If you're not talking about a couple of routers that you own and are in your residence, here's hoping you're on your way out to the parking lot with your personal effects in a box if your employer finds out you're fucking with the router for personal vengeful purposes.
Imagine if the concept were copied to the building industry. Someone makes nails. Someone else makes screws. Someone else makes glue. Someone makes 2X4's. They all patent the idea. Do you know the problems this would create for the building industry.
That wouldn't be possible. No technology that steeped in building tradition can be 'cornered' by a patent holder. Patents expire after awhile, ya know, and the technologies you described are ones the industry evolved around because they're not patented. Now, if an entity came out with a new fastening technology to replace nails, that let the builders save 20% on labor, all power to them in charging whatever they can get for their new patented product. Until it's patent expires, of course.
So you've thrown up a scarecrow arguement. Thank goodness we're not all ignorant crows.
I don't see the 'decline in Unionization' as what' s lead to job loss. At least here, locally, the biggest plant in this small town is now closing because it was unionized, and because the Union wouldn't budge. All those former Union employees are now going to be non-Union and unemployed, thanks to the International. But as long as the union bosses have shiny desks in their office in New York, I guess things are okay.
Most of the hardware comes from the 'evil corporations' too. And by that I mean all the 'free hardware' that's made Linux and OSS a real possibility. I suspect if there hadn't been a surplus of old hardware at many big operations 'provided' by Microsoft making it 'obsolete' to run their bloat, there wouldn't have been nearly as many openings and opportunities for Free OSes to be installed.
I have a perfect example sitting in my kitchen right now (waiting for me to figure out how to hell to fit it in here in the crowded 'machine room.') An IBM PC Server 704, which is one HELL of a big machine, with one HELL of a lot of power, even today. It's a four-way PPro machine with hot pluggable drives, etc. that I got at auction for $15. If Microsoft and various other bloat operations hadn't made it 'obsolete' it would still be chugging away in a data center somewhere Instead, it's soon going to be my testbed for NetBSD/i386 SMP and I hope to help the SMP developers by running their stuff on it and providing feedback.
The instructions aren't complex. You download the PPC Boot disk from IBM, and you put your NT 4 CD in the CD reader. I don't have the URL on hand for the setup disk, but then, I would feel immoral anyway, encouraging anybody else to install NT on a good RS/6000 box that should be running AIX (or NetBSD).
If you have supported hardware, it installs. About as easily as NT installs on any Intel box.
So how exactly did Star Wars steal the lunch money of all the "good" sci fi?
That's a good question, and it's been debated for years.
You may have been asking rhetorically, though.
The SF bookstores weren't destroyed by the Star Wars phenomon, but it sure sucked the air out of the weird niche sections at mainstream bookstores. All of a sudden 'the suits' and marketing types paid more attention to it. That's usually bad.
Back in the late 80's in the era of BBSing, I called a friend up by voice. My call came onto her phone line simultaneous with her modem picking up the line to dial out to a BBS. So 'click' and suddenly my voice was coming out of her PC (out of the modem speaker inside it.) She was pretty freaked out, but we eventually figured out what had happened.
The x86 crew are producing ever more power-hungry CPUs with each generation, on the other hand IBM is busily rolling out technology which goes in the opposite direction while still beating x86 architecture CPUs even with both hands tied behind its back.
Huh?
You have facts and figures to support this assertion, and not just Apple marketing bullet points?
IBM has been making some of the G3s for Apple for some time.
Ummm, Apple really isn't capable of making their own silicon, and they never have. They just slap their labels on the processors that IBM and Motorola make. And always have.
I actually ran Windows NT 4.0 PPC version about a month ago. I had an RS/6000 system based on PReP (the Power PC Reference Platform) and figured 'what the hell' and installed NT on it.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, to run on NT/PPC except what comes on the Microsoft CD itself. I browsed the web, best as I could, using the IE 2.0 that everybody remembers less-than-fondly from their NT 4.0 install years back.
Then I formatted the drive, installed AIX on the box, and sold it on eBay.
PReP boxes like that RS/6000 box are extremely similar to PC's. It had built in S3-trio64 graphics, IDE and SCSI ports, PCI and ISA slots for regular expansion cards, used PS/2 keyboard and mouse, etc.
It's worth noting that Apple has moved closer and closer to the Commodity PC hardware scheme themselves. They use IDE drives now, based on the good old IBM PC-AT. They use the same memory technology as PCs. Not much in a modern Mac isn't commodity PC stuff, same chips and parts as any cloner puts on a motherboard.
You'd think a web based news site would know the difference.
