Is Linux salt like Morton's Salt? Would that be idodized, non-iodized, rock, kosher, or sea salt?;) How many teaspoons are neededto salt the Hash? And what if I want pepper too,does that mess up the amount of Salt needed...
(a little levity never hurts cryptographic discussions)
Sony just announced today a player that holds TWICE as much disk and costs less. It should be in the USA by September and will cost about $100 less than the 'pod. So long iPod, then new Walkman will suck the market away, plus Sony owns tons of music to bundle with it.
Really? Check out the consumer surveys and you'llfind they are not very highly rated. Now add MS crap to the mix and you can get a BSOD on your TV,not to mention integrated DRM and now the MS Channel is the default station on your TV. Unless MS is giving away the software, wouldn't Linux have been a better choice? If you are trying to be the low cost provider wouldn't you love FREE?
On a side note, IP protection in China for the MS software is pretty poor. How long before they clone the software for use in the $99 Chinese PCs with the stolen Intel chip technology? Then they sell the $99 PCs back to the USA, and damn it all we BUY them anyway!
They can already get the data via wireless terminals in the police vehicles. Looked inside one of the latest greatest police cruisers, pretty darn high tech. This just puts it on thier body. It's nothing new in terms of "Big Brother", just makes it easier to use by not having a laptop. What do you want to bet they are equipped with a bar code reader that reads a bar code on your ticket and passport to verify your identity. Can Identity chips be far behind which are simply scanned when you walk in the door and the guys with the Blackberries are ready to escort you to the lockup if you are "undesirable" or have an unpaid parking ticket...
The logs are massive, so I'm sure they are rotated. I wonder if they are backed up anywhere? Then the logs could be recovered off the backup media. The size of the logs could be set small, say only the last 24 hours, then no one could accuse the ISPs of circumventing the law. Honest Judge, we were only making best use of our disk space. Another option is to encrypt (say 265 bit DES) with a RANDOM one-time key the customer IP addresses when they are logged. The RIAA can have the logs then, they just can't decode them! Of course the ISP couldn't either!
...lot of the parts for the shuttle are contracted, not built in house, which has the advantage of getting competing designs, but the disadvantage of added expense (even if you go with the lowest bidder, the cost of evaluation probably makes up for the difference). NASA also has a huge R&D role and gets their fingers in everything, from new materials and fabrics to foodstuffs and weightlessness research....
Shuttle parts have few suppliers and they are all built to specifications, innovation and cost savings are frowned upon. How many Rocket Engine builders are there in the USA? There are Thiokol, Lockheed-Energomash, and Boeing-Rocketdyne, so where is the competition to drive down prices! And since the Govt is the primary purchaser where are the market forces to drive down price? The shuttles are now so old that grandkids of the original builders are working on them. So they have parts which require old technology many times that is not the cheapest. The old (and decaying) infrastructure of NASA, both physical and organizational also costs buckets of money and that cost is allocated to projects as overhead. NASA can't even take a leak for cheap. Many years ago NASA used to build innovative things that were eventually used in other ways in the consumer market. That hasn't been the case for many years now. The free market has taken over that role which means much lower costs and much quicker time to market. Right now NASA is a cash cow to a few dozen large contractors and University reasearcher, and is a beauracratic mess with massive turf battles internally. If Rutan and his competitors succeed, do we even NEED NASA? Maybe for some science satellites, but not for manned anymore.
I wonder what the mix of perm employees to contractors was? Contractors get more $$ but no bennies or bonuses so that skews the results. BTW, did you get you $7K bonus last year the survey says the "average" IT worker got?
