And all i takes to get this giant down is a simple rocket...
500 tons of garbage failling from the sky.
After this people with afraid of sky no longer need to take pils, the fear will be real !!!
Hurricanes have always served some nature purpose. We may not like them, but they are here since the very first beging of life. Playing "god" is not the best strategie for dealing with this.
Anyone know the impact that such measures can posses on the wild life under seas and in the earth?
Sure, it may work in the beginning but what is the price to pay in the future?
A better strategie is to not allow any constructions on areas of high danger, and if it is not possible to forbidden, then at least ensure some proper safety rules are followed to avoid further disaters
Chinese hackers. I have no doubt that there are gangs of Chinese hackers - whether employed by the government, organized crime, or freelance - that are working as hard as they can to take over computers around the world for all sorts of nefarious purposes. They're just like hacker gangs anywhere else in the world. Spam networks, phishing, DDOS attacks: it's all being done.
Employed by the goverment? I'm in Europe and i've heard of some well know and developed countries to use hackers force for shitting down "suspicious" sites on the web. There are even some "armies" out there who would love this approach to be used more often...
I has not saying three buth only two systems. In the end if people use only Apple dev kit then making software for both platforms is not that difficult.
Beside, Apple has to face a big issue on Intel machines. Not optimized compiler tools from Intel exists for Objective-C so how can Apple take advantage of huge pipelines and other intel "godies"? Have they alredy developed their own Objective-C compilaer hyper optimized for Intel has the Intel C/C++ Fortran compiler ofr tho they relly on GCC or other third-party programs?
Beside, Cell only makes sense for a very speciffic target people, apart from that it is pretty much useless... but still for those i think it's worth every cent you spend in. Let's way for the new Sony console...
Consider a high-end video workstation taking advantage of a dual Cell system. You're right on, nobody yet has done a easy developer library to link and take advantage of the Cell, yet, Cell runs linux and probably in the future some open source libraries could take advantage of this. And we can expect this code to be easily moved into mac. And finally, Altivec instruction set should not be difficult to emule under the new Cell processor. Supose you can translate all Altivec instruction and have 8 independent emultators. Even if the Altivec emulation runs in half of a native implementation the 8 cell's could make a big difference in the final speed.
Apple is not only extending the line for compatibility. If the Cell proves to be a sucesefull processor i think Apple will probably look into IBM for a nice chip contract. This way, what Apple is trying to secretly doing is to decide wich chip will target the high segment and wich one will remains for lower budget machines.
Just my 2cts
The problem right now is not to understand what it is on the contract. This is a big issue, but even bigger is the possibility of getting sued even if you didn't sign nothing with your previous company. So now, you jump into the competition, you work, research, develop and your previous boss thinks:
Well, i not to sue them? After all if the guy was working here i might simply trade my secrets with them.
Gee, i can now imagine people looking to your résumé and say: Your previous work was on SCO?
Sorry i can't hire you. Legal question...
Sounds funny?
The idea was to show how profitable it was with this price, wich is what i unfortunatly pay where i leave (in Euros). If they can manage to make profit at that price then 99 cents is more then profitable, it's GOLD...
unfortunatly i can't buy from the US neither in the Canadian stores. I must pay custom tazes for that. It really suck the price i pay for a CD !!!
If a cd has a average of 12 songs and the cd proce is 20-25 dollars we can count with a price per song of 1.6 - 2 dollars per song. Given the phisical media costs, the publicity, the distribution and so on they still can make a high profit using this format.
Why they can't leave with a 99 cents per song policy if the costs are simply 0 (well, they have to license the MP3 format to the Fraunhofer if they use this format. The quality of these files IS ALWAYS lower then the phisical medium, so
What tha fuck they want? More money and even less cost? No wonder P2P networks get more and more people downloading music. I could expect this to be be a good thing if not so popular artists where selling music for less then 99 cents. But the music industry is a hungry dog and i don't bet a hungry dog will sit in front of a tasty stake without taking a bite!!!
EU has approved for some time that all public institutiosn should publish documents in a open format. This is a nice thing but the true fact is: Word and the.doc format are not open. As long as EU refuses to force Micro$$ to sell the Office with support for a common file format no compatibility can be achieved with other suites like OpenOffice or StarOffice.
I know it sucks to have some nice law proposal to be approved and know in realitty that all the European institutions are using closed format. And this is not only a problem here. So if you want to send a complain or to fill some documents you need to posses a "legal" Office.
This is IMHO a institutional monopoly, forced by all goverments, since they failed to achieve a common format for trading information. So for people in Linux and Mac, our "institutional" goverments are simply saying: XXXX you...
Ps: Sorry for the XXXX but no crap language here;)
I don't object the commercialization of source code, but having a company to sell a product and not refer to the author? At least some for of public acknoledge should be given to the creators IMHO
2/3 of the price for a 5 months period is a robery.
Why not to rent the books instead? If you can't
copy, print and share it with your friends then, i
certainly will never pay that price for a e-book.
But i could rent it for 1/3 or 1/4 of the real value if i think the book is not worth to have in paper.
And so on that sense, people should start to re-think the notion of democracy. If a goverment dosen't follow the rules then what kind of goverment is it? The only thing i remember similar to that is the ditactorship.
Then, a question has come to me again.
Is it legal and not againt US constitution to allow the goverment to use whatever means exists to enforce the law even if it goes against the law?
I'm a terrorist (GRRRRR)
Does the DMCA give me the right to refute evidences
in an american court if by some reason some police force take my computer and my protected files?
Well, they just circumvented my files.
What about child pornography?
I alredy see the picture:
My client is innocent. Under the DMCA they can not circumvent my client password protected files.
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And all i takes to get this giant down is a simple rocket ...
