That may be true, but I found that in my apartment, leaving the computer on 24/7 accounts for a full 1/3 of my power usage. No reason to waste that power.
We must act now to place paper tape, punch card and hardcopy of all free software in a deep mine shaft. Then after civilization is rebuilt, the only software that will be left will be free software. We can not let there be a source code gap!!
Mein Fuhrer, I can code!!
This analysis is too symplistic. Wind river could develop an interface that allows Linux to run under/over/inbetween their RTOS. They can release the source and specifications for this interface. Anyone who wants to come along and adapt their RTOS to make use of this interface is free to do so.
But at the same time, thay will not have to open source one line of their RTOS.
Interesting ideas. Had medeval monks had the power and desire to, would they have opposed the printing press?
I think Microsoft may have something though: If a free version of software exists, there will be no economic incentive for someone to go out and make a commercial version unless the commercial version is significantly better than the free one.
I don't see this as a problem, except for the companies that make money selling mediocre software. Business will be able to take advantage of free software to build their own in-house solutions, and software companies will have to concentrate on a few really good products instead of many so-so ones.
Companies that depend on fewer products are more risky, but even Microsoft with the hundreds of titles it sells has a volatile stock price. There is also a risk that the commercial titles will be more expensive as a result. But if they become too expensive, free software will serve as a check on the price.
Accoring to Eric Raymond, most of the software developers out there work on in-house systems anyway, so it is a boon to the greatest number of programmers.
I think William S. Burroughs one said "Word is a virus" How prophetical:)
I had almost the opposite experience, at least in high school. My Lit teachers especially tried to stimulate discussion and prodded the discussion along by bringing up controversial points. When it seemed that the whole class was in agreement, they would bring up a dissenting opinion.
One teacher even had a list of books that she planned to teach from her last year. All of them condemned by the school district (Steppenwolf, naked lunch, and a few others I can't remember right now). She felt that it would be worth it to go out with a bang.
Why should they give away the VHDL or verilog compiler when folks are willing to pay for it? There are a few open source verilog tools, but they don't take you far enough to give you something you can program a chip with.
It's almost like we have the tools to compile to assembly, but no assembler. And in this case, the assembler is a much more difficult thing to build than the compiler portion. Perhaps an even better analogy would be to java. There are open source tools to compile java into jvm assembly, but if you don't have a java runtime package for your desired platform, this doesn't do you much good.
Their code may be open source, but I don't think this means that anyone out there could use an "open source path" to implement this for themselves. By this, I mean that given only open source tools, the propper hardware and their verilog code, I don't think I could get this thing programmed up and running because some of the critical tools needed along the way are not open source.
I'd love to hear different from anyone in the know.
Yep, I think all the intellectual property that comes out of Darpa and American universities should go to Microsoft. Wait, I mean it should go to the taxpayers who support these institutions.
The internet, UNIX, Linux -- These would not exist in their present forms if their inventors had kept them proprietary. Of course, Microsoft would love this. Why surf the web for the information you want when you can buy it on a Microsoft CD? Why run a free and open operating system on your machine when there is Windows?
First of all, this could be a huge benefit to space explaoration as bone loss has always been a major hazard. I think the best time to do this might be during sleep. You could outfit each sleeping unit with a little platform under the feet that would be pulled snug against them with a spring or elastic. This might also reduce the amount of time astronauts have to spend exercising in space, freeing them up to accomplish more things on a mission.
Not to mention all the benefits that might result for those here on earth as well. I believe there are several diseases that result in loss of bone mass, in addition to the effects of aging and menopause.
As an intermediate, I would think that programmable logic would be a big boost to computing. This could go in an add-on card, on the motherboard, or even on the CPU die. When you want to view jpegs, it gets configured as a jpeg accelerator. When you want to generate an MD5 digest, it gets configured for this.
There are already companies working on this. At the design automation conference, I saw a company that was working with an addon card that would accelerate different algorithms. And it ran under Linux!!
RTC magazine just had an article on the 5 big technologies. One of these was Linux, and the predicted 6th technology is CPUs with embedded FPGA.
There are many cases where sports are zero sum games. The best example I can think of is basketball. If a team has posession of the ball, they are depriving the other team of the ability to score points. If the score is close, and the team with the ball is up by 1 point with only a few seconds remaining, they will probably run out the clock to keep the other team from having a chance to score. There are rules to the game to keep the first team with a lead from just sitting on the ball until the game is over, but in sports, something like taking turns at play can become an element of strategy. In other games, you may annoy the other players, but you are not depriving them of anything by slowing play.
