> Some companies realized that this will be the future (and I'm honestly surprised to see Siemens on the list, they must've had better and more visionary people in their upper echelons back then), and they registered their trademark as a com domain rather than fighting a lengthy battle with domain grabbers as many have done later.
At the time we (I speak as a Siemens employee about the time) were developing a Unix based minicomputer systes based around National Semiconductor chips - the MX range of computers which were widely used by the German State (post, trains, work service etc). We then moved onto an i386 architecture, first with a port of SCO Unix then we did the actual Intel port of Unix 5.4 for AT&T. Our customers were pretty heavy users of TCP/IP - for network printing and file sharing.
I don't know who registered siemens.com, we also had siesoft.co.uk for the UK. However the Unix visionary was Hans Strack Zimmermann. I don't recall the research headquarters in Munich having great connectivity at the time. I seem to recall most traffic went via UUCP via Dusseldorf university and was charged by the kilobyte but we did have ftp access by about 1988. I ran up a 70,000 DM bill with a colleague downloading stuff like the King James Bible!!!
Siemens was a founder member of the OSF so has pretty good credentials.
> That was 1998, dude. All the cool kids are using BSD on the desktop now. Where have you been?
I must admit I haven't used BSD since 1983! I wonder if it has gotten any better in the last 24 years? Actually that is not quite true, I was a hacker at the OSF for a few years and that it pretty much BSD and used to run fine on a 386 with 16MB of RAM.
Ditto Linux which I last used on my desktop circa 1995.
sigh, did you actually check on Google what the effects of underscores are in search text compared to hyphens and did you then thing what the implications are for URLs?
What you have described is effectively how English got started in the 8-12th centuries where it became the interface language between Saxon and Viking tribes and later Saxon and Norman conquerors. In the process it lost a lot of the more complicated features of Germanic languages while picking up a richer vocabulary from French. As a native speaker I personally welcome some of the anachronisms and archaic parts of English vanishing but I think the result will be that English as she was spoken C 1950 will be extinct by 2100.
Craig Murray was effectively fired from the UK government for blowing the gaff on Uzbekistan because they were the US and UK's friends in the GWOT. He describes himself as a dissident - still at least he hasn't been boiled alive yet.
From what I've seen of the JVM it should be able to support a number of languages (as you've shown, it does). I think this was a bit of FUD by Microsoft although.Net was obviously designed to support C# and VBasic from the get go so is maybe more flexible.
I've never really seen the point of the.Net VM, after all its targetted at the x86 processor on Windows. An API abstraction yes but the VM just seems to be superfluous.
In that case sounds like a possible use for the D programming language which also has GC (supposed to improve dynamic memory performance compared to declarative management) but throws away nasty multiple inheritance.
>.NET was the next incremental improvement on Java
I've only worked on one.NET project - but it was one of Microsoft's flagship developments mentioned in all the litterature. It also crashed and burned. Not letting that colour my opinion too much I would say that Java was a paradigm shift for many developers while keeping a familiar C/C++ syntax..NET is just a clone because Java was NIH, nothing much to see really. I would say the current paradigm shift are languages/stacks like Ruby on Rails although a lot of those ideas are now being folded back into Java by the OS community.
> nstead of saying "Saddam Hussein was not involved in 9/11.", you should instead say something like "It was al-qaida, who didn't particularly like Saddam Hussein, that were responsible for 9/11."
huh? I thought it was planned by the Bush family and his chums in the military-industrial complex?
> A spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown said to expand the database would create "huge logistical and bureaucratic issues" and civil liberty concerns.
To translate this for you "we only plan to introduce compulsory DNA testing after we have won the next general election"
I know another poster has mentioned Mozilla download helper. This is an add-on that saves most online streaming content by right clicking on a drop down list. You can the reencode (uggh) for your DVD (divx) player using Super. Just drag and drop your flv files to the Super windown and select Avi/Divx as the output type with a bit/frame rate equivalent to Home Theater Profile of DivX. You can also reencode to most mobile devices with Super.
SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musiques) have been working with the RIAA to shut down allofmp3.com in Russia. SACEM's boss claimed that the Russian's only had rights to exploit the RAO catalogue on Russian territory. Presumably SACEM only has rights to exploit their member's catalogue and then probably only on French soil. According to another article the agreement will be signed in the next few days. As France is a part of the WTO etc. I assume the RIAA will take Deezer/SACEM to court if the agreement exceeds their rights.
> The problem is that Windows doesn't do that either, at least the Windows machines I own.
You obviously defrag the disk now and again and don't install too much crap.
I have just bought an HP Laptop with XP sp2. I run Mozilla on this machine and have a JDK/Eclipse installed. That's it. I'm surprised that XP still crashes on a fairly regular basis - like 3 or 4 times per week. Now that might be crappy HP drivers although the hardware is pretty standard but from an end user viewpoint it sucks. Microsoft has become a byword in the general public for stuff that is crappy and unreliable.
That said, I'll stick with XP for the laptop but am interested in the Linux / VMWare combo.
I know 3rd parties have an issue but the genie is already out of the bottle the second they publish (broadcast) their products. The best bet for them is to negociate a one time DRM free royalty with the BBC. IMHO.
The problem with the iPlayer fiasco is nepotism. Erik Huggers is Group Controller at BBC Future Media & Technology. Erik was previously Senior Director at Microsoft Corporation and before that a Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corporation. Also the UK government in the form of the Labour Party is in thick with Microsoft for all kinds of projects including the Health Service.
Having worked on some of these kinds of projects it is all nepotism. Erik gets a nice job at the BBC, someone from the BBC goes to Microsoft, an ex Labour Minister gets a job on one of Microsoft's Partner companies.
I reckon the BBC will abandon the Linux iPlayer the second it can.
The DRM stuff is a load of guff too. People as far as North Africa can pick up the BBC for free by sticking up a 130 cm satellite dish and aiming it at 28.2 degrees south as the Astra 2 satellite. Wonderful, crisp, digital downloads in realtime.
I thought the EU and national governments had already issued health guidance for laser printers in Europe because they are known to emit dangerous levels of Ozone and other chemicals. As I recall printers had to be a certain number of meters away from the nearest desk and in a well ventilated office. Here is some existing information I found by googling:-
Certainly under United Kingdom health and safety legislation employers should not locate printers next to employee workstations. Although most IT workplaces I've worked in seem to flout these regulations to some extent - particuarly wrt to printer location, cabling and fire safety.
Having spent most of my 25 year IT career as an independent I think you could simply say that most permanent employees of any large business have no idea how to survive in the real world although many, especially those in management, think they could cut it. The secret is to have an idea and hook up with the people who can help you realize that idea outside of the mothership. The other big problem is that most permies never build up enough capital resources (most are in debt with car loans, mortgages etc) that they could cut the umbilical cord of a regular wage.
Regarding Cringeley's text. Microsoft hasn't died because a better OS has come along, it might die because the OS paradigm changes significantly.
I think you are right. In addition, in France at least a district court ruling would not constitute jurisprudence. Only a ruling by the Conseil d'Etat (supreme or high court) would do. The ruling could possibly be used in arguments though.
Yes, that is a simple solution for most people and saves having to load up your network stack with mod security. Of course renaming the admin directory/login script will keep 99.999% of hackers out, as well as making it less than obvious that you are running wordpress (remove wordpress from any of the pages). Security by obscurity will keep all the script kiddies off your website and the serious guys are attacking stuff like banks not blogs.
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> Some companies realized that this will be the future (and I'm honestly surprised to see Siemens on the list, they must've had better and more visionary people in their upper echelons back then), and they registered their trademark as a com domain rather than fighting a lengthy battle with domain grabbers as many have done later.
