those using it. The speculation about it would be more expensive if everyone did it is pure speculation. Of course it is probably wrong on face value when any economies of scale are considered but no doubt it ignores the cost of fighting billion dollar wars with oil-rich maniacs and the benefits of trickle-down/keynsian arguments so often used to justify a government's overspending.
The bottom line is engineers should evaluate on facts rather than propaganda no matter if the propaganda. Fact is, you can add a biodiesel tank to your diesel for about $3k and start saving money if you drive a big truck. No argument that vege oil or biodiesel are a bad solution for many utility trucks and such holds water because people are already adopting these and saving money today. Even if it is 0.01% of the auto fuel market it still nixes the foolish argument that it is more expensive than diesel.
Actually, the rate of innovation in FOSS is break-neck. What happens is people innovate from need. Sony and Softie are innovating to create market traps. You can infer everything else I'm going to say; but reconsider your thought that FOSS will stay a second class citizen.
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Man, the list is growing longer by the week. The foolish belief Softie and Sony are innovating will lead to wasting lots of dollars. Innovations happens not because of a mandate from a board of directors but because of a bright idea. FOSS is a way those ideas can get to market within hours, days, or weeks and do so at minimal cost. The "ROI argument" to suppot your MNC and its patent office in simply a relic. Ideas occur to people doing the work, not to people sitting on yachts. History also shows this.
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P.S> Once reason LiveCD's don't sell well is one can simply download the code right away. Therefore, what is the long term outlook for BluRay and other CD/DVD formats?
Talked to a guy who owns some trash trucks and said in NY there was a vendor who processed the oil and added additives so it ran in the trucks WITHOUT modification. Sold for $1.04/gallon and guy said he was saving $300/month PER TRUCK. NY state government shut them down. Said antitrust law makes it illegal to sell for less with like 4 cents below the established price. E.g. legally it is illegal to sell vegetable oil for less than diesel in the state of NY. I'm sure this is the same sort of nonsense going on in all states.
Folks, the road to freedom is exactly like this article. Home power production. The aristocrats will continue to make competition illegal. Just take a look at how handily electric power was killed. Hobbyists in the mid-1990's were making cars which could go twice what Ford and GM were able to make. Surprise. Guess a garage is better than a lab! Not to mention the millions to billions of subsidies the country spends on oil and oil-related infrastructure rather than spending such on electric (induction charging stations, power rails, etc).
Technology in this country is presently eliminated by large corporations and the government who works for them. Only by innovations and a concerted citizen adoption and cooperation can innovation be reborn in the USA. The vege-diesel is going to be a big problem for the lawmakers who work for the MNC's because the technology works. People are driving around in trucks powered by vegetable oil. And, yes, saving money. It's a fact.
The government, at least in NY State, has outlawed this. What does that mean? Like Cubans are we under a regime who wants us to stay in the 1900's? Is this like so many science fiction novels where individuals are not allowed to excel. Yes. It exactly is. Soon, perhaps, the personal use of innovative technologies will be made illegal - for the corporate good of course.
Well put! Funny to see how some people are stil thinking like its 1999. Loking through some state government bids recently I same up with a new one for the lawyers - willful negligence. Also for not-for-profit insurance companies who are legally bound to refund profits to the state insurance coffers and such. A very probably legal case can be made as anyone buying proprietary alternatives when Open Source is clearly available is potentially commiting willful negligence. I suspect once the lawyers start to understand a little more about technology they we'll see some surprising lawsuits. E.g. also the apparent current practice by the big 5 of not accepting emails (or treating as spam) from a domain with a dynamic IP. Spam labeling is one wide open lawsuit against the email houses. Anyhoo, best of luck to Malaysia. One can hardly imagine a choice where proprietary would be better when an Open Source competitor is well established. TimJowers http://www.serviza.com/ Fully Loaded Linux Computers. Everything's installed. Power on and GO!
