We've already got a bunch of atomic clocks circling the earth -- in the form of GPS satellites. The funny thing is, they don't need to compensate for relativity, when they clearly should.
I'm not going to take the time to find a link, but I believe they are compensated. Of course, the change isn't very much as they're simply not moving all that fast.
Subscriptions simply don't have much choice in the matter. Some people don't mind paying tens of bills each month, but I'd much rather deal with Amex or Visa when problems occur.
Generally they only need a record of the bill, and paper showing what the business was allowed to take out -- receipt. I've yet to have any problem not straightened out within a month.
I do almost everything through the CC for that reason. Don't trust banks, they've already sent the money (and don't care) but Visa hasn't received my payment yet and Amex is cruel to small business. I know this for a fact -- I've been on both ends. They pick on businesses like you wouldn't believe, so I'm an Amex client:)
I almost asked how you managed to use IE with anti-aliasing under X -- then I read on to discover that you're actually comparing the underlying systems and not browsers.
Given what I've read about UnitedLinux -- especially in regards to per seat licensing I highly doubt they intend to do heavy marketing to the existing Linux community, in particular home users.
They're after SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises). You can see that based on the packaged applications. Given this, a hacker community isn't too likley to evolve around UnitedLinux, and the last thing they want is a hoard of home users calling for technical support due to free distribution under their name (Pink Tie vs. Red Hat argument).
I'd say they've located a niche which isn't catered to very well. They've created a product and pricing for that niche. Would everyone please stop trying to too them how to sell their product outside of that niche!
Out of curiosity, what does the display device have to do with a broadcast format / standard?
Odds are to get good use out of a MEMs device it will require HDTV type standards or better. If I recall correctly, some of the higher end HDTVs are using MEMs technology today.
Never used a good CRT huh? Sit a decent 19" Sony flatscreen CRT beside the LCD and I'd be more than willing to bet the colours are richer and brighter with much much higher contrast.
That said, todays LCDs are much better than the original batch of 14" and 15" CRTs. Especially considering CRTs lose their colour over time (phosphors wear out). Any graphics (publishing) guys I know replace their CRTs every 6 months due to that.
Well.. technically we're talking about completly different products. Very very little non-volitile ram is used (retains data without power) which would be needed for a permenant storage device.
I suppose 20x was misleading. I should have said more like 100K times more.
No, the key thing here is that it's NOT copyLEFTED software.
United Linux includes many things which are of other. Any collection of software not distrbuted by the company United Linux MAY NOT be called United Linux. Just as you can goto Redhats ftp server and download everything on their CDs but may not sell or distribute it as Redhat without permission.
Really quite simple. Take Firewire. There are a ton of ISO 1394 devices which were the exact same as a Firewire device but could not use the name as they did not pay for that right.
United Linux is asking people to pay for the right to say they're using United Linux (they have other stuff too, but anyway). It'll be interesting to see if their company is profitable using this method, but it's certainly not wrong of them to try.
Fact: The per seat licensing is for United Linux. That is, everything included on the CDs -- which is more than strictly GPLd software.
Fact: You can (according to the GPL) copy and distribute all GPLd software on the CDs. Possibly, depending on per case basis, not the other stuff.
Fact: You MAY NOT call your collection of GPLd stuff which you collected from the United Linux distribution United Linux. You may call it something else and continue on. Just as legally you cannot copy Debian CDs and continue to call it Debian without their approval, which Debian has granted.
So, given the above you may create something very close to United Linux and freely distribute this BUT you may not call it United Linux. United Linux has per seat licensing. Nothing else may be called United Linux.
I believe you just prooved the quote. ATI's driver quality is still quite a ways from NVidia's -- but they're working on it. Still being now, future being unknown but promising.
Simple... Cost of writing the OS is X. Often more work goes into higher end features like keeping 128 CPUs from trampling eachother. 2 or 4 is easy.
So... Rather than charging the guy with the E250 $700 for their cut of the OS, they're transferring most of that fee to the guy whos actually buying the $2mil server.
