My deep inside sources tells me, that Apple and Intel has made a deal to use the Itanium processor in future macs. HP/Compaq will be allowed to manufacture clone machines - Since they helped the birth of the CPU.
HP/Compaq has seen, that the PC will be dead within 18-24 months, now that Microsoft is launching the PowerPC based XBox 2, which does all what home users uses a PC for today. Surfing the net, e-mail and games.
Since Microsoft is launching a PowerPC box at a loss, Apple knows it is only a matter of days before it runs OS X, and will undermine the sales of even the Mac Mini. So Apple needs to "upgrade" to a new architecture to prevent hackers killing their market.
I e-mailed a politician, and she answered that she would allow patents like an oven that can always make the chicken skin crisp.
As I see it, this would be a new invention. Not sure if I would pay extra for it though. And if a new oven that makes other things crisp is introduced, that accidentally also makes crisp chicken, then I am not sure I would call that patent violation.
then start giving people their own small subnet, and block traffic between subnets. Voila, you have prevented much of the spreadign. Then they need a server to exchange virus.
I agree, it is the forum members that made the site what it is.
If they decide to boycot it, then the forum will completely lose its value in a mtter of days (or maybe a couple of weeks). It is the people that have been arounf for a long time they need to keep.
I do understand if they want to make it cost for new members, and they could possible make a scoring system for helping people, so that you can earn points to stay.
But charging ther guys who made it what it is is not a good thing. I would consider having them delete all my articles.
Runs newspaper articles (online or in the print media) telling how AOL either hired techies not worth even an indian salary, or how they are trying to destroy the Internet.
I agree to saome degree. It doesn't matter if the employees are yellow, red, green or black.
Most/all people are for sale if the price is right. And for people in India, the sum is maybe 1/100th or 1/10th of what it is in the USA. So by outsourcing to a country with low living standards, you can expect more crime because more are tempted.
I have also seen this in a company I worked in. Too much money - and people was tempted.
The postman analogy only applioes if the postman returns a copy of the message he ate, telling yiu he ate it, and you should have the recipient hit him in the head before he will deliver mails.
A lost mail is worse than a rejected message, as you do not know it is gone.
But I agree that the only thing that you are guaranteed with e-mails, is that some of them will never reach the destination, and other will arrive so late they are worthless.
In Denmark, BSA lawyers gets 100% of what they get from all the software pirates. So they are in it for their own pockets, and the software companies gets nothing (apart from scaring some people).
According tot he law, you should pay compensation to the damaged party. If they do not get it, you could argue that there is nothing in the law requiring you to pay a 3rd party like BSA.
If the artist is not getting his normal share of this, I would say he is being cheated.
The first paragraph in the danish patent law clearly states that the patent owner has the sole right to a "commercial use" of the invention. The wording for commercial use hints, that there is nothing wrong in using the patent internally.
Any free software can use all the patents it wants, as patents do not protect against competition from free stuff.
First of all, the patent is too old to be patentable in the EU.
2nd, according to what the danish government says, you can not patent software ideas, it has to be a real invention - i.e. not some small thing - buit something that can stand on its own. So this is way too simple to ever be patented.
The problem is US patent laws that allows anybody who wants a patent to get it. I think there are current US patents on both the wheel and on fire. In the US patent office is a registration only office. In Europe, you need to convince them you have a real invention.
I am pretty sure, that all the US patents that has been granted today or ealier are not patentable in Europe, since they are old inventions. We use common sense here.
Another thing is, many of the small things patentable in the US does not live up to the stricter "patentable" definition we are going to use in europe.
And finally, if somebody uses your patent, and you do not react within reasonable time, you lose your rights.
So you can not use the american way, trying to convince everybody to use your patent, and later go for payment. If you do not sue within reasonable time, you lose your right.
It might be software patents, but very different from the US. And one thing worth noting is, that patents protects against commercial exploitation. It does not protect against non-commercial exploitation of patents, like Freeware / GPL etc. The only rights protection that influences non-commercial entities are copyright.
So patent stuff, and thereby you open it up for Open Source.
Here in Denmark, if I tell the bank I did not authorize the payment, the bank must prove otherwise. What has happened is that the bank has transferred money out of the account without the owners approval. Simple as that.
This also means, that the bank will upgrade to a better system if too much fraud is going on, rather than having their customers being responsible for their bad security. Any homebanking system which only depends on stuff on the computer + a password is too unsafe to be used on a computer that is ever connected to the Internet.
Some local banks are sending out one-time keypads, the bank I use issues an ActivCard hardware token if you request it. And these are more difficult to hack (needs serious Man-in-the-middle attack - modifying you outgoing and the incoming messages)
I am left handed, so for me right click is pressing the left button. It is the right button, the one closes to the keyboard that is the normal primary mouse button.
Try but a right handed computer user in front of my computer, and it takes hours for him to not use the wrong buttons.
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My deep inside sources tells me, that Apple and Intel has made a deal to use the Itanium processor in future macs. HP/Compaq will be allowed to manufacture clone machines - Since they helped the birth of the CPU.
HP/Compaq has seen, that the PC will be dead within 18-24 months, now that Microsoft is launching the PowerPC based XBox 2, which does all what home users uses a PC for today. Surfing the net, e-mail and games.
Since Microsoft is launching a PowerPC box at a loss, Apple knows it is only a matter of days before it runs OS X, and will undermine the sales of even the Mac Mini. So Apple needs to "upgrade" to a new architecture to prevent hackers killing their market.
Itanic - The CPU that would not go down.
I e-mailed a politician, and she answered that she would allow patents like an oven that can always make the chicken skin crisp.
As I see it, this would be a new invention. Not sure if I would pay extra for it though. And if a new oven that makes other things crisp is introduced, that accidentally also makes crisp chicken, then I am not sure I would call that patent violation.