This is really no different from an alarm system. If a home or business alarm system is triggered, police may be sent to check on the situation. If they get there and it was a false alarm, they file a report and that is the end of it. This is just a silent and more sophisticated alarm.
I don't know about the rest of the country, but California only took an imprint of my right thumb. All I have to do is remember not to handle anything with my right thumb and I'll be OK:)
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The thing I found most interesting was the part about hot swaping memory and cpus. Because Linux wasn't designed with this in mind, it will never happen? Give me a break. UNIX wasn't originally designed with networking, a GUI or multiprocessor support (many other things too). These things have all been added over the years and they work very well.
Apart from hardware that supports it, how does NT support hot swapping CPUs and memory? Seems like a neat trick, if it doesn't end up costing you more than a second backup system would:) Anyone out there know how this works?
There are a couple second run theaters in my area that tend to run things that aren't going to make tons of money in megeplexes. Plus, a few of them are locally owned, family businesses. For 6 bucks, you can see a double feature. The popcorn tastes better, too.
The problem is that the "bad guys" may be more resourceful than those working for the government. Also, any code review might have been made under the assumption that this source code would not available to the attackers. Finally, consider this: the source code was lifted from Microsoft's site, Microsoft presumably knows their own software better than anyone and should be best able to secure it. If their site was compromised, how secure should other sites feel that don't have the "Home OS advantage"?
IBM is supposedly releasing its magnetic ram technology in a few years. This is like core memory (needs no refresh, non-volitile). If the OS knew that the memory was non-volatile, it could do everything needed to be used as TRAM.
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That may be true, but I found that in my apartment, leaving the computer on 24/7 accounts for a full 1/3 of my power usage. No reason to waste that power.
We must act now to place paper tape, punch card and hardcopy of all free software in a deep mine shaft. Then after civilization is rebuilt, the only software that will be left will be free software. We can not let there be a source code gap!! Mein Fuhrer, I can code!!
This analysis is too symplistic. Wind river could develop an interface that allows Linux to run under/over/inbetween their RTOS. They can release the source and specifications for this interface. Anyone who wants to come along and adapt their RTOS to make use of this interface is free to do so.
But at the same time, thay will not have to open source one line of their RTOS.
Interesting ideas. Had medeval monks had the power and desire to, would they have opposed the printing press?
:)
I think Microsoft may have something though: If a free version of software exists, there will be no economic incentive for someone to go out and make a commercial version unless the commercial version is significantly better than the free one.
I don't see this as a problem, except for the companies that make money selling mediocre software. Business will be able to take advantage of free software to build their own in-house solutions, and software companies will have to concentrate on a few really good products instead of many so-so ones.
Companies that depend on fewer products are more risky, but even Microsoft with the hundreds of titles it sells has a volatile stock price. There is also a risk that the commercial titles will be more expensive as a result. But if they become too expensive, free software will serve as a check on the price.
Accoring to Eric Raymond, most of the software developers out there work on in-house systems anyway, so it is a boon to the greatest number of programmers.
I think William S. Burroughs one said "Word is a virus" How prophetical
Bravo. I've never seen such a good parody of Micro$peak. You don't work for them, do you?
I had almost the opposite experience, at least in high school. My Lit teachers especially tried to stimulate discussion and prodded the discussion along by bringing up controversial points. When it seemed that the whole class was in agreement, they would bring up a dissenting opinion.
One teacher even had a list of books that she planned to teach from her last year. All of them condemned by the school district (Steppenwolf, naked lunch, and a few others I can't remember right now). She felt that it would be worth it to go out with a bang.
Why should they give away the VHDL or verilog compiler when folks are willing to pay for it? There are a few open source verilog tools, but they don't take you far enough to give you something you can program a chip with.
It's almost like we have the tools to compile to assembly, but no assembler. And in this case, the assembler is a much more difficult thing to build than the compiler portion. Perhaps an even better analogy would be to java. There are open source tools to compile java into jvm assembly, but if you don't have a java runtime package for your desired platform, this doesn't do you much good.
Their code may be open source, but I don't think this means that anyone out there could use an "open source path" to implement this for themselves. By this, I mean that given only open source tools, the propper hardware and their verilog code, I don't think I could get this thing programmed up and running because some of the critical tools needed along the way are not open source.
