After all, the Crusoe architecure is not a performance demon aimed at desktops/servers, and it is not aimed at the ultra-low power consuption StrongArm market. But might be suitable for the sorts of applications that embedded PPCs are currently used in...
Well, if the lawyers did come out and say "Bill buggered it for himself," they might get a reprimand from the state's Bar Association, depending on circumstances. And if they revealed a client-attorney confidence in a book, they'd certainly get a reprimand and might lose their license.
But libel? If it's dealing with a public figure, you have to a) say something that can be proved to be false, and b) say it with intentional malice, for it to be considered libelous in the U.S.
In short, the biggest sanction the lawyers would face is losing Microsoft's buisness.
Actually, they say the % of subscribers using Usenet is flat, not the total usage. So if the number of subscribers has been doubles evey year months, so would Usenet posting. And, of course, there's always the spammers...
My response to the "why port Linux" posts? How about:
1) As a educational exercise. 2) To develop a version of Linux suited for embedded environments based on the N64's processor. 3) For fun. 4) For the same reason people waste time posting redundant "why"s about 18-month-dead projects mentioned on Slashdot.
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In the episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" (#5F21 / SI-921), a single highway is supposed to lead to New Jersey, Texas, Michigan, and Oregon.
Therefore, Springfield must be in a location where a single highway can lead to all those locations. It must be west of the Mississippi because of KBBL. It must be able to get a lot of snow (feet, several times). It must be near the ocean. It must have a desert with cacti nearby.
QED, Springfield does not and cannot have a state.
Ah -- I didn't understand you, so you didn't understand me. I was dealing with the question as a matter of what current law is (as far as this IANAL knows), instead of what "should be done". Under current law adjusting the image is not actionable, but creating a false impression of endorsement is.
Placing the logo on me creates an implication that I endorse the product. Placing a digital logo on typical advertising space does not create an implication of an endorsement.
It's a fine line, but a logical one. Putting a logo directly underneath the NBC logo would imply a relation between NBC and the digital logo, and thus would be actionable. Blocking out the NBC logo doesn't create any such implication, and NBC doesn't have any rights regarding what CBS broadcasts.
So, I'd object to CBS putting an MS logo on my cap -- but they could replace me with a digital image of someone else wearing a Microsoft cap on their broadcast.
Helms-Burton wasn't passed because it was a good law that we wanted to enforce; it was passed to politically appease Cuban-Americans in Florida. Outside of Miami, nobody cares if Canada trades with Cuba, which is why it had a suspension clause that has been used so that it never has taken legal effect.
Anyway, we don't want Quebec breaking off, so we have to keep giving you guys a demon U.S. to rally together against:-)
Forget "other countries" -- you could do the reverse engineering in another state, or in Washington D.C., or in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands. UCTIA is a proposed standard for state laws, and it would only apply in states that pass UCTIA.
Example: let's say that extracting iron from ore is illegal in Texas. That doesn't stop me from extracting iron from ore in Michigan and then offering my iron for sale in Kansas.
I can see: Pascal (first mechanical calculator) Leibniz (first 4-function mechanical calculator, pointed out importance of binary numbers) Jacqard (punch-card loom) Babbage (difference and analytical engines) Thomas Edison (discovery of the Edison effect) Hollerith (punch-card census tabulator) Aiken (first general-purpose mechanical computer) Mauchly and Eckert (ENIAC) John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley (transistor) Kilby and Noyce (integrated circuit) Hoff (microprocessor)
But Curie did all her work in radiation and chemistry. Perhaps she had some impact on the CRT in your monitor, but lots of people were investigating cathodes at the time.
This is akin to scientists refusing to endorse the theory of evolution because Christians don't believe in it. Sheesh.
Just FYI -- only a subset of Christians don't believe it. Pope John Paul II has publicly stated that neither the Big Bang nor evolution are contradictory to the Catholic faith.
Biblical literalism is, after all, logically impossible. Matthew 27:5-7 established that Judas hanged himself, then the priests took his money and bought a graveyard henceforth known as the Field of Blood. Acts 1:18 establishes that Judas bought land and fell down on it (bursting open and dying from the impact), henceforth known as the Field of Blood.
(Whatever logical contortions are done, it was impossible for Judas to spend his blood money on the land and then for the priests to spend Judas's blood money on the land.)
The pro-lifers would have had a major cow; if the destruction of human embryos in medical research wasn't so common that it would mean screaming 24/7. As it is, pro-life groups keep trying to cut off federal funding for all forms of human embryo research.