A laptop without wireless is still a laptop. It isn't that difficult to use a network cable.
Of course it prevents you from bringing the laptop to the bathroom.
My Linksys WRT54G does support WPA with TKIP and AES encryption.
Sure, it is not AES at the low level as 802.11i, but it is AES instead of RC4.
The school must give the best education within its budget constraints.
If they can save a lot of money on the computers and software, they can spend that money teaching the kids other stuff.
Also look at the side benefit of the parents having to pay less for software on the home computer.
It is not OOS that matters here, it is cost of Free Software.
They better make sure it runs on the OS of their users, or they will not sell it.
I think switching to Linux, and opening up for MS software on top would be OK
Block all Internet traffic to/from Florida until they learn to behave.
then start giving people their own small subnet, and block traffic between subnets. Voila, you have prevented much of the spreadign. Then they need a server to exchange virus.
I agree, it is the forum members that made the site what it is.
If they decide to boycot it, then the forum will completely lose its value in a mtter of days (or maybe a couple of weeks). It is the people that have been arounf for a long time they need to keep.
I do understand if they want to make it cost for new members, and they could possible make a scoring system for helping people, so that you can earn points to stay.
But charging ther guys who made it what it is is not a good thing. I would consider having them delete all my articles.
How can it be illegal ? Apple has a license with the copyright holder allowing you to copy it to the iPod or burn it to CD.
Most laws protecting one of 2 parties can be avoided by making a contract.
Correct. One example is an oven which uses a computer to ensure that chicken skin is always crisp. Then this device is clearly patentable.
A TV displaying MPEG4 and one displaying AVI are probably not patentable.
Isn't that what The Holy Bible say ? First that was nothing, then there was water, then land.
Guess the aliens that left the bible on earth was more advanced than we are
There is one thing to do.
Runs newspaper articles (online or in the print media) telling how AOL either hired techies not worth even an indian salary, or how they are trying to destroy the Internet.
Why not go for a PowerMac G5 ?
Apple rocks, and so does their FreeBSD implementation, OS X.
What are you going to use it for ? If it is file server, or other things which are network intensive, forget Windows.
We did so, and was working with them in the process. Having them scan the internal and external network.
Since it was competent people picking the security consultant, we got a good company to do the work. Adn not just the friend of the boss' cousin.
If the security company thinks it is fixable, have them come up with a price quote.
Change change to chance
Change is luck. Risk is unluck.
The risk has always been the same. The odds at the bookie has changed.
I agree to saome degree. It doesn't matter if the employees are yellow, red, green or black.
Most/all people are for sale if the price is right. And for people in India, the sum is maybe 1/100th or 1/10th of what it is in the USA. So by outsourcing to a country with low living standards, you can expect more crime because more are tempted.
I have also seen this in a company I worked in. Too much money - and people was tempted.
The postman analogy only applioes if the postman returns a copy of the message he ate, telling yiu he ate it, and you should have the recipient hit him in the head before he will deliver mails.
A lost mail is worse than a rejected message, as you do not know it is gone.
But I agree that the only thing that you are guaranteed with e-mails, is that some of them will never reach the destination, and other will arrive so late they are worthless.
In Denmark, BSA lawyers gets 100% of what they get from all the software pirates. So they are in it for their own pockets, and the software companies gets nothing (apart from scaring some people).
According tot he law, you should pay compensation to the damaged party. If they do not get it, you could argue that there is nothing in the law requiring you to pay a 3rd party like BSA.
If the artist is not getting his normal share of this, I would say he is being cheated.
The first paragraph in the danish patent law clearly states that the patent owner has the sole right to a "commercial use" of the invention. The wording for commercial use hints, that there is nothing wrong in using the patent internally.
Any free software can use all the patents it wants, as patents do not protect against competition from free stuff.
First of all, the patent is too old to be patentable in the EU.
2nd, according to what the danish government says, you can not patent software ideas, it has to be a real invention - i.e. not some small thing - buit something that can stand on its own. So this is way too simple to ever be patented.
The problem is US patent laws that allows anybody who wants a patent to get it. I think there are current US patents on both the wheel and on fire. In the US patent office is a registration only office. In Europe, you need to convince them you have a real invention.
I am pretty sure, that all the US patents that has been granted today or ealier are not patentable in Europe, since they are old inventions. We use common sense here.
Another thing is, many of the small things patentable in the US does not live up to the stricter "patentable" definition we are going to use in europe.
And finally, if somebody uses your patent, and you do not react within reasonable time, you lose your rights.
So you can not use the american way, trying to convince everybody to use your patent, and later go for payment. If you do not sue within reasonable time, you lose your right.
It might be software patents, but very different from the US. And one thing worth noting is, that patents protects against commercial exploitation. It does not protect against non-commercial exploitation of patents, like Freeware / GPL etc. The only rights protection that influences non-commercial entities are copyright.
So patent stuff, and thereby you open it up for Open Source.
Here in Denmark, if I tell the bank I did not authorize the payment, the bank must prove otherwise. What has happened is that the bank has transferred money out of the account without the owners approval. Simple as that.
This also means, that the bank will upgrade to a better system if too much fraud is going on, rather than having their customers being responsible for their bad security. Any homebanking system which only depends on stuff on the computer + a password is too unsafe to be used on a computer that is ever connected to the Internet.
Some local banks are sending out one-time keypads, the bank I use issues an ActivCard hardware token if you request it. And these are more difficult to hack (needs serious Man-in-the-middle attack - modifying you outgoing and the incoming messages)
I am left handed, so for me right click is pressing the left button. It is the right button, the one closes to the keyboard that is the normal primary mouse button.
Try but a right handed computer user in front of my computer, and it takes hours for him to not use the wrong buttons.