remember, Novell did not even know anything about Microsofts IP stuff until very late( last minute ) in the negotiations. Novell thought it was all about existing patent claims they had against Microsoft and thought they were going to be getting interoperability between MS Windows and Novell Suse at the middleware and virtualization levels.
The patent protection claims were added last minute and we now know they were the actual target for the deal for Microsoft. What's this called, "the bait and switch" racket? Microsoft lawyers are not dumb, it's just that the lawyers sitting across from them think always think they themselves are smarter. It has never ever worked out that way. Ever. IMO
this could be just the fracturing of the market Microsoft is waiting for. They'll have a couple of years getting some of their big customers accepting Microsoft/Novell/Suse Linux and then BANG, GPL3 starts showing the fracturing of the GNU/Linux market. Microsoft will be sitting on the sidelines saying, "I told you so. Put your wallet down right here and come back to mama."
Businesses need to stay away from Novell/Suse Linux. IMO.
I hate to be the one to bring the bad news but Dell has been "in bed" with Microsoft for a VERY long time. It has been stated that Microsoft funnels back to Dell as much as 20% of Dells profits because Dell plasters the Microsoft logo and other advertising all over it's PC's, website, and shipping cases.
the question you should be asking is how good of a bedfellow has Dell been these days and what has been the pillowtalk more recently. Especially with the Ubuntu/Canonical deal and now this Microsoft/Novell/Suse deal. But rest assured, Dell and Microsoft are quite comfortable together.
did you ever think that the Ubuntu deal was done specifically to get a better price on the Microsoft/Novell deal? I've been asking myself why/how Dell could be doing the Ubuntu deal without threatening it's massive cash flow coming from Microsoft in co-branding and marketing contracts. That cash has been said to make up over 20% of Dell's profits and Dell can't afford to lose 20% of its profits.
So could it be that much like how Dell kept playing AMD against Intel for 4 or 5 years to get great pricing and kickbacks from Intel, Dell is playing Ubuntu against Microsoft/Novell to get a great deal on Suse, service, and support? Make sense given how Dell has played the game in the past.
What I saw as a pretty large system and though the engine block was cut from aluminum, it was quite large and they still designed it to move the cutter in only one direction. I'm with you in that I would have thought it would have been easier to move the lighter/smaller cutting head in 2 directions but they didn't. Having recently checked out the RepRap.com setup, it was fresh on my mind and therefore the difference was noticed. It got me thinking that in any situation where only one axis was moving at a time, more accuracy could be had in a system where the axes were independent because the slop of both axes would not get summed in single axis movements. Easier to do for cutting and less so for squeezing out plastic lines.
I found the video and now see that it is a 5-axis cutter so they can move the cutter in both X and Y axes. They just either don't in the video or not very much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU32Q6QXtWQ
I'm still questioning if moving in 1 axis will help the RepRap get better accuracies since that seems to be one of the major hurdles right now.
yup, sounds like they were quite the bastards. There had to be SOMETHING going wrong besides having a massive marketshare since as we all know, have a monopoly is not illegal. It's just when you have one for very long it's too easy for those running it to take advantage of the situation. THEN it becomes illegal.
I still believe they had the right to collect 'some' fees for providing the phones and service calls. I have no problem doing any and all wiring today and would rather they stay out of my home all together. But, it is a pain to have to keep pulling a TV set out to the garage to show the cable company that it is their line and not my wiring. Over and over again. But, they don't charge me for any of this either since it's always their lines screwing up.
awesome project( RepRap.org ). BTW, I recently saw a youtube video of a professional CNC machine milling out an engine block and one thing I noticed was they only moved the cutting head along the X axis. The material was then moved mostly along the Y axis and last, the Z axis. I noticed you move the printing head along two axes and wondered if some degree of accuracy couldn't be obtained in such a configuration for your printer? The big guys must be doing it for some reason.
Nice work BTW and I'm looking forward to building one someday. Also, Trinamics makes a nice(but not cheap) 3-axis stepper driver board(tmcm-310) which could come into play for a COTS driver option. It's serial port driven and the firmware driver spec is open. But then again, your chaining driver board look pretty cheap to make.:-)
I'm not a 3D expert by any means but having messed with Art of Illusion and having written a couple of Java3D appications, I can tell you that AOI uses the Java3D package, which uses native OpenGL support if you have it. This means it is fast and still easy to program. Java3D is pretty cool IMO.
