Yup! IIRC, that was the strategy when 2.4.x came out too. Release the new series as a toy for early adopters, but with more frequent bug squashing as the serious agenda.
No, nothing more. Nothing less. Now, move on, here is nothing to see.
The Swedish furniture giant IKEA has decided to release its own home computer. To begin with, it will only be for sale in the German market. Read more here.
I think that was meant as a general warning - never play anything with Rush. At least I haven't done it, as far as I now. And even if it shouldn't affect ALSA at all, one may better be on the safe side.
First, that remark will probably generate a lot of comments here on Slashdot...
Second, how does he know what he claims? From experience with the development of Windows? As you know yourself...
I did this, almost... At least I downloaded a whole suite of high detail aerial photographs of our lake, which is fairly big (about 20 by 4 km).
Then I glued all aerial photographs together in Gimp producing a huuuge map.
Then I imported it into Sodipodi and drew a vectorised contour.
Now, I am searching for a nice GIS program where I incorprate my freshy-fresh +4000 GPS-coordinates! Any help appreciated! Perhaps Grass is the best? It seems intimidating however.
To me these issues are quite complex, and a draft like this need a follow up here at Slashdot soonish. Perhaps within a week to get a good brainstorming settle.
Unfortunately all good remarks will come very late to this message, when people have had time to read it carefully. Then, there are already more than 500 comments, of less value and people don't really care any longer.
My suggestion, in cases like these, would be to use the Slashdot forum as a forum with delay - as is done before an upcoming interview. A short notice in advance and a more indepth follow later. Let people have a few days to think it over and get a refreshener then. Perhaps overdoing it? Whatever.
True! New lines ARE neeeeeded! I've lost too many fish already.
Still, the greatest fishing lines today are more than 2.5 times stronger than the strongest nylon fishing lines, at the same diameter. A 0.30 mm diameter line of today break first at well over 20kg (some 43 pound [or whatever... I'm ISO-metric]). And, several of my friends have had their hooks straightened before their lines broke.
OK, so this is wild speculation with an undue overtone of paranoia and slander:
THIS IS WHY SCO SUED IBM
That Microsoft would pull Windows NT 4.0 this or next year has been known for well more than a year. This has been one of Linux zealots' (like me) greatest argument why not move from WinNT to Win03/04, but rather upgrade to a Linux system!
So, in my cold cellar, I have had this vision of Microsoft and SCO executives meeting in high fashion bars and nightclubs in Rio, Monte Carlo, Singapore, and elsewhere to discuss how to kill Linux the best, as otherwise it may well take over a too large chunk of the market when NT is terminated. (If the chunk is large enough, there may well be a fearsome snowball effect) The answer was, however, easy - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. The reward for the SCO executives, apart from a few more drinks that night? Well, yes, a bright, rich future at any position in the Microsoft controlled sphere perhaps? Who knows.
Two things, how did you find the link to the LinuxToday article?! When I did a search on the talkbacks for "Bill Paxter", I did get no results.
Also, I did not manage to find him anywhere on the internet using Google and his e-mail adress is not working and there is no longer (never was?) a site based on the name - www.phx.co.uk or anything else derived from Bill Paxter's e-mail bab@fa2.phx.co.uk.
Please, inform us how you became aware of his predictions.
That means, if get that explanation right, my company can develop and get copyright/patent for a new type of engine for BMW, but I can not sell or give it away later to Ford without asking BMW, even if BMW and my company had no previous legal arrangements over technology transfers. Sounds strange to me.
IBM is multinational by all means and any measure. International laws, i.e. laws in other countries than US may not be so overwhelmed by SCO's case inside the US as indicate in this Byte magazine article:
"It is also undeniable that the business climate in the U.S. lets someone take a far more aggressive attitude towards a competitor's customers than does the climate in Europe. SCO should have anticipated this, but Sontag seemed to be quizzical about what these European lawsuits are demanding, and how SCO should react to them. I got the impression that SCO's management was thinking entirely in terms of U.S. law, and have not thought through the international implications of their actions.
