Have a think about the expectations you have of your life; consider the possibility at least that you may not actually be able to estimate your life expectancy, and adjust accordingly.
Am I the only one that finds it vaguely amusing that we're seeing "GNU-Darwin" discussed here? Looks like GNU's being a bit of a SCO and SCO!
Now before anyone goes NUTS and starts flame-bombing me for my political incorrectness please realise I'm only **joking**!! Long live GNU! Down with SCO!!(^!) Put the GNU-gun down and nobody will get H*RT.
I noticed the system uses huge quantities of molten salt at 290-565 degrees C. The salt is a mix of 60% sodium nitrate and 40% potassium nitrate. Am I the only one thinking.... BOOOOM..... I wonder what'll happen if the pumping system breaks down, or if someone get's the mix wrong.
I wonder how long you guys are going to go on before you actually read the article linked to. They are talking about using silicon catalyst instead of metal catalyst in the carbon nanotube fabrication process.
The United States of America - Champions of Free Trade (well, except when America feels afraid, when the free trade guff goes out the window.)
Take New Zealand's steel exports to the US for instance. We are a country of 4 million or so, with a GDP that would embarrass Bill Gates, and yet the US (Champion of Free Trade) has imposed a 30% tariff on our steel exports! The US is trying to sell "Free Trade" all around the world, and yet it will impose tariffs whenever there is the slightest whiff of competition with its local industries. The total value of New Zealand's steel exports to the US? About US$40m per year.
Why doesn't SCO just show the offending code to everyone? I think I might know why - they don't want the programmer(s) to come forward! If they show isolated bits of code, then no programmer X will have the opportunity to come forward and say "hey, I wrote that for Linux, so what's it doing in SCO's code?!" SCO hasn't said anything about the person who supposedly misappropriated the code, even though the comments and development records would make thier identification quite simple. Perhaps the person was working for SCO!
Personally I'd love to see the popular small business accounting package MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) supported. Has anyone had any luck getting this to run with any of the WINE flavors out there?
To render this type of thing practically useless, all that needs to happen is each file to be hashed, that hash to be stored on good/bad lists distributed via P2P. Each time a bad file (one that fails to produce the same hash) enters the P2P network, it's origin could be traced, which would in turn allow the dissemination of blocking information (ie, nothing on this peer can be trusted). A simple timeout could be implemented as a way to handle innocent mistakes.
Regardless of copyright issues (including the possible right to withdraw your own work from distribution), the integrity of data disseminated through P2P technology should be preserved. P2P is at this time largely untouched by the intrusions made in the form of advertisements, spam, censorship, etc. that we put up with in other mediums. Let's keep it that way! P2P may become an enormously important Internet technology, and I feel that any potential it has should be defended.
(Come to think of it, what I am suggesting is not dissimilar to Vipul's Razor, only for P2P).
This is exactly why this guy and everybody else working for television broadcast companies are going to be joining the unemployment line. Ahh, how I look forward to the future where I can download any program I wish via the Internet, right from the production company for a few lousy bucks. Yay for progress.
As I understand it, your attitude can be translated as:
"What a bunch of cheap bastards. What gall you have for seeking an open source alternative to proprietary software."
Yeah, what loosers.
You would of course say the same thing for someone looking for open source web browsers, file managers, office applications, games, graphics applications etc., wouldn't you? Wouldn't want to be inconsistant now, would you....
Such a thing is obscene. No amount of money will convince me to sign over every piece of intellectual property (what ever that may be in this context) I generate during the contract term. We are meant to be hiring out our brains, not selling them into bonded labour. What do they expect people to do, turn off our brains when we aren't at work? Crazy.
I distinctly remember Ton saying that NaN will try the commercialization of Blender first, but if that didn't work out, it would most likely be made open source. I'm sure someone will be able to find a record of this somewhere.
It totally sucks that this has happened without any warning. Why didn't they just beg for money like Mandrake?
As a Wellington City resident who lives less than 15m (50') from the fiber optic cables of Citylink, I would love some of that bandwidth, but there's no way I could afford it. It may as well be a petabyte per second line. Raw bandwidth is pointless if you can't afford to use it.