This is just an off shoot of another Microsoft product in development. This other project runs two versions of Microsoft Windows Vista in virtual machines with the primary one getting the full display screen and IO devices. The 2nd copy shares most of the filesystem but is also mimicking the primary system for OS updates and configuration actions. When the primary system crashes, the 2nd vm swaps in behind the fullscreen application crash dialog so the user experience looks and acts like an application crash and not a system crash.;-)
yea, it's designed to take those 'bright minds' off the market so they don't do any more damage to the Microsoft monopoly. IIRC, this 'technique' of preserving Microsofts power in the market was mentioned in the infamous "MS Halloween Document" or some other leaked MS memo.
An application window essentially splits the screen and could easily be sized to equally split a single screen in two parts. So, considering that the application is something like VNC and VNC is connecting to a virtual machine running on your computer then you already have two computers running on one computer with split screen support. The only thing they did was implement something like the dual-head/multi-user stuff being done with Linux for that past 4 or 5 years so that the host computer has multiple input I/O channels.
We're talking about some really basic 'remixing' here and it's not THAT wiz-bang IMO. Heck, VMware and VirtualBox already use VNC for their remote GUI display of VM's. But hey, glad to see Microsoft ReSearch catching on to stuff that's been around for quite some time on other platforms.
They are reporting on the reproducible detection of highly energetic charged particles from a wire coated in palladium-deuterium and subjected to either an electric or a magnetic field.
As stated, I didn't bother to read the article and so I'm only commenting on the/. summary. I also thought that electron flow was the movement of electrons and electrons were part of an atom( sub-atomic maybe ) and had a charge. THAT lead me to the comment regarding Ampere's Law of electron flow in a wire induced by a changing magnetic field because it sounds like "energetic charged particles" to me.;-)
they leased the phone to customers because they supported/serviced the phones at no additional cost. It's a good way to collect fees for said support/service since this mechanism allows for scaling of the charges based on quantity of product requiring support/service. People are leasing DRVs from TV providers and not complaining... There is nothing wrong with that except if there were rules which prevented the customer from using their own phone instead of the AT&T one.
"No company or conglomerate may own any part of both a plant and a service.", Kinda like an operating system and the applications running on it. You must not be a fan of Microsoft either.;-)
BTW, the reconstitution of AT&T does not look like it's going to be good for customers. Just wait til they start rolling out their MS IPTV platform. The poor suckers who fall for the low initial pricing are going to be sorry they ever send a check to AT&T. IMO.
no, when that train has hit you 3 or more times over the last 20 years, and you've read and heard of that same train taking out others in similar ways, you know how that train moves and you stay the f*ck away from it. I'm done here and though I don't know for certain the sound of the Microsoft choo choo is heading toward Quanta in regards to the OLPC device, but I'd give it an 80% chance that it is heading toward OLPC until they fail or pre-load MS Windows. IMO.
I see, you would be willing to stand on a train track without concern for being hit because a train has never hit you before. Do some research on Microsoft's business practices and you might be more willing to accept certain probably results from Microsoft given what information is in the public domain. Or you can just continue with your head in the sand and line up behind their flute player.
When has Microsoft ever stopped a company from building hardware, just because a Microsoft OS isn't running on it? If there's no examples of that happening before, then yes, it is just a conspiracy theory. Microsoft has plenty of dirty tricks, but that isn't one of them.
One example, I've heard from a former HP Project Manager that two Linux based products were terminated due to financial losses from one existing Windows based product and a soon to be released Windows based product. It is suspected that it was the threat of the loss of Microsoft marketing revenues. Oh, and there is also documentation in the DOJ vs MSFT antitrust case where 50% of the HP PCs on the Comdex showroom floor were running IBM OS/2 but after a call from a Microsoft executive, all those PCs were removed from the floor before the show opened the next morning. This is old news and in the 2nd case, publicly documented. Microsoft pressure on its 'partners' is a well known fact and not a conspiracy theory. IMO.
BTW, you have just got to love Microsoft Windows then. I wonder how many times the name "Microsoft" is plastered all over the startup screen on MS Vista. And all those Microsoft apps... I don't recall what version of MS Windows it was but one of them had their name on the startup screen something like four times.
that is great but I hope that the customized code doesn't go back to the same location. I can't believe the OLPC people would do that and expect that what'll happen is a copy of the original program/application is made instead. The new version should still be accessable from the Sugar interface but identified as custom some way or another. Have a way to share that new program would be cool too and using the mesh network to share it makes complete sense.
It's these kinds of things which give me hope that the project gets off to a good start and this kind of thing has a chance to play out.
