In harsh economic times, hardware manufacturers look for savings and one of the biggest savings possible in software licences. You can try shoving that cost of to retailers and wholesalers but at the end of the day when it comes to end users dollars, making it available to the customer in a fully functioning state in the most cost effective way possible can mean the difference between winning and losing.
Once manufacturers go open source on the software, it makes it a simpler lets compete on hardware marketing playing field and wipe out software licensing costs.
It was always inevitable, which was why smart software companies made a push to become internet companies when they were cashed up (some failed at it and are still failing) but, it would have been really stupid not to make the change and even stupider to claim you should never had tried it just because it made you look incompetent.
I thought the appropriate term for nuclear parity was 'MAD', just as any discussion about winning or losing once you start tossing around nuclear weapons is also 'MAD'.
Any invasion of Taiwan by China would have to be diplomatically acceptable rather than a contest or arms. Any extreme militaristic action by China would be viewed as a global threat and as such threatens all countries, as a result of escalation.
Apart from bluff and bluster, with the odd occasional egoistic rants from the autocrats who run China, those self same autocrats are far more concerned about feeding their lusts and egos than getting involved in a war where they most certainly will be personally targeted.
That is the whole idea about precision targeting of munitions, target the leadership who would use them, well at least that should be the idea in order to really promote peace.
I think you really and I mean really fail to grasp them principle of open source software "The Android Open Source Project". At any time, 'The Geek' can take it and change it to behave more like "The Geek' wants it to behave, in the mean time closed source propriety software dominance outside of games is 'DEAD', 'The Geek" wins.
At no time has anyone (a part from insiders whose jobs are at stake) demanded that any particular distribution, graphical user interface, browser, office suit et al must win, just that free open source software must win. What shape, form or pattern that takes, when it takes or for how long each variant exist, dominates and the wanes is arbitrary as long as you can 'Chose To Change' what ever it is you want to change.
The idea at one stage, was to use all those productivity gains to reduce the amount of time a worker needed to work. Of course the rich and greedy being insatiably greedy put paid to that idea, preferring to line their own pockets instead with all those productivity gains and calling workers greedy and lazy for daring to want a share of those productivity gains. Simply the majority got foolishly screwed over by the psychopathic minority.
More importantly if you are going to do that, then your damages claim must be realistic. In this case in can be readily calculated as it was a free to access story published online with the only revenue being actual add revenue earned as a result of people viewing that particular page. The damages claim would then have to calculated upon what more add revenue would have been earned for that free to access page had the defendant web site not published a portion of that story.
Now if web site value is based upon number of page views and add revenue, then claims for damages for copying 4 paragraphs of one page, should not be the complete web site plus $150,000 without any substantiation of actual losses incurred.
The judge is obviously infuriated at being used as part of an extortion racket, where the claim simply blackmail to force the defendant to settle out of court for a lesser sum.
I would also think, it is taking a tongue in cheek poke at M$ for their marketing exercise in claiming that anyone that used open source software was a open source religious zealot. M$ did it for years in any media they could access, in order to make those people who recommended open source look bad and threaten their careers unless they complied with M$ corporate marketing decisions.
Crawl out of that cave, the reason is purely tied to the way it was and of course putting false value in certain currencies in order to manipulate global fiscal control.
A few countries can work together to control global markets and by printing make believe money (they don't even bother to print it any more they just create the digital illusion) seize the real assets of other countries via corrupt and criminal financial organisations.
That financial fantasy is now being questioned, whether it is of benefit or simply a global criminal enterprise. Countries should be exchanging resources for resources, with only minor fiscal arrangements, this of course would cripple certain countries (those that are consuming far more resources than they produce) and turn their currencies into third world funny money, perhaps that is as it should be.
Who gives as crap what that do in space, as long as they drive the 21st century space race we all win. That is what counts, getting up there and touching all those worlds within our solar system.
