This is a sound politic. Gravel road cost less $ a year because they are much easier to repair! And they do not have many inconvenient unless there is heavy traffic on the road.
Patent and copyright law have gained tremendous power during the last hundred years. I feel like they now possess too much power compared to their usefulness to society.
Think about it. What if someone change your DNS setting to a hostile DNS server. The domain name of your bank could resolve to a hostile web server that could trick you into entering your login info.
It's incredible that the Voyager spacecrafts still provide useful scientific data so long after their launch. We don't build our stuff as tough as those two anymore. lol
The company lawyer will still have to prove that he agreed to something. Signing a worthless piece of paper is a way of proving that you did agree to something, so I clicking 'I agree' on a web site if the web site is done properly. Remember, a contract can be verbal too. In any case, to upheld a contract in court you have to prove that the contract exist and that both parties have agreed to it.
After reset, most CPUs start by reading the program at address 0 which is most of the time the mother board firmware. On the x86 platform, the firmware is the BIOS which date back from the first IBM PC.
So, at boot, the firmware initialize basic hardware so that it can do basic diagnostic and start the boot process of the OS. After that, the OS re-initialize all the hardware so it can get access to the hardware most advanced feature like 3D acceleration on a VGA-compatible card.
Linux does work on other platform than the x86 and those other platforms do not have a BIOS. You could build some other computer that is not BIOS-compatible and would be open source from the bottom-up.
I think they totally missed the point. They shouldn't be trying to build open hardware, they should be trying to build an open platform. They will never be able to compete with a pile of free old VGA card.
Linux don't need the BIOS to boot, so they should simply get ride of it and build new open hardware on top of a new open firmware.
I feel you pain. The point of having patent is to incite company to publicize their research. Worst, if those "research troll" would not patent their discoveries, their discoveries would be probably forgotten. Maybe the real problem is that patent are valid for such a long period of time.
Then we should charge them for the water they uses. That would make it worthwhile. The use of grey water would also be OK, I just have a problem with the use of drinking water for cooling.
So, A baby sitter reading a bed time story to some children would constitute copyright infringement? or should she be part of the Authors Guild for it to be legal?
It seems to me that copyright infringement should only occurs when there is a public performance or when a 'copy' is made.
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Security by obscurity does not get you very far. If the cell tower software is so fragile, it needs to be secured correctly.
Yeah, and you know the name of the journalist.
This is a sound politic. Gravel road cost less $ a year because they are much easier to repair! And they do not have many inconvenient unless there is heavy traffic on the road.
Patent and copyright law have gained tremendous power during the last hundred years. I feel like they now possess too much power compared to their usefulness to society.
Read about the history of patent
Read about the history of Copyright
Think about it. What if someone change your DNS setting to a hostile DNS server. The domain name of your bank could resolve to a hostile web server that could trick you into entering your login info.
They could be doing this for security reasons, to prevent DNS domain hijacking.
I guess that would be me.
I want pictures
It's incredible that the Voyager spacecrafts still provide useful scientific data so long after their launch. We don't build our stuff as tough as those two anymore. lol
Sounds like the Apple Newton all over again : Apple Newton
Send it to me with your name and address. I will host it for you freely.
The company lawyer will still have to prove that he agreed to something. Signing a worthless piece of paper is a way of proving that you did agree to something, so I clicking 'I agree' on a web site if the web site is done properly. Remember, a contract can be verbal too. In any case, to upheld a contract in court you have to prove that the contract exist and that both parties have agreed to it.
Seems like the next anti-trust lawsuit.
We are proposing the same thing. It's just that you use the term BIOS instead of firmware. BIOS is a x86-centric word.
Booting linux without a BIOS have already been done, check that out : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splashtop
Some Asus MB have this feature. My M3A78-EM have this feature, it can boot a small Linux distro in about 5 seconds.
After reset, most CPUs start by reading the program at address 0 which is most of the time the mother board firmware. On the x86 platform, the firmware is the BIOS which date back from the first IBM PC.
So, at boot, the firmware initialize basic hardware so that it can do basic diagnostic and start the boot process of the OS. After that, the OS re-initialize all the hardware so it can get access to the hardware most advanced feature like 3D acceleration on a VGA-compatible card.
No, it don't.
http://www.debian.org/ports/
Linux does work on other platform than the x86 and those other platforms do not have a BIOS. You could build some other computer that is not BIOS-compatible and would be open source from the bottom-up.
I think they totally missed the point. They shouldn't be trying to build open hardware, they should be trying to build an open platform. They will never be able to compete with a pile of free old VGA card.
Linux don't need the BIOS to boot, so they should simply get ride of it and build new open hardware on top of a new open firmware.
I feel you pain. The point of having patent is to incite company to publicize their research. Worst, if those "research troll" would not patent their discoveries, their discoveries would be probably forgotten. Maybe the real problem is that patent are valid for such a long period of time.
because research cost money and they need to be paid for it.
thanks, I'll be playing Tetris behind enemy line.
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It's old fashion, I like it.
Then we should charge them for the water they uses. That would make it worthwhile. The use of grey water would also be OK, I just have a problem with the use of drinking water for cooling.
They should use closed circuit cooling system.
So, A baby sitter reading a bed time story to some children would constitute copyright infringement? or should she be part of the Authors Guild for it to be legal?
It seems to me that copyright infringement should only occurs when there is a public performance or when a 'copy' is made.
Is reading a bed time story to its children copyright infringement? This world is really crazy.