I've been here about a decade. I've seen lots of spammers come and go. I've come to accept Goatse Guy and the Nigger Troll as part of what it costs to give and get my bit in an Internet forum. And that's OK. I browse at -1 to get both the grit and the gloss.
There are now some folk well paid to get top post, and comment on that post until the comments scroll down ad-infinitum of course. Maybe their managers think they're acheiving something on/., and if they're paying for that play I'm fine with that. Those guys gotta eat. One day we'll miss the "frosty piss" first post.
Before these folks were incompetent, and coudn't even string together a sentence in common Englush. They have evolved. Now they have skills and are getting better at it. But they miss that certain something - that "I don't know what" that moves them from marketing to legit. That's fine for me, because I always look closely at the new thing, but these new folk look to do an end-around flanking maneuver.
OK, fine. I'll quote the Google policy that prevents their support of this political endeavor: "Don't be evil." It's in the mission statement. It's not negotiable.
The lawsuits to prevent this deal will start right away of course. Microsoft has a legion of lawyers that can keep these folks in the dark ages for another decade.
Unix (the source and binary copyrights such as are not encumbered by UCSD, not the trademark owned by The Open Group), to include "The C programming language (the language, not the book) and its libraries (in this case including the APIs to the extent they're theoretically protected by copyright)", yes - that is the specific limited property I'm talking about. I don't know who owns or controls these private equity funds that - as you point out - "may" own this property. That's why I was asking. Do you know? The question may be material to the future evolution of technology for the next 60 years or so, so it's pretty important tonight but might be moot tomorrow depending on the outcome of this legal case, and its appeals.
The C libraries' structure sequence and organization (SSO) is heavily used in almost every common operating system, programming language and application programming interface used today. It's the shoulders of the giants we stand on. Huge chunks even of Java are derived from it.
Ownership of this group then is interesting to me because of the myriad people who could be behind this equity group are some who have interesting relationships to this legal case. The group of people who can swing around a billion dollars is pretty small, relatively speaking and not all of them play in technology. In an environment where some dubious activity has taken place, like Baystar, RBC and others, it's only natural to be suspicious of organizations that shield their principals behind an iron shield of privacy. We do know some of the players aren't playing fair. There is big money in play here, and sweeping strategies that take many years to carry out - it's nine years since SCO first started their nonsense and that's still not sorted. At stake is the pace of progress itself - an issue I have a personal interest in.
Those were patents. We're talking about the alleged copyrights on the APIs for C in the absurd hypothetical case that there is such a thing. It's not reported that CPTN Holdings got any copyrights that I know of. Do you have some such info?
Thanks for that, but that's what - not who. These private equity groups are not required to disclose who owns or controls them. Which is creepy given the history of this particular property.
Then this card is so advanced you don't need to be testing on it at all. If you want to target high-end gamers then get yourself a rig with PCIe 3.0 slots. Or at least one to develop on.
The run length on PCIe 3.0 is quite limited (about a foot, I believe, though it's not given). There is an ePCIe spec. There are external devices that will do external PCIe 2.0 and are used for external card chassis or to host SSD storage with run length to two meters. While it's theoretically possible to do a laptop dock with one of these inside it, I don't see that happening anytime soon because there's not enough market for it. As the frequencies increase the distance a workable signal can propagate is reduced (very roughly).
For a while there was some talk about there not ever being a PCIe 4.0 spec because the run length would be down to mere centimeters - not enough even to get out to add-in cards. I see now that they've found a way - or at least think they have.
People in HPC buy these things in 10,000 lots. Now that you can put 4 of them in one server, that's going to happen more and more. It's not all about the videogames any more.
There's no such thing as a political system that doesn't become corrupt over time. It's the nature of men. The founding fathers were aware of this, and took steps.
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I've been here about a decade. I've seen lots of spammers come and go. I've come to accept Goatse Guy and the Nigger Troll as part of what it costs to give and get my bit in an Internet forum. And that's OK. I browse at -1 to get both the grit and the gloss.
There are now some folk well paid to get top post, and comment on that post until the comments scroll down ad-infinitum of course. Maybe their managers think they're acheiving something on /., and if they're paying for that play I'm fine with that. Those guys gotta eat. One day we'll miss the "frosty piss" first post.