500 tons of garbage failling from the sky.
After this people with afraid of sky no longer need to take pils, the fear will be real !!!
Hurricanes have always served some nature purpose. We may not like them, but they are here since the very first beging of life. Playing "god" is not the best strategie for dealing with this.
Anyone know the impact that such measures can posses on the wild life under seas and in the earth? Sure, it may work in the beginning but what is the price to pay in the future?
A better strategie is to not allow any constructions on areas of high danger, and if it is not possible to forbidden, then at least ensure some proper safety rules are followed to avoid further disaters
Chinese hackers. I have no doubt that there are gangs of Chinese hackers - whether employed by the government, organized crime, or freelance - that are working as hard as they can to take over computers around the world for all sorts of nefarious purposes. They're just like hacker gangs anywhere else in the world. Spam networks, phishing, DDOS attacks: it's all being done.
...
Employed by the goverment? I'm in Europe and i've heard of some well know and developed countries to use hackers force for shitting down "suspicious" sites on the web. There are even some "armies" out there who would love this approach to be used more often
I has not saying three buth only two systems. In the end if people use only Apple dev kit then making software for both platforms is not that difficult. Beside, Apple has to face a big issue on Intel machines. Not optimized compiler tools from Intel exists for Objective-C so how can Apple take advantage of huge pipelines and other intel "godies"? Have they alredy developed their own Objective-C compilaer hyper optimized for Intel has the Intel C/C++ Fortran compiler ofr tho they relly on GCC or other third-party programs? ... but still for those i think it's worth every cent you spend in. Let's way for the new Sony console ...
Beside, Cell only makes sense for a very speciffic target people, apart from that it is pretty much useless
Consider a high-end video workstation taking advantage of a dual Cell system. You're right on, nobody yet has done a easy developer library to link and take advantage of the Cell, yet, Cell runs linux and probably in the future some open source libraries could take advantage of this. And we can expect this code to be easily moved into mac. And finally, Altivec instruction set should not be difficult to emule under the new Cell processor. Supose you can translate all Altivec instruction and have 8 independent emultators. Even if the Altivec emulation runs in half of a native implementation the 8 cell's could make a big difference in the final speed.
Apple is not only extending the line for compatibility. If the Cell proves to be a sucesefull processor i think Apple will probably look into IBM for a nice chip contract. This way, what Apple is trying to secretly doing is to decide wich chip will target the high segment and wich one will remains for lower budget machines. Just my 2cts
The problem right now is not to understand what it is on the contract. This is a big issue, but even bigger is the possibility of getting sued even if you didn't sign nothing with your previous company. So now, you jump into the competition, you work, research, develop and your previous boss thinks: ...
Well, i not to sue them? After all if the guy was working here i might simply trade my secrets with them.
Gee, i can now imagine people looking to your résumé and say: Your previous work was on SCO? Sorry i can't hire you. Legal question
Sounds funny?
Gee, i guess we have to talk with a lawyer first before sign up for any IT job.
The idea was to show how profitable it was with this price, wich is what i unfortunatly pay where i leave (in Euros). If they can manage to make profit at that price then 99 cents is more then profitable, it's GOLD ...
unfortunatly i can't buy from the US neither in the Canadian stores. I must pay custom tazes for that. It really suck the price i pay for a CD !!!
If a cd has a average of 12 songs and the cd proce is 20-25 dollars we can count with a price per song of 1.6 - 2 dollars per song. Given the phisical media costs, the publicity, the distribution and so on they still can make a high profit using this format.
Why they can't leave with a 99 cents per song policy if the costs are simply 0 (well, they have to license the MP3 format to the Fraunhofer if they use this format. The quality of these files IS ALWAYS lower then the phisical medium, so
What tha fuck they want? More money and even less cost? No wonder P2P networks get more and more people downloading music. I could expect this to be be a good thing if not so popular artists where selling music for less then 99 cents. But the music industry is a hungry dog and i don't bet a hungry dog will sit in front of a tasty stake without taking a bite!!!
you got the point ;)
EU has approved for some time that all public institutiosn should publish documents in a open format. This is a nice thing but the true fact is: Word and the .doc format are not open. As long as EU refuses to force Micro$$ to sell the Office with support for a common file format no compatibility can be achieved with other suites like OpenOffice or StarOffice.
...
;)
I know it sucks to have some nice law proposal to be approved and know in realitty that all the European institutions are using closed format. And this is not only a problem here. So if you want to send a complain or to fill some documents you need to posses a "legal" Office.
This is IMHO a institutional monopoly, forced by all goverments, since they failed to achieve a common format for trading information. So for people in Linux and Mac, our "institutional" goverments are simply saying: XXXX you
Ps: Sorry for the XXXX but no crap language here
I don't object the commercialization of source code, but having a company to sell a product and not refer to the author? At least some for of public acknoledge should be given to the creators IMHO
2/3 of the price for a 5 months period is a robery.
Why not to rent the books instead? If you can't
copy, print and share it with your friends then, i
certainly will never pay that price for a e-book.
But i could rent it for 1/3 or 1/4 of the real value if i think the book is not worth to have in paper.
And so on that sense, people should start to re-think the notion of democracy. If a goverment dosen't follow the rules then what kind of goverment is it? The only thing i remember similar to that is the ditactorship.
Then, a question has come to me again.
Is it legal and not againt US constitution to allow the goverment to use whatever means exists to enforce the law even if it goes against the law?
I'm a terrorist (GRRRRR) Does the DMCA give me the right to refute evidences in an american court if by some reason some police force take my computer and my protected files? Well, they just circumvented my files. What about child pornography? I alredy see the picture: My client is innocent. Under the DMCA they can not circumvent my client password protected files.