You are mixing things up. When you talk "refining" in the general sense you are talking feedstocks and chemicals as well as motor fuel. Feedstocks and basic chemicals are overproduced in some cases,I agree which means margins suck which means payback on a new refinery is forever. That's generally not going to get a project funded. However, GASOLINE refining is much more specialized and there are not nearly as many refineries producing it as say plastics feedstocks such as Ethylene. IIRC,there are only 2-3 Gasoline refineries on the East Coast and only 1 on the West Coast (Chevron refinery just South of LAX), there are still several in Houston/Texas City, TX area and a few scattered here and there. Maybe 20-25 total in the USA, and most of these are small and old so they don't produce huge amounts or have high efficiencies. Also, it takes different processes at the refineries to process different types of crude oil. The Saudi Crude is low API (weight) but high sulfur which takes a great deal of processing to remove the sulfur to the level that is permitted in Gasoline or Diesel. It's not exactly a turn the crank and gas comes out, its very involved. And the plants run continously so swapping to a different blend requries running the current process to "dry" and then restarting with a new process for the new batch. That can take a couple weeks. And of course to prevent accidents units need to be taken off line for repairs and maitenance all of which further crimps output. It's not nearly as simple as you think it is to get from oil to gasoline, not to mention the two week lag from wellhead to refinery that occurs with oil from the Gulf which comes via supertanker. All these factors, combined with human greed, tossed in with speculations about interest rates, the Iraq situation and the phase of the moon (just kidding about the moon) really make the prices go up.
Duh, NO..You are mixing things up..... A corporation is a legal entity under the laws of the state in which it is incorporated. It must meet certain requirements per those laws such as having stock, having directors, conducting itself as a business, etc. An individual can incorporate, meaning he/she froms a legal entity that does business for the person and often the business employs the owner(s). A form of this called the Limited Liability Corporation(LLC) or Professional Corporation (PC) is commonly used by professionals such as MDs, Lawyers, Architects, some Engineers, etc. There is also the "S Corporation" which has certain tax advantages over the sole propietership. There is also a "shield" (no not the Star Trek kind) that goes with incorporation that prevents (in most cases) the owners of the corporation to be held liable for the actions of the corporation. However, this shield can be "pierced" by law if the coporation was setup under false pretenses, etc. and the owners held liable for the actions of the corporation. Lots of case law on this. Incorporation and the benefits thereof is Small Business 101.
A PhD in what? Political Science? English (Creative Writing)? The technology exits for a Mars Mission. Even if we are talking ion drives and small nuclear reactors for engines/power a lot of this research has been done by NASA and is sitting on a shelf. Now if you can figure out something like "suspended animation" or a way to prevent bone density loss on the 6+ month trip (each way) that would be quite some PhD research. Or finding out a way to cheaply extract minerals or make Mars have an atmosphere. I'm a proponent of space flight but I can't really see much reason to GO to Mars..it's not like we can do much once we are there. And the moon would be easier to colonize.
The USAF was sort of conned into using the Shuttle as a rationale to get it funded. President Nixon could not get Congress to pass a purely civilian shuttle,and the USAF didn't really want the shuttle as rockets were doing a fine job. But in order to get a few other things the USAF wanted they agreed to try to use the Shuttle as part of the spy sattelite program. Now of course since they were now paying part of the tab they had unique requirements that had to be imposed on the shuttle designs, which of course added complexity and cost. The orignal shuttle did not have a lot of things like crosswind requirements, higher payload weight requirements or polar orbit requirements (those launches were to be from the West coast site at Vandenburg) etc. that were added by the USAF. This is all detailed in the Columbia Accident Report if anyone cares to read it. I have and was part of the team that complied a report on what changes the report should cause at a major NASA Center.
The Shuttle program is full of politics and the associated compromises that overcame good engineering. I strongly suspect the EU version will eventually suffer the same problems.
Buran was ditched as too expensive which was partly due to the fact that the Russians did not have the computing capability to make it 100% automated to orbit and back. There was a massive difference in costs between an unmanned fly-by-wire prototype and a man-rate re-usable launch vehicle. Hindsight being 20/20 the US Shuttle program should have been scrapped too, and I hope it is soon. The Return to orbit proejct is not going to fix the inherent systems problems of a 30 yr old space plane. Something else will go wrong and we'll lose another crew.
The fool is a fool, they should know that there is not enough float in this stock to sell short. Lots of folks been looking for stock in this dead horse to seel short for months. I thought those guys at MF were smarter than that. Selling short a stock that may be worthless in a few months is risky. Someway or another you have to cover the amount you took as a risk, with either the stock (worthless) or the cash. I don't think there are options on SCO stock, where you can just buy/sell the rights on the stock.
