Thank you! $22 Million to study what is already known or a slippery slope to restricting freedoms by committee. Forgive me if I don't give the benefit of the doubt to the former and start pondering the later. Here's a good article on the bill: http://www.slate.com/id/2178646/
Which will never happen thanks to the old chicken and egg problem albeit in reverse. Even games like Starcraft 2 are not going to be DX10 only, and no software maker is going to handicap their sales as long as there is a bigger install base of XP than Vista.
Why not port it to existing phones? It would take some work, but there's got to be a large enough user base of linux-bootable Razr/etc.. users to make it worth it a la new firmware on routers. If only every capable phone came with Apple fanboys attached... The iPhone is probably disabled from booting anything but the OSX it has, but the amount of reverse engineering was impressive considering the same mount or more could be accomplished with other phones too....and hey, google's giving you the whole middle-ware stack for free now! Is the SDK just the middle-ware or does it have the kernel with drivers too? I'm almost curious enough to download it.
While the technical aspects of forking, and maintaining the fork might not be very high, the fact is that a significant portion of the kernel is desktop-only related. Sure nobody is going to be using Infiniband on the desktop, but there are plenty of USB drivers in there as well. The kernel has DRM modules which give direct access to graphics hardware, making X a lot faster. I wouldn't mind seeing %'s for how much is server-only, desktop-only, embedded-only and for all three. The embedded stuff is probably small, but the rest two are probably on an equal footing. There are enough options in make menuconfig for the most choosy desktop-customizer to be happy.
The server features trickle down to desktop users often enough too, I could see if this fork was done 5 or more years ago, the desktop version might not have SMP or even support anything other than x86, basically dooming itself to irrelevance. If there really is something that isn't accepted in the mainline (and there are many, reiser4, SD, kgdb, openvz,....) but should be, most decent patches are actively maintained in some other tree for you to use and abuse. New features like kprobes and new file system work might not be started by itself in one tree, but here they are. There is a bit of un-predictability in deciding which way things should go and the way they actually do. Those issues would be worse if there were a desktop-fork. I'd probably be using the server-fork if they decided to keep in the DRM and USB modules.
I'm curious though, I want to know that M$ does in this case!
..when more than 4GB's of ram will become the norm and software makers will be forced to make and support decent x86-64 ports.
Give them 5-10 more years to make and support decent multi-threaded software.
There might actually be a middle ground here on a project-by-project basis. In the kernel you could have modules that stay BSD-only by some ethical convention, and other projects could adopt similar conventions as needed, but someone intent on merging GPL-only code is bound to make a dual-licensed version of the module and we're back to square one. Like I said, if you really want people share, make it mandatory. You choose the BSD license, someone else choose the GPL to work on the same bit of code, get over it. You have to live with the consequences of the legal license you chose.
But overall, I'm compelled to say this is all just a ploy to get more BSD code out there. Not that it's a bad thing, but doing so at the expense of the communities GPL'd code usually builds, in favor of giving more rights to those commercial interests who will gladly rip everyone off. I am glad the BSD people are learning the difference between offering more freedom, and being ripped off though.
They made their rights clear when they licensed it under the BSD license. If you want others to share code, make it mandatory and use the GPL. If you just want credit for what you've written, you're still getting it with dual-licensed code. Oh, wait, you want to be able to use the changes as well under the original license? I'm sorry. Don't license it under the BSD license and expect someone else more comfortable with the GPL to make large changes and not use the GPL. The GPL is just more honest and upfront, and it's the GPL's fault?
huh? If sqlite is portable enough to be used in firefox, then why not thunderbird?
I wouldn't mind a gmail-like conversation layout with other features enabled by having a "lite" relational-DB handle all the mail/contacts and other stuff. Microformats anyone?
Isn't VMI an ABI that uses blobs inside the kernel? I read somewhere that it wasn't going to be merged, unless someone came up with a API solution what was open to change as the developers saw fit.
"My sense is still that the ISPs that are complaining about net neutrality are simply being greedy and don't want to invest money to cope with the growth in usage."
HyperTransport is atleast twice as fast if I can read correctly, and there are many FPGA co-processor boards out already for it. Why would you use something slower when there is something faster already available and supported when both will end up costing the same?
Didn't Asus or somebody have one those for a P4 socket which let you put in a Pentium M (If my memory recalls)? So the P4 socket was open to Asus for some reason?
This is definitely competing with AMD, in the HPC market where the HyperTransport is aiming, making FPGA's act as co-processors. But, HyperTransport's bandwidth is ~20GB/s, and the last time I checked Intel's FSB speed was still 1333Mhz which makes it atleast half as fast (~10GB/s?), if not slower. Why would I want to make something for a much slower bus if I can use a faster bus standard instead and both cost the same?
This can be done without centralization, with a firefox extension, maybe even something pcap/ethereal based which records even what torrents might have been downloaded, rss feeds that might have been read through an rss client, etc... This needs to be a feature of the OS or my browser or my rss client or my bittorrent client, not a way for Google to collect data. Clearly, desktop search hasn't gone far enough if there actually is a demand for this sort of a feature. If the privacy concerns get loud enough, OSX will probably be the first to have this sort of capability.