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Open Document format is supported by OpenOffice.org's Writer very well. They moved to it from their native format as the default a while back. KOffice and others support it too. Softie stil refuses to do so! Even a plugin for it made by someone else was made to not work from what I remember. Microsoft and Sony have a dream to lock out competition through proprietary formats. To me, learning the Open Source way follows steps like: 0) Belief in Communism (as practiced), MNC's, and Wealthy Over-lords. Here is Sony. Clearly Sony's rootkit showed they believe they operate above the law. Similar for monopolistic practices elsewhere. 1) Blind belief Sony and Microsoft are the leading creators of technology (the norm). For examples simply look at the recent discussion on Microsoft research team where many praised them despite Google's clear leadership and Microsoft's clear copy-ovation and buyout-ovation rather than innovation. 2) Thinking softie and sphoney are needed to keep the world running. This is evident in wanting to dual boot, running a doze Lose32 API layer SW, or emulate. 3) Realise the overlords are not the innovators. Once you realize this then you turn off your Windows box for good. No good can come of worshiping at the feet of the ultra-wealthy. Their interests are not those of yourself or any other commoner.
Sony is no different than the Plantation Owners of the Old South. Many slaves escaped to freedom. Softie and Sony slaves have a underground railroad to freedom as well. The greed of the English Kings allowed many indentured servants from the old world to become bona fide citizens by owning land because the King of England said serfs could become tree farmers after years of indntured servantdom as he wanted more longleaf yellow pine as needed to build his Navy. Once the serfs became citizens (voting and legal protection) then they never were to return to serfdom and, thus, won the freedom we all apprecate in the Revolutionary War. Likewise, Open Source pushed technology from the grips of the ovelords. Proprietary formats are one simple way the overlords hope to stop innovation. I personally believe they will fail. We can only hope our country will lead the innovation rather than see it happen elsewhere. The ability to look up land ownership in a ruling class stifled Europe for millenia and the ability to lock up innovation has stifled technology for a decade.
The strong legal system in the USA is a relic. The lack of international respect for copyright and patent law leave the USA at an unsurmoutable disadvantage on the world market. Either the Chinese come clean and pay up or the USA will have to eliminate such practices. Sony and others cannot both hope to run their business on illegal grounds (china et al) yet use legal grounds as foundations for their business in law abiding areas (usa etc).
Open Source is one innovation which removes the problem. Open Source is a return to before the Legalism Era when innovation was made for the sake of innovation rather than the sake of making competition impossible. The patent system of the USA is designed to disallow innovation in the USA; thus the antithesis of what it is supposed to be. Sony is so far from what is happening in the ground swell of Open Source that one can easily foresee Sony being cut down to size within a decade. Microsoft as well. The monkey business with Novell should be a nail in the coffin for the belief they had any redeeming contribution to make to innovation and technology. Seriously, does it take Billions in profits to write a Word Processor or come up with a 50G burnable disk? No. Look at OpenOffice, KOffice, GO (GnomeOffice), PlataSoft, and more. I suspect any of 1000 or so engineers and physicists in this country could come up with a 100G burnable disk within a year for under $500k. Sony's activity in the market is simply a reflection that the men who run Sony believe they are a class above those who buy their products. They are paid to innovate, not stifle innovation. Like the VHS, the cheapest and most u
We bundle Linux. We recommend Linux. Comparing a Linux computer to one running Windows is like comparing a Windows PC to a handheld. The number of apps and capabilities in Linux are just orders of magnitude superior. That's why we call ours a "Monster Computer" but are open to other terms. Or lowest costs is to geta disk for $99 or so and turn your PC into a Monster. Open Source is the killer app. 100+ games are included with FC6. And in the dev space Linux obliterates 'dows. You just have to see how much you can do with Linux to really appreciate how it is light years ahead of Windows. Cheers, TimJowers http://www.serviza.com/ : Service Monster Computers. Linux. Open Source. Make it what you will.
SLAM? I only briefly read the paper but testng with "drivers" and "stubs" is covered in a 500 level SW Testing course in the university I attended. Rather than being an innovative research, this should have been present in the design from the beginning. Maybe they did it for their latest os iteration.
VMWare and Xen. Now that's innovation. Did you see the 120 or so VMWare images created for the challenge this summer? Now that was cool.
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I took the challenge and am looking at the m$ft research site... but its quite boring. I mean, researching education? Edubuntu isn't researching, its delivering.
