I think it's a big mistake for an organisation or a consortium that create standards to include patented technology.
If one member of the consortium has patented technology that it want inserted in the standard, they should give the consortium all rights to the patent. The consortium, it turn, should make the technology availlable at no cost to all the consortium members.
It's becoming more and more common that a company offer technology to a standard body whitout telling anybody that they hold a patent on it. They a couple of years later, when the standard it being used by a lot of people, they requires licensing fees.
This should stop... Standard bodies and consortium should have rules to prevent that.
I develop with Java since the end of 1995 (Java 1.0 Beta2).
Over the years, I have seen a drastic increase of performance of the JVM.
Now I have to disagree with you. In multithreading application I have seen Java beform better than C++. The application where build by the same person and used the same architecture. (The guy was a beginner in Java and experimented in C++.)
Currently I develop server-side component based (EJB) application (using application server written in Java - WebLogic) and batch processes written in Java. I can say that they perform really well.
From my experience, by coding carefully you can achieve wonderfull performance. We add a batch application must process 6 to 12 millions of record per day (and do a lot of processing on each records). The first version of the batch was doing 7 record per seconds (di not meet our requirements) by optimizing the code and changing algorythm we went to > 300 record per second.
Maybe we could gain a 10% to 20% more speed if we rewrote the whole thing in C++. But it would take at least twice the time to develop and will not be as stable as the Java version.
I conceed that Java is a little bit slower that c++ (not in all cases) but the gain in programmer productivity and stability is really worth it.
1. Most the things will be the same as last year. 2. Some tibits will change annd make a difference in the life of.001% of the world population. 3. Y2K++ will be trademarked and Hyped as the REAL millennium (i got the spelling right:-) ).
First, standard computer board will not tolerated the temperature difference and all the static charge caused by environmental factors. You need an industrial strenght board to sustain outside conditions.
Second, the best 'cheap' solution would be to use a laptop computer put in a multi-layer box (multiple layer will give you better insulation). You have to find a way to let the air flow at a good rate while keeping dust, water, snow, etc outside.
Why the latop is a good 'cheap' solution, they are made to sustain high temperature change (at least when they are off), they can systain a certain amount of humidity and they are designed to consume less power and release less heat.
He wrote more than 500 hundred books, most of them where not science-fiction at all. He wrote science books for adults and children. That's not counting the miriads of smaller piece of work.
He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1987 (or 1986).
Also his foundation series sparked a bunch of other writers who wrote stories related to the foundation series.
I don't know of anybody else in the history that wrote so many piece of work in his life that Isaac asimov did.
Being a great fan of Isaac Asimov, I wanted to see that movie.
So I went last Saturday to see it.
I was impressed that the movie was really close to the novel. Often when novel are made into a movie, the substance that make it good just disappear. That was not the case this time.
There were good humor (but it was not hilarous - expect for 1 or 2 scenes) and a lot of sensibility. The questions raised by this movie where that same as is the novel. It make you think about ethics and what make a human being.
There were some error in the movie. In particular even if the 3 laws of robotics are enumerated in the begining, they were violated at some occasions.
I really recommend this movie to any Isaac Asimov fan and everyone else. My wife like that movie very much even if she's neutral abou science-fiction.
Sun probably gave the, to blackdown, source under theire community license and gave them the right to publish theire work without paying anything to Sun.
Because that license give Sun the right to use the modification in theire own codebase, Sun can do what they did. What they cannot do is remove the copyright notice from code written by the blackdown team.
Now is it a good move from Sun, I don't think so. But the Blackdown project did nothing to protect themself.
Now the blackdown project has to re-evaluate their mission. One thing that Sun will probably not do is write a JIT for every platform that Lunix run on. So maybe blackdown could concentrate on making the source compilable on many platform and to provide a JIT, which can be written from scratch so Sun cannot advertise it as their own, for the different platform.
I don't know if someone else notice, but the Sun release run with green threads as default. It seems that they did not incorporate the new threading code that is present in the blackdown release.
