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I'm none too happy that all these developments come out of thin air actually. A bunch of back room handshaking goes on and *boom* we have another big investment.. or another new license. 'Open' Source companies aren't very open. IMHO.
Having freesoftware in business is a good thing, but having business in free software is perhaps not. It would be nice to have these companies blatantly violate the traditional closed business models, just like they violate closed source models..
Visa is a nonprofit organization. Tough to fathom, but it's true. It's owned and funded by a big organization of banks. They basically use it as infrastructure through which they compete, yet they all reap benefits. Note that this same conglomeration owns MasterCard, hence, you only see Visa commercials targetting American Express (independant company, afaik). I see Redhat becoming the operating system equivalent of Visa. The conglomerate of hardware manufacturers, will use linux via Redhat as a playing field to compete against each other. - Brian Chrisman
Yeah, that place is reasonably large.. fortunately, the overflow will have lots of space at first street billiards next door, and a couple other nearby coffee shops...
Using WINE should be a method of last resort for porting apps to linux. Yes, I will be very happy when it works. But, it encourages developers to continue to do things in the MSWay, terrible directory structures... no available underlying cli, filenames with all capital letters.... basically, a lot of the really minor and insignificant things that I hate about MS*. On the other hand, if the app runs, run it..
I'll bet by the time wine/corel/everybody else is through with it, it'll be comparable performance to win*.
Would it neccessarily heat up? I think it would depend on the transparency of the material. I could be way off base here, but there are lenses for extremely high power lasers which do not melt when used. If the glass 'slowed' the light down, via absorbing energy, then you wouldn't be able to see anything out of it anyways.. (not in the visible spectrum at least)..
Maybe this hypothetical slowglass would make a great battery?
I'm not talking about information you have learned... I'm talking about details of your life, your spending habits, your political/economic views.. all sorts of information of which you definitely have ownership, and is of value. For someone to spy on you, and/or track your habits is for them to steal your property... since they are selling something of yours, that you did not consent to giving them.
Information that you would learn in college is not private, and it's ownership is not undisputable... unlike your preferred brand of stereo hardware... the type of milk you drink.. etc...
Oh, slashdotters are experts on hating everybody, don't let that stop you from giving us some details of how OSI trademarks are being abused...
Of course, if all the information is out in the open, and we just haven't put the clues together in the way you have, that would also be valuable information as well.
I'd hate to be in support of the OSI just because I don't know any better.
If we get the rest of the government to acknowledge this, we are making our personal information something that would be protected under the 'no person should be deprived of their property without due process' rules. This would be a phenomenal advance in privacy law! (If we can get more than just the SEC to recognize it)..
I lust, but it's not enough (res too low)
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1024x768... or even 1280x768... both, though pretty cool on monitors of 21" or less, would probably fail to look great on a 50" screen... I would want more window space! *but*.. this is a great leap forward... that thing is THIN!:-)
No.. they won't go to the police.. cuz then the law might be reversed.. in which case, they would not have the threat of extended civil litigation to keep companies from making emulators... They will also settle out of court.. prior to any decision being made.. after as much court procedure as possible... This shows that they can hurt a company that tries to do this.. without risking the right to sue other companies... Basically, if there is a decision reached, and it's not in the favor of the person suing, they would have a *much* harder time suing someone else on the same grounds later... that's why they prefer to settle out of court.... no precedents are set.. and they can keep threatening.
Definitely Mudding is a good way to get teenagers interested in computers in general. MUD/MUSHes which allow programming of objects generally have good programming tutorials and often people to assist in the learning process. Some places are almost competitive about their coding practices.... competition being something that motivates a lot of teenagers.
But be warned.. there may be social consequences:-)
linux & OSS are not traditional products
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Applying traditional sales and market cycles to an OSS project is probably not valid. If someone actually knew exactly how OSS is going to interact with business, they'd be in a great position to make a lot of money. Right now, I see a lot of companies trying various models for doing business as OSS companies..
This 'gaussian cycle' garbage is just an excuse for the author to make ridiculous assumptions about the industry... nothing more.
Doesn't matter what it is... it should be legal so long as there is *some* legitimate use for it.
As for emulators depriving original game equipment manufacturers of revenue... tough **** for them. They can go after the pirates.. but not the makers of emulators.
I've always been impressed at what SGI can pull out of hardware. Unfortunately, I have doubts that OSS developers will be able to write well-optimized drivers for SGI without knowing the internal workings... Without that.. SGI is just another PC reseller now. Heavily optimized or not.. it's still NT.
The CEO (Beluzzo(sp)) used to be at HP, when they made their ill-fated decision to move away from doing real work.. and started reselling NT instead. As cool as SGI's hardware is.. I kind of doubt that it will really stay ahead of other PC systems for very long..
Workstations are historically used by engineers and product developers, who generally have need for higher end machines than regular end users. I have a feeling that they are counting high-end PC's that are used for desktop purposes such as bosses reading their email.. or MSWord.. whatever.
