Value proposition for whom ? I can see plenty of GPL software not about to be replace anytime soon. I can see some libraries and packages being reimplemented for the BSD O/Ses, but not all.
If Apple does not apologize publicly for the way they treated this guys as well as the other untold number of customers who bought their defective hardware, this is going to simply cost them a lot of money.
I, for one, will not buy another piece of hardware from Apple until they issue a statement. And I'm a customer from wayyy back.
There is a difference between a software repository with some management software, which as far as I know existed for the *BSD before even Linux, and a business model for small and large developers alike, allowing them to sell their wares through a unified interface. I'm not sure Linux has the latter, and if it is in fact desirable.
Apple is innovating in the iDevices department, nobody can say the contrary. They own the market, everybody is rushing after them and so far, failing. However a tablet is purely a consumer device. What about the developer market, the enterprise, and the innovators that have made Apple possible ?
Here I do hear you, they are letting OS X go fallow. Mountain Lion is already a huge disappointment, as was Lion before it. Its cloud support is lackluster, the server parts are even more dreadful than before. OS X cannot really be recommended for developers on the desktop anymore. Think that the only halfway decent software RAID solution for OSX is the one coming from the abandoned port of ZFS all these years ago and picked up by enthusiasts. GCC is stuck at 4.2 and LLVM is not really progressing compared to the GCC behemoth. As far as I can tell, we are not sure Apple is going to ever upgrade the Mac Pro again. The list goes on.
Let me start by saying that the money CSIRO will be receiving on the WiFi patents is well deserved.
However, I'm not so sure wether this is such a massive win for CSIRO in the end. The reason for this is that it takes a lot of effort to patent things on top of researching them. This one set of WiFi patents will surely pay for itself but what about all the other patents which are not so lucrative?
Meanwhile CSIRO is paying patent attorneys and patent agencies throughout the world instead of paying Australian scientists to do science work. It would perhaps be enlightening to see some numbers. I know for a fact that numbers of scientists at some CSIRO divisions have been dropping significantly. Is this a sign of good health?
CSIRO is a public body. I'm not sure it should patent anything. Actually I'm not sure it should conduct business the way it does now.
By far, the more interesting question about this discovery is what kind of reasoning brought these researchers to dip their samples in wine and test if superconductivity would emerge? Did they try some other random stuff from tap water to fluorhydric acid via a collection of leftover drinks they had in the closet, or does this experiment proceed from some well formed theoretical background ?
Money helps but doesn't solve all problems. People need to be trained and that takes a looong time. We are talking about PhD+10 years perhaps, in many areas of physics. I believe that eventually we will have workable fusion. I don't know if ITER is the best way but at any rate many experts think it's a good way forward. Plus given the constraints and the expected returns, ITER is like pocket change in the grand scheme of things.
In the meantime we have fission, which works really quite well, if we do not put plants in areas likely to be flooded or prone to earthquakes and where people in charge are technically competent and responsible.
Please mod parent up, this is the most relevant information: Chinese manufacturing represents 2% of the cost of an Ipad. i.e 10$ for the $500 Ipad, whereas Apple profits represent 30% !
It would be fairly trivial for Apple to improve working conditions in China.
In some countries, authors retain their authors or moral rights regardless of who has copyright. This means they can publish a draft of their work for instance, which is what they can put on arXiv, without even asking anyone.
So if the cloud provider dies, you lose your cloud backup and all the warm fuzzy feeling that goes with it. What if you do not have a backup of this backup? Tough I guess. I hope your data was encrypted !
Do you have a reference for a serious study of this ?
To "support" your argument, my mother-in-law was a university professor in biology. She was for a while giving genetics tutorials where students would determine their blood group and comparing it to their parents. Sure enough she had to stop doing this because several students found out that way that their blood group was not compatible with being an actual offspring of their parents, which led to some trouble. However I do not have any statistics regarding how many students were involved.
From memory early IP adopters like many Ivy League universities have a A domain. E.g MIT owns the 18.x.x.x domain. I doubt MIT requires 16 millions of IP addresses.
On the other hand, they probably would have to reengineer their network architecture if they had to free a good chunk of their 18.x subnets. Which would be cheaper? Converting to ipv6 or hang on to part of their old A domain ?
Also there is work to do in the DNS servers code so that A block can be cut up. This is not a simple as it seems.
As far as I can make out, this case is making at least some headlines in France too, and the general sentiment is outrage at the company and at the court system, very similar to here. See these:
However, more interestingly, the last link points to some other case where the judgment went the other way, i.e. Google suggesting a derogatory term in their search suggestions, and the French court finding them innocent. The text in French is here (use google translate !) and shows much more common sense.
Interestingly, I do not recall seeing this well-reasoned judgment on the front page of Slashdot, much in the way of traditional news outlets not reporting good news as often as bad ones.
In the case of labeling someone "a crook", truth typically hinges on court findings. I don't think in France you can be sued for publicizing court findings, but labeling someone before a suit can definitely expose you to defamation, yes, even if later court findings prove you correct. This is to "stop" public war of words while proceedings are in place.
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Value proposition for whom ? I can see plenty of GPL software not about to be replace anytime soon. I can see some libraries and packages being reimplemented for the BSD O/Ses, but not all.
Can you give some examples ?
Yes, it is worth upgrading the kernel to version 3.2, particularly if you use virtualization. Don't know about ATI.
If Apple does not apologize publicly for the way they treated this guys as well as the other untold number of customers who bought their defective hardware, this is going to simply cost them a lot of money.
