Just as a point of fact, while better than nothing, state based civil unions fail to provide any of the many federal rights. That is one of many reasons to question the state-only civil union moves. There is also the small problem of these being "seperate but equal" institutions, an oxymoron if ever there were one that I had thought we dispensed with many years ago.
Why is the desktop the only metric? Why not Samba, OpenOffice, OpenDocument, Mono, open groupware servers and similar projects aand standards?
Don't forget the little guys! You know, small fries like Apache HTTPD, and Linux servers.
Linux may be taking over servers, but Apache is loosing web servers. Just yesterday there was an article on/. Netcraft Says IIS Gaining on Apache.
I saw that article as well. I was not trying to point out specific gains of F/OSS, but more that it already has a commanding presence in several industries aside from the enterprise desktop (which is what the original assertion seemed to focus exclusively on). Apache has dominated the web server market for some time, and the recent gains from Microsoft only highlight this as a serious arena for competition between their products and F/OSS products. The Linux server market is perhaps the best example of current Linux gains, and more so if we aggregate F/OSS (loosely defined) server OSes: Solaris, Linux, and *BSD variants. With that group, Microsoft has a massive challenge in the server market. Personally, I am excited to see where this sector of the industry goes with so many of the major players utilizing some form of Open Source license and development model.
Why is the desktop the only metric? Why not Samba, OpenOffice, OpenDocument, Mono, open groupware servers and similar projects aand standards? Don't forget the little guys! You know, small fries like Apache HTTPD, and Linux servers.
Almost, but not quite. The problem is just as you describe it, but the solution isn't to put Google in a box on wheels. Rather, we should be connecting the box on wheels to Google, wherever it is. My computer doesn't have Google's database or processing power, yet it can analyze the context of things through Google's datamining capabilities. I think autonomous robots need to be a bit less autonomous until we figure out the robot part more thoroughly. Shrinking and minimizing size will come with time in a near steady progression, but leaps and bounds could be achieved through networking the box on wheels to Google (and related) sized datamining tools. Just my 2 cents though.
Except that context can be computed statistically very effectively by computers (only sometimes, of course).
Say I present Google's computers with the number 42. Surprisingly enough it associates it with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxyreference, much as you or I might. Indeed, if you put in a sentence it will do a surprisingly good job of responding to the context of the number 42, all through computing numbers and statistics.
However, a terrorist activating a jammer could never happen because it is against FAA rules to turn on a transmitter during flight. Call me crazy, but I somehow doubt terrorists are the most concerned with FAA rules and regulations. It's probably against some rules, somewhere, to fly a plane into a building.
Not sure if anyone has noted this before, but in retrieving any entries from the PTO online database...
Every page has the SUN logo on it! Innocent accident you say? I think not!!!
Perhaps until the PTO can check for a single corporation's logo branding every single patent's online posting, we shouldn't hold them to such high standards for checking the actual patents they are issuing.
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Just as a point of fact, while better than nothing, state based civil unions fail to provide any of the many federal rights. That is one of many reasons to question the state-only civil union moves. There is also the small problem of these being "seperate but equal" institutions, an oxymoron if ever there were one that I had thought we dispensed with many years ago.
Why is the desktop the only metric? Why not Samba, OpenOffice, OpenDocument, Mono, open groupware servers and similar projects aand standards?
Don't forget the little guys! You know, small fries like Apache HTTPD, and Linux servers.
Linux may be taking over servers, but Apache is loosing web servers. Just yesterday there was an article on /. Netcraft Says IIS Gaining on Apache.
I saw that article as well. I was not trying to point out specific gains of F/OSS, but more that it already has a commanding presence in several industries aside from the enterprise desktop (which is what the original assertion seemed to focus exclusively on). Apache has dominated the web server market for some time, and the recent gains from Microsoft only highlight this as a serious arena for competition between their products and F/OSS products. The Linux server market is perhaps the best example of current Linux gains, and more so if we aggregate F/OSS (loosely defined) server OSes: Solaris, Linux, and *BSD variants. With that group, Microsoft has a massive challenge in the server market. Personally, I am excited to see where this sector of the industry goes with so many of the major players utilizing some form of Open Source license and development model.Almost, but not quite. The problem is just as you describe it, but the solution isn't to put Google in a box on wheels. Rather, we should be connecting the box on wheels to Google, wherever it is. My computer doesn't have Google's database or processing power, yet it can analyze the context of things through Google's datamining capabilities. I think autonomous robots need to be a bit less autonomous until we figure out the robot part more thoroughly. Shrinking and minimizing size will come with time in a near steady progression, but leaps and bounds could be achieved through networking the box on wheels to Google (and related) sized datamining tools. Just my 2 cents though.
Except that context can be computed statistically very effectively by computers (only sometimes, of course).
Say I present Google's computers with the number 42. Surprisingly enough it associates it with the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy reference, much as you or I might. Indeed, if you put in a sentence it will do a surprisingly good job of responding to the context of the number 42, all through computing numbers and statistics.
Not sure if anyone has noted this before, but in retrieving any entries from the PTO online database...
Every page has the SUN logo on it! Innocent accident you say? I think not!!!
Perhaps until the PTO can check for a single corporation's logo branding every single patent's online posting, we shouldn't hold them to such high standards for checking the actual patents they are issuing.