I'd love to hear different from anyone in the know.
"Facts schmacts. Facts can be used to prove anything that's remotely true."
-- Homer Simpson
Q: Are you now, or were you ever a member of the FSF?
A: no
Q: Are you now or have you ever written free software?
A: yes, I wrote several apache modules used by the senate's web server.
Q: oh, well, I , er...
Yep, I think all the intellectual property that comes out of Darpa and American universities should go to Microsoft. Wait, I mean it should go to the taxpayers who support these institutions.
The internet, UNIX, Linux -- These would not exist in their present forms if their inventors had kept them proprietary. Of course, Microsoft would love this. Why surf the web for the information you want when you can buy it on a Microsoft CD? Why run a free and open operating system on your machine when there is Windows?
First of all, this could be a huge benefit to space explaoration as bone loss has always been a major hazard. I think the best time to do this might be during sleep. You could outfit each sleeping unit with a little platform under the feet that would be pulled snug against them with a spring or elastic. This might also reduce the amount of time astronauts have to spend exercising in space, freeing them up to accomplish more things on a mission.
Not to mention all the benefits that might result for those here on earth as well. I believe there are several diseases that result in loss of bone mass, in addition to the effects of aging and menopause.
As an intermediate, I would think that programmable logic would be a big boost to computing. This could go in an add-on card, on the motherboard, or even on the CPU die. When you want to view jpegs, it gets configured as a jpeg accelerator. When you want to generate an MD5 digest, it gets configured for this.
There are already companies working on this. At the design automation conference, I saw a company that was working with an addon card that would accelerate different algorithms. And it ran under Linux!!
RTC magazine just had an article on the 5 big technologies. One of these was Linux, and the predicted 6th technology is CPUs with embedded FPGA.
There are many cases where sports are zero sum games. The best example I can think of is basketball. If a team has posession of the ball, they are depriving the other team of the ability to score points. If the score is close, and the team with the ball is up by 1 point with only a few seconds remaining, they will probably run out the clock to keep the other team from having a chance to score. There are rules to the game to keep the first team with a lead from just sitting on the ball until the game is over, but in sports, something like taking turns at play can become an element of strategy. In other games, you may annoy the other players, but you are not depriving them of anything by slowing play.
This is really no different from an alarm system. If a home or business alarm system is triggered, police may be sent to check on the situation. If they get there and it was a false alarm, they file a report and that is the end of it. This is just a silent and more sophisticated alarm.
I don't know about the rest of the country, but California only took an imprint of my right thumb. All I have to do is remember not to handle anything with my right thumb and I'll be OK :)
The thing I found most interesting was the part about hot swaping memory and cpus. Because Linux wasn't designed with this in mind, it will never happen? Give me a break. UNIX wasn't originally designed with networking, a GUI or multiprocessor support (many other things too). These things have all been added over the years and they work very well.
:) Anyone out there know how this works?
Apart from hardware that supports it, how does NT support hot swapping CPUs and memory? Seems like a neat trick, if it doesn't end up costing you more than a second backup system would
Given the right "equipment", I could make something that is a 50% clone of myself for much less than $50,000.
Hear Hear.
There are a couple second run theaters in my area that tend to run things that aren't going to make tons of money in megeplexes. Plus, a few of them are locally owned, family businesses. For 6 bucks, you can see a double feature. The popcorn tastes better, too.
I just downloaded linux-2.4.0.tar.bz2 from kernel.org. Perhaps you tried earlier than I did.
Or, imagine what would happen if one of these were to be set off next to a major hospital.
The problem is that the "bad guys" may be more resourceful than those working for the government. Also, any code review might have been made under the assumption that this source code would not available to the attackers. Finally, consider this: the source code was lifted from Microsoft's site, Microsoft presumably knows their own software better than anyone and should be best able to secure it. If their site was compromised, how secure should other sites feel that don't have the "Home OS advantage"?
Hey, beter to test out java on a website than to put it on a space probe :)
IBM is supposedly releasing its magnetic ram technology in a few years. This is like core memory (needs no refresh, non-volitile). If the OS knew that the memory was non-volatile, it could do everything needed to be used as TRAM.
I like the term collusion rather than participation. Just like any oligopoly, if one party is missing, it loses its power.