(although not on the imaging/planetary science side of things), it's important to note how incredibly successful Cassini-Huygens has been. Projects such as Cassini are where the 'space' budget needs to be spent, not on trinkets like the International Space Station.
An introductary part of my course (MPhys) was using these things to get across the idea of real-time control systems, so we spent a week in a dark room, trying to get it to track a light source. One thing that slowed us down was the software on the PC side of things. What they need is a C API.
Not only did we invent and build it -- we paid for it.
Your point being? Relatively speaking, it didn't cost you that much at all. Just compare it to the SSC or other scientific ventures in the USA. Sometimes people, particularly scientists and researchers don't do things purely for a profit. At any rate, the purpose the net was designed for is now irrelevant - it's used for much better things now.
Isn't this an endorsment of the open-source way of developing?
Isn't this, assuming it actually happens, massively hypocritical?
Isn't this MS going back on their 'Get the facts' campaign.
A 180 degree about turn on policy makes anyone look good to their investors / users...right?
Makes you wonder, given that some part of SCO is still able to throw money at its lawyers in pursuit of some sort of vindication, whether they honestly believe that there is some value to their claims? Surely if they were a _real_ software company (and not some sort of poster-child for the anti-OSS arguments), they'd have cut their losses months ago, and drop their actions?
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(although not on the imaging/planetary science side of things), it's important to note how incredibly successful Cassini-Huygens has been. Projects such as Cassini are where the 'space' budget needs to be spent, not on trinkets like the International Space Station.
By which you of course mean that people will go back to playing Counter Strike?
An introductary part of my course (MPhys) was using these things to get across the idea of real-time control systems, so we spent a week in a dark room, trying to get it to track a light source.
One thing that slowed us down was the software on the PC side of things. What they need is a C API.
Wake me up when it uses the built in spell checker on OS X.
If, by "imaginative" you mean "Rip off Tim Schafer", then yes. Yes it will.
Your point being? Relatively speaking, it didn't cost you that much at all. Just compare it to the SSC or other scientific ventures in the USA. Sometimes people, particularly scientists and researchers don't do things purely for a profit. At any rate, the purpose the net was designed for is now irrelevant - it's used for much better things now.
Thats because it's a ranking of words spoken by people.
Script kiddies neither speak (IRC), and aren't people.
Isn't this an endorsment of the open-source way of developing? Isn't this, assuming it actually happens, massively hypocritical? Isn't this MS going back on their 'Get the facts' campaign. A 180 degree about turn on policy makes anyone look good to their investors / users...right?
Makes you wonder, given that some part of SCO is still able to throw money at its lawyers in pursuit of some sort of vindication, whether they honestly believe that there is some value to their claims? Surely if they were a _real_ software company (and not some sort of poster-child for the anti-OSS arguments), they'd have cut their losses months ago, and drop their actions?
Microsoft Security - Still A Joke.