Uh, no security in XP? And how many times can they get away with the marketing claim that "You need to buy our new OS because frankly our old OS sucks!" before consumers catch on?
Why not make the patents proportional to the amount of time and effort required to come up with the algoritm? I.e. "1 click shopping" should be patentable for about 10 minutes, while something like a machine vision algorithm which required years of research should be patentable for years...
In some cities like San Francisco, it's cheaper to pay somebody to keep driving your car around in circles than it is to pay for a parking garage. Why pay thousands for an automated system when you could pay a teenager $6/hour?
What we need is a car that watches the driver, and says things link "You're drunk! I'm NOT starting!" and "Hang up the cellphone and pay attention to your driving!"
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Suzy Platt, Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of
Quotations (Barnes and Noble, 1993), p. 201.
"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us." -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
The Segway is not intended to be a replacement for cars and motorcycles. It's intended to be a replacement for walking! The inventor's background is in medical devices, and IT was originally conceived as a wheelchair that put the user upright instead of sitting. This has advantages as most stores are layed out for standing, not sitting people.
Certifying the developers wont help if the management is still pushing pushing to ship software with inadequate testing. Micro$oft already hires many of the best and brightest programmers in the world, and yet their security still sucks. Therefore the problem must be more systemic; simply put, their corporate culture and procedures must not reward designing in and implementing secure software. Even after the "Trustworthy computing" initiative, this still appears to be true. Imagine civil engineers working for management that insisted on shipping bridges by artificial deadlines, and refused to allow time for safety checks. Would it matter if the engineers were certified? Only in the sense tha certified engineers would be morally bound to resign rather than signing off on the bridge design.
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I hardly think a company planning on outsource 15,000 jobs is on the right side of US IT... on the right side of IT in India, maybe!
Outsource IT jobs to India cost half as much, so makes sense if the new people are at least half as productive. Problem is, 95% of them are really pretty junior right now, so it's doubtful that they're even 50% as productive as the people with 20 years experience that they're replacing...
You're forgetting the mangagers... they don't seem to fit into any of the 4 categories... why don't we outsource them overseas instead? Category 2 (The people with money) are stockholders or investors... nobody cares where they are located. Category 4 pretty much has to be located in the country they're selling into, and familiar with local customs and ways of business. Finally, in high tech frequently Category 1 and Category 3 are one and the same... that would be me. I'm not as productive as I'd like to be, because I spend half my time training people from India how to do my job...
Good point that I neglected to point out... yes, if you've got a $5 CPU, you're not going to want to pay $50 for a software license for it... all the more reason to use embedded Linux or BSD.
Our value added is in user space (seperate processes), so we don't have to release it. Also, Linux is more widely supported in hardware drivers, protocols, etc. Also, there's dozens of flavors or embedded Linux, while the only embedded BSD is owned by WindRiver. Nothing against WindRiver; they just want a minimum of $100,000 before they'll do anything for you.
Come now, I'm sure this music is no more derivative of RIAA music than say, Linux is derivative of SCO Unix... eh, wait, these are lawyers, aren't they? Er... never mind!
The problem with WinCE is that 95% of the embedded products out there don't really need a GUI. Compatibility with Windows GUI code so you can prototype on a PC is the only real advantage of WinCE. With Linux you can also prototype on a PC without all the overhead. (Unless you need a GUI, in which case X is probably has more memory overhead than the WinCE GUI).
Microsoft's mistake was insisting on "NT everywhere", i.e. that the same OS architecture should work for huge parallel servers and for SOHO routers. Why doesn't Linux have the same problem? I think it's because Linux is a lot more modular; it's easier to strip out much of the kernel at compile time, so it will boot out of and run with much less memory.
Another mistake Microsoft made was abandoning support for anything other than x86 architecture, making Linux the natural choice for ARM. MIPs, power PC... basically for all the processors that aren't as power-hungry as the x86.
What I want to see is an SBC with InfraRed, 100MBit and power-over-ethernet support. Small monochome display support. Use it to replace my existing thermostat with a device in each room that controls lights/heat/Air Conditioner/phone/audio for that room. Receiver for universal remote control, yet all networked to a PC so I can turn on the lights from another room, or another continent (with an HTTP server in the PC). Oh, and each device should contain both an XML/HTTP server and client, so they can talk to each other. Extra points for MP3 playback support, but not in the low-end unit. Carry around a web pad with wireless support, and you could control everything from anywhere. Also like options for interfacing with sprinkler system and home security (smoke detectors and alarms), and for opening and closing windows and curtains (part of temperature control).
On a related topic, I've come to the conclusion that all audio devices should have USB ports (think of carrying your music between your home and car on a USB memory stick or external USB drive, depending on how much music you want to carry).
It's only $32 for each embedded Linux device... which is still silly, since SCO claims it's the multiprocessor support that's infringing! Yeah, I'm sure most all toasters are using multiprocessor support!