I think that the legal (also ethical) responsability is the user of the software.
But the creator of the software is responsible in an ethical manner. That if he wrote the software for study purpose in a controlled environment, it's ok, it's just research. On the other hand, if he wrote the software and made it availlable to everyone without the intent of doing research, the he is responsible for the use of the software (legally what i've just said is worth nothing).
We can make a parallel with nuclear weapons. The intent to create a nuclear weapon is to enable someone to use it to kill people (no, nuclear weapon will not defend anybody... Killing a bunch - a bug one - of civils is not an act of defence). So the manufacturer is responsible for the use of the weapon (ethical). It is unethical for someone to build nuclear weapons because their only purpose is to do something that is unethical.
So writing software that do nasty thing with the only intent of releasing it in the wild is unethical. Writing software that do nasty things to be released in a controlled environment (and at the same time writting counter-measure) is ethical.
The seti@home people don't seem to understand the "distribution" principle.
They could easily open the source of the client (and the server) without comprisising the science.
The seti@home people understand nothing about security and authentification. It been proven by the fact that people with unauthorized client can upload stuff back to seti@home without them knowing that the result come from an unauthorized client. They have authentification!
seti@home could open the source and accept contribution from real programmer. Those contribution could be tested against theire test signals to be sure that the results they produce is valid. Afterward, they can merge the contribution into an OFFICIAL package.
By the mean of integrating authentification protocols into the client and the server, they could accept result only from official clients.
This would solve the problem of bad results.
Also, opening the source will ensure peer-revision of the way THEY implemented the algorithm. It seem that we must trust them for the correctness of the implementation.
Science is about peer review, opening the source code of the client AND the server will enable peer review. Peer review should not be only for science data, but also for the tools scientists use.
IMHO, The seti@home people DO NOT listen. They have hundreds of thousand active users and they do not listen or even respect them.
We give our computing power to them, they should at least give us some respect and listen to us!
> Soon enough, what we have won't be THAT much different.
Then it's up to you to make it different. That's the beauty of Open Source Software. You have the liberty of starting a project that will offer something different. JUST TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY!
First the gross salary is just a little part of the equation. You also have to look at the cost of life.
For example, in Silicon Valey, you will get a high salary, but you have to pay >500k for a decent house. In other part of the world you will get lower salary, but the cost of life is much lower. So in fact you can make a better living elsewhere.
Now to answer your question, in Montreal the mean salary for someone who is just out of the University is 40,000$CAN.
For people with 5 years of experience it can go from 50K to 90K ($CAN). This is relative to what technologies you have experience with and how aggressive you are when negociating your salary.
I know that IBM want to charge for Domino. But What I'd like to see is a free version (with something like 10-20 possible accounts limit) for the home user.
That would spread the use of Domino and increase the number of people who have knowledge on how the software work.
I would happily install Domino on my home server so I can easily create e-mail accounts for my familly members. I will also have the possibilty to use it as my webserver. It will be much more easier to use and administer that Apache/Sendmail.
There is probably no real new technology involved in this product. They probably put some more hardware to let the host cpu do less work than a traditional winmodem. They selected the hardware amelioration that would allow to reach the specific need of a gamer (less delay, faster decompression,...). Maybe they put some tibits to allow better connection reliability if the ISP is using 3COM modem.
The thing you have to be aware of, is that the analog modem market will probably shrink in the upcoming years (with the proliferation of cable and dsl modem). Also the modem technology has not evolved a lot in the past year (they are partilly blocked by the FCC). So to keep market share they have to use all kind of marketing technique to attract customer. One of the technique is to make the customer believe that they purchase something that fit theire special needs (in fact, they will probably market the same modem with a different product code and name to other market segment).
This is a well know marketing strategy when a market is saturated. They don't improve the product, they improve the packaging.
EJB is a really nice object-oriented distributed application framework.