See, the $2mil guy probably doesn't care much if they have a 200k OS fee where the guy buying a $2500 server would really notice the $700 -- but not so much a $250 fee.
People are used to taxes, etc. tacking on ~10% to a given purchasse -- so consider this an OS tax on the machine.
We send a lot (25% and going up every year) of the power generated south of the border. I know British Energy is actively working to increase the percentage too with more reactors.
Now, I suppose I didn't count destruction of forests due to nuclear waste.
Ditto. I easily do 20+GB between radio and TV stations online that I don't get in my area. If they expect to charge that much, I'll probably simply cancel my cable (don't watch much tv other than the above stations) and high speed. Go back to a bunch of monthly magazine subscriptions and dialup for that which I cannot subscribe to.
Whelp, I got 90% right which I suppose means I understand the basics (these weren't obscure cases) but considering the amount of time it took me I'm going to stick with BSD licensed stuff.
Atleast with that I'm guarenteed that contributions back to software I wrote a majority of won't prevent me from using the damn stuff myself.
What? You mean you don't used encrypted telnet? Doesn't do all the tricks of ssh, but when you don't care about the content of the session it's quite a bit lighter weight.
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We've already got a bunch of atomic clocks circling the earth -- in the form of GPS satellites. The funny thing is, they don't need to compensate for relativity, when they clearly should.
I'm not going to take the time to find a link, but I believe they are compensated. Of course, the change isn't very much as they're simply not moving all that fast.
Trust me, compiling OpenOffice will take an order of magnitude longer than X.
For fun, make world (both BSD, and X), gnome 2 and OpenOffice. See if you can do it all in a day.
Subscriptions simply don't have much choice in the matter. Some people don't mind paying tens of bills each month, but I'd much rather deal with Amex or Visa when problems occur.
:)
Generally they only need a record of the bill, and paper showing what the business was allowed to take out -- receipt. I've yet to have any problem not straightened out within a month.
I do almost everything through the CC for that reason. Don't trust banks, they've already sent the money (and don't care) but Visa hasn't received my payment yet and Amex is cruel to small business. I know this for a fact -- I've been on both ends. They pick on businesses like you wouldn't believe, so I'm an Amex client
I almost asked how you managed to use IE with anti-aliasing under X -- then I read on to discover that you're actually comparing the underlying systems and not browsers.
Given what I've read about UnitedLinux -- especially in regards to per seat licensing I highly doubt they intend to do heavy marketing to the existing Linux community, in particular home users.
They're after SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises). You can see that based on the packaged applications. Given this, a hacker community isn't too likley to evolve around UnitedLinux, and the last thing they want is a hoard of home users calling for technical support due to free distribution under their name (Pink Tie vs. Red Hat argument).
I'd say they've located a niche which isn't catered to very well. They've created a product and pricing for that niche. Would everyone please stop trying to too them how to sell their product outside of that niche!
Ahh... but why is it that a good majority of the population seems to be superstitious about people who follow superstitions?
Anyway... Just because your a compulsive paranoid doesn't mean that they're not after you.
If enough people follow a given superstition, perhaps we need to question whats wrong with the ones who aren't following it?
I think it's time for the long white huggy coat with long arms that wrap around the back.
Out of curiosity, what does the display device have to do with a broadcast format / standard?
Odds are to get good use out of a MEMs device it will require HDTV type standards or better. If I recall correctly, some of the higher end HDTVs are using MEMs technology today.
Never used a good CRT huh? Sit a decent 19" Sony flatscreen CRT beside the LCD and I'd be more than willing to bet the colours are richer and brighter with much much higher contrast.
That said, todays LCDs are much better than the original batch of 14" and 15" CRTs. Especially considering CRTs lose their colour over time (phosphors wear out). Any graphics (publishing) guys I know replace their CRTs every 6 months due to that.
With the way chips go thats really only about a decade.
Sure, won't have it next Christmas -- but odds are they'll be cheap enough to be in nearly everything display wise by 2015.
