Thats true, the computers are German made and Russian programmed. I am highly suprised how the world can now and a Nasa employee does not. Probably a lot of political thinking come in the way. Sadly this is not the first time for IEEE Spectrum articles.
Nice post, I was wandering lately how one could build a DIY personal server: (http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5772921353.htm l) based on mini-ITX mainboards (ok they are not so mini anyway...) to Intel xscale chips. The basic requirement for me is that not only i want to store data in an external disk, but i 'll like to share them and use them (the audio files at least) while i am in the move.
The requirements would be to have a wireless connected computer with no display, a 2.5in disk and audio in/out, video out in order to use it wirelessly connnected disk and application server. Main functions would be:
- mp3 listening - mp3/video/data sharing (running an ftp/samba server or a p2p program for ad-hoc networks) - storage of the email, using a mail client that stores mail and profiles in external disk and web surfing profile. Moreover one could actually install email and web applications on this personal server and run them through X from the computer they using its time for accessing the personal server.
So the initial poster of the comment thinks that B.Gates for instance, who is for s/w patents, is:
a) He IS a really nice guy, a humanitarian, and wants to do the right thing for The Children.
b) He WANTS to foster innovation that could potentially allow smaller competitors challenge Oracle's dominance because industry-wide innovation is more important than Oracle's stock price.
c) He knows MS, being the first largest software company in the world and having the deepest pockets, can block small inovators by enforcing them MS patents on them.
what a joke, s/w idea patents are not about inventing ANYTHING, they are about printing an idea on a piece of paper. S/W are not accompanied by their implementaiton, usually there is none. The patent "owner" just expects someone to ACTUALLY implement what "resebles" his idea in order to steal him.
and btw the level of s/w patents grant is very low. the patent office actually makes money by accepting patents, I am not aware of any other private organization that sells monopoly rights.
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Thats true, the computers are German made and Russian programmed. I am highly suprised how the world can now and a Nasa employee does not. Probably a lot of political thinking come in the way. Sadly this is not the first time for IEEE Spectrum articles.
Nice post, I was wandering lately how one could build a DIY personal server: (http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5772921353.htm l)
based on mini-ITX mainboards (ok they are not so mini anyway...) to Intel xscale chips. The basic requirement for me is that not only i want to store data in an external disk, but i 'll like to share them and use them (the audio files at least) while i am in the move.
The requirements would be to have a wireless connected computer with no display, a 2.5in disk and audio in/out, video out in order to use it wirelessly connnected disk and application server. Main functions would be:
- mp3 listening
- mp3/video/data sharing (running an ftp/samba server or a p2p program for ad-hoc networks)
- storage of the email, using a mail client that stores mail and profiles in external disk and web surfing profile. Moreover one could actually install email and web applications on this personal server and run them through X from the computer they using its time for accessing the personal server.
any ideas for related projects?
So the initial poster of the comment thinks that B.Gates for instance, who is for s/w patents, is :
a) He IS a really nice guy, a humanitarian, and wants to do the right thing for The Children.
b) He WANTS to foster innovation that could potentially allow smaller competitors challenge Oracle's dominance because industry-wide innovation is more important than Oracle's stock price.
c) He knows MS, being the first largest software company in the world and having the deepest pockets, can block small inovators by enforcing them MS patents on them.
what a joke, s/w idea patents are not about inventing ANYTHING, they are about printing an idea on a piece of paper. S/W are not accompanied by their implementaiton, usually there is none. The patent "owner" just expects someone to ACTUALLY implement what "resebles" his idea in order to steal him.
and btw the level of s/w patents grant is very low. the patent office actually makes money by accepting patents, I am not aware of any other private organization that sells monopoly rights.