It is clear the many propriatery software companies cannot compete with open source software (not on a mass market scale), so the only way for them to maintain any hope of lead is to patent their applications.
They will not *sue* end users, they will go after developers. Patents ensure that Windows will remain the defecto OS for at least out lifetimes. In computer terms, an eternity.
Personally, I would at least hope they would allow math patents. Afterall, most software patents are just ideas stolen from the math world.
Too bad "law" makers are too stupid to realize this.
GR description of gravity is not wrong.:) You see, if you are going to say that it is wrong, you have to provide a better model, or an experimental observation that shows GR is wrong.
As to the "cosmological constant", well, WTF does that have to do with gravity? AFAIK, there could be no relationship between that and gravity at all. The point there is that we do not know what is going on, true, but it does not mean everything is wrong. You explanation is like:
Since no one can account for formation of object A in rock sample B, then evolution and science must we wrong and only my holy book (insert book's name here) tells the truth
No explanation for event A from theory B does not mean that B is wrong. It means there is no explanation for A. Theory B would only be wrong if A contradicts predictions of B.
What most people don't know, is that math as you know it, pretty much ends during the second year math classes at university. There on, most of the things are based on theory. Sure, there are a few classes in applications, but most deal with proving theorems and such.
Arithmetic ends after first year of university in math classes. Pretty much everything you do with computers is covered by first year of math classes. Complex numbers and other nice things are covered in second year, but after that, well, most classes will be pure theory, like functional analysis or metric spaces.
Open source does not mean "must be free". They can sell it for how much they want to sell it for. They just can't change the name to "iDoOffice" and change the license to non GPL compliant one.
I am not trying to troll here, but when someone says a recommended system, then they mean it will run semi-fast. That usually means a 486 with Windows 3.1 type of fast.
I must say, that if MS rolls out their search engine on this machine with this software (the specs are probably not right), then they will need like a million servers for the search engine. Google will just need like 1000 with these specs!
Can't you cut though polycarbonate things? First drill a hole, then cut it up. This should work for cases when polycarbonate is not under extreme tension.
What about when people want to do real work? Where are the shaders?
The free drivers don't even have proper light support:(
I'm not trying to put down the developers that spent a lot of time and effort making the 3D drivers for ATI. I'm attacking the ATI policies that ranks Linux as a 2nd class OS only used by "RMS type zelots".
ATI needs to step up to the plate and produce quality Linux drivers. Until then, I and probably many others that run Linux will stay away. They released some specs so that others would write drivers for them.
Someone said that Linux only has 1% of the market, but the problem is that it is that 1% that actually composes the main body of the computer savvy crowd. These are the people that buy new products and spend $500 on a video card;)
Guess not. There are many other things that are much easier to do in Linux, like OpenGL programming. If you fuck up your program, the system does not go down. I guess you get similar things in Windows with OpenGL, but at least in X I can actually use xterm instead of some stupid cmd.exe or Cygwin.
I actually switched a few months ago from Windows to Linux for development. gcc is slower than VC or Borland, but it catches more errors. The desktop also looks nicer! And I can have 5 or 10 desktops (screens) if I wish - this is quite handy.
That 1% usage might be developers writing software for Windows:) lol
Are we going to have proper set of Linux drivers? Correct implementation of OpenGL?
I know that ATI has their little RPMs going, but the reason I have switched to using nVidia is because of the crap that went on with ATI and lack of Linux support. And now, they finaly released some drivers, but no support for older cards, and no way to actually install it properly on a Debian system.
nVidia at least allows for distribution of their drivers
This is the only reason why I switched to nVidia. I don't see how anyone using Linux can support the bad support for Linux from ATI (as compared to nVidia, of course).
As to the card itself, well, I think nVidia and ATI was always close enough:) Sometimes competition works, and ATI & nVidia are prime examples of that.
PS. Please, don't troll me about the free drivers. I want/need real drivers, and not some partial implementation.
This does not work for software (basically applied math) and should not apply to genes found in nature.
