Uhh, no - the non-rich don't buy cars but use public transport (yes, such a thing does exist) and the VAT they pay on bus tickets is at least proportionaly smaller than the VAT you pay on a car.
Uhh, no, this is not the same at all. If you are selling stuff into US, we already have tons of issues and have to follow US regulations. And its not as if SEC doesn't attempt to regulate what services brokerages worldwide can provide to US citizens...
You don't seriously want to suggest all that many people from EU buy web hosting from the US? Not only is there no need, there are also significant drawbacks dur to really braindead US laws.
huh? The thing that is holding Java back from being included "out of teh box" is the port being not quite ready to the extent that the java licence would let it be distributed as binaries, not some kind of vague fundametal issue you are hinting at (which is total crap). The FreeBSD foundation actualy specificly sought and got a licence to redistribute java, so there is no doubt it will be there one day.
And being available as a package always has and always will count as "out of the box" availability - just tick the box when doing the install.
As always it depends on the other specific of harware asewll. But there are other parts of teh CPU that scale up with the clockspeed aswell, like L! cache latency. A 3GHz 2-cycle latency L1 allows you to do twice as many dependnet loads as a 1.5Ghz 2-cycle latency L1. This would only break if say going from 1.5Ghz to 3GHz you increased the load latency from 2 to 3 (which is not something that say P4 does)
Not quite - it is not likely that there will be a lot of chips using hypertransport inerfaces directly anytime soon. There are several reasons for this:
the chips don't need that bandwidth
chips interfacing to pci(-x) already exist and creating ones interfacing to hypertransport need extra expenditure both in design, manufacture and test, and hence will only happen if there is a large benefit
likewise, hypertransport to pci-x brides exist, are cheap, and mostly fill the periferial card bandwidth needs
mind you there are some cases where this might be beneficial - say specialised infiband or sci or myrinet interfaces - but by and large these are few and far between.
But unlike NTK, the jargon file is not supposed to be a news outlet or reflect somebodies personal ideas but document common use. So your claims are entirely unreasonable and without any merit.
Is it? I'm not aware of the Jargon file being meant to be anything during the past 6-7 years. It reperesents aspects of hacker (sub)culture that were not only past their prime by then but positively fossilised. By now only people almost pathologicaly into retro or hopeless wannabe-s who can't really code bother about it.
It is anachronism in that it used to document the jargon of a specific era - nobody has bothered about it in ages and most of it is about as relevant as ESR to Open Source, that is not all that much.
It is a pity that revisionist changes are being made to it without a proper changelog, but itis no great matter. As things stand the Jargon File is an histopric artefact of little significance.
I think you are thinking of the wrong firmware - IBM was effectively forced to open up the mainframe business, including not banning others from writing microcode that could run teh same instruction set.
It is very unlikely with the existing EU directives and EU laws on reverse engineering for interoperability that any DMCA variant could effectively be used for this. It might end up being the lever to make the specs be open, not vice versa.
odd thing - there is no such thing here as DMCA, so why don't you explain how having a DMCA protected machine will avoid linux running on it on a reasonable scale?
And how would you do that, other than by court orders inside the US? Really, the most that can be realisticly achieved is having the *boot loader* be signed in some way, as the bios has no control on what happens from then on.
Why? I'd say it will take a couple of weeks from
availability to running NetBSD. IMHO its more of a sign MS perceives itself as being increasibly vulnerable in the mid to long term that is driving this than any short term issues as the market slump. Analysts just have way too short attention spans.
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1000EUR
but its a guesstimate - you would probably pay less if you used a route regularily (like say to work).
Such a company would be commiting fraud, which will most likely get its ass busted by FBI and result in a nice long prison terms for those involved.
this just goes to show you don't have to have any clue to post things to slashdot, evenunder your own name.
Uhh, no - the non-rich don't buy cars but use public transport (yes, such a thing does exist) and the VAT they pay on bus tickets is at least proportionaly smaller than the VAT you pay on a car.
Uhh, no, this is not the same at all. If you are selling stuff into US, we already have tons of issues and have to follow US regulations. And its not as if SEC doesn't attempt to regulate what services brokerages worldwide can provide to US citizens...
But see, you can avoid all this buy buying from the local branch that is inside the UK and hence employs UK people and pays UK corporate tax...
Somebody mod this stupid troll that didn't read the story down!
Fine. See if anybody cares.
You don't seriously want to suggest all that many people from EU buy web hosting from the US? Not only is there no need, there are also significant drawbacks dur to really braindead US laws.
uhh, dummy, it won't be the UK agency coming to their door, it will be FBI coming to ask about tax fraud.
Umm... The iso images are bootable - so just download it, burn a cd, pop it into the drive and boot from it. Problem solved.
Beware, it is the night of the walking dead BSD-s 8-D
oh shit - is this for real? A great pity 8-(
huh? The thing that is holding Java back from being included "out of teh box" is the port being not quite ready to the extent that the java licence would let it be distributed as binaries, not some kind of vague fundametal issue you are hinting at (which is total crap). The FreeBSD foundation actualy specificly sought and got a licence to redistribute java, so there is no doubt it will be there one day.
And being available as a package always has and always will count as "out of the box" availability - just tick the box when doing the install.
yeah, its a pity. hopefully in 5.2 / 5.3
As always it depends on the other specific of harware asewll. But there are other parts of teh CPU that scale up with the clockspeed aswell, like L! cache latency. A 3GHz 2-cycle latency L1 allows you to do twice as many dependnet loads as a 1.5Ghz 2-cycle latency L1. This would only break if say going from 1.5Ghz to 3GHz you increased the load latency from 2 to 3 (which is not something that say P4 does)
mind you there are some cases where this might be beneficial - say specialised infiband or sci or myrinet interfaces - but by and large these are few and far between.
But unlike NTK, the jargon file is not supposed to be a news outlet or reflect somebodies personal ideas but document common use. So your claims are entirely unreasonable and without any merit.
Is it? I'm not aware of the Jargon file being meant to be anything during the past 6-7 years. It reperesents aspects of hacker (sub)culture that were not only past their prime by then but positively fossilised. By now only people almost pathologicaly into retro or hopeless wannabe-s who can't really code bother about it.
It is anachronism in that it used to document the jargon of a specific era - nobody has bothered about it in ages and most of it is about as relevant as ESR to Open Source, that is not all that much.
It is a pity that revisionist changes are being made to it without a proper changelog, but itis no great matter. As things stand the Jargon File is an histopric artefact of little significance.
I think you are thinking of the wrong
firmware - IBM was effectively forced
to open up the mainframe business, including
not banning others from writing microcode
that could run teh same instruction set.
It is very unlikely with the existing EU
directives and EU laws on reverse engineering
for interoperability that any DMCA variant
could effectively be used for this. It might
end up being the lever to make the specs be open,
not vice versa.
odd thing - there is no such thing here as DMCA,
so why don't you explain how having a DMCA
protected machine will avoid linux running on it
on a reasonable scale?
And how would you do that, other than by court
orders inside the US? Really, the most that can
be realisticly achieved is having the *boot loader*
be signed in some way, as the bios has no control on what happens from then on.
Why? I'd say it will take a couple of weeks from
availability to running NetBSD. IMHO its more of
a sign MS perceives itself as being increasibly
vulnerable in the mid to long term that is driving
this than any short term issues as the market slump.
Analysts just have way too short attention spans.