I wonder, which part of "nor shall be compelled" did the honorable judge not understand?
Maybe the
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
Yeah, for the last what, three months? How long has the case been going on?
It is sufficiently documented when IE suddenly, and for MS conveniently, became 'part of the OS', no doubt to take away traction from the then running court case.
Would you even consider installing an OS that doesn't even have a browser? Nevermind the fact that home Windows installs depend heavily on being able to download drivers for everything.
The computing landscape has changed significantly since the case started. Now the main issue is preinstalled Windows without offering preinstalled free alternatives, or even offering computers with no OS at all. Personal experience:(
Not having to have been born in, or lived in, hungary, kind of removed the relation to population.
True, but consider the fact that living there wasn't exactly a smooth ride in the last 100 years. Read up on Trianon, Rákosi, and 1956, and you'll get the idea.
Basically, bright people always had some really good reasons to leave the country.
We need to break up more successful companies, and ruin their products, to let capitalism thrive.
They're not successful because they make a superior product, and they're actively strangling every possible competitor. That's not the free market you want.
1. What does Google have to do with it? 2. The browser wars are basically over (the monopoly stage, that is). Everyone and their dog has heard about firefox by now, and how good it is.
As Windows does not come bundled with support for any file system that isn't patented by Microsoft, lording those patents over people is quite anticompetitive.
Well that was the whole fucking point of patents: keeping people away from your invention. Granting you a time-limited monopoly so you can capitalize on it.
Unfortunately said time limit is waaaay too long. Law does not keep up with the exponential nature of technology. That's the real problem, not what MS does with their patents.
So unless MS wants to buy out all the other contributors too, that billion dollars wouldn't get them very far.
Wouldn't get them very far, indeed. GPL is fun: once it's released, it stays that way. All you can do with it is to stop distributing and stop releasing new versions. Also, you can fork it, and there's nothing the owner can do about it.
Wanna guess how many people will pick up the project once word gets out there's good money in it?
Then when updates to happen automatically, people STILL whine.
I know I do. Mobile dialup, 3 Gb a month. After that, I pay per Mb. Anything that wants to use the internet without my explicit permission is BAD. Do I need to tell you how fast I'm deleting anything that doesn't play by my rules?
Automatic updates are good on grandma's broadband, but not all users are morons, and frankly, not even bothering to ask me is highly offensive.
This means that no matter where the data is stored in the device, all we need to do is specify the fetch location and the logic circuits select that block to extract the data from desired location.
Which is why you don't need head-optimized I/O schedulers like Anticipatory, which waits a couple of ms after every read to see if there's more from that area, thus saving on seek times.
SSD's must be optimized differently. For instance, they can't write arbitrary small pieces of data, only whole blocks. Thus, if you want to optimize it, you'd better make sure to write whole blocks at a time if possible, and not have small files cross boundaries if they don't have to.
unfortunately the default 255 heads and 63 sectors is hard coded in many places in the kernel, in the SCSI stack, and in various partitioning programs; so fixing this will require changes in many places.
Looks like someone broke the SPOT rule.
As for other OSes:
Vista has already started working around this problem, since it uses a default partitioning geometry of 240 heads and 63 sectors/track. This results in a cylinder boundary which is divisible by 8, and so the partitions (with the exception of the first, which is still misaligned unless you play some additional tricks) are 4k aligned.
Anybody who values liberty should be willing to spend some time in jail, rather than submit to an unconstitutional tyrannical law.
Translation: the Land Of The Free is dead. You shouldn't even have these thoughts otherwise.
I say "unconstitutional" because it is illegal for congress to order me, in my private home, to keep logs. Their authority ends at the interstate border. In regards to my private Wifi service, the only authority I have to obey is my home state legislature, since I operate completely and wholly within the state.
Do you have an ISP? It won't matter once they get to them.
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to get an advantage over your competition (you can't let the world know how much you think stuff is worth).
So banking is basically a big game of poker?
And of course: Panzer.
I wonder, which part of "nor shall be compelled" did the honorable judge not understand?
Maybe the
nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
part.
We would then need to factor in how much time user applications spend in the kernel. Anything that is I/O-intensive is kernel-intensive.
What do you mean? I don't think icc will speed up my hard drive.
GCC itself is rather prolific... Is there any noteworthy platform that it doesn't already support?
Commodore 64?
They market their own browser?
Yeah, for the last what, three months? How long has the case been going on?
It is sufficiently documented when IE suddenly, and for MS conveniently, became 'part of the OS', no doubt to take away traction from the then running court case.
Would you even consider installing an OS that doesn't even have a browser? Nevermind the fact that home Windows installs depend heavily on being able to download drivers for everything.