Before these folks were incompetent, and coudn't even string together a sentence in common Englush. They have evolved. Now they have skills and are getting better at it. But they miss that certain something - that "I don't know what" that moves them from marketing to legit. That's fine for me, because I always look closely at the new thing, but these new folk look to do an end-around flanking maneuver.
Not likely (the fact, not the annoucement.)
It's a measure of corruption. We ought not wish corruption because it brings other harmful things until we subsist on bark.
OK, fine. I'll quote the Google policy that prevents their support of this political endeavor: "Don't be evil." It's in the mission statement. It's not negotiable.
Nice, but no. Google does not support CISPA. Your marketing efforts are going to backfire here.
The lawsuits to prevent this deal will start right away of course. Microsoft has a legion of lawyers that can keep these folks in the dark ages for another decade.
BTW: There is no "you would probably be better off if it WAS Microsoft" option. You sell your soul or you don't.
It doesn't matter who it is. This lawsuit promises to grind progress to a complete halt.
Unix (the source and binary copyrights such as are not encumbered by UCSD, not the trademark owned by The Open Group), to include "The C programming language (the language, not the book) and its libraries (in this case including the APIs to the extent they're theoretically protected by copyright)", yes - that is the specific limited property I'm talking about. I don't know who owns or controls these private equity funds that - as you point out - "may" own this property. That's why I was asking. Do you know? The question may be material to the future evolution of technology for the next 60 years or so, so it's pretty important tonight but might be moot tomorrow depending on the outcome of this legal case, and its appeals.
The C libraries' structure sequence and organization (SSO) is heavily used in almost every common operating system, programming language and application programming interface used today. It's the shoulders of the giants we stand on. Huge chunks even of Java are derived from it.
Ownership of this group then is interesting to me because of the myriad people who could be behind this equity group are some who have interesting relationships to this legal case. The group of people who can swing around a billion dollars is pretty small, relatively speaking and not all of them play in technology. In an environment where some dubious activity has taken place, like Baystar, RBC and others, it's only natural to be suspicious of organizations that shield their principals behind an iron shield of privacy. We do know some of the players aren't playing fair. There is big money in play here, and sweeping strategies that take many years to carry out - it's nine years since SCO first started their nonsense and that's still not sorted. At stake is the pace of progress itself - an issue I have a personal interest in.
Those were patents. We're talking about the alleged copyrights on the APIs for C in the absurd hypothetical case that there is such a thing. It's not reported that CPTN Holdings got any copyrights that I know of. Do you have some such info?
Thanks for that, but that's what - not who. These private equity groups are not required to disclose who owns or controls them. Which is creepy given the history of this particular property.
You're arguing that one trap is better than the other. As long as "no trap" exists as an option, that's silly.
Not att. Attachmate. They got it with Novell. And who owns Attachmate? Curiouser and curiouser.
I'm thinking that was sarcasm. Poe's law though being what it is...
I went with the rolling half rack. Easy peasy, $100 at the surplus. Just make sure you secure it in case of earthquake.
About $4000, and $3000 more for the box to put it in.
It's not magic. The lead length to reach those far dimms is actually a prominent part of why overall memory accesses slow down.
Then this card is so advanced you don't need to be testing on it at all. If you want to target high-end gamers then get yourself a rig with PCIe 3.0 slots. Or at least one to develop on.
Are you sure about that? I thought PCIe cards were only backward compatible one generation of the spec (3.0 to 2.0 for ex).
The run length on PCIe 3.0 is quite limited (about a foot, I believe, though it's not given). There is an ePCIe spec. There are external devices that will do external PCIe 2.0 and are used for external card chassis or to host SSD storage with run length to two meters. While it's theoretically possible to do a laptop dock with one of these inside it, I don't see that happening anytime soon because there's not enough market for it. As the frequencies increase the distance a workable signal can propagate is reduced (very roughly).
For a while there was some talk about there not ever being a PCIe 4.0 spec because the run length would be down to mere centimeters - not enough even to get out to add-in cards. I see now that they've found a way - or at least think they have.
People in HPC buy these things in 10,000 lots. Now that you can put 4 of them in one server, that's going to happen more and more. It's not all about the videogames any more.
Sure. The anonymous cowards in the comments here. They have no ulterior motive, no sir.
That connector is digital only. The extra pins are for analog signal.
Translating text and manuals to Australian isn't free.
There's no such thing as a political system that doesn't become corrupt over time. It's the nature of men. The founding fathers were aware of this, and took steps.