Motorlola proposed worldwide 2.25% license fee at the US court (which MS refused... obviously).
I do not think these are valid. Each country has different laws. There cannot be a common resolution of a dispute pressed by one court over the whole word. In the worst case, (when companies do not come to agreement) they will sue each other in every jurisdiction separately. I think that is OK.
Heavier taxes on finance income, or some sort of legal restructuring or limitation of finance itself.
Why do you think this would not lead to moving trading activities out of the country where taxes are more friendly... then the brightest would be recruited anyway and moreover they would spend their nice income abroad. Or do you think US has power to enforce this globally? Or do you want to add some kind of duty on international transactions too (to avoid moving it abroad)?
I do not think avoiding this is so easy. Maybe the best and brightest should be assigned a task to figure out how to do it... who will pay them?:-D
Why does ANYONE think that a society where all information about everyone was available to anyone would be a great place to live?
It would mitigate corruption.
If every law on the books was enforced tomorrow by police with 100% visibility of everything everyone was doing all the time, then Western nations would collapse within a week.
That is not much. I got a quote on shipping costs from Germany (seller: Deluxecable GmbH) to Slovakia (air distance in the order of 550 km). It was 60 for about 1 kg item, size about 10 cm x 25 cm x 25 cm including packaging. Standard shipping. That was prohibitive. Shipping was significantly higher than the item price. I typically get quotes in the range of 5 - 10 for something like this.
The fuel price does not seem to be such a problem with fission plants. It is something like 18% of the electricity cost. If we consider problem of waste then this will emit a lot of neutrons so it is probably comparable to IFRs in the terms of waste. For IFRs the cost of fuel should be neglible. So for this as a power source it needs to get at least as good as IFRs. I would like to know whether it has a chance. If it does not have a chance (which is what I suspect) it should not be tried to be sold to public as a future power source. Note, I like the project otherwise. I'm just afraid we are misled about it to be usable power source in the future.
Why you think this is going to be cheaper than fission? I'm unimpressed by the project from the point of view of power genration. Otherwise it looks cool though:)
How many OS'es are written in Python?
Neither Java, ruby, perl nor python attempt be appropriate languages for writing OS'es. This doesn't make them good or bad. Other factors might.
It might be possible to write OS in those loanguages. MS is trying to do it in C#. The project name is Singularity. But I agree that OS in not the target domain:)
A community skilled in the art must get involved and I really think this a good thing and could turn the patent system around.
The penalties are higher when an infringement is found and the code writer/owner did know about the patent. It seems to be safer to carefully avoid it.
More straightforward headlines are better anywyas. Creativity used for headlines is not used at the right place. The article content should be creative.
I think one of the distinguishing charateristics of a "framework" as I mean it in this post is that it is well-nigh impossible to glue two "frameworks" together, and sometimes even adding the capabilities of an additional library is an exercise in frustration.
Frameworks (contrary to librarires) contain the main controlling loop of the future application. So they impose a limit on the architecture. This does not contradict what you are saying though. Since applications do not have more controling loops typically one hardly writes an application with two frameworks.
Quinn: Let me talk about the disability community issue. The disability community has been denied access in many ways for many years, and we are committed to making sure that they get the consideration they need. Now I have had someone spending a significant amount of time since September 1 reaching out, and also working with the w3C, and we are just a few weeks away from announcing that we will have an answer to create accessibility. I have committee three times, first, to create a memo on the subject, two, have priority, and three [couldn't catch it]. Sun, IBM and others are working to create global accessibility standards. The structure has already been built into StarOffice, Mozilla, other products. We are a couple of weeks away from being able to put this in front of the disability community and the state.
Yes it does. Killing a process from task manager is the same thing as kill -9. When the process dies it unconditionally releases all file handles, mutexes, and any other resources that it had open.
I believe there are resources which will not be released like e.g.:
registrations to global string table
reference counts on shared com objects (their dlls) will not decrement
... maybe more
Of course there is a question if this is an OS bug.
You can select which ports to use like this:
"C:\Program Files\BitTorrent\btdownloadgui.exe" --minport 9100 --maxport 9101 --responsefile "%1"
This would use only two ports: 9100 or 9101 (if 9100 could not be opened).
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I do the same (switch it all off).
The US case started before DE case.
Motorlola proposed worldwide 2.25% license fee at the US court (which MS refused ... obviously).
I do not think these are valid. Each country has different laws. There cannot be a common resolution of a dispute pressed by one court over the whole word. In the worst case, (when companies do not come to agreement) they will sue each other in every jurisdiction separately. I think that is OK.
