The penalty payment is paid into the EU Budget. It does not increase the Budget, but reduces the contribution from Member States. The fines therefore reduce the overall tax burden on individuals.
You are comparing a $2000 Itanium processor with a $500 Opteron. Now if you multiply the benchmark result of the opteron times 4, you will have the Itanium easily displaced for an Opteron solution of the same price.
I switched to dvorak for a couple of weeks, just to see how it was. It is ok for typing letters, and such things, but for programming it's really anoying. For example, the > chars for html are not so handy, and *all* shortcuts are messed up... If you take your time to fix all shortcuts and such things, then perhaps you gain something...
It's ok to stick to windows/osx if you can afford the licences and you're willing to. If someday you don't have money to buy a licence you can ask someone with experience in Linux for help installing it and give it a try again.
I, for instance, only buy hardware supported by Linux, so I don't have your problems, problems that will happen until the vendors add support to Linux.
Linux is not magic and doesn't automatically support any new hardware that may appear, someone must sit down and with a lot of patience make the proper drivers, because vendors *don't*.
You can install it and say: ok. a lot of things *do* work, and it is for free. With less money than you save in MS et al. licences you can buy a new linux-supported printer, graphic card, and a long hardware etc.
I use Ogg and not mp3, but nevertheless I never experienced skipping playing audio or video.
What does this guy do, apart from making dubious predictions about the future of linux and working in fetchmail? I think he gained popularity doing almost nothing (except for the netscape thing)... I'm surprised the people actually listen to him...
Hey you're great, you just killed the biggest catfish ever... how amazing, how proud you must be!
Come on guys, let's see how many amazing creatures can we kill today.
In my opinion, AMD is doing this because Microsoft is behind them, pushing this action, and promising ongoing support.
This is just one more step in Microsoft's ongoing promotion of AMD, and FUDing of Intel -- a process that has been going on for a few years now. The original trigger for Microsoft's courting of AMD may have been this:
ZDNet: Intel courts Linux developers with Itanium specs
Of course, Microsoft has threatened to do it before, as described in the DOJ Findings of Fact:
> In February 1997, one of Intel's competitors, called AMD, solicited support from Microsoft for its "3DX" technology, which provided sophisticated multimedia support for games. Microsoft's Allchin asked Gates whether Microsoft should support 3DX, despite the fact that Intel would oppose it. Gates responded: "If Intel has a real problem with us supporting this then they will have to stop supporting Java Multimedia the way they are. I would gladly give up supporting this if they would back off from their work on JAVA which is terrible for Intel."
Also note this quote:
> Near the end of March, Allchin sent another message to Gates and Maritz. In it he wrote, "I am positive that we must do a direct attack on Sun (and probably Oracle). . . . Between ourselves and our partners, we can certainly hurt their (certainly Sun's) revenue base. . . . We need to get Intel to help us. Today, they are not."
This second quote, along with the SCO case, shows a pattern of Microsoft coercing its partners into attacking its enemies. Microsoft involvement would also explain why AMD would take this action now, despite the risks.
As those who have been following the action know, Intel has not been playing Microsoft's game for some time now. Microsoft's inability to support new technologies within a reasonable time frame has been holding Intel back, and Intel knows it.
The situation is as follows:
1. Microsoft knows that Intel had a lot more to do with the PC's success than Microsoft did. Intel continuously improved their product, and reduced prices, while Microsoft barely managed to keep up, making poor copies of other companies' software, years late. Microsoft is afraid, correctly, that Intel still has the power to move the industry forward, with Microsoft unable to follow.
2. With the growing acceptance of Linux, Intel no longer has to hold back, while Microsoft catches up (as, for example, when an entire decade passed between the introduction of the 80386, and Microsoft's eventual use of its memory management capabilities). Intel can now move forward with things like 64-bit, multi-core, and parallel CPUs, with the necessary operating system support in place to allow Intel to sell their products. But that OS is going to be Linux, because Microsoft can't improve Windows fast enough to keep up.
3. Intel has made it clear that they are no longer going to be held back by Windows. When Microsoft could not make Windows run efficiently on a 64-bit CPU, it was AMD, not Intel, that compromised their design, and wasted 64-bit CPU real estate in order to add the 32-bit support to overcome Microsoft's weaknesses.
