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But people like the late Jim Baen (www.baen.com) have proven categorically that there is no legitimate rationale to this argument. In 1999, Baen started issuing his entire monthly list as unencrypted files in a variety of useful formats like.rtf and PalmDoc--- totally unencrypted. At the urging of Eric Flint, Baen founded the Free Library, and later, Flint, myself, Paula Goodlett and others founded Jim Baen's Universe (www.baensuniverse.com) magazine, which is published in multiple formats online and for download-- and which attracts the best authors in the sci-fi and fantasy fields, and which is totally unencrypted. Baen's company makes money. Lots of it. More every month.
So the execs can't even hold to that old wheeze.
Walt Boyes
Actually, since Mindstorms has buried in it the entire command set of National Instruments' Labview 8.20, you can do a hellova lot better than simple programming.
I have trouble believing that if this information is correct, it will stand.
Microsoft is making a big push into manufacturing systems, and enterprise-to-plant-floor integration with partners like SAP, ABB, Invensys, Emerson and others...and if they make it difficult for end users to replace a PC that is running a control system which, in turn, is running a factory that will lose $250,000 a minute if it shuts down...I can see lots of Linux PCs and Macintoshes running Labview 8.20.
It has only been in the last 10 years that Microsoft has been allowed on the plant floor-- especially in distributed control systems. There are plenty Unix control systems continuing to run that could quite easily be ported to Linux or OS X implementations, bypassing Microsoft.
I think Microsoft is either floating a trial balloon, or the original poster got his wires crossed.
Walt Boyes
Editor in chief
Control magazine
www.controlglobal.com
You can get, hopefully soon, a similar ebook reader with similar specs, but without all the potential baggage from Sony's DRM rootkit debacle from a Chinese company called Jinke, and from Phillips.
The software behind the Lego NXT is the same software behind much embedded computing design: LabView by National Instruments (http://www.ni.com). At the recent NI Week User Group Meeting in Austin, they announced a new toolkit for Mindstorm NXT that will be released in December, which will allow Labview users to work with the robots directly and do many more powerful things with them.
This is a very worthy endeavor, since National Instruments is putting much of the profit back into the Mindstorm Consortium...an educational foundation devoted to growing the numbers of children interested in science, engineering and math.
Walt Boyes
Editor in Chief
Control
www.controlglobal.com
And that's likely Boeing's real issue...the days for any carryon at all other than a wallet are pretty well numbered.
Bananaslug.
Associate Editor/Marketing Director
Jim Baen's Universe magazine
www.baensuniverse.com
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But people like the late Jim Baen (www.baen.com) have proven categorically that there is no legitimate rationale to this argument. In 1999, Baen started issuing his entire monthly list as unencrypted files in a variety of useful formats like .rtf and PalmDoc--- totally unencrypted. At the urging of Eric Flint, Baen founded the Free Library, and later, Flint, myself, Paula Goodlett and others founded Jim Baen's Universe (www.baensuniverse.com) magazine, which is published in multiple formats online and for download-- and which attracts the best authors in the sci-fi and fantasy fields, and which is totally unencrypted. Baen's company makes money. Lots of it. More every month.
So the execs can't even hold to that old wheeze.
Walt Boyes
Actually, since Mindstorms has buried in it the entire command set of National Instruments' Labview 8.20, you can do a hellova lot better than simple programming.
I have trouble believing that if this information is correct, it will stand.
Microsoft is making a big push into manufacturing systems, and enterprise-to-plant-floor integration with partners like SAP, ABB, Invensys, Emerson and others...and if they make it difficult for end users to replace a PC that is running a control system which, in turn, is running a factory that will lose $250,000 a minute if it shuts down...I can see lots of Linux PCs and Macintoshes running Labview 8.20.
It has only been in the last 10 years that Microsoft has been allowed on the plant floor-- especially in distributed control systems. There are plenty Unix control systems continuing to run that could quite easily be ported to Linux or OS X implementations, bypassing Microsoft.
I think Microsoft is either floating a trial balloon, or the original poster got his wires crossed.
Walt Boyes
Editor in chief
Control magazine
www.controlglobal.com
You can get, hopefully soon, a similar ebook reader with similar specs, but without all the potential baggage from Sony's DRM rootkit debacle from a Chinese company called Jinke, and from Phillips.
The software behind the Lego NXT is the same software behind much embedded computing design: LabView by National Instruments (http://www.ni.com). At the recent NI Week User Group Meeting in Austin, they announced a new toolkit for Mindstorm NXT that will be released in December, which will allow Labview users to work with the robots directly and do many more powerful things with them. This is a very worthy endeavor, since National Instruments is putting much of the profit back into the Mindstorm Consortium...an educational foundation devoted to growing the numbers of children interested in science, engineering and math. Walt Boyes Editor in Chief Control www.controlglobal.com
And that's likely Boeing's real issue...the days for any carryon at all other than a wallet are pretty well numbered. Bananaslug. Associate Editor/Marketing Director Jim Baen's Universe magazine www.baensuniverse.com