Furthermore, we in New Zealand are not yet familiar with the concept of flat rate broadband (except where it's been throttled to 101% the speed of a 56K connection that is), so sucks to be us.
I suspect the developer might be wanting to concentrate on producing his Cinelerra product for commercial sale. No good selling one application and giving away another. I can't quite see the author not using any of his GPL'd Broadcast 2000 code, but that'll be something interesting for the future.
Hopefully there will be enough enthusiasm out there in OSS communityland for a couple of forks to exist. NLE applications will only become more common as computers get more capable, so having a few viable alternatives would be a Good Thing.
It's like the QNX single floppy challenge
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Remember that? Web browser, text editor, file manager, etc., all on a floppy disk. Looked snazzier too in my book.
But hey, who's gonna criticize a sexy new piece of free software? Could be the start of something great, you never know...
I can understand why clock ratings can be left out of the marketing picture, but AMD certainly shouldn't hide clock information from *everybody*. I know that Athlons outperform Pentiums, as do many others in the industry. The only thing this move will do for me is deprive me of a convenient way to estimate the performance of one Athlon against another Athlon.
If the CDDB people cause trouble for the free system, perhaps track and album info could be transfered to a distributed database, perhaps running on gnutella.
It wouldn't be as reliable at first, but eventually it would fill up as people added their own entries.
Seems this kind of solution is going to be more and more common as open projects seek to slip beyond the reach of litigious patent holders look for a way of making money out of the completely obvious and unoriginal...
Few people compile their own C/C++ compilers. What are the legal implications of an owner of the commercial version producing binaries for the various platforms supported by the source code? Surely that must be okay...
I agree with you. RAID 10 will give a nice combination of safety and performance. If your crazy (well, for just 30 gigs, perhaps not *that* crazy) there's the new Adaptec UDMA 66 RAID card which I think may support RAID 10. It definitely supports RAID 5. Actually, I wonder how bad RAID 5 would actually be with one of those cards and five UATA 66 Maxtors with the 2MB cache on them. They are pretty fast drives....
I don't know if the Adaptec card has it's own caching, but it would be very cool if it did!
We could: - re-use MS file format code for lots of other open source apps, - break Star Office up into separate apps. Oh yeah. That would be fantastic. - debug the thing and perhaps tune it out a little. I have found it to be a little unstable.
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Then stick around...
Have a think about the expectations you have of your life; consider the possibility at least that you may not actually be able to estimate your life expectancy, and adjust accordingly.
Am I the only one that finds it vaguely amusing that we're seeing "GNU-Darwin" discussed here? Looks like GNU's being a bit of a SCO and SCO!
Now before anyone goes NUTS and starts flame-bombing me for my political incorrectness please realise I'm only **joking**!! Long live GNU! Down with SCO!!(^!) Put the GNU-gun down and nobody will get H*RT.
I noticed the system uses huge quantities of molten salt at 290-565 degrees C. The salt is a mix of 60% sodium nitrate and 40% potassium nitrate. Am I the only one thinking.... BOOOOM..... I wonder what'll happen if the pumping system breaks down, or if someone get's the mix wrong.
I wonder how long you guys are going to go on before you actually read the article linked to. They are talking about using silicon catalyst instead of metal catalyst in the carbon nanotube fabrication process.
The United States of America - Champions of Free Trade (well, except when America feels afraid, when the free trade guff goes out the window.)
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Take New Zealand's steel exports to the US for instance. We are a country of 4 million or so, with a GDP that would embarrass Bill Gates, and yet the US (Champion of Free Trade) has imposed a 30% tariff on our steel exports! The US is trying to sell "Free Trade" all around the world, and yet it will impose tariffs whenever there is the slightest whiff of competition with its local industries. The total value of New Zealand's steel exports to the US? About US$40m per year.
And the WTO has declared it illegal to boot...
http://www.marketnewzealand.com/home/index/0,14
Why doesn't SCO just show the offending code to everyone? I think I might know why - they don't want the programmer(s) to come forward! If they show isolated bits of code, then no programmer X will have the opportunity to come forward and say "hey, I wrote that for Linux, so what's it doing in SCO's code?!" SCO hasn't said anything about the person who supposedly misappropriated the code, even though the comments and development records would make thier identification quite simple. Perhaps the person was working for SCO!