It is extremely portable, anyone with real Java experience knows that Java portability on the server-side is excellent. In fact, I've been using BEA Weblogic server on NT, Solaris and Linux without any problem due to portability.
Some vendor offer really high-performance implementation, Weblogic for exaample. Clustering and fault-tolerance are becoming common on the high-end.
You have EJB server implementation wich cost 0$ up to 10,000$+ per cpu.
The actual really nice part about this framework, is that the stuff you develop will run as well on the small no cost EJB server up to the high-end one. The only thing that will change are the deployement attributes.
And with container managed entity-beans, you will no longer have to write a single SQL statement in your life!
For inter-langage interoperability, you can use CORBA to talk to most of the EJB server implementation. In fact Websphere use CORBA as it's protocol to talk to the beans.
This framework enable you to concentrate on the business logic instead of the plumbing.
Note that EJB 1.0 spec did not address some things that caused portability problem between different server, but the EJB 1.1 spec resolve most of these problems.
This technology is not perfect, but after using CORBA and EJB, I have to say that EJB is far more eassier to use and offer more portability than CORBA. It also enable one to develop application at least five time faster than with CORBA.
Before reading the article I was saying to myself : "Hey this is cool, another planet in the Solar System!"
After reading it, my mind had some doubt about the claims.
How by studying only 13 comets, could someone arg that he as found a planet wich is several Jupiter masses at such a large distance.
If he studied the path off known comets that already travel through the inner solar system, they certainly did nt travel far enough for their orbit to get significantly, in a observable way, altered bu such a distant object.
For 13 comets to be affected by this distant object, they should all have similar orbits. If one comet as an elongated orbit wich is oposite of this object, it's orbit will not be affected in an observable way.
In the light that Jupiter may have nuclear reaction in it's core (some theory exist about that possibility) an object with several Jupiter masses willl certainly have nuclear reaction in it's core and would emit some kind of radiation. At such a close distance from the Sun, it would certainly have been discovered long ago. We are able to observe brown dwarves at much longer distance.
With a "six million" years orbit, no one can say that it is, in fact, orbiting the Sun (especially for an object that has not been observed).
Finally, such a big object will certainly not be a planet, but some kind of star.
In the shadow of all these doubt, I'll wait for the paper to be presented next week. Then I'll will listen to the comments of other scientist.
There is a similar idea published in SciAm in 1998
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Hi there,
A similar idea made by Xerox has been published in Scientific American in 1998.
Xerox did an actual implementation of a black and white paper thin display. The technologie use tiny plastic balls that are activated by electric current. The nice thing about this is that when the power goes off, the display stay in the state is was; it does not fade-out.
They claim they can achieve a 220 dot per inch resolution with a size of up to one foot square.
First they add to apply several service pack on the NT box. By doing so they add to reboot many times.
They could have installed the 21 patch for the linux box without rebooting once.
Second, they say that an enterprise custommer will not apply 21 patch. Did they ever talk to a Solaris SysAdmin? To make Solaris usable, you do have to install many patches. If you install the latest JDK on Solaris you have to install between 5 and 10 patches, who knows how many patch are required to make Solaris secure?
The second point is there just to show that YES, an enterprise customer WILL apply many patches to make it's system work like he want it to work.
But they still have a point. Linux need a more convenient way to be updated without having to download many RPM then installing them.
The RPM package manager is good, but it far from being an excellent way to install application and patches.
What Linux need is some stuff arround RPMs (or DEBs). This will be a way to access a repository of RPMs to automatically download (asking first would be a good idea) any dependencies. This woulld allow one to create a RPM with nothing in it but dependencies. So one install this RPM and all the other RPM refered in it will be downloaded and installed.
We also need something like InstallShield. That is a front end to the package manager that ask for destination directories, display reaadme files, etc.
This will allow a much easier way to install new application where the user want them to be.
Finally distribution vendor should do what microsoft do. Service pack! They could put all the 21 security patches RPMs into a.tar and call it Security Service Pack 1. Then when, other patches are added, they could release SSP 2, etc.