When you're in the business of throwing slime around, you don't necessarily want to examine it that closely. It doesn't smell good, and you might even decide you're being pretty slimy. It might interfere with your 'delivery' and needless to say there's money to be made toeing an anti-Microsoft line to the market segment that sucks it down.
that have been professionally designed by typographers.
It's called 'Industrial Design' and although Steve Jobs looked into it, his people determined there was little merit in claiming to have invented the system crash.
"Please note, there's the even simpler matter of Dominos selling pizzas at $3.50 to kill competition in my homecity, locals unable to sell below $6, only to price it up to $22 once colonizing the area. Pizza Hut moved in and the "added competition" has reduced the price to $20. Yay... duopolies.."
What you just described sounds like one hell of an opportunity for some new operation to come in now and start selling eight dollar pizzas.
Or did Dominos and Pizza Hut raze any and all available commercial space pizza could be sold out of and kill anybody not working for them who knows how to make pizza?
He didn't say he had a degree in philosophy, nor does the economics department where he went to school necessarily require the econ students to take a course in fundamental logic.
Depending on how 'political' a department it is, they might even discourage taking such a course.
I can see little impetus for China to enforce the GPL against it's own interests, however. We can expect China to be a 'black hole' of source code. Source comes in, but it doesn't necessarily make it's way back out. Commercial ventures in China will fork OSS projects and sell binaries.
Anybody who sees the problem Microsoft faces with piracy in China would have to be out of their mind to pretend the Chinese will respect anybody else's IP laws. Particularly anything as unenforcable as the GPL.
Yes. It means that at the particular point in time that was studied, it was of the opinion of the evaluators that Microsoft was a monopoly.
I can say 'the dog is wet' when the dog comes in out of the rain, and barricade the dog in the kitchen so it doesn't get the sofa wet.
It would be idiotic of me to say 'but the dog is wet' four hours later when the dog was dry.
But cling to your 'finding of fact' irregardless of the fact that the judge who published said 'finding' was widely recognized as biased by his legal peers.
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If you're not talking about a couple of routers that you own and are in your residence, here's hoping you're on your way out to the parking lot with your personal effects in a box if your employer finds out you're fucking with the router for personal vengeful purposes.
That wouldn't be possible. No technology that steeped in building tradition can be 'cornered' by a patent holder. Patents expire after awhile, ya know, and the technologies you described are ones the industry evolved around because they're not patented. Now, if an entity came out with a new fastening technology to replace nails, that let the builders save 20% on labor, all power to them in charging whatever they can get for their new patented product. Until it's patent expires, of course.
So you've thrown up a scarecrow arguement. Thank goodness we're not all ignorant crows.
I don't see the 'decline in Unionization' as what' s lead to job loss. At least here, locally, the biggest plant in this small town is now closing because it was unionized, and because the Union wouldn't budge. All those former Union employees are now going to be non-Union and unemployed, thanks to the International. But as long as the union bosses have shiny desks in their office in New York, I guess things are okay.
I think it's the part where he can't smoke dope in an alley a few blocks off from the quarterly anti-WTO protest.
Most of the hardware comes from the 'evil corporations' too. And by that I mean all the 'free hardware' that's made Linux and OSS a real possibility. I suspect if there hadn't been a surplus of old hardware at many big operations 'provided' by Microsoft making it 'obsolete' to run their bloat, there wouldn't have been nearly as many openings and opportunities for Free OSes to be installed.
I have a perfect example sitting in my kitchen right now (waiting for me to figure out how to hell to fit it in here in the crowded 'machine room.') An IBM PC Server 704, which is one HELL of a big machine, with one HELL of a lot of power, even today. It's a four-way PPro machine with hot pluggable drives, etc. that I got at auction for $15. If Microsoft and various other bloat operations hadn't made it 'obsolete' it would still be chugging away in a data center somewhere Instead, it's soon going to be my testbed for NetBSD/i386 SMP and I hope to help the SMP developers by running their stuff on it and providing feedback.
The instructions aren't complex. You download the PPC Boot disk from IBM, and you put your NT 4 CD in the CD reader. I don't have the URL on hand for the setup disk, but then, I would feel immoral anyway, encouraging anybody else to install NT on a good RS/6000 box that should be running AIX (or NetBSD).
If you have supported hardware, it installs. About as easily as NT installs on any Intel box.
So how exactly did Star Wars steal the lunch money of all the "good" sci fi?
That's a good question, and it's been debated for years.
You may have been asking rhetorically, though.
The SF bookstores weren't destroyed by the Star Wars phenomon, but it sure sucked the air out of the weird niche sections at mainstream bookstores. All of a sudden 'the suits' and marketing types paid more attention to it. That's usually bad.
Why do you only mention movies?
Were you old enough to read in the 70's?
