Items with high capital costs don't work well as "open source;" basically, the manufacturing plants costs so many billions of dollars that no one who isn't doing proprietary work could afford it. That's counter to the reality of the current market. Almost all "computers," including routers and many other types of specialized systems are manufactured on contract. Lots of the components are manufactured on contract too, TSMC and IBM are some of the largest contract semiconductor manufacturers in the world. The ginormous capital costs of manufacturing plants and fabs are amortized over years of contract manufacturing.
Even if you could open source chip design (a dicey proposition, since there are many fewer EE Phds that want to donate time than there are CS Phds,) I think we are beyond the point where "working for free" is assumed to be a requirement for opens source anything. The tens of thousands of engineers employed by Red Hat, HP, IBM, Sun, etc to work on open source systems sure aren't doing it for free.
still need to guarantee the physical chips, which are individual, and cannot be "re-compiled;" if you think there may be an issue with a batch, you can't start over without paying for new chips. Which is the same regardless of whether the design is open or closed. The difference being that with an open design there is one less place for badware to be hidden and the opportunity for a really cautious customer to spend beaucoup bucks on their own manufacturing run of components under whatever conditions (armed guards, etc) they might feel is necessary.
I'd argue that basing a business on support fees and licenses means that it's against your best interests to ever create a powerful easy-to-use product that DOESN'T need support. If you want income, then complexity and bugs are your friends. That's just another variation on the information-hording paradigm of proprietary software. It ignores the network effect. If your stuff is easy to use, then it becomes widespread. If it is hard to use, hardly anyone will be interested. It's like having 50% of a $1M market or 10% of a $1B market.
All the 400 or so employees that were with MySQL are now with Sun and they need to get used to how being part of Sun... No. Really the only ones who need to get used to be being part of Sun here are the handful of PR flacks who vet public announcements. It shouldn't take much for them to get up to speed on Sun corporate policy and thus be able to hold back any public announcements that are in conflict until the conflict is resolved.
But you go ahead and keep believing the bad management is just part of the normal process of an acquisition.
Dyslexia is a language impairment. It has nothing to do with visual perception. Right. In this case, we need to be worried about people who are afflicted with dyslumia.
No decision had been made. This announcement is the first actual decision on the subject. Baloney. The former CEO of MySQL even posted otherwise right here on slashdot:
After being acquired Sun was pushing that they don't go with the close source route as was confirmed in the previous thread. "Pushing" against whom? MySQL ceased to exist as a separate entity once it was acquired.
MySQL was considering the close sourcing The business decision on this was made by MySQL AB Your own quote disproves your claim. The decision was made, not just considered, pre-acquisition. Post acquistion, the decision was reversed.
I'm glad that Sun was able to convince the MySQL staff to not close source any of the codebase. Totally! Don't you hate it when you buy a company and they won't do what you tell them? Good thing Sun was able to convince Sun to stick to Sun's official policy.
ext3 is both so slow and so bottlenecked that mythtv had to implement a special "slow delete" mode which gradually truncates files instead of just unlinking them. Without the "slow deletes" mode, you get hiccups in any shows that are being recorded while old shows are deleted.
On my system, deleting a 20GB file can take a minute on ext3 (and the filesystem is completely locked - all other processes are blocked), but on ntfs it is almost instantaneous.
What a rather twisted bit of logic. Because the US isn't oppressive in it's own backyard, it is therefore not oppressive even if it supports governments that are. Sorry, but that logic doesn't fly. +1 Ought to be obvious, scary it isn't.
Despite common perception, freedoms granted to US citizens aren't absolute Despite common misperception, freedoms are not granted to US citizens, they are inalienable rights bestowed upon them by their creator. It is the government which has been granted certain freedoms by the people.
let's say a group in Afghanistan are using the webcams to track US troop movements and MSN messenger to pass data and orders. What are "the webcams" ?
... These are just a few examples of where I think the Prez should allow censorship of Internet activity. Those are just a few examples of where you haven't thought through the effectiveness of censorship. The really motivated people won't be stopped at all, they will just use less obvious means of communication. If they can't post on myspace, they will just use some other website in another country or they will use hijacked websites which they can switch between faster than the censor-hammer can knock down. There are a million ways to communicate over the net the only effective method of censorship is to turn the net off.
The result of permitting censorship, for any reason is its inevitable abuse to make life harder for the average, law-abiding citizen. If you outlaw knowledge only outlaws will have knowledge.
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There is a korean psychological-horror movie called The Uninvited that contains a scene where a large truck "pops" an infant playing in the street just like you described. And yes that is kind of a spoiler for the entire movie.
Sorry but I haven't found that to be the case at all. Having grown up in a Jewish neigborhood, I can safely say that Jews seem to be less sensitive than most groups, more willing to take things in stride, and don't mind good natured ribbing in the slightest. It only takes a few bad apples. My impression is that the ADL has been pro-censorship, hypocritical and often clueless (their responses to Sascha Cohen's Borat exemplified the last two, their first response being a case of clearly not getting the joke and their second response being only the mildest possible disagreement with Cohen making other ethnic groups the butt of his jokes).
I don't consider the ADL representative of jews at large, just as I don't consider al-qaeda representative of muslims at large. But the ADL seems to dominate a lot of public discourse about judaism in a manner similar to the way muslim extremists dominate a lot of public discourse about islam.