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Why change it? Anybody that has seen an adult male longhorn can tell you, it's really a lot of bull!
Uh, no security in XP? And how many times can they get away with the marketing claim that "You need to buy our new OS because frankly our old OS sucks!" before consumers catch on?
No, a difficult algorithm can be reverse-engineered from the machine code if you have a copy of the software.
Why not make the patents proportional to the amount of time and effort required to come up with the algoritm? I.e. "1 click shopping" should be patentable for about 10 minutes, while something like a machine vision algorithm which required years of research should be patentable for years...
In some cities like San Francisco, it's cheaper to pay somebody to keep driving your car around in circles than it is to pay for a parking garage. Why pay thousands for an automated system when you could pay a teenager $6/hour?
What we need is a car that watches the driver, and says things link "You're drunk! I'm NOT starting!" and "Hang up the cellphone and pay attention to your driving!"
Now you can not only call 911, you can send them a _picture_ of the guy that's mugging you and taking your expensive cellphone!
Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-- Benjamin Franklin, quoted in Suzy Platt, Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of
Quotations (Barnes and Noble, 1993), p. 201.
"Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race.
All through history, mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord
it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would
boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are
the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any
indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The
worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a
democracy the whores are us."
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
It's called sarcasm, learn to recognize it.
Have they tried Viagra?
Yes, but does it have built-in anchors for a child safety seat in the back?
The Segway is not intended to be a replacement for cars and motorcycles. It's intended to be a replacement for walking! The inventor's background is in medical devices, and IT was originally conceived as a wheelchair that put the user upright instead of sitting. This has advantages as most stores are layed out for standing, not sitting people.
Damn straight! And Mussolini made the trains run on time, too!
Certifying the developers wont help if the management is still pushing pushing to ship software with inadequate testing. Micro$oft already hires many of the best and brightest programmers in the world, and yet their security still sucks. Therefore the problem must be more systemic; simply put, their corporate culture and procedures must not reward designing in and implementing secure software. Even after the "Trustworthy computing" initiative, this still appears to be true. Imagine civil engineers working for management that insisted on shipping bridges by artificial deadlines, and refused to allow time for safety checks. Would it matter if the engineers were certified? Only in the sense tha certified engineers would be morally bound to resign rather than signing off on the bridge design.
I hardly think a company planning on outsource 15,000 jobs is on the right side of US IT... on the right side of IT in India, maybe!
Outsource IT jobs to India cost half as much, so makes sense if the new people are at least half as productive. Problem is, 95% of them are really pretty junior right now, so it's doubtful that they're even 50% as productive as the people with 20 years experience that they're replacing...
You're forgetting the mangagers... they don't seem to fit into any of the 4 categories... why don't we outsource them overseas instead? Category 2 (The people with money) are stockholders or investors... nobody cares where they are located. Category 4 pretty much has to be located in the country they're selling into, and familiar with local customs and ways of business. Finally, in high tech frequently Category 1 and Category 3 are one and the same... that would be me. I'm not as productive as I'd like to be, because I spend half my time training people from India how to do my job...
Don't forget the power-over-ethernet (IEEE 802.3af), so all I have to do is run Cat5 to it... how many existing SBCs support POE?
Good point that I neglected to point out... yes, if you've got a $5 CPU, you're not going to want to pay $50 for a software license for it... all the more reason to use embedded Linux or BSD.
Our value added is in user space (seperate processes), so we don't have to release it. Also, Linux is more widely supported in hardware drivers, protocols, etc. Also, there's dozens of flavors or embedded Linux, while the only embedded BSD is owned by WindRiver. Nothing against WindRiver; they just want a minimum of $100,000 before they'll do anything for you.
Come now, I'm sure this music is no more derivative of RIAA music than say, Linux is derivative of SCO Unix... eh, wait, these are lawyers, aren't they? Er... never mind!
Statistically, I'd say there's about a 100% probability that the site is slashdotted...
If you're listening to ClearChannel stations, then isn't it statistically mediocre music?
Microsoft's mistake was insisting on "NT everywhere", i.e. that the same OS architecture should work for huge parallel servers and for SOHO routers. Why doesn't Linux have the same problem? I think it's because Linux is a lot more modular; it's easier to strip out much of the kernel at compile time, so it will boot out of and run with much less memory.
Another mistake Microsoft made was abandoning support for anything other than x86 architecture, making Linux the natural choice for ARM. MIPs, power PC... basically for all the processors that aren't as power-hungry as the x86.
On a related topic, I've come to the conclusion that all audio devices should have USB ports (think of carrying your music between your home and car on a USB memory stick or external USB drive, depending on how much music you want to carry).
See... it really hasn't all already been done!
It's only $32 for each embedded Linux device... which is still silly, since SCO claims it's the multiprocessor support that's infringing! Yeah, I'm sure most all toasters are using multiprocessor support!