Damn, why does it take an MBA to step in and settle a techie argument about numbers;)
Lets say there are approx 1 Million Linux users in the USA who actually pay attention to the SCO BS. Knowing that "a enemy of my enemy is my friend" rings very true with the SCO cases lets say 70% of these guys decide to visit an Autozone for Auto parts and accessories. It costs somewhere around $15 or an oil change (most common Auto Repair) so lets say 50% of the 70% change the oil 5X per year. Thats 700,000 *.5 * 5 * 15 or 350,00 * 75 or a bit over $26M bucks. Now lets say us techies with the job market being slow decide to do a few basic repairs on our own and save Unemployment checks for Beer and Pizza;) Say, another $150/yr for things like brake pads,plugs, hand cleaner, tools, etc. Say 50% of the 50% do this and thats 700,000 *.25 * 100 or 17.5M. Add the two totals and you get about $43M bucks. Thats 45E06/ 5.5E09 or.008, or 8/10ths of 1%. So assuming my estimates are not off by factors of 10, it really does not make a difference to AZ. So either we need more Linux guys to work on thier cars instead of code or we need them to spring for more expensive parts in order to make a difference.
Of course if he had known the user was a hot chick and he could check out her bod while fixing her keyboard he would have left the email server to fix itself.:) But that only happens in dreams.
You usually get the guy with bad breath and bad attitude who really deserves to be strangled with the cord to the keyboard.
Wow, such good English skills. You made a major error in Grammar or Spelling in every line, even giving you the benefit of doubt for the having learned the Queen's English. If it was intended to be funny, it wasn't. If it was intended to be taken seriously, you just proved your opponents point for him. Why this is modded insightful I'll never know. If I had mod points left I'd spend them to knock it down a few notches.
I've worked with many Indian developers, both here in the US and projects outsourced to India. Very few of them communicate well. So, if you are an Indian programmer and want to get ahead, work just as hard on communication skills as your technical skills. If you can't communicate you can't be taken seriously.
I dont doubt it! I see so much crappy code written the last 5-7 yrs its disgusting. MS really set the standard low. Those of us who had to write software where someone's LIFE depended on it being RIGHT and the actions happening ON TIME not when ever the OS decides it like vxWorks. If you can make Linux become hard realtime then go for it. I do know the UNIX kernel and it's not structured for hard real time but maybe Linux is different. I wouldn't mind seeing an Open Source RTOS. There is no monopoly on ideas, WRS can't take the code out of Linux but they can take the concepts!
I don't know about acronyms but there IS an office that assigns the "code names" to special projects. It used to be a little old lady in the Pentagon basement with the complete Oxford dictionary who made up names but now I think it's software.
The ROUND is big, because it takes a very large amount of powder to push a very heavy projectile at very high speeds towards a target. The projectile itself is only 30mm or a bit over 1.1 inches, but with the E=1/2mv**2 thats a LOT of energy hitting the target. The projectile will rip apart lightly armored target like a shotgun does to a Coke can. Even moderately armored targets such as a medium tank or a APC are not immune. However the A-10 has to fly pretty low and slow to fire the cannon so shoulder fired missiles can be a reasonable defense.
What makes you thing WRS is throwing in the towel on the proprietary nature of VxWorks? They could take some things out of Linux that might help performance or increase capability in some areas of VxWorks. I don't think they want to use the Linux kernal as a whole. Maybe they want to see if the can have TWO OSes to sell or maybe a hybrid. I don't suspect you'll see things coming out to the Open Source from WRS whatever they do with Linux, they are quite proprietary with their software. I once tried to get source for vxWorks (customer wanted it) many years ago. I recall the asking price was 50K plus run-time fees.
If you are a solid embedded engineer who REALLY knows how things work and not just a code slinger you can make vxWorks do some very nice things for you. But you have to be careful or you kill the OS and have to start over. The BSPs are very configurable if you know how the processor actually WORKS. Using VxWorks is not a job for the average programmer, you don't just hack it out and expect it to work. I have taken almost all of the classes they offer (not in the last 5 yrs thought) and found them to be well taught and service we had at a major defense company was excelllent. I could call up the local tech guy and get good answers. Of course YMMV on tech support as we are talking people here. I don't recall seeing Linux with drivers for VME bus and MIL-STD-1553 as VxWorks has. But maybe if Linux hits the embedded market someone will do that. I've not heard of anyone with a sour impression of VxWorks. Plus they HAVE managed to stay in business, if they were as bad as you imply I think as small as the market for embedded OSes is over the last 15yrs (it's getting bigger now) they would have gone under.