Better competing in peace, than to be chastised by external forces for extending our psychopathic wars beyond boundaries that would not be accepted.
China's growth into the exploration of our space, is still our, humanities expression of touching the future. Let's drop the racist, prejudiced and, primitive view of humanities future. Let's not let colour, slant of eye or religion limit our exploration out into a waiting galaxy and universe. A universe awaits, what ever drives the competition for humanity to touch the universe is to be celebrated geeks and nerds alike, fuck the wars and fuck the fear.
We, as computer geeks, retain the right to comment upon, criticise, repudiate, chastise and, ridicule any decision, judgement or conclusion made by any one, at any time, now past present of future? as so feeds our shared intellectual mood.
That one can be considered to intellectually defined to be considered for policing duties, is always to be condemned, reviled and mocked, whether past, present or future?.
Oh gees, come on and wake up to the twenty first century reality, oh my, I can't calculate and reference global currency exchange rates upon all currencies simultaneously. Shit, that is what computers and the internet is so easily capable of. Really, what is more readily able to be calculated, risked and foretasted, other than global currency exchange rates.
The internet killed the marketing built around the US dollar, get over it all ready, direct country to country currency exchange via the internet is the only thing that makes sense. Why every other country in the world should feed the distorted sense of US 'entitlement' by supporting it's Republican crippled currency, is just so 20th century cold war 'Fucking Crazy'.
There is no currency that stands supreme in the 20th century whether it be the Russian Ruble, the Euro, the Australian dollar or China's Renminbi, there is absolutely no reason it should not all be traded directly. Really it is so patheitcally globally distorted to prop up the US fantasy reserve based upon imaginary capital debt value economy.
From a SSD it still has to be loaded up and put into active memory, with a programmable cpu it could already be there and ready to go, the second power on is achieved. Plus there is the possibility of performance gain with a parallel processor OS.
It all seem to be nothing more than an exercise in marketing. M$ is just cranky that the majority of people are no longer upgrading their OS and simply sticking with the one that came with the system (ignoring all the dual booters, that's a whole other issues), especially those that upgraded from Vista to XP (what a Ballmer bungle that was).
So M$ is getting mocked for once again attacking it's own customers when they refuse to tow the corporate marketing and profit yarn. Consider how many other software companies produce software that specifically wont run on windows XP (even the softies now call it stale piss). PS it certainly doesn't seem like ten years ago when M$ were forced to revitalise XP to stay in the netbook market because of the Vista failure.
Likely Oracle is looking to make a much greater internet push and rebuilding some of the damage done to it's public image by seeking to monetise it's purchase of Sun, will be aided by rebuilding the OpenOffice community and maybe even donating the domain Sun, to humanities efforts in space.
Some people of course lack the wherewithal to make sound judgements and more readily believe the falsities put forward by unregulated gambling houses. So laws to protect them are quite reasonable.
Let's be honest, it isn't and never was gambling once the odds where tilted in favour of so called gambling houses, from on side (those with the odds in their favour) it's properly called cheating and from the other side (the mug punter) it's called losing. It is high time that gambling was forced equally.
More accurately it's the police state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state, which is reflected in loss of freedoms and liberty. In this case criticism of the state will likely result in not only you but also you family including children being physically and sexually assaulted. They are already looking to extend these programs to all other modes of transport and places where people congregate, so the physical punishment and degradation of you relatives especially minors could extend to any place even schools.
Now add in extended detention with out trial for being accused of terrorism, considering the definition of terrorism has been wildly extended to cover environmental, economic, labour, protest, internet basically anything they can pretend so as to extend the punishment without trial, of which Bradley Manning is a prime example of how far US justice failed and is now seen as more of an inconvenience to police state laws rather than being the defining principle of law.
The growing US police state seems more concerned with propaganda about how good it is than in actually pursing justice, or ensuring "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness", other than fulfilling the sexual deviancy of law enforcement officers.
