Ehrmm.. Cliff, why do you think this specific feature might help moving people away from MS-centric thinking? I'ld say most people who know about cryptography know about non-MS systems, the others might not be terribly interested. Please explain.
While it won Comdex's Best in Show in 2000, it hasn't been pushed by either AOL or Gateway...,
but I doubt weither pushing would have helped surviving. What people will accept as a sellable/buyable entity, a "product" or "component", is highly unpredictable.
When digital clocks commoditized, vendors did put them in just about anything: telephones, writingpens, watches (remember? I mean those with just digits in the display), chairs, beds.
The timercontrolled coffeemachine was never really a big hit, but the radio(-cd)-alarm stuck.
I really cant imagine Microsoft being dumb enough to try anything that could be interpreted as lobbying or even pressure.
Sure, their approach of parliaments (and other community institutions) will differ from their approach of hardware vendors ( though they have gotten away with pressurizing those vendors). They 'd better not antagonize whole countries.
But they will put effort into trying to influence the decision to their advantage.
Yes. Linux for the german parliament. That is a Good Thing (TM). But wait. There is no decision yet. It is under consideration. Under consideration only. No doubt the party who's not gaining from such a deal (now who would that be) will put much effort into convincing the german parliament that it should decide otherwise.
A few months ago there was talk of Linux for educational institutions in Mexico. Where are we now?
So... advocates: Do your thing and do it well. And hurry!
They where clever enough to see the commercial potential. But why do so many people think Apple or Microsoft invent things? They do not.
The whole WIMPy (Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pulldown or something similar) user interface was present in the Graphics Environment Monitor, which was a spin-off from de Smalltalk 77 environment, researched and developed (AFAIK) at Xerox-PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and available as a separate product for several operating sytems.
Why the Palestinians - are they rich and coordinated enough to orchestrate such an action?
I do not think so.
Why your (and the TV's) thought that it might be them? That's out of guilt. So: Yes it is time that the world should treat the Palestinians better. But look elsewhere for the develish organisation who pulled the strings to make this massacre take place.
They won't all of the time. Surely. How long have cars been around? Still there are scenes where the driver looks at everything except the road, turning the wheel like a mad man. On many occasions it is just to expensive to make it look real.
Does L.A. Law portray law-practice? Is St. Elsewhere's medical staff realistic? Maybe not, but it's very real compared to what we see about the programming community.
We will have to wait for something like "Dilbert - the movie" to happen to get a more realistic view of programmers on the screen.
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Ehrmm.. Cliff, why do you think this specific feature might help moving people away from MS-centric thinking? I'ld say most people who know about cryptography know about non-MS systems, the others might not be terribly interested. Please explain.
...and at least 10 ways to encrypt your data:
http://koeln.ccc.de/~drt/crypto/linux-disk.html
gives them.
I must say this looks VERY promising ...
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While it won Comdex's Best in Show in 2000, it hasn't been pushed by either AOL or Gateway...,
but I doubt weither pushing would have helped surviving. What people will accept as a sellable/buyable entity, a "product" or "component", is highly unpredictable.
When digital clocks commoditized, vendors did put them in just about anything: telephones, writingpens, watches (remember? I mean those with just digits in the display), chairs, beds.
The timercontrolled coffeemachine was never really a big hit, but the radio(-cd)-alarm stuck.
Slashdot Jul 12:
Disk Storage Limits Loom 3-5 Years From Now states:
New technology won't be ready for something like ten years.
Does this carbontechnology smash the there mentioned barrier?
Will appliance be in time to nullify the harddisk manufacturers predictions?
I really cant imagine Microsoft being dumb enough to try anything that could be interpreted as lobbying or even pressure.
Sure, their approach of parliaments (and other community institutions) will differ from their approach of hardware vendors ( though they have gotten away with pressurizing those vendors). They 'd better not antagonize whole countries.
But they will put effort into trying to influence the decision to their advantage.
How?
And where might here be?
Somewhere where people think that one has to use the command line to copy files when working with Linux?
Spreading FUD are we?
Yes. Linux for the german parliament. That is a Good Thing (TM). But wait. There is no decision yet. It is under consideration. Under consideration only. No doubt the party who's not gaining from such a deal (now who would that be) will put much effort into convincing the german parliament that it should decide otherwise.
... advocates: Do your thing and do it well. And hurry!
A few months ago there was talk of Linux for educational institutions in Mexico. Where are we now?
So
They where clever enough to see the commercial potential. But why do so many people think Apple or Microsoft invent things? They do not.
The whole WIMPy (Windows, Icons, Mouse, Pulldown or something similar) user interface was present in the Graphics Environment Monitor, which was a spin-off from de Smalltalk 77 environment, researched and developed (AFAIK) at Xerox-PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) and available as a separate product for several operating sytems.
Why the Palestinians - are they rich and coordinated enough to orchestrate such an action?
I do not think so.
Why your (and the TV's) thought that it might be them? That's out of guilt. So: Yes it is time that the world should treat the Palestinians better. But look elsewhere for the develish organisation who pulled the strings to make this massacre take place.
Will they ever be 100% right? I doubt it.
They won't all of the time. Surely. How long have cars been around?
Still there are scenes where the driver looks at everything except the road, turning the wheel like a mad man.
On many occasions it is just to expensive to make it look real.
Does L.A. Law portray law-practice?
Is St. Elsewhere's medical staff realistic?
Maybe not, but it's very real compared to what we see about the programming community.
We will have to wait for something like "Dilbert - the movie" to happen to get a more realistic view of programmers on the screen.