I think it was on this month's edition of Fast Company, bottled air is poised to be a multi-billion dollar industry next year. Same idiots who buy bottled water. Think about it, if people are willing to believe that bottled water is better than free water, and possibly that bottled air is better than free air, don't you maybe, possibly think those same people might just maybe, possibly extend those same beliefs to their choice of OS?
Uh, 1500kW is max power output for general and advanced classes ref. There is no 2kW 10m HAM transmitter. And I really doubt truckers have 1kW amps in their trucks. 100w, maybe. 1kW amps are the size of a mini fridge and run hot.
Pirates on the other hand are another matter but they are stationary and easy to track (directional antenna, even a pringle can antenna on a $30 handheld cb radio).
Under the bounds of the licensing agreement you agreed to when you made the purchase. Same as a EULA for any software program you purchase nowadays. The similarities are actually quite striking.
analog TV, radio, HAM, CB, and other ancient/antiquated technologies
You have no idea how much the airwaves actually are used by mission critical systems, do you? Wireless is the future, not the past. Analog TV is still in full force in many areas where cable still isn't available (including my childhood home). HAM and CB are far from antiquated and are still used in full force. I'm sorry if you don't use them. HAM's pay for licenses which goes to the FCC and CB's are low power transmitters operating on a very small frequency range.
The point is there needs to be designated ranges, otherwise you will have Joe Ham who will stick his 1KW transmitter too close to the operating range of something important - say the transponder of a cell tower (900 MHz) and disrupt cell service. For example. There needs to be regulated bandwidths.
You have it all wrong anyways - they are actually generating money for the government. About 1 penny of your taxes goes to fund them, but then they turn around and generate multi-billion dollars of revenue. reference. Their budget for 2006 is $304M, all but $4.8M comes from regulatory fees. And they generate $26.8B for uncle Sam through auctioning off freed up frequencies.
This is at the edge of what I am capable of grasping. You might want to explain your position--I know I'm not the only Slashdotter that is stunned.
The hive mind mentality is so hard to break away from. All the little slashbots lined up in a row. Try thinking independanty sometime... it is really refreshing.
But on topic all DRM is a protection method, a system of permissions. A purveyor of goods has every right to sell merchandise in the way he or she sees fit, if they see fit to restrict their offerings so be it, the market will respond in kind. It really isnt that hard to wrap your head around.
What Unbeliever said. I recently built a box with an AMD x2 processor, I play Everquest 2 and my wife plays WoW. I have 2 gigs of RAM, and alt-tabbing to Firefox is damn near as snappy as alt-tabbing from Outlook to Firefox.
I'm suprised you are willing to sacrifice performace for simplicity. You realise a single core can only run a single process at once, correct?
This is to say nothing about all the developer effort that would be saved from not needing to make making SMP-safe code.
lol. It really isn't that hard to make code thread and SMP safe. Check here for a good starting point. I learned how to write thread-safe code as a hobby over the course of about two weeks, I converted my thesis work and a simulation toolkit to be thread-safe in about a week. It really isn't hard. I'm not a CS either, I'm an aerospace engineer. Now I can do a sh*tload of monte carlo runs on my dual core box at home at double the rate. (By the way: Qt's thread library is great but if you can't live with the license then check out OpenSceneGraph's OpenThreads library)
Thats the question, who determines the price, if Symantic wanted to licence it for free, would it then not be worth "free"?
Of course not. It would just be undervalued. Market determines price, companies generally determine value. Remember, there is a difference between price and value. I paid $900 for all the pieces to my computer (price) however it is worth more to me than the $1500 Dell machine than it outspecs, and it will last a long time, providing me a lot of CPU cycles for my thesis research and a kickass platform for gaming (value I assign to it). Now a friend of mine who is into much more hardcore gaming would assign a far lower value as the video card isn't as big as he would like, etc. Price is generally fixed or at least on an even playing field for all participants (or governments get involved) whereas value is more relative, but there are generally rules to get you started.
Then you overpaid the cook, the cook wasn't worth $20 an hour. I know teenagers in home economics who can cook better than that.
All that formula is, is a simple rate formula: rate*time = value. Real world economics is based on percieved values. It doesn't have to make sense to you.
I'm assuming you work for a living? Do you get paid? Is your time worth something to you?
Time * what you are worth per hour = value.