The rules say that open source software is eligible for export under "License Exception TSU", which also seems to be the exception for the think it says that you can export 128-bit-key open source software with the sole condition of sending a letter notifying the BXA of your internet address.
Hey, don't expect me to disagree -- I still use Windows 98, not Linux, on my desktop.
What it does mean is that Linux on PDA has some advantages that PalmOS does not. Those advantages constitue an answer to "why Linux on a PDA?", even if they do not constitute an answer to "why should I use Linux on my PDA?"
Er, have you been reading Cuban newspapers for your information on how the U.S. justice system works? We do have a juvinile justice system. Name a single child executed in the U.S., or even sentenced to death, in the last, oh, 35 years.
Moving on, let's look at the recent, high-profile Nathaniel Abraham case, wherein an 11-year-old (now 13) in Michigan was convicted as an adult of 1st degree murder. What does this mean?
Well, first, he won't be sentenced to death. Michigan was the first English-speaking jurisdiction in history to stop using the death penalty, back in the 1820s.
Second, yes, he could theoretically be sentenced to life in prison -- if the judge so rules and it survives the appeals process.
However, the most likely sentence is a "blended sentence". In that case, he would be sent to a juvinile facility until the age of 21, at which time the case would be reviwed to see if he, now an adult, was a danger to society. If not, he'd go free.
In short, Michigan will take a killer out of the social environment in which he killed and place him in a controlled one; and if he becomes responsible enough to be safely freed, he will be. Hardly seems like the actions of ogres now, does it?
Well, to start with, all the practical and ideological reasons why free/open source software is preferable to closed software. ESR and RMS have written books worth of essays on the advantages.
Second, because a PDA Linux has all the API-similarity advantages vis-a-vis Linux/Unix that WinCE has vis-a-vis Win32.
Does it have the same massive slowdown during later stages of a game? (ie. when many cities, etc are built)
Not really. It does pretty good even on my 6x86-120, which is at/near the "absolute minimum requirement" of a Pentium-133. (For maximum speed, set all the "fast movement" game options [I do] use the low-res graphics set [I don't]). Extensive automation options and the F-key secondary interface make managing large empires relatively easy.
Are the computer opponents predictable?
Well, each faction has a favored strategy, and there are some little stupidities that are exploitable if you feel like "cheating" (like trading worthless cites for great ones). But playing at Transcend level and regularly changing the faction you play, the victory conditions allowed, and the size of the map will give you both challenging and variable play.
Anyway, I really, really like Alpha Centauri, and strongly recommend it.
As near as I can tell, if I spend $400 on merchandise from Best Buy, get the $400 rebate, and (if a California/Oregon resident) cancel MSN, I don't give them any money. I just transfer $400 from Microsoft to Best Buy, and some sales tax to my state govenment.
Sure, Best Buy makes some money -- but they net less than Microsoft loses, while Amana and I both come out ahead.
I wonder what is more important: the 'Open Source' aspect of the database or the actual PORT of the database to linux?
The open source part.
If Inprise goes bankrupt having released a closed-source Linux port, the port dies. Anybody who has it will be without either the support of a company or a community with access to the source code. In five years, it would be a troublesome legacy product. If Inprise doesn't go bankrupt, it still only lives as long as Inprise chooses, and everyone who uses it is dependent on Inprise.
If it is open source, that doesn't stop Inprise from selling a retail version with support -- especially for mission-critical deployments. It also ensures that the code can survive Inprise if necessary.
And, finally, Inprise lost the development team about a month ago when they quit. This isn't a case of Inprise tossing a potential profit-source off the sled; it's a case of a product that Inprise would otherwise just have to bury.
While Americans, being of an inventive but mentally undisciplined bent, invented air conditioned malls so we could walk around our marketplaces in thick shirt, sweater, and fleece-lined jacket when the temperature is in the 100's.
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Comparisons to the PowerPC chips.
After all, the Crusoe architecure is not a performance demon aimed at desktops/servers, and it is not aimed at the ultra-low power consuption StrongArm market. But might be suitable for the sorts of applications that embedded PPCs are currently used in...
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Code Morphing: Translates x86 instructions recieved to Crusoe VLIW, caches translations to reduce translation overhead, and has code optimizer.
LongRun: Adjusts megahertz to save power when full speed of processor isn't needed for current task.
Performance Benchmarks
1) 700 megahertz: Similar to P3-500 for far less power...
1) 700 megahertz x86-compatible 1 watt dissipation 400+kb cache, targeted at Windows notebooks
2) 400 hegahertz x86-compatible 1 watt dissipation 100kb+ cach, targeted at Linux devices
No actual performance figures, at least yet...