The Patent office is not patenting inventions, it is patenting ideas. That is what is wrong with it.
Heck, if they allow software patents, why not math? I would give a patent faster to the math paper than some hack off of that math paper (see most cryptography).
People are morons that will buy anything that will "kill evil bacteria" without realizing that they can't kill them. And if they could, well, they would screw themselves as well. Something like 5% of all microbial lifeforms is bad for you. The rest is good.
Only 10% of you is you. The rest is not your cells!
For starters, when you go to the toilet to do the #2, well, 50% of shit by mass is bacteria! The rest, is the stuff you ate.
People should realize that without bacteria, you are DEAD. A horrid death at that.
Most of the stuff that kills bacteria is a bunch of bull, you just pushes them around, and you end up with feces bacteria on your dinner table (really!) after you clean your house.
Anyway, when humans will actually be able to affect the microbial life balance, well, then we will be trully fucked. They are the engine of life on this planet, whether you like it or not.
PS. This goes not only to parent, but to all ignorants to whom the TV commercials speak to. Those "antibaterial" products don't really work or are killing you more than the bacteria (bateria will be back in a matter of hours after you kill them) - use water for same results!:)
Same old news about another worm. Nothing to see here, move along.
Seriously, hasn't MS learnt anything about the Internet yet? Why do they keep insisting to keep all of these ports open all the time? Why so many services running out of the box? Why can't people even close some of the listening ports?
If MS was any serious about security, they would have all ports closed be default. Or at least have a possiblity to closing them down during install.
Most applications in the OS world are obvious in the sense that they are written by Developers
Yes, in the OSS world, as in the real world, most applications are written by Developers.:)
Maybe instead of bitching all the time, people could actually come up with the layout that makes sense? Currently all that I am hearing is "Gimp SUXZ!". Well, maybe someone would actually tell the developers how to make it not-suck.
I know that Gimp 2.0 is better than the 1.x nightmare that it was.
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It seems that RBC's investment motto is "Buy high, sell low". Just like Baystar's investment strategy, it seems upside down!
And? I don't care what they do - they lost my business, present and future. Good move RBC!
RBC investment in SCO shows their lack of undestanding of their investments in general.
They will not *sue* end users, they will go after developers. Patents ensure that Windows will remain the defecto OS for at least out lifetimes. In computer terms, an eternity.
Personally, I would at least hope they would allow math patents. Afterall, most software patents are just ideas stolen from the math world. Too bad "law" makers are too stupid to realize this.
As to the "cosmological constant", well, WTF does that have to do with gravity? AFAIK, there could be no relationship between that and gravity at all. The point there is that we do not know what is going on, true, but it does not mean everything is wrong. You explanation is like:
Since no one can account for formation of object A in rock sample B, then evolution and science must we wrong and only my holy book (insert book's name here) tells the truth
No explanation for event A from theory B does not mean that B is wrong. It means there is no explanation for A. Theory B would only be wrong if A contradicts predictions of B.
Arithmetic ends after first year of university in math classes. Pretty much everything you do with computers is covered by first year of math classes. Complex numbers and other nice things are covered in second year, but after that, well, most classes will be pure theory, like functional analysis or metric spaces.
Open source does not mean "must be free". They can sell it for how much they want to sell it for. They just can't change the name to "iDoOffice" and change the license to non GPL compliant one.
I am not trying to troll here, but when someone says a recommended system, then they mean it will run semi-fast. That usually means a 486 with Windows 3.1 type of fast.
I must say, that if MS rolls out their search engine on this machine with this software (the specs are probably not right), then they will need like a million servers for the search engine. Google will just need like 1000 with these specs!
Can't you cut though polycarbonate things? First drill a hole, then cut it up. This should work for cases when polycarbonate is not under extreme tension.
The free drivers don't even have proper light support :(
I'm not trying to put down the developers that spent a lot of time and effort making the 3D drivers for ATI. I'm attacking the ATI policies that ranks Linux as a 2nd class OS only used by "RMS type zelots".