As for Tornado and the Debugger, I've seen much better IDEs. The tools were often much buggier than the BSPs and the OS. Unless they have improved since the last time I used them I think they were more in the way than helpful.WRS is pretty much the leader in embedded general purpose OSes. There are others that are better for specific purposes.
Oh, and this stuff about vendors tieing you to a platform..ever seen Windows run on anything but a X86 Architecture? If it works for Redmond you can bet everyone is going to try to emulate it in their market. Software vendors are a Monkey See Monkey do bunch with Microsoft as the head monkey.
Name calling won't get you the data I have, you'll just have to keep living in la-la-land or do your own damn research. Funny that you are the ONLY person to take offense and argument at my statement. At BEST Clinton was an Average president but the more data that comes out about what he knew when the worse he is going to look. I don't agree with GWB in a lot of areas, but he won't be fucking an intern or selling the Lincoln bedroom, or giving sensitive technology to Chinese Commies, or ignoring terrorists. Clinton was as much of a crook as Nixon. History is already starting to show that. Go away kid you bother me...
Heat Pipes are another invention of the Space Program. Heat Pipes are used to dissapate heat on satellites from the electronics as well as that from the Sun. I wonder if they could be used to cool CPUs as well, but they would be expensive.
Thats true that they can't go on a fishing trip but they could have tried to find alternate sources of information than those records, like SOMEONE had to pay for all that time so why not go after bank records of those suspected of involvement. Yes, I know you need cause, I thought the trail of the Governor would have given the Feds some data but looks like he was carefully setup to take that fall alone. I will say that the Clintons are as good as the Mafia ever was about not leaving evidence around!
This poll was conducted by the Pew Trust, one of the more liberal leaning organizations. YOu can find it and many more on Google. Some show Clinton to be at best Average, none show him to be the "hero" the left wing wants his "legacy" to be.
And which of these ten presidents we have had since World War II would you consider the worst president?"
2/00 2/99
% %
Nixon 28 28
Clinton 20 21
Carter 12 11
Reagan 12 11
Johnson 5 7
Ford 4 5
Truman 3 2
Eisenhower 3 2
Bush 3 4
Kennedy 1 1
None (vol.) 2 2
No opinion 7 6
It was a bit unprofessional but far from what everyone wants to make it. Telling them they are wasting thier time suing you is a valid reply. But maybe he should have said "we will not expend any more resources on SCO's concern until and if you win your lawsuit and can tell us how and what we are doing wrong".Telling them you'll post the info about infringing lines of code is only going to make them send you the non-disclosure which you have to sign to see the "infringing" code. Chicken and the egg.
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Is Linux salt like Morton's Salt? Would that be idodized, non-iodized, rock, kosher, or sea salt? ;) How many teaspoons are neededto salt the Hash? And what if I want pepper too,does that mess up the amount of Salt needed...
(a little levity never hurts cryptographic discussions)
Sony just announced today a player that holds TWICE as much disk and costs less. It should be in the USA by September and will cost about $100 less than the 'pod. So long iPod, then new Walkman will suck the market away, plus Sony owns tons of music to bundle with it.
Really? Check out the consumer surveys and you'llfind they are not very highly rated. Now add MS crap to the mix and you can get a BSOD on your TV,not to mention integrated DRM and now the MS Channel is the default station on your TV. Unless MS is giving away the software, wouldn't Linux have been a better choice? If you are trying to be the low cost provider wouldn't you love FREE? On a side note, IP protection in China for the MS software is pretty poor. How long before they clone the software for use in the $99 Chinese PCs with the stolen Intel chip technology? Then they sell the $99 PCs back to the USA, and damn it all we BUY them anyway!
They can already get the data via wireless terminals in the police vehicles. Looked inside one of the latest greatest police cruisers, pretty darn high tech. This just puts it on thier body. It's nothing new in terms of "Big Brother", just makes it easier to use by not having a laptop. What do you want to bet they are equipped with a bar code reader that reads a bar code on your ticket and passport to verify your identity. Can Identity chips be far behind which are simply scanned when you walk in the door and the guys with the Blackberries are ready to escort you to the lockup if you are "undesirable" or have an unpaid parking ticket...