I wonder if they are going to come up with some kind of streaming or p2p solution...
And, can you get a version that prints on the paper before you use it? Something good to do with all the embedded "news" stories!
I'm 32, which is too old to have an idea. Apparently ideas come from 18-29 year olds...
Yes Slashdot, what the heck!? This is theft, plain and simple. What are you doing linking to this stolen software? Get a fricking clue!
Have you not heard? Code is reusable now...
Personally I'd love to see the popular small business accounting package MYOB (Mind Your Own Business) supported. Has anyone had any luck getting this to run with any of the WINE flavors out there?
Regardless of copyright issues (including the possible right to withdraw your own work from distribution), the integrity of data disseminated through P2P technology should be preserved. P2P is at this time largely untouched by the intrusions made in the form of advertisements, spam, censorship, etc. that we put up with in other mediums. Let's keep it that way! P2P may become an enormously important Internet technology, and I feel that any potential it has should be defended.
(Come to think of it, what I am suggesting is not dissimilar to Vipul's Razor, only for P2P).
Actually, it must be a *REAL* slow news day, as the story was old when Slashdot covered it less than a year ago...
This is exactly why this guy and everybody else working for television broadcast companies are going to be joining the unemployment line. Ahh, how I look forward to the future where I can download any program I wish via the Internet, right from the production company for a few lousy bucks. Yay for progress.
As I understand it, your attitude can be translated as:
"What a bunch of cheap bastards. What gall you have for seeking an open source alternative to proprietary software."
Yeah, what loosers.
You would of course say the same thing for someone looking for open source web browsers, file managers, office applications, games, graphics applications etc., wouldn't you? Wouldn't want to be inconsistant now, would you....
Such a thing is obscene. No amount of money will convince me to sign over every piece of intellectual property (what ever that may be in this context) I generate during the contract term. We are meant to be hiring out our brains, not selling them into bonded labour. What do they expect people to do, turn off our brains when we aren't at work? Crazy.
It totally sucks that this has happened without any warning. Why didn't they just beg for money like Mandrake?
Furthermore, we in New Zealand are not yet familiar with the concept of flat rate broadband (except where it's been throttled to 101% the speed of a 56K connection that is), so sucks to be us.
Hopefully there will be enough enthusiasm out there in OSS communityland for a couple of forks to exist. NLE applications will only become more common as computers get more capable, so having a few viable alternatives would be a Good Thing.
But hey, who's gonna criticize a sexy new piece of free software? Could be the start of something great, you never know...
I can understand why clock ratings can be left out of the marketing picture, but AMD certainly shouldn't hide clock information from *everybody*. I know that Athlons outperform Pentiums, as do many others in the industry. The only thing this move will do for me is deprive me of a convenient way to estimate the performance of one Athlon against another Athlon.
If the CDDB people cause trouble for the free system, perhaps track and album info could be transfered to a distributed database, perhaps running on gnutella.
It wouldn't be as reliable at first, but eventually it would fill up as people added their own entries.
Seems this kind of solution is going to be more and more common as open projects seek to slip beyond the reach of litigious patent holders look for a way of making money out of the completely obvious and unoriginal...
Few people compile their own C/C++ compilers. What are the legal implications of an owner of the commercial version producing binaries for the various platforms supported by the source code? Surely that must be okay...
I agree with you. RAID 10 will give a nice combination of safety and performance. If your crazy (well, for just 30 gigs, perhaps not *that* crazy) there's the new Adaptec UDMA 66 RAID card which I think may support RAID 10. It definitely supports RAID 5. Actually, I wonder how bad RAID 5 would actually be with one of those cards and five UATA 66 Maxtors with the 2MB cache on them. They are pretty fast drives....
I don't know if the Adaptec card has it's own caching, but it would be very cool if it did!
We could:
- re-use MS file format code for lots of other open source apps,
- break Star Office up into separate apps. Oh yeah. That would be fantastic.
- debug the thing and perhaps tune it out a little. I have found it to be a little unstable.
Go on Sun - make our day!