So much cheaper for Google to buy the US government and simply shorten copyright terms back to the original period on a global basis. Google seems to do well in a open market. As for the investment in buying the US government, it is pretty obvious you can get double or more it back in tax payer subsidies once you've made the purchase so, double plus bonus.
PS the 'don't be evil' was changed by goggle to don't need to be evil' some time back. So they just need to get back their investment in subsidies and no extra, whilst changing the copyright period. Whilst their at it they could also drive a major cut in defence spending directing a portion of that money into universal fibre to home broadband.
Think about it, a small fraction of what is spent on US military spending, year in and year out, would cover a one time payment that would provide universal broadband that would last decades.
Add to that, security becomes a real nightmare, when you can no longer trust you hardware.
Seems pointless to replace the CPU with a programmable chip but certainly putting the OS onto a programmable chip seems like a worthwhile exercise, certainly ramp up boot times and drive compact OS's.
Me thinks you have confused the idea of a new tax, with tax evasion ie avoiding existing taxes. So yes US Democrats do seem to be more willing to pursue tax cheats than US Republicans.
When you have laws they are meant to apply to everyone equally, when they do not as for example state sales taxes and internet purchases versus local shop purchases or the rich and greedy with access to offshore tax havens and regular folks, well that is just plain criminal.
Normally most people expect their politicians to adhere to principles of fairness and justice, you apparently do not if it personally costs you money, funnily enough, most criminals think exactly the same.
Now I understand why Time made Zuckerberg their 'corporate' man of the year, it all makes sense now. You just have to steal more than anyone else millions of peoples privacy, the idea, a whole bunch of code and the investors money. Somehow I think the corporate douches at time have completely lost it when it comes to what most people consider a valued human traits.
They will also not open up anything that remotely hints of greed driven culpability. In fact that will be the driving factor for not only not loading up data by the pharmaceuticals but to also attack Sage Commons with claims that any negative data is false and it will sue to cripple the data base.
The only counter will be foreign governments with universal health who are directly financially affected by poorly performing drugs and who will fight to protect the billions at stake.
If you going to do that, why not do a boot from the network, acknowledge each netbook logging, lock out local drives and have all the applications loaded to complete the exam and not an iota more. Maintain monitoring of all connected computers to ensure not configuration changes and all the answers are immediately loaded up to the network for marking.
At the moment the exam time finishes the student could pretty much have the results, depending upon how well the questions have be formatted and partially completed answers (should not be a test of using the software applications so fill in all the blank spots with the correct inputs) are prepared.
In fact every exam could be done in an identical fashion, whether simple professional english, physics, chemistry, psychology etc. and of course computer studies. Cheating in fact becomes more difficult as all inputs can continuously be monitored. Of course quite a few standby netbooks would be required for any netbook that failed the verified network boot.
Using Linux there is of course no problem in creating a specialised exam operating system and with other FOSS custom applications to complete the exam.
That's now, the future without locking is net neutrality is all traffic counts uploads and downloads and they will lock it in on all the major pipes. All monitored, all filtered, all corporate censored, all limited, all of the time.
'ER', you are not in business to sell one CD or one Game or one Movie, you'll soon starve to death. You have to sell thousands, ten of thousands, hundreds of thousands even millions and those caps kill you business plan because paying for the extra data uploads will cost more than you are charging for your content.
Global audience via the internet means you are targeting millions of customers at very low prices. What they are trying force is the apple model. The ISP gets their share, the publisher get their share and the content producer gets screwed, hell what the really are looking at is combining the ISP and Publisher and still pretending they are separate and charging for them.
They are not targeting downloads, they are specifically targeting uploads.
Ding Bat, 'er', that's why there is open source, communities, business, governments and individuals from all over the world can share in the load. It's like your not paying attention at all, let me guess blinded by greed.
