You're talking about a 4 dimensional graph (position x velocity) with maybe less than 100 million nodes. I guess that sounds reasonable with some of today's desktop pc's.
Bad in countries that recognize software patents and have no loopholes to protect open source.
But most of the money is in support, not product sales. So who do you sue? And how much blood can you squeeze from a turnip?
I believe that if anyone is sued, it's most likely to be computer manufacturers that distribute free as in beer Linux distributions with their systems, the companies behind the major commercial Linux distributions, and major contributors in the fortune 1000 range. Anyone else can either pass the blame or is not worth pursuing.
At worst, Linux development remains mostly in the hands of unpayed users and those in safe countries, and we don't see it offered with new systems from the major manufacturers. But so far I don't believe there's ever been a patent lawsuit against open source.
Where I work, we keep hourly rsync backups going back for months of all modified and deleted files from our Samba shares. They're stored on a backup server so we can recover any lost files in seconds, or redirect shares if a server goes dead. It probably stores about 100mb of changes a day, plus the sum of all the files on all the servers. And it cost less than most of our other servers because performance wasn't important.
Average users don't want the ease of tabbed browsing, support for new standards, cross platformness, open source, and security through obscurity, reduced OS integration, and safer defaults. They just want whatever came preinstalled on their systems, and OEM's will install what we tell them to, within the limits of the law. But it's not an anti-trust violation to work your monopoly power against a competitor's product when that product is free, because our lawyers will argue that they can't claim any lost sales as a result. As a hunter might say, the job's not done 'til the fox can't run.
Caldera bought SCO's unix business and trademarks. OldSCO became Tarantella, named after their remaining successful product. Ransom Love stepped down as Caldera CEO and was replaced by Darl McBride. Then Caldera changed its name to SCO. About 6 months later the lawsuit began.
Only if you trust the government, and all its employees, and believe the war on terror should be fought with such secrecy that there's no way to know for certain if their actions have anything to do with the war on terror, or if they're using it as a blanket excuse to do whatever they want.
Of all the millions of servers out there, they picked IndyMedia's. And how many days should it take to copy a hard disk for investigation, or to make another copy to put back into the server in place of the original? Couldn't most people do it in half an hour?
It's not so much that they needed the evidence for their terror investigations that demands an explanation. They sought to do more harm than necessary to gather their evidence. Their actions were an assault on the free press and possibly an unlawful seizure, violating two constitutional amendments.
A great deal of the potential for geographic turnout manipulation (creating long lines or other barriers to voting) can be reduced by scaling votes according to the population of each precinct.
Then there's condorcet voting. That'd help fix our two party problem. It's more likely to produce a result that all sides think they can stomach.
Electronic voting machines: Must be open source. Redundant vote records. All events, like touchscreen presses, signed by hardware and logged. And a seperate counter that cannot be rolled back to delete votes. Binaries stored in rom and verifiable before and after election.
Must show ID to vote. ID stored with vote to enable removal of duplicates.
All adult citizens and permanent residents with ID eligable to vote. Even felons. No voter registration required. All exceptions create loopholes. No challenging the right to vote. Voters without ID get provisional ballots where they must be able to certify their identity and age after the fact.
Vote by mail. Within a single precinct, there is still opportunity to influence the election by deciding where to place the polls. And there are other biases that this would help eliminate. Oregon has this.
No electoral college. Everyone's vote should matter. The precinct scaling should fix the voter turnout biases.
No publishing results or exit polls while polls are still open. Not all polls close at the same time, partly due to time zone differences, giving the opportunity to rush them in some states but not others.
Currently the law in most states, but should be formalized. When the polls close, whoever's already in line must be allowed to vote.
Their customers were never at risk. What they want to do is create an illusion of risk so that they can say they protect against it better than if you went with free / open source software.
Sort of like a candidate saying he'll protect the US against terrorism, when in actuality terrorism in the US is still so rare that it's the least of our worries. It's an empty claim which serves a different purpose than stated.
Sorry, you admitted in public that you use a celeron instead of the required AMD processor.
I'll go ahead and say more than I need to here, in part because I have nothing better to do, or maybe because of my ADD, since the former is a lie.
Yes, I'm cheap. Low income. Student budget. No scholarships.
It's actually a Dell Dimension 2400n. Shipped with no operating system, it was the cheapest they had. I chose to get 512mb ram, an 80gb hd, a 17" monitor (also the cheapest they had), and a dvd drive. No CD burner, but I already have one elsewhere.