This will allow one who do care about security, but not enough to constantly look for new patches, to have a fairly secure system easily. And this would not give any excuses to ZDNet and the like about not installing security patches.
What Corel did was perfectly legal. The license they had will apply for everything that is not already licensed with GPL.
That mean that all the code that is GPLed in the release can be legally copied and distributed. The code that is not GPLed is NOT.
Corel is doing a lot of good thing for Linux. The improvement they made to the Corel distribution will be far more important for linux acceptability beyong the GPL freaks. They've done a lot more to improve Linux usability that any other linux distribution!
Stop freaking about GPL, it's not an end, it's just a tool to achive an end.
I believe that Corel is doing the right thing AND they WILL RELEASE the source code when they release the distribution.
Anyway most of the people who are flaming Corel right now will not even look at the code and will be even less likely to modify it.
Corel... Listen to me, stick with your restricted license until you release you code and don't listen to the GPL freak (wich do nothing to improve linux)!
The movie "Forteress" with Christofe Lambert pictured people with bar code as ids. I think also that in Alien 3 there is some bare code ids on the prisonners.
The patent was filled in 1996 and these movies date before that.
Look's like the patent office clerk do not watch movies!
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I think it's a big mistake for an organisation or a consortium that create standards to include patented technology.
If one member of the consortium has patented technology that it want inserted in the standard, they should give the consortium all rights to the patent. The consortium, it turn, should make the technology availlable at no cost to all the consortium members.
It's becoming more and more common that a company offer technology to a standard body whitout telling anybody that they hold a patent on it. They a couple of years later, when the standard it being used by a lot of people, they requires licensing fees.
This should stop... Standard bodies and consortium should have rules to prevent that.
I develop with Java since the end of 1995 (Java 1.0 Beta2).
Over the years, I have seen a drastic increase of performance of the JVM.
Now I have to disagree with you. In multithreading application I have seen Java beform better than C++. The application where build by the same person and used the same architecture. (The guy was a beginner in Java and experimented in C++.)
Currently I develop server-side component based (EJB) application (using application server written in Java - WebLogic) and batch processes written in Java. I can say that they perform really well.
From my experience, by coding carefully you can achieve wonderfull performance. We add a batch application must process 6 to 12 millions of record per day (and do a lot of processing on each records). The first version of the batch was doing 7 record per seconds (di not meet our requirements) by optimizing the code and changing algorythm we went to > 300 record per second.
Maybe we could gain a 10% to 20% more speed if we rewrote the whole thing in C++. But it would take at least twice the time to develop and will not be as stable as the Java version.
I conceed that Java is a little bit slower that c++ (not in all cases) but the gain in programmer productivity and stability is really worth it.
How the release of a utility by someone can be News for Nerds: Stuff that matters.
Go ahead and pollute us with product announcement that will affect the life of absolutly nobody!
I'm gonna be moderated down, but I don't care this headline is News for Nobody: Stuff we do not care.
1. Most the things will be the same as last year. .001% of the world population. :-) ).
2. Some tibits will change annd make a difference in the life of
3. Y2K++ will be trademarked and Hyped as the REAL millennium (i got the spelling right
First, standard computer board will not tolerated the temperature difference and all the static charge caused by environmental factors. You need an industrial strenght board to sustain outside conditions.
Second, the best 'cheap' solution would be to use a laptop computer put in a multi-layer box (multiple layer will give you better insulation). You have to find a way to let the air flow at a good rate while keeping dust, water, snow, etc outside.
Why the latop is a good 'cheap' solution, they are made to sustain high temperature change (at least when they are off), they can systain a certain amount of humidity and they are designed to consume less power and release less heat.
Asimov do rules...
He wrote more than 500 hundred books, most of them where not science-fiction at all. He wrote science books for adults and children. That's not counting the miriads of smaller piece of work.
He became a Nebula Grand Master in 1987 (or 1986).
Also his foundation series sparked a bunch of other writers who wrote stories related to the foundation series.