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In harsh economic times, hardware manufacturers look for savings and one of the biggest savings possible in software licences. You can try shoving that cost of to retailers and wholesalers but at the end of the day when it comes to end users dollars, making it available to the customer in a fully functioning state in the most cost effective way possible can mean the difference between winning and losing.
Once manufacturers go open source on the software, it makes it a simpler lets compete on hardware marketing playing field and wipe out software licensing costs.
It was always inevitable, which was why smart software companies made a push to become internet companies when they were cashed up (some failed at it and are still failing) but, it would have been really stupid not to make the change and even stupider to claim you should never had tried it just because it made you look incompetent.
I thought the appropriate term for nuclear parity was 'MAD', just as any discussion about winning or losing once you start tossing around nuclear weapons is also 'MAD'.
Any invasion of Taiwan by China would have to be diplomatically acceptable rather than a contest or arms. Any extreme militaristic action by China would be viewed as a global threat and as such threatens all countries, as a result of escalation.
Apart from bluff and bluster, with the odd occasional egoistic rants from the autocrats who run China, those self same autocrats are far more concerned about feeding their lusts and egos than getting involved in a war where they most certainly will be personally targeted.
That is the whole idea about precision targeting of munitions, target the leadership who would use them, well at least that should be the idea in order to really promote peace.
Android is a Linux based client distribution "Android's mobile operating system is based on a modified version of the Linux kernel" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system).
I think you really and I mean really fail to grasp them principle of open source software "The Android Open Source Project". At any time, 'The Geek' can take it and change it to behave more like "The Geek' wants it to behave, in the mean time closed source propriety software dominance outside of games is 'DEAD', 'The Geek" wins.
At no time has anyone (a part from insiders whose jobs are at stake) demanded that any particular distribution, graphical user interface, browser, office suit et al must win, just that free open source software must win. What shape, form or pattern that takes, when it takes or for how long each variant exist, dominates and the wanes is arbitrary as long as you can 'Chose To Change' what ever it is you want to change.
The idea at one stage, was to use all those productivity gains to reduce the amount of time a worker needed to work. Of course the rich and greedy being insatiably greedy put paid to that idea, preferring to line their own pockets instead with all those productivity gains and calling workers greedy and lazy for daring to want a share of those productivity gains. Simply the majority got foolishly screwed over by the psychopathic minority.
More importantly if you are going to do that, then your damages claim must be realistic. In this case in can be readily calculated as it was a free to access story published online with the only revenue being actual add revenue earned as a result of people viewing that particular page. The damages claim would then have to calculated upon what more add revenue would have been earned for that free to access page had the defendant web site not published a portion of that story.
Now if web site value is based upon number of page views and add revenue, then claims for damages for copying 4 paragraphs of one page, should not be the complete web site plus $150,000 without any substantiation of actual losses incurred.
The judge is obviously infuriated at being used as part of an extortion racket, where the claim simply blackmail to force the defendant to settle out of court for a lesser sum.
I would also think, it is taking a tongue in cheek poke at M$ for their marketing exercise in claiming that anyone that used open source software was a open source religious zealot. M$ did it for years in any media they could access, in order to make those people who recommended open source look bad and threaten their careers unless they complied with M$ corporate marketing decisions.
Crawl out of that cave, the reason is purely tied to the way it was and of course putting false value in certain currencies in order to manipulate global fiscal control.
A few countries can work together to control global markets and by printing make believe money (they don't even bother to print it any more they just create the digital illusion) seize the real assets of other countries via corrupt and criminal financial organisations.
That financial fantasy is now being questioned, whether it is of benefit or simply a global criminal enterprise. Countries should be exchanging resources for resources, with only minor fiscal arrangements, this of course would cripple certain countries (those that are consuming far more resources than they produce) and turn their currencies into third world funny money, perhaps that is as it should be.
Who gives as crap what that do in space, as long as they drive the 21st century space race we all win. That is what counts, getting up there and touching all those worlds within our solar system.