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remember, Novell did not even know anything about Microsofts IP stuff until very late( last minute ) in the negotiations. Novell thought it was all about existing patent claims they had against Microsoft and thought they were going to be getting interoperability between MS Windows and Novell Suse at the middleware and virtualization levels.
The patent protection claims were added last minute and we now know they were the actual target for the deal for Microsoft. What's this called, "the bait and switch" racket? Microsoft lawyers are not dumb, it's just that the lawyers sitting across from them think always think they themselves are smarter. It has never ever worked out that way. Ever. IMO
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this could be just the fracturing of the market Microsoft is waiting for. They'll have a couple of years getting some of their big customers accepting Microsoft/Novell/Suse Linux and then BANG, GPL3 starts showing the fracturing of the GNU/Linux market. Microsoft will be sitting on the sidelines saying, "I told you so. Put your wallet down right here and come back to mama."
Businesses need to stay away from Novell/Suse Linux. IMO.
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I hate to be the one to bring the bad news but Dell has been "in bed" with Microsoft for a VERY long time. It has been stated that Microsoft funnels back to Dell as much as 20% of Dells profits because Dell plasters the Microsoft logo and other advertising all over it's PC's, website, and shipping cases.
the question you should be asking is how good of a bedfellow has Dell been these days and what has been the pillowtalk more recently. Especially with the Ubuntu/Canonical deal and now this Microsoft/Novell/Suse deal. But rest assured, Dell and Microsoft are quite comfortable together.
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did you ever think that the Ubuntu deal was done specifically to get a better price on the Microsoft/Novell deal? I've been asking myself why/how Dell could be doing the Ubuntu deal without threatening it's massive cash flow coming from Microsoft in co-branding and marketing contracts. That cash has been said to make up over 20% of Dell's profits and Dell can't afford to lose 20% of its profits.
So could it be that much like how Dell kept playing AMD against Intel for 4 or 5 years to get great pricing and kickbacks from Intel, Dell is playing Ubuntu against Microsoft/Novell to get a great deal on Suse, service, and support? Make sense given how Dell has played the game in the past.
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What I saw as a pretty large system and though the engine block was cut from aluminum, it was quite large and they still designed it to move the cutter in only one direction. I'm with you in that I would have thought it would have been easier to move the lighter/smaller cutting head in 2 directions but they didn't. Having recently checked out the RepRap.com setup, it was fresh on my mind and therefore the difference was noticed. It got me thinking that in any situation where only one axis was moving at a time, more accuracy could be had in a system where the axes were independent because the slop of both axes would not get summed in single axis movements. Easier to do for cutting and less so for squeezing out plastic lines.
I found the video and now see that it is a 5-axis cutter so they can move the cutter in both X and Y axes. They just either don't in the video or not very much. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU32Q6QXtWQ
I'm still questioning if moving in 1 axis will help the RepRap get better accuracies since that seems to be one of the major hurdles right now.
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yup, sounds like they were quite the bastards. There had to be SOMETHING going wrong besides having a massive marketshare since as we all know, have a monopoly is not illegal. It's just when you have one for very long it's too easy for those running it to take advantage of the situation. THEN it becomes illegal.
I still believe they had the right to collect 'some' fees for providing the phones and service calls. I have no problem doing any and all wiring today and would rather they stay out of my home all together. But, it is a pain to have to keep pulling a TV set out to the garage to show the cable company that it is their line and not my wiring. Over and over again. But, they don't charge me for any of this either since it's always their lines screwing up.
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awesome project( RepRap.org ). BTW, I recently saw a youtube video of a professional CNC machine milling out an engine block and one thing I noticed was they only moved the cutting head along the X axis. The material was then moved mostly along the Y axis and last, the Z axis. I noticed you move the printing head along two axes and wondered if some degree of accuracy couldn't be obtained in such a configuration for your printer? The big guys must be doing it for some reason.
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Nice work BTW and I'm looking forward to building one someday. Also, Trinamics makes a nice(but not cheap) 3-axis stepper driver board(tmcm-310) which could come into play for a COTS driver option. It's serial port driven and the firmware driver spec is open. But then again, your chaining driver board look pretty cheap to make.
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I'm not a 3D expert by any means but having messed with Art of Illusion and having written a couple of Java3D appications, I can tell you that AOI uses the Java3D package, which uses native OpenGL support if you have it. This means it is fast and still easy to program. Java3D is pretty cool IMO.