I don't know of anybody else in the history that wrote so many piece of work in his life that Isaac asimov did.
The Positronic Man
Being a great fan of Isaac Asimov, I wanted to see that movie.
So I went last Saturday to see it.
I was impressed that the movie was really close to the novel. Often when novel are made into a movie, the substance that make it good just disappear. That was not the case this time.
There were good humor (but it was not hilarous - expect for 1 or 2 scenes) and a lot of sensibility. The questions raised by this movie where that same as is the novel. It make you think about ethics and what make a human being.
There were some error in the movie. In particular even if the 3 laws of robotics are enumerated in the begining, they were violated at some occasions.
I really recommend this movie to any Isaac Asimov fan and everyone else. My wife like that movie very much even if she's neutral abou science-fiction.
> Richard Stallman is the original developer of what became the Linux OS
The author of the article seem to give credit to Richard Stallman for creating Linux.
Maybe he could at least have the record straigh and give Linus T. some credits.
I don't think that they fear any date related problem.
What they do really fear is when Y2K turn, the computer will switch to the metric system.
This could confuse the astraunots and mission control and cause a big shuttle crash on New York when the coutdown reach 0.
This could cause the Great Extinction of The US Measurment System.
NASA really don't want that to happen.
Sun probably gave the, to blackdown, source under theire community license and gave them the right to publish theire work without paying anything to Sun.
Because that license give Sun the right to use the modification in theire own codebase, Sun can do what they did. What they cannot do is remove the copyright notice from code written by the blackdown team.
Now is it a good move from Sun, I don't think so. But the Blackdown project did nothing to protect themself.
Now the blackdown project has to re-evaluate their mission. One thing that Sun will probably not do is write a JIT for every platform that Lunix run on. So maybe blackdown could concentrate on making the source compilable on many platform and to provide a JIT, which can be written from scratch so Sun cannot advertise it as their own, for the different platform.
I don't know if someone else notice, but the Sun release run with green threads as default. It seems that they did not incorporate the new threading code that is present in the blackdown release.
Hi,
I think that the legal (also ethical) responsability is the user of the software.
But the creator of the software is responsible in an ethical manner. That if he wrote the software for study purpose in a controlled environment, it's ok, it's just research. On the other hand, if he wrote the software and made it availlable to everyone without the intent of doing research, the he is responsible for the use of the software (legally what i've just said is worth nothing).
We can make a parallel with nuclear weapons. The intent to create a nuclear weapon is to enable someone to use it to kill people (no, nuclear weapon will not defend anybody... Killing a bunch - a bug one - of civils is not an act of defence). So the manufacturer is responsible for the use of the weapon (ethical). It is unethical for someone to build nuclear weapons because their only purpose is to do something that is unethical.
So writing software that do nasty thing with the only intent of releasing it in the wild is unethical. Writing software that do nasty things to be released in a controlled environment (and at the same time writting counter-measure) is ethical.
Seti@home is NOT listening!
The seti@home people don't seem to understand the "distribution" principle.
They could easily open the source of the client (and the server) without comprisising the science.
The seti@home people understand nothing about security and authentification. It been proven by the fact that people with unauthorized client can upload stuff back to seti@home without them knowing that the result come from an unauthorized client. They have authentification!
seti@home could open the source and accept contribution from real programmer. Those contribution could be tested against theire test signals to be sure that the results they produce is valid. Afterward, they can merge the contribution into an OFFICIAL package.
By the mean of integrating authentification protocols into the client and the server, they could accept result only from official clients.
This would solve the problem of bad results.
Also, opening the source will ensure peer-revision of the way THEY implemented the algorithm. It seem that we must trust them for the correctness of the implementation.
Science is about peer review, opening the source code of the client AND the server will enable peer review. Peer review should not be only for science data, but also for the tools scientists use.
IMHO, The seti@home people DO NOT listen. They have hundreds of thousand active users and they do not listen or even respect them.