I, for one, will not buy another piece of hardware from Apple until they issue a statement. And I'm a customer from wayyy back.
The Republicans may say they think that when they are in the opposition, but I'm not so sure about it when they are in power.
There is a difference between a software repository with some management software, which as far as I know existed for the *BSD before even Linux, and a business model for small and large developers alike, allowing them to sell their wares through a unified interface. I'm not sure Linux has the latter, and if it is in fact desirable.
Apple is innovating in the iDevices department, nobody can say the contrary. They own the market, everybody is rushing after them and so far, failing. However a tablet is purely a consumer device. What about the developer market, the enterprise, and the innovators that have made Apple possible ?
Here I do hear you, they are letting OS X go fallow. Mountain Lion is already a huge disappointment, as was Lion before it. Its cloud support is lackluster, the server parts are even more dreadful than before. OS X cannot really be recommended for developers on the desktop anymore. Think that the only halfway decent software RAID solution for OSX is the one coming from the abandoned port of ZFS all these years ago and picked up by enthusiasts. GCC is stuck at 4.2 and LLVM is not really progressing compared to the GCC behemoth. As far as I can tell, we are not sure Apple is going to ever upgrade the Mac Pro again. The list goes on.
Only first-order difference equations. Second order DE show a wider range of behaviors.
Let me start by saying that the money CSIRO will be receiving on the WiFi patents is well deserved.
However, I'm not so sure wether this is such a massive win for CSIRO in the end. The reason for this is that it takes a lot of effort to patent things on top of researching them. This one set of WiFi patents will surely pay for itself but what about all the other patents which are not so lucrative?
Meanwhile CSIRO is paying patent attorneys and patent agencies throughout the world instead of paying Australian scientists to do science work. It would perhaps be enlightening to see some numbers. I know for a fact that numbers of scientists at some CSIRO divisions have been dropping significantly. Is this a sign of good health?
CSIRO is a public body. I'm not sure it should patent anything. Actually I'm not sure it should conduct business the way it does now.
Disclaimer: former CSIRO employee here.
Basically getting a broken arm sucks.
By far, the more interesting question about this discovery is what kind of reasoning brought these researchers to dip their samples in wine and test if superconductivity would emerge? Did they try some other random stuff from tap water to fluorhydric acid via a collection of leftover drinks they had in the closet, or does this experiment proceed from some well formed theoretical background ?
Money helps but doesn't solve all problems. People need to be trained and that takes a looong time. We are talking about PhD+10 years perhaps, in many areas of physics. I believe that eventually we will have workable fusion. I don't know if ITER is the best way but at any rate many experts think it's a good way forward. Plus given the constraints and the expected returns, ITER is like pocket change in the grand scheme of things.
In the meantime we have fission, which works really quite well, if we do not put plants in areas likely to be flooded or prone to earthquakes and where people in charge are technically competent and responsible.
What's wrong with this picture ?
Small animals MRI machines go up to 17T.
Please mod parent up, this is the most relevant information: Chinese manufacturing represents 2% of the cost of an Ipad. i.e 10$ for the $500 Ipad, whereas Apple profits represent 30% !
It would be fairly trivial for Apple to improve working conditions in China.
Yes but perhaps not enough crazy money to warrant an IPO price of 75 billions.
In some countries, authors retain their authors or moral rights regardless of who has copyright. This means they can publish a draft of their work for instance, which is what they can put on arXiv, without even asking anyone.
So if the cloud provider dies, you lose your cloud backup and all the warm fuzzy feeling that goes with it. What if you do not have a backup of this backup? Tough I guess. I hope your data was encrypted !
Do you have a reference for a serious study of this ?
To "support" your argument, my mother-in-law was a university professor in biology. She was for a while giving genetics tutorials where students would determine their blood group and comparing it to their parents. Sure enough she had to stop doing this because several students found out that way that their blood group was not compatible with being an actual offspring of their parents, which led to some trouble. However I do not have any statistics regarding how many students were involved.
From memory early IP adopters like many Ivy League universities have a A domain. E.g MIT owns the 18.x.x.x domain. I doubt MIT requires 16 millions of IP addresses.
On the other hand, they probably would have to reengineer their network architecture if they had to free a good chunk of their 18.x subnets. Which would be cheaper? Converting to ipv6 or hang on to part of their old A domain ?
Also there is work to do in the DNS servers code so that A block can be cut up. This is not a simple as it seems.
How is that enforced ? How do you know the dealer did not pay in cash, since cash is basically untraceable ?
I find it likely that David Hilbert on his deathbed wished he had more time to look into the Riemann Hypothesis a bit more seriously.
I do. I love my job. I actually work as much as I can. It doesn't pay well though, but that's my choice. I'm a researcher.
You need to decelerate halfway. 20 years to the core is if you go full throttle all the way and don't brake.
As far as I can make out, this case is making at least some headlines in France too, and the general sentiment is outrage at the company and at the court system, very similar to here. See these:
link 1
link 2
link3
However, more interestingly, the last link points to some other case where the judgment went the other way, i.e. Google suggesting a derogatory term in their search suggestions, and the French court finding them innocent. The text in French is here (use google translate !) and shows much more common sense.
Interestingly, I do not recall seeing this well-reasoned judgment on the front page of Slashdot, much in the way of traditional news outlets not reporting good news as often as bad ones.
Thanks, very informative.
In the case of labeling someone "a crook", truth typically hinges on court findings. I don't think in France you can be sued for publicizing court findings, but labeling someone before a suit can definitely expose you to defamation, yes, even if later court findings prove you correct. This is to "stop" public war of words while proceedings are in place.