Well, if the lawyers did come out and say "Bill buggered it for himself," they might get a reprimand from the state's Bar Association, depending on circumstances. And if they revealed a client-attorney confidence in a book, they'd certainly get a reprimand and might lose their license.
But libel? If it's dealing with a public figure, you have to a) say something that can be proved to be false, and b) say it with intentional malice, for it to be considered libelous in the U.S.
In short, the biggest sanction the lawyers would face is losing Microsoft's buisness.
Can netscape write a "Navigator" that looks and feels just like their current product, but uses MS' API?
.dlls for HTML rendering.
Yes. Neoplanet already makes a browser with its own look-and-feel that uses Microsoft's
Actually, they say the % of subscribers using Usenet is flat, not the total usage. So if the number of subscribers has been doubles evey year months, so would Usenet posting. And, of course, there's always the spammers...
My response to the "why port Linux" posts? How about:
1) As a educational exercise.
2) To develop a version of Linux suited for embedded environments based on the N64's processor.
3) For fun.
4) For the same reason people waste time posting redundant "why"s about 18-month-dead projects mentioned on Slashdot.
In the episode "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace" (#5F21 / SI-921), a single highway is supposed to lead to New Jersey, Texas, Michigan, and Oregon.
Therefore, Springfield must be in a location where a single highway can lead to all those locations. It must be west of the Mississippi because of KBBL. It must be able to get a lot of snow (feet, several times). It must be near the ocean. It must have a desert with cacti nearby.
QED, Springfield does not and cannot have a state.
Ah -- I didn't understand you, so you didn't understand me. I was dealing with the question as a matter of what current law is (as far as this IANAL knows), instead of what "should be done". Under current law adjusting the image is not actionable, but creating a false impression of endorsement is.
Pay range at the NSA for tech jobs is from $33,538 (£20,369) to $69,278 (£42,075), while at GCHQ it's from $26,707 (£16,221) to $56,791 (£34,492).
Placing the logo on me creates an implication that I endorse the product. Placing a digital logo on typical advertising space does not create an implication of an endorsement.
It's a fine line, but a logical one. Putting a logo directly underneath the NBC logo would imply a relation between NBC and the digital logo, and thus would be actionable. Blocking out the NBC logo doesn't create any such implication, and NBC doesn't have any rights regarding what CBS broadcasts.
So, I'd object to CBS putting an MS logo on my cap -- but they could replace me with a digital image of someone else wearing a Microsoft cap on their broadcast.
Helms-Burton wasn't passed because it was a good law that we wanted to enforce; it was passed to politically appease Cuban-Americans in Florida. Outside of Miami, nobody cares if Canada trades with Cuba, which is why it had a suspension clause that has been used so that it never has taken legal effect.
:-)
Anyway, we don't want Quebec breaking off, so we have to keep giving you guys a demon U.S. to rally together against
From a major city north of Canada, I am...
Forget "other countries" -- you could do the reverse engineering in another state, or in Washington D.C., or in Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands. UCTIA is a proposed standard for state laws, and it would only apply in states that pass UCTIA.
Example: let's say that extracting iron from ore is illegal in Texas. That doesn't stop me from extracting iron from ore in Michigan and then offering my iron for sale in Kansas.
Madame Curie?
I can see:
Pascal (first mechanical calculator)
Leibniz (first 4-function mechanical calculator, pointed out importance of binary numbers)
Jacqard (punch-card loom)
Babbage (difference and analytical engines)
Thomas Edison (discovery of the Edison effect)
Hollerith (punch-card census tabulator)
Aiken (first general-purpose mechanical computer)
Mauchly and Eckert (ENIAC)
John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley (transistor)
Kilby and Noyce (integrated circuit)
Hoff (microprocessor)
But Curie did all her work in radiation and chemistry. Perhaps she had some impact on the CRT in your monitor, but lots of people were investigating cathodes at the time.
This is akin to scientists refusing to endorse the theory of evolution because Christians don't believe in it. Sheesh.
Just FYI -- only a subset of Christians don't believe it. Pope John Paul II has publicly stated that neither the Big Bang nor evolution are contradictory to the Catholic faith.
Biblical literalism is, after all, logically impossible. Matthew 27:5-7 established that Judas hanged himself, then the priests took his money and bought a graveyard henceforth known as the Field of Blood. Acts 1:18 establishes that Judas bought land and fell down on it (bursting open and dying from the impact), henceforth known as the Field of Blood.