The logs are massive, so I'm sure they are rotated. I wonder if they are backed up anywhere? Then the logs could be recovered off the backup media. The size of the logs could be set small, say only the last 24 hours, then no one could accuse the ISPs of circumventing the law. Honest Judge, we were only making best use of our disk space. Another option is to encrypt (say 265 bit DES) with a RANDOM one-time key the customer IP addresses when they are logged. The RIAA can have the logs then, they just can't decode them! Of course the ISP couldn't either!
I wonder what the mix of perm employees to contractors was? Contractors get more $$ but no bennies or bonuses so that skews the results. BTW, did you get you $7K bonus last year the survey says the "average" IT worker got?
You must work for SCOX.
You are mixing things up. When you talk "refining" in the general sense you are talking feedstocks and chemicals as well as motor fuel. Feedstocks and basic chemicals are overproduced in some cases,I agree which means margins suck which means payback on a new refinery is forever. That's generally not going to get a project funded. However, GASOLINE refining is much more specialized and there are not nearly as many refineries producing it as say plastics feedstocks such as Ethylene. IIRC,there are only 2-3 Gasoline refineries on the East Coast and only 1 on the West Coast (Chevron refinery just South of LAX), there are still several in Houston/Texas City, TX area and a few scattered here and there. Maybe 20-25 total in the USA, and most of these are small and old so they don't produce huge amounts or have high efficiencies. Also, it takes different processes at the refineries to process different types of crude oil. The Saudi Crude is low API (weight) but high sulfur which takes a great deal of processing to remove the sulfur to the level that is permitted in Gasoline or Diesel. It's not exactly a turn the crank and gas comes out, its very involved. And the plants run continously so swapping to a different blend requries running the current process to "dry" and then restarting with a new process for the new batch. That can take a couple weeks. And of course to prevent accidents units need to be taken off line for repairs and maitenance all of which further crimps output. It's not nearly as simple as you think it is to get from oil to gasoline, not to mention the two week lag from wellhead to refinery that occurs with oil from the Gulf which comes via supertanker. All these factors, combined with human greed, tossed in with speculations about interest rates, the Iraq situation and the phase of the moon (just kidding about the moon) really make the prices go up.
Duh, NO..You are mixing things up.....
A corporation is a legal entity under the laws of the state in which it is incorporated. It must meet certain requirements per those laws such as having stock, having directors, conducting itself as a business, etc. An individual can incorporate, meaning he/she froms a legal entity that does business for the person and often the business employs the owner(s). A form of this called the Limited Liability Corporation(LLC) or Professional Corporation (PC) is commonly used by professionals such as MDs, Lawyers, Architects, some Engineers, etc. There is also the "S Corporation" which has certain tax advantages over the sole propietership. There is also a "shield" (no not the Star Trek kind) that goes with incorporation that prevents (in most cases) the owners of the corporation to be held liable for the actions of the corporation. However, this shield can be "pierced" by law if the coporation was setup under false pretenses, etc. and the owners held liable for the actions of the corporation. Lots of case law on this. Incorporation and the benefits thereof is Small Business 101.
A PhD in what? Political Science? English (Creative Writing)? The technology exits for a Mars Mission. Even if we are talking ion drives and small nuclear reactors for engines/power a lot of this research has been done by NASA and is sitting on a shelf. Now if you can figure out something like "suspended animation" or a way to prevent bone density loss on the 6+ month trip (each way) that would be quite some PhD research. Or finding out a way to cheaply extract minerals or make Mars have an atmosphere. I'm a proponent of space flight but I can't really see much reason to GO to Mars..it's not like we can do much once we are there. And the moon would be easier to colonize.