The computing landscape has changed significantly since the case started. Now the main issue is preinstalled Windows without offering preinstalled free alternatives, or even offering computers with no OS at all. Personal experience :(
Not having to have been born in, or lived in, hungary, kind of removed the relation to population.
True, but consider the fact that living there wasn't exactly a smooth ride in the last 100 years. Read up on Trianon, Rákosi, and 1956, and you'll get the idea.
Basically, bright people always had some really good reasons to leave the country.
We need to break up more successful companies, and ruin their products, to let capitalism thrive.
They're not successful because they make a superior product, and they're actively strangling every possible competitor. That's not the free market you want.
why not develop one yourself and contribute back to the project?
Because we already have it with firefox.
Iran has a population around that of the United Kingdom so I have no doubt that numerous beneficial scientific discoveries are made there.
How is scientific discovery and population related?
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/List-of-famous-Hungarians#Math_and_Sciences
1. What does Google have to do with it?
2. The browser wars are basically over (the monopoly stage, that is). Everyone and their dog has heard about firefox by now, and how good it is.
As Windows does not come bundled with support for any file system that isn't patented by Microsoft, lording those patents over people is quite anticompetitive.
Well that was the whole fucking point of patents: keeping people away from your invention. Granting you a time-limited monopoly so you can capitalize on it.
Unfortunately said time limit is waaaay too long. Law does not keep up with the exponential nature of technology. That's the real problem, not what MS does with their patents.
Beast with a Billion Backs sucked
No, it made me feel bad about ever liking Futurama.
I had to rewatch Seasons 1-3 to get rid of it.
Tomtom does indeed use FAT on the memory cards the maps are stored on.
Oh. Well, they deserve the lawsuit then. And a Darwin award.
So unless MS wants to buy out all the other contributors too, that billion dollars wouldn't get them very far.
Wouldn't get them very far, indeed. GPL is fun: once it's released, it stays that way. All you can do with it is to stop distributing and stop releasing new versions. Also, you can fork it, and there's nothing the owner can do about it.
Wanna guess how many people will pick up the project once word gets out there's good money in it?
...MOST users.
To be fair, most users have trouble setting the clock on a VCR.
I guess the mods had Python's style of absurd humor...
What, you never modded a goatse link Insightful? I mean, literally.
a competitor with huge guaranteed budget obtained by force, and no expectation of profit
Translation: the game will suck.
So you can print things?
With CUPS? *shudder*
Then when updates to happen automatically, people STILL whine.
I know I do. Mobile dialup, 3 Gb a month. After that, I pay per Mb. Anything that wants to use the internet without my explicit permission is BAD. Do I need to tell you how fast I'm deleting anything that doesn't play by my rules?
Automatic updates are good on grandma's broadband, but not all users are morons, and frankly, not even bothering to ask me is highly offensive.
P.S. This goes for some Linux distros as well.
Who the heck are these people using S3 cards nowadays?
Tough question... the last S3 card I've seen was a 2Mb Trio.
This means that no matter where the data is stored in the device, all we need to do is specify the fetch location and the logic circuits select that block to extract the data from desired location.
Which is why you don't need head-optimized I/O schedulers like Anticipatory, which waits a couple of ms after every read to see if there's more from that area, thus saving on seek times.
SSD's must be optimized differently. For instance, they can't write arbitrary small pieces of data, only whole blocks. Thus, if you want to optimize it, you'd better make sure to write whole blocks at a time if possible, and not have small files cross boundaries if they don't have to.
unfortunately the default 255 heads and 63 sectors is hard coded in many places in the kernel, in the SCSI stack, and in various partitioning programs; so fixing this will require changes in many places.
Looks like someone broke the SPOT rule.
As for other OSes:
Vista has already started working around this problem, since it uses a default partitioning geometry of 240 heads and 63 sectors/track. This results in a cylinder boundary which is divisible by 8, and so the partitions (with the exception of the first, which is still misaligned unless you play some additional tricks) are 4k aligned.
this could be the VERY thing to force ALL data to be encrypted.
Would be nice. The internet as a whole, however, was not designed to do that.
More widespread paranoia is required for more widespread encryption.
Anybody who values liberty should be willing to spend some time in jail, rather than submit to an unconstitutional tyrannical law.
Translation: the Land Of The Free is dead. You shouldn't even have these thoughts otherwise.
I say "unconstitutional" because it is illegal for congress to order me, in my private home, to keep logs. Their authority ends at the interstate border. In regards to my private Wifi service, the only authority I have to obey is my home state legislature, since I operate completely and wholly within the state.
Do you have an ISP? It won't matter once they get to them.