At the time we (I speak as a Siemens employee about the time) were developing a Unix based minicomputer systes based around National Semiconductor chips - the MX range of computers which were widely used by the German State (post, trains, work service etc). We then moved onto an i386 architecture, first with a port of SCO Unix then we did the actual Intel port of Unix 5.4 for AT&T. Our customers were pretty heavy users of TCP/IP - for network printing and file sharing.
I don't know who registered siemens.com, we also had siesoft.co.uk for the UK. However the Unix visionary was Hans Strack Zimmermann. I don't recall the research headquarters in Munich having great connectivity at the time. I seem to recall most traffic went via UUCP via Dusseldorf university and was charged by the kilobyte but we did have ftp access by about 1988. I ran up a 70,000 DM bill with a colleague downloading stuff like the King James Bible!!!
Siemens was a founder member of the OSF so has pretty good credentials.
> That was 1998, dude. All the cool kids are using BSD on the desktop now. Where have you been?
I must admit I haven't used BSD since 1983! I wonder if it has gotten any better in the last 24 years? Actually that is not quite true, I was a hacker at the OSF for a few years and that it pretty much BSD and used to run fine on a 386 with 16MB of RAM.
Ditto Linux which I last used on my desktop circa 1995.
So 2008 is finally the year of Linux on the desktop?
Glad to see Microsoft has not lost its hunger to innovate.
sigh, did you actually check on Google what the effects of underscores are in search text compared to hyphens and did you then thing what the implications are for URLs?
Glad to see someone at the back of the class is awake. :-)
What you have described is effectively how English got started in the 8-12th centuries where it became the interface language between Saxon and Viking tribes and later Saxon and Norman conquerors. In the process it lost a lot of the more complicated features of Germanic languages while picking up a richer vocabulary from French. As a native speaker I personally welcome some of the anachronisms and archaic parts of English vanishing but I think the result will be that English as she was spoken C 1950 will be extinct by 2100.
Craig Murray was effectively fired from the UK government for blowing the gaff on Uzbekistan because they were the US and UK's friends in the GWOT. He describes himself as a dissident - still at least he hasn't been boiled alive yet.
From what I've seen of the JVM it should be able to support a number of languages (as you've shown, it does). I think this was a bit of FUD by Microsoft although .Net was obviously designed to support C# and VBasic from the get go so is maybe more flexible.
.Net VM, after all its targetted at the x86 processor on Windows. An API abstraction yes but the VM just seems to be superfluous.
I've never really seen the point of the
In that case sounds like a possible use for the D programming language which also has GC (supposed to improve dynamic memory performance compared to declarative management) but throws away nasty multiple inheritance.
> .NET was the next incremental improvement on Java
.NET project - but it was one of Microsoft's flagship developments mentioned in all the litterature. It also crashed and burned. Not letting that colour my opinion too much I would say that Java was a paradigm shift for many developers while keeping a familiar C/C++ syntax. .NET is just a clone because Java was NIH, nothing much to see really. I would say the current paradigm shift are languages/stacks like Ruby on Rails although a lot of those ideas are now being folded back into Java by the OS community.
I've only worked on one
I'm sure C++ is also important in that domain for performance reasons. In short, the right tool for that particular job.
> nstead of saying "Saddam Hussein was not involved in 9/11.", you should instead say something like "It was al-qaida, who didn't particularly like Saddam Hussein, that were responsible for 9/11."
huh? I thought it was planned by the Bush family and his chums in the military-industrial complex?
> A spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown said to expand the database would create "huge logistical and bureaucratic issues" and civil liberty concerns.
To translate this for you "we only plan to introduce compulsory DNA testing after we have won the next general election"
I know another poster has mentioned Mozilla download helper. This is an add-on that saves most online streaming content by right clicking on a drop down list. You can the reencode (uggh) for your DVD (divx) player using Super. Just drag and drop your flv files to the Super windown and select Avi/Divx as the output type with a bit/frame rate equivalent to Home Theater Profile of DivX. You can also reencode to most mobile devices with Super.
SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musiques) have been working with the RIAA to shut down allofmp3.com in Russia. SACEM's boss claimed that the Russian's only had rights to exploit the RAO catalogue on Russian territory. Presumably SACEM only has rights to exploit their member's catalogue and then probably only on French soil. According to another article the agreement will be signed in the next few days. As France is a part of the WTO etc. I assume the RIAA will take Deezer/SACEM to court if the agreement exceeds their rights.
> The problem is that Windows doesn't do that either, at least the Windows machines I own.
You obviously defrag the disk now and again and don't install too much crap.
I have just bought an HP Laptop with XP sp2. I run Mozilla on this machine and have a JDK/Eclipse installed. That's it. I'm surprised that XP still crashes on a fairly regular basis - like 3 or 4 times per week. Now that might be crappy HP drivers although the hardware is pretty standard but from an end user viewpoint it sucks. Microsoft has become a byword in the general public for stuff that is crappy and unreliable.
That said, I'll stick with XP for the laptop but am interested in the Linux / VMWare combo.
I know 3rd parties have an issue but the genie is already out of the bottle the second they publish (broadcast) their products. The best bet for them is to negociate a one time DRM free royalty with the BBC. IMHO.
The problem with the iPlayer fiasco is nepotism. Erik Huggers is Group Controller at BBC Future Media & Technology. Erik was previously Senior Director at Microsoft Corporation and before that a Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corporation. Also the UK government in the form of the Labour Party is in thick with Microsoft for all kinds of projects including the Health Service.
Having worked on some of these kinds of projects it is all nepotism. Erik gets a nice job at the BBC, someone from the BBC goes to Microsoft, an ex Labour Minister gets a job on one of Microsoft's Partner companies.
I reckon the BBC will abandon the Linux iPlayer the second it can.
The DRM stuff is a load of guff too. People as far as North Africa can pick up the BBC for free by sticking up a 130 cm satellite dish and aiming it at 28.2 degrees south as the Astra 2 satellite. Wonderful, crisp, digital downloads in realtime.
have you any sources for this? If I had mod points I would mod this as interesting, or informative, or something.
I thought the EU and national governments had already issued health guidance for laser printers in Europe because they are known to emit dangerous levels of Ozone and other chemicals. As I recall printers had to be a certain number of meters away from the nearest desk and in a well ventilated office. Here is some existing information I found by googling:-
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http://www.lhc.org.uk/members/pubs/factsht/76fact
http://www.safety.ed.ac.uk/resources/General/prin
Certainly under United Kingdom health and safety legislation employers should not locate printers next to employee workstations. Although most IT workplaces I've worked in seem to flout these regulations to some extent - particuarly wrt to printer location, cabling and fire safety.
I've just tested this on a Sony 15" LCD monitor (M51?).
Google.com: 18.5 watts
Blackle.com: 19.5 watts
Slashdot: 19 watts
so it would seem that using blackle is using about 5% more power.
Having spent most of my 25 year IT career as an independent I think you could simply say that most permanent employees of any large business have no idea how to survive in the real world although many, especially those in management, think they could cut it. The secret is to have an idea and hook up with the people who can help you realize that idea outside of the mothership. The other big problem is that most permies never build up enough capital resources (most are in debt with car loans, mortgages etc) that they could cut the umbilical cord of a regular wage.
Regarding Cringeley's text. Microsoft hasn't died because a better OS has come along, it might die because the OS paradigm changes significantly.
I think you are right. In addition, in France at least a district court ruling would not constitute jurisprudence. Only a ruling by the Conseil d'Etat (supreme or high court) would do. The ruling could possibly be used in arguments though.
Yes, that is a simple solution for most people and saves having to load up your network stack with mod security. Of course renaming the admin directory/login script will keep 99.999% of hackers out, as well as making it less than obvious that you are running wordpress (remove wordpress from any of the pages). Security by obscurity will keep all the script kiddies off your website and the serious guys are attacking stuff like banks not blogs.