The USAF was sort of conned into using the Shuttle as a rationale to get it funded. President Nixon could not get Congress to pass a purely civilian shuttle,and the USAF didn't really want the shuttle as rockets were doing a fine job. But in order to get a few other things the USAF wanted they agreed to try to use the Shuttle as part of the spy sattelite program. Now of course since they were now paying part of the tab they had unique requirements that had to be imposed on the shuttle designs, which of course added complexity and cost. The orignal shuttle did not have a lot of things like crosswind requirements, higher payload weight requirements or polar orbit requirements (those launches were to be from the West coast site at Vandenburg) etc. that were added by the USAF. This is all detailed in the Columbia Accident Report if anyone cares to read it. I have and was part of the team that complied a report on what changes the report should cause at a major NASA Center. The Shuttle program is full of politics and the associated compromises that overcame good engineering. I strongly suspect the EU version will eventually suffer the same problems. Buran was ditched as too expensive which was partly due to the fact that the Russians did not have the computing capability to make it 100% automated to orbit and back. There was a massive difference in costs between an unmanned fly-by-wire prototype and a man-rate re-usable launch vehicle. Hindsight being 20/20 the US Shuttle program should have been scrapped too, and I hope it is soon. The Return to orbit proejct is not going to fix the inherent systems problems of a 30 yr old space plane. Something else will go wrong and we'll lose another crew.
The fool is a fool, they should know that there is not enough float in this stock to sell short. Lots of folks been looking for stock in this dead horse to seel short for months. I thought those guys at MF were smarter than that. Selling short a stock that may be worthless in a few months is risky. Someway or another you have to cover the amount you took as a risk, with either the stock (worthless) or the cash. I don't think there are options on SCO stock, where you can just buy/sell the rights on the stock.
Damn, why does it take an MBA to step in and settle a techie argument about numbers ;)
.5 * 5 * 15 or 350,00 * 75 or a bit over $26M bucks. Now lets say us techies with the job market being slow decide to do a few basic repairs on our own and save Unemployment checks for Beer and Pizza ;) Say, another $150/yr for things like brake pads,plugs, hand cleaner, tools, etc. Say 50% of the 50% do this and thats 700,000 * .25 * 100 or 17.5M. Add the two totals and you get about $43M bucks. Thats 45E06/ 5.5E09 or .008, or 8/10ths of 1%. So assuming my estimates are not off by factors of 10, it really does not make a difference to AZ. So either we need more Linux guys to work on thier cars instead of code or we need them to spring for more expensive parts in order to make a difference.
Lets say there are approx 1 Million Linux users in the USA who actually pay attention to the SCO BS. Knowing that "a enemy of my enemy is my friend" rings very true with the SCO cases lets say 70% of these guys decide to visit an Autozone for Auto parts and accessories. It costs somewhere around $15 or an oil change (most common Auto Repair) so lets say 50% of the 70% change the oil 5X per year. Thats 700,000 *
Of course if he had known the user was a hot chick and he could check out her bod while fixing her keyboard he would have left the email server to fix itself. :) But that only happens in dreams.
You usually get the guy with bad breath and bad attitude who really deserves to be strangled with the cord to the keyboard.
Wow, such good English skills. You made a major error in Grammar or Spelling in every line, even giving you the benefit of doubt for the having learned the Queen's English. If it was intended to be funny, it wasn't. If it was intended to be taken seriously, you just proved your opponents point for him. Why this is modded insightful I'll never know. If I had mod points left I'd spend them to knock it down a few notches. I've worked with many Indian developers, both here in the US and projects outsourced to India. Very few of them communicate well. So, if you are an Indian programmer and want to get ahead, work just as hard on communication skills as your technical skills. If you can't communicate you can't be taken seriously.
I dont doubt it! I see so much crappy code written the last 5-7 yrs its disgusting. MS really set the standard low. Those of us who had to write software where someone's LIFE depended on it being RIGHT and the actions happening ON TIME not when ever the OS decides it like vxWorks. If you can make Linux become hard realtime then go for it. I do know the UNIX kernel and it's not structured for hard real time but maybe Linux is different. I wouldn't mind seeing an Open Source RTOS. There is no monopoly on ideas, WRS can't take the code out of Linux but they can take the concepts!
I don't know about acronyms but there IS an office that assigns the "code names" to special projects. It used to be a little old lady in the Pentagon basement with the complete Oxford dictionary who made up names but now I think it's software.
The ROUND is big, because it takes a very large amount of powder to push a very heavy projectile at very high speeds towards a target. The projectile itself is only 30mm or a bit over 1.1 inches, but with the E=1/2mv**2 thats a LOT of energy hitting the target. The projectile will rip apart lightly armored target like a shotgun does to a Coke can. Even moderately armored targets such as a medium tank or a APC are not immune. However the A-10 has to fly pretty low and slow to fire the cannon so shoulder fired missiles can be a reasonable defense.
