They are figuring the cover on the eCheLOn project will be blown open soon, so they will patent everything related to it to prevent everyone else from using it after the technologies are exposed in a Senate investigation. I wouldn't be suprised if patents on technological foils for their systems exist too. (Inaccessable due to "National Security").
The satellite they showed was the Soyuz orbiter. A Russian spacecraft.
If the radiation was great enough to kill the nuclear power plant employees in Finland, it would have rendered the cameras useless after the fact. (i.e. no perfectly clear picture)
He was in the room that contains the reactor core and the tank was almost empty, yet the floor was dry. Where did all the water go (steam? remember the area he was in is a sealed envirenment) it takes about 20' of water to adequately shield the reaction. (and about 6' of glass and 1' of lead) He ran straight from the room with the core to the outside of the building. (most reactors are double enclosures.)
Most reactors have gravity feed cooling systems and reserver tanks. The exception being a few in Russia (Chernobyl being on fo them). In event of a systems failure the water floods the system.
Second funniest thing I noticed... The temperature was at ~3000 degrees(the flame form a lighter is about 1500 degrees, the average pocket butane torche is about 3000 degrees). They stated the temperature was climbing at an exponential rate, in 60 minutes it would reach critical levels. At the end of the 60 minutes the temperature was about 4300 degrees. Where in the hell did they learn math?
The image on the plane's instrument panel began spinning. A computer bug would make the plane thing it was in a death spiral? (the other instruments didn't match it anyway)
The rave was totaly unreal. It was more like disneyworld at night than the average rave.
And the funniest thing... The National Y2K Center lost power... Come on! At the very least they should have been running on generators hours before the blackout.
There were more, but I have since forgotten them because it was such an unmemorable movie.
The corporate execs are not going to pay much attention to server logs or whatever. Many of them have no idea what a server log is, much less it's signifigance, besides downloads don't necessarily have the dollars attached. And what about other companies that are watchingthis and don't/can't put the software up for download.
They will pay attention to dollars. Online sales and in-store sales will work, but not much else.
Eventially with things(software) like this you will go to the store to buy the data/worlds/else/pak files and download the platform specific engine to drive the thing.
Systems Engineering Laboratories was founded in 1961 (which by the way manufactured one of the first 32 bit minicomputers) was purchased by Gould Incorporated in 1980 to become Gould Computer System Division. The were then purchased by Encore Computer Corporation in 1988. The name changed a bit later to become Encore Real Time Computing after they started working with such systems.
The money will come from "selling gussied-up e-speak software packages" and providing consulting services to configure and tune the package.
The software will be transitioning from a product based model to a integrator based model. GPL or give away the platform. Charge money for the work done to integrate the parts together. Eventually putting together an ecommerce system will be like playing with legos.
...indictment of the world's biggest corporation...
Um, according to the fortune 500 index, last I heard General Motors was the largest with revenues of ~$161 billion. Microsoft rated 109 in the Fortune 500 index making ~$14 billion.
They may be the largest computer software corporation tho.
Why? Opening the source would only give the world a snapshot. Microsoft would still own the copyright and all subsequent versions could be closed again. They have the development staff and dollars to outpace most other companies development efforts. The new API's and innovations in the next version could obslete the old code. (Facts 46 and 52 support this assertion.) (It would slow them down a bit tho, but not for long).
Just force them to publish the entire set of API's and prepublish ones not yet released.
A note to everyone else posting. Before posting all these speculative comments. Try reading the document. It is contains many insights about the current state of affairs in the computer world as well as where it may be going... I swear I must have read a dozen or so comments stating that it is just a "Finding of the Facts". Read it! Find out what the facts are. All I want to know is will the facts documents be usable in other court cases (not necessarilly involving Microsoft.)
So far it seems to be "setting the stage" so to speak for the judges final decision. I have just gotten into the part (page 40 pdf) where it gets into the actions Microsoft took to prevent Sun and Netscape from eroding the barrier of entry into the desktop OS market.
This may be a bit of a tangent, buy most versions of quicken are not y2k compatible if I remember correctly. I think quicken99 is, but before that I think youre out of luck.
Just add the transistors and the dream of powerful (like ~286/386 powered, or at least dragonball(palm v)) smart dust will be a reality. (or smart cereal, just think, your daily internal diagnostic exam could happen over breakfast)
<PARANOIA VALUE="on"> Corel floods the market with their breed of Linux, starts offering modules or enhancements that are non-standard to linux, then figures a way to work in some sort of mechanism to keep the other vendors a step or two behind from those enhancements. (Hell, even doing things in a way that the Linux community will not accept, so they don't get on board.)
What we are looking at is the true beginnings of the commercialization of linux.
What to look out for is the massive budgets of organizations like this. All they have to do is dedicate enough of their resources to linux advancement and development and the original developers will not be able to keep up.