Hardware development? So softie wants to get into hardware once the fact that equivalents for 80% of what they do can be downloaded for free on the web? Recall what Ballmer said in India a few weeks back about softie needing to move to services and support. Or is the "research" how to make new specs with ever-tighter licensing restrictions to ensure Open Source cannot use the next generation of hardware. I'm not joking. The new camera memory specs are basically only made to outlaw open source implementations.
I'm still waiting for 'softie to make good on their promise for a distributed OO system as documented in their 1994 DCOM paper. Where I come from if you make a promise you keep it. If you cannot then you never make the promise. Their lie killed Next but, like most of their promises, never was completed. I believe their research to be an absolute joke when I look at their products. Look at Exchange. Talk about productive Groupware? Where's the innovation? You mean email, meetings, and contacts are all they could think of/duplicate?
Here's a good one: http://research.microsoft.com/speech/ What? China? So Dragon consumer apps were all but killed and now softie's answer is someone in China will make their speech recognition work? The amazing thing is with their Billions upon Billions their products are no better than the Free and Open Source Software on the web. Simply amazing. A true testimony to what happens when a company focuses on killing innovation in the market rather than innovating themselves. They are an embarrassment to any computer scientist and what I wonder is how many Ph.D.'s spend more than one year there. They should be embarassed. But most everyone will side with money.
Meanwhile the FOSS apps are catching up by leaps and bounds. In case you missed it, Linux server surpassed 'dows in feature/funtionality several years back, Linux desktop is now superior to the 'dows desktop, MySQL/Postgresql are as good/better than m$ft rdbms, and a horde of FOSS are closing in on most everything else 'softie sells. They may need to research how to make money in the new Software Paradigm... I guess their monkey-business with NOVL shows where their true research is - and that's not innovation! Cheers, TimJowers http://www.serviza.com/ Serviza Monster Linux Computers. Fully Loaded Linux with Open Source equivalent to $261k in the 'softie space. Power on and GO! Make it what YOU will.
Bro, Concurrent programming? Are you joking? That's not research, that's history. The #1 problem with the tech industry is people who keep trying to re-invent the past. AJAX client-server wannabe's and such.
Plus, M$FT has zero reputation for standards. I spent almost a decade chasing their latest spec which they themselves never put in their own apps. Then I wised up. Been free of the 'dows virus for almost a year now and having a blast every day. No computer scientist or engineer worth their degree should get themselves locked into softie serfdom. Software is FREE! You should be too!
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what version and distro of Linux are you talking about? The modern releases are at least equivalent to Windows in usability. In time loss, Windows sucks you dry hands down. Of course for the basic user OO and such is mostly the same on all but the lack of a decent memory manager in Windows will kill any office worker who tries to do more without moving into the multi-GB of RAM.
I do agree that moving to Linux from Windows is best with some additional learning. Today's distros are transparent with menus and GUI's but, as always, you can do 1000 times more when you drop dow to the command line. Heck, every version of Windows plays "find the control panel applets" and other such goofiness anyways; so having to move to another menu for Services in Linux will be no more learning effort than moving to another version of Windows. Maybe less as the Linux stuff is logically organized. Your argument may have been valid about Windows 2000 versus RedHat 7.3 or such a comparison.
I'll challenge you this. Sit a very inexperienced person in front on Linux and then Windows. Repeat for another such person in the other order. What will you find? Both are equally user hostile. The application-oriented OS designs and the very limited interfaces are quite non-normal for how humans interact with their world. Very little maturity exists in either user interface; but, that said, the newer Linux distros have all sorts of nifty UI features whereas innovation is basically dead in the Windows GUI space AFAICT - but I've been Windows-free for almost a year now. And never lookingb back. It should be called "Walls" rather than "Windows" as that's what I found when I tried to write complex code on 'dows. But on Linux I can pop open the source (with Open Source apps on Linux) and get busy.
Most of all, today's distributions come with $10,000USD to $261,000 worth of software when compared to the investment needed in 'dows to get the same functionality. That's serious money. The Softies are in Zombie land but the reaper will come to harvest them if for no other reason than they are wasting their companies would-be profits on needless purchases. When one says "Linux" one infers the whole of "Open Source" and I suspect about 80% of the apps sold by the top 5 SW companies have Free and Open Source equivalents. In many cases the Open Source apps are better simply because they conform to standards. Talk about wasting time: try integrating softie junkola with a mainframe or with LDAP or such. That kinda stuff is standard practice for Linux.