Unless they're willing to provide a VPN tunnel for all of my websurfing needs, and promise to delete the all of the data when I ask, thanks but no thanks. Let me know when you start personalizing news and web search using the newly collected data.
You have to think of the hypothetical situations because economics says plenty of bad things about monopolies. The barrier to entry for making fab's is high enough to make sure there won't be any competitors left if AMD goes. Intel could care less about increasing sales if they could raise prices instead on a volume basis.
If you don't believe economics, history offers plenty of guide here. This isn't the first example or company Intel has done this to. Remember Transmeta? You can almost singlehandedly thank Transmeta for Intel's Centrino/Pentium M line of processors on which they continue to build the Core line, relatively speaking. I think it was Andy Grove (or some other Intel officer) that said as much. The next step in innovation is just as likely to come from either Intel or AMD, which isn't necessarily assured if it was upto Intel alone. Intel copied AMD64, got off the Mhz bandwagon and started designing low-power/multi-core processors thanks to the irritations of AMD. We probably wouldn't be getting 64-bit processors along with 32-bit processors if it wasn't for AMD64.
Besides, if something monopolistic is done by Intel, do you seriously think the inept DoJ is actually going to do something about it? I wouldn't count on it.
Colbert actually had a person from the EFF on the show, which filed a lawsuit against Viacom on behalf of Moveon.org for a "baseless copyright complaint from media giant Viacom."
If one watches Colbert and Stewart, they've clearly taken a liking to youtube, enough to mention it in other guest interviews and the casual banter that starts and ends each show.
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Thank you! $22 Million to study what is already known or a slippery slope to restricting freedoms by committee. Forgive me if I don't give the benefit of the doubt to the former and start pondering the later. Here's a good article on the bill: http://www.slate.com/id/2178646/
Which will never happen thanks to the old chicken and egg problem albeit in reverse. Even games like Starcraft 2 are not going to be DX10 only, and no software maker is going to handicap their sales as long as there is a bigger install base of XP than Vista.
There is the speed dial extension, and the google toolbar for firefox (along with the password manager) on linux has most of the features wand does.
Now if only del.icio.us and google notebook worked with FF 3.0, I'd be using it as my primary browser right now.
Why not port it to existing phones? It would take some work, but there's got to be a large enough user base of linux-bootable Razr/etc.. users to make it worth it a la new firmware on routers. If only every capable phone came with Apple fanboys attached... The iPhone is probably disabled from booting anything but the OSX it has, but the amount of reverse engineering was impressive considering the same mount or more could be accomplished with other phones too. ...and hey, google's giving you the whole middle-ware stack for free now! Is the SDK just the middle-ware or does it have the kernel with drivers too? I'm almost curious enough to download it.
The "10 f&*king years" segment didn't get that memo.
Thou shall not forbid interoperability between any two software configurations using the same code base.
While the technical aspects of forking, and maintaining the fork might not be very high, the fact is that a significant portion of the kernel is desktop-only related. Sure nobody is going to be using Infiniband on the desktop, but there are plenty of USB drivers in there as well. The kernel has DRM modules which give direct access to graphics hardware, making X a lot faster. I wouldn't mind seeing %'s for how much is server-only, desktop-only, embedded-only and for all three. The embedded stuff is probably small, but the rest two are probably on an equal footing. There are enough options in make menuconfig for the most choosy desktop-customizer to be happy. The server features trickle down to desktop users often enough too, I could see if this fork was done 5 or more years ago, the desktop version might not have SMP or even support anything other than x86, basically dooming itself to irrelevance. If there really is something that isn't accepted in the mainline (and there are many, reiser4, SD, kgdb, openvz,....) but should be, most decent patches are actively maintained in some other tree for you to use and abuse. New features like kprobes and new file system work might not be started by itself in one tree, but here they are. There is a bit of un-predictability in deciding which way things should go and the way they actually do. Those issues would be worse if there were a desktop-fork. I'd probably be using the server-fork if they decided to keep in the DRM and USB modules. I'm curious though, I want to know that M$ does in this case!
..when more than 4GB's of ram will become the norm and software makers will be forced to make and support decent x86-64 ports. Give them 5-10 more years to make and support decent multi-threaded software.
There might actually be a middle ground here on a project-by-project basis. In the kernel you could have modules that stay BSD-only by some ethical convention, and other projects could adopt similar conventions as needed, but someone intent on merging GPL-only code is bound to make a dual-licensed version of the module and we're back to square one. Like I said, if you really want people share, make it mandatory. You choose the BSD license, someone else choose the GPL to work on the same bit of code, get over it. You have to live with the consequences of the legal license you chose. But overall, I'm compelled to say this is all just a ploy to get more BSD code out there. Not that it's a bad thing, but doing so at the expense of the communities GPL'd code usually builds, in favor of giving more rights to those commercial interests who will gladly rip everyone off. I am glad the BSD people are learning the difference between offering more freedom, and being ripped off though.