Major corporations will begin to run the development process. Original developers will complain, Torvalds will object, the companies will continue. A new central authority will be established to control kernel features. Torvalds will object. Porgress outpaces linux developers, and many get hired by the corporations continue their work. They go along, figuring they are still doing the same thing, just now getting paid for it. Torvalds dissappears, and rumors about a Transmeta experiment gone wrong surface. The remaining linx developers either move to BSD or application development and wostfully think about the good old days. The GPL becomes pointless to the rapid development efforts of a few select corporations now running the show. </MODE>
Now, i'm not saying this will happen, but when greed and money get into the same boat, it usually sinks. Corel might not take this route, but they will have to take an active role in not letting this happen. Corporations will believe it is in their best interests to continue development in a fashion that best helps their bottom line. The developer is answereable to a manager, the manager to another manager. This continues up until the board of directors, and ultimately the stockholders, who are becoming a very fickle bunch. Concepts and ideas are summarized and distorted as they progress up the chain of command. Most of the higher levels will not even necessarily agree with much less subscribe to the ideas and ideals coming up from below. Their primary concerns are, how will this affect the company, the stockholders, the profitability.
Part of it has to do with open source. If you don't trust it look at the source.
There are also many other people looking at the source. This is similar to what was said in the interview. Don't trust anything until is has been thoroughly reviewed by people you put some faith into.
On the other hand, hiding the true functionality of sections of the source via subtle repeated manipulations from vastly differing sections of the code may be very difficult to discover. I have no idea as to the feasibility of designing such a system. (although i believe microsoft has)
Ignore them. Many of the other comments seem like good advice. They will look closer before they want to take it to the next level then realize their mistake.
If you remove it you are essentially agreeing that you did something wrong.
No matter what you do, DO NOT send that written assurance. Once you send them that they will actually gain legal grounding to prosecute you in a court of law. (If you happen to slip up in the future)
Besides, after all the backlash they get from this article they may think twice about it.
Too bad the "...for Idiots" books are doing a good enough job of diluting their trademark. (For a while I thought they were published by the same group)
The first time our dog (basset hound) saw the Aibo it became jealous, demanding attention fform each of us in the room. Beyond that it just looks at Aibo suspiciously.
I agree, my personal concern comes from the potential for abuse.
How long will it be before decisions and actions will be made for and on a particular person based upon the results of the tests?
How long will it be before someone does these things, which would be normally considered baseless and wreckless, and holds up the test results as justification?
How long will it be before people accept this behavior? (and want it)
I havent seen a game out there yet that contains more violence/gore than can be caught on non-premium cable tv (the grand babysitter). The games are just more interactive.
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They are figuring the cover on the eCheLOn project will be blown open soon, so they will patent everything related to it to prevent everyone else from using it after the technologies are exposed in a Senate investigation. I wouldn't be suprised if patents on technological foils for their systems exist too. (Inaccessable due to "National Security").
The satellite they showed was the Soyuz orbiter. A Russian spacecraft.
If the radiation was great enough to kill the nuclear power plant employees in Finland, it would have rendered the cameras useless after the fact. (i.e. no perfectly clear picture)
He was in the room that contains the reactor core and the tank was almost empty, yet the floor was dry. Where did all the water go (steam? remember the area he was in is a sealed envirenment) it takes about 20' of water to adequately shield the reaction. (and about 6' of glass and 1' of lead) He ran straight from the room with the core to the outside of the building. (most reactors are double enclosures.)
Most reactors have gravity feed cooling systems and reserver tanks. The exception being a few in Russia (Chernobyl being on fo them). In event of a systems failure the water floods the system.
Second funniest thing I noticed...
The temperature was at ~3000 degrees(the flame form a lighter is about 1500 degrees, the average pocket butane torche is about 3000 degrees). They stated the temperature was climbing at an exponential rate, in 60 minutes it would reach critical levels. At the end of the 60 minutes the temperature was about 4300 degrees. Where in the hell did they learn math?
The image on the plane's instrument panel began spinning. A computer bug would make the plane thing it was in a death spiral? (the other instruments didn't match it anyway)
The rave was totaly unreal. It was more like disneyworld at night than the average rave.
And the funniest thing...
The National Y2K Center lost power...
Come on! At the very least they should have been running on generators hours before the blackout.
There were more, but I have since forgotten them because it was such an unmemorable movie.
They will pay attention to dollars. Online sales and in-store sales will work, but not much else.
Eventially with things(software) like this you will go to the store to buy the data/worlds/else/pak files and download the platform specific engine to drive the thing.
You can read all about it here.
They don't seem to have the SEL32 anymore (looks like it was incredibly old), but they do have a neat reflective memory technology.
The software will be transitioning from a product based model to a integrator based model. GPL or give away the platform. Charge money for the work done to integrate the parts together. Eventually putting together an ecommerce system will be like playing with legos.
Sure. It's a great idea. Just make sure that everyone has the ability to utilize that functionality. (Think of it as adding sight to the net.)
Perhaps the project should move to the US. Don't we have a "fair use" section in our copyright law? Would that apply?
