Well, not sure how it works where you vote, but when I go to vote, they record that I've been there and voted. So, they'd have to make sure the rolls disappeared or the vote counts wouldn't match. Not sure if the rolls are integrated with the voting machines or not. So, disappearing votes at least would show up. However, if you can swap a memory card and make votes disappear, you can probably swap a memory card in that has _different_ votes.
I've got no problem with computerized voting machines. I do have a problem with the votes being recorded and tallied by the same machines, and there not being a human readable, physical token which can be recounted.
Well, it'd be more of a migration, without data export:-(
It's Managing Your Money, and it's got about 10 years of my financial data in it, that it doesn't want to export as much more than text reports. I could start using Quicken, or GnuCash or MoneyDance, or write something myself (I had a friend who managed his accounts in his custom dBase app:-) But I'd still want to keep MYM around to get at that old data occasionally. Basically, migrating to something else is somewhere in the stack of things to do, burried under all the other things.
Oh, I think that the solaris core is probably better than the current mach mongrel, especially given my experiences with software RAID on OS-X. I just don't think that OpenStep on Solaris (as it really existed) is the nirvana you were hoping for:-)
I can almost guarantee you that new intel macs will not support legacy bios. EFI is the new 'bios', and macs will never bother to support the old cruft.
Did you ever actually work on OpenSTEP for Solaris? I know a couple of people who worked for Sun on it, and it was apparently the ugly step-child as far a Sun was concerned, and Steve played the 'but you only licensed v1, you have to pay us more for the updated version' which really 'Steveed' it...
I'm confused. If I've got a CD, I can rip it to anything I want with whatever quality I desire. If I've bought DRM'd lossy music, I can maybe strip the DRM, and maybe end up with worse quality after reencoding the music to the format I prefer or that my player will accept. Why would I prefer downloads over CDs again?
Yeah, I had to go back to Best Buy twice to return the Nirvana Garage CD because it was total crap. Once to exchange it for an identical copy, the 2nd time to take the still-shrinkwrapped 2nd copy back as a gift to get a different CD.
Well, it may not be an issue for the MySQL developers, but it would be an issue for a company which directly uses BDB, or one which wants to ship MySQL integrated with BDB on the install CD for their product...
A real company, shipping real and expensive software decided to spend lots of engineering time replacing Oracle with Sleepycat in order to lower the cost to store data in a database, with searching capabilities. Oracle made less money because of this. What would you call that if not competition?
There you're wrong. We (Openwave) used Oracle in our flagship email system, and swapped out the backend for Sleepycat (on the low end) in order to be able to meet a lower price point. For our application, performance was similar or better on similar hardware, but the maintainence and supporting utilities weren't there.
Here's a question. If I own two copies of a book. I take one with me on vacation, and my house burns down (with the book). Do I have the right to make a copy and sell it?
If not, why not? Why buy multiple copies for multiple machines? It's only the "license" that is preventing you from doing otherwise...
No, copyright law prevents you from making that copy. The license (whether it's valid or not is debatable) is what prevents you from taking the one copy you "own" (via the doctrine of first sale) from one machine and moving it to another.
Not sure some 'hacker' running OSX on a whitebox is money in Apple's pocket. I don't see them running down to the apple store to pay $139 retail for it to run on their $400 box.
Not sure why the interface matters that much in the XServe RAID case. Each drive is on it's own channel it can't saturate from the platters. Sure, the newer SATA drives are in general faster than the U-ATA drives in the XServe RAID, but that _seems_to_me_ to be independent of the interface.
Yeah, that was going to be my point. I've got about a dozen computers in the house, and none that are currently functional have a floppy. I think one of the unfunctional ones might have a floppy.
The funny thing is that Visio is a copy of Diagram. I was friends with some people at Lighthouse Design (makers of Diagram), and they had the order from the people who basically 'ported' Diagram to Windows. The thing is, the cost of marketing on Windows was so high that even though Visio sold way more copies than Diagram, they didn't make any money. Then Sun Microsystems bought Lighthouse for the people and killed all the NeXTStep apps and Omnigroup just rewrote Diagram/Visio as Omnigraffle.
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Well, not sure how it works where you vote, but when I go to vote, they record that I've been there and voted. So, they'd have to make sure the rolls disappeared or the vote counts wouldn't match. Not sure if the rolls are integrated with the voting machines or not. So, disappearing votes at least would show up. However, if you can swap a memory card and make votes disappear, you can probably swap a memory card in that has _different_ votes.
I've got no problem with computerized voting machines. I do have a problem with the votes being recorded and tallied by the same machines, and there not being a human readable, physical token which can be recounted.