But, the number one reason to use Linux is not price. I will have to agree. It is Openness. Open software means no Walls - unlike the World of Windows and Walls.
Jym Zavada demoed this at the LUG before last here. He got a DSL machine for about $300 and then migrated to another distro. One trick is to turn off inode read counters to minimize hits on the flash and give longer lifetime. His presentation info is at: http://www.trilug.org/?q=node/30
Looks like Intel wants to do the same. With the low cost of ARM and other processors, they are just trying to get in the market before it blossoms. Low cost, good power computing will be upon us at least by 2008. What I imagine is a PDA-like device that blootooth's to a large screen, DVD player burner, and other periphs/household electronics. You can carry the PDA and for the average user it will be fine for a laptop/PC. It'll have the 2in-3in screen but also can have a touchscreen (like Motion computing sorta) that one could carry with it.
Nice to see Intel and others promoting computing. Will certainly be a computer world in a few years. Not too long until everyone alive will have been born after the computers were invented.
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Who cares about H1? Last place I worked a dude had been there for years (I think 5 total in the USA) on an L1. Still there too. Why bother paying for the H1? L1's can never go free. I've seen HCL and Wipro scamming this L1 practice over the years.
Someone ought to do a study on how many people got IT degrees over the last 7 years and do not work in IT. Now that would probably be well over 147,000. In fact, just conjecture, I'm guessing around 50,000 per year and as many as 350,000 and that's not including tech schools and other training programs.
BW looks to have stopped accepting comments. I guess they don't want comments contrary to the viewpoint they are promoting.
congrat.s on hanging in there. I hope you get your rewards over the next 5 years. I've met many people who couldn't even get a job in tech. Their tech degree got them a job at KMart, running a dry cleaner, and selling cell phones. Among others. And that's not including the old-timers who threw in the towel as the BS factor overtook the industry. I wish you good fortunes.
This angers me alot. I grew up in SC and you can walk down the street and find people with IS and other tech degrees. These young adults are stocking shelves at K-Mart, selling cell phones, et cetera. Maybe its racial (they are usually but not always of African American ancestry) or maybe just plain horde mentality but with an annual household income of about $34K (less than 1/2 of most places in CA) I believe the claims companies cannot find American works are just flat out bullshit.
I downloaded many G per day for months with no problems. I have slowness sometimes and never approach the advertised speeds except on the bandwidth test websites; but someone told me this is probably due to the physical connector. These need to be replaced from time to time; so I gotta call and work them over to come fix it I guess.
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I read a recent article - in US News & World Report I think - where they mention "modern" traits appearing for hundreds of thousands of years. Their stated theory was the traits failed. It doesn't take much of a thinker to realize the extent forms are not the result of a linear, constantly improving evolution function; so, to make claims of evolution based on "advantage" and to continue to hold those despite such clear "advantages" occurring much older than what is claimed as "modern" is simply bad science. It is great to research and to have theories but the evidence does not seem to point to these same conclusions. FWIW, I don't think the claim the Mongolians developed in or around China holds any validity given the stated need for separation. A more probable guess is they developed in the Americas and then emigrated.
Few people seem to realize how fast time will ravage a civilization. A city built in a desert may have remains after 4000 years but a city built in a fertile valley will probably be washed away after eons of floods. Not to mention cities built on hills which will simply crumble down after thousands of years. Even highways paved in the 1950's can barely be located today if they have been abandoned. Trees are very powerful at breaking up concrete and other human building materials.
Maybe the caves are the entrances to the tunnels. At least that's what my conspiracy friend points out in the photos. You can clearly see the tunnels in other mars photographs. Hard to believe they are random acts of nature.
Dooh! That was supposed to be the 8MHz semi-processor. Thanks for pointing out the error.