We give our computing power to them, they should at least give us some respect and listen to us!
> Soon enough, what we have won't be THAT much different.
Then it's up to you to make it different. That's the beauty of Open Source Software. You have the liberty of starting a project that will offer something different. JUST TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY!
Hi,
First the gross salary is just a little part of the equation. You also have to look at the cost of life.
For example, in Silicon Valey, you will get a high salary, but you have to pay >500k for a decent house. In other part of the world you will get lower salary, but the cost of life is much lower. So in fact you can make a better living elsewhere.
Now to answer your question, in Montreal the mean salary for someone who is just out of the University is 40,000$CAN.
For people with 5 years of experience it can go from 50K to 90K ($CAN). This is relative to what technologies you have experience with and how aggressive you are when negociating your salary.
I know that IBM want to charge for Domino. But What I'd like to see is a free version (with something like 10-20 possible accounts limit) for the home user.
That would spread the use of Domino and increase the number of people who have knowledge on how the software work.
I would happily install Domino on my home server so I can easily create e-mail accounts for my familly members. I will also have the possibilty to use it as my webserver. It will be much more easier to use and administer that Apache/Sendmail.
I think that prior art exist since a long time for sliding window.
:-)
In fact, the whole Y2K issue is because of this technique.
Using only two digit to represent years for 19th century is a sliding window, we just forgot to slide it
The begining of the sliding window is 0 and the end is 99.
So prior art exist since we use the two digit system to represent years.
There is probably no real new technology involved in this product. ...).
They probably put some more hardware to let the host cpu do less work than a traditional winmodem. They selected the hardware amelioration that would allow to reach the specific need of a gamer (less delay, faster decompression,
Maybe they put some tibits to allow better connection reliability if the ISP is using 3COM modem.
The thing you have to be aware of, is that the analog modem market will probably shrink in the upcoming years (with the proliferation of cable and dsl modem). Also the modem technology has not evolved a lot in the past year (they are partilly blocked by the FCC). So to keep market share they have to use all kind of marketing technique to attract customer. One of the technique is to make the customer believe that they purchase something that fit theire special needs (in fact, they will probably market the same modem with a different product code and name to other market segment).
This is a well know marketing strategy when a market is saturated. They don't improve the product, they improve the packaging.
SeeU
I completely agree with you...
EJB is a really nice object-oriented distributed application framework.
It is extremely portable, anyone with real Java experience knows that Java portability on the server-side is excellent. In fact, I've been using BEA Weblogic server on NT, Solaris and Linux without any problem due to portability.
Some vendor offer really high-performance implementation, Weblogic for exaample. Clustering and fault-tolerance are becoming common on the high-end.
You have EJB server implementation wich cost 0$ up to 10,000$+ per cpu.
The actual really nice part about this framework, is that the stuff you develop will run as well on the small no cost EJB server up to the high-end one. The only thing that will change are the deployement attributes.
And with container managed entity-beans, you will no longer have to write a single SQL statement in your life!
For inter-langage interoperability, you can use CORBA to talk to most of the EJB server implementation. In fact Websphere use CORBA as it's protocol to talk to the beans.
This framework enable you to concentrate on the business logic instead of the plumbing.
Note that EJB 1.0 spec did not address some things that caused portability problem between different server, but the EJB 1.1 spec resolve most of these problems.
This technology is not perfect, but after using CORBA and EJB, I have to say that EJB is far more eassier to use and offer more portability than CORBA. It also enable one to develop application at least five time faster than with CORBA.
Before reading the article I was saying to myself : "Hey this is cool, another planet in the Solar System!"
After reading it, my mind had some doubt about the claims.
How by studying only 13 comets, could someone arg that he as found a planet wich is several Jupiter masses at such a large distance.
If he studied the path off known comets that already travel through the inner solar system, they certainly did nt travel far enough for their orbit to get significantly, in a observable way, altered bu such a distant object.
