This is correct. They even had to pay some kind of "penalty fee" of EUR 250000,-- two times, because they still had these claims published on their website.
The study mentioned in the Heise article was commisioned by VSI ("Verband der deutschen Softwareindustrie", roughly translated "association of the german software industry"), and the VSI chairman is also the CEO of Microsoft Germany.
Should software patent laws pass, I request everyone to fight against those laws, even with civil disobidience. EU is becoming a dictatorship, with the bureaucrats making more and more laws, and the EU members are then _forced_ to make them national laws, else they're sued (yes, the countries!). And the citizens don't even have any chance to proclaim their opinions, i.e. there are no EU-wide elections. This is clearly dictatorship, with laws made by only a few, and hardly any rights to intervene. This should be fought with every force possible, even with civil disobidience!
EU: should the software patent laws pass, then this means war!
It's not really myth - in fact, when you own one of these big IBM machines (zSeries, pSeries), you can call IBM and buy the unlock code for the additional CPUs that are inside your machine but deactivated/locked. You can also only unlock it for a day or a month.
I'm already looking forward to the text editor 'Ross', the web browser 'Monica', the instant messenger 'Phoebe', the software DVD player 'Joey' and the P2P program 'Rachel'.:-)
Besides, C++ really does stink:). And with Moore's law racing on as ever, how many of us are really hurting for day-to-day performance on our boxes?
Well, small code is definitely better, but today we don't have to care whether it fits in the RAM. Today it's interesting to get it small enough that the code that is executed most often can be held in the CPU's cache for as long as possible. This is often impossible with C++, although C++ zealots state otherwise ("C++ compilers can optimize code that uses templates extensively much better than blablablabla..."). So: when speed matters, use C, for anything else, use the language(s) you are most productive with (for me e.g. Ruby and C).
The POSIX that is implemented in Windows NT is actually only the system call interface - the very first version of POSIX didn't define anything about commandline utilities or such.
honeyd is able to do this already for quite a long time. With honeyd you can basically create "virtual hosts", running on another computer, with their own IP address, their own IP personality (it comes with a large database of them), and their own services (basically, every inetd-capable program can be used as server with it). You can even create a "virtual network" of them, with configurable routes, latency and packet loss. Indistinguishable from real computers and networks.
Safari is _fast_, extremely fast, but you can only see (and feel) it when you're network connection is fast enough, too.;-) Rendering time is just great. I compared it with some complex websites that our company created, and Safari definitely rendered it all fast enough.
And it starts up quickly, which is very nice, too. And it has this sexy brushed-metal look that most OSX application created by Apple have.:-) And, what I find really great is that the development of Safari also improved Konqueror's quality in terms of rendering speed and Javascript support.
Well, actually the Itanium 2 (insiders call it "The Itanic") is a good example for a bad CPU. The pipeline is way too long (20 steps), and because of that, the CPU loses 20 % of the performance (since only about 90 % of all jumps/branches are predicted correctly, and one out of ten instructions is a jump/branch instruction). It's getting even worse for games and compilers. The bundle concept also brought a lot of problems, namely code bloat: on such a "microlevel" programs often cannot be parallelized very well, so the empty "slots" in the bundle must be filled with NOPs. This is usually 33 to 66 % of the whole binary code! Imagine, binary code full of NOPs! A good example is the statement
return a=='\r' || a=='\n' || a==' ' || a=='\t';
When generating code with gcc, the IA64 version takes up 128 bytes, while the code generated for x86-64 takes up only 30 bytes. And the gcc produces good code that fills up the bundles in an optimal way!
And what most BSD people do not know is that BSD relies on gcc for a _very_ long time. The last time I saw a 4.3BSD installation (yeah, original BSD, not FreeBSD or something), the only C compiler that came with it was an old version of gcc.
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2003 -- Intel Corporation today announced the new successor for the Itanic 2 processor, named "Unobtainium".
This highly advanced clone of a 64-bit processor of an unnamed competitor is the first to combine a competitor's technology with the outstanding features of Intel processors, namely lots of Gigahertz, and lots of heat. The Unobtainium has been especially designed to be used on expeditions on Antarctica, always keeping expedition members in a bubble of hot air.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
You have a very weird understanding of law and rights.
you broke the law, taking the rights away from another individual.
No. Breaking the law doesn't mean taking away any rights from another individual. It only means that you broke the law, which is usually punished. After the punishment, the rights and duties of a normal citizen is usually established for the punished individual after punishment. And the US are again an exception. Your understanding of law and right shows that you don't think that people should ever get a second chance. Think about it if you were in such a situation.
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The Johannes Kepler University of Linz/Austria purchased an Altix 3700 (the first one in production use) in April. Here is a link (sorry, German only): http://www.news.jku.at/ARCHIVE/archivnewsroom/2003 maerz-april/newsroom/supercomputer.htm
This is correct. They even had to pay some kind of "penalty fee" of EUR 250000,-- two times, because they still had these claims published on their website.
The study mentioned in the Heise article was commisioned by VSI ("Verband der deutschen Softwareindustrie", roughly translated "association of the german software industry"), and the VSI chairman is also the CEO of Microsoft Germany.
SCO is about to attack BSD, too. Although all SCO claims are totally ungrounded, they know how to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt.
Who TF is Jon Katz? The wonderful thing about a /. account is that you can specify what you do not want to read.