Tim
Several times over the past years I've seen announcements of DELL supporting Linux. Then it was mysteriously retracted after a day or a few. Hmmm. Anyways, Emperor Linux and others already sell DELL computers with Linux. IF, any good comp engr knows the hardware itself comes from Tiawan, China, etc and the chips are not designed by DELL (do they design any chips? at least HP does some). So, the system you buy from TigerDirect or NewEgg is basically the same. And everyone sells a warranty these days.
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So is Win-Tel dead now that Intel is selling Linux? Imaginge the millions of people running Linux and contributing to Open Source. Sourceforge is going to have to innovate fast to keep things running efficiently.
When will Linux desktop shipments outstrip Mac OSX? Microsoft Windows? I evaluated as of Oct 24 with the release of Fedora Core 6 that the Linux Desktop is on parity with Windows. Novell SUSE, Madriva, and Ubuntu are all great desktops. Some features are superior to Windows. Some need some polish. We even have offered an "OpenBooter" with the top desktop Linuces pre-installed. Simply plug into your USB and fire away. (Of course old computers need to boot from a helper CD due to their BIOS not being able to boot from a USB drive.)
TimJowers, http://www.serviza.com/ 2007 will be remembered as the Year of Open Source. The year the market realized its technical superiority in many areas and its order-of-magnitude faster development cycles.
Good post. Guess that's why Windows CE sells for $4 per copy. I noticed Softie has droped their OS price to around $60 while maintaining their Office price at around $300. STill waiting for Oracle to start selling at a reasonable price given equivalence with free software.
Interesting economics.
Tim
BTW, the mozart music on the posted site is neither free as in GPL nor free as in BSD. Maybe someone ought to make a scroe-synth site and make the music really free (though only as good as the synth.)
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I know. It frustrated me alot to hear this story.
The USA problem is the MNC's have used the government system to create an impasse for the small-time, would-be inventor. Takes $100k to bring an electronic product to market for instance (from what I was quoted about the FCC, UL, etc certifications). The individual in the USA has no freedom to invent. The mid-to-lower-middle class and lower class have no freedom to do business due to the regulated startup costs. This is by design as you should well know. The folks that pass these laws are not idiots. Compare this to Belize where no business license is even required. Of course this scares Americans because they have been taught to see freedom as risky.
You are correct about slavery. That was an exageration and demeaning to the memory of past slaves. But comparing the US system to serfdom is about right.
Of course, choice be said. Who had a choice about a rootkit being installed on their computer? Sony operates as the Plantation Owners did and that was my point. It believes it has full reach over what people can and cannot do. As for large DVD's, I cannot really say I'd personally have much if any use for them. As it is now I can backup my data to a regular DVD or two and mirror it on other disks.
TimJowers
Vegetable oil disposal is a sticky item when starting a restaurant. A requirement. The best way to avoid problem with the local gov arms is to give it to someone else.
The argument about electric cars can be ommitted. A quick search shows vegetable oil is far cheaper TODAY for those using it. The speculation about it would be more expensive if everyone did it is pure speculation. Of course it is probably wrong on face value when any economies of scale are considered but no doubt it ignores the cost of fighting billion dollar wars with oil-rich maniacs and the benefits of trickle-down/keynsian arguments so often used to justify a government's overspending.
The bottom line is engineers should evaluate on facts rather than propaganda no matter if the propaganda. Fact is, you can add a biodiesel tank to your diesel for about $3k and start saving money if you drive a big truck. No argument that vege oil or biodiesel are a bad solution for many utility trucks and such holds water because people are already adopting these and saving money today. Even if it is 0.01% of the auto fuel market it still nixes the foolish argument that it is more expensive than diesel.
TimJowers
Actually, the rate of innovation in FOSS is break-neck. What happens is people innovate from need. Sony and Softie are innovating to create market traps. You can infer everything else I'm going to say; but reconsider your thought that FOSS will stay a second class citizen.
The best RDBMS: MySQL and then maybe PostgreSQL
The best server OS: Linux
The best desktop OS: A fully loaded linux such as Serviza's offering, Ubuntu or other debian-deriv, a Knoppix deriv.