For 13 comets to be affected by this distant object, they should all have similar orbits. If one comet as an elongated orbit wich is oposite of this object, it's orbit will not be affected in an observable way.
In the light that Jupiter may have nuclear reaction in it's core (some theory exist about that possibility) an object with several Jupiter masses willl certainly have nuclear reaction in it's core and would emit some kind of radiation. At such a close distance from the Sun, it would certainly have been discovered long ago. We are able to observe brown dwarves at much longer distance.
With a "six million" years orbit, no one can say that it is, in fact, orbiting the Sun (especially for an object that has not been observed).
Finally, such a big object will certainly not be a planet, but some kind of star.
In the shadow of all these doubt, I'll wait for the paper to be presented next week. Then I'll will listen to the comments of other scientist.
A similar idea made by Xerox has been published in Scientific American in 1998.
Xerox did an actual implementation of a black and white paper thin display. The technologie use tiny plastic balls that are activated by electric current. The nice thing about this is that when the power goes off, the display stay in the state is was; it does not fade-out.
They claim they can achieve a 220 dot per inch resolution with a size of up to one foot square.
Take a look at this technology here.
First they add to apply several service pack on the NT box. By doing so they add to reboot many times.
.tar and call it Security Service Pack 1. Then when, other patches are added, they could release SSP 2, etc.
They could have installed the 21 patch for the linux box without rebooting once.
Second, they say that an enterprise custommer will not apply 21 patch. Did they ever talk to a Solaris SysAdmin? To make Solaris usable, you do have to install many patches. If you install the latest JDK on Solaris you have to install between 5 and 10 patches, who knows how many patch are required to make Solaris secure?
The second point is there just to show that YES, an enterprise customer WILL apply many patches to make it's system work like he want it to work.
But they still have a point. Linux need a more convenient way to be updated without having to download many RPM then installing them.
The RPM package manager is good, but it far from being an excellent way to install application and patches.
What Linux need is some stuff arround RPMs (or DEBs). This will be a way to access a repository of RPMs to automatically download (asking first would be a good idea) any dependencies. This woulld allow one to create a RPM with nothing in it but dependencies. So one install this RPM and all the other RPM refered in it will be downloaded and installed.
We also need something like InstallShield. That is a front end to the package manager that ask for destination directories, display reaadme files, etc.
This will allow a much easier way to install new application where the user want them to be.
Finally distribution vendor should do what microsoft do. Service pack! They could put all the 21 security patches RPMs into a
This will allow one who do care about security, but not enough to constantly look for new patches, to have a fairly secure system easily. And this would not give any excuses to ZDNet and the like about not installing security patches.
SeeU All!
Nasa should send the people who used the english unit system off the planet for forever.
Since when a scientific experiment use english units. The ONLY standard in scientific research is the metric system.
I can't believe they lost a spacecraft because of that kind of error. They should be awarded the Dummy of the year award!
Shut UP!
What Corel did was perfectly legal. The license they had will apply for everything that is not already licensed with GPL.
That mean that all the code that is GPLed in the release can be legally copied and distributed. The code that is not GPLed is NOT.
Corel is doing a lot of good thing for Linux. The improvement they made to the Corel distribution will be far more important for linux acceptability beyong the GPL freaks. They've done a lot more to improve Linux usability that any other linux distribution!
Stop freaking about GPL, it's not an end, it's just a tool to achive an end.
I believe that Corel is doing the right thing AND they WILL RELEASE the source code when they release the distribution.
Anyway most of the people who are flaming Corel right now will not even look at the code and will be even less likely to modify it.
Corel... Listen to me, stick with your restricted license until you release you code and don't listen to the GPL freak (wich do nothing to improve linux)!
Now go ahead you freaks and flame me!
The patent will not old up in court.
The movie "Forteress" with Christofe Lambert pictured people with bar code as ids. I think also that in Alien 3 there is some bare code ids on the prisonners.
The patent was filled in 1996 and these movies date before that.
Look's like the patent office clerk do not watch movies!