There is a very basic formula for the value of something, regardless of its concreteness. If you put 40 hours into making a piece of IP, and you are worth $20 an hour, then your IP could be worth $800. But a more intelligent way of pricing it is by supply and demand, which was figured out thousands of years ago, this is economics 101.
Linux will always have its supporters - you can't shut it down.
Yeah, but how many times have you heard OSS guys saying "yeah, but MacOS sure is pretty" or "yeah, I wouldn't mind trying that out on a Mac"... if it were free for their hardware you'd see converts in drones. Linux wouldn'd die, but the Jedi sure would be feeling it.
The difference here is that they would have to **open** the boards in order to allow all these OSS developers to develop for them. Open boards would have to be licensed in such a way that they **would** be replicable. That's the difference. Intel chips and graphic cards are 2 completely different things, you are missing the argument.
There is so much optimization that goes into graphics card design. Remember a graphics card isn't just analog to a CPU, its analog to a CPU, RAM, a bus and more... and then you have to interface it with another bus (AGP/PCIe) and not *just* interface it but squeeze out every last frame of performance. It isn't locking into an OS its optomizing a driver and I have a hard time believing "OSS loving hippies" can do any better - because quite frankly, they've had nVidia cards since the dawn of nVidia, and guess what - the open source drivers haven't approached the binary ones.
What you are advocating is releasing all technical data about the board - which then means trade secrets are in the open - now any vendor can make a cheap $150 knockoff to a $400 board. And the drivers will still suck because you have guys at nVidia that have been doing this for 20 years and can kick the ass of any "OSS-loving hippie".
nVidia would have a lot to lose by opening up the hardware spec and very little to gain.
IF everyone ran Windows the world would be so much better. Imagine one central repository where everything could be collected, supported, and distributed.
Now think about what you just said if someone from another vantage point said it. Just because its your favorite distro doesn't mean its right for everyone. Multiple vantage points is what keeps linux and the rest of the computing world competitive.
When you close those 60 tabs, firefox should free the memory. It doesn't.
Who cares?
Seeing as that memory is now lost and unusable you **should** care. It is a sign of sloppy design anyways and the other two (Opera and IE) don't seem to have problems with memory leaks...
Other than indecent exposure (still civil, iirc) though I'm not sure anything is technically "wrong". In bad taste, but not against the law. That's the way it is supposed to be though. You have the freedom to express yourself through appropriate channels
It *is* possible if you are doing your own thing. **HOWEVER** if you are, for example, a scientist or an engineer in a niche community it may not be possible. For example one of the things I do pretty regulary is trajectory analysis. There exists no trajectory analysis software for OSX or Linux (except my own codes - which run under Linux and Windows). However the commercial offerings all are built for Windows and due to the limited community are not rebuilt for multiple platforms - there is no reason, with a target audience of a few hundred people and a price tag of $6,000-$20,000 a seat, why go through the trouble of rebuilding the binaries?
So yes for those of you doing your own thing - developing new software, or just setting up office workers, living off the grid is very feasible. For people doing "real" work with software they can't control, in niche markets with few options (this is very real in engineering research) the options are limited and this isn't always a possibility.
1. I actually like where I live. Sorry you don't or didn't.
I like where I live. I like where I lived before that. And before that. And before that. And I'm 23. The world is a big place...
2. Not only have I been told I'll change jobs several times in my ever-lengthening career, these companies think I should pay for each and every relocation on top of the cost of plane tickets and accomodations for the interview IF they'll even consider a currently out-of-towner. Excuse me, but are you fucking high?
Good credentials? The first interview will take place over the phone, or maybe online... the second interview they will fly you out, and if they want you bad enough they will relocate you. Now if you half assed your way through college or, god forbid, didn't graduate, yea, you will probably have to foot the bill. But then again you aren't top of the line, premium candidate. Sorry.
Godamn man, get your head out of the sand. Get your resume out there and let them wine-dine-69 you. This is the 21st century.
Whatever you are smoking, you need to share with the rest of the class.
I'm not smoking, that's why I'm making a good salary and was willing to move (and be moved) for a better life.
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I think it was on this month's edition of Fast Company, bottled air is poised to be a multi-billion dollar industry next year. Same idiots who buy bottled water. Think about it, if people are willing to believe that bottled water is better than free water, and possibly that bottled air is better than free air, don't you maybe, possibly think those same people might just maybe, possibly extend those same beliefs to their choice of OS?