Isn't Nokia N9 (with MeeGo) a good enough successor? It definitely can be bought now (at least in EU).
How do they attach muscle/tendons to titanium?
No, what he is saying is: "If your paper should result in policy changes which rise our cost of living now, then you better be right."
Search for fakexinerama to solve your problem. A tilling manager may be an option too.
Heavier taxes on finance income, or some sort of legal restructuring or limitation of finance itself.
Why do you think this would not lead to moving trading activities out of the country where taxes are more friendly ... then the brightest would be recruited anyway and moreover they would spend their nice income abroad. Or do you think US has power to enforce this globally? Or do you want to add some kind of duty on international transactions too (to avoid moving it abroad)?
I do not think avoiding this is so easy. Maybe the best and brightest should be assigned a task to figure out how to do it ... who will pay them? :-D
Why does ANYONE think that a society where all information about everyone was available to anyone would be a great place to live?
It would mitigate corruption.
If every law on the books was enforced tomorrow by police with 100% visibility of everything everyone was doing all the time, then Western nations would collapse within a week.
No, laws would be made more lax to be bearable.
That is not much. I got a quote on shipping costs from Germany (seller: Deluxecable GmbH) to Slovakia (air distance in the order of 550 km). It was 60 for about 1 kg item, size about 10 cm x 25 cm x 25 cm including packaging. Standard shipping. That was prohibitive. Shipping was significantly higher than the item price. I typically get quotes in the range of 5 - 10 for something like this.
The fuel price does not seem to be such a problem with fission plants. It is something like 18% of the electricity cost. If we consider problem of waste then this will emit a lot of neutrons so it is probably comparable to IFRs in the terms of waste. For IFRs the cost of fuel should be neglible. So for this as a power source it needs to get at least as good as IFRs. I would like to know whether it has a chance. If it does not have a chance (which is what I suspect) it should not be tried to be sold to public as a future power source. Note, I like the project otherwise. I'm just afraid we are misled about it to be usable power source in the future.
Why you think this is going to be cheaper than fission? I'm unimpressed by the project from the point of view of power genration. Otherwise it looks cool though :)
LGA 1156: Also, there is 16 PCIe links on the processor die directly and there is only 2 GB/s connection from CPU to P55 PCH. No QPI. More information is here: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3570&p=2
It might be possible to write OS in those loanguages. MS is trying to do it in C#. The project name is Singularity. But I agree that OS in not the target domain :)
The penalties are higher when an infringement is found and the code writer/owner did know about the patent. It seems to be safer to carefully avoid it.
You can also export part of the repository (from a give revision up), import it to a clean one, and switch them.
Topspin InfiniBand 14 port Switch costs about $7000. It is comparable price. Infinibad latencies are a bit better.
And colorized editing!?! What a treat for text to show up as dark blue on black when you've set your xterm colors to white on black.
:syntax off
There is even a better solution. You can set a color scheme which is better for black backgrounds. I like this one for CPP files.
:colorscheme elflord
Hah, the question is whether they can master it up to OMG Ponies!
More straightforward headlines are better anywyas. Creativity used for headlines is not used at the right place. The article content should be creative.
Frameworks (contrary to librarires) contain the main controlling loop of the future application. So they impose a limit on the architecture. This does not contradict what you are saying though. Since applications do not have more controling loops typically one hardly writes an application with two frameworks.
Citation from a blog of Andy Updegrove (http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog/blog.php?I D=1696):
Quinn: Let me talk about the disability community issue. The disability community has been denied access in many ways for many years, and we are committed to making sure that they get the consideration they need. Now I have had someone spending a significant amount of time since September 1 reaching out, and also working with the w3C, and we are just a few weeks away from announcing that we will have an answer to create accessibility. I have committee three times, first, to create a memo on the subject, two, have priority, and three [couldn't catch it]. Sun, IBM and others are working to create global accessibility standards. The structure has already been built into StarOffice, Mozilla, other products. We are a couple of weeks away from being able to put this in front of the disability community and the state.
I believe there are resources which will not be released like e.g.:
Of course there is a question if this is an OS bug.
* type names can get long, especialy when templates are used
* why do you want to do the compiler's work
* editor with intelisense will tell you the type for the expression in most cases so no need to repeat it
* you do not need to modify so much places if type changes during development
* and if you really want you can get the exact type, but mostly it is just waste of time
AFAIK, they are going to add this to C++ too
You can select which ports to use like this: "C:\Program Files\BitTorrent\btdownloadgui.exe" --minport 9100 --maxport 9101 --responsefile "%1" This would use only two ports: 9100 or 9101 (if 9100 could not be opened).