The best web server: Apache
The best development platform: Eclipse
Man, the list is growing longer by the week. The foolish belief Softie and Sony are innovating will lead to wasting lots of dollars. Innovations happens not because of a mandate from a board of directors but because of a bright idea. FOSS is a way those ideas can get to market within hours, days, or weeks and do so at minimal cost. The "ROI argument" to suppot your MNC and its patent office in simply a relic. Ideas occur to people doing the work, not to people sitting on yachts. History also shows this.
Best,
TimJowers
Software is FREE FOSS. GNU/Linux. Innovation inside. P.S> Once reason LiveCD's don't sell well is one can simply download the code right away. Therefore, what is the long term outlook for BluRay and other CD/DVD formats?
Talked to a guy who owns some trash trucks and said in NY there was a vendor who processed the oil and added additives so it ran in the trucks WITHOUT modification. Sold for $1.04/gallon and guy said he was saving $300/month PER TRUCK. NY state government shut them down. Said antitrust law makes it illegal to sell for less with like 4 cents below the established price. E.g. legally it is illegal to sell vegetable oil for less than diesel in the state of NY. I'm sure this is the same sort of nonsense going on in all states.
Folks, the road to freedom is exactly like this article. Home power production. The aristocrats will continue to make competition illegal. Just take a look at how handily electric power was killed. Hobbyists in the mid-1990's were making cars which could go twice what Ford and GM were able to make. Surprise. Guess a garage is better than a lab! Not to mention the millions to billions of subsidies the country spends on oil and oil-related infrastructure rather than spending such on electric (induction charging stations, power rails, etc).
Technology in this country is presently eliminated by large corporations and the government who works for them. Only by innovations and a concerted citizen adoption and cooperation can innovation be reborn in the USA. The vege-diesel is going to be a big problem for the lawmakers who work for the MNC's because the technology works. People are driving around in trucks powered by vegetable oil. And, yes, saving money. It's a fact.
The government, at least in NY State, has outlawed this. What does that mean? Like Cubans are we under a regime who wants us to stay in the 1900's? Is this like so many science fiction novels where individuals are not allowed to excel. Yes. It exactly is. Soon, perhaps, the personal use of innovative technologies will be made illegal - for the corporate good of course.
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Well put! Funny to see how some people are stil thinking like its 1999. Loking through some state government bids recently I same up with a new one for the lawyers - willful negligence. Also for not-for-profit insurance companies who are legally bound to refund profits to the state insurance coffers and such. A very probably legal case can be made as anyone buying proprietary alternatives when Open Source is clearly available is potentially commiting willful negligence. I suspect once the lawyers start to understand a little more about technology they we'll see some surprising lawsuits. E.g. also the apparent current practice by the big 5 of not accepting emails (or treating as spam) from a domain with a dynamic IP. Spam labeling is one wide open lawsuit against the email houses.
Anyhoo, best of luck to Malaysia. One can hardly imagine a choice where proprietary would be better when an Open Source competitor is well established.
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Open Document format is supported by OpenOffice.org's Writer very well. They moved to it from their native format as the default a while back. KOffice and others support it too. Softie stil refuses to do so! Even a plugin for it made by someone else was made to not work from what I remember. Microsoft and Sony have a dream to lock out competition through proprietary formats. To me, learning the Open Source way follows steps like:
0) Belief in Communism (as practiced), MNC's, and Wealthy Over-lords. Here is Sony. Clearly Sony's rootkit showed they believe they operate above the law. Similar for monopolistic practices elsewhere.
1) Blind belief Sony and Microsoft are the leading creators of technology (the norm). For examples simply look at the recent discussion on Microsoft research team where many praised them despite Google's clear leadership and Microsoft's clear copy-ovation and buyout-ovation rather than innovation.
2) Thinking softie and sphoney are needed to keep the world running. This is evident in wanting to dual boot, running a doze Lose32 API layer SW, or emulate.
3) Realise the overlords are not the innovators. Once you realize this then you turn off your Windows box for good. No good can come of worshiping at the feet of the ultra-wealthy. Their interests are not those of yourself or any other commoner.