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This is just an off shoot of another Microsoft product in development. This other project runs two versions of Microsoft Windows Vista in virtual machines with the primary one getting the full display screen and IO devices. The 2nd copy shares most of the filesystem but is also mimicking the primary system for OS updates and configuration actions. When the primary system crashes, the 2nd vm swaps in behind the fullscreen application crash dialog so the user experience looks and acts like an application crash and not a system crash. ;-)
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More like running multi-head Linux( UserFul.com ) in a virtual machine...
One Laptop Per n Children
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yea, it's designed to take those 'bright minds' off the market so they don't do any more damage to the Microsoft monopoly. IIRC, this 'technique' of preserving Microsofts power in the market was mentioned in the infamous "MS Halloween Document" or some other leaked MS memo.
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An application window essentially splits the screen and could easily be sized to equally split a single screen in two parts. So, considering that the application is something like VNC and VNC is connecting to a virtual machine running on your computer then you already have two computers running on one computer with split screen support. The only thing they did was implement something like the dual-head/multi-user stuff being done with Linux for that past 4 or 5 years so that the host computer has multiple input I/O channels.
go see http://www.userful.com/ and/or Google for "hp 441 linux multiuser multi-head"
We're talking about some really basic 'remixing' here and it's not THAT wiz-bang IMO. Heck, VMware and VirtualBox already use VNC for their remote GUI display of VM's. But hey, glad to see Microsoft ReSearch catching on to stuff that's been around for quite some time on other platforms.
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As stated, I didn't bother to read the article and so I'm only commenting on the
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they leased the phone to customers because they supported/serviced the phones at no additional cost. It's a good way to collect fees for said support/service since this mechanism allows for scaling of the charges based on quantity of product requiring support/service. People are leasing DRVs from TV providers and not complaining... There is nothing wrong with that except if there were rules which prevented the customer from using their own phone instead of the AT&T one.
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"No company or conglomerate may own any part of both a plant and a service.", Kinda like an operating system and the applications running on it. You must not be a fan of Microsoft either.
BTW, the reconstitution of AT&T does not look like it's going to be good for customers. Just wait til they start rolling out their MS IPTV platform. The poor suckers who fall for the low initial pricing are going to be sorry they ever send a check to AT&T. IMO.
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It's called Ampere's Law(http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mag netic/magcur.html ). ;-)
Your tax dollars at work.
I didn't bother with the article due to the subject matter being of little interest other than to show how money and minds are being wasted. IMO.
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If it'll put him closer to Microsoft, Mr Microsoft Fanboy himself might want the job/title. ;-)
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no, when that train has hit you 3 or more times over the last 20 years, and you've read and heard of that same train taking out others in similar ways, you know how that train moves and you stay the f*ck away from it. I'm done here and though I don't know for certain the sound of the Microsoft choo choo is heading toward Quanta in regards to the OLPC device, but I'd give it an 80% chance that it is heading toward OLPC until they fail or pre-load MS Windows. IMO.
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I see, you would be willing to stand on a train track without concern for being hit because a train has never hit you before. Do some research on Microsoft's business practices and you might be more willing to accept certain probably results from Microsoft given what information is in the public domain. Or you can just continue with your head in the sand and line up behind their flute player.
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One example, I've heard from a former HP Project Manager that two Linux based products were terminated due to financial losses from one existing Windows based product and a soon to be released Windows based product. It is suspected that it was the threat of the loss of Microsoft marketing revenues. Oh, and there is also documentation in the DOJ vs MSFT antitrust case where 50% of the HP PCs on the Comdex showroom floor were running IBM OS/2 but after a call from a Microsoft executive, all those PCs were removed from the floor before the show opened the next morning. This is old news and in the 2nd case, publicly documented. Microsoft pressure on its 'partners' is a well known fact and not a conspiracy theory. IMO.
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SliverLight, it's gonna "stick" ya and hurt. ;-)
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this only works if your product only has an expected lifespan of 3 or 5 years. Basically the life of the MSFT / Novell license. Not worth it IMO.
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whatever.
BTW, you have just got to love Microsoft Windows then. I wonder how many times the name "Microsoft" is plastered all over the startup screen on MS Vista. And all those Microsoft apps... I don't recall what version of MS Windows it was but one of them had their name on the startup screen something like four times.
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point taken, it's Flash not all caps. I'll use EEPROM instead. ;-)
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that is great but I hope that the customized code doesn't go back to the same location. I can't believe the OLPC people would do that and expect that what'll happen is a copy of the original program/application is made instead. The new version should still be accessable from the Sugar interface but identified as custom some way or another. Have a way to share that new program would be cool too and using the mesh network to share it makes complete sense.
It's these kinds of things which give me hope that the project gets off to a good start and this kind of thing has a chance to play out.
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