Uh, 1500kW is max power output for general and advanced classes ref. There is no 2kW 10m HAM transmitter. And I really doubt truckers have 1kW amps in their trucks. 100w, maybe. 1kW amps are the size of a mini fridge and run hot.
Pirates on the other hand are another matter but they are stationary and easy to track (directional antenna, even a pringle can antenna on a $30 handheld cb radio).
Under the bounds of the licensing agreement you agreed to when you made the purchase. Same as a EULA for any software program you purchase nowadays. The similarities are actually quite striking.
analog TV, radio, HAM, CB, and other ancient/antiquated technologies
You have no idea how much the airwaves actually are used by mission critical systems, do you? Wireless is the future, not the past. Analog TV is still in full force in many areas where cable still isn't available (including my childhood home). HAM and CB are far from antiquated and are still used in full force. I'm sorry if you don't use them. HAM's pay for licenses which goes to the FCC and CB's are low power transmitters operating on a very small frequency range.
The point is there needs to be designated ranges, otherwise you will have Joe Ham who will stick his 1KW transmitter too close to the operating range of something important - say the transponder of a cell tower (900 MHz) and disrupt cell service. For example. There needs to be regulated bandwidths.
You have it all wrong anyways - they are actually generating money for the government. About 1 penny of your taxes goes to fund them, but then they turn around and generate multi-billion dollars of revenue. reference. Their budget for 2006 is $304M, all but $4.8M comes from regulatory fees. And they generate $26.8B for uncle Sam through auctioning off freed up frequencies.
This is at the edge of what I am capable of grasping. You might want to explain your position--I know I'm not the only Slashdotter that is stunned.
The hive mind mentality is so hard to break away from. All the little slashbots lined up in a row. Try thinking independanty sometime... it is really refreshing.
But on topic all DRM is a protection method, a system of permissions. A purveyor of goods has every right to sell merchandise in the way he or she sees fit, if they see fit to restrict their offerings so be it, the market will respond in kind. It really isnt that hard to wrap your head around.
You are compating apples and oranges. This is a laptop. And you can upgrade the drive through Dell.
What Unbeliever said. I recently built a box with an AMD x2 processor, I play Everquest 2 and my wife plays WoW. I have 2 gigs of RAM, and alt-tabbing to Firefox is damn near as snappy as alt-tabbing from Outlook to Firefox.
I'm suprised you are willing to sacrifice performace for simplicity. You realise a single core can only run a single process at once, correct?
This is to say nothing about all the developer effort that would be saved from not needing to make making SMP-safe code.
lol. It really isn't that hard to make code thread and SMP safe. Check here for a good starting point. I learned how to write thread-safe code as a hobby over the course of about two weeks, I converted my thesis work and a simulation toolkit to be thread-safe in about a week. It really isn't hard. I'm not a CS either, I'm an aerospace engineer. Now I can do a sh*tload of monte carlo runs on my dual core box at home at double the rate. (By the way: Qt's thread library is great but if you can't live with the license then check out OpenSceneGraph's OpenThreads library)
Thats the question, who determines the price, if Symantic wanted to licence it for free, would it then not be worth "free"?
Of course not. It would just be undervalued. Market determines price, companies generally determine value. Remember, there is a difference between price and value. I paid $900 for all the pieces to my computer (price) however it is worth more to me than the $1500 Dell machine than it outspecs, and it will last a long time, providing me a lot of CPU cycles for my thesis research and a kickass platform for gaming (value I assign to it). Now a friend of mine who is into much more hardcore gaming would assign a far lower value as the video card isn't as big as he would like, etc. Price is generally fixed or at least on an even playing field for all participants (or governments get involved) whereas value is more relative, but there are generally rules to get you started.
Then you overpaid the cook, the cook wasn't worth $20 an hour. I know teenagers in home economics who can cook better than that.
All that formula is, is a simple rate formula: rate*time = value. Real world economics is based on percieved values. It doesn't have to make sense to you.
I'm assuming you work for a living? Do you get paid? Is your time worth something to you?
Time * what you are worth per hour = value.
There is a very basic formula for the value of something, regardless of its concreteness. If you put 40 hours into making a piece of IP, and you are worth $20 an hour, then your IP could be worth $800. But a more intelligent way of pricing it is by supply and demand, which was figured out thousands of years ago, this is economics 101.