Better competing in peace, than to be chastised by external forces for extending our psychopathic wars beyond boundaries that would not be accepted.
China's growth into the exploration of our space, is still our, humanities expression of touching the future. Let's drop the racist, prejudiced and, primitive view of humanities future. Let's not let colour, slant of eye or religion limit our exploration out into a waiting galaxy and universe. A universe awaits, what ever drives the competition for humanity to touch the universe is to be celebrated geeks and nerds alike, fuck the wars and fuck the fear.
We, as computer geeks, retain the right to comment upon, criticise, repudiate, chastise and, ridicule any decision, judgement or conclusion made by any one, at any time, now past present of future? as so feeds our shared intellectual mood.
That one can be considered to intellectually defined to be considered for policing duties, is always to be condemned, reviled and mocked, whether past, present or future?.
Oh gees, come on and wake up to the twenty first century reality, oh my, I can't calculate and reference global currency exchange rates upon all currencies simultaneously. Shit, that is what computers and the internet is so easily capable of. Really, what is more readily able to be calculated, risked and foretasted, other than global currency exchange rates.
The internet killed the marketing built around the US dollar, get over it all ready, direct country to country currency exchange via the internet is the only thing that makes sense. Why every other country in the world should feed the distorted sense of US 'entitlement' by supporting it's Republican crippled currency, is just so 20th century cold war 'Fucking Crazy'.
There is no currency that stands supreme in the 20th century whether it be the Russian Ruble, the Euro, the Australian dollar or China's Renminbi, there is absolutely no reason it should not all be traded directly. Really it is so patheitcally globally distorted to prop up the US fantasy reserve based upon imaginary capital debt value economy.
From a SSD it still has to be loaded up and put into active memory, with a programmable cpu it could already be there and ready to go, the second power on is achieved. Plus there is the possibility of performance gain with a parallel processor OS.
It all seem to be nothing more than an exercise in marketing. M$ is just cranky that the majority of people are no longer upgrading their OS and simply sticking with the one that came with the system (ignoring all the dual booters, that's a whole other issues), especially those that upgraded from Vista to XP (what a Ballmer bungle that was).
So M$ is getting mocked for once again attacking it's own customers when they refuse to tow the corporate marketing and profit yarn. Consider how many other software companies produce software that specifically wont run on windows XP (even the softies now call it stale piss). PS it certainly doesn't seem like ten years ago when M$ were forced to revitalise XP to stay in the netbook market because of the Vista failure.
Likely Oracle is looking to make a much greater internet push and rebuilding some of the damage done to it's public image by seeking to monetise it's purchase of Sun, will be aided by rebuilding the OpenOffice community and maybe even donating the domain Sun, to humanities efforts in space.
Some people of course lack the wherewithal to make sound judgements and more readily believe the falsities put forward by unregulated gambling houses. So laws to protect them are quite reasonable.
Let's be honest, it isn't and never was gambling once the odds where tilted in favour of so called gambling houses, from on side (those with the odds in their favour) it's properly called cheating and from the other side (the mug punter) it's called losing. It is high time that gambling was forced equally.
More accurately it's the police state http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state, which is reflected in loss of freedoms and liberty. In this case criticism of the state will likely result in not only you but also you family including children being physically and sexually assaulted. They are already looking to extend these programs to all other modes of transport and places where people congregate, so the physical punishment and degradation of you relatives especially minors could extend to any place even schools.
Now add in extended detention with out trial for being accused of terrorism, considering the definition of terrorism has been wildly extended to cover environmental, economic, labour, protest, internet basically anything they can pretend so as to extend the punishment without trial, of which Bradley Manning is a prime example of how far US justice failed and is now seen as more of an inconvenience to police state laws rather than being the defining principle of law.
The growing US police state seems more concerned with propaganda about how good it is than in actually pursing justice, or ensuring "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness", other than fulfilling the sexual deviancy of law enforcement officers.