If you don't really find out what is being done with the machine, you can't really qualify it as being a server/workstation/desktop
HP already sold-out on their own OS.. At least with linux, they can contribute something and enhance it... with NT, they're basically toast... Perhaps HP is realizing that they *have* technical expertise, and that their emphasis has always been on delivering technological advances to the consumer and that the company does not belong in the VAR business? If HP has no control over the technology (NT), how can they claim to be a technology company in general? Maybe they want to get rid of doing technology work and just become another consulting group.
Maybe this will open up the secret-pricing policies of Microsoft.... for example if they sell win95 cheaper to Dell than they do to gateway, hopefully that will piss them off.
Totally untrue.. mp3 does not *steal* from artists... you might make the case that audio pirates do, but that's another discussion. There are a whole boatload of legal mp3's out there..
Assuming they make $0 from distribution, they can *still* make a hefty profit from touring. At $20-$100/ticket, bands *can* make a profit.... They may need to retaliate against ticket-agency monopoly to do so.. but it certainly can be done.
I agree with you, but I can kind of see why Redhat wants to play-down the Linux threat to Microsoft. I would envision Linux' success to be more similar to the explosion of the Internet than the rise of Microsoft. For example, look at what Linux was just a few years ago, versus what it is now. I *doubt* any other software product has matured so quickly. We're also at a critical point, where there is enough stability, features, and even commercial software available to push the platform forward.
I blatantly predict that in December of this year, everybody is going to look back and say Wow!
All you can be assured of by this, is that the flights which these 'bosses' are going to be on, are not going to fail. Communists, and all their stupid-ass ideas piss me off!
Think they were trying to prove (the rather obvious notion) that a generic computer used for rendering or other mathematical calculations could be effectively used for cryptanalysis. The 'science news' article seems to (as most journals do) completely miss the point. Following the link gets to the goals of the research which, while not particularly novel, is not what was reported. I think it's pretty damn obvious that any computer which can crunch numbers can do good cryptanalysis, but I guess there are some people out there who think specialized hardware is the only way to go?
They can "vigilantly defend their trademark" without these kind of scare tactics. No court would ever force yahooka to give their domain to yahoo.. they might force them to stop using it.. but it in no way *belongs* to Yahoo. A simple 'Please put this disclaimer and acknowledge in your site that this is not associated with yahoo.com' would have been just fine.
But no, they have to sick the attack dogs on em... so much for me using yahoo.
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I'm none too happy that all these developments come out of thin air actually. A bunch of back room handshaking goes on and *boom* we have another big investment.. or another new license. 'Open' Source companies aren't very open. IMHO.
:-)
Having freesoftware in business is a good thing, but having business in free software is perhaps not.
It would be nice to have these companies blatantly violate the traditional closed business models, just like they violate closed source models..
Well, I'll dream..
Visa is a nonprofit organization. Tough to fathom, but it's true. It's owned and funded by a big organization of banks. They basically use it as infrastructure through which they compete, yet they all reap benefits. Note that this same conglomeration owns MasterCard, hence, you only see Visa commercials targetting American Express (independant company, afaik).
I see Redhat becoming the operating system equivalent of Visa. The conglomerate of hardware manufacturers, will use linux via Redhat as a playing field to compete against each other.
- Brian Chrisman
Yeah, that place is reasonably large.. fortunately, the overflow will have lots of space at first street billiards next door, and a couple other nearby coffee shops...
Using WINE should be a method of last resort for porting apps to linux. Yes, I will be very happy when it works. But, it encourages developers to continue to do things in the MSWay, terrible directory structures... no available underlying cli, filenames with all capital letters.... basically, a lot of the really minor and insignificant things that I hate about MS*.
On the other hand, if the app runs, run it..
I'll bet by the time wine/corel/everybody else is through with it, it'll be comparable performance to win*.
Would it neccessarily heat up? I think it would depend on the transparency of the material. I could be way off base here, but there are lenses for extremely high power lasers which do not melt when used. If the glass 'slowed' the light down, via absorbing energy, then you wouldn't be able to see anything out of it anyways.. (not in the visible spectrum at least)..
Maybe this hypothetical slowglass would make a great battery?
I'm not talking about information you have learned... I'm talking about details of your life, your spending habits, your political/economic views.. all sorts of information of which you definitely have ownership, and is of value. For someone to spy on you, and/or track your habits is for them to steal your property... since they are selling something of yours, that you did not consent to giving them.
Information that you would learn in college is not private, and it's ownership is not undisputable... unlike your preferred brand of stereo hardware... the type of milk you drink.. etc...
Oh, slashdotters are experts on hating everybody, don't let that stop you from giving us some details of how OSI trademarks are being abused...
Of course, if all the information is out in the open, and we just haven't put the clues together in the way you have, that would also be valuable information as well.
I'd hate to be in support of the OSI just because I don't know any better.
If we get the rest of the government to acknowledge this, we are making our personal information something that would be protected under the 'no person should be deprived of their property without due process' rules.