4. In order to stop Linux, Microsoft is trying to decommoditize PC hardware, with hidden interface specs (as described in the Halloween document). NVidia and ATI have gone along with Microsoft, cutting back on their help for Open Source driver developerment (instead, during this embrace stage, providing closed source drivers, and increasingly complex interfaces). AMD has also gone along, for example, when AMD gave Microsoft the necessary information to fix the AMD "Processor Bug," but Linux developers were left out in the cold, until they figured out the problem for themselves. Meanwhile, Intel has comtinued to keep their specs open, even going so far as to release a series of platform specs just for Linux.
5. Intel is now cooperating with Apple, a company that just recently broke out from under Microsoft's thumb. With the availabi
That is great, instead of stopping the production greenhouse gases we put an umbrella arround the earth... like that old movie with Christopher Lambert. It would be a lot easier and perhaps cheaper for USA to sign the kyoto protocol and start following japan's example, than making something like this...
Thanks to all of you who download pirated-copies of movies and games from the net, L&M had to move to another studio... I knew this was going to happen, they are losing BILLIONS because of YOU.
It can be interesting to see a championship of computers vs. computers, with similar technology but different programming. To watch a computer defeating a man playing chess is not even interesting anymore, is like trying to do multiplications faster than a calculator (I know some people claim that).
As long as Disney continues to be a pro-establishment machine deviced to brain-wash the minds of the young generations with its quasi-religious pink-colored movies, it is condemned to eventually fail.
With all the money Disney has, and they are not able to compete in quality with japanese animated films, and both have really talented people, the difference is tha the jap guys don't need a Vatican & Political approbal before start the production of a movie.
A good idea would be to make a challenge with the money as the price, for the team who develop an innovative or really needed GNU program. For example a good project management module for openoffice, a free autocad equivalent, or things like that.
Slashdot Mirror
how long are their going to transmit this message?
Are they trying to continue Sagan's work on SETI?
actually, in german gluck = luck/happines
from the FAQ:
Where does the money go?
The penalty payment is paid into the EU Budget. It does not increase the Budget, but reduces the contribution from Member States. The fines therefore reduce the overall tax burden on individuals.
thanks god Europe != USA
Keep that in mind.
The Secret of Monkey Island!
"Security by obscurity" :)
in Windows NT!! :)
You are comparing a $2000 Itanium processor with a $500 Opteron. Now if you multiply the benchmark result of the opteron times 4, you will have the Itanium easily displaced for an Opteron solution of the same price.
I switched to dvorak for a couple of weeks, just to see how it was. It is ok for typing letters, and such things, but for programming it's really anoying. For example, the > chars for html are not so handy, and *all* shortcuts are messed up...
If you take your time to fix all shortcuts and such things, then perhaps you gain something...
Not with Pi, but for example with 1/3 and even with 2/3!
It's ok to stick to windows/osx if you can afford the licences and you're willing to. If someday you don't have money to buy a licence you can ask someone with experience in Linux for help installing it and give it a try again.
I, for instance, only buy hardware supported by Linux, so I don't have your problems, problems that will happen until the vendors add support to Linux.
Linux is not magic and doesn't automatically support any new hardware that may appear, someone must sit down and with a lot of patience make the proper drivers, because vendors *don't*.
You can install it and say: ok. a lot of things *do* work, and it is for free. With less money than you save in MS et al. licences you can buy a new linux-supported printer, graphic card, and a long hardware etc.
I use Ogg and not mp3, but nevertheless I never experienced skipping playing audio or video.
What does this guy do, apart from making dubious predictions about the future of linux and working in fetchmail? I think he gained popularity doing almost nothing (except for the netscape thing)... I'm surprised the people actually listen to him...
Hey you're great, you just killed the biggest catfish ever... how amazing, how proud you must be! Come on guys, let's see how many amazing creatures can we kill today.
In my opinion, AMD is doing this because Microsoft is behind them, pushing this action, and promising ongoing support.