The graphics chipset is an integrated Intel i845GV. I'm sure the GV stands for Great Value, because as expected, it's not only about 1/20th as fast as the middle end 3D cards, it's about 1/3th as fast as its low end integrated competitors. Add to that the Linux driver's buggy, encouraging me to use software rendering. I managed to speed up mesa to make some games quite playable at a severe cost to quality, like bzflag, but I think I forgot to back it up when I last wiped the hard disk.
My cheap system is currently running Ubuntu 4.10. After editing/etc/apt/sources.list to add some extra repositories, I find it very palatable. Other distributions I've installed on it include Slackware 10, Mandrake 9, Suse 9, Fedora Core 2, and CentOS 3.
My older system is an eMachine eTower 500ix. It has a 500mhz celeron, 256mb ram, and an 80gb hd. And it has a 64mb ATI Radeon 7500 and a 52x cd burner, both of which I'll probably move to my newer piece of crap one of these days, if I don't just buy a better system. On it I have Windows XP Professional and Visual Studio.NET, both of which were given to me for free for being a student. But not surprisingly, VS.NET started having problems at about the same time the next version came out, so now if I program with.NET I use SharpDevelop. I keep both systems side by side on my desktop, though most days I don't even turn the Windows PC on.
I buy my games about 3-4 years after they hit the market, when they find their way into the $10 or less racks. I got Quake II for $1.42 on sale at Office Depot and Quake III for $9.95 at WalMart, not that I've played either in the past few months.
But I'm not entirely cheap. I probably spend around 5-10% of my income on open source related donations. Among that, $60 to GrokLaw to fight SCO fud. And probably 95% of my music collection is stuff I've bought, mostly Weird Al. Also Tom Lehrer, the Beatles, and Ozzy. Some of it as a result of sampling on Kazaa and deciding to buy the CD.
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All that clicking reminds me of a Star Trek episode.
You're talking about a 4 dimensional graph (position x velocity) with maybe less than 100 million nodes. I guess that sounds reasonable with some of today's desktop pc's.
We call it the NotIs operator.
Nothing with a learning curve is ready Grandma, even Windows. That's what grandchildren are for.
The author's bio says he's a geophysicist.
Great book.
Bad in countries that recognize software patents and have no loopholes to protect open source.
But most of the money is in support, not product sales. So who do you sue? And how much blood can you squeeze from a turnip?
I believe that if anyone is sued, it's most likely to be computer manufacturers that distribute free as in beer Linux distributions with their systems, the companies behind the major commercial Linux distributions, and major contributors in the fortune 1000 range. Anyone else can either pass the blame or is not worth pursuing.
At worst, Linux development remains mostly in the hands of unpayed users and those in safe countries, and we don't see it offered with new systems from the major manufacturers. But so far I don't believe there's ever been a patent lawsuit against open source.
Some places can do that sort of thing.
Where I work, we keep hourly rsync backups going back for months of all modified and deleted files from our Samba shares. They're stored on a backup server so we can recover any lost files in seconds, or redirect shares if a server goes dead. It probably stores about 100mb of changes a day, plus the sum of all the files on all the servers. And it cost less than most of our other servers because performance wasn't important.
1) Libel, threaten, harrass, and ban paying customers.
2) ?????
3) Profit!!!?
Doesn't someone just need to give their missiles a shiny reflective coating to foil any sort of laser defense?
So now techies are going to start learning to speak redneck instead of hindi?
That sounds alright by me.
Disney sues Macromedia for failing to prevent customers from using their software to infringe upon Disney's Intellectual Property.
Funny, I didn't think the first count was done yet.
They want $110,000 in donations to pay the required fees. Looks like $10 per precinct.
Great sig. Mod parent +5, Interesting.
Average users don't want the ease of tabbed browsing, support for new standards, cross platformness, open source, and security through obscurity, reduced OS integration, and safer defaults. They just want whatever came preinstalled on their systems, and OEM's will install what we tell them to, within the limits of the law. But it's not an anti-trust violation to work your monopoly power against a competitor's product when that product is free, because our lawyers will argue that they can't claim any lost sales as a result. As a hunter might say, the job's not done 'til the fox can't run.
For the patents to be granted we'll first need to produce some working prototypes. Sounds easy enough.
Caldera bought SCO's unix business and trademarks. OldSCO became Tarantella, named after their remaining successful product. Ransom Love stepped down as Caldera CEO and was replaced by Darl McBride. Then Caldera changed its name to SCO. About 6 months later the lawsuit began.
But doesn't Google index other search engines as well?
Don't forget SCO used to call themselves Caldera, under a different CEO than they have now.
We simply can't be certain that what is true today will be true several years down the road.