This would be a phenomenal advance in privacy law! (If we can get more than just the SEC to recognize it)..
1024x768... or even 1280x768... both, though pretty cool on monitors of 21" or less, would probably fail to look great on a 50" screen... :-)
I would want more window space! *but*.. this is a great leap forward... that thing is THIN!
No.. they won't go to the police.. cuz then the law might be reversed.. in which case, they would not have the threat of extended civil litigation to keep companies from making emulators...
They will also settle out of court.. prior to any decision being made.. after as much court procedure as possible...
This shows that they can hurt a company that tries to do this.. without risking the right to sue other companies...
Basically, if there is a decision reached, and it's not in the favor of the person suing, they would have a *much* harder time suing someone else on the same grounds later... that's why they prefer to settle out of court.... no precedents are set.. and they can keep threatening.
Definitely Mudding is a good way to get teenagers interested in computers in general. MUD/MUSHes which allow programming of objects generally have good programming tutorials and often people to assist in the learning process.
:-)
Some places are almost competitive about their coding practices.... competition being something that motivates a lot of teenagers.
But be warned.. there may be social consequences
Applying traditional sales and market cycles to an OSS project is probably not valid. If someone actually knew exactly how OSS is going to interact with business, they'd be in a great position to make a lot of money. Right now, I see a lot of companies trying various models for doing business as OSS companies..
This 'gaussian cycle' garbage is just an excuse for the author to make ridiculous assumptions about the industry... nothing more.
5 imacs... all the WAY.. :-)
(can sell them off at a profit to idiots on campus as an option)
Think this goes back to the Guinness poll.. lemme see... how many cases of Guiness would $5K get us?
Doesn't matter what it is... it should be legal so long as there is *some* legitimate use for it.
As for emulators depriving original game equipment manufacturers of revenue... tough **** for them. They can go after the pirates.. but not the makers of emulators.
I've always been impressed at what SGI can pull out of hardware. Unfortunately, I have doubts that OSS developers will be able to write well-optimized drivers for SGI without knowing the internal workings...
Without that.. SGI is just another PC reseller now. Heavily optimized or not.. it's still NT.
The CEO (Beluzzo(sp)) used to be at HP, when they made their ill-fated decision to move away from doing real work.. and started reselling NT instead. As cool as SGI's hardware is.. I kind of doubt that it will really stay ahead of other PC systems for very long..
Workstations are historically used by engineers and product developers, who generally have need for higher end machines than regular end users. I have a feeling that they are counting high-end PC's that are used for desktop purposes such as bosses reading their email.. or MSWord.. whatever.
If you don't really find out what is being done with the machine, you can't really qualify it as being a server/workstation/desktop
HP already sold-out on their own OS.. At least with linux, they can contribute something and enhance it... with NT, they're basically toast... Perhaps HP is realizing that they *have* technical expertise, and that their emphasis has always been on delivering technological advances to the consumer and that the company does not belong in the VAR business?
If HP has no control over the technology (NT), how can they claim to be a technology company in general?
Maybe they want to get rid of doing technology work and just become another consulting group.
Maybe this will open up the secret-pricing policies of Microsoft.... for example if they sell win95 cheaper to Dell than they do to gateway, hopefully that will piss them off.
Totally untrue.. mp3 does not *steal* from artists... you might make the case that audio pirates do, but that's another discussion.
There are a whole boatload of legal mp3's out there..
Assuming they make $0 from distribution, they can *still* make a hefty profit from touring. At $20-$100/ticket, bands *can* make a profit.... They may need to retaliate against ticket-agency monopoly to do so.. but it certainly can be done.
I agree with you, but I can kind of see why Redhat wants to play-down the Linux threat to Microsoft. I would envision Linux' success to be more similar to the explosion of the Internet than the rise of Microsoft. For example, look at what Linux was just a few years ago, versus what it is now. I *doubt* any other software product has matured so quickly.
We're also at a critical point, where there is enough stability, features, and even commercial software available to push the platform forward.
I blatantly predict that in December of this year, everybody is going to look back and say Wow!
All you can be assured of by this, is that the flights which these 'bosses' are going to be on, are not going to fail.
Communists, and all their stupid-ass ideas piss me off!
Think they were trying to prove (the rather obvious notion) that a generic computer used for rendering or other mathematical calculations could be effectively used for cryptanalysis.
The 'science news' article seems to (as most journals do) completely miss the point. Following the link gets to the goals of the research which, while not particularly novel, is not what was reported.
I think it's pretty damn obvious that any computer which can crunch numbers can do good cryptanalysis, but I guess there are some people out there who think specialized hardware is the only way to go?
They can "vigilantly defend their trademark" without these kind of scare tactics.
No court would ever force yahooka to give their domain to yahoo.. they might force them to stop using it.. but it in no way *belongs* to Yahoo. A simple 'Please put this disclaimer and acknowledge in your site that this is not associated with yahoo.com' would have been just fine.
But no, they have to sick the attack dogs on em... so much for me using yahoo.