What makes you thing WRS is throwing in the towel on the proprietary nature of VxWorks? They could take some things out of Linux that might help performance or increase capability in some areas of VxWorks. I don't think they want to use the Linux kernal as a whole. Maybe they want to see if the can have TWO OSes to sell or maybe a hybrid. I don't suspect you'll see things coming out to the Open Source from WRS whatever they do with Linux, they are quite proprietary with their software. I once tried to get source for vxWorks (customer wanted it) many years ago. I recall the asking price was 50K plus run-time fees.
If you are a solid embedded engineer who REALLY knows how things work and not just a code slinger you can make vxWorks do some very nice things for you. But you have to be careful or you kill the OS and have to start over. The BSPs are very configurable if you know how the processor actually WORKS. Using VxWorks is not a job for the average programmer, you don't just hack it out and expect it to work. I have taken almost all of the classes they offer (not in the last 5 yrs thought) and found them to be well taught and service we had at a major defense company was excelllent. I could call up the local tech guy and get good answers. Of course YMMV on tech support as we are talking people here. I don't recall seeing Linux with drivers for VME bus and MIL-STD-1553 as VxWorks has. But maybe if Linux hits the embedded market someone will do that. I've not heard of anyone with a sour impression of VxWorks. Plus they HAVE managed to stay in business, if they were as bad as you imply I think as small as the market for embedded OSes is over the last 15yrs (it's getting bigger now) they would have gone under.
As for Tornado and the Debugger, I've seen much better IDEs. The tools were often much buggier than the BSPs and the OS. Unless they have improved since the last time I used them I think they were more in the way than helpful.WRS is pretty much the leader in embedded general purpose OSes. There are others that are better for specific purposes.
Oh, and this stuff about vendors tieing you to a platform..ever seen Windows run on anything but a X86 Architecture? If it works for Redmond you can bet everyone is going to try to emulate it in their market. Software vendors are a Monkey See Monkey do bunch with Microsoft as the head monkey.
Back to lurk mode...
Name calling won't get you the data I have, you'll just have to keep living in la-la-land or do your own damn research. Funny that you are the ONLY person to take offense and argument at my statement. At BEST Clinton was an Average president but the more data that comes out about what he knew when the worse he is going to look. I don't agree with GWB in a lot of areas, but he won't be fucking an intern or selling the Lincoln bedroom, or giving sensitive technology to Chinese Commies, or ignoring terrorists. Clinton was as much of a crook as Nixon. History is already starting to show that. Go away kid you bother me...
Heat Pipes are another invention of the Space Program. Heat Pipes are used to dissapate heat on satellites from the electronics as well as that from the Sun. I wonder if they could be used to cool CPUs as well, but they would be expensive.
Thats true that they can't go on a fishing trip but they could have tried to find alternate sources of information than those records, like SOMEONE had to pay for all that time so why not go after bank records of those suspected of involvement. Yes, I know you need cause, I thought the trail of the Governor would have given the Feds some data but looks like he was carefully setup to take that fall alone. I will say that the Clintons are as good as the Mafia ever was about not leaving evidence around!
This poll was conducted by the Pew Trust, one of the more liberal leaning organizations. YOu can find it and many more on Google. Some show Clinton to be at best Average, none show him to be the "hero" the left wing wants his "legacy" to be. And which of these ten presidents we have had since World War II would you consider the worst president?" 2/00 2/99 % % Nixon 28 28 Clinton 20 21 Carter 12 11 Reagan 12 11 Johnson 5 7 Ford 4 5 Truman 3 2 Eisenhower 3 2 Bush 3 4 Kennedy 1 1 None (vol.) 2 2 No opinion 7 6
It was a bit unprofessional but far from what everyone wants to make it. Telling them they are wasting thier time suing you is a valid reply. But maybe he should have said "we will not expend any more resources on SCO's concern until and if you win your lawsuit and can tell us how and what we are doing wrong".Telling them you'll post the info about infringing lines of code is only going to make them send you the non-disclosure which you have to sign to see the "infringing" code. Chicken and the egg.