I find this amazing, especially considering that SCO's latest 10Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that "revenue from international customers accounted for 48 percent of operating system platform revenue." "
"Specifically, Sontag believes the "SCO technologies" which were misappropriated into AIX, IRIX, and the derivative UNIX-alikes (including Linux) are:
JFS (Journalling File System). NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access), a SGI/Stanford collaboration. RCU (Read-Copy-Update). SMP (Symmetrical Multi-Processing)."
and
"But SCO has been even more thorough. After sifting through e-mails from the Linux developers' mailing list, Sontag says SCO has examples of programmers from AT&T licensees offering to write UNIX code into Linux, and can identify where those UNIX fragments turned up in the codebase."
and
"Admittedly, I can't tell you what I saw, but I did form the opinion that it was not in the kernel proper. In all probability, the code is more important to Silicon Graphics' Altix servers than to average x86 Linux users."
and
"...IBM has bypassed U.S. export controls with Linux. How "Syria and Libya and North Korea" are all building supercomputers with Linux and inexpensive Intel hardware, in violation of U.S. export control laws."
Strong claims, but there will probably be a fistful more dirt flying around.
Financial Times has a small article just mentioning the outline:
"International Business Machines said it would ignore a threat by SCO Group, a small US software company, to recall a software licence on IBM's AIX operating system. [...] IBM has denied it violated its contract and said it would ignore SCO's Friday ultimatum."
Don't financial analysts need more info? Or, do they get the wealth of views on IT-business from Slashdot, too?!
THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In connection with the quarterly report of The SCO Group, Inc. (the "Company") on Form 10-Q, for the quarter ended April 30, 2003, the undersigned certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that to the best of each of our knowledge:
1. The quarterly report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
2. The information contained in the quarterly report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
By: Darl McBride, President and Chief Executive OfficerDate: June 13, 2003
Damn, that blew my bragging rights for 26 MBit/sec with VDSL... Ok, I won't get it until September, but still. Check out Scream at www.bostream.com for about 35 USD a month through your telephone wires. Make sure your area is covered by their services.
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So, the next paradigm to disappear is the singularity of Black Holes; I never believed in them anyhow...
But, Lynds' is brilliant, if true/not disproofed/widely accepted.
Yup! IIRC, that was the strategy when 2.4.x came out too. Release the new series as a toy for early adopters, but with more frequent bug squashing as the serious agenda.
No, nothing more. Nothing less. Now, move on, here is nothing to see.
The Swedish furniture giant IKEA has decided to release its own home computer. To begin with, it will only be for sale in the German market. Read more here.
I think that was meant as a general warning - never play anything with Rush. At least I haven't done it, as far as I now. And even if it shouldn't affect ALSA at all, one may better be on the safe side.
First, that remark will probably generate a lot of comments here on Slashdot... Second, how does he know what he claims? From experience with the development of Windows? As you know yourself...
You wondered were they get the names for the 'geography' of Mars? Well, I wonder why it isn't called "martiography".
"It is a largely German project" Why not Kruppware, then? Or Kroupier? Or Kroupie...
I did this, almost... At least I downloaded a whole suite of high detail aerial photographs of our lake, which is fairly big (about 20 by 4 km).
Then I glued all aerial photographs together in Gimp producing a huuuge map.
Then I imported it into Sodipodi and drew a vectorised contour.
Now, I am searching for a nice GIS program where I incorprate my freshy-fresh +4000 GPS-coordinates! Any help appreciated! Perhaps Grass is the best? It seems intimidating however.
To me these issues are quite complex, and a draft like this need a follow up here at Slashdot soonish. Perhaps within a week to get a good brainstorming settle.
Unfortunately all good remarks will come very late to this message, when people have had time to read it carefully. Then, there are already more than 500 comments, of less value and people don't really care any longer.
My suggestion, in cases like these, would be to use the Slashdot forum as a forum with delay - as is done before an upcoming interview. A short notice in advance and a more indepth follow later. Let people have a few days to think it over and get a refreshener then. Perhaps overdoing it? Whatever.
Carmack:
"Hey gov, I'm the developer of BFG, BFG 10, and the rail gun, please now let me have my private rocket launcher."
((Digital + Compaq)+HP)=HP
That seems to be one very nice partner with growth potential for Mandrake! Congratulations!
True! New lines ARE neeeeeded! I've lost too many fish already.
:)
Still, the greatest fishing lines today are more than 2.5 times stronger than the strongest nylon fishing lines, at the same diameter. A 0.30 mm diameter line of today break first at well over 20kg (some 43 pound [or whatever... I'm ISO-metric]). And, several of my friends have had their hooks straightened before their lines broke.
Fishermen are keen "benchmarkers", too
"Floating point programming is basically a solved problem." -- joto, 2003
"640 K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
"a major motivation for my career in science is that understanding the world through science will help people"
;)
Bah, opportunist...