They made their rights clear when they licensed it under the BSD license. If you want others to share code, make it mandatory and use the GPL. If you just want credit for what you've written, you're still getting it with dual-licensed code. Oh, wait, you want to be able to use the changes as well under the original license? I'm sorry. Don't license it under the BSD license and expect someone else more comfortable with the GPL to make large changes and not use the GPL. The GPL is just more honest and upfront, and it's the GPL's fault?
huh? If sqlite is portable enough to be used in firefox, then why not thunderbird?
I wouldn't mind a gmail-like conversation layout with other features enabled by having a "lite" relational-DB handle all the mail/contacts and other stuff. Microformats anyone?
Google shows 60 other MS Word files which aren't press releases or "Daily Power System Highlights" (60+ of the latter): http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=utf-8&safe=o ff&rls=GGGL%2CGGGL%3A2006-18%2CGGGL%3Aen&q=inurl%3 A.doc+-inurl%3Aarabic+-inurl%3Apressreleases+-%22D aily+Power+System%22+site%3Acpa-iraq.org+&btnG=Sea rch
Didn't Comey give enough evidence for impeachment already yesterday?
Ok, so maybe he didn't quite define "singularity" like Kurzweil, but close enough, what's a decade or two?
Isn't VMI an ABI that uses blobs inside the kernel? I read somewhere that it wasn't going to be merged, unless someone came up with a API solution what was open to change as the developers saw fit.
"My sense is still that the ISPs that are complaining about net neutrality are simply being greedy and don't want to invest money to cope with the growth in usage."
Ya think?
HyperTransport is atleast twice as fast if I can read correctly, and there are many FPGA co-processor boards out already for it. Why would you use something slower when there is something faster already available and supported when both will end up costing the same?
Didn't Asus or somebody have one those for a P4 socket which let you put in a Pentium M (If my memory recalls)? So the P4 socket was open to Asus for some reason? This is definitely competing with AMD, in the HPC market where the HyperTransport is aiming, making FPGA's act as co-processors. But, HyperTransport's bandwidth is ~20GB/s, and the last time I checked Intel's FSB speed was still 1333Mhz which makes it atleast half as fast (~10GB/s?), if not slower. Why would I want to make something for a much slower bus if I can use a faster bus standard instead and both cost the same?
This can be done without centralization, with a firefox extension, maybe even something pcap/ethereal based which records even what torrents might have been downloaded, rss feeds that might have been read through an rss client, etc... This needs to be a feature of the OS or my browser or my rss client or my bittorrent client, not a way for Google to collect data. Clearly, desktop search hasn't gone far enough if there actually is a demand for this sort of a feature. If the privacy concerns get loud enough, OSX will probably be the first to have this sort of capability.
Unless they're willing to provide a VPN tunnel for all of my websurfing needs, and promise to delete the all of the data when I ask, thanks but no thanks. Let me know when you start personalizing news and web search using the newly collected data.
You have to think of the hypothetical situations because economics says plenty of bad things about monopolies. The barrier to entry for making fab's is high enough to make sure there won't be any competitors left if AMD goes. Intel could care less about increasing sales if they could raise prices instead on a volume basis. If you don't believe economics, history offers plenty of guide here. This isn't the first example or company Intel has done this to. Remember Transmeta? You can almost singlehandedly thank Transmeta for Intel's Centrino/Pentium M line of processors on which they continue to build the Core line, relatively speaking. I think it was Andy Grove (or some other Intel officer) that said as much. The next step in innovation is just as likely to come from either Intel or AMD, which isn't necessarily assured if it was upto Intel alone. Intel copied AMD64, got off the Mhz bandwagon and started designing low-power/multi-core processors thanks to the irritations of AMD. We probably wouldn't be getting 64-bit processors along with 32-bit processors if it wasn't for AMD64. Besides, if something monopolistic is done by Intel, do you seriously think the inept DoJ is actually going to do something about it? I wouldn't count on it.
The word you're looking for is extortion. Microsoft is an old company, it needs new revenue streams people.
Colbert actually had a person from the EFF on the show, which filed a lawsuit against Viacom on behalf of Moveon.org for a "baseless copyright complaint from media giant Viacom." If one watches Colbert and Stewart, they've clearly taken a liking to youtube, enough to mention it in other guest interviews and the casual banter that starts and ends each show.
It's the long tail! Seriously, what else would you expect from a marketplace of millions of books, most of which aren't textbooks or NYT bestsellers.
How about compiling Gentoo on an iPAQ, or a 33 Mhz with 32 MB of RAM?
You're just being paranoid. But you should know people were put on death row because DNA fingerprinting techniques were only 96% accurate in the past.
They do, Here are all the graphing calculators HP offers: http://www.hp.com/calculators/graphing/index.html The 49g was a terrible mistake, but HP seems to have redeemed itself, the 50g has and SD memory card slot, USB and IR: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/hp-50g-calc ulator-makes-nerds-pee-themselves-201990.php
I've had a 48G for a while and never needed anything more.