Sony is no different than the Plantation Owners of the Old South. Many slaves escaped to freedom. Softie and Sony slaves have a underground railroad to freedom as well. The greed of the English Kings allowed many indentured servants from the old world to become bona fide citizens by owning land because the King of England said serfs could become tree farmers after years of indntured servantdom as he wanted more longleaf yellow pine as needed to build his Navy. Once the serfs became citizens (voting and legal protection) then they never were to return to serfdom and, thus, won the freedom we all apprecate in the Revolutionary War. Likewise, Open Source pushed technology from the grips of the ovelords. Proprietary formats are one simple way the overlords hope to stop innovation. I personally believe they will fail. We can only hope our country will lead the innovation rather than see it happen elsewhere. The ability to look up land ownership in a ruling class stifled Europe for millenia and the ability to lock up innovation has stifled technology for a decade.
The strong legal system in the USA is a relic. The lack of international respect for copyright and patent law leave the USA at an unsurmoutable disadvantage on the world market. Either the Chinese come clean and pay up or the USA will have to eliminate such practices. Sony and others cannot both hope to run their business on illegal grounds (china et al) yet use legal grounds as foundations for their business in law abiding areas (usa etc).
Open Source is one innovation which removes the problem. Open Source is a return to before the Legalism Era when innovation was made for the sake of innovation rather than the sake of making competition impossible. The patent system of the USA is designed to disallow innovation in the USA; thus the antithesis of what it is supposed to be. Sony is so far from what is happening in the ground swell of Open Source that one can easily foresee Sony being cut down to size within a decade. Microsoft as well. The monkey business with Novell should be a nail in the coffin for the belief they had any redeeming contribution to make to innovation and technology. Seriously, does it take Billions in profits to write a Word Processor or come up with a 50G burnable disk? No. Look at OpenOffice, KOffice, GO (GnomeOffice), PlataSoft, and more. I suspect any of 1000 or so engineers and physicists in this country could come up with a 100G burnable disk within a year for under $500k. Sony's activity in the market is simply a reflection that the men who run Sony believe they are a class above those who buy their products. They are paid to innovate, not stifle innovation. Like the VHS, the cheapest and most u
We bundle Linux. We recommend Linux. Comparing a Linux computer to one running Windows is like comparing a Windows PC to a handheld. The number of apps and capabilities in Linux are just orders of magnitude superior. That's why we call ours a "Monster Computer" but are open to other terms. Or lowest costs is to geta disk for $99 or so and turn your PC into a Monster.
Open Source is the killer app. 100+ games are included with FC6. And in the dev space Linux obliterates 'dows. You just have to see how much you can do with Linux to really appreciate how it is light years ahead of Windows.
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SLAM? I only briefly read the paper but testng with "drivers" and "stubs" is covered in a 500 level SW Testing course in the university I attended. Rather than being an innovative research, this should have been present in the design from the beginning. Maybe they did it for their latest os iteration.
VMWare and Xen. Now that's innovation. Did you see the 120 or so VMWare images created for the challenge this summer? Now that was cool.
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I took the challenge and am looking at the m$ft research site... but its quite boring. I mean, researching education? Edubuntu isn't researching, its delivering.
Hardware development? So softie wants to get into hardware once the fact that equivalents for 80% of what they do can be downloaded for free on the web? Recall what Ballmer said in India a few weeks back about softie needing to move to services and support. Or is the "research" how to make new specs with ever-tighter licensing restrictions to ensure Open Source cannot use the next generation of hardware. I'm not joking. The new camera memory specs are basically only made to outlaw open source implementations.
I'm still waiting for 'softie to make good on their promise for a distributed OO system as documented in their 1994 DCOM paper. Where I come from if you make a promise you keep it. If you cannot then you never make the promise. Their lie killed Next but, like most of their promises, never was completed. I believe their research to be an absolute joke when I look at their products. Look at Exchange. Talk about productive Groupware? Where's the innovation? You mean email, meetings, and contacts are all they could think of/duplicate?
Here's a good one: http://research.microsoft.com/speech/
What? China? So Dragon consumer apps were all but killed and now softie's answer is someone in China will make their speech recognition work? The amazing thing is with their Billions upon Billions their products are no better than the Free and Open Source Software on the web. Simply amazing. A true testimony to what happens when a company focuses on killing innovation in the market rather than innovating themselves. They are an embarrassment to any computer scientist and what I wonder is how many Ph.D.'s spend more than one year there. They should be embarassed. But most everyone will side with money.