This is just one more step in Microsoft's ongoing promotion of AMD, and FUDing of Intel -- a process that has been going on for a few years now. The original trigger for Microsoft's courting of AMD may have been this:
ZDNet: Intel courts Linux developers with Itanium specs
Of course, Microsoft has threatened to do it before, as described in the DOJ Findings of Fact:
> In February 1997, one of Intel's competitors, called AMD, solicited support from Microsoft for its "3DX" technology, which provided sophisticated multimedia support for games. Microsoft's Allchin asked Gates whether Microsoft should support 3DX, despite the fact that Intel would oppose it. Gates responded: "If Intel has a real problem with us supporting this then they will have to stop supporting Java Multimedia the way they are. I would gladly give up supporting this if they would back off from their work on JAVA which is terrible for Intel."
Also note this quote:
> Near the end of March, Allchin sent another message to Gates and Maritz. In it he wrote, "I am positive that we must do a direct attack on Sun (and probably Oracle). . . . Between ourselves and our partners, we can certainly hurt their (certainly Sun's) revenue base. . . . We need to get Intel to help us. Today, they are not."
This second quote, along with the SCO case, shows a pattern of Microsoft coercing its partners into attacking its enemies. Microsoft involvement would also explain why AMD would take this action now, despite the risks.
As those who have been following the action know, Intel has not been playing Microsoft's game for some time now. Microsoft's inability to support new technologies within a reasonable time frame has been holding Intel back, and Intel knows it.
The situation is as follows:
1. Microsoft knows that Intel had a lot more to do with the PC's success than Microsoft did. Intel continuously improved their product, and reduced prices, while Microsoft barely managed to keep up, making poor copies of other companies' software, years late. Microsoft is afraid, correctly, that Intel still has the power to move the industry forward, with Microsoft unable to follow.
2. With the growing acceptance of Linux, Intel no longer has to hold back, while Microsoft catches up (as, for example, when an entire decade passed between the introduction of the 80386, and Microsoft's eventual use of its memory management capabilities). Intel can now move forward with things like 64-bit, multi-core, and parallel CPUs, with the necessary operating system support in place to allow Intel to sell their products. But that OS is going to be Linux, because Microsoft can't improve Windows fast enough to keep up.
3. Intel has made it clear that they are no longer going to be held back by Windows. When Microsoft could not make Windows run efficiently on a 64-bit CPU, it was AMD, not Intel, that compromised their design, and wasted 64-bit CPU real estate in order to add the 32-bit support to overcome Microsoft's weaknesses.
4. In order to stop Linux, Microsoft is trying to decommoditize PC hardware, with hidden interface specs (as described in the Halloween document). NVidia and ATI have gone along with Microsoft, cutting back on their help for Open Source driver developerment (instead, during this embrace stage, providing closed source drivers, and increasingly complex interfaces). AMD has also gone along, for example, when AMD gave Microsoft the necessary information to fix the AMD "Processor Bug," but Linux developers were left out in the cold, until they figured out the problem for themselves. Meanwhile, Intel has comtinued to keep their specs open, even going so far as to release a series of platform specs just for Linux.
5. Intel is now cooperating with Apple, a company that just recently broke out from under Microsoft's thumb. With the availabi
That is great, instead of stopping the production greenhouse gases we put an umbrella arround the earth... like that old movie with Christopher Lambert. It would be a lot easier and perhaps cheaper for USA to sign the kyoto protocol and start following japan's example, than making something like this...
Principia Mathematica is from Isaac Newton!!
...and some of the articles I submitted to /. were rejected!
Thanks to all of you who download pirated-copies of movies and games from the net, L&M had to move to another studio...
I knew this was going to happen, they are losing BILLIONS because of YOU.
It can be interesting to see a championship of computers vs. computers, with similar technology but different programming.
To watch a computer defeating a man playing chess is not even interesting anymore, is like trying to do multiplications faster than a calculator (I know some people claim that).
I wish them good luck, because with their mars-probe's success ratio they'll need it!!
Yes, it is. (a leat version 3.4.0)
emerge longhorn! emerge!
As long as Disney continues to be a pro-establishment machine deviced to brain-wash the minds of the young generations with its quasi-religious pink-colored movies, it is condemned to eventually fail. With all the money Disney has, and they are not able to compete in quality with japanese animated films, and both have really talented people, the difference is tha the jap guys don't need a Vatican & Political approbal before start the production of a movie.
A good idea would be to make a challenge with the money as the price, for the team who develop an innovative or really needed GNU program. For example a good project management module for openoffice, a free autocad equivalent, or things like that.
Is Osama hidding there??