ATI needs to step up to the plate and produce quality Linux drivers. Until then, I and probably many others that run Linux will stay away. They released some specs so that others would write drivers for them.
Someone said that Linux only has 1% of the market, but the problem is that it is that 1% that actually composes the main body of the computer savvy crowd. These are the people that buy new products and spend $500 on a video card ;)
Guess not. There are many other things that are much easier to do in Linux, like OpenGL programming. If you fuck up your program, the system does not go down. I guess you get similar things in Windows with OpenGL, but at least in X I can actually use xterm instead of some stupid cmd.exe or Cygwin.
I actually switched a few months ago from Windows to Linux for development. gcc is slower than VC or Borland, but it catches more errors. The desktop also looks nicer! And I can have 5 or 10 desktops (screens) if I wish - this is quite handy.
That 1% usage might be developers writing software for Windows :) lol
Why cares??! The question is: Will Microsoft EVER use patents as a tool for gaining market control?
The answer is clearly yes. This is the entire point of patents, is it?
The infected machines are SOLD to spammers and others to relay spam. Well, most of the time.
It can be also used in other things, like DDOS attacks, or delete your HD when you sleep!
Are we talking about the same Windows here? :)
Last time I checked, they almost rebooted by themselves. ;)
Didn't he shun ATI for having crappy OpenGL? Futhermore, how do you explain this
Doesn iD use OpenGL, not the Direct3D crap anyway?
I know that ATI has their little RPMs going, but the reason I have switched to using nVidia is because of the crap that went on with ATI and lack of Linux support. And now, they finaly released some drivers, but no support for older cards, and no way to actually install it properly on a Debian system.
nVidia at least allows for distribution of their drivers
This is the only reason why I switched to nVidia. I don't see how anyone using Linux can support the bad support for Linux from ATI (as compared to nVidia, of course).
As to the card itself, well, I think nVidia and ATI was always close enough :) Sometimes competition works, and ATI & nVidia are prime examples of that.
PS. Please, don't troll me about the free drivers. I want/need real drivers, and not some partial implementation.
The Patent office is not patenting inventions, it is patenting ideas. That is what is wrong with it.
Heck, if they allow software patents, why not math? I would give a patent faster to the math paper than some hack off of that math paper (see most cryptography).
And how much did that cost him for electricity? :)
I see no one gets sarcasm... LOL!!!
People are morons that will buy anything that will "kill evil bacteria" without realizing that they can't kill them. And if they could, well, they would screw themselves as well. Something like 5% of all microbial lifeforms is bad for you. The rest is good.
Only 10% of you is you. The rest is not your cells!
For starters, when you go to the toilet to do the #2, well, 50% of shit by mass is bacteria! The rest, is the stuff you ate.
People should realize that without bacteria, you are DEAD. A horrid death at that.
Most of the stuff that kills bacteria is a bunch of bull, you just pushes them around, and you end up with feces bacteria on your dinner table (really!) after you clean your house.
Anyway, when humans will actually be able to affect the microbial life balance, well, then we will be trully fucked. They are the engine of life on this planet, whether you like it or not.
PS. This goes not only to parent, but to all ignorants to whom the TV commercials speak to. Those "antibaterial" products don't really work or are killing you more than the bacteria (bateria will be back in a matter of hours after you kill them) - use water for same results! :)
So I guess nobody wants to use Linux based OS on a desktop... Good job!
Seriously, hasn't MS learnt anything about the Internet yet? Why do they keep insisting to keep all of these ports open all the time? Why so many services running out of the box? Why can't people even close some of the listening ports?
If MS was any serious about security, they would have all ports closed be default. Or at least have a possiblity to closing them down during install.
well, this is at least my 2 cents
Yes, in the OSS world, as in the real world, most applications are written by Developers. :)
Maybe instead of bitching all the time, people could actually come up with the layout that makes sense? Currently all that I am hearing is "Gimp SUXZ!". Well, maybe someone would actually tell the developers how to make it not-suck.
I know that Gimp 2.0 is better than the 1.x nightmare that it was.
If I had "the" money, I'd be up and running with it now!!