That said, you can probably pick one up today at your local high end home theatre shop.
Well.. technically we're talking about completly different products. Very very little non-volitile ram is used (retains data without power) which would be needed for a permenant storage device.
I suppose 20x was misleading. I should have said more like 100K times more.
No, the key thing here is that it's NOT copyLEFTED software.
United Linux includes many things which are of other. Any collection of software not distrbuted by the company United Linux MAY NOT be called United Linux. Just as you can goto Redhats ftp server and download everything on their CDs but may not sell or distribute it as Redhat without permission.
Really quite simple. Take Firewire. There are a ton of ISO 1394 devices which were the exact same as a Firewire device but could not use the name as they did not pay for that right.
United Linux is asking people to pay for the right to say they're using United Linux (they have other stuff too, but anyway). It'll be interesting to see if their company is profitable using this method, but it's certainly not wrong of them to try.
Fact: The per seat licensing is for United Linux. That is, everything included on the CDs -- which is more than strictly GPLd software.
Fact: You can (according to the GPL) copy and distribute all GPLd software on the CDs. Possibly, depending on per case basis, not the other stuff.
Fact: You MAY NOT call your collection of GPLd stuff which you collected from the United Linux distribution United Linux. You may call it something else and continue on. Just as legally you cannot copy Debian CDs and continue to call it Debian without their approval, which Debian has granted.
So, given the above you may create something very close to United Linux and freely distribute this BUT you may not call it United Linux. United Linux has per seat licensing. Nothing else may be called United Linux.
I believe you just prooved the quote. ATI's driver quality is still quite a ways from NVidia's -- but they're working on it. Still being now, future being unknown but promising.
Make dev/null an append only file someday and just see all the wonderful information being collected.
There really is a ton of stuff. Append only to prevent that cronjob from wiping it out when it only has > instead of >>.
I fixed all my y2k issues sometime in the very early 1900's.
Simple... Cost of writing the OS is X. Often more work goes into higher end features like keeping 128 CPUs from trampling eachother. 2 or 4 is easy.
So... Rather than charging the guy with the E250 $700 for their cut of the OS, they're transferring most of that fee to the guy whos actually buying the $2mil server.
See, the $2mil guy probably doesn't care much if they have a 200k OS fee where the guy buying a $2500 server would really notice the $700 -- but not so much a $250 fee.
People are used to taxes, etc. tacking on ~10% to a given purchasse -- so consider this an OS tax on the machine.
Bah.. If you start producing 20x more ram I bet the price would drop somewhat.
It's a Japanese thing. Mini-bonsai terraforming of the harddrive.
/me gets the feeling this will be modded offtopic ;-) though it was meant to be funny
;)
Too bad that the content of the message is moderated and not what the poster had intended to write
Of course it will. The airplane will fall apart long before they manage to use it in the manner they want.
Ontario would probably just go entirely electric.
We send a lot (25% and going up every year) of the power generated south of the border. I know British Energy is actively working to increase the percentage too with more reactors.
Now, I suppose I didn't count destruction of forests due to nuclear waste.
Ditto. I easily do 20+GB between radio and TV stations online that I don't get in my area. If they expect to charge that much, I'll probably simply cancel my cable (don't watch much tv other than the above stations) and high speed. Go back to a bunch of monthly magazine subscriptions and dialup for that which I cannot subscribe to.
Whelp, I got 90% right which I suppose means I understand the basics (these weren't obscure cases) but considering the amount of time it took me I'm going to stick with BSD licensed stuff.
Atleast with that I'm guarenteed that contributions back to software I wrote a majority of won't prevent me from using the damn stuff myself.
Good video cards are completely useless for render farms.
Render farms don't do anything in RealTime, and need much much higher quality than an NVidia can put out (shortcuts in logic to up the FPS above 0.01)
What? You mean you don't used encrypted telnet? Doesn't do all the tricks of ssh, but when you don't care about the content of the session it's quite a bit lighter weight.