I believe that the university police in question are the police of the submitter's own university, in whose jurisdiction the theft originally took place. Nothing to do with the current location of the laptop.
Anybody who uses a card with the Visa or MasterCard logo which is connected directly to his bank account (a so-called "check card") deserves what he gets.
I seem to recall the other half of the patent deal being that the design of the patent is open for all to see. That's the benefit that society gets for enforcing the monopoly.
If software is to be patentable, it should not also be protected by copyright. One or the other (preferably a sanely-limited copyright).
I haven't seen one fact from you, although maybe I missed it. What I have seen is you replying to three or four posts, exclaiming that the news isn't news, and that the poster should just not have bothered. You even copied and pasted the same thing you wrote earlier into a new comment at least once.
Please quit spamming this forum about this not being news.
You seem to be arguing that there is no such thing as a last straw, a tipping point. You seem to assume that everybody knows everything about IEEE's positions and history. You seem to believe that it's illogical for people to react to an organization doing something that they disagree with.
None of these are necessarily true. We're glad to hear that your opinion of IEEE was already so fully formed, but please let the rest of us react as we will.
That's the one. It's a real kick in the teeth. And it's easily enough confused with the 32-bit OS memory limitation (see earlier in this thread) that it's hard to even get anybody to understand what I'm talking about. And I guess that means Dell thought its disclaimer about 4GB not being accessible from a 32-bit OS covered this situation. Well it doesn't!!
Over a year after I bought my Precision M90 laptop, I tried to upgrade it to 4GB RAM. Turns out there's a hardware limitation (in the northbridge, I believe) which prevents more than 3.25GB from being accessible. No mention of it anywhere, in fact the documentation says the laptop supports 4GB! Liars.
That was exactly his point. Your RAID required a particular piece of hardware. He suggested software RAID. Yours was some kind of awful hybrid. If you'd been using a real OS and real software RAID, you'd have had no problem.
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Not, gasp, the profit motive! The only good datacenter is the one in business to NOT make money, that's what I always say.
I believe that the university police in question are the police of the submitter's own university, in whose jurisdiction the theft originally took place. Nothing to do with the current location of the laptop.
Anybody who uses a card with the Visa or MasterCard logo which is connected directly to his bank account (a so-called "check card") deserves what he gets.
I seem to recall the other half of the patent deal being that the design of the patent is open for all to see. That's the benefit that society gets for enforcing the monopoly.
If software is to be patentable, it should not also be protected by copyright. One or the other (preferably a sanely-limited copyright).
Implementation is a different question. They're not protecting a particular implementation. That would be done with copyright.
With this, they're preventing anybody else from creating their own implementation of this.
Why software needs both patents AND copyrights remains a mystery.
No, Linux is an OS. GNU is a set of tools that run on it.
Thanks, you've given me some more fodder for my own cancellation letter.
They aren't facts that contradict anything from TFA, which was your contention.
Basically your point is that nobody can have an opinion on this if they didn't have one a year ago, and my contention is that you can cram it.
I haven't seen one fact from you, although maybe I missed it. What I have seen is you replying to three or four posts, exclaiming that the news isn't news, and that the poster should just not have bothered. You even copied and pasted the same thing you wrote earlier into a new comment at least once.
Please quit spamming this forum about this not being news.
You seem to be arguing that there is no such thing as a last straw, a tipping point. You seem to assume that everybody knows everything about IEEE's positions and history. You seem to believe that it's illogical for people to react to an organization doing something that they disagree with.
None of these are necessarily true. We're glad to hear that your opinion of IEEE was already so fully formed, but please let the rest of us react as we will.
Well, that's it; I'm going to have to cancel my long-standing IEEE membership. I encourage the rest of you to do the same.
Really? Within the first several hours of possession of a new computer, the first thing that you do is attempt to max out the memory?
Is it completely outside the realm of possibility to purchase a laptop intending to upgrade the memory at a later date?
What a relief! So all I have to do is buy a new laptop, in order to get the feature that I was sold a year ago!
Dell is the one from whom I purchased the hardware. Dell advertises this laptop as supporting 4GB.
I'm not responsible for Dell's suppliers. This is a Dell problem.
That's the one. It's a real kick in the teeth. And it's easily enough confused with the 32-bit OS memory limitation (see earlier in this thread) that it's hard to even get anybody to understand what I'm talking about. And I guess that means Dell thought its disclaimer about 4GB not being accessible from a 32-bit OS covered this situation. Well it doesn't!!
Thanks for not being a jerk, unlike some others. I'm running Debian Lenny 64-bit. This really is a hardware limitation.
Not at all sarcastic. The northbridge physically can't deal with 4GB RAM.
Perhaps this is a chance for you to become informed about this issue. It is in fact a hardware limitation of the northbridge.
Exactamundo. It sucks.
I'll give YOU a hint, Google for M90 4GB. Because I've got a 64-bit CPU and I'm running Debian Lenny 64-bit.
Over a year after I bought my Precision M90 laptop, I tried to upgrade it to 4GB RAM. Turns out there's a hardware limitation (in the northbridge, I believe) which prevents more than 3.25GB from being accessible. No mention of it anywhere, in fact the documentation says the laptop supports 4GB! Liars.
That was exactly his point. Your RAID required a particular piece of hardware. He suggested software RAID. Yours was some kind of awful hybrid. If you'd been using a real OS and real software RAID, you'd have had no problem.
Wasn't there a Space Quest project in pretty much the same situation? Can it be bailed out too?
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power?
That's what she said!