(Whatever logical contortions are done, it was impossible for Judas to spend his blood money on the land and then for the priests to spend Judas's blood money on the land.)
The pro-lifers would have had a major cow; if the destruction of human embryos in medical research wasn't so common that it would mean screaming 24/7. As it is, pro-life groups keep trying to cut off federal funding for all forms of human embryo research.
The rules say that open source software is eligible for export under "License Exception TSU", which also seems to be the exception for the think it says that you can export 128-bit-key open source software with the sole condition of sending a letter notifying the BXA of your internet address.
But, do not take my word for it -- IANAL.
Hey, don't expect me to disagree -- I still use Windows 98, not Linux, on my desktop.
What it does mean is that Linux on PDA has some advantages that PalmOS does not. Those advantages constitue an answer to "why Linux on a PDA?", even if they do not constitute an answer to "why should I use Linux on my PDA?"
Er, have you been reading Cuban newspapers for your information on how the U.S. justice system works? We do have a juvinile justice system. Name a single child executed in the U.S., or even sentenced to death, in the last, oh, 35 years.
Moving on, let's look at the recent, high-profile Nathaniel Abraham case, wherein an 11-year-old (now 13) in Michigan was convicted as an adult of 1st degree murder. What does this mean?
Well, first, he won't be sentenced to death. Michigan was the first English-speaking jurisdiction in history to stop using the death penalty, back in the 1820s.
Second, yes, he could theoretically be sentenced to life in prison -- if the judge so rules and it survives the appeals process.
However, the most likely sentence is a "blended sentence". In that case, he would be sent to a juvinile facility until the age of 21, at which time the case would be reviwed to see if he, now an adult, was a danger to society. If not, he'd go free.
In short, Michigan will take a killer out of the social environment in which he killed and place him in a controlled one; and if he becomes responsible enough to be safely freed, he will be. Hardly seems like the actions of ogres now, does it?
Well, to start with, all the practical and ideological reasons why free/open source software is preferable to closed software. ESR and RMS have written books worth of essays on the advantages.
Second, because a PDA Linux has all the API-similarity advantages vis-a-vis Linux/Unix that WinCE has vis-a-vis Win32.
How does Alpha Centauri compare to Civ:CTP?
No idea, never played CTP.
Does it have the same massive slowdown during later stages of a game? (ie. when many cities, etc are built)
Not really. It does pretty good even on my 6x86-120, which is at/near the "absolute minimum requirement" of a Pentium-133. (For maximum speed, set all the "fast movement" game options [I do] use the low-res graphics set [I don't]). Extensive automation options and the F-key secondary interface make managing large empires relatively easy.
Are the computer opponents predictable?
Well, each faction has a favored strategy, and there are some little stupidities that are exploitable if you feel like "cheating" (like trading worthless cites for great ones). But playing at Transcend level and regularly changing the faction you play, the victory conditions allowed, and the size of the map will give you both challenging and variable play.
Anyway, I really, really like Alpha Centauri, and strongly recommend it.
And can you think of anything Fox News would like better than to prove CNN faked something? Except maybe proving that the government faked something?
No, I'm not paranoid. I know that whatever they can do, they won't agree on what to do.
Give them money?
As near as I can tell, if I spend $400 on merchandise from Best Buy, get the $400 rebate, and (if a California/Oregon resident) cancel MSN, I don't give them any money. I just transfer $400 from Microsoft to Best Buy, and some sales tax to my state govenment.
Sure, Best Buy makes some money -- but they net less than Microsoft loses, while Amana and I both come out ahead.
I wonder what is more important: the 'Open Source' aspect of the database or the actual PORT of the database to linux?
The open source part.
If Inprise goes bankrupt having released a closed-source Linux port, the port dies. Anybody who has it will be without either the support of a company or a community with access to the source code. In five years, it would be a troublesome legacy product. If Inprise doesn't go bankrupt, it still only lives as long as Inprise chooses, and everyone who uses it is dependent on Inprise.
If it is open source, that doesn't stop Inprise from selling a retail version with support -- especially for mission-critical deployments. It also ensures that the code can survive Inprise if necessary.
And, finally, Inprise lost the development team about a month ago when they quit. This isn't a case of Inprise tossing a potential profit-source off the sled; it's a case of a product that Inprise would otherwise just have to bury.
While Americans, being of an inventive but mentally undisciplined bent, invented air conditioned malls so we could walk around our marketplaces in thick shirt, sweater, and fleece-lined jacket when the temperature is in the 100's.