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Well, I am a science fiction fan, and I know I am not alone in saying that the whole Star Wars phenomenon did unimaginable damage to the SF genre.
I'm not speaking from an 'elitist' point of view, mind you. The good SF from the 70's isn't about elites, it's mostly a hopeful vision for the future.
Star Wars dragged in the whole Space Western bullshit and crowded out and killed a lot of good stuff.
Nope. The boot floppy to install NT 4 on PPC comes from IBM and supports IBM's RS/6000 PowerPC boxes.
Back in the late 80's in the era of BBSing, I called a friend up by voice. My call came onto her phone line simultaneous with her modem picking up the line to dial out to a BBS. So 'click' and suddenly my voice was coming out of her PC (out of the modem speaker inside it.) She was pretty freaked out, but we eventually figured out what had happened.
The x86 crew are producing ever more power-hungry CPUs with each generation, on the other hand IBM is busily rolling out technology which goes in the opposite direction while still beating x86 architecture CPUs even with both hands tied behind its back.
Huh?
You have facts and figures to support this assertion, and not just Apple marketing bullet points?
IBM has been making some of the G3s for Apple for some time.
Ummm, Apple really isn't capable of making their own silicon, and they never have. They just slap their labels on the processors that IBM and Motorola make. And always have.
Wow. They published an accurate report as recently as two years ago ??
I actually ran Windows NT 4.0 PPC version about a month ago. I had an RS/6000 system based on PReP (the Power PC Reference Platform) and figured 'what the hell' and installed NT on it.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, to run on NT/PPC except what comes on the Microsoft CD itself. I browsed the web, best as I could, using the IE 2.0 that everybody remembers less-than-fondly from their NT 4.0 install years back.
Then I formatted the drive, installed AIX on the box, and sold it on eBay.
PReP boxes like that RS/6000 box are extremely similar to PC's. It had built in S3-trio64 graphics, IDE and SCSI ports, PCI and ISA slots for regular expansion cards, used PS/2 keyboard and mouse, etc.
It's worth noting that Apple has moved closer and closer to the Commodity PC hardware scheme themselves. They use IDE drives now, based on the good old IBM PC-AT. They use the same memory technology as PCs. Not much in a modern Mac isn't commodity PC stuff, same chips and parts as any cloner puts on a motherboard.
You'd think a web based news site would know the difference.
When you're in the business of throwing slime around, you don't necessarily want to examine it that closely. It doesn't smell good, and you might even decide you're being pretty slimy. It might interfere with your 'delivery' and needless to say there's money to be made toeing an anti-Microsoft line to the market segment that sucks it down.
that have been professionally designed by typographers.
It's called 'Industrial Design' and although Steve Jobs looked into it, his people determined there was little merit in claiming to have invented the system crash.
What you just described sounds like one hell of an opportunity for some new operation to come in now and start selling eight dollar pizzas.
Or did Dominos and Pizza Hut raze any and all available commercial space pizza could be sold out of and kill anybody not working for them who knows how to make pizza?
He didn't say he had a degree in philosophy, nor does the economics department where he went to school necessarily require the econ students to take a course in fundamental logic.
Depending on how 'political' a department it is, they might even discourage taking such a course.
I can see little impetus for China to enforce the GPL against it's own interests, however. We can expect China to be a 'black hole' of source code. Source comes in, but it doesn't necessarily make it's way back out. Commercial ventures in China will fork OSS projects and sell binaries.
Anybody who sees the problem Microsoft faces with piracy in China would have to be out of their mind to pretend the Chinese will respect anybody else's IP laws. Particularly anything as unenforcable as the GPL.
I've never seen 'The Matrix.' Now you've got me scared, because obviously I don't understand reality.
I guess I should rent it, because, as you say, it would help me figure things out.
Yes. It means that at the particular point in time that was studied, it was of the opinion of the evaluators that Microsoft was a monopoly.
I can say 'the dog is wet' when the dog comes in out of the rain, and barricade the dog in the kitchen so it doesn't get the sofa wet.
It would be idiotic of me to say 'but the dog is wet' four hours later when the dog was dry.
But cling to your 'finding of fact' irregardless of the fact that the judge who published said 'finding' was widely recognized as biased by his legal peers.
Do you wear a t-shirt that says 'I Am Ignorant' or do you feel it suffices to type this kind of drivel on Slashdot?
I'd like to see the government cut way back on taxes and services provided by taxes. Then they could annul some of the debt, too.
Problem is all those bond holders would really stir shit up.
In short, all you jokers who think it's fun to tweak Americans with the stupid name "USians", get a life. We're Americans; deal with it.
No, they should keep doing it.
Makes it easier to filter them out and ignore them.