And when you see articles like this ... no, looks like Apple will get to it before you will get a chance to.
My point is: can someone please explain to me why Oracle needs to buy a distro, when they can just fork one?
1. Time
2. Money
Ubuntu is known for its community ... that is supposedly one of the selling points of the distribution.
Linux will always have its supporters - you can't shut it down.
... if it were free for their hardware you'd see converts in drones. Linux wouldn'd die, but the Jedi sure would be feeling it.
Yeah, but how many times have you heard OSS guys saying "yeah, but MacOS sure is pretty" or "yeah, I wouldn't mind trying that out on a Mac"
eof
The difference here is that they would have to **open** the boards in order to allow all these OSS developers to develop for them. Open boards would have to be licensed in such a way that they **would** be replicable. That's the difference. Intel chips and graphic cards are 2 completely different things, you are missing the argument.
There is so much optimization that goes into graphics card design. Remember a graphics card isn't just analog to a CPU, its analog to a CPU, RAM, a bus and more ... and then you have to interface it with another bus (AGP/PCIe) and not *just* interface it but squeeze out every last frame of performance. It isn't locking into an OS its optomizing a driver and I have a hard time believing "OSS loving hippies" can do any better - because quite frankly, they've had nVidia cards since the dawn of nVidia, and guess what - the open source drivers haven't approached the binary ones.
What you are advocating is releasing all technical data about the board - which then means trade secrets are in the open - now any vendor can make a cheap $150 knockoff to a $400 board. And the drivers will still suck because you have guys at nVidia that have been doing this for 20 years and can kick the ass of any "OSS-loving hippie".
nVidia would have a lot to lose by opening up the hardware spec and very little to gain.
Someone give me an AMEN!
... RMS and the FSF be damned.
IF everyone ran Windows the world would be so much better. Imagine one central repository where everything could be collected, supported, and distributed.
Now think about what you just said if someone from another vantage point said it. Just because its your favorite distro doesn't mean its right for everyone. Multiple vantage points is what keeps linux and the rest of the computing world competitive.
price tag and lack of tactile feedback.
When you close those 60 tabs, firefox should free the memory. It doesn't.
Who cares?
Seeing as that memory is now lost and unusable you **should** care. It is a sign of sloppy design anyways and the other two (Opera and IE) don't seem to have problems with memory leaks...
It is a civil matter. They can sue.
Other than indecent exposure (still civil, iirc) though I'm not sure anything is technically "wrong". In bad taste, but not against the law. That's the way it is supposed to be though. You have the freedom to express yourself through appropriate channels
It *is* possible if you are doing your own thing. **HOWEVER** if you are, for example, a scientist or an engineer in a niche community it may not be possible. For example one of the things I do pretty regulary is trajectory analysis. There exists no trajectory analysis software for OSX or Linux (except my own codes - which run under Linux and Windows). However the commercial offerings all are built for Windows and due to the limited community are not rebuilt for multiple platforms - there is no reason, with a target audience of a few hundred people and a price tag of $6,000-$20,000 a seat, why go through the trouble of rebuilding the binaries?
So yes for those of you doing your own thing - developing new software, or just setting up office workers, living off the grid is very feasible. For people doing "real" work with software they can't control, in niche markets with few options (this is very real in engineering research) the options are limited and this isn't always a possibility.
1. I actually like where I live. Sorry you don't or didn't.
I like where I live. I like where I lived before that. And before that. And before that. And I'm 23. The world is a big place...
2. Not only have I been told I'll change jobs several times in my ever-lengthening career, these companies think I should pay for each and every relocation on top of the cost of plane tickets and accomodations for the interview IF they'll even consider a currently out-of-towner. Excuse me, but are you fucking high?
Good credentials? The first interview will take place over the phone, or maybe online... the second interview they will fly you out, and if they want you bad enough they will relocate you. Now if you half assed your way through college or, god forbid, didn't graduate, yea, you will probably have to foot the bill. But then again you aren't top of the line, premium candidate. Sorry.
Godamn man, get your head out of the sand. Get your resume out there and let them wine-dine-69 you. This is the 21st century.
Whatever you are smoking, you need to share with the rest of the class.
I'm not smoking, that's why I'm making a good salary and was willing to move (and be moved) for a better life.