Well, it'd be more of a migration, without data export :-(
:-) But I'd still want to keep MYM around to get at that old data occasionally.
It's Managing Your Money, and it's got about 10 years of my financial data in it, that it doesn't want to export as much more than text reports. I could start using Quicken, or GnuCash or MoneyDance, or write something myself (I had a friend who managed his accounts in his custom dBase app
Basically, migrating to something else is somewhere in the stack of things to do, burried under all the other things.
Oh, I think that the solaris core is probably better than the current mach mongrel, especially given my experiences with software RAID on OS-X. I just don't think that OpenStep on Solaris (as it really existed) is the nirvana you were hoping for :-)
Umm, PCI-X 64bit 133MHz will give you 1Gbyte/second, or, about 10 times the 100MByte/second that FW800 burns.
I can almost guarantee you that new intel macs will not support legacy bios. EFI is the new 'bios', and macs will never bother to support the old cruft.
...something blue...
Yeah, but not for long. Bluebox is getting killed off with the release of the intel iMac (i^2Mac ?).
Part of why I bought the last G5 iMac (still have some stuff I need that's classic only)
Did you ever actually work on OpenSTEP for Solaris? I know a couple of people who worked for Sun on it, and it was apparently the ugly step-child as far a Sun was concerned, and Steve played the 'but you only licensed v1, you have to pay us more for the updated version' which really 'Steveed' it...
I guess I'm fairly safe then, since my default shell is emacs :-)
I'm confused. If I've got a CD, I can rip it to anything I want with whatever quality I desire. If I've bought DRM'd lossy music, I can maybe strip the DRM, and maybe end up with worse quality after reencoding the music to the format I prefer or that my player will accept. Why would I prefer downloads over CDs again?
Yeah, I had to go back to Best Buy twice to return the Nirvana Garage CD because it was total crap. Once to exchange it for an identical copy, the 2nd time to take the still-shrinkwrapped 2nd copy back as a gift to get a different CD.
Yeah, for geologic definitions of 'recently'.
http://www.research.ibm.com/trl/projects/ngm/wp10
Well, it may not be an issue for the MySQL developers, but it would be an issue for a company which directly uses BDB, or one which wants to ship MySQL integrated with BDB on the install CD for their product...
A real company, shipping real and expensive software decided to spend lots of engineering time replacing Oracle with Sleepycat in order to lower the cost to store data in a database, with searching capabilities. Oracle made less money because of this. What would you call that if not competition?
The Sleepycat code is dual licensed. It's only opensource for opensource. That can be a problem for commercial users of the software.
There you're wrong. We (Openwave) used Oracle in our flagship email system, and swapped out the backend for Sleepycat (on the low end) in order to be able to meet a lower price point. For our application, performance was similar or better on similar hardware, but the maintainence and supporting utilities weren't there.
Here's a question. If I own two copies of a book. I take one with me on vacation, and my house burns down (with the book). Do I have the right to make a copy and sell it?
Seems like I should, given I "own" two copies.
If not, why not? Why buy multiple copies for multiple machines? It's only the "license" that is preventing you from doing otherwise...
No, copyright law prevents you from making that copy. The license (whether it's valid or not is debatable) is what prevents you from taking the one copy you "own" (via the doctrine of first sale) from one machine and moving it to another.
EULAs aren't enforceable in all cases.
excusable way in any jurisdiction to run Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, since you *must* pirate Mac OS X to do so.
Not exactly. You could buy an intel mac, and run linux on it, while running OSX on your white-box.
Not sure some 'hacker' running OSX on a whitebox is money in Apple's pocket. I don't see them running down to the apple store to pay $139 retail for it to run on their $400 box.
I'd moderate you up, but I'm out of mod points... :-O
and there's no Funny-Sad mod.
Not sure why the interface matters that much in the XServe RAID case. Each drive is on it's own channel it can't saturate from the platters. Sure, the newer SATA drives are in general faster than the U-ATA drives in the XServe RAID, but that _seems_to_me_ to be independent of the interface.
Intel based macs don't include BIOS emulation in their EFI rom. Why would they?
Yeah, that was going to be my point. I've got about a dozen computers in the house, and none that are currently functional have a floppy. I think one of the unfunctional ones might have a floppy.
The funny thing is that Visio is a copy of Diagram. I was friends with some people at Lighthouse Design (makers of Diagram), and they had the order from the people who basically 'ported' Diagram to Windows. The thing is, the cost of marketing on Windows was so high that even though Visio sold way more copies than Diagram, they didn't make any money. Then Sun Microsystems bought Lighthouse for the people and killed all the NeXTStep apps and Omnigroup just rewrote Diagram/Visio as Omnigraffle.