So much cheaper for Google to buy the US government and simply shorten copyright terms back to the original period on a global basis. Google seems to do well in a open market. As for the investment in buying the US government, it is pretty obvious you can get double or more it back in tax payer subsidies once you've made the purchase so, double plus bonus.
PS the 'don't be evil' was changed by goggle to don't need to be evil' some time back. So they just need to get back their investment in subsidies and no extra, whilst changing the copyright period. Whilst their at it they could also drive a major cut in defence spending directing a portion of that money into universal fibre to home broadband.
Think about it, a small fraction of what is spent on US military spending, year in and year out, would cover a one time payment that would provide universal broadband that would last decades.
Add to that, security becomes a real nightmare, when you can no longer trust you hardware.
Seems pointless to replace the CPU with a programmable chip but certainly putting the OS onto a programmable chip seems like a worthwhile exercise, certainly ramp up boot times and drive compact OS's.
Me thinks you have confused the idea of a new tax, with tax evasion ie avoiding existing taxes. So yes US Democrats do seem to be more willing to pursue tax cheats than US Republicans.
When you have laws they are meant to apply to everyone equally, when they do not as for example state sales taxes and internet purchases versus local shop purchases or the rich and greedy with access to offshore tax havens and regular folks, well that is just plain criminal.
Normally most people expect their politicians to adhere to principles of fairness and justice, you apparently do not if it personally costs you money, funnily enough, most criminals think exactly the same.
Now I understand why Time made Zuckerberg their 'corporate' man of the year, it all makes sense now. You just have to steal more than anyone else millions of peoples privacy, the idea, a whole bunch of code and the investors money. Somehow I think the corporate douches at time have completely lost it when it comes to what most people consider a valued human traits.
They will also not open up anything that remotely hints of greed driven culpability. In fact that will be the driving factor for not only not loading up data by the pharmaceuticals but to also attack Sage Commons with claims that any negative data is false and it will sue to cripple the data base.
The only counter will be foreign governments with universal health who are directly financially affected by poorly performing drugs and who will fight to protect the billions at stake.
If you going to do that, why not do a boot from the network, acknowledge each netbook logging, lock out local drives and have all the applications loaded to complete the exam and not an iota more. Maintain monitoring of all connected computers to ensure not configuration changes and all the answers are immediately loaded up to the network for marking.
At the moment the exam time finishes the student could pretty much have the results, depending upon how well the questions have be formatted and partially completed answers (should not be a test of using the software applications so fill in all the blank spots with the correct inputs) are prepared.
In fact every exam could be done in an identical fashion, whether simple professional english, physics, chemistry, psychology etc. and of course computer studies. Cheating in fact becomes more difficult as all inputs can continuously be monitored. Of course quite a few standby netbooks would be required for any netbook that failed the verified network boot.
Using Linux there is of course no problem in creating a specialised exam operating system and with other FOSS custom applications to complete the exam.
That's now, the future without locking is net neutrality is all traffic counts uploads and downloads and they will lock it in on all the major pipes. All monitored, all filtered, all corporate censored, all limited, all of the time.
'ER', you are not in business to sell one CD or one Game or one Movie, you'll soon starve to death. You have to sell thousands, ten of thousands, hundreds of thousands even millions and those caps kill you business plan because paying for the extra data uploads will cost more than you are charging for your content.
Global audience via the internet means you are targeting millions of customers at very low prices. What they are trying force is the apple model. The ISP gets their share, the publisher get their share and the content producer gets screwed, hell what the really are looking at is combining the ISP and Publisher and still pretending they are separate and charging for them.
They are not targeting downloads, they are specifically targeting uploads.
Self publish, as in music, movies and games.
Ding Bat, 'er', that's why there is open source, communities, business, governments and individuals from all over the world can share in the load. It's like your not paying attention at all, let me guess blinded by greed.