This is how things are supposed to work. Feds push from one side, and privacy advocates push from the other. Our elected representatives in the legislative branch then decide where the actual line in the sand should be drawn. You have heinously confused the separation of GOVERNMENT powers into the executive, legislative and judicial branches with society at large.
The branches are supposed to push against each other - not against the constitution and society.
It's pretty common knowledge that the USA is both the largest source of foreign aid in terms of raw dollars and one of the smallest sources of foreign aid in terms of GDP.
What's less well known is that close to two-thirds of that aid go to Israel and Egypt for the the purpose of buying weapons.
Heh, nice pro spam message by RMS there. Of course the context was a little bit different in 1978 than it was more than a decade later when the Green Card Lawyers really kicked off the phenomenon.
Kind of the like a neighborhood where just about everybody knows everybody and thus everyone is accountable for any antisocial behaviour on their part.
9-11, Iraq, 9-11, Iraq, 9-11, terrorism There, distracted yet? Now leave the man behind the curtain alone. You forgot to include some trumped up save the children!
The scientists in the Popular Mechanics article are claiming that they can generate 100% gasoline equivalent fuel, not 60-65% gasoline equivalent. Or am I missing something? You are correct, sir!
But here in the middle of the war is not the time to voice these objections. The citizens do not exist to serve the state, the state exists to serve the citizens.
Freedom is not free. One of the prices of freedom is a less efficient military. Just like another price of freedom is a less efficient police.
The Economist's reporting is biased, but at least they wear their bias on their sleeve. I don't think there really is anything remotely approaching an unbiased news source.
I'm tired of hearing "bill of rights" applied in ridiculous situations by people or organizations who want to make it seem like they're being oppressed. Except, in this case, the people using the term "bill of rights" are the ones trying to do the oppressing. They want to use this "bill of rights" to fend off legislation (which, ironically, would be an actual BILL of rights) with actual penalties for violations.
Does anyone know of a way to only block the "evil" cookies? I'd love something that blocked the tracking cookies, let the shopping cart ones through, and didn't require me to figure out which was which for each and every cookie. Yes.
It lets you block/enable cookies by site. It also has a block-list subscription facility similar to adblock subscriptions. I don't know how well the subscription facility works, but I do pretty well blocking everything and then enabling things on a case by case basis.
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It ignores the network effect. If your stuff is easy to use, then it becomes widespread. If it is hard to use, hardly anyone will be interested. It's like having 50% of a $1M market or 10% of a $1B market.
But you go ahead and keep believing the bad management is just part of the normal process of an acquisition.
The business decision on this was made by MySQL AB (by me as the then CEO)...
The decision was made and then was reversed.
Post acquistion, the decision was reversed.
Good thing Sun was able to convince Sun to stick to Sun's official policy.
btrfs -- How fast are deletes?
ext3 is both so slow and so bottlenecked that mythtv had to implement a special "slow delete" mode which gradually truncates files instead of just unlinking them. Without the "slow deletes" mode, you get hiccups in any shows that are being recorded while old shows are deleted.
On my system, deleting a 20GB file can take a minute on ext3 (and the filesystem is completely locked - all other processes are blocked), but on ntfs it is almost instantaneous.
...These are just a few examples of where I think the Prez should allow censorship of Internet activity. Those are just a few examples of where you haven't thought through the effectiveness of censorship. The really motivated people won't be stopped at all, they will just use less obvious means of communication. If they can't post on myspace, they will just use some other website in another country or they will use hijacked websites which they can switch between faster than the censor-hammer can knock down. There are a million ways to communicate over the net the only effective method of censorship is to turn the net off.
The result of permitting censorship, for any reason is its inevitable abuse to make life harder for the average, law-abiding citizen. If you outlaw knowledge only outlaws will have knowledge.
We all live in a google submarine
google submarine, google submarine
We all live in a google subarmine
google submarine, google submarine
As we live a life of ease (A life of ease)
Everyone of us (Everyone of us) has all we need (Has all we need)
Sky of blue (Sky of blue) and sea of green (Sea of green)
In our google (In our google) submarine (Submarine, ha, ha)
There is a korean psychological-horror movie called The Uninvited that contains a scene where a large truck "pops" an infant playing in the street just like you described. And yes that is kind of a spoiler for the entire movie.
I don't consider the ADL representative of jews at large, just as I don't consider al-qaeda representative of muslims at large. But the ADL seems to dominate a lot of public discourse about judaism in a manner similar to the way muslim extremists dominate a lot of public discourse about islam.
The branches are supposed to push against each other - not against the constitution and society.
It's pretty common knowledge that the USA is both the largest source of foreign aid in terms of raw dollars and one of the smallest sources of foreign aid in terms of GDP.
What's less well known is that close to two-thirds of that aid go to Israel and Egypt for the the purpose of buying weapons.
Kind of the like a neighborhood where just about everybody knows everybody and thus everyone is accountable for any antisocial behaviour on their part.
There, distracted yet? Now leave the man behind the curtain alone. You forgot to include some trumped up save the children!
Freedom is not free. One of the prices of freedom is a less efficient military. Just like another price of freedom is a less efficient police.
The Economist's reporting is biased, but at least they wear their bias on their sleeve.
I don't think there really is anything remotely approaching an unbiased news source.
CookieSafe Lite for Firefox.
It lets you block/enable cookies by site.
It also has a block-list subscription facility similar to adblock subscriptions.
I don't know how well the subscription facility works, but I do pretty well blocking everything and then enabling things on a case by case basis.