...they probably still have all of the Jaguar IP for welding, riveting, and clinching aluminum.
I would assume that that IP was sold with Jaguar to Tata some 5 years ago now (source). Sure, they probably can license that IP pretty easily (as I recall, the deal had Ford still doing a bunch of R&D for Jaguar and Land Rover), but saying that they have all of the IP would be misleading.
Why shouldn't I work for the N.S.A.? That's a tough one, but I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at N.S.A. Somebody puts a code on my desk, something nobody else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, 'cause I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East. Once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels were hiding and fifteen hundred people I never met, never had no problem with, get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, send in the Marines to secure the area" 'cause they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot. Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, 'cause they were pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie takin' shrapnel in the ass. And he comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, 'cause he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile, he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And, of course, the oil companies used the skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices. A cute little ancillary benefit for them, but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. And they're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, and maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, and it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work and he can't afford to drive, so he's got to walk to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks 'cause the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin', 'cause every time he tries to get a bite to eat, the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.
Sounds like a good option.
Why would someone want to do a rewrite of Minix 20 some odd years ago?
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).
I’ve currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I’ll get something practical within a few months, and I’d like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won’t promise I’ll implement them
So wxWidgets 3.0 is finally released. We should have done it much sooner than 7 years after 2.8.0 release, but better late than never. And at least this gives us a lot of statistics to analyse to see how much has changed since the last major release. So let's do just this.
Yes, this should have been explained in the summary. No, the editors did not catch it which sucks. Yes this is the first X. release since 1998 or 99 depending on your source.
I deal in high end pro audio equipment. First off, it's kind of easy to see who is a freight forwarder. There's entire city blocks where if I get an order there I know what's going on, and Google Maps doesn't hurt. Plus when someone puts 123 Meryl st box 929183, it's pretty evident. Not to mention an international card has to go through more verification processes because the bank will not verify transactions with US merchants.
Second, most of my manufacturers will not honor warranties on grey market purchases (things purchased in one nation and shipped to another). I'm banned from SELLING it internationally, not shipping it internationally. And yes, that's a finite difference, but it's there. If I do so, I can lose my authorization as a dealer for those manufacturers. So yes, I'm in a bit of a different situation than most. Most of my vendors turn a blind eye to it, but there's a good chunk of them that do not. Some see it go to a freight forwarder and are okay with that, but others see it and will put me up shit creek without a paddle. Regardless, international ordering is always tricky, and most of my Aussie customers see the warranty stuff and freak, not to mention the fact that I can't get equipment in their voltage for the most part.
The key elements in human thinking are not numbers but labels of fuzzy sets. -- L. Zadeh