Wanted: Programmer with at least 15 years of experience with Java and/or C#/.NET. Must not be older than 25 years.
Should software patent laws pass, I request everyone to fight against those laws, even with civil disobidience. EU is becoming a dictatorship, with the bureaucrats making more and more laws, and the EU members are then _forced_ to make them national laws, else they're sued (yes, the countries!). And the citizens don't even have any chance to proclaim their opinions, i.e. there are no EU-wide elections. This is clearly dictatorship, with laws made by only a few, and hardly any rights to intervene. This should be fought with every force possible, even with civil disobidience!
EU: should the software patent laws pass, then this means war!
signed, an angry EU citizen
But not as good as getting nailed.
And now you're dead, but not due to the gunfight, but due to the bad tequila, which was actually not tequila, but methanol.
SCO won't win. SCO is dying (no joke; at least in Old Europe).
It looks like that somebody from Fat Wreck Chords will be at this event, hopefully they join the iTunes Music Store.
IIRC it's 2:2. The ESA lost one Ariane 5, and (recently) one Ariane 5+.
Go learn history. Linux doesn't contain and never contained any Minix source code. Linux was totally written from scratch.
It's not really myth - in fact, when you own one of these big IBM machines (zSeries, pSeries), you can call IBM and buy the unlock code for the additional CPUs that are inside your machine but deactivated/locked. You can also only unlock it for a day or a month.
I'm already looking forward to the text editor 'Ross', the web browser 'Monica', the instant messenger 'Phoebe', the software DVD player 'Joey' and the P2P program 'Rachel'. :-)
Besides, C++ really does stink :). And with Moore's law racing on as ever, how many of us are really hurting for day-to-day performance on our boxes?
Well, small code is definitely better, but today we don't have to care whether it fits in the RAM. Today it's interesting to get it small enough that the code that is executed most often can be held in the CPU's cache for as long as possible. This is often impossible with C++, although C++ zealots state otherwise ("C++ compilers can optimize code that uses templates extensively much better than blablablabla..."). So: when speed matters, use C, for anything else, use the language(s) you are most productive with (for me e.g. Ruby and C).
The POSIX that is implemented in Windows NT is actually only the system call interface - the very first version of POSIX didn't define anything about commandline utilities or such.
honeyd is able to do this already for quite a long time. With honeyd you can basically create "virtual hosts", running on another computer, with their own IP address, their own IP personality (it comes with a large database of them), and their own services (basically, every inetd-capable program can be used as server with it). You can even create a "virtual network" of them, with configurable routes, latency and packet loss. Indistinguishable from real computers and networks.
Safari is _fast_, extremely fast, but you can only see (and feel) it when you're network connection is fast enough, too. ;-) Rendering time is just great. I compared it with some complex websites that our company created, and Safari definitely rendered it all fast enough.
:-) And, what I find really great is that the development of Safari also improved Konqueror's quality in terms of rendering speed and Javascript support.
And it starts up quickly, which is very nice, too. And it has this sexy brushed-metal look that most OSX application created by Apple have.
Well, actually the Itanium 2 (insiders call it "The Itanic") is a good example for a bad CPU. The pipeline is way too long (20 steps), and because of that, the CPU loses 20 % of the performance (since only about 90 % of all jumps/branches are predicted correctly, and one out of ten instructions is a jump/branch instruction). It's getting even worse for games and compilers. The bundle concept also brought a lot of problems, namely code bloat: on such a "microlevel" programs often cannot be parallelized very well, so the empty "slots" in the bundle must be filled with NOPs. This is usually 33 to 66 % of the whole binary code! Imagine, binary code full of NOPs! A good example is the statement
return a=='\r' || a=='\n' || a==' ' || a=='\t';
When generating code with gcc, the IA64 version takes up 128 bytes, while the code generated for x86-64 takes up only 30 bytes. And the gcc produces good code that fills up the bundles in an optimal way!
And what most BSD people do not know is that BSD relies on gcc for a _very_ long time. The last time I saw a 4.3BSD installation (yeah, original BSD, not FreeBSD or something), the only C compiler that came with it was an old version of gcc.
INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM CONFERENCE, SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 21, 2003 -- Intel Corporation today announced the new successor for the Itanic 2 processor, named "Unobtainium".
This highly advanced clone of a 64-bit processor of an unnamed competitor is the first to combine a competitor's technology with the outstanding features of Intel processors, namely lots of Gigahertz, and lots of heat. The Unobtainium has been especially designed to be used on expeditions on Antarctica, always keeping expedition members in a bubble of hot air.
Intel, the world's largest chip maker, is a leading manufacturer of computer, networking and communications products. Additional information about Intel is available at www.intel.com/pressroom.
The site is referencing the following website:t an/report_ graves.html#1
http://www.phrusa.org/research/afghanis
With _photos_ and stuff. Quite shocking.
Yes, I have: http://www.rense.com/general26/thouss.htm
You have a very weird understanding of law and rights.
you broke the law, taking the rights away from another individual.
No. Breaking the law doesn't mean taking away any rights from another individual. It only means that you broke the law, which is usually punished. After the punishment, the rights and duties of a normal citizen is usually established for the punished individual after punishment. And the US are again an exception. Your understanding of law and right shows that you don't think that people should ever get a second chance. Think about it if you were in such a situation.