Kidding
OK, so this is wild speculation with an undue overtone of paranoia and slander:
THIS IS WHY SCO SUED IBM
That Microsoft would pull Windows NT 4.0 this or next year has been known for well more than a year. This has been one of Linux zealots' (like me) greatest argument why not move from WinNT to Win03/04, but rather upgrade to a Linux system!
So, in my cold cellar, I have had this vision of Microsoft and SCO executives meeting in high fashion bars and nightclubs in Rio, Monte Carlo, Singapore, and elsewhere to discuss how to kill Linux the best, as otherwise it may well take over a too large chunk of the market when NT is terminated. (If the chunk is large enough, there may well be a fearsome snowball effect) The answer was, however, easy - Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. The reward for the SCO executives, apart from a few more drinks that night? Well, yes, a bright, rich future at any position in the Microsoft controlled sphere perhaps? Who knows.
Yes, I do believe in my nightmares at times.
According to the specs there will be only 8GB RAM. why?! It is after all a 64-bit system, isn't it?
Two things, how did you find the link to the LinuxToday article?! When I did a search on the talkbacks for "Bill Paxter", I did get no results.
Also, I did not manage to find him anywhere on the internet using Google and his e-mail adress is not working and there is no longer (never was?) a site based on the name - www.phx.co.uk or anything else derived from Bill Paxter's e-mail bab@fa2.phx.co.uk.
Please, inform us how you became aware of his predictions.
That means, if get that explanation right, my company can develop and get copyright/patent for a new type of engine for BMW, but I can not sell or give it away later to Ford without asking BMW, even if BMW and my company had no previous legal arrangements over technology transfers. Sounds strange to me.
IBM is multinational by all means and any measure. International laws, i.e. laws in other countries than US may not be so overwhelmed by SCO's case inside the US as indicate in this Byte magazine article:
"It is also undeniable that the business climate in the U.S. lets someone take a far more aggressive attitude towards a competitor's customers than does the climate in Europe. SCO should have anticipated this, but Sontag seemed to be quizzical about what these European lawsuits are demanding, and how SCO should react to them. I got the impression that SCO's management was thinking entirely in terms of U.S. law, and have not thought through the international implications of their actions.
I find this amazing, especially considering that SCO's latest 10Q filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reveals that "revenue from international customers accounted for 48 percent of operating system platform revenue." "
HERE is the article.. Sorry. And, in plain text: http://www.byte.com/documents/s=8276/byt1055784622 054/0616_marshall.html
Here is an article claiming:
"Specifically, Sontag believes the "SCO technologies" which were misappropriated into AIX, IRIX, and the derivative UNIX-alikes (including Linux) are:
JFS (Journalling File System).
NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access), a SGI/Stanford collaboration.
RCU (Read-Copy-Update).
SMP (Symmetrical Multi-Processing)."
and
"But SCO has been even more thorough. After sifting through e-mails from the Linux developers' mailing list, Sontag says SCO has examples of programmers from AT&T licensees offering to write UNIX code into Linux, and can identify where those UNIX fragments turned up in the codebase."
and
"Admittedly, I can't tell you what I saw, but I did form the opinion that it was not in the kernel proper. In all probability, the code is more important to Silicon Graphics' Altix servers than to average x86 Linux users."
and
"...IBM has bypassed U.S. export controls with Linux. How "Syria and Libya and North Korea" are all building supercomputers with Linux and inexpensive Intel hardware, in violation of U.S. export control laws."
Strong claims, but there will probably be a fistful more dirt flying around.
Financial Times has a small article just mentioning the outline:
"International Business Machines said it would ignore a threat by SCO Group, a small US software company, to recall a software licence on IBM's AIX operating system. [...] IBM has denied it violated its contract and said it would ignore SCO's Friday ultimatum."
Don't financial analysts need more info? Or, do they get the wealth of views on IT-business from Slashdot, too?!
Mr Darl? A one way ticket to Brazil?
THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002
In connection with the quarterly report of The SCO Group, Inc. (the "Company") on Form 10-Q, for the quarter ended April 30, 2003, the undersigned certifies, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that to the best of each of our knowledge:
1. The quarterly report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and
2. The information contained in the quarterly report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
By: Darl McBride, President and Chief Executive OfficerDate: June 13, 2003
The entire SCO quarterly report is found here
Damn, that blew my bragging rights for 26 MBit/sec with VDSL... Ok, I won't get it until September, but still. Check out Scream at www.bostream.com for about 35 USD a month through your telephone wires. Make sure your area is covered by their services.
Hope they make both left and right handed models. People may have different preferences.