Meanwhile the FOSS apps are catching up by leaps and bounds. In case you missed it, Linux server surpassed 'dows in feature/funtionality several years back, Linux desktop is now superior to the 'dows desktop, MySQL/Postgresql are as good/better than m$ft rdbms, and a horde of FOSS are closing in on most everything else 'softie sells. They may need to research how to make money in the new Software Paradigm... I guess their monkey-business with NOVL shows where their true research is - and that's not innovation!
Cheers,
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Bro, Concurrent programming? Are you joking? That's not research, that's history. The #1 problem with the tech industry is people who keep trying to re-invent the past. AJAX client-server wannabe's and such.
Plus, M$FT has zero reputation for standards. I spent almost a decade chasing their latest spec which they themselves never put in their own apps. Then I wised up. Been free of the 'dows virus for almost a year now and having a blast every day. No computer scientist or engineer worth their degree should get themselves locked into softie serfdom. Software is FREE! You should be too!
TimJowers
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soliptic,
what version and distro of Linux are you talking about? The modern releases are at least equivalent to Windows in usability. In time loss, Windows sucks you dry hands down. Of course for the basic user OO and such is mostly the same on all but the lack of a decent memory manager in Windows will kill any office worker who tries to do more without moving into the multi-GB of RAM.
I do agree that moving to Linux from Windows is best with some additional learning. Today's distros are transparent with menus and GUI's but, as always, you can do 1000 times more when you drop dow to the command line. Heck, every version of Windows plays "find the control panel applets" and other such goofiness anyways; so having to move to another menu for Services in Linux will be no more learning effort than moving to another version of Windows. Maybe less as the Linux stuff is logically organized. Your argument may have been valid about Windows 2000 versus RedHat 7.3 or such a comparison.
I'll challenge you this. Sit a very inexperienced person in front on Linux and then Windows. Repeat for another such person in the other order. What will you find? Both are equally user hostile. The application-oriented OS designs and the very limited interfaces are quite non-normal for how humans interact with their world. Very little maturity exists in either user interface; but, that said, the newer Linux distros have all sorts of nifty UI features whereas innovation is basically dead in the Windows GUI space AFAICT - but I've been Windows-free for almost a year now. And never lookingb back. It should be called "Walls" rather than "Windows" as that's what I found when I tried to write complex code on 'dows. But on Linux I can pop open the source (with Open Source apps on Linux) and get busy.
Most of all, today's distributions come with $10,000USD to $261,000 worth of software when compared to the investment needed in 'dows to get the same functionality. That's serious money. The Softies are in Zombie land but the reaper will come to harvest them if for no other reason than they are wasting their companies would-be profits on needless purchases. When one says "Linux" one infers the whole of "Open Source" and I suspect about 80% of the apps sold by the top 5 SW companies have Free and Open Source equivalents. In many cases the Open Source apps are better simply because they conform to standards. Talk about wasting time: try integrating softie junkola with a mainframe or with LDAP or such. That kinda stuff is standard practice for Linux.
But, the number one reason to use Linux is not price. I will have to agree. It is Openness. Open software means no Walls - unlike the World of Windows and Walls.
Best,
TimJowers
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Jym Zavada demoed this at the LUG before last here. He got a DSL machine for about $300 and then migrated to another distro. One trick is to turn off inode read counters to minimize hits on the flash and give longer lifetime. His presentation info is at: http://www.trilug.org/?q=node/30
Looks like Intel wants to do the same. With the low cost of ARM and other processors, they are just trying to get in the market before it blossoms. Low cost, good power computing will be upon us at least by 2008. What I imagine is a PDA-like device that blootooth's to a large screen, DVD player burner, and other periphs/household electronics. You can carry the PDA and for the average user it will be fine for a laptop/PC. It'll have the 2in-3in screen but also can have a touchscreen (like Motion computing sorta) that one could carry with it.
Nice to see Intel and others promoting computing. Will certainly be a computer world in a few years. Not too long until everyone alive will have been born after the computers were invented.
TimJowers
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