Um, according to the fortune 500 index, last I heard General Motors was the largest with revenues of ~$161 billion.
Microsoft rated 109 in the Fortune 500 index making ~$14 billion.
They may be the largest computer software corporation tho.
(It would slow them down a bit tho, but not for long).
Just force them to publish the entire set of API's and prepublish ones not yet released.
A note to everyone else posting.
Before posting all these speculative comments. Try reading the document. It is contains many insights about the current state of affairs in the computer world as well as where it may be going... I swear I must have read a dozen or so comments stating that it is just a "Finding of the Facts". Read it! Find out what the facts are. All I want to know is will the facts documents be usable in other court cases (not necessarilly involving Microsoft.)
So far it seems to be "setting the stage" so to speak for the judges final decision. I have just gotten into the part (page 40 pdf) where it gets into the actions Microsoft took to prevent Sun and Netscape from eroding the barrier of entry into the desktop OS market.
A penguin standing behind Bill Gates bent over...
This may be a bit of a tangent, buy most versions of quicken are not y2k compatible if I remember correctly. I think quicken99 is, but before that I think youre out of luck.
The Quadro has 388 pins.
The Quadro claims 17 million polygons/second.
The GeForce claims 15 million polygons/second.
How large is the performance gap between the two?
Just add the transistors and the dream of powerful (like ~286/386 powered, or at least dragonball(palm v)) smart dust will be a reality. (or smart cereal, just think, your daily internal diagnostic exam could happen over breakfast)
Thats what I get for changing the spec in the middle of a post. It originally was:
<PARANOIA VALUE="on">
Corel floods the market with their breed of Linux, starts offering modules or enhancements that are non-standard to linux, then figures a way to work in some sort of mechanism to keep the other vendors a step or two behind from those enhancements. (Hell, even doing things in a way that the Linux community will not accept, so they don't get on board.)
What we are looking at is the true beginnings of the commercialization of linux.
What to look out for is the massive budgets of organizations like this. All they have to do is dedicate enough of their resources to linux advancement and development and the original developers will not be able to keep up.
Major corporations will begin to run the development process. Original developers will complain, Torvalds will object, the companies will continue. A new central authority will be established to control kernel features. Torvalds will object. Porgress outpaces linux developers, and many get hired by the corporations continue their work. They go along, figuring they are still doing the same thing, just now getting paid for it. Torvalds dissappears, and rumors about a Transmeta experiment gone wrong surface. The remaining linx developers either move to BSD or application development and wostfully think about the good old days. The GPL becomes pointless to the rapid development efforts of a few select corporations now running the show.
</MODE>
Now, i'm not saying this will happen, but when greed and money get into the same boat, it usually sinks. Corel might not take this route, but they will have to take an active role in not letting this happen. Corporations will believe it is in their best interests to continue development in a fashion that best helps their bottom line. The developer is answereable to a manager, the manager to another manager. This continues up until the board of directors, and ultimately the stockholders, who are becoming a very fickle bunch. Concepts and ideas are summarized and distorted as they progress up the chain of command. Most of the higher levels will not even necessarily agree with much less subscribe to the ideas and ideals coming up from below. Their primary concerns are, how will this affect the company, the stockholders, the profitability.
If you don't trust it look at the source.
There are also many other people looking at the source. This is similar to what was said in the interview. Don't trust anything until is has been thoroughly reviewed by people you put some faith into.
On the other hand, hiding the true functionality of sections of the source via subtle repeated manipulations from vastly differing sections of the code may be very difficult to discover. I have no idea as to the feasibility of designing such a system. (although i believe microsoft has)
Ok, i guess i;m a bit slow with posting, distregard.
Along with the trust required of the host of your information, the whole thing runs without and encryption (SSL).
If you remove it you are essentially agreeing that you did something wrong.
No matter what you do, DO NOT send that written assurance. Once you send them that they will actually gain legal grounding to prosecute you in a court of law. (If you happen to slip up in the future)
Besides, after all the backlash they get from this article they may think twice about it.
Too bad the "...for Idiots" books are doing a good enough job of diluting their trademark. (For a while I thought they were published by the same group)
AOL's trademark/copyright??? on "You've got mail." and "Buddy List" didn't hold up.
The first time our dog (basset hound) saw the Aibo it became jealous, demanding attention fform each of us in the room. Beyond that it just looks at Aibo suspiciously.
How long will it be before decisions and actions will be made for and on a particular person based upon the results of the tests?
How long will it be before someone does these things, which would be normally considered baseless and wreckless, and holds up the test results as justification?
How long will it be before people accept this behavior? (and want it)
Preference.
You make a very careless and possibly egotistical assumption that they even have logons on slashdot. (I'm not talking about telnet or other...)
Re-read the interview. There are cluse that would lend credibility to the idea.
I havent seen a game out there yet that contains more violence/gore than can be caught on non-premium cable tv (the grand babysitter). The games are just more interactive.