It's an enemy of my enemy sort of thing.
Only if you trust the government, and all its employees, and believe the war on terror should be fought with such secrecy that there's no way to know for certain if their actions have anything to do with the war on terror, or if they're using it as a blanket excuse to do whatever they want.
Of all the millions of servers out there, they picked IndyMedia's. And how many days should it take to copy a hard disk for investigation, or to make another copy to put back into the server in place of the original? Couldn't most people do it in half an hour?
It's not so much that they needed the evidence for their terror investigations that demands an explanation. They sought to do more harm than necessary to gather their evidence. Their actions were an assault on the free press and possibly an unlawful seizure, violating two constitutional amendments.
A great deal of the potential for geographic turnout manipulation (creating long lines or other barriers to voting) can be reduced by scaling votes according to the population of each precinct.
Then there's condorcet voting. That'd help fix our two party problem. It's more likely to produce a result that all sides think they can stomach.
Electronic voting machines:
Must be open source.
Redundant vote records. All events, like touchscreen presses, signed by hardware and logged. And a seperate counter that cannot be rolled back to delete votes.
Binaries stored in rom and verifiable before and after election.
Must show ID to vote. ID stored with vote to enable removal of duplicates.
All adult citizens and permanent residents with ID eligable to vote. Even felons. No voter registration required. All exceptions create loopholes. No challenging the right to vote. Voters without ID get provisional ballots where they must be able to certify their identity and age after the fact.
Vote by mail. Within a single precinct, there is still opportunity to influence the election by deciding where to place the polls. And there are other biases that this would help eliminate. Oregon has this.
No electoral college. Everyone's vote should matter. The precinct scaling should fix the voter turnout biases.
No publishing results or exit polls while polls are still open. Not all polls close at the same time, partly due to time zone differences, giving the opportunity to rush them in some states but not others.
Currently the law in most states, but should be formalized. When the polls close, whoever's already in line must be allowed to vote.
Their customers were never at risk. What they want to do is create an illusion of risk so that they can say they protect against it better than if you went with free / open source software.
Sort of like a candidate saying he'll protect the US against terrorism, when in actuality terrorism in the US is still so rare that it's the least of our worries. It's an empty claim which serves a different purpose than stated.
Sorry, you admitted in public that you use a celeron instead of the required AMD processor.
/etc/apt/sources.list to add some extra repositories, I find it very palatable. Other distributions I've installed on it include Slackware 10, Mandrake 9, Suse 9, Fedora Core 2, and CentOS 3.
.NET I use SharpDevelop. I keep both systems side by side on my desktop, though most days I don't even turn the Windows PC on.
I'll go ahead and say more than I need to here, in part because I have nothing better to do, or maybe because of my ADD, since the former is a lie.
Yes, I'm cheap. Low income. Student budget. No scholarships.
It's actually a Dell Dimension 2400n. Shipped with no operating system, it was the cheapest they had. I chose to get 512mb ram, an 80gb hd, a 17" monitor (also the cheapest they had), and a dvd drive. No CD burner, but I already have one elsewhere.
The graphics chipset is an integrated Intel i845GV. I'm sure the GV stands for Great Value, because as expected, it's not only about 1/20th as fast as the middle end 3D cards, it's about 1/3th as fast as its low end integrated competitors. Add to that the Linux driver's buggy, encouraging me to use software rendering. I managed to speed up mesa to make some games quite playable at a severe cost to quality, like bzflag, but I think I forgot to back it up when I last wiped the hard disk.
My cheap system is currently running Ubuntu 4.10. After editing
My older system is an eMachine eTower 500ix. It has a 500mhz celeron, 256mb ram, and an 80gb hd. And it has a 64mb ATI Radeon 7500 and a 52x cd burner, both of which I'll probably move to my newer piece of crap one of these days, if I don't just buy a better system. On it I have Windows XP Professional and Visual Studio.NET, both of which were given to me for free for being a student. But not surprisingly, VS.NET started having problems at about the same time the next version came out, so now if I program with
I buy my games about 3-4 years after they hit the market, when they find their way into the $10 or less racks. I got Quake II for $1.42 on sale at Office Depot and Quake III for $9.95 at WalMart, not that I've played either in the past few months.
But I'm not entirely cheap. I probably spend around 5-10% of my income on open source related donations. Among that, $60 to GrokLaw to fight SCO fud. And probably 95% of my music collection is stuff I've bought, mostly Weird Al. Also Tom Lehrer, the Beatles, and Ozzy. Some of it as a result of sampling